========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 08:25:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: please read before writing to me (User's Guide) I frequently receive mail from subscribers asking why they've received a message saying they've been set to NOMAIL. Please, before you ask, read the following excerpt from the User's Guide: it may save both of us time. Many thanks. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************ 7) "WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MAIL FROM WMST-L SUDDENLY STOPS?" Note: if you've arranged to receive WMST-L in digest form, skip to section C below. Otherwise, read on. A) If you receive a message from LISTSERV informing you that your WMST-L options have been set to NOMAIL, that means that mail from the list was repeatedly returned as undeliverable, probably because of a mail problem on your system. The fact that LISTSERV's notification reached you indicates that the problem was probably short-lived and is now resolved. You can set yourself back to MAIL by sending the message SET WMST-L MAIL to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address). If one address doesn't work, try the other. B) If you haven't received a notification, but you also haven't received WMST-L mail for a day, send the following two-word message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address): QUERY WMST-L If you get back a message saying that you're not subscribed to WMST-L, send the QUERY WMST-L message to the other LISTSERV address (i.e., if you sent the message to LISTSERV@UMDD, try sending the same message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU). If your message is successful, you should get back a message from LISTSERV telling you how your "options" are set. The key part will look something like this: > > query wmst-l > Distribution options for Jane Doe , > list WMST-L: Ack= No, Mail= Yes, Files= Yes, > Repro= Yes, Header= Short, Conceal= No Your options may vary; the important part is Mail=Yes. If the reply from LISTSERV says Mail=Yes, contact your computer support staff to find out whether they're aware of a mail problem. If they don't know of any problem, contact me privately at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). If the reply from LISTSERV says Mail=No, that means your subscription has been set to NOMAIL. The most likely explanation for its being set to NOMAIL is that mail started to bounce and so I or my assistant set your subscription to NOMAIL but the notification from LISTSERV bounced, too. In that case, contact your system's computer support staff to find out whether the problem has been solved. If it has, you can set yourself back to MAIL (see section A above). If they aren't aware of a problem, your best bet is to contact me privately. If you have questions or encounter problems, please write to me privately at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). However, PLEASE TRY THE ABOVE STEPS FIRST!! Under NO circumstances should you send messages about your subscription to WMST-L. C) If you have arranged to get the WMST-L digest and you suddenly stop receiving copies, first check with the computer support staff at your institution to find out whether they are aware of any problems. If they're not, and if you're receiving other mail but not the digest, please write to Ira Gold at IGOLD@UMDD (Bitnet) or IGOLD@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). In your message, tell him whether you receive your digests as files or as e-mail, and try to pinpoint as precisely as possible when you stopped receiving the digests. DO NOT SEND MAIL TO IRA GOLD UNLESS IT SPECIFICALLY CONCERNS A DIGEST PROBLEM, AND DO NOT WRITE TO HIM UNTIL YOU'VE DISCUSSED THE MATTER WITH THE COMPUTER SUPPORT PEOPLE AT YOUR INSTITUTION! Messages about other problems should be sent to KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet) or KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet). ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 09:07:17 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Heidi Hutner Subject: Survey: Beowulf-Dryden Hello-- I will be teaching a large lecture course this spring (my first); it is a survey of British Lit, Beowulf to Dryden. I would like to take a 'women's studies' or feminist approach to teaching this survey. Do any of you have syllabi that you've used for a course of this period which might be helpful for me to look at? Also, suggestions for specific readings (and available texts), as well as strategies for integrating women's issues in this type of "traditional major writers" course would be extremely helpful. Please respond privately. Thanks! Heidi HHutner@aol.com Dept. of English, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11795 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 10:07:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Survey: Beowulf-Dryden Heidi Hutner writes: > I will be teaching a large lecture course this spring (my first); it is a > survey of British Lit, Beowulf to Dryden. > I would like to take a 'women's studies' or feminist approach to teaching > this survey. Do any of you have syllabi that you've used for a course of > this period which might be helpful for me to look at? Also, suggestions for > specific readings (and available texts), as well as strategies for > integrating women's issues in this type of "traditional major writers" course > would be extremely helpful. The Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women at Towson State University is likely to have materials you'd find useful. I know that about eight or nine years ago, they put out a very useful volume entitled RESOURCES FOR CURRICULUM CHANGE, ed. Sara Coulter et al., that included reports and specific suggestions from the curriculum transformation workshops held at Towson. One section deals with the English literature survey course (both halves), while other sections cover American lit., American History, Art, Biology, Business, Composition, Education, Professional Writing, and Sociology, as well as a section on pedagogy. I don't know whether this volume is still available, but I suspect that if it's not, they might have other materials that would be useful. They can be contacted at e7w8cct@toe.towson.edu , or, for those who prefer phones, (410) 830-3944 (fax: 410-830-3469). If all else fails, try: Institute for Teaching and Research on Women Towson State University Baltimore, Maryland 21204-7097 USA The folks at the New Jersey Project, another excellent curriculum transformation effort, may also have useful materials. The address I have for them, which may or may not be current, is: The New Jersey Project White Hall William Patterson College Wayne, NJ 07470 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: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 10:07:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Wall Subject: Re: Help with feminist terms Please reply to this request to the list. We are also having problems with faculty using these terms to attack the WS program. Thanks. Sally Wall swall@vms.cis.pitt.edu College of Notre Dame of MD (sabbatical e-mail address) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 15:46:37 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Film Review Added: I, The Worst of All On Saturday, October 7, 1995 I reviewed "I, The Worst of All" on "The Women's Show"a weekly womanist/feminist radio magazine on WMNF-F (88.5) "Radio Free Tampa." My review is now available for retrieval from the FILM FILELIST. To obtain this review send the following command to Listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV153 FILM To obtain a list of all the film reviews available, send a message to the same listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one review, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The opinions expressed in these reviews were mine when I wrote the review and represent one woman's opinion at a particular time.We have over 3000 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 2999 other views. If you would like to share yours, please do NOT do so on the WMST-L itself, but send your messages to me personally at the addresses below. I have appreciated the feedback I've received. Thanks. Linda ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 16:21:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristina Schelbert Brown Subject: list I belong to a list called "girl" that is just great and very supportive. It does have age restrictions, though. -Kristina S. Brown ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 21:48:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: holzman Subject: Re: Tips for Workshop on Internet Resources for Women Another great Web site for women-related information is FeMiNa (http://www.femina.com/femina). "FeMiNa is the first comprehensive World Wide Web based directory and information resource containing information exclusively for and about women and girls online." __________________________ Clare Holzman holzmr01@mcrcr.med.nyu.edu It is easy to be born a human being but it is not easy to act like one. -- Tagalog proverb ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 10:25:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: finding past messages (User's Guide) Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Meanwhile, here is the section that explains how to find past messages that have appeared on WMST-L: 10) "I'VE BEEN AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS. I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT I'VE MISSED ON WMST-L DURING THE TIME I'VE BEEN GONE. IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACCESS PREVIOUS MESSAGES?" [also useful for new subscribers] Yes. All WMST-L messages are automatically archived. The 1991 archives are arranged in monthly logs; beginning in Jan., 1992, the logs were changed to a weekly format. To find out what logs are available, you can send LISTSERV the following command: INDEX WMST-L . You'll then receive a list of the available logs. To obtain the logs, send LISTSERV the following command: GET WMST-L [filename] where [filename] is the name of the log file you want. For example: GET WMST-L LOG9309a will get you the log for the first week ("a") in September 1993 (9309 refers to the 9th month of 1993). LOG9312b is the log for the second week ("b") in Dec. 1993 (December is the 12th month). (It's possible that the wording of your request may take a slightly different form, depending on your mail system, but what you want is WMST-L LOGnnnnl.) Warning: some of these logs are LARGE; log9309a is approximately 300K. As a result, you may not be permitted to get more than a few logs on any given day (the current limit is 20 files or 2M - i.e., 2000K). NOTE: The 1991 logfiles are no longer available on UMDD. To make room for newer logfiles, they were moved to the Women's Studies archive on InforM (gopher to inform.umd.edu). As time passes, other old logfiles will also be moved to InforM. The WMST-L filelist contains two sets of instructions designed to teach you how to search the UMDD logfiles for specific subjects. One, intended for absolute beginners, is called DUMMY GUIDE; the other, also very clear and more detailed, is entitled SEARCH LOGFILES. To get both, send a two-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU that says GET DUMMY GUIDE on line 1 and GET SEARCH LOGFILES on line 2. These instructions do not apply to the logfiles on InforM. ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 19:02:47 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: women's votes, colonialism A colleague in my WS course claims British women can't be blamed for endorsing colonialism when they argued for women's right to vote on the grounds that they understood Indian women and could uplift them, thereby improving conditions in the colony - because there were no voices or writing opposed to colonialism at that time; it was accepted by everyone in England. Apart from expecting that the feminists, at least some feminists, would have seen the connection between the oppression of colonialism and their exclusion from the political process, it seems to me there must have been some opposition to imperial rule. Does anyone have cites on opposition to colonialism in England in the 19th century? (I know the Annie Besant story, her finally joining the `home rule' -not independence - movement and supporting `appropriate' roles for women.) Thanks. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 05:23:21 -0400 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: feminist terms Mary Schweitzer's musings on the historical pattern of splits within feminism and how to deal with the current debates in the classroom made me think of a book I read recently which might be of some use. It does not deal with Sommers work directly but uses a case study to look at the development of the women's movement from the 1960s to the present. The book is Nancy WHITTIER (1995) _Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement_ Philidelphia: Temple University Press. I found the analysis illuminating and it would certainly provide a basis for discussion in a classroom situation. Maybe a comparison with debates amongst an earlier generation of feminists would be fruitful? Dr. Jo VanEvery Dept. of Cultural Studies University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom 0121-414-3730 J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 08:02:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: holzman Subject: Re: women's votes, colonialism At 07:02 PM 10/8/95 -0400, beatrice wrote: > Does anyone have cites on opposition to colonialism in England in the 19th >century? (I know the Annie Besant story, her finally joining the `home rule' >-not independence - movement and supporting `appropriate' roles for women.) > Thanks. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu > Try Vron Ware's book, _Beyond the Pale_. Sorry I don't have the book at hand so I can't give you the complete cite. __________________________ Clare Holzman holzmr01@mcrcr.med.nyu.edu It is easy to be born a human being but it is not easy to act like one. -- Tagalog proverb ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 08:32:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to find syllabi & other files (User's Guide) Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. You can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Meanwhile, here is the section dealing with WMST-L's file collections: 11) "HOW DO I FIND OUT WHAT FILES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WMST-L, AND HOW DO I OBTAIN THE FILES I WANT?" To find out what files are available, send LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (or, on Bitnet, LISTSERV@UMDD) the same command mentioned in the previous section: INDEX WMST-L. The list you'll receive from LISTSERV includes files as well as logs. To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] WMST-L where [filename] is the two-word name of the file you want. For example, suppose you send for the filelist (INDEX WMST-L) and see the following listing: * Policies for cross-listing courses with Women's Studies CROSSLST POLICIES ALL OWN V 79 436 92/12/07 20:41:03 To get this file, you'd send the message GET CROSSLST POLICIES WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). Note that [filename] consists of two words separated by a space and not a period. (Adding WMST-L after the two-word filename is optional; it simply makes sure that if two lists have a file with the same name, you'll get the right one.) NOTE: women's studies syllabi are contained in a subdirectory called SYLLABI, while feminist film reviews are to be found in a subdirectory called FILM. To find out what syllabi (or film reviews) the subdirectory contains, send LISTSERV the command INDEX SYLLABI (or INDEX FILM). To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTERV the following command: GET [filename] SYLLABI or GET [filename] FILM If you are requesting a film review, be aware that the filename always takes the form FILM REVx (e.g., FILM REV25); the name of the film is NOT the filename! You can request more than one file at once; just be sure to put each request on a separate line. LISTSERV will then send the file(s) to you either in a mail message or in Netdata format. You can force LISTSERV to send them in a mail message by adding F=MAIL at the end of each command. For example, GET [filename] FILM F=MAIL . Or, to retrieve files sent by LISTSERV in Netdata format, follow these instructions: If your e-mail address is on a VAX/VMS machine, when you get a message that one or more files have arrived at your e-mail address, you should type "RECEIVE *" (do not include the quotation marks) at the $ prompt. This command will put the file(s) into your main directory. You can then type "TYPE filename" (replace "filename" with the actual name of the file) to read the file. If it's a long file, you can read it more effectively by typing "TYPE/PAGE filename." If your e-mail address is on an IBM VM/CMS machine, either use your mailer front end or type RLIST and RECEIVE the file into your FLIST. Go into your FLIST to look at the file. If your e-mail address is on a different kind of machine OR you are using Profs or some other kind of similar mailing system, go ahead and try the above commands. If they do not work, CALL YOUR COMPUTER SERVICES OFFICE. The people there should be able to help you and/or give you a manual for your mailing system commands. NOTE: Many WMST-L files (and a lot more!) are also available via ftp and gopher in the Women's Studies archive on InforM, the University of Maryland's Online Information Service. Telnet or gopher to inform.umd.edu . Select Educational Resources, then Academic Resources by Topic, then Women's Studies Resources. On the World Wide Web, try http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html and then select the first link, "Absolutely Best W.S. Online Archive (InforM)." The Women's Studies archive contains a goldmine of online information about women. Do have a look! ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 13:55:00 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ramalho, Tania" Subject: M.Mies address? Does anyone have an address for German scholar Maria Mies? Please reply privately. Thank you! Tania Ramalho ramalho@susqu.edu Susquehanna University Selinsgrove, PA 17870 717-372-4154 (W) 717-372-4700 (H) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 10:25:56 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Maranville Subject: Help Finding Academics interested in Doing Glass Ceiling Survey The King County Bar Association's Gender Equality in the Legal Profession Committee has proposed creation of a Glass Ceiling Task Force to study whether/to what extent a "glass ceiling" exists for women attorneys in King County (Seattle, Washington), and to make recommendations as appropriate. We're interested in sponsoring a survey, perhaps in combination with interviews and would like to locate academics (sociologists??) who have the skills and expertise to perform such a survey. We'll have a budget, but it's not likely to be large. Volunteers/suggestions appreciated. Debbie Maranville Ph. (206) 543-3434 Director FAX (206) 685-2388 Family and Unemployment Law Clinic 4045 Brooklyn Building N.E. Box 354563 Seattle, WA 98105 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:58:58 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: equity feminism/"gender feminism" It doesn't seem to me that the term "gender feminism" used by Sommers and now picked up by others as an epithet to bash women's studies and much feminist scholarship marks the contrast within feminism that has persisted since the 19th C. betwee, roughly, those feminists seeking equal rights for all and those who fall into a "women's culture" kind of position. For when you look at the people she accuses of being "gender feminists" (e.g., Alison Jaggar, Sandra Har ding, Sandra Bartky and many, many others) that does not describe their views at all. I haven't seen Sue Dwyer's review yet, but I think she's probably right on the money when she says that "gender feminism" doesn't actually correspond to any real feminist view (certainly not to the views of the people she attaches it to) and it's just something Sommers has concocted to use as a rallying cry in her shrill and poorly argued attacks on feminists more radical than she -- something it's very easy for a feminist to be. Linda Lopez McAlister ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:04:48 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: M.Mies address? In-Reply-To: <3079501A@gateway.susqu.edu> Sorry to write to the list but I want to follow up something Marge Piercy said about getting in touch with authors, while also making some advice I gave to Tania rather more clear. Zed Books of London England and the US publish Mies. A letter sent to her care of them should reach her.what publishers will not do is give out an address. There are exceptions to this: if a publisher knows you know an author, or if there is another reason _they_ know about to think it will be all right, then they will give an address. I would have thought Mies would be easy to trace via the German university system, but maybe not. My apologies to Tania for not making the situation clear. Publishers do have to guard their authors against the possibility of rather too many letters. They might however give out a university address. I am not sure. --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:20:39 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Whitt Organization: Samford University Subject: Re: love poems responses In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 7 Jul 1995 17:19:25 -0400 from I've never received the mailing labels. I'm fed-exing the newsletter to Mary Pollock; she says she and next year's editor can mail it out. Would you fed-ex her the labels to arrive tomorrow? Thanks. Nancy ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:41:00 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Huppertz Subject: gender/equity feminism Sommers says she believe in equal rights and equal opportunity, which she probably does. What she doesn't get is the connection between equal opportunity and the kinds of issues that are being addressed by gender equity specialists and many educators, particularly at the early childhood and K-12 levels. She has no patience, for example, for such concerns as bias in textbooks, bias in language, the lack of inclusiveness in teaching history, lack of role models, and, interestingly, sexual harassment. These are the things she refers to as gender feminism. Being a former teacher and now one of those gender equity specialists, of whom she speaks with enough scorn and condescension to curl your toes, I have done hundreds of workshops on sex equity issues and remain bewildered why intelligent women such as Sommers can't see the connection and can't understand that changing laws just ain't enough! Our schools haven't even complied totally with the letter of Title IX, let alone the spirit of it. Yes, I've heard all the reasoning about her being a front and flunky for the right wing a la Anita Bryant, but that doesn't explain it for me and that's ok... I don't necessarily want to open all that up again. I did a presentation on Sommers and the other anti feminist feminists last July at the annual meeting and conference of the National Coalition for Sex Equity in Education... egad! a whole roomful of gender equity specialists. If anyone would like to know more about NCSEE, contact me individually. Nancy Huppertz Portland, OR huppertn@nwrel. org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 14:49:17 -0500 Reply-To: Bonnie J Dow Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie J Dow Subject: Sommers and gender feminism I also originally thought that Sommers was making a distinction between feminists invested in "difference" and those who are invested in equity (and who do not question that a male norm can be used as a standard for equity for women). And, while it is pretty clear that she dislikes difference feminism and equates it with victimology (like lots of other people these days), I think it is the case, as someone recently suggested, that she also attacks feminists who hardly embrace difference arguments. So what is the gender/equity distinction based on? Here's my take: gender feminists believe in patriarchy and a sex/gender system and equity feminists do not.There is actual language to this effect early in WHO STOLE FEMINISM. I think Sommer's rhetorical strategy is to put gender feminists in a category that believes in the grand white male conspiracy because they believe in institutionalized patriarchy. Sommers, on the other hand, dismisses the notion of institutionalized patriarchy because if it existed, then how could women's studies faculty be so POWERFUL? Of course, Sommers vastly overstates the power of feminist academics and yes, it is possible to explain how we can have patriarchy and women's studies. But it's hard to explain it to people who don't know a lot about feminism and systemic analyses of patriarchy. If you embrace individualistic modes of thought, as SOmmers does, then you can make a decent case for why male domination is a thing of the past and how examples of raw sexism encountered in everyday life are anomalies. SO, the reason why SOmmers is such a problem to refute,I think, is because it is fairly easy to get people to admit that sexism exists (because sexism can be viewed as a character flaw of individuals) but it is a much bigger step to believe that patriarchy exists (which requires a structural systemic perspective that our individualistic American mindset instinctively rejects). Bonnie Dow North Dakota State University dow@badlands.nodak.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 09:21:19 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: Feminist Studies in Aotearoa The latest issue of Feminist Studies in Aotearoa Electronic Journal (No. 46 October 1 1995) is now available at http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms This issue includes an interview with Dale Spender and a review of her 'Nattering on the Net'. Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:44:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Connie Koppelman Subject: Women's History Month State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3456 Constance E Koppelman Womens Studies 516 632-9176 09-Oct-1995 04:25pm EDT FROM: CKOPPELMAN TO: Remote Addressee ( _wmst-l@umdd ) Subject: Women's History Month I know that next March seems very far away, however I just saw a terrific tape of a one woman show that I want to tell you about. It's appropriate for any time of year, but especially for Women's History Month. "Images of Women In Folk Music" a concert lecture by Robin Greenstein is a live performance (the tape is just a preview) which Robin has performed at more than 40 college campuses annually for several years. She is a seasoned performer with a broad background in music and folklore. She studied guitar, banjo and folklore and also taught at the Guitar Workshop in Roslyn, NY. She earned her B.A. in Music from SUNY Stony Brook and studied at Trinity College of Music and King's College in London. She also studied under and worked as an assistant to famed folk performer/musicology professor Hedy West. For more information call/write or e-mail. Robin Greenstein 216 W 89th St. #10C, New York, NY 10024 212-877-2662 RobinPG@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 15:54:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Edrie Sobstyl Subject: Re: equity feminism/"gender feminism" In-Reply-To: The term "gender feminism" was introduced by Hoff Sommers in an article called "The Feminism Revelation" (Social Philosophy and Policy vol. 8, issue 1), in a way that makes it clear that she *intends* it to trivialize the diversity of feminist thought, but *succeeds* in referring, as Sue Dwyer suggests, to no position any feminist actually holds. In the article cited, Sommers complains that "it is practically impossible to do justice to all the newest turns of feminist theory. Feminist literature is in constant ferment; there is a kind of feminism of the week, but keeping track of it would engage all one's time". (p. 142) She offers to cite "characteristic positions" of "some leading feminist philosophers", apparently in order to save us from the time-consuming chore of investigating it for ourselves. (It is "muddled and often boring", she claims.) Unfortunately, the positions she cites are neither characteristic nor fairly presented. Where most feminists see a literature "in constant ferment" as a sign of a vibrant, active research field, Sommers sees a series of "radical paradigms" disparaging of the sensible liberal project of trying to achieve equality of opportunity and full legal equality. "Liberal feminists", she says, "are not out to second-guess women on what they really prefer". Anyone who extends their feminist allegiance beyond the liberal paradigm is a gender feminist for Sommers. Edrie Sobstyl School of Arts and Humanities University of Texas at Dallas P.O. Box 830688 Richardson Tx 75083 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 15:11:29 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bob Bender Subject: Re: Survey: Beowulf-Dryden In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 7 Oct 1995 10:07:17 -0500 from I am presently teaching the first half of the British Survey in which I attempt to engage students in feminist re-visioning. How successful I am at that may be viewed on the web, where a good deal of the course is conducted. You may view what we are doing at URL: http://www.missouri.edu/~engbob/courses/215/ All comments and suggestions are appreciated, and participants from elsewhere are welcome. Bob Bender ********************************************************************* * Robert M. Bender email: engbob@mizzou1.missouri.edu * * Director of Special Degree Programs Phone: 314-882-6060 * * Professor of English and Women Studies FAX: 314-882=5785 * * 19 Parker Hall * University of Missouri-Columbia * * Columbia, Missouri 65211 url: www.missouri.edu/~engbob/ * ********************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 17:43:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: es8 Subject: search for researchers Comments: To: ellin@bss3.umd.edu Patricia Miller of the University of Florida and I are thinking about putting together a book on feminist approaches to cognitive development because we are interested in exploring how feminist approaches might provide new perspectives on the definition of thinking, the definition of development, the metaphors we use to describe cognitive change, and the models we use to explain social influences on development. Rather than looking at sex differences, we are concerned instead with combining feminist epistemology and the study of early child development. We are aware of work on "Women's ways of knowing" but wonder who else in the feminist community is working on "revisioning" cognitive development. Please reply privately. Thanks. Ellin K. Scholnick Psychology dept. University of Maryland College Park MD 20742 es8@umail.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 17:02:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joAnn Castagna Subject: Re[2]: equity feminism/"gender feminism" this discussion is appropriate for the list in many ways, but i am most interested in the actual teaching practice of women's studies programs and individual classes/courses. what happens in an intro class, for instance? how many of the varied feminisms can an undergraduate understand/absorb? i often think that many students approach literature, for instance, from a very nineteenth-century position, they are interested in rhyme in poetry and narrative in fiction. does something similar happen in the women's studies class room, are students more likely to connect with a particular kind of feminist thought? and this discussion began, i think i remember, by someone noting that the phrases had begun to define the ways in which inter-department discussion was taking place. this raises the question of whether women's studies departments/programs/instructors are being urged to label themselves with names they do not even choose--but are there alternative self-naming projects? joann castagna joann-castagna@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 18:24:08 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Glynis Carr Subject: Whiteness/Call for Abstracts CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: I intend to propose a panel on "Whiteness and the Feminist Literary Imagination" for the NWSA Annual Conference, June 1996 (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York). I am most interested in papers that interrogate constructions of whiteness in texts canonized or celebrated by white feminists in the 1960s and 70s, but I am willing to expand this frame if necessary. Since proposals are due at NWSA by November 1, please respond ASAP. Glynis Carr, Associate Professor, Dept. English, Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA 17837. Glynis Carr ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:45:28 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Duncombe Subject: Reports of the NGO Forum at NWSA 1996 I'm interested in organizing a panel (or series of panels if appropriate) that allow those of us who attended either the NGO Forum or the UN Conference on Women to talk about the experience and the issues with others who did not attend. One organizing focus would be the platform and the 12 substantive issues identified there. Another organizaing focus would be areas of consensus and dissensus in the platform. Another issue is the pedagogical implications of these events for WS teaching. Yet another might be the utility of such events as vehicles promoting social change. If you attended either conference and are interested in participating on a panel at NWSA 1996 (Skidmore College, June 12-16), send me your ideas. DO NOT HIT "REPLY"; contact me privately at mduncombe@cc.colorado.edu. Margaret Duncombe Women Studies--Colorado College MDUNCOMBE@cc.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:09:57 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Garber Subject: Re: Re[2]: equity feminism/"gender feminism" Does anyone have a CFP for the MLA, whenever the next one is? MGarber@dhvx20.csdh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 18:10:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Parks Subject: Call for Papers I am putting together a panel for the International Communications Association conference to be held in Chicago in May 1996 and am looking for 1 or 2 papers on the topic of gender, race and communication technology (i.e. video, television, computers, telephony). General topic areas appropriate to this panel would include (but are not limited to): --contemporary and/or historical uses of communication technology --the relationship between communication technology and the body --the representation of communication technology in popular media --the use of communication technology in the production of knowledge If you think you may have a relevant paper or proposal, please get back to me ASAP with your ideas as the deadline is rapidly encroaching. Please be sure to email me privately at laparks@students.wisc.edu. Thank you. Lisa Parks Dept. of Communication Arts Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison laparks@students.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:46:40 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: Re: Women's Studies Director Position Description At 9:43 AM 11/9/95 +0000, Pat Gilmartin wrote: > ** JOB ANNOUNCEMENT - with corrections! ** Would you mind checking to see whether my application for the Director in women's Studies has in fact arrived. I sent it in after your first announcement, with a minimal address. Lynne Alice Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 21:22:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christy Hammer Subject: Re: Sommers and gender feminism Comments: To: dow@badlands.nodak.edu To add to the discussion on Sommers, I was at a conference where David Sadker spoke (his wife, Myra, was dying of cancer and was unable to attend) where someone questioned him about Sommers' attack on FAILING AT FAIRNESS, Sadkers' book on gender inequity in the school. Sadker immediately said that the three people Sommers quoted to discredit their twenty-years worth of work on gender equity all have told Sadker that not only did they not say what she quoted them as saying, but that two of them did not even speak to Sommers! If this is so and if it can be proven then it should be disseminated widely. David Sadkers' immediate reaction was so detailed, I tended to believe him. Also, I question whether someone of his stature in the field of gender equity in education would have so easily lied to over 100 educators at the conference. This occured in Dec. of 1994, Myra died in March, and I'm sure David hasn't had much time or inclination to expose Sommers' as he said he would. If anyone has any information on this, I'd be interested. Christy Hammer chammer@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 23:49:39 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: women's votes, colonialism In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 9 Oct 1995 08:02:21 -0400 from Actually, Vron Ware's book, which I have, confirms the view of British feminist s playing `maternalist' role within the colonial framework - helps to explain Indian feminists' wariness of Western feminists. Ware seems unaware of the political context of the Indian men who came to England advocating reform of Indian women or the limitations of one she describes, an important figure. And, most regrettably, she doesn't show at all what Indian women were doing for themselves against Indian and British men's oppression. But, thanks for the cite. It prompted me to take another look to see if I'd missed something - and another look always turns up something. What I'm look- ing for is opposition to colonialism in England or the continent, including, but not limited to feminists. Treating the `natives' better or reforming them - while exploiting and oppressing them as imperial masters - isn't the same as opposing that kind of relationship, I think you'd agree. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 23:33:58 -0500 Reply-To: 10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Christine A. Smith" <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: Careers Pertaining to Women's Studies Our Women and Gender Studies Program at Ball State is putting together a file of careers pertaining to a Women and Gender Studies major/minor. We would appreciate any suggestions. We have already done a search of the WMST-L archives. Please respond privaztely to my students Rachel 00rmchalmers@bsuvc.bsu.edu Tracy 02tdsmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu Christine Smith Department of Psychological Science Ball State University 10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 02:16:38 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "L. L. Tomlinson" Subject: Re: Careers Pertaining to Women's Studies Comments: To: "Christine A. Smith" <10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <01HW95UT19W28Y5WCH@bsuvc.bsu.edu> On Mon, 9 Oct 1995, Christine A. Smith wrote: > Our Women and Gender Studies Program at Ball State is putting together a > file of careers pertaining to a Women and Gender Studies major/minor. We > would appreciate any suggestions. We have already done a search of > the WMST-L archives. Please respond privaztely to my students > Rachel 00rmchalmers@bsuvc.bsu.edu > Tracy 02tdsmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu Would it be possible to share your findings with the entire list? Thanks. ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< Lori Tomlinson American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43402 ltomlin@bgnet.bgsu.edu ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 08:22:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: job ad policy (User's Guide) Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to the World Wide Web. The URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Meanwhile, here is the section explaining WMST-L's policy on job/conference advertisements: ******************* 12) "MY UNIVERSITY HAS A JOB OPENING. MAY I POST AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON WMST-L?" WMST-L welcomes the posting of job and conference announcements, calls for papers, and the like, as long as the announcement has some connection to Women's Studies. Announcements without such a connection should NOT be sent to WMST-L. The wish to reach more female candidates, however laudable, is NOT adequate reason to post non-Women's-Studies announcements. Heavy mail volume is a persistent problem on WMST-L; the list cannot accommodate the increased volume that a more liberal posting policy would bring. (Keep in mind that each year, there are literally thousands of academic job openings. Most institutions wish to show that they have tried to reach female and minority applicants. Whereas some commercial publications charge hundreds of dollars to carry even a small ad, WMST-L is free. Thus, unless we restrict postings, the list is likely to be INUNDATED with job announcements.) ************************ Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 09:50:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: search for researchers Dear Ellen: Here is a suggestion from the title base of the Women's Presses Library Project. The Rest of the Deer: An Intuitive Study of Intuition, Margaret Blanchard, Astarte Shell Press, 0-9624627-7-5, 1993. In this groundbreaking study, Blanchard explores the process and power of intuition from a feminist perspective. She explores her own experience of intuition and that of her women students; its role in children's play and in feminist novelists; its use in building a house and addressing political issues. She concludes with a philosophical discussion of intuition, "women's intuition," and the relation bertwwen intuition and other forms of knowing, including mysticism and psychic knowledge. In your area, this book is probably available at Lammas Women's Books in DC or in Baltimore or directly from the publisher. If you have trouble tracking it down, I can provide you with the publisher's address. Mev >Patricia Miller of the University of Florida and I are thinking about putting >together a book on feminist approaches to cognitive development because we are >interested in exploring how feminist approaches might provide new perspectives >on the definition of thinking, the definition of development, the metaphors we >use to describe cognitive change, and the models we use to explain social >influences on development. Rather than looking at sex differences, we are >concerned instead with combining feminist epistemology and the study of early >child development. We are aware of work on "Women's ways of knowing" but wonder >who else in the feminist community is working on "revisioning" cognitive >development. Please reply privately. Thanks. >Ellin K. Scholnick >Psychology dept. >University of Maryland >College Park MD 20742 >es8@umail.umd.edu Women's Presses Library Project "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller, Project Coordinator 1483 Laurel Ave., St. Paul., MN 55104-6737 (phone) 612-646-0097; (fax) 612-646-1153; (email) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 10:45:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Titus Subject: call for proposals CALL FOR PROPOSALS For the 1996 NWSA Conference, June 12-16, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. I am hoping to propose a session for women faculty who are working on defining their relationship to their academic institution--their voice, their role, their views on membership, given the institution's history, character, etc. What does belonging mean/require/give...? The session will draw on Part One of Gail Griffin's *Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue* as a point of reference. Because the proposal deadline is November 1, please respond immediately if you are interested. Send a brief abstract and a little relevant personal information (perhaps the same thing) to Mary Titus: email: titus@stolaf.edu or post-mail: 907 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN. 55057. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 12:14:29 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: Rosie From: Rosie Comments: To: CLEIS CALL FOR PAPERS College Literature: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Studies Issue October 1996 [T]hough there are good historical reasons for keeping "race" and "sexuality" and "sexual difference" as separate analytic spheres, there are also quite pressing and significant historical reasons for asking how and where we might read not only their convergence, but the sites at which the one cannot be constituted save through the other (Judith Butler) In recent years questions of pleasure and desire have been in the foreground of debates about photography and the politics of representation . . . From our point of view one of the most notable features of this political activity around sexual representation is the marked _absence_ of race from the agenda of concerns--it is as if white people had colonized this agenda in cultural politics for themselves alone. While some feminists have begun to take on issues of race and racism in the women's movement, white gay men retain a deafening silence on race. (Kobena Mercer) As editor of the theoretical section of this special issue, I am seeking articles that explore the convergence of sexuality and racial/ethnic/postcolonial studies. Essays may engage with the following questions: How has l/g/q theory, or more particularly, explorations of the sexualizing and gendering of the "subject", come to be articulated with questions of racial and/ or ethnic subjectivity? IN what ways has queer nationalism intersected with, conflicted with, been challenged by other nationalisms? How has l/g/q studies overlapped, intersected, come into dialogue with or been challenged, interrogated, brought into crisis by African American , Native American, Latino/a, Asian American, post-colonial, JEwish, "ethnic" studies? If l/g/q theory has evolved as a predominantly white/western political and disciplinary project, to what extent has it begun a critical interrogation of its un-marked whiteness? How applicable are Western models of sexuality/sexual liberation for "third world," post-colonial, or post-communist states? What revisions of psychoanalysis (a prime site for "queer" articulations of sexual difference) make it responsive to the question of how subjects are simultaneously "sexualized" _and_ "racialized," or of the interdependency of ethno- and heterocentrism? Proposals, abstracts or articles (5,000 - 7,500 words) should be postmarked no lager than November 1st, 1995 and sent to: Jean Walton, Department of English, University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI, 02881; FAX: 401-792-2580; E-mail: JWALTON at URIACC. URI.EDU ...................................................................... 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, 10 Oct 1995 13:57:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Karen D. George" Subject: Re: gender/equity feminism In-Reply-To: <30796D1B@msmail.nwrel.org> Perhaps the word feminism isn't serving us. Don't get alarmed...we need it, but it is TOO small a word (and too loaded with diverse meaning) to cover all the subject matter we are dealing with. For me, words are my tools and if one is getting in the way of my objective, then I need a new tool to do the job more quickly and effectively. I don't want to get hung-up on which tool to use, I want to get the job done! I suggest exploring other options..there are endless possibililties! Karen dee george Senior, Related art 683-8459 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:29:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: Sexual Assault and Popular Culture Lori -- I read your request on the WMST-L about portrayals of sexual assault. I have a partial manuscript on this in which examples are from novels, mainly SF/Fantasy novels because it was for an SF/Fantasy audience originally, but I'll bet there are loads of examples in older romance novels. What I was especially interested in was the depiction of sex coerced under circumstances where many people might not categorize it as rape (though I would), and particular where the perpetrator is the "hero" and depicted as fine and upstanding in every other way -- the message being that a "real man" doesn't take no for an answer. I prepared a handout with paragraphs from several of these works describing the sexual encounters. I have used this as a consciousness-raising device with classes, asking them to respond to: "Is this a rape or is it not, and why?" I'd be glad to send it to you, if you'd like. Or, if you just want examples and novels are OK -- check the rape scene in Jean Auel's THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS. -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:30:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: Sexual Assault and Popular Culture P.S. I'd be very interested in your list of other examples. -- Gina ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:42:47 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mercedes Subject: Re: gender/equity feminism In-Reply-To: from "Karen D. George" at Oct 10, 95 01:57:40 pm Hey!!!! SOMEONE, not me, signed me up for this list. I hate it. I don't know how to get off it.. FIX IT NOW!!! tbenz@carroll1.cc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:18:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "D. Atkins" Subject: Need Information on Alt. Families (fwd) I need published information about alternative families in the United States. I have been able to find information about lesbian and gay families. And although these are helpful, they don't discuss families with more than two adults. Does any one have any citations on alternative families structures such as "polyamorous" or "group marriages" in the US for my bibliography. Can you email me any suggestions you have? Dawn Atkins datkins@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:36:31 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joseph A. Jacobs I" <36419@WPOFF.MONM.EDU> Subject: Query on char-constrctn in animated films I'm looking for recent research concerning Disney animated features, i.e. "Aladdin," "Beauty and the Beast," etc. --- along the lines of character construction and feminist implications. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:23:19 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: 1996 NWSA Conference Could someone who has information about the 1996 NWSA Conference please email me an outline and post me the relevant forms? Lynne Alice Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 15:22:49 -0500 Reply-To: Bonnie J Dow Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie J Dow Subject: Re: Query on char-constrctn in animated films In-Reply-To: Two cites that showed up on this list a couple months ago are: Henry Girou, "Animating Youth: The Disneyfication of Children's Culture," SOCIALIST REVIEW 94/3. Leadbeater and Wilson, "Flipping their fins for a place to stand . . . " YOUTH AND SOCIETY, vol. 24, June 1993. (about THE lITTLE MERMAID). Also, U of Indiana Press has just come out with a book, FROM MOUSE TO MERMAID: THE POLITICS OF FILM, GENDER, AND CULTURE, ed. by E. Bell, L. Haas, and L. Sells that takes a feminist perspective on Disney. Bonnie Dow dow@badlands.nodak.edu On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Joseph A. Jacobs I wrote: > I'm looking for recent research concerning Disney animated features, i.e. > "Aladdin," "Beauty and the Beast," etc. --- along the lines of character > construction and feminist implications. > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:18:20 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Julia M. Allen" Subject: Re: 1996 NWSA Conference & 1996 MLA Conf. >Could someone who has information about the 1996 NWSA Conference please >email me an outline and post me the relevant forms? > >Lynne Alice > >Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston >North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms Could I ask that the information be posted to the list? (Or if it already has been & I've missed it, could someone please tell me where to find it?) Thanks. Also, here's some MLA information for the person who wanted it. I couldn't make the e-mail address work to post this privately. >Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:08:02 -0800 >To:MGarber@dhvx20.csudu.edu >From:allen@vax.sonoma.edu ( Julie Allen) >Subject:MLA CFPs > >>Does anyone have a CFP for the MLA, whenever the next one is? >>MGarber@dhvx20.csdh.edu > >The CFPs usually come in the MLA Newsletter. I received the Fall 1995 issue >today & it has a number of CFPs. The Winter issue will have even more. >There's also some introductory material in the September PMLA, but no actual >CFPs. > >The convention in 1996 will be held in Washington; it's usually December 27-30. > >Hope this helps. > >Julie allen@sonoma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 19:05:09 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela Humphrey Brown Subject: Trying to locate an article on bell hooks Does anyone know of an article about bell hooks in the Chronicle of Higher Educ ation? I am not sure if the article was about an interview with bell hooks or an interview about her. I really want to find the article becuase I overheard a couple of students talking about it on a crowded bus on my campus and I was i ntrigued by what they said. Angela Mrs . Angela Humphrey Brown 236 Frederick Drive Athens, Georgia 30607 7065483346 abrown@uga.cc.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:58:57 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Firestone Subject: Re: Sexual Assault and Popular Culture In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:29:47 EST from Ayn Rand also portrays rape as positive sexual experience. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 22:12:46 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Raka Shome Subject: Re: Trying to locate an article on bell hooks In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 10 Oct 1995 19:05:09 EDT from Hi Angela: Yes, this was an interview with, as well as write up about hooks in one of the May issues of the Chronicle of HIgher Education. You might also be interested in the critique of hooks by Michele Wallace that came out in the latest issue of Women's Revies of Books. Both these pieces are in many ways questioning of hooks. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 08:14:33 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Cheryl L. Meeker" Subject: Query on char-constrctn in animated films -Reply And then I see you are on the list. Great! cm >>> Joseph A. Jacobs I <36419@WPOFF.MONM.EDU> 10/10/95 02:36pm >>> I'm looking for recent research concerning Disney animated features, i.e. "Aladdin," "Beauty and the Beast," etc. --- along the lines of character construction and feminist implications. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 08:11:50 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Litt Subject: dealing with heterosexism and racism in intro ws I am forwarding a message that one t.a. for our Introduction to Women's Studies sent out on the lesbian studies list. Please address responses to Amy or to me, on or off list. Thanks. ------- Forwarded Message Received: from pop-2.iastate.edu (pop-2.iastate.edu [129.186.6.62]) by pop-3.iastate.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA11301 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:43:56 -0500 Received: from isum2.iastate.edu (isum2.iastate.edu [129.186.1.131]) by pop-2.iastate.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA18471; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:43:56 -0500 Received: by isum2.iastate.edu with sendmail-5.65 id ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:43:27 -0500 Message-Id: <9510102143.AA23592@isum2.iastate.edu> To: lesbian-studies@queernet.queernet.org Cc: jlitt@iastate.edu, bdaily@iastate.edu Subject: Heterosexism in the classroom X-Mailer: EasyVincent 3.1 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:43:17 CDT From: "Amy D. Selha" Anyone have advice/wisdom/experience with the following problem of heterosexism and rascism in Women's Studies courses??? When the 325 students in the Introduction to Women's Studies class at Iowa State University were asked to critique the text used (Women, Culture, and Society: A Reader Rutgers University Women's Studies Program) they overwhelming cited not only the difficulty of the text, but also comments such as the following: "I feel the book is too centered on lesbians. Everything we read involves this subject. There is more to Women's Studies than lesbians!" "I didn't expect so many articles on lesbianism or black feminists. It seems like everytime I read an article in the text that's all I ever hear about=oppressed blacks or lesbians." While the team of instructors and TAs agree that the text is sometimes challenging, we of course do not feel it is too heavily focused on issues of race and sexual orientation. We feel it is important to address the student's heterosexist and euro-centric response. Has anyone encountered a unique way of responding to this sort of reaction? We are looking for something which will encourage the students to reflect upon their position as readers and how this may have affected their responses. Any wisdom will be greatly appreciated. --- Amy D. Selha two women, eye to eye/measuring each aselha@iastate.edu other's spirit, each other's limitless desire,/a whole new poetry beginning here. --Adrienne Rich ------- End of Forwarded Message ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:19:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" ENGLISH: The West Virginia University Department of English hopes to hire three faculty in tenure-track positions to start August 15, 1996, pending funding. Ph. D. required; ability also to teach composition and introductory literature courses expected. In all cases, award of tenure and promotion to associate professor will be based on a record of excellence in scholarship clearly supported by excellence in teaching. 1) Beginning Assistant Professor: African-American and/or multi- ethnic literature and culture. Evidence of ability to conduct and direct original research expected. 2) Assistant Professor: Coordinator of WVU's Center for Literary Computing. Evidence of ability to develop the Center as a major resource of instruction and research for both graduate and undergraduate students required; teaching assignment will include the development of a program of courses in humanities computing. 3) Beginning Assistant Professor: General Literary Studies. Evidence expected of ability to develop and teach large sections of literature courses to students seeking general education credits in the humanities. Applicant should address specific methodologies appropriate to such courses in letter of application. Scholarly speciality is open, but favored areas include nineteenth or twentieth century British literature. Send letter of application and current c.v. to Prof. Patrick W. Conner, Chair, Department of English, PO BOX 6296, 231 Stansbury Hall, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505-6296, by Nov. 10, 1995. Minorities, disabled, women candidates urged to apply. AA/EOE ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:00:10 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Saundra Gardner Subject: Re: Trying to locate an article on bell hooks Angela-- The article on Bell Hooks was in the May 19 issue of the Chronicle-- and it was quite interesting. Sandy Gardner Dept. Sociology Univ. of Maine ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:11:43 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Trying to locate an article on bell hooks In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 10 Oct 1995 19:05:09 EDT from I would also like to locate the Chronicle article - Please post to the list or to me privately. Meanwhile, there's a review of hook's new book by Michele Wallace in the current (Oct.) issue of the Women's Review of Books, which raises important questions about representation by a feminist about the group with which she identifies. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:20:24 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Sexual Assault and Popular Culture In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:58:57 -0700 from For sexual assault and popular culture, also see the NY Times science section of 10/10/95. It's sociobiology (unnamed) extrapolating from animals to humans that sexual harassment and rape are natural and some insects take a "feminist" approach to ward off harassment collectively to minimize the cost of bearing and rearing progeny! The scientists, of course, read human behavior and biases into animal behavior, selecting observations and defining them, then brings all that back to humans. The NYT outdoes itself in popularizing biological determinism with this one. Do our students get the message from the `paper of record'? Do responses belong in all WS courses? I think so. - beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:34:49 EST5EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sherrie A. Inness" Organization: Miami University Hamilton Campus Please post: Call for Papers The editors of a proposed anthology seek essays on American women regional writers that broaden traditional concepts of regionalism in a variety of ways, including (but not restricted to) consideration of ecological and political texts, multi-ethnic/multi- cultural texts, and contemporary texts. We desire a wide variety of approaches and encourage submissions that are interdisciplinary; make connections between writers; and are theoretically and/or historically informed. Authors might consider: What constitutes region and regional writing? What aspects of a region do various writers address? How do issues of class, gender, and race influence regional texts? How has the genre developed since the nineteenth century? Send two copies of completed essays (25-30 pages) by 20 February 1996 to Sherrie A. Inness or Diana Royer; Miami University, 1601 Peck Boulevard, Hamilton, OH 45011; innesss@muohio.edu or royerda@muohio.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:54:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Margaret Madden, 414-832-7360" Subject: Speaker on the education of women The group which plans my University's formal speakers' series is seeking suggestions for a speaker on some topic related to the education of women. This series features prominent people (whose names would be familiar to educated people) and there is a reasonable budget to pay for such individuals. Can members of this list suggest names of possible speakers who are dynamic, persuasive, and, of course, feminist? THe exact topic is pretty flexible as long as it is related to the past, present, or future of education of/about women. If I receive many responses, I will post a compilation to the list. Margaret Madden Lawrence University Margaret.E.Madden@Lawrence.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:20:28 EST Reply-To: ADENAC@MCET.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Adena Cohen Organization: Mass Corp. Educ. Tel. Subject: sociology discussion list? Does anyone know of a sociology discussion list similar to the Women's Studies List? Thanks very much. --Adena Cohen Boston, MA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 12:48:08 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Monica Dorenkamp Subject: Re: dealing with heterosexism and racism in intro ws having t.a.ed the intro ws class at rutgers with an earlier edition of the same text i can suggest some of the ways in which i dealt with similar resistance from the students. practically speaking, i think there many ways to address these questions though i think it is (at least) a semester long process and that many of the students won't *get it* (if i can use such shorthand) until the end, or close to it. when i taught, i bookended the course with explicit examinations of these questions. by being _very_ upfront about it all, and by addressing questions of the production and distribution of knowledge (e.g. *why _does_ a ws text have so many essays by and about women of color and/or lesbians? and why do we not only find it unusual [texts in our other classes aren't like this] but why do we feel uncomfortable or unhappy about it?*) the students are not allowed to indulge their mostly (at this stage) ignorant opinions but are forced to grapple intellectually with some of the fundamental issues of the course. an assignment i gave one semester worked remarkably well in beginning to crystallize things for the students. we had read essays by bell hooks and audre lorde. meanwhile, naomi wolf's _fighting fire with fire_ had just come out and had received a positive front page review in the _women's review of books_. i xeroxed that review and asked the students to assume the positions articulated by hooks and/or lorde and to do a reading of the review. this was the first assignment of the semester and it was not surprising that all but two of the students were caught up with the enthusiasm of both the reviewer and of wolf herself. they concluded that hooks and lorde would be thrilled with this book and that, in addition, it was one they (i.e. the students) would have been happy to read in this class, perhaps instead of hooks and lorde. now wolf's idea of *let's all _say_ we're feminists regardless of what we believe in so that we can create a stronger movement and get more women in congress and ceo offices* is hardly one that hooks and lorde would subscribe to. and since it ignores entirely the need for structural change, it is arguably fundamentally racist, heterosexist, and classist (despite its insistence that working class women and women of color should join the movement, which of course is thus implicitly defined as middle/upper class and white). this clash of feminisms prompted lively discussions, and allowed the students to voice their confusions (though this would not be easy with 300+ students -- do you meet in smaller groups too??). not only were we able to discuss the different understandings of *women* expressed by these different positions, but we were also able to again discuss the production and distribution of knowledge, which is what ws as a discipline is so much about. e.g. who publishes naomi wolf? why is this the kind of feminism that gets such widespread distribution? who publishes audre lorde? (well, our ws text for one....) at the end of the course i raised these questions again explicitly (they remain of course throughout the course but without direct examination). many of the students were still uncomfortable and many of the white students esp. were dealing at that point with feelings of guilt. so at the end i had them read chandra mohanty's *under western eyes* and the ann russo essay that is in that same collection (_third world feminism_ -- both of these essays may now be in the rutgers reader but i'm not sure). the mohanty allows them again to question how what they so vociferously pronounce as their *opinions* have been formed by their exposure to specifically western constructions of knowledge. and the russo was effective for all of the students (though esp. for the white students) because it confronts head on questions of guilt and (in)action. many students said they wished they had read the russo at the beginning of the course but i think it would not have had the same effect then. finally (and i apologize for rambling on), i think it's important to call attention throughout the course to its own constructions -- e.g. have we articulated *race* as a black/white thing (as the popular media has relentlessly constructed it around the simpson verdict)? have we slipped into a monolithic understanding of *Woman* to discuss certain issues? etc. etc. monica dorenkamp rutgers email: mdorenkamp@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:27:55 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Serena Patterson Subject: Re: Re[2]: equity feminism/"gender feminism" Sommers aside, my students do enjoy being introduced to the diversity of 'feminisms', and I have found the contrast between liberal feminism ('The same, therefore equal') and cultural feminism ('different, therefore equal') to be a particularly fruitful discussion starter. I then throw in the question of where feminism should focus--the home? business? the law? traditional political institutions?--and they play with the ideas quite readily. By the time we are done, it isn't easy to divert them into either stereotyping all feminists as the same, or into villifying some groups. Perhaps that would be a good point to introduce to students some of the more transparent stereotyping of Sommers. If I were teaching theory or introductory WST I think I would do just that, but I'd pair it with some historical material to show that Sommers isn't doing anything new--Sufferagists got the same kind of crap. (I teach Psychology of Women from a feminist perspective, but rarely spend that kind of time on the historical stereotyping issue--perhaps I should). The bottom line for me is that liberal feminists have been stereotyped and villified for denying difference, and cultural feminists have recieved the same treatment for valueing difference and for looking at its roots in oppression and seperate spheres. We simply can't avoid it--there is no room in the minds of people like Sommers for recognising patriarchy or for claiming real equality on any ground that identifies the level playing field as a myth. So why bother? We try to give the critics a nod, and press on. (please pardon the editing--or lack thereof). ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:31:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo-Ann Pilardi Subject: Full-Time Women's Studies Position, Towson State University (MD) Full-time Women's Studies Appointment The Women's Studies Program at Towson State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure track appointment at the Assistant Professor level beginning August 1996. Evidence of feminist scholarship focusing on women of color in the U. S. and/or the Third World, and Ph. D. in Women's Studies, economics, geography, political science or sociology required. Experience in teaching interdisciplinary Women's Studies courses, including introduction to Women's Studies, strongly preferred. Salary commensurate with experience. Teaching responsibilities will include introduction to Women's Studies and interdisciplinary upper-level Women's Studies courses in the candidate's area(s) of interest. We seek candidates who can teach interdisciplinary upper-level courses focusing on women of color in the U. S. and/or the Third World; topics could include economic development, environmental issues, political activism, political economy, population studies, and/or public policy. We are particularly interested in candidates whose teaching and scholarship address the intersections of gender, race, and class in multicultural and/or global perspectives. Applications must include a cover letter, vita, transcript, three reference letters, and sample syllabi. Send applications to: Jo-Ann Pilardi, Search Committee, Women's Studies Program, Towson State University, Towson, Maryland, 21204-7097, (410) 830-2660. Applications must be postmarked by December 15, 1995. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 14:31:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: who sent that message? (User's Guide) Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Meanwhile, here is the section that describes the DUALHDR feature: 13) "MY MAIL SYSTEM DOESN'T IDENTIFY THE WRITERS OF THE MESSAGES THAT APPEAR ON WMST-L. HOW CAN I GET THIS INFORMATION?" Some WMST-L subscribers have mail systems that do not identify the writers of WMST-L messages. All these subscribers know from the header is that the message is from WMST-L. Such subscribers may wish to take advantage of a new optional feature called DUALHDR that provides the e-mail address and usually also the name of the writer INSIDE the mail message. If you choose this option, your mail message will begin with an INTERNAL header that looks like this: >---------------------- Information from the mail header -------------------- >Sender: Women's Studies List >Poster: Joan Korenman >Subject: Professor seeks research funding >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of us don't need this additional header, since our mail systems provide this information in the normal header, and none of us would need it if people included their name and email address at the end of every message. However, some folks persist in omitting this information, and so for those whose mail systems don't identify the writer, the DUALHDR option should be very useful. To implement DUALHDR, simply send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you receive WMST-L at your Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you receive WMST-L at your Internet address): SET WMST-L DUALHDR Be sure to send this message to LISTSERV, NOT to WMST-L!! If you receive a response saying that you don't have a subscription, try listserv's other address (i.e., Bitnet if you tried Internet, or vice versa). ********************************** Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 14:22:41 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: shelley park Subject: Re: dealing with heterosexism and racism in intro ws In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 11 Oct 1995 08:11:50 CDT from There is no easy way to deal with heterosexism and racism among women's studies students (i.e. to combat years of socialization with one course), but I use an "interview project" as one of my assigments in feminist theory and I think it has worked fairly well as a way of getting students to grapple with difference. Students are required to interview a woman who is different from themselves in one of the following ways: generationally, racially/ethnically, from a different socio-economic class, or with a different sexual preference (obviously this list could be expanded). They are to design their own interview, but it should be designed, in part, to elicit the "other" woman's views on feminism (eg. what does she think the major issues facing women are, has she ever faced discrimination, etc.) Then, on the basis of this interview they are to compare and contrast their own preferred feminist theoretical outlook with that implicitly adopted or rejected by their interview subject and reflect on how their different personal experiences, status, concerns etc. may be connected to their theoretical outlooks. I have consistently had positive student feedback on this project and I think they learn a lot, while enjoying the experience and sometimes making a new friend to boot. Shelley ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:52:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sara Tucker Subject: seek best sources on women's achievement styles A few months ago I asked listmembers for information on any centers dedicated to women and leadership; I am grateful for several very helpful responses. The steering committee at my university (looking into funding for a center focused on the needs/experiences of women seeking public-sector achievement) asks me to ask your help again. Since many of us are out of our own fields, brought together to take advantage of the possibility of one donor's gift, we don't know as much about this field as we would wish. What we now ask for are recommendations on the most important and useful writings and studies about women and achievement. Most specifically our possible donor is interested in are studies of women's leadership styles as contrasted with those of men. We are aware of the great work being done out of Rutgers on women and politics. What else should we be looking at on the experiences/strategies/styles/special difficulties of well-qualified women seeking success in the public world? We do know this is a broad request, and hope it doesn't come across as asking listmembers to do our work for us. Again, we were brought together in the interests of building a resource intended to value, study and serve women. We need all the help we can get, and believe the cause is worthwhile (and just). We will be grateful for any and all help. * Sara W. Tucker e-mail: zztuck@acc.wuacc.edu * * Professor of History fax: (913) 231-1084 * * Washburn University voice: (913) 231-1010 x 1319 * * Topeka, Kansas 66621 * ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 20:09:36 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sokari Ekine Subject: Re: Trying to locate an article on bell hooks Hi, if anyone has access to both articles - would it be possible to photocopy them and either post them or scan and e-mail them to me here in London England? Please reply direct to me. Thank you >Hi Angela: Yes, this was an interview with, as well as write up about >hooks in one of the May issues of the Chronicle of HIgher Education. >You might also be interested in the critique of hooks by Michele >Wallace that came out in the latest issue of Women's Revies of Books. >Both these pieces are in many ways questioning of hooks. > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 20:49:49 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Trying to locate an article on bell hooks In-Reply-To: I would like to see both the Chronicle piece, and the Michele Wallace review. I'd have to get them by inter-library loan. So I would be really grateful if someone could give me the kind of detail I'd need for that. Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:10:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Benkert-Rasmussen, Lysbeth" Subject: Re: dealing with heterosexism and racism in intro ws I just wanted to thank Monica for this excellent response. I found it very helpful. ---------- From: owner-wmst-l To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L Subject: Re: dealing with heterosexism and racism in intro ws Date: Wednesday, October 11, 1995 12:48PM having t.a.ed the intro ws class at rutgers with an earlier edition of the same text i can suggest some of the ways in which i dealt with similar resistance from the students. practically speaking, i think there many ways to address these questions though i think it is (at least) a semester long process and that many of the students won't *get it* (if i can use such shorthand) until the end, or close to it. when i taught, i bookended the course with explicit examinations of these questions. by being _very_ upfront about it all, and by addressing questions of the production and distribution of knowledge (e.g. *why _does_ a ws text have so many essays by and about women of color and/or lesbians? and why do we not only find it unusual [texts in our other classes aren't like this] but why do we feel uncomfortable or unhappy about it?*) the students are not allowed to indulge their mostly (at this stage) ignorant opinions but are forced to grapple intellectually with some of the fundamental issues of the course. an assignment i gave one semester worked remarkably well in beginning to crystallize things for the students. we had read essays by bell hooks and audre lorde. meanwhile, naomi wolf's _fighting fire with fire_ had just come out and had received a positive front page review in the _women's review of books_. i xeroxed that review and asked the students to assume the positions articulated by hooks and/or lorde and to do a reading of the review. this was the first assignment of the semester and it was not surprising that all but two of the students were caught up with the enthusiasm of both the reviewer and of wolf herself. they concluded that hooks and lorde would be thrilled with this book and that, in addition, it was one they (i.e. the students) would have been happy to read in this class, perhaps instead of hooks and lorde. now wolf's idea of *let's all _say_ we're feminists regardless of what we believe in so that we can create a stronger movement and get more women in congress and ceo offices* is hardly one that hooks and lorde would subscribe to. and since it ignores entirely the need for structural change, it is arguably fundamentally racist, heterosexist, and classist (despite its insistence that working class women and women of color should join the movement, which of course is thus implicitly defined as middle/upper class and white). this clash of feminisms prompted lively discussions, and allowed the students to voice their confusions (though this would not be easy with 300+ students -- do you meet in smaller groups too??). not only were we able to discuss the different understandings of *women* expressed by these different positions, but we were also able to again discuss the production and distribution of knowledge, which is what ws as a discipline is so much about. e.g. who publishes naomi wolf? why is this the kind of feminism that gets such widespread distribution? who publishes audre lorde? (well, our ws text for one....) at the end of the course i raised these questions again explicitly (they remain of course throughout the course but without direct examination). many of the students were still uncomfortable and many of the white students esp. were dealing at that point with feelings of guilt. so at the end i had them read chandra mohanty's *under western eyes* and the ann russo essay that is in that same collection (_third world feminism_ -- both of these essays may now be in the rutgers reader but i'm not sure). the mohanty allows them again to question how what they so vociferously pronounce as their *opinions* have been formed by their exposure to specifically western constructions of knowledge. and the russo was effective for all of the students (though esp. for the white students) because it confronts head on questions of guilt and (in)action. many students said they wished they had read the russo at the beginning of the course but i think it would not have had the same effect then. finally (and i apologize for rambling on), i think it's important to call attention throughout the course to its own constructions -- e.g. have we articulated *race* as a black/white thing (as the popular media has relentlessly constructed it around the simpson verdict)? have we slipped into a monolithic understanding of *Woman* to discuss certain issues? etc. etc. monica dorenkamp rutgers email: mdorenkamp@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 16:18:06 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Feminist Majority Subject: Feminist Majority Online -- Expo '96 Feminist Majority Online -- http://www.feminist.org MESSAGE FROM THE FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION SAVE THE DATE! EXPO '96 FOR WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT FEBRUARY 2-4, 1996 SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL WASHINGTON, D.C. Dear Feminist Scholar, The women's movement is coming together for the first-ever National Feminist Exposition: Expo `96 for Women's Empowerment. The Feminist Majority Foundation and a growing list of 62 co-sponsoring organizations dedicated to the empowerment of women would like to invite you to co-sponsor this innovative exposition for the entire feminist community, to be held at the Sheraton Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C., on February 2-4, 1996. At this Expo `96, we want the nation to see the power of the feminist movement and its ideas, its vision, and the diversity of its work and constituencies. We intend to ignite the women's movement on the fight to save affirmative action; to adopt a feminist national budget for the United States; and to plan for a massive feminist exposition to be held in the year 2000. The participation of feminist scholars, leaders in Women's Studies, and feminist students is critical to the success of Expo '96. Affirmative action, budget issues, and the future of feminism clearly are of grave importance on college and university campuses. At the same time, our victories on these and other feminist priorities in this nation depend on the leadership of faculty, students, and campus staff. The Feminist Majority Foundation is investing in this new undertaking for the feminist movement because we think it is time, as we prepare to enter a new millennium, for both the nation and ourselves to see the vast diversity and power of the present day women's movement together -- under one roof. For the Expo `96 for Women's Empowerment, we are inviting women's organizations with a wide array of constituencies, services, and programs dedicated to changing the world for women and girls. We are inviting women's groups and women activists from all arenas of life -- social, economic, and political -- to share their accomplishments and visions. Expo `96 will act as a forerunner for a large-scale exposition scheduled for the year 2000. Participation in Expo `96 will provide organizations and activists the opportunity to be involved in shaping Expo 2000, which will be a major exposition open to the public, featuring the accomplishments and visions of the feminist movement for the 21st century. Expo `96 is timed to take place at the beginning of the election season so the feminist movement as a whole can help frame the national debate on affirmative action. Women must not be left out of this debate. And we plan to build on the momentum of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and Beyond in Beijing -- to help make its Platform for Action a reality. One of the primary goals of Expo `96 for Women's Empowerment is to develop and adopt a feminist national budget. We have seen the President's Budget, the House Budget, the Senate Budget, but we have not seen a feminist budget. We must not enter the 21st century watching women's programs being defunded, the military budgets being as bloated as ever, the interest on the national debt ever-increasing, and our movement, group by group, speaking only to very small percentages of the budget. Another central goal of Expo '96 is to bring together feminists activists with feminists in the academy in order to foster greater collaboration. All 40 symposia, training sessions and roundtables will facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas, dialogue, and planning between activists and researchers, among organizations, among various academic disciplines, and among practitioners of legal, electoral, education, service, and advocacy approaches. In addition to incorporating the perspectives of scholars and activists in all Expo '96 sessions, several roundtable discussions will feature the role of women's studies in the feminist movement. Preliminary ideas for these sessions include "How Women's Studies Helps Feminists and How Feminists Can Help Women's Studies," "Building Links Between Feminist Academics and Feminist Activists," and "Roundtable of Leaders of Women' s Academic Caucuses." We very much would like to involve you in the development of these and other program sessions. I know that all of our schedules are extremely busy, especially in this year when our agenda and the very existence of women's studies is under massive attack by the Right Wing. Literally, the wolves are at our door: opponents are seeking to defund family planning and the Violence Against Women Act, to eliminate women's and multi-cultural studies at colleges and universities, to gut affirmative action programs and Title IX. Program by program, we are on the defensive. Expo `96 will help us rise together as a whole, feel our strength and the strength of our ideas, galvanize the strategy to put our opponents on the defensive and frame the debate. Participation in Expo `96 will be an exciting, new experience. Our Exhibit Hall will be innovative and will feature high-tech solutions to organizing modern women in the 21st century to visualize the feminist future. The four corners of the Hall will feature: Organizing for Feminism -- On-line and Worldwide and will encourage women's organizations to develop home pages and enter the Internet; Women in the 1996 Olympics -- Organizing for Equality; Feminist Architecture -- How Feminists are Designing a Modern World for Equality; and a Feminist Career Center. The Feminist Career Center will be of particular interest to students, and we urge you to publicize this feature among your students. Think of the Expo as bringing together feminists from different sectors of our communities: the media, the law, politics, medicine and health care, business, education, public service, trade unions, non-profit services, advocacy, sports, entertainment, philanthropy, and religion. We hope all types of feminist organizations and ideas from all sectors of our society will participate in Expo `96, as we build a national budget and mobilize to keep the doors open for women, and visualize a feminist future. We hope you will join us on February 2-4, 1996, in this exciting, new adventure for women's empowerment. Alice Cohan and Dee Martin will serve as Director and Assistant Director, respectively, of Expo `96. To receive a copy of the Expo registration form, please reply via email to femmaj@feminist.org. For Equality in the 21st Century, Eleanor Smeal Jennifer Jackman, Ph.D. President Director of Policy and Research Feminist Majority Foundation Feminist Majority Foundation ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 16:24:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeannie Moss Subject: Religious studies courses I may have overlooked them if they're there, but the Syllabi list does not appear to have any courses in religious studies. If any of you know where I can look, or if you have anything you could send me, i would be grateful. Thanks jxmoss@ualr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:16:14 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Huckle Subject: correction Comments: To: ecofem@esf.colorado.edu, femjur@listserv.syr.edu, wisenet@uicvm.cc.vic.edu CORRECTION: THIS IS AT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LEVEL ONLY. SORRY FOR THE ERROR IN ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT. >TENURE TRACK POSITION IN WOMEN'S STUDIES > >The Department of Women's Studies at San Diego State University invites >applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant >Professor, beginning Fall 1996. Field of specialization is open, >but applicants should have research and teaching interests in gender, race, >and ethnicity in a national or international context. Applicants should also >demonstrate a commitment to the discipline of women's studies, to >undergraduate and graduate teaching as well as to research, and to the >development of new curriculum. Terminal Degree preferred. Rank and salary >are contingent upon experience and qualifications. Members of >underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Send letter of >application, curriculum vitae, names of three references, and sample syllabi >to: > > > Susan E. Cayleff, Chair of Search Committee > Department of Women's Studies > San Diego State University > San Diego, CA 92182-8138. > > >Review of applications will begin January 1, 1996, and continue until >position is filled. > > >SDSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Title IX Employer and does >not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, national >origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age or disability. VPAA#17 > >Polly Mason >Department of Women's Studies >San Diego State University >5500 Campanile Dr. >San Diego, CA 92182-8138 > >(619) 594-6524 >(619) 594-5218 Fax > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:23:41 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Huckle Comments: To: ECOFEM@CSF.COLORADO.EDU, WISENET@UICVM.CC.VIC.EDU, FEMJUR@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU CORRECTION: THIS POSITION IS OFFERED AT THE ASSISTANT LEVEL ONLY. APOLOGIES FOR THE ERROR. PLEASE FORWARD TO INTERESTED PERSONS. >TENURE TRACK POSITION IN WOMEN'S STUDIES > The Department of Women's Studies at San Diego State University invites >applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or >Associate Professor, beginning Fall 1996. Field of specialization is open, >but applicants should have research and teaching interests in gender, race, >and ethnicity in a national or international context. Applicants should also >demonstrate a commitment to the discipline of women's studies, to >undergraduate and graduate teaching as well as to research, and to the >development of new curriculum. Terminal Degree preferred. Rank and salary >are contingent upon experience and qualifications. Members of >underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Send letter of >application, curriculum vitae, names of three references, and sample syllabi >to: > > > Susan E. Cayleff, Chair of Search Committee > Department of Women's Studies > San Diego State University > San Diego, CA 92182-8138. > > >Review of applications will begin January 1, 1996, and continue until >position is filled. > > >SDSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Title IX Employer and does >not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, national >origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age or disability. VPAA#17 > >Polly Mason >Department of Women's Studies >San Diego State University >5500 Campanile Dr. >San Diego, CA 92182-8138 > >(619) 594-6524 >(619) 594-5218 Fax > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:51:07 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Huckle Subject: Correction The announcement of a tenure track position at San Diego State University Department of Women's Studies posted earlier contained an error. This position will be offered at the Assistant Professor level only. Apologies for any inconvenience. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 19:11:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristina Schelbert Brown Subject: Re: WMST-L Digest - 9 Oct 1995 to 10 Oct 1995 How do you subscribe to the MLA Newsletter? -Kristina S. Brown ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 19:38:37 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Melinda R. Michels" Organization: The American University Subject: women's centers We're in the initial stages of establishing a women's center at American U., and need information from other universities... In particular, we need information re: budgets, staffing, and mission statements. Direction to other resources would be appreciated also. Please respond privately. Thank you for your help "...Learning to love one another, to + mm4407a@american.edu nurture one another would not just + Mindy Michels be _a_ revolutionary act but _the_ + Anthropology Grad Stud. revolutionary act..." + American U. --Marlon Riggs-- + ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 16:43:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wolfgang Hirczy Subject: CYBER CLASS: Setting the agenda for Internet use in teaching (draft) Looking for: (1) Colleagues who have used and/or are using the Internet and related technologies in college teaching and are interested in sharing their experiences. (2) Possible participants in a round-table on cyber classroom options at the Southwestern Social Science Assn. meeting in Houston next year. This project was started on the political science research and teaching list, but is clearly relevant to other fields and interdisciplinary studies programs as well. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 10:00:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Wolfgang Hirczy To: "Pol.Sci.List: Teaching & Research" Subject: CYBER CLASS: Setting the agenda for Internet use in teaching (draft) Submitted by Wolfgang Hirczy, Oklahoma State University CC: Edward J. Harpham, The University of Texas at Dallas CYBERCLASS - INTERNET USE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE TEACHING Dear colleagues: Thank you for the numerous responses to my cyber class query, both to the list and privately. I downloaded all the correspondence and it filled more than 50 pages. It's very exciting to see that so many of you are trying so many different, innovative, things. In this first update on the project I have attempted to put together an inventory of questions, topics and issues. I hope this will assist us in organizing our treatment and discussion of this topic on this list, and in the discipline more generally. I would welcome your input. Please feel free to edit the below and simply return it to me. The next post will be a compilation of individual reports on what has been tried, and how it worked. [Perhaps this can serve as a basis for a survey to collect information on cyberclass experiences more systematically at some later point.] This will include portions of messages I received individually. If you have any objection to your story/contribution being shared anonymously or with attribution with list subscribers, please let me know as soon as possible. Additional contributions for this second instalment are welcome. Please email them to wolfh@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu. I am not even sure about the appropriate terminology for cyber use in teaching and would suggest that this question, too, be put on the agenda for discussion. The sequence of topics in the remainder of this message is as follows: - terminology - cyber options - implementation mode - student access and training - purposes/activities - implementation problems - pedagogical rationales - other benefits/rationales TERMINOLOGY (How shall we refer to all the various forms of electronic learning/teaching using local computer systems or Internet, in the syllabus, for example) - cyber classroom, cyber forum, cyber arena, virtual classroom - paperless classroom (Problem: paper will probably not be eliminated totally) - use of Internet in classroom (Problem: Is local system use Internet use?) - electronic media (Problem: includes other media, may not be narrow enough, but sound and video is becoming part of Internet fare) Related terminology (for course descriptions, etc.) - Internet component - Internet in the classroom - internetting - electronic learning - cyber component - on-line component - on-line participant, interaction - electronic literacy - computer competency CYBER OPTIONS: What facilities are available for instructor and student use? (1) E-mail. Can be used for teacher-student consultation/notification in lieu (or in addition to) phone contacts, office hours, and to distribute "electronic handouts," using email distribution lists. (2) Specially created listserves/discussion lists and other mailing lists (multiple-recipient emailing options), on which instructor (or both instructor and students) post(s) messages. Can be moderated or unmoderated (automatic distribution). (3) Student subscription to third-party listserves (e.g. news service covering developments in the CIS in a course on post-Soviet politics, subscription to public policy open discussion list in a policy class). (4) Newsgroups, (local equivalent of Internet/usenet newsgroups). These have been used by some instructors for 2+ years for disseminating information and for students to interact in cyber space (discuss issues, give mutual feedback on short papers or essays posted for all to read). Can be moderated or unmoderated. (5) Web sites (www). Instructor can set up home page with links to own or other resources on the world-wide web (WWW). (6) Internet as a research tool. Use of electronic libraries and databases. IMPLEMENTATION MODE: How do I get students to participate? - Mandated participation (categorical requirement or assessed/graded requirement) - Voluntary participation - No incentives other than appeal to their interests, intrinsic value - Incentives that have an effect on their grade (e.g. distribution of a sample test, etc). STUDENT ACCESS TO INTERNET: - computer labs on campus - library - home computer + modem (PPP/SLIP or SHELL account?) STUDENT TRAINING - Special session in lab at beginning of semester - Self-train (with lab asst. as resource) PURPOSES / ACTIVITIES: What do we use all this for? Locally (one-way or interactive) - providing information to students (distribute lecture notes, announcements, study hints, test questions, solutions/answers, electronic "hand-outs") - submission of work products by students (assignments, answers, reports, etc...) - information exchange between students and instructor - interactive communication among students - study sessions for test in cyberspace - discussion of issues (debate) Globally: - search for information, research - interaction with outside Internet users - participation in global forums (usenet groups, etc.) IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEMS: What glitches or obstacles may I encounter? Structural: - Infra-structural and technical (system down, system access, account set-up, configuration) - instructor hard ware and software (access through office computer, sufficient disk space) - students - Lack of support or even know-how on the part of computing services personnel - Difficulties with administrators Behavioral: - Student resistance to something new - Quality control (too much chatter/noise) - Student net abuse and other disciplinary issues (spamming, inappropriate messages, libel, etc.) PEDAGOGICAL RATIONALES: Why is it a good idea to use cyber resources in teaching? Intrinsic benefits: - give students opportunity to learn and enjoy new technologies and resources Tool in realizing traditional goals through this new medium: - get students to write more - get students to get feedback from each other (interactive learning) - give shy students opportunity to express opinion in cyber forum - teach analysis and argumentation skills through discussion in cyber forum OTHER BENEFITS/RATIONALES - Advantage over time/place-bound interaction (no phone tag, missed office hour, etc.) ------- Posted by Wolfgang Hirczy ------ Please edit (add items, topics, questions, examples, comments, criticism ...) and return to sender if you are interested in promoting and further development of Internet use and electronic learning tools in political science teaching. Also, Professor Ted Harpham , University of Texas at Dallas, has made the excellent suggestion that we organize a workshop at one or two of the professional meetings next year. If you are in a position to share experience gained from the use of these new technologies in teaching, please identify yourself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:14:21 GMT+10 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally EDSALL Organization: NSW Teachers Federation Subject: Other women's lists I have discovered that this is not really the list for me, but it is the only address I have for any women's discussion groups. Before I get off, I'd like to appeal to anyone who can help me with any addresses in the following areas; (NB I have access to e-mail only, not WWW etc): Women in trade unions and industrial relations, bargaining etc Women teachers in all sectors of education Feminist discussion groups Discussion oabout workers and family responsibilities Educational issues concerning women and girls. Thanks * very much* in anticipation. Please mail me direct. Sally Sally sedsall@nswtf.org.au ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 07:56:43 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Other women's lists Comments: To: Sally EDSALL In-Reply-To: <199510120444.AAA26427@holmes.umd.edu> On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, Sally EDSALL wrote: > Before I get off, I'd like to appeal to anyone who can help me with > any addresses in the following areas; (NB I have access to e-mail > only, not WWW etc): > > Women in trade unions and industrial relations, bargaining etc > Women teachers in all sectors of education > Feminist discussion groups > Discussion oabout workers and family responsibilities > Educational issues concerning women and girls. I maintain a frequently-updated compilation of women-related email lists that includes lists in several of the categories you mention. To get that compilation via email, send the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . For those who have access to the World Wide Web, the compilation is at http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html . (Normally, I'd also give a gopher address, but local bugs have prevented my updating the gopher entries for several months. I'm hoping those bugs will soon be eliminated, but for now, the email and WWW versions are more up-to-date.) I recommend the above compilation over some other online information such as Laura Hunt's guide or the admirable Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences because these latter documents are much less frequently updated; they thus contain more inaccurate information and are missing a number of recent lists. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County or * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 05:33:10 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Solutions 3000, Inc." Subject: Re: Other women's lists At 02:14 PM 10/12/95 GMT+10, you wrote: >I have discovered that this is not really the list for me, but it is >the only address I have for any women's discussion groups. NO, :-) We created an online marketplace for women in business - BizWomen! "bringing professional women from all over the world together! BizWomen provides the online interactive marketplace for successful women in business: to communicate, network, exchange ideas, and provide support for each other via the Internet. What makes BizWomen different is its dedication to providing the best, one stop service, providing up to date information for the professional woman to further expand her reach into the business world through: BizNewz, WWWomen - World-Wide Women Directory, R&R - Resources and References, W.I.N. - Women Inter-Networking, Open Market - a center for classifieds, Emporium - an exclusive shopping forum, Women on the Go!- travel and weather information, and Link to Link to other valuable sites. As an online community, BizWomen also provides an Internet presence for you to establish your own business site with a colorful online "brochure", to market your products and services to millions of people all around the world! Visit us on the World-Wide Web at http://www.bizwomen.com We welcome you to participate in our four maillinglists geared to women in business: Topics: 1. Business and Managment 2. Career and Progress 3. Finance and Investment 4. Technlogy and Future Developments If you don't have WWW access, let us know and we will send you information on how you are able to participate in the maillinglists without being on the WWW. For comments or suggestions send email to : info@bizwomen.com We are looking forward meeting you soon at our site. The Staff of BizWomen P.S. In a few days we will implement password protection on most of our pages for your security! Marianne Krammel Executive Director, BizWomen ......Solutions 3000 brings you "BizWomen"....... Online community for successful women in business ..Please visit us at http://www.bizwomen.com..... ......auto-reply: bizwomen@mailback.com ......... .......regular email: info@bizwomen.com ......... ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:38:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Chu Subject: Re: IWPR Call for Research Partnerships From: Roberta Spalter-Roth, Director of Research Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) Re: IWPR Call for Research Partnerships If AFDC is block-granted to the states, as currently proposed in both the House and the Senate, it will be essential to monitor and evaluate the impact of this major policy change on the well-being of poor women and their children, along with other groups in the population. Because of funding cuts and the know-nothing political climate, we think that thoughtful research, especially research from a womanist perspective, is unlikely to be conducted without a concerted effort by coalitions of researchers and advocates at the state and national level. IWPR is interested in forming such partnerships with academics, researchers, advocacy groups, and others to develop research projects to track, monitor, analyze, and evaluate programs and their effects. If you have ideas for such a partnership, please fax (202.833.4362) or e-mail Bobbie Spalter-Roth (rspalter@aol.com). ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:13:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara S. Stengel" Subject: Instrument re math attitudes In-Reply-To: <951012103847_122161522@mail04.mail.aol.com> Can anybody put me on to useful instruments to assess middle school and high school students' (male and female) attitudes toward mathematics and feelings of efficacy in mathematical courses/tasks?? A local school math chair and a university math educator (both male) have asked me to work with them to examine more deeply the experiences of girls in math courses in a school district. The math chair believes that they have achieved parity in numbers of girls in courses, but is still concerned that their experiences and the boys are vastly different -- particularly in the way girls think about their interest and their efficacy. To his credit, the math chair does not want to claim achievement of equity 'til he finds out if there is rough parity in achievement as well as in inputs. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Barb Stengel Barbara S. Stengel Educational Foundations Millersville University Millersville, PA 17551 bstengel@marauder.millersv.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:14:51 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Dwyer Subject: sommers notice I have received well over fifty requests for copies of my critical notice of Sommers' book. This is gratifying, thank you. I am in the process of checking with the editor of the journal to see if (legally) I can place the paper in the WMST archives and/or make it accessible to interested parties on WWW. I shall let you know asap. Sue Dwyer Philosophy McGill sue@philo.mcgill.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:16:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Comments on abortion film In-Reply-To: Has anyone used the video called "Leona's Sister Gerri" from New Day Films? Since resources for purchasing videos are practically nonexistent, I'd appreciate any reactions/comments. TIA, n. Benokraitis, University of Baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:36:35 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Linda J. Allred" Subject: Women's Studies Curriculum Guidelines Women's Studies at ECU is celebrating our 10th anniversary this year and the first year of our new B.A. We hope to have some "big events" for Women's History Month 1996. More on that later. Meeting program demands with only a half poition (1/4 administrative, 1/4 teaching) is a real challenge, particularly in this political climate. ECU is in the state congressional district represented by Henry Aldridge, whose claim to fame is his "medically based" argument that women don't usually get pregnant when raped because "their juices don't flow"!! My major reason for posting this is to ask for help on another issue. Our degrees are interdiscplinary, with core courses in Women's Studies and other distributional requirements that are filled from other disciplines. We are in the process of revising our guidelines for including classes in our interdisciplinary curriculum. Do other WOST programs have such guidelines that you could share with us?You can respond pr ivately to me at PSALLRED@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU. Thanks in advance for your help! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 09:58:19 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Jones Subject: Re: Comments on abortion film In-Reply-To: On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, N. Benokraitis wrote: > Has anyone used the video called "Leona's Sister Gerri" from New Day > Films? Since resources for purchasing videos are practically nonexistent, > I'd appreciate any reactions/comments. > > TIA, > n. Benokraitis, University of Baltimore > nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu > I viewed this video at the request of our local PBS affiliate, who asked me to send a reply to the Boston affiliate. I foundthe video very moving. I have always been haunted by the image of the woman who died of an illegal abortion in a hotel room, and wanted a name and a history for her. Her image has been used so much, but without her story. Hearing her story, the story of so many real women (and not the mythical 50's life so touted by the right wing) is very powerful. I intend to show it for our WS class, either in class or as an extra credit opportunity. Helen Jones University of Nevada, Reno ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:07:57 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lawrence Johnson Subject: Research Materials (fwd) Forwarded message: From owner-affnet@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU Thu Sep 28 18:27 CDT 1995 Message-Id: <199509282327.AA014750839@eagle.uis.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:47:16 EST Reply-To: Affirmative Action Officers mailing list Sender: Affirmative Action Officers mailing list From: Gazella Summitt Subject: Research Materials X-To: AFFNET@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list AFFNET I am scheduled to make a presentation in early November on the topies "The Affirmative Spirited Black Woman in the 21st Century." If you have suggestions for resource materials (articles, studies, etc.), I would appreciate having the listing. You may write to me directly at the address below. Thank you. Gazella A. Summitt_ Director of Personnel/AAO Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN 47591 (812) 888-5848 FAX: (812) 888-5487 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lawrence C. Johnson phone: 217-786-6222 Associate Chancellor for Affirmative Action fax: 217-786-6511 University of Illinois at Springfield e-mail lajohnso@uis.edu Springfield, IL 62794-9243 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:24:15 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Garber Subject: Re: sommers notice There should be no legal problems with respect to publicationof your review. At the very most the original publisher mayhave to give prmission, and withholding such permission is quite rare (and may be actionable), and may come with a small charge. Marilyn Garber MGarber@dhvx20.csudh.edu Professor of History California State University, Dominguez HIlls Carson, CA 90747 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:00:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Women's Studies Curriculum Guidelines Linda Allred writes: > We are in the process of revising our guidelines for > including classes in our interdisciplinary curriculum. Do other WOST > programs have such guidelines that you could share with us?You can > respond pr ivately to me at PSALLRED@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU. This issue has come up several times on WMST-L, and the WMST-L file collection contains a file that includes the crosslisting guidelines of several different Women's Studies programs. To get a copy of this file, send the message GET CROSSLST POLICIES to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (please note the "misspelling" CROSSLST: IBM mainframes restrict file names to 8 characters). Please DO NOT send your request to WMST-L! Send it to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . 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: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:59:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Wilkie Subject: Re: Comments on abortion film GIven the positive review of "Leona's Sister Gerri" does anyone have information on distribtution? ********************************************************** Jacqueline Wilkie + Women's Studies Coordinator Luther College + Associate Professor of History Decorah, IA + wilkieja@martin.luther.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 15:07:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Re: Comments on abortion film In-Reply-To: On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, Jackie Wilkie wrote: > GIven the positive review of "Leona's Sister Gerri" does anyone have > information on distribtution? > According to my brochure, the video is $275.00 and $80 for rental. Shipping and handling is another $10.00. It can be ordered from New Day Films, 22-D Hollywood Avenue, Hohokus NJ 07423 (tel: 201-652-6590; fax: 201-652-1978). niki nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 15:15:16 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Chu Subject: IWPR Call for Research Partnerships To: Recipients of femecon From: Roberta Spalter-Roth, Director of Research Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) Re: CORRECTED E-Mail Address for IWPR Call for Research Partnerships If AFDC is block-granted to the states, as currently proposed in both the House and the Senate, it will be essential to monitor and evaluate the impact of this major policy change on the well-being of poor women and their children, along with other groups in the population. Because of funding cuts and the know-nothing political climate, we think that thoughtful research, especially research from a womanist perspective, is unlikely to be conducted without a concerted effort by coalitions of researchers and advocates at the state and national level. IWPR is interested in forming such partnerships with academics, researchers, advocacy groups, and others to develop research projects to track, monitor, analyze, and evaluate programs and their effects. If you have ideas for such a partnership, please fax (202.833.4362) or e-mail Bobbie Spalter-Roth and Jill Braunstein (at JILLBRAUN@AOL.COM). ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 15:44:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Murphy Subject: Berkshire Womans History Conference I have an undergraduate student who is interested in attending the Berkshire conference. She is working on a conference quality research project. I am not a historian. Could someone send me information on the conference, and the possibilities of student involvement. THanks Pat Murphy Assistant Professor of Sociology SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, N.Y. 14454 716-245-5324 Murphy@uno.cc.geneseo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:16:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelley Hays-Gilpin Subject: gender and prehistory: biblios. on web I have placed a bibliography on gender and prehistory, gender archaeology, women archaeologists, and related sources (sex differences in non-human primates, for example) mostly by anthropologists, on the Univ. of Montana Anthropology Dept. World Wide Web site, thanks to Randy Skelton. The URL is: http://www.umt.edu/anthro/syllabi My annotated bibliography on gender archaeology in the Southwest U.S. is at: http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu:80/swa/gender.html Another useful Web site for material on women in the past is Diotima at the Univ. of Kentucky Classics Dept.--there's lots of good material on women in the ancient circum-Mediterranean area. http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html When students ask, how the heck did we get this way and why do men and women in other cultures look at sex differences *differently*, these are some helpful sources! Any additional sources would be appreciated... --Kelley Hays-Gilpin Navajo Nation Archaeology Dept. Northern Arizona University KAH2@A1.UCC.NAU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 15:08:30 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: brenda beagan Subject: chilly climate -- evaluating departments In-Reply-To: i am a grad student on a just-formed committee in my department that will deal with issues of equity, atmosphere in the department re racism, sexism, ethnocentrism etc one thing we want to do is create a departmental evaluation for students to let us know their experiences in relation to these issues in our dept. at this point we are thinking about a questionnaire, open-ended questions etc. any other ideas? i have had experience before designing questions on these topics for inclusion in existing departmental course evaluation forms, but nothing quite like this. if anyone has any experience with this sort of thing, or suggestions for questions, or effective processes other than a questionnaire, plese let me know. oh, and it is a department of sociology and anthropology so issues of cultural appropriation will come up especially in anthropology. and, to set the context, there is a huge blow up going on about chilly climate in another department on campus.... thanks for your help brenda beagan@unixg.ubc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 16:41:43 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lani Wilson Subject: Re: gender/equity feminism -Reply I am new to the list and have been reading withinterest the remarks but yours is the first to strike a nerve to which I can relate. I also was a part of the new movement but was more involved in the Black Power Movement, being Black-Chinese. There, too, are serious machismo issues within that movement still that resonate similarly to the discussion on this list. However.....I have never been comfortable with the feminist movement in its relation to women of color. And the "ugly stereotypes" that abound in the media now further divide and sensationalize those issues. A group of Black women about ten years ago adopted the "womanist" position as a way to resolve the racist problems that exist within the women's movement. I remember when it was called the "Woman's Movement" and somewhere in the early 80's became solidly the "Feminist Movement." I am not a women's studies scholar but know enough to know that the split is now most evident in the affirmative action backlash and the subtle silence of white women in the struggle nationally and especially here in California. In three weeks we vote on the California Civil Rights Initiative, and I am cynically amused whenever I mention aff. action in the company and of female, white colleagues and they silently squirm and figure out how to seem sympathetic without telling me they are voting for the revocation of aff. action in California. "Time is the true test of any [wo]man." For the most part, the feminist movement has failed women of color, in my opinion, Lesbians not included....If you were able to catch Patricia Williams of Columbia Law and Gloria Steinem on Charlie Rose this week discussing the reverberations from the Simopson verdict I think it was layed out in bas relief. Thanks for hearing out this "newbie..."# LWilson ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:04:28 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harvette Grey Subject: Re: gender/equity feminism -Reply -Reply Comments: To: LWILSON@WPGATE.CLPCCD.CC.CA.US In response to the newbie response -- I am in total agreement that women of color do not feel comfortable in the Feminist Movement. As an African American woman, I sometimes feel as though I am being asked or told to make a choice --Black or feminist as white womendefine what a feminist is. Sometimes our experiences from both white men and women feel the same -- negative, not understood, different worlds with the one of color being labeled deficient, exotic, etc. Many of my colleagues of color have shared incidents with me, which I too have experienced: What can we do to help us understand one another better? and form true colalitions without the woman of color giving up her identiity? Is this even possible? Can we take racism, classism, elitism out of feminism??? hgrey@wppost.depaul.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:14:56 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harvette Grey Subject: Re: gender/equity feminism -Reply -Reply -Reply I meant to say many women of color do not feel comfortable in the feminist movement -- not to make it an absolute because that is not true thank you ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:23:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chrys Ingraham Subject: QUERY: Gender Equity Text Can anyone refer me to any recent texts summarizing the latest research on gender equity and careers for women? Thanks. Chrys Ingraham Russell Sage College ingrac@sage.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:53:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Leigh Edwards Subject: Re: QUERY: Gender Equity Text In-Reply-To: from "Chrys Ingraham" at Oct 13, 95 11:23:00 am According to Chrys Ingraham: > > Can anyone refer me to any recent texts summarizing the latest research on > gender equity and careers for women? Thanks. > > Chrys Ingraham > Russell Sage College > ingrac@sage.edu > If anyone has info, could you please post it to the list? Thank you, Leigh Edwards University of Pennsylvania leedward@dept.english.upenn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:29:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Brandyberry Subject: Feminism and Multiculturalism I have a request for information. I'll be teaching a course on feminism and multiculturalism, with a focus on how the women's movement has not always dealt well with issues of race, class, and sexual orientation (among some other characteristics). I think I've got a great text for present day voices ("Race, Class, and Gender" edited by Margaret Anderson and Patricia Hill Collins); however, I also want to get a more historical view. To date, the best I've found is bell hooks' "Ain't I a Woman", but I thought I'd ask to see what other sources people are aware of. Thanks for any help! Lisa J. Brandyberry, Ph.D. ljbrandy@unccvm.uncc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:49:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie J Dow Subject: Re: Feminism and Multiculturalism In-Reply-To: <199510131629.MAA29866@mail.uncc.edu> I have used Angela Davis' WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS to deal with the inattention of the nineteenth century woman's rights movement to issues of race and class (although Davis focuses pretty much exclusively on black women. She's also largely historical rather than theoretical. However, it's very accessible and my students like it. Bonnie Dow dow@badlands.nodak.edu On Fri, 13 Oct 1995, Lisa Brandyberry wrote: > I have a request for information. I'll be teaching a course on feminism and > multiculturalism, with a focus on how the women's movement has not always > dealt well with issues of race, class, and sexual orientation (among some > other characteristics). I think I've got a great text for present day > voices ("Race, Class, and Gender" edited by Margaret Anderson and Patricia > Hill Collins); however, I also want to get a more historical view. To date, > the best I've found is bell hooks' "Ain't I a Woman", but I thought I'd ask > to see what other sources people are aware of. Thanks for any help! > > Lisa J. Brandyberry, Ph.D. > ljbrandy@unccvm.uncc.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:57:04 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Feminism and Multiculturalism The first book that comes to mind is the new edition of the anthology, *Unequal Sisters*, as well as Sara Evans' text, *Born for Liberty*. I'm also using *Race, Class and Gender* in my women's studies course next spring. Good Luck Benay Blend blend@alpha.nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:04:30 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Mark Sandilands; ph:403-329-2404" Subject: Re: dealing with heterosexism and racism in intro ws This remind me of a similar situation from quite a few years ago (1980?). Walter Mischel, in his psychology textbook, _Introduction to Personality_, said that he had worked carefully to take the sexism out of his writing by, for example, using alternating male and female examples and pronouns rather than the previous practice of using the "gender neutral" masculine form. However, it was seen (by both male and female students) as being heavily weighted towards female examples. What was happening was that the novelty of seeing female examples caused these to register whereas the use of him, he, his, etc. did not register. A careful count showed that Mischel had succeeded in being non-sexist, but the perception was of bias in the female direction. This example or one like it may be used to demonstrate to students that the text is not biased towards black women and lesbians, but the novelty may be leading to a perception of bias. _______________ _ Mark Sandilands --\____/ \ ___ Dept of Psychology / | | | \ University of Lethbridge / __| CA [_> - = Lethbridge*, Alberta--------------\ \ <| Canada, T1K 3M4 ----------------> \\__*____ / e-mail: Sandilands@hg.uleth.ca | | Voice: 403-329-2404 \_ USA _\\ FAX: 403-329-2555 \\-__/ _ \ \/ | ---^--- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:32:26 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lani Wilson Subject: Research Materials (fwd) -Reply It sounds interesting and I am sorry that I do not have anything to share specifically. What I am looking for is a Black women's discussion on the net. (I only have E-Mail.) I understand that there is a black women's list called "Technomama?" Can you direct me, please? Many thanks. Lani ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:51:14 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Horlitz Subject: State Women's Halls of Fame Hartford College for Women professors and others have established a Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. We would be interested in knowing what other states have women's halls of fame, where they are housed, the names and phone numbers of directors. We would be interested in networkiing with other halls of fame, finding out how they are funded, how many inductees they have, how often they induct new women, etc. Please respond to either Jane Barstow Professor of Literature and Women's Studies Hartford College for Women Hartford, CT JBarstow@uhavax.hartford.edu or Beth Horlitz Horlitz@uhavax.hartford.edu Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 14:57:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fran Hoffmann Subject: 1996 NWSA Embedded Conference A reminder to WMST-L subscribers that proposals for the 1996 NWSA conference, BORDERS/CROSSING/PASSAGES: WOMEN REINTERPRETING DEVELOPMENT are due November 1. I wanted to call particular attention to the embedded conference, which runs concurrently with the national conference and integrates the national conference themes into a series of presentations with a particular focus on adolescence. We are eager to receive submissions of papers, workshops, panels addressing issues described below. Submissions relevant to the embedded conference themes should follow the guidelines described in the general call for papers. DIVERSE PATHS: PERSPECTIVES ON ADOLESCENT GIRLS An Embedded Conference of the 1996 National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference June 12-16, 1996 Saratoga Springs, New York A unique feature of NWSA national conferences has been the organization of a concurrent embedded conference which permits more focused examination of particular issues tied tothe broader national conference themes. The 1996 embedded conference, "Diverse Paths:Perspectives on Adolescent Women," will provide researchers, practitioners, educators,generalists, and other interested NWSA conference attendees the opportunity to engage in extended dialogue about the multiple patterns and diverse experiences of female adolescent development. The embedded conference will bring together leading researchers, educators and clinicians for presentations on the developmental challenges and opportunities facing young women in the modern age. Its title, "Diverse Paths: Perspectives on Adolescent Women," sets the stage for cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural exploration of the diversity of experiences and complexity of issues of this life stage. Saratoga Springs, New York, site of the 1996 NWSA meetings, is centrally located in a region with a particularly rich array of research, educational, clinical and medical facilities addressing young women's development. Among others, the Emma Willard School, site of the groundbreaking Dodge study of adolescent moral development; the Stone Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College; the Four Winds - Saratoga Adolescent Psychiatric Services; and Skidmore College have been instrumental in the construction of feminist theory and practice about adolescence. The embedded conference will draw on these resources as well as researchers, scholars and practitioners from across the country and abroad. Conference presentations will explore such questions as: What models of developmental expression have been offered to girls as they approach young adulthoon? How have these models been critiqued, reinterpreted, or resisted? How are definitions of development into adulthood shaped and reshaped by race, class, sexuality, ability and nationality? Presenters from a range of disciplines and backgrounds will address topics including moral, intellectual and self development; biological/physiological issues in female adolescent development; historical and cross-cultural images of adolescence; and clinical issues which emerge as young women confront the challenges of the transitions to adulthood. For more information, or for copies of the calls for proposals, contact me or either of the following: Paty Rubio, Site Co-coordinator or Rolfe Lawson NWSA '96 Conference Four Winds-Saratoga Skidmore College 30 Crescent Ave. Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (518) 584-5000 ext 2822 (518) 584-3600 ext 287 Frances L. Hoffmann, Director Institute for Women's and Gender Studies University of Missouri - St. Louis 8001 Natural Bridge Road St. Louis, MO 63121 (314) 516-5588 FAX (314) 516-5415 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 16:12:17 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Sattler Subject: Re: 1996 NWSA Embedded Conference In-Reply-To: <9510131958.AA18948@admiral.umsl.edu> Would someone please post the entire, original, call for papers for NWSA? Thank you so much... Cheryl Sattler csattler@CapAccess.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 19:54:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elyce Rae Helford Responding to: Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:29:32 -0400 From: Lisa Brandyberry Subject: Feminism and Multiculturalism I have a request for information. I'll be teaching a course on feminism and multiculturalism, with a focus on how the women's movement has not always dealt well with issues of race, class, and sexual orientation (among some other characteristics). I think I've got a great text for present day voices ("Race, Class, and Gender" edited by Margaret Anderson and Patricia Hill Collins); however, I also want to get a more historical view. To date, the best I've found is bell hooks' "Ain't I a Woman", but I thought I'd ask to see what other sources people are aware of. Thanks for any help! Lisa J. Brandyberry, Ph.D. ljbrandy@unccvm.uncc.edu LET ME RECOMMEND ANGELA DAVIS'S _WOMEN, RACE, AND CLASS_. The woman's brilliant. The book is excellent. Elyce Rae Helford ehelford@frank.mtsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 21:54:33 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: gender/equity feminism -Reply -Reply In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:04:28 -0600 from A reply to Harvette's question on how we can take racism, elitism, etc. out of feminism: I think we must acknowledge that feminism and the feminist movement is not a unitary thing in this country or others, a point we might well make in women's studies courses. There are different, some contradictory ideologies that surface in behavior and particular issues. We need to think of feminismS, analyze and evaluate and decide where we stand. A European American, some women who call themselves feminists not only make me uncomfortable, I oppose them when issues arise, work at developing my own position (not always readily clear and sometimes changing as I learn). I also choose the feminists with whom to associate outside of settings where we must perforce come together (eg faculty meetings, actions where we have a common interest); even there, I sup- particular directions and people. I think African Americans do the same sorts of things. Patricia H. Collins declares herself a feminist, works out her position. Stanlie M. James and Abena P. Busia's book takes a differnt approach - presenting a collection of essays they call `Theorizing Black Feminisms,' indicating that there is no one black feminism any more than there's `a femin- ism' Michele Wallace's `Invisibility Blues' addresses the problematic of feminism for black women in several chapters. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny. edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 22:24:21 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Feminism and Multiculturalism In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:29:32 -0400 from For a course on multiculturalism and feminism, Lisa and others, you might con- sider Angela Davis's Race, Class, and Gender and Josephine Donovan's Feminist Theory. Also, do look abroad for a perspective on feminist movements, India and other Asian countries, Africa, and South America, the Caribbean. I think its an error to conceptualize `the feminist movement' and then critics and others as outsiders. The women I mentioned in my earlier post today, black women, are part of the women's movement in the US. So are Patricia Williams, Toni Morrison, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Chandra Mohanty, Gloria Anzaldua, Susie Wong, Audre Lorde, etc., etc., etc. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu