========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 08:31:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sherry E. Fulton" Subject: Re: Late Bloomers research In message <199510271541.IAA02210@ix10.ix.netcom.com> Women's Studies List writes: > Hi again, A few months ago I made a request for resources for thesis > and research project I am doing on women who self - identify as lesbain > after living hetrosexual life styles for many years. Every one who > responded helped my work so much and I appreciated it. > > Now I need to request help again. I have developed the questionaire > for my research project and need women to fill them out. I was hoping > that some one might be interested in doing this. > > I need women over thrity, in one of 3 catagories. 1. Self Identify as > hetrosexual, 2. Self-identify as lesbian (most of adult life) 3. Self- > identify as lesbain after at least 10 years of hetrosexual life. > > All surveys are anon. There will be no records kept of who filled out > the survey. If any one would like to do this please e mail me > privately. at tdbear@ella.mills.edu or SAyers0821@aol.com > Thanks again for all the wonderful help > Sharon Ayers > Mills College > Oakland CA. Hi Sharon- I'd be glad to do a survey for you. I fit into category 3- if living a heterosexual life means married to a man etc... ( I always self-Identified as bi tho now that I understand more about bisexuality I tortally identify as lesbian.) Email me at fulto004@maroon.tc.umn.edu ...thanks..Ruth Debra ( I use my partners email) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 07:04:39 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Ayers Subject: Re: Late Bloomers research Ruth, Thank you for responding. I am not emailing the surevey because it distorts too much. What I am doing is asking for a snail mail address. I send a pre paid addressed envelope with the survey and delete the address from my e mail file to assure anon. If you are still interested send a mailing address. How the weather back there? I will be back for Christmas. Wanna avoid the snow if I can While I there. Thanks, Sharon Ayers ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 10:49:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Madelyn Jamison Holmes Subject: new book on women teachers Lives of Women Public Schoolteachers: Scenes from American Educational History by Madelyn Holmes and Beverly J. Weiss (Garland Publishing) 252 pages $40 Isbn 0-8153-0838-8 tel.1-800-627-6273 to order Women's History and Culture Series, Volume 8 This book supplements traditional accounts of educational movements and events with research documenting how teachers actually taught and lived, by focusing attention on the careers of individual women who taught in the public schools from the 1830s through the 1960s. The authors describe how teaching methods, classroom practices, textbooks, and school policies as well as gender-dependent working conditions have varied throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The book covers schoolteachers in New England, the Midwest, West and South and is richly illustrated with photographs. The book has eleven chapters including: 2. Teaching in Salem, Massachusetts 1830s to 1860s: Mary Lakeman Shepard and Mary Jane Fitz 4. Teacher and Principal at the First State Normal School: Ellen Hyde at Framingham Normal School (1838 to 1926) 5. Teaching in the Midwest: Catherine Tilden Avery in Cleveland, Ohio (1844 to 1920) 8. Urban schoolteachers on the East and West Coasts, 1920s to 1960s: Mary O'Neill Mulcahy in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Lucy Arline Jenson in Los Angeles, California. 9. An African-American Teacher in Washington,D.C.: Marion P.Shadd (1856 to 1943) 10. A White Teacher in Alexandria, Virginia: Cora Kelly (1868 to 1953) Beverly Weiss, who recently retired from a professorship in psychology and as director of the Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Center at Framingham State College, and I collected documentary information about teachers for many years. We started in Massachusetts where public school systems began and where we were both living and working. I interviewed Tip O'Neill's sister (Mary O'Neill Mulcahy) when I was teaching in the history and literature program at Harvard and carried out research on Salem teachers when I worked at the National Park Service. Our book finally came out in June, 1995 and we would like as many women's studies departments as well as schools of education to know that it exists. If you want to find out more about it, please contact me on e-mail. If you want to order it, please contact Garland at the telephone number at the top of this message. Madelyn Holmes mholmes@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 15:19:53 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karla Jay Subject: Work-Study Can anyone on the list share with me her experiences running a work/study course from a Women's Studies Program? What types of jobs did you line up for students? What kind of response did you get from the students? I would also appreciate receiving syllabi from anyone who ran a course in conjunction with a work-study program in Women's Studies. Please reply privately to either address below. Thanks, Karla Jay ********************************************************************* * PROFESSOR KARLA JAY JAY@PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU * DIRECTOR OF WOMEN'S STUDIES OR * PACE UNIVERSITY JAY@PACEVM.BITNET * * ONE PACE PLAZA * * NEW YORK, NY 10038 TEL: 212-346-1642 (NEW TEL!) * ********************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 15:23:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LYNN TAETZSCH Subject: New Book: Literary Anthology on Menopause A book I edited, HOT FLASHES: Women Writers on the Change of Life, was published by Faber & Faber this month. It is a collection of twenty essays and five poems by contributors such as Germaine Greer, Marge Piercy, Gloria Steinem, Alma Luz Villanueva, and Ellen Gilchrist. With its wide specrum of perspectives both literary and personal, HOT FLASHES does not seek to answer the question, "What should I do about menopause?" but rather, "What does it mean?" Rejecting the notion that the loss of youth and fertility means a condemnation to invisibility, these writers address the physical, emotional, and spiritual components of menopause in a way that only a chorus of voices can--and find new depths of wisdom and artistry in the process of change. In addition to the above, contributors include: Bonnie Braendlin, Janet Burroway, Julia Connor, Margaret Gibson, Cecelia Holland, Ione, Marilyn Krysl, Monifa A. Love, Sara McAulay, Faye Moskowitz, Catherine Reid, Elisavietta Ritchie, Mary Elsie Robertson, Denise Spitzer, S. Holly Stocking, Mary Swander, Susan Terris and Sue Walker. ISBN #0-571-19871-6 (hardcover) Lynne Taetzsch l.taetzsch@morehead-st.edu Dept. of English, Foreign Languages and Philosophy Morehead State University, UPO Box 645, Morehead, KY 40351 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 15:38:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wolfgang Hirczy Subject: Women in German - WIG-L list and Home Page (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 19:25:11 -0600 From: Renate S. Posthofen To: Multiple recipients of list AATG Subject: WiG Home Page > >THE WOMEN IN GERMAN HOME PAGE IS NOW UP AND RUNNING!!!! You can access it >through the following address on the Word Wide Web: >http://macro.micro.umn.edu/wig.html > >Among other things you will find subscription and membership information, >information on the WiG newsletter and the yearbook, instructions for >using the WiG-L list, and WiG conference information. We have also >provided links to various other projects involving issues of feminism and >German. > >If you have questions or comments about the Home page, please respond to me >personally thors003@maroon.tc.umn.edu or to our Webmistress at the >following address: anne@boombox.micro.umn.edu > >Feel free to forward this message to other lists or groups that might be >interested! Thanks! > >Helga Thorson ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 16:49:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wolfgang Hirczy Subject: European Union's Court Ruling on Gender-based Affirmative Action Somebody on this list recently asked about this case. The info below is taken verbatim from _The Week in Germany_ Dr. Wolfgang Hirczy European Court of Justice Declares Quota Systems Favoring Women Illegal An employee in the Bremen parks department, angry at being passed over for a promotion to head the department, took his troubles to the European Court of Justice and won. The man was not promoted because the city of Bremen, where he lives, stipulates that preference be given to female job applicants if male and female applicants are equally qualified and if women are underrepresented in the sector in question. In a ruling handed down on Tuesday (October 17, 1995), the Luxembourg-based court [of the European Union] ruled that Bremen's affirmative action law, while promoting the advancement of women, did so at the expense of the basic right of the individual to equal treatment. That right may not be abridged in order to redress past discriminatory treatment suffered by an entire group, the judges said. The Bremen regulation, the court ruled, violates European Union law. The justices adhered closely to an expert opinion on the case prepared by the court's leading legal expert, Giuseppe Tesauro. While women clearly suffer discrimination in the workplace, Tesauro wrote, it should be redressed only through measures designed to create equal qualification levels for men and women. These include educational opportunities, the provision of childcare or financial support for mothers. The judgement is the latest in a long chain of appeals by the Bremen employee, who after his rejection in 1991 went first to the lower labor court in Bremen and then appealed the verdict up through higher courts to the Federal Labor Court in Kassel (Hessen). That court rejected the appeal but also asked the European Court of Justice for a ruling on the compatibility of gender-based preference plans with European Union law. Because German judges are bound to follow ruling handed down by the European Court, discussion in the days following the judgement centered around its repercussions for German women. Bremen's Senator (Minister) for Women, Christine Wischer (SPD) expressed "shock" at the ruling and said that it would worsen "the already poor acceptance of the European Union" among Germany's citizens. Source: The Week in Germany - October 20, 1995 ,p.4 --- Posted by Dr. Wolfgang Hirczy --- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 19:00:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Call for Papers Subject: Final CFP: Discerning the Right, UW-Milwaukee Sorry for repeats. Final call for papers / Final call for papers / Final call for papers DDD RRR D D R R D D RRR DDD ISCERNING the R R IGHT A conference at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee March 8-10, 1996 Issues surrounding the Right seem to be crucial to contemporary discussions of postmodernity. We see the "Right" at the heart of recent popular and academic discourses; it can be traced geographically, politically, and historically. We'd like to discern -- that is, unhinge -- what appears to be an assumed relationship between the (civil, moral, political) Right and popular politics, conceived globally and/or locally through a consideration of various theoretical, critical, and/or representational discourses and other cultural productions. We invite papers or panel proposals deriving from a wide variety of readings of the conference title and a similar variety of disciplinary perspectives: legal, pedagogical, literary, artistic, anthropological, race studies, queer, sociological, personal, theoretical, historical, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, televisual, feminist, cinematic, lesbigay, scientific, materialist, creative, etc. Send a 300-word paper or panel proposal (papers should be 15-20 minutes long) postmarked by November 1, 1995, to: Discerning the Right Department of English and Comparative Literature University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201 If you have questions about the conference, please contact "dtr-proposals@csd.uwm.edu". You may also email individual and panel proposals to this address. With support from the Department of English and Comparative Literature, the Center for Twentieth Century Studies, and the College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 21:40:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Wall Subject: Travel to Goddess Sites I am planning a study abroad course to goddess sites in Cret/Greece. I know that Carol Christ now lives in Greece and conducts tours of these sites. Does anyone have any information about these tours (or others) or an address/number/e-mail where Carol Christ or her agent can be contacted. Thanks. Sally Wall swall@vms.cis.pitt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 08:40:06 EST 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: Now and Then On Saturday, October 28, 1995 I reviewed "Now and Then" on "The Women's Show" a weekly womanist/feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM (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 REV155 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: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:42:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susanne Luhmann Subject: family violence lit I am posting this for a friend of mine who is not on the list, so please respond privately directly to her at rraby@spartan.ac.brocku.ca This friend of mine is putting together a third year sociology course on "Family" Violence. She'd be interested in some suggestions for readings in the following areas spousal violence history/constructions/policing of child negelct, child abuse,family violence economic violence: eg. impact of poverty on families racism and eugenics homophobia against and within families strategies to address family violence different theoretical perspecitves on the above. She especially welcomes any suggestions for Canadian lit. on the above. Thank you for your time. s. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 18:21:49 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Shoshanna Mayer-Young Ph.D." Subject: Teachers' attitudes - questionnaire I am seeking references of questionnaires/ tests on teachers' attitudes to equity in society/education. Thanks ! Shoshana E-mail: shoshana@research.haifa.ac.il ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:17:40 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Hall-The Only One for You Subject: SUGGESTIONS FOR ARTICLES/BOOKS HI. My name is Jennifer and I was wondering if anyone on the list could help me find some articles or books dealing with lesbian parenting or lesbians as parents. Preferably, I would like some information on how to tell the child her/his parents are lesbians and at what age would that be appropriate. I would also like to know, besides the article in Ms. Magazine, if there is any research/articles done on domestic violence/rape among lesbian couples. I appreciate all of the suggestions and your time. You can respond to me privately a Jennifer Hall C576210@showme.misssouri. edu. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 17:03:48 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sonita Sarker Subject: Building a major Macalester College is in the exciting and challenging process of constructing a Major in Women's and Gender Studies. As one of the people involved in creating it, I ask for your help. Could you: a) please xerox your catalogue copy and mail it to: Sonita Sarker Women's and Gender Studies Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105, or fax it to the number below. and/or b) please pitch in with your suggestions about pitfalls, issues to consider, etc. Any help will be much appreciated, especially since we are interested in creating a strong and active national and international network, where we can co-organize events can be co-organized and exchange information. Thank you very much in advance, Sonita. Sonita Sarker Assistant Professor Women's Studies and English Macalester College Office Phone: (612)696-6316 Fax: (612)696-6430 e-mail:sarker@macalstr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 14:29:34 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Gundersen Subject: critical thinking The California State University system has a critical thinking requirement as part of its GE. For various reasons, we need to position our introduction to women's studies course so that it meets that requirement. We will have no trouble doing this EXCEPT for the requirement that we include a text on critical thinking. I am looking for a logic or argumentation kind of text compatible with feminist issues and which does not put its main emphasis on formal logic (especially givne the feminist critics of formalism). It also needs to be short. Can anyone suggest a possible text? Please reply directly to me, not to the list. Joan Gundersen, CSU San Marcos. jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:52:19 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie Allen Subject: Re: critical thinking Dianne Romain at Sonoma State is just putting the finishing touches on a critical thinking textbook that I think would meet all your criteria. You can contact her at romain@sonoma.edu. I don't know the publication date, but I suspect that it will be within the next few months. (It's been accepted & all that.) You can tell her that Julie Allen suggested that you write to her. Julie ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 14:12:00 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kay Schaffer Subject: Working class women FOR LITERATURE ABOUT WORKING CLASS WOMEN SEE LYNN FINCH, 'THE CLASSING GAZE' (ALLEN & UNWIN, 1993). KAY Schaffer Women's Studies University of Adelaide ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 02:48:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Seeking several manuscripts I've just signed a contract with Sage to publish a reader entitled SUBTLE SEXISM: CURRENT PRACTICES AND PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE. I'm looking for two pieces, however, in the section on "How to Change Subtle Sexism Practices:" 1. A paper showing how judicial and legislative attempts can decrease subtle discrimination in housing against gays and lesbians, and 2. A paper depicting how organizations/corporations can diminish subtle sexism by increasing "diversity" (or "multiculturalism"). Please respond privately. Also, feel free to pass this notice on to other subscription lists. TIA, niki Benokraitis, University of Baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 06:38:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rich Cowan Subject: ORGANIZE to Save Student Aid (National Discussion) ----------------------------------------------------------------- ** PLEASE REPOST and PASS ON to STUDENTS** 10/28/95 To students, faculty and staff angry about planned higher ed cuts: Last week the US House and Senate have approved budgets that would slash student aid between $5 and $10 billion dollars, and many state governments are cutting education budgets and increasing tuition. Fortunately, there is a growing campus movement protesting these attacks on access to higher education. To link students, the Center for Campus Organizing set up an email-list last spring which now has over 600 subscribers working to save student aid and oppose the "Contract on Education." With the recent action by Congress, people on this list are coordinating a response. The list is called CAN-ER (Campus Activists' Network, Educational Rights). You are invited to subscribe; you may unsubscribe at any time. To prevent excess email volume, this list is "screened" by Steve Gauck of the Vermont Alliance to Save Student Aid. 1. TO SUBSCRIBE, send email to: canet@pencil.math.missouri.edu with a subject of "canet" whose body just says: sub can-er Firstname Lastname CAN-ER is now set up to send you one big "digest" message per day. 2. TO SEND A MESSAGE to the list, you must be subscribed. E-mail it to: can-er@pencil.math.missouri.edu 3. TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send email to: canet@pencil.math.missouri.edu with a subject of "canet" whose body ONLY says: unsub can-er 4. TO RECEIVE LOTS OF LITTLE MESSAGES, rather than a "digest" version of CAN-ER (1 big message per day), send e-mail to: canet@pencil.math.missouri.edu with subject "canet" and body: set can-er mail ack To undo this use "digest" in place of "ack". To suppress mail for the summer months, use "postpone" in place of "digest." 5. For a list of Campus Activists' Network discussions, send email to: canet-info@pencil.math.missouri.edu ************************************************************************ For more information please contact: Alliance for Student Aid Web Page: http://student-aid.nche.edu UCP Center for Campus Organizing, Box 748, Cambridge, MA 02142 617-354-9363 10am-6pm email:cco@igc.apc.org US PIRG Higher Ed. Project, 218 D St. SE, Washington, DC 20003 202-546-9707 -- Ivan Frishberg email:ivan@essential.org US Student Association, 1612 K St. NW, Washington, DC 20006 202-347-USSA -- Laura McClintock email:ussaleg@dessential.org NAGPS -- National Association of Graduate and Professional Students Tony Rosati, Information Exchange Coord. rosati@gusun.acc.georgetown.edu ************************************************************************* There is also a separate email discussion on organizing a campus response to the right's agenda. Subscribe as described above, substituing "can-rw" for "can-er". Finally, there is also a faculty discussion. Subscribe as described above, substituting "can-fac" for "can-er." ************************************************************************** For info on the day of action that took place March 29, 1995, send email to: call@pencil.math.missouri.edu to receive the "Call to Action" or cwa@pencil.math.missouri.edu to receive a 30-page organizing packet ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:04:33 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: D HUGHES Subject: June Jordon's address In-Reply-To: Does anyone know June Jordon's address (or email address)? Reply privately, please. Donna Hughes dhughes@bradford.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:24:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Nancy Garner, History, Wright State. Univ., Dayton" Subject: Women's Studies Director Position SUBJ: Women's Studies Position: Wright State University DIRECTOR OF WOMEN'S STUDIES Wright State University Wright State University invites applicants and nominations for the position of Director of Women's Studies, starting September 1996. The appointment will be at the rank of associate professor in the appropriate department. Duties will include: developing and administering a new minor in women's studies; developing and teaching women's studies core courses; teaching women's studies courses in the candidate's academic discipline in the College of Liberal Arts; advising at the undergraduate level; designing and scheduling the curriculum; serving on committees; and providing departmental administrative service. The Director will also work closely with the Director of the Women's Center and the Associate Provost for Campus Climate. Candidates must have a Ph.D. and exhibit a strong record of effective teaching and research in women's studies with credentials appropriate to the rank of associate professor. The area of faculty appointment is open, with preference given to applicants whose teaching and research demonstrates ability to incorporate the intersections of race, class, gender, culture, and sexuality. Experience in directing a women's studies program and developing courses in women's studies is required. Experience in successful grant writing is preferred. Persons wishing to be considered for this position should send a letter of application, Curriculum Vitae, samples of scholarly work, samples of course syllabi, and names and phone numbers of three or more references to: Dr. Maggie MacDonald, Department of English Language and Literatures, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435. Full documentation must be received by December 15, 1995. Review of applications will begin December 15 and will continue until the position is filled. Wright State University is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. For further information, contact the Chair of the Search Committee at MMACDONALD@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU. Maggie MacDonald Wright State University Dayton, OH 45435 (513) 873-2470 FAX (513) 873-2707 mmacdonald@desire.wright.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:52:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Liza Fiol-Matta Subject: Re: Working class women The most recent issue of the Women's Studies Quarterly (Spring/Summer 1995) is on Working-Class Studies. The Table of Contents is divided into these subtopics: Working Class Voices, Recovering Working Class Autobiography and Oral History, Practicing Working-Class Studies, and Working-Class Works and Theory. And the content includes personal and academic essays, syllabi, poetry and articles on pedagogy. The Guest Editor was Janet Zandy, Rochester Institute of Technology. The Women's Studies Quarterly is an educational project of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 311 East 94th Street, New York, NY 10128. Their phone number is 212-360-5790. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:30:49 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lani Wilson Subject: New AAUW research report: Growing Smart - Sokari and I have started a straight, Black women's list. If anyone knows of or is interested in subscribing please have them contact me or Sokari: Lwilson@clpccd.cc.ca.us or Sokari@ayla.avnet.co.uk Thanks.....Lani ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:16:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Gorham Subject: JOINT CHAIR IN WOMEN'S STUDIES JOB CARLETON UNIVERSITY/UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA: JOINT CHAIR IN WOMEN'S STUDIES: Applications are invidted for a term appointment for the position of Joint Chair in Women's Studies to be held jointly at Carleton University and at the University of Ottawa for the academic semester beginning January 1, 1997. The Joint Chair in Women's Studies was established in 1985. This position offers the opportunity to work with Women's Studies colleagues in both academic and non-academic communities in the National Capital Region. QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D or equiv. experience; an active and established research pogramme in one of the following areas: Gender and Science, Gender and African?Asian/Caribbean/or S. American Studies or innovative interdisciplinary gender studies; teaching experience in women's studies; and competence in English and French at the level of fluency necessary for teaching and/or supervising research. ACTIVITIES to be undertaken by the Chair will depend on candidates' interests and proven strengths in: teaching graduate or faculty seminars; research activities; participation in scholarly activities. SALARY commensurate with qualifications and experience.\Candidates are expected to view this appointment as an opportunity to explore innovative, feminist, interdisciplinary topics and are requested to describe potential projects in their letter of application. APPLICATIONS: Letters of application, a curriculum vitae and the names of three referees should be sent to: Joint Chair Seaarch Committee, c/o Dr. L.A. Copley, Vice-President (Academic), 601 Robertson Hall, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ont. K1S 5B6, OR c/0 Dr. Bernard Philogene, Vice-Rector (Academic), 217 Tabaret Hall, University of Ottawa, 550 Cumberland, Ottawa, Ont. K1N 6N5 by January 15, 1996 In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed, in the first instance, to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. International Candidates are, however, encouraged to apply. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 14:01:44 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Andrew I am looking for recent statistics on pornography. My intro women's studies class just saw _Not a Love Story_ and they want to know current stats on the number of pornography bookstores or video stores in the U.S., the number of pornography magazines, and how many porn cable tv channels there are. Other stats regarding pornography, or information on where to find such statistics, would be appreciated. Thanks! Barbara Andrew Dept. of Philosophy and Liberal Studies University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 bandrew@selway.umt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 17:07:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paul Burnam Subject: Women's Data Base Who on the list is familiar with the reference tool, Women's Data Base? Is it a good addition to the library collection for a liberal arts college women's studies program. Those of you who have it, do you treat as a periodical or reference source? I will be most grateful for all opinions shared. Please reply directly to me. Thank you in advance for your time assistance. Paul Burnam, Public Services Librarian Ohio Wesleyan University Libraries Delaware, OH 43015-2312 (614) 368-3240 Internet: pdburnam@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:16:45 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Milewicz Subject: Book reviews for ANZJS The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology (ANZJS) has received the following books for review: Cynthia Cockburn and Ruza Furst Dilic 'Bringing Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe' Ann Aungles 'The Prison and the Home: The Study of the Relationship between Domesticity and Penality' Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon 'Cultural Politics: Class, Gender and the Postmodern World' Reviewers with a sociological/social science background are preferred. If you are interested in reviewing any of the above, contact me at the below address ONLY. Replies send to WMST will not be considered. Cheers ----------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Milewicz Editorial Assistant Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology Department of Sociology University of Tasmania GPO Box 252C Hobart 7001 Tasmania Australia ANZ.JS@sociol.uts.edu.au ----------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:47:51 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Kendall Subject: Working class African women's short stories New book just out: Basali! Stories by and about women in Lesotho, ed. Kendall. South Africa: Univ. of Natal Press, 1995. These stories in "Sesotho-ised" English reveal a way of life and a way of perceiving experience unique in African (or any) literature. About half the tales were first told orally in Sesotho by women who do not speak or write English, then re-told by their bilingual daughters, friends, sons, or nephews. The focus of each story is the decisions women make, the actions they take to protect and provide for themselves and those they love. Reviews welcomed: for review copies email editor (address below). 152pp. Black and white photographs. Paperback. ISBN 0 86980 918 0. About $10. South African orders to U. Natal Press. European orders to Africa Book Centre, 38 King St.,Covent Garden, London WC2E 8JT. North American orders to Intl. Specialized Book Svcs., 5804 N.E. Hassalo St., Portland, OR 97213-3644. Kendall, email address kendall@drama.unp.ac.za ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 07:54:51 -0500 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: ethnographies of gender and class an anthropologist colleague had the following suggestions: C. Delaney - The seed and The soil S. Cole - Women of the Praia Shostack, M. - Nisa: the life and words of a Kung woman But added that the trouble with mixing gender and class - is that class is a pretty specific western construction which limits the areas of the world from which ethnographies can be used. and also suggested J. Okeley - traveller Gypsies Hope that is helpful. 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: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 08:45:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Abinojar Subject: Re: critical thinking In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 29 Oct 1995 14:29:34 -0800 "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Friere santana@umich.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:52:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CATRIONA JOHNSON Subject: Women's Data Base -Reply Comments: cc: hebrill@APTA.ORG, kcanova@APTA.ORG Could you also reply to the list? I would be very interested in hearing more about the Women's Data Base. Catriona Johnson Office of Women's Issues American Physical Therapy Association cjohnson@apta.org >>> Paul Burnam 10/30/95 05:07pm >>> Who on the list is familiar with the reference tool, Women's Data Base? Is it a good addition to the library collection for a liberal arts college women's studies program. Those of you who have it, do you treat as a periodical or reference source? I will be most grateful for all opinions shared. Please reply directly to me. Thank you in advance for your time assistance. Paul Burnam, Public Services Librarian Ohio Wesleyan University Libraries Delaware, OH 43015-2312 (614) 368-3240 Internet: pdburnam@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:09:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Vondrak Subject: looking for a list... Does anyone know of a list that deals with feminist concerns in literature? Please respond privately to: vondrak@unity.ncsu.edu thanks! amy vondrak vondrak@unity.ncsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:08:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dr70 Subject: Re: ethnographies of gender and class In-Reply-To: <3339127224A@novell2.bham.ac.uk> I would also suggest the following ethnographies that deal with gender and class...both "western/U.S." _Silent Sisters_ Dorothy? Russell _Street Woman_ Eleanor Miller \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Donna L. Rowe American Studies/Women's Studies Departments University of Maryland College Park Email:dr70@umail.umd.edu Phone: 301/405-7709 \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:13:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Benkert-Rasmussen, Lysbeth" Subject: FW: ethnographies of gender and class Here are some suggestions from a collegue of mine that he thought were appropriate. I hope this doesn't duplicate anything that's already posted. Lysbeth benkertl@wolf.northern.edu ---------- From: Hastings, Waller To: Benkert-Rasmussen, Lysbeth Subject: RE: ethnographies of gender and class Date: Tuesday, October 31, 1995 9:54AM Lysbeth - Here are some other references that people on the WMST-L list might be interested in": Bessie Head - *The Collector of Treasures* Heinemann African Writers Series, 1977. The title story includes an analysis of the state of women in Botswana that is specifically grounded in both class/economic issues and the culture of the area. Many/most of the stories deal specifically with the plight of working-class women. Alifa Rifaat - *Distant View of a Minaret* Heinemann African Writers Series, date? Rifaat is herself a working-class Egyptian woman, and her stories deal with the plight of such women in a Muslim environment. Ngugi wa Thiong'o - "Minutes of Glory." This is a short story by a (male, Marxist) Kenyan writer about the state of bar girls or prostitutes in modern. post-colonial East Africa. Again, the story's analysis is specifically grounded in issues of economics and class as well as gender. I am a literary critic, not an anthropologist, and my experience of much of the postcolonial world is shaped by reading literature from that world rather than direct experience. With those caveats, though, I would say that my sense of things is that in modern Africa, at least, class DOES seem to apply. It may be modified somewhat, and certainly in traditional culture does not seem to have any real correspondence to Western ideas; but with the overlay of Western culture that came with colonialism, there is a blending of traditional culture and a modern class structure in many countries. wally hastings hastingw@wolf.northern.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:52:14 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: finleyn@EMAIL.UAH.EDU Subject: One-woman shows Our women's studies program series is looking for some possible one-woman theater presentations on women in history. Anyone who knows someone doing this type of thing, please contact me privately. We have already had shows on Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt. Thanks, Nancy Finley finleyn@email.uah.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:03:40 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathie Friedman-Kasaba Subject: Re: Working class women In-Reply-To: <199510301652.LAA08449@pipe5.nyc.pipeline.com> Students in my course on "Women and Work in the US" have responded quite favorably to an article by Elizabeth Higginbotham and Lynn Weber, 1992, "Moving Up With Kin and Community: Upward Social Mobility for Black and White Women," GENDER & SOCIETY, vol.6, no.3, (Sept.), 416-440. Using life-history interviews with now middle-class professional women around Memphis, authors sought to identify some commonalities and differences in the ways that Black and white women from the working-class experience certain key relational aspects of upward mobility. Kathie Friedman-Kasaba Sociology and Women's Studies University of Washington, Tacoma 1103-A-St., Perkins Bldg 814 Tacoma, WA 98402 friedman@u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:16:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Grayson Subject: Final Call For Papers Final Call for Papers Camera Obscura is planning a special issue on Black women, spectatorship, and visual culture. We welcome investigations of how Black women in the diaspora interpret and respond to all aspects of visual culture. Topics might address but are not limited to: representataions of Black femaleness in visual culture; intersections of race, gender, and class in relation to how the category "woman" is constructed in visual culture; investigations of Black women as oppositional or resistant interpreters/viewers of visual culture; representations of violence against Black women in visual culture; review essays of Black feminist scholarship in visual culture, and sample syllabi for courses on Black women and visual culture. Please submit manuscripts to Camera Obscura, Film Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, by November 20, 1995. Because this issue could potentially become a double issue, essays that come in *slightly* after the deadline will be considered. Questions about the issue can be directed to: Deborah R. Grayson, PhD Department of English University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 drgn@uhura.cc.rochester.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:55:14 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: heidi jacobs Subject: Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS: No Limits: We are the Stories We Tell March 1 & 2, 1995, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ****** No Limits is a regional annual conference for gWomen's Studies Association at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. No Limits is dedicated to crossing boundaries between disciplines and exploring a wide range of women's issues. We invite proposals from undergraduate and graduate students on any topic and from any discipline related to women's lives, issues and culture. Creative writing, visual arts, film, music, performance and academic papers are welcome. The 1996 No Limits conference invites proposals especially relating to our special theme of Women in Science and Theory, in honour of scheduled keynote speaker Londa Schiebinger, Professor of History from Pennsylvania State University, and author of _Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science. Other topics are welcome as well. Please submit one 500 word abstract outlining your presentation by Monday, December 4, 1995 to: No Limits Conference c/o Women's Studies Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 337 Andrews Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0333. E-mail inquiries may be sent to Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg (kmapelbl@unlinfo.unl.edu). We are unable to accept abstracts by e-mail. Phone inquiries: 402-472-9392. Please include a SASE with your proposal for notification in early January. No Limits does not have a conference fee and therefore is unable to offer scholarships or funding to participants. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 17:01:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 13 more women-related lists All month, I've been receiving word of new women-related email lists. As info has come in, I've updated the compilation I maintain: 13 new lists have been added in October, and six lists have changed addresses or other important information. Here are the changes I've made; a parenthetical A signifies an added list, while C indicates one whose information has changed. Specific information about these and other women-related email lists can be found in the compilation, which you can get via email by sending the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . It's also available on gopher and World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and from the menu, choose Academic Department Information, then Women's Studies, and then Electronic Forums for Women's Issues. On WWW, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html . Here are the additions/changes for October: MEDS-AT-LARGE (A, 10/31) BLSYSNET (BlackSystersNetwork) (A, 10/31) COE (C, 10/30) FEM-BIBLIO (C, 10/30) FEMREL-L (C, 10/30) THIRD-WORLD-WOMEN (A, 10/30) GEN-MUS (A, 10/24) IAWM (C, 10/20) WOMEN.EAST-WEST (A, 10/13) SAWNET (C, 10/9) ANAHITA (A, 10/6) CHRISTIAN_WOMEN (A, 10/6) EWM (A, 10/6) MINERVA (A, 10/6) MRSWOMEN (A, 10/6) NEWW-BEIJING (C, 10/6) WAM (A, 10/6) FEM-BIBLIO (A, 10/5) WILD-LIST (A, 10/4) I would be most grateful for any further updates. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 22:32:49 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sokari Ekine Subject: Robinson Crusoe RC was a racist created by a racist (Robert Louis Stevenson) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 16:49:34 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lani Wilson Subject: Robinson Crusoe -Reply That struck me, too. Thanks for noting it publicly. Ditto. lw ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 21:07:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cindy Bily Subject: Re: Robinson Crusoe -Reply Daniel Defoe.