========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 14:10:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shelley Flanigan I've recently read a brochure about the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, 1620-1900, housed at the Memorial Library at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison. Is anyone familiar with the collection: its comprehensiveness, the quality of the works included, etc.? Any information or comments anyone can give me would be much appreciated. Shelley Flanigan sflanigan@rpub.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 15:18:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Subject: inquiry I am trying to obtain copies of all articles written by a particular journalist over a specific period of time. If you have done a search similar to this what ways did you find were the most efficient and least costly. Also is an author search on the WWW the most effective means of doing a search on the net. Janice Clark ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 16:34:19 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jamshid Mousavinezhad Subject: Feminist Majority Online -- New Service Comments: To: broadcast@newmedium.com The Feminist Majority Online -- http://www.feminist.org In the two weeks we have been up, the Feminist Majority Online has received over 50,000 hits, been named Best Non-Profit Women's Site for 1995, added hundreds of entries to our Feminist Faculty Network, and received many messages of support and encouragement. Thanks to all who have visited and helped to spread the word, as well as provide suggestions for further improving the site. One of the most common requests was that we make it easier for interested users to be informed of major additions to this large site, such as this week's detailed table of women's issues mailing lists. In addition, many users expressed a desire to stay informed on key issues. Thus, the Feminist Majority Online would like to announce a new, important expansion of our commitment to using the Internet to fight for women's equality. Beginning immediately, we invite you to join our Feminist Alert Network. We have set it up as an informational mailing list -- to subscribe, send an email message to: majordomo@feminist.org with "subscribe fem-alert" in the message body. Alternately, you can sign up directly on our site, at http://www.feminist.org/action/femalert.html. While there, be sure to take a look at our Field Notes From Beijing, as mentioned in today's Washington Post. Thanks for all your support; The Feminist Majority Online New Media Publishing ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:41:36 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: University of Canterbury vacancy Comments: To: fmst-talk@massey.ac.nz, ows-l@Magill.UniSA.edu.au Please post and/or circulate the following position vacancy to your colleagues and grad students. You'll notice that the ad says that a completed doctorate is expected "on appointment." This means that applications from people who are almost-done would not be ruled out. ************************************************************* THE UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SENIOR LECTURER OR LECTURER IN EDUCATION - FEMINIST ISSUES IN EDUCATION Applications are invited for the tenured position of SENIOR LECTURER or LECTURER in the DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The minimum qualification ON APPOINTMENT is the Ph.D. or equivalent. The appointee will be expected to teach and conduct research in FEMINIST ISSUES IN EDUCATION. Expertise in one or more additional areas of education will be a further recommendation. Applicants who can bring a bicultural perspective to their work will have an advantage. Applicants should attach a sample of recent scholarly writing and evidence of successful tertiary teaching to their applications. Academic enquiries may be directed to the Head of Department Dr. Colin McGeorge, Fax (64 3) 364-2418, or e-mail Information about the University may be accessed on the World Wide Web The current salary scale is: Senior Lecturers: $55,000 to $63,000 (bar) and $66,000 to $70,000 per annum. Lecturers: $42,000 to $52,000. ************************************************************** Missy Morton Lecturer in Education Department of Education University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch New Zealand phone (643) 364-2271 fax (643) 364-2418 Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:45:40 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: Beijing reports:new site Comments: To: fmst-talk@massey.ac.nz, ows-l@Magill.UniSA.edu.au There've been so many requests for the Beijing Reports that we've decided to add them to the Massey University Women's Studies webpages. Please do not request them from this address - I am out of town, and thus not able to forward them. However after the weekend they will be available at the http shown below. Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 22:50:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Myrna Goldenberg Subject: Re: women's studies courses In-Reply-To: <01HV8ADWZGT4AXBFJC@psulias.psu.edu> I'm interested in finding good materials for inclusion of women and sports in my WS intro. Please share information. thank you. Myrna Goldenberg Montgomery College, MD On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, SU, MILA wrote: > I am interested in feedback from those of you who teach classes in women's > studies or classes that focus on women's issues. My query: do you include > a discussion about women (or girls) in sports? If so, in what context and > with what reception is it being discussed? > Thanks in advance. Please reply privately to MCS@psulias.psu.edu > Mila Su Sr. Assistant Librarian Penn State Altoona Campus > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 20:55:03 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lori Jill Nebeker Subject: Re: Whereabouts In-Reply-To: I am compiling information for contributors' notes for an anthology of feminist literary theory and am having trouble discovering the institutional affilations of Gloria Anzaldua and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. They are not listed with the MLA Directory and contributors' notes in other anthologies are mostly outdated--earliest is '93. Any clues, hints, directions? Thanks in advance. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 22:54:09 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Radner Organization: The American University Subject: Men's or gender studies programs I'm submitting this query for someone who's not a subscriber to WMST-L, and I'l transmit any responses back. The question is, where in the USA are there academic programs either in Men's Studies or in Gender Studies? If you think the answer might be of general interest, please reply to the list. Otherwise, please e-mail me privately. Thank you. Jo Radner JRADNER@AMERICAN.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 22:55:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: women and sports There was a Frontline show on Title IX which also focused on the 1993 (?) Stanford women's basketball team that went on to win the NCAA tournament. I show it in Intro and Psych of Women and students like it a lot. Arnie Kahn kahnas@jmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 22:29:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Green Suzanne D Subject: CFP: 8th Annual Conference on Linguistics and Literature In-Reply-To: Although this is officially titled a Ling and Lit conference, we're hoping to have several strong women's studies/issues panels as well. Hope you'll consider it! It promises to be a very exciting conference. Suzanne _____________________________________________________________________________ CALL for PAPERS 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON LITERATURE AND LINGUISTICS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS February 2-3, 1996 Radisson Hotel and Conference Center, Denton, Texas Keynote Speakers: Emily Toth, Louisiana State University Haj Ross, University of North Texas Sponsored by the University of North Texas Department of English and the GSEA Abstracts dealing with any aspect of linguistics or literature are solicited, including: Literary Analysis Linguistic Analysis Technical Writing Film Studies Critical Theory Theoretical Linguistics Composition Theory Women's Studies Creative Writing 1st/2nd Lang Acquisition Comp/ESL Pedagogy Minority Literature Creative submissions of poetry, fiction or essays are also welcome, as are complete symposium proposals. Instructions for paper abstracts, symposium proposals, and creative submissions--including deadlines for submission--are below. Submissions from graduate students are particularly encouraged. E-mailed or FAXed proposals are accepted. Conference on Language and Literature Department of English PO Box 13827 University of North Texas Denton, TX 76203 GSEA@TWLAB.UNT.EDU Fax: 817/565-4355 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Instructions for PAPER ABSTRACTS: Abstracts for papers should be no longer than two pages and should exclude name and affiliation. On a separate page, please send the following information: Name Affiliation Paper title Postal address E-mail address Phone number FAX Audiovisual needs Status (graduate student, faculty) DEADLINE for RECEIPT of paper abstracts: October 31, 1995 Abstracts for papers will be reviewed anonymously by selected faculty members. Notification of acceptance will follow no later than December 1, 1995. Persons with papers accepted for presentation will be asked to provide a short abstract (300 word maximum) for the conference handbook by January 10, 1996. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Instructions for SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS: Symposium proposals must include (a) an overall abstract (2 page maximum) outlining the nature of the symposium as a whole; (b) a short abstract for the overall symposium (300 word maximum) to place in the conference program (c) a short abstract (300 word maximum) from each presenter. As above, these abstracts should be submitted anonymously. On a separate page, please send the following information: Symposium title Symposium paper title Name of organizer(s) Name of paper presenter Affiliation of organizer(s) Affiliation of presenter Postal address of organizer(s) Postal address of presenter Phone number of organizer(s) Phone number of presenter E-mail address of organizer(s) E-mail address of presenter FAX number of organizers FAX number of presenter Audiovisual needs DEADLINE for RECEIPT of Symposium Proposals: November 31, 1995 Symposium proposals will also be reviewed anonymously by selected faculty members. Notification of acceptance of the symposium will be made only to the symposium organizer(s) and will follow no later than December 10, 1995. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Instructions for CREATIVE SUBMISSIONS: Creative submissions of poetry, fiction or essays are also solicited. Those wishing to present must submit the complete text of the work, though without name. On a separate page, please send the following information: Name Affiliation Title of work Postal address E-mail address Phone number FAX Audiovisual needs Status (graduate student, faculty, etc.) DEADLINE for RECEIPT of creative works: October 31, 1995 Creative submissions will also be reviewed anonymously by selected faculty members. Notification of acceptance will follow no later than December 1, 1995. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 13:47:26 +0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Keane Subject: Addiction in California - query This is a request for information, which may sound a bit weird. I am a doctoral student at an Australian university, working on a thesis about addiction. I'm focusing on how contemporary discourses of addiction, both popular and scientific construct the self and the (sexed) body. I'm including a wide range of addictions, alcohol, drugs, smoking, sex, relationships, food... I am planning a trip to California early next year to go to a conference and wonder if anyone could help me locate research centres, archives, libraries in California containing sources and collections related to addiction and more broadly, medicine and health, especially women's health. As I said above I'm interested in the popular, self-help stuff as well as the 'scientific'. Or does anyone know how I could access information like this ? - any sggestions most gratefully accepted. Regards, Helen Keane Women's Studies, Australian National University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 23:57:41 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: *Women In Sport* In response to the request for materials about women and sports: My colleague at the University of Rhode Island, Greta L. Cohen, has recently published *Women in Sport: Issues and Controversies* (Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1993). Rosa Maria Pegueros ...................................................................... Rosa Maria Pegueros e-mail: pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu Department of History telephone: (401) 792-4092 217C Washburn Hall University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0817 "Women hold up half the sky." ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 23:15:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wolfgang Hirczy Subject: Re: Men's or gender studies programs In-Reply-To: I am forwarding this to the list of the American Men's Studies Association. They should know. List name is amsa-list@cc.ysu.edu. -wolf On Thu, 14 Sep 1995, Jo Radner wrote: > I'm submitting this query for someone who's not a subscriber to WMST-L, and > I'l transmit any responses back. The question is, where in the USA are there > academic programs either in Men's Studies or in Gender Studies? > > If you think the answer might be of general interest, please reply to the > list. Otherwise, please e-mail me privately. Thank you. > > Jo Radner > JRADNER@AMERICAN.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 23:54:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ursula Rempel Subject: Re: *Women In Sport* In-Reply-To: from "Rosa Maria Pegueros" at Sep 14, 95 11:57:41 pm I don't remember if the poster of the request is interested in historical issues of women in sport; if so, Kathleen E. McCrone at the University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada) has published quite widely on sports history. One article appears in the Journal of Sport History, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 1991): *Class, Gender, and English Women's Sport, c. 1890-1914.* Her book: *Playing the Game: Sport and the Physical Emancipation of English Women, 1870-1914* (UP of Kentucky, 1988). I have a more specific address for Dr. McCrone; please write to me privately. Ursula M. Rempel School of Music University of Manitoba urempel@cc.umanitoba.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 00:08:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kerri St Jon Principe Subject: If you need stuff on women and sports (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 23:47:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Kerri St Jon Principe To: femisa@csf.colorado.edu Subject: If you need stuff on women and sports I'm not positive which list the request for info on women and sports was posted to...but if you need info like below, email me and I will give you a great source! Thanks St.Jon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 23:42:13 -0500 From: Kerri St Jon Principe To: s073853@jaguar1.usouthal.edu Subject: sports3.html [LINK] [IMAGE] [LINK] Title Page [IMAGE] WOMEN STILL ON THE SIDELINES College Sports Women increased their representation as college athletes as a result of Title IX. In 1972,women comprised only 15.6% of college athletes. As of 1993, that percentage has grown to 34.8%. These statistics are deceptive, however, because since the early 1980s the percentage of women athletes has been increasing very slowly, and in some years has decreased. In 1981-82 women were 30.5% of athletes and that percentage increased only to 34.8% in 1992-93.3 While more women are playing college sports now, there are more men college athletes as well. In 1972, there were 31,852 women athletes and 172,447 men athletes at National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) member institutions. By 1993 there were 99,859 women athletes and 187,041 men athletes.4 Often coaches of men's sports try to argue against gender equity, saying it takes away opportunities from men. But this has not proven to be true. (See Chart 1). Women are also shortchanged in athletic funding. In 1991, at the request of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators, the NCAA conducted a study analyzing expenditures for women's and men's athletics. The study revealed major inequities in the funding of men's and women's college athletics. The NCAA themselves called the findings "disturbing." Although the numbers of women and men on campus were roughly equal, the NCAA found that men received 70% of scholarship money, 77% of operating budgets, and 83% of recruiting money.5 The inequities deny women not only the equal opportunity to benefit from sports, but sometimes the opportunity to attend college at all because they were not offered an athletic scholarship. High School Sports Girls entered high school sports rapidly after the passage of Title IX. In 1972, only 7% of interscholastic athletes were girls. By 1992, 37% of those athletes were female. Since the late 70s, however, the percentage of girl athletes has been increasing very slowly or decreasing. In 1977-78, girls were about 32% of athletes, and this percentage has grown only an additional 5% -- to 37% -in 1992-93.6 If this trend continues, it will take girls about 40 years --until the year 2033 -- to achieve parity.7 Even more disturbing, a study by the Department of Education shows that the percentage of high school girl sophomores who participate in athletic teams has actually declined from 1980 to 1990. In 1980, 46% of 10th-grade girls were members of interscholastic or intramural athletic teams, but only 41% in 1990. The percentage of boys who participated in athletics remained steady at 63%.8. As with college athletics, the addition of girl athletes in high school has not proven to take away opportunities for boys to play sports. In 1972, 49% of high school boys were athletes; by 1993, 52% of high school boys were athletes.9 There were 817,073 girls and 3,770,621 boys participating in interscholastic athletics in 1972. 10 By 1993, with declining high school enrollments, 1,997,489 girls and 3,416,389 boys were high school athletes. No national data are currently available on expenditures for girls' and boys' athletics in high school. Women as Coaches and Athletics Administrators There are still significantly fewer women coaches and administrators than men coaches and administrators. One reason is that as the salaries of coaches of women's teams increased with Title IX, male coaches began to displace female coaches. In 1972, the year Title IX was signed into law, over 90% of women's teams were coached by women. Now, half of women's college teams are coached by men, but only about 2% of men's teams are coached by women. The record is not much better at secondary schools. As of 1990, over 40% of girls' teams were coached by men, but only 2% of boys' teams are coached by women. Seventy-five percent of all high school teams were coached by men. Women are also excluded from administrative positions within sports. Only 21 % of college women's athletic programs are headed by women, and women fill only 33% of all administrative jobs in women's programs.13 In high school, less than 20% of athletic directors are women, and less than 40% of directors of physical education are women. 14 This Empowering Women in Sports report is a publication of the Feminist Majority Foundation's Task Force on Women and Girls in Sports. __________________________________________________________ [LINK] [INLINE] [LINK] Title Page Navigate Options Copyright 1995, The Feminist Majority Foundation and New Media Publishing Inc. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 07:26:31 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: Bonnie and Clyde In-Reply-To: I'm looking for feminist readings of the 1967 movie *Bonnie and Clyde* and would appreciate any ideas, suggestions and readings ASAP. So far, I have found almost nothing from a woman's perspective! Thanks you. Liora Moriel Graduate Student Comparative Literature Dept. University of Maryland lioram@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:12:28 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Peter Weeks Organization: St.Thomas University Subject: references on women & technology Colleagues: Can anyone pass on to me some references on women and technology, computers and women's work, or more general feminist critiques/analyses of technology? This is in connection with a second year course on Sociology of Gender, and also a 4th. year seminar on Technology & Culture that I am putting together. I might note that a fine Canadian one was originally part of the Massey Lectures series on our public CBC radio. It is: Franklin, Ursula (1990). *The Real World of Technology*. Toronto: CBC Enterprises. Thanks a lot. Peter Weeks, Dept. of Sociology, St. Thomas University. e-mail: pweeks@stthomasu.ca Peter Weeks St.Thomas University Fredericton, N.B., Canada Email PWEEKS@StThomasU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 15:18:42 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dr Sabine Broeck Subject: request re:lillian smith hallo all, one of the authors i am working on in the context of my book project ( black memory, white amnesia) is lillian smith. i was wondering whether anybody knew about the georgetown conference on smith in oct. 94 ( participants, materials, publications), and/or about specifically african american commentary on smith's work. thanks for your attention. sabine broeck, broeck@em.uni-frankfurt.de . ciao! sabine ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:23:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: references on women & technology In-Reply-To: <11040CEE3B98@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca> A good book on this topic is: Technoculture, edited by Constance Penley and Andrew Ross, University of Minnesota Press, 1991 (vol. 3 of the Cultural Politics series). Liora Moriel lioram@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:15:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Wishart Subject: Re: references on women & technology In-Reply-To: <11040CEE3B98@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca> > Can anyone pass on to me some references on women and > technology, computers and women's work, or more general feminist > critiques/analyses of technology? > May i recommend the book TECHNOLOGY AND EMPIRE by George Grant. Although it is not recently written nor avowedly feminist, it certainly is feminist in spirit. The essay "The University Curriculum" contains many still pertinent observations and could be an excellent springboard for discussion. The author was a politicalphilosopher who taught religion and philosophy at McMaster and Dalhousie in Canada. TECHNOLOGY AND EMPIRE: George Grant (1969) House of Anasi Press, Toronto ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:05:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristin Vonnegut Subject: Re: Men's or gender studies programs Jo, The College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in Central Minnesota have a major in Gender and Women's Studies. This year, a group of faculty are working on the men's studies component of that. A contact person here is Ozzie Mayers. His address is: omayers@tiny.computing.csbsju.edu or omayers@csbsju.edu Kristin ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 11:00:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wolfgang Hirczy Subject: Re: Men's or gender studies programs (Here is a contact) Comments: cc: femisa From: Eugene August To: Wolfgang Hirczy Subject: Re: Men's or gender studies programs (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 22:54:09 EDT From: Jo Radner To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L Subject: Men's or gender studies programs I'm submitting this query for someone who's not a subscriber to WMST-L, and I'l transmit any responses back. The question is, where in the USA are there academic programs either in Men's Studies or in Gender Studies? If you think the answer might be of general interest, please reply to the list. Otherwise, please e-mail me privately. Thank you. Jo Radner JRADNER@AMERICAN.EDU 16 September 1995 Dear Jo, The answer to the question of men's studies courses and programs (and possibly gender studies programs) can be found (I believe) by contacting Sam Femiano of the American Men's Studies Association which publishes JOURNAL OF MEN'S STUDIES. Contact: Sam Femiano 22 East St. Northampton, MA 01060 Telephone: (413) 584-8903 email: coonerty@k12.oit.umass.edu Hope this helps. Eugene August august@chekov.hm.udayton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:03:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hricko Mary Subject: Beryl Miles Hello everyone, I am trying to locate information about the British travel writer, Beryl Miles. Miss Miles wrote several books about her adventures, but I have been unable to locate any biographical information on her. I am awaiting a response from her publishing company, but until then, I would appreciate if anyone could assist me. Thanks. Mary hricko -- Mary Hricko =================================================== mhricko@phoenix.kent.edu If you could kick the person who caused most of mhricko@kentvm.kent.edu your problems, you wouldn't be able to sit down 1215 Aberdeen Avenue for a week. Youngstown, OH 44502 =================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:12:39 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Rinehart Subject: Re: bearded women From: Jane Rinehart, Gonzaga University I need information regarding "bearded women," especially a revered English saint whose name I do not know, famous for a beard that appeared overnight which enabled her to avoid a dested marriage. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! --Jane Rinehart Director, Women's Studies Program Gonzaga University JRinehart@Gonzaga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 11:39:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joAnn Castagna Subject: Re: "Institutional Affiliation" a recent query asked for help in identifying the "institutional affiliations" of two theorists. i'm sure someone on the list will be able to help. but the query raised a question in my mind about how casually we may assume that every good idea is connected to an institutional affiliation, how open is the academic women's studies community to the unaffiliated--in journals/conferences/ or ideas in the classroom? joann castagna joann-castagna@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:43:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 4 more WS syllabi available I have just added four syllabi to the WMST-L syllabi collection. Lynne Alice, coordinator of Women's Studies at Massey University in New Zealand, has kindly sent me two syllabi that make up a two-semester introductory sequence: "Introduction to Women's Studies" (to which I have given the filename INTRO1 MASSEY) and "Women of Ideas and Action" (INTRO2 MASSEY). Karin Mack, who teaches Sociology at Mississippi State University in the USA, has contributed the syllabus for a course entitled "Contemporary Women" (CONTEMP WOMEN) and an updated syllabus for her course "Sex Roles and Gender" (SEXROLES GENDER). To obtain a list of all available syllabi, send a mail message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet) that says: INDEX SYLLABI . To obtain a specific syllabus, send a message to the same address saying GET [FILENAME] SYLLABI, where "[FILENAME]" is the name of the file you want. For example, GET INTRO1 MASSEY SYLLABI . To obtain more than one file, put each command on a separate line: GET INTRO1 MASSEY SYLLABI GET INTRO2 MASSEY SYLLABI GET CONTEMP WOMEN SYLLABI GET SEXROLES GENDER SYLLABI If you have syllabi in electronic form that you'd be willing to make available in the WMST-L SYLLABI files, send them directly to me in an e-mail message at either of the addresses given with my signature below. The syllabi must be in ASCII format (also known as DOS text format) and must have no lines longer than 75 characters, and each line must end in a carriage return (line feeds don't count). If you have syllabi in Wordperfect or other wordprocessing format, it is easy to convert them to ASCII format. Consult your wordprocessing manual for instructions. Two more things: 1) PLEASE BE SURE THE SYLLABUS INCLUDES YOUR NAME AND E-MAIL ADDRESS, THE NAME OF THE INSTITUTION WHERE THE COURSE WAS TAUGHT, AND THE YEAR THE SYLLABUS WAS USED; and 2) if you can, it would be especially desirable if you'd append to the end of your syllabus any projects, assignments, etc. that you used in the course and that worked well. Note: PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME PAPER COPIES OF THE SYLLABUS. I have neither the time nor a good enough scanner to convert them to an electronic format. If you have any questions, please contact me privately, not via WMST-L. Many thanks to Lynne Alice and Karin Mack for these valuable additions to the WMST-L syllabi collection. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * "The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe" * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:52:11 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Jazwinski Subject: Re: inquiry --snip-- Also is an author search on the WWW the most effective means of >doing a search on the net. An author search on the Web is not the best. When I did a search on Chechov (the Russian writer) I got very little. I did get a reference to Star Trek. I don't think that there is that much on authors on the web. I would try gopher. For a great listing of search engines go to: http://www.feminist.org/action/actsear1.html Chris Jazwinski, Ph.D Department of Psychology St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498 http://www.stcloud.msus.edu/~jaz ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:03:01 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristin Gerhard Subject: Nominations sought, Affirmative Action Officer, Iowa State University I have been asked by the search committee chair to post the following position advertisement to wmst-l. The committee is interested in building a broad, strong pool of candidates; a joint faculty appointment would be possible, and those with academic expertise in affirmative action, sexual harassment, higher education or human resources are encouraged to apply. If you know of someone who would be a good candidate, please send nominations to the address below. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OFFICER One of 25 public AAU universities, Iowa State University is a comprehensive, land-grant, Carnegie I research university located in Ames, a community of 50,000 people known for its exceptional quality of life. Iowa State has approximately 25,000 students, 1,700 faculty members, 3,700 support staff, and an annual budget exceeding $600 million. The University offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees through its nine colleges. The Affirmative Action Officer reports directly to the President. The AAO develops and monitors effective equal opportunity and affirmative action policies and procedures to ensure compliance with federal, state, and Board of Regents mandates; advises the administration, faculty and staff; participates in various training programs; investigates complaints of discrimination filed internally; and acts as liaison with federal and state enforcement agencies on compliance reviews. The successful candidate will have [1] demonstrated commitment to the concepts of affirmative action and equal opportuniy, [2] significant knowledge of civil rights law, and [3] an understanding and/or experience in implementation of a comprehensive equal opportunity/affirmative action program. Experience in higher education as an administrator or as a faculty member is strongly preferred. Advanced degree required. A joint faculty appointment is possible. Nominations and applications should be sent to: Affirmative Action Officer Search Committee Office of the President 117 Beardshear Hall Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011-2035 Applicants should submit a letter of application, a current resume, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of five references. Screening of applicants will begin October 16 nd will continue until the position is filled. Iowa State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, and members of other protected groups are strongly encouraged to apply. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 13:04:38 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Saundra Gardner Subject: Re: Whereabouts Lori-- Chandra Mohanty teaches at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. Her appointment is in Women's Studies and possibly sociology. Hope this helps. Sandy Gardner Sociology Dept. Univ. of Maine ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:42:52 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dayna Daniels Subject: Re: women's studies courses i have decided not to reply privately to the requestes for materials on women and sport in women's studies classes because i think this is a very important women's studies topic and would like to hear a broader discussion. i teach intro to women's studies as well as a course in physical education called women and sport. i, personally, find it impossible to separate these two areas. i hope many people are using sport/physical activity material as examples in all areas of women's studies. one must be careful when seeking 'materials on women and sport'. not that the materials are not good - most are excellent. but including materials on women and sport without first deconstructing sport can backfire on you. sport can draw very emotional responses from female and male students alike. a superficial overview of the numbers of women's in sport, the effects of title IX, girls on boys teams, etc. can leave you and your students frustrated. i use examples from sport/physical activity in every topic i teach in the intro to women's studies course. everything from gender socialization to sexuality to violence to eating disorders to reproductive rights to economic policy, etc....can be illustrated with examples from women and sport. this is important in 'normalizing' sport as an area of concern in the lives of girls and women. when we get around to the specific unit on women and sport/ physical activity we have already tied this aspect of women's lives to other aspects so the class discussions are less emotional (particularly if there are men in the class) and more in depth with respect to the issue and its critical analysis. besides my own class, i have been a guest speaker in a number of women's studies classes where i have spoken about women and sport. this topic always receives a lot of enthusiastic support and response. i encourage everyone to include materials on women and sport in their women's studies classes. there is an enormous amount of wonderful material - from all over the world - that ought to be available in your libraries - especially if there is a physical education/sport studies department on your campus. materials can be found from very academic/research supported materials to more lightweight, but a lot of fun, analysis that is more for public consumption. for women with little or not background in sport/physical activity (as an academic pursuit) might start with THE SPORTING WOMAN by boutilier and san giovanni (human kinetics 1983). this book is older and the 'factual' material must be checked for contemporary correctness, but the basic analyses are very good. OUT OF BOUNDS: WOMEN, SPORT AND SEXUALITY by lenskyj (the women's press, 1986) presents and excellent overview of the medical/womanhood questions that are used as barriers to women's access to sport. lenskyj also covers most of the important issues related to women in physical activity. more recently there have been a number of anthologies published: WOMEN,SPORT, AND CULTURE by birrell and cole (human kinetic) WOMEN IN SPORT: ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES by cohen (sage) WOMEN AND SPORT: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES eds. costa and guthrie mariah burton nelson's books ARE WE WINNING YET? and THE STRONGER WOMEN GET THE MORE MEN LOVE FOOTBALL provide a fun general audience reading. COMING ON STRONG by cahn looks are sport in the 20th C more historically, but it is a very good resource. works by rosemary deem are excellent resources on women and leisure (ALL WORK AND NO PLAY and RELATIVE FREEDOMS (both open unity press) articles are most likely to be found in the sport sociology journals. other intersting works are finding their way onto books store shelves- such as joan ryan's LITTLE GIRLS IN PRETTY BOXES which deals with body image and eating disorders in gynasts and figure skaters as well as child labour abuses around these sports. the greatest problem that you might be faced with in deciding to go with this topic is how do i find materials, but how do i choose?? there is an enormous amount of good literature written from every feminist perspective. i encourage everyone to begin using sport/physical activity materials in women's studies classes!! dayna ***************** Dayna B. Daniels E-mail: DANIELS@HG.ULETH.CA Women's Studies/Physical Education Voice: 403-329-2684 University of Lethbridge FAX: 403-329-2709 (O) Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 3M4 403-327-1807 (confidential) We have worked too hard to give up what we have gained so far - and we have gained too little to be satisfied with the status quo. Mary Lou Dietz ****************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 13:18:11 +0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michelle Gadpaille Subject: Re: bearded women >Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:12:39 -0700 >From: Jane Rinehart >Subject: Re: bearded women >To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L > >From: Jane Rinehart, Gonzaga University > > I need information regarding "bearded women," especially a revered >English saint whose name I do not know, famous for a beard that appeared >overnight which enabled her to avoid a dested marriage. Any help would be >appreciated. Thanks! > >--Jane Rinehart >Director, Women's Studies Program >Gonzaga University >JRinehart@Gonzaga.edu I think you mean Wilgefortis, or Uncumber / Liberata. See the novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies for a contemporary literary manifestation. Michelle Gadpaille Scarborough College University of Toronto gadpaille@macpost.scar.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:32:00 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carel Wilkin Subject: EMBA Program Comments: To: Sandra Tangri Hi Blaize I just saw an ad in this morning's paper for SFU's EMBA program. Does this mean you'll be over for the information meeting on Sept 27/95? Or is someone else coming? The President 'copped out' and wrote me back telling me to make my inquiries through Gilligan-Hackett, the University lawyer. I have some other ideas though. Talk to you soon. Carel ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 14:57:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Feminist Teacher Subject: Re: CFP oob Sorry, I got off our backs's e-mail address wrong in my earlier posting. It is 73613.1256@compuserve.com Thanks. Paula Krebs, for the Editorial Collective Feminist Teacher Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 Feminist_Teacher@WheatonMa.edu (508) 286-3652 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 15:16:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Manlowe Subject: HIV Conference . . . Please Post Widely Comments: To: outmag@aol.com, QSTUDY-L@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU, 73763.34@compuserve.com, Riverasaez@binah.cc.brandeis.edu, Rmy1@columbia.edu, EVEHAM@MIT.EDU, NATAMLB@aol.BITNET, RRowell@aol.com, pcase@hsph.harvard.edu, Wrrodrigue@bics.bwh.harvard.edu, morokoff@uriacc.uri.edu, Blnkship@aol.com, MpmNS@hamp.hampshire.edu, lramos@hamp.hampshire.edu, Anne_DeGroot@Brown.edu, franke@husc.harvard.edu, Kquina@uriacc.uri.edu, kfbF93@hamp.hampshire.edu ***********************CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT******************************= **** "CLINICAL AIDS RESEARCH: The Present Status and Future Outlook" Sponsored by= Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research Co-sponsored by Brown= University Medical School AIDS Program and Tufts University School of= Medicine on November 9-10th, 1995, Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers. Among the questions to be addressed by those working at every level of AIDS= clinical research are: * How to design studies that reflect and respect the changing demographics= of the epidemic? * How to accomodate the dramatic need to address prevention in an era of= ever-shrinking resources, and how to balance work on vaccines and other new= therapies against educational and other non-medical interventions? * How to take the information that has been gathered and convert it into= reasonable and functional public health policies? * How to maximize collaboration among federal, state, local, and private= agencies so as to produce a coherent research plan for the next decade? A distinguished interdisciplinary faculty will join those in attendance to= chart a course for the next phase of clinical research in HIV. We hope= that clinical researchers, other health care professionals, research= administrators, medical school faculty and administration, representatives= of industry, government, law and media, and persons directly affected by= this epidemic will come together in Boston to share their perspectives to= make this global threat more manageable. Some of the speakers have been included below: Patricia Fleming, Ken Mayer, Louis Lasagna, Ellen Cooper, Mark Harrington,= Mathilde Krim, Wafaa El-Sadr, Tom Stoddard, Stephen Carter, and Janet Mitch= ell Panel I - The Direction of Clinical AIDS Research and Drug Development Panel II - The Shifting Demographics of the Epidemic: How to Design Studies= to Reflect Current and Future Affected Populations Panel III - HIV Research and Reproductive Choices Panel IV - Problems Inherent in HIV Vaccine Studies =46OR REGISTRATION information contact Joan Rachlin at the Public= Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) office: 617/423-4112. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 17:02:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane E Strong Subject: Seeking "Gender Impact Statement" Does anyone have a copy of or information about a "gender impact statement" to be sent to budget-cutting committees? Please send me samples or reply privately. Barbara White Coordinator, Women's Studies Program University of New Hampshire 304A Dimond Library Durham, NH 03824-3592 bwhite@christa.unh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 17:18:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Subject: The "Color of Fear" I just finished watching a powerful segment on racism on the Oprah Winfrey Show. The show was centered around a new documentary on racism in the U.S. called the *Color of Fear.* I missed the first few minutes of the show so I did not hear whether or not this is a film that is touring theatres in the U.S. or if the film is limited to anti-racist workshops. Is any one familiar with this film and if it is (or will be) available for public viewing? Lisa Bowleg Women's Studies Program Georgetown University Internet: lisabow@gwis.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 12:17:39 +0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Keane Subject: Bearded Women Response to query from Jane Rinehart A book by Karen Armstrong (A British writer, ex-nun now academic) called The Gospel According to Woman might help you, I read it a few years ago and recall mention of a saint who avoided marriage through various amazing means - maybe her name was uncumber but I really can't remember. Anyway the book is a good read. (I tried to send this privately to you but there was a delivery problem). Good Luck Helen Keane Australian National University ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 07:21:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Hall Subject: Women's Studies/Women's Sport In response to Dayna Daniel's comments about incorporating issues about girl's and women's sport into women's studies courses and classes: I am in agreement with her general sentiments, but I also think there are some deeper issues to explore. I too have taught in both physical education and women's studies programs, often simultaneously. In my eperience, politically engaged feminists tend to marginalize or dismiss sport as unimportant to the "real" struggles over sexual equality, Sport and feminism are seen as incompatible, and sport is often overlooked, or at best underestimated, as a site of cultural struggle where gender relations are reproduced and sometimes resisted. On the other hand, physical educaton majors (indeed many sportswomen in general) are generally resistant to taking an overtly political stance on women's issues and on issues of discrimination. The politics and practices of feminism are not recognized as particularly important or relevant. In sum, the politicization of women's sport is unusual. (For an excellent resource on this point, see Jennifer Hargreaves, SPORTING FEMALES:CRITICAL ISSUES IN THE HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF WOMEN'S SPORTS, Routledge, 1994). Therefore, it is, as Dayna suggests, a good idea to incorporate women's sport "issues" into women's studies curricula and courses, but what is also important is to recognize the problems in doing so, and how to overcome some of the difficulties. If anyone is interested, I have a new book which discusses some of these issues entitled FEMINISM AND SPORTING BODIES: ESSAYS ON THEORY AND PRACTICE (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, January, 1996). I would be happy to send out further information about the book (Preface and TOC) if you contact me privately. Ann Hall Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation University of Alberta Ann.Hall@Ualberta.CA ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 21:46:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: "Color of Fear" Like Lisa Bowleg I also caught part of the Oprah show last Friday that feared this anti-racism film, "The Color of Fear." I was impressed with it and would also be glad if anyone caught info on how it is being distributed. (Since all participants in the film's depicted workshop were male, it would be interesting to compare it to all-female setting. Anyone have any suggestions on film that might cover discussions among women around racism?) Barbara Scott Winkler Center for Women's Studies West Virginia Univ. WINKLER@wvnvms.wvnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 23:54:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VALKYRIE <13ERDMAN@CUA.EDU> Subject: Re: Query: DEADBEAT DADS I was given a lead to contact an organization called ACES, which is the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support. Can anyone provide me with an address and telephone number for this group? Thanks ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 10:08:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 4 calls for papers I have received the following four calls for papers: 1) trans/forms: Insurgent Voices in Education 2) gender in medieval folklore 3) J. of Women & Minorities in Science and Engineering 4) EJVC: Diversity in Virtual Cultures For more information, please contact the people mentioned in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) *********************************************************** 1) Call for papers trans/forms Insurgent Voices in Education The Spring 1996 issue of trans/forms, "Constructions of Knowledge/Activations of Desires will consider the knowledges that get produced in institutional sites such as the family, law, academia, medicine, popular culture. We are interested in submissions that explore the social, historical, economic, political conditions under which knowledge gets produced; who and what influence these conditions; the effects of subject location(s) on knowledge production, how knowledge production informs/constructs different subject positions; how and why bodies have been theorized in the aforementioned sites; how knowledge about bodies is organized, authorized, and marginalized; how cultural and institutional sites construct and regulate articulations of bodily desire; how desire is silenced/punished in knowledge production, the kinds of investments and desires that mobilize, and are mobilized in the production of knowledge. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * knowledge as a site of resistance * embodying desire/representing desire * 'experience' as a site of knowledge * the politics of (re)presentation (eg. as related to AIDS) * marginalized sites of knowledge (eg. queer studies, postcolonial theory, anti-racist pedagogy) * desiring education/(re)educating desire * subaltern bodies/ social spaces We welcome essays, short fiction, poetry, book/art reviews, autobiography, (maximum 2000 words) and visual works. Please submit 4 copies of work (including one on disk) in APA format for peer review to: trans/forms Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto Suite 8-105, 252 Bloor St. W. Toronto, Ont., Canada M5R 1V5 e-mail inquiries to: kobrien@oise.on.ca DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: OCTOBER 15, 1995 __________________________________________ trans/forms, a graduate student journal issued out of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, publishes original, refereed works on a broad range of issues in the area of transformative education. It provides a forum for addressing relations of so cial difference as they inform educational theory and practice. trans/forms welcomes submissions dealing with all areas of education for social and global justice including First Nations politics, feminism, post-colonialism, anti-racism, Afrocentrism, anti-ableism, class politics, lesbian and gay politics, community activism, popular education, media and cultural studies, critical global education, and critical pedagogy. **************************************************************************** 2) The MEDIEVAL FOLKLORE SOCIETY invites proposals for papers for the following session held in the context of the 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-12, 1996, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. 2. Gender in Medieval Folklore Direct your proposals to: Francesca Canade Sautman Hunter College of CUNY Romance Languages 695 Park Ave., New York NY 10021 or: Madeleine Jeay Department of French McMaster University Hamilton Ontario Canada L8S 4M2 E-mail: jeaymad@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Last date for submissions: 30 September 1995. ************************************************************************ 3) CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering Women's Research Institute Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Carol J. Burger, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief The Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering publishes original, peer-reviewed papers that report innovative ideas and programs, scientific studies, and formulation of concepts related to the education, recruitment, and retention of underrepresented groups in science and engineering. Issues related to women and minorities in science and engineering are consolidated to address the entire professional and educational environment We are now seeking submissions for our second year of publication, after a successful first year. We wish to thank all those who have contributed papers, volunteered to be reviewers and requested subscriptions during the first year of publication. Subjects for papers submitted can include: empirical studies of current qualitative or quantitative research; historical investigations of how minority status impacts science and engineering; original theoretical or conceptual analyses of feminist science and Afrocentric science; reviews of literature to help develop new ideas and directions for future research; explorations of feminist teaching methods, black student/white teacher interactions; cultural phenomena that affect the classroom climate. To receive guidelines for manuscript preparation or to submit a curriculum vita if you are interested in reviewing papers for the journal contact: Kathy Wager, Editorial Assistant Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering Women's Research Institute Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 10 Sandy Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061-0338 Phone: 540-231-6296 Fax: 540-231-7669 E-mail: JRLWMSE@VT.EDU SUBSCRIPTIONS AND REQUESTS FOR A SAMPLE COPY are being handled by the publisher, Begell House, Inc. To subscribe, send a letter with check payable to Begell House, Inc. to Mr. Jung Ra, Begell House, Inc. 79 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016-7892. Institutional rate: $75.00; Individual rate: $40.00. Individual rate must be paid by personal check, and is available to home address only. ****************************************************************************** 4) CALL FOR ARTICLES Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture Special Issue: Diversity in Virtual Cultures Issue Editor: Nina Wakeford Department of Sociological Studies Sheffield University Great Britain N.Wakeford@sheffield.ac.uk The December 1995 issue of the EJVC will be devoted to diversity in virtual culture. Following a special issue of the EJVC on gender, at this time articles would be of interest which document or theorise differences, which might include those of race, sexuality, religion, age or region, for example. What kind of presences are emerging which are not straight/white/male? Where are these presences found? How are they linked to activism within feminism, anti-racism, queer and radical politics, or elsewhere? How is the oppression or empowerment of diverse peoples managed in virtual culture either by individuals or institutions? Articles concerning experiences of diversity in an international context would also be welcomed, as would theoretical concepts around diversity, such as issues of identity, community, and boundary. **NB**The issue editor encourages correspondence about proposed contributions before submission by sending electronic mail with the subject line EJVC Issue to N.Wakeford@Sheffield.ac.uk Deadline for submission of articles: October 15, 1995 Deadline for revisions: November 15, 1995 Publication of Special Issue: December, 1995 Contributions will be peer-reviewed by the journal's normal editorial process before final acceptance for publication. _________________________________ Articles may be submitted by email or send/file to: Diane K. Kovacs, Editor-in-Chief, _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ ejvcedit@kentvm.kent.edu ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 10:46:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ak28 Subject: Bearded women In-Reply-To: <01HVCXJX4OACI2JMRM@WVNVMS.WVNET.EDU> Regarding the previous request for information on bearded women, I got the following from a pamphlet at the Museo de Tavera in Toledo, Spain. It concerns a painting hanging there called "La Mujer Barbuda" [The Bearded Woman] by the 17th-century painter, Diego de Ribera: "This woman, by the name of Magdalena Ventura, was a native of the Abruzzi, in the Kingdom of Naples [then part of Spain]. At the age of 37, she grew a beard and a mustache. She had 7 children, 3 of whom were born before the beard, and 4 after. She was married twice, and is shown in the picture with her second husband, Felix, and suckling her last child, born when she was 52 years old. . . . [the Viceroy of Naples] commissioned Ribera to make the portrait in 1631, so as to bring this extraordinary case to the knowledge of King Felipe III." In the painting, her beard is longer than that of her husband, who keeps his quite trim. Hope this is of some help, Ana Kothe ak28@umail.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 11:42:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1 Intro syllabus; many e-resources I have just added another new Intro to Women's Studies syllabus to the WMST-L collection, this one from Duke University (Jean O'Barr, via Vivan Robinson). To retrieve it, send the message GET INTRO DUKE to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . To get a list of all the available syllabi, send the message INDEX SYLLABI to the same LISTSERV address. Many thanks to Vivian Robinson and Jean O'Barr for making this syllabus available. Also, I'd like to call your attention to a number of relatively new email resources for women. The following lists have been added (A = added) to the compilation of women-related email lists this month: GYN-DOCS (A, 9/17) OVARIAN (A, 9/16) FEM-ALERT (A, 9/15) COSWA-L (A, 9/13) EE-WOMEN (A, 9/10) soc.women.lesbian-and-bi (A, 9/8) WRAC-L (A, 9/6) QSA (A, 9/6) To get the entire compilation, which includes more information about the above lists, send the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you prefer, you can access the compilation on the World Wide Web. The URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html . Finally, I am appending four notices that I have received in the last few weeks about new women-related Web sites. I am linking some but not all of these sites to the UMBC Women's Studies site (http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html), but I wanted to let everyone know about them: **************************************************************************** 1) We are creating a collaborative bibliography of women philosophers. Take a look http://billyboy.ius.indiana.edu/womeninphilosophy/womeninphilo.html noel hutchings ***************************************************************************** 2) Recently I finished putting together a WWW page which gives information about a journal which is being published by Edith Cowan University in Australia. The journal is called the _International Review of Women and Leadership_. The WWW page is at: http://www.cowan.edu.au/dvc/irwl/welcome.htm Cathy Cupitt ***************************************************************************** 3) Announcing WOMEN'SPACE web site: http://www.softaid.net/cathy/vsister/w-space/womspce.html WOMEN'SPACE is a women's newsletter which is based in Nova Scotia, Canada. We started the newsletter to bridge the gap between those women who were already involved in organizing on the Internet, and those women who are centred in community organizing but are not as yet online. WOMEN'SPACE was born out of a need to develop our understanding, and our use of cyberspace as a powerful tool for women's activism. To date there are two issues available: June and September. We hope to bring Internet resources and global networks to women working on issues in their local areas, to promote accessibility to online tools and resources, and to support the exchange of experiences and ideas amongst women's groups, particularly those who have limited resources for travel and conferences. WOMEN'SPACE is affiliated with Virtual Sisterhood, and her Web Site has been created by the WWW Development team, a volunteer effort by women for women. Many thanks to Barbara Ann O'Leary and Mary Trounstine for their support, encouragement and creative talents, and to Cathy Ganssle for her site donation. diamond@fox.nstn.ca (Scarlet Pollock and Jo Sutton) ***************************************************************************** 4) We publish New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams - an ad-free, international bimonthly edited entirely by girls 8-14. We also publish New Moon Network: For Adults Who Care About Girls. Both publications have a strong emphasis on educational equity, and provide tools for girls, teachers, parents, and other audlts to resist the silencing of girls. We would like to set up a reciprocal link between your WWW page and ours. Please check out our web site at "http://newmoon.duluth.mn.us/~newmoon" and let us know what you think. Right now, several girl editors of New Moon are reporting on-line from the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing. If you have not seen copies of our magazines, let me know and I will send you samples. I look forward to working with you! Nancy Gruver ****************************************************************************** I am always interested in receiving information about new e-mail lists, web sites, and other women-related electronic resources, as well as changes in the information I have. Please contact me privately at the address below, NOT VIA WMST-L. Many thanks. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 13:11:40 EST5EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Radner Subject: (Fwd) Stop the Silence American Amendment This message came to me from a women folklorists' list, but is relevant far beyond the realm of folklore. I'm passing the information along to WMST-L. Jo Radner ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: 14 Sep 95 22:39:44 EDT From: Debora Kodish <71524.2100@compuserve.com> To: all , all , Jane Beck , Andy Eskind , Rene , TZE M CHAU <70461.2267@compuserve.com> Subject: Stop the Silence American Amendment To: Folklorists/All From: Independent Sector/ Let America Speak! (via the Philadelphia Folklore Project) Re: The Silence America Amendment (Istook/McIntosh/Ehrlich amendment). More trouble-this time in the Senate. Immediate action is needed. By the end of September, the Senate is expected to vote on an amendment that will severely restrict the right of community organizations that receive federal aid to speak out for the people they serve. The "Silence America Amendment"--also known as the Istook/McIntosh/Ehrlich amendment-was hurriedly passed by the House (HR 2127) in August. It is now working its way through committees in the Senate. As of 9/14/95, it is in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Pennsylvanians should know that PA Senator Arlen Spector stripped the amendment from a Health, Human Services sub-committee version, but it is expected to be introduced again, and to reach the full Senate within about two weeks. This amendment would impose unprecedented restrictions on how EVERY NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION that receives a federal grant could use its federal AND non-federal funds. This would include folk arts agencies as well as academics receiving grants through universities. The restrictions would also apply to agencies that receive federal money through state agencies-for example folk arts groups funded through state agencies but with federal block grants. The Istook/McIntosh/Ehrlich amendment would prohibit any organization from receiving a federal grant if it spends more than 5% of its non-federal budget (that is, money raised from any sources whatsoever) on advocacy in any one of the five previous years. It defines advocacy extremely broadly, going past the IRS definition of lobbying. Advocacy would be construed to include any kind of communication with any level of government, any communication about the policies of any government agency, publicity about government-funded programs, legal challenges to government programs, and even services provided to people to help them access government programs (i.e. technical assistance to traditional artists or grassroots groups who apply for government funding). Increased reporting requirements would also be instituted, and organizations would be subject to fines if they cannot prove that they did NOT exceed the 5% advocacy limit. This is an outrageous attack on free speech and democratic access, but it passed the Houe already. This amendment will impose restrictions only on grants (which go to nonprofits) and not on contracts (which go to for-profit corporations. This amendment will make "representative" government even more the domain of those special interests that can afford to be represented. It will severely decrease access for millions of people in need. Organizations affected by this will include not only folklife agencies, but also grassroots agencies working in basic education, health care, housing, food programs, and much more. This amendment is unnecessary- federal laws already prohibit nonprofits from using grant funds to lobby or engage in electioneering. Please call your senators immediately, telling them of the important work done by nonprofits that would be jeopardized by this amendment, and asking them to vehemently oppose this attempt to silence America. Information and materials are available from Independent Sector (202-223-8100) or from Let America Speak!, a coalition of hundreds of grassroots organizations (202-332-3224). ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 17:00:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marge Piercy Subject: janes movie I am trying to locate a video or film i know only as "The Janes Movie" about a group of women who helped other women get abortions back when it was illegal. Many of us did that then, but this is the only film (or video) I have heard about. Does anyone know what the real title is and where it is available? Reply privately please. Marge Piercy hagolem@delphi.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 01:49:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: David Greene Subject: color of fear This film is available for purchase ( and perhaps rental). The college that I teach at purchased it last year. I will try to get more details; those interested could try contacting the media librarian who ordered it-- erisch@ultrix.ramapo.edu David ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 00:50:04 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hale Bolak Subject: citation request hello folks, If you have a copy of Feminism and Psychology, 1993, the issue with commentaries on Weisstein's article on women and psychology, I would greatly appreciate if you could send me the initials of the authors Hartnett and Prince who co-authore d one of the commentaries. I need it urgently, and don't have access to a librar y that has it. Thanks! Hale ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 07:59:18 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Jenny Lloyd, Director of Women's Studies, Department" Subject: Re: WMST L: Re: womens studies courses We have a course on Women and Sport taught in our PE and Sport department. Contact Dr. Judy Jensen, Department of Physical Education and Sport, 215 Tuttle North, SUNY College at Brockport, 350 New Campus Drive, Brockport, NY 14420 Tel. 716 395-2601 e-mail jjenso@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu. She has an extensive slide collection. Jenny Lloyd, Director of Women's Studies, SUNY College at Brockport jlloyd@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:34:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Daley, Ginny" Subject: Women's Studies Research Grants Available Comments: To: duke-femilist@acpub.duke.edu, dukelgb@acpub.duke.edu, gradwomen@acpub.duke.edu, women@acpub.duke.edu, profemen@acpub.duke.edu, wise@acpub.duke.edu, intl-gender@acpub.duke.edu, H-WOMEN@msu.edu, feminist@mitvma.mit.edu, WWP-L@brownvm.brown.edu, sthcult@gibbs.oit.unc.edu, sixties-l@jefferson.village.virginia.edu, AFAS-L@kentvm.BITNET, archives@miamiu.BITNET, gay-libn@uscvm.BITNET RESEARCH GRANTS for WOMEN'S STUDIES at the Special Collections Library, Duke University The Special Collections Library of Duke University announces the availability of research grants for scholars whose work would benefit from using women's materials in the library's collections. The library's holdings support research in a wide variety of disciplines and approaches to women's studies topics. Print sources and manuscripts reflecting the history and culture of the American South are particularly strong. Collections of personal and family papers from the 19th and 20th centuries complement print sources such as women's prescriptive literature, periodicals, and fiction. African-American women's history is documented in these collections. Women's roles in the American advertising ind ustry along with images of women in popular culture can be studied in the collections of the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History. A number of women writers have placed their personal and professional papers in Special Collections, and the library holds the archives of several individual's and women's organizations focusing on feminism, women's rights, and lesbian culture. For more information about the library's collections, consult: - the Special Collections Women's Studies home page on the World Wide Web - Duke University's on-line library catalog - the published Guide to the Cataloged Collections of the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University (Richard C. Davis and Linda A. Mill er, eds., 1980). - Bibliographies and flyers describing women's collections are also available from Ginny Daley, Women's Studies Archivist at (919)660-5828 or Who is eligible? Anyone with a scholarly interest in women's studies research is invited to apply. Faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and independent scholars whose work would benefit from resources in Special Collections are eligible. What can grant moneys be used for? Grant money may be used for travel to the Special Collections Library, costs of copying pertinent resources from Special Collections, and living expenses while pursuing research here. Grant amounts are awarded up to $2000 and must be used within one year of notifi cation of the award. How do I apply? An application form can be secured at the SCL WWW site or by contacting: Ginny Daley, Women's Studies Archivist at the Special Collections Library Duke University Box 90185 Durham, NC 27708-0185, 919 660-5828, or In addition to the form, applicants are asked to supply: 1) Project abstract of 100 words or fewer; 2) Budget for the amount of grant money requested; 3) Outline of the project's goals, methods, and expected results, reflecting its relationship to women's studies holdings in Special Collections; 4) Vita; 5)Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of two references familiar with your research When is the deadline? Deadline for submitting applications is October 15, 1995. When will I know if I will receive a grant? Awards will be announced December 15, 1995. Please note: We plan to offer these grants annually, so keep us in mind when planning future projects! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:56:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Margaret Rozga Subject: Re: Seeking "Gender Impact Statement" In-Reply-To: your message of Fri Sep 15 17:02:05 -0400 1995 If anyone has the gender impact statements requested by Barbara White, I would also like copies. Thank you. Margaret Rozga Women's Studies UW Centers 1500 University Drive Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188 email: mrozga@uwcmail.uwc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:47:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucinda Peach Subject: Re: Beijing Women's Conference Platform In-Reply-To: I'm interested in using bits of the UN Women's Conference Platform in class this week, and was disappointed that the newspapers didn't have more coverage. Does anyone know how to access additional information about the contents of the platform? Thanks! Lucinda Peach Legal and Ethical Studies Program University of Baltimore 1420 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 12:01:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Beijing Women's Conference Platform Lucinda Peach writes: > I'm interested in using bits of the UN Women's Conference Platform in class > this week, and was disappointed that the newspapers didn't have more > coverage. Does anyone know how to access additional information about > the contents of the platform? I think WomensNet has a Beijing page on the World Wide Web. The URL is http://www.igc.apc.org/womensnet/beijing/beijing.html . I think you'll find what you're looking for there. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:28:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Laura Ettinger Subject: Query: Reading for a history of childbirth course Later this semester I will be teaching a six-week Medical Humanities class to first year medical students. The course is on the history of childbirth in the United States. On the last day (the class meets only once a week), we will be discussing childbirth since the 1970s. Students will read an excerpt from Sheila Kitzinger, _The Experience of Childbirth_, an excerpt from "Joni Magee, Unorthodox Obstetrician," in _In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Women Physicians_, and Gloria Waite, "Childbirth, Lay Institution Building, and Health Policy: The Traditional Childbearing Group, Inc., of Boston in a Historical Context," in _Wings of Gauze: Women of Color and the Experience of Health and Illness_. I want to include an article, preferably from the 1990s, by a physician who argues that we are taking natural childbirth and less technologically- oriented childbirth a bit too far. Any suggestions? Thanks! Laura Ettinger Department of History University of Rochester Rochester, New York LETR@db1.cc.rochester.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:21:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelli Zaytoun Byrne Subject: Take Back Night Assistance Comments: To: WMST-L%UMDD.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU If you have any information on the following, please respond privately to KBYRNE@desire.wright.edu. Your assistance is much appreciated: *the history of Take Back the Night Marches *Take Back the Night March chants Also, I am assisting a student who isn't networked and doing research on differences in men and women in the ways they find/make meaning in life. can anyone recommend some specific research in that area? Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:30:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ryan musgrave Subject: Re: Judy Chicago In-Reply-To: <01HVF5MQR5DE000HXC@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU>; from "Joan Korenman" at Sep 18, 95 12:01 pm Sorry to revisit an old question-- ---but info. about Judy Chicago's whereabouts/contact address & phone # recently came over the list, & like a dud, I deleted it exactly when I needed it. If someone has a copy, could you please forward it to my acct--? lrmusgra@sage.cc.purdue.edu -- THanks!! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:37:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dolores Fidishun Subject: Re: references on women & technology >If it hasn't been mentioned already, check out Sherry Turkle's articles and her book The Second Self (Simon and Schuster, 1984) Dolores Fidishun Phone: 610-648-3227 Head Librarian Fax: 610-695-0205 Penn State Great Valley Email: dxf19@psugv.psu.edu 30 E. Swedesford Road Malvern, PA 19355 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:42:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Scott P. Kerlin" Subject: Re: references on women & technology Comments: cc: bakerlin@FLASH.LakeheadU.CA We have both been conducting ongoing research on feminist and critical perspectives on technology and would like to recommend the following books if they have not already been suggested: Andrew Feenberg, *Critical Theory of Technology*, New York: Oxford U Press, 1991 Joan Rothschild, *Teaching Technology from a Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide*, New York: Teachers College Press, 1988 Judy Wajcman, *Feminism Confronts Technology*, Penn State University Press, 1991 Scott and Bobbi Kerlin Moderators, AERA-GSL Graduate Studies Discussion List spkerlin@flash.lakeheadu.ca and bakerlin@flash.lakeheadu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:47:07 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: brenda beagan Subject: Re: references on women & technology In-Reply-To: <11040CEE3B98@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca> another reference re women and technology i haven;t seen posted yet is: Wajcman, Judy Feminism Confronts Technology. University Park, Penn: The Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 1991 also anything by British sociologist Cynthia Cockburn, especially Cockburn, Cyunthia. Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-How. London, Pluto Press, 1985. brenda beagan@unixg.ubc.ca On Fri, 15 Sep 1995, Peter Weeks wrote: > Colleagues: > > Can anyone pass on to me some references on women and > technology, computers and women's work, or more general feminist > critiques/analyses of technology? > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:59:48 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Sintic Murphy unsubsribe WMST-L Cynthia Murphy ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:24:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: HOW (NOT) TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM WMST-L IMPORTANT INFORMATION: PLEASE SAVE THIS MESSAGE If you wish to unsubscribe from WMST-L, DO NOT SEND A MESSAGE TO WMST-L . 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Write to me PRIVATELY, not via WMST-L. Many thanks. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 02:22:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wolfgang Hirczy Subject: Re: Query: DEADBEAT DADS In-Reply-To: <01HVD1Z00UHU8WWXEP@CU4700.CUA.EDU> Dear Valkyrie, I think your request is inappropriate for this list in light of its stated purpose. As a dad, I also find the above epithet offensive. Would you welcome a thread on "MEAL-TICKET MOMS" in this cyberforum? Even the media is coming around to using gender-neutral terminology on this issue. Sincerely, Dr. Wolfgang Hirczy On Sat, 16 Sep 1995, VALKYRIE wrote: > I was given a lead to contact an organization called ACES, which is > the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support. Can anyone provide > me with an address and telephone number for this group? Thanks ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 05:16:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VALKYRIE <13ERDMAN@CUA.EDU> Subject: Re: Query: DEADBEAT DADS To Wolfgang Hirczy: Get off your PC high horse! Who made you monitor of this or any other list? Perhaps you should start your own, if we the unwashed masses are not good enough for you. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:01:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Norton Subject: Reply to Re: references on women & technology In-Reply-To: Oh, I see what book you were referring to in the first message I read. One of the things I don't get used to with e-mail is that messages don't always come in the order they're sent. BN ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:36:18 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Seana Dowling Subject: Re[2]: Query: DEADBEAT DADS Some anonymous person wrote: >>To Wolfgang Hirczy: >>Get off your PC high horse! Who made you monitor of this or any >>other list? Perhaps you should start your own, if we the unwashed >>masses are not good enough for you. I am really surprised and rather appalled at this response in this educated, enlightened and open forum. Wolfgang expressed an opinion which I would like to see opened to discussion. I welcome a diversity of opinion and am interested in the perspectives of people with experiences and viewpoints different from my own. If you disagree with Wolfgang, why not express yourself in an understandable, articulate manner, rather than FLAME the person and opinion you disagree with? I'd rather see YOU get off the list than lose the sense of diversity and openness that usually characterizes this list. Seana Dowling sdowling@idcresearch.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:50:20 -0500 Reply-To: korenman@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Let's end the deadbeat dads thread, please Please, folks, let's end this discussion of "deadbeat dads" messages NOW. In the future, please do NOT send to WMST-L messages criticizing other list members. If you feel you must send such messages, please do so PRIVATELY. Doing so publicly runs the risk of disrupting the list and adding needlessly to its already heavy mail volume, thus creating problems for many subscribers. Please do NOT reply to this message. If you're unhappy, you can unsubscribe by sending the message UNSUB WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (or, if you subscribed via Bitnet, to LISTSERV@UMDD. If one address doesn't work, try the other. If neither works, write to me PRIVATELY asking to be removed). Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:59:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Two short queries In-Reply-To: <9508198115.AA811524978@ccmailin.idcresearch.com> Two short queries: 1. Does anyone have a gender-neutral term that could be used as a substitute for *freshman* in college/university settings? (One suggestion from my immediate circle is *frosh* which is already current -- do you think that would work?) 2. Does anyopne have suggestions for a feminist reading of *Bonnie and Clyde* (the 1967 movie)? Thank you. Liora Moriel Comparative Literature Dept. University of Maryland lioram@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:08:55 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Miller Subject: Re: Two short queries In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:59:29 -0400 from "First-year student" has been adopted by some universities as a substitute for "freshman." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:11:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Constance J Ostrowski Subject: Re: Two short queries Re: Liora Moriel's first question, about a gender-neutral alternative to "freshman": "first-year" seems to be gaining increasing acceptance, as in the case of "freshman" English courses which are being renamed "First-year Composition," etc. Connie Ostrowski ostroc@rpi.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:47:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: rjensen Subject: Re: Two short queries In-Reply-To: On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, liora moriel wrote: > Two short queries: > 1. Does anyone have a gender-neutral term that could be used as a > substitute for *freshman* in college/university settings? (One suggestion > from my immediate circle is *frosh* which is already current -- do you > think that would work?) first-year student. -------------------------- Robert Jensen Department of Journalism University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu office: (512) 471-1990 fax: (512) 471-7979 -------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:02:11 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Young Subject: Re: Two short queries >at the College of Wooster we use first-year. Two short queries: >1. Does anyone have a gender-neutral term that could be used as a >substitute for *freshman* in college/university settings? (One suggestion >from my immediate circle is *frosh* which is already current -- do you >think that would work?) > >2. Does anyopne have suggestions for a feminist reading of *Bonnie and >Clyde* (the 1967 movie)? > >Thank you. > >Liora Moriel >Comparative Literature Dept. >University of Maryland >lioram@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:25:41 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laurel crown I am posting this for a friend who is teaching an introductory Family Relations course. She is developing a section on dating violence that will hopefully become a standard part of the course regardless who teaches it. If anyone has a reading list that would be appropriate for an introductory course, syllabi, or other information, we would appreciate any suggestions since this is a new area for her. She is especially interested in finding a film to show the class that would be instructive and illicit discussion. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Laurel Crown lcrown@factstaff.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:33:26 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Taylor Subject: Re: Two short queries In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:59:29 -0400 from My favorite gender-neutral term for first-year students is "freshling" -- because it seems so suitable. "Frosh" would probably be more readily accepted and recognized and wouldn't call so much attention to itself. Barbara G. Taylor University of Arkansas bt24761@uafsysa.uark.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:09:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Ms. Dainty" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ms. Dainty" Subject: Re: Query: DEADBEAT DADS In-Reply-To: Dr. Hirczy, Unlike yourself, I don't necessarily believe that Valkyrie's info request was inappropriate "in light of [the list's] stated purpose." As I read my pre-subscription listserv info, I find that WMST-L "is intended primarily to serve the academic and professional needs involved with Women's Studies as teachers, researchers, librarians, and/or program administrators." Solicitation of the ACES address is IMO consistent with an academic or professional need within a discipline that teaches about the experiences of the female half of the world's population. With respect to the "epithet" that Valkyrie used--There are many pros/cons to use of gender-neutral language both within WS and outside it. Many "experiences" in life are *not* gender neutral and are heavily weighted on one side statistically, and I'm increasingly finding that many of us are called upon to assume a neutrality that masks the reality of life situations. As educators and students, it behooves us to ask ourselves critically when gender-"neutrality" is warranted, and for what ends the neutrality is being used. melissa dean cleveland-marshall college of law ************************************************************************** /\__/\ "ALL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LIFE I LEARNED /\__/\ |* __* | FROM MY CAT" |* __* | \____/ (and "FIDELIO") \____/ Doch wenn ich nicht errothen muss, Ob einem warmen Herzenskuss, Wenn nichts uns stort au Erden, Die Hoffhung schon erfullt die Brust! Mit unaussprechlich susser Lust! **************************************** Ms. Dainty ************************************************************************ > As a dad, I also find the above epithet offensive. Would you welcome a > thread on "MEAL-TICKET MOMS" in this cyberforum? Even the media is coming > around to using gender-neutral terminology on this issue. > > Sincerely, > > Dr. Wolfgang Hirczy > > > On Sat, 16 Sep 1995, VALKYRIE wrote: > > > I was given a lead to contact an organization called ACES, which is > > the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support. Can anyone provide > > me with an address and telephone number for this group? Thanks > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:11:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ms. Dainty" Subject: Re: Two short queries In-Reply-To: liora, on my undergraduate campus, i found that many used the term "first year student" as a substitute for "freshman." melissa ************************************************************************** /\__/\ "ALL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LIFE I LEARNED /\__/\ |* __* | FROM MY CAT" |* __* | \____/ (and "FIDELIO") \____/ Doch wenn ich nicht errothen muss, Ob einem warmen Herzenskuss, Wenn nichts uns stort au Erden, Die Hoffhung schon erfullt die Brust! Mit unaussprechlich susser Lust! **************************************** Ms. Dainty ************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:37:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Heidi Hutner Subject: Re: Disney Thanks very much to all who responded to my query about gender, race, and Disney animated films. Listed below are the citations I found: (If anyone finds any more citations, please let me know at HHutner@aol.com) Bell, Haas, Sells, Eds. From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Indiana UP, 1995. (forthcoming) Henry Giroux. Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture. Routledge, 1994. ---Giroux. "Animating Youth: The Disneyfication of Children's Culture." Socialist Review. 94/3 (most recent edition) Leadbeater and Wilson. "Flipping Their Fins For A Place to Stand." Youth and Society. 1993/4, 466-486. Joanna Kadi-- Colors (I don't have the full citation), an article on Aladdin. Jack Shaheen--LA Times, Dec 21/93--an article on Aladdin. --Shaheen, on Aladdin, in Cineaste, 1993, 20:1, 49. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:13:22 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Jones Subject: Re: references on women & technology In-Reply-To: <11040CEE3B98@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca> Last year our university had a conference on the history of the word, including a section on the current information revolution. One of the speakers was Brenda Laurel, who currently works in Palo Alto and who also publishes. She works in Virtual Reality. She is a wonderful speaker, and talked about her experiments in constructing virtual reality programs based on a paradigm of children's play, rather than the warfare paradigm. Inter alia, she critiques current constructions of technology. She is trained in drama. Her articles are interesting. Helen Jones University of Nevada, Reno ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 12:27:36 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Goldsmith Subject: Dating Violence I have used the book "I Never Called It Rape" by Robin Warshaw, HarperPerennial Press, Used Chapter entitled The Rape Crisis, or Is Dating Danger ous from Katie Roiphe's The Morning After, Little, Brown and Company, which criticizes Warshaw and Koss whose data Warshaw uses and then shown the ; movie The Date Rape Backlash from the Media Education Foundation, 26 Center Street, Northampton, MA 01060 which criticizes Roiphe and the entire bac klash against the concept of date rape. It did provoke much discussion. Diane Goldsmith MA_Goldmsith@ commnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:43:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Geoffrey E Brewster Subject: Re: Query: DEADBEAT DADS Comments: To: "Ms. Dainty" In-Reply-To: Hello everyone, This is the first time that I have written to this list, but it seems like I have something to add on this topic. I agree that a more gender-neutral term should be used. As I have witnessed when lurking about on this and other lists, the terms that we use to describe a social phenomenon (sp?) can affect the way people view those terms. The term Deadbeat Dads does not describe the entire situation. I personally know of two men who are taking care of their children while going to college with no support from their estranged spouses. Both the women happen to have fairly good jobs, and could afford to send some financial to the children that they helped bring into the world. So, my point is that if there is another term to describe a situation that gets more at the truth, then that term should be used. I deplore any parent who deserts their children and then does nothing to help in the support of those children. However, the entire problem (although I do agree that most of the perpetrators happen to be male) cannot be blamed on Dads alone. This would be similar to blaming the entire "problem" of social welfare on so-called "welfare queens." All that would really have to happen is replace the word "dads" with the word "parents." I know its not as catchy an Deadbeat Dads, but it does describe the problem more fully, and risks offending fine, upstanding fathers much less. Thank you for your time, and I hope that this contributed to the wonderful discussin that takes place on this list. ****************************************************************************** Geoffrey E. Brewster Political Science Department mugeb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Western Illinois University Graduate Student PH. (309)298-1349 ****************************************************************************** Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. --Thomas Jefferson, April 24, 1816 in a letter to Du Pont de Nemours ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:17:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith L. Poxon" Subject: french-feminism list In-Reply-To: <01HVGDDD9JR8000QIA@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> This is to let everyone know of the existence of an on-line discussion of French feminist theory called french-feminism. This list was originally devoted to discussion of the work of Luce Irigaray only--and there is still much interest in her work in evidence in the discussions--but it has been expanded to include other theorists, such as Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, Rosi Braidotti, and Avital Ronell. If you are interested in subscribing to the list, send a message to majordomo@lists.jefferson.village.edu in which you leave the subject line blank and in which the body of the message says subscribe french-feminism In the near future, the list is planning a group discussion of an essay of Irigaray's (yet to be determined), and we would welcome anyone who wants to participate, or even just to listen in. Judith Poxon Syracuse University, Dept. of Religion jlpoxon@mailbox.syr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 12:22:05 -0500 Reply-To: "Jane I. Olmsted" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Jane I. Olmsted" Subject: Re: Two short queries Comments: To: WMST-L%UMDD.UMD.EDU@vm1.spcs.umn.edu At the risk of beating a dead horse . . . Since a good many first year students are women returning to school after raising kids or working for pay, terms like "freshling" and "frosh" seem rather juvenile, whereas "first-year student" seems accurately descriptive. Jane Olmsted no longer fresh at the Univ. of MN > My favorite gender-neutral term for first-year students is "freshling" > -- because it seems so suitable. "Frosh" would probably be more readily > accepted and recognized and wouldn't call so much attention to itself. > > Barbara G. Taylor > University of Arkansas > bt24761@uafsysa.uark.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:09:22 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosie Subject: new bell hooks There was a brief review of bell hooks new book, "Art on My Mind: Visual Politics" in this week's issue of the New York Times Book Review. (Sept.17, 1995, pg. 25) It deals with "the way race, sex & class shape who makes art and who values it. Why there are so few black artists or critical black voices thinking and writing about art...." The reviewer was Andrea Barnet. I call it to your attention because so many of use bell hooks' writings in our women's studies classes. ...................................................................... Rosa Maria Pegueros e-mail: pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu Department of History telephone: (401) 792-4092 217C Washburn Hall University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0817 "Women hold up half the sky." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:13:04 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cecilia Julagay Subject: list for domestic violence? I have checked the excellent source for other lists Joan has compiled and checked several sources through lynx, but cannot find a list specifically for domestic violence. I _thought_ that I had heard of such a list. If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it. Respond privately. -Thanks, Cecilia julagay@ucrac1.ucr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 14:12:48 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Gorham Subject: Request for help In-Reply-To: <199505200245.WAA23286@holmes.umd.edu>; from "Joan Korenman" at May 19, 95 10:44 pm I am an inactive subscriber. I have been asked to help a chinese woman who wishes to come to North America to do graduate work, and I would like to circulate a request for information on her behalf. I need to know 1. how to activate receiving information 2. how to send a message myself. Thanks. Deborah Gorham dgorham@carleton.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 12:36:58 -0600 Reply-To: bystydj@franklincoll.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Bystydzienski Subject: Women's Studies in Canada Does anyone know when (what year) and where (at which institution)was the first womens' studies program in Canada established? Also, apporximately how many programs are there currently in Canada? Please reply privately to: Jill Bystydzienski BYSTYDJ@Franklincoll.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:35:40 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Re: new bell hooks Actually, bell hooks' NEWEST book is just out and is called KILLING RAGE; I forget the subtitle but "racism" is in it. She sure is prolific! Has anyone read the new book yet? Thanks, Rosa, for calling attention to the review of her now-penultimate book on art. Marilyn Edelstein, English, Santa Clara U medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:20:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ak28 Subject: Re: Two short queries In-Reply-To: Hello Liora, I use "first year student" as often as possible. Frosh works, too. Hasn't Linda Coleman discussed this issue? Yours, Ana ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 14:38:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Coleman Subject: location query A colleague writing a textbook is in search of the e-mail or institutional addresses of Olga Silverstein and Beth Rashbaum who wrote The Courage to Raise Good Men. Please send this information to me privately--cflsc@eiu.edu. Thanks in advance. -- Linda S. Coleman Eastern Illinois University cflsc@eiu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 16:00:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea Austin <3AJA1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Subject: Re: Two short queries In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:59:29 -0400 from Liora, here at Queen's, incoming first-year students are called "frosh" ("dumb frosh" particularly by upper year engineers) and have been... well, ever since I was one, which is 11 years ago now, so I'm sure the term has been in currency here quite a long time. Come to think of it, the first week before classes begin was officially known as Frosh Week, and was already legendary, when I was in high school. So, yes, the term "frosh" can and does work. (We also call incoming transfer students "trashies", but that's another matter....) ;-) Andrea Austin Queen's University 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 16:25:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: gender-neutral frosh In-Reply-To: <9509191938.AA25473@ux1.eiu.edu> An update on Short Query No. 1: Thanks you everyone who responded so swiftly! So far I have been blessed with quite a number of responses to my first short query about a gender-neutral substitute for *freshman* -- and the overwhelming favorite, from several campuses and continents, is *first-year student*. While this privileges a countdown view of academic endeavor (and unfortunately is underwhelming the professor for whose book I'm attempting this revision), it seems to be both useful and in great current use. I'm still open to suggestions if anyone has other insights. Thanks! Liora Moriel Comparative Literature Dept. University of Maryland lioram@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 16:27:57 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea Austin <3AJA1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Subject: Re: Two short queries In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:11:13 -0400 from Sorry, when I said that Frosh Week was already legendary when I was in high school, I meant to say that it was well-known *as* Frosh Week, primarily, rather than, say, hazing week or hell week. True, the term is a bit juvenile--but many of the frosh seem to embrace this, even some of the older ones, I notice, as a sort of license to exult in feeling young or young again, a sort of Bakhtian carnival celebrating the youthfulness inherent in new beginnings, regardless of age. Andrea Austin Queen's University 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 18:09:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: flat5 Subject: pink/blue I remember reading somewhere that the color designations pink for girls, blue for boys were at one time reversed because pink was thought of as a more powerful color. Does anyone else remember this or might anyone have a source I could dig up? Please respond privately. Thanks! Anne flat5@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:30:53 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "smithju aka Judy R. Smith" Subject: women and illness One of our senior majors is proposing a research essay on female characters ill with tuberculosis in the 19th century British novel. She has centered on Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Wings of the Dove. She has found one specific reference to tuberculosis in WIngs of the Dove (an article in the Journal of the History of Medicine) but has had no success finding others. Any help you could offer would be appreciated. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 17:32:42 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Cheryl A. Rickabaugh" Subject: Study Abroad Programs I am compiling information on study abroad (outside of the United States) with a specific emphasis in Women's Studies. I would very much appreciate receiving any information others might have on such programs. I also would appreciate any comments about the quality of these programs, whether your department or program has had much experience with these programs, etc. Please respond privately. Thanks. Cheryl A. Rickabaugh Acting Director of Women's Studies University of Redlands Redlands, CA 92373-0999 rickabau@ultrix.uor.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:05:49 +0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Keane Subject: Re: gender-neutral frosh I've been interested in the gender-neutral freshman discussion. At the risk of going off on an tangent why is it necessary to call first year students ( or any other year) anything ? This is not a hostile question, just a moment of cross-cultural communication - the freshman,sophomore etc thing is so quintessentially North American I was wondering if the lack of analogous terms in the British, NZ and Australian systems reflect significant differences in the organisation and culture of university education. At my university the only such usage is to describe something called the 'Freshers Ball'. Courses are generally taken by students in different years of their degrees, and there's no real distinction made between the years, except the some courses have to be taken as pre-requisites for others. And because there are part time students and students who take time out from their degrees the division into years just wouldn't work. (This is in the Arts - of course its different in med school etc.) Helen Keane Australian National University ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 21:33:14 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rich Cowan Subject: NOW AVAILABLE: Campus Organizing Guide for Peace and Justice Groups ** NOW AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS FOR ONLY $1 !! ** Campus Organizing Guide for Peace and Justice Groups Newsprint, 16 pp. Published by Public Search, Inc. $2.50 Copyright 1995 Center for Campus Organizing, Inc. ISBN 0-945210-04-3 Written and Edited by Rich Cowan, Nicole Newton, Jeremy Smith, Alex Brozan, Niels Burger, and Maia Homstad A basic guidebook designed for anyone interested in progressive organizing on a college campus. Useful to students working on human rights, stopping racism or sexism, preserving student aid, immigrant rights, etc. Also great for faculty members as a supplemental course text. Written by recent student activists with a combined 20 years of experience, the Guide includes fourteen sections on topics such as starting a group, running meetings, planning and promoting an event, research, getting press coverage, and nonviolent direct action. It comes with a complete bibliography, a directory of helpful national groups, and an "insert" of your choice on any of sixteen different student activist issues listed below. Here is the table of contents of the guide: Why Work for Peace & Justice on Campus? 3 How to Start a Group 4 Meetings & Group Process 5 Planning an Event 6 Planning a Campaign 7 Research 8 Publicity Techniques 9-10 Media and Press Releases 11 Building your Membership & Support Base 12 Nonviolent Direct Action 13 Bibliography 14 For the Long Haul 15 Resources and Memberships 15 Helpful Organizations 16 The Guide was prepared by the Center for Campus Organizing (CCO), a national clearinghouse which promotes progressive activism and investigative journalism on college campuses. CCO also publishes a newsletter titled Infusion: Tools for Action and Education; subscriptions are $25 per year, $10 low-income, $15 for student activists. For info on CCO's campus activist email network, send a 1-line message to canet-info@pencil.math.missouri.edu. The Center for Campus Organizing is a non-profit organization. All proceeds support the services we provide to to campus activists. Reply Form: please return to CCO, Box 748, Cambridge, MA 02142 Tel. 617-354-9363 ___ Please send me _____ copies of Campus Organizing Guide at $1 each, total = ______ ___ Send 25 copies at 40 cents/copy $10 ___ Send 50 copies at 30 cents/copy $15 ___ Send 100 copies at 25 cents/copy $25 ___ Enclosed is a additional contribution which entitles me to the next four issues of Infusion: $25 (reg.) $15 (student) $10 (lo-income) = ______ ___ With my guide, please send me a free "action insert" on one of the following 17 topics (circle one of the topics at right) Access to Education: Financial Aid Anti-Poverty: Challenging Corporate Power Hunger and Homelessness Anti-Racism: Fighting Anti-immigrant Racism Anti-Sexism: Violence Against Women Environment Animal Rights Human Rights: Amnesty Bosnia Haiti Psychiatric Rights Antislavery Burma Korea Tibet Right Wing Response: Watching the Religious Right Anti-Militarism: ROTC Off Campus Close the School of Americas Name_______________________________________________ Address______________________________________________ City/St/Zip___________________________________________ Phone_______________________________________________ Campus group(s) you belong to (optional): ____________ _______________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 23:17:27 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea Austin <3AJA1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Subject: Re: women and illness In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 18 Sep 1995 15:30:53 EST from Miriam Bailin's _The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction_ might have something on tuberculosis. Andrea Austin 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 22:50:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Clark Bartlett Subject: Re: gender-neutral frosh In-Reply-To: <199509200107.LAA19455@anugpo.anu.edu.au> What's wrong with "freshperson"? It's a bit of a mouthful, I'll admit, but I have a colleague who says it all the time and it sounds just fine.... Anne, who prefers to avoid the issue by asking "what year are you?" or, while advising, "let's see, how many credits do you have?" Anne Clark Bartlett DePaul University abartlet@condor.depaul.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 23:56:21 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Frosh, First year students--basta! Maybe I'm just cranky today, but haven't we beat this one to death? ...................................................................... Rosa Maria Pegueros e-mail: pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu Department of History telephone: (401) 792-4092 217C Washburn Hall University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0817 "Women hold up half the sky." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 22:57:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wolfgang Hirczy Subject: Re: gender-neutral frosh In-Reply-To: <199509200107.LAA19455@anugpo.anu.edu.au> On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Helen Keane wrote: > I've been interested in the gender-neutral freshman discussion. At the > risk of going off on an tangent why is it necessary to call first year > students ( or any other year) anything ? This is not a hostile question, > just a moment of cross-cultural communication - the freshman,sophomore etc > thing is so quintessentially North American I was wondering if the lack of > analogous terms in the British, NZ and Australian systems reflect > significant differences in the organisation and culture of university > education. At my university the only such usage is to describe something Come to think of it, this is a very good point. I spent the first two decades of my life in Europe, including a few semester at the university. I wouldn't even know how to translate the concept "freshman" (freshwoman, freshperson, er whatever) into German, nor is there even a distinction between undergrad and graduate. Of course, once one has earned the academic degree "Magister" one is somebody, and the title is proudly sported. But the stratification in terms of layers of cohorts in the educational process is altogether absent. I believe this in part due to the greater flexibility of many degree programs (and it may have been differnt in other programs, such as medicine, I studied philology and foreign languages) Some semsters I would enrol for a hundred + credit hours per semester (b/c it was free and there was no penalty for enrolling in additional courses), then decided which ones to take later. Some courses/lectures I did not attend, or did so only rarely, and took only the final exam (which was enough to pass the course.) We received a grade certificate for each course, and could throw it away if we did not like the grade, and take the course over again. There was no one single official transcript and thus no GPA. (I had to have a transcript made specifically to transfer credit hours to my US undergraduate institution when I came to the US from Austria). Finally, there was little pressure to graduate within a certain number of years. So, the basic point is, that it seems to be structural. The way the university was set up and the degree programs do not necessitate categorization of students in terms of freshmen, sophs, etc... Dr. Wolfgang Hirczy, Oklahoma State Univ. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 23:26:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ursula Rempel Subject: Re: women and illness In-Reply-To: from "Andrea Austin" at Sep 19, 95 11:17:27 pm Three works which may be of interest (although somewhat peripheral to the topic) are: Elaine Showalter's *The Female Malady* (Penguin, 1985); Roy Porter's *Health for Sale* (Manchester University Press, 1989); and Sarah Stage's *Female Complaints* (Norton, 1979). Showalter's bibliography is superb; tuberculosis in Porter is listed in the index under "consumption." Fascinating reading--all three! Ursula M. Rempel School of Music University of Manitoba urempel@cc.umanitoba.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 01:24:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Greener Subject: FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF TENURE & PROMOTION I am looking for references on the subject of feminist interpretation or analysis of the current system of academic tenure and promotion used in most institutions of higher education in the US. I am particularly interested in exploring ways of changing the current systems, or suggestions for such change. Any sources would be greatly appreciated. Deborah Greener Towson State University Towson, MD Greener-D@toe.towson.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 07:59:33 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Radner Organization: The American University Subject: Re: Study Abroad Programs In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 19 Sep 1995 17:32:42 -0700 from Although you suggested we respond privately, I'd like to have your findings about women's-studies-oriented Study Abroad programs posted to the WMST-L list. Our students are always hungry for such opportunities, and we have only a very short list of offerings to tell them about. Thanks. Jo Radner JRADNER@AMERICAN.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 08:10:11 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rebecca Charlotte Hyman Subject: Re: women and illness In-Reply-To: from "Andrea Austin" at Sep 19, 95 11:17:27 pm There are also some references to TB in Invalid Woman by Diane price herndl. Rebecca Hyman University of Virginia ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:06:37 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Peter Weeks Organization: St.Thomas University Subject: Refs. on women & technology Hi, colleagues: Many thanks for your references on the subject of women & technology which I had requested. One of you suggested that the final compilation should be shared with the membership. I shall try here to send this as a DOS text file, so here goes: Peter Weeks St.Thomas University Fredericton, N.B., Canada Email PWEEKS@StThomasU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 08:14:37 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rebecca Charlotte Hyman Subject: Re: FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF TENURE & PROMOTION In-Reply-To: <01HVHBVOPPA49TE1I9@TOE.TOWSON.EDU> from "Deborah Greener" at Sep 20, 95 01:24:58 am Iris: A Journal About Women did a special issue on women and the tenure process. Included is an analysis of the tenure system and the changes that were orchestrated by Annette Kolodny, Dean of the University of Arizona at Tuscon. The article can provide a blueprint for reforming the tenure system at other schools. If you are interested, reply privately to me. Rebecca Hyman rch3d@virgina.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:43:58 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Peter Weeks Organization: St.Thomas University Subject: References again Hi, colleagues: I tried to send my file with the collected references on women & technology, but got the message that the upper limit is 225 lines. So I have shortened the list. Anyway, this is another attempt to send it as a DOS Text. Peter Weeks St.Thomas University Fredericton, N.B., Canada Email PWEEKS@StThomasU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:43:57 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Peter Weeks Organization: St.Thomas University Subject: References again * This message contains the file 'techcar5.tx8', which has been * uuencoded. 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Mandle" Subject: Re: Study Abroad Programs Please post for everyone the information you get on study abroad women's programs. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 08:35:58 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bob Bender Subject: Re: Two short queries In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:59:29 -0400 from On Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:59:29 -0400 liora moriel said: >Two short queries: >1. Does anyone have a gender-neutral term that could be used as a >substitute for *freshman* in college/university settings? (One suggestion >from my immediate circle is *frosh* which is already current -- do you >think that would work?) I usually refer to the incoming class as first year students. Bob Bender University of Missouri-Columbia ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:43:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith L. Poxon" Subject: Re: french-feminism list In-Reply-To: Oops! Yesterday I posted the *wrong* address for subscription requests for the french-feminism list. It should be: majordomo@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused any of you who are interested in subscribing. We certainly look forward to having you join us on the list. Judith Poxon Syracuse University, Dept. of Religion jlpoxon@mailbox.syr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:57:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Demie Kurz Subject: NEW BOOK ON WOMEN AND DIVORCE Publication Announcement from Demie Kurz: My book, FOR RICHER, FOR POORER: MOTHERS CONFRONT DIVORCE, has just been released. It provides a new perspective on the impact of divorce on women and children. Public debates focus on divorce as a sign of "family decline" and the loss of "family values." While divorce brings hardships for most mothers, many are happy to be free of difficult marriages, particularly the large number of women who experienced domestic violence while married. Based on interviews with a random sample of divorced mothers of diverse backgrounds, this book shows their real concerns: inadequate resources from their ex-husbands and the state, and unequal social policies. I argue that we must dramatically reverse our policies which penalize the single-parent family and instead provide mothers and children with adequate resources. More information is available from the publisher, Routledge, 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 (800/634-7064 in US & Canada), or info@routledge.com (also http://www.routledge.com/routledge.html). Demie Kurz (dkurz@sas.upenn.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 10:00:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katy Milligan Subject: Bonnie and Clyde There has been an on-going discussion about _Bonnie and Clyde_ on the listserve H-FILM for about a week. I haven't been following it closely, but you might be able to find the feminist reading you want there. Alternatively, you might be able to redirect their thread in an interesting direction. Some info follows. Katy Milligan > >TO SEND MESSAGES: > >You are invited to actively participate in the list. Send your >messages directly to: > > H-Film@msu.edu > >You can also send diskettes or hard copy to the moderator, who >would be happy to scan your documents and post them on the list. >Send diskettes or hard copy to: > Steven Mintz Voice: 713-743-3109 > Department of History FAX: 713-743-3216 > University of Houston > Houston, Texas 77204-3785 > >The moderator welcomes your suggestions, questions, and even >complaints. Feel free to send Steve Mintz e-mail messages at: >hist4@jetson.uh.edu --------------- Katherine J. Milligan kmilli@ccat.sas.upenn.edu http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/kmilli/katy.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 10:09:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith L. Poxon" Subject: Re: FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF TENURE & PROMOTION In-Reply-To: <01HVHBVOPPA49TE1I9@TOE.TOWSON.EDU> On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Deborah Greener wrote: > I am looking for references on the subject of feminist interpretation or > analysis of the current system of academic tenure and promotion used in most > institutions of higher education in the US. I am particularly interested > in exploring ways of changing the current systems, or suggestions for such > change. Any sources would be greatly appreciated. Would anyone who has information or sources relevant to this request please post to the list? I suspect that there are many of us who would be interested in knowing more about this issue. Thanks. Judith Poxon Syracuse University, Dept. of Religion jlpoxon@mailbox.syr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 10:48:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NANCY GRACE Subject: Into syllabi I accidently trashed the message that told us how to access syllabi to introductory ws courses. Could you please send those instructions again. Thank you. Nancy Grace ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:14:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Pollack Subject: Study Abroad Programs -Reply One of the best global programs Women's Studies in Europe in the Antioch fall semester program -- contact Antioch -- they have an 800 # 1-800-874-7986 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:17:31 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Pollack Subject: Re: Study Abroad Programs -Reply Comments: To: JRADNER@AMERICAN.EDU One of the best Women's Studies abroad progams in the Antioch Women's Studies in Europe -- they have an 800 # 1-800-874-7986 --- the program is for three months every fall --- this fall the group will be in England, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:09:17 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellyn Kaschak Subject: Re: FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF TENURE & PROMOTION I am very interested in seeing the special issue of Iris on Tenure and Promotion. Ellyn Kaschak ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:27:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristin Vonnegut Subject: films Hey All, This is a rather general request, but I think you can help me. I am teaching a course called Contemporary Women's Voices this fall. We are looking at the rhetoric of lesbian and heterosexual women from African-American, Native-American, Latina, European-American, and Asian American co-cultures. Four times in the semester I have set aside a day to watch a film and discuss our reactions to it. I am looking for suggestions for such films. One colleague has given me "Slaying the Dragon" (about media depictions of Asian-American women). I'm looking for other such films that will stimulate thought and debate. The units of the course are: Women Defining Themselves, Women and Relationships, Women and Work, and Women and Activism. Do those parameters give you any ideas? Thanks for your help! Kristin ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 10:45:01 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Terra Anderson Subject: Re: The "Color of Fear" The "Color of Fear" is produced by Stir-Fry Productions,Oakland, CA. 510-419-3930. They offer facilitation Training on the film. I don't know of it being available for public viewing and think it is primarily designed to be used in anti-racist workshops. Terra Anderson Fort Lewis College anderson_t@fortlewis.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 13:45:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: listowner requests Today's WMST-L mail seems designed as a tutorial in messages NOT to send to WMST-L . Please read the following with care: 1) Do not send uuencoded, binhexed, or other encoded messages to WMST-L. Most people do not know how to deal with such messages, nor should they have to. 2) Do not send messages longer than about 200 lines. The listserv software will reject them (its maximum for WMST-L is 225 lines, but that includes all headers). 3) Do not send a message to the list requesting the repetition of a past message. Instead, either write PRIVATELY to the person who posted the original message or--FAR BETTER--use listserv's superb search mechanism to find the message (or thread of messages) you want. WMST-L subscriber Jackie Hunt has written an excellent set of instructions for using listserv's search mechanism. 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The URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . If you have questions that the Guide doesn't answer, please write to me privately, not via WMST-L. Once again, many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 13:41:54 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: shelley park Subject: Re: FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF TENURE & PROMOTION In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 20 Sep 1995 10:09:13 -0400 from I have an article forthcoming (Jan 96) in the Journal of Higher Education, entitled "Research, Teaching and Service: Why Shouldn't Women's Work Count?" which develops a feminist critique of the reigning paradigm for evaluating tenure and promotion candidates. Shelley Park Philosophy University of Central Florida Orlando, Fl 32816 P.S. I'd be happy to forward the manuscript to interested parties prior to that time. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:32:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Mazur Subject: Re: films Although this is not an explicit category in your description of your course, and depending where you and your school are located, you might want to get The Southern Sex (Filmakers Library and, perhaps because I live in the city where it was produced, in a video rental store!). It treats seriously and mostly humourously the stereotypes of Southern women and interviews both women who have confronted them and accepted them. ELIZABETH MAZUR EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY PSYMAZUR@ACS.EKU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:40:57 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnne Myers Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of Wed, 20 Sep 1995 13:45:00 EDT CALL FOR PAPERS for inclusion in the 6th annual WOMEN & SOCIETY Conference held at Marist College Poghkeepsie NY in early June 1996. This inter and multi-disciplinary conference explores all aspects and issues of gender undergoing examination in academia. Papers, panels, workshops, exhibitions, etc. may be proposed. Please submit a 250 word abstract/description, completed paper (if done) brief bio with contact info --snail and e-mail mail--by January 12th 1996. For more info please contact Dr. Sue Lawrence jznq@maristb.marist.edu or myself, Dr. JoAnne Myers JZLY@maristb.marist.edu or phone 914-575-3000. Please share this with any colleagues or students who may be interested, ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:06:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rabbi Karen Gluckstern-Reiss Subject: Re: Two short queries and one more In-Reply-To: <950920.083744.CDT.ENGBOB@MIZZOU1> Having read with interest the queries and response regarding 'freshmen' or 'first years', I wonder if anyone has contemplated the implications of calling graduate students 'fellows' when they have earned paticular scholarships. I investigated the term briefly, and got as far back as early England...and yet despite earning the title because of their accademics, these young men also earned it because they were literally 'fellows', which some of us aren't today. Any thoughts, comments or suggestions? Karen Gluckstern-Reiss Graduate student, Jewish Theological Seminary of America ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 16:11:37 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Liane Curtis Subject: ? re. Christine de Pisan Dear Women's Studies List, In regard to a paper I am writing on Christine de Pisan, I am interested in 15th century writings that link irrationality with women or feminity, and reason with men or masculinity. Also, I am interested in primary or secondary sources concerning madness, and lamenting, particularly as they may have been seen to be feminine conditions or roles (in the 15th century). Finally, does anyone know a medieval studies list on which I could repeat this query? Thank you, Liane Curtis Bowdoin College lcurtis@polar.bowdoin.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 16:37:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ak28 Subject: Re: Study Abroad Programs -Reply In-Reply-To: Regarding the Antioch Women's Studies Program in Europe, I have some information from them, but it says nothing about the possibility of financial aid. And it is an expensive program. Does anyone know of any similar programs that at least offer the possibility of financial aid? Please reply privately, unless this information might be of interest to anyone else on the list. Sincerely, Ana Kothe ak28@umail.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 18:31:02 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marjorie Ely Subject: Re: Query: DEADBEAT DADS In-Reply-To: On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, Geoffrey E Brewster wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This is the first time that I have written to this list, but it seems > like I have something to add on this topic. I agree that a more > gender-neutral term should be used. As I have witnessed when lurking > about on this and other lists, the terms that we use to describe a social > phenomenon (sp?) can affect the way people view those terms. > > The term Deadbeat Dads does not describe the entire situation. I > personally know of two men who are taking care of their children while > going to college with no support from their estranged spouses. Both the > women happen to have fairly good jobs, and could afford to send some > financial to the children that they helped bring into the world. > > So, my point is that if there is another term to describe a situation > that gets more at the truth, then that term should be used. I deplore > any parent who deserts their children and then does nothing to help in > the support of those children. However, the entire problem (although I > do agree that most of the perpetrators happen to be male) cannot be > blamed on Dads alone. This would be similar to blaming the entire > "problem" of social welfare on so-called "welfare queens." > > All that would really have to happen is replace the word "dads" with the > word "parents." I know its not as catchy an Deadbeat Dads, but it does > describe the problem more fully, and risks offending fine, upstanding > fathers much less. > > Thank you for your time, and I hope that this contributed to the > wonderful discussin that takes place on this list. > > ****************************************************************************** > Geoffrey E. Brewster Political Science Department > mugeb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Western Illinois University > Graduate Student PH. (309)298-1349 > ****************************************************************************** > > Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and > mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. > > --Thomas Jefferson, April 24, 1816 in a letter to Du Pont de Nemours > Hi to all, This is also my first time writing on this list, but i fell I must respond. The two issues brought up her do not have any revelance to each other in the way they were compared. I believe the term "Deadbeat Dads" is an appropriate one which does state the truth. I can think of three "fathers" off the top of my head and I have never heard of a mother (although I am sure they do exist) that does not help support her children. I believe that the term is a good way to describe these men who have caused much pain in so many children and their mothers lives. This is not a social "phenomenom", it is a catastrophe!! Like I mentioned earlier there is no connection to the issues of child support and welfare the way it has been compared. The problem I see with welfare is the way it keeps its recipients on it (eg: minimum wage is less than the amount received by many on welfare, no adequate child care for children while their mothers work, etc.) However, the issues are very much relevant to each other in the fact that many mothers are forced to go on welfare when these "DEADBEAT DADS" refuse to help support their children!! These men are perpetuating a system that serves to oppresses all women while at the same time they are teaching their children "wonderful" values (sarcasm, in case anyone can't tell). They teach their children low self-esteem by showing them that their father does not care about them. They also teach their children individual greed at other's expense (a good definition of capitalism in my eyes!) and in general not to care about the welfare of others. What role models for the future generation of people who will be running this planet. Marjorie Ely me9855cnsvax.albany.edu Undergraduate at SUNY Albany **Another Note** I'm not positve, but Didn't Thomas Jefferson own slaves? Anybody know for sure? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 20:04:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VALKYRIE <13ERDMAN@CUA.EDU> Subject: Re: Query: DEADBEAT DADS Yes, Thomas Jefferson did own slaves, but who's to say he wasn't a slave himself!