========================================================================= Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:02:21 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet K Levi Subject: new discussion list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Colleagues, At the NWSA Community College Caucus, I promised to set up a discussion list for those interested in Community College issues specific to Women's Studies. I am happy to announce that it now exists. Women's Studies in Community Colleges (WSCC) is an open unmoderated list for academics, such as professors, librarians, researchers,program administrators and lecturers, interested in networking about current and future Women's Studies Programs and classes at two year institutions of higher education. Right now it is not archived, so save anything you think you might want later! To subscribe, send an e-mail to majordomo@clark.edu In the body of the message, type subscribe wscc [] Leave the subject line blank. ------ Messages to the list should be sent to: wscc@clark.edu If you have any problems, e-mail me. I will be out of town from Aug.14-Sept.5, but hopefully we can get some good discussions going this fall. Harriet Harriet K. Levi (hlevi@clark.edu) "every society honors Instructor/Coordinator its live conformists Women's Studies Dept.ph# 360-992-2170 and its dead troublemakers Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA - help reverse the trend!" ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 06:16:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Reina Pennington Subject: Re: masculinity in the movies Comments: To: Traci M Kelly In-Reply-To: <01ILV7OWDE7Y906C13@InfoAve.Net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:00 AM -0400 7/31/97, Traci Kelly wrote: >Any recommendations floating around out there for a class that has been >named "Masculinity in Film"? "Impromptu," director James Lapine's very entertaining film about George Sand and the Paris set. Very interesting portrayals of masculinity -- from Chopin to de Musset to Delacroix. Then there's Sand herself, of course! Two duels are fought over Sand. Should stimulate some fascinating discussion. Reina Pennington Dept. of History, University of South Carolina ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 17:46:42 +0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ku Yenlin Subject: Christie Delphy's address MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm looking for Christie Delphy's address. Please send it to me in private. I need to contact her for permission to include her article in an anthology in Chinese. Yenlin Ku yku@cc.nctu.edu.tw ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:27:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS! (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi, folks. It's the start of the month, and hence time for a new round of excerpts from the Source of All Wisdom, the WMST-L User's Guide. I want to stress this first section, since increasingly people have been posting messages--even requests for information--without including their email address. Some mail systems tell people only that the message is from WMST-L, not who wrote it. Unless you provide your email address INSIDE your messages (preferably at the end), some people will be unable to reply to you privately even if they wish to do so. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE include your e-mail address at the end of your message. Here's all of section one: 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. On the World Wide Web, the URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:06:53 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cathy Colton Subject: Re: WMST-L Digest - 29 Jul 1997 to 30 Jul 1997 In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 31 Jul 1997 00:00:29 -0400 from With regard to the question about masculinity in film: I found "Slingblade" to be an interesting vehicle for thinking about masculinities. Dwight Oakum's character (the overtly macho, violent man) has a line which he speaks to the three other main males in the movie: "I hate retards, faggots, and wimpy-ass kids," which seems to set his version of masculinity up against the other non-masculinities. It was intriguing to me to then look at how all of the men choose to relate to and try to "protect" the woman who's portrayed as a basically helpless female. Cathy Colton University of Illinois at Chicago ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:07:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1 website, 3 academic jobs MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following four announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) 100 Years of Women at U. of Bonn (website/exhibition) 2) Job: Senior Position in Philosophy (U. of Missouri-St. Louis) 3) Job: Women's Studies/Political Science (Columbia U.) 4) Job: Asst. Prof. of Women's Studies (Indiana U.) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) 100 Years of Women at the University in Bonn. 1896 - 1996: An Exihibition in the World Wide Web ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In 1896, the first female students at the University of Bonn were able to immatriculate as "Guests." One hundred years later, in 1996, the Department of Women's History, under the guidance of Annette Kuhn and Valentin Rothe and working together with the University's Women's Advocate, Brigitte Muehlenbruch, created an exhibition which documents the history of the women who have studied at the University. Today, one hundred and one years after the first female student was able to set foot on the alma mater, this exibition can be seen on the World Wide Web: http://www.uni-bonn.de/Frauengeschichte/100JahreFrauenstudium >From the entrance, the visitor then has the option of traveling through six different rooms, in which the history of the women at the University of Bonn is recorded on a total 56 panels. From the difficulties of the first female students and scientists in the beginning of the century, the student life in the Wiemar Republic, horrors of the National-Socialist era, and the women's movement in the 60s, to the female academics of the 80s and 90s, the exhibition honestly illustrates the situation of women on the university from a historical and feminist viewpoint. Students who are searching for information about Women's Studies and Women's History will strike gold. Those who would just like to take a look around will be guided through a twelve-panel tour of the exhibition. Additionally, all can participate in a questionnaaire, a discussion forum and a riddle competition. Information on the catalog and an extensive bibliography complete the exhibition. Even if the system is still under construction, it is worth it to drop by! On that note, we cordially invite you to visit our little "Cyberspace" - exhibition ... Contact: Annette Kuhn, Molly Beutz, Sebastian Hebler Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn Seminar fuer Geschichte und ihre Didaktik Lehrgebiet Frauengeschichte An der Schlosskirche 1 53113 Bonn Telefon: ++49 (0)228 73-7690 Fax: ++49 (0)228 73-9069 E-mail: Frauengeschichte@Uni-Bonn.de Homepage: http://www.uni-bonn.de/Frauengeschichte **************************************************************************** 2) Job: Senior position in Philosophy (feminist epistemology) Philosophy: Senior position, beginning January 1, 1998. Specializations in philosophy of science, feminist epistemology, and Quine. Nationally prominent record of research, publication, and professional activity required. Send curriculum vitae and list of at least three references to: Professor Paul A. Roth, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.Louis, Missouri 63121-4499. Deadline isSeptember 15. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 8, 1997 ************************************************************************** 3) Job: WS/Political Science (Columbia U.) Women's Studies/Political Science: Women's Studies/American Politics/Comparative Politics. Columbia University in the City of New York seeks to make a tenured appointment in American or comparative politics (any specialty) and women's studies. The position is divided between the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the political science department; tenure will be in political science. We are seeking an outstanding scholar and teacher of gender studies in American or comparative politics who is also committed to interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and the development of Columbia's women's studies program both at the undergraduate and graduate level. Applications from women and members of minority groups are especially welcomed. Consideration of applications will begin June 1, 1997. All applications must be received by September 15, 1997. The starting date of the appointment is expected to be September 1, 1998. Please send letter and curriculum vitae to Chair, Political Science and Women's Studies Search Committee, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, 763 Schermerhorn Extension, Mail Code 5508, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027. Columbia is an AA/EEO employer. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 8, 1997 *********************************************************************** 4) Job: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WOMEN'S STUDIES (Indiana U.) Women's Studies. Indiana University-Bloomington, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, fully appointed to the unit and endowed as the Peg Zeglin Brand Chair of Women's Studies, effective August 1998. Those with interdisciplinary backgrounds and a doctorate or equivalent degree in-hand which focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to interfaces between gender, the body, science, and culture are particularly invited to apply. As a full-time women's studies appointee, candidates should demonstrate strong potential for high quality interdisciplinary gender studies research and scholarship, and should advance methods and theoretical approaches cognizant of the critical dimensions of race, ethnicity, international and cross-cultural diversity. The unit encourages the application of candidates with research and teaching expertise related to gender from the range of natural and human sciences, especially those related to: medicine, health, sexuality; gendered technologies (computers, communication, electronic media and information systems); environmental, ecological, regional, or geographic development; and other cognate areas pertinent to contemporary gender studies. The appointee will join a faculty of eight full and joint appointed Women's Studies faculty drawn from the humanities and social sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, at a residential campus with over one hundred distinguished faculty undertaking research related to women, gender, and/or sexuality. The Peg Zeglin Brand Chair in Women's Studies appointee will have responsibility for instructing undergraduate and graduate Gender Studies students in large and small classroom settings, as well as contributing to the development of an innovative interdisciplinary doctoral degree program and a Gender Studies research institute. DEADLINE: October 15, or until the position is filled. Applications should include a c.v. and names of 3 referees. Nominations are also welcome. Direct all correspondence to Professor Judith Allen, Chair, Women's Studies, Memorial Hall East 129, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405; juallen@indiana.edu. EO/AA From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 8, 1997 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 18:26:33 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: val balding Subject: conference UK Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Prostitution: Violence Against Women and Children - A European Conference - =46riday 28 November 1997 Westminster Central Hall Story's Gate London UK Keynote Speaker Norma Hotaling (USA) is Executive Director of the Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE) Project, a service which is dedicated to creating a continuum of care for all women who are survivors of abuse, and individuals escaping prostitution. SAGE also co-ordinates the first ever 'John School' for the re-education of men using prostitutes. Norma has extensive personal and professional experience working with issues of violence, sexual exploitation and prostitution. She is a survivor of prostitution, a recovering heroin addict and a formerly homeless woman. Norma has designed and implemented model programmes that have been adopted nationally and internationally. Other speakers include: Irene Ivison, author of 'Fighting for Fiona' (1997). Irene's daughter Fiona was murdered whilst working as a prostitute in the North of England. In response to this tragedy Irene formed the organisation Campaign for the Removal of Pimps (CROP). CROP is currently conducting research into the coercive tactics of pimps. Emma Humphrey was 17 years old when jailed for life for killing her pimp in defence against rape. After 7 years in prison she contacted the feminist organisation 'Justice for Women' to ask for help in appealing the murder conviction on the grounds of provocation. Emma's campaign was successful and in 1995 her conviction was quashed. Emma had worked as a prostitute from age 11 when she ran away from home to escape abuse. She is planning on writing a book on her experiences in order to dispel some of the myths about child prostitution. Maggie O'Neill (University of Staffordshire) and Patricia Holmes (Greater Manchester Women's Support Group, working with women in prison and the sex industry), speakers on international trafficking of women and children, pimping on the Internet, sex tourists and 'mail order brides'. Conference organisers have also invited Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, to give a keynote address, but are awaiting confirmation. Cost: =A395 and =A350 There are refreshments throughout the day, but lunch is not included. The organisers reserve the right to alter the programme if necessary. Cancellations are subject to a charge of 50% The organisers are also hosting a half-day National Networking Meeting in central London on Saturday 29 November 1997. This second event is free for those attending the conference who are working to support women escaping the sex industry and/or campaigning for legislative change. The aim of this day is to build a national network of organisations dealing with issues of prostitution as violence and abuse of women and children. It is envisaged that a large number of women attending will be survivors of the sex industry. Both events organised by the Research Centre on Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations, Leeds Metropolitan University. violence.research@lmu.ac.uk If you need further information regarding this event contact details are as follows: Telephone (0113) 283 6710 =46ax (0113) 283 6709 Email J.Bindel@lmu.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:33:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeff Finlay Subject: Toxic Towers conf MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > I'm interested in recieving a program for the toxic towers confrence taking > place this coming august 15,16,&17. Pleas reply Toxic Towers has a conference homepage at: http://www.swiftsite.com/ToxicTowers/ Jeff ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:46:06 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marybeth Foushee Subject: Applicants welcome for WST Director's position MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Position now funded. Application deadline extended until October 17, 1997. Announcement of Position at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Director of Women's Studies Program Position includes Directorship of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Women's Studies (with tenure), on a 12-month contract, beginning July 1998. Minimum qualifications include: a Ph.D. or equivalent; interdisciplinary experience or training; administrative or leadership expertise; a strong record of research and scholarly publication that qualifies for appointment at the Associate Professor rank; and innovative teaching in a multi-cultural environment. Preference will be given to candidates with previous involvement in Women's Studies, experience in grant writing, and expertise in one or more of the following areas of feminist/Women's Studies research: women's issues related to the Southwest, including Native American women, Chicana/Latina women, cross-border issues; women from under represented racial, ethnic, or cultural groups in the U.S.; women in international and comparative perspective; and/or feminist pedagogy and curriculum development. Duties: primary responsibility for administration of Women's Studies Program; shared responsibility for administration of Women's Studies Program; shared responsibility for teaching undergraduate Women's Studies classes; opportunity to teach graduate courses; curriculum development; leadership in scholarship; developing and carrying our long term planning for Women's Studies; fostering university initiatives related to gender and undergraduate education. Northern Arizona University offers a range of Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral programs to its 19,000 students on the Flagstaff campus and regional sites statewide. Flagstaff is located on the Colorado plateau, at the foot of the San Francisco Peaks, a region that has a heritage rich in Hispanic and Native American cultures. The Women's Studies Program currently offers a minor; the program promotes interdisciplinary instruction, critical thinking, and innovative curricula that reflect the diversity of women's experiences. The program is dedicated to creating an environment conducive to the free exchange of ideas among a diverse student body. Northern Arizona University is a committed equal opportunity, affirmative action institution. Minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants should send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and the names and addresses of three professional references to the Chair, Women's Studies Director Search, Box 5695, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86011. Screening for the position will begin October 17, 1997, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. FOR DETAILS ABOUT THE POSITION, CONTACT WOMEN'S STUDIES OFFICE (520-523-3300). ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 10:03:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to unsubscribe MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Since a surprising number of subscribers seem to have trouble unsubscribing, I will not post the more detailed section 2 of the User's Guide but simply the following: If you get the edited daily digest and wish to unsubscribe, you must send the following TWO-LINE message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU : AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L UNSUB WMST-L If you get WMST-L via individual messages, the Index, or anything else except the edited digest, you unsubscribe by sending the message UNSUB WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . In all cases, you MUST send the message from EXACTLY the same address you used when you subscribed. If that address has changed and you can't make your mail system seem to come from the old address, write to me privately. Be sure to tell me whether you get the edited digest. And remember, when in doubt, RTFM (Read the [Friendly] Manual) :-). It's available at http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . ********************************************** Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to the World Wide Web. The URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 18:37:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Becca Cragin Subject: Re: Masculinity in film MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have used "Basic Instinct" quite successfully, arguing that it is essentially about the male psyche, especially male anxiety over women's sexual and political (feminist) power. 'Becca Cragin Institute for Women's Studies Emory University ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 09:44:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: when to reply privately (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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: these systems sometimes make list mail look as if it is coming from a private person. On Pine, hitting H while reading a message will show you the full header--be sure WMST-L is nowhere in any of the header lines. For a private reply in Pine, even if the mail seems to be from a private person, say NO both to using the Reply-to address and to replying to all recipients. And CANCEL your reply if any line is addressed to WMST-L or to "multiple 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 the World Wide Web. The URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 11:45:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Traci M Kelly Subject: masc/movies list Part I In-Reply-To: <01ILYKW05136001KQ9@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I had to break this list into 2 parts for it to post correctly... I want to thank all that contributed to my inquiry/call for suggestions for the Masculinity in the Movies course. Just FYI, it is being developed through the U of Minnesota (Minneapolis campus) Women's Studies program, and it is an extension course. It will be offered this fall. Instructor: Schiappa. His goal is to challenge the "western" or Marlboro vision of masculinity in film, and to that end your suggestions were VERY helpful. My brain could only generate so many ideas when we were discussing it, and I knew that this list would be more than generous with ideas. Below, I have cut/pasted all responses with the names of folks that they came from. Once again, I thank you. I will post the final syllabus/movie list when he makes some final decisions. Again, the only movies on the "must-see" list so far are *Shane* and *Crumb*... Traci Kelly ******** From: "David L.. Hennen" Don't forget the film "Some Like it Hot." I read an excellent analysis of this film entitled "Androgyny Anyone?" contained within a collection of film analyses entitled "Women on the verge of revolt." ******** Julie Tharp Rocky Horror Picture Show--great for the satire on straight males (and females). **** Felicia Bender I would highly recommend THE CELLUOID CLOSET, available on video, for an look at how queers (re: NONmasculine men and MASCULINE women) play out on Hollywood film. STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, with Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh, is such an icon and is perfect for a discussion of masculinity; the hyper masculinity of Brando's Stanley and the "mommy's boy" effeminacy of Karl Malden's Mitch. ALthough probably a bit too much for an extension course, I just chuckled through a HOTEL SATIRE piece by Lynda Sargent (sp?) in the current issue of Z MAGAGINE about the current load of summer fare as "a dick thing" (to quote a line from a Spike Lee movie). Terribly funny and quite to the point. **** Rosa Maria Pegueros Suggestions for films: -Tender Mercies (w/Robert Duvall) -Ulle's Gold (w/Peter Fonda) Then there are all those John Wayne movies... ***** From: Gail Dines A really interesting book on masculinity and movies is "hard bodies" by S. Jeffords. Good Luck. Gail Dines ***** Elizabeth Homer Frank Pittman writes a movie review feature for the Family Therapy Networker, a therapists' journal. His July/August article "The Death of Shame, Pushing the Comedy of Hostility to the Edge" reviews Howard Stern and Jim Carrey in their latest films and goes into the psychology of their performances and appeal. Stern is identified as the " spokesman for low-class, low-power, white, male rage." But Carrey, he says, is moving on as a new breed of comic that grants people permission to be mean and to consider it mental health. Pittman is an excellent movie critique, including the historical perspective on male comics (from Cary Grant to the Three Stooges) as well as the psychological. I think there is a lot to think about and discuss in this article, and probably any of his earlier ones. Liz Homer ***** King I have used just about any Michael Douglas movie successfully, esp.: FALLING DOWN DISCLOSURE FATAL ATTRACTION These are all excellent for talking about the alleged dilemmas facing white, white-collar men in the 80s and 90s: wacko career women with out of control biological clocks; affirmative action; downsizing; sexual harrassment; the proper home environment, and that issue I swear 3 out of 4 Hollywood movies in the past 10 years has been about: fatherhood. FALLING DOWN and FATAL ATTRACTION work especially well because so much important visual information is laid onto every scene--remember the fact that in FA Glenn Close lives above that meat market, with those fiery barrels and men walking around with slabs of raw meat? ****** From: Jean Noble jnoble@YORKU.CA see also Krutnik's In a Lonely Street (i think that's the title). he writes about masculinity and its discontents vis-a-vis film noir. in terms of films/documentaries, i would recommend Bound (esp. for female masculinity) but also When We Were Kings, for racialized masculinity, especially white masc and its fetishization/disavowal of desire for black male bodies re: "sports." cheers, jean noble *** From: "Amy L. Wink" For a positive parent/father--"Sleepless in Seattle" Also the recent "Independence Day" for a mix of masculinities. ***** From: Kathryn Harvey Some recommendations for films: For the portrayal of a single father and (I was surprised) pacifist during the American Civil War, *Shenandoah* with Jimmy Stewart. For potrayals of the complexities of the father, husband, and brother roles--*Secrets and Lies* by Mike Leigh and *The Snapper* with Colm Meaney. ****** From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cec=EDlia?= Sardenberg How about some movies where a different side of 'masculinity' is shown ? What I mean is men who can demonstrate love, tenderness, giving of self, etc., such as portrayed in: Cinema Paradiso The Postman BTW, I loved the idea of a course on 'Masculinity in Film'. Do you mind if I borrow it ? Good luck, Cecilia Sardenberg NEIM/Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador, Bahia, Brazil ****** From: Katherine Milligan I just finished a short unit of my "Women and Film" class about film noir. A short (8 pp.), accessable, and informative article that argues that film noir and the femme fatale are a means to work out issues and insecurities about masculinity: Richard Dyer, "Resistance through charisma: Rita Hayworth and *Gilda*." I found this article in the volume _Women and Film Noir_, ed. E. Ann Kaplan. Dyer's reading of *Gilda* is great, and fairly easy to apply to other film noir; I used it with *The Lady From Shanghai* and it worked well. When you get a syllabus or reading/viewing list, I would love it if you would post it to WMST-L. I'm sure it's a topic that others would be interested in as well. Katy Milligan ******* see list part II... ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 11:46:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Traci M Kelly Subject: masc/movies list Part 2 In-Reply-To: <01ILYKW05136001KQ9@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Continued... ***** Some Like It Hot (1959) is a great one--Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in drag A Raisin in the Sun--two versions available (Sidney Poitier in 1959 version; Danny Glover in 1985 or 1986 I think) Cool Hand Luke East of Eden I'd love to see the final syllabus you decide on. I'll be teaching a Women in Film class this fall and am using a mix of films from 1950s-1990s. Carol Perkins, Mankato State University, Chair of Women's Studies Dept. ******* I saw your query on WMST-L and thought you might be interested in Richard Dyer, Only Entertainment, published by Routledge in 1992 (the year I am not certain). I remember of some chapters analyzing Rudolf Valentino in The son of Sheik, and some interesting relfexions on male pin-ups. I hope this will be useful! ******* From: Jacqueline Haessly To: Traci M Kelly Subject: Re: masculinity in the movies Traci, the term "masculinity in movies" evokes a somewhat one-dimensional perspective of the role of men in movies. Who best represents "masculinity in movies"? John Wayne? Harrison Ford? Jimmy Stuart? Rock Hudson? Gary Cooper? Cary Grant? Gene Kelly? From an earlier generation, each of these provides a different "take" on masculinity. Recent films that offer yet other "masculine' perspectives include: El Postino Kolja (sp) The Man who went up a hill and came down a mountain (or vice versa?) Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ******* From: Elizabeth Francis You might consider a "male melodrama" like _Home from the Hill_ or _Written on the Wind_. Also, a "social problem" film about postwar anxiety like _The Best Years of Our Lives_ makes men's adjustment problems a vehicle for national self-examination. ********* From: "Kathryn E. Wilson" I would particularly recommend Susan Jeffords' _Hard Bodies_ which takes a lively look at representations of masculinity in films from the Reagan and Bush eras. Her work is very accesible, and I think, effectively addresses both race and gender in action films, and "buddy" movies. The book works well with students I've found -- in a course on popular culture a couple of years ago, I assigned a chapter with viewing of "Mississippi Burning" to good effect. ********** From: Mary Schweitzer "Rebel Without a Cause" is excellent for the glimpse of pop Freudianism and masculinity -- all three kids are supposedly screwed up because of a failure of masculinity and femininity on the part of their parents. There's a classic scene where the James Dean character is tryiing to explain to his father that he's in a bit of a jam (having participated in a chickie run where somebody died) and his father is on his hands and knees, wearing a frilly apron, cleaning up the mess from having dropped a serving tray, with his mom upstairs in her room bellowing in the background as to why Dad is so late with the tray. Then in the end, when the son finds his own masculinity (in part as protector of the weak, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo), the father finally tells the obnoxious mother-in-law to shut up. So Dad gets his masculinity back, too. Natalie Wood's father ignores her, so she continually searches for approval from men by sleeping with them (is the implication). And Sal Mineo's the worse -- bereft of both father and mother, raised by a "hired hand" -- the implication is that his mother lacks maternal instincts -- he becomes a homosexual and minor sociopath. (P.S. -- Can I audit the course? Sounds like fun) Mary Schweitzer ********** From: Reina Pennington "Impromptu," director James Lapine's very entertaining film about George Sand and the Paris set. Very interesting portrayals of masculinity -- from Chopin to de Musset to Delacroix. Then there's Sand herself, of course! Two duels are fought over Sand. Should stimulate some fascinating discussion. ****** From: Cathy Colton With regard to the question about masculinity in film: I found "Slingblade" to be an interesting vehicle for thinking about masculinities. Dwight Oakum's character (the overtly macho, violent man) has a line which he speaks to the three other main males in the movie: "I hate retards, faggots, and wimpy-ass kids," which seems to set his version of masculinity up against the other non-masculinities. It was intriguing to me to then look at how all of the men choose to relate to and try to "protect" the woman who's portrayed as a basically helpless female. ******** Thanks again! Traci Kelly ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 20:38:13 -0400 Reply-To: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Subject: Bibliography of student stages of intro to women's studies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello all, Last week I requested information regarding the various stages that some students encounter during their introduction to women's studies courses. Several of you responded with some great sources. Thank you kindly. In response to numerous requests that I post my citations to the list, here is the bibliography relevant to the topic at hand: Bargad, A. & Hyde, J.S. (1991). Women's studies: A study of feminist identity development in women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 15, 181-201. Cross, W.E. (1971). Negro to black conversion experience: Toward a psychology of black liberation. Black World (20), 13-27. Cross, W.E. (1978). The Thomas and Cross models of psychological nigrescence: A review. Journal of Black Psychology 5, 13-31. Culley, M. (1985). Anger and authority in the introductory women's studies classroom. Gendered subjects: The dynamics of feminist teachings. In M. Culley & C. Portuges (Eds.)., 209-217. Boston, MA: Routledge Downing, N.E. & Rousch, K.L. (1985) From passive acceptance to active commitment: A model of feminist identity development for women. The Counseling Psychologist, 13, 695-709. Friedman, S.S. (1995). Beyond white and other: Relationality and narratives of race in feminist discourse. Signs Guzell, M.C. (1977). Problems of personal change in women's studies courses. Psychotherapy for women: Treatment toward equality. In E. Rawlings & D.. Carter, 310-327. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. Meda, R., Hefner, R., & Oleshansky. (1976). A model of sex-role transcendence. Journal of Social Issues, 32, 197-206. Palmer, J.A. (1979). Stages of women's awareness: The process of conciousness raising. Social Change: Ideas and Applications, 9(1), 1-4. Register, C. (1979, Fall). Brief, A-mazing movements: Dealing with despair in the women's studies classroom. Women's Studies Newsletter, 7(4), 7-10. Steiger, J.C. (1981). The influence of the feminist subculture in changing sex-role attitudes. Sex Roles, 7, 627-634. Cheers, Lisa. Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D. Women's Studies Program Georgetown University Internet: lisabow@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 21:40:37 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Subject: Alice Walker & her hair MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello again, About 10 years ago I read an essay by Alice Walker in which she wrote about how wonderful it was to wear her hair in its natural state. I recall her likening her locked hair to a thriving plant. I've looked through several of her books in search of this essay, but to no avail. I felt sure that I would find it in "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" but after glancing through many of the seemingly obvious essays (e.g., "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self"), I've come up with nothing. I'm hoping that a fellow WMST-L subscriber will know instantaneously the essay that I'm seeking, and share it with me. I'd like to have my intro to women's studies students read the essay this fall. Please respond to me privately. Thanks much. Cheers, Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D. Women's Studies Program Georgetown University Internet: lisabow@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:02:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: messages not to send to WMST-L (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 3A) "Are there other messages that should not be sent to WMST-L?" There are a number of messages that should NEVER be sent to WMST-L. For example, most newspaper and magazine/journal articles are covered by copyright. Do not send articles covered by copyright unless you have written permission from the copyright holder to do so. The fact that the article may have appeared on another list is NOT in itself sufficient justification for sending it to WMST-L. 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Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:06:51 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: women and sports Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >for a course on women and sports? > I would also welcome suggestions for texts for the course and >useful websites. >From the Women's Presses Library Project: We have two titles that may work -- perhaps not as required reading but more as recommendations for those looking for research apaper topics. Interestingly enough, they both pertain to hockey. Iced Judith Alguire New Victoria Publishers Fiction -- with lesbian content -- about the world of women hockey players 1995 0-934678-60-x P $10.95 204pp. On the Edge: Women Making Hockey History Elizabeth Etue and Megan K. Williams Second Story Press 1996 0-929005-79-1 P $16.95 336pp. These titles can be found at your local feminist or independent bookstore. If you have trouble locating them, please let me know. Mev WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:06:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: request for info Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >I am in the process of doing research for my PhD dissertation on the topic >of sexual harassment in adolescence. Currently, I am looking at >theoretical explanations for the phenomenon of sexual harassment generally. >From the Women's Presses Library Project: Sexual Harassment: High School Girls Speak Out June Larkin Second Story Press 1994 0-929005-65-1 P $14.95 168pp. These titles can be found at your local feminist or independent bookstore. If you have trouble locating them, please let me know. Mev WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:56:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Subject: Re: Alice Walker & her hair Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Lisa: I'm pretty sure the essay is in Living By the Word. Jaime At 09:40 PM 8/3/97 -0400, you wrote: >Hello again, > > About 10 years ago I read an essay by Alice Walker in which she >wrote about how wonderful it was to wear her hair in its natural state. I >recall her likening her locked hair to a thriving plant. > > I've looked through several of her books in search of this essay, but to >no avail. I felt sure that I would find it in "In Search of Our Mothers' >Gardens" but after glancing through many of the seemingly obvious >essays (e.g., "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self"), I've come up >with nothing. I'm hoping that a fellow WMST-L subscriber will know >instantaneously the essay that I'm seeking, and share it with me. I'd >like to have my intro to women's studies students read the essay this >fall. > > Please respond to me privately. Thanks much. > >Cheers, > >Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D. >Women's Studies Program >Georgetown University >Internet: lisabow@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:32:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Frances K. Gateward" Subject: Re: Alice Walker & her hair Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Lisa, The artcile you are seeking, Opressed Hair Puts a Ceiling on the Brain is located in the anthology, Living by the Word. Frances Gateward gateward@uiuc.edu At 09:40 PM 8/3/97 -0400, you wrote: >Hello again, > > About 10 years ago I read an essay by Alice Walker in which she >wrote about how wonderful it was to wear her hair in its natural state. I >recall her likening her locked hair to a thriving plant. > > I've looked through several of her books in search of this essay, but to >no avail. I felt sure that I would find it in "In Search of Our Mothers' >Gardens" but after glancing through many of the seemingly obvious >essays (e.g., "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self"), I've come up >with nothing. I'm hoping that a fellow WMST-L subscriber will know >instantaneously the essay that I'm seeking, and share it with me. I'd >like to have my intro to women's studies students read the essay this >fall. > > Please respond to me privately. Thanks much. > >Cheers, > >Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D. >Women's Studies Program >Georgetown University >Internet: lisabow@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 10:01:10 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Suzanne E. Franks" Subject: Re: hormones/gender/behavior-references Dear list members, A few days ago I posted to the list some comments regarding the difficulty of determining with any accuracy how a given hormone might be related to any type of gendered behavior (or other effects, for that matter). I was asked privately for some references on this matter, as well as on my assertion that culture conditions can change cell behavior and appearance in the lab, and I am posting these to the list because they may be of interest to others. The best extended discussion on interconversion of hormones in metabolic pathways, difficulty of interpreting experimental results, and difficulties in generalizing from animal to human studies, in my opinion, is Ruth Bleier, "Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and Its Theories on Women" Pergamon Press, Athene Series, 1984. See especially Chapter 4, "Hormones, the Brain, and Sex Differences", especially the subsection "Confounding Variables in Hormone-Behavior Research" Also good: Sue V. Rosser, "Biology and Feminism: A Dynamic Interaction" Twayne Pub. NY, 1992, see especially Chapter 4, section entitled "Endocrinology" Perhaps a little more dense reading, but an extremely fine piece of work (indeed, I can't offer enough praise for the book as a whole) is Helen Longino, "Science as Social Knowledge" Princeton U. Press, 1991, see Ch. 6 especially the section titled "Behavioral Neuroendocrinology." Here Longino also discusses some work that has been done with humans who have abnormal hormonal regulation, discussing both what can be learned and what pitfalls there are in interpreting the data that has been obtained. Unfortunately for those who do not enjoy wading through dense scientific tracts, the references I can offer about culture/nutrient conditions affecting cell function and behavior are all specialist scientific papers. Nevertheless, if you are interested, they are as follows: S. F Shedd, N. W. Lutz, and W. E. Hull, "The influence of medium formulation on phosphomonoester and UDP-Hexose levels in cultured human colon tumor cells as observed by 31P-NMR spectroscopy" NMR in Biomedicine, vol. 6, pp. 254-263, 1993 S. E. Franks, A. C. Kuesel, N. W. Lutz, and W. E. Hull, "31P MRS of human tumor cells: effects of culture media and conditions on phospholipid metabolite concentrations" Anticancer Research, vol. 16, pp. 1365-1374, 1996 B. M. Wice, G. Trugnan, M. Pinto, M. Rousset, G. Chevalier, E. Dussaulx, B. Lacroix, and A. Zweibaum, "The intracellular accumulation of UDP-N-acetyhexosamines is concomitant with the inability of human colon cancer cells to differentiate" Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 260, pp. 139-146, 1985 The first two papers are by me (my last name used to be Shedd for awhile) and the third is by a French group whose work I really respect. Essentially, these papers show that if you start with cultured cells that all share the same DNA, and you change the _levels_ of certain nutrients in the liquid medium you feed them (the nutrients are glucose--sugar--and two compounds called choline and ethanolamine), then you obtain profoundly different results with regard to cell growth rate, final cell density in a culture flask, cell morphology (shape), differentiation status (how specialized the cell behavior and functioning is), and cell metabolism in a group of pathways involving glucose utilization and cell membrane construction. I consider this to be powerful evidence that DNA itself is not a controlling "master" molecule, but that the expression of DNA into protein products that the cell uses to carry out its work is subject to environmental influence and regulation. The two papers I authored, furthermore, make the argument that when one compares the results I obtained to those of similar experiments on the same tumor cells implanted as solid tumors in mouse models, then one must come to the conclusion that many of the standard experimental conditions routinely used for cell culture are at best irrelevant and at worst, provide misleading data. This is because the nutrient environments of standard cell culture work do not reproduce the conditions in vivo (within the body). This, I would suggest, provides another level of reasoning, along with those given by Bleier, Rosser, and Longino, for questioning the validity of certain scientific studies that purport to tell us absolutes about human behavior and its biological underpinnings. I apologize for the length of this post, but I thought these citations might be useful to some list members, and I thought the scientific paper citations needed some explanation with them. Please feel free to write to me privately at sfranks@galois.fccc.edu if you have any questions about what I've written here. Suzanne Franks p.s. between the time I started writing this and the time I came to post it, I found an article in a recent issue of Science that should interest those who care about these topics: "Estrogen Stakes Claim to Cognition" by Ingrid Wickelgren Science, vol. 276 pp. 675-678, 2 May 1997 This article discusses the emerging role scientists are now seeing for estrogen in higher mental functions such as learning and memory, and discusses research that may show that estrogen can mitigate the effects of Alzheimer's disease. Please do not interpret this as my endorsing the article or the researchers discussed within--I know too little about this topic to give such a recommendation yet. Nevertheless, the article seems to me like a useful counterpoint to the "testosterone (or it's lack) shapes the brain and determines mathematical ability etc." kind of thing you normally hear. The article is quite readable--it's a news & commentary piece, not a research article. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 09:50:16 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michelle Meyers Subject: hair politics Those interested in the politics of hair, particularly within the African American community, might also look at the following two articles: Angela Davis, "Afro Image: Politics, Fashion and Nostalgia," in Thompson and Tyagi, eds., Names We Call Home. Kobena Mercer's article on Hair Style/Politics in his book, Welcome to the Jungle. --Michelle Meyers Women's Studies, Dartmouth College michelle.meyers@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 17:59:25 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michele McGrady Subject: Ph.D programs I am researching schools with Women's Studies Ph.D programs and I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice, or if they have heard of any good programs. Any information would be useful. Location does not matter. Thanks in advance. Please respond privately. Michele McGrady venus97708@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:44:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Masculinity in film Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A suggestion for another aspect of the topic to take up in class, and at the end of this message a research suggestion. It seems to me that the numerous examples in this thread on masculinity in films point to a non-visible partner of the film industry in justifying male hegemony: the state. I think it is arguable that the state has an interest in promoting a masculinist psyche. I have in mind 1) the social engineering that's integral to the state's fiscal and monetary policies (who gets tax breaks, i.e., discounts and subsidies, and what is counted as valued to decide on interest rates, etc.) and 2) the state's goal to protect its borders (e.g., contiguous land, colonies, economic and political allies) from real and imagined threats. The two converge: producers and distributers of films write off their expenses and their transactions are counted in calculating the money supply (as domestic work is not). And, since the masculine ideal in the films presents variations on themes that valorize men's violence and power (to do good or evil), with exceptions notable as exceptions, they contribute to the production of men's readiness to protect those borders (with women as auxiliaries). The dangerous women can be seen as a call for controlling women or maybe they're a twist on the films of the '40s and '50s, when we had 'bad women' pushing men to excesses. These sure try to make a case against feminism as many conceptualize it. To concretize: Tax breaks represent the state's ideological preferences. For example, there's one now for employers of welfare recipients, almost all women. Why shouldn't there be tax breaks for films that represent gender ideologies opposite from the ones with themes with a conquering male? Concretizing further: Research on the tax benefits of the film industry productions of some of the outstanding examples that valorize male violence would be a service. (We make up in our taxes what the producer writes off as business expenses.) beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.net At 06:37 PM 8/2/97 -0400, you wrote: >I have used "Basic Instinct" quite successfully, arguing that it is >essentially about the male psyche, especially male anxiety over >women's sexual and political (feminist) power. > >'Becca Cragin >Institute for Women's Studies >Emory University > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 09:23:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Authorization/Approval to Post Messages (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 4) "I'VE TRIED TO POST A MESSAGE TO THE LIST, BUT I RECEIVED A MESSAGE BACK SAYING THAT I'M NOT AUTHORIZED TO DO SO. I'M A SUBSCRIBER --WHY WAS I TOLD I'M NOT AUTHORIZED?" 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Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 10:30:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ulsternet Subject: Travel in Brazil MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, greetings. I am a Visiting Asst. Prof. at Stony Brook, on vacation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I am writing from the heart of Copacabana, three blocks from the beach... it is quite lovely! As I will be here for several weeks I am writing to the List to inquire whether anyone may be familiar with women's bookstores, restaurants, or other places in Rio. I thought I'd spend a little bit of my vacation time on ...'research' --.... Thank you in advance for any info...! email to: laurakop@mhv.net Laura Koplewitz Visiting Asst. Prof. MALS, SPD S.U.N.Y./Stony Brook, NY and Lecturer, School of Journalism New York University, NY END MESSAGE --------- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 11:46:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Anderson Subject: Re: Alice Walker & her hair In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" a woman named Lydia Douglas has recently completed a film called "Nappy," a 27 minute black-and-white documentary, revealing the stories of twelve black women and girls, ages four to seventy four, who have made a commitment to wear their hair natural. Lydia can be reached at peazyheadproductions 238 park avenue, suite 2 takoma park, md 20812 tel: 301/891-3490 Linda L. Anderson telephone: 203/432-0845 Women's Studies Program fax: 203/432-8475 Yale University email: lla@minerva.cis.yale.edu P.O. box 208319 100 Wall St., 315 WLH New Haven, CT 06520-8319 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 10:54:50 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Re: hair politics MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Seeing this discussion of hair as signifying system reminded me that a colleague was recently looking for an essay by bell hooks on RuPaul in terms of the issue of "blondness" for African Americans. Does anyone know where this essay is, so I can forward the info. to my colleague? TIA for any replies. Marilyn Edelstein, English, Santa Clara U, Calif. medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:01:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: julie cox Subject: Re: U.S. women voters Comments: To: Sandra Basgall In-Reply-To: <33E0CA17.5603@javanet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Sandra Basgall wrote: > Don't forget that Wyoming was the first state to give women the vote > and they did it to become a state as there were not enough men to make > up the required number to become a state. > > Sandra Basgall and don't forget that Wyoming had a female congressional representative PRIOR to universal suffrage (U.S. universal, many exclusions still applied, voting rights not guaranteed) .... It wasn't until 1988 that a U.S. state had the first all female gubernatorial slate. Kay Orr (R) vs. Helen Boosalis (D). Amazingly in Nebraska. Julie M. Cox jcox@unlinfo2.unl.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:12:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: julie cox Subject: Date correction WAS Re: U.S. women voters Comments: To: Sandra Basgall In-Reply-To: <33E0CA17.5603@javanet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The correct date of the Orr vs. Boosalis election is 1986 NOT 1988. Julie M. Cox jcox@unlinfo2.unl.edu e-mailing under the influence of last week's vacation, oh my. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:29:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Felicia Bender Subject: Re: Alice Walker & her hair In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I believe we've had this discussion before on this list, maybe a mere six months ago. I'm sure it is in the list archive-- Felicia Bender c391738@showme.missouri.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 16:27:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Ti-Grace Atkinson Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Can anyone tell me whatever happened to Ti-Grace Atkinson, prominent radical feminist of the late 60s/early 70s? Thanks. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:50:19 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheryl Berg Organization: Wichita State University Subject: Re: U.S. women voters MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit julie cox wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Sandra Basgall wrote: > > > Don't forget that Wyoming was the first state to give women the vote > > and they did it to become a state as there were not enough men to make > > up the required number to become a state. > > > > Sandra Basgall > > and don't forget that Wyoming had a female congressional representative > PRIOR to universal suffrage (U.S. universal, many exclusions still > applied, voting rights not guaranteed) .... > > It wasn't until 1988 that a U.S. state had the first all female > gubernatorial slate. Kay Orr (R) vs. Helen Boosalis (D). Amazingly > in Nebraska. > > Julie M. Cox > jcox@unlinfo2.unl.edu Why amazing that this was in Nebraska? I'm a Midwestern chauvinist myself, and having lived on both coasts and in other countries, I can attest that while local men sometimes talk as if they thought women should be chained to the stove and bed, in reality they are more likely than other men to understand that we work just as hard and sometimes harder than they do, and that we can do just as good (or bad) a job at governing as they can. Pardon this unpardonable sentence... Sheryl Berg sberg@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:25:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Thompson Subject: Irish Women Writers Panel (New Conference Dates) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Please note that the dates for the Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies Conference in Statesboro, Georgia have changed. The new dates are listed below. Call for Papers Panel on Irish Women Writers Postcolonial Studies Conference May 7-9, 1998 Statesboro, Georgia Papers are welcomed which deal with any aspect of Irish women's writing in any period and any genre. While the topic is open, I am particularly interested in papers which challenge the male-dominated canon and suggest ways in which female Irish writers have influenced male writers as well as each other. Graduate students are welcome to submit their work. Please submit abstracts or completed papers by November 15 to: Dr. Helen Thompson Department of English Auburn University 9030 Haley Center Auburn University, AL 36849 Please direct questions to me at: thomph2@mail.auburn.edu (334) 887-5351 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 23:18:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: First U.S. woman voter Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Both women were European American property owners? It could be interesting to compare women voters who did and did not vote at various points in US history (including the present) in relation to property ownership, various levels of income, race/ethnicity, education and religion to get some sense of the contexts for the factual data. Or has someone done this kind of research? beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net At 09:01 PM 7/28/97 +0100, you wrote: >According to the _Book of Women's Firsts_ ( Phyllis J. Read and Bernard L. >Witlieb) the first woman to vote was Deborah Moody in 1655. She was also >the first woman to receive a colonial land grant, in 1645. The authors also >note Mrs. josiah Taft as the first woman to have her vote recorded, in >1756. > >Amy > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. >alw7315@acs.tamu.edu >Department of English >Texas A&M University >College Station, TX 77843-4227 > > >"A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone >without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, >there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." > > Emily Dickinson > _Selected Letters_ (#330, p.196) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 01:16:49 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Snow Subject: Women & work MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I use the film Norma Rae in my intro class for the "women & work" section. The students always want to know current information on Crystal Lee Jordan. Does anyone have a resource - I've tried searching www to no avail. Please respond privately. Sharon Snow Texas Woman's University g_snow@twu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 07:27:33 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Need Girls and Horses book Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Forgive me if this falls outside of the boundaries of the WMST-L but I need assistance! I am looking for a suitable book for a 7 year old girl about *girls* and horses. I hve plenty of books for boys and horses, but really need a suggestion for girls and horses!! Please respond privately. I will post to the list if others are interested. Thanks!! Amy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. alw7315@acs.tamu.edu Department of English Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4227 "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." Emily Dickinson _Selected Letters_ (#330, p.196) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 07:29:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: julie cox Subject: Re: U.S. women voters In-Reply-To: <33E7AE2B.4964@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Sheryl Berg wrote: > julie cox wrote: > > It wasn't until 1988 that a U.S. state had the first all female > > gubernatorial slate. Kay Orr (R) vs. Helen Boosalis (D). Amazingly > > in Nebraska. > > > > Julie M. Cox > > jcox@unlinfo2.unl.edu > > Why amazing that this was in Nebraska? Perhaps my home state has just disillusioned me... I'd have expected an event to happen in a more politically liberal state. Nebraska is one of few states that political analysts assume will vote Republican in presidential elections. Next presidential election look at how the national media assumes electoral votes will go in this state. Am I prejudiced against Republicans? you betcha. Do I expect, rightly or wrongly, that Nebraska Republicans will act, not just talk, within strict gender role lines? you betcha. I'm from a long line of Nebraska Democrats so I think that sort of influences my opinion. Julie M. Cox jcox@unlinfo2.unl.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:31:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to stop mail temporarily (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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 WMST-L . 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). ****************** Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to the World Wide Web. The URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:16:04 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheryl Berg Organization: Wichita State University Subject: Re: U.S. women voters MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit julie cox wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Sheryl Berg wrote: > > > julie cox wrote: > > > It wasn't until 1988 that a U.S. state had the first all female > > > gubernatorial slate. Kay Orr (R) vs. Helen Boosalis (D). Amazingly > > > in Nebraska. > > > > > > Julie M. Cox > > > jcox@unlinfo2.unl.edu > > > > Why amazing that this was in Nebraska? > > Perhaps my home state has just disillusioned me... I'd have expected an > event to happen in a more politically liberal state. Nebraska is one of > few states that political analysts assume will vote Republican in > presidential elections. Next presidential election look at how the > national media assumes electoral votes will go in this state. Am I > prejudiced against Republicans? you betcha. Do I expect, rightly or > wrongly, that Nebraska Republicans will act, not just talk, within strict > gender role lines? you betcha. > > I'm from a long line of Nebraska Democrats so I think that sort of > influences my opinion. > > Julie M. Cox > jcox@unlinfo2.unl.edu Oh, you're right of course. I'm speaking as a Kansas Democrat myself, which is an equally hunted and endangered species. It's just that I've noticed that the Plains and the Western states seem to produce a high proportion of very strong women, some of whom are conservative and some of whom are not. The men I know respect strength in a woman. They may make the occasional offensive joke, but when it comes to who can fix a car or ride a horse well or plow the south 40 with a sick mule...ok, this is hyperbole, of course. And probably, local men will be more willing to vote for a Republican woman, and sometimes you get weird phenomena like our Joan Finney (a "pro-life" female Democrat who is more conservative than ANY Republican)....I don't know. I have just had the experience that if you can convince the good ol' boys that you are a good ol' girl, they'll buy you a beer, vote for you, and never let a dang New Yorker say a bad word about you. For what that's worth.... BTW, I have immensely enjoyed the time I've spent on this list, but must regrettably sign off now as I am beginning grad school in a couple of weeks and they have NO PC's with Internet access if you can believe that! Good bye and best wishes to everyone on the list. I'll now have to get verbal relays from friends. See ya.... (Probably shouldn't admit to being an English major after these run-on sentences, but what the hey) Sheryl Berg Wichita State University sberg@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:21:12 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rick Incorvati Subject: CFP: British Women Writers (9/30; 3/26-3/28) (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 22:08:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Shannon Wooden To: Rick Incorvati Subject: CFP: British Women Writers (9/30; 3/26-3/28) (fwd) *** SPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS *** Reading and Teaching British Women Writers The Seventh Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century British Women Writers Conference March 26-28, 1998 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "Reading and Teaching British Women Writers," the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century British Women Writers Conference, invites you to submit abstracts or panel proposals dealing with issues of pedagogy and practical approaches to teaching these often noncanonical writers. We welcome discussion of both high school and college classes and are striving toward a dialogue between teachers of different levels. Suggested topics may include but are not limited to the following: * Introducing women writers into a traditional literature survey or history class * Approaches to teaching individual writers * Noncanonical women writers and canonical authors in dialogue * The implications of canon expansion for high school students and undergraduates * Unconventional contexts for womens literature * Do women writers require/demand/invite a feminist pedagogy? * How do male students relate to womens writing? If you would like to present a paper, participate in a panel discussion, or propose a different environment for exchange, please write to Shannon Wooden, c/o 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Conference, at CB#3520 Greenlaw Hall, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC 27599-3520, or e-mail to bww@conf.edu. Abstracts and proposals will be accepted at both addresses until September 30, 1997. The Eighteeenth- and Nineteenth-century British Women Writers Conference is devoted to expanding the literary canon and to developing critical and theoretical understanding of women's writing traditions in literary, political, legal, religious, medical, and scientific discourses. The 1998 conference will feature addresses by Nancy Armstrong, Stuart Curran, and Isobel Armstrong. Participation in the conference may be worth renewal credits from your school district. A limited number of registration waivers are available for North Carolina Triangle area teachers. For more information or for an application to attend without presenting, please contact us at either of the above addresses. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:20:40 +0000 Reply-To: psusan@barra.com Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Pomeroy Organization: BARRA, Inc. Subject: female clerical workers? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Would anyone happen to have handy a recent statistic regarding the number of clerical workers who are female? And if possible, the percentage of clerical workers who work primarily on computers? My data is old and I find myself scrambling to update it for an unanticipated deadline. Thanks, and please reply privately Susan ----- Susan Pomeroy, Ph.D. susan.pomeroy@barra.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 14:49:49 -0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cec=EDlia?= Sardenberg Subject: Looking for an invitation Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am applying for financial support from the Brazilian National Research Council to be able to attend the American Anthropological Association Meetings that will be held in Washington, D.C., nov 19-23/1997. I have been told that my chances of getting this support (which I desperately need to attend the meetings and present my paper), will be much better if I have other engagements/ activities planned in the US around that period. I would like to extend my visit to the Boston area, so that I can finally pick up my PhD diploma at Boston U.and have it validated at the Brazilian Consulate (it is really complicated to take care of all the red tape at the COnsulate by mail).=20 It all sums up to this: would anybody in the New York/Boston Area be interested in having me for a visit/conference/presentation around that time? I am an anthropologist working on women/gender studies for nearly 16 years at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. I have also been very active in the local, state, and nation-wide women's movement in Brazil. I was a founding member of the Women's FOrum of the City of Salvador, of the Nucleus of Interdisciplinary Studies on Women (NEIM- N=FAcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre a Mulher- of the Univ. Federal= da Bahia), of REDOR, the Regional Network of WOmen's Studies Center for Northern and Northeastern Brazil, having served as its co-coordinator for the period 1992-1994, and of RedeFEM, the Brazilian National Network of Feminist Studies. At present, I am vice-coordinator of the Social Science Graduate Progam at the Federal University. I very proficent in ENglish, have taught at Clark University (Worcester-Mass), worked as a teaching fellow at BU. I would be glad to send a CV, if anybody is interested. Here are some of the topics on which I would be able to give talks: -Feminism and Women's Movements in Brazil -Feminist Theory and Praxis in Academia in Brazil -Dynamics of Gender, Race and CLass in Bahia, Brazil -Industrialization and Women Workers in Bahia -Gender and Social Memory Title of my dissertation (defended last year at BU): "In the Backyard of the Family:Gender, CLass, Power and Community in Bahia, Brazil". If you think your school would be interested, please, let me know as soon as possible. I have to file my application for funding by next week, at the= latest. Sorry for the long message...But thank you for your attention. Cecilia Sardenberg NEIM-N=FAcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre a Mulher Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador, Bahia - BRASIL FAX- 55-71-237-8239 cecisard@ufba.br =20 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 08:12:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's edited digest (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 6) "DOES WMST-L EXIST IN A DIGEST FORMAT?" Yes. 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Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 08:36:35 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Girls and Horses bib Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" After searching other sources as well as WMST-L suggestions, here is a bibliography of sorts for those interested. Thanks for the suggestions from everyone! --Ages 4-8-- _The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses_ Paul Goble. _Carousel_ author unknown _MoonHorse_ author unknown. As we see there is a really tiny selection for this age and, a strange trend, all involve girls with fantasy horses which they don't own, or learn to ride as an activity, unlike the beautifully illustrated C.W. Anderson series ( recently reissued) _Billy and Blaze_. Goble's book is wonderfully illustrated and very popular but the girl does become a horse and "marry" the stallion in the end. hmmmm. --Ages 9-12-- There are many books in this catagory and several series. I can't vouch for the feminist content of any, except I read a few Patricia Leitch books as a child and enjoyed them. These seem to be rather aggressively marketed. Series: Short Stirrups Club. Allison Estes Riding Academy. Alison Hart Horseshoes. Patricia Leitch Saddle Club. Bonnie Bryant Throughbred. Karen Bentley, Joanna Capbell Horse Crazy. Virginia Vail _A Horse for All Seasons_ Collected stories. Sheila Kelly Walch. _Mattie's Whisper_ Alice Delacroix ( combination horse and human disability addressed) _Mustang: Spirit of the West_. Marguerite Henry. Fictionilzed biography of Wild Horse Annie, who lobbied to save the Mustangs from slaughter. _Riding the Wind_. Barbara Garland Polikoff. _Summer of Horses_. Carol Fenner. _National Velvet_ Enid Bagnold By the way--_My Friend Flicka_'s protagonist is a boy--still, it's a terrific book that does challenge gender roles for boys. Young Adult K.M Peyton's _Flambards_ Series (also a A&E T.V. series) *Hard to Find/Out of Print authors* Here are some authors and books to look for at the library-- their books are out of print. Hall, Lynn. Doty, Jean Slaughter Wilding, Suzanne Van Der Veer, Judy Snyder, Zilpha Keatley,_Season of Ponies_ Self, Margaret C. _Skyrocket: The Story of A Little Bay Horse Savitt, Sam. _Vicki and the Black Horse_; _Vicki and the Brown Mare_ Brown, Paul. _Pony Farm_; _Crazy Quilt_ Oliver, Marjorie Mary. _Riding Days_ Happy Reading and Riding. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. alw7315@acs.tamu.edu Department of English Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4227 "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." Emily Dickinson _Selected Letters_ (#330, p.196) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:46:13 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Melton MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Get mystery lovers notebook pmelton@admin2.memphis.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:58:41 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Texts Sought - Contemporary Women's Novels Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >I am teaching a course entitled Contemporary Women's Novels next year, and = want >my book list to reflect the widest possible perspective on what women >around >the world are doing with the novel form. I am particularly >interested in texts >that are sophisticated or experimental in narrative >structure, =46rom the Women's Presses Library Project: I apologize for the delay in getting this to you. To say it's been a hectic summer would be an understatment. I hope you still find this to be useful. I'm including it for the list hoping others will glean something useful. I've gone through our rather long list of fiction and picked out the titles I think best fit into this description. Those with (**) indicate titles I know to use experimental structure. Titles with (@@) indicate writers not from the U.S. Please remember that these are all titles published by small and independent women-owned presses. (@@) A Beggar At Damascus Gate, Yasmine Zahran, Post-Apollo Press 1995 0-942996-24-0 P $12.95 155pp. A Palestinian woman and an English man are deeply committed to the conflicting demands of love and national loyaties. (@@) Bellydancer, SKY Lee, Press Gang Publishers 1994 0-88974-039-9 P $14.95 224pp. Bellydancers, bag ladies, and lesbians ae the quirky characters in these whimsical stories which flaunt the illicit and mock the exotic. Beyond the Pale: A Novel, Elana Dykewomon, Press Gang Publishers 1997 0-88974-074-7 P $15.95 400pp. Historical fiction-unearths the stories of Russian Jewish lesbians who immigrated to New York at the turn of the century. (@@) Cereus Blooms at Night: A Novel, Shani Mootoo, Press Gang Publishers 1996 0-88974-064-X P $15.95 264pp. Part magic realism, this is a haunting tale of obsession, love, and treacher= y. (@@) Cowrie, Cathie Dunsford, Spinifex Press 1994 1-875559-28-0 P $12.95 123pp. Explores the nature of identity on personal, cultural and global levels. (**) Distance Without Distance, Barbara Einzig, Kelsey St. Press 1994 0-932716-34-2 P $10.00 124pp. Experimental stories using fiction as poem using sensual perception, language, and landscape. The Eighth of September, Barbara Stevens Sullivan, Astarte Shell Press 1995 1-885349-01-7 P $12.95 275pp. "I'm tired of living," Shirley tells her husband of fifty years. Shirley and Ralph have raised two daughters, laughed, loved and fought their way through their marriage. Now Shirley's increasing debilitation and Ralph's inability to manage her care have made her life unbearable. This novel explores the issues of assisted suicide. (@@) The Falling Woman, Susan Hawthorne, Spinifex Press 1993 1-875559-04-3 P $13.95 288pp. Two women confront ancient and modern myths and the mysteries of the univers= e. The Gilda Stories: A Novel, Jewelle Gomez, Firebrand Books 1991 0-932379-94-X P $9.95 256pp. An elegant, sensual, and naturalistic fantasy: a Black vampire story. Time-travelling from Southern slavery in 1850 to environmental devastation 200 years later, Gilda is the quintessential outsider seeking community. Winner of two 1992 Lambada Book Awards for Lesbian Fiction and Lesbian Science-Fiction. Her: A Novel, Cherry Muhanji, Aunt Lute Books 1991 1-879960-02-8 P $9.95 220pp. This is a novel about Detroit in the late fifties and sixties and the Black men and women who came North to work in the Ford motor plant. The author explores a myriad of relationships that together depict the struggle of Black women: how they hold each other up and sometimes let each other down. And how their very lives teach each other survival. Also has lesbian content. Home For The Summer, Georgina Kleege, Post-Apollo Press 1989 0-942996-12-7 P $9.95 134pp. A brutal story about seemingly unmotivated violence within a family that in turn reflects the violence of American society. The Mayor of Heaven, Lynn Kanter, Third Side Press 1997 1-879427-29-X C $23.95 224pp. (available in September) =46our friends prepare for a party saluting Claire-charismatic, dynamic, and dead of breast cancer at the age of 45. Claire's partner Lucy and her friends Rasheda, Jane, and Harry struggle to reshape their lives, their allegiances, and their expectations as they learn to live with her absence. (@@) The Middle Children, Rayda Jacobs, Second Story Press 1994 0-929005-59-7 P $12.95 168pp. Combines fiction and autobiography to focus on mixed race South Africans in their struggle for identity. Paper Fish, Tina De Rosa, The Feminist Press at CUNY 1996 1-55861-145-2 P $9.95 176pp. Novel set in the world of Italian-American family and community. (**) The Rosy Medallions: Selected Work, Camille Roy, Kelsey St. Press 1995 0-932716-35-0 P $10.00 72pp. Luscious stories and poems create this coming-of-age lesbian novel. An essential book for anyone who likes to see great writing meet the jumpy side of life. A signature postmodern lesbian text. Running Fiercely Toward A High Thin Sound: A Novel, Judith Katz, Firebrand Books 1992 1-56341-019-2 P $9.95 192pp. Nadine Pagan's dyke sister Jany wants to find her. Her lover Rose wants to marry her. And her mother Fay wants to forget her. All Nadine wants is to stop the buzzing in her head. Contemporary Jewish lesbian magical realism. Winner of the 1993 Lambada Book Award for Lesbian Fiction. Second Sight, Rickey Gard Diamond, CALYX Books 1997 0-934971-55-2 P $14.95 275pp. (available in October) Chilling novel about the complicated and violent ways in which families can interact. (@@) Sitt Marie Rose: 4th Edition, Etel Adnan, Post-Apollo Press 1978 0-942996-18-6 P $11.00 105pp. The story of a woman abducted by militiamen during the Civil War in Lebanon, and executed. Stone Butch Blues: A Novel, Leslie Feinberg, Firebrand Books 1993 1-56341-029-X P $12.95 304pp. Woman or man? That's the question at the heart of this powerful and provocative story. Growing up differently gendered, coming out as a butch, deciding to pass, transgendered Jess Goldberg learns to navigate the complexities of being a he-she. Also, includes perspectives on work, class, and abusive family relationships. (@@) Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies, Persimmon Blackbridge, Press Gang Publishers 1996 0-88974-068-2 C $21.95 96pp. One cover-up follows another as Diane hides her learning disabilities from her new employer and her girlfriend. And when she meets Shirley-Butch at the bar, her lesbian identity and her psychiatric history become irrevocably intertwined. (@@) Sybil, The Glide of Her Tongue, Gillian Hanscombe, Spinifex Press 1992 1-875559-05-1 P $11.95 128pp. The lesbian voice mediates the essential vitality of the dykes who have visi= ons. (@@) Two Ends of Sleep, Lizard Jones, Press Gang Publishers 1997 0-88974-072-0 P $12.95 176pp. This novel offers an idiosyncratic view of urban lesbian life while pondering the questions of when people should reveal their most nagging secrets. If you have just started dating someone, how soon do you tell them you have MS? If you just met someone, how soon do you tell them you're a lesbian? And how soon do you tell them you have been in a psych ward? (@@) The Two Mujeres, Sara Levi Calder=F3n, Aunt Lute Books 1991 1-879960-00-1 P $9.95 204pp. Simply and sensually written, this love story between two Mexican Jewish women has been both scandalous and celebrated since its first publication. It is a romance that explores the constraints that family, community and society place on love - an evocation of a desire that crosses boundaries and the risks of that transgression. (@@) When Fox Is a Thousand: A Novel, Larissa Lai, Press Gang Publishers 1995 0-88974-041-0 P $13.95 216pp. Draws on Chinese folk mythology to mix fact and fiction to tell the story of 20-something Artemis Wong. (**) The Woman Without Experiences, Patricia Dienstfrey, Kelsey St. Press 1995 0-932716-37-7 P $12.00 130pp. A novella that illuminates an emptiness in a mother at home with young children, her personal history, her mother's, and in the histories of mothers in literature. These titles can be found at your local feminist or independent bookstore. If you have trouble locating them, please let me know. Mev WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:58:59 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: THE FEMINIST PRESS HAS MOVED TO CITY COLLEGE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Florence. It's great to finally have feminst Press available by email! As you monitor the WMST-L listserv, you will notice that I very often make suggestions from the title base of the Women's Presses LIbrary Project to queries for coursebook and research selections. Because I know that all our presses don't monitor this list, I often forward responses to publishers so they can see what's happening. Would you like me to do this for Feminist Press as well or should I just assume you'll see it? Hope all is well with you. I know the move will be quite disruptive. Things are going great with the project. I'll be sending out reports soon, but our presence at the ALA was terrific this year. As a group of feminist publishers, we are gaining in visibility and credibility. Take care, Mev Miller Program Coordinator, Women's Presses Library Project >After 13 years, and as of July 23, The Feminist Press is now located on the >campus of City College: > Address: Feminist Press at CUNY, City College/CUNY, Wingate Building, >Convent Avenue at 138th Street, New York, NY 10031. Phone: 212-650-8890. > Fax: 212-650-8893. We will have a web site installed by the summer's end: >WWW.ccny.cuny.edu/fempress. > Computer line installations are much delayed because of campus >vacations, and so we won't be on line until mid-August at the earliest. If >you need something and want to get it via e-mail, please use mine, Florence >Howe's: FLORENCH@AOL.COM. > You might like to know, especially if you're having a dreadful >summer, that this move is only for a year. Next summer we will move with >CUNY's Graduate School into the old B.Altman Building. Cheers, Florence >Howe--and you have my e-mail address above. WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 07:06:34 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Olmsted Subject: women & creativity Do any of you know of a really good essay on women and creativity? I am including a unit of women and art (and more broadly, creativity) in my Intro to WS course. Judy Chicago is coming to Western Kentucky University this fall, so my students will be able to see and hear her. They will also read two chapters from her two autobiographies (_Through the Flower_ and _Beyond the Flower_ in which she talks about feminist art and her "awakening" through art). I am also considering using Andrea Dworkin's article, "The Unremembered: Searching for Women at the Holocaust Memorial Museum" (Ms. (V.3, 1994)....especially since Chicago will be talking about her "Holocaust Project." Students will by then also have read V. Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" and A. Walker's "In Search of Our Mother's Garden" (and maybe Audre Lorde's "Poetry is not a Luxury" (?)). So I think we've got a lot of "ways in" to the subject of women and art, but I was studying this schedule of readings and feeling that something else would help. Note: I like the "accessibility" of both Walker and Lorde's pieces. I would not want to hit them with anything too "heavy" in terms of disciplinary jargon. I appreciate any suggestions. Jane Olmsted Western Kentucky University English/Women's Studies jane.olmsted@wku.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:17:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Calderone, Linda M" Subject: Re: Girls and Horses bib Another book for older girls appears to be a series. The one I have is _Linda Craig 2 The Clue On The Desert Trail_, by Ann Sheldon @1962. *...Linda and her prize palomino track down a band of smugglers* . Not that I'm biased about the name of the heroine or anything. :-) Linda calderlm@maple.lemoyne.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 13:30:37 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: women & creativity MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Jane, you might look at *Gender, Culture and the Arts*, an anthology of papers given at a conference at Susquehanna U several years ago. Judy Chicago was a keynote speaker. Good luck, Benay Blend blend@alpha.nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:56:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Candace Rypisi Subject: Re: women & creativity Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Jane, If you have some money, you might want to take a look at the video on Maya Lin (May Lin: A Strong Clear Vision). It is produced by Sanders and Mock Productions, 310-459-2116. It is 98 minutes long, but worth every minute. I use it in my intro class and the students love it. It really brings together the notion of creativity in the face of freedom. Candace Rypisi Project Coordinator Office of Women's Programs and Studies Colorado State University 112 Student Services Fort Collins, CO 80523 (970) 491-6384 crypisi@ceao.sacc.colostate.edu At 07:06 AM 8/7/97 CST, you wrote: >Do any of you know of a really good essay on women and creativity? I am >including a unit of women and art (and more broadly, creativity) in my Intro to >WS course. Judy Chicago is coming to Western Kentucky University this fall, so >my students will be able to see and hear her. They will also read two chapters >from her two autobiographies (_Through the Flower_ and _Beyond the Flower_ in >which she talks about feminist art and her "awakening" through art). I am also >considering using Andrea Dworkin's article, "The Unremembered: Searching for >Women at the Holocaust Memorial Museum" (Ms. (V.3, 1994)....especially since >Chicago will be talking about her "Holocaust Project." Students will by then >also have read V. Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" and A. Walker's "In Search of >Our Mother's Garden" (and maybe Audre Lorde's "Poetry is not a Luxury" (?)). So >I think we've got a lot of "ways in" to the subject of women and art, but I was >studying this schedule of readings and feeling that something else would help. > >Note: I like the "accessibility" of both Walker and Lorde's pieces. I would >not want to hit them with anything too "heavy" in terms of disciplinary jargon. > >I appreciate any suggestions. > >Jane Olmsted >Western Kentucky University >English/Women's Studies >jane.olmsted@wku.edu > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:40:30 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: michelle moravec Subject: female aesthetic in art Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am currently working on a chapter about debates within feminism about the existence of a female aesthetic, an idea usually associated with Judy Chicago and Miriam Schaprio. I have been very surprised that I have not found comments from the early 1970s pointing out the similarities between their central core thesis and Erik Erikson's observation that little girls create enclosed spaces (womblike) when given toy blocks while boys create towers (phallic) [Erikson :Inner and Outer Space" in The Woman In America." The similarities are so striking I'm wondering if I simply missed people commenting on this. Does anyone know of any or remember any such conversations? Michelle Moravec mmoravec@ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:50:50 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: female aesthetic in art MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Michelle, I remember Judith Fryer's Felicitous Space dealing with the issue of enclosed space, and am pretty sure that she mentioned Erikson. Good Luck, Benay Blend blend@alpha.nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 16:16:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Florence Howe Subject: Re: Texts Sought - Contemporary Women's Novels Dear Mev and others: Try MULBERRY AND PEACH, a novel being reprinted by Feminist Press in the fall. Florence Howe Florench@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:40:49 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeanette Clausen Subject: Women's Studies and General Education MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello. I'm new to this list, so maybe this topic has been discussed before; if so, please excuse. My question concerns the use of WS core courses for general-education credit. Three years ago, our campus adopted a menu-type of gened requirement. Departments and programs can modify existing courses or propose new ones to meet the gened criteria. So far, our WS program hasn't submitted our intro course, required of all WS majors and minors, for gened credit (although it easily meets most of the criteria even without modification), but we're considering doing this as a possible means of attracting more students to WS. Have any of you been down this path already? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Did it help your enrollments in other WS courses? Did you find that the dynamics of the course changed after it was opened up for gened credit? I appreciate all replies and would be glad to post a summary to the list if others are interested. Thanks! jeanette clausen clausen@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:04:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: what to do if mail stops (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: ************************ 7) "WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MAIL FROM WMST-L SUDDENLY STOPS?" Note: if you've arranged to receive WMST-L in edited digest form, skip to section C below. Otherwise, read on. A) If you receive a message from LISTSERV informing you that your WMST-L options have been set to NOMAIL, that means that mail from the list was repeatedly returned as undeliverable, probably because of a mail problem on your system. The fact that LISTSERV's notification reached you indicates that the problem was probably short-lived and is now resolved. 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Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:40:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne Hildenbrand Subject: Women in new economy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am interested in recent publications on the impact of the emerging economy on North American and Western European women. My searches have produced more on women in the former Soviet Union and in the "third World" than on women in the so-called advanced economies. I am interested in studies based on statistical data, rather than collections of statistics such as the WREI work and the Statistical Handbook on Women in the US. --SH ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 07:19:54 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Olmsted Subject: Re[2]: women & creativity Comments: To: liora moriel Liora, I agree that VW's "A Room of One's Own" is difficult. I am about to use it for the third time, however, for a number of reasons. I want them to have at least one full, non-excerpted "classic" feminist text, and this one, from my perspective, works best. I like the way it reverberates throughout the semester--we continually refer back to her/it, on issues regarding women's poverty, politics of space, difference between the stories told about women and their actual lives, the need for a tradition, women's anger at men, men's anger at women, women's friendship (connections to A. Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality"), androgyny . . . the list seems to go on. We also read A. Walker's "In Search" right after VW, so we can talk about class, elitism, and yet see that they are both doing the same thing, seeking and naming a tradition and validating what was there all along (those empty spaces don't mean nothing was going on). Another work that we read that makes an interesting connection is Sandra Cisneros' "House on Mango Street," very easy, deceptively so, and all about the politics of space and the need for a "house of one's own." Another reason I use "Room" is that I try to have a range of "difficulty," so the accessible essays are important, but students, especially given the history of women's education that VW also gives us a chance to talk about, need to tackle some challenging texts. At least "Room" is short, and I "give them permission" to scan some sections (such as the history of women writers, many of whom my students don't know, so that section tends to be confusing). I have developed a handout that I use that gives them "things to look for" as they're reading. I also try to spend a few minutes before they actually start the book, talking about how to read something that doesn't lay out the answers for you, boom boom boom. Finally, I always have at least a handful who say the VW book was the most important to them. (BTW, there's a very good book by Ellen Rosenman, from Univ. of KY, that was very helpful to me as I was doing my work on "untangling" it.) Thanks for the opportunity to spout, Jane Olmsted jane.olmsted@wku.edu _______________________________________________________________________________ Subject: Re: women & creativity From: liora moriel at INETGW Date: 8/8/97 7:10 AM Jane Olmsted wrote: "I like the "accessibility" of both Walker and Lorde's pieces. I would not want to hit them with anything too "heavy" in terms of disciplinary jargon." This seems a good idea. At the same time, she uses a jargon-free but otherwise "heavy" book by Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own -- or at least, I found that my students in a core course on women's lit found it largely impenetrable. They didn't get the language, the satire, the concept. Some of my colleagues resort to teaching only a segment as a close reading exercise. I remember reading it in one sitting when I was their age. Has general education gone down the tubes? Do teenagers today enter college with less background than those of yore? Or is this just an artefact of a huge state university that has general admission? Liora Moriel Comparative Literature Program University of Maryland 2107 Susquehanna Hall College Park, MD 20742-8825 "We have cooperated for a very long time in the maintenance of our own invisibility. And now the party is over." - Vito Russo Received: from axp1.wku.edu by INETGW.WKU.EDU (SMTPLINK V2.11 PreRelease 4) ; Fri, 08 Aug 97 07:10:35 CST Return-Path: Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (128.8.70.137) by axp1.wku.edu (MX F5.0) with ESMTP; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 07:10:31 -0500 Received: from rac6.wam.umd.edu (lioram@rac6.wam.umd.edu [128.8.70.106]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA06281; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:10:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (lioram@localhost) by rac6.wam.umd.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA02469; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:10:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac6.wam.umd.edu: lioram owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:10:26 -0400 (EDT) From: liora moriel To: Jane Olmsted CC: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: women & creativity In-Reply-To: <9707078709.AA870966073@INETGW.WKU.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:10:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bev Ayers-Nachamkin Organization: Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA 17201 Subject: Re: female aesthetic in art MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michelle -- You will want to look at Paul J. Caplan's article, "Erikson's Concept of Inner Space: A Data-Based Reevaluation", _American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 49(1), January 1979. ====================== michelle moravec wrote: > > I am currently working on a chapter about debates within feminism about the > existence of a female aesthetic, an idea usually associated with Judy > Chicago and Miriam Schaprio. I have been very surprised that I have not > found comments from the early 1970s pointing out the similarities between > their central core thesis and Erik Erikson's observation that little girls > create enclosed spaces (womblike) when given toy blocks while boys create > towers (phallic) [Erikson :Inner and Outer Space" in The Woman In America." > The similarities are so striking I'm wondering if I simply missed people > commenting on this. Does anyone know of any or remember any such conversations? > > Michelle Moravec > mmoravec@ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:16:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jean Noble Subject: Re: Re[2]: women & creativity In-Reply-To: <9707088710.AA871053420@INETGW.WKU.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Let's not forget the lesbian (not included under the aegis of female friendship category) subtext of AROOO. See esp. p. 78 of "Are there no men present? Do you promise me that behind that red curtain over there the figure of Sir Charles Biron is not concealed? ... Chloe liked Olivia" etc. Charles Biron was the Judge who banned Radclyffe Hall's butch/femme novel The Well of Loneliness, a novel which traces quite a different tradition from that privileged by Faderman, Rich et al. Cheers, Jean Noble Graduate Programme in English York University Toronto On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Jane Olmsted wrote: > Liora, > I agree that VW's "A Room of One's Own" is difficult. I am about to use it for > the third time, however, for a number of reasons. I want them to have at least > one full, non-excerpted "classic" feminist text, and this one, from my > perspective, works best. I like the way it reverberates throughout the > semester--we continually refer back to her/it, on issues regarding women's > poverty, politics of space, difference between the stories told about women and > their actual lives, the need for a tradition, women's anger at men, men's anger > at women, women's friendship (connections to A. Rich's "Compulsory > Heterosexuality"), androgyny . . . the list seems to go on. We also read A. > Walker's "In Search" right after VW, so we can talk about class, elitism, and > yet see that they are both doing the same thing, seeking and naming a tradition > and validating what was there all along (those empty spaces don't mean nothing > was going on). Another work that we read that makes an interesting connection > is Sandra Cisneros' "House on Mango Street," very easy, deceptively so, and all > about the politics of space and the need for a "house of one's own." > > Another reason I use "Room" is that I try to have a range of "difficulty," so > the accessible essays are important, but students, especially given the history > of women's education that VW also gives us a chance to talk about, need to > tackle some challenging texts. At least "Room" is short, and I "give them > permission" to scan some sections (such as the history of women writers, many of > > whom my students don't know, so that section tends to be confusing). I have > developed a handout that I use that gives them "things to look for" as they're > reading. I also try to spend a few minutes before they actually start the book, > > talking about how to read something that doesn't lay out the answers for you, > boom boom boom. > > Finally, I always have at least a handful who say the VW book was the most > important to them. (BTW, there's a very good book by Ellen Rosenman, from Univ. > > of KY, that was very helpful to me as I was doing my work on "untangling" it.) > > Thanks for the opportunity to spout, > Jane Olmsted > jane.olmsted@wku.edu > _______________________________________________________________________________ > Subject: Re: women & creativity > From: liora moriel at INETGW > Date: 8/8/97 7:10 AM > > Jane Olmsted wrote: "I like the "accessibility" of both Walker and Lorde's > pieces. I would not want to hit them with anything too "heavy" in terms > of disciplinary jargon." > This seems a good idea. At the same time, she uses a jargon-free but > otherwise "heavy" book by Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own -- or at > least, I found that my students in a core course on women's lit found it > largely impenetrable. They didn't get the language, the satire, the > concept. Some of my colleagues resort to teaching only a segment as a > close reading exercise. I remember reading it in one sitting when I was > their age. Has general education gone down the tubes? Do teenagers today > enter college with less background than those of yore? Or is this just an > artefact of a huge state university that has general admission? > > Liora Moriel > Comparative Literature Program > University of Maryland > 2107 Susquehanna Hall > College Park, MD 20742-8825 > > "We have cooperated for a very long time in the maintenance of our own > invisibility. And now the party is over." - Vito Russo > > > Received: from axp1.wku.edu by INETGW.WKU.EDU (SMTPLINK V2.11 PreRelease 4) > ; Fri, 08 Aug 97 07:10:35 CST > Return-Path: > Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (128.8.70.137) by axp1.wku.edu (MX F5.0) with > ESMTP; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 07:10:31 -0500 > Received: from rac6.wam.umd.edu (lioram@rac6.wam.umd.edu [128.8.70.106]) by > po4.wam.umd.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA06281; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 > 08:10:28 -0400 (EDT) > Received: from localhost (lioram@localhost) by rac6.wam.umd.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) > with SMTP id IAA02469; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:10:26 -0400 (EDT) > X-Authentication-Warning: rac6.wam.umd.edu: lioram owned process doing -bs > Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:10:26 -0400 (EDT) > From: liora moriel > To: Jane Olmsted > CC: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > Subject: Re: women & creativity > In-Reply-To: <9707078709.AA870966073@INETGW.WKU.EDU> > Message-ID: > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:18:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 6 WS job openings MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following job announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Asst. Prof Anthropology & WS, Scripps College 2) 2 openings - International Relations; Psychology (Agnes Scott C) 3) Bibliographer/Reference Librarian (Vanderbilt U.) 4) African American/Ethnic Studies (Cal Poly State U.) 5) European History (incl. women's history) (Methodist C.) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************************* 1) Scripps College, Claremont, California Assistant Professor in anthropology and Women's Studies Scripps College, a women's liberal arts college with a strong interdisciplinary core program, invites applications for a position in socio-cultural anthropology and Women's Studies at the assistant professor level (tenure-track)to begin fall 1998. Required: Ph.D., teaching, and research expertise; preferred is a Ph.D. in anthropology with a strong emphasis on Women's Studies (i.e., feminist theory, gender and sexuality). This faculty member will regularly contribute to the Pitzer-Scripps Cooperative Anthropology program; to Women's Studies at Scripps College (a part of the Intercollegiate Women's Studies Program of the Claremont Colleges); and to the Scripps Core program. Applications must be received by November 1, 1997. Please send a vita, three references, a summary of teaching evaluations, and publications c/o Richard Fadem, Dean of the Faculty,Scripps college, 1030 Columbia, Claremont, CA 91711. Phone 909-621-8178; e-mail, rfadem@scrippscol.edu. Scripps College, one of six members of the Claremont Colleges Consortium located 35 miles east of Los Angeles, is an equal opportunity employer which invites and encourages applications from minority persons and from women. Intercollegiate Women's Studies Scripps College Claremont, CA 91711 (909) 621-8274 WSTUDIES@AD.SCRIPPSCOL.EDU *************************************************************************** 2) Agnes Scott College: 2 openings: International Relations (incl. feminist theory) and Psychology (incl. gender studies) INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The program in political science invites applications for a tenure-track, rank-open position in international relations. Candidates should be able to offer an introductory course in world politics, an upper division course in international relations theory, and a senior seminar in international relations. There is interest in expanding coverage of Asia. Supplemental specialties are open and might include international political economy, international organizations, the environment, feminist theory, and human rights. The position also requires directing the international relations program and providing leadership for both faculty and students in the program. Search chair: Professor Catherine Scott, Campus Box 740 PSYCHOLOGY The department of psychology invites applications for a tenure track, assistant professorship. Ph.D., with specialization in industrial/organizational psychology required. The successful candidate will be asked to offer a research course in her/his area of specialization. Cross-cultural work, gender studies interests, and collaborative research experience involving students will be welcome. One of the three requested references can be a student the candidate has taught. Search chair: Professor Eileen Cooley, Dept. of Psychology. Agnes Scott College is an independent, Presbyterian affiliated, liberal arts college for women located in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, Agnes Scott has a strong commitment to diversity and urges members of underrepresented groups to apply. An Equal Opportunity Employer. APPLICATION PROCESS Unless otherwise noted in a specific ad: Candidates should have completed the Ph.D. by July 1, 1998. Candidates should demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching and a record of scholarly achievement. To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by the deadline (if any) listed in a specific ad. Otherwise, consideration of applications for a specific position will begin in early fall 1997 and will continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application, CV, and the names and telephone numbers of three professional references to search chair listed in a specific ad. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 141 EAST COLLEGE AVENUE DECATUR, GA 30030-3797 From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 1997 *************************************************************************** 3) Bibliographer/Reference Librarian: Vanderbilt University Library: The Central and Science/Engineering Libraries of Vanderbilt University seek a Bibliographer/Reference Librarian. The librarian in this entry level position is responsible for selecting and managing collections supporting undergraduate and graduate programs in Economics and Philosophy and an interdisciplinary program in Women's Studies. Other responsibilities include faculty liaison; evaluating collections and maintaining collection policies; collection development planning and budgeting; scheduled reference desk service as well as specialized reference service; and participating in the Central Library's bibliographic instruction program. Reports to the Assistant Director for Collections. Requires an ALA-accredited MLS; outstanding written and oral communication skills; ability to work effectively with faculty, students, and library staff. Preferred qualifications are successful working experience in an academic library, particularly in collection development and reference; advanced degree in economics or philosophy; reading knowledge of a western European language; and proven interest in computing and electronic information resources. This is an entry level position. Salary: $28,000 minimum. Benefits include health care insurance; retirement plan options; tuition discount program; and 15 vacation days, 9 paid holidays, and 12 days of sick leave per year. To ensure first consideration, applications should be received by September 29, 1997. Send letter of application and resume, with names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three references to Gail R. Workman, Library Personnel Officer, Vanderbilt University, 419 21st Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee 37240-0007. EEO/AA employer. Minorities, persons with disabilities and women are encouraged to apply. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 1997 ********************************************************************* 4) Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo, CA Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track, African American Studies, beginning 1998-99 academic year. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Duties and responsibilities include teaching basic Ethnic Studies courses and experimental courses in Ethnic Studies, comparative cultures, and African American Studies; student advising; curriculum and program development; scholarship and research in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of American cultural pluralism. QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. required with preference given to Ethnic Studies, Comparative Cultures and African American Studies. Candidates with university-level teaching experience are also preferred. Candidates with Ph.D. degree in the social sciences or the liberal arts but with a specialty in comparative studies and interest in gender analysis are encouraged to apply. Submit the following information: Letter of application (reference recruitment #83010), a Cal Poly application form, names of three references, and an example of recent scholarship. Send to: Robert F. Gish, Director, Ethnic Studies Department, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407; (805) 756-1707; FAX (805) 756-6188. Cal Poly is strongly committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The university actively encourages applications and nominations of women, persons of color, applicants with disabilities, and members of other underrepresented groups. AA/EEO. Closing Date: November 15, 1997. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 1997 ************************************************************************** 5) History: European History. Methodist College, an affirmative action employer, welcomes applications for an Assistant Professor of History. Major area in European history (non-British), 1500-1850. Minor Fields in any two of the following: Africa, Middle East, military, Russia, social studies education, or women's history. Must have teaching experience and be willing to teach three sections of western civilization each semester of a four-course load. Tenure-track. Doctorate required. Methodist College, in harmony with its tradition, takes seriously its role in the ethical and moral development of students. Minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply. Send resume, graduate transcripts, and three letters of reference, by October 1, to Dr. Peter Murray, Head, Department of History and Political Science, Methodist College, 5400 Ramsey Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311-1420; 910-630-7075. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 1997 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:47:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "K. Wind Hughes" Subject: Re: Re[2]: women & creativity You might want to check out the book Daughters of the Moon,Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood. It is a book for young women, full of feminist essays, some autobiographical, on all aspects of female experience. Many written by the young women in our project. It is available from New Society Publishers - 1-800-567-6772 - good luck ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:04:52 -0500 Reply-To: sbasgall@javanet.com Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Basgall Subject: Socialist Feminism MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone recommend good books that talk about socialist feminism as it looks at race, class, gender aka Tong or Jaggar. Sandra Basgall sbasgall@javanet.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 14:09:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chrys Ingraham Subject: Re: Socialist Feminism Comments: To: Sandra Basgall In-Reply-To: <33EB5FC4.64A7@javanet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII New release from Routledge: Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference in Women's Lives, co-edited by Hennessy and Ingraham. Also, there is an anthology from Temple Univ Press on Socialist Feminism. On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Sandra Basgall wrote: > Can anyone recommend good books that talk about socialist feminism as it > looks at race, class, gender aka Tong or Jaggar. > > Sandra Basgall > sbasgall@javanet.com > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:38:47 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: avril chalmers Subject: Re: Re[2]: women & creativity In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Jean Noble said: >Let's not forget the lesbian (not included under the aegis of female >friendship category) subtext of AROOO. See esp. p. 78 of "Are there no men >present? Do you promise me that behind that red curtain over there the >figure of Sir Charles Biron is not concealed? ... Chloe liked Olivia" etc. >Charles Biron was the Judge who banned Radclyffe Hall's butch/femme novel >The Well of Loneliness, a novel which traces quite a different tradition >from that privileged by Faderman, Rich et al. There's also an interesting bit of background in The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (1993) Margaret Reynolds ed. p. xxi-xxii who quotes Woolf's typescript where the original wording was: "'Chloe like Oliva. They shared a...' The words covered the bottom of the page; the pages had stuck. While fumbling to open them there flashed into my mind the inevitable policeman...the order to attend the Court, the dreary waiting; the Magistrate coming in with a little bow...for the Prosecution, for the defence--the verdict; this book is obscene = flames sing, perhaps on Tower Hill, as they compound that mass of paper. Here the paper came apart. Heaven be praised! It was only a laboratory. Chloe-Olivia. They were engaged in mincing liver..." The erotic tension in the original becomes a much more oblique reference in A Room of One's Own. Avril Chalmers Avril Chalmers Graduate Studies Faculty of Education Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 e-mail: chalmers@sfu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 16:00:38 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara Shircliffe (fac)" Subject: Film info "It's Elmentary" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII At the NWSA I saw a film about introducing gay and lesbian issues in elementary schools entitled "It's Elementary." However, I can not seem to find the ordering information in my notes. Iwould appreciate if anyone can tell me how to order the film either as an individual or institution. I like to use it this fall. Thanks Barbara ************************************************************************* Barbara J. Shircliffe University of South Florida College of Education (813) 974-1259 Fax (813)x-974-5814 ************************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 16:17:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "B.J. Eaton" Subject: Re: Film info "It's Elmentary" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >At the NWSA I saw a film about introducing gay and lesbian issues in >elementary schools entitled "It's Elementary." However, I can not seem to >find the ordering information in my notes. Iwould appreciate if anyone >can tell me how to order the film either as an individual or institution. >I like to use it this fall. > >Thanks >Barbara *************** Barbara, According to the NWSA '97 conference book, it's New Day Films, 22D Hollywood Avenue, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423 or phone 201-652-6590. Regards, B.J. Eaton Richardson, Texas bjeaton7@airmail.net ****************************************************************************** "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh ****************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 18:23:16 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Addition to Girls and Horses bib Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I found a great book today, for those interested in girls/horses books for younger readers. _Riding Silver Star_ by Joanna Cole, Photos by Margaret Miller Very positive images about girls and learning to ride. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. alw7315@acs.tamu.edu Department of English Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4227 "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." Emily Dickinson _Selected Letters_ (#330, p.196) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 16:21:01 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Myrna Goodman Subject: Re: Film info "It's Elmentary" In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The film is titled: "It's Elementary: Talking about Gay Issues in School" by Debra Chasnoff and Helen Cohen. It's a production of Women's Educational Media, 2180 Bryant St., Ste. 203, San Francisco, Ca 94110. To order the film contact: New Day Films Library 22 D Hollywood Ave. Hohokus, NJ 07423 (201) 652-6590 The video is 1 hour, 17 minutes and costs $108. A group of students found the video and used it in a group presentation for a class last semester. The class was moved and inspired by the video which shows how some schools are addressing gay issues. Myrna Goodman Sonoma State University On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Barbara Shircliffe (fac) wrote: > At the NWSA I saw a film about introducing gay and lesbian issues in > elementary schools entitled "It's Elementary." However, I can not seem to > find the ordering information in my notes. Iwould appreciate if anyone > can tell me how to order the film either as an individual or institution. > I like to use it this fall. > > Thanks > Barbara > > > ************************************************************************* > Barbara J. Shircliffe University of South Florida > College of Education (813) 974-1259 Fax (813)x-974-5814 > ************************************************************************* > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 17:53:45 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Miriam Subject: critical thinking In-Reply-To: <970808124629_2062316006@emout07.mail.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am teaching a class on critical thinking, with a focus on debate/argumentation. I am looking for suggestions for readers focused on reading and writing arguments that preferably concentrate on one major theme (although I'm open to suggestions for other sorts of texts) and themes that have to do with contemporary social problems with a feminist slant. I also would welcome any suggestions for pedagogical exercises --small group, for example--that have proved generative for teaching elements of argumentation. thanks in advance, reply privately unless you think it helpful to the list, Kathy Miriam kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 12:52:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: More assistance please (fwd) Comments: To: power MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Forwarded for: From: Diana Gustafson Subject: More assistance please I recently explored the impact of health care reform on Ontario nurses displaced from full time employment as a result of organizational restructuring and downsizing. One of the findings, among many, was a change in nurses' professional identity and ways of imaging themselves. I used Kelly's theory as a framework for explaining these changes. As a sociologist, however, Kellian theory is definitely a walk down a different path for me. I'm interested in getting feedback from others who use Kelly. I do not currently have a network of academics, researchers on whom to draw. As the topic of restructuring in health care is very timely, as least in my part of the world (Ontario and Canada) perhaps you might also direct me toward people or journals who would be open to reviewing my manuscript. Any suggestions you'd be willing to share? Thank you, in advance Diana Gustafson Dept of Sociology and Equity Studies OISE/UT Toronto, ON dgustafson@globalserve.net ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:39:44 -0700 Reply-To: ddeluise@erols.com Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dolores DeLuise Organization: John Jay College Subject: Re: women & creativity MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jane Olmsted wrote: > > Do any of you know of a really good essay on women and creativity? I am > including a unit of women and art (and more broadly, creativity) in my Intro to > WS course. Judy Chicago is coming to Western Kentucky University this fall, so > my students will be able to see and hear her. They will also read two chapters > from her two autobiographies (_Through the Flower_ and _Beyond the Flower_ in > which she talks about feminist art and her "awakening" through art). I am also > considering using Andrea Dworkin's article, "The Unremembered: Searching for > Women at the Holocaust Memorial Museum" (Ms. (V.3, 1994)....especially since > Chicago will be talking about her "Holocaust Project." Students will by then > also have read V. Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" and A. Walker's "In Search of > Our Mother's Garden" (and maybe Audre Lorde's "Poetry is not a Luxury" (?)). So > I think we've got a lot of "ways in" to the subject of women and art, but I was > studying this schedule of readings and feeling that something else would help. > > Note: I like the "accessibility" of both Walker and Lorde's pieces. I would > not want to hit them with anything too "heavy" in terms of disciplinary jargon. > > I appreciate any suggestions. > > Jane Olmsted > Western Kentucky University > English/Women's Studies > jane.olmsted@wku.edu In my women's lit course I address the issue of feminine creativity in a number of ways. One of the most successful is Dinessen's *The Blank Page* along with Gubar's article on The Blank Page and Issues of Female Creativity (c. 1979). I will be happy to provide the excact citation once I return to NY the last week of August, if anyone is interested. Sincerely, Dolores DeLuise John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY ddeluise@erols.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 18:46:37 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own (LONG) Last semester, I taught a class in _Women and the Law_, and I used a film called "A Room of One's Own"--it was a one-woman production by a fine British actress whose name escapes me at the moment. I was excited about using it because it had been an important book for me. (The production combines excerpts of _Room_ with _Three Guineas_.) Well, it landed on my class like a lead balloon, despite the fact that I had carefully prepared them for it, and distributed study sheets with things to watch out for, and pointing out things that I thought would grab them. I was very puzzled by their lack of interest, so at the following class I asked them why they were so unresponsive to it. Even my best students (who I had had in other classes, and I knew to be excellent students) told me that they couldn't identify with her. In part, they didn't understand the language (what is a beadle, anyway?); they didn't feel discriminated against--no one was keeping them from going to college, etc. I then had them do an exercise, trying to identify their class background. We listed all the occupations of their mothers--teacher, secretary, etc., and discussed how they chose those professions; why the ones who chose to stay home, did; what economic forces were at work; what education level they had attained and why. THEN we did their grandmothers. We tried to do their great-grandmothers, but either they didn't know or they were all stay-at-home homemakers. With those facts firmly in mind, we did fathers; then grandfathers, then great-grandfathers. We talked about the economics and education, etc. My point was that while they themselves did not feel discriminated against, they were not more than a generation from serious restrictions on women's opportunities for work and education. Not content to leave it at that, at the next class, I asked if ever they HAD felt discriminated against. At first, only one or two examples came to mind, but by the end of the hour, they were all contributing their own anecdotes. I wanted them to realize that how we see our experience is colored by our expectations AND by the rhetoric that fills our media, and that it may bear no relation to our lives. ................ An aside about language: My experience, both here and at UCLA where I taught as a graduate student, is that students today lack the breadth and depth of vocabulary that earlier generations of students had. Many of them are "aliterate," i.e., they know HOW to read, but they don't read much; they certainly don't read good literature, and they bitterly resent it when we push them to do so. I read "Little Women" to my daughter when she was a child and I was already teaching at UCLA. As I read it, I realized that most of my students would not understand the words Alcott uses. If they can't read Alcott, how can we expect them to understand Woolf? I wish I knew what to do about this. The only solution is to read widely. The best students will do it, but what about all the others? Rosie ____________________________________________________________ Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 "Qui me amat, amat et canem meum." ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:29:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: critical thinking Comments: To: Kathy Miriam In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Kathy, this piece of info might be of interest to you: Jane Martin says that she "invents a conversation to present ideas". She adds, "I use the image of conversation over time and space rather than that of a debate. The term debate suggests that a single question is being argued and there are two clear-cut positions. . . . A good conversation is neither a fight nor a contest. Circular in form, cooperative in manner, and constructive in intent, it is an interchange of ideas by those who see themselves not as adversaries but as human beings come together to talk and listen and learn from one anther . . . . This is the phenomenon I have tried to capture" (Martin, Jane Roland, "Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Women" New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985, p-. 9-10, cited in Reinharz, p. 230). Someone at a seminar once made the comparison between words such as dis -- cussion, con -- cussin, and per -- cussion; all related to striking, hardness, harshness. Encouraged thinking of conversation or dialogue as more feminist in form than dis-cussion, debate, or argumentation. Hope this helps. Shulamit Reinharz book, Femisist Research Methodologies offers a number of other such sources similar to the one cited above. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 20:38:29 -0400 Reply-To: cgp@acpub.duke.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Catherine Petroski Subject: Re: Girls & Horses bibliography In-Reply-To: <199708090409.AAA24351@heinlein.acpub.duke.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Has anyone mentioned "Beautiful My Mane in the Wind," my short story published first in North American Review, then reprinted in Ms., then adapted as a picture book for kids by Houghton Mifflin (and subsequently anthologized several times)? (I have been away for two weeks and caught this thread at its end.) Catherine Petroski ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 02:44:08 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: women & creativity\comedy\performance Comments: To: ddeluise@erols.com I just saw a movie that is perfect for your course and for all of us to see. It's a 1991 Canadian Film Board production called WISE CRACKS, 93 minutes, Catalog #7465. The video box says "This performance comdey features America's top female comediennes delivering some of their best lines to live audiences. Mixed in are behind-the-scenes interviews and clips from pioneers in women's comedy to add insight to the comedy business. . . . In each performance, a woman stands up before an audience, demanding attention, while she takes on all the lies, myths, and realities of day to day life--and takes them apart. . . ." Among the comediennes included are Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen DeGeneris, Phyllis Diller, Paula Poundstone, Geri Jewell, Robin Tyler, Sandra Shamas, Emily Levine, Kim Wayans, Pam Stone, and many other contemporary performers. There are also clips of Lucille Ball, Carole Burnett, Eve Arden, Betty Hutton, Hattie McDaniel, Fannie Brice, Sophie Tucker, Mae West, Gracie Allen and George Burns, and others. Besides the fact that the film is hilarious (I laughed so hard I had to keep stopping it and rewinding to get back to the place where I'd laughed so hard I'd drowned out the movie), it is also filled with very smart women talking very intelligently about how creativity happens in this art form, about the connections between an artist and her audience, between politics and art, macro- and micro-sexism, our bodies our selves, and other subjects that lead right into the topic of your course. When important ideas are presented in the context of great art, great comedy, they are unforgettable. And as soon as we laugh, we are implicated, we include ourselves, in the truth of that artist's vision. I'm glad to be back. Hi, all. Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 08:54:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's advertising policy (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Here's today's excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 8) "HOW CAN I GET A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO WMST-L?" NOTE: because of increasing misuse of subscriber lists by people with commercial interests, access to WMST-L's list of subscribers has been restricted. Only the listowner has access to this list. FURTHER NOTE: Do not send commercial advertising to some or all WMST-L subscribers, not even privately. People who use their access to WMST-L to gather e-mail addresses to use for commercial advertising, or to give or sell to others, will be removed from WMST-L and barred from re-subscribing. (However, if you have created a women's-studies-related book, video, etc. and wish to let subscribers know about it, you may announce it on WMST-L. Indeed, you are encouraged to do so. You may also mention other books and resources, even if you have a commercial interest in them, if you are responding to a specific query for which the books/resources are directly relevant.) ****************** Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to the World Wide Web. The URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 12:50:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Re: Critical Thinking MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One technique I have used is to take two essays that have diametrically opposed conclusions about the same basic problem, but are both well-written, well-conceived, well-researched. (That's why I like to use Mary Beth Norton's women's history text because several of the sections have precisely that set=up -- there's one where an essay of hers on women in the Revolution is juxtaposed against one by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- her essay says the Revolution liberated women; Smith-Rosenberg says it was just another version of oppression. They even use the same famous quote by Abigail Adams but interpret it in opposite ways.) The way the class was structured was that they kept reading diaries -- first they were supposed to read each essay in a section and give a short description of the main point -- I would say, let's say a friend is in the class and forgot to do the readings, and you only have a minute to catch them up on it, what would you say? -- then they are supposed to write a paragraph on the basis of the argument: the major points the author tries to make. We have a lecture on primary, secondary, tertiary sources, so they are supposed to identify which kinds of sources are used. Then here comes the critical thinking part. Are there sources they could have used that they didn't? Is the argument internally consistent? Could the same evidence be used to make a different argument? Does the evidence actually support the argument? I find they come in not knowing at all how to do this -- the first batch often contains a lot of "This aurthor was good. I liked her argument." Period. Because, of course, these are very good writers. And I would say to them, of COURSE it's good. That's why it's included in this book of essays. Every essay in this book is good. But that's not the question. And you would get "I like this." "I don't think I like this." For many of them, disagreement was an insult. I learned to require that they xerox their comments and hand them in to me at the BEGINNING of the class (or some would sit there and write them during class ...) and I also sent around a seating chart for them to fill in every class period (which was a useful way to keep tabs on who actually showed up) -- I had no choice in class size; the max was 40 and I always had the max, squished together in a room that was originally built for 25. When someone made a point, I put a mark next to their name on the chart. That way I learned the names with the faces (I have a great deal of trouble with that) and also they felt rewarded -- the students who spoke up wanted me to know they were speaking up. I would start out by putting the names of the three essays (two or three in each section of the book) at the top of each of three sections of the blackboard. Then I would say -- okay -- let's talk, you can talk about any of the three you want, but let's get this all on the blackboard. ANYHTHING anybody says goes on the blackboard. If I didn't understand it, I would ask if I can rephrase it, and if I rephrased it correctly, or I would ask questions until I understood what the student was trying to say. You have to go out of your way to show RESPECT for what EACH student says. Nothing can be "wrong". Nothing. That will shut them up real fast. Then it depended on how the discussion went. Sometimes I would fill in the blanks myself before we went on. Sometimes there was missing information from more recent research to throw in, so I added it. Sometimes I would stop and note an obvious contradiction and ask -- what do you think about this? Sometimes I could use two of the feistier members of class and say -- you just said this, but she just said that -- how do you reconcile that? As time went on and I got to "know" the students through their diaries, I learned the ones who were really smart and talented but petrified to speak up (at Villanova, the culture also ran against speaking up; it was tacky.) THOSE I would start to call on, gently, and ask them a question that was open-ended, that had no wrong answer. Sometimes I even said -- I know from what you write that you really understand this stuff -- come on, help me out here. They would BEAM. You know, by the end of class all my students were "really smart and talented" -- in my eyes at least, and so in theirs as well. There were students who maybe didn't write so well but UNDERSTOOD. They had never had someone say to them -- you really have a talent for thinking. The example of the Revolution is where the discussions really started to fly. You can't agree with both essays. Not possible. They are really diametrically opposed, and in particular Smith-Rosenberg is a very strong writer. So the "I liked them both" answer doesn't work. That's when we could talk about -- how do you deal with this? How do you handle two arguments that make sense independently, but are incongruent when placed next to each other? Or you can say, well, I think Norton makes a strong case for THIS, but Smith-Rosenberg makes a strong case for THAT -- and just take parts out of the essay. In some cases what initially appeared to be opposing essays turned out to just be essays that had focused on one region and extrapolated to the whole; we could conclude that perhaps the regions themselves were different. At any rate, the students could walk out without agreeing with each other -- and that was OKAY. There was NO single interpretation that was "right". It's the process of reasoning that was important. (That was news to a generation raised on bombastic radio talk show and young men who have adopted that style of discourse.) (With the women often the targets.) We also talked about different styles of scholarship -- competitive, aggressive (I win/you lose; You win/I lose); cooperative (Oh, that's an interesting point -- okay, now how do we reconcile this?); and they were pleased and relieved to know there were ways to talk about ideas without having to put down someone else, something they just didn't want to do. They were too polite. Too empathetic. Me, too. I also, deliberately, shared with them my own research program and my victories and losses, frustrations and epiphanies. When I got into a massive, very hostile, debate with a very sexist economist on an economic history discussion list on the 'net, they followed it with me and offered occasional suggestions. If I personally knew an author we were using, I talked about the person -- cracked jokes or told stories of comraderie among women scholars. It made them feel part of something larger and important -- hell, made ME feel part of something larger and important. I commiserated when I had an essay due at the readers' for a conference, or at the publishers -- and they had papers due everywhere or important exams. We both moaned about the lack of sleep together. I wanted them to see that scholarship can be REAL -- not just jumping through hoops because a teacher says so, not just "job training". And I was very shameless in terms of reminding them, more than once, how hard women had fought for the right to be where they were -- that they better take this opportunity seriously because they were standing on the shoulders of generations of women who had fought for them to be there. In the meantime, I would also keep a running written dialogue going with the reading diaries. After doing what they were supposed to with the diaries, they could then write about ANYTHING that it made them think of, anything they wanted. They started making great connections with stuff in their other courses, in their lives -- and we would have private conversations in the margins of their diaries as I handed them back. They would begin to show up in my office and we'd talk. I can't tell you what a joy these classes were -- you could SEE them grow in confidence and in skills -- and you could see their JOY in it. They worked their buns off. They would start the class out thinking about how this was the past, it didn't affect them personally -- by the end of the class, when their final assignment was to take a current piece of popular culture and analyze it the way we had analyzed culture in the early 1800s -- they could DO it! And they were themselves astonished that they could. (Heh heh, and their consciousness(es?), as we used to say, had DEFINITELY been raised.) One other reward was when a couple of students would come giggling into my office from time to time to tell me they had "gotten" some guys who were into the usual rap about "reverse discrimination" and how white men have such a raw deal these days -- that they would have disagreed but not known what to say before. They had rendered the guys speechless. HA! They didn't have to just sit there and take it. I have heard that giving them about ten minutes before class to talk about things in small grouops also gets them out of their shyness of speaking up -- were I to run the class again (were I to get my health back), I might try that. I know that if I taught the class today I would add an in-house discussion group to the little bag of tools. The key was to try to find what blocks them and remove the blocks, while also giving them an incentive to WANT to think, WANT to exchange ideas and interpretations. With women's studies, it's easy because you can really make it meaningful to THEM. But you also have to make it non-threatening. I basically ran that class pass/fail -- you had to really screw it up to get lower than a B, and if you came in with few writing skills or debating skills but TRIED -- spoke up, got every assignment in on time -- you got an A. If you can get them thinking about how persuasion is Power -- Power that can be used against them, and Power they can use themselves -- and that it's okay for THEM to be Powerful; that Power does not have to be mean or nasty but can be used for good; that they can use the Power of persuasion FOR and WITH each other for common goals -- indeed, if you can start making them want to be persuasive because there are goals they want to accomplish and they need persuasion to be able to accomplish them -- instead of thinking how to "please the teacher" and get a good grade -- half the battle is won. It is okay to be Powerful in this way, and it won't make you "not-a-woman" and it doesn't have to make you isolated, without friends. Unfortunately, those are their fears and it blocks them. So throw a little fun in there too. -- Mary M. Schweitzer , Assoc. Prof., Dept. of History Villanova University (on medical leave since January 1995) Email: URL: http://www2.netcom.com/~schweit2/home.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 11:37:31 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheyenne Bonnell Subject: Re: Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I had very little luck with A Room of One's Own until I let the students do presentations "to" Virginia Woolf. In other words, we pretended that we had a time machine and could bring V.W. into the classroom today and give her an update. Here are the projects the students tackled: CHAPTER ONE:Sole in cream sauce, partridge, pudding, wine OR beef, sprouts, prunes in custard, water--is equity in education still a problem? (Students brought in research on scholarships, sports, Greek life, etc.--this really opened their eyes because they thought they'd have so much progress to tell Virginia about! Many Greek men tackled this one and got an education.) CHAPTER TWO: Woolf's research for her lecture "Women and Fiction" took her to the British Museum. Recreate the experience of Woolf's search in the library of the British Museum in our library. Have things changed? CHAPTER TWO: Woolf noted that in 1929, and even before, men seemed angry at women. Report to Woolf concerning the anger of white males today. (Imagine the responses this brought.) CHAPTER TWO: At a small restaurant near the British Museum, Woolf picks up a newspaper and, after perusing it, notes, "The most transient visitor to this planet, . . . who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of a patriarchy." What do papers today reveal about gender? Bring some in to show to Virginia. CHAPTER THREE: Woolf introduces us to the notion of an imaginary sister of Shakespeare. How is Shakespeare's gifted sister doing today? (Some of the students role play this, becoming the sister who is, for instance, an actress.) CHAPTER THREE: "Nothing is known about women before the eighteenth century," bemoans Woolf. Is this still true? What research has been done in this area? CHAPTER FOUR: "Masculine values . . . prevail," notes Woolf. Do important books still deal with male issues. Analyze the best seller list. CHAPTER FIVE: In this chapter we read, "Chloe liked Olivia." Comments Woolf: "Chloe liked Olivia perhaps for the first time in literature" and that "almost without exception [women] are shown in their relations to men." Provide Woolf with an update on lesbian literature. (Yes, some students will pick this topic. Hooray!) CHAPTER SIX: Woolf's major premise, summarized in her last chapter, is that "Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry [literature] depends upon intellectual freedom." In 1928, Woolf felt that poverty was the number one strike against women in the arts. The ramifications were wide: it meant that women did not have intellectual freedom. Is this true today? Research women's comparable wealth to men today. I videotape the presentations, so the students treat the camera as Virginia and speak to it--it is fun to play back the tape at the end-of-semester gathering I usually have. They must know the chapter they have chosen, and they must, when reporting to Virginia, refer to her work and thoughts. This exercise makes the material and Woolf more personal and relevant. The students enjoy this very much. And they learn about inequity first-hand, so there is less resistance than if I try to inform them of how little things have changed. Cheyenne M. Bonnell Northwest College Powell, Wy bonnellc@mail.nwc.whecn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:24:32 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trudy Mercer Subject: cosmic egg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Dear List Members, I am working on an article on Doris Lessing's novel _Memoirs of a Survivor. I'm changing my premise somewhat because of something I recently read in Riane Eisler's _ The Chalice and the Blade_. Eilser mentions *very* briefly the image of the cosmic egg as a symbol of the Goddess. Lessing uses an egg image as well, in rather vague ways, but definitely leaning toward social change. The study of godess worship is outside my usual area of research and I'm running up against some walls. So far I've only been able to find one article that deals with the cosmic egg in Lessing's work--and of course our library doesn't have it (I've ordered it thru interlibrary loan). My library and internet searches are fruitful only when I use "egg" without any other parameters; however, this produces so much material I feel overwhelmed. Can anyone out there give me some idea on how to direct my search. I really am at a standstill with this article until I get more innformation on this image. Please post privately, unless you feel the list will benefit. Thank you in advance. Trudy Mercer *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Trudy Mercer The self is not contained in any moment tmercer@sprintmail.com or any place, but it is only in the tmercer@u.washington.edu intersection of moment and place that the Graduate Student self might, for a moment, be seen English Department vanishing through a door, which disappears University of Washington at once Seattle, USA Jeanette Winterson. *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:11:44 +0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michiko Yoshioka Subject: Request for Infomation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please let me know the author and publisher of the book "Subtle Sexism". Thank you very much in advance. YOSHIOKA Michiko Graduate School of International Development Nagoya University i45351a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:32:44 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Max Dashu Subject: Re: cosmic egg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I know next to nothing about Doris Lessing's work, but if you are want to explore the notion of the Cosmic Egg, take a look at folklorist Venetia Newall's book _An Egg at Easter_, which is packed with fascinating information, and not just limited to European Christian themes. Max Dashu Trudy Mercer's post: >I am working on an article on Doris Lessing's novel _Memoirs of a >Survivor. I'm changing my premise somewhat because of something I >recently read in Riane Eisler's _ The Chalice and the Blade_. >Eilser mentions *very* briefly the image of the cosmic egg as a symbol of >the Goddess. Lessing uses an egg image as well, in rather vague ways, >but definitely leaning toward social change. The study of godess worship >is outside my usual area of research and I'm running up against some >walls. So far I've only been able to find one article that deals with the >cosmic egg in Lessing's work--and of course our library doesn't have it >(I've ordered it thru interlibrary loan). ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:40:23 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MARGARET BARBER Subject: Re: cosmic egg In-Reply-To: <199708102329.QAA02184@mailgate32> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Trudy, My books on this are in my office and I'm at home so I can't check, but as I recall from studying early religions years ago, the cosmic egg theory was part of the cosmogony of Orphism of ca. 6th century B.C.E. Milton drew on some of the imagery for his creation story in _Paradise Lost_. If you can get to an encyclopedia of religion and look at Orphism, you should find more. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong.) Margaret Barber ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:19:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1 conference, 1 call for stories MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE =09The following two announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Conference: Transforming Knowledge for a Changing World: Internationalizing Gender/'Engendering' the International (U. of Mary= land) 2) Call for Stories: "Beating Our Wings" (Women >50 ) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.= edu) ************************************************************* 1) CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT "Transforming Knowledge for a Changing World: Internationalizing Gender/`Engendering' the International," a conference on curriculum transformation, will take place October 16-17, 1997 at the University= of Maryland University College (adjacent to the University of Maryland a= t College Park). The conference features a keynote address by Costa Ric= an Ambassador and women's human and economic rights activist Sonia Picad= o; speakers and workshop leaders include Amrita Basu, Reena Bernards, Ch= andra Mohanty, Gwendolyn Mikell, Valentine Moghadam, Pamela Sparr, Sharon W= olchik, and from the University of Maryland, Evelyn Torton Beck, Seung-kyung = Kim, Katherine King, Susan Leonardi, Sangeeta Ray, and others from through= out the Maryland university system who have participated in the three-year Ford-funded project, "Women and Gender in an Era of Global Change: Internationalizing and `Engendering' the Curriculum." This conference is sponsored by the Curriculum Transformation Project= , the Women's Studies Program, and the Office of International Affairs at t= he University of Maryland, College Park. Join us to examine the internat= ional processes and differing national contexts which structure gender arra= ngements and shape women's lives; to explore women's responses in their daily = lives, forms of activism, and cultural contributions; to strategize about ho= w to incorporate these issues into your own teaching; and to receive resou= rces to assist you. For a brochure with a full conference schedule and registration form (available at the end of August) contact Deborah Rosenfelt, Project D= irector, dr49@umail.umd.edu or Jennifer Skulte, Project Assistant, Please prov= ide your mailing address; this conference does not have electronic regist= ration. *********************************************************************= ****** 2) Call for Stories We are seeking stories/memoirs from women, fifty or older, for=20 "Beating Our Wings," a book of autobiographical accounts describing= =20 women's lives as they were affected or changed=8Bdirectly or=20 indirectly=8Bby the Women's Movement. We'd like these stories to include the influences of the Movement tha= t=20 brought about changes in your life: books, role models, feminist=20 lectures, consciousness-raising groups, national or regional=20 organizations, civil rights or other political influences, the=20 International Women's Movement for Peace or any others. Please send an SASE for guidelines, =8Bno phone calls please=8B, to: Cly Boehs, 700 Comfort Road, Spencer, NY 14883 or send an e-mail to: mlt4@cornell.edu .=20 Deadline for stories is December 1, 1997 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:15:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: C Jones Subject: More on the egg ... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi there, The cosmic egg motif is present in a number of different cosmogonies, including Chinese, Egyptian, Finnish, Japanese, East Indian (Hindu), Mande, Orphic, Pelasgian, Polynisian and Tahitian. There is also a tradition in ancient Christianity which sees the relation of the egg to the Easter events - eggs represent re-birth, just as does Christ's resurrection ... the Easter egg is representative of this. I cannot recall sources for this, but no doubt it was brought into Christian tradition by adherents from other traditions who were able to integrate their prior beliefs into the "new" religion. Hope this helps, Chris MA Candidate, Religious Studies University of Windsor .............................................................................. Christine Jones . To live is to think and,at times,to cross jones16@uwindsor.ca . over into the domain where thinking and . feeling are merged: poetry - Octavio Paz .............................................................................. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:19:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: women as police MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE I=20 eem to recall a book written by a man who argues that women make bett= er police officers than men do. Does anyone know the book title or auth= or? Christine Smith csmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu =BD ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:20:59 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Gerrard Subject: Call for Papers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CALL FOR PAPERS *Computers and Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing* invites contributions to a special issue on COMPUTERS, WRITING, AND GENDER This issue of *Computers and Composition* will address the ways gender affects how teachers, scholars, and students of writing practice and think about computers and composition. Gender--whether defined by biology, historical process, or a combination of the two--has often been cited as an influence on men's and women's relationship to technology: e.g., it conditions their attitudes towards computers, their software preferences, their behavior on discussion lists, and their level of access. At the same time, gender is sometimes said to influence a writer's use of language, and similarly, a student's experience in the classroom. What, then, happens when technology, writing, and pedagogy come together? What role does gender studies play in the discipline of computers and composition? I encourage submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the following: * gendered language in cyberspace * male and female identity in online communities * the physical body in virtual space * gay and lesbian issues in computers and composition * men and women on the Internet and World Wide Web * software as a gendered artifact * men and women as computers-and-composition professionals * the effect of gender on computers and composition as a discipline * male and female students in computer-enhanced writing classes * impact of gender on the design of computer products * the computer-based writing classroom and feminist pedagogy * computers, composition, and gay/lesbian or feminist activism * equal access to technology * feminist or queer theory and technology The audience for *Computers and Composition* is teachers, scholars, educational administrators, and technology users with a particular interest in computer-enhanced writing instruction. Manuscripts should be 15-30 pages long, double-spaced, and follow the guidelines of the *Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.* DEADLINES 500-word abstract: September 15, 1997 Draft of manuscript: December 1, 1997 Final manuscript: March 2, 1998 Please send abstracts or questions to Lisa Gerrard, Guest Editor EMAIL: gerrard@humnet.ucla.edu FAX: 310-267-2224 UCLA Writing Programs 271 Kinsey Hall UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095 Lisa Gerrard gerrard@humnet.ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:35:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own (LONG) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A suggestion on unfamiliar vocabulary from my experience teaching school teachers to teach reading to beginning readers or to those who had read little: Encourage students not to worry about getting every word, to keep going and look for at least an approximation of an unfamiliar word further on .If it's important in the text, a sense of the word will come from the context. I think students should learn to use dictionaries to expand their vocabularies and knowledge of the world; for some, however, the sense that a beadle is someone with authority, which, if I recall is the point, may be sufficient for the moment. As to identifying with people outside their own experience, assignments I adapted for undergraduate WS classes (in Political Economy of Women) from a suggestion in NWSA's Journal may help (turned out to be a favorite assignment). I asked the students to select a woman to whom they could return for discussions on topics that would come up as the semester progressed. Most chose their mothers. I suggested a few questions to ask, the kinds of things you mention, Rosa, choices, wishes, options, etc., and suggested they formulate more. Drafts were shared in class for questions other students might have, to refine the final report. In the course, we read about women in settings that varied along lines of class, race/ethnicity, regions, history and so on, making comparisons. An exam essay question asked about options and choices of a woman in a particular setting. I expected students to have developed critical eyes by that time; they did. I think many students' difficulty with or resistance to identifying with women in settings other than their own comes partly from overgeneralizing evidence of some solutions to deeply entrenched problems in gender relations. They may be optimistic about what they face and their ability to solve problems. That's fine. Optimism is healthy; it keeps us going. But I wonder if part of the resistance comes from a nationalistic view of the proper attitude of a 'good American woman' (the students discussed in the thread are in the US). We don't seem to think much about nationalism here (I'm also in the US); we relegate it to the margins of thought or early US history or postcolonized nations. I have in mind an ideology according to which the good American woman appreciates her advantages and makes her way, raising no questions about realities until they smack her - and even then ... For me nationalism has been foregrounded in recent studies of state formations and my experience in India, where women's position was a major issue in the nationalist struggle for independence and remains salient. A particular episode comes to mind. After my talk on feminist issues at a women's Rotary Club (yes, an independent club, not an auxiliary of men's) in Delhi, a few women assured me that the issues applied to American women, not to them. They were Indian women and had certain advantages, they said. (No WS courses in their backgrounds) It took some doing to examine with them ideological prescriptions for a 'good Indian woman' and particular constraints in their lives at home and in paid employment. In both the US and India, it seems, certain questions are avoided lest they throw up dust in the eyes of the ideal. (BTW, an architect in the club came to my flat a few days later, told me how shocked she was that the women she thought she knew were in such denial; she had said nothing at the time, she said, because she didn't know how to say anything without antagonizing friends, but would I come to speak to another group she belongs to and raise similar issues). Are students in the US and other countries also operating from assimilated nationalistic standpoints? beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net At 06:46 PM 8/9/97 EDT, you wrote: >Last semester, I taught a class in _Women and the Law_, and I used a >film called "A Room of One's Own"--it was a one-woman production by > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:51:13 +0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ku Yenlin Subject: bell hook's address MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I need to contact bell hooks for her permission to include her articles in Chinese book on feminism. Please send me her address privately. Yenlin Ku National Chiao Tung University Taiwan ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 05:24:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Re: Request for Infomation In-Reply-To: <01BCA63E.F9978050@piyoshiokam.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Michiko Yoshioka wrote: > Please let me know the author and publisher of the book "Subtle Sexism". > Thank you very much in advance. > > YOSHIOKA Michiko > Graduate School of International Development > Nagoya University > i45351a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp > Nijole V. Benokraitis, ed., "Subtle Sexism: Current Practices and Prospects for Change," Sage Publications, 1997. Address for Sage: 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-2218. Phone: (805-499-9774); Fax: 805-499-0871. E-mail: order@sagepub.com (http://www.sagepub.com). ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 07:35:23 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) On 12 Aug., beatricekachuck wrote: >A suggestion on unfamiliar vocabulary from my experience teaching school >teachers to teach reading to beginning readers or to those who had read >little: Encourage students not to worry about getting every word, to keep >going and look for at least an approximation of an unfamiliar word further >on .If it's important in the text, a sense of the word will come from the >context. I think students should learn to use dictionaries to expand their >vocabularies and knowledge of the world; for some, however, the sense that a >beadle is someone with authority, which, if I recall is the point, may be >sufficient for the moment. I agree, and I have taught this way but an experience I had this past year has made me re-think this strategy. I often have the experience when I use a word that I then realize some or most of the students don't understand. Generally, I am careful not to use $5 words in class because I WANT them to understand what I am teaching (I remember having profs who didn't care if we understood and left us in the dust.) When I realize they don't understand--paying close attention to body language-- I explain the word and encourage them to make a note of words that are new to them. If I am covering a subject with many terms that will be new to them, I distribute vocabulary sheets or project them with the overhead projector. What happened this year was that my best student--the best undergraduate student I have even had, applied to graduate school in Latin American History (my primary field) and was turned down by her top 4 choices. I was stunned. This young woman has won every academic award she could have gotten at our school; she graduated Summa Cum Laude (3.8 average); she had outside awards and scholarships; she had a strong record of community service all while working part-time and having come from a working-class background, and having graduated from what most agree is the worst high school in Rhode Island. She also had superb recommendations from our department and the department of political science, as well as others. I called the places that turned her down and was told that because her GRE scores were "low" -- not low on an absolute scale, but low in the sense that she would have been expected to get higher scores for the schools in question--they eliminated her. Knowing that graduate and professional schools are relying so heavily on these tests to the exclusion of everything else, then making sure that they are building their vocabularies is critically important. Ultimately, whether or not they choose graduate school, they are not "beginning readers" but potential college graduates. I realize that there is a separate question: Should anyone be encouraged to go to graduate school given the market? I believe however, that when one is intellectually gifted, they should be encouraged to consider it with open eyes. ____________________________________________________________ Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 "Qui me amat, amat et canem meum." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:56:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) In-Reply-To: <970812.075849.EDT.PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Rosa Maria Pegueros wrote: > What happened this year was that my best student--the best undergraduate > student I have even had, applied to graduate school in Latin American > History (my primary field) and was turned down by her top 4 choices. I > was stunned. This young woman has won every academic award she could have > gotten at our school; she graduated Summa Cum Laude (3.8 average); she had > outside awards and scholarships; she had a strong record of community service > all while working part-time and having come from a working-class background, > and having graduated from what most agree is the worst high school in > Rhode Island. She also had superb recommendations from our department and > the department of political science, as well as others. > > I called the places that turned her down and was told that because her > GRE scores were "low" -- not low on an absolute scale, but low in the sense > that she would have been expected to get higher scores for the schools > in question--they eliminated her. Knowing that graduate and professional > schools are relying so heavily on these tests to the exclusion of everything > else, then making sure that they are building their vocabularies is > critically important. Ultimately, whether or not they choose graduate school, > they are not "beginning readers" but potential college graduates. > > I realize that there is a separate question: Should anyone be encouraged > to go to graduate school given the market? I believe however, that when one > is intellectually gifted, they should be encouraged to consider it with > open eyes. > i agree that students should be very aware of what they're getting into when going to graduate school, not only in terms of future career choice, but everything else. isn't the drop out rate of ph.d. programs 50%? it is clear that there is a lot going on in graduate school and chosing grad school that is problematic. my comment is, however, regarding GRE tests. given that they are so fundamental in application processes, what also needs to happen is that students be fully aware of this and spend as much time getting awards, and grades, and this and that, as they do preparing for the GRE. i really don't see how an intellectually gifted student who spends one or two years studying specifically the GRE stuff can do very poorly, unless they have psychological problems with the testing. maybe what really needs to happen is that students aren't left on their own to prepare for it. i once talked to someone who collected GRE tests over time and studied the vocabulary over and over again and found that several words appeared every now and then. this is not the same as having a good vocabulary, but i bet this person would get a better score than many other students who hadn't prepared this way but had done more diverse readings and had a more well rounded education... Vera fiatlux@umich.edu > ____________________________________________________________ > Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu > University of Rhode Island > Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 > 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 > Kingston, RI 02881 > "Qui me amat, amat et canem meum." > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:10:40 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I hope this isn't out of order, but one might wonder whether extremely gifted students would be happy at a place that only considered GRE scores as the indicator of intelligence and potential success at graduate work. Amy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. alw7315@acs.tamu.edu Department of English Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4227 "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." Emily Dickinson _Selected Letters_ (#330, p.196) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:23:34 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) Comments: To: "Amy L. Wink" On Aug 12, "Amy L. Wink" wrote: >I hope this isn't out of order, but one might wonder whether extremely >gifted students would be happy at a place that only considered GRE scores >as the indicator of intelligence and potential success at graduate work. Well--how does University of Texas at Austin, University of California at San Diego, University of New Mexico, and, her first choice, Tulane University--sound to you? Tulane told me that they accepted 2 graduate students in that field this year. I think that they have so many applicants that rather than looking at what WILL qualify a student, they are looking for anything at all that will DISQUALIFY a student. Unfortunately, at the other end of graduate study when she goes on the job market, employers will be doing the same thing, looking for the criteria that will disqualify applicants since so many are superbly qualified; so, the first question they'll ask is "Where did she do her graduate work?" The above schools, with UCLA and a couple of others, are considered tops in my field. Rosie ____________________________________________________________ Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 "Qui me amat, amat et canem meum." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:05:36 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lori Patterson & Roger Tucker Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >On Aug 12, "Amy L. Wink" wrote: > >>I hope this isn't out of order, but one might wonder whether extremely >>gifted students would be happy at a place that only considered GRE scores >>as the indicator of intelligence and potential success at graduate work. Rosa Maria Peguer responds: I think that they have so many >applicants that rather than looking at what WILL qualify a student, they >are looking for anything at all that will DISQUALIFY a student. >Unfortunately, at the other end of graduate study when she goes on the >job market, employers will be doing the same thing, looking for the criteria >that will disqualify applicants since so many are superbly qualified This kind of talk scares me. I am applying to graduate school right now and the big question is, should I spend a lot of money I don't have on taking a class to take the GRE, basically just to jump through the hoops that the "good" schools require so I can get a "good" job when I get out. This all such a silly game we play and I for one do not want to play it. At the same time I have a baby to feed and I have to think about him. I mean I can always wash dishes somewhere but where is the fairness here? I mean how many women of color with small babies can afford the class, and the cost of the GRE itself and the application fees only to be turned down four or more times over? THis is really disheartening, somebody please tell me it's not that bad. Lori ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:18:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Bergmann Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) In-Reply-To: <199708121602.JAA05404@bert.cybernw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" My experience as a literature PhD trying to get a job, and more recently as the employer of graduate students trying to get jobs, has been that it is just not realistic to look at a graduate degree in the humanities as the means to a regular, adequate income. There are jobs for maybe half of the people getting jobs in English, less, I believe, in history. Many, many highly qualified people staple together a bunch of part-time positions--teaching 4,5, even six courses a semester, without chance of raise or promotion, to make $20,000 or so a year, if they are lucky. People with mouths to feed other than their own should expect to be unemployed or underemployed if they go to graduate school in the humanities, in anything not "applied." Universities,like businesses, are downsizing in any way they can. With so many indeed "superbly qualified" candidates for positions, hoop-jumping is required. It is a dismal situation indeed. >This kind of talk scares me. I am applying to graduate school right now and >the big question is, should I spend a lot of money I don't have on taking a >class to take the GRE, basically just to jump through the hoops that the >"good" schools require so I can get a "good" job when I get out. This all >such a silly game we play and I for one do not want to play it. At the same >time I have a baby to feed and I have to think about him. I mean I can >always wash dishes somewhere but where is the fairness here? I mean how >many women of color with small babies can afford the class, and the cost of >the GRE itself and the application fees only to be turned down four or more >times over? THis is really disheartening, somebody please tell me it's not >that bad. >Lori > > Linda S. Bergmann Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65409 (573) 341-4685 bergmann@umr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:39:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea J Benintende Subject: Re: More on the egg ... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII i'm not sure how relevent this is to the list so i'll make it short...easter...in the english is from germanic words for both the spring equniox and the spring goddess: ostara & eostre. in middle eastern countries easter is called by the latin word for passover, the jewish holiday celebrated on the full moon close to the spring equniox. in both the germanic pagan tradition and the hebrew religion the egg is a powerful symbol of eternal life and the rebirth of life. both of these traditions draw on the ancient earth mother religions of old europe, who has used the egg symbol for thousands of years....i use a reproduction of an egg design on my business cards that was painted inside a bowl about 4500 years ago......panskey (sp?) the ukranian art of using wax resist to decorate eggs with magical and symbolic designs, pre-dates christianity by thousands of years. andrea ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ andrea j. berman-benintende ajb9@acsu.buffalo.edu i don't want to be the filler if the void is solely your i don't want to be the bandage if the wound is not mine i don't want to be the glue that holds your pieces together I don't want to be a substitute for the smoke you've been inhaling please open the window, show me the back door -alanis morissette, "jagged little pill" +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, C Jones wrote: > Hi there, > > The cosmic egg motif is present in a number of different cosmogonies, > including Chinese, Egyptian, Finnish, Japanese, East Indian (Hindu), Mande, > Orphic, Pelasgian, Polynisian and Tahitian. > > There is also a tradition in ancient Christianity which sees the relation > of the egg to the Easter events - eggs represent re-birth, just as does > Christ's resurrection ... the Easter egg is representative of this. I > cannot recall sources for this, but no doubt it was brought into > Christian tradition by adherents from other traditions who were able to > integrate their prior beliefs into the "new" religion. > > Hope this helps, > Chris > > MA Candidate, > Religious Studies > University of Windsor > .............................................................................. > Christine Jones . To live is to think and,at times,to cross > jones16@uwindsor.ca . over into the domain where thinking and > . feeling are merged: poetry - Octavio Paz > .............................................................................. > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:02:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sibelan Forrester Subject: Re: More on the egg ... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Andrea J Benintende wrote: [snipped] >......panskey (sp?) the ukranian art of using wax resist to >decorate eggs with magical and symbolic designs, pre-dates christianity by >thousands of years. "Pysanky" (from the Ukrainian verb pysaty, meaning to write/draw). The art/craft also seems to be largely practiced by women today. Joanna Hubbs's book MOTHER RUSSIA, though it doesn't talk much about eggs, does open with a very interesting discussion of the (slightly related?) matryoshka figure in the pre-Christian East Slavic territories. The book has some factual inaccuracies, esp. towards the end, but works as a conceptually rich, partial supplement to sources like Barbara Walker's monumental WOMAN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHS AND SECRETS, which is very strong on the various more-or-less orthodox religions, and on classical mythology and Western European folklore, but weakish on Eastern European/Eurasian material. (No doubt because no one can read and process _everything_ even in a work of that scope!) Another place to check, by the way, for material on eggs. All the best, Sibelan Forrester Modern Languages and Literatures Swarthmore College ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:23:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Hoder-Salmon Subject: TV/Communication Scholars MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII About two years ago one of the TV network evening news hour shows presented a documentary on adolescent girls, narrated by a woman broadcaster. The setting was middle-American suburban, middle to upper class. The subtext illustrated how deeply in thrall these teens were to boyfriends, etc. and their extraordinary low-level of self-esteem. Can someone help me locate the details? I will appreciate it very much. Marilyn Hoder-Salmon Director Women's Studies Center Florida International University e-mail: wschoder@servms.fiu.edu fax 305-348-3143 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:05:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII re Lori's (was it?) question about how bad it is testing for the GRE, i recommend you take a few practice tests and see where you are at. if you do really bad, then consider a course, if you're ok, you'll probably do fine preparing on your own. i bought two huge GRE preparation books and they did wonders for my scores, there was a big difference in the before preparation and after, and i think i spent about a semester preparing. also depends if you do better studying on your own or in a class setting. i only had to take the general tests and it didn't have to be in the perfect percentile, so it worked fine for me. Vera Britto (fiatlux@umich.edu - http://www.umich.edu/~fiatlux) ........................................................................... Le Bret: Si tu laissais un peu ton ame mousquetaire, la fortune et la gloire... Cyrano: Et que faudrait-il faire? Chercher un protecteur puissant, prendre un patron, et, comme un lierre obscur que circonvient un tronc et s'en fait un tuteur en lui lechant l'ecorce, grimper par ruse au lieu de s'elever par force? Non, merci! Non, merci! Non, merci! Mais... chanter, rever, rire, passer, etre seul, etre libre... oui. "Cyrano de Bergerac" - Edmond Rostand ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 17:03:16 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "P. Whitehouse" <109marse@PICTAC.COM> Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970812111849.007658c4@umr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm in a Political Science Master's program at URI right now, looking for a PhD program. I have the double whammy of being an "older" student and having scored poorly on my first swipe at the GREs. I am now doing an at-home Kaplan course, and if they haven't changed it, one can also do Kaplan on the web for very little money. They were offering a trial of three weeks of unlimited access to their site for a few dollars, and although the analysis isn't as in-depth as one would get taking the actual course, I believe that you can still assess your weaknesses and use their program to strengthen them. The history professor from URI mentioned tha her student had high academic standing and great recommendations--so did I, but didn't even come close to getting into my top three choices for school. I believe that the only way to beat the system in this case is to treat the GRE as your master's comps and prepare as if your future depended upon it, because it does. The good news is that I believe that the "way of thinking" that is required by the GRE is not that difficult to learn, even if you were educated in a small coal mining town in Kentucky as I was--those of us without the prep school advantages must use our "street smarts" and flexibility as well as our intellectual toughness to succeed. I believe it can be done!! At 11:18 AM 8/12/97 -0500, you wrote: >My experience as a literature PhD trying to get a job, and more recently as >the employer of graduate students trying to get jobs, has been that it is >just not realistic to look at a graduate degree in the humanities as the >means to a regular, adequate income. There are jobs for maybe half of the >people getting jobs in English, less, I believe, in history. Many, many >highly qualified people staple together a bunch of part-time >positions--teaching 4,5, even six courses a semester, without chance of >raise or promotion, to make $20,000 or so a year, if they are lucky. >People with mouths to feed other than their own should expect to be >unemployed or underemployed if they go to graduate school in the >humanities, in anything not "applied." Universities,like businesses, are >downsizing in any way they can. With so many indeed "superbly qualified" >candidates for positions, hoop-jumping is required. It is a dismal >situation indeed. > >>This kind of talk scares me. I am applying to graduate school right now and >>the big question is, should I spend a lot of money I don't have on taking a >>class to take the GRE, basically just to jump through the hoops that the >>"good" schools require so I can get a "good" job when I get out. This all >>such a silly game we play and I for one do not want to play it. At the same >>time I have a baby to feed and I have to think about him. I mean I can >>always wash dishes somewhere but where is the fairness here? I mean how >>many women of color with small babies can afford the class, and the cost of >>the GRE itself and the application fees only to be turned down four or more >>times over? THis is really disheartening, somebody please tell me it's not >>that bad. >>Lori >> >> > >Linda S. Bergmann >Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum >University of Missouri-Rolla >Rolla, MO 65409 > >(573) 341-4685 > >bergmann@umr.edu > > Pamela Whitehouse Political Science Department University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 109marse@pictac.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:02:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Frances K. Gateward" Subject: CFP: Girl Culture and Coming of Age Films Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Greetings to everyone, Some of you may recall seeing the post regarding the Society for Cinema Studies conference, to be held in San Diego April 4 - 7, 1998. The theme for the year is Media on the Border. Rather than interpreting that as national boundaries, I am planning to take it in another direction. I will be chairing a panel on girl culture and coming-of-age films that feature teenage girls. (Borders and/or transgression of other boundaries within this area are certainly welcome). If you are interested in particpating, please feel free to consider international films and/or short films and videos. Send your abstracts via email to me at gateward@uiuc.edu. Frances Gateward ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 01:11:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Be aware that roughly 3-5% of your students may have a learning disability, or are coping with ADD, and that both conditions can make the restrictive testing situation of the GREs prevent their being able to communicate what they really know. My daughter is dyslexic. The grids they use for those computerized answer sheets LITERALLY move when she looks at them. There are a lot of reasons why students score poorly on those tests -- some can be helped by learning test-taking techniques, cramming vocabulary and math -- but when test scores are so different from a student's actual performance, then it is truly unfair to students to put so much emphasis on the scores. I think they're helpful if the student scores high, but you need to know more about the STUDENT to know why a score is low. I had a student who was fantastic, enthusiastic, articulate -- just a delight -- and she wanted to go on to grad school (she got the lecture about ... wouldn't you rather spend the time backpacking through Europe?) -- so when I was getting ready to work with her, I asked what her GREs were. She scored in the BOTTOM 10th percentile. Fortunately, her parents had the funds to send her to a very good educational psychologist -- turned out she had a PROFOUND spatial perception disability -- she couldn't use a computer mouse because she couldn't translate the horizontal movement of the mouse into a vertical movement on the screen; she stood before doors not being able to remember which way was "push" and which was "pull". She might as well have been throwing darts at the wall as trying to fill out that answer grid -- and then she tried to take it using ... a computer and a mouse. The psychologist told me she must have been brilliant to make it as far as she had. But there were those GREs, standing in the way. Phone call after phone call, and the answer was -- why should we take the chance? One friend at a good school offered to help her if she wanted to sue. She didn't want to do that. Finally one school admitted her, but without funding. Last I heard she works for a bank. Don't get me started on the ways that grade inflation grossly penalizes dyslexic students (spelling difficulties) and students with ADD (who have massive disorganization problems). My dyslexic daughter has enjoyed accomodations through most of her schooling, and today she's entering her junior year in a good public high school, in all honors classes. Plus she writes short stories and plays, and has won an audition to be in a local theatre performance that will run for two weeks. My ADD son, on the other hand, received virtually NO accomodations except last-minute fix-ups; he has struggled terribly and still suffers the effects. University professors ARE teachers and should educate themselves on the warning signs of disabilities and how to accomodate them. Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University (on medical leave since January 1995) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 22:17:18 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trudy Mercer Subject: Thanks for info on the cosmic egg! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" To all those who have responded to my request for information regarding the cosmic egg, I send my thanks. The suggestions I have received will certainly help my research and my article. Anyone else who would like to post with suggestions, please feel free to do so. They are welcomed. If anyone is interested in a complication of these suggestions please feel free to post me & I will forward them to you, or to the list if there is interest. Thanks again everyone. Trudy *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Trudy Mercer The self is not contained in any moment tmercer@sprintmail.com or any place, but it is only in the tmercer@u.washington.edu intersection of moment and place that the Graduate Student self might, for a moment, be seen English Department vanishing through a door, which disappears University of Washington at once Seattle, USA Jeanette Winterson. *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 22:17:16 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trudy Mercer Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I had a great dread of taking the GRE and spent a great deal of time preparing for it. I didn't do as well as I hoped, but I certainly did better than I would have without preparation. The person who said that the kind of thinking used in preparing the exam is necessary to learn is absolutely right. It is set up so that when you are unsure of the answer the one that appears correct is not. I did the Kaplan course. It helped with the math and logic, but my vocabulary scores didn't change much from the original test they give you at the beginning to see where you fit, to the actual GRE exam. I'm an English major, so I didn't have as much trouble as those in other fields might, but I found that I had to use the logic of the exam to answer the questions and *not* the logic I use in analyzing a text! Before I took the Kaplan course I also took some short sessions offered by our Women's Center. These were designed for people who had been away from math & logic and needed a refresher. I found them just as helpful, if not more so than the Kaplan course, because the instructor instructed us in the exam's logic just as much as he did in the math. I applied this thinking to the vocabulary section as well. I too think it is sad that so much depends on the GRE. But it is only the first of many hoops that grad school offers. *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Trudy Mercer The self is not contained in any moment tmercer@sprintmail.com or any place, but it is only in the tmercer@u.washington.edu intersection of moment and place that the Graduate Student self might, for a moment, be seen English Department vanishing through a door, which disappears University of Washington at once Seattle, USA Jeanette Winterson. *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 05:48:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970812170316.0068df2c@pictac.com> from "P. Whitehouse" at Aug 12, 97 05:03:16 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm feeling kind of bemused by this discussion of GRE's, graduate school, and the world beyond... My GRE's were in the 700s in each subject. I maintained a 4.0 in grad school, earned 'distinction' on my dissertation and final dissertation defense, and received an award for outstanding achievement in a doctoral program. And having graduated a year ago, I'm now thinking, will I *ever* get an ongoing, full-time job in my field? I am coming to doubt it. I'm not sorry I went to graduate school, but I do think people currently considering graduate school should be warned about the job market for PhD's. Chris ******************************************************************* * S. Chris Saad, PhD * "a passion for books and a fondness * * * for cats are very often points of * * saad@dolphin.upenn.edu * intersection on the ven diagram of * * saad@alumni.upenn.edu * personality." * * * -Bill Richardson * ******************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 08:22:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mac Gander & Lynne Shea Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's,ld Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" One could say the discussion is certainly moving away from Virginia Woolf yet, in another sense, we are right back where we started: the education of women. I just have to second the comments of Mary Schweitzer regarding learning disabilities because an insufficient number of college educators take the time to query their students about learning style, especially when there are problems. And let me highlight one point: the underdiagnosis of learning disabilities in women IS a feminist issue. While the ratio of men to women with ld has moved from 10-1 down to 3-1 over the last 20 years, there is evidence to suggest that the numbers are really equal, but that girls and women are grossly underdiagnosed, especially for attention deficits, a more "hidden" but thoroughly debilitating disorder for many. GRE's?! Let's talk about students with "superior" intelligence who can't decode above the 6th grade level or who can't read a street map. It sure requires more than giving them a dictionary and a thesaurus! I teach writing, lit. and women's studies at a 2 year college exclusively for the learning disabled and MOST of my students go on to receive a 4 year degree and some do enroll in graduate school. I could go on and on, but this doesn't seem like the appropriate list. If anyone wants to continue the dialogue privately or exchange information, please feel free to contact me. Lynne Lynne Shea Associate Prof., English and Humanities Landmark College Putney, VT 05346 mgander@sover.net lshea@landmarkcollege.org (after 8/25) //////://////://////://////://////://////://////://////://////://////://// ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:56:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Power Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's,ld In-Reply-To: <199708131217.IAA08706@pike.sover.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Most of us are somewhat skeptical of the accuracy of testing, as has been repeatedly noted in the discussion of Virginia Woolf-difficult vocabulary-GREs on this list. But I don't think the benefits of having a rich vocabulary should be negated as some correspondents imply it should be. Sure, "hard words" can be used to exclude some people, to hide the message, and so on, but having a wide, nuanced, subtle vocabulary, and being able to understand such a vocabulary in others is a great good, if not the greatest good. If we teach Virginia Woolf -- as I do -- and help students to understand the difficult vocabulary -- we are certainly giving them ways of thinking about and talking about her ideas -- and ours. Helen Power Women's Studies Washington University in St. Louis ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:13:21 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Robin Parks Subject: Request for Papers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Why Are There No Great Women Philosophers? A Request for Papers The Society for the Study of Women Philosophers seeks papers or proposals for discussions at a session of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, to be held on March 25 through 28, 1998, in Los Angeles. Especially sought are papers on the following: -- Discovery of work by previously unknown women philosophers -- An aspect of the thought of a recognized woman philosopher -- Philosophical ideas in the work of women poets, novelists, artists, etc. -- The nature of philosophy as affected by women's contributions Completed papers should be no longer than 15 pages, typed, double-spaced. Presentations should be timed for 45 minutes or less, including discussion. Papers and proposals will be anonymously reviewed by the SSWP Board. Send 10 copies of a one-page abstract, or 3 copies of the paper if already written, name on cover sheet only, to either SSWP Pacific meeting co-coordinator below. Robin Parks, 1696 Joan's Lane, Lummi Island, WA 98262 or Jane Duran, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-3090 Deadline for proposals and papers is September 1, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be made by November 1, 1997. We do not yet know on which day of the APA conference SSWP will hold its session. Presented papers will be considered for publication in future collections of SSWP papers. Presenters are encouraged to become members of the Society (see below). For further information, contact Robin Parks, (360) 758-7244, email robingraphic@nas.com; or Jane Duran, (805) 893-8132, email jduran@education.ucsb.edu. Membership in the SSWP is based on the calendar year. To become or continue as a member, please send a check for $10 to The Society for the Study of Women Philosophers, with the information below, to: Cecile Tougas, SSWP Convener, 262 Connecticut Avenue, NE, Atlanta, GA 30307-2212 Name Address City, State, ZIP Phone (work and home) and Email Address Institutional Affiliation Major areas of philosophical interest ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:47:59 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jack Meacham Subject: Help With Curriculum Discussion In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would very much appreciate your help and hope that you can give this project a few minutes of time this summer before classes begin. The Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Ford Foundation, and the University of Maryland have established a web site for discussion, innovation, and problem solving around issues of teaching about multiculturalism and diversity in higher education, broadly defined to include issues of race, gender, ethnicity, social class, and religious sectarianism. I've been asked to serve as the moderator for this new web site. And so I'm seeking feedback on the procedures and an indication of the sorts of topics, questions, and issues that people would like to discuss. Would you please take a look at this web site and let me know what you think? The best way would be to leave a message at the web site that would serve to start a discussion that others might then join. The address of this web site--the Curriculum Transformation Work Room--is: http://www.umd.edu/HyperNews/get/forums/CT.html (Note the CAPS on HyperNews and CT.) You can access the web site easily with Netscape or other browsers. When you get to the web site, you will be able to read all of the messages. If you would like to post a message or reply to a message, you must first become a member (register). There are links (buttons) that lead to instructions for doing this. Thank you for your help. I'll be looking forward to your message on the web site. If you have difficulty accessing the site, let me know at meacham@acsu.buffalo.edu. Jack Jack Meacham, Department of Psychology, 323 Park Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-4110 tel 716-645-3650, extension 323; fax 716-645-3801 meacham@acsu.buffalo.edu; http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~meacham ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:06:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Re: Thanks for info on the cosmic egg! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I would be very interested in a compilation of your responses. Thanks, Mary Ann Drake At 10:17 PM 8/12/97 -0700, you wrote: >To all those who have responded to my request for information regarding >the cosmic egg, I send my thanks. The suggestions I have received will >certainly help my research and my article. Anyone else who would like to >post with suggestions, please feel free to do so. They are welcomed. If >anyone is interested in a complication of these suggestions please feel >free to post me & I will forward them to you, or to the list if there is >interest. > >Thanks again everyone. >Trudy > > >*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* > >Trudy Mercer The self is not contained in any moment >tmercer@sprintmail.com or any place, but it is only in the >tmercer@u.washington.edu intersection of moment and place that the > >Graduate Student self might, for a moment, be seen >English Department vanishing through a door, which disappears >University of Washington at once >Seattle, USA Jeanette > Winterson. >*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:22:45 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lori Patterson & Roger Tucker Subject: Re: Black Women's studies Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello all A while back I had folks if they knew any good PhD programs in Women's Studies and I got some great responses, It didn't occur to me however to ask what I really want and that is I would like to get a PhD in Black Womne's Studies. I noticed that some schools offer a PhD minor in women's studies and black studies or a full on PhD in either but not a PhD in black women's studies. Has anyone ever done this? Is it controversial? I hope so. Lori Lori Patterson 1110 SW Clay #5 Portland, OR 97201 (503) 916-0765 lapret@cybernw.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:54:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's (was Virginia Woolf) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I think the GREs present problems at most only partially related to everyday reading for at least two reasons. The first may make it a Women's Studies issue, tho someone would have to look to see if there's the connection between the GRE and the SAT, which I'm pretty sure there is. I'll explain. I don't have stats on GREs as I do for SATs, where women on average began to score below men on average in 1972 on the Verbal section and research has revealed that the content shifted then to mainly science topics. If there are similar trends in GREs, in scores and test content, then the GRE is biased against Women's Studies students because they tend to be best prepared in humanities and social science topics, with vocabulary appropriate for that. This seems an issue worth looking into and, if the findings warrant, taking action. - Also to consider is whether the GRE is as poor a predictor for women's grades in graduate school as the SAT is for women's GPAs in college; predicting the latter is ETS's justification of the test. Of course, the College Board, parent of the Educational Testing Service's multimillion dollar compound in Princeton, NJ, argues, at least in respect to the SAT, that their test cannot be blamed for admission decisions because those should not be made on the basis of test scores alone. Yet, it seems obvious that some (many?) universities use the scores as the primary cut - as apparently happened to not only your student but some I know and probably many others. -- Is litigation in order? Someone pointed out some years ago that ETS is the largest unregulated industry in the US. (Looking into the problem could well begin with an inquiry to Phyllis Rosser, who does research on gender, class and race bias in tests, in particular the SAT, at FairTest, National Center for Fair and Open Testing; PO Box 1272, Harvard Square; Cambridge, MA 02238; (617) 864-4810) The second problem is that the GRE, like all standardized tests, is designed to distribute students along that bell shaped curve. To slot everyone into hi, average and low spots, the test is tricky, sets traps. My recollection from my own experience is that in the Verbal section, vocabulary turns up decontextualized in antonym, synonym and analogy subtests with words unfamiliar to enough students to produce the requisite low and average slots. Some memorizing of lists in prep books is useful. (Test items are repeated over the years. There are just enuf changes to keep down the cost to ETS of entire test revisions.) It's also very helpful to have cultivated the practice of looking for roots in derived words, which look unfamiliar when embedded in affixes, and to pay close attention to the meanings of prefixes and suffixes. In addition, it's important to approach these like a game: expect tricks, eliminate the most unlikely choices in each item, go with best guesses (you probably know more than you think). Unless there's been a change I don't know about, scores come from right answers, there's no penalty for wrong answers. (Helping a student recently, I looked for a prep book to buy her; Kaplan's seemed to have the best introduction to the games in various test sections.) For the Math section, which may be the sticking point for our students, the following may help others: to prepare, I reviewed mostly a high school math book. That got me thru to a dept. that insisted on a fairly high math score; I was dismayed to find out, too late, that the dept. doesn't average it with the Verbal score. I had to take the GRE twice, hadn't prepared for the Math the first time. In fact, I didn't bother answering most of the questions the first time because I expected my Verbal score would be quite hi (it was and usually is on that sort of test) and more than balance the low Math score. Hope this helps. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:20:37 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lesley Cox Subject: research MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am trying to locate data on the number of accounting graduates by = gender by year since 1971. Does anyone have any ideas where I might = find these data? Thanks, Lesley Cox lcox@ersnet.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:40:27 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: The (Landmark) Forum Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear friends, I'm editing a book on feminist approaches to religion and spirituality - I have an essay from a contributor that critiques The (Landmark Education) Forum. Does anyone know of other feminist analyses of this organisation? Lynne Alice Women's Studies @ Massey University, Private Bag 11-222 Palmerston North, New Zealand, tel. 64 6 350 4938 fax 64 6 350 5627 We offer excellence in teaching, flexible courses and a friendly environment ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 19:52:25 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tammie Davis Subject: transference/counter Can anyone suggest any good readings/resources on transference/countertransference in client/therapist relationships? You can respond privately. thanks tammie justicetoo@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:09:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Coleman Subject: cfp Content-Type: text I am area chair for the "Women's Lives and Literature" area of the Popular Culture Association. The annual conference for Popular Culture/American Culture will be April 8-11, 1998 in Orlando, Florida. This conference is arranged so that folks submit papers that fit under the broad area topic and the chair then evaluates and organizes papers to form interesting and focused panels. Generally this area, "Women's Lives and Lit." has offered panels on specific topics within the areas of auto- biography and biography--though other panels have focused on non-literary issues, including music and art (keepsake books, for example). We even had a session last year on feminist comedians. Popular Culture requires people who present to be members of the Association ($35) and to preregister for the conference ($80 preregistration) [Students, unemployed and retired folks pay a $30 prereg.] This is an interesting, interdisciplinary conference. Anyone interested in presenting can send a 250 word abstract to me by 9/15/97-- e-mail: cflsc@eiu.edu or send to-- Linda Coleman English Dept. Eastern Illinois Univ. Charleston, Il. 61920 -- Linda S. Coleman Coordinator of Graduate Studies Eastern Illinois University cflsc@eiu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:29:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Bergmann Subject: Women's Caucus Award--M/MLA Comments: cc: asle@unr.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Midwest WCML Distinguished Paper Award Each year the Midwest Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages recognizes with an award of $100 an exceptional paper of particular interest to women, from among the papers presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest/Modern Language Association. Any paper that has been accepted for a session and submitted to the Midwest/Modern Language Association office for pre-conference distribution may be submitted for the M/WCML award, if the paper addresses almost any topic relevant to women. Possible areas of inquiry include Women and Language, Literature, Theory, Culture, or the Profession, but this list is meant to be suggestive rather than exclusive. To submit a paper, send a copy to Linda Bergmann at the address below, preferably at the same time as you send your paper to the Midwest Modern Language Association office for pre-conference distribution, but definitely by the October 1, 1997, contest deadline. Papers should be accompanied by a cover letter that identifies them as contest entries, and should be formatted for blind reading (i.e. leave your name off the paper itself). Linda Bergmann Chair, M/WCML Award Committee English Department University of Missouri-Rolla 1870 Miner Circle Rolla, MO 65409 bergmann@umr.edu (573) 341-4685 Linda S. Bergmann Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65409 (573) 341-4685 bergmann@umr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 11:50:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Better correct a few misconceptions there, Beatrice -- First, YES, they DO take off for wrong answers. That's one of the "tricks" that highly discriminates against those who are inexperienced. They say it at the test site, but if you're really nervous you may not really hear them say it. They take off either 2/5 or 3/5 (can't remember) -- the strategy that I recall with the multiple choices is that if you can eliminate down to two, then it is in your interest to go with your best guess between those two -- otherwise, leave it blank. I'm certain that's how some kids get those scores that people say, "How can anybody score that low?" Not because they didn't get some things right, but because they got a lot of things wrong. Second, while there is a correlation between how students do on the SATs and how they do in college (and should this be a surprise? College exams are often constructed like the SATs) -- surprisingly, there is LITTLE correlation between GREs and how you do in graduate school! And then GIVEN graduation from college or grad school, there is little correlation between those scores and measures of performance in later life. I have to confess here that I had a perfect score on the GREs. I had to learn, through the experiences of my dyslexic husband, dyslexic daughter, and ADD son, how difficult these tests can be. (But I also studied for the GREs -- I was defensive because I "only" scored 1500 on the old math/verbal SATs (that's two 750s) so I crammed!) My husband, for whom these tests were always hell because of his dyslexia, INSISTED I go on to graduate school because of my GREs. At the time, my self-image was very low for a number of reasons. So if you can get the high scores, putting that along with other factors, it can help show both the student and the educational establishment that there is promise there. It's the OTHER side of it that is frustrating. How can I say this? Okay to help use the tests to pluck students out -- my mother scored well on intelligence tests, and that's how she was pulled out of Appalachia and a probable future of poverty, given funding by an anonymous "angel" to send her to college. They have been useful in being able to demonstrate that individuals within disparaged groups (and at the time Appalachians were considered brain-damaged from "inbreeding" ... and I am not kidding here -- that's why those jokes about Appalachians marrying relatives are NOT funny). And yes to Beatrice's other question: this student could have sued. As I said, I had a friend at one univesity who said he would help with the process, because he thought the monopoly on standards should be broken. But she was shy, she still had that sense that may learning disabled students have that the tests must be right and she must be wrong, many have this inchoate fear of being "discovered" -- that they are "really stupid" and everything they have accomplished was through wires and mirrors -- so they are often very reluctant to go "outside channels"; they fear it is unethical. They want so badly to "prove" themselves. That's what's so sad. It's often hard for them to accept accomodations not available to other students -- so when the culture attacks them for being "phony", they withdraw. I am told that the new SAT's have fixed some of the old flaws with the vocabulary testing -- testing out of context -- my daughter took some samples this year and said it was MUCH better. I think it's a feminist issue for a different reason than one might expect. To the extent it's diagnostic, the diagnosis that young women are less fluent in math and science means that we're doing something wrong teaching math and science, PERIOD. And we are. If you believe that abilities are evenly distributed within the population -- this is certainly true for all racial and ethnic and income groups! -- then any imbalance in these measures is DE FACTO evidence that something is wrong in the education system. It's a sign of barriers. It is a symptom, that is then used as yet another barrier. A self-replicating system. Second, the test-taking process used by the SATs et al penalizes the insecure. To the extent the culture leaves young women (and minorities) insecure about their abilities, they will score worse. If you panic, and put the wrong answer down, you are going to get penalized. Finally, to the extent that administrators have come to lean excessively on these tests -- in part because grade inflation makes it much harder to gauge a student's earlier educational performance, and in part because a number always makes life easy -- those groups who historically do not perform well become discouraged AS A GROUP. Why try to work hard, get good grades, when you're gonna get screwed taking those exams? You don't think kids don't see this when it happens? That they don't know about it? The student who went against kid-culture and worked hard and got good grades, then does poorly on the SATs -- what is that telling the other students? Where's the reward? What a sucker. If feminism encompasses the belief that ALL human beings have innate abilities and strengths, and that there are institutional barriers to PARTICULAR human beings achieving their promise due to their socially or culturally derived classification -- and I believe it does -- then we should be concerned with ANY barrier that is erected against our students unjustly, and take a statistical imbalance in results as evidence of unfairness. De facto. It's just a matter of figuring out where in the system you go to fix this -- and then working to fix it. -- Mary M. Schweitzer , Assoc. Prof., Dept. of History Villanova University (on medical leave since January 1995) Email: URL: http://www2.netcom.com/~schweit2/history.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:03:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: FWD: Stats on accounting graduates Comments: cc: Lois Joy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I posted the request for info on the gender breakdown of accounting graduates on femecon-l@bucknell.edu, the discussion list for IAFFE, the International Association For Feminist Economics. Here's the first reply -- thanks Lois! -- Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University (on leave) From: Lois Joy, UMass-Amherst Try the Digest of Education Statistics for information on the breakdown of accounting graduates by gender. Also, the National Center for Education Statistics webcite may have this information www.ed.gov/nces. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:22:11 CST6CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Dewey Joycechild Organization: College of Liberal Arts, U of MN Subject: Community Service-Learning syllabi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hello Everyone, I'm looking for model syllabi from WoSt Community Service-Learning courses, and/or suggestions for good resources and references on the topic. Thanks in advance for your help. Please respond privately to ljoyc@adv.cla.umn.edu Thanks! Lisa Dewey Joycechild ****************************************************** Lisa Dewey Joycechild, Career Services Coordinator College of Liberal Arts Career & Internship Services 220 Johnston Hall, 101 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis MN 55455 ljoyc@adv.cla.umn.edu (612)624-0382 FAX(612)624-2538 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:50:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Re: Community Service-Learning syllabi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Please post replies to the list as I am sure others, as myself, are interested. Thanks Peace, Mary Ann Drake At 03:22 PM 8/15/97 CST6CDT, you wrote: >Hello Everyone, >I'm looking for model syllabi from WoSt Community Service-Learning >courses, and/or suggestions for good resources and references on the topic. >Thanks in advance for your help. Please respond privately to >ljoyc@adv.cla.umn.edu >Thanks! >Lisa Dewey Joycechild >****************************************************** >Lisa Dewey Joycechild, Career Services Coordinator >College of Liberal Arts Career & Internship Services >220 Johnston Hall, 101 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis MN 55455 >ljoyc@adv.cla.umn.edu (612)624-0382 FAX(612)624-2538 > > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:11:03 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lisbeth gant stevenson Subject: Query: new novels by Jap-Am. women Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello: I'm preparing a syllabus on contemporary fiction and would love to hear about new novels and/or short stories by Japanese American women. Thanks! Lisbeth Gant-Britton ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:01:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lesley Cox Subject: Re: Stats on accounting graduates MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Everyone, Thanks so much for the quick response on my research question concerning = female accounting graduates. I should have mentioned the webcites I = have already tried. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, = Higher Education Research Institute, and the National Center for Ed. = Stats. So far no luck. Lesley Cox lcox@ersnet.com ---------- From: Mary Schweitzer[SMTP:schweit2@IX.NETCOM.COM] Sent: Friday, August 15, 1997 3:03 PM To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Subject: FWD: Stats on accounting graduates I posted the request for info on the gender breakdown of accounting graduates on femecon-l@bucknell.edu, the discussion list for IAFFE, the International Association For Feminist Economics. Here's the first reply -- thanks Lois! -- Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University (on leave) From: Lois Joy, UMass-Amherst Try the Digest of Education Statistics for information on the breakdown of accounting graduates by gender. Also, the National Center for Education Statistics webcite may have this information www.ed.gov/nces. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 19:38:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosalie Riegle Subject: Call for Papers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Please post, spread the word and plan to propose and attend if you can. We have a beautiful new conference facility here at SVSU. Michigan Women's Studies Association Celebrating Twenty-Five Years Annual Conference, Friday, April 3 - Saturday, April 4, 1998 Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI 48710 Call for Papers, Panel Discussions, and Workshops Women and Health Care: Local, National and Global The program committee invites proposals broadly related to the theme of the conference. Papers may be written from any disciplinary or multi-disciplinary perspective and address women's health issues in any era or country. We especially invite proposals on areas such as the following: history of women in the health and social work professions impact of public policy decisions on women's health care the politics of women's health care women and aging cultural conflicts involving emigrating women community participant input into health care impact of federal and state welfare changes on women's health gender and racial differences in access to care and research related to women's health HIV/AIDS and women, nationally and internationally family violence as a women's health issue war and women's health, especially in developing countries health care and economics We encourage proposals from students, community practitioners and activists, and academics. Proposals should not exceed one page in length and should include the following: title and type of presentation, name(s) and affiliation(s of presenter(s), and a one-hundred word description of the proposed paper or presentation. If you would like to chair a panel of papers, please send us your name, affiliation, and a description of your interests. Deadline for Proposals: January 10, 1998 Send proposals to: Dr. Rosalie G. Riegle, Saginaw Valley State University, 7400 Bay Road University Center, MI 48710 OR e-mail to: riegle@tardis.svsu.edu or ceasley@tardis.svsu.edu For further information, phone the MWSA at 517-484-1880, Dr. Cheryl E. Easley, 517-790-4145 or Dr. Riegle at 517-790-4380. Co-sponsored by the Michigan Women's Studies Association, the Saginaw Valley State University College of Nursing, and the Saginaw Valley State University College of Arts and Behavioral Sciences. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 17:12:48 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Query: new novels by Jap-Am. women Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the Women's Presses Library Project: A Fire Is Burning, It Is In Me: The Life and Writing of Michiyo Fukaya Gwendolyn Shervington, editor New Victoria Publishers 1996 0-934678-78-2 P $9.95 A powerful collection of poetry, essays, and rememberances. Fukaya was a Japanese American lesbian poet/activist. A single mother living on welfare, who struggled with mental illness and a history of sexual abuse, Michiyo channeled her anger at oppression into words that challenged and moved those around her. This title can be found at your local feminist or independednt bookstore. If you have troublke locating it, please contact me. Mev Miller >Hello: > >I'm preparing a syllabus on contemporary fiction and would love to hear >about new novels and/or short stories by Japanese American women. >Thanks! Lisbeth Gant-Britton WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 16:42:31 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Donna Maeda Subject: Re: Query: new novels by Jap-Am. women In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello everyone Just a quick message: The preferred abbreviation for Japanese is (Jpns.). Thanks ====================================== Donna Maeda Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Occidental College 213-259-2856 tel. 213-341-4919 fax ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 21:17:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Vocabulary, GRE's Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On my misconceptions: I don't recall anyone saying anything about penalties for guessing when I took the GREs - not surprising: it was a long time ago. I'll look around and see what I can find on this. Is it in the little booklet ETS publishes for students planning to take the test? (I never took the SAT; Brooklyn College had its own similar admission test in my day, the score was averaged with the high school GPA and girls had to score 2 points more than boys to qualify for the number admitted - until 1972, when Title IX made that illegal.) On corrlations. My point was that the SAT is a poor predictor of college grades and I said I don't know how it works in the GRE for grad school. Do you have data on this, Mary - or does anyone else? On the SAT, Phyllis Rosser at FairTEst, in 'Sex Bias in College Admissions Tests: Why Women Lose Out' says: "Girls have higher average grades than boys in both high school and college even during their freshman year. If the SAT predicted equally well for both sexes, girls would score about 20 points higher than boys, not 61 points lower" (She inclues math and verbal sections for this.) Of course, the defenders of the tests make arguments such as that girls take easier subjects and that teachers favor girls, give them high grades for doing little. On a legal charge of discrimination. It's the possbility/probability of biased predictability of GREs for graduate school that prompted my suggestion for potential legal redress. I had in mind a class action suit rather than burdening one woman with it. The class would probably be all women who take the GRE or all those who major or minor in Women's Studies or some other field. One relevant precedent I know is the New York State case. It was successfully argued that the State should not use the SAT as the determinant for Regent (State) scholarships because that test is biased against women. I agree that there are serious problems in teaching math. I just didn't get into that. Generally, I think, getting into curriculum and teacher discrimination is a more radical move than going after the tests. Even more radical would be a challenge to the hierarchy in schools and postsecondary institutions in relation to life chances. Anyone ready to do that? beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net At 11:50 AM 8/15/97 -0400, you wrote: >Better correct a few misconceptions there, Beatrice -- > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:17:12 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elaine K. Miller" Subject: call for papers We are editing a collection of feminist writing on Hillary Rodham Clinton. We have four manuscripts potentially identified. We are looking for writing from diverse perspectives and disciplinary fields with appeal to a women's studies audience. If you're interested, please contact either Elaine Miller or Tania Ramalho at the following e-mail addresses: emiller@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ramalho@susqu.edu Our expected deadline for final papers is Dec. 15, 1997. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:52:11 -1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rebecca Anne Allahyari Subject: muscular christianity Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am working on an ethnographic analysis of the moral visions of caring at two organizations that feed the poor. One is a Catholic Worker organization and the other a Salvation Army Social Service Center. In reference to the latter, I am hoping someone can help me with the origins of the term "muscular christianity." Any references would be much appreciated. Thank you. ________________________________________________________________________ Rebecca Anne Allahyari r_allahyari@umail.umd.edu Women's Studies Dept. and Program office: 301 405 7293 2101 Woods Hall fax: 301 314 9190 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-7415 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:58:25 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sabine Broeck Subject: address inquiry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII dear list members, i am writing for help: i need to have the address of writer Rosellen Brown. in case somebody knows where she is at, could you mail privately: broeck@em.uni-frankfurt.de . Thanks in advance. sabine broeck, frankfurt ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:35:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Fawcett Library Subject: Re: muscular christianity MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Muscular Christianity has been "applied since about 1857 to a variety of Christian opinion and practice (associated with the works of Charles Kingsley) which lays stress upon the importance of a healthy condition of body as conducive to morality and religion". David Doughan, Reference Librarian The Fawcett Library London Guildhall University Old Castle Street London E1 7NT Phone: 0171 320 1189 Fax: 0171 320 1188 e-mail: fawcett@lgu.ac.uk Website: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/fawcett.htm ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:15:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheila Hassell Hughes Subject: Japanese-American Novelists In-Reply-To: <199708172036.QAA18066@graf.cc.emory.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Lisbeth, I happened across a wonderful new novel by Lois-Ann Yamanaka while perusing the library stacks this summer, and would highly recommend it: BLU'S HANGING (1997--sorry don't have the publisher info with me). Its told from the perspective of the eldest of three motherless children growing up in Hawaii (in the 70s, I think). Its full of both sexual trauma, class and racial oppression, and a profound (feminist) spiritual vision. I just had to add it to my syllabus this fall! Yamanaka has also written WILD MEAT AND THE BULLY BURGERS (I think that title's right). Sheila ________________ Sheila Hassell Hughes Visiting Assistant Professor Institute for Women's Studies Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 shughes@emory.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 14:29:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: Japanese-American Novelists I hope we get the whole list of these novels posted all together. The ones mentioned so far sound wonderful. Thanks. Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:56:35 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cat Farrar Subject: Lesbian Objectivists Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I live, work and go to school in San Francisco and would love the opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with other lesbian objectivists. Cat Farrar cat@cfmc.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CAT FARRAR >>>>>>>>>>>> "Is it honest, is it kind, is it necessary?" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:11:36 -0400 Reply-To: "Vera M. Britto" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: poetry on violence against women and children Comments: cc: third-world-women , mujer messages , h-women , radio@xlines.tiac.net, devmedia-l In-Reply-To: <970818142707_-1571016634@emout14.mail.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII greetings, i'm researching poetry on the topic of violence against women and children (domestic, street, etc) to be used in a non-profit radio program. poetry can be from anywhere in the americas, if poems are not in english, it's fine, as long as translation in english is also provided. also, publishers that are easy to contact are preferred, because i need copyright permission. please email any suggestions/references/bibliography to fiatlux@umich.edu. thank you. Vera ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:51:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tammie Davis Subject: PsyD programs I am inquiring for a friend who is interested in a PsyD program that has a strong women's issues component. Does anyone have any info. on this? thanks tammie justicetoo@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:51:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jack Meacham Subject: Re: Query: new novels by Jap-Am. women In-Reply-To: <199708160011.RAA65870@rho.ben2.ucla.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII My fasvorite: "Talking to high monks in the snow: An Asian-American odyssey," by Lydia Minatoya. HarperPerennial, 1992. 0-06-092372-5. Jack Meacham, Department of Psychology, 323 Park Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-4110 tel 716-645-3650, extension 323; fax 716-645-3801 meacham@acsu.buffalo.edu; http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~meacham On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, lisbeth gant stevenson wrote: > Hello: > > I'm preparing a syllabus on contemporary fiction and would love to hear > about new novels and/or short stories by Japanese American women. > Thanks! Lisbeth Gant-Britton > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:15:13 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bronwyn Winter Subject: Re: Lesbian Objectivists RE>Lesbian Objectivists 19/8/97 Car Farrar wrote: I live, work and go to school in San Francisco and would love the opportunity to meet and discuss ideas with other lesbian objectivists. My question is: What on earth is a lesbian objectivist? Bronwyn Winter (a radical lesbian feminist who thought she'd at least heard of all the labels!) email: bronwyn.winter@french.usyd.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 19:47:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: PsyD programs Comments: To: Tammie Davis In-Reply-To: <970818174849_1091455039@emout01.mail.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Tammie, The Union Institute, located in Cinn, Ohio, has a distant learner program at the doctoral level that might be what your friend is seeking. TUI is the first distant learner program in US, begun more than 30 yrs ago by 25 college presidents who wanted to find a way to provide doctoral level learning to folks who did not fit mainstream doctoral candidates at that time (read white male, often with spouse to work and feed the family while wm attended courses and wrote diss.) :) TUI has a strong Professional Psychology component, as well as a strong feminist presence. Graduates are licensed in many states. Among TUI's most notable graduates are Carolyn Estes Pinkos (Women Who Run WIth the Wolves), while faculty include Drs. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Willson Williams, Judith Arcana, Rita Arditti, Elizabeth Minnich, Mary Sheerin, Margo Okazawa-Rey, and multiple others, including Clark Moustakas and Michael Patton. Dr. Larry Ryan is current dean of the Professional Psychology program, and Dr. Gail Brophy is dean of the college of letters and sciences. TUI requires that all learner programs include documentation of interdisciplinarity, social relevance of study, and personal growth and development of learner. Learners, who are chair of their own committee, select two faculty members from TUI as core advisor and second reader, two adjuncts from any place in US or world, and two peers who are either current TUI learners or graduates of TUI. TUI learners must complete an internship of 500 hrs, linking theory with practice. In addition, learners in the prof psych program have additional internship hours working under a licensed psych person. TUI's program includes a strong program because it takes the major requirements of all states to develop its own program. If you want further info, contact me here, or TUI at 8OO-486-3116. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:28:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Re: PsyD programs In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Do you mean Clarissa Pinkola Estes???? Peace, Mary Ann Drake At 07:47 PM 8/18/97 -0500, you wrote: >Tammie, The Union Institute, located in Cinn, Ohio, has a distant learner >program at the doctoral level that might be what your friend is seeking. >TUI is the first distant learner program in US, begun more than 30 yrs >ago by 25 college presidents who wanted to find a way to provide doctoral >level learning to folks who did not fit mainstream doctoral candidates at >that time (read white male, often with spouse to work and feed the family >while wm attended courses and wrote diss.) :) > >TUI has a strong Professional Psychology component, as well as a strong >feminist presence. Graduates are licensed in many states. Among TUI's >most notable graduates are Carolyn Estes Pinkos (Women Who Run WIth the >Wolves), while faculty include Drs. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Willson >Williams, Judith Arcana, Rita Arditti, Elizabeth Minnich, Mary Sheerin, >Margo Okazawa-Rey, and multiple others, including Clark Moustakas and >Michael Patton. Dr. Larry Ryan is current dean >of the Professional Psychology program, and Dr. Gail Brophy is dean of >the college of letters and sciences. > >TUI requires that all learner programs include documentation of >interdisciplinarity, social relevance of study, and personal growth and >development of learner. Learners, who are chair of their own committee, >select two faculty members from TUI as core advisor and second reader, >two adjuncts from any place in US or world, and two peers who are either >current TUI learners or graduates of TUI. > >TUI learners must complete an internship of 500 hrs, linking theory with >practice. In addition, learners in the prof psych program have >additional internship hours working under a licensed psych person. TUI's >program includes a strong program because it takes the major requirements >of all states to develop its own program. > >If you want further info, contact me here, or TUI at 8OO-486-3116. > >Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 10:49:36 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chrys Ingraham Subject: Book announcement (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Announcing the publication of: Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives Edited by Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham Routledge, August 1997 ISBN: 0-415-91634-8 pbk $24.95 This reader speaks out against the retreat to identity politics. Instead, the contributors argue in favor of making visible again the material links among the explosion of meaning-making practices in highly industrialized social sectors, the appropriation of women's bodies, and the exploitation of women's labor, all of which are undergirded by the scramble for profits and state power in multinational capitalism. Contributors: Michele Barrett, Margaret Benston, Rose Brewer, Charlotte Bunch, Hazel Carby, Norma Chinchilla, Cynthia Comacchio, Mariarosa Dall costa, Christine Delphy, Barbara Ehrenreich, Leslie Feinberg, Nicola Field, Lindsey German, Martha Gimenez, Frigga Haug, Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham, Selma James, Gloria Joseph, Gwyn Kirk, Annette Kihn, Maria Mies, Swasti Mitter, Rajeswari Mohan, Meera Nanda, Lillian Robinson, Kathryn Russell, Barbara Smith, Carol Stabile, Victoria Tillotson, Lise Vogel, Mary Alice Waters, Ann Marie Wolpe, Nellie Wong, Iris Marion Young. Thanks to all for your support. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 12:08:09 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cat Farrar Subject: Ayn Rand and Objectivism Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The novelist Ayn Rand wrote Altas Shrugged and the Fountainhead. In her books she spells out her philosophy in fiction form. She calls that philosophy Objectivism. Those who live their lives by this philosphy call themselves Objectivists. I was wondering if their were any LESBIAN Objectivist out there who I can talk to and discuss ideas. Cat Farrar cat@cfmc.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CAT FARRAR >>>>>>>>>>>> "Is it honest, is it kind, is it necessary?" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 15:02:43 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cat Farrar Subject: Re: Lesbian Objectivists in San Francisco Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I hope this blurb clears up any questions. About Objectivism...in esence, is the concept of men and women as heroic beings, with their own happiness as the moral purpose of their lives, with productive achievement as their noblest activity, and reason as their only absolute. The philosophy of Objectivism rejects the ethics of self-sacrafice and renunciation. It urges men and women to hold themselves and their lives as their highest value, and to live by the code of the free individual: self-reliance, integrity, rationality, productive effort. Objectivism celebrates the power of the mind, defending reason and science against every form of irrationalism. It provides an intellectual foundation for objective standards of truth and value. Cat Farrar cat@cfmc.com Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 14:45:58 >To: ram3616@is2.nyu.edu (Robin Maltz) >From: Cat Farrar >Subject: Re: Lesbian Objectivists in San Francisco > >Thank you for the suggestion. I've known of Ayn Rand's work for over 19 years and am surprised when people don't know who she is. I'll go back onto the list and give even more details. > >Cat Farrar > > > > > >At 05:41 PM 8/19/97 -0400, you wrote: >>>The novelist Ayn Rand's philosophy is coined Objectivism....a lesbian >>>Objectivist would be a lesbian who lives by that philosophy. >>>Cat Farrar >> >>This is still vague to me. Several people wrote to me privately (why >>privately I don't know) thanking me for asking for a definition, so maybe >>you should describe it on the list. You may find recruits. >>Robin >> >> >> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CAT FARRAR >>>>>>>>>>>> "Is it honest, is it kind, is it necessary?" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 18:10:07 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Max Dashu Subject: Re: Ayn Rand and Objectivism Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm amazed that there are any lesbian objectivists. I seem to remember reading an anti-gay statement by Ayn Rand, can't recall where, when she was still alive. It was certainly antifeminist. But I would expect that from an author who proclaims the glory of the individual will but subjects her female characters to rapish bashings at the hands of rugged male heroes. Of course, they love it, but I could never understand why Rand's female ideal was supposed to find satisfaction in the obliteration of her own agency. When I was growing up, my friends and I all read Rand's books. Walking at night by the factory near my house, I used to puzzle over her exaltation of the beauty of industrial architecture. To my mind, there are few things on earth as ugly. Well, to each their own, but somehow those great captains of industry never choose to live next to the factories they created. Max Dashu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 23:18:28 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Muldy Sculler Subject: Re: Ayn Rand and Objectivism In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Lesbian objectivists? Rand was anti-female to the point that each book featured at least one rape. BH ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:11:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnn Castagna Subject: Re: Ayn Rand and Objectivism In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" There's an interesting novel by Mary Gaitskell, called <> which uses a reporter's investigation of the followers of a fictionalized ayn rand as its base. JoAnn Castagna joann-castagna@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 09:19:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Welch Subject: Paula Jones Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" An international student is doing a research project on Paula Jones. Can anyone suggest material or a search engine or articles to which I can refer her? She is looking for information on the reation of the feminist press on this case. Please reply privately to Cynthia Welch . Cynthia H. Welch CPS, Program Assistant Women's Studies, UW-Eau Claire phone 715-836-5717 fax 715-836-5717 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 09:31:26 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cat Farrar Subject: Re: Ayn Rand and Objectivism Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" That is incorrect. And being an objectivist is not about liking Ayn Rand's novels. Being objective is what Objectivism is all about. Cat Farrar cat@cfmc.com At 11:18 PM 8/19/97 -0800, you wrote: >Lesbian objectivists? Rand was anti-female to the point that each book >featured at least one rape. >BH > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CAT FARRAR >>>>>>>>>>>> "Is it honest, is it kind, is it necessary?" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:18:41 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Objectivism Our Official Nag must be napping... What does this subject have to do with teaching women's studies? Because if it is a general philosophical discussion, it doesn't belong on this list. We have 4000+ subscribers, many of whom pay for individual messages, so we cannot indulge in broad discussions that are unrelated to the purpose of the list. Please discuss this privately or find a more generalized women's issues list. Thanks. ____________________________________________________________ Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 "Qui me amat, amat et canem meum." ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:32:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cindy Beyerlein Subject: Re: Socialist Feminism Anything written by Nancy Hartsock would involve Materialist Feminism. Cindy Beyerlein beyerlcs@acad.etown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 13:43:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Crystal Kile Subject: Re: Ayn Rand and Objectivism In-Reply-To: <199708201631.JAA19501@main.cfmc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Cat Farrar wrote: > That is incorrect. And being an objectivist is not about liking Ayn Rand's > novels. Being objective is what Objectivism is all about. Well, before we collapse into screedy tautological reams about the ahistorical absolute value of "being objective" and/or into speculation about Ayn Rand's erotic fantasy life, let's review the four main tenets of objectivism (snitched from the homepage of the U of Michigan Young Objectivists page): "Brief outline of Objectivism From "Introducing Objectivism" by Ayn Rand [The Objectivist Newsletter, Aug. 1962]: "My Philosophy, Objectivism, holds that: 1.Reality exists as an Objective absolute--facts are facts, independent of man's feelings, wishes, hopes or fears. 2.Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates material provided by man's senses) is man's only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival. 3.Man--every man--is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life. 4.The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism...It is a system where no man may obtain values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man's rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church." Golly, Rand's a little NAIVEly idealist about capitalism and FORCE, isn't she??? And, wow! No mention (in anything I've read by her) of the economic basis of the historical and ongoing social and cultural oppression of women! And where does reproduction of the species come into play here? Are women, traditionally the caretakers and nurturers of partners with whom they're to some degree interdependent, of the upcoming generation AND of the aging, declining generation, LESS THAN (gulp!) "men"??? Did Rand ever address lesbianism outright? Is there an Objectivist rationale for the currency of "lesbian chic" under the sign of patriarchal capitalism? Do let us know... Anyhow, since a brief intellectual fling with her when I was a deluded, half-hearted high school Republican, I find Rand to be as nauseatingly, meglomaniacally exceptionalist as Phyllis Schlafly. That's not to say that _The Fountainhead_ is not an utterly classic and stimulatingly pop high modernist page-turner, nor that her female characters aren't seductive in a vaguely "Just do it" sort of B&D way which so characterized the 20th century anorexic aesthetic, nor that Rand has no place in a women's studies course. It's just to say that, IMHO, it's not decadent and/or "impure" to talk about interdependence of and within systems, EVEN economic and social systems. This has been my confession for today, 08/20/97... Selah ;) CK Crystal Kile ckile@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/ and various other points Web "We are living through a movement from an organic, industrial to a polymorphous, information system -- from all work to all play: a deadly game." -- Donna Haraway ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 11:41:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: K Allman Subject: Japanese American novelists and Asian American Women's Writing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I would like to add some titles to the list of recent novels by Japanese American women, and to comment on two earlier suggestions. Lydia Minatoya's book 'Talking to High Monks in the Snow' is a memoir and not a novel. I loved reading it, and would highly recommend it. 'A Fire is Burning, It Is in Me: the Life and Writing of Michiyo Fukawa,' compiled and edited by Gwendolyn Shervington, is actually a book of poetry and essays by the late Michiyo Fukawa along with commentary by women from her community. While I appreciated the posthumous publication of her work, I felt a bit uneasy about some of the commentary provided and wondered how she would have replied to it if she had survived. Recent Japanese American novels: Julie Shigekuni (1995) A Bridge Between Us. Sylvia Watanabe (1992). Talking to the Dead. Cynthia Kadohata (author of 'Floating World') (1992) In the Heart of the Valley of Love. Karen Yamashita (1992) Brazil Maru and (1990) Through the Arc of the Rainforest (new book forthcoming) Lois Ann Yamanaka Wild Meat and Bully Burgers. Gail Tsukiyama'Woman of the Silk' and 'Samurai Garden' (the writer is an American of mixed Japanese/Chinese heritage and writes stories set in Japan and China) Holly Uyemoto (1995). Go. Short Story Collections: R.A. Sakaki (1992). The Loom and Other Stories (short story collection) Wakako Yamauchi (1994). Songs My Mother Taught Me (short stories and plays) Recent Japanese Canadian fiction: Hiromi Goto (2 books) Novelist Joy Kogawa (author of the classic, 'Obasan' and also 'Itsuka') recently published a new novel, 'When Rain Ascends.' Readers might also want to check out the wonderful new books by Asian American writers of other ethnicities: Nora Okja Keller (1997). Comfort Woman. (Korean American/multiracial) Helen Kim (1996). Long Season of Rain (finalist for the National Book Award in the Young Adult fiction category) (Korean American). Kathleen Tyau. (1995). A Little Too Much is Enough. (Hawaiian Chinese). Lan Cao (1997). The Monkey Bridge (Vietnamese American) Patricia Chao (1997). The Monkey King. (Chinese American) Jessica Hagedorn (author of 'Dogeaters') (1996). Gangster of Love. (Filipino American) Evelina Galang (1996). Her Wild American Self (Filipino American) (she, along with many other Filipino American writers, is anthologized in 'Flippin': Filipinos on America,' edited by Luis Franca and Eric Gamalinda). Also consider the newly published "Making More Waves,' which is in many ways a followup/continuation of the work begun in an earlier anthology, 'Making Waves' This collection of essays, interviews, photography, art and poetry includes work by and about women from a wide variety of Asian American ethnicities, immigrants and American born. I was excited to see this well edited, scholarly, yet accessible collection, and would recommend it for general interest reading as well as for use as a textbook. Elaine Kim, Lilia Villanueva and Asian Women United of California. (1997). Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women. Beacon Press. Finally, I would like to request that people please rethink using the word 'Jap' even in 'Jap-Am' as a shorthand for Japanese. 'Jap' is a word with derogatory meanings, though I am sure none were meant by the people on this list. Thank you, Karen Maeda Allman University of Washington Grad Student and Feminist Bookseller For more information on Asian American writers, try the webpage for the Asian American writer's workshop and the Asian Pacific American Journal (also accessible through this website). http://www.panix.com/~aaww/ ><><><><><><>< ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:08:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BETTY POWELL Organization: Mars Hill College Subject: GRANTS I am chairing a task force to institute a Women's Studies minor at a small private college and am interested in locating granting sources that may be interested in helping a small program get started. does anyone know of a list of such sources, or can you pass on some institutions that may have been helpful to you? thanks. Please reply privately. bpowell@mhc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:16:27 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: sexual harassment consulting firms Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I wonder if anyone out there has an idea of how many consulting firms currently exist able to give advice and training to universities and businesses regarding sexual harassment. I mean firms like the three well-known ones run (separately) by Bernice Sandler, Michelle Paludi, and Fran Sepler. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:59:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carol A. Powers" Subject: Re: sexual harassment consulting firms MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Please post compilation of consulting firms on the list. Thanks. Carol A. powers capowers@cc.owu.edu Ohio Wesleyan U ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:22:30 +0800 Reply-To: azura@space.net.au Sender: Women's Studies List From: Yvonne MacLean Subject: Feminist Responses to Freud MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ****~~~~~~~********~~~~~~~*********~~~~~~~*** Yvonne MacLean :) azura@space.net.au While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance. - Hans Bos *********************************************************** I'm doing a course entitled "Self in Society" that is very heavily into Freudian theory. To counteract this I need sources for feminist views of psychoanalysis and/or Freudian theories (or even the man himself) I would also be interested in any information of any feminist activity during Freud's era in Vienna. Thanks in advance for help. Please reply privately if others are interested in this subject I will post the results. Bye. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 21:43:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diana Gustafson Subject: Approved Faculty Job Ads MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit For your consideration: While there are several jobs posted, this appears to be the only ad that qualifies under the WMST-L policy for posting here. Diana Gustafson Dept of Sociology and Equity Studies OISE/UT Toronto, ON dgustafson@globalserve.net ********************************** From: D. W. Livingstone Subject: SOC: Approved Faculty Job Ads Date: Monday, August 18, 1997 8:18 PM Please feel free to circulate this version of the anti-racism/feminist studies job ad as well as the aboriginal education job ad as widely and as quickly as possible. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) Applications are invited for a tenure-stream position in the combined areas of Anti-Racism and Feminist Studies in Education in OISE/UT's Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education. Preferred candidates will possess a doctoral degree in sociology or a cognate discipline and have a proven record of scholarly publication. Responsibilities of the position include research, teaching at the graduate and preservice teacher education levels, and supervision of master's and doctoral theses. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The appointment will commence on July 1, 1998. Applications must include full curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of three or more referees. Applications should be submitted by November 15, 1997 to Professor Michael Fullan, Dean, OISE/UT, 252 Bloor St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1V6. In accordance with its Employment Equity Policy, the University of Toronto encourages applications from qualified women and men, members of visible minorities, aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. On July 1, 1996, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education merged with the Faculty of Education, University of Toronto to become the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). With its strong links to Canadian and international education communities, exciting teaching and research opportunities exist in this new institution. Applications are invited for seven tenure-track positions in various OISE/UT departments. Preferred candidates will possess a doctoral degree and a proven record of scholarly publication. For more information about OISE/UT and details of these positions, please visit our web site at http://www.oise.utoronto.ca. Teacher Education Network Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto HTTP://www.oise.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:26:43 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "MARY L. ERTEL, SOCIOLOGY" Subject: Feminist Responses to Freud On August 21, Yvonne MacLean wrote to ask for sources to use in a heavily Freudian course on Self in Society, to bring in feminist views of psychoanalysis and/or Freudian theory. While there are sources which require a more in-depth background - including some material in the area of Sociology of Humor, Feminist Humor, which I have to look up and hope to get specific information to Yvonne about - there is one more general and very well-done source which I would like to recommend to both Yvonne and the List as a whole. It is the first chapter of Gloria Steinem's _Moving Beyond Words_. The chapter is titled "What if _Freud_ Were _Phyllis_? or, The Watergate of the Western World. Also relevant is the "Introduction" to the same, "How Phyllis Freud Was Born." This material is also read by Steinem as the first two hours of the four-hour audio tape version of the book. I recommend this material for three reasons: - it is specific to the topic at hand - it includes many footnotes, some from traditional sources, some from newer sources. This is not just an essay but documented scholarship. - it is a fantastic piece of role reversal which incorporates a great sense of humor to literally stand Freud on his head and expose him as the mysogynist he significantly is. Enjoy and learn! - Mary Mary L. Ertel, Associate Professor, Sociology Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:33:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Fawcett Library Subject: Contemporary Women's Issues MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Apologies for cross-posting .... Can I ask for the advice of list members? Does anybody have experience of using Contemporary Women's Issues (a product of Responsive Database Services, Inc.) either on CD-ROM or on the Internet? We'd be very interested to know how you find it. Please reply directly to me, and not to the list. Also, in general we'd be very interested to know if anyone has had experience of other similar CD-ROM packages. We'd very much like to improve our holdings of this sort of material, but are having difficulty in identifying women's- studies-oriented products. We'd be very grateful for ideas and reports of people's experiences David Doughan, Reference Librarian The Fawcett Library London Guildhall University Old Castle Street London E1 7NT Phone: 0171 320 1189 Fax: 0171 320 1188 e-mail: fawcett@lgu.ac.uk Website: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/fawcett.htm ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:12:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Darrah Subject: Re: Feminist Responses to Freud Comments: To: Yvonne MacLean In-Reply-To: <199708211320.VAA05905@sigma.space.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Yvonne, I have two suggestions: 1. The poet H.D. spent time as Freud's "student" (her characterization), which is recounted in her book _Tribute to Freud_ 2. Both Kristeva & Iriquray "rework" parts of Freud, via Lacan Best, Susan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 14:42:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: bs111 Subject: Movies on Gender Thank you for your suggestions for the course that I am teaching, "World Popular Musics and Gender." I have been searching our library for a movie that would talk about the concept of gender or ones that might illustrate genders in various cultures. Thank you for your help. Boden Sandstrom University of Maryland bs111@umail.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:04:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WS people in Spain/Portugal? MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I am posting this query for Professor Patricia Bell-Scott, who is having trouble posting. Please reply PRIVATELY to her at the e-mail address she gives in her message. Joan Korenman ****************************************************** Can anyone recommend people involved with women's studies programs at universities in Spain and Portugal? I am visiting these countries and would like to talk with feminist researchers/faculty/programs. Please e-mail me privately at: pbscott@fcs.uga.edu Thanks, patricia bell-scott patricia bell-scott professor of family development and women's studies dawson hall university of georgia athens, ga 30602 office: 706/542-4902 fax: 706/543-3672 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:09:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: Mary-Jo_POVISIL@umail.umd.edu (mp57) Comments: Originally-From: Mary-Jo Povisil From: mp57 ----------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------ Received: by umailsrv2.umd.edu; Thu, 21 Aug 97 15:00 EDT Received: from woods-115.umd.edu (woods-115.umd.edu [128.8.234.115]) by umailsrv2.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA14486 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 14:54:36 -0400 From: Mary-Jo Povisil To: mp57@umail.umd.edu Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 14:54:33 -0400 (EDT) Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Simeon for Windows Version 4.0.9 X-Authentication: none MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII OUR SUMMER ISSUE IS IN THE MAIL!!! You may send for your copy of Volume 23, no. 2 now. See below for ordering information. FEMINIST STUDIES continues its 25th anniversary celebration by publishing a SPECIAL ISSUE devoted exclusively to "Feminists and Fetuses." Why "Feminists and Fetuses?" Fetuses currently occupy a complicated and contradictory place in the cultural and political life of the United States. Feminist scholars, in this issue, ask how diverse pregnant women see and respond to the various social constructions that are composed on their own changing physical bodies. What are the contexts in which fetuses are discussed or not discussed in other societies? Can feminist theory translate these experiential differences both across and within cultures and into feminist practices? How can an analysis of these social constructions be useful to feminist theory and practice? How do researchers who attempt to create understandings about these positions frame their work? 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(Be sure to include your credit card type, number, and expiration date.) You can also order via snail mail with either a credit card or a check. Send the appropriate information to Feminist Studies, c/o Women's Studies Department, Woods Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. Or visit our website and print the subscription form. ---------------------- Mary-Jo Povisil mp57@umail.umd.edu ------------ End Forwarded Message ------------- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:33:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Subject: ISO Great Articles on Religion, Arab Feminists... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, I'm attempting to put the finishing touches on my intro. to women's studies syllabus and wanted recommendations for any excellent articles on: (1) women and religion/spirituality; and (2) gender and feminist issues relevant to Arab and Arab-American women. I've several articles on both topics that seem to be quite suitable, but I'd prefer to have highly recommended articles. Please respond to me privately. Thank you. Sincerely, Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D. Women's Studies Program Georgetown University Internet: lisabow@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:41:08 CST6CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Dewey Joycechild Organization: College of Liberal Arts, U of MN Subject: Re: Community Service-Learning syllabi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hello-- Here's a website re: community service-learning in general. Right now it includes 2 women's studies CS-L syllabi. http://csf.colorado.edu/sl Lisa Dewey Joycechild XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Please post replies to the list as I am sure others, as myself, are interested. Thanks Peace, Mary Ann Drake At 03:22 PM 8/15/97 CST6CDT, you wrote: >Hello Everyone, >I'm looking for model syllabi from WoSt Community Service-Learning >courses, and/or suggestions for good resources and references on the topic. >Thanks in advance for your help. Please respond privately to >ljoyc@adv.cla.umn.edu >Thanks! >Lisa Dewey Joycechild >****************************************************** ****************************************************** Lisa Dewey Joycechild, Career Services Coordinator College of Liberal Arts Career & Internship Services 220 Johnston Hall, 101 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis MN 55455 ljoyc@adv.cla.umn.edu (612)624-0382 FAX(612)624-2538 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 14:38:12 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: sandy gardner Subject: Kitchen Table Press MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I need to get copyright permission from Kitchen Table Press for an article I'm using in a class this fall. Does anyone know their current address? The last address I had was in Latham, NY and that is apparently no longer valid. Please respond privately. Thanks. Sandy Gardner Department of Sociology University of Maine sgardner@maine.maine.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 07:22:04 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Kitchen Table Press Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It's that time of year and I know others will ask as well -- so: Kitchen Table Women of Color Press PO Box 40-4920 Brooklyn, NY 11240-4920 718-935-1082 718-935-1107 Member publisher of the Women's Presses Library Project. They've recently had some staff turnover so can't say how soon you may get replies. Mev >Hello all, > >I need to get copyright permission from Kitchen Table Press for an >article I'm using in a class this fall. Does anyone know their >current address? The last address I had was in Latham, NY and that >is apparently no longer valid. > >Please respond privately. > >Thanks. > >Sandy Gardner >Department of Sociology >University of Maine >sgardner@maine.maine.edu WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 09:48:31 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: linda bernhard Subject: Paula Jones MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII There was an editorial (I think, rather than an article) about Paula Jones in one of the last issues of MS. Sorry, but I can't give more specifics than that. Linda Bernhard Women's Studies and Nursing The Ohio State University Bernhard.3@osu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:26:35 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Andrew Subject: Feminist Responses to Freud Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Classic feminist responses to Freud include Simone de Beauvoirs' _The Second Sex_, Adrienne Rich's "Compulsorary Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" and Gayle Rubin's "The Traffic in Women." I also use Eva Feder Kittay's "Freud on Femininity or Why Not Womb Envy?" in _Hypatia Reborn_. Barbara Andrew University of Montana bandrew@selway.umt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:52:28 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Max Dashu Subject: Re: ISO Great Articles on Religion, Arab Feminists... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing, edited by Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke, Indiana U Press, Bloomington, 1990 > I'm attempting to put the finishing touches on my intro. to >women's studies syllabus and wanted recommendations for any excellent >articles on: (1) women and religion/spirituality; and (2) >gender and feminist issues relevant to Arab and Arab-American women. > >Sincerely, > >Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D. >Women's Studies Program >Georgetown University >Internet: lisabow@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Max Dashu Suppressed Histories Archives email: maxdashu@lanminds.com PO Box 3511 Oakland CA 94609 USA ///SHA, now in its 27th year,is centered on International Women's Studies. The Suppressed Histories Slide Series tours with 50 slide talks./// ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 14:40:31 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cindy Beyerlein Subject: Re: Feminist Responses to Freud In response to Freud, I have read and used Alice Miller, "Thouse Shall Not Be Aware" in my work. She is anti-Freud in her psychoanalysis and provides a splendid discussuion of Franz Kafka. Cindy Beyerlein, Associate Professor, Public Policy Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022 beyerlcs@acad.etown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 09:52:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carol A. Powers" Subject: Re: Paula Jones MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII LInda, you may be thinking of the letter from the editor of MS explaining why MS hadn't supported Paula Jones (which MS and feminists have been criticized for). I remember reading it sometime (I believe) during spring semester (just past). I have a note of it in my office and will send it (the info) along when I retrieve it. Carol Powers Ohio Wesleyan U capowers@cc.owu.edu 614-368-3795 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 11:31:44 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: linda bernhard Subject: Bernice Johnson Reagon and coaltions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I am writing a chapter in which I would like to cite Bernice Johnson Reagon's essay on coalitions, but I can't remember where it's published. Can anyone help. Thanks! Linda Bernhard, PhD, RN Women's Studies and Nursing The Ohio State University Bernhard.3@osu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 10:40:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Bernice Johnson Reagon and coaltions MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The essay by Reagon appears in Race, Class and Gender:An Anthology edited by Margaret Anderson and Patricia Hill Collins. Benay Blend blend@alpha.nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 15:35:37 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly Springer Subject: Combahee Members Contact Info MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For dissertation research on black feminist organizations I am looking for contact information for the following women: Beverly Smith, Demita Frazier, and Barbara Smith. Please respond privately and thank you in advance. Kimberly Springer Institute for Women's Studies 301S Callaway Center Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 kspring@emory.edu "...leave before they chicken fry you." William Adams' advice on the South ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 22:22:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dina Eylon Subject: Women in Judaism - Call for Papers Comments: To: wise-l@listserv.funet.fi, h-women@h-net.msu.edu, h-judaic@h-net.msu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Please post this CFP in your list. CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions are invited for a new peiodical WOMEN IN JUDAISM: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism This refereed journal will be published exclusively on the Internet as a forum for debate on gender-related issues in Judaism. The ultimate aim of the journal is to promote the reconceptualization of the study of Judaism, by acknowledging and incorporating the roles played by women, and by encouraging the development of alternative research paradigms. It is particularly intended to advance critical analysis of gender inequalities within Jewish religion, history, society and culture. The journal does not promote a fixed ideology, and welcomes a variety of approaches. The material may be cross-methodological or interdisciplinary. Articles, book reviews, short notes and bibliographies from all disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences are welcomed. Submissions for the Fall and Winter issues are concurrently accepted and should be made by regular mail to: Dina Eylon c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1 Canada or by e-mail to: dina.eylon@utoronto.ca We are also seeking short biographical articles (500-2000 words) for our "Women in Judaism Encyclopedia Project". For further information and guidelines for contributors, please consult our web page. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:57:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: Bernice Johnson Reagon MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Bernice Johnson Reagon's article "Coalition Politics: Turning the Century," is published in _Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology_ edited by Barbara Smith (NY: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983) 356-368. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 11:31:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BETTY POWELL Organization: Mars Hill College Subject: WOMEN IN PRISON I have a student who is doing her senior seminar project with a group of women in prison. she's conducting a literature reading group in which she focuses on literature written by women. I'm interested in locating texts that deal specifically with issues involving women in a prison situation. thanks. Betty J. Powell Asistant Professor of English Mars Hill College bpowell@mhc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:06:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Anderson Subject: clinton email Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" does anyone know how to reach bill clinton by email? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Linda L. Anderson tel: 203/432-0845 Women's Studies Program fax: 203/432-8475 Yale University email: linda.anderson@yale.edu P.O. Box 208319, 315 WLH New Haven, CT 06520-8319 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:16:01 -0400 Reply-To: "Vera M. Britto" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON Comments: To: BETTY POWELL In-Reply-To: <627C835A40@library.mhc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII this is not exactly what you have asked, but i would suggest the poems of jimmy santiago baca, who was imprisoned for several years and writes wonderful poetry on the oppression of being in prison. i don't think the fact that he is a man makes it any less usefull than if they had been written by a woman. Vera Britto (fiatlux@umich.edu - http://www.umich.edu/~fiatlux) ........................................................................... Le Bret: Si tu laissais un peu ton ame mousquetaire, la fortune et la gloire... Cyrano: Et que faudrait-il faire? Chercher un protecteur puissant, prendre un patron, et, comme un lierre obscur que circonvient un tronc et s'en fait un tuteur en lui lechant l'ecorce, grimper par ruse au lieu de s'elever par force? Non, merci! Non, merci! Non, merci! Mais... chanter, rever, rire, passer, etre seul, etre libre... oui. "Cyrano de Bergerac" - Edmond Rostand ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:20:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elisabeth Golding Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: WOMEN IN PRISON Author: Women's Studies List at Internet Date: 8/25/97 11:31 AM I have a student who is doing her senior seminar project with a group of women in prison. she's conducting a literature reading group in which she focuses on literature written by women. I'm interested in locating texts that deal specifically with issues involving women in a prison situation. thanks. Betty J. Powell Asistant Professor of English Mars Hill College bpowell@mhc.edu One possibility: Harris, Jean (Jean Struven) They always call us ladies : stories from prison. New York : Scribner's : Special Sales Director, Macmillan Pub. Co. [distributor], c1988. (Harris is the woman convicted of killing Herman Tarnower, the Tarnower Diet doctor.) Beth Golding Florida State Archives egolding@mail.dos.state.fl.us ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:53:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jack Meacham Subject: Teaching on Abortion Debate In-Reply-To: <01IMUPDTG360MKU3I9@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'll be teaching to undergraduates this fall using, among other texts, Carol Gilligan's "In a different voice," and so the abortion debate will of course arise in class discussions. I would like to move the class quickly beyond the easy phrases and trigger words that I suspect many of the students already know. And I would like the students to come to a good understanding of the arguments made by the other side, regardless of what their own position might be. (I am not aiming to persuade the students to change their initial position, although if that happens as a result of our discussions, well, that's OK.) For this purpose, it would be helpful to have a short article that provides a strong presentation of _both_ sides in the abortion debate, or perhaps a pair of strong articles that together present good arguments on both sides. Pro and con, point/counterpoint--that sort of thing. I'm finding that it isn't difficult to locate articles that are, taken by themselves, one-sided either for or against. Instead, I'm hoping to find a pair of articles that in presenting the arguments for both sides will help my students to be reflective, to examine their assumptions, and to end up with a better grounding for and understanding of their own standpoint in the debate. OK to reply to me directly at meacham@acsu.buffalo.edu. [I don't want to launch a debate on abortion here on wmst-l! Instead, I'm looking for help on how to how to teach on this issue.] Thank you. Jack Meacham, Department of Psychology, 323 Park Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-4110 tel 716-645-3650, extension 323; fax 716-645-3801 meacham@acsu.buffalo.edu; http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~meacham ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 13:35:13 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, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Film Reviews Added: Kama Sutra and G.I. Jane y Two of the films I have recently reviewed on "The Women's Show" on public radio station WMNF-FM 88.5 in Tampa, Florida, are Mira Nair's "Kama Sutra" and Ridley Scott's "G.I. Jane." This reviews are available from the FILM FILELIST in the WMST-L files. To obtain it send the following command to listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). GET FILM REV214 FILM (for Kama Sutra) amd GET FILM REV215 FILM (for G.I. Jane) 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, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 13:52:12 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jessica Heriot Subject: feminist responses to freud MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Check out Women and therapy by Miriam Greenspan, 2nd edition Tab books, 1993. Chapter 1 looks at tradtition theory (freudian) and how it has impacted the way psychology views women and how it has affected the training of psychologists. jessica heriot Jheriot@umab.ab.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:49:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mac Gander & Lynne Shea Subject: Re: clinton email Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Linda Anderson asked: >does anyone know how to reach bill clinton by email? > >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Linda, You can send an email to . While we're at it, I'd be curious as to whether anyone on the list knows anything about the "Women's Office" at the White House? I didn't know such an office existed until I saw it referred to in a post in a list archives. Lynne Shea mgander@sover.net //////://////://////://////://////://////://////://////://////://////://// ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 20:16:22 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: clinton email In-Reply-To: <199708251844.OAA06699@pike.sover.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Mac Gander & Lynne Shea wrote: > You can send an email to . > > While we're at it, I'd be curious as to whether anyone on the list knows > anything about the "Women's Office" at the White House? I didn't know such > an office existed until I saw it referred to in a post in a list archives. > www.whitehouse.gov/ has the official details, and a phone number and fax I just got through there; didn't stay to look around! ----------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using speech-recognition software----please ignore mistakes ----------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:31:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carol A. Powers" Subject: Re: Teaching on Abortion Debate MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Jack, An essay written by Nalezinski in Anne Minas' *Gender Basics* (1993, Wadsworth) is helpful. He presents both sides and the basic errors in bad reasoning on both sides. An easy, straightforward read. Carol Powers capowers@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:41:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cindy Beyerlein Subject: Re: Teaching on Abortion Debate In 1993 or 1994, Harper's magazine had an article entitled, " She has come for an abortion. . ." in this article, all sides of the issue were discussed. I found the piece to be effective in the classroom. Also, a film directed by Cher entitled, "If These Walls Could Talk", does an "okay" job in discussing the history of abortion from the 1970s to current day. Cindy Beyerlein beyerlcs@acad.etown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:04:38 -0400 Reply-To: "Vera M. Britto" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: Teaching on Abortion Debate In-Reply-To: <01IMV11VANH2002K4M@CC.OWU.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII there was a great article in the past issue of Dissent this year regarding politics and health care for women in california. it described how NOW allied with other (some various conservative) forces against universal healthcare for women (and men) because the new legislation would not explicitly spell out abortion procedures/norms/guarantees/what have you. I found it really interesting also from a social movements study perspective, to see how groups ally themselves regarding different issues and what seemed to be mostly a class fracture. that is, NOW, i imagine, is composed mostly of (and for) women that are rich enough to have healthcare, so this is not a priority issue. Whereas for a poor woman (also with children) that has no health care whatsoever, it may be more detrimental and life-threatening along her life not to have that healthcare. obviously the ideal is to have both, but here you had a variety of groups fighting each other and the universal healthcare lost. The article dealt with the deeply entangled politics very well. Vera Britto (fiatlux@umich.edu - http://www.umich.edu/~fiatlux) ........................................................................... Le Bret: Si tu laissais un peu ton ame mousquetaire, la fortune et la gloire... Cyrano: Et que faudrait-il faire? Chercher un protecteur puissant, prendre un patron, et, comme un lierre obscur que circonvient un tronc et s'en fait un tuteur en lui lechant l'ecorce, grimper par ruse au lieu de s'elever par force? Non, merci! Non, merci! Non, merci! Mais... chanter, rever, rire, passer, etre seul, etre libre... oui. "Cyrano de Bergerac" - Edmond Rostand ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:46:33 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KB Subject: Females in Distance Education Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, I am trying to get an indication if actual women distance learners support OR disprove some recent literature findings about women distance learners in higher education. This survey was NOT validated, I just want to know, but I don't want to limit any answers to these questions or any closed-type questions. The on-line medium (e-mailing) is perfect for conversational-like responses. So please feel free to add comments or examples, or anything else you might like to say about female distance learners in higher education. IF you are a female distance education student (OR know of someone who is), PLEASE participate (OR forward this email), in this very small scale study by responding to dawn1@flex.net. NO names will be released. Permission will be asked to reprint any comments so please include your name and e-mail for this purpose only. Reprints may, for example, be included in a paper as partial requirements for a Ph.D. at Walden University. ************* As a female distance learner in higher education, how has this part of your life affected other parts of your life? Please explain! As you gained new knowledge in the educational process, how has this affected you personally? Prior to enrolling, and during your tenure in distance education, what have been some of the hurdles you faced, which, in your opinion, might be different or to a greater degree than male distance learners? What or who has helped you overcome these hurdles? Do you think the changes (if any) you are going through has any affect on the society you live in? IF so, how do you consider yourself acting as a change agent? Explain. Your Name: University Attending: Graduate Level?: E-mail address: Thanks, WARNING!**** THE ABOVE DOCUMENT IS NOT SPELL CHECKED******** Kimberly Dawn Blum Ph.D. Student in Education Walden University Email to: dawn1@flex.net Masters in Organizational Management, University of Phoenix, Distance Education Program B.S. Management Information Systems, California State University, Hayward Quote of the Day: I, myself, have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist wherever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. Rebecca West, 1913 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 17:28:36 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: poetry on violence against women and children Comments: cc: third-world-women , mujer messages , h-women , radio@xlines.tiac.net, devmedia-l In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Thanks to all for the great suggestions on poetry. Vera Britto (fiatlux@umich.edu - http://www.umich.edu/~fiatlux) ........................................................................... Le Bret: Si tu laissais un peu ton ame mousquetaire, la fortune et la gloire... Cyrano: Et que faudrait-il faire? Chercher un protecteur puissant, prendre un patron, et, comme un lierre obscur que circonvient un tronc et s'en fait un tuteur en lui lechant l'ecorce, grimper par ruse au lieu de s'elever par force? Non, merci! Non, merci! Non, merci! Mais... chanter, rever, rire, passer, etre seul, etre libre... oui. "Cyrano de Bergerac" - Edmond Rostand ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 19:30:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Homer Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Warden Wore Pink, 1996 Tekla Miller Liz Homer mwhfame@leslie.k12.mi.us BETTY POWELL wrote: > > I have a student who is doing her senior seminar project with a group > of women in prison. she's conducting a literature reading group in > which she focuses on literature written by women. I'm interested in > locating texts that deal specifically with issues involving women > in a prison situation. thanks. > > Betty J. Powell > Asistant Professor of English > Mars Hill College > bpowell@mhc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 17:38:57 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carla Randall/Dara Lynne Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It's been awhile since I've read Common Lives/Lesbian Lives (published out of Iowa City, IA) but in some of the early publications there are pieces written by women in prison. As I recall there are a number of libraries that take a subsciption so it might not be too hard to look through the collection. Carla Randall mergalan@unixg.ubc.ca >I have a student who is doing her senior seminar project with a group >of women in prison. she's conducting a literature reading group in >which she focuses on literature written by women. I'm interested in >locating texts that deal specifically with issues involving women >in a prison situation. thanks. > >Betty J. Powell >Asistant Professor of English >Mars Hill College >bpowell@mhc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 19:58:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Crystal Kile Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON In-Reply-To: <9708258725.AA872526077@mail.dos.state.fl.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A recent issue of _The Review of Women's Books_ (July or August 1997) includes a special section (and - I think - a bibliography) about women in prison in the New England area. It's fascinating, revealing, thought-provoking & really well done. And speaking of women in prison, does anyone know what's up with Violet Allen, a woman in prison in Michigan for killing her abusive husband? Has she had another appeal? CK Crystal Kile ckile@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/ and various other points Web "We are living through a movement from an organic, industrial to a polymorphous, information system -- from all work to all play: a deadly game." -- Donna Haraway ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:32:31 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah A. Gerson" Subject: Re: Teaching on Abortion Debate Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Look at Kristin Luker's Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, for an excellent and understanding examination of the world view of pro choicers and pro lifers. She makes the world of pro life wqomen make sense. DG. --- "I feel like a squirl!" --Me (Frieda), gathering acorns. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:39:34 +0100 Reply-To: ejb@usia.co.at Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Elisabeth J. Binder" Subject: Re: clinton email In-Reply-To: <199708251844.OAA06699@pike.sover.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > While we're at it, I'd be curious as to whether anyone on the list knows > anything about the "Women's Office" at the White House? I didn't know such > an office existed until I saw it referred to in a post in a list archives. There's the Office of Women's Initiatives and Outreach http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/Women/OWIO/index.html Some time ago I bookmarked a page on the Interagency Council on Women which disappeared by now. Even searching the Whitehouse site I get references to this Council but the links are dead. They probably haven't updated their index in a while. Elisabeth Binder ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 06:55:24 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Persons Subject: Teaching on abortion debate Teaching on abortion debate 8/26/97 Jack- There is also a monographic series entitled "Opposing Viewpoints". While I wouldn't recommend it for purchase in a university library (get the students to research their own articles), the series does consist of collections of articles from opposing viewpoints on a variety of topics. I'm sure there's one for Abortion -- and this would provide you with a range of articles from which to choose. -Nancy Nancy Persons Librarian Salazar Library Sonoma State University ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:37:07 +0800 Reply-To: azura@space.net.au Sender: Women's Studies List From: Yvonne MacLean Subject: Re: feminist responses to freud MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ****~~~~~~~********~~~~~~~*********~~~~~~~*** Yvonne MacLean :) azura@space.net.au While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance. - Hans Bos *********************************************************** ---------- > From: Jessica Heriot > To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > Subject: feminist responses to freud > Date: Tuesday, 26 August 1997 1:52 > > Check out Women and therapy by Miriam Greenspan, 2nd edition Tab books, > 1993. Chapter 1 looks at tradtition theory (freudian) and how it has > impacted the way psychology views women and how it has affected the > training of psychologists. jessica heriot Jheriot@umab.ab.umd.edu Thanks Jessica for your help Bye Yvonne ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:37:41 +0800 Reply-To: azura@space.net.au Sender: Women's Studies List From: Yvonne MacLean Subject: Re: Feminist Responses to Freud MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ****~~~~~~~********~~~~~~~*********~~~~~~~*** Yvonne MacLean :) azura@space.net.au While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance. - Hans Bos *********************************************************** ---------- > From: Cindy Beyerlein > To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > Subject: Re: Feminist Responses to Freud > Date: Saturday, 23 August 1997 2:40 > > In response to Freud, I have read and used Alice Miller, "Thouse Shall Not Be > Aware" in my > work. She is anti-Freud in her psychoanalysis and provides a splendid > discussuion of Franz > Kafka. > > Cindy Beyerlein, Associate Professor, Public Policy > Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA 17022 > beyerlcs@acad.etown.edu Thanks for your help Cindy Bye Yvonne ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:38:15 +0800 Reply-To: azura@space.net.au Sender: Women's Studies List From: Yvonne MacLean Subject: Re: Feminist Responses to Freud MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ****~~~~~~~********~~~~~~~*********~~~~~~~*** Yvonne MacLean :) azura@space.net.au While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance. - Hans Bos *********************************************************** ---------- > From: Barbara Andrew > To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > Subject: Feminist Responses to Freud > Date: Saturday, 23 August 1997 1:26 > > Classic feminist responses to Freud include Simone de Beauvoirs' _The Second > Sex_, Adrienne Rich's "Compulsorary Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" > and Gayle Rubin's "The Traffic in Women." I also use Eva Feder Kittay's > "Freud on Femininity or Why Not Womb Envy?" in _Hypatia Reborn_. > > > Barbara Andrew > University of Montana > bandrew@selway.umt.edu Thanks for your help Barbara Bye Yvonne ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:41:13 +0800 Reply-To: azura@space.net.au Sender: Women's Studies List From: Yvonne MacLean Subject: Re: Feminist Responses to Freud MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ****~~~~~~~********~~~~~~~*********~~~~~~~*** Yvonne MacLean :) azura@space.net.au While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance. - Hans Bos *********************************************************** ---------- > From: Susan Darrah > To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > Subject: Re: Feminist Responses to Freud > Date: Friday, 22 August 1997 1:12 > > Dear Yvonne, > > I have two suggestions: > > 1. The poet H.D. spent time as Freud's "student" (her characterization), > which is recounted in her book _Tribute to Freud_ > > 2. Both Kristeva & Iriquray "rework" parts of Freud, via Lacan > > Best, > Susan Thanks Susan I will look into both. Bye Yvonne ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:49:31 +0800 Reply-To: azura@space.net.au Sender: Women's Studies List From: Yvonne MacLean Subject: Re: Feminist Responses to Freud MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ****~~~~~~~********~~~~~~~*********~~~~~~~*** Yvonne MacLean :) azura@space.net.au While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance. - Hans Bos *********************************************************** On 21 August I posted a request for info about feminist responses to Freud to the list. After 5 days I have received many replies with brilliant sources. Thankyou to all who have replied. If anyone would like a list of sources let me know and I will gladly send you a copy. Bye Yvonne ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:14:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: Re: clinton email Comments: To: "Elisabeth J. Binder" In-Reply-To: <199708260640.CAA28117@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The President's Interagency Council on Women is now housed at the State Dept. under Madeline Albright's aegis (she is chair) because its principal function is to implement U.S. response to the Beijing conference. Address (as of March 1997): US Dept. of State, 2201 C St. NW, Room 2906, Washington, DC 20520; 202-647-6227. Senior Coor. for International Women's Issues (as of May): Theresa Loar, 202-647-5440. On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Elisabeth J. Binder wrote: > > While we're at it, I'd be curious as to whether anyone on the list knows > > anything about the "Women's Office" at the White House? I didn't know such > > an office existed until I saw it referred to in a post in a list archives. > > There's the Office of Women's Initiatives and Outreach > http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/Women/OWIO/index.html > > Some time ago I bookmarked a page on the Interagency Council on Women > which disappeared by now. Even searching the Whitehouse site I get > references to this Council but the links are dead. They probably > haven't updated their index in a while. > > Elisabeth Binder > Cynthia Harrison Associate Professor History/Women's Studies Funger 506G The George Washington University 2201 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20052 telephone: 202-363-4356 e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu fax: 202-994-7249 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:35:38 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patrice McDermott Subject: Reviewers wanted for WSIF book reviews.... (fwd) Comments: cc: nmillett@arches.uga.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Do **NOT** reply to me. I am just forwarding this. Reply to Nancy Fullbright Millett nmillett@arches.uga.edu Patrice McDermott patricem@CapAccess.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:15:40 -0400 From: Mark Logan and Kathleen O'Grady To: "french-feminism@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU" Subject: Reviers wanted for book reviews.... Nancy Fullbright Millett wrote: The Women's Studies International Forum is looking for someon to review Julia Kristeva's _Time and Sense_. It is also looking for regular reviewers for other books, as well as those interested in reviewing manuscripts for the publication. Anyone interested, please contact the address provided below and NOT me personally (I am just forwarding this request). Thanks, k. > Kathy: > > That would be great if you would send out feelers for a book reviewer. > We do have about 30-40 books here, on a wide variety of topics. So, if > someone would be interested in the Kristeva book or something else, just have > them e-mail me. Thanks for your help. > > ---------------------- > Nancy Fullbright Millett, Editorial Assistant > Women's Studies International Forum > Women's Studies Program, University of Georgia > 230K Main Library, Athens, GA 30602-1647 > 706-542-2846 FAX:706-542-0049 > nmillett@arches.uga.edu --- from list french-feminism@lists.village.virginia.edu --- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:34:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janice M Bogstad Subject: Call for Papers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am proposing a session for the Leeds International Medieval Congress, to be held at Leeds Univ. 13-16 July, 1998. I have attend the conference for three of the four years, and it is both interesting and widely varied. To date there are not comparative sessions on Eastern and Western cultures. I am prepared to compare Chinese and Western women and have set up the call for papers in that fashion. I am calling for submissions from scholars internationally, not just in the U.S. The proposal is for Chinese women, but I am willing to modify the proposal to include medieval Japanese, Korean, or other far-eastern women poets. Papers about 'anonymous' writers who may be female are also acceptable. I will be presenting the following paper: Paper 1, Title: Li Qingzhao's Prose Poem: Politics and a Chess Game. The Sung (A.D. 960-1280) poetess Li Qingzhao, (1081-1151) is well known for her artistry in the Tz'u genre. She published a number of prose pieces, one of which includes a long prose-poem. The only known-English translation, made by the presenter, will be discussed along comparisons of translation problems between it and Medieval Anglo-American and French texts by women poets. Please reply ASAP to me: Jan Bogstad bogstajm@uwec.edu The deadline for proposals is Sept. 15 but I can accept paper titles through the end of October. Thanks, Jan Bogstad International Medieval Congress Submission for Organised Sessions Univ of Leeds 13-16 July, 1998 Session Title The Woman Poet in Medieval China and Europe: Comparative problems of text, translation, authorship, recovery, from the 5th through the 15th Centuries (with an emphasis on the Far-Eastern author). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Janice M. Bogstad, Associate Professor Collection Development Librarian Library & Information Services, McIntyre Library University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI 54702-5010 USA email: bogstajm@uwec.edu telephone: 715-836-6032 "I HAVE NEVER REGRETTED BUYING A BOOK, BUT I HAVE OFTEN REGRETTED NOT BUYING A BOOK." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:14:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janice M Bogstad Subject: call for papers - medieval chinese women Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > >I am proposing a session for the Leeds International Medieval Congress, >to be held at Leeds Univ. 13-16 July, 1998. I have attend the >conference for >three of the four years, and it is both interesting and widely varied. >To >date there are no comparative sessions on Eastern and Western cultures. >I am prepared to compare Chinese and Western women and have set up the >call for papers in that fashion. >Session Title >The Woman Poet in Medieval China and Europe: Comparative problems >of text, translation, authorship, recovery, from the 5th through >the 15th Centuries (with an emphasis on the Far-Eastern author). > >I am calling for submissions from scholars internationally, not just in >the >U.S. > The proposal is for Chinese women, but I am willing to modify the >proposal >to include medieval Japanese, Korean, or other far-eastern women poets. >Papers about 'anonymous' writers who may be female are also acceptable. > >I will be presenting the following paper: >Paper 1, Title: Li Qingzhao's Prose Poem: Politics and a Chess >Game. > The Sung (A.D. 960-1280) poetess Li Qingzhao, (1081-1151) is >well known for her artistry in the Tz'u genre. She published a >number of prose pieces, one of which includes a long prose-poem. >The only known-English translation, made by the presenter, will >be discussed along comparisons of translation problems between it >and Medieval Anglo-American and French texts by women poets. > > >Please reply ASAP to me: Jan Bogstad > bogstajm@uwec.edu > >The deadline for proposals is Sept. 15 but I can accept paper titles >through >the end of October. >Thanks, Jan Bogstad > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Janice M. Bogstad, Associate Professor Collection Development Librarian Library & Information Services, McIntyre Library University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI 54702-5010 USA email: bogstajm@uwec.edu telephone: 715-836-6032 "I HAVE NEVER REGRETTED BUYING A BOOK, BUT I HAVE OFTEN REGRETTED NOT BUYING A BOOK." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 13:21:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jyl Josephson Subject: Book on Gender & Child Support MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello-- I am a relatively new subscriber and appreciate all of the resources available through this list. I wanted to let list members know about my book published earlier this year by Rowman & Littlefield. The title is "Gender, Families, and State: Child Support Policy in the United States". The book examines the relationship between families and the state in the U.S., in theory and in practice, using child support policy as a lens of analysis. The book presents the origins, evolution, and organization of federal child support programs and demonstrates how some child support enforcement policies, rather than increasing women's access to economic resources, actually function to expand government and social control over the beneficiaries. It draws on the literature of feminist political theory and public policy implementation, and analyzes the impact of family law and social welfare policies through empirical case studies of two state child support systems. Questions may be directed to me at: bqjyl@ttacs.ttu.edu. Thank you! Jyl Josephson Jyl Josephson Department of Political Science Box 41015 Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409 (806) 742-3121 bqjyl@ttacs.ttu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:29:14 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: Job Possibility MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII UNLV's Provost has authorized four Target of Opportunity (Diversity) hires for AY 1997-98 and, although he is not disposed to give one of them to Women's Studies (we have no faculty lines), he would consider making a joint appointment in Women's Studies and a discipline (anything from art history to zoology, in liberal arts or one of the professional colleges, e.g. business, health sciences, hotel, urban affairs). If you are yourself or know of a colleague who is of a gender or race/ethnicity underrepresented in a particular discipline and would like to be considered for a joint appointment at UNLV in Women's Studies and your discipline, please notify me so that I approach department chairs in various disciplines with the tantalizing prospect of getting one of these "extra" lines--or at least half of one. 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: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 16:55:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Job Possibility MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hello Dr. Rose: I saw your post on WMST-L. I am a Social Psychologist who is very intersted in a joint WS/Psychology position. I am currently adjunct faculty in the Psychology Department at Lewis & Clark College. I have taught in both Psychology and Women's Studies. My goal is to get a tenure-track position, not an easy thing these days! Christine Smith ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:35:04 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Speer Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON In-Reply-To: <340223C0.5DDC@leslie.k12.mi.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Amy Speer speeraw@appstate.edu On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Elizabeth Homer wrote: > The Warden Wore Pink, 1996 > Tekla Miller > > Liz Homer > mwhfame@leslie.k12.mi.us > > BETTY POWELL wrote: > > > > I have a student who is doing her senior seminar project with a group > > of women in prison. she's conducting a literature reading group in > > which she focuses on literature written by women. I'm interested in > > locating texts that deal specifically with issues involving women > > in a prison situation. thanks. > > > > Betty J. Powell > > Asistant Professor of English > > Mars Hill College > > bpowell@mhc.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:26:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The mention of Margaret Atwood brings to mind her The Handmaid's Tale, which is set in a society that is wholly a prison for women. In addition, the women are not allowed to read or write. In fact, the book ties in to "real" moments in history when women's silence was broken by writing: the escaped nun's tale, the escaped slave's tale, the escaped... and so on. Liora Moriel Comparative Literature Program University of Maryland 2107 Susquehanna Hall College Park, MD 20742-8825 lioram@wam.umd.edu "We have cooperated for a very long time in the maintenance of our own invisibility. And now the party is over." - Vito Russo ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:30:40 +0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Shoshanna Mayer Ph.D." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE UNSUB WMST Shoshana Mayer-Young PhD Mail: 26A Vitkin St. Haifa, Israel 34755 Tel/Fax: 972-4-824-1396 E-mail: shoshana@research.haifa.ac.il ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:46:42 +0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Shoshanna Mayer Ph.D." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE UNSUB WMST ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 06:30:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: call for abstracts MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:39:30 +0200 From: Jan Trost Reply-To: Family Science Network To: Multiple recipients of list FAMLYSCI Irene Levin and I will organize a session at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association at the end of July next year in Montreal. My session will be about partners in Living Apart Together (LAT) relationships and also commuting marriages. Please distribute the word and welcome with abstracts to me as soon as possible. Regards ------------------------------------------------------------ Jan Trost Uppsala University, Department of Sociology P. O. Box 821, S-751 08 Uppsala, Sweden phone (office): +46 18 471 11 88, fax +46 18 471 11 70 phone (home): +46 18 54 60 67, e-mail: jan.trost@soc.uu.se ------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:32:06 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Teresa Macias Subject: Re: requesting some assistance In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear list members, I hope this message is appropriate for the list. I am looking for any information in regards to financial assistance in the forms of bursaries or scholarships for students in Marter' degrees. I am currently doing my marter's at University of Toronto in Canada, but I my not be able to continue if I do not obtain some financial help. I have already contacted my home university but this may not be enough. Any ideas anyone? Please respond privatelly. Teresa Macias Sociology and Equity Studies Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto tmacias@oise.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 11:51:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm also recalling a very provocative piece called "Marrying the Hangman" in Margaret Atwood's SELECTED POEMS II, 1976-86. And for a non-fiction book see WALL TAPPINGS -- I can't recall the author and my books are still in boxes right now from a move but when I come across it, I'll resend. In addition, I edited an anthology--still unpublished-- with a section by women in prison (usually for killing their abusive mate). I've named the section "Behind His Walls" after a line in one of the poems (there are poems, letters, autobios, and ss.). I'd be willing to chat privately about some of these selections since they are still unavailable in print (but I'm still trying!!!). Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. mharris@utdallas.edu 972/866-6711 -- After Aug. 15 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:27:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carol Cyganowski Subject: request for advising assistance Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear List, We have a graduating senior, double major in wms and psychology, who is looking for a graduate program in clinical psychology with a feminist slant, preferrably with a child track. I don't know where to advise her to look. Any suggestions? Of particular schools? Or any reference works that would help? Please reply to her: heather@vailsys.com. Thank you for any help, Carol Cyganowski DePaul University ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:55:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: what WS majors do after they graduate MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A colleague is looking for information about the utility of a degree in WS. If anyone has information on this, please reply to her directly: Peg Strobel address: pegs@uic.edu Thanks, Stephanie Riger ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:28:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: What WS majors do after they graduate In-Reply-To: <199708270427.XAA38416@piglet.cc.uic.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A colleague is looking for information on the utility of the WS major. Please send information directly to her: Peg Strobel, at pegs@uic.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:12:59 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea J Benintende Subject: Re: what WS majors do after they graduate In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII i, graduating with a MS in WS, would also like to hear this info. thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ andrea j. berman-benintende ajb9@acsu.buffalo.edu from the beginning She could feel the Becoming the Becoming inside..... )O( * )O( * )O( * )O( * )O( * )O( * )O( On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Stephanie Riger wrote: > A colleague is looking for information about the utility of a degree in > WS. If anyone has information on this, please reply to her directly: > Peg Strobel address: pegs@uic.edu > > > Thanks, Stephanie Riger > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:29:48 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Counts Subject: Re: what WS majors do after they graduate Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am graduating with a BA in WS - would also like this infor. Thanx Karen Counts At 04:12 PM 8/27/97 -0400, you wrote: >i, graduating with a MS in WS, would also like to hear this info. thanks. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > andrea j. berman-benintende > ajb9@acsu.buffalo.edu > >from the beginning >She could feel the Becoming >the Becoming inside..... >)O( * )O( * )O( * )O( * )O( * )O( * )O( > > > >On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Stephanie Riger wrote: > >> A colleague is looking for information about the utility of a degree in >> WS. If anyone has information on this, please reply to her directly: >> Peg Strobel address: pegs@uic.edu >> >> >> Thanks, Stephanie Riger >> > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 14:21:31 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON WALL TAPPINGS is a marvelous anthology. It won a Koppelman award for Feminist Editing (given by the joint women's caucus of the Popular and American Culture Associations) in the year of its publication. I'm on the road, so I don't have the full citation with me, but I'll send it when I get home. It crosses all sorts of generational and national boundaries. Cordially, Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 11:04:55 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Beirne Subject: Number of Institutes for Research on Women/Gender? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello All- I am working on a project that examines the creation (and maintenance) of Women's Studies in terms of knowledge production, the changing/creating/challenging of disciplines, and the future(s) of Women's Studies departments and programs in the U.S. The folks at the NWSA office suggested I might try here for help with the following questions: A)What is the current number of Institutes for the study of Women (or Gender) in the U.S.? B) Latest stats. regarding the number of students with Women's Studies Degrees (major, minor and graduate) C) Aside from NWSA's 1990 report, are there other recent reports or studies about Women's Studies? I'm interested in information about faculty AND the current status as a discipline (i.e. programs versus departments and so on) within the changing landscape of higher ed. You if have ideas about where I might look- please let me know. You can email me directly at: beirne1@leland.stanford.edu Thanks!! Chris Beirne ************************************** Chris Beirne Research Assistant National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI) 508 CERAS, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-3084 Email: beirne1@leland.stanford.edu Phone: (650) 725-6861 Fax: (650) 725-3936 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:24:31 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah James Subject: CUBAN WOMEN'S STUDIES CONFERENCE Comments: To: "Jorge Corti^?as" , "Compa^?ero" , WILPF , Peace for Cuba , Inderpal Grewal , IFCO , Nancy Loevinger , Pastors , Lyn-Li Torres Pugh , Don Walicek , Women's Center , Intl Action C MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable CUBAN WOMEN'S STUDIES CONFERENCE PLEASE CIRCULATE THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT International Women's Studies Conference to be held in Havana. The Women's Studies Program of the University of Havana, in conjunction= with Sister to Sister and Global Exchange, invites you to participate in= the Second International Conference to be held November 18-21, 1997, in= Havana, Cuba. The title is "Women on the Threshold of the 21st Century." = The first such conference in 1993 attracted 200 women from 16 countries. = Global Exchange and Sister to Sister invites you to join a US Women's= Delegation to the Conference as well as to meet with Cuban women artists,= leaders, and advocates.=20 Conference Aims: =20 * To create a space for theoretical-scientific reflection on the dimension= of gender and the important issues concerning women. * To promote a dialogue and exchange of ideas on the subject among= specialists from different disciplines.=20 * To report on the results of research and scientific and applied work on= women, as well as to encourage the continuation and increase of scientific= work on the subject. All professionals, specialists, or persons interested in these questions= are invited to attend. If you submit a proposal for a presentation your= participation is guaranteed. The workshop will consist of panels, round tables, individual works by= commissions, lectures and several pre-conference courses. =20 PROGRAM In addition to participation in the Conference, Global Exchange will also= be offering program activities such as meetings with the Federation of= Cuban women, visits with women artists, researchers and professionals, and= women in political leadership. We will also take exciting excursions to= museums and sites of interest, including centers of health and education= with a focus on gender. Possible meetings and activities include: Federation of Cuban Women Cuban women artists (Flora Fong, Zaida del Rio, Dulce Maria) Gisela Arandia, prominent journalist researching race, gender, sexuality,= and religion Maternity hospitals, child care centers, women medical professionals Meetings with Cuban women in communication professions National Center for Sexual Education Visits to neighborhood centers for Women and their Families Conference Themes: 1. Feminist Thought: Theory and Methodology 2. Gender and History 3. Gender and Socio-Economic Development 4. Women and Environment 5. Migratory Processes and women 6. Health and women 7. Feminine subjectivity 8. Women and the family 9. Gender and sexuality 10. Gender and education 11. Gender and studies in art and literature 12. Gender and social communication 13. Gender and power 14. Feminist identity and life cycle 15. Gender and violence 16. Women, race, ethnicity and social class 17. Women and human rights Pre-conference courses: These courses will take place on November 17 and will be of approximately 6= hours in duration. They will deal with the reality of Cuban women on the= following subjects: * Women, the couple, and family * Women and health * Socio-demographic characteristics of Cuban women Conference Abstracts Abstracts should be sent with your registration and include a hard copy and= IBM-compatible diskette. It should have no more than 200 words and should= contain the title, author(s), institutional affiliation, format in which= the work will be presented, audio-visual needs. Logistics Dates: Dates for the trip will be November 15-23, 1997. =20 Cost: Approximately $1350 from Canc=FAn, Mexico. Includes: Round-trip airfare from Canc=FAn, Mexico to Havana, transportation within= Cuba, double room accommodations, translation of programs, reading= materials, breakfast & dinner each day, a qualified trip leader, Cuban= visa, and program and conference fees. Global Exchange Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education and action center= advocating political, economic and social justice of a global scale. = Since our founding in 1988, we have been organizing monthly trips to Cuba= and many other countries for professional and academic groups and general= public. Sisters to Sisters is a US-Cuba Women's Exchange project= co-sponsored by Global Exchange, Hermanas, and the Women's International= League for Peace and Freedom. Please call for an application: Global Exchange attn: Mal=EDa Everette or Deborah James gx-malia@globalexchange.org 415-255-7296 or 800-497-1994 fax 415.255.7498 2017 Mission St, # 303 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.globalexchange.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:06:20 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara A. Crow" Subject: Looking for addresses Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello I am sorry to bother the list -- but I have exhausted a number of sources trying to find the following individuals: Marlene Dixon Roxanne Dunbar Bonnie Zimmerman Thank you for your assistance and please respond privately. Barbara -- Barbara Crow, Ph.D. Phone: 403-220-3160 Assistant Professor Fax: 403-282-6716 University of Calgary Email: crow@acs.ucalgary.ca Faculty of General Studies 2500 University Ave. NW., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/campuswomen/campuswomen.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:38:21 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Horlitz Subject: Wall Tappings: An Anthology of Writings by Women Prisoners Wall Tappings: An Anthology of Writings by Women Prisoners Judith A. Scheffler, ed. 1989 I find that a very useful web site for checking out books recommended on this list is www.amazon.com. It is an online bookstore. You can very easily find the full information on any book. Unfortunately, this book is listed as hard to find. Beth Horlitz@uhavax.hartford.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:52:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jack Meacham Subject: Re: request for advising assistance In-Reply-To: <199708271727.MAA15372@shrike.depaul.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Your student should go to the library and look at "Graduate Study in Psychology," published annually by the American Psychological Association. The index at the back will list alphabetically all the child-clinical programs that exist; the front part of the book has a page on each of these that describes the philosophy of the program as well as giving the complete address for admissions materials, phone number, web address, etc. There are similar books around, but this one published by APA is _the_ entry guide for graduate programs in psychology. Jack Meacham, Department of Psychology, 323 Park Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-4110 tel 716-645-3650, extension 323; fax 716-645-3801 meacham@acsu.buffalo.edu; http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~meacham On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Carol Cyganowski wrote: > Dear List, > We have a graduating senior, double major in wms and psychology, who is > looking for a graduate program in clinical psychology with a feminist slant, > preferrably with a child track. I don't know where to advise her to look. > Any suggestions? Of particular schools? Or any reference works that would help? > > Please reply to her: heather@vailsys.com. > > Thank you for any help, > Carol Cyganowski > DePaul University > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:43:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "B. Carol Eaton" Subject: barriers to feminist scholarship MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am writing for cites and suggestions concerning my current research project. In my field (mass communications), there are many articles from the mid-1980s citing feminist scholarship's potential to transform the discipline. Later articles (late 1980s and 1990s) fall along the following lines: "A plateau seems to have been reached with the feminist perspective; it is visible only when it accommodates in major ways. In fact, one could argue that, after 10 years at this particular stage, the accommodations have become institutionalized patterns for publishing feminist research" (Foss & Foss, 1989, p. 82). Are other disciplines experiencing this kind of "plateau?" I am hoping to find sources that discuss barriers to feminist scholarship and how they can be overcome. Thanks. Carol Eaton Syracuse University bceaton@syr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 21:54:44 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margo Okazawa-Rey Subject: women in prison In-Reply-To: <199708272233.PAA09858@diana.sfsu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Wall Tappings was published by Northeastern U Press in 1984; now out of print. author is judith scheffler Meda Chesney-Lind and Barbara Bloom, among others, have done lots of good work National Criminal Justice Program AFSC, Phila, PA National Clearinghouse for the Deefense of Battered Women 215 351-0010 California Coaltion for Women Prisoners 415 255-7036 WEAP 510 451-7379 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:11:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patrice McDermott Subject: Fwd: Re: WSIF Review MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY=------------64E039557103 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --------------64E039557103 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: Please see the message below regarding the posting on looking for reviewers for Women's Studies International Forum. Again, please reply to Nancy Fullbright Millett , not to me. Patrice McDermott patricem@CapAccess.org ------------------------------------------------------ From: Nancy Fullbright Millett To: Mark Logan and Kathleen O'Grady Subject: Re: WSIF Review Dear Ms. O'Grady: Please post on the email list that a reviewer for the Kristeva book has been found (I've been inundated--it's nice!), but anyone else who is interested in book or manuscript reviews can still email me. It's also a good idea for them to include their areas of research in their email so I can match them with suitable books/manuscripts. Also, grad students are welcome to review books or mss for us. Thanks. ---------------------- Nancy Fullbright Millett, Editorial Assistant Women's Studies International Forum Women's Studies Program, University of Georgia 230K Main Library, Athens, GA 30602-1647 706-542-2846 FAX:706-542-0049 nmillett@arches.uga.edu --------------64E039557103-- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:13:16 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan lehrer Subject: what w.s. grads do There seems to be general interest in this, so I'd like to refer these questions ("but what's it good for in the real world!") to a brochure we put out at SUNY New Paltz w.s. entitled "What do you do with a degree in W.S.?" The question, basically, gets answered the same way we'd respond in sociology, for example, or Liberal Arts, but with additional info. For those who remember my query about setting up a w.s. web page eons ago, I'd also like to report that ours is up and running. We have put the contents of the brochure (minus the specific names of students) on the webpage, so you can direct students or whoever to it. The webpage address is: http://www.newpaltz.edu/wmnstudies/ It is also listed under 'Departments' of the SUNY New Paltz web page. I have gotten lots of positive feedback about it. If there are any ideas, etc for it (or so far uncaught errors!) please respond to me privately. Susan. Susan Lehrer, lehrers@npvm.newpaltz.edu SUNY - New Paltz ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:12:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: WSIF Review Comments: To: Patrice McDermott In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is there a stipend that comes with these reviews? Ruby Rohrlich.rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:13:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Juliana Smith Subject: Women's Studies Ad MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Women's Studies Archivist and Resource Specialist The Libraries at Duke University seek an imaginative, energetic, and knowledgeable individual to provide leadership as Women's Studies Archivist in the Special Collections Library and Women's Studies Resource Specialist for the Perkins Library system. DESCRIPTION: Under the general supervision of the Director of Collection Development in the SCL and as a member of the SCL Collection Development Team, she/he shapes collecting policies; identifies and acquires materials pertinent to Women's Studies; undertakes appropriate outreach efforts; provides reference assistance; oversees web site development; supervises student assistants and other temporary staff; and oversees special projects. Women's studies resources in the Duke University Libraries have been built and promoted intensively since the first appointment of a women's studies archivist/ bibliographer in 1988. Working closely with Duke's distinguished Women's Studies faculty, the Libraries foster a dynamic environment for research on women and gender. Special collecting areas include Southern women writers, African American women activists, feminist politics and theory, and lesbian life and culture. See also http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/ QUALIFICATIONS: Position requires an ALA-accredited MLS and/or an advanced degree in an appropriate subject field; knowledge of and enthusiasm for women's history and women's studies; familiarity with standard archival procedures; a minimum of two years of professional archival/special collections experience; ability to work in a team environment and communicate effectively with users and donors of special collections materials. Experience with building circulating collections in an academic library and with creating and using web resources desired. APPLICATION INFORMATION: Salary will be based on education and experience, with a minimum of $31,850. Excellent fringe benefits package. Please submit letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three references to B. Ilene Nelson, Chair of Women's Studies Archivist/Resource Specialist Search, Box 90193, Duke University Libraries, Durham, NC 27708-0193. Review of applications will begin October 15, 1997. Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:56:33 -0400 Reply-To: Heather Howard-Bobiwash Sender: Women's Studies List From: Heather Howard-Bobiwash Subject: Women and removal of children (U.K) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am looking for material on the removal of children by state/church authorities in the U.K. around the turn of the century, that is treated from a feminist perspective. I appreciate Jyl Josephson's recent post to the list about her book as an example re: child support policy in U.S. I am currently preparing a paper that examines how the removal of their children by state/church authorities undermined women's power in the early part of the century. I am making a cross-cultural comparison between Native women in Canada and the process of removal of children to residential schools, with women in the U.K. and the massive removal of children to orphanages and then to Canada and Australia (known as the Home Children) which occurred roughly between 1860 - 1930. While I would be glad to receive any info. that may be useful, I have accessed already a number of resources on the case of Native women in Canada, and I would appreciate any resources or directions that list members may be able to give me for the U.K. case more specifically. Please reply privately: Heather Howard-Bobiwash Dept. of Anthropology University of Toronto hhoward@chass.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:23:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elaine Blakemore Subject: Toying with their future MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Does anyone know where one can obtain the film "Toying with their future" produced by the National Film Board of Canada? Please reply directly to me and not to the list. Thank you very much. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Elaine Blakemore Associate Professor and Department Chair Department of Psychological Sciences Indiana - Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN 46805 219-481-6400 219-481-5472 (fax) Blakemor@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu http://cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu/www/depts/as/psy/blakemor.htm ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 12:45:07 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: job announcement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The chair of the department of criminal justice has indicated that if I can identify a candidate for a joint hire in criminal justice and women's studies who fits his department's needs, he would be interested in talking. He didn't define his department's needs, so if you have expertise in criminology and an interest in a joint appointment with women's studies, please send me your cv and a letter describing your research and teaching and we'll take it from there. 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, 28 Aug 1997 13:29:05 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Speer Subject: Subject: *NWSA Journal* Call For Papers Correction MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List Members, Several weeks ago I distributed a general call for papers for the *NWSA Journal*. I listed Maggie McFadden's (the editor) e-mail address incorrectly. Her correct e-mail is: mcfaddenmh@appstate.edu I am sorry that some of you were frustrated due to my clerical error and I thank those of you who brought it to my attention. Amy Speer Managing Editor *NWSA Journal* speeraw@appstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:00:30 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: benita roth Subject: Re: Combahee Members Contact Info Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" well, why aren't you just asking me? Actually, supposedly my friend karen's sister jane is in touch with demita, who lives in jamaica plain. I am planning on interviewing her someday, too. I'll see if karen still lives where she lives (her last name is adler) and let you know someone's phone number. but then you gotta tell demita that someday she has to talk to me. benita At 03:35 PM 8/23/97 -0400, you wrote: >For dissertation research on black feminist organizations I am looking for >contact information for the following women: > >Beverly Smith, Demita Frazier, and Barbara Smith. > >Please respond privately and thank you in advance. > > >Kimberly Springer >Institute for Women's Studies >301S Callaway Center >Emory University >Atlanta, GA 30322 >kspring@emory.edu >"...leave before they chicken fry you." >William Adams' advice on the South > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 16:21:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: World Lit, Women In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This is very belated, but... Thanks to all those who helped think together of interesting books by women from all over the world that were either written in English or translated into English, for undergraduate classes. Here's the list-- and the wonderful women who took the time and trouble to correspond and share. Liora Moriel lioram@wam.umd.edu ------------------------ Joan Starker Beatrice Kachuck jeannie ludlow Lisa Palmer Nikki Senecal "Andrea M. Atkin" Jacqueline Haessly Loralee MacPike Toni Morrison: _The Bluest Eye_ Margot Edmonds and Ella Clark: _Voices of the Wind: Native American Legends_,1989 Oosthuizen, Ann: _Sometimes when it rains: Writings by women from South Africa_ 1987 Pam McAllister: _Reweaving the Web of Life_, 19982; _River of Courage_, 1991; _You can't Kill the Spirit_, 1988 Madison Soyini, ed.: _The Woman That I Am: Contemporary Literature by Women of Color_ Ursula Le Guin: _The Left Hand of Darkness_ Sarah Shulman: After Dolores Jenette Winterson: _Oranges are not the Only Fruit_ Buchi Emecheta: _The Joys of Motherhood_ CP Gilman: "The Unnatural Mother" in Anne J. Lane _Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader_ Louise Erdrich _Love Medicine_ (multigenerational extended family) or _Jacklight_ Jamaica Kincaid _Annie John_ family poems by Anne Sexton (lots of mother-child stuff) Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (Seattle: Seal Press, 1988) Women Writing in India, 600 BCE-20th Century, eds: Susie Tharu & K. Lalita. Feminist Press,1993. 2 volumes. Kate Chopin: "The Awakening." Barbara Myerhoff's: _Number Our Days_ Lucy Grealy: _The Autobiography of a Face_ _The Stone Diaries_ Mariama Ba: _So Long a Letter_ _Awake_ Dorianne Laux lots of stuff by Sharon Olds _A Thousand Acres_ Jane Smiley (to pair with King Lear?) _Homeplace_ Marilyn Nelson Waniek just about anything by Rita Dove, esp._Thomas & Beulah_ Whitney Otto: _How to Make an American Quilt_ Amy Tan: _Joy Luck Club_ Grace Paley "The Loudest Voice" Marilynne Robinson: _Housekeeping_ Fae Myenne Ng: _Bone_ Dorothy Allison: _Bastard Out of Carolina_ Sandra Cisneros: _House on Mango Street_ Anzia Yezierska "Children of Loneliness" or _Breadgivers_ Ana Castillo _So Far From God_ Maxine Hong Kingston, _The Woman Warrior_ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 20:27:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Setton Subject: Huichol Dog-Woman Myth Colleagues, I am searching for information about a creation myth of the Huichol tribe of Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains of Mexico. The myth involves a man who takes a dog to live with him. At night the woman hiding in the dog skin sheds her covering and reveals herself to be a woman. The man discovers her somehow and a tragedy ensues. Any information about where I can locate the accurate story would be greatly appreciated. You can write directly to me: rksetton@aol.com Thanks! Ruth ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:14:06 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON Comments: cc: newvic@aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the Women's Presses Library Project: Locked Down: A Woman's Life in Prison Idella Serna New Victoria Publishers 1992 0-934678-40-5 P $8.95 180pp. This title is actually a memoir of Mary "Lee" Dortch, a lesbian who came of age at a time when there was little support for women who didn't fit society's gender norms. Arrested at 16 for stealing a car to impress her lover, she went down for the crime in exchange for her girlfriend going free, beginning a thirty year career of rebellion and incarceration. This memoir is accessible and does read like a novel. >I have a student who is doing her senior seminar project with a group >of women in prison. she's conducting a literature reading group in >which she focuses on literature written by women. I'm interested in >locating texts that deal specifically with issues involving women >in a prison situation. thanks. > >Betty J. Powell >Asistant Professor of English >Mars Hill College >bpowell@mhc.edu WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:35:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith S. Kaufman" Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON In-Reply-To: <627C835A40@library.mhc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Betty - have your student check an article written by Kathy Boudin, who is serving a sentence in the Bedford Women's Correctional Facility in NY. She organized a writers group in the prison and wrote about it in the _Harvard Ed Review_. The piece is titled Participatory Literacy Education Behind Bars: AIDS Opens the Door, v.63 (no.2), p. 207-232, Summer, 1993. I believe she wrote another article in 1995 which should be listed in the ERIC database. Judith S. Kaufman Department of Curriculum & Teaching Hofstra University 105B Mason Hall Hempstead, NY 11550-1090 email: catjsk@magic.hofstra.edu phone: 516 463-6566 fax: 516 463-6503 On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, BETTY POWELL wrote: > I have a student who is doing her senior seminar project with a group > of women in prison. she's conducting a literature reading group in > which she focuses on literature written by women. I'm interested in > locating texts that deal specifically with issues involving women > in a prison situation. thanks. > > Betty J. Powell > Asistant Professor of English > Mars Hill College > bpowell@mhc.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:46:12 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeff Finlay Subject: WorldWID Fellowship, Girls Education in Morocco MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Crossposted from AERA@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU WorldWID Announces Special Recruitment for Fellowship Opportunity in Morocco WorldWID Fellowship in Girls Education in Morocco The WorldWID Fellows Program is recruiting a specialist in Girls Education for a one-year Fellowship program that will consist of a brief training and orientation in Florida and/or Washington, D.C. followed by a field placement with the USAID Mission in Morocco. The WorldWID Fellows Program is managed by the University of Florida under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development, Global Bureau, Office of Women in Development. The goal of the program is to increase the number of U.S. citizens with technical expertise and gender analytical skills that can be used in the implementation of U.S. foreign assistance programs. Persons with highly developed skills relevant to the strategic areas of the USAID are encouraged to apply. Those areas are: economic growth; democracy and governance, including human rights; environment; girls education; and population, health, and nutrition. WorldWID Fellows are usually selected for training programs that begin in January and in June. This recruitment, however, is outside our regular schedule. The successful applicant will already have some knowledge of the field of women in development (WID) / gender and development (GAD) and experience in Girls Education. Applicants should also be prepared to begin participation in the program as soon as possible, preferably before the end of November 1997. The successful applicant will receive a monthly stipend of $2,500. Domestic and international travel to the field Mission is covered under program, as well as one-half of the Fellow's personal health insurance premium. In addition, the Fellow receives medical evacuation insurance and reimbursement for some costs associated with the program. In some cases, Missions provide housing, although we currently do not have this information for the Morocco placement. Applicants should meet the following qualifications: - Masters or Doctorate in Education (such as educational policy and planning, educational economics, educational anthropology, educational administration, international education) or a related social science field; - Demonstrated expertise and technical knowledge of educational systems, methods, models, and approaches (highly desirable); - Ability to work in a team; to take leadership when necessary, and ability to deal with competing priorities; - Excellent English writing skills; ability to work in the French language; - Experience working in a developing country OR strong commitment and willingness to do so, OR comparable experience in U.S. working with disadvantaged communities; - United States citizenship; - Knowledge of Arabic and/or Islamic cultures; - Knowledge and/or experience in the field of WID or GAD; - Willingness to begin this assignment as soon as possible. If you are interested in applying for this WorldWID Fellowship, send - a detailed resume of your educational and professional experience; - a letter addressing the qualifications listed above, including - the date you are available to begin the fellowship, and - the length of time you are available. All materials and inquiries should be sent to: Dr. Martin McKellar, Recruitment Coordinator WorldWID Fellows Program University of Florida, Office of International Studies and Programs 123 Tigert Hall, Box 113225 Gainesville, FL 32611-3225 Phone 352/392-9386; Fax 352/392-8379: E-mail wid1@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu All communications about this placement should be with the WorldWID Fellows Program. Applicants should NOT contact USAID overseas Missions or offices in Washington, D.C. Selection will be made as soon as we identify a pool of acceptable candidates. [%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%] AERA Home Page on the World Wide Web: http://aera.net Posted by Ev Shepherd or Gene Glass, Editors of AERA General Listserv To post messages, mail them to AERA-GEN@asu.edu or shepherd@asu.edu This LIST is for announcements to the educational research community (jobs, conferences, publications, relocation of AERA members, etc.) [%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%] ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:04:21 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara A. Crow" Subject: Last request for addresses Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello - I am still trying to locate Marlene Dixon, Frances Beal, Cellestine Ware and Roxanne Dunbar. Please respond privately, thank you, Barbara -- Barbara Crow, Ph.D. Phone: 403-220-3160 Assistant Professor Fax: 403-282-6716 University of Calgary Email: crow@acs.ucalgary.ca Faculty of General Studies 2500 University Ave. NW., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/campuswomen/campuswomen.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:33:59 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phillipa Kafka Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Gayl Jones has a novel on a woman in prison for murdering a man she had picked up. I don't remember the title--Eva's Man? At 12:20 PM 8/25/97 -0500, you wrote: >______________________________ Reply Separator >_________________________________ >Subject: WOMEN IN PRISON >Author: Women's Studies List at Internet >Date: 8/25/97 11:31 AM > > >I have a student who is doing her senior seminar project with a group >of women in prison. she's conducting a literature reading group in >which she focuses on literature written by women. I'm interested in >locating texts that deal specifically with issues involving women >in a prison situation. thanks. > >Betty J. Powell >Asistant Professor of English >Mars Hill College >bpowell@mhc.edu > > > One possibility: > > Harris, Jean (Jean Struven) > They always call us ladies : stories from prison. > New York : Scribner's : Special Sales Director, > Macmillan Pub. Co. [distributor], c1988. > > (Harris is the woman convicted of killing Herman Tarnower, > the Tarnower Diet doctor.) > > Beth Golding > Florida State Archives > egolding@mail.dos.state.fl.us > > Dr. Phillipa Kafka,Professor of English, Director of Women's Studies J306, Kean College of New Jersey 07083 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:25:35 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Thomason Subject: Re: request for advising assistance In-Reply-To: <199708271727.MAA15372@shrike.depaul.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" New College of California offers an MA in Psychology with focus on etiher feminist psyhology or social-politcal psychology. Both are strong programs. Located at 777 Valencia Ave, San Francisco, CA I don't have the phone number handy but information will Best Jackie >Dear List, >We have a graduating senior, double major in wms and psychology, who is >looking for a graduate program in clinical psychology with a feminist slant, >preferrably with a child track. I don't know where to advise her to look. >Any suggestions? Of particular schools? Or any reference works that would >help? > >Please reply to her: heather@vailsys.com. > >Thank you for any help, >Carol Cyganowski >DePaul University ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Jacqueline Thomason 510-547-1518 jackiet@sirius.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:55:14 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Speer Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've just been looking at the new Women's Review of Books and there are two new publicatins that might be of interest to your student THE FARM: LIFE INSIDE A WOMEN'S PRISON by Andi Rierdon University of Massachusetts Press THE FEMALE OFFENDER: GIRLS,WOMEN,AND CRIME by Meda Chesney-Lind Sage Publications, Inc. Amy Speer speeraw@appstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:14:16 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Carson Subject: Quebec literature Can anyone recommend fiction or other writing by women writers in Quebec, especially dealing with rural, small town, and northern Quebec (i.e. not urban life in Montreal)? Contemporary is preferred, but older is fine, e.g. Kamouraska by Anne Hebert. Would prefer titles in original French. Thanks. Anne Carson Cornell University carson@law.mail.cornell.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:11:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Fulbright grants; Critical Asian Studies Program MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following two announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Extended deadlines on some Fulbright grants for 1998-99 2) Program in Critical Asian Studies For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) The USIA Fulbright Senior Scholar Program has announced extended deadlines for *some* Fulbright grants for 1998-99, including some with a women's studies focus. The announcement was about ten times longer than WMST-L's maximum length, so I have made it available as a file that interested people can send for. To get the file, which is over 2000 lines long, send the message GET FULBRITE 98-99 to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . (Please note the deliberate misspelling "FULBRITE" required by the IBM mainframe computer.) If you wish to see what other files are available, add a second line that contains just the two words INDEX WMST-L . See the WMST-L User's Guide for more information about WMST-L files (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html ). Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) *************************************************************************** 2) PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT: 1998-1999 PROGRAM IN CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. The University of Washington's Project for Critical Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary initiative to promote contemporary theoretical work and innovative research. The project is immediately concerned with the questions of how "Asia" as an object of study is being reconfigured in the processes of late twentieth-century economic and cultural transformation and what role the humanities ought to play in shaping our thinking about these changes. We invite project proposals that promise to explore one or more of the following areas: 1) the political economy of the internationalization of scholarship on Asia, 2) contemporary social formations now racializing, ethnicizing and gendering Asian-North American-Asian social and cultural circuits 3) troubled boundaries between Asian Studies and Asian American studies or broadly construed consideration of the question of internationalizing academic disciplines, and 4) projects that either demonstrate a commitment to activism or look at theories of the ethics and politics of building productive relationships among academic scholars and community interests (e.g. ethnicized American communities, Asian communities in diaspora outside the United States, refugee and migrant communities and so on). Fellows for the 1997-98 academic year are Dr. Shengmei Ma (Michigan State University) whose project explores how the orientalism of the dominant, racially marked US popular culture strongly conditions reactive types of ethnic subjectivity in Asian American literatures. Dr. Venkat Rao (Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India) is concerned to trace the history and epistemic roots of area studies of India in the US as a means of recasting both Indic studies in India and contemporary South Asian studies in the US. Eligible applicants will have completed the Ph.D. prior to the beginning of the fellowship period (September 15, 1998). Proposals by applicants who do not have a doctoral degree will be considered if they can demonstrate significant experience in community involvement in accord with the fourth program area defined above. The fellowship is open to all levels of post-doctoral scholarship and is by no means limited to East Asia. Scholars and activists working in Central, South and Southeast Asia are also encouraged to apply. Proposals which seek to explore the interdisciplinary connections across the humanities and social sciences are also encouraged. The Project for Critical Asian Studies is aimed at enriching and expanding pedagogy and graduate scholarship at the University of Washington and one criteria of evaluation will be the degree to which proposals fit the curricular needs of the campus. Fellows will be in residence for one academic year of three quarters and will teach one graduate seminar funded separately by the University of Washington. In addition, fellows will lead a quarter-long bi-weekly seminar open to faculty and graduate students. The seminar is intended to facilitate intellectual exchanges between the project fellows and the resident faculty with the object of generating theoretical resources and substantive research to build a foundation for Critical Asian Studies at the University of Washington and elsewhere. The objectives of the seminar are: to help students incorporate cultural critique into their course of study, to offer faculty an opportunity to explore theoretical approaches outside international studies as it is currently institutionalized, to rethink Asian Studies at the level of the undergraduate curriculum, and to produce innovative scholarship for publication. Fellows will receive a basic stipend according to seniority ranging from $25,000 to $40,000 (including the stipend for the graduate seminar) plus up to $5,000 to cover costs of relocation, health and other benefits. Senior scholars are welcome to seek supplementary support from their home institutions (e.g. fellowships may be combined with sabbatical leave) or from other institutional funding. Application Requirements: five-page proposal narrative; two recommendation letters; one-page course description or syllabus; curriculum vitae which includes a list of publications. (There is no application form.) Application Deadline: January 15, 1998. Contact: Ann Anagnost and Tani Barlow, Project for Critical Asian Studies, The University of Washington, Center for the Humanities, Lewis Annex II, Box 353910, Seattle, WA 98195-3910, U.S.A. (e-mail: ). ============================================================================== Ann Anagnost, Tani Barlow, co-directors Advisory Board: Yen Espiritu (UC San Diego), Chandra Mohanty (Hamilton College), Michael Omi (UC Berkeley), Aihwa Ong (UC Berkeley), Naoki Sakai (Cornell University), John Treat (University of Washington) ============================================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:26:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phillipa Kafka Subject: Re: references on cuban/cuban american experience Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Dear Lisa: > >1. Yolanda Prieto, "Cuban Women in the U.S. Labor Force: Perspectives on >the Nature of Change," Latinos in the United States: History, Law and >Perspective: Lat5ina Issues: Fragments of Historia (Ella)(Herstory) Vol.2, >e. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, New York & London, Garland Press, 1995. [Orig. >Prtd. in Cuban Studies 17 (1987): 73-9. U. of Pittsburgh. Her bibliogrphy >is old, though. >2. Denis Lynn Daly Heyck, Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and >Latinas in the U.S., New York and London: Routledge Press, 1994. (Her >introduction contains excellent background material on the various groups, >including the Cubans. Just what you want). >3. Delores Prida, Beautiful Senoritas and Other Plays, ed. Judith Weiss. >Houston, TX: Arte Publico P, 1991. (Contains a MUST READ play: "Coser y >cantar," a dialogue between the two psyches of one woman: Ella--adamantly >Cuban, and "She," "Americanized" in NY. This play contains all the subject >matter, all the topics you would want re Cubanas in powerful literary >format. I saw the play performed, and the author spoke afterward, but it is >even more hard-hitting when read, in my humble opinion. >4. Delores Prida, "The Show Does Go On (testimonio)," Breaking Boundaries: >Latina Writing and Critical Readings, eds. Asuncion Horno-Delgado, Eliana >Ortega, Nina M. Scott, Nancy Saporta Sternbach, Amherst, MA: U of Mass P, >181-188. >5. And of course, there is Christina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban, New York: >Balantine Books, 1992. She gives all sides, but her heart is obviously with >the grandmother figure Celia in Cuba and the granddaughter Pilar, a feminist >art student in NY. They communicate telepathically. >At 10:43 AM 7/31/97 -0500, you wrote: >>I know I have read some fairly recent articles discussing the cuban/cuban >>american experience.. who left, why they left, conservatism and >>identification/lack of identification with people of color in the us, the >>experience of women here in the us, etc. However, for the life of me I can >>not find a single reference. Assistance would be appreciated. thanks lisa >> >>***************** >>Lisa W. Loutzenheiser >>Department of Educational Policy Studies >>University of Wisconsin-Madison >> >> >Dr. Phillipa Kafka,Professor of English, Director of Women's Studies >J306, Kean College of New Jersey 07083 > > > > Dr. Phillipa Kafka,Professor of English, Director of Women's Studies J306, Kean College of New Jersey 07083 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:26:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phillipa Kafka Subject: Rejected mailing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >To: "Women's Studies List" >From: Phillipa Kafka >Subject: Re: references on cuban/cuban american experience > >Dear Lisa: > >1. Yolanda Prieto, "Cuban Women in the U.S. Labor Force: Perspectives on >the Nature of Change," Latinos in the United States: History, Law and >Perspective: Lat5ina Issues: Fragments of Historia (Ella)(Herstory) Vol.2, >e. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, New York & London, Garland Press, 1995. [Orig. >Prtd. in Cuban Studies 17 (1987): 73-9. U. of Pittsburgh. Her bibliogrphy >is old, though. >2. Denis Lynn Daly Heyck, Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and >Latinas in the U.S., New York and London: Routledge Press, 1994. (Her >introduction contains excellent background material on the various groups, >including the Cubans. Just what you want). >3. Delores Prida, Beautiful Senoritas and Other Plays, ed. Judith Weiss. >Houston, TX: Arte Publico P, 1991. (Contains a MUST READ play: "Coser y >cantar," a dialogue between the two psyches of one woman: Ella--adamantly >Cuban, and "She," "Americanized" in NY. This play contains all the subject >matter, all the topics you would want re Cubanas in powerful literary >format. I saw the play performed, and the author spoke afterward, but it is >even more hard-hitting when read, in my humble opinion. >4. Delores Prida, "The Show Does Go On (testimonio)," Breaking Boundaries: >Latina Writing and Critical Readings, eds. Asuncion Horno-Delgado, Eliana >Ortega, Nina M. Scott, Nancy Saporta Sternbach, Amherst, MA: U of Mass P, >181-188. >5. And of course, there is Christina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban, New York: >Balantine Books, 1992. She gives all sides, but her heart is obviously with >the grandmother figure Celia in Cuba and the granddaughter Pilar, a feminist >art student in NY. They communicate telepathically. >At 10:43 AM 7/31/97 -0500, you wrote: >>I know I have read some fairly recent articles discussing the cuban/cuban >>american experience.. who left, why they left, conservatism and >>identification/lack of identification with people of color in the us, the >>experience of women here in the us, etc. However, for the life of me I can >>not find a single reference. Assistance would be appreciated. thanks lisa >> >>***************** >>Lisa W. Loutzenheiser >>Department of Educational Policy Studies >>University of Wisconsin-Madison >> >> >Dr. Phillipa Kafka,Professor of English, Director of Women's Studies >J306, Kean College of New Jersey 07083 > > > > Dr. Phillipa Kafka,Professor of English, Director of Women's Studies J306, Kean College of New Jersey 07083 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:35:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phillipa Kafka Subject: Re: Query: new novels by Jap-Am. women Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Donna: R.A. Sasaki, The Loom and Other Stories (a good collection of short stories), Cynthia Kadohata, The Floating World, and Banana Yamamoto are three Japanese American women writers who come to mind. There are also chapters on the first two authors in my latest book (Un)Doing the Missionary Position: Gender Assymetry in Contemporary Asian American Women's Writing, Greenwood P, 1997. At 04:42 PM 8/16/97 -0700, you wrote: >Hello everyone > >Just a quick message: The preferred abbreviation for Japanese is >(Jpns.). Thanks > >====================================== >Donna Maeda >Assistant Professor, Religious Studies >Occidental College >213-259-2856 tel. >213-341-4919 fax > > Dr. Phillipa Kafka,Professor of English, Director of Women's Studies J306, Kean College of New Jersey 07083 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:59:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Showalter, WSJ, and academic ethics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just wanted to point out that Elaine Showalter's whining about people with CFS "attacking her" (that is her term for people disagreeing with her and trying to state facts that contradict what she wants to believe, sorry, pretty ticked off at this) -- has now made it to the Wall Street Journal, where they devoted an entire editorial to how people with chronic fatigue syndrome are con artists trying to get disability so they can lay at home and do nothing, and they devote about half of the editorial to Showalter! (I can forward a copy of the editorial to anyone who is interested.) Do politics make strange bedfellows or what? Seriously, is there NO way a chaired professor at Princeton has to answer for the consequences of her actions? Free speech is one thing, but where is academic responsibility? Does no one care? Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of History, Villanova University (on indefinite medical leave since January 1995 with CFIDS) mailto: schweit2@ix.netcom.com (Review of Elaine Showalter: http://pw1.netcom.com/~schweit2/review.html) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 15:09:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: _Whores and Other Feminists_: announcement and dates Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" New book I though people might be interested in... Dawn ANNOUNCEMENT WHORES AND OTHER FEMINISTS edited by Jill Nagle Now available from Routledge. Whores and Other Feminists is a who's who of contemporary progressive thought on the sex industry. This sparkling collection brings together some of the most passionate and articulate feminist activists on the planet: feminist sex workers. These eloquent partisans provide a badly needed immunization against moralistic versions of feminism. I urge other feminists to accept their challenge by joining their efforts to decriminalize all voluntary sex work. This indispensable anthology will help feminism renew its historic commitment to a vision and a political agenda for sexual justice. Gayle Rubin, Anthropologist University of California, Santa Cruz Whores and Other Feminists fleshes out feminist politics from the perspective of sex workers-strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices-and their allies. Comprising a range of voices from within and outside the academy, this collection continues and furthers post-sex-war discussions of how feminism's stigmatization of sex workers reproduces patriarchal values, this time giving primacy to the voices of feminist sex workers themselves. It also chronicles particular moments of resistance to, reversal and transformation of hegemonic sex industry practices, images and interpretations: A butch lesbian offers herself for hire by femmes; after years of studying holy whore archetypes, a forty-two year old woman has a spiritual awakening and decides to become a prostitute; a young, feminist stripper demystifies questions about sex and objectification she had only intellectualized. Thus, the contributors divorce the notion of sexual commerce from its forced ideological marriage with sexist oppression, claiming territory for themselves and their colleagues in the debates to come. Contributors: Blake Aarens, Priscilla Alexander, Norma Jean Almodovar, Red Jordan Arobateau, Hima B., Siobhan Brooks, Drew Campbell, Tawnya Dudash, Cosi Fabian, Vicky Funari, Gina Gold, Teri Goodson, Larry Grant, Nina Hartley, Liz Highleyman, Jade Irie, Joan Kennedy Taylor, Madeleine Lawson, Carol Leigh, Gloria Lockett, Lyndall MacCowan, Julian Marlowe, Veronica Monet, Jessica Patton, Eva Pendleton, Tracy Quan, Carol Queen, Stacy Reed, Ann Renee, Candida Royalle, Marcy Sheiner, Annie Sprinkle, Debi Sundahl, Les von Zoticus Jill Nagle has taught at the Harvey Milk Institute, and published her essays and fiction in Girlfriends, Anything That Moves, Black Sheets, and a number of anthologies. She is currently writing about white supremacy and queer movements, editing Girl Fag, associate editing Male Lust, and compiling a collection of her own essays from the past ten years. This is her first book. For review copies, contact Alli F. Hirschman 212.216.7832; fax: 212.564.7854; e-mail: hirschman@routledge.com. BOOK RELEASE PARTY!!! For more information, or publicity photos, contact Jill Nagle at (415) 541-5618. "I don't want to be part of your revolution if I can't dance." -Emma Goldman Routledge announces a book release party and benefit* for Whores and Other Feminists Come celebrate with contributors and performers: Blake Aarens, Siobhan Brooks, Red Jordan Arobateau & Dalila Jasmin, Jade Blue Eclipse, Cosi Fabian, Gina Gold, Jason & David, the sexy stripper brothers, Scarlot Harlot, Nina Hartley, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Kat Sunlove, ..and more!, Date: Thursday, September 25, 1997 Time: 6:30 Fundraiser Reception 7:30 Main Program Place: the Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell Street. Dress: To wake the dead; to revive the unconscious! Main program begins at 7:30, and includes performances, readings, book signings, vendor and organization tables, raffle, catered buffet and cash bar. Suggested donations are $15.00 postmarked before September 20; $20.00 with phoned-in RSVP**; $30.00 at the door. Volunteer exchanges available, call ASAP; No one turned away for lack of funds. Fundraiser Reception at 6:30. Please join the authors, the press, other local luminaries, and some surprise celebrities for hors d'oeuvres, champagne and schmoozing before the show at 6:30. Donation: $60.00 if paid in advance, $65.00 with phoned-in RSVP before September 20**, $75.00 at the door. Price includes admission to main event. Please RSVP to (415) 541-5618, and/or mail advance donations to address below. Park in one of four paid lots within three blocks of GAMH on the east side of Van Ness at Ellis, on the west side of Van Ness at both O'Farrell and Geary, or on Post Street between Polk and Van Ness. The Great American Music Hall was originally a restaurant/bordello called Blanco's, which offered fine food, gambling, and entertaining women right up until the height of the Depression in 1933. It was designed in 1907 by an architect and a politician, and became one of the most popular entertainment spots of San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast era. It is a particularly appropriate venue for this event, in which the arts and politics once again come together, this time to celebrate the freedoms we have won, to generate energy to keep them and secure more, and to revel in the pleasure of the moment. Copies of the book will be made available for purchase by Modern Times bookstore. * A portion of the proceeds for this event goes to retiring the editor's book debt; the rest will be donated to the Prostitute's Education Project and the Smith-Ryan House for Women. **If you RSVP, and then can't attend, be sure to phone back and let us know on or before Sept. 23; we'll enter A FREE RAFFLE TICKET in each guest's name, and you need not be present to win! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Make check or money order payable, and send along with this form to Jill Nagle, 1388 Haight Street #215, San Francisco, CA, 94117. Name:_________________________ Date of registration:__________ Address:_________________________ Telephone (___)________ _______________________________ I/We will attend ___ Fundraiser reception (Price Includes Main Program) ___ Main Program Only # of tickets___ Amt. paying $____ Names of additional guests_____________________________________ - - - - - - - READINGS (partial list-in-progress -- reply to this email address to kept on an update list! Include your postal address if you'd like a non-virtual invitation.) List of contributors appearing at each event is subject to change. Monday, August 25, 1997 at A Different Light Bookstore, San Francisco. Castro Street near 17th. 7:30 p.m., featuring contributors Siobhan Brooks, Veronica Monet, Jill Nagle, Les Von Zoticus, Liz Highleyman. Tuesday, September 16, 1997 at Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia in San Francisco, 7:30. Contributors include Larry Grant, Lyndall MacCowan, Jill Nagle, Hima B., Nina Hartley. Wednesday October 22, at A Different Light bookstore in New York City. Saturday, November 15, Boadecia's in the East Bay, 398 Colusa Ave. Contributors include Blake Aarens, Red Jordan Arobateau, Vicky Funari, Gina Gold, Gloria Lockett, Jill Nagle, Marcy Sheiner. Call (510) 559-9184 for exact p.m. time, unavailable at time of this posting. Monday, November 17, Good Vibrations in San Francisco, 23rd and Valencia, 8pm. Contributors Tawnya Dudash, Teri Goodson, Cosi Fabian, Carol Leigh, Carol Queen, and Jill Nagle. More East Bay, Marin, Santa Cruz and Peninula dates TBA. If you have a suggestion for a venue in one of these areas, please let me know. Thanks for your support, and hope to see you at one of these events! Best, Jill ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 16:48:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: WOMEN IN PRISON Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:35 AM 8/29/97 -0400, you wrote: >Betty - have your student check an article written by Kathy Boudin, who is >serving a sentence in the Bedford Women's Correctional Facility in NY. >She organized a writers group in the prison and wrote about it in the >_Harvard Ed Review_. The piece is titled Participatory Literacy Education >Behind Bars: AIDS Opens the Door, v.63 (no.2), p. 207-232, Summer, 1993. I >believe she wrote another article in 1995 which should be listed in the >ERIC database. > >Judith S. Kaufman >Department of Curriculum & Teaching >Hofstra University >105B Mason Hall >Hempstead, NY 11550-1090 > >\There is also a pamphlet of poetry by the women in that project that Kathy organized. It is quite interesting and very primary material for anything you might be studying about women in prison. You should request the pamphlet directly from Kathy if she still has copies. Kathy Boudin, PO Box 1000, 846171, Bedford Hills NY 10507. Marge Piercy ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:49:14 -0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cec=EDlia?= Sardenberg Subject: Re: Looking for an invitation Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am writing to thank everybody that responded to my request for 'invitation' and to let you know that I will be getting in touch with each one of you privately for the necessary arrangements, etc. I am sorry I did not get back to you sooner, but the day after I posted my message, I left for an out of town trip, returning ten days later to a computer with problems in the modem and could not assess my server. When I finally got things straigthened up, I had such a huge back log of mail that I am just now getting it caught up. I am sending this collective message and to the List as well, because I want to let everybody out there know how much I appreciate being a part of such a solidary group. Who says 'international sisterhood' is not possible ? I received 12 invitations! And this is not the first time that you have being of great help. Thanks once again and Hooray for the WMST ! Cecilia Sardenberg NEIM-Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador, Bahia, BRAZIL cecisard@ufba.br ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:56:56 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Speer Subject: *NWSA Journal* Call for Papers DEADLINE EXTENDED Comments: To: WS List Servers , FEMPED-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU, "N. Wome's History Project" , FEMISA@CSF.COLORADO.EDU, WHIRL@LISTS.PSU.EDU, SWIP-L@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NWSA Journal A Publication of the National Women's Studies Association Call for Papers DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOV. 1, 1997 Special Issue Affirmative Action We seek contributions about both U.S. and other national or regional contexts, particularly those which can lend a comparative or global perspective. Papers might address any of the following topics: Analysis of affirmative action in the context of the dynamics and discourse of power Legal perspectives on affirmative action: analysis of new rulings, definitions, and clarifications Reports and analyses of specific cases (e.g. the California referendum and the Hopwood (TX) case) and subsequent rulings Reports of specific strategies in educational institutions and other workplaces -- What works? What does not? What is the record? Strategies for teaching about affirmative action The ethics of affirmative action Personal accounts and experiences The relation of affirmative action to Title IX issues Media treatment of affirmative action Should affirmative action apply to sexual preference? The intersection of race, class, and gender in affirmative action Other issues relevant to the topic of the special issue Send three copies of your manuscript byNovember 1, 1997 to: Margaret McFadden, Editor, NWSA Journal, 109 IG Greer Hall, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608. E-mail inquiries to mcfaddenmh@appstate.edu Amy Murtha speeraw@appstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 14:50:57 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Bendfeldt, Melani LITTLE-GRAPE" Subject: GENDER BIAS THESIS Comments: To: h-women@h-net.msu.edu, femjur@assocdir.wuacc.edu, edequity@mail.edc.org HELLO ALL, At the beginning of the summer I posted a message regarding my Master's thesis, and I got a large response of interested people. I would just like to let anyone who is interested know that my thesis on GENDER BIAS IN COURSE EVALUATIONS OF COLLEGE FACULTY is now complete. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy please email me with GENDER BIAS as the subject and I will be happy to forward one onto you via snail mail. However, I should let you know that I will have to charge you shipping and copying, as I am a poor student STILL. Email me if you are interested. Thanks, MElani Bendfeldt Marist College KRLR@maristb.marist.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 20:55:16 -0500 Reply-To: yklein@total.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: yvonne klein Subject: Re: Quebec literature MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jovette Marchessault's "La mere des herbes" and "Tryptich lesbienne" are both set in part in rural Quebec. (Sorry, no diacriticals). These contain lyrical celebrations of a nature-based spirituality as well as, in the case of Triptych, a searing attack on Roman Catholic suppression of sexuality. Some of Marie-Claire Blais's earlier work is also set outside of urban centres. -- ***************************************************************** Yvonne M. Klein English Department, Dawson College 3040 Sherbrooke St W. Que. H3Z 1A6 yklein@total.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 22:53:42 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michael Sarazin Subject: Re: Quebec literature MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anne, If you're looking for something 19th-C, try Rosanna Leprohon's _Antoinette de Mirecourt_ (available in recent editions in both the original French and in English translation). Andrea Austin Queen's University 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 20:37:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Greta Hofmann Nemiroff Subject: Re: Quebec literature Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Anne Carson: There are so many wonderful women writers in Quebec, I don't know where to begin. Here are some writers and their works, although I do not have accents in this programme for e-mail. Nicole Brossard. [just about anything.] but "L'amer" is considered important. Maddeleine Gagnon. "Retailles." Anne Hebert, "Le premier jardin." Paris , Editions du Seuil. 1988. Jovette Marchessault. "Comme une enfant de la terrer: 1. LE crachat soliare. Montreal: Lemeac, 1975. "Tryptique Lesbien. Montreal. Editions de la pleine lune, 1980.. Louky Bersianik: "L'Euguelionne." Montreal. Les Editions Alain Stanke, 1985. "Le Pique-nique sur l'Acropole," Montreal. VLB Editeur, 1979. Marie-Claire Blais Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel," [1965] There are many other novels and works by Marie-Claire Blais, some of which have also been translated into English. Denise Boucher. "Cyprine" Monet-Chartrand, Simone. "Ma vie comme riviere," Tomes I-III. Les Editions du remue-menage, 1991. Claire De, "Sourdes amours," Montreal: XYZ, 1993. Anne Dandurand. "Un coeur qui craque: journal imaginaire," vlb editeur/ messidor, 1990. I'm sure there are more. Unfortuately most of my french library is still in boxes after a move. Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, Coordinator of Women's Studies, Dawson College, 3040 Sherbrooke west, Westmout, Quebec. Canada ghn@aei.ca >Can anyone recommend fiction or other writing by women writers in Quebec, >especially dealing with rural, small town, and northern Quebec (i.e. not >urban life in Montreal)? Contemporary is preferred, but older is fine, e.g. >Kamouraska by Anne Hebert. Would prefer titles in original French. > >Thanks. > >Anne Carson >Cornell University >carson@law.mail.cornell.edu > > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 08:46:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire Sahlin Subject: GENDER BIAS THESIS -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Please send me a copy of your thesis. I am very happy to reimburse you for the costs of photocopying and postage. Here is my address: Dr. Claire L. Sahlin, Director Women's Studies University of North Texas P.O. Box 305189 Denton, TX 76203-5189 Thank you! I look forward to reading the results of your work. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 10:32:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeff Finlay Subject: JOB: Women's Studies Archivist, Special Collections, Duke Univ (due Oct) Comments: To: opportunities@home.ease.lsoft.com, roadsign@listserv.georgetown.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Crossposted from ARCHIVES@MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU > From: "Daley, Ginny" Personal note: This is a posting for my current job which I have had for the past 9 years. It truly is a "dream job" and I am leaving this position for purely personal reasons. Duke is an excellent place to work. The environment is extremely positive and nurturing, where creativity is encouraged and autonomy respected. Co-workers are dilligent, smart, collaborate, fun, and good cooks. Benefits are extensive and the weather is great (not to mention how close to the beach and the mountains we are)! ginny daley vld@mail.lib.duke.edu ********************************************* DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Women's Studies Archivist and Resource Specialist The Libraries at Duke University seek an imaginative, energetic, and knowledgeable individual to provide leadership as Women's Studies Archivist in the Special Collections Library and Women's Studies Resource Specialist for the Perkins Library system. DESCRIPTION: Under the general supervision of the Director of Collection Development in the SCL and as a member of the SCL Collection Development Team, she/he shapes collecting policies; identifies and acquires materials pertinent to Women's Studies; undertakes appropriate outreach efforts; provides reference assistance; oversees web site development; supervises student assistants and other temporary staff; and oversees special projects. Women's studies resources in the Duke University Libraries have been built and promoted intensively since the first appointment of a women's studies archivist/bibliographer in 1988. Working closely with Duke's distinguished Women's Studies faculty, the Libraries foster a dynamic environment for research on women and gender. Special collecting areas include Southern women writers, African American women activists, feminist politics and theory, and lesbian life and culture. See also http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/ QUALIFICATIONS: Position requires an ALA-accredited MLS and/or an advanced degree in an appropriate subject field; knowledge of and enthusiasm for women's history and women's studies; familiarity with standard archival procedures; a minimum of two years of professional archival/special collections experience; ability to work in a team environment and communicate effectively with users and donors of special collections materials. Experience with building circulating collections in an academic library and with creating and using web resources desired. APPLICATION INFORMATION: Salary will be based on education and experience, with a minimum of $31,850. Excellent fringe benefits package. Please submit letter of application, resume, and names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three references to B. Ilene Nelson, Chair of Women's Studies Archivist/Resource Specialist Search, Box 90193, Duke University Libraries, Durham, NC 27708-0193. Review of applications will begin October 15, 1997. Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 13:26:30 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet Nona Hungate Subject: address needed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I want to order additional copies of Feminist Parenting but can't find Dena Taylor's address; tried to query WMST-L electronically, but either I used the wrong command or, what I think is true, that non-owner's can't do that anymore. ?? Are you there, Dena? Thanks. Nona ************************ H. Nona Hungate, PhD harnet@telis.org Oakland CA ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 17:42:54 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, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Film Review Added: The Eyes of the Rainbow y On Saturday, August 30, I reviewed a new documentary film by Afro- Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando about the life of Assata Shakur who has been in political exile in Cuba for nearly twenty-five years. The film is called "The Eyes of the Rainbow." The review is now available from WMST-L. To obtain it send the following command to listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). GET FILM REV216 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, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 19:42:25 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chelsea Starr Subject: New list: wom-mus Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" For those researching womyn's music (lesbian feminist music) and feminist music festivals, riot grrrl and other feminist musics: Recently I've been contacted by enough people working in these areas to make me consider setting up an email listserv. I am aware of three dissertations and several masters' projects currently being written in the area, and there are several scholars out there wondering what everyone one is doing! If you're doing work in this area and would like to participate in a forum with others doing similar work, please indicate your interest by sending an email with a short description of your research interests to me: orbit@no-fi.com privately--DON'T reply to the list. The wom-mus list will be a discussion list for people specifically working on womyn's music festivals, feminist music events, riot grrrl or other contemporary feminist musics, and feminist theory/music history as related to these topics. People working in the organizational and business end of feminist cultural organizations are welcome also, as long as they don't mind the "academic" focus of the list. The list is NOT intended as a "fan club" or informational resource for womyn's music artists, nor as a place to advertise festivals, concerts, or releases. Please DON'T subscribe to "find out more about womyn's music or riot grrrl" unless you plan to lurk! If you'd be interested in participating in such a list, send your email address & short blurb on research interests to: orbit@no-fi.com (the list will be run on my own hardware to avoid any present or future university computer bureaucracy!) It will be up and running within 30 days. Thanks Chelsea ==================================================================== Chelsea Starr, ABD | http://www.indieweb.com/orbit (Canis meus id comedit) | cstarr@orion.oac.uci.edu Social Relations, University of California, Irvine ==================================================================== ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- ==================================================================== Chelsea Starr, ABD | http://www.indieweb.com/orbit (Canis meus id comedit) | cstarr@orion.oac.uci.edu Social Relations, University of California, Irvine ==================================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 21:27:43 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Laura Claridge Subject: Re: references on cuban/cuban american experience I'm barging in on a private conversation, I fear. A book I'm just about to complete writing needs information on Havana in the late l930s, specifically 39. I'm researching an Austro-Hungarian baron who, as part of his emigration to the States to escape WWII, stopped off in Havana and lived at a hotel there for some time. He was both a well-respected agriculturalist, eager to teach others, and a bit of an old world sort of playboy. So I don't know what to think: why was he in Cuba, and why does none of his family know about this? Thanks for any advice you (whoever you are!) can offer. Laura at LClar210@aol.com