WMST-L LOG9405C ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 00:46:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: W.S. online resources Beth Ferri's recent message about Internet resources reminded me that many fairly new subscribers may not know about the Women's Studies archive on InforM, the University of Maryland's online information system. It contains probably the largest collection of online Women's Studies materials in the United States. To have a look, telnet or gopher to inform.umd.edu and select Educational Resources (#4) from the main menu and then Women's Studies (#17). A number of files in InforM's Women's Studies archive came from WMST-L and are also retrievable from LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). To see what files are available from LISTSERV, send the message INDEX WMST-L (to get the WMST-L filelist), INDEX SYLLABI (to get the syllabus filelist), and/or INDEX FILM (to get the list of feminist film reviews). Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 09:48:16 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: A Deborah Malmud Subject: what hiring folks want I'm a grad student in English with a year of college teaching on my c.v. I'm considering taking another adjunct post, and wonder about people's opinions in terms of what hiring committees look for: Does it matter how much teaching experience one has, as long as one has some? I've heard so many conflicting opinions, I thought I'd gather some more. Please respond privately. deborah malmud adm1@columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 11:30:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: what hiring folks want Deborah Malmud writes: > I'm a grad student in English with a year of college teaching on my > c.v. I'm considering taking another adjunct post, and wonder about > people's opinions in terms of what hiring committees look for: Does it > matter how much teaching experience one has, as long as one has some? > I've heard so many conflicting opinions, I thought I'd gather some > more. Please respond privately. I'm responding publicly because I think the discussion may be of interest to a number of WMST-L readers. One reason for the conflicting opinions is that different sorts of institutions often have different priorities. In general, universities that define themselves as "research institutions" want *some* teaching experience but weigh scholarly publication most heavily (that's certainly been my experience on hiring committees at UMBC). If your additional teaching interferes with your ability to write for publication, you won't look as attractive to such institutions. At a school that places most emphasis on teaching, however, you'd be regarded more favorably if you've had more teaching experience, especially if you can demonstrate that you were well thought of as a teacher. One other consideration comes to mind: if the adjunct position enables you to teach courses different from the ones you've already taught, that will probably make your candidacy more attractive than if you're simply repeating courses you've done before. Of course, new preparations take much more time, and thus may interfere more with your progress toward getting your degree. (How's that for Catch-22!) In sum, I think there's no single right answer. Good luck! Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 11:03:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dorothy Dean Subject: Temp. Leaving list to run for Lt. Gov. I have temporarily stopped the women's studies mail list due to time constraints. Please indulge me in this slightly off-topic announcement. I will not be teaching next semester as I am a Democratic Party candidate for Lt. Governor in Wisconsin. Election is in November. If any of you have and suggestions or would like information about the campaign please respond by e-mail. I check in about 2 times/week now. I am considering posting "from the campaign trail" reports on a couple newsgroups. Is there an interest in this? Wisconsin has never elected a woman to any state-wide position except Sec. of State or Treasurer. Never sent a woman to Congress either. Dorothy K. Dean ddean@csd4.csd.uwm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 12:30:30 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Danoff-Burg Subject: WS in Israel I would appreciate any information about Women's Studies contacts in Israel to pass on to a student who will be spending next year there. Please respond privately. Thanks. Sharon Danoff-Burg sharondb@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu sharondb@ukanvm.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 13:16:35 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Re: Women and Madness A few obvious literary choices--Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Doris Lessing's "To Room Nineteen" (both often anthologized; "Wallpaper" also published as paperback); also if you would be interested in theoretical work in literary studies, Gilbert and Gubar's THE MADWOMAN IN THE ATTIC. Phyllis Chesler's WOMEN AND MADNESS (I think that's the title) may already be on your list. (The Gilman and Lessing are, of course, fiction; you may also want to look at Toni Morrison's novel THE BLUEST EYE). Hope these are useful and not too obvious. Marilyn Edelstein, English, Santa Clara U, CA medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 17:26:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: women and madness A wonderful book: Mary Lou Shields, Sea Run: Surviving my MOther's Madness. New York: Seaview Books, 1981. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 17:30:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Janet E. McAdams" Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: <9405152016.AA25981@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> Anna Lee Walters, _Talking Indian_ (one story takes place in an institution--I don't have the book in front of me, so I can't give you the title. The protagonist is not "mad," but following traditional ways (Walters in Otoe & Pawnee(?)) Adrienne Rich, "The Phenomenology of Anger" in _Diving into the Wreck_ (& passim the whole collection) Sylvia Plath, _The Bell Jar_ Paule Marshall, _The Chosen Place, the Timeless People_ Doris Lessing, _The Four-Gated City_ _Camille Claudel_ (film, sorry I can't remember the director) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 19:05:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carol Oukrop Subject: Re: consent In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri 6 May 1994 20:24:00 PST Sorry. Error. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:10:07 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Milewicz Subject: Looking for Deborah HELSEL, Uni of Cal.? Does anyone have the snail or e-mail address of Deborah Helsel? I want to contact her regarding her publication/thesis 'Hmong Families in America: Challenge and Persistence'. I beleive she is/was at the University of California, San F. Drop me a line if you can help. Thanks Elizabeth University of Tasmania Tasmania, Australia Elizabeth.Milewicz@sociol.utas.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 21:58:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 calls for papers The following two calls for papers may be of interest to WMST-L subscribers: 1) CFP: POWER/VICTIM FEMINISM(S) 2) CFP: Gender Bending (Postscript: J. of Graduate Criticism and Theory) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ***************************************************************** 1) POWER/VICTIM FEMINISM(S) Contibutors wanted for Rutgers University Press anthology on female sexuality, victimization and power--the current popular debate thereof. Diverse approaches and perspectives. 20 pp maximum. Inquiries or abstracts to Donna perry, 4525 Henry Hudson Parkway, Apt. 1210, New York, NY 10471 (718) 548-7470/FAX (718) 548-4758. THANK YOU CHRIS SUGGS ENGLISH, JOHN JAY COLLEGE/CUNY JCSJJ@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU *********************************************************************** 2) POSTSCRIPT: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory Department of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS POSTSCRIPT is soliciting papers for an forthcoming special issue on GENDER-BENDING Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, cross-dressing, androgyny, and sex-appropriation. Other papers are welcomed for the Fall '94 issue All submissions should be directed to: POSTSCRIPT, Managing Editors Department of English, A-3000 Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 or sent by electronic mail to: pscript@kean.ucs.mun.ca DEADLINE for submissions is July 15, 1994 POSTSCRIPT, edited and published bi-annually by the English graduate students at Memorial University of Newfoundland, is devoted to the creation of new space for graduate students working, writing, reading and publishing within and beyond the walls of academia. POSTSCRIPT welcomes the submission of essays on literature, language, theory and pedagogy, as well as work in progress. Papers responding to issues of current debate within the humanities are encouraged. Please submit one copy of previously unpublished documents which follow the MLA format. Manuscripts should be no longer than 7500 words. To ensure an unbiased reading, please include a cover page with all contact information, leaving the text anonymous. For a prompt response, enclose a document-sized SASE. Submissions on disc (3.5 or 5.25), in Word Perfect format only, are encouraged but not necessary. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 20:12:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "BarryM.Dank" Subject: full disclosure CASE ON FULL DISCLOSURE CASE (Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity) is not simply committed to the concept of consent as it applies to relationships within academia; we affirm that for the concept of consent to be meaningful within the framework of asymmetrical or symmetrical campus relationships, consent must be of an informed nature. Informed consent cannot be meaningful when one party to the relationship is deprived of information which is germane to the viability/advisability of the relationship. For one party to be privy to relevant knowledge and the other to be deprived of such knowledge increases the power discrepancy and increases the probability of abuse. It is particularly inappropriate when institutional authority makes such relevant information differentially available. CASE adheres to the principle that students should have relevant knowledge that would help them make informed choices. We feel that this is particularly crucial when students choose classes, when they choose professors. Students should have available to them information regarding professors who have been disciplined for engaging in sexual harassment. Such disciplinary actions should be part of the public record. The specifics of the case should be made available to the student so that the student's informed consent will be maximized. Universities who prohibit the release of such information because they argue it is "protected personnel" material further increase the power differential between students and professors. Students should not be "protected" from having access to such information; some argue that it would cause too many students to have too much anxiety if they were fully informed. This is a facile argument,obviously the concealment is for the protection of the harassing professor as well as the reputation of the university. Such concealment must end. Full disclosure in this area will also help to protect "innocent" professors who have been subject to the rumour mill. It will help to decrease the scenarios of the following kind: "I know some prof in Music was found guilty of sexual harassment; be careful of the music faculty." Full disclosure will also help students as well as all other members of the university community make informed distinctions as to whether sexual harassment policies have been de facto expanded to include consensual relationships. Barry Dank, CASE Coordinator For info on CASE or to directly respond to this post, e mail mouse@marble.sfsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 09:28:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dr70 Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: <199405152137.RAA18914@holmes.umd.edu> >Anna Lee Walters, _Talking Indian_ (one story takes place in an >institution--I don't have the book in front of me, so I can't give you the >title. The protagonist is not "mad," but following traditional ways >(Walters in Otoe & Pawnee(?)) > >Adrienne Rich, "The Phenomenology of Anger" in _Diving into the Wreck_ >(& passim the whole collection) > >Sylvia Plath, _The Bell Jar_ > >Paule Marshall, _The Chosen Place, the Timeless People_ > >Doris Lessing, _The Four-Gated City_ > >_Camille Claudel_ (film, sorry I can't remember the director) > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 18:28:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra K Herzan Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: (null) Several literary works come to mind: Tsi Tsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions. Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Bessie Head, A Question of Power Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (this is subject to debate) Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady I hope this helps. Can you post the syllabus once it's complete? Sandy Herzan Department of English University of Minnesota herz0001@gold.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 08:10:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: sheryl grana Subject: Re: Girl talk Has anyone heard of the film "girl talk"? I saw it listed in a film catalog a few months ago and cannot find it now. It is about three runaways -- young women i believe. Any one know where I can get this? Thanks in advance. Sheryl Grana sgrana@ua.d.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 10:11:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Re: full disclosure In-Reply-To: <199405160415.AAA20961@holmes.umd.edu> from "BarryM.Dank" at May 15, 94 08:12:00 pm Well, if all that you say is accurate, then the missing piece about "full disclosure" is that extremely careful and impartial investigative procedures of charges must exist. Otherwise "full disclosure" becomes a kind of blackmail or other threat hanging over people. As I told you, I know of REAL sexual harassers who largely get away with it, but I also know of accusations of sexual harassment/rape which I believe are dalliances gone wrong. Of course, the banners would say the professor was at fault anyway and shouldn't have been in that relationship anyway. I wonder how many professors support bans NOT out of concern for students, but out of concern for themselves--to keep them out of possibly messy situations. D. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 10:17:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Re: full disclosure In-Reply-To: <199405160415.AAA20961@holmes.umd.edu> from "BarryM.Dank" at May 15, 94 08:12:00 pm Sorry; I just sent a private message about "full disclosure" to the entire list by accident. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 10:30:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lr22 Subject: Re: Address for M.H. Washington In-Reply-To: <199405141248.IAA10428@holmes.umd.edu> >Does anyone have an e-mail or snail mail address for Mary Helen Washington? >I can't find her in the MLA directory, and I don't know where she teaches. > >Thanks in advance. > >Sherry Linkon >linkon@unix1.cc.ysu.edu > Sherry, Mary Helen Washington is here at the University of Maryland. You can write to her at Dept. of English, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Or you can call her at (301)405-3750. Her e-mail address is mw85@umail.umd.edu Leigh Ryan > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 10:51:14 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathleen Marszycki." Subject: Re: Women and Madness Diane--A work by Shirley Jackson that is often overlooked (yet was fairly "profitable" - released as a movies starring Julie Harris and Claire Bloom back in the mid-sixties) but which I feel is a fascinating study. If considered alongside "Yellow Wallpaper" and Gilbert & Gubar's MADWOMAN, it works quite well. Good luck & would also like to see your completed syllabus. Kelly >Hello all... > >I'm teaching a 300 level seminar in Women's Studies next fall. The title >is Women and Madness. I intend focus primarily on issues from psychology >of women and incorporate some fiction and autobiography. >If you have any suggestions for interesting readings that would be >appropriate for such a course, I'd appreciate hearing from you. >Please respond to me privately at: >maluso@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu >Thanks in advance, >Diane Maluso >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ><> Diane Maluso, Ph.D. ^ > <> ><> Dept. of Women's Studies ^ > <> ><> 722 Porteus Hall ^ <> ><> Honolulu, HI 96822 ^ > <> ><> maluso@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu ^ > <> >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= kathleen.marszycki@mail.trincoll.edu "If you decide to enter the page . . ." (Margaret Atwood) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 09:04:49 -500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Seiz Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: <199405152015.QAA18469@holmes.umd.edu> The latest figures compiled by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill say that one in five families are touched in some way by mental illness. Most cities have a local chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). You can find them in any phone book under AMI or Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Reading about women's experiences with "madness" is one way to learn, but hearing from a family member or from a person that has experienced a mental illness could be a broadening experience for your class. Your local AMI group could suggest a family member speaker or a person who has experienced mental illness--usually referred to as a "consumer"-as in "consumer of mental health services." Let me know if I can provide a list of current first person stories about recovering from illness, etc. Janet Seiz St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa jseiz@saunix.sau.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 10:55:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Mary Roberson \\ 513/229-2166" Subject: women and madness In addition, I have used Alice Walker's _Possessing the Secret of Joy_ which gets into some very complex issues related to genital mutilation. Even Tashi's decision to have the operation, in part, is an attempt to preserve her culture against the cultural imperialism of the West. The process of the book jumps around as does the name of the main character such that the writing style is helpful toward communicating the clash of cultures and psychological processes. Tashi undergoes psychotherapy with Jung. Walker wrote an article for Ms fairly recently in which she states her belief that when African women come to terms with genital mutilation as a human rights violation, a rather large & collective psychological response will occur. Of course, she has a movie on the topic which I have not seen, but has been discussed on this list. I understand there is some controversy surrounding Walker's involvement with this topic, however, even that is fruit for discussion. Students really enjoyed reading the novel and exploring the many issues related to this complex topic and how it relates to the psychology of women. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:14:47 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathleen Marszycki." Subject: Re: Women and Madness It's Monday & my brain isn't functioning too well after a weekend with kids, laundry, etc...the title of that book by Jackson is THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE! Sorry! Kelly Diane--A work by Shirley Jackson that is often overlooked (yet was fairly "profitable" - released as a movies starring Julie Harris and Claire Bloom back in the mid-sixties) but which I feel is a fascinating study. If considered alongside "Yellow Wallpaper" and Gilbert & Gubar's MADWOMAN, it works quite well. Good luck & would also like to see your completed syllabus. Kelly >Hello all... > >I'm teaching a 300 level seminar in Women's Studies next fall. The title >is Women and Madness. I intend focus primarily on issues from psychology >of women and incorporate some fiction and autobiography. >If you have any suggestions for interesting readings that would be >appropriate for such a course, I'd appreciate hearing from you. >Please respond to me privately at: >maluso@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu >Thanks in advance, >Diane Maluso >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ><> Diane Maluso, Ph.D. ^ > <> ><> Dept. of Women's Studies ^ > <> ><> 722 Porteus Hall ^ <> ><> Honolulu, HI 96822 ^ > <> ><> maluso@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu ^ > <> >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= kathleen.marszycki@mail.trincoll.edu "If you decide to enter the page . . ." (Margaret Atwood) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:38:36 LCL Reply-To: womens-studies@MIT.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandy Martin Subject: Re: Women and Madness Two thoughts on women and madness: there was a hollywood film a few years ago, "Frances." it tells the story of actress frances farmer, who is a bit of a radical, maybe an alcoholic, but mostly just a woman with a mind of her own. she is institutionalized and eventually lobotomizes. it is an intense movie, very disturbing, but quite powerful. definitely worth consideration. there is also an independent feminist film on her life, but i don't think it works as well. (i think 'women make movies' in nyc distributes it. the other idea is a film which showed recently in a films series here in boston and is about to have a regular opening. it is also an independent feminist film distributed by women make movies (i think). it is titled 'women and madness' and folks i know who saw it say it's very powerful. i believe it is mostly interviews with women who have been labeled 'crazy.' also, the obvious, is Kate Millett's book, The Looney Bin Trip. Quite a good read. Feminist politics, but it is more confusing than, say, "Frances" because reading it you can't quite decide if Millett is crazy or not. She says no, the doctors and her family say yes, and the reader isn't quite sure. so it gives a less black and white case study for discussion. good luck-- sandy martin, women's studies, mit ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 12:07:08 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diana H. Scully" Subject: Re: Program location In-Reply-To: ; from "Sue Morrow" at Apr 7, 94 3:06 pm I'd like to get the experience of others regarding a question I haven't seen discussed on WMST-L. My dean is thinking of finding a space on campus to locate all of the interdisciplinary programs in the college. Currently this would include Women's Studies, African American Studies, International studies, and, possibly, Environmental studies. Women's Studies now occupies very cramped quarters, in fact, the office is a former closet. Also, space is at a premium on this urban campus. The promise of more space is appealing. My concern is that Women's Studies will lose its identity and that it will be more difficult to establish Women's Studies as a department. Any opinions? Diana Scully ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 12:10:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barrie Bondurant Organization: University of NC at Greensboro Subject: personality psychology text needed I have a friend, not on the wmst-l, who is teaching personality psychology for the first time and would like to find a good book that includes feminist, multicultural perspectives (if there is such a book). If you have suggestions, please send them PRIVATELY to me and I will forward them along. Barrie Bondurant Bonduran@iris.uncg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 10:15:16 MST Reply-To: CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire Garcia Subject: OTHERS PORTRAYAL OF OTHERS BECAUSE OF THE LEVEL OF INTEREST IN THIS TOPIC, I WILL BE FORWARDING ALL RESPONSES TO MY QUERY FOR OTHERS' REPRESENTATIONS OF OTHERS TO THE LIST. THANK YOU! CLAIRE GARCIA AT cc.From: MX%"NY932263@PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU" 15-MAY-1994 17:56:20.77 To: CGARCIA CC: Subj: race and gender query From: Wendy Wagner hello! I saw your note on wmst-l about portrayal of others by others. I just thought I would mention Pauline Hopkins' _Winona_, in the Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins, published by Oxford as part of the Schomburg Library. I forget the exact story, but Hopkins portrays Native Americans. Will you be posting the list of suggestions you receive? I would be interested in seeing it. Take care, Wendy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: <@PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU:NY932263@PACEVM.BITNET> Received: from PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU by academic.cc.colorado.edu (MX V3.3 VAX) with SMTP; Sun, 15 May 1994 17:56:12 MST Received: from PACEVM.BITNET by PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6201; Sun, 15 May 94 19:56:06 EDT Received: from PACEVM (NJE origin NY932263@PACEVM) by PACEVM.BITNET (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 6200; Sun, 15 May 1994 19:56:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 May 94 19:52:04 EDT From: Wendy Wagner Subject: race and gender query To: cgarcia@cc.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:17:27 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara G. Taylor" Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 13 May 1994 15:46:53 -1000 from What a "blast from the past" as some of our students would say. In the VERY early 70's, I taught a Women in Literature course sub-titled "Suicide, Guilt, and Madness." It included the works of novelists and poets whose women characters went mad, committed suicide, or felt guilty about being strong women. Needless to say, many of the authors had killed themselves. At that time, it seemed that many of the works by women authors with strong woman characters that we were reading in Women and Lit courses had the sub-text that there is a penalty for being a strong, independent woman. I don't remember all the works we read, but they included Kate Chopin's -The Awakening-, Plath's -The Bell Jar-, Sue Kaufman's -Diary of a Mad Housewife-, Anne Sexton's and Sylvia Plath's poetry, Gail Parent's -Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York-, Chesler's -Women and Madness-, Christina Stead's -The Man Who Loved Children-, Erica Jong's "Mad Man," Shirley Jackson's "Island," peoms by Marge Piercy, a handfull of works by men about strong mad/suicidal/ guilty women: Hedda Gable, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Jude the Obscure, etc., plus a lot of material on the portrayal of women in texts, women in the psychotherapeutic relationship, Naomi Weisstein's "Psychology Constructs the Female, prbably A. Alvarez's -The Savage God-. All, by now, very dated material, but what an interesting class it was! Barbara Taylor BT24761@UAFSYSA.UARK.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 09:51:22 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marcia Bedard Subject: Re: what hiring folks want In-Reply-To: <199405151531.LAA15199@holmes.umd.edu> from "Joan Korenman" at May 15, 94 11:30:49 am Speaking from the perspective of what search committees look for at those schools which are primarily teaching institutions, such as California State University, Fresno, I agree with Joan's summation. Although each department here has its own criteria, in Women's Studies we expect that a successful candidate will have substantial teaching experience and (as Joan said) the more diverse the better. We look for people who have taught both general education and interdisciplinary courses (not that the two are exclusive) but who also have done (or are presently doing) some research and publication. Another tip I would add to anyone on the women's studies job market today is to be thoroughly grounded in the work of women of color as well as that of lesbian authors (again, not mutually exclusive categories). I also agree with Joan that it is good to have this open discussion as there are alot of misunderstandings out there about how search committees operate and how to be the most successful at applying for a job. Because we have just concluded a successful search for a tenure-track position, this topic is fresh in my mind and if there is any helpful info I can add to this discussion, I will do so. Marcia Bedard, Coordinator of Women's Studies, CSUF marcia_bedard@csufresno.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:09:00 MST Reply-To: CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire Garcia Subject: others on others I AM FORWARDING RESPONSES TO MY REQUEST FOR REPRESENTATIONS OF OTHERS BY OTHERS FOR AN AMERICAN ETHNIC STUDIES CLASS ON RACE AND GENDER TO THE ENTIRE WMST-LIST. CLAIRE GARCIA AT CC. From: MX%"f0127713@cc.ysu.edu" 14-MAY-1994 06:44:57.87 To: CGARCIA CC: Subj: Others on others From: Sherry Linkon Claire -- I focus my multicultural American lit course on cultural interactions between people of different backgrounds, and I use a number of texts that emphasize perspectives of otherness from non-mainstream writers/characters. The Norton anthology, _New Worlds of Literature_ includes many of these, such as Gary Soto's "Like Mexicans," which describes a Mexican-American's experience of first meeting his Japanese-American girlfriend's family (and recognizing the common bond of class), and an old O. Henry piece about how an Irish-American woman violates her community's rules by bringing an Italian-Am date to a dance. I've also used a short story by Colorado writer Joanne Greenberg, "L'olam and White Shell Woman," which tells of a New York Jewish woman's experiences working on a Navajo reservation, and how she identifies herself as an "other" while her co-workers see her as "white." I agree, by the way, that your idea of de-emphasizing the white vs. other dichotomy is important. Too often, when we discuss diversity, we mean all those who are not white -- and we group all "others" into an undifferentiated mass. I think we need to recognize the complexity of diversity, the differences among whites, for example, but also the differences that go beyond race. Anyway, I'm glad to hear of others taking this approach. Good luck with the course. Sherry Linkon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from UNIX1.CC.YSU.EDU by rikki.cc.colorado.edu (MX V3.3 AXP) with SMTP; Sat, 14 May 1994 06:44:54 MST Received: by UNIX1.CC.YSU.EDU id AA25030 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for cgarcia@cc.colorado.edu); Sat, 14 May 1994 08:48:22 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 May 1994 08:48:22 -0400 From: Sherry Linkon Message-ID: <199405141248.AA25030@UNIX1.CC.YSU.EDU> To: cgarcia@cc.colorado.edu Subject: Others on others ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:10:21 MST Reply-To: CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire Garcia Subject: OTHERS ON OTHERS From: MX%"FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu" 13-MAY-1994 17:09:42.10 To: CGARCIA CC: Subj: RE: race and gender query From: ftwine@cc.colorado.edu In response to your query, you might find some interesting portrayals of Native American Indian (slave owners) by black wo/men in a book entitled Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B.B. Botkin. University of Georgia Press. The novel "A Thousand Pieces of Gold" has a portrayal of a freed Black by a Chinese female character. Also the racism of the Cherokee Indians towards the Black-Indians or Blacks can be found in Being and Becoming Indian: Biograph ical Sketches of North American Frontiers, by James Clifton, pp.183-203. Most of my books are in California but if I come across any more references I will send them. Francine Winddance Twine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: by cc.colorado.edu (MX V3.3 VAX) id 11239; Fri, 13 May 1994 17:09:31 MST Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 17:09:27 MST From: ftwine@cc.colorado.edu Reply-To: FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu To: CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu CC: ftwine@cc.colorado.edu Message-ID: <0097E60B.4BF53EC4.11239@cc.colorado.edu> Subject: RE: race and gender query ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:11:35 MST Reply-To: CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire Garcia Subject: OTHERS ON OTHERS From: MX%"GLERNER@macc.wisc.edu" 14-MAY-1994 15:40:59.25 To: CGARCIA CC: Subj: Re: race and gender query From: Gerda Lerner de>From: IN%"CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu" >To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L >Subject: race and gender query > >I'm looking for portrayals--in fiction, non-fiction, or poetry--of >"the other" by "others." In other words, in order to move away from >discussions of white portrayals of ethnic/cultural/racial others and >others' portrayals of "whiteness", I want to explore for example >Chicano writers' portrayal of African-Americans, African-Americans' >representations of Chinese-Americans, etc. So far, I have come across >Rita Dove's representation of NA culture in >_Through the Ivory Gate_, >Gus Lee's representation of black urban culture in _China Boy_, and >Michael Dorris's portrayal of an NA/AA girl in _A Yellow Raft on >Blue Water_. These texts would be used in a module in an American >Ethnic Studies class on race and gender. Thanks in advance. >Claire Garcia at The Colorado College. deat Claire Garcia: Try Leslea Newman,"A Letter to Harvey Milk" in Joyce Antler (ed.) America and I;Short Stories by AMerican Jewish Women Writers(Boston: Beacon Press,1990) pp. 324-44. A wonderful story told by an old Yiddish-speaking man, exploring his responses to homosexuals. It marvelously illuminates the social construction of deviance and the complexities of interaction between people of different cultures. This is also much to be recommended for any courses on multiculturalism. I have used it successfully in four different courses. glerner@macc.wisc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from vms2.macc.wisc.edu by rikki.cc.colorado.edu (MX V3.3 AXP) with SMTP; Sat, 14 May 1994 15:40:55 MST Received: from VMSmail by vms2.macc.wisc.edu; Sat, 14 May 94 16:40 CDT Message-ID: <24051416402900@vms2.macc.wisc.edu> Date: Sat, 14 May 94 16:40 CDT From: Gerda Lerner Subject: Re: race and gender query To: CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu X-VMS-To: IN%"CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu",GLERNER ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:12:49 MST Reply-To: CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire Garcia Subject: OTHERS ON OTHERS From: MX%"NY932263@PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU" 15-MAY-1994 17:56:20.77 To: CGARCIA CC: Subj: race and gender query From: Wendy Wagner hello! I saw your note on wmst-l about portrayal of others by others. I just thought I would mention Pauline Hopkins' _Winona_, in the Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins, published by Oxford as part of the Schomburg Library. I forget the exact story, but Hopkins portrays Native Americans. Will you be posting the list of suggestions you receive? I would be interested in seeing it. Take care, Wendy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: <@PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU:NY932263@PACEVM.BITNET> Received: from PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU by academic.cc.colorado.edu (MX V3.3 VAX) with SMTP; Sun, 15 May 1994 17:56:12 MST Received: from PACEVM.BITNET by PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6201; Sun, 15 May 94 19:56:06 EDT Received: from PACEVM (NJE origin NY932263@PACEVM) by PACEVM.BITNET (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 6200; Sun, 15 May 1994 19:56:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 May 94 19:52:04 EDT From: Wendy Wagner Subject: race and gender query To: cgarcia@cc.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 13:12:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vicky Borgia Subject: women and madness A few weeks back (May 5th, i believe) i heard a filmaker on NPR's Fresh Air discussing her documentary. The film is called 'Dialogues with Madwomen' and seems to have a feminist slant. Her name is Allie Light, although I'm not sure if that's how it's spelled. Maybe someone else has more info. Vicky Borgia borgiav@snybksac.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 13:22:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Alabiso Subject: Re: women and madness In-Reply-To: <199405161502.LAA24755@holmes.umd.edu> from "Mary Roberson \\ 513/229-2166" at May 16, 94 10:55:20 am A great piece of fiction that would work nicely w/ women and madness (though the movie was not great) is Jean Rhys' _Wide Sargasso Sea_. It's the story of Bertha, the woman kept locked in Rochester's attic from _Jane Eyre_. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:23:18 MST Reply-To: CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire Garcia Subject: others on others From: MX%"kab@unr.edu" 16-MAY-1994 11:14:57.81 To: CGARCIA CC: Subj: Re: race and gender query From: "Kathleen A. Boardman" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Claire-- In Linda Hogan's "New Shoes," the Native American mother is both fascinated and troubled by her African American coworker's attitude toward work and white bosses. I don't know where the story appeared originally, but it has been reprinted a number of times. It is one of the stories in EARTH POWER COMING. I don't have publication info available right here, but I can find it if you're interested. Good luck with your project. Kathy Boardman University of Nevada, Reno kab@unr.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from solstice.unr.edu by academic.cc.colorado.edu (MX V3.3 VAX) with SMTP; Mon, 16 May 1994 11:14:46 MST Received: from equinox.unr.edu (equinox.ccs.unr.edu) by solstice.unr.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA10156; Mon, 16 May 94 10:15:31 PDT Received: by equinox.unr.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA00396; Mon, 16 May 94 10:15:23 PDT Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 10:15:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kathleen A. Boardman" Subject: Re: race and gender query To: Claire Garcia In-Reply-To: <199405132003.QAA06960@holmes.umd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 12:27:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Freeland Subject: Re: Women and Madness I have come a little late to this discussion but think I have a few additional suggestions that haven't been mentioned. One is Shoshana Felman's book Writing and Madness which contains an interesting critical reading of Derrida vs. Foucault on the allegedly liberatory aspects of madness. A few years ago I team-taught a course with an art professor called "Representations of Madness" and we spent some time reading through some of the accumulated literature on figures like Diane Arbus that seems to mystify or celebrate madness. It's esp. impt. to do this in cases of women. I mean, to include critical discussions of filmic depictions like Betty Blue or Angel at my Table that seem to romanticize women's madness, either as a route to her own artistry or to a male lover's artistry. To do this I endorse a previous recommendation to contact the local AMI (Alliance for the Mentally Ill) chapter and get someone from there, preferably a consumer, to come and speak. Further, let me just mention that in teaching the course we learned that virtually everyone taking it had some close experience with mental illness (a mother, sister, or student herself or himself) and the professor should be prepared to deal with this. Again AMI can be of great help on that. Regards Cynthia Freeland phil7@jetson.uh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 13:26:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen E Green Subject: Re: Women's Studies vs Gender Studies In-Reply-To: <199405111955.PAA18468@holmes.umd.edu> from "Sally Stratton Baggett" at May 11, 94 12:55:38 pm >I am doing research on the difference between Women's Studies and >Gender Studies, AND although I found the disscusion in the archives >interesting, I am looking for specific articles, and texts that deal >with this issue> >Sally > I find Susan Bordo's collected essays republished recently under the title _Unbearable Weight_ helpful on this issue. Though she doesn't directly discuss women's studies, she outlines the debates in gender or bosdy studies quite well. Her new intro and her essay on "Feminism, Postmodernity, and Gender SKepticism" (??) would both be useful, I think. Kathy Green kgreen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu University of WIsconsin-Milwaukee ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 13:48:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen E Green Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: <199405161651.MAA26711@holmes.umd.edu> from "Barbara G. Taylor" at May 16, 94 11:17:27 am Another women and madness film is _I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can_ with Jill Clayburgh and Geraldine Page, directed by Jack Hofsiss (Paramount 1982). It's the story of a New York documentary filmaker who is making a movie about a poet (G. Page) dying of cancer. In the meantime, the filmaker is popping too many nerve pills. Her apparently sympathetic partner encourages to give up her (sexist) therapist and her Valium, but instead of love and support, begins to abuse her. She goes mad and is put in an asylum, where after her initial hostility at therapy, she begins treatment with a feminist therapist. It's interesting to see what the Hollywood film industry does with the mad artist figure, and would be extremely appealing to undergrads. Kathy Green University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee kgreen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 11:01:48 -0700 Reply-To: Joan Ariel Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel Subject: visiting scholars in women's history programs I have had a request from a Korean graduate student seeking to identify U.S. programs in Women's History that would be willing to host Ph.D. students from Korea as visiting scholars (without compensation). Can anyone provide leads for us to pursue? Thanks very much. Joan Ariel Academic Coordinator Women's Studies jariel@uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 15:18:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: sharing private responses to a query Though I appreciate Claire Garcia's willingness to share with WMST-L the suggestions people made to her privately in response to her query about "others' portrayal of others," I would like to suggest a different method of doing so in the future. The point of people's replying privately is often at least in part the wish not to add to the already heavy volume of mail on WMST-L. If it becomes clear that there's a lot of interest in the topic, and the recipient of the private responses wishes to share them with the list, s/he should put them all into ONE LARGE MESSAGE, cutting out all unnecessary lines (routing statements and the like) and omitting duplicate information. That one large statement can then be sent to WMST-L. If the message is REALLY long, it might be better to write privately to me, asking whether I would add it to the WMST-L file collection. If I agree (and I usually do), you should send the one long message to me privately. I'll add it to the file collection and send a notice to WMST-L letting people know how to retrieve it. One more thing: please do not send your collection of responses to me to edit. If you don't have the editing skills needed to do what I describe above, then the private messages are best left unshared (or, at least, not sent to WMST-L). Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 15:33:39 -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: women and madness Dialogues with Madwomen will be on POV (PBS) the week of August 2. According to their brochure it is "Seven women, including the filmmaker, describe their experiences with manic depression, multiple personalities, schizophrenia, euphoria and recovery. Academy Award winner Allie LIght creates dream-like reenactments to capture the revelations of women who have witnessed 'the dark side of the imagination.' A winner of the 1994 Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film Festival." It is also available through Women Make Movies Mara ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 13:52:16 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: constance morris shortlidge Subject: women and madness Hi. There was a great Masterpiece Theater presentation several years ago, sorry the name escapes me perhaps someone else can remember it, about a young woman who is committed to an institution of 60 years for being defiant toward her father and the mores of his generation (1920s/30s). She is released after all those years into the care of her nephew and the story is about her coming to herself, and the bonding that occurs with the nephew's wife. It is also a generational look at defiant women and the penalties for such actions. It is really wonderful. Constance M Shortlidge, stlidge@hydra.unm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 15:40:43 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mike Boyes Subject: Call for Papers (Assoc. For MOral Ed.) CALL FOR PAPERS/WORKSHOPS ASSOCIATION FOR MORAL EDUCATION 1994 CONFERENCE ************************************************************************** FOSTERING AND LIVING IN MORAL COMMUNITIES: MORAL CHARACTER, MORAL CODES, AND SPIRITUALITY ************************************************************************** CALGARY/BANFF NOVEMBER 10 - 12, 1994 SUBMISSION DEADLINE JUNE 15, 1994 While open to a broad range of topics of concern to the association the title of this year's conference is intended to suggest several related themes. 1. Moral Community 2. Moral Character 3. Moral Codes 4. Spirituality Sessions will range from Panels, Paper sessions (with papers grouped by topic/theme), to Poster sessions. It is our intent to provide ample time for discussion both within sessions and in coffee breaks outside of the sessions. To this end we ask that all those submitting papers for consideration by the program committee think VERY CAREFULLY (and critically) about their requests for program time. We also ask that, where possible, you consider offering more than one option to the program committee (e.g., "I would prefer a half hour paper presentation slot but will present a poster if that is not possible.") Such realistic self appraisal will make the program committee's job easier and may also increase the likelihood that your submission will be granted program time. We also guarantee that all poster presentations will be fully cited in the program. The conference program options are as follows: 1. Major paper (up to 1hr program time) 2. Paper (15 to 30 minutes of program time in a shared session). 3. Panel (a group of related papers, preferably grouped so as to promote discussion) 4. Poster (could be an empirical paper or a short theoretic note written to promote discussion) Note: Papers may be empirically or theoretically focussed but consideration should be given to what can properly be presented in the allotted time. Presenters are also encouraged to bring completed copies of their papers with them for distribution (we are working on providing copying facilities). For more information regarding the conferecne or Pre-Conferecne workshops please contact: Mike Boyes Conference Chair Association for Moral Education e-mail: boyes@acs.ucalgary.ca University of Calgary Phone: (413) 220-7724 Department of Psychology 2500 University Drive, N.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 16:52:53 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Little Miss Orbit Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: <199405161848.OAA29059@holmes.umd.edu> Another film: "Betty Blue". It's French, available subtitled in most video stores. I don't recall the director. It is an intense psychological story of an intelligent and vivacious woman who goes mad from the frustration of trying to help her boyfriend become a published author. She cares more about his success than he does; alienated, he sees her decompose mentally. I don't want to give away the whole thing, but in the end, he ends up killing her in what has been variously interpeted as an act of mercy or as a final articulation of alienation. ///////////////////////////// * ============================================== /cstarr@orion.oac.uci.edu / * WE ARE THE PEOPLE YOUR PARENTS TOLD YOU ABOUT /*********************** / * ============================================== / BOMP! / /////////////////////// ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 20:21:48 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stacy Burton Subject: Re: women and madness In-Reply-To: <199405161952.PAA29955@holmes.umd.edu> > There was a great Masterpiece Theater presentation several years ago, > sorry the name escapes me perhaps someone else can remember it, about a > young woman who is committed to an institution of 60 years for being > defiant toward her father and the mores of his generation (1920s/30s). > She is released after all those years into the care of her nephew and the > story is about her coming to herself, and the bonding that occurs with the > nephew's wife. It is also a generational look at defiant women and the > penalties for such actions. It is really wonderful. Constance M > Shortlidge, stlidge@hydra.unm.edu The title is _She's Been Away_; I think it was made in around 1989. Stacy Burton University of Nevada, Reno sburton@unr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 15:02:16 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nijole Benokraitis Subject: Re: Using Internet with my class Go for it, but don't be too ambitious the first time...This semester, in my graduate The Aged in Society seminar (10 students), I required a course project in which the students had to get on e-mail, subscribe to and follow at least two related lists, send one "meaningful" message and evaluate the experience in the course paper. I "trained" them, provided some reading on netiquette, etc. There were numerous problems (someone from the Computing Center didn't show up for the initial training session; we have different printing systems depending if the student is working from the mainframe or pc; it took several students almost 2 wks to get on the lists; and many felt overwhelmed). I kept telling them, however, that--like spinach--it was good for them. The good news--eventually the look of terror left their faces, they started subscribing to all kinds of stuff on their own (sports, addictions, cars), grad students I had in the past started complaining that I hadn't made them learn e-mail, and my class said it was one of the most worthwhile experiences in graduate school (we only have an M.A. program in Sociology). Several students have connected to their home computers. They started helping each other, buying Internet books, etc. and suggesting lists I should join. So, I might have created a monster.... niki Benokraitis ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 22:13:27 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pamela Pearsall Subject: info request Hello, My Name is Birgit Schreiber,I am from Germany and I am involved in Women's Studies at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. I will be writing my master's thesis on female survivors of the Holocaust and their daughters in the United States. Therefore, I am looking for German Jewish mothers and daughters who would be willing to be interviewed about their lives in the United States. How have their lives been affected? What relationship do mothers and daughters have to the country that killed many of their relatives and friends? How have German Jewish women contributed to American society? If you think you would like to volunteer for such an interview or you know of someone who might, please get in touch with me. I am looking forward to talking to you. Furthermore, I am interested in research that has been done in this field. Do you have any suggestions regarding good studies or books about survivors and their children? Please respond privately to n9035110@henson.cc.wwu.edu Thank you very much, Birgit. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 15:34:20 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nerida Cook Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWS:conference flyer copy ____________________________________________________________________________ _____ Nerida Cook Sociology Department University of Tasmania Phone: (002) 20 2914 GPO Box 252C Fax: (002) 20 2279 Hobart Tasmania 7001 E-mail: N.Cook@sociol.utas.edu.au Australia (This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0) :&@0[EQCPFQ9ZBf8JCQajCA)JBfp`H3"A4%*1690A4!%!!!!8!!!!!!"08Iih!#- !!!!!!!!%!!!C!!!!!!!!!!!"!!!!#R`!!"2'!!!!!!!!#A`!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")!!"S!!")!!"S!!")D!!!!!")D!!!!!")D!!i!!")S!") !!")k!!!!!")k!!!!!")k!!!!!")k!!S!!"*%!"!!!"*8!!!!!"*8!&J!!"+X!(J !!")k!!!!!"-N!#!!!"0%!"S!!"0h!#S!!"1K!!!!!")D!!!!!3!#!!!6G`!!!!! 6AJ!C!!!6G`!!!!!6G`!!!!!6S3!P!!!6G`!!!!!6G`!!!!!6G`!!!!!6G`!!!!! 6G`!!!!!6G`!!!!"6Eh9dD#""FfPKEL"AEfePELGc)&0dG@4j)'&ZC!dJ8h9`F'p bG#"(FQpeF#i0+&0"9e064bN06Q&dD@pZB@`J3f9ZG(*P)%C[FL"6Eh9dD#""FfP KEL"6G(9ND@9c)!d0689-3Np98Nj&)%&98e4538a*35"+98aC)$)h)#dJ-MJX)$% j16304QpbG'KMEfeTEQFJ3fpZCQ9bC@jMC6S0$9G26891,#"36eG&8L""6N3J3e9 -9&9538`J4%P'4N9548j$43e*6L"66e985#""8dP"1L!0)%j&4dp858&858j()%G &6N4&8Jd09'KP)(*PE'&dD@pZFb"[CL"`EhGPFL"KEQ3JBfpZFh4bG@0dD@pZFb" [CL"TC'9ZG'PdH5"KEQ3JC'PQCQ9bC@jMC5"MEfjMCA*ZD@jR)(G[E@9Z)'PZ)'j [ELe0CA4bEh"[E'PdB@iJBfpeER4bD@9c)'&bC5"QFQ&eCfKd)(GTG'JJCA"TFh4 PE@pXEfGTBf&X)'4TCQCTBh9XG'PPFbiJ9'KPFQ8JBA*P)'0[EA"XCAKTG'PPFb" [CL"ME'&cFb`JFh9LDQ9MG'PfDA4j)'&ZC#"SDA0dEh*TBf&X,@0eE(4eFQ&X)'4 PGQ9XEh"YC@jd,L")EhFJG'KPFf8JCAK`CA*TC@jMCA-JFh4bG@0dGA*P)(4SC5" PGQ9bH@4KH5"bC@&XDA4j)'pQ)(G[E@9Z*h-JE'PfCA-JBf&Z)'*P)(9ZC'9bFh4 [Ef3JCR*[E5"K)'jeE@*PFL"[CL"`CA*cF'9MG'PfCA-JD5jP)'&ZG'KbEh"[E'p RH5`JF(0jBfK[B@jKE(PcDA-X)("SD@a[Ffp`D(NX)'aTG'9bBA*j)'0bDA4TBfP cE5`JF'pcG#eMEfa[EQPKE#"NDA0MEh9bFf8Z)&4SC5"KD@dJEfBJG'KP)'0[EQC PFQ9ZBf8JDA-JG'mJCAK`E'pbC5"dD'9[FQ9dD@0KE#"QFQ&YCAG[FQYc)'&ZC#" dD'9TFL"TEA"XD@0KG'P[ER-JCQpb)("bBAKTFb"TEL"dD'8J8fpeG'JJ3A0TB@i JBfpZG'9iG#iJ8A9PFh4TEfjc)(0eBfJJBA-JG'KP)'&`F(*[F(*TBA4PEQ9cFb" [CL"ACA0dCA*Z)'CPE@PZDA0d)(4SEh9RD(3JCQpb)(9ZC'9bFh4KEQ4TEQFJ8fp eG'JJ3A0TB@iJ9fpYC@iJGfPXE#"LC5"MEfjcD@4PFQ9N,L!0$94SC5"MEfjQCA* PEQ0P)(GTE'`JBQ8JD'9XC#"TEL"MEfjUG@jMG'P[EL"hDA4S)(4SC5"*ER4PFQj KG'P[EQ&X)%CPE@PZDA0d)%*[EfXJ4Q9cG'PfB@`JD@iJ6@9XBQpeFQjP,L!J8fp YC5"[CL"dD'8J5@jdCA*ZBA4TEfjKE#!JB@jN)'a[Bf&X)(0`C@&VCA*c)'PZBfa eC'8k$3dU)%eKDA4bCAPPC5"0G@YSEh"KC'KjBANZ)!e0B@PdFQ9jC@8JDA-JB5" `FQpYD@jPER3JB@0dDACTFh3JGfPdD#"K)'4PBf&NC5"[CL"PH("PFQPPEQ0P)'P Z)%CPE@PZDA0d)%pbCf&ZDA0KG'P[ER-Z)&*PBf9ZG'aj)(0SC5"SBA-JBfpYF'a PG'9N)'%JE@&UEh)JFQ9cC@&bBfJJ)'pZ)(4SC5"MEfjcG(*eBh4TEfiJEfBJG'K P)'0KG'9REh*j)'pQ)'"hEfeKELFX)'PZ)%PZC'PKEL"[CQCTBfPKE#"NDA0MEh9 bFf8Z)&0SC5"TFb"KE(0[)(4SC5"KGA4SEh)JEfBJ8fPXGQ9b)&0SB@0VE'9c,L! 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'3'3!!!!!!!!3!!!!!!!!!!!!!%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !3FJZI!@J!MF&S!)h!!!#d"!!!!%!!3!"3!!3!!!!!%J!'K%Y1NaKFf9b9h*TG'9 b)$JZ-!!+!!!!!!!#!!!!%!K3B@aKG'PZE`!!!"3&9'PYCA1!!3%!!!!(R`!!"jm !"S!!J!!!!!HI!!!!!!"&!!)"p`*I!%8!!J$B!J!!*4"MEfjQCA*PEQ0P)'CXH@9 b!!C6Bh*KFf8!!!C6Bh*KFf8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"NQ!!!!: ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 23:32:58 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harold Frank Subject: Mental illness statistics According to the President's Commission on Mental Health chaired by Rosalynn Carter 1 in 7 Americans suffer from some sort of mental illness at any given time. A closer examination of those figures show that disorders of self control -- chronic alcoholism, additions to other drugs, eating disorders, and depresion requiring medication account for more than the majority of what are referred to as mental illnesses in public health statistics on the subject. Additionally, counseling for what are essentially adjustments to life crises -- death, divorce, loss of a job, break up of a love relationship, when paid for under mental health insurance benefits, also are classified as mental illness, in part because insurance records are a principal source for mental illness data. Worldwide, including within the U.S. roughly 3% of a a given population suffers from what is commonly called schizophrenia. This observation has led many to conclude that schizophrenia is not caused by culture as much as it is influenced by it. Thus, if your view of mental illness is that people who have it ought to have significantly less capability of controlling the effect their brains have on their behavior than the average person, then you would probably be correct if you said that about 1 in 15 people in America are mentally ill at any given time. If you take the view that mental illness is normal behavior in abnormal proportions, a figure like 1 in 7 would be more appropriate. Hal Frank (Member, Task Panel on Public Attitudes and Use of Media, President's Commission on Mental Health) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 00:49:11 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "L. Roise" Subject: Re: "false memory" foundation In-Reply-To: message from joan r saks berman on Wed, 11 May 1994 08:09:53 -0600 >>>>> "joan" == joan r saks berman writes: joan> For articles from the point of view of clinical joan> practitioners who work with trauma victims of all kinds, joan> including multiple personality issues, see the publications joan> of the International Society y for the Study of Multiple joan> Personaltiy and Dissociation (ISSMPD). There is a bimonthly joan> newletter as well as a journal named *Dissociation.* I just came from the ISSMP&D International Conference in Vancouver, B.C., during which the name was officially changed to International Society for the Study of Dissociative Identity Disorder (I think I got that right). The DSMIV has changed Multiple Personality Disorder to Dissociative Identity Disorder. There was quite a controversy about the change, excellent discussion of pros and cons. _________________________________________________________________ *<<________ Linda Roise, Seattle ________ roise@seattleu.edu _______>>* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 07:44:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: <199405161328.JAA22830@holmes.umd.edu> i never promised you a rose garden, but it's nonfiction ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 06:35:29 -500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sr. Ritamary Bradley" Subject: literature by women about the sacred I am preparing a literature course for undergraduates called Women Writing about the Sacred. I would appreciate suggestions for novels, poems, and short stories to include. At this point I am considering poetry by Denise Levertov, a short story from Flannery O'Connor, selections from women mystics, and novels such as Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast and Gail Godwin's Father Melancholy's Daughter. I need both short items and full-length novels. Thanks for any suggestions. Ritamary Bradley Professor emerita St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 319-323-7317 e-mail rbradley@saunix.sau.edu .. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 09:03:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Ihle Subject: Payment for textbook examination copies I recently ordered a copy of Jane Roland Martin's "Reclaiming a Con- versation" to examine for a women's studies class that I hope to teach in the Spring 1995. Its publisher, Yale University Press, promptly sent me the book and an invoice saying that I didn't have to pay for the book if I adopted it and my bookstore ordered at least ten copies within sixty days. I can't meet that stipulation and called the press and suggested that their policy was unreasonable. Do other scholarly presses have such policies? Please reply privately unless you think this issue needs wider discussion. Elizabeth Ihle James Madison University in%"fac_eihle@vax1.acs.jmu.edu" ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 15:05:19 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Ecker Subject: univ. still a male preserve I just read Bruce Breath's posting on the small number of women staff in NZ universities. The only numbers I have from Austrian Universities are for the Vienna University of Business Administration. And it's quite the same tune here: 66 professors but only 2 female (3%). 30% female of the faculty. 42% of graduating students are female. Over 50% of students are female. (1992 figures) What can we do to change the situation? to get more women into faculty status? I wish I knew. Does anyone out there have any ideas? Would it help encouraging more female students to consider joining the university? Do you have any recommendations about what to do if a woman applies for a faculty job and is turned down not because of poor knowledge but because of "poor communication skills"? (It did not happen to me. And the communications issue referred to the woman not getting along with her male colleague. As for qualification, she was better qualified than the man who eventually got the job.) Here people argued that this might be a discrimination based on gender because women are expected to be better at communications than men. In the end she was turned down and it doesn't look likely she can do anything about it. How would you argue if something similar happened at your university? Do you hold the view that women are to be helped anyway because they are women or do they have to be qualified? And does "communication" form part of qualification? Is it necessary that the woman gets on with her male colleague? And lies the burden of this solely on her shoulders? What do you say about the official argument (that women are expected to be better at communications etc)? I cann't help the feeling this has a lot to do with keeping universities a male preserve. Greetings to all of you! ************************ Barbara Ecker ecker@isis.wu-wien.ac.at "Nature creates dinosaur, nature destroys dinosaur. Nature creates man. Man creates dinosaur. Dinosaur destroys man. And woman inherits the earth." ("Jurassic Park") ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:50:37 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauren J Bryant Subject: Re: OTHERS ON OTHERS In-Reply-To: <199405161711.NAA27164@holmes.umd.edu> Thousand Pieces of Gold is by Ruthanne Lum McCunn and is available from Beacon Press, in Boston, in paperback. ljbryant@world.std.com On Mon, 16 May 1994, Claire Garcia wrote: > From: MX%"FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu" 13-MAY-1994 17:09:42.10 > To: CGARCIA > CC: > Subj: RE: race and gender query > > From: ftwine@cc.colorado.edu > > In response to your query, you might find some interesting portrayals of Native > American Indian (slave owners) by black wo/men in a book entitled Lay My Burden > Down: A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B.B. Botkin. University of Georgia > Press. The novel "A Thousand Pieces of Gold" has a portrayal of a freed Black > by a Chinese female character. Also the racism of the Cherokee Indians towards > the Black-Indians or Blacks can be found in Being and Becoming Indian: Biograph > ical Sketches of North American Frontiers, by James Clifton, pp.183-203. Most of > my books are in California but if I come across any more references I will send > them. > > Francine Winddance Twine > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- > Return-Path: > Received: by cc.colorado.edu (MX V3.3 VAX) id 11239; Fri, 13 May 1994 17:09:31 > MST > Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 17:09:27 MST > From: ftwine@cc.colorado.edu > Reply-To: FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu > To: CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu > CC: ftwine@cc.colorado.edu > Message-ID: <0097E60B.4BF53EC4.11239@cc.colorado.edu> > Subject: RE: race and gender query > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 11:04:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "IRENE HANSON FRIEZE. PSYCHOLOGY" Subject: Re: univ. still a male preserve In my 20+ years in universities, I have found that many women are screened out of contention for jobs at the Search Committee stage ("their work is just not exciting"). One concrete thing we can do is fight very hard to have as many women as possible on Search Committees. !************************************************************ ! Irene Hanson Frieze, Ph.D. Internet: FRIEZE@vms.cis.pitt.edu ! Professor of Psychology, Women's Studies & Business Administration ! University of Pittsburgh Phone: (412) 624-4336 ! Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (USA) FAX: (412) 624-4428 !************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 11:39:02 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Subject: Re: Program location >From: IN%"WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET" "Women's Studies List" 16-MAY-1994 23:12:54.67 >To: IN%"WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET" "Multiple recipients of list WMST-L" >CC: >Subj: RE: Program location > >I'd like to get the experience of others regarding a question I >haven't seen discussed on WMST-L. My dean is thinking of finding a >space on campus to locate all of the interdisciplinary programs in >the college. Currently this would include Women's Studies, African >American Studies, International studies, and, possibly, Environmental >studies. Women's Studies now occupies very cramped quarters, in >fact, the office is a former closet. Also, space is at a premium on >this urban campus. The promise of more space is appealing. My >concern is that Women's Studies will lose its identity and that it >will be more difficult to establish Women's Studies as a department. >Any opinions? >Diana Scully Hi, At SUNY Cortland we have the Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies which shares space with International Studies. In the office we keep a small library of journals which relate to these areas. Since I am the Office Manager and my main interest is in Women's Studies so it gets top priority. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deborah Taylor e-mail: taylor84@snycorva.cortland.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 09:30:48 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Re: literature by women about the sacred In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 17 May 1994 06:35:29 -500 from May I suggest Silko's book _Ceremony_ which is about a young Laguna man return- ing to the sacred ways of the Pueblo and Southwest Indians? There is a large section in it where Tayo receives the medicine of a Dine (Navajo) sing, and the conclusion centers around a restoration of the sacred emergence place of the Pueblo peoples (the sipapuni). Theresa 60840883@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 12:35:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Wayne Subject: Re: University still a male preserve. In-Reply-To: <199405132243.SAA07928@holmes.umd.edu> Some of you may have seen this already, but an excellent examination of the position of women at all levels of academia (staff, faculty, students) is "The Chilly Climate" video. This video uses an interview format to uncover both the insidious and overt forms of oppression that women face in the university. The approach is very candid, disclosing the emotional and psychological component of our oppression as well as the systemic nature of inequity. This video has been warmly received in many universities and has spurred on a follow-up project on the "backlash" against equity initiatives in universities and colleges. To find out where you might be able to view this video or to order "The Chilly Climate" contact: The Department of Equity Services Stevenson Lawson Building The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 5B8 Canada (519) 661-3334 e-mail: persl@uwocc1.uwo.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 09:36:29 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Visit to Bard College Hi! Between June 8th and June 12th, I will be presenting a paper at the 4th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference being held at Bard College, NY. I have never been to New York before, and no one I know seems to be listed in the program as a speaker. I would be very interested in meeting up with other persons attend- ing the conference either as speakers or as audience, especially people from this list, with whom I feel comfortable most of the time. If you will be attending the conference, and would like to arrange a meeting with me or dinner or drinks or breakfast or coffee or something, please reply privately to: 60840883@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu Theresa P. S. I know this is ridiculous for a woman my age, but I really am nervous about a trip to the East Coast; I'm a westerner through and through!!!! Is it normal for women to be more hesitant about travelling alone into strange cities or was I raised funnily? (Of course, Bard is hardly a city or sprawling metro area. Compared to Phoenix, a city I know well, I can't imagine Bard will be in the least bit scary, but still, it is not anywhere near anything I know.) Bye. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 11:54:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: literature by women about the sacred You might want to look at the various ecofeminist authors who deal with ecology and the sacred. The anthology _Reweaving the World_ could get you started with methodology and bibliography. Also in Native American lit. look at the four volume series by Louise Erdrich, especially the novel _Tracks_ which focuses on the medicine woman Fleur. Benay Blend blend@alpha.nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:03:47 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marilyn P. Safir" Subject: Re: univ. still a male preserve In-Reply-To: <9405171506.AA00494@mx1.u.washington.edu> I agree with Irene about the Search Committee being significant. I was incharge of investigating women's status at my U. (Haifa in Israel) I tried to get statistics from department chairs as to percentages of women and men applying for positions. Only the School of Education complied. During that year they had hired 6 women and 6 men but 24 women had applied for jobs as compared with 12 men. We could only track career movemnt when a person was put up for promotion - These records are on file. From the faculty union I discovered that women were more likely to be fired then men before they were put up for promotion - and as this is an internal department affair - it is next to immpossible to get accurate figures. An interuniversity committee was formed and we discovered that from the first procedure with tenure (senior Lecturer) to Associate Professor took women 2X as long as men. My colleague Dafna Izraeli and I (2 out of 5) women were not able to convince the other 3 that this demonstrates discrimination. We were told that after they recieve tenure, women take time out to have babies ( amyth that is very prevalent) nor could we convince te committee to investigate this. I of course have been told by many colleagues (male) that each case is decided on its own merit and there is no dicrimination. Since Israel is so small it is immpossible to do the research submitting vitas with a name change(female/male first name). Israel's old boy network is somewhat different from the US as being relatef to the "founding fatheres or mothers" buys you an in and there are have been a number of outstanding women who have been part of this network. Gala Golan and Amia Lieblich did a study and in the early '50 when women made up 27% of the student body, they were 4% of the full professors. In '84 when wome were 51% of the student body they were still only 4% of full professors. Marilyn Safir (safirm@u.washington.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:50:32 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Brasher Subject: Re: literature by women about the sacred In-Reply-To: <199405171227.FAA17973@chaph.usc.edu> from "Sr. Ritamary Bradley" at May 17, 94 06:35:29 am You might try Starhawk's "The Fifth Sacred Thing." It's lengthy, but a good read & bluntly addresses a lot of contemporary issues. Brenda E. Brasher University of Southern California brasher@chaph.usc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:54:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Kidd Subject: Re: Women and Madness I'd like to add a couple of autobiographical works to the growing list of materials on Women and Madness. The first is: _The Prisoner's Hidden Life, or Insane Asylums Unveiled_ by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (Chicago, 1868). Mrs. Packard was married to a straight-laced clergyman and had the temerity to disagree with him on matters theological. For this unthinkable crime, he had her committed to the state mental hospital. She was "a difficult patient," critical of asylum practices and outspoken about patients' rights, so the head of the asylum discharged her into her husband's custody after 3 years, pronouncing her "incurable." Some of Mrs. Packard's friends secured a writ of habeas corpus and brought the matter to trial in 1864, however, and the jury found her sane after only seven minutes of deliberation. Mrs. Packard spent the rest of her life fighting for the rights of married women and for the mentally ill. Supporting herself as a writer, she eventually gained custody of her children, and is credited with changing the commitment laws in several states. Barbara Sapinsley has written an account of this in _The Private War of Mrs. Packard_ (which I haven't read, but was published within the past two or three years). The second autobiographical work is quite current, and Susan Cheever gave it a favorable review in the June 20, 1993 _New York Times Book Review_. It's _Girl, Interrupted_, by Susanna Kaysen. It tells of her two-year stay at the prestigious McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. in the late 1960's. Cheever calls it "triumphantly funny." I love the first sentence of Cheever's review: "When women are angry at men, they call them heartless; when men are angry at women, they call them crazy." --Karen Kidd Claremont Graduate School KKidd@rocky.claremont.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 13:49:54 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BONNIE COX Subject: WOMEN'S STUDIES SECTION AT ALA ANNUAL The Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Education and Behavioral Sciences Section will be presenting an intriguing program on gender communication, "Making the Net*Work*: Is There a Z39.50 for Gender Communications?" at the American Library Association annual meeting in Miami Beach in June. The program will take place on Monday, June 27, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Two speakers -- Dr. Becky Mulvaney of Florida Atlantic University and Dr. Susan Herring of the University of Texas, Arlington -- and a respondant, Dr. James Carmichael of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro will explore the relationship between gender and communication in the electronic environment. A thematically related program, "Women and Technology: The Virtual Library and the Disadvantaged Majority," co-sponsored by the ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship and the ACRL Women's Studies Section, will be presented on Saturday, June 25, from 2-4 p.m. Featured speakers are Cheris Kramarae of the University of Illinois, Gladys Smiley Bell of Kent State University Libraries, and Leigh Estabrook, dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 11:04:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Kidd Subject: Re: literature by women about the sacred You might take a look at Paule Marshall's novel _Praisesong for the Widow_, which addresses "the sacred" from the perspectives of African American, Caribbean, and West African traditions. It's a VERY powerful and moving book--not to mention a "great read." -- Karen Kidd Claremont Graduate School kkidd@rocky.claremont.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 14:22:14 LCL Reply-To: womens-studies@MIT.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandy Martin Subject: Eastern Europe connections? To WMST-L folks: i'm currently the coordinator of the women's studies program at mit, and i'm leaving this position to do some traveling in eastern europe and the former soviet states. i'd like to visit some women's studies programs while i'm there for my own interest, but would also be willing to speak with them about women's studies here if they're interested. does anyone know names/addresses of women's studies programs which might be interested in learning more about women's studies here, or who would be likely to have the time to spend telling me about women's studies there? or simply names of individual women scholars or students who might be willing to give a feminist traveler pointers about where to get a good meal, what part of town is/isn't safe for a woman alone, or where i can hire a driver for a decent price? any/all information would be helpful. thanks, sandy martin womens-studies@mit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 15:34:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maureen McHugh Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania Subject: Re: Women and Madness FTHE REPLIES ARE CONCERNED WITH FICTION AND FILM> did anyone mention Jane Ussher (1992) Women's Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness, University of Mass. Press? Or what about something like Laura Brown and Mary Ballou (1992) Personality and Psychopathology: Feminist Reappraisals. Also I have always been partial to A Woman Under the Influence, a pop relaease film with Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands. Maureen McHugh MCMCHUGH@grove.iup.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 15:37:43 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Women and Madness The book that comes to mind (and I don't know if someone else has already mentioned it--) is Gloria Steinem's first book--I don't remember the title-- but in it she discusses the hardships of living with her mother's mental illness. BTW, she is scheduled to be on Arsenio Hall tonight (Tuesday, May 17) Rosa Maria Pegueros University of Rhode Island PEGUEROS@URI.URIACC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 12:39:34 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty J Glass Subject: Re: ALA/ACRL's WSS Room Assignments - Miami (fwd) The room assignments for ACRL's Women's Studies Section at the American Libraries Annual Conference in Miami in June have been made, as follows: Friday June 24 Miami Program Comm. 2-4 pm Intercontinental-Escoral (Joint meeting with ACRL/EBSS reps.) Friday June 24 WSS Executive Comm. (final details pending on this) Saturday June 25 Technical Serv. Com. 8:30-11 am Omni Int.-Room 324 " " Soc. Issues/Ed. Com. 11:30-12:30 Fontainebleau-Conf. 4 " " Nominating Comm. 11:30-12:30 Fontainebleau-Conf. 6 " " Communications Com. 2-4 pm Marriott Bisc.-Biscayne Island " " Publications Com. 2-4 pm Marriott Bisc.-San Marco Island Sunday June 26 Collect. Dev. Com. 2-4 pm Marriott Bisc.-San Marco Island " " Communications Com. 2-4 pm Intercontinental-Deering Room " " Publications Comm. 2-4 pm Marriott Bisc.-Lummus Island " " General Orientation & Membership Mtg. 4:30-5:30 MB Convention Ctr.-B217 " " WSS Social 6-7 pm Governor Hotel, 435 21st Street Miami Beach (1 block from Conv. Ctr.) Monday June 27 WSS/EBSS Program 9:30-12:30 Fontainebleau-Voltaire "Making the Net*Work: Is there a Z39.50 in Gender Communication?" " " Social Issues/Ed. Comm. 8-9 am Fontainebleau-Conf. 4 " " Collection Dev. Comm. 2-4 pm Sheraton Bisc.-Boardroom B " " Chicago '95 Program Planning Comm. 2-4 pm Intercontinental-Raphael Tuesday June 28 Executive Comm. 8:30-11 am M. Beach Convention Ctr-A109 New members and visitors are welcome to sit in on any meeting (except the Nominating Committee's). Note that we have moved our "Social Hour" to Sunday in hopes that more people will be available to participate. Looking forward to seeing you in Miami, Betty Glass, Chair ACRL Women's Studies Section ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 09:59:50 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NANCY FELIPE RUSSO Subject: Need for action Please pass the word on this -- he clearly needs to be informed about a number of things about women's lives and circumstances, including rape and battering statistics and how we are not going to put up with this kind of stupidity in our politicians. *********Forwarded Message Follows ***************************************** For those of you who missed the story in the Congressional Monitor, in the Ed and Labor Health Reform debate yesterday, Rep. Armey from Texas said that women wouldn't be so worried about abortions if they weren't so "damned careless" with their bodies. He didn't mention the contribution of men's "damn carelessness" to unwanted pregnancies. For those of you who'd like to call his office to express your views about this remark, the is 225-7772. Nancy Felipe Russo, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies Psychology Department - Box 871104 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104 (602)965-0380 FAX:(602)953-2693 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD INTERNET: ATNFR@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 15:46:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maureen McHugh Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania Subject: Re: Program location We have a suite in a hallway with Liberal Studies, International Prgrams, and Center for Teaching Excellence. they all answer directly to Provost. We share a secretary. They are friendly folks. It helps to make cooperation between programs easy. We have a library, but our locationis more administrative than in the student contact buildings. Maureen C. McHugh, IUP, Indiana Pennsylvania MCMCHUGH@grove.iup.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 13:12:11 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: W: More than one sender was specified. Second and following senders discarded. Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU From: SOPHY_CRAZE Subject: Re: race and gender query I have two books coming out on the topic. One, Race, Class and Gender in Media: A Text-Reader edited by Gail Dines and Jean Humez will be out in October. The other, edited by Angi Valdivia, should be out early next year, the title is still uncertain, but something like Multicultural Feminist Perspectives on the Media. Sophy Craze Editor Sage Publications 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks CA 91320 805 499-0721 x214 Sophy_Craze@sagepub.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 15:31:23 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristin Gerhard Subject: Women and madness, request for summary Would the person who initiated the request for materials on women and madness be willing to post (or request to have put on the listserver) the compilation she ends up with? Many thanks, Kris Gerhard Iowa State University jl.khg@isumvs.iastate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 11:00:20 -1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Maluso Subject: Re: Women and madness, request for summary I'll be posting a summary as soon as I can get one together. It'll be a couple of weeks before that happens. Thank you all so much for your responses. I appreciate all the energy very much. Diane =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= <> Diane Maluso, Ph.D. ^ <> <> Dept. of Women's Studies ^ <> <> 722 Porteus Hall ^ <> <> Honolulu, HI 96822 ^ <> <> maluso@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu ^ <> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Tue, 17 May 1994, Kristin Gerhard wrote: > Would the person who initiated the request for materials on women > and madness be willing to post (or request to have put on the > listserver) the compilation she ends up with? > Many thanks, > Kris Gerhard > Iowa State University > jl.khg@isumvs.iastate.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 16:12:38 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Kaufman Subject: [Pam Cooper: PHONE ZAP: National Women's Reproductive Health Call-In Day] Tomorrow is the day - try to call. Judith S. Kaufman Oklahoma State University kaufman@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu ----- Forwarded message # 1: Received: from vector.casti.com by osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu id aa18903; 3 May 94 13:58 CDT Return-Path: cooper@biosci.mbp.missouri.edu Received: from biosci.mbp.missouri.edu by vector.casti.com (NX5.67d/5.931230) id AA22194; Tue, 3 May 94 14:36:48 -0400 Message-Id: <9405031836.AA22194@vector.casti.com> Received: from [128.206.15.178] (conelab1.biosci.missouri.edu) by biosci.mbp.missouri.edu with SMTP (5.65c/IDA1.4.4.1-Domain/OS) id AA06812; Tue, 3 May 1994 14:09:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 13:43:47 -0600 To: politidykes@vector.casti.com From: Pam Cooper Subject: PHONE ZAP: National Women's Reproductive Health Call-In Day Cc: ftr-strategy@qiclab.scn.rain.com I received the following information from People for the American Way: "May 18, 1994 is National Women's Reproductive Health Call-in Day Let Congress Know: 202-225-3121: 'UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS NOT UNIVERSAL IF IT DOES NOT PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR WOMEN'S REPORDUCTIVE HEALTH CARE INCLUDING FAMILY PLANNING, CONTRACEPTIVE SERVICES, ABORTION SERVIES, AND PRE-AND POST-NATAL CARE FOR ALL WOMEN.' Women's reproductive health services are at grave risk in health care reform. Although President Clinton proposed a plan that includes coverage for the full range of reproductive health services, the Radical Right and groups like Pat Robertson's Christian Coaltition are mobilizing aggressively to take away that coverage. Pro-choice America must speak otu on health care reform or women will lose the coverage for abortion and other services that they have today. Alert everyone you know to the Call-In Day. Help sign up people who pledge to participate in the Call-In Day, and then help make reminder calls! When you call Congress, be sure to call your Representative's direct office line instead of the switchboard. Our goal is to flood the offices with calls. Call you Congressperson's direct line! It only takes 25,000 calls to jam the main switchboard. But keep trying until you get through. Be sure to give your name and hometown to the office staff so they will know you are a district voter. Be part of a national day of grassroots action to protect access to reproductive health care. On May 18, call your Represenatative's and Senators' direct office lines( or reach them through the Congressional Switchboard at 202/225-3121) to tell them that women's reproductive health serves, including abortion services, are a vital and necessary part of health care reform." (You might also try locating their fax numbers. Also, some representatives have e-mail addresses--check your local freenet or gopher to Wash. D.C. to obtain this information.). Remember--the religious right will make a concerted effort to flood Congress with their views--we must do the same!!!! Pam Liberty and Justice for all. NO EXCEPTIONS. ----- End of forwarded messages ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 15:29:22 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Peggy Beemer Subject: A little humor from reading exams... Can't resist any longer. I'm getting punchy reading all these final exams. I came across the following, in which the student is purportedly discussing feminist theologians' critique of Judeo-Christianity's DEIFICATION OF MALENESS: "This is where the Defecation of Maleness comes into being...They feel that feminists need not only to discover the past, but relieve it.." I'm not much on Freud, but this does have me wondering... Peggy Beemer Religious Studies CSU Chico PBeemer@oavax.csuchico.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 13:27:51 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Rothschild Subject: Re: Program location In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 16 May 94 09:55:09 MST from I would take the space. I think locating Women's Studies with African American Studies can be useful to both, especially if you have good working relationship s. Space is a tremendously difficult problem in this urban university, too. an d I have just told our space dean that I will take whatever is available as lon g as it's on campus to have more space for our faculty. But I guess it depends on if you think you are more vulnerable with the new space. Mary L. Rothschild, Director Women's Studies Program Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 Phone: (602)965-2358 =-= FAX: (602)965-2357 =-= BITNET: IFMXR@ASU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 18:44:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: D Gromala Subject: Re: A little humor from reading exams... Peggy, Thank you for making my day an enjoyable one. Humor goes a long, long way... >Can't resist any longer. I'm getting punchy reading all these final exams. >I came across the following, in which the student is purportedly discussing >feminist theologians' critique of Judeo-Christianity's DEIFICATION OF >MALENESS: > >"This is where the Defecation of Maleness comes into being...They feel that >feminists need not only to discover the past, but relieve it.." > >I'm not much on Freud, but this does have me wondering... > >Peggy Beemer >Religious Studies >CSU Chico >PBeemer@oavax.csuchico.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 18:57:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn Brasier Subject: Race, Sex & Class Student Research Section As a "lurker" on the Women's Studies List, I have noticed queries about the new journal, Race, Sex & Class. I would like to add to the information already given by announcing the formation of a Student Research Section of the journal. The following message includes a call for papers written by graduate and undergraduate students and student editorial review panelists. Although I realize that the Women's Studies List is primarily for professionals, it is somewhat difficult to reach students specifically; therefore, this message is being sent to professional researchers and teachers in the hopes that they will pass it along to interested students. Thank you, Kathryn Brasier Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI 54901-8633 (414) 424-1460 or 2030 FAX: (414) 424-7428 INTERNET: BRASIER@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU ******************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* The Center for Research on Race, Sex & Class at the University of Wisconsin Superior announces the formation of a Student Research Section of its journal, Race, Sex & Class. The journal publishes research articles, research notes, book and film reviews, essays, and field work studies which promote the integration of race, sex, and class across the disciplines of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The intended audience of the journal is undergraduate students. The purpose of the section is to provide an intellectual forum for student research in race, sex, and class. The journal seeks quality research papers written by undergraduate and graduate students which address the integration of these three social forces. Submitted papers should be 10 to 20 pages. Please send a copy on diskette in WordPerfect 5.x or 6.0 IBM-compatible format and three hard copies of the manuscript. Articles are reviewed by at least three students. Journal editor Jean Belkhir maintains responsibility for final selection. ****************************************************************************** REQUEST FOR REVIEW PANELISTS ****************************************************************************** The Student Research Section of the journal is also looking for interested students to serve as review panelists to read and evaluate submitted articles for possible publication. The section affords a valuable and unique opportunity for students to participate in the editorial process. Student review panelists will receive many benefits, including the opportunity to: * read and review other students' research * develop and refine critical and analytical skills * connect with students who share common interests but are from different regions and backgrounds * contribute to a growing area of research * develop insight into the process of research and publication. Please send articles, requests for further information, and other correspondence to the section editor: Kathryn Brasier Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI 54901-8633 (414) 424-1460 or 2030 FAX: (414) 424-7428 INTERNET: BRASIER@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 17:14:52 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jayne Marek Subject: Request for panelist for Midwest MLA Conference, Nov. 1994 Dear listmembers, I will have a panel titled "Integrating (the) Many Voices in Feminist Theories" at the Midwest MLA conference to be held in Chicago on Nov. 11-13, 1994. One of my panelists had to drop out, and there is room for one or two others who may have recent work they'd like to share. My proposal reads as follows: "While feminist theories have often attempted to include or encompass 'diverse' viewpoints, this aim has proven elusive and problematic (witness the recent volume entitled CONFLICTS IN FEMINISM). This forum seeks to examine the current parameters of feminist theories, evaluate recent attempts to define or enact feminist theory with 'inclusive' viewpoints, and provide an arena for discussion about possible future developments in such theories. Cross- disciplinary as well as disciplinary proposals are welcome, as are proposals which seek to integrate academic with 'non-academic' feminist issues." I would appreciate hearing from those who might be interested as soon as possible; I know many of us are embroiled in the end of the academic year. Please send me your idea or abstract by e-mail or snail mail and I'll give you a call. Thank you. Jayne Marek marek_j1@salt.plu.edu 801 Union, Steilacoom, WA 98388 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 19:36:55 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: linking researchers and activists Next fall, our Women's Studies Program, in collaboration with the Chicago Foundation for Women, is holding a conference with the goal of developing links between those who do research on women and those in community organizations which serve and advocate for women. We plan to have a panel on"possibilities and pitfalls in collaborative research" and also have time for participants to talk in small groups. If anyone has done anything like this and has words of wisdom for us, I'd appreciate hearing from you. 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: Tue, 17 May 1994 21:06:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Wayne Subject: Re: Backlash (fwd) For anyone who has an interest in the "backlash" project I am currently doing, here is a prime example! Please feel free to let Mr. David S. Broudy know how you feel about the information he felt fit to send my way. - Linda Wayne ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 12:14:31 -0700 From: David S. Broudy To: bones@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Backlash >Have you, or do you know of a situation in which someone else has, been >the target of racist, sexist, homophobic or other forms of backlash? > Heh! Try the QAPA-L (Queer Asian Pacific Islander) mailing list for a dose of racism, sexism and bigotry, directed mostly towards white males. QAPA-L@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 10:21:37 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: NANCY FELIPE RUSSO Comments: Originally-From: VNASMAN@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU From: NANCY FELIPE RUSSO Subject: TOMORROW IS CALL-IN DAY! Many Women's Studies programs have faculty and students who are organizing events around this day so I thought this might be of interest. Nancy Felipe Russo, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies Psychology Department - Box 871104 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104 (602)965-0380 FAX:(602)953-2693 BITNET: ATNFR@ASUACAD INTERNET: ATNFR@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- CHOICE-MAIL WEDNESDAY! CALL! WEDNESDAY! CALL! WEDNESDAY! CALL! WEDNESDAY! CALL! Please share this with others (by email or other means): REMINDER!! Tomorrow (Wed, 16 May) is NATIONAL REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS CALL-IN DAY! Idea: On one specified day, THOUSANDS of people from all across the country phone their U.S. Representatives and Senators to support reproductive health coverage in national health care reform. We need to send the message that this is CRUCIAL, and that no "universal" health care package will be acceptable unless it covers women's reproductive health -- family planning, contraceptive services, abortion, pre- and post-natal care for all women. This action is sponsored/hosted by pro-choice groups all over the country. WE WANT TO JAM THE LINES! (It only takes 25,000 calls to do this -- if the line is busy when you call, SMILE and keep trying!) The idea is to FLOOD the Congress with calls in support of women's reproductive health care, and perhaps also to generate media attention for this cause. If you don't know the direct number to your Rep/Sen, simply call the Congressional switchboard: (202) 225-3121 Don't forget to state your name and where you live, so you'll be identified as a constituent! Deliver your message in your own words, or use the following: "Universal health care is not universal if it does not provide coverage for women's reproductive health, including family planning, contraceptive services, abortion services, pre- and post-natal care for all women." TOMORROW -- PLEASE set aside a few minutes to be heard, in concert with thousands of others. It's a cheap, easy way to make a difference! (A 3-minute call from San Francisco to DC is 81 cents.) TELL OTHERS! WEDNESDAY! CALL! WEDNESDAY! CALL! WEDNESDAY! CALL! WEDNESDAY! CALL! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 21:05:26 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christina Paolucci Subject: Re: literature by women about the sacred I am taking a class right now called The Wilderness and the Sacred and the one women author we are reading is Annie Dillard, "Pilgram at Tinker Creek". Any Questions, contact Christina Paolucci e-mail address: Paolucci@mkvax1.msus.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 22:12:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: New BRONTE list; CRITICAL MATRIX CFP The following two announcements may be of interest to WMST-L readers: 1) New e-mail list on the Brontes 2) CFP: CRITICAL MATRIX For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu *********************************************************** 1) New List: Bronte on majordomo@world.std.com Bronte@world.std.com is a new e-mail list devoted to the discussion of Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronte. The discussion may include any aspect the Brontes's lives and works, including the major novels and the lesser known works; biographies and critical works; social, cultural and historical perspectives, and issues related to the study and teaching of the Brontes's works. This group is a forum for students, teachers, and individual readers. Messages to the group should be addressed to Bronte@world.std.com To subscribe, send the following message to majordomo@world.std.com : SUBSCRIBE Bronte Owner: Elizabeth B. Thomsen libmgmt@world.std.com Library Management Associates **************************************************************************** 2) CALL FOR PAPERS: CRITICAL MATRIX CRITICAL MATRIX: THE PRINCETON JOURNAL OF WOMEN, GENDER, AND CULTURE is a forum for new research, criticism, theory, and creative work in feminism and gender studies. The journal brings together scholarly articles, social critique, poetry, fiction, photo essays, and reviews that, singly or in combination, explore, redefine, or reach across traditional disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Edited by graduate students, guided by an advisory board of nationally recognized scholars, and published by the Program in Women's Studies at Princeton University, Critical Matrix solicits new work by authors at any stage in their careers, with or without academic affiliation. Submissions sought for a 1995 special issue entitled "Feminist Legacies: Agency, Victimhood, and Interpretive Strategies" -- In feminist scholarship, social analysis, and creative undertakings, what kinds of knowledge do we seek from the past? What kinds of narratives do we construct? Can we transcend the dichotomy of victimhood and agency? -- How do we position ourselves and our work in relation to earlier feminists and feminisms? -- How do we relate historical narratives about gender to present-day political concerns? -- What legacies can we (or can we not) pass on through our own writing, teaching, creating, speaking? The deadline for this special issue is December 15, 1994. Submission to general issues is ongoing. SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $8.00 individual; $6.00 student (enclose copy of current I.D.). Please mention the name of mailing list on which you heard about Critical Matrix. Send subscriptions, submissions, and correspondence to: Critical Matrix Program in Women's Studies, Princeton University 113 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 Phone: (609)258-5430, FAX: (609)258-1833 E-mail: matrix@princeton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 21:01:27 -0700 Reply-To: FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Francine Twine Subject: Re: paying more Sorry, this was an error. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 23:10:25 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joan r saks berman Subject: women & Madness >Subject: Women & Madness >To: wmst_l@umdd.umd.edu >Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 23:03:34 -0600 (MDT) >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Length: 529 > >Other movies include the Cuban film from the sixties, "Lucia." It's three >segments in history, each with a woman named Lucia. The first segment, >taking place in the 19th century has a madwoman as a character, and Lucia >becomes "mad" at the end because of betrayal by a man. There's another >movie, others may remember the name, it's from France, and is the trial >and flashbacks about two women, strangers to each other, who kill a man >who comes into the same store where they are. > >Joan R. Saks Berman, jberman@polaris.unm.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 09:12:11 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Felicia Bender Subject: Re: women and madness Another wonderful movie about women and madness is Jane Campion's _Angel at My Table_, about the writer Janet Frame. Felicia Bender ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 10:48:19 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Lantz Subject: women and madness Another film related to this topic is 'A Killing in a Small Town', with Barbara Hershey as a Texas housewife who kills the wife of her former lover. It's a courtroom drama with Hal Holbrook as psychiatrist and Brian Dennehey as defense attorney and based on a true story. -Barbara Lantz [bl13@cornell.edu] ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 10:37:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra K Herzan Subject: Re: women & Madness In-Reply-To: (null) > There's another > >movie, others may remember the name, it's from France, and is the trial > >and flashbacks about two women, strangers to each other, who kill a man > >who comes into the same store where they are. > > > >Joan R. Saks Berman, jberman@polaris.unm.edu > > If I'm remembering correctly I think the film you mention is a Dutch film called A Question of Silence. Sandy Herzan English University of Minnesota herz0001@gold.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 17:37:46 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Internet metering Has anyone heard about this? (I am sorry about the incredible length - I already pay when I mail from home, as our phone system's different - this was quickest.) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Judy Evans jae2@unix.york.ac.uk | | Politics phone 0904 433552 | | York YO1 1HG, England fax 0904 433563 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 May 94 12:41:07 GMT From: Nigel Fielding To: socstaff@UK.Ac.Surrey.soc.boris, socbb@UK.Ac.Surrey.soc.boris, LTW10@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Subject: Forwarded message... Colleagues I've forwarded this because it looks like a matter of concern to anyone using e-mail in the research community. I have no more information than what appears below. Those more knowledgeable than I am about computing will have to figure out whether the problem discussed below is an issue for users outside the US. I can't say I am surprised by this latest consequence of the profit motive. Nigel (Fielding) ----- Forwarded message begins here ----- From: Judy Kaufman Tue, 17 May 1994 15:43:38 CDT To: Multiple recipients of list QUALRS-L Subject: [rrp1: metered usage of internet] Please read and pass on. Judith Kaufman Oklahoma State University kaufman@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu ----- Forwarded message # 1: Received: from vector.casti.com by osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu id aa04824; 17 May 94 10:12 CDT Return-Path: rrp1@cornell.edu Received: from POSTOFFICE.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU by vector.casti.com (NX5.67d/5.931230 ) id AA00392; Tue, 17 May 94 10:46:44 -0400 Received: from [128.253.186.36] ([128.253.186.36]) by postoffice.mail.cornell.ed u (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id NAA06025; Mon, 16 May 1994 13:57:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 13:57:33 -0400 From: rrp1@cornell.edu Message-Id: <199405161757.NAA06025@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu> To: jlg1@cc.bellcore.com MMDF-Warning: Unable to confirm address in preceding line at osuunx.ucc.okstate edu X-Sender: rrp1@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu Subject: metered usage of internet Cc: jonathan@eno.princeton.edu, john@eno.princeton.edu, lla1@cornel.edu, politidykes@vector.casti.com, skr1@cornell.edu, terrpopp@u.washington.edu, zuleika@glib.org, Becky Allen , dotp@hector.cc.bellcore.com MMDF-Warning: Unable to confirm address in preceding line at osuunx.ucc.okstate edu Send this around ok? >>*********************************************************** >> >>Subject: Metered Usage of the Internet: JSN >> >>Please forgive the mass mailing, but I feel this is a subject >>which is of great importance to anyone who benefits from the >>bountiful resources of the Internet. >> >>A very bad storm is brooding on the horizon. >> >>In the future, you might have to pay a charge for every E-mail >>message you send or receive, every Usenet article you read, >>every kilobyte of data you transfer with ftp, every hypertext >>link you follow with NCSA Mosaic or Gopher... >> >>Hopefully this frightens you as much as it does me. >>But it will happen, unless YOU do something about it. >> >>Please read the attached, fill out the requested info, and >>mail it back to mike@essential.org. It also wouldn't hurt to >>forward a copy of this to everyone you know on the Internet. >> >>Thanks for your support. >> >>Craig Smith, >>Texas A&M University, Dept. of Computer Science >>205 HRBB, 862-2084 (CPSC). [PGP2 Public Key Available on Request] >>--- >> >>TAXPAYER ASSETS PROJECT - INFORMATION POLICY NOTE >>May 7, 1994 >> >>- Request for signatures for a letter to NSF opposing metered >>pricing of Internet usage >> >>- Please repost this request freely >> >>The letter will be sent to Steve Wolff, the Director of >>Networking and Communications for NSF. The purpose of the letter >>is to express a number of user concerns about the future of >>Internet pricing. NSF recently announced that is awarding five >>key contracts to telephone companies to operate four Internet >>"Network Access Points" (NAPs), and an NSF funded very high speed >>backbone (vBNS). There have been a number of indications that >>the telephone companies operating the NAPs will seek permission >>from NSF to price NAPs services according to some measure of >>Internet usage. The vBNS is expected to act as a testbed for new >>Internet pricing and accounting schemes. The letter expresses >>the view that metered pricing of Internet usage should be >>avoided, and that NSF should ensure that the free flow of >>information through Internet listserves and file server sites is >>preserved and enhanced. >> >>Jamie Love, Taxpayer Assets Project (love@essential.org; but >>unable to answer mail until May 15). Until then, direct >>inquires to Michael Ward. >> >>If you are willing to sign the letter, send the following >>information to Mike Ward of the Taxpayer Assets Project >>(mike@essential.org, fax: 202/234-5176; voice: 202/387-8030; >>P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036): >> >>Names: ___________________________ >>Title: ___________________________ (Optional) >>Affiliation: ____________________________________ >>(for purposes of identification only) >>Address: ______________________________________ >>City; St, Zip ________________________________ >>Email Address: _____________________________________ >>Voice: __________________________________ >>for verification) >> >>The letter follows: >> >>Steve Wolff >>Director >>Division of Networking and Communications >>National Science Foundation >>1800 G Street >>Washington, DC 20550 >> >>Dear Steve: >> >>It is our understanding that the National Science Foundation >>(NSF) and other federal agencies are developing a new >>architecture for the Internet that will utilize four new Network >>Access Points (NAPs), which have been described as the new >>"cloverleaves" for the Internet. You have indicated that NSF is >>awarding contracts for four NAPs, which will be operated by >>telephone companies (Pac Bell, S.F.; Ameritech, Chicago; Sprint, >>NY; and MFS, Washington, DC). We further understand that NSF has >>selected MCI to operate its new very high speed backbone (vBNS) >>facility. >> >>There is broad public interest in the outcome of the negotiations >>between NSF and the companies that will operate the NAPs and >>vBNS. We are writing to ask that NSF consider the following >>objectives in its negotiations with these five firms: >> >>PRICING. >> >>We are concerned about the future pricing systems for Internet >>access and usage. Many users pay fixed rates for Internet >>connections, often based upon the bandwidth of the connection, >>and do not pay for network usage, such as the transfer of data >>using email, ftp, Gopher or Mosaic. It has been widely reported >>on certain Internet discussion groups, such as com-priv, that the >>operators of the NAPs are contemplating a system of usage based >>pricing. >> >>We are very concerned about any movement toward usage based >>pricing on the Internet, and we are particularly concerned about >>the future of the Internet Listserves, which allow broad >>democratic discourse on a wide range of issues. We believe that >>the continued existence and enhancement of the Internet >>discussion groups and distribution lists is so important that any >>pricing scheme for the NAPs that would endanger or restrict their >>use should be rejected by the NSF. >> >>It is important for NSF to recognize that the Internet is more >>than a network for scientific researchers or commercial >>transactions. It represents the most important new effort to >>expand democracy into a wide range of human endeavors. The open >>communication and the free flow of information have make >>government and private organizations more accountable, and >>allowed citizens to organize and debate the widest range of >>matters. Federal policy should be directed at expanding public >>access to the Internet, and it should reject efforts to introduce >>pricing schemes for Internet usage that would mimic commercial >>telephone networks or expensive private network services such as >>MCI mail. >> >>To put this into perspective, NSF officials must consider how any >>pricing mechanisms will change the economics of hosting an >>Internet electronic mail discussion groups and distribution >>lists. Many of these discussion groups and lists are very large, >>such as Humanist, GIS-L, CNI-Copyright, PACS-L, CPSR-Announce or >>Com-Priv. It is not unusual for a popular Internet discussion >>group to have several thousand members, and send out more than >>100,000 email messages per day. These discussion groups and >>distribution lists are the backbones of democratic discourse on >>the Internet, and it is doubtful that they would survive if >>metered pricing of electronic mail is introduced on the Internet. >> >>Usage based pricing would also introduce a wide range of problems >>regarding the use of ftp, gopher and mosaic servers, since it >>conceivable that the persons who provide "free" information on >>servers would be asked to pay the costs of "sending" data to >>persons who request data. This would vastly increase the costs >>of operating a server site, and would likely eliminate many >>sources of data now "published" for free. >> >>We are also concerned about the types of accounting mechanisms >>which may be developed or deployed to facilitate usage based >>pricing schemes., which raise a number of concerns about personal >>privacy. Few Internet users are anxious to see a new system of >>"surveillance" that will allow the government or private data >>vendors to monitor and track individual usage of Information >>obtained from Internet listserves or fileserves. >> >>ANTI-COMPETITIVE PRACTICES >> >>We are also concerned about the potential for anti- >>competitive behavior by the firms that operate the NAPs. Since >>1991 there have been a number of criticisms of ANS pricing >>practices, and concerns about issues such as price discrimination >>or preferential treatment are likely to become more important as >>the firms operating the NAPs become competitors of firms that >>must connect to the NAPs. We are particularly concerned about >>the announcements by PAC-Bell and Ameritech that they will enter >>the retail market for Internet services, since both firms were >>selected by NSF to operate NAPs. It is essential that the >>contracts signed by NSF include the strongest possible measures >>to insure that the operators of the NAPs do not unfairly >>discriminate against unaffiliated companies. >> >>Recommendations: >> >>As the Internet moves from the realm of the research community to >>a more vital part of the nation's information infrastructure, the >>NSF must ensure that its decisions reflect the needs and values >>of a much larger community. >> >>1. The NSF contracts with the NAPs operators will include >>clauses that determine how the NAP services will be priced. >>It is important that NSF disclose and receive comment on all >>pricing proposals before they become final. NSF should >>create an online discussion list to facilitate public dialog >>on the pricing proposals, and NSF should identify its >>criteria for selecting a particular pricing mechanism, >>addressing the issue of how the pricing system will impact >>the Internet's role in facilitating democratic debate. >> >>2. NSF should create a consumer advisory board which would >>include a broad cross section of consumer interests, >>including independent network service providers (NSPs), >>publishers of Internet discussion groups and distribution >>lists, academic networks, librarians, citizen groups and >>individual users. This advisory board should review a >>number of policy questions related to the operation of the >>Internet, including questions such as the NAP pricing, NAP >>operator disclosure of financial, technical and operational >>data, systems of Internet accounting which are being tested >>on the vBNS and other topics. >> >>3. NSF should solicit public comment, though an online >>discussion group, of the types of safeguards against >>anticompetitive behavior by the NAPs which should be >>addressed in the NSF/NAPs contracts, and on issues such as >>NAPs pricing and Internet accounting systems. >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>TAP-INFO is an Internet Distribution List provided by the Taxpayer >>Assets Project (TAP). TAP was founded by Ralph Nader to monitor the >>management of government property, including information systems and >>data, government funded R&D, spectrum allocation and other government >>assets. TAP-INFO reports on TAP activities relating to federal >>information policy. tap-info is archived at ftp.cpsr.org; >>gopher.cpsr.org and wais.cpsr.org >> >>Subscription requests to tap-info to listserver@essential.org with >>the message: subscribe tap-info your name >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Taxpayer Assets Project; P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 >>v. 202/387-8030; f. 202/234-5176; internet: tap@essential.org >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----- End of forwarded messages ------ Forwarded message ends here ------ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 11:41:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Jazwinski Subject: Re: Women and Madness I hope that someone will compile all of the excellent book and film resources on Women and Madness that have been sent in to the list. Chris Jazwinski Professor of Psychology St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN 56301 612-255-3271 JAZ@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 14:20:57 -0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cecilia Maria B Sardenberg Subject: Re: Women and madness, request for summary In-Reply-To: <494965C5C0015483@brfapg.bitnet> An interesting article is Maria Ramas' "Freud's Dora, Dora's Hysteria", found in J.L.Newton, M.P.Ryan & J.R.Walkowitz (eds), SEX AND CLASS IN WOMEN'S HISTORY, London: Routledge, 1983:72-113. I would also recommend excerpts from THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. There is a condensed version, but since my copy is in Portuguese (a Brazilian edition), I don't have the references in English. Sorry ! Cecilia Sardenberg cecisard@sunrnp.ufba.br ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 16:29:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry Linkon Subject: Literature about the sacred A recent collection, called _Cries of the Spirit_, brings together poems and exceprts from fiction and non-fiction related to spirituality. It's not all "sacred" per se, but clearly related. I also just saw an announcement of a collection of women's writings on the sacred, but I don't recall the title. Sorry--Sherry Linkon ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 13:46:47 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Little Miss Orbit Subject: Re: Internet metering In-Reply-To: <199405181637.MAA22764@holmes.umd.edu> The post about metered internet usage is a hoax that has been bouncing around the net. Fire up your newsreader are read news.admin.misc if you'd like specific details. ///////////////////////////// * ============================================== /cstarr@orion.oac.uci.edu / * WE ARE THE PEOPLE YOUR PARENTS TOLD YOU ABOUT /*********************** / * ============================================== / BOMP! / /////////////////////// ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 13:41:32 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brandy Parris Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: <199405182026.QAA25570@holmes.umd.edu> This is a very interesting batch of material. I came in halfway so don't know if anyone has yet mentioned Tennessee Williams; it seems obvious, especially "Suddenly Last Summer." Another interesting related book is the recent autobiography of Anne Sexton. The writer's name escapes at the moment, but the book came out in 1992. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 17:55:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carol Philips Subject: housing in Cambridge (MA) This coming fall, I will be entering the doctoral program in Human Develop- ment and Psycholoy at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Very briefly put, my interests lie in the intersection of artistic cognition and girls' and women's development, especially using visual art for "developing courage" in girls. Since my own two girls will continue to live in Vermont, I'm looking for a pied-a-terre for three to four nights a week in Cambridge or vicinity. This could mean an apartment that someone has, isn't living in, and doesn't want to give up. It could be a room in an apartment or house with one or two other adults. I prefer off street parking and easy public transportation to Harvard Square. If this description sounds as if it would work with a situati on that you or someone you know has, please contact me privately for a lengthier conversation. Thanks for your help. Carol ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 17:57:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Zoya Fansler Subject: Re: women & Madness >> There's another >> >movie, others may remember the name, it's from France, and is the trial >> >and flashbacks about two women, strangers to each other, who kill a man >> >who comes into the same store where they are. >> > >> >Joan R. Saks Berman, jberman@polaris.unm.edu >> > > >If I'm remembering correctly I think the film you mention is a Dutch film >called A Question of Silence. > >Sandy Herzan >English >University of Minnesota >herz0001@gold.tc.umn.edu I would like to second the recommendation of _A Question of Silence_. It is an *excellent* film, originally released in 1978, but available on video in the U.S. from Embassy Home Entertainment. Here's the description from my library catalog: An extraordinary murder is committed by three women, all strangers to each other. During the trial, their deep seated rage towards the male-dominated society in which they live stuns the courtroom. The judge appoints a woman psychiatrist to study the case, and she gradually comes to understand and sympathize with the three women and to question her own nature. Zoya Fansler University of Maryland Baltimore County fansler@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 06:32:24 -500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sr. Ritamary Bradley" Subject: Re: Literature about the sacred In-Reply-To: <199405182026.QAA25568@holmes.umd.edu> Thank you, Sherry. There are two recent books like the one you mention:An Antology of Sacred Text by and about the Sacred,ed. Serinity Young (Crossroad); and Women in Praise of the Sacred, ed. Jane Hirchfield (HarperCollins). Both will be useful for my proposed course. Ritamary Bradley Ritamary Bradley Professor emerita St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 319-323-7317 e-mail rbradley@saunix.sau.edu .. On Wed, 18 May 1994, Sherry Linkon wrote: > A recent collection, called _Cries of the Spirit_, brings together poems and > exceprts from fiction and non-fiction related to spirituality. It's not all > "sacred" per se, but clearly related. I also just saw an announcement of a > collection of women's writings on the sacred, but I don't recall the title. > Sorry--Sherry Linkon > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 07:39:43 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joan r saks berman Subject: communication skills An interesting study and commentary on women's communication skills especially as perceived by men can be found in the work of Dale Spender, whom, I believe, preceded Deborah Tannenbaum in this area, but hasn't had the popular marketing push, perhaps because she works in England and is from either Australia or New Zealand, if my memory serves. jberman@polaris.unm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 09:03:17 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rebecca Hill Subject: Re: women and madness I think I originally sent this message to someone personally by mistake. I wanted, however, to recommend the film "Committed" by Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLaughlin which is distributed by "Women Make Movies." Someone, wrote that it did not work as well as the Hollywood film "Frances," but I beg to differ! I think the film works extremely well- I saw it when I was in high-school and "got it." In addition, you could use it to introduce students to the whole world of feminist avant-garde film making and film theory. So often, we as feminists critique mainstream media, but don't often enough support (in the classroom anyway) feminist work that is somewhat outside the cultural mainstream!-Rebecca Hill hillx018@maroon.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 09:07:46 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rebecca Hill Subject: Re: women and madness On Mon, 16 May 1994 13:52:16 -0600, constance morris shortlidge wrote: >Hi. There was a great Masterpiece Theater presentation several years ago, >sorry the name escapes me perhaps someone else can remember it, about a >young woman who is committed to an institution of 60 years for being >defiant toward her father and the mores of his generation (1920s/30s). >She is released after all those years into the care of her nephew and the >story is about her coming to herself, and the bonding that occurs with the >nephew's wife. It is also a generational look at defiant women and the >penalties for such actions. It is really wonderful. Constance M >Shortlidge, stlidge@hydra.unm.edu the film is called "She's Been Away" and stars Peggy Ashcroft...also the woman who was "Sarah" in PBS series "Jewel in the Crown" and I think Miranda Richardson as the young Auntie. It's great and was also released in theaters as a film! -Rebecca Hill ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 08:50:16 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gayle Rush-Lopez HAVING TROUBLE GETTING CORRECT ADDRESS FOR THE INTVIO-L LIST. COULD YOU PLEASE ASSIST ME? THANKS, GAYLE ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 11:14:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauren J Bryant Subject: Re: Literature about the sacred In-Reply-To: <199405182026.QAA25568@holmes.umd.edu> CRIES OF THE SPIRIT is edited by Marilyn Sewell and is available from Beacon Press, Boston , in a paperback edition. (Around $16.00 I think for an anthology of over 300 poems and short non-fiction). On Wed, 18 May 1994, Sherry Linkon wrote: > A recent collection, called _Cries of the Spirit_, brings together poems and > exceprts from fiction and non-fiction related to spirituality. It's not all > "sacred" per se, but clearly related. I also just saw an announcement of a > collection of women's writings on the sacred, but I don't recall the title. > Sorry--Sherry Linkon > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 10:01:53 -500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sr. Ritamary Bradley" Subject: Re: Literature about the sacred In-Reply-To: <199405191224.IAA03325@holmes.umd.edu> Correction: The title of the book cited is: An Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about Women, ed. Sirinity Young, Crossroad 1993. Ritamary Bradley Professor emerita St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 319-323-7317 e-mail rbradley@saunix.sau.edu .. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 12:05:39 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Lantz Subject: women & madness I just thought of another related work, this time a novel by Mary Morris called 'A Dangerous Woman', a heartbreaking piece about a smalltown girl perceived by her community as strange, ineffectual, and is therefore treated as an outcast. It's less about mental health institutions and more about how communities categorize people in such a way as to contribute to their 'madness'. Very moving. Very disturbing. Thoroughly credible. Sigh. -Barbara ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 10:46:02 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Josephine Anemaet Subject: DPD job description I am posting this for our Director of the Women's Studies Program, Janet Lee, who is great and with whom you would be working (even if only indirectly). The time-line is rather short, but I only got this yesterday. Jos Anemaet, librarian, OSU. ============================================= All faculty interested in multicultural issues are invited to apply for a 9-month appointment as Director of the Difference, Power and Discrimination (DPD) Program at Oregon State University in beautiful Corvallis, Oregon for the 1994-95 academic year. The DPD Program was established to assist faculty with the development of courses that address systems of structural and institutional equality in the United States. In the Spring of 1992, the OSU Faculty Senate voted to incorporate the DPD requirement into the Baccalaureate Core in Fall term 1994. Workshops, summer seminars, discussions on "teaching difference," and one-on-one consultations with the director are offered throughout the year to assist teaching faculty with revising existing courses, and creating new courses to meet the DPD requirement. Responsibilities of the position would include: 1. Maintain and increase networks among faculty already teaching or preparing to teach DPD courses. 2. Maintain visible DPD presence and vision on campus. 3. Engage in campus-wide education for faculty on DPD issues. (In the past this has included colloquia and guest speakers.) 4. Engage in professional faculty development and curricular transformation. 5. The teaching of courses in your field is negotiable. Please submit vitae and a letter of interest by May 31, 1994, or for further information contact: DPD Program Advisory Committe 201 Social Science Oregon State University Corvallis OR 97331 Phone: Annie Popkin (503) 737-6136 or 737-2826 Fax: (503) 737-2434 Electronic Mail: popkina@ccmail.orst.edu OSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, sensitive to the needs of dual-career couples. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 14:46:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "KAREN HICKS (KARENH@JOE.ALB.EDU)" <"LUCY::KARENH"@JOE.ALB.EDU> Subject: Re: women & Madness I hope somebody out there is compiling this enormous set of references on this topic! I can't keep up with it, bit by bit. Will the original requestor please compile (I hope) and post after this dies down? Thank you. Karen M. Hicks karenh@joe.alb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 11:59:52 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Women's Studies Correspondence Subject: Re: women and madness Peggy Ashcroft also played Barbie Bachelor--again a very defiant sort, at least by the end of it--in The Jewel in the Crown; and it was Geraldine James who played Sarah Layton in Jewel and also the nephew's wife in She's Been Away. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 20:09:40 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: communication skills In-Reply-To: <"leeman.yor.770:19.04.94.18.27.23"@york.ac.uk> Is this Dale Spender's _Man Made Language_? If not, do you have a reference? (Sorry to be a bit lazy but she's written rather a lot.) And I missed the earlier posting on this - have had some odd email problems - is Deborah Tannen the only other reference that's come up? (I didn't know Spender's work wasn't well known in the US. It has sold very well here. And yes, she was from Australia - NZ? - and returned after some years teaching and writing in London.) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Judy Evans jae2@unix.york.ac.uk | | Politics phone 0904 433552 | | York YO1 1HG, England fax 0904 433563 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 12:10:37 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SOPHY_CRAZE Subject: PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES AT NWSA MEETING I will be attending the NWSA meeting for the first time and would like to talk to anyone who is working on a book project that might be suitable for publication with Sage. We publish a range of books, from undergraduate texts to a select group of research monographs and many supplemental texts. We also publish journals, so if you are involved with one that is looking for a publisher, I would be happy to talk about that too. I will have a book exhibit there, so please stop by if you are interested in talking about a project, or send me an e-mail if you would like to set up a meeting beforhand. Sophy Craze Editor, Sage Publications Sophy_Craze@sagepub.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 13:32:59 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brandy Parris Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: <199405191915.PAA09547@holmes.umd.edu> I wrote yesterday about the Anne Sexton bio. The author is Diane Middlebrook. I would also like to add that in addition to Jane Camion's "Angel at my Table," an excellent film, her movie "Sweetie." "Sweetie" is a little more contemporary and a little more funky than "Angel" but just as worthy. Some people have shown interest in receiving a compiled list when it is complete. Add me please: Brandy Parris bparris@seattleu.edu Thanks! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 16:03:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Women and Madness I would also like to receive a copy of the women and madness syllabus when it is completed. Thanks, Benay Blend blend@alpha.nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 14:03:23 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marilyn P. Safir" Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: <9405192040.AA12602@mx2.u.washington.edu> Nagel at my table is written by an Australian Author. It is part of a Trilogy. This brilliant talented woman was Hospilatized, recieved electroshock therapy and had been scheduled for a surgical lobotomy when the authorities discoverred that she was a published autho.r Her case was reviewed. She was eventually rleased. I can't remember her name but these books which tell her story should certainly be added. Marliyn Safir ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 17:19:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ilana Brilliant Subject: Intl Fed of Univ Women -- call for proposals Call for papers: Achieving Gender Equity in the Classroom and on the Campus--The Next Steps The American Association of University Women welcomes papers for its symposium, Achieving Gender Equity in the Classroom and on the Campus--The Next Steps, to be held June 22-24, 1995, in Orlando, Florida. Topics will address: advancing the status of women employees in public and higher education; achieving equity for women/girl students; and fostering a woman/girl-friendly campus/school climate. Papers must be postmarked by Sept. 20, 1994. For details, send your name and address to the Internet address, ilanab@access.digex.net. Or, contact AAUW, 1111 Sixteenth St., N.W., #518Z, Washington, DC 20036-4873, 202/785-7759. Cosponsors: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Association for Continuing Higher Education, Association of Teacher Educators, Center for the Education of Women, Center for Women Policy Studies, and National Association of Women Educators. The International Federation of University Women (IFUW) is seeking proposals for its Professional Interdisciplinary Seminars, to be held on August 18 and 25, 1995 at the 25th IFUW Conference in Yokohama, Japan. In these seminars, experts will present and discuss some of the recent issues and developments within their fields. The aim of these seminars is to allow IFUW members to share and disseminate this expertise with other members, showing the interdisciplinary nature of the organization. PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE/SCHEDULE Friday, August 18, 1995: 1. Environmental health and women. 2. The effect of religious values on the education and development of girls. 3. Poverty and the girl child. 4. Women and the peace process. Friday, August 25, 1995: 1. Violence in human relations. 2. The nutritional susceptibility of girls and women. 3. The impact of the world economic situation on women. 4. The implications for new reproductive technologies for women. 5. Higher education and women: Action for equality, development and peace, discrimination, access and the curriculum. ABSTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR to be held at the 25th IFUW Conference, Yokohama, Japan August 18 and 25, 1995 (length of presentation - 20 minutes) 1. Title of seminar: 2. Title of paper: 3. Name of contributor: 4. Language in which presentation is to be made: 5. Institute/place of work: 6. Address for correspondence: Telephone: FAX: E-mail: 7. Member/Non-member of IFUW; Association/Federation of: * Note: Please type a one-page abstract and send along a short curriculum vitae, not to exceed one page. Proposals should be submitted to IFUW, 37, Quai Wilson, CH 1201, Geneva, Switzerland no later than July 15. ALL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE FORWARDED DIRECTLY TO IFUW at (+41 22) 731 23 80. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 14:28:35 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Re: Literature about the sacred In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 19 May 1994 06:32:24 -500 from I am not sure if anyone has mentioned this one or not, but I just heard about it myself, and ordered it: Weaving Visions, Plaskow and Christ,eds. It has essays ranging from Christian to Native American to Buddhist--near as I could tell in the brief glance at it I caught. Theresa ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 17:45:30 EDT Reply-To: "AERA-G Division G: Social Context of Education" Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: Carl Reimann Comments: Originally-From: Ilana Brilliant From: Carl Reimann Subject: Intl Fed of Univ Women -- call for papers The International Federation of University Women (IFUW) is seeking proposals for its Professional Interdisciplinary Seminars, to be held on August 18 and 25, 1995 at the 25th IFUW Conference in Yokohama, Japan. In these seminars, experts will present and discuss some of the recent issues and developments within their fields. The aim of these seminars is to allow IFUW members to share and disseminate this expertise with other members, showing the interdisciplinary nature of the organization. PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE/SCHEDULE Friday, August 18, 1995: 1. Environmental health and women. 2. The effect of religious values on the education and development of girls. 3. Poverty and the girl child. 4. Women and the peace process. Friday, August 25, 1995: 1. Violence in human relations. 2. The nutritional susceptibility of girls and women. 3. The impact of the world economic situation on women. 4. The implications for new reproductive technologies for women. 5. Higher education and women: Action for equality, development and peace, discrimination, access and the curriculum. ABSTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR to be held at the 25th IFUW Conference, Yokohama, Japan August 18 and 25, 1995 (length of presentation - 20 minutes) 1. Title of seminar: 2. Title of paper: 3. Name of contributor: 4. Language in which presentation is to be made: 5. Institute/place of work: 6. Address for correspondence: Telephone: FAX: E-mail: 7. Member/Non-member of IFUW; Association/Federation of: * Note: Please type a one-page abstract and send along a short curriculum vitae, not to exceed one page. Proposals should be submitted to IFUW, 37, Quai Wilson, CH 1201, Geneva, Switzerland no later than July 15. ALL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE FORWARDED DIRECTLY TO IFUW at (+41 22) 731 23 80. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 16:49:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: stott@UTDALLAS.EDU Subject: Women's center at U.of Virginia Does anyone know the name of the director of the University of Virginia Women's Center and how to contact her? I've been told that they recently completed a survey of women's centers and I am looking for information to help us to start one. Thanks. Deborah Stott University of Texas at Dallas Stott@UTDallas.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 18:02:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: kim Loutzenhiser Pohle Organization: SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY St. Louis, MO Subject: Re: women and madness Girl Inerrupted is another book that might be of interest. Kim Lout2kk@sluvca.slu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 17:49:45 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Kaufman Subject: response to survey To all who filled out the GLB Therapist Preference Survey: Thank you very much for responding. We have received close to 350 responses. We'll be entering the data this summer and should have some preliminary results by August. I will post them at that time. We'll will also be doing a snail mail survey for communities in Oklahoma and in Colorado and comparing the results. Thanks again! Judith S. Kaufman Department of Applied Behavioral Studies in Education Oklahoma State University 308 N. Murray Hall Stillwater, Ok 74078 kaufman@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 19:18:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hyacinth Organization: University of Canterbury (NZ) Subject: An angel at my table Important correction - An angel at my table is an autobiography about a New Zealand woman, Janet Frame. If I recall correctly it is set in Otago - which is further South from Christchurch, where I am now, in Dunedin? Anyway, that's irrelevant, it is a true portrayal of life in NZ earlier on this century - right down to the treatment in mental institutions. Christine Greenfield phil020@csc.canterbury.ac.nz ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 20:06:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paulette Olson Subject: One Day Conference on Breast Cancer and the Environment BREAST CANCER AND THE ENVIRONMENT: WOMEN'S ACTION FOR PREVENTION Saturday, October 22, 1994 Wright State University, Datyon, OH A One-Day Regional Conference addressing environmental links to breast cancer KEYNOTE ADDRESSES BY: Dr. Devra Lee Davis, US Dept. of Health and Human Services Dr. Samuel Epstein, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Medical Center OTHER SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass Joe Thornton from Greenpeace Activist Terri Swearingen * SCIENCE * POLITICS * ACTIVISM * Sessions on chlorine, radiation, pesticides; The politics of cancer, environmental racism; organizing for prevention, strategies for action; and more Sponsored by the Greene Environmental Coalition Co-Sponsored by the Women's Center at Wright State University, Greenpeace, the Women's Environment and Development Organization, and over 27 regional organizations For more information please call or write: Stephanie Slowinski, Greene Environmental Coalition PO Box 266, Yellow Springs, OH 45387 [513] 767-2563 Or Paulette Olson, The Women's Center Wright State University, Dayton OH 45435 [513] 873-4524 PAULETTE OLSON POLSON@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU Department of Economics POLSON@WSU.BITNET Wright State University FAX (513)873-3545 Dayton, OH 45435 OFFICE (513)873-2409 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 21:01:40 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Janet S. Gray" Subject: 19th-Century American Women Poets I am editing an anthology of poems by 19th-c American women. I would like to incorporate the experience and advice of scholars and teachers who are working in this, as yet, rather arcane field. Thanks to Cheryl Walker and a handful of other sources, I've developed a list of about 50 poets. Do you have favorite poets or poems? poems that have especially interesting critical/scholarly angles or that work well in the classroom? And which E. Dickinson poems MUST be included? (The anthology will be cheap enough for textbook use and well supplied with apparatus.) While African-American women writers are well represented on the list, it is still dominated by New Englanders. Is anyone working on Southern or Western women? Are there any Asian or Native American poets that we can find in the 19th c? How about poetry in Spanish? poetry by European ethnic immigrants? Any advice appreciated...and please pass the word on. Thanks, Janet Gray, jsgray@pucc.princeton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 00:14:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Hinsdale Subject: Re: Women and Madness Marilyn Safir is thinking about Jane Campion's film "Angel at my Table" which is a trilogy about the life of New Zealand novelist Jeanne Frame (sp?)- a good suggestion for this hugely interesting topic. Ditto to the request for a summary of all these goodies. Mary Ann Hinsdale, women Women's Studies, College of the Holy Cross hinsdale@hcacad.holycross.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 10:12:02 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "ESPOSITO, JACKIE" Organization: Penn State University / University Libraries Subject: Women's Guide Introducing "A GUIDE TO MATERIALS ON WOMEN IN THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES" Women's experiences at Penn State for more than a century are documented in a new reference volume (published Dec. 1993), "A Guide to Materials on Women in the Pennsylvania State University Archives." Kristen Turner surveyed the entire holdings of the University Archives in order to identify manuscript collections and archival material created by women or related to women's experiences. The guide provides information on a wide variety of materials including 30 collections of papers created by women staff members, students, and faculty ; records of 19 women's organizations; materials documenting women's sport and recreation teams at Penn State; additional manuscript collections containing accounts of women's experiences and institutional records that deal with issues concerning women in the University; biographical and professional data on women employees and alumnae; films, videos, and audio tapes by and about women; and a description of the records of the Ogontz School founded as a finishing school for young women in Philadelphia in 1850. Cost is $10.95; all order must be prepaid. To order: "Women's Guide", Penn State University Libraries Accounting Department, E506 Pattee Library, University Park, PA 16802; (814)865-0401. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 12:30:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Heather Munro Prescott, Department of History" Subject: women scholars traveling alone Some private correspondence with an earlier post from someone anxious about traveling alone to a conference sparked the following comment/suggestions. Since so many of us find ourselves in the same situation (traveling alone to strange cities for conferences and research) I'm wondering if there is interest in creating a network of women (and even men) scholars to ease some of the loneliness and alienation of such trips. I know I've had more research trips than I care to count where I spent a good deal of my free time in a hotel room wishing I had someone to dine with or at least talk about mutual interests. The reason I bring all this up is that I will be spending the month of June and part of July in Washington DC by myself doing research. Anyone who has some suggestions on interesting things to do please let me know via e-mail. Heather Munro Prescott History Department Central Connecticut State University New Britain, CT 06050 prescott@csusys.ctstateu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 15:03:31 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Gilbert Subject: Re: tetris In-Reply-To: <199405131442.KAA03554@holmes.umd.edu> As another recovering addict, I found Lucy Candib's comments both comforting and illuminating. I recently had a conversation with a friend about various forms of SELF MEDICATING women do (men also, I suppose) and for me, the Tetris addiction which I only succumbed to in the winter - was clearly self-medicating. I'm also very glad to see that the discussion about this went so rapidly beyond superficial supidity into interesting dialogue. Sally Gilbert On Fri, 13 May 1994, Lucy Candib MD wrote: > As a recovering tetris addict, I think it is important to separate the > feelings (however mediated) one gets while playing tetris, which are > certainly addictive, from the explanation. Not all addirctions release > endorphilns (sorry back space not working on this interface), some > addictions are uppers, some are downers. But the addictiveness, cravings, > and withdrawal that many experiec Z nece when stopping tetris suggest > that the sensations and feelings generated while playing are habituating. > WOmen's experience of addictions IS very different from men's, mostly > because of the pwer relations surrounding addictions (particularly power > relations between men and women, but not always). How that relates to tetris > is unclear to me at the moment. Lucy > Lucy M. Candib, M.D. > Family Health and Social Service Center > 875 Main St. > Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 > 508-756-3528 > lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 21:24:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 syllabi added Thanks to the Women's Studies Program at SUNY Albany, three more syllabi have been added to the WMST-L collection. One is the first syllabus we've had for an internship course; it's for the Women's Studies Internship Seminar taught this semester by Carol Reichert. I've given it the filename INTRNSHP WS1 . The other two are updated versions of earlier syllabi: INTRO ALBANY is an updated version of the Introduction to Feminisms syllabus, while CLASS RACE_SEX now refers to the 1993 syllabus for the Classism, Racism, and Sexism course, replacing the 1992 version. To get all three syllabi, send the following three-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET INTRNSHP WS1 SYLLABI GET INTRO ALBANY SYLLABI GET CLASS RACE_SEX SYLLABI If you want to be sure the syllabi are sent as mail messages rather than as files, you should add F=MAIL: e.g., GET INTRNSHP WS1 SYLLABI F=MAIL . To get the entire list of syllabi available from WMST-L, send LISTSERV the message INDEX SYLLABI (or INDEX SYLLABI F=MAIL). Many thanks to the SUNY Albany instructors and administrative personnel responsible for making these valuable syllabi available through WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 22:39:01 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ramona Morris Subject: curriculum transformation request How do women and other oppressed groups organize to effect curriculum transformation in university curricula? How do universities encourage and/or hinder processes of curriculum transformation? What mechanisms are used to overcome resistence to transformation processes? These are a few of the questions I will be attempting to answer in my PhD work her at York University (Toronto). I will primarily dealing with Canadian Universities, but would be grateful for any info, anecdotes etc. from international institutions. Also, I have gathered an extensive collection of references to published material in the area, but would appreciate any leads about material published in the last year, or reports etc. that are not available through standard searches. I will be using a soc. of oranizations approach in this work (vs. a soc. of knowledge approach). On a definitional note I am speaking here about transformations that seek a critical incorporation of gender/race/class and so on across university curriculum. Many thanks for your help and advice. Please respond privately unless you think that your info would be of interest to the list. Ramona Morris Sociology York University North York, Ontario REMORRIS AT vm1.yorku.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 20:49:02 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shirley Lim Subject: Re: Women and Madness In-Reply-To: <9405192104.AA01925@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> Angel at My Table was by Janet Frame, a New Zealand writer. On Thu, 19 May 1994, Marilyn P. Safir wrote: > Nagel at my table is written by an Australian Author. It is part of a > Trilogy. This brilliant talented woman was Hospilatized, recieved > electroshock therapy and had been scheduled for a surgical lobotomy when > the authorities discoverred that she was a published autho.r Her case > was reviewed. She was eventually rleased. I can't remember her name but > these books which tell her story should certainly be added. Marliyn Safir ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 12:16:49 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MS CAROLE LEATHWOOD Subject: Women learning the Internet I have read a few messages recently about women using the Internet in the classroom, as part of the curriculum, etc. I am currently teaching a group of women to use the Internet (email, telnet, FTP, etc) as part of my research into how women learn, use and relate to online communication. We are also exploring feminist uses of the Internet as part of these sessions. I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has done anything similar to this. This is my first attempt to teach this topic, and I'm doing it primarily because of my research interests. Does anyone know of any similar or related research? I would also be interested to hear how other women learnt to use online services. I look forward to hearing from you Carole tecuccl@uk.ac.ioe (NB my address needs to be reversed from outside the UK, so it becomes tecuccl@ioe.ac.uk) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 08:44:21 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rebecca Hill Subject: Re: INTVIO-L ADDRESS Hi, I recently lost the intvio-l (domestic violence list) address. Does anyone on wmst-l know it? please reply privately to hillx018@maroon.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 10:07:53 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JManlowe@AOL.COM Subject: Re: women and madness I promised to summarize my findings on women and the discourse of deviance/"psychopathology". I am thrilled to see that the women and madness findings will be summarized so I won't entirely pre-duplicate that list. Here's what I have found on the list: Films: A Question of Silence A Woman Under the Influence I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can Francis The Snake Pit Committed Fictional Books: Yellow Wallpaper The Butterfly Ward Surfacing The Color Purple Non-Fiction/Scholarly Books: The Loony Bin Trauma and Recovery Bonds of Love Sister Outsider Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves The Habit of Surviving: Black Women's Strategies for Life OVERCOMING OVEREATING NEWSLETTER Borderline Personality Disorder and Childhood Abuse Women and Madness Thinking Critically About Research on Sex and Gender Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery Personality and Psychopathology Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism & Psychology Women's Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness "K is Mentally ill" in Texts, Facts, and Femininity The Conceptual Practices of Power See the Nat'l Clearing House for the Defense of Battered Women Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory Good luck and thanks for all of your great suggestions! Jennifer JManlowe@AOL.COM Providence, RI ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 10:10:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: finding addresses for other lists Rebecca Hill writes: > I recently lost the intvio-l (domestic violence list) address. Does > anyone on wmst-l know it? > please reply privately to > hillx018@maroon.tc.umn.edu In the future, before writing to WMST-L, there are several other things you can try. For information about gender-related lists like intvio-l, you can send for the file OTHER LISTS. Simply send the message GET OTHER LISTS WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). For lists that use the original listserv software (WMST-L is such a list; INTVIO-L is, too), you can send a message to LISTSERV@UMDD that says LIST GLOBAL/INTVIO-L and you'll get back the address and a brief description. Here's the info from OTHER LISTS: INTVIO-L is devoted to discussion of "all areas of family violence" including spousal abuse, child abuse, and "any other areas of intimate violence that subscribers may wish to explore." Send subscription messages to LISTSERV@URIACC (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@URIACC.URI.EDU (Internet). Please try the above BEFORE writing to WMST-L. Many WMST-L subscribers thank you. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 11:31:48 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: Even Cowgirls Get The Blues On Saturday, May 14, 1994 I reviewed "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" on "The Women's Show" a feminist radio magazine on 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 REV111 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 2800 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 2799 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 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 11:12:07 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bridgett Williams Subject: Re: women and madness Two more suggestions (I'm new to the list, so I hope these don't duplicate what's already been said) -- in film, "She's Been Away" and in non-fiction, "Girl Interrupted". Our feminist reading group is using both of these this summer... Good luck with your project, Bridgett Williams bwilliam@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu U of Iowa, History Dept. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 21:17:27 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Children of Holocaust Survivors (My apologies for posting this to the whole list. In the flurry of end of semester deletions, I apparently deleted the message asking for this information.) There are several good books on this subject. Helen Epstein: Children of the Holocaust (New York: Putnam, 1979) Aaron Hass: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Second Generation (Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1990) Martin S. Bergmann & Milton E. Jucovy, eds.: Generations of the Holocaust (New York: Basic Books, 1982) Budick, Cynthia: An Investigation of Holocaust Survivor Parents on Their Children (University of Rhode Island, PhD thesis, 1985) There is also a therapist who has an excellent reputation for her work with the children of Holocaust survivors. She is in Pacific Palisades, California (greater Los Angeles area). Her surname is Horowitz and I believe her first name is Sarah. (Actually also check the name Moskowitz--I always mix up the two names). I hope these are of use to you. Rosa Maria Pegueros Dept. of History University of Rhode Island PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 21:19:43 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rebecca Hill Subject: Re: wmst-l/battered women's movement Hi, sorry about asking a silly question on wmst-l. The wierdest thing happened though - I had seen a message in my mail box asking for help locating intvio-l and thought it was from one of my students - because I am currently a TA for a class on the battered women's movement - and then I realized it was a request from someone on wmst-l!! Anyway, thank you for the assistance, sorry to muck up the list. On a more scholarly tack, I was wondering whether any of you out there had ever taken or taught a course on the battered women or the battered women's movement? What kind of responses do you get from students? How was the subject approached? Reply publicly if you think it will be of interest to other list subscribers -Rebecca Hill hillx018@maroon.tc.umn.edu