WMST-L LOG9405D ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 11:41:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Re: curriculum transformation request If you want current material on this issue, the Spring, 1994 issue of the NWSA Journal which I just received has an article on this topic. Unfortunately,it is about the failure of curriculum transformation at a major public university by Lynne Goodstein, volume 6, pp. 82 - 102. Also, if any of the editors or contributors to the journal are on the list, I want to complement them on the much improved appearance of the journal as well as the greater quality and quantity of recent issues. Thanks, Rhoda Unger E-MAIL UNGER@APOLLO.MONTCLAIR.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 14:39:33 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: false memory syndrome In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 14 May 1994 15:27:38 -0500 from i think we need to worry about the basis and playing out of "false memory syndrome" Do we have here another tactic to discredit women' (and men's) memories and efforts to fight against sexual abuse? since virtually all the abuse is by men, are we in another situation that tries to preserve existing gender relations? is the problem a cue to take a hard look at therapists' motives and methods? i have no wish to protect false accusations, but i think we must consider that some of the withdrawals of charges stem from a lapse of willingness to confront the pain of remembering. i cannot easily dismiss memories that come to the fore after many years, since i dealt with them myself after 40 and 50 years of suppression-repression (which can, and did for me enable good sexual and social relations - an experience that i strongly suspect occurs more often than is generally recognized). the memory-triggering event for me was a series of rapes on my campus which induced physical symptoms so strong i decided to display and reflect on those past events from a position of of current strength. no, i've never been in therapy but i've read a substantial amount of feminist literature and have done activist work. my main point here: old memories do come back. how should we understand the rash of false memory charges? beatrice beabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 12:39:46 -0700 Reply-To: morrison@violet.berkeley.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Morrison Subject: A Question of Silence Continuing the women and madness thread Jennifer Manlowe listed the film *A Question of Silence* as a part of her women and deviance study. Has WMST-L members discussed this film online? I remember it as the most remarkable study of women and patriarchy I have ever seen on film. I was a young sprout without a large feminist community when I saw this film, and I have never been able to find my way into a discussion about it. (Most of my academic contemporaries have never seen it.) Do instructors ever show this film in women's studies courses, or is it considered too "hard" for young minds? Has anyone written about the film or interviewed the director? Does anyone know how to obtain a copy? I've never found it in a video store. Of course, I assumed the "mad" characters were a little too sane for their own good. I'm not crazy am I? Jane Morrison morrison@violet.berkeley.edu P.S. I hope this isn't redundant. I'm new to the list. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 15:43:09 -0400 Reply-To: holzmr01@MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Robert Holzman Subject: "false memory syndrome" The _American Psychologist_ (May, 1994, 49, 439-445) has five critiques of Elizabeth Loftus's article, "The reality of repressed memories" (_American Psychologist_, 1993, 48, 518-537), and a reply by Loftus. Clare G. Holzman holzmr01@mcclb0.nyu-medical.med.nyu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 17:05:31 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Janet S. Gray" Subject: Paging J. Manlowe Hi, Jennifer! I just joined WMST-L & saw your name in correspondence! Could you slip me an e-note when you get a chance? I have a quick question. Thanks - Janet Gray ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 16:13:59 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: kim Loutzenhiser Pohle Organization: SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY St. Louis, MO Subject: women in cult organizations I am beginning some research on women in cult organizations and have begun with More University in specific. Can anyone direct me toward some literature? Kim Lout2kk@sluvca.slu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 01:08:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Stearns Subject: Re: women and madness In-Reply-To: <199405211408.KAA25981@holmes.umd.edu> from "JManlowe@AOL.COM" at May 21, 94 10:07:53 am Jennifer--Thanks for summarizing the suggestions from the list. May I also add another scholarly work? I really enjoyed _The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980_ by Elaine Showalter, 1985, Penguin Books. She does a good job of detailing the gender-specific treatment and conception of madness historically, and made a lot of points I had never thought of about gender and psychopathology. Deborah Stearns stearns@cattell.psych.upenn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 16:08:00 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Michelle Brewer \"Mlbrewer@Vax1.Tcd.Ie\"" Subject: U. of California, Santa Cruz Hello. I am currently completing a MA in Women's Studies at Trinity in Dublin. And I am wondering if anyone knows anything about the Comp. Lit. program at Santa Cruz, including its strengths/weaknesses in feminist scholarship. (My undergrad degree is in Eng. Lit.) What I do know of the program makes me very interested, but I would prefer to hear some first/second hand knowledge about the place. Please respond privately to: "caclark@vax1.tcd.ie". Thanks very much. Carolyn Clark ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 11:21:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1)"Women in U.S. Economy" 2)CFP: feminisms The following two announcements may be of interest to WMST-L readers: 1) Lecture: "Women in the U.S. Economy" (New York) 2) CFP: "feminisms" (parallax) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman ************************************************ 1) CAUGHT IN THE CRISIS: WOMEN IN THE U.S. ECONOMY Teresa Amott will speak on "Women in the U.S. Economy" on Tuesday, June 7 at 7 pm at The Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School, 122 West 27 Street, 10 floor, New York City. How have twenty years of economic crisis and conservative policy affected the lives of women in the United States? Ms. Amott will examine how the consequences of these far-reaching structural changes differ by class and race. She will look at how women have suffered setbacks in the job market, in the home, in the areas of health and safety, and in government help and childcare. Teresa Amott is Associate Professor of Economics at Bucknell University and an editorial associate of Dollars and Sense magazine. She is the co-author, with Julie Matthaei, of Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural History of Women in the United States (1991) and has been engaged in popular economics work with unions, welfare rights organizations, women's organizations, and other progressive groups for over a decade. Her most recent book is Caught in the Crisis: Women and the U.S. Economy Today, published by Monthly Review Press. For more information, call (212) 242-4201. ************************************************************************** 2) parallax: call for papers Cultural Studies is at a stalemate because of its over-investment in radical pluralism, liberal humanism and the Academy. parallax is a new journal which seeks to initiate alternative forms of criticism by analysing the ways in which cultural discourses function, in order to repoliticise and remobilise theory and praxis. parallax welcomes papers and reviews which engage with our problematic. issue one: cultural studies and philosophy issue two: theory/practice issue three: feminisms Editors: Joanne Morra Marquard Smith Editorial Board: Mieke Bal Andrew Benjamin Rachel Bowlby Susan Buck-Morss Barry Curtis Jonathan Dollimore Debbie Epstein Simon Frith Mark Little Christopher Norris Peter Osborne Kristin Ross Valerie Walkerdine Jeffrey Weeks Lola Young Advisory Panel: Parveen Adams Steven Connor Mary Ann Doane Stephen Heath Linda Hutcheon Martin Jay Dominick LaCapra Teresa de Lauretis Andrew Milner Laura Mulvey Lynda Nead Linda Nicholson Sadie Plant Irit Rogoff Andrew Ross Gayatri Spivak John Tagg Trinh Minh-ha Robert Young Submissions for issue one must be sent by the 15th July 1994, issue two by the 15th October 1994 and issue three by the 15th December 1994 to: parallax Centre for Cultural Studies Dept of Fine Art University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT Britain tel: (0)532 335277 fax: (0)532 451977 e.mail: finmds@lucs-mac.novell.leeds.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 12:59:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Helen F. Rowe" Subject: intro syllabi,curric transformation (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 12:53:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Helen F. Rowe To: "JAJONE02@UKCC.BITNET" Subject: intro syllabi,curric transformation I am beginning work on a Masters at U. of Vermont and am interested in analyzing Intro to Human or World Regional Geography courses. I would like to review syllabi, and look for inclusion of feminist perspective. I may also be interested in gender/feminist analysis of current textbooks (after Mayer). I would be interested in hearing from anyone working in this area (I have spoken with Jan Monk and Timi Mayer); also, I am searching without success for Betty Schmitz's email address, to ask her about questionnaire format for examining syllabi and courses... Any suggestions? Anyone else (grad students) working in this area? Any other words of wisdom today? Helen Rowe hrowe@moose.uvm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 15:20:14 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Iana Pattatucci Subject: WISENET Does anyone here subscribe to wisenet and if so, would you be willing to post a message for me? iana "Luciana%bchem.dnet@dxi.nih.gov" ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 10:22:06 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: term: patriarchy Hi. Just a quick question about the term "patriarchy." Some of the people here at my university have recently stated how tired they are of hearing the term, how overused it has become, how meaningless, and so forth. Not all of these people were men or students. Also, in a recent debate with a new ph.d student, I was asked to define patriarchy and explain where it was really func- tioning in U. S. society. I had no real trouble doing this, but I found myself wondering why a white male (this student) didn't already know the answer? He claimed it was because his family was run by women (a moot point, I think, sinc e his father brought home the paycheck and had the final say). Anyway, patri- archy is at times a limited term, isn't it? I mean, it isn't just men running things; it is certain men of a certain class and background who run the gov't. and not all men everywhere. Of course, in the family, it is all men in most cultures anyway, who have the financial power, I believe. Anyway, I guess what I want to know is, if the term patriarchy is overused, what other alternative term will work better? Is the term really overused, or is this another aspect of "backlash" against new paradigms for society other than patriarchy? I have recently taken to using phrases like "thoughts limited by gender binaries..." in place of "patriarchal thought" and so forth. I would appreciate some ideas from others on this, on the list or off, as appropriate. Theresa 60840883@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu P.S. There is also always the issue of power and hierarchy which any substitute term would have to encompass--and which "gender binaries" does not quite manage to do. I am at a loss. TT ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 18:47:48 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: term: patriarchy Theresa's post raises some interesting questions. Some suggestions: Zillah Eisenstein's discussion of the term patriarchy is pertinent (in Radical Future of Liberal Feminism). She argues that historically patriarchy was tied to the rule of the father in the family. In pre-industrial society, the divine right of kings was legitimated by political theory through a homology with the family. God ruled over humanity as the king ruled his subject as the father ruled the family. Sir Robert Filmer in Patriarchia is a good example of this legitimation. Locke in rebutting Filmer and in establishing a space for Whig politicians to limit the king's power during the restoration (1660s), argd th that the citizen's position in relation to the king was not analogous to the child's position in relation to the father. First of all, he argued, in the family we have to talk not about paternal power, but parental power (yes, he really argues that mothers have something to do with it, though I doubt he is really making a feminist argument). It is possible that Theresa's student's objection to the term patriarchy might be related to his reading of Locke (perhaps I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt). An interesting alternative has been suggested by Juliet Flower MacCannell in a book called The Regime of the Brother. She argues that the 18th century saw a transition from patriarchy to the regime of the brother in which fraternal rather than patriarchal relations dominate. It's a fascinating idea which I don't think she is entirely successful in developing, but which I think has real potential for rethinking how power relations work in a post-industrial society. My two cents anyway. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 08:48:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathy Ryder (ENG)" Subject: Seek Post-Freud/Femnst Theories of Repression Hi: I need references to works dealing with post- (or anti-) Freudian feminist theories of repression and the unconscious. Am especially interested in formulations linking repression to the unconscious. Please respond privately. Thanks. Kathy ryder@cyhuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 09:16:07 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: term: patriarchy About the term "patriarchy": I like, for my own purposes, to define the term in a way that is cross-culturally applicable. A patriarchal society in this definition is one in which men, as a group or class, systematically hold power over women as a group or class in most spheres of social life. Europ ean and American society certainly WERE once patriarchal in this sense, and it is arguable that our society still is. A matriarchal society would be the inverse: women as a class have systematic power over men as a class in most spheres of social life. This does not seem to exist empirically. But there ARE numerous examples on record of societies that cannot be said to be patriarchies because male authority is not all-pervasive, controlling most spheres of life. I believe that mild tendencies toward male dominance that are not institutionalized male power should NOT be called "patriarchy," and that this term is more useful when given this more limited definition. My two cents, FWIW. -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 09:26:52 -0400 Reply-To: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: Re: term: patriarchy In-Reply-To: <199405232026.QAA12000@holmes.umd.edu> However much I'd want to stand by the importance of the term and the concept behind it, it's also true that terminology tends toward shorthand--both a useful and a potentially obfuscating tendency. For me the limitations of the term have to do with something touched on in Theresa's original post, that 'men' figured as the culprits does not provide a very specific articulation of the cultural, racial, economic conditions often being confronted when 'patriarchy' gets trotted out. I've been reading a lot of bell hooks lately, and have gotten use to and adopted, to some extent, her habit of referring to a heterosexist, white supremacist patriarchal culture. It gets cumbersome sometimes to attempt specificity, but her work might be an example of how it can work to one's advantage. Giavanna gjm9u@darwin.clas.virginia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 10:19:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Delese Wear Subject: Re: term: patriarchy In-Reply-To: <199405241317.JAA17152@holmes.umd.edu> from "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology," at May 24, 94 09:16:07 am magda lewis, in her book WITHOUT A WORD:TEACHING BEYOND WOMEN'S SILENCE, makes a distinction between patriarchy and phallocentrism. she prefers the latter. she writes, "i want to signal an expanded notion of the system within which women have been subordinated worldwide. while the term patriarchy has come to mean a total system of entitlements and privileges accrued through specific acts of domination, oppression, and exploitation in the social, political, and economic realm, i believe (here she quote gerda lerener) that the common usage of the term patriarchy distorts historical reality....male domination is not only a concrete political and economic organization but, as well, a linguistic and social organization which defines women and simultaneously oppresses them accordingly (she's quoting toril moi here). for this reason, my preference is to use a term that, as a symbolic discursive system, includes not only the material constraints of women's lives, but also the namings, meanings, and referents through which these constraints are given social connotations." that's why she uses phallocentric. she develops this further in the book, which is published by routledge (1993) delese wear dw@uhura.neoucom.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 08:31:24 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Re: term: patriarchy In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 24 May 1994 09:16:07 EST from Gina widens the original query about the term patriarchy in a way that I feel needs more explanation on my part. What I don't think I mentioned in connect- ion to my interests in the term was my own work with Laguna Pueblo culture. I agree that patriarchy needs to be understood in its cultural and social context (s), and certainly the phallus doesn't reign supreme in many cultures--includ- ing Laguna culture. But is Gina correct in placing Anglo American society out- side the paradigm of men, or a class of men, holding systematic power over wo- men as a class or group? Something close to 98% of the Congress is white males of privilege, isn't it? Even local gov'ts remain largely in the hands of men. I don't mean to essentialize too much here, but by men I do mean biologically male regardless of sexual orientations or social identification with women's causes and issues. Since women is a class identified in Anglo society by their biological functions when they are being oppressed (i.e. welfare, jobs, etc.), I think we must examine power distributions along those same lines. Has the balance of power shifted toward the biological female in anglo culture and US society? I don't think it has. Just an addendum: I found a great book put out by WAC called, Statistics about Women (I think). It's only $5.00, and it has some truly amazing (and frighten- ing) statistics that are very very up to date about women's position in US society currently. Theresa 8-) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 09:38:05 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marilyn P. Safir" Subject: New course-Gender/Sex/Sexulity Issues in Teaching, Research,etc Please Post: I am happy to announce that during 94/95, I will be giving a cross listed MA course: Gender/Sex/Sexuality Issues in Teaching, Research, Therapy and Counselling. Therefore, I would like to request suggestions for readings, exercises, books, videos etc. If anyone has a "hard copy" of a relevant article or book chapter that you think should be included, please send it to me at: Marilyn P. Safir, Ph.D.; University of Washington, Outpatient Psychiatry Center, XD-45. 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite 306, Seattle, Washington 98105 I have to prepare a syllabus for the course. I will be happy to share it with the list as soon as I complete it. Please accept my thanx inadvance for your help and interest. (safirm@u.washington.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 10:56:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Glenis Joyce Subject: PAY EQUITY CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES I AM TRYING TO GET A HANDLE ON THE STATUS OF PAY EQUITY AND FACULTY AT CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES. HAS YOUR ASSOCIATION BEGUN WORK IN THIS AREA? SIGNED AN AGREEMENT? HAS IMPLEMENTATION BEGUN? Reports would be valuable. I am looking for the type of information that has NOT appeared in journals/books. Information on other bargaining units at universities if available will be shared with respective units here. Thank you. Glenis Joyce 129 Kirk Hall Univ of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0 306-966-5553 phone; fax 966-5567 email: glenis.joyce@sask.usask.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 13:00:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: "Math, Gender, Culture": rev. syllabus WMST-L subscriber John Kellermeier has sent me an extensively revised syllabus for the course he created and has now taught at SUNY Plattsburgh, "Mathematics, Gender, and Culture." The new syllabus also includes an extensive bibliography. I have replaced John's initial draft with this revised version, using the same filename, MATH_AND GENDER . To retrieve a copy of the revised syllabus, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet) or LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet): GET MATH_AND GENDER If you want to receive a list of all the syllabi available from WMST-L, add a second line that says INDEX SYLLABI . Be sure to send these messages to LISTSERV, not to WMST-L. If you have syllabi in electronic form that you'd be willing to make available in the WMST-L SYLLABI files, send them directly to me as a file or in an e-mail message at either of the addresses given with my signature below. The syllabi must be in ASCII format (also known as DOS text format) and must have no lines longer than 75 characters, and each line must end in a carriage return (line feeds don't count). If you have syllabi in Wordperfect or other wordprocessing format, it is easy to convert them to ASCII format. Consult your wordprocessing manual for instructions. Two more things: 1) PLEASE BE SURE THE SYLLABUS INCLUDES YOUR NAME, THE NAME OF THE INSTITUTION WHERE THE COURSE WAS TAUGHT, AND THE YEAR THE SYLLABUS WAS USED; and 2) if you can, it would be especially desirable if you'd append to the end of your syllabus any projects, assignments, etc. that you used in the course and that worked well. Note: PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME PAPER COPIES OF THE SYLLABUS. I have neither the time nor a good enough scanner to convert them to an electronic format. If you have any questions, please contact me privately, not via WMST-L. Again, many thanks to John Kellermeier for this wonderfully detailed syllabus and bibliography. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 10:25:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harold Frank Subject: hierarchies and patriarchies Alternatives to the term "patriarchy." "hierarchy based on male norms of behavior," also, "traditional corporate hierarchies," or simply, "male hierarchies." These terms obscure the paternalistic aspects of hierarchies (almost irrelevant in these days of "down sizing") but maintain the notion of "order of influence." Hierarchies derive from the command structure of military and church organization (which is to say male organization designed for speed and certainty of implementation of action). The revolution in information technology has enabled large numbers of people to get information simultaenously and as a consequence reduced the need for costly layers of management arranged in hierarchy. -- end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end+++ + Dr. Hal Frank hfrank@mizar.usc.edu + + University of Southern California + + P.O. Box 41992 Phone: (213) 254-102 + + Los Angeles, CA 90041-0992 FAX: (213) 740-0001 + ********************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 12:32:42 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristin Gerhard Subject: Message for students attending NWSA Opportunity for Students Attending NWSA Please share this message with student colleagues. The National Women's Studies Association conference in June will include a fairly extensive book exhibit. A number of publishers are unable to attend, but would like to locate responsible students who would be willing to staff book tables during the conference. The pay range is aprox. $8-10/hour. If you are attending the conference, and would be willing to work part of each day in the exhibits, please get in touch with me as soon as possible. Kris Gerhard Book Exhibits Coordinator jl.khg@isumvs.iastate.edu jl.khg@isumvs.bitnet (515)294-4861 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 13:40:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Larry Ashley Subject: Re: Women and Madness I have enjoyed the offerings under this heading and look forward to the list (I hope you will post it to the WMSL-L when it is complete. Literature is not my forte, but Marge Piercy's WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME and Doris Lessing's THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK are two standout entries, both of which I have used in upper-level classes and students seem to appreciate. I've been most interested in the contenders for film depictions. What might be called *serious* analyses of women and madness that leap to mind all seem to be "biopics" rather than fictional evocations brought to the screen. *Story of Adele H* (French, Truffaut, 1975) and *Camille Claudel* (French, Nuytten, 1989) make a nice pair examining the romantic obsessional daughter of Victor Hugo and the lover of Auguste Rodin. *Frances* (US, Clifford, 1982) A bit heavy-handed and with fictional elements (unnecessary) in Frances Farmer's harrowing life story. *The Three Faces of Eve* (US, Johnson, 1957) Good performance by Joann Woodward in now-dated exploration of multiple -personality. *The Legend of Lizzie Borden* (US, Wendkos, 1975) In spite of the exploitative title and made-for-tv status, a serious entry. *I Never Promised You a Rose-Garden* (US, Page, 1977) About a teenage girl suffering from schizophrenia was based on a popular novel. *Lilith* (US, Rossen, Beatty) One of the best films based on a novel, but it might concentrate more than you wish on the male trainee rather than the schizophrenic woman he falls madly in love with (pun intended) If the issue is broadened out to include DEPICTIONS of women and madness in mainstream films (which can't be taken seriously as explorations of madness as a feminist issue, but which offer wonderful images to deconstruct as societal representations of the issue, the following are worth considering: *Possessed* (US, Bernhardt, 1947) Crawford at her best *Seance on a Wet Afternoon* (GB, Forbes, 1964) A very good, nearly great film. *Belle de Jour* (FR, Bunuel, 1967) A great film but centers on obsessional fantasies, not madness per se *Lizzie* (US, Haas, 1957) not a good film but well in the genre. *Don't Bother to Knock* (US, Baker, 1952) You remember, Marilyn Monroe as an insane baby-sitter. *The Shrike* (US, Ferrer, 1955) Artificial happy ending on a serious attempt at exploring domination and jealousy as the 50's saw it. Down a level there are a whole host of films that are worth deconstructing, particularly en masse: *Whatever Happened to Baby Jane*, *Marnie* by Hitchcock, several Brian DePalma films, particularly *Sisters*, *David and Lisa* a good and serious film but the afflicted are younger than your study suggests, *Dark Mirror*, *Suddenly Last Summer*, but she's not really mad *The Snake Pit*--the great one about abuse in asylums. If you don't mind an editorial comment, films are likely to excel in the depiction rather than analysis or explanation, since that is the forte of film. Novels should do a better job at evocation of the interior and causal dynamics, which is what makes GOLDEN NOTEBOOK great and unfilmable. I'm not suggesting that many of the films mentioned above are ideal. But even the lowest ranked ones, in their concentration on romantic obsession and women portrayed as desperate or obsessional because they are thwarted in their supposedly "natural" role as wife and mother says volumes about social construction. By the way, one of your respondants recommended a novel called "A Dangerous Woman". That is also now out in film form and even hit the video market this last week. Stars Debra Winger and Barbara Hersey. Hope some of this helps, though it may be off your track entirely. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ / Lawrence R. Ashley BITNET:Ashleyl@SNYCORVA / Department of Philosophy INTERNET:Ashleyl@SNYCORVA.CORTLAND.EDU / 125 DeGroat Hall SUNY DECnet:SCORVA::Ashleyl / SUNY College at Cortland Bus. Phone: (607) 753-2015 / P.O. Box 2000 Home Phone: (607) 753-0058 / Cortland, New York, 13045 Fax by prearrangement to home phone. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 12:05:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sue Morrow Subject: Re: RePost-psychoanalysis & Feminism This morning, I responded to a message by Kathy Ryder inquiring about post-psychoanalytic and feminist anti-psychoanalytic writings (hope I remembered this right!) I've twice tried to send it out to her without success, then decided to share it with the list. Kathy- I've been reading Jane Flax on feminism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis. Amazing. Her books are _Thinking Fragments_ and _Disputed Subjects_. Also, Hanna Lerman wrote _A Mote in Freud's Eye_. Good luck. Sue =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Sue Morrow Internet: MORROW@GSE.UTAH.EDU Dept. of Educational Psychology 327 Milton Bennion Hall University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (801) 581-3400 FAX: (801) 581-5566 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 14:26:26 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University Subject: Tenure at Vassar Has anyone been following the case of zoologist Cynthia Fisher, who recently won a court ruling that she was entitled to tenure at Vassar, as well as 9 years worth of double back-pay (nearly $1 million)? Judge (Constance Baker Motley) wrote a 102 page opinion, which concluded that the Biology Dept. at Vassar had engaged in a "clear pattern of unlawful bias" based on a stereotype, viz "that a woman with an active and ongoing family life cannot be a productive scientist." I have read accounts of this case in the CHRONICLE OF HIGHER ED and in NEWSWEEK Mag, but neither mentioned her lawyer(s). Does anyone know who provided her legal representation? This is considered to be a landmark ruling by some, because it is a step back from the courts' typical position of keeping their hands off the tenure & promotion process w/in Universities in the USA. ----------- Ruth Ginzberg (rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu) ------------ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 15:52:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: 00mekite@BSUVC.BSU.EDU Subject: ethnicity of person being rated I am looking for a reference that psychological research tends to ignore the ethnicity of the person being rated (that is, the targets tend to be male/female, etc. without noting ethnicity). I know of research that most subjects are white (white male). Does anyone know of research that most targets are white or race not specified? Mary Kite 00mekite@bsuvc.bsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 14:15:58 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Morton Subject: Transforming Sociology Theory class Hello everyone, Some of the graduate students in our sociology program at UCLA are trying to transform the required theory class to include more gender/race theories and research. The course is a 2 quarter survey of the "classics": Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Parsons, Blumer, Mead, Goffman, Garfinkel with accompanying readings as "exemplary research". There is nothing on race at all. The only "gender" readings are from Parsons (his age and sex article), and Garfinkel's study of Agnes. As exemplary research we read Arlie Hochschild's _The Managed Heart_ and sometimes Miriam Johnson's neo Parsonian book on mothering: Wives and Mothers? (I'm not sure of the title). The faculty seem mildly sympathetic (at any rate, they're not actively hostile) to including race and gender perspectives, but they are placing the responsibility for coming up with an alternative reading list on the students. Of course, we must still include the "classics for understanding our common sociological heritage". This is one of the only classes all grad students must take before affiliating with a particular area program so they are very concerned to cover the "classics". I would like to know if others of you have battled your sociology departments on this issue, and if so, what happened, and if you were successful in changing the curriculum, can you send me your syllabus? Thanks! Christine Morton UCLA Sociology Department 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1551 email: morton@math.ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 15:44:42 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dana Watanabe Subject: Fraternity FAQ UCI just got access to a newsgroup called alt.college.fraternities and for some reason i felt compelled to read it, and actually came up with an interesting file on date rape and hazing as it relates to Fraternities, it has some interesting statistics and a lengthy but notably incomplete bibliography on issues around: Fraternities and Rape Gang Rape in General Difficulty of Conviction Civil Actions against Fraternity Rapists Fraternity Benefits to Brothers Hazing Application of Gender Discrimination Laws to Fraternities If anyone wants this file, then just email me at dwatanab@uci.edu and i'll send it to you , dana "If Jesus doesn't return first, we'll see you next week." ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 16:21:27 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Adele Fletcher Organization: University of Canterbury (NZ) Subject: Terminology, patriarchy I've recently read lit. that claims "patriarchy" is an "emotive" term and should not therefore be used. Probababy the perceived emotiveness has its roots in the scholar's response to feminism. I've also read somewhere that "patriarchy" should only be used to describe industrial societies- this seems unfair, gendered power structures favouring males are not solely the province of industrialisation. I think "patriarchy"is perfectly adequate as a term to apply to societies where gender is used to construct power relations which favour males (whether they are brothers or fathers ). Most (all?) societies make distinctions of class/status or race which in many respects cut across genders. This complicates any analysis of how patriarchy operates but doesn't seem a good reason to abandon the term, or to always prefix it with other terms such as "white supremacist". Any layering of terms will leave something out, eg, class, sexual orientation,..... It's more a question of maintaining a nuanced definition, which recognises that social structures are always complex and seldom (if ever) reducible to a single factor analysis (class, race or gender). Also, on the topic of brothers vs fathers. Cross-culturally, and historically, is not uncommon for a woman's brother(s) to be the person(s) who are powerful figures in her life. In many societies, by the time a woman has reached adulthood (however that is defined!), her father is usually no longer alive. Societies where matrilineage occurs also favour the brother's relationship to the woman concerned over the husband's. Or else it is sometimes a matter for dispute/negotiation between brothers and husbands. Adele Fletcher Maori Studies/Religious Studies phil024@csc.canterbury.ac.nz ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 09:18:12 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susanna giaccai Subject: Summer course in Italy If you need any further information, please mail to me: Susanna Giaccai - E-mail: Giaccai@risc.idg.fi.cnr.it _________________________________________________________________________ Scuola estiva di storia delle donne Quinto anno Donne cattive, cattive donne I Settimana (18 - 23 luglio) Christiane Klapisch Zuber, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Parigi Erede abusiva, vedova avida, madre crudele: donne fiorentine nel Rinascimento Cesarina Casanova, Universita' di Bologna, "Le signore dei veleni". L'esclusione delle donne dal potere nello Stato moderno Giovanna Fiume, Universita' di Palermo Mogli cattive, pubbliche mogli Laboratorio didattico: Maria Nadotti, ricercatrice Cosi' belle, cosi' cattive. Iconografie femminili a Hollywood e dintorni tra mitizzazione e backlash. II Settimana (25 - 30 luglio) Marilena Modica, Universita' di Catania Simulatrici, eretiche e lussuriose nei tribunali e nella let- teratura religiosa tra Cinque e Seicento Edith Saurer, Universita' di Vienna Amanti. Donna nella passione d'amore tra XVIII e XIX secolo Mary Gibson, The City University of New York Donna normale e donna delinquente: la costruzione ottocentesca di un modello Laboratorio didattico: Gloria Nemec Isterica quanto basta: due fonti psichiatriche sulla perico- losita' sociale delle isteriche (1878-1909) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sede: Certosa di Pontignano (Siena) Costo: 600.000 a settimana comprensivo di vitto, alloggio, corsi e materiale didattico. (+100.000 per camera singola) Le iscrizioni chiudono il 20 giugno e comunque non appena termi- nato il numero dei posti disponibili. Informazioni e segreteria: D.ssa Luana Mattesini - Scuola estiva di storia delle donne c/o Dipartimento di Studi Storico-sociali e filosofici Via San Fabiano, 9 52100 - Arezzo tel. 0575/379502 fax 0575/21941 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 07:35:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: term: patriarchy In-Reply-To: <199405241419.KAA17901@holmes.umd.edu> since the fall of the soviet union, modern ideologies classes have concentrated on third world/liberation ideologies. feminism, not patriarchy, is treated as an ideology. indeed few of the books even define patriarchy. it is usually discussed in terms of radical feminism, but is presented as meaning a male centered culture. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 10:28:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: term: patriarchy Delese -- Lewis's treatment sounds interesting -- I will look for it. It wasn't absolutely clear to me from your post, and perhaps you can clarify: in this usage are partiarchy and phallocentrism two distinct concepts, one for the material/social and the other for the symbolic aspects of male domination? Or is "phallocentrism" meant to include it all and thus completely supercede "patriarchy"? -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 10:24:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: term: patriarchy Theresa -- If it seems as if my post put Anglo American society "outside the paradigm" If it seems as if my post put Anglo American society "outside the paradigm" of patriarchy as I defined it, that was emphatically not my intention! I thought I said that our society arguably still IS patriarchal, even though some aspects of patriarchy, e.g. the legal doctrines that gave husbands virtually absolute authority over wives, may have been dismantled. Anyway, the definition has the advantage of giving us a basis upon which to debate how patriarchal our society still is, or the degree to which one society is more patriarchal than another. I also tend to think that it's important to distinguish between institutional structures of domination and the symbolic privileging of male over female. Does this require two different terms? -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 10:50:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L get-together at NWSA! I am delighted to announce that there will be an informal get-together for WMST-L subscribers at this year's National Women's Studies Association conference. The get-together will take place on Thursday, June 16, in the late afternoon. I don't yet know the exact time and place, but I think that information will be in the official program. There's no set agenda for the get-together; it's just a great opportunity for some of us who may know each other only by e-mail address to meet. If anyone has specific questions or issues concerning WMST-L, this may be a good time to raise them (though, of course, you can also write to me privately before then), but the main point is just to have a chance to meet and talk. If you'd like more information about the NWSA conference (which this year will be held at Iowa State University), I think the appropriate people to contact are Kris Anderson (s1.ksa@isumvs.iastate.edu) or Loretta Younger (loretta_younger@umail.umd.edu). Similar get-togethers at other conferences have been great fun. I hope to see/meet many of you this year at NWSA. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 10:46:46 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Janet S. Gray" Subject: 'date-rape hysteria' In response to a call for papers that was posted on several listserves for _Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture_, a journal published by the Program in Women's Studies at Princeton, one editor received a message suggesting we devote an issue to Katie Roiphe's _The Morning After_. The correspondent was misinformed about Roiphe's relationship to Women's Studies, and it took me a few incredulous beats to realize the message supported-- and expected us, by association, to support--Roiphe's position. The incident made me wonder, more broadly, how the issues raised in Roiphe's book are being dealt with in Women's Studies programs-- whether, and in what contexts and with what reception, it is being read in classes. A friend of mine taught it in a Youth Culture course with very productive results: the students raised a lot of questions about who is speaking for them and how those voices get heard. What other experiences, approaches, etc. have feminist teachers taken to this discussion? Janet Gray jsgray@pucc.princeton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 11:30:11 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Delese Wear Subject: Re: term: patriarchy In-Reply-To: <199405251430.KAA28687@holmes.umd.edu> from "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology," at May 25, 94 10:28:49 am gina: good question! i didn't know, so i opened up lewis again to that place and there it was. shewrites: "my preference is to use a term that, as a symbolic discursive system, includes not only the material constraints of women's lives, but also the namings, meanings, and referents through which these constraints are given social connotations." (p.20) delese ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 12:42:42 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: term: patriarchy Delese -- Re; the Lewis quote: My reading would then be that she intends the term "phallocentrism" to supercede and include "patriarchy." Correct? -- Gina ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 13:13:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith Subject: Re: 'date-rape hysteria' I am a Social Psychologist, and I am basically infuriated by Roiphe's book. Last semester I found that, in my sample of first year women at my university (University of Pittsburgh), 22% had been raped (legal definition), and most defined their experience as such. I generally talk about this in my Psych of Women class, discussing women's experiences, how rape is defined, how do we get information on women's experiences. Then I discuss Roiphe and Paglia, how they define rape, how they get their information on women's experiences (generally from themselves or talking to their friends). Since social scientists generally collect data from many women, and feminist social scientists are generally sensitive to biases that can occur in research, students conclude that Roiphe and Paglia as not credible, or at least speaking only for themselves. Christine Smith csmith@vms.cis.pitt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 13:47:43 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Hannigan Subject: Re: term: patriarchy I have trouble with the term phallocentrism. It smacks of penis envy and seems to be a term that is clumsey at best. Jane ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 14:14:12 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Re: term: patriarchy In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 25 May 1994 07:35:47 -0400 from Jane Eliza writes that patriarchy is seldom treated as an ideology in the Sovie t Union, though feminism is. I find that a very scary omission.... Theresa 60840883@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 17:19:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ruth parlin Subject: Re: Tenure at Vassar To Ruth and others interested in the case: Professor Cynthia Fisher's attorney was the estimable Eleanor Jackson Piel. Her address and telephone are: 36 W. 44th Street, #1009 New York, NY 10036-8102 212/575-0797 212/354-6354 (fax) The case, Fisher v. Vassar College, is available on Westlaw (1994 WL 191663 or 1994 WL 194908) and Lexis (1994 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6376), but it is unclear whether Judge Motley's opinion will be published in the print source, the _Federal Supplement_ (which cases are published and which are not is another interesting political issue). If you want to read the opinion but don't have access to Westlaw or Lexis, you should be able to get the case from the clerk of the United States Court for the Southern District of New York, in Manhattan. The docket number is 87 CIV 4777 (CBM), and it was decided on May 16, 1994. I only skimmed the first few pages on line, and it appears to include an issue which librarians might find interesting: the use of the Science Search index to establish tenurability, or at least relative tenurability. Cheers, Ruth Parlin rparlin@umiami.ir.miami.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 14:17:28 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Re: term: patriarchy In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 25 May 1994 10:24:25 EST from Gina: Maybe, but I do like your idea that the earlier forms of patriarchy now provide a setpoint against which we might determine the degree(s) of current systems of masculinist-type oppression(s). (I do mean "masculine" as a con- structed view of "male" that can include both females and males acting in a certain manner toward each other.) As for the possibility of husbands' author- ity having been dismantled, I have seen little evidence of it outside the small world of the academy. Among many working class families, husbands still have much power and it is still based on differences in pay as well as upbringing. I also see it among the educated (or so-called educated) classes, and it often has nothing to do with payscales. I still feel obliged to negotiate money and other issues in my own marriage though I make a decent salary of my own. I do this at times when my spouse would not necessarily see the same need on his part if the situation were reversed. And I often consider myself quite free of most patriarchal restraints!!!! Go figure. So, patriarchy seems to require a degree of consent (even unasked consent) from the females involved.... To further trouble these questions about the patriarchy, I wonder to what degre e same-sex partners find themselves working their relationships out along the lines of patriarchal paradigms? I don't know how to put this question any more clearly, but at the point when any couple might need to negotiate power relatio ns, and I can't envision this as unlikely, do patriarchal or hierarchical rules suddenly emerge, or are they always present in all relationships contained w/in patriarchal american society regardless of sexual orientations or not? Theresa ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 20:29:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: April Martin Subject: Re: INTVIO-L ADDRESS In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat 21 May 1994 08:44:21 CST I'm interested in the domestic violence address also. Could you please post to WMST-L or to me? Thanks. April Martin: APRILL@KSUVM.KSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 23:15:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1 CFP; 2 jobs The following three announcements may be of interest to WMST-L readers: 1) CFP: Pedagogy and Politics: Theory and Practice (a graduate student conference) 2) Job: American Politics/Public Administration (incl. gender issues) 3) Job: Counseling Psychology Asst or Assoc. Prof. including women's/ gender issues) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman ************************************************************************** 1) please direct any questions to the conference organizer, Jackie Heslop JHESLOP@UVVM.UVic.CA CALL FOR PAPERS: PEDAGOGY AND POLITICS: THEORY AND PRACTICE -a graduate student conference- Sponsored by the University of Victoria Graduate Students September 30 - October 2, 1994 The UVic English department graduate students invite contributions from GRADUATE STUDENTS on a variety of pedagogical issues, both theoretical and practical as they pertain to graduate students and our future careers. Our aim is to open up a variety of pedagogical issues to critical debate and to reflection on the discipline itself. Given the interdisciplinarity of English studies today, we invite submissions from graduate students in other disciplines. Many of the topics suggested below intersect with issues of race, gender and/or class; we therefore welcome papers that take such "differences" into account. We are looking for twenty-minute papers on topics such as: -the status of theory in the Humanities -interdisciplinarity -English studies vs. cultural studies -academia and popular culture -the epistemological subject in/of English -electronic/visual media and the status of the printed text -the effects of technology on inforamtion, on professorship, and on questions of 'intellectual property' -national identity and the discipline -self-positionality -canon and curriculum -the political/economic climate and its effects on the institution and on individual careers -academic freedom -the pressure to publish: quantity and/or quality? The conference will include 4 workshops intended to foster dialogue between established and prospective professors. Thus, we also invite five to ten- minute papers that would facilitate discussion for the following workshops: 1. teaching strategies and procedures in the graduate classroom 2. supervisory interaction (one-on-one student/supervisor negotiation) 3. student/student interaction (competitiveness etc.) 4. "theoretical correctness" (the politics of "knowing" theory) Send 300-word abstracts for papers or workshops to: Jackie Heslop Department of English University of Victoria PO Box 3070 Victoria. B.C. V8W 3W1 fax: (604)721-6498 email: jheslop@uvvm.uvic.ca ** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 15, 1994 ** *************************************************************************** 2) AMERICAN POLITICS/PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Juniata College seeks to fill one-year position in American politics, public administration, and public policy. Applicants must have primary competence in American political institutions, especially the Presidency and Congress; interests in environmental studies, gender issues, or international studies are desirable. Rank is open. Juniata may conduct national search for a tenure track position during the 1994-95 academic year, for which the holder of this one-year position could compete. Send resume, current curriculum vitae, and names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three references by June 30, 1994, to Dr. Karen Wiley Sandler, Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA 16652. Juniata College is committed to cultural and gender diversity and encourages applications from women and minority candidates. AA/EOE. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 25, 1994 *************************************************************************** 3) Position: Counseling - Psychology Institution: Texas Woman's University Location: Texas Counseling Psychology: Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure track position. Earned doctorate from APA accredited counseling psychology program required. Expertise in personality assessment preferred. Duties include: teaching and directing research in graduate counseling psychology programs which emphasize family psychology and women's/gender issues. Department also offers graduate degrees in School Psychology. Send letter of application, vitae, and three reference letters to: Dr. Roberta Nutt, Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Texas Woman's University, P.O. Box 22996, Denton, Texas 76204; (817) 898-2303. Review of materials will begin on June 15 and continue until position is filled. AA/EOE. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 25, 1994 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 04:10:21 -0400 Reply-To: E.Binder@jk.uni-linz.ac.at Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elisabeth J. Binder" Subject: Info needed: How to convince women to use the Internet After having met "our" listowner Joan Korenman and Paula Gaber from the Maryland InforM Women's Studies section I finally decided that a similar Internet information package is long overdue for women's studies researchers in the German speaking countries. This coming summer I want, together with a computer science student, to sort out all the technical necessities and intricacies of setting up a discussion list, a gopher and maybe a WWW home page. The biggest problem, however, still remains to be solved. Since I am mildly addicted to the Internet I have a hard time understanding people who don't see the benefits and usefulness of computer mediated communication. Especially among women I encountered this attitude quite often. One argument I've heard quite a few times is that computer communication is so "impersonal". Therefore I need good arguments to convince women that the Internet is worth the trouble. REQUEST: Could you please send me a few lines on the importance of the Internet for your research, for networking with other professional and academic women world-wide. I am particularly interested in the experiences of originally reluctant, but now "converted" users and from women whose native language is NOT English. (Non-native English speakers tend to feel a bit colonized since the majority of available information on the Net is written in English.) Please reply privately to my own e-mail account. Thank you for your help, I really need it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Elisabeth -- Elisabeth J. Binder Interuniversitaere Koordinationsstelle fuer Frauenforschung Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz Altenbergerstr. 69 A-4040 Linz Austria Tel.: +43-732-2468 9203 Fax.: +43-732-2468 9212 Email: E.Binder@jk.uni-linz.ac.at ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 07:23:12 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: term: patriarchy In-Reply-To: <199405252115.RAA03042@holmes.umd.edu> no, no. I said books which teach modern ideologies use feminism as an ideology, not patriarchy, since the decline of the soviet union has made people revamp their courses. environmentalism (sic) is also treated as an ideology and some include liberation theology as an ideology. On Wed, 25 May 1994, Theresa wrote: > Jane Eliza writes that patriarchy is seldom treated as an ideology in the Sovie > t Union, though feminism is. I find that a very scary omission.... > Theresa > 60840883@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 07:53:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: patriarchy/correction I did not mean to say the soviet union treats feminism as an ideology. I meant to say that those who write modern ideologies books for modern ideologies courses treat feminism and not patriarchy as an ideology. They also treat liberation theology and 'environmentalism' as ideologies. Since the desolution of the Soviet Union, those who teach ideologies will have to find another justification for the courses. Since it is assumed that capitalism 'won', the argument goes that there is no need to study ideologies. In the US, socialism, in the popular mind, is not distinguished from communism or is assumed to be on its way out, too. The way feminism is taught, leaving out patriarchy, panders to the popular assumptions that ideology is a 'false belief'; patriarchy is a power relationship only, with no accompaning attitudes or habits; patriarchy as the literal rule by men formally doesn't exist any more, therefore feminism is complaining about a nullity. I am writing a paper on this, how feminism is presented in ideology texts. if anybody has any suggestions for reading references, please send them privately. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 07:20:54 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gayle Rush-Lopez Subject: Re: INTVIO-L ADDRESS excuse me...mistake! rush@uwyo.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 09:24:31 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BONNIE COX Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: NINTH ANNUAL APPALACHIAN CONFERENCE NINTH ANNUAL APPALACHIAN CONFERENCE: "WOMEN IN APPALACHIA" THE Ninth Annual Appalachian Conference will be held on the campus of the University of Kentucky on November 3-5, 1994. The conference sponsors are the Appalachian Center and the Women's Studies Program of the University of Kentucky. Proposals for individual or group presentations from community activists and community service organizations, as well as proposals for academic papers, are invited concerning all aspects of women's lives in central and southern Appalachia. Send a short, typed, and double-spaced description of your proposed presentation or paper. Also, please send either a biographical description, a resume, or a vita, of key participants. All such materials should be received no later than JULY 26, 1994. The program committee will announce selections by August 27, 1994. Send proposals for presentations and papers to: Alan DeYoung/Phyllis Braun, Co-Chairs Appalachian Center 641 S. Limestone Street University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0333 For more information, call: (606)257-4852 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 09:48:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Turek Subject: Science, Gender, and Technology Symposium SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND GENDER An International Symposium Iowa State University June 16-19, 1994 The Science, Technology, and Gender Symposium is co-sponsored by Iowa State University and the National Women's Studies Association as part of the NWSA National Conference - Teaching, Theory, and Action: Women Working in a Global Context. From June 15-19, 2000 women and men from around the United States and the world will come together for more than 200 lectures, panels, workshops, films, performances and exhibits on a wide variety of gender-related topics. Some of the topics to be addressed at the Symposium include: History of Women in Science and Technology Critiques of Scientific Paradigms and Practices Academic/Industrial Networking for Women Scientific (De)Constructions of Knowledge Changing Science in the Classroom Global Science, Technology and Development Bioengineering Ethics Mentoring Projects for Girls and Women in Science The Politics and Economics of Scientific Research Strategies for Pegagogical and Curricular Reform Gender-Bending Science Fiction Women Networking Across National Boundries Guest Speakers include: Pamela Fraser-Abder Karen Barad Josephine Beoku-Betts Alice Dan Jane Daniels Evelyn Hammonds Jalna Hanmer Sandra Harding Sue Rossner Margaret Rossiter Bonnie Spanier Nancy Tuana Judy Wakunga Mariamne Whatley For more information, please contact; NWSA Science Symposium ISU 210 Lab of Mechanics Ames, IA 50011 Phone: 515/294-4535 Fax: 515/294-8627 email: LRYAN@iastate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 10:48:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michael Current Subject: Re: Seek Post-Freud/Femnst Theories of Repression In-Reply-To: <199405241301.JAA17009@holmes.umd.edu> from "Kathy Ryder" at May 24, 94 08:48:03 am Kathy Ryder writes: > > Hi: > I need references to works dealing with post- (or anti-) Freudian > feminist theories of repression and the unconscious. Am especially > interested in formulations linking repression to the unconscious. Please > respond privately. Thanks. > > Kathy > ryder@cyhuma.cas.usf.edu Although they are not widely embraced by feminists, I think anyone wishing to look at critics of repression and the unconscious would do well to look at Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's _Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia_, which is a full-scale attack on the notion of repression and the traditional Freudian view of the unconscious. If you are interested, I can provide references, including feminist appropriations and critiques, of this work. Michael -- ---------------------------Michael J. Current---------------------------- mcurrent@picard.infonet.net -or- @ins.infonet.net -or- @nyx.cs.du.edu Specializing in Philosophy, Queer Studies, Depression, & Unemployment :) 737 - 18th Street, #9 * Des Moines, IA * 50314-1031 *** (515) 283-2142 "AN IMAGE OF THOUGHT CALLED PHILOSOPHY HAS BEEN FORMED HISTORICALLY AND IT EFFECTIVELY STOPS PEOPLE FROM THINKING." - GILLES DELEUZE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 12:29:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: Jean-Marie Higiro (fwd) I received this message on another list and hoped someone on this one might be able to pass info. or suggestions on to Alice Hart (address at end of message). Giavanna gjm9u@darwin.clas.virginia.ed > Jean-Marie Higiro, an exile from the violence in Rwanda, is seeking > employment in the United States. He has an MA in history from University > of Montreal, an MS in communications from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. > in communications from the University of Texas, Austin. Until April 6 he > was the Minister of Information in charge of Rwandan radio, TV, and print > media. Even before the violence, several attempts were made on his life > because of his moderate political views. He, his wife and two children > (one born in the United States) were smuggled out on the US convoy with > only the clothes on their backs. They are currently in Nairobi. > Reportedly, his wife is the sole survivor of her large family. They have > been admitted to the US Refugee Program. His friends in Austin are trying > to raise funds to help bring him to the U.S. He desparately needs > employment to make the move and to continue to support his family. He has > teaching experience, is fluent in both English and French, and is very > knowledgeable about Africa. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please > contact Alice Hart at FHAMH@utxdp.dp.utexas.edu. > > > Thanks, > Hal Wylie~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dept. of French, Univ. of Texas, Austin TX 78712 > Phone: 512/4715531 FAX: 512/4718492 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Internet: halwylie@emx.cc.utexas.edu~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 12:58:45 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BONNIE COX Subject: ACRL WOMEN'S STUDIES SECTION PROGRAM AT ALA IN MIAMI For those of you who are interested in the ACRL Women's Studies Section's program "Making the *Net*Work: Is There a Z39.50 for Gender Communication?" to be presented at the ALA annual meeting in Miami on Monday June 27 from 9:30 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m., we now have a room for the program. It will be held in the Voltaire Room of the Fontainebleu Hotel. Hope to see you there! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 17:34:37 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patrice McDermott Subject: Re: Seek Post-Freud/Femnst Theories of Repression In-Reply-To: <199405261548.LAA09586@holmes.umd.edu> If you are going to look at Deleuze & Guattari, you should be sure to read Rosi Braidotti's "Patterns of Dissonance" for an excellent analysis of them (as well as other male theorists). She is not unsympathetic and clearly well-versed in these thinkers, but is also *very* clear about the lack of feminist sympathies (& in some cases misogynies) of these various theorists. It is really an excellent source. Patrice McDermott patricem@cap.gwu.edu On Thu, 26 May 1994, Michael Current wrote: > Kathy Ryder writes: > > > > Hi: > > I need references to works dealing with post- (or anti-) Freudian > > feminist theories of repression and the unconscious. Am especially > > interested in formulations linking repression to the unconscious. Please > > respond privately. Thanks. > > > > Kathy > > ryder@cyhuma.cas.usf.edu > > Although they are not widely embraced by feminists, I think anyone wishing > to look at critics of repression and the unconscious would do well to > look at Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's _Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and > Schizophrenia_, which is a full-scale attack on the notion of repression > and the traditional Freudian view of the unconscious. If you are interested, > I can provide references, including feminist appropriations and critiques, > of this work. > > Michael > > -- > ---------------------------Michael J. Current---------------------------- > mcurrent@picard.infonet.net -or- @ins.infonet.net -or- @nyx.cs.du.edu > Specializing in Philosophy, Queer Studies, Depression, & Unemployment :) > 737 - 18th Street, #9 * Des Moines, IA * 50314-1031 *** (515) 283-2142 > "AN IMAGE OF THOUGHT CALLED PHILOSOPHY HAS BEEN FORMED HISTORICALLY > AND IT EFFECTIVELY STOPS PEOPLE FROM THINKING." - GILLES DELEUZE > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 14:53:29 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Re: term: patriarchy In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 26 May 1994 07:23:12 -0400 from Sorry I misunderstood Jane Eliza! It's been a hectic summer so far! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 21:47:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CYNTHIA HERMAN Subject: Re: term: patriarchy As a very slow processor, I have been thinking more the past few days about the term "patriarchal." I agree that it has been devalued through both overuse and misuse. It is also one of those "trigger" words that can instantly alienate students, especially the young white males we often encounter in gen. ed. courses. And "phallocentric" does seem to move the debate away from the issue of power. I have been playing with the term "phallocratic" and wonder if anyone has found it a usable descriptor. (In the dim recesses of my memory are some echoes of this term being used--somewhere--perhaps in the early or mid 80s. Any ideas? Cindy Herman cherman@gmuvax.gmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 20:57:54 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Bruno-Jofre Subject: Re: PAY EQUITY CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES In-Reply-To: <199405241657.MAA20038@holmes.umd.edu>; from "Glenis Joyce" at May 24, 94 10:56 am BE in touch in the University of Manitoba Faculty Association. We had a Committee working on that. UMFA TELEPHONE NUMBER IS 204-474-8272 BEST WISHES, Rosa Bruno-Jofre, Past President Status of Women Committee UMFA ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 21:07:02 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Bruno-Jofre Subject: Re: curriculum transformation request In-Reply-To: <199405210242.WAA23525@holmes.umd.edu>; from "Ramona Morris" at May 20, 94 10:39 pm Dear Ramona: I am directing a pilot project at the University of Manitoba. I published the initial conceptual framework and some of th results in Backtalk, newsletter published by the Margaret Laurence Chair. If you need information about the Project (in fact I expanded into something large by now ) at the University of Manitoba please send me a note (not email) Dr. Rosa Bruno-Jofre, Academic Senior Fellow, Faculty of Education, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2. My fax at home is 204-275-6574. Do you speak Spanish? I am from Argentina. Best wishes. Rosa. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 23:13:29 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Tirrell Subject: Re: term: patriarchy Cindy Herman asks about the term 'phalloctratic' and wonders where it may have appeared. Marilyn Frye used it in *The Politics of Reality*, and many of the essays which became the chapters of that book are now classics of radical feminist philosophy. I have taught that book in my feminist philosophy courses at UNC and now at UMass, and my students have been just as put off by phallocrat at first as they are "phallologocentric" and its kin. BUT, 'phallocrat' has the advantage of the ending signalling political alliance. We talk about these terms, and generally the students come to decide that it is a fact about our current situations that no single term names our oppressions accurately. Discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the various terms is a helpful way for the students to take some control of the discursive space of the classroom, and shows us all how useful it is to get clear together on what we mean by what we say. Lynne Tirrell Philosophy UMass/Boston Tirrell@Umbsky.cc.umb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 16:59:12 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Feldman Subject: The Alma Unit Dear subscribers, I am the director of a new research unit The Alma Unit on Women and Ageing which has been established at the University of Melbourne ( Australia ) in the Key centre for Womens in Health in Society - a post graduate teaching and research unit. We plan to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to the issues of women and ageing - outside of geriatrics and gerontology. Betty Friedan was in Melbourne in March and she launched our centre - I am interested to contact researchers who are interested in Women and Ageing, gender and ageing- who view ageing as a life cycle, a stage of development and the implications for women over 65 years. I am interested in theoretical and empirical analysis as well as women's own view of their ageing and all that this means to them. We are of course interested in the implications for health,economics,psychology etc the negative images and stereotypes of older women - if there are any images at all -. As yet we haven't chosen our core research project and are currently developing an extensive annotated bibliography on women and ageing. Discussion, suggestions,interested people and those involved in this area of research would be welcome. There is quite a network here in Australia but no significant, major research to date. The research that has been done is excellent but small in number. Regards Susan Feldman Director Alma unit on women and ageing ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 09:06:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Kay Schleiter Subject: NWSA -- ride? I need a ride to NWSA from the Milwaukee or Chicago area. If that is a possibility, please contact me privately. I plan to leave on June 14 and return on June 19th. Mary Kay Schleiter mks@cs.uwp.edu 414/595-2536 (o) 414/537-4820 (h) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 11:05:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: patriarchy/correction Jane -- I agree that restricting "patriarchy" to legally institutionalized power arrange ments could lead to the wrong idea that once such arrangements are dismantled, the problem of gender inequality has been solved and feminism is no longer needed. But still, we may need to be more specific in our language, speaking of, perhaps, "institutionalized patriarchy" and "informal patriarchy" and "patriarchal attitudes" or "patriarchal ideology." Just trying to think through the issue.... -- Gina ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 10:55:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: term: patriarchy Theresa (and others) -- My claim is not that patriarchy is not present any longer in our marital and other relationships. I am NOT saying in any way that problems are solved. I'm not sure, though, that the kinds of domination through economic dependency and informal role expectations you refer to should rightly be called patriarchy. Maybe it should -- it is certainly at least the residue of past patriarchy. But I find it interesting that you say patriarchy may require consent. There are forms of patriarchy that do NOT require consent. Remember that through most of the 19th Century in most states, husbands had various forms of legal authority over wives, including right to control their property and earnings. Women could neither vote nor hold public office, nor be admitted to most prestigious professions -- all BY LAW. That is patriarchy in its purest form. Women in countries like Saudi Arabia are still experiencing that kind of patriarchy. Are these situations different in degree, but all subsumable under the term "patriarchy"? Or do we need to make a terminological distinction? How great does male domination have to be to be termed "patriarchy"? I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other, but I do think that it is worthwhile to have the discussion and be aware of the distinctions we would wish to make. In anthropology, the interpretation that not all societies are patriarchal has become usual, it seems to me. But even those that are defined as egalitarian sometimes have hints of male dominance or the valuing of male over female (e.g. "shaman" is the most prestigious social role; it is open to both sexes, but the overwhelming majority of the occupants of the role are men). Such societies still seem to me very different from those I feel at ease calling "patriarchal." The difference in the latter cases is that male dominance is completely institutionalized in law and custom. As to whether patriarchal family forms are more entrenched in the working class -- I think Lillian B. Rubin's analysis in WORLDS OF PAIN was intriguing. Her working-class informants were more likely to say that husbands SHOULD have authority over wiives, but from analyzing people's discussion of decision-making processes, she came to believe that middle-class husbands actually DO dominate their wives at least as much, though less formally. One factor that plays into this is that, until recently, working-class and lower-middle-class women were much more likely to be in the labor force than were the wives of high-earning male professionals. I think the waters are somewhat muddy in this area. Finding the discussion interesting, I think we're not in basic disagreement. -- Gina ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 13:16:59 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosemary Gianno Subject: Re: _Statistics on Women_ Recently, someone recommended a book called _Statistics about Women_ published by WAC Press. I took down the citation but didn't copy the message. I haven't been able to track down the book. Could anyone provide more information? Thanks. Rosemary Gianno Anthropology Keene State College Keene NH 03435-2101 rgianno@keene.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 13:23:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Jessica.DeForest" <22779MGR@MSU.EDU> Subject: Re: _Statistics on Women_ In-Reply-To: The letter of Friday, 27 May 1994 1:17pm ET Dear Rosemary, The book you are looking for is _WAC Stats: the Facts about Women_. Revised ed. 1993. Hope this helps Jessica 22779mgr@msu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 12:48:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gerda Lerner Subject: Re: Terminology, patriarchy >From: IN%"WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET" "Womens Studies List" >To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L >Subject: Terminology, patriarchy > >I've recently read lit. that claims "patriarchy" is an "emotive" >term and should not therefore be used. Probababy the perceived >emotiveness has its roots in the scholar's response to feminism. >I've also read somewhere that "patriarchy" should only be used to >describe industrial societies- this seems unfair, gendered power >structures favouring males are not solely the province of >industrialisation. > >I think "patriarchy"is perfectly adequate as a term to apply to >societies where gender is used to construct power relations which >favour males (whether they are brothers or fathers ). Most (all?) >societies make distinctions of class/status or race which in many >respects cut across genders. This complicates any analysis of how >patriarchy operates but doesn't seem a good reason to abandon the >term, or to always prefix it with other terms such as "white >supremacist". Any layering of terms will leave something out, eg, >class, sexual orientation,..... It's more a question of maintaining >a nuanced definition, which recognises that social structures are >always complex and seldom (if ever) reducible to a single factor >analysis (class, race or gender). > >Also, on the topic of brothers vs fathers. Cross-culturally, and >historically, is not uncommon for a woman's brother(s) to be the >person(s) who are powerful figures in her life. In many societies, >by the time a woman has reached adulthood (however that is >defined!), her father is usually no longer alive. Societies where >matrilineage occurs also favour the brother's relationship to the >woman concerned over the husband's. Or else it is sometimes a matter >for dispute/negotiation between brothers and husbands. > >Adele Fletcher >Maori Studies/Religious Studies >phil024@csc.canterbury.ac.nz ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 14:02:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ruth parlin Subject: Re: _Statistics on Women_ Hi, all, the information on this wonderful source is: TITLE: WAC stats : the facts about women EDITION: 2nd updated and revised edition PUBLISHER: New Press (New York), distributed by W.W. Norton YEAR: c1993 ALT. AUTHOR: Women's Action Coalition (New York, NY) Cheers, Ruth rparlin@umiami.ir.miami.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 13:02:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gerda Lerner Subject: patriarchy maybe those debating the issue would find my definition of patriarchy useful.it tItt is too long to quote here. reference The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)oo,238-9. I find it an essential term in conceptualizing a system of male dominance over both resources and ideas. Like feudalism and capitalism it has taken many different forms historically, but it is a system of institutions which gives men control and advantages which are witheld from women. Like all societal systems it consists of legal, political, economic structures and of systems of ideas which tend to reinforce these structures of power. -- Students object to many terms that are unfamiliar to them or that force them to think on a different level of consciousness. Some students object to the term "feminism". Does that mean we should not use it? Glerner@wisc.macc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 10:36:27 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel Subject: Re: _Statistics on Women_ In-Reply-To: <199405271716.NAA22754@holmes.umd.edu> Book is WAC STATS: THE FACTS ABOUT WOMEN. Edited by Women's Action Coalition. 2nd rev ed. 1993. Published by W.W. Norton. joan ariel uc irvine On Fri, 27 May 1994, Rosemary Gianno wrote: > Recently, someone recommended a book called _Statistics about > Women_ published by WAC Press. I took down the citation but didn't copy > the message. I haven't been able to track down the book. Could anyone > provide more information? Thanks. > > Rosemary Gianno > Anthropology > Keene State College > Keene NH 03435-2101 > rgianno@keene.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 12:56:43 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rebecca Hill Subject: Re: hierarchies and patriarchies The thing I like about the term "patriarchy" is that it deals with the "father as master" family as an institution which oppresses women. It deals specifically therefore with issues that can't be explained by other kinds of oppression based on economic systems or even colonialism by themselves. That is, it is a structure based on "gender oppression" (wife battering/ rape) When people roll their eyes at the term, I do think that Theresa is right to suggest that it represents a "backlash" against radical feminism which many now seem to think is the same thing as "cultural feminism" (I think not!). I have encountered this belief in feminist theory courses as a graduate student - it's as if people think it's naive and simple minded to have a really clear analysis that not only mentions "hegemony" but states clearly that there is such a thing as "oppression" and identify specific causes of it & possible solutions. Imagine!! - at a seminar table?? It depresses me to see graduate students preferring "academic rigor and sophistication" to participation in an activist discourse. That would make us "traditional intellectuals" because we do not seem to bring our membership in the "community" into our understanding of feminist theory once ensconsed in academe. I have found this to be more true with my generation of "post- feminists" (20 somethings) than with older faculty, who seem to have more recognition of feminism outside the academy. I'm not against "theory" when I criticize academic feminist seminars (I've been chewing on this problem for a while) but what appears to me to be a complete disavowal of feminist community activist discourse by feminist scholars, a focus on the importance of gender difference as an analytical category as if this constituted feminist consciousness, and a desire to make things more "complex" than any analysis of oppression (such as the identification of patriarchy) will allow for. Sorry this is so long, but that's my two cents. -Rebecca Hill hillx018@maroon.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 13:47:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Caroline Brettell Subject: Re: _Statistics on Women_ In-Reply-To: <199405271716.NAA22754@holmes.umd.edu> The book you are looking for was published in 1993 by Women's Action Coalition. It is published in US by the new Press and distributed by WW Norton and Co Inc, 500 Fifth Avenue NY 10110 ISBn is 1-56584-122-0. It ias an LC number too The title is WAC STATS; The Facts about Women. Hope this helps Caroline Brettell SMU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 11:46:21 PST8PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet Levi Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA Subject: Re: _Statistics on Women_ I am posting to the list because perhaps others have not heard of the little booklet, "WAC STATS: The facts about women."The New Press, NY. It gives very useful statistics, arranged topically, about such things as AIDS, abortion, work issues, art, global issues. ...................................................................... Harriet Levi Every society honors its Women's Studies live conformists Clark College and it's dead Vancouver, WA 98663 troublemakers levihk@ooi.clark.edu help reverse the trend! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 12:15:23 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Steinhart Subject: Re: The Alma Unit In-Reply-To: <199405270726.DAA20188@holmes.umd.edu> i hope you will post updates to the net when you know more about the direction you are going in. also, have you thought of lowering the age? i'm 56 and supposedly in-between the 40 and 65 set, yet i notice some significant changes in my life. i'm looking forward to your discussion. paula psteinha@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu On Fri, 27 May 1994, Susan Feldman wrote: > Dear subscribers, > > I am the director of a new research unit The Alma Unit on Women and Ageing > which has been established at the University of Melbourne ( Australia ) in > the Key centre for Womens in Health in Society - a post graduate teaching and > research unit. We plan to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to the issues of > women and ageing - outside of geriatrics and gerontology. Betty Friedan was > in Melbourne in March and she launched our centre - I am interested to > contact researchers who are interested in Women and Ageing, gender and ageing- > who view ageing as a life cycle, a stage of development and the implications > for women over 65 years. I am interested in theoretical and empirical > analysis as well as women's own view of their ageing and all that this means > to them. We are of course interested in the implications for > health,economics,psychology etc the negative images and stereotypes of older > women - if there are any images at all -. As yet we haven't chosen our core > research project and are currently developing an extensive annotated > bibliography on women and ageing. > > Discussion, suggestions,interested people and those involved in this area of > research would be welcome. There is quite a network here in Australia but no > significant, major research to date. The research that has been done is > excellent but small in number. > > Regards > Susan Feldman > Director > Alma unit on women and ageing > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 14:55:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michael Current Subject: Sources: Deleuze & Guattari & Feminism In-Reply-To: from "Kathy Ryder" at May 27, 94 10:07:07 am Kathy Ryder writes: > > Hi, Michael, > Thanks for the reference. Yes, I would appreciate having a list > of critiques and perspectives re Guatari and DeLeuze. I'm glad you > reminded me of *Anti-Oedipus*. . > > Kathy > ryder@chuma.cas.usf.edu > I've taken the liberty of posting the following to the whole list as it may be of general interest. Michael The following is a brief bibliography of English-language secondary sources related to Deleuze and Guattari and feminism. (I can supply more general sources upon request). [For Deleuze and Guattari on gender issues, in addition to _Anti-Oedipus_ and _A Thousand Plateaus_, see also: Guattari, Felix. "Becoming a Woman." In _Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics_. Trans. Rosemary Sheed. New York: Penguin Books, 1984. Pp. 233-235. (BEWARE OF THIS TRANSLATION). _____. "A Liberation of Desire: An Interview by George Stambolian." In _Homosexualities and French Literature: Cultural Contexts/Critical Texts. Ed. Stambolian and Elaine Marks. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1979. Pp. 56-69]. Bradotti, Rosi. _Patterns of Dissonance: A Study of Women in Contemporary Culture._ New York, Routledge, 1991. Esp. chapters 3 and 5. This is supplemented by: _____. "Discontinuous Becomings: Deleuze on the Becoming-Women of Philosophy." _Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology_ 24.1 (January 1993): 44-55. _____. "Embodiment, Sexual Difference and the Nomadic Subject." _Hypatia_ 8.1 (Winter 1993): 1-13. _____. "Towards a New Nomadism: Feminist Deleuzian Tracks; or Metaphysics and Metabolism." In _Gilles Deleuze and the Theatre of Philosophy_, Ed. Constantin V. Boundas and Dorothea Olkowski. New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 159-186. Brown, Lisa. "Transexuality: Crossing Over or Becoming." _Parachute_ 65 (January 1992): 34-39. Chisholm, Dianne. "Feminist Deleuzions: James Joyce and the Politics of 'Becoming-Woman.'" _Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Litterature Comparee_, March/June 1992, pp. 201-224. Extavasia, Audrey, and Tessa Dora Addison. "Fucking (With Theory) For Money: Towards an Interrogation of Escort Prostitution." _PostModern Culture_ (paper and e-journal) 2.3 (May 1992). Griggers, Cathy. "Lesbian Bodies in the Age of (Post)mechanical Reproduction." In _Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory_. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Pp. 178-192. Grosz, Elizabeth. "A Thousand Tiny Sexes: Feminism and Rhizomatics." _Topoi_ 12.2 (September, 1993): 167-179. Reprinted in _Gilles Deleuze and the Theatre of Philosophy_ (See Braidotti, above), pp. 187-210. Henke, Suzette. _James Joyce and the Politics of Desire_. New York: Routledge: 1990. Hodge, Joanna. "Feminism and Post-Modernism: Misleading Diversions Imposed by the Opposition Between Modernism and Postmodernism." In _The Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin._ Ed. Andrew Benjamin. New York: Routledge, 1989. Pp. 86-111. Jardine, Alice. "Woman in Limbo: Deleuze and His Br(others)." _SubStance_ 44/45 (1984): 46-60. Reprinted in Jardine's _Gynesis: Configurations of Woman of Modernity_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. [Many works take up Deleuze's book on _Masochism_ seperately, especially literary and film criticism. I have not tried to list those here. Undoubtedly the fullest feminist application of Deleuze's theory of masochism is: Studlar, Gaylyn. _In the Realm of Pleasure: Von Sternberg, Dietrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic._ Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.] I think D&G can be read profitably from a feminist/gender studies perspective in tandem with Donna Haraway's works of "cyborg feminism." One article that begins to go in that direction is: Stivale, Charles J. "Mille/Punks/Cyber/Plateaus: Science Fiction and Deleuzo-Guattarian 'Becomings.' _SubStance_ 66 (1991): 66-84. A very good discussion of D&G's theories on sexuality can be found in: Shaviro, Steven. _The Cinematic Body_. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. "Appendix: Deleuze and Guattari's Theory of Sexuality." Probably the best overall survey of D&G's work in English remains: Massumi, Brian. _A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia_: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari._ Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. [Massumi explicitly addresses the "becoming-woman" theme in uncompromising terms, calling the specific formulation "indeed sexist," while, like Braidotti and Grosz, seeing aspects of the overall treatment of gender and of becoming that can be useful in women's (and others) struggles. See pp. 86-89.] This whole section of Massumi's book ("Habit," pp. 47-92) may be the most useful explication currently available of D&G's "anti-Freudian" theories. ANYONE HAVING ADDITIONS TO THIS LIST, PLEASE POST THEM TO ME OR SEND THEM TO ME VIA PRIVATE E-MAIL. Also, anyone interested in Deleuze and Guattari is welcome to join the Deleuze list which I moderate - send the message "subscribe deleuze" to majordomo@world.std.com. This is a great place to ask questions, test ideas, and gather references. Hope this helped. Michael -- ---------------------------Michael J. Current---------------------------- mcurrent@picard.infonet.net -or- @ins.infonet.net -or- @nyx.cs.du.edu Specializing in Philosophy, Queer Studies, Depression, & Unemployment :) 737 - 18th Street, #9 * Des Moines, IA * 50314-1031 *** (515) 283-2142 "AN IMAGE OF THOUGHT CALLED PHILOSOPHY HAS BEEN FORMED HISTORICALLY AND IT EFFECTIVELY STOPS PEOPLE FROM THINKING." - GILLES DELEUZE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 18:08:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CYNTHIA HERMAN Subject: Re: _Statistics on Women_ And WAC STATS is carried by at least some Borders Books. I bought a copy several months ago at the Borders at Tysons Corner, in the Fairfax County suburbs of Washington. Cindy Herman cherman@gmuvax.gmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 20:45:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Kitchen Subject: VAW Texts Required Hello. I am teaching a course on violence against women in the fall and I am looking for two things: 1) an anthology of writing on violence against women (preferably Canadian). The last book used in this course was _ No Safe Place_ edited by Guberman and Wolfe, put out in 1985 by The Women's Press (Toronto). I would like an anthology similar to this in format (it discusses several types of violence) but one which is more recent- preferably written in the 90's. 2) a play or novel which portrays women in violent relationships and how they and others around them respond to that violence. A student in our department is updating an intro correspondence course and has asked me to post two requests for her also: 1) A recent Canadian intro text for women's studies and, 2) any recent article or chapter on Canadian women in politics since Campbell was PM. Any information that any of you can share with me would be most appreciated. Please respond privately; I will post to the list if there is expressed interest. My address is: JKITCHEN@NICKEL.LAURENTIAN.CA Thanks. Jane Kitchen Thorneloe University, Sudbury, ON ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 20:32:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ulrich Struve Subject: Call for papers, Critical Matrix (fwd) >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 18:33:17 -0400 >From: Cynthia J. Cupples >To: wiggle@violet.berkeley.edu >Subject: Call for papers, Critical Matrix > > >Dear Listowner: > >Could you please post the enclosed call for papers on WIG-L if you feel it >is appropriate for the list? > >Thank you! > >Cynthia Cupples >Co-editor, Critical Matrix >ccupples@phoenix.princeton.edu > > >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: Fri, 27 May 1994 21:26:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: Message from Mary Koss Mary Koss asked me to forward this to WMST-L. If you wish to write to Society, you may want to see Mary's letter. You can obtain it via fax by sending her your fax number. Her email is mkoss@arizvms Arnie Kahn fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu ********************************************************************** Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 09:48:34 -0700 (MST) From: MKOSS@ARIZVMS.BITNET Dear Arnie, I would like the members of the list to be aware that Neil Gilbert has an article in the recent issue of Society (March/April, 1994) called Miscounting Social Ills. The article appears in a special section on "Fraud in Research." Half of the article is devoted to my research on college students sexual victimization. The remainder focuses on child abuse. In it he accuses Dean Kilpatrick, David Finkelhor, and me of breathtaking misrepresentation of the facts about sexual victimization. Needless to say, we are all extremely upset as research fraud is the most serious charge that can be made against the integrity of a scientist. Most of you know us and our work--you know how hard we've tried to get this area of research accepted into the mainstream and how careful we've had to be about not sensationalizing it and publishing in peer review journals to ensure our peers agreed with the interpretations we are making of the data. Obviously this is a political attack and really has nothing to do with scientific integrity or facts. Nevertheless, its very disillusioning for those of us who spend most of our time in the Ivory Tower to be hit with the most completely below the belt charge that's possible. Gilbert has never commented on the scientific integrity of our work in the forum of a peer reviewed journal where we would have the opportunity to respond to his charges. He prefers the popular media and right-wing publications where he can write unfettered. I am writing this because Gilbert is the main source of material on which Roiphe based her book. Her book is being released in paperback this summer. The book "I Never Called It Rape" is also being re-released. In addition the APA Taskforce on Male Violence report is being published at the end of June. I expect that there will be escalation in the attacks as the media sees a controversy. I am making this plea to my colleagues to try to inform themselves and their colleagues about both sides, and to attempt to recognize who are those conducting themselves like scientists. Sincerely, Mary Koss ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 21:48:59 -0700 Reply-To: FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Francine Twine Subject: Re: paying more Hi Jane! I am very interested in reading the article that you mentioned which appeared in the Wall Street journal. Do you have a page number for that so that I can order it through interlibrary loan. The author of the article would be useful also. Francine Winddance Twine FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu" ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 10:19:15 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JManlowe@AOL.COM Subject: survivor vs. victim rhetoric Would those who are interested care to tell me why they prefer one label (survivor or victim) to the other in relation to women who have been raped (by a stranger, relative, acquantance)? Thanks. To respond privately: Jmanlowe@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 14:39:28 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: Transforming Sociology Theory Class On 5/24 Christine Morton requested help from others with experience in transforming the sociology curriculum to include gender and race. Sorry to be responding to this so late, but I've been busy with more important things (notably recovering from a near nervous breakdown). I don't teach in sociology but I came across a book that was very useful to me in writing my dissertation, in which I used sociological theory. This is _The Woman Question in Classical Sociological Theory_ by Terry R. Kandal (Miami: Florida Int'l University Press, 1988). Kandal discusses the views re: women by John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Alexis de Tocqueville, Auguste Comte, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Tonnies, Mannheim, Pareto, Talcot Parsons, and C. Wright Mills. This is one way to work gender into the curriculum and still cover "the classics." Georgia NeSmith gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu