========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 02:39:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: InternetGoddess Subject: Re: subject searching on the World Wide Web try www.mckinley.com for the Magellan search engine. The summary descriptions are written by humans! You can do a focused search...at last. Enjoy! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 03:28:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: who is a 'grrrl'? I have had a private discussion with beth about the definition of grrls and we thought maybe others on the list would be interested in her response. So here it is. Beth's definition: A grrl is a young female who calls herself a grrl, and has or aspires to or identifies with some sort of feminist or radical or progressive politics. I'm *SURE* there's no *universally accepted* definition of what grrl means beyond that (in fact the above isn't universally accepted- but it sure is *my* definition). The term Riot Grrl- where I believe grrlness originated from- is rooted in punk music movements. BUT- I don't think it stayed there, and I know that some self-identified Riot Grrls, aren't real identified with the musical end of things, and also that there are plenty of self-identified grrls who are not part of "riot grrl" movements. I think it's quickly come to symbolize feminist youth RAGE frankly- all that rrrrrrrr-ing. I'm basically fine with the existence of most, if not all of the definitional differences (I do take issue with the idea that grrls are not young- every grrl group (riot or otherwise) I've ever been a part of was for YOUTH- whether youth liberation politics were made explicit or not, and I think we need that space- we're shut out of too many others)- and get frustrated with some media or research attempts to *define* us, many of which don't even remotely resemble my grrl-activist experiences. My grrl-ness means to me that I'm young, feminist, and insisting that youth liberation activism not be edited or ripped or shut out of anything I do with any integrity or energy (beyond immediate survival choices)... This isn't so for everybody, but I also think it means recognizing that oppressions of all kinds are connected/interlocked, and you can't *effectively* fight adultism or sexism or anything else as "single issues"- it's the whole "ism family" (as Gloria Yamato puts it). 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: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:03:59 GMT-2 Reply-To: sheena@ls.ru.ac.za Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheena Subject: apologies Sorry to all for the confirmation of reading, it's now off! love, Sheena@ls.ru.ac.za -- Sheena Stannard sheena@ls.ru.ac.za Tel: 27 461 28113 (international) 0461 28113 - SA ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:28:59 +0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheri Blake Subject: Gender Planning/Architecture I am an architectural researcher, with a Ph.D. in Engineering, and a documentary video producer. My specific research focus is on how physical design can better serve the social and cultural needs of minority groups (ethnic/cultural, homeless, women, etc.) I am now preparing a research grant for a documentary video on architectural and urban design/planning case studies of how the needs of women (social, cultural, economic, etc.) have or have not been met (i.e. gender planning). My current focus is on Asia, as that is where I have been living for twelve years. However, I am also planning to write a book about the same subject focusing on visualizing case studies around the world (i.e. through drawings and photographs), with a specific focus on architecture, as I think that architects need to be aware of these issues and how to apply them in practice. If anyone has any information or knows where I may find some publications, videos, theorists, field workers, etc., please respond to me directly at sheri@gol.com (Sheri Blake). Thank you. Sheri Blake December 7, 1995 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 19:53:18 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: scholars and activists across generations In-Reply-To: The following information describes the work of The Center for Women, a project of The Graduate School of THe Union Institute. While the CFW serves graduate learners at The Union Institute, it is also involved in specialized educational projects across the country. Below is some important infor about its work. It seems especially pertinet, given the current conversations about NWSA. THE CENTER FOR WOMEN The Union Institute Center for Women (CW)! We are here to serve as a resource to the Union community of faculty, learners, staff, and alumni and to support academic women's studies in both our graduate and undergraduate schools. We want you to know that CW offers you a variety of opportunities for involvement which we hope will further individualize your Union experience. The Center for Women is a part of the university's Office for Social Responsibility, located in Washington, DC. As you may know, one of The Union Institute's central values is the imperative that learning take place in a social context involving learners, teachers, and staff who are encouraged to "give back" to society. The Center for Women was founded in 1990 with an activist mission to foster dynamic, change-making coalitions between women in the academy and women in the community. This is achieved through our academic/activist coalitions and affiliate program. The Center for Women's mission is to unite activists and academics in coalition work designed to affect social change. Accordingly, the Center's projects combine action and scholarship in dynamic convergence, and are created and realized cooperatively with the women whose lives are directly affected by those projects. The Center for Women offers opportunities for organizers and scholars to become Affiliates of the Center, to work on activities and studies which are of value to the community at large. Affiliates are provided office space and some research and technical assistance. The Center cannot presently provide honoraria and travel grants to Affiliates. Currently, the Center for Women is active in the projects of several Affiliates whose work involves women's abuse and disability issues, sexism in public secondary schools, anti-racist practices, leadership skills for DC youth, and spiritual empowerment groups for marginalized women. Individuals may apply to the Center for Women at any time for an Affiliate position. An application form will be provided. Applicants will be asked to describe previous and current relevant experience, and to provide a detailed description of the activitites proposed and their expected product(s) during the specified term of affiliation. Critieria employed in awarding an Affiliate position will include the applicant's prior action/study in relation to the central issues addressed by this Center, assessments of the probable value of the proposed activity and the applicant's capacity to produce stated outcomes, and the project's relationship to the Center's expressed goals, principles and initiatives. Applications will be reviewed by a panel comprised of Center staff and advisors. SPECIAL CFW PROJECTS The Kitchen Table Press: Women of Color Press: coalition of activists, writers, publishers and scholars assists women of color press grow into an independent non-profit organization. DC GIRLS COALITION; pilot, cross-cultural project for girls, 11-15, uses arts to counter the effect of racism, poverty, and violence; builds positive self-images, self-esteem and integrity; works toward empowerment! THE LESBIAN HEALTH COALITION of the Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center provides affirmative public education and outreach to Greater Bangor lesbian community, educates providers on health issues affecting lesbians, and organizes lesbians around their most pressing health needs. MAKING CONNECTIONS: INTERCULTURAL NETWORK (NM) is a nAtional advocacy coalition which links disability rights and battered women's advocates, researchers, and vocational rehab providers in securing vocational training for women survivors of abuse. MCIN's Chicago Chap has established an office through a MacArthur Foundation grant. YouthPEACE (DC) supports yoith in DC who are at risk for gang involvement to develop their leadership abilities through constructive avenues. FOR FURHER INFORMATION CONTACT Jaime Grant The Center for Women The Union Institute 1710 Rhode Island Avenue NW Suite 1100 Washington, DC 2OO36-3OO7 Phone: 202-496-1630 or 1-8OO-969-6676 *********************************************************************** Jacqueline Haessly Center For Women 414-445-9736 FAX 414-444-7319 e-mail: jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:41:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: too many messages? Try EDITED digest (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the User's Guide: 6) "DOES WMST-L EXIST IN A DIGEST FORMAT?" Yes. If you choose the EDITED digest option, each day you will receive anywhere from one to five files containing most of the WMST-L messages of the past day (messages that should not have been sent to the list to begin with are omitted). Related messages will usually be put in the same file, and each file will begin with a table of contents. The digest reduces both mail clutter and, usually, mail volume. (Please note that this is NOT the huge, unselective bundle of messages that many listserv digest features provide. Do NOT use their digest command.) If you would like to receive the daily digest file rather than individual mail messages, you should send the following 2-line e-mail message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if your WMST-L subscription is under your Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if your subscription is under your Internet address): AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE SET WMST-L NOMAIL ACK Note: If you've subscribed on Bitnet, the digest may arrive as a file rather than as an e-mail message. If you don't know how to receive a file, see section 11 of the WMST-L User's Guide or ask the computer support people at your institution. If you'd prefer to receive the digest(s) inside mail message(s), alter the abovementioned AFD ADD statement to read as follows: AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE F=MAIL . However, even if you receive the digest(s) as mail messages, YOU CANNOT REPLY AUTOMATICALLY! If you wish to reply to a message in the digest, you must start a new message and address it either to WMST-L or to the individual. Also, LISTSERV may ask you to set up an AFD password. You're best off not doing so. Finally, if at some point you wish to STOP receiving the digest, either temporarily or permanently, send LISTSERV a message that says AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE . If you wish to unsubscribe AND stop the digest, add a second line that says UNSUB WMST-L . ************************ 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 . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 12:21:11 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: Hypatia Call for Papers *** Resending note of 12/07/95 00:16 To: SWIP --CMSNAMES From: Linda Lopez McAlister CALL FOR PAPERS HYPATIA: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY announces a call for papers for a special issue on THIRD WAVE FEMINISM, guest edited by Jacqueline Zita and Laura Sells. As some members of the first generation of contemporary feminist philosophers approach retirement, academic feminism is confronting a new opportunity and challenge. Some have characterized this as a generation gap between second and third wave feminists in the academy. Calling this a generation gap is itself fraught with tensions: The expression "third wave feminism" raises questions of appropriation, and "new generation feminism" misleadingly suggests the differences are age-related. But "generation gap" need not refer to age differences between younger and older feminists. Instead we are concerned with a cohort experience of new feminist philosophers , those educated by second wave feminist philosophers who are now "established" and who typically began their careers when women's studies and feminist philosophy were not yet legitimate, sanctioned, or tolerated fields. Feminist philosophy became a somewhat viable academic and scholarly endeavor in the 1970s, but not without great struggle for those creating the new paradigms and ideas. In the 1980s, these paradigms and ideas were refracted and refined by critical exchanges on race, class, sexuality, and other identity politics and practices that contested feminist philosophy on every level. Most recently, feminist philosophy has been challenged by the emergence of queer theory, critical race theory, and various critiques that travel under the name of postmodernism. It is time to look at the work of feminist scholars and philosophers speaking across and through the various currents that shape the future of academic feminist philosophy. This contemporary project faces two challenges. On the one hand, feminists face the canonization of earlier feminist scholarship, the problem of instutituionlizing feminist philosophy and theory in light of deisciplinary, political and economic relations, and a highly competitive and not necessarily feminist job market. On the other hand, the various "neos," "posts," and "anti's" of our time--neo-liberalism, communitarianism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, postfeminism, postcolonialism, post-identity politics, and anti-foundationalism--provoke a continujed questioning or crisis of basic feminist assumptions. In addition, the competing claims of the "real" world, every day politics, and high theory, and the institutional drive to create "new frontiers" and "new markets" in scholarship and research constitute the context in which feminists must rearticulate and renegotiate a commitment to feminist ideas. This special issue seeks to give voice and space to the work of third wave feminist philosophers and scholars, to honor the generation of feminist who fought for the very notion of feminist philosophy and women's studies, and to facilitate intergenerational dialogue and connection. General questions to be explored: 1) What characterizes "third wave" feminism? How should third wave feminist respond to the epistemological and political challenges that mark their entrance in the academy or profession? How and why do third wave feminists want to modify previous methodologies or adopt perhaps totally different methodologies? 2) What historical shifts, various waves or tendencies, new topologies or new paradigms, or novel genealogies help us grasp a feminist intellectual life in our time? How do these notions advance or impede feminist philosophical thinking? 3) what is the impact of various antifoundationalisms (the posts and neos) on the work of feminist scholars? How, for example, might queer theory influence lesbian feminist theory and philosophy in the 1990s? 4) What effect might the changing structure of the academyh, along with debates on issues such as multiculturalism, political correctness, interdisciplinary studies, right wing economic controls, and tenure chokeholds, ahve on the production of new feminist philosophy: 5) How have the concerns of antidisciplinary and interdisciplinary discourse, such as cultural studies, queer studies, critical race theory, and women's studies informed feminist philosophy? How successfuly has this feminist philosophy rearticulated these concerns? 6) Can the categories of race/class/gender be reconfigured to address problems of difference? How does feminism propose to deal with its own classism and racism (or with its predominantly white middle class background and expectations)? How does recent feminist theory define political activism? All papers should be submitted in quadruplicate and identified as submissions for the Third-Wave issue. Send them to Hypatia, Department of Women's Studies, HMS 413, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620. DEADLINE: April 15, 1996. Anticipated publication date: Spring 1997. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 12:37:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Johnston Parr Subject: inquiry My name is Helen Parr and I am currently a graduate student at Columbia's School of Journalism. I am writing because I am focusing my master's project on the role of women's studies programs on college campuses, particularly how they manage to serve both an academic and a political role. I am interested in learning more about how women's studies programs reach out to college women through both the classroom and extracurricular programs. I am also interested in how women's studies programs approach the number of young women who are reluctant to identify themselves as feminists, although they frequently hold many "traditional feminist" beliefs. Finally, I would like to address the charges that the political views of some women's studies programs, and the societal stigma attached to those views, further discourage young women from identification with feminism. This is obviously a rough overview of my project, but I would greatly appreciate any suggestions as to possible contacts or references, as well as any personal experiences or opinions. As I am in New York, suggestions that are located nearby -- accesible by public transportation -- would be especially helpful. I can be reached at: hjp7@columbia.edu Thanks, Helen Parr ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:58:12 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Rinehart Subject: chilly climate Hi! I am looking for resources on the "chilly climate" for women faculty at colleges and universities. Can anyone help? You can e-mail me privately at rinehart@gonzaga.edu. Thanks! Jane Rinehart Directory, Women's Studies Gonzaga University rinehart@gonzaga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:30:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Demetria Royals Subject: Re: chilly climate In-Reply-To: <01HYIUT6Z2CI002FL9@GONZAGA.EDU> Can you explain in greater detail what you mean by "chilly climate" and are you asking for information specfic to white women or are you also looking at issues that deal with the intersection of race and gender? that impacts differntly on women of color? Demetria Royals On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Jane Rinehart wrote: > Hi! > I am looking for resources on the "chilly climate" for women > faculty at colleges and universities. Can anyone help? > You can e-mail me privately at rinehart@gonzaga.edu. > Thanks! > > Jane Rinehart > Directory, Women's Studies > Gonzaga University > rinehart@gonzaga.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:58:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Irene Devine" Subject: Re: chilly climate In-Reply-To: The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada has three videos and resource material related to the chilly climate in educational institutions and how it affects women, minorities, etc. Good luck. Irene Devine, Acting Dean, Faculty of Business Ryerson Polytechnic University Phone 416 979-5168 Fax 416 979-5170 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 16:06:18 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fran Hoffmann Subject: NWSA 1995 National Conference Marjorie Pryse asked me to forward the following message to WMST-L participants: To: WMST-L Subscribers From: Marjorie Pryse, President, NWSA December 7, 1995 On behalf of the Executive Council of the National Women's Studies Association, and of the committee to plan the program for the Skidmore '96 NWSA national conference, I am writing to acknowledge that NWSA has been following with interest the recent exchange among WMST-L subscribers concerning the posting "Generation Gap: Generation of GRRLS Against Professionalism." The 1996 NWSA conference theme, "Borders/Crossings/Passages: Women Reinterpreting Development," and the theme of its embedded conference, "Diverse Paths: Perspectives on Adolescent Girls," reflect issues of current interest to feminist academics and activists, and to women and girls of all ages. Four plenary sessions, on Narratives of Development, Sexualities, Crossing Educational Borders, and Working in the Field(s), and more than 200 sessions and workshops, interweave a variety of concerns and identities as well as theoretical, disciplinary, practical, pedagogical, and activist perspectives on interconnected oppressions that affect girls and women. Earlier this fall we invited proposals from teachers, students, scholars, community and cultural workers that addressed any of these issues, and the program committee has specifically reached out to groups who have for whatever reason been underrepresented in NWSA, including the constituency of members and potential members who have identified themselves to us as girls/grrls. We agree with girls/grrls, and with some of the respondents to WMST-L, that NWSA needs to work even harder to involve young feminists in the planning and program of the conference, as well as in the larger caucus and governance structure of the organization. We have been paying serious attention to the points girls/grrls raised with us earlier this fall, and that Generation GAP, and now WMST-L subscribers have been raising, specifically concerning increased roles for girls and young feminists, as well as the important issues concerning psychiatric abuse of girls and women and the contexts within which the Governing Council and the membership of NWSA can establish policies regarding co-sponsorship. We expect to address many of these issues at the January meeting of the Governing Council and hope that these discussions will guide our own continuing education and create the context for further discussion within NWSA. The idea of an embedded conference emerged from a desire to offer our host campuses an opportunity to address an issues of particular local concern and strength. The enormous work of putting on a national conference requires partnership between the site with its local Women's Studies community, and the national organization with is particular perspective and responsibility to its mission and members. When Skidmore College agreed to host the 1996 conference, it was especially interested in generational issues and in involving Four Winds-Saratoga, an institution with which the College has had a long history of collaboration, including the co-sponsorship of a number of conferences on educational and developmental issues of adolescents and young adults. The NWSA conference committee and the Governing Council approved this co-sponsorship, with one dissenting voice, because it was viewed as an opportunity to reach social workers, psychologists, and other practitioners in the Four Winds local and regional network. As a feminist educational organization, we believe that it is important to communicate with as wide an audience as possible in order to further feminist analysis and education. Given the history of feminist critiques of particular models of psychological and psychiatric practice, opportunities to engage in dialogue about the application of feminist theory to therapeutic practice with the community of mental health practitioners are particularly valuable. The demand that NWSA cancel the co-sponsorship with Four Winds was raised in October by two new members of the Governing Council, as well as by a number of girls/grrls who were not members of NWSA. On reflection and in response to a snail mail poll of the GC which I conducted as President, the Governing Council overwhelmingly reaffirmed its earlier decision-making process. In general, this reflected a concern with the organization's ability to enter into and keep agreements with host campuses. At the same time, however, the GC members generally indicated, as I explained earlier, a desire to address the questions and issues these girls/grrls have raised as a part of the long-term growth of NWSA. As some persons have noted on WMST-L, NWSA has a strong record of responding to critique and working for educational change. We were founded by activists to become the "academic arm" of the women's movement and we have sought to retain since our founding in the 1970s a commitment to bringing together activists, independent scholars, artists, faculty, and students. The decision to hold our national conferences on college and university campuses whenever possible has been part of our commitment to keeping our conferences affordable for our members who are not professionals, or not yet rofessionals, and yet want to speak and to listen. It also provides more opportunities for students and community activists to become involved in working on the conference. As others on WMST-L have observed, this is also more than ever the time for working in coalition against national policies that wish to roll back girls' and women's gains in many areas, including affirmative action, welfare and reproductive rights, and educational opportunity; and wish as well to eliminate environmental protection, weaken the labor movement, and bankrupt organizations dedicated to promoting the arts, humanities, and progressive democratic thinking, all of which is detrimental to the development, survival, and future of women and youth. We hope that young feminists will join in NWSA's struggle to secure feminist education for future generations. And we hope that WMST-L readers will come to Skidmore to continue dialogue on these and other issues of pressing significance. We will post further information about the conference on WMST-L sometime in February. Marjorie Pryse Departments of English and Women's Studies University at Albany Albany, NY 12222 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: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 16:51:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vera Chouinard Subject: Re: chilly climate Comments: To: Jane Rinehart In-Reply-To: <01HYIUT6Z2CI002FL9@GONZAGA.EDU> Hi Jane! I've replied publically as others on the list may be interested. You might want to contact the Equity Office, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada) which I understand has some very good recent videos on the subject. Also, I have recently revised a draft of a paper discussing the accommodation of disabled academic women in academia in light of my own struggles at this particular institution. I'd be happy to make this available to you if you think it would be of interest (I'd just need a surface address for you). Best wishes in your work, Vera Chouinard, Geography, McMaster University (chouinar@cis.mcmaster.ca) On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Jane Rinehart wrote: > Hi! > I am looking for resources on the "chilly climate" for women > faculty at colleges and universities. Can anyone help? > You can e-mail me privately at rinehart@gonzaga.edu. > Thanks! > > Jane Rinehart > Directory, Women's Studies > Gonzaga University > rinehart@gonzaga.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 16:31:00 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fran Hoffmann Subject: 1996 NWSA Annual Conference Marjorie Pryse asked me to forward the following message to WMST-L participants: To: WMST-L Subscribers From: Marjorie Pryse, President, NWSA December 7, 1995 On behalf of the Executive Council of the National Women's Studies Association, and of the committee to plan the program for the Skidmore '96 NWSA national conference, I am writing to acknowledge that NWSA has been following with interest the recent exchange among WMST-L subscribers concerning the posting "Generation Gap: Generation of GRRLS Against Professionalism." The 1996 NWSA conference theme, "Borders/Crossings/Passages: Women Reinterpreting Development," and the theme of its embedded conference, "Diverse Paths: Perspectives on Adolescent Girls," reflect issues of current interest to feminist academics and activists, and to women and girls of all ages. Four plenary sessions, on Narratives of Development, Sexualities, Crossing Educational Borders, and Working in the Field(s), and more than 200 sessions and workshops, interweave a variety of concerns and identities as well as theoretical, disciplinary, practical, pedagogical, and activist perspectives on interconnected oppressions that affect girls and women. Earlier this fall we invited proposals from teachers, students, scholars, community and cultural workers that addressed any of these issues, and the program committee has specifically reached out to groups who have for whatever reason been underrepresented in NWSA, including the constituency of members and potential members who have identified themselves to us as girls/grrls. We agree with girls/grrls, and with some of the respondents to WMST-L, that NWSA needs to work even harder to involve young feminists in the planning and program of the conference, as well as in the larger caucus and governance structure of the organization. We have been paying serious attention to the points girls/grrls raised with us earlier this fall, and that Generation GAP, and now WMST-L subscribers have been raising, specifically concerning increased roles for girls and young feminists, as well as the important issues concerning psychiatric abuse of girls and women and the contexts within which the Governing Council and the membership of NWSA can establish policies regarding co-sponsorship. We expect to address many of these issues at the January meeting of the Governing Council and hope that these discussions will guide our own continuing education and create the context for further discussion within NWSA. The idea of an embedded conference emerged from a desire to offer our host campuses an opportunity to address an issues of particular local concern and strength. The enormous work of putting on a national conference requires partnership between the site with its local Women's Studies community, and the national organization with is particular perspective and responsibility to its mission and members. When Skidmore College agreed to host the 1996 conference, it was especially interested in generational issues and in involving Four Winds-Saratoga, an institution with which the College has had a long history of collaboration, including the co-sponsorship of a number of conferences on educational and developmental issues of adolescents and young adults. The NWSA conference committee and the Governing Council approved this co-sponsorship, with one dissenting voice, because it was viewed as an opportunity to reach social workers, psychologists, and other practitioners in the Four Winds local and regional network. As a feminist educational organization, we believe that it is important to communicate with as wide an audience as possible in order to further feminist analysis and education. Given the history of feminist critiques of particular models of psychological and psychiatric practice, opportunities to engage in dialogue about the application of feminist theory to therapeutic practice with the community of mental health practitioners are particularly valuable. The demand that NWSA cancel the co-sponsorship with Four Winds was raised in October by two new members of the Governing Council, as well as by a number of girls/grrls who were not members of NWSA. On reflection and in response to a snail mail poll of the GC which I conducted as President, the Governing Council overwhelmingly reaffirmed its earlier decision-making process. In general, this reflected a concern with the organization's ability to enter into and keep agreements with host campuses. At the same time, however, the GC members generally indicated, as I explained earlier, a desire to address the questions and issues these girls/grrls have raised as a part of the long-term growth of NWSA. As some persons have noted on WMST-L, NWSA has a strong record of responding to critique and working for educational change. We were founded by activists to become the "academic arm" of the women's movement and we have sought to retain since our founding in the 1970s a commitment to bringing together activists, independent scholars, artists, faculty, and students. The decision to hold our national conferences on college and university campuses whenever possible has been part of our commitment to keeping our conferences affordable for our members who are not professionals, or not yet rofessionals, and yet want to speak and to listen. It also provides more opportunities for students and community activists to become involved in working on the conference. As others on WMST-L have observed, this is also more than ever the time for working in coalition against national policies that wish to roll back girls' and women's gains in many areas, including affirmative action, welfare and reproductive rights, and educational opportunity; and wish as well to eliminate environmental protection, weaken the labor movement, and bankrupt organizations dedicated to promoting the arts, humanities, and progressive democratic thinking, all of which is detrimental to the development, survival, and future of women and youth. We hope that young feminists will join in NWSA's struggle to secure feminist education for future generations. And we hope that WMST-L readers will come to Skidmore to continue dialogue on these and other issues of pressing significance. We will post further information about the conference on WMST-L sometime in February. Marjorie Pryse Departments of English and Women's Studies University at Albany Albany, NY 12222 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: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:09:58 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kersti Krug Subject: Re: "Chilly Climate" Comments: To: Jane Rinehart I sent this message a couple of days ago to what I assumed was the whole list, but now realize I likely missed you and some others. Here it is again. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 11:50:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kersti Krug To: Terra Anderson Cc: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L Subject: Re: "Chilly Climate" The University of Western Ontario has produced three quite extraordinary videos on the chilly climate in Canada's institutions of higher learning. Though not all focus directly on students of colour, all deal with issues of colour and one specifically focuses on First Peoples. They are: "The Chilly Climate for Women in Colleges and Universities" (1991) "Backlash to Change: Moving Beyond Resistance" (1995) "Backlash to Equity: First Nations People Speak Out" (1995) You can order them by mail/fax/e-mail from: Department of Equity Services The University of Western Ontario Room 295, Stevenson-Lawson Bldg. London, Ontario, Canada NGA 5B8 Tel: (519) 661-3334 Fax: (519) 661-2079 e-mail: perks@uwoadmin.uwo.ca The two recent ones are $350 each, or two for $450 (that's Canadian, so you Americans can think in terms of $325-350 for the two). I don't have a price for the first, but they also offer previews for $50 each or $75 for the two (again, $35-55 US). Your university libraries might have copies (if they don't, they should). Though I haven't yet seen the two recent ones, the first one was so damned good, the others have to be as well. Kersti Krug Museum of Anthropology The University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 18:38:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gail Dines Subject: Re: inquiry i have a number of undergrad students who want to do papers on Queer Theory. Can anyone suggest some readings that are accessible to undergrads (many have taken WS courses). Thanks. Gail Dines whe_dines@flo.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 16:54:09 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Firestone Subject: Re: girls studies In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 5 Dec 1995 16:56:18 EST from Have you looked at the AAUW studies on shortchanging girls? Also Brown and Gilligan, *Meeting at the Crossroads,* Peggy Ornstein's recent book, *School- girls,* and the forthcoming book by Jill Taylor, Carol Gilligan and Amy Sullivan *Between Voice and Silence*? ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 19:55:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Research on women and promotions One of my colleagues is interested in national data (both research results and the instruments used) examining how employment promotion processes work/don't work for women. Everything I'm familiar with reflects very small, nonprobability samples. Any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA, niki Benokraitis, University of Baltimore, nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 23:55:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1 job, 1 book, 1 web site The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Job: Asst. Prof. of Women's Studies (Oberlin College) 2) 3rd Berkeley Women & Language Conference Proceedings 3) American Studies Association Crossroads Project web site For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Oberlin College. Women's Studies Program. The Women's Studies Program at Oberlin College seeks qualified candidates for a continuing position at the advanced assistant professor level or above, to begin August 1996. Candidates should have a specialization in the social sciences, with a strong focus on issues of feminist theory and methodology. Those with a substantive interest in the comparative study of women in the "Third World" or minority women in the U.S. are especially encouraged to apply Candidates should be experienced scholars with a Ph.D., with demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching, and a strong program of scholarly work. Candidates should send the following materials: (a) letter of application, (b) curriculum vitae, (c) a short sample of scholarly writing, (d) sample course syllabi, (e) at least three letters of reference, (f) a transcript of graduate work if the doctorate has been received within the last six years. All materials should be sent to Kay Oehler, Coordinator, Women's Studies Program, Rice Hall, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH 44074. Review of applications will begin on 1/15/1996. To be assured of full consideration applications should be received no later than 2/1/1996. AA/EOE *************************************************************************** 2) The Berkeley Women and Language Group proudly announces the forthcoming publication of _Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference_, edited by Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, Laurel Sutton, and Caitlin Hines. (Available December 1995) Emerging from the 1994 conference 'Communication in, through, and across Cultures', this long-awaited volume contains nearly seventy papers by authors from a wide range of disciplines around the world. The proceedings are a single- volume source for the newest and most significant research on language and gender. Contributors: Rusty Barrett, Victoria L. Bergvall, Laine Berman, Jan Bernsten, Janet Bing, Colleen Brice, Mary Bucholtz, Lisa Capps, Josefina M. Castillo, Joanne Cavallaro, Grace P. Chan, Lynn Cherny, Jennifer Coates, Colleen Cotter, Martha Clark Cummings, Rebecca Dobkins, Marcia Farr, Suzanne Fleischman, Alice F. Freed, Valerie Fridland, D. Letticia Galindo, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Elizabeth Gordon, Alice Greenwood, Kira Hall, Susan Herring, Caitlin Hines, Leanne Hinton, Preeya Ingkaphirom Horie, Miyako Inoue, Eli James, Cheryl Johnson, Christina Kakav, Itsuko Kanamoto, Elizabeth Keating, Claire Kramsch, Amy Kyratzis, William Leap, A. C. Liang, Anna Livia, Monica Macaulay, Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Fadillah Merican, Judi Beinstein Miller, Gabriella Modan, Birch Moonwomon, Marcyliena Morgan, Rae A. Moses, Ruth Mukama, Elizabeth Noll, Shigeko Okamoto, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Susan U. Philips, Suellen Rundquist, Ann Russo, Ruth Salvaggio, Pamela A. Saunders, Patricia E. Sawin, Meryl Siegal, Kyong- Sook Song, Marianne Stolen, Yukako Sunaoshi, Liisa Tainio, Deborah Tannen, Anita Taylor, Lourdes Torres, Sara Sistrunk Trechter, Linda von Hoene, Keith Walters, Kathleen Wood, Marta Zabaleta, Paula Zupanc-Ecimovic. Ordering information: Individual rates: $40; Institutional rates: $50 Shipping and handling per volume: $5 domestic; $10 international California residents please add 8.25% sales tax. Please make payment by check or money order. Make checks payable to BWLG. Send to: BWLG, 2337 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2650. (If you've prepaid for this volume, your book will be shipped as soon as it arrives from the printer.) Please direct inquiries to the address above or to bwlg@garnet.berkeley.edu; phone (510) 642-1316; fax (510) 643-5688. Still available: _Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference_, edited by Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwomon. 2 vols. Rates and ordering information as above. ***************************************************************************** 3) American Studies Association Crossroads Website 1. ASA 1996 Panel Proposals on Crossroads Website 2. ASA Guide to Graduate Programs (1995) on Crossroads Website 1. ASA 1996 Panel Proposals on Crossroads Website >From: Jeff Finlay Folks, in case it had escaped notice I'd like to remind you that many proposals for panels are mounted on the Crossroads website. One neat feature of these panel proposals is that one can email their organizers directly via the World Wide Web through Netscape or Lynx simply by clicking on the mail-to link appended to each. The Crossroads site is the virtual home of the Crossroads Project, an international American Studies initiative sponsored by ASA and Georgetown University (with participation from NWSA), with funding from Annenberg/CPB and the US Dept. of Education, and aimed at integrating the use of information technology in American Studies curricula. The Crossroads site contains massed electronic resources for American Studies folks, including many of the publications traditionally published in paper form by ASA. The Crossroads site URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads (The panel proposals are linked at the Main page, under About the American Studies Association). Here are a few of the titles of sessions currently in search of panelists and now available on the Crossroads website: * The American Middle Class: Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? * American Race Conceptions and the Problem of Color * Conversation: Teaching the Cultures of Early America * Capitalism and Sexual Identity * The Cultural Significance of Recovered Memory Syndrome * Disease and American Culture * Discretion Assured: American Morality and the Discourse of Decency * Educating the Eye: Visual Culture in 19th-Century America * Even Their Simplest Statistics Are Sublime: Democracy, Empire, and the Exploration Narrative * The Gendered Constructions of Militarism in American Society and Culture * Gendered Visions of Work and Leisure in Rock 'n' Roll Culture * Latin American Fictional Accounts of the U.S. Experience * Nervous Americans: Medicine, Popular Culture, and the Construction of Identities * The Politics of Illness: The Nation and the Body * "Race" and Religious Rituals in American Utopias * Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair: Intellectual Sophistication, Popular Paranoia, and the Ivory Tower * Women as Citizens in the Early Republic: An Interdisciplinary Forum 2. ASA Guide to Graduate Programs (1995) on Crossroads Website Folks, one other new resource now available on the Crossroads website and worthy of special mention is the new (1995) Guide to Graduate Programs in American Studies, organized under a variety of indices and containing comprehensive information about all graduate programs in the United States offering Masters or PhD level qualifications. The URL for this resource: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/toc.html Crossroads Director: Randy Bass, Georgetown University. Crossroads Administrator: Jeff Finlay Email: tamlit@gusun.georgetown.edu Phone: (202) 687-4535 Fax: (202) 687-5445 Snail-Mail: 320 New North, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 23:31:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Hypatia Call for Papers In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 7 Dec 1995 12:21:11 EST from While I agree that calling for papers for a new generation of feminist question s is a good idea, I notice that the formulation of the call answers some of its questions. They appropriate feminist philosophy for the US. Perhaps Canada and some of Western Europe could be included in the assumption of ownership. The problem is indicated in General Questions 4 and 6. 4 refers to restructuring of the academy and current debates on multiculturism, etc. while 6 assumes feminists' predominantly white middle-class background and expecta- tions. In most of the world, feminists are not `white' and understandings of `feminists' may include women who are not middle-class. Issues other than those that dominate the US scene may be relevant. The cure I propose is to reformulate the call by asking feminists in Asia, Africa, Central and South America, the Caribbean countries and the US colonies what their questions are. Europe, east and west, should also be queried. Surely, we should not assume the absence of feminist philosophers anywhere in the world. Indeed, we must ask how feminist philosophy understands itself and how it envisions it development if it knows itself in only one corner of the world. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 07:56:24 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: anne elizabeth macneil Subject: Re: inquiry In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 7 Dec 1995 18:38:39 -0500 To Gail Dines: for those students interested in music as well, have them try _Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology_, edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas (New York: Routledge, 1994). best, Anne MacNeil ma5c@midway.uchicago.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 09:24:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: finding past messages (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the User's Guide: 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. ******************* 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 . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 09:29:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dana Shugar Subject: Job announcement - endowed chair Job title: The Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair in Women's Studies Rank: Associate Professor, Women's Studies Ph.D. Required. Should have broad knowledge in the field of Women's Studies and a distinguished record of feminist teaching, scholarship, and service. Preference will be given to candidates whose research focus is in anthro- pology, the physical or natural sciences, or the study of non-western cultures. The candidate will be expected to teach undergraduate courses in Women's Studies, including the introductory courses, Feminist Theories, Feminist Methods, and to develop new Women's Studies courses in the candidate's areas of expertise, engage in scholarly research, and contribute by service to the program, university, and community. This is an endowed, tenure-track position beginning July 1, 1996. Please submit a cover letter including a description of your research and teaching interests, a vita, a recently published chapter or article, a relevant syllabus, and the names and addresses of 3-5 references to: Mary Ellen Reilly, Search Committee Chair (Log #021257), University of Rhode Island, P.O. Box G, Kingston, RI 02881. The search will remain open until the position is filled. The committee will begin to review applications on January 26, 1996. The University of Rhode Island is an AA/EEO employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty, staff, and students. People from under-represented groups are encouraged to apply. Dana Shugar Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies University of Rhode Island dshugar@uriacc.uri.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 10:21:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: inquiry In-Reply-To: <951207183839.119dd@FLO.ORG> Rosemary Hennessy has written a good essay, "Queer Visibility in Commodity Culture" in Cultural Critique 29 (Winter 1994-95): 31-76. Also someone queried about language in the classroom las week. In Dale Spender's The Writing or the Sex? or why you don't have to read women's writing to know it's no good, New York: Pergamon P, 1989, her first chapter is on "Language Studies: From the Spoken to the Written Word." It deals with language studies in "the university context." pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 11:10:26 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betsy Wheeler <102620.1122@COMPUSERVE.COM> AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE SET WMST-L NOMAIL ACK ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 11:26:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: fb38 Subject: Ama Ata Aidoo Once again, forgive me if I'm asking an innapropriate question to this group, but you all were so helpful in helping me find the rock and roll book... I'm trying to locate African (Ghanaian) feminist author Ama Ata Aidoo (Anowa, Dilemma of a Ghost). I will be directing a production of her play Anowa this coming Spring for the Feminist Theatre Workshop at the University of Maryland, and it would be wonderfully helpful to myself and my students if I could somehow correspond with her prior to then. Any and all information would be helpful. Thanks so much! Liz fb38@umail.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 13:10:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "David F. Austin" Subject: Gender-Separated Classes: Follow-up On July 5, I posted an inquiry about the legality of gender-separated courses and programs. Since there seemed to be a fair amount of interest in the general issue, the following reference may be of value: Fred von Lohmann, "Single-Sex Courses, Title IX and Equal Protection: The Case for Self-Defense for Women," _Stanford Law Review_ (November 1995) (-due out soon, about 50pp long). The article defends the legality of single-sex courses. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only extended discussion of this topic. But if there is other pertinent material, please let me know. Thanks. David. David F. Austin Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy and Religion NCSU, Raleigh, NC ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:38:25 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Feminist Majority Subject: Re: subject searching on the World Wide Web Regarding the discussion about finding a suitable search engine from a few days ago, you might want to try the Feminist Majority Online's listing of search utilities [http://www.feminist.org/action/actsear.html]. We tried to include information about each engine's ease of use, scope of coverage/etc; the listing is also updated fairly frequently. Feminist Majority Online ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:37:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Steinem Quote Hi -- I hope this request is appropriate for the list. Please reply privately to avoid list-clutter. Several conservative, sexist types have said to me that feminists are willing to suppress the Truth for a political agenda, citing as evidence a remark allegedly made by Gloria Steinem in a TV interview, in which she allegedly said that research that might demonstrate basic, biologically-based differences between female and male brains should not be permitted. My sense is that this interpretation probably only vaguely resembles whatever Steinem actually said. Does anybody know anything about this -- like what interview this is supposed to have occurred in? Is there a transcript of the interview, and if so, how would one get it? Thanks. -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 12:01:34 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chelsea Starr Subject: Excellent book alert--rock, pop, rap _Rock She Wrote_ One of the frustrations I've had with books on women in the music industry is that they usually *don't* fully capture the nuances of real life/material conditions of the music industry. This one *does*! Coupled with a more theoretical text, this "non-academic" book would make an excellent starting point for examining questions of representation in the arts, how women are selected to be in the arts/gatekeeping, sexism, glass ceilings, feminist consciousness, aesthetics, and theories of the audience. _Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap_. Evelyn McDonnell and Ann Powers, eds. Delta, NY 1995. 467 pgs, softbound. The formate is short excerpts and essays, including selections by Pamela des Barres (queen of the groupies), bell hooks, Lisa Jones, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Donna Dresch (Team Dresch), Donna Gaines, Lori Twersky (BITCH zine), Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, and several others. ============================================================================= Chelsea Starr, C.Phil. --- Dept. of Social Relations --- U.C. Irvine cstarr@orion.oac.uci.edu http://www.forfood.com/~indieweb/index.html ============================================================================= ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 15:36:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Martha Ecker Subject: job announcements The following tenure track job announcements may be of interest to members of the women's studies list: Assistant Professor with specialty in cultural anthropology to teach and develop general education, upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology, global and cultural studies and cultural linguistics. Ph.D. and college teaching experience required. Search committeee chair: Dr. Mark Howenstein, School of American and Int'l. Studies. Assistant Professor of Sociology/Anthropology. Preferred areas of specialization include race relations, community, environmental sociology and environmental justice. Ph.D. in Sociology or Anthropology required; college teaching experience preferred. ABD with strong credentials and close to completion of dissertation my be considered. Search Committee Chair: Dr. Yolanda Prieto, School of Social Science/Human Services Ramapo College of NJ Dept. 2 505 Ramapo Valley Road Mahwah, NJ 07430 Since its beginning, Ramapo Collehe had had an international/multicultural mission. Please tell us how your background, interests and experience (for instance, second language ability, work abroad, research porjects) can contribute to this mission as well as to the specific position for which you are applying. Ramapo College is proud to be a leader in affirmative action/equal opportunity employment. Martha Ecker Associate Professor of Sociology Director of Academic Programs Ramapo College of New Jersey 201-529-7532 (office) 201-529-7508 (FAX) mecker@ultrix.ramapo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 20:39:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Steinem quote A friend identifies the quote as follows: > > John Stossel, "Boys and Girls Are Different" (ABC, Feb. 95) > > In reference to research on innate sex difference in the human > brain: > > Gloria Steinem: It's really the remnant of anti-American crazy > thinking to do this kind of research. It's what's keeping us > down, not what's helping us. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 03:45:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dena Taylor Subject: Text query for Intro to WS I'm looking for a multicultural, feminist, general issues, broad spectrum text for Introduction to Women's Studies. Would appreciate suggestions! Please reply privately to Dena Taylor Dent22@aol.com Thanks! ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 10:18:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christy Hammer Subject: Re: Steinem quote It seems what Steinem meant is that sex differences in the brain research is of little worth (except for justifying inequality.) As a long time member of Science for the People that studies science "hot off the press" for bias, it is clear that many marginal studies get published just because they porport to show "natural" sex differences in the brain. Where these studies will be, say, the leading article in JAMA or Nature Magazine, the criticism (and sometimes retraction) of such studies will be in the back of the journals. It's really been quite an education these last ten years. My partner and I have just published a review of the sex differences in the brain research and have found that many of the studies are methodologically sloppy, poorly designed, with little or no peer review, and often with much small sample sizes that the respectable journals would not have probably even considered publishing them if they were not portorting to show "natural" sex differences. Our article will be in the forthcoming next edition of FEMINIST TEACHER, if you're interested. (We have found similarly bad science in studies porporting to show "natural" differences between gays and straights. The original Hamer study was touted on the cover of Time magazine showing a picture of a baby with the caption "Is he gay?" This study used only 9 brains!! Respectable scientists would never try to draw meaningful conclusions from such a paltry sample size.) There is a long history of so-called "scientific sexism" as well as "scientific racism" that justifies inequality. I am a Sociologist of Science and my partner is a Philosopher of Science. We are working on a book detailing the long history of scientific racism from the early 19th century through the Bell Curve. Gee -- I hope our society's desperate search to give scientific authority to sex and race inequality won't be stymied by remarks such as Steinems cuz the more crap that gets publicity in the name of "objective" science the more we can expose as politically biased! Christy Hammer and R. Valentine Dusek (chammer@aol.com) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 10:32:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Revision: WMST-L files (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 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.) IMPORTANT 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, and reference book mini-reviews are in the WMSTBOOK subdirectory. To find out what syllabi, film reviews, or reference book mini-reviews a subdirectory contains, send LISTSERV the command INDEX SYLLABI (or INDEX FILM or INDEX WMSTBOOK). To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] SYLLABI (or replace SYLLABI w/FILM or WMSTBOOK as needed) 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! ******************* 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 . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 08:28:10 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Esther Skirboll Subject: Re: Steinem quote You wrote: > >A friend identifies the quote as follows: > >> >> John Stossel, "Boys and Girls Are Different" (ABC, Feb. 95) >> >> In reference to research on innate sex difference in the human >> brain: >> >> Gloria Steinem: It's really the remnant of anti-American crazy >> thinking to do this kind of research. It's what's keeping us >> down, not what's helping us. > > >-- >====================== >Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu > I have found that this film can be shown toward the middle to end of the semester in undergraduate women's studies classes for critical analysis. At this point in the semester students are able to see the many biases and the forms of selected reporting, such as the Steinem quote - taken out of context - which make up this film. Esther Skirboll Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock, Pa. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 12:43:32 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: When Night Is Falling On Saturday, December 9, 1995, I reviewed "When Night Is Falling" 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 REV158 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, 9 Dec 1995 13:56:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Waterman Subject: call for panel proposals to "Women Work" The Rutgers Institute for Research on Women 14th Annual Celebration of Our Work Conference "Women Work" to be held Tuesday, May 21, 1996 Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ Panels, rather than papers, are solicited by January 31, 1996. Each panel session is 75 minutes and should include 3 or 4 papers. Proposals on any aspect of women and work are welcome. Possible topics include: *Women in the workforce *Women's skills, knowledge, creativity at work *Race, ethnicity, wages, labor *Gender issues in lesbian labor *Women and unpaid labor *The new homework economy *Women's solidarity at work *Gender & "blue-collar," "pink-collar" jobs *The glass ceiling *International issues in women's work *Feminization of poverty *Representations of women and work *Women and welfare *Gendered work, sex workers *Economics of women's work *Public policy and labor unions *Childcare as work *Theories of gender and work *Technologies, gender, work *Women in nontraditional careers *Working mothers *Exploitation of women in the workforce Please limit typewritten abstracts to a single page. Proposals should also include: panel participants' names, affiliations, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses; titles of panel and individual papers; any requirements for audiovisual equipment. Mail submissions to: Women Work, Institute for Research on Women, 27 Clifton Avenue, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, or fax to the IRW at (908) 932-0861. Please direct inquiries to Beth Hutchison, Assistant Director, IRW, at the above address, by calling (908) 932-9072, or via email at hutchison@zodiac.rutgers.edu. Susan Waterman tethys@rci.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 14:10:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: LUHMANN@VM1.YorkU.CA Comments: Originally-From: LUHMANN@VM1.YorkU.CA From: Susanne Luhmann Subject: call for papers Comments: To: euro-sappho@seta.fi, qgs-l@yorku.ca, lesbian-studies@queernet.org, lesac-net@queernet.org please post where appropriate. Thanks. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS LESBIANS AND POLITICS: IS THERE A LESBIAN POLITC? CANADIAN WOMAN'S STUDIES LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME Spring 1996 issue (Vo. 16, no.2) CWS/cf's Spring 1996 issues poses the question: is there a lesbian politic? We invite contributions from a diversity of perspectives, communities and experiences that engage in the broader possibilites and contradictions of lesbian existence, representation and politics. The aim of the issue is to examine what happens when one imagines lesbian sexualities at the centre of possibilities for friendship, communities, eroticism, ethics and political activism without reproducing essentialist visions of lesbian politics and identities. Submissions can take the form of essays, research reports, narrative accounts, poetry, cartoons, drawings and other artwork which address the experiences of women around the world. DEADLINE: JANUARY 30TH, 1996 Articles should be in English or French, typed double-spaced, 7-12 pages. A short (50 words) abstract and a short biographical note must accompany each submission. Please include disk if your manuscript has been word-processed. The disk will be returned. We give preference to previously unpublished material. If possible, please submit graphics or photographs to accompany your article. Write or call as soon as possible indicating your intention to submit your work. CANADIAN WOMAN'SSTUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME, 212 Founders College, York University, North York, 4700 Keele Street, On., M3J 1P3, Canada Tel. (416) 736-5356, Fax (416) 736-5765 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 15:22:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Re: Steinem quote Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI In-Reply-To: <199512091628.IAA15629@ix8.ix.netcom.com> Esther, would you please explain what was the context of the Steinem quote that you believe gives it a different meaning than what it appears to have? Daphne -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 04:48:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Celebrating end-of-semester WS classes A week or so ago there was a discussion about how to end WS classes with interesting exercises. Some of the suggestions included such activities as viewing videos, sharing meals, and presenting lists of students' most memorable female-related events during 1995. Another possibility is for students (and instructors) to exchange their favorite feminist jokes. Pedagogically, humor serves such functions as releasing tension and reinforcing group solidarity (especially at the end of the semester when students are scurrying, hopefully, to finish papers and projects but may be feeling isolated and stressed out). Although I'm not encouraging an exchange of such jokes (unless you'd like to do so privately), "The Mermaid" has gotten a good response from students: THE MERMAID There's these three guys and they're out having a relaxing day fishing. Out of the blue, they catch a mermaid who begs to be set free in return for granting each of them a wish. Now one of the guys just doesn't believe it, and says: "Ok, if you can really grant wishes, than double my I.Q." The mermaid says: "Done." Suddenly, the guy starts reciting Shakespeare flawlessly and analysing it with extreme insight. The second guy is so amazed he says to the mermaid: "Triple my I.Q." The mermaid says: "Done." The guy starts to spout out all the mathematical solutions to problems that have been stumping all the scientists of varying fields: physics, chemistry, etc. The last guy is so enthralled with the changes in his friends, that he says to the mermaid: "Quintiple my I.Q." The mermaid looks at him and says: "You know, I normally don't try to change people's minds when they make a wish, but I really wish you'd reconsider." The guy says: "Nope, I want you to increase my I.Q. times five, and if you don't do it, I won't set you free." "Please," says the mermaid, "You don't know what you're asking...it'll change your entire view on the universe...won't you ask for something else...a million dollars, anything?" But no matter what the mermaid said, the guy insisted on having his I.Q. increased by five times its usual power. So the mermaid sighed and said: "Done." And he became a woman. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy holidays, niki Benokraitis, University of Baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 08:36:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Manuscripts on sexist humor I'm working on a subtle sexism reader (Sage, 1997). If possible, I'd like to have a chapter on sexist humor--incorporating, especially, the Lorena Bobbitt and Nicole Brown Simpson incidents as well as jokes targeted at women of color, poor women, and lesbians. PLEASE don't flame me. What I'm looking for is a good article showing how jokes about (and also by) women demean, degrade, and trivialize women even though many people think such jokes are "just fun." TIA, niki Benokraitis, University of Baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 09:56:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: PLEASE--DO NOT SEND JOKES TO WMST-L!!!!! Earlier today, Niki Benokraitis suggested that feminist jokes may be a good way to end a Women's Studies class. Jokes may indeed be a useful strategy, but PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW NIKI'S EXAMPLE--DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES SEND YOUR JOKES TO WMST-L!! If you wish to send your jokes to Niki privately, please do so. Her email address is nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu . However, if for ANY reason you can't send mail to her, don't send it at all. DO NOT SEND JOKES TO WMST-L!! I'm saying this so strongly because this topic has come up before, and the answer then was the same as now: jokes are a topic that has a tendency to get rapidly out of hand. EVERYONE, it seems, has a joke and/or an opinion about jokes to share. The mail volume increases dramatically (WMST-L has more than 4000 subscribers), and people with limited disk space or who have to pay for each message they receive find themselves having to unsubscribe. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THAT HAPPEN. Thus, I will say now what I have said in the past: DO NOT SEND JOKES TO WMST-L!! Once again, Niki's email address is NBENOKRAITIS@UBMAIL.UBALT.EDU . Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 15:51:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: David Greene Subject: call for papers The Men's Studies Association calls for papers and presentations on the study and teaching of men's experience, and the enhancement of men's lives. The conference takes place on July 24, 1996 at Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon. Submission deadline: February 1, 1996. Send papers to: Prof. David Greene or Prof. Carole Campana Ramapo College 505 Ramapo Valley Road Mahwah, New Jersey 07430-1680 The Men's Studies Association is a task group of the National Organization of men Against Sexism (NOMAS), a pro-feminist, gay-affirmative, anti-racist organization. This academic conference takes place on the first day of the NOMAS national conference which runs through Sunday, July 28. David (dgreene@ultrix.ramapo.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 17:28:47 EWT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Consuelo Lopez Springfield Subject: Caribbean feminist at Toronto I believe that a Caribbean feminist was just hired by the English Dept. at the University of Toronto--Natasha Barnes. Does anyone at Torono (Toronto) know how I might contact her. Sorry for posting to the complete list...but I need to contact her ASAP. Thank you, Consuelo Lopez Springfield clspring@macc.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 16:59:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Srimati Basu Subject: 2 queries about whereabouts 1. A friend remembers getting a flier at the Beijing Conference saying Taslima Nasreen the Bagladeshi essayist/poet would be in the US this year and might be available to give talks; unfortunately, she seems to have misplaced this information. We would be very keen to invite her to speak at our campus, though, so would any of you happen to know about this or have any independent information about an U.S. visit by Nasreen? 2. I have an incomplete citation for Christina Gledhill's essay "Pleasurable Negotiations" and have been trying to locate it for a while. Have not found it through any library searches, probably because it's in an anthology and not a journal as far as I know. Would really appreciate it if anyone had it handy. Please respond privately to both queries. Srimati Basu topeshay@siu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:42:47 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: CFP: FMST No. 47-49 Call for papers, reports, reviews for Feminist Studies in Aotearoa Electronic Journal, issues 48 and 49 in 1996. In keeping with FMST's decision in August to go to a bi-monthly issue, FMST 47 (ie the Nov/Dec issue) will arrive in subscribers' mailboxes in the next ten days. This bumper issue will feature news and info about Women's Studies in Aotearoa (New Zealand). We'd like to invite you to contribute to the following two issues of FMST : FMST 48 (due out on Feb. 29) will consist entirely of book reviews. We will be featuring recent 'cutting edge' books. Since you'll probably have your own idea about what that means, please consider submitting a review, up to 10K by January 31. FMST 49 (due out April 30) will feature the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and feminist appraisals and critiques of the controversy surrounding his art. The Mapplethorpe exhibition began here in Wellington on friday night (8th) to an appreciative carnivalesque of supporters and the predictable lunatic fringe opposition. Only the City Gallery in Aotearoa has been prepared to mount the exhibition and it has an R18 entry prohibition. Again, your comments in the form of reviews of the exhibition in other centres, or papers of up to 25K are most welcome, by March 31. For further details on either of these issues, contact me privately : L.C.Alice@massey.ac.nz To subscribe to Feminist Studies in Aotearoa, send the message to : uotago@stonebow.otago.ac.nz Lynne Alice for Feminist Studies in Aotearoa Electronic Journal Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:41:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Travers Subject: Needs Assessment for Women's Resource Ctr. I am in need of suggestions for a needs assessment tool for gathering data to assist in the development of a women's educational resource center. This tool would help develop a mission statement and objectives for the center based on perceived needs of the community. I would appreciate any suggestions or tools others have used. Many thanks in advance. Ann D. Travers (Agtravers@aol.com) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 08:50:35 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lawrence Johnson Subject: FYI (fwd) Comments: To: diversity list , disability network , black studies [Deleted] FYI....Lawrence > > Today I received notice of a teleconference from PBS with a title > I feel is unwarranted and offensive to practitioners of Affirmative > Action. The title is "Life After Affirmative Action". I immediately > called the toll-free number 1-800-257-8495, and was told they do > realize that this was a mistake and the title will be changed. I was > asked to send my own protest to Shirley Davis, FAX 703-739-8495, which > I did, and asked to encourage others who are offended by the title to > send their protest to same. I do not have an e-mail for these people. > I do urge those who feel about this presumptious title as I do to > send their protests to PBS. I have also put in a call to the > American Association for Affirmative Action to ask for their protest. > Thanks to all who respond, and thanks for this net which gives us so > much good information. > > > Melissa Manning, Affirmative Action Officer > Human Resources, Southwest MIssouri State University > mam419t@vma.smsu.edu > 417-836-6616 > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:59:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosemary Feal Subject: Search for Named Chair in WST SUSAN B.ANTHONY PROFESSOR OF WOMEN'S STUDIES This is a named chair and a tenured position in Women's Studies for a distinguished feminist scholar whose research and teaching are inter- disciplinary. The Susan B. Anthony Professor will have a half appointment in the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies and a half appointment in an academic department. Specialization in Film Studies would be particularly welcome, though highly qualified candidates in other areas are encouraged to apply. We would also be interested in candidates whose research deals with Race, Ethnicity, and Gender. Send letter of application, references, and vita by March l, 1996 to: Janet Wolff, Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute, 538 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627: Phone (716)275.6948. Submitted by Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, Dept. Modern Langs. Univ. of Rochester RSFL@troi.cc.rochester.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 10:05:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Mazur Subject: Re: Steinem quote In reference to the suggestion of using the John Stossel "report" on sex differences in the middle or end of the semester, I used it in one of the first Psych of Women classes experimentally and not as my first choice since a video on sex differences in the brain was not available. It worked out great even then as an exercise in critical thinking, and I would say the advantage to using it early on is that it gets the class on the right track in terms of critical thinking for the rest of the semester. They were criticizing it very thoughtfully without much probing from me, and for the few quiet students who didn't I think it was an eye-opener that, yes, the media isn't always accurate. But I also think it would be neat to use after the students are more familiar with the material (an idea for an innovative exam?). ELIZABETH MAZUR EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY PSYMAZUR@ACS.EKU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:33:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: MARCH CONFERENCE The Women's Studies Program at Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, announce the First Annual Conference on Foundations to the Future: Southern Women from l900 to l950. March 8-9, l996 Academics, students, community activists and other interested individuals are invited to submit proposals for papers, workshops, roundtables, complete panels (3-6) papers, and performances examining women's lives and educational experiences in the South from l900 to l950. Individual papers will typically be twenty minutes in length. Proposers might consider the following subject areas as they pertain to Southern women of any class and/or ethnicity: *literary representations of Southern women's lives *writings by Southern women *social reconstruction of women's lives *scientific accomplishments by women *law and legal status of women *artistic endeavours by women during the time period *helath aspects of women's lives *histories of women's organizations *women's lives in a rural/urban setting *religion as a distinctive feature of women's lives *women in business and entrepreneurship Send proposals, abstracts (200 words, double-spaced), or completed papers no later than January l9, l996 to: Dr. Vicki Soady, Director of Women's Studies, Room l09 Ashley Hall, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Ga. 31698, 9l2-249-4843, fax 9l2-333-7389, email: vsoady@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu or Dr. Donna Sewell, English Department, Room 207 West Hall, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Ga. 3l698, 9l2-333-5946 Decisions will be made by Feb. l, l996 Dr. Jane Elza jelza@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu Political Science Dept., Valdosta State University Valdosta, Ga. 31698 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 10:53:02 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Pamela Shelton -- - Mt. Clair Shores" Subject: Call for Contribs To: wmst-l, allist Inet Feminist Writers, a reference book currently being compiled by St. James Press, is seeking writers to contribute bylined essays that will help introduce high school and college students to the work of feminist writers in a variety of subject areas>>fiction, drama, poetry, history, psychology, political, social and literary theory, and theology. Anyone interested in contributing to Feminist Writers should respond>>>ASAP>>>to Pamela Kester-Shelton (editor) at PSHELTON@REACH,COM -- or -- mail or fax a coverletter stating your area of expertise/ interest, current cv, and a 2-3 pp. writing sample to: Pamela Kester-Shelton, editor Feminist Writers 22536 Hoffman St. Clair Shores, MI 48082 FAX (810)296-7836 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 10:14:02 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Jane Hurst Subject: call for papers CALL FOR PAPERS Women's Caucus Forum South Central MLA Conference San Antonio, Texas October 31-November 2, 1996 WANTED: Papers dealing with professional development for women, women as administrators, women's studies programs, women and teaching, women and research, mentoring, or other professional issues affecting women. SEND: 250 word abstracts or completed papers by February 15, 1996, to: Dr. Mary Jane Hurst Chair, SCMLA Women's Caucus Department of English Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-3091. Along with your abstract or paper, please include your phone number, e-mail address, and self-addressed, stamped envelope. PLEASE NOTE: In order to participate in the conference, individuals must be members of SCMLA (The South Central Modern Language Association) by May 1996. Information about SCMLA can be obtained from SCMLA, Department of English, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. For additional information about the SCMLA Women's Caucus, contact Mary Jane Hurst at . ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 22:55:59 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eva Isaksson Subject: New Finnish WS homepage The Christina Institute of Women's Studies, University of Helsinki, has a new English language homepage at URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/~kris_ntk/eindex.html You're welcome to visit this site and to make links to it! - Eva ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eva Isaksson eisaksso@cc.helsinki.fi http://www.helsinki.fi/~eisaksso/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 10:00:00 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kay Schaffer Subject: Re: Chair/Professor of Women's Studies Position Comments: To: H-WOMEN@msu.edu, FMST@STONEBOW.UOTAGO.AC.NZ, girl@uci.edu, uniwomen@uts.edu.au, spoon_announcements@jefferson.village.virginia.edu, j.milnehome@uws.edu.au, OWS-L-Error@Magill.UniSA.edu.au Chair/Professor in Women's Studies The University of Adelaide invites applications from scholars who have made a significant contribution to Women's Studies teaching, research and administration for the appointment to a Chair in Women's Studies within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Professor of Women's Studies will be based in the Department of Women's Studies, the first department of Women's Studies in Australia and one of the most active programs. The Department has eight staff with strong research interests in the areas of: health, the body, sexualities and leisure; post-coloniality, popular culture and cultural studies; Australian history; literary theory; women's work and social policy; and gender and development. The Department enjoys a reputation for excellence in teaching and research. It offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including a B.A. and Honours in Women's Studies, a Graduate Diploma, an M.A. (Coursework) and M.A. and Ph.D. by research. The Graduate Diploma and M.A. (coursework) awards are offered externally and attract competitive applications throughout Australia and overseas, contributing to a large and lively post- graduate program. The Faculty is particularly interested in receiving applications from persons whose areas of expertise will complement the Department's teaching and research strengths, have an active interest in promoting interdisciplinary programs which extend and strengthen the Department, and can demonstrate a proven record in academic teaching and administration. Given the interdisciplinary nature of Women's Studies, we invite applications from feminist scholars working in a range of fields including: cultural studies, development studies, social theory, post-colonial studies, geography, history, literature, philosophy and sociology. The successful applicant will be expected to take on the responsibilities of Head of Department for three years in the first instance and work within an established collaborative tradition. Further information concerning the position, including the selection criteria and particulars of departmental courses and personnel, may be obtained from Assoc. Prof. Kay Schaffer, Head of Department, telephone +61 88 303 3675, FAX + 61 8 303 3345, e-mail: kschaffer@arts.adelaide.edu. au or by consulting the World Wide Web site: http//chomsky.arts.adelaide.edu.au//personal/kschaffe/ women.html The position is available from July, 1996. SALARY PER ANNUM: $80,176 APPLICATIONS IN DUPLICATE, quoting reference number 6850 and giving full personal particulars (inculding whether candidates hold Australian permanent residency status), details of qualifications, current salary and names and full addreses of three referees should reach the Director, Personnel Services at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 5005, Facsimile +61 8 303 4353 not later than 31 March, 1996. Applicants should clearly address the selection criteria in their applications. The University reserves the right to make enquiries of any person regarding any candidate's suitablitiy for appointment, not to make an appointment or to appoint by invitation. THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:47:02 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara E Ryan ofberyan@CYBER.WIDENER.EDU" Subject: Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS For an edited volume titled "Identity Politics in the Women's Movement" to be published by New York University Press. This collection will consist of writings on divisions among activist feminist women based on social group characteristics such as sexual orientation, sexual practice, race, ethnicity, religion, age, nationality, class, and physical abilities. Submissions can be empirical, theoretical, or experiential; authors can defend or critique identity politics. A variety of writing styles - theoretical, research based, activist narration, poetry, essay, memoir, biographical, etc. - ranging from 2-25 pages are being sought. Final selections will consider representativeness for interdisciplinary, multicultural, cross-cultural, and inclusive feminist identity views and experiences. Preference is given to never published works, although previously published materials will be considered. Send paper or abstract with outline of proposed paper by February 15, 1995 to: Barbara Ryan Widener University Social Science Division One University Place Chester, PA 19013 USA phone: 610-499-4374 Inquiries (and abstracts) can be sent to: ofberyan@CYBER.WIDENER.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 06:28:20 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "C. Horwitz" Subject: Popular Culture Association Conference In-Reply-To: <951211143957784-MTABWIDENER*Barbara.E.Ryan@cyber.Widener.EDU> Is anyone going to the Popular Culture Association Conference in Las Vegas this March? I am looking for someone to share a hotel room. Please respond to me privately at chorwitz@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Many thanks Carol Horwitz ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 08:41:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: NEH Summer Seminar; New list The following two announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) NEH Summer Seminar: Feminist Epistemologies (Nancy Tuana) 2) New list: WOMEN20S - women in their 20s For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER SEMINARS FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGIES PROFESSOR NANCY TUANA, DIRECTOR JULY 1, 1996 - AUGUST 9, 1996 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE Applications are invited for a six week seminar on feminist epistemologies. The seminar will involve an examination of feminist research in the areas of epistemology and philosophy of science and an investigation of the relations between feminist and mainstream philosophical theories and methods in these areas. Themes to be considered include: the role of background assumptions in the development of knowledge, the epistemic import of subjective components of the knowledge process; and the nature of the agent of knowledge. Ample time will be allowed for participants to work on research projects of their own. Applications are invited from college teachers and independent scholars. A stipend of $3200 is paid for the six weeks. The deadline for applications is March 1, 1996. ELIGIBILITY: NEH Seminars are designed for college teachers in institutions that do not have doctoral programs in the candidate's area. Independent scholars are also invited to apply. Applicants must be US Citizens or have resided in the US since March 1, 1993. FURTHER INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED THROUGH WORLD WIDE WEB http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ntuana For Information and Applications, Please Write: Professor Nancy Tuana Department of Philosophy University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1295 503 346-1547 ntuana@darkwing.uoregon.edu **************************************************************************** Subject: NEW: WOMEN20S - Women-in-their-20s Discussion List WOMEN20S on LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU The WOMEN20S list was formed in order to discuss issues pertaining specifically to women in their 20s. Related topics might include: issues of safety, professional/educational issues, relationship/ marriage issues, economic issues, etc. This list encourages women between the ages of 20 and 30 to subscribe. To subscribe to WOMEN20S, send the following command to LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU in the BODY of e-mail: SUBSCRIBE WOMEN20S yourfirstname yourlastname For example: SUBSCRIBE WOMEN20S Jane Smith OWNERS: Florence Wong Adinah Liss ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 08:45:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Heather Munro Prescott, Department of History" Subject: query on Accuracy in Academia Dear Fellow list members, I have noticed recently that publications from a group called Accuracy in Academia have been appearing around my building. Does anyone have any more information about this organization? Their mission statement seems rather vague to me. Obviously they take a conservative slant on things. The newsletter I saw had a story on Elizabeth Fox Genovese that was quite critical of women's studies, so I am particularly interested in how this group relates to women's studies programs more generally. Please send responses privately unless Joan thinks this would be of interest to other list members. Thanks, Heather Munro Prescott History Dept. Central Connecticut State University New Britain, CT 06050 prescott@csusys.ctstateu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 10:27:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: Celebrating end-of-semester WS classes Re: The Mermaid joke Suppose the joke ran: "Three women were washing clothes in a river when they accidentally snagged a troll..." and in the end the troll quintupled the intelligence of one of the women and turned her into a man. Would this joke be funny? I know it's just a joke, and I also know that there's a case to be made for the oppressed having more right to make fun of the oppressor than vice versa. However, it was a wonderful W.S. colleague of mine who later went on to be president of our state NOW chapter who first impressed on me that if we want men to give up sexist remarks and jokes, not to mention full-blown sexism, we should also be scrupulous not to pound them with reverse sexism. For that reason, a joke like this makes me uneasy. For an end-of-semester fun day, I have several times invited students to my house for dinner and viewing of "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" -- a funny movie that I think epitomizes feminists laughing at oursleves and dominant gender stereotypes of both men and women, rather than laughing at men. -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 10:41:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christy Hammer Subject: Brains & Gender Several people have requested that I post to the whole WS list the exact reference of our forthcoming paper. Here is the reference plus a copy of the abstract of an earlier version of the paper that we presented at the Women and Science Question conference at the Univ. of Minnesota this last May. Hammer, Christy, and Dusek, R. Valentine, "Brain Difference Research and Learning Styles Literature: From Equity to Discrimination," forthcoming this next month in FEMINIST TEACHER, Vol. 9, No. 2. For this journal, we re-wrote the article making it quite accessible, less technical, and as jargon-free as possible. Here's the abstract. Christy (chammer@aol.com.) ABSTRACT BRAIN DIFFERENCE RESEARCH AND LEARNING STYLES LITERATURE: FROM EQUITY TO DISCRIMINATION At a recent conference of the National Coalition for Sex Equity in Education a major featured speaker presented "recent advances" in neurobiology with their implications for sex equity in education. Most of the audience, of women committed to achieving educational equality for women were very impressed by his talk. For the most part they were impressed that "hard science" supposedly supported the existence of the "naturally" intuitive and nurturing side of women. Most of the audience seemed unaware that some of the same studies to which the speaker referred have been used precisely to discourage women from entering science and other fields. No one but one author of the present paper raised critical questions from the floor. All other sex equity workers' comments from the floor were favorable. The literature on educational differences and "learning styles" is replete with appeals to left-brain, right-brain differences. In many cases this appeal to the alleged physiological or anatomical bases for intuitive vs. logical thinking is merely a way of speaking in a "respectably" materialist or supposedly scientific manner concerning intuitive and logical learning styles. Insofar as the left-brain/ right-brain jargon is simply used to mean intuitive vs. logical, or spatial vs. linguistic thinking, or some other such dichotomy, and the language is applied to learning styles on an individual basis, the use of this language is harmless, even if scientifically inaccurate. However, the history of use of the left-brain, right-brain distinction to describe general gender differences in thinking and learning, has been a harmful one, particularly with respect to the recruitment and encouragement of women entering the science. A brief review of some of the misuses of claims concerning brain asymmetry and women's capacity to learn scientific and technological material is given. This review includes both the original "research" claims and the media interpretation and attention given them. Examples include the Johns Hopkins' Profs. Benboe and Stanley's male "math gene" claim, claims concerning the significance of the alleged differences between male and female brain anatomy with respect to the thickness of the splenium by the anthropologist R. L. Holloway and M. C. Lacoste-Utamsing, and the studies of differential acoustic responses and speculation concerning the neurophysiological basis thereof by D. Kimura and others. Also more recent alleged findings by Simon Le Vay and by R. A. Gorski concerning differences in brain anatomy between heterosexual and homosexual males are reviewed. Media coverage of these alleged findings and speculations occasioned by themthe general popular press. Some of the more blatant misuses and exaggerations of this material in the book and T. V. series Brain Sex by Anne Moir and David Jessel are reviewed. One feature of the speculative explanations of sex differences based on the alleged findings concerning the anatomical and physiological differences in male and female brains, is that the same anatomical claims have been used to support opposite psychological conclusions, which remain constant, however, in claiming female inability to do science, but for opposite reasons. This is illustrated with the history of psychological accounts of the left-brain right-brain dichotomy which reversed in its attribution of certain capacities to the sexes, but remained constant as a purported basis for female inferiority in scientific ability. Another feature of these accounts is that when empirical results turn out opposite of what was expected on the original theory, the theory is modified to result in the same claims for male superiority in science. This is illustrated by the history of the uses of the Holloway-Lacoste-Utamsing splenium difference results. A simple statistical fallacy in the methodology of much of the search for brain differences is noted. The implications of the misuse, misdescription and unfounded speculation presented as scientific fact supposedly founded on brain difference results for the learning styles approaches to education are summarized. What can be a liberating emphasis on encouragement of the talents of individual studenta can become a self-fulfilling prophecy concerning women's inability in or lack of interest in science. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:42:48 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Esther Oey Subject: feminist teachers I am a graduate student at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and am trying to find studies about feminst teachers who have explicitly undertaken an agenda for making their classrooms gender fair, multicultural and socially just. I am specifically interested in the thought and behavioral changes these teachers undergo when they address their own biases and assumptions. If anyone knows of studies, articles or other information addressing this topic, please contact me directly at oey@ucla.edu. Thanks! Esther Oey oey@ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 12:52:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: jazz interests/Cleveland OH/scholar needed In-Reply-To: <0099AC04.DD0A0B40.30@acad.ursinus.edu> Hi everyone! On Dec. 28 in Cleveland Ohio will be the opening of a new film by a feminist filmmaker, Kate Bussel, about the life of Sheila Jordan, a midwesterner/jazz singer/rather controversial figure during the "jazz age." The filmmaker is looking for a feminist scholar to give a talk that will provide some context for the film--perhaps about women in jazz, the jazz age as an historical moment, or about feminist documentary films/filmmaking--for a rather broadly-defined audience (who know to expect something focused on women). I can't do it because I'll be going west for the holidays. Is there anyone with these interests on the list--who will be in the Cleveland/Columbus area over the holidays? *Please* respond to ME privately at the email address below. THANKS :-) *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# They say women shouldn't be the president Jeannie Ludlow 'cause they go crazy from time jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu Well push my button, baby; Here I come Bowling Green, Ohio I'm at high tide. Fac. Advisor, Womyn for Womyn --Laurie Anderson visit Womyn for Womyn's Homepage! http://www.bgsu.edu/~kpifer/womyn.html #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 11:45:40 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Esther Skirboll Subject: Re: Steinem quote You wrote: > >Esther, would you please explain what was the context of the Steinem >quote that you believe gives it a different meaning than what it >appears to have? Daphne >-- >====================== >Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu > Daphne: Sorry it took so long to answer your question. I decided to look at part of the film again. We do not know what the question was that Steinem was replying to. For example, was she being asked if doing brain research is wrong? Was she being asked if doing research on brain differences between women and men is good or bad? Was she being asked if reporting brain differences without explaining what we mean by differences is right or wrong? etc. By the way, looking at short sections of this again reminds me that most of the film contains material taken out of the context of the culture which interprets these findings. It also makes broad and unfounded statements about evolution and how how gender roles in the very ancient past helped form present gender roles. There is no evidence at all for these conclusions. There are a lot of ideas, but no firm evidence. Esther Skirboll ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 17:04:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Temma F. Berg" Subject: Global Feminism I am interested in getting titles and authors of Introduction to Women's Studies anthologies with significant global feminist content. Thanks in advance, Temma Berg ---------------- Temma F. Berg Department of English Gettysburg College Gettysburg PA 17325 tberg@gettysburg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 17:01:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacquie Hunt I am teaching a college level course next semester for students in the nursing program. The course is called "Nurses and the media." As a major assignment, I want to have students write an in depth review of a novel or two short stories (preferably but not necessarily contemporary)in which a nurse plays a prominent role. A well written biography or memoir would also fill the bill. I have searched the WMST-L file index but nothing seems relevant. I would be eternally grateful for any suggestions posted either to the list or to my e-mail address. Jacquie Hunt jacquieh@cyberplus.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 23:57:45 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: query on Accuracy in Academia In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 12 Dec 1995 08:45:41 -0500 from I think a public caveat on the group called Accuracy in Academia is warranted, Heather. I quite sure the group surfaced about 3 years ago, with the intention of censoring professors' liberal and progressive-sounding statments. The idea is to have students report on professors. Women's Studies is/was a target. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 09:56:09 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: query on Accuracy in Academia About Accuracy in Academia, as Beatrice says, except that they've been around for much longer. They had a presence on campus when I taught at a state university 8 years ago. -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 11:53:06 -0500 Reply-To: jeannie ludlow Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: query on Accuracy in Academia In-Reply-To: Heather, Beatrice, and everyone, I could be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure AIA has been around much longer than three years. I remember being told (in a joking/"warning" manner) about it during my first couple of years of graduate work, which would have been around 1985 - 1988. I am sure it was before 1989, because I spoke about it at length with my best friend, who moved away in 1989. . . What we were told is that students who were affiliated with AIA would be "planted" in the classrooms of instructors who were suspected of being too "leftist"; these students would then report back to AIA on the extent of the instructors' political leanings and how these influenced an instructor's in-class behavior/attitudes toward students/teaching abilities, etc. What happened to an instructor who was deemed "too political" by AIA was never made clear to us--we were in our first years of graduate work and were naive enough to still assume that "objectivity" on the part of an instructor (re: students, topics in class, politics, etc.) was A. possible, and B. desirable. Being "found out" as "too political" seemed, at that time, to be punishment enough! I had not thought about this for a long time; I guess I had hoped/thought that AIA might no longer be in operation, what with NAS (?) receiving so much attention nowadays. *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# They say women shouldn't be the president Jeannie Ludlow 'cause they go crazy from time jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu Well push my button, baby; Here I come Bowling Green, Ohio I'm at high tide. Fac. Advisor, Womyn for Womyn --Laurie Anderson visit Womyn for Womyn's Homepage! http://www.bgsu.edu/~kpifer/womyn.html #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 10:31:38 GMT-700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gunseli Berik Organization: Economics Subject: Re: Celebrating end-of-semester WS classes Several people ask about "Canibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death." I wouldn't say it's a "great" film, but it's pretty funny. It's a low-budget commercial release, but still the production vAlues are pretty good, except where deliberately campy. Borrows from such diverse sources as Indiana Jones and "Heart of Darkness." It seems the area in Southern California that in reality is desert (possibly some farmland?) is the "avocado jungle." Male avocado pickers have been disappearing in the jungle and there are rumors of a wild tribe of cannibal (man-eating) women lurking there. An Indiana Jones-type feminist anthropologist is engaged to go investigate. Her latest recruit to the women's studies major -- "Bunny" who until recently was a home-ec major, and doesn't quite "get" feminism yet -- insists on going along. They hire a male chauvinist guide into the jungle -- and the plot goes on from there. They do find the cannibal women, who are being led by a renegade feminist theorist, and a tribe of submissive jungle-dudes who the chauvinistic guide decides to turn into "real men." Etc..... I didn't use this this semester, so it's buried somewhere. A friend taped it off a movie channel for me. I'll dig it out and look up the credit and distribution info. (actually it may not have distribution info.) -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) P.S. When I dig the tape out and find out more information, I'll post it to the whole list. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:34:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Margaret McLeer Subject: Gledhill 'Pleasurable Negotions' citation Gledhill,Christine. (1988) =D4Pleasurable Negotiations=D5 in Pribram, E.=20 Deidre (ed.). Female Spectators' Looking at Film and Television, London,=20 Verso &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Anne McLeer 6057 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church, VA 22044, USA Tel: (703) 534-6357 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Human Sciences Program "We don't see things as they are, George Washington University we see them as we are." Washington, DC Anais Nin amcleer@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 13:41:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Re: query on Accuracy in Academia Comments: To: jeannie ludlow In-Reply-To: Accuracy in Academia has been around for a long time. When I was "targeted" in 1982, I think, I had two requirements for the "guest" in my class: 1. Attend every single class 2. Record the entire class and leave one copy of the tape with me after each class The guest evaporated after two classes. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 11:34:28 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: brenda beagan Subject: Re: query on Accuracy in Academia Comments: To: jeannie ludlow In-Reply-To: hi, i have heard the same thing Jeannie describes from a prof here in canada who used to teach in louisiana. she encountered AIA there, and heard of it in texas, among other places. From what she told us in class, AIA put its members in "left-leaning" classes as "plants" not only to report on the instructors, but to disrupt class. angry, aggressive, hostile men (and women?) shouting, arguing and whatever else it took to keep class from moving ahead. (i remember her saying one student rode his bike into her class!) also awful course evaluations, complaints to the dean etc etc.the group sounds pretty dangerous. brenda beagan@unixg.ubc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 14:30:04 GMT-700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gunseli Berik Organization: Economics Subject: cannibal women.. Hi everyone, Earlier I forwarded Gina Oboler's message regarding this film. Since the subject header did not indicate the content of the message and her name does not appear until the end of the message, those interested in info on the film may have missed the earlier message. I wanted to alert people. Gunseli Berik berik@econ.sbs.utah.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:24:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cindy Bily Subject: accuracy in media Just so we can put this Accuracy in Media thing to rest, here's some information from an article I write a while back for a reference book called READY REFERENCE: ETHICS from Salem Press (Magill). Accuracy in Media was founded in 1969. Accuracy in Media (AIM), with more than 28,000 members and a budget of over $1.5 million, is a news watch organization. Its staff monitors tv, radio and print news, and checks for inaccuracies. It also receives complainrs from the public. When AIM determines that a factual error has been made, it asks for a public correction. Should the media fail to issue a correction, AIM publicizes that failure. AIM reaches the public through a daily radio program carried on over 200 stations across the country. The organization also maintains a speakers' bureau, and gives annual awards for fair and accurate reporting. AIM believes that big media corporations have abused their power. They report the news in ways that promote a political view that enhances their power. Average citizens are denied access to the media, and their concerns--and differing opinions--often go unheard. It is AIM's intention to promote fair reporting on important issues--fairness which, it believes, is often lost because of the media's liberal bias. However, AIM has been accused by others of allowing its own conservative bias to influence its activity. End of quotation. I have to say, for myself, that I am always stunned to hear people say that the media is so liberal--they mostly seem like mere organs for the government to me. Oh, well./ --Cindy Bily Adrian College cbily@adrian.adrian.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:54:54 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rose Weitz Subject: politics of women's bodies I am editing an anthology of previously published pieces for Oxford on the politics of women's bodies. I am still looking for articles/ chatpers to reprint on the following topics: religous ideas about women's bodies ideas about women's bodies embedded in violence against women/ impact of violence on women's lives sexuality/sexual orientation abortion fetal "rights" women of color The anthology is aimed at juniors/seniors. Any suggestions welcome. Responses directly to me would be most useful. Thanks. Rose Weitz Department of Sociology Arizona State University ROSE.WEITZ@ASU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:37:46 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela Secrest Subject: Re: query on Accuracy in Academia In-Reply-To: The behaviors Brenda B. describes happened to a friend of mine at a University where I used to work. How is AIA organized? Is there a way to find out if there is an active program on that campus? Best wishes, Angela ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Angela Secrest Coordinator, Technical/Automation Services Hearnes LRC, Missouri Western State College Internet: secrest@mwsc.edu Phone: (816) 271-4570 FAX: (816) 271-4574 If that which you seek you find not within yourself, then you will never find it without. --Doreen Valiente, "The Charge of the Star Goddess"