========================================================================= Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 09:51:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Format for WMST-L Messages (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Happy New Year! At the start of each month, I post excerpts from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind people of the list's policies and features. Here is section one. If you haven't read these messages for a while, now might be a good time to refresh your memory. ******************** 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 NOTE: if you're replying to a long message, do NOT quote it in its entirety!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 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: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 14:43:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Brenda J. Young" Subject: Re: Sage: journal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sage Journal was put out by Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga; however, the publication ceased a short while ago. If you contact the Women's Studies Center, headed by Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, I am sure you will get a response. Good luck. Brenda Young dryoung@mindspring.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 23:19:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to unsubscribe, etc. (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: 2) "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LISTSERV@UMDD AND WMST-L@UMDD? HOW DO I TELL WHICH ADDRESS TO USE? AND HOW DO I UNSUBSCRIBE?" WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU should be used ONLY for messages that you wish to send to all WMST-L subscribers. Messages concerning your WMST-L subscription should be sent to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you wish to unsubscribe, for example, send the message UNSUB WMST-L to the LISTSERV address, not to WMST-L. If you receive the edited DIGEST and want to unsubscribe, your UNSUB message still goes to LISTSERV but should have two lines: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L on one line, UNSUB WMST-L on the other. Here are some additional messages to send to LISTSERV (NOT to WMST-L): Subscribe to WMST-L SUB WMST-L Your Name Stop receiving mail temporarily: SET WMST-L NOMAIL Start receiving mail again: SET WMST-L MAIL Start edited digest [See paragraph marked *** below] Stop edited digest but stay on WMST-L [See paragraph marked *** below] Stop edited digest and unsub from WMST-L (2 lines): AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L UNSUB WMST-L ===> NEVER SEND A MESSAGE TO WMST-L ABOUT YOUR SUBSCRIPTION!!! NOTE: You must send all mail from the address the Listserv software recorded when you subscribed. If you know that your address is about to change, UNSUBSCRIBE while you still can do so from your old address (if you get the edited digest, unsubscribing requires the 2-line message given above), and subscribe again as soon as you can do so from your new address. If you send mail from an address Listserv doesn't recognize, it will tell you you're not a subscriber and refuse to process your message. If your address has already changed and you can no longer send messages from your old one, contact me PRIVATELY at korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu, explain the problem, and let me know your old address (and if you get the edited digest, it's CRUCIAL that you tell me so). Please do not ask me to cancel your subscription if you can do so yourself. *** Also, to switch from receiving individual messages to receiving the edited digest, send the following two-line message to LISTSERV: AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE (on one line), SET WMST-L NOMAIL ACK (on the other line). Ignore suggestions to set a password. To stop the digest and go back to individual messages, send LISTSERV the following 2-line command: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L (on line 1), SET WMST-L MAIL NOACK (on line 2). Reminder: If you wish to stop the digest AND unsubscribe, you must send LISTSERV a two-line message: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L on one line, UNSUB WMST-L on the other. See section 6 for more information about the digest. For more extensive information about LISTSERV commands, send LISTSERV the following two-word message: INFO GENINTRO. You'll receive a file entitled LISTSERV.MEMO. (See section 11 for how to retrieve files sent to you in Netdata format.) If you have a question about your subscription that you want a human being to read, do NOT send it to either WMST-L or LISTSERV!! Instead, send it to me, the list owner, at KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU . However, if you have a question, please first consult the User's Guide (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html) to try to get the answer for yourself. ****************** 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, 3 Jan 1998 08:07:31 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhoda Unger Subject: Re: Passing MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Happy New Year everyone! I want to thank everyone who sent me such helpful and interesting materials and also tell you about a recent book which looks at the phenomenon as well as a number of other very areas associated with identity. It is called "Black, Jewish, and interracial: It'snot the color of your skin, but the race of your kin, and other myths of identity" by Katya Gibel Azoulay published in 1997 by Duke University Press. It is written with a postmodernist philosophical bent by an anthropologist and is not always easy going, but is well worth reading. Rhoda Unger ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 15:04:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: when NOT to reply 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: 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, 4 Jan 1998 17:46:33 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: List of Best Feminist Films of 1997 added On Saturday, January 3, 1998 I gave my annual list of the Best Feminist Films of the previous year (in my estimation, from among those that I saw) on The Women's Show, WMNF-FM, 88.5, Tampa. To obtain a copy of the list send the following command to listserv@umdd.umd.edu: GET FILM REV225 FILM To obtain a list of all the files available (film reviews and articles) send a message to the same listserv that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one item, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM ART001 FILM These reviews may also be obtained from the Web at URL: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/FilmReviews/ but there may be a considerable delay in their being put up on the web site. 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: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:31:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Donna M. Hughes" Subject: course prep In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Kathy, How is your course preparation going? Donna ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:18:40 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: benita roth Subject: sexual harassment film Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" i'm teaching a course in gender and work this quarter at ucla, and looking for a decent short film about the subject (or a tv program/report nonfiction only). The only one that UCLA has is from 1980, called "the workplace hustle" and is narrated by ed asner in a leisure suit, and seems designed mostly at winning over men (as in, "yes this really happens to women...gee"). It also has pretty poor sound quality. suggestions? benita roth Benita Roth, Ph.D. Dept of Sociology,UCLA roth@ucla.edu "Anatomy, like the bubonic plague, is history, not destiny." -- Chesler, _Women & Madness_ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 08:53:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: More 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. Here are some other messages not to send: 1) Warnings about computer viruses. The "Good Times" virus is a tired hoax, and most other messages about viruses are equally unfounded. NEVER SEND A WARNING ABOUT A VIRUS TO WMST-L! Instead, check with the computer support staff at your institution or check to see whether your "virus" is listed among the hoaxes described on any of the following sites: http://www.kumite.com/myths/ - Computer Virus Myths http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html - Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html - CIAC (US government agency) If you find there IS some cause for concern, write to me PRIVATELY at KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU . 2) Messages about Neiman-Marcus or Harrods or anyone else's cookies. This is an "urban legend" that has no business on WMST-L. 3) Stories about a poor child dying of a brain tumor who would like e-mail messages. Another urban legend that has no place on WMST-L. 4) Stories about the FCC's planning a modem tax. Another groundless tale. The above messages are wholly without foundation or are no longer true. Moreover, they have nothing to do with women's studies teaching, research, or program administration, and hence should not be sent to WMST-L for that reason as well. Attachments of any sort should NOT be sent to WMST-L. You should be sure to convert your message to ASCII (i.e., plain text, not in WordPerfect or MS Word or other word processing format, nor anything encoded [uuencode, binhex, etc.] or sent in "base64" or octal or anything else except plain ASCII) before you send it. Many people can't read attachments, and since attachments are one of the few ways in which viruses can be transmitted via e-mail (only if you open it, not if you simply delete it), that's yet another reason WMST-L forbids attachments. Also, please do not send jokes, whether or not they relate to Women's Studies. Jokes tend to precipitate an avalanche of messages: more jokes, complaints about the content, complaints about the complaints, complaints about the resulting excessive mail volume. So...NO JOKES. Petitions, too, should NOT be sent to WMST-L, regardless of how worthy the cause. They, too, tend to add unreasonably to the list's already heavy mail volume. If someone SENDS an inappropriate message, IGNORE it!!! DO NOT reply to WMST-L. If you wish to enlighten the sender, send her/him a message PRIVATELY. People who ignore the list's focus and persist in sending inappropriate messages or replies will find themselves removed from the list. ********************************************** 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: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 10:28:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gail Dines Subject: Re: sexual harassment film an excellent film on women and work is called "Fast Food Women" It was shown on PBS about five years ago as part of the POV series. It really opens the students eyes about the nature of work for those women who have no benefits or job security. Gail Dines ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:55:37 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Stephanie Rodriguez (Digest Only)" Subject: sexual harassment film MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Early in the Fall 1997 semester, ABC's 20-20 aired a segment on harassment of women employees through such methods as holding meetings in "gentlemen's clubs." I believe this was presented by John Stossel and might be an interesting piece for inclusion. S. Rodriguez ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:39:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KJH2U Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: course prep Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Donna, I'm not sure to which course you're referring? Have we met or spoken? My name is Katie Hogan and I'm an assistant prof. of English at LaGuardia Community College. I'm also interested in women's studies at cc. I look forward to hearing from you. Katie ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:48:33 -0500 Reply-To: SEETCHM@lafvax.lafayette.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Elizabeth Seetch Subject: lesbian adolescents - list of suggested titles Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thanks to all who contributed to this list. I have thoroughly enjoyed the titles I've read and am eager to read more. Sorry for my tardy compilation; the academic schedule and the winter holidays strike again! I've combined duplicate suggestions and numbered each item or group of items. Editorial comments belong to the original posters unless I've attached my initials (bs, hah!) to the comment. 1. Stephanie Grant's short story, Posting-Up, has been anthologized in a number of books--including "Tasting Life Twice" (new lesbian fiction), some book on Basketball stories, and a new book on women and sports called "A Whole New Ball Game." Also, an excerpt from her new novel "The Map of Ireland" was just printed in Cabbage and Bones, an anthology of Irish Amercian Women writers. Both of these are in the voices of adolescent lesbians and they deal with race and sexuality. They're terrific stories. 2. All by Nancy Garden: "Good Moon Rising," "Annie on My Mind," poster has read both, "they are quite good" "Annie is a beautiful love story of two young women"; "Lark in the Morning"; "all good, esp. Annie." 3. Recommendations to contact feminist bookstores: Linda Bubon at Women & Children First in Chicago (773) 769-9299; they also do mail order; Lisa McGowan, Feminist Bookstore News; for those with Web access--the webpage for Amazon Bookstore in Mpls (NOT amazoncom) has several recommended reading lists including one for gay/lesbian youth---try http://www.amazonfembks.com 4. by Rita Mae Brown: "Rubyfruit Jungle" includes the main character's adolescence; (and the just-published autobiography "Rita Will" --neither is geared specifically to adolescents, but you probably know that--bs) 5. by Jacqueline Woodson: "Autobiography of a Family Photo" "totally wonderful, really accessible, an adult novel set in the 70's, a coming of age story about an African-American girl; her adolescent fiction includes "From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun" (the narrator is a thirteen-year-old African-American son of a single mother who in the course of the story comes out to him; I read it, and Woodson is indeed wonderful. Thanks to all who introduced me to this fabulous writer--bs) 6. Anthologies: Growing Up Gay (ed. Rita Reed?--bs); Harvard Educational Review, summer 96, focuses on gay teens; School's Out ed. by Dan Woog (focuses on the impact on schools, more for an education/guidance audience than for an adolescent audience per se--bs);Two in Twenty (essays by teens); (I also found "Am I Blue: Coming Out from the Silence" ed. by Marion Dane Bauer, 1995, fiction for ages 7th grade and up--bs) 7. Deliver Us from Evie by M.E. Kerr (I loved this and can't wait for the sequel--bs); "bought it for my daughter and ended up reading it myself in one sitting, a book I wanted but never had, perhaps. Evie lives on a farm with her family in a small conservative community. Although many recognize Evie as 'different,' her lesbianism continues to be denied as long as it remains unspoken. When Evie falls in love, she and her family are forced to talk about and deal with her lesbianism." 8. Misc: "Not meant for adolescents, but my daughter still reads it and roars with laughter: The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans by Johnny Valentine"; The Cat Came Back by Hilary Mullins; Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller; The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr (forthcoming in paper from St. Martin's--bs) 9. A personal favorite of mine is Sister Safety Pin (by Lorrie Sprecher, Firebrand Books) which (among other things) is a coming out story that follows a seventeen-year-old early admission college student through her PhD program (a subtle encouragement to continue one's education). The story takes place in the punk scene of the early 80's--an era that is developing high nostalgia-cool potential in the age group you mention. 10. The Australian author Jenny Pausacker has written at least one such book and probably more. (Titles anyone?--bs) Since so few of these were available at my public library and local chainstore, I plan to make a habit of requesting/ordering them occasionally. If you care to offer updates to me, I'd be happy to collect and post them to WMST-L occasionally. Thanks again, Beth Seetch seetchm@lafayette.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 11:55:04 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahin Gerami Subject: Re: Format for WMST-L Messages (User's Guide) In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 1 Jan 1998 09:51:50 -0500 from Dear Joan I am having problems sending a bib file to the list. Our system is not allowing me to do this. I promised the group I would send everyone a Bib on Middle Eastern Muslim women. I have tried and not been successful due to our problems. Can my student assistant who is on AOL as GODESMOON3 send it? She tried once and since she is not a member her mail was rejected. Thanks for you help and thanks for running the list. Shahin Gerami shg226f@vma.smsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 14:36:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly Springer Subject: Fw: Sage: journal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You may be able to get issues of Sage through InterLibrary Loan from Emory University (Atlanta). I know the library has bound copies of the journal, but I don't know how many issues are available. Kimberly Springer PhD Candidate Institute for Women's Studies Emory University kspring@emory.edu "To be critical of one's culture is not to betray that culture." ---Cherrie Moraga ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:02:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan C. Chrisler" Subject: Student Research Prize Comments: To: TIPS@fre.fsu.umd.edu Comments: cc: powr-l@uriacc.uri.edu, pwinet-l@vms.cis.pitt.edu In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Announcing the 1998 annual Prize for Psychological Research on Women & Gender by graduate or undergraduate students - Awarded by the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) & Division 35 (Psychology of Women) of the American Psychological Association (APA) Research Issues: Research topics eligible for this award will be construed very broadly and may represent work in any area of psychology. The research should be relevant in some significant way to women's lives or, more generally, to the emerging psychological understanding of gender role influences on human behavior. The research may be basic or applied. Eligibility: Jointly authored papers are eligible, but the first author must have been a student when the research was done. Entires should be of approximately journal length and written in APA style. Papers that have been submitted for publication or presented at a professional meeting are eligible as are papers that are unpublished or that have been previously published or accepted for publication. Do not submit reprints or manuscripts with the authors' names embedded in them. Submission of papers: Senf four (4) copies of the paper and a self-addressed stamped post card and a self-addressed stamped business size envelope by April 1, 1998 to: Joan C. Chrisler, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320 USA. Judging: A panel of psychologists will read all entries using a standard masked review procedure. Judging will be done on the basis of theoretical creativity, methodological skill, clarity and style of presentation, and importance of the research problem and findings. Awards: First and alternate winners will be announced in August at APA. A $200 prize will be awarded for the best paper. Winners will be invited to present their research at the 1999 conference of the Association for Women in Psychology. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:51:27 -0800 Reply-To: jstarker@teleport.com Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: Ideas/ poem re: women's friendships? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I've been asked to give a presentation at a non-academic women's conference on women's friendships. Does anyone know of a good poem on women's friendships or any other relevant material? Thanks so much in advance. Joan Starker, Ph.D. Lewis and Clark College ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:51:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Ideas/ poem re: women's friendships Comments: To: Joan Starker In-Reply-To: <34B1AA3F.51C2@teleport.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I suggest you read the poetry of Marge Piercy. I'll bet she's done poems on women's friendship. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:48:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joyce R. Ladenson" Subject: WOMEN'S STUDIES IN LONDON Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ANNOUNCEMENT--Please announce and/or forward the following information to interested students. The Women's Studies Program at Michigan State University announces its Women's Studies in London program beginning July 5, 1998 through August 8, 1998. The Women's Studies Program offers the opportunity to study British women's lives in London. Classroom discussion and readings will be enchanced by contacts with women's organizations (e.g., England's Campaign Against Domestic Violence) and trips to the world's largest women's bookstore (The Silver Moon) and the London Women's Resource Center. Walking tours, films and theater, visits to museums and galleries as well as conversations with British women writers, directors, feminist activists, and British women's studies professors and students are also planned. Historically complex and fascinating, Great Britain provides a laboratory in which students will investigate how U.S. culture compares with that of England and other world cultures, and how most cultures are influenced by legendary and ordinary women. ELIGIBILITY Students must be in good academic standing, be of at least sophomore class standing and have a grade point average of at least 2.0 at the time of application. Meeting this minimum grade point average does not, however, gurarantee admission--additional eligibility criteria may apply, and students must be judged academically prepared by appropriate MSU faculty members. COURSES AND CREDITS Students are expected to enroll in six (6) to eight (8) semester credits from the following course offereings: WS 491 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES (4 credits) Study of a special topic emphasizing women and gender as they relate to British culture. WS 490 - INDEPENDENT STUDY (2-4 credits) Individual reading and research on women and gender. Students may take the following combinations: four (4) credits of WS 491 and from two (2) to four (4) credits of WS 490 for a maximum total of eight (8) credits. HOUSING Students will live in a British residence hall in central London within walking distance of the classroom and near the British Museum. INSTRUCTOR Dr. Joyce R. Ladenson is the director of MSU's Women's Studies Program and a professor in the Department of American Thought and Language. She has written about and lectured on U.S. women's literature, culture and history, and on women's studies as an area of study; and has provided leadership for developing the women's studies major. PROGRAM COSTS The program fee is $2,564, which includes accommodations, two meals per day, support services and class activities. The program does not include MSU tuition and fees, lunches, airfare or personal spending money. Students will enroll in courses according to the MSU enrollment schedule. Once enrolled in courses, students will receive a bill from the MSU Student Receivables Office for the Study Abroad program fee and MSU tuition and fees, based on the totall number of credits taken. Effective January 1, 1998, the progam fee will include required accident and sickness insureance coverage administered through Hinchcliff International, Inc. This policiy provides for supplementary health insurance; assistance in locating the nearest, most appropriate medical care; and medically necessary evacuation. Program costs, dates and arrangements may be subject to change because of unexpected circumstances. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Financial assistance is available when students make appropriate arrangements with MSU's Office of Study Abroad and the Office of Financial Aid. Financial aid recipients are required to identify themselves to the MSU Study Abroad staff upon application to a Study Abroad program. Study Abroad scholarships are available to qualified MSU students on a competitive basis. APPLICATION AND ADMISSION Students can apply for the program at the MSU Office of Study Abroad, 109 International Center, or by mail (MSU Office of Study Abroad, 109 International Center, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1035). Selection of applicants is done on a rolling admission basis--that is, applications are accepted and students are evaluated and admitted throughout the academic year. We strongly recommend that students apply early--many programs will be filled to capacity well before March 6, 1998. A $100 application fee is required. Students will receive a bill from the MSU Student Receivables Office for this fee, which must be paid by the date indicated on the bill for the application to be considered. This fee is applied to the cost of the program and is NON-REFUNDABLE once a stude is admitted into the program. An admitteed student is required to pay $200 deposit to hold a place in the program. This deposit will be posted and due on individual student accounts after February 6, 1998. It will be applied to the cost of the program and is non-refundable. If a student does not pay the deposit by the due date indicated on the bill, he or she will be dropped from the program. Students who are unable to pay the deposit by the indicated due date must submit a written request to the Office of Study Abroad for an extension. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Office of Study Abroad 109 International Center East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1035 Phone: (517) 353-8920 Fax: (517) 432-2082 E-mail: overseas@pilot.msu.edu WWW: http://study-abroad.msu.edu Professor Joyce R. Ladenson Director, Women's Studies Program 301 Linton Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1044 Phone: (517) 355-4495 Fax: (517) 432-1858 E-mail: ladenso2@pilot.msu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:23:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mark Logan and Kathleen O'Grady Subject: Women and Health mailing lists MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I'm looking specifically for mailing lists dealing with women and health issues. The web pages for wmst-l mention a list out of the University of Washington, but all my messages have been returned to me. Is there a problem with the address I have? [from wmst-l archives]: listserv@uwavm.u.washington.edu subscribe wmn-hlth [firstname lastname] If someone has the correct address I would appreciate it very much! Thank you, Kathleen -- Kathleen O'Grady Trinity College, University of Cambridge ko10001@hermes.cam.ac.uk Mailing address: PO Box 31004 25 Frederick Street Kitchener, Ontario N2H 6S7 Canada Fax: (519) 744-1370 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 12:05:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: compulsory heterosexuality query Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I am wondering how widely used Adrienne Rich's famous essay on compulsory heterosexuality still is. If anyone has taught it recently, I'd be most interested in knowing in what course, the number of students, the context for this essay's inclusion, and something about the reactions of the students. Please respond privately if you feel this is of limited interest to the list as a whole. Many thanks, Daphne -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 09:39:19 +0000 Reply-To: sstarrett@fullerton.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shari Starrett Organization: Cal State Fullerton Subject: Re: compulsory heterosexuality query MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In reply to Daphne Patai's note: I am wondering how widely used Adrienne Rich's famous essay on compulsory heterosexuality still is. If anyone has taught it recently, I'd be most interested in knowing in what course, the number of students, the context for this essay's inclusion, and something about the reactions of the students. Please respond privately if you feel this is of limited interest to the list as a whole. ________________ I use this essay regularly in my Philosophy of Feminism and Intro to Intercultural Women's Studies course -- lots of other things change in these two course, but I can't imagine not using this essay. I generally teach it with something by Audre Lorde, although what (and how much) I use of Lorde's varies depending on the context or the way I've organized the course. I tend to organize things historically, and although students are often moved most by the most contemporary writers, both Rich and Lorde write so well and have such force, that I suspect they will continue to speak to students for a long time. Although there has been well taken criticism of Rich's essay, to me the salient point is not whether she is right or wrong about a continuum of women's experience -- this suggestion is stunning to think about regardless of its truth or falsity, and it reliably does get new readers to reflect -- which in my mind makes it deeply valuable. And, like it or not, the whole idea of "compulsory heterosexuality" is completely new to a significant number of students-- and I suspect this will continue to be so for awhile. I'd be interested in knowing if others have "dated" pieces which they teach regularly, and which continue to reliably generate important reflection. Shari Starrett ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:33:36 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: compulsory heterosexuality query Comments: To: Shari Starrett In-Reply-To: <34B1FBC0.7C87@fullerton.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Shari Starrett wrote: (List: I am sorry to quote so much of this post) > teach it with something by Audre Lorde, although what (and how much) I > use of Lorde's varies depending on the context or the way I've organized > the course. I tend to organize things historically, and although > students are often moved most by the most contemporary writers, both > Rich and Lorde write so well and have such force, that I suspect they > will continue to speak to students for a long time. Although there has (cut) > I'd be interested in knowing if others have "dated" pieces which they > teach regularly, and which continue to reliably generate important > reflection. > I do, yes. I too teach historically, though only from about 1960. I find Friedan still has something to say to many students basically new to feminism or "new to feminism". I teach Daly and Lorde on Daly, Rich and so on. And Jo Freeman on the politics of structurelessness. Iris Young's early essays. Etc. One of my students went on to do a graduate course that doesn't address this material and found there was a demand for it; she now runs a study group on it. I'm sorry if this should have been sent off list. --------------------------------------- Judy Evans jae2@york.ac.uk Typing, Dragon Dictate's. Opinions mine ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 13:01:17 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bob Bender Subject: Re: compulsory heterosexuality query In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Another reply to Daphne Patai's note: In courses in Modern Drama and Shakespeare (enrollment ranging from 25 to 100 students), I regularly refer to Rich's essay as a mean of dealing with the depiction of women, and the kinds of roles they are given. While I do not "assign" the essay, I am always impressed by the number of students who "check it out" and then use it in discussion and essay writing. More recently, students have found the essay useful in dealing with the depiction of homosexuality in recent plays, as well as with "suggestiveness" in older plays. Bob Bender University of Missouri-Columbia ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:26:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Women and Health mailing lists MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > I'm looking specifically for mailing lists dealing with women and health > issues. The web pages for wmst-l mention a list out of the University > of Washington, but all my messages have been returned to me. Is there a > problem with the address I have? I am sending this reply to WMST-L to correct several statements contained in the message quoted in part above. I assume that by "the web pages for wmst-l," Kathleen is referring to the UMBC Women's Studies web site, which includes information about WMST-L AND information about women-related e-mail lists (Gender-Related Electronic Forums) and lots more good stuff. However, NOWHERE on the UMBC Women's Studies web site is there any mention of the WMN-HLTH list Kathleen refers to--that list disappeared quite a while ago. If you're looking for information about women-related e-mail lists, probably the best place to turn is the Gender-Related Electronic Forums page (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/forums.html) on the UMBC Women's Studies site, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE **LOOK** at that site. It is updated VERY frequently--usually several times a week. Don't depend on information you got many months ago. Kathleen, if you are looking for mailing lists dealing with women and health, do look at Gender-Related Electronic Forums. It has not just the main listing but also 16 topical sub-listings, including one devoted just to women's health lists. Joan ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 12:20:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diana Gustafson Subject: Re: Women and Health mailing lists In-Reply-To: <34B25A80.BDC7FE1B@golden.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Kathleen, While I'm sorry that you're having difficulty finding mailing lists that deal with women and health issues, I'm glad that finally I have found some else who is pursuing the same elusive search. If you are successful in finding such a mail list, please share the information with me. I have found a few lists: some that deal with specific issues such as women and menopause, women and holistic medicine, women and herbal remedies, women and sexuality etc. But none that address more broadly issues around women and health care delivery / health care reform. Something with an decidedly academic and preferably feminist perspective would be wonderful. And if its not asking too much, a list whose members that challenges the supremacy of the medical model of health. Am I dreaming?! If anyone among you (and I know there are many generous scholars out there always ready with thoughtful responses) has any good leads, please send them along. A private response to both Kathleen and me is probably the best. And thank you, in advance! ********************************** Diana Gustafson RN, BA, MEd Doctoral Student Sociology and Equity Studies Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Collaborative Program for Women's Studies University of Toronto dgustafson@globalserve.net ********************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:51:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mark Logan and Kathleen O'Grady Subject: Re: Women and Health mailing lists MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just to clarify, Joan is, in fact, correct that it was on the University of Maryland Web page: www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomenStudies that I found information for a now, as I understand it, outdated list (wmn-hlth). I did not mean any disrespect to Joan by indicating that there was a problem with the information at this site; I simply wished to find quickly, information that I could not find. I presumed that this site was affiliated with wmst-l since they share the same internet address (that is, University of Maryland). I see now that the wmst site is actually at UMBC. Sorry for the mix up, and as always, thanks for all of your hard work, Joan. Secondly, the link provided at this site to Joan's "Gender Related Electronic Forums" site (as mentioned in her previous post) failed on several attempts, so only then did I ask for the help of the list. I am now able to access directly the UMBC list, so will only forward to the list any NEW mailing lists that I may hear about. Thanks again Joan, for your incredible work in archiving this information, Kathleen -- Kathleen O'Grady Trinity College, University of Cambridge ko10001@hermes.cam.ac.uk Mailing address: PO Box 31004 25 Frederick Street Kitchener, Ontario N2H 6S7 Canada Fax: (519) 744-1370 Joan Korenman wrote: > > I'm looking specifically for mailing lists dealing with women and health > > issues. The web pages for wmst-l mention a list out of the University > > of Washington, but all my messages have been returned to me. Is there a > > problem with the address I have? > > I am sending this reply to WMST-L to correct several statements > contained in the message quoted in part above. I assume that by "the web > pages for wmst-l," Kathleen is referring to the UMBC Women's Studies web > site, which includes information about WMST-L AND information about > women-related e-mail lists (Gender-Related Electronic Forums) and lots more > good stuff. However, NOWHERE on the UMBC Women's Studies web site is there > any mention of the WMN-HLTH list Kathleen refers to--that list disappeared > quite a while ago. If you're looking for information about women-related > e-mail lists, probably the best place to turn is the Gender-Related > Electronic Forums page (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/forums.html) on the UMBC > Women's Studies site, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE **LOOK** at that site. It > is updated VERY frequently--usually several times a week. Don't depend on > information you got many months ago. > > Kathleen, if you are looking for mailing lists dealing with women > and health, do look at Gender-Related Electronic Forums. It has not > just the main listing but also 16 topical sub-listings, including one > devoted just to women's health lists. > > Joan > > ***************************************************************************** > * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * > * U. of Md. Baltimore County * > * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * > * * > * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * > ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 21:34:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Saad, Shahnaz" Subject: Re: Women and Health mailing lists Unless it has been revived, I believe that list no longer exists. Chris S. Chris Saad, PhD ssaad@wcupa.edu ---------- From: owner-wmst-l To: WMST-L Subject: Women and Health mailing lists Date: Tuesday, January 06, 1998 11:23AM Hello, I'm looking specifically for mailing lists dealing with women and health issues. The web pages for wmst-l mention a list out of the University of Washington, but all my messages have been returned to me. Is there a problem with the address I have? [from wmst-l archives]: listserv@uwavm.u.washington.edu subscribe wmn-hlth [firstname lastname] If someone has the correct address I would appreciate it very much! Thank you, Kathleen -- Kathleen O'Grady Trinity College, University of Cambridge ko10001@hermes.cam.ac.uk Mailing address: PO Box 31004 25 Frederick Street Kitchener, Ontario N2H 6S7 Canada Fax: (519) 744-1370 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 21:26:27 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Melodye G Lehnerer Subject: Middle Eastern Bib part 1 Dear Friends Sorry about the delay in sending this information (in 2 parts) about Middle Eastern women, books, articles, etc. I am sure others can add to this list. Happy New Year Shahin Gerami, shg226f@vma.smsu.edu. BIBLIOGRAPHY~Women In Middle East Afkami, Mhanaz & Friedel, Erika (Eds.) (1997) Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation: Implementing the Bejing Platform, NY: Syracuse Univ Press Ahmed, L Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate Yale Univ Press, 1988. Al-Hibri, Azizah (1983). Women and Islam Elmsford, New York: Pergamon Press Inc. AlMunajjed, Mona. (1997) Women in Saudia Arabia Today St. Martin?s Press. Amirshahi, Mahshid (1995) Suri & Co.; Tales of a Persian Teenage Girl USA; Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the Univ of Texas at Austin Arat, Zehra F. (Ed.) Deconstructing Images of ?The Turkish Woman? 1998. St. Martin?s Press. Anker and Knowles. (1978) "A Micro Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation in Kenya." Population and Labour Policies Programme. Working Paper, No 116. Geneva: Ilo Atiya, Nayra (1982) Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories , NY: Syracuse Univ Press Barakat, Halim. The Arab World: Society, Culture and State Berkeley: Univ of Calif Press, 1993. Booth, M. ?Dual Liberations: Feminism and Nationalism in Egypt 1870s-1920s,?Feminist Issues,Fall, 1987. Brodzki and Schenck, (Eds) Lifelines: Theorizing Women?s Autobiography Cornell Univ Press, 1998. Badran, Margot, and Cooke, Miriam (Eds.) (1990) A Century of Arab Feminist Writing Bloomington: Indiana Univ Press Caesar, Judith(1997)Crossing borders: An American Woman in the Middle East NY:Syrcuse U Press Charon, Joel (1995). Ten Questions: A Sociological Perspective; 2nd Ed. International Thompson Publishing: Belmont CA Cooke, Miriam (1996) War?s Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War NY: Syracuse Univ Press Davis, Susan Schaefer and Davis, Douglas A. Adolescence in a Morocan Town: Making Social Sense New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ Press, 1989. Feagin, Joe. (1991) "The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places."American Sociological Review, 56: 101-116. Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock (1988) A Street In Marrakech Prospect Heights, Ill: Waveland Press Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock (1969) Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnogrophy of an Iraqi Village NY: Anchor Books, Doubleday Friedl, Erika (1989) Women of Deh Koh; Lives in an Iranian Village Washigton; Smithsonian Institiute Gerami, Shahin. 1996. Women and Fundamentalism: Islam and Christianity. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. Ghalem, Ali. A Wife For My Son. Tr. G. Kazolias. New York: Banner Press with Africa World Press, 1988. Ghosh, Bishnupriya, and Bose, Brinda (Eds.) (1997) Interventions: Feminist Dialogue on Third World Women?s Literature and Film New York and London: Garland Publishing Co. Gilmore, David G. (Ed.) Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean Washington, DC: Am. Anthropological Association, 1987. Haddad, Yvonne (ed.). 1985. Women, Religion and Social Change. Albany: St. Univ of NY Haeri, Shi?i (1989) Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi?i Iran NY:Syracuse Univ Press Harris, Jay. 1994. "Fundamentalism: Objection from a Modern Jewish Historian," in J. S. Hawley (Ed.), Fundamentalism and Gender, 137-175, Oxford: Oxford Univ Press. Hatem, Mervat ?Toward the Study of the Psychodynamics of Mothering and Gender in Egyptian Families,? International Journal of Middle East Studies 19 (1987). Hawley, John S. 1994. Fundamentalism and Gender, Oxford: Oxford Univ Press. Hoffman-Ladd, V.J. ?Polemics in the modesty and segregation of women in contemporary Egypt,? International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, 1987. Hombergh, van den Holeen. 1993. Gender and Environment and Development, A Guide to the Literature. Utrecht, The Netherlands: International Books. Jalal, Ayesha. 1991. "The Convenience of Subservience: Women and the State of Pakistan," Jayawardena, K. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (London: Zed Press, 1986). Joseph, S. ?Family, Religion and the State: Middle East Models? in Randolph, Schneider, Diaz, eds, Dialectics and Gender: Anthropological Approaches (Boulder: Westview Press, 1988). Joseph, Suad. ?Family as Security and Bondage: A Political Strategy of the Lebanese Urban Working Class,? in Helen Safa, ed., Towards a Political Economy of Urbanization in Third World Countries (New Delhi: Oxford Univ Press, 1982.); ?Connectivity and Patriarchy Among Urban working Class Arab Families in Lebanon,? Ethos 21 (1993); ?Brother/Sister Relationships: Connectivity, Love, and Power in the Reproduction of Patriarchy in Lebanon,? American Ethnologistt 21/1 (1994). Kamalkhani, Zahra. Religious Practice Among Women in Today?s Iran Kandiyoti, D. (Ed.) Women, Islam and the State (Basingstok: MacMillan, 1991). Kandiyoti, Deniz (Ed.) (1996) Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives Syracuse Univ Press: Syracuse, New York Karam, Azza M. (1997) Women, Islamisms, and The State; Contemporary Feminism in Europe St. Martin?s Press Keddie, N. & Baron, B. (Eds.) Women in Middle East History: Shifting Boundaries of Seex and Gender Yale Univ Press, 1992. Khalifah, Sahar. Wild Thorns. London: Al-Saqi Books, 1985. Khoury, Nabil and Valentine M. Moghadam (Eds.). 1995. Gender and Development in the Arab World. London & New Jersey: Zed Books, Ltd., and Tokyo: United Nations Univ Press. Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava. 1988. "Contemporary Fundamentalism - Judaism, Christianity, Islam." The Jerusalem Quarterly, 47:27-39. Lazreg, M. ?Gender and Politics in Algeria: Unraveling the Religious Paradigm,? Signs, Vol. 15/4, Summer, 1990. Loban, Richard. (Editor) Spring, 1998. ?Middle Eastern Women and the Invisible Economy? Univ Press of Florida Marshall, Susan and Jeffrey Stokes. 1981. "Tradition and the Veil: Female Status in Tunisia and Alger," Journal of Modern African Studies 19:4. McCarthy Brown, Karen. 1994. "Fundamentalism and the Control of Women," in John S. Hawley (Ed.), Fundamentalism and Gender, 175-203, Oxford: Oxford Univ Press. Mernissi, Fatima. Dreams of Tresspass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesly, 1994); and Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society (Bloomington: Indianna Univ Press, 1984). Milani, Farzaneh (1992) Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers NY: Syracuse Univ Press Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. 1997. Marriage on Trial; A Study of Islamic Family Law St. Martin?s Press. Moghadam, Valentine (Ed.) (1994) Identity Politics & Woman: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective Westview Press: Colorado Moghissi, Haideh (1994). Populism and feminism in Iran New York, New York: St. Martin?s Press Mumtaz, Khawar. 1994. "Identity Politics and Women: 'Fundamentalism' and Women in Pakistan," in Valentine Moghadam (Ed.), Identity Politics and Women, 228-242, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 21:36:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Melodye G Lehnerer Subject: Middle Eastern Bib part 2 Dear All Here is the second part of the bib Maududi, Abul A'la. 1982. "Political Theory of Islam," in Donohue & Esposito (Eds) Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives, 253-54, New York: Oxford Univ Press. Nelson, Cynthia. 1996. Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist: A Woman Apart Univ Press of Florida. Papanek, Hanna. 1994. "The Ideal Woman and the Ideal Society: Control and Autonomy in the Construction of Identity," in Valentine Moghadam (Ed.), Identity Politics and Women, 42-76, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Riesebordt, Martin. 1993. Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran. Los Angeles: Univ of Ca Press. Rugh, Andrea. Family in Contemporary Egypt NY: Syracuse Univ Press, 1984. Saadawi, Nawsal El. 1997. The Nawal El Saadawi Reader. St. Martin?s Press. Sharabi, Hisham. Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1988. Shukri, Shirin J. A. (1996) Arab Women: Unequal Partners in Development Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Skakhatreh, Hussein. 1995. "Determinants of Female Labour-Force Participation in Jordan," in Nabil Khoury and Valentine M. Moghadam (Ed.), Gender and Development in the Arab World, 125-147, London & New Jersey: Zed Books Ltd., and Tokyo: United Nations Univ Press. Sharoni, Simona (1994) Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: the Politics of Women?s Resistance NY: Syracuse Univ Press Singerman, Diane and Hoodfar, Homa (Eds.) (1996) Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo; A View From the Household Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press Sonbol, Amira El Azhary (1996) Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History NY: Syracuse Univ Press Sullivan, Soraya (Trans.) (1991) ?Stories by Iranian Women Since the Revolution? Univ TX Press Tabari, Azar and Yeganah, Nahid (Eds.) (1982) In the Shadow of Islam; The Women?s Movement in Iran London: Zed Press Talattof, Kamran 1997. ?Iranian Wome?s Literature: From Pre-Revolutionary Social Discourse to Post-Revolutionary Feminism? in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 29 (1997), 531-558. New York: Cambridge Univ Press Talhami, Ghanda Hashem 1996. The Mobilization of Muslim Women in Egypt Univ Press of Florida. Tucker, Judith, ed. Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers Bloomington: Indianna Univ Press, 1993. United Nations. 1991. The World's Women 1970-1990, Trends and Statistics. New York: U. N. United Nations. 1994. Arab Women in ESCWA Member States. New York: United Nations. Warnock, Kitty. Land Before Honour: Palestinian Women in the Occupied Territories. New York: Monthly review Press, 1990. Bibliography~Fundamentalism Fiske, John (1993) Power Plays, Power Works. London: Verso. Klatch, Rebecca. 1987. Women of the New Right, Philadelphia, PA: Temple Univ Press. Lawerence, Bruce. 1989. Defenders of God San Fransisco, CA: Harper Row Luker, Kristin (1984) Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood Berkely: Univ of CA Press Marty, Martin E. and R. Scott Appleby 1990. Fundamentalism Observed. :The U of Chicago Press. Marty, Martin, and R. Scott Appleby (Eds.)1994. Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press. Marty, Martin, and R. Scott Appleby (Eds.). 1993. Fundamentalism and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press. Piscatori, James. 1994. " Accounting for Islamic Fundamentalism," in "Marty, Martin, and R. Scott Appleby (Eds.). 1994. Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press.Sidahmed, Abdel Salam, and Anoushiravan Ehteshami (Eds.). 1996. Islamic Fundamentalism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Stoll, David. 1994. "Jesus is Lord of Guatemala: Evangelical Reform in a Death-Squad State," in Marty, Martin, and R ScottAppleby(Eds.)1994.AccountingforFundamentalisms:TheDynamicCharacter of Movements. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press. Swanson, Tod D. 1994. "Refusing to Drink with the Mountains: Traditional Andean Meanings in Evangelical Practice", Marty, Martin, and R. Scott Appleby (Eds.). 1994. In Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press. United Nations. 1995. The World's Women, 1995 Trends and Statistics. New York: U. N. Wunthnow and Lawson. 1994. " Sources of Christian Fundamentalism in The United States", in Marty,Martin, and R. Scott Appleby (Eds.)1994. Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 23:18:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Query: on Infanticide MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have statistics on whether infanticide is on the increase in the U.S., or whether it is just something the press is picking up on now? HAve there been any SERIOUS studies into the problem? My students have suggested that it's the effect of the bombardment of the message that abstinence is the only proper behavior for a young woman, combined with the continued social/cultural messages to have sex early. Has anyone seriously studied this yet? Thanks -- Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University (on indefinite medical leave since January 1995) mailto:schweit2@ix.netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 08:36:42 -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?" B) "WHEN I SENT A MESSAGE TO WMST-L, I WAS TOLD IT HAD BEEN FORWARDED TO THE LISTOWNER FOR APPROVAL. WHY?" Only people whom the LISTSERV software recognizes as subscribers can post messages on WMST-L. To subscribe, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): SUB WMST-L Your Name (e.g., SUB WMST-L Jane Smith). You will receive a response asking you to confirm your subscription request by replying to the response (use the "reply" feature; do not "forward" or start a new message). Your reply should not include anything but the expression OK (caps or lower case--it makes no difference). After you send back the reply, you should quickly receive a message welcoming you to WMST-L. If you've already subscribed to WMST-L and you run into problems, chances are that you subscribed under a different address than the one from which you sent your recent message--e.g., you subscribed under the address jdoe@mail.ucla.edu and now your institution has shortened your address to jdoe@ucla.edu . The LISTSERV software recognizes subscribers by their e-mail address. 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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, 7 Jan 1998 09:41:21 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rita A Marinko Subject: PROFESSIONAL OPENING Comments: cc: losmus@iastate.edu The professional opening described below is being posted to the list for a non-subscriber. Please reply to the address noted in the position description, not to me. Thanks! --- Rita A Marinko Social Sciences/Humanities Reference Librarian (515) 294-3643 rmarinko@iastate.edu POSITION: Collections Officer RANK: Assistant Professor or above, depending upon qualifications APPOINTMENT CONDITIONS: Full-time, 12-month, Faculty status. Faculty are expected to meet promotion and tenure requirements. RESPONSIBILITIES: The Library seeks an experienced librarian to provide leadership in collection development and management. Responsible for policy, planning and budget oversight related to the library collections. Represents the library regionally and nationally in collection development matters. Works closely with the Dean and Associate Director for Public Services and Collections in advancing collection management initiatives. The Collections Officer reports to the Dean of Library Services for the previous responsibilities. 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Iowa State University has a strong commitment to equal opportunity and affirmative action. Members of protected classes are especially encouraged to apply. Iowa State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Jeanne Vogel 302 Administration Office 4-1442 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:42:23 -0500 Reply-To: SEETCHM@lafvax.lafayette.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Elizabeth Seetch Subject: sex offenders as men w/"normal" personalities--compiled responses Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Below you will find a hasty cut-and-paste listing of the responses I received in mid-December. The list begins with a reprint of my original request. Where contributors offered material from their syllabi or publications, I included their names, so that we can credit them professionally. On behalf of my student (from whom I expect great things once she begins her law career), we thank all of you who offered such helpful responses so QUICKLY. ORIGINAL REQUEST: I am making this request for an undergrad WS student who is writing a senior thesis for our gov't & philosophy departments on the social justice and legal theories behind new legislation regarding sex offenders--for instance, mandates that sex offenders register when released from prison. She would like to investigate the claim that such men are "not insane but are generally men who have 'normal' [for our culture, at least] sexual personalities." Can anyone direct her to studies or other publications that might illuminate this claim (which she has derived to a great extent from Susan Griffin's "Rape: The All-American Crime")? 1. There's some discussion of this in Warshaw, _I Never Called It Rape_ and in Bart and O'Brien, _Stopping Rape: Successful Survival Strategies_, which also cites research on the topic by Malamuth. Hope this helps. 2. A few references from my syllabi (Michael Messina-Yauchzy): For general review of theory and research on the connections of "normal" masculinities and sexual violence, see: Segal, Lynne. 1990. Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men. New Brunswick: Rutgers. Chapter 8, "The Belly of the Beast (1): Sex as Male Domination?" Donnerstein, Edward, and Daniel Linz. 1986. "Mass Media Sexual Violence and Male Viewers: Current Theory and Research." American Behavioral Scientist , 29(5). Reprinted in Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives. New York: Macmillan, 1992, pp. 364-369. [NOT in 1997 edition] For other discussions: Beneke, Timothy. 1982. "Introduction" in Men On Rape. New York: St. Martins. Hood, Jane. 1992. "'Let's Get a Girl': Male Bonding Rituals in America," in Kimmel & Messner's _Men's Lives_ [both 1992 and 1997 eds.] Stoltenberg, John. 1989. "Rapist Ethics" in Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice. Portland, Oregon: Breitenbush. pp. 9-24. 3. I would recommend Andrea Dworkin's INTERCOURSE, esp. ch. 5, "Possession." Also, an article of mine [Robert Jensen], "Patriarchal Sex," in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL POLICY, Vol. 17, #1-2, January 1997, pp. 91-115. For more empirical work on rapists, Diana Scully, UNDERSTANDING SEXUAL VIOLENCE. 4. You might recommend that she look at Heterosexuality: A Feminism & Psychology Reader (1993) edited by Wilkinson and Kitzinger which has several chapters in it how heterosexually oppressive behaviors become normalized in our society. Also in this anthology, Patricia Atchison and I [Steve Schacht] published a piece entitled "Heterosexual Instrumentalism: Past and Future Directions," that touches on the issues you outline below [above]. 5. Try Daina Scully's Understanding Sexual Violence: A Study of Convict Rapists. In Ch. 3 (Profile of Convicted Rapists), she finds no difference between convicted rapists and her control group of other convicts in terms of their relationships with their parents, domestic violence and child abuse histories, sexual experiences and relationships with women, or psychiatric histories and substance abuse. What she does find is a difference in "traditional" ideas about women. Later in the book, she examines these beliefs as common to our culture and builds on Susan Griffin's work. 6. Hypathia had a special issue focused on Peace which included several articles on rape and a culture of rape. 7. Several books with information on sex offenders as men w/"normal" personalities are _Sexual Violence_ by Linda A. Fairstein (1993 Wm Morrow & Co New York _Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence" by Myriam Miedzian (1991 Anchor Boks/Doubleday New York) _Men Are Not Cost-Effective_ by June Stephenson (1995 Harper Perennial New York) _Why Men Hate Women_ by Adam Jukes (1993 Free Association Books, London) 8. You might check out _Our Guys_ by Lefkowitz. It is a documentary account of a teenage girl with mental retardation who was gang-raped by several high school athletes. The author's research was guided by the question of how such "normal" boys could commit such a crime. It is a well-written and gripping, depressing, and angering book. [Sounds like the Glen Ridge, NJ case circa 1991--is it?--Beth] This recommendation seconded by Marge Piercy: "It has a very good analysis of the culture of jockery that meant that these ordinary boys could do no wrong and that they were the icons of their school and their community. Also good for looking at emotional effects of marginalization." Beth Seetch English Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 seetchm@lafayette.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:07:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Rich and Dworkin Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thanks to the people who wrote to me about Adrienne Rich's essay on compulsory heterosexuality and its use in the classroom. I appreciate the responses; a few of you asked me questions, to which I'll be responding privately soon. Meanwhile, I have a further query about classroom texts. Do any of you teach Andrew Dworkin's writings, and if so, which ones, in which class, and with what effect? Thank you, once again. Daphne -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:53:30 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kari B Mcbride Subject: Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I sometimes use Rich's article in my 200-level Women and Western Culture course (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kari/ws200.htm) in a unit on the construction of gender and kinship in prehistory. I use it alongside an excerpt from Gerda Lerner's CREATION OF PATRIARCHY and/or Gayle Rubin's "The Traffic in Women" and/or Paula Gunn Allen's SACRED HOOP. (This past semester, I lectured on Lerner, Rich, and Allen after the students had read Rubin.) I want my students to think from the outset of that class about the constructedness of gender and to see that there are many different theories about how such social categories came to be. My experience is that students find Rich mind-blowing and shocking, so I don't think what she says in the article has become ho-hum. I also plan to use it in my 300-level Feminist Theories course this semester (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kari/ws305.htm--after Jan 14), which I'm teaching very "historically." Whatever objections one might have to Rich's argument, her ideas have been hugely influential and her terms have entered the feminist vocabulary. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 13:02:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Re: Women and Health mailing lists MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FWIW, I run five discussion lists for a disease that primarily affects women -- and the vast majority of my subscribers are female -- the iillness is chronic fatigue syndrome, which we prefer to call Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, and which has been known for four decades in the UK and Canada as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, or M.E. Most of our subscribers also have fibromyalgia, another illness that primarily affects women. I can steer you to an all-fibro list too if you would like. The lists are all run off of listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com -- to subscribe, you send a message to that address, doesn't matter what's in the subject line, the message should say: subscribe listname yourfirstname yourlastname Here are the lists (the name of the list goes where "listname" is). (You would be surprised how many subscribers I get with the name Yourfirstname Yourlastname ..... Sasyfras -- a discussion list for support and information for patients with CFIDS/M.E. and fibromyalgia WECAN -- the Worldwide Electronic CFIDS/M.E. Action Network, an online international advocacy organization for patients with CFIDS/M.E. and related illnesses such as fibro, Lyme, post-polio syndrome, etc. You have to belong to the organization -- this list is the "meeting hall" where organization business takes place. No dues. WECAN-Chat -- open only to members of WECAN; something like the coffee shop across the street where you can just talk. PWC-Info -- a Canadian-only discussion list to talk about medical and disability support issues pertinent mainly to Canadians with the DD (d---ed disease) Disinissues -- a list to share information about private disability insurance and U.S. Social Security Disibility Insurance (SSDI), targeted primarily to autoimmune diseases that affect women disproportionately: CFIDS/M.E., fibromyalgia, lupus, Lyme, Multiple Sclerosis, and a number of ill-defined pain conditions. If you have an interest in CFIDS/M.E., you might also find my essay "CFIDS as a 'Female' Disease" of interest: http://pw1.netcom.com/~schweit2/female.html Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of History/women's studies villanova university (on indefinite medical leave since Jan 1995) CFIDS and fibro since at least 1990; collapsed October 1994. The CFIDS/M.E. Information Page: http://www.cfids-me.org/ mailto:schweit2@ix.netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 13:21:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: courtney sears Subject: Women and Science Conferences Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Would anyone who has any information on conferences to be held in the next two years that will be addressing issues of women in science please forward the information to me? It would be much appreciated. Please respond privately. Thanks, Courtney Sears Center for Women's Studies University of Cincinnati searscy@email.uc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:56:02 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Rich and Dworkin In-Reply-To: <199801071607.LAA29224@wilde.oit.umass.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, DAPHNE PATAI wrote: > classroom texts. Do any of you teach Andrew Dworkin's writings, and > if so, which ones, in which class, and with what effect? Thank you, > once again. Daphne I would like to know too. (I do teach Dworkin, but not systematically, and I am never quite sure which pieces to set.) I am sending this to the list rather than Daphne in the hope that a) she can forward replies to me b) people will not mind that! -- Thanks. --------------------------------------- Judy Evans jae2@york.ac.uk Typing, Dragon Dictate's. Opinions mine ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 17:44:15 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: Need Addresses In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am looking for email and/or phone numbers for the following people who do disability studies: Shelley Tremain Jenny Morris Jenny Corbett Tom Shakespeare Please send privately. Thanks. Dawn Atkins dawn-atkins@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:52:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Allured Subject: Re: Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality" In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:53:30 -0700 from I am teaching Intro to Women's Studies for the first time this fall and am coming into it cold so I'm not always familiar with the articles mentioned on this list. Could someone please send me the full citation to the Rush article currently under discussion, and I'm also looking for the citation for another one which has been discussed in the past -- Marilyn Frye's article on "Oppression and Sexism." Thanks for any help. Janet Allured, Associate Prof. of History, McNeese State University jallured@mcneese.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:56:06 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Allured Subject: Re: Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality" In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:53:30 -0700 from Sorry, meant to say the RICH article in my last post, not RUSH article. Janet Allured (using a "dumb" and clumsy mainframe email system) jallured@mcneese.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:06:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: compulsory heterosexuality query In-Reply-To: <199801061705.MAA31974@wilde.oit.umass.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Daphne, Re your request for information from wmst subscribers to establish 'how widely used Adrienne Rich's famous essay on compulsory heterosexuality still is': Do you realize that you could not establish that from responses in this list? You will have a biased data base: there are, I believe, no data on what proportion of teachers who may or may not teach the essay subscribe to wmst; you want replies only from wmst subscribers who teach the essay and you won't know what proportion of subscribers who teach it reply, what proportion do not. Furthermore, you seem to want a comparison of those who 'still' teach the essay with those who did at one time. For this you would need base line data on the number of teachers who did and did not teach the essay at specified points in times past - data that I do not think are available. You may, of course, have sources to obtain the information I'm sugesting you need. Do you? If not, you couldn't make a credible comment. Another point that I think you would like to clear up. Do you ask for permission to cite information people give you? give their names? ask for permission to use their names? verify that you are using the information accuratly? A ask because - I don't know how to put this delicately, so I'll say it straight out: You have established a reputation for citing what people say in ways that distort what they said, without giving their names so that they have no recourse. If this is true, it reduces the credibility of the information you publish. It also reduces the number or people who will give you information, further reducing the credibility of your survey. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net At 12:05 PM 1/6/98 -0500, you wrote: >I am wondering how widely used Adrienne Rich's famous essay on >compulsory heterosexuality still is. If anyone has taught it >recently, I'd be most interested in knowing in what course, the number >of students, the context for this essay's inclusion, and something >about the reactions of the students. Please respond privately if you >feel this is of limited interest to the list as a whole. Many thanks, >Daphne >-- >====================== >Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:34:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jenny Lloyd Subject: Re: WMST L: man bashing and Intro to WS projects for students A belated response on man-bashing. Since I have significant numbers of men in my intro classes I find I have to address this right away or the women will not talk. I ask each one to write down an example of man-bashing, and write them on the board. Most start with "All men..." and we discuss essentializing and stereotyping. I also use cartoons to discuss what stereotypes they rely on. We then discuss why we do not talk about woman-bashing, and the differences between "bashing" (which, in the case of women is all too literal) and generalizations that have validity, however uncomfortable we may be with them. There is a useful article by Suzanne Cataldi, "Reflections on Male Bashing" (NWSA Journal 7:2 76-85) reprinted in the new (4th) edition of Sheila Ruth's Issues in Feminism (Mayfield, 1998). Jenny Lloyd SUNY College at Brockport jlloyd@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:57:37 -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: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:17:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Re: compulsory heterosexuality query Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980108000600.006a4c50@cuny.campus.mci.net> from <"beatricekachuck"@Jan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Beatrice, Thank you for the patient explanation of how careful one needs to be in using casual responses. I believe I've come across these ideas before. It's always interesting to see which queries on a list elicit little slaps on the wrist and which do not. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 12:03:09 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: Rich and Dworkin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:56 PM 1/7/98 +0000, you wrote: >On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, DAPHNE PATAI wrote: >This refers to the letters concerning teaching Compulsory Heterosexuality and Dworkin. I always terach Compulsory Het., albeit in the version in which Adrienne brings it up to date and discusses ssome criticisms(in Feminist Frontiers ) Always means in Women's Studies and Sociology courses. In seminars I also assign the criticisms which were in a later Signs article. I've never had probleems with it. In one class in which a gay man(he came out) was hostile to me, this article calmed him down. I use Andrea Dworkins "The Coming Gynecide" in any course on aging. I also talk about her analysis of right wing women, in the book of the same name, and note that the sociological work on right wing women supports which she said. I haven't taught for the past nine months so things may have changed. I noticed that students were more conservative in the last class, but I think it was simply that anything that wasn't related to their occupational plans was considered irrelevant, and they took the class because it was only twice a week. pbart@ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 11:50:04 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: WMST L: man bashing and Intro to WS projects for students Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:34 AM 1/8/98 EST, you wrote: >Regarding the exercise that was suggested to deal with men in the class-- starting by highlighting male bashing by having people put it on the board simply reinforces the ideology that this is a serious problem. I understand it might cool out the men in the class but it makes me very uncomfortable. What once worked very well for me was having an anoymous sexual violation survey and ask for gender and age (over 22- under 22). Define the terms so men won't consider a woman's studies class sexual harassment (which some men have done), although some gay men have experienced it. When the men learn how many women in the class have been violated at least in one class I taught, they are sobered (include the def of rape used in your state). In one class it did absolutely no good. Those men are irredeemable. BUt by starting that way it seems as if you are prioritizing a male myth over real female suffering. Perhaps if you started by talking about women bashing and THEN male bashing. I mean, how many men are frightened if they turn around at night and see a woman behind them. pbart@ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:41:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paul Ferber Subject: Teaching Opportunity at RIT MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The Political Science Department at Rochester Institute of Technology seeks to hire an adjunct professor to teach the course "Women in Politics," during the Spring 1998 quarter. The course will be taught on Wednesday nights, starting on March 11, and running through May 20. There will be 10 nights of instruction, with the 11th Wednesday reserved for examination. The course description is as follows: "Women in Politics studies feminist thought as it applies to the political, economic, and social status of women, and how it has been expressed through the women's political movement. It studies a number of public policies as they apply to and affect women, and examines the opportunities for women to participate in the political process." The course may be taken as an elective, or as part of the American Politics concentration, or the Women's Studies concentration. Interested parties should please contact: Professor Paul Ferber Chair, Social Science Division 92 Lomb Drive Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York 14623-5604 (716) 475-2938 Fax: (716) 475-7120 E-Mail: PHFGSS@RIT.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 18:01:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Huddis Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: Dworkin Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I think the question about using Dworkin in teaching didn't specify the teaching environment specifically, so I thought perhaps you would be interested in an answer that comes from other teaching venues than for-credit higher education institutions. Because I am chronically ill, I cannot hold a regular teaching appointments. I can only occasionally run a short term study group, discussion group,support group, adult education course, etc. I have been doing this kind of teaching off and on for years. Since the publication of my most recent book WOMEN IN THE TREES: U. S. WOMEN'S SHORT STORIES ABOUT BATTERING & RESISTANCE, 1839-1994, I have often focussed, when speaking to Jewish women's groups, or to survivors of battering, or to social workers or psychologists working with survivors of battering, on a short story in that collection by Andrea Dworkin. The 1975 story, "bertha schneiders existential edge," first published in Pat Rotter's ground-breaking 1975 anthology, BITCHES AND SAD LADIES and later included in Dworkin's 1986 short story collection, THE NEW WOMAN'S BROKEN HEART: SHORT STORIES, and included in WOMEN IN THE TREES: U. S. WOMEN'S SHORT STORIES ABOUT BATTERING AND RESISTANCE, 1839-1994, draws the powerful connection between the fact that, as recent studies have made clear, Jewish women are four times more likely to stay with their abusers than are non- Jewish women, for Jewish women the dominant referent is the Holocaust, and it is to that historical horror that they compare their experiences when they are in abusive relationships. Etc. The story is powerful in its evocation of brutality and terror, and also bizarrely comic. I have never talked to a reader who hasn't responded strongly to this story. For many women, both abused and not yet abused (especially those who claim they can't understand why women "stay") this story is effective as a journey into understanding the ways in which "stories," whether historical, metaphorical, mythological, or supposedly archetypal, intervene between our "animal" responses (e.g. flight or fight) and our "civilized" selves. I hope this is useful. Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 08:33:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Too much mail clutter? Try 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 Source of All Wisdom, the WMST-L User's Guide (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html) : 6) "DOES WMST-L EXIST IN A DIGEST FORMAT?" Yes. If you choose the edited digest option, each day you will receive anywhere from one to five files containing most of the WMST-L messages of the past day (messages that should not have been sent to the list to begin with are omitted). Related messages will usually be put in the same file, and each file will begin with a table of contents. The digest reduces both mail clutter and, usually, mail volume. (Please note that this is NOT the huge, unselective bundle of messages that many listserv digest features provide. Do NOT use their digest command.) If you would like to receive the edited digest rather than individual mail messages, you should first subscribe to WMST-L (if you don't already have a subscription) by sending the message SUBSCRIBE WMST-L Your Name to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. You will be asked to confirm your subscription request. Once you've done that and have received the list's welcome letter, you should send the following 2-line e-mail message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE SET WMST-L NOMAIL ACK Note: If your mail system also has a Bitnet connection, the digest may arrive as a file rather than as an e-mail message. If you don't know how to receive a file, see section 11 of the WMST-L User's Guide or ask the computer support people at your institution. If you'd prefer to receive the digest(s) inside mail message(s), alter the abovementioned AFD ADD statement to read as follows: AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE F=MAIL . However, even if you receive the digest(s) as mail messages, YOU CANNOT REPLY AUTOMATICALLY! If you wish to reply to a message in the digest, you must start a new message and address it either to WMST-L or to the individual. Also, LISTSERV may ask you to set up an AFD password. You're best off not doing so. If at some point you decide you want to stop the digest and switch back to receiving individual messages, send the following two-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L [on line 1] and SET WMST-L MAIL NOACK [on line 2]. To unsubscribe and stop the digest, put AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L on line 1 and UNSUB WMST-L on line 2. ************************ Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to 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, 9 Jan 1998 14:48:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dena Taylor Subject: sexual harassment video Does anyone know of a good video on teacher-student and student-student sexual harassment? We're looking for one to show to both faculty and students. Thanks, Dena Taylor Cabrillo College Women's Center ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 15:18:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dena Taylor Subject: mother daughter relations [[Another excellent book on m/d relations, as well as mother/son relations, is __Feminist Parenting__, and the editor skips my mind just now. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace!]] I am the editor of Feminist Parenting and it is available through me. Dena Taylor Dent22@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 17:06:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara S. Stengel" Subject: Reference needed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Can anybody help with a complete citation for "Black Eyed Blues Connections: From the Inside Out" by Michelle Gibbs Russell? It may be in a book with "Approaches" in the title. A colleague has a paper copy that show it as pages 84-89. She wants to use the piece in a course but can't get copyright permission without more info. Please respond privately. Thanks. Barb Stengel ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Barbara S. Stengel (bstengel@marauder.millersv.edu) Professor of Educational Foundations Millersville University Millersville, PA 17551 (717) 872-3785 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 20:26:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne E Franks Subject: context for queries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Greetings list members - I've recently rejoined the list after = an absence. It's nice to be back. I'm writing with a request about the format of queries to the list - please excuse me if this has been addressed in my absence. I benefit immensely from many of the queries that are sent to the list. When the query is something that I might like to reply to, I find it most helpful when the poster has included some context for the reason behind the query, or the context in which the = question arose in the poster's mind. Not only does this give me more insight into the thinking of others on the list (which I see as a major benefit of the list), it also helps me shape my reply to queries I want to respond to. I think that most posters generally do this, but not all. Especially for someone who is just joining the list, or rejoining, context information is most helpful. = For example, someone recently posted a query regarding whether list members were still teaching Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality" in women's studies courses. However, there was no information given regarding why the query was sent. We are all very busy (both posters and = would-be repliers) and I think that including some context helps us all decide whether (1) we want to respond and have anything useful to offer and (2) we are seriously interested in the particular thread that might be generated by a query. = I am also reminded, as I write this, of the insight of the = Handmaid in Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" - "Context is all." In the environment of a list dedicated to = scholarly discussion of women's studies issues, I would hope that we would all keep the importance of context in mind. = Perhaps the original poster of the request about Rich's = "Compulsory Heterosexuality" would consider sharing the context that generated his/her request. If false modesty keeps = you from sharing your particular context, abandon it! = There is much to be gained by all. Not the least of which might be, to help focus ensuing discussions - which is = surely to the benefit of anyone who posts a query to the list, = as well as list members joining the conversation. Suzanne Franks sfranks2@compuserve.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 20:36:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carolyn I. Wright" Subject: Re: NCFR feminist research prize In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am interested in getting information regarding the feminist research prize offered by the NCFR. Has anyone that info they can forward to me? Carolyn Wright ciwright@mailbox.syr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:21:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Finding past messages (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT oday's monthly excerpt from the Source of All Wisdom, the WMST-L User's Guide (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html) : 10) "I'VE BEEN AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS. I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT I'VE MISSED ON WMST-L DURING THE TIME I'VE BEEN GONE. IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACCESS PREVIOUS MESSAGES?" [also useful for new subscribers] Yes. All WMST-L messages are automatically archived. The 1991 archives are arranged in monthly logs; beginning in Jan., 1992, the logs were changed to a weekly format. To find out what logs are available, you can send LISTSERV the following command: INDEX WMST-L . You'll then receive a list of the available logs. To obtain the logs, send LISTSERV the following command: GET WMST-L [filename] where [filename] is the name of the log file you want. For example: GET WMST-L LOG9609a will get you the log for the first week ("a") in September 1996 (9609 refers to the 9th month of 1996). LOG9612b is the log for the second week ("b") in Dec. 1996 (December is the 12th month). (It's possible that the wording of your request may take a slightly different form, depending on your mail system, but what you want is WMST-L LOGnnnnl.) Warning: some of these logs are LARGE (> 300K). As a result, you may not be permitted to get more than a few logs on any given day (the current limit is 20 files or 2M - i.e., 2000K). NOTE: Logfiles from before 1995 are no longer available on UMDD. To make room for newer logfiles, they were moved to the Women's Studies archive on InforM (http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ ). As time passes, other old logfiles will also be moved to InforM. The WMST-L filelist contains instructions designed to teach you how to search the UMDD logfiles for specific subjects. The instructions I recommend are contained in a file called SEARCH SIMPLE. It explains the new, simplified search procedures. This file is available on the web or via e-mail. The web URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/simplesearch.html . To get it by e-mail, send the message GET SEARCH SIMPLE to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. These instructions apply only to logfiles on UMDD, not those that have been moved to InforM. ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to 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, 10 Jan 1998 15:00:34 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Johnson Subject: Re: Reference needed In-Reply-To: from "Barbara S. Stengel" at Jan 9, 98 05:06:29 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michelle Russell's "Black-eyed Blues Connections: Teaching Black Women" is published in ALL THE WOMEN ARE WHITE, ALL THE BLACKS ARE MEN, BUT SOME OF US ARE BRAVE wdited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott & Barbara Smith (Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press, 1982) on pages 196-207. In the acknowledge- mests to this book it says the article is reprinted from WOMEN"S STUDIES NEWSLETTER, copywrited 1976 by Feminist Press. I don't know if what your friend has is the original or a later version, but I would think that this is a related article at least. Good luck, Maria Johnson mjohnson@leland.stanford.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 16:55:42 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Celia C Winkler Subject: Collaborative Learning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm teaching a feminist social theory course (in sociology) this coming semester, and I've been wracking my brains trying to figure out the best way to make it "feminist." It will be a small seminar, at most 12 students, at the 400 level (including some graduate students). I want it to become more of a study group than a traditional course with me as the all-knowing, but more--much more--than consciousness raising. I want the students to work *together*. I want them to find their voices. I want them to bring in real issues, real problems. Process, methodology is as important here as "content." I am emphasizing autobiography in the readings, linking them to theory. But I also want the students to develop a *collective* autobiography, in addition to their own personal experiences, to be able to tell the story of the course and how it impinges on, draws from individual experiences. To see the threads that hold us together. (To draw on a title of a novel by Marge Piercy, our "braided lives.") I had thought of a collective final paper, but do not have a clue how to pull this off, as I've never experienced one myself. Any suggestions for such a paper, or for any other way of structuring the course? Celia Winkler Department of Sociology University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-1047 Office: (406) 243-5863 Fax: (406) 243-5951 cwinkler@selway.umt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:25:44 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: Collaborative Learning Comments: To: Celia C Winkler In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Celia, I will be very interested in following this thread. I think your course sounds wonderful -- I have taught biog. and autobiog. in a women's studies context and my group worked well together, but not on collab. projects. I am teaching Bus. Com now and am just learning the ups and downs of collab projects, which I believe are important learning tools. My one concern -- and I'm interested to see what others ay about this -- is your desire to keep out the consciousness raising element (or deemphasize it) while still focusing on personal life stories. Sounds like you'll be walking a tightrope much of the time. That's not all bad. Perhaps it's a matter of trying to distinguish between autobiog. stories, group autobiog, and cr. So often women's studies classes get off on CR sesions. But is that negative. OR is it simply a first step in the process, and it's up to the teacher to move the class forward to a deeper level, whether by that you mean theoretical or political, or artistic. . . I'm eager to hear definitions -- broad ones -- that emerge from this unique approach. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. Lecturer, Business and Technical Communications mharris@utdallas.edu School of Management UT-Dallas PO Box 830688 Richardson, Texas 75083-0688 972/883-6822 of. 972/883-6823 fx. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:51:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Fwd: Essays requested for Philly Inquirer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Forwarded from Polwoman -- http://wlo.org -- Mary Schweitzer --------forwarded message---------- If you know anyone in the Philadelphia area, spread the word! * The Philadelphia Inquirer has called for 300 to 400 word essays about the 25th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade for their community pages. According to Pennsylvania NARAL, the newspaper typically receives two to three times more anti-choice mail as pro-choice mail, so it is important that those supporters of choice who live in the paper's circulation area respond. Although the paper asked for people to talk about counseling a friend, letters are not limited to that topic alone. The paper wants personal stories about how and why a woman's right to choose affects women and their families. The right to choose is a powerful and pervasive belief, founded on a positive, moral pro-choice vision. By telling your story in such a public way, you have made an invaluable contribution to our efforts in promoting that vision. For assistance or information, call PA NARAL at 215/545-4666 or send an E-mail to naral@libertynet.org. Essays should be sent to: Community Voices/On Abortion Philadelphia Inquirer Box 8263 Philadelphia, PA 19101 fax: 215/8544483 email: Inquirer.Editorial@phillynews.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:10:55 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: Collaborative Learning Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:55 PM 1/10/98 -0700, you wrote: >I'm teaching a feminist social theory course (in sociology) this coming >semester, and I've been wracking my brains trying to figure out the best >way to make it "feminist." It will be a small seminar, at most 12 >students, at the 400 level (including some graduate students). I want it >to become more of a study group than a traditional course with me as the >all-knowing, but more--much more--than consciousness raising. I want the >students to work *together*. I want them to find their voices. I want >them to bring in real issues, real problems. Process, methodology is as >important here as "content." >... >I am emphasizing autobiography in the readings, linking them to theory. >But I also want the students to develop a *collective* autobiography, in >... >Celia Winkler >Department of Sociology >University of Montana >Missoula, MT 59812-1047 >Office: (406) 243-5863 >Fax: (406) 243-5951 >cwinkler@selway.umt.edu > >This is from Pauline Bart pbart@ucla.edu I have taught many such seminars almost all very successfully and I can tell you what worked for me. You are right, of course in focussing on process as well as contents. l)I try to have the sessions at my home. If not at another home near campus, and if push comes to shove at the nicest room I can get. We bring food to share (In berkely I taught a brunch to lunch seminar on the sociology of sociology at my house so they would be willing to have a morning seminar). If the students are of different ethnicities the food will reflect that (as at Chicago Circle). Of course we start out somewhat autobiographically by saying why we took the course and what we hope to get from it. I also disclose (this is risky for some people and the last undergraduateclas I taught wasn't interested in my life they said). But I believe that everything is data (but data isn't everything) as we put on an SWS T shirt. I also believe that our lives are our data, so I like your suggestions for sociological autobiographies. You can use C Wright Mills interesection of personality and social structure. If there is variation iin ages that is an important jumping off point, as are differing races classes sexual orientations (I hate that term-it sounds like learning where the library is for women and for men-orientation week) with the freedom not to disclose anything they don't want to. I'm not sure what books you have decided on. Novels are good-in fact Brided Lives, which you mention, is good. One question that comes up is the attitudes of their boyfriends. I tell them not to talk to their boyfriends about pornography or marital rape, or if they do, not to expect full support. (this is based on experience not ideology). You might have the students look at the book by some Berkeley women professors and the one by Sarah Fenstermaker and someone else on feminist professor's lives. (My life was rejected so don't expect it to be very radical or to be an exposse of the currption of the demeritocrqacy). BUt that will show the students how to combine personal with the political and the scholarly. Mannheim's concept of generations is useful for students (part of the sociology of knowledge e.g. the sixties generation, the depression generation). I always include a book written by a feminist sociologist from another county--now there are many of them. Maria Meiss' work is interesting as aremany of the Canadians. I would also include something historical e.g. Carroll Smith Rosenberg or Elizabeth Pleck(her book on violence against women and children in the US historically) as US students don't know enough history, And the readings I would choose have many case studies so the students can relate it to their own lives. If the students are homogenous you might be able to have a joint autobiography but my gut feeling is that it would be like a Procrustean bed. You could have them choose the topics they would like and those who have similar topics could work together. If the clas is dealing with health issues I like Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals which has just been reissued. That would work well with Susan Love's The Politics of Cancer in Feminist Frontiers, the textbook I use for undergraduate students. I always use Adrienne Rich's Compulsory Heterosexuality with her addition and some criticism of it. That's a wonderful piece for discussion, since students think they are free and have absoulte choice. The lesbian contnuum is good for them to talk about since most of their mothers have very close female friends. Another book the students find useful is Catharine MacKinon's Feminism Unmodified (if they are advanced and/or you have political science students in the class you can use her Towars a Feminist Theory of the State. The former is much simpler than the Signs articles and deals with women and athletics, sexual harassment, rape , pronography--the issues that unfortuanately at least some students in the class have experienced, although they may not say anything until the end of the class. Doing these seminars was a wonderful experience for me (and the students they say-and their mothers in some cases) and I am in heavy mourning that I can';t do it anymore. Best Pauline B. Bart pbart@ucla.edu (revised version of a Yiddish proverb) It is better for a person never to have been born at all, but not one woman in 10,000 has such good fortune. Pauline B. Bart pbart@ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 21:32:26 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lauren coodley Subject: Re: collaborative learning. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In response to Celia Winkler's request for ideas on a collective final paper, may I suggest an alternative collective project? The students can make either a large mural composed of individual collages or segments of drawings OR you can assist them in creating a book composed of the same (collages or drawings). It is extremely effective to allow students to use visual expression rather than writing. They can either cut images from magazines that express different ideas about the course and themselves (in the process reading illustrations for subtext) or can do stick drawings with commentaries written on by hand. You might show them some slides of feminist art projects to stimulate this second methodology. Drawing is an excellent way of exploring ideas and feelings once you get past the "I can't draw" defense. The students really enjoy making something together (as women so often used to do). They are able to express conflicting experiences in a non-threatening medium where participation is the only criterion for passing. Lauren Coodley Napa Valley College laurenil@napanet.net ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:55:17 -0800 Reply-To: France Winddance Twine Sender: Women's Studies List From: France Winddance Twine Subject: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - MOTHERHOOD Comments: cc: Helena Ragone MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Helena Ragone' and France Winddance Twine are soliciting contributions for a volume titled "Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Religion and Nationalism" forthcoming from Routledge in 1999. This multiracial, international and cross-cultural collection explores the contradictions and complexities of non-normative, stigmatized, and problematic motherhood. Reproduction is a lens through which racial formations, nationalism, class inequalities, religious ideologies, and power are theorized. The Editors are soliciting additional chapters for the final section of the volume. This volume is distinct in two ways: 1) it does not privilege the United States or Western Europe and 2) all of the contributors are ethnographers currently conducting field research. The editors invite additional submissions from anthropologists or sociologists working in Africa, Latin America, Asia or Eastern Europe. We are particularly interested in submissions that critically engage the intersections of race, class, sexuality or religion in the following contexts: 1) mothering in prison, and 2) mothering under violence or war. Deadline for submission is March 15, 1998. No abstracts, drafts or incomplete papers can be considered. Papers submitted should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers should be no more than 10,000 words in length. Please send two copies of your paper, a C.V., and a 100 word biographical statement to each of the editors. Please do not send papers via email or FAX. Helena Ragone' France Winddance Twine University of Massachusetts Department of Sociology Department of Anthropology 2384 Ellison Hall Boston, MA University of California Email: ragone@umbsky.cc.umb.edu Santa Barbara, CA 93105 Email: twine@sscf.ucsb.edu FAX: 805-893-3324 If you have any questions, please reply privately to either Helena Ragone or F. Winddance Twine. ****************************** F. Winddance Twine Assistant Professor of Sociology 2834 Ellison Hall University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: 805-893-3118 FAX: 805-893-3324 Please note that I read and respond to email Tuesday-Thursday. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:07:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: Pre-registration deadline for conference Comments: To: power , ubfaculty , ubalumni , ubstudents , ubstaff MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Just a note to remind you that the early preregistration deadline for the Association for Women in Psychology Conference is January 16th. If you have not received a registration form, I can send you one via e-mail. The program will be in e-mail format by the end of this week. It is 84 pages long in hard copy and will be e-mailed in three parts. Make sure you have space enough to receive it. We have an excellent program this year in terms of breath, depth, and diversity! The conference will be in Baltimore, March 5-8th at the Hilton & Towers. Lynn H. Collins, Ph.D. *****23rd Anuual Association for Women in Psychology Conference***** Baltimore Hilton & Towers, March 5-8th, 1998 For registration information please contact me at: Applied Psychology & Quantitative Methods University of Baltimore 1420 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201-5779 or e-mail: lcollins@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:33:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Harzewski Subject: looking for Emily Toth MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Could someone please provide me with the email address of Emily Toth of Louisanna State University? I think she is a member of this list. I would like to ask her a question about her Gloria Naylor bibliography. Please respond privately. Thank you. Sincerely, Stephanie Harzewski M.A. Women's Studies Program Rutgers University ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:52:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: finding e-mail addresses (was 'looking for Emily Toth') MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Stephanie Harzewski wrote: > Could someone please provide me with the email address of Emily Toth of > Louisanna State University? Since Emily Toth is indeed a subscriber, I assume she will reply privately to this query. For future reference, however, I'd like to refer Stephanie and others to a document that contains lots of tips for finding people's email addresses: http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/addresses.html (or send the message GET FINDING ADDRESS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU for a version sent via e-mail). Especially when you know where someone teaches, the best way to find an address is to go to that university's web site (for Louisiana State University, a good guess would be http://www.lsu.edu) and look for a directory of faculty/staff/student info. If you have no idea what the website URL might be, you can find a very extensive listing of American college and university websites at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html . For a listing that includes colleges and universities all over the world, try http://web.mit.edu/cdemello/www/univ.html . This information and more is contained in the FINDING ADDRESS document I mentioned earlier, available both on the web and via e-mail. I hope this proves helpful. Joan ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 14:09:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Linda Levine" Subject: Future of Women's Studies I need to prepare for my home institution, Montclair State University, a document outlining, among other things, a vision of where Women's Studies will be situated, as a discipline, in the next ten years. I welcome any insights on this topic, readings or reports to consult, or comments on the relationship between Women's Studies and skills that will be required of the 21st century workforce. Linda Gould Levine Director, Women's Studies Levinel@saturn.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:43:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Future of Women's Studies Comments: To: "Dr. Linda Levine" In-Reply-To: <"15404111108991/1374757@SATURN"@SATURN.MONTCLAIR.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A principal theme would be the role Women's Studies has in the political and son educa college students ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:49:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Future of Women's Studies Comments: To: "Dr. Linda Levine" In-Reply-To: <"15404111108991/1374757@SATURN"@SATURN.MONTCLAIR.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII An increasingly important role of women's studies should be the growing political and social education that women's studies provides for college students, resulting in a better informed and more sophisticated citizenry. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:11:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: c-r and collective autobios MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I don't think that C-R - need divorce experience and feelings from collective analysis and reflection. I have also done race, class and gender autobiographical sketches in my Intro to Women's Studies class and followed up with "positional" C-R discussions that have been illuminating. I discuss this in my article, "Raising C-R: Another Look at Consciousness-Raising in the Women's Studies Classroom," published in the Fall 1997 issue of the journal _Transformations_ (8.2). I hope people will see the article as opening up dialogue around the inclusion of student experience in combination with classroom learning and critique. Best, Barbara Scott Winkler bwinkler@wvu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 07:42:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L file collection(s) (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT oday's monthly excerpt from the Source of All Wisdom, the WMST-L User's Guide (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html) : 11) "HOW DO I FIND OUT WHAT FILES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WMST-L, AND HOW DO I OBTAIN THE FILES I WANT?" To find out what files are available, send LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (or, on Bitnet, LISTSERV@UMDD) the same command mentioned in the previous section: INDEX WMST-L. The list you'll receive from LISTSERV includes files as well as logs. To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] WMST-L where [filename] is the two-word name of the file you want. For example, suppose you send for the filelist (INDEX WMST-L) and see the following listing: * Policies for cross-listing courses with Women's Studies CROSSLST POLICIES ALL OWN V 79 436 92/12/07 20:41:03 To get this file, you'd send the message GET CROSSLST POLICIES WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). Note that [filename] consists of two words separated by a space and not a period. (Adding WMST-L after the two-word filename is optional; it simply makes sure that if two lists have a file with the same name, you'll get the right one.) IMPORTANT NOTE: women's studies syllabi are contained in a subdirectory called SYLLABI, while feminist film reviews are to be found in a subdirectory called FILM, and reference book mini-reviews are in the WMSTBOOK subdirectory. To find out what syllabi, film reviews, or reference book mini-reviews a subdirectory contains, send LISTSERV the command INDEX SYLLABI (or INDEX FILM or INDEX WMSTBOOK). To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] SYLLABI (or replace SYLLABI w/FILM or WMSTBOOK as needed) If you are requesting a film review, be aware that the filename always takes the form FILM REVx (e.g., FILM REV25); the name of the film is NOT the filename! You can request more than one file at once; just be sure to put each request on a separate line. LISTSERV will then send the file(s) to you either in a mail message or in Netdata format. You can force LISTSERV to send them in a mail message by adding F=MAIL at the end of each command. For example, GET [filename] FILM F=MAIL . Or, to retrieve files sent by LISTSERV in Netdata format, follow these instructions: If your e-mail address is on a VAX/VMS machine, when you get a message that one or more files have arrived at your e-mail address, you should type "RECEIVE *" (do not include the quotation marks) at the $ prompt. This command will put the file(s) into your main directory. You can then type "TYPE filename" (replace "filename" with the actual name of the file) to read the file. If it's a long file, you can read it more effectively by typing "TYPE/PAGE filename." If your e-mail address is on an IBM VM/CMS machine, either use your mailer front end or type RLIST and RECEIVE the file into your FLIST. Go into your FLIST to look at the file. If your e-mail address is on a different kind of machine OR you are using Profs or some other kind of similar mailing system, go ahead and try the above commands. If they do not work, CALL YOUR COMPUTER SERVICES OFFICE. The people there should be able to help you and/or give you a manual for your mailing system commands. NOTE: Many WMST-L files (and a lot more!) are also available on the Women's Studies archive on InforM, the University of Maryland's Online Information Service. The URL is http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ . If you don't have access to the Web, you can telnet to inform.umd.edu . Select Educational Resources, then Academic Resources by Topic, then Women's Studies Resources. InforM contains a goldmine of online information about women. Do have a look! ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to 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, 11 Jan 1998 23:39:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barnsley Brown Subject: new approaches to passing as cultural phenomenon Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CALL FOR ESSAYS FOR AN INTERDISCIPLINARY VOLUME: New Approaches to Passing as a Cultural Phenomenon "Passing for white" dominates most discussions of passing, but this figuration is proving itself to be increasingly narrow and inadequate to discussions of identity formation. Hence the essays in this volume will question and expand traditional historical constructions of passing in twentieth-century North America. Essays exploring the dynamics of passing that expand the traditional black/white construction are solicited. Possible topics include but are not limited to: passing as straight or gay/lesbian, passing as a non-white, passing as a citizen or foreigner, and so on. Essays with a theoretical bent or framework (Marxist, feminist/womanist, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, etc.) are particularly welcome. Approaches may range from the literary to the sociological, political, and/or anthropological. Submissions should be 15-25 pages in length (MLA format) and should be made in triplicate (no electronic submissions please) to Dr. E. Barnsley Brown, Department of English, Box 7387 Reynolda Station, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7387. The deadline for submissions is March 15th, 1998; however, earlier submissions are encouraged. Queries may be directed to E. Barnsley Brown at browneb@wfu.edu or Adam Mckible at adamckib@email.unc.edu. Scholars from a variety of areas, including Women's Studies, will be represented in this project. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:07:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elaine Orr Subject: Re: new approaches to passing as cultural phenomenon In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19980112043925.0067373c@pop.wfu.edu> from "Barnsley Brown" at Jan 11, 98 11:39:25 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Barnsley and Adam, First of all, would you consider an autobiographical essay. And second, are you interested in the phenomenon of white passing for whiter? I am white but was born and grew up in West Africa where I did not learn how to be white enough and was, in fact, in some ways "black" (but not U.S. American black; I have two Yoruba names). When I came to the U.S. at age sixteen, I had to learn rather quickly how to pass for white, since clearly, I was not black (I have blond hair and blue eyes). There were class issues involved so I was also trying to pass as middle class. And I was trying to pass as a teen-ager, a particularly American concept. I'm working on my memoir at the present and could craft something out of it for your purposes if you are interested. Elaine Bamedele Orr Associate Professor English and Women's Studies North Carolina State University ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:49:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Leah C. Ulansey" Subject: Tone it down 'til tenure? MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII One of the depressing things about applying for academic jobs is the thought that even if I'm lucky enough to land a tenure-track position, I assume I'll have to keep a low profile and keep my feminist idealism muzzled and on a short leash if I hope to be promoted. This is an area where I'd like to learn from the experience of others on this list. Is it really as bad as all that? Or is it the case that, as some people say, "once they hire you, you can do what you want"? Is there really no freedom of academic expression until tenure? I'm wondering if listmembers have any anecdotes, cautionary tales or strategies to share (the more specific, the better) about surviving (or trying to survive) in academe without compromising one's critical edge. I'd be especially interested to hear some success stories from senior faculty. Thanks in advance; please reply privately or to the list. Leah Ulansey leou@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:30:57 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: NCFR feminist research prize Comments: To: "Carolyn I. Wright" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Information about the Feminist Research award offered by National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) can be obtained by calling NCFR offices: 1-888-781-9331, toll free. The award, and others, are presented at each year's annual conference. The 1998 conference will be held in Milwaukee, WI, November 12-18. Call for Abstracts is due postmarked Jan. 26, 1998. Call above number for CFA information. You do not need to be a member of NCFR to present a paper, poster, workshop, etc. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Carolyn I. Wright wrote: > I am interested in getting information regarding the feminist research > prize offered by the NCFR. Has anyone that info they can forward to me? > Carolyn Wright > ciwright@mailbox.syr.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:08:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure? In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For additional information on this topic, as well as great & horrible stories, I highly recommend Emily Toth's recent _Ms Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academe_. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. awink@sfasu.edu Department of English and Philosophy PO Bx 13007, SFA Station Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas 75962-3007 (409)468-2007 "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: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:49:24 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Belcher Subject: Re: Paper In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, Celia How was your break?? We had a nice break in DC but came back exhausted... My supervisor and committee want me to eliminate 400 pages of history which provide the context for my study so I have no choice now but to gut it...what a drag. Did you send the revised paper? If so, it has not arrived yet. Bye for now Susan M. Belcher Lecturer, Sociology and Women's Studies Athabasca University P.O. Box 11411 Edmonton, Alberta Canada T5J 3K6 Tel.: 477-5092 FAX: 492-2024 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:14:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure? MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Leah C. Ulansey writes: > One of the depressing things about applying for academic jobs is the > thought that even if I'm lucky enough to land a tenure-track position, > I assume I'll have to keep a low profile and keep my feminist idealism > muzzled and on a short leash if I hope to be promoted. This is an area > where I'd like to learn from the experience of others on this list. Is > it really as bad as all that? Or is it the case that, as some people > say, "once they hire you, you can do what you want"? Frankly, I don't think one can or should generalize about this. At least, my umpteen years in academe have taught me that the answer is, "it depends." It depends on the other members of the department into which you're hired, it depends on the climate at the specific university, it depends on all kinds of intangible aspects of your personality, it depends on how strong a tenure candidate you are aside from your activism/idealism, etc. etc. etc. Joan Korenman ************************************************************************* * Joan Korenman, Director, Women's Studies korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * University of Maryland Baltimore County * * http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ************************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:45:50 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah J.C. Morrow" Subject: Job Search Website Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello everyone....I hope you can help me with this. Sometime in the last month or so, a web site was placed on WMST-L about "Scholarships for Women and Minorities '97" that was either put on by, or updated regularly, by Ella Fung. I've lost the URL, and can't seem to find it through several searches (AltaVista, Yahoo, Web Crawler, etc.). Could you please e-mail me privately if you have the URL? Thanks, Deb Morrow _____..---======+*+=======---.._____ ___Deb Morrow________,-='=====____ ============== _____=====`= (._corzines@siu.edu____) - _-=_/ `------=+=-------' / /__...---==='---+---_' '----'---.___ - _ = _.-' Explore all your options -- `-------' something might surprise you! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:04:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure? Comments: To: "Leah C. Ulansey" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII It ceretainly seems to be a fact that it's better to veil your feminist proclivities until you have tenure. Keep a low profile is the motto. It would be a good idea to find out how those in pwoer feel about feminism as soon as possible, and without being overly overt. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:04:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Shircliffe Subject: Call for Papers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Calls for Papers "Rethinking the Masters' Tools? Institutionalizing Women's Studies in US Higher Education" Barbara Shircliffe, Barbara Winkler, and Catherine Orr This interdisciplinary anthology will document and analyze women's = studies from its emergence within the women's movement to its = institutionalization in colleges and universities across the United = States. In this context, institutionalization is understood as a complex = and undertheorized process with historically and socially specific = locations based on race, class, gender and sexual politics. We want the = anthology to consider women's studies from a variety of disciplinary and = methodological perspectives. Therefore, submissions from any discipline = in the humanities or social sciences are also welcome. Authors are = encouraged to focus on one or more of the following themes. 1. "'By, For, and About Women': Theoretical Perspectives on = Institutionalization Women's Studies." Submissions for this section, = through case studies and/or general theoretical discussions, may provide = varying perspectives from which to understand the effects of diverse = forms of institutionalization on women's studies. Authors, however, = should address the ways the overall process of institutionalization was = shaped by historically and/or socially specific contexts of gender, = race, class, and sexual orientation. =20 2. "Building the 'Intellectual Arm of the Women's Movement': The = Emergence of Women's Studies in Women's Liberation." Submissions for = this section might examine the original founding individuals' and = groups' visions and rhetorical strategies used in program building. = Locating the creation and development of women's studies in the goals = and strategies of the contemporaneous women's movements, authors may = address how the local activism shaped individual programs or departments = vis a vis the administration, other grass roots political projects, and = broader social struggles such as Civil Rights, Black Power, the New = Left, and anti-colonial movements. Authors may also trace the changing = nature of program narratives, curriculum, and constituencies as a result = of institutionalization, retrenchment, increased or decreased community = involvement, internal strife, campus climate, or the success and/or = support of other social movement-based disciplines such as African = American, Chicano, Native American, or urban studies.=20 3. "Political Imperatives and Strategic Choices: Women's Studies in = Backlash Era." Submissions for this section may document internal = institutional politics and strategies as programs simultaneously attain = permanence and struggle against marginalization. Authors may address = how larger social, political, and economic forces such as the decline of = a mass base student movement, the rise of the New Right, economic = retrenchment, etc. as well as how local institutional politics = complicated and transformed individual program strategies. Authors = focusing future oriented and retrospective lessons learned essays are = particularly encourage to summit. =20 Deadline for Submissions: June 15, 1998=20 Manuscript length: Approximately 8500 words. Each submission should include a separate cover letter, abstract (250 = word maximum), and three copies of the abstract and manuscript. = Submissions should be mailed to Dr. Barbara J. Shircliffe, Department of = Psychological and Social Foundations, University of South Florida, 4202 = East Fowler Avenue, FAO 100U, Tampa, FL 33620 Email: shirclif@typhoon.coedu.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:13:19 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Crowder Subject: Re: tone it down til tenure Leah Ulansey asked to hear from senior women about whether one can/should be a feminist activist before tenure. While agreeing wholeheartedly with Joan Korenman that everything depends upon the circumstances in which you find yourself, I'd like to add my own experience. I wrote one of the earlier overtly feminist dissertations and defended it in 1977. So my dissertation title made clear my feminist leanings for all to see. That was a dismal year for hiring in languages, but I got as many interviews as other grad students, and got a tenure-track job (the only one of my grad school cohort to get one immediately). I was hired at a small liberal arts college in Iowa that had a fairly conservative faculty, but one that prided itself on its openness to various viewpoints. I was a vocal feminist from the beginning of my career here, and later came out to the campus as well as to myself as a lesbian, long before tenure. I helped establish a lesbigay support group, gave lectures to various groups on feminist topics, was an active and vocal participant in general faculty discussions, and a year before coming up for tenure helped initiate our Women's Studies program. Fortunately, I had the solid support of myu departmental colleagues, and gained the respect of others because, while some disagreed with my point of view, they couold see that I was working hard to better the college and the options available to students. It is critical, I think, to make it clear why you are advocating changes, and that you make alliances with others who are in agreement with you. I have never respected people who say they will become active once they have tenure. For one thing, I have seldom observed that people change much after tenure. Those who are active participants in the community before tenure stay active. Those who laid low before tenure, claiming they would be more participatory afterwards, indeed continued to lay low after tenure. Leadership will out! It's virtually impossible in a smaller school to hide who you really are for 6+ years! And I suspect it is difficult to do so within one's own department in a larger school. We just tenured my outspokenly feminist and lesbian colleague in my department as well. I realize we may be different from many other institutions, but I thought I'd share one person's experience, while reiterating that Joan's advice to take careful stock of your own institution before you act. Good luck! Diane Crowder Professor of French and Women's Studies Cornell College crowder@cornell-iowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:39:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Job Search Website In-Reply-To: <199801121949.OAA09114@umd5.umd.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Deborah J.C. Morrow wrote: > Hello everyone....I hope you can help me with this. Sometime in the last > month or so, a web site was placed on WMST-L about "Scholarships for Women > and Minorities '97" that was either put on by, or updated regularly, by > Ella Fung. I've lost the URL, and can't seem to find it through several > searches (AltaVista, Yahoo, Web Crawler, etc.). The specific URL for Ella Fung's page is http://members.aol.com/ox13qr/webpages/eyfswm1.html . However, you can find that link and several other related links on the UMBC Women's Studies web site under K. Resources for WMST Students. The specific URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/jobsetc.html . The overall UMBC Women's Studies URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ . Joan Korenman ************************************************************************* * Joan Korenman, Director, Women's Studies korenman@umbc.edu * * University of Maryland, Baltimore County * * http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ************************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:12:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne King Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >I agree with Joan: It does depend on you and on your institution. But think: would you really want to stay for a lifetime at an institution where you felt obliged to "tone it down"--at least beyond reasonable limits? I'm probably not the one who should answer this: I have tenure (and long may it wave!) Anne Mills King Prince George's Community College Largo MD 20774 301-322-0594 summer: 4375 Pine Grove Road Stanley VA 22851 540-778-2044 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:17:24 -0800 Reply-To: Anila Hedayat Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anila Hedayat Subject: Re: Job Search Website MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would also like the address of the Website. You can e-mail me privately at ahedayat@uci.edu. Thank you. Anila ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:26:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: Re: Pre-registration deadline for conference -Reply Comments: To: Psychology of Women Resource List In-Reply-To: <199801122051.PAA24400@pike.sover.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII No reason to panic. I left out the line that said "If you request a copy of the e-mail version of the program, then please be sure... etc." I will not be posting it to any lists or sending it to those who have not requested it. Sorry for the confusion. On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Lynne Shea & Mac Gander wrote: > > Please! Don't send me the program via e-mail. I won't be able to read it > >and my system won't handle it. > > > This message is worth repeating! I know I received this notice on two > listservs (forget which other one!), and I cannot read attachments! > Moreover, it takes my system FOREVER to download the file which I can't > read. So, PLEASE don't send attachments to listservs. Can you transfer it > from your file to email or put it on a website or something? > > Thanks in advance, > > Lynne Shea > > > MacLean Gander Lynne C. Shea > Vice President for Academic Affairs Associate Professor,English > > Landmark College Landmark College > Putney, VT 05346 802-387-6778 > > mgander@landmarkcollege.org lshea@landmarkcollege.org > http//www.landmarkcollege.org WLDADD@home.ease.lsoft.com > LDCOMP@home.ease.lsoft.com > Lynn H. Collins, Ph.D. *****23rd Anuual Association for Women in Psychology Conference***** Baltimore Hilton & Towers, March 5-8th, 1998 For registration information please contact me at: Applied Psychology & Quantitative Methods University of Baltimore 1420 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201-5779 or e-mail: lcollins@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:29:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: "Regina Berecca or Verecca" Comments: To: power MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, A colleague of mine is trying to located Regina Berecca or Verecca. She is not sure of the spelling. Please send her any information at: amarkowitz@ubmail.ubalt.edu Thanks, Lynn H. Collins, Ph.D. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:10:02 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michael Sarazin Subject: Re: "Regina Berecca or Verecca" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lynn, is your friend looking for Regina Barecca, the feminist scholar who has done so much impressive work in the field of women's humour? Last I knew, she was at the University of Connecticut. Andrea Austin msarazin@netinc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:15:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CE Randall/D Lynne Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" While on one hand I "understand" the need to be cautious before tenure, I think on the other hand that it is a real cop out to down play feminism. What does that say about one's commitment to feminism? Is feminism something that you can turn on and off depending on the external environment? I would hope that it is a way of being in the world that one embraces and celebrates. I've found as a student that there are too many faculty who keep a low profile and become invisible to those (who are students) who need someone out there on the front line. I encourage all of us to be a bit more visible and open in declaring that feminism is alive and well and a force to engage with in acedemia. Carla Randall >It ceretainly seems to be a fact that it's better to veil your feminist >proclivities until you have tenure. Keep a low profile is the motto. >It would be a good idea to find out how those in pwoer feel about feminism >as soon as possible, and without being overly overt. Ruby Rohrlich >rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:46:45 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bethathena Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Regina Barreca Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Regina Barreca is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Her web site is http://lgdesign.com/barreca Beth Horlitz bethathena@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:10:23 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Alison Brookes Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Having read all the views on becoming a closet feminist until certain of ongoing employment, I am wondering about recent (and forthcoming) applications I am making to universities in the Us to work. My CV makes it clear I am a feminist, a lesbian and an activist... I don't intend to go changing my CV, but am wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to any particular states or areas are more likely to look upon these 'qualities' as a plus? Cheers, Ali ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:32:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joyce S. Keeler" Subject: Re: Job Search Website In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980112134550.0071223c@saluki-mail.siu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Deborah J.C. Morrow wrote: > Hello everyone....I hope you can help me with this. Sometime in the last > month or so, a web site was placed on WMST-L about "Scholarships for Women > and Minorities '97" that was either put on by, or updated regularly, by > Ella Fung. I've lost the URL, and can't seem to find it through several > searches (AltaVista, Yahoo, Web Crawler, etc.). > > Could you please e-mail me privately if you have the URL? =================>>>> Could this list please be made available to all of us on the list so we can pass it on to folk who could benefit. Joyce ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:38:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19980113121021.353f9318@mail-g.deakin.edu.au> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I emphatically agree with those who have suggested that one doesn't suddenly change personalities or behavior upon receiving tenure. What I fail to understand, however, is why on a job application one would make it clear that one is an activist, a lesbian, a feminist. When I was interviewing for jobs (and sending out materials) no one asked me or seemed interested in my religion, my politics, my sexual orientation, my private life, or my political commitments. They asked me about my work and preparation and that's what I emphasized in all communications, at interviews, etc. Why would one want to do anything else? Isn't this a JOB we're talking about? They're supposed to not discriminate, period. Why should anyone want "identity" issues to receive such attention in what is supposed to be a professional situation? -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:48:08 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Alison Brookes Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:38 PM 1/12/98 -0500, DAPHNE PATAI wrote: [...] Isn't this a JOB we're talking about? >They're supposed to not discriminate, period. Why should anyone want >"identity" issues to receive such attention in what is supposed to be >a professional situation? >-- >====================== >Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu I don't know if it is a cultural difference, but certainly here it is customary (expected even) that membership of professional organisations be included in a CV. Similarly, any community involvement is also included. It would be clear from even a half-hearted reading of these sections of my CV of who I am. I am pleased to hear that there are laws protecting against discrimination, but perhaps they aren't uniformly enforced or understood if women are still feeling a need to 'tone down' their feminism at work in order to secure a position? cheers, Ali ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:53:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnne Myers Subject: Re[2]: Tone it down 'til tenure In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:38:58 EST I understand why people might want to 'tone down' because of all the *antifeminism in the academy* (there's a book by that name, also) but, you need to be true to yourself...and internally consistent! But I did get tenure at Marist, a conservative quasi-catholic college...though my "advocacy in the classroom" seems to have delayed my promotion (but not this isnt a problem w/ my peers in PolSci) To Daphne: my sexual orientation, activism, & politics is VERY evident on my vitae--along with mainstreampubs, I also have pubs in the Lesbian Review of Books, The Journal of Lesbian Studies; I sit on the Board of the Domestic Violence Shelter, I crewed for 5 years on The Clearwater (hands-on environmental education), besides working in both the Koch & Cuomo adminstrations--my politics etc., are very much a part of me, and can not be hidden. On another note: maybe this would be a good roundtable discussion for the Women & Society Confernce this June...any takers? ciao, JAM JZLY@MaristB.Marist.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:19:48 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cat Farrar Subject: Dworkin/Daly Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm interested in finding Andrea Dworkin and Mary Daly's e-mail addresses. Can anyone help me with this quest. Thank you, Cat Farrar cat@cfmc.com Please respond privately ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:50:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: c-r and collective autobios In-Reply-To: <01IS9HD21KAAR1WPZ0@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It has seemed to me in teaching WS courses that the course per se was intellectual and personal CR. In both undergrad and grad courses, students' discussion of the issues studied revealed at least some aspects of their autobiographies; some students raised personal matters directly. Neither is surprising; unlike other courses, students are reading about issues that touch them personally. Actually, the same sort of thing happens in other courses, e.g., students' comments and questions in 'conventional' hist, soc, ed, psych classes that encourage discussion reveal something of their backgrounds. In my WS classes, whichever emerged, there were responses from other students; there were tensions over conflicted viewpoints; where a student's pain was revealed, there was always empathy, sympathy, efforts to be supportive. Whichever also, my judgment as the professor responsible for the conduct of the course (students and content) was called upon. What to say, how to guide, redirect; not easy. Often, as a result of the attitude I projected, students' private stories came out in 1:1 conferences; I think many professors have that experience. Doing CR or autobiographies as a course requirement is worrisome. What do we do with the information? It seems to me that any course, WS or not, raises students' consciousness about experience, thought and feelings they had not previously considered. Some courses confirm prejudices, others disrupt them. Connections to students' own lives (their autobiographies) can be made via generalizations. The case studies someone recommended are helpful. I believe students are entitled to private space in which to ponder course contents. It takes time to formulate reactions, many events through which decisions about how to conduct one's life are made. Especially in a first WS course, a focus on the contents is important to permit critical distance to evolve, space and time to develop a basis on which to proceed. Students will inevitably reveal what they want to, which someone suggested they be told is permissible; all autobiographers do. So we're getting partial stories. Often, as I indicated above, they reveal more than they realize in the course of discussion of course contents. What do we do with the information? We react in one way or another, reinforcing, reformulating, etc. Immutably objective? Then there's the practical matter of time. How much to devote to what. Sure, a syllabus is revisable, should be, but choices are made. And then there are grades, the coin of the university realm. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:47:21 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nikki Senecal Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure In-Reply-To: <199801130138.UAA03048@wilde.oit.umass.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We can all go happily believing that the world is a meritocracy ("Isn't this a JOB we are talking about?") but to this job seeker, things don't seem so simple. For more anecdotal evidence see "Pitfalls in Protocals: The Persistence of Race in the Interview Process" in the MLA's _Profession 1997_. Nikki Senecal senecal@scf.usc.edu > They asked me about my work and preparation and that's what I >emphasized in all communications, at interviews, etc. Why would one >want to do anything else? Isn't this a JOB we're talking about? >They're supposed to not discriminate, period. Why should anyone want >"identity" issues to receive such attention in what is supposed to be >a professional situation? >-- >====================== >Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:38:12 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:49 AM 1/12/98 -0500, you wrote: >One of the depressing things about applying for academic jobs is the >thought that even if I'm lucky enough to land a tenure-track position, >I assume I'll have to keep a low profile and keep my feminist idealism >muzzled and on a short leash if I hope to be promoted. This is an area >where I'd like to learn from the experience of others on this list. Is >it really as bad as all that? Or is it the case that, as some people >say, "once they hire you, you can do what you want"? Is there really no >freedom of academic expression until tenure? I'm wondering if listmembers >have any anecdotes, cautionary tales or strategies to share (the more >specific, the better) about surviving (or trying to survive) in >academe without compromising one's critical edge. I'd be especially >interested to hear some success stories from senior faculty. > >Thanks in advance; please reply privately or to the list. > > Leah Ulansey > leou@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu > >Dear Leah, It depends on the school that hires you. However its more than true for most schools. And don't think you're safe after tenure either. They can do all sorts of things to get you to leave. I stuck it out until I was given a large enough raise so I could retire. It is important to bond with powerful people who usually are men. They can protect you somewhat from the slings and arrows. And if you are in the social sciences it helps immeasurably to be quantitative. Somehow crunching numbers gives you legitimacy. Its not a meritocracy! Oh yes, publishe in "their" journals-their top journals in fact. One reason I received tenure was becaue I had an article in The American Journal of Sociology, and they didn't know it was in a special issue on women (I was in a medical school). Good luck, The UCLA email address is because i'm at the center for the study of women. Pauline Bart bart@ucla.edu (revised version of a Yiddish proverb) It is better for a person never to have been born at all, but not one woman in 10,000 has such good fortune. Pauline B. Bart pbart@ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:38:14 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: requested survey Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear listmembers, I have been asked by two subscribers for the survey I used when I taught women's studies or sociology-a survey on violence the students experienced. The context is the merssage that stated that talking about male bashing was a good way to start the course so the students wouldn't be upset. My suggestion was an alternative. I would like to make a methodological note. The numbers you will get are a minimum--by the end of the course, if violence against women and children is discussed, will be higher (yes there is repressed memory as well as incrased understanding that forced sex means rape). Leave lots of white space so they can write in whatever they want. age l8-22 over 22 sex m f no name or other identification l. Have you ever been forced to have sex?By whom?stranger_____acquaintance____ family member_________- 2. Do you know anyone who has been forced to have sex? 3. Did someone ever try to force you to have sex but you avoided it? 4. Do you know anyone to whom this happenned. 5. Did anyone perform sexual acts on you when you were a child? A relation _________(specify what kind) a stranger_________ An acquaintance_________ 6. Do you know anyone to whom this happenned. 7. Did someone try to be sexual with you when you were a child but were stopped. State relationship as above 8. Were you battered? By a member of your family by a stranger 9. Do you know anyone who was battered? Member of family____________ acquaintance_____________ 10. Was pornography ever forced on you? did this upset you yes_____no____ ll. Were you ever sexually harassed. [use definition used in your school or state-if possible have two categories-one for sexually hostile environmnet and one for direct approach] Use your state's definition of sexual assault for the first question. You can get that from a law school or from your state rep. This is mainly for consciousness raising-not for journal articles. I wrote it from memory so it may not be completely accurate-I think I included all the injuries. I then put the numbers on the board -sexual harassment is always the most common- and the students see they are never the only one this happenned to and that sexualized violence is endemic. The former average for college students was that 25% had been forced to have sex. I would suspect its higher by now. Do NOT probe. If they want to talk about it you have office hours. If you don't have the skills do deal with it, have a list of resources. They will be grateful. Good luck Pauline BCart pbart@ucla.edu (revised version of a Yiddish proverb) It is better for a person never to have been born at all, but not one woman in 10,000 has such good fortune. Pauline B. Bart pbart@ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 08:24:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Policy on announcements/advertising (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the Source of All Wisdom, the WMST-L User's Guide (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html) . I've combined two important sections, the one on announcements and the one on advertising. ******************* Announcements: WMST-L welcomes the posting of job and conference announcements, calls for papers, and the like, as long as the announcement has some explicit connection to Women's Studies. Announcements without such a connection should NOT be sent to WMST-L. The wish to reach more female candidates, however laudable, is NOT adequate reason to post non-Women's-Studies announcements. Heavy mail volume is a persistent problem on WMST-L; the list cannot accommodate the increased volume that a more liberal posting policy would bring. (Keep in mind that each year, there are literally thousands of academic job openings. Most institutions wish to show that they have tried to reach female and minority applicants. Whereas some commercial publications charge hundreds of dollars to carry even a small ad, WMST-L is free. Thus, unless we restrict postings, the list is likely to be INUNDATED with job announcements.) Advertising: Please 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. Please do NOT send notices about books, films, and other commercial resources that you have not created unless you are responding to a specific query. ****************** 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: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 17:18:24 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christa Wille Organization: ARIADNE-Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek Subject: ARIADNE-Newsletter Nr. 30 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear members, we would like to inform you that ARIADNE-Newsletter Nr. 30 - an annotated list of new acquisitions in women's studies literature at the Austrian National Library in Vienna / Europe - has just been published in the WWW: http://www.onb.ac.at/ben/ariadfr.htm under the link 'Publikationen' Greetings from Vienna Helga Hofmannn & Christa Wille -- *************************************** Christa Wille ARIADNE - Oesterr. Nationalbibliothek A-1015 VIENNA, Josefsplatz 1 Tel:+43-1-53410/487 Fax:+43-1-53410/437 Email:wille@onb.ac.at http:www.onb.ac.at/ben/ariadfr.htm **************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:23:41 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "DRA. Pattatucci" Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Long-time list members will remember an extensive discussion on this topic a few years ago in which I complained bitterly about the whole process (*smile*). Complementing the advice provided by Joan Korenman and others I would just like to add that is helps to be clear, from the beginning, on what specific criteria you will be judged for tenure and then focus on addressing those points. You may find that you are so busy that toning it down may not be the issue that it seems to be now. It also helps to recognize that both initial hiring and tenure decisions contain "intangibles" and it therefore will help your career immensely if you present yourself as "approachable" to others. Colleagues like to know that they can talk to you, which means that you will listen to what they have to say. As someone who has been publicly criticized by Jesse Helms on the U.S. Senate floor, I can personally attest to the value of having allies willing to come forward on your behalf, something that I attribute, at least in my case, to being open and approachable. Dra. Angela Pattatucci Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Rio Piedras a_pattatucci@upr1.upr.clu.edu "De poetas, tontos y locos todos tenemos un poco" ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:42:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure Comments: To: Nikki Senecal In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The messages that indicate that the only correct procedure in applying for a job is to reveal your feminism, etc., don't seem to be aware of the difficulties of getting a job as a college teacher and of the prejudice against feminists and feminism. If you don't have publications, it's easier, in one way, because your publications are bound to reflect your politics; on the other hand, you're less desirable if you haven't published. Also, some of the messages insist that your pre-tenure attitudes are your post-tenure attitudes. This was certainly not the case for me. I kept a low profile in department meetings, but not in the classroom before I was tenured. My publications, as they accumulated, certainly revealed where I came from. I spoke up much more freely in department meetings after I was tenured. There is no single "right" way. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:18:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dr70 Subject: Call for Panel Participants Comments: To: amgrad@umdd.umd.edu Comments: cc: "Donna L. ROWE" , skilgore@wsu.edu Call for Panel Participants For the American Studies Association 1998 Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA November 19-22, I am soliciting individual paper abstracts, or other program suggestions for a panel focusing on the social, economic, historical, cultural, or political reality of the United States prison system. In keeping with the theme of the meeting, "American Studies and the Question of Empire: Histories, Cultures, and Practice," I am particularly interested in your research which might combine contemporary scholarship in feminist studies, queer theory, postcoloniality and culture studies to illuminate concerns of culture, power, social structure, and knowledge that inform our understanding of the uniquely American innovation of the modern prison. Questions to consider: How might we integrate the study of the American prison into American Studies, Women's Studies, or other interdisciplinary studies? Why has prison literature been marginalized, particularly for women writers? How would a critical reading of crime reportage by the news media inform contemporary culture studies? Would an alternative reading of criminal justice public policy as "prison slavery" produce a deeper understanding of the ways in which race and justice intersect? How are the prevailing scholarly practices on crime research shaping and shifting our popular culture? What has been the historical impact of our understanding of crime, punishment and rehabilitation? What impact has economics played in the development of the prison industrial complex as a replacement for the military industrial complex? Of special interest to this panel would be papers/presentations that underscore the importance of research which focuses on the literature or art produced by the incarcerated, examinations of the intersections of race, class, sexuality and motherhood for women in U.S. jails and prisons, as well as explorations of the architecture and artifacts of the American Prison. Fax or email a one-page paper abstract and one-page CV by January 18th to: Donna L. Rowe American Studies Department University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 FAX 301-314-9453 email: dr70@umail.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:46:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 job openings MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following 3 job announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Director, Center for Study of Gender & Sexuality, NYU 2) Visiting Assistant Prof/Instructor, WS, U. of S. Florida 3) Director of Women's Studies, Colorado College For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY, NYU New York University invites applications for Director of its new Center for the Study of gender & sexuality. Applicants should be distinguished scholars with proven leadership abilities in the fields of gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, or queer or feminist theory. We are interested in a full range of scholarship, including work focused on race, class, and cross-cultural or international perspectives; the successful applicant will be tenured in an appropriate academic department. The Director's responsibilities will include founding the NYU Center for the Study of gender & sexuality, overseeing existing academic programs, and recruiting additional faculty to build a major institution for scholarship. teaching, and intellectual creativity. Send letter of application, c.v., and names and addresses of three referees to Gender and Sexuality Search, Dean's Office, Faculty of Arts & Science, New York University, 5 Washington Square North, New York, NY 10003. The selection process will begin February 15, 1998, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. NYU encourages applications from women and members of minority groups. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 16, 1998 ****************************************************************************** 2) Women's Studies: The University of South Florida anticipates an opening for a Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor in the areas of gender, development, and transmittal studies. Required qualifications: Ph.D. in an appropriate discipline by August 6, 1998; ABD for Instructor rank; prior teaching experience, preferably in Women's Studies. Position is contingent upon funding. Teaching will include introductory courses in women's studies, an upper-level course in Women in the Developing World, and courses in your areas of specialization. The Women's Studies Department has 8 full time and numerous part time and affiliated faculty members; we offer the B.A. and M.A. in women's studies and an undergraduate concentration in women of color studies. The appointment is full-time in the Women's Studies Department with a 4/4 teaching load. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and sample course syllabi to Professor Gurleen Grewal, Department of Women's Studies, HMS 413, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620. Deadline is February 15, 1998. USF is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, Equal Access Institution. For disability accommodations, please call Gurleen Grewal, 813-974-0984. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 16, 1998 ***************************************************************************** 3) Director of Women's Studies - Colorado College Tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, beginning August, 1998. Ph.D required. Discipline open, but the successful candidate will have primary commitment to Women's Studies. Evidence of teaching excellence required. Duties include teaching core Women's Studies courses as well as advanced courses in area of specialization; supervising senior projects of Women's Studies majors and minors; and administering the Women's Studies program. Colorado College is a small, private, liberal arts college distinctive for its modular calendar in which students take and faculty teach one course at a time. Women's Studies is an established program at the College, with about 35 faculty members participating, drawn equally from all three academic divisions. We offer approximately 30 courses a year, most cross-listed with other departments. The Women's Studies major is in its second year; this year we will graduate four majors and 13 minors. (For more information see http://www.cc.colorado.edu/Dept/WS). The Director functions as a department chair for the program, reports to the Dean, and is supervised by a committee of program faculty. The Program is particularly interested in candidates who can address the perspectives of American-ethnic minorities, and make theProgram more welcoming to women of color. Send letter of application, resume, three letters of recommendation, and teaching materials to: Kathy Merrill, Search Committee Chair Mathematics Department Colorado College 14 E. Cache La Poudre St. Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Review of applications will begin February 1, 1998. Colorado College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and reaffirms its commitment not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability in its educational program, activities or employment policies. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 16, 1998 ************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:12:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly Springer Subject: women's prison libraries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know of a project that accepts book donations for women's prisons? Unless you feel the rest of the list would be intereted, please reply privately to kspring@emory.edu. Kimberly Springer PhD Candidate Institute for Women's Studies Emory University kspring@emory.edu "To be critical of one's culture is not to betray that culture." ---Cherrie Moraga ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:47:51 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shelley Reid Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Two more ideas to consider: Departments who set out to hire a feminist may be under a variety of pressures to do so; a feminist-supportive hiring committee might also soft-pedal a candidate to the department to get her hired. In such a case, one's feminist research, pedagogy, and activism (apparent from the cv or stated in the letter/interview) may thus help to get you hired, or at least not hurt. However, once hired, it's possible for one to become the victim of a departmental "be careful what you wish for..." reaction. The fact that they "knowingly" hired a feminist does not necessarily mean that they're ready to house, collaborate with, and give tenure-support to a Real Feminist -- or to "your kind" of feminist -- once they find out what that means. I have watched friends suffer from similar reactions. It's worth approaching your professional life with some caution until you've sounded the waters, even if the job description under which you were hired clearly asks for feminist philosophies. Second, I've found that acting on one's feminism as an academic takes lots of time & energy -- time & energy that one might simply not have in the first few years pre-tenure. I'd recommend being _willing_ to start slowly, not (just) from political caution or lack of commitment, but as a way of avoiding personal burnout long before the Big Boys get a chance to vote yay or nay. shelley sreid@austinc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 14:10:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan lehrer Subject: Conference controversy FROM: Susan Lehrer, Coordinator Women's Studies Program, SUNY New Paltz RE: Our Conference (Revolting Behavior: Challenges of Women's Sexual Freedom)) We in Women's Studies at New Paltz want to take this means of personally thanking everyone who came forward to support us during the controversy over our conference on women's sexuality this fall. Your response to the Governor, Chancellor and Board of Trustees to the attacks on academic freedom in general, and women's studies specifically, was truly overwhelming. We've received an outpouring of support, both within SUNY and across the country, in defense of our right to pursue our educational mission, and our right to choose the controversial but important subject of women's sexuality and autonomy for our conference. Your letters provided a visible counterforce to the conservative elements for whom the attack on us and our college president is part of a larger agenda to attack the State University and 'non-traditional' subjects like Women's Studies, Black Studies et al. Governor Pataki had demanded that the SUNY Chancellor launch an 'investigation' into possible misuse of public funds to sponsor our conference, and the role of President Bowen in 'allowing' it. The report which the Chancellor's committee of inquiry issued completely vindicated College President Bowen's position (he strongly supported the process we used to shape the conference as well as the general issue of academic freedom). Given the enormous right-wing pressure they faced, the support for us from all over was crucial in demonstrating the legitimacy of our conference. Susan Lehrer, lehrers@npvm.newpaltz.edu SUNY - New Paltz ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 14:12:39 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Crowder Subject: RE toning it down I feel obliged to respond to Daphne Patai's message that seemed in part a response to me talking about being "out" as a feminist and lesbian to my campus before tenure. Daphne, your tone implied that I and others made overt statements such as "I am a feminist" in our letters of application, when I made it clear that my dissertation topic was on feminist criticism, and further my papers and publications were also on feminist topics. Surely you and everyone else would expect an applicant to list their dissertation topic, their publications and papers on a CV! While one does not have to be a feminist to research feminist topics, nor a lesbian to research lesbian topics, most people will assume your interest in researching these areas indicates at least some inclination or sympathy with these topics. As someone who has done considerable research on topics such as feminist utopian literature, I feel sure you put that research on your vita. Indeed, we discussed our mutual research into utopias at a conference in the early 1980s. My point is, it is legitimate to reveal one's research interests in an application, and that is what everyone else seems to mean when they speak about being known as a feminist. Diane Crowder crowder@cornell-iowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:17:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Von Bakanic Organization: College of Charleston Subject: John Leo article in U.S. News MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Yet another anti-women's studies opinion piece appears in the Janurary 19 issue of U.S. News and Woprld Report (page 13). This one attacks the Vision 2000 program and features a statement by Daphne Patai. According to the article Patai calls the plan "an attempted coup," "a stunningly imperialistic move to put in place a questionable feminist agenda, thinly disguised as a plea for equal opportunity." The opinion is an attack on women's studies in general and Vision 2000 in particular. Unfortunately there is no description of the program in the article. There is mention of the dangers of feminist pedegogy and "tranforming the curriculum, but I could not discren what the program proposes in particular. Does anyone know anything about this particular program? One of my students brought me a copy and asked for my opinion. He intends to use it for a piece in our own student newspaper. I'm not sure if he wants to support or attack WS, but either way I'd like to get some objective information. _____________________________________________________________________ Von Bakanic, Ph.D. (803) 953-7105 Dept. of Sociology internet address: College of Charleston bakanicv@cofc.edu Charleston, S.C. 29424 FAX (803) 953-5738 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:12:02 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JJSmith75 Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Women in Law Enforcement Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Annoucement The National Center for Women and Policing is having their third annual conference in April 19-23 in Las Begas. The conference "Police Leadership for the 21st Century: Women Setting Standards" will bring together 600 of the top command women inlaw enforcemnt to discuss and develop strategies for issues such as recruiting andmentoring womenpolice,sexual harassment prevention, community and coalition building and police ethics. The speakers that are lined up are amazing including Beverly Harvard, first African-American woman to be head of a major police department, Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation President, Dr. Susan Sturm, Universityof PA Law School. For information contact the National Center for Women and Policing at 213.651.2532. You can also respond privately to me @ jjsmith75@aol.com. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:36:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: CORRECTION to job ad and a CFP MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I've just been informed that the Chronicle of Higher Education job ad that I just posted for a visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor in Women's Studies at the Univ. of South Florida contained a serious error. It called for someone in the areas of gender, development, and "transmittal studies," whereas it SHOULD have said "transnational studies." The Chronicle will be correcting the ad. In the meantime, to avoid confusion, I'm posting a corrected copy, along with a call for papers that just arrived for a graduate student conference on women's and gender history. Here's the corrected ad and the CFP: Women's Studies: The University of South Florida anticipates an opening for a Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor in the areas of gender, development, and TRANSNATIONAL studies. Required qualifications: Ph.D. in an appropriate discipline by August 6, 1998; ABD for Instructor rank; prior teaching experience, preferably in Women's Studies. Position is contingent upon funding. Teaching will include introductory courses in women's studies, an upper-level course in Women in the Developing World, and courses in your areas of specialization. The Women's Studies Department has 8 full time and numerous part time and affiliated faculty members; we offer the B.A. and M.A. in women's studies and an undergraduate concentration in women of color studies. The appointment is full-time in the Women's Studies Department with a 4/4 teaching load. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and sample course syllabi to Professor Gurleen Grewal, Department of Women's Studies, HMS 413, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620. Deadline is February 15, 1998. USF is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, Equal Access Institution. For disability accommodations, please call Gurleen Grewal, 813-974-0984. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 16, 1998 ***************************************************************************** 2) Call for Papers Gendered Revisions: Identity, Culture, and Conflict in History Graduate Student Conference April 3-5, 1998 Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York. Hosted by graduate students at Binghamton University, Gendered Revisions is a forum in which to explore current trends in women's and gender history. We welcome graduate student papers and panels that represent diverse theoretical and methodological approaches. The deadline for abstracts is February 15, 1998. Abstracts should be one or two pages in length and must include paper or proposed session title, names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of all participants. Please address proposals to: Gendered Revisions, History Department, PO Box 6000, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000. For further information please visit our web site: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~bg20941/events.html From: bf20336@binghamton.edu Posted by Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu). Please do not send questions about the above to WMST-L or me. Instead, use the addresses provided in the ads. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 03:58:36 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet McAdams Organization: University of Oklahoma Subject: feminist presses- Native American women's writing - archives? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm interested in investigating material connections between mid-to-late 20th C. Native women's writing and their publication in and by feminist periodicals and presses. I am trying to develop a list of journals and small presses where Native women's poetry and prose appeared regularly from the late 60s through the early 80s AND where, that is what archival collections, those journals, small press archives might be found. Thanks, Janet McAdams English Dept. University of Oklahoma jmcadams@ou.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:18:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DnJn8Cats Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Disability Women Studies Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello- I am currently working towards in a carreer in the academia field specializing in Deaf Women. However, I would like very much to hear from other individuals who have taught any courses or have any information on disabled or deaf women. Please e-mail me privately, and if any of you are interested in Deaf Women, feel free to e-mail me! Thanks, Deborah Nathanson DnJn8cats@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:26:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Undergraduate Women and Gender Studies Honors Programs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Are there any national honor societies for undergraduates in Women's and Gender Studies? We are in the planning stages of considering some WGS student awards to be included in our Honors Convocation. We wondered if other programs do this and if so how. If anyone has any suggestions from their home institutions regarding types of awards, how students are chosen, or any other pertinent information I would be happy to have some personal replies. Thanks for your help. Peace, Mary Ann Drake ddrake@mylink.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 17:34:26 +0000 Reply-To: sstarrett@fullerton.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shari Starrett Organization: Cal State Fullerton Subject: Re: Disability Women Studies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Could repsonses to Deborah Nathanson's inquiry about resources concerning deaf women be posted to the general list? Thanks, Shari Starrett ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:59:08 +0000 Reply-To: adena@gis.net Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Adena Cohen-Bearak Subject: GIRLS Conference help needed! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The G.I.R.L.S. Conference is an annual event held in Boston that celebrates girls' achievements and increases awareness about issues of importance to girls. The day-long event includes workshops, guest speakers, interactive games, entertainment, and a panel discussion. All the planning of the conference is done by girls and young women, who work collectively and take a proactive role in addressing social issues. Last year, 150 girls attended the conference, and this year, we expect 300. The G.I.R.L.S. Conference seeks girls between the ages of 15 to 19 to plan the 1998 Girls' Conference at Simmons College. This is a girl-run event. Call Marie at 617-482-1078, ext 232 to request an application to serve on the planning committee. For more information, check out the homepage at http://www.gis.net/~adena/girls.htm Also: Join G.I.R.L.S. Monthly Roundtable Discussion for girls and adults to organize for change Saturday, February 21at Simmons College 10:00-1:00 p.m. Call Marie @ 617-482-1078 Ext 232 for more info. Thank you so much for your support! Adena Cohen-Bearak and Marie Celestin ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:36:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Susan B. Marine" Subject: activism Hello all..I am planning a program on helping woman college students develop effective strategies for activism/organizing/demonstrating around women's issues and would appreciate suggestions for literature and other resources related to this end. Please contact me and/or email the list, I'm not sure if this is a "general interest" or not but I suspect it may be! thanks susan marine ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 18:49:15 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Johanna Brenner Organization: Portland State University Subject: faculty in WS programs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Our WS program is searching for ways to more fully involve faculty with tenured positions in other departments in WS program governance and in teaching "core" WS courses (courses that are not cross-listed with other departments). We'd appreciate ideas from other WS programs. Some possibilities we are considering: a rotating "visiting scholar" position for one year or part of a year that would be filled by faculty from other programs; establishing a "core" faculty group who would be permanently assigned one course per year in WS and compensating their departments for their time. Additionally how, if at all, do faculty get "credit" for participating in committees for WS programs if they are members of other units? Does it help to create a "standing committee" that the Dean appoints? How do you get cooperation from Dept. Chairs to recognize this service in P&T decisions? Johanna Brenner, Coordinator WS Program at Portland State University brennerj@pdx.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:58:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: FLORENCH Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: women's prison libraries Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I know that the Bedford Prison in New York State is eager for book donations, and I expect that other prisons are as well. When prisoners write directly to The Feminist Press, we send books. Were there a project, we'd donate to it. Our problem is usually postage money. One member of our Board of Directors often takes books to Bedford. I can ask her what she knows and get back to you. Cheers. Florence Howe (florench@aol.com) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 23:40:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne E Franks Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 This is not directly related to the question of whether one should "tone it down till tenure" (or is it?...) but for those who are interested in more evidence and/or case histories about the meritocracy (lack thereof) take a look at "Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension" Gerhard Sonnert, with assistance of Gerald Holton Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ 1995 (paperback) ISBN 0-8135-2219-6 = This book is a collection of recent case histories of women and men who did or did not "succeed" in science in the traditional success paradigm (tenured professorship at a research university) along with analysis of what factors contribute to achieving said holy grail, along with some advice. It's notable for the wealth of information on the male and female scientists who did and did not "succeed". This book should go a long way to disabusing anyone's notion of the meritocracy being all one needs to count on for success. I think it is interesting as well because, to some extent, it calls into question the worth/traditional definition of succes= s. What makes it even more fascinating is that the author(s) chose to focus on men and women who were high achievers--those scientists who, in graduate school, won prestigious fellowships and had every = expectation of "success". = Suzanne Franks sfranks2@compuserve.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:48:14 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: elizabethe plante Subject: Re: activism In-Reply-To: <51701505@dancer.Dartmouth.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Susan, Sounds like a great class. Here are some of my suggestions for readings. I regret that I am unable to provide you with more complete reference information. Good luck and feel free to contact me. Audre Lorde's "On Silence" and " The uses of Anger: Women responding to Racism". You can find the second one in Sister Outsider 1984. "The practice of heart politics " and "Strategic Questioning: an approach to creating Personal and Social change" by Fran Peavey in By Life's Grace,1994 New Society Publishers. Search forOpportunities: Confronting the status quo in the Leadership Challenge,by Kouzes and Posner, 1995. Any article in the book Transforming a rape culture, Milkweed Editions and edited by Buchwald, Fletcher and Roth1993. There is an excellent article I believe it is called the "Invisable back pack" and I can not remeber who wrote it. At 09:36 PM 1/13/98 EST, Susan B. Marine wrote: >Hello all..I am planning a program on helping woman college students develop >effective strategies for activism/organizing/demonstrating around women's >issues and would appreciate suggestions for literature and other resources >related to this end. Please contact me and/or email the list, I'm not sure if >this is a "general interest" or not but I suspect it may be! > >thanks > >susan marine > Elizabethe Plante Director Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program 202 Huddleston Hall 73 Main Street Durham,NH 03824 http://www.unh.edu/student-life/sharpp/sharpp.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:20:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Speer Subject: Finding Ynestra King MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear List Members, I am seeking a current address and/or contact number for Ynestra King. The last location I have for her is in Brooklyn but I have no confidence that this is still correct. Please respond privately if you can enlighten me. Amy Speer speeraw@appstate.edu *NWSAJ* ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:35:53 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra L Spencer Subject: Silver Moon Bookstore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Help! I have a friend leaving for London shortly and I've misplaced the address of the Silver Moon Bookstore. Can someone help me out, please? Thanks!! Sandra Spencer spencer@unt.edu English/Univ of North Texas ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:03:27 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: tone it down til tenure So far I agree with everything that everyone has said about the 'tone it down until tenure' thread. I especially thougth Diane's comment salient. Rarely has anyone become active after gaining tenure. There is always an apparent threat that seems to restrain--promotion,merit pay, etc. My advice for anyone who plans to be politically prominent and vocal during their junior faculty years is to network. You need to have a strong group of supporters and allies. The only cases I have seen where negative tenure decisions about feminist women were overturned were in cases in which that faculty member had widespread faculty support both from feminist colleagues and others who simply respected her work. The biggest mistake you can make in your career is to isolate yourself. This is often what I think those who lay low until tenure often do and it sometimes backfires worse at tenure time. I have always been fairly outspoken--as a part timer, a visiting instructor, non-tenured and tenured. Mostly because I have a big mouth and can't seem to keep it shut. I never had the slightest difficulty with tenure (I had more trouble getting a job). No one ever held my political views against me. But I have always had mentors, both men and women who I knew would go to bat for me if necessary. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:04:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Carolyn V. Bell" Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII There are several good books on women in academe which all conclude that your best bet is to find a mentor and let her guide you through the ropes of your institution. Of significance are chapters that deal with mistakes women, in general, make such as not networking with the men (they often control tenure and promotioon committees), getting distracted from your main thrust of research interest, and believing that our work is so important that we forget to (or even decide to not) work the system. Everybody stresses the importance of a mentor. Carolyn Bell Kutztown University ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:18:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: women's prison libraries Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:58 PM 1/13/98 EST, you wrote: >I know that the Bedford Prison in New York State is eager for book donations, >and I expect that other prisons are as well. When prisoners write directly to >The Feminist Press, we send books. Were there a project, we'd donate to it. >Our problem is usually postage money. One member of our Board of Directors >often takes books to Bedford. I can ask her what she knows and get back to >you. Cheers. Florence Howe (florench@aol.com) i have always been told that I cannot donate books to prisoners, but must get my publisher to do so. I have specifically had that problem with Bedford Hills. . marge piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:24:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kahn, Arnie" Subject: Reply: Re: tone it down til tenure In-Reply-To: <009C045C.1EFC0EC0.27@kenyon.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Laurie Finke wrote: > The biggest mistake you can make in your > career is to isolate yourself. This is often what I think those who lay low > until tenure often do and it sometimes backfires worse at tenure time. > > No one ever held my political views against me. But I > have always had mentors, both men and women who I knew would go to bat for me > if necessary. I just want to agree with Laurie completely. Arnie -- Arnie Kahn Day 540-568-3963 Night 540-434-0225 Fax 540-568-3322 kahnas@jmu.edu Dept. of Psych., James Madison U., Harrisonburg, VA 22807 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:41:30 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: Reply: Re: tone it down til tenure In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I don't see how one can hide one's feminism. It's all over my CV and therefore my cover letters, no matter what job I'm applying for. Being on the job market now is difficult enough for so few slots and I believe my greatest asset is my flexiblity. As you can see below, I'm teaching in an MBA program; but one of my most compelling challenges is convincing students to use gender neutral language "even" in business situations/documents. (they think I think it's important because I'm a feminist, something they decided without ever seeing my CV based on my attention to language that is not gender neutral). Somehow this thread relates to the thread on passing. I could not attempt to "pass" as a non-feminist because I'd have a nearly blank CV, no publications, and nothing substantive to say about myself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. Lecturer, Business and Technical Communications School of Management UT-Dallas PO Box 830688 Richardson, Texas 75083-0688 mharris@utdallas.edu 972/883-6822 of. 972/883-6823 fx. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:42:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Donna M. Hughes" Subject: Re: Silver Moon Bookstore In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Charing Cross Road, right off the Leceister Square Tube Stop. Donna Hughes Carlson Chair, Women's Studies University of Rhode Island dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu At 08:35 AM 14-01-98 -0600, you wrote: >Help! I have a friend leaving for London shortly and I've misplaced the >address of the Silver Moon Bookstore. Can someone help me out, please? > >Thanks!! > >Sandra Spencer >spencer@unt.edu >English/Univ of North Texas > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:39:00 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Norris, Virginia Psych" Subject: Registered: Norris, Virginia Psych Your Message To: Norris, Virginia Psych(MS:SDSUN/SDSU1/NorrisV) Entitled: Intro to WS projects for students And Sent On: 1997-12-19 21:13 Was Read At: 1998-01-14 09:39 Priority: C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:04:00 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Norris, Virginia Psych" Subject: Registered: Norris, Virginia Psych Your Message To: Norris, Virginia Psych(MS:SDSUN/SDSU1/NorrisV) Entitled: Re: Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality" And Sent On: 1998-01-07 12:52 Was Read At: 1998-01-14 10:04 Priority: C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:04:00 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Norris, Virginia Psych" Subject: Registered: Norris, Virginia Psych Your Message To: Norris, Virginia Psych(MS:SDSUN/SDSU1/NorrisV) Entitled: Re: Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality" And Sent On: 1998-01-07 12:56 Was Read At: 1998-01-14 10:04 Priority: C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:39:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Lowe Fowlkes Subject: Re: Silver Moon Bookstore In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm replying to the list for other's information--it's in Charing Cross Road, 58 I believe, but start at the Tottenham Court end and "you can't miss it"! Diane L. Fowlkes Director, Women's Studies Institute Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia 30303 (404)651-4633 wsidlf@panther.gsu.edu www.gsu.edu/womenpower On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Sandra L Spencer wrote: > Help! I have a friend leaving for London shortly and I've misplaced the > address of the Silver Moon Bookstore. Can someone help me out, please? > > Thanks!! > > Sandra Spencer > spencer@unt.edu > English/Univ of North Texas > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 17:05:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Fawcett Library Subject: Re: Silver Moon Bookstore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Actual address of Silver Moon is 68 Charing Cross Road - nearest Tube: Leicester Square. 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: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:30:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: looking for Cathleen McGuire/E.V.E. In-Reply-To: <01IRHBTRFYRC966CGU@vms.cis.pitt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi everyone, Please reply privately! On of the students in my ecofeminism course was intrigued by the words of Cathleen McGuire of E.V.E. (Ecofeminist Visions Emerging) in a video we watched in class. She would like to contact her in re: her research project for class. Does anyone have the address for the E.V.E. newsletter, or a contact for Cathleen McGuire? Thanks, Jeannie __________________________________________________________________________ . . . Thus wrote ) Jeannie Ludlow ( "Lord, you know me, a woman, partly brave / ) jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu ( I'm liable to say and partly good, ) Women's Studies ( anything; so if who fought with what / ) Popular Culture ( I've offended she partly understood ) Bowling Green SU ( anybody, well hence she was labelled / ) Bowling Green OH 43403 ( . . . tough." harpy, shrew and whore ) ( --Dolly Parton --Adrienne Rich ) ( ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:33:04 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn MacDonald Subject: women and science&technology Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am carrying out a survey of postsecondary WS programs and departments which include a critique of science and technology (broadly interpreted to include S&T education, health/medicine, environment, as well as natural, social sciences and engineering). If you are in, or know of, any such WS, please respond to me privately at marilynm@sfu.ca, giving a postal address, course titles and names of people teaching or doing research on same. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:27:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carolyn Dipalma (WOS)" Subject: Call for Papers: Teaching Intro to WS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII CALL FOR PAPERS TEACHING INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES: STUDENT EXPECTATIONS AND CLASSROOM STRATEGIES Co-editors: Barbara Scott Winkler West Virginia University, Center for Women's Studies and Carolyn DiPalma University of South Florida, Deptartment of Women's Studies This collection will address the institutional context and social issues in which teaching the women's studies introductory course is embedded and, most importantly, provide readers with practical classroom strategies to meet the challenges raised. The collection will, therefore, serve as a resource and preparatory text for all teachers of Intro. including experienced teachers, less experienced teachers, new faculty, and graduate student teaching assistants. The collection will also be of interest to educational scholars of feminist and progressive pedagogies and innovative practices. Submissions should be centered around one or more of the following topic areas. STUDENT EXPECTATIONS --Student Expectations (ex: degree of student interest, resistance, and motivation; gen. ed. students vs. WS majors; different student knowledge bases, such as engineering or political science or women's studies; diversity issues; perceptions of teaching legitimacy, who can or can't teach what to whom) --Debate and Discussion (ex: public culture/mass media presentations of "women's topics"; student awareness/experience; classroom civility issues; how to respectfully differ; how to listen to others) --Authority in the Introduction to Women's Studies classroom (ex: ideologies of education; student-centered classroom; differences in resistance and conflict) CLASSROOM STRATEGIES --Teaching Specific Topics (ex: new ways to teach core concepts; new topic development; teaching controversial issues) --Conceiving the Course: Topic Organization (ex: issues given more breadth; issues given more depth; social science vs humanities emphasis; the order in which topics are introduced; specifics such as racism, heterosexism, poverty, class, health, spirituality, images, language, etc.) --Syllabus Creation and Sample Syllabi (ex: sample syllabi with explanatory discussion) All authors should address the particular institutional context and social issues in which their course is located. Submit TWO complete copies: 1) a one-page detailed abstract of your article which describes the topic and your approach, indicates a classroom application, and demonstrates the clarity of both your thinking and writing; 2) a two-page curriculum vitae, including pertinent paper and publication information, and email address and fax number (if available), by February 1, 1998. Notification of selected abstracts will be made by April 1, 1998. Completed articles for further review will be required by May 31, 1998. Send (via snail mail only) one copy each to: Barbara Scott Winkler Carolyn DiPalma 236 Waitman St. University of South Florida Morgantown, WV 26505 Department of Women's Studies 4202 E. Fowler Ave., HMS 413 Tampa, FL 33620 *********************************************************************** * Carolyn DiPalma, Ph.D. email: cdipalma@luna.cas.usf.edu * * Assistant Professor phone: 813-974-0979 * * Department of Women's Studies fax: 813-974-0336 * * 4202 East Fowler Ave., HMS 413 * * University of South Florida * * Tampa, FL 33620-8350 * *********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:35:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Need stats on use of contraceptives by adolescents MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Any sociologists on this list with statistics on the use of contraceptives by adolescents (junior high and high school age) -- on the difficulty of getting young men to use condoms, on the increasing difficulty since the Reagan years for teenage girls to get access to oral contraceptives (or be able to afford them)? Also, any stats on the degree of ignorance about basic biology and fertility among American teens? Thanks -- you can reply to me directly, and I can compile the responses and forward that to the list for others to use. Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of History/Women's Studies Villanova University (on indefinite medical leave since January 1995) mailto:schweit2@ix.netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:29:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carolyn Dipalma (WOS)" Subject: self-defense course MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Can anyone help me locate a phone contact for a self-defense course called: Model Mugging? At one point--a few years ago--there were a number of locations across the country that offered this course. I need this information quickly. Thanks. Please reply privately. cdipalma@luna.cas.usf.edu *********************************************************************** * Carolyn DiPalma, Ph.D. email: cdipalma@luna.cas.usf.edu * * Assistant Professor phone: 813-974-0979 * * Department of Women's Studies fax: 813-974-0336 * * 4202 East Fowler Ave., HMS 413 * * University of South Florida * * Tampa, FL 33620-8350 * *********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:37:51 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Debra Kirkley Subject: Re: Silver Moon Bookstore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It's on charing cross row...near a whole collection of specialty bookstores (the hotel concierge should be able to get her there.) I loved it! -debra- ************************************************************ Debra Kirkley, MEd, RNC Assistant Clinical Professor Texas Woman's University, College of Nursing Dallas, TX 75235 dkirkley@twu.edu Doctoral Candidate, University of North Texas iy52@jove.acs.unt.edu -----Original Message----- From: Sandra L Spencer To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 8:39 AM Subject: Silver Moon Bookstore >Help! I have a friend leaving for London shortly and I've misplaced the >address of the Silver Moon Bookstore. Can someone help me out, please? > >Thanks!! > >Sandra Spencer >spencer@unt.edu >English/Univ of North Texas > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:06:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Martha Charlene Ball Subject: Re: activism In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980114084814.006bddf8@hopper.unh.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The article is probably "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," by Peggy McIntosh in Creation Spirituality, Jan./Feb. 1992. Charlene Ball I dwell in Possibility -- A fairer House than Prose -- (Emily Dickinson) M. Charlene Ball, Administrative Coordinator Women's Studies Institute Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia 404/651-4633 wsimcb@panther.gsu.edu http://www.gsu.edu/womenpower ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:14:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: Silver Moon Bookstore Comments: To: "Donna M. Hughes" In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980114104202.006a949c@uriacc.uri.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Donna M. Hughes wrote: To be more specific, 68 Charing Cross Road. London WC2H 0BB Phone (0171) 836-7906 Fax (0171) 379-1018 Katherine Side kside@acs.ryerson.ca Department of Sociology Ryerson Polytechnic University Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3 > Charing Cross Road, right off the Leceister Square Tube Stop. > > Donna Hughes > Carlson Chair, Women's Studies > University of Rhode Island > dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu > > > At 08:35 AM 14-01-98 -0600, you wrote: > >Help! I have a friend leaving for London shortly and I've misplaced the > >address of the Silver Moon Bookstore. Can someone help me out, please? > > > >Thanks!! > > > >Sandra Spencer > >spencer@unt.edu > >English/Univ of North Texas > > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:03:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carolyn Dipalma (WOS)" Subject: thanks for info on self-defense course MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I now have the phone number and information I need re: Model Mugging. Thanks *********************************************************************** * Carolyn DiPalma, Ph.D. email: cdipalma@luna.cas.usf.edu * * Assistant Professor phone: 813-974-0979 * * Department of Women's Studies fax: 813-974-0336 * * 4202 East Fowler Ave., HMS 413 * * University of South Florida * * Tampa, FL 33620-8350 * *********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:13:03 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shari Stelling Subject: Re: books for women's prison libraries MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII You may want to contact someone with the Special Libraries Association to see if they can put you in touch with librarians at women's prison libraries. Their email address is: sla@sla.org or they can be reached at 1700 Eighteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20009-2514 (tel. 202/234-4700). --Shari Stelling ic_stellisl@lcms.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 08:17:36 -0800 Reply-To: "M. Roskoski" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "M. Roskoski" Subject: University of Washington Announces Graduate Program in Women Studies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Established in 1970 as an undergraduate program, Women Studies at the University of Washington now offers Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Women Studies. The graduate program provides the opportunity for systematic, advanced study of theoretical and methodological frameworks for the examination of womens and mens participation in society within both historical and contemporary contexts and from multi-cultural perspectives. The graduate program in Women Studies is the first of its kind in the Northwest region of the United States and trains students in interdisciplinary Women Studies as well as in a chosen discipline. The core faculty in the Department of Women Studies represent the following disciplines: Anthropology, History, International Studies, Literature, Sociology, and Psychology. Although students will be required to work primarily with a core faculty member in Women Studies, they will also have the opportunity to study with the more than 60 Women Studies adjunct faculty from a wide range of disciplines, such as American Ethnic Studies, Communications, Engineering, English, Geography, History, Nursing, Psychology, Public Affairs, Political Science, Sociology, and Urban Planning. Please see our web page for application materials and deadlines, as well as further information: weber.u.washington.edu/~webwomen/grad/grad.html Mark Roskoski mrosk@u.washington.edu Women Studies University of Washington ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:49:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: newest articles from FEMINIST COLLECTIONS on the web Many articles from FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES are on the web at http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm Those just mounted from the current issue include *** a report on an experience teaching an intro women's studies course by distance ed. ("Teaching, Learning and Distance Education in Women's Studies," by Margaret Rozga) *** a review of web resources with criteria for evaluating websites ("The Elusive Quality of Web Quality," by Susan Barribeau) *** two review essays on several books on women and the online world ("Getting Around Online: How, Where, Why?" by Elizabeth Binder, and "The Gendered Bodies of Cyberspace," by Diana Saco) *** the "Computer Talk" column on new email lists, websites, and other electronic information. Articles from prior issues cover (good) magazines for girls, 'zines, books on women and the American West, websites on funding for women, and more. Information about subscribing to FEMINIST COLLECTIONS is available on the website, or contact me for further details. Sincerely, Phyllis ************************************************************************ Phyllis Holman Weisbard University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian Room 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706 http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ pweis@doit.wisc.edu ************************************************************************ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 18:01:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Reply: Re: tone it down til tenure Comments: To: "Kahn, Arnie" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As regards the pre-tenure political behavior of college teachers, it is ludicrous to make generalizations based on any individual experience. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:13:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Janet S. Gray" Subject: Seeking feminist religious writing In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 14 Jan 1998 18:01:44 -0500 For an introduction to women's studies course, I'm considering using readings critical of the Religious Right's positions on women's issues, but I hate adding to the media's syndrome of giving them all the air time while ignoring more progressive positions within Christianity and Judaism. Can anyone recommend essays reflective of feminist positions in Catholicism, Judaism, and/or mainstream Protestant denominations? This kind of thing rather than more difficult theological writing or more radical 'spirituality' texts, given the nature of the course. Thanks - Janet Gray jsgray@pucc.princeton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 22:08:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Call for papers (fwd) ********** CALL FOR PAPERS *********** "Perspectives on Progress: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues" Submissions are sought for inclusion in a volume offering topics that clarify, dignify, and/or politicize lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. Papers may, for example address any of the following: * the complexities of everyday living in or out of the closet * mediated representations of various sexual orientations * social relationships with family, friends, and/or colleagues * hate crimes, domestic violence, harassment, and or discrimination * historical accounts of individuals and/or events that have impacted the gay community * health, activism, linguistics, religion, and/or education Academic and non-academic submissions will be considered. This publication will be marketed as a supplemental text for Gender Studies, Gay & Lesbian Studies, Womens' Studies, and other relevant courses. Please submit your paper to: Linda A.M. Perry, Ph.D. The Department of Communication Studies University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 (619)260-4058 lperry@acusd.edu ____________________________________________________________ Rosa Maria Pegueros, Ph.D. pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu Department of History and Women's Studies Program University of Rhode Island 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, 14 Jan 1998 22:06:47 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: gender studies Subject: Gender and Agriculture on the Web! MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII The Department of Gender Studies in Agriculture at Wageningen Agricultural University (WAU), the Netherlands, is pleased to announce the introduction of two new internet resources on gender, agriculture and rural development: First, an on-line, searchable BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE on Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development - the first of its kind in the world - with more than 6000 entries, all of which can also be ordered on-line from WAU. The site is described and accessible through: http://www.sls.wau.nl/crds/bdp_gs.htm The first Web Page listing Internet resources on Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in an international context, linking you to web sites and providing information on relevant discussion lists and conferences. We hope to expand the site to include educational programmes and job announcements in the same field. Visit the site, link your web pages and make your announcements through: http://www.sls.wau.nl/crds/irl_gs.htm Any comments or suggestions on the above new sites oriented toward improving their utility are most welcomed! Prof.dr. Patricia Howard-Borjas Chair, Gender Studies in Agriculture, WAU tel. 0031-317-483932 fax 0031-317-483990 email: Gender.Studies@alg.vsl.wau.nl ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 22:02:34 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: Seeking feminist religious writing Comments: To: "Janet S. Gray" In-Reply-To: <19980115012131Z543551-15010+1984@outbound.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Janet, Have you seen Judith Plaskow's work? She has a book, Standing Again at Sinai and an anthology, Weaving the Vison, which includes many Jewish feminist voices. The works are accessible. And very good. See also EM Broner The Telling -- new rituals for Passover; and see Letty Pogrebin's work, esp. Deborah, Golda and Me -- a long autobiography. I have always loved best of all Tribe of Dina, edited by Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz and Irena Klepfisz, published most recently by Beacon Press, in 1989 I think. Don't know if it's still in print, hope it is. It was ground-breaking work when first published by Sinister Wisdom in 1986. Try those, and do let us all know eventually which texts you put together. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. Lecturer, Business and Technical Communications School of Management UT-Dallas PO Box 830688 Richardson, Texas 75083-0688 mharris@utdallas.edu 972/883-6822 of. 972/883-6823 fx. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:04:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Seeking feminist religious writing Comments: To: "Janet S. Gray" In-Reply-To: <19980115012131Z543551-15010+1984@outbound.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Janet: For "Judaism from a Feminist Perspective" I highly recommend Judith Plaskow's book STANDING AGAIN AT SINAI.It was published in 1990 by Harper, San Francisco. For "Christianity from a Feminist Perspective," I recommend Elaine Pegels's THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS, published by Vintage Books Edition in 1981. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 07:19:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: Seeking feminist religious writing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:02 PM 1/14/98 -0600, you wrote: >Janet, Have you seen Judith Plaskow's work? She has a book, Standing >Again at Sinai and an anthology, Weaving the Vison, which includes many >Jewish feminist voices. The works are accessible. And very good. > Alicia Ostriker's midrashim and commentaries and poetry are relevant. So is my poetry, although the specific collection of my Jewish themed poetry from all my volumes is only scheduled so far for publication in the UK. But the specific poems are scattered through the last five volumes and the liturgy I wrote for the P'Nai Or Siddur. Take a look at what the Woman'sInstitute for Continuing Jewish Edu cation in San Diego has published. There is a aproject called BIBLIO whose address I cannot find just now. There is a great deal of grass roots stuff going on. Also look at Rabbi Lynn Gottleib's work. There is a sch;olar on the West Coast who wrote Sarah the Priestess and other very interesting revisionist works. I will find the reference later and send it on to the list if no one else provides her name before I can find it. marge piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 07:42:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Martha Charlene Ball Subject: Re: Silver Moon Bookstore In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII While on the subject of London women's bookstores, does anyone know if Sisterwrite, in Islington--I'm not sure of the exact address-- is still in operation? It was run by a women's cooperative, I believe. Charlene Ball I dwell in Possibility -- A fairer House than Prose -- (Emily Dickinson) M. Charlene Ball, Administrative Coordinator Women's Studies Institute Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia 404/651-4633 wsimcb@panther.gsu.edu http://www.gsu.edu/womenpower ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:03:25 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: gender studies Subject: Curriculum on Policy MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII We're putting together a new graduate level course on Gender and Rural Development Policy for a new international M.Sc. programme on Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development. The course will deal with topics such as the relations between gender and the state, the gendered culture of agricultural institutions and the implications for policy formulation, and the effects of current policies on rural women and households (including rural transitions in Europe, structural adjustment policies and social policies). The course will also review planning tools formulated to deal with gender, policy and planning, especially a rural mileau. The goals of the course are to enable students to critically analyse current rural and agricultural policy frameworks from a gender perspective; understand main debates relating to gender and structural adjustment policies as they relate to agriculture and rural development; and be familiar with planning and policy tools in this field and institutional potentialsconstraints for their implementation. If anyone has prior experience with curricula or training in this field, or literature to suggest, we'd very much appreciate it and would be willing to share what we produce. You may also reply privately to: Prof. dr. Patricia Howard-Borjas Chair, Dept. of Gender Studies in Agriculture Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands email: Gender.Studies@alg.vsl.wau.nl fax: ++31-317-483990 phone:++31-317-483932 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 08:18:43 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Rogers Subject: books for women's prison libraries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just asked one of our Criminal Justice Professors this question and = she said she didn't know of a program but individuals can contact = administration at various women's prisons and donate that way.=20 When I worked at a bookstore we had to ship the books directly from the = store to a particular prisoner as books shipped by individuals didn't = seem to get through. Beth Rogers Wichita State University nrogers@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu You may want to contact someone with the Special Libraries Association = to see if they can put you in touch with librarians at women's prison = libraries. Their email address is: sla@sla.org or they can be reached at 1700 = Eighteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20009-2514 (tel. 202/234-4700). --Shari Stelling ic_stellisl@lcms.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:54:06 -0500 Reply-To: yklein@total.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: yvonne klein Subject: Kathleen Shannon MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have been off-line for a week due to the ice storm, so this information may have already appeared. I am sorry to say that Kathleen Shannon, responsible for the founding of the National Film Board's Studio D, died in British Columbia on Saturday. Studio D produced a long list of films for and about women, many of which are in frequent use by subscribers to this list. She was an important voice in Canadian feminism and will be missed. -- ***************************************************************** Yvonne M. Klein English Department, Dawson College 3040 Sherbrooke St W. Que. H3Z 1A6 yklein@total.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:59:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Re: Reply: Re: tone it down til tenure In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Ruby Rohrlich wrote: > As regards the pre-tenure political behavior of college teachers, it is > ludicrous to make generalizations based on any individual experience. > Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > It's not clear that generalizing from a "real" population is useful, either. I recently saw a statistic that--of all the faculty, full and part time--only about 25% are tenured. As most of us know, increasing numbers of state legislatures are demanding that tenure be abolished and that entire departments of both tenured and untenured faculty have been fired when departments were shut down. Thus, it's not clear that tenure means much except in a relatively small group of Ivy League or large state university systems. Personally, and like other posters, tenure and promotion never influenced what I researched, published, taught in class, or said during committee meetings. When I hold my tongue (and not nearly as often as I should), it's primarily for task-oriented reasons (i.e., no sense in alienating people I'm working with unless absolutely necessary). The only benefit of tenure, at least in my case, is that I refuse to be on worthless and time-consuming committees (but that problem has decreased enormously at our institution since my untenured days). My experiences and "gossip" from colleagues at other institutions echo what several of you have said about the threat (er...promise...) of tenure--those who do, do; those who whine and whimper and hide con't change after tenure. Well, maybe just get more annoying, simpering, whimpering, and whinny after tenure. Productivity decreases for this group, too, imho. So, in WS and other courses, I'd just do the research that's in my heart and soul and try to teach as effectively as possible. niki benokraitis, Sociology (closed down in 1993, btw), U of Baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:22:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: renee heberle Subject: Re: women's prison libraries MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I would be interested in knowing this. Renee >Does anyone know of a project that accepts book donations for women's >prisons? > >Unless you feel the rest of the list would be intereted, please reply >privately to kspring@emory.edu. > >Kimberly Springer >PhD Candidate >Institute for Women's Studies >Emory University >kspring@emory.edu > >"To be critical of one's culture is not to betray that culture." >---Cherrie Moraga > Dr. Renee Heberle Department of Political Science and Public Administration University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio 43620 419-530-4061 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:45:28 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Tucker Subject: Looking for M.J. Baker Comments: To: Rhoda Unger In-Reply-To: <01IRFI23U0EG8WX3PV@alpha.montclair.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am looking for the address of Melva Joyce Baker, who wrote a book published in 1980 -- Images of Women in Film: The War Years, 1941-1945. If anyone has this address, please respond privately to me. Thank you. Susan Tucker Curator of Books and Records Newcomb College Center for Research on Women Tulane University New Orleans, La. 70118 susannah@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:56:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea J Benintende Subject: Re: Seeking feminist religious writing In-Reply-To: <19980115012131Z543551-15010+1984@outbound.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII i also recommend _weaving the visions: new patterns in feminist spirituality_ edited by judith plaskow and carol christ. i also recommend their first book, _womanspirit rising_, an earlier collection of feminist spirituality. one name i haven't seen mentioned is rosemary radford ruether, a feminist christian theologian. i have read _sexism and god-talk: toward a feminist theology_, but i would recommend any of her books or essays. good luck, andrea ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ andrea j. berman-benintende ajb9@acsu.buffalo.edu what is the source of our first suffering? it lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. it was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us. _gaston bachelard ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:13:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: Seeking feminist religious writing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have found the citation i mentioned earlier: Sarah the Priestess, Savina Teubal. It has been reprinted in paperback from Swallow. Also, try CELEBRATING THE LIVES OF JEWISH WOMEN: Patterns in a FEminist Sampler, Rachel Josefowitz Siegel, Ellen Cole, editors. The Harrington Park Press, an imprint of the Haworth Press. 1997. Deals with a great many issues of religion and feminism from diverse feminist viewpoints. One book by Lynn Gottleib i couldn't think of the name of in my previous post is SHE WHO DWELLS WITHIN: A Feminist Visionof a Renewed judaism, harper San Francisco 1995. marge piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:08:52 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "DRA. Pattatucci" Subject: Abolishing Tenure MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the rationale behind the tenure system to protect and preserve academic freedom? Given this, I am at a loss to understand the rationale behind abolishing it. For the Life and Physical Sciences, one argument for abolishing tenure is that professors in general tend to bring in less grant money after tenure is awarded. Since most universities are addicted to extramural funding, there has been a push to abolish tenure in these disciplines in lieu of taking a social Darwinian approach that will presumably keep the money rolling in. This argument doesn't seem to apply as well to other areas of inquiry such as some disciplines within the Humanities, where extramural funding opportunities are not as abundant. Although there is certainly room for improvement in the tenure systems at many schools, abolishing it completely seems like an extreme response to me. Could anyone provide some insight on why such a drastic measure is being considered? For the record, most of the universities here in Puerto Rico have a tenure system, but as far as I can tell, it is in name only. In other words it has about as much value as being paid with monopoly money. One quickly learns here that you can be "removed" for any number of reasons, regardless of your tenure status. Tenure means "tenure" only when it is convenient for it to do so; when it is inconvenient, it means nothing. It's kind of a fascist motif. A perfect example of this is that the Rector (analogous to the President in North America) at our campus was recently removed from office (actually he was allowed to resign) because he publicly criticized Governor Rossello' and Secretary of State Norma Burgos. His record of accomplishment and contribution to the university were completely nullified by this one incident. I was always led to believe that events such as this were the main argument in favor of maintaining a strong tenure system. Dra. Angela Pattatucci Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Rio Piedras a_pattatucci@upr1.upr.clu.edu "De poetas, tontos y locos todos tenemos un poco" ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:19:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Fawcett Library Subject: Sisterwrite Bookshop, London MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII No, unfortunately SisterWrite went out of business some years ago. I believe that Silver Moon is the only 100 per cent women's bookshop left in London. 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, 15 Jan 1998 10:41:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eustis525 Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Novel analysis Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dear list members, I will be teaching a course on men and women in America society in February. I am thinking of using a novel analysis as an assignment for this class. Has anyone ever done this? If so, how has it worked? Have you assigned a novel or did you let the students choose? What novels would you recommend (I need ones that address men's issues as well as women's issues, although not necesssarily in the same book). Thanks! Debra Berke Messiah College Assistant Professor of Family Studies Grantham, PA 17027 (717) 766-2511 dberke@messiah.edu or Eustis525@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:37:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Bergmann Subject: Re: Seeking feminist religious writing In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Anything by Elaine Pagels is a good read. ADAM, EVE, AND THE SERPENT (title may be off a bit) looks at the development of an anti-female position in the early Christian church as a political development. 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: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:50:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michael Messina-Yauchzy Subject: Gender and Demography PHD? In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980115113755.0091c2a0@umr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A friend of a friend is looking for a Ph.D. program where she can get her degree in gender and demography. Her particular interests are poverty, population, and gender in India. She has masters degrees from India and the Netherlands, in Social Work and Interdisciplinary Social Science. Any suggestions? Michael Messina-Yauchzy Ph.D. candidate, Interdisciplinary Social Science M.A., Sociology 413 Maxwell Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244 Home page: http://web.syr.edu/~mmessina/Index.html E-mail: mailto:mmessina@mailbox.syr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:58:36 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah J.C. Morrow" Subject: Sexual Harassment Video Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'd like to garner information from WMST-L members on good videos for HIGH SCHOOL faculty and staff training. Do you know of any? Where can they be obtained? Have you actually seen it, or did you just hear about it? Any and all information would be greatly appreciated! Please respond privately. Deb Morrow _____..---======+*+=======---.._____ ___Deb Morrow________,-='=====____ ============== _____=====`= (._corzines@siu.edu____) - _-=_/ `------=+=-------' / /__...---==='---+---_' '----'---.___ - _ = _.-' Explore all your options -- `-------' something might surprise you! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:06:15 -0500 Reply-To: jeannie ludlow Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: Abolishing Tenure In-Reply-To: <01ISEM0CMK36001WRI@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As Angela Pattatucci notes, the reasons for resisting the abolition of tenure are still with us. However, the argument for abolishing tenure is coming from _outside_ the university system, so the arguments she explains are considered less important to the people doing the arguing. Let's face it: abolish tenure and a university can get almost all the same courses covered by the workforce of those of us who have demonstrated that we are willing to take non-tenure-line work in order to survive and stay in the academy. The arguments I've seen around here (and they are often printed in the form of newspaper reports in local and city newspapers) are filled with misconceptions about the importance of research to academic development. In fact, it is often those very professors whose external grants feed the university system who are targeted as "using" state resources (I assume they mean labs/equipment, intitutional support, and some moneys, but i'm not sure) to carry out their "personal" science. There is much citation of statistics about how many hours the average tenured professor actually spends in the classroom (and, especially, in the undergraduate classroom). The argument as I understand it, then, is that if tenure is abolished, universities will be more efficient _educational_ institutions because professors will make less $$ and will spend more time actually teaching students. Please note that I am summarizing arguments; I do not agree with them. It may well be that the tenure system needs some work (most institutionalized systems do, after all) but I do not think abolishing tenure is the answer. __________________________________________________________________________ . . . Thus wrote ) Jeannie Ludlow ( "Lord, you know me, a woman, partly brave / ) jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu ( I'm liable to say and partly good, ) Women's Studies ( anything; so if who fought with what / ) Popular Culture ( I've offended she partly understood ) Bowling Green SU ( anybody, well hence she was labelled / ) Bowling Green OH 43403 ( . . . tough." harpy, shrew and whore ) ( --Dolly Parton --Adrienne Rich ) ( ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:03:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jpoucher Subject: Women's history conferences MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! I'm a new subscriber. I would like to know if there are any women's history conferences in the US in February, March, or April of this year. -- Thanks. Judith Poucher jpoucher@fccjvm.fccj.cc.fl.us ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:06:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: FYI: New women's WWW community MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Forwarded from SueBD@aol.com by Mary Schweitzer -- feel free to repost this: Announcing a new women's community on the World Wide Web! women2women - http://women2women.com/ A safe place for mature, adult women to discuss real women's issues, to have fun, to network, to share problems and answers. We hope you'll take a look and join us! SueBD and EvaS suebd@wwcoco.com evas@aol.com -----------end of forwarded message---------- posted by Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof. of History, Villanova Univ (on indefinite medical leave) mailto:schweit2@ix.netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:04:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Re: Women's history conferences In-Reply-To: <34BE4161.95136809@fccj.cc.fl.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" While not specifically women's history, there's the South Central Women's Studies Association at Univ of Houston-Clear-Lake March 6-7. Adrienne Rich is the one of keynote speaker. Best, Amy >Hi! I'm a new subscriber. I would like to know if there are any >women's history conferences in the US in February, March, or April of >this year. >-- Thanks. Judith Poucher >jpoucher@fccjvm.fccj.cc.fl.us ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. awink@sfasu.edu Department of English and Philosophy PO Bx 13007, SFA Station Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas 75962-3007 (409)468-2007 "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, 15 Jan 1998 14:15:57 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Debbie Connolly Subject: Re: Impoverished white Women Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Dr. Wright, Thanks for your email message. I have conducted fieldwork with impoverished white women in Portland, Oregon (I'm a cultural anthrpologist) and currently have a book on homeless mothers forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. While my work does not yet deal extensively with the concept of whiteness I am interested in considering these issues further. I worked with primarily white women in part because of the demographics of Portland but also because I wanted to write an ethnography on homelessness that moved outside of the stereotypes of who is poor, on welfare, and struggling in this country (i.e. minorities). I work on demystifying cultural stereotypes about poverty, agency, blame and consequences. As I continue my revisions and editing and as I look toward future projects that also engage poverty work I would greatly enjoy joining conversations about these concerns. Take care - Deborah Connolly dconnoll@ix.netcom.com At 10:59 PM 12/19/97 -0500, you wrote: >I am looking to have a discussion with those of you on the list that have >a particular interest in white women and poverty. >I am especially interested in talking to those who have experienced >poverty themselves and have moved out of poverty, and those of you who >work with poor women. >Please respond privately. >CArolyn Wright at: ciwright@mailbox.syr.edu > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:11:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WSKCKCC Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: Silver Moon Bookstore Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 98-01-14 09:39:32 EST, you write: << Help! I have a friend leaving for London shortly and I've misplaced the address of the Silver Moon Bookstore. Can someone help me out, please? Thanks!! Sandra Spencer >> Sandra, I just got back from London. The Silver Moon Bookstore (and what an amazing bookstore it is!) is located in Charing Cross Road. It is about a three minute walk from the Leicester Square underground. If you need their exact address and phone number, let me know. I am working from home right now, but I have their catalogue in the office and would be happy to get the information for you. take care and all best, tamara wskckcc@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:18:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carole E. Adams" Subject: Abolish tenure? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In addition to external pressures to abolish tenure, and in addition to pressure based on misconceptions of absent-minded and absent professors, there IS a position within academe, and not coming from the Right, that argues: Right now a growing proportion of professors are adjuncts or "instructors" with no right to apply for or hold tenure. Further, there have been cases during the McCarthy era, in the Sixties, and no doubt more recently, where professors with tenure were nevertheless fired. Further, the claim of "academic freedom" has at times been used far beyond its original scope. Thus we have examples of professors (written up in *The Chronicle* or appearing in court records) who argue that freedom of speech and academic freedom protects them when they have, during class time, created a hostile learning environment (e.g. commenting on a daily basis on female students' dress, telling "jokes" against gays and lesbians, etc.). Thus, the argument is that we need to rethink both issues of job security and issues of academic freedom, and separate out the strands. One might argue, e.g., that substituting tenure AND adjuncting with a series of annual and multi-year contracts, including rolling contracts, is a better solution to job security/ flexibility issues. (Rolling contracts allow a person to sign a contract every year that renews their contract for 3 to 5 years.) Then, the argument might continue, academic freedom would be dealt with by creating policies of due process, rights of review and appeal, etc. if any teachers find their contracts not renewed without cause. For me personally, these arguments have some appeal; I feel that I need a lot more information, and I wish the entire country would enter into a fruitful discussion rather than drawing lines before we've thought through all the factors. Certainly, given the thread on tenure and feminism that is currently underway, we can see direct evidence that many in academe do not feel protected by "free speech" rights at this time. Carole Adams Women's Studies Uni of Central Fl ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:19:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: viki soady Subject: Re: Women's history conferences In-Reply-To: <34BE4161.95136809@fccj.cc.fl.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia will be holding its Third Annual Conference on March 5-7. This year's theme is Women's Voices, Women's Silences. There will be creative events and 0ver 75 academic papers. Keynoters: Daphne Patai and Emily Culpepper. > Dr. Viki Soady Director of Women's Studies Nevins Hall Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698 912-249-4842 FAX 912-259-5042 vsoady@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:53:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: job announcement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The George Washington University's Women's Studies Program seeks a distinguished scholar to serve as Director at the associate or full professor level, starting fall, 1998. GW is an urban research and teaching institution. The Women's Studies Program, celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year, has the oldest graduate program in the U.S. It offers two M.A degrees, two Ph.D. concentrations and an undergraduate minor. The Program currently has over 40 enrolled graduate students and 30 undergraduate minors. Strong preference will be given to applications from anthropologists and from historians of modern Europe. We seek candidates with a strong record of teaching and publication; administrative experience is desirable. The successful applicant will have an appointment in the relevant department and in the Women's Studies Program. Salary is commensurate with experience. the process of reviewing applications will begin after February 15, 1998, and will continue until the position is filled. Please send a cover letter, cv, and names and addresses of three references to Barbara Miller, Chair, Women's Studies Search Committee, 506H Funger Hall, 2201 G Street, N.W., The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052. GW is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. GWU Women's Studies Program Allison MacDonald, Secretary 202-994-6942 Funger 506-I/ 2201 G Street NW Washington D.C. 20052 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:57:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Debra Kirkley Subject: Re: Abolishing Tenure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Texas legislature just mandated post-tenure review and I'm sure many states will follow (I know we're not the first state to do so). Each institution is left to develop its own policy and we've just been grappling with the issue of how often such review should take place. Post tenure review opens the door to terminating tenured professors. Of course, the university much show cause for termination... but it certainly will affect how much risk-taking behavior even tenured faculty will be willing to take. Is it too big a risk to experiment with feminist teaching methods (which may be uncomfortable for students and thus result in lukewarm evaluations)? Is it too big a risk to focus on feminist or lesbian research topics? Of course, the answers will vary by discipline and institution, but the idea of tenured faculty finally being "safe" is long gone, imho... Legislators are unfortunately getting much of their data about faculty productivity from some popular indictments of the professoriate (e.g Sykes, _Profscam_ ) -deb- ************************************************************ Debra Kirkley, MEd, RNC Assistant Clinical Professor Texas Woman's University, College of Nursing Dallas, TX 75235 dkirkley@twu.edu Doctoral Candidate, University of North Texas iy52@jove.acs.unt.edu -----Original Message----- From: DRA. Pattatucci To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 10:19 AM Subject: Abolishing Tenure >Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the rationale behind the tenure system >to protect and preserve academic freedom? Given this, I am at a loss to >understand the rationale behind abolishing it. Could anyone provide some insight on why such a drastic measure is being considered? > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:07:10 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kari B Mcbride Subject: feminist religious writing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've written introductions to "Women and the Hebrew Bible" and "Women and Christianity" as part of my hyper-textbook for a 200-level Women and Western Culture class (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kari/ws200ds.htm). They include the kind of basic information (from a feminist point of view) that students need to make sense of biblical claims. Anyone is welcome to them or any other pages at the site. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:24:49 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elspeth Pope Subject: Re: Women's history conferences In-Reply-To: <34BE4161.95136809@fccj.cc.fl.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII There is the 29th annual conference of the Western Association of Women Historians at the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA on May 15-17. For more information you could contact Dr. Huneycutt at histlois@showme.missouri,edu. On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, jpoucher wrote: > Hi! I'm a new subscriber. I would like to know if there are any > women's history conferences in the US in February, March, or April of > this year. > -- Thanks. Judith Poucher > jpoucher@fccjvm.fccj.cc.fl.us > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:50:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Undergraduate Women and Gender Studies Honors Programs In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980113202633.0073fd4c@pop.mylink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Isn't there a contradiction between singling out a few WS students for Honors and the spirit of cooperation and openness that's supposed to be a hallmark of WS classes? A selection of winners necessarily creates losers as students compete for the most favorable reviews by the authorities. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:51:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Curriculum on Policy In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For the M.Sc. programme on gender, agriculture and rural devlpment policy, try: Ursula Sharma. 1980 Women, work and property in north-west India. New York: Tavistock Anjali Bagwe. 1995. Of woman caste: Experience of gender in rural India. London: Zed Bina Agarwal. 1994. A Field of one's own: Gender and land rights in South Asia. Cambridge U. Press. (particularly good for history, diversity of experience within India and other South Asian countries) Bina Agarwal (Ed.). 1988. Structures of patriarchy: The state, the community and the household. London: Zed. (Chapters on India, China, Sri Lanka are on rural) Romy Borooah (Ed). 1994. Capturing complexity: An interdisciplinary look at women, households and development. Sage. (chapters on problems, theory re data collectins and categories would be particularly helpful, I think) Catherine Caulfield. 1996. Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the poverty of nations. New York: Holt. (roots of policy. doesn't analyze gender but women are included explicitly at various point.) beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net At 09:03 AM 1/15/98 +0100, you wrote: >We're putting together a new graduate level course on Gender and Rural >Development Policy for a new international M.Sc. programme on Gender, >Agriculture and Rural Development. The course will deal with topics such >as the relations between gender and the state, the gendered culture of >agricultural institutions and the implications for policy formulation, and >the effects of current policies on rural women and households (including >rural transitions in Europe, structural adjustment policies and social >policies). The course will also review planning tools formulated to deal >with gender, policy and planning, especially a rural mileau. > >The goals of the course are to enable students to critically analyse >current rural and agricultural policy frameworks from a gender >perspective; understand main debates relating to gender and structural >adjustment policies as they relate to agriculture and rural development; >and be familiar with planning and policy tools in this field and >institutional potentialsconstraints for their implementation. > >If anyone has prior experience with curricula or training in this field, or >literature to suggest, we'd very much appreciate it and would be willing >to share what we produce. > >You may also reply privately to: >Prof. dr. Patricia Howard-Borjas >Chair, Dept. of Gender Studies in Agriculture >Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands >email: Gender.Studies@alg.vsl.wau.nl >fax: ++31-317-483990 >phone:++31-317-483932 > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:34:44 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: Tone it down 'til tenure Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" AtAngela Pattatucci >Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Rio Piedras >a_pattatucci@upr1.upr.clu.edu > >"De poetas, tontos y locos todos tenemos un poco" >************************************************************* >The case of tenure has lots of greys between the end of the continuum. Tenure helps immeasurably if one person, e.g. the Chair, the Dean, doesn't like you, but others think it would be a violations of academic freedom to fire you. You also have to be colleaguial i.e. like them. I would definitely have been fired had I not tenure when the new Head of psychiatry came in and tried to get rid of all the non MD's. However later is was relatively easy to push me out be taking away my classes, even though the new Head liked me and paid me. When one is paid there is no legal claim. They can also not fire you but persecute you in other ways e.g. by not giveing you raises, giving you classes at terrible hours, not giving you seminars (Sociology cut me down to one a year, because I was "taking away their students"--their seminars had many fewerstudents than mine did etc. As I said once before AAUP wouldn't take my case unless I went through all the campus committees. That would have been a waste of time, since the Dean of Medecine didn't like me (he was a Navy surgeon and said "let her sue") and the Dean of L&S had both carrots and sticks for sociology and women's studies. He prevailed. They didn't object. Thus tenure is better than not having tenure, particularly if you hold unpopular views such as feminism. But having tenure is no guarentee. If the others in your Department can think "There but for the grace of God go I", they'll support you. This situation is not true for feminists, especially radical feminists. The sociology depts for the most part felt that they wouldn never be in that situation. pbart@ucla.edu > (revised version of a Yiddish proverb) It is better for a person never to have been born at all, but not one woman in 10,000 has such good fortune. Pauline B. Bart pbart@ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:00:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lynnette chapman Subject: New to List... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello all! I am a new subscriber to the list -- a grad student with a focus in Women's Studies. If I might be so bold as to recommend a book... *Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible* Ed. by Christina Buchmann and Celina Spiegel. Publisher: Fawcett Columbine, NY. This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but I thought it might help. Good Luck. Lynnette M. Chapman West Virginia University MA Liberal Studies Program Women's Studies Lchapma2@wvu.edu Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. -Charlotte Bronte- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:17:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: FLORENCH Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: Silver Moon Bookstore Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I believe it closed a year or more ago. Florence Howe (florench@aol.com) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:23:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Dworkin query MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Does anyone know of an e-mail or other address for Andrea Dworkin? Thanks, DP -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 00:28:08 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: CFP: CORRECTION (fwd) Please note the following corrections: 1) Due date for proposals is March 15. 2) Please direct ALL inquiries, etc. to Linda Perry Do NOT send them to me. Thanks. ____________________________________________________________ Rosa Maria Pegueros, Ph.D. pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu Department of History and Women's Studies Program University of Rhode Island phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 "Qui me amat, amat et canem meum." ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ********** CALL FOR PAPERS *********** "Perspectives on Progress: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues" Submissions are sought for inclusion in a volume offering topics that clarify, dignify, and/or politicize lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. Papers may, for example address any of the following: * the complexities of everyday living in or out of the closet * mediated representations of various sexual orientations * social relationships with family, friends, and/or colleagues * hate crimes, domestic violence, harassment, and or discrimination * historical accounts of individuals and/or events that have impacted the gay community * health, activism, linguistics, religion, and/or education Academic and non-academic submissions will be considered. This publication will be marketed as a supplemental text for Gender Studies, Gay & Lesbian Studies, Womens' Studies, and other relevant courses. Please submit your paper to: Linda A.M. Perry, Ph.D. The Department of Communication Studies University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 (619)260-4058 lperry@acusd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:20:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Brasher Subject: feminist religious writing Comments: To: LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain There is a rich & very accessible literature composed by religious feminists. Two books out of the Protestant tradition that you might want to take a look at are, _The Journey is Home_ by Nelle Morton and _Women Speak: Of God, Congregations and Change_ by Joanna Gillespie. If you want to refer to the ideas of contemporary conservative Christian women directly, you can find one compilation of them in my just-released book, _Godly Women:Fundamentalism and Female Power_. Brenda E. Brasher Department of Religion and Philosophy Mount Union College brashebe@muc.edu http://www.muc.edu/~brashebe ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 13:43:07 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hilary Robinson Subject: Re: Seeking feminist religious writing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Mary Condren: the Serpent and the Chalice (HarperCollins) is an excellent examination of gender, women, & specifically Irish Ctholicism through history. Hilary Robinson h.robinson@ulst.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:23:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Erin Connell Subject: Re: Seeking feminist religious writing In-Reply-To: <199801161324.NAA02884@yksg00.edsb.ulst.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII If this book has already been mentioned in the discussion, please forgive me! I thoroughly enjoyed "Beyond God the Father" by Mary Daly. We used it in a Women and Religion course at University of Toronto. Erin Connell Acting Coordinator Women's Health Office ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:39:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gail Platt Organization: South Plains College Subject: Re: Abolishing Tenure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Debra Kirkley wrote: > > The Texas legislature just mandated post-tenure review > and I'm sure many states will follow (I know we're not the > first state to do so). Each institution is left to develop its > own policy and we've just been grappling with the issue > of how often such review should take place. Post tenure > review opens the door to terminating tenured professors. > Of course, the university much show cause for termination... > but it certainly will affect how much risk-taking behavior > even tenured faculty will be willing to take. Is it too big a > risk to experiment with feminist teaching methods (which > may be uncomfortable for students and thus result in lukewarm > evaluations)? Is it too big a risk to focus on feminist or lesbian > research topics? Of course, the answers will vary by discipline > and institution, but the idea of tenured faculty finally being "safe" > is long gone, imho... > > Legislators are unfortunately getting much of their data > about faculty productivity from some popular indictments > of the professoriate (e.g Sykes, _Profscam_ ) > > -deb- > ************************************************************ > Debra Kirkley, MEd, RNC > Assistant Clinical Professor > Texas Woman's University, College of Nursing > Dallas, TX 75235 > dkirkley@twu.edu > Doctoral Candidate, University of North Texas > iy52@jove.acs.unt.edu > > -----Original Message----- > From: DRA. Pattatucci > To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > Date: Thursday, January 15, 1998 10:19 AM > Subject: Abolishing Tenure > > >Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the rationale behind the tenure system > >to protect and preserve academic freedom? Given this, I am at a loss to > >understand the rationale behind abolishing it. Could anyone provide some > insight on why such a drastic measure is being considered? > > I'm also from Texas and I had a rather lengthy discussion in 1996 with the Legislator who proposed the legislation to require post-tenure review. The legislators seemed to be quite confused and misled about tenure, believing that a tenured professor could never be even confronted or terminated for good cause(when that simply is not the case under standard tenure policies). Ironically, in passing the new law in Texas, legislators (unwittingly perhaps, according to legal experts) created a system of extra protection whereby it will probably be harder to terminate tenured employees--even with good cause. Gail Platt ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:57:37 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Kelley Crouse Subject: Facilitating Discussion In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I'm in the midst of writing up a "facilitating discussion" guideline and was wondering if anyone would be willing to share guides they've come up with. I've had them read Rich's "Claiming an Education" and we've discussed the non-traditional pedagogies of my classroom several times. Now, it's time for them to start leading discussion and I'm hoping to give them something more concrete to go by. I'm imagining that about have of the classroom (34)will run with it and be creative becasue either they're ready for this, they've encountered this method before, or because their senior WS majors or minors. However, the other half of the class is pretty new to both WS classrooms and college in general. Any suggestions? Kelley Crouse ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:13:46 -0500 Reply-To: SEETCHM@lafvax.lafayette.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Elizabeth Seetch Subject: CCCC in Chicago Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Do any other participants in this list regularly attend CCCC (Conference on College Communication and Composition)? If so, I'm always looking for other feminist Writing Program Administrators-- As Coordinator of our College Writing Program (for eleven years) and as a relatively new teacher of WS, I have a refreshed interest in points of connection between these disciplines. More specifically, I'd like to hear from you if you have sessions or workshops to recommend at this year's convention. (For instance, there are two women-centered Wednesday workshops: Elaine Maimon's follow-up to last year's and "the 8th annual feminist workshop" entitled Narrating Feminisms. Usually I facilitate workshops or give presentations; but I'm taking this year off from formal participation and could use some advice from those of you outside my institution. Please ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:16:14 -0500 Reply-To: SEETCHM@lafvax.lafayette.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Elizabeth Seetch Subject: CCCC--the end Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT SORRY--my finger slipped-- I meant to finish by saying PLEASE RESPOND PRIVATELY & THANKS IN ADVANCE-- Beth Seetch Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 seetchm@lafayette.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 13:06:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: webmaster Subject: New Position Open at IWPR Comments: To: appam-l@post.queensu.ca, femecon-l@bucknell.edu, welfarem-l@american.edu, pubpol-l@tc.umn.edu, femisa@csf.colorado.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" NEW POSITION OPEN AT IWPR! Social scientist needed to start in February 1998 to lead a new study of how child care choices affect the employment opportunities of single mothers, and to work on an ongoing project on low-income families. For both projects, the Study Director will analyze large data sets, draft final reports, and supervise a research assistant. Candidates must have experience with multiple regression analysis on SAS (preferred) or STATA and the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Excellent research and writing skills and the ability to meet deadlines are essential. A Ph.D. and familiarity with poverty and child care issues are required. This is a full-time, 12-month contract with the possibility of renewal. SALARY AND BENEFITS: Salary from $40,000 to 60,000, commensurate with experience. Benefits include health insurance, matching pension contributions, generous vacation and holiday time, and paid sick leave. TO APPLY: To apply for this position, please send a letter, curriculum vitae or resume, one sample of written work, and contact information for three references to: Dr. Diana Zuckerman, Director of Research and Policy Analysis, Institute for Women's Policy Research, 1400 20th Street N.W., Suite 104, Washington, D.C. 20036, ATTN: Shannon Garrett. Questions regarding this position can be directed to Ms. Garrett at (202) 785-1921. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. ABOUT THE INSTITUTE: The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is an independent, nonprofit, scientific research organization in the District of Columbia. Established in 1987, its staff members seek to rectify the limited availability of policy relevant research on women's lives and to inform and stimulate debate on issues of critical importance for women. In addition to conducting and disseminating research, IWPR works to build networks among researchers, policy makers, business and labor leaders, advocates, and funders through conferences, briefings, and forums and through its Information Network, a monthly and quarterly subscription service available to IWPR members and affiliates. IWPR is an equal opportunity employer. Minority candidates are strongly urged to apply. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 15:58:52 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hilary Robinson Subject: Research & archives Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Can anyone help me locate appropriate libraries & archives? I am planning two trips to the US and Canada, to locate source material for a book. THe subject is feminist art theoretical writing from late 1960s to date. So I'm looking for good archives or libraries: feminist cultural/activist contemporary art academic women's studies - which would hold appropriate journals, catalogues and books. Please respond privately, and many thanks. Hilary Robinson h.robinson@ulst.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 14:25:40 +0000 Reply-To: smithleo@pilot.msu.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Leonora Smith Subject: Re: how to stop mail temporarily (User's Guide) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 13:10:05 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hale bolak Subject: help me locate folks Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I would appreciate getting e-mail addresses of any of these folk: Lillian Comas-Diaz Elaine Pinderhughes Maria Root bell hooks Susan Griffin Carol Gilligan Adrienne Rich Please respond privately. Thanks. Hale Bolak hcbolak@ncgate.newcollege.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 18:59:52 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "D.M. Procida" Subject: Plagiarism suspected - recognize these quotes? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: Plagiarism suspected - recognize these quotes? Sent: 15/1/98 23:29 To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU A piece of academic work, believed (for a number of different reasons) to be plagiarised, contains the quotes below. It would be of great assistance (not to me, to someone else) if anyone recognizes any of them and is able to identify the source or sources. Any help or suggestions gratefully received. "It is psycho-analysis that is responsible for unleashing this treasure-box of re-explanation." "In one sense, the literal, 'knowledge' is precisely what it sets itself up to be - a clear and certain perception of that which exists." "Rather than understanding psycho-analytic feminists's writing as offering a true theory of the body, I suggest that their work should be read as offering an understanding of conceptions of the female and male body in culture, which may be helpful in terms of challenging established associations between momen and maternity, women and lack, and of establishing new ones." Daniele Procida procida@cf.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:50:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Research Assistance on Jamaica Kincaid MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Hello all, I am asking this for a graduate MA student who is beginning to write her thesis on Jamaica Kincaid. She is looking for critical material and is especially interested in neo-colonialism, shifting identity in a de-colonized countries. She hopes to compare colonized women writers of the Caribbean, with Eastern European post-Soviet Empire women writers. She is also looking for Kincaid's e-mail address. you can respond to her privately at z_marinovamd@titan.sfasu.edu, unless there are others on the list who might be interested. Thanks, Amy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. awink@sfasu.edu Department of English and Philosophy PO Bx 13007, SFA Station Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas 75962-3007 (409)468-2007 "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, 16 Jan 1998 18:17:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnn Castagna Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected - recognize these quotes? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In an article on how to identify student plagiarism, a librarian at a college in Pennsylvania said that it is possible to use some of the Internet search engines to look for specific strings of words, so, if the text is anywhere online (a now-common place for students at least to find and download term papers etc) the source can be identified. I am not a librarian or very expert in the use of search engines, but perhaps someone in your library is and can help. JoAnn Castagna joann-castagna@uiowa.edu At 06:59 PM 1/16/98 +0000, you wrote: >Subject: Plagiarism suspected - recognize these quotes? >Sent: 15/1/98 23:29 >To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > >A piece of academic work, believed (for a number of different reasons) >to be plagiarised, contains the quotes below. It would be of great >assistance (not to me, to someone else) if anyone recognizes any of them >and is able to identify the source or sources. > >Any help or suggestions gratefully received. > >"It is psycho-analysis that is responsible for unleashing this >treasure-box of re-explanation." > >"In one sense, the literal, 'knowledge' is precisely what it sets itself >up to be - a clear and certain perception of that which exists." > >"Rather than understanding psycho-analytic feminists's writing as >offering a true theory of the body, I suggest that their work should be >read as offering an understanding of conceptions of the female and male >body in culture, which may be helpful in terms of challenging >established associations between momen and maternity, women and lack, >and of establishing new ones." > >Daniele Procida > >procida@cf.ac.uk > > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 18:37:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bev Ayers-Nachamkin Organization: Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA 17201 Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected - recognize these quotes? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On another list to which I belong, a reliable poster maintained that the AltaVista search engine will do what JoAnn (see below) describes. I tried it on the first quote mentioned by Daniele and received no matches. You might want to try other snippets -- remember to put them in quotation marks. It may come from something that is not on the web, of course, and if that's the case I haven't a clue as to its origin(s). Bev =============== JoAnn Castagna wrote: > > In an article on how to identify student plagiarism, a librarian at a > college in Pennsylvania said that it is possible to use some of the > Internet search engines to look for specific strings of words, so, if the > text is anywhere online (a now-common place for students at least to find > and download term papers etc) the source can be identified. I am not a > librarian or very expert in the use of search engines, but perhaps someone > in your library is and can help. > JoAnn Castagna > joann-castagna@uiowa.edu > > At 06:59 PM 1/16/98 +0000, you wrote: > >Subject: Plagiarism suspected - recognize these quotes? > >Sent: 15/1/98 23:29 > >To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > > > >A piece of academic work, believed (for a number of different reasons) > >to be plagiarised, contains the quotes below. It would be of great > >assistance (not to me, to someone else) if anyone recognizes any of them > >and is able to identify the source or sources. > > > >Any help or suggestions gratefully received. > > > >"It is psycho-analysis that is responsible for unleashing this > >treasure-box of re-explanation." > > > >"In one sense, the literal, 'knowledge' is precisely what it sets itself > >up to be - a clear and certain perception of that which exists." > > > >"Rather than understanding psycho-analytic feminists's writing as > >offering a true theory of the body, I suggest that their work should be > >read as offering an understanding of conceptions of the female and male > >body in culture, which may be helpful in terms of challenging > >established associations between momen and maternity, women and lack, > >and of establishing new ones." > > > >Daniele Procida > > > >procida@cf.ac.uk > > > > -- Bev Ayers-Nachamkin Dept. of Psychology Wilson College 1015 Philadelphia Ave. Chambersburg, PA 17201 bayersna@epix.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:49:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: holzman Subject: Re: Abolishing Tenure In-Reply-To: <01ISEM0CMK36001WRI@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:08 PM 1/15/98 -0600, Dr A Pattatucci wrote: >Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the rationale behind the tenure system >to protect and preserve academic freedom? Given this, I am at a loss to >understand the rationale behind abolishing it. Correct me if I'm wrong, and pardon me if I'm excessively cynical, but I thought the first sentence above _was_ the rationale for abolishing tenure. The people I see calling for the abolition of tenure are usually also complaining that the tenured faculty are a bunch of 60's-type radicals who are teaching things the complainers don't agree with. OK, I know that's simplistic, I just had to get it off my chest. __________________________ Clare Holzman 330 West 58th Street, 404 New York, NY 10019 212 245 7282 holzmr01@mcrcr.med.nyu.edu __________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:48:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosalie Riegle Subject: Women's History Conferences? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII While not a women's history conference as such, the 25th Anniversary Conference of the Michigan Women's Studies Association will include several panels by historians. The program will be interdisciplinary, with a mix of academics and community professionals. "Women and Health: Local, National, and Global" is the theme, Dr. Susan Reversby of Wellesley will be our keynoter, the place is Saginaw Valley State University, and the date is April 3-4, 1998. Proposal deadline was last Saturday. The committee is finalizing the program and sending proposer letters next week. I'll post additional conference details here, probably within the next two weeks. In the meantime, you can e-mail me or call me if you have any questions. Rosalie Riegle, Professor of English 517-790-4380 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:56:15 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm really having a problem trying to deal with plagiarism. It's easy to detect but so hard to prove and resolve. I've spoken with several of my students one on one. Some used portions of other people's works integrated into their own -- easy to detect the writing level switch. Others turned in perfect papers -- flawless, publishable . . . It's very disturbing to me. One student wrote a paper on computers and used resources from 1992-3. I see this as a dead give-a-way since anything that old is all the more dated. How do some of you out there deal with this problem. How do you "prove" their dishonesty. Is it enough to say: I can see . . . it's obvious? I believe this question will generate a discussion interesting to the list, but if you think your answer is inappropriate for the list, then please respond in private. Thank You, Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. Lecturer, Business and Technical Communications School of Management UT-Dallas PO Box 830688 Richardson, Texas 75083-0688 mharris@utdallas.edu 972/883-6822 of. 972/883-6823 fx. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:47:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Miriam Harris writes about plagiarism: > One student wrote a paper on computers and used resources from 1992-3. I > see this as a dead give-a-way since anything that old is all the more > dated. How do some of you out there deal with this problem. How do you > "prove" their dishonesty. Is it enough to say: I can see . . . it's > obvious? With many students, detecting their plagiarism is the easy part. As Miriam pointed out, they often do dumb things like use outdated references or British wording/spelling when they're American (or American wording/spelling when they've been educated in British English). They may have wild stylistic shifts in their paper as they move back and forth between their own writing and the stuff they're plagiarizing, or the entire paper may show a stylistic polish dramatically different from other work you've seen from them. They may make confident and knowledgeable reference to writers/scholars with whom they're unlikely to be familiar. Etc. etc. One develops a feel for this sort of thing after a while. The more difficult task, as Miriam suggests, is proving that the student has plagiarized. Of course, if you can identify a printed source, be it in hard copy or online, you've got all the evidence you need. But often it's not easy to find the source. And, in fact, with dozens of term paper mills on the web ready to make papers available to students for a fee or in some cases for free, you may not be able to find a printed source. Even then, though, I generally find I can nail the plagiarist. I call the student into my office and express my concern over the wild stylistic shifts, or the difference in quality between this paper and the student's earlier work. I tell the student that it makes me wonder whether the student has done the work him/herself. Sometimes, that's enough to elicit the start of a confession ("well, as a matter of fact, my friend/mother helped me with a little of the paper"). We proceed from there. Usually, though, the student asserts indignantly that it most assuredly IS his/her own work. So then I ask questions. (On page 5, you use the word "logocentric"--what do you mean? What do you mean by "the neoclassical postulate"? On p. 10, you refer to Roland Barthes' distinction between the word and the text--tell me about that. Do you agree with Barthes?) Sometimes the words don't even have to be all that esoteric. "Esoteric," for example, is a word some of my weaker students may not know. If they use it in a paper that shows other signs of plagiarism, I may ask them to define that word. I once unravelled someone's assertions of innocence by asking him to define "prevaricate"! One or two flubbed questions are usually enough to get the student to admit that he/she didn't write substantial parts of the paper. How you handle things at that point depends on what you've said in class (and, ideally, in your syllabus or other printed material), whether the student is a freshman or a senior who should have known better, what your institution's policy on plagiarism is, etc. Two caveats. One, we should all be sure we make it clear in our classes what plagiarism IS. Many students truly don't know. It's unfair to try to punish someone for something he/she may not even know is wrong. Also, as any number of people have pointed out, electronic text and especially hypertext are further complicating the concept of plagiarism. So it's really important to let students know what you expect from the start. The other caveat: be cautious about your wording in accusing someone of plagiarism unless you've got a printed source. We live in litigious times (at least, in the US). The last thing you want is to find yourself confronted with the student's lawyer accusing you of defamation. So proceed gently, at least until the student proves unable to answer your questions about the paper. Much of what I've said above will be obvious to experienced teachers. I'm sending it to WMST-L in the hope that graduate students and others new to teaching may find it helpful. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 10:52:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Shea Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Joan Korenman writes: > Two caveats. One, we should all be sure we make it clear in our >classes what plagiarism IS. Many students truly don't know. It's unfair >to try to punish someone for something he/she may not even know is wrong. >Also, as any number of people have pointed out, electronic text and >especially hypertext are further complicating the concept of plagiarism. >So it's really important to let students know what you expect from the >start. > > The other caveat: be cautious about your wording in accusing >someone of plagiarism unless you've got a printed source. We live in >litigious times (at least, in the US). The last thing you want is to find >yourself confronted with the student's lawyer accusing you of defamation. >So proceed gently, at least until the student proves unable to answer your >questions about the paper. > As someone who works with students with diagnosed learning disabilities and/or ADHD, I want to support everything Joan suggested. The best result is one in which the student, having been questioned, admits the process they used to compose the paper and you go from there. Many students have little experience with research and documentation. On the other hand, when the student is lifting entire papers, etc., they know what they are doing; and often they feel extraordinary pressure and feel they have no other recourse other than to do so. They panic. And, for whatever reason, cannot just fail without resorting to strategies they have used their entire lives. This no longer shocks me. And it is not, of course, just student with learning differences. I think it is extremely helpful to go in with the attitude that this can be a learning experience (sorry for the cliche) and you can be supportive of the student, even if they fail the paper or the class. Ethically, I need to pursue it when I see it but, like shoplifting or drinking underage, students are not as likely to understand how one action can screw up their lives and not as likely to see the theft of another's ideas or words in the same way we do. I am not suggesting we "let them off easy"--consequences are extremely important. Don't think I am "soft" on plagiarism. Every case I've been involved in has been difficult. And individual situations will differ dramatically. I guess that what I am suggesting is that, while it never would have occurred to me to have plagiarized when I was a student, I am less moralistic about this than I used to be. In either case, the consequences need to be clear. And it is helpful if you have supportive administrators/deans and a "by the books" process. As a faculty member, you need to document everything and not bow to pressure, because, yes, the threat of a lawsuit is very real and makes everyone uncomfortable. Lynne mgander@sover.net ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 10:22:31 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LAURA KRAMER Subject: try to prevent plagiarism MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Handling suspected plagiarism cases is, as the discussion shows clearly, extremely time consuming and energy intensive. I believe that is as disturbing to many teachers as the ethical breach. It takes our resources away from what we consider constructive activities for our students. Each semester on the first day of class I hand out a statement on plagiarism. It hasn't changed much over the years. It gives a dictionary definition (with citation :)) and refers students to the student handbook entry on plagiarism. I also tell students that if they are still not clear if some act would be considered plagiarism it is their responsibility to check with me before they submit the work formally. I tell them plagiarism results in an F in the course (which is consistent with OFFICIAL policy). Needless to say, this is not sufficient to deter all plagiarism, although it may cut down on it. This semester I have added a step: in the course with papers, I have put a statement at the bottom of the info sheet I collect on the first day "I have read and understand the instructor's policy on plagiarism." I told them they are free to not sign it, but that a person who chooses not to sign it may expect me to look particularly carefully for plagiarized materials in her/his paper. Before this, by the way, I checked with the Dean of Student Affairs to make sure this wasn't in some way, invisitble to me, a violation of student rights. To the contrary, she thought it was a good idea. I am hoping that signing the statement makes them read the policy, whereas before I think it often joined the sheaf of handouts from their first days of classes. More important (but more time consuming), I try to build stages into any writing assignment of significant length. This is certainly not original, colleagues do this too. For example, there's a deadline for the topic; a couple of weeks later a bibliography is required (and I may limit this to materials written within the past five years, e.g.), then an outline, then the paper. THE CRUCIAL POINT IS TO NOT PERMIT CHANGES IN THESE AT THE LAST MINUTE. It is less likely that a purchased paper is going to be arranged this way. Also, I give feedback which, if it is ignored, lowers the grade on subsequent stages of the assignment. S oif someone does outline an already purchased paper and I critique the outline and there's no attention to the points I've raised it hurts the grade. This will not result in the end of plagiarism. But one questionable paper rather than several to deal with makes a big difference. Laura Kramer Professor of Sociology Montclair State University Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 (973) 655-7168 KRAMERL@ALPHA.MONTCLAIR.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 10:34:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mjr hist38 Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: Impoverished white Women Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dear Dr. White: I'm sorry this email is going to the list...I had a computer crash/near melt- down, and I lost your original post regarding Impoverished white Women. I would like to get in touch with you regarding this issue. Please email me so we can discuss this. Thank you, Laurie Adams Mjrhist38@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 10:42:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "William W. Pendleton" Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected - recognize these quotes? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Just a couple of comments--I would never regard the two short quotes as plagerism because a sentence often sticks in ones mind. The third quote is very badly done, so it may have come from a term paper somewhere. A web search might turn it up. On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, D.M. Procida wrote: > Subject: Plagiarism suspected - recognize these quotes? > Sent: 15/1/98 23:29 > To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > > A piece of academic work, believed (for a number of different reasons) > to be plagiarised, contains the quotes below. It would be of great > assistance (not to me, to someone else) if anyone recognizes any of them > and is able to identify the source or sources. > > Any help or suggestions gratefully received. > > "It is psycho-analysis that is responsible for unleashing this > treasure-box of re-explanation." > > "In one sense, the literal, 'knowledge' is precisely what it sets itself > up to be - a clear and certain perception of that which exists." > > "Rather than understanding psycho-analytic feminists's writing as > offering a true theory of the body, I suggest that their work should be > read as offering an understanding of conceptions of the female and male > body in culture, which may be helpful in terms of challenging > established associations between momen and maternity, women and lack, > and of establishing new ones." > > Daniele Procida > > procida@cf.ac.uk > Wm W. Pendleton Department of Sociology Emory University Atlanta, Ga. 30322 socwwp@emory.edu 404 727-7524 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 11:54:43 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GILLIAN RODGER Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT To search for on-line sources, papers etc., the best resource is ALtaVista. If you do an advanced search you can do proximity searching in which you take one or two words of each phrase and search them. If you check the help section under this search engine it gives you hints on the most effective way to search. Putting the phrase in quotation marks is one way, but not always the best because occasionally a student lifts sentences but changes them a little. I also second the idea of verifying that te student actually knew that what they were doing was plagiarism. A friend of mine had 2 cases of plagiarism in her class last semester (that she caught anyway) and in one case the student knew exactly what he was doing and took a calculated risk that she would not figure it out (given the fact that he used material published in the 1960s it seemed like a dead cert to me!). In the other case the student had closely followed the structure of an essay available on-line and had used many of the same sentences. In a meeting it became obvious to the instructor that this student did not realize that the essay really was plagiarized. Both students failed but no further action was pursued for the second student. Gillian Rodger University of Pittsburgh gmrst8+@pitt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 11:56:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Janis Holm (614) 593-2822" Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: <01ISH6Z0NI8Y0028EE@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Plagiarism *is* difficult to pin down, sometimes even for the plagiarist. To help my students think through the relation of their writing to others', I hand out a brief essay that addresses both intentional and unintentional plagiarism, and makes suggestions about how to avoid literary theft altogether. It's available online at . Janis Butler Holm English Dept. Ohio University jholm1@ohiou.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:12:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KATHKNIGHT Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: tone it down til tenure? Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lots of good advice has been given here: work hard, network, be open and accessible, seek mentors and supporters, be clear and honest about your interests and goals, and understand and work the particular system. In my experience and observation, most of those who have had trouble getting or keeping academic positions have not managed to succeed in one or more of these areas. Those who aspire to academic positions presumably are willing to "work within the system;" some individuals seem to think they can ignore or flout the basic standards of an institution and still accrue all the benefits. Doesn't make sense. On our fairly conservative campus, I've never known of anyone failing to get tenure because she was a feminist or a lesbian. In fact, one the most successful women I know presents herself exclusively as a "feminist scholar." This is not to say that there isn't discrimination, or subtle ways of making life hard for those who challenge the system, or the continuing need to work twice as hard to get equal credit. But those realities apply whether you're a feminist or not; all you have to be is a woman (or "different" in some other way)! In any case, it seems to me there's no choice but to be honest, open, hard- working, and aware. Good luck to everyone in this tough job market! Kathleen Preston Humboldt State University, Arcata CA KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:26:48 -0500 Reply-To: plr@uakron.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Peggy L. Richards" Organization: The University of Akron Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Plagiarism can result in expulsion. So, we discuss plagiarism, and the consequences right up front. Unfortunately, I have a real example to share with my classes concerning two students who were dismissed for submitting the same set of lab notes in Chemistry. They had different instructors, but did not realize that one person was grading the papers. They were expelled. It's not just a lit. problem. The next step is to be sure that they follow the rule, "When in doubt, cite." However, in all of my writing classes, I follow building procedures. Reader response papers are used as stepping stones to get to the assignment. If the responses don't exist at various stages, or if the final paper comes in with no development, I just don't accept it. No one has to accuse anyone of anything. If the student can't provide the build-up, then the paper doesn't count. It's amazing how well this works. I have yet to have a student challenge me on this policy. Since I teach in a computer writing center they also are intimidated by knowing that I know how to verify materials that could have come from the Web. (Yes, as Gillian Rodger and others have suggested, Alta Vista is the best tool for this.) When other teachers request that I help them search out a suspected problem, I tell the students about the project. Even though it sounds punitive and threatening, I try to set this up so I am protecting my students from making an error in another class, or in their place of future employment. Since I know they would never plagiarize in my class, :-) I not only want them to understand how important it is for them to do their own work and to give credit to other sources that support their work, but also to see how important honesty is in every field. . . . No matter how much we talk about plagiarism or read about it in class, reader-response is the best protector device I have found. Peggy L. Richards plr@uakron.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:49:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: <199801171437.JAA27526@pike.sover.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Lynne Shea wrote: I found Joan and Lynn's comments to be extremely helpful and want to add just a couple of suggestions to the tread about suspected plagarism. The first suggestion is to ask students to bring along to the meeting notes, outlines, etc. they have collected in the process of writing the paper. I realise that some students compose papers entirely on computers, but in some cases this may help. It may particularly help students that *are* presenting their own work. The second suggestion is that, as a teaching assistant, it is helpful to have a course director present. Joan is correct, these are litigious times. Her suggestions also come from years of experience... something relatively few teaching assistants have. Katherine Side kside@acs.ryerson.ca > Joan Korenman writes: > > > > Two caveats. One, we should all be sure we make it clear in our > >classes what plagiarism IS. Many students truly don't know. It's unfair > >to try to punish someone for something he/she may not even know is wrong. > >Also, as any number of people have pointed out, electronic text and > >especially hypertext are further complicating the concept of plagiarism. > >So it's really important to let students know what you expect from the > >start. > > > > The other caveat: be cautious about your wording in accusing > >someone of plagiarism unless you've got a printed source. We live in > >litigious times (at least, in the US). The last thing you want is to find > >yourself confronted with the student's lawyer accusing you of defamation. > >So proceed gently, at least until the student proves unable to answer your > >questions about the paper. > > > > As someone who works with students with diagnosed learning disabilities > and/or ADHD, I want to support everything Joan suggested. The best result > is one in which the student, having been questioned, admits the process > they used to compose the paper and you go from there. Many students have > little experience with research and documentation. On the other hand, when > the student is lifting entire papers, etc., they know what they are doing; > and often they feel extraordinary pressure and feel they have no other > recourse other than to do so. > They panic. And, for whatever reason, cannot just fail without resorting to > strategies they have used their entire lives. This no longer shocks me. And > it is not, of course, just student with learning differences. > > I think it is extremely helpful to go in with the attitude that this can be > a learning experience (sorry for the cliche) and you can be supportive of > the student, even if they fail the paper or the class. Ethically, I need > to pursue it when I see it but, like shoplifting or drinking underage, > students are not as likely to understand how one action can screw up their > lives and not as likely to see the theft of another's ideas or words in the > same way we do. I am not suggesting we "let them off easy"--consequences > are extremely important. Don't think I am "soft" on plagiarism. Every case > I've been involved in has been difficult. And individual situations will > differ dramatically. I guess that what I am suggesting is that, while it > never would have occurred to me to have plagiarized when I was a student, I > am less moralistic about this than I used to be. > > In either case, the consequences need to be clear. And it is helpful if you > have supportive administrators/deans and a "by the books" process. As a > faculty member, you need to document everything and not bow to pressure, > because, yes, the threat of a lawsuit is very real and makes everyone > uncomfortable. > > Lynne > mgander@sover.net > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 06:46:09 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Kelley Crouse Subject: Re: Intro to WS Projects Comments: To: Stacey Robertson In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT On 22 Dec 97 at 13:39, Stacey Robertson wrote: Hi all, Thought I would use this topic as an excuse to share my encouraging experience with women's studies projects and to thank those of you who made suggestions earlier this semester. I Thanks to the people who offered specific suggestions about how to do peer and self evals. Best, Stacey Robertson Assistant Professor, History Department Director, Women's Studies Program Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309/677-3538 smr@bradley.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:15:05 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: France Winddance Twine Subject: GIRLS STUDIES - IMMIGRANT/LESBIAN (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ****************************** F. Winddance Twine Assistant Professor of Sociology 2834 Ellison Hall University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: 805-893-3118 FAX: 805-893-3324 Please note that I read and respond to email Tuesday-Thursday. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:10:06 -0800 (PST) From: France Winddance Twine To: WMST-L@UMDD.EDU Subject: GIRLS STUDIES - IMMIGRANT/LESBIAN I am trying to identify recent ethnographies, coming of age novels and documentary or mainstream films that address the experiences of girls who are immigran, lesbian/bisexual and or physically challenged for an undergraduate course on gender inequality. I would appreciate any suggestions. I am particularly in need of sources that address the experiences of non-Western girls and girls from a range of religious backgrounds. I will compile a final list and make it available to the entire lists. Please respond privately to twine@sscf.ucsb.edu F. Winddance Twine Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93105 twine@sscf.ucsb.edu ****************************** F. Winddance Twine Assistant Professor of Sociology 2834 Ellison Hall University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: 805-893-3118 FAX: 805-893-3324 Please note that I read and respond to email Tuesday-Thursday. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 11:10:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelley Crouse Subject: Re: GIRLS STUDIES - IMMIGRANT/LESBIAN (fwd) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:15 PM 1/17/98 -0800, you wrote: Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina (novel) Gilligan et al Between Voice and Silence (monograph re the psychological development of girls between 8th and 10th grade, focus on "at risk' teens (poor whites, latina immigrants, African American) also deals with the issue of religion, particularly Catholocism Best, Kelley Crouse Kelley Crouse Department of Sociology & Anthropology Hobart & William Smith Colleges Geneva, New York 14456-3397 315-781-3420 Web: http://www.hws.edu/~Crouse ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 08:33:00 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Miriam Subject: Re: Intro to WS Projects In-Reply-To: <199801181145.GAA05466@syr.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I also want to thank the women's studies list (it is a gold mine) for sharing specific projects and suggestios with me, particularly with respect to clarifying the concept of power (distinguishing it from "prejudice" and "sexist attitudes") and with respect to dealing with the "man bashing" charge. I just had a fantastic experience teaching an intensive women's studies class at the winter term of san jose state. It helped that the students were incredibly diverse--from many places in the world, mostly the middle east and asia, as well as many first and second generation immigrants. it was also an interesting experience for me because the class was half men. the vast majority of the students took the class for GE credits (an ingenious way to expose students to women's studies/feminism!). I combined lecture, discussion (small group/structured), guest speakers, films, individual projects, group projects, in class and out of class writing. The most remarkable gift for me was to see that in these post feminist times women still have an appetite for feminism. It was also exciting to draw connections between welfare/poverty issues and violence against women. I just wanted to share this encouraging experience with you all, it definitely confirmed my passion for this profession. Kathy Miriam kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 11:53:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelley Crouse Subject: Overview of Gilligan's Work In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I've assigned Taylor, Gilligan, and Sullivan's _Between Voice and Silence_ in my introductory WS course. I'm thinking that I should probably assign a short article that assesses the trajectory of Gilligan's work since she first became well known for her work on girls and moral development. Does anyone have any references for an article of this sort? Thanks, Kelley Crouse ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 12:08:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelley Crouse Subject: Re: Overview of Gilligan's Work In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980118115301.007b1640@mailbox.syr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A friend of a friend is looking for accessible material to assign in an interdisciplinary course on gender and reproductive technologies. If you have any suggestions, please mail her at maurer@mailbox.syr.edu Kelley ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 12:16:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kelley Crouse (by way of Kelley Crouse )" Subject: Intro WS exercises Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This was posted to the Teaching Sociology list and I found that it does indeed work quite nicely. Best Kelley Leadership, Gender, and the Invisible Ceiling: An Inductive Exercise Type up two sheets of paper, one headed as follows: MASCULINITY AND FEMINITY Mark each characteristic with an "M" or an "F" depending on whether you think it is generally defined by society as a masculine or feminine characteristic. The second sheet should be headed so: CHARACTERISTICS OF LEADERS Mark an "X" by the 10 characteristics which you think are the essential qualities for a leadership position in a complex organization (business, government, etc) Type with a readable font, but one which is not easily read by someone in a neighboring seat (i.e. use capital letters for the title but do not use an enlarged font). The two sheets should look alike at a glance. Below each heading provide the following list of characteristics, or a similar list of your own construction: _______ achiever _______ aggressive _______ analytical _______ caring _______ confident _______ dynamic _______ deferential (defers to others; yields with courtesy) _______ devious _______ intuitive _______ loving _______ manipulative _______ nurturant _______ organized _______ passive _______ a planner _______ powerful _______ sensitive _______ strong _______ relationship-oriented (makes decisions based on how others will feel) _______ rule oriented (makes decisions based on abstract procedural rules) When you come into class, carry a single stack of papers, with one set of questionnaires at the bottom and the other at the top. As you hand them out, deal off of the top for about half the class, then deal off of the bottom for the rest of the class, being careful everyone in a given row has the same sheet. Ask the students to fill out the form, but point out that they cannot ask questions. They must simply follow the instructions on the sheet. (I usually have them fill out this simple survey a day early so I can bring in tabulated results on the day I want to do the actual discussion.) As you might predict, the list of masculine characteristics is usually highly correlated to the list of preferred leadership qualities. I usually find 14 positive correlations between masculinity and leadership and 3 or 4 negative correlations (3 positive and 14 negative correlations for femininity). This can lead to a lively discussion of the "invisible ceiling" for women, the catch 22 that women encounter when they do assume leadership roles, problems of socialization in our culture, the definitional equations of leadership and "masculinity" in our culture, and discussion of what constitutes effective leadership. Since the data evolved from the class itself, students are much more likely to take the data seriously. I always bring in census bureau data for differences in income levels for men and women with education held constant, and have the class discuss the connection between the results of the exercise. There are many directions one can take with the discussion, but it is always lively -- and I am convinced that EVERYONE understands the notion of the invisible ceiling after this exercise. Better yet, students comprehend it without dismissing me as that weirdo liberal. THEY put the patterns together. It works for me. Keith A. Roberts Dept of Sociology & Anthropology Hanover College Hanover, IN 47243 robertsk@hanover.edu Office Phone: 812/866-7354 Home Phone: 812/866-2449 FAX: 812/866-2164 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 11:44:10 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: feminist presses- Native American women's writing - archives? Comments: cc: seajay@dnai.com, slbkit@aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >I am trying to develop a list of journals and small presses where Native >women's poetry and prose appeared regularly from the late 60s through >the early 80s AND where, that is what archival collections, those >journals, small press archives might be found. >Thanks, >Janet McAdams > >English Dept. >University of Oklahoma >jmcadams@ou.edu One good resource would be the "Feminist Bookstore News" which has been publishing since about 1976. They do plenty of book reviews and have regular columns on titles from feminist as well as independent/small presses and information about journals. Contact Carol Seajay at << Seajay@dnai.com >> Also, "Sources: An Annotated Bibliography of Women's Issues" edited by Rita McMullough (Knowledge, Ideas, Trends, Inc., 1-879198-28-2, 1991, $24.95 pb) contains some inforamtion as well. Contact Sandra Brown at << slbkit@aol.com >> Also, CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Beverly MacFarland, editor and the CALYX Editorial Collective, ISSN: 0147-1627, published quarterly at $9.50 for single issue. This is a quality journal and has published works by many women-including Native American women. You may also want to check back issues of Women's Studies Quarterly Janet Zandy, editor The Feminist Press at CUNY 0732-1562 P $40.00/year 300pp. Also, Here is a list of the titles from member publishers of the Women's Presses Library Project. These are titles published feminist presses. Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel Lee Maracle Women's Press (Canada) 1990 0-88961-148-3 P $12.95 242pp. Fire Power Chrystos Press Gang Publishers "...about seeing my situation as a first Nations two-Spirited Lesbian as fire & power which can help heal our mother." Poetry. 1995 0-88974-047-X P $13.95 128pp. Light in the Crevice Never Seen Haunani-Kay Trask CALYX Books Poetry by an indigenous Hawaiian reflecting on a woman's love for her land and the rage that comes from its destruction. 1994 0-934971-38-2 C $21.95 128pp. 1994 0-934971-37-4 P $11.95 128pp. The Woman Who Owned the Shadows Paula Gunn Allen Aunt Lute Books First novel about an Indian woman, a half-breed who sesks herself through her roots. 1983 1-879960-19-2 C $20.95 225pp. 1983 1-879960-18-4 P $10.95 225pp. Writing as Witness Beth Brant Women's Press (Canada) Words are sacred because they come from a place of mystery and give meaning and existence to life. 1994 0-88961-200-5 P $14.95 120pp. Good luck in your search. 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: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 19:09:56 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Overview of Gilligan's Work In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980118115301.007b1640@mailbox.syr.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Kelley Crouse wrote: > I've assigned Taylor, Gilligan, and Sullivan's _Between Voice and Silence_ > in my introductory WS course. I'm thinking that I should probably assign a > short article that assesses the trajectory of Gilligan's work since she > first became well known for her work on girls and moral development. Does > anyone have any references for an article of this sort? Not an article -- if you find one, let me know! -- Joan Tronto's _Moral Boundaries_? -- a section there? (It's about time I re-read that myself! -- will post if anything turns up.) --------------------------------------- Judy Evans jae2@york.ac.uk Typing, Dragon Dictate's. Opinions mine ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:08:06 GMT Reply-To: cje@tavi.co.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tina Eager Subject: Re: Silver Moon Bookstore ** Reply to note from "Women's Studies List" Thu, 15 Jan 1998 20:17:04 EST > > I believe it closed a year or more ago. Florence Howe (florench@aol.com) > I was still open and selling books on Thursday last week! I saw it. c/o Master's Office, Darwin College, The University, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NY UK ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:10:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeff Finlay Subject: American Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending Jan 18 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS INDEX Week Ending January 18, 1998 Sponsored by the American Studies Association and provided as a free service to the community by the American Studies Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To subscribe to the Opportunities index, or to submit a posting, contact Jeff Finlay, Crossroads Administrator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What follows is only an index. 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Jobs === 778 Women's Studies Director, Colorado College (tenure, Jan 31) Fellowship Opportunities ======================== 752 Chicana Diss Fellowships (2), UC-Santa Barbara (Apr 1) 781 Frederick Douglas Teaching Fellowships, Sum98, West Chester U 769 Research Fellowships/Women, St Hilda's College UK (Feb 13) 742 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship/non-US Scholars (Feb 15) 746 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowships at NYU (due Feb 1) Calls for Papers for Conferences ================================ 824 American Historical Assoc, Washington DC, Jan 7-10, 1999 800 Women's Studies & the Internet, Toronto, March 6 Events, Institutes, Seminars & Special Notices ============================================== 798 Philadelphia Women Artists, 1917-1945, Philadelphia, Jan-Mar 733 Roommate Service for PCA/ACA Natl Conf, Orlando FL, Apr98 736 Women's Desert Writing/Painting Wkshop Tucson AZ Feb 23-Mar 1 New Web Resources (with URLs) ============================= 765 Archive of Sarah Young, American Missionary in China (http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/guides/542/intro.htm) 761 Chicana Feminist Homepage (http://www.stanford.edu/~slg) 796 Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1998 -- Website (http://www.Legacy98.org/) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can search the holdings of the Opportunities archive at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?S1=opportunities ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:21:57 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnne Myers Subject: Re: Women's History Conferences? In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of Fri, 16 Jan 1998 22:48:11 EST Would you be interested in having a very compelling one woman play performed at the conference (cost is very very reasonable) its: Lorena Hickok & Eleanor Roosevelt: A Love Story, by Pat Bond and is currently on tour --it is based on the over 2300 letters from ER to Hick, and on the historty these women lived... the play is just finished playing in NYC ( I brought it to Marist College where it was very well received). If you are interested, the production company is Great Dames, and their e-mail is gr8dames@msn.com ciao, JAM >While not a women's history conference as such, the 25th Anniversary >Conference of the Michigan Women's Studies Association will include >several panels by historians. The program will be interdisciplinary, with a >mix of academics and community professionals. "Women and Health: Local, >National, and Global" is the theme, Dr. Susan Reversby of Wellesley will >be our keynoter, the place is Saginaw Valley State University, and the >date is April 3-4, 1998. > >Proposal deadline was last Saturday. The committee is finalizing the >program and sending proposer letters next week. I'll post additional >conference details here, probably within the next two weeks. In the >meantime, you can e-mail me or call me if you have any questions. Rosalie >Riegle, Professor of English 517-790-4380 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:15:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: millerc@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU Subject: 1998 Undergraduate Women's Conference, Proposals Comments: To: powr-l@uriacc.uri.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII General message to all subscribers, Hi. Apparently, there has been a problem with getting out proposal forms for our annual Undergraduate Women's Conference, here in Oneonta. If you have requested a proposal form, and have not received one, I sincererly apologize. If you would like to submit a proposal to present at our conference, probably the easiest thing to do at this point is to send a 200-word abstract, together with your name, affiliation, address and phone number (including email), and indicating whether your proposal is a paper, creative work, or panel. The deadline is Feb. 2. You may send your proposal by snail mail to Women's Studies Dept., Milne Library, Rm. 315A, State University College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820, or by email to fajaj58@oneonta.edu. You may also send proposals or questions to me (millerc@oneonta.edu), but it will delay slightly your getting attention, because the students are really running the whole thing, and I am just a mere faculty go-between. On a general note, let me say that we have been receiving some very interesting proposal ideas, so I anticipate a very exciting conference. We would love for you to participate in our conference; keep those proposals coming! Remember, the conference is for undergraduate participants, the papers must be about women, but both women and men are invited to send proposals. Again direct any questions to me (millerc@oneonta.edu) or Jahaira (fajaj58@oneonta.edu). Thanks. Cindy Miller ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:26:02 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra L Spencer Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII One way I deal with suspected plagiarism is to ask the student to paraphrase a passage (such as the quotes cited) or to define a peculiar term or word that is not typically in the student's "voice" but yet appears in her essay. With the gazillion sources on the net of ready-made term papers, we teachers are going to have to make even more effort in this regard. Good Luck! Sandra Spencer Dept. of English University of N. Texas ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:39:29 -0400 Reply-To: SMACWHIT@UnbSJ.CA Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan MacCallum-Whitcomb Organization: UNB Saint John Subject: Alicia Ostriker ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I have been having difficulty locating two early maternity poems by Alicia Ostriker which I need for my research. They are: "Once More Out of Darkness" (1970) and "Babyshit Serenade" (date unknown). Does anyone know where I might find them? Thanks in advance... Susan MacCallum-Whitcomb University of New Brunswick smacwhit@unbsj.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:52:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: marjoleine kars Subject: Berks - participants call MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Joan, We talked about my sending this post again, since I last sent it around = Dec. 18, and I fear many people missed it because they had already gone = off on holiday. Would you mind posting it once more, please? Marjoleine Kars History UMBC Call for Participants: Roundtable for 1999 Berkshire Conference Deadline date: January 31, 1998 Contact: Anne F. Scott (ascott2@email.unc.edu) and Marjoleine Kars = (kars@umbc.edu) Marjoleine Kars, Dept. of History, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County = (UMBC), 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 and Anne F. Scott, = Dept. of History, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 would like to put = together a roundtable discussion for the 1999 Berkshire Conference made = up of people who teach or have taught women's history in a variety of = settings and who have used "Three Generations of Women in My Family" as = the assignment for a major research paper. We would like for the = roundtable to discuss what the students learned and what we as teachers = learned from the students' research. If you like the idea and might = want to participate please send a paragraph describing the conditions = under which you taught and why you might like to take part in such a = discusison to us -- a copy to each of us please. If there is someone = out there who had the assignment as a student and is now using it in = teaching we would be especially delighted...but we would like to hear = from anybody who has had experience with this assignment or some = variation of it. We may be reached at the postal addresses above or by = e-mail at: kars@umbc.edu and ascott2@email.unc.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:25:40 -0700 Reply-To: bbixby@azintl.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara R. Bixby" Subject: service learning in graduate programs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A student of mine is researching graduate programs that both have service learning as a requirement, but also teach about service learning as a pedogogical tool. She would be interested in women's studies, education, political science or public administration. Pls respond privately-thanks -- Barbara R. Bixby bbixby@azintl.edu Arizona International Campus (AIC) 9000 South Rita Road, Building 40 Tucson, AZ 85747 (520) 574-6467 http://www.azintl.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:02:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: two calls for papers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following two calls for papers may interest WMST-L readers: 1) World Fiction as Meeting Ground of Cultures (Finland) 2) Sexuality and Gender in 20th Century Europe (U.K.) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Panelists sought for a session entitled "World Fiction as Meeting Ground of Cultures: A Bicultural Approach" at the Second International "Crossroads in Cultural Studies" Conference to be held in Tampere, Finland on June 28-July 1, 1998. Women's fiction throughout the world has increasingly come to require the cognizance and analysis of a culture other than the one in the language it is written. The product of a cross-cultural fertilization, this fiction constitutes a meeting ground of cultures and makes possible a juxtaposition that is at the core of the complex relationship(s) between East and West. To illustrate, Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiographical texts, while adhering to Western rules of confessional writing, and especially women's autobiographical writing, contain simultaneously Chinese elements that require an awareness of the Asian tradition of narration and creativeness, as well as of the history of women's place in Chinese society, in order to be fully comprehended. Thus, such fiction, rather than being "postcolonial," "ethnic," or "multicultural," labels under which it has been categorized so far, that inhere the existence of a putatively hegemonic culture, is in reality "bicultural.'" For, when examined closely, this fiction is seen to reflect a biculturalism which is the amalgam of two cultures that are both hegemonic in their own ways. This panel proposes a "bicultural approach" to study the works of such authors as M.H. Kingston, L. Erdrich, T. Morrison, B. Emecheta, D. Lessing, as well as those A. Djebbar, R. P. Jabwela and Turkish women authors expressing themselves in German such as S. E. Ozdamar. This approach elevates the elements of boith cultures to the same level and confers to the characteristics of the "other" non-Euro-culture, an equal status as those of the Western one. Those interested, please send an abstract of no more than 150 words by January 31, 1998 to Gonul Pultar at the following address: Department of English and American Literature and Language Harvard University Longfellow Institute Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA e-mail: gpultar@fas.harvard.edu **************************************************************************** 2) CALL FOR PAPERS SEXUALITY AND GENDER IN 20TH CENTURY EUROPE 2-3 SEPTEMBER 1998 Since 1945, European politics, economics, society and cultural life has been radically transformed. The growth of feminist theory and the emergence of gay/lesbian studies in the 1960s-70s on the one hand, and the greater interface between the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies in the 1980s-90s on the other, provides scholars with the opportunity to make cross-cultural comparisons on a range of issues relating to sexuality and gender in 20th century Europe. How have these changes, and in particular the collapse of communism in the late 1980s-early 1990s affected sexuality and gender? This conference invites papers on either single countries or of a comparative or thematic nature. Innovative or path-breaking approaches which facilitate a fuller understanding or re-thinking of the past, present and future trends in sexuality and gender in contemporary Europe, East and West, are particulary welcome in ONE of the following areas: Literary,cutural, historical, sociological and political perspectives on gender issues; theorising sexuality and gender; historicising sexuality; gender and nationality; sexual discrimination; sexual minorities; feminism and the women's movement; gender and party politics; youth, sexuality and gender; sexual revolution: fact or fiction?; sexual inequality; sexuality and post-modernism; the construction of sexual identity; sexual and gender differences; sex and violence; sexuality and literature; ethnicity and gender; new sexual identities and values; sexuality and citizenship; sexual identity and politics; erotica and pornography; masculinity and femininity; bi-sexuality. The deadline for the submission of abstracts of up to 500 words is 16 February 1998. Notification of acceptance will be given by the end of March 1998. It is intended to publish a selection of the papers in an edited volume with a major publisher. Abstracts and informal enquiries in the area of history, politics and sociology should be addressed to Dr. Christopher Williams; or on literature and cultural studies to: Dr Petra Bagley, or Dr. Helen Jones, Department of Languages, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE; email:c.williams2@uclan.ac.uk / p.m.bagley@uclan.ac.uk / h.l.jones@uclan.ac.uk; tel: 01772 - 893927 or 893126; fax: 01772 - 892919 or 892909. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:54:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mark Logan and Kathleen O'Grady Subject: Re: GIRLS STUDIES - IMMIGRANT/LESBIAN (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A number of "coming of age" stories and menarche (first menstruation) stories can be found in _Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation_, by K. O'Grady and P. Wansbrough. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1997. Available at http://www.amazon.com . -- Kathleen O'Grady Trinity College, University of Cambridge ko10001@hermes.cam.ac.uk Mailing address: PO Box 31004 25 Frederick Street Kitchener, Ontario N2H 6S7 Canada Fax: (519) 744-1370 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:45:36 +0100 Reply-To: "tvmalafaia@mail.telepac.pt" Sender: Women's Studies List From: Teresa Malafaia Subject: Gender and Citizenship MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am now preparing a MA Seminar on Gender and Citizenship which I' ll teach next September. As it concerns mainly English Culture, I intend to include Mary Wollstonecraft, Annie Besant, and also Henriette Browne. Your suggestions on authors and essays, mainly 19 and 20 centuries, would be very important. Thanks in advance Teresa Malafaia University of Lisbon tvmalafaia@mail.telepac.pt ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:53:45 UTC-2 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "BENNETT, J, Jane" Subject: feminist history websites Hi -- I'm looking for some advice. A historian friend has asked me to give her "internet" lessons, and although I can surf with mediocre competence (!), I'm not a historian, so I'm sure I won't take her to the best possible URLS for historians (her specializations are the history of reproductive rights, esp. in Africa and the Soviet Union, the salience of gender to the movement/choices of men/women during wars (currently working on the Anglo-Boer War), and the need to radicalize historiography through a "gender-focus"). I'd be most grateful for any guidance. Jane Bennett Dr. J. Bennett Programme Officer African Gender Institute University of Cape Town ph: 650-2970 fx: 685-2142 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:50:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnn Castagna Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Several responses to Miriam Harris' request for information on how to detect/confront plagiarism have pointed to "outdated" sources as a sure marker. I hope that in teaching students how to do research, we do not assume that anything printed earlier than five years ago cannot have relevance!! In fact, it seems to me that a paper that did not show evidence of a thorough literature search probably has weaknesses of its own, even if it is not plagiarized. the suggestions that term papers be a term-long project seem more likely to produce fewer plagiarized papers. if you have enough time, it is even useful to schedule one early class period at the library, after the students have all turned in their "topic choices" and you've had a chance to comment on possible sources/directions. asking students to actually spend time looking for sources will quickly indicate who has those skills and who needs training--which can lead to everyone writing her/his own paper instead of succumbing to the temptation to plagiarize. JoAnn Castagna joann-castagna@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:41:28 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "DRA. Pattatucci" Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The world wide web has proved to be a bonanza for students with research paper assignments and I have often wondered what we are assessing when we ask a student to write a paper. Is it their ability to research a topic and synthesize information from a variety of sources into a coherent, original manuscript, or is it to comb the web for papers already written on the subject along with other complementary snippets of information, and cut and paste them together to create an _illusion_ of a coherent, original manuscript? The potential legal ramifications over accusing a student of plagiarism, even if they really did it, cannot be overlooked either. Given the above considerations, I am a strong advocate of supplementing written work with various forms of oral assessment. If a student has actually read material that they have cited in a paper, then they should be able to respond to queries that elaborate on, as well as extend (within reason), the points on which they have chosen to focus in their manuscript. I understand that oral assessment has certain biases, just as does written, and group projects. Furthermore, oral assessment is time-consuming and labor intensive. However, used as a tool, as opposed to the ultimate answer to a problem, oral assessment in my opinion has great value. I have also been amazed to learn that students at the university level often do not have a clear concept of what constitutes plagiarism. The area that seems to cause the most confusion is paraphrasing someone else's material. Dra. Angela Pattatucci Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Rio Piedras a_pattatucci@upr1.upr.clu.edu "De poetas, tontos y locos todos tenemos un poco" ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:30:51 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Bergmann Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Many of us in Rhetoric and Composition studies see this kind of plagiarism as a problem with assigning a paper only as a finished product. In my upper-level literature or communication courses, if I assign a research paper, I always assign it as a process, with some intervention by me or by other students at various stages of the process: Usually I require a written proposal a couple of months before the paper is due, written (and oral, or e-mailed, if the class is small enought) progress reports, a bibliography due weeks before the paper is due, and various kinds of peer and self-evaluations along the way. The whole pile of material has to be re-submitted in a portfolio at the end of the semester, with the final draft of the paper, or I refuse to look at the paper. I don't look very closely at or take much time with the preliminary and supporting materials--unless I suspect plagiarism or floundering--but they do tend to make it such a pain to plagiarize the paper that the students figure they might as well do it themselves. If you assign the kind of paper that can be pulled off the web--that's what you're going to get. And I refuse to spend ANY of my time trying to track down where papers were clipped from. Rebecca Howard has a fairly recent book on plagiarism that is THE book on the topic right now in composition studies. I require students to form r\At 09:56 PM 1/16/98 -0600, you wrote: >I'm really having a problem trying to deal with plagiarism. It's easy to >detect but so hard to prove and resolve. I've spoken with several of my >students one on one. Some used portions of other people's works >integrated into their own -- easy to detect the writing level switch. >Others turned in perfect papers -- flawless, publishable . . . It's very >disturbing to me. > >One student wrote a paper on computers and used resources from 1992-3. I >see this as a dead give-a-way since anything that old is all the more >dated. How do some of you out there deal with this problem. How do you >"prove" their dishonesty. Is it enough to say: I can see . . . it's >obvious? > >I believe this question will generate a discussion interesting to the >list, but if you think your answer is inappropriate for the list, then >please respond in private. >Thank You, > >Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. >Lecturer, Business and Technical Communications >School of Management >UT-Dallas >PO Box 830688 >Richardson, Texas 75083-0688 > >mharris@utdallas.edu >972/883-6822 of. >972/883-6823 fx. > > 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, 20 Jan 1998 12:53:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ellen M. Gil-Gomez" Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980120103051.00964de0@umr.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I just wanted to add something to this topic and that is to encourage students to photocopy/print out relevant pages of their sources so that if questions of plagiarism arise with the sources they have used you have somewhere to go to "prove" it. This of course doesn't help if they have not acknowledged their use of a source but since I assume we're talking about papers/assignments with sources required they will almost always make mistakes--unintentional or intentional--with the sources that they have attempted to document. This saves you from having to scrounge for the source and also of course puts them on alert for the kinds of discussions that have been described. Most students, I've found, DO become frightened at the very mention that you're checking for plagiarism and honestly want to learn how to correct errors or if they've done it purposely confess. It's never a fun task but one I feel that's crucial that all students learn and take responsibility for. *************************** Ellen M. Gil-Gomez Assistant Professor of English Russell Sage College Troy, NY 12180 gilgoe@sage.edu (518) 244 2406 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:21:16 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Huddis Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 98-01-20 09:52:44 EST, you write: << I hope that in teaching students how to do research, we do not assume that anything printed earlier than five years ago cannot have relevance!! In fact, it seems to me that a paper that did not show evidence of a thorough literature search probably has weaknesses of its own, even if it is not plagiarized. >> I am SO glad to see this. I think it is crucial to pay attention to the development of ideas, the accumulation of insights, the intellectual/research/theoretical road forks. I'd love to read a discussion about the uses made (or failed to be made) of early material, the relationships between early and immediate, and the, from my perspective, mistake of conflating current with correct. Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:11:44 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trudy Mercer Subject: Re: feminist history websites Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" One of the things you might do to show your friend how to find things she is interested in is to conduct a web search of organizations she knows of to see if they have a home page. Also just looking at Yahoo's section on women and following the links there is a starter. I don't have any URLs for the areas you mention, though you might check out the National Women's History Project (URL below). Probably the nicest thing you can do for your friend is to get her started on searching the web. You shouldn't expect to come up with the perfect sites on your first search, and neither should she. One of the fun things about searches is to see what is out there. Good luck. Trudy National Women's History Project http://www.nwhp.org/ National Women's History Project >Subject: feminist history websites >Sent: 1/20/98 3:53 PM >Received: 1/20/98 11:24 AM >From: BENNETT, J, Jane, JBENNETT@AGI.UCT.AC.ZA >Reply-To: WMST-L, WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU >To: WMST-L, WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > >Hi -- I'm looking for some advice. A historian friend has asked me to >give her "internet" lessons, and although I can surf with mediocre >competence (!), I'm not a historian, so I'm sure I won't take her to >the best possible URLS for historians (her specializations are the >history of reproductive rights, esp. in Africa and the Soviet >Union, the salience of gender to the movement/choices of men/women >during wars (currently working on the Anglo-Boer War), and the need >to radicalize historiography through a "gender-focus"). I'd be most >grateful for any guidance. >Jane Bennett > >Dr. J. Bennett >Programme Officer >African Gender Institute >University of Cape Town >ph: 650-2970 >fx: 685-2142 > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 16:33:52 -0500 Reply-To: "Austin S. Lin" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Austin S. Lin" Subject: Conference: NOW Young Feminist Northeast Feb.27 - Mar.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Join young feminists of all ages from across the Northeast in Boston, MA, February 27 through March 1 for "The Power of Our Voices," a conference about young women's and girls' rights and futures. Starting Friday night with a young feminist open-mike/cabaret with special guest, National Slam Poetess Patricia Smith, continuing Saturday and Sunday with skillsbuilding workshops developed and facilitated by young feminists, and featuring general sessions with words from women who have gone before us, such as NOW's Patricia Ireland, WNBA player Lynette Woodard, feminist Federal Judge Nancy Gertner, and Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Eileen McNamara, as well as from young activists, this conference promises to be exciting. For more information, contact the Northeast Young Feminist Organizing Committee at (617)232-1017 or massnow@gis.net. More information and printable registration form available at (reproduced below in plain text): http://www.cybercom.net/~hypatia/now/yfsummit.html - Austin S. Lin austin@AL2.com Boston NOW ******************************************************************** _The Power of Our Voices: A Northeast Young Feminist Summit __a conference sponsored by the Northeast Region of the National Organization for Women (NOW) February 27 - March 1, 1998 __Royal Sonesta Hotel/Boston Massachusetts _ _WHAT WERE DOING _Join us young women and men from New York City to Portland, Maine and from small towns in Vermont to sea-side communities in Rhode Island to talk about womens rights, girls and young womens futures. Join in conversations about our diverse experiences, the barriers we face and changes we hope to create. Be part of crafting our agendas for womens and girls rights. Be there. _HOW WERE DOING IT _Starting Friday evening with a cabaret featuring acoustic music, slam poetry, and comedy as well as an open mike, continuing Saturday through Sunday afternoon, the conference will provide forums to speak out and actions to join. It will include workshops about the issues facing us and the skills we need to address them, and sessions where we will hear from young women who are out there making a difference and women who have led the way from NOWs National President Patricia Ireland to WNBA basketball players, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalists and elected officials. _HOW TO GET INVOLVED_ We want you to be there. And we want you to spread the word. Bring a friend. Bring a delegation from your community. If you can get involved in organizing for the Summit, call your local NOW office, Greater Boston NOW at 617/232-1017 or e-mail us at massnow@gis.net. _YES, I want to be part of the Summit! ========================================================================== _Send this form to: Greater Boston NOW, 214 Harvard Ave., Boston, MA 02134. Enclosed please find: Name: _____________________________________ Address: __________________________________ City State Zip: ___________________________ Phone (day/evening): ______________________ e-mail: ___________________________________ ______ $ 25 Conference registration (more if you can, and sliding scale for NOW members) ______ $ 40 Conference registration and 1 year NOW membership I am paying by: check or credit card (circle one) Card number: ______________________________ Exp. date (MM/YY): _____ _For hotel reservations,_ call the Royal Sonesta Hotel/Boston directly at 617/491-3600. Special NOW rates are: $ 108 per room (single, double or quad) for the first fifty rooms to be reserved, $ 115 after that. _This rate is guaranteed to January 30, 1998. _For affordable housing options, call Greater Boston NOW at 617/232-1017 or e-mail at massnow@gis.net. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:57:47 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Toth Subject: Women & Adventure Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" WOMEN & ADVENTURE For a possible course on Women & Adventure, I'm seeking book recommendations. I'd like biographies, autobiographies, maybe a little fiction, about women who do or did extraordinary things. Not only the obvious adventures (trekking, aviation), but also things that have required stepping into unknown fields: the first women primatologists; Victorian women globe trotteresses (I know there's a book with that name); the first female Pope (Joan), and other such pioneers, pathfinders, and tough cookies. If anyone knows of books about women trapeze artists, sword swallowers, pirates, and other unconventionalities, those are very welcome. Thanks, and please reply privately. I'll post my gleanings to the list. Emily Toth Professor of English & Women's Studies Allen Hall Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 e-mail: etoth@UNIX1.sncc.LSU.edu office phone: 504-388-3152 English Dept. fax: 504-388-4129 THE BOOK TO BUY: MS. MENTOR'S IMPECCABLE ADVICE FOR WOMEN IN ACADEMIA by Emily Toth. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1-800-445-9880. View it on this Web site: http://www.higheredjobs.com/test2/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:02:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: feminist history websites MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > Hi -- I'm looking for some advice. A historian friend has asked me to > give her "internet" lessons, and although I can surf with mediocre > competence (!), I'm not a historian, so I'm sure I won't take her to > the best possible URLS for historians (her specializations are the > history of reproductive rights, esp. in Africa and the Soviet > Union, the salience of gender to the movement/choices of men/women > during wars (currently working on the Anglo-Boer War), and the need > to radicalize historiography through a "gender-focus"). I'd be most > grateful for any guidance. I have two recommendations. One is the "Arts & Humanities" sub-section of my "Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites." It includes a special section on Women's History links. The URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/links_arts.html . The other recommendation is the History section of WSSLINKS from the Association of College and Research Libraries. It too has an excellent and even more extensive collection of women's history links. The specialist librarian responsible for this section is Rachel Cassel Murphree. The URL is http://www.utep.edu/library/acrlwss/history.html . Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:19:35 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: sasha Subject: Re: Women & Adventure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Emily, "Women's Circus: Leaping Off the Edge" by Donna Jackson makes my heart pound :) It's published by Spinifex Press in Australia. Best, Sasha McInnes sasha@worldchat.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:25:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelley Crouse Subject: Re: feminist history websites In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, NPR's Tech nation featured the founder of Alexa, a free downloadable sear= ch tool that organizes information on the web according to what you, the use= r, are looking for and apparently it does so by bringing you to the sites th= at already have a well traveled path to their virtual door. That is, the software can tell you whether lots of other folks think enough of this si= te that they link it to their site. In my experience surfing the net, this = is a fairly reliable indicator of whether or not a site is up-to-date and reliable. =20 You can get the software at http://www.alexa.com. Also, I just finished putting together the Feminist Foremothers links pag= e and these are some of the sites that I found that would at least be good starting points. Women=92s History Archives http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/women.html A collection of links to helpful resources, including an essay entitled "Neither Goddesses Nor Doormats: The Role of Women in Nubia," a bibliography on women in Byzantium, a bibliography of African-American women in the scien= ces, the WPA Life Histories page, and a list of women's studies Web pages and gophers. Women in World History http://home.earthlink.net/~womenwhist/=20 http://www.essence.com/ (HERsphere, a resource for women of color) http://www.uic.edu/~vjpitch/ (Womanist Studies) http://www.lawrence.edu/~bradleyc/war.html (Women of Africa) http://www.blackgirl.org/ (Excellent site with lots of great links and contemporary information) Kelley ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:23:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Saad, Shahnaz" Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected When I assign research papers, I tend to also assign in-class presentations of the research topic. Not only does this eliminate plagiarism, but it also gives students the opportunity to learn about each others' research topics. S. Chris Saad, PhD ssaad@wcupa.edu ------------ Given the above considerations, I am a strong advocate of supplementing written work with various forms of oral assessment. If a student has actually read material that they have cited in a paper, then they should be able to respond to queries that elaborate on, as well as extend (within reason), the points on which they have chosen to focus in their manuscript. I understand that oral assessment has certain biases, just as does written, and group projects. Furthermore, oral assessment is time-consuming and labor intensive. However, used as a tool, as opposed to the ultimate answer to a problem, oral assessment in my opinion has great value. Dra. Angela Pattatucci Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Rio Piedras a_pattatucci@upr1.upr.clu.edu "De poetas, tontos y locos todos tenemos un poco" ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:39:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Conference: NOW Young Feminist Northeast Feb.27 - Mar.1 Comments: To: "Austin S. Lin" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII We (linguistic feminists) no longer feminize words denoting occupations open to both sexes. "Poetess" is now "poet" for women and for men. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 19:57:55 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah E. Ryan" Subject: Women's Studies Summer Program in Italy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Department of Women's Studies, in conjunction with the Office of International Studies, is conducting its first annual summer study abroad program in Italy. The program will be housed in Gubbio, a small Umbrian town conveniently located in the green heart of Italy about halfway between Florence and Rome. Consequently, students can observe and share in everyday life away from the crowded big cities. Yet at the same time, they are given the opportunity to visit Rome, Florence, Perugia, Orvieto, Urbino and other nearby historic Italian cities. The dates for the program are June 2, 1998 - June 30, 1998. Deadline for applications is March 1, 1998. The cost of the program is $3,850.00 which includes tuition and fees, international airfare from NYC, health insurance, hotels, breakfast and supper daily, and in country travel. Non-covered costs will include domestic airfare from the student's departure city in the US to and from New York City, lunches and miscellaneous personal expenses. Courses to be offered are WMST 3102/ Changing Realities of Women's Lives/ 3 Hours and WMST 3050/ Topics in Women's Studies: Gender, Culture and Public Space/ 3 Hours. Independent Study is available with approval of the Women's Studies Coordinator and the Program Director. Graduate credit may also be available through enrollment in WMST 6800/ Directed Reading/ Research in Women's Studies with prior approval. The program will be managed by R.G. Brown, Director of Educational Travel Abroad, Inc. Professor Brown has run programs in Gubbio for the last 20 years. The Program Director will be Deborah Ryan, Associate Professor of Architecture and Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies who has led numerous student field trips to various cities on the east coast of the United States and throughout Europe for the past 12 years. She has taught Women's Studies Courses at UNC Charlotte for the past four years and architecture courses for the past thirteen. As a landscape architect, she has extensive training in studying public space. Consequently, this program allows her to combine her expertise in both women's studies and the built environment. For further information, contact: Deborah Ryan Associate Professor of Architecture Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies College of Architecture University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina 28223 704.547.4027 deryan@vnet.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 21:28:18 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected Comments: To: JoAnn Castagna In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19980120084517.2e77f2ec@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Point of clarification: I did not mean to imply that students use sources limited to the last five years. Not at all. What I meant, and thought I said, was that this particular student had written on a subject dealing with computers and limited the discussion to events and articles which took place and were published in 1992-93. When confronted with this, the student argued that these were the significant years and that he had studied the period in another class in underg\rad school in India. All of his sources were from our Univ. library and he brought them in to me today. The issue at heart is this: when researching any topic, we must look back to the source but we must also see what's going on today. If we are doing literary criticism on say Alice Walker's THE COLOR PURPLE, we would look at the work when it was first published and the ways in which it impacted women/race/class as themes in say American or Southern literature. But a thorough research paper would also see it today, 20 years or so later, in current context. I explained to him that in this case that his works cited page was a red flag to me. As an update, I was convinced by looking at each article cited, which he brought me today and I thoroughly examined along with his paper, that he did a good job of writing and of organizing his research. In fact, he did a much better job than I could have predicted from his earlier assignments. That was the first red flag. At this point, I have no further way of determining if he in fact wrote this paper. He seemed knowledgable about his subject. \He said it never occured to him to look for more recent sources. For me, it is time to issue a grade and move on to this semester. I've learned a lot about how to prevent -- or try to prevent -- such incidents but we can only move on, plan as best we can, and continue to learn from such painful experiences. Thanks to all of you for your input. I've printed your suggestions out and intend to use them when I create a new syllabus next fall. I intend to have a very explicit policy--in writing!-- in place by then. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. Lecturer, Business and Technical Communications School of Management UT-Dallas PO Box 830688 Richardson, Texas 75083-0688 mharris@utdallas.edu 972/883-6822 of. 972/883-6823 fx. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 07:16:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl van Daalen-Smith Subject: feminist critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Has anyone ever run across a feminist critique of this 'hierarchy' which came out of the humanistic or "human potential" movement in psychology. I wonder that if people (women for example) are not permitted to truely self define, i.e. that roles, behaviours, and sexuality are prescribed, ... then can oppressed/marginalized people ever truely self actualize?... and reach their human potential. My understanding is that Maslow studied male friends and male public figures in order to come up with this hierarchy of needs. My thesis is a feminist analysis of self esteem as it is applied to women. So, I hope that one of my sisters can help me to find a feminist critique of Maslow's hierarchy. If you have any leads, could you please respond to me privately. In sisterhood. Cheryl. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ There are no personal solutions to social problems - only adjustments, accommodations, temporary loopholes- and pain. Nothing a woman can do for herself alone will solve her basic problem of being female in a society rigged against her.........The National Organization for Women (1975). *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Cheryl van Daalen-Smith, RN., BScN., MA(Can) cvandaalensmith@oise.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:56:08 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Women & Adventure Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =46rom the Women's Presses Library Project: Making Ourselves at Home: Women Builders and Designers Janice Goldfrank Papier-Mache Press 1995 0-918949-26-2 P $20.00 300pp. Memories: My Life as an International Leader in Health, Suffrage and Peace Aletta H. Jacobs The Feminist Press at CUNY 1996 1-55861-137-1 C $45.00 272pp. 1996 1-55861-138-X P $18.95 272pp. 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. Sisters of the Wind: Voices of Early Women Aviators Elizabeth S. Bell Trilogy Books 1994 0-9623879-4-0 P $14.95 206pp. Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side Bella Spiwack The Feminist Press at CUNY Memoir of Bella Spewack, Jewish immigrant and author of serveral films and plays, including Kiss Me, Kate. 1995 1-55861-115-0 C $19.95 180pp. 1995 1-55861-153-3 P $10.95 180pp. Uppity Women of Ancient Times Vicki Le=F3n Conari Press Short 2-3 page pieces on numbers of important women including queens, pirates, mathmeticians, politicians and others from Babylon, Mesopotamia, Greece, Asia Minor, North Africa and other major locales. 1995 1-57324-010-9 P $12.95 256pp. Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era Autumn Stephens Conari Press Short 2-3 page pieces on dozens of women both known and unknown pursuing many different kinds of adventures. 1992 0-943233-36-4 P $12.95 250pp. Women's Circus: Leaping Off the Edge Ev Beissbarth and Jo Turner, editors Spinifex Press 1997 1-875559-55-8 P $27.95 285pp. Established in 1991 as a community theatre project to work with survivors of sexual assault, the Women's Circus toured Beijing in 1995. Jugglers, acrobats, tricksters, aerialists, technicians, administrators, musicians, designers and trainers tell their story. Lots of pictures. Zelda Zelda D'Aprano Spinifex Press Autobiography of a working-class woman at forefront of the Women's Liberation Movement in Australia. 1995 1-875559-30-2 P $14.95 415pp. These titles should be available at your local feminist or independent bookstore. Please let me know if you have difficulty locating them. Mev > WOMEN & ADVENTURE > For a possible course on Women & Adventure, I'm seeking book >recommendations. I'd like biographies, autobiographies, maybe a little >fiction, about women who do or did extraordinary things. Not only the >obvious adventures (trekking, aviation), but also things that have required >stepping into unknown fields: the first women primatologists; Victorian >women globe trotteresses (I know there's a book with that name); the first >female Pope (Joan), and other such pioneers, pathfinders, and tough cookies= ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 09:21:05 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shelley Reid Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980120103051.00964de0@umr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It is amazing how many smart students have no clear concept of what plagiarism is. In my writing class, I often do a 30 minute workshop in which I have pairs of students deliberately perform several kinds of plagiarism (uncited quotation, lazy paraphrase, unacknowledged summary) and then fix what they've done. I don't have time, usually, to do this in my other classes, unfortunately. In *all* my classes, though, when I assign a paper involving outside research, I require students to submit photocopies or print-outs of the sources they used during research (in the case of monographs, copies of 5-6 pages most used will suffice). When a sentence or two do catch my eye as being out-of-voice, I can take a quick look and see where the language might be coming from. This doesn't help with people who set out deliberately to cheat, but it's a great tool for helping catch the "didn't knows" at an early stage. Incredible, how many students will happily turn in the photocopies of the pages from which they've lifted entire paragraphs....sigh. shelley sreid@austinc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:19:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: Women & Adventure Caryl Churchill's play "Top Girls" would seem to be a natural for a course on women and adventure. She features all sorts of adventurous women, including Pope Jone. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:22:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GILLIAN RODGER Subject: Re: Women & Adventure MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT One note of caution about the book *Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons . . .* by Autumn Stephens. It may be perfectly accurate with details of "known" women's lives, but it is unsatisfyingly incomplete and sometimes inaccurate when it comes to lesser known figures. It may be ok as a starting point but its not good for much beyond that. I don't know if Julie Wheelwright's book *Amazons and Military Maids* is still in print. It includes stories of various women who have gone to war in the past and also includes detailed notes and a selected bibliography of other sources students can go to. I bought my copy in Australia several years ago and it was published by Pandora Press in 1989. Gillian Rodger University of Pittsburgh gmrst8+@pitt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:41:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HScott/PAronoff Subject: Re: Feminist Bookstores In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19971212130813.35c74fa0@metron.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I just tried to check this site, and found that the URL seem to be outdated. Go to: http://www.dnai.com/~seajay/fbn/ Well worth the visit. Howard At 01:08 PM 12/12/1997 -0800, you wrote: >We publish a catalog that lists the names, addresses (email and URL) and >phone numbers of all the feminist bookstores in the U.S. and Canada -- and >includes many titles from feminist presses -- which is available at no >charge at your local feminist bookstore. It is also on the web at >http:\\www.FemBookNet.com. > > >Lisa McGowan >Feminist Bookstore News >P.O. Box 882554 >San Francisco, CA 94188 >tel: (415) 642-9994 >fax (415) 642-9995 >email: Lisa@FemBkNews.com > > Scott & Aronoff Translation & Editorial Services Montreal, Quebec, Canada mailto:alterego@alterego.montreal.qc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 09:12:38 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Madelyn Detloff Subject: Re: feminist critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Please reply to the list with this information. I'd like to see this too. Madelyn Detloff Writing Program Women's Studies Program University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 detloff@humanitas.ucsb.edu http://www.rain.org/~detloff/chloe.html "Thinking is my fighting." -- Virginia Woolf ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 12:33:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Davidson Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tone it down 'til tenure dear joann... Yes, it would be a good roundtable discussion...I for one would be very interested in such a topic...mary davidson Columbia greene community college.. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:34:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BETTY POWELL Organization: Mars Hill College Subject: GOTHIC AND ATWOOD Colleagues, I'm looking for sources that deal with gothic elements in Margaret Atwood's canon. Any suggestions? Betty J. Powell Mars Hill College bpowell@mhc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:24:16 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michael Sarazin Subject: Re: GOTHIC AND ATWOOD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Betty, Sybil Korff's "The Mirror and the Cameo: Atwood's _Lady Oracle_," in J. Fleanor's _The Female Gothic_ is excellent. I believe the publication date is in the mid-'80s. Sorry I don't have a more complete reference for you--am at home right now. Andrea Austin msarazin@netinc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:30:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I just wanted to put in my own one-cent's worth about students' use of the www for research papers. I have found that, in addition to the markers noted by others, plagiarized papers often fall just a tiny bit "outside of" the course requirements. Of course, some students may do the work of tailoring a plagiarized paper to fit reqs, but my experience has been that this does not often happen. Another problem I've been having is with students' uses of web pages as _sources_ for info. Although they seem to have a great grasp of doing web searches, they often are not as adept at evaluating the materials they find there. This is especially a problem in my media classes, in which we learn about social issues and the media. I find that I am teaching them about reading evaluatively, about determining whether they agree with the source or not. I know they do this in their composition courses, with regard to non-electronic sources. I wonder why they seem to be "seeing" electronic sources differently? If anyone has suggestions/feedback on this, I'd find it helpful. Thanks, Jeannie __________________________________________________________________________ . . . Thus wrote ) Jeannie Ludlow ( "Lord, you know me, a woman, partly brave / ) jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu ( I'm liable to say and partly good, ) Women's Studies ( anything; so if who fought with what / ) Popular Culture ( I've offended she partly understood ) Bowling Green SU ( anybody, well hence she was labelled / ) Bowling Green OH 43403 ( . . . tough." harpy, shrew and whore ) ( --Dolly Parton --Adrienne Rich ) ( ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:32:37 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Zahniser Subject: plagiarism MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There's a brief but excellent discussion of how to avoid plagiarism in the composition text The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing, ch.23 "Using and Citing Sources." In particular, I've found one exercise helpful; it provides an example of a quote from a published article, then offers examples of a plagiarized version of the information versus an acceptable paraphrase. Many students I have encountered are clearly confused about what constitutes plagiarism. All that copying from encyclopedias in the earlier grades, I guess. Jill Zahniser ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:53:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Overview of Gilligan's Work In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980118115301.007b1640@mailbox.syr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For a critique of Gilligan's work that discusses shifting the focus to the politics of care, there was an article by Joan Tronto a few years ago in Signs or Feminist Studies. Signs also had a collection of essays critiquing Gilligan's approach to moral development soon after publication of 'Different Voice.' beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:57:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Gender and Citizenship In-Reply-To: <01BD25A7.019A56A0.tvmalafaia@mail.telepac.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For the MA seminar on Gender and Citizenship you might include the correspondence of bearers of English culture in the US: Abigail Adams's letter to husband John while he was away working out the system of citizenship for the US. She asked for women's participation in citizenship and he sent a smirking reply. Also, see biographies of Frances Wright, militant activist, in that era. You might also consider an English counterpart to the observation of Susie Tharu in India that 'citizen' there is coded as male, Hindu, Brahmin and middle class. The counterpart in England and the US, I think, would be that 'citizen' is coded as male, Christian, white and middle class. The coding is particularly evident in English colonial history and today in its immigration laws. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:25:05 -0500 Reply-To: "Leah C. Ulansey" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Leah C. Ulansey" Subject: Re: feminist critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Cheryl van Daalen-Smith wrote: > Has anyone ever run across a feminist critique of this 'hierarchy' > which came out of the humanistic or "human potential" movement in > psychology. I wonder that if people (women for example) are not permitted > to truely self define, i.e. that roles, behaviours, and sexuality are > prescribed, ... then can oppressed/marginalized people ever truely self > actualize?... and reach their human potential... My thesis is a > feminist analysis of self esteem as it is applied to women. Hi Cheryl. I can point you to one tiny reference to Maslow and two general feminist critiques of the "Human Potential Movement." Also, would you like me to forward your request to a list for psychotherapists? Might be interesting to hear their responses...I'm also interested to see the other responses you get on this list. 1. The tiny reference is in Mary Daly, *Beyond God the Father.* Daly refers to the traits of Maslow's "self-actualizing person" and argues that the patriarchal church tends to punish women for manifesting these traits. Daly continues a feminist critique of the "human potential" movement in her next book, *Gynecology*, but I don't remember any specific references to Maslow. 2. Miriam Greenspan, in *A New Approach to Women and Therapy,* has a section called "Growth is Not Enough: The Failure of Humanist Therapy" (again, no specific references to Maslow, but might be useful background) 3. Barbara Ehrenreich has a section on the "Human Potential Movement" in *For Her Own Good: 150 Years of Expert's Advice to Women* (again, background, but nothing specific about Maslow). Hope this is helpful-- Leah Ulansey leou@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Dept. of Lang. and Lit. Maryland Inst. College of Art 1300 Mout Royal Ave. Baltimore, MD 21217 > > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > There are no personal solutions to social problems - only adjustments, > accommodations, temporary loopholes- and pain. Nothing a woman can > do for herself alone will solve her basic problem of being female in a > society rigged against her.........The National Organization for Women (1975). > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > Cheryl van Daalen-Smith, RN., BScN., MA(Can) > cvandaalensmith@oise.utoronto.ca > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:03:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Darrah Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, jeannie ludlow wrote: > Another problem I've been having is with students' uses of web pages as > _sources_ for info. Although they seem to have a great grasp of doing web > searches, they often are not as adept at evaluating the materials they > find there. This is especially a problem in my media classes, in which we > learn about social issues and the media. I find that I am teaching them > about reading evaluatively, about determining whether they agree with the > source or not. I know they do this in their composition courses, with > regard to non-electronic sources. I wonder why they seem to be "seeing" > electronic sources differently? Jeannie, You're making a good point here. I think what's important is that those who teach Comp realize that they *do* have a responsibility to make sure their students know how to use critical analysis to evaluate web sources. In many (more traditional) departments, there is resistence to this idea -- a kind of throwing up of the hands at the quanity that's "out there." One idea, then, might be to discuss this with English dept. colleagues, especially those who teach research techniques. If students learn, in Comp courses, how to evaluate (and use) both print and non-print sources (and there are plenty of us who do teach both), then the issue of students "seeing" electronic sources differently is no longer so overwhelming. Best, Susan Darrah ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:40:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: millerc@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU Subject: Undergraduate Women's Conference Comments: To: POWR-L@URIACC.URI.EDU MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Listmembers, At the request of several posters, I am re-posting the CFP for our 5th Annual Women's Undergraduate Conference. CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, CREATIVE WORKS 5TH ANNUAL WOMEN'S UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT ONEONTA MARCH 27-29, 1998 "WOMEN: CROSSING BOUNDARIES/CROSSING IDENTITIES" While the conference is open to all students, the subject of all proposed work must analyze, represent, or inform some aspects of women's lives. Please send proposals (200-word summary, together with name, affiliation, address, phone, email, and type of work - paper, panel, workshop, creative work) to: by email: fajaj58@oneonta.edu by snail mail: Women's Studies Department Milne Library, Rm. 315A State University College at Oneonta Oneonta, NY 13820 Deadline for submissions: February 2, 1998 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:30:30 -0500 Reply-To: sandyl@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Lorean Organization: University of Florida Subject: Re: Gender and Citizenship MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am in a Feminist Theory seminar right now, being taught by a Political Science professor. She has us reading Carole Pateman "The Disorder of Women" (1989) which is a critique of John Locke (our constitution is based on his writing.) Pateman makes a strong arguement on how Locke's conceptualizations of citizenship in civil society are very much coded as white, male, and property owning. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 07:06:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Web analyis ( was plagiarism thread) In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit >On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, jeannie ludlow wrote: > >> Another problem I've been having is with students' uses of web pages as >> _sources_ for info. > > Susan Darrah replied: >You're making a good point here. I think what's important is that >those who teach Comp realize that they *do* have a responsibility >to make sure their students know how to use critical analysis >to evaluate web sources. Hi all, I teach a website analysis essay to my technical/business writing students to familiarize them with web sources. Students learn to do an effective focused search ( which is very difficult) for a site, then take time to analyze all the information on the website: content, ease of use, aesthetics, etc. This gives students the time to be critical, instead of just cruising through a site--I also make sure ask them to figure out whether the website is easy to navigate and offers complete information. Many students did become very critical of sites that offered a lot, but delivered only a minimum of information. The most difficult thing, I found, was getting them to be critical of the visual/audio design. It's too exciting to see all the pictures and play the various sound clips, except when it's very slow to download. Then they got frustrated! But frustration does make them more critical. This assignment was facilitated by my access to a computer classroom. I could use class time to work with the individual students and answer their questions as they searched and analyzed sites. We started together by analyzing the National Gallery of Art site--which they really liked. It helped them to see a good site and compare. Best, Amy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. awink@sfasu.edu Department of English and Philosophy PO Bx 13007, SFA Station Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas 75962-3007 (409)468-2007 "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, 22 Jan 1998 09:00:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nita McKinley Organization: Bates College, Lewiston, ME Subject: Evaluating Web Sources MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit jeannie ludlow wrote: > Another problem I've been having is with students' uses of web pages as > _sources_ for info. Although they seem to have a great grasp of doing web > searches, they often are not as adept at evaluating the materials they > find there. This is especially a problem in my media classes, in which we > learn about social issues and the media. On the first day of class I assign students to visit the Ithaca College Library's online guide to evaluating web sources. It gives useful information for evaluating ANY source, but particularly web sources. I have the students write down what they find out and turn it in to make sure they did this. Here is the website: http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html -- ************************************************************* Nita Mary McKinley, Ph.D. Department of Psychology (207) 786-8312 Bates College nmckinle@bates.edu Lewiston, ME 04240 http://www.bates.edu/~nmckinle/index.html ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:46:44 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: millerc@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU Subject: Women's Undergraduate Conference, State University College at Oneonta Comments: To: POWR-L@URIACC.URI.EDU MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Folks, Sorry to be flooding the airwaves with yet more information, but I wanted everyone to know that the deadline for submission of proposals for the 5th Annual Undergraduate Women's Conference, at the State University College at Oneonta, has been extended from Feb. 2 to Feb. 17. The conference will be held Mar. 27-29. To submit a proposal, please write a 200 word abstract of the proposed presentation, together with name, affiliation, address, phone, email, and type of work (paper, panel, workshop, creative work) to: email: fajaj58@oneonta.edu snail mail: Women's Studies Dept. Milne 315A State University College at Oneonta Oneonta, NY 13820 One word of caution: Some proposals that have arrived via email have been attachments, that students are having difficulty opening. If it is not too inconvenient for you, snail mail is preferable for us at this point. Thank you, Cindy Miller Faculty Advisor ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:24:17 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Baldez Subject: US and ratification of CEDAW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Does anyone know of any research that has been done or is being done on the US's failure to ratify the United Nations' Convention to End All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)? Lisa Baldez Assistant Professor of Political Science Campus Box 1063 Phone: 314-935-4724 Washington University fax: 314-935-5856 One Brookings Drive email: labaldez@artsci.wustl.edu St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 http://ascc.artsci.wustl.edu/~polisci/baldez/ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:03:20 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "DRA. Pattatucci" Subject: Open & Accepting Rearing Environments MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Given current social and cultural considerations, I believe that it is impossible to raise children in a *truly* gender neutral environment. The most popularly cited compromise (that I know of at least) was a method employed by Sandra and Daryl Bem in raising their children. They attempted to create a rearing environment that both educated their children about sex and was open to exploration and experimentation with different forms/avenues of gender expression. Although the environment wasn't neutral, these parents attempted to be neutral with respect to communicating judgmental attitudes and/or preference for any particular form of gender expression chosen. Sandra Bem has publicly stated that the rearing environment was far from perfect, but theirs was nonetheless a remarkable journey and achievement. I am editing a book focusing on real life experiences in gender deconstruction and would be very interested in hearing from parents who have made *sustained* attempts at creating open and accepting rearing environments with respect to gender expression either similar to that of Sandra and Daryl Bem or of some other unique formulation, and would like to write about it. The endeavor can in progress or completed (in the sense that the children are grown and have left home). I qualify this with the word "sustained", because large numbers of parents start out with this goal, but for a majority it tends to fragment rather quickly due to a variety of reasons. I will also review proposals (they need not be formal) focusing on other areas of interest within the broad framework gender deconstruction in real life situations or applied gender theory, including historical and cross-cultural perspectives. Undergraduate and graduate student participation is welcome. Dra. Angela Pattatucci Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Rio Piedras a_pattatucci@upr1.upr.clu.edu "De poetas, tontos y locos todos tenemos un poco" ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:52:53 -0500 Reply-To: Cynthia Deitch Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Deitch Subject: grad programs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII There have been a number of posts in recent months inquiring about graduate programs in Women's Studies. For interested students and faculty advisors, the Women's Studies Program at the George Washington University is currently encouraging applications for Fall, 1998 for: * The M.A. degree program in Women's Studies (with a liberal arts concentration) * The M.A. degree program in Women's Studies and Public Policy * The Ph.D in Public Policy with a concentration in Gender and Social Policy The University deadline for applications for financial aid (TA ships and fellowships) is Feb. 1. The deadline for other Fall, 1998 applications is April 1st. For application materials or more information, please contact: Women's Studies Program The George Washington University Funger Hall, 506-I Washington, DC 20052 202-994-6942 202-994-7249 (fax) wstu@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (email) www.gwu.edu/~wstu (web site) www.gwu.edu/~csas/adminfo.html (online application materials) Also feel free to contact me directly. Cynthia Deitch Women's Studies Program George Washington University deitch@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:01:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: cynthia burack Subject: Re: US and ratification of CEDAW In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980122082417.0074fdec@artsci.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:24 AM 1/22/98 -0600, you wrote: >Does anyone know of any research that has been done or is being done on the >US's failure to ratify the United Nations' Convention to End All Forms of >Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)? Diana Zoelle (Political Science, Bloomsburg University, PA) is currently doing work on this subject. Cynthia Burack Department of Political Science, Cntr for Women's Studies & Gender Research 3324 Turlington Hall University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611-7325 cburack@polisci.ufl.edu phone: 352-846-2835 fax: 352-392-4873 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:16:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty J Haslett Subject: Re: Women and Work Conference In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII There is an international conference on women and work being held in July, 1998 in Australia. I have misplaced my conference information, and would greatly appreciate an address or contact person for the conference. If anyone can provide this, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks very much, Beth Bonniwell Haslett ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:28:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: Books for Courses Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This is a request for information. I do not want to swamp the list with replies, so please reply privately. I have three anthologies in press or about to be in press and would like some information about courses they might be used in. The publisher (Haworth) has requested a list of "10-25 teachers who currently teach graduate symposiums or advanced courses relating directly to the topic" of the books. If you teach such a course, I would appreciate hearing from you. I will give a brief description of each book and what information I would need from you. Again, reply privately! #1) Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Communities (In Press, due out June 1998) -- Focuses on the issues of appearance, weight and self-image among lbgt people and their communities. Includes 65 contributors from variety of backgrounds writing in different forms including: personal narrative, qualitative research, theoretical articles, poetry and journalistic articles. #2) Lesbian Sex Scandals: Sexual Practices, Identities and Politics (soon to be in press, due out Fall 1999) -- Focuses on the controversies around sexual practices that define or limit the definition of lesbian and community among lesbians. Introduction and 12 articles. #3) Gay Men Talking Sex: Sexual Practices, Identities and Politics (working title, in preparation) -- Focuses on the sexual practices that define or limit the definition of gay and bisexual men and their communities. If you teach a class in which you might use one or more of these books and would like to be contacted by the publisher, please provide the following information: Your name Affiliation and title Address Phone Email Course(s) title and description Which books -- 1, 2, and/or 3 Thanks, Dawn Atkins Dawn Atkins dawn-atkins@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:44:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: flat5 Subject: women's writing festival Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A student in my Wm's Lit class is looking for information about a women's writing festival he believes is called "women write" or "woman writes." It is supposed to move throughout the Southeast year by year and may take place in parks rather than the standard university or auditorium setting. He works in a bookstore, and I think he and his manager are trying to collect info on regional festivals. I've search all over the Net and various other sources but have come up with a blank. Have any of you heard of such a festival?? Anne Kress Santa Fe Community College flat5@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:56:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jgentzler@AMHERST.EDU Subject: Re: feminist critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII While none of these works discusses Maslow's theory in particular, I think that all three provide conceptions of human nature that could provide the basis for a feminist critique of Maslow. Joan Tronto, _Moral Boundaries_, part III. Paulo Friere, _Pedagogy of the Oppressed__ chs. 1 and 2. Martha Nussbaum, "Human Capabilities, Female Human Beings" in Nussbaum and Glover (eds) _ Women, Culture, and Development_. <<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>> Jyl Gentzler jgentzler@amherst.edu Department of Philosophy (413) 542-5806 Box 2253 Fax: (413) 542-5837 Amherst College Amherst, MA 01002-5000 <<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Cheryl van Daalen-Smith wrote: > Has anyone ever run across a feminist critique of this 'hierarchy' > which came out of the humanistic or "human potential" movement in > psychology. I wonder that if people (women for example) are not permitted > to truely self define, i.e. that roles, behaviours, and sexuality are > prescribed, ... then can oppressed/marginalized people ever truely self > actualize?... and reach their human potential. My understanding is that > Maslow studied male friends and male public figures in order to come up > with this hierarchy of needs. My thesis is a feminist analysis of self > esteem as it is applied to women. > So, I hope that one of my sisters can help me to find a feminist critique > of Maslow's hierarchy. If you have any leads, could you please respond to > me privately. > In sisterhood. Cheryl. > > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > There are no personal solutions to social problems - only adjustments, > accommodations, temporary loopholes- and pain. Nothing a woman can > do for herself alone will solve her basic problem of being female in a > society rigged against her.........The National Organization for Women (1975). > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > Cheryl van Daalen-Smith, RN., BScN., MA(Can) > cvandaalensmith@oise.utoronto.ca > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:04:26 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Glorandbil Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: feminist critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit If I remember correctly, Maslow did include some women in his category of self-actualization. I remember that he included Eleanor Roosevelt and his (Maslow's) mother. Most of the people he discussed were men. Gloria Cowan glorandbil@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:07:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barnsley Brown Subject: email addresses needed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all, I need the email addresses of the folks below. If you have them, please pass them on to me privately at my e-mail below: Hazel Carby bell hooks Toni Morrison Barbara Smith Thanks, E. Barnsley Brown *************** Dept. of English Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 27109 E-mail: browneb@wfu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:16:37 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Justine Lloyd Subject: Re: feminist critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For Cheryl's request I can recommend Lesley Johnson's book 'The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up', that -- while it deals with mostly Australian historical material -- has some excellent theory chapters which critique the whole notion of "growing up" from a feminist perspective. Also, Lesley's sister Pauline Johnson has written a book called "Feminism and Humanism" published by Allen and Unwin in Sydney about two years ago that you may also find useful. If you can't get hold of either of these references I can give you more details. All the best Justine At 07:16 21/01/98 -0500, you wrote: > Has anyone ever run across a feminist critique of this 'hierarchy' >which came out of the humanistic or "human potential" movement in >psychology. I wonder that if people (women for example) are not permitted >to truely self define, i.e. that roles, behaviours, and sexuality are >prescribed, ... then can oppressed/marginalized people ever truely self >actualize?... and reach their human potential. My understanding is that >Maslow studied male friends and male public figures in order to come up >with this hierarchy of needs. My thesis is a feminist analysis of self >esteem as it is applied to women. >So, I hope that one of my sisters can help me to find a feminist critique >of Maslow's hierarchy. If you have any leads, could you please respond to >me privately. >In sisterhood. Cheryl. > >*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > There are no personal solutions to social problems - only adjustments, > accommodations, temporary loopholes- and pain. Nothing a woman can > do for herself alone will solve her basic problem of being female in a >society rigged against her.........The National Organization for Women (1975). >*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ >Cheryl van Daalen-Smith, RN., BScN., MA(Can) >cvandaalensmith@oise.utoronto.ca > > Justine Lloyd School of Cultural Histories and Futures Humanities & Social Sciences UWS Nepean P0 Box 10 Kingswood NSW 2747 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ email: justinelloyd@peg.apc.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The revolution will not be Televised The revolution will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Rocky and Bullwinkle The revolution will not go better with coke The revolution will not fight the germs that bring you bad breath The revolution will put you in the drivers seat The revolution will be live -- Gil Scott Heron ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:43:33 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: GOTHIC AND ATWOOD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >I'm looking for sources that deal with gothic elements in Margaret >Atwood's canon. Any suggestions? >From the Women's Presses Library Project: Margaret Atwood's Power: Mirrors, Reflections and Images in Select Fiction and Poetry, Shannon Hengen, Second Story Press, 1993, 0-929005-49-X, $14.95. This feminist study examines the writing of Margaret Atwood and provides a psychoanalytic overview examining Atwood's treatment of women and power. Though this may not be exactly what you're looking for, it does also include an extensive list of consulted works and bibliography. Please let me know if you need assistance in locating this title. 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: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:29:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BETTY POWELL Organization: Mars Hill College Subject: chicana feeminism Colleagues, I remember a recent thread that discussed chicana feminism. Does the list automatically chronicle info such as that? Do you know how to access it? Betty J. Powell bpowell@mhc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:38:09 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn MacDonald Subject: women and scifi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In an earlier discussion on this list, a number of women writers of science fiction were mentioned. Can anyone suggest women writing scifi from a nonEuropean/ Western perspective? Please respond either privately to marilynm@sfu.ca, or to the list. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:03:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Crystal Kile Subject: New list: octavia-l In-Reply-To: <199801231638.IAA03663@rm-rstar.sfu.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hey, if you are in or have friends in New Orleans who might be interested, but don't read this list, please pass this on. If you're an Octavia Butler reader and/or scholar from anywhere, we invite you to join the e-mail list. Note: this list is devoted to discussion & all that good stuff, but is not primarily an "academic" list, though academic perspectives are, of course, welcome. THE OCTAVIA BUTLER READING GROUP AND OCTAVIA-L Renowned African American feminist science fiction writer Octavia Butler will visit Tulane 1-6 November 1998 and the 14th Annual Zale Writer-in-Residence. In preparation for her visit, the Center has organized a monthly reading group and an e-mail list (octavia-l) devoted to discussion of Butler's works. All members of the Tulane and New Orleans communities are invited to join the reading group (phone 865-5238 for the time/date of the next scheduled meeting), and readers around the world are invited to join octavia-l. To subscribe to octavia-l, send the message "subscribe octavia-l [Your Name]" to listserv@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Thanks... see some of you in person or on the list. CK "take, take the noise in my head... take, take the noise in my head..." Crystal Kile ckile@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu www.tulane.edu/~wc ernie.bgsu.edu/~ckile/ckile.html ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:51:54 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karyn Brownson Subject: theory on reproductive freedom as a queer issue? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A friend is doing research on how reproductive freedom is applied to lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans issues. Does anyone know of any good writings on the subject? Please reply privately, unless others are interested as well... Karyn Brownson snark@aracnet.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:34:25 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kari B Mcbride Subject: WS grad programs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Here at the University of Arizona we have an M.A. program with both traditional and "applied" tracks. The deadline for U.S. applicants was Jan. 15, but international students can apply through Feb. 1. You can get more information on our Web page (http://w3.arizona.edu/~ws) or by writing: Joan Stone Women's Studies Department Communication 108 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:45:19 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Cooper Subject: Looking for film videos MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm trying to locate a copy of a 1950 film, "Outrage," written & directed by Ida Lupino to use in a film class looking at women filmmakers over time. Does anyone know where I can find a copy to buy, or have a copy you would be willing to sell? I've exhausted all of the resources I can find, and have not been able to find a video of this movie anywhere. Thanks. Brenda Cooper bcooper@cc.usu.edu --------------------------------- Brenda Cooper, Women's Studies Director Assistant Professor Department of Communication UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Logan, Utah 84322-4605 801/797-3292; 3973 FAX email: bcooper@cc.usu.edu "I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them." Isak Dinesen, 1923 --------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:08:33 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne Wallace Subject: Need help with inclusive language exercise I do need help. A colleague and I are presenting a program (about 45 minutes in length) as a part of day long diversity seminar on our campus. Our focus will be on the importance and impact of inclusive vs exclusive language. We anticipate an audience of 20 to 50 people who will constitute some sort of mix of undergraduate students, college faculty and staff, and college administrators. We would like to find some sort of active exercise that would work to sensitize this group to the effects of language. I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions members of the list can provide. The program is scheduled for early February. Please respond to me privately at my email address below. If there is interest, I will be glad to summarize the responses and furnish them to the list. Thanks in advance for the help. Suzanne Wallace Associate Professor of Economics Central College Pella, Iowa 515-628-5318 e-mail: wallaces@central.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:30:05 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Candace Rypisi Subject: videos Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Hi all. I am posting this for a colleague who is teaching "Images of Women" through the English Department. I am hoping that someone out there can assist in the search for videos on the following authors: Paula Gunn Allen Dorothy Allison Anita Desai Nawal El Saadawi Herculine Barbin Doris Lessing Clarice Lispector PLEASE reply privately and I will compile and post a final list. Thanks in advance for your help. Candace Rypisi Project Coordinator Office of Women's Programs and Studies Colorado State University crypisi@ceao.sacc.colostate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:47:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Libra Subject: getting the dissertation published MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What is the best strategy for trying to get one's women's studies dissertation published? Denise Bauer libra@warwick.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:02:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Fresco Subject: Re: Looking for film videos Try this site, which stocks hard-to-find videos: http://www.reel.com/moviepage/9882.html Karen Fresco >I'm trying to locate a copy of a 1950 film, "Outrage," written & directed >by Ida Lupino to use in a film class looking at women filmmakers over time. >Does anyone know where I can find a copy to buy, or have a copy you would >be willing to sell? I've exhausted all of the resources I can find, and >have not been able to find a video of this movie anywhere. > >Thanks. > >Brenda Cooper >bcooper@cc.usu.edu > > >--------------------------------- >Brenda Cooper, Women's Studies Director >Assistant Professor >Department of Communication >UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY >Logan, Utah 84322-4605 >801/797-3292; 3973 FAX >email: bcooper@cc.usu.edu > >"I think it will be truly glorious >when women become real people >and have the whole world open >before them." Isak Dinesen, 1923 > > >--------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:12:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Stats on date rape MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My my, here we go again with the "false accusation" faux fears. It seems a young Brown student was falsely accused of date rape, and as bad cases make bad law, I seem to be surrounded by otherwise intelligent men who are using this as "evidence" that false accusation is a real problem in date rape. I should have the stats somewhere, but I can't find them and brainfog is setting in. Does someone have the statistics on the frequency of date rape on college campuses; are there any stats on the frequency of MALE rape (men raping men) on college campuses? and are there any stats on the frequency of false accusations? I have made the argument -- brazenly, without the stats -- that the odds are greater that a young man will be raped by another man (one must emphasize this is not a homosexual act but an act of violence) than that he will have his life "ruined" by a false accusation of date rape. There ought to be SOME statistics I can use to back up this statement. Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof. of History/women's Studies villanova university (on medical leave since January 1995) mailto:schweit2@ix.netcom.com -- "I get knocked down, but I get up again: You're never going to keep me down!" Chumbawumba ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:18:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: chicana feeminism MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > I remember a recent thread that discussed chicana feminism. Does the > list automatically chronicle info such as that? Do you know how to > access it? I think your questions are answered in the following section of the WMST-L User's Guide: 10) "I'VE BEEN AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS. I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT I'VE MISSED ON WMST-L DURING THE TIME I'VE BEEN GONE. IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACCESS PREVIOUS MESSAGES?" [also useful for new subscribers] Yes. All WMST-L messages are automatically archived. The 1991 archives are arranged in monthly logs; beginning in Jan., 1992, the logs were changed to a weekly format. To find out what logs are available, you can send LISTSERV the following command: INDEX WMST-L . You'll then receive a list of the available logs. To obtain the logs, send LISTSERV the following command: GET WMST-L [filename] where [filename] is the name of the log file you want. For example: GET WMST-L LOG9609a will get you the log for the first week ("a") in September 1996 (9609 refers to the 9th month of 1996). LOG9612b is the log for the second week ("b") in Dec. 1996 (December is the 12th month). (It's possible that the wording of your request may take a slightly different form, depending on your mail system, but what you want is WMST-L LOGnnnnl.) Warning: some of these logs are LARGE (> 300K). As a result, you may not be permitted to get more than a few logs on any given day (the current limit is 20 files or 2M - i.e., 2000K). NOTE: Logfiles from before 1995 are no longer available on UMDD. To make room for newer logfiles, they were moved to the Women's Studies archive on InforM (http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ ). As time passes, other old logfiles will also be moved to InforM. The WMST-L filelist contains instructions designed to teach you how to search the UMDD logfiles for specific subjects. The instructions I recommend are contained in a file called SEARCH SIMPLE. It explains the new, simplified search procedures. This file is available on the web or via e-mail. The web URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/simplesearch.html . To get it by e-mail, send the message GET SEARCH SIMPLE to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. These instructions apply only to logfiles on UMDD, not those that have been moved to InforM. ******************* Joan ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:47:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: holzman Subject: Re: women and scifi In-Reply-To: <199801231638.IAA03663@rm-rstar.sfu.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:38 AM 1/23/98 -0800, you wrote: >In an earlier discussion on this list, a number of women writers of science >fiction were mentioned. Can anyone suggest women writing scifi from a >nonEuropean/ Western perspective? Please respond either privately to >marilynm@sfu.ca, or to the list. > Maureen McHugh, _China Mountain Zhang_ NY: Tom Doherty Associates, 1992 Octavia Butler - many of her books have African or African American settings and characters Ursula Leguin's _Always coming home_ portrays a society based on Native American cultures __________________________ Clare Holzman 330 West 58th Street, 404 New York, NY 10019 212 245 7282 holzmr01@mcrcr.med.nyu.edu __________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 09:22:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mark Logan and Kathleen O'Grady Subject: Women's Health Action and Mobilization MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------D662A3D9BBC23D1F6A43DD21" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D662A3D9BBC23D1F6A43DD21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please see important message below from WHAM! 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As soon as I have the syllabus, I' ll send it to the list, hoping to profit again from your opinions. The observations I have received were a very important stimulus to further research and it was the confirmation that the course deals with seminal issues which sometimes have been forgotten. Thanks again Teresa Malafaia University of Lisbon tvmalafaia@mail.telepac.pt ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:40:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carolyn Dipalma (WOS)" Subject: Call for Papers: Teaching Intro to WS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ************************************************************************ DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IN ONE WEEK: FEBRUARY 1, 1998 ************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS TEACHING INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES: STUDENT EXPECTATIONS AND CLASSROOM STRATEGIES Co-editors: Barbara Scott Winkler West Virginia University, Center for Women's Studies and Carolyn DiPalma University of South Florida, Deptartment of Women's Studies This collection will address the institutional context and social issues in which teaching the women's studies introductory course is embedded and, most importantly, provide readers with practical classroom strategies to meet the challenges raised. The collection will, therefore, serve as a resource and preparatory text for all teachers of Intro. including experienced teachers, less experienced teachers, new faculty, and graduate student teaching assistants. The collection will also be of interest to educational scholars of feminist and progressive pedagogies and innovative practices. Submissions should be centered around one or more of the following topic areas. STUDENT EXPECTATIONS --Student Expectations (ex: degree of student interest, resistance, and motivation; gen. ed. students vs. WS majors; different student knowledge bases, such as engineering or political science or women's studies; diversity issues; perceptions of teaching legitimacy, who can or can't teach what to whom) --Debate and Discussion (ex: public culture/mass media presentations of "women's topics"; student awareness/experience; classroom civility issues; how to respectfully differ; how to listen to others) --Authority in the Introduction to Women's Studies classroom (ex: ideologies of education; student-centered classroom; differences in resistance and conflict) CLASSROOM STRATEGIES --Teaching Specific Topics (ex: new ways to teach core concepts; new topic development; teaching controversial issues) --Conceiving the Course: Topic Organization (ex: issues given more breadth; issues given more depth; social science vs humanities emphasis; the order in which topics are introduced; specifics such as racism, heterosexism, poverty, class, health, spirituality, images, language, etc.) --Syllabus Creation and Sample Syllabi (ex: sample syllabi with explanatory discussion) All authors should address the particular institutional context and social issues in which their course is located. Submit TWO complete copies: 1) a one-page detailed abstract of your article which describes the topic and your approach, indicates a classroom application, and demonstrates the clarity of both your thinking and writing; 2) a two-page curriculum vitae, including pertinent paper and publication information, and email address and fax number (if available), by February 1, 1998. Notification of selected abstracts will be made by April 1, 1998. Completed articles for further review will be required by May 31, 1998. Send (via snail mail only) one copy each to: Barbara Scott Winkler Carolyn DiPalma 236 Waitman St. University of South Florida Morgantown, WV 26505 Department of Women's Studies 4202 E. Fowler Ave., HMS 413 Tampa, FL 33620 *********************************************************************** * Carolyn DiPalma, Ph.D. email: cdipalma@luna.cas.usf.edu * * Assistant Professor phone: 813-974-0979 * * Department of Women's Studies fax: 813-974-0336 * * 4202 East Fowler Ave., HMS 413 * * University of South Florida * * Tampa, FL 33620-8350 * *********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:04:56 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Huddis Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: women and scifi Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I can't remember the titles, but I think that Elizabeth Hull has edited two collections of sci fi, one from Russia and one from China. Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:46:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: discouraging cheating/plagiarizing from the Internet Many suggestions offered to discourage cheating and plagiarizing in general apply also to using the Web as a source. I have a few additional suggestions with respect to the Web in particular. Signal to students that you are familiar with the Web so that they won't think they can get away with it because you aren't at home there. If you give out a bibliography, include relevant websites. Use Internet terminology appropriately and frequently. Put up (or have someone else put up) a webpage for your, your subject, or the course. If your course includes a library instruction session, ask the librarian to cover print and electronic sources and include tips on evaluating both. If you give out a citation style sheet for term papers, include formats for citing electronic material, and, in the same spirit as those who've suggested outlines, drafts, etc. that make it too much trouble to cheat, here's one that probably only a librarian would dream up: in term paper bibliographies, require that students add where they found the source -- eg. "Main Library, call number ####"; "ProQuest Research Library full-text database," "Nexis...," etc. Keep up with web developments in your field(s). Rather than rely on search engines, which are indiscriminate, use mega-sites that are updated frequently, like Joan's (and to a lesser extent mine) for women's studies. Some sites that point to major sites by subject or discipline are Scout Select Bookmarks: scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/toolkit/bookmarks/index.htm Argus Clearinghouse: www.clearinghouse.net/ The WWW Virtual Library: www.tissot.org/vl/Overview.html Sincerely, Phyllis Holman Weisbard University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian ************************************************************************ Phyllis Holman Weisbard University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian Room 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706 http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ pweis@doit.wisc.edu ************************************************************************ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:18:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: getting the dissertation published In-Reply-To: <199801232047.PAA10891@host.warwick.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Libra wrote: You might want to take a look at the following: Eleanor Harman & Ian Montagnes[Ed.] (1976, 1995) The Thesis and the Book (Toronto, University of Toronto Press). Six authors and editors give advice on the topic of publishing a dissertation as a book, suggesting the dissertation is rarely publishable as a book without some attention to the different forms the two typically take. (There are, of course, some exceptions - examples of dissertations that have become quite successful books - Kate Millett's Sexual Politics is the example that comes to mind.) It is not women's studies specific, but might be a place to start. Cheers, Katherine Side kside@acs.ryerson.ca Department of Sociology Ryerson Polytechnic University 350 Victoria Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3 > What is the best strategy for trying to get one's women's studies > dissertation published? > > Denise Bauer > libra@warwick.net > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:44:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Barnes Subject: Re: getting the dissertation published In-Reply-To: <199801232047.PAA10891@host.warwick.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear All, I would love any advice on publishing on femist matters at all! Please respond to the list. Many thanks. S.Barnes sbarnes@uoft02.utoledo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 21:21:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Conference: NOW Young Feminist Northeast Feb.27 - Mar.1 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On work titles: The US Dictionary of Occupational Titles has, since the 1970s, eliminated gendering. e.g., Flight Attendants replaces Airline Hostess, Firefighter replace Fireman. It doesn't mean the elimination of sex discrimination, sexual segregation of occupations and the attendant wage and other oppressions. But it's something - I guess. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 02:26:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: On language... In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Ruby Rohrlich wrote: > We (linguistic feminists) no longer feminize words denoting occupations > open to both sexes. "Poetess" is now "poet" for women and for men. > Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > Very interesting, indeed. I'm revising a textbook and one of the editors changed my "comedian Phyllis Diller" to "comedienne Phyllis Diller." So, which is correct? And, if feminist linguists "no longer feminize words denoting occupations open to both sexes," how DOES one determine which occupations are now open to both sexes? I'm not being snide or argumentative--just want some information from the linguists (or others) on WMST. I'm teaching "Gender Roles in Society" this semester and expect this question will come up sooner or later. Any input would be very much appreciated. TIA, niki Benokraitis, Sociology, University of Baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:10:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Cynthia F. Brown" Subject: Grad program in WS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Re graduate studies in Women's Studies: There are two master's degree options in Women's Studies here at Lesley College: - Independent Study Degree Program: Students design a Master's program carried out in independent research, reading, projects, etc. in consultation with a three-member faculty team. Students meet with their teams 4 times during the program; most study is independent. Two team members can come from outside Lesley. Students in this program come from all over the country, and depending on need team meetings may be held either in Cambridge, Mass. or at a location convenient to the student. - Interdisciplinary Studies: Students can self-design a master's degree focused on Women's Studies courses. Several students are currently pursuing this option. For information about these programs: Judi Sapaugh, 617-349-8454 or 800-999-1959 X8454, jsapaugh@mail.lesley.edu For information about Lesley: http://www.lesley.edu For information about Women's Studies at Lesley: Cindy Brown, 617-349-8504 or 800-999-1959 X8504, cbrown@mail.lesley.edu Cynthia Farr Brown Institutional Research and Assistant Professor Office of the Provost Lesley College 29 Everett St. Cambridge, MA 02138 cbrown@mail.lesley.edu Voice: (617) 349-8504 Fax: (617) 349-8599 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:17:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: Deadline approaching: Association for Women in Psychology Conference MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE & HOTEL REGISTRATION INFORMATION Charting a New Course! 23rd Annual Association for Women in Psychology Conference in Baltimore, Maryland at the Baltimore Hilton & Towers, March 5th - 8th, 1998 Co-Sponsored by The University of Baltimore HOTEL RESERVATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 3, 1998 SINGLES/DOUBLES: $100 + TAX (please e-mail me if you are charged more before Feb. 3rd). Psychologists, counselors, nurses, psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, students, political activists, women's studies scholars, and women's advocates are all welcome. This AWP conference will feature papers, workshops, symposia, posters and other events that present ways to chart a new course in our individual and collective lives, in various areas of research and practice, and in public policy and social action. Keynote Address: Hortensia Amaro Amaro, a Distinguished Publication Award Winner, is known for her work in Health Psychology, which examines the impact of gender relations, ethnicity, and race on prevention, health care, and health status. Banquet Speaker: Carolyn R. Payton 1997 Recipient of APA Lifetime Contribution to Psychology Award Carolyn Payton was the first Black woman to serve as Director of the Peace Corps and is a pioneer in establishing specialized training for those planning to work with clients from minority groups. Closing Address: Maryland Delegate Salima Siler Marriott Delegate Marriott is Regional Chair of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, and previously served as Chair of the National Black Women's Health Project and Secretary of the National Rainbow Coalition. Gwen Keita, Director of APA's Women's Program Office, will introduce Delegate Marriott. Entertainment: Linda Joy Burke opening for Libby Roderick; The Beat Girlz Opening Ceremony: produced by Denise Gantt of Center Stage In addition, there will be: Papers, Symposia, Workshops, Posters, Continuing Education Seminars, Addresses by AWP Award Winners, Invited Panelists, Book Signing Social, and Jewish Women's Gathering and Sabbath Celebration Hotel Reservations: Baltimore Hilton & Towers. Call (410) 539-8400 or 1-800-HILTONS. HOTEL REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 3, 1998. FOR A COPY OF THE COMPLETE E-MAIL REGISTRATION FORM with more specific information about CE workshops, other speakers, professional social events, invited panels, Baltimore, etc., please e-mail Lynn H. Collins, the Conference Coordinator, at: LCOLLINS@UBMAIL.UBALT.EDU Questions: (202) 877-1792; (202) 588-8270; e-mail: elliemae@juno.com. FOR A HARD COPY OF THE REGISTRATION FORM (all APA Division 35 & AWP members will automatically receive one) call or e-mail: Alicia Lucksted, Registration Chair: E-mail: alucksted@cmhpsr.upenn.edu; (410) 233-8420. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1998 AWP CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM DO NOT MAIL THESE FORMS AFTER FEBRUARY 13, 1998. ALL PRESENTERS MUST REGISTER. 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Mary Zahm & Joan Rollins. _____*FD 3 Recollections of Sexual Abuse: Treatment Principles and Guidelines. Christine A. Courtois. _____*FD 4 Women as Allies: Using the Richness of Our Differences and the Power of Our Commonalities. Lorene Garrett-Browder & Ann S. Yabusak. _____*FD 5 Integrating Feminist Political Analysis: A Model for Therapy and Training. Donna Hawxhurst. Full-day Preconference Training Seminars ($80)...................._______ Half-day Preconference Training Seminars, Thursday (rate 1st, 2nd, & 3rd choices) _____*AM 1 Treating Victimized Girls: Structured Techniques for Healing and Empowerment. Pearl S. Berman. _____*AM 2 Gender Transgressions. Carla Golden. _____*AM 3 Short-term Group Therapy for Women. Lorraine Mangione & Rosalind Forti. _____*AM 4 Women as Nurturers: Imprisonment or Empowerment? Ellen L. Wright & Barbara N. Smith. _____*AM 5 Menopause in Context. Paula S. Derry. _____*PM 1 Psychotherapy with African American Women: Integrating Psychodynamic & Feminist Perspectives. Beverly Greene. _____*PM 2 Masturbation: Pleasure, Tension Release, and Other. Leonore Tiefer. _____*PM 3 Responsibility, Retribution, and Forgiveness After Violence: The Intersection Between Social and Psychological Realities. Marjorie Holiman. _____*PM 4 Narrative Approaches to Supervision. Sheila R. Bob. Half-day Preconference Training Seminars ($40 each)..............________ *APA Continuing Education credit for these workshops is pending. Special Events _____Baltimore Buffet (Friday, $33)..............................________ _____Feminist Shabbat (Friday; Voluntary contribution)...........________ _____Dance (Friday, Live music by the Beat Girlz, $7)............________ _____Concert (Saturday, Linda Joy Burke & Libby Roderick, $12)...________ _____Concert Dance Combo (Friday/Saturday, $17)..................________ _____New Member Breakfast (Voluntary contribution)...............________ Scholarship Donation. Voluntary contribution (any amount will assist a person of limited means)................................________ Please complete ONE conference registration form per person. PAGE TOTAL ________ Please print form, enclose a check, payable to the "Association for Women in Psychology," and mail to: Ellen Halpern 2700 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Apt. 707 Washington, DC 20008-5312 Questions: (202) 877-1792; (202) 588-8270; e-mail: elliemae@juno.com. Alicia Lucksted, Registration Chair: E-mail: alucksted@cmhpsr.upenn.edu; (410) 233-8420. I would like more information about: Please check all that apply. To receive information about the following, registration MUST BE postmarked by January 16, 1998. _____Accessibility/Special Needs Assistance. Please specify: _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _____Children's Activities for ________ children, ages _________, for _______________(conference days/hours). _____Alternate Housing: _____Send Information _____Can Provide _____Financial Assistance/Scholarships _____Volunteering during conference (volunteers will have part of their registration rebated after they volunteer for 4 hours.) _____Caucus suite information _____Caucus for Bisexuality and Sexual Diversity Information/Dinner Gathering Questions: (202) 877-1792; (202) 588-8270; e-mail: elliemae@juno.com. Alicia Lucksted, Registration Chair: E-mail: alucksted@cmhpsr.upenn.edu; (410) 233-8420. Lynn H. Collins, Ph.D. *****23rd Anuual Association for Women in Psychology Conference***** Baltimore Hilton & Towers, March 5-8th, 1998 For registration information please contact me at: Applied Psychology & Quantitative Methods University of Baltimore 1420 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201-5779 or e-mail: lcollins@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:10:16 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie Tharp Subject: Re: Stats on date rape In-Reply-To: <34C915CF.1E7B@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At the risk of invoking everyone's wrath, I wanted to post an inquiry. Last spring we had a female police officer present on our campus about rohypnol and rape. During the question/answer period she revealed that only about 1 out of 10 rapes reported to their station were valid. The other 9 out of 10 were made up by women who usually broke down and confessed they were just trying to get back at someone. We in the audience were stunned. Assuming that she's right, what might explain such behavior? If she is right, then men do have some reason to fear false accusation. I have no particular reason to doubt her. She assured me that she wants to believe every woman who comes into the station and the officers proceed on the assumption that the report is truthful. Has any research been conducted on false accusations? Does anyone else know of this kind of phenomenon? Julie Tharp jtharp@uwc.edu At 05:12 PM 1/23/98 -0500, you wrote: >My my, here we go again with the "false accusation" faux fears. It >seems a young Brown student was falsely accused of date rape, and as bad >cases make bad law, I seem to be surrounded by otherwise intelligent men >who are using this as "evidence" that false accusation is a real problem >in date rape. > >I should have the stats somewhere, but I can't find them and brainfog is >setting in. Does someone have the statistics on the frequency of date >rape on college campuses; are there any stats on the frequency of MALE >rape (men raping men) on college campuses? and are there any stats on >the frequency of false accusations? > >I have made the argument -- brazenly, without the stats -- that the odds >are greater that a young man will be raped by another man (one must >emphasize this is not a homosexual act but an act of violence) than that >he will have his life "ruined" by a false accusation of date rape. > >There ought to be SOME statistics I can use to back up this statement. > >Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof. of History/women's Studies >villanova university (on medical leave since January 1995) >mailto:schweit2@ix.netcom.com >-- >"I get knocked down, but I get up again: >You're never going to keep me down!" >Chumbawumba > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:16:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: On language... Comments: To: "N. Benokraitis" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In actual fact, I personally don't know of any occupation that is legally closed to women. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:04:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly Springer Subject: book event MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone recall when the book event is in NYC for *A Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History" (eds. Mankiller, Navarro, Smith et al.)? I believe Barbara Smith posted something a while ago on the list and mentioned that the event was in February at the YWCA. Please reply privately to kspring@emory.edu. Thanks in advance. Kimberly Springer PhD Candidate Institute for Women's Studies Emory University kspring@emory.edu "To be critical of one's culture is not to betray that culture." ---Cherrie Moraga ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:06:25 -0500 Reply-To: sandyl@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Lorean Organization: University of Florida Subject: Re: Stats on date rape MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a possibility that (if this is true) these women may be getting pressured by the prepetrator, his friends, his parents, or his partents' lawyer? Or could she be re-interpreting the events after the fact? What is she (only) trying to get back at him for? Being forceful, pushy, and not listening when she said "no?" Julie Tharp wrote: > > At the risk of invoking everyone's wrath, I wanted to post an inquiry. > Last spring we had a female police officer present on our campus about > rohypnol and rape. During the question/answer period she revealed that > only about 1 out of 10 rapes reported to their station were valid. The > other 9 out of 10 were made up by women who usually broke down and > confessed they were just trying to get back at someone. We in the audience > were stunned. Assuming that she's right, what might explain such behavior? > If she is right, then men do have some reason to fear false accusation. I > have no particular reason to doubt her. She assured me that she wants to > believe every woman who comes into the station and the officers proceed on > the assumption that the report is truthful. > > Has any research been conducted on false accusations? Does anyone else > know of this kind of phenomenon? > > Julie Tharp > jtharp@uwc.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:54:36 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: theory on reproductive freedom as a queer issue? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >A friend is doing research on how reproductive freedom is applied to >lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans issues. >From the Women's Presses Library Project: Lesbian Parenting: Living With Pride and Prejudice Katherine Arnup, editor gynergy books/Ragweed Press 1995 0-921881-33-9 P $16.95 432pp. This book includes a section on choosing parenthood with some reflections of reproductives technologies. This title should be available at your local feminist or independent bookseller. Please let me know if you need assitance locating it. 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, 26 Jan 1998 11:55:09 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Need help with inclusive language exercise Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Our focus >will be on the importance and impact of inclusive vs exclusive language. > >We anticipate an audience of 20 to 50 people who will constitute some sort = of >mix of undergraduate students, college faculty and staff, and college >administrators. We would like to find some sort of active exercise that w= ould >work to sensitize this group to the effects of language. =46rom the women's Presses Library Project: The following title may provide some useful ideas -- it contains some interesting charts and graphs. Breaking the Patriarchal Code: The Linguistic Basis of Sexual Bias Louise Gou=EBffic Knowledge, Ideas & Trends (KIT) Offers a fascinating and learned look at our language and its subtle, hidden agenda which promotes the idea of male dominance, violence, political gain and control. 1996 1-879198-17-7 P $19.95 228pp. This title should be available at your local feminist or independent bookseller. Please let me know if you need assitance locating it. 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, 26 Jan 1998 13:03:51 -0500 Reply-To: Maria Bevacqua Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Bevacqua Subject: Ecofeminism speaker Comments: cc: wrac-l@dartmouth.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I hope the following request does not fall outside the parameters of this list: A student in my women's studies class, who is president of the university's environmental awareness group, has asked if I could recommend a speaker for Earth Week '98 who would address one of the following topics: 1) ecofeminism, or 2) women in earth science careers. The group has some money to spend on a national person, but the students really want someone who can draw a good crowd. I think that the group's best bet for a good draw would be to find someone who can effectively bridge the women's studies and natural science communities. Does anyone on the list know of a speaker who would be appropriate? Better yet, have you actually heard someone whose message, speaking style, and presentation have impressed you? Please respond privately. Cheers, Maria Maria Bevacqua, Ph.D. Institute for Women's Studies Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 mbevacq@emory.edu Linus: I thought little girls always believed everything that was told to them. I thought little girls were innocent and trusting. Sally: Welcome to the 20th century. (1966) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:27:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: On language... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, N. Benokraitis wrote: > Very interesting, indeed. I'm revising a textbook and one of the editors > changed my "comedian Phyllis Diller" to "comedienne Phyllis Diller." > So, which is correct? And, if feminist linguists "no longer feminize > words denoting occupations open to both sexes," how DOES one determine > which occupations are now open to both sexes? Well, I think the idea is that they all are, unless there's some obvious physical reason why it couldn't be (i.e. there are exactly two jobs not open to both sexes: sperm donor and surrogate mother) in which case it should be self-evident. BTW, "comedian Phyllis Diller" is correct. Alana Suskin alanacat@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:07:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Lengermann Subject: book on women social theorists Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" PLEASE REPLY PRIVATELY Like Dawn Atkins (posting of 1/22/98), we have been asked by our publisher, McGraw-Hill, for names of people who might be interested in a book we have just brought out. Below is a description of the book and our addresses for PRIVATE REPLY so the list is not swamped. If you let us know the course for which your are considering the book and your address, we can forward that information to McGraw-Hill to have a desk copy sent. If you wish a table of contents, we can e-mail that to you privately. BOOK DESCRIPTION: _The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory: 1830-1930_ by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley, paperback. Eight chapters and epilogue, index, bibliography. The book presents biographical sketches, intellectual background, and thematic analyses by us along with significant original work of fifteen women social theorists: chapters on Harriet Martineau; Jane Addams; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Marianne Weber; Beatrice Potter Webb, and a group we identify as "The Chicago Women's School of Social Thought" (Edith and Grace Abbott, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Florence Kelley, Frances Kellor, Julia Lathrop, Annie Marion MacLean, and Marion Talbot). The Weber translations are a first in English. OUR ADDRESS: We can be reached at pml4@cornell.edu or jn-b@wells.edu--please note that the Lengermann e-mail third character is a letter "el" not a numeral one ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:14:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laura hudson Subject: Re: On language... MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT This is a bit off topic, but am I wrong in thinking that there are many military jobs which are still not open to women, at least in the U.S.? Laura Hudson Alden Library Reference Department Ohio University Libraries At 11:27 AM 1/26/98 -0500, the Cheshire Cat wrote: >On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, N. Benokraitis wrote: > >> Very interesting, indeed. I'm revising a textbook and one of the editors >> changed my "comedian Phyllis Diller" to "comedienne Phyllis Diller." >> So, which is correct? And, if feminist linguists "no longer feminize >> words denoting occupations open to both sexes," how DOES one determine >> which occupations are now open to both sexes? > > >Well, I think the idea is that they all are, unless there's some obvious >physical reason why it couldn't be (i.e. there are exactly two jobs >not open to both sexes: sperm donor and surrogate mother) in which case >it should be self-evident. BTW, "comedian Phyllis Diller" is correct. > >Alana Suskin >alanacat@wam.umd.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:00:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: On language... Comments: To: laura hudson In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19980126201455.0069c79c@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Women are in the armed forces, but some of them prohibit (I think) women from actually participating in combat. Ruby rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:31:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Edrie J Sobstyl Subject: Re: On language... In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19980126201455.0069c79c@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Yes, Laura, there is a policy called the Combat Exclusion Rule which keeps women from serving in positions designated as combat roles. They can serve in positions which support combat roles, often placing themselves at identical risk as if they were in combat, which is supposedly the justification for the combat exclusion rule. Combat exclusion doesn't just protect women from risk, however, it also protects them from winning awards which can go only to combat officers, and from promotions, salaries, and other honours associated with combat positions. Edrie Sobstyl School of Arts and Humanities University of Texas at Dallas P.O. Box 830688 Richardson Tx 75083-0688 (972) 883-2365 (972) 883-2989 (fax) On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:14:55 -0500 laura hudson wrote: > This is a bit off topic, but am I wrong in thinking that there are many > military jobs which are still not open to women, at least in the U.S.? > > Laura Hudson > Alden Library Reference Department > Ohio University Libraries > > > At 11:27 AM 1/26/98 -0500, the Cheshire Cat wrote: > >On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, N. Benokraitis wrote: > > > >> Very interesting, indeed. I'm revising a textbook and one of the editors > >> changed my "comedian Phyllis Diller" to "comedienne Phyllis Diller." > >> So, which is correct? And, if feminist linguists "no longer feminize > >> words denoting occupations open to both sexes," how DOES one determine > >> which occupations are now open to both sexes? > > > > > >Well, I think the idea is that they all are, unless there's some obvious > >physical reason why it couldn't be (i.e. there are exactly two jobs > >not open to both sexes: sperm donor and surrogate mother) in which case > >it should be self-evident. BTW, "comedian Phyllis Diller" is correct. > > > >Alana Suskin > >alanacat@wam.umd.edu > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:29:06 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Toth Subject: If These Walls Could Talk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Does anyone know where I could buy IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK? Please reply privately, and thanks. Emily Toth Professor of English & Women's Studies Allen Hall Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 e-mail: etoth@UNIX1.sncc.LSU.edu office phone: 504-388-3152 English Dept. fax: 504-388-4129 THE BOOK TO BUY: MS. MENTOR'S IMPECCABLE ADVICE FOR WOMEN IN ACADEMIA by Emily Toth. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1-800-445-9880. View it on this Web site: http://www.higheredjobs.com/test2/ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:12:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellkas Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Call for Papers-Women and Therapy Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Call for Papers The journal of Women and Therapy is planning an upcoming issue on Moral Responsibility in feminist therapy. Feminist therapy is largely responsible for taking the position that values are part of and should be part of the practice of therapy. In this issue, we want to take a broader look at the intersection of care and justice, at the role of morality and responsibility in therapeutic practice. This would include, but not be confined to, such issues as resolving the conflict between responsibility to group and to individual. How do therapists balance their obligation to the client with their obligation to society? Where does the appropriate privacy of therapy end or is this a clear boundary? Privacy and confidentiality serve more than one purpose included among which are providing safety for the client and protection for the status quo. If a client is abusive or worse in their relationships, do feminist therapists have any obligation to the partner or other person(s) in these relationships other than those specifically legislated? When and how should the therapist emphasize the client's responsibility to others before or along with the client's responsibility to self. Does individual therapy otherwise reinforce narcissism-getting in touch with own needs before or instead of those of others or American individualistic values such as growth, raising self esteem, asserting our rights, living our dreams. What are the ethics of using morality in feminist therapy? Is morality always context bound or are there certain principles that should not be violated? Do we want to avoid all "shoulds" in order to avoid the slippery slope of other therapists' shoulds? How much is possible, particularly within the context of individual therapy. Is it enough to work with the client's needs and dynamics and trust that this will lead to responsible behavior. How can we know when clients are seriously distorting the truth or even lying as opposed to presenting their own story. Is there room in this post-modern world and in therapy in the 1990's for such concepts as truth, morality and justice? What is the place of therapy in a moral society? Submissions are welcome in a variety of formats, including empirical studies, theoretical articles, case presentations, dialogues, roundtables, poetry or other creative formats. Deadline for submission of abstracts is February 22, 1998. Please send two copies of a one-page abstract of your proposal to Ellyn Kaschak, Ph.D. 6114 LaSalle Avenue #299 Oakland, CA 94611 Ellkas@aol.com Include your name, address, telephone and e-mail address We will inform authors if we would like them to submit a ms. and the deadline. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:12:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellkas Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Women and Therapy Journal Call for Papers Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Women and Therapy Journal Call for Papers For Love or Money: Talk is Not Cheap. Feminist therapy has addressed the issue of fee setting in great detail, although most of the work in this area is some 20 years old. Yet the role of money in the practice of therapy is a more complex one. These include therapist and client fears and fantasies about money, alternatives to sliding scale and other ongoing ways of dealing with money in the therapy relationship. Financial disparity betwen therapist and client, client resentments about paying for caring. For example, what about the client who runs out of money in the middle of therapy-is fired or becomes ill? How does income affects the life of the therapist positively and negatively? What are the gender, class and ethnic, cultural differences and commonalities in dealing with these issues? Do women therapists or clients deal differently with money? What are we selling? What is the effect on therapeutic interventions and outcomes of using financial metaphors as therapeutic concepts, such as investing in a relationship, payoff, etc. Submissions are welcome in a variety of formats, including empirical studies, theoretical articles, case presentations, dialogues, roundtables, poetry or other creative formats. Deadline for submission of abstracts is March 10, 1998. Please send two copies of a one-page abstract of your proposal to Ellyn Kaschak, Ph.D. 6114 LaSalle Avenue #299 Oakland, CA 94611 Ellkas@aol.com Include your name, address, telephone and e-mail address We will inform authors if we would like them to submit a ms. and the deadline. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:13:57 GMT Reply-To: cje@tavi.co.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tina Eager Subject: Re: On language... > > Well, I think the idea is that they all are, unless there's some obvious > physical reason why it couldn't be (i.e. there are exactly two jobs > not open to both sexes: sperm donor and surrogate mother) in which case > it should be self-evident. BTW, "comedian Phyllis Diller" is correct. You could add "wet nurse" to your list. I actually find it quite interesting and valuable as a topic of discussion to look at the way employment is gendered especially in the context of historical perspectives on employment. There are still some police forces who have Police Constables and Women Police Constables, and of course it is only recently that some jobs have been made open to both sexes - midwifery, firefighting and coal mining for example. Some students still have difficulties in thinking of employment activity as being open to both sexes. They may say vicar, but they picture a man, or they may say prostitute and picture a women. Digging out these implicit visualisations is an interesting class exercise. Tina Eager Business School Mid-Kent College of HE & FE, City Way, Rochester, Kent UK cje@tavi.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 19:17:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" While some of the plagiarism categories Shelley describes certainly do apply, some of students' lifting of language from a published source comes from their efforts to be using vocabulary, concepts and phrasing that's new to them, a consideration she may apply. Students may then use a whole sentence in trying to 'get it right'. Plagiarism would be suspected, of course, if the bulk of a paper or the whole thing is 'out of voice' for a student. Even there, caution is needed. A student may work especially hard on a particular paper. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:49:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: holzman Subject: Re: On language... In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:27 AM 1/26/98 -0500, you wrote: >On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, N. Benokraitis wrote: > >> Very interesting, indeed. I'm revising a textbook and one of the editors >> changed my "comedian Phyllis Diller" to "comedienne Phyllis Diller." >> So, which is correct? And, if feminist linguists "no longer feminize >> words denoting occupations open to both sexes," how DOES one determine >> which occupations are now open to both sexes? > > >Well, I think the idea is that they all are, unless there's some obvious >physical reason why it couldn't be (i.e. there are exactly two jobs >not open to both sexes: sperm donor and surrogate mother) in which case >it should be self-evident. BTW, "comedian Phyllis Diller" is correct. > >Alana Suskin >alanacat@wam.umd.edu > Actually, the law requires that there be a "bona fide qualification" in order for a job to be closed to one sex. This may be physical, but there are other examples, for example rest room attendant, where strong social constraints are recognized as legitimate. (and there's a third job that excludes men for a physical reason: wet nurse. But there aren't many job openings in that area any more. : ) ) __________________________ Clare Holzman 330 West 58th Street, 404 New York, NY 10019 212 245 7282 holzmr01@mcrcr.med.nyu.edu __________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 03:31:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KATHKNIGHT Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: "Correct" language Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit So interesting that an editor would change "comedian" to "comedienne" at this late date. In the early '80s on our campus some of us chose to refer to ourselves in the catalog as Department (or Program) "Chair," instead of the then-standard "Chairman," and it started a months-long heated battle with the official catalog editor (a woman), which eventually we won. Such seemingly trivial matters can be very threatening to folks -- remember how many years it took for the _New York Times_ to succomb to using "Ms."? -- because, I think, language changes can be quite revolutionary. To call a woman a poet is the same as saying she's the equal to other, male, poets, and does not need to be placed in a separate and slightly inferior category. Heavy! It's not a question of correctness, in the sense of grammatical English, but rather a calculated choice between logical alternatives, each of which carries a certain meaning. Kathleen Preston Psychology (including psycholinguistics) & Women's Studies Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:30:31 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Peter Weeks Organization: St.Thomas University Subject: On language Hi, colleagues: In response to the position in previous postings that feminists are avoiding feminizing words denoting occupations that are open to both sexes, I wonder if this strategy is specific to some languages. What brings this to mind is the apparent practice in French of feminists to construct feminine equivalents of previous generic masculine forms referring to occupations. I note the current flap in France where feminists are trying to institutionalize the use of "LA ministre" when a female minister is involved in place of the traditional accepted practice of employing "LE ministre" to refer to a minister of either gender. L'academie francaise is defending the latter and even trying to get the government to back them up! I understand feminists also in Quebec are trying for corresponding sets of feminine and masculine forms, e.g. "l'auteur" and "l'auteure". . So, it appears to me that we have two different strategies for expressing gender equality: (a) uniformity (but not the generic masculine) and (b) parallelism. I'd be most interested in your comments on what has intrigued me for some time. Cheers! Peter Peter Weeks St.Thomas University Fredericton, N.B., Canada Email PWEEKS@StThomasU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 08:51:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gayle Veronica Fischer Subject: Re: "Correct" language In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In light of the current discussion on gendered language, I thought some of you might be as amused as I was when I examined a turn-of-the-century college catalog and saw the caption "farmerettes" beneath a picture of women working fields. This was a new feminized term for me. --Gayle V. Fischer *************************************** Gayle V. Fischer Visiting Assistant Professor Department of History LeConte Hall University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 706/542-2490 gvfische@uga.cc.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:51:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Women and Work - syllabi and suggestions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII (I tried to send this message earlier, but think I made an error in the address. Apologies to those who may have received it twice.) I have checked the syllabi that are archived in WMST-L and could not find one that specifically deals with the topic of women and work. It is, however, included as a topic in many in Introduction to Women's Studies syllabi. Also, I could not find previous list discussions on the topic in the archived materials. My specific questions are: (i) Do you teach a women's studies course on the topic of women and work? If so, it is cross-listed with other department(s)? (ii) At what level is the course taught, and if there are prerequisites, what are they? (iii) What materials do you think should be taught in such a course? Specific suggestions would be most helpful. I will gladly share this information with the list, if list members are interested. Please e-mail me privately. Thanks, Katherine Side kside@acs.ryerson.ca Department of Sociology Ryerson Polytechnic University 350 Victoria Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:55:11 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Olmsted Subject: vita sackville-west film I'm trying to remember the title of the PBS mini series that portrayed Vita Sackville-West's marriage to Harold Nicolson and her affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis. Please reply privately if you know. Thanks, Jane Olmsted Western Kentucky University jane.olmsted@wku.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:41:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Camille Kaminski Lewis Subject: Gender studies In-Reply-To: <10383D43CEB@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'll admit first off that I'm a green-horn scholar. That said, I'm amazed at the resistance to gender issues in my discipline (communication and rhetoric). For instance, when the argument is made that Speaker X uses a "feminine" style, some scholars scream that "gender distinctions are irrelevant in the 1990s" or "I prefer to rise above gender issues and look for arguments that are inclusive to both genders." Some have even said to me "Frankly, I tried to avoid that gender distinction in my research." Now, my first response is "Get real! Are you just stupid to assume that gender distinctions are irrelevant?" It just seems like such an obvious attempt at marginalizing gender studies. But I do have to engage these people at some point--somehow. After I get over the initial frustration how can I engage their willful blindness? Any suggestions? I know that resistance to gender issues are ancient and that assumptions that women "have arrived" are typical. But what other approaches do I have besides shaking some sense into these people or rolling my eyes? Thanks. Camille K. Lewis Communication and Culture Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:55:26 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: "Correct" language In-Reply-To: <980127.085407.EST.GVFISCHE@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" With regard to the discussion about language and gender we have to distinguish between languages which like Eng- lish express grammatical gender non via articles, endings in nouns or adjectives which are therefore considered to be gender neutral, whereas the problem of reference arises with pronouns f.example, and languages, where gender is expressed with nouns (it. maestra - maestro, fr. instituteur - institutrice, sp. ministra - ministro), adjectives (it. buona - buono, fr. bonne - bon, sp. buena - bueno) etc. In English modern writing the problem of reference to women and men has been solved via she/he, s/he or she. There is they or their as singular. There is a lot of literature on this topic, i.e. about "What has gender got to do with sex". In languages like German, Italian, French and Spanish most grammars or vocabularies postulate that the masculine is generic, i.e. includes the feminine. But, as research has shown, it is neither used genericly nor understood in a generic way, but establishes or propagates man/masculine as norm or hides the existence of women. Therefore, in countries where these languages are spoken, women, according to me quite rightly, - but yet not enough - I would say, start to use feminine forms and counteract the traditional tendency in language usage to devalue everything feminine (see for example: mister - mistress, bachelor - spinster and many many more) by being proud of calling themselves "Doktorin" instead of "Doktor", for example. Elisabeth (sorry, if my English is akward, I have got little time at the moment, but could keep quiet any longer) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drin. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg +49 203 3791957 Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de Editor of: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/home.html http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/home.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:24:35 -0700 Reply-To: "Ev-Ra, Princess o' Power" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ev-Ra, Princess o' Power" Subject: getting the diss. published--LONG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Greetings, all-- It is true that most dissertations are not ready to be published the way they are written. All will require some form of revision, so don't freak out when your peer reviews come back asking for major revisions. If the peer reviews are favorable to publication, you will most likely be issued an advance contract that gives you a time limit to complete the necessary revisions. Most academic presses prefer that manuscripts be around 200-250 double-spaced pages. But your editor(s) are more than happy to help you with the requested revisions. Okay, suppose you have a completed dissertation and you want to get it published. Most dissertations (I would probably stretch here and say ALL) are specialized topics and are probably destined to be scholarly monographs, which means your best bet is to approach an academic publisher. Okay, so which one? *Literary Marketplace* and the AAUP directory (American Association of University Presses--NORTH American) contain addresses and lists of editorial focuses. The AAUP is best for detailed explanation of what topics a press publishes in. So how do you get in the door? Well, you'd be surprised at how many editors get the ball rolling when they receive a query packet from an unknown--i.e. unknown to that editor. It does help if you have met the editor at a conference and discussed your topic with her/him, but you do have a chance if you have never met the editor. Most dissertators invariably go to academic conferences and hang out in the book exhibit area and talk to the acquisitions editor on hand about their dissertations and the possibilities of publication. Every press at an academic conference sends an acquisitions editor because this is where the wheeling and dealing can begin. And acquisitions editors do not lost your card; they write formal letters to you once they return to their home presses after the conference and they probably start a file on you if they are really interested in your work. Once you submit your dissertation to the editor, she/he sends it out to two or three peer reviewers--scholars who are versed in the topic but are as unfamiliar with you as possible. Your work goes out anonymously and your reviewers remain anonymous. Generally, an editor will not send something out for peer review if she/he does not believe it is ready for peer review. So you've got people on your side to make sure you have the best possible chance of getting through the hoops. All right, this is all well and good, but what if you don't have any connections? Well, get your query packet together. This includes a letter addressed to the editor of the press you are approaching (there are generally 5-6 of these on staff, so find out who the acquisitions editor is) and briefly describes your dissertation, the topic, and possibly the approach. Your packet should also contain a resume/CV and an abstract. I would also advise including a chapter so that the editor can get an idea of your writing style and clarity. ALWAYS include SASEs so you can get your stuff back if they don't want it. You can then send your abstract and chapter out to someone else without spending more money on xeroxing. And this next point is EXTREMELY important. DO NOT send your query packets out to every university press in the phone book. University presses are specialized and have specific editorial lists. RESEARCH YOUR PUBLISHERS. It saves you tons of time and money if you approach only those presses that publish in your topic. I have to reject TONS of worthy projects because the topics are unrelated to what we actually publish. Now, in terms of feminist publications. If your dissertation is in women's studies, it is still a dissertation and geared toward a future as a scholarly monograph. Which means that in sheer publishing mechanics, you still need to get your query packet together and you still need to find presses that publish in women's studies. Depending on the specific focus of your topic, many university presses include women's studies on their editorial lists. Theory-geared dissertations might best be served by New York University Press, the University of Minnesota Press, Duke University Press, or Routledge. Other women's studies presses include the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Georgia. History-geared women's studies dissertations could also be served by any of these presses, provided it is in a historical area with which the press-in-question actually deals. For example, here at the University of New Mexico Press, we publish quite a bit in women's studies and women's history but because of our regional focus, we are particularly interested in Chicana and Native American works and history. We also publish women's history in terms of the larger area of the West--but this is because one of our larger list focuses is the American West. The point is that most university presses are very interested in any women's studies and theory topics. But make sure you research what their other areas are. If you have a dissertation, for example, that deals with African American women in the post-Civil War South, do not approach the University of Alaska. The University of Georgia, University of Alabama, University of Florida, University of North Carolina, Duke University--these are the publishers who would be interested in such a thing. Okay, so you now have some idea about how to go about looking for a good match for your dissertation. Also talk to your advisors. They are familiar with your topic. They have published. They are there to guide you. And some probably have contacts in the publishing realm. If you are near a university press, call or write to them and request a copy of their author's guidelines. You might also ask to speak to their acquisitions editor just to get some info about how to prepare a dissertation for review. Editors are typically hassled, harried people (sort of like academics, hmmmmm?) but they are generally willing to help you--especially if your topic is something in which they will be interested. Remember, a press wants to publish things that will make their list and catalogue stand out from other publishers. And your topic might help them do that. Publishing is a 2-way street and it's not all that mystical a process to get your book in the door. ANYWAY, if anyone has any further questions or wants more specifics, puh-leeze feel free to e-mail me privately. Good luck and cheers to all! Ev Schlatter Dept. of History University of New Mexico --and-- University of New Mexico Press evsch@unm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:04:57 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Peter Weeks Organization: St.Thomas University Subject: "correct" language Comments: cc: GAUDET@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca, MHMACDON@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca, ep.weeks@sympatico.ca Hi, colleagues: Further to my question about different strategies in English and French, I was wondering if the neuter in German was contemplated for the use of neutral, non-gender-marked terms for incumbents of occupational & other positions. Certainly, in French, one is stuck with binary choices of grammatical gender, but German seems to offer another alternative. Cheers! Peter Peter Weeks St.Thomas University Fredericton, N.B., Canada Email PWEEKS@StThomasU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:39:55 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Dickstein Subject: Rape statistic Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I asked Mary Koss, noted expert on rape in the U.S. to comment on the posting about the "high" rate of false accusal in rape. Below is her answer. Ruth Dickstein University of Arizona Main Library P.O. Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 520-621-4866 FAX 520-621-9733 dickstei@bird.library.arizona.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:18:06 -0700 From: "Mary P. Koss, Ph.D." To: Ruth Dickstein Subject: Re: Rape statistic Dear Ruth, The officer making this statement must have mispoke herself, or she is very uninformed. The rate of false rape reports according to FBI data is about 8-9%, which is similar to other crimes. The most often falsly reported crime is auto theft. The only study in the literature that reports higher rates of false reporting (Kanin, 1995), was done in Indiana during a time frame that police were allowed to require a rape victim to take a polygraph. Not surprisingly, a number of women withdrew their complaints upon being told that they would face polygraph exam. Law enforcement widely disregard the Kanin study, and even Indiana has now changed its law. In summary, all I can say is that the quote was COMPLETELY WRONG. Mary Koss ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:36:06 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie Zimmerman Subject: WS Grad Programs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The Women's Studies Department at San Diego State University also awaits enthusiastic applicants for our Master's Degree program. Our deadline for Fall 1998 is February 15, and potential students may want to check out our web site for information on the program: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/wsweb/index.html. Or access application materials on line at http://www/xap.com/xapWWW/Calif/CalState/sandiego.html. SDSU's department is in its 28th year, with 8 tenure/tenure track faculty and over 40 associate faculty. In our third year working with graduate students, we are pleased to observe that they reflect a diverse range of backgrounds and interests. Some plan to go on to doctoral work, but most expect to use their work with us to build skills for such fields as: women's community service organizations (such as health and welfare); communications and film; community college teaching; publishing; education, public administration, and law. Interested students may contact the graduate advisor, Bonnie Zimmerman, by email (bonnie.zimmerman@sdsu.edu), phone (619-594-5749) or FAX (619-594-5218). ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 08:21:13 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: genderwhatgender Subject: French WAS Re: On language Comments: To: Peter Weeks In-Reply-To: <10383D43CEB@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Peter Weeks wrote: > Hi, colleagues: > > What brings this to mind is the apparent practice in French of > feminists to construct feminine equivalents of previous generic > masculine forms referring to occupations. French is a thoroughly gendered language. And while some people would argue that it doesn't matter whether "door" is masculine or feminine, the language is quite patriarchal when applied to people. What I mean by this latter statement is, perhaps, best exemplified in the following example: There are 10,000 women in a stadium. When describing this group of women as beautiful, the pronouns and adjectives would be feminine plural ("Elles sont belles"). One man walks into the stadium and this astoundingly beautiful group of people would now be described as "Ils sont beaux." That is, the masculine plural would now be grammatically correct. With the presence of one man, 10,000 women have become grammatically invisible. I can see why some French feminists would want to "feminize" certain words. By using a female form of a title, women would no longer be grammatically hidden behind "masculinist" language. In English, our adjectives are generally gender-neutral. (How they're applied is not necessarily gender-neutral, but the words themselves, from a grammatical standpoint, are). We can render nouns gender-neutral because English does not automatically gender words. What about languages like German with a "neuter" gender? In practice, it, too, is sexist. A girl is neuter, a boy is masculine. A "girl" is not feminine, nor a woman, until she is married (or reaches an age where people assume she's married). A boy is masculine from birth. I don't know whether this addresses Peter's query. I do know that when I start heading toward tangeants, I'd better stop writing. ;) julie cox jcox@unlinfo2.unl.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:18:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Rape statistics - false charges Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cathy Young, author of a forthcoming book on the gender wars, commented on Mary Koss's message about false allegations of rape: > > Two interesting things about Koss's post: > > (1) the rate of false accusations for all crimes is about 2%, which means > that the rate for rape is at least 4 times higher. > > (2) There are legitimate questions about the use of polygraphs with victims, > primarily because it seems that while polygraphs are very good at > identifying liars (only about 5% of liars "pass"), they may not be very > good at identifying truth-tellers; in some studies, up to half of people > who are telling the truth fail. (This is because nervousness is measured > as lying.) But I think the average person actually has a lot of faith in > lie-detector tests, and I seriously doubt that a person who is telling > the truth would drop a rape complaint because she was asked to take a > polygraph. In fact, I know of cases in which women who failed a polygraph > continued to insist -- rightly, as it turned out -- that they were, indeed, > raped. In addition, Kanin made efforts in his study to verify the truth > of the women's recantations. In every case in which a specific man was > accused, he passed a polygraph, and the story told by the woman when she > recanted matched his story. > forwarded by: ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:35:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: Gender studies I'd just hope that when the assertion is that "Speaker X uses a feminine style," it's possible to specify exactly what that style is, in a way that could be coded by independent coders. That said, there is research that shows statistical differences between genders in using certain rhetorical and paralinguistic devices. The point I think also needs making is that these differences are found in statistical aggregates, and are not categorically different between any two speakers of different genders. Nothing is wrong with acknowledging these differences, but I wonder if the colleagues who show resistence may not be reacting to the current tendency to reify small, statistical differences into a Great Divide, on either side on which women and men are totally different, as different as different species or beings from different planets (as in MEN ARE FROM MARS; WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS.) FWIW. -- Gina O. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:51:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SPSCHACHT Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: Women's Music Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On behalf of my Sociology of Gender TA's, Sherrie Blackwood and Linda Cencer, I am writing the list in hopes of obtaining information about the history of women's music, especially that with a lesbian background. As part of their duties for this course, they plan to give a class presentation on the history and development of women's music and its influence on mainstream music. From the course's text, Feminist Frontiers IV, they already have Cynthia Lont's "Women's Music: No Longer a Small Private Party," but would greatly appreciate any further, more recent articles and/or books on this topic. Please respond privately to myself at the below address. We thank you in advance for any assistance list members can give us. Steven Schacht Department of Sociology Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717 SPSCHACHT@AOL.COM ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:19:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marc Sacks Subject: Re: French WAS Re: On language In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, genderwhatgender wrote: > > What about languages like German with a "neuter" gender? In practice, > it, too, is sexist. A girl is neuter, a boy is masculine. A "girl" is > not feminine, nor a woman, until she is married (or reaches an age where > people assume she's married). A boy is masculine from birth. > This gets quite hilarious, as anyone who's read Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language" can attest. Marc Sacks msacks@world.std.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:25:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: "Correct" language Comments: To: Gayle Veronica Fischer In-Reply-To: <980127.085407.EST.GVFISCHE@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The "ette" emding is not feminization. It means "little." It was used for women who struggled for the vote until they learned better, and "suffragette" became "suffragist." "farmerette" is like that. "Farmer" is like "poet" -- a woman and a man can be either. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:28:47 -0500 Reply-To: yklein@total.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: yvonne klein Subject: Re: French WAS Re: On language MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Julie Cox wrote: > >> > What about languages like German with a "neuter" gender? In practice, > it, too, is sexist. A girl is neuter, a boy is masculine. A "girl" is > not feminine, nor a woman, until she is married (or reaches an age where > people assume she's married). A boy is masculine from birth. > German may very well be a sexist language, but the example is not particularly useful. "Maedchen" is neuter because it is a diminutive and diminutives are neuter in German. "Jungchen," a possible affectionate term for boy, would likewise be neuter. One might argue successfully that the sexism is revealed not in the gender of the noun but in the infantilization expressed in the diminutive. Jungchen is not the usual term, Maedchen is. -- ***************************************************************** Yvonne M. Klein English Department, Dawson College 3040 Sherbrooke St W. Que. H3Z 1A6 yklein@total.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:17:09 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shelley Reid Subject: Re: Plagiarism suspected In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980126191756.00686160@cuny.campus.mci.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Beatrice writes, >While some of the plagiarism categories Shelley describes certainly do >apply, some of students' lifting of language from a published source comes >from their efforts to be using vocabulary, concepts and phrasing that's new >to them, a consideration she may apply. I agree that it's a frequent situation -- students reaching for vocabulary before they're ready to wield it successfully -- and one I see in all levels of writing, from overachievers to underachievers, and in native speakers' writing as well as that of non-native speakers of English. I don't generally penalize this the first time, though I tell students (particularly non-native English speakers, whose efforts in this vein are very easy to spot and who may have been exposed to different cultural attitudes toward what we call plagiarism) that they need to take steps to avoid it, since it is technically illegal. >Students may then use a whole >sentence in trying to 'get it right'. Plagiarism would be suspected, of >course, if the bulk of a paper or the whole thing is 'out of voice' for a >student. Even there, caution is needed. A student may work especially hard >on a particular paper. That's one of the reasons why I work hard to validate students' own voices, "sophisticated" or not: to help encourage them to work from their own perceptions and within their own vocabularies. And I am deeply careful in my approaches to student efforts. I have never forgotten the passage I read in high school from lyrical science writer Loren Eiseley's autobiography. Eiseley explains that after overcoming many obstacles he finally showed up at college interested in being an English major; he abandoned this and switched to biology when an English prof accused him of turning in a paper that was too well written to be Eiseley's own work. I would hate to be the English prof who unjustly sends the next Eiseley -- or even the next local newspaper reporter, middle manager, or family Christmas-letter writer -- off into a rainy night, swearing never to study language or literature again. Cheating makes me angry, but I think what happened to young Eiseley makes me angrier still, and thus I am constantly in search of new strategies to help avoid having the problem arise. This discussion has been quite helpful in that regard. shelley sreid@austinc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:10:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: polygraphs and rape - addendum Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit A further comment from Cathy Young : Would you please add this follow-up to my response to Koss: In an addendum to his study, Eugene Kanin examined the police records of two large Midwestern state universities. Exactly half of the rape reports on both campuses were found to be false. According to Kanin, "in both police agencies, the taking of the complaint and the follow-up investigation was the exclusive responsibility of a ranking female officer. Neither agency employed the polygraph and neither declared the complaint false without a recantation of the charge." So I don't think the phenomenon can be blamed on the use of polygraphs. Cathy -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:44:52 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Alison Brookes Subject: Call for Papers - FAB Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Announcing the Second Conference of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) in conjunction with the Fourth World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) and the Third Congress of the East Asian Association of Bioethics (EAAB) "Global Bioethics: East and West, South and North" October 31-November 8, 1998 The FAB conference is intended is to encourage cross-cultural discussion of bioethics and to strengthen collaborative alliances among bioethicists, philosophers, educators, physicians, nurses, scientists, lawyers, administrators, and the general public in countries across the globe with a special focus on Asia. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Individual papers for oral or poster presentation, or symposia are invited. Presentations should focus on feminist issues and analyses. All disciplinary perspectives are welcome! We are eager to include perspectives of health care activists and public opinion leaders as well. Please submit an abstract (maximum 200 words) indicating preferred mode of presentation (oral or poster, individual or panel). E-mail your abstract to Ganderson@Shriver.org. All submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. If you prefer submitting by surface mail, send four copies. Two should include the author(s) names(s) and two should exclude this information. Please include a copy on diskette (Microsoft Word of WordPerfect). All abstracts should state the name and mailing address of the presenting author, affiliation, phone/fax, and e-mail address. Suggested topics (conference organizers areopen to further suggestions): Reproductive Health Issues Subverting Paternalist Legacies Sexuality, HIV/AIDS/STDs in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa Justice and Quality of Care Grassroots Models of Bioethical Decision Making Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Medical Research Advancing Feminist Bioethical Theory Abstracts must be received by May 1, 1998. Please submit to: Dr. Gwen Anderson, Research Associate/Faculty Division Social Science, Ethics & Law Shriver Center For Mental Retardation, Inc. 200 Trapelo Road > Waltham, MA 02254 > e-mail: Ganderson@shriver.org For further information about travel, accommodation and other arrangements see the FAB website at: http://guweb.georgetown.edu/kennedy/fab ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:59:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Lyden Murphy Subject: Summer Course- Celtic Women's Issues Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Colleagues, Syracuse University International Programs and Women's Studies will offer the course CELTIC WOMEN'S ISSUES: IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES (3 credits) This is a three (3) credit undergraduate or graduate course cross-listed in the college of Arts and Sciences and Social Work (WSP/SWK 400-600) The course introduces students to the writings of Celtic Feminists to develop theoretical perspectives. Research will be assisted by first hand interviews with goverment officials, national women leaders, writers, and poets are integrated with lectures on modern Celtic feminisms. Students will meet with academic feminists throughout the Celtic lands, particularly Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The class will be in residence at Trinity College, Dublin for 10 days, University of Wales at Aberystwyth for 10 days; and University of Edinburgh Scotland for 10 days. Students will have a chance to speak to various leaders of local women's group to hear first hand about their concerns and efforts to remedy critical issues. Visits to local creche(day care), women's shelters, youth service agencies, allow students to get providers' and consumers views of these programs and issues. Independent Study (WSP/SWK490-690) 3 credits Students will select a specific topic, revelant to their interests, on contemporary Celtic women's issues to research in consultation with the instructor. SEVERAL DAYS FOR CULTURAL ENRICHMENT ARE PLANNED FOR THE PROGRAM. WE WILL VISIT MUSEUMS, PUBS FOR SONG, DANCE AND HUMOR: ATTEND POETRY READINGS, EXPLORE ANCIENT CASTLES AND SEASIDE TOWNS: TREK THE HIGHLANDS AND OTHER SITES TO GET SOME EXPERIENCE OF THE CELTIC CULTURE. COURSE IS OFFERED JUNE 7-JULY 7 SUMMER 1998 FACULTY WILL BE PROFESSOR DIANE LYDEN MURPHY, DIRECTOR OF SYRACUSE UNIVERSITIES WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM AND FACULTY IN THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK FOR MORE INFORMATION AND/OR APPLICATION PLEASE CONTACT: SUMMER PROGRAMS OFFICE DIPA, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 119 EUCLID AVE. SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 13244 1-8---251-9674 OR 315-443 9420/9421 DIPASUM@SUADMIN.SYR.EDU OR CONTACT PROFESSOR DIANE LYDEN MURPHY DLMURPHY@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU 315-443-3707 ============================================================================= Diane Lyden Murphy, Director 208 Bowne Hall Women's Studies Program Syracuse, New York 13244 Syracuse University (315)443-3707 dlmurphy@mailbox.syr.edu FAX (315)443-9221 =========================================================================== == ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:32:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: feminist critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm interested in understanding how Friere's 'Pedagogy of the Oppresed' could be the basis for a feminist crititque of Maslow. That book inspired a number of women and men to see possibilities for SOMEONE (the abstract category of person used in Chomskian tranformational generative grammar to designate the universal anyone) teaching the oppressed to analyze sources of their oppression. He uses male nouns and pronouns consistently to refer to the oppressed. That he used the masculine knowingly, intending it to represent men comes thru in subsequent work. For instance, in recorded interviews he expresses gratitude to his wife for atending to his personal wants when she travelled with him when he lectured. He also says women must mount their own struggles for liberation. In other words, Freire is more specific than Maslow in positing human nature from the perspective of men's needs. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 01:27:19 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: "correct" language In-Reply-To: <10816A2563B@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" No, not at all, but it seems to have existed, at least with "Mensch", i.e. "das Mensch", but it has been devalued and is now used for a horrible woman. As I said in my earlier message, women who care and think being female belongs to their identity and that being a women is as good as being a man, go for the feminine form of nomina agentis and not for the masculine one. Regards Elisabeth At 14:04 27.01.98 AST, you wrote: >Hi, colleagues: > > Further to my question about different strategies in English and >French, I was wondering if the neuter in German was contemplated for >the use of neutral, non-gender-marked terms for incumbents of >occupational & other positions. Certainly, in French, one is stuck >with binary choices of grammatical gender, but German seems to offer >another alternative. > > Cheers! Peter > > > Peter Weeks > St.Thomas University > Fredericton, N.B., Canada > Email PWEEKS@StThomasU.ca > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drin. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg +49 203 3791957 Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de Editor of: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/home.html http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/home.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:46:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: "Correct" language Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:25 PM 1/27/98 -0500, you wrote: >The "ette" emding is not feminization. It means "little." It was used >for women who struggled for the vote until they learned better, and >"suffragette" became "suffragist." "farmerette" is like that. "Farmer" is >like "poet" -- a woman and a man can be either. >Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.ed Example: cigar vs cigarette. But i think "farmerette" referred to women who went onto the farms to work during world War One to replace male farmer workers who had gone to war. I can't lay hands on anything that proves this, but i think i have seen old photos and journalistic references to farmerettes in that context. marge piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:57:08 -1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa Conefrey Subject: women and language readers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm planning my dept's first ever women and language course and would appreciate suggestions for a basic reader. The ones I'm familiar with include Thorne and Henley (1975) Language and sex, Thorne, Kramarae and Henley (1983) Language gender and society, Hall and Bucholtz (1995) Gender articulated. What else is out there that would be suitable for undergraduates unfamiliar with women's studies? Thanks, Theresa Conefrey Department of English University of Hawaii-Hilo ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:45:54 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: feminist critique of y of Friere Comments: To: beatricekachuck In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980127183228.006863b4@cuny.campus.mci.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In "Teaching to Transgress", bell hooks holds a lengthy 'dialogue' of sorts with Paulo Friere, addressing the very issue of language and perspective, and continues to affirm his pedagogy for critical consciousness and empowerment. Peace, jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, beatricekachuck wrote: > I'm interested in understanding how Friere's 'Pedagogy of the Oppresed' > could be the basis for a feminist crititque of Maslow. That book inspired a > number of women and men to see possibilities for SOMEONE (the abstract > category of person used in Chomskian tranformational generative grammar to > designate the universal anyone) teaching the oppressed to analyze sources > of their oppression. He uses male nouns and pronouns consistently to refer > to the oppressed. That he used the masculine knowingly, intending it to > represent men comes thru in subsequent work. For instance, in recorded > interviews he expresses gratitude to his wife for atending to his personal > wants when she travelled with him when he lectured. He also says women must > mount their own struggles for liberation. In other words, Freire is more > specific than Maslow in positing human nature from the perspective of men's > needs. > beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 05:46:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: French WAS Re: On language In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Let me jump in here, because gendered language is very much on my mind these days and, yes, it's interesting how arbitrary the gendering of inanimate objects (door, car, cup) can be--and how different from one gendered language to another. One wrote: "There are 10,000 women in a stadium. When describing this group of women as beautiful, the pronouns and adjectives would be feminine plural ("Elles sont belles"). One man walks into the stadium and this astoundingly beautiful group of people would now be described as "Ils sont beaux." That is, the masculine plural would now be grammatically correct. With the presence of one man, 10,000 women have become grammatically invisible." This used to be the case in Hebrew also, but feminists have been successful there is getting the Academy of Language to change that silly rule so that the gender of the crowd is now determined by the size of the majority group. 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: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:46:34 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Hilary Robinson Subject: Re: On language... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Ruby Rohrlich wrote: > >> We (linguistic feminists) no longer feminize words denoting occupations >> open to both sexes. "Poetess" is now "poet" for women and for men. >> Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu >> >Very interesting, indeed. I'm revising a textbook and one of the editors >changed my "comedian Phyllis Diller" to "comedienne Phyllis Diller." >So, which is correct? And, if feminist linguists "no longer feminize >words denoting occupations open to both sexes," how DOES one determine >which occupations are now open to both sexes? I'm not being snide or >argumentative--just want some information from the linguists (or others) >on WMST. I'm teaching "Gender Roles in Society" this semester and expect >this question will come up sooner or later. Any input would be very much >appreciated. > >TIA, > >niki Benokraitis, Sociology, University of Baltimore >nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu I read in a UK newspaper a couple of weeks ago that in France at the moment there is a move by women government ministers to be addressed as 'madame la ministre', not 'madame le ministre' (the noun has always been deemed masculine). This is causing much upset among 'defenders' of the French language. Luce Irigaray has written of this debate in France in one of her more recently published books (I think it's in _THinking the Difference_). My point is: why do we assume that normative terms of address in the English laguage are neuter? Most have certainly not been used as such, giving rise to the unmarked male normative and the marked female - for example, 'artist' and 'woman artist' - which as Griselda Pollock and Roszika Parker point out in _Old Mistresses_ is an atagonistic term, the construct 'woman' being radically different from the construct 'artist'. Can I try out a question: Is there a feminist case for reclaiming specifically feminine terminology (the -ess or the -enne for example - not the diminutive -ette!), thus marking and honouring difference, and working from inside the terminology/construct, rather than either problematically tagging 'woman' on, or being subsumed into supposed neutrals which are then often read as male? Is there any literature on this, for or against? Hilary h.robinson@ulst.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 07:11:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: AWakeland Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: CFP: Public policy and the future of feminist activism Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit FINAL REMINDER Prospectus Deadline: Jan. 30, 1997 * Article Deadline: April 15, 1998 Call for Papers: Feminist Visions for the 21st Century The editors of a forthcoming book (Winter 1998-99) on the future of feminist activism are currently soliciting submissions from young scholars and activists. Articles shall focus on a particular political, legal, economic or social concern that is relevant, from the perspective of a young feminist, to the future efficacy and vibrancy of the feminist movement. Articles shall be academically-rigorous, policy-oriented and informed by both theory and practice. In brief, the editors expect that authors will (1) identify public policies and social practices that contribute to the continued subordination of women and (2) outline opportunities and avenues for feminist action. This book will appeal most to young feminists who defy Generation X stereotypes about the apathy of the twenty-something generation and who disprove, through their actions and commitments, the common wisdom about the imminent death of feminism. Published articles will demonstrate the dynamism of the feminist movement. The editors hope that each author will acknowledge the successes of second wave feminist organizing and offer, where relevant, assessments of the areas in which the feminist movement has fallen short of its feminist goals. The editors also expect that each author will offer, within the context of the specific issue she has chosen to discuss, some overarching thoughts on the specific priorities and methods that distinguish the third wave of feminism from the second. Issues that might be discussed include, but certainly are not limited to: Pink-collar organizing Women and the sex industry Women in the military Affirmative action law Violence against women and girls Sexual harassment codes Immigration policy Women and education Women and electoral politics Health care policy Women and the media Environmental policy Family policy Comparable worth legislation Women and economic development Articles on reproductive rights and anti-poverty policy already have been secured, though additional and exceptional articles on these issues will be considered. In all cases, articles should attend to the multitude of intersecting identities that inform young feminists' consciousness, activism and policy prescriptions. The editors especially invite proactive submissions that investigate the race and class hierarchies evident in social practices, public policies and the current priorities and methods of the feminist movement. Please send a resume or brief CV and a prospectus of approximately 500 words to each of the following editors by Jan. 30, 1998: Nancy Lublin Amy Elaine Wakeland 295 W. 11th Street, 6H 6606 Honeysuckle Lane New York, NY 10014 Indianapolis, IN 46237 Early submissions are encouraged and undoubtedly will be given greater consideration. Final manuscripts should be submitted by April 15, 1998. Manuscripts should be approximately 6,000-9,000 words in length and should follow the guidelines of The Chicago Manual of Style (14th edition). Please direct questions to Amy Elaine Wakeland at awakeland@aol.com. Submissions via e-mail will not be accepted. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:46:18 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: On language... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 16:46 26.01.98 +0000, you wrote: >I read in a UK newspaper a couple of weeks ago that in France at the moment >there is a move by women government ministers to be addressed as 'madame la >ministre', not 'madame le ministre' (the noun has always been deemed >masculine). This is causing much upset among 'defenders' of the French >language. Luce Irigaray has written of this debate in France in one of her >more recently published books (I think it's in _THinking the Difference_). > >My point is: why do we assume that normative terms of address in the >English laguage are neuter? Most have certainly not been used as such, >giving rise to the unmarked male normative and the marked female - for >example, 'artist' and 'woman artist' - which as Griselda Pollock and >Roszika Parker point out in _Old Mistresses_ is an atagonistic term, the >construct 'woman' being radically different from the construct 'artist'. >Can I try out a question: Is there a feminist case for reclaiming >specifically feminine terminology (the -ess or the -enne for example - not >the diminutive -ette!), thus marking and honouring difference, and working >from inside the terminology/construct, rather than either problematically >tagging 'woman' on, or being subsumed into supposed neutrals which are then >often read as male? Is there any literature on this, for or against? > >Hilary >h.robinson@ulst.ac.uk Just some suggestions: Cameron, Deborah (1985): Feminism and Linguistic Theory. London: The MacMillan Press Ltd. Cameron, Deborah (ed.) (1990): Feminist Critique of Language. A Reader. London: Routledge. Cameron, Deborah (1992): "What makes a linguistics feminist?", in: Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise/Liberg, Caroline (eds.): Spr=E5k, spr=E5kbruk och k= =F6n. Rapport fr=E5n ASLA:s nordiska symposium. Uppsala 7-9 november 1991. Uppsala= : ASLA 55-69.=20 Burr, Elisabeth (1995): "Agentivi e sessi in un corpus di giornali italiani", in: Marcato, Gianna (ed.): Donna & Linguaggio. Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Sappada/Plodn (Belluno) 1995. Padova: CLEUP= 141-157. Crawford, Mary/English, Linda (1984): "Generc Versus Specific Inclusion of Women in Language: Effects on Recall", in: Journal of Psycholinguistc Research 13, 5: 373 ff. Pusch, Luise (1979): "Der Mensch ist ein Gewohnheitstier, doch weiter kommt man ohne ihr. Eine Antwort auf Kalverk=E4mpers Kritik an Tr=F6mel-Pl=F6tz' Artikel =FCber "Linguistik und Frauensprache", in: Linguistische Berichte 63= : 84-102. Khaznadar, Edwige (1993): "Pour une premi=E8re: la d=E9nomination de la femm= e dans l'actualit=E9. Dichotomie, affixation et alternance", in: Cahiers de Lexicologie 63: 143-169. Muller, Charles (1994): "Du f=E9minisme lexical", in: Cahiers de Lexicologie 65: 103-109. Niedzwiecki, Patricia (1985): F=E9minisation des titres et des professions e= n fran=E7ais. Ms.=20 Ransbo, Gunilla (1992): "La femme dans la vie professionnelle: un probl=E8me de genre en fran=E7ais moderne", in: Studia neophilologica 64: 95-99. Schafroth, Elmar (1992): "Feminine Berufsbezeichnungen in Kanada und Frankreich", in: Geschlechterrollen in Kanada. Zeitschrift f=FCr Kanada-Studien 12, 2: 109-125. Nash, Rose (1982): "Jobs, gender, and civil rights: Puerto Rican Spanish responds to the law", in: Word 33: 81-95. (1988): Recomendaciones para el uso no sexista de la lengua. Madrid: Ministerio de Educaci=F3n y Ciencia.=20 (1989): "Recomendaciones para el uso no sexista de la lengua", in: Hispanorama 52: 23-26. (1989): Recomendaciones para el uso no sexista de la lengua/Recomanacions per a un =FAs no sexista de la llengua. Val=E9ncia: Generalitat Valenciana.= =20 Guentherodt, Ingrid (1980): "Beh=F6rdliche Sprachregelungen gegen und f=FCr eine sprachliche Gleichbehandlung von Frauen und M=E4nnern", in: Linguistische Berichte 69: 22-36. Guentherodt, Ingrid et al. (1980): "Richtlinien zur Vermeidung sexistischen Sprachgebrauchs", in: Linguistische Berichte 69: 15-21. Martyna, W. (1980): "Beyond the he/man approach: the case for non sexist language", in: Signs 5:=20 Miller, Casey/ Swift, Kate (1980): The Handbook of Non-sexist Writing. London: Women's Press.=20 Miller, Casey/ Swift, Kate (1972): "Is Language Sexist?", in: Cosmopolitan Sept.: 89-93. Sabatini, Alma (1985): "Occupational titles in Italian: Changing the sexist usage", in: Hellinger, Marlis (ed.): Sprachwandel und feministische Sprachpolitik. Internationale Perspektiven. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 64-75. Sabatini, Alma (1987/1993): Il sessismo nella lingua italiana. Roma: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri.=20 Wodak, Ruth et al. (1987): Sprachliche Gleichbehandlung von Frau und Mann: Linguistische Empfehlungen zur Gleichbehandlung von Frau und Mann im =F6ffentlichen Bereich. Wien: Bundesministerium f=FCr Arbeit und Soziales.= =20 also interesting: Baron, Dennis (1986): Grammar and Gender. New Haven/London: Yale University Press. regards Elisabeth ------------------------------------------- Drin. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard Mercator Universitaet-GH Duisburg Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg Tel.: +49 203 3791957 fax: +49 203 3793122 e-mail: Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de ------------------------------------------- Drin. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard Mercator Universitaet-GH Duisburg Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg Tel.: +49 203 3791957 fax: +49 203 3793122 e-mail: Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:17:37 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jean Chambers Subject: Re: women and language readers In-Reply-To: <34CE9E82.BBF70F0B@hawaii.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I recommend Robert Baker's classic article, "Prick and Chicks: A Plea for Persons," in _Philosophy and Sex_, ed. Robert Baker (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1984 [1975]). Jean Chambers SUNY Oswego On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Theresa Conefrey wrote: > I'm planning my dept's first ever women and language course > and would appreciate suggestions for a basic reader. The ones I'm > familiar with include Thorne and Henley (1975) Language and sex, > Thorne, Kramarae and Henley (1983) Language gender and society, > Hall and Bucholtz (1995) Gender articulated. > > What else is out there that would be suitable for undergraduates > unfamiliar > with women's studies? > Thanks, > > Theresa Conefrey > Department of English > University of Hawaii-Hilo > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:27:44 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Women's Music Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >I am writing the list in hopes of obtaining information about the history of >women's music, especially that with a lesbian background. >From the Women's Presses Library Project: Backstage Pass: Interviews with Women in Music Laura Post New Victoria Publishers 1997 0-934678-84-7 P $16.95 Includes interviews with women (such as Ani DiFranco, Alix Dobkin, June Millington, Holly Near, Sweet Honey in the Rock) who have attained legendary status as independent and assertive voices whose songs of empowerment have influenced and enriched generations of women. Photos, discography. Hot Licks: Lesbian Musicians of Note Lee Fleming, editor gynergy books/Ragweed Press 1996 0-921881-42-8 P $24.95 136pp. 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: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:35:34 -0500 Reply-To: gcarr@bucknell.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Glynis Carr Organization: Bucknell University Subject: Re: polygraphs and rape - addendum MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do we know when an accusation of rape is T or F? A certain feminist party-line seems to insist that a woman's accusation is *always* proof of the accused's guilt, a position I find absurd. But the post of Koss's "further remark" is equally troubling in that it seems to imply that to certain investigators a woman's word is 100% reliable when she's recanting her accusation, but less so when she's making one. Am I the only one who can think of all sorts of reasons why a woman would recant even though, in fact, she has been raped? I think none of us would say that juries are always right, nor would we say that police offices (who either "found" or "unfound" cases) are always right. So, a couple of questions remain: what is at stake in the question of "false allegations" and how can we generate reliable data that leads us to reliable policies, and so on? --- Glynis Carr Associate Professor of English Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 gcarr@bucknell.edu http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gcarr ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:11:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: "Correct" language Pat Barker in her novel _Regeneration_ refers to women who worked in munitions factories in England during WWI as munitionettes. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:40:03 -0500 Reply-To: Sheila Hassell Hughes Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheila Hassell Hughes Subject: music & film MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would be interested to see a list of the materials Stephen Schacht is asking about, as well. People could either reply to the list, or perhaps Stephen could post a compilation at some point on women & music. On that note ... I apologize for not yet posting a compilation of films relevant to feminist theory. I have gotten many helpful replies and was hoping to actually provide an annotated list based on that. I hope to post it soon. If you are in a hurry for a list of titles, e-mail me privately. _____________________________ Sheila Hassell Hughes Visiting Assistant Professor Institute for Women's Studies Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 shughes@emory.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:05:40 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty Glass Subject: History of Women's Music In-Reply-To: <1be65478.34ce48d5@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII "The Maud Powell Signature" is a relatively new scholarly journal devoted to the history of women's contributions to music. It began publication in 1995. It is published by the Maud Powell Society for Music and Education 5333 N. 26th St. Arlington, VA 22207 ISSN: 1083-5954 A year or so ago, the subscription price was $28/year for North America. FYI, Betty _________________________________________________________ Betty Glass, Humanities Bibliographer Getchell Library/322 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557-0044 email: glass@admin.unr.edu On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, SPSCHACHT wrote: > On behalf of my Sociology of Gender TA's, Sherrie Blackwood and Linda Cencer, > I am writing the list in hopes of obtaining information about the history of > women's music, especially that with a lesbian background. > > Steven Schacht > Department of Sociology > Montana State University > Bozeman, MT 59717 > SPSCHACHT@AOL.COM ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:24:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Martha Charlene Ball Subject: Re: History of Women's Music In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII If you are interested in women's music, in particular lesbian contributions, look for back copies of Hot Wire, a publication that covered women's music and culture. It was out of Chicago, and the editor was Toni Armstrong, Jr. IT's no longer in existence now, unfortunately. Charlene M. Charlene Ball, Administrative Coordinator Women's Studies Institute Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia 404/651-4633 wsimcb@panther.gsu.edu http://www.gsu.edu/womenpower I dwell in Possibility -- A fairer House than Prose -- (Emily Dickinson) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:20:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: "correct" language (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Elisabeth Burr wrote: > No, not at all, but it seems to have existed, at least with > "Mensch", i.e. "das Mensch", but it has been devalued and > is now used for a horrible woman. > As I said in my earlier message, women who care and think > being female belongs to their identity and that being a women > is as good as being a man, go for the feminine form of nomina > agentis and not for the masculine one. Hmm. Except among (at least) American speakers of Yiddish, in which case mensch is used for both men and women to mean a person of character. Alana Suskin alanacat@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:40:26 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: genderwhatgender Subject: Diminutives WAS Re: French WAS Re: On language Comments: To: yvonne klein In-Reply-To: <34CE518F.304C@total.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, yvonne klein wrote: > Julie Cox wrote: > > > >> > > What about languages like German with a "neuter" gender? In practice, > > it, too, is sexist. A girl is neuter, a boy is masculine. A "girl" is > > not feminine, nor a woman, until she is married (or reaches an age where > > people assume she's married). A boy is masculine from birth. > > > > German may very well be a sexist language, but the example is not > particularly useful. "Maedchen" is neuter because it is a diminutive > and diminutives are neuter in German. "Jungchen," a possible > affectionate term for boy, would likewise be neuter. But isn't it interesting that diminutives are normally reserved for young boys and unmarried girls/women? I could've likewise "defended" (not that I think you're defending, Yvonne) French by pointing out that the suffixes that "make" words feminine are also diminutives. The standard German for boy does not include the "-chen." The standard German for girl/maid does. The former is "affectionate" whereas the latter is not. As Yvonne points out, diminutives are different. However, they are often applied to feminine words (or words that refer to "feminine" persons) as a matter of course. When applied to boys, it is a term of endearment. julie cox jcox@unlinfo2.unl.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:20:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tom Craig Organization: The BodyWorks Consultation Subject: Invitation to attend the Upcoming "Love and Feminism" Conference, 12-14 Feb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello all, I would like to invite all of you who will be in the Southern Ontario/Niagara Falls area Feb 12th-14th to attend the Love and Feminism Conference at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario (just north of Buffalo, just south of Toronto). While our program schedule is already complete, we look forward to rich presentations and lively discussions around the controversial theme of "love." You can find the list of questions we have created to help us orient ourselves around the themes of love and feminism, along with the entire program schedule at the following URL: http://members.tripod.com/~Cesura/lfconf98.html The Women's Studies Program at Brock University is co-sponsoring this year's "Love" conference, an annual event now in its eighth year of sponsorship by the Brock Philosophical Society. As feminists deeply concerned with the potential abuses and personal/political ramifications of the lived experience of "love," we are encouraging presenters to approach its profoundly textured connections from a variety of practical and theoretically grounded perspectives which may take account of--but are not limited to: =95 the essence and ideal of love in various philosophical and religious traditions of the world; =95 poststructuralist/post-historicist/postmodern responses to the cultural codes of love from recent feminist theories and praxis; =95 the real and potential abuses of love in patriarchal, heterosexist, ablist, capitalist or other "productivist" orientations of commodity exchange. With regard, Tom Craig Visiting Scholar in the Women's Studies Program Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:59:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elaine Blakemore Subject: Database query MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Does anyone have a suggestion about a good database to use to search for research on the topic of academic women and service roles (i.e., service to the university, community, profession, etc,). Please reply privately, Thanks +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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://www.ipfw.edu/psyc/blakemor.htm ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:05:18 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "DRA. Pattatucci" Subject: Single-sex learning environments MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Over the years there has been considerable evidence to suggest that girls generally achieve at higher levels when the learning environment is cooperative rather than competitive. This typically translates to a single-sex learning environment. I have the following two questions surrounding this issue. 1. Can anyone point me to co-educational programs that are using single-sex learning environments as a tool to help raise the general achievement levels for girls in math and science? 2. Can anyone point me to co-educational programs seeking to create cooperative co-educational learning environments by teaching boys skills for successful cooperative interaction and/or through strict management of the groups to significantly reduce the expression of competitive behavior? Dra. Angela Pattatucci Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Rio Piedras a_pattatucci@upr1.upr.clu.edu "De poetas, tontos y locos todos tenemos un poco" ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:41:05 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Dickstein Subject: Re: Automatic distribution (AFD) of file "WMST-L DIGEST2" (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:04:37 -0500 (EST) From: ckirkland To: "L-Soft list server at UMDD (1.8c)" Subject: Re: Automatic distribution (AFD) of file "WMST-L DIGEST2" Concerning false rape reports.... I am very disappointed with the lingering thoughts...and messages...out there in our world that still finds it easy to believe in a large number of false rape reports. I do believe that the false rape report rate is approximately the same as anyother crime. If there has been an increase in the past year or so, that needs to be studied; for I have always believed the FBI info that all false crime reports are about the same percentage. Concerning false campus reports, I just don't believe it...no matter what the study might say. I am the main contact for sexual assault victims at George Mason University and have had this positon for four years. My position is totally directed to services and intervention for sexual assault victims. I, naturally, have many more reports given to me than to our university police. That's not news. That's standard procedure for a myriad of reasons. Of the sexual assaults I receive each year, rarely do I receive a false report...and I do maintain contact with most of these victims long enough to know. At times, police departments do not take as long to make their decisions as we support persons do... And let's not confuse "false" reports with "unfounded" reports. Police consider reports unfounded for many different reasons, only one of which is because it is proved to be false. Since the interview process in many police departments can be too taxing for some victims, I know that some choose to opt out of that process....thereby, perhaps allowing the police officials to believe the incident not to have happened. Connie J. Kirkland George Mason University Sexual Assault Services Coordinator (703)993-4364 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:38:01 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VENUS97708 Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Lesbian battering Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I am looking for information, research and journal articles pertaining to the topic of lesbian couple battering. I am a graduate student in counseling and I thought this would be an interesting article. Please respond privately- thank you! Michele McGrady VENUS97708@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:38:45 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: New Film Reviews Added: As Good As It Gets and Jackie Brown ********************************************* 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 *** Forwarding note from HYPATIA --CFRVM 01/27/98 18:55 *** To: . --CFRVM From: Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator Subject: New Film Reviews Added: As Good As It Gets and Jackie Brown On Saturday, January 10, I reviewed "As Good As It Gets" and on n Saturday, January 17 I reviewed "Jackie Brown" on "The Women's Show" on WMNF-FM (88.5), in Tampa, FL. These reviews are now available from WMST-L's FILM FILELIST To obtain a copy of the reviews send the following command to listserv@umdd.umd.edu: GET FILM REV226 FILM (As Good As It Gets) GET FILM REV227 FILM (Jackie Brown) To obtain a list of all the files available (film reviews and articles) send a message to the same listserv that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one item, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM ART001 FILM These reviews may also be obtained from the Web at URL: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/FilmReviews/ but there may be a considerable delay in their being put up on the web site. 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: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:27:46 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Single-sex learning environments Comments: To: "DRA. Pattatucci" In-Reply-To: <01ISX029779U0045A1@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Angela, Brigit Brock-Utne, in __Feminist Perspectives on Peace and PEace Education__, examines the theory about why girls do not do as well as boys in math and science and found that the problem isn's so much that girls do not do as well, as that they lose interest because the science (or math) are "devoid of social consequences"(p. 166). She also cites other's data on this topic. She also gives some ideas for creating better learning environments (including cooperative learning experiences), as well as ideas for making these courses "less abstract, far from the lives of ordinary people" (p. 166 and following). Book is from Pergamon Press, 1989. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, DRA. Pattatucci wrote: > Over the years there has been considerable evidence to suggest that girls > generally achieve at higher levels when the learning environment is > cooperative rather than competitive. This typically translates to a > single-sex learning environment. I have the following two questions > surrounding this issue. > > 1. Can anyone point me to co-educational programs that are using > single-sex learning environments as a tool to help raise the general > achievement levels for girls in math and science? > > 2. Can anyone point me to co-educational programs seeking to create > cooperative co-educational learning environments by teaching boys skills > for successful cooperative interaction and/or through strict management of > the groups to significantly reduce the expression of competitive behavior? > > Dra. Angela Pattatucci > Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Rio Piedras > a_pattatucci@upr1.upr.clu.edu > > "De poetas, tontos y locos todos tenemos un poco" > ************************************************************* > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:01:11 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy San Martin Subject: help with dates In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980118121603.007b5250@mailbox.syr.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII can anyone help me with the dates (birth, maybe death) of u.s. sexologists leonore tiefer and john money. i know money was born in 1921, but i'm unsure whether he's still alive. please respond privately, thanks, n. san martin nancysm@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:24:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: On language... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In linguistic terms, we have had an 'unmarked' term for male for many words in English, many nouns naming an occupation. That denoted the generic, e.g, poet. A poetess then named a special case, a subcategory, something less than the real stuff, a female doing poetry. It's understood that the 'poet' is male; 'male' this doesn't have to be stated. The female doesn't quite belong in the class 'poet'. (There are exceptions, e.g., 'teacher' and 'intern' could be female of male.) It's akin to the dualism we read about in philosophy, male/female, poet/poetess, comedian/comedienne. The left term is the absolute, indivisible (like the number 1), the measure of the right term. In relation to occupations, feminists argued that specification of jobs by gender precludes women from those jobs. That's why we now have 'letter carriers' not 'mailmen' 'fishers' not fishermen' and so on. Employment columns in newspapers are now merged, no more separate listings for jobs for females and males. In principle, all jobs are open to both females and jobs. In principle? Occupational segregation by sex endures as the larger principle and what happens on the job becomes another matter ... So, e.g., an opening for a White House 'intern' invites appointment of women and men with no sex discrimination. But ... beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:35:02 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eustis525 Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Subject: Re: Lesbian battering Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit One resource is a book by Claire Renzetti. The citation is: Renzetti, C. (1992). Violent betrayal: Partner abuse in lesbian relationships. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Debra Berke Eustis525@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:36:18 AST4ADT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Peter Weeks Organization: St.Thomas University Subject: On language Comments: cc: GAUDET@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca, MHMACDON@academic.stu.StThomasU.ca, ep.weeks@sympatico.ca Hi, colleagues: Thank you for your many responses to my query on language. I have a brief follow-up question. It seems to me that we should consider a distinction between referring to the present or past incumbent of a position vs. a possible future incumbent of such. "La ministre", I would guess, refers to a minister who happens to be female in the given case. But, what happens when one wants to refer to *any* minister? In English, grammatical neutrality is often accomplished through slashes --- e.g. "he/she", "his/her" etc. What happens in French where the language is more limited to binary choices? How would we say, in neutral terms, that a minister (in general) will be rich? What article would feminists use? And also, what pronouns, pronominal adjectives and other modifiers? Cheers! Peter Peter Weeks St.Thomas University Fredericton, N.B., Canada Email PWEEKS@StThomasU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:00:06 EST Reply-To: oh susanna Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Susan B. Marine" Subject: women's music An excellent resource for interviews with women musicians (particularly rock, pop, and punk) "Angry Women in Rock", published by Juno Books at 1-800-758-5238. Included in the anthology is an interview with Joan Jett, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, Kathleen Hanna (founder of Riot Grrl band Bikini Kill) and Tribe 8 (one of the most prominent queercore bands of the 90's). More suggestions coming.... susan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:07:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Johanne Blank Subject: women in/talking about music MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I always recommend the anthology "Rock She Wrote" to people wanting to do work on women in/around rock music. It is not focused on women rockers, but does have a number of fascinating entries on the relationship women have to rock, to the (im)possibilites of being a woman in the rock milieu, and in regard to the oft-levelled complaints concerning misogyny in rock music and culture. Best, Johanne Blank http://stanley.feldberg.brandeis.edu/~blank/index.html ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:37:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: "correct" language (fwd) Hmm... Alana says that among American speakers of Yiddish "mensch is used for both men and women to mean a person of character." That's what I'd have said too. But in MANHOOD IN THE MAKING, David Gilmore, the author takes a different view -- that "Mensch" in Yiddish is understood as meaning a male unless further clarified, and pertains primarily to characteristics considered male virtues. Since I'd always believed differently, I conducted a little poll among my acquaintances with Yiddish in their childhood backgrounds -- and came up with both interpretations in approximately equal numbers. I know this is off-topic, but it kind of made me curious, and I just wonder if anyone can shed light on it. -- Gina Oboler ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:27:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Re: help with dates In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit John Money is definitely alive. See the article about the infamous John/Joan sexual reconstruction case in Rolling Stone a month or two ago. D. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:20:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: "correct" language (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I grew up in a household where Yiddish was the secret language of adults, so I learned very little, but enough to love it. I also grew up with the punch lines of Jewish jokes being traded back and forth as if that was (and it often was) the equivalent of a conversation. One of the oft repeated punch lines was "Two Jews, three opinions." So what I'd like to know about whether "mensch" means only men with menschy characteristics or both women and men who display such virtures is this: what is the third opinion? Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:14:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Murphy Subject: The Human Sex TLC Show MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This might be of interest. It has apparently been shown previously in Europe. The info comes from a press release _______________________________________________________________________ Desmond Morris, who gained fame with his 1967 book ``The Naked Ape,'' takes a coolly scientific look at gender in a program ,The Human Sexes ,on The Learning Channel and comes to this conclusion: Vive la difference. Men and women evolved with different strengths and weaknesses, and to believe otherwise is to ignore what biology shows to be true, Morris contends in the cable channel's six-part series, showing 9-11 p.m. EST Monday through Wednesday. Among the film's arguments: Men are better at single-minded pursuits because they honed the skill while pursuing wild game. Women, who handled a variety of duties while remaining in the village, excel at juggling multiple tasks and are more verbal. Pat Murphy, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology Sociology Dept SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 murphy@uno.cc.geneseo.edu 716-245-5324 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:01:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Alice Gebhart Subject: Women's Music Content-Type: text/plain Another good book is _She's a Rebel_ by Gillian Garr. I am finishing my thesis on Women's Music Festivals and Lesbian Community Building this semester and would be more than happy to share any information I have. Mary gebhartm@pilot.msu.edu -- Mary Gebhart Michigan State University Academic Advisor - Women's Studies Program 301 Linton Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 517/355-4495 Office Hours: MWF 9:00-1:00 TTH 10:00-2:00 Master's Candidate - American Studies Program 316 Linton Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:02:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: Re: The Human Sex TLC Show In-Reply-To: <199801292157.QAA20924@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have, as no doubt you all have too, heard many times about "separate evolutions" for men and women. But given the nature of sexual reproduction and the truncated nature of the Y chromosome (it has only about 20 genes on it), how could men and women possibly have evolved differently except with respect to a very few traits that would appear *only* on the Y chromosome (since both men and women inherit X chromosomes from their mothers)? If there is anyone on the list who does biology and women's studies, I would very much appreciate an answer to this question. My suspicion is that we're seeing another example of "folk biology." On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Pat Murphy wrote: > This might be of interest. It has apparently been shown previously in > Europe. The info comes from a press release > _______________________________________________________________________ > Desmond Morris, who gained fame with his 1967 book ``The Naked Ape,'' > takes a coolly scientific look at gender in a program ,The Human Sexes ,on > The Learning Channel and comes to this conclusion: Vive la difference. > > Men and women evolved with different strengths and > weaknesses, and to believe otherwise is to ignore what biology > shows to be true, Morris contends in the cable channel's six-part series, > showing 9-11 p.m. EST Monday through Wednesday. > > > > Among the film's arguments: Men are better at single-minded pursuits > because they honed the skill while pursuing wild game. Women, > who handled a variety of duties while remaining in the village, > excel at juggling multiple tasks and are more verbal. > > Pat Murphy, Ph.D. > > Associate Professor of Sociology > Sociology Dept > SUNY Geneseo > Geneseo, NY 14454 > murphy@uno.cc.geneseo.edu > 716-245-5324 > 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: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:29:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Yiddish mentsches I know when my mother told me to "sit up straight like a mensch" as well as more generic instances of menschlike behavior, she was not associating the word with traditionally male virtues. A mensch to her and evreyone else I've ever heard use it is someone who does the right thing in a situation -- in the case of "sit up straight" proper posture, but more often applied to ethical behavior. I also tried a search in ETHNIC NEWSWATCH, a fulltext database of articles from the American ethnic press, initially looking to see if the JEWISH FORWARD weekly column "On Language" had dealt with this question (it hasn't). I did find these usages pertaining to women -- and can't resist sharing the following: >From Masha Leon's news anecdotes column in THE FORWARD 1-7-94: "Bernie [Nussbaum, then counsel to the President] calls the First Lady an 'exceptional mentsch, as is the man she is married to.' " Can't top that one, but here's one more example of the term used in English and applied to a woman: >From THE FORWARD, 11-1-96 in an article by Seth Lipsky: "Congress caved in and gave the president a free hand in managing the matter of the loan guarantees. Not, however, before Mr. Bush was privately upbraided by the leader at the top of the Jewish political pyramid that season, Shoshana cardin, a magnificent mensch then serving as chairman [SIC!] of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations." Phyllis Holman Weisbard pweis@macc.wisc.edu ************************************************************************ Phyllis Holman Weisbard University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian Room 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706 http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ pweis@doit.wisc.edu ************************************************************************ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:53:07 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Candace Rypisi Subject: VISION 2000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all. I just finished reading Daphne Patai's article, "Why Not A Feminist Overhaul of Higher Education?" in the January 23 edition of the Chronicle. I was wondering if anyone out there from the New England area has a copy of Vision 2000 that they could forward, or post to the list, so I could read it for myself. Thank you. Candace Rypisi Project Coordinator Office of Women's Programs and Studies Colorado State University 112 Student Services Fort Collins, CO 80521 crypisi@ceao.sacc.colostate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 18:03:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: Women's Music Comments: To: Mary Alice Gebhart In-Reply-To: <199801292101.QAA63460@pilot004.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I wonder if you'd heard about the International Women's Music Festival held in Israel June 23-28, 1986. I initiated and produced it: 23 events from folk to avant-garde, in seven cities, with 250 participants from 12 countries. There were some glitches of course (I never did anything like this before, nor anyone else involved in planning and production) but on the whole it was an important showcase of women composers: ALL the works were by women; the performers could be men as well as women. If anyone wants more information, please feel free to contact me directly. 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: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:18:32 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: VISION 2000 In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980129155306.006902f4@ceao.sacc.colostate.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Candace Rypisi wrote: > Hi all. > > I just finished reading Daphne Patai's article, "Why Not A Feminist > Overhaul of Higher Education?" in the January 23 edition of the Chronicle. > I was wondering if anyone out there from the New England area has a copy of > Vision 2000 that they could forward, or post to the list, so I could read > it for myself. Thank you. > Is there a url for the Chronicle? --------------------------------------- Judy Evans jae2@york.ac.uk Typing, Dragon Dictate's. Opinions mine ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:40:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Shea Subject: Re: VISION 2000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Is there a url for the Chronicle? > >Judy Evans Yes, it is: chronicle.com You may need a password/be a subscriber to find the article. Lynne C. Shea Associate Professor,English Coordinator, Women's Resource Center Landmark College Putney, VT 05346 802-387-6778 lshea@landmarkcollege.org http//www.landmarkcollege.org WLDADD@home.ease.lsoft.com LDCOMP@home.ease.lsoft.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:50:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carolyn I. Wright" Subject: Re: VISION 2000 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Yes there is a url: http://chronicle.merit.edu Good Luck! Carolyn Wright On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Judy Evans wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Candace Rypisi wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > I just finished reading Daphne Patai's article, "Why Not A Feminist > > Overhaul of Higher Education?" in the January 23 edition of the Chronicle. > > I was wondering if anyone out there from the New England area has a copy of > > Vision 2000 that they could forward, or post to the list, so I could read > > it for myself. Thank you. > > > > Is there a url for the Chronicle? > > > --------------------------------------- > Judy Evans jae2@york.ac.uk > Typing, Dragon Dictate's. Opinions mine > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:02:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Nancy Jabbra" Subject: Re: human sex tlc show Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Because I almost never watch television, I haven't seen the programme. However, it certainly is not true that in some prehistoric era women remained in the village while the menfolk were off hunting. What we know from recent hunting and gathering societies is that in most of them - save in places like the arctic - women did not sit in the village, but went out actively to collect plant (and some animal) foods. They obviously needed to know a great deal of botany and geography to do so. Those recent h/g societies are significant because they serve as a reasonable model for human societies in prehistoric times. This issue was discussed by Sally Slocum in her "Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology" in Rayna R. Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1975. I might add that most of the biological differences between men and women are quantitative, and that Morris seems to be essentializing those quantitative differences. This point of view is, of course, conservative, and so it's not surprising that it's still current. Nancy Jabbra Women's Studies Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles njabbra@lmumail.lmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:27:18 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Alison Brookes Subject: CFP - AWORC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The Australian Women's Research Centre (AWORC) has been established by Deakin University to undertake multidisciplinary research and education on issues concerning Australian women. The Centre has four primary areas of focus: Education of women across the generations Research with and for women's community groups Consultancies and research for the government sector Identifying the working and research needs of the community and the private sector and conducting research relevant in the area of women's interests. Each semester AWORC has a seminar series giving women researchers, community workers and activists an opportunity to present and discuss their work (including completed projects and work in progress). Women interested in a place on the seminar program should contact: Alison Brookes, School of Social Inquiry, Deakin University, 3217 ph: 03/5227-71341 or 03/9376-4136 fax 03/5227-2018 email: alib@deakin.edu.au Seminars will be scheduled in both Melbourne and Geelong. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:39:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Stats on date rape In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980126091016.007a3d30@uwc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have comments and a question, not wrath, in response to your reporting of that police officer's statement, Julie. Comment: If 9 of 10 women who came in to report rape in her station 'usually broke down and confessed they were just trying to get back at someone', then presumably no formal rape charge was pressed in those cases; concern about false accusations would be allayed. However, we still don't know whether any or how many of those women were indeed raped. They may have been raped and came to report it to the police because they were angry at the man (You were talking about male rapes of females.) 'Getting back at him' may have been anger because he raped her, the rape may have been part of something else he did that angered her. What is stunning and really worrisome is that the police were acting acting as interrogators/investigators, judges and juries. Their role, I believe, is to take a report of a complaint and turn it over to the prosecutors office for inquiry and decision whether to move the case to court. This step is also not trouble-free. Both police and prosecutors want cases they can win. Result: cases they deem 'unwinnable' don't get to court, don't count as statistics. At the police level the problem is egregious. Someone who comes with a complaint of being robbed isn't isn't interrogated in the way described in the rape cases described above. Cash can't be verified, but police may search for the accused. When I reported my car stolen, by telephone, the police asked only for a description and my licence plate number, then searched for it. For a burglary, I was asked only to list the items missing. My question: What is the character of the questioning in the police station? I ask because it is quite possible that the women were manipulated into admitting that they had anger against the men they were accusing and the admission was interpreted to mean the rape charge was false. Apparently, from what you say, the rape charge was dropped after police interrogation. We don't know why. We also don't know, and should, whether the questioner had been trained for dealing with sex crimes and what that training was like. Did the police officer give that kind of information? It would not matter whether the police officer doing the questioning is a woman or man. Both vary substantially in their attitudes toward rape and its victims. The old myth 'she asked for it' concept is all too familiar. We know from history in many cultures that numerous women adopt it, speak for patriarchy; they derive power from a patriarchal system. For this reason, the testimony Daphne mentions is questionable. We'd need to know more about the female interrogators to credit them. Given federal crime investigation reports that rape remains a vastly unreported crime (I think the figure is 50% unreported), the police officer's report is stunning, indeed. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net At 09:10 AM 1/26/98 -0800, you wrote: >At the risk of invoking everyone's wrath, I wanted to post an inquiry. >Last spring we had a female police officer present on our campus about >rohypnol and rape. During the question/answer period she revealed that >only about 1 out of 10 rapes reported to their station were valid. The >other 9 out of 10 were made up by women who usually broke down and >confessed they were just trying to get back at someone. We in the audience >were stunned. Assuming that she's right, what might explain such behavior? > If she is right, then men do have some reason to fear false accusation. I >have no particular reason to doubt her. She assured me that she wants to >believe every woman who comes into the station and the officers proceed on >the assumption that the report is truthful. > >Has any research been conducted on false accusations? Does anyone else >know of this kind of phenomenon? > >Julie Tharp >jtharp@uwc.edu > > >At 05:12 PM 1/23/98 -0500, you wrote: >>My my, here we go again with the "false accusation" faux fears. It >>seems a young Brown student was falsely accused of date rape, and as bad >>cases make bad law, I seem to be surrounded by otherwise intelligent men >>who are using this as "evidence" that false accusation is a real problem >>in date rape. >> >>I should have the stats somewhere, but I can't find them and brainfog is >>setting in. Does someone have the statistics on the frequency of date >>rape on college campuses; are there any stats on the frequency of MALE >>rape (men raping men) on college campuses? and are there any stats on >>the frequency of false accusations? >> >>I have made the argument -- brazenly, without the stats -- that the odds >>are greater that a young man will be raped by another man (one must >>emphasize this is not a homosexual act but an act of violence) than that >>he will have his life "ruined" by a false accusation of date rape. >> >>There ought to be SOME statistics I can use to back up this statement. >> >>Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof. of History/women's Studies >>villanova university (on medical leave since January 1995) >>mailto:schweit2@ix.netcom.com >>-- >>"I get knocked down, but I get up again: >>You're never going to keep me down!" >>Chumbawumba >> >> > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:27:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Patai Essay re VISION 2000 available from WMST-L MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Daphne Patai has sent me a copy of her essay "Why Not A Feminist Overhaul of Higher Education?" that appeared in the January 23, 1998 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. With her permission, I have made it available as a WMST-L file, which I've called FEMINIST OVERHAUL . To get a copy of this essay, send the message GET FEMINIST OVERHAUL to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you want to see what other resources are available, add a second line that says simply INDEX WMST-L . More information about the WMST-L file collection is contained in the WMST-L User's Guide: http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . Please be sure to send your requests for Daphne's essay, etc., to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU, not to WMST-L. Many thanks to Daphne for making this essay available to WMST-L readers. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:06:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: human sex tlc show Comments: To: "Dr. Nancy Jabbra" In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19980129170148.35c76fce@popmail.lmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The fact is that in most gathering-hunting societies women and men did some hunting together. Also, in agricultural villages when men were away for long periods, women hunted alone, or the folks would have done without meat for very long periods. I have an article in Rayna's book TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF WOMEN. It is "Aboriginal Women: Male and Female anthropological perspectives." It is good to see these early (1975) books on the anthropology of women recalled. They represent careful and substantial research, which is never dated. I hear people talking mistakenly about these books as "dated". Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:18:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kay A. Anderson" Subject: Re: human sex tlc show Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Not to mention the false teleological argument: _Because_ women did multiple tasks in villages, they therefore _became_....... and _because_ men hunted game, they "inherited" a single-task focus... I'm amazed that any educated person would swallow this stuff if it were written as stated. K. Anderson (kande2@aol.com) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:11:52 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra D Shattuck Subject: Re: "correct" language MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Peter Weeks wrote: > Hi, colleagues: > > Further to my question about different strategies in English and > French, I was wondering if the neuter in German was contemplated for > the use of neutral, non-gender-marked terms for incumbents of > occupational & other positions. Certainly, in French, one is stuck > with binary choices of grammatical gender, but German seems to offer > another alternative. > Cheers! Peter Elisabeth Burr (who just posted something from Gerhard-Mercatur-Universitaet in Duisburg) could correct me if I'm wrong here, because I've been out of the loop of popular German for a while, but I don't think that using the neuter form has ever been a practiced solution for gender inequality in the German language, since the use of the neuter ('das') usually indicates object status. So, for instance, nouns such as "das Weib," which combines a neuter article with a clearly female noun, provide linguistic insight into gender hierarchy. And even though "das Maedchen" (girl) is neuter because of the diminutive "-chen" suffix, which requires a neuter article, the word "girl" is nevertheless always linguistically neuter. (I don't think there's any example of a neuter article with a clearly masculine noun.) At any rate, what about languages which do not use gender specific pronouns? I think that Susu (Sierra Leone) is such a language. I've always thought that eradication of gender specific lanuage would abolish gender inequality, but in my wiser years, I suspect it's all a good deal more complicated than that. Sandra D. Shattuck Humanities/Women's Studies University of Arizona Tucson AZ shattuck@u.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:43:12 +0100 Reply-To: thomasg@ifi.uio.no Sender: Women's Studies List From: Thomas Gramstad Subject: Re: human sex tlc show In-Reply-To: "Kay A. Anderson" 's message of Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:18:24 EST K. Anderson wrote: > Not to mention the false teleological argument: _Because_ women > did multiple tasks in villages, they therefore _became_....... and > _because_ men hunted game, they "inherited" a single-task focus... > I'm amazed that any educated person would swallow this stuff if it > were written as stated. Yes, it's amazing. It's even more primitive than social darwinism -- it's social lamarcquism... Thomas Gramstad thomasg@ifi.uio.no ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:02:28 +0100 Reply-To: thomasg@ifi.uio.no Sender: Women's Studies List From: Thomas Gramstad Subject: Re: The Human Sex TLC Show In-Reply-To: Pat Murphy 's message of Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:14:36 -0500 > Desmond Morris, who gained fame with his 1967 book ``The Naked > Ape,'' takes a coolly scientific look at gender in a program ,The > Human Sexes ,on The Learning Channel and comes to this conclusion: > Vive la difference. The interesting thing about the phrase "Vive la difference" is that it in fact serves to deny and erase a lot of difference -- big and small individual differences and human variations that need to be hidden, marginalized and suppressed, so that two essentialist cardboard caricatures can be presented as "normal". > Men and women evolved with different strengths and weaknesses, and > to believe otherwise is to ignore what biology shows to be true, Humans evolved with different strengths and weaknesses, and to believe otherwise is to ignore what biology shows to be true. > Morris contends in the cable channel's six-part series, showing > 9-11 p.m. EST Monday through Wednesday. Thomas Gramstad thomasg@ifi.uio.no ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:18:10 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: Yiddish mentsches Thanks Phyllis! Now, when I use Gilmore's book in class, I have ammunition to back up my opinion that his interpretation of "mensch" is off base. -- Gina ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:36:57 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela Pattatucci Subject: Re: The Human Sex TLC Show MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >But given the nature of sexual reproduction > and the truncated nature of the Y chromosome (it has only about 20 genes > on it), how could men and women possibly have evolved differently except > with respect to a very few traits that would appear *only* on the Y > chromosome (since both men and women inherit X chromosomes from their > mothers)? Without getting overly technical, the key concept to grasp is that it is not necessary to have separate and distinct genes to have difference, only variations in the regulation and expression of the same genes. There are real documented differences that exist between females and males. Perhaps the best example that I can think of right now is regulation of the menstrual cycle. Although this is largely regulated hormonally, the hormonal building blocks are coded for by genes, as are the hormonal receptors located on and within cells of the body. It turns out that males have ALL of these genes. Some are turned off entirely during various points of the initial sex determination cascade, in which the genitalia and reproductive organs develop. Remember, female development is the ground state (the Bible has it backwards). The male developmental pathway consists of a series of proteins that turn off the female ground state. For the most part, females have all of these genes, with the exception of the SRY locus, formerly known as the "testes determining factor", located on the Y chromosome. However, they are either turned off or are regulated to be expressed at a much lower level. All other genes regulating the menstrual cycle in females are present in males. Many of the proteins involved are required for other functions in the body. Men do not experience characteristics associated with the monthly menstrual cycle largely because the receptors for the relevant proteins in the process are either not present or are blocked. The basic take home lesson is that human beings have the same complement of genes. That's what makes us human and not dogs or cats. The reason there is so much variety in the human form is that we have different ALLELES (versions) of the same genes. (Think of it this way, telephones come in many different versions, but they all basically do the same thing.) Females and males differ in genetic complement ONLY by those genes contained on the Y chromosome. Other than this, we have the same genes. What makes females and males different is variable regulation and expression of the same genes. I will not comment on the alleged personality/cognitive differences between females and males because I believe that research to be flawed in its approach. ************************************************************* Dra. Angela Pattatucci Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Rio Piedras a_pattatucci@upr1.upr.clu.edu "De poetas, tontos y locos todos tenemos un poco" ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:26:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: Re: human sex tlc show Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit <> Glad to see someone pointing out the rhetorical flaws in the statement. I, too, find it hard to believe that anyone (except perhaps Newt Gingrich) is giving serious weight to Desmond Morris these days. Here are some more rhetorical flaws: The statement is based upon the following unproven assumptions: 1) Men are better at single-minded pursuits 2) Women are better at multi-task work 3.) Hunters (i.e. primitive men) never needed to be able to multi-task. 4.) People caring for the village (i.e., primitive women) never needed to be single-minded about anything. 5.) Behavior characteristics are attached to our DNA. 6.) Somehow in that complex mechanism of fertilization, where everyone inherits equal amounts of DNA from their mothers and fathers, the gene for "singlemindedness" is passed exclusively to males, and the gene for "multi- task abilities" is passed on exclusively to females. And finally, even if we accept the statement at full value, men are now genetically defective and maladaptive because they are incapable of multi- tasking (have you read the help-wanted pages lately?). ;- ) Georgia NeSmith, PhD Writer, Editor, Writing Coach The Writers' Edge Rochester NY Adjunct faculty in Language and Literature Rochester Institute of Technology gnesmith@aol.com (best) gxngpt@ritvax.isc.rit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:47:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Bystydzienski Subject: Call For Papers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CALL FOR PAPERS CONTEMPORARY JUSTICE REVIEW, a new journal focusing on social justice issues, invites submissions for a special issue on "Coalition Building/Radical Alliances." We seek papers that explore ways in which otherwise disparate people and groups are brought together to forge new connections and partnerships that challenge existing inequalities and injustices. These may include alliances across the barriers of one or more of the following: gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, culture, nationality, religion, age, and ability. Possible topics could include practical and theoretical aspects of coalition building, the significance of coalitions for accomplishing social change, and how identity politics and difference can impede and/or make possible the creation of new alliances. We are interested especially in personal accounts wherein authors examine the processes of coalition formation on both the interpersonal and group/structural levels. Cross-cultural, international, interdisciplinary, and academic/non-academic papers are welcome. DEADLINE for submissions of one-page abstracts is April 30, 1998. Notification of selected abstracts will be made by May 30, 1998. Completed papers will be due by September 30, 1998. For furher information please contact either of the guest editors: Jill M. Bystydzienski Steven P. Schacht Department of Scoiology Department of Sociology Franklin College Montana State University Franklin, IN 45131 Bozeman, MT 59715 Phone: 317-738-8270 Phone: 406-522-7466 E-mail: BYSTYDJ@Franklincoll.edu E-mail: SPSCHACHT@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:12:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: The Human Sex TLC Show Comments: To: Angela Pattatucci In-Reply-To: <01ISZH5W24ZM004HZQ@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I was intrigued by what Dr. Pattatucci wrote: "Females and males differ in genetic complement ONLY by those genes contained on the Y chromosome. Other than this, we have the same genes. What makes females and males different is variable regulation and expression of the same genes." On the one hand, it suggests that males and females share a lot of genetic material and thus possibly potential as well (for strength, emotion, etc.) although the evidence is, as pointed out, flawed by specious research methods. On the other hand, the fact that males and females differ because of the Y chromosome (found in all males and very rarely in females) may mean that there is important information in the Y chromosome that creates and regulates sex differences. The Y chromosome may trump all the similarities that appear on the X chromosome (such as menstruation capability). I don't have the answer, since I'm not a biologist, but this is an intriguing venue for study/research, I think. Finally, how does biological information (genes, proteins, regulation) advance or impede our understanding of sex and gender? Is there really a simple binary (M/F) or is there a continuum (or circle) that would allow for flexibility of expression on the level of social performativity? I ask because I am uncomfortable with elective plastic surgery, including sex reassignment, and would naively like to change not the flesh but the fashion, and enlighten people to be comfortable with a wide range of roles for men and women, including cross-dressing and cross-acting. 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: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:15:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Pershing Subject: Request for info. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am a feminist folklorist and popular culture researcher, collecting jokes and stories that are circulating about the Clinton/Lewisky "scandal." I'm interested in the commentary about gender roles and gendered relations being communicated in this material. If you have heard jokes, limericks, etc. about this situation, I'd appreciate it if you would pass them along to me. Please send them to me privately at LLP@cnsvax.albany.edu, not to the general list. Thank you, Linda Pershing Department of Women's Studies Email: LLP@cnsvax.albany.edu Social Sciences Bldg. 341 (518) 442-3979 (office) State University of New York (518) 442-4936 (fax) Albany, NY 12222 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:16:29 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Steven Schacht Subject: Re: Call For Papers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi, Jill. The CFP looks great, and identical to the version I just sent to ASA Footnotes. Hope you have a nice weekend. Talk with you soon. Best wishes, Steve ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:21:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Steven Schacht Subject: Re: Call For Papers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Apologies to the list . . . thought this message had been sent to me privately. Steve Schacht ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:01:48 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: "correct" language In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You are right, it has never been contemplated as a solution. "Das Mensch" came into my mind, because German is always mentioned because, in opposition to Romance languages, there is a so called neutral term (although grammatically masculine) for "human being", whereas in Romance languages, at least according to official grammar and dictionaries "homme", "hombre", "uomo" is used to denote "human being" and "man". This is then used in semantics, for example, where as linguists, paradigms are being built on this bases, which result in: homme hombre uomo homme (+ male) femme (- male) hombre (+) mujer (-) uomo (+) donna=20 whereas in German you get: Mensch Mann (+ male) Frau (+ female) "Das Mensch" then is interesting, because as a neutral term it could really embrace both. Historically, though, "der Mensch" has survived, "die Mensch" vanished completely, and "das Mensch" means, as I said, horrible woman. Perhaps there is some relationship with Latin, where "homo" and "sacerdos", as "hic et haec sacerdos" and "hic et haec homo" shows, denoted female and male human beings. With Christianity taking over, only the form with the masculine article survived.=20 For what concerns linguistics of the Romance languages, I think, we should substitute, in our paradigms, "homme", "hombre", "uomo", when we are talking about semantic fields, by "human being", "=EAtre humain", "ser humano",= "essere umano", instead of propagating the wrong idea, that "homme, hombre, uomo" is generic and specific, thus subsuming the female under the male and the woman under the man, thus stating that man is primary, woman secondary, the the= male is the norm, woman an exception, the masculine form is the base, the= feminine form a derivation there of. For what concerns "M=E4dchen", grammatically, being a diminutive, it is neutre and takes "das" as article. The deeper semantics are coming to the surface, however, nowadays so that instead of saying, "das M=E4dchen, es", "das M=E4dchen, sie= " is more and more used. For what concerns diminutives which denote male beings you= find "das B=FCbchen", "das Kn=E4blein", "das Jungchen", "das M=E4nnlein /= M=E4nnchen". The problem really is, that in the latter cases we always understand "small boy/man", whereas "M=E4dchen" is the only word for "girl". As somebody said, and I think this is true, it implies that girls aren't people before menstruation or worse before having been made a woman by a man, whereas boys are always young people, they can only be made smaller. Sorry, it got a bit long. Elisabeth >On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Peter Weeks wrote: >> Hi, colleagues: >> >> Further to my question about different strategies in English and >> French, I was wondering if the neuter in German was contemplated for >> the use of neutral, non-gender-marked terms for incumbents of >> occupational & other positions. Certainly, in French, one is stuck >> with binary choices of grammatical gender, but German seems to offer >> another alternative. >> Cheers! Peter > >Elisabeth Burr (who just posted something from >Gerhard-Mercatur-Universitaet in Duisburg) could correct me if I'm >wrong here, because I've been out of the loop of popular German for a >while, but I don't think that using the neuter form has ever been a >practiced solution for gender inequality in the German language, since the >use of the neuter ('das') usually indicates object status. So, for >instance, nouns such as "das Weib," which combines a neuter article with a >clearly female noun, provide linguistic insight into gender hierarchy. And >even though "das Maedchen" (girl) is neuter because of the diminutive >"-chen" suffix, which requires a neuter article, the word "girl" is >nevertheless always linguistically neuter. (I don't think >there's any example of a neuter article with a clearly masculine noun.) >At any rate, what about languages which do not use gender specific >pronouns? I think that Susu (Sierra Leone) is such a language. I've always >thought that eradication of gender specific lanuage would abolish gender >inequality, but in my wiser years, I suspect it's all a good deal more >complicated than that. > >Sandra D. Shattuck >Humanities/Women's Studies >University of Arizona >Tucson AZ >shattuck@u.arizona.edu > > ------------------------------------------- Drin. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard Mercator Universitaet-GH Duisburg Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg Tel.: +49 203 3791957 fax: +49 203 3793122 e-mail: Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:15:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: "correct" language Re: African languages and gender. I'm sure there are linguists who know more than I do on the list, but most African languages don't use gendered pronouns. One African language I'm familiar with (Swahili), but not another Kalenjin) -- note that these are East African languages, and maybe pretty different from those of Sierra Leone -- has something like gender in European languages in the form of noun classes that demand agreement of adjectives. However, these have nothing to do with sex or gender in the non-linguistic sense. E.g., there's one category for people and animals in Swahili, including both males and females, and six categories for inanimate objects of a variety of kinds (with as far as I could ever discern, no clear rules for figuring out which category something belongs in; you just have to memorize them). It seems quite clear to me that having languages that don't have gendered pronouns -- so that you can't always tell immediately which gender the student is in a sentence like "Mwanafunzi alisoma kitabu" ("The student read the book") -- doesn't make East African cultures any less sexist. FWIW. -- Gina O. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:17:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Cangialosi Subject: Re: VISION 2000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Did anybody read that obnoxious article by John Leo in U.S. News and World Report, Jan. 19, about Vision 2000? He sure made it sound like a bunch of dictatorial lunatic bitches were planning to overtake higher education and eventually the world and that truth, justice, and the American way were certainly being threatened by "campus feminists" (particulary at U Mass). Interestingly, all the women's studies faculty here at Keene State were mysteriously mailed a copy of this article and we have no idea who sent it to us... >Hi all. > >I just finished reading Daphne Patai's article, "Why Not A Feminist >Overhaul of Higher Education?" in the January 23 edition of the Chronicle. >I was wondering if anyone out there from the New England area has a copy of >Vision 2000 that they could forward, or post to the list, so I could read >it for myself. Thank you. > >Candace Rypisi >Project Coordinator >Office of Women's Programs and Studies >Colorado State University >112 Student Services >Fort Collins, CO 80521 >crypisi@ceao.sacc.colostate.edu ******************************************************************* Karen R. Cangialosi Associate Professor of Biology Coordinator, Women's Studies Mailstop #2001 /\_^_/\ Keene State College / / O \ \ Keene, NH 03435-2001 email: kcangial@keene.edu fax: 603-358-2897 phone: 603-358-2578 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:37:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pam Frost Subject: Re: VISION 2000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For everyone like me who missed the print copy of this article and wanted to take a look at it, I found it on the Web at: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/980119/19JOHN.HTM At 11:17 AM 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote: >Did anybody read that obnoxious article by John Leo in U.S. News and World >Report, Jan. 19, about Vision 2000? He sure made it sound like a bunch of >dictatorial lunatic bitches were planning to overtake higher education and >eventually the world and that truth, justice, and the American way were >certainly being threatened by "campus feminists" (particulary at U Mass). >Interestingly, all the women's studies faculty here at Keene State were >mysteriously mailed a copy of this article and we have no idea who sent it >to us... > >>Hi all. >> >>I just finished reading Daphne Patai's article, "Why Not A Feminist >>Overhaul of Higher Education?" in the January 23 edition of the Chronicle. >>I was wondering if anyone out there from the New England area has a copy of >>Vision 2000 that they could forward, or post to the list, so I could read >>it for myself. Thank you. >> >>Candace Rypisi >>Project Coordinator >>Office of Women's Programs and Studies >>Colorado State University >>112 Student Services >>Fort Collins, CO 80521 >>crypisi@ceao.sacc.colostate.edu > > >******************************************************************* >Karen R. Cangialosi >Associate Professor of Biology >Coordinator, Women's Studies >Mailstop #2001 /\_^_/\ >Keene State College / / O \ \ >Keene, NH 03435-2001 > >email: kcangial@keene.edu >fax: 603-358-2897 >phone: 603-358-2578 > > Pam Frost ------------------------------------------------------------------ Associate Editor, Science and Research / The Ohio State University University Communications / 1125 Kinnear Rd. 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Deb Morrow corzines@siu.edu _____..---======+*+=======---.._____ ___Deb Morrow________,-='=====____ ============== _____=====`= (._corzines@siu.edu____) - _-=_/ `------=+=-------' / /__...---==='---+---_' '----'---.___ - _ = _.-' Explore all your options -- `-------' something might surprise you! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:21:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carol perkins Subject: Master of Science in Women's Studies MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The Women's Studies Department of Mankato State University in Mankato, Minnesota invites interested students committed to progressive social change to apply to our Master of Science program. Our university College of Graduate Studies recently discovered their error in processing requests for admission to Graduate Studies; due to this confusion for potential applicants, we are extending our deadline to June 10, 1998 for prospective students who wish to begin graduate studies in Fall 1998. The undergraduate minor in Women's Studies was instituted in 1975; the B. S. and B. A. in 1984. The Master of Science degree was approved in 1986. The department has 3 full-time faculty, and interdisciplinary program faculty representing 17 departments. Our uniqueness as a department rests in our public commitment to feminist scholarship and activism, our involvement in social change, and the high level of initiative and commitment of our students. Information about our program is accessible on our web site: http:www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/womenst/WShp.html Interested students may contact the graduate coordinator and chair of the department, Carol Perkins: e-mail: COPWST@vax1.mankato.msus.edu; phone: 507-389-2077: or fax: 507-389-6377. Carol O. Perkins, Chairperson Department of Women's Studies Mankato State University MSU Box 64 P.O.Box 8400 Mankato, MN 56002-8400 (507) 389-5025;2077 e-mail: COPWST@VAX1.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:04:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sibelan Forrester Subject: Re: "correct" language In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980130170148.006af490@unidui> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I enjoyed the information provided by Sandra Shattuck and Elisabeth Burr, and want to add a few examples from Russian, another language that (like German, unlike Romance languages) has a three-part gender system. (Sorry for length, please erase if uninterested.) 1) The names for the grammatical genders are "muzhskoi" (masculine), zhenskaja (feminine), and "srednee" (neuter, but literally "middle") -- which creates the image of a continuum where neuter is halfway between the extremes of masculinity and femininity -- as if acquiring characteristics of the wrong sex or gender threatens a human being with either monstrosity ("chudovishche," monster), immaturity (the archaic "ditya," child) or abstraction ("sushchestvo," a being or entity). 2) The history of grammar (both prescriptive and descriptive) in Russian suggests that some grammatical change is caused by gender anxieties. The older Slavic system of declensional types associated with particular IndoEuropean forms was more like Latin; as Russian acquired a written tradition along with Byzantine Christianity, the several forms gradually coalesced into three genders (as above). At the same time, contradictions developed between natural and logical gender: many words or forms referring to men or boys had what came to be seen as "feminine" endings. Today grammar is taught with a fair number of words ending in the "feminine" -a, but of masculine gender ("second-declension masculine nouns"); the words themselves decline as if grammatically feminine, but take masculine adjective and verb forms. Interestingly, because the most standard and neutral form of affectinate/diminutive ending has the feminine marker -a, this class includes many kinship terms -- dyadya "uncle," dyedushka "grandfather," and papa "dad" -- and the majority of informal forms of the first name -- Sasha, Vanya, Alyosha, etc. (all of them words that could not be more strongly masculine in a system of logical rather than grammatical gender!). At the same time, prescriptive grammars have resisted any corresponding use of grammatically masculine words as feminine. In recent years there have been signs of such drift (the best example is "vrach," a medical doctor; 60% or so of doctors were female at the end of the Soviet period). 3) Serious Russian female writers and artists tend to resist, often strenuously, being called the equivalent of "poetess" or "authoress" or even "female artist" (khudozhnitsa), since the "-ess" forms are seen as condescending if not pejorative (much as in English). Feminism (both the word and any set of theories) has been effectively stigmatized by its cooptation under socialism. On how the Soviet Union educated its supposedly equal citizens to accept naturalized gender difference, see Lynn Attwood's excellent THE NEW SOVIET MAN AND WOMAN (Indiana UP, date of publication in the mid or late 1980's). 4) Russian today bears etymological traces of history (example: "butterly" is "babochka," literally "little grandmother" or "little old lady" -- the argument is that butterflies, like Greek _psyche_, were seen as the souls of departed ancestors, and female ancestors at that); now it delivers a mix of gender in referring to people. The neuter word for child, "ditya," is now archaic or solemn (or ironic!), replaced by the masculine "rebyonok," whose ending is the same as the "offspring" ending used for most kinds of animals; the words for "boy" and "girl" however match their logical genders: "mal'chik" (masc.) and "devochka" (fem.). The word for "man" has a feminine ending -- "muzhchina" -- while "woman" is "zhenshchina". "Male" and "masculine" are conflated in a single term, as are "female" and "feminine;" the words for "manly" and "womanly" also mean "courageous" and "effiminate." The word for "person," "chelovek," is grammatically masculine, often used to refer to a woman ("Ona khoroshii chelovek," she is a good person; completely neutral word usage), but it's also used as a regular term of address ("molodoy chelovek") for a man until he's about 40. Note also the range of words for "person": chelovek -- masculine (standard, unmarked word) sushchetvo -- neuter ("entity," very abstract or elevated) osoba -- feminine (originally somewhat elevated, now often ironic or slightly denigratory) Is anyone reading this list familiar with languages that don't distinguish gender even as much as English does? (Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Georgian...?) I know some Finns have suggested that the lack of separate terms for "he" and "she" shows that their society is more egalitarian with regard to gender, but the Finnish woman who told me about it was skeptical. Sibelan Forrester Assistant Professor of Russian Modern Languages and Literatures Swarthmore College SFORRES1@swarthmore.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:49:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Cangialosi Subject: Re: Patai Essay re VISION 2000 available from WMST-L Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Is an electronic copy of VISION 2000 itself available? > Daphne Patai has sent me a copy of her essay "Why Not A Feminist >Overhaul of Higher Education?" that appeared in the January 23, 1998 issue >of the Chronicle of Higher Education. With her permission, I have made it >available as a WMST-L file, which I've called FEMINIST OVERHAUL . To get a >copy of this essay, send the message GET FEMINIST OVERHAUL to >LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you want to see what other resources are >available, add a second line that says simply INDEX WMST-L . More >information about the WMST-L file collection is contained in the WMST-L >User's Guide: http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . > > Please be sure to send your requests for Daphne's essay, etc., to >LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU, not to WMST-L. > > Many thanks to Daphne for making this essay available to WMST-L >readers. > > Joan Korenman > >***************************************************************************** >* Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * >* U. of Md. Baltimore County * >* Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * >* * >* The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * >***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:03:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marc Sacks Subject: Gender neutrality and French titles Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Not long after reading some postings on the subject, I encountered the following tidbit on Feminist News for 1/14: Guardians of French Language Resist Feminist Progress The French Academy, guardian of the French language, has submitted a request to French President Jacques Chirac to resolve a matter in which recognition of women cabinet members is resulting in an attack on the French language. Eight women ministers out of 26 in the government are being addressed as Madame la ministre, rather than the masculine Madame le ministre. The letter addressed to the president stated, it appears that decrees listing ministers duties do not include the right to change French grammar and usage of their own accord. The president has not commented. Education Minister Segolene Royale suggested, if certain words have no feminine its simply because for centuries there were no women holding down these jobs. [Source: AFP - January 9, 1998] (Sorry about the irregularity of the above text. I copied it from a smaller font and lines broke in the original.) The URL where I found this is http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/january98/0114.html. Marc Sacks msacks@world.std.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:16:01 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela Pattatucci Subject: Re: The Human Sex TLC Show MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > On the other hand, the fact that males and females differ because of the Y > chromosome (found in all males and very rarely in females) may mean that > there is important information in the Y chromosome that creates and > regulates sex differences. The Y chromosome may trump all the similarities > that appear on the X chromosome (such as menstruation capability). To date, the genes on the Y chromosome in human males appear to be involved in either sex determination (SRY locus) or sperm production. This does not mean that something won't be discovered in the future, but it is unlikely. >Is there really a simple binary (M/F) or is there a continuum (or circle) that >would allow for flexibility of expression on the level of social performativity? As someone that has been involved directly in sex and gender research for most of my career, I have been both shocked and exasperated by the narrow-mindedness of some sex researchers. It's as if no research outside their domain has any relevance. I'll answer your question with a quote, "definitions set parameters and thus constrain possibilities". The simple binary probably is an oversimplification because it eliminates the possibility of a continuum (or circle, or whatever polygon you choose). Once the binary is invoked, everything else is interpreted in its context. Hence, other binaries emerge: homosexual/heterosexual, cis-gendered/trans-gendered, etc. Although it may be more conceptually pleasing, the continuum (or circle) has the same problem for precisely the same reason. For this reason, it is my opinion that most research investigating female/male differences is flawed because it assumes the conclusion at the outset. The logic goes something like this: females and males are different anatomically, so there must be other differences as well. Let's look until we find some. It is what I call the "witch hunt methodology" for conducting research. A community is undergoing rough times and they search for a scapegoat to blame them on. Someone suggests that there must be a witch in their midst. A massive search is launched to find the witch, using standard criteria of definition. When a witch is not found, the community simply REDEFINES what a witch is, and continues doing so until someone fits the description. This analogy is a fairly accurate description of the female/male difference research. ************************************************************* Dra. Angela Pattatucci Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Rio Piedras a_pattatucci@upr1.upr.clu.edu "De poetas, tontos y locos todos tenemos un poco" ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 02:16:40 EST Reply-To: mpryse@cnsvax.albany.edu Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Marjorie Pryse Organization: Ualbany English Dept. Subject: Invitation to Membership in NWSA January 30, 1998 Dear WMST-L Subscriber: I am writing to thank you if you are already a member of the National Women's Studies Association and to urge you to become a member if you are not. We could do so much more for feminist education if we had the support of your annual membership. While all of the other feminist organizations to which you belong remain important, I am writing to urge you to move NWSA closer to the top of your list of priorities. NWSA membership can do a lot for you professionally. 1998 members will receive the NWSA 1997-98 Membership Directory, and will then become eligible for inclusion in the 1998-99 Directory. We anticipate that the Membership Directory, revived this year for the first time since the 1980s, will prove to be an increasingly valuable resource for feminist scholars and activists. NWSA membership will also give you full information on the annual conference. The 1998 conference will take place June 10-14 at SUNY-Oswego, co-sponsored in part with the Women's Rights National Historical Park; the 1999 conference will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Albuquerque. The annual conference both allows for disciplinary panels and networking--and for scholars and teachers to keep up with interdisciplinary scholarship within Women's Studies. In addition, NWSA membership includes a subscription to NWSA Journal as well as NWSAction, our newsletter. The most recent issue of NWSAction includes extensive information on conference deadlines, feminist journals, calls-for-papers, scholarships and fellowships (some of which are particularly directed to NWSA members), and 22 job listings. Please add NWSA membership to your priority list of organizations to support as you go about your work of feminist teaching, research, and service in your own institutions. I am following this message with a copy of the 1998 Membership Form which you may print out and return to the National Office. In feminist struggle and celebration, Marjorie Pryse Chair, Membership Committee Past President, 1995-96 mpryse@cnsvax.albany.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:25:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: NWSA Membership Form MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I am forwarding this NWSA Membership Form to WMST-L with a warning: DO NOT UNDER *ANY* CIRCUMSTANCES SEND THIS FORM BACK TO WMST-L. Print it out and mail it to the postal mail address at the bottom of the form. If you can't print it out, write to the NWSA requesting that they send you a copy via postal mail. DO NOT HIT REPLY, DO NOT SEND THE FORM TO WMST-L, and do not send messages to WMST-L about the form! Anyone sending it to WMST-L will be removed from the list. Thanks. Joan Korenman **************************************************** NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP FORM 1998 Enclosed is my check for: A regular membership which includes subscriptions to NWSAction and NWSA Journal at a reduced fee: _____Individual membership plus Journal, $80.00 _____Institutional membership plus Journal, $190 __________ A special membership (includes NWSAction but not NWSA Journal): _____ $25 for students, adjuncts and community activists _____ $60 for faculty/staff _____ $100 for supporting members _____ $1000 for life members _____ $60 for small, developing programs _____ $160 for established programs _____ $200 for large programs _____ $600 for program 5-year membership __________ A one-year subscription to NWSA Journal at a reduced rate for "special" members only: _____$30 for individual member subscriptions _____$50 for institutional member subscriptions __________ A contribution of _________, to invest securely in NWSA's future __________ Plus $10 for postage outside of the U.S., Canada, or Mexico __________ Plus $15 to cover cost of check drawn on a non-U.S. bank __________ TOTAL: _______________ Name__________________________________________________________ E-mail address _________________________________________________________ Postal or Institutional Address _______________________________________________________________ City/State/ZIP___________________________________Telephone__________ Contact person for institutional membership _________________________________________________________________________ For NWSA Membership Directory: ______You have my permission to include my name and the information listed above in the directory. I am or would like to be affiliated with the following: Caucuses:___Aging and Ageism; ___Community College; ___Disability; ___Jewish Women; ___Lesbian; ___Poor & Working Class; ___Pre-K - 12 Educators; ___Students; ___Women of Color; ___Women's Centers/Services Task Forces:___Academic Discrimination; ___Eco-Feminism; ___Feminist Scholarship; ___Independent Scholars; ___International; ___Librarians; ___Peace; ___Science & Technology; ___Women and Crime; ___Women's Spirituality MAIL WITH PAYMENT TO: NWSA, University of Maryland, 7100 Baltimore Blvd., Suite 301, College Park, MD 20740 (from Marjorie Pryse, Chair, Membership Committee, mpryse@cnsvax.albany.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:43:49 -0500 Reply-To: Paula Rothenberg Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rothenberg Subject: NWSA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'd like to second Marjorie Pryse's invitation/plea to list members to join the National Women's Studies Association. In addition to the tangible benefits membership provides and the opportunities it creates for professional development, all of us benefit from a strong professional association. Having a large, active, visible, solvent national professional association enhances the status and the clout of each individual Women's Studies program/department and the professional standing of all of us who teach and write in the field. Urging the administration on each of our campuses to provide funding for program membership in NWSA (as they do for many other professional associations) is another way of supporting NWSA and gaining enhanced professional recognition on campus for feminist scholarship and teaching. In Sisterhood - Paula Rothenberg Director, The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching Professor, Philosophy and Women's Studies William Paterson University rothenbe@pilot.njin.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:09:15 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "WARD, SUSAN E" Subject: SUSPEND MAIL DELIVERY SUSPEND MAIL DELIVERY ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:28:34 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ines Shaw Subject: supreme court decision on gender bias case Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, I'd like to call your attention to a piece on a legal case which appears in the Jan 30 Chronicle of Higher Education, bottom of p. 10. It's the Fisher vs. Vassar College case. I have used this and other legal gender cases in the Women's Studies courses I teach, and I thought some of you might find this information useful as well. A bit of background: This litigation has gone on for over 11 years, and if memory doesn't fail me, Vassar has spent more than one million dollars fighting this woman. Cynthia Fisher presented the data presented to the courts at one NWSA session. The Supreme Court's decision is baffling. She has more NIH awards than any of her male colleagues. Even with her 8-year absence, her record was superior in many respects--the audience (in which I was) saw the males' records and her record side by side! Quantitatively from the evidence, and qualitatively from what can be from inferred from the evidence, her strengths cannot not be denied. I don't know what impact this Supreme Court decision will have. There have been many cases, although none of the sex-plus variety, won in court. Many take many years and lots, lots of money; one's health is often affected (some are serious, such as development of cancer, for example). It's a sad day when one hears of such a decision because it's still a small percentage of women who make it through the system. Students need to get a picture of the progress and of what can either backroll this progress or keep it from going further than it can, don't you think? Regards, Ines ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:35:49 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Family Studies Textbooks In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The current issue of Family Relations includes a number of letters responding to the Glenn text book article which appeared in FR last July. All are critical of the Glenn artilce, which was the subject of much conversation on this list. Of particular interest to readers of this list might be the contribution by members of the Feminism and Family Studies chair and committee members. Family Relations is one of three publications of the National Council on Family Relations, and can be ordered from NCFR - 1-888-781-9331. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:07:24 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Invitation to Membership in NWSA Comments: To: Marjorie Pryse In-Reply-To: <199801301914.OAA11635@sarah.albany.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Marjorie, what benefits does NWSA offer to graduate students, if any? and are there any special subgroups, such as Women and Peace Studies, Women and Family Studies, or Women and Spirituality? At times, the challenge regarding which organization to support has as much to do with how professional organizations address the warp and woof of differing disciplines through subgroups, etc, as it does with costs. As a collegue of mine said (sadly, I think) on his campus, the Women's Studies dept, and the African American Studies Dept, and the Peace Studies Dept all have their own faculties and programs, and resources, and they never meet (sad!!). They are separate, and therefore, HE did not need to include women scholars working in Peace studies in his academic research (most sad!!) because these were Women's Studies scholars. No amount of persuasion has changed his mind. Thus, when professional organizations DO make an effort to have subsections that address interrelated topics from an interdisciplinary perspective, we all grow. On a side note, the Wisconsin Institute for the Study of Peace and Conflcit Studies will be cosponsoring the state conference with the state Women's Studies organization, on the topic of Women and Peace, Fall 1999. There is much more of this that is needed, in order to widen the influence of women's studies values, issues, concerns into other disciplines. Respectfully, Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:24:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carolyn I. Wright" Subject: Re: NWSA Comments: To: Paula Rothenberg In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would like to join in and urge all students on the list to also consider joining the National Women's Studies Association. They do have a student membership rate and the newsletter alone is worth the price ofjoining! Carolyn Wright Doctoral candidate Syracuse University ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:43:56 -1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa Conefrey Subject: Re: The Human Sex TLC Show MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Aren't similar points made in "Brain Sex" by Moir and Jessel? Theresa Conefrey University of Hawaii ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:06:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Senior Position in Women's Studies MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I am posting this for WMST-L subscriber Marguerite R. Waller, whose message was sent to the list but did not appear. Joan Korenman ******************************************************* UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE ASSOCIATE OR FULL PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT CHAIR The Department of Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside, invites applications at the associate or full professor level for a position beginning as early as July 1, l998. We are seeking an innovative scholar engaged in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural studies of gender, sex, and sexuality in relation to issues of class and ethnicity, who could serve as department chair. Social science background preferred, and strong publication record and commitment to teaching excellence required. Some possibility the position will become joint with Political Science. Applicants should send letter of application, c.v., writing sample (published or unpublished) of approximately 30 pages, and the names and addresses of 4-6 references, to: Chair, Search Committee, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside, Riverside CA 92521. Completed applications will be reviewed beginning March 16, l998, and the search will remain open until the position is filled. The University of California is an EEO/AA employer. Marguerite R. Waller mwaller@mail.ucr.edu Marguerite R. Waller, Chair Women's Studies Department Professor of English University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 phone: (909) 787-6426 fax: (909) 787-6386 mwaller@ucrac1.ucr.edu (N.B. the 1 in my email address is a one, not an L) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:10:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Smith Subject: unsubscribe Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit "unsubscribe" ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 22:45:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: "correct" language (fwd) In-Reply-To: <009C103B.11D8D440.126@acad.ursinus.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Schooled in Yiddish, my first language, my recollection is that 'mentsh' in the sense of 'person/s' is used in reference to both women and men and to men only. Thus, to ask a 'how many' question, you would say 'Vi fil mentshen?' and get a count of either one or both sex groups. Understood that the group was comprised of women only, the question would likely be 'Vi fil froyen (women)?' In the sense of a person of character, I believe 'mentsh' refers to both women and men. More info would be available from YIVO in New York City. There's a Yiddish-English dictionary there in addition to other resources. There are also likely to be experts at the upcoming conference on March 1 in the city, on the legacy of the Jewish Labor Bund, celebrating its 100th anniversary. I expect it will be conducted in English. At the concert (great!) presenting the musical legacy last week, songs were in Yiddish with evidently enuf translation so the 1000 people (young and old) stayed to the end. Many, it seemed, knew little or no Yiddish.There's also an exhibition of photographs. Anyone who wants details, email me. Not incidentally, many women were active in the Bund's beginnings. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 19:28:19 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CE Randall/D Lynne Subject: Re: Women's Music In-Reply-To: <1be65478.34ce48d5@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Try HOT WIRE, although no longer published, this journal might be helpful. Hot Wire was a journal that looked at women's music. You might see if there are copies available through interlibrary loan or perhaps someone has copies. You might also try contacting Lady Slipper in Durham North Carolina and Oliva Records (I don't know where they are out of) both have web pages I believe. Carla Randall >On behalf of my Sociology of Gender TA's, Sherrie Blackwood and Linda Cencer, >I am writing the list in hopes of obtaining information about the history of >women's music, especially that with a lesbian background. As part of their >duties for this course, they plan to give a class presentation on the history >and development of women's music and its influence on mainstream music. From >the course's text, Feminist Frontiers IV, they already have Cynthia Lont's >"Women's Music: No Longer a Small Private Party," but would greatly appreciate >any further, more recent articles and/or books on this topic. Please respond >privately to myself at the below address. We thank you in advance for any >assistance list members can give us. > >Steven Schacht >Department of Sociology >Montana State University >Bozeman, MT 59717 >SPSCHACHT@AOL.COM ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 03:23:18 -0700 Reply-To: Janice Amsler Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janice Amsler Subject: Re: The Human Sex TLC Show Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII And Diotima said: "As for ignorance and knowledge ... The case stands thus. No god seeks after wisdom, or wishes to grow wise (for he already is so), any more than anybody else seeks after wisdom if he already has it. Nor, again, do ignorant folk seek after wisdom or long to grow wise; for here is just the trouble about ignorance, that what is neither beautiful and good nor yet intelligent, to itself seems good enough. Accordingly, the man who does not think himself in need has no desire for what he does think himself in need of." Actually Plato said it (in the Symposium) as if Socrates said it. Diotima, being a woman and a prist(ess)-god(ess) of sorts, and mythical as well, was of course not really present. Self-transparent ignorance then becomes manifest in 'common sense' which, as Plato also pointed out (along with many others), is the sole item that virtually everyone thinks they are already sufficiently endowed with; 'More gold?, sure; but no thanks on the common sense, as I already have plenty; a surplus in fact and I wish I could loan some out to all those around me who so obviously are in short supply!' Angela Pattatucci has it right, same mentality as in witch hunting: assume the answer in advance then pull out all the stops until we find a chain of casualty (illuminated by light of the God Reason) that 'fits'. Then proclaim that Truth has been found!, and here it is, in six-(sex)parts, you can 'see' it for yourself on TV (the Oracle of late-modern 'knowing', but merely a third-order simulacrum taken for the real; or, in the case of Sex, the Real mistaken for the real?). And the inwardness of 'common sense' then smiles fondly at itself in self-congratulatory self-affirmation: "I knew it all along ..." Janice Amsler jhamsler@ouray.cudenver.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 08:29:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carolyn Dipalma (WOS)" Subject: EXTENSION: Call for Papers: Teaching Intro to WS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ !!!!! EXTENSION OF DEADLINE !!!!! SUBMISSIONS MUST BE ***POSTMARKED*** NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The February 1 deadline below has been extended one week to Feb. 8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS TEACHING INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN'S STUDIES: STUDENT EXPECTATIONS AND CLASSROOM STRATEGIES Co-editors: Barbara Scott Winkler West Virginia University, Center for Women's Studies and Carolyn DiPalma University of South Florida, Deptartment of Women's Studies This collection will address the institutional context and social issues in which teaching the women's studies introductory course is embedded and, most importantly, provide readers with practical classroom strategies to meet the challenges raised. The collection will, therefore, serve as a resource and preparatory text for all teachers of Intro. including experienced teachers, less experienced teachers, new faculty, and graduate student teaching assistants. The collection will also be of interest to educational scholars of feminist and progressive pedagogies and innovative practices. Submissions should be centered around one or more of the following topic areas. STUDENT EXPECTATIONS --Student Expectations (ex: degree of student interest, resistance, and motivation; gen. ed. students vs. WS majors; different student knowledge bases, such as engineering or political science or women's studies; diversity issues; perceptions of teaching legitimacy, who can or can't teach what to whom) --Debate and Discussion (ex: public culture/mass media presentations of "women's topics"; student awareness/experience; classroom civility issues; how to respectfully differ; how to listen to others) --Authority in the Introduction to Women's Studies classroom (ex: ideologies of education; student-centered classroom; differences in resistance and conflict) CLASSROOM STRATEGIES --Teaching Specific Topics (ex: new ways to teach core concepts; new topic development; teaching controversial issues) --Conceiving the Course: Topic Organization (ex: issues given more breadth; issues given more depth; social science vs humanities emphasis; the order in which topics are introduced; specifics such as racism, heterosexism, poverty, class, health, spirituality, images, language, etc.) --Syllabus Creation and Sample Syllabi (ex: sample syllabi with explanatory discussion) All authors should address the particular institutional context and social issues in which their course is located. Submit TWO complete copies: 1) a one-page detailed abstract of your article which describes the topic and your approach, indicates a classroom application, and demonstrates the clarity of both your thinking and writing; 2) a two-page curriculum vitae, including pertinent paper and publication information, and email address and fax number (if available), by February 1, 1998. Notification of selected abstracts will be made by April 1, 1998. Completed articles for further review will be required by May 31, 1998. Send (via snail mail only) one copy each to: Barbara Scott Winkler Carolyn DiPalma 236 Waitman St. University of South Florida Morgantown, WV 26505 Department of Women's Studies 4202 E. Fowler Ave., HMS 413 Tampa, FL 33620 *********************************************************************** * Carolyn DiPalma, Ph.D. email: cdipalma@luna.cas.usf.edu * * Assistant Professor phone: 813-974-0979 * * Department of Women's Studies fax: 813-974-0336 * * 4202 East Fowler Ave., HMS 413 * * University of South Florida * * Tampa, FL 33620-8350 * *********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 02:52:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Preston Subject: Language/Desmond Morris Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Someone asked whether a feminist case could be made for retaining/reviving the female ("feminine") forms of some occupational titles. Judging from some messages here, apparently in France and Germany there is -- a matter of pride to be called the (feminine) member of the chamber of deputies, or Doktorin. In this country I'm not sure. I just read an interview with Judy Chicago, who chooses to identify herself as a woman-centered feminist artist. Musing, I wonder if "feminist scholar" is a kind of feminine designation. Generally, though, it seems that we opt for neutral forms, such as chair (vs. chairman or chairwoman -- the latter now sounding a bit like the ladies' auxiliary). Maybe it depends on the particular language, culture, and phase of feminism. I have to laugh at Desmond Morris rising from the ashes as a "feminist," which he now calls himself according to one review of his new book. I think I recall that in _The Naked Ape_ he argued that men work well together while women merely compete with each other for men's attentions. He seems to have as little data backing up his new theory as he did his old. And it makes me mad that he still gets so much press. Kathleen Preston KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 09:11:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Format for WMST-L Messages (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi, folks. Today is the start of the month, and thus time for another set of excerpts from the WMST-L User's Guide. If you haven't read them for a while, it might be a good idea to refresh your memory. I've had to deal recently with several people who could have saved themselves and me a lot of time had they just read the most recent version. ******************** 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 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, 31 Jan 1998 16:46:20 -0500 Reply-To: msacks@world.std.com Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marc Sacks Subject: Re: "correct" language Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Elisabeth Burr wrote: "Das Mensch" then is interesting, because as a neutral term it could > really embrace both. Historically, though, "der Mensch" has survived, "die > Mensch" vanished completely, and "das Mensch" means, as I said, horrible > woman. Actually, I believe Brecht's play was called "Die gute Mensch von Setzuan." This is usually translated as "The good woman of Setzuan," though "the good [female] human being" was more like what he had in mind. I remember discussing this in a German class some 25 years ago, so I may have it wrong, but I think not. I have no idea (assuming I'm right about this) whether Brecht was creating a new usage (something that, like Shaw, he was wont to do) or this use of "die Mensch" already existed in German. Marc Sacks msacks@world.std.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:45:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Saad, Shahnaz" Subject: FW: Black Authors Banned At Maryland School () > > > > Two Maryland public school superintendents have removed books by > > prominent African American authors from high school English classes in > > recent weeks at the urging of some parents who called the works "trash" > > and "anti-white." > > > > In Anne Arundel County, Superintendent Carol S. Parham ordered Maya > > Angelou's autobiographical "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" removed > > from the ninth-grade English curriculum, although it will still be > > taught in the 11th grade. > > > > In St. Mary's County, School Superintendent Patricia Richardson recently > > removed Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" from the schools' approved > > text list. In both cases, superintendents overruled faculty committee > > recommendations to keep the books, yielding to the wishes of small > > groups of parents. > > > > In each case, the removal of the book has angered many students, > > teachers and community activists, who believe the objections are > > racially motivated attacks against African American literature. > > > > Free speech advocates say the Anne Arundel case is highly unusual, > > because race-based complaints about books used in U.S. classrooms > > typically have focused on concerns about negative portrayals of African > > Americans, such as in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." > > > > > > Both "Song of Solomon" and "Caged Bird" are considered by many scholars > > to be modern classics of African American literature. Angelou's book, a > > searing look at her childhood in segregated Arkansas, is a staple in > > high school English classes across the country and is on approved text > > lists in Howard and Fairfax counties. > > > > The book's defenders say Angelou uses her poet's gifts to give students > > an evocative portrait of life under segregation, a firsthand account of > > a dark period in history that has the same immediacy as Anne Frank's > > did. > > > > "It's the voice, the honest young voice," said Julia Pruchniewski, a > > South River High School English teacher who called it "ridiculous" that > > she can no longer use the book in her ninth-grade classes. "It's one > > thing to read about segregation from a history textbook, another to read > > it in a teenager's young voice. It's much more vivid." > > > > Parents and educators who favor keeping the work have expressed dismay > > that such a small group of parents could wield such influence over a > > curriculum. About 1,500 Anne Arundel students read "Caged Bird" this > > year before Parham pulled it from the ninth-grade list of books. The > > decision is the first in Pruchniewski's 20-year teaching career in Anne > > Arundel that a book was removed from the curriculum because of parents' > > objections, she said. > > > > "It's frightening," said Maura Stevenson, an Anne Arundel parent whose > > daughter read the book last year as an eighth-grader at Severna Park > > Middle School. "The school board is listening to people who are > > ignorant." > > > > Ronald Walters, professor of African American studies and political > > science at the University of Maryland, agreed. "What the school system > > has appeared to do is be sensitive to a few individuals, and that's a > > bad way to run a school system. I couldn't imagine them doing this to > > classics that were boosting white self-esteem to which black parents > > objected." > > > > But Sue Crandall, the Anne Arundel parent who sparked the protest > > against the Angelou autobiography, called the removal a victory for > > common sense. > > > > "I had to stand up for what I believed in," said Crandall, who is white > > "Caged Bird," assigned to her son this fall at South River High School, > > is not appropriate for ninth-graders because it is sexually explicit and > > gives a dated and slanted portrayal of whites, Crandall said. > > > > "It is perfectly understandable for it to be anti-white, because it was > > written in 1969," Crandall said. But, she added, "[Angelou] portray > > white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people . . . and I don't > > appreciate being portrayed that way. I kept waiting for her to realize > > that white people weren't all bad. The book ends, and I'm thinking, > > `Didn't this woman ever realize all white people aren't Neanderthals?' " > > > > > > Crandall said she thought the book would be "inflammatory for black > > kids," adding, "If a child didn't have negative feelings about white > > people, this could sow the seeds." > > > > Seventy-nine percent of Anne Arundel's public school enrollment in 1994 > > was white, and 17 percent was black. > > > > Angelou did not return several messages left on her office answering > > machine. Morrison, through a spokesman, declined to comment. > > > > Anne Arundel county officials defended their decision to remove the > > book, which had been listed as one of the "basic" texts for the > > ninth-grade college preparatory and honors English classes. School > > officials said they were not banning the book. "Caged Bird" will > > continue to be taught in the 11th grade and will remain in the school > > library. > > > > After a small group of parents protested the use of the book, a faculty > > committee met to review the text in November and decided > > "overwhelmingly" to recommend keeping it, said Anelle Tumminello, the > > high school English and assessment coordinator for the county schools, > > whom Parham has designated to speak on this issue. But Parham ultimately > > sided with the parents. > > > > "The atmosphere created by the parents made our ability to continue > > teaching the book difficult," Tumminello said. "I think she felt > > removing it from the ninth grade and retaining it for the 11th grade was > > a reasonable compromise, because the book is worth teaching." > > > > The school district has received complaints from 14 parents about the > > book, Tumminello said. Most are concerned about the book's sexual > > content, particularly a scene in which Angelou writes of being raped as > > an 8-year-old by her mother's boyfriend. Others, including Crandall, > > were disturbed by the book's racial themes, as well as Angelou's social > > activism. > > > > "She spoke at the Million Man March. To me, that's an alignment with > > Louis Farrakhan, and Louis Farrakhan equals hatred of whites and Jews," > > said Dianne Osborn, an Anne Arundel County parent who nonetheless > > stressed that her main objection to the book was that it is > > inappropriate for ninth-graders. "The book should not be taught in a > > county school." > > > > Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" topped the American Library > > Association's "Top 10 Challenged Books" list last year. > > > > Marjorie Heins, the head of the American Civil Liberties Union Arts > > Censorship Project, said the Anne Arundel case was the first instance of > > which she has heard of anyone attacking Angelou's book for its negative > > portrayal of whites. Those who challenge the book are generally > > concerned about its violence or sexual content, she said. > > > > "For somebody to demand the removal of a book from a curriculum because > > it is anti-white raises an implication of racial motivation," said > > Heins. > > > > Objections to Morrison's "Song of Solomon" are rare, according to > > American Library Association officials. The Morrison novel, which > > follows a spiritual journey of a young black man named Milkman Dead, was > > banned in a Georgia school district but survived a censorship attack in > > Columbus, Ohio, in 1994. > > > > Bernadette Williamson, the mother of a 16-year-old Leonardtown High > > School student who read "Song of Solomon" last summer, said she was > > particularly disturbed by its depiction of a mother who nurses her son > > well past infancy and, Williamson said, appears to get sexual pleasure > > from it. > > > > "It's just way too graphic," said Williamson, who called the book > > "trash" in a complaint to school officials. > > > > "There are so many other things kids could read to teach them how to > > interpret literature," said Williamson, who is white. > > > > "Song of Solomon" will no longer be required summer reading for the > > advanced placement English classes at Leonardtown High School or taught > > elsewhere in the school district, although it will remain in the > > school's library, a spokesman said. > > > > St. Mary's County's superintendent, Richardson, did not return telephone > > calls for comment, nor did Leonardtown's principal, Edward Weiland. > > > > The African American community in St. Mary's has been angered by the > > school system's decision. > > > > "The decision was bigoted," said Everlyn Holland, 65, a retired nurse > > and Hollywood resident who is black. " `Song of Solomon' showed black > > people in a human perspective, with all the problems and emotions of > > genuine people instead of a one-dimensioned prop in someone else's > > story. What it did was put a human face on African Americans . . . and > > that makes people nervous." > > > > Copyright 1998 The Washington Post > > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 19:59:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stacey Meadow Subject: Dykes, Disabilities and Stuff In-Reply-To: <34D3E280@spectrum3.wcupa.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know how to contact persons in charge of a magazine called "Dykes, Disability and Sutff?" I have sent numerous requests for back issues by snail mail and have not heard back from them. Thanks Stacey ********************************************************************** Stacey Meadow Barnard College sm445@columbia.edu Women'sStudies/Psychology "Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is ommitted from biograpgy, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult to come by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning, hidden under an inadequite or lying language... this will become not merely unspoken, but unspeakable." - Adrienne Rich ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 16:16:32 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "pauline b. bart" Subject: Re: Invitation to Membership in NWSA Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:07 PM 1/30/98 -0600, you wrote: >Marjorie, what benefits does NWSA offer to graduate students, if any? and >are there any special subgroups, such as Women and Peace Studies, Women >and Family Studies, or Women and Spirituality? At times, the challenge >regarding which organization to support has as much to do with how >professional organizations address the warp and woof of differing >disciplines through subgroups, etc, as it does with costs. > >As a collegue of mine said (sadly, I think) on his campus, the Women's >Studies dept, and the African American Studies Dept, and the Peace Studies >Dept all have their own faculties and programs, and resources, and they >never meet (sad!!). They are separate, and therefore, HE did not need >to include women scholars working in Peace studies in his academic >research (most sad!!) because these were Women's Studies scholars. No >amount of persuasion has changed his mind. > >Thus, when professional organizations DO make an effort to have >subsections that address interrelated topics from an interdisciplinary >perspective, we all grow. > >On a side note, the Wisconsin Institute for the Study of Peace and >Conflcit Studies will be cosponsoring the state conference with the state >Women's Studies organization, on the topic of Women and Peace, Fall 1999. >There is much more of this that is needed, in order to widen the influence >of women's studies values, issues, concerns into other disciplines. > >Respectfully, Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu > >nwsa does have a women and spirituality section I believe. In terms of graduate students, it keeps one from going crazy. Participation in NWSA for the most part differentiates between the women who are feminist academics and the women who are academic feminists. What I mean is that some women use "gender" as a specialty because it may be a selling point in getting a job (although I doubt it) and they use it as a variable in their research. But they don't always ask the Adrienne Rich question "What is it like for the women?". The other women, whom I wouldn't say aren't feminists, identify with the men in their discipliens and are more focussed on professional (ie in their disciplines) advancement. They use the term "colleague" a great deal. I consider the requirement for "colleaguiality" to be form of social control over women to keep us in line. I have always belonged to both the sociology groups and NWSA. BUt I felt bereft one year when NWSA didn't meet The man you speak of I think is making excuses. Don't waste energy on him. Best, Pauline Bart pbart@ucla.edu