========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 09:51:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Sattler Subject: Re: data on feminist scholarship In-Reply-To: On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Angela E Hubler wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > I am using Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe in the > Senior Seminar in Women's Studies that I am currently teaching. The last > section of the book gauges the impact the feminist scholarship has had on > the disciplines of Education, Literature, Philosophy, History and > Anthropology by compiling data on the percentage of journal articles that > focus on women or women's issues between 1966-80. Does anyone know where > an update of this information can be found? > > I would also like to know if there is a continuation anywhere of Vicky > Sears compilation of review articles in Signs (from her Introduction to > Library Research in Women's Studies. > > Thanks for your help. Sorry about the underlining. I can't get it to > turn off. > > Sincerely, > Angela Hubler > Kansas State U. > Try Dale Spender's The Knowledge Explosion...it covers many of the same (and more) disciplines. Cheryl Sattler csattler@CapAccess.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 09:58:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: format for WMST-L messages (User's Guide) 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: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 09:25:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Fran Hoffmann Subject: Moderators needed! Comments: cc: MSTANGE@SKIDMORE.EDU Moderators are needed for the 1996 NWSA conference. If you are planning to attend the conference, and are interested in moderating a session, please contact Mary Stange at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866; e-mail MSTANGE@SKIDMORE.EDU. Please indicate a day preference -- the conference begins Wednesday, June 12, sessions will be held from Thursday, June 13 through Sunday, June 16. Frances L. Hoffmann, Director Institute for Women's and Gender Studies University of Missouri - St. Louis 8001 Natural Bridge Road St. Louis, MO 63121 (314) 516-5588 FAX (314) 516-5415 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 09:41:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from PROFS to RFC822 format by PUMP V2.2X From: "D.K. Johnston" Subject: Scientific American article Department of Philosophy and Classics University of Regina List members might be interested in the March 1996 issue of Scientific American. Its regular column, "The Analytical Economist" (p.31), discusses the gathering of statistical data on the economic success of women. ......................................... Regina, Saskatchewan CANADA S4S 0A2 Phone: (306) 585-4336 Fax: (306) 585-4827 E-mail: johnstod @ max.cc.uregina.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 23:41:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Enriching the Canon Our Great Books program is revisiting the Canon due to a push from a minority who want inclusion to be broader than "dead white men." One colleague argued that criteria we should use for good Great Books are that they are classics, or they were influential in shaping Western culture, and that they are teachable. Given these parameters, for a small undergraduate college, I would relish suggestions for the inclusion of the feminine voice. Our current selections begin with the "Iliad" and historically work their way through to the twentieth century. Thank you so much for any suggestions you may have. Please include a little blurp as to why you find a particular work important. Please respond to me privately. ddrake@mylink.net ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 09:30:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to unsubscribe, etc (User's Guide) Hi. Before I go any further, let me emphasize that YOU DO NOT UNSUBSCRIBE BY SENDING A MESSAGE TO WMST-L! 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You'll receive a file entitled LISTSERV.MEMO. (See section 11 for how to retrieve files sent to you in Netdata format.) If you have a question about your subscription that you want a human being to read, do NOT send it to either WMST-L or LISTSERV!! Instead, send it to the list owner, Joan Korenman [KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (or, on Bitnet, KORENMAN@UMBC)]. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 12:42:20 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: Up Close and Personal On Saturday, March 2, 1996 I reviewed "Up Close and Personal" on "The Women's Show" a weekly womanist/feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM (88.5) "Radio Free Tampa." My review is now available for retrieval from the FILM FILELIST. To obtain this review send the following command to Listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV168 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, 2 Mar 1996 12:14:06 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lisa W. Loutzenheiser" Subject: journal information I am looking for some information on refereed women's studies journals (other than say SIGNS, and NWSA Journal) for my advisor. I am a graduate student in Ed. Policy at UW-Madison, and my advisor, who has in the past written primarily for anthropology and education, and ethnic studies journals, has a new piece on identity, and tensions between parental expectations vs. "American" expectations of Cambodian American young women. I told her that I thought a women's studies journal might be interested in it. Any suggestions? ********* Lisa W. Loutzenheiser lwloutze@students.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin-Madison ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 15:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mp57 Subject: Re: journal information In-Reply-To: Dear Lisa, You might want to consider Feminist Studies--it's located at the university of Maryland, College park, 20742 (in Woods Hall). Good luck, Mary-Jo Povisil ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 15:28:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tamara Agha-Jaffar Subject: Publishing Students' Poetry Sorry to keep badgering you with all these requests for help, but this time I am being purely selfless. I have a student in my Intro to WS class who is an avid poetry writer. She is an African-American single mother of three children. She has asked me about the possibility of getting some of her poetry published. I would like to help her and encourage her as much as possible. I know of a few feminist literary journals that publish poetry. But I was wondering if any of you knew of some feminist journals that publish students' writings. I think she may have a better chance of getting published in those. She is just now beginning to find her voice and is experiencing an increase in self-confidence. So I would like to minimize the risk of rejection as much as possible. But maybe I am being too protective. I don't know. Anyway, any advice, suggestions, names of journals, etc. would be appreciated. Please reply privately because I'm not sure this is an appropriate subject for the list. Thanks in advance. Tamara WSKCKCC@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 21:09:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Preston Knight Subject: Women deans Jackie Wilkie's interest in statistics on numbers of women deans, as an indicator of how many women are qualified for presidencies, is well-placed, I think. On our campus the progress of women up the administrative ladder has been excruciatingly slow; very few department chairships (the usual prerequisite for deanships) are held by women, and in a current nationwide search for a dean, no women made the final list because "there were none with sufficient background," i.e., number of years of experience. We have a long way to go! Kathleen Preston Knight KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 21:10:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Preston Knight Subject: Students re-invent the wheel I agree with Barbara Rodman that we need to allow students to re-invent the wheel, i.e., develop their own support and action groups, instead of providing ready-made institutionalized versions. It's ironic, though, is it not, after we've worked so hard to create legitimized places for feminist activity? Slightly reminiscent of the perennial parental complaints, "After all we've done for you..." and "But we already gave that to you..." Kathleen Preston Knight KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 08:19:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Re: journal information In-Reply-To: <9603022027.AA08719@umailsrv1.umd.edu> Regarding information about possible journals for a study on parental expectations of young women raised by "American" and Cambodian-American parents...Another good source for publishing articles using qualitative data is Family Relations. It seems to me that many feminist manuscripts can (should?) also be submitted to more general journals/periodicals. Such submissions (and, hopefully, their publication) encourage using sex/gender as a critical variable in analyzing a variety of topics (including family issues, in this case), disseminate research results beyond feminist journals which may have an even wider audience, and provide scholars with more publishing avenues. niki nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, mp57 wrote: > Dear Lisa, > You might want to consider Feminist Studies--it's located at the university > of Maryland, College park, 20742 (in Woods Hall). > Good luck, Mary-Jo Povisil > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 12:04:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shirley Piazza Subject: Habitat II Is anyone on the Women's Studies list planning to attend the Habitat II conference in Istanbul this June? If so, would you please e-mail me so we can exchange information, etc. Also, Turkey is rich in Goddess shrines. I lost my one brochure on a women's group that sponsors Goddess tours. Does anyone know of women sponsored tour groups in Turkey? If so I'd appreciate hearing from you. Thanks, Shirley Piazza piazzas@ucunix.san.uc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 13:10:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: when not to send messages to WMST-L (User's Guide) Today's 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: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 13:45:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: cynthia ryan Subject: None I will be teaching an intro to women's studies class in the fall, and on the advice of many on this list, have decided to incorporate "Listen Up: Voices From the Next feminist Generation." In addition to several other texts, I'd still like to include another anthology of "essential" readings in women's studies, but i don't want to overwhelm the students with too many lengthy collections of essays. Any suggestions for a fairly short, yet comprehensive anthology? You may respond to me personally at my e-mail address. Cynthia Ryan East carolina university enryan@ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 17:33:57 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Stearns Subject: Readings about power I am designing a graduate seminar on social power for the spring quarter, and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for good readings for the class. The course will be an interdisciplinary social science course-- my background is in psychology, so psychology studies are pretty well represented, but I would like to include more sociology and anthropology. I think I am doing fairly well on theoretical readings (they will read Hartsock's _Money, Sex, & Power_, a power reader edited by Steven Lukes which samples theories of power, and probably some of Lukes' own theory, as well). I also have a fair amount of empirical work dealing with gender and power, but less empirical material about race or class. I am particularly interested in article-length readings. Any suggestions would be welcome. Many thanks in advance. Deborah Stearns dstearns@midway.uchicago.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 22:54:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Molinda Lauxmiller Subject: Re: Readings about power In-Reply-To: <199603032333.RAA25584@quads.uchicago.edu> On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Deborah Stearns wrote: > I am designing a graduate seminar on social power for the spring quarter, > and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for good readings for the > class. The course will be an interdisciplinary social science course-- > my background is in psychology, so psychology studies are pretty well > represented, but I would like to include more sociology and anthropology. > I think I am doing fairly well on theoretical readings (they will > read Hartsock's _Money, Sex, & Power_, a power reader edited by Steven > Lukes which samples theories of power, and probably some of Lukes' own > theory, as well). I also have a fair amount of empirical work dealing > with gender and power, but less empirical material about race or class. > I am particularly interested in article-length readings. > > Any suggestions would be welcome. Many thanks in advance. > > Deborah Stearns > dstearns@midway.uchicago.edu > Hi Deborah, You may also want to look at Starhawk's treatment of power in her book "Truth or Dare". Blessed Be! Molinda Lauxmiller ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 21:52:44 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Miriam Subject: Re: Readings about power In-Reply-To: <199603032333.RAA25584@quads.uchicago.edu> for readings on power and gender a classic is Catharine Mackinnon's "Difference and Dominance:On Sex Discrimination" in Feminism Unmodified. Good look, Kathy Miriam ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 22:01:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: {Em Mahtowin} Subject: Re: Readings about power At 10:54 PM 3/3/96 -0500, you wrote: >On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Deborah Stearns wrote: > >> I am designing a graduate seminar on social power for the spring quarter, >> and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for good readings for the >> class. The course will be an interdisciplinary social science course-- >> my background is in psychology, so psychology studies are pretty well >> represented, but I would like to include more sociology and anthropology. >> I think I am doing fairly well on theoretical readings (they will >> read Hartsock's _Money, Sex, & Power_, a power reader edited by Steven >> Lukes which samples theories of power, and probably some of Lukes' own >> theory, as well). I also have a fair amount of empirical work dealing >> with gender and power, but less empirical material about race or class. >> I am particularly interested in article-length readings. >> >> Any suggestions would be welcome. Many thanks in advance. >> >> Deborah Stearns >> dstearns@midway.uchicago.edu >> >Hi Deborah, >You may also want to look at Starhawk's treatment of power in her book >"Truth or Dare". > >Blessed Be! >Molinda Lauxmiller > > I'd like to suggest Paula Gunn Allen's work. Also: Bataille and Sands "American Indian Women:Telling their lives". While they may not provide exactly what you're looking for, they do illuminate power structures within Native American society. There may be others I'm not thinking of at the moment. I'd love to know if you use these. In my experience, Native American women are sadly underrepresented in education so I'm working to give us a louder voice. EM ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:05:04 -0500 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: journal information Another ws journal you might try, particularly for articles with an international perspective, is Women's Studies International Forum. The North American editor is Somer Brodribb Dept. of Political Science University of Victoria P.O. Box 3050 Victoria, BC V8W 3P5 Canada The journal is published by Elsevier Science (formerly Pergamon Press). 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, 4 Mar 1996 07:32:05 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhoda Unger Subject: Re: Readings about power Since my own field is psychology as well I may be suggesting materials that you have already considered. Nevertheless, I would recommend the following articles: Griscom, J. L. (1992). Women and power: Definition, dualism, and difference. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 16, 389 - 414. This is part of a special issue of women and power edited by Arnie Kahn & Jan Yoder. Hare-Mustin, R. T. (1991). Sex, lies, and headaches: The problem is power. In T. J. Goodrich (Ed.). Women and power: Perspectives for therapy. NY: Norton. Unger, R. K. (1986). Looking toward the future by looking at the past: Social activism and social history. Journal of Social Issues, 42, #1, 215 - 227. This is an article I did some years ago that looked at the way psychologists have looked at power (including a content analysis of the characteristics of the researchers). Finally, although this may be too elementary for your graduate students, there are a large number of citations in the chapter of the textbook that I coauthored with Mary Crawford entitled "Doing gender: Sex, status, and power." The second edition of this text "Women and gender: A feminist psychology" has just bee published by McGraw Hill. I would appreciate a copy of your syllabus when you finalize it. Thank you. Rhoda Unger Director of Honors Program Montclair State University Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Phone 201 655 - 4401 FAX 201 655 - 5121 E-MAIL UNGERR@ALPHA.MONTCLAIR.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:18:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Revision: Authorization/Approval (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the User's Guide, revised to reflect the fact that for the next couple of weeks, ALL messages come to me for approval, so people needn't worry about where their questionnaires will go. ********************************************************* 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. [NOTE: currently, ALL WMST-L messages come to me first for approval, so people can return their questionnaires without worrying that they'll be made public. I'll be sending a follow-up questionnaire later this week, and will keep the list fully moderated for at least a week after that. JK] ****************** 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, 4 Mar 1996 08:24:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JENNIFER HAMMER Organization: New York University Press Subject: essential readings in women's studies In response to the request for an anthology of "essential" readings in women's studies, you may be interested in _Women's Studies: Essential Readings_, edited by Stevi Jackson. It provides selections from over 140 of the most influential readings in women's studies. If you'd like further information on this book, please contact our customer service department at the number below. Hope this is helpful. With best wishes, Jennifer Hammer Associate Editor New York University Press 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 Customer Service: 1-800-996-NYUP (6987) or 212 998 2575 Fax: 212 995 3833 HammerJ@elmer2.bobst.nyu.edu NYU Press homepage: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/nyupress/index.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:47:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Myers MFL&L Subject: Re: Readings about power If you're interested in *language* use and power, you might try Aki Uchida's "When 'difference'is 'dominance': A critique of the "anti-power- based Cultural Approach to Sex Differences (Language in Society, v. 21, 1992 pp547-569) and O'Barr and Atkins's "Women's Language or Powerless Language" in Women and Language in Literature and Society, New York: Praeger, 1980, pp 93-110. I'd also like to have a copy of your syllabus if possible.Thanks, AnnM@JOE.ALB.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:17:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah A. Elliston" Subject: Re: Readings about power In-Reply-To: <199603032333.RAA25584@quads.uchicago.edu> For anthropology readings about social power, I highly recommend the recent collection of essays _Naturalizing Power: Essays in Femininst Cultural Analysis_ edited by Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney (NY: Routledge, 1995). I'd also recommend Gloria Anzaldua's _Borderlands/ La Frontera_, which I've used in the past (with good results in undergraduate classes) to open up the complexity of issues around social power. Best, Deborah A. Elliston Dept. of Anthropology New York University elliston@acf2.nyu.edu On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Deborah Stearns wrote: > I am designing a graduate seminar on social power for the spring quarter, > and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for good readings for the > class. The course will be an interdisciplinary social science course-- > my background is in psychology, so psychology studies are pretty well > represented, but I would like to include more sociology and anthropology. > I think I am doing fairly well on theoretical readings (they will > read Hartsock's _Money, Sex, & Power_, a power reader edited by Steven > Lukes which samples theories of power, and probably some of Lukes' own > theory, as well). I also have a fair amount of empirical work dealing > with gender and power, but less empirical material about race or class. > I am particularly interested in article-length readings. > > Any suggestions would be welcome. Many thanks in advance. > > Deborah Stearns > dstearns@midway.uchicago.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:33:09 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: NWSAction ANNOUNCEMENT: I have received very few submissions for this issue. Only two caucuses responded and no regions, no task forces. Where are you? I need reports from GC members as well as some general information for Around the World/Around the Regions. Those on conference committee should file a joint article, perhaps. And I need articles from our general membership, or list mimbers who have something important to tell us about their campus, city, or other organizations. Please email me here -- not the whole list-- if you have any questions so I can direct your articles to the appropriate place. Also, I can send you submission guidelines or PLEASE check previous issues of Action. Thanks for your prompt attention to this matter. Miriam K. Harris mharris@utdallas.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:38:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: Readings about power I would like to suggest Bob Connell's (R. W. Connell) Gender and Power. Laurie Finke ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:51:46 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Jessica Miller Subject: a request Hi ! I love reading this list. Does anyone have an e-mail bulletin board whatever address for Margaret Atwood. Does anyone know if there is a discussion group about her work ? I'd be grateful if anyone could reply PRIVATELY if they know. Thank you ...and it is really great to know so many women are beavering away out there ..." making the world better " Yours sincerely, Kathy Miller ( Porto University, Portugal) e mail kjmiller@ncc.ciup1.up.pt or kjmiller@ncc.up.pt ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 12:10:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WOMEN'S STUDIES CENTER Subject: 14th Annual Women's History Month Conference of Florida International University Dear Sisters, especially Florida Sisters: The really -- every year its's great -- 14th Annual Women's History Month Conference of Florida International University is scheduled for Friday, March 29 at the North Campus's beautiful (on the water) new conference center. The conference features over 30 diverse and topical research and pragmatic issues presentations from caretaker grandmothers to the erotic horrors of Ingres' oeuvre. The keynote speaker is Dr. Jacqueline Jones on "....implications for women in distressed communities" at century's end. Call us, 305-348-2408, fax us 305-348-3143 or e-mail us WSCHODER@SERVMS.FIU.EDU for a conference brochure. Women's Studies Center Florida International University ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:15:20 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Wilkie Subject: Re: Readings about power Deborah, If you are looking for something students can deconstruct themselves I would recommend Madame Bovary. >---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- >Sender: Women's Studies List >Poster: Deborah Stearns >Subject: Readings about power >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >I am designing a graduate seminar on social power for the spring quarter, >and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for good readings for the >class. The course will be an interdisciplinary social science course-- >my background is in psychology, so psychology studies are pretty well >represented, but I would like to include more sociology and anthropology. >I think I am doing fairly well on theoretical readings (they will >read Hartsock's _Money, Sex, & Power_, a power reader edited by Steven >Lukes which samples theories of power, and probably some of Lukes' own >theory, as well). I also have a fair amount of empirical work dealing >with gender and power, but less empirical material about race or class. >I am particularly interested in article-length readings. > >Any suggestions would be welcome. Many thanks in advance. > >Deborah Stearns >dstearns@midway.uchicago.edu > > ********************************************************** Jacqueline Wilkie + Women's Studies Coordinator Luther College + Associate Professor of History Decorah, IA 52101 + wilkieja@martin.luther.edu Phone 319 387-1369 + fax 319 387-1107 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:05:20 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Kerns Subject: forced sterilization of Quechua I have a student trying to find information on the forced sterilization of Quechua. She saw a film from the 60s and became interested in the topic. Does anyone have any sources that might help her. Thanks. Kathy Kerns Stanford University Libraries kkerns@sulmail.stanford.edu (415) 725-1186 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 13:20:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Katherine J. Mayberry" Subject: American Literature Association Could anyone with information about this year's American Literature Assn. Conference share the details with me? Please respond privately to Kit Mayberry (kjmgpt@rit.edu). Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 13:15:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith A. Houck" Subject: native-american mothers For a class on the history of motherhood, I am seeking historical articles on Native-American mothers. I have not had any luck tracking one down. Please respond privately to jahouck@macc.wisc.edu. Thanks so much. Judy Houck University of Wisconsin-Madison ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 12:37:34 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Churchill Mary Subject: Re: Readings about power In-Reply-To: <199603032333.RAA25584@quads.uchicago.edu> On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Deborah Stearns wrote: > I am designing a graduate seminar on social power for the spring quarter, > and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for good readings for the > class. You might check out _Women and Power in Native North America_, edited by Laura F. Klein and Lillian A. Ackerman (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995). >From the cover: "Anthropologists Klein and Ackerman have produced an impressive collection of articles on women in twelve North American cultures that disputes many long help popular and academic theories of gender relations. This critical rethinking of the role of Native American women is a major contribution to a central contemporary issue--what is power, where are women powerful, and under what circumstances do women sustain their power." (Blurb by Kenen Fisher) Mary C. Churchill Women Studies University of Colorado at Boulder churchil@stripe.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:20:19 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: adult development (literary pieces) Hi, I'm trying to revise my syllabus re: adult development and include more stories, novels, biographical pieces that address particular stages of life. I want to be able to tie together the developmental models with literary examples. I would appreciate any suggestions that would appeal to women (and men) re: the 20's. Ideas for other stages of life would also be appreciated! Thank you in advance. Please e-mail me privately. Joan Starker JStarker@teleport.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:43:28 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janice M Bogstad Subject: midlife career changes I am passing this along for one of my colleagues. WE have a returning adult student who is in her later forties and graduating, finally, after going to school part time. She is giving the commencement address at her college, and would like to use material on a women between the ages of 35 and 50 who has made a mid-life career change and become very successful. Of course we thought about Eleanor Roosevelt, but she gets a lot of press and the student would like to introduce someone else to her audience. What she is particularly looking for is someone they might have heard of but didn't realize the woman had made a career change after her twenties in order to achieve her success. Please send replies to me, (email address, etc., follows) or my colleague Kate McIntyre mcintykv@uwec.edu +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Janice M. Bogstad, Associate Professor Collection Development Librarian Library and Information Services & Women's Studies McIntyre Library University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI 54702-5010 email: bogstajm@uwec.edu "I HAVE NEVER REGRETTED BUYING A BOOK, BUT I HAVE OFTEN REGRETTED NOT BUYING A BOOK." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 18:57:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michele Pampinella Subject: Women deans In-Reply-To: On my campus, Stockton State College,(NJ) we do not have a woman dean but our president, Vera King Farris, is a woman. I just thought that I would note that for those of you that feel a woman can't make it up the administrative ladder. On my campus one already has! Michele Pampinella mpampine@cosi.Stockton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 20:27:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SUSAN Subject: Re: Women deans I also wanted to add that out academic dean here at bucks county community college is a woman -- Annette Conn. She was the chair of the division of language and literature before she became dean. from the way things look, i wouldn't be surprised if she eventually became president of the college. susan darrah director, tutoring center bucks county community college darrahs@bucks,edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 22:10:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Preston Katherine K Subject: Re: Women deans In-Reply-To: <96030420274122@bucks.edu> The College of William and Mary, as of this year, has TWO (count 'em, two!) female deans: Virginia McLaughlin, Dean of the School of Education, and Carol Jacklin, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. We also have a woman provost--Gillian Cell. Pretty amazing, for a conservative campus like ours. Katherine Preston Dept of Music kkpres@facstaff.wm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:04:36 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Safir Subject: Re: Women deans Comments: To: Preston Katherine K In-Reply-To: Dear Sister - It6 appears to be eeasier for women to make it as deans and as college president when they serve in community colleges and colleges rather than universities. Unfortuniatly there seems to be a negative correlation between the status of the college/universities and the position of women in academia and administration. Just look at places like Harvard and Stanford. I am not trying to minimize the acheivemnet of women who have "made it'. As some one who lives outside the U.S it seems to me that it might be worthwhile to compile a list of offenders ie few ist women hired, fewest women in tenured raks, fewest women in high admin. positions. It is very dificult to fight from within - Marilyn *************************************************************************** * 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, 5 Mar 1996 07:10:00 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) of the User's Guide. ****************** Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:08:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Re: Women deans In-Reply-To: On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Marilyn Safir wrote: > ... Unfortuniatly there seems to be a negative > correlation between the status of the college/universities and the > position of women in academia and administration. Just look at places > like Harvard and Stanford. I am not trying to minimize the acheivemnet > of women who have "made it'. As some one who lives outside the U.S it > seems to me that it might be worthwhile to compile a list of offenders ie > few ist women hired, fewest women in tenured raks, fewest women in high > admin. positions... I've thought about similar issues while reading posts on this topic during the last week. On the experiential side, last year when I chaired a dean's search committee (advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Ed), the number of women applicants was negligible (less than 1%). Even worse, they often hadn't had administrative experience as department chairs or in similar "management" positions. When I spoke informally to some very highly qualified women, they dismissed the possibility of applying for the position for a variety of reasons--including being too busy with research that they REALLY wanted to do, doubting their effectiveness to change things because of shrinking budgets and increasing legislative interference in running colleges/universities, and/or feeling that they'd have a greater impact in shaping the future by teaching rather than doing administrative work. One of the issues, then, is self-selection. In fact, Catherine Gira, the President of Frostburg State University, went "through the ranks" at the University of Baltimore as a productive faculty member, department chair, dean, and provost. That is, there's certainly hope for women who seek administrative positions. On the other hand, however, there are lots of data which show that the more elitist/prestigious the college/university, the lower the likelihood that there are more than a handful of (token?) women in departments, in tenured positions, or in (tenured) administrative slots. The fact that many of the sex discrimination lawsuits tend to be filed at large or "high status" universities might say something about the difficulty of women's pursuing career mobility through administrative positions. This is already too long. I think it's a complex issue that deserves empirical attention. Seems to me that this topic would be a very worthwhile PhD dissertation or a grant proposal. niki Benokraitis, University of Baltimore, Sociology Dept nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 08:38:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ware Subject: Women Deans' Here at State Univer of New York - College at Cortland we have 2 woman deans -- Dean of A&S - Nancy Aumann and Dean of Professional Studies - Jane Snell. We also have a female Associate VP for Enrollment Management. We never have had, however a female provost and tho'some SUNY Units have female presidents, we have not. WARECM@SNYCORBA.CORTLAND.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:31:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Preston Katherine K Subject: Re: Women deans Comments: To: Marilyn Safir In-Reply-To: This statement below is probably quite true, but since it was made in response to a post of mine concerning women in high administrative posts at the College of William and Mary, I'd like to point out (as a clarification) that despite its name, William and Mary is, indeed, a university. (The name is stipulated in the College's 1693 charter; we can't change it.) Katherine Preston kkpres@facstaff.wm.edu On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Marilyn Safir wrote: > Dear Sister - It6 appears to be eeasier for women to make it as deans and > as college president when they serve in community colleges and colleges > rather than universities. Unfortuniatly there seems to be a negative > correlation between the status of the college/universities and the > position of women in academia and administration. Just look at places > like Harvard and Stanford. I am not trying to minimize the acheivemnet > of women who have "made it'. As some one who lives outside the U.S it > seems to me that it might be worthwhile to compile a list of offenders ie > few ist women hired, fewest women in tenured raks, fewest women in high > admin. positions. It is very dificult to fight from within - Marilyn > > *************************************************************************** > * 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, 5 Mar 1996 08:45:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Wilkie Subject: Re: Women deans I have to agree with Marilyn My original question was about trying to get a handle on the overall statistics of achievement. As laudable as individual achievement is, we need to move to looking at the exceptional case and start to figure out how much systemic change has occurred. Is it true that given time women in the lower eschelon will be moving up into these positions of greater authority? Well the only way to answer that question is to know how many are on the ladder and climbing. There were women Dean's and Presidents in the past--mostly in all female institutions. The presence of individual deans does not mean the system is changing. > >Dear Sister - It6 appears to be eeasier for women to make it as deans and >as college president when they serve in community colleges and colleges >rather than universities. Unfortuniatly there seems to be a negative >correlation between the status of the college/universities and the >position of women in academia and administration. Just look at places >like Harvard and Stanford. I am not trying to minimize the acheivemnet >of women who have "made it'. As some one who lives outside the U.S it >seems to me that it might be worthwhile to compile a list of offenders ie >few ist women hired, fewest women in tenured raks, fewest women in high >admin. positions. It is very dificult to fight from within - Marilyn > >> > ********************************************************** Jacqueline Wilkie + Women's Studies Coordinator Luther College + Associate Professor of History Decorah, IA 52101 + wilkieja@martin.luther.edu Phone 319 387-1369 + fax 319 387-1107 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:13:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Anne G. Brooks" Subject: Admin Asst Position I've been asked by a student who is not a subscriber to post this position opening on the list. The student's name is Miranda Johnson--her e-mail address is ================================= LESBIAN SERVICES of WHITMAN WALKER CLINIC announces the opening of the position of Administrative Assistant. We are looking for a woman who is creative, intelligent and detail oriented with a strong knowledge of and commitment to lesbian issues. You must be able to work in a fast paced and extremely diverse environment. This job is perfect for a recent graduate who is interested in activism and is considering moving to Washington, D.C. Those interested should forward a resume and cover letter to Human Resources at Whitman-Walker Clinic, 1407 "S" Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20009. Anne Brooks ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:46:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: midlife career changes In-Reply-To: <313b64005f22002@mail01.uwec.edu> How about Fanny Fern or Margaret Fuller? pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:52:24 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Scates Carol Subject: Women's Studies Minor I've recently relocated to a University that has an endangered Women's Studies Minor, and I will make recommendations for future program developments in April. I need help from anyone who has a successful program in place. Specifically, what courses are offered, are they interdisciplinary, and are they more popular if titled "gender issues..." rather than "women's issues...." I've discovered administrators prefer the title "gender," but I'm concerned about the integrity of the program in regard to this suggested change. Please respond privately, and thank you. Carol Scates, Chair Department of English Southeast Missouri State University email: c761hue@semovm.semo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:17:04 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandy River/TTU Library Subject: Re: Women deans Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX) has three female deans at this time: Jane Winer, Arts & Sciences; Elaine Jarchow, Education; Elizabeth Haley, Human Sciences. Tech is currently beginning a search for a new university president. Last time we did this, Dean Haley served as interim president. Sandy River Librarian, TTU lisar@ttacs.ttu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:48:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "M. Ecker" Subject: Re: Women Deans' In-Reply-To: At Ramapo College we have three female associate deans. The VPAA, the VP for Student Affairs and the VP Finance are all women. Martha Ecker Associate Professor of Sociology Director of Academic Programs Ramapo College of New Jersey 505 Ramapo Valley Road Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 201-529-7532 (office) 201-529-7508 (FAX) NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: mecker@ramapo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:01:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: Women deans In-Reply-To: At Kean College of New Jersey. Dr. AnaMaria Schuhmann is Dean of the School of Education. She is one of the most successful women in fund raising for minority education in the state. Ethel Young is her Associate Dean. Dr. Betty Barber is Dean of the School of Natural Science, Nursing, Mathematics, and Dr. Eleanor Laudicina is the Associate Dean of the School of Business, Government and Technology. Vera Farris used to be our VP, I believe, before she went to Stockton, and Elsa Gomez, our last president, was the second Hispanic woman ever to become president of an institution of higher education in the country. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:31:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: ending the dean listings I think it may be time to call a halt to messages reporting the existence of women in administrative positions on your campuses. Otherwise, the mail volume may get out of hand without shedding much additional light on the issue. Reflective postings about the issue of women in administrative positions (such as those earlier today from Marilyn Safir, Niki Benokraitis, and Jackie Wilkie) are still welcome--it's just the "here's who's dean/provost on my campus" postings that I'd like to discourage. (In fact, since for the next week or so the list will still be fully moderated, I will simply no longer send such postings on to the list, so please don't submit them.) Many thanks. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:05:01 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hadley Wood Subject: Gender Studies or Women's Studies A small interdisciplinary group of women at our college are currently working on proposing a minor in Women's Studies and are also debating the issue of name. Specifically, will we get more campus-wide support if we title it Gender studies? Will we be undermining the specific validity of women and their experience by using Gendr studies rather than Women's studies? What has been the experience of those with successful programs? Please respond privately. Thanks. Hadley Wood (woodLL@oa.ptloma.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:26:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: Students re-invent the wheel In-Reply-To: <960302211004_436572461@emout08.mail.aol.com> I have really appreciated all the comments made by people about our students who feel they were "born too late" & how we can encourage their participation in activism without channeling them into our own projects. When my students (I am faculty advisor of a feminist org. on campus) start "relying" on me (& the few graduate students in the org.) more than I am comfortable with, I usually respond by pulling back a bit. And, most of the time, they do one of two things: abondon the project altogether--a sure sign that it was _mine_ rather than theirs--and (really!) start something else (a 'zine, a concert on campus, a pageant protest rally) on their own; OR they finish the project themselves--not always the way _I_ would have, but certainly with energy & commitment &, sometimes, it's better than my way would have been! As far as "reinventing wheels" goes, see below: On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Kathleen Preston Knight wrote: > I agree with Barbara Rodman that we need to allow students to re-invent the > wheel, i.e., develop their own support and action groups, instead of > providing ready-made institutionalized versions. It's ironic, though, is it > not, after we've worked so hard to create legitimized places for feminist > activity? Slightly reminiscent of the perennial parental complaints, "After > all we've done for you..." and "But we already gave that to you..." The important thing to acknowledge/remember, of course, is that our students may not reinvent the wheel, even if we "allow" them to--they may just invent the jet engine instead! ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< The men are in assembly. Jeannie Ludlow They speak, yes or no jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu and change the living to the dead. Such is the power of words. . . . This poem is written in the language the presidents speak. That is another reason to learn a new tongue. --Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:41:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Gender Studies or Women's Studies > A small interdisciplinary group of women at our college are currently > working on proposing a minor in Women's Studies and are also debating the > issue of name. Specifically, will we get more campus-wide support if we > title it Gender studies? Will we be undermining the specific validity of > women and their experience by using Gendr studies rather than Women's > studies? What has been the experience of those with successful programs? > Please respond privately. Thanks. Hadley Wood (woodLL@oa.ptloma.edu) This topic has been discussed several times on WMST-L. You can write for compilations of messages from two of those times. Send the following two-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: GET WOMEN_VS GENDER GET WOMEN_VS GENDER2 To get a list of all the WMST-L files (except syllabi, film reviews, and reference book mini-reviews), send the message INDEX WMST-L to the same LISTSERV address. DO NOT SEND THOSE MESSAGES TO WMST-L--send them to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:40:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Sattler Subject: Revised Plea for women's groups I know there is a literature out there--somewhere--that discusses women-created space for women--like book groups, quilting bees, sewing circles, maybe clubs-- I'm trying to access this literature on collective, DOMESTIC activities by women to frame the current shelter movement in domestic violence (and abortion/women's health clinics). Please, please, send some references!! Thank you! Cheryl Sattler csattler@CapAccess.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:45:50 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacquelyn Marie Subject: Berkshire conference I wondered if anyone out there could tell me about the Berkshire Conference in June. Is there a list of presenters yet? Also to whom does one write for registration and other information. Thanks. Jacquelyn Marie Reference Librarian/Women's Services Coordinator McHenry Library University of California Santa Cruz, California 95064 USA Phone: 408/459-3255 Fax: 408/459-8206 E-mail: jamarie@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:26:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: Re: Berkshire conference In-Reply-To: It's at UNC; the program has just come out. Call the division of continuing education at UNC. 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 On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Jacquelyn Marie wrote: > I wondered if anyone out there could tell me about the Berkshire > Conference in June. Is there a list of presenters yet? Also to whom > does one write for registration and other information. Thanks. > > Jacquelyn Marie > Reference Librarian/Women's Services Coordinator > McHenry Library > University of California > Santa Cruz, California 95064 > USA > Phone: 408/459-3255 > Fax: 408/459-8206 > E-mail: jamarie@cats.ucsc.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 15:50:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Miller Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups I don't know of anything comprehensive but you might be able to pull something out of histories of women's clubs and their organization. Minneapolis had an all women's club that published a history a few years ago. Any large city near you may have had the same type of thing. Mary Miller ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 15:34:12 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Margaret Madden, 414-832-7360" Subject: Sexual Assault Awareness List Does anyone know the dates for the 1996 Sexual Assault Awareness Week? It has been in late April in the past, but we couldn't find it listed in the book of dates of "official weeks" that our library has and we want to plan some appropriate activities. Please respond privately to the e-mail address below. Thanks in advance. ********************************************************** Margaret E. Madden Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Psychology Lawrence University Appleton, WI 54912 414-832-7360 Margaret.E.Madden@Lawrence.edu ********************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 19:19:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In-Reply-To: <960305155031_238257446@emout08.mail.aol.com> Darlene Clark Hine (sp.?) wrote a history which contained much information about the African American women's Club movement, there was an essay some time ago in Signs by Elsa Barkley Brown, another historian, on this topic, and I believe she has also written on quilting. A book on quilting came out about a year ago or so. I read a review of it In WR of B. Hasn't Alice Walker written a story involving quilting? pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 19:50:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rebecca Rosenblum Subject: women deans Just to add to the discussion, the dean of my school is a woman, Sandra Harris, Ph.D. The school is a free-standing professional school: The Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, at Rutgers Univer- sity in New Brunswick, NJ. Also, for those who are interested, I presented at a conference in a few years ago in Madrid on the subject of the career trajectory of female academics. The international data (though hardly shocking) was remarkably consistent, regarding the decrease of women proportional to men as one trav- eled up the academic professional ladder, with variations - of course - depending on the particular field being "soft" or "hard". The proceedings of the conference were just published last year, and if you're interested in trying to get a copy, please send me a private notice and I will send you the publication information. There is just one catch - it is in Spanish! (I can't even read my own essay [grin]). Rebecca Rosenblum rebeccar@rci.rutgers.edu (this is a new account, if it doesn't work, send to rebeccar@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:10:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Molinda Lauxmiller Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In-Reply-To: Might you be thinking of "How to Make an American Quilt" which is a marvelous work that weaves women's stories and intergenerational understanding. Not by Alice Walker but I've lent my copy out and the name of the writer is nestled in guazy layers of memory... Molinda, Pagan of Bryn Mawr On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Phyllis-Joyce Kafka wrote: > Darlene Clark Hine (sp.?) wrote a history which contained much > information about the African American women's Club movement, there was > an essay some time ago in Signs by Elsa Barkley Brown, another historian, > on this topic, and I believe she has also written on quilting. A book on > quilting came out about a year ago or so. I read a review of it In WR of > B. Hasn't Alice Walker written a story involving quilting? > pkafka@turbo.kean.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 23:21:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karyn Hollis Subject: Feminism and Sororities Can anyone recommend any studies which discuss sororities as potentially feminist organizations--either from a contemporary or historical perspective? Thanks, Karyn Hollis Villanova University hollis@ucis.vill.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 23:46:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christina Accomando Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In a message dated 96-03-05 19:24:58 EST, you write: >Hasn't Alice Walker written a story involving quilting? >pkafka@turbo.kean.edu Alice Walker writes about quilting as one example of women's creativity in "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens." She asks: "How was the creativity of the black woman kept alive, year after year and century after century, when for most of the years black people have been in America, it was punishable crime for a black person to read or write?" She responds in her essay with examples of writers like Phillis Wheatley, but also with examples of other forms of creativity: "...in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., there hangs a quilt unlike any other in the world. In fanciful, inspired, and yet simple and identifiable figures, it portrays the story of the Crucifixion. It is considered rare, beyond price. Though it follows no known pattern of quilt-making, and though it is made of bits and pieces of worthless rags, it is obviously the work of a person of powerful imagination and deep spiritual feeling. Below this quilt I saw a note that says it was made by 'an anonymous Black woman in Alabama, a hundred years ago.' "If we could locate this 'anonymous' black woman from Alabama, she would turn out to be one of our grandmothers--an artist who left her mark in the only materials she could afford, and in the only medium her position in society allowed her to use." Terry McMillan wrote a short story called "Quilting on the Rebound," but I don't think you mean that. Christina Accomando UCSD caccoman2@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:48:52 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Xeturah Woodley Subject: Re: Readings about power In-Reply-To: Greetings, Might I suggest Audre Lorde's chapter "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power" from _Sister Outsider_. I find this chapter speaks to issues of power not necessarily defined by masculinized definitions of "power". 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: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:51:51 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beth Subject: where to get grrl zines For those interested in feminist youth writings for use in syllabi- I checked for permission to forward this, and am now passing sections (only the listings on grrl zines) of this message on to WMST-L. Lauren's working on the next listing, so you might want to write to her directly if you want to be included in her contact list. I hope those of you who are faculty will also pass this message on in classes. Also in general, most of the 'zine writers or authors I know (with some exceptions) prefer that you not try to base research projects or professional writings on analyzing these, so although I can't control what you do with this information once I put it out here, I do want to make clear that I'm posting this specifically in hopes that more zines will get included in classwork, and will also be generally educational and of activist interest to feminists on WMST-L. -beth ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lauren Martin To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: project2 **********************lauren's project listing************************ hey all, this is lauren of boredomsux productions, and this is my own new project. what it is, is that instead of xeroxing a million and one flyers, i'm creating an email listing of projects that assorted people/zinesters need help with. i'm hoping for this to be an ongoing list. if you know of any projects or have projects of your own that you're working on and need help in spreading the word about, please let me know and i'll pass it on. and please help with *this* project by forwarding it to people you think would be interested. if you are new and want to be a part of my distribution list, email me and i'll add you on. or, if you're not interested in this at all, please let me know and i'll take your name off and stop harassing you with forwards. thanks!! words and smiles, lau lm549@bard.edu lauren martin * box 381 bard college * annandale, ny 12504 oh! and paper copies of this listing are available for a SASE -----------------------lauren's project listing 2-------------------------- FOR THE GRRRLZ/GIRLS/WOMEN: 1. emily of the famed *daffodil* zine needs help with her *shalom* project. *shalom* is a compilation zine created by emily to spread the word about girl zines. what she needs from all of you girl zine editors is a flat 8.5" X 5.5" sample page(s) of your zine with pertinent info such as address and price. send this on over to emily @ P.O. Box 124, Willington, CT 06279 or email her for more info: bclyon@neca.com 3. sarah of *ms. america* and riot grrrl press: "Hello! So here's the deal "i'm putting together a girl-zine catalog and this is how it's gonna work. You send me a description of yer wonderous zine including address, price, and whether or not you accept trades and i'll put it together in a glorious catalog and send it out for a mere buck to cover the cost of copying and postage. There needs to be more ways for us girlies to network and get our zines heard about and i think this would be a great way to do that. I'm naming the catalog Girl Scene City and i'll put the word out when the 1st issue is finished. O.K.? (heart) Sarah "Send mail to: Sarah Kennedy 1573 N. Milwaukee #450 Chicago, IL 60622 ----------------------------lauren's project listing2----------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:12:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's *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: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:21:46 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Glenn Blalock Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In-Reply-To: <960305234620_439238293@mail04.mail.aol.com> > >Hasn't Alice Walker written a story involving quilting? > >pkafka@turbo.kean.edu > > Alice Walker writes about quilting as one example of women's creativity in > "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens." She also wrote "Everyday Use," a story in which a quilt and the "art" of quilting are central subjects. Glenn Blalock ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:12:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Alabiso Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In-Reply-To: from "Molinda Lauxmiller" at Mar 5, 96 09:10:26 pm The Alice Walker story is "Everyday Use" and is widely anthologized (sorry I don't know which of her publications it first appeared in.) It is also part of a wonderful book of critical essays, by the same name, about the short story. (walker edited this). The story is indeed about quilting, but rather than focusing on the community of women's groups who quilted it is about HOW we as a culture USE women's art...should it be everyday use or should it be hung in a museum? It's a great story, and the series of essays are warm and thoughtful, however, it probably does not get at some of the issues you are more interested in. Jen jalabiso@ccat.sas.upenn.edu -- Jennifer Alabiso University of Pennsylvania ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:55:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In-Reply-To: On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Phyllis-Joyce Kafka wrote: > Darlene Clark Hine (sp.?) wrote a history which contained much > information about the African American women's Club movement, there was > an essay some time ago in Signs by Elsa Barkley Brown, another historian, > on this topic, and I believe she has also written on quilting. A book on > quilting came out about a year ago or so. I read a review of it In WR of > B. Hasn't Alice Walker written a story involving quilting? > pkafka@turbo.kean.edu > Hi all! The title of the Brown article is "Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke" in _Signs_ vol. 14, no. 3 (Spr. 1989): 610-33. The article is excerpted in several good American Women's History anthologies, including _Unequal Sisters_ & _Women's America_. Perhaps the Hine history referred to is _The State of Afro-American History:Past, Present, and Future_, Louisiana State UP, 1986 (?). I'm not familiar w/ this book, but it is cited in the Brown article. Also, you might want to look at _The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868-1914_ by Karen Blair and/or _Bonds of Community: The Lives of Farm Women in 19th Century New York_ by Nancy Grey Osterud. I don't know whether either of these will be helpful, & I don't have publication info on them right now, but if you need it, let me know. Best of Luck!! ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< The men are in assembly. Jeannie Ludlow They speak, yes or no jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu and change the living to the dead. Such is the power of words. . . . This poem is written in the language the presidents speak. That is another reason to learn a new tongue. --Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:02:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cindy Bily Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups Alice Walker has written a lovely story, "Simple Gifts," which has a quilt at its center. It's in a lot of anthologies, but I can't find it in Walker collections. Cindy Bily Adrian College cbily@adrian.adrian.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:03:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" Comments-on: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:01:26 EST Comments-of: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" I am forwarding this for a friend not on wmst-l. If you are interested in this video, please reply to her. Thanks. ***----------------------> Original Mail From <----------------------*** ***------------------------------------------------------------------*** A grassroots video on ecofeminism, "Ecofeminism Now!", is available for those wanting an introduction to the branches of ecofeminist theory in the U.S., as well as some of the people creating the theory and direct action. The video draws on interviews with Margo Adair, Carol Adams, Judi Bari, Deane Curtin, Josephine Donovan,Lori Gruen, Chaia Heller, Marti Kheel, Cathleen McGuire, Charlene Spretnak, Vandana Shiva, Karen Warren, and many others. The video is in VHS format, runs about 37 minutes, and costs $15 plus postage ($2 for book/video rate, $3 for 2-day mail--ask me about rates outside the U.S.). If you are interested, drop me a note. And since this is a grassroots production ("grassroots" = no funding, no publicity mechanisms, no distribution apparatus), please spread the word to those who might be interested. Many thanks. Greta Gaard University of Minnesota, Duluth ggaard@d.umn.edu Greta Gaard University of Minnesota, Duluth ggaard@d.umn.edu ***---------------------> End of Original Mail <---------------------*** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 13:17:38 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:12:53 -0500 There is also a book edited by Barbara T. Christian on "Everyday Use" published by Rutgers University Press (1994). Edi Giunta faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:33:31 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah Moreland moreland.utdallas.edu." Subject: British suffragist/suffragette novels I am searching for popular novels, or perhaps any novels, written 1905-1920 that engage suffragism as a theme through plot, character, satire, parody, propaganda etc. I am of course aware of Woolf's Night and Day; and I am also familiar with Cicely Hamilton's discussion of the topic. I am searching for lesser known works. Could anyone be of help? With thanks, Deborah Moreland. If this is not of general interest to the list, my address is moreland@utdallas.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:50:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In-Reply-To: Elsa Barkley Brown's other piece which is on quilting is "Africanamerican Women's Quilting: A Framework for Conceptualizing and Teaching Africanamerican Women's History." Signs 14.4 (Summer 1989): 921-929. I also read a book some years ago, I think by Hine, which had chapters in it on various women's clubs established by African American women. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:50:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "M. C. Kolbenschlag" <72754.523@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: International Electronic University for Women Looking for people interested in networking toward a Women's International Electronic (Online) University: 1. if you see a need & the possibilities,or 2. if you've had experience in developing and teaching computer-modem based courses, programs 3. if you have ideas! Contact me at the "Dream Factory"! Use this address: Madonna Kolbenschlag e-mail< 72754.523@compuserve.com fax: 1-304-598-3069 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 16:01:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan C. Chrisler" Subject: research on eating disorders Comments: To: powr-l@uriacc.uri.edu Comments: cc: pwinet-l@uvms.cis.pitt.edu Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are difficult disorders to treat. The fear of fat and the distorted body image that many patients experience are difficult to dispel. I am doing a study on the long-term effects of eating disorders. I want to find out how recovered anorexics and bulimics feel about the weight gain associated with pregnancy. If you have received treatment for anorexia or bulimia and would like to participate in this study, then please contact me or my supervisor. If you know of anyone who would like to participate, please forward this message to them. All names and answers to the survey will be kept confidential. Researcher: Holly Siegel Box 5094 Connecticut College New London, CT 06320 (860) 447-33255 hnsie@conncoll.edu Supervisor: Joan C. Chrisler Box 5578 Connecticut College New London, CT 06320 (860) 439-2336 jcchr@conncoll.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 15:27:32 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: summary - adult development - literary pieces >Hi, >Thanks to everyone who e-mailed such wonderful suggestions re: literary >pieces for my adult development syllabus. > >Here are the responses that I have received as of March 6: >Atwood, Margaret, DANCING GIRLS, (a collection of short stories which >begins with a story about an elderly woman who is moved into a >boarding house) >Austen, Jane, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (a young woman in her 20's whose only > aspiration can be to marry well) >Bell-Scott, Patricia, (editor) LIFE NOTES (an anthology of African-American > women's journal and diary writings which cover the lifespan) >Calcagno, Anne in her collection PRAY FOR YOURSELF (deals with middle > age) >Graetz, Naomi, (editor) S/HE CREATED THEM; FEMINIST RETELLINGS OF BIBLICAL > TALES >The Hen Coop, excerpts from GROWING OLD DISGRACEFULLY >Ivins, Molly, "Texas Women: True Grit and All the Rest" - (about southern > womenhood) in CAN'T SAY THAT, CAN SHE? - >Kincaid, Jamaica, ANNIE JOHN (a story of young girl growing into adulthood > and trying to separate from her mother) >Lamott, Anne - excerpts from OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS; A JOURNAL OF MY SON'S > FIRST YEAR, re: pregnancy, birth, and new motherhood >Lessing, Doris, CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE, ( the first and second volume - The >first one, MARTHA QUEST, deals with late adolescence and early > adulthood) >Rossi, Agnes THE QUICK (to be reprinted in paperback by Norton this > March) deals with adult development around the 20's >Rossi, Agnes SPLIT SKIRT (about the encounter and friendship between a > middle-aged woman and a woman in her twenties who meeet in a New > Jersey County Jail. >Syfers, Judy "Why I Want a Wife" in Loedt, Levine and Rapone ( Eds.), > RADICAL FEMINISM - > > >Film: DOGFIGHT by Nancy Savoca focuses on both genders > > >Again, thanks. If anyone has any additions, I would appreciate it if you >would e-mail them to me. >Joan Starker >JStarker@teleport.com > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 19:49:13 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: Integrating women's lit courses 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: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:30:28 GMT Reply-To: SJG@reader.demon.co.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Gamble Subject: Re: British suffragist/suffragette novels You might be interested in H.G. Wells' novel 'Ann Veronica' (1909), in which the heroine gets mixed up in the suffragist movement. The novel being written by a man, of course, she realises the error of her ways at the end and gets married, but its an interesting satire nevertheless. An anti-suffrage novel written by a woman (which was very popular at the time) is Mrs Humphry Ward's 'Delia Blanchflower' (1914). Other titles you might find interesting are 'No Surrender' by Constance Maud and 'Suffragette Sally' by G. Colmore. I'd also recommend Jane Eldridge Miller's book 'Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism and the Victorian Novel', which includes a chapter on suffragette fiction - it includes, I think, all the titles listed above. In your message dated Wednesday 6, March 1996 you wrote : > I am searching for popular novels, or perhaps any novels, written > 1905-1920 that engage suffragism as a theme through plot, character, > satire, parody, propaganda etc. I am of course aware of Woolf's Night > and Day; and I am also familiar with Cicely Hamilton's discussion of the > topic. I am searching for lesser known works. Could anyone be of help? > > With thanks, Deborah Moreland. > > If this is not of general interest to the list, my address is > moreland@utdallas.edu > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sarah Gamble EMail SJG@ | | Mail sent via Demon Internet - Full IP for 10/Month Tel:0181 371 1234 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 07:49:09 -0500 Reply-To: korenman@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L Questionnaire (REPEAT) THIS IS A REPEAT OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE SENT LAST WEEK. If you haven't yet filled it out, we hope you'll do so now. Thanks. ****************************************************** Three years ago, Nancy Wyatt, a professor of Speech Communications at Penn State, and I collaborated on a research project concerning the uses people make of an e-mail list like WMST-L. We'd now like to do a follow-up study, for which we've devised a moderately short questionnaire. We would be most grateful if you'd fill it out and return it (it follows these introductory remarks). All quotations from the responses will be kept anonymous, and the raw data will be kept confidential. We will be happy to share our findings with those who participate in the study; indeed, we may be turning to some of you to help us interpret our findings. (The results of our earlier study appear in an essay, "Group Dynamics on an E-Mail Forum," to be published this spring in a volume entitled _Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives_, ed. Susan Herring [Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company].) The questionnaire follows. I've set a "reply-to" header so that if you hit "reply," your response SHOULD come privately to me, not to WMST-L (if your email system asks whether you want to reply to all recipients, say NO!). Because that didn't always work last week, I'm keeping the list fully moderated until March 15, so no matter what, your questionnaire will come only to me if you reply by then. If you'd prefer to return the questionnaire via snail mail, please mail it to Joan Korenman, Women's Studies Program, UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland 21228-5398 USA. Please reply within two weeks of the time you receive this. Many thanks. Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ********************************************************* WMST-L Questionnaire, 1996 1. How long have you subscribed to WMST-L? _____ Less than one year _____ One to two years _____ More than two years 2. Do you subscribe to any other women-related email lists? If so, which one(s)? 3. A) What is your sex? _____ Female _____ Male B) What is your age? 4. Are you associated with [employed by or attending] a college, university, or other academic institution? _____ Yes _____ No 5. What is your profession/job? [If your position involves more than one of the following categories, please indicate the area of your PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY with a "P" and the area(s) of SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY with an "S". ___ Tenured faculty ___ Untenured faculty ___ Librarian ___ Administrator ___ Graduate Student ___ Undergraduate Student ___ Other, please specify 6. What is your discipline or area of study? 7. Have you corresponded privately with any other members of WMST-L whom you've 'met' through the list? If so, please describe briefly the nature of your correspondence with those persons. 8. Are there any participants on WMST-L whose messages you particularly respect, value, or look for? If so, who are they? 9. Which aspects of WMST-L have you found to be useful and satisfying? Please explain why these aspects are important to you. 10. Which aspects of WMST-L have you found to be problematic or frustrating? Please explain why these aspects are important to you. 11. What else would you like to tell the researchers about WMST-L or your participation on the list? Please return the completed questionnaire within two weeks to: Joan Korenman korenman@umbc.edu or, by snail mail: Joan Korenman Women's Studies Program UMBC Baltimore, Maryland 21228-5398 USA Many thanks!! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:43:01 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Klebesadel Subject: VISUAL ARTS COURSE Next term I am teaching a course called Contemporary Issues in Art: Race, Gender and Class. It is cross listed wirth the Gender Studies program at my university. It is a seminar in the visual arts that looks at who we call artists, what we call art, and how gender, race and class issues converge when we address these issues. Generally I use a reader because there is not really a book that will work. While I draw on some art historical texts most of the readings are drawn from contemporary feminist art theory, cultural theory, interdisciplinary discussions of material culture, and artists and critics writing about the arts, individual artists, art worlds, and activism in the arts. I also use visual resources like videos and slides as need be. Student's do art and research projects and oral reports or performances that grow our of our discussions and their research. The class is created from the perspective of artists looking at their place in the world. I have taught the course three times in the past and every time I update the readings and visual resources with the most current articles, readings and video resources I can find. This is the first time I am asking for individuals on this list to share ideas and favorite texts, visual resources or approaches to interactive student projects and presentations in the visual arts. Please let tell me what has worked well for you, or sources you have come across that you think might be appropriate to a course like this. I would also like to know if there are any other visual artists participating on this list. Please respond privately to: klebesah@lawrence.edu Helen Klebesadel Studio Art Lawrence University Appleton, WI 53704 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:47:23 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Klebesadel Subject: Address correction for visual art request Anyone who was planning on replying to my request for resources in the visual arts using snail mail should make a correction in the zipcode of my last message. Please respond privately to. klebesah@lawrence.edu Helen Klebesadel Studio Art Lawrence University Appleton, WI 54912 Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:06:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JANET LINDMAN Organization: Rowan College of NJ Subject: Film on Hispanic and Asian-American Women I'm looking for videos, both historical and contemporary, on Hispanic and Asian-American women in the U.S. Please respond to me privately - Thanks. Janet Lindman Lindman@mars.rowan.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:04:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelli Zaytoun Byrne Subject: resources/stats on family/home caregiving Comments: To: wmst-l%umdd.bitnet@psuvm.psu.edu I am searching for resources/statistics on gender differences in hours spent tending to home and family responsibilities. I was referred to literature on the "second shift" but the person wasn't sure of the author or source of the research. I am preparing a program for a group of women employees concerned about balancing work and family. I want to provide some sort of preface to the discussion. I would also appreciate any ideas you have about a creative title and/or program on this topic. Please respond privately to kbyrne@desire.wright.edu. Kelli Zaytoun Byrne Women's Center Wright State University Dayton, OH 45435 513-873-4524 THANKS FOR YOUR HELP ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:11:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah A. Elliston" Subject: AAA Conference Session on Gender and Sexuality The following is a call for papers for a session I'm co-organizing for the American Anthropological Association meetings next fall. If you are interested in presenting at this session, please contact me privately. Thank you, Deborah A. Elliston Department of Anthropology New York University elliston@acf2.nyu.edu Remarking Sexuality: Feminist Anthropologists Theorize the Sexual Organizers: Evelyn Blackwood and Deborah Elliston Proposed session for the 95th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 1996 This session is intended as a forum for feminist anthropological analyses of sexuality. Recent works on sexuality in literary theory, cultural studies, queer theory, as well as anthropology, make timely a consideration of what contributions feminist theoretical frameworks have made and can make to the study of sexualities cross-culturally. To that end, this session will consider past and current feminist anthropological contributions to studies of sexuality; evaluate recent interdisciplinary theories of sexuality in light of feminist theories of power and difference; and showcase recent feminist ethnographic approaches to the study of sexualities cross-culturally. Presenters are asked to submit abstracts of ethnographic and/or theoretical papers. Motivating questions may include: what are the interrelationships between gender and sexuality; what is at stake in disaggregating versus integrating the components of difference and power into studies of sexuality cross-culturally; what are the insights and limitations of prior feminist approaches to theorizing sexualities; how are queer theories useful or problematic for theorizing sexualities cross-culturally; how do categories of difference meet, cross-cut, implicate or articulate with sexuality and what theoretical place should be occupied by difference (gender, race, class or other locally meaningful differences) in theories of sexuality; what do feminist ethnographic analyses of indigenous sexualities offer to theories of sexuality generally. This session will be a conversational context in which to develop what promise to be rich and complex theoretical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding sexualities cross-culturally. In hopes of furthering immediate debate around these issues, we will set aside the usual discussant format and leave the final half hour of the session for questions and discussion among the participants and audience. If you have any questions, please contact Deborah Elliston at (212) 998-8550, e-mail elliston@acf2.nyu.edu; or Evelyn Blackwood at (317) 496-1728, e-mail blackwood@sri.soc.purdue.edu. Please submit your abstract with appropriate registration forms by March 15 to: Evelyn Blackwood, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:28:17 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cecilia Julagay Subject: Video of American Journal segment I am doing research on women from the Philippines who marry U.S. men that they have met through correspondence services. I understand that the TV show American Journal televised a segment where they interviewed the wife of one of the men involved in the Oklahoma City bombing either the week of the 19th or 26th of February. I found out about this show after it was aired. Neither my local station or the national syndicate responsible for this show have been able to provide me with either transcripts or a video copy of this show. If anyone has taped this segment I would appreciate a copy. I am willing to pay any costs. - Cecilia JULAGAY@UCRAC1.UCR.EDU (^ - the number "one") ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:37:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Andrea M. Atkin" Subject: suffragists Deborah-- I'm not sure when it was written, but _Mary Poppins_ begins with a rather nasty portrayal of a suffragist mother. That's why the children need Mary -- mother is too caught up in her silly politics to care for them properly. Andrea Andrea M. Atkin Dept. of English Wake Forest Univ. atkinam@wfu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:39:56 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Berkshires I saw a call for information last week regarding the Berks conference. Did anyone receive an answer? I would like to put a notice in NWSAction; also would like a brochure for myself and colleagues. If you have information or a phone number for the Continuing Ed office at UNC or the conference office phone/fax/email, please email me -- privately unless folks are all still searching. Thanks. Miriam K. Harris mharris@utdallas.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 19:49:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Raka Shome Subject: Re: Film on Hispanic and Asian-American Women In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:06:44 EST from in response to your query--one good documentary that examines representations of Asian-American women in Hollywood film is _Slaying the Dragon_ produced by Women Making Movies (I think). It is listed in their catalog and is an EXCELLENT- resource for making students think about hegemonic representations in media texts. ======================================================================== "I am not free, while any woman is unfree, even if her shackles are very different from my own" ----Audre Lorde ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 22:15:26 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn Harvey Subject: Re: British suffragist/suffragette novels In-Reply-To: Here are two more novels dealing with the suffrage movement: Nicola Beauman, in _A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel, 1914-1939_, identifies suffragism as central to _The Convert_ (1905) by Elizabeth Robbins. I also know that in May Sinclair's _The Tree of Heaven_ (1917), Dorothy gets involved in the suffrage movement. Dorothy's involvement with "The Cause" leads her to decide not to marry; she later regrets this decision after her lover is killed in WWI. (Sinclair's novel not only criticizes the selfishness of suffragettes, but is also one of the few pro-war propaganda-novels of WWI written by a woman.) Kathryn Harvey Department of English, University of Alberta ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 00:58:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Yvonne Klein Subject: Re: suffragists The book Mary Poppins is set in the 1930's; the children's mother is ineffectual, but not a suffragist. It was Disney who perpertrated that particular insult, setting the book back before WWI, perhapssd because the costuming was thus more picturesque, but in the process suggesting to generations of children that suffragists were batty ladies who simply did not have their priorities straight. Actually Mary Poppins and its sequels contain some considerable feminist content. Yvonne Klein yklein@dawsoncollege.qc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 06:13:05 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Film on Hispanic and Asian-American Women I am showing *Salt of the Earth* in my women's history class, and in conjunction with that students are reading an oral history of women strikers in early twentieth-century California. I've show Wayne Wang's early independent, *Dim Sum*, which isn't only about women but does illustrate mother-daughter relationships. Also *Thousand Pieces of Gold* portrays a Chinese woman who was brought to Oregon involuntarily in the nineteenth century and refuses to become a prostitute. Good luck Benay Blend blend@alpha.nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 07:35:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ann D. Travers" Subject: Re: resources/stats on family/home caregiving >I am searching for resources/statistics on gender differences in hours >spent tending to home and family responsibilities. I was referred to >literature on the "second shift" but the person wasn't sure of the author >or source of the research. I am preparing a program for a group of women >employees concerned about balancing work and family. I want to provide >some sort of preface to the discussion. I would also appreciate any >ideas you have about a creative title and/or program on this topic. >Please respond privately to kbyrne@desire.wright.edu. > >Kelli Zaytoun Byrne >Women's Center >Wright State University >Dayton, OH 45435 >513-873-4524 > THANKS FOR YOUR HELP I'm fairly certain Lillian Rubin wrote a book with this title fairly recently. I (and the list?) would appreciate hearing what you come up with for the workshop. I've just put together a workshop for mom's seeking employment in our rural area which we're calling "Where Do I Go From Here?". It would be good to do a second workshop on the issue of balance. Good luck. ******************************************************* * * * Ann D. Travers Internet Trainer * * Atravers@esslink.com * * * ******************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:56:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: Berkshires In-Reply-To: Miriam Harris "Berkshires" (Mar 7, 1:39pm) Miriam, Here is the information that was in March 1996 Women's Review of Books: 1996 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women The 10th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women will be held at the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill, June 7-9, 1996. It will feature over 200 sessions, workshops, and roundtables, with participants from across the United States and many countries of the world. For a programme and registration information, please contact: 1996 Berkshire Conference Division of Continuing Education CB #1020 The Friday Centre The University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1020 (excuse the Canadian spellings that slipped in - creature of habit I guess!) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:03:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Sharon Ayers' late bloomer research Sharon Ayers has asked me to forward this message to WMST-L. It concerns the research project she wrote about earlier on WMST-L. If you have questions or comments about this research, DO NOT WRITE TO WMST-L!! Do not "reply" to this message. Instead, write to Sharon at SAyers0821@aol.com . Thanks. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) *************************** LATE BLOOMER RESEARCH PROJECT Thank you to all of you who participated in my research survey. The response was great and I appreciate each and every woman's particpation in the research. The results were not what I all that I had hoped for. However, my orginal hypothesis was proven. There were also some interesting outcomes that could warrent further research. If any one would like more information about the research please e mail me at SAyers0821@aol.com As I promised I did not keep any of the e mail or snail mail addresses of the participants so I could not return any information. If any of the participants passed my request to other lists could you also pass on this thank you? Thanks to every one who participated. Sharon Ayers. SAyers0821@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:13:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Denise A. Donnelly" Subject: Re: resources/stats on family/home caregiving In-Reply-To: _The Second Shift_ was written by Arlie Hoschild. Rubin's most recent book is called _Families on the Faultline_, but I'm not sure that it deals much with this issue. You might also try _More Equal Than Others_ by Rosanna Hertz (focussing on the inequities that exist even in dual career marriages). I may have more resources if you'd like to contact me privately. Good luck! Denise Donnelly SOCDAD@GSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:55:00 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 digest form, skip to section C below. Otherwise, read on. A) If you receive a message from LISTSERV informing you that your WMST-L options have been set to NOMAIL, that means that mail from the list was repeatedly returned as undeliverable, probably because of a mail problem on your system. The fact that LISTSERV's notification reached you indicates that the problem was probably short-lived and is now resolved. You can set yourself back to MAIL by sending the message SET WMST-L MAIL to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address). If one address doesn't work, try the other. B) If you haven't received a notification, but you also haven't received WMST-L mail for a day, send the following two-word message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address): QUERY WMST-L If you get back a message saying that you're not subscribed to WMST-L, send the QUERY WMST-L message to the other LISTSERV address (i.e., if you sent the message to LISTSERV@UMDD, try sending the same message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU). If your message is successful, you should get back a message from LISTSERV telling you how your "options" are set. The key part will look something like this: > > query wmst-l > Distribution options for Jane Doe , > list WMST-L: Ack= No, Mail= Yes, Files= Yes, > Repro= Yes, Header= Short, Conceal= No Your options may vary; the important part is Mail=Yes. If the reply from LISTSERV says Mail=Yes, contact your computer support staff to find out whether they're aware of a mail problem. If they don't know of any problem, contact me privately at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). If the reply from LISTSERV says Mail=No, that means your subscription has been set to NOMAIL. The most likely explanation for its being set to NOMAIL is that mail started to bounce and so I or my assistant set your subscription to NOMAIL but the notification from LISTSERV bounced, too. In that case, contact your system's computer support staff to find out whether the problem has been solved. If it has, you can set yourself back to MAIL (see section A above). If they aren't aware of a problem, your best bet is to contact me privately. If you have questions or encounter problems, please write to me privately at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). However, PLEASE TRY THE ABOVE STEPS FIRST!! Under NO circumstances should you send messages about your subscription to WMST-L. C) If you have arranged to get the WMST-L digest and you suddenly stop receiving copies, first check with the computer support staff at your institution to find out whether they are aware of any problems. If they're not, and if you're receiving other mail but not the digest, please write to Ira Gold at IGOLD@UMDD (Bitnet) or IGOLD@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). In your message, tell him whether you receive your digests as files or as e-mail, and try to pinpoint as precisely as possible when you stopped receiving the digests. DO NOT SEND MAIL TO IRA GOLD UNLESS IT SPECIFICALLY CONCERNS A DIGEST PROBLEM, AND DO NOT WRITE TO HIM UNTIL YOU'VE DISCUSSED THE MATTER WITH THE COMPUTER SUPPORT PEOPLE AT YOUR INSTITUTION! Messages about other problems should be sent to KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet) or KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet). ************************ Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:24:47 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry Walker Subject: Re: resources/stats on family/home caregiving In-Reply-To: The Second Shift was written by Arlie Hochschild. First publication 1989. I apologize for sending this to the entire list. Mail was undeliverable to kbyrne@desire.wright.edu. Sherry Walker swalker@frank.mtsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 12:32:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elaine Hedges Subject: Re: British suffragist/suffragette novels The novel about the British suffrage movement, The Convert, is by Elizabeth Robins (sp.) and is published by the Feminist Press. It is excellent, with a fine introduction by Jane Marcus. I think a biography of Robins has recently been published. She herself was a fascinating "new woman,' an actress as well as a writer. Elaine Hedges e7w8hed@toe.towson.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:48:49 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hadley Wood Subject: Second Shift Sorry to write to the list, but your mail came back as undeliverable at that address. Second Shift is by Arly Hochschild. An interesting book as she examines the issues of division of labour within the family from three perspectives. 1) Theory -- who does each person in the couple think should do the work. 2) Mythology -- who does each person in the couple tell himself/herself is doing the work. 3) Reality -- who is actually doing the work? The latter determined by some home visits. Interesting analysis of the interaction betwen theory, reality and mythology. Enjoy. Hadley Wood (woodLL@oa.ptloma.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 16:11:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 4 announcements The following four announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Conference: Women in Politics (Barnard College) 2) Sapphic Ink, an online lesbian literary journal 3) Conference: 19th C. Amer. Women Writers in 21st C. (Trinity C.) 4) Submissions wanted for Anthology about Young Feminist Activism For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) WOMEN IN POLITICS, a conference to encourage women to pursue political careers and to encourage women's political involvement will be held on Sunday, March 24th from 10 a.m. til 5 p.m. The conferene will be held in Barnard Hall at Barnard College in New York City (117th St. and Broadway). The plenary panel topic will be "What is the Shape of a Political Life?" and the speakers will be: Ronnie Eldridge, NYC Council Member C. Virginia Fields, NYC Council Member Nita Lowey, Member of Congress Ed Markey, Member of Congress Nancy Mayer, General Treasurer, State of Rhode Island Connie Williams, Democratic Candidate for PA State Legislature The plenary panel will be followed by lunch; workshops on campaign work, grassroots organizing, lobbying, and international political activism; and a student-led discussion on political activism on campus. The conference is free to all full-time students and $25 for non-students. You may register by calling the Office of College Activities at Barnard College at (212) 854-2096, by writing to them (and sending a check if you're not a student) at: Barnard College Office of College Activities 3009 Broadway New York, NY 10027 or by e-mailing me, Ilana Nossel, at irn@columbia.edu. Please contact me if you have any questions. I hope to see you all there! *************************************************************************** 2) I am pleased to announce the publication of Sapphic Ink, a lesbian literary journal devoted to bringing quality lesbian writing to a broader audience via the World Wide Web. The site debuted on March 2, 1996, and contains selections of poetry, fiction and book reviews from a wide variety of voices, some brand new, some long established, all offering a fresh perspective on lesbian lives and experiences. Please stop by and have a look: http://www.lesbian.org/sapphic-ink Our next issue is due out on June 1, 1996, so if you're interested in submitting work please check out the submissions page: http://www.lesbian.org/sapphic-ink/submissions.html --Amy Goodloe Sapphic Ink Literary Editor sapphic-ink@lesbian.org ************************************************************************* 3) "19th-Century American Women Writers in the 21st Century" Trinity College/ Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford, CT May 30 - June 2, 1996 Thursday evening, May 30: Keynote addresses: Frances Smith Foster, Emory University Joan Hedrick, Trinity College Friday, May 31 - Sunday, June 2: 27 Workshops, including the following: --Women writers and the Civil War --Reading the 19th Century, Writing the 21st --Domestic horror and the problem of genre --Bodily affliction and spiritual rehabilitation --'Literary Ladies' as professional journalists --Performing and masquerading race and gender --Figures within the household --Politics of recovery --Racial spiriting and social reform --Historicizing sentimentality and 17 more! --Also workshops on using the World Wide Web Friday, May 31: Plenary: The New 19th Century: Paul Lauter, Trinity College Amy Kaplan, Mount Holyoke College Carla Peterson, University of Maryland Judith Fetterley, SUNY/ Albany, moderator Saturday, June 1: Plenary: Borders and Boundaries in the Race for Race: Ann duCille, Univ. of California/ San Diego Genaro Padilla, Univ. of California/ Berkeley Jean Fagan Yellin, Pace University Gabrielle Forman, Occidental College, moderator Evening: Banquet honoring Dorothy Porter and Madelaine Stern Sunday, June 2: Endnotes: Reading the Conference: Priscilla Wald, University of Washington Marilyn Mobley, George Mason University Susan K. Harris, Pennsylvania State University For registration forms, costs, and other information contact: Sandra Andrews, Trinity College, #702533, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106-3100 or ************************************************************************** 4) *** SUBMIT TO AN ANTHOLOGY ABOUT YOUNG FEMINIST ACTIVISM *** Are you a young feminist? Are you frustrated by popular misconceptions about your work? This is your chance to contribute to Fire Eaters and English Teachers: Young Feminists Explore Action In Our Lives, an anthology which aims to define the young women's movement from the inside. I am seeking essays which delve into the personal history and experiences of young women and men (under 30) engaging in feminist action at all points on the political spectrum, on and off of college campuses across the country. I am mainly looking for descriptive and analytical essays which incorporate both personal and political perspectives on young feminist activism. I want to know: What, specifically, do you do? What drives you? What are your major concerns? What problems have you targeted with your activism? What do you hope to accomplish, and how are you going about achieving these goals? What major setbacks have you struggled against in our society as well as within our movement? How do you see the world changing as a result of your work? How do you see yourself living a feminist lifestyle? While each piece cannot directly address every one of these questions, my hope is that collectively, our stories will project the true image of young feminism: a pro-active image of strength, dedication, creativity, humor and vision. In recent years, particularly since the 1993 publication of Katie Roiphe's much-hyped best-seller The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus, a groundswell of negative media attention has been devoted to young feminism. Newspapers, magazines and books have bemoaned feminist-fueled "gender wars" on college campuses, criticizing "guerrilla feminists" who are supposedly seizing control of the establishment and brainwashing women into "wallowing in a cult of female victimization." Karen Lehrman's October, 1993 Mother Jones article "Off Course" blasted women's studies programs as intellectually and socially stifling. An October 1993 Newsweek article on "sexual correctness" insisted that campus feminism is creating a society of "Scared Little Girls." Political pundit Mary Matalin, in a Newsweek article entitled "Stop Whining," proposed this solution to placate young feminist "crackpots": "Give these moody girls a prescription of Motrin and some water pills, quick!" In this backlash against young feminism, semantics are the weapon of choice. Sharing experiences of sexual or racial discrimination has become "embracing oppression." Those of us who speak of the horrors of rape or battery are considered to be "vying for victim points." If we attempt to discuss sexism, racism, homophobia, or other systems of discrimination, we are branded members of the "P.C. Police." At worst, young feminists are being portrayed as simpering wimps who fear sex, hate men and who do nothing more than whine about our perpetual helplessness. At best, we are said to gather together to release our angst at the occasional Take Back the Night march or pro-choice rally, only to skulk back to hide in our ivory tower dorm rooms until the next march. We need to seize control of the dialogue around our movement. In the popular debate about young feminism, there has been little to no emphasis on the varied and powerful ways in which young feminists are working for an achieving social change. Fire Eaters and English Teachers offers a chance for young feminists to explore how they are translating their personal and political beliefs into feminist action. Please pass this along to anyone you know who might be interested. Forward it to Net friends who might want to see it. Post it to your favorite progressive newsgroup, web page or equivalent. If you can, make a copy and post it in your women's center, English department, community organizing group or feminist bookstore. I am seeking as diverse a collection of contributions as possible, and this type of networking will be instrumental to the success of this anthology. I will discuss deadlines and length requirements with contributors when I hear from you. Time is short, so if you are interested, please contact Jennifer L. Pozner immediately by phone, email or traditional mail. You can reach me at: 413-549-4600 x. 2430, jlpF92@hamp.hampshire.edu or Jennifer L. Pozner, Box 1640, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002-5001 (or 3100 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11235 after May 20). ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 16:59:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Sattler Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In-Reply-To: <960305234620_439238293@mail04.mail.aol.com> Let me clarify: I'm looking for research which points out that, instead of "just" making quilts, or sewing, or whatever, women created these spaces for themselves as radical/political acts, and that within these spaces they were free...o or something along these lines. Think of book clubs, etc. The women's club movement is related, certainly, but I'm looking for space well within the so-called domestic sphere. Thanks!! Cheryl Sattler csattler@CapAccess.org ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 17:32:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: British suffragist/suffragette novels In-Reply-To: <01I23GSOHAQA90P9WJ@TOE.TOWSON.EDU> Delete this if it doesn't apply. Henry James in (The Ambassadors) has a character whom I think was a caricature of suffragettes. Also, besides the lesbian element in (The Bostonians) I think he was showing hostility to Hawthorne's sister-in-law, a Peabody, I forget her first name. Of course you asked for English books on this topic and I am stretching, although he became an English citizen in 1915. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 09:05:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Molinda Lauxmiller Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In-Reply-To: Hi Cheryleryl, As a passionate quilter I regularly read zines and quuilting books. Many of them have historical articles/chapters. One that I found last week is a zine called "Piecework: All this by Hand" published by Interweave Press. The March/April issue (volume IV, # 2) has an interesting article "The Murder Quilt" by Gayle Neyman. It is historical research about a quilt made in an Oregon courtroom during the 1915 trial of the alleged perpetrators. Ms. Neyman is the grandneice of the victim. The quilt was made by a group of women spectators in the courtroom and holds symbolism of the trial. This may be of interest to you and if you don't find it in your area I'll be glad to snail-mail a photocopy to you. These zines are found in major fabric shops/quilting shops. Also, you may do well to peruse the quilting section of any large bookstore in your area. Quilting is increasingly popular and many books treat the history of the art. Our public library in Dayton has many on the stacks. This isn't solid reaearch, but you may find your links in some of these leads. Goddess Blessings, Molinda, Pagan of Bryn Mawr On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Cheryl Sattler wrote: > Let me clarify: I'm looking for research which points out that, instead > of "just" making quilts, or sewing, or whatever, women created these > spaces for themselves as radical/political acts, and that within these > spaces they were free...o > > or something along these lines. Think of book clubs, etc. The women's > club movement is related, certainly, but I'm looking for space well > within the so-called domestic sphere. > > Thanks!! > > Cheryl Sattler > csattler@CapAccess.org > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 09:31:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheila Bunting Subject: Re: resources/stats on family/home caregiving Kelli, The AARP has printed materials on the topic of the hours spent by caregivers of the elderly. I know of a nurse who has done extensive work on costing out these services. She is at the University of Washington, but I don't have her name. I can easily have this for you if you would like to contact me privately. I also have an article I wrote on women caregiving and I can send you a copy if you are interested Sheila SBUNTING@UTMEM1.UTMEM.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 10:37:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Constance J Ostrowski Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups Cheryl (and others interested in this subject), An article by Mary Rose Williams entitled "A Reconceptualization of Protest Rhetoric: Women's Quilts as Rhetorical Forms" [*Women's Studies in Communication* 17.2 (Fall 1994): 20-44] would seem to provide some of the information you're looking for. Williams says "my focus is on the quilts women create to communicate their dissatisfaction with the status quo," and that "quilts give some women a vehicle for speech" (21). I highly recommend the article. You also might want to contact Brea Barthel whose dissertation work on such forms as the AIDS quilts and the Clothesline Project might also include work on the less overtly political forms such as women's quilts. You could reach her at barthb@rpi.edu. Connie Ostrowski ostroc@rpi.edu (remote access) ostrowcj@gw.sunysccc.edu (no remote access--so I couldn't respond until Monday, when I'm back in my office) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 10:18:31 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "L. Higgins" Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups In-Reply-To: Cheryl, I've tried to send this information to you privately and to the list; I'm not sure what the problem is. I've been trying to suggest you try some folklore sources, particularly those that address women's folklore in particular. There are four collections of articles: Women in Folklore: Images and Genres, ed. C. Farrer; Women's Folklore, Women's Culture, eds. Jordan and Kalcik; Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture, ed. J. Radner; and Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore, eds. Hollis, Pershing and Young. In the last three books, I know there are articles about quilting circles. The focus on those articles (and most of the others about other folk groups) are about the process and the product in the context of the community. Articles abt quilting/needlework groups of particular interest to you would probably be those by Linda Pershing (who subscribes to this list). Her articles are in Radner's and Hollis, Pershing, Young's editions. If you need more info about these sources, let me know. Good luck, Lisa Higgins c547634@showme.missouri.edu On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Cheryl Sattler wrote: > > Let me clarify: I'm looking for research which points out that, instead > of "just" making quilts, or sewing, or whatever, women created these > spaces for themselves as radical/political acts, and that within these > spaces they were free...o > > or something along these lines. Think of book clubs, etc. The women's > club movement is related, certainly, but I'm looking for space well > within the so-called domestic sphere. > > Thanks!! > > Cheryl Sattler > csattler@CapAccess.org > **************************************************************************** Lisa L. Higgins c547634@showme.missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia "Seek simplicity and distrust it." A.N. Whitehead (in regard to natural sciences) "Seek complexity and order it." C. Geertz (in regard to social sciences) ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 11:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Finding past messages (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 10) "I'VE BEEN AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS. I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT I'VE MISSED ON WMST-L DURING THE TIME I'VE BEEN GONE. IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACCESS PREVIOUS MESSAGES?" [also useful for new subscribers] Yes. All WMST-L messages are automatically archived. The 1991 archives are arranged in monthly logs; beginning in Jan., 1992, the logs were changed to a weekly format. To find out what logs are available, you can send LISTSERV the following command: INDEX WMST-L . You'll then receive a list of the available logs. To obtain the logs, send LISTSERV the following command: GET WMST-L [filename] where [filename] is the name of the log file you want. For example: GET WMST-L LOG9309a will get you the log for the first week ("a") in September 1993 (9309 refers to the 9th month of 1993). LOG9312b is the log for the second week ("b") in Dec. 1993 (December is the 12th month). (It's possible that the wording of your request may take a slightly different form, depending on your mail system, but what you want is WMST-L LOGnnnnl.) Warning: some of these logs are LARGE; log9309a is approximately 300K. As a result, you may not be permitted to get more than a few logs on any given day (the current limit is 20 files or 2M - i.e., 2000K). NOTE: 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: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 11:54:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elaine Hedges Subject: Re: Revised Plea for women's groups The book, Hearts and Hands, by Pat Ferrero, Elaine Hedges, and Julie Silber (Quilt Digest Press, 1987) discusses the making of quilts as political acts in relation to the anti-slavery, temperance and suffrage movements in the 19th century. The book is out of print but should be available in libraries. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 14:01:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: International Women's Conference I am trying to get more details about an international women's congress (cited in a biography) that was held in Berlin beginning on Sept.20,1896. Does anyone know where I can get further information? Thanks. Please respond privately. Phyllis Povell Povell@eagle.liunet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 14:22:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" Comments: Originally-From: EJOYCE@edinboro.edu From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT Comments-on: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 14:21:00 EST Comments-of: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" Please circulate the following announcement as widely as possible. Thanks. ***----------------------> Original Mail From <----------------------*** EJOYCE@edinboro.edu ***------------------------------------------------------------------*** The Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association announces a new grant program to begin in 1996. WCML will offer a $500.00 grant for one graduate student each year who has had a paper accepted for presentation at MLA, and who is a member of the WCML. Graduate students interested in applying for the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Travel Grant should submit an application by June 1 of the year in which the grant will be awarded (in this case, 1996). The application will consist of 1) a copy of the proposal, abstract or paper accepted for presentation at the annual MLA convention; 2) an explanation of no more than one page of the significance of the paper in relation to the individual's research program. Applicants must be members of the WCML. Please send applications by June 1, 1996, to Debra Popkin, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Baruch College, 17 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Fax: (212)387-1591. ***---------------------> End of Original Mail <---------------------*** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 14:58:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: holzman Subject: Re: resources/stats on family/home caregiving At 09:31 AM 3/9/96 -0600, Sheila Bunting wrote: >Kelli, > >The AARP has printed materials on the topic of the hours spent by caregivers of >the elderly. I know of a nurse who has done extensive work on costing out these >services. She is at the University of Washington, but I don't have her name. I >can easily have this for you if you would like to contact me privately. I also >have an article I wrote on women caregiving and I can send you a copy if you are > interested > >Sheila SBUNTING@UTMEM1.UTMEM.EDU > A relevant source would be _Women take care: The consequences of caregiving in today's society_ by Tish Sommers and Laurie Shields, Triad Publishing Company, Gainesville, FL, 1987, under the auspices of the Older Women's League Task Force on Caregivers. More recent statistics might be available from the Older Women's League. __________________________ 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: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 16:55:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shaula Evans Subject: Shakespeare's Juliette I am preparing to audition for the role of Juliette for the local Shakespeare Company's production of R&J. As part of my research for the role, I am eager to find and read any feminist critiques or commentaries on the role and the play, or even on Shakespeare in general. I would be grateful for any suggestions on writings or net resources. (Since I am not currently associated with a university, I will be trying to track information down through interlibrary loans from the municipal library.) TIA Shaula Evans sevans@awinc.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:24:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L file collections Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 11) "HOW DO I FIND OUT WHAT FILES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WMST-L, AND HOW DO I OBTAIN THE FILES I WANT?" To find out what files are available, send LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (or, on Bitnet, LISTSERV@UMDD) the same command mentioned in the previous section: INDEX WMST-L. The list you'll receive from LISTSERV includes files as well as logs. To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] WMST-L where [filename] is the two-word name of the file you want. For example, suppose you send for the filelist (INDEX WMST-L) and see the following listing: * Policies for cross-listing courses with Women's Studies CROSSLST POLICIES ALL OWN V 79 436 92/12/07 20:41:03 To get this file, you'd send the message GET CROSSLST POLICIES WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). Note that [filename] consists of two words separated by a space and not a period. (Adding WMST-L after the two-word filename is optional; it simply makes sure that if two lists have a file with the same name, you'll get the right one.) IMPORTANT NOTE: women's studies syllabi are contained in a subdirectory called SYLLABI, while feminist film reviews are to be found in a subdirectory called FILM, and reference book mini-reviews are in the WMSTBOOK subdirectory. To find out what syllabi, film reviews, or reference book mini-reviews a subdirectory contains, send LISTSERV the command INDEX SYLLABI (or INDEX FILM or INDEX WMSTBOOK). To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] SYLLABI (or replace SYLLABI w/FILM or WMSTBOOK as needed) If you are requesting a film review, be aware that the filename always takes the form FILM REVx (e.g., FILM REV25); the name of the film is NOT the filename! You can request more than one file at once; just be sure to put each request on a separate line. LISTSERV will then send the file(s) to you either in a mail message or in Netdata format. You can force LISTSERV to send them in a mail message by adding F=MAIL at the end of each command. For example, GET [filename] FILM F=MAIL . Or, to retrieve files sent by LISTSERV in Netdata format, follow these instructions: If your e-mail address is on a VAX/VMS machine, when you get a message that one or more files have arrived at your e-mail address, you should type "RECEIVE *" (do not include the quotation marks) at the $ prompt. This command will put the file(s) into your main directory. You can then type "TYPE filename" (replace "filename" with the actual name of the file) to read the file. If it's a long file, you can read it more effectively by typing "TYPE/PAGE filename." If your e-mail address is on an IBM VM/CMS machine, either use your mailer front end or type RLIST and RECEIVE the file into your FLIST. Go into your FLIST to look at the file. If your e-mail address is on a different kind of machine OR you are using Profs or some other kind of similar mailing system, go ahead and try the above commands. If they do not work, CALL YOUR COMPUTER SERVICES OFFICE. The people there should be able to help you and/or give you a manual for your mailing system commands. NOTE: Many WMST-L files (and a lot more!) are also available via ftp and gopher in the Women's Studies archive on InforM, the University of Maryland's Online Information Service. Telnet or gopher to inform.umd.edu . Select Educational Resources, then Academic Resources by Topic, then Women's Studies Resources. On the World Wide Web, try http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html and then select the first link, "Absolutely Best W.S. Online Archive (InforM)." The Women's Studies archive contains a goldmine of online information about women. Do have a look! ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 18:18:33 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: resources/stats on family/home caregiving In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:13:03 -0500 from See Heidi Hartmann's stats in `The family as the locus of gender, class, and political struggle: The example of housework' in Signs, 1981, 6, 366-394 and in `Changes in wome's economic and family roles in post-WWII United States, an essay in L. Beneria & C. R. Stimpson (Eds) "Women, households and the economy" Rutgers U. Press 1987. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 19:11:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Shakespeare's Juliette In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 9 Mar 1996 16:55:00 PST from For a feminist critique of Shakespeare, see Ania Loomba's `Race and gender in renaissance drama.' beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:00:00 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: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:55:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie Tharp Subject: cfp for m/mla CALL FOR PAPERS FOR MIDWEST/MLA November 7-9, 1996, Minneapolis, MN "This Giving Birth, This Glistening Verb": Pregnancy and Childbirth in Women's Literature Birthing comprises both a thread running through much of women's literature and, more recently, a central focus for women's writing. Given that the event is so central to so many women's lives and until recently has been silenced or privatized, this session is crucial in that it will begin to examie the ways in which childbirth has shaped women's identities and imaginations. Looking at women writers' attempts to formalize their search for meaning within the experinece may halp us to define a new mythology (or a very old one) within women's lives. This session would focus on women writers' uses of birthing images and experiences. Essays are solicited in the following suggested areas: gender differences in birth metaphors, birthing and ecriture feminine, silence and birth stories, race, ethnicity and class in childbirth, and birth stories and women's community. The following is a brief list of women who explore this subject matter: Toni Morrison, Meridel LeSueur, Sylvia Plath, Sharon Olds, Buchi Emecheta. Deadline for 1-page proposals: April 1 Send it via e-mail or mail to: JULIE THARP UWC-MARSHFIELD 2000 W. FIFTH ST. MARSHFIELD, WI 54449 I apologize for the late notice. One of my presenters has just developed serious health problems. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:19:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Preston Knight Subject: Women's groups Cheryl Sattler asked about material on women's activities/groups. A very fine book on women's communication styles in various "women's" activities and settings is _WomanSpeak_ by Karen Foss and Sonja Foss. Sorry I don't know the publisher or date (someone borrowed my copy), but it was published in the early '90s. (I tried to send this to Cheryl's e-mail address but it bounced back--sorry) Kathleen Preston Knight KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:29:49 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carol Blessing Subject: Women in the Church I am beginning a research project on women within the church. My foci are women within the primitive church (pre-Medieval) as well as within the contemporary church. I am primarily interested in women within Protestant, mainly Wesleyan contemporary churches, but would be interested in other traditions as well. I would like to hear from you if you could help in any of the following areas: 1. Printed resource suggestions. I have already "When Women Were Priests," "Gender and Grace," "Equal to Serve," and "Neither Male Nor Female." I am also a subscriber and contibutor to "Daughters of Sarah." 2. Your own experience or the experience of other women in church poitions of authority. 3. Negative or backlash experiences that you have had in the Church. 4. If you are a female professor at a Church-related college, your experiences with sexism or victories in promoting women's studies or women's points of view. Please respond to me privately at my E-mail address. Thanks for your time. Carol Blessing Pt. Loma Nazarene College blessiLL@oa.ptloma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:32:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Burk Tamara L Subject: Re: WomenSpeak The Foss-Foss (Eds.) text is available through Waveland Press at (708) 634-0081. The ISBN # is 0-88133-547-9. The text was published in 1991. \|||/ {@_@} ------------------------------------------oOOo--\~/--oOOo--------- Tamara L. Burk (TLBurk@facstaff.wm.edu) Tamara Dept. of Theatre and Speech College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23187 Voice: 804-221-2671 Fax: 804-221-2507 _ _ ------------------------------------------( )---------( )--------- \| |/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:14:44 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Wilkie Subject: Re: statistics on women dean WHAT FOLLOWS IS THE MOST SPECIFIC RESPONSE I GOT TO MY QUERIES ABOUT STATS ON WOMEN ADMINISTRATORS >Return-Path: >Date: 11 Mar 1996 09:10:54 U >From: "Judy Touchton" >Subject: Re: statistics on women dean >To: "Jackie Wilkie" > > Reply to: RE>statistics on women deans > >Hello Jackie! Trend ata on administrators by position isn't easy to come by. >We use that provided by reports or special tabulations of the College and >University Personnel Assocation. Their 1995 Administrative Compensation >Survey revealed that women constituted 10% of all Chief Academic Officers >(CAOs) in '87-88 and 14% in 94-95. That's as close as we can get. For >additional information, you may contact ACE's Division of Policy Analysis and >Research and request a copy of RESEARCH BRIEFS, vol 6, #5, 1995, "Women in >Higher Education Today: A Mid-1990s Profile, by Linda Knopp. ($10) Or, call >CUPA. > >-------------------------------------- >Date: 2/27/96 5:34 PM >To: Judy Touchton >From: Jackie Wilkie >Received: by ace.nche.edu with SMTP;27 Feb 1996 17:26:52 U >Received: from [192.203.196.97] by martin.luther.edu with SMTP > (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA11351; Tue, 27 Feb 96 15:22:35 -0600 >Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 15:22:35 -0600 >X-Sender: wilkieja@martin.luther.edu >X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >To: judy_touchton@ace.nche.edu >From: wilkieja@martin.luther.edu (Jackie Wilkie) >Subject: statistics on women deans > >I am looking for ten year comparative statistics on the number of men and >women appointed as acadmeic deans. Someone suggested you might be able to >help me. >********************************************************** >Jacqueline Wilkie + Women's Studies Coordinator >Luther College + Associate Professor of History >Decorah, IA 52101 + wilkieja@martin.luther.edu >Phone 319 387-1369 + fax 319 387-1107 > > > > > ********************************************************** Jacqueline Wilkie + Women's Studies Coordinator Luther College + Associate Professor of History Decorah, IA 52101 + wilkieja@martin.luther.edu Phone 319 387-1369 + fax 319 387-1107 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 19:43:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Goldschmidt Organization: The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars Subject: women as leaders seminar ********SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT********* This is a reminder that the application deadline for The Washington Center's "Women as Leaders Academic Seminar" (May 13-24, 1996) is April 1, 1996. The seminar is open to students at any institution of higher education in the United States and Puerto Rico. The theme for this May's seminar is Alliances Among Women. The seminar will use Washington DC as a clasroom for learning about effective leadership through alliances and coalitions. The seminar will include guest speakers; panel discussions with representatives from some of the most innovative multicultural alliances and coalitions in the DC area; leadership and coalition- building workshops; and small group discussions led by experienced faculty. The seminar is fully funded: housing and program fees are free; students are responsible only for the application fee and travel and personal expenses. I strongly encourage you to support your students who wish to apply by providing program or departmental funding where possible. For more information or applications, please call (1-800-486-8921) or contact me at maryg@twc.edu. ---------------------------------- Mary Goldschmidt Director, Women's Leadership Programs The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars 1101 14th Street, NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005-5601 maryg@twc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:38:14 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hannele Koivunen Subject: Re: Women in the Church Dear Carol, you might be interested in my doctoral thesis "The Woman who understood completely; The Semiotic Analysis of the Gnostic Gospel of Mary. You can order it from International Semiotics Institute in Imatra, Finland. Telephone +358 54 681 6639, There is a lot of essential material about women in pre-Medieval>context. Hannele Koivunen I am beginning a research project on women within the church. My foci >are women within the primitive church (pre-Medieval) as well as within >the contemporary church. I am primarily interested in women within >Protestant, mainly Wesleyan contemporary churches, but would be >interested in other traditions as well. I would like to hear from you if >you could help in any of the following areas: >1. Printed resource suggestions. I have already "When Women Were >Priests," "Gender and Grace," "Equal to Serve," and "Neither Male Nor >Female." I am also a subscriber and contibutor to "Daughters of Sarah." >2. Your own experience or the experience of other women in church >poitions of authority. >3. Negative or backlash experiences that you have had in the Church. >4. If you are a female professor at a Church-related college, your >experiences with sexism or victories in promoting women's studies or >women's points of view. >Please respond to me privately at my E-mail address. Thanks for your time. > >Carol Blessing >Pt. Loma Nazarene College >blessiLL@oa.ptloma.edu > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 07:57:40 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: Call For Papers M/MLA session: WOMEN AND THE WRITING OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE An exploration of women's roles in literary historiography: as authors of historical poems and novels, as historical women are represented in poetry and fiction, and as women achieve subjectivity in writing or being written into fictional history. Deadline for submission of proposals: March 25, 1995. Contact Lynette Felber with abstracts or queries. Lynette Felber Dept. of English and Linguistics Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN 46805 felber@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:02:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: Call for Abstracts, M/MLA Since some of you may be working on, or teaching, a topic related to women and language, or language and gender, you may find that the American Dialect Society session at the 1996 M/MLA in Minneapolis will provide you with a forum for presenting and discussing your latest fieldwork, data, ideas or chapters. SECOND ANNOUNCMENT Please submit an ABSTRACT OR BRIEF PROPOSAL MIDWEST MEETING OF THE AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY at the M/MLA, Nov. 7-9, 1996, at the Minneapolis Marriot City Center, Minneapolis MN Email and faxed materials are welcome. Submit by March 25, 1996 to Professor Beth Simon Dept. of English and Linguistics Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN 46805 email: simon@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu fax: 219-481-6985 The ADS session allows for a variety of styles of presentation and discussion. Thanks. Hope to hear from you, and to see you in Minneapolis. Beth Simon ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:55:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 announcements: History, Music, Art The following 3 announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Women's History Month WWW site 2) Women in Music - Online Summer Course (U. of New Mexico) 3) Feminist Art History List For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) In honor of Women's History Month, The Feminist Majority Online's Women's Web World has created a "Women's History Month" page. A fact of the day, book of the day, and link of the day are provided, as are calendar dates and events. A "Teach Women's History" page offers various teaching tools including a full text browsable and searchable online version of "The Feminist Chronicles: 1953-1993", by Toni Carabillo, Judith Meuli, and June Bundy Csida. Women's History Month: http://www.feminist.org/other/wh_menu.html Women's Web World: http://www.feminist.org/ ************************************************************************* 2) New Course Offering at the University of New Mexico WOMEN IN MUSIC: THE WESTERN ART TRADITION The University of New Mexico Women Studies Program Instructor: Professor Nancy Uscher, Ph.D. On Campus: Summer Session I: June 3-29, 1996 Monday-Thursday: 9:20 a.m. - 12 noon OR On Line: Summer Session: 1996 No Residency Requirement COURSE DESCRIPTION: Many outstanding women composers and performers have been largely excluded from the written history of music. This course will examine the lives and works of important women composers and other women musicians from the Middle Ages to the present within their social, political, economic, and cultural contexts -- and in relation to their male contemporaries. An introduction to feminist aesthetics in music will examine issues germane to current research in the field. Although the course will focus on the Western art tradition, an overview of women within a diverse range of musical genres outside of the European tradition - i.e. jazz, popular, and cross-cultural perspectives -- will be included. This undergraduate course (three credits) will be offered in two different formats: On Campus - Register by phone (505) 246-2020 Contact Instructor for Course Numbers (Cross-listed with General Honors and Music) Online - MUST contact the instructor, Nancy Uscher, for interview *Limited to 12 participants > Application Deadline April 27, 1996> Selection by May 1 (505) 2777-7601 email nuscher@unm.edu FAX (505) 268-3264 (This course is open to anyone in the United States who enrolls at the University of New Mexico for credit.) All students will be required to register for three credit hours at the University of New Mexico (current tuition $249.60 resident/non-resident) and purchase texts and cassette tapes assigned by instructor (less than $200). Online students must have ready access to computer, modem, and local Internet connection. All students will be given accounts on the UNM system once they are enrolled. Both groups of students (on-campus and on-line) will be expected to make use of the Internet and World Wide Web during the course. Online students will have special assignment s and projects specific to the online nature of the course. This and other information can be found at: http://www.unm.edu/~jeffryes/music.html ***************************************************************************** 3) THE FEMINIST ART HISTORY LISTSERV To subscribe, fill out the form at the FAH web site: http://www.netdreams.com/registry/ . If you don't have WWW access, write to the list moderator at masi@sonoma.edu, who will add you to the list. To send messages to the discussion group, address your email to "fah@bbw.mediamasters.com". Your email will be received by everyone who is subscribed to the list. The Feminist Art History Listserv (FAH) is for researchers, curators, art historians, faculty, students, and all those interested in discussing research issues and sharing resources of women artists throughout history. The focus of this listserve is the discussion of women artists in all levels of curricula and research. The mission of this listserve is to increase the visibility of women artists in all aspects of the art world. Topics may include: theoritical discourse of historical or contemporary women artists' imagery; sharing obscure resources; discussing newly discovered underrepresented artists; sharing course syllabi and bibliographies; and anything else that will heighten the visibility of women in the arts. All levels of students are encouraged to submit queries on their research topics. The FAH listserv is not for contemporary women artists to discuss or present their own work. There will be a women artists' listserve that will be formed within 2 months of formation of the FAH listserv. The FAH is hosted by The Varo Registry of Women Artists: an online registry for contemporary international women artists. List Moderator: Robin Masi, MFA Instructor, Women's Art History Co-Founder, The Varo Registry (http://www.netdreams.com/registry/) masi@sonoma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:53:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MILLERC@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU Subject: Videos about women's groups? I have a student who wants to find a video that documents contemporary women's groups, especially those that are involved in violence against women. Any suggestions? Please respond privately. Thanks. Cindy Miller MILLERC@ONEONTA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:46:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bernice Hausman Subject: anthology of American women writers A colleague of mine who does not subscribe to the list is looking for an anthology of American women writers. He will be teaching abroad next year and may need to take a case of books with him. Does anyone have some good ideas for general anthologies focusing on writing by American women? Please respond privately to Tom Gardner at tom.gardner@vt.edu. Thanks, Bernice Hausman ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bernice Hausman bhausman@vt.edu 540-231-5076 Department of English Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:26:13 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from PROFS to RFC822 format by PUMP V2.2X From: "D.K. Johnston" Subject: Feminist Philosophy of Science Department of Philosophy and Classics University of Regina I am considering including some feminist writings in my standard intro course in the Philosophy of Science. I would have time for at most 3 articles, and would be grateful for suggesions as to what these might be. Please send your suggestions to me privately, rather than to the list. Thanks! ......................................... Regina, Saskatchewan CANADA S4S 0A2 Phone: (306) 585-4336 Fax: (306) 585-4827 E-mail: johnstod @ max.cc.uregina.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:12:29 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mc kearney Subject: thirtysumthin feminism In-Reply-To: Hi everyone - The conversations here over the last few weeks about younger women feeling they were "born too late" for feminist activism, etc., have sat kind of funny with me. As someone who is 33, I have found myself either categorized as "too old" to be part of the young feminist movement today (a categorization based soley on my "over 30" age), but also "too young" to be part of the older feminist crowd (because of my "under 40" age, status as a grad student, income level, cultural tastes, etc.). I think many "over 30" feminist graduate students probably feel the same way, especially considering our liminal position in relation to power dynamics within the academy (as both students *and* teachers). Therefore, I have found it to be quite frustrating when feminists younger than me (in their teens & 20s) presume that I am part of the "second wave" movement. While, on the one hand, such categorization is an honor, I was only a child when the women's liberation movement erupted in the late 1960s, and cannot claim to have been part of that initial move towards liberation. On the other hand, this categorization as an "older feminist" is sometimes leveled as a kind of insult, in the "you're-too-old-to-understand" kind of way. This is a strange feeling for me since, as a single woman without a partner who lives on her own, is still in school, doesn't want a family, listens to punk, wears black, etc., I am considered by many "mainstream" folks to be anything *but* an adult. I have been equally frustrated in my (and others) treatment as a "younger [aka "babe in the woods"] feminist" by older feminists within the academy who see women younger than them as "upstarts" who have no place (i.e., academic status/credibility/legitimation) for challenging previous feminist works and bringing new issues to the feminist table for consideration. This double-bind has been very troubling to me because I feel that, except within my community with other "older" graduate student feminists (not necessarily a big group at my school), my voice as a feminist is silenced on a variety of different, and often competing, fronts. I'm interested in discussing this conundrum for a variety of reasons, because it seems that feminists of all ages have bought into the patriarchal drive toward categorization that leaves many women excluded from groups whose limits are set by others with considerable power over border-policing. While generation gaps are often profitable in allowing younger folks to challenge the status quo and move things in new directions, it seems that feminism has much to gain from a variety of voices being given a chance and place to be spoken and heard. Any thoughts on this (public or private) would be much appreciated. Mary Kearney USC, Los Angeles kearney@scf.usc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:15:37 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DIANE PRICE HERNDL Subject: Re: anthology of American women writers Comments: cc: tom.gardner@vt.edu In-Reply-To: On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Bernice Hausman wrote: > A colleague of mine who does not subscribe to the list is looking for an > anthology of American women writers. He will be teaching abroad next year > and may need to take a case of books with him. Does anyone have some good > ideas for general anthologies focusing on writing by American women? > Please respond privately to Tom Gardner at tom.gardner@vt.edu. I'm responding to the list as well as privately, because this may be of general interest to the list, and, since book orders will be due soon (if your bookstore is like mine), others might want to know. I'd recommend _Women's Work: An Anthology of American Literature_, eds. Barbara Perkins, Robyn Warhol, and George Perkins (McGraw Hill, 1994). It is a very comprehensive, but still manageable anthology (from Bradstreet to Erdrich), covers genres and multi-cultural writers. Diane Price Herndl NMSU English Dept. dpherndl@nmsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:28:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: anthology of American women writers In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:15:37 -0700 Another great anthology: Florence Howe ed. NO More masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Women Poets. Harper Perennial. Edi Giunta ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:55:56 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Denise Watson Subject: Quilting and Activism I'm posting this to the list because Cheryl's e-mail address kicked my post back to me. She asked for references to women's activism through "domestic" work such as sewing and quilting. I know of a project entitled "Women Hanging By a Thread," which is an activist project designed to benefit women fleeing abusive relationships, poor women, immigrant and refugee women, homeless women and women seeking education so they can rebuild their lives. The School Sisters of Notre Dame are planning a quilt auction for the summer of 1997 in order to build a fund for women and children in need. They seek quilters to create and donate (preferably) hand-quilted items, inlcuding wall hangings, queen, king, double and twin-sized quilts, baby quilts, vests, jackets and other items. The proceeds will be used to: Assist Theresa Living Center, a transitional home for women and children. Start a school for refugee women who feel isolated because they do not speak Englisj. Assist Listening House, a drop-in center providing the homeless with warmth, showers and conversation. To provide scholarships for women in transition. To support the School Sisters of Notre Dame working among the poor in AppalachiaGuatemala, and Kenya. Quilt donations are being accepted unitl March 1, 1997. For more information, contact: Sister Virginia Bieren 170 Good Counsel Drive Mankato, MN 56001-3198 Denise Watson artemis@vax1.mankato.msus.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:56:49 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Gundersen Subject: anthology In-Reply-To: <9603122316.AA29316@coyote.csusm.edu> The collegue going out of the U.S. to teach is wise to bring along materials. I would suggest that among the things to bring is the Norton Anthology of Women's Literature. This covers English and U.S. writers from the renaissance through the late 1980s. It is bulky but worth taking. I am currently teaching on a Fulbright at the University of Oulu in Finland. Both the university library and the city library have good selections of works in English (as well as translations into Finnish of works like "The Color Purple") but Finland prides itself on its strong English language programs. Even so, I could find nothing by Leslie Silko, Louise Erdich, Paula Gunn Allen, Cheria Moraga, Sandy Cisneros, or Paule Marshall. There was only one of Alice Walker's books. They had all of Toni Morrison (they bought them when she won the Nobel). What is also very spotty are works of criticism or history. Journal articles are very scarce. I would recommend copying favorite essays. Because there is a women's studies program in Oulu, they also had a nice basic collection of books on feminist theory in English, but again my own office library had many things that I wish I had here. I've spent several hundred dollars on postage and CARL uncover costs to get things I absolutely needed for teaching sent to me from the states. It's not that these libraries are bad, but that costs are high and English, is, afterall a foreign language here. Think about what a library in the states has in its Finnish language collection (or German for that matter) and you will get the point. I would also suggest your colleague try using the Internet to access the university library catalog in advance. Then you can make choices about what to bring with some degree of accuracy. Joan R. Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu or Joan.Gundersen@oulu.fi ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:18:38 -0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Muldy Sculler Subject: Teaching abroad In-Reply-To: A suggestion: someone, who is currently teaching in Finland, said bring text materials with you--good idea. In addition, how about arranging with a trusted someone to ship things to you once you are there. I am not talking about shipping one's library wholesale, but the item one realizes one needs once one starts in. Barbara ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:54:14 -0500 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: thirtysumthin feminism I can sympathise with Mary Kearney's musings on the young-old thing in feminism. I think that age is not a good indicator of what we mean by this and there are several things in her post that indicate the real dynamics. I have thought about the division into younger and older as a function of when you started being active/interested in feminism. I am also in my early thirties but did not get interested (much less involved) in feminism as such until near the end of my undergraduate degree. This means that much of what I do as a feminist is related to academic things (though not only what I write/research/teach). Also, I've moved around a lot as a graduate student and then on temporary teaching contracts which has made it difficult to get/stay involved in community things. I am now settling in Birmingham and hope to become more involved. However, my perspective is informed by the time and space in which I became interested in feminism. Young women aren't just re-inventing the wheel, some of the issues which were of major importance to a previous generation of feminists are just not so important to us. In Britain, the one that stands out is Marxism/socialism. In the 1970s a lot of feminists were involved in left politics and a lot of their theorizing and activism is informed by/engaged with that. Those of us who are not coming from that context (even if we consider our politics to be broadly on the left) sometimes approach things in ways that just weren't thinkable within that framework. This baffles 'older' feminists (or seems to). But then Mary's points about the power dynamics are also important. We need to think about this a bit. There are 'older' feminists on this list (and I bet they/you hate being called that since it carries so much cultural baggage) and I wonder if they/you have thought about how you treat younger feminists. Do different generations of feminists have different perspectives, bodies of knowledge, etc. that overlap a bit? Or do you/we think that younger women need to learn more from older feminists? And how do we encourage learning from each other? 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, 13 Mar 1996 07:54:20 -0500 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: teaching query I remember a while ago someone talking about getting students to rewrite/revise the syllabus of their course as a project. This was to get them thinking about the course as a whole and thinking constructively about their dissatisfactions with it. (I think anyway, my memory is hazy). Could someone remind me of that project *privately* as I'm thinking of using it. I would check the files but have no idea what the subject might have been. Thanks 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, 13 Mar 1996 13:49:31 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Veronika Oechtering Subject: IFIP-Conference Women, Work and Computerization 1997 PLEASE FORWARD - PLEASE FORWARD - PLEASE FORWARD -------------------First Announcement------------------------------------ Women,Work and Computerization "Spinning a Web from Past to Future" International Conference IFIP WG 9.1 May, 24th-27th 1997 Bonn, Germany First Announcement The Fachgruppe Frauenarbeit und Informatik (Special Interest Group Womens's Work and Informatics) of the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik -GI- e.V. (Society for Informatics) intends to organize the 6th WWC-Conference under the auspices of the IFIP WG 9.1 (Computers and Work). The German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD) is interested to become co-organizer. Several themes in the context of multimedia and networking, cultural aspects of informatics, education, employment, feminist theory, history of women's work in informatics, and other topics will be discussed. There will be a mixture of plenary sessions including presentations from invited speakers, tutorials and workshop/panel/poster sessions, videos and demonstrations of software. As special experiment of WWC97 we would also like to try a teleconference to several other places in the world. Our conference hotel is placed in the city of Bonn, the former capital town of West-Germany, but still location of the federal parliament and ministeries. Bonn is easy accessible by road, rail and air. It has a beautiful country-side and we plan to arrange special sightseeing events. The call for participation is planned for March 1996. If you have any questions or suggestions send mail to IFIP-WWC97 c/o Doris Koehler Computer Center of the Hamburg University Schlueterstr. 70 D - 20146 Hamburg Germany Fax: ++49 +40 - 4123-6270 EMail: IFIP-WWC97@rrz.uni-hamburg.de URL: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/~frauen/first.htm -------------------------end-first announcement--------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:47:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Preston Katherine K Subject: Re: Teaching abroad In-Reply-To: This is a good idea. But for those of you who have never taught abroad, be forewarned that shipping books *back* may cost a small fortune. I had this experience when I taught in Cambridge, England this past summer. I sent books, scores, and recordings over (good thing I did, too), and that worked out fine. The cost of sending the materials *back* took my breath away. Made me grateful for the USPS!!! Katherine Preston Dept of Music The College of William and Mary kkpres@facstaff.wm.edu On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Muldy Sculler wrote: > A suggestion: someone, who is currently teaching in Finland, said bring > text materials with you--good idea. In addition, how about arranging > with a trusted someone to ship things to you once you are there. I am > not talking about shipping one's library wholesale, but the item one > realizes one needs once one starts in. > Barbara > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:36:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kate Conway Subject: gender and ethnic studies programs/depts I am seeking a listing and information concerning U.S. programs that have combined gender/women's studies with ethnic studies. Do you know of sources that list such programs/departments or do you know of specific program that I can contact for information. Thanks. Kate Conway-Turner Please respond to katect@udel.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:04:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Johnson Organization: University of Dayton Subject: Codes of respect I am interested in receving information on codes of tolerance or respect that any institutions may have. Our Women's Studies Committee is looking at the issue of violence in the classroom and is interested in proposing such a code for our student and faculty handbooks. Responses can be sent to me at johnsonp@checkov.hm.udayton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:32:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Margaret McLeer Subject: Inquiry - the academy and the community I am currently engaged in a project wherein I am attempting to formulate the structure for a practical or applied element of the Human Sciences. That is, I am trying to assess the viability of setting up a facility whereby the students in the Ph.D program in Human Sciences here in GWU (where I am a candidate) could do voluntary work in the community for academic credit. I would like to model the theory behind this project on feminist applications of theory to practise and on examples of how Women's Studies programs/depts have attempted to forge links between the academy and the community. Could anyone 1) recommend to me texts that outline the feminist position with regards to the relationship of theory and praxis and 2) let me know of any actual programs of this sort that you may have been involved in. Thanking you for you time. Please reply to me privately at amcleer@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Knd 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: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:47:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Nancy J. Smith" Subject: play on Gilman We had a one woman performance piece on campus last night that was good enough that I thought it might be of interest to other women's studies programs. It is titled "Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman". It was written and performed by Ann Timmons. To many here it seemed balanced in terms of personal life and work. Ann nicely uses Gilman's poetry as a means of Gilman speaking for herself. She portrays Gilman's complexity as a woman of her time. I'm not a drama critic, but the performance seemed good to me. The audience response was enthusiastic. Ann can be reached at (703) 820-9589. Last year, someone did Eleanor Roosevelt and I was completely disappointed. She did Franklin's wife! Timmons' play on Gilman is about Gilman. She's working on a piece about Willa Cather. The Gilman piece was good enough that I hope we bring her back for Cather. Nancy Smith Millersville University Millersville, PA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:43:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1 WWW site, 3 jobs The following four announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) WWW site: Women in Higher Education 2) Job: Coordinator of Women's Programs (U. of Connecticut) 3) Job: Gender Studies/Humanities (Long Island Univ.) 4) Job: Director, Sarah Doyle Women's Center (Brown Univ.) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) * Women in Higher Education A monthly publication on issues facing women in academe, such as promotions, equitable salaries, and family-leave policies. The site provides tables of contents for the periodical's printed editions since July 1995 as well as the full text of two articles each month. Published by the Wenniger Company, in Madison, Wis. + World-Wide Web: http://www.itis.com/wihe/.www.html ************************************************************************* 2) POSITION: Coordinator of Women's Programs (Program Specialist 2) University of Connecticut Women's Center DESCRIPTION: Under the supervision of the Director of the Women's Center, the Program Coordinator provides training and educational workshops to the University community on issues of violence against women (sexual assault, dating and media violence) and other women's issues. Responsible for recruiting and training student peer educators and interns, and for teaching and developing the violence against women peer education class. Provides crisis intervention, advocacy, and referrals, as well as developing, marketing and publicizing programs. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Masters degree preferred or Bachelors degree with 3-5 years professional experience related to women's issues (particularly violence against women). Salary range is mid-thirties. Position to begin approximately 7-1-96. Mail resume, cover letter and names of three references to: Myra Hindus, Director, UConn Women's Center, 417 Whitney Road, U-118, Storrs, CT 06269. Screening of applications will begin on April 5, 1996 and continue until the position is filled. We encourage applications from under-represented groups including minorities, women and people with disabilities. ************************************************************************ 3) Gender Studies/Humanities: Friends World Program of Southampton College, Long Island University. An interdisciplinary faculty position beginning September 1996 to help develop our global women's studies program. Friends World is a global, interdisciplinary, experiential program that seeks faculty with a progressive philosophy of education. Terminal degree, international experience, strong mentorship skills and experience in participatory field work required. Experience in creative or visual arts desirable. Apply with letter, teaching philosophy, vitae and 3 letters of reference, by April 1, 1996, to Hugh McGuinness, Search Committee, FWP, Southampton College, LIU, Southampton, New York 11968. LIU is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Institution. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 15, 1996 ************************************************************************* 4) DIRECTOR SARAH DOYLE WOMEN'S CENTER Brown University invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center. The Center provides a focus within the University for all those concerned with the educational, professional, and personal development of women, and with the challenges posed by changing definitions of gender. It both initiates programs and services, and offers resources and help to others who wish to do so. The Center provides resource and referral information to people in the Brown and local communities; it houses a library, an art gallery, and a meeting place for interested groups. Qualifications: A B.A. degree is required; relevant graduate study or related work experience preferred. The Director should have demonstrated skills in administration and program development, experience working with diverse groups of people, and the ability to forge collaborative relations with offices and departments across the University. The Center's constituents include undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, and spouses. The Director should be well acquainted with feminist issues. To apply please send letter of application and resume to: Brown University, Human Resources, Box 1879/F337, Providence, RI 02912. Brown University is an EEO/AA Employer. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 15, 1996 *************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 00:15:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NEUVILLE LAURE Subject: Re: Academy and the community It is not in a women's studies department, but a new interdisciplinary course on AIDS at Concordia University here in Montreal does require its students to do a certain number of hours of community work in AIDS organizations. The students have the choice of the organization they want to work with. It can be in prevention, in hospices, doing fund raising, counselling, etc. I know one of the T.A.'s for the course, but I'm don't have her e-mail address. But if you're interested, I could ask her to get in touch with you and send you a copy of the syllabus or whatever other info you might find useful. Whether or not such programs are wide-spread, I think the idea is wonderful. Laure Neuville m125104@er.uqam.ca > > > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:32:55 -0500 > > From: Anne Margaret McLeer > > Subject: Inquiry - the academy and the community > > > > I am currently engaged in a project wherein I am attempting to formulate > > the structure for a practical or applied element of the Human Sciences. > > That is, I am trying to assess the viability of setting up a facility > > whereby the students in the Ph.D program in Human Sciences here in GWU > > (where I am a candidate) could do voluntary work in the community for > > academic credit. I would like to model the theory behind this project on > > feminist applications of theory to practise and on examples of how Women's > > Studies programs/depts have attempted to forge links between the academy > > and the community. > > > > Could anyone 1) recommend to me texts that outline the feminist position > > with regards to the relationship of theory and praxis and 2) let me know > > of any actual programs of this sort that you may have been involved in. > > > > Thanking you for you time. > > > > Please reply to me privately at amcleer@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > > > > Knd 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: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:58:48 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Stobie Subject: mother-daughter novels I have a research interest in novels by women published during or after 1990, with a central mother-daughter relationship theme set against a significantly analysed national background. I would like to incorporate these into an Honours programme in Women's studies. Please send suggestions of appropriate novels to me privately, at e-mail address StobieC@english.unp.ac.za In hopes of many suggestions Cheryl Stobie ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:39:35 TSI Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ebru NUHOGLU Subject: American Association of University Women Educational Foundation I'm a postgraduate student and reseach assistant in Istanbul Technical University. Here I don't have any visual Internet access, except my e-mail account. So I couldn't get any information about American Association of University Women Educational Foundation. Any knowledge about the foundation esp. about its post and e-mail address will be useful. Thanks to all concerned. I'll be grateful if you respond privately. Ebru NUHOGLU Msc. Systems Analysis Engineering Sciences Department Science & Literature Faculty Istanbul Technical University TURKEY e-mail: fe94y090 at cc.itu.edu.tr ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 07:53:50 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Johnson Subject: Melissa Etheridge scholarship (fwd) Forwarded message: >From mjohnson@leland.Stanford.EDU Thu Mar 14 07:23:49 1996 X-UIDL: d1cb4d59938cf3f7ad3d5c87133467de From: Maria Johnson Message-Id: <199603141523.HAA11857@elaine49.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Melissa Etheridge scholarship To: glsg@virginia.edu Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 07:23:34 -0800 (PST) Cc: mjohnson@leland.Stanford.EDU X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know of any scholarly work done on Melissa Etheridge, Joan Armatrading, other female (singer-guitarist-songwriter) rockers, especially material that analyzes passion in lyrical presentation and musical sound, sexuality, visual imaging... I am interested in ME's relationship to the blues tradition. I am trying to get a paper proposal together and am looking for background sources and material that might stimulate my own ideas. Any suggestions appreciated. Maria Johnson mjohnson@leland.stanford.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 23:59:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Teaching abroad In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:47:45 -0500 from I missed the beginning of this thread, but this note may help. I was a visiting prof on a Fulbright to India last year. Fulbright offers up to $500 reimburse- ment for books you bring to donate to your affiliated university's library and also pays for excess baggage up to a certain amount. I spend almost the full book allowance (498) and the excess baggage allowance was adequate. Maybe, a sponsor other than Fulbright will cover costs of books taken along. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 19:37:08 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mc kearney Subject: "In Between" Feminists I want to thank the *many* people who have written me privately about their frustrations at feeling like an "in between" feminist. It makes me realize just how much "generation" is an issue that needs serious consideration in all areas of feminist activity. Just a few thoughts I've had since my original post: 1) I too am guilty of the age-dividing I accused others of, as you might have seen in my use of "thirtysumthin" in the "subject" heading I used to describe this "in between" phenomenon, and I want to apologize for that. Many of the posts I've received saying "me too" have indicated that this is *not* necessarily a problem of biological age, as some women over 40 have also indicated a feeling of caught in between the bifurcation of feminism into the "new" and "old" generations. Indeed, it seems that the "generation" of a feminist has far more to do with coming of age as a *feminist*, rather than coming of age as a woman (or man, as the case may be). More significantly, it seems that the feeling of "in betweenness" has something, perhaps everything, to do with individual relations to systems of power which are mediated not only by one's age and gender, but also by one's class, race, sexuality, and status in the academic community. I'm reminded of Beth Ribet's post a few weeks ago and Jo VanEvery's post a few days ago, both of which underlined the necessity for feminists with power and privilege within academia to be self-critical of the manner in which we approach teaching, research, publishing, and working with students and university staff members. I'm also reminded of bell hooks' discussion of feminist power and the ease with which many feminists uncritically identify with and thus reproduce patriarchal capitalist structures and expressions of power (e.g., hierarchical organization, individualism privileged over community, exploitation of resources for profit, etc.). 2) Considering these points, it makes me wonder where this bifurcation into "younger" and "older" feminists is truly coming from? Was this a problem for feminists in the '80s? We all know how the media likes to propogate these kind of binaries so they can create new commodifiable trends (and stories of trends!). But I'm also wondering how much feminists ourselves, after years of similar struggles in relations to race, class, and sexuality, have bought into this binary way of thinking, this "us vs. them" mentality that leaves us with few supporters and many enemies. As many before me have stated, it is important that we discuss these issues *as a community* not just amongst those who have feelings similar to ours. So, while I'm thrilled to have received so many private supportive messages, I hope that others will feel comfortable to discuss these problems more publically, because I think they are indicative of a variety of struggles over power and authority that many feminists (myself included) still have not resolved. Mary Kearney USC, LA kearney@scf.usc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 23:26:03 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Katherine L. Mills" Subject: women and TV Hi everone, I'm looking for recommendations for novels, stories, or poems written by women about women's relationship with television. I'm currently teaching a class on narrative fiction which has been influenced by TV. While a good deal of fiction about TV or narrative that imitates TV tropes has been written by men, I'm running out of recommendations about women (and people of color) authors for my women students. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Respond privately at kmills.usc.edu Thanks, Katie Mills Thematic Option Department USC ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:13:10 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea Austin <3AJA1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Subject: Re: women and TV In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 14 Mar 1996 23:26:03 -0800 from Susan Kerslake, in her wonderful anthology of short stories, _The Book of Fears_ (Ragweed, 1984), has a story about a woman who uses her TV/VCR to feed her multiple personalities. A great read! Andrea Austin Dept. of English Queen's University 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:58:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: Teaching abroad In-Reply-To: Last week someone wrote to ask for good anthologies. I don't think this is the right subject heading for adding two further suggestions for that request, or is it? If not, is there any way these suggestions can be flowed into the right subject heading? One, for African American women writers : Terry McMillan's (Breaking Ice), I believe published in 1990 or thereabouts; the other, really outstanding for African American, Native American, Latina and Chicana American, and Asian American women writers and with excellent introductions to each group of writers, plus bibliography--an anthology which I have used since 1980, although I believe it was recently revised-- is (The Third Woman), ed. Dexter Fisher. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, beatrice wrote: > I missed the beginning of this thread, but this note may help. I was a visiting > prof on a Fulbright to India last year. Fulbright offers up to $500 reimburse- > ment for books you bring to donate to your affiliated university's library and > also pays for excess baggage up to a certain amount. I spend almost the full > book allowance (498) and the excess baggage allowance was adequate. > Maybe, a sponsor other than Fulbright will cover costs of books taken along. > beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:24:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: athletic research In-Reply-To: Carolyn Lehr is looking for the names of researches in Georgia who are researching women and sport-related areas. If you know of anyone, please contact Dr. Carolyn Lehr, School of Health and Human Performance, Department of Physical Education and Sports Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-3651. Dr. Jane Elza jelza@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu Political Science Dept., Valdosta State University Valdosta, Ga. 31698 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:54:48 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Re: women and TV Although the whole story isn't about television, an important part of Alice Walker's "1955" concerns a TV appearance by the Elvis-like character and the Big Mama Thornton--like character on the Tonight Show (in its Johnny Carson days). I'm sure others will suggest works more clearly focused on TV itself. Marilyn Edelstein, English Santa Clara U medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:42:22 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Hinchliffe Subject: Publication of interest Comments: cc: ILSA Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos I am posting the following information about a publication coming out of Columbia that might be of interest to women's studies instructors. Please reply directly to the editor. Jo Hinchliffe Women's Studies University of B.C. March 13, 1996 I would very much appreciate it if you could let the following announcement be known by sending it out to any e-mail networks you may belong to. I do not have the capability to do that. I want to sell this number of the journal as a special issue, since it will surely have appeal to some sectors we do not normally interact with. Available now from the Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos (ILSA) of Bogota, Colombia: Special issue of ILSA's English-language journal Beyond Law: "Women and Work in a Globalized Economy" Contains new work by Latin American, Caribbean and Canadian researchers, including: "What is Feminist Economics?" by Martha MacDonald, St. Mary's University, Halifax "Industrial Competitiveness and Gender Equity: Two Incompatible Objectives?" by Luz Gabriela Arango, National University of Colombia "Prostitution, Marginality and Empowerment: Caribbean Women in the Sex Trade" by Kamala Kempadoo, Center for Studies of Race and Ethnicity, University of Colorado "Forms of Labor Contracting in the Colombian Export Flower Industry", by 'Grupo Cactus' "Women and Poverty in Trinidad and Tobago", by Rhoda Reddock, University of the West Indies Plus reviews and announcements from South America and beyond Price: $15.00 (U.S.) To order, contact: Cyndi Mellon, Editor, Beyond Law, ILSA AA 077844 Bogota, Colombia Fax: (571)288-4854 E-mail: ilsa@zeus.uniandes.edu.co ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:17:58 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: avril chalmers Subject: Re: "In Between" Feminists >More significantly, it seems that the feeling of "in betweenness" has >something, perhaps everything, to do with individual relations to systems >of power which are mediated not only by one's age and gender, but also by >one's class, race, sexuality, and status in the academic community. > >Mary Kearney >USC, LA >kearney@scf.usc.edu I've been thinking a lot lately about how language contructs subjectivity, i.e. when one becomes a feminist might mean the kind of consciousness formed by the discourses articulating the conceptions of 'feminist' at specific times. Several years ago it began to occur to me that who I am, the sense I make of the world, my references, symbols and assumptions were very different from my students'. It seemed that the discourses that made sense to me didn't bridge over to what made sense to them. I was speaking an antique dialect. At the same time, I was noticing that after years of movie going, movies didn't make sense to me any more. I'd spend the whole time trying to find the angle of approach to see what the filmmaker was doing. The movies seemed perspectiveless and it only slowly grew on me that it must have had something to do with me applying the wrong perspectival expectations to what I was seeing. Mine had been formed in a different world. Gary Trudeau's Doonsbury has had a very clever line going recently on the emerging affair between a boomer male and a postmodern, technology/media hip young female. Wish I knew how to reproduce it here but Trudeau is obviously mulling over the differences between generations. Probably the cultural theorists have got this worked out. If any of you have, I'd like to hear what you have to say about it. Avril Chalmers Graduate Studies Faculty of Education Simon Fraser University B.C. Canada ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:32:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Miriam E. Joseph" Organization: SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY St. Louis, MO Subject: March 1996 Reference Book Notices Available REFERENCE BOOK NOTICES FOR MARCH 1996 The fifth file of the monthly WMST-L feature, "Reference Book Notices," is now available for retrieval from the WMSTBOOK FILELIST. *Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV *Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society *Directory of African and African-American Studies in the United States *Encyclopedia of World Cultures *Reference Guide to American Literature *Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary, and Feminist Bibliography 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 5 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: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:42:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: fmlist Subject: Four Items of Interest Comments: To: "broadcast@newmedium.com" Women's WebWorld -- The Feminist Majority Online http://www.feminist.org **************************************************************** Deceptive 'Civil Rights' Initiative Would Legalize Sex Discrimination Activists are mobilizing from campuses around the country to spend their summer in California to register and educate voters to defeat the anti-affirmative action initiative on the November ballot. There are similar measures circulating in 17 states and at the federal level. If passed, these initiatives would not only outlaw affirmative action programs for women and people of color, but would also legalize sex discrimination. Read more about the Campaign for Women's Rights and Civil Rights, sponsored by the Feminist Majority in conjunction with over 80 other organizations, and Freedom Summer '96 -- The Internship of a Lifetime at: http://www.feminist.org/other/ccri/cahome.html. If you would like to sign-up as a Freedom Summer Activist, there is an online form available at: http://www.feminist.org/other/ccri/freejoin.html. **************************************************************** The Feminist Majority also has a special section for March, Women's History Month. Every day during the month of March we are featuring a different fact about a special event or person in women's history, a book from the feminist canon, and a link to a site relating to women's history. There is also a Teach Women's History publication, and Calendar dates and events from across the country. The section is at http://www.feminist.org/other/wh_menu.html. If you would like to contribute to this special section, or next month's Sexual Assault Awareness Month section, please email us at: web@feminist.org. **************************************************************** Today is the first day of March Madness; don't forget to keep up on scores, schedules and highlights for the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament through our special section at: http://www.feminist.org/other/ncaaint.html **************************************************************** Finally, for those of you who have expressed an interest in building on your involvement in the Feminist Alert Network (over 1,300 members and growing!) the Feminist Majority Foundation has the following position, open beginning today: Feminist Majority Foundation Job Announcement Position: Volunteer Coordinator Salary: Commensurate with experience Available: Immediately 3/14/96 Minimum Qualifications: BA or equivalent experience in women's studies, political science or related program. Strong commitment to and experience working for women's economic, political and social empowerment. Experience in recruiting and supervising volunteers, managing phone banks, and coordinating outreach preferred. Flexibility, a team spirit, and the ability to work well with people. Position is full time. General Responsibilities: Volunteer coordinator is responsible for the recruitment and maintenance of a volunteer base to effectively implement outreach efforts for a variety of different projects related to women's rights. Specific Duties Include: *Assist project coordinators in development of outreach efforts related to projects. *Conduct telephone and other grassroots outreach to recruit volunteers *Develop telephone outreach and mailing materials *Coordinate mailings *Coordinate and manage bi-weekly evening phone banks on specific issues for fundraising and informational purposes *Attend meetings/give presentations related to project areas *Maintain database of project-related contacts *Conduct campus outreach. Send Resume To: Dee Martin National Programs Associate Feminist Majority Foundation 1600 Wilson Blvd. Suite #801 Arlington, VA 22209 Fax: (703) 522-2219 femmaj@feminist.org ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 15:33:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelly Ann Burns Subject: bib request: written on the (queer) body BIBLIOGRAPHIC REQUEST: Looking for texts/articles/authors attempting to show that everyone (straight/queer) reads queer bodily insignia _better_ than we think (ie--that most straight people have "gaydar" too even if they don't hurl slurs out car windows). I'm identifying queer bodily insignia here as (but not limited to): gay men's english, gender-blending clothes/attitudes, any inner or outer markers identifiable with the queer community. Also interested in any works that focus on how bodies in general are "read" or how marking one's body (tattoos, piercings, etc) is culturally interpellated. Any leads *gratefully* appreciated! Plz respond to the list since this information may be useful to others. Kelly Burns Indiana University keburns@indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 21:12:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DORIS RUCKS Subject: Re: Publication of interest I am posting the following information about a publication coming out of Columbia that might be of interest to women's studies instructors. Please reply directly to the editor. Jo Hinchliffe Women's Studies University of B.C. March 13, 1996 I would very much appreciate it if you could let the following announcement be known by sending it out to any e-mail networks you may belong to. I do not have the capability to do that. I want to sell this number of the journal as a special issue, since it will surely have appeal to some sectors we do not normally interact with. Available now from the Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos (ILSA) of Bogota, Colombia: Special issue of ILSA's English-language journal Beyond Law: "Women and Work in a Globalized Economy" Contains new work by Latin American, Caribbean and Canadian researchers, including: "What is Feminist Economics?" by Martha MacDonald, St. Mary's University, Halifax "Industrial Competitiveness and Gender Equity: Two Incompatible Objectives?" by Luz Gabriela Arango, National University of Colombia Prostitution, Marginality and Empowerment: Caribbean Women in the Sex Trade" by Kamala Kempadoo, Center for Studies of Race and Ethnicity, University of Colorado "Forms of Labor Contracting in the Colombian Export Flower Industry", by 'Grupo Cactus' "Women and Poverty in Trinidad and Tobago", by Rhoda Reddock, University of the West Indies Plus reviews and announcements from South America and beyond Price: $15.00 (U.S.) To order, contact: Cyndi Mellon, Editor, Beyond Law, ILSA AA 077844 Bogota, Colombia Fax: (571)288-4854 E-mail: ilsa@zeus.uniandes.edu.co ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 21:13:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Blazar Subject: coaching styles I would appreciate information about articles and books concerning coaching styles and their effects on high school and college age girls. (I've been surprised to find that there's very little information on this area, given the ever-growing material on girls and sports.) I'm not currently receiving wmst-l posting, so please e-mail privately. Thank you Sally Blazar (blazplas@acs.bu.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 09:50:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ana Delia Brito Perera Subject: co-education programs ? I am a spanish teacher at secondary school, I am the head of the department of Philosophy and at the moment teaching History of Philosophy and Learning to Think. I am interested in planning and developing a curriculum on co- education and sex equality so that I would like to attend at American Studies Summer Institute working at this program: co-education and/or sex equality. Does anyone have any suggestions of programs that might be right for me? Does the American Studies programs include this kind of subject? Are the Women's Studies included in the American Studies? Where could I find out a list of American Studies Programs and/or Women's Studies Programs during summer? Please email privately Thanks very much in advance Ana Brito email: brito@adbp.ext.ulpgc.es ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:16:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Sarch Organization: The College of Staten Island Subject: Re: bib request: written on the (queer) body Re the part of your request for info on how the body is read in general. These books provide excellent models for social meanings attached to the body: Mary Douglas, Natural Symbols Mary Doubls, Purity and Danger Mary Douglas, IMplicit Meanings Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth and Bryan S. Turner, The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory (London: Sage, 1991) Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression Carolyn Marvin, "Theorizing the Flagbody: Symbolic Aspects of the Flag Desecration Debate," Critical Studies in Mass Communication 8 (1991), pp. 119-138. Also some of Caroll Smith-Rosenberg's work, forget which chapters, in her book Disorderly Conduct. Don't know how much of the above will be directly related to what you need, but at least one or two should help. Good Luck! Amy Sarch Communications Dept. College of Staten Island (CUNY) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:39:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "NAOMI B. MCCORMICK" Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: Interstitial Cystitis >Interstitial Cystitis is an underdiagnosed > chronic bladder disease which afflicts women more >than men and is associated with urgency and pelvic pain. Many >patients find sexual activity, including orgasm, very painful. There is now >a World Wide Web (WWW) home page for the Interstitial Cystitis Association >(ICA) which provides information for health care professionals, medical >researchers, patients, and their loved ones. Here is the address: > >http://www.ichelp.com > >Sincerely: >Naomi McCormick >Past President of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality >& IC Patient (and author of the column, "Coping with Interstitial Cystitis" >in _ICA Update_). > ****************************************************************** Naomi B. McCormick Dept. Psychology State University of New York at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh, NY 12901 USA @@@@@@@@ @@ @@ Telephone (518) 564-3076; 564-3382 @@@ (A A) @@@ FAX (518) 564-3397 @@@ L @@@ % \ {} / % E-mail MCCORMNB@SNYPLAVA.BITNET ---- MCCORMNB@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU | | /******\ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 13:57:11 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Ellen Green Kaiser Subject: Re: bib request: written on the (queer) body In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 16 Mar 1996 15:33:50 -0500 from Not sure he will have an exact discussion of straight "gaydar," but you might want to look at Calvin Thomas' book "Straight Queer" for a discussion of Straight use of Queer theory/ issues. Jo Ellen Green Kaiser jgkais00@ukcc.uky.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 14:57:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marge Piercy Subject: Re: women and TV At 08:13 AM 3/15/96 EST, you wrote: > i have a poem in MARS AND HER CHILDREN called "TRue Romance" which might be usefulto your class. Marge Piercy hagolem@capecod.net! > > Andrea Austin > Dept. of English > Queen's University > 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 22:36:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Pre-patriarchal times Hi There: So many of you sent wonderful responses to me when I asked for help for a new course on pre-patriarchal goddesses. I have written down all your suggestions and purchased or ordered many of them. I am having a little trouble finding some of the sources and if anyone has exact citations or information about where I find these sources it would be most helpful. Problem notations are: Ashe_geve, Julia, "Women and Gender in Mesopotamia" Birnbau,, Lucia Chiavola, "Living in the Lap of the Goddess" Mochinist, Peter, "Myth and Myth Making in the Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern World" and, specific texts on pre-Vedic India. Thanks again in advance for all your help. Peace, Mary Ann Drake ddrake@mylink.net ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:13:25 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Garber Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times Perhaps you could send the whole list to the list. mg. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 06:17:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Top Three List I'm working on an Internet Student Guide. One of the assignments is "to put together a brief history of each sociologist [or social scientist] and her/his important contribution." WHO ARE THE FIRST THREE WOMEN WHO COME TO MIND IN TERMS OF CONTRIBUTIONS? I don't need the nominees' publications, their contributions, or the reasons for your choices; just your "top" three names. And please don't ask me to define "social scientist." Just use your judgement. I have a tentative list but thought WMST-L would provide an excellent "reality check." Although this is not a scientific survey, I'd also appreciate your stating whether you a) are a student or faculty member, b) your discipline, and c) whether you live within or outside the U.S. Please respond privately. If desired, I'll be happy to post the results on WMST-L within the next two weeks. TIA, niki Benokraitis, University of Baltimore, Sociology Dept nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:45:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: women and TV In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 14 Mar 1996 23:26:03 -0800 Bharati Mukherejee's WIFE Daniela Gioseffi's story "Rosa in Television Land" (Texts dealing with women's relationship to TV) Edi Giunta Faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:51:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: Teaching abroad In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:58:04 -0500 Other anthologies: Helen Barolini, THE DREAM BOOK: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITINGS BY ITALIAN AMERICAN WOMEN Shoken (1985) Mary Jo Bona, THE VOICES WE CARRY: RECENT ITALIAN/AMERICAN WOMEN'S FICTION Guernica (1994) (both with introduction by the editors) Edi Giunta Faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:00:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vashti Braha (SAR)" Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times In-Reply-To: <199603180336.WAA08590@kermit.mylink.net> Cynthia Eller is the one who wrote _Living in the Lap of the Goddess_. It= =20 was published within the last year or two. I don't remember how much it=20 goes into the early religions; it focuses much more on the modern goddess= =20 worship. She has also written "Relativizing the Patriarchy: the Sacred=20 History of the Feminist Spirituality Movement" in _His. of Religions_=20 (vol.30n.3, p.279-296). If you want to tie in the modern goddess worship, that is a whole new=20 load of sources, and Eller's could be enough for you, but I would=20 recommend that you explore the Dianic Wiccans, which are the most=20 consciously feminist and which have lesbian groups. In the context of=20 your course, the reason WHY they are called "Dianic" is fascinating. I=20 have done a bit of research on this and it's hard to find much, so if=20 anyone knows of better sources than the entry on "Diana" in Barbara G.=20 Walker's _Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets_ (Harper&Row 1983),=20 please email me. And if you want to know everything I've turned up about=20 the term "Dianic" so far, let me know. I'm sure your students would love selections from the _Woman's=20 Encyclopedia_, listed above. Regarding pre-Vedic Indus Valley civilizations, I have sources, but my=20 search for materials was not extensive at the time. There are feminist=20 books that incorporate a chapter or less into a broad discussion of=20 ancient goddess religions. At least you can start with these: Baring, Anne and Jules Cashford, _The Myth of the Goddess_ (Viking Arkana= =20 =091991). Gadon, Elinor S. _The Once and Future Goddess_ (Harper&Row 1989). Some older (nonfeminist) sources I was able to use are: Wheeler, Sir M. _The Indus Civilization_ (Cambridge UP, 1968). Zimmer, Heinrich. _Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization_=20 =09(Princeton UP, 1974). The names of the sites of the Indus Valley region are Harrapa, Moenjodaro= =20 (or Mohenjo Daro), and Chandhudaro. Occasionally the whole region will=20 be called "Harappan". I think the pre-Vedic civ. is underestimated as an important area for=20 feminist study. More attention seems to go to Minoan Crete: for an=20 excellent exploration of the importance of Crete, see Riane Eisler's=20 _Chalice and the Blade_(Harper&Row1987)--she does make some references to= =20 the Indus Valley civ., and her description of the Aryan invasions, and=20 their devastating effect on the goddess cultures, are valuable and=20 readable for your course (see chapters 2-4, I believe). Perhaps better=20 focus is lacking for the Indus Valley because =B2=D0=FB ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:28:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Julie Tharp Subject: Re: women and TV In-Reply-To: your message of Mon Mar 18 08:45:41 EST 1996 Have you seen WOMEN VIEWING VIOLENCE by Schlesinger et al.? It's a British study on women watching violent newscasts. Very interesting. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:34:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 17 Mar 1996 22:36:10 -0500 Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum's "Living in the Lap of the Goddess" might be a chapterof her book BLACK MADONNA Edi Giunta Fastyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:41:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jane quaid rickman Subject: Registration/SCWSA South Central Women's Studies Association 1996 Annual Conference CELEBRATING DIFFERENCE/EXPLORING COMMONALITY: Women's Studies in the '90s March 19-30, 1996 Women's Studies Program University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019 Registration is now open. E-Mail: AA0383@UOKMVSA, FAX: (405) 325-5068 (405) 325-3481 Keynote Speaker: Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, D-Illinois Co-Keynote Speaker: Leanne Howe, Austin, TX The conference opens with Registration 3:00-7:00pm Thursday, March 27. A special reception and Evening Entertainment are planned in conjunction with the Women and Film Conference which Thursday, March 27. A special Reception and Evening Entertainmentwill end on th at date. Sessions will run Friday 9:15 through 5:15 Saturday pm. The forty different sessions will run concurrently (3-5 sessions) A Bookseller and Other Vendors event will run from 9-5 on Friday. Reservations: Sooner House Hotel, Suites $38.00 for Single Double $42.00 for more information call On campus facility, breakfast included. Contact: Denise Upchurch:(405) 329-2270 or FAX (405) 325-7496 Ramada Inn (405) 321-0110 FAX: (405) 360-5629. Conference rate available at both sites. Meals: available also Please request Reistration Form if you did not receive one during this last week. Sorry that this information is so condensed, I'm trying to follow WMST-L regulations. Hope to see you soon in Norman. Jane Rickman, Administrative Assistant, Women's Studies, OU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:39:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joanne Hanrahan Subject: Re: American Association of University Women Educational Foundation In response to your message about AAUW. The homepage of AAUW on the WEB is http://www.aauw.org I hope this is helpful--good luck! Joanne Hanrahan, Director of Women's Institute, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:55:49 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: locating rachel bagby I am writing for a colleague who is trying to locate Rachel Bagby re: the environmental conference to be held at SUNY-Oneonta in June. Please e-mail directly. Thanks in advance Benay Blend blend@alpha.nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:03:41 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carolyn Goodman Plampin Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times March 18, 1996 Hello Mary Ann: You wrote: >Ashe_geve, Julia, "Women and Gender in Mesopotamia" >Birnbau,, Lucia Chiavola, "Living in the Lap of the Goddess" >Mochinist, Peter, "Myth and Myth Making in the Biblical and Ancient Near >Eastern World" and, >specific texts on pre-Vedic India. > > According to a survey of courses on women that I did your title for Machinist is the title of a course that he teaches at Harvard. It would be interesting to see if he will send you his bibliography. I am trying to enlist professors of some more general courses for the Women's Bibliographies Project. Carolyn Goodman Plampin, cplampin@ix.netcom.com Women's Bibliographies Project: http://diogenes.baylor.edu/WWWprovider/BWI/wobibpro.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 12:36:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marjorie Heyman 3-2620 Subject: Diversity Awareness Training Programs Hi! I have recently been hired at university to design and implement diversity awareness training programs for staff, faculty and various student groups. Although I have undertaken a similar effort at a major corporation, this is my first time trying to undertake training at an academic institution. One of the real challenges facing this training effort is that some of the staff we will be training are (to put it bluntly) semi-literate, perhaps not given to "philosophizing" (so-to-speak) about what is meant by diversity and diversity issues, but instead are faced with real life concerns of keeping their jobs, making ends meet at home, alcoholism, at home abuse, etc. One of the most prevalent concerns expressed by the women who work in "traditional" men's jobs is that gossip is pervasive -- many of the men will gossip about the women behind their backs, who they are sleeping with (even if the women are married), that they obtained state licensure because a man took the test for them, and so on. It is a hostile environment to work in, andyet it is extremely difficult for management to correct through mandate. My question / request is: what types of training programs have other universities used that have been successfully given to this part of the population? Are there resources, videos, training exercises, etc. that work better than others? We have a good outline of what the course will cover, but I'm beginning to think I need more "nuts and bolts" kind of information. Please note that we are also viewing training as one piece of the pie: we recognize that we are dealing with a process that encompasses not just education, but exposure and enforcement as well; and that accountabilitiy is a major issue. Please respond privately (unless you think this list would be interested) to me at HEYMAN@OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU. Thanks for your help!! -- Marjie Heyman ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:52:17 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne Hildenbrand Subject: New book Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In, edited by Suzanne Hildenbrand (me!) has just been issued by Ablex. The collection contains essays on library history, from a feminist perspective, on topics such as intellectual freedom, professionalization and the use of volunteers. Profiles of librarians such as Jean Blackwell Hutson of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Adelaide Hasse forced out of the New York Pubic Library because of her assertiveness, Anne Carroll Moore, architect of library services to children and an author of children's books, and Dorothy Porter Wesley of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard Un iversity are included. SH ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:07:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: sylvia henneberg Subject: Adrian Oktenberg Could someone tell me if Adrian Oketnberg is a male or female critic of contemporary literature (of Adrienne Rich, for example)? Please respond to henneber@uga.cc.uga.edu. Thanks so much, Sylvia ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:48:45 GMT-400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MACKAY KELLY ANNE Subject: book information Please help...I am trying to get my library to order a book but I have foolishly misplaced the publishers information. The book is called Cinderella Goes To Market and is written by someone named Einhorn. Can anyone fill in the blanks? Thanks in advance, Kelly. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:05:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Deitch Subject: diversity awareness programs In response to Marjie Heyman, this may be of interest to others as well: I believe Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) has video and other resources for sexual harassment training specifically for women in non-traditional jobs. WOW is located at 1325 G st. NW, Washington, DC. Their phone is 202-638-3143. Cynthia Deitch George Washington University ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 20:54:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Publication Possibilities Hi There: Again I need help. Where does one go to look for publication possibilites for an article that is about 10 pages long which focuses on the Crone, her history and her current manifestations? Please respond to me personally and thank you for your assistance. MaryAnn Drake ddrake@mylink.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 21:47:10 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Session on Sandra M. Gilbert Call for Papers Sandra M. Gilbert will be the keynote speaker at the Eighth Annual Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures, & Film *October 10-12, 1996* West Lafayette, IN I will chair a session on her work, including her feminist criticism, her poetry, and her memoir. Those interested in submitting a proposal should contact me immediately for further details. Edvige Giunta 108-19 Willowbrook Drive North Brunswick, NJ 08902 Tel. (908) 422-6527 Faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:43:57 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: patricia howard-borjas Subject: Re: book information Cinderella Goes to Market by Barbara Einhorn was published by Verso in 1993 (London and New York). ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:40:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Manlowe Subject: query about support for therapists Comments: To: Psychology of Women Resource List A very good friend of mine in Northern California has asked me to post this query (as she doesn't have access to the net): Does anyone know of any resources (groups, journals, newsletters, therapists) for therapists dealing with their own incest trauma? Please respond to me privately and I'll post the bulk of findings (I wish) for the entire list. Thanks. Jennifer_Manlowe@brown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:06:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Johnson <00arjohnson@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: support for nontraditional women in college Could someone please send me the information about the discussion group for older women in college? I seem to have deleted the message from my directory and I told one of my students about it. Help! Anne Johnson 00arjohnson ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:50:12 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Kay Schleiter Subject: Women Taking Charge: The Next Step On Saturday, March 30, there will be a one day conference on feminist activism and community organizing at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, WI. The title of the conference is: Focus on Women: Women Taking Charge -- The Next Step. Speakers include: State Senators Gwendolynne Moore and Peggy Rosenzweig, Community Organizers Ana Garcia and Mary Gonzales; and Representative Barbara Notestein. Music will be provided by Judy Gorman. The cost of the conference is $20, including lunch. Scholarships are available. The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is located one hour north of Chicago and 30 minutes South of Milwaukee. For information or to register, call: 414-595-2177 or e-mail mks@cs.uwp.edu Mary Kay Schleiter mks@cs.uwp.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:05:01 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Ruane Subject: Re: book information The book is Barbara Einhorn, Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women's Movements in East Central Europe (New York: Verso, 1993). ruanec@centum.utulsa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:32:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Lawler Subject: still barriers Hello, I have submitted a course on Women Learning and Leadning in Education to our department committee for acceptance in our education curriculum, graduate. The committee has indictated that it will probably be turned down, becuase we don't need it in our curriculm. In our programs there is only one course in multicultural education and nothing on women. We have many certification prog- grams, masters in adult education and three doctoral programs, administration, higher education and reading. I believe the committee is biased against this and would like to know about other courses in graduate education departments. I would appreciate any information. Thank you. Patricia A. Lawler, Ed.D. Associate Professor Center For Education Widener University One University Place Chester, PA 19013 610-499-4252 FAX 610-876-9751 email ofpalawler@cyber.widener.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:05:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Virginia Sapiro Subject: Revision of WOMEN IN AMERICAN SOCIETY: HELP! It is time for me to begin revisions for the fourth edition of my textbook, WOMEN IN AMERICAN SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES (Mayfield Publishing Co., 1986, 1990, 1994). I would be most grateful for any helpful comments or criticisms from those of you who have used or are using the book, or who have seriously considered using it. My questions are: What should I keep? What should I change? What is now out of date? What new areas of inquiry in women's studies need to be incorporated? What old ones can be abandoned? Are there any troublesome spots that need rewriting, clarification, elaboration, illustration, or whatever? What are the best and most useful aspects of the book? What are its weaknesses and drawbacks? For what kinds of students and instructors and courses is it most useful? Least useful? What do I need to know to make the book as useful as possible? Please consider this within the context of the particular niche this book is intended to fill. As I have described its intended place in the most recent edition, it is a woman-centered introduction to the study of gender in the United States. Although it focuses primarily on the U.S., it views this one nation in a comparative perspective, placing the U.S. in the contexts of both national and international diversity. It is also based primarily on knowledge gained through research in the various social sciences. It is not intended to cover the humanities and sciences in any comprehensive manner, but is based on the primary research literature in economics, education, history, law, mass communication, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology, among others. Thus it emphasizes the grounding of gender in social institutions and insitutionalized relationships, as well as cultural values and psychological character and processes within the context of social structure and specific social institutions. It is intended to be rigorous and clear, and incorporates extensive bibliography linking it to the primary research literatures in the various fields that feed it, but it assumes no college-level background in either women's studies or the social sciences. I have tried to write clearly, accessibly, non-polemically, and even include a few jokes here and there. I set this context just to be clear about the boundaries within which I am working. I would love to hear from faculty and teaching assistants who have worked with the book as well as students who have used it. If you are teaching from the book now and would like me to draft a request aimed specifically at your students that you would like to forward, I would be happy to do so. In the interests of not clogging up the mailboxes of everyone on wmst-l with the answers to this request, please correspond with me personally at the email address below. Thanks for your help. Virginia Sapiro Sophonisba P. Breckinridge Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies University of Wisconsin - Madison (1050 Bascom Mall, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison WI 53711) sapiro@polisci.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:40:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cameron MacDonald Subject: Query- Greta Foff Paules In-Reply-To: <26031909050719@ps.polisci.wisc.edu> I am trying to get in contact with Greta Foff Paules, author of _Dishing it Out: Power and Resistance among Waitresses in a New Jersey Restaurant_. If anyone knows how I can reach her by e-mail, snail mail, or phone, please contact me at: Macdon2@Husc.Harvard.edu Thanks, Cameron Macdonald ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:17:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Marie Pollowy Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB14E7.6119C3E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In my readings I have noticed that most of the work deals with ancient = europe and middle-east. Does anyone have any references about = goddess(es) and pre=3Dpatriarchal societies in ancient Egypt (also known = as Kemet)? Thanks Anne-Marie ---------- From: Vashti Braha (SAR)[SMTP:braha@VIRTU.SAR.USF.EDU] Sent: Monday, March 18, 1996 10:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times Cynthia Eller is the one who wrote _Living in the Lap of the Goddess_. = It=20 was published within the last year or two. I don't remember how much it=20 goes into the early religions; it focuses much more on the modern = goddess=20 worship. She has also written "Relativizing the Patriarchy: the Sacred=20 History of the Feminist Spirituality Movement" in _His. of Religions_=20 (vol.30n.3, p.279-296). If you want to tie in the modern goddess worship, that is a whole new=20 load of sources, and Eller's could be enough for you, but I would=20 recommend that you explore the Dianic Wiccans, which are the most=20 consciously feminist and which have lesbian groups. In the context of=20 your course, the reason WHY they are called "Dianic" is fascinating. I=20 have done a bit of research on this and it's hard to find much, so if=20 anyone knows of better sources than the entry on "Diana" in Barbara G.=20 Walker's _Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets_ (Harper&Row 1983),=20 please email me. And if you want to know everything I've turned up about = the term "Dianic" so far, let me know. I'm sure your students would love selections from the _Woman's=20 Encyclopedia_, listed above. Regarding pre-Vedic Indus Valley civilizations, I have sources, but my=20 search for materials was not extensive at the time. There are feminist=20 books that incorporate a chapter or less into a broad discussion of=20 ancient goddess religions. At least you can start with these: Baring, Anne and Jules Cashford, _The Myth of the Goddess_ (Viking = Arkana=20 1991). Gadon, Elinor S. _The Once and Future Goddess_ (Harper&Row 1989). Some older (nonfeminist) sources I was able to use are: Wheeler, Sir M. _The Indus Civilization_ (Cambridge UP, 1968). Zimmer, Heinrich. _Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization_=20 (Princeton UP, 1974). The names of the sites of the Indus Valley region are Harrapa, = Moenjodaro=20 (or Mohenjo Daro), and Chandhudaro. Occasionally the whole region will=20 be called "Harappan". I think the pre-Vedic civ. is underestimated as an important area for=20 feminist study. More attention seems to go to Minoan Crete: for an=20 excellent exploration of the importance of Crete, see Riane Eisler's=20 _Chalice and the Blade_(Harper&Row1987)--she does make some references = to=20 the Indus Valley civ., and her description of the Aryan invasions, and=20 their devastating effect on the goddess cultures, are valuable and=20 readable for your course (see chapters 2-4, I believe). 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communes and the such for a student's research project. Please respond privately: ramalho@susqu.edu Tania Ramalho Susquehanna University Selinsgrove, Penna 17870 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:00:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Pershing Subject: Conference announcement CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Gender in International Perspective: Cross Cultural Approaches to Research and Teaching, June 12, 1996, State University of New York at Albany The conference is open to the public and is intended for faculty, students and others interested in Women's Studies, Area Studies, and Ethnic Studies. Guest scholars representing various regions of the world and a wide range of disciplines will be the featured speakers at the conference. They include: Rhoda Kadalie (South Africa), Nalova Lyonga (Cameroon); Krassimira Daskalova and Kornelia Merdjanska (Bulgaria); Valentina Konstantinova and Marina Palei (Russia); Norma Stoltz Chinchilla (Central America), and Mary Garcia Castro (Brazil). Conference themes will include: Feminisms around the world: theory, research, and practice; Curricular issues in the USA and abroad; Women's Place in an increasingly interdependent world: democracy, development and technology. For further information regarding the conference, please contact: Francine Frank, Co-Director "Internationalizing Women's Studies" c/o Women's Studies Department SS 341 University at Albany, SUNY Albany, NY 12222 Tel. (518) 442-4034 Fax (518)442-4188 e-mail fwf@cnsvax.albany.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:57:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah A. Elliston" Subject: Re: FW: utopian experiments In-Reply-To: I suspect that most of the recent (past 20-30 years) utopias (I'd hesitate to call them experiments) created by women are the women's lands founded and peopled by lesbian separatists. There is a periodic journal/newsletter entitled _Lesbian Connection_, which comes out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and which used to publish, regularly, items about women's/womyn's land, so I'd direct your student to that source. One of _LC_'s 6 issues per year is a kind of directory of lesbian culture, and it would be that issue which would have information on women's land in it. Her local women's bookstore should either have a recent issue of _LC_ or be able to give her their address. There is a national lesbian separatist organization, as well, but I don't have their information. Maybe _LC_ would list it. On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Ramalho, Tania (MSMAIL) wrote: > I would appreciate receiving information about recent and/or present utopian > experiments by women, including works on women's lands, women's communes and > the such for a student's research project. > Please respond privately: > > ramalho@susqu.edu > > Tania Ramalho > Susquehanna University > Selinsgrove, Penna 17870 > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:58:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Sattler Subject: Re: FW: utopian experiments In-Reply-To: Please post these to the list! Thanks... On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Ramalho, Tania (MSMAIL) wrote: > I would appreciate receiving information about recent and/or present utopian > experiments by women, including works on women's lands, women's communes and > the such for a student's research project. > Please respond privately: > > ramalho@susqu.edu > > Tania Ramalho > Susquehanna University > Selinsgrove, Penna 17870 > Cheryl Sattler csattler@CapAccess.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:35:50 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: brenda beagan Subject: Re: FW: utopian experiments In-Reply-To: there's also a women's newsletter/periodical that comes from somewhere in the southwestern US called Maize, for and about lesbians on the land and a book called Lesbian Land from the same publishers brenda beagan@uinxg.ubc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:26:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Douglas Eby Subject: resources for gifted women Articles and other resources for gifted women: http://users.aol.com/douglaseby/ Basic articles etc. also available via email upon request: Douglas Eby ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 14:50:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gloria Cohen Subject: research I am currently working on a paper which deals specifically with the impact of first amendment rights on women's lives (issues). I would appreciate any resources, commments, insights whichy you might find helpful. Thanks so much. Please reply to me personally. Gloria T. Cohen-Dion Asst. Prof. Political Science Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, PA gcohen@planetx.bloomu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:05:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sharon Parrott (AMS)" Subject: course in British & Amer. Lit. by women A professor of mine, Dr. Laura Runge-Gordon has asked me to query this list for her. She teaches a course in British & American Literature by Women using the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women and supplemented with some contemporary novels (i.e. Morrison's "The Bluest Eye, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Chopin's "The Awakening", Bronte's "Jane Eyre"). In an application to credential the course, the university has asked her what other Institutions offer similar courses. Please respond to her privately at: runge@chuma.cas.usf.edu. Thank you ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:01:12 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: Men and Feminism I am currently working on a paper on men and feminist ethnography. I have the book "Men in Feminism" and few articles. Am looking for references on both sides of the arguments on whether men can be feminists. Especially interested in those that apply to social science, an in particular anthropology. Please send these references directly to me rather than the list. I will send the results to the list. Dawn Atkins dawn-atkins@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:10:31 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times In-Reply-To: <01BB14E7.6108FB00@ts1p5.candw.ag> On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Anne Marie Pollowy wrote: > europe and middle-east. Does anyone have any references about = > goddess(es) and pre=3Dpatriarchal societies in ancient Egypt (also known = > as Kemet)? Try Patricia Springborg's book on Egypt -- the title begins with _Royal_ -- left my copy at "work"! It isn't quite what you want but there is a massive biblio.. --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:30:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Molinda Lauxmiller Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times In-Reply-To: <01BB14E7.6108FB00@ts1p5.candw.ag> Have you checked out Isis and Nut? There are many sources - one that comes to mind is the book by Vicki Noble "Motherpeace: The Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art, and Tarot" Molinda On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Anne Marie Pollowy wrote: > In my readings I have noticed that most of the work deals with ancient = > europe and middle-east. Does anyone have any references about = > goddess(es) and pre=3Dpatriarchal societies in ancient Egypt (also known = > as Kemet)? > Thanks > Anne-Marie > > ---------- > From: Vashti Braha (SAR)[SMTP:braha@VIRTU.SAR.USF.EDU] > Sent: Monday, March 18, 1996 10:00 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L > Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times > > Cynthia Eller is the one who wrote _Living in the Lap of the Goddess_. = > It=20 > was published within the last year or two. I don't remember how much it=20 > goes into the early religions; it focuses much more on the modern = > goddess=20 > worship. She has also written "Relativizing the Patriarchy: the Sacred=20 > History of the Feminist Spirituality Movement" in _His. of Religions_=20 > (vol.30n.3, p.279-296). > > If you want to tie in the modern goddess worship, that is a whole new=20 > load of sources, and Eller's could be enough for you, but I would=20 > recommend that you explore the Dianic Wiccans, which are the most=20 > consciously feminist and which have lesbian groups. In the context of=20 > your course, the reason WHY they are called "Dianic" is fascinating. I=20 > have done a bit of research on this and it's hard to find much, so if=20 > anyone knows of better sources than the entry on "Diana" in Barbara G.=20 > Walker's _Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets_ (Harper&Row 1983),=20 > please email me. And if you want to know everything I've turned up about = > > the term "Dianic" so far, let me know. > > I'm sure your students would love selections from the _Woman's=20 > Encyclopedia_, listed above. > > Regarding pre-Vedic Indus Valley civilizations, I have sources, but my=20 > search for materials was not extensive at the time. There are feminist=20 > books that incorporate a chapter or less into a broad discussion of=20 > ancient goddess religions. At least you can start with these: > Baring, Anne and Jules Cashford, _The Myth of the Goddess_ (Viking = > Arkana=20 > 1991). > Gadon, Elinor S. _The Once and Future Goddess_ (Harper&Row 1989). > > Some older (nonfeminist) sources I was able to use are: > Wheeler, Sir M. _The Indus Civilization_ (Cambridge UP, 1968). > Zimmer, Heinrich. _Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization_=20 > (Princeton UP, 1974). > > The names of the sites of the Indus Valley region are Harrapa, = > Moenjodaro=20 > (or Mohenjo Daro), and Chandhudaro. Occasionally the whole region will=20 > be called "Harappan". > > I think the pre-Vedic civ. is underestimated as an important area for=20 > feminist study. More attention seems to go to Minoan Crete: for an=20 > excellent exploration of the importance of Crete, see Riane Eisler's=20 > _Chalice and the Blade_(Harper&Row1987)--she does make some references = > to=20 > the Indus Valley civ., and her description of the Aryan invasions, and=20 > their devastating effect on the goddess cultures, are valuable and=20 > readable for your course (see chapters 2-4, I believe). Perhaps better=20 > focus is lacking for the Indus Valley because =B2=D0=FB > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:12:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Robbins Subject: Re: WMST-L Digest - 18 Mar 1996 to 19 Mar 1996 A colleague from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), on behalf of a Radio Canada journalist, is looking for the exact number of Women's Studies or Feminist Studies programs in universities in the U.S. If anyone has this figure, or a bibliographic source for it, please let =46rancine Descarries know at the address below. Many thanks. Un journaliste de Radio Canada me demandait s'il =E9tait possible d'avancer un chiffre assez pr=E9cis concernant le nombre de programme en Women's Studies ou en =C9tudes f=E9ministes offerts dans les universit=E9s am=E9rica= ines. Est-ce que l'une d'entre vous aurait cette information ou une r=E9f=E9rence bibliographique ou je pourrais trouver une telle information. MERCI =46rancine Descarries Directrice Etudes graduees Departement de sociolgie, UQAM "descarries.francine" Wendy Robbins wjr@unb.ca Wendy J. Robbins, Ph.D. Dept. of English University of New Brunswick Box 4400 =46redericton NB E3B 5A3 =46AX: (506) 453-5069 PHONE: (506) 453-4676 x. 7411 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:23:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times In-Reply-To: Not to be a stick-in-the-mud, but I'm curious as to why people believe that the presence of Goddesses are evidence that religion was pre- or less patriarchal. The archaeological evidence actually seems to indicate that the presence of goddesses isn't relevant to the extent of patriarchy in a culture. has anyone actually provided good evidence that godesses in any of these cultures are reflections of more egalitarian relationships in the society, or is this all conjecture? Alana Suskin ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:12:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: women and TV In-Reply-To: Also, Bharati Mukherjee's JASMINE, a marvelous novel, contains a section on Jasmine and the Home Shopping Network, as well as some related material prior to that. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Joshua Fausty wrote: > Bharati Mukherejee's WIFE > Daniela Gioseffi's story "Rosa in Television Land" > > (Texts dealing with women's relationship to TV) > > Edi Giunta > Faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 21:19:33 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: research In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 20 Mar 1996 14:50:23 -0500 from Consider Catherine MacKinnon's last 2 chapters in her book, "Toward a feminist theory of the state." She does an interesting analysis of the state and juris- prudence, which focuses on the problematic of rights and gender. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:31:28 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anna Maree Parkinson Subject: Re: SUBVERSIONS- A NEW CONFEREN In-Reply-To: > SUBVERSIONS: A NEW CONFERENCE. PLEASE PASS ON TO ANY INTERESTED ENTITIES. ALL > WELCOME. > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ///// * /// SUBVERSIONS /// * /// SUBVERSIONS /// * /// SUBVERSIONS /// > * ///// > //////////////// Challenging feminisms in contemporary formations > ///////////////// > //////////// An interdisciplinary postgraduate and community conference > ////////////// > //////////////////////////// APRIL 27 - 28 1996 > //////////////////////////// > ///////////////////////////// Graduate Centre > ////////////////////////////// > //////////////////////// The University of Melbourne > ////////////////////////// > /////////////////////////// Victoria, Australia > ////////////////////////////// > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > > KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR VANDANA SHIVA > > o mapping the intersections and collisions of feminist theory and practice > o critiquing feminism as a point of departure for activism and community > politics > o exploring identity, subjectivity and difference in cyberspace and the real > > ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER > Dr Vandana Shiva is the Director of the Research Foundation for Science, > Technology and Natural Resource Policy in Dehra Dun, India. She is a > Consultant to the FAO and member of the Indian Government National > Environmental Council. Dr Shiva founded the Foundation in 1982 as an > independent body dedicated to high quality research addressing the most > significant ecological and social issues of our times, in close partnership > with local communities and social movements. > Dr Shiva has also written Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, The > Violence of the Green Revolution, and Third World Agriculture, Ecology and > Politics, as well as co-authoring Ecofeminism with Maria Mies. > > PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE > > SATURDAY 27 APRIL > > 10 - 10.45 Registration > 10.45 Opening, Dr Moira Gatens > 11 - 12 Keynote Address: Dr Vandana Shiva, Director of the Research > Foundation for Science, > Technology and Resource Policy, New Delhi, India > 12 - 1.00 Lunch > 1.00 - 2.30 Concurrent Sessions: Academia and Activism. > An exploration of activism and community politics; where > feminisms are located in the > academy, and feminist pedagogy and epistemology. > 2.30 - 3.00 Afternoon Tea > 3.00 - 5.00 Panel Discussion: The political potentialities of feminism. > A critical examination of the viability of feminism as a site of > identification will be the point of departure in a discussion of activisms and > community politics, including anti-racism, sexual violence, representation and > Aboriginal politics. > Speakers include Dr Adrian Howe, Criminology, La Trobe University; Lisa > Bellear, Masters candidate at the University of Melbourne and long-time Koori > activist; Catherine Gow, Masters candidate at La Trobe and also a long-time > community activist and Dr Jenna Mead, English, University of Tasmania. > Facilitated by Dr Joy Damousi, History, University of Melbourne. > 7.00 pm Swish > A sensational 18 piece all women's cabaret orchestra playing a unique blend of > soulful rhythm and blues, punchy Latin grooves and classic swing. Enjoy > dinner, drinks or just coffee at the new GraduateCcentre bar and bistro to the > sounds of Swish. Free entry to conference participants, $5 entry for all > others. > > SUNDAY 28 APRIL > > 11 am New technologies and new subversions > Panel discussion on cyberspace as a site for subversive practices and the > creation of new virtual communities and subjectivities, and on the role of > related technologies in the workplace and in activism, art and culture. > Speakers include Justina Curtis of WomenZnet, Virginia Barratt and Zoe > Sofoulis of VNS Matrix; Audrey Yue, PhD candidate at La Trobe University and > co-founder of Interlesbian; and Milly Fels, PhD candidate at RMIT. > Facilitated by Dr Annie Dugdale, History and Philosophy of Science, University > of Melbourne. > 12.30 pm LUNCH > 1.30 pm Concurrent papers: Subjectivity and Feminist practices > An exploration of the subject within feminisms, and of the > potentialities of virtuality for > identity formation and for reformulating approaches to > subjectivity and feminist practices. > 3.00 Afternoon tea > 3.15 pm Closing panel: Tactical Identities. > Panel discussion on the ways in which theories around identity and difference > shape and problematise feminist practices, and the ways in which coalitions > between different groups can become possible. > Speakers include: Dr Moira Gatens, Philosophy, the University of Sydney, Adele > Murdolo, PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne and worker at Women in > Industry and Community Health; Sharon Barnes of Yuroke Koori Students > Association at the University of Melbourne; and Sue O'Sullivan, writer and > long-time feminist and queer activist. Facilitated by Dr Marion Campbell, > English Literature, University of Melbourne. > 5 pm Drinks > > Plus: Multimedia exhibition - CD Roms, 3D works, textiles and works on paper > by Linda Dement, Josie Kristenson, Natasha Dwyer, Maxine Addinsall and Julie > Clarke. > > FOR INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FORMS CONTACT: > > The University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association Inc > Graduate Centre, The University of Melbourne > Grattan Street, Parkville Vic 3052 > tel (03) 9344 8657 > fax (03) 9347 1257 > email umpa@pgrad. unimelb.edu.au > > Registration is $40 for full time workers and $25 for students/part time and > unwaged workers, and free childcare is provided (booking required). Everyone > is welcome. Please note no refunds given for cancellations made after 12 > April. The conference venue is entirely wheelchair accessible. > > Accommodation is available at Elizabeth Towers 792 Elizabeth St, Melbourne > Victoria, freecall:1800 804 202 for $89 per night or at The Townhouse 701 > Swanston st, Carlton 3054 freecall 1800 333001 for $95 per night. Note these > are discounted costs and you will need a letter of confirmation from the > Postgraduate Association in order to receive these discounts. > > SUBVERSIONS is brought to you by > The University of Melbourne Postgraduate aAssociation Inc, The William > Buckland Foundation > through the School of Graduate Studies and Routledge Pty Ltd. > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:25:26 +0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf Subject: cfp for m/mla I'm interested in participating in Julie Tharp's conference on pregnancy and childbirth in Nov (dateline for abstract submission is on April 1) but her e-mail add. bounces on me. Will Julie Tharp enclose her e-mail add. and fax number once more, please? Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf, English Dept, The Flinders Uni. of South Australia, SA 5042, Australia. E-mail Faridah@flinders.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 05:01:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diane L. Fowlkes" Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times In-Reply-To: Gerda Lerner in _Creation of Patriarchy_ finds that the erasure or transformation of goddesses from creators to handmaidens of gods occurred in the later stage of the emergence ofwestern patriarchy. Robert Graves characterizes Greek mythology as narrating the transformation of egalitarian or matriarchal societies into patriarchies. Diane Fowlkes wsidlf@gsusgi2.gsu.edu On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, the Cheshire Cat wrote: > Not to be a stick-in-the-mud, but I'm curious as to why people believe > that the presence of Goddesses are evidence that religion was pre- or > less patriarchal. The archaeological evidence actually seems to indicate > that the presence of goddesses isn't relevant to the extent of patriarchy > in a culture. has anyone actually provided good evidence that godesses in > any of these cultures are reflections of more egalitarian relationships > in the society, or is this all conjecture? > > Alana Suskin > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 06:20:10 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Eller Subject: competition (fwd) Dear readers, A graduate student and I have been searching the literature (mostly sociological and soc-psy) looking for references on interpersonal competition between women. We have had limited success. Although competition for men is of some interest, she is concerned primarily with competition for attention/recognition etc between women (say between students for the professor's attention, and so on). She is looking at race, class, and age as contributing variables. We have had some success in the literature on women's friendships, but... Does anyone know of an excellent source or sources on this topic? I would be more precise, but she is just beginning to pull her ideas together and I don't wish to define her research problem for her. You may wish to respond privately to this request. Thanks in advance. jackie eller Sociology MTSU Box 126 Murfreesboro, TN 37132 jaeller@frank.mtsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:03:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie Tharp Subject: Roberta Hill Whiteman I'm looking for an address for Roberta Hill Whiteman. She used to teach at UW-Eau Claire, but I don't find her listed there any more. Does anyone know where she is now? Thanks, Julie Tharp jtharp@uwcmail.uwc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:46:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times In-Reply-To: On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Diane L. Fowlkes wrote: > Gerda Lerner in _Creation of Patriarchy_ finds that the erasure or > in the later stage of the emergence ofwestern patriarchy. Robert Graves . Actually I was asking if anyone had provided *evidence* for these views rather than conjecture. I haven't read the Graves book, but Lerner does not. Alana ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:48:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DORIS RUCKS Subject: Re[2]: Pre-patriarchal times ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB14E7.6119C3E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable nnnny readings I have noticed that most of the work deals with ancient = europe and middle-east. Does anyone have any references about = goddess(es) and pre=3Dpatriarchal societies in ancient Egypt (also known = as Kemet)? Thanks Anne-Marie ---------- From: Vashti Braha (SAR)[SMTP:braha@VIRTU.SAR.USF.EDU] Sent: Monday, March 18, 1996 10:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times Cynthia Eller is the one who wrote _Living in the Lap of the Goddess_. = It=20 was published within the last year or two. I don't remember how much it=20 goes into the early religions; it focuses much more on the modern = goddess=20 worship. She has also written "Relativizing the Patriarchy: the Sacred=20 History of the Feminist Spirituality Movement" in _His. of Religions_=20 (vol.30n.3, p.279-296). If you want to tie in the modern goddess worship, that is a whole new=20 load of sources, and Eller's could be enough for you, but I would=20 recommend that you explore the Dianic Wiccans, which are the most=20 consciously feminist and which have lesbian groups. In the context of=20 your course, the reason WHY they are called "Dianic" is fascinating. I=20 have done a bit of research on this and it's hard to find much, so if=20 anyone knows of better sources than the entry on "Diana" in Barbara G.=20 Walker's _Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets_ (Harper&Row 1983),=20 please email me. And if you want to know everything I've turned up about = exit the term "Dianic" so far, let me know. I'm sure your students would love selections from the _Woman's=20 Encyclopedia_, listed above. Regarding pre-Vedic Indus Valley civilizations, I have sources, but my=20 search for materials was not extensive at the time. There are feminist=20 books that incorporate a chapter or less into a broad discussion of=20 ancient goddess religions. At least you can start with these: Baring, Anne and Jules Cashford, _The Myth of the Goddess_ (Viking = Arkana=20 1991). Gadon, Elinor S. _The Once and Future Goddess_ (Harper&Row 1989). Some older (nonfeminist) sources I was able to use are: Wheeler, Sir M. _The Indus Civilization_ (Cambridge UP, 1968). Zimmer, Heinrich. _Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization_=20 (Princeton UP, 1974). The names of the sites of the Indus Valley region are Harrapa, = Moenjodaro=20 (or Mohenjo Daro), and Chandhudaro. Occasionally the whole region will=20 be called "Harappan". I think the pre-Vedic civ. is underestimated as an important area for=20 feminist study. More attention seems to go to Minoan Crete: for an=20 excellent exploration of the importance of Crete, see Riane Eisler's=20 _Chalice and the Blade_(Harper&Row1987)--she does make some references = to=20 the Indus Valley civ., and her description of the Aryan invasions, and=20 their devastating effect on the goddess cultures, are valuable and=20 readable for your course (see chapters 2-4, I believe). 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I'd appreciate any kind of advice, book suggestions, etc., that anyone out there can give me. Please respond privately. Thanks! Stacey Hendren sahendren@cc.memphis.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:24:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Inappropriate research queries The following message was recently sent to the list: > I'm currently writing a research paper on Joan Didion, primarily focusing on > "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." I'd appreciate any kind of advice, book > suggestions, etc., that anyone out there can give me. Please respond > privately. I'd like to remind everyone that WMST-L is not an appropriate place for undergraduates to seek help with their term papers and class projects. Though professors, advanced graduate students, and other advanced researchers are welcome to send queries to aid them in their research, they should not turn to WMST-L before they have explored the resources available in their libraries and elsewhere. Queries to WMST-L should indicate briefly what research has been done. Let me try to explain the reasons for discouraging undergraduates from seeking help with their term papers and class projects on WMST-L. Almost from the start, WMST-L has had a problem with heavy mail volume. Some people can read WMST-L only at work and have very little time to sort through huge numbers of messages; others have a very small disk space allotment; still others have to pay for each message they receive. Because very heavy mail volume would force these people off the list, a number of guidelines have been put in place to help keep the mail volume moderate. One of those guidelines is that WMST-L is not an appropriate place for undergraduates seeking help with term papers and class projects. This is stated clearly in the welcome letter. Tens of thousands of undergraduates take Women's Studies courses each semester. If we were to open the list to their inquiries, the mail volume would become intolerable for many of the subscribers for whom the list was primarily designed: women's studies professors, researchers (including graduate students), librarians, and program administrators. No list can be all things to all people. The WMST-L filelist contains a file called OTHER LISTS that describes MANY other women- and gender-related lists that may better meet some people's needs. If WMST-L's focus is not what you would like, simply send the message UNSUB WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. (If that doesn't work, write to me PRIVATELY and I'll unsub you.) This issue has been discussed in the past; doing so again would serve no useful purpose and would simply add to the mail volume. Thus, please do NOT send replies or comments about it to WMST-L. Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:30:45 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marjanne Gooze' Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:23:20 -0500 from I just finished teaching our feminist theory class and most of the class was ve ry critical of writers--from Engels to Mary Daly--who seem to invent pre-writte n western and non-european pre-patriarchies out of whole cloth. It seems that this discussion should meld well with that on utopias. We look for past models --even if we have to invent them--as a basis for future dreams. I look forward to more solid archeological evidence--but I also agree that goddess worship do es not equate with a femiist utopia. Further, it was noted that much of our wi shful thinking has been projected by western european and white american femini sts onto native american, african, near eastern and asian cultures. Marjanne E. Gooze' Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Langs. University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Telephone: Office: (706) 542-2450; Home: (706) 549-2831 E-Mail: MGOOZE@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:48:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Constance J Ostrowski Subject: legal language research in Sweden I'm posting the following request for a friend and colleague who can't at this moment subscribe to wmst-l; if you are interested in the following or know of someone who is, could you please contact her directly at moskow@eng.gu.se, and not hit "reply" to send to the list? Thank you. Connie Ostrowski ostroc@rpi.edu ------------------------------------ I have just come across a notice for applying for grants to fund research on women and (gender) equality in Sweden (Kvinno- och Jamstalldhetsforskning). I am an American on the faculty in Goteborg and have conducted ethnographic and discourse analysis on language used between lawyers and female clients, and language used in court. The primary sources have come from New York State (I have had funding in Sweden from Kvinnlight-Manlight forskningsprogrammet). I would like to continue this, and make it a comparative study with the situation in Sweden, but my Swedish is not fluent enough to do discourse analysis in that language. I am therefore asking if anyone on this list is also in Sweden and would be interested in applying jointly for the funding as a collaborative project (it is available only in Sweden). the deadline for application is April 15, so please contact me as soon as you can. Anne Moskow Engelska Institutionen Gotesborgs Universitet 412 98 Goteborg Tel: +46 (0)31 773 1779 Fax: +46 (0)31 773 4726 e-mail: moskow@eng.gu.se ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:18:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: Cosmetic surgery The Body Image Task Force received a call from the BBC. They are doing a show about cosmetic surgery in America. They are looking for a feminist critic of the surgeries who can talk about the body image acceptance issues. The problem is they want someone in Southern California. Since I am in Iowa, I can't do it. I could consult with whoever is going to do it. We will need to give them an answer sometime this afternoon. Please contact me immediately if you think you can help. Dawn Atkins dawn-atkins@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:22:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carol L Hale-Wood (Carol L. Hale-Wood)" Subject: Re: Roberta Hill Whiteman She's at UW-Madison. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Carol L. Hale-Wood Department of English 617 Hibbard Hall 715-836-2761 University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Eau Claire WI 54701 halewocl@uwec.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:30:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: WMST-L Digest - 18 Mar 1996 to 19 Mar 1996 In-Reply-To: <199603210012.UAA15530@unb.ca> The NWSA has put out such information. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Wendy Robbins wrote: > A colleague from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), on behalf o= f > a Radio Canada journalist, is looking for the exact number of Women's > Studies or Feminist Studies programs in universities in the U.S. >=20 > If anyone has this figure, or a bibliographic source for it, please let > Francine Descarries know at the address below. >=20 > Many thanks. >=20 > Un journaliste de Radio Canada me demandait s'il =E9tait possible d'avanc= er > un chiffre assez pr=E9cis concernant le nombre de programme en Women's > Studies ou en =C9tudes f=E9ministes offerts dans les universit=E9s am=E9r= icaines. > Est-ce que l'une d'entre vous aurait cette information ou une r=E9f=E9ren= ce > bibliographique ou je pourrais trouver une telle information. >=20 > MERCI >=20 >=20 > Francine Descarries > Directrice > Etudes graduees > Departement de sociolgie, UQAM >=20 > "descarries.francine" >=20 > Wendy Robbins > wjr@unb.ca >=20 >=20 >=20 > Wendy J. Robbins, Ph.D. > Dept. of English > University of New Brunswick > Box 4400 > Fredericton NB E3B 5A3 >=20 > FAX: (506) 453-5069 > PHONE: (506) 453-4676 x. 7411 >=20 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:41:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Erica Cathleen Neuman Subject: Re: WMST-L Digest - 18 Mar 1996 to 19 Mar 1996 In-Reply-To: nsdm GuF^S ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:52:33 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stacey Hendren Subject: Re: Inappropriate research queries I am _not_ an undergraduate, I am both a third year graduate student, as well as a T.A. for undergraduate English courses. I have thoroughly explored the library at school and in the Memphis area. The problem is that our libraries aren't as up to date as many other libraries out there, and I was hoping to find out about some more obscure writings on Joan Didion that subscribers to this list may know about. I decided not to go into a huge amount of detail on the research I've already accomplished in order to simply make the request direct and to the point, especially in light of how many messages we all receive from this list. Stacey Hendren >The following message was recently sent to the list: > >> I'm currently writing a research paper on Joan Didion, primarily focusing on >> "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." I'd appreciate any kind of advice, book >> suggestions, etc., that anyone out there can give me. Please respond >> privately. > > I'd like to remind everyone that WMST-L is not an appropriate place >for undergraduates to seek help with their term papers and class projects. >Though professors, advanced graduate students, and other advanced >researchers are welcome to send queries to aid them in their research, they >should not turn to WMST-L before they have explored the resources available >in their libraries and elsewhere. Queries to WMST-L should indicate >briefly what research has been done. > > Let me try to explain the reasons for discouraging undergraduates >from seeking help with their term papers and class projects on WMST-L. >Almost from the start, WMST-L has had a problem with heavy mail volume. >Some people can read WMST-L only at work and have very little time to sort >through huge numbers of messages; others have a very small disk space >allotment; still others have to pay for each message they receive. Because >very heavy mail volume would force these people off the list, a number of >guidelines have been put in place to help keep the mail volume moderate. >One of those guidelines is that WMST-L is not an appropriate place for >undergraduates seeking help with term papers and class projects. This is >stated clearly in the welcome letter. Tens of thousands of undergraduates >take Women's Studies courses each semester. If we were to open the list to >their inquiries, the mail volume would become intolerable for many of the >subscribers for whom the list was primarily designed: women's studies >professors, researchers (including graduate students), librarians, and >program administrators. > > No list can be all things to all people. The WMST-L filelist >contains a file called OTHER LISTS that describes MANY other women- and >gender-related lists that may better meet some people's needs. If WMST-L's >focus is not what you would like, simply send the message UNSUB WMST-L >to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. (If that doesn't work, write to me PRIVATELY and >I'll unsub you.) > > This issue has been discussed in the past; doing so again would >serve no useful purpose and would simply add to the mail volume. Thus, >please do NOT send replies or comments about it to WMST-L. > > Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. > > Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu > Bitnet: korenman@umbc > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:06:23 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lori West Peterson Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times Merlin Stone's (somewhat dated) book "When God was a Woman" (1976). Harcourt Brace & Co. addresses the issue, and provides some evidence for, Goddess worship as a reflection of more egalitarian relationships in those ancient societies. Lori West Peterson ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:28:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tamara Agha-Jaffar Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal Goddesses Merlin Stone's Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World. Boston: Beacon Press,1990. Contains stories about goddess figures from around the world. It is the most comprehensive study of its sort that I have found to date. Hope this helps Tamara WSKCKCC@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:32:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tamara Agha-Jaffar imbutas' Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe. She will provide you with ample archeaological evidence that goddess cultures were indeed peaceful, earth-loving, and egalitarian. Tamara WSKCKCC@aol.com _______ In a message dated 96-03-20 19:27:27 EST, you write: >Not to be a stick-in-the-mud, but I'm curious as to why people believe >that the presence of Goddesses are evidence that religion was pre- or >less patriarchal. The archaeological evidence actually seems to indicate >that the presence of goddesses isn't relevant to the extent of patriarchy >in a culture. has anyone actually provided good evidence that godesses in >any of these cultures are reflections of more egalitarian relationships >in the society, or is this all conjecture? > >Alana Suskin ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:03:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Inappropriate research queries > I am _not_ an undergraduate, I am both a third year graduate student, as > well as a T.A. for undergraduate English courses. I have thoroughly > explored the library at school and in the Memphis area. The problem is that > our libraries aren't as up to date as many other libraries out there, and I > was hoping to find out about some more obscure writings on Joan Didion that > subscribers to this list may know about. > > I decided not to go into a huge amount of detail on the research I've > already accomplished in order to simply make the request direct and to the > point, especially in light of how many messages we all receive from this list. Frankly, it doesn't matter whether or not one is an undergraduate. The Didion query sounded indistinguishable from the unfocused requests for help that undergraduates have at times sent to the list. The person may have thought she was being helpful in not telling anyone what she'd already looked at, but in fact she was not. Her message essentially asked, "tell me what's out there"; people might then waste their time and hers telling her about basic works with which she was already familiar. Had she SAID that she'd already explored her institution's library and was now hoping to find out about some more obscure writings on Joan Didion, her query would have been far more useful and appropriate. I'm replying publicly not to embarrass the person who sent the query but to help others to avoid the same pitfall in making queries. 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: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:20:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diane L. Fowlkes" Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times In-Reply-To: Actually Lerner does more than "conjecture." She provides as much evidence as possible from prehistoric times and argues by inference. I doubt that we can expect more than that until more artefacts and other such evidence are found. Diane Fowlkes On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, the Cheshire Cat wrote: > On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Diane L. Fowlkes wrote: > > > Gerda Lerner in _Creation of Patriarchy_ finds that the erasure or > > in the later stage of the emergence ofwestern patriarchy. Robert Graves > . > > Actually I was asking if anyone had provided *evidence* for these views > rather than conjecture. I haven't read the Graves book, but Lerner does not. > > Alana > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:32:59 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stacey Hendren Subject: Reworded Didion Request Okay, let's try this again. I'm currently conducting research on Joan Didion, focusing primarily on "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." I only have two texts to work with so far, Michelle C. Loris's "Innocence, Loss and Recovery in the Art of Joan Didion," (published 7 years ago) and "Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations," edited by Ellen G. Friedman (published 12 years ago). The library situation here, both at the University and in Memphis in general, is not as advanced as most places in the US, so I'm wondering, does anyone out there have any recommendations for some more recent work on Didion, perhaps some reference to more obscure sources which I may not have direct access to?? I apologize for being so brief in my first post; I hope that because of the banter back and forth, my chances to receive any recommendations haven't been ruined. I appreciate any and all suggestions; please respond via private e-mail. Thank you, Stacey Hendren sahendren@cc.memphis.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:25:25 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beth Subject: 1996 Youth Summit (fwd) The call for participants on this was posted a few months ago. This is a general registration form, which I hope faculty will take a moment to announce in classes. -beth ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 1996 YOUTH SUMMIT APRIL 13-14TH, 1996 HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE--AMHERST, MASS. organized BY YOUTH, FOR YOUTH sponsored by the National Child Rights Alliance Because two young people are infected with HIV every hour in the US alone! Because 10 kids are murdered every day by their parents or caretakers! Because youth all over the US are living in poverty! Because Conservative Christians oppose the Convention on the Rights of the Child! Because racism, sexism, and homophobia continue unabated! Because states are imposing curfews and other anti-youth legislation! Because the censorship of school newspapers is legal! Because states are limiting young women's rights to reproductive health care! Because public school systems are failing! Because violence is rampant! Because the Federal, State and local Governments want to cut funding for: Child abuse prevention and services, Education, Health Care for Youth, HIV prevention and services, Jobs for youth, Medicaid, Social services and a lot more!!! BECAUSE, WORKING TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! The 1996 Youth Summit will address such issues as AIDS, racism, child abuse, the student movement, environmental issues, free speech, mental health, runaway youth, queer youth, child labor and poverty, AIDS orphans, militarism in schools and many, many more topics. We, unfortunately, cannot provide transportation for conference participants. However, we will do our best to assist you with arranging carpools with people in your area. If you have questions about transportation or special concerns about food please call Sara or Karen at (413)549-4600 ext. 2429. Summit participants should bring sleeping bags, waterproof shoes, and eating utensils(if possible--plates and bowls are good too!). Meals will be provided from breakfast on Saturday through lunch on Sunday(we will have food available to meet all dietary needs). We're asking particpants to donate $2 for registration(and more if you can swing it.) If you absolutly cannot afford to donate anything, we will not exclude you from the Summit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM Name: __________________________________________ email: _________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________ Telephone: _____________________________________ Group(if applicable): __________________________ Return the complete form either by email or regular mail to: Juliana Grant 711 Arch St. Apt. 306 Ann Arbor MI 48104 jsgf@umich.edu Questions?? Cal Juliana at (313) 668-1589 Note: If you need a hardcopy of this brochure for distribution, please email Juliana. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:43:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelli Zaytoun Byrne Subject: second shift (fwd) Comments: To: wmst-l%umdd.bitnet@psuvm.psu.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 16:52:28 -0500 (EST) From: kbyrne@nova.wright.edu To: wmst-l%umdd.bitnet@psuvm.psu.edu Cc: kbyrne Subject: second shift I am searching for more information on a book published in the 80's(?) with "second shift" in the title. It apparently gives info. on gender and family/home roles. Is anyone aware of the title/author or any references with similar content? I posted a request recently asking for similar information but my e-mail went down the following day. It works now(!) please respond privately...really appreciate the help... kbyrne@nova.wright.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:14:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: Re: Reworded Didion Request In-Reply-To: <01I2LMQKBLR6926CPB@MSUVX1.MEMPHIS.EDU> You didn't say that you've used the basic bibliographical tools, so let me suggest that anyone with internet access can get to the Library of Congress catalog for free (use gopher or www) and do a subject search on Joan Didion (or any other subject) for books. Recent periodical articles on literary subjects are indexed in PMLA; that's got to be somewhere in Memphis, either in hardcopy or on CD Rom. Articles in books are indexed in the Essay and General Literature Index (I think that's the name of it). I don't mean to sound peckish, but if your librarian didn't point you to these tools, you really have a grievance against the library staff. 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 On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Stacey Hendren wrote: > Okay, let's try this again. I'm currently conducting research on Joan > Didion, focusing primarily on "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." I only have two > texts to work with so far, Michelle C. Loris's "Innocence, Loss and Recovery > in the Art of Joan Didion," (published 7 years ago) and "Joan Didion: Essays > and Conversations," edited by Ellen G. Friedman (published 12 years ago). > The library situation here, both at the University and in Memphis in > general, is not as advanced as most places in the US, so I'm wondering, does > anyone out there have any recommendations for some more recent work on > Didion, perhaps some reference to more obscure sources which I may not have > direct access to?? > > I apologize for being so brief in my first post; I hope that because of the > banter back and forth, my chances to receive any recommendations haven't > been ruined. > > I appreciate any and all suggestions; please respond via private e-mail. > > Thank you, > > Stacey Hendren > sahendren@cc.memphis.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:53:00 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Stienstra Subject: info request I'm forwarding this for a colleague. Please reply directly to the address below and NOT to me. I know nothing more than what is here. Deborah Stienstra ------original message------- I am hoping you will be able to give me some advice/information concerning people working in the area of late 18th/early 19th century women's studies. I am currently preparing a proposal for a PhD application for the University of Southampton (England). In working with my advisor, we are having some difficulty putting together an advisory committee, due in part, I suspect because I am approaching my topic from somewhat of a bizarre background. The focus of my research is early reformers, their ideology and the connection to fashionable dress. I am interested in British women from the period roughly,1780 to the 1820s. At this point I have been able to identify about 12 women who may be able to be defined as 'early reformers'. (I realize this definition will have to be clarified.) Within this group there appears to be three divisions: 1. radical reform (Mary Wollstonecraft); 2. qualified reform (Lady Montagu); and 3. educationalists (Anne Talbot). I would like your advice about the following: 1. Are you aware of anyone who is working in the area of late 18th century women's studies whom I could contact to discuss my proposed research? 2. Is there anyone you might recommend who could act as an external advisor on my committee. I don't know if this is your area or if you would be at all interested. 3. Do you have any thoughts, suggestions, etc. that you would give me concerning my study. I would appreciate any information and/or suggestions you are able to provide. I may be reached at: Heather M. Meiklejohn 1 Claremont Villas Southampton Way London SE5 7SS 0171-252-6758 (tel. & fax) email: taaa103@kcl.ac.uk Heather M. Meiklejohn ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 20:10:14 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: second shift (fwd) In-Reply-To: On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Kelli Zaytoun Byrne wrote: > I am searching for more information on a book published in the 80's(?) > with "second shift" in the title. It apparently gives info. on gender > and family/home roles. Is anyone aware of the title/author or any This may be silly -- but do you mean The Second Stage? (I couldn't locate "shift" and "second" on a keyword search.) --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:25:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mara Siegel Subject: Re: second shift (fwd) In-Reply-To: How about The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revoluion at Home. Arlie Hochschild. Viking. 1989. Mara ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:56:17 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Lamanna Subject: Re: second shift (fwd) In-Reply-To: from "Judy Evans" at Mar 21, 96 08:10:14 pm Arlie Hochschild. THE SECOND SHIFT: WORKING PARENTS AND THE REVOLUTION AT HOME. New York: Viking, 1989. It's good!! Mary Ann L. > > On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Kelli Zaytoun Byrne wrote: > > > I am searching for more information on a book published in the 80's(?) > > with "second shift" in the title. It apparently gives info. on gender > > and family/home roles. Is anyone aware of the title/author or any > > This may be silly -- but do you mean The Second Stage? (I couldn't > locate "shift" and "second" on a keyword search.) > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk > using voice-recognition software: please > ignore editing errors > --------------------------------------------------------------- > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:06:06 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: Re: second shift (fwd) Hi, The book you're referring to is called The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home by Arlie Hochschild - 1989 - Viking Penguin. Take care, Joan JStarker@teleport.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 23:19:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:32:26 -0500 from Gimbutas's evidence seems to me to rely to much on markings that can be inter- preted in various ways. it's not at all clear that the societies she describes as goddess worshipping (and solely goddess worshipping) were that. It's not persuasive to call every v-shaped marking and series of such markings as vagina There was a review of her book in Women's Review of Books about 3 years ago, too harsh, I thought, but useful to consider in a research project. On the problem of invention, a note of caution: Marjanne was careful to say "much" of the work that seems wish-fulfillment comes from the West. I'll point out one in India because I think it has a useful caveat. During the British rule in India, British officials worked with Brahmin priests and the work of a German philologist, Max Muller, to create an Aryan "golden age" of women's equality and strong men. My source is an Indian historian I consider reliable. The muthic golden age has served political purposes: rousing men and women to identify with national pride, religiosity, and anger at the pre-British invader (Mughals, Muslims, who remain a minority in India) who weakened men and robbed women of their legacy. So, anger at England could be deflected and "real" Ind- ians could feel respected by their rulers. It turned out that the story also served nationalism in the struggle for independence from England. The caveat I take from this: Watch out for political purpose that undergirds the research and the direction it takes you in - a familiar feminist guide. I am not objecting to historical excavations; they've served us, scholarship, well. And I'm not complaining about models to energize us. I am seconding Alana's question on evidence that the presence of female goddesses was benefici al. I don't consider it beneficial to valorize women in restricted, domestic, realms with birthgiving. And, I'm cautioning against returning to old religion s in new ways as distractions from struggles in the real world. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:04:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Jones Subject: Re: second shift (fwd) I have another book by the same author entitle SECOND SHIFT, and I believe it is a continuation/sequel to the first (alhtough I could be wrong). It was published in 1990 by Avon Books. At 02:56 PM 3/21/96 -0600, you wrote: >Arlie Hochschild. THE SECOND SHIFT: WORKING PARENTS AND THE >REVOLUTION AT HOME. New York: Viking, 1989. > >It's good!! > >Mary Ann L. > > >> >> On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Kelli Zaytoun Byrne wrote: >> >> > I am searching for more information on a book published in the 80's(?) >> > with "second shift" in the title. It apparently gives info. on gender >> > and family/home roles. Is anyone aware of the title/author or any >> >> This may be silly -- but do you mean The Second Stage? (I couldn't >> locate "shift" and "second" on a keyword search.) >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk >> using voice-recognition software: please >> ignore editing errors >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:30:08 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Felicia Bender Subject: straight queer/query Could the person who mentioned Calvin Thomas's book _Straight Queer_ on the list within the week please contact me privately. I didn't keep the person's name or address--I've tried to look this book up in our library, but to no avail. Our bookstore doesn't have a listing for it in their computer, either, although they have his most recent book published in 1996. I'd appreciate hearing from you! many thanks. Felicia Bender c391738@showme.missouri.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 07:40:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: your mail Comments: To: beatrice In-Reply-To: Dear Beatrice, It's always a pleasure to read your incisive posts on the WMST list. The one cautioning women researchers about pre-patriarchal times is a good case in point. I do believe that men and women were created equal (even the first chapter of Genesis bears this out, as do many folk tales) but that very quickly men seized the initiative. Certainly they wrote history. Goddess worship may have been a practice men did not cosider threatening rather than a practice indicating agency and control. Sigh. Liora Moriel University of Maryland ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 07:43:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: straight queer/query In-Reply-To: Please cc me as well -- I, too, had no luck finding the book through a computer search. Liora Moriel lioram@wam.umd.edu On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Felicia Bender wrote: > Could the person who mentioned Calvin Thomas's book _Straight Queer_ on the > list within the week please contact me privately. I didn't keep the > person's name or address--I've tried to look this book up in our library, > but to no avail. Our bookstore doesn't have a listing for it in their > computer, either, although they have his most recent book published in > 1996. > > I'd appreciate hearing from you! > > many thanks. > > > Felicia Bender > c391738@showme.missouri.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 08:24:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan D. Mandle" Subject: Mothers/Fathers/Tenure The March 22 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Stanford University Faculty Senate to allow "female professors who have children while seeking tenure to stop the tenure clock for as long as three years." The Senate also voted not to allow women and men who adopt children, or men whose wives have babies to delay their tenure bids. I want strongly to object to the decision to exempt adoptive parents and fathers from this decision. To the extent that feminists support gender- biased legislation such as this, we are reinforcing the cultural norms (which generally work to women's disadvantage - lessening their choices) that only women can or should raise children. This legislation by the Stanford faculty is commendable - recognizing that workers are parents too - but such a ruling should be gender neutral, allowing parents to decide for themselves who will raise children and how. The exemption for adoptive parents is especially mean-spirited I think. Finally, I doubt that such a generous policy has been extended to the rest of the university's (non-academic) employees. Obviously tenure is not relevant, but I think faculty should attempt to pressure their universities to accomodate the needs of non-academic parents as well. I believe that the question of who will raise our children and under what circumstances is unresolved both for advantaged parents in our society and especially for the poor. This issue could be one that unites a wide variety of groups and individuals around the need for high quality and affordable child care and flexibility among employers to accomodate the needs of working mothers and fathers. This is a demand that we can work on at the local level, at our places of employment, and at the Congressional level as well. Feminists should be in the forefront of this fight. It will help to liberate women and move towards equity however only if we frame it as a right of both women and men, not as something which locks women into the continuing primary responsibility for the next generation. Joan D. Mandle jdmandle@center.colgate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:59:58 MET Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Antje Hornscheidt Subject: request D. Cameron We plan a series of lectures on Feminisms and Postmodernims in Berlin in autumn 1996 to spring 1997 and would like to invite the linguist Deborah Cameron. Can anyone give us her address, email, telephone number? Please respond privately to antje=hornscheidt@german.hu-berlin.de Antje Hornscheidt Nordeuropa-Institut Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin Germany tel. 30 20196754 fax 30 20196625 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:28:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Jace Condravy" Subject: Rothenberg's Race, Class, and Gender Feminist educators, whether or not they actually teach women's studies classes, often work considerations of race, class, and gender into their courses. I am using Paula Rothenberg's anthology, Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study in my College Writing 103 (research writing) class and am getting mostly positive, but occasionally mixed, reviews from my students on the readings as a focus for their discussion and writing. Another colleague of mine will be using the text next semester, specifically because it includes pieces on class, a category often ignored by anthologies usually aimed at composition classes. Some of you may recall that this text was at least one of the texts that was to be used several years ago in an invited revision of the freshman writing program at the University of Texas, Austin. Right-wing, conservative scholars publically castigated the proposed program as propagandizing and inappropriate for first year students. The president of the university ultimately rejected the proposed program. My colleague and I are looking for one or two other writing teachers who use the Rothenberg text in their composition classroom to discuss its efficacy and student response in a roundtable discussion at the Conference of College Composition and Communication next April 1997 in Phoenix, AZ. The deadline for propsals is April 19. Please contact me privately at jcc@sruvm.sru.edu if you might be interested in joining our proposal. Thank you. Jace Condravy, Slippery Rock University. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:08:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: job, online conference, new list The following 3 announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Summer session teaching position (Nipissing U.) 2) Black Writers Online Conference March 21-24 3) New Ontario Women's Studies List For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Job Announcement - Summer Session Nipissing University (North Bay, Ontario) requires a qualified university instructor to teach the following course in Women's Studies/Social Welfare in Summer Session --- July 2 to August 20, 1996. SWLF 3445E - WOMEN AND SOCIAL WELFARE: This course examines policies and issues particularly of importance for women, including women's caring role in the family, the feminization of poverty, race, addiction, work and sexuality. Women's roles in the public and private spheres are explored to determine how these roles are interwoven and yet contradictory. (6 credits) Applicants with a Ph.D. will be given preference. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. The stipend for a six-week course is $5,845 plus moving and accomodation allowances. Letters of application with curriculum vitae, university transcripts should be sent to Professor Robert Berquist, Associate Dean of Arts and Science, Nipissing University, 100 College Drive, Box 5002, North Bay, Ontario P1B 8L7 ************************************************************************ **** 2) I'm including the following because it has participation by and the possibility for discussion of important contemporary black women writers. However, I have no more information; please do not write to ask me about the conference. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) BLACK WRITERS CONFERENCE TO INCLUDE INTERACTIVE INTERNET COMPONENT Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York will host the Fourth National Black Writers Conference in Brooklyn, NY on March 21-24. The theme is BLACK LITERATURE IN THE 90'S: A RENAISSANCE TO END ALL RENAISSANCES? A publicly accessible interactive version of the conference, hosted by Arts Wire, will be available on the World Wide Web at Those who can't make it to Brooklyn can respond to these issues on this World Wide Web version, implemented on Arts Wire's future virtual home, the server at The Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University.Keynote speakers for the conference are Paule Marshall and Amiri Baraka. Marita Golden, Terry McMillan, Bebe Moore Campbell, Walter Mosley, Arthur Flowers, Thulani Davis, and others will participate in a series of panels that include: *Choosing Exile: Black Writers from the Harlem *Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement *Choosing Exile: Black Writers from the Black Arts *Movement to the Renaissance of the 1990's *Presuming the Universality of the Black Experience *Politically Correct in a Politically Incorrect World *Black Literature: Who are the Readers? *Black Literature: The Politics of Publishing The Institute for African American Affairs at New York University will host Paule Marshall's keynote address at NYU on March 22, 1996. All panel discussions, Baraka's keynote address and Remarks by Walter Mosley will be held at Medgar Evers College. The web version includes all the panels listed above. It is free! Not only will Web visitors be able to read reports and transcripts uploaded to the Web during the face-to-face conference, but also they will be able to participate in discussions of issues raised by the conference panels. To join the conference, go to and follow the registration procedure. The face-to-face event received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Web version was funded by the Reed Foundation and implemented by Arts Wire's Beth Kanter, Barry Lasky and Tommer Peterson. It uses a version of WebCaucus, a web-based interface, that was developed for Arts Wire's Conferencing system. Arts Wire is an online network of artists, arts workers, arts organizations and arts funders and a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts . For information about the Fourth National Black Writers, contact: Dr. Elizabeth Nunez, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225; tel: (718) 270-5049 To participate in the web version of the conference, contact: bwc@artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu ******************************************************************************* 3) New Ontario Women's Studies list The Ontario women's studies list acts as a networking device for people interested in the broad, interdisciplinary field of women's studies and who live in Ontario, Canada. to subscribe to the list, send a message to: majordomo@utoronto.ca in the body of the text type: subscribe ont-womens-studies-list For more information, contact Melissa Kew: melissa.kew@utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:22:56 GMT-400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MACKAY KELLY ANNE Subject: Re: second shift (fwd) The name of the book is "The Second Shift" by Arlie Hoschild. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:52:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Preston Knight Subject: Pre-patriarchal era: evidence Alana Suskin's skepticism is well-founded, I think, in view of the vast amounts of hypothetical, sometimes truly romanticized, material on the egalitarian nature of "pre-patriarchal" cultures. Much as I yearned to believe it, Riane Eisler's popular _The Chalice and the Blade_ did little to convince me. However, she depended heavily on Maria Gimbutas' more scholarly works, which I strongly recommend. Gimbutas is quite careful and tentative about drawing conclusions, and therefore the evidence she presents is more compelling. Kathleen Preston Knight Humboldt State University Arcata, CA KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:27:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joAnn Castagna Subject: Re: Mothers/Fathers/Tenure Comments: To: "Joan D. Mandle" joan mandle's comments on policies that are extended only to tenured and tenure-track employees of academic institutions (this clip from her post) Finally, I doubt that such a generous policy has been extended to the rest of the university's (non-academic) employees. Obviously tenure is not relevant, but I think faculty should attempt to pressure their universities to accomodate the needs of non-academic parents as well. raises a very interesting point. faculty members in tenure track or tenured positions are experiencing an employment situation much different (and rapidly becoming more and more different) from that of most citizens of the United States [and perhaps other western and industrialized nations? recently there have been some reports of changes even in the "lifetime" employment practices of Japan] how these issues affect and/or get incorporated into teaching and research in women's would be of interest to me. joann castagna joann-castagna@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 17:37:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vashti Braha (SAR)" Subject: Re: FW: utopian experiments In-Reply-To: I would also like to know about women's utopia experiments. If this is not of interest to the list generally, then perhpas you could email me the results of the query, or post the results to the list. Thanks! Vashti Braha braha@virtu.sar.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:37:19 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sokari Ekine Subject: BLACK SYSTERS LIST To subscribe to the list: send an email to: bksysnet-request@avnet.co.uk ignore the subject line and in the body of the message write the single word subscribe The list is open to all Black Women worldwide ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 20:49:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Myrna Goldenberg Subject: women's studies at community colleges For an issue of Women's Studies Quarterly on community colleges, please let us know if your college has a women's studies program or a women's center or anything that seems to be the equivalent. We'd like to identify all such programs in this special issue. Respond quickly and privately to Liza Fiol-Matta (lfiol@pipeline.com). Liza Fiol-Matta and Myrna Goldenberg, Guest Editors ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 09:00:01 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: Georgia On Saturday, March 23, 1996 I reviewed "Georgia" on "The Women's Show" a weekly womanist/feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM (88.5) "Radio Free Tampa." My review is now available for retrieval from the FILM FILELIST. To obtain this review send the following command to Listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV169 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, 23 Mar 1996 08:54:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vashti Braha (SAR)" Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times In-Reply-To: Where are we coming from in our judgment of what's conjecture, what's fact? I can't help but feel that many skeptics of the early goddess stuff are less skeptical of the established (patriarchal) account of ancient history, as if it's the objective one. I'm all for maintaining a critical stance toward the early goddess stuff *IF* it's because interpreting archaeological findings is risky business. Therefore, mainstream ideas of how to interpret these findings are just as conjectural, and their authority should be seen as political. On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Diane L. Fowlkes wrote: > Actually Lerner does more than "conjecture." She provides as much > evidence as possible from prehistoric times and argues by inference. I > doubt that we can expect more than that until more artefacts and other > such evidence are found. > Diane Fowlkes > > On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, the Cheshire Cat wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Diane L. Fowlkes wrote: > > > > > Gerda Lerner in _Creation of Patriarchy_ finds that the erasure or > > > in the later stage of the emergence ofwestern patriarchy. Robert Graves > > . > > > > Actually I was asking if anyone had provided *evidence* for these views > > rather than conjecture. I haven't read the Graves book, but Lerner does not. > > > > Alana > > > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 10:54:40 MET Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JAKOBI SABINE Organization: University of Trier Subject: research on rural women in China Hi, I am preparing a Ph.D. on rural women in China. Do you know anybody who conducted field research in Central China focussing on the situation of women in the countryside? Do you know of any book dealing with gender in rural areas of Precommunist-China? Any information will be appreciated. Thanks Sabine Jakobi Trier University/Germany Political Science Dept. jakobi@uni-trier.de ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:16:09 MET Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JAKOBI SABINE Organization: University of Trier Subject: conference announcement Conference announcement Political participation of women in East Asia, April 26-28, Trier University (Germany) The conference is open to the public and deals with various forms of formal and informal participation of women in Japan, South- and Northkorea, Taiwan and Mainland China. One focus is the status of women in a changing traditional society (modernization and development). Conference language will be German. For further information regarding the conference, please contact: Sabine Jakobi Trier University/Poltical Science Dept. 54286 Trier/Germany FAX: +49-651/201-3917 PHONE: +49-651/201-2122 jakobi@uni-trier.de ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 09:52:35 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mc kearney Subject: Book info In-Reply-To: I've heard of a book called "Girls Girls Girls" which is coming out soon on NYU Press. Does anyone have any further information on it? If so, please e-mail me privately at . Thanks much, Mary Kearney USC, LA ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:24:12 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie J Dow Subject: need help with addresses Can anyone provide me with current professional addresses for any ofthe following people? Susan Douglas (author of WHERE THE GIRLS ARE) E. Ann Kaplan Elaine Tyler May Lynn Spigel George Lipsitz Please reply privately. Thanks very much. Bonnie Dow dow@badlands.nodak.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 17:03:46 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Robin Miller Subject: From officious to obnoxious Well, Joan, this is _your_ list, and that ownership gives you the power to do with it whatever you darn well please. However, kindness is often thought to impose certain restraints on otherwise unfettered discretion, and, in your reponse to this woman who was simply seeking help, I thought you crossed the line from your customary officiousness and were downright unpleasant. I found her explnation quite sensible. I believe you owe the submitter of that request a public apology. Sincerely, Robin Miller Joan wrote: > Frankly, it doesn't matter whether or not one is an undergraduate. >The Didion query sounded indistinguishable from the unfocused requests for >help that undergraduates have at times sent to the list. The person may >have thought she was being helpful in not telling anyone what she'd already >looked at, but in fact she was not. Her message essentially asked, "tell >me what's out there"; people might then waste their time and hers telling >her about basic works with which she was already familiar. Had she SAID >that she'd already explored her institution's library and was now hoping >to find out about some more obscure writings on Joan Didion, her query >would have been far more useful and appropriate. > > I'm replying publicly not to embarrass the person who sent the >query but to help others to avoid the same pitfall in making queries. > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:17:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "MARY L. ERTEL, SOCIOLOGY" Subject: from officious to obnoxious - A RESPONSE On March 24, a message was posted to the List from Robin Miller, at either complxgal@montana.nwlink.com or complxgal@nwlink.com (depending on which "from" line I read. Miller referred to a previous inquiry about the writings of Didion, wherein Joan rightfully protested to the unfocused nature of the request. The requester rephrased the request, citing where she had looked and what she needed. Fine. Now along comes Robin Miller, who finds the requester's explanation to be "quite sensible" and states that Joan "owe(s) the submitter of that request a public apology." Come off it already! The requester already rephrased the request, explaining why she wrote what she wrote, but acknowledging the value of Joan's comments. Now along comes Robin Miller, with all thebenefit of hindsight, and demands Joan "publically apologize." Well, Robin, you are the one who is out of line. Joan's comments were statement of fact and most helpful in clarifying WS-List policy. All you are doing is starting an unnecessary thread to further increase the volume of the List and clog people's mail boxes. Anyone who agrees might want to reply to Robin privately. Thanks again to Joan for a good and continuing job. Mary L. Ertel, Sociology, Central Connecticut State University ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 13:28:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: Re: from officious to obnoxious - A RESPONSE In-Reply-To: <960324101734.202218de@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU> Well, just to add fuel to the fire: I realize that special circumstances may prompt occasional calls for help for standard bibliography (someone at a small school in a rural area), but I have also noticed (over many years in many settings) that people in cities with adequate resources are still reluctant to ask librarians for help. They ought to be the first recourse, not just one's own college catalog. (Obligations of full disclosure require me to acknowledge that I also possess a master's degree in library service (from 1967 -- my teachers warned us that one day we would be all working on computers. Seemed pretty unlikely to me.)) I think under normal circumstances we should limit bibliographical requests to the list to: -- recommendations for *good, readable* materials, either as teaching tools or to acquaint ourselves with a subject area in which we are unfamiliar (I think this is one of the most valuable features of the list) -- highly specialized categories that are not readily or reliably picked up by the standard indexing terms (I see my own request for autobiographies and memoirs by women of various ethnic groups in this group, although I was also looking for recommendations for materials suitable for undergrads) -- information about *unpublished* material (such as mansucript collections -- hard to find and sometimes not indexed until long after they are opened) -- works in progress (as in: Is anyone else out there at work on xxx?) With computerized indexes, references to most *published* books and articles on standard topics can be found on-line. The LC catalog includes books that aren't published yet and books that are not in the LC. (Some folks won't have access to those databases, but then they probably can't reach us, either.) Libraries that don't offer access to computerized indices may still have paper versions. I think we owe it to each other to try all the traditional routes before we ask for help. 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 On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, MARY L. ERTEL, SOCIOLOGY wrote: > On March 24, a message was posted to the List from Robin Miller, at either > complxgal@montana.nwlink.com or complxgal@nwlink.com (depending on which > "from" line I read. > > Miller referred to a previous inquiry about the writings of Didion, > wherein Joan rightfully protested to the unfocused nature of the request. > The requester rephrased the request, citing where she had looked and what > she needed. Fine. > > Now along comes Robin Miller, who finds the requester's explanation to be > "quite sensible" and states that Joan "owe(s) the submitter of that request > a public apology." Come off it already! The requester already rephrased the > request, explaining why she wrote what she wrote, but acknowledging the > value of Joan's comments. Now along comes Robin Miller, with all thebenefit > of hindsight, and demands Joan "publically apologize." > > Well, Robin, you are the one who is out of line. Joan's comments were > statement of fact and most helpful in clarifying WS-List policy. All you > are doing is starting an unnecessary thread to further increase the > volume of the List and clog people's mail boxes. Anyone who agrees might > want to reply to Robin privately. > > Thanks again to Joan for a good and continuing job. > > Mary L. Ertel, Sociology, Central Connecticut State University > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 13:57:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Ellen Green Kaiser Subject: Appropriate requests, cont. A WMST poster today suggested that requests for bibliographic help be limited to categories she then enumerated (sorry, I can't cut and paste on my primitive mail system). I'd like to note that sometimes a standard title / author search is not illuminating when one is doing interdisciplinary work. For that reason, I think we need to keep the list open to requests from people who have exhausted their normal routes (whatever those may be). I personally have found that the difference between a reasonable and an annoying request is all in the phrasing. Open-ended requests that give one little idea of what the person has already searched and what precisely she wants are annoying; requests that explain what the person has already found and what they are still looking for seem reasonable. Jo Ellen Green Kaiser jgkais00@ukcc.uky.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 18:16:48 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JENNIFER HAMMER Organization: New York University Press Subject: Re: Book info Re the request for information on the book _Girls, Girls, Girls: Critical Essays on Women and Music_, the book is due out next month. It is edited by Sarah Cooper, and is available in paperback. For more information, please contact our customer service department at the number listed below. With best wishes, Jennifer Hammer Associate Editor New York University Press 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 HammerJ@elmer2.bobst.nyu.edu NYU Press homepage: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/nyupress/index.html Customer Service: 1-800-996-NYUP (6987) or 212 998 2575 Fax #: 212 995 3833 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 20:56:39 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cathy Cronkhite - Jack McCullough Subject: Re: from officious to obnoxious - A RESPONSE Would it be too much to ask to stop this sniping back and forth? I don't see anything productive coming of this. I think that the list would benefit most from moving on to a new topic. In my humble opinion, Catherine E. Cronkhite >On March 24, a message was posted to the List from Robin Miller, at either >complxgal@montana.nwlink.com or complxgal@nwlink.com (depending on which >"from" line I read. > >Miller referred to a previous inquiry about the writings of Didion, >wherein Joan rightfully protested to the unfocused nature of the request. >The requester rephrased the request, citing where she had looked and what >she needed. Fine. > >Now along comes Robin Miller, who finds the requester's explanation to be >"quite sensible" and states that Joan "owe(s) the submitter of that request >a public apology." Come off it already! The requester already rephrased the > request, explaining why she wrote what she wrote, but acknowledging the >value of Joan's comments. Now along comes Robin Miller, with all thebenefit >of hindsight, and demands Joan "publically apologize." > >Well, Robin, you are the one who is out of line. Joan's comments were >statement of fact and most helpful in clarifying WS-List policy. All you >are doing is starting an unnecessary thread to further increase the >volume of the List and clog people's mail boxes. Anyone who agrees might >want to reply to Robin privately. > >Thanks again to Joan for a good and continuing job. > >Mary L. Ertel, Sociology, Central Connecticut State University > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:54:05 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Regine Fourie Subject: feminist critiques - request I am teaching a post-graduate gender studies theory course in which I start off with mainstream theoretical paradigms. My request is for material on specifically feminist critiques of positivism (older and neo-) and hermeneutics. There are many references to the latter on our library catalogue, but they all seem to refer to religious studies and theology. I would like something more to the effect of a feminist appraisal of Gadamer (eg.). As for critical theory and pragmatism, I am well served by Nancy Fraser's book (Unruly Practices), but wouldn't mind further references. Would you please reply to me privately. Thanks in advance, Regine. fourie@german.unp.ac.za ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:37:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PROF DAVID KAISER Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times -Reply 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 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:07:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: research on rural women in China In-Reply-To: <120081C4605@netwareserver.uni-trier.de> There was an excellent essay on foot binding over centuries in Signs about a year or two ago. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, JAKOBI SABINE wrote: > Hi, > I am preparing a Ph.D. on rural women in China. Do you know anybody > who conducted field research in Central China focussing on the > situation of women in the countryside? Do you know of any book > dealing with gender in rural areas of Precommunist-China? > Any information will be appreciated. > Thanks > > Sabine Jakobi > Trier University/Germany > Political Science Dept. > jakobi@uni-trier.de > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:21:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: women and tv In-Reply-To: <01I2MRU3LIYA9A7JRZ@CENTER.COLGATE.EDU> Someone was looking for books on television and women's lives. I've just gotten a blurb from University of Pennsaylvania Press, l300 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6097 which includes the following books: Women Watching Television, Gender Class and Generation in the American Television Experience, Andrea Press Television Culture and Women's Lives, thirtysomething and the contradictions of gender, Margaret heide Prime-Time Feminism, television, media culture, and the women's movement since l970, Bonnie Dow Dr. Jane Elza jelza@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu Political Science Dept., Valdosta State University Valdosta, Ga. 31698 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:19:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: Re: request D. Cameron Dear Antje Hornscheidt, Sorry I can't help you with Deborah Cameron's address, but wondered if you could help me. I am trying to get more information on an International Women's Congress held in Germany beginning on Sept. 20 1896. Specifically, I am interested in Maria Montessori's participation in this conference and if there are any records of her speeches. Thanks for your help. Phyllis Povell Povell@eagle.liunet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 11:48:45 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Denise Santoro Subject: New Book Suzanne W. Hull, author of CHASTE, SILENT AND OBEDIENT, has written a new book for AltaMira Press. WOMEN ACCORDING TO MEN: THE WORLD OF TUDOR STUART WOMEN discusses the state of women during the Elizabethan Era in England. Through an examination of guidebooks written by men and about women during that time, Hull elucidates what the rules for Elizabethan women were, while also discussing health habits, household remedies, theories on conception, the care of children, the making of food, fashion, and more. Hull also provides an extensive collection of original quotes. To order, call Sage Publications (the parent company of AltaMira). Examination copies are also available. (805) 499-9774 or write to: 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:18:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Davidson Subject: Re: women's studies at community colleges We have several classes...2 taught regularly ...Psychology of Women and Literature by Women...and two taught once in a while...Religion and Gender and Women in U.S. history...all are taught by me except for Literature....No women's center....sounds like a good project...mary davidson... ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 21:45:28 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Appropriate requests, cont. In-Reply-To: <960324.140635.EST.JGKAIS00@ukcc.uky.edu> On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser wrote: > on my primitive mail system). I'd like to note that sometimes a standard > title / author search is not illuminating when one is doing interdisciplinary > work. For that reason, I think we need to keep the list open to requests from > people who have exhausted their normal routes (whatever those may be). I I don't think anyone suggested ruling that out. (Though I wonder how many people can't search other libraries on-line.) --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:51:34 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patti Self Subject: anyone have information handy on Women's History Month? I just got a call from one of our student reporters asking about Women's History Month (its beginnings and purposes). I don't have anything at home to answer his question, but if anyone has anything available they could send me in the next couple of hours, it would be appreciated. Thanks! Patti Self frcdpas@vms.ucc.okstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 21:49:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: file: origins of women's history month Every year, someone asks about the origins of women's history month. Patti Self's recent query finally prodded me to create a brief file containing a few of the answers that have been provided on the list in the past. To get the file, send the message GET HISTORY MONTH WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . To get a list of all the files available from WMST-L, add a second line that says INDEX WMST-L . BE SURE TO SEND THESE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU, **NOT** to WMST-L. Do not reply to this message. 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: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:50:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Harriette C. Buchanan" Subject: "Appropriate" Requests As someone who has mostly lurked on this list and occasionally replied privately, I feel compelled to join the discussion about what is and is not appropriate to request from this list because of the trend that I see developing due to ready access to the internet. I agree with those who believe that it is valid to request information after other resources have been exhausted, with proper listing of what resources are known (we do not have time to be sending information that the recipient already knows about), and to request networking with others who are interested in similar areas for research and investigation. The strength of this list is its strongly interdisciplinary nature and we can all benefit from the expertise of others in disciplines beyond our own. My concern about the seemingly "frivolous" requests is that they seem to indicate a growing trend among our students, but not among ourselves I hope, to seek a quick electronic fix for all questions. Since many electronic sites are not moderated, all manner of intellectual trash circulates in cyberspace, and if we encourage too much dependence on web or list surfing as a primary source of information, we discourage the development of the analytic and critical thinking skills that our students need if they are to succeed. I like the posts that share information about especially useful books with commentary about their value in teaching women's studies courses and have printed off and filed many of the wonderful bibliographies that our colleagues have compiled. I would not like to see us ban requests and information sharing, but we do have limited time and replying repetitively to requests that seem to represent physical and intellectual laziness does not serve us or our students well. Harriette Buchanan Interdisciplinary Studies Appalachian State University buchananhc@appstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:04:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CATRIONA JOHNSON Subject: anyone have information handy on Women's History Month? -Reply The Ministry for Women's Equality (BC Government, Canada) has a history of International Women's Day on its web page. This may be a start. Their address is: http://www.weq.gov.bc.ca/ >>> Patti Self 03/25/96 07:51pm >>> I just got a call from one of our student reporters asking about Women's History Month (its beginnings and purposes). I don't have anything at home to answer his question, but if anyone has anything available they could send me in the next couple of hours, it would be appreciated. Thanks! Patti Self frcdpas@vms.ucc.okstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:46:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: research on rural women in China In-Reply-To: Thinking about it some more there was an even more relevant essay in the same journal, Signs, about the situation of Chinese women in the rural areas pre-and post Communism which came to the conclusion that on the whole things weren't any better after than before, as I remember it. This essay appeared ca. 3 years ago, but it would probably have a great bibliography. Anyone else remember this essay? Also, Amy Ling in her Between Worlds, 1990, has a chapter on women in relation to Confucianism. Her bibliography might also be of help. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Phyllis-Joyce Kafka wrote: > There was an excellent essay on foot binding over centuries in Signs > about a year or two ago. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu > > On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, JAKOBI SABINE wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am preparing a Ph.D. on rural women in China. Do you know anybody > > who conducted field research in Central China focussing on the > > situation of women in the countryside? Do you know of any book > > dealing with gender in rural areas of Precommunist-China? > > Any information will be appreciated. > > Thanks > > > > Sabine Jakobi > > Trier University/Germany > > Political Science Dept. > > jakobi@uni-trier.de > > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:30:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: Farzana_E_BAQIR@umail.umd.edu (fb38) Comments: Originally-From: "L-Soft list server at UMDD (1.8b)" From: fb38 Subject: Feminist Theatre Workshop Forgive me if this is an inappropriate post to this list, but several people from this list inquired about this project when I asked for help in locating Ama Ata Aidoo. By the way, I did locate Aidoo and had a few very helpful conversations with her about the play. Thanks to all who helped me with this; this list is an excellent resource. The Feminist Theatre Workshop at the University of Maryland College Park presents: _Anowa_, by Ama Ata Aidoo. The dates and times of this production are as follows: March 30 at 8:00 pm March 31 at 2:00 pm April 1, 2, 3 at 8:00 pm. The show is in the Experimental Theatre, room 0241 Tawes Fine Arts Building. This is a very small theatre (50 seats), and seating is on a first come, first served basis. There is no reserved seating. Admission is free. This is a Poor Theatre production, done with no budget. Emphasis is on the work as a feminist piece, not on the theatrical spectacle. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me! Peace, Liz Baqir, Director, Feminist Theatre Workshop fb38@umail.umd.edu ------------ End Forwarded Message ------------- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:00:48 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Debra J. Blake" Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times? Comments: cc: ddrake@MYLINK.NET In any course focused on the goddess, I think it's important to question concepts such as "pre-patriarchal" and the idea of a matriarchy based on goddess worship. Recent feminist archeology has begun to expose the limitations of past research such as Marija Gimbutas popularly influential studies that make broad claims. For an excellent discussion of these issues, see Lynn Meskell's article, "Goddesses, Gimbutas and 'New Age' Archeology," in Antiquity 69:262 (1995). Also see Ruth Tringham's review of Gimbutas book, _The Civilization of the Goddess_ in American Anthropologist, 95 (1993): 196-7. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 12:12:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Villanova University Subject: "hypochondria" and women's health If this is inappropriate for this list, I apologise in advance: Is anyone on the list familiar with the works of Edward Shorter on women and health, and on hysteria and hypochondria? His work is being used (apparently with his permission,l and at times, with his testimony) in court cases as evidence to prove that the severely debilitating condition, chronic fatigue syndrome, does not exist -- it is all in the patient's head. CFS strikes women in greater numbers than it does men -- perhaps because it has a strong autoimmune component, and women are more vulnerable to autoimmune diseases than men. I am deeply concerned that a MALE historian writing on WOMEN'S health topics is being used by insurance companies to deny treatment, and by long-term disability providers to provide assistance, to women who are very, very ill. Shorter has written very articulate, thought provoking pieces on the subject of illnesses that were thought to specifically inflict women during Victorian days -- such as hysteria (wandering uterus) and "the nerves" -- but he has no medical training nor experience with actual patients. Worse, he will not consider the possibility that these women were not necessarily physically WELL, just because they were being misdiagnosed -- until WWII, for example, when tests for MS became available, women with MS were treated as mental patients with imaginary illnesses. I have asked in other venues for comments from those familiar with his work, but so far I've only heard from men! ARe there women in women's studies specialists who are familiar with this work? If not, WHY not? It seems to target women predominantly. While I can mount a logical argument with evidence from women's history in opposition to his assertations, I would greatly prefer to approach this on a more professional level and refer to the scholarly work of those more versed in this subject than I (most of my work has to do with issues of political economy and women -- and other scattered things -- in the early modern period in America) Thank you -- Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University (on leave 1995-96) Please respond to me privately: ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:28:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marsaille D. Gargano" Subject: Karen Finley, performance artists... I am doing a presentation in my Women, Art, and Culture seminar and would like to do it on women performance artists. This could also be expanded to installations and other work. If anyone has any suggestions, or could lead me toward some good information, it would be greatly appreciated. respond privately if you like... mdgargan@cc.owu.edu Thank you, Marsaille ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:40:04 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: Re: bib request: written on the (queer) body At 03:33 PM 3/16/96 -0500, Kelly Ann Burns wrote: >BIBLIOGRAPHIC REQUEST: Looking for texts/articles/authors attempting to >show that everyone (straight/queer) reads queer bodily insignia _better_ >than we think (ie--that most straight people have "gaydar" too even if >they don't hurl slurs out car windows). I'm identifying queer bodily >insignia here as (but not limited to): gay men's english, gender-blending >clothes/attitudes, any inner or outer markers identifiable with the queer >community. Would love to see what you come up with. I am currently doing research in lesbian, bisexual and gay attitudes toward the body, especially as they relate to weight and appearance. Don't have time to write a long response. But if you wish to call and talk about these issues and possible sources, feel free. I am usually in my home office working on Tues. and Thurs. My number is (319) 354-0549. Dawn Atkins dawn-atkins@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 16:16:59 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Goodeea@Sunysuffolk.Edu Alice Goode-Elman" Subject: Re: women's studies at community colleges Suffolk Community College has a Women's Studies Program. It is a Liberal Arts degree with an emphasis in Women's Studies. Students are required to take 12 credits of women's studies courses. I am department head in WS as well as Interdisciplinary Studies (which includes Humanities electives). We have two full-time faculty and six adjunct faculty. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:03:33 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Arnold Subject: unsubsrcribe Please, unscribe me from your mailing list. Thank you! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:05:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joshua Fausty Subject: Italian American women writers Please forward the following announcement to the list Telling Our Stories: Italian American Women Writers featuring Helen Barolini Louise DeSalvo Maria Mazziotti Gillan Wednesday, March 27, 1996 6 - 9 PM The Graduate School and University Center City University of New York 33 West 42nd Street, New York City Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium Helen Barolini is the author of two novels--Umbertina and Love in the Middle Ages. She has also published Festa: Recipes and Recollections of Italian Holidays, Aldus and His Dream Book, and Duet, a book of poems co-authored with her husband, Antonio Barolini. She edited The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women (1985), the first book to bring attention to the existence of an Italian American female literary tradition, winner of the American Book Award and the Susan Koppleman Award for the best anthology in the feminist study of American Culture. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson. Louise DeSalvo is Professor of English at Hunter College. She has written and edited nine books, among them the acclaimed Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work, Conceived with Malice: Literature as Revenge, and Vita Sackville-West's Letters to Virginia Woolf. She has received many awards for her work, including the President's Award from Hunter College and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Vertigo, her memoir, will be published in August by Dutton. She lives in New Jersey and Sag Harbor. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the editor of Footwork: The Paterson Literary Review and Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic Community College. She has published five books of poetry, including Where I Come From: Selected and New Poems (1994). She has edited, with her daughter Jennifer, Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, published in 1994 by Viking Penguin. An Alta-Award Winning Poet, Gillan was twice awarded the New Jersey State Council of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She lives in New Jersey. Edvige Giunta (908) 422-6527 faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:31:20 GMT+02.00 Reply-To: washington@getafix.utr.ac.za Sender: Women's Studies List From: Adande Washington Organization: University of Transkei Subject: Re: Karen Finley, performance artists... I am sure that you can find information about Bernice Reagon Johnson of Sweet Honey in the Rock. Unfortunately, I don't have access to my references. There are articles about her and her performance. The Smithsonian would be able to give you some direction. I think she was connected to them at some point in time. ***************************************** Adande Washington fax: (0471) 302-2682 e-mail: washington@getafix.utr.ac.za Department of Anthropology University of Transkei PB X1 Unitra Umtata 5100 Eastern Cape Province South Africa ****************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:56:30 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Ph.D. programs in the US?? In-Reply-To: <5CBC80C01EB@class.iss.nl> The Union Institute offers opportunity for interdisciplinary approach to women's studies. Participants in their Ph.D programs design their own program of study, and do research in areas of own passions. They also must document social meaning for program, interdisciplinary dimension of program, and personal growth! Graduates include awarding winning author Carolyn Pinkos Estes (Women Who Run with the Wolves), among others. Contact: Graduate School of the Union Institute 4OO E. McMillian Street Cincinnati, Ohio 452O6-1947 1-8OO-486-3116 peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:06:46 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Feminist Epistemology In-Reply-To: <960221192008_228016890@emout08.mail.aol.com> Hi, I strongly recommend Elizabeth Minnich's award winning book __Transforming Knowledge__. Peace, jackie Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Tamara Agha-Jaffar wrote: > I am in a reading group with faculty colleagues in which we study various > books and/or topics and discuss them at length over a period of several > weeks. My colleagues have expressed an interest in reading about and > discussing feminist epistemology. Can any one recommend books and/or > articles on the subject? I have come across the topic--but only > tangentially--in some of the readings that I have done. There is a wealth of > material on feminist pedagogy, but I haven't been able to locate much on > feminist epistemology. I realize the two are connected, but I am looking for > references that deal directly with feminist epistemology. Any suggestions > will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > Tamara Agha-Jaffar > WSKCKCC@aol.com > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:19:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vashti Braha (SAR)" Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times -Reply In-Reply-To: The importance of evidence was never in question, only its evaluation, interpretation. I am thinking of a few specific examples: There are large, impressive statues left to us by the ancient Egyptians, carved from basalt, I believe; they typically depict a ruling couple. They are commonly discussed in the literature about this period--even now I could sketch them from memory. The woman stands a step back from the man, with her two hands on his arms, while his hands are rigidly at his side. How should this be interpreted? The typical patriarchal interpretation is that she is The King's helpmeet, she's assuming a submissive and supportive position. Many people would not even think to question this interpretation because it reflects our own norms so well, not realizing that it reflects our norms so well precisely because we're doing the interpreting. Feminist researchers of this period may interpret these statues differently. For example, someone specializing in the religious and philosophical thought of the period might see that the woman is representing the king-making function; therefore, her arms would be conveying her authority upon him, legitimizing him. The other example that I think of immediately is concerning Minoan Crete. As far as I know, there is no satisfactory evidence for male rulers in Crete, yet a famous frieze is famous partly because it is of a well-off boy: he must be the crown prince! I am arguing that we must be as skeptical of interpretations such as these, which is very difficult because it means we must be skeptical of our comfortable norms, just as we must be skeptical of alternative interpretations, which is easy, and therefore more common and unfair. Vashti Braha New College of USF braha@virtu.sar.usf.edu On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, 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 > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:14:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: "hypochondria" and women's health In-Reply-To: Mary Schweitzer Villanova University ""hypochondria" and women's health" (Mar 26, 12:12pm) With reference to Edward Shorter's work (although not specifically on hysteria and CFS): I believe he was (or still is) appointed to the Undergraduate Women's Studies faculty at the University of Toronto. Whether or not his work is, in the least bit feminist, is up for debate, although I believe it's not a critereon for appointment. Someone once told me that in something he wrote he argued that historically women were bad mothers. He cited examples of women leaving their babies on the hearth and the babies catching on fire. This person traced it back to his original sources and discovered that he made this claim based on a single incidence. Whether that constitutes bad mothering or not is not clear to me, but a broad sweeping claim based on a single incidence certainly seems to constitute bad research. Katherine Side klside@YorkU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:57:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PROF DAVID KAISER Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times -Reply >>> Vashti Braha (SAR) 03/23/96 08:54am >>> Where are we coming from in our judgment of what's conjecture, what's fact? I can't help but feel that many skeptics of the early goddess stuff are less skeptical of the established (patriarchal) account of ancient history, as if it's the objective one. I'm all for maintaining a critical stance toward the early goddess stuff *IF* it's because interpreting archaeological findings is risky business. Therefore, mainstream ideas of how to interpret these findings are just as conjectural, and their authority should be seen as political. On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Diane L. Fowlkes wrote: > Actually Lerner does more than "conjecture." She provides as much > evidence as possible from prehistoric times and argues by inference. I > doubt that we can expect more than that until more artefacts and other > such evidence are found. > Diane Fowlkes > > On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, the Cheshire Cat wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Diane L. Fowlkes wrote: > > > > > Gerda Lerner in _Creation of Patriarchy_ finds that the erasure or > > > in the later stage of the emergence ofwestern patriarchy. Robert Graves > > . > > > > Actually I was asking if anyone had provided *evidence* for these views > > rather than conjecture. I haven't read the Graves book, but Lerner does not. > > > > Alana > > > This was the post I tried to reply to a few days ago, but my message was probably incomprehensible. To try again: Does this mean that since everyone is conjectural and biased, we may as well just believe whatever we want? If not, what exactly does it mean? I think this is a very important question in the humanities today. David Kaiser ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:58:35 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Todd Subject: Single mom housing I hope this is not an inappropriate query for WMST-L: I have an independent study student doing background work for a proposal for on-campus housing for single-moms. She would like to know of other institutions who either provide such housing or have considered it. Additionally, is anyone aware of any evidence as to whether retention rates increase when proactive student services like on-site housing or childcare are provided by an institution? Please reply privately if you can help with this request. Many thanks. Mary Todd Women's Studies The University of Illinois at Chicago marytodd@uic.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 15:01:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PROF DAVID KAISER Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times -Reply -Reply >>> Vashti Braha (SAR) 03/27/96 10:19am >>> The importance of evidence was never in question, only its evaluation, interpretation. I am thinking of a few specific examples: There are large, impressive statues left to us by the ancient Egyptians, carved from basalt, I believe; they typically depict a ruling couple. They are commonly discussed in the literature about this period--even now I could sketch them from memory. The woman stands a step back from the man, with her two hands on his arms, while his hands are rigidly at his side. How should this be interpreted? The typical patriarchal interpretation is that she is The King's helpmeet, she's assuming a submissive and supportive position. Many people would not even think to question this interpretation because it reflects our own norms so well, not realizing that it reflects our norms so well precisely because we're doing the interpreting. Feminist researchers of this period may interpret these statues differently. For example, someone specializing in the religious and philosophical thought of the period might see that the woman is representing the king-making function; therefore, her arms would be conveying her authority upon him, legitimizing him. The other example that I think of immediately is concerning Minoan Crete. As far as I know, there is no satisfactory evidence for male rulers in Crete, yet a famous frieze is famous partly because it is of a well-off boy: he must be the crown prince! I am arguing that we must be as skeptical of interpretations such as these, which is very difficult because it means we must be skeptical of our comfortable norms, just as we must be skeptical of alternative interpretations, which is easy, and therefore more common and unfair. Vashti Braha New College of USF braha@virtu.sar.usf.edu I thought this was interesting. Being a modern historian, I'm spoiled with reams of documentation. I wouldn't want to work based on archeological sources which clearly lend themselves to many interpretations. My off-the-cuff reaction is that to assert the validity of a particular interpretation of a particular statue or set of statues, one would have to have some other kind of evidence on which to base it. But it's an interesting problem. This has often occurred to me with respect to ancient historians, where other sources are lacking (except the ancient historian himself.) If one doesn't want to believe Thucydides, one can believe almost anything one wants. David Kaiser (KaiserD@USNWC.EDU) > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 17:25:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Molinda Lauxmiller Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times -Reply In-Reply-To: David Kaiser questions that if all is conjecture then do we all just believe what we want? For me that is exactly what works and why Goddess thought/philosophy or mythology has become the foundation of my spirituality. Wherever I happen to be in my psycho-social-emotional reality I give myself permission to use one of the many aspects of Her divinity to give meaning purpose and morality to the moment. Whatever has been mythologized in the past was apparently working for somebody, and that's okay, too. Just don't ask me to buy into oppression. Molinda, Pagan of Bryn Mawr ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 23:17:10 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Karen Finley, performance artists... Comments: To: Adande Washington In-Reply-To: <25FE53971@getafix.utr.ac.za> On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Adande Washington wrote: > I am sure that you can find information about Bernice Reagon Johnson > of Sweet Honey in the Rock. Unfortunately, I don't have access to my Or there may well be material on Wmst-l file or archive... --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:00:17 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: Call for Papers: Grief, Loss, and Transformation Hi, I'm in the process of co-editing an anthology called Invisible Threads: How Women Find Meaning Through Loss. We are looking for short ( 2 - 8 pages) first person stories from women at all stages of the life cycle, including children. Some guiding questions, are: What is your story of loss? How has loss changed your life? What has helped you through the process? Have you created any rituals for healing? How have you discovered meaning from your loss? Do you have suggestions for other women in your situation? What role has humor, forgiveness, and spirit played? What have you learned about yourself in the process of grief? What is most important for this collection is an honest exploration of your experience. The deadline is June 15th. Please e-mail me privately if you are interested. Also include your snail mail address so I can send you further information. Thanks! Joan Starker Lewis and Clark College ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:07:58 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: Call for Papers: Grief, Loss, and Transformation Joan, Oops! I left my e-mail address off of the other "call for papers." Thanks. Joan Hi, I'm in the process of co-editing an anthology called Invisible Threads: How Women Find Meaning Through Loss. We are looking for short ( 2 - 8 pages) first person stories from women at all stages of the life cycle, including children. Some guiding questions, are: What is your story of loss? How has loss changed your life? What has helped you through the process? Have you created any rituals for healing? How have you discovered meaning from your loss? Do you have suggestions for other women in your situation? What role has humor, forgiveness, and spirit played? What have you learned about yourself in the process of grief? What is most important for this collection is an honest exploration of your experience. The deadline is June 15th. Please e-mail me privately if you are interested. Also include your snail mail address so I can send you further information. Thanks! Joan Starker Lewis and Clark College JStarker@teleport.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:03:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: cfp, conference, festival The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) CFP: Feminist Technology (Austria) 2) Conference: "Gender, Law, and the Internet" (MIT) 3) "Festival of Womyn's Spirituality" - (Pennsylvania) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Feminist Technology -call for papers (EASST, Bielefeld, RFA) This year the EASST-conference on Science and Technology Studies (STS, "signatures of Knowledge Societies" ) will take place in Bielefeld/RFA-Europe, from October 10.-13. The conference is organized by the Society for the Social Studies of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. It will contain a feminist focus "Engendering Knowledge, Science, Technology, and Practice". In this focus there will be a session "Approaches and Perspectives for the Design of Technology: Feminist Technology Assessment" which I was asked to organize. The resposible organizers from EASST told me that it would not be possible to pay anything for staying or giving a lecture. Nervertheless we send you this call for papers and hope that the above mentioned feminist focus and special session will take place. You can contribute with a "theoretical" paper on feminist technolog assessment as well as with a paper referring to special fields of practice. It may be analytical or synthetical. What we want is to strengthen the international discussion in this field from e feminist point of view (whatever this ma be en detail...). Please send your abstracts as soon as possible, latest until april 18th. [Send them PRIVATELY to the address below; under NO circumstances should they be sent to WMST-L!!] PLEASE FORWARD THIS CALL FOR PAPERS TO OTHER WOMEN WHO MAY BE INTERESTED. Thanks and greetings from Vienna, Margarete Maurer ************************************************** Dr. Margarete Maurer, M.A. Lecturer at the University of Vienna Institute for Human Biology RLI, Julius-Tandler-Pl. 5/24 A-1090 Wien, Austria E-mail: margarete.maurer@univie.ac.at Tel. (if possible, between 13-14 h) +43/1/3174929 Fax (always) +43/1/3174929 ************************************************* 2) Conference: "Gender, Law, and the Internet" The dates of the conference are April 20-21; it will be held at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and is open to the public and free of charge. YOu can get information on panels and panelists from our web site: http://web.mit.edu/womens-studies/www/sex.html. (It's still under construction, but we're getting there!) Jennifer Mnookin jmnookin@bug.village.virginia.edu *********************************************************************** 3) W O M O N G A T H E R I N G The Festival of Womyn's Spirituality June 13-16, 1996 (Thursday-Sunday) We who gather yearly to create Womongathering, invite you to join us so that together we may re-vision and manifest a feminine concept of wholeness. Womongathering creates a "wild zone" where we can envision shedding our imposed self-defeating beliefs, and uncover for our selves, and in each other, the comples designs of our wild whole-selves that have been hidden from view. At this year's festival we will be looking to the Direction East, and the Element Air. The festivities include a Sacred Fire, Drumming, Rituals, Workshops, a Marketplace, and Girlspace. Because Womongathering is an intense spiritual experience for womyn and their daughters we believe that a womyn-only environment is the most conducive to working at such deep levels of collective healing and resurrecting the Universal Feminine Principle. Girlspace offers your daughters age appropriate activities, projects, and discussion groups during workshop hours. Womongathering is held at a well-maintained private camp in Poyntell, PA (very near the PA / NY state border). Accomodations range from cabins to tent and RV sites (no hook up available). The camp has a large dining area, indoor workshop space in case of rain, a lake, and tennis courts. For registration information contact: Womongathering PO Box 559 Franklinville, NJ 08322 (609) 694-2037 womongathr@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 07:15:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Top Three List--Results In-Reply-To: On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, N. Benokraitis wrote: > I'm working on an Internet Student Guide. One of the assignments is "to > put together a brief history of each sociologist [or social scientist] > and her/his important contribution." > > WHO ARE THE FIRST THREE WOMEN WHO COME TO MIND IN TERMS OF CONTRIBUTIONS? I received 21 responses: 13 from faculty, 5 from students, 2 from an editor and employee in state legislature, and 1 unknown. All respondents were from the U.S. When more than 3 responses were given, I used the first three (numbers in parentheses indicate number of "votes"): (5) Jessie Bernard, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (4) Margaret Mead (3) Jane Addams (2) Ruth Benedict, Jane Goodall, Dorothy E. Smith, Judith Lorber, bell hooks, Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1) Alice Rossi, Helen Hughes, Margaret Sanger, Jane Hull, Mother Jones, Arlie Hochschild, Patricia Hill Collins, Lillian Rubin, Ruth Sidel, Leonore Tiefer, Anne Pusey, Angela Davis, Carol Gilligan, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Ruth Cavan, Helena Lopata, Elaine Hatfield, Anna Julia Cooper, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Joan Huber, Nancy Chodorow, Rose Coser, Harriet Martineau, Martha Minnow, Cynthia Enloe, Theda Scocpol, Gayatri C. Spivak, Pepper Schwartz, Olive Schreiner, Riane Eisler, Mirra Komarovsky, and...last but not least...Joan Korenman. Since the amount of space I have for this exercise in the Student Guide is limited, I wanted to be sure to include women social scientists that most faculty would agree have made an important contribution. The next step is to find out how much information students can get from the Internet on the "top" names. Thank you for your input. niki Benokraitis, University of Baltimore, Sociology Dept nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 04:30:09 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Gundersen Subject: advice I am forwarding this message for a Sociology faculty member in Finland who is interested in doing post graduate study in the U.S. at a university with a center that will let her affiliate as a visiting scholar thus giving her access to university facilities, libraries, coursework. She wants to find a place with women's studies and a strong interest in lesbian studies. If you can suggest a place, E-Mail her directly. Her name and adress is: Marja Kaskisaari I have already given her the information on the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. Joan Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:42:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times -Reply In-Reply-To: OK, I'm happy with that on a personal level (and I suppose it ought not to matter even if I'm not), but what has this to do with scholarship? Alana Suskin On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Molinda Lauxmiller wrote: > David Kaiser questions that if all is conjecture then do we all just > believe what we want? > > For me that is exactly what works and why Goddess thought/philosophy or > mythology has become the foundation of my spirituality. Wherever I > happen to be in my psycho-social-emotional reality I give myself > permission to use one of the many aspects of Her divinity to give meaning > purpose and morality to the moment. Whatever has been mythologized in > the past was apparently working for somebody, and that's okay, too. Just > don't ask me to buy into oppression. > > Molinda, Pagan of Bryn Mawr > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:05:06 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Phillips Subject: Sweet Honey There is a book on Sweet Honey in the Rock, called "We Who Believe in Freedom". it is a wonderful book. There is also a Bill Moyers interview on Bernice Johnson Reagon which is excellent, too. Hope this helps. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:41:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MILLERC@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU Subject: Help with questionnaires Does anyone know wheps, or homosexuality? Please respond privately tod premarital sex, abortion, single parenthood, women in the workplace, interracial relationshipshomosexuality? Please respond privately to MILLERC@ONEONTA.EDU or GOODGL90@ONEONTA.EDU. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:49:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: Help with questionnaires In-Reply-To: <01I2V8NBRJ5U8Y6EGX@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU> I'm sorry could you please clarify what is being asked here? Thank you. Alana Suskin On Thu, 28 Mar 1996 MILLERC@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU wrote: > Does anyone know wheps, or homosexuality? Please respond privately tod > premarital sex, abortion, single parenthood, women in the workplace, > interracial relationshipshomosexuality? Please respond privately to > MILLERC@ONEONTA.EDU or GOODGL90@ONEONTA.EDU. Thank you. > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:58:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Preston Katherine K Subject: Sweet Honey in the Rock Comments: To: Adande Washington In-Reply-To: <25FE53971@getafix.utr.ac.za> I don't remember what the original posting was about, but Bernice Reagan Johnson is curator emerita at the Smithsonian and can be reached at the following address: National Museum of American History Division of Cultural History Room 4101, MRC 612 Washington, D. C. 20560 (I'm not sure of the spelling of her middle name) Katherine Preston The College of William and Mary kkpres@facstaff.wm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:36:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MILLERC@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU Subject: Re: Help with questionnaires Sorry, I guess my editor got messed up. I'm looking for questionnaires that assess attitudes toward premarital sex, women in the workplace, single parenthood, homosexuality, or abortion. Please respond privately to MILLERC@ONEONTA.EDU or GOODGL90@ONEONTA.EDU. Thanks again. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:59:36 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kassie Fleisher Subject: Pre-patriarchal times - Reply 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 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:19:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith L. Poxon" Subject: Info on Charlene Spretnak? I am currently in the process of writing an entry on Charlene Spretnak for a reference volume on feminist writers, and some of my biographical info isn't as up-to-date as I'd like. Does anyone on the list know how to contact her via email? Also, does anyone know whether she's still active in Green Party politics? Please reply to me privately. Thanks. Judith Poxon Syracuse University, Dept. of Religion jlpoxon@mailbox.syr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:38:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jean Noble Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times - Reply In-Reply-To: <199603281559.JAA29127@charlie.acc.iit.edu> Hi Kassie, Do you have the source for the Tompkins essay? Respond privately if you like. Thanx, Jean jnoble@yorku.ca On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Kassie Fleisher wrote: > 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 > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:40:46 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan heald Subject: Re: Pre-patriarchal times - Reply In-Reply-To: <199603281559.JAA29127@charlie.acc.iit.edu> Could Kassie Fleisher or someone else please post the full citation for the Jane Tompkins essay she mentions? Thanks. Susan Heald ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:02:38 -0500 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: feminist critics of critical theory I've recently picked up a book (which, of course, I haven't got around to reading yet) published by Routledge which might be v. useful for teaching this sort of thing Johanna MEEHAN (ed.) _Feminists Read Habermas_ Routledge 1996 If anyone does get around to reading/using this book maybe a short message about its usefulness would be welcome. It contains a reprint of Nancy Fraser's "What's Critical about Critical Theory" among other things. 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, 28 Mar 1996 12:25:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Kuzmack Subject: Career Enrichment TheWashington, D.C. branch of the Women Administrators in Higher Education announce their annual workshop on Career Enrichment: April 23, 1996, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Workshop at American Council on Education, One Dupont Circle, Conference Rooms B & C. Cost: $30 members; $35 non-members. RSVP by Friday, April 19. Telephone Nikki Himebaugh, 202-728-7628. or e-mail Nikki at himebaun@mail.aauw.org with your name, organization, phone number, address. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:50:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: W Pendleton Subject: Re: Top Three List--Results In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu 28 Mar 1996 07:15:26 -0500 The results of the small survey are interesting in part because of names missing--Ruth Benedict, Judith Blake (Davis), Doprothy Thomas, Ella Crews Parsons, Hagood, to mention some who have made important contributions to social science. In most such surveys, currency is given excessive weight, but both men and women of intellectual importance, even in the recent past, need to be noted. I do not offer a criticism of the names mentioned or of the questions asked. I just thought I might take this opportunity to push my own concern with the selectivity we often demonstrate when we look to the contributions made to a field. *********************** WM W. PENDLETON DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY EMORY UNIVERSITY 404 7277524 SOCWWP@EMUVM1.BITNET SOCWWP@EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU SOCWWP@EMORYU1.CC.EMORY.EDU BPENDL@SOC.EMORY.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:51:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sara Ebenreck Subject: Re: Sweet Honey in the Rock In-Reply-To: Bernice Johnson Reagon just spoke at St. Mary's College of Maryland, which also listed her as a Distinguished Professor of History at American University in Washington DC. Sara Ebenreck ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:11:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Waterman Subject: Gender, Technology, Place Conference at Rutgers The Institute for Research on Women's Third Annual Graduate Student Conference GENDER TECHNOLOGY PLACE will be held at the Douglass College Student Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Saturday, March 30, 1996 Registration begins at 9:30 The Keynote Address will be delivered by Karen Barad, Professor of Physics, Pomona College, at 5:00 p.m. in Trayes Hall: "Getting Real: Technologies of Embodiment and Materiality" A reception will follow. There are three sessions, with two concurrent panels during each session. Session One (10:00-11:30) WOMEN'S INDUSTRY "Women's Relationship with Technology in the Media: Some Reflections," Sabeena Gadihoke, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Communications, Syracuse University "Hegemony, Habitus, and Gender Relations in the Structural 'Transformation' of Hungarian Rural Society," Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Geography, Rutgers University "Dr Lillian Gilbreth and Scientizing the Home," Mary Ann Buschka, History, University of Delaware SURVEILLANCE "Bodily Surveillance: Gender and Subjectivity in Margaret Atwood's *Cat's Eye,*" Kate Stanton, English, Rutgers University "Rupturing the Apotheosis of Home: Towards a Theorization of Multiplicitous Space," Joshua Price, Anthropology, University of Chicago "Birthing the Last Man: *Twelve Monkeys* and Urban Space," Matthew Ruben, English, University of Pennsylvania Session Two (11:45-1:15) PRODUCTIONS OF SPACE "Mapping New Spaces: Fictive Images of Reproductive Technologies," Ritch Calvin, Department of Comparative Studies, SUNY Stony Brook "A Writer's Retreat? Landscape and Community in Jewett's *Country of the Pointed Firs,*" Stephanie Volmer, English, Rutgers University "Ecotourism and Jurassic Park: (re)(pro)ductive technologies," Paula Haines, English, SUNY Stony Brook DIALECTICS OF EMANCIPATION AND REPRESSION "Private Voices in a Public Sphere: Talk Radio and Feminist Democratic Ideals," Tanni Haas, Communication, Rutgers University "A Review Essay: Feminism and Information Technology," Laura Micciche, English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Respondent: Prof. Lori Collins-Jarvis, Communication, Rutgers University LUNCH (1:30-3:00) Session Three (3:00-4:30) FRAMING WOMEN "Re-Presenting Pocahontas: From Jamestown to Disney," Leigh Edwards, English, University of Pennsylvania "Post-Structuralist Joyce and Penelope as Closure/Antidote," Carol Dell'Amico, English, Rutgers University "Lesbian Subjectivity and Domestic Photography," Elspeth Brown, Yale University FEMINIST COSMOLOGIES "Between the Worlds: Sacred Space, Ritual Technology, and 'Gender Polarity' in Contemporary American Witchcraft," Sarah Avery, English, Rutgers University "Infidels in Paradise: The Fate of Organicist Feminisms in Haraway's 'Cyborg Manifesto,'" Anthony Lioi, English, Rutgers University "Time Bandits: Feminist Theories in the Fourth Dimension," Kristen Abbey, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 5:00 in Trayes Hall "Getting Real: Technologies of Embodiment and Materiality," Prof. Karen Barad, Physics, Pomona College Reception to follow. Registration is $10 for graduate students, $12 for faculty, and free of charge to undergraduates with I.D. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women, the Graduate Student Association, and the Department of Literatures in English. Please call the IRW at (908) 932-9072 for more information. Susan Waterman tethys@rci.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:05:44 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Rae Flood Subject: Re: search for a new text In-Reply-To: <199603282110.QAA12813@erebus.rutgers.edu> Hello all. I will be teaching an introductory course in Women's Studies in the fall and am wondering if anyone has some suggestions for a text. The course is titled "Contemporary Issues in Women's Studies" and is structured around a number of debates (reproductive choices, pornography vs. erotica, sexual harassment/discrimination/glass ceiling, body image, backlash, and so on). The course is multi-disciplinary, so I am specifically looking for a recent anthology that will discuss these debates and many others from a variety of disciplines. It is important that the text be extrememly accessible. Most students who have taken this course in the past are NOT Women's Studies minors (my university does not offer a major in Women's Studies), but take it as an interesting "filler" course. I have used Sheila Ruth's *Issues in Feminism* in the past, but wonder if there is something better. Does such a dream book exist? Thanks in advance! Dawn Flood University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign flood@students.uiuc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:20:09 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Kenney Subject: feminists interviewing women Can anyone recommend a good summary or recent article on the ethics, politics, and practice of interviewing women subjects? I have the articles in the 1992 Women's Studies International Forum, the article by Oakley in Doing Feminist Research, and a book chapter by Finch (although I have no citation for it). I want to assign the reading to a class whose members are doing case studies of feminist organizations. Please reply privately. Thanks Sally J. Kenney skenney@hhh.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 08:45:28 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Mary L. Spencer" Subject: Hostile Environment Conditions I am looking for articles, monographs, or legal summaries that delineate acceptable evidence of a hostile working environment. Most often, references I am familiar with are linked to sexual harassment, but I am also interested in evidence relevant to race or gender (not sexual harassment) discrimination in employment. Suggestions? Mary Spencer University of Guam Mangilao, Guam 96923 mspencer@uog.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:55:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Katherine W. Mille" Organization: University of NC at Greensboro Subject: WMS Prog. Structures/Consultants We are beginning a program review to consider our present structure as an interdisciplinary program in the Office of Special Programs in Liberal Studies under the Dean of Arts and Sciences. We will be seeking one or more consultants to look at our program and to help us consider structures that will get us where we want to be in five years. We would like to collect representative data on some of the best models of women's studies programs in the country and how they have resolved some of the perennial problems many other programs face (where administratively housed, funding faculty lines, program administration, and issues of program or departmental status). We presently offer a major and a minor in WMS, and have approximately 20 majors, both primary and secondary, since graduating our first major three years ago. Approximately 70 faculty from 19 disciplines affiliate with our program through committee service, many of whom teach and research in WMS. We have an endowment of roughly $120,000 the income from which we use to fund faculty research grants, student scholarships, and student project grants. Our program shares a secretary and a very limited budget with the honors and african-american studies programs, has two GA's and a full-time director. We welcome responses as to programs we should examine, and individuals with experience and knowledge in this area whom we might approach as consultants. Please respond to me privately. Katherine Mille, Director Women's Studies Program 200 Foust UNC Greensboro, NC 27412 (910) 334-5673 FAX (910) 334-4260 e-mail: kwmille@hal.uncg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:32:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: Hostile Environment Conditions In-Reply-To: Some years ago a lawsuit was filed against Sears by female employees. Two well-known feminists argued on opposing sides, both superb--how brilliant then to pit two women against each other-- and I believe a book came out of this, and also that the women plaintiffs lost. To the best of my hazy recollection, the female employees argued that they were being discriminated against by gender because they were assigned to selling items which did not get large commissions. For example, they were not assigned to selling refrigerators, other large appliances, etc. I remember picketing one of the stores when I was a member of Middlesex County NOW, and I believe we were also unsuccessful AT THAT TIME. Anyone out there who remembers the two opponents and the book? pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Mary L. Spencer wrote: > I am looking for articles, monographs, or legal summaries that delineate > acceptable evidence of a hostile working environment. Most often, > references I am familiar with are linked to sexual harassment, but I am > also interested in evidence relevant to race or gender (not sexual > harassment) discrimination in employment. Suggestions? > > Mary Spencer > University of Guam > Mangilao, Guam 96923 > mspencer@uog.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:12:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Barker Subject: Re: Rosenberg vs. Kessler-Harris In-Reply-To: A query arose regarding a famous sex-discrimination case involving Sears. The two opposing scholars who testified in the case were Alice Kessler-Harris and Rosalind Rosenberg. Their testimony appeared in Signs, 11, (Summer (1986): 757-779. Two excellent reviews are Ruth Milkman's, "Women's History and the SEars Case" Feminist Studies, 12 (Summer, 1986) and a longer article by Joan Scott which appeared in Hirsch & Fox Keller's collection, "Conflicts in Feminism". All are staples of my course, Women and Work in Social Context. ********************************************************************* * Professor Kathleen Barker * * Co Director, Gender Studies Program * * Bard College * * barker@bard.edu * ************************************************************************ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:55:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mark Tyler Day Subject: Re: research on rural women in China In-Reply-To: Other possible sources suggested by my wife, whose been a scholar of Chinese culture, history, language, and literature for more years than I want to count. She notes: Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:34:21 -0500 (EST) From: Dorothy Day To: Mark Tyler Day Subject: Re: research on rural women in China (fwd) She should also try asking on the Chinese Studies list (china@pucc.bitnet), which includes all the on-line Chinese historians (admittedly more men than women, but some very good work done.) Also, she should start with *Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century* by Susan Naquin and Evelyn Rawski, which is basically a guide to work that has been and needs to be done, so includes great bibliographies. --Dot Hope this helps. RefRefRefRefRefRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeR e Mark T. Day, Associate Librarian, Reference e f Indiana University Main Library, Room E159 f e Bloomington, IN 47405 e R - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - R e Phone: (812) 855-8028 | FAX: (812) 855-1624 e f Internet: DAYM@INDIANA.EDU f e Owner of LISTSERV list: PRO-CITE@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU e RefeRefRefeRefeRefRefRefRefRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeRefeR On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Phyllis-Joyce Kafka wrote [in response to the original question by Sabine Jakobi}: > Thinking about it some more there was an even more relevant essay in the > same journal, Signs, about the situation of Chinese women in the rural > areas pre-and post Communism which came to the conclusion that on the > whole things weren't any better after than before, as I remember it. This > essay appeared ca. 3 years ago, but it would probably have a great > bibliography. Anyone else remember this essay? Also, Amy Ling in her > Between Worlds, 1990, has a chapter on women in relation to Confucianism. > Her bibliography might also be of help. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu > > On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Phyllis-Joyce Kafka wrote: > > > There was an excellent essay on foot binding over centuries in Signs > > about a year or two ago. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu > > > > On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, JAKOBI SABINE wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I am preparing a Ph.D. on rural women in China. Do you know anybody > > > who conducted field research in Central China focussing on the > > > situation of women in the countryside? Do you know of any book > > > dealing with gender in rural areas of Precommunist-China? > > > Any information will be appreciated. > > > Thanks > > > > > > Sabine Jakobi > > > Trier University/Germany > > > Political Science Dept. > > > jakobi@uni-trier.de > > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:27:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: melinda robins Subject: Re: feminists interviewing women In-Reply-To: <5FF534D1817@hhh-1.hhh.umn.edu> Sally: It's not great, but it's short: Carol Warren's "Gender Issues in Field Research" from Sage (1988). I also like Leslie Roman's article in the 199 2 Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education (Academic Press) and Judith Stacey's piece on feminist ethnography in Women's Studies International Forum 1988 (p. 21-27). ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:19:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: Sears case citations While I am not familiar with a book on the Sears case I can recommend two articles: Ruth Milkman, "Women's History and the Sears Case," _Feminist Studies_ (1986) 12: 375-395 Joan Wallach Scott, "The Sears Case," in her book, _Gender and the Politics of History_ (NY: Columbia University Press, 1988), pp. 167-177. The two feminists were Alice Kessler-Harris who testified for the EEOC on behalf of the women employees and Rosalind Rosenberg who testified for Sears. In the past I have used this case in my introductory class with good results. Barbara Scott Winkler, WVU WINKLER@wvnvms.wvnet. edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:46:54 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Greg Wells Subject: unsubsrcribe >Content-Length: 56 >Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 19:03:33 -0800 >Reply-To: Women's Studies List >Sender: Women's Studies List >From: Jennifer Arnold >Subject: unsubsrcribe >To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L > >Please, unscribe me from your mailing list. Thank you! > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:19:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Preston Katherine K Subject: Re: Hostile Environment Conditions In-Reply-To: On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Phyllis-Joyce Kafka wrote: > Some years ago a lawsuit was filed against Sears by female employees. > Two well-known feminists argued on opposing sides, both superb--how > brilliant then to pit two women against each other-- and I believe a book > came out of this, and also that the women plaintiffs lost. > Anyone out there who remembers the two opponents and the book? Susan Faludi deals with this lawsuit in her book *Backlash. The Undeclared War Against American Women* (NYC: Anchor, 1991), pp. 378-388. The two opponents were Rosalind Rosenberg (who testified for Sears) and Alice Kessler-Harris (who testified for the EEOC). Incidentally (on a completely unrelated topic), apologies for inverting Bernice Johnson Reagon's middle and surname in a post earlier today. Katherine Preston Dept of Music The College of William and Mary kkpres@facstaff.wm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:39:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Top Three List--Results In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:50:00 EST from W. Pendleton is right to be concerned about the problem of selectivity. I wish I'd seen that immediately. We shouldn't let ourselves get into the trap of selecting the "top" "top three" the stars of scholarship for us. It's a reduc- tionist process, encourages laziness, is a poor substitute for careful thought about elements of many works that advance our thinking. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:52:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: marti Subject: shirley temple research am interested in informing my graduate research on the cultural messages delivered by shirley temple films to the baby boomer girl tv audiences of 1950 to 1965...would appreciate personal narratives in regard to this topic that include statistical data as to race and class B.Ross ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 23:20:17 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Hostile Environment Conditions In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:32:46 -0500 from The opponent in the Sears case was the EEOC, which brought the complaint on behalf of the women employees. The opposing expert witnesses were Alice Kessler-Harris and Carol Rosenberg, both historians. Rosenberg cited Kessler- Harris to argue that women didn't seek work that interfered with their concept of self and family responsibilities (on behalf of Sears). K-H argued on behalf of the women employees that R distorted her material, that women do seek work to improve their conditions. I don't know a book on this but there are articles in Signs and or Feminist Studies, which you can probably locate by searching a journal data base (if not, let me know and I'll track the source). beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:39:31 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: Sonja Streuber Comments: Originally-From: Sonja Streuber From: Sonja Streuber Subject: Feminist Epistemology... In-Reply-To: <199603280707.XAA10081@franc.ucdavis.edu> Of course, I missed this thread, and now it would come in handy. Did someone assemble a reading list from the posts sent to WMST-L? If so, could this someone please please send the reading list to me privately or post it to WMST-L, if Joan thinks that it would benefit more members than just me? I hate when this happens.... Thanks so much in advance. Sonja =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= 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) ============================================================================ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 07:59:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: Forwarded: feminist youth and teaching strateg After my request for an old message on getting students to design their own syllabus as an exercise, I got lots of messages saying things like "I don't remember it but could you send info when you get it." I have now tracked down the original poster and she has forwarded the original message and some further information. An edited version of her recent message to me follows with her original reply. Hope people find this useful. I would certainly welcome discussion about using this sort of exercise. In particular, what do we say to students about whether or not we will use the syllabi? If we assigned such an exercise as an assessed piece of work how would we grade it? How might it fit in with our own evaluations of our courses? JoVE Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:47:01 -0800 (PST) From: beth To: j.van-every@bham.ac.uk Cc: eaog Subject: feminist youth and teaching strategies (fwd) .. To elaborate a bit more, what I did was invite the class to conceive of what they would most want their classroom education to look like if they could do anything they were interested in and cared about. I split them into groups of about 7-10, and they came up with their own course, and were supposed to draft a rough syllabus in-class- just the very basics. Most of them did a lot more though, bringing more elaborate syllabi to classes afterwards. I was an undergraduate too at the time, but had gotten permission to TA the class with the professor, who had let me take it over for a week. take care, -beth ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:59:45 -0800 (PST) From: beth To: wmst-l@umdd.umd.edu Subject: feminist youth and teaching strategies .. (part of message that this was originally a reply to) A few years ago, when I was an undergraduate in Women's Studies, I was allowed to act as Teaching Assistant in a course on Gender in Education. I respected and appreciated the professor, and was also very frustrated with the syllabus content and course structure. I articulated my concerns to her and she allowed me to take over the class for a week. One of the first exercises I came up with was to divide the class into groups of their own choosing, and ask everyone to draft a very rough description or version of the Women's Studies class they would most want to take or teach, if their education was under their own control. The class got really fired up about the exercise- it was only supposed to be an in-class (ungraded) assignment, but many of them chose to do independent work and research, to bring in texts they would want to use, and to draft complete syllabi- one of which was for a year-long series. At their requests, the results were shared with the rest of the class, and one group went on to present their work from this exercise in a workshop at a State Women's Studies Conference. The professor was also thrilled with the reactions to the assignment, and I believe has adopted it in future courses. She also decided to change the end of the course that year, to leave room for the students who wanted to, to rewrite the syllabus of *that* class. Courses they designed included a lengthy course on Women's Health (this was the year-long one), a course on 'Women Writing About Violence in their Lives', and two groups worked on coursework about fighting violence in media, and in pornography. This is a useful in-class exercise, and also could be a great way for women's studies faculty to meet with interested students and plan coursework and syllabi, before the class begins or classes are scheduled. -beth 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, 29 Mar 1996 01:40:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nicole Molnar Subject: requesting information on a job Hello everyone, Allow me to introduce myself and the reason for this note. My name is Nicole Molnar and I am a graduate student (Ma) in Sociology at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario Canada. I'm looking for positions in the U.S because in Canada we have a program called S.W.A.P.-Student Work Abroad Program. Basically the U.S. government will give me a special visa or green card (not exactly sure of the name of this) that will allow me to work in the U.S. starting June 1 and ending October 19th . I'm interested in finding a position that has something to do with females for example Women's Studies, gender studies, lesbian studies or women's issues in general. I am contacting this group to ask if any of you or anyone you know is looking for someone to assist in research or another position that I would be interested in( or that might be interested in me). I would really like to take advantage of this program and opportunity. I will briefly outline some of my experience as well as my own areas of research so that you can get a sense of what I have accomplished. I graduated with Honours in 1994 from the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies (major) and Sociology (concentration). I also have 2.5 years of psychology courses at the undergraduate level, including 3rd year courses that dealt with social and personality development, personality and individual differences, psychology of women and social psychology as well as many other courses (I switched because of the heavy concentration of biological science in the program). My main research areas include: sexual and gender harassment, lesbian issues, body image and eating disorders, reproductive technologies (actually just about anything that has to do with the female body is of interest to me), violence against women, women and self-identity (my work-in-progress thesis), and I have an interest in almost anything that deals with girls/women and gender in general. I have been a Teaching Assistant for 3 semesters for the following courses: Sociology of Gender Roles, Social Psychiatry (because of the psychology background), and Individual and Society. I have worked at the University in other capacities as well including: administrative assistant for the Sexual and Gender Harassment Office, the Department of Women's Studies, and for the President's Advisory Committee on Sexual and Gender Harassment. I have also worked as a resident assistant for the all first year student building. I have sat on numerous committees including: Women's Studies; President's Advisory Committee on Sexual and Gender Harassment, Consensual Relations Sub-committee (I chaired this) and the Sexual and Gender Harassment Education Sub-committee as well as others. I have presented a paper at a national conference (Canadian Association Against Sexual Harassment in Higher Education) as well been a guest speaker on numerous issues. I have also been a volunteer within the university community as well as the surrounding communities (including the Waterloo Regional Police Force's Victim Services). I also have my own business lecturing on body image and related issues to schools, women's groups and others which have included the Canadian Federation of University Teachers (Cambridge, Ontario branch). While this is only a brief outline of my C.V. it may help you get a better idea of what I've done and where my interests are. If you are not looking for someone (or I'm just not the person for you), I would really appreciate it if you could contact me with the names of people or universities (anywhere in the U.S.) that might have something that would interest me. Please note: while I would like to take advantage of the opportunity to work in the U.S.,if anyone knows anything about positions in Canada, I would also be interested in finding this out. Thank you for taking the time to read this and please email me privately. Sincerely, Nicole Molnar nmolnar@uoguelph.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 08:50:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Feminist Epistemology and other files Earlier today, Sonja Streuber wrote: > Of course, I missed this thread, and now it would come in handy. Did > someone assemble a reading list from the posts sent to WMST-L? If so, > could this someone please please send the reading list to me privately or > post it to WMST-L, if Joan thinks that it would benefit more members than > just me? > I hate when this happens.... Sonja's message reminded me that I'd been intending to make a file of the feminist epistemology messages so that they'd be very easily available. I've now done that. To get it, send the message GET FEMINIST EPISTEM to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . DO NOT SENT THIS MESSAGE TO WMST-L! Do NOT reply to this message!!! Also [broken record starts here :-)], it is possible to find past messages even if I haven't made a file of them. You can send a message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU telling it to do a search of the WMST-L logfiles. You can ask it to search for certain keywords, and/or messages sent at a particular time, and/or messages sent by a particular person. All this is explained pretty clearly in two files available from LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU To get them, send the following two-line message: GET DUMMY GUIDE GET SEARCH LOGFILES For example, after reading either of the above files (DUMMY GUIDE is the one I usually recommend you start with), you'll know that you can send the following message to LISTSERV to get the feminist epistemology messages sent to WMST-L in 1996: // Database Search DD=Rules //Rules DD * Search feminist epistemology in WMST-L since 1/96 Index Print /* Yes, it looks arcane and intimidating, but it turns out to be easy and FAST--you'll usually get a response in a minute or less! And you don't have to understand what all the lines mean--I don't, even though I use this all the time. I simply keep a template in my computer file, and whenever I need it, I plunk it into a mail message, adjust it with the appropriate keywords, etc., and send it off to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . I use it to find messages on particular subjects, messages from particular subscribers, even to see whether I posted the message I had intended to. It's great! And it means that you can find the info you need without adding to WMST-L's already problematically heavy mail volume. Just remember to send all the above messages to LISTSERV, not to WMST-L. Many thanks. [broken record ends here :-)] 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: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 08:41:45 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara Bixby, Prof. Political Science" Subject: P. McIntosh I have part of a paper by Peggy McIntosh called "Understanding Correspondences between White Privilege and Male Privilege Through Women's Studies Work" from the late 1980s. My copy is a transcript of a talk and it is not complete. Does anyone know if or where this has been published or where I could get a full copy of it? The link is a very powerful one and the topic came up in my "Women and Politics" class-I'd like to have students read her work. pls respond privately. thanks Barbara Bixby Carthage College Kenosha WI bixbyb1@carthage.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:50:33 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kassie Fleisher Subject: tompkins citation jean noble asks for the citation on jane tompkins' essay, "'indians': textualism, morality, and the problem of history." i'll respond publicly in case someone else finds it useful (it's a good one!). it was originally published in 1986 in _critical inquiry_ (sorry don't have the exact number) and is anthologized variously; i lift it from _ways of reading: an anthology for writers_ (eds. david bartholomae and anthony petrosky, bedford books, 1993 [3rd edition -- though a new edition is out and probably also contains it]). thanks, kassie fleisher fleih@isu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 08:10:37 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nikki Senecal Subject: Re: Forwarded: feminist youth and teaching strateg Here in the English department at the University of Southern California there have been teachers who in graduate courses have asked students to write syllabi (I'm thinking of a queer theory class) for graduate or undergraduates or both (students had to conceive of the level). They had to provide theories for their choices. The "practicality" for graduate students (in re: "In particular, what do we say to students about whether or not we will use the syllabi?") is that when we go out on the market (as most of us will) we will need to have this skill--formulating and rationalizing syllabi, even before we get to teach classes. So at least for graduate "feminist youth" this is a perfect exercise. Nikki Senecal senecal@chaph.usc.edu >After my request for an old message on getting students to design their own >syllabus as an exercise, I got lots of messages saying things like "I don't >remember it but could you send info when you get it." I have now tracked >down the original poster and she has forwarded the original message and some >further information. An edited version of her recent message to me follows >with her original reply. Hope people find this useful. I would certainly >welcome discussion about using this sort of exercise. In particular, what do >we say to students about whether or not we will use the syllabi? If we >assigned such an exercise as an assessed piece of work how would we grade >it? How might it fit in with our own evaluations of our courses? > >JoVE ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:41:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jace Condravy Subject: Still Looking for Panel Participants About a week ago, I posted an invitation for feminist educators who use P. Rothenberg's text, Race, Class and Gender in the United States in their writing classes to submit a proposal with a colleague and me to the Conference on College Composition and Communication next March in Phoenix, AZ, but unfortunately had no takers. I'd like to widen the invitation to include those of you who use readers that focus on race, class, and gender issues as springboards for writing assignments. Our intention is to examine the effectiveness of such a focus in our writing classes. The proposal deadline is April 19, so we need to hear from you rather quickly. Please respond privately. Thank you. Jace Condravy English Dept. Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock, PA 16057 jcc@sruvm.sru.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 10:41:30 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathie Friedman-Kasaba Subject: Re: feminists interviewing women In-Reply-To: <960328.172928.EST.MROBINS@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Three book recommendations on feminists interviewing women: 1. Personal Narratives Group. 1989. INTERPRETING WOMEN'S LIVES: FEMINIST THEORY AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES. Indiana Univ. Pr. 2. Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai. 1991. WOMEN'S WORDS: THE FEMINIST PRACTICE OF ORAL HISTORY. Routledge. 3. Diane Wolf. 1996. FEMINIST DILEMMAS IN FIELDWORK. Westview. Kathie Friedman-Kasaba, Sociology Liberal Studies Program University of Washington, Tacoma friedman@u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:35:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "David F. Austin" Subject: _Crumb_ for teaching The documentary on cartoonist R. Crumb's life, work and family, _Crumb_ , has just been released on video. It would, I think, make a very interesting starting point for discussion of sexism and its pornographic representations. A variety of views about whether Crumb's cartoons of women are potentially harmful are presented, along with information about why Crumb depicts them the way he does and how he behaves towards women. David. David F. Austin Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy and Religion NCSU, Raleigh, NC ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:52:56 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Winter Subject: Pioneer Women Who Turned Around Can you help? I am researching the stories of pioneer women who either made it to their destination and decided to return "home" and those women who turned around during their journey west. I teach a course on the diaries and journals of pioneer women, and have many primary and secondary sources, including Riley, Stratton, Brown, Schlissel, Dunlap, Sanford, and Pruitt Stewart, which I use in that course. This research is for a paper I will give at NWSA in June, and I plan on detailing the stories of Miriam Davis Colt, in Went to Kansas, and Mary Luster in her autobiography. I would like to include several more examples. If you have any information, I would appreciate your help. Personal, unpublish ed diaries and journals would also be acceptable. Please reply to me privately. Thank you. Kathleen Winter KRW498F@.VMA.SMSU.EDU Southwest Missouri State University Springfield, MO 65804 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 20:20:17 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Hostile Environment Conditions In-Reply-To: If you want books specifically, both Sondra Farganis, Sage '95 (sorry I can't remember the title; it's a textbook-type one) and Carol Bacchi, Same Difference, give a lot of space to _Sears_. Joan Scott's piece is excerpted in Hirsch and Keller eds, Conflicts in Feminism. Mary Joe Frug, Postmodern Legal Feminism, also discusses the case. (As someone who teaches this already said, there is an awful lot of literature on _Sears_.) --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:21:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michelle Meyers Subject: Re: Sweet Honey in the Rock I believe the original message mentioned Karen Finley and contemporary women performance artists more generally. Two books which may be helpful are: Lynda Hart and Peggy Phelan, editors, Acting out: feminist performances, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1993. V. Vale and Andrea Juno, editors, Angry Women, San Francisco: Re Search Publications, 1992. Michelle Meyers Visiting Faculty Dartmouth College Women's Studies Program michelle.meyers@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:46:48 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harvette Grey Subject: INTERNATIONAL FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY I am scheduled to teach a course on the above--I would love any infomration with regards to developing this course. What books, films, or other resources do you think would be relevant? Thank you Please contact me at hgrey@wppost.depaul.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 23:14:00 MEZ Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Alexander Freund Subject: Re: feminists interviewing women Here are my suggestions: Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai (eds): Women's Words. The Feminist Practice of Oral History (N.Y. and London: Routledge, 1991) contains a number of excellent articles. See also Daphne Patai's "Introduction: Constructing A Self" in her Brazilian Women Speak. Contemporary Life Stories, 1-35. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers UP, 1988. Personal Narratives Group, eds. Interpreting Women's Lives. Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1989. Anderson, Kathryn et al. "Beginning Where We Are: Feminist Methodology in Oral History." Oral History Review 15 (Spring 1987): 103-127. Geiger, Susan N. G. "Review Essay: Women's Life histories: Method and Content" Signs 11, no. 2 (1986):334-351. Hope this helps. I would be interested to hear what other suggestions you received. Perhaps you could post a summary/bibliography to the list? Alex ************************************************* * Alexander Freund * * Boberger Str. 12 * * 22111 Hamburg * * Germany * * phone: 01149-40-6551893 * * e-mail: alexander.freund@hamburg.netsurf.de * ************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 18:02:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis-Joyce Kafka Subject: Re: tompkins citation In-Reply-To: <199603291550.JAA15984@charlie.acc.iit.edu> She published a book about a year or two ago in which she extended these arguments. It had West or Wild West somewhere in the title. pkafka@turbo.kean.edu On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Kassie Fleisher wrote: > jean noble asks for the citation on jane tompkins' essay, "'indians': > textualism, morality, and the problem of history." i'll respond publicly > in case someone else finds it useful (it's a good one!). > > it was originally published in 1986 in _critical inquiry_ (sorry don't have > the exact number) and is anthologized variously; i lift it from _ways of > reading: an anthology for writers_ (eds. david bartholomae and anthony > petrosky, bedford books, 1993 [3rd edition -- though a new edition is out > and probably also contains it]). > > thanks, > kassie fleisher > fleih@isu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 21:26:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Falzoi Subject: Re: re-siting the Tompkins citation(s) In-Reply-To: On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Phyllis-Joyce Kafka wrote: > She published a book about a year or two ago in which she extended these > arguments. It had West or Wild West somewhere in the title. > pkafka@turbo.kean.edu Here is the reference for the West book, tho, as I recall, the essay we have been searching for, I don't remember being in it. Anyway, in respect to her extended argument: _West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns_ (New York: Oxford, 1992). I have taught "'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History" to undergraduates out of the _Ways of Reading_ reader. This Reader frames the essay as an unusual one in that Tompkins "could be said to take the reader behind the scenes of the respectable drama of academic research." (584, third edition) Like some kind of "Inside Edition". The editors, Bartholomae and Petrosky frame this essay to be ideal in that, surprisingly, Tompkins' essay is as much about her process of research as it is her "discoveries" that, as was pointed out on this list, the limitations of "history" do not mean that we should abandon attempts to comprehend "history". Tompkins develops a post-structuralism approach which seems influenced (to me) by the New Historicism. She does not really develop this idea very far at the end of the essay. This Reader is for students of writing, and I would say it is far more likely in these editors' minds (I am guessing) that Tompkins outlines a "coherent" -- even in her paradoxical search through history -- picture of writing. What is coherent is that this is a meticulously organized essay, and as those of us who write essays know, the process of writing is not generally meticulous, or organized, although parts of the process of writing may be (how can writing not reflect writing?) reflected in the writing itself. For example, introductions tend to be written after you know what you are introducing. What begins an essay, may be written last. Tompkins' essay on one level appears to present a seemless, linear process of research, and her anecdotes and "failures" (ruptures that New Historicism loves) that she records are a part of, and in service to, this seemless appearance. The editors reinforce this reading. On another level of inquiry, Tompkins's essay deconstructs the seemlessness by pointing to the fact that there is a loss, that there is an unrecoverable aspect in any history (which is history, and denied by the New Historicism in its attempts to "recover" what has been lost, among other things). Nothing is absolute, there is no ultimate truth, and other post-structuralisms (and in parallel to psychoanalysis here), are some basic conclusions that have obviously informed her essay from the outset. The editors, however, appear to believe that Tompkins somehow "discovers" or "uncovers" or "reveals" history. They frame the study of her essay in this way. However, it is my opinion that no one who can write an essay of this layered, multi-voiced (she shifts her voice) intentional complexity "begins" ignorant of the theoretical apparatus(es) that she "uncovers". In any case, all my students hate this essay. The invariable question, despite class after class of interogation, is "but what about the Indians? She is a 'bad' writer because she doesn't even talk about Indians." What kinds of students are we raising who refuse to read past the title? Jill Falzoi TISCH School of the Arts, New York University ______________________________________________________________________ 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--------------- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 21:01:55 +0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne-Marie Toliver Subject: Re: INTERNATIONAL FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY There are a couple of relevant books you might find under economics and development at They are published by UNIFEM and similar organizations. Good luck Anne-Marie >I am scheduled to teach a course on the above--I would love any >infomration with regards to developing this course. What books, films, or >other resources do you think would be relevant? > >Thank you >Please contact me at hgrey@wppost.depaul.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:16:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tracey Hurd Subject: Re: feminists interviewing women For another source considering the complexities of feminists interviewing women, see the current issue of the journal 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. Tracey Hurd, PhD Brown University ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:29:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ak28 Subject: Re: INTERNATIONAL FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY In-Reply-To: Although dated, you might look at the 1985 or 86 documentary film, "Global Assembly Line." It doesn't focus explicitly on the issue of gender in a continuous way, but my women's Studies students immediately notice that the people who make up the various global assembly lines (eg, Mexico & Philippines) are mostly if not exclusively women. Yours, Ana ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 09:33:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "John C. Berg" Subject: Re: _Crumb_ for teaching In-Reply-To: I would concur that the "Crumb" documentary would make for extremely interesting class discussion -- but those who have not seen it should be aware that it can also be highly disturbing, not only (or even chiefly) because of the pornographic images of women, but even more so because of the stark portrayals of Crumb's two brothers. I thought it was a great movie, but I also have friends who were unable to sit through it. You should definitely preview this movie and think about how to prepare your class before you spring it on them. John Berg jberg@acad.suffolk.edu Department of Government Tel: +617-573-8126 Suffolk University Fax: +617-367-4623 Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2770 U.S.A. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 18:37:19 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 Family Thing On Saturday, March 30, 1996 I reviewed "A Family Thing" on "The Women's Show" a weekly womanist/feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM (88.5) "Radio Free Tampa." My review is now available for retrieval from the FILM FILELIST. To obtain this review send the following command to Listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV170 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, 30 Mar 1996 17:28:16 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joan r saks berman Subject: Book Tour Comments: To: psych of women resource list , Abigails-L , Ami Laws , "Gwen P. Keita" , JUDITH LORBER , Mona Reeva , Naomi Weisstein , Sharon Shea Comments: cc: Linda Martin , Dawn Moore <102101.132@compuserve.com>, Jackie Mosio , Lowen Berman , Glenn Thureson , Anne Thureson , Jo Ann Evansgardner , Jo Freeman , Judith Long , Betsy Williams <74562.441@compuserve.com>, Ellen Lignell , Ellyn Kaschak , Carolyn Larsen , global exchange , Jan Jiles , "Colleen J. Gregory" , Carol Goodenow , Carla Golden , femisa , Elizabeth Bobsy Draper , Joan Chrisler , Maryka Biaggio , Ethel Tobach 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: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:18:58 -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: 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: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:19:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynn S Duggan Subject: Re: international feminization of poverty Harvette Grey asked about materials that might be useful for a course on the international feminization of poverty. A few recent things include: On the increasing incidence of female-headed households worldwide, the anthology edited by Joan Mencher and Anna Okongwu, _Where Did All the Men Go?_ Westview Press, 1993. An anthology on World Bank/International Monetary Fund structural adjustment policies and their effect on women's workloads and incomes edited by Isabella Bakker, _The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy_ Zed Books, 1994. Nancy Folbre's _Who Pays for the Kids?_ Routledge, 1994 details the political economy of inheritance and of childbearing decisions, among other things, see chapter 3 in particular, which explains some of the factors behind the rise in female headship. There is a section on Latin America, Europe and the US, and more. Some of this book is not very accessible to noneconomists, but that's mainly just the first chapter or two, and these are worth at least skimming, to get a sense of how mainstream (malestream) economists view the family and power in general, and how feminist economists have critiqued their models. Marjorie Cohen in the political science dept. at Simon Fraser Univ., Canada has done some very readable work on free trade and its effects on women, including a recent paper on "vampire capitalism." This sounds like a great course. For further references you might consider posting the request to the feminist economists list. To subscribe, send a message saying "subscribe femecon-l firstname lastname" to listserv@bucknell.edu. -- Lynn Duggan duggan@pilot.msu.edu -- Lynn Duggan duggan@pilot.msu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:44:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: feminist theology...&c In-Reply-To: This is a sort of specific request, but I wonder if there's anyone out there who has suggestions. I'm loking for articles &c on 1. Feminist critiques of hierarchical organization, and also 2. Feminist theology, specifically Jewish, looking at gendered God-language. I have a lot of the well-known stuff, the collection by Heschel, Blu Greenberg, Rachel Biale, but I'm looking for stuff I've somehow overloked, as I'm not really satisfied with what I've found. Anything out there? Thanks. Alana Suskin ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:18:16 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carla swift Subject: Re: Integrating women's lit courses In-Reply-To: And to take Jacqueline's thought one step further, if we labeled the mainstream literature classes "white male literature" -- perhaps then everyone would clearly realize exactly what those other course titles mean. On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Jacqueline Haessly wrote: .. 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 > 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? > > >> > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:51:20 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carla swift Subject: Re: feminist theology...&c In-Reply-To: Alana, this may be a lead for your, but I'm not certain since I haven't read it. Someone on the Feminist-Theology list I subscribe to recently recommended Judith Plaskow's book, _Standing Again At Sanai_ as a resource on gendered God-language. On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, the Cheshire Cat wrote: > This is a sort of specific request, but I wonder if there's anyone out > there who has suggestions. I'm loking for articles &c on 1. Feminist > critiques of hierarchical organization, and also 2. Feminist theology, > specifically Jewish, looking at gendered God-language. I have a lot of > the well-known stuff, the collection by Heschel, Blu Greenberg, Rachel > Biale, but I'm looking for stuff I've somehow overloked, as I'm not > really satisfied with what I've found. Anything out there? Thanks. > > Alana Suskin > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:05:08 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 Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:18:16 -0800 from > 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 16:03:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: Feminist Theology, etc. Alana Suskin asked about feminist critiques of hierarchical organization and feminist theology, especially Jewish, on god-language. I would suggest: Kathleen Iannello, _Decisions Without Hierarchy_: Feminist Interventions in Organization, Theory, and Practice_ (NY: Routledge, 1992) and Protestant feminist theologian, Letty Russell, _Household of Freedom_ on hierarchy and Christianity. Judith Plaskow discusses god-language in her book _Standing Again At Sinai, Judaism From a Feminist Perspective_ (SF: HarperCollins, 1991). An excellent example of a siddhur or prayer book that does inclusive language is the one done by Congregation Beth El of the Sudbury River Valley, Sudbury, Mass. 1981. Barbara Scott Winkler, West Virginia University. WINKLER@wvnvms.wvnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 15:25:29 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Todd Subject: Re: feminist theology...&c In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:44:26 -0500 from A critique of hierarchy that I have found particularly valuable is Kathryn Tanner, _The Politics of God_ (Fortress, 1992), written from a Christian feminist perspective. Mary Todd Women's Studies The University of Illinois at Chicago marytodd@uic.edu >This is a sort of specific request, but I wonder if there's anyone out >there who has suggestions. I'm loking for articles &c on 1. Feminist >critiques of hierarchical organization, and also 2. Feminist theology, >specifically Jewish, looking at gendered God-language. I have a lot of >the well-known stuff, the collection by Heschel, Blu Greenberg, Rachel >Biale, but I'm looking for stuff I've somehow overloked, as I'm not >really satisfied with what I've found. Anything out there? Thanks. > >Alana Suskin ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 16:53:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Georgia NeSmith, PhD" Subject: Unconventional new teen girls magazine 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: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 17:59:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: Re: feminist theology...&c A book that does a nice job examining hierarchical organizational structure is : "Feminist Organizing for Change: The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada" by Nancy Adamson, Linda Briskin, and Margaret McPhail, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988. A worthwhile article is "Challenges of Success: Stages of Growth in Feminist Organizations," by Stephanie Riger. Feminist Studies, 20,2 Summer 1994. Phyllis Povell ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 16:09:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Gunder Subject: Female Corrections Officers Needed During the summer of 1996, a fellow graduate student and I will be conducting a research study based on interviews, focusing on the jobs and lives of female corrections officers (prison settings only). Unfortunately, our money and time will only allow us to use Ohio prisons for face to face interviews. Our purpose is not to bash the corrections system or anything similar to that. We are interested in looking at the situations, events, responsibilities, etc. of the females corrections officer. With the increasing prison population and the increasing rise in female corrections officers, we are interested in the differences in the jobs of the women officers compared to the male officers; also the implications of women being the ones in power instead of what is traditionally found in prisons. If you are a corrections officer or know of someone who might be interested in participating in this study via the Internet, please e-mail me as soon as possible. Also, even if you are not a corrections officer, if you have advice on the direction of our study, etc., please contact us. Thank you in advance for any help you might provide. Cynthia Gunder Karen Lahm Applied Behavioral Science/ Sociology Department Wright State University Dayton, Ohio mgun@erinet.com