========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:34:48 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: <960331.141845.EST.GINZBER@ukcc.uky.edu> Ruth, the question I raise comes from the writings of others who do, indeed, address the question in terms of anthologies of "women's lit", which includes only works by white, Anglo, Saxon, or US/Canadian women, and in terms of those women professors (also white, Anglo/Saxon, or US/Canadian women) whose response to a suggestion that their syllabus might be incomplete is 'this is women's lit, not an Afro (or Asian, or Hispanic, etc, etc) course'. See The writer on Her Work, Edited Janet Sternburg, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1980 So, the question is raised, not to blame or antagonize, but to broaden our levels of inclusiveness. There is then much more room for specialization, but only if the beginning canon is itself inclusive. peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Ruth Ginzberg wrote: > > What does it MEAN when a > > women's study department has courses on "women's literature", and on > > Native Amer Women's lit, and on Black/African Amer women's lit???? What > > message is communicated to students, as well as to colleages about whose > > canon counts? > > I imagine it depends on the courses. I suppose it COULD mean the more > offensive and ominous interpretation, i.e., that Native American women > and Black/African American women don't really count as women, and that "real" > women's literature (what really counts) is the literature of white women. > > But it could also mean that while the "women's literature" course offers > the study of many different traditions of women's literature, kind of as > a survey, there are also more specialized courses one might take, for > example, a course focusing entirely and specifically on Native American > women's literature. Perhaps there are also specialized courses on > European women's literature in such a department. (That would be a > depertment with a wonderful wealth of courses, wouldn't it?) > > In the latter instance, it would be no different from offering a course > in "French Literature" and ALSO in "French Literature of the 19th Century." > This doesn't imply that the REAL "French Literature" is that NOT from > the 19th Century. It only implies that there are both general and > specialized courses that one might take. > > Similarly, with respect to what it MEANS when a women's studies > department has courses on "women's literature", and on > Native Amer Women's lit, and on Black/African Amer women's lit... > > I think that fact alone "means" nothing in and of itself. More > information would be needed to know whether it had any significance > with respect to a non-inclusive atmosphere. > > ----- RUTH GINZBERG ----- > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 16:34:37 +0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne-Marie Toliver Subject: Re: Book Tour I would like to indicate this book tour on Could you send me some info on the book (the book itself would be great) so that we can scan in the cover page. I hope we will get many more woemn authors' tours online. Thanks Anne-Marie toliver@mail.candw.ag >Margaret Randall will be on tour to promote her latest book, *The Price >You Pay, The Hidden Cost of Women's Relationship to Money.* Since I am a >contributor to the book, I wanted to let everyone know who tour schedule >so you can hear her if she's in your neighborhood. If you have any >questions, please contact me privately, not thru the list, as I may not >have time to read all my email. > >April 9, 7:30 Albuquerque Salt of the Earth >April 13, 7pm Tucson Antigone's bookstore >April 15, 7:30 Los Angeles Midnight Special >April 16, 7:30 Berkeley Cody's >April 18, San Francisco Modern Times >April 19, 7:30 Eugene, OR Mother Kali's >April 20, 7:30 Portland, OR In Other Words >April 22, 7:30 Seattle Red & Black >April 24, 1-4 Vancouver Little sisters > 7:30 lecutre/Simon Fraser U. > >May 1, 6pm Cambridge, MA New Words > Women's Fund >May 2, 7pm Amherst, MA Food for Thought >May 3 Boston, MA publicity >May 4,5 Hartford, CT >May 7, 6:30pm Washington, DC Lammas Books >May 8 6:30 Philadelphia House of Our Own >May 9 NYC Learning Alliance >May 10 7:30pm Binghamton, NY Bookbridge Books >May 11 3-5 Syracuse, NY My Sisters' Words > 6pm read 10 min. poetry/women's event >May 13 Buffalo NY Talking Leaves > >Joan R. Saks Berman, Ph.D. jberman@unm.edu >PHS Indian Hospital (505) 256-4012 >801 Vassar Drive NE FAX (505) 256-4088 >Albuquerque, NM 87106 > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 07:47:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: <960331.141845.EST.GINZBER@ukcc.uky.edu> Having specialized course sends another message: we recognize that what these women wrote is important. To learn something about a subject most people know nothing about, take these courses. If one wants to integrate women's lit courses, one must integrate the cannon. Intro courses which are survey courses must include the writings of women from across the spectrum (as well as those of men.) Integrating the cannon, however, doesn't mean that all such specialized courses disappear. (As academics, we specialize in very obscure things sometimes.) These special courses serve the purpose of introducing students to perspectives which have made our world the way it is. They supplement the survey courses the same way that special courses on the Romantics or Shakespeare supplement the survey courses. They will exist as long as people want to know more about why the world works the way it does. Dr. Jane Elza jelza@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu Political Science Dept., Valdosta State University Valdosta, Ga. 31698 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 07:53:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: cynthia ryan Subject: None I'm planning a unit on women and media in my intro to women's studies class. We'll be talkning about a number of genres (tv, magazines, etc.), but I'd like to focus on something a little different for the central reading. Does anyone know of any interesting texts that focus either on women and music (rock and roll, rap, music videos) or on "zines" . . . I copied the list of "zines" that was posted a couple of weeks ago and plan to incorporate a discussion of them into the class. Please respond to me privately if you have any sources that might be interesting to the students. Thanks. Cynthia Ryan enryan@ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:06:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: format for WMST-L messages (User's Guide) Here's today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: ******************** 1) "IS THERE A PREFERRED FORMAT TO USE FOR MESSAGES SENT TO THE LIST (I.E., TO WMST-L@UMDD OR WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU)?" Yes. First of all, ALWAYS put your name and e-mail address at the end of every posting. (It is important that people be able to contact you privately if they wish, and some mail systems do not identify the writer anywhere in the header.) Also, please include a meaningful subject heading, so that people will know whether your message deals with a topic of interest to them. (MANY people automatically delete messages with no subject heading or with one that doesn't interest them.) Finally, if you are replying to someone else's posting, BRIEFLY quote or summarize that posting before you offer your reply. Doing so will make your message clearer and avoid confusion. (New subscribers are continually joining the list; they may not have read the original message. And since a number of topics are often being discussed on the list at any given moment, even long-time subscribers may not remember what prompted your remarks unless you remind them.) NOTE: if you're replying to a long message, do NOT quote it in its entirety! Include just a few relevant lines. ******************* 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: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:55:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PROF DAVID KAISER Subject: Pre-patriarchal times - Reply -Reply >>> Kassie Fleisher 03/28/96 10:59am >>> PROF DAVID KAISER wrote: > > I have a question about this post. Does it mean that >since every analysis of the past is based upon conjecture and >political orientation, that we might just as well believe whatever >we like? If so, what is the point of evidence at all? If not, how do >we evaluate evidence. > David Kaiser > this question puts me in mind of jane tompkins' essay "'indians': textualism, morality, and the problem of history," which most of you probably know, in which she concludes that, rightfully, "the subject of debate has changed from the question of what happened in a particular instance to the question of how knowledge is arrived at." altho she focuses primarily on moral questions regarding the interpretation of history, most of my students tend to read her essay as suggesting that we can take our best interpretive guess while realizing that we can't know many specific things for sure, and while accepting responsibility for our *guesses*. thus evidence becomes a process, not an end.... hope this helps.... best, kassie fleisher I think it helps move the discussion a little further, but I don't think we've reached the end. Obviously, "how knowledge is arrived it" is an important question and always has been. But "our best interpretive guess" can be interpreted variously. Is the "guess" arrived at through trying to evaluate whatever evidence there is--in the same way that a scientist might make an estimate based on incomplete data--or is it arrived at according to one's prejudices, one's own life, etc.? I' m not trying to lay down the law, only trying to encourage every one to be very clear in his/her own mind with respect to their approach. David Kaiser KaiserD@USNWC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:12:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Temma F. Berg" Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses I teach a course called "Images of Women in Literature." Last semester, I taught Harriette Arnow's THE DOLLMAKER, Marge Piercy's HE, SHE, AND IT, Gloria Anzaldua's BORDERLANDS, Gloria Naylor's MAMA DAY, Bharati Mukherjee's THE HOLDER OF THE WORLD, and A CHORUS OF STONES by Susan Griffin. I also used a film about SILENT SPRING, MISSISSIPPI MASALA and DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST as well as essays by Maria Lugones, Sara Ruddick, and Gloria Anzaldua. This is what Gettysburg College's Women's Studies Department means when it has this course on women and literature. We also have a course on Contemporary African-American Women's Literature. We mean different things with different courses. I prefer not to teach different women's literatures in different identity-based courses. I prefer to look for commonalities as well as differences. --Temma Berg P.S. By the way, my course is cross-listed with the English department. Not everyone in the department is happy with the course, but it counts toward the major. ---------------- Temma F. Berg Department of English Gettysburg College Gettysburg PA 17325 tberg@gettysburg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:42:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Washington Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: <960331.141845.EST.GINZBER@ukcc.uky.edu> es Speaking as a Black female academic who still gets angry at the phrase "women and minorities" -- I KNOW that the idea of courses on "women's literature" as distinct from the "subset" of courses on "Black women's literature" etc. is more than a minor concern for me personally. Glossing over the fact that the "women" in the phase "women and minorities" really should read "White women and racialized women and men" similar to not acknowledging that in many cases, a course titled "Women's Literature" is going to be a semester of White women's literature, with maybe a week or a class sesssion (IF THAT) on women from racialized groups. If the power of language is so easily dismissed, why is there a Women's Studies anything? On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Ruth Ginzberg wrote: > > What does it MEAN when a > > women's study department has courses on "women's literature", and on > > Native Amer Women's lit, and on Black/African Amer women's lit???? What > > message is communicated to students, as well as to colleages about whose > > canon counts? > > I imagine it depends on the courses. I suppose it COULD mean the more > offensive and ominous interpretation, i.e., that Native American women > and Black/African American women don't really count as women, and that "real" > women's literature (what really counts) is the literature of white women. > > But it could also mean that while the "women's literature" course offers > the study of many different traditions of women's literature, kind of as > a survey, there are also more specialized courses one might take, for > example, a course focusing entirely and specifically on Native American > women's literature. Perhaps there are also specialized courses on > European women's literature in such a department. (That would be a > depertment with a wonderful wealth of courses, wouldn't it?) > > In the latter instance, it would be no different from offering a course > in "French Literature" and ALSO in "French Literature of the 19th Century." > This doesn't imply that the REAL "French Literature" is that NOT from > the 19th Century. It only implies that there are both general and > specialized courses that one might take. > > Similarly, with respect to what it MEANS when a women's studies > department has courses on "women's literature", and on > Native Amer Women's lit, and on Black/African Amer women's lit... > > I think that fact alone "means" nothing in and of itself. More > information would be needed to know whether it had any significance > with respect to a non-inclusive atmosphere. > > ----- RUTH GINZBERG ----- > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:44:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: <9604011412.AA28402@popserver.jr.cc.gettysburg.edu> from "Temma F. Berg" at Apr 1, 96 09:12:44 am Someone wrote the other day about the way it sounds when there are "Women's literature courses" and "African-American women's literature courses." The implication was that African-American women are somehow different from the main catergory of women. Along these lines, what does it mean when we have "Literature courses" and "Women's literature" courses? Does it mean that women's literature is somehow different from human literature? Chris ******************************** Chris Saad saad@dolphin.upenn.edu ******************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:09:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:42:50 -0500 from > If the power of language is so easily dismissed, why is there a Women's > Studies anything? Hi, I truly did not mean to dismiss the power of language, nor did I intend to suggest that there is not dysconscious (I love that term) racism within women's studies programs, since there absolutely is, and we are never going to remedy that by just refusing to acknowledge it or by talking as if it weren't so. All I wanted to say is that JUST the information ALONE that there are both courses on "Women's Literature" and also courses on "Native American Women's Literature" or on "Black/African American Women's Literature" is not enough information to go on. One would need more information -- for example, one would need to examine the actual content of the syllabi for those particular courses -- in order to determine whether it does in fact represent the marginalization of non-white women's literature, or whether in this particular case it might represent a more progressive opportunity to study in more depth the literatures of non-white women. I *DO* think that language can offer a clue as to the need to be alert to the possibility of dysconscious racism, sexism, etc. -- but I don't think that the language *alone* EVER provides the definitive answer to whether a problem exists or not. I believe that one needs to then look at the underlying state of affairs to which the language refers in order to figure that out. Similarly, I think that the use of all the right language CAN (sometimes) be a smokescreen for obscuring an underlying reality that is much more ominous than the language would make it appear. So I think that examination of language ALONE can lead to unjustified conclusions in either direction (either "everything is ok" or "things are really bad"). That was the only point I was trying to make. But I guess the *reason* I wanted to try to make that point is that I am often disturbed at what seems to me to be a growing trend to pay almost TOO MUCH attention to "calling" one another on our use of language. I think *sometimes* (not always, but sometimes) this is just another way of deflecting attention AWAY from the serious problems that exist in those underlying realities (to which our language may or may not make useful reference) -- by paralyzing people into a fear of saying anything at all and defusing the real energy for working toward change. (I.e., the response that: "I can't say ANYTHING without getting jumped on so forget it, I'm not going to be an activist for change, I'm just going to go get an MBA and make a lot of money for myself & forget about any commitment to social change or political activism. The Hell with it.") Alas, I find THAT sort of growing response to be at least equally as much of a danger as the (very real) dangers of the unacknowledged biases that we may perpetuate with our language -- and I am worried that we need to strike a balance between going too far in either of those directions. ----- RUTH GINZBERG ----- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:15:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Manlowe Subject: Summary for Therapists dealing with their own trauma Comments: To: POWR-L@URIACC.URI.EDU Thanks to all who answered my query (for my Northern Calif friend w/o email) regarding sexually abused therapists dealing with their own trauma. Here's what people came up with: Pocket Ranch Institute - (in Geyserville, CA) "Their speciality is in helping therapists to heal from their own traumas and they have a particulalry good program for folks dealing with childhood issues of incest and abuse." No # given. BOOK: "Trauma and the Therapist" by L.A. Pearlman & K.W. Saakvitne DISS: "...a recent doctoral graduate from the Union Institute in Cinn., Ohio did her dissertation on [Incest Traumatized Therapists]. Try Dissertation Services and ask for the work of Barabara Hennessey." ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:55:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Pollack Subject: women's studies at community colleges -Reply for information on w.s. at com.colleges -- at Tompkins Cortland Community College P.O. Box 139, Dryden, NY 13053 we offer a Women's Studies A.S. degree.... required core courses include Perspectives on Women, Women and Work, Women and Health, Images of Women, Internship, Non-Discriminatory Language, additional courses are selected from Contemporary Women Writers, Women and Art, Independent Studies, Women and History...in addition students take the regular liberal arts and social science requrirements in English, Science, Math, History, etc...courses. All of the above mentioned courses are 3 credits except Non-Disc. Comm. which is only 1 credit at present... If you are interested in a flyer, please let me know... Sandy Pollack ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:08:49 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wakeman Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times - Reply -Reply ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB1FB3.3BDD8180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Kaiser writes: Obviously, "how knowledge is arrived it" is an important question and always has been. But "our best interpretive guess" can be interpreted variously. Is the "guess" arrived at through trying to evaluate whatever evidence there is--in the same way that a scientist might make an estimate based on incomplete data--or is it arrived at according to one's prejudices, one's own life, etc.? I' m not trying to lay down the law, only trying to encourage every one to be very clear in his/her own mind with respect to their approach. David Kaiser KaiserD@USNWC.EDU I find this curious as I read with my students in Philosophy of Science = about the ways which scientists make decisions. We all (philosophers, = historians, physicists, etc.) make decisions based upon a variety of = criteria. Traditional philosophy of science has recognized a few: = simplicity, conservativism (the theory that requires us to change as few = of our previously held beliefs), generality. More recent philosophy of = science has investigated the ways that scientists have been influenced = by their politics, religion, and "common sense". (Of course all of = these factors were hiding in the previous list --often under the title = of "conservativism"). My point is here only a negative one. 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Does it mean that women's literature > is somehow different from human literature? This distinction does worry me a lot (and that puts it mildly). It's like Political Philosophy v. Feminist Thought. (And guess which will be compulsory or "core".) I can't see an easy answer. Before I moved to York, I spent a visiting year here. At that time all course-owners listed cognate courses. I offered a women and politics course and under cognate put: "All. Any of the others will show you the ways of malestream thought." It wasn't in the handbook. The Head thought it might annoy "the Dept". We have a long way to go and it's not clear to me what the best means of tackling the various problems are. ("The Dept"? 18 so-called adult men.) --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 18:50:30 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times - Reply -Reply In-Reply-To: <01BB1FB3.3BCCB8A0@stimpy.acofi.edi> On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Wakeman wrote: >> David Kaiser writes: >> "guess" arrived at through trying to evaluate whatever evidence >> there is--in the same way that a scientist might make an >> estimate based on incomplete data--or is it arrived at according >> to one's prejudices, one's own life, etc.? I' m not trying to lay > of our previously held beliefs), generality. More recent philosophy of = > science has investigated the ways that scientists have been influenced = > by their politics, religion, and "common sense". (Of course all of = > My point is here only a negative one. Freedom from one's prejudices is = > not to be found (if it can be found at all) by looking to the = > "scientists". (Scientists are also influenced by the scientific community...) The point about prejudice in science can be overdone if it leads to a view that science is on a par with any other form of knowledge or way of knowing. (I'm setting aside, for simplicity, the point that science is not unitary.) A crucial question here is what aspect of the scientific endeavour prejudice, or belief, affects. I suspect it does not affect method narrowly construed, basic technique. (I don't mean there isn't a large amount of fraudulent experimentation and that politics could dictate that.) It still in my view makes sense to appeal to "the facts", despite all the problems involved. Or perhaps I should say to try to find them out. --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 12:59:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bill Oetjen Subject: Re: Unconventional new teen girls magazine In-Reply-To: <01I2ZUU8BOIW9LW6E2@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Bloody shame the "F" word does not appear anywhere in the 'zine's statement of purpose! I'll know we really are getting some place when that happens. Bill O. On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Georgia NeSmith, PhD wrote: > I would like to call attention to a new magazine for teen girls called *Blue > Jean,* which made its debut just this month. The bi-monthly magazine, which > like *Ms* is ad-free, is written primarily BY teen girls (75% of contributors) > FOR teen girls. Five teen girls are on the editorial board. > > Quoting from a letter from the editorial board: "We are a family of teen girls > dealing with everyday, real-life issues. We are a multi-racial, > multi-cultural, advertising-free magazine. Our magazine doesn't emphasize how > to find a date or get rid of pimples. We won't give you dieting tips or update > you on all the hot, trendy fassions. What we will focus on is what teens . . . > are thinking, saying, and doing. . . . We invite you, our readers, to submit > your writing, artwork, and poetry. Blue Jean compensates the teen authors and > artists we publish." > > The premiere issue focuses on women's roles in sports. > > Subscriptions are $39/year for 6 issues (expensive because no ads). > Subscription requests should be sent to Blue Jean Magazine, PO Box 90856, > Rochester NY 14609. > > I have no financial interest in *Blue Jean*. I would like to see it succeed > because it's a great magazine and I wish it had been there for my now grown > daughter, not to mention myself! It's a wonderful contrast to all the other > "learn-how-to-be-oppressed-and-love-it" teen magazines. Also worthy of study > for those who do research on teen media. > > Georgia NeSmith, PhD Writer/Editor/Writing Coach > The Writer's Edge 149 Ellicott St. Rochester NY 14619 > 716/235-4182 > > Adjunct Faculty Professional and Technical Communication Dept. > Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester NY 14623-5603 > gxngpt@ritvax.isc.rit.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 13:07:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Manlowe Subject: Resources for Therapists, cont... Comments: To: POWR-L@URIACC.URI.EDU Web page: "Wounded Healer" URL = http://idealist.com/wounded_healer/ "Points of departure for psychotherapists and other survivors of abuse" ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:37:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joAnn Castagna Subject: Re[2]: Integrating women's lit courses RE: the comments below: One doesn't have to see this as a denial that women of color have a place in the "women's literature" class. I doubt that most "women's literature" classes focus exclusively on white women's writing. the existence in a particular curriculum of both "women's literature" (perhaps an introductory survey course) and "Native American Women's Literature," African-American Women's Literature," and so on, is similar to divisions like "19th Century Literature," "Canadian Literature," and so on -- selection and focus do not always imply value judgments. joann castagna joann-castagna@uiowa.edu Re: "women AND racial/ethnic minorities" phrase in this message. There is a powerful comment about "women's literature" in Women Writer's and their Writing which addresses this dichotomy. What does it MEAN when a women's study department has courses on "women's literature", and on Native Amer Women's lit, and on Black/African Amer women's lit???? What message is communicated to students, as well as to colleages about whose canon counts? Thoughts? Peace, Jackie On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Ellen Cronan Rose wrote: > I'm posting this request for a colleague who doesn't subscribe to > WMST-L. She's a junior member of our very traditional (not to say > troglodyte) English department, serving on its curriculum committee. > Currently, there is only one English course x-listed with Women's > Studies, a generic "Women and Literature" course, although there are four > junior women in the department who would love to develop more specific > courses (Native American Women's literature, women and modernism, early > modern constructions of women, women's autobiographical writing--just as > examples). My colleague reports that the (mostly male and all formalist) > other members of the curriculum committee are horrified at "diluting" the > quality and rigor of the departmental curriculum, which is organized > almost exclusively by periods, by introducing more of what they regard as > "theme" courses. > > My collegue's request: does any one know of published studies of the > process and consequences of integrating more courses on women's (and > racial/ethnic "minorities'") lit into traditional, mainstream English > departments such as the one I've described? > > Respond privately unless you think this information would be of general > interest--and thanks in advance. > > Ellen Cronan Rose, Director, Women's Studies Program, UNLV > 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5055 > PHONE (702) 895-0838, FAX (702) 895-0850 > ecrose@nevada.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 12:41:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "LISA M. HOGELAND" Organization: University of Cincinnati-English Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses This discussion reminds me that syllabi are likely to be far more illuminating than course titles. OF COURSE classes called "women's lit" (like the one I am currently teaching) should attend to literature produced by all kinds of "women" -- racial and ethnic groups, classes, nationalities, sexualities, etc. I believe that literary traditions are best studied BOTH in dialogue with each other (whether women's lit, American lit, or whatever broad category you want) AND separately (African-American women, lesbian, working-class women) -- traditions both influence each other and have distinctive internal features. For less well-known literary traditions, the brute historical background necessary can be better covered in a stand- alone course -- the farther we get from the canon, the more our students don't know, after all. Both the approaches are necessary, important, and valid -- and they can work together very effectively for students. And, of course, had we world enough and time -- we'd have both approaches in every department. But resources are scarce and getting scarcer for higher ed in the US, and especially so for the humanities. So a lot of what we do simply can't be what we'd most want -- and a lot of us work our classes in under rubrics that seem peculiar (we have a sequence here called Major American Writers, for instance -- but the title would tell you very little about my syllabus), and even inappropriate. Again, syllabi can tell us more than titles -- because that's where we do our real work. Lisa Hogeland Univ. of Cincinnati ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 21:13:51 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Re[2]: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: <199604011816.MAA17070@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, joAnn Castagna wrote: > RE: the comments below: One doesn't have to see this as a denial that > women of color have a place in the "women's literature" class. I doubt > that most "women's literature" classes focus exclusively on white women's > writing. the existence in a particular curriculum of both "women's > literature" (perhaps an introductory survey course) and "Native American > Women's Literature," African-American Women's Literature," and so on, is > similar to divisions like "19th Century Literature," "Canadian Literature," I won't really be happy with arrangements like this until there can be a separate White Women's Writing course. But why not rename Women's Literature to reflect what it is? Subtitle, Overview? Or, add general? --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 15:28:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PROF DAVID KAISER Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times - Reply -Reply -Reply >>> Wakeman 04/01/96 01:08pm >>> ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB1FB3.3BDD8180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Kaiser writes: Obviously, "how knowledge is arrived it" is an important question and always has been. But "our best interpretive guess" can be interpreted variously. Is the "guess" arrived at through trying to evaluate whatever evidence there is--in the same way that a scientist might make an estimate based on incomplete data--or is it arrived at according to one's prejudices, one's own life, etc.? I' m not trying to lay down the law, only trying to encourage every one to be very clear in his/her own mind with respect to their approach. David Kaiser KaiserD@USNWC.EDU I find this curious as I read with my students in Philosophy of Science = about the ways which scientists make decisions. We all (philosophers, = historians, physicists, etc.) make decisions based upon a variety of = criteria. Traditional philosophy of science has recognized a few: = simplicity, conservativism (the theory that requires us to change as few = of our previously held beliefs), generality. More recent philosophy of = science has investigated the ways that scientists have been influenced = by their politics, religion, and "common sense". (Of course all of = these factors were hiding in the previous list --often under the title = of "conservativism"). My point is here only a negative one. Freedom from one's prejudices is = not to be found (if it can be found at all) by looking to the = "scientists". - I am very troubled the implications of this kind of statement--specifically, the "if it can be achieved at all" part. It seems to me this discussion revolves around two ways of looking at intellectual inquiry: 1. It is designed to uncover the truth about natural and human phenomena. This is a difficult process, often corrupted by personal prejudice and never perfectly achieved, but still attainable to a very useful extent. Alternatively: 2. Since prejudice always dominates inquiry, it simply serves political purposes, and all prejudices are at least equally worthy of merit. I believe in (1). It's a free country, and anyone who wants to can believe in (2). But I question the intellectual rigor of rejecting (1) but refusing specifically to embrace (2). Don't we in fact have a choice--and doesn't such a choice have tremendous implications for what we are doing? Lastly, in re science, I'm a historian, myself, but natural and physical scientists can at least test and replicate many of their conclusions. That bridges hold up, cars run, eclipses are predicted, etc., indicates that they have in fact reached SOME real results, does it not--even if aspects of their work are periodically invalidated? David Kaiser - KaiserD@USNWC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 14:04:20 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: Jane, I hope my comments about integrating women's' (or any other course, for that matter) were not taken to mean to do away with specialized courses. I agree with you that specialization allows for in-depth work. My comments were addressing a phrase used in an earlier posting that said "women's lit (and . . . . ) Since many have already commented upon the danger this language can create in terms of whose canon counts (whose lit is included in women's lit, just as whose lit is included in AMer or English, or even Afro-Amer lit). Same is true of any discipline. Is a 19th c music course inclusive of gender and race/culture/continent? Is a early 20th US history course inclusive of voices other than the canon known to most of us over 50? Women's -- and Ethnic studies courses came about because some rightly believed that some voices were missing. I just ask women professors to address the question of whose voices might be missing from their "women's studies" courses -- in whatever discipline. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Jane Elza wrote: > Having specialized course sends another message: we recognize that what > these women wrote is important. To learn something about a subject most > people know nothing about, take these courses. > > If one wants to integrate women's lit courses, one must integrate the > cannon. Intro courses which are survey courses must include the writings > of women from across the spectrum (as well as those of men.) Integrating > the cannon, however, doesn't mean that all such specialized courses > disappear. (As academics, we specialize in very obscure things sometimes.) > These special courses serve the purpose of introducing students to > perspectives which have made our world the way it is. They supplement the > survey courses the same way that special courses on the Romantics or > Shakespeare supplement the survey courses. They will exist as long as > people want to know more about why the world works the way it does. > > > Dr. Jane Elza jelza@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu > Political Science Dept., Valdosta State University > Valdosta, Ga. 31698 > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:21:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Falzoi Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal -- reply to replies and skeptical history In-Reply-To: <01BB1FB3.3BCCB8A0@stimpy.acofi.edi> This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB1FB3.3BDD8180 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Wakeman writes [in response to Kaiser]: > David Kaiser writes: > Obviously, "how knowledge is > arrived it" is an important question and always has been. But > "our best interpretive guess" can be interpreted variously. Is the > "guess" arrived at through trying to evaluate whatever evidence > there is--in the same way that a scientist might make an > estimate based on incomplete data--or is it arrived at according > to one's prejudices, one's own life, etc.? I' m not trying to lay > down the law, only trying to encourage every one to be very clear > in his/her own mind with respect to their approach. > I find this curious as I read with my students in Philosophy of Science about the ways which scientists make decisions. We all (philosophers, historians, physicists, etc.) make decisions based upon a variety of criteria. [...] My point is here only a negative one. Freedom from one's prejudices is not to be found (if it can be found at all) by looking to the "scientists". ----- I have been having difficulty with this discussion. What I am having difficulty with is actually Kaiser's method of questioning. It is important to keep in mind one's approach, surely. Yet by what measure one can actually know fully one's approach is I think a question unanswerable. Kaiser continues to demand answers to questions that lead, ultimately, to dead-ends. I favor open-ends. These questions above, and in previous posts do not point to ways of figuring, or re-figuring "history" --pre-patriarchal, or yesterday's. I would like to know what is behind Kaiser's method of approach to this topic. Because it is all to easy to play the "devil's advocate". What is the point here in asking questions that lead nowhere, and without stating one's position in the process? What is happening here, as I read along is not a furthing of a discussion, but stopping it to "answer" simplistic questions that continue to fire forth from one source, and continue to be contended with by other members of the list. All I ask is that Kaiser think to answer his own questions, state his own positionality -- what is the agenda, and is he clearly thinking it through, or, is he asking list members to think through his agenda? But moving on...here is my voice and my position...for the moment. As I remember, the discussion began with a difficulty believing in, "evidences" of pre-patriarchal times. Is there still a trace of this difficulty in our discussion, or has "pre-partiarchal" become the returning repressed that anxieties about "evidence" seek to re-cover? Or does it have something to do with anxiety about being without a patriarchy? For myself, it seems impossible to figure pre-partriarch history when I am living in patriarchal history. I cannot see but through these (patriarchal) lenses. This is simply a frame, or a lense to be acknowledged (for me, by me) when looking back -- for when I am "looking back" I am also looking at and in the "now", and I am looking forward. My "projections" cannot not be subjectively informed. Isn't "History" something which disappears? In the very "making of history", documentation comes to replace and recover this act of disappearence. There is nostalgia in the desire "to know" that which has passed, and that which is passing, and that which, possibly, never really passes completely -- because history also changes history. Some changes are reflected in strange additions, like the term "post" that really simply often re-creates an excuse for re-creating the same old history. With "differance", of course, in the incorporation (and often exploitation) of "additional" voices previously erased, now embraced. How ambivalent is history. Whose history is it? What kinds of poisions are changed when exchanging "embrasure" for "erasure"? And then how diametrically opposed are these two -- "making it up," and "facing the facts," and how interesting that two "oppositions" combine to create a real (generative) tension in researching histories. When one "makes history" one also makes it up. For a field based upon "evidence" and "facts", "making it up" provokes anxiety. Nevertheless, I do not believe that history can be figured, configured, re-figured, without coming to terms, on many levels, with what it means to have a significant portion of your historical work based upon "making it up". This is not to say history does not exist, but that history (I feel) needs to come to terms with it's own making and with who "makes it". Who asks the questions and who has the right to ask questions. Who has the right to tell the "truth"? Whose truth is told and who tells it? Who answers? Jill Falzoi TISCH School of the Arts, New York University Performance Studies ______________________________________________________________________ J. Falzoi: jcf7793@is.nyu.edu http://pages.nyu.edu/~jcf7793/ "One can confuse oneself with the other: this is where humanity's real night begins, beloved by poets, mystics, and lovers." Catherine Clement ------------------Syncope:--The--Philosophy--of--Rapture--------------- ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB1FB3.3BDD8180-- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 23:24:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Leah C. Ulansey" Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal -- reply to replies and skeptical history Comments: cc: ulanseyl@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu In-Reply-To: Jill Falzoi writes (in response to discussion about historical evidence and historian bias) that "when one 'makes history' one also makes it up." I think this is an important point. I'll add to it a passage from Friedrich Nietzsche's essay, "On the Uses and Abuses of History for Life" which I think belongs in this discussion because it shifts attention away from the idea of neutral historians making "best interpretive guesses" to a notion of history-making and history-recording as quintessentially human activities engaged in not only by professional historians but also by all of us who are caught up in historical processes, with our varying kinds and degrees of consciousness and activism (which means all of us, period). In other words, writing history is also making it, and vice versa. Nietzsche uses a generic male pronoun. But perhaps there is something in the following for feminists to appropriate: "History pertains to the living man in three respects: it pertains to him as a being who acts and strives, as a being who preserves and reveres and as a being who suffers and seeks deliverence. This threefold relationship corresponds to three species of history--insofar as it is possible to distinguish between a monumental, an antiquarian and a critical species of history. [...] If the man who wants to do something great has need of history at all, he appropriates it by means of monumental history; he, on the other hand, who likes to persist in the familiar and revered of old , tends the past as an antiquarian historian; and only he who is oppressed by a present need, and who wants to throw off this burden at any cost, has need of critical history, that is to say a history that judges and condemns. Much mischief is caused through the thoughtless transplantation of these plants: the critic without need, the antiquary without piety, the man who recognizes greatness but cannot himself do great things, are such plants, estranged from their mother soil and degenerated into weeds." Nietzsche's condemnation of "critics without need" can be seen, I think, as a criticism of theories without applications "for life." His condemnation of "antiquaries without piety" refers to what he saw as the historicist mania for inert facts, blandly accumulated by human walking encyclopedias without a project, who indiscriminantly revere everything old. The antiquary mode "knows only how to preserve life, not how to engender it; it always undervalues that which is becoming because it has no instinct for divining it--as monumental history, for example, has." In this way, mainstream historians probably undervalue the significance of the work of someone like Gimbutas. Nietzsche's viciously satiric portrait of "walking encyclopedias" is worth keeping in mind to counterbalance the argument that facts alone make good scholarship. My students always emphasize that "one man in his lifetime plays many parts." They say that they can observe themselves engaging in a mixture of critical, monumental and antiquarian history all the time as they live out, create and re-create individual life-histories, or "identities." They do this, they say, simply in order to survive. Perhaps, analogously, historians as a group of people with conflicting interests also engage in preserving, destroying and creating the past, on behalf of something struggling to survive. Leah Ulansey leou@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Dept of Language and Lit. Maryland Inst. College of Art ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:10:10 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amanda Richardson Organization: The Robert Gordon University Subject: Women & the Internet HI I am part of a research team at the School of Information and Media, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. We are preparing a literature review on women's use of the Internet. If anyone knows of any recent references or has other information on this topic I would be grateful if you could let me know. Please reply to me privately at the following address: imsar@merkland.rgu.ac.uk Thanks Amanda Richardson Amanda Richardson The Robert Gordon University Faculty of Management School of Information and Media 352 King Street Aberdeen AB9 2TQ Tel: 01224 262960 E-mail: a.richardson@rgu.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 07:43:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's addresses and how to unsubscribe (User's Guide) Today's monthly reminder from the WMST-L User's Guide: 2) "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LISTSERV@UMDD AND WMST-L@UMDD? HOW DO I TELL WHICH ADDRESS TO USE? AND HOW DO I UNSUBSCRIBE?" WMST-L@UMDD (or WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU on Internet) should be used ONLY for messages that you wish to send to all WMST-L subscribers. Messages concerning your WMST-L subscription should be sent to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (or, on Bitnet, LISTSERV@UMDD). 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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: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:56:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PROF DAVID KAISER Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal -- reply to replies and skeptical history -Reply >>> Jill Falzoi 04/01/96 05:21pm >>> This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB1FB3.3BDD8180 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Wakeman writes [in response to Kaiser]: > David Kaiser writes: > Obviously, "how knowledge is > arrived it" is an important question and always has been. But > "our best interpretive guess" can be interpreted variously. Is the > "guess" arrived at through trying to evaluate whatever evidence > there is--in the same way that a scientist might make an > estimate based on incomplete data--or is it arrived at according > to one's prejudices, one's own life, etc.? I' m not trying to lay > down the law, only trying to encourage every one to be very clear > in his/her own mind with respect to their approach. > I find this curious as I read with my students in Philosophy of Science about the ways which scientists make decisions. We all (philosophers, historians, physicists, etc.) make decisions based upon a variety of criteria. [...] My point is here only a negative one. Freedom from one's prejudices is not to be found (if it can be found at all) by looking to the "scientists". ----- I have been having difficulty with this discussion. What I am having difficulty with is actually Kaiser's method of questioning. It is important to keep in mind one's approach, surely. Yet by what measure one can actually know fully one's approach is I think a question unanswerable. Kaiser continues to demand answers to questions that lead, ultimately, to dead-ends. I favor open-ends. These questions above, and in previous posts do not point to ways of figuring, or re-figuring "history" --pre-patriarchal, or yesterday's. I would like to know what is behind Kaiser's method of approach to this topic. Because it is all to easy to play the "devil's advocate". What is the point here in asking questions that lead nowhere, and without stating one's position in the process? What is happening here, as I read along is not a furthing of a discussion, but stopping it to "answer" simplistic questions that continue to fire forth from one source, and continue to be contended with by other members of the list. All I ask is that Kaiser think to answer his own questions, state his own positionality -- what is the agenda, and is he clearly thinking it through, or, is he asking list members to think through his agenda? But moving on...here is my voice and my position...for the moment. As I remember, the discussion began with a difficulty believing in, "evidences" of pre-patriarchal times. Is there still a trace of this difficulty in our discussion, or has "pre-partiarchal" become the returning repressed that anxieties about "evidence" seek to re-cover? Or does it have something to do with anxiety about being without a patriarchy? For myself, it seems impossible to figure pre-partriarch history when I am living in patriarchal history. I cannot see but through these (patriarchal) lenses. This is simply a frame, or a lense to be acknowledged (for me, by me) when looking back -- for when I am "looking back" I am also looking at and in the "now", and I am looking forward. My "projections" cannot not be subjectively informed. Isn't "History" something which disappears? In the very "making of history", documentation comes to replace and recover this act of disappearence. There is nostalgia in the desire "to know" that which has passed, and that which is passing, and that which, possibly, never really passes completely -- because history also changes history. Some changes are reflected in strange additions, like the term "post" that really simply often re-creates an excuse for re-creating the same old history. With "differance", of course, in the incorporation (and often exploitation) of "additional" voices previously erased, now embraced. How ambivalent is history. Whose history is it? What kinds of poisions are changed when exchanging "embrasure" for "erasure"? And then how diametrically opposed are these two -- "making it up," and "facing the facts," and how interesting that two "oppositions" combine to create a real (generative) tension in researching histories. When one "makes history" one also makes it up. For a field based upon "evidence" and "facts", "making it up" provokes anxiety. Nevertheless, I do not believe that history can be figured, configured, re-figured, without coming to terms, on many levels, with what it means to have a significant portion of your historical work based upon "making it up". This is not to say history does not exist, but that history (I feel) needs to come to terms with it's own making and with who "makes it". Who asks the questions and who has the right to ask questions. Who has the right to tell the "truth"? Whose truth is told and who tells it? Who answers? Jill Falzoi TISCH School of the Arts, New York University Performance Studies ______________________________________________________________________ J. Falzoi: jcf7793@is.nyu.edu http://pages.nyu.edu/~jcf7793/ "One can confuse oneself with the other: this is where humanity's real night begins, beloved by poets, mystics, and lovers." Catherine Clement ------------------Syncope:--The--Philosophy--of--Rapture--------------- ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB1FB3.3BDD8180-- Well, this is becoming a rather long post, but I think it's isolating some issues, anyway. I feel this post tries to make the critical issue into a non-issue. Of course our interpretations of the past can reflect the present, our own prejudices, etc. That, to me, is a caution that anyone must keep in mind who is trying honestly to reconstruct the past. Perfect reconstruction is probably impossible, just as the size of parts in engineering problems is always within a given tolerance, not exact. But in my opinion, some interpretations are much closer than others, and in individual instances I think I can explain why I feel that way. Now in this post, the author speculates (quite inaccurately, in my case) about the anxiety I might feel in "imagining" pre-patriarchy. My own reaction is that as a historian, my imagination doesn't come into play until it has some evidence to work with. (Yes, we do need imagination to evaluate evidence, but not as a substitute for evidence.) In fact, I got onto this discussion because some one else commented, in response to some suggerstions for reading about pre-patriarchy, yes, these are very interesting visions (fantasies?), but is there any EVIDENCE that they actually existed? Let me try to make some comparisons. Throughout history, and in almost any national history, we find the theme of "golden ages"--Periclean Athens, Kievan Russia, Jeffersonian America, etc., etc. All these eras probably had impressive aspects, but all of them have been mythologized all out of proportion. This tendency seems to fulfill some emotional need on the part of the historians and readers who succumbed to it, yes. Couldn't the same phenomenon be at work regarding "pre-patriarchy?" Is there some resistance to believing that women have never enjoyed the freedom and the rights that they do today? That is what, to me, the evidence suggests. I'm quite willing to be corrected, but the premise of the post seems to me to be that since men have imagined--literally--the past in ways that satisfied their own emotional or even political needs, regardelss of the facts, no one has the right to complain if women, today, do the same. I don't accept that reasoning. Capable male scholars have never excused each other's poor reasoning on gender grounds. In fact, moving beyond gender, I've always found the most impressive historians to be the one's with the courage to find the flaws in their own class, or nation, or era. Lastly, I would like to comment on the widespread use of quotation marks around words like "evidence" and "facts." Is this supposed to mean that these words are meaningless? Or what exactly is it supposed to mean? David Kaiser - KaiserD@USNWC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:03:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Suzanne F. Franks" Subject: Re: pre-patriarchy, science, evidence, etc. I haven't kept up with all the posts on this thread but I feel compelled to throw in my 2 cents' worth at this point, as a feminist scientist who has spent time thinking about evidence and facts and the supposed objectivity of science. First of all, I would highly recommend Helen Longino's book "Science as Social Knowledge" for anyone trying to get a handle on how values, feelings, biases etc. affect the doing and interpreting of science, what it really means to talk about objectivity in science, and the nature of facts and evidence. Longino's discussion of what "facts" are and how "facts" are actually mediated by context and interpretation and individual use might be quite useful to the poster who wanted to know why words like "facts" and "evidence" are being presented in quotes. Speaking as a scientist and a feminist, I have become convinced that facts are never _just_ facts. Facts become facts or are made facts by humans, who do so for a variety of reasons and motivations. This _doesn't_ mean that facts so created aren't useful or informative. Part of what Longino tries to show is that it is this very integration of value into the creation of the facts we consider to be relevant that helps us arrive at anything like objectivity at all. I am bothered by the suggestion that if automobiles run and planes fly, then this means there is something inherently special about science that brings us closer to reality or truth or objectivity (or whatever you want to label it.) First of all I prefer to distinguish betweeen science and technology--automobiles and planes are technological creations. Not all technological creations are driven by "pure" scientific research, not all scientific research leads to technological applications. The fact-making enterprise of scientific research shares more in common with the fact-making enterprise of history than most people realize or most scientists would like to believe. This doesn't mean science is therefore useless or devalued. To reach such a conclusion implies, I think, that history has no value or usefulness, and this I can't agree with. There are many different ways of coming to knowledge about ourselves and our worlds, many different ways of making facts and assembling them into theories. Science is one of those ways. History is another. Testing and replication of results are certainly part of the scientific method, but this in itself does not mean that science is an inherently superior way of knowing all things. Just because some phenomenon cannot be studied "scientifically" (e.g. in a controlled laboratory test) doesn't mean we can't learn anything about it. Literature is an example of a means to knowledge which probably wouldn't be described as scientific but which certainly leads us to many important truths that affect and shape our lives, just as science does. I apologize for the length of this post but I feel a certain responsibility as a feminist and scientist to speak out on this topic when the chance arises. Suzanne Franks sfranks@galois.fccc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:17:25 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Meckstroth Subject: Re: pre-patriarchy, science, evidence, etc. just a note on the question of scientific objectivity in social context... >I am bothered by the suggestion that if automobiles run and >planes fly, then this means there is something inherently >special about science that brings us closer to reality or >truth or objectivity (or whatever you want to label it.) >First of all I prefer to distinguish betweeen science >and technology--automobiles and planes are technological >creations. Not all technological creations are driven by >"pure" scientific research, not all scientific research leads >to technological applications. >The fact-making enterprise of scientific research shares more >in common with the fact-making enterprise of history than most >people realize or most scientists would like to believe. i'm also bothered by the same contention about workability and scientific proof, though i wouldn't necessarily resort to a science-technology distinction to adress it...just because a scientific idea "works" doesn't mean it is "true" in the vernacular sense--approaching absolute objective knowledge of the world. for example, newton's physics 'works' quite well as far as it goes (mechanics) but was still supplanted by einstein's worldview which was fundamentally different and also 'worked' to describe the same things, and more...the same could be said of Copernican astronomy supplanting the Keplerian system centuries before...(i'm mre or less citing Thomas Kuhn here)...the point being, that various scientific 'laws,' explanatory principles, and epistemes, can 'successfully' represent reality (for lack of a better metaphor:-) and the fact that one way works doesn't mean it is the 'truth'...note also, that in these exapmles, it is not really a case of the old system conatining partial truth which was expaned upon by the new system, but a fundamental substitution in the entire system of expalantory concepts which resulted in a more or less completely different truth... one obvious implication for feminist discourse being that dominant ideologies should not be allowed to assert themselves as unequivocally true simply because they have explanatory power--for example, one might make use of this train of thought to answer a defender of psychoanalysis who refused to take into account the implicit sexual politics of the discourse (and what they might suggest should stand re-formulation) because the science had demonstrable success at curing patients... anway, just a thought or two, chris meckstroth meckstr@fas.harvard.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:24:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: pre-patriarchy, science, evidence, etc. I've debated whether to throw another 2-cents worth into the discussion or not. Sorry for clogging the list -- here goes: I don't see, on the one hand, that anyone in the discussion is making a claim that perfect objectivity is possible, that facts "speak for themselves," that facts exist independent of interpretation, whatever. It seemed to me that what happened was a questioning of a couple of posts that seemed to imply that since we can't really know what happened in pre-history, we may as well construct it in any way we choose. What Kaiser tried to point out, it seemed to me, is that our constructions of pre-history should fit available evidence (and I don't see it as necessary to enclose that word in quotes, though I'm inclined to so enclose the word "fact"), and that our interpretation of archeological evidence should be plausible, based on ethnographic analogy, etc. Arguing the point that there are never "just facts" is true, but we're all batting at a straw-person, since I don't think it has been alleged that facts are anything simple that don't need to be interpreted, or that such interpretation is not affected by positionality. Something Clifford Geertz wrote in "Thick Description" -- he was quoting someone else and I am paraphrasing. However, it was something like: "The fact that a completely aseptic environment is impossible does not therefore mean that surgeons may as well go perform operations in the sewers." -- Gina Oboler (roboler@acad.usinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:36:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Falzoi Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal -- reply to replies and skeptical In-Reply-To: Quotation marks around words such as "facts" and "evidence" are a way of=20 calling attention to h=EFw these words may be debatable, interpreted=20 differently depending upon individual positionality. Meaningless, or meaningful? That's up to you. I simply see them as markers in a context of what I take to be debatable (such as, in fact, the ways in which we have been debating evidence itself), and, at times, quotation m=E1rks appear aro= und=20 words that symbolize thorny issues. After all, when you quote =F3omeone, yo= u =A2=F1uote" their words to show what you are =E2orrowing and re-contextuali= zing. Putting quotes around wor=E4s has a similar effect. My idea of fact, and=20 my idea of the idea of fact, is one which questions positivist empiricism, in the discussions context. I draw attantion to what the t=E5rm "fact" mean= s, or signifies, with these quotes. That it means differently does not mean th= at it is meaningless.=20 I have no investment in proving a pre-patriarchal time, or in disproving it= ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:20:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Barnett Subject: Publishing Women's Fiction I'm writing to WMST-L subscribers for advice, comments on publishing fictional works about women. I am completing my master's degree at Duke University this spring, and my focus has been on literature and women's studies. My final project has explored women's search for "voice" through fiction and narrative. Specifically, my project has been the writing of short stories that illustrate some of the different themes in feminist discourse (women's economic dependence on men, women as the social other, how women make moral decisions, establishment of self, rejection of dominance, etc.) and some of the different voices in the community of women. My advisor has suggested that I start thinking about getting these stories published, and I'd be interested in hearing from folks who have tried to publish works of fiction before. Any information about how to submit, publications that would accept unsolicited works of fiction, feminist presses -- all would be helpful. Please respond privately. Thanks! Barbara Barnett BBARNETT@FHI.ORG ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:38:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Viki Soady Subject: Re: post on eperiences of grieving and loss >A week or so ago, there was a posting of a call for submissions concerning women's reactions to grief and loss. Please repost that call. I seem to have deleted it quite inadvertently. Others might like to reponder it as well... thanks, Viki Soady. Dr. Viki Soady Director of Women's Studies Ashley Hall 107 Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698 912-249-4842 vsoady@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:55:42 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire Garcia Subject: WILLIAMS' ALCHEMY OF RACE AND RIGHTS Comments: cc: afroam-l@harvarda.harvard.edu Has anyone taught Patricia Williams' Alchemy of Race and Rights? I would like to talk with you about pedagogical issues, especially talking about it within the context of the critical legal studies movement. Please respond privately. Thanks in advance, Claire Garcia. CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 15:12:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PROF DAVID KAISER Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal -- reply to replies and skeptical -Reply I really want to make another brief comment about facts and "facts." Any fact is provisional and can only reflect data available at the time it is reported or referred to--I think we can agree on that. But in order to speak meaningfully about the world, don't we need some word--"facts" or "data" or some such--that we can use unequivocally to refer to observations? Then, after that, we can start arruing about whether observations are correct, whether inferences drawn from them are justified, etc. I'm just suggesting that if we undermine the idea of data, it's hard for me to see how we're going to emerge with anything valuable. As some observers have recognized, I haven't been making any kind of argument for obvious, immutable truth--just for the need to make use of our best approximations. . . David Kaiser -- KaiserD@USNWC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:41:50 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Garber Subject: Re: Publishing Women's Fiction I'd like to see some of the conversation on this issue as well, as I am trying to learn more about publishing of fiction, so I'd be delighted if this conversation went public instread of private. Marilyn Garber MGarber@dhvx20.csudh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:46:48 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela E Hubler Subject: teaching re.anti-feminism I am teaching a senior seminar in women's studies in which my student want to discuss responding to anti-feminism. I think this is motivated by a fear of going out into job situations etc. and having to defend their views as feminists. In any case, I'd appreciate any suggestions about readings on this topic, especially those that have taught well. I'm also interested in any suggestions re readings for a final class session which I want to devote to inspiring and energizing my students. They will be reading Tillie Olsen's "Tell me a Riddle" and May Angelou's "And Still I Rise," and watching the short video "One Fine Day." Thanks, Angela Hubler lela@ksu.ksu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:58:35 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela E Hubler Subject: Assistant/Associate Professor (fwd) Some time ago I posted this job advertisement. I'm reposting it in order to let potential candidates know that as soon as you reply, you'll be asked to send 3 letters of recommendation, a writing sample, and graduate transcript. The search committee has realized due to the late date of this search that we don't have time to do an initial screen and then ask for additional materials. So, you might want to send the addl. materials along with the initial application. Sorry for any inconvenience. Sincerely, Angela E. Hubler Lela@ksu.ksu.edu Assistant/Associate Professor, tenure-track in Women's Studies with experience in teaching women's studies and/or gender-related courses. Ph.D. with research in publication in women's studies, feminist issues, or gender. Suggested areas, but not limited to: race and gender, feminist theory, gender and science, women and religion, women and public policy. Primary responsibilities: teaching both introductory and advanced women's studies courses, developing new courses, continuing research, service, and professional activity. The program in Women's Studies at Kansas State University offers a 24-credit secondary major and plans to institute a nine-credit graduate-level, certificate. The program faculty consists of more than 35 members representing over 20 departments, professional schools, and university units. Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, History, and English are especially well represented. Send a cover letter and vita, including three names and addresses of references by April 15, 1996 to Chair, WOMST Search Committee, Women's Studies Program, Room 3 Leasure Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-3505. Kansas State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 13:19:32 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lani Wilson Subject: WILLIAMS' ALCHEMY OF RACE AND RIGHTS -Rep I am impressed with Patricia Williams and would enjoy the discussion if only to listen in. May we? Thanks. lani ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 18:35:59 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Shirley J. Schwarz" Subject: suggested reading for core Humanities course In-Reply-To: I am at an institution which does not have a women's studies program - nor a single course in women's studies. At the last moment - the male Humanities core revision committee has agreed to including *one* gender oriented article in the third of our 3 sequence humanities core (courses required for all freshman and sophomore students) in next year's course packette of readings. (although it may sound like a military academy, we are a four year liberal arts institution - check our web page at http://www.evansville.edu and the World Culture sequence at http://www.evansville.edu/showcase/wc.html). As I am spearheading a move toward developing a women's studies program (a small group of female faculty and I are merely in the discussion stage), I have been asked to provide (in 24 hours) suggestions for a single article, no longer than 20 pages (which would not violate copyright), to be included in a course packette (the course description follows) . The course description and thrust is World Culture (quoting from our handbook): "In the past two centuries, movements and ideas have opened up the world to infinite possibilities and a loss of the certitudes that comforted previous generations. In this final semester of the World Culture sequence, we have four main tasks: 1) to examine some of the ideas and events that have set the tone for our present world; 2) to contintue exploration and appreciation of cultural diversity throughout the world; 3) to consider some of the problems that remain to be solved; and 4) (snipped, paraphrased) enhance writing and oral expression." Back to me: I am of the 50s generation and have no background in women's studies, issues, etc. - other than being female and living through all of this - and thus, come ill-prepared to make any suggestions to this committee. I put the question to you: If you had to select only one article that you consider germaine to addressing the course objects indicated in items 1) 2) and 3) above, what critical reading would you select? I NEED SUGGESTIONS FAST. Would you kindly send, if not one - two or three short (20 pages) articles that I might suggest to the committee. Thus, with three or four suggestions, if we use one for the course packette, the others might be used as alternate readings -- particularly by instructors who might be so adventurous as to explore feminist issues? Any and all responses appreciated in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shirley J. Schwarz phone: 812-479-2171 Department of Archaeology & Art History FAX 812-479-2320 University of Evansville e-mail ss37@evansville.edu 1800 Lincoln Ave. Evansville, IN 47722 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:40:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:34:48 -0600 from I think a good survey course maps a field, so a course on literature by women in the USA would necessarily include diversity of race, ethnicity, class, re- ligion, region. The problem of inclusion within the limits of a course remains I specified USA rather than American Lit because I think that's what at issue here. Mexico is part of America, so is South America. If you refer to "women's literature" and include only work by British and northwestern European US women, you don't recognize their ethnicity. A problem of failure to recognize the dominant, unmarked group? Courses called "ethnic women's literature" which I've seen which mean to include some of the "others" in the US are dismaying for this failure. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:09:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Pat Washington wrote: > Glossing over the fact that the "women" in the phase "women and minorities" > really should read "White women and racialized women and men" similar > to not acknowledging that in many cases, a course titled "Women's > Literature" is going to be a semester of White women's literature, with > maybe a week or a class sesssion (IF THAT) on women from racialized groups. I don't understand why "white women and racialized women and men" should be substituted for "women and minorities." Does "racialized" mean being treated differently and purposely because of race? If so, is "racialized" akin, especially, to politicized? Also, is "women from racialized groups" different from "gendered racism"? Finally, is "women and people of color" also offensive? Please explain. TIA, niki Benokraitis ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:19:54 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joan r saks berman Subject: Australia anyone? Comments: To: psych of women resource list , Abigails-L There have been two last minute openings in our tour to Australia, including the 6th International, Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. We leave from LA on Friday, April 12 and return April 28 or Sydney extension possible. Tour price is $2999 from LA, which includes all accomodation including 8 nights in Adelaide. Other stops include Cairns and Great Barrier Reef, Daintree Rainforest Safari, Ayers Rock, Alice Springs, etc. For more details, DO NOT CALL ME. Call Charmian Watford, Australian Conference Travel LLC at 1-800-77-KOALA, or fax 415-381-1857. She was still in the office a few minutes ago, after 10pm MST. Joan R. Saks Berman, Ph.D. jberman@unm.edu PHS Indian Hospital (505) 256-4012 801 Vassar Drive NE FAX (505) 256-4088 Albuquerque, NM 87106 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:28:38 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joan r saks berman Subject: Australia? addendum Comments: To: psych of women resource list , abigails@unm.edu If you panicked at the thought of leaving on April 12, Charmian just called me back to say the other possibility is to leave on April 19 and go on tour after the conference. Call her for more details, 1-800-77-KOALA. Joan R. Saks Berman, Ph.D. jberman@unm.edu PHS Indian Hospital (505) 256-4012 801 Vassar Drive NE FAX (505) 256-4088 Albuquerque, NM 87106 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 00:04:18 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beth Subject: Resistant Art (fwd) Comments: To: girl@uci.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 10:31:26 -0500 Subject: Resistant Art Hi, I am forwarding this artists call to you in hopes that you will pass it along to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks, David Thorne ***** Resistant Strains tabloid ARTISTS CALL March 28, 1996 Resistant Strains is an alternative media project examining historical and ongoing resistances to political, social, and economic domination. The project works to combine information, analysis, art and activism in politically useful and accessible ways. The first component of the project, a series of posters focusing on the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, is currently in production. The second component is a tabloid newsprint publication by artists and activists to be produced in mid-October. The piece will be distributed through activist networks and a variety of public venues. We would like you to contribute work for the resistant strains tabloid. If you work in an activist organization, community group, etc., please pass this along to anyone in your networks you think might be intersted to participate. Also post to web sites, listserves, etc. (Thanks.) Theme At a time when mainstream political and media systems encourage defeatism, promote bootstrap forms of "empowerment," and offer a frenzy of elections as the inalienable forum for our alienation from the political process, we must assert the need for collective action-to disrupt, transform, and overturn present systems and to build new political cultures. The resistant strains tabloid will counter prevailing disinformations about the futility of opposition by focusing on practical resistances to class, racial, economic, gender, political and sexual repression; the ways in which power responds to such resistances; and how, in turn, people adapt, strengthen and continue-"resistant strains." Scheduled for distribution prior to the '96 U.S. vote, the tabloid will examine, support and propose strategies which refuse the sanctity of dominant political formations (and the cynical, static position of loving to hate them) and which struggle to take new directions. We are looking for visual artworks, manifestos, rants, short writings, etc. which -address specific instances of self-determination, local action and radical democracy, particularly in context of "free and fair elections" -question the bogus concept of political involvement promoted during election events -oppose the repressions inherent in the neoliberal free-market model of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy now being enforced around the world -document practical strategies which explode the myth that neoliberalism has no alternatives and which propose other models of political and economic participation -expose the fears that sustain this myth (critical analysis of present crises and attendant media, propaganda, policy) -consider resistance from a personal perspective -illuminate historical precedents/practices Submissions Please submit proposals for page layouts: single page, two-page spreads, or work that is placed sequentially over a number of pages. Page dimensions are 16x21 inches. All work is black and white. Collaborations and non-"English only" works encouraged. Send a mock-up (xerox, drawing, laser print, etc.) and written description. Include SASE if you want materials returned. If your proposal is selected, we will provide detailed specs for finished work. The deadline for proposal submissions is June 20, 1996.=20 =A1Please distribute this call to others! Send proposals to David Thorne, Box 153b, Glover, VT 05839, email to , or call 802-525-8853 to arrange fax/modem transmission. If you have questions or need more information, please call or email. Thanks. Cheryl Brown, Chris Myott, Graciela Monteagudo, David Thorne, Karen Topper ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ "Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires.... But what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit." - Mumia Abu-Jamal +++Defend the right to ABORTION on the internet and everwhere. Defy the government censoring of the internet!+++ +++ABORTION on demand and without apology!+++ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 04:15:29 -0500 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: women in advertising I have in the past posted about teaching around advertising images of women. I have had a few requests for further details on the reading I had used. As another woman had organized the course and I had only read the chapter we had assigned, I did not have easy access to those details at the time. I have only now (in our Easter break) had a chance to look at the whole book and noticed that a different publisher has the US rights. Here are the complete details. The chapter we got students to read was Chapter 3 on changes in advertising images of women in this century. I think other chapters would also be useful though the first chapter has a description of sociological approaches that is very weak. Myra Macdonald (1995) _Representing Women: Myths of Femininity in the Popular Media_ London, New York, Sydney, Auckland: Edward Arnold. Distributed in the USa by St. Martins Press Inc. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 ISBN 0 340 63221 6 (hb) 0 340 58016 X (pb) Hope you find this helpful. Dr. Jo VanEvery Dept. of Cultural Studies University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom 0121-414-3730 J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 04:17:37 -0500 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: looking for R. Hertz Does anyone have an address for Rosanna Hertz? I and a colleague not on this list would be interested in corresponding with her regarding her work on dual earner couples. 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: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:10:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: when to send messages privately (User's Guide) Today's exceptionally important monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 3) "WHEN SHOULD I REPLY PRIVATELY RATHER THAN TO WMST-L?" WMST-L is set up so that replies will automatically go to all subscribers. If you respond to a WMST-L message by hitting a reply key or typing "reply," everyone will read your response. This is appropriate when the contents are likely to be of interest to a number of subscribers (most suggestions for reading lists and teaching strategies fall into this category). However, if you are writing to request a copy of a paper someone has mentioned, please send your request PRIVATELY, NOT to WMST-L. Similarly, comments directed at a particular person (e.g., "Right on, Rhoda. Good point," or "Thanks for the info," or "What a horrendous experience that must have been. I don't know why people do such things," or "Hi, Jane, I'm glad to see you've joined the list. Write to me," etc.) should be sent PRIVATELY, NOT to WMST-L. Also, short general statements of approval, disapproval, or puzzlement (e.g., "Hooray! I'm glad someone finally said that!" or "I can't imagine how anyone can believe such nonsense" or "why did you send that message?") should NOT be sent to WMST-L. Finally, please also send privately most expressions of thanks or apology. [People using Pine and a few other mail systems need to be especially careful about replies: for a private reply, say NO both to using the Reply-to address and to replying to all recipients.] ************************************************************** 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: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:05:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LYNN TAETZSCH Subject: Re: Publishing Women's Fiction In-Reply-To: <009A041A.3A8E34E0.70@dhvx20.csudh.edu> For places to publish fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, etc., see the INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF LITTLE MAGAZINES AND SMALL PRESSES from Dustbooks, PO Box 100, Paradise, CA 95967. It is $29.95 and a new edition comes out each year. Also look at POETS & WRITERS Magazine, 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 (212) 226-3586. It always has "calls for submissions" at the back, plus information on competitions, articles on writers, etc. Lynne Lynne Taetzsch l.taetzsch@morehead-st.edu Dept. of English, Foreign Languages and Philosophy Morehead State University, UPO Box 645, Morehead, KY 40351 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:11:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: linda bernhard Subject: teaching re: anti-feminism Last year I taught a seminar in which responding to anti-feminISTS was an assignment. Students were asked to read the writings, speeches, etc of someone they (and thus others) assumed to be anti-feminist, analyze those writings, and then propose a way that feminists might respond to this person. They did this assignment in groups and then presented in class. I thought it went very well, and students chose people as diverse as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and a blatantly anti-feminist editorial writer in the student newspaper. Then, re: the last day in class which you want to be "inspiring and energizing," why not show Take the Power, as well as One Fine Day (both by Kay Weaver). Linda Bernhard The Ohio State University Bernhard.3@osu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 11:18:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal -- reply to replies and skeptical In-Reply-To: On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, PROF DAVID KAISER wrote: > Any fact is provisional and can only reflect data available at > the time it is reported or referred to--I think we can agree on that. > But in order to speak meaningfully about the world, don't we > need some word--"facts" or "data" or some such--that we can > use unequivocally to refer to observations? Then, after that, we Whoa, folks! Facts are not provisional. Our *knowledge* of facts are provisional. Let's be very clear: Things exist or occur in the world. Our understanding of these events or our knowledge of these phenomena is likely to be filtered through all kinds of historical, cultural, etc, goop. This does not reflect upon the events or phenomena themselves, only upon our abiulity to understand them: i.e. this isn't a metaphysical issue, it's an epistemological issue. We can make up any sort of story we want when we lack adequate data, in order to explain the fact of the matter, however, we are quite likely to be incorrect. This may not make any difference in the great scheme of things. Even with our myths and just-so stories, we may be able to come up with explanations that satisfy us as humans, or that enable us to survive bete, or whatever measure of success one wants to apply. But this has nmothing to do with what's really out there. 2. Clearly there's a problem here about falliblism. I've seen only one post that's willing to allow for science to be fallible. This is ridiculous. SImply because scientists make errors, and scientific methodology is not infallible, doesn't mean that any other method of inquiry is equally as good. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater, please.*Any* method of inquiry that humans use is going to be imperfect, because we are imperfect. This does not mean that we can't work on a curve toward perfection: in other words, to work as hard as we can to be objective and factual. We probably won't succeed, but we'll get much better results than if we don't try. The important thing is to make sure that people doing science understand that science is filtered through experience, etc, as much as anything else, and to develop strategies to deal with that issue. Alana Suskin alanacat@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:29:39 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beth Subject: teaching on violence against youth WMST-L Subscribers: I'm planning a summer sociology course on "Violence Against Children and Youth", and have not taught this cause before. I'm having trouble connecting with other feminists teaching a full syllabus (or significantly more than a unit or small section within a broader topic), and am turning to WMST-L to ask that if anyone has worked on teaching on this topic or something relevant from an explicitly feminist perspective, that they please get in touch. I would really like to communicate about effective ways to teach on this subject. I'm using authors including Louise Armstrong and Diana Russell (and some pieces by Judith Hermann), and also thinking about ways to (critically) incorporate some of the texts on "Children's Rights" and Children's Rights Movements which usually don't overlap directly with feminist work. I'm also making use of multiple grrl writings and 'zines, and would like to talk to other faculty who have already done this in their courses. References that explicitly link feminist work and youth liberation particularly appreciated (someone had mentioned to me that Shulamith Firestone wrote on this, and I don't have a specific cite anywhere and haven't located it yet)... I also would appreciate the opportunity to discuss Alice Miller's "For Your Own Good" and "Thou Shalt Not Be Aware" with someone who has thoughts about feminist readings of these texts. Please reply privately, and I'll be glad to make any bibliographies or a copy of the syllabus available in a few months if anyone's interested. thanks, -beth, eribet@orion.oac.uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:28:30 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hadley Wood Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal -- reply to replies and skeptical In-Reply-To: from "PROF DAVID KAISER" at Apr 2, 96 03:12:23 pm The very terms in which this statement is made underscore a dichotomy of discourse between scientific thought and thought based in the humanities. (Not to say that there aren't scientists out there who think in less linear ways.) It is precisely the conceptual implication of "fact", "data" and "observation" that is questioned in much current thought in the humanities. It is not that "facts" don't exist, but they are not simply statements about the world, they are also statements about the stater and about the audience s/he addresses. And I'm not sure that we argue about the "correctness" of observations as much as we map out where these observations are located in a certain field comprised of a multiplicity of points of view and frames of reference. What happens to truth is not, I believe, an irrelevant question, but perhaps you need to frame the question differently. The question may no longer echo Hamlet's "to be or not to be" (truth exists or it is denied); perhaps the challenge is to conceptualize truth in a new way, one that is more fluid, more interactive, more inclusive of currents and counter currents. Not very coherently stated, I fear, but it's my best off the cuff response at the moment. Hadley (woodLL@oa.ptloma.edu) > > -Reply > > I really want to make another brief comment about facts and > "facts." > > Any fact is provisional and can only reflect data available at > the time it is reported or referred to--I think we can agree on that. > But in order to speak meaningfully about the world, don't we > need some word--"facts" or "data" or some such--that we can > use unequivocally to refer to observations? Then, after that, we > can start arruing about whether observations are correct, > whether inferences drawn from them are justified, etc. I'm just > suggesting that if we undermine the idea of data, it's hard for me > to see how we're going to emerge with anything valuable. > As some observers have recognized, I haven't been making > any kind of argument for obvious, immutable truth--just for the > need to make use of our best approximations. . . > David Kaiser -- KaiserD@USNWC.EDU > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:00:28 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Women Centre Subject: Women's Center director Job Announcement The following is the position announcement for the University of Oregon Women's Center Director. The position description follows in a subsequent email. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT DIRECTOR, ASUO WOMEN'S CENTER Title: Director of the Women's Center, Associated Students of the University of Oregon Departments: The Associated Students of the University of Oregon funds the Women's Center. The center is an administrative unit of the Erb Memorial Union Reports to: Associate Dean of Students and Associate Director Erb Memorial Union Academic Rank: Instructor, nontenured faculty position Term: Full-time, 12 months Salary: 27,000-30,750, plus standard Oregon State System of Higher Education benefits package Closing date: Review of applications will begin April 24, 1996, and continue until a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained or until the position is filled Start date: July 1, 1996 General Responsibilities The director of the Women's Center manages, organizes and oversees all aspects of the Women's Center. This includes initiating, supervising, and implementing educational programs that facilitate the articulation of women's issues; collaborating with students to develop programs; promoting Women's Center activities; providing advocacy and direct services to students, faculty, and community members; and promoting changes beneficial to women in the campus community. The director manages a budget of $106,500 and prepares quarterly reports and the annual budget request for the ASUO Programs Finance Committee. The center's staff includes a full-time office coordinator and twelve to seventeen students. A complete job description is available upon request Required Qualifications * Bachelor's degree (advanced degree preferred) * Knowledge and understanding of issues significant to women in diverse communities; the ability to articulate the needs of these women and implement programs to meet those needs * Administrative experience * Excellent listening, nurturing and communication skills Preferred Qualifications Administrative, managerial and organizational skills * Demonstrated successful leadership experience in a women's center or similar work setting * Skill in selecting, training and supervising staff and interns * Ability to analyze data, assess needs and determine appropriate short-term and long-term goals for the center * Demonstrated organizational and administrative skills, including fundraising and grant writing * Ability to design, implement and promote outreach programs consistent with the mission of the Women's Center Communication skills * Ability to work independently as well as on a team * Interpersonal skills to relate effectively and diplomatically to people with diverse social, cultural, racial, economic and educational backgrounds * Ability to convey information, both verbally and in writing, to staff, students and faculty * Demonstrated ability and commitment to collaborate with various departments and student groups * Ability to speak effectively to a large audience Counseling and mentoring skills * Commitment to working with women to help them develop their potential, and willingness to provide mentoring, nurturing, leadership and encouragement * Keen awareness of, and commitment to, issues of discrimination and prejudice; expertise or training in areas of coalition-building, conflict resolution, and elimination of discrimination Professionalism and activism * Ability to exercise the judgment necessary to deal effectively with confidential and sensitive information * Experience and willingness to work within a hierarchy and balance the need for social change with the need for institutional stability * Experience and willingness to listen to and respect student opinion and voice, and to respect student power * Experience that indicates the ability to work through adversity and remain productively committed to social change * Experience working with controversial issues and ability to negotiate when appropriate and stand firm when necessary * Ability to initiate and enter into constructive dialogue on political trends and issues of concern to women * Possess a personal and political philosophy on gender relations that is conducive to working well with both women and men Application Procedure * Applicants should submit a letter of application and resume; the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three professional references; and a one-page statement describing how you would approach your work as the director of the ASUO Women's Center * Address your application to: Chair, Women's Center Search Committee ASUO Women's Center Suite 3, EMU 1228 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97403-1228 * Review of applications will begin April 24, 1996 and will continue until a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained or until the position is filled. An equal opportunity, affirmative action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:00:51 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Women Centre Subject: job description for Women's Center director JOB DESCRIPTION DIRECTOR WOMEN'S CENTER UNIVERSITY OF OREGON I. Women's Center Mission Statement The mission of the ASUO Women's Center is to advocate for the best educational and working environment for the women at the University of Oregon. We accomplish this by working toward societal change, the ending of oppression and by supporting personal growth. The Center provides information, support and services to facilitate education around issues of feminism, women and gender. It fosters an atmosphere where students, staff and faculty can engage in discussions and activities that empower women as individuals and as a community. Services include, but are not limited to; resource and referral, advocacy, events planning and coordination, support groups, a Center newsletter, community outreach and cultural events co-sponsored with other student organizations. The University of Oregon Women's Center acknowledges and serves women of different racial, ethnic, class backgrounds and sexual orientations, and is committed to being a multicultural program that sustains and integrates different perspectives and sensibilities. The Center is committed to promoting an environment of mutual understanding where all individuals are respected. II. Position Description Director of the Women's Center is a full-time, 12 month, nontenured faculty position. The director serves as an advocate and educator on issues pertinent to women on campus and gender issues in general. The director administers the center; supervises the initiation and implementation of educational programs; responds to program and service requests, and ideas from students and student groups outside the center; provides direct service to students, faculty, staff, and community members; and works to promote the best possible working and educational environment for women at the University. The director, in essence, is responsible for carrying through the vision established by the Women's Center's Mission Statement. The Women's Center is one of the programs funded by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, and requires annual allocation of student funds; however it has been funded for nine years, making it a traditionally funded program. The Women's Center director position was created as a result of restructuring during the 1993-94 academic year. The director was charged with increased authority and responsibility, and accountability to the broader campus community. As an ASUO program the Women's Center reports to the ASUO President on matters of program philosophy, goals and objectives. Additionally the Women's Center director will work closely with the Women's Center Advisory Board, student staff and volunteers to implement program goals. The Women's Center director and classified staff report to the Associate Dean of Students/Associate Director Erb Memorial Union for all personnel matters. The Director will be evaluated by the Associate Dean/Associate Director in consultation with the ASUO President. A. Administrative duties 1. Respond to requests and ideas from individual students or groups of students as part of making the Women's Center an effective and trusted resource center 2. Work closely with university departments on the recruitment and retention of women students and faculty 3. Develop and supervise the implementation of office operations, policies and procedures (bylaws) 4. Manage and monitor the Women's Center budget of $106,500 5. Participate in fundraising, grant writing and development activities 6. Supervise, assist, and evaluate Women's Center educational programming staff and direct service staff 7. Keep current on national trends relevant to women students and their needs 8. Conduct assessment and evaluation of campus needs and the center's effectiveness in meeting identified needs 9. Establish constructive relationships with students or groups of students not previously affiliated with the Women's Center, and assist in their programming needs 10. Initiate short- and long-term planning efforts in coordination with the ASUO and the Erb Memorial Union 11. Consults on a regular basis with the Women's Center's advisory board about Center activities 12. Conduct staff meetings and retreats and manage internal information flow 13. Ensure that the Women's Center appears comfortable and inviting to those visiting it 14. Participate in university task forces and committees such as the Race Task Force, the Unwanted Sexual Behavior Task Force, the standing committee on Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns, Women's Studies Steering Committee and the Status of Women Committee 15. Maintain collaborative relationships with the University of Oregon Women's Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Women in Society 16. Establish and maintain relationships with organizations and professional associations which further the mission of the Women's Center 17. Attend the National Conference of the National Association of Women's Centers, if budget allows B. Supervisory duties 1. Supervise the Office Coordinator, student leadership positions and support group facilitators-including providing job description guidelines, monitoring and evaluating performance, providing professional development and training 2. Supervise the development of promotional materials and publications 3. Ensure the student staff develops and maintains effective relationships with student groups, both those affiliated with the Women's Center (such as ASUO, Saferide) and those informally affiliated with the center (groups such as student unions, Black Women of Achievement, Panhellenic, Las Mujeres, United Women of Asian Heritage, Returning Students Association) 4. Appoint and coordinate the Women's Center representatives serving on university and community committees and task forces C. Student services and advocacy 1. Serve as an advocate, provide brief counseling and referrals, and coordinate advocacy services for both personal and institutional concerns of female students 2. Provide opportunities and support for student initiated efforts related to issues of women and gender 3. Provide technical assistance and guidance to individual students and student groups requesting information on women's issues 4. Serve as instructor or speaker on women's issues for presentations in classrooms, at events, workshops, and conferences (as time permits) 5. Work with university and off-campus services which offer women's support services on health and reproductive rights, eating disorders, sexual harassment, lesbian/bisexual/transgender concerns, racial/ethnic discrimination, feminist counseling, rape/sexual assault and relationship violence, economic need, family services, safety, etc. 6. In collaboration with university departments, assist in providing volunteer placements, learning possibilities and internships for students interested in working on women's issues D. Campus relations 1. Initiate and maintain ongoing working relationships with student unions for collaborative actions 2. Initiate and maintain relationships with key faculty and offices which are dedicated to equality and nondiscrimination on campus 3. Teach Women's Center staff how to build coalitions with other groups on campus; provide or arrange staff training on coalition-building, conflict resolution, and issues of racism and homophobia 4. Assure that Women's Center staff are highly visible at events organized by other student groups or academic departments 5. In conjunction with student leaders, act as spokesperson to educate the campus community, to increase awareness of women's issues on campus and to target areas in need of change ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:38:22 GMT-700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gunseli Berik Organization: Economics Subject: domestic violence and female-headed families I need references to theoretical and empirical sources on the relationship between domestic violence and female-headship status (or female breadwinner status) of women. The issue came up in a crosslisted Gender and Economic Development course, in the context of a discussion on economic supports of domestic violence (the case was Cambodia). I seemed to remember an argument that suggested that violence increases as women became primary or sole income earners and challenged the power relations in the household (and subsequently decreases?). Who makes this argument for U.S. or other societies? Is there evidence for it? Please respond privately. Gunseli Berik Economics and Women's Studies University of Utah berik@econ.sbs.utah.edu (801) 581-7435 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 20:34:28 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, N. Benokraitis wrote: > I don't understand why "white women and racialized women and men" should > be substituted for "women and minorities." Does "racialized" mean being > treated differently and purposely because of race? If so, is "racialized" > akin, especially, to politicized? Also, is "women from racialized groups" > different from "gendered racism"? Finally, is "women and people of color" > also offensive? Please explain. I think "racialized" is a bit odd, too. The problem with "women and people of color" is that it suggests that people of color are men, see: Woodhull and Smith: All Women are White, All Blacks are Men...: Black Women's Studies. The answer in the end is -- though it doesn't help with course titles, and I think they do send a signal -- to explain the problem to students and others but add that it is almost impossible to use language accurately (You know of course that in Ancient Athens, women and slaves didn't have the vote. Took me ages to ask whether there weren't any women slaves. My students get there quicker!) Finally, this discussion is problematized around race -- and maybe offence -- maybe we could remember that feminists have correctly protested against courses that exclude women and female writers. Can we do that and brush the other issues aside? (There are dangers in thinking we achieve too much by a change of name. But that doesn't rule out the enterprise.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:50:03 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: Women and people of color suggests that there are women, and men of color, or most generally, WHITE women, and women of COLOR. White, then, becomes the norm. Just as offensive as Music, or Philosophy, or any other discipline that assumes inclusiveness, but is all about the MEN of that discipline. As someone else noted here, American -- in Lit or other courses, also assumes US, when in fact, the Americas include a whole lot more of the western hemisphere. Language patterns such as these continue to assume majority status, and exclude by lack of full reference. Hope this helps. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:15:54 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Re[2]: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: And a separate WHITE MEN'S LITERATURE course???? and WHITE MEN's Music, history, science, etc, etc, etc,? Either we integrate -- with intention and respect -- or we fall to the same problems that others before us have done. peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Judy Evans wrote: > On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, joAnn Castagna wrote: > > > RE: the comments below: One doesn't have to see this as a denial that > > women of color have a place in the "women's literature" class. I doubt > > that most "women's literature" classes focus exclusively on white women's > > writing. the existence in a particular curriculum of both "women's > > literature" (perhaps an introductory survey course) and "Native American > > Women's Literature," African-American Women's Literature," and so on, is > > similar to divisions like "19th Century Literature," "Canadian > Literature," > > I won't really be happy with arrangements like this until there can be a > separate White Women's Writing course. > > But why not rename Women's Literature to reflect what it is? Subtitle, > Overview? Or, add general? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk > using voice-recognition software: please > ignore editing errors > --------------------------------------------------------------- > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:57:10 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joan r saks berman Subject: M. Randall tour Web page. I've been told that someone posted a message to the list re: Margaret Randall's book tour being incorporated to a web page. Since I explicitly said contact me by private mail, I wan't looking for it, as I am currently set to NOMAIL. Would that person please contact me directly, and I can pass on messages to Margaret as necessary. Sorry to bother the whole list about it. Joan R. Saks Berman, Ph.D. jberman@unm.edu PHS Indian Hospital (505) 256-4012 801 Vassar Drive NE FAX (505) 256-4088 Albuquerque, NM 87106 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:20:29 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:50:03 -0600 from > Women and people of color suggests that there are women, and men of color Well, it is interesting that it "suggests" this so strongly, because I think that a lot of the time, 'and' is not an exclusive term. The way you are thinking of 'and' you are thinking that it means nobody is both. But is that usual? For example, if I were to read that "Jews and baseball fans are invited to a Passover Seder" I would not take offense and assume that the speaker (or writer) was implying that no baseball fans are Jews and no Jews are baseball fans. Rather I would assume that I was invited by virtue of being in BOTH categories. Or if one were to say that athletes and students with high GPAs are invited to apply for scholarships, I would assume that an athlete with a high GPA would feel doubly invited, not excluded. So why does "women and Native Americans" (e.g.) have the connotation that no women are Native Americans? If I heard that (e.g.) "women and Jews" were at a high risk for some health problem, I certainly wouldn't think "Oh, they must not mean me." I'd probably be scared that I'd get it twice. ----- RUTH GINZBERG ----- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:39:15 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Re[2]: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: > On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Judy Evans wrote: > > I won't really be happy with arrangements like this until there can be a > > separate White Women's Writing course. On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Jacqueline Haessly wrote: > And a separate WHITE MEN'S LITERATURE course???? and WHITE MEN's Music, > history, science, etc, etc, etc,? > > Either we integrate -- with intention and respect -- or we fall to the > same problems that others before us have done. I agree. I meant that I couldn't accept "general" courses plus "options" covering e.g. black thought, unless "white" were given the same secondary status. In my first post I attacked the situation where Political Philosophy and Feminist Theory are separate courses and the second is subordinate. There are some difficult issues involved here. We may have to build up strength separately before we can integrate. On the other hand principle aside, we may get marginalized by non-integration. Given that in my Dept Pol Phil contains no women writers, I stand by a separate course. A colleague elsewhere has managed to get a large number of women and/or feminist writers onto their core course. So come to think of it I agree in theory. In practice there are problems. These are more acute for women than for men, for blacks than for whites, and so on. --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 16:34:39 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kassie Fleisher Subject: publishing fiction for barbara garnett and marilyn garner, who are interested in how to publish fiction...there are a few ways to go regardless of gender considerations. and i'm assuming here that you mean *literary* fiction you wish to submit to small journals (ie, this is not a conversation abt how to publish in _redbook_ -- about which i know nothing!). please to excuse if the assumption is incorrect. the recommended, fairly standard path would be to go to the library and read recent copies of the literary journals who publish fiction -- anyone serious about writing fiction should be reading these anyway, for inspiration and to see what their colleagues are up to. a creative writing faculty member or librarian should be able to provide you with a list. see if the kind of work you're doing fits in with the work you're seeing in one or more of the journals. if you find a connection, it is a good idea to consult the _writer's market_ or CCLM's _guide to literary journals_ (i may not have that latter title exact) for submission guidelines/restrictions; send to that editor (*always* with an SASE) and in the cover letter be clear about the work you see connecting to yours. another route, which tends to get slightly better results, is to consult the back pages of _poets and writers_ (available in good bookstores) and/or the back pages of the AWP _chronicle_ (possibly available through your english department). they typically list several calls for stories. sometimes you have better luck with these because you know the editor is looking right then -- the downside is that you often don't know anything about the journal you're sending to and who knows what it'll look like, what their policies are, etc. finally (for me -- anyone else have other ideas on how to go about this?), a path which tends to have the most success for folks is to contact an editor you know or who knows a friend of yours. if in fact your work is a good fit for that contact (ie, of course you wouldn't impose on a friend who publishes "experimental" fiction if you're writing "traditional" fiction), this is most likely to result in a publication. the best thing to do is to connect with other writers who share your aesthetic leanings (perhaps at your institution? but don't neglect non-academic writing communities -- some terrific women hide there) and read their work, be supportive of that community, and ask their advice about how to get into print. there are a few virtual communities active on the net for this purpose as well. i hope this helps -- good luck! kassie fleisher ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 20:09:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nan Bauer Maglin Subject: women, sex and power The women's studies list might be interested in the publication of "Bad Girls"/"Good Girls": Women, Sex, and Power in the Nineties edited by myself and Donna Perry (Rutgers University Press). It covers some of the issues discussed recently on the list such as generations of feminism/womanism; victim feminism and power feminism; the notion of the personal as political; the single voices that dominate the feminism narrative today; perspectives on the sexual debates; the media, backlash and antifeminism. The following is the table of contents: Introduction Nan Bauer Maglin and Donna Perry One bird, if there is only one, dies in the night Marge Piercy I. The Feminist Narrative: The Seventies and The Nineties Anna Quindlen And Now, Babe Feminism Katha Pollitt What Did You Do in the Gender Wars? Jan Wilkotz and Miranda Wilkotz Confessions of Two Good Girls Jillian Sandell Adjusting to Oppression: The Rise of Therapeutic Feminism in the United States Jane Gerhard The Personal is Still Political: The Legacy of 1970's Feminism Ellen Willis Villains and Victims: "Sexual Correctness" and the Repression of Feminism II. "Victim" and "Power" Feminism: Several Takes bell hooks Dissident Heat: Fire With Fire Katha Pollitt Lorena's Army Katie J. Hogan "Victim Feminism" and the Complexities of AIDS Jodi Dean Coming Out as an Alien: Feminists, UFOs, and "The Oprah Effect" Barbara McCaskill and Layli Phillips We Are All "Good Woman!": A Womanist Critique of the Current Feminist Conflicts III. Danger Zones Deborah A. Miranda Silver Anna Quindlen Victim and Valkyrie Paula Kamen Acquaintance Rape: Revolution and Reaction Helen Daniels Truth, Community, and The Politics of Memory: Narratives of Child Sexual Abuse Ann Jones Battering: Who's Going to Stop It? IV. Reading Sexuality: Multiple Perspectives Lillian S. Robinson Subject/Position Kegan Doyle and Dany Lacombe Porn Power: Sex, Violence, and the Meaning of Images in Eighties Feminism Deborah L. Tolman and Tracy E. Higgins How Being a Good Girl Can Be Bad for Girls Shamita Das Dasgupta and Sayantani DasGupta Public Face, Private Space: Asian Indian Women and Sexuality V. Media Images/ Changing the Subject Matuschka Barbie Gets Breast Cancer Elayne Rapping None of My Best Friends: The Media's Unfortunate "Victim/Power" Debate Lisa Jones The Invisible Ones Emma Amos "Changing the Subject" Rutgers University Press 1-800-445-9323 Nan Bauer Maglin nbmbm@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 16:26:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gaea Honeycutt Subject: Calling All WEEA Folks! Comments: To: women@world.std.com, gened@acpub.duke.edu, eled-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, ra-equity@hub.terc.edu, stwnet@tristram.edc.org, wisenet@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU, weeagrnt@tristram.edc.org, sash-l@asuvm.inre.asu.edu Over the past few months, the WEEA Equity Resource Center has received a number of requests for information on past and current WEEA projects (almost 750 grants). Also, as a part of our contract this year, the Center is helping to document examples of best practice from WEEA programs. We'd like information from WEEA grantees and participants on the projects in which they were involved. The information and materials should describe the scope and impact of the projects--especially information on how the project or approach continued after WEEA funding ended. The materials we are interested in include: -press clippings -newsletters -brochures, catalogs, etc. -fact sheets -testimonials -products -evaluations Please send your information to: Joe Maxwell Senior Research Associate WEEA Equity Resource Center Education Development Center, Inc. 55 Chapel Street Suite 275 Newton, MA 02158-1060 800-225-3088 You are also welcome to post your observations and replies to the Educational Equity Discussion List at edequity@mail.edc.org. If you have any questions, please call the number above or e-mail weeapub@edc.org. Gaea Honeycutt weeapub@edc.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:42:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: holzman Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses At 10:09 PM 4/2/96 -0500, N. Benokraitis wrote: >I don't understand why "white women and racialized women and men" should >be substituted for "women and minorities." Does "racialized" mean being >treated differently and purposely because of race? If so, is "racialized" >akin, especially, to politicized? Also, is "women from racialized groups" >different from "gendered racism"? Finally, is "women and people of color" >also offensive? Please explain. > >TIA, >niki Benokraitis One problem is that phrases like "women and minorities" and "women and people of color" ignore the existence of people who are both women and minorities/people of color/racialized. This issue was pungently captured in the Women's Studies classic, "All the women are white, all the blacks are men, but some of us are brave." Using the term "racialized men and women" also has the advantage that it calls attention to the fact that racial categories are social constructions that are imposed on people, not naturally occurring characteristics of the people. I think the term "gendered racism" is addressing a different point, i.e. that racism and sexism are not simply additive; racism affects men and women in different ways. > __________________________ Clare Holzman 330 West 58th Street, 404 New York, NY 10019 holzmr01@mcrcr.med.nyu.edu It is easy to be born a human being but it is not easy to act like one. -- Tagalog proverb ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 23:46:40 -0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Muldy Sculler Subject: Re: Re[2]: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: There are "separate white men's literature courses" they are called World Lit. American Lit. Beginning Writing, Advanced Writing--get the picture. Barbara On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Judy Evans wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Judy Evans wrote: > > > > I won't really be happy with arrangements like this until there can be a > > > separate White Women's Writing course. > > On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Jacqueline Haessly wrote: > > > And a separate WHITE MEN'S LITERATURE course???? and WHITE MEN's Music, > > history, science, etc, etc, etc,? > > > > Either we integrate -- with intention and respect -- or we fall to the > > same problems that others before us have done. > > I agree. I meant that I couldn't accept "general" courses plus "options" > covering e.g. black thought, unless "white" were given the same secondary > status. > > In my first post I attacked the situation where Political Philosophy and > Feminist Theory are separate courses and the second is subordinate. > There are some difficult issues involved here. We may have to build up > strength separately before we can integrate. On the other hand > principle aside, we may get marginalized by non-integration. > > Given that in my Dept Pol Phil contains no women writers, I stand by > a separate course. > A colleague elsewhere has managed to get a large number of women and/or > feminist writers onto their core course. > > So come to think of it I agree in theory. In practice there are problems. > These are more acute for women than for men, for blacks than for whites, > and so on. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk > using voice-recognition software: please > ignore editing errors > --------------------------------------------------------------- > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 08:07:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Jablonski Subject: Re: Re[2]: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: Since returning to school mid-life and being dismayed to find that English Lit still means Mostly White Men's Lit, I have believed that yes, any course currently identified as a general lit course that includes only or mostly white men *should* be labeled White Men's Lit. And women's lit courses that are really white women's lit courses should be labeled accordingly. Using the examples below, the new course titles would be, e.g., 19th Century White Men's Literature, and White Canadian Literature, or White Canadian Women's Literature. The idea is that any course *without* such modifiers could then reliably be assumed to be inclusive. (At this time, that is certainly not the case.) Such a change would also make clear that Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies courses are *not* about "special rights," but instead are very much needed. Re the erasure of women of color in the phrase "women and people of color," I have been hoping to see a suggestion for a replacement. Did I miss it? ============================ Jackie Jablonski Eng Dept Grad Student Bowling Green SU OH jjablon@bgnet.bgsu.edu On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Jacqueline Haessly wrote: > And a separate WHITE MEN'S LITERATURE course???? and WHITE MEN's Music, > history, science, etc, etc, etc,? > > Either we integrate -- with intention and respect -- or we fall to the > same problems that others before us have done. > > peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu > > > > On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Judy Evans wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, joAnn Castagna wrote: > > > > > RE: the comments below: One doesn't have to see this as a denial that > > > women of color have a place in the "women's literature" class. I doubt > > > that most "women's literature" classes focus exclusively on white > women's > > > writing. the existence in a particular curriculum of both "women's > > > literature" (perhaps an introductory survey course) and "Native > American > > > Women's Literature," African-American Women's Literature," and so on, > is > > > similar to divisions like "19th Century Literature," "Canadian > > Literature," > > > > I won't really be happy with arrangements like this until there can be a > > separate White Women's Writing course. > > > > But why not rename Women's Literature to reflect what it is? Subtitle, > > Overview? Or, add general? > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk > > using voice-recognition software: please > > ignore editing errors > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 08:31:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Native American Women's Bildungsroman I am writing for myself and a friend who does not subscribe to the list. She is compilling her PhD preliminary exam reading list, which focuses on women's bildungsroman (novel of growth), and is looking for more works by Native American women writers that would fit on her list. She is very aware of Louise Erdrich's work but would like to find more than _one_ work to study. We both pondered our very limited knowledge of such texts and so. . .Any ideas? If others are interested, I will compile a list to submit to WMST_L. Thanks in advance. Amy L. Wink alw7315@acs.tamu.edu Department of English Texas A&M University College Station Texas 77843-4227 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:54:40 MET Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vanwesenbeeck Organization: Tilburg University Subject: power over the body Dear wmst-listers, in the context of the development of a post- graduate course on power, sexuality and the body, I am in search of (some more) texts that treat general theories of power in relation to sexuality and the body. I am particularly interested in (constructionist, symbolic interactionist) theories that have surpassed the actor-structure divide (eg. Lukes, Giddens, Foucault, Bourdieu etc). I would be very happy to find a critical feminist text stating/explaining/investigating the applicability of such theories in the area of gender and sexuality. Maybe some of you can come up with a suggestion for a text that has not (yet) reached The Netherlands. I would be very much obliged. Thanks in anticipation, Ine Vanwesenbeeck. Ine Vanwesenbeeck Dept. of Women's Studies Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 e-mail: W.M.A.VANWESENBEECK@KUB.NL 5000 LE Tilburg tel: +31 13 4662366/-2287 The Netherlands fax: +31 13 4662370 Private address: van Eeghenstraat 191-2 tel: +31 20 6649587 1071 GD Amsterdam fax: +31 20 6649587 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 08:57:46 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: salary policies I'm head of a committee to review salary policies at my university - the process by which salaries are decided and the criteria used to decide them. (Among other things, we're going to look at sex discrimination in salaries). Does anyone have such a policy at their school? If so, I would appreciate receiving copies of your salary policy and/or the name, phone and e-mail of the person heading your committee or in charge of this. Since this is not directly women's studies business, please reply privately. Thanks in advance, Stephanie Riger Women's Studies Program (M/C 360) Univ. of Il. at Chicago 1022 Behavioral Sciences Building 1007 W. Harrison St. Chicago, Il. 60607-7137 Bitnet: u29322@uicvm.uic.edu Internet: sriger@uic.edu Fax: 312-413-4122 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:00:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PROF DAVID KAISER Subject: Re: Re[2]: Integrating women's lit courses -Reply To all: Well, as I've said before in re a few other posts, I've been reading this list as an educational experience, and it has been. And once in a while I can't help raising a question. In re "Men's literature," "Women's literature," "Minority literature," etc., no one, I don't think, has mentioned that any such title has its own implication: that the most important thing about any piece of literature is the race, gender, or (although this comes up much less) the class of the author. That implies either that these factors determine the content of the literature, or that the content simply isn't as important as the identity of the author. Either assumption, I think, is highly debatable. I find a great irony here, and food for thought. Yes, fifty years ago, most literature in American universities was white men's literature. But you will never convince me that people read it to affirm the superiority of white men. They read it for the distinctions among different white men--to find value that went beyond the racial/gender identity of the author. And I think that produced a more subtle form of criticism than criticism that just tries to show how a given writer's work is just a function of whiteness, maleness, or blackness or femaleness. Isn't it possible to be more inclusive without reducing us all to name, gender, race and class? I would like to think so. On another point: It seems to me the origin of "Women and people of color" or "Women and minorities" is an attempt to find a phrase that means, everbody except white males. I also have to say that I find the term "people of color" rather offensive. I'm a person of color, the color just happens to be rather pale. To tell you the truth, when I hear "people of color," I can't help but feel some one is trying to turn me into--to coin a phrase--an Invisible Man! David Kaiser - KaiserD@USNWC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:02:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: suggested reading for core Humanities course In-Reply-To: Although it's titled "A Multicultural Introduction to Literature," the essay is from a global feminist perspective. It is by Phillipa Kafka and appears in (Practicing Theory in Introductory College Literature Courses), eds. James M. Cahalan and David B. Downing, Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1991, 179-188. There are other excellent essays in this text, as well. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Shirley J. Schwarz wrote: > I am at an institution which does not have a women's studies program - nor > a single course in women's studies. At the last moment - the male > Humanities core revision committee has agreed to including *one* gender > oriented article in the third of our 3 sequence humanities core (courses > required for all freshman and sophomore students) in next year's course > packette of readings. (although it may sound like a military academy, we > are a four year liberal arts institution - check our web page at > http://www.evansville.edu and the World Culture sequence at > http://www.evansville.edu/showcase/wc.html). > > As I am spearheading a move toward developing a women's studies program (a > small group of female faculty and I are merely in the discussion stage), I > have been asked to provide (in 24 hours) suggestions for a single article, > no longer than 20 pages (which would not violate copyright), to be > included in a course packette (the course description follows) . > > The course description and thrust is World Culture (quoting from our > handbook): > > "In the past two centuries, movements and ideas have opened up the world > to infinite possibilities and a loss of the certitudes that comforted > previous generations. > > In this final semester of the World Culture sequence, we have four main > tasks: 1) to examine some of the ideas and events that have set the tone > for our present world; 2) to contintue exploration and appreciation of > cultural diversity throughout the world; 3) to consider some of the > problems that remain to be solved; and 4) (snipped, paraphrased) enhance > writing and oral expression." > > Back to me: I am of the 50s generation and have no background in women's > studies, issues, etc. - other than being female and living through all of > this - and thus, come ill-prepared to make any suggestions to this > committee. > > I put the question to you: If you had to select only one article that you > consider germaine to addressing the course objects indicated in items 1) 2) > and 3) above, what critical reading would you select? > > I NEED SUGGESTIONS FAST. Would you kindly send, if not one - two or three > short (20 pages) articles that I might suggest to the committee. Thus, > with three or four suggestions, if we use one for the course packette, the > others might be used as alternate readings -- particularly by instructors > who might be so adventurous as to explore feminist issues? > > Any and all responses appreciated in advance. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Shirley J. Schwarz phone: 812-479-2171 > Department of Archaeology & Art History FAX 812-479-2320 > University of Evansville e-mail ss37@evansville.edu > 1800 Lincoln Ave. > Evansville, IN 47722 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:01:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Aurore Bleck Subject: Re: Re[2]: Integrating women's lit courses I returned to school at mid-life also, and am pleased to find that the literature courses at the University of the District of Columbia are inclusive. If you take World Lit, American Lit, a freshman writing course, or a graduate course on essays, you are going to read a diverse sampling from authors of different cultural and racial groups and both genders. I didn't realize that I am at such a rare institution until I started following this thread on WMST. Of course, this rare institution is on the brink of extinction at the hands of the U.S. Congress, which reasons that we can be granted in-state tuition in Maryland or Virginia and get an equivalent (or even better) education by changing schools. UDC students don't agree, and we don't want to lose our opportunity to share learning with the dedicated and enlightened professors who suffer furloughs and funding cuts but still provide excellent guidance and inspiration to the students at UDC. Please let your congressional representatives know that the way out of the problems facing the nation's capital is not through a destruction of its educational system (many of them are reachable through email). Aurore Bleck ableck@nas.edu =============== message from Jackie Jablonski: Since returning to school mid-life and being dismayed to find that English Lit still means Mostly White Men's Lit, I have believed that yes, any course currently identified as a general lit course that includes only or mostly white men *should* be labeled White Men's Lit. And women's lit courses that are really white women's lit courses should be labeled accordingly. Using the examples below, the new course titles would be, e.g., 19th Century White Men's Literature, and White Canadian Literature, or White Canadian Women's Literature. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:18:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: teaching on violence against youth In-Reply-To: Alice Walker's (The Color Purple); Toni Morrison's (The Bluest Eye); Amy Tan's (The Kitchen God's Wife) offer some famous examples. On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, beth wrote: > WMST-L Subscribers: > I'm planning a summer sociology course on "Violence Against Children and > Youth", and have not taught this cause before. I'm having trouble connecting > with other feminists teaching a full syllabus (or significantly more than a > unit or small section within a broader topic), and am turning to WMST-L to > ask that if anyone has worked on teaching on this topic or something > relevant from an explicitly feminist perspective, that they please get in > touch. I would really like to communicate about effective ways to > teach on this subject. I'm using authors including Louise Armstrong and > Diana Russell (and some pieces by Judith Hermann), and also thinking about > ways to (critically) incorporate some of the texts on > "Children's Rights" and Children's Rights Movements which > usually don't overlap directly with feminist work. I'm also making use of > multiple grrl writings and 'zines, and would like to talk to other faculty > who have already done this in their courses. References that explicitly > link feminist work and youth liberation particularly appreciated (someone > had mentioned to me that Shulamith Firestone wrote on this, and I don't > have a specific cite anywhere and haven't located it yet)... > I also would appreciate the opportunity to discuss Alice Miller's "For Your > Own Good" and "Thou Shalt Not Be Aware" with someone who has thoughts about > feminist readings of these texts. > > Please reply privately, and I'll be glad to make any bibliographies or a > copy of the syllabus available in a few months if anyone's interested. > > thanks, > -beth, eribet@orion.oac.uci.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:18:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JANET LINDMAN Organization: Rowan College of NJ Subject: Re: Women's Studies Courses Criteria WMST-L Subscribers, The Women's Studies program at my college is in the process of revising its approval process for new courses. We would like feedback from other programs on what criteria they use to accept or reject new courses. In particular, we would like samples of written criteria of what constitutes a women's studies core course. Also, does anyone know if the NWSA has developed guidelines for undergraduate courses in women' studies and if so, how and who to contact in that organization. Thanks in advance and please reply privately to Lindman@mars.rowan.edu Janet Lindman Coordinator of Women's Studies Rowan College of New Jersey ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:28:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Women's Studies Courses Criteria > The Women's Studies program at my college is in the process of revising > its approval process for new courses. We would like feedback from other > programs on what criteria they use to accept or reject new courses. In > particular, we would like samples of written criteria of what constitutes > a women's studies core course. This issue has been discussed before on WMST-L and a file of responses is available from LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. Send the message GET CROSSLST POLICIES to that listserv address. Joan Korenman ************************************************************************* * Joan Korenman, Director, Women's Studies korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * University of Maryland Baltimore County * * http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ************************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:43:14 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses Comments: To: Nina Elfman In-Reply-To: I don't think I'm doing it alone, Nina. But I'd already decided not to carry on. (Warm regards?) On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Nina Elfman wrote: > Ya'll have beaten this issue to death with no useful end in sight. Can we > please move on? > Warm Regards, > Nina > --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:45:50 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Bergmann Subject: Re: Re[2]: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: A couple of years ago, I took on a course called "The Novel Today" and packed the reading list with women writers--7 novels by women and a "token male" writer. I didn't say anything about it, until one of the studetns raised the issue--some three or four weeks into the course. Throughout the semester we discussed issues like whether the books were "mainstream" (Toni Morrison won the Nobel PRize while we were reading her!), whether they were "representative," whether the reading list was "Fair" to men, whether lit by men is "universal,"--and lit by women is for women only !--and such. There's a lot to be said for appropriating the "general" courses--be they American lit, contemporary lit, or political philosophy--and making them our own. Linda Bergmann On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Muldy Sculler wrote: > There are "separate white men's literature courses" they are called > World Lit. American Lit. Beginning Writing, Advanced Writing--get the > picture. > Barbara > > > On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Judy Evans wrote: > > > > On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Judy Evans wrote: > > > > > > I won't really be happy with arrangements like this until there can be a > > > > separate White Women's Writing course. > > > > On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Jacqueline Haessly wrote: > > > > > And a separate WHITE MEN'S LITERATURE course???? and WHITE MEN's Music, > > > history, science, etc, etc, etc,? > > > > > > Either we integrate -- with intention and respect -- or we fall to the > > > same problems that others before us have done. > > > > I agree. I meant that I couldn't accept "general" courses plus "options" > > covering e.g. black thought, unless "white" were given the same secondary > > status. > > > > In my first post I attacked the situation where Political Philosophy and > > Feminist Theory are separate courses and the second is subordinate. > > There are some difficult issues involved here. We may have to build up > > strength separately before we can integrate. On the other hand > > principle aside, we may get marginalized by non-integration. > > > > Given that in my Dept Pol Phil contains no women writers, I stand by > > a separate course. > > A colleague elsewhere has managed to get a large number of women and/or > > feminist writers onto their core course. > > > > So come to think of it I agree in theory. In practice there are problems. > > These are more acute for women than for men, for blacks than for whites, > > and so on. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk > > using voice-recognition software: please > > ignore editing errors > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Linda S. Bergmann, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Department of Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois 60616 (312) 567-3462 bergmann@charlie.acc.iit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:34:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mark Logan Subject: Menstruation books for early teens... I was wondering if people on the list could help. I'm looking for good books on menstruation (first time, health stuff) for early teens. I have discovered the kid's book _Period_ and the _Our Bodies, OurSelves_ health book, but everything else seems outdated, conservative or written by men for parents. Any suggestions??? Please respond privately. If there is a large list I will post it to the list. K. O'Grady kerouack@hookup.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:04:20 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "COBURN, CAROL K" Subject: Re: Calling All WEEA Folks! In-Reply-To: <74E2633101A52A79@-SMF-> Nancy, I think this might be a possibility for outside funding for the WS program. Carol ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:05:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: integration thread David Kaiser writes: > I find a great irony here, and food for thought. Yes, fifty > years ago, most literature in American universities was white men's > literature. But you will never convince me that people read it to > affirm the superiority of white men. It is probably pointless to try to respond to someone who announces that he will never be convinced. But, as someone educated before the impact of Women's Studies, I can attest to the fact that the curriculum I studied did exactly what David Kaiser claims it did not. It may not have shouted from the housetops that white men were superior, but it definitely sent that message more subtly. Only literature by white men was good enough to be considered in college courses; only white men accomplished much in history; only the thought processes of white men established what was "normal" in psychology, etc. etc. etc. At the time, I simply assumed that that was they way things were; only later did I begin to ask who was absent from the curriculum and why, and what messages that sent. That's why I became involved with Women's Studies. > They read it for the > distinctions among different white men--to find value that went > beyond the racial/gender identity of the author. By looking only at the experiences and accomplishments of white men, the curriculum sent the definite message that white men were important. Indeed, important enough so that we should pay attention to distinctions among them, but not to anyone else. The courses did NOT go "beyond the racial/gender identity of the author" - they took that racial and gender identity as the unmarked norm, so important that it need not be mentioned or questioned or broadened. > And I think that > produced a more subtle form of criticism than criticism that just > tries to show how a given writer's work is just a function of > whiteness, maleness, or blackness or femaleness. This creates a simplistic, inaccurate straw person to knock down. Those who are better versed in the criticism Kaiser attacks know that much of it is indeed far more complex than he's presenting it. I thought of replying privately to David Kaiser, since WMST-L isn't really the place for novice inquiries about or challenges to Women's Studies--it's a list primarily for people engaged in Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration. That's not to say that such inquiries and challenges aren't important, but WMST-L is designed to serve other needs. I would hate to see us get bogged down trying to enlighted novices (that's what our classes are for) and those who claim they'll never be convinced. I also sense that both the pre-patriarchy thread and the integrating women's lit thread are beginning to get rather repetitive. Let's move on to other matters. Joan Korenman ************************************************************************* * Joan Korenman, Director, Women's Studies korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * University of Maryland Baltimore County * * http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ************************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 08:27:20 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Re: power over the body Two important sources that come immediately to mind that deal with power, gender, the body, etc. (and use Foucault in various ways) are Judith Butler's GENDER TROUBLE; FEMINISM AND THE SUBVERSION OF IDENTITY (pub. Routledge, 1990) and the book BODIES THAT MATTER (which I don't have at hand for pub. info, etc.). There's also a bok called FEMINISM AND FOUCAULT, ed. Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby, which includes at least several pertinent essays. The work of Elizabeth Grosz would also be pertinent; unfortunately, I don't have that at hand either for pub. info. And there's Susan Bordo's UNBEARABLE WEIGHT; FEMINISM, WESTERN CULTURE, AND THE BODY (U of California Press, 1993). I hope all of these weren't already familiar to you and that perhaps some of them will be useful. Marilyn Edelstein, Dept. of English, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara California, 95053 medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:24:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: from "Judy Evans" at Apr 4, 96 04:43:14 pm Before the integration thread ends, I just want to say that I entered college as an undergraduate in 1981 sure that I was going to be an English major. I enrolled in General Literature, the major year-long "intro to lit" course for English majors. During the entire year, we did not read a single book or article by anyone who wasn't white or male. (And this was at Smith, a women's college!) I decided that I could not spend the next four years of my life studying only works by white men. And I never took another English course. Chris ******************************** Chris Saad saad@dolphin.upenn.edu ******************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:56:38 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bang-Soon Yoon Subject: Re: Women's Studies Courses Criteria In-Reply-To: <1D6EA011771@mars.rowan.edu> I am also interested in receiving information about the WS courses criteria. Please send it to "YOONB@CWU.EDU". Thank you. Bang-Soon Yoon On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, JANET LINDMAN wrote: > WMST-L Subscribers, > > The Women's Studies program at my college is in the process of revising > its approval process for new courses. We would like feedback from other > programs on what criteria they use to accept or reject new courses. In > particular, we would like samples of written criteria of what constitutes > a women's studies core course. Also, does anyone know if the NWSA > has developed guidelines for undergraduate courses in women' studies > and if so, how and who to contact in that organization. Thanks in advance > and please reply privately to Lindman@mars.rowan.edu > > Janet Lindman > Coordinator of Women's Studies > Rowan College of New Jersey > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 14:48:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maike Haaland Organization: Goddard College Subject: query-crossdressing women hist. I am looking for historical sources about crossdressing women. I am particularly interested in women who might have crossdressed to gain entry into the labor force. Does anyone have suggestions? Please answer privately. Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maike Haland Phone: 802 454 8311 (x205) Goddard College Fax: 802 454 8017 Plainfield, VT 05667 e-mail: maikeh@earth.goddard.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 17:42:53 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Shirley J. Schwarz" Subject: Re: Women's Studies Courses Criteria In-Reply-To: I too wish information. On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Bang-Soon Yoon wrote: > I am also interested in receiving information about the WS courses > criteria. Please send it to "YOONB@CWU.EDU". Thank you. Bang-Soon Yoon > > On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, JANET LINDMAN wrote: > > > WMST-L Subscribers, > > > > The Women's Studies program at my college is in the process of revising > > its approval process for new courses. We would like feedback from other > > programs on what criteria they use to accept or reject new courses. In > > particular, we would like samples of written criteria of what constitutes > > a women's studies core course. Also, does anyone know if the NWSA > > has developed guidelines for undergraduate courses in women' studies > > and if so, how and who to contact in that organization. Thanks in advance > > and please reply privately to Lindman@mars.rowan.edu > > > > Janet Lindman > > Coordinator of Women's Studies > > Rowan College of New Jersey > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shirley J. Schwarz phone: 812-479-2171 Department of Archaeology & Art History FAX 812-479-2320 University of Evansville e-mail ss37@evansville.edu 1800 Lincoln Ave. Evansville, IN 47722 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 19:14:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "GINA M. CAMODECA" Organization: University at Buffalo Subject: performance artist I'm looking for the name of a contemporary woman performance artist. She has altered her face through repeated plastic surgical procedures with the expressed intent of making herself ugly. Her performance consists of photographs taken of herself and her transmutation into the hideous. I belive she's French, but I'm not certain. I have not seen the show myself, but I know by virtue of anecdote that it went to Atlanta several years ago. Any info re: this woman would be greatly appreciated. Please reply privately. Gina M. Camodeca v391w9rn@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 14:25:24 -1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Office for Women's Research Subject: Women in Hawai'i--Call for Papers Please forward this on to whomever and wherever you think appropriate. Also, please note that student submissions are encouraged. Thanks! Louise Kubo kubo@hawaii.edu *********************** Call For Papers "Women in Hawai'i" Special Edition of *Social Process in Hawai'i* v 39, 1997 guest edited by the Office for Women's Research at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa This will be a refereed journal The Office for Women's Research invites submissions for this special "Women in Hawai'i" issue of *Social Process in Hawai'i.* As the first of its kind, we want to make this an exciting, lively issue and are therefore soliciting interdisciplinary works including: scholarly articles (25-30 pages); book and film reviews (up to 4 pages); and other diverse forms of expression and writing styles. We encourage student submissions. The issue's theme, "Women in Hawai'i," is conceived broadly to include both the wide range of experiences of women in Hawai'i, as well as the cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, multiple forms of expression used to relate these experiences. Some possible (but not exclusive) themes/areas of focus for "Women in Hawai'i" are: race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, culture, identity, community, indigenous issues, work, health, family, religion, marriage, parenting, education, economics, resistance, immigration, language, media, aging, art, literature, representation, tourism, sovereignty, military, colonization, domestic violence, and crime. Deadlines: Title and Abstract due April 30, 1996. Submissions due September 1, 1996 All submissions should be double spaced, in 12 pt font and not previously published. Please submit five hardcopies in ASR format and on disk (Mac prefered) to: Office for Women's Research University of Hawai'i at Manoa 721L Porteus 2424 Maile Way Honolulu, HI 96822 Direct questions to owr@hawaii.edu or call us at (808) 956-3641. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 05:49:16 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Veronica Strong-Boag Subject: Re: Native American Women's Bildungsroman Try Lee Maracle's Sundogs (Penticton, B.C.: Thetus Books, 1992). I use it for my intro WS course but it's good reading for everyone. L.M. is a Canadian 1st nations writer and also author of Bobbi Lee: Indian REbel, Sojourner's Truth, and I am Woman. Veronica Strong-Boag Director, Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations Professor of Educational Studies University of British Columbia 1896 East Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z1 604-822-9175/fax 604-822-9169 e-mail stbg@unixg.ubc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 20:50:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Preissle Subject: Power over the body Judith Preissle University of Georgia preissle@moe.coe.uga.edu jude@uga.cc.uga.edu Some of the chapters in Michelle Fine's book, "Disruptive Voices: The Possibilities of Feminist Research" (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992) are relevant. Part I, labeled "On the Bodies of Women," has three chapters; Part II has an illuminating chapter on women with disabilities; Part III has a chapter revisiting adolescent female bodies. Fine is one of those researchers whose shocks remind me of how my consciousness still has a long way to go. jude ========================================================================== Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 15:54:40 +0100 (MET) From: Vanwesenbeeck Subject: power over the body Dear wmst-listers, in the context of the development of a post- graduate course on power, sexuality and the body, I am in search of (some more) texts that treat general theories of power in relation to sexuality and the body. I am particularly interested in (constructionist, symbolic interactionist) theories that have surpassed the actor-structure divide (eg. Lukes, Giddens, Foucault, Bourdieu etc). I would be very happy to find a critical feminist text stating/explaining/investigating the applicability of such theories in the area of gender and sexuality. Maybe some of you can come up with a suggestion for a text that has not (yet) reached The Netherlands. I would be very much obliged. Thanks in anticipation, Ine Vanwesenbeeck. Ine Vanwesenbeeck Dept. of Women's Studies Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 e-mail: W.M.A.VANWESENBEECK@KUB.NL 5000 LE Tilburg tel: +31 13 4662366/-2287 The Netherlands fax: +31 13 4662370 Private address: van Eeghenstraat 191-2 tel: +31 20 6649587 1071 GD Amsterdam fax: +31 20 6649587 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 22:58:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Preston Knight Subject: Radicalizing traditional courses Linda Bergmann described her version of "The Novel Today," for which she assigned seven works by women and one by a man. I think this is a vital step for Women's Studies instructors to take, whenever they can, to move us toward the ideal transformation of the the curriculum. In the '70s I once chose a child development text that used only the female "generic pronoun," e.g., "When the child turns one, she is likely to be walking." The effect on the students was electrifying: most of the women loved it, whereas several men complained that the female pronoun was distracting and made it hard for them to learn the material. Now most psychology texts are gender neutral, at least in regard to pronoun use, which is, of course, the desirable end result of all our efforts. An unserious footnote on a recently-concluded (thank goodness) discussion: Jackie Jablonski hoped for suggested replacements for the phrase, "women and people of color," and voila! David Kaiser supplied one: "everyone except white males." Kathleen Preston, Prof. Emerita Humboldt State Univ., Arcata, CA 95521 KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 01:25:15 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: language, gender, race In-Reply-To: <01I34BQOXKJ68Y4XEY@MCRCR6.MED.NYU.EDU> In response to the many postings re "women and people of color" or "women and other minorities", I'd like to share the following: Have a thought about the way that groups are indentified: and the need to be clear about whether that identity is in terms of race (once there were three -- Caucasian, Mongoloid, Negroid) only Caucasian is still is common usage; culture (Hispanic is most common) country of origin (Polish American, German American are common in US) continent of origin (African American, Asian American and Native American are most common in US) These terms, or similar ones, are used on application forms, student/employees records, and even in identifying course titles and bibliographies. As one can see, these are totally inconsistent in our ways of identifying folks, as well as inconsistent in how we identify their history, music, lit, and whatever else we study in the academy. Perhaps that can be the next major research project -- to come up with terms that are consistent, and are also inclusive in the fullest meaning of the words. Then, too, will our academic disciplines be more responsive to the ways that our courses reflect intentional specialization, and where they are still flawed. Peace and toward greater inclusiveness. jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, holzman wrote: > At 10:09 PM 4/2/96 -0500, N. Benokraitis wrote: > > > >I don't understand why "white women and racialized women and men" should > >be substituted for "women and minorities." Does "racialized" mean being > >treated differently and purposely because of race? If so, is "racialized" > >akin, especially, to politicized? Also, is "women from racialized groups" > >different from "gendered racism"? Finally, is "women and people of color" > >also offensive? Please explain. > > > >TIA, > >niki Benokraitis > > One problem is that phrases like "women and minorities" and "women and > people of color" ignore the existence of people who are both women and > minorities/people of color/racialized. This issue was pungently captured in > the Women's Studies classic, "All the women are white, all the blacks are > men, but some of us are brave." Using the term "racialized men and women" > also has the advantage that it calls attention to the fact that racial > categories are social constructions that are imposed on people, not > naturally occurring characteristics of the people. I think the term > "gendered racism" is addressing a different point, i.e. that racism and > sexism are not simply additive; racism affects men and women in different > ways. > > > > __________________________ > Clare Holzman > 330 West 58th Street, 404 > New York, NY 10019 > holzmr01@mcrcr.med.nyu.edu > > It is easy to be born a human being but it is not easy to act like one. > -- Tagalog proverb > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 09:46:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Authorization/Approval (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 4) "I'VE TRIED TO POST A MESSAGE TO THE LIST, BUT I RECEIVED A MESSAGE BACK SAYING THAT I'M NOT AUTHORIZED TO DO SO. I'M A SUBSCRIBER --WHY WAS I TOLD I'M NOT AUTHORIZED?" B) "WHEN I SENT A MESSAGE TO WMST-L, I WAS TOLD IT HAD BEEN FORWARDED TO THE LISTOWNER FOR APPROVAL. WHY?" A) Only people whom the LISTSERV software recognizes as subscribers can post messages on WMST-L. To subscribe, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): SUB WMST-L Your Name (e.g., SUB WMST-L Jane Smith). If you've already subscribed to WMST-L and you run into problems, chances are that you subscribed under a different address than the one from which you sent your recent message--e.g., you subscribed under your Bitnet address and then sent a message from your Internet address, or your address has changed since you subscribed. The LISTSERV software recognizes subscribers by their e-mail address. If you subscribe under a Bitnet [or Internet] address, you have to send all messages to LISTSERV and WMST-L from that same address. If you are unsuccessful posting a message to the list's Bitnet address, try sending the message to the list's Internet address. If your e-mail address has changed since you subscribed, please contact me PRIVATELY (not via a message to WMST-L). B) Postings from all new subscribers (and old subscribers with new subscriptions) are now automatically sent to the listowner for approval. This cuts down on inappropriate messages from newcomers who haven't had time to read the welcome letter. After a few weeks, most subscriptions are quietly readjusted so that messages are no longer subject to prior review. ****************** 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, 5 Apr 1996 10:14:48 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michelle Meyers Subject: Re: Native American Women's Bildungsroman --- You wrote: She is compilling her PhD preliminary exam reading list, which focuses on women's bildungsroman (novel of growth), and is looking for more works by Native American women writers that would fit on her list. --- end of quoted material --- There are many fine examples of literary works by Native American Women which you might consider. Works that come immediately to my mind are Leslie Marmon Silko's STORYTELLER (not a novel); Susan Power's THE GRASS DANCER; Janet Hale's THE JAILING OF CELIA CAPTURE, and her BLOODLINES (not a novel); Maria Campbell's HALFBREED; Betty Louise Bell's FACES IN THE MOON. There are also some very good bibliographies which you might want to consult including Gretchen Bataille & Kathleen Sands, AMERICAN INDIAN WOMAN: A GUIDE TO RESEARCH, NY, Garland Publishing, 1991, which has a section on literature. Finally you might want to question whether Native American literature can be neatly incorporated into the "bildungsroman" genre, and what the implications, for/on these literary works of incorporating them are. In other words, will incorporating these works into the "bildungsroman" genre inevitably entail a misreading of the works. --Michelle Meyers Women's Studies Dartmouth College michelle.meyers@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 09:20:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jane quaid rickman Subject: stop nomail Jane Rickman ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 10:19:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Feminist Teacher Subject: Call for papers CALL FOR PAPERS Guidelines for Authors _Feminist Teacher_ reaches educators in a variety of disciplines and in all grade levels--preschool through graduate school, in traditional as well as nontraditional classroom settings. We ask authors to keep the diversity of this audience in mind and to avoid technical or abstract language. We welcome articles, course syllabi, and book reviews. To make syllabi as useful and accessible as possible to readers, we ask that contributors include full citations, in MLA style, of all texts as well as an introduction to clarify the background, primary concerns, or other important aspects of the course or the material. Manuscript Preparation: Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, on one side of 8 1/2 X 11 inch white paper. Please submit three copies of your manuscript, including all accompanying notes and appendices. The title page should include the title, your name, address, institutional affiliation, a short biographical paragraph, and an abbreviation of your title to be used as a running head. Do not put your name on any text pages. In general, articles should not exceed 5000 words (17 manuscript pages). All manuscripts are acknowledged when received, without obligation for publication. 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Use parenthetical references such as (Smith 147) in the text. Manuscripts to: Paula Krebs Feminist Teacher Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 Feminist_Teacher@WheatonMa.edu or Paula_Krebs@WheatonMa.edu Book reviews to: Gail Cohee Division of English Box 4019 Emporia State University Emporia, KS 66801 coheegai@esumail.emporia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 10:25:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Georgia NeSmith, PhD" Subject: Blue Jean Mag. phone # I have received many telephone calls from people seeking the telephone number of the new magazine for teen girls: Blue Jean Magazine: For Teen Girls Who Dare. I am not in any way directly connected to the magazine; I just met the executive editor, Gina Strazzabosco-Hayn about a week ago. Questions can be directed to: 716/654-5070 or 716/654-5071. I can pass on Strazzabosco-Hayn's e-mail address to those who request it from me. Georgia NeSmith Editor/Writer/Writing Coach The Writers Edge 716/235-4182 Professional and Technical Communication Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:26:18 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Mason Subject: Re: WILLIAMS' ALCHEMY OF RACE AND RIGHTS Prof. Kristin Bumiller uses this text in a course at Amherst College entitled "Re-Imagining Law: Femenist Interpretations." I took this well conducted course with her in 1992. I think she is still at Amherst, but I haven't been in contact with her for a few years and don't have her email address. Best of luck! Jennifer Mason >Has anyone taught Patricia Williams' Alchemy of Race and Rights? I would >like to talk with you about pedagogical issues, especially talking about >it within the context of the critical legal studies movement. Please >respond privately. Thanks in advance, Claire Garcia. > >CGARCIA@cc.colorado.edu > Jennifer Mason jenmason@mail.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 13:59:13 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carol perkins Subject: Sabbatical replacement faculty position The Department of Women's Studies at Mankato State University is seeking a 1-year sabbatical replacement instructor. Qualifications: M.A. or M.S. in appropriate discipline required with evidence of successful teaching experience, preferably in Women's Studies and demonstrated potential in feminist scholarship. Preferred qualifications: Multicultural preparation and experience working with diverse groups of women. Responsibilities of the position: teach 3 courses per quarter, including general education intro Women's Studies course and additional undergrad and grad courses in the area of expertise. Supervise a limited number of undergrad internships. Salary: $26,000. Date of appointment: 9/10/96 Related info: The Women's Studies Department offers undergrad and graduate degree programs. Our curriculum blends theory, practice and service to community. Send letter of application, including statement of teaching philosophy, curriculum vitae, relevant course syllabi and teaching evaluations by students. Include phone numbers for three professional references. Send to: Carol Perkins, Chair; Women's Studies, MSU 64; Mankato State University, P.O. Box 8400; Mankato MN 56002-8400. Application deadline: May 3, 1996. Carol O. Perkins e-mail: COPWST@VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.edu Phone: 507-389-2077 FAX: 507-389-6377 Carol O. Perkins, Chairperson Department of Women's Studies Mankato State University MSU Box 64 P.O.Box 8400 Mankato, MN 56002-8400 (507) 389-5025;2077 e-mail: COPWST@VAX1.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 16:37:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patrice McDermott Subject: Re: language, gender, race In-Reply-To: On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Jacqueline Haessly wrote: > In response to the many postings re "women and people of color" or > "women and other minorities", I'd like to share the following: > > Have a thought about the way that groups are indentified: and the need > to be clear about whether that identity is in terms of > > race (once there were three -- Caucasian, Mongoloid, Negroid) > only Caucasian is still is common usage; > > culture (Hispanic is most common) > > country of origin (Polish American, German American are common > in US) > > continent of origin (African American, Asian American and Native > American are most common in US) > > These terms, or similar ones, are used on application forms, > student/employees records, and even in identifying course titles and > bibliographies. > > As one can see, these are totally inconsistent in our ways of identifying > folks, as well as inconsistent in how we identify their history, music, > lit, and whatever else we study in the academy. > > Perhaps that can be the next major research project -- to come up with > terms that are consistent, and are also inclusive in the fullest meaning > of the words. Then, too, will our academic disciplines be more > responsive to the ways that our courses reflect intentional > specialization, and where they are still flawed. > > Peace and toward greater inclusiveness. jacqueline Haessly > > jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu > This is an issue with which the federal government, in particular the Census Bureau, is dealing--with great difficulty. There is a great deal of literature about this (from the govt's perspective as well as those of the affected communities) and this might be a good place to start for anyone who might want to take it on as a research project. Any researcher should be aware, however, that the issues are not "just" linquistic but have to do with money, jobs, etc. Anyway, just a note that this is a political issue in many different ways. I don't remember this being a thread on WMST-L, but Joan could tell us if there is an archive on it. Patrice McDermott patricem@CapAccess.org ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 07:53:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: UMDD/WMST-L down on Sun., April 7 I have received word that UMDD, the computer that houses WMST-L, will be down for hardware changes on Sunday, April 7, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (EDT). NO transactions can take place on WMST-L or LISTSERV at that time--no messages, no subscription changes, etc. Service is scheduled to resume Sunday evening, though all times are approximate. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman * * U. of Md. Baltimore County korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 07:55:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to stop mail temporarily (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: ****************** 5) "I'M GOING ON VACATION FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. CAN I STOP MAIL WHILE I'M AWAY, OR DO I HAVE TO UNSUBSCRIBE?" You can stop mail temporarily (except for the edited digest) by sending the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed on Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed on Internet): SET WMST-L NOMAIL [NOTE: NOMAIL is one word] When you want mail to start arriving again, send the following message to the same address: SET WMST-L MAIL If you want to stop the edited DIGEST, even temporarily, you have to send the message AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE . To re-start it, send the message AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE (and ignore the request that you establish a password). Note: BE SURE TO SEND THESE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L! Also, if you receive a message back telling you you're not a subscriber, see section 4) above. ****************** 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, 6 Apr 1996 10:07:08 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Georgia NeSmith, PhD" Subject: Re: publishing fiction In-Reply-To: "Your message dated Wed, 03 Apr 1996 16:34:39 -0600" <199604032234.QAA21079@charlie.acc.iit.edu> An additional resource to check out for publishing fiction (women's or otherwise) is Writer's Digest's _Novel and Short Story Writer's Market_. This reference book is far more comprehensive in its coverage of the fiction market than is the _Writer's Market_ and includes an extensive (though certainly not exhaustive) section on literary magazines and small presses. It also provides more detailed information on fiction-receptive publications that are listed in the _Writer's Market_. I have a copy of a book I'm sure is out of print called _Guide to Women's Publishing_, by Polly Joan and Andrea Chesman, published by Dustbooks, PO Box 100, Paradise CA 95969, in 1978. Many of the journals, presses, and newspapers I am sure no longer exist, but many are still around. It could be useful to check this guide, which is likely available through interlibrary loan (I hope), and cross-check with other indexes to see what's still around. Also, you might want to check around your area to see if there is a literary center offering courses. Locally, we are blessed to have Rochester's Writers & Books, which provides courses in everything from beginning poetry and fiction to science journalism to courses in how to get published and how to negotiate a contract with publishers. (Not to mention courses such as author/feminist therapist Mary Sojourner's "Ravenmoon," a writing workshop for women over 45, coming up next weekend.) A schedule of courses (and the newsletter I edit!) is available by calling Writers & Books at 716/473-2590. _Poets & Writers_ published a guide to North American literary centers some time in the last two years. Georgia NeSmith Writer/Editor/Writing Coach The Writer's Edge 716/235-4182 Professional and Technical Communication Rochester Institute of Technology "Every writer needs an editor!" ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 15:26:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: cynthia Ryan Subject: None I've accidentally misplaced the posting that someone made to the list about "zines" a few weeks ago. The poster included a list of several zines that are currently available and the addresses/contact people for each. Could you please re-post this listing or respond to me privately? Thank you. Cynthia Ryan enryan@ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 18:40:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: sidney matrix Subject: cfp: stress, phobia, panic In-Reply-To: <199604060514.AAA12693@mailbox.syr.edu> final call for proposals for an anthology edited by two women, sidney matrix and noel morgan, on women's experiences of panic, phobia, acute stress and anxiety. critical and creative feminist theoretical essays and autobiographical/personal pieces welcome, as well as poetic or fictional work. volume is interdisciplinary, containing work from the humanities and social sciences. please send inquiry for more information c/o smatrix@mailbox.syr.edu. thank you! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 18:48:51 GMT Reply-To: women.a@magnet.at Sender: Women's Studies List From: "O. Frauennetzwerk" Organization: magnet Online Service Subject: List for Europe I have been following up the list for three months now and can clearly decide now, that this list is primarily for the US. So I want to ask everybody if there is an interest to found a new list with relevance for EUROPE in German or French language? Thank you for answers angele zobl women.a@magnet.at ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 15:51:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan ferber Subject: Address In-Reply-To: <328531966.9870609@magnet.at> Does anyone on the list know how to contact Dale Spender? I am writing about Australian expatriate feminists and don't know if she is in London or Australia in the next few months. Please respond privately. Thank you in advance. Susan Ferber ferber@husc.harvard.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 20:42:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L edited digest (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L 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. If at some point you decide you want to stop the digest and switch back to receiving individual messages, send the following two-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE [on line 1] and SET WMST-L MAIL NOACK [on line 2]. To unsubscribe and stop the digest, put AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE on line 1 and UNSUB WMST-L on line 2. ************************ 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: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:37:20 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: teaching on violence against youth In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:29:39 -0800 Re: Violence against children Louise DeSalvo's forthocoming memoir, VERTIGO (Dutton, August 1996) is a very interesting book which explores the link between DeSlavo's work on childhood sexual abuse in Virginia Woolf and her own coming to terms with child abuse she suffered. And her biography of Woolf, VIRGINIA WOOLF: THE IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE ON HER LIFE AND WORK, is also very relevant to the issue of violence against children. Edi Giunta Faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:23:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Shirley J. Schwarz" Subject: Re: response to single article for core Humanities course In-Reply-To: In response to my urgent request for suggestions from you, I received an overwhelming and gratifying number of suggestions. There are 27 different suggestions in all - a number of offered the same reading, which lends greater credence for our offering to the revision committee. At least one of the suggestions, if not two will probably be included within the course packette. - at the moment, it appears that they might include the Introduction to Beauvoir's, Second Sex and Glaspell's "Trifles". I am especially grateful to you all - in my hour of trial and need - for not only supplying suggestions but support as well. In an effort to spare your email inboxes, I have snipped, but have taken the liberty of including some of your annotated commentary. Following are your suggestions: From: Frann Michel 1. Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefinng Difference" in her _Sister Outsider_ (1984) [about 10 pages] 2. Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," in her collection of the same title 3. Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" in her _Blood, Bread, and Poetry_ , also available in _The Signs Reader_ ****************************************************************** From: Julia Watson 4. Introduction to THe SEcond Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir. writer and philosopher, it's interdisciplinary, and it gets at a lot. 5. 20 pp from Virginia Woolf (from A Room of One's Own), but I think 'its hard to excerpt. 6. Another good piece that engages race and gender is Zora Neale Hurston, How it feels to be colored me. 7. It would be easier in many ways to use a literary text (plus some women's art) than an essay--e.g., CP Gilman, The Yellow WAllpaper (short) or the play version of A Jury of Her Peers (can't remember the author--American, early 20th cen.) ******************************************************************** From: "C. Horwitz" I use Audre Lorde's article "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference." in Anderson, Hill-Collins _Race, Class and Gender_ comes immediately to mind. While this article does not specifically address issues in humanities it does expxlain how one's lived experiences in terms of race, class and gender determine how one sees the world, makes meaning and finds value. ********************************************************************** From: Jane Elza 8. sexism and the english language: the linguistic implications of being a woman karen l. adams and norma c. ware found in women, a feminist perspective edited by jo freeman 9. how about an exert from the handmaid's tale? 10. toward an afra-american feminism by carol wayne white in the freeman book above. 11. Commencement address at smith college, l979 adrienne rich in images of women in american popular culture by angela dorenkamp 12. the yellow wallpaper charlotte perkins gilman 13. trifles: a play in one act by susan glaspell (be sure and note the date) ********************************************************* From: Kristine Anderson 14. I would suggest Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto." I don't have the original journal citation, but it was reprinted as a chapter in her book <> published by Routledge in 1991. ************************************************************* From: Kathryn Corbett 15. De Beauvoir, Simone, THE SECOND SEX. ************************************************************ From: Helen.Klebesadel@lawrence.edu 16. Virginia Woolfe's "One Room Of Ones Own" with great success. It is too long for what you request, but 17. you might consider one of her shorter articles. I have heard that "Three Guineas" has been taught to great success. It shows a disillusioned female view of male defined history. 18. Another work that has raised alot of issues with regard to women being a part of the canon is Linda Nochlin's article from the early seventies "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?." This critiques our standards for genuis and shows how women have historically been structurally denied access to the means to achive it. 19. Another short and more contemporary work might be Alice Walker's "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" A very short work that analyzes what we call art and why. ******************************************************************* From: Frann Michel Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefinng Difference" in her _Sister Outsider_ (1984) [about 10 pages] Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," in her collection of the same title 20. Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" in her _Blood, Bread, and Poetry_ , also available in _The Signs Reader_ ******************************************************************** From: GILLIAN RODGER 21. (snipped) I like the best, and use the most, come from anthropology (Ortner and Whitehead's _Sexual Meanings_) or queer theory, or are too long and too complex for the kind of audience you have (Judith Butler, for example). ************************************************************* From: beatrice 22. There's an introductory essay on historigraphy in a book "Recasting Women: Essays on Indian Colonial History" by Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, which argues for including gender in all scholarship or fail to fully represent sociality in whatever the scholar is talking about. The essay also included references to the chapters in the book (All the authors, including the 2 I mentioned, the editors, are Indians in India.) **************************************************************** From: hraisz@mercy.sjc.edu (helen raisz) 23. My suggestion is to turn to the website of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and the NGO Forum in Huairou. I attended the latter, and know that the four main tasks would be accomplished by studying the Platform for Action. 24. There was a special edition of Women's Studies International which probably had an excellent introductory article which you might suggest. ******************************************************************* From: Ruth P Dawson 25. I would recommend the introduction of Elizabeth Minnich's book, *Transforming Knowledge.* It covers the territory of the course and will give students an inkling of the implications of what they've been missing. Good Luck! ******************************************************************** From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka 26. Although it's titled "A Multicultural Introduction to Literature," the essay is from a global feminist perspective. It is by Phillipa Kafka and appears in (Practicing Theory in Introductory College Literature Courses), eds. James M. Cahalan and David B. Downing, Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1991, 179-188. There are other excellent essays in this text, as well. ********************************************************************** From: "Diane L. Fowlkes" 27. Work by Charlotte Bunch goes over well in my classes. Try "Bringing the Global Home," in Charlotte Bunch, _Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action." New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shirley J. Schwarz phone: 812-479-2171 Department of Archaeology & Art History FAX 812-479-2320 University of Evansville e-mail ss37@evansville.edu 1800 Lincoln Ave. Evansville, IN 47722 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:18:58 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carla swift Subject: Re: List for Europe Comments: To: "O. Frauennetzwerk" In-Reply-To: <328531966.9870609@magnet.at> Possibly the perception that this list is primarily for the U.S. would change if there was more participation from those in Europe. I would really like to hear more of what you, as a European, find important on the topics under discussion -- or even when you find them to be totally UNimportant to the community you live in. One of the wonderful aspects of a list -- at least for me -- is expanding my thinking beyond my own cultural viewpoint. I would really value hearing more from you about what would make these discussions more relevant to your experience. When I traveled in Germany 4 years ago, I learned so much about me by discovering ideas and approaches that were different. Can you elaborate on why this seems so U.S. focused? Carla hbspc010@csun.edu AOn Sun, 7 Apr 1996, O. Frauennetzwerk wrote: > I have been following up the list for three months now and can clearly decide > now, that this list is primarily for the US. > So I want to ask everybody if there is an interest to found a new list with > relevance for EUROPE in German or French language? > > Thank you for answers > angele zobl > women.a@magnet.at > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 08:22:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Re: List for Europe In-Reply-To: There are several sociology discussion groups in Europe. If you want more general discussion lists, however, try Women's Resources on the Internet: http://sunsite.unc.edu/cheryb/women/wresrouces.html . This URL has links to a variety of other sites. Don't know whether it's on the WMST-L site or not. niki Benokraitis nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 08:22:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jean Noble Subject: Re: performance artist In-Reply-To: <01I35KO04DPU8XMWPR@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> Hi Gina, in her book, altered conditions (routledge '95) julia epstein writes the following "The second new york times article described an even more extreme form of skin art. it profiled the french multimedia performance artist orlan, who has constructed a computer composite of a female face that takes each of its features from a different work of western art ... in a series of elaborately staged and costumed cosmetic surgeries, she is having her own face transformed to match this composite." (2) she cites the following from the New York Times: Margalit Fox, "A Portrait in Skin and Bone," New York Times, November 21, 1993, Section 9:8 (page 187 in Epstein's notes). Hope that helps. best, jean noble On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, GINA M. CAMODECA wrote: > I'm looking for the name of a contemporary woman performance artist. She has > altered her face through repeated plastic surgical procedures with the > expressed intent of making herself ugly. Her performance consists of > photographs taken of herself and her transmutation into the hideous. I belive > she's French, but I'm not certain. I have not seen the show myself, but I know > by virtue of anecdote that it went to Atlanta several years ago. > > Any info re: this woman would be greatly appreciated. Please reply privately. > > Gina M. Camodeca > v391w9rn@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 08:23:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: what to do if mail stops (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: ************************ 7) "WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MAIL FROM WMST-L SUDDENLY STOPS?" Note: if you've arranged to receive WMST-L in edited digest form, skip to section C below. Otherwise, read on. A) If you receive a message from LISTSERV informing you that your WMST-L options have been set to NOMAIL, that means that mail from the list was repeatedly returned as undeliverable, probably because of a mail problem on your system. The fact that LISTSERV's notification reached you indicates that the problem was probably short-lived and is now resolved. You can set yourself back to MAIL by sending the message SET WMST-L MAIL to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address). If one address doesn't work, try the other. B) If you haven't received a notification, but you also haven't received WMST-L mail for a day, send the following two-word message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address): QUERY WMST-L If you get back a message saying that you're not subscribed to WMST-L, send the QUERY WMST-L message to the other LISTSERV address (i.e., if you sent the message to LISTSERV@UMDD, try sending the same message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU). If your message is successful, you should get back a message from LISTSERV telling you how your "options" are set. The key part will look something like this: > > query wmst-l > Distribution options for Jane Doe , > list WMST-L: Ack= No, Mail= Yes, Files= Yes, > Repro= Yes, Header= Short, Conceal= No Your options may vary; the important part is Mail=Yes. If the reply from LISTSERV says Mail=Yes, contact your computer support staff to find out whether they're aware of a mail problem. If they don't know of any problem, contact me privately at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). If the reply from LISTSERV says Mail=No, that means your subscription has been set to NOMAIL. The most likely explanation for its being set to NOMAIL is that mail started to bounce and so I or my assistant set your subscription to NOMAIL but the notification from LISTSERV bounced, too. In that case, contact your system's computer support staff to find out whether the problem has been solved. If it has, you can set yourself back to MAIL (see section A above). If they aren't aware of a problem, your best bet is to contact me privately. If you have questions or encounter problems, please write to me privately at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). However, PLEASE TRY THE ABOVE STEPS FIRST!! Under NO circumstances should you send messages about your subscription to WMST-L. C) If you have arranged to get the WMST-L edited digest and you suddenly stop receiving copies, first check with the computer support staff at your institution to find out whether they are aware of any problems. If they're not, and if you're receiving other mail but not the digest, please write to Ira Gold at IGOLD@UMDD (Bitnet) or IGOLD@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). In your message, tell him whether you receive your digests as files or as e-mail, and try to pinpoint as precisely as possible when you stopped receiving the digests. DO NOT SEND MAIL TO IRA GOLD UNLESS IT SPECIFICALLY CONCERNS A DIGEST PROBLEM, AND DO NOT WRITE TO HIM UNTIL YOU'VE DISCUSSED THE MATTER WITH THE COMPUTER SUPPORT PEOPLE AT YOUR INSTITUTION! Messages about other problems should be sent to KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet) or KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet). ************************ 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: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 08:49:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: List for Europe Angele Zobl (women.a@magnet.at) writes: > I have been following up the list for three months now and can clearly decide > now, that this list is primarily for the US. > So I want to ask everybody if there is an interest to found a new list with > relevance for EUROPE in German or French language? The WMST-L file called OTHER LISTS lists and describes about 200 women-related e-mail lists, including a German-language list called FEMALE-L. Here's the description of FEMALE-L: > FEMALE-L (FEMinistische ALternativE) is a German-language Women's > Studies list based in Austria. Messages in German or English are invited > about feminist research and teaching, information about conferences, new > books, and other announcements, other online sources of Women's Studies > materials, etc. It is hoped that people from many countries and continents > will participate. Send subscription message (SUBSCRIBE FEMALE-L Your Name) > to LISTSERV@ALIJKU04.EDVZ.UNI-LINZ.AC.AT . After you sign on, please send > a short intro and bio in either German or English. The World Wide Web version of OTHER LISTS includes about a dozen topical sub-divisions, including one for lists whose focus is outside the U.S. More than 20 lists can be found there, but I think only FEMALE-L is in German (though another is in Finnish). The URL for the Web version of OTHER LISTS (called Gender-Related Electronic Forums) is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html . If you don't have access to the World Wide Web, you can get a similar but not identical file by sending the e-mail message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Do NOT send this message to WMST-L! Do NOT try to get it by "replying"! Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman * * U. of Md. Baltimore County korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:28:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Washington Subject: Re: teaching on violence against youth In-Reply-To: I have noted elsewhere that while Bla ck women writers have generated an excellent body of fiction which explores sexual violence (as well as other forms of violence) against Black children and women-- I disagree that Black women's fictionalized accounts about such violence should be the only course materials on violence against children and women. So, to use, for example Morrison's The Bluest Eye or Walker's Color Purple in a sociology or women's studies course rather than actual accounts when all other violence against children or women is based on actual accounts seems to discount the validity of the violence in the lives of real people. My first understanding that somebody somewhere was even willing to openly deal with sexual violence against Black women was Walker's Color Purple and I too have used that book in courses. But enough real life accounts exists that (unless it is an exploration of sexual violence in themes of Black women's writers or so), true accounts serve better. For example, I, Tina, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Crossing the Boundaries: Black Women Speak of Incest and Hollies account in Double Stitch. Granted, some people have been upset that I make this observation. But then I have seem course suyllabi where the fictionalized accounts of sexual violence against Black women (as well as books)-- are included in a course that deals with other victims using factual accounts. Pat Washington ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:01:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stacey Short Subject: Re: Native American Women's Bildungsroman I want to thank everyone for their generous help on this project--my prelims list--and want to assure everyone that I am not determined to cram works by native americans into a genre that doesn't fit. One of the things I may discover is that native americans are expanding and changing the way the novel of development works. One of the important aspects of my work--I hope--is to show how the old genre definitions are being twisted, bent, and opened to new and radical narratives and endings. Any real feminist approaches most rigidly defined genres with cynicism and misgiving. Please don't panic about my deliberately misreading native american works in order to fit them into some rigid formula. Thanks again for all the help! --Stacey Short English Texas A&M Univ. scs9332@acs.tamu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 17:40:58 18000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ken Winker Subject: Re: Infor. on Eliz. Blackwell In-Reply-To: ; from "susan ferber" at Apr 7, 96 3:51 pm Dear All: I am seeking information about Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician in the U.S. My Grandmother, Elizabeth Woods (Coger), recently died at the age of 86. Her father, George Coger, is supposedly related to Elizabeth Blackwell. I believe a 2nd or 3rd cousin. I am interested in anone who has conducted research on Ms. Blackwell and has information on her family and whereshe lived and grew up. Thanks, Ken Winker -- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 22:01:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 CFP, 1 other announcement The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) CFP: Politics and Policy in the Nineties (APPSA) 2) CFP: Paradigm Shifts in German Culture 3) 19CWWW: new developments For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) CALL FOR PAPERS "POLITICS AND POLICY IN THE NINETIES: GETTING A GRIP ON THE NEW WIRED WORLD" ________________________ A Special Sub-theme of the Conference on "Order and Disorder" Annual General Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Political Studies Association 25 - 27 October 1996 Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia Prospective papers are invited which examine the socio-political and economic implications of new information and communication technologies. Papers may draw on all areas of the political science discipline as well as from related disciplines such as communication studies, sociology, economics, and environmental studies. Paper proposals on any aspect of the sub-theme are welcome, including: - International Relations ...new security issues in a high-tech world; technological change, capital mobility and globalization; indigenous technology design in developing nations; technology and national competitiveness... - Public Policy Issues ...labour, gender, and ethnic cleavages in the Information Age; implications for health, education and other policy fields; the regulatory environment and the Information Superhighway; new legal, privacy and ethical considerations; technology assessment... - The New Public Administration? ...technology and government re-engineering initiatives; new technological elites in public administration?; privacy, security and access issues... - High-Tech Party Politics and Interest Groups ...cyber-citizens and tele-democracy; electronic transborder lobbying efforts... - Democratic Theory ...new ideas of identity and community? alternative discursive designs?... A special session on using new technologies in the classroom is also being organized. In March 1996 Acadia University announced the "Acadia Advantage," a program which makes it the first university in Canada in which students and faculty will be using powerful laptop computers in the classroom. The deadline for a brief proposal and your vitae is 15 April 1996. For more information or to submit a proposal, please contact: Professor Cynthia J. Alexander Department of Political Science Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia B0P 1X0 Phone: (902) 542 2200 (x1451) Fax: (902) 542 4727 E-mail: cynthia.alexander@acadiau.ca *************************************************************************** 2) CALL FOR PAPERS "Paradigm Shifts in German Culture" A Graduate Symposium on with a keynote address by Prof. Alice Kuzniar (UNC, Chapel Hill) November 1 - 3, 1996 Indiana University, Bloomington CALL FOR PAPERS We invite papers from within the Humanities that critically review, propose or exemplify paradigm shifts within the German-speaking cultural canon in its broadest understandings. Such reinterpretation of the canon folds back on and attempts to redefine the discipline. Our understanding of these shifts includes, but is not limited to, the emergence and transformations of: psychoanalytic theory, feminism, gender studies, queer theory, discourse analysis, post colonialism, (post-)marxism, systems theory and culture studies. The symposium will begin Friday evening with a keynote address by Prof. Alice Kuzniar entitled "Queer Paradigms. 1800/1900." The symposium format will consist of traditional paper presentations and moderated working groups designed to open a space for further discussion of topics raised in the formal presentations. Papers can thus be discussed within the larger context of disciplinary self-(re)definition. Send abstracts (one page) by May 31, 1996 to: Symposium Review Committee Department of German Studies Ballantine Hall 644 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-6601 USA Fax: (812) 855-8927/ email: germconf@indiana.edu ***************************************************************************** 3) The Nineteenth Century American Women Writers Web (19CWWW) is a web-based resource devoted to the study and appreciation of women writers of the period located at . The site has tools and resources for students, scholars and readers of all ages and experience levels. What's new on the 19CWWW: *The site was recently named a "blue ribbon" site by Pacific Bell's web resource for educators. It also earned a Magellan "3 star" award, the highest possible rating by the well-respected guide to interactive media. *The 19CWWW has launched a digital potluck. Users who donate a short poem or work of 19th century American fiction via a form will have the chance to win a copy of the award-winning women's encyclopedia CD-ROM "Her Heritage" and copy of Primary Source Media's dynamic "Women in America" refercence CD-ROM--a value of several hundred dollars. There will be a random drawing once a week for five weeks from the pool of all submissions. One does not have to submit a work of fiction in order to participate in the digital potluck, but only those who do will qualify for the weekly drawings. After submitting the information via the form (or opting not to), users are taken to the digital cottage, in the parlor of which they will meet notable 19th century American women. This week, users can see a photo and read a short biography of PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS, organizer of the first women's right conference; ANNA KATHARINE GREEN one of the pioneers of establishing the detective novel as a notable literary genre; MARIA MITCHELL, a pioneer in the field of astronomy; ELIZABETH COCHRANE SEAMAN, also known as Nelly Bly, enterprising news reporter of labor and human interest stories; and MARY ELIZA CHURCH TERRELL, civil rights leader who, among other things, formed the National Association of Colored Women. The contents of the potluck will change weekly. The photos and biographies for this week's potluck were donated by Pilgrim New Media, producers of "Her Heritage." Thank you, Tyler M. Steben 19CWWW Editor ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 00:16:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "MARY L. ERTEL, SOCIOLOGY" Subject: information on Elizabeth Blackwell - a response There is just over a page on Elizabeth Blackwell in a 1901/1902 book called _Woman_ (subtitle "Her Position, Influence, and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World. Her Biography. Her History." It was published by The King-Richardson Co of Springfield, Mass, and was "designed and Arranged by William C. King." Page Smith also has several references to her in _Daughters of the Promised Land_, a Little Brown book published in 1970. She is also written in Joan McCullough's _First Of All: Significant 'Firsts' by American Women." Finally, she is referred to several times in James Trager's _The Women's Chronology: A Year-by-year Record, from Prehistory to the Present_. The last is a 1994 book published by Henry Holt and company. This last, at least, is currently available. I don't know if you can still get the two middle books. The first, obviously, is something I found in a used book store. Hope this helps. Mary L. Ertel, Sociology Central Connecticut State University ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 00:32:52 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: teaching on violence against youth In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:29:39 -0800 Re: Violence against children Sylvia Plath should make good reading for this course too. Edi Giunta faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 23:03:44 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joan r saks berman Subject: Beijing panel in Adelaide (fwd) If you're going to be there, look us up. Joan R. Saks Berman, Ph.D. jberman@unm.edu PHS Indian Hospital (505) 256-4012 801 Vassar Drive NE FAX (505) 256-4088 Albuquerque, NM 87106 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:58:00 EST From: JUDITH LORBER To: jlo@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu, AMILES@OISE.ON.CA, l.pike@cowan.edu.au, L.LORD@COWAN.EDU.AU, G.THOMAS@COWAN.EDU.AU, JBERMAN@UNM.EDU Subject: Beijing panel in Adelaide The panel -- Global Village vs. Ritual and Protocol: The Experience of Beijing-Huairou is scheduled for Tues April 23 9-10:30 am at the University of Adelaide. I am leaving on Apr 12 for the pre-conference tour. In Adelaide, Joan Berman and I will be at the All Season Meridien on Melbourne Street. 267-3033. See you in Adelaide! Judith _________________________________________________________________________ HALF THE WORLD, HALF THE POWER! Judith Lorber Sociology, CUNY Graduate School 33 West 42 Street, NY, NY 10036 212-642-2416 FAX:212-642-2420 JLO@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 22:40:53 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julia Watson Subject: Proposed closure of Women's Studies doctoral program in Paris The office of renowned French feminist Helene Cixous, who chairs the only doctoral-level Women's Studies program in France, at Paris VIII, has requested that concerned scholars throughout the world fax the French Ministry of Education BEFORE APRIL 15 to protest the proposed closure of France's only doctoral-level Women's Studies program. The governmental commission for the evaluation of scientific and technical research (MST) has once again advised the Ministry of Education against the continuation of the program. The CNESER (Conseil national de l'enseignement superieur et de la recherche) will act on this governmentally authorized opinion on April 15. In nearly every case they confirm the commission's findings. The Program is asking for the support of concerned women's studies faculty throughout the world. (See background on the program after sample letters.) It urges that you: Please fax, without delay, to the CNESER (33-1-40-65-70-90). We suggest you send the following message, either in French or in English: ENGLISH VERSION Monsieur le Ministre de l'Education Nationale, president du CNESER, and dear colleagues: We urge you not to destroy the DEA of Etudes Feminines of the University of Paris VIII, directed by Helene Cixous. The scholarly community acknowledges the central importance of the research that has been carried out in this program, one of the first of its kind in the world, for the past 22 years. This program must continue. As a concerned feminist scholar in the United States, I endorse the research being done in the doctoral seminars led by members of the doctoral program of Etudes Feminines. FRENCH VERSION (note: not possible to put in accents on internet) Monsieur le Ministre de l'Education Nationale, president du CNESER, et chers collegues, Nous vous demandons instamment de ne pas detruire le DEA d'Etudes Feminines de l'universite de Paris VIII, dirige par Helene Cixous. Notre communaute scientifique a besoin que la recherche menee depuis 22 ans au sein de cette formation, pionniere dans son domaine, puisse se poursuivre. Nous soutenons (?) la recherche menee dans les seminaires de doctorat animes par les membres de la formation doctorale en Etudes Feminines. BACKGROUND: The negative judgment of the governmental commission (MST) criticized, among other things, that the program had no French students among the 23 who were writing theses. (This allegation was incorrect, as three of the students hold French citizenship. Furthermore, as there is only one women's studies program in France, there is no incentive for French students to complete WS doctoral studies, as there is little related employment. And the bias against "foreigners" is a matter for concern.) The MST report also criticizes the WS program for having a small number of doctoral graduates, but the case is similar for many larger doctoral programs in France. There are 45 students enrolled in Women's Studies (22 are pre-thesis, 23 writing theses), and there is an unprecedented demand for enrollment in the graduate program. Finally, France ranks 15th out of 15 countries in Europe regarding the position of women in society (numbers holding political postions, important positions in the workforce and the business world, etc. And Women's Studies is not represented in the National Council of the Universities. (All of this information comes directly from the Program's fax.) Please fax quickly. Thanks for your help. Julia Watson Director of Women's Studies, University of Montana, Missoula MT 59812 On sabbatical at U Calif. Irvine: jawatson@benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 09:10:46 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Ezekiel Subject: European Women's Studies WISE, Women's International Studies Europe, is in the process of founding a multi-lingual list with a European focus. We will soon have a Web page, too. This will materialize shortly after a European meeting on electronic communications, to be held in the Netherlands in May. I will keep WMST-L posted, but we encourage European women's studies practitioners to join WISE, currently the only multidisciplinary network, for which they also receive the _European Journal of Women's Studies_, the WISE newsletter, and special publications like the Guide to Women's Studies in Europe. WISE Dutch Women's Studies Association Heidelberglaan 2 3584 CS Utrecht Pays Bas t=E9l: 31-30-531881 n=B0 fax: 31-30-531619. Judith Ezekiel (member of the steering group of WISE) University of Paris 12 ezekiel@univ-paris12.fr ezekiel@univ-paris12.fr ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:46:04 +0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Safir In-Reply-To: nomail msafir *************************************************************************** * Marilyn P. Safir, PhD Internet: msafir@psy.haifa.ac.il * * Associate Professor Telephone: 972-4-8240929/21w 8245223/022h * * Department of Psychology Fax: 972-4-8240966 * * UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA Telex: 46660 UNIHA * * Haifa 31905, Israel * *************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:59:18 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Jessica Miller Subject: all american Dear Listpeople, Re- the posting that this seems to be an exclusive American- almost- list may I just say that it is SO wonderful to be able to be in contact and read stuff from all over... There are more computers in the US, there are more women's studies. I teach in Portugal where there is no women's, feminist, gender or otherwise studies in this, the second largest university in the country (not that there is in other places here either ). I love US ( and other) libraries and reading what others have to say .I love being able to read current discussions even if time is at a premium and I can't alwayscontribute . I am not American , I feel I have to say . Although I am glad Angele got replies and assisitance as to where else to look for Eurocentric stuff, I for one, am delighted to get input from wherever......it can be an isolated life otherwise. I would hate to have to look at 10 boards by country or even continent when there is so much we can learn from one another ...... I hope I am not now flamed for not recognising American cultural imperialism, hegemony or whatever, I suppose I was just trying to say how utterly grateful I am to this and similar lists - they have changerd my life in a positive way as I'm no longer alone in academic mire .... Love and Peace Kathy ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 08:34:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L logfiles (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide (today's is especially handy if you're looking for past messages): 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: Logfiles from before 1993 are no longer available on UMDD. To make room for newer logfiles, they were moved to the Women's Studies archive on InforM (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)"). 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: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 09:03:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: all american In-Reply-To: On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Kathleen Jessica Miller wrote: > imperialism, hegemony or whatever, I suppose I was just trying to say > how utterly grateful I am to this and similar lists - they have changerd > my life in a positive way as I'm no longer alone in academic mire .... While I *am* an American, I just wanted to add that I hope Kathy isn't flamed either. I think that I benefit from the other perspectives on this list, whether they be non-American, or American but from a marginalized group not my own, or even American and non-marginalized. . And I would hope that those who aren't from an out group feel they have something to learn as well, from myself and from marginalized-group individuals and also from non-Americans. I hope that we don't see a rush of people wandering off to groups where folks of like background abound and abandoning this list. Of course I don't have limits to how much mail I can get, so I can subscribe to ten different list if I want, and don't have to make a choice. Others aren't quite so lucky. Still, one hopes that this group is enough of a resource that folks would want to stay. Alana Suskin alanacat@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:21:12 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Anne G. Brooks" Subject: Gender and Poverty Conference GENDER AND POVERTY CONFERENCE APRIL 26-28, 1996 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE CONTACTS: Conference Schedule: Gail Vernazza, Gail.M.Vernazza@Dartmouth.EDU (603) 646-2545 Child Care: Erin Murphy, Erin.E.Murphy@Dartmouth.EDU (603) 646-3777 Press Contact: Professor Annelise Orleck, Annelise.Orleck@Dartmouth.EDU (802) 785-2125 Press Contact: Professor Mary Kelley, Mary.C.Kelley@Dartmouth.EDU (603) 646-3425 Press Contact: Professor Jo Ann Woodsum, Jo.A.Woodsum@Dartmouth.EDU (802) 785-4893 Welfare reform, health care for all, parental responsibility--these hot-button topics have made national headlines for the past four years. Politicians, radio talk-show hosts and scholars have all weighed in on these issues. Missing are the voices of poor women and grassroots activists, say organizers of a conference on Gender and Poverty in the U.S., which will be held at Dartmouth College from Friday, April 26 through Sunday, April 28. The conference planners seek to revitalize and refocus this debate by creating an opportunity for poor women and community activists to engage with scholars, policy makers and union leaders from across the country--as well as members of the Dartmouth College and Upper Valley communities. The conference is free and open to the public, and free childcare is available. "Poor women have been shut out of the public policy debate over health care and welfare reform," says Annelise Orleck, assistant professor of history at Dartmouth, and a member of the conference planning committee. "We as scholars and community members have much to learn from poor women, who are the real experts on poverty." "These women, in turn, believe there is much they can gain from an open debate on these issues," adds Mary Kelley, professor of history at Dartmouth and member of the planning committee. "We hope that this conference will be a vital and energetic dialogue, and will provide a blueprint for change in which we can all find a role." Byllye Avery, MacArthur fellow and founder of the National Black Women's Health Project, will open the conference on Friday, April 26, at 8 p.m. in Dartmouth 105. Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, will give a closing address on Sunday, April 28, at 2 p.m. in Dartmouth 105. Conference themes include: "Health for All?", "Welfare: To Be or Not to Be?" and "Finding Work in a Shrinking Local Economy." There will also be readings by NYC playwright Dolores Prida and the Amherst Writers and Artists Institute, a writing workshop for low-income women in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Members of the Life Skills Workshop of The Haven, a family shelter in White River Junction, Vermont, will present an exhibit of paintings and sculptures, accompanied by life narratives. Sunday lunch workshops will be offered on Successful Strategies for Community Anti-Poverty Work, Welfare Rights, and Writing for Empowerment. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Gender and Poverty Conference April 26, 27 and 28, 1996 Friday, April 26, 1996 5:00-6:00 PM Reception (Hinman Forum, Rockefeller Center) 8:00 PM Opening Address (105 Dartmouth Hall) ** Byllye Avery, National Black Women's Health Project Saturday, April 27, 1996 105 Dartmouth Hall Health for All? Gender, Poverty and Health 9:00-10:00 AM. Featured Speaker ** Dr. Beverly Coleman-Miller, consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 10:00-12:00 PM Health Panel (1) Charlotte Houde Quimby, co-founder of the Nurse/Midwifery Service at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and an international consultant on rural women's health (2) Charon Asetoyer, executive director, Native Women's Health Education Resource Center, Yankton Sioux Reservation, S.Dakota (3) Kate Villers, founder of Families USA, advocate for health care for the elderly (4) Katrina Clark, commissioner of public health in New Haven, Conn., and director of the Fair Haven Community Health Center Welfare: "To Be or Not to Be?" 2:00-3:00 PM Featured Speaker ** Mimi Abramovitz, author of Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States 3:30-5:00 PM Panel: Welfare Activism (1) Marian Kramer, founder, National Welfare Rights Union (Detroit) (2) Bianca Vela, welfare mother and student activist at City University of New York (3) Ann Withorn, author, professor of social policy at the University of Massachusetts, and director of the Campaign for Real Welfare Reform (Massachusetts) 6:00-8:00 PM Dinner (Hinman Forum & 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center) 8:00 PM Readings: Textual Strategies: Righting Wrongs By Writing (105 Dartmouth Hall) ** Dolores Prida, author and playwright ** Sarah Browning, director, Amherst Writers and Artists Institute Enid Santiago Welch and Corinna Spenard, writers Sunday, April 28, 1996 105 Dartmouth Hall Finding Work in a Shrinking Local Economy 9:00-10:00 AM Featured Speaker ** Diana Pearce, director of the Women and Poverty Project, Washington, D.C. 10:00-11:30 AM Panel: Work and Social Welfare Policy: Past, Present and Future (1) Joanne Goodwin, author, Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform, and assistant professor of history, University of Nevada at Las Vegas (2) Hilde Ojibway, director, L.I.S.T.E.N. Center, Lebanon, NH (Lebanon In Service to Each Neighbor) (3) Jo Anne Green of the Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network, which sponsors Tennessee/Mexico worker exchange programs 12:30-1:30 PM Workshops ** Successful Strategies for Community-Run Anti-Poverty Work ** Writing for Empowerment ** Welfare Rights 2:00 PM Closing Address ** Dolores Huerta, co-founder and first vice-president, United Farm Workers of America ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:26:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: information on Elizabeth Blackwell - a response In-Reply-To: <960409001651.20268a4b@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU> In the 70's Alice Rossi put out an excellent anthology which I believe has been updated and which I believe also contains material about Elizabeth Blackwell. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, MARY L. ERTEL, SOCIOLOGY wrote: > There is just over a page on Elizabeth Blackwell in a 1901/1902 book called > _Woman_ (subtitle "Her Position, Influence, and Achievement Throughout the > Civilized World. Her Biography. Her History." It was published by The > King-Richardson Co of Springfield, Mass, and was "designed and Arranged by > William C. King." > > Page Smith also has several references to her in _Daughters of the Promised > Land_, a Little Brown book published in 1970. > > She is also written in Joan McCullough's _First Of All: Significant 'Firsts' > by American Women." > > Finally, she is referred to several times in James Trager's _The Women's > Chronology: A Year-by-year Record, from Prehistory to the Present_. The > last is a 1994 book published by Henry Holt and company. This last, at > least, is currently available. I don't know if you can still get the two > middle books. The first, obviously, is something I found in a used book store. > > Hope this helps. > > Mary L. Ertel, Sociology > Central Connecticut State University > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:28:34 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhoda Unger Subject: Psychology of Women in Europe I am trying to put together a talk on gender for the European Congress of Psychology which meets in Dublin in July, 1997. I would like to avoid US imperialism in this talk, but would also like to avoid a catalog of specific national contributions to the area. Some years ago (Unger, 1982) I used an organizing framework to examine the development of the psychology of women in the US that looked at 3 separable (albeit overlapping) strands: the contributions of women psychologists; women (and gender) as a subject/content area of study; and feminism as a theoretical perspective. I think this may serve as an organizational framework to examine current work in women and gender that does not focus totally on the US. However, I am not aware of what work in these areas is considered important in various cultures. I would appreciate information from psychologists or other social scientists about what women they feel have done important work in various places outside of the US (not necessarily on women and gender); what they believe are the important trends in research on women and gender; and who are the most im- portant or influential feminist theorists (particularly in terms of their im- pact on psychology which is traditionally rather conservative about feminism and theory). Please do not flame me for this inquiry!! I am not trying to make a list, but will use any responses as a starting point for my own research.Please respond privately unless you think your replies would be of interest to the whole list. Thank you, Rhoda Unger ungerr@alpha.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:49:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Washington Subject: Re: teaching on violence against youth In-Reply-To: Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler has a Black teenage (and adult) persective on his socialization as a youth for the raping of Black girls and women. He also has some graphic descriptions of gang rapes, and what is was like to interact with some of their youthful victims later as an adult. It's autobiographical. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:45:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: teaching on violence against youth In-Reply-To: Pat's suggestion re Nathan McCall reminds me of Eldridge Cleaver's (?) Soul On Ice which relates the same thing about Black girls and women, in addition to his describing a different attitude toward white women. She objects to the use of fiction for such material, but Richard Wright's Black Boy and especially Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the long contrapuntal passages on the white man's doing that to his daughter, or at the very least, having profoundly incestuous thoughts and imposing them on a forced listener, compared to the Black sharecropper's father doing that to his daughter in his sleep, without consciously intending to, Ellison's masculinist perspective: why, how, and what the white men of the community do with that are good for class discussion in literature courses. Has Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, which is not fiction and which is now a classic, been suggested? She did not speak for one year after she was raped and she also describes her experiences as a prostitute at a very young age in another volume of her on-going autobiography, whose title I can't remember. In addition, another non-fiction account of continual threat of rape, ceaseless, day after day, and verbal and physical abuse by both master and mistress which captures the complexity of the white woman's feelings in the matter, perhaps the best description yet, is Harriet Jacobs' (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl) which has been documented for veracity. On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Pat Washington wrote: > Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler has a Black teenage (and adult) > persective on his socialization as a youth for the raping of Black girls > and women. He also has some graphic descriptions of gang rapes, and what > is was like to interact with some of their youthful victims later as an > adult. It's autobiographical. > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 13:36:27 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Upcoming Events Friends -- Is anyone going to be at the Socialist Scholars' Conference this weekend? Is anyone planning to attend the "Summit on Ethics and Meaning" sponsored by Michael Lerner, et. al.? I'm interested in the "Progressive Covenant With American Families" that they plan to issue, because in many respects it seems to be like the "New Deal for the Family" that I've been talking about in my classes for a couple of years as something the country needs. I'm planning to attend the Summit andinvolve myself with this agenda, but I am somewhat worried about the possibility of the assembled parties taking positions I, as a feminist, can't support. (I will of course speak to such issues at any opportunity.) The general take on abortion seems to be that it must remain available, but we should view the circumstances leading to a need for it as tragic and try to change the cultural ethos so as to prevent the need for abortion. There is in Lerner's rhetoric talk about understanding white workingmen's view of Affirmative Action -- though I would like to hope that dismantling AA is not a part of the agenda. I would appreciate people's off-list feedback, unless Joan feels that it would be worthwhile to discuss this on the list. -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:23:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan M. West" Subject: query: WmSt and Law -- [ From: Joan M. West * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- I have a student graduating in Sociology who is interested in combining Law School with Women's Studies. Could anyone recommend good institutions for her to look into. Thanks in advance. -- Joan M. West Dept. of Foreign Langs. & Lits. University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83844-3174 208-885-7866 FAX 208-885-8964 e-mail: jwest@uidaho.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:34:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Clark Loralee A Subject: take back the night we are planning a take back the night march in a little over a week and want to let those who attend know the origins--where, when, who began the tradition. though i've reseached wmst-l files on this, i am coming up with no historical information. if you have ANY information regarding the history of take back the night, please reply to me before 4/17. thank you in advance! loralee clark laclar@facstaff.wm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 16:02:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: US speakers for conference in Mexico I was contacted recently by Monica Verea Campos for help in finding qualified speakers for an international conference on "Women in North America at the End of the Century" to be held October 14-17 in Mexico. Each panel will have speakers from Mexico, Canada, and the U.S., but she was seeking help only with the U.S. speakers. She asked whether I would send this message to WMST-L. I am including the program, which indicates which panels still lack U.S. speakers. If you feel yourself to be qualified or if you have questions, please contact Monica Verea Campos, whose email address is mverea@servidor.dgsca.unam.mx . DO *NOT* REPLY TO WMST-L OR TO ME--I will NOT forward messages to Monica Verea Campos, and I know nothing more about the conference than what you read here. Send all replies to mverea@servidor.dgsca.unam.mx . I think her deadline is approaching, so it is best to contact her soon if you are interested. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) *************************************** On October 14-17, 1996 The Center for Research and Teaching on Women at Mc Gill University; the Centro de Investigaciones sobre America del Norte (CISAN), the Programa Universitario de Estudios del Genero (PUEG), and the Direccion General de Actividades Cinematograficas (DGAC), from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM); and the Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre la Mujer (PIEM) de El Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX) will co- sponsor a major conference on women in North America, to be held at the Coordinacion de Humanidades Auditorium, at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) in Mexico City. We are looking for speakers from the United States (knowledgeable women and men) to participate in the International Seminar "Women in North America at the end of the Century". The main goal of this conference is to provide insights into the historical, political, socioeconomic and cultural realities of different groups of women in Canada, United States and Mexico. Speeches at the conference should be a minimum of 20 minutes to reflect the basic tenets of the written presentations. Strict observance of this time limit is required to allow as much time as possible for discussion and the exchange of ideas with an audience of students, professors, journalists, business people, NGOs members, etc. Speakers are welcome to deliver their paper either in English or in Spanish because there would be a simultaneous translation service. Since we plan to publish most of the papers, we ask speakers to submit their text to us -maximum 20 pages-. Following the Conference, should speakers wish to edit their text to reflect the discussion, they will have until November 30th to send the final version, in order to have them translated and published them. Honoraria will not be given for these presentations. However, we will offer speakers per diem expenses (hotel and meals) from Monday afternoon to Friday morning. Only in special cases we could provide a round trip air transportation from the nearest major airline city near the speaker's home. If you are interested in participating in any of the sessions of the colloquium, please send me as soon as you can, a small abstract of the paper you will be willing to present at the Colloquium, and your fax and/or email. Also send me a small version of your C.V. Looking forward to hear from you, Monica Verea Director Centro de Investigaciones sobre America del Norte, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Torre II de Humanidades piso 11 Cd. Universitaria Mexico, D. F. C.P. 04010 Mexico Tel. (525) 623.0300; 616.2795 Fax (525) 550.0379 email: mverea@servidor.unam.mx * * * * TRINATIONAL COLOQUIUM: "WOMEN IN NORTH AMERICA AT THE END OF THE CENTURY" Organized by: McGill University: CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING ON WOMEN Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, UNAM CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES SOBRE AMERICA DEL NORTE, CISAN PROGRAMA UNIVERSITARIO DE ESTUDIOS DEL GENERO, PUEG, El Colegio de Mexico, COLMEX PROGRAMA INTERDISCIPLINARIO DE ESTUDIOS DE LA MUJER, PIEM Coordinacion de Humanidades Auditorium PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Monday, October 14 7:00 p.m. Inaugural Session Jose Sarukhan K, UNAMAs President Humberto Munoz G., Humanities Coordinato r Monica Verea C., CISANs Director Graciela Hierro, PUEGs Director Ivan Trujillo B., DGACs Director Peta Tancred, McGill University Luz Elena Gutierrez de Velasco, PIEMs Coordinator 8:00 p.m. Inaugural of Film Festival Six films and/or documentaries will be exhibited on daily basis beginning alternatively with each country, on a period time of 12 days. Tuesday, October 15 9:00 hrs. I. Session "CONTEMPORARY WOMEN IDENTITY IN RECENT HISTORY" Target: To describe the womens identity building process in the recent history, on each of the analyzed countries. As examples, it will be selected a sort of representative women of this countries in order to characterize the diverse identities and, simultaneously, to examine the role played by women in the respective national histories. Mexico - Gabriela Cano, UNAM-UAM United States - Canada - McGill University in charge. 10:45 hrs. II. Session "SOCIOECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS IN THE 90S" Target: To analyze the main socioeconomic and demographic aspects of the three societies. The purpose is to emphasize differences and similarities of the women in the region. On this analysis it will be suitable to consider as indicators the following: population policies, demographic growth, family, civil status, education level, employ and wage level, health, migration, sexuality, among others. United States - Silvia Nunez, CISANs Academic Secretary Canada - McGill University in charge. Mexico - Teresita de Barbieri, UNAM 12:30 hrs. III. Session "PRINCIPAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS PROMOTED BY WOMEN" Target: To underline the most significant social movements promoted by feminists, lesbians and other women in urban environments; to analyze women participation on political movements and in the ONGs. Finally to examine womens role as ethnic and/or indigenous minority, and in popular movements. Canada - McGill University in charge. United States - Mexico Gisela Espinosa, UNAM 15:30 hrs. IV. Session "PARTICIPATION AND ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY POLITIC LIFE" Target: To investigate about the present role of women in the realms of domestic and foreign policy, and on international organizations. Canada - McGill University in charge. United States - Mexico - Marta Lamas, "Debate Feminista" 17:15 hrs. V. Session "LEGAL AND POLITICAL STATUS OF CONTEMPORARY WOMAN" Target: To analyze several indicators emerging from the socio-political movements who originated reforms of legislations on labor and human rights, and those pertaining to the new rights recently acquired by women. United States - Barbara Driscoll, CISAN-UNAM Mexico - Alicia Elena Perez Duarte, Magistrada, IIJ-UNAM Canada - McGill University in charge. Wednesday, October 16 9:00 hrs. VI. Session "WOMEN AS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CREATORS" Target: To examine the main scientific contributions on exact and social sciences and humanities performed or impulsed by women, and their influence on the technologic, informatic and computation advancements produced in recent years in the North American region. Mexico - Julieta Fierro, Instituto de Astronomia-UNAM Canada - McGill University in charge. United States - 10:45 hrs. VII. Session "WOMEN IN THE MASS MEDIA" Target: To analyze the significative increase of the women presence in the mass media: radio, TV, and journals, as their traditional participation, their creative and forward role, assessing their productivity in those areas. Canada - McGill University in charge. United States - Mexico - Olga Bustos, Facultad de Psicologia-UNAM 12:30 hrs. VIII. Session "GENDER STUDIES" Target: To analyze the focus and logical methods applied at present to the gender studies in the different academic institutions of the three countries, underlining its divergences and convergences. Canada - Peta Tancred, Mc Gill University United States - Mexico - Graciela Hierro, PUEG-UNAM, Luz Elena Gutierrez de Velasco, Coordinadora del Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer (PIEM- COLMEX) 15:30 hrs. IX. Sesion "CONTEMPORARY FEMININE ARTISTIC PRODUCTION" Target: To analyze the modern feminine production through artistic expressions such as painting, sculpture, music, photography, and theater in the three countries. Mexico - Karen Cordero, Revista Curare, UNAM e Ibero Canada - McGill University in charge. United States - 17:15 hrs. X. Session "CONTEMPORARY FEMININE LITERARY PRODUCTION" Target: To examine the growing feminine literary production in the three countries, analyzing its main study objects. United States - Claire Joysmith, CISAN-UNAM Mexico - Claudia Lucotti, UNAM (literatura anglofona) Canada - Denis Salter, McGill University FILM FESTIVAL ON "WOMEN IN THE FILM PRODUCTION IN THE NORTH AMERICAN REGION 0rganized by: CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES SOBRE AMERICA DEL NORTE, CISAN, PROGRAMA UNIVERSITARIO DE ESTUDIOS DEL GENERO, PUEG, DIRECCION GENERAL DE ACTIVIDADES CINEMATOGRAFICAS, DGAC, all institutions from the UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICO Sala Julio Bracho, C.C.U./UNAM Thursday, October 17 9:30 hrs. "Cinematography Production" Target: To analyze the salient film feminine directors and producers existing in the three countries, trying to underline their study objects. Mexico - Patricia Torres Canada - McGill University in charge. United States - Dee Dee Halleck 11:30 hrs. "Woman in the North American Movies" Target: To analyze womans identity through the most recent movie history of each country. Moderadora: Margarita Millan United States - Mexico - Julia Tunon, COLMEX Canada - Graciela Martinez-Zalce, CISAN-UNAM MTRA. MONICA VEREA Directora, Centro de Investigaciones sobre America del Norte (CISAN) Tel. (525) 616.2795 Fax (525) 550.0379 email: mverea@servidor.unam.mx MC GILL UNIVERSITY PETA TANCRED Director, Center for Research and Teching on Women Tel. (514) 398.3911 Fax. (514) 398.3986 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICO (UNAM) DRA. GRACIELA HIERRO Directora, Programa Universitario de Estudios del Genero (PUEG) Tel. (525) 622.7565 Fax (525) 622.7580 EMAIL:hierro@servidor.unam.mx BIOL. IVAN TRUJILLO B. Director General de Actividades Cinematograficas (DGAC) Tel. (525) 704.3700 Fax (525) 702.4503 EL COLEGIO DE MEXICO DRA. LUZ ELENA GUTIERREZ DE VELASCO Coordinadora, Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer (PIEM-COLMEX) Tel. (525) 645.5955 Fax (525) 645.0464 NOTE: Please reply directly to Monica Verea Campos, mverea@servidor.dgsca.unam.mx . (mverea@servidor.unam.mx may also work) DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES REPLY TO WMST-L!!! She will not see your reply!! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:41:57 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Churchill Mary Subject: program evaluation by students Greetings, If anyone has assembled any kind of questionnaire (quantitative and/or qualitative or otherwise) to be administered to women's studies majors (and/or minors) concerning their perspectives on their major (minor), their women's studies program in general, and the like, I am very much interested in seeing your questionnaire and hearing about your results. I am especially interested in questions that concern issues of "diversity" in women's studies courses, programs, etc. Please respond privately if you prefer. Thanks in advance for your help. Mary Churchill churchil@stripe.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 16:40:26 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SARAH OLIVER Subject: contact people in Namibia? I am interested in making contact with people in Namibia as I am traveling there on May 14- June 24 for research. Specifically, research centers on hopefully contacting rural women who are in organizations or groups designed to enpower rural women. Info. on NGO's or government organizations would be appreciated. Am also interested in anything pertaining to mental health- services, etc. If anyone has names of people who I may contact, especially in the region of Oshakati, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Sarah E. Oliver olivers@gvsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 17:06:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Washington Subject: Re: teaching on violence against youth In-Reply-To: There was a November 23 or 24 1993 Dateline interview with Dr. Ida Mae Holland which is so powerful. In that interview, she describes how as an eleven year old girl, who went to babysit for a White family, the wife took her upstairs to her husband who then raped her. By age 12 Holland was a prostitute for White and Black men. The essence of the interview though is in keeping with the title "Against ALL Odds" and shows her movement from prostitute to civil rights activists to DR and university professor (SUNY Albany, I think). I have used that clip in Social Movement classes and other classes. Works really well to smash stereotypes about who is likely to join organized civil rights struggles and why. It is a painful fifteen minute piece but highly effective also for Women and Violence courses. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 16:07:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie J Dow Subject: Re: query: WmSt and Law In-Reply-To: <199604091914.MAA24340@crow.csrv.uidaho.edu> The University of Cincinnati has a program that combines an MA in Women's Studies with a law degree. You can contact the Women's STudies Program at McMicken Hall, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221. Director of Women's Studies is Robin Sheets. Bonnie Dow dow@badlands.nodak.edu On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Joan M. West wrote: > -- [ From: Joan M. West * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > I have a student graduating in Sociology who is interested in combining Law > School with Women's Studies. Could anyone recommend good institutions for > her to look into. Thanks in advance. > -- > Joan M. West > Dept. of Foreign Langs. & Lits. > University of Idaho > Moscow, ID 83844-3174 > 208-885-7866 > FAX 208-885-8964 > e-mail: jwest@uidaho.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 17:52:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jace Condravy Subject: Re: program evaluation by students I'd also like to see samples of instruments of the type that Mary Churchill requested. We are about to embark on a required fifth year review of our program and are considering developing a questionnaire for students who have taken women's studies courses to elicit feedback beyond the traditional student evaluation of faculty form results. Thanks. Jace >Greetings, > >If anyone has assembled any kind of questionnaire (quantitative and/or >qualitative or otherwise) to be administered to women's studies majors >(and/or minors) concerning their perspectives on their major (minor), >their women's studies program in general, and the like, I am very much >interested in seeing your questionnaire and hearing about your results. >I am especially interested in questions that concern issues of >"diversity" in women's studies courses, programs, etc. Please respond >privately if you prefer. Thanks in advance for your help. > >Mary Churchill >churchil@stripe.colorado.edu Jace Condravy English Dept. Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock, PA 16057 jcc@sruvm.sru.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 19:33:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jerry Diakiw Subject: Antonia's Line I noted this film won the Best Foreign Film award this year at the Academy Awards. This is a wonderful film to use in a women's studies course when it becomes available. Jerry Diakiw on Toronto ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 23:48:03 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: A Thin Line Between Love and Hate On Saturday, April 6, 1996, I reviewed "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate" on "The Women's Show," Tampa's womanist/feminist weekly radio show 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 REV171 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 Linda Lopez McAlister Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 07:51:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: query: WmSt and Law In-Reply-To: <199604091914.MAA24340@crow.csrv.uidaho.edu> The Southern Association of Pre-law Advisors puts out a supplement to its prelaw advisor handbook which includes listings of law schools by specialty. Under women and the law/women's rights are American University, Brooklyn, Rutgers-Newark, and Temple. These schools have clinical programs in this area. The University of Michigan is listed as offering a JD-MA in Women's Studies. On our listserve, this question also came up and there were two magazine articles mentioned which evaluate "women friendly" law schools. (My students keep walking off with this info and the supplement I cited above isn't the newest.) You can get a copy of the supplement by writing to Dr. Gerald Wilson, duke University. To get files on from the listserve, it is easier to write to the listowner, Nim Batchelor at batchelo@numen.elon.edu You might want to post the info to the whole list. Dr. Jane Elza jelza@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu Political Science Dept., Valdosta State University Valdosta, Ga. 31698 On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Joan M. West wrote: > -- [ From: Joan M. West * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > I have a student graduating in Sociology who is interested in combining Law > School with Women's Studies. Could anyone recommend good institutions for > her to look into. Thanks in advance. > -- > Joan M. West > Dept. of Foreign Langs. & Lits. > University of Idaho > Moscow, ID 83844-3174 > 208-885-7866 > FAX 208-885-8964 > e-mail: jwest@uidaho.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 08:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L file collection (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. (Be sure to send this message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU, *not* to WMST-L!!) 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: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:08:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan D. Mandle" Subject: Re: Upcoming Events I would very much like a public report on Socialist Scholars Conference from Gina or anyone else who attends. Please summarize for the list. joan D. Mandle jdmandle@center.colghate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:32:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: teaching on violence against youth In-Reply-To: Three more suggestions, one autobiographical, two fictional. Marguerite Duras's (The Lover). When I was in Paris in 1992 for a conference, I saw huge posters plastered all over the Metro at every stop, or so it seemed, advertising the film based on this work. A female baby made up and dressed as an adult gazed provocatively into the viewer's eyes. This in itself did violence--to children, to female children, to passengers on the platform whose attention was drawn to this child--with horror, repugance, and fascination, which aroused indignation in me at the same time as self-revulsion for always being drawn to it. Did anyone out there see this poster also, and what were your responses? The second suggestion is Amy Tan's (The Kitchen God's Wife) which graphically depicts the violence of Wen Fu against his infant female child, how the child loses its sanity, and dies. Third, perhaps someone can help me with this one. I am not sure of the author or the title. It is a powerful short story from a young Japanese American boy's perspective. It takes place in an internment camp for Japanese American citizens during World War II. The climactic scene involves the boy's discovery of an American soldier (a guard at the camp) giving chocolate bars to one of the little boys to sodomize him. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:34:17 +0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne-Marie Toliver Subject: Re: Film Review Added: A Thin Line Between Love and Hate Hi Linda, Could I add your film review to my site (giving you full credit) and establish a link to your site for other reviews? I am trying to show a variety in terms of women's expressions. We are still testing (and redesigning the site), but you can check us out at . Thanks. Anne-Marie >On Saturday, April 6, 1996, I reviewed "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate" >on "The Women's Show," Tampa's womanist/feminist weekly radio show 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 REV171 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 > > >Linda Lopez McAlister >Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 10:09:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PROF DAVID KAISER Subject: Good-bye for now To all subscribers: I have a friend who is a former subscriber to this list and commentator on women's studies--I'm not going to name her--and in the midst of long interchanges about the shape of academia, etc., she mentioned the list to me. I decided, out of curiosity, to subscribe. I have now been a subscriber for some weeks, and, being a cantankerous sort who has gotten used to exercising his First Amendment rights, I have given in to the urge to contribute from time to time. To those who have responded, thank you. I know some of my comments disturbed some readers, but in the world we live in, that's inevitable if we are going to communicate frankly. I think I've made at least one new friend, and I've learned a lot. However, for someone with no direct professional interest in the content of the list, the daily 15-20 minutes of going through it are getting harder and harder to justify. And thus, for the time being--farewell. Incidentally, for anyone who has wonderd, USNWC--my address--stands for United States Naval War College. (Specifically, Strategy Department.) It's one of the few departments in the country where one has to work with Democrats and Republicans, men and women, civilians (like me) and military--and respect all their opinions! And as such, it's a very useful experience. David Kaiser ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:33:22 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Ezekiel Subject: Is WMST All-American? First, let me say that I am deeply grateful for the existance of this list; as an American expatriate in France, scholar of US feminism, it is a lifeline.... Participants have been very generous with their time and advice, indeed, it is a lovely example of international sisterhood. Nevertheless, WMST-L is undeniably very American in content. Despite presence of women from all over the world, regional, disciplinary US conferences are posted, to give one example, when only major international ones are mentioned for the rest of the world. Discussion of marketability of women's studies degrees is another. Part of this is _quite natural_ : we must all feel free to speak about our concerns. American dominance is no doubt due to sheer numbers (over 600 women's studies programs in the US), command of language, and access to electronic communications that others are only just starting to get. If I am working on creating a European list, it is not an oppositional stance, nor is it so that there will be "a rush of people wandering off to groups where folks of like background abound and abandoning this list." However, we do need a more balanced group in which we are not the "other." We also need to work on organizing and lobbying European institutions. In international contexts, American insularity is still a real problem, even among feminists. Note the American usage of "global feminism." Invariably, it means the United States and the Third World, with Eastern Europe thrown in on occasions lately. An anecdote from the Hairou China NGO Forum: One session began with the American organizer apologizing at length for imposing English. I later spoke up to say that my non-Anglophone friends had more trouble with English speakers talking too fast, not checking to see if they were making themselves understood, making culturally specific references (ie in this discussion, people mentioned "Proposition 13" and William Buckley without explanation), and assuming that the questions they were asking were universal (ie, here a discussion of feminist pedagogy was meaningless in the mass universities in France or Spain, for instance, where there are 50-80 students in the "small" groups). An organizer got up and criticized me for being unsisterly. I answered that I was being extremely polite for Southern Europe, that different political cultures led to different ways of speaking. She got up and screamed, "Don't lecture me! I teach cultural studies." As the Spanish historian sitting next to me whispered, "I had to come to China to find a European identity." Judith Ezekiel ezekiel@univ-paris12.fr ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:00:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Jadwin Subject: query: texts for "academic novel" course In-Reply-To: <9604092331.AA13684@sjfc.edu> Hi colleagues - I've recently been given a course designed by another instructor; the title is "the college romance," a title the designer intended to mean "novels about college/educational experiences." My query: can you suggest novels - in English - that handle the theme of education, especially for women? I'd like to include some that portray the problematics of sexual relationships between faculty and students (many seem to focus on this) and seek a diversity of perspectives and time periods. Thanks for your thoughts. Lisa ************************************************************************** Lisa Jadwin e-mail: jadwin@sjfc.edu English Department office: 716/385-8192 (+ voicemail) St. John Fisher College fax: 716/385-7311 3690 East Avenue 716/385-8129 Rochester, NY 14618 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:09:13 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne Hildenbrand Subject: Socialist scholars AND... I too would like to read about the upcoming Socialist Scholars conference, espe cially the presentations on women's issues. In addition I wonder if any folks on the list have any reactions to the Daniel Horowitz piece in Am Quarterly on the roots of the so-called second wave of feminism? It appears as if it could change our ideas and how people teach about this topic. SH ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:18:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: query: texts for "academic novel" course In-Reply-To: Paule Marshall has written a short story, I believe in (Soul Clap Hands and Sing) about a struggling young Black female student and her elderly professor, a Holocaust survivor, his inviting her to his home, and what ensues. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Lisa Jadwin wrote: > Hi colleagues - > > I've recently been given a course designed by another instructor; the > title is "the college romance," a title the designer intended to mean > "novels about college/educational experiences." > > My query: can you suggest novels - in English - that handle the theme of > education, especially for women? I'd like to include some that portray > the problematics of sexual relationships between faculty and students > (many seem to focus on this) and seek a diversity of perspectives and > time periods. > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > Lisa > > ************************************************************************** > > Lisa Jadwin e-mail: jadwin@sjfc.edu > English Department office: 716/385-8192 (+ voicemail) > St. John Fisher College fax: 716/385-7311 > 3690 East Avenue 716/385-8129 > Rochester, NY 14618 > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:29:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: query: texts for "academic novel" course In-Reply-To: One of the Brontes wrote a novel which detailed her passionate crush on her married employer at the school in which she taught. Bernard Malamud also wrote on this topic, I believe his final two works. (Seeking Mr. Goodbar)--I don't remember the author, became a popular film--horrifying ending. I believe it was based on the real-life murder of a student of mine. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Lisa Jadwin wrote: > Hi colleagues - > > I've recently been given a course designed by another instructor; the > title is "the college romance," a title the designer intended to mean > "novels about college/educational experiences." > > My query: can you suggest novels - in English - that handle the theme of > education, especially for women? I'd like to include some that portray > the problematics of sexual relationships between faculty and students > (many seem to focus on this) and seek a diversity of perspectives and > time periods. > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > Lisa > > ************************************************************************** > > Lisa Jadwin e-mail: jadwin@sjfc.edu > English Department office: 716/385-8192 (+ voicemail) > St. John Fisher College fax: 716/385-7311 > 3690 East Avenue 716/385-8129 > Rochester, NY 14618 > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 08:47:56 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hadley Wood Subject: Re: Is WMST All-American? In-Reply-To: from "Judith Ezekiel" at Apr 10, 96 04:33:22 pm In response to Judith Ezekiel's post below: Given the size of the US and the linguistic hegemony of English, it is easy for Americans to become insular in their perspective. What would help put our discussions into their proper perspective would be input from more European women on what their concerns are, on how issus are elaborated differently in that context than here. And news of European conferences would be wonderful as well! We can work together to develop a more multicultural view. Hadley Wood (woodLL@oa.ptloma.edu) > > First, let me say that I am deeply grateful for the existance of this > list; as an American expatriate in France, scholar of US feminism, it is a > lifeline.... Participants have been very generous with their time and > advice, indeed, it is a lovely example of international sisterhood. > > Nevertheless, WMST-L is undeniably very American in content. Despite > presence of women from all over the world, regional, disciplinary US > conferences are posted, to give one example, when only major international > ones are mentioned for the rest of the world. Discussion of marketability > of women's studies degrees is another. Part of this is _quite natural_ : > we must all feel free to speak about our concerns. American dominance is > no doubt due to sheer numbers (over 600 women's studies programs in the > US), command of language, and access to electronic communications that > others are only just starting to get. > > If I am working on creating a European list, it is not an oppositional > stance, nor is it so that there will be "a rush of people wandering off to > groups where folks of like background abound and abandoning this list." > However, we do need a more balanced group in which we are not the "other." > We also need to work on organizing and lobbying European institutions. > > In international contexts, American insularity is still a real problem, > even among feminists. Note the American usage of "global feminism." > Invariably, it means the United States and the Third World, with Eastern > Europe thrown in on occasions lately. > > An anecdote from the Hairou China NGO Forum: > One session began with the American organizer apologizing at length for > imposing English. I later spoke up to say that my non-Anglophone friends > had more trouble with English speakers talking too fast, not checking to > see if they were making themselves understood, making culturally specific > references (ie in this discussion, people mentioned "Proposition 13" and > William Buckley without explanation), and assuming that the questions they > were asking were universal (ie, here a discussion of feminist pedagogy was > meaningless in the mass universities in France or Spain, for instance, > where there are 50-80 students in the "small" groups). An organizer got > up and criticized me for being unsisterly. I answered that I was being > extremely polite for Southern Europe, that different political cultures led > to different ways of speaking. She got up and screamed, "Don't lecture me! > I teach cultural studies." As the Spanish historian sitting next to me > whispered, "I had to come to China to find a European identity." > > > > Judith Ezekiel > ezekiel@univ-paris12.fr > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 12:06:54 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nan Bauer Maglin Subject: "Bad Girls"/"Good Girls" Sorry in my announcement about the publication of "BAD GIRLS"/ "GOOD GIRLS": WOMEN, SEX, AND POWER IN THE NINETIES I gave an incorrect 800 number. The correct numberj for Rutgers University Press is 1-800-446-9323. Nan Bauer Maglin nbmbm@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:28:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan D. Mandle" Subject: Re: Socialist scholars AND... Please supply full reference (or summary or both) on Danile Horowiz piece on the Second Wave. Thanks Joan Mandle jdmandle@center.colgate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:38:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan hubbard Subject: Re: query: texts for "academic novel" course These titles come immediately to mind: Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern, A Very Small Room by May Sarton, Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym,The Professor by Charlotte Bronte, and Professor Romeo by Anne Bernays. I think Iris Murdoch has written about this, too, but can't think of any titles. I may teach a course like this myself, so I'd really like to know the other titles you receive privately. Thanks. --Susan Hubbard (shubbard@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu) On April 10, Lisa Jadwin wrote: >I've recently been given a course designed by another instructor; the >title is "the college romance," a title the designer intended to mean >"novels about college/educational experiences." > >My query: can you suggest novels - in English - that handle the theme of >education, especially for women? I'd like to include some that portray >the problematics of sexual relationships between faculty and students >(many seem to focus on this) and seek a diversity of perspectives and >time periods. > >Thanks for your thoughts. > >Lisa > >************************************************************************** > >Lisa Jadwin e-mail: jadwin@sjfc.edu >English Department office: 716/385-8192 (+ voicemail) >St. John Fisher College fax: 716/385-7311 >3690 East Avenue 716/385-8129 >Rochester, NY 14618 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:33:40 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: Nancy Comments: Originally-From: TAMLIT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu From: Nancy Subject: T/Q: Academic Novels (replies II) More academic novels. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ***T/Q: TEXT/QUERY*** Here are about eight additional responses to the query about academic novels. RB *********************************************************** (1) From: IN%"korenman@umbc.edu" 15-JAN-1996 00:05:41.85 Subj: a new academic novel Sender: Joan Korenman Subject: a new academic novel I just looked through the very interesting replies to the query regarding academic fiction and didn't see Norman Holland's _Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery_ (SUNY Press, 1995). The novel involves the death of a student in a graduate seminar in literary criticism at SUNY Buffalo, where Holland taught for a number of years. In good postmodern fashion, Holland is not only the novel's author but also one of its main characters. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County or * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (2) From: IN%"GIRARD@zodiac.rutgers.edu" 15-JAN-1996 10:29:30.36 Subj: RE: T/Q: Academic fiction (replies) Here's one more for the academic fiction list--Carol Shields' Swann. It's a satire of the making of an academic industry out of the discovery of an obscure woman poet. Somewhat uneven as a novel, but completely on target as a satire. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (3) From: IN%"krafftjm@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu" 15-JAN-1996 11:32:41.03 Subj: RE: T/Q: Academic fiction (replies) I don't believe anyone in the first set of replies mentioned Malcolm Bradbury, several of whose titles would do nicely. I particularly like _Rates of Exchange_. And Molly Hite's _Class Porn_ deserves lots more readers. jmk John M. Krafft, English | Miami University--Hamilton Voice: (513) 785-3142 or (513) 868-2330 | 1601 Peck Boulevard Fax: (513) 785-3145 | Hamilton, OH 45011-3399 E-mail: krafftjm@muohio.edu +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (4) From: IN%"baer@post.its.mcw.edu" "Eugene Baer" 15-JAN-1996 11:35:57.67 Subj: RE: T/Q: Academic fiction (replies) Regarding academic fiction, readers might try Gail Godwin's THE ODD WOMAN, but only read after, or in conjunction with, George Gissing's THE ODD WOMEN. Both address gender issues, and Godwin adds the academic setting--tenure and all that. Eugene Baer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (5) From: IN%"griffin@maroon.tc.umn.edu" "Edward M Griffin" 15-JAN-1996 11:49:04.42 Subj: RE: T/Q: Academic fiction (replies) It's not much of a stretch to include Henry James's THE ASPERN PAPERS ("You publishing scoundrel!") and Nabokov's THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT. They focus on scholarship, which can be as nasty as is department politics. Ed Griffin, U of Minnesota +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (6) From: IN%"lieber@storm.simpson.edu" 15-JAN-1996 14:32:21.19 Subj: RE: T/Q: Academic fiction (replies) I just read the replies to novels on academic subjects. No one mentioned ernard Malamud's A New Life! ********************* Professor Todd Lieber Department of English Simpson College ********************* +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (7) From: IN%"asalas@adrian.adrian.edu" 15-JAN-1996 16:25:39.61 Subj: RE: T/Q: Academic fiction (replies) The Small Room, by May Sarton The Crown of Columbus, by Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris Fortunate Lives, by Robb Foreman Dew (or Dew Foreman?) Hope it helps, Angela M. Salas Adrian College P.S. I'm particularly fond of the Sarton novel. P.P.S: Have you considred Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? AMS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (8) From: IN%"morth@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu" 16-JAN-1996 14:38:06.65 Subj: RE: academic fiction/college novels Sender: "Michael P. Orth (Michael Orth)" Subject: Re: academic fiction/college novels This is a response to the "academic fiction" thread of a few days back. I call these "college novels," since who wants to read academic fiction? Last term I taught a course in this subject, so I have a bunch of titles to offer if anyone really needs them. As their major paper for the course each student wrote a chapter for hsrhr own class academic novel, using Smiley's *Moo* as an inspiration. Since I had four sections of this course I got over 100 chapters--enough to make one passable novel. If anyone is interested, I'll explain my process and what I'd do differently next time. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:42:07 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne Hildenbrand Subject: Re: Socialist scholars AND... In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:28:15 -0500 from The Ap 12 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Ed, p. A10 describes the article by Horowitz. It refers to an American Quarterly issue which I assumed w ould be the current one. What's interesting is that it casts Betty Friedan less as a middle class housewife with a good education & bored with the suburban routines dictated by gender stereotypes of the 50s and more a leftist-labor activist with connections to the union press world and employed by UE.Note Friedan denies all this and refused to cooperate, etc. It is certainly most interesting since feminism has been bashed so often for being a white middle class thing...I hope some on the list will have seen the full article and comment on it. SH ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:01:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Is WMST All-American? In-Reply-To: <9604101547.AA26736@oa.ptloma.edu> The question of this subject, and the ensuing conversations sheds light on yet another dimension of this topic. Since Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada, New Foundland, and Nova Scotia (to name a few) are all American, perhaps it would be important for women studies to scholars to examine THIS aspect of language and culture assumptions, and begin to identify the United States, and not American as the focus of USA centered topics. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Hadley Wood wrote: > In response to Judith Ezekiel's post below: > > Given the size of the US and the linguistic hegemony of English, it is > easy for Americans to become insular in their perspective. What would > help put our discussions into their proper perspective would be input > from more European women on what their concerns are, on how issus are > elaborated differently in that context than here. And news of European > conferences would be wonderful as well! We can work together to develop a > more multicultural view. Hadley Wood (woodLL@oa.ptloma.edu) > > > > > First, let me say that I am deeply grateful for the existance of this > > list; as an American expatriate in France, scholar of US feminism, it is a > > lifeline.... Participants have been very generous with their time and > > advice, indeed, it is a lovely example of international sisterhood. > > > > Nevertheless, WMST-L is undeniably very American in content. Despite > > presence of women from all over the world, regional, disciplinary US > > conferences are posted, to give one example, when only major international > > ones are mentioned for the rest of the world. Discussion of marketability > > of women's studies degrees is another. Part of this is _quite natural_ : > > we must all feel free to speak about our concerns. American dominance is > > no doubt due to sheer numbers (over 600 women's studies programs in the > > US), command of language, and access to electronic communications that > > others are only just starting to get. > > > > If I am working on creating a European list, it is not an oppositional > > stance, nor is it so that there will be "a rush of people wandering off to > > groups where folks of like background abound and abandoning this list." > > However, we do need a more balanced group in which we are not the "other." > > We also need to work on organizing and lobbying European institutions. > > > > In international contexts, American insularity is still a real problem, > > even among feminists. Note the American usage of "global feminism." > > Invariably, it means the United States and the Third World, with Eastern > > Europe thrown in on occasions lately. > > > > An anecdote from the Hairou China NGO Forum: > > One session began with the American organizer apologizing at length for > > imposing English. I later spoke up to say that my non-Anglophone friends > > had more trouble with English speakers talking too fast, not checking to > > see if they were making themselves understood, making culturally specific > > references (ie in this discussion, people mentioned "Proposition 13" and > > William Buckley without explanation), and assuming that the questions they > > were asking were universal (ie, here a discussion of feminist pedagogy was > > meaningless in the mass universities in France or Spain, for instance, > > where there are 50-80 students in the "small" groups). An organizer got > > up and criticized me for being unsisterly. I answered that I was being > > extremely polite for Southern Europe, that different political cultures led > > to different ways of speaking. She got up and screamed, "Don't lecture me! > > I teach cultural studies." As the Spanish historian sitting next to me > > whispered, "I had to come to China to find a European identity." > > > > > > > > Judith Ezekiel > > ezekiel@univ-paris12.fr > > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:43:35 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jezek N Bjornsson Subject: Re: query: texts for "academic novel" course In-Reply-To: How about A.S. Byatt's novel "Possession"--particularly interesting in its address of "feminist scholarship" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:43:31 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: query: texts for "academic novel" course In-Reply-To: The title of the movie which contains an affair a student is having with her male English professor should have been (Looking For Mr. Goodbar), not (Seeking Mr. Goodbar). Obviously I conflated the real title with (Desperately Seeking Susan). How about some gay and lesbian examples? I vaguely remember at least one, but since I can't remember the authors and titles, I can't make the suggestions. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:04:29 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Dickstein Subject: Guidelines for Masters Thesis Our new Women's Studies Masters Program is developing guidelines for the Masters thesis. If you have developed guidelines or peramaters or anything that could give guidance to students about what is acceptable (or not acceptable) for a women's studies masters thesis, could you please send me a copy or e-mail me a copy. Thank you. Ruth Dickstein University of Arizona Library Tucson, AZ 85720-0055 520-621-4866 FAX 520-621-9733 dickstei@bird.library.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:37:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "L. Higgins" Subject: Re: T/Q: Academic Novels (replies II) In-Reply-To: <01I0F2GOCMT48YHPXD@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> And yet another: Valerie Miner's _Murder in the English Department_ in which a female graduate student allegedly murders the aged, male Milton scholar (truly). **************************************************************************** Lisa L. Higgins c547634@showme.missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia "If we dare claim our lives as our own, we must read all the poems we write with our bodies." Minnie Bruce Pratt _S/HE_ ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:03:17 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Frann Michel Subject: Re: query: texts for "academic novel" course In-Reply-To: If we are including films, John Sayles's LIANNA is about a woman who is married to her former professor, and leaves him when she falls in love with her current (female) professor. Frann Michel fmichel@willamette.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 20:30:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ursula Rempel Subject: Re: Is WMST All-American? In-Reply-To: from "Jacqueline Haessly" at Apr 10, 96 02:01:15 pm (message addressed to Jacqueline Haessly) Just to clarify: Both Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are provinces of Canada; they're not separate countries as your post implies. And while we speak of the "Americas," I think it's universally acknowledged that "America" means the U.S.; thus while I may be a citizen of the Americas, I am not an American. Ursula Rempel University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada urempel@cc.umanitoba.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:39:45 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nan Bauer Maglin Subject: Academic novels Five novels that are of interest that deal either centrally or tangentially with women in academia are: Death in a Tenured Position by Amanda Cross, The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin, Miss Giardino by Dorothy Bryant, Stepping by Nanvy Thayer and The Women's Room by Marilyn French. In the Cross/Heilbrun novel, Janet Mandelbaum is hired by the Harvard English Department because of affirmative action and is killed by the English department. The Bryant novel which is self-published is about a high school English teacher who wants to burn down the high school. I wrote about all five of these novels in an article in College English in 1982 called "The Demoralization Paper" where I used these novels to examine my own situation in a community college and the general situation of women academics. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:21:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gaea Honeycutt Subject: EQUITY ONLINE: New Web Site Comments: To: women@world.std.com, gened@acpub.duke.edu, femjur@suvm.syr.edu, multc-ed@umdd.umd.edu, ra-equity@hub.terc.edu, sash-l@asuvm.inre.asu.edu, wisenet@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU, edequity@tristram.edc.org EQUITY ONLINE, a new Web site from the WEEA Equity Resource Center, is up and running! The site has information on the WEEA Equity Resource Center and its initiatives, Women's Eduational Equity Act Program grantees, articles from the Center, and media resources. In the next two weeks listings of WEEA materials and services and resources from others, and links to other equity and diversity sites will be added. Over the next few weeks, you'll be able to find information on equity and diversity organizations, projects, products and services. In addition, various documents from WEEA and other sources will be available from the site. EQUITY ONLINE is located at http://www.edc.org/CEEC/WEEA. Gaea Honeycutt WEEA Equity Resource Center Education Development Center, Inc. 55 Chapel Street Suite 275 Newton, MA 02158-1060 800/225-3088 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:50:45 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carla swift Subject: Re: Is WMST All-American? In-Reply-To: <9604101547.AA26736@oa.ptloma.edu> I agree with Hadley (below). We Americans may have beomce insular in our perspective, but sometimes we simply don't recognize our implicit theories (assumptions) until we see how things are different elsewhere. Sometimes one needs to bump into a wall (of misunderstanding) to recognize it's there. Some mistakes seem pretty obvious (like Proposition 13 --even someone outside California might not recognize the meaning), but I personally long for someone to call it to my attention when I make assumptions that are not true for others. As for a European list . . . the feminist theology list I belong to that originates in Europe is still "populated" by a large percentage of Americans. It's really sad that someone got hostile when criticized. However, I bet a lot of other people learned something from the outburst as well as the comment that triggered it. On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Hadley Wood wrote: > In response to Judith Ezekiel's post below: > > Given the size of the US and the linguistic hegemony of English, it is > easy for Americans to become insular in their perspective. What would > help put our discussions into their proper perspective would be input > from more European women on what their concerns are, on how issus are > elaborated differently in that context than here. And news of European > conferences would be wonderful as well! We can work together to develop a > more multicultural view. Hadley Wood (woodLL@oa.ptloma.edu) > > > > > Nevertheless, WMST-L is undeniably very American in content. Despite > > presence of women from all over the world Part of this is _quite natural_ : > > we must all feel free to speak about our concerns. American dominance is > > no doubt due to sheer numbers (over 600 women's studies programs in the > > US) > > > > In international contexts, American insularity is still a real problem, > > even among feminists. Note the American usage of "global feminism." > > Invariably, it means the United States and the Third World, with Eastern > > Europe thrown in on occasions lately. > > > > An anecdote from the Hairou China NGO Forum: > > One session began with the American organizer apologizing at length for > > imposing English. I later spoke up to say that my non-Anglophone friends > > had more trouble with English speakers talking too fast, not checking to > > see if they were making themselves understood, making culturally specific > > references (ie in this discussion, people mentioned "Proposition 13" and > > William Buckley without explanation), and assuming that the questions they > > were asking were univeral . . > > > > Judith Ezekiel > > ezekiel@univ-paris12.fr > > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:43:26 +0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheri Blake Subject: Is WMST All-American? Canadians do not consider themselves "American". America-focused means the U.S.A. to the majority of Canadians (and probably to Central and South Americans as well) and to most other people I meet in my travels. Canada has different political/educational/social welfare/etc. structures than the U.S.A. Although, many of the issues in Women's Studies may be similar, they are influenced in different ways by these different systems. I find this list a very stimulating source of information. It has served to make me very gender-aware. For myself, as a Canadian who has been a long-term resident of Japan, I would like to hear more voices, not only from Europe, but from Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Asia, etc.. However, as many point out, "Women's Studies" is probably more advanced in the U.S. than in any other country. P.S. Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are not countries, they are provinces of Canada. Sheri Blake sheri@gol.com On Wed April 10, 1996, Jacqueline Haessly wrote: >The question of this subject, and the ensuing conversations sheds light >on yet another dimension of this topic. Since Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, >Mexico, Canada, New Foundland, and Nova Scotia (to name a few) are all >American, perhaps it would be important for women studies to scholars to >examine THIS aspect of language and culture assumptions, and begin to >identify the United States, and not American as the focus of USA >centered topics. > >Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 02:57:34 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: Academic novels In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:39:45 EDT Dorothy Bryants novel, MISS GIARDINO, will be reprinted by the Feminist Press (with two other novels by Bryant) in 1997. Edi Giunta faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:12:07 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Jessica Miller Subject: academic novels your request (fwd) This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ---1048038604-1726193782-829210327=:8318 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have forwarded this as I have read so many messages re academic novels that perhaps others may like to take a look at this as this particular title doesn't appear to have been mentioned . ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:59:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Kathleen Jessica Miller To: jadwin@SJFC.EDU Subject: your request Dear Lisa, Re your request about college romance I used Double Yoke by Buchi Emechta ( Pan publishers maybe or perhaps Fontana paperback ) with great success with undergrads. Emechta is a Nigerian writer now resident in London. The prose is very easy to read.It deals with a village girl going to college, how she negotiates her way through harassment at college with a prof. and how she becomes a person in the eyes of her boyfriend as her relationship with him circumvents his expectations .....anyway, take a look if you have time .... Good Luck ---1048038604-1726193782-829210327=:8318-- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:23:00 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Jessica Miller Subject: for Trudy mercer I'm truly sorry if this is incorrect procedure - and I think it is - but Trudy Mercer sent me a private message and I tried to respond privately but my note bounces back to me ....could Trudy e-mail me privately with her address again...thank you and apologies in advance Kathy Miller ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:29:07 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carla swift Subject: Re: Is WMST All-American? In-Reply-To: <9604110130.AA20265@antares.cc.umanitoba.ca> I'm glad someone brought this up. I've always realized that those of us in the U.S. weren't the only "Americans," but I'm interested in your comment, Ursula, that it seems to be universally acknowledged that "America" means the U.S. -- of course, I suppose it could be the result of being the "United States of America." On the other hand -- think how awkward it would be to call someone an United States-ian. That aside, when ever I refer to us as "Americans" I'm very aware that this could offend someone. Is this just a female "oversensitivity," or is it a problem? On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Ursula Rempel wrote: > (message addressed to Jacqueline Haessly) > > Just to clarify: Both Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are provinces of > Canada; they're not separate countries as your post implies. > > And while we speak of the "Americas," I think it's universally > acknowledged that "America" means the U.S.; thus while I may be a citizen > of the Americas, I am not an American. > > Ursula Rempel > University of Manitoba > Winnipeg, Canada > > urempel@cc.umanitoba.ca > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:07:21 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ningky Munir Subject: Indonesia Women in Management I am a senior faculty member at The Institute fo Management Development and Education in Indonesia. Our institute is a very well known institute in Indonesia and ASEAN (south east asian) countries. We offer MBA programs and management short courses. Every year (since 1968) we trained more than 7000 Indonesian managers, junior managers, to senior managers. But we have only less than 10 percent female participants. We have conducted an informal survey/interviews, and study some articles published by Indonesian/international journals to get some answers of the situation. It seems that women in management in Indonesia are still under represented because of women's lack of training, experience, and most of all, career commitment. Currently we are thinking to develop a center for women's studies in our institute, specially women in management. We believed that the extent to which management positions are filled by women has significant long-term implications, since managers control the bulk of power in organizations. But while everything are under constructions, we hope that we can have some advices from the more experience. Thank you Ningky Munir Course Coordinator Department of Operations Management and Decision Science The Institute for Management Education and Development (PPM) Jl. Menteng Raya 9 Jakarta 10340 INDONESIA Ph: (021) 2300-313 Fax: (021) 230-2051 e-mail (personal): munirnky@rad.net.id e-mail (company): LEMBAGA.PPM1@Graha.Sprint.Com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 08:47:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" Subject: Re: query: texts for "academic novel" course In-Reply-To: Message of 04/10/96 at 19:43:31 from pkafka@TURBO.KEAN.EDU Lisa Shapiro's _The Color of Winter_ is a lesbian/academic novel (Naiad Press, 1996). ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:10:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Tessier Subject: Re: Is WMST All-American? In-Reply-To: <9604110130.AA20265@antares.cc.umanitoba.ca> Interesting issue. I've been bothered for a long time by the assumption that the US has exclusive title to the term American. There ARE other Americas. After struggling with terms for a bit, I find myself more comfortable using the term US American than just saying American and assuming folks in the US are the only folk who have rights to the term. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:58:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L announcement policy (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 12) "MY UNIVERSITY HAS A JOB OPENING. MAY I POST AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON WMST-L?" WMST-L welcomes the posting of job and conference announcements, calls for papers, and the like, as long as the announcement has some EXPLICIT connection to Women's Studies. Announcements without such a connection should NOT be sent to WMST-L. The wish to reach more female candidates, however laudable, is NOT adequate reason to post non-Women's-Studies announcements. Heavy mail volume is a persistent problem on WMST-L; the list cannot accommodate the increased volume that a more liberal posting policy would bring. (Keep in mind that each year, there are literally thousands of academic job openings. Most institutions wish to show that they have tried to reach female and minority applicants. Whereas some commercial publications charge hundreds of dollars to carry even a small ad, WMST-L is free. Thus, unless we restrict postings, the list is likely to be INUNDATED with job announcements.) ************************ 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, 11 Apr 1996 09:06:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Christine A. Smith" <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: teaching at community colleges I am currently teaching in a non-tenure track position, and have an interview in two weeks for a tenure-track position at a community college. My initial excitement about the interview was quickly dissipated by friends and colleagues who universally consider community colleges to be, well, a joke. I remember being at a conferences and hearing women talk about community colleges as being very supportive atmospheres for women and feminists. I would like to hear from anyone currently teaching at a community college (or who has previously taught at one) about your experiences. You can respond to me privately. Thanks. Christine Smith 10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:11:16 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carrie La Seur Subject: Re: Is WMST All-American? I originally made this comment to one person, but since people are interested in the topic, I'd like to mention (for those of you who aren't Spanish speakers) that in at least one of the mother tongues of the Americas we can say americanos and mean all Americans, not just U.S. nationals. In Spanish, the people of los Estados Unidos de America are estadounidenses. They, along with the people of Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, et al, are americanos. This is still peculiar because los Estados Unidos de Mexico, for instance, have a claim to be "estadounidense", but then they have a name of their own in Mexico. Estadounidense English-speakers might adopt their more appropriate Spanish name and solve the problem. Carrie La Seur University College Oxford ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:36:16 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elisabeth Golding Subject: Re[2]: Is WMST All-American? >I've been bothered for a long time by the assumption that the US has >exclusive title to the term American. There ARE other Americas. After >struggling with terms for a bit, I find myself more comfortable using the >term US American than just saying American and assuming folks in the US >are the only folk who have rights to the term. Is it just a matter of US citizens having the "right" to use the term "American" (who decides who has rights to call themselves that?), or should we be looking at who *wants* to use it? Do Canadians identify as "American?" Do Mexicans? Brazilians? Peruvians? If they do, of course they have as much "right" to use the term as anyone. If not, it's probably a moot point. I believe the original concern was over the perceived dominance on this list of individuals in the U.S. and how that can or should be addressed. Beth Golding Florida State Archives egolding@mail.dos.state.fl.us ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:15:17 MET Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JAKOBI SABINE Organization: University of Trier Subject: Re: feminists interviewing women Comments: To: Sally Kenney I would also be interested in new materials for feminists interviewing women, especially since this aspect of social research has been neglected in Germany. Are there any manuals/articles available (in English/French/German), that could be used for teaching undergraduates classes? Sabine Jakobi Trier University/Germany jakobi@uni-trier.de ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:26:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wanda Kosinski Subject: Re: feminists interviewing women In-Reply-To: <79752F4CEB@netwareserver.uni-trier.de> This semester I've been including/encouraging more discussion of feminist research methods in the social research methods course I teach for undergraduates. I have found very useful material in the books listed below. Reinharz dedicates a chapter to Feminist Interview Research. I hope you find this helpful. Regards, Wanda Kosinski BEYOND METHODOLOGY: Feminist Scholarship as Lived REsearch edited by Mary Fonow and Judith Cook Indiana University Press ISBN 0-253-32345-2 FEMINIST METHODS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH Shulamit Reinharz Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave., NY,NY 10016 ISBN 0-19-507386-X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ~ ~ -Helen Keller ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Wanda Kosinski ~ ~ DBS / SSHS ~ ~ Ramapo College of New Jersey ~ ~ 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ 07430 ~ ~ 201 529-7560 ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:23:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Miller Subject: Re: Indonesia Women in Management Is there really a lack of career commitment on the part of women in Indonesia. It was my experience while working at a large corporation in the mid-70s that this was one of the myths that was perpetuated by the all-male upper management. Just doing a survey of our department we found that women actually had more time on the job than our male counterparts but were kept in lower-status, lower-paying jobs in case they got pregnant or married. I suggest you pinpoint their objections and answer them with the facts. Good luck. Mary Miller ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:36:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: martine brownley Subject: CFP: Aphra Behn Society DEADLINE APPROACHES--- Submit proposals by April 15, 1996 Aphra Behn Society Annual Meeting October 25-27, 1996 University of Georgia Athens, GA The annual meeting of the Aphra Behn Society is an exciting and collegial gathering for scholars interested in women's writing and writing about women from 1660-1800. Graduate students and newer faculty are encouraged to share their research. All papers dealing with gender issues of the period are welcome. Elizabeth Kraft and the crew at University of Georgia have organized an eventful conference, which will feature a masquerade (in the spirit of Halloween), an 18th-century dance workshop, a dramatic reading and an open coffeehouse poetry reading of favorite eighteenth-century poems. One hour outside of Atlanta, Athens provides a unique and attractive setting with its rich (sub)culture of shops, restaurants and music venues. October is the perfect time to visit. Please send one-page abstracts by April 15, 1996 to Elizabeth Kraft Department of English University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 or e-mail to EKRAFT@uga.cc.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 18:59:27 MET Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JAKOBI SABINE Organization: University of Trier Subject: Re: feminists interviewing women Comments: To: Wanda Kosinski thanks!!!!! Sabine ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:48:24 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristin Gerhard Subject: Academic novels and women Another academic novel dealing with women and education is Dorothy L. Sayers' _Gaudy Night_. Kris Gerhard Iowa State University kgerhard@iastate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:19:27 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: COOKIE STEPHAN Subject: Advertising backlash A colleague has just told me of a new line of BRUT clothing being carried at K-Mart (and I'm sure elsewhere) called MEN ARE BACK that says it is clothing to be worn to reassert one's masculinity. I'm appalled. As my colleague noted, this is manufacturing backlash. Are we just being oversensitive? What is an appropriate way to express concern? Do you think Brut would respond to letters of complaint? Or K-Mart? Suggestions and feedback appreciated. Thanks, Cookie White Stephan New Mexico State University cstephan@nmsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:19:15 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Jenny Lloyd, Director of Women's Studies, Department" Subject: Re: WMST L: Academic novels On "academic novels, for plays/movies, how about "Educating Rita" and "Oleanna"? Jenny Lloyd SUNY at Brockport jlloyd@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:24:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DIANE Subject: Teaching at a Community College I work and teach at a community college (for the past 5 years) and love it. I work primarily with re-entry students, older women who are motivated and excited about learning and about the second chance the college offers. But in general community college students are female and older than in residential colleges. Teachers are usually there because they want to teach. I hope you regain your initial excitement and spend some time at the college getting a feel for who your students might be and for the faculty. I think you'll enjoy it. Diane Goldsmith Manchester Community-Technical College MA_Goldsmith@commnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:49:43 GMT-700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gunseli Berik Organization: Economics Subject: Re: Re[2]: Is WMST All-American? Comments: To: Elisabeth Golding Returning to "the original concern over the perceived dominance on this list of individuals in the U.S. and how that can and should be addressed" (to quote Beth Golding)-- It is difficult to remedy this. The structural reasons (e.g. prominence of WS in the U.S.) have already been mentioned. Given those, along with others, I too would like to hear more voices, questions, announcements from the rest of the world on this list. I would also like to see more discussion of questions on teaching of gender, feminist issues related to the rest of the world (esp. Third World) that emanate from people affiliated with Women's Studies in the U.S. I would *strongly encourage* all those from the rest of the world or writing/teaching on the rest of the world to participate. But, when such issues are raised on the list, there are few responses and a short-lived (if at all) discussion. This is no doubt shaped by the interests and background of the current participants on the list. But it creates the perception above, and may in turn discourage the participation of those who would like to see a (geographically) broader set of concerns discussed on the list. So, it is difficult to break the cycle. Gunseli Berik Economics and Women's Studies University of Utah 308 BuC Salt Lake City, UT 84112 berik@econ.sbs.utah.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:08:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Rachel A. Rosenberg" Subject: Another Academic Novel Joyce Carol Oates has written a novel called _Marya: A Life_ that includes a chapter or so about her time in graduate school and affair with a faculty member. For a satiric novel about graduate school politics and romance from a male viewpoint, see Kingsley Amis's _Lucky Jim_ (1953). Rachel A. Rosenberg Northwestern University rrosenbe@casbah.acns.nwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:32:01 GMT-400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MACKAY KELLY ANNE Subject: Re: Re[2]: Is WMST All-American? No offense to any of my neighbours to the South but Canadians would no sooner identify themselves as Americans than they would fly to the moon. Having spent six years living in Europe, I found that referring to the US as America is common parlance and as such the moniker 'American' to denote an American citizen is quite acceptable to most Canucks!!! Kelleigh MacKay ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:54:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: evelyn spears Subject: NGO FORUM, BEIJING New subscriber on this list. I attended the NGO Forum on Women in Beijing. Are these others who attended who have constructed a course, seminar, workshop or have done speaking on the relevance of the Forum and the UN Conference. Interested to know what women are doing now to promote the implementation of the Platform for Action. Evelyn Spears ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:58:44 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Roxanne Marie Kent-Drury Subject: Lazy post (fwd) I am reposting this for a colleague, as I recall a number of recent posts from listmembers working in this area. I hope it is of use. Roxanne Kent-Drury University of Oregon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 12:57:44 MDT From: Feroza F Jussawalla To: postcolonial@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Subject: Lazy post I am looking for two or three papsers on South Asian Women with the theme "Crossing Borders/Finding Homes" for a special issue of The South Asian Literature Association's Journal called The SALA Review-- an allied organization of the MLA. I need to put this issue together post haste. It needs to go to the publisher by May 31st. Which means it has to be refereed, reevised, formatted by then. Does anyone out there have a ready paper on or near the theme noted above? Please let me know ASAP. Feroza Jussawalla --- from list postcolonial@lists.village.virginia.edu --- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:58:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: Re: T/Q: Academic Novels (replies II) Also Amanda Cross' "What About Max?" ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:06:24 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Novels about Students' Experience in Academe (was "Academic Fiction") A number of recent respondents to the query about novels showing what college life was like for students (undergrad., I'd assumed, and possibly grad.) have provided references for books about faculty--which are useful in their own right. Two other books that are more specifically on women students' relation to academe (and both are great books): Rebecca Goldstein's _The Mind/Body Problem_ (a novel about both being a student and then being married to an academic, as I recall), and Alice Kohler's wonderful memoir, _A Solitary Woman_ (about herself dropping out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy in order to explore her own philosophical and educational quest alone). Marilyn Edelstein, Dept. of English, Santa Clara U, Santa Clara California medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 11:09:11 GMT+1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CHRISTINA LEE Organization: Psychology, Newcastle University Subject: Is WMST-L All-American? We can hardly blame Americans for their insularity if the rest of us don't get in there and explain to them how we see the world, can we? Bearing in mind that people are sensitive, that Americans don't do these things intentionally to offend, and that nobody likes being criticised, I think it's up to us to draw attention (gently) to these issues when they arise. One thing that would be nice would be if Americans mentioned what country they lived in! References to the western states or the National This or That make a lot more sense if you have a clue as to the western states of what, or which nation is being discussed. Just a thought Christina Lee lee@psychology.newcastle.edu.au (that's in Australia!) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:13:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: andrea shalal-esa Subject: Re: query: texts for "academic novel" course In-Reply-To: Ahdaf Soueif has written a very powerful novel, "In the Eye of the Sun" which tells the story of a young Egyptian woman Asya and her graduate study in England. Education isn't the central theme, but it plays a key role in the novel, and it would offer a different perspective for your students. The novel is quite long (785 pages), but gripping. All the best, Andrea Shalal-Esa (shalal@wam.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:46:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Nasstrom Subject: citizenship and leadership I am an historian working on women's leadership in the civil rights movement, and I've recently become interested in historical and contemporary conceptions of citizenship as well. I'm looking to tap into an interdisciplinary body of literature on these two subjects, including feminist theorizing. I'm wondering how wide and how deep the literature on women & citizenship and women & leadership is in other (non-history) fields. Citations for existing bibliographies, review essays, and collections of essays (especially if they include a detailed introductory/overview essay) would be especially helpful. I would also welcome recommendations for individual authors and titles. Many thanks! Kathy Nasstrom (nasstromk@usfca.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 22:53:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bill Oetjen Subject: Men United Against Rape Dear Folks, I've organized a rally/march/speak-out for men against violence against women. It is called Men United Against Rape, and will take place on Saturday, April 27 at noon on the steps of Burlington's City Hall. The main idea is to get men to accept responsibility for the permission they give to the whole continuum of sexual assault. I'm working hard to get young men including high school age out to participate. Does anyone know of precedence for this kind of event? Please reply to Bill Oetjen at: woetjen@moose.uvm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 14:00:40 GMT+1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CHRISTINA LEE Organization: Psychology, Newcastle University Subject: Academic Novels The best, funniest and most cynical novel ever written about academia, romance, male professors, female students, coercion, blackmail and general all-round nastiness is The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury. David Lodge is also an entertaining writer of academic novels - Nice Work is a very funny story about a female academic who goes on an "industry awareness" programme or some such thing to a factory, it's about the differences between academics and people with "real" jobs. Small World and Changing Places are also excellent novels but both are from a male perspective, females featuring mainly as prey. Christina Lee ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:05:39 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: patricia howard-borjas Subject: Re: Is WMST All-American? People in the Americas who do not live in the US consider themselves to be from the Americas but not 'American' - e.g., Canadians in Latin America are anxious to clearly differentiate themselves from 'americanos;' Latin Americans are 'Latinoamericanos'. There is sometimes a political reaction to the term, however, since non-U.S. citizens on the North and South American continents often feel that Americans suppose they are the only people living there (or that the entire area is their particular political-economic domain, as in U.S. politics). In any case, MacDonald's has conveniently manipulated the term when it advertised 'all-American beef' and was importing beef, for example, from Nicaragua. However, it is missing the point to focus on the term. The fact that the List is dominated by Americans should be of concern, but it is not easy to get away from. The preponderance of dialogue which is relevant mainly to the U.S. does discourage people from other continents from getting much involved, but this will continue until they introduce their own particular preoccupations. As head of a Department of Gender Studies in Agriculture in the Netherlands, however, my personal problem with the list is the apparent lack of involvement of people who are concerned more with women's daily existence and struggles (even in the U.S.) (e.g., women's poverty, women as farmers, workers, women's organizations and movements) as well as the apparent lack of interest on the part of its participants (in terms of subject matter) with anything that is not American. People who subscribe to the List in the U.S. don't discuss issues of concern to women living in other countries because they apparently do not do comparative research or engage in dialogue with their foreign counterparts off the Web. Is this correct? I do not know whether this is because rather more esoteric subjects focused exclusively on the U.S. really dominate women's studies in the U.S., or whether people who work in these areas do not subscribe. Of course there are exceptions to the above, and this is why I subscribe to the List, but it is true that one has to plow through a lot of mail to find them. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:28:26 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Duffy Subject: Academic novels I didn't see anyone mention A. S. Byatt's POSSESSION. If plays are to be included Albee was mentioned) then one must consider OLEANNA by David Mamet which certainly had the predicted effect upon my husband/professor and me---unable to speak to one another for some time after leaving the theatre. What a fascinating course. I so often wish I could take some of the offerings mentioned/constructed on this list. Mary Ann teaching highschool English at a feminist school in Toronto. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:08:11 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara G. Taylor" Subject: Re: T/Q: Academic Novels (replies II) In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:58:58 -0400 from Actually, ALL of Carolyn Heilbrun/Amanda Cross's novels have an academic setting. I belive the "Max" one is *The Question of Max* not *What About.... ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:17:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1) terminology 2) WMST-L's focus I am writing for two reasons--to ask that we bring the discussion of the term "American" to an end and to address Patricia Howard-Borjas' recent remarks about the list. Several people have contributed illuminating comments about the term "American," but I think further discussion belongs elsewhere, not on WMST-L. Please do not send any more messages to the list about the use of this or related terms. As part of the discussion, Patricia Howard-Borjas writes: > As head of a Department of Gender Studies in Agriculture in the > Netherlands, however, my personal problem with the list is the apparent > lack of involvement of people who are concerned more with women's daily > existence and struggles (even in the U.S.) (e.g., women's poverty, women as > farmers, workers, women's organizations and movements) as well as the > apparent lack of interest on the part of its participants (in terms of > subject matter) with anything that is not American. Patricia Howard-Borjas' concern about the unintended but nonetheless apparent American-centered nature of many of the messages on WMST-L has also been expressed by others, both in messages to the list and in responses to the recent questionnaire Nancy Wyatt and I sent out. I too would welcome more attention on WMST-L to Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration issues outside the U.S. I also think there's room for more geographically-specific lists as well as for an international list like WMST-L. Indeed, such geographically-specific lists already exist, and more will doubtless come. Many people subscribe to more than one list. However, some of Patricia Howard-Borjas' remarks (and a message yesterday from someone else about clothing advertising) suggest that some people may misunderstand WMST-L's narrow focus on Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration. As the welcome letter and occasional messages try to make clear, most discussion of political issues and gender-related societal issues lies outside the list's focus and should occur elsewhere, not on WMST-L. Even with the list's narrow focus, the mail volume is very heavy. Were we to expand the focus to include societal issues, the already-heavy mail volume would increase enormously, forcing many people with limited time, limited disk space, and/or limited funds to sign off. I am determined that that not happen. There are other lists where political/societal issues can be discussed; you can get a listing of approximately 200 women-related e-mail lists by sending the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Those who have access to the World Wide Web can find a better version of this listing at http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html . The Web version includes topical sub-sections, including one for Activist lists. I am NOT claiming that political issues and gender-related societal issues are not vitally important to Women's Studies--of course they are. But other lists exist for their discussion and make it possible for people to tailor their subscriptions to fit their interests, needs, and resources. This issue (the list's focus) has been discussed on WMST-L many times in the past; there is no point in re-hashing those discussions. A file now exists that goes into more detail about this issue--if you're interested, send the message GET FOCUS EXPLAIND (note the deliberate misspelling of EXPLAIND) to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Should you decide that WMST-L's narrow focus no longer meets your interests, you can unsubscribe by sending the message UNSUB WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (or LISTSERV@UMDD, if you subscribed via Bitnet--if one address doesn't work, try the other. If neither works, write to me PRIVATELY). Please DO NOT send any of the above messages to WMST-L. Many thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:26:44 GMT-400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MACKAY KELLY ANNE Subject: Re: 1) terminology 2) WMST-L's focus UNSCRIBE WMST-L ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:05:57 EST5EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauraine Leblanc Organization: Emory University Subject: Academic novels Since no one has mentioned this, and it is somewhat on a lighter vein: Lorrie Sprecher, _Sister Safety Pin_, is a really enjoyable novel about being female, punk, lesbian, and in graduate school. If I recall correctly, the original post asked about novels focusing on faculty-student relationships, which this novel does not, but I recommend it to anyone (and everyone). It's an excellent read for anyone interested in the recent riot-grrrl type of subcultural activity as well! Lauraine Leblanc Institute for Women's Studies Emory University LLEBLA@SOC.EMORY.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:30:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Men United Against Rape In-Reply-To: from "Bill Oetjen" at Apr 11, 96 10:53:00 pm Bill's question emboldens me to ask a question of my own. Last night I went to a Take Back the Night rally & march on campus. During the rally, every speaker & performer made sure to mention how wonderful the men who attended this event are. I found this really strange - how come, at a rally against rape, everyone was talking about how wonderful men are? Lest you be misled, I need to point out that most of the speakers were *not* undergraduates. They were faculty & administration & leaders in the feminist community. I do think it's wonderful that some men attend Take Back the Night. I don't, however, think these men are any more wonderful than the women who attend. How come nobody talks about the fact that the women who attend are wonderful, too? I suspect that women who attend & speak or perform at this kind of event fear that they will be thought of as "dykes" or "bitches" if they don't keep going on about how much they like men. I find this really frustrating! Why can't we speak out against rape without having to keep including caveats about how much we like men? I would be interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this matter. Chris ******************************** Chris Saad saad@dolphin.upenn.edu ******************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:48:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan hubbard Subject: Gender's influence on creative writers Much to my delight, my dean has just given me a grant to create a new creative writing course on gender and writing. I would welcome your suggestions for texts for this course, which will be taken by junior and senior students at the University of Central Florida. And, I'm trying to track down a study I dimly recall in which an audience was asked to determine whether anonymous writing samples were written by men or women. Does this ring any bells? I'd be very grateful for any suggestions. __Susan Hubbard shubbard@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:10:37 +0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eira H Juntti Subject: Is the list 'american' In-Reply-To: <371BB23949@hurricane.unb.ca> from "MACKAY KELLY ANNE" at Apr 11, 96 07:32:01 pm > > No offense to any of my neighbours to the South but Canadians would > no sooner identify themselves as Americans than they would fly to the > moon. Having spent six years living in Europe, I found that > referring to the US as America is common parlance and as such the > moniker 'American' to denote an American citizen is quite acceptable > to most Canucks!!! > Kelleigh MacKay > Since Europe was brought up, I just though I'd mention a curiosity to anyone interested in how 'Americans' (meaning those from the U.S.) are referred to: Since I came back to Finland from the U.S., I have been reminded many times that in Finland it is the common habit to speak of the 'Yankees' (in Finnish, 'jenkki') when referring to the people of the U.S. Having spent quite some time in the U.S., it does sound odd to me, but I have recently caught myself using that frase. So, how about that - how do you 'Americans' feel about such a label? Eira Juntti eira.juntti@cc.helsinki.fi ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 11:19:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Abinojar Subject: Re: Men United Against Rape In-Reply-To: Your message <199604121430.KAA21352@dolphin.upenn.edu> of Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:30:23 -0400 Chris, I am personally from the school that men that are against rape should be telling other men, rather than attending rallies. Well, they can attend rallies but, I feel part of the problem is that men, or men that rape don't listen to women as much as they listen to other men, so I feel that perhaps an effective measure might be if men against rape started putting pressure on men that do rape. So what I am saying is that as well as attending womens' rallies it might be just as constructive to attend city council meetings, or police board meetings, or other forums where male leadership is typical, and put on pressure on them. Have men ask that men be made accoutable. Santana ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:57:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Christine A. Smith" <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Men United Against Rape We had our Take Back the Night rally here at Ball State on Tuesday. One way we managed to eliminate the "oh, men are so wonderful for showing up!" is by having a women-only march. We had a coed rally/speak-out at the end, but I think a women-only march really fostered a sense of sisterhood. It Also, as many of you know, women-only anythings create fear and hostility for some. We had a number of men yell things at us during the march. After that, I don't think many women were in the mood to thank men, since they saw that some men on campus wwere very threatened and possibly dangerous. We also had most of our flyers for the march torn down, and many that weren't were defaced. Chris 10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:48:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Deborah A. Elliston" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah A. Elliston" Subject: Re: Men United Against Rape Comments: To: Shahnaz C Saad In-Reply-To: <199604121430.KAA21352@dolphin.upenn.edu> I want to second Shahnaz Saad's comments and say that I too find it frustrating and irritating when men get "special credit" for behaving like decent people. Maybe it's a sign of women's low expectations of men. More likely it's male privileging operating in yet another venue: "look! men came! isn't that fabulous..." No, frankly, it's not. The focus on men's fabulousness (via their participation) stems in part, I think, from that culturally insidious position that men's presence somehow legitimizes the project, bolstering the rightness of the march/rally. Sad, sad, sad. Looking forward to more progressive times, Deborah A. Elliston Department of Anthropology New York University elliston@acf2.nyu.edu On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Shahnaz C Saad wrote: > Bill's question emboldens me to ask a question of my own. > > Last night I went to a Take Back the Night rally & march on campus. > During the rally, every speaker & performer made sure to mention how > wonderful the men who attended this event are. I found this really > strange - how come, at a rally against rape, everyone was talking about > how wonderful men are? Lest you be misled, I need to point out that most > of the speakers were *not* undergraduates. They were faculty & > administration & leaders in the feminist community. > > I do think it's wonderful that some men attend Take Back the Night. I > don't, however, think these men are any more wonderful than the women who > attend. How come nobody talks about the fact that the women who attend > are wonderful, too? > > I suspect that women who attend & speak or perform at this kind of event > fear that they will be thought of as "dykes" or "bitches" if they don't > keep going on about how much they like men. I find this really > frustrating! Why can't we speak out against rape without having to keep > including caveats about how much we like men? > > I would be interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this matter. > > Chris > ******************************** > Chris Saad > saad@dolphin.upenn.edu > ******************************** > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:53:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Peter S Hovmand Subject: Re: Men United Against Rape In-Reply-To: <01I3G7JJD4G28ZFHFN@BSUVC.bsu.edu> from "Christine A. Smith" at Apr 12, 96 09:57:52 am At Michigan State University, Men ACTING to Prevent Violence Against Women has been actively coordinating with Women's Council, the group planning the Vigil and Take Back the Night Activities. Our strategy has been to focus on supporting the ways women define space. For women focused activities, we plan campanion activities where supporitve men can meet and process/discuss/educate. Meanwhile, at the women focused events, men who do show up are referred to the men's discussion group. This shifts the processing of men's hostility and anger to a self-examination around the issue of respecting women's boundaries, from individual to the group level. It also helps clarify men's motivations in the public debates around Take Back The Night and creates a critical political pivot where some supportive men can begin taking responsibility for educating other men. Peter Hovmand hovmandp@pilot.msu.edu Sexual Assault Crisis and Safety Education Program Michigan State University ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 16:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Men and TBTN: Deja Vu The question Bill Oetjen raised about precedents for a Men United Against Rape rally seems to have turned into a discussion of men at Take Back the Night rallies. Longtime WMST-L subscribers may find this very familiar. A similar discussion took place last year. You can find these earlier messages easily by sending the following database search message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: // Database Search DD=Rules //Rules DD * Search "take back the night" in WMST-L from 1/95 to 12/95 Index Print /* I sent the above 7-line message and, less than a minute later, I received the following response from Listserv: > > Search "take back the night" in WMST-L from 1/95 to 12/95 > --> Database WMST-L, 15 hits. > > > Index > Item # Date Time Recs Subject > ------ ---- ---- ---- ------- > 014591 95/07/07 10:40 161 Take Back the Night > 014861 95/08/02 11:14 38 Re: Take Back the Night March - Women Only > 014873 95/08/02 13:31 17 Re: Take Back the Night March - Women Only > 014874 95/08/02 16:33 13 Re: Take Back the Night March - Women Only > 014876 95/08/02 18:42 21 Re: Take Back the Night March - Women Only > 014881 95/08/02 23:19 57 Re: Take Back the Night March - Women Only > 014883 95/08/02 21:45 28 Re: Take Back the Night March - Women Only > 014889 95/08/03 13:48 38 Re: Take Back the Night March - Women Only > 014890 95/08/03 11:02 59 Excluding/including people (cf. TBTN march) > 014895 95/08/03 14:55 55 Re: Excluding/including people (cf. TBTN march) > 014899 95/08/03 09:50 37 Re: Take Back the Night March - Women Only -Reply > 014901 95/08/04 07:49 27 Re: Excluding/including people (cf. TBTN march) > 014911 95/08/04 14:01 61 Re: take back the night -- women only? > 014916 95/08/04 23:31 25 Re: take back the night -- women only? > 014927 95/08/07 12:02 57 take back the night > > > Print [Since I gave a Print command, the above index was followed by the full text of all 15 messages.] I am letting people know this both to try to avoid needless repetition and also to encourage everyone to learn how to use Listserv's marvellous search capabilities. Though the instruction I sent to Listserv looks quite strange, you don't have to understand it fully in order to use it. What you DO need to understand is described in the WMST-L file DUMMY GUIDE (as well as in a second file, SEARCH LOGFILES--they go over much the same territory, but I think DUMMY GUIDE is better for beginners). Send the following 2-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: GET DUMMY GUIDE GET SEARCH LOGFILES Many thanks to WMST-L subscriber Jacquie Hunt for writing DUMMY GUIDE. Best wishes, Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 16:54:25 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Davidson Subject: Re: teaching at community colleges I have been a teacher in a community college for almost 20 years,running a two year degree program in Human Services as well as teaching Womens studies ...almost all my students are returning women, like Diane I find the work most rewarding..Ia am also an adjunst professor in a four year school so I do have a basis for comparison....try it you will like it, I am almost sure...mary Davidson, columbia greene community college...hudson, new york...and come to the community college panel at NWSA at Skidmore in Saratoga in June... ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 10:26:51 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Women's Studies at Massey Subject: Re: Academic novels Would someone mind compiling this list of suggested "academic novels" please. It's fascinating but growing too fast for my reading to keep up!!!!! Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:41:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Re: teaching at community colleges In-Reply-To: <960412165425.6846@vaxa.cis.sunycgcc.edu> I don't teach at a community college but have worked with several in Maryland (Essex CC, Dundalk CC, Carroll CC, Anne Arundel CC) over the years. Despite the high teaching loads (15 hours a semester) and teaching a variety of courses (often within a "college" rather than their discipline), I've been amazed by the innovative programs, interesting courses, workshops, panels, and mentoring programs that the faculty (usually women but also some men) have implemented in Women's Studies or related areas despite their enormous workloads and staggering committee responsibilities. I have nothing but respect for community college faculty. I think that, in many ways, they're the "movers and shakers" on many women's issues because they deal with older students, students who pay for their own education (while balancing family and work responsibilities) and are very responsive to students' strengths and weaknesses in implementing Women's Studies programs or courses. n. Benokraitis ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:33:11 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Suzanne L. Bunkers I am trying to get in touch with Suzanne Bunkers, Mankato State University concerning her forthcoming book _Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries_. I am currently working on my dissertation about women's diaries and would like to contact Dr. Bunkers about her work. Please respond privately. Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink alw7315@acs.tamu.edu Department of English Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4227 "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." Emily Dickinson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 19:25:05 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Is WMST All-American? In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 10 Apr 1996 20:30:54 -0500 from While, as Ursula notes, the US is commonly thought of as "America" (I don't know that it's universal), my point in suggesting a distinction be made was to be more self-perceptive in the US, in our work and in thought, that we are one nation/state within America, lands with many peoples. When working in India, people did refer to "Americans" and to me as an "Amer- ican" but in conversation and in newspapers, references were also frequently to the US as doing this or that. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:33:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: s.b. anthony anti-colonialist For a paper I'm working on, I'm looking for anti-colonial women in the US in the 19th century. I read some time ago (don't recall the source) that Susan B. Anthony was one. so far, I've only located comments and a quote on her opposi- tion to the annexation of Hawaii. Can anyone help with more details? Thanks much. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu p.s. I had asked at an earlier point about anti-colonialism in England. I fou- cites for that. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 23:24:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Men United Against Rape In-Reply-To: from "Nancy Abinojar" at Apr 12, 96 11:19:47 am Thanks for sharing your perspective! It's too bad men so often only listen to other men and not to women... Chris ******************************** Chris Saad saad@dolphin.upenn.edu ******************************** > Chris, > I am personally from the school that men that are against rape should > be telling other men, rather than attending rallies. Well, they can > attend rallies but, I feel part of the problem is that men, or men that > rape don't listen to women as much as they listen to other men, so I > feel that perhaps an effective measure might be if men against rape > started putting pressure on men that do rape. So what I am saying is > that as well as attending womens' rallies it might be just as > constructive to attend city council meetings, or police board meetings, > or other forums where male leadership is typical, and put on pressure on > them. Have men ask that men be made accoutable. > > Santana > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:59:37 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cecilia Julagay Subject: Re: s.b. anthony anti-colonialist Jim Zwick has an excellent web page with a lot of info on anti- imperialism, etc http://web.syr.edu/~fjzwick/ the above should get you to the main page - if not, let me know - Cecilia JULAGAY@UCRAC1.UCR.EDU (^ - the number "one") ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 01:38:17 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: June Kaminski Subject: Re: teaching at community colleges In-Reply-To: <01I3ERMV51RQ8ZF4BP@BSUVC.bsu.edu> Hello Christine, I teach at a University College. When I started there 7 years ago, Kwantlen was a community college. I know that acquaintances who work at my Alma mater, University of B.C. do regard a C.C. as a "step down" but I chalk that up to tradition and elitism. My experience has been a positive one...I'll likely work here till I retire (20 years more or so). I have found much less hegemony, patriarchy, structure and restrictions, than at a old established University. Also, I am now finding the opportunities for curriculum development, academic freedom, and truly connecting with my students are opening up more and more. We do have a unique facility though, several educators that I know, who work at other C.C.s do not have the same freedom or humanistic approach. Good Luck on your choice! June On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Christine A. Smith wrote: > I am currently teaching in a non-tenure track position, and have an > interview in two weeks for a tenure-track position at a community > college. My initial excitement about the interview was quickly > dissipated by friends and colleagues who universally consider > community colleges to be, well, a joke. I remember being at > a conferences and hearing women talk about community colleges as being > very supportive atmospheres for women and feminists. I would > like to hear from anyone currently teaching at a community college > (or who has previously taught at one) about your experiences. > You can respond to me privately. Thanks. > Christine Smith > 10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu > June Kaminski, RN MSN june@kwantlen.bc.ca Nursing Faculty Phone: (604) 5992085 Kwantlen University College ** Fax: (604) 599 2068 Surrey, B.C. Canada * * ** Stand in the center of your ****** Will and your own Intent. ** ** ~~ ~~ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 11:57:25 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Ezekiel Subject: Is WMST-L All-American? I agree with Joan's desire to limit the debate on usage of the term American. On the other hand, I noted with interest that nobody reacted to my comment about the term "global feminism" (United States + the Third World = the Globe). This is, I think, a legitimate issue for discussion on this list since so many US attempts to see beyong US borders has come under this heading. My more international view on questions comes mainly, not from morally higher ground, but from speaking other languages and from 20 years living in Europe and elsewhere. However, it is never enough to say to those on the outside, "please help us become aware of your concerns." Students of social movement organizations know that a group's identity is often established in the beginning, and it is not sufficient to just open the door to include others. If I may make one request, it would be to take Christina's comment further (about specifying which country you're talking about), and suggest that people re-read their posts asking themselves the question, "Is this comprehensible for someone outside the US?" A lot of times, a one- or two-word explanation of a term makes something more accessible. Judith Ezekiel ezekiel@univ-paris12.fr ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 08:53:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Hyer Subject: academic novels I really enjoyed Rameau's Niece by Cathleen Schine. Janet Hyer University of Toronto ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 10:17:12 +0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne-Marie Subject: Re: Assistance needed Hello, I am new to this list. I am retired (ex U professor) on an island called Montserrat, where a "dormant" volcano decided to wake up - you may have seen some of the coverage. We have been connected to the net since last summer -- from being isolated I have the luxury of connecting with the world. It's awesome! Some friends and I have started an online source for women's books (http://www.womenbooks.com) -- not to sell, but to showcase writings by women and for women. We are still designing the site and I need your help with the following: 1. We need a GOOD subject index - I am not happy with the standard library indexes. Any recommendations for a women-oriented subject index? 2. I would like to have online a list of feminist "classics." - Suggestions for books to be included in the list are appreciated. 3. Suggestions for making the site responsive to the needs of women's studies are welcome. Course outlines, biblio, etc. Thanks for the feedback. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 12:06:29 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: Gender's influence on creative writers In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:48:00 EDT I recommend three short essays by Tina De Rosa (author of Paper Fish, reprinted by the Feminist Press with my afterword this year): "An Italian American Woman Speaks Out" (ATTENZIONE, May 1980, 38-9); "Career Choices Come from Listening to the Heart" (FRA NOI 25 --Oct. 1985):9; "My father's Lesson" FRA NOI 25 (Spt. 1986):15. These essay explore the author's choice to become a writer from the persoective of an italian American working class person. If you are interested, I will be gald to send you copies. Tillie Olsen's SILENCES I think makes a wonderful reading in a creative writing class. Edi Giunta faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 13:19:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Heidi Hutner Subject: Re: CFP: Aphra Behn Society April 13, 1996 Dear Professor Kraft: I would like to submit a paper entitled, "Fainting, Blushing, and Dying: Heterosexual Love in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Women," for the Aphra Behn Conference in Athens, Georgia, 1996. My essay examines the difficulty for female characters in expressing and experiencing heterosexual desire in early eighteenth-century fiction. At the moment in which female characters feel desire for the opposite sex --they cannot speak. In effect, they cannot enter the "Symbolic Order" and acquire language when attempting to express desire in heterosexual love. In my essay, I look specifically at Behn's "The Widow Ranter," Manley's "The Wife's Resentment" and Haywood's "Love in Excess." Behn's Semernia, the Indian Queen, is rendered ill and dies because of her passionate feelings for the opposite sex. Manley's 'resentful wife' briefly speaks through the violent appropriation of the phallus--the knife with which she dismembers and kills her husband allows her to publically denounce his crimes and redeem herself, yet she must be condemned to death. Haywood's female characters in "Love in Excess" blush, stammer, and faint when called upon to use language and express desire for the men they love. They become "hysterical," fall ill, lose consciousness. For these writers, then, entering language-- and the Law of the Father--is dangerously problematic for their female characters. In addition, I would like to suggest that a disscussion group or workshop be organized to examine teaching eighteenth-century literature from a feminist and/or non-traditional perspective. I would be very interested in participating in such a project. Please let me know your thoughts about this. Thank you very much for your consideration. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Sincerely yours, Heidi Hutner Assistant Professor of English Department of English SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11743 516-427-8377 (Fax and Answering Machine on line) Email: HHutner@AOL.COM ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 14:23:18 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elaine K. Miller" Subject: wms/gender studies in cuba Hello - I'm writing the list members to ask if anyone has specific contacts to suggest for program in WMS or gender studies in Cuba, to be explored for a study abroad program that my college is interested in developing. Please respond privately (unless Joan considers of general interest to the group). Thanks. emiller@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 15:05:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KWD Bruce Keener Subject: Re: Men United Against Rape In-Reply-To: As a man on this list I support this approach 100%. Excellent suggestions. Bruce Keener Kent District Library Kentwood Branch 616-455-2200 kwdbk@lakeland.lib.mi.us Opinions are my own! On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Nancy Abinojar wrote: > Chris, > I am personally from the school that men that are against rape should > be telling other men, rather than attending rallies. Well, they can > attend rallies but, I feel part of the problem is that men, or men that > rape don't listen to women as much as they listen to other men, so I > feel that perhaps an effective measure might be if men against rape > started putting pressure on men that do rape. So what I am saying is > that as well as attending womens' rallies it might be just as > constructive to attend city council meetings, or police board meetings, > or other forums where male leadership is typical, and put on pressure on > them. Have men ask that men be made accoutable. > > Santana > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 19:49:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: citizenship and leadership In-Reply-To: Kathleen B. Jones's feminist theorizing in "Citizenship in a Woman-Friendly Polity," (Signs) 15.4 (1990): 781-812 comes to mind as a good start. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Kathy Nasstrom wrote: > I am an historian working on women's leadership in the civil rights > movement, and I've recently become interested in historical and contemporary > conceptions of citizenship as well. I'm looking to tap into an > interdisciplinary body of literature on these two subjects, including > feminist theorizing. I'm wondering how wide and how deep the literature on > women & citizenship and women & leadership is in other (non-history) fields. > Citations for existing bibliographies, review essays, and collections of > essays (especially if they include a detailed introductory/overview essay) > would be especially helpful. I would also welcome recommendations for > individual authors and titles. Many thanks! > > Kathy Nasstrom (nasstromk@usfca.edu) > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 20:59:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: wms/gender studies in cuba In-Reply-To: I am going on Sabbatical for a year and the replacement Director for Women's Studies, I believe, is the first Latina Acting Women' Studies Director in the nation. Let me know if she is not. At any rate, this is pending our Dean's approval. Her name is Martha Marchena, and she is from Cuba, a well-known pianist. I will pass this question on to her and see if she can respond. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, Elaine K. Miller wrote: > Hello - I'm writing the list members to ask if anyone has specific contacts > to suggest for program in WMS or gender studies in Cuba, to be explored > for a study abroad program that my college is interested in developing. > Please respond privately (unless Joan considers of general interest to > the group). Thanks. > emiller@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 00:34:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: academic novels In-Reply-To: andrea shalal-esa "Re: query: texts for "academic novel" course" (Apr 11, 9:13pm) Given the discussion about the 'Americas', I thought I would suggest an academic novel with Canadian content, Nora Kelly's My Sister's Keeper, set in a Women's Studies department in a Canadian university. Katherine Side klside@YorkU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 22:57:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Men United Against Rape Comments: To: Bill Oetjen In-Reply-To: Bill, best wishes with plans for your march. On Good Friday, a Milwaukee area Christian Church hosted a prayer service and march (procession) that focused on violence to women and children. The homilist was from the local women's shelter, and participants included women and children who had been battered, as well as men from Never More -- a program for batterers. ALso included in the event were judges, members of the police dept, and groups of young college-age men and women there in support against violence. It was an emotionally powerful and healing experience for many of the participants. Participants themselves -- both battered and recovering batterers all indicated that communities could all benefit from such an expereince. Let me know if you need futher information. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 10:22:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: Abused therapists Sorry I did not respond sooner and I have lost the requester's email address, but I just finished reading a wonderful book on the topic: "A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy," by Annie G. Rogers PhD. New York: Viking, 1995. Phyllis Povell ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:06:48 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: Love After Love On Saturday, April 13, 1996 I reviewed "Love After Love" (Dir.Diane Kurys) on "The Women's Show," Tampa's womanist/feminist weekly radio show 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 REV172 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 Linda Lopez McAlister Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 14:46:09 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: WS in Cuba There has been a women's studies program at the University of Havana since 1991. It's directed by a psychologist, Norma Vasallo Barrueta. Here's the info: Dra Norma Vasallo Barrueta Catedra de la Mujer, Universidad de la Habana San Rafael #1168 esquina Mazon Ciudad de la Habana Zona 4, Codigo postal 10400 Cuba FAX: (537)33-5774 33-4163 33-1908 E-mail: psico@comuh.uh.cu Linda Lopez McAlister Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 18:21:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sharon Parrott (AMS)" Subject: Thanks (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:31:34 -0500 (EST) From: Laura Runge-Gordon (ENG) To: "Sharon Parrott (AMS)" Subject: Thanks Dear Sharon, I wanted to thank you for the article, the citation and the query that you put out on the Women'sStudies List a couple of weeks ago. It is protocol to thank those who have helped, and I would like to extend my thanks to the many, many generous scholars who sent me information on their women's literature courses. I tried to thank them all individually, but I am afraid the numbers caught up with me, and I did not get to everybody. Please extend for me a general thanks. I will be submitting my proposals next week, and their information was very helpful. I also met a colleague in a similar position at a conference this past week, and I will be forwarding my proposal to her with all the references. The spirit of collaboration continues! Thanks again, Laura ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 18:32:44 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sharon Parrott (AMS)" Subject: Thanks (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 18:21:01 -0400 From: Sharon Parrott (AMS) To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L Subject: Thanks (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:31:34 -0500 (EST) From: Laura Runge-Gordon (ENG) To: "Sharon Parrott (AMS)" Subject: Thanks Dear Sharon, I wanted to thank you for the article, the citation and the query that you put out on the Women'sStudies List a couple of weeks ago. It is protocol to thank those who have helped, and I would like to extend my thanks to the many, many generous scholars who sent me information on their women's literature courses. I tried to thank them all individually, but I am afraid the numbers caught up with me, and I did not get to everybody. Please extend for me a general thanks. I will be submitting my proposals next week, and their information was very helpful. I also met a colleague in a similar position at a conference this past week, and I will be forwarding my proposal to her with all the references. The spirit of collaboration continues! Thanks again, Laura ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 00:42:56 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Feminist Studies I would appreciate it if someone could send me the address for the journal "Feminist Studies". Please reply privately to me at PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU ...................................................................... Rosa Maria Pegueros 217C Washburn Hall Department of History e-mail: pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 telephone: (401) 874-4092 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0817 "When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it." --Amelia Earhart ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 00:53:36 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Is WMST-L All-American? In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 13 Apr 1996 11:57:25 +0100 from Taking a cue from Judith and from Joan's questioning further discussion of the topic of "American" into theory courses: there, I think, we should be going beyond the "inclusion" of "others" by mentioning one or two countries to which a theoretical formulation may/does/ not apply. For several years my grad theor y courses in the US have been enriched by reading theoretical and empirical feminist work written in Asia and Africa. It helps open thinking about issues The last time I taught an undergraduate WS course (a few years ago) on the political economy of women in the US (the formal title established much earlier in the college bulletin), I decided that the topic couldn't be understood well enough without considering links to the political economy of women in other countries and included some readings for that purpose. I don't think I did a good-enough job that first time, but I do think it's a direction to develop in our social and well as our literary studies courses. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 08:11:37 -0400 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: Is WMST All-American? It is so nice of the US American women on this list to finally recognize that they are not the whole world. However, it would be even nicer if you recognized it every time you posted something. I have brought up this question before and not had it taken seriously and it seems that I and other women from outside the US are not even noticed. there are frequent postings from myself and Judy Evans (in England) and from several Australian and New Zealand feminists (the latter often including calls for papers, conference and job announcements). There have also been occasional postings from German and other European women. One big difference and assumption is the way the education system works. One big improvement would be to be a bit more explicit about the structure of our courses when we request or give information about teaching resources and strategies. It would also be quite easy to specify the market for the book you are asking for contributions to (i.e. if it is only going to be actively marketed in the US, would the rest of us want to contribute?). And to put 'US' in the subject header of CFPs/announcements for conferences. We might want to go but if we can't afford it these might be the messages we choose not to read. (actually we could all get in the habit of putting the country in the subject header of job and conference announcements). And then that thing about assuming we all know what Proposition 13 is (or whatever). Well, if we think it is important to the list, we should explain. But also, if US Americans think the rest of us are/should be interested in US political issues (as they impact on WS) then maybe you should be a bit more interested in what is going on in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, as well as the 'Third World' and Eastern Europe. (Not to mention Canada -- I am a Canadian and do not call myself an American and don't know any Canadians who do, this is because of the way many people think Canada is indistinguishable from the USA and the cultural and economic imperialism we have all lived through. Given it is so close why don't you know more about it?) So that's my piece. I sincerely hope that the US American (I like this formulation) women on this list will actually think about these things for longer than the duration of this thread. This list is a valuable tool to many of us inside and outside the USA (which is why we stay subscribed). I find the suggestions for teaching resources and strategies particularly useful even if I need to do the 'translation' work myself. JoVE Dr. Jo VanEvery Dept. of Cultural Studies University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom 0121-414-3730 J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 08:13:45 -0400 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: Teaching at a Community College One thing you might want to consider is what you value about teaching. In the UK there is a similar divide between 'newer' and 'older' universities. The 'new' universities were formerly called polytechnics but granted degrees. They also did a lot of non-degree programs (including technical education) and often still do. There are also colleges of higher education which do more of the technical/vocational stuff and are just getting into degree level teaching (usually in association with another university). Anyway, some women who teach in the former polytechnics find it rewarding because of the kinds of students they attract -- more working class students, more 'mature' students (including older women), more 'ethnic minority' students. There are challenges to teaching these groups (particularly related to resources and the time they have for their studies) but they are also more motivated. The colleges themselves are often poorly funded or have a history of poorer funding compared to other sorts of institutions. This can mean less library resources or other things. On the other hand, they have a longer tradition of innovative teaching methods and may have introduced certain types of facilities earlier than others (e.g. links with employers and community organizations). So, you should think about whether there is a parellel here with the community college situation in the US. Are those that are telling you it is a joke primarily interested in high prestige research institutions? Do you have a political commitment to providing good quality education for non-traditional students? Does the college where you have the interview provide time and other resources to do research? Do you care? What is their student profile like? If you get a chance to meet members of staff at the college ask some of these questions. The questions you ask them can indicate as much to them about your suitability for the job as the answers you give to their questions. And you might want to know what you getting yourself into anyway. Good luck with the job search. Dr. Jo VanEvery Dept. of Cultural Studies University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom 0121-414-3730 J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 08:49:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: No political messages, please Earlier today, Jo VanEvery wrote: > And then that thing about assuming we all know what Proposition 13 is (or > whatever). Well, if we think it is important to the list, we should explain. > But also, if US Americans think the rest of us are/should be interested in > US political issues (as they impact on WS) then maybe you should be a bit > more interested in what is going on in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, as > well as the 'Third World' and Eastern Europe. I agree with Jo that the political issues of all nations deserve our attention--BUT NOT ON WMST-L! Not US politics nor the politics of any other country, even if the political issues impact on Women's Studies (as many if not most political issues do). As WMST-L's welcome letter tries to make clear, messages about politics or societal problems lie outside WMST-L's focus on teaching, research, and program administration. The list's heavy mail volume poses a constant problem to many subscribers, and if we opened the list up to political messages as well, the volume would increase dramatically, especially since we have subscribers from 42 different countries, with many different sets of political issues. Many people would be forced to sign off. I don't want to see that happen, and so, though I'm very much in sympathy with the content of most political messages sent to the list, I must ask that such messages be sent elsewhere, not to WMST-L. For descriptions of other women-related lists where such messages might be more appropriate (some of the lists have been established precisely for political discussions), see the frequently updated compilation available via both the web and e-mail. On the web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html . If you don't have web access, you can get a copy via e-mail by sending the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . (Do NOT sent that message to WMST-L--do not hit 'reply'!) The question of political messages has been discussed a good deal in the past and should not be re-hashed now. If you're interested, you can send the message GET FOCUS EXPLAIND (yes, "explaind" with only one "e") to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU; you'll get a file containing messages that discuss this issue and help to explain the list's focus in more detail. If you feel that because of its narrow focus, WMST-L does not meet your needs, you can unsubscribe by sending the message SIGNOFF WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you get the edited digest, be sure to add a second line that says AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE . Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman * * U. of Md. Baltimore County korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 09:08:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Heather Kelley Subject: Re: Feminist Studies In-Reply-To: Hi! the journal is housed here in our department: Feminist Studies c/o Women's Studies Department The University of Maryland 2101 Woods Hall College Park, MD 20742-4521 On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Rosa Maria Pegueros wrote: > I would appreciate it if someone could send me the address for the journal > "Feminist Studies". Please reply privately to me at > PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU > > ...................................................................... > Rosa Maria Pegueros 217C Washburn Hall > Department of History e-mail: pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu > 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 telephone: (401) 874-4092 > University of Rhode Island > Kingston, RI 02881-0817 > "When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it." > --Amelia Earhart > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:10:43 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LAURA KRAMER Subject: Useful e.g.: women in advertising The New York Times Magazine has an ad (in the inside back cover) for a perfume The ad features a photo of a female back, nude, from just below her shoulder blades to just above her knees. Her hands are cuffed by a perfume container "inspired by the legendary Indian Nauratan bracelet" - but photographed to evoke handcuffing. I will be using this in my social problems course next week when we start our discussion of gender inequity. I recommend it to all for possible use. By the way, this is the magazine's 100 anniversary edition, so presumably will get a larger audience (and may have cost more per page of ad). Finally, I don't know, these days, if all editions contain the same materials. I'd guess they do, but who knows? Laura kramerl@alpha.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:46:25 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosie Subject: Patricia Ireland I am sorry to take up bandwidth this a second request: I actually meant to send this out with the last one but I forgot. For an article on outing, I was wondering if anyone could recall the outing of Patricia Ireland, President of the National Org. for Women. I believe it occurred about 1992 or 1993, and that it was the Advocate that outed her. Does anyone have a specific citation? Your help is deeply appreciated. Please reply privately: PEGUEROS@uriacc.uri.edu Thanks. Rosie ...................................................................... Rosa Maria Pegueros 217C Washburn Hall Department of History e-mail: pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 telephone: (401) 874-4092 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0817 "When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it." --Amelia Earhart ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:06:25 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carole K. Chaney" Subject: Re: Useful e.g.: women in advertising In-Reply-To: from "LAURA KRAMER" at Apr 15, 96 10:10:43 am kramerl wrote: > > The New York Times Magazine has an ad (in the inside back cover) for a perfume > > The ad features a photo of a female back, nude, from just below her shoulder > blades to just above her knees. Her hands are cuffed by a perfume container > "inspired by the legendary Indian Nauratan bracelet" - but photographed to > evoke handcuffing. > > > Finally, I don't know, these days, if all editions contain the same materials. > I'd guess they do, but who knows? > I picked up a copy at the Salt Lake City airport (the Southern California edition) and found the ad. I was very surprised that it was considered an appropriate image. Carole cchaney@wizard.ucr.edu > Laura > > kramerl@alpha.montclair.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:39:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Jadwin Subject: academic novels Thanks, thanks, thanks for the many excellent responses to my query. I'm compiling them all into an annotated list that I'll distribute to the list sometime in the next month. When exactly this will be, I don't know - as Joan's signature block says, "The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe." ;-) Lisa ************************************************************************** Lisa Jadwin e-mail: jadwin@sjfc.edu English Department office: 716/385-8192 (+ voicemail) St. John Fisher College fax: 716/385-7311 3690 East Avenue 716/385-8129 Rochester, NY 14618 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:32:44 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sonita Sarker Subject: Call for papers for anthology Sonita Sarker Assistant Professor Women's Studies and English Macalester College Office Phone: (612)696-6316 Fax: (612)696-6430 e-mail:sarker@macalstr.edu Call for Papers-- Gender and Space: South/ Southeast Asia We invite critical essays for an interdisciplinary anthology on the conceptualization of space in South and Southeast Asian contexts in the 19th and 20th centuries. The emphasis is on a feminist analytics of women's and men's experiences of space in such topics as political, social, and/or psychic cartographies of imperialism, nationhood, urbanization, technological production (cyberspace, etc.), (e)migration, enforced/ chosen exile, and cosmopolitanism. Papers might also consider how narratives (visual, written, spoken, enacted), spatial designs, and sociocultural practices configure race, class, gender (also transgendering), sexuality, religion/ spirituality, and the politics of public and private realms inside, between, and outside predetermined boundaries. Countries: Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, India, Laos, Indonesia, Singapore, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines. WE LOOK FORWARD ESPECIALLY TO SUBMISSIONS ON COUNTRIES OTHER THAN INDIA. Send 2-3 page proposals or 25-30 page papers by May 31 , 1996 to Esha Niyogi De (UCLA) or Sonita Sarker (Macalester College) at idr2end@mvs.oac.ucla.edu or sarker@macalstr.edu. Or mail to S. Sarker, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:56:30 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: brenda beagan Subject: Re: Men United Against Rape In-Reply-To: Michael Kaufman who is (i think) in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) was involved with organizing The White Ribbon Campaign for men against violence against women to show solidarity around the anniversaries of the Montreal Massacre (14 women shot at l-ecole Polytechnique Dec 6 1989) he write a bit about it in his article in a book on masculinities he edited with Harry Brod (1993) i don;t have the full reference with me a footnote in his article gives a contact address (and perhaps phone number) he and the other organizers might have useful ideas for you brenda beagan@unixg.ubc.ca On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Bill Oetjen wrote: > Dear Folks, > I've organized a rally/march/speak-out for men against violence > against women. It is called Men United Against Rape, and will take place > on Saturday, April 27 at noon on the steps of Burlington's City Hall. > The main idea is to get men to accept responsibility for the > permission they give to the whole continuum of sexual assault. I'm > working hard to get young men including high school age out to > participate. > Does anyone know of precedence for this kind of event? > Please reply to Bill Oetjen at: > woetjen@moose.uvm.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:49:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Natasha Smith (BR 1996)" Subject: Elizabeth Wood - Sarah Lawrence College, U.S.A.? In-Reply-To: I am trying to contact Elizabeth Wood at Sarah Lawrence College, U.S.A. regarding her research on Ethel Smyth (the book is forthcoming). I would appreciate any information...traditional e-mail searches yielded no info. Thanks, Natasha Smith nxsmith@minerva.cis.yale.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 19:03:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Demie Kurz Subject: New Book on Abortion For those interested in reproductive issues in the U.S., Carole Joffe's new book, "Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade" (Beacon Press) is a must. This insightful and compelling book, based on 45 interviews with physicians, looks to the past and the present. Interviews with those who did abortions before Roe v. Wade show women and men who took great personal risks to provide safe abortions in an atmosphere of dignity and comfort, in a time when emergency rooms filled with women injured in botched abortions. Interviews with current providers demonstrate the quiet heroism of those doctors who work today to ensure safe abortions despite very real threats to their professional standing, financial security, and even personal safety. Joffe argues that the medical community must share the blame for the current atmosphere in which access to safe medical abortions is rapidly narrowing. She concludes by outlining the role the medical community could play in improving abortion services. __________________________ Demie Kurz Women's Studies Program University of Pennsylvania ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 20:52:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ursula Rempel Subject: Re: Elizabeth Wood - Sarah Lawrence College, U.S.A.? In-Reply-To: from "Natasha Smith" at Apr 15, 96 05:49:58 pm Natasha: I don't have Elizabeth Wood's email address, but someone on the IAWM list might (International Alliance for Women in Music). Elizabeth Wood is a member of the IAWM. That email address is: iawm@acuvax.acu.edu Ursula Rempel urempel@cc.umanitoba.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 21:29:52 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Miriam E. Joseph" Organization: SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY St. Louis, MO Subject: April 1996 Reference Book Notices Available REFERENCE BOOK NOTICES FOR APRIL 1996 The sixth file of the monthly WMST-L feature, "Reference Book Notices," is now available for retrieval from the WMSTBOOK FILELIST. *The American Historical Associations Guide to Historical Literature (3rd ed.) *American Popular Culture: A Guide to the Reference Literature *A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History *100 Key Documents in American Democracy *The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy *The World's Women 1995: Trends and Statistics To obtain the file containing notices for these titles send the following command to Listserv@UMDD (Bitnet) or Listserv@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET WMSTBOOK 6 To obtain a list of all the reference book notices available, send the following command to Listserv@UMDD (Bitnet) or Listserv@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): INDEX WMSTBOOK To get more than one set of notices, put each command on a>separate line: GET WMSTBOOK 1 GET WMSTBOOK 2 GET WMSTBOOK 3 ************ This file consists of descriptions of selected reference books-- across all subject areas--that feature significant information about women, gender, and/or feminism. Each "notice" includes a complete bibliographic citation, publisher address and phone number for orders, ISBN, current list price, a brief description emphasizing content that makes the title relevant to Women's Studies, and identification of some published critical reviews (if available). The purpose of this feature is to alert teachers, librarians, and students to resources that have potential for supporting Women's Studies instruction and basic student research. These are *not* formal book reviews! The inclusion of these titles in this feature does, however, reflect the contributors' (all WMST-L subscribers) beliefs that these sources are useful. Look for an announcement of the availability of future files on the 15th of every month. We'll decide in May 1996 whether to continue, but would appreciate feedback in the interim. Please let me know (contact me privately--not via WMST-L) if you've found this feature useful or if you would like to join our small band of contributors. Miriam Miriam E. Joseph Reference Librarian, Pius XII Memorial Library Saint Louis University josephme@sluvca.slu.edu (314) 977-3584 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:16:24 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: S Bahar Subject: Flammetta Venner For those of you interested in the history and politics of reproductive rights in France, you might considering ordering or asking your library to order the following book: Flammetta Venner _L'Opposition a l'avortement, du lobby au commando_ (Editions Bergue, 1995). As the title suggests the book discusses opposition to abortion, specifically by the Right Wing Religious groups. The sociologist Flammetta Venner is being sued for diffamation by the Fundamentalist group "La Treve de Dieu" (one of the groups that organises and enacts commando attacks on abortion clinics) and by Noelia Garcia (a member of the group). Her trial will be held on 15 April 1995 in Paris. If they win the trial, the book will be banned. It is therefore all the more important to order the book now to prevent the French fundamentalist lobby from re-writing history. The French Mouvement for Family Planning (MFPF) is organizing a campaign in support of Flammetta Venner (and Paul Cesbron, President of the National association for IVG and Contraception). If you are interested in giving your support through a monetary donation or by signing a petition, please contact: MFPF 4 square St Irenee 75011 Paris tel: (33 1) 48 07 29 10 fax: (33 1) 47 00 79 77 S Bahar bahar@uni2a.unige.ch ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 11:25:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Tessier Subject: Info Request/UK Fertility Policies In-Reply-To: I'm seeking help re the current policies of the Pregnancy Advisory Service in the UK for a book in progress. My research indicates that in 1991 PAS announced that it would no longer make the service of sperm donation available to lesbians. Is that policy still in place? Does any one know how a determination is made with regard to whether or not the applicant is a lesbian? Please respond privately. Thanks. Tess (ltessier@cc.ysu.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 10:14:06 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jorge Santiago-Blay Subject: A/V for Survey on Criminology Course A colleague of mine is teaching a "Survey of Criminology" 4 5 course and 6 7 wishes to know whether there are sources of A/V 8 9 materials (slides, transparencies, videos, etc.) 10 11 on the subject. Any suggestions will be appreciated. 12 13 Apologies for the cross-postings. 14 15 Many thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:59:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Prema Oza Subject: Re: Info Request/UK Fertility Policies In-Reply-To: from "Linda Tessier" at Apr 16, 96 11:25:01 am i seem to recall there being a very interesting article in the women's feature service on-line about south asian women being fed birth control in some food products in the early twentieth century. they are no longer on-line but i'm sure they can be reached in new york. sorry for being so general but, if found, this could be a very interesting addition to your research. -- Amidst grief and joy I was first, I first knew sorrow and pleasure, good and evil. Obeying you or disobeying means the same. I was first to know. I was first to touch the tree of knowledge, first to bite the red apple. I was rebellion first on your earth. - poet Kabita Sinha ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 14:32:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marsaille D. Gargano" Subject: Multi media request... Does anyone know how to get Laurie Anderson's CD-ROM Puppet Motel quickly? Also, the November 6 issue of Time magazine had a short article on an 800 number for a catalog of works and things by artists excluded by the NEA. Does anyone know this number? The 800 number operator thought I was nuts, but I know it exists! Thank you... Marsaille mdgargan@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 15:27:05 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Suzanne F. Franks" Subject: Re: forward of job announcement, USA Dear WMST-L members, I'm forwarding this announcement from the EDEQUITY list since I thought it would be of interest on this list. Suzanne Franks sfranks@galois.fccc.edu ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From owner-edequity@tristram.edc.org Tue Apr 16 15:21:45 1996 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 14:14:59 -0400 From: Steve Shevitz Subject: job announcement Sender: owner-edequity@tristram.edc.org Reply-To: edequity@tristram.edc.org Content-Length: 1010 National Women's Law Center - VP of Development; responsibility for coordinating an overall fundraising plan including solicitation of foundations, corporations, unions, and individuals, both through major gifts and direct mail; also to expand the Center's network, oversee annual special events, and coordinate development efforts with the Center;s public education efforts. Qualifications - at least eight years of development experience and a track record of success in a broad range of fundraising activities, including corporate, foundation, major gift, annual giving and events fundraising;sophisticated written and oral comunication skills; the ability to relate well to legal and public policy professionals; and a commitment to the non-profit advocacy work of the Center. Submit resume, writing sample and three supervisory references to VP Admin/Finance, National Women's Law Center, 11 Dupont Cirlce, NW, Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20036. Call 202588-5180 for more information. ----- End Included Message ----- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:15:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tracy Gottlieb Subject: Useful e.g.: women in advertising -Reply I have been using that ad, which has been running for more than a year in the New Yorker, in my Women and the Media course as a strong example of advertising that celebrates violence against women. When I saw it in yesterday's Times mag, I thought that perhaps I should write the Newspaper a letter outlining my objection. Perhaps we all should... Tracy Gottlieb, Seton Hall (gottlitr@lanmail.shu.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:41:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Manlowe Subject: Cuba Subject: Women's Studies in Cuba Dear list -- Our feminist group HERMANAS had a meeting with the director of this women's studies program during our delegation on January 30, 1996. Most of our material aid focused on women's studies, books, videos and $100. went to this program. There are very familiar with Hermanas and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). I would also recomend Dr. Luisa Campuzano who is the director of the Women's Studies program as the Casa de las Americas in Havana. She's the head of literary criticism and very well regarded in the Latin American studies and literature field and colleagues at Princeton's faculty know her. Let me know if we can provide more information. Best jan JLStrout@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 14:25:43 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Juliana Marie Kubala Subject: course use of lesbian anthologies Hi, I am working on a dissertation on lesbian anthologies and am wondering if anyone has taught any of the following: The Coming Out Stories, This Bridge Called My Back, Nice Jewish Girls, Take Back the Night, Coming to Power, Against Sadomasochism, Pleasure and Danger, and Powers of Desire. Please let me know what course you've taught these in, because I am talking about the role these anthologies play in the university; in other words, to what extent have they been institutionalized. Please reply privately. I appreciate your help. Julie Kubala, jkubala@emory.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:49:20 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnne Myers Subject: Women & Society Conference In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of Wed, 17 Apr 1996 14:25:43 EDT The 6th Annual Women & Society Conference will be held this June 7-9 at Marist College in Poughkeepsie NY. This is an inter & multi- disciplinary conference on all aspects & issues of gender undergoing examination in academia today. The W & S conference's keynote address will be delivered by Robin Morgan--poet, feminist theorist, activist & editor. There will also be a dramatic reading created by Carol Hanisch re: Voices from the Struggle for Women's Emancipation. And, in coordination with the White House Interagency Council on Women we will be conducting workshops at the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val Kill to bring iniatives from the Beijing conference home to our local communities & colleges. For more information please contact Dr. JoAnne Myers 914-575-3000 or via e-mail JZLY@MaristB.Marist.edu please include your snail mail address. Look forward to seeing you all in June. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 18:09:25 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maureen Asten Subject: Women & Society Conference -Reply Dr. Meyers, Could you please send me more information and registration material for the upcoming conference Women and Society. My mailing address is: Maureen Asten, 15 Jonathan Circle, Worcester, MA 01604 and my email address is MAsten@worc.mass edu. Thank you Maureen ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 09:40:40 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marj Kibby Subject: Gender Studies Journal Comments: To: "Maureen Dyer,Uni of SA" JIGS a journal of interdisciplinary studies has been published at the University of Newcastle. Volume 1 Number 1 includes Ann Curthoys - Race and gender in recent Australian historiography Ann Saul - Debates about feminist methodology and the politics of childbirth Mary Sponberg - Written on the body: re-reading child prostitution in the nineteenth century Diedre Wicks - Contested femininity: gender and work at the Sydney Infirmary 1868-1875 Submissions on gay and lesbian issues are invited for issue 4. Subscriptions are $30(Aus) individual and $50(Aus) institutions. A sample issue is available to librarians. Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Newcastle New South Wales 2308 Australia Dr Hilary Carey hihmc@cc.newcastle.edu.au Marj Kibby Dean of Students, The University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW, 2308 Australia Ph: (049) 216604 Fx: (049) 217151 Email VFMDK@cc.newcastle.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 19:59:02 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: wendy oliver Subject: women in their bodies Dear Colleagues, I wrote about two months ago asking for help with readings for a course on women's bodies (which I renamed with help from many of you on the list). I received many great suggestions which have been incorporated into my reading list. Now I am in the process of defending this course to various college committees, and one question that I was asked yesterday concerned where else this course has been taught. Since I work at a conservative Catholic college, there is often a certain pressure to assure folks that what we do here has already been done successfully elsewhere. I also think this is doubly true when the subject matter might be considered somewhat taboo (as women's bodies often are). I know that no one has taught a course exactly like mine, but if any of you have taught or taken a course somehow based on women's bodies, I'd really appreciate knowing the name of the course and where it was (or is being) taught, and how it was received. This is what I have so far: "Women's Bodily Experience" taught by Lisa Heldke at ? "?" taught by Alice Cummins in Western Australia (don't know which school) "Feminism and Performance" taught by Kathleen Juhl at ? "Feminist Theories of Performance" taught by Tracy Davis at ? Please help me fill in the blanks or add to the list. Thanks in advance. Wendy Oliver, Providence College, Providence RI woliver@providence.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:31:56 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Skorczewski Subject: Re: women in their bodies Comments: To: wendy oliver In-Reply-To: <96Apr17.200257edt.23053@gateway.providence.edu> Add to this list "The Body in Contemporary Culture" taught at the University of Redlands for two years as a first-year seminar. I'll send a syllabus if you want! Dawn Skorczewski skorczew@ultrix.uor.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:00:37 JST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire Maree Subject: Re: Women & Society Conference Hello. I read a posting about the Women and Society Conference on WMST-L and was interested in receiving information about any papers with refernce to language/ /communication/gender/sexuality. I am a post-grad student working on gender/sexuality and language in Japanese language dictionaries. Would be appreciated if you could send info to me at; Claire Maree 1-27-6-301 Kichijoji-Minami Musashino-shi Tokyo JAPAN 180 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 09:02:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PopTart Subject: Help w/Dorothy E. Smith citation? Hi, I'm having a terribly hard time finding a full citation for a Dorothy E. Smith essay titled "Ideological Structure and How Women are Excluded." If anyone is familiar with this essay, please, PLEASE help me find it. It's rather urgent. If anyone can help with this, please respond to ckile@bgnet.bgsu.edu, not to WMST-L!! Thanks much, C. Kile ___________________________________________________ Crystal Kile is PopTart is ckile@bgnet.bgsu.edu Instructor POPC and WMST & ABD in ACS Drop by the Home Toaster: http://www.bgsu.edu/~ckile/ckile.html __________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:06:05 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Peter Weeks Organization: St.Thomas University Subject: Re: Help w/Dorothy E. Smith citation? Hi: On the Dorothy Smith citation, the closest that a colleague and I can come to are two references: (1) "The Ideological Practice of Sociology", chapter 2 of Smith, Dorothy E., *The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge*. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. (2) "A Peculiar Eclipsing: Women's Exclusion from Man's Culture", chapter 1 of *The Everyday World as Problematic*. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. We hope this is helpful. Peter Peter Weeks St.Thomas University Fredericton, N.B., Canada Email PWEEKS@StThomasU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:32:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Cheryl L. Meeker" Subject: feminist organizational structure Does anyone know of a short, easy to read, article that would discuss the difference between patriarchial organizational structure and feminist organizational structure? please respond privately-cherylm@wpoff.monm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:22:28 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carole K. Chaney" Subject: Re: Useful e.g.: women in advertising -Reply In-Reply-To: from "Tracy Gottlieb" at Apr 16, 96 09:15:00 am Tracy wrote: > I have been using that ad, which has been running for more than a > year in the New Yorker, in my Women and the Media course as a strong > example of advertising that celebrates violence against women. When I > saw it in yesterday's Times mag, I thought that perhaps I should > write the Newspaper a letter outlining my objection. Perhaps we all > should... Tracy Gottlieb, Seton Hall (gottlitr@lanmail.shu.edu) > I was surprised to hear that the New Yorker had run that ad. I don't regularly read the New Yorker but I did pick up their Feb. 26--Mar 4 Women's Issue. I read it cover to cover (great writers and pieces) and that ad was nowhere to be found. Is it possible that the editors are completely aware of how offensive that ad is to women and therefore omitted from their Women's Issue? If so, what is their justification for running it in other issues? Yes, I think letters are definitely called for here, The New Yorker Magazine can be reached at: The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. 20 W. 43rd Street New York, New York 10036 New York Times Magazine c/o New York Times 229 West 43rd Street New York, New York 10036-3959 Phone: (212) 556-1234 Also, use the Internet Search function to find e-mail addresses or web sites for these publishers, then you can register a complaint with them via e-mail. Yours in sisterhood, Carole Chaney e-mail: cchaney@wizard.ucr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 12:04:27 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Naples Subject: Re: Help w/Dorothy E. Smith citation? In-Reply-To: The citation is: in Women in Canadian Social Structure, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (special issue for International Women's Year, Vol. 12, No. 4, Part I (1975); (reprinted in J. Paul Grayson, ed., Class, State, and Ideology and Change, Holt Rinehart and Winston of Canada Limited, 1980, and in J. Gaskell and A. McLaren, ed.s, Women & Education, Calgary: Delselig Enterprises, 1988. On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, PopTart wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a terribly hard time finding a full citation for a Dorothy E. > Smith essay titled "Ideological Structure and How Women are Excluded." If > anyone is familiar with this essay, please, PLEASE help me find it. It's > rather urgent. > > If anyone can help with this, please respond to ckile@bgnet.bgsu.edu, not > to WMST-L!! > > Thanks much, > C. Kile > ___________________________________________________ > Crystal Kile is PopTart is ckile@bgnet.bgsu.edu > Instructor POPC and WMST & ABD in ACS > Drop by the Home Toaster: http://www.bgsu.edu/~ckile/ckile.html > __________________________ > Nancy A. Naples Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies University of California, Irvine Irvine, California 92717 714-824-5749 (office phone) 714-824-4717 (fax) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:12:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 jobs, 1 new web site The following 3 announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Job: PT tenure track Asst. Prof. in WS (U. of S. Florida) 2) Job: Lubin Chair for Women in Science (Skidmore College) 3) New Web Site: NARAL (National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League) [NOTE: For an extensive set of links to women's studies/women's issues web sites, try http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html .] For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Women's Studies: The University of South Florida invites applications for a part time (.50 FTE) tenure track position as Assistant Professor in Women's Studies with an assignment in the Environmental Science and Policy Program. Ph.D. in a Natural Science with background in Women's Studies is required. Administrative experience desirable. Experience in teaching and research within interdisciplinary programs expected. Starting date August, 1996. Send curriculum vitae, letter of application describing research and teaching interests, samples of scholarly work, and three letters of recommendation to Professor Janice B. Snook, Department of Women's Studies, HMS 413, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620-8350. Salary is competitive. Position is contingent upon funding. Deadline: May 2, 1996. USF is an equal opportunity employer, affirmative action, equal access institution. According to Florida law, applications and meetings regrading the same are open to the public. For disability accommodations, please contact Janice Snook, 813-974-0978 at least five business days in advance. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 19, 1996 ********************************************************************** 2) THE CHARLES LUBIN FAMILY CHAIR FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE AT SKIDMORE COLLEGE Skidmore College is proud to announce the endowment of the Charles Lubin Family Chair for Women in Science. In recognition of the need to attract women into disciplines where they have been historically underrepresented, in part as a consequence of past discrimination, Sara Lee Lubin Schupf has endowed a professorship at Skidmore College to encourage and recognize the increasing presence of women particularly in the disciplines of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Geology. For the first occupant of the Chair, Skidmore wishes to make a tenure-track appointment at the rank of professor in any area of experimental physics. Skidmore College is a primarily undergraduate institution which has always emphasized teaching excellence as the premiere credential for success. At the same time, we consider that faculty members must make significant contributions to their disciplines, the successful applicant will be one who has a commitment to involving undergraduates actively in her research. Applicants should be senior teacher/researchers with a demonstrated record of scholarly accomplishments, with superior teaching credentials, and with a commitment to working closely with undergraduates. We anticipate making an appointment to begin with either the 1996-97 or the 1997-98 academic year. Screening of applications will begin immediately and continue until an appointment is made. Please send applications, with vitae and names of references, or nominations to: Professor William Standish, Chair, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, People from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 19, 1996 *************************************************************************** 3) NARAL Online -- http://www.naral.org/ The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League is pleased to announce the launch of its World Wide Web site, NARAL Online. Created with the assistance of New Media Publishing, this important new site contains the most comprehensive array of information on all aspects of abortion and reproductive health on the Internet. Among the exciting features are more than 200 links to a rich variety of related Internet resources, each described and organized under one of 10 issue areas: Family Planning and Reproductive Health Choices Clinic Violence The Right-wing Anti-Choice Federal Legislation Anti-Choice State Legislation Responsible Sexuality Education Abortion Rights Supreme Court Cases Pro-Choice Legislation and Executive Orders Scientific Research Each issue area also contains internal links to NARAL factsheets, publications, and other resources, allowing you to stay on top of developments in your areas of interest. If you're interested in doing additional research on a topic, there are also pointers to the best search engines, electronic mailing lists, and research resources on the Internet. Make a habit of checking the Heads Up! section, which will highlight on a daily basis upcoming dates and events, quotes drawn from leading figures on both sides of the abortion debate, and important facts and figures. Other features of the site include a dynamic Act Now section, where you can sign up for the NARAL Network of electronic lists, Contact the Media, take the NARAL Poll, and write Letters to the Editor. Read up on the latest abortion and reproductive health actions -- then contact your Congress members and other national leaders to let them know what you think. Be sure to make your voice heard on our first action item, Repeal the Internet Abortion Gag Rule. Our Federal section provides further primary source material -- read the words of the Supreme Court Justices in such key decisions as Roe v. Wade. Then, become Senator (or Representative) for a day and take part in our How Would You Have Voted section. After casting your votes, see how they stack up against the actual vote tallies of your members of Congress. The full text of NARAL publications, such as "Sexuality Education in America" and "The Road to the Back Alley," can be found in the Publications section, as can pointers to the many valuable publications of our allies that are available on the Internet. You also can access NARAL press releases and statements in this area, as well as read past issues of our newsletter. NARAL Community is where you will find Stories from Women relating the importance of protecting the freedom to choose, while students and educators will want to read through the Campus Organizing section. If you're curious about the organization behind the site, be sure to stop by About NARAL for information on our mission, our priorities, and even our internship opportunities. Then, help to support this and other NARAL initiatives by becoming a member of NARAL through our online Join section, and by finding out about your local NARAL affiliate though our State Affiliates section. This is also where you can track the status of abortion, reproductive health, and sexuality education laws in your state. These are just a few of the many elements that make up NARAL's web site. Please visit and let us know your suggestions and comments using our online Feedback Form. We're sure you'll share our excitement about this new chapter in the fight for reproductive freedom. National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League New Media Publishing ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:38:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Xeturah Woodley-Tillman Subject: Re: feminist organizational structure In-Reply-To: Greetings all, I too would be interested in recieving the names of any articles, books and/or papers on this subject matter. Currently, I am doing a organizational analysis of a sorority and I think that type of information may offer support for my argument in the final analysis. I argue that "problems" in the organization are due (in no small part) to a patriarchal framework being used to govern the activies of women. Please forward your suggestions to me as well. Thanks. In sisterhood, Xeturah ****************************************************************************** X. Woodley-Tillman * "I am not FREE, while any woman is Univ. of Colo. at Denver * UNFREE, xwoodley@carbon.cudenver.edu * Even if her SHACKLES are very _O_ * DIFFERENT from my own. | * -Audre Lorde- ****************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:09:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Caryn S. Abrams" Subject: Re: feminist organizational structure In-Reply-To: Hi all: For a recent look at feminist organizational structures, check out "Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement," edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Patricia Yancey Martin (Temple University Press, 1995). Caryn Aviv Department of Sociology/Anthropology Loyola University of Chicago ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 16:38:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "MARY L. ERTEL, SOCIOLOGY" Subject: Feminist Organizational Structure - a reply - US and Australian mat'l The basic book in the area is Kathy Ferguson's _The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy_, 1984. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. She argues that bureaucracy and feminism are just about opposites. I know this does define traditional, patriarchial based bureaucracy, but you would have to go through and see if a given chapter or section suited your needs. By contrast, there is also a literature about "femocrats," ie, Australian feminist bureaucrats. To my knowledge, one of the main writers here is Hester Eisenstein. I believe she is currently a professor of American studies at the State University of Buffalo (NY). She wrote a book called _Gender Shock: Practicing Feminism on Two Continents_. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. (The second continent is Australia). Eisenstein has a forthcoming book on the Australian femocrats, but I haven't seen it yet. She also wrote an article (1991) titled "Speaking for Women: Voices from the Australian Femocrat Experiment." It was published in _Australian Feminist Studies_ in their Summer 1991 issue. Some of the material from this article is reprinted in _Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement_, edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Patricia Yancy Martin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. The article does not define bureaucracy directly, but is a well-chosen and fascinating piece about how Australian feminists developed the strategy of entering federal and state bureaucracies as a way to bring feminist concerns to bear on the public policy agenda. I believe it is Eisenstein who coined the term "femocrats;" at least she is the one I most associate with it. In contrast to Ferguson's view that bureaucracy and feminism are natural enemies, Eisenstein investigates how to put feminist ideals into practice in a hierarchial world. I'm really looking forward to Ferguson's forthcoming book; if anyone knows of it's publication, they might be so kind as to tell me. The last author I would like to mention - though certainly not the last one who is engaged in this debate - is Patricia Yancy Martin, co-editor of the above mentioned reader. She wrote "A Commentary of _The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy_ by Kathy Ferguson," published in 1987 in _Women's Studies International Forum." She also wrote "The Moral Politics of Organizations: Reflections of an Unlikely Feminist," 1989, _Journal of Applied Behavioral Science_, which also contributes to this debate. She has also brought her view of feminism and bureaucracy to bear on her writings about a rape crisis center. And if you allow me to change my mind, I'd like to offer one additional reference. Vivien Hart wrote "Feminism and Bureaucracy: The Minimum Wage Experiment in the District of Columbia." _Journal of American Studies_, 1992. There is a lot more, but I think the above would give you a variety of material to choose from, to best fit your needs. I very much appreciate Ferguson's basic thesis of the antithetical nature of feminism and bureaucracy; but I also very much appreciate those who have furthered the debate. Mary L. Ertel Associate Professor, Sociology Central Connecticut State University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:54:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: Italian Feminist Organizations I am looking for sources on the first Italian feminist organization in Italy (my citation which I am trying to validate said it was in 1896). Thanks. Please respond privately. Phyllis Povell Povell@eagle.LIUNET.Edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:20:04 EETDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gabrielle Meagher Subject: feminist organisations Australian feminist Anna Yeatman has also written on feminists in the Australian public service, in her book Bureaucrat, Technocrat, Femocrat published in 1990 or 1991 by Allen & Unwin, Australia. Gabrielle Meagher email gabriell@sue.econ.su.oz.au Department of Economics, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:09:07 EETDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gabrielle Meagher Subject: textile outworkers info Dear everyone, In my upper level undergraduate course, the Political Economy of Women, students complete a small group project on one of several given topics (last year pornography regulation {with help from many of you on that one!} childcare provision, affirmative action and women in combat duty in the military). The project guidelines are fairly structured, and require students to make policy recommendations on the basis of a clearly articulated theoretical position, international comparison (2 other countries) and analysis of the interests and means of the various groups holding a 'stake' in the issue under consideration. Next semester, I want to include textile outworkers as a topic. In Australia at the moment a Senate Inquiry into the conditions of work of textile outworkers. As I'm sure you know, these are workers (overwhelmingly migrant women) who manufacture garments at home for clothing industry contractors, usually for extremely poor rates of pay determined on a piece-rate basis, and outside the system of industrial regulation. In order to set this 'topical' topic, I need information about policies on outworkers from other countries. For example, I imagine that trade unions with coverage of textile factory workers produce policy proposal documents - copies of something like this would really help me enormously. I am interested in more than one country - and high contrast is useful - for topics in previous years, the US and Sweden have proved very effective, but I am open to all comers!!1 If anyone is interested in my group project guidelines for use as a possible teaching tool, do let me know. thanks, best wishes, Gabrielle Gabrielle Meagher email gabriell@sue.econ.su.oz.au Department of Economics, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:45:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vici d'Ancona Subject: A memorial to Anne Marbury Hutchinson A memorial will be dedicated to Anne Marbury Hutchinson (1591-1643) on APRIL 27, 2 PM, in Founders Brook Park, Portsmouth RI. She was a theologian, preacher, wisewoman and religious rebel in colonial America whose profound influence on religious thinking in America is gaining increasing recognition. Commemorated with her will be Mary Dyer, her friend and loyal supporter who was the only woman to be hung for being a quaker missionary in puritan Boston. This will be the first true memorial to these women on Aquidneck Island, or island of peace, where they landed with their own and other families to found the new settlements that later became Portsmouth and Newport RI. The memorial was initiated and primarily funded by women in a grass root effort to keep alive the part women played in colonial history and American church history, and to encourage further study of their stories and achievements. The memorial and herb garden, which celebrates Hutchinson's ro;e as a herbalist and midwife, are being funded by donations large and small. Each contributor can inscribe in person, or have inscribed for them by a calligrapher, their name on a commemorative list. The scroll is decorated by local artists and is now over 12 feet long The memorial committee wants it be known that the spirit of the project is to include all interested men, women and children. Though the majority of signatures are by women, there are men who have signed some as themselves, others to honor the women in their lives. The christian community is invited to to recognize Hutchinson's role as the first white woman preacher and theologian in colonial America and Mary Dyer as a Quaker martyr. Both women were controversial religious rebels who challenged prevailing attitudes. Their voices were heard in the full circle of women and men, and profoundly affected American religious thought. We invite those involved in Women's Studies and Women's Spirituality to recognize Hutchinson role in the history of midwifery and the congregation of women. Both she and Mary Dyer dared to use a public voice and recovering their history has been a revelation and inspiraton to themany that have worked on this memorial. We are hungry for further reliable research on the lives and stories of these and other American historical women figures. All interested people are invited to participate in this dedication. If you want to sign the scroll or have it signed for you, send a contribution to: "The Anne Hutchinson Memorial Fund" c/o 11 Cherry Creek Road Newport RI 02840. Include your wishes for your inscription on the scroll which will be buried in a time capsule at the site. All proceeds go to the installation of two brass plaques commemorating these heroines, the planting and upkeep of a colonial herb garden and signage for the park. Peace, Vici Williams ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 06:40:37 -0400 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: feminist organization structure - UK material A new book by a colleague of mine might be of use. it is actually about 'flat' organizations and is based on a study of co-operative and collective businesses Sarah OERTON (1996) _Beyond Heirarchy: Gender and Sexuality in Non-Heirarchical Organizations_ Taylor & Francis ISBN 0 7484 0353 1 (pb) (it is published simultaneously in the US by the same publisher; distributers in Australia are Hodder Headline (Aus) Ltd.; in NZ, Hodder Moa Becket Pulbishers Ltd; in Canada, Copp Clark Longman Ltd) 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: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:08:27 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Carolyn V. Bell" Subject: Re: textile outworkers info In-Reply-To: <9604190009.AA17416@sue.econ.su.oz.au> Gabrielle...If you are going to study the textile outworkers you absolutely must study Central America and the Caribbean...there are literally hundreds of maquilas in each Central American country and the Dominican Republic has, I believe, the highest per caPITA OUTPUT in the West. This is an area of research and interest to me but not necessarily the policy angle. A fellow Latin Americanist from the NAval Academy is, I believe, more attuned to the policy questions. I will get that name and forward it to you. I am going to Costa Rica in May and I plan to interview women who work in the maquilas. If you can give me specifics as to which types of policies you would like to see, I can perhaps make some contacts with you. Be in touch and I will follow up with my colleagues name. Carolyn Bell bell@kutztown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:19:48 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Anne G. Brooks" A Dartmouth student is seeking internship or other work/volunteer opportunities related to feminist and/or women's issues outside the U.S.. If anyone has any contacts or information about such opportunities, please contact Giavanna Munafo PRIVATELY at giavanna@dartmouth.edu or 603-646-3456. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:19:59 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan lehrer Subject: Re: feminist organizational structure In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:32:29 -0600 from I am teaching a course in Women, Power and Organizations this spring in w.s. and x-listed with sociology. I have benefited by suggestions from this list - Kathleen Ianello, Decisions Without Hierarchy: Feminist Interventions in Organization Theory & Practice, Routledge 1992 is useful. Contrasts traditional political science & sociol. theory (Michels, Weber et al) with feminist theory; uses 2 specific feminist orgs as examples. For an article, try Stephanie Riger, "Challenges of kSuccess: Stages of Growth in Feminist Org'ns", in Feminist Studies 20, 2 (sum 1994). Susan Lehrer, lehrers@npvm.newpaltz.edu SUNY - New Paltz ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:35:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: feminist organizational structure In-Reply-To: Additional references re women, power and organizations, from a business perspective, as well as from a theological/spiritual perspective include: WHEN THE CANARY STOPS SINGING: WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVES FOR TRANSFORMING BUSINESS; ed, Pat Ballentine, Barrett-Koehler, 1993 (named one of 10 best business books for 1993; Several chapters in: REDISCOVERING THE SOUL OF BUSINESS, A RENAISSANCE OF VALUES, Including "Soul Work: A Corporate Challenge" which I authored, ed: John Renesch and Bill De Foore, Sterling and Stone, 1995; THE NEW ENTREPRENEURS: BUSINESS VISIONARIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, includes works by Anita Roddick (Body Shop), and Marjorie Kelly (Business Ethics mag.), ed. by Michael Ray and John Renesch, also Sterling and Stone, 1994; THE NEW BOTTOM LINE, includes essays by Anita Roddick, Angeles Arrien, and one I contributed on "Spirit and Power to Heal a Hurting World". ed, by John Renesch and Bill DeFoore, also Sterling and Stone, 1996. Also: New Leaders Press Newsletter, ed: John Renesch. 1668 Lombard Street, San Francisco, CA USA 94123 415-928-1473 Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:05:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Salvatore Subject: Re: Women & Society Conference In-Reply-To: <17APR96.19248102.0047.MUSIC@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU> Joanne, Would you please add my name to your mailing list for the Women and Society organization? Thank you. Anne Salvatore Rider University 2083 Lawrenceville Rd. Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:00:56 EST5EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauraine Leblanc Organization: Emory University Subject: feminist organizations Hi. Re: Feminist Organizations An excellent empirical study that you might use is Wendy Simonds' recent _Abortion at Work_ (Rutgers, 1996). It includes an analysis of one feminist organizations' change from a non-hierarchical feminist health care center to one which espouses hierarchy and division of labor. Simonds draws on interviews with employees of the center in documenting this change, and discusses its implications. Lauraine Leblanc Institute for Women's Studies Emory University ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:41:23 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: NA Women's bildungsroman list Here is the list Stacy Short and I have complied on Native American Women's Bildungsroman/ Narrative of Development. We appreciate the suggestions from everyone. Many thanks! Ravensong (1993) and Sundogs (1992), (Author ?)by Press Gang Publishers in Vancouver. _Lakota Woman_ by Mary Crow Dog _I, Rigoberta Menchu_ Leslie Marmon Silko _Ceremony_ _Yellow Woman_ _Storyteller_ Mourning Dove, _Cogewea: The Half Blood_ Paula Gunn Allen _The Woman Who Owned the Shadows_ Janet Campbell Hale, THE JAILING OF CECELIA CAPTURE Patricia Riley: GROWING UP NATIVE AMERICAN. Susan Powers's GRASS DANCER Zitkala-Sa [Gertrude Bonin], AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES Agnes Smedley, DAUGHTER OF EARTH Lee Maracle, _I Am Woman_, Vancouver: Write-on Press, 1988. Maria Campbell, _Halfbreed_ Beatrice Culleton, _In Search of April Raintree_ Janet C Hale, The Jailing of Cecelia Capture Allen, Paula Gunn. "`Border' Studies: The Intersection of Gender and Color." In _Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures_, edited by Joseph Gibaldi, 303-19. 2d ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1992. (See p. 314 specifically.) Lee Maracle's Sundogs (Penticton, B.C.: Thetus Books, 1992) Beatrice Culleton's _In Search of April and _Raintree_ Maria Campbell's _Halfbreed_. Janet Hale's BLOODLINES (not a novel); Betty Louise Bell's FACES IN THE MOON. Gretchen Bataille & Kathleen Sands, AMERICAN INDIAN WOMAN: A GUIDE TO RESEARCH, NY, Garland Publishing, 1991. Joy Harjo's and Stephen Strom's _Secrets from the Center of the World_ Beverly Hungry Wolf's _The Ways of the Grandmothers_, Diane Glancy's _Claiming Breath_ Janet Campbell Hale's _Bloodlines_. See Gretchen Bataille and Kathleen Sands' _American Indian women: Telling Their Lives_ (U of Nebraska P, 1984) for other references. Betty Louise Bell's _Faces in the Moon_. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink alw7315@acs.tamu.edu Department of English Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4227 "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." Emily Dickinson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 21:15:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cindy Bily Subject: Sara Josephine Baker--an appeal Does anyone out there have the name of Sara Josephine Baker's lifetime companion? SJB was a public health pioneer in the first third of this century. I foolishly returned her autobio, FIGHTING FOR LIFE (1939), to the Interlibrary Loan people before I jotted down the name, and I'll never be able to get the book back in time to meet my deadline. If anyone can help me out, I'd be very grateful. Cindy Bily Adrian College cbily@adrian.adrian.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:30:21 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cecilia Julagay Subject: Re: A memorial to Anne Marbury Hutchinson I am teaching a sociological theory class which is supposed to combine both classic and contemporary soc theory (into 10 weeks!!). To help cover the contemporary part, I am having students write a textual analysis paper on the work of someone who is some way marginalized, but whose work has implications for a wider audience. Anne Marbury Hutchinson and Mary Dyer seem to fit my criteria. Where can I find examples of their work? - Cecilia JULAGAY@UCRAC1.UCR.EDU (^ - the number "one") ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 10:16:27 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Margaret McLeer Subject: Early childhood education I am trying to contact academic scholars in the Washington, DC area (or reasonably close in Virgina or Maryland) who are working on either early childhood education and/or issues of childcare from a psychological or feminist perspective. I have a friend in University College Dublin, a lecturer (or what you call professor here) in the Psychology dept, who would be interested in making contact with someone like this, Please reply privately, kind regards, Anne McLeer Ph.D Program in the Human Sciences The George Washington University Washington, DC amcleer@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu http://www.gwu.edu/~humsci ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 11:22:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1 job, 2 new e-mail lists The following two announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Job: Chair in Women's Studies (Princeton U.) 2) Two new e-mail lists For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PROGRAM IN WOMEN'S STUDIES Doris Stevens Chair in Women's Studies The Princeton University Program in Women's Studies invites nominations and applications for an endowed chair, the Doris Stevens Professorship in Women's Studies. Candidates must be senior scholars with a distinguished history of publications in women's/gender studies. All fields will be considered, but we especially seek candidates in political theory, policy studies, political science, economics, demography, sociology, psychology, and legal theory. Final appointment will be in the department of the scholar's discipline, with teaching responsibilities in Women's Studies to be determined. Deadline for nominations and applications, including curriculum vitae, is October 1, 1996. Letters of nomination or application should be directed to: Professor Deborah Nord Program in Women's Studies Princeton University 113 Dickinson Hall Princeton, NJ 08544-1017 Princeton University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 26, 1996 *************************************************************************** 2) Two New Women-Related E-mail Lists FAVNET (Feminists Against Violence Network) focuses on the issue of domestic violence. It is NOT for discussing fathers' rights, men's rights, etc. To subscribe, send a message expressing your wish to do so to MDUBIN@IX.NETCOM.COM . NOW ACTION ALERT is a list sponsored by the National Organization for Women. It offers comprehensive legislative updates and other action alerts. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE NOW-ACTION-LIST to MAJORDOMO@NOW.ORG . For a frequently updated listing of approximately 200 women-related e-mail lists, see http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html . Those without Web access can get a copy via email by sending the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 14:35:05 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: Antonia's Line On Saturday, April 20, 1996 I reviewed "Antonia's Line" on "The Women's Show," Tampa's womanist/feminist weekly radio show 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 REV173 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 Linda Lopez McAlister Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 12:32:33 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carla swift Comments: To: list WHIRL , List GENDER Comments: cc: List GRANITE In doing my own research on women and technology, it appears to me that women's participation on the internet and their use of computers generally is substantially under-reported. I ran across a survey currently being done -- although I can't vouch for their credibility, they appear to have compiled several years of research. To "stand up and be counted" -- the survey can be accessed at http://yaron.clever.net/quest.shtml I believe the response dates are from now until May 11. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 13:32:27 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trudy Mercer Subject: apology I would like to appologize to the list for accidentally posting a message that should have gone to the Kristeva list & to french-feminism. The subject heading was Kristeva & Literature. If I had intended it for WMST-L I would have phrased it a little differently. Even though it was an error on my part, I did received some interesting posts & am grateful for the discussion. SIncerely, \|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/ Trudy Mercer Choice is not an answer to the question true@u.washington.edu of how life should be lived, Seattle, Washington, USA only a condition for answering it freely. Dorothy Wickenden \|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 12:29:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: essay on coming out as gay/lesbian available Professor Rosa Maria Pegueros of the University of Rhode Island has just sent me a very moving and thoughtful essay that she presented at URI's Annual Symposium on Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Issues earlier this month. The essay is entitled "Barbara Jordan, E. Bradford Burns and Me: Coming Out in Public Life." Though some of it deals with the late Barbara Jordan, who for many years was active in US politics, much of the essay deals with coming out as gay or lesbian in academia, including the Women's Studies classroom. I have made it available as a WMST-L file with the filename COME_OUT ISSUES . To get a copy, send the message GET COME_OUT ISSUES to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU [be sure to include the underscore between COME and OUT]. To get a list of all files available from WMST-L, send the two-word message INDEX WMST-L to the same listserv address. DO NOT SEND THESE MESSAGES TO WMST-L! Do not type reply! For more information about WMST-L files, see section 11 of the WMST-L User's Guide. You can get another copy via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Also, WMST-L is not the place to discuss Barbara Jordan and how she led her life. Please do not send such messages to the list. If you wish to discuss them with Rosie Pegueros, her e-mail address is included with her essay. Many thanks to Rosie Pegueros for making her essay available to WMST-L readers. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:58:57 GMT Reply-To: women.a@magnet.at Sender: Women's Studies List From: "O. Frauennetzwerk" Organization: magnet Online Service Subject: Fwd: your message for WMST-L > Hallo all readers: > We would need a translator for our homepage from German into English! We cannot stay only german..... > Would somebody here like to do it and make us a quote how much it would cost > propably ? > > Thank you > angele E-Mail: women.a@magnet.at Our German Homepage: http://www.telecom.at/womennet-frauen/index ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 23:15:58 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Smith Subject: Inclusion of women in reference works Re: Inclusion of material about women in two important reference works: 1. WOMEN COMPOSERS: MUSIC THROUGH THE AGES The first volume of this 12-volume historical anthology of music by women has just been released and is now available through Simon and Schuster's Order Dept. in the USA at 1-800-223-2336. Single volumes are $100, standing orders for the 12 volumes as they appear are $90.00 per volume. Vol. I is devoted to composers born before 1599, Vol. II to composers born between 1600-1699. Vols. 3-5 will include Music of the 18th century, Vols. 6-8, Music of the 19th Century. Exact contents of the later four volumes dealing with the 20th Century have not yet been announced. Recommendations for inclusion of material, in particular biographical material from or about contemporary women composers, should be sent directly to the editors at the following address: Sylvia Glickman, Editor Women Composers: Music Through the Ages Hildegard Publishing 1210 Wynnewood Road Wynnewood, PA 19196 USA Tel. (610) 649 8649 Fax (610) 649-8677 12. THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS A revised edition of this landmark 20-volume reference work is now in preparation, with publication to take place before the millenium. Considering the short lead time which remains for book preparation and publication, it is important that all musicologists, music historians, composers, publishers and performers in all countries submit material soon for inclusion in the update. Materials should be sent to: Dr. Stanley Sadie The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 3 Dyers Bldg., Holborn London EC1N 2JT United Kingdom Fax 0171 405 6510 Nancy V. Smith ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:40:03 GMT+1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Waring Organization: ELM Macquarie University Subject: NA Women's bildungsroman list Re: Here is the list Stacy Short and I have complied on Native American Women's Bildungsroman/ Narrative of Development. We appreciate the suggestions from everyone. Many thanks! Ravensong (1993) and Sundogs (1992), (Author ?)by Press Gang Publishers in Vancouver. Both these titles are by Lee Maracle. You note that you are using her I am Woman in your list, but I think it's out of print. You could also look at _Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel_ by Maracle which is available from the Women's Press (Canada), published in 1988. cheers, Wendy Waring _________________________________________________ "When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." Audre Lorde _________________________________________________ Dr Wendy Waring +61 (2) 850 7684 Director, Institute FAX: 850 7686 for Women's Studies Macquarie University wendy.waring@mq.edu.au Sydney NSW 2109 Australia ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:58:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: feminist fiction I'm trying to locate the titles of feminist novels of the 1970s, in the genre of THE WOMEN'S ROOM, FEAR OF FLYING, MEMOIRS OF AN EX-PROM QUEEN. My tries in the LC catalog, searching under a variety of subject headings, have turned up nothing else, but that can't be right, can it? Thanks. Cynthia Harrison Associate Professor History/Women's Studies Funger 506G The George Washington University 2201 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20052 telephone: 202-363-4356 e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu fax: 202-994-7249 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:18:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Porter Organization: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Subject: Re: feminist fiction In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:58:55 -0400 from LC cataloging for fiction very often does not include subject headings, especially when you go back to the 1970s. Try looking in the reference tool _Fiction Catalog_ covering the time period you are interested in. Look under the subject "women" and any cross references that may be available. G. Margaret Porter Associate Librarian University of Notre Dame ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:48:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marymount Women's Institute Organization: Marymount College Tarrytown Subject: conference on sexual harassment TAKING A CLOSER LOOK A Dialogue on Sexual Harassment in the Schools A Day-long conference for educators, parents and students. 8:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1996 AT MARYMOUNT COLLEGE TARRYTOWN Keynote Speaker: NAN STEIN, Ed.D. Sr. Associate at Wellesley College Center for Research on Women and widely published author and researcher on sexual harassment in the schools. Keynote Speech: "Sexual Harassment in School, the Public Performance of Gendered Violence." Plus discussion groups, dialogue with Nan Stein and panel on what's working in the schools. Cost: $55.00 each ($25.00 for students) including lunch To register: Send a check payable to Marymount College and mail to: Dr. Ellen Silber, The Marymount Institute for the Education of Women and Girls, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY 10591 For further information, call (914) 332-4917 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:37:42 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Hilary Clark, U Of Saskatchewan (Address:" Subject: Re: NA Women's bildungsroman list In-Reply-To: On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Amy L. Wink wrote: > Here is the list Stacy Short and I have complied on Native American Women's > Bildungsroman/ Narrative of Development. We appreciate the suggestions from > everyone. Many thanks! > > > Ravensong (1993) and Sundogs (1992), (Author ?)by Press Gang Publishers in > Vancouver. Dear all, The author of Ravensong and Sundogs is Lee Maracle. Hilary Clark Univ. of Saskatchewan > > _Lakota Woman_ by Mary Crow Dog > > _I, Rigoberta Menchu_ > > Leslie Marmon Silko > _Ceremony_ > > _Yellow Woman_ > > _Storyteller_ > > Mourning Dove, _Cogewea: The Half Blood_ > > Paula Gunn Allen _The Woman Who Owned the Shadows_ > > Janet Campbell Hale, THE JAILING OF CECELIA CAPTURE > > Patricia Riley: GROWING UP NATIVE AMERICAN. > > Susan Powers's GRASS DANCER > > Zitkala-Sa [Gertrude Bonin], AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES > > Agnes Smedley, DAUGHTER OF EARTH > > Lee Maracle, _I Am Woman_, Vancouver: Write-on Press, 1988. > > Maria Campbell, _Halfbreed_ > > Beatrice Culleton, _In Search of April Raintree_ > > Janet C Hale, The Jailing of Cecelia Capture > > Allen, Paula Gunn. "`Border' Studies: The Intersection of Gender > and Color." In _Introduction to Scholarship in Modern > Languages and Literatures_, edited by Joseph Gibaldi, > 303-19. 2d ed. New York: Modern Language Association of > America, 1992. (See p. 314 specifically.) > > Lee Maracle's Sundogs (Penticton, B.C.: Thetus Books, 1992) > > Beatrice Culleton's _In Search of April and _Raintree_ > > Maria Campbell's _Halfbreed_. > > Janet Hale's BLOODLINES (not a novel); > > Betty Louise Bell's FACES IN THE MOON. > > Gretchen Bataille & Kathleen Sands, AMERICAN INDIAN WOMAN: A GUIDE TO RESEARCH, > NY, Garland Publishing, 1991. > > Joy Harjo's and Stephen Strom's _Secrets from the Center of the World_ > > Beverly Hungry Wolf's _The Ways of the Grandmothers_, > > Diane Glancy's _Claiming Breath_ > > Janet Campbell Hale's _Bloodlines_. See > > Gretchen Bataille and Kathleen Sands' _American Indian women: > Telling Their Lives_ (U of Nebraska P, 1984) for other references. > > Betty Louise Bell's _Faces in the Moon_. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Amy L. Wink > alw7315@acs.tamu.edu > Department of English > Texas A&M University > College Station, TX 77843-4227 > > > "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone > without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, > there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." > > Emily Dickinson > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 15:46:36 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: feminist fiction In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:58:55 -0400 Louise DeSalvo's CASTING OFF, though published in 1987, was written in the late 70s. Edi Giunta faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:59:52 -1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mala Chakravorty Subject: Re: feminist fiction In-Reply-To: Some other titles: Lisa Alther, KINFLICKS Francine du Plessix Gray, LOVERS AND TYRANTS Joan Didion, PLAY IT AS IT LAYS Gail Godwin, GLASS PEOPLE Margaret Atwood, SURFACING, EDIBLE WOMAN, LADY ORACLE Anne Roiphe, LONG DIVISION Marge Piercy, SMALL CHANGES Kate Millett, SITA That's all I can think of at the moment, but I know that there are a number of others. Hope these help. Mala Chakravorty Office for Women's Research University of Hawai'i at Manoa On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Cynthia Harrison wrote: > I'm trying to locate the titles of feminist novels of the 1970s, in the > genre of THE WOMEN'S ROOM, FEAR OF FLYING, MEMOIRS OF AN EX-PROM QUEEN. > My tries in the LC catalog, searching under a variety of subject > headings, have turned up nothing else, but that can't be right, can it? > Thanks. > > Cynthia Harrison > Associate Professor > History/Women's Studies > Funger 506G > The George Washington University > 2201 G Street, N.W. > Washington, D.C. 20052 > telephone: 202-363-4356 > e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > fax: 202-994-7249 > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:54:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: 1997 AWP conference The Association for Women in Psychology meeting will be held in Pittsburgh from March 6 to 9 in 1997. We will be posting the Call for Papers and further conference information here as plans finalize. If you want to be on the (snail) mailing list, please contact me or Maureen McHugh, the conference coordinator. Irene !************************************************************ ! Irene Hanson Frieze, Ph.D. Internet: FRIEZE@vms.cis.pitt.edu ! Professor of Psychology, ! Women's Studies & Business Administration ! University of Pittsburgh Phone: (412) 624-4336 ! Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (USA) FAX: (412) 624-4428 !************************************************************* ----- End forwarded message ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:38:23 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruzy Hashim Subject: Malay court chronicles Hi, I have just started my PhD research on women of the court in Malay historical/court chronicles dating from 16th century to early 19th century. These works mainly describe genealogies and dynastic warfares. I would like to get in touch with anybody working on a similar field to exchange ideas/references. Please reply to ruzy.hashim@stonebow.otago.ac.nz Terima kasih/thank you. Ruzy Hashim. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:36:02 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nan Bauer Maglin Subject: Feminist Fiction Query II I have a request similar to the one posted by Cynthia Harrison, so let me add it to the feminist fiction query. Cynthia is looking specifically for feminist fiction written in the 1970s; my search is a bit broader: For a writing project I am about to begin, I would appreciate help in locating any references in contemporary fiction to second or third wave feminists or feminism/womanism. I am not interested in first wave feminism in fiction. Some examples that come to mind are: In Loving Kindness by Ann Roiphe, the mother is an academic feminist whose teenage daughter acts out of pain and rebellion in self destructive ways. The mother believes that feminism has failed the daughters. Margaret Atwood's Handmaids Tale is about the defeat of feminism by the right-wing state. In the recent collection Feminism 3: The Third Generation in Fiction edited by Irene Zahava, some of the stories explicitly refer to feminism and feminists. Thanks, Nan Bauer Maglin nbmbm@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 20:58:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Info on Afro-German women sought I am posting this for subscriber Margit Grieb, who is having temporary difficulty getting through to WMST-L. Please respond to her, not to me. Joan Korenman ******************************************************* i am looking for information on afro-german writers, film makers, artist, or any other material related to cultural exclusion of black voices. i am espesially interested in any materials that could be used in an educational setting for either a women's studies course or a German language course. although i have collected some material, i am still lacking information on this topic. i would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help me out in my search. please respond privately: ________________________________________________________ / \ oo |FROM: Margit Grieb SNAIL MAIL:|University of Florida| o |E-MAIL: |GSLL, 263 Dauer Hall | o |grieber@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu |Gainesville, FL 32611| 0 |FAX: (352) 392-1067 | \________________________________________________________/ ooO___Ooo_________________________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 21:12:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sarah M. Pritchard" Subject: Feminist Fiction of the 1970s A useful bibliography of feminist fuction of the 1970s is included in a chapter of WOMEN'S STUDIES: A RECOMMENDED CORE BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Esther Stineman with Catherine Loeb (Libraries Unlimited, 1979). The emphasis is on the 1970s with some earlier works; and the strength of this bibliography (which covers numerous other forms of literature, and all major nonfiction areas) is the lengthy annotations. A 1980-1985 supplement to this work was published in 1987 under the same title, co-authored by Loeb, Susan Searing and Stineman; same publisher. (Apologies if this has already been mentioned; I was having trouble getting the UMD listserv to accept my postings earlier.) Sarah Pritchard Director of Libraries Smith College spritchard@smith.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 07:49:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie Braendlin Subject: feminist fiction Check out a 1994 study by Maria Lauret, _Liberating Literature: Feminist Fiction in America_ from Routledge. She discusses Alice Walker's _Meridian_ and Marge Piercy's _Vida_ extensively and give a good bit of historical context; she also continues the discussion on into the "backlash fictions of the 1980s" and "the future of feminist fiction." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:16:27 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Ho Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville Subject: Re: Malay court chronicles I have been interested in the topic of early Malaysia for quite some time from the literature viewpoint. I work on European medieval framed tale collections and also work on comparative Asian texts. However, I have not beenvery successful in finding primary works. I would like to keep in touch with you on this topic. Cynthia Ho Dept. Lit and Lang Univ. North Carolina, Asheville ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 06:56:06 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lesa A. McComas" Subject: WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP I am offering an undergraduate seminar this fall on "Women in Leadership," and would appreciate hearing from anyone who may have taught, or has knowledge of, a similar class. The catalog describes it as an "introduction to practices and strategies used by successful women in a variety of fields." I tentatively plan to cover the following: Leadership vs. Management, Is there a "Women's Leadership Style" as distinct from a "Men's Leadership Style"?, Communications Barriers and Cultural Differences between Men and Women, The "Glass Ceiling," (the obligatory) Sexual Harassment and Fraternization issues, and Traditional vs. Non-traditional careers. As the course is one credit, I don't plan to make it unusually rigorous. Would appreciate any and all suggestions on: - Text (s) & other reading assignments - Possible guest speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area (willing to appear for FREE) - Additional curriculum topics All input cheerfully and gratefully acknowledged! lmccomas@violet.berkeley.edu Lesa A. McComas Commander, US Navy Adjunct Associate Professor of Naval Science, U. C. Berkeley ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:28:32 -0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Kay Schleiter Subject: Feminist Philosopher The Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has a one-year position for an instructor. The courses to be taught for the Fall Semester are Intro to Human Values, Logic, Intro to Epistomology, and Philosophy of Religion. For the Spring Semester, courses are negotiable and could include a course in Feminist Philosophy. There is a chance that a tenure track position will open up in Fall of '97. The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, one hour north of Chicago and 30 minutes south of Milwaukee. The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is an Equal Opportunity employer. Women, and women and men of color are especially encouraged to apply. Send a letter of application and vita by May 1 to: John Longeway, Chair Department of Philosophy University of Wisconsin-Parkside 900 Wood Rd, Box 2000 Kenosha, WI 53141-2000. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mary Kay Schleiter Director of Women's Studies University of Wisconsin-Parkside mks@cs.uwp.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:26:06 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: "Barbara Jordan,E.Bradford Burns & Me" at UMass Amherst I will be giving my paper on Thursday, April 25 at noon, at the campus center, at UMass Amherst as a part of the Stonewall Center's Brown Bag Lunch series. "Barbara Jordan, E. Bradford Burns and Me: Coming Out in Public Life" deals with coming out in the college classroom. ...................................................................... Rosa Maria Pegueros 217C Washburn Hall Department of History e-mail: pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 telephone: (401) 874-4092 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0817 "When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it." --Amelia Earhart ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:15:31 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MJ Terre Blanche Subject: conference announcement 2nd Annual South African Qualitative Methods Conference "The Body Politic" 3 & 4 September 1996 Johannesburg, South Africa THEME "The Body Politic" is intended to appeal to those with an interest in bodies - both flesh and blood bodies and bodies of knowledge/power. What is to be done with bodies (gendered bodies, racial bodies, virtual bodies, dead bodies) now that the new world order is upon us and everything is turning into 'discourse'? Contributions not directly related to the theme but dealing with or making use of qualitative methods (in its broadest definition) are also welcome. ATTENDANCE The conference is a meeting place for academics and other knowledge workers such as artists and political activists. In academia the conference is likely to be of interest to individuals in disciplines such as psychology, women's studies, sociology, history, politics, philosophy, social work, media studies, anthropology, nursing science and medicine. For more information write to: terremj@alpha.unisa.ac.za or Qualitative Methods Conference Department of Psychology University of South Africa PO Box 392 Pretoria 0001 SOUTH AFRICA ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:26:17 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nikki Senecal Subject: Re: feminist fiction >I'm trying to locate the titles of feminist novels of the 1970s, in the >genre of THE WOMEN'S ROOM, FEAR OF FLYING, MEMOIRS OF AN EX-PROM QUEEN. >My tries in the LC catalog, searching under a variety of subject >headings, have turned up nothing else, but that can't be right, can it? Yes, it can be right. A friend and I considered writing a bibliography of such work because it is impossible to find these novels on computer searches. I can offer Atwood's EDIBLE WOMAN off the top of my head. Nikki Senecal Dept of English USC senecal@chaph.usc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:27:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: feminist fiction In-Reply-To: Try Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, and the author of (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden) for starters. Could you also use other genres such as poetry? pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Cynthia Harrison wrote: > I'm trying to locate the titles of feminist novels of the 1970s, in the > genre of THE WOMEN'S ROOM, FEAR OF FLYING, MEMOIRS OF AN EX-PROM QUEEN. > My tries in the LC catalog, searching under a variety of subject > headings, have turned up nothing else, but that can't be right, can it? > Thanks. > > Cynthia Harrison > Associate Professor > History/Women's Studies > Funger 506G > The George Washington University > 2201 G Street, N.W. > Washington, D.C. 20052 > telephone: 202-363-4356 > e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > fax: 202-994-7249 > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 19:33:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cindy Bily Subject: Re: feminist fiction I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN is by Joanne Greenberg, although she published this novel under the name Hannah Green. --Cindy Bily Adrian College cbily@adrian.adrian.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:06:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Rachel A. Rosenberg" Subject: Feminist Fiction of the '70s and later An important fiction collection for British feminists of the 1970s is _Tales I Tell My Mother: A Collection of Feminist Short Stories_ (Journeyman, 1978). This book contains short stories and essays with explicit feminist content by Zoe Fairbairns, Sara Maitland, Valerie Miner, Michele Roberts, and Michelene Wandor (a group of women sometimes referred to as the Feminist Fiction Writing Collective). Although each story and essay is attributed to an individual writer, the book was written using a collaborative writing process. Each of these 5 women went on to write more feminist fiction and/or plays, criticism, etc. in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. If you specifically want feminist novels from the 1970s, you might look at Maitland's _Daughter of Jerusalem_ (1978) which follows it's main character in her struggles to have a child, to deal with infertility specialists, and to deal with the members of her feminist consciousness-raising group--which plays as central a role in her life as her husband. The novel presents a positive picture of consciousness-raising groups and the women's liberation movement, while simultaneously dealing with complex emotional interactions among women. Another novel that I believe is from the 1970s (I don't have the reference here with me) is Fairbairns's _A Piece of the Night_, an Orwellian look at a future in which British and world governments seek to gain total control over human reproduction, using Britain as a testing ground. If you're looking for a feminist novel from the 1980s, I am particularly fond of Sara Maitland and Michelene Wandor's collaboratively written epistolary novel, _Arky Types_ (Methuen, 1987). It is a highly satiric, postmodern novel that includes letters written by characters ranging from "Sara" and "Michelene" to a literary agent and publisher, to a nun, a policewoman, archetypical mother figures--Mrs. Vicar and Mrs. Noah--and a series of animals who will be carried off by a 20th-century ark. This novel has the potential to offend a wide range of people as it satirizes many feminist writers and positions (particularly separatism), but I have to confess that I think it's wonderful, in large part because of the remarkably complex and serious dialogues between culturally Jewish and believing Christian characters that are carried on amidst all the satire. _More Tales I Tell My Mother_ (Journeyman, 1987) includes short stories by the same 5 authors listed above and forms an interesting contrast to the first collection. (I'm writing about _Tales_, _More Tales_, and _Arky Types_ in my dissertation. If you'd like to discuss them with me further you can contact me privately at the address below.) Rachel A. Rosenberg Northwestern University rrosenbe@casbah.acns.nwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:54:03 GMT Reply-To: SJG@reader.demon.co.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Gamble Subject: Re: feminist fiction I don't know how extensive your study of feminist writers of the 1970s is intended to be. The British novelist Angela Carter did some excellent work over this period, although it is very different from, say, French's 'The Women's Room'. Although written with feminist intent, Carter's work cannot be described as 'realism' in the same way that French's can. However, books such as THE INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DOCTOR HOFFMAN (1972); THE PASSION OF NEW EVE (1977); and THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES (1979) are funny, subversive and idiosyncratic. (She can be compared to Sara Maitland, I suppose, who has already been recommended to you.) > Sarah Gamble (SJG@reader.demon.co.uk) > On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Cynthia Harrison wrote: > > > I'm trying to locate the titles of feminist novels of the 1970s, in the > > genre of THE WOMEN'S ROOM, FEAR OF FLYING, MEMOIRS OF AN EX-PROM QUEEN. > > My tries in the LC catalog, searching under a variety of subject > > headings, have turned up nothing else, but that can't be right, can it? > > Thanks. > > > > Cynthia Harrison > > Associate Professor > > History/Women's Studies > > Funger 506G > > The George Washington University > > 2201 G Street, N.W. > > Washington, D.C. 20052 > > telephone: 202-363-4356 > > e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > > fax: 202-994-7249 > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sarah Gamble EMail SJG@ | | Mail sent via Demon Internet - Full IP for 10/Month Tel:0181 371 1234 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:29:22 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Cooke, Maryellen" Subject: remember making coffee? i'm trying to gather some information on the time period during which american women started protesting about making coffee for men in the office. (it's my impression that things haven't changed much and women still make all the office coffee!) does anyone have any sources or suggestions? thanks! Maryellen Cooke cooke@bus.orst.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:36:11 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnne Myers Subject: Re: "Barbara Jordan,E.Bradford Burns & Me" at UMass Amherst In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:26:06 EDT Rosa--Good luck tomorrow--if only I wasn;t teaching (thursday is my day from hell- 3 classes incl. a 3 1/2 hour seminar) I'd take a road trip... are you interested in coming to the Women & Society conf this june7-9? I could squeeze you onto a panel....cioa,JAM ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:13:00 +0059 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: June Corman Subject: Re: Request for info In-Reply-To: HI Susan, Will you chair a session at the CWSA . I need 16 volunteers. If so are you available anytime 8:45 to 5 on May 27 to 29th. I was hoping you would chair the session on Lesbian issues 8:45 on May 27th. Please respond quickly JUNE ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:25:08 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Madelyn Detloff <6500mad@UCSBUXA.UCSB.EDU> Subject: Eliz. Loftus In-Reply-To: Can anyone point me to a source that would confirm (or deny) rumors that Elizabeth Loftus, the psychologist from U. Washington has been under investigation by the APA? I've checked the newspaper and magazine index at the U of California, but can't find any articles on the subject. Thanks. Madelyn Detloff 6500mad@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu English & Women's Studies University of California, Santa Barbara We're a queer lot we women who write poetry. And when you think How few of us they've been it's queerer still --Amy Lowell ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:22:45 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Kerns Subject: group interviews This is a slightly different take on the interviewing of women. I have a graduate student who is looking for information on group interviews in social science. I've looked at much of the material suggested for interviewing and found little that discussed group interviews. Most of the general information on group interviews seems to be aimed at marketing research. Any suggestions? Thanks. Kathy Kerns Stanford University Libraries kkerns@sulmail.stanford.edu (415) 725-1186 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:20:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie Tharp Subject: women and film This summer I'm teaching a short course through Continuing Education on Images of Women in Film (over the last forty years or so--from Doris Day to Sharon Stone). Can anyone recommend texts on the subject and/or must see films? Please respond privately. If people are interested I'll compile a list of sources. Thank you, Julie Tharp University of Wisconsin Center--Marshfield jtharp@uwcmail.uwc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:29:49 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea <3AJA1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Subject: Re: women and film In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:20:30 -0400 from Mary Ann Doane, Constance Penley, and Laura Mulvey, definitely--the classic pieces: Doane, "Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator," _Screen_. 23 (1982) (I never get over my fascination of the way she relates women in film to women watching film--"the consumption of images of women by women," and so on!); Penley, "A Certain Refusal of Difference: Feminism and Film Theory," _Art After Modernism_, B. Wallis, ed., 1984; Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," _Screen_, 16 (1975). Penley also has a couple of book-length studies out--titles escape me at the moment, but they looked good to me; Deidre Pribram, ed., _The Female Spectator_ (1988, I think) is also excellent; and Janet Bergstrom and Mary Ann Doane's review essay,"The Female Spectator: Contexts and Directions" _Camera Obscura_, 21 (1990) I have found provides students with a good introduction/review of critical work in the field. Hope this is of help. Best, Andrea Austin Dept. of English Queen's University 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:20:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sonita Sarker Subject: Contemporary British women creators I would be extremely gratified to get help in locating (i.e. naming, citing, possibly talking with) women creating in the arts (fine arts, literature, film) and writing in politics, in Britain in the last 50 years, of different racial origins, especially Anglo-Saxon, Irish, and Indian (of the Indian sub-continent). This is for a course on 20th Century Anglophone women writers and, as you can see, from the attention being paid to origins, the nature of this course might be provocative. Eager to get started, Sonita. Sonita Sarker Assistant Professor Women's Studies and English Macalester College Office Phone: (612)696-6316 Fax: (612)696-6430 e-mail:sarker@macalstr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:50:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lisa C. D'Adamo-Weinstein" Subject: Re: women and film In-Reply-To: Julie's message made me decide to post my own query about women and film. I'll be teaching a course this summer for preservice teachers and I plan to use multi-media including videos depicting stories of teachers in the course. How this all ties into this discussion list is that while I was trying to compose a list of popular films that we might use in the class (such as "Dead Poet's Society" "Stand and Deliver" etc.) I was hard pressed to come up with any other movies than the recent "Dangerous Minds" which has a female teacher as the main character. Any suggestions? Please respond privately and as Julie said, I'll compile a list of the responses I get and post it to the list is people are interested. Thanks. Lisa D'Adamo-Weinstein Indiana University - Bloominton ldadamow@indiana.edu http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~ldadamow On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Julie Tharp wrote: > This summer I'm teaching a short course through Continuing Education on Images > of Women in Film (over the last forty years or so--from Doris Day to Sharon > Stone). Can anyone recommend texts on the subject and/or must see films? > > Please respond privately. If people are interested I'll compile a list of > sources. > > Thank you, > Julie Tharp > University of Wisconsin Center--Marshfield > jtharp@uwcmail.uwc.edu > ********************************************* o8%8888, o88%8888888. 8'- -:8888b 8' 8888 d8.-=. ,==-.:888b >8 `~` :`~' d8888 88 ,88888 88b. `-~ ':88888 888b ~==~ .:88888 88888o--:':::8888 `88888| :::' 8888b 8888^^' 8888b d888 ,%888b. d88% %%%8--'-. /88:.__ , _%-' --- - '''::===..-' = --. `"Keep on smiling your own way" -Mona L. aka ldadamow@indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 17:25:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: remember making coffee? In-Reply-To: Is there to be no let-up for us poor "second wavers"? (Just joking! I mean, that this continually reminds me, although it seems like only yesterday! As the cliche goes, how much time has passed, and how my sisters and I, so young and so passionate are getting on. Well, I'm still passionate, anyhow.) In the early to mid 70's, many local NOW organizations formed CR groups--one of the greatest things to come out of the movement. We began to question, question, question things that had never been questioned before. In the Civil Rights movements--the Black Power movement and the La Raza and Asian Rights movement, as well, the same question seemed to be asked simultaneously. Why are we making the coffee, the food, working the duplicating machines, etc., while the men are having "important meetings" for the company, or the cause, or whatever? Michele Wallace has written on this, among others. Some good poems on this subject were written by Nikki Giovanni, and my favorite, "Para un revolucionario" (in The Third Woman), by Lorna Dee Cervantes. I must give some lines: Pero your voice is lost to me, carnal,/in the wail of tus hijos/in the clatter of dishes/and the pucker of beans on the stove./Your conversations come to me/de la sala where you sit,/spreading your dream to brothers,/where you spread that dream like damp clover/ for them to trod upon, /when I stand here reaching/para ti con manos bronces that spring/from mi espiritu/(for I too am Raza). When the white women complained, they were told, as they are today, that their critiques were "trivial." When the women of color complained they were told that they were "disloyal to the cause/the revolution," manipulated and influenced by white feminists. I take on this issue in my last work (The Great White Way: African American Women Writers and American Success Mythology) Garland P, in my chapter on Alice Walker and directly in a lengthy Afterword in my forthcoming work ((Un)Doing the Missionary Position:Gender Asymmetry in Contemporary Asian American Women Writers). Greenwood P. We fought every single issue every step of the way every day in our homes, on the job, etc., so that today it is quite clear that women making the coffee for men is part of a large pattern of asymmetrical positioning of women globally. On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Cooke, Maryellen wrote: > i'm trying to gather some information on the time period during which > american women started protesting about making coffee for men in the > office. (it's my impression that things haven't changed much and women > still make all the office coffee!) does anyone have any sources or > suggestions? > > thanks! Maryellen Cooke > cooke@bus.orst.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 16:36:00 CDT Reply-To: Helen Ryan--Reference Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Ryan Subject: Re: remember making coffee? When I first came to Iowa in 1970 the secretaries to our library administration were just then refusing to dust off the conference tables before meetings, so, as a professional woman and in sympathy for the secretaries and also for the poor old fogie administrators, I made it my job. The professionals that same year sent around a petition demanding that women be allowed to wear pants to work. We won! Jeez. Helen Ryan University of Iowa ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 16:26:53 -0700 Reply-To: Carolyn Allen Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carolyn Allen Subject: SIGNS Special issues on youth cultures Comments: To: femedit@wheatonma.edu, QSTUDY-L@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Comments: cc: windance@u.washington.edu, jhoward@u.washington.edu Please pass along to anyone who might be interested. SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, now edited at the Univesity of Washington, seeks articles and other input for a special issue on feminisms and youth cultures. Deadline for submission-January 31, l997. Below is the full Call for Papers. Call for Papers SIGNS Special Issue: Feminisms and Youth Cultures What is the relationship between feminism and the popular culture being produced and negotiated by youth in various national contexts? What can we learn about the shifting meanings of feminism by examining youth culture(s)? The virtual invisibility of the voices and concerns of adolescents and young adults in academic and popular debates is striking when contrasted with the hypervisibility of youth in transnational popular cultural production (comics, zines, music videos, films). The lack of attention given to challenges facing youth and the agency of young people, whether or not they self-identify as feminists, is the impetus for this special issue. An expansive discussion of youth culture would include an examination of young people and their cultural productions from a wide range of racial, ethnic, and national origins. Discussions of youth culture could include but are not limited to those who occupy such positions as immigrant, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered, entrepreneurs/self-employed, impoverished, sex workers, religious minority, physically challenged, and homeless. SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY seeks submissions for a special issue on Feminisms and Youth Cultures slated for publication in spring 1998. For the purpose of this special issue, "youth" indicates persons ages thirteen to thirty, in contemporary or historical cultures. The editors welcome submissions that are (1) based on independent or collaborative research conducted by, about, and/or within youth communities, and (2) textual analyses (widely defined) of popular culture produced by youth. This special issue might include articles that address such relevant youth-culture topics as the incorporation/reinscription/resistance of/to dominant ideologies and institutions; varying meanings and functions of feminisms; expressions of consciousness inflected by race, class, gender, nationality, sexuality, and religious training in popular culture; strategies employed to transform traditional organizations; issues of health/health care; and sexual autonomy and sexuality. The special issue editors will include Professor France Winddance Twine (Department of Women Studies at the University of Washington and SIGNS Board of Associate Editors) and others currently being selected. Please submit articles (five copies) no later than January 31, 1997, to SIGNS, Feminisms and Youth Cultures, Box 354345, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4345. Please observe the guidelines in the "Notice to Contributors" printed in the most recent issue of the journal On 19 Apr 1996 CAROLYN@server.english.washington.edu wrote: > Hi G: > > Could you type onto email the Call for Papers for our special issue > (I think Jane will have a copy) and send it to me, Judy, and > Winddance so we can put it out on nets. Actually, once it's up on > email, you could send it both to our AE list and to our longer SIGNS > campus list. Put on the top of your email. Please distribute to > anyone interested. Or something like that. > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:59:43 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Brigance Subject: Re: women and film A "must see" film is Thelma and Louise.....I have used it and it always generates great discussion about gender roles, power relationships, filmic portrayal of women, etc. Linda Brigance University of Iowa brigance@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 16:10:22 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sara Brownmiller Subject: Audre Lorde guote I have a faculty member who needs a source for a quote attributed to Audre Lorde on a poster she has. The quote is: "When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." I have looked in all of the women's/feminist quotation books that we have without any success. The standard quotation dictionaries were not much help either. Can anyone help? Sara Brownmiller Women's Studies Librarian University of Oregon Library snb@darkwing.uoregon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:31:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Shirley J. Schwarz" Subject: Re: women and film In-Reply-To: I too am interested in seeing this. Could you kindly post it? On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Julie Tharp wrote: > This summer I'm teaching a short course through Continuing Education on Images > of Women in Film (over the last forty years or so--from Doris Day to Sharon > Stone). Can anyone recommend texts on the subject and/or must see films? > > Please respond privately. If people are interested I'll compile a list of > sources. > > Thank you, > Julie Tharp > University of Wisconsin Center--Marshfield > jtharp@uwcmail.uwc.edu > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shirley J. Schwarz phone: 812-479-2171 Department of Archaeology & Art History FAX 812-479-2320 University of Evansville e-mail ss37@evansville.edu 1800 Lincoln Ave. Evansville, IN 47722 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:39:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Jones Subject: Re: Women and Technology I am curious whether women are "on" the internet less or whether they participate less in lists, notes conferences, etc. My understanding of the research was that woman tend to lurk more than men. If the latter is true, then why are women just lurking? Jennifer Jones jones@gnv.fdt.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:33:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dina Pinsky Subject: seeking interviewees for study I am conducting a study of ethnic and religious identity in personal development with a focus on the role of gender. I am looking for people to interview for this study who fit into the following group: 1. 22 through 50 years old 2. consider yourself Jewish or have a Jewish background of some sort 3. grew up in the United States or Canada 4. currently live in New York City, Long Island, or Westchester If you fit the above criteria and are interested, please write to me personally. You will be offered a modest honorarium for completing the interview. Thank you very much, Dina Pinsky dpinsky@ix.netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:57:32 GMT+1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Waring Organization: ELM Macquarie University Subject: Audre Lorde quote I don't know if this helps, Sara, but if you do find the source, I'd be interested as I've been using this quote in my signature file for some time. You may be able to find out from Kitchen Table Press (518) 434 2057 or even perhaps from their distributors Syracuse Cultural Workers (315) 474 1132. Sorry, I don't have fax/e-mail contact info. ww _________________________________________________ "When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." Audre Lorde _________________________________________________ Dr Wendy Waring +61 (2) 850 7684 Director, Institute FAX: 850 7686 for Women's Studies Macquarie University wendy.waring@mq.edu.au Sydney NSW 2109 Australia ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 03:31:36 -0400 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: women and film We used a chapter from Yvonne Tasker (1993) _Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the action cinema_ London & New York: Routledge in the gender course we teach here. Chapter 7 is about action heroines in the 1980s (including Thelma & Louise). 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, 25 Apr 1996 12:59:52 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: feminist fiction In-Reply-To: I suggest you find the classmark for French (Jong, Alther, etc.) and then do a search-by-classmark. That turned up a fair number of books here. (Piercy, also, I'd have thought.) I can't repeat the search and do a printout right now, I'm afraid. On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Cynthia Harrison wrote: > I'm trying to locate the titles of feminist novels of the 1970s, in the > genre of THE WOMEN'S ROOM, FEAR OF FLYING, MEMOIRS OF AN EX-PROM QUEEN. > My tries in the LC catalog, searching under a variety of subject > headings, have turned up nothing else, but that can't be right, can it? > Thanks. > --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 09:19:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Delese Wear Subject: women and crying can anyone point me to some sources on women and crying? i've done a medline search (all pathology, of course), and looked at psych abstracts (one good lead from psych of women quarterly) and ERIC (all early childhood stuff). thanks for any suggestions. delese wear dw@neoucom.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 09:52:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Molina Subject: Re: Audre Lorde guote I am sorry I don't have right now, in front of me, "Sister Outsider", Crossing Press, the quote comes from one of the articles there. Papusa Molina Women's Studies Hamilton College Clinton, NY 13323 w (315) 859-4288 e-mail mmolina@hamilton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 09:56:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Braithwaite Subject: conference - NY state Hi everyone, I thought I'd post the schedule for a conference to be held next weekend, Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4, in Rochester, NY. It's called "Race, Gender, and Visual Culture" and includes guest speakers, a number of panels, films, etc. The conference is the culmination of a three year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, held by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Rochester, for the study of race, gender, and visual culture. I hope some of you in the area can make it to what looks like a really exciting conference. PLACE: Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., Rochester, NY 14607 Friday, May 3, 1996 -- 10:45 - Auditorium Janet Wolff - Director, SBAI, "Introduction and Welcoming Remarks" -- 11:00 - 12:30 - Auditorium Speaker: Hortense Spillers, English Dept., Cornell University, "Thinking About Olympia" -- 12:30 - 2:00 - Lunch break -- 2:00 - 4:00 Panel One: Parlor East Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg, Dept. of African American Studies, Northeastern University, "The Iconography of Black Women" Lisa Cartwright, Dept of English/Film Studies, University of Rochester, "_The Body Beautiful_: Community and Identity in Breast Cancer Media Activism" Deborah Grayson, Dept of English, University of Rochester, "Unphotographable Beauty: Black Women on Display" Panel Two: Parlor West Tom Hahn, Dept of English, University of Rochester, "The Difference the Middle Ages Makes: Color, Race, and Bodily Identity" Jeanette Roan, Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, "Exotic Explorations: Bertolucci iin Beijing" Ondine Chavoya, Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, "Ramona Memories" -- 4:00 - 4:30 - Coffee/tea break -- 4:30 - 6:00 - Auditorium Speaker: Rosa Linda Fregoso, Dept of Women's Studies, UC San Diego, "Sacando los trapos al sol (or airing dirty laundry) in Lourdes Portillo's _The Devil Never Sleeps_" -- 8:00 - 9:30 - Lander Auditorium, Hutchinson Hall, University of Rochester Film Screening: _The Watermelon Woman_ by Cheryl Dunye Saturday, May 4, 1996 -- 10:00 - 12:00 Panel One: Parlor East Kathleen Zane, Faculty of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, "Race, Hybridity and Cross-Dressing" Bridget Cooks, Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, "See Me Now" Nicholas Newman, Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, "Routing Racial Difference in Gay Male Pornography" Panel Two: Parlor West Mary Kate Kelly, Dept of English, University of Rochester, "A Means of Collaborative Resistance: Recalling and Reviewing the 'Coded' Body in _The Body Beautiful_" Tina Takemoto, Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, "Mourning and Mimicry: The Coincidence/Consequence of Interracial Collaboration in _her/she senses imag(in)ed malady_" Ranjanna Khanna, Dept of English, University of Utah, "Algeria Cuts: Picasso and Baya Remember" -- 12:00 - 1:30 - lunch break -- 1:30 - 3:30 - Auditorium Rockefeller Retrospective: Discussion led by the Rockefeller Committee, Deborah Grayson, Anita Levy, Joyce Middleton, Sharon Willis, Janet Wolff, University of Rochester -- 3:30 - 4:30 - Coffee/tea break -- 4:00 - 5:30 - Auditorium Speaker: Wahneema Lubiano, English Department, Princeton University, "Girlfriends, Divas, and Chauffeurs: Feminism, Popular Film and Black Common Sense" For more information, etc., contact the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies, (716) 275-8318 Hope to see some of you there! Ann Braithwaite abwe@uhura.cc.rochester.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:53:26 -0500 Reply-To: sworst@uua.org Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Worst Organization: Beacon Press Subject: women and film In reponse to Julie Tharp's request for texts on women and film, I'd like to recommend SEEING AND BELIEVING: RELIGION AND VALUES IN THE MOVIES by Margaret R. Miles, which will be published next month. SEEING AND BELIEVING examines the treatment of gender, race, sexual orientation, class, and religion in numerous films of the past decade, including THELMA AND LOUISE, DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, and THE PIANO. It's extremely accessible and has particularly interesting sections on the limitations of popular films' portrayals of sex and romantic love. The book is $25.00 in hardcover and will be in bookstores by the end of this month. More information on the book is available at http://www.beacon.org/Beacon/sp96cat/miles.html. Susan G. Worst sworst@bp.beacon.org Editor, Beacon Press tel (617) 742-2110 x551 25 Beacon Street fax (617) 723-3097 Boston, MA 02108 Beacon's WWW address is: http://www.beacon.org/Beacon/homepage.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:53:41 +0059 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: June Corman Subject: Re: Request for info In-Reply-To: Hi Susan Heald, Can you chair a session at the CWSA meetings. If you can I schedule you in any time 8:45 to 5 from the 27 to 29th. JUNE ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:04:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie K Daniels Subject: Need info on Adrienne Rich speech I'm interested in finding out about the rhetorical situation surrounding Rich's 1978 speech "Taking Women Students Seriously." I know she delivered it to the New Jersey College and University Coalition on Women's Education, but I'd like to find out more specifics: Was she invited to speak? Was this meeting part of an ongoing conference of some kind? A free-standing meeting? What was the response to her speech? Etc. Thank you for any light you can shed--I'm running into many deadends as I try to find information about Rich's public presentations. (Also, did any of you attend? Know anyone who did? I'm interested in hearing reactions!). TIA, Julie Daniels danie029@maroon.tc.umn.edu University of Minnesota ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:04:25 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: women and film In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:31:35 -0500 On women and film: I recommend Maria Maggenti's film, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Gilrs in Love. Also Nancy Savoca's films, True Love, Dogfight and Household Saints. Margarethe Von Trotta's films would also be appropriate ina course on women and film, but I have never been able to fond the videotapes in the U.S. Edi Giunta faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:37:59 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Dear Julie, A useful reference text on women and film is Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema 1896 through the present. You could have it on reserve at the library. Also Moving targets: Women, Mirder and Representation, edited by Helen Birch, might be useful. Good luck. Edvige Giunta faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:32:04 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Kenney Subject: new syllabus collection The American Political Science Association has just published a collection of syllabi for courses on women and politics. To order, send $14 to APSA Publications, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Women and Politics Syllabi Collection Table of Contents Sally J. Kenney Introduction Karen Beckwith Comparative Women and Politics: West Europe and the U.S Susan Carroll Proseminar: Women and Politics Women and American Politics Linda Chen Women and Politics: Third World Perspectives Rebecca Davis Women and Politics: A Cross-National Perspective Zillah Eisenstein Feminist Theory Rita Mae Kelly Gender Power and Leadership Barbara Nelson Women and Public Policy in the U.S. Norma Noonan Women of Russian and Eastern Europe Karen O'Connor The Politics of Reproductive Health V. Spike Peterson Feminist and International Relations Theory Debra Salazar Women and Environmental Politics Sue Thomas Women and Politics Ann Tickner Women and World Politics Joan Tronto Women and Politics Linda Zerilli Feminist Political Theory Projects and Assignments Zehra Arat novels for Women in Developing Countries Karen Beckwith assignment on critical reading for Women Power and Politics Linda Beail Colemen readings on evangelical feminism from Women and Politics Zillah Eisenstein book list for Post-Cold War Isms Beth Reingold interview project assignment for Women and Politics Anne Sisson Runyan course assignments for Women and Politics Kay Schlozman paper topics for Women and Politics Sarah Slavin assignment on voice for Women in American Politics assignment for short reports Sandra Sutphen assignments for Women and Politics ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:50:58 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Kenney Subject: Interviewing women Thanks to all those who submitted references on the issue of feminists interviewing women. I have compiled the list of sources: Anderson, Kathryn et al. "Beginning Where We Are: Feminist Methodology in Oral History." Oral History Review 15 (Spring 1987): 103-127. Berger Gluck, Sherner and Daphne Patai, eds. Wommen's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. (New York: Routledge, 1991). Broche-Due, Anne-Katherine. "Reflections on Subjectivism in Biographical Interviewing: A Process of Change," in All Sides of the Subject: Women and Biography Teresa Isles, ed. (Teachers College Press, 1992). Carter, K. and C. Spitzak, eds. Doing Research on Women's Communication (Norwood NJ: Ablex Publishing Co) pp. 193-220. Devault, Marjorie L."Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis." Social Problems 37 (1990): 96-116. Finch in Doing Feminist Research, H. Roberts, ed. (?) Fine, Michelle. "Passion, Politics and Power: Feminist Research" (chapter in her book) in Disruptive Voices. Fonow, Mary Margaret and Judith A. Cook, eds. Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research, (Bloomington, Ind: Indiana Univ press, 1991). Geiger, Susan N. G. "Review Essay: Women's Life histories: Method and Content" Signs 11, no. 2 (1986): 334-351. Harding, Sandra, ed. Feminism and Methodology. (Bloomington: Indiana Univ Press, 1987). Langellier, Kristin M., and Deanne L. Hall. "Interviewing Women: APhenomenological Approach to Feminist Communication Research." (1989). Mies, Maria. "Women's Research" or "Feminist Research" in Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research. Fonow, Mary Margaret and Judith A. Cook, eds. (Bloomington, Ind: Indiana Univ press, 1991). Nelson, Jenny L. 1989. "Phenomenology as Feminist Methodology: Explicating Interviews." in Doing Research on Women's Communication. Carter, K. and C. Spitzak, eds. (Norwood NJ: Ablex Publishing), pp. 221-241. Patai, Daphne. "Introduction: Constructing A Self" in Brazilian Women Speak: Contemporary Life Stories. (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1988) pp. 1-35. Personal Narratives Group. Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Pesonal Narratives. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). Purvis, June and Mary Maynard, eds. (Taylor & Francis). (book on Feminist research methods, I think). Reinharz, Shumamit. Feminist Methods in Social Research. (New York:Oxford University Press, 1992). (a chapter on feminist interviewing and one on feminist ethnography. I am now using this book with my undergrads in a "Qualitative Methods" class, and I must say, it is far, far superior to standard methods texts). Ribbens, Jane. "Interviewing - An 'Unnatural Situation'?" Women's Studies International Forum 12 (1989): 579-592. Riessman, Catherine Kohler. "When Gender Is Not Enough: Women Interviewing Women." Gender & Society 1:2 (June, 1987): 172-207. Roman, Leslie. Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education.(Academic Press, 1992). Stacey, Judith. piece on feminist ethnography in Women's Studies International Forum (1988): 21-27. Warren, Carol. "Gender Issues in Field Research" (Sage, 1988). Wescott, Sally. Harvard Educational Review (special issue on women,in the '80s). William, Christine L., and E. Joel Heikes. "The Importance of Researchers' Gender in the In-Depth Interview: Evidence From Two Case Studies of Male Nurses." Gender & Society 7 (1993): 280-291. Wolf, Diane. Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork. (Westview, 1996).(which picks up where Judith Stacey and Daphne Patai (Patai and Gluck, Women's Words) leave) Feminism & Psychology, Vol.6 (1), 1996 and the forthcoming 6 (2) edition. (A series of essays on feminist perspectives on "representing the other" are presented. The essays from both volumes will be brought together in a Feminism and Psychology reader, due out this summer). Method section in Appendix I of book entitled, "Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image and Religion" by it's fairly Oakley/Roberts-dependent. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:35:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Murphy Subject: Fast Food WOmen Does someone know where to obtain the video Fast Food Women? I borrowed a colleague's copy and it was stolen so I'd like to replace it. I looked in the WAVE Guide, but couldn't find it. Thanks Pat Murphy Pat Murphy Assistant Professor of Sociology SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, N.Y. 14454 716-245-5324 Murphy@uno.cc.geneseo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:22:03 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carla swift Subject: Re: Request for info In-Reply-To: We seem to be getting a lot of these personal e-mails lately. On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, June Corman wrote: > Hi Susan Heald, Can you chair a session at the CWSA meetings. If you can > I schedule you in any time 8:45 to 5 from the 27 to 29th. JUNE > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 23:14:00 MESZ Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Alexander Freund Subject: Re: Men United Against Rape Bill, the address of the White Ribbon Campaign is: 220 Yonge Street Galleria Offices Suite 104 Toronto, Ontario M5B 2H1 Canada Tel.: (416) 596-1513 or 1-800-328-2228 Fax: (416) 596-8359 Another contact would be: Men's Network for Change c/o Ken Fisher 133 av. des Plages Luskville-Pontiac, Quebec J0X 2G0 Canada Tel.: (819) 455-9295 Fax: (819) 455-9296 email: mensnet@magi.com or kfisher@magi.com WWW: http://infoweb.magi.com/~mensnet Best wishes for your rally. ************************************************* * Alexander Freund * * Boberger Str. 12 * * 22111 Hamburg * * Germany * * phone: 01149-40-6551893 * * e-mail: alexander.freund@hamburg.netsurf.de * ************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:29:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Susan K. Garrison/Friends of the Delaware County Women's" Subject: Conference: Walking on Water and Making Waves The Evangelical and Ecumenical Women's Caucus (EEWC) will hold its Biennial Conference, "Walking on Water and Making Waves" August 1-4, 1996 at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA> Co-sponsored by the Old Dominion University Women's Center, the conference will feature: Edwina Gately, author, poet , founder of Voluntary Missionary Movement and Chicago's Genesis House and ministry to women in prostitution; Marchienne Vroon Reinstra, minister, author of Swallow's Nest: VIrginia Ramey Mollenkott, professor, author of Sensuous Spirituality; Women, Men and the BIble; Mary-Jo Cartledge Hayes, minister, author of To Love Delilah; Helen Claire Ferguson, therapist, hospital chaplain, singer, (featured as Sojourner Truth); Julie Howard, composer, choreographer, women's spirituality leader; Ann Ownbey, artist, poet, musician, teacher CONCERT by feminist singer-songwriter Kristin Lems; Plus other musical performances, workshops, CEU credit courses, and more> Costs are as follows: Registration fees: $100 member, $125 new member (includes 1 year EEWC membership), $150 non-member, $50 - one day attendance, $15 - one session only, $15- Kristin Lems concert only, $15 - Edwina Gately plenary session only, $30 CEU course - Understanding and PRomoting Culturual Diversity, $15 CEU course - Christian Feminism on the Internet Superhighway. $25 surcharge for registration after May 30, 1996. Send registrations to : Jeanne Hanson, 8113 Pursuit Court, Las Vegas, NV 89131. Meals and lodging: SIngle room and meals (limited number , first come, first served): $160 ( Thurs, Fri, Sat). Double room and meals -$150 (Thu, Fri, Sat). Meals only: $95 Fri, Sat, Sun (Dinner Thurs evening is not included) For more information or brochures: contact Letha Dawson Scanzoni, EEWC '96 Conference, 1053 Cambridge Crescent, Norfolk, VA 23508. Phone (804) 451-8553. E-mail: dawsscan@aol.com. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 19:21:07 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Constance W. Elsberg" Subject: Re: WMST-L Digest - 23 Apr 1996 to 24 Apr 1996 In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of Wed, 24 Apr 1996 23:00:21 EST Group interviews in social science Kathy Kerns asked about this. I attended a nice qualitative methods session at American Sociological Assn last summer. One paper was by a graduate student, I think, It was called "Focus Group Interviews: A New Feminist Method" I just looked it up in the program: She's at U Cal, Santa Barbara. There were some good ideas in the paper, and I would imagine an interesting bibliography if you could manage to contact her. It will be interesting to see the replies to this one. Connie Elsberg ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 10:00:46 GMT+1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Waring Organization: ELM Macquarie University Subject: Audre Lorde quote Re: tracing the Audre Lorde quote > Try her essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" in > her book "Sister Outsider." NW (NMWHITT@Samford.edu) I have done. And Eye to Eye; Uses of Anger; Age, Race, Class and Sex. Even Uses of the Erotic and Poetry is not a Luxury. I've never been able to find it in Sister Outsider, but of course, I do get distracted by other lines while reading! ;-) Thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep searching. ww _________________________________________________ "When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." Audre Lorde _________________________________________________ Dr Wendy Waring +61 (2) 850 7684 Director, Institute FAX: 850 7686 for Women's Studies Macquarie University wendy.waring@mq.edu.au Sydney NSW 2109 Australia ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:24:25 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patrice McDermott Subject: Re: new syllabus collection In-Reply-To: On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Sally Kenney wrote: > The American Political Science Association has just published a > collection of syllabi for courses on women and politics. To order, > send $14 to APSA Publications, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., > Washington, D.C. 20036 > > Women and Politics Syllabi Collection > While I appreciate the fact that APSA is selling this info, I hope these syllabi will be provided for the WMST-L archive of syllabi that Joan's shop maintains. Many thanks for the info--and thanks in advance for sharing them electronically. Patrice McDermott patricem@CapAccess.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 21:41:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Guidance and Mentoring Recent political events at my school have created a fortuitous situation whereby I will be "re-tooling" to become fully emersed in our growing Women's and Gender Studies Program. It is from the perspective of this "re-tooling" that my requests for assistance emerge. Like the ever appealing Winnie-the-Pooh I am "looking for something to find." In an attempt to pursue some topic in depth and with minimal time, I wonder if anyone has reputable beginning sources in one or more of the following topics. Lesbianism in antiquity Women activists during the holocaust The history of women as therapists Please respond privately unless you think others may be interested. My second need is that of a mentor. I need to find someone from an accredited Women's Studies Program to advise me and create a taylor-made program of 4 to 6 courses for faculty development, at the graduate level, to include course work in feminist theory, scholarly methodology, and women's history. A written evaluation will then be submitted to my WGS Director. I hope someone from somewhere has the time, energy, and interest for this project which will benefit me personally and also advance the status of our WGS program. Again, please respond to me privately. I look forward to all your responses. Peace, Mary Ann Drake ddrake@mylink.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 21:41:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carol A. Powers" Subject: Re: Fast Food WOmen I am not in my office, so I don't have my catalogues handy. But if my memory serves me, Fast Food Womecan be purchased from Women Make Movies. Carol Powers Philosophy Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH 43015 612-363-3795 capowers@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 01:41:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Miller Subject: Re: remember making coffee? Perhaps you'll have to use an oral history approach to this. I remember as a college student/worker being put in charge of coffee by the placement director's secretary so she wouldn't have to make coffee. During a corporate stint in the 70s I was the only woman on a three person team. One of the men always got his own coffee. However, the other one used to always hand me his cup when I was headed to the coffee pot for a cup of my own. He was taken aback the day I handed him my cup when he was the first one to get up, but he got the point. Mary Miller ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 07:21:30 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhoda Unger Subject: Book by Julia Wood? Not too long ago, several people indicated that there was a new book on women and language by Julia Wood. However, I seem to have deleted all the references to it. Can anyone please send me the info on it? Please reply privately. Thanks, Rhoda Unger E-MAIL UNGERR@ALPHA.MONTCLAIR.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 08:36:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosemary Gianno Subject: Re: Fast Food WOmen I happen to have a copy of Fast Food Women right here in my office at the moment. It can be obtained from Appalshop, Inc. 306 Madison St. Whitesburg, KY 41858 606-633-0108/FAX 606-633-1009 >Does someone know where to obtain the video Fast Food Women? I borrowed >a colleague's copy and it was stolen so I'd like to replace it. I looked >in the WAVE Guide, but couldn't find it. > > >Thanks > >Pat Murphy >Pat Murphy >Assistant Professor of Sociology >SUNY Geneseo >Geneseo, N.Y. 14454 716-245-5324 >Murphy@uno.cc.geneseo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 08:56:11 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vashti Braha (SAR)" Subject: Re: Lesbianism in Antiquity In-Reply-To: <199604260141.VAA11257@kermit.mylink.net> Hi, Mary Ann, These sources come to mind: Susan Cavin's *Lesbian Origins* (Ism Press 1985) Judy Grahn's *Another Mother Tongue* (Beacon, 1984) Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig's *Lesbian Peoples: Materials for a Dictionary* (Avon Books, 1979)--I remember this to be intriguing snippets from mythology, legend, folklore all thrown togehter. I think especially of the poet Sappho of Lesbos, and of the Amazons. Lesbos (Greek island) is the source of our term "Lesbian", and there has been some argument among scholars, esp. the 19thc ones, over whether the great Sappho should be sullied by charges of homosexuality! On Sappho, try: Mary Barnard's *Sappho: a New Translation* Judy Grahn's *The Highest Apple* (or something like that) *Women in the Ancient World*, ed. by John Peradotto & JP Sullivan (State U of NYP, 1984) --Articles: "Early Greece: The Origins of the Western Attitude Towward Women" and "Classical Greek Attitudes Toward Sexual Behavior", for starters. I have more on Sappho if this interests you. Re: the ancient Amazons there has also been argument over whether they ever existed at all. (You might want to talk about how lesbianism has a history of being invisible. Here at New College we have a student-created course this term called "Unghosting the Lesbian". This erasing of lesbian history and origins makes it difficult to find authoritative sources to supplement the folklore and mythologies. Wittig and Zeig's book (above) has a lot on them but I no longer have the titles of works that examine their existence. Many of the sources I've given you can also be hard to find. Take a look at Helen Diner's *Mothers and Amazons: the First Feminine History of Culture* (Julian P, 1965) if you can find it--it's out of print and the author's name varies for some reason (it's translated from the German I believe). Good Luck! Vashti Braha braha@virtu.sar.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 07:07:38 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Haslett Subject: Women and film Another recent and interesting book re women and film is Tamsin Wilton's Immortal Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image. London & New York: Routledge, 1995. Cheers. Jane Jane Haslett Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Jane.Haslett@ualberta.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:32:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carolyn Sigler Subject: Re: Women and Film On Women and Film: I've used the collection _Issues in Feminist Film Criticism_ edited by Patricia Erens (Indiana UP) for a Women and Film class, which includes major statements on representation such as Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure" and Doane's "Film and the Masquerade" as well as essays on both classical Hollywood and Feminist films. Some films that I've used include Vidor's _Stella Dallas_, Dorothy Arzner's _Craig's Wife_, Allison Anders' _Gas, Food, Lodging_, Campion's _The Piano_, and Gurinder Chadha's _Bhaji at the Beach_. I also strongly recommend a collection of films by early women filmmakers, Alice Guy-Blache and Lois Weber, available on video through the Smithsonian. _Reel Women_ is a useful reference, and I've also relied on Annette Kuhn's and Susannah Radstone's _The Women's Companion to International Film_. Good luck, Carolyn Sigler Department of English Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506 csigler@ksu.ksu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 11:10:48 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Baird Subject: Re: Women and Film In-Reply-To: ; from "Carolyn Sigler" at Apr 26, 96 9:32 am I am using Suzanna Danuta Walters' book, _Material Girls_, 1995, Univ. of California Press, for an undergraduate Feminist theory class for a section on women and film, or more broadly-- feminist cultural theory--but her book is about TV and film. I do not recall the original requester's intended use for such books, but _Material Girls_ is very accessible; no matter what level of knowledge one has, they could read this book and understand the issues. She also gives a good overview and history of feminist film theory. Karen Baird Purchase College-SUNY baird@brick.purchase.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:48:37 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Dickstein Subject: New SIROW newsletters The latest two newsletters from the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) have been posted onto the SIROW gopher. These are newsletters no. 51 and 52 for November 1995 and March 1996 respectively. The URL for the SIROW gopher is: gopher://dizzy.library.arizona.edu:70/11/subject/women/sirow These newsletter discuss the work, publications and research of women's studies faculty at institutions in the region of the Soutwest of the U.S. (Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and west Texas. Ruth Dickstein University of Arizona Library Tucson, AZ 85720-0055 520-621-4866 FAX 520-621-9733 dickstei@bird.library.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:17:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry Walker Subject: women and power conference The WOMEN AND POWER conference will be held February 21 and 22, 1997 at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfressboro, Tn. Conference organizers are seeking papers on a variety of topics related to women and power. Suggested sessions and contact persons are listed below (unless specified all addresses are at Murfreesboro, Tn 37132). Abstracts for papers (20 minutes maximum) should be 200-500 words, typed and doublespaced. Send to the contact person listed to coordinate each session. Additional proposals for panel sessions and other presentation formats are encouraged. Submit to Dr. Nancy Rupprecht (whose addresss is below). All materials should be postmarked by October 1, 1996. 1. Women and Ecology/Ecofeminism Women and AIDS Sherry Walker, MTSU Box 10 swalker@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2696 2. Women and Education Issues Candace Rosovsky, JAWC, MTSU Box 295 615/898-2193 3. French Feminism Nancy Goldberg, MTSU Box 79 goldberg@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2281 4. Women and the Media Elyce Helford, MTSU Box 70 ehelford@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-5961 5. Affirmative Action in Higher Education Marian Timm, Assistant Executive Vice Chancellor 524 Administration Building University of Cailfornia-Irvine Irvine, CA 92717 or 714/824-5594 6. Women and the Welfare System Bill Canak, MTSU Box 10 wcanak@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2508 7. Women and Politics Lisa Langenbach, MTSU Box X032 615/898-2710 8. Women in the Western Philosophical Tradition Mary Mageda-Ward, MTSU Box 73 mmageda@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-5174 9a. Women and Spirituality Carole Carroll, MTSU Box 10 ccarroll@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2519 9b. Women and Spirituality: Mystics Without Monasteries Gloria Hamilton, MTSU Box 97 ghamilto@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-5745 10. Women, Race, and Class Jackie Jackson, MTSU Box 70 jjackson@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2604 11. Women in Performance Claudia Barnett, MTSU Box 70 cbarnett@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2705 12. Women in History Mary Hoffschwelle, MTSU Box 23 hoffschwelle@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-5806 13. Women in Cyberspace Jackie Eller, conference coordinator, MTSU Box 126 jaeller@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-5910 14. Women and Children's Literature Ellen Donovan, MTSU Box 70 edonovan@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2653 15. Women and Business Anna Burford, MTSU Box 232 aburford@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2766 16. Women and Law Margaret Ordoubadian, MTSU Box 258 615/898-2721 17. Women and Music Christine Isley-Farmer, MTSU Box 47 615/898-2479 18. Women and Life Transitions Beth Emery, MTSU Box 86 bemery@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2468 19. Women in Literature Linda Badley, MTSU Box 245 lbadley@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2677 20. Women and Science Alice Mills, MTSU Box 60 amills@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-5021 21. Women and Sports Mary Belle Ginanni, MTSU Box 349 615/898-2910 22. Women and Crime Mic Hallett, MTSU Box 238 mhallett@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-5565 23. Women and Health Jimmie Price, Women's Studies Center Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101 jimmie.price@wky.edu or tel/fax 502/745-6861 24. Native Women and Health Pam Kingfisher, 4730 Hickory Lane, Murfreesboro, TN 37129 m_c_0047@frank.mtsu.edu or tel/fax 615/893-2635 25. a. Women and Sexuality b. Women and Art c. Papers not fitting other categories Nancy Rupprecht, Conference Program Chair MTSU Box 23 womenstu@frank.mtsu.edu or 615/898-2645 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:55:16 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sara Brownmiller Subject: Source of Audre Lorde's quote A few days ago I posted a request for help with a source for a quote by Audre Lorde. I had several people asking for the source so thought I would post it to the list. Thanks to everyone who responded. The quote is in Audre Lorde's book, The Cancer Journals, page 15 in the edition we have published by Spinisters, INK, 1980. The quote is "When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." Sara Brownmiller Women's Studies Librarian University of Oregon Library snb@darkwing.uoregon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 18:03:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristin Vonnegut Subject: women's voices before 1920 Hi All, I've been off the list for some time, so I hope this request does not duplicate one made by another member recently. Next semester I am teaching a course called "Women's Voices Before 1920." The course looks at women's rhetoric in the U.S. before 1920. We discuss the historical context for the work and talk about what the authors did to overcome the obstacles they faced in attempting to persuade an audience. I have taught the course before, but would like to make the content much more diverse. As it stands, we read a lot of works by white, middle and upper class women and a few works by African American women, but nothing by other women of color. I need suggestions for primary texts by women of color before 1920. I know this won't be an easy task, but I also know it isn't impossible. I teach a similar course, "Contemporary Women's Voices," that offers a wide variety of texts. I relied heavily on Gloria Anzaldua's "Making Face Making Soul" for that class and have considered e-mailing her. Of course I don't have her address. Does anyone know what her address is? What about Paula Gunn Allen, Mitsuye Yamada, Bernice Zamora, Janice Mirikitani, Sucheng Chan? I've just begun to work on revamping this class, but any help this group can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kristin kvonnegut@tiny.computing.csbsju.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 17:19:22 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Re: women's voices before 1920 I am proud to say that Bernice Zamora is a colleague of mine here in the English Dept. at Santa Clara University (in California); her e-mail address is bzamora@scuacc.scu.edu Marilyn Edelstein ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 22:15:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 jobs, 1 CFP The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Job: Women's Studies, Oberlin College (non-continuing) 2) Job: Women's Studies, Goucher College (half-time) 3) CFP: "Rethinking Gender" (Women and Language) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Women's Studies: Faculty Vacancy. Oberlin College, non-continuing, 96/97 academic year. Teach 5 courses, including introduction to Women's Studies, intermediate courses related to specialization, and senior seminar in feminist theory. Candidates should have specialization in social sciences with strong focus on theory and methodology and Ph.D. in hand or near completion. Prefer college teaching experience. Candidates with substantive interest in comparative study of women in the "Third World" or minority women in US of special interest. Submit letter application, curriculum vitae, short sample of scholarly writing, sample course syllabi, teaching evaluations, at least 3 letters of reference and graduate work transcript to Kay Oehler, Coordinator, Women's Studies Program, Oberlin College, Rice Hall, Oberlin, Ohio 44074. Review begins April 29, 1996 and continues until position filled. AA/EOE. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 3, 1996 ********************************************************************** 2) Women's Studies: Applications are invited for a half time, renewable position at Goucher College in a well-established Women's Studies Program that has just celebrated its twentieth anniversary. The appointment will begin in Fall, 1996. Responsibilities entail teaching three Women's Studies courses spread over the fall and spring terms along with some administrative responsibilities including meeting with and advising students, assisting with curriculum development and preparing a department newsletter. Preference will be given to candidates with graduate work in Women's Studies, and interest in teaching about women in global perspective, and teaching experience in Women's Studies. A master's degree required, a Ph.D. is desirable. Salary is commensurate with experience and education. Women, minorities and members of other protected groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Individuals interested in the position should send an application letter, vitae, samples of written work, a sample syllabus, and the names and addresses of two references to Dr. Marianne Githens, Chair, Women's Studies Program, Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21204 by May 24, 1996. They should also arrange for their transcript to be forwarded directly. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 3, 1996 ************************************************************************ 3) Women and Language is an interdisciplinary research periodical that brings you thought-provoking essays and inquiries, book reviews, bibliographies, and more, on topics of interest to a wide range of scholars interested in communication, language and gender. We are pleased to announce a call for submissions to a special issue. CALL FOR PAPERS Women and Language invites the submission of items for inclusion in a special issue on "Rethinking Gender" to be published in Spring 1997. The issue will focus on the construct of gender, the language about gender, and the interactive impacts of language and gender in communication. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following: conceptualizing gender without polarization operationalizing gender in new ways roles of language in doing gender personal accounts by gender nonconformists deconstructions of gender personal constructions of gender narratives of gender metaphors of gender representations of gender Papers on many of these topics would be appropriate for any issue of Women and Language. What we want for the special issue is writing that requires a rethinking of what we mean when we think of gender. Such writing can range from theoretical speculation to personal experience to reports of research to criticism, letters, book reviews, book notices on related topics or poetry. Three copies of submissions are due by June 15, 1996 to: Women and Language Department of Communication George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 Manuscripts, reports, etc. (any material that includes references) should be prepared in accordance with either the Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association or the MLA (Modern Language Association) Style Manual. Preferred length of articles is 12 pages or 3000 words, but longer articles will be considered. If material is used and is longer than 2 pages, a file on disk in standard word processing program format compatible with IBM type equipment will be required. Those interested in submitting items are encouraged to discuss their ideas in advance with the editors. Write the above address or send E-Mail to ataylor@gmu.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 17:15:16 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 Revide Added: Anne Frank Remembered On Saturday, April 27, 1996 I reviewed "Anne Frank Remembered" on "The Women's Show," Tampa's womanist/feminist weekly radio show 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 REV174 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 Linda Lopez McAlister Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 20:08:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christy Hammer Subject: Re: Fast Food WOmen Hi, Pat. Christy Hammer here. How ya doing? What's the Fast Food video about anyway? Did I tell you that C. Adamsky had me teach Women's Studies last year? I really loved it. Did you know Cindy Cohen? We are writing a proposal to teach a course on racism and sexism for WS. We'll see. Adamsky retired this year and UNH wanted to replace her with part-timers. There was quite an uproar and they decided to replace her with two joint appointments: one joint WS/Sociology and one WS/Poli.Sci.. Too bad Sociology has such as dysfunctional policy of never hiring their own. I'd love that job, otherwise. Are you going to go to NWSA conference in Saratoga Springs in June? I'm presenting a paper on Saturday on Gender Issues in Math Education. I hope to catch up with you if you're there! How are you and John and the kids? Val Dusek and I continue to be estatically happy. See ya later, christy ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 12:39:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan hubbard Subject: Re: Request for info Dear June, IF my department will send me, I'll be happy to chair the session. But I need to know more about the conference first. Could you send me the basics: time, place, date, costs, etc. ASAP? (I apologize if you have already sent me this; my father died earlier this week and my memory isn't functioning well.) Thanks. --Susan shubbard@pegasus.cc.ucf,edu On 4/2 June Corman wrote:>HI Susan, Will you chair a session at the CWSA I need 16 volunteers. >If so are you available anytime 8:45 to 5 on May 27 to 29th. I was >hoping you would chair the session on Lesbian issues 8:45 on May 27th. >Please respond quickly JUNE ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 15:56:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Claudia Lima Costa - Profa. DLLV" Subject: call for papers The Brazilian literary journal TRAVESSIA invites submissions for inclusion in a special issue on "Ex/centric Genders/Genres" (Generos ex/centricos) focusing on the intersections between gender and literary genres (such as autobiography, testimonial literature), as well as the imbrications between literature and other disciplines. Constributions--preferrably in Portuguese or Spanish--can range from theoretical reflections to specific illustrations applying to either Brazilian or Latin American examples. They should be between 15-20 pages long, and the deadline for submission is July 31. Those interested in submitting are encouraged to contact the editors for more details by e-mail (Lima@cce.ufsc.br) or in writing to Claudia Lima Costa Rua Paula Ramos, 1040 Coqueiros 88080-400 Florianopolis, SC Brazil TRAVESSIA is published by the Departamento de Lingua e Literatura Vernaculas of Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil ******************************************************************************* Claudia de Lima Costa DLLV/CCE (55)(48)231-9293 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Campus Universitario - Trindade 88040-900 Florianopolis, SC Brasil Rua Paula Ramos, 1040 Tel/Fax: Coqueiros (55)(48)244-3620 88080-400 Florianopolis, SC Brasil ****************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 13:29:50 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Gundersen Subject: black voices In-Reply-To: <9604271651.AA19690@coyote.csusm.edu> For women of color before 1920 I would suggest the following: Gerda Lerner's collection on Black Women in america. She has short selections from a variety of women who wrote and lived before 1920. "Brighter Day Coming" - This is the title of the complete works of one of the most articulate 19th century African American women writers. There is a similar volume with biography for Maria Stewart who was speaking in public on issues of race and women's rights in the 1820s. Ida Wells Barnett has numerous pieces available since she was a newspaper editor, but you can find at least one of her pieces in the Lerner collection I already mention. You can use any on-line catalog to get exact citations. Joan Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 16:44:29 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Feltey Subject: National Commission on Working Women's Fact Sheet The National Commission on Working Women put out a fact sheet 10 years agod that was entitled "Women, Work and Poverty: A Fact Sheet". I recently wrote and inquired about an updated version, but my letter was sent back w/ no forwarding address. I'm assuming the commission no longer exists, but was wondering if anyone knows if there was an update after 1986 and how it can be obtained. Otherwise, I think I'll update it myself since it is a great teaching tool. Please answer privately to Kathy Feltey (KFELTEY@UAKRON. EDU). Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 17:56:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: black voices In-Reply-To: See also Ruthe Winegarten, Black Texas Women: 150 years of trial and triumph (Austin: UT Press, 1995). IT just won an award from the Texas State Historical Society. Miriam K. Harris mharris@utdallas.edu On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Joan Gundersen wrote: > For women of color before 1920 I would suggest the following: > Gerda Lerner's collection on Black Women in america. She has short > selections from a variety of women who wrote and lived before 1920. > "Brighter Day Coming" - This is the title of the complete works of one of > the most articulate 19th century African American women writers. There is > a similar volume with biography for Maria Stewart who was speaking in > public on issues of race and women's rights in the 1820s. Ida Wells > Barnett has numerous pieces available since she was a newspaper editor, > but you can find at least one of her pieces in the Lerner collection I > already mention. You can use any on-line catalog to get exact > citations. Joan Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 22:12:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Subject: Women, Men & the Media Study Hello, I recently learned about the Women, Men & The Media study that reported that only 15% of the front page newspaper story articles were about women. Does anyone know where I could reach Women, Men & the Media and/or how I could go about getting a copy of the study? The study sounds perfect for inclusion in the feminist psychology/women's studies class that I'll be teaching this summer. Please reply to me privately. Thanks much. Lisa Bowleg Women's Studies Program Georgetown University Internet: lisabow@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 08:39:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: No more private messages, please Hey, folks. I realize that for many of us, it's getting close to the end of the semester, and many people are feeling extremely pressured. Still, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE *think* before you send private messages. Notes asking someone whether she'd be willing to chair a session, replies to such notes, etc. etc. etc. SHOULD BE SENT PRIVATELY, NOT TO WMST-L! Some people have suggested that I change the default on WMST-L so that all replies go back to the writer rather than to the list. I don't want to do that for several reasons. The main one is that the list then becomes a place with lots of questions but very little discussion or answers. I'd find that pretty boring, and I suspect many others would, too, and probably wouldn't stay subscribed to such a list for very long. Of course, one could ask that the person who sends the query compile the responses and post them on WMST-L, but there are at least three serious disadvantages to that arrangement: 1) Many people on WMST-L have rather limited e-mail skills. They don't know how to put messages together; some don't know how to edit out all the extraneous headers. So it wouldn't make much sense to ask them to compile the responses and post them to the list. 2) Even for people with excellent editing skills, TIMING is a problem. If they post the replies too soon, they will fail to include responses that come in later; if they wait until they're sure they have them all, interest has probably dwindled. 3) Not all responses are accurate. If inaccurate statements are posted to the list, they can be immediately corrected by someone more knowledgeable. Or if there's controversy about a topic, that controversy can be debated. But if no one sees anyone else's response until they're all posted at the end, there's much less opportunity for useful exchanges of views. So I plan to keep WMST-L set so that responses will come back to the list. That means that all of us have to use a bit of thought and care when we reply. Responses meant for one person should be sent PRIVATELY to that person. For the same reason, it's important that EVERYONE includes her/his name and e-mail address at the end of EVERY message to WMST-L. That way, people can respond privately if they wish even if their brain-dead mail system doesn't tell them who the writer is, just that the message comes from WMST-L. People who repeatedly send private e-mail to WMST-L may find themselves removed from the list. I'm sorry, but I don't have time to give to monitoring and dealing with such matters. So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE think before you send your messages. If need be, spend some time learning how to send replies privately. Otherwise, you may find you won't be receiving WMST-L messages at all. (And of course, I realize that everyone slips up occasionally, including me. I'm not about to zap someone's subscription for a single mis-sent message. But some people seem never to learn.) Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan (who is at least as frantic right now as everyone else) ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:25:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: black voices In-Reply-To: For some further speakers before 1920, consult William Andrews on Black women preachers. Also Frances E. Watkins Harper and Alice Nelson Dunbar come to mind. The latter was Paul Lawrence Dunbar's wife at one time, and complained that when she went on speaking engagements in her own right she was always only requested to talk about him. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:56:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marjorie Heyman 3-2620 Subject: Re: National Commission on Working Women's Fact Sheet In-Reply-To: I would also be interested in obtaining a copy of this, or finding out where I can get an updated copy. Please pass on any information to me also at HEYMAN@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu Thank you -- Marjie Heyman ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:44:57 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harvette Grey Subject: National Commission on Working Women's Fact Sheet -Reply Comments: To: R1KMF@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU I am preparing for a class that I am scheduled to teach next semester addressing Women and Poverty. I therefore would appreciate any information, fact sheet, books, articles, etc. on Women, Work and Poverty. Please respond privately to hgrey@wppost.depaul.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 12:34:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: margit grieb Subject: Turkish-German women writers Hi everyone, first of all, i'd like to thank everyone for the numerous responses to my previous inquiry about Afro-German women writers. i am also interested in turkish-german women writers, specifically Zehra Cirak, and was wondering whether anyone would have information on this writer or the subject in general. thanks in advance, margit. please reply privately to: ________________________________________________________ / \ oo |FROM: Margit Grieb SNAIL MAIL:|University of Florida| o |E-MAIL: |GSLL, 263 Dauer Hall | o |grieber@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu |Gainesville, FL 32611| 0 |FAX: (352) 392-1067 | \________________________________________________________/ ooO___Ooo_________________________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 12:45:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bette Tallen Organization: Rollins College Subject: Jewish Women's Studies I have a student who is very interested in doing her senior thesis on Jewish women's studies and is also researching Fulbright opportunities (preferably in Jerusalem) and graduate work that will combine Jewish studies with women's studies. Anyone who has any suggestions for her should reply privately to JLassoff@aol.com. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bette Tallen BTallen@Rollins.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 12:55:16 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Rita Bevacqua Subject: Re: black voices In-Reply-To: A terrific new text on black feminist thought is Beverly Guy-Sheftall's recent edited volume, WORDS OF FIRE (Free Press [I believe], 1995). It contains excerpts of writings and speeches by and about African American women from the 19th and 20th centuries. Guy-Sheftall briefly but thoroughly introduces each selection or writer. This is a must read for its historical and theoretical value. Maria Bevacqua Institute for Women's Studies Emory University mbevacq@emory.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:14:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Salvatore Subject: Anais Nin anthology I am soliciting scholarly essays on Anais Nin's fiction and diaries for a volume with the tentative title Nin's Narratives. A variety of literary critical approaches are possible. Thus far, I have accepted six completed essays, most by prominent Nin scholars. Other essays are promised, and I would now especially like to encourage scholars who have not published on Nin before. Articles should go beyond conference-paper length; those already accepted tend to range in length from 20 to 35 pages. I have an interested publisher. If you have a paper you would like to expand or an idea for an article, please contact me as soon as possible to discuss your ideas and some possible deadlines: Anne Salvatore Rider University 2083 Lawrenceville Road Lawrenceville, NyJ 08648-3099 Office Phone: 609-895-5569 Home Phone: 215-321-0642 E-mail: salvatore@enigma.rider.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:33:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: First Italian Feminist Association Sorry for a duplicate posting, but my system went down last week and I never received my responses. I am trying to authenticate a citation that says that Montessori started the first Italian feminist association in 1896. Can anyone help substantiate this? Please respond privately. Phyllis Povell Povell@eagle.liunet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 12:37:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: National Commission on Working Women's Fact Sheet -Reply Comments: To: Harvette Grey In-Reply-To: Harvette, You do not mention any limitation re country -- so would suggest several books and newsletters that deal with globalization of poverty, economic development and impact on women and children as well as on environment, and also on domestic poverty as a result of globalization of poverty. Think it is also important to address ways that women themselves are empowering themselves and other women and communities to take a stand and create alternative visions and economies. Authors that come to my mind include almost anything published by New Society Publishers, as well as Gita Sen, Vandana Shiva, and others. Time is running out; I will check my list and get back to you. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Harvette Grey wrote: > I am preparing for a class that I am scheduled to teach next semester > addressing Women and Poverty. I therefore would appreciate any > information, fact sheet, books, articles, etc. on Women, Work and > Poverty. > > Please respond privately to > hgrey@wppost.depaul.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:56:56 GMT-700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gunseli Berik Organization: Economics Subject: Re: National Commission on Working Women's Fact Sheet -Repl About a month or two ago someone posted a request for sources on feminization of poverty. If you check the WMST-L archives the replies may be useful. Of course, since some of the replies were sent privately, it would be best if the person who made a request then posted the compiled list of sources to the entire list. I hereby make that request! I also have a source on the U.S. to contribute to the list (I was not able to reply at the time): Virginia Schein, Working from the Margins: Voices of Mothers in Poverty, ILR Press, Ithaca, 1995, paper $14.95. (phone # to order: (607) 277-2211). Gunseli Berik Economics and Women's Studies 308 BuC University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 U.S.A. berik@econ.sbs.utah.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 16:50:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: National Commission on Working Women's Fact Sheet -Reply In-Reply-To: Harvette Grey "National Commission on Working Women's Fact Sheet -Reply" (Apr 29, 9:44am) On Apr 29, 9:44am, Harvette Grey wrote: > Subject: National Commission on Working Women's Fact Sheet -Reply > I am preparing for a class that I am scheduled to teach next semester > addressing Women and Poverty. I therefore would appreciate any > information, fact sheet, books, articles, etc. on Women, Work and > Poverty. > > Please respond privately to > hgrey@wppost.depaul.edu >-- End of excerpt from Harvette Grey Harvette, I have responded to the list because I am sure other people teach similar courses. (If it is inappropriate Joan will let me know). I have just picked up today, a new book by Margaret Randall called The Price You Pay: The Hidden Cost of Women's Relationship to Money. I have read only the first 20 pages but am quite impressed with it. (Routledge, New York 1996). Katherine Side klside@YorkU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 17:23:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Sattler Subject: The canary story... I know the story of the women who understand why their neighbor's husband was killed, after they see the body of the woman's dead canary in her sewing basket. What I don't know is the author, title, and how to get a copy. Any answers? Thanks in advance... Cheryl Sattler csattler@CapAccess.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 16:53:16 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: Re: The canary story... Comments: To: Cheryl Sattler In-Reply-To: Susan Glaspell's "a Jury of Her Peers," published in 1917 in the magazine Everyweek and republished in several anthologies in the 70s. The story was originally produced as a play, "Trifles," by the Provincetown Players in 1916. Ellen Cronan Rose, Director, Women's Studies Program, UNLV 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5055 PHONE (702) 895-0838, FAX (702) 895-0850 ecrose@nevada.edu On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Cheryl Sattler wrote: > I know the story of the women who understand why their neighbor's husband > was killed, after they see the body of the woman's dead canary in her > sewing basket. What I don't know is the author, title, and how to get a > copy. > > Any answers? Thanks in advance... > > Cheryl Sattler > csattler@CapAccess.org > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 20:21:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Myrna Goldenberg Subject: Re: The canary story... In-Reply-To: Susan Glaspell "A Jury of Her Peers" also in play form, "Trifles." Any good anthology, e.g., Norton Anthology of Lit by Women, will have a copy. a fantastic story. Good luck. On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Cheryl Sattler wrote: > I know the story of the women who understand why their neighbor's husband > was killed, after they see the body of the woman's dead canary in her > sewing basket. What I don't know is the author, title, and how to get a > copy. > > Any answers? Thanks in advance... > > Cheryl Sattler > csattler@CapAccess.org > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 19:33:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carol L Hale-Wood (Carol L. Hale-Wood)" Subject: Re: The canary story... The story (which also exists as a play) is by Susan Glaspell, and is called "Trifles." She also wrote the play, which is called "A Jury of Her Peers." I've got the short story in the anthology I'm using for intro to literature (taught it--students loved it). If you can't find a copy there, send me your snail mail address and I'll send you a photocopy. >I know the story of the women who understand why their neighbor's husband >was killed, after they see the body of the woman's dead canary in her >sewing basket. What I don't know is the author, title, and how to get a >copy. > >Any answers? Thanks in advance... > >Cheryl Sattler >csattler@CapAccess.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Carol L. Hale-Wood Department of English University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Eau Claire WI 54701 (715) 836-2761 halewocl@uwec.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 21:18:37 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: green deborah Subject: The canary story.... In-Reply-To: <9604292357.AA22799@facstaff.wm.edu> Susan Glaspell's story "A Jury of Her Peers" is what you are looking for. She also published this as a short play (whose title escapes me even though it is the play, not the story I have used in my classes). Widely anthologized, in my experience, although I don't know a current source, off hand! Deborah Green College of William and Mary dxgree@facstaff.wm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 20:40:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: The canary story... Comments: To: Cheryl Sattler In-Reply-To: comes in two genres: Jury of Her Peers is the short story Trifles is the play both by Susan Glaspell It's in many literature anthologies. LITERATURE, 4TH Edition by James H. Pickering and Jeffrey D. Hoeper, Macmillan -- has both genres. Miriam K. Harris mharris@utdallas.edu On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Cheryl Sattler wrote: > I know the story of the women who understand why their neighbor's husband > was killed, after they see the body of the woman's dead canary in her > sewing basket. What I don't know is the author, title, and how to get a > copy. > > Any answers? Thanks in advance... > > Cheryl Sattler > csattler@CapAccess.org > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:26:00 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Muldy Sculler Subject: Re: The canary story... In-Reply-To: The story you are seeking is _A Jury of Her Peers_ by Susan Glaspell ( I am not sure of the spelling of that last name. this story is in a number on anthologies of women's lit--try Norton. It has been filmed for TV several times. Barbara On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Cheryl Sattler wrote: > I know the story of the women who understand why their neighbor's husband > was killed, after they see the body of the woman's dead canary in her > sewing basket. What I don't know is the author, title, and how to get a > copy. > > Any answers? Thanks in advance... > > Cheryl Sattler > csattler@CapAccess.org > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 22:03:53 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: Re: The canary story... Hi, The powerful play "Trifles" was written by Susan Glaspell. One reference I have is the following: Glaspell, S. (1920). Trifles. Plays. Boston: Small, Maynard. I think that it is a one-act play ( which starred Helen Hayes when it was performed in N.Y.) There is an excellent, very moving video based on the play called "A Jury of Her Peers." I've used it extensively in my classes. Joan JStarker@teleport.com >I know the story of the women who understand why their neighbor's husband >was killed, after they see the body of the woman's dead canary in her >sewing basket. What I don't know is the author, title, and how to get a >copy. > >Any answers? Thanks in advance... > >Cheryl Sattler >csattler@CapAccess.org > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 08:02:32 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn Kendall Subject: Automatic distribution (AFD) of file "WMST-L DIGEST3" -Reply The "canary story" is Susan Glaspell's one-act play, Trifles, first performed in 1916, included in Judith Barlow's Plays by American Women: The Early Years Avon 1981, reprinted as Plays by American Women 1900-1930 Applause Books 1985. kendall@drama.unp.ac.za ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 03:29:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christina Accomando Subject: Human Sexuality course I am posting this message for someone without access to the list. Please respond privately to her at the address below. ***************************************** I am teaching an undergraduate class on Human Sexuality through a Psychology department this summer. I'm thinking about using a "mainstream" psychology text (such as Janet Shibley Hyde's "Understanding Human Sexuality") but I'd like to supplement with a book or a set of readings from a social constructionist approach (perhaps Lenore Tiefer's book "Sex is Not a Natural Act"). If anyone has some suggestions for a progressive psychology text on the subject, any readings from a social constructionist perspective, readings relating to language and sexuality (i.e., using terms like "penetration" and treating sperms like good little foot soldiers), feminist perspectives, films or anything else, please email me privately at: krisa@cats.ucsc.edu Thanks a lot, Kris Anderson University of California, Santa Cruz ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 04:34:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Funding WS programs One of the themes on WMST-L is typically how to get or increase an institution's WS budget or how to persuade an administration not to cut the program. Since many of us donate to our current institutions and alma maters during the various fund-raising drives, seems to me that one of the ways to support WS programs is to earmark our contributions (however modest) accordingly. Besides the symbolic importance, it might also motivate some alums (both female and male) to support this curriculum. n. Benokraitis, University of Baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 02:12:50 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Goodloe Subject: CFS: The Virtual Dyke * * please distribute this announcement wherever lesbians are online! * * ~ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ~ The Virtual Dyke: a new 'zine published by Lesbian.org http://www.lesbian.org/virtual-dyke The Virtual Dyke is seeking submissions of stories, poems and essays about coming out as a lesbian on the internet. Was the internet influential in your coming out process? Has your "virtual life" crossed over into your "real" life? What impact do you think the internet has on lesbian visibility and on lesbian rights? These issues and any others you can think of having to do with lesbian identity and the internet are appropriate for The Virtual Dyke. We will also accept submissions of artwork relevant to lesbians and the internet. LENGTH: text must be no more than 3,000 words; graphics no bigger than 400 x 500 pixels DEADLINES: Because the internet eliminates much of the hassle associated with printing, there is no need for a fixed deadline for submissions and publication. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis, and new selections will be published each month. If your piece is chosen you will be notified one week before publication. We will hold submissions for six months, and if your piece is not published in that time you will be notified. The first issue is due out in June, 1996. CONTACT INFO: Please save your submission in text only format and send it in the body of an email or as a stuffed or zipped attachment via email. For graphics, we can only accept TIFF format. Please do NOT send submissions any other way or in any other format. If you need help with file formats, try asking your nearest system administrator or tech support person, or you might try posing the question on a help forum like internet-women-help (to join send email to: internet-women-help-request@lists1.best.com and in the body type one word only: subsingle ). There are also a number of good books on using the internet, such as Adam Engst's _Internet Starter Kit_ series for Mac and Windows users. SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: virtual-dyke@lesbian.org We look forward to hearing your stories! --Amy Goodloe, Publisher and Editor amy@lesbian.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:25:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Margaret McLeer Subject: Looking for contacts Does anyone know the institutional affiliation, e-mail or contact addresses for the following women: Cherrie Moraga, Patricia Hill Collins Christine Delphy (somewhere in Paris perhaps?) our dept. is having a conference and I want to invite some feminists Please reply privately and not to the list, kind regards, Anne McLeer Ph.D Program in the Human Sciences The George Washington University Washington, DC amcleer@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu http://www.gwu.edu/~humsci ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:21:17 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fiona Hart Subject: course on Women and Social Welfare I am preparing for a summer course on "Women and Social Welfare" and wondered if anyone had any references relating to same that they could pass on to me. I am interested in biographical and fictional works as well as theoretical. Also, Canadian context woudl be best! Please respond to me privately at fhart@oise.on.ca. Cheers, Fiona Hart ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:40:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela E Hubler Subject: Call for Papers (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:50:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Timothy A Dayton To: Angela E Hubler Subject: Call for Papers Sixth Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, March 6-8, 1997 PROPERTY, COMMODITY, CULTURE Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania), author of The Politics and Poetics of Transgression Topic: "Marx's Coat" "Property was thus appalled That the self was not the same." -- William Shakespeare Hark how the Trumpets Sound, Proclaims the Land around, The Jubilee; Tells all the Poor oppressed Nor more shall they be cessUd, Nor landlords more molest, Their Property. -- Thomas Spence "I'll--why, I'll go home to Tara tomorrow." -- Scarlett O'Hara Property: its very properties are now in question. If we are, as some say, on the brink of virtualization, what becomes of property? What happens when the old address that united name, goods, and legal responsibility refers only to a city of bits? Or is this in fact only the daydream of postmodern escapists who leave unthought and unthinkable an earth grown poisonous? Is it the ruse of the capitalists, disguising obvious and egregiously material inequities in the distribution of wealth? Even taken in the old-style sense of turf, property remains the pretext for marital, parental, class, and national warfare. We invite discussion on these and a variety of other related topics, proposals of individual papers, panel sessions, and innovative conference formats. Possible topics: *Personal property/public responsibility*Visual rights *Tenure *Transnational capital, globalism, *Mode of production, social formation, and deterritorialization and forms of property *The revival of nationalism: cultural *Education as consumer good and economic property *Children: property or persons *Virtual property and copyright *Prostitution and sexwork *Class and turf *Marriage: history and future *Enclosure and commons *Slavery *Property and crime *Privatizing the Internet *New populism and Wise Use *Trademarking species: biotechnology *Fetishism: ritual, commodity, sexuality *Property and propriety *Privatizing public schools *Queer propriety&properties of gender *Black markets *White collar crime: property & penalty *Nation and immigration *Labor and global capital: GATT, NAFTA, *Ownership, subjectivity, identity *Property and performativity *Native American land *Collaboration, credit, and property *Copying, copyright, copyhold Abstracts for papers and panels: Limit proposals to one page, single spaced, per paper; proposals for non-standard format sessions welcome. Due date: October 4, 1996. Address proposals and queries to Tim Dayton, Department of English, Denison Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506. Phone: (913) 532-6716. FAX: (913) 532-7004. E-mail: TADAYTON@KSU.KSU.EDU. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:43:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: black voices In-Reply-To: In suggesting the writer look at Alice Dunbar Nelson, I inadvertently reversed her surnames. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:46:47 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Peters Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND registration form (fwd) Comments: To: psn@csf.colorado.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:16:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Barbara Peters To: WORKING-CLASS-LIST Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND registration form WORKING-CLASS ACADEMIC CONFERENCE June 20-23 University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Conference Chair -- Barbara Peters Program Chair -- Jim Van Putten 2117 School of Education 610 E.University Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-1259 (313) 763-1613 e-mail jvputten@umich.edu BELOW IS A TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE FIRST CONFERENCE OF ACADEMICS FROM WORKING-CLASS BACKGROUNDS. PAPERS ARE STILL BEING ACCEPTED BY JIM (RIGHT, JIM?) YES, WE ARE A BIT RELAXED. THIS CONFERENCE HAS BEEN PLANNED WITH NO MONEY ON HAND. AT THE END THERE IS A REGISTRATION FORM. PLEASE RETURN WITH CHECK MADE OUT TO UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY. IF YOU PREFER TO PAY AT THE DOOR, YOU MAY RETURN TO ME BY E-MAIL. FEEL FREE TO SHARE THIS WITH OTHER APPROPRIATE LISTS. IF YOU NEED HOUSING INFORMATION, SEND REQUEST TO ME. WE WILL FORWARD TO YOU A LIST OF WHAT IS AVAIABLE SO FAR. Sessions -- VERY TENTATIVE What can Working-class Academics offer Colleagues and Students? Critique of Works Purporting to be about Class Mentoring the Working-Class Student Graduate and Undergraduate Class and Graduate Education -- Socialization Media Representations of the Working-Class What is Class? Language-clothing-economics-education....etc. Plus two others of the Session organizer's choice. Propose them to Jim. Tentative Schedule: Thursday Evening: 7:00 Social -- Beer, Peanuts, Popcorn, and Pretzels...Pizza? Friday: 7:30-8:30 Breakfast 9:00-10:00 Welcoming 10:00-11:00 Two Sessions 11:00-12:00 Organization Meetings for next year 12:00-1:30 Lunch with Speaker 1:30-3:00 Coffee Klatches (discuss what it's like to be working-class academics with each other) 3:00-4:00 Two Sessions 4:00-6:00 Open 6:00--?? Fish Fry (A Wisconsin thing) and Speaker Saturday: 7:30-8:30 Breakfast 9:00-10:00 2 sessions 10:15-11:15 2 sessions 12:00-1:30 Lunch with speaker 1:30-3:30 Organizing meetings We are going to set up a excursion to the Oneida Casino and Dinner afterwards with a speakers AND announcement of plans for the future. Sunday: Breakfast 7:30-8:30 So, please fill out the form below. Please make a print copy of it to accompany your registration fee and send it to me. Also, in addition to that and if you are not in a position to send in your fee now, please fill out the form and e-mail to Lisa, or me, or if you're looking to share transportation and accomodations with someone, to the list. We will also be updating hotel, bed and breakfast, cottages on the bay, camping and so on information as we obtain it. I'm excited about this. I hope people can make contacts with each other about transport. Airlines are warring right now. Fly to Green Bay directly, or to Milwaukee or Chicago... meet other WCA, rent a car and see Wisconsin close up and personal on your way to Green Bay. More on Transportation as we continue to organize. REGISTRATION FORM Working Class Academics Group PLEASE RETURN TO US BY MAY 10th, 1996. NAME: ___________________________________________________________ ADDRESS: ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS:____________________________________________________ NUMBER OF PEOPLE ATTENDING: _______ Will you be attending: ___ Thursday evening buffet ___ Thursday beer & pretzel reception ___ Friday breakfast ___ Friday lunch ___ Saturday breakfast ___ Saturday lunch ___ Sunday Continental breakfast FRIDAY EVENING FISH FRY $ 6-10 per person (off campus) SATURDAY EVENING DINNER $ to be determined (off campus) Special Needs (dietary, disability,etc.) ____________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ FEE of $ 25.00 per person to be mailed in advance, or $ 30.00 to be paid upon arrival. Please e-mail the registration form back ASAP so arrangements can be finalized, payment can be sent via regular mail. Checks to be made out to: University of Wisconsin - Green Bay CONFIRMATION LETTERS, AREA MAPS AND CAMPUS PARKING STICKERS WILL BE MAILED TO YOUR ADDRESS ABOVE. RESPOND TO: Barbara Peters, Social Change & Development 324 Rose Hall, 2420 Nicolet Drive Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 or FAX (414) 465-2791 or E-MAIL PETERSB@UWGB.EDU or PANUL13@GBVAXA.UWGB.EDU "If that thou hast the gift of strength Then know thy part is to uplift the trodden low." [George Meredith: The Burden of Strength] BARBARA PETERS University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Dept. of Social Change and Development 319 Rose Hall 2420 Nicolet Drive Green Bay, Wisconsin 54311 Phone: (414) 465-2487 Internet Address petersb@gbms01.uwgb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:51:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: The canary story... In-Reply-To: Supplementing Ellen Cronan Rose's information, I saw a version on PBS ca. 2 yrs. ago. It would make an excellent video to show in the classroom. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:55:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie K Daniels Subject: Re: Funding WS programs In-Reply-To: Nina's point is especially important when considered in light of _The Chronicle of Higher Education_'s recent "Point of View" article by Alice Kessler-Harris and Amy Swerdlow. They point out the dwinding funding for Women's Studies programs because they are perceived as "successful" and therefore no longer in need of "special treatment." As a result, some significant foundations have chosen to withdraw support specifically earmarked for women's studies projects. I recommend the article to everyone. Julie Daniels University of Minnesota danie029@maroon.tc.umn.edu P.S. The article's accompanying illustration is by one of my good friends! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 09:33:07 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: Video Info re: The canary story... Hi, Here's some information about the video re: A Jury of Her Peers. The film is 29 minutes long. The address: Films Inc. 5547 North Ravenwoods Chicago, Illinois 60640-1199 Phone number: 312-878-2600 Ext. 43 Joan JStarker@teleport.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:04:23 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Kenney Subject: Business and Professional Women I am looking for articles on the Business and Professional Women's Clubs. I would like a historical or organizational perspective. I have done several searches, but I can't seem to find an article or book on BPW in particular, so I am just looking for a mention of them in a larger study at this point. Please reply to cbrocht@hhh.umn.edu Thank you. Chauna Brocht, University of Minnesota. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 15:04:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie Braendlin Subject: feminist psychology I'm interested in using _Women and Gender: A Feminist Psychology_ (2nd ed.) in a fall course on Women in Literature (undergrad., fulfills University multicultural requirement) in conjunction with the _Longman's Anthology of World Literature by Women_, which I've used before. This psych. text seems to speak to issues we've discussed in the course: female development, violence, sexual awakening, mothering, etc. Has anyone taught this text and can you advise me on its "teachability"? It doesn include several chapters based on social psychology and so is not exclusively "psychological." Please reply privately. Thanks in advance. Bonnie Braendlin ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:20:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Rita Bevacqua Subject: Re: black voices (fwd) I couldn't let my error slide by. Beverly Guy-Sheftall's book is published by New Press, not Free Press. Sorry for any inconvenience. Maria ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 12:55:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Maria Rita Bevacqua To: Women's Studies List Cc: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L Subject: Re: black voices A terrific new text on black feminist thought is Beverly Guy-Sheftall's recent edited volume, WORDS OF FIRE (Free Press [I believe], 1995). It contains excerpts of writings and speeches by and about African American women from the 19th and 20th centuries. Guy-Sheftall briefly but thoroughly introduces each selection or writer. This is a must read for its historical and theoretical value. Maria Bevacqua Institute for Women's Studies Emory University mbevacq@emory.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 20:14:35 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karla Jay Subject: American Academy for Liberal Education Does anyone on the list know the political agenda of the American Academy for Liberal Education? As some of you may know, they were empowered in 1995 to accredit liberal arts programs. The New York Times described them as "traditional." Is this a code word for "conservative" or "family values"? Has anyone had any experience at an institution which has tried to be accredited by AALE? If you respond to the list, would you please send me a copy as well at one of the addresses below? Thanks so much in advance for any help. Karla Jay ********************************************************************* * PROFESSOR KARLA JAY JAY@PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU * * DIRECTOR, WOMEN'S STUDIES OR * * PACE UNIVERSITY JAY@PACEVM.BITNET * * 1 PACE PLAZA * * NEW YORK, NY 10038 TEL: 212-346-1642 * * FAX: 212-346-1754 * ********************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 19:39:23 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Brigance Subject: Re: The canary story... The story you are looking for was originally a play called Triffles by Susan Glaspal ---available in a number of play anthologies...soory I rry I don't have a specific citation. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 18:55:14 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sonja Streuber Subject: Re: black voices Didn't catch the whole thread, but how about bell hooks, _yearning_? =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Sonja Streuber * The arrogance associated with knowledge and Department of English * sensation lays a blinding fog over man's eyes University of California * by instilling in him a most flattering Davis, CA 95616 * estimation of this faculty of knowledge. shstreuber@ucdavis.edu * (F. Nietzsche, 1873) ============================================================================