========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 10:25:04 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pirjo Elovaara Subject: query:a text of Lynn Pearce Hello, I wonder if there`s anybody who could help me to find a copy of Lynn Pearce`s text "Jane Eyre eat your heart out". Unpublished paper given to Nothern Network 1990. Please answer privately. Pirjo Elovaara Pirjo Elovaara Kvinnovetenskapligt forum/Centre for Women`s Studies Lunds universitet/University of Lund Box 117 S-221 00 Lund tfn.+(0)46-222 9774, fax +(0)46-222 4004, e-mail Pirjo Elovaara@kvf.lu.se ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 10:05:17 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christy Hammer Subject: Re: affirmative action I should have included what I know about the AA listserv. You can reach it at AFFAM-L@cmsa.berkeley.edu.. Good luck. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 09:43:49 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Corinne Dale Subject: call for papers--American women short story writers Journal of the Short Story in English announces a special issue on Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women. Submissions are to be of no more than 20 pages in length and should conform to MLA format. Please enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope. Extended deadlines: Please send queries and proposals by May 19 to Corinne Dale or J.H.E. Paine at the Department of Literature and Language, Belmont University, 1900 Belmont Blvd., Nashville, TN 37212-3757. FAX 615-386-4535. email: dalec@belmont.edu. or painej@belmont.edu. Final papers must be submitted by August 11, 1995. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 11:01:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Monteiro Subject: Re: affirmative action -Reply Oh, just read your most recent message where you provide the e-mail address of affirmative action. Thanks. Marilyn ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 12:35:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristi Coulter Subject: Re: Re intregrating lesbian material Dayna Deck wrote: I have the students introduce themselves and I intorduce myself and I >come out as a lesbian. . .I've decided through experience that I'm more >comfortable being out from the very beginning. (I'd be interested in hearing >from other out lesbian professors about how they deal with this dynamic.) Agreed. I'd also be interested in hearing how women on this list "come out" as feminist when they teach classes which are not technically WS courses (ie Composition, Music Theory, Psychology, etc.) In my Composition classes, we have a discussion early on about how our backgrounds and values inform our reading of a text, and I use myself as the initial example. To hide something so central to my identity as my feminism would, I think, hamper me as a teacher. Do other teachers make a point of identifying themselves as feminist, lesbian, etc. in courses other than WS courses? Kristi Coulter Baker College kristic@k.imap.itd.umich.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 14:04:14 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Feminist Teacher Subject: Re: women and war resources Kevin Callaghan might want to take a look at the special section on Feminist Educationa nd War in FEMINIST TEACHER's Volume 7, no. 1 (Fall 1992), available for $6 from us at the address below. Thanks. Paula Krebs, for Feminist Teacher Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 Feminist_Teacher@WheatonMa.edu (508) 286-3652 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 12:43:02 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Skorczewski Subject: lodging for student intern at NOW/Wash. DC Can anyone help a student of mine who will intern at NOW from June 6-August 17? She is willing to babysit in exchange for rent, or housesit or sublet. She is having great difficulty finding housing and a paying job. Thank you. Please respond to: Dawn Skorczewski skorczew@ultrix.uor.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 15:49:26 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Gorham Subject: Re: Women/gender war/peace In response to Kevin Callaghan's message about women/gender war/peace books: Two additional references: Ruth Roach Pierson, (ed), Women and Peace: Theoretical, Historical and Practical Perspectives, (Beckenham, Kent: Croom, Helm, 1987) Pulished in the USA by Croom Helm in association with Methuen. Janice Williamson and Deborah Gorham, (eds), Up and Doing: Canadian Women and Peace, (Toronto: The Women's Press, 1989) Deborah Gorham Carleton University Ottawa, Ont, Canada dgorham@ccs.carleton.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 13:25:33 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Little Miss Orbit Subject: Re: Re intregrating lesbian material In-Reply-To: <199505221639.MAA17916@holmes.umd.edu> On Mon, 22 May 1995, Kristi Coulter wrote: > Agreed. I'd also be interested in hearing how women on this list "come > out" as feminist when they teach classes which are not technically WS > courses (ie Composition, Music Theory, Psychology, etc.) In my Composition > classes, we have a discussion early on about how our backgrounds and values > inform our reading of a text, and I use myself as the initial example. To > hide something so central to my identity as my feminism would, I think, > hamper me as a teacher. Do other teachers make a point of identifying > themselves as feminist, lesbian, etc. in courses other than WS courses? > An article I ran across in the May 1995 issue of _Social Problems_ might be of interest. I've reproduced the abstract below: "Identity Politics as High-Risk Activism: Career Consequences for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Sociologists" by Verta Taylor and Nicole C. Raeburn The paper argues that identity politics is a form of high-risk activism. We draw from collective identity approaches to social movements to describe how the Sociologists' Lesbian and Gay Caucus has used identity-based organizing, assimilationist policies, and personalized political strategies during the past two decades to challenge stigmatized representations of same-sex sexuality and promote equal treatment of gays and lesbians in sociology and larger society. Using suvery data collected in 1981 and 1992 from caucus members, supplemented by intensive interviews, we assess the extent to which an increase in reported rates of discrimination and bias during the past ten years is linked to variations in activist experience and political consciousness. The then present a qualitative analusis of five career consequences suffered by gay, lesbian, and bisexual sociologists who engage in various froms of personalized political resistance: 1. discrimination in hiring 2. bias in tenure and promotion 3. exclusion from social and professional networks 4. devaluation of scholarly work on gay and lesbian topics 5. harrassment and intimidation We conclude by examining the implications of our findings for the social movement literature that addresses the formation, use, and impact of identitiy politics. Social Problems Vol 42, No 2 May 1995 pg 252 ---------------------------------------------- I found the article pretty darn illuminating! Chelsea Starr Grad Student, Dept. of Social Relations University of California at Irvine cstarr@orion.oac.uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 18:00:32 CST Reply-To: ishaw@badlands.NoDak.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ines Shaw Subject: Images of aging in literature A colleague who does not subscribe to this list has begun researching images of aging in fiction, and she asked me if I knew of a particularly good literary reference which dealt with females. Unfortunately I couldn't help her, but if there is a reference that you think is particularly good, and you don't mind sharing this info., please reply to ishaw@badlands.nodak.edu. Thank you. Ines Senna Shaw Dept. of English & Women's Studies Program North Dakota State University Phone: (701) 231-7147 Fax: (701) 231-1047 ishaw@badlands.nodak.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 12:31:12 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diana H. Scully" Subject: Re: Race, Gender and Teaching evaluations In-Reply-To: <01HQOSHVY4KI8Y56I3@Gems.VCU.EDU>; from "Jane Little" at May 19, 95 9:53 am Last week, I sent a message to what I thought was the list thanking everyone for their quick reply to my request for help in locating research on the combined effect of race and gender on teaching evaluations. Apparently, the message went astray. So this is my thank you. The research is as I guessed it would be. There are studies that address gender and others that address race, but almost nothing that adresses the combined effect of race and gender. I have talked to some colleagues about doing such a study here. And now the good news, after a grueling full day of testimony, the University Appeal committee granted my friend tenure. Interestingly, one of the "problems" according to some committee members was that she was involved in the Women's Studies Program and the African American Studies Program and, in their view, this interfered with what she should have done in her discipline!!! And this is in a university where the new strategic plan states as a goal, getting more faculty involved in interdisciplinary work. Diana Scully ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 00:25:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Basir Subject: Resources on Witchcraft I wonder if somebody knows how I could locate resources on Witchcraft. I am not looking so much for information on the historical trials, but rather on the subject as a living, breathing religion. Who are the major scholars on this topic, are there any national organizations, what are considered the major works of scholarship, etc. Any help would be appreciated. Everybody would probably be much happier if you respond to me privately. Thank you. Chris Basir ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 00:26:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paul Lauter Subject: Affirmative Action In-Reply-To: <199505230228.WAA21356@holmes.umd.edu> The LA Times has run a series of articles on affirmative action. Some are better than others, but they are quite readable, full of concrete information and mostly good journalistic detail, and would be, I think, useful for students to read. Paul Lauter ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 15:44:46 E Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gabriell Meagher Subject: porn industry file available A week or two ago i requested information about pornography as an industry. I now have several replies which i have put together in an (unedited) file. Anyone who wants this file, please reply to me PRIVATELY to request a copy. Please do not quote from any "letter" without the permission of the listed author. Thank you again to all those who contributed. best wishes, Gabrielle Meagher email gabriell@sue.econ.su.oz.au Department of Economics, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:06:09 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carol Gay Subject: Trying to get to Beijing Are there any NGO's out there with space remaining for another delegate? I thought I was all set, but recently discovered that the NGO to which I had applied never received my application -- (Thank you, U.S. Postal Service...) Now I am searching for a group going to Beijing, preferably one that still has space on group travel and accommodations and is conducting PRE-conference workshops. Thanks to anyone who has some advice for me... Carol Gay CGAY@FSCVAX.FSC.MASS.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 09:02:08 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: a_snapp@VENUS.TWU.EDU Subject: New Book on Texas Women's History Announcing the forthcoming publication of... READ ALL ABOUT HER! Texas Women's History: A Working Bibliography. Compiled and edited by Elizabeth Snapp and Harry F. Snapp. Denton, Tex.: Texas Woman's University Press, 1995. The most complete and largest reference work on Texas women's history sources. Includes the citations for the overwhelming proportion of the publicly known manuscripts, books, journal articles, dissertations, theses, and oral histories concerned with Texas women's history through the better part of two centuries. There are also some selected citations for magazine and newspaper articles and audiovisual materials. The bibliography, in addition to its listing of material on Anglo women, includes numerous entries on both Mexican American women and African American women. It includes some entries on both Native American women and Asian American women. Approximately 1000 printed pages on acid free paper with library buckram binding. The first printing will be based on orders received prior to June 15, 1995. Copies will be shipped in September 1995. Send inquiries to: Elizabeth Snapp, A_Snapp@TWU.EDU or to: Read All About Her Project, P.O. Box 424053, Denton, TX 76204 for inquiries or more information. Elizabeth Snapp A_Snapp@TWU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:47:21 EDT Reply-To: dbic6066@uriacc.uri.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Donna M. Bickford" Subject: Feminist teacher Can you email me subscription info re Feminist Teacher. Thanks. Donna On Mon, 22 May 1995 14:04:14 -0400, Feminist Teacher wrote: >Kevin Callaghan might want to take a look at the special section on >Feminist Educationa nd War in FEMINIST TEACHER's Volume 7, no. 1 (Fall >1992), available for $6 from us at the address below. >Thanks. >Paula Krebs, for > >Feminist Teacher >Wheaton College >Norton, MA 02766 >Feminist_Teacher@WheatonMa.edu >(508) 286-3652 Donna M. Bickford Department of English University of Rhode Island USA ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:00:04 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Debbie Anderson Subject: e-mail address for Jean Baker Miller? In-Reply-To: <199505231406.KAA19399@holmes.umd.edu>; from "Carol Gay" at May 23, 95 10:06 am Does someone have Jean Baker Miller's e-mail address? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. Debbie James danderso.ccs.carleton.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:05:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jessica Schiffman Subject: Re: Women/gender war/peace In-Reply-To: The letter of Monday, 22 May 1995 4:04pm ET hard copy please ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 09:05:26 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Richley Crapo Subject: Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England, T. M. Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England, T. M. Luhrmann, Harvard University Press, 1989 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:43:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maureen McHugh Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania Subject: Re: Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in References re witchcraft cannot be sent privately without an e mail address. An informative, scholarly and readable text--This was used in a neo-Papaganism/WICCA special topics course in Religious Studies here at IUP. Also the author, Margot Adler, did a great job when we had her here to speak. Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon. (don't have full reference available here--respond privately to receive more information.) Maureen C. McHugh Internet: MCMCHUGH@GROVE.IUP.EDU Director of Women's Studies Professor of Psychology Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 08:44:01 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Sintic Murphy Subject: Re: Resources on Witchcrafts In-Reply-To: <199505230426.AAA07458@holmes.umd.edu> Try the New Age section at a Barnes & Noble. Also Scott Cunningham and Starhawk are major scholars on the subject. There is a publishing company by the name of Llewellyn, 1-800-THEMOON, that has a phenominal catalog of books available, many of which reside in my personal library. If I can be of any other help, let me know. Cynthia. On Tue, 23 May 1995, Chris Basir wrote: > I wonder if somebody knows how I could locate resources on Witchcraft. I am > not looking so much for information on the historical trials, but rather on > the subject as a living, breathing religion. Who are the major scholars on > this topic, are there any national organizations, what are considered the > major works of scholarship, etc. Any help would be appreciated. Everybody > would probably be much happier if you respond to me privately. Thank you. > > Chris Basir > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:52:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: No more witchcraft replies, please The person who sent the query on witchcraft has signed off WMST-L and will thus not see any responses sent to the list. Since the request showed no sign of the person's having done any preliminary research, nor did it include an email address to which private responses could be sent, I think the best thing would be not to bother replying at all. At any rate, NO FURTHER RESPONSES should be sent to WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 08:48:31 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Sintic Murphy Subject: Re: Resources on Witchcraft In-Reply-To: <199505230426.AAA07458@holmes.umd.edu> Chris, I apologize for sending the previous message to all receipients. Sometimes my fingers work faster than my brain. Please accept my apologies for the screwup. If you would like names of specific books, I'd be happy to provide them to you. There are many books available, it's just knowing how to find them. I would highly recommend getting a catalog from Llewlleyn Books, that's where most of mine came from. There are books for both groups and the sole practitioner of Wicca (the religion of Witchcraft practice.) Let me know ifI can be of any help. Once again, please accept my apologies. Cynthia On Tue, 23 May 1995, Chris Basir wrote: > I wonder if somebody knows how I could locate resources on Witchcraft. I am > not looking so much for information on the historical trials, but rather on > the subject as a living, breathing religion. Who are the major scholars on > this topic, are there any national organizations, what are considered the > major works of scholarship, etc. Any help would be appreciated. Everybody > would probably be much happier if you respond to me privately. Thank you. > > Chris Basir > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 09:10:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Kidd Subject: Re: Resources on Witchcrafts Anything by Starhawk or Margot Adler would be good. IMHO, they are the most widely recognized & respected "spokespersons" in this area. Also Z. Budapest (though most of her recent stuff is directed to a popular audience). -- Karen Kidd kkidd@rocky.claremont.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 12:17:52 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ethel Tobach Subject: Re: Women/gender war/peace In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 22 May 1995 15:49:26 EDT from Another book (royalties go to students, etc.): Peace, War and Gender edited by Anne Hunt, The Feminist Press, 1991. Ethel Tobach ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:58:10 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Alane Brown, Psychology & Women's Studies" Subject: Re: Resources on Witchcraft Chris Basir- You didn't give an email address for replies. If you want resources, contact me: brown_a@fortlewis.edu I have taught a course on the subject. Sorry everyone, for having to reply to the list-as-a-whole. -alane ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:17:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Short Kayann Subject: Int feminist book fair Does anyone have information on the 7th annual international feminist book fair to be held next summer in Brazil? Please respond privately to: shortk@spot.colorado.edu. Thanks, Kayann Short University of Colorado-Boulder ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 12:21:40 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Louise Subject: Citations for Political Efficacy and support for Feminism I am doing some quantitative work on feminism in public opinion. My work with the 1993 Canadian National Election Study shows two opposing patterns for men and women. Political efficacy predicts support for feminism among men; political efficacy predicts opposition to feminism among women. I'm finding a consistent and very significant pattern for several different measures of feminism. Does anyone know of citations for work dealing with political efficacy and feminism? Preferably citations to quantitative work from election studies and such? There is plenty of work showing that women score lower in political efficacy, or at least women used to score lower in the 1970s, but what's the connection to feminism? Louise Carbert Political Studies University of Saskatchewan carbert@sask.usask.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 14:27:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Alana J. Erickson" Subject: affirmative action In-Reply-To: <199505230223.AA00391@mailhub.cc.columbia.edu> Patricia Williams' new (forthcoming, I believe) book _The Cuckoo's Egg_ has a chapter that focuses on affirmative action. She recently spoke at Columbia U.'s Center for Research on Women and Gender on this topic and stressed that affirmative action is usually thought of in terms of economic opportunity, i.e., hire this person or that. Instead, she views it as more all-encompassing, including college recruitment, scholarships, and a general awareness of the need for inclusion. She's at the Law School at Columbia. Alana J. Erickson aje4@columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 14:55:02 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan lehrer Subject: videos info request Our Women's Studies Program at SUNY - New Paltz has a small amount of $$ to get one video. We would like your suggestions about videos you have used successfully in w.s. classes, esp. intro courses. Tell us as much as you can about the videos you recommend because we have limited funds to preview copies. Possible topics: women's sexuality, family & gender, women & socio-economic class, reproductive health, & an intro to the concept of gender & dominant beliefs about meanings of gender. Please send your response privately to Ann Mussey, e-mail is mussey@zodiac.rutgers.edu Thank you all in advance. Susan. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 12:46:53 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elizabeth A. Kissling" Subject: Certificate in Women's Studies Our Women's Studies Program here at Eastern Washington University is looking for information about developing a certificate in Women's Studies. We already offer a 22-credit minor in WMST, but currently do not have enough faculty to develop a WMST major. We envision this certificate as something like a "minor plus", with some requirement in addition to those already in place for the minor, and hoping that it could be an intermediate step in our long-term plans to develop a WMST major. We have looked at the WMST-L archives on major and minor requirements, but did not find any examples of a women's studies certificate like this. Are there any other programs in the U.S. currently offering or developing a WMST certificate? Any ideas about how to develop one? Please respond to me privately -- I will be glad to compile responses for the list, if there is sufficient interest. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elizabeth A. Kissling, Ph.D. Department of Communication Studies ekissling@ewu.edu Women's Studies Program Eastern Washington University Cheney, WA 99004-2431 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 16:16:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "K. Baird" Subject: Veto of Welfare Act Frances Fox Piven and other feminists are trying to gather contributions so they can take out an ad in the New York Times to demand that Pres. Clinton veto the Republicans' Welfare Bill. The bill is most likely to pass the Senate next week and then go to Clinton for his signature. Look for the ad around June 1, 1995. "Media Campaign for Fairness on Welfare is demanding that Pres. Clinton veto the Personal Responsibility Act (Contract on America). They want to take out an half-page ad in the New York Times with this demand. Please consider contributing whatever you can towards this effort. Contributions can be sent to Media Campaign for Fairness on Welfare, c/o Frances Fox Piven, P.O. Box N, Millerton, NY 12546. For more information, please call Kim Christensen, Prof. of Economics and Women's Studies, SUNY Purchase, (914) 632-7264." I know this message may not be deemed "appropriate" for the list, but I hope the importance of this much needed effort on behalf of women makes it excusable. Apologies in advance, Karen Baird. Baird@brick.purchase.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 15:31:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Power Subject: Re: Veto of Welfare Act In-Reply-To: <9505232024.AA13086@pear.wustl.edu> }=E7d=3D ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 15:32:47 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Goodwin Subject: Re: Resources on Witchcraft For those of you who don't get the private return address information routinely on your messages, the guy who was asking for info. on witchcraft was Chris Basir and his email address is CMBasir@AOL.COM ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 19:33:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucindy Willis Subject: bell hooks, Paulo Freire and Thich Nhat Hanh Having just read hooks *Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom*, I headed to the library to find works by Paulo Freire and the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. hooks writes that these two "teachers" had "touched [her] deeply with their work." But I can find very little in Freire's case and none in Hanh's. Can anyone suggest articles or books by these two men so I can try to obtain them through interlibrary loan? Thanks. Lucindy Willis ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 20:54:08 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kuang-Yu Chen Subject: TW-WOMEN : a new mailing list Call for Membership: This is a call for all sisters and brothers on this net, all who are concerned about feminism and the equality between genders, and all who want to learn how to deal with feminism in their life, to join us. Welcome to the Taiwan Women mailing list (TW-WOMEN). This mailing list attempts to address various feminism issues faced by Taiwanese women. This list is maintained by Li-Chien Hung, Kuang-Yu Chen, Weiwen Ke, and ChengHong Lo. It is dedicated to the advocacy of equality between genders. Selected aspects of interest include: 1. Dissemination of news relating to Taiwan women; 2. Exchange of knowledge about feminism or our own, women, experiences in our day lives; 3. Discussion of various feminist ideologies through different voices concerning Taiwanese women; 4. Enhancement of global perspective (including global news, global culture and film review, etc.) concerning women; 5. Solicitation of the involvement of more male feminists; 6. Sharing of views, opinions, and chats from members; 7. Exploration of the relation between female and space; 8. Promotion of equality between sexes regardless of class, ideology, economic status, race, or nationality; 9. Inquiry into possible relations between various political systems and feminism; 10. Establishment of linkage between tw-women and all women movement groups in Taiwan; 11. Search for feasible projects to be undertaken by interested individuals in the group. Everyone is welcome. Suggestions are appreiciated. To subscribe to this list, include the following command in the body of your message and send to MAILSERV@UTARLG.UTA.EDU: SUBSCRIBE TW-WOMEN For example: To: MAILSERV@UTARLG.UTA.EDU Subject: Message body: Subscribe TW-WOMEN Kuang-Yu Chen (ps. Please leave "Subject" blank.) If you have any further questions, please contact: LiChien Hung (not available in 1995 summer) Kuang-Yu Chen ChengHong Lo Sincerely TW-WOMEN (May/1995) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 20:47:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: Freire's work Lucindy Willis asked about Paulo Friere and Thich Nhat Hanh's writings, since they influenced bell hooks. Friere is a guiding light for many in critical and feminist pedagogy movements. Works to start with include: _Pedagogy of the Oppressed_ (NY: Continuum, 1982), _Education for Critical Consciousness_ (NY: Continuum, 1981), _Pedagogy in Process: The Letters to Guinea-Bissau_ (NY: Seabury Press, 1978), and _The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation_ (South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey, 1985.) A number of feminists have written on Freire besides bell including Frances Maher, Maria Mies (on relevance for feminist research - see her article in_Theories of Women's Studies_ edited by Bowles and Klein, and Patti Lather (see _Getting Smart_). ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 01:26:48 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was news@CUNEWS.CARLETON.CA From: Janet Friskney Organization: Carleton University Subject: Re: Images of aging in literature Re: Ines Shaw's search for images of aging in literature with respect to women. How about Margaret Laurence's THE STONE ANGEL and Carol Shield's THE STONE DIARIES? Janet Friskney Carleton University jfriskne@ccs.carleton.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 17:23:43 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Goodloe/Women Online Subject: Women's Resources on the Web Hi y'all. I've just finished the first draft of a web page containing information on women's resources on the world wide web, and I'm looking for feedback and especially for info on sites I should link to. I've got a couple of Women's Studies site links, and those may cover the "biggies," but if you know of any more academically oriented feminist sites, please do let me know. You can get to the page directly: http://www.best.com/~agoodloe/women.html or start at my home page: http://www.best.com/~agoodloe/home.html Cheers, --Amy +:-:+-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+:-:+ Amy T. Goodloe Director, Women Online, San Francisco CA agoodloe@best.com Internet and Macintosh Consulting Services for Women - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lists moderated: internet-women-info, internet-women-help women-online-news, lesbian-studies, ba-cyberdykes, lesac-net URL: http://www.best.com/~agoodloe/home.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 22:23:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sara Ebenreck Subject: Re: bell hooks, Paulo Freire and Thich Nhat Hanh In-Reply-To: <199505232341.TAA24524@holmes.umd.edu> Thich Nhat Hanh has written multiple books on Buddhist meditation that are easily accessible to any reader. The Miracle of Mindfulness was the first I read some years ago. Peace is Every Step, Being Peace, A Guide to Walking Meditation and more are available from Bantam Books. Parallax Press (PO Box 7355 Berkeley CA 94707) claims to also have tapes and a schedule of Hanh's lectures and retreats worldwide. As American Buddhist Joanna Macy has shown, there is much overlap between this sort of Buddhist thought and practice and feminist ideas (interrelatedness as a core concept/practice; focus on process with deep equality as an assumption; etc.). Sara Ebenreck St. Mary's College of Maryland sebenrec@oyster.smcm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 09:47:57 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sokari Ekine Subject: Re: bell hooks, Paulo Freire and Thich Nhat Hanh >Having just read hooks *Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of >Freedom*, I headed to the library to find works by Paulo Freire and the > Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. hooks writes that these two > "teachers" had >"touched [her] deeply with their work." But I can find very little in Freire's >case and none in Hanh's. Can anyone suggest articles or books by these >two men so I can try to obtain them through interlibrary loan? Thanks. >Lucindy Willis > >FREIRE: Pedagogy of the Oppressed; Cultural Action for Freedom; Education for Critical Consciousness McLaren, Peter & Peter Leonard: Paulo Freire - A critical Encounter ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 09:40:48 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "J. Van Every" Subject: coming out as lesbian and/or feminist I actually "come out" as a feminist in our undergraduate handbook! There is a brief description of all members of staff and I started mine "Jo VanEvery is a feminist sociologist ..." I don't know if this means the really anti-feminist students don't choose my classses if they can help it or what but I haven't had any negative stuff this term. In fact I have had a couple of men in my "Studying Domestic Life" course comment on the feminist content positively. One mature students (male) said that was the most interesting thing about the course. Another (male) student commented that he enjoyed the reading about fatherhood as he didn't know feminist wrote about men. A lot of students said they found the issue of defining the family (where I discuss diversity -- including lesbian and gay, etc.) very interesting. I wanted to comment on the stuff about student reactions to lesbian content. I have discussed this with a lesbian who teaches women's studies at another university. She gets some negative reactions which I think are similar to those reported in an earlier post. Basically, that students think it is just becasue she is a lesbian that this stuff is in the course. I don't identify as a lesbian but think it is important to disrupt students assumptions about sexualities (among other things) so I think some may assume I am (and certainly lesbian students think I am safe to talk to about those issues). Anyway, I included a session on separatism in my Feminist Theory course using mainly Marilyn Frye. It was the best session of the course! The students found it interesting and engaged with the material without getting defensive (and most of these women are heterosexual and didn't call themselves feminist at the beginning of the course). I wonder whether it is less threatening presented by a "straight" woman (even one who thinks it ought to be taken seriously). If so there is definitely something to think about. Sorry I don't have any answers. Jo VanEvery Sociology and Social Anthropology Keele University England soa00@cc.keele.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 02:08:06 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Christopher Subject: Guilt The following is a message from Estelle Freedman who is not a member of the list: To all those who answered my query on feminist perspectives on guilt, my thanks. I gave my guest lecture last week and found that 14 of the 16 students were women, which nicely supported some of the points I made re: particular female concerns about guilt. [Several students told me afterwards that there was also a gender difference in the guest lectures: the women talked about the subject of guilt, the men talked about their fields of expertise without adapting to the topic of guilt.] Here are the references I got from my posting [sorry if I missed any in this compilation]: l. Grace Baruch, "Reflections on Guilt, Women and Gender," Wellesley Center for Research on Women Working Papers Series No. 176 (1988). The most helpful overview. I didn't check for her more recent work. 2.Gail Kern Paster, THE BODY EMBARRASSED: DRAMA AND THE DISCIPLINES OF SHAME IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND 3. Joyce Trebilcot, DYKE IDEAS: PROCESS, POLITICS, DAILY LIFE (SUNY, 1994) 4. Toni Morrison, BELOVED 5. Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER ["Uses of Anger" essay] 6. Juliet Flower MacCannell, "On Woman's Speech" AMER. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS [June 1994] I had assisnged an excerpt from THE SECOND SEX [on adolescent girls' feelings about their bodies] and a chapter from Gilligan's IN A DIFFERENT VOICE. Again, thanks for your help. Estelle Freedman {Posted on behalf of Estelle Freedman by Susan Christopher. Feel free to refer any questions through me: nyman@leland.stanford.edu} ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 02:36:15 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maureen O'Connor Subject: Dissertation Research: Search for Sexual Harassment Studies Dear List Members, I am writing to request your assistance with my dissertation research project. I am conducting a meta-analysis under the direction of Professors Barbara Gutek and Bruce Sales of a set of studies that have examined how people define and evaluate conduct that might be considered sexual harassment. Specifically, I will be examining the gender differences found in those definitions/evaluations. Do men and women differ in their evaluation of workplace conduct, and to what degree? A meta-analysis is only as good as the set of studies examined in it. That is why I am asking for help in this forum. I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone who might have published or UNpublished data on gender differences in sexual harassment studies. A study or data set is relevant if it asks subjects or respondents to rate behavior that is or could be sexual, sexually harassing, sexually inappropriate or otherwise has a sexual component; if it asks subjects or respondents to rate at least one case or scenario, and where at least one independent variable is the sex of the rater/subject. We have collected substantial published literature; but, you may know of new, unpublished work, or student projects that have not been published. Any suggestions for other contacts would be greatly appreciated. I will happily share our results with the List when our work is completed. The genesis of the project is in an article by Barbara Gutek and myself, in press in Journal of Social Issues, entitled "The empirical basis for the reasonable woman standard" - reprints available in exchange for your ideas and DATA! Thanks so much for your time, Maureen O'Connor, J.D., A.B.D. Psychology, Law and Policy Program Department of Psychology University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 oconnor@ccit.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 07:38:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Murray Subject: Call for Abstracts - - The original note follows - - Date: Fri, 12 May 95 16:10 EDT From: "Mary Murray" Subject: Call for Abstracts To: COMMAJ-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU - - The original note follows - - Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 11:39 EDT From: "Mary Murray" Subject: Call for Abstracts To: wmsprt-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Thought you might be interested: sorry for any cross-postings. Mary Murray (mmm11@psuvm.psu.edu) - - The original note follows - - Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 17:41 EDT From: "Mary Murray" Subject: Call for Abstracts To: purtopoi@vm.cc.purdue.edu - - The original note follows - - Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 18:06 EDT From: "Mary Murray" Subject: Call for Abstracts To: WHIRL@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Call for Abstracts for a Collection of Essays on Non-Oratorical (Non-Verbal) Forms of Feminist Rhetoric The Clothesline Project, Slave Quilts, Keening, the White Ribbon campaign-- each of these forms of non-oratorical, non-verbal rhetoric express women's views to the public. We are editing a collection of essays that sees them as such and invite your abstract on this topic. We see a great interest in women in rhetoric these days--in the consideration of ancient rhetors, modern writers, and modern theorists. What we haven't seen is a serious consideration of nonverbal rhetorical statements and hope to understand better how women express themselves when language is either denied, inappropriate or insufficient. Sample chapters might be something like "A Rhetorical Analysis of Slave Quilts" or "The Clothesline Project as Public Rhetoric;" we look forward to your contributions and invite your creativity in this collection. Please send your abstracts by June 1 to Mary Murray Penn State Hazleton Campus Highacres Hazleton, PA 18201 or by e-mail to mmm11@psuvm.psu.edu Thanks! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 08:11:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nelda Pearson Subject: Re: Thich Nhat Hahn In-Reply-To: <199505240821.EAA29596@holmes.umd.edu> from "Sokari Ekine" at May 24, 95 09:47:57 am Thich Nhat Hanhn has written many books on how the practice of minduflness, esp mindful breathing, creates a condition of nonduality which moves one to inner peace and enlightenment and in turn creates world peace. His basic work is MIRACLE OF MINDFULNESS. An excellent source for his books plus a few taped lectures at reasonable prices is: Parallax Press P.O. Box 7355 Berkeley, California 94707 They will send you a free catalogue upon request. In addition to the Miracle of Mindfulness I would suggest FOR A FUTURE TO BE POSSIBLE and TOUCHING PEACE. If you have not read bell hooks and Cornel West's dialogue BREAKING BREAD do so as a further compliment to Friere and THich Nhat Hahn. Nelda Pearson npearson@ruacad.ac.runet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 09:34:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: finding email addresses plus 4 new lists I have just added a new file to the WMST-L filelist: FINDING ADDRESS offers suggestions for how to find people's email addresses. To get this file, send the message GET FINDING ADDRESS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. If you want a list of all the available WMST-L files, add a second line that says INDEX WMST-L. Be sure to send this message to LISTSERV, not to WMST-L! Do not hit reply!! Also, I have recently added information about four more women-related lists to the OTHER LISTS file. They are the following: ADJUNCT-FACULTY has been established to discuss strategies for bettering conditions for part-time instructors, many of whom are women. Besides being a forum for discussion, the list encourages networking among part-timers. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE ADJUNCT-FACULTY Your Name to LISTSERV@NMSU.EDU . CYBER-SISTERS is an unmoderated list for women artists, performers, and writers who wish to use the Internet and WWW to explore their art, express their creativity, and network with other women. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE CYBER-SISTERS to MAJORDOMO@PMEDIA.COM . More information on CYBER-SISTERS and a gallery and publication vehicle for women artists is available as of June '95 on the World Wide Web; the URL is http://WWW.PMedia.COM/Sisters . Address questions to asherman@PMedia.COM. NEWW-BEIJING has been started by the Network of East-West Women (NEWW) for its members and other women either living in East and Central Europe or the former Soviet Union or invested in the region, who are interested in the upcoming UN 4th World Conference on Women to be held in Beijing in September 1995. NEWW-BEIJING will provide contact and funding information, country reports, travel and accommodation information, and general preparation updates. Send the message SUBSCRIBE NEWW-BEIJING to MAJORDOMO@IGC.APC.COM . TW-WOMEN addresses various feminist issues faced by Taiwanese women. It advocates equality between genders, solicits the involvement of male feminists, and seeks to establish links between TW-WOMEN and other women's movement groups in Taiwan. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE TW-WOMEN Your Name to MAILSERV@UTARLG.UTA.EDU . You can get the OTHER LISTS file via email by sending the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . It's also available on gopher and World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and from the menu, choose Academic Department Information, then Women's Studies, and then Electronic Forums for Women's Issues. On WWW, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 08:18:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: danielle salus Subject: Re: bell hooks, Paulo Freire and Thich Nhat Hanh Lucindy - You may want to try "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". This is the book for which Friere is most well known, and perhaps is why hooks admires him so much. -Danielle Salus ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: bell hooks, Paulo Freire and Thich Nhat Hanh Author: "Women's Studies List" at INTERNET Date: 5/23/95 7:45 PM Having just read hooks *Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom*, I headed to the library to find works by Paulo Freire and the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. hooks writes that these two "teachers" had "touched [her] deeply with their work." But I can find very little in Freire's case and none in Hanh's. Can anyone suggest articles or books by these two men so I can try to obtain them through interlibrary loan? Thanks. Lucindy Willis ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 08:37:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "C. Horwitz" Subject: menopause In-Reply-To: <199505241213.IAA21930@holmes.umd.edu> I am starting a collection of menopause stories for (hopefully) future publication. I am not looking for hot flash reports or topics covered in major medical work but more personal observations of change as women pass through this midlife event. (for example - I have started eating ice. Other than a few night sweats and some strange growths developing on my body and under my eyes I really don't feel much different) If you or anyone you know would be interested in being interviewed for this project please let me know. I am especially interested in stories from women of color and different cultures (other than US). Please reply privately to chorwitz@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Thanks Carol Horwitz 2742 Linden Road Iowa City, Iowa 52245 319-338-1802 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:08:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: _For Her Own Good_ In-Reply-To: <199505231543.LAA05211@holmes.umd.edu> from "Maureen McHugh" at May 23, 95 11:43:01 am Hello! What are your thoughts on the accuracy of _For Her Own Good_ by Eihrenrich and English? I use this as a source in the literature review in my dissertation, but some of E & E's claims lead me to suspect the book is not always quite accurate. Please reply to me unless you think the list will be interested in this question. Thanks. Chris Saad saad@dolphin.upenn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:17:45 +0059 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Worst Subject: Thich Nhat Hanh In-Reply-To: <199505232341.TAA25723@holmes.umd.edu> In addition to publishing several books with the previously mentioned Parallax Press, Thich Nhat Hanh has published two books with Beacon Press: The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation, translated by Mobi Ho. Second Edition. $11.00 paperback, 140 pages. A guide to meditation, concentration, and relaxation. The Blooming of a Lotus: Guided Meditation Exercises for Healing and Transformation, translated by Annabel Laity. $12.00 hardcover, 140 pages. A guide to guided meditation for healing and insight. I believe Parallax's catalog carries both books; you can also order them from our distributor, the Putnam Publishing Group, at 1-800-788-6262, or find them at your local bookstore. You should know when looking for the books at a library or bookstore that they are (or should be) alphabetized under "Nhat." "Thich" is a title meaning "teacher"; "Nhat" is the surname and "Hanh" is the first name. Susan Worst Associate Editor Beacon Press ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:58:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Paula W. Sunderman" Subject: bibliography To Members of the List: I am compiling for publication an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources of the Lebanese writer Hanan al- Shaykh. If you have published a book, article or review that is concerned with Hanan al-Shaykh's writings, please send me the full citation as well as a copy of the relevant pages. I will need author's name, publisher or journal/magazine, date of publication, volume number (where appropriate) and page number(s). Please send the citation to me at pws1@ra.msstate.edu. Please send the copies of relevant pages to my snail-mail address: Paula W. Sunderman, Department of English, PO Box E, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762. I'll be happy to send a copy of the published bibliography to those of you who respond. Thank you very much. Paula W. Sunderman Associate Professor, English ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 13:08:54 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ethel Tobach Subject: Re: Veto of Welfare Act In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 23 May 1995 16:16:00 EDT from Personal letters to Clinton are important asking him to veto All regressive bills. We have to get out the vote in the next e- lection for all supporters of women's and other important issues. Time for a change in Congress! Ethel (sorry Joan...times are hard!) Tobach ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 15:38:08 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa M Coleman Subject: Sexual Harassment conference (fwd) Forwarded message: From owner-kenslist@QueerNet.ORG Wed May 24 01:30:05 1995 Resent-Message-Id: Resent-Date: Tue, 23 May 95 13:54:34 EDT Resent-From: Ken Sherrill Resent-To: "Ken's List" Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 12:33:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "James E. Gruber" Subject: Sexual Harassment conference To: spssi-l@vms.cis.pitt.edu Warnings-to: spssi-l-request@vms.cis.pitt.edu Reply-to: spssi-l@vms.cis.pitt.edu Message-id: <2559B141F3B@ca-f1.umd.umich.edu> Organization: University of Michigan-Dearborn X-Envelope-to: BB1BB@cunyvm.cuny.edu, ettgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu, ksshc@cunyvm.cuny.edu MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal Sender: owner-kenslist@QueerNet.ORG Precedence: bulk ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Sociologists Against Sexual Harassment (SASH) Fourth Annual Conference August 20, 1995 7:30 AM-6:15 PM Stouffer Mayflower Hotel Washington D.C. SASH is an interdisciplinary group which is concerned with the social, psychological, and legal issues encompassing the problem of sexual harassment. SASH conference participants have included academic scholars, complaint officers, consultants and trainers, activists, and counselors. Panel sessions. * Public Harassment As Sexual Harassment (5 papers) * Sexual Harassment Policy, Advocacy, and Institutional Response (5 papers) * Perceptions and Experiences of Sexual Harassment: Educational and Workplace Contexts (6 papers) Roundtables * Sexual Haarassment & Sexual Assaults on Campus: Confronting the Continuum of Sexual Violence & Creating Coalitions (5 participants) * Measurement Problems and Methodological Issues in Sexual Harassment Research (4 participants) * Toward a New Conceptualization of Sexual Harassment: Redefining the Issues and Addressing Problems of Retaliation. * Victim Advocacy in Higher Education: Issues of Power, Politics, and Privileging. (4 participants). Workshops * An Analysis of Training Delivery Systems and Methods to Reduce Sexual Harassment on Campus. * Am I in the Right Place? A Coping Skills Workshop for the Sexually Harassed. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REQUEST REGISTRATION MATERIALS, PLEASE CALL OR E-MAIL, JAMES E. GRUBER, PROGRAM ORGANIZER (313)-593-5611 email: userk8sg@um.cc.umich.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 14:54:43 -0500 Reply-To: 10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: 10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU Subject: Re: coming out as lesbian and/or feminist I "come out" as a feminist to all my classes. This summer I am teaching Group Dynamics and Intro to Social Psychology, not WMST courses. I talked about stereotypes of feminists and how stereotypes are used to justify hatred and discrimination, and lead to invalid assumptions--and how this applies to me. In Groups, I discussed belonging to the group feminists, as well as being faculty sponsor of the campus feminist group. In all my classes, I talk about sexism, racism, heterosexism. It is a given. As far as coming out as a lesbian, I don't do it for precisely the reasons noted in a previous message. Students will interpret everything through a lesbian lens. I teach in Muncie, IN, and students here are quite conservative and very homophobic. In my Psych of Women class, I never assume wht ite, middle-class, heterosexual women (although most of my students do). I have seen students look like I am just trying to be PC by including everyone (as if being PC were bad!). I did come out to a class right before I took my current job (I wasn'ty worried about teaching evaluations). It didn't seem to lead to affect my evaluations, but students definitely seemed to get tired of my inclusiveness. Christine Smith Ball State University 10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 16:39:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Monteiro Subject: menopause -Reply Would like to help, but i have to admit that I am hesitant to participate in a study by someone i don't even know. and who is to say this is not a CIA plot. I am a women of color and post menapause. can you give me any more assurances you can be trusted? If this is possible and if you wish my imput perhaps we can work something out. marilyn ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 21:11:38 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sharon D. Davie" Subject: Re: Thich Nhat Hahn Jon Kabat-Zinn is doing wonderful work with mindfulness meditation as well. I recommend his books, WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE; and FULL CATASTROPHE LIVING. He runs the program of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center; tapes are available from the clinic as well. His work is rooted in the work of many, including Thich Nhat Hanh. Sharon Davie sdd8s@virginia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 15:16:49 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: Re: Women's Resources on the Web Amy, You can access the Women's Studies programme at Massey University : http://www.massey.ac.nz go to Alphabetical Index of Contributors -> Women's Studies Program. Our gopher space includes an outline of the courses available and the current research areas. The Women's Studies programme at Massey University is the virtual "home" of Feminist Studies in Aotearoa Electronic Journal, the current issue of which is include at that source along with various other research papers. We are intending it to include hypertext and photographs shortly, however the Social Sciences Tower accessible via the Massey homepage, is the site of Women's Studies (on the eighth floor). Lynne ALice Women's Studies, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222 Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Tel. (06) 350.4938 Fax (06) 350.5627. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 13:30:09 E Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gabriell Meagher Subject: porn industry requests Dear everyone, i have received many requests for the porn industry file. Posting will happen as soon as i work out how to put a whole lot of messages (actually about 8) in a file to retransmit. some (SEE LIST BELOW) who requested the file did not include their email address - i cannot use the reply button to send the file, So, could SUSAN DWYER JEANETTE HEINRICHS WENDY CHAPKIS please send me a note including your email address as soon as you can. Yours, Gabrielle Meagher email gabriell@sue.econ.su.oz.au Department of Economics, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 10:14:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Margaret R. Saraco" Subject: Women's Festival From Margaret Saraco at MRS@haven.ios.com: For those of you in the New York Metropolitan area, there is a conference I found out about that I would like to pass on. I am not associated with the organizers in any way, but it sound like it could be very interesting. "Women's Festival: Celebrating women's lives" from 8:30 to 5:30 Saturday June 10, 1995. Featured speaker Robin Morgan. Twenty four workshops to choose from including Activist solutions, Femninist Spirituality, Celtic Goddessed, Self Defense and Therapeutic Touch. The full day of events cost a meager $20.00 (which includes lunch!). For more information call (201) 366-5160 or (201) 509-8244. It is sponsored by Womanspace and will be held at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road in Morristown, NJ (a beautiful location). If you are interested in going, call them for a brochure. They ask that if at all possible please register so they will have a good idea of who is coming. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:15:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Delese Wear Subject: attitudes toward feminism within the past year i read a study about college women's attitudes toward feminism and i can't find it. i'm at a medical school doing focus groups with women medical students across all levels, and they've been talking about their beliefs about who feminists are, what they believe, etc. i was wondering how their beliefs compared to those other results for women in comprehensive universities. does anyone know the study i'm referring to? or have any other suggestions? thanks. delese wear dw@uhura.neoucom.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 09:33:31 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Corinne Dale Subject: call for papers deadlines: American women short story writers Apologies all around. The call for papers I sent out a few days ago had the original rather than the extended deadlines. The following is correct: Journal of the Short Story in English is seeking essays of no more than 20 pages on Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women. Papers must address both ethnicity and gender. Queries and proposals by March 15, 1996 and completed papers by June 3, 1996. e-mail:Painej@belmont.edu or Dalec@belmont.edu. or J.H.E. Paine or Corinne Dale, Department of Literature and Language, Belmont University, 1900 Belmont Blvd., Nashville, TN 37212. Please send 2 copies and SASE. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:02:21 CST Reply-To: ishaw@badlands.NoDak.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ines Shaw Subject: Summary: age/aging & women (mostly literary) THANK YOU for sharing references regarding aging/age in literature (in alphabetical order of last name): Marian Angelem, Susan Arpad, Barbara Caruso, Robert Evans, Mindy Fiala, Janet Friskney, Betty Glass, Miriam Harris, Patricia Huckle, Carol Horwitz, Karen Kidd, Yvonne Klein, Lisa Majai, Jennifer Manlowe, Connie Ostrowski, Carol Perkins, Danielle Salus, Joan Starker, Delese Wear, Kathy West. Thanks to the spirit of knowledge sharing, many will profit from these responses. In a perfect world, in my original posting, I would have given you, a list of the sources my colleague already has; in fact, I thought of amending the posting, but the responses came in at a quick pace. It appears that you assumed, like I normally do too, that all requests are on the level and that the person who requests info. has done her homework first; I thank you for that. I had myself suggested the Koppelman's entry but felt I could provide better help with the assistance of the list subscribers' expertise. The result of this info. sharing is a positive one: I've had several requests for a summary, for various reasons, including course curriculum revision and research. Ines. SUMMARY: (the comments reflect mostly the posters' own words, with some light editing) * __A White Bird Flying" (protagonist is a young girl, inspired by author's grandmother); __A Lantern in Her Hand" (the grandmother's early life). * June Arnold's __Sister Gin__ * Davis, Cole, and Rothblum, eds., __Faces of Women and Aging__ * Simone de Beauvoir's __Coming of Age__ * Robert C. Evans, ed. __My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Women's Autobiographical Poem__, 1993. First printing of a poem written in 1632 by a 55-year old widow who had been married three times and who looks back over her whole life. * William Faulkner's __A Rose for Emily__ (portrays the mental/spiritual/physical degeneration of a woman (whose degeneration symbolizes that of the post-Reconstruction south). * Ann Gerike's "Semi-Annotated Reading List on Women & Aging." * Maurita Golden's __Long Distance Life__ * Germaine Greer's __The Change__ (discusses women who are going through the transition to "senior citizen" status) * Hacker's __Winter Numbers__ * Sarah Orne Jewett--several stories deal with women and aging; check __A Country of the Pointed Firs__ * __Journal of Women and Aging__ * Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior * Susan Koppelman (ed.) __Between Mothers and Daughters. Stories Across a Generation__, The Feminist Press, 1985. * Margaret Laurence's __The Stone Angel__ "When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple" * Doris Lessing's "An Old Woman and her Cat" "The Diaries of Jane Somers" __Golden Notebooks__ __Summer Before the Dark__ "Memory Board" several of the short stories in __The Real Thing__ (North American) or __London Observed__(British title). * Gabriel Garcia Marquez's __Love in Time of Cholera__ (focuses on men; portrays women in a very powerful way). * Paule Marshall's __Praisesong for the Widow__ - book about an older woman who takes a cruise, and about her giving up mental, physical baggage * Maxine Meyer's __Growing Old Disgracefully__ (Crossing Press) * Marge Piercy's __Woman on the Edge of Time__ * Katherine Ann Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall * Nancy Porter's "The Art of Aging: a Review Essay" (review of literary works, including biography & autobiography), __Women's Quarterly__ vol. XVII, nos. 1 & 2, Spring, Summer 1989. * Henry Handel Richardson's "The Bathe" in __Rediscovery: 300 Years of Stories by and about Women__, a collection of stories edited by Betzy Dinensen. * Carol Shields' __The Stone Diaries__ * Stevie Smith's poetry. * May Starton's work. Exs: __The Birth of a Grandfather__, __At seventy: a Journal__ * Stuart F. Spicker, Kathleen M. Woodward, and David D. Van Tassel (eds.)--__Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology__ (Humanities Press, 1978). * Amy Tan's __Joy Luck Club__ and __The Kitchen God's Wife__ * Velma Wallis' Two Old Women (an Athabaskan tale) * Delese Wear and Lois Nixon, eds. __Women's Bodies and Health in Literature__ --> there is a chapter on images of aging women in literary works * Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" (focuses on elderly female characters) * Mary Wesley's __Jumping the Queue__ * __Women of the 14th Moon__ (interesting and uneven collection)--> has Ursula Le Guin's "The Space Crone" * Cathleen Woodward's On Aging and Psychoanalysis * Anne M. Wyatt-Brown and Janice Rossen, eds. __Aging and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity__, UVA, 1993. * __Zen and the Lady__ (Bakara Books, perhaps no longer in business) a book published by Claire Myers Owens in 1979. Although not available in print, it can be requested through interlibrary loan. Sassy and defiant stories about women who find creative and unusual ways to deal with aging. Miriam Harris is writing a biography of Owens. Ines Senna Shaw Dept. of English & Women's Studies Program North Dakota State University Phone: (701) 231-7147 Fax: (701) 231-1047 ishaw@badlands.nodak.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 12:16:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Brown, Melinda" Organization: UNC Subject: Revamped Web site Given the recent postings about WWW sites, I thought people on this list might want to know that the Women's Resource Project (http://sunsite.unc.edu/cheryb/women/) recently revamped it's format and has added even more sites. It currently points to over 100 women's resources on the Internet. The two women who are maintaining this site (myself and Cheryl Friedman) are attempting to make it more international and to have appeal for as many different types of women as possible. If you know of any sites that should be added, please forward that information to myself at brownm@ils.unc.edu or to cheryl via the suggestion form at the site. - Melinda Brown _________________________________________________________________ brownm@ils.unc.edu | << Complacency is a far more School of Info. & Lib. Science | dangerous attitude than UNC - Chapel Hill | outrage. >> - Naomi Littlebear ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 13:09:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hayley E Wood Subject: To do dishes or not. . . I have a friend who is a BA holding staff member in a science department of a university. She is facing the possibility of losing her job because she has refused to do the department's dirty dishes. Her job description (I don't think she has a formal one, which is a problem) is varied and nonspecific: she runs the building's computer network, she is responsible for maintaining the instruments, she trains students to use equiptment, and she manages a budget. Her immediate superior, a male professor in the department, thinks that it is also her responsibility to wash the department's dirty coffee mugs (usually left by professors). She has put her foot down on this issue and has dealt with some vieled threats and has been told that her attitude is "disappointing." Personnel has been contacted and they agree with her boss that she is out of line in this instance (she had originally emailed the department to tell them that she wanted whomever was responsible for accumulated dishes to clean them him/herself). I have advised her to find an advocate on the administrative level, to keep all records of communication with her boss on this incident, and to get in touch with her university's women's commission. Can someone please advise further on good ideas for support? My friend has also been accused of being "emotional" and "immature," and she could use some good arguments for her perspective, which is that she, a young, female staff member (and recent hiree) should not be responsible for the unthanked "household" chores that accumulate as a result of department members' unwillingness to clean up after themselves. Please respond privately to Hayley Wood hew@christa.unh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 14:59:05 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: shelley park Subject: reagon reference I'm hoping someone could help me with the full bibliographic information on an article by Bernice Johnson Reagon (1981) entitled "Coalition Politics: Turning the Century". This is based on a presentation Reagon made at a West Coast Women's Music Festival in Yosemite National Forest, California. It is published _somewhere_, but I don't know where (I have a copy of the essay in front of me, but I don't know where it was copied from)and I'd like to cite her. Perhaps someone on this list is familiar with this wonderful piece on the difference between "coalitions" and "homes"? Thanks, shelley park ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 15:29:48 -0500 Reply-To: korenman@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: no dishes on WMST-L Several messages sent to WMST-L in the past few days--most recently Hayley Wood's message about a computer network manager's job problems-- prompt me to remind everyone that discussion of politics or of gender- related societal problems lies outside WMST-L's scope. [boilerplate starts here :-)] Even without such issues, the often heavy mail volume on WMST-L > poses a serious problem for many subscribers who have limited time, limited disk space, or limited funds (some subscribers must pay for each message they receive). If we were to expand the list's focus to include political and social issues, many of these subscribers would be forced to unsubscribe. I do not want to see that happen. Thus, I am writing to ask that people send to WMST-L only messages about Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration. There are other lists--e.g., WOMEN@WORLD.STD.COM--where discussions and announcements about politics and about societal issues are welcome and appropriate. You can subscribe by sending the message SUBSCRIBE WOMEN to MAJORDOMO@WORLD.STD.COM. The Usenet newsgroup soc.feminism is another forum for discussions of gender-related political and social issues. If you don't know how to access Usenet newsgroups, ask your system's computer support staff for help. Thanks to the existence of WOMEN, soc.feminism, and other forums, each of us can tailor our e-mail to meet our needs and resources. Those who want to receive messages on a broad spectrum of gender-related societal issues can simply add a subscription to one or more of the lists that focus on such issues, thereby getting the messages they wish without imposing unfairly on others whose needs or resources are different. For a lengthy listing of women-related lists, send the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU or, on WWW, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html . If you are relatively new to WMST-L and would like to see an earlier discussion of the "focus" issue, send the message GET FOCUS EXPLAIND (yes, spelled incorrectly) to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. If you feel that WMST-L's limited focus on Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration does not meet your needs, you can unsubscribe by sending the message UNSUB WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU or, if that doesn't work, LISTSERV@UMDD.BITNET. If you get the edited digest, you must add a second line that says AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE . If you have difficulties, write to me privately at the address in my signature. [end of boilerplate] Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 15:41:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Basow Subject: Re: reagon reference Bernice Johnson Reagon's (1981) article "Coalition Politics: Turning the Century" was first published in Barbara Smith (Ed.)'s anthology (1983), _Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology_ (pp. 356-368). NY: Kitchen Table Press. It is reprinted in Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill Collin's (Eds.) _Race, Class, & Gender_ 2nd. ed. (pp. 540-546). Wadsworth Pub., 1995. Hope this helps. *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Susan A. Basow, Psychology Dept. Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042-1781 610-250-5294 Internet: basows@lafayette.edu *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 13:29:39 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Virginia Elwood Subject: Re: no dishes on WMST-L In-Reply-To: <199505251937.PAA05536@holmes.umd.edu> I am unsubscribing WMST-L because of your narrow and petty definition of what is women studies. I thought that turning down the discussion of definitions of feminism was the Last Straw, but your rude and uncompromising attitude towards so-called politics is the Ultimate. Goodbye, so called feminists. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 17:49:06 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: dishes I realize that the person who signed off won't see this, but it still seems worth saying that Joan provides us an enormously valuable service by running this list (and gratis, at that) and that having a list with a special purpose is no more narrow-minded than having any organization or business with a special purpose. I think it's terribly unfair to call Joan rude, whether we agree with a particular "call" or not. I think she goes out of her way to be polite, both to those who post messages outside the boundaries and to the subscribers who have to pay to receive them. Cynthia Harrison Associate Professor History/Women's Studies The George Washington University Funger 506G Washington, D.C. 20052 202-363-4356 e-mail:harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 16:57:23 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mark Copithorne Subject: Thich Nhat Hanh's Publisher Parallax Press publishes books by Thich Nhat Hanh and other authors on engaged Buddhism. Our e-mail address is: parallax@igc.apc.org. Our telephone: (510) 525-0101; fax: (510) 525-7129. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 20:15:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Subject: Listen Up: Young Feminists Speak Out Who says feminism is dead? I wanted to bring to your attention a new book called "Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation" published by Seal Press, a small feminist publisher in Seattle, Washington. I, along with 27 other young feminists, am a contributor to this new anthology. In it, young women from diverse backgrounds, describe the ongoing process of integrating their feminist identities with ethnic, racial, religious, sexual, regional, class and other identities. As a whole, the essays reveal that there is no one feminism, but rather several different types of "feminisms;" and most importantly that many of these young feminists have been inspired by feminists who have come before them such as Gloria Steinem, Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, to name a few. The book is classified as women's studies/popular culture and would be a good resource for Introduction to Women's Studies classes or for that matter, any of a number of women's studies classes). ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 20:21:16 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Subject: Listen Up: The Sequel I'm new to the WMST-L list and did not realize until after I sent my last message that I forgot to include my identifying information at the end of the message. It is: Lisa Bowleg Professorial Lecturer Georgetown University lisabow@gwis.circ.gwu.edu And since we're on the subject, is there anyway to get this information to come up automatically at the end of every piece of mail I file or must I always type it? Thanks much. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 12:23:00 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marion de Ras Subject: Re: dishes I fully agree with Cynthia Harrison. I think Joan is doing a wonderful job and I admire greatly her patience. Professor Marion E.P. de Ras Chair Department of Women's Studies University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand mepderas@waikato.ac.nz ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 21:25:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: "Turning the Century" Bernice Johnson Reagon's article on coalition politics has been published in several places, including _Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology_ edited by Barbara Smith (Kitchen Table Women of Color Press, 1983) and _Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology_ edited by Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins (Wadsworth Publishing, 1995). ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 20:33:36 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katie Ward Subject: Women in Transition In late April, I left a message on the list asking if anyone was interested in information about a group of adult women students at Western Kentucky University who started their own support group for non-traditional students. We are beginning our seventh year. If anyone would like information about our organization, please send me a request, and I will mail you a brief history and outline of our activities. This material is too long for e-mail, so I will send it snail mail. I sent some material today to Wendy Wagner at Pace Un., but a couple of other people asked for information. However, they did not leave a snail mail address. Katie WardKatie Ward, English Department Western Kentucky University , Bowling Green, KY 42101 Green, Ky 42101------wardcc@wkuvx1.wku.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 22:56:18 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DR JUDITH G CALVO Subject: Call for Papers Call for Papers Multicultural Aspects of Health, Disability and Rehabilitation: Women of Color. Our edited book will focus on special populations of women of color with a foci of describing similarities as well as differences of women of color's experience in the United States and their unique needs. We are interested in issues of health, physical disability (e.g., severe disabilities), agricultural migrant women, women in prison or homeless whose multiple group memberships and identities intersect with such factors as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, educational attainment, sexual orientation, etc. There is a great need for women of color to continue to disentangle, describe and put voices to the experience of women of color in the United States. Manuscripts should not exceed 20 double-spaced typescript pages and should be prepared according to the Publication manual of The American Psychological Association *4th Ed.). Authors should submit an outline of the proposed chapter, along with a 200 word abstract, single spaced, not to exceed one page, with a cover letter and a complete mailing address and telephone number (including e-mail address, if applicable). The deadline for submission of the abstract and outline is July 1, 1995. Send original and two copies of the above to: Anita Leal-Idrogo, Ph.D. San Francisco State University College of Health and Human Services Department of Counseling 1600 Holloway Ave., BH 316 San Francisco, CA 94132 e-mail: ali1212@sfsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 08:23:24 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marita McComiskey Subject: Paulo Freire & teaching Sorry I'm a few days behind on my mail ---- Two books not mentioned in the discussion of Paulo Freire that I have found very helpful and related to feminist pedegogy are: WE MAKE THE ROAD BY WALKING: CONVERSATIONS ON EDUCATION & SOCIAL CHANGE Myles Horton & Paulo Freire edited by Brenda Bell,John Gaventa &John Peters Temple Univ Press The Introductin to the 1990 edition of Jonathan Kozol's THE NIGHT IS DARK AND I AM FAR FROM HOME (New Revised Edition) Simon and Schuster: A Touchtone Book Hope these are helpful. Peace, Marita McComiskey mccomisk@uconnvm.uconn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 15:16:08 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dr Sabine Broeck Subject: interrogating whiteness hallo whoever is also interested in that question. I am a new subscriber, located at the Institute of American Studies , Goethe University Frankfurt. I am currently working on a book going by the working title: Black memory, white amnesia? and in that context interested in work being done on interrogating feminism4s whiteness, specifically literature. Is that "request" specific enough? I4d like to get in touch with people working in the same or related field. broeck@em.uni-frankfurt.de looking forward to replies. sabine broeck ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 11:07:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosemary Feal Subject: from WST to GENDER Studies? I am interested in knowing if your WST program includes GENDER in its title (i.e., Gender and Women's Studies; Program for Gender Studies, etc), and if this represents a change (from WST to something that includes gender). Please send info. on title/ title change of your program, or others you know of, to me privately. Many thanks. Rosemary Feal rsfl@troi.cc.rochester.edu P.S. I know we discussed the issue of Gender studies vs. Women's Studies on this list. I am interested in the frequency of "gender studies" in titles. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 11:23:09 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Subject: Black feminist thought Hello, Does anyone have an address on any information on "Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women" and/or "The Womanist," a black feminist newsletter? Thanks much. Lisa Bowleg Women's Studies Program Georgetown University Internet: lisabow@gwis.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 11:26:27 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Subject: Thanks for help on signature files Thanks for all who wrote in to help me with my question on creating a signature file. I learned how to do it last night. Lisa Bowleg Women's Studies Program Georgetown University Internet: lisabow@gwis.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 11:29:57 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CAJohnson Subject: Collection Development in Libraries I hope this isn't inappropriate for this list, but it seemed a likely way of reaching librarians from similar colleges. Barnard College is a women's liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University; there are about 2,000 students at the college. We are writing a collection development policy for the library and would like to hear from other women's colleges who have written collection development policies (or any liberal arts college library of a similar size also affiliated with a large research institution). Please respond privately to: Cynthia Johnson Reference Librarian cajohnso@barnard.columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 10:31:05 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara A. Crow" Subject: New Web Site for Women at the University of Calgary We would like to announce a new home page on the WWW for _Campus Women_ at the University of Calgary. Our WWW address is: http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/campuswomen/campuswomen.html We are quite excited by the project. We may be one of the first Canadian universities to have developed and implemented our web site from a project generated by campus women's groups and trained by women. We have documented the project and this information is available by selecting the _process_link on our home page. A more detailed account will be made available at the end of August. One final note -- our site is still under construction! -- Barbara Crow, Ph.D. Phone: 403-220-3160 Assistant Professor Fax: 403-282-6716 University of Calgary Email: crow@acs.ucalgary.ca Faculty of General Studies 2500 University Ave. NW., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/campuswomen/campuswomen.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 11:40:51 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Spider Granddaughter Subject: Black British Writers I am currently researching the Black British literary movement for a minigrant proposal. The end purpose is the construction of a multicultural course in 20th-century British literature. While I have found many many male writers in the Black British movement, I am not having much success locating women writers. I am also concerned with what appears to be a dearth of women of color in the pre-1945 period. This seems impossible to me! Can anyone suggest some women writers for this course whose texts might be available in current editions? Respond to me privately at ttheresa@wsunix.it.wsu.edu ********************************* *Theresa Thompson * Out flew the web, and floated wide, *Washington State University * The mirror crack'd from side to side, *Pullman, Washington 99164 * "The curse has come upon me!" cried *email: ttheresa@wsunix.wsu.edu * The Lady of Shalott. ********************************* ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 13:43:36 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: kathleen hickok Subject: Woman-Identified Woman Help. I am looking for a copy of the essay "Woman-Identified Woman," published in 1970 by the New York Radicalesbians. I have a vague memory that the essay has been reprinted in some collection or other, but I can't seem to find it, or any bibliographic reference to it. Does anyone know where it is? Thanks! Reply privately, please to khickok@iastate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 16:38:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 announcements The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) CFP: Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 2) Fulbright Deadline Reminder 3) 75th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage Celebration For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) The Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy (the Journal), a new interdisciplinary publication devoted to discussion of gender issues in the context of law and public policy, seeks articles for its general issue for publication in April 1996. The deadline for this issue is October 5, 1995. The Journal fosters discourse on gender issues from multiple perspectives, with particular emphasis on practical analysis. The Journal's intent is to transcend rigid disciplinary boundaries by illuminating connections between social science and the law, scholarship and public policy, academic work and professional practice. To this end, the Journal solicits work from practitioners, academic professionals, and Duke graduate students from different disciplines. Articles do not necessarily have to be legal in nature. For publication consideration, please submit the following: two typed, double-spaced copies of the manuscript; footnotes are preferred a title page that includes the full name of the author(s), academic or other professional affiliations, and the address of the person to whom correspondence and proofs should be sent a brief abstract summarizing the content and organization of the article an indication of how the author(s) found out about the Journal Citations in submitted manuscripts should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (15th ed. 1991). The Journal can only return manuscripts if a self-addressed, stamped envelope is provided. If the Journal accepts the article, please send an IBM- compatible disk with the manuscript in WordPerfect 5.1 or compatible format. Please submit materials by 10/5/95 to the Managing Editor, Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, Duke University School of Law, Towerview Road and Science Drive, Box 90372, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0372. To contact Journal members, leave a message at (919) 613- 7223, e-mail djg@faculty.law.duke.edu, or fax (919) 684-3417. For further information on the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, including our statement of purpose and information on submissions and our conference on Single-Sex Education, please see our home page at http://www.duke.edu/~jrd4/djglp.htm. Tracy Hollister Development Editor Email: thollist@pps.duke.edu. *************************************************************************** 2) Fulbright Deadline Reminder FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES FOR FACULTY AND PROFESSIONALS IN WOMENS STUDIES AND GENDER STUDIES August 1 Deadline Approaching for the 1996-97 Competition What follows is a description of Fulbright grants for lecturing and advanced research worldwide. These grants are excellent professional development opportunities and provide funding to pursue professional interests abroad. Fulbright Grants for Faculty and Professionals Description: 1,000 awards for college and university faculty and nonacademic professionals to lecture or pursue advanced research and/or related professional activity abroad. For U.S. candidates, grants are available to nearly 148 countries. Application: U.S. candidates have an August 1 deadline for lecturing or research awards. Non-U.S. candidates apply in their home country for awards to come to the United States. Areas of Interest: Opportunities exist in every area of the social sciences, arts and humanities, sciences, and many professional fields. Range of Consideration: Undergraduate and graduate teaching; individual research; professional collaboration; joint research collaboration; and much more. Eligibility: Ph.D. in hand is the standard requirement for traditional academic fields, along with U.S. citizenship. Grant Duration: Awards range in duration from two months to a full academic year. Language: The majority of teaching assignments are in English. Required in certain countries for certain areas of activity. Action: U.S. candidates may receive detailed descriptions of award opportunities and application materials via cies1@ciesnet.cies.org (REQUESTS FOR MAILING OF MATERIALS ONLY!). Non-U.S. candidates must contact the Fulbright Commission or U.S. embassy in their home country. cies1@ciesnet.cies.org *************************************************************************** 3) ============================================================ You are Cordiallly Invited to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment by joining us in Seneca Falls for a Women's Equality Day COMMEMORATIVE SUFFRAGE MARCH Saturday, August 26, 1995 at Noon through the streets of Seneca Falls, and past the historic Wesleyan Chapel Where the First Women's Rights Convention was held in 1848 ---------------- Honored marchers will be members of the 104th Congress of the United States and the New York State Legislaure Organizations and Individual Marchers Welcome Costumes and Banners Encouraged For more information or to register for the march, please call (315) 568-2703 by June 30, 1995 presented by Women's Equality Day, Inc. Women's Rights National Historical Park, the National Women's Hall of Fame, the University of Rochester, Hobart & William Smith Colleges and the Village of Seneca Falls, New York. *************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 16:27:41 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: kathleen hickok Subject: Woman-Identified Woman essay Thank you to everyone who sent me citations for this essay. The book in which I have it is indeed Radical Feminism (1973), ed. Anne Koedt et al. It turns out the essay is newly available in Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present (NY: Vintage, 1994) too. Kathy Hickok ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 16:40:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Hilary Clark, U Of Saskatchewan (Address:" Subject: Re: from WST to GENDER Studies? In-Reply-To: <199505261509.LAA06587@holmes.umd.edu> Dear Rosemary Feal, The program at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Sask, Canada, is called the Women's and Gender Studies Program. It is mostly women's studies, but there is an entry level course, entitled "Images of Women and Men in Popular Culture," which is always full -- I guess that is closer to the "gender studies" side. Hope this helps. Hilary Clark On Fri, 26 May 1995, Rosemary Feal wrote: > I am interested in knowing if your WST program includes GENDER > in its title (i.e., Gender and Women's Studies; Program > for Gender Studies, etc), and if this represents a change (from > WST to something that includes gender). > > Please send info. on title/ title change of your program, or > others you know of, to me privately. Many thanks. > > Rosemary Feal > rsfl@troi.cc.rochester.edu > > P.S. I know we discussed the issue of Gender studies vs. Women's > Studies on this list. I am interested in the frequency of "gender > studies" in titles. > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 21:49:08 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Grayson Subject: Re: Black feminist thought In-Reply-To: <199505261524.LAA07010@holmes.umd.edu> from "Ingrid Alisa Bowleg" at May 26, 95 11:23:09 am Lisa: I'm sorry to say that Sage is no longer being published. I saw Beverly Guy-Sheftall on a teleconference a couple of months ago and she stated that the editors had decided to stop publication so that they could pursue other projects. As for the newsletter you are referring to I have never heard of it. If you get information on it though please pass it along to the list or at least to me privately -- I would be interested. Deborah Grays drgn@uhura.cc.rochester.edu > > Hello, > > Does anyone have an address on any information on "Sage: A Scholarly > Journal on Black Women" and/or "The Womanist," a black feminist newsletter? > > Thanks much. > > Lisa Bowleg > Women's Studies Program > Georgetown University > Internet: lisabow@gwis.circ.gwu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 22:07:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Black feminist thought > Does anyone have an address on any information on "Sage: A Scholarly > Journal on Black Women" and/or "The Womanist," a black feminist newsletter? Deborah Grayson has already responded about the unfortunate demise of _Sage_. As for _The Womanist_, several messages appeared about it on WMST-L last year. Here are two of them, from the two co-editors, Layli Phillips and Barbara McCaskill, whose email addresses appear below: 1) THE WOMANIST: A NEWSLETTER FOR AFROCENTRIC FEMINIST RESEARCHERS Statement of purpose: _The Womanist_ is meant to be a gathering place for Afrocentric feminist researchers who are struggling to devise, develop, and disseminate womanist methodologies within traditional (or non-traditional) academic disciplines. Many of us find ourselves working alone in situations where womanist perspectives are considered foreign or even unaccceptable, and many of us are not aware of other womanist researchers we can turn to for information and corroboration. _The Womanist_ is meant to be a place where we can share ideas, ask questions, and engage in supportive criticism, in order to strengthen our mission, de-marginalize our activities, and provide wider access to our perspectives. THE WOMANIST c/o Prof. Layli Phillips, Editor Institute for African American Studies University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-3012 bitnet: LDPHLLPS@UGA.BITNET ******************************************************************************** 2) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 14:51:34 EST From: BARBARA MCCASKILL Subject: The Womanist --The Womanist--, a newsletter for Afrocentric feminist researchers, announces the first issue in production: "What Is Womanist Scholarship?" The editors solicit submissions, letters, inquiries, and announcements for both spring and fall issues. Direct messages please to Layli Phillips, Institute for African American Studies, University of Georgia, ldphllps@uga.cc.uga.edu; or Barbara McCaskill, Department of English, University of Georgia, bmccaski@uga.cc.uga.edu. Send your ideas today and sign up for our mailing list! Barbara McCaskill Department of English Park Hall 343 The University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-6205 phone (706) 542-2250 fax (706) 542-2181 e-mail bmccaski@uga.cc.uga.edu or bmccaski@uga.bitnet ********************************************************** I know that at least one issue appeared, dated Summer 1994. For more information, I suggest people get in touch with Layli Phillips or Barbara McCaskill. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 10:48:01 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ellen G. Friedman" user's guide ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 12:08:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Caryn S. Abrams" Subject: Re: interrogating whiteness In-Reply-To: <199505261316.JAA09410@holmes.umd.edu> I know of a recent book, entitled "The Social Construction of Whiteness" which I think is edited by Ruth Frankenberg, from University of Minnesota Press. I too would appreciate any other sources on feminist critiques of whiteness as well! Caryn Aviv Loyola University of Chicago cabrams@orion.it.luc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 14:43:17 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: interrogating whiteness The book by Ruth Frankenberg is called _White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness_. I would also recommend Vron Ware's _Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History_ and Peggy McIntosh's article, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies," which is included in the anthology edited by Margaret Andersen and Patricial (woops!) Patricia Hill Collins: _Race, Class and Gender_. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 15:45:54 MST7MDT Reply-To: Clegg@suu.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Blanche Clegg Organization: Southern Utah University Subject: Fiction and Autobiography by African Women I am working on a bibliography and course outline for a women's studies course dealing with the writing of African women, particularly those from Zaire and surrounding countries. Does anyone know of similar courses offered at other institutions? Or, can you suggest writers or works that I might not yet have discovered? I am looking for works written in English, French or African languages. I will appreciate any help. You can reply to me privately if you like. Thanks, Blanche ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 00:03:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: UMDD down Sunday, May 28 I have received word that UMDD, the mainframe that houses WMST-L, will be unavailable this Sunday, May 28, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. During this time, no UMDD services, including Listserv, will be available. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 07:51:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "NAOMI B. MCCORMICK" Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: editor search-sexuality journal The Publication Committee of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality has opened nominations for the Editorship of The Journal of Sex Research for the five-year term of 1998 through 2002. Elizabeth Rice Allgeier is the incumbent Editor. The new Editor should be internationally recognized as a scholar/scientist in the multidisciplinary field of sexual science and should possess the full range of editorial skills. Nominations, including self nominations, should consist of a cover letter of one page or less as well as the candidate's academic vita and a statement describing the candidate's intended approach to the position of Editor and his or her plans for JSR during the editorship period. The Society welcomes participation of underrepresented groups in the publication process. Interviews with the finalists will take place in San Francisco prior to the meeting of the Board of Directors at The Society's Annual Meeting to be held in November of 1995. The new Editor will begin receiving manuscripts in 1997. If you are interested in being considered for the position of Editor or if you know someone else who is, please provide Dr. Terri D. Fisher, Chair of the Publications Committee, with the necessary materials by July 15, 1995. Her address is: Terri D. Fisher, Ph.D. Chair, SSSS Publications Committee Dept. of Psychology The Ohio State University at Mansfield 1680 University Drive Mansfield OH 44906, USA Thank you for your assistance in our search. Naomi B. McCormick, President The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality ****************************************************************** Naomi B. McCormick Dept. Psychology State University of New York at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh, NY 12901 USA @@@@@@@@ @@ @@ Telephone (518) 564-3076; 564-3382 @@@ (A A) @@@ FAX (518) 564-3397 @@@ L @@@ % \ {} / % E-mail MCCORMNB@SNYPLAVA.BITNET ---- MCCORMNB@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU | | /******\ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 23:05:54 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CLARE RUCIAK Organization: OzEmail Pty Ltd Subject: www This may not be the right place for it but in response to the www talk- I have recently put Sym Choon Gallery Online (my physical art gallery based in Adelaide South Australia) and would appreciate any feedback and any links to other sites - I feel that the more women linked up on the obviously and overtly male dominated www the better, url address as follows: http://camtech.com.au/symchoon/ Please respond privately - clarebe@ozemail.com.au Regards Clare Ruciak Curator of Sym Choon Gallery Off and Online ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 15:21:16 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paul Lauter Subject: CFP I'm posting the following for a friend who is not on the list. Paul Lauter CALL FOR PAPERS Contemporary Women Poets of the Americas Sponsored by the American Literature Association CANCUN, December 14-17, 1995 The Symposium on Contemporary Women Poets of the Americas seeks new perspectives on the craft, poetics and collaborations of women poets from various ethnic and religious backgrounds in the United States, as well as in other countries and poetics from Canada through Central and South America. Focused on poetry written primarily in English, despite cultural origin, the Symposium will also produce selected essays in book form in conjunction with University of Notre Dame Press. Send paper and panel proposals on issues pertaining to: GENDER AND GENRE, MYTH or RELIGION to: Professor Jacqueline Brogan Department of English University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 e-mail: Jacqueline.V.Brogan.2@nd.edu Fax: 219-631-8209 Send paper and panel proposals on issues pertaining to: GEOGRAPHICAL, CULTURAL, and ETHNIC APPROACHES to: Professor Cordelia Candelaria Department of English Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 e-mail: Cordelia.Candelaria@ASU.edu Fax: 602-965-3451 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 15, 1995 (Note: The Symposium will be limited to approximately 50 partici- pants, since the panels will be confined to two full days. El Presidente is offering special rates for the ALA at $79 per night.) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 09:04:59 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carmen Luke Subject: Re: interrogating whiteness In-Reply-To: <199505271709.NAA04535@holmes.umd.edu> Re a source for a fem. critique of whiteness in the context of an anlysis of interracialism, I've just pub. a paper in FEMINIST ISSUES, 14(2), 49-72, called "White women in interracial families: Reflections on hybridization, feminine identities, and racialized othering" (1995). Sounding my own horn here, I know, but it might be useful. Carmen Luke Carmen.Luke@jcu.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 19:57:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 new lists The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) New List: WOMEN (in Turkey and developing countries) 2) New List: SSJ-Forum (includes discussions of feminism) 3) New List: CAN-FAC (Faculty Responses to Attacks on Higher Ed.) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) WOMEN on listproc@bilkent.edu.tr Women and Gender Issues WOMEN aims to be communication medium for people interested in Women's Issues in Turkey, in developing countries and all over the world. English and Turkish are accepted languages in the list. WOMEN is intended primarily to serve the academic and professional needs of people involved with Women's Issues and Gender as researchers, librarians, and/or program administrators espacially in the developing countries. The list gives people an opportunity to ask questions, discussions and exchange information about teaching strategies, useful texts and films, innovative courses, current research, projects, funding sources, graduate programs, relations between Women's Issues and Gender. WOMEN also welcomes announcements about relevant conferences, calls for papers, job opportunities, publications, and the like. Archives of WOMEN mail items are kept daily files which are named as women.yymmdd format. You may obtain a list of items in the archives by sending the command INDEX WOMEN in the body of e-mail message to listproc@bilkent.edu.tr. To retrieve any item send to listproc@bilkent.edu.tr the command GET WOMEN women.yymmdd where yymmdd is a 6 digit number representing the date. To subscribe, send the following command in the BODY of mail to listproc@bilkent.edu.tr SUB WOMEN yourfistname yourlastname For example: SUB WOMEN Elif Biret Owner: Hatice Kubra Bahsisoglu Mujgan San [NOTE: I wrote to the owners to inform them that there's already another list called WOMEN; I haven't yet received a reply. JK] *************************************************************************** 2) SSJ-Forum --------------- SSJ-Forum is a moderated electronic discussion group, maintained by the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. SSJ-Forum aims to stimulate dialogue among researchers doing political science and political economy studies of Japan. The list enables scholars to: - communicate current research interests - discuss new books, papers, approaches, and articles - test new ideas - share comments and tips on teaching courses on Japan Contributions must address issues concerning the politics and political economy of Japan. Comparative examples are not only acceptable but encouraged. Discussions of methodological approaches, such as the new institutionalism, feminism, and IPE arguments are also welcome. Moreover, SSJ-Forum provides a venue for debate and feedback on articles published in Social Science Japan SSJ-Forum also carries: - announcements of new books and journals - book reviews - news of conferences - calls for papers - information on fellowships and jobs Organizations are welcome to announce conferences, calls for papers, new publications, and job openings for Japan-oriented political scientists. Please contact the moderators at ssj-forum-request@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Why "SSJ-Forum?" SSJ stands for Social Science Japan, the quarterly newsletter of the Institute of Social Science. The newsletter carries short articles on trends in social science studies of Japan and reviews of recent Japanese social science publications. Part of the role of SSJ-Forum is to make Social Science Japan interactive, linking authors and readers in a discussion of points raised in the articles. How Does SSJ-Forum Work? Subscribers write in with questions, comments, and reports, which are screened by the moderators before being forwarded to subscribers' e-mail accounts. The moderators' role is to ensure that members do not receive irrelevant or annoying messages. Messages to SSJ-Forum are in English, as many members outside of Japan lack the software necessary for displaying Japanese characters. Subscription to SSJ-Forum is free, and messages can be saved, discarded, copied, printed out, or relayed to colleagues. An archive of all messages will be available on the ISS WWW/FTP server from July 31, 1995. How Do I Subscribe? Send an e-mail message containing the word "subscribe" in the subject header to: ssj-forum-request@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp Please note this is NOT a listserv discussion list. Subscription is not automatic, so it may take a short time before your subscription request is acknowledged. You can however unsubscribe, suspend and resume postings automatically. Managing Editor Nobuhiro Hiwatari, Associate Professor of Japanese Politics, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo Moderators Andrew DeWit, Visiting Foreign Researcher, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo; Doctoral Candidate, University of British Columbia Jonathan Lewis, Research Associate, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo; Doctoral Candidate, University of Sheffield Andrew DeWit Institute of Social Science University of Tokyo dewit@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp TEL: (03)3812-2111 EXT: 4975 FAX: (03) 3816-6864 *************************************************************************** 3) New List: CAN-FAC (Faculty Responses to Attacks on Higher Education) > A new email list has been created for faculty members on college > campuses who are interested in organizing a response to attacks > on higher education. > > This list is called CAN-FAC, which is short for Campus Activists' > Network Faculty. It is sponsored by Teachers for a Democratic Culture > and the University Conversion Project. The list at first will be > "facilitated" by Rich Cowan (kowan@ai.mit.edu) at first; we are > looking for a volunteer to take this over before we begin heavily > promoting the list, which currently has about 40 subscribers. > > Examples of topics appropriate for this list are attacks on "political > correctness, the recent defunding of social sciences, and a series of > teach-ins planned for Fall 1995 under the title "Is Truth for Sale?" > > 1. TO SUBSCRIBE to the list, send e-mail to: canet@pencil.cs.missouri.edu > with a subject of "canet" whose body just says: > sub can-fac Firstname Lastname > > 2. TO SEND A MESSAGE to the list, e-mail it to: > can-fac@pencil.cs.missouri.edu > > 3. TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send email to: canet@pencil.cs.missouri.edu > with a subject of "canet" whose body ONLY says: > unsub can-fac > > > 4. If the volume of mail on this list becomes too large, you can always > change your subscription to a "digest" (1 big message per day) by sending > e-mail to: canet@pencil.cs.missouri.edu with subject "canet" and body: > set can-fac mail digest > > To undo this use "ack" in place of "digest". > To suppress mail for the summer months, use "noack" in place of "digest". > > For more information on CANET, send any message to: > canet-info@pencil.cs.missouri.edu > > One of the first things we ask new subscribers to do is introduce > themselves: their name, the name of the group they work with, and how > they see this list benefiting their activism. Also keep in mind that > this is a public forum; anyone may subscribe, and messages will be > screened for relevance to keep mail volume down. Welcome! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 19:59:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Sattler Subject: Womens' Groups Having done some rather extensive searching of the WMST-L database (thanks to the dummy guide which I recommend and Joan's help--when she wasn't busy being mean *yeah right*) I am still unable to find a body of literature that I am SURE exists--please help me. I am looking for work on women's groups--sewing circles, quilting bees, book clubs. These groups don't have to be feminist or political, although it would be nice if politics evolved out of the women-only space. I've heard this work discussed but can't seem to put my hands on it and I'm a little frustrated. Any citations out there? Thanks... Cheryl Sattler csattler@CapAccess.org