========================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:16:06 +1100 Reply-To: Laurel Guymer Sender: Women's Studies List From: Laurel Guymer Subject: DIANE BELL Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: a world that is, was, and will be Comments: To: aworc-arts@deakin.edu.au, ausfem-polnet@postoffice.utas.edu.au, womens_studies@deakin.edu.au, NRSINGED@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU, aollilai@vt.edu, bol@mos.com.np, kmiriam@ese.UCSC.EDU, GLOBALRN@ITSSRV1.UCSF.EDU, webweave@isis.aust.com, Leftlink@vicnet.net.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" --XAA04988.904570020/kryptonite.sge.net-- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 07:49:48 -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. It's the beginning of a new month and thus time for a new round of excerpts from The Source of All Wisdom, the WMST-L User's Guide. If you haven't looked at the Guide for a while, please take a few seconds to read this round of messages. Thanks. ******************** 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 NOTE: if you're replying to a long message, do NOT quote it in its entirety!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 korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 08:23:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diana Gustafson Subject: MAKING HISTORY, CONSTRUCTING 'RACE' Conference in Victoria, BC. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >please circulate * please circulate * please circulate >-------------------------------------------------------------- > > >MAKING HISTORY, CONSTRUCTING 'RACE' >Situating 'Race' in Time, Space and Theory > >An multidisciplinary conference at the University of Victoria >October 23-25, 1998 >Victoria, BC, Canada > > >REGISTRATION HAS BEGUN! >Please register early. > >INVITED SPEAKERS include Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan Nation), Roy Miki >(Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada), Roxanna Ng (OISE/University >of Toronto, Toronto, Canada), Ali Rattansi (City University, London, UK), >Ann Laura Stoler (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA) and Sunera >Thobani (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada). > >The conference has over 70 presenters from nine different countries around >the world. Among the scheduled SESSIONS are: > >- Strange Fruit: 'Race' and Violence, Past and Present >- National Identities, Transnational Processes: Racial Constructions in >Twentieth Century US-Mexican Interactions >Race, Space and Citizenship >- Constructing Historical Identities: Race, Nation and Class >- 'Race' and War: Constructing the 'Other' in Wartime >- Racialized Identities in Modern Japan: Construction, Transformation and >Opposition >- International Emblems: Constructions of Race in Republican China, 1933-1947 >- A Critical Analysis of the Assimilation of Chicanas and Chicanos in the >Southwest 150 Years After the Treaty of - Guadeloupe Hidalgo: A Legal >Perspective >- Cultivating Conflict, Race and the Construction of Enmity >- Analysing Hybridities in Historical and Contemporary Contexts >- Bloodlines: 'Racial' Heritage and National Identity >- Configurations of 'Race' in South Africa >- Disorder, Desire and Deviance in Colonial India >- 'Race', Policy and the State >- Countering Racialisms in Academia and Education >- In Theory: Race in Popular and Academic Thought >- Race, Gender and Representation > >In addition, there are five social justice-oriented workshops >(preregistration required), literary readings, performances, video >presentations, etc. Please see the conference programme for more details at >. > >For REGISTRATION and other information, please visit the CONFERENCE WEBSITE >at or contact the Confence >Coordinator by >email at >fax at 1+ (250) 721-8772 >or by mail at >Making History, Constructing 'Race' Conference >Department of History >University of Victoria >P.O. Box 3045 >Victoria, B.C. >V8W 3P4 >Canada > >The conference is organised by University of Victoria faculty members and >graduate students together with Camosun College and a number of Victoria >area community groups. The aim of the conference is to bring together >scholars, students and activists to discuss issues relating to 'race', >racialisation and racisms, to strategize for the future and to generally >create closer links between people involved with these issues. The >organising committee will put a special emphasis on creating an informal >atmosphere to encourage exchange of ideas, constructive discussion, and >friendly interaction among the conference participants. That way, perhaps, >we will be able to facilitate the creation of stronger and more permanent >links and networks among the participants. Further, we hope the conference >will work as a vehicle to address issues relating to 'race' and racism in >the university. > >The conference is generously sponsored by the Canadian Race Relations >Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, >Multiculturalism British Columbia and the University of Victoria Faculty of >Humanities, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities Centre, >Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of >Sociology, Department of Women's Studies, Office of Equity Issues and >President David Strong. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >------------ > Pasi Ahonen > Co-chair of the Organising Committee > Making History, Constructing 'Race': Situating 'Race' in Time, Space and >Theory > A multidisciplinary conference at the University of Victoria, October >23-25, 1998 > > > Postal address: > Department of History || University of Victoria || P.O. Box 3045 || >Victoria, BC || V8W 3P4 || Canada >Fax: 250.721.8772 || Conference email: > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 08:55:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Libra Subject: Why So slow? the advancement of women MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I also was struck by how the author describes both men and women perpetuating the gender "schema" she identifies - what about feminists who consciously work to uncover and overcome such gender schema? Denise Bauer libra@warwick.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 13:14:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "William W. Pendleton" Subject: Re: Why So slow? the advancement of women In-Reply-To: <199809011255.IAA25434@host.warwick.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Libra wrote: > I also was struck by how the author describes both men and women > perpetuating the gender "schema" she identifies - what about feminists who > consciously work to uncover and overcome such gender schema? > In the arcane and for what its worth department, the plural of schema is schemata, like stigma and stigmata. Wm W. Pendleton Department of Sociology Emory University Atlanta, Ga. 30322 socwwp@emory.edu 404 727-7524 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:07:59 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phillipa Kafka Subject: Re: Indian/Indian-American writers (*India*) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Return-Path: >x-sender: wplp@mail.winternet.com >Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 07:11:40 -0500 >Reply-To: "Women's Studies List" >Sender: "Women's Studies List" >From: Mev Miller >Subject: Re: Indian/Indian-American writers (*India*) >To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > Dear Shelley: Kamala Makandaya's epic Nectar in a Sieve (1954?) is a classic and has been taught for many years in intro to lit courses. Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine (1989) is also ideal for an intro to lit course. > > Dr. Phillipa Kafka Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies Women's Studies J303 Kean University Union, New Jersey 07083 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:06:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Toth Subject: cfp--BANGKOK Conference Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm posting this for Thomas Erskine, whose URL is listed below. I'll be one of the keynoters at this conference (with Pat Erens and Susan Stutman), and I recommend Thailand as a fascinating and wonderful place to visit--and air fares are under $1000. I'll be happy to answer questions, but please contact Tom Erskine if you want to propose a paper or panel. > CALL FOR PAPERS > INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FEMINISM AND GENDER ISSUES > >Bangkok, Thailand January 7-9, 1999 Radisson Hotel, Bangkok > >Sponsors: Srinakharinwirot University and Salisbury State University > >Due to the success of last year's conference (100 speakers from 15 countries), Srinakharinwirot University and Salisbury State University are again sponsoring an international conference and invite papers on a wide range of topics involving feminist and gender issues. Those papers with a tie to the Pacific Rim are especially welcome. While the primary focus is on literature, we are also interested in papers from other disciplines such as film, American Studies, history, art, music dance, education, psychology, etc., especially if they are interdisciplinary in nature. Questions about the appropriateness of papers should be addressed to Dr. Thomas L. Erskine, English Department, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD 21801; 410-543-6371 (O) or 410-742-7963 (H); fax 410-543-6068; e-mail: tlerskine@ssu.edu. > >Panel presentations are especially welcome. Please list all speakers and the chair, their academic affiliations, and the titles of their papers. Abstracts should also be included. > >Since the abstracts of accepted papers will be published, abstract (approximately 200 words in in Times New Roman 12 pts. font) and diskette should be submitted to Dr. Thomas Erskine (see above address, phone and e-mail information) by October 1, 1998. If the abstract is accepted, we will also need a 50-word biography, which will also be published. > >The five-star Radisson Hotel in Bangkok will again be the conference hotel. Because of the exchange rate situation in Thailand, this luxurious hotel will be available at a low conference rate. Rates for singles and doubles will be approximately $30.00 per day, including buffet breakfast, and should conference participants (including families or friends) want to come early or stay after the conference, that same rate will apply. Colleagues at Srinakharinwirot will help arrange day tours for conference attendees and those who accompany them. > >Registration, which includes two luncheon buffets and refreshment breaks, will be $120 for full-time faculty, $80 for graduate students. > >Since Thailand is a popular vacation spot in January, let us encourage you to submit abstracts promptly; and we will make prompt decisions about acceptance. This will enable you to make early travel arrangements to Thailand. Last year we found that airline reservations can be difficult to come by at the last minute. Any questions about air travel or Thailand should be referred to Dr. Erskine, who has spent quite a bit of time there as a Fulbright Scholar and consultant. > 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: 225-388-3152 English Dept. fax: 225-388-4129 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, 1 Sep 1998 16:17:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Toth Subject: Academic Job Seekers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" There's good career advice at the _Chronicle of Higher Education_'s new, free Career Network web site: http://www.chronicle.com/jobs It includes Ms. Mentor's latest column, a narrative by an English Ph. D. in her third year of a job search, advice about whether candidates should have Web pages, and much more. Feminists may especially want to reply to some items. 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: 225-388-3152 English Dept. fax: 225-388-4129 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/ Ms. Mentor's new column: http://www.chronicle.com/jobs ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:38:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to unsubscribe (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT An abridged version of section 2 of the WMST-L User's Guide: If you wish to unsubscribe from WMST-L, send the simple message UNSUB WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you receive the edited daily digest, you must send the following TWO-LINE message: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L UNSUB WMST-L Note that WMST-L is mentioned twice in the line AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L -- that's crucial! You must send these messages from the same address you used when you subscribed. BE SURE TO SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU, NOT TO WMST-L! ************************************************************* %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Repeat: if you receive the edited daily digest, you must send a two-line message to LISTSERV: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L UNSUB WMST-L BE SURE TO SEND THIS MESSAGE TO LISTSERV, not to WMST-L %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ************************************************************** If the above instructions don't work, please send me a copy of the message you receive back from listserv, including all address headers, so I can see where the problem lies. Send this to me PRIVATELY at korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu, not via WMST-L. ******************** Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to 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 korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 06:21:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra D Shattuck Subject: book donations MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm posting the following message for a friend who is not on WMST-L. If you wish to donate books, please contact Kamala Kempadoo directly. Thanks. Sandra D. Shattuck shattuck@u.arizona.edu > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:44:51 -0600 > From: Kempadoo Kamala > Reply-To: "SIROW Project Global Processes, Local Lives" > > To: GLOBAL-LOCAL@listserv.arizona.edu > > Dear Friends, > > I am trying to gather books and other materials for two women's > studies programs - one in South India, the other in Guyana - and am > writing to ask for your support. > > The program in India is very new - being set up by the Valliamaal > Institute as a six month, long distance certificate program from Madurai > in Tamil Nadu. Just launched, they already have around 50 students in > women's studies. The course is being taught alongside courses such as > non--violence and Ghandian philosophy. And even though it is being taught > in Tamil, the instructors would very much like to have access to materials > with which they can develop their curriculum and teach. > > The second is at the University of Guyana. The program while already > established, is presently struggling to stay alive in the face of > university cutbacks, and a tough economic situation. During a recent visit > to the university, I found that the library was extremely under-stocked > and dated: the university having no money for new acquisitions. Their > women's studies collection is in equally bad condition. > > For both programs, I am collecting recently published books and other > materials which would be useful for women's studies students and teachers > in these two contexts. > > If you would like to join me in this effort to help sustain women's > studies globally, all you need to do is to examine your bookshelves and > donate a book or two that would be appropriate for undergraduate level. > Materials on women and development would be the most appropriate. > > You can send the book(s) to me at the address below and I will forward > them. > > Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks! > > Kamala > -- > Kamala Kempadoo Women's Studies > Kempadoo@Colorado.EDU Campus Box 246 > (303) 492-8084 University of Colorado > Boulder, CO 80309-0246 > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:30:06 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: book donations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sandra Shattuck asked that we not respond to her about the requested donations, but I have some questions about the request that I think can best be answered by people on the WMST_L list. Here they are: 1. How do we know that such a request is legitimate? I'm not just asking about this one, but about the many such requests that I see? 2. Why is someone who is a women's studies person with an email address not on the list? 3. I have been told that if books are sent directly to libraries, rather than to specific individuals, there is a very special postage rate. I don't know how this works or how much difference there is in the rate, but I know there are librarians on this list who can tell us. I hope they will. 4. I am also wondering whether it might save a whole lot of postage expense if we send books directly to their final destinations. 5. Finally, is there some way that donations such as these can be receipted in some way that we can use on our income taxes? Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:32:15 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Laura Stempel Mumford Subject: Re: book donations In-Reply-To: <303fbd76.35ed809e@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:30 PM 9/2/98 EDT, Susan Koppelman wrote: > >2. Why is someone who is a women's studies person with an email address not on >the list? I hope this doesn't sound rude, but you can't possibly be serious about this, can you? There must be *thousands* of "women's studies people" who don't subscribe to this list for probably hundreds of reasons. Just to mention some that come immediately to mind that have only to do with the logistics of receiving it: they don't like lists, they already subscribe to ten other ones, they don't have time for the high traffic of this one, they have an email address but irregular access to the computer on which they use it, etc etc etc. Laura Stempel Mumford Lsmumfrd@mailbag.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:50:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: when to reply privately (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html): 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."] One further note: the above sorts of messages are OMITTED from the WMST-L digest. If the person you're trying to reach is one of the hundreds who reads WMST-L in digest form, she/he will not see the message if you send it to WMST-L. ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to 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 korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:41:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janice M Bogstad Subject: Re: book donations In-Reply-To: <303fbd76.35ed809e@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:30 PM 9/2/98 EDT, you wrote: >Sandra Shattuck asked that we not respond to her about the requested >donations, but I have some questions about the request that I think can best >be answered by people on the WMST_L list. Here they are: For the information of the list, I can respond to some of these questions but don't know how appropriate it is on the list. I am sure there are other librarians who also can respond as we deal with these situations regularly. I am ready to send out my reply to interested individuals OR to send it to the list, but I will send to individuals at this point so if you want some answers to Sandra's questions please email me privately and I will tell all I know about mailing and libraries and books...then I can send to the list later if appropriate. Jan Bogstad, CD Librarian, UW-Eau Claire, McIntyre Lib bogstajm@uwec.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:25:04 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty Glass Subject: book donation query #3 In-Reply-To: <303fbd76.35ed809e@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Susan Koppelman wrote: > Sandra Shattuck asked that we not respond to her about the requested > donations, but I have some questions about the request that I think can best > be answered by people on the WMST_L list. Here they are: (snip, snip) > 3. I have been told that if books are sent directly to libraries, rather than > to specific individuals, there is a very special postage rate. I don't know > how this works or how much difference there is in the rate, but I know there > are librarians on this list who can tell us. I hope they will. There is a "library rate" when material is mailed from one library to another. The delivery and return addresses should be library addresses. Since many libraries have cooperative arrangements to share materials with each other via interlibrary loan service, the postal rate gives them a break when shipping books back and forth for those transactions. Betty Betty Glass Humanities Bibliographer University of Nevada, Reno glass@unr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 10:49:21 +0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Melinda F. Brown" Organization: Vanderbilt University Subject: Re: book donations In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT There is a website hosted by the University at Buffalo Libraries that lists programs looking for book and journal donations. It's located at: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/cms/donation.html This might be a good place to direct such requests and is definitely a good place to review if you are considering donating books. - Melinda Brown Melinda F. Brown Bibliographer for Economics, Philosophy & Women's Studies Vanderbilt University Library Phone: (615) 322-6285 419 21st Avenue South Fax: (615) 343-7451 Nashville, TN 37240-0007 E-mail: brown@library.vanderbilt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:33:18 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Olmsted Organization: Western Kentucky University Subject: Scalding dipping in Japan? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope some of you have more information about a practice I've just read about. It's a small blurb in a "Don't really wanna know" column of _The Tennessean_. I don't have enough information to present it to my students. Here's what was printed. Any suggestions where else this might be discussed? "Move over, Jerry: The notorious Japanese TV game show 'Super Jockey' (which features stunts such as contestants competing to eat repulsive-flavored ice cream) began selling commercial time on the show recently by inviting potential sponsors to present bikini-clad women who would endure dunkings in scalding-hot water and then be rewarded with commercial time equivalent to the number of seconds they endured the pain." Thanks, jane.olmsted@wku.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 10:04:50 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Welch Subject: Postage rates for books In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I will add my experience with "library rate." There is a lower rate available through the postal service that is not restricted to libraries. I don't know if it is any different from the library rate, but I usually request printed materials be sent at "Library" or "Book Rate." This is a lower rate than first class. Restrictions preclude correspondence in the packet but a shipping statement and/or invoice can be included. I am not affiliated with a library. I suggest that when shipping books, magazines and newpapers, you check with your campus mail service or the post office. Cynthia H. Welch CPS Program Assistant Women's Studies (am)/Academic Skills Center UW-Eau Claire 715-836-5717/836-4080 FAX 715-836-5019 (am office) welchch@uwec.edu >> 3. I have been told that if books are sent directly to libraries, rather than >> to specific individuals, there is a very special postage rate. I don't know >> how this works or how much difference there is in the rate, but I know there >> are librarians on this list who can tell us. I hope they will. > > There is a "library rate" when material is mailed from one library to >another. The delivery and return addresses should be library addresses. > > Since many libraries have cooperative arrangements to share materials >with each other via interlibrary loan service, the postal rate gives them a > break >when shipping books back and forth for those transactions. > >Betty >Betty Glass >Humanities Bibliographer >University of Nevada, Reno >glass@unr.edu > > Cynthia H. Welch CPS Women's Studies/Academic Skills Center 715-836-5717/715-836-4080 welchch@uwec.edu University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 54702 "In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart." --Louise Bogan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:31:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela M Pattatucci Subject: Alternative Health/Mind-Body Texts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Can anyone recommend a good text that critically examines Alternative vs. Government-sanctioned health issues? I am particularly interested in analyses that look at this issue from political and economic perspectives, and that locate "alternative" health in a multi-cultural context. In other words, the designation "alternative" is relative and is highly dependent on the community, region, or nation in which one is located. I am also looking for a text that explores mind/body issues -- one that at least in part addresses how "mind" and "body" have been divided into two separate spheres (in mainstream North American cultures) and are assigned to two distinct, largely non-overlapping, professional specialties. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Iana ampatt02@athena.louisville.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:24:31 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra D Shattuck Subject: Re: book donations In-Reply-To: <303fbd76.35ed809e@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I appreciate Susan's points, since they bring up important concerns, and since they've prompted such helpful information from experts on the WMST-L about sending books, finding out about programs that need books. > 1. How do we know that such a request is legitimate? I'm not just asking > about this one, but about the many such requests that I see? I trust that folks subscribed to WMST-L follow the guidelines of the list. I was unsure if this request fell under the category of postings not to send, so I cleared the request with the listowner. Also, perhaps I'm too trusting, but I assume that most folks subscribed to this list are ethical. Kamala was a participant in a faculty development seminar I helped to organize here at the University of Arizona. I respect her highly as a scholar of integrity, and her work on the sex trade in the Caribbean is highly respected, both academically and in activist ways. > 2. Why is someone who is a women's studies person with an email address not on > the list? This concern has already been addressed quite well. One other point: I own a list called "global-local" specifically for faculty and graduate students involved in our past seminars, but more generally for any scholars interested in the intersections of women's studies, area, and international studies. As listowner, I forward relevant messages from WMST-L to the global-local list. All members have also been apprised of how to subscribe to WMST-L as a great resource. > 3. I have been told that if books are sent directly to libraries, rather than > to specific individuals, there is a very special postage rate. I don't know > how this works or how much difference there is in the rate, but I know there > are librarians on this list who can tell us. I hope they will. > > 4. I am also wondering whether it might save a whole lot of postage expense if > we send books directly to their final destinations. > > 5. Finally, is there some way that donations such as these can be receipted in > some way that we can use on our income taxes? It looks like our great librarians and other helpful folks have answers to these questions. I have also sent a message to Kamala to see if she has further information. Sandra D. Shattuck shattuck@u.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:00:12 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Naomi Standen Subject: Dale Spender poem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I heard from the author herself the answer to my question: The poem 'Gender and Marketable Skills' is in LEARNING TO LOSE, ed. Dale Spender & Elizabeth Sarah, The Women's Press 1980, 1988, p.128. -- Naomi Standen | UW-Superior Department of History, Politics and Society | Belknap & Catlin, PO Box 2000 University of Wisconsin-Superior | Superior, WI 54880-4500 nstanden@staff.uwsuper.edu | USA ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:05:44 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marina Koether Subject: Ring around the rosey In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Does anyone know the origin of ring around the rosey? Is the song really based on the plague? Marina Koether, Ph.D. Phone Number: 770-423-6166 Assistant Professor of Chemistry Fax Number: 770-423-6744 1000 Chastain Road Office: Science Building 423 Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591 Lab: Science Building 460 If you want to climb mountains, don't practice on mole hills. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 17:52:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gill Wright Miller Organization: Denison University Subject: Re: Ring around the rosey MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The Ring around the Rosie origin is really the bubonic plague. There is a gorgeous and extremely moving dance piece about this choreogrpahed by David Parsons and performed by his company. Titled "Ring Around the Rosie," it was premiered at the Joyce in New York City 96-98 season. For more information call the Parsons company at (212) 247-3203. This postmodern work could created fascinating gender discussions particularly about the self-reflexive devices of intertextuality and crossing of gender axes! Marina Koether wrote: > > Does anyone know the origin of ring around the rosey? Is the song really > based on the plague? > > Marina Koether, Ph.D. Phone Number: 770-423-6166 > Assistant Professor of Chemistry Fax Number: 770-423-6744 > 1000 Chastain Road Office: Science Building 423 > Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591 Lab: Science Building 460 > > If you want to climb mountains, don't practice on mole hills. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 06:47:41 -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 (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html): ******************* 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 korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:28:08 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dianna Taylor Subject: email address for melissa orlie MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello. Does anyone know Melissa Orlie's email address? She is at the U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Please respond privately. Thank you. Dianna Taylor Philosophy Dept. Binghamton University ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:58:40 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan lehrer Subject: Beijing videos? For our intro w.s. class, Women: Images & Realities, we are looking for a good video on the UN Conference on Women held in Beijing, 1995. We would like to find a video that focuses on global feminist movements and issues. I know of the Canadian Film Board video - any other ideas? We would also like ideas about a video that is more current than the "Global Assembly Line" on organizing women & labor etc. You can reply privately to:lehrers@npvm.newpaltz.edu I can compile the suggestions and post them all at once. Thanks for your help, Susan (Coordinator, Women's Studies, SUNY - New Paltz.) Susan Lehrer, lehrers@npvm.newpaltz.edu SUNY - New Paltz ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 12:17:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: finding email addresses MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Earlier today, someone wrote: > Does anyone know Melissa Orlie's email address? She is at the U. of Illinois, > Urbana-Champaign. > > Please respond privately. This message should not have been sent to WMST-L. Especially when you know someone's university, you should simply go to that web site and use the directories/search engines on that site. When you don't know someone's institutional affiliation, you should first try other ways to find the person's address (see http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/addresses.html for some suggestions). If all else fails, and IF THE REQUEST IS RELATED TO WOMEN'S STUDIES TEACHING, RESEARCH, OR PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION, you may try to find it through WMST-L. If you do that, you should explain the relevance of your request and not only ask that people reply privately but also be sure to include your email address at the end of the message. Some people have email systems that do not tell them the address of the writer, just that the message comes from WMST-L . And if you're simply trying to find the name of a long-lost friend, WMST-L is not the appropriate place to send your query. It's often a very busy list, whose heavy mail volume poses a constant problem for many subscribers. Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman, WMST-L Official Nag ***************************************************************************** * 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, 4 Sep 1998 16:59:27 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Naomi Standen Subject: Ring a ring o' roses (as it is known in the UK) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" There is a folklore list and website that apparently argues strongly that in fact this rhyme does not really originate from the plague at all. I have no idea of the truth or otherwise of this, since I remember this small amount of information from a discussion on another list a long time ago, and I never followed it up, but interested parties might want to check out the folklore sites on the Web and see what they say. The self-identified folklorists were pretty vehement about the view that the rhyme had nothing to do with the plague at all. Let us know what you find out! Naomi Standen nstanden@staff.uwsuper.edu >The Ring around the Rosie origin is really the bubonic plague. There is >a gorgeous and extremely moving dance piece about this choreogrpahed by >David Parsons and performed by his company. Titled "Ring Around the >Rosie," it was premiered at the Joyce in New York City 96-98 season. >For more information call the Parsons company at (212) 247-3203. > >This postmodern work could created fascinating gender discussions >particularly about the self-reflexive devices of intertextuality and >crossing of gender axes! > > >Marina Koether wrote: >> >> Does anyone know the origin of ring around the rosey? Is the song really >> based on the plague? >> >> Marina Koether, Ph.D. Phone Number: 770-423-6166 >> Assistant Professor of Chemistry Fax Number: 770-423-6744 >> 1000 Chastain Road Office: Science Building 423 >> Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591 Lab: Science Building 460 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 18:08:32 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Steven Schacht Subject: Re: Ring a ring o' roses (as it is known in the UK) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Spending a few years growing up in England, I was always told by our friends there that the rhyme was in reference to the bombings during WWII. Perhaps it was borrowed from a previous period and re-used during the war. Cheers to a happy, safe Labor Day Weekend, Steve Schacht SPSCHACHT@AOL.COM In a message dated 9/4/98 2:56:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, nstanden@STAFF.UWSUPER.EDU writes: << There is a folklore list and website that apparently argues strongly that in fact this rhyme does not really originate from the plague at all. I have no idea of the truth or otherwise of this, since I remember this small amount of information from a discussion on another list a long time ago, and I never followed it up, but interested parties might want to check out the folklore sites on the Web and see what they say. The self-identified folklorists were pretty vehement about the view that the rhyme had nothing to do with the plague at all. Let us know what you find out! Naomi Standen nstanden@staff.uwsuper.edu >> ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 19:37:02 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: Ring a ring o' roses (as it is known in the UK) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" the rime Ring around a rosie cannot possibly have originated during WWII, as my mother heard it as a child. My mother was 44 when she had me [at least] so that puts her childhood back around the turn of the century. i was also told by a Black friend in grade school that her mother taught it to her. Marge Piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 23:38:53 GMT Reply-To: cje@tavi.co.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tina Eager Subject: Re: Ring around the rosey ** Reply to note from "Women's Studies List" Thu, 3 Sep 1998 17:52:26 -0400 > > The Ring around the Rosie origin is really the bubonic plague. There is > a gorgeous and extremely moving dance piece about this choreogrpahed by > David Parsons and performed by his company. Titled "Ring Around the > Rosie," it was premiered at the Joyce in New York City 96-98 season. > For more information call the Parsons company at (212) 247-3203. This is an interesting variation on what I grew up with as "Ring a ring of Roses", though still, I believe, with the Plague connection - which dates its UK use to about 1665 or earlier. Must be a paper in there somehere for a linguist! Tina Tina Eager Business School Mid-Kent College of HE & FE, City Way, Rochester, Kent UK cje@tavi.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 03:08:51 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nat Scrimshaw Subject: Gender and Women's Studies Faculty Workshop in Costa Rica Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable >************* PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES *********** > >GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES FACULTY WORKSHOP IN COSTA RICA> > >WOMEN IN COSTA RICA: >Perspectives on Women's Cultural, Social, Institutional, and Organizationa= l >Reality in a Central American Society >> >Instituto Monteverde (IMV) >Monteverde, Costa Rica > >Seminar Dates: June 8-19, 1999, a total of 12 days >Application Deadline: April 1, 1999 >> >RATIONALE > >Women's lives take place within the context of their respective societies. >Though international trends and tendencies will influence these societies, >diverse cultures set different limits and open different spaces for >participation. Thus, internationally agreed- upon principles with regard >to women will see a variety of interpretations and applications. Moreover= , >historic experiences shape societies' responses to today's challenges. To >open communications with women in a given society, to understand the >framework within which they function, to appreciate the efforts they make >to solve their problems and offer their contributions, in short to assess >women's role in each society, we need to take a careful look at the contex= t >that surrounds their lives. > >The Gender/Women's Studies Faculty Workshop will stimulate university >initiatives toward internationalizing curricula. The workshop will offer >faculty and administrators the opportunity to learn about issues that >affect world events, while they will share insights and experiences with >educational and professional communities overseas. Thus they will gain a >new view of their own discipline or mission within a broader international >frame. > >The Gender/Women's Studies Faculty Workshop in Costa Rica will concentrate >on the cultural, social, institutional, and organizational framework for >women in Costa Rican society, a framework they are working to reshape, so >as to achieve true equality and better opportunities. The diverse aspects >of women's daily lives depend on Costa Rica's cultural values, social code= s >of behavior, as well as on local, regional, national, and international >governmental or non-governmental institutions and organizations. During >nine days of presentations, field site visits, and meetings with women >leaders of different entities, in the form of roundtables, panel and group >discussions, participants will gain insight into Costa Rican women's >conditions and share their experiences. Interaction at the meetings and a= t >evening receptions allow for contact between participants and guest >speakers. During their stay in the rural Santa Elena-Monteverde region, >workshop participants will visit with women in the towns of La Cruz, San >Luis, Santa Elena, and Monteverde, observing rural women's role in >environmental protection and sustainable development and their efforts to >develop economic activities and community political participation. In >addition, participants will have a chance to enjoy the spectacular natural >environment of the region. >> >HOST INSTITUTION > >The host institution for this seminar is the Instituto Monteverde (IMV), >founded in 1986 to harmonize the educational and cultural needs of foreign >students and local residents. Based in Monteverde (about 35 km north of >the Pan-American Highway in Northwestern Costa Rica and 160 km from the >capital city, San Jos=E9), the Institute works with the University of >>California Education Abroad Program, The Evergreen State College, SUNY >Buffalo, the University of Maryland, the Costa Rican Universidad Nacional >Aut=F3noma (UNA), the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), >and the European Association for International Education (EAIE). It >provides university-accredited semester courses in tropical biology, >agro-ecology, independent field study and fieldwork methodology, Spanish >and Costa Rican culture, architecture, planning, landscape architecture, >and gender/women's studies. The Institute also offers "short" courses for >high schools, college and university students, university professors, and >other specialty groups, as well as the Gender/Women's Studies Faculty >Workshop. Short course programs focus on the natural history, >conservation ethic, and biodiversity of the tropics, selected issues in >sustainable development, Costa Rican culture and Spanish, and >gender/women's studies. In addition to its educational activities, the >Institute administers community-based programs. These include: the Vida >Familiar (Family Life) Program, which focuses on family issues such as the >prevention of domestic violence, literacy, technical training and >assistance, and youth identity; the Monteverde Ceramics Center, which >operates in cooperation with the women's crafts cooperative CASEM; a >community Volunteer Center; and the co-organization of the Monteverde >Music Festival and partnership with the Monteverde Music Program, which >provides music instruction and instruments for schools in the Monteverde >area. >> >FACULTY LEADER > >The workshop will be directed by Ilse Abshagen Leitinger, Ph.D., a >comparative sociologist, coordinator of the Gender/Women's Studies courses >of the Instituto Monteverde (IMV). Dr. Leitinger taught Women's Studies a= t >the Universidad Nacional (UNA) as a Fulbright lecturer, and has years of >experience with study-abroad programs and students' community-oriented, >women-focused field research in Costa Rica, particularly in the Santa >Elena-Monteverde region. She taught Sociology for 12 years at Grinnell >College in Iowa. She is the editor and translator of The Costa Rican >Women's Movement: A Reader. 1997. University of Pittsburgh Press. > >GUEST LECTURES > >Guest lecturers will be affiliated with Costa Rican universities, and with >institutions and organizations that the workshop will explore and visit. >> >WORKSHOP LOCATION > >The workshop will take place in part at various San Jos=E9 locations, in par= t >at the IMV, and includes field site visits in the Santa Elena-Monteverde >region. It includes one day for arrival, one for departure, >four-and-a-half days in San Jos=E9, and four-and-a-half days in the Santa >Elena-Monteverde region. The workshop will be offered in a combination of >English and Spanish (with interpretation as needed), and will be open to 1= 8 >participants who may be new to or familiar with the issues addressed. > >HOUSING AND MEALS > >All housing, breakfasts, and lunches are included in the seminar cost. >There are several non-included dinners and a number of group dinners durin= g >the seminar. Room occupancy is double. Single rooms can be requested at >an extra charge, and must be requested in advance. >> >LECTURES > >Listed below are the tentative lectures and site visits for the 1998 Costa >Rica Workshop. The final program schedule will be similar in content and >theme although specific session topics or schedules may change. Final >schedules and a complete information packet will be sent to participants >prior to the Workshop. > >* Introduction to Costa Rica >* Introduction to Women's Situation in Costa Rica >* Governmental Organizations Working with Women in Costa Rica >* Non-governmental Women's Organizations >* Support Organizations for Specific Women's Problems >* Women at Work: Women in Cooperatives, in Assembly Industries, and in > Small Enterprises >* Women's Studies in Costa Rica >* Introduction to the Santa Elena-Monteverde Region and its Community > Organizations >* Women's Roles in Rural Sustainable Development >* Rural Women's Participation in Environmental Protection >* Women and Political Leadership in Communal Politics >* The Development of the Women's Crafts Cooperative Comisi=F3n de Artesanos > Santa Elena - Monteverde (CASEM) >* The Growth of La Campesinita, the Women's Canning Cooperative in La Cruz >* Women in Rural Life > >SITE VISITS AND STUDY TOURS > >* Selected Governmental Organizations for Women >* Selected Non-Governmental Organizations for Women and Women's Organizati= ons >* Instituto de Estudios de la Mujer (IEM), Universidad Nacional (UNA) >* Museo de Cultura Popular, Santa Luc=EDa de Barva de Heredia >* Skywalk forest canopy bridges (optional) >* Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, Hummingbird Gallery, Bajo del Tigre > Trails, Butterfly Garden, Serpentario (all optional) >* Productores de Monteverde (La F=E1brica de Quesos - Cheese Factory) >* CASEM >* La Campesinita >* Sal=F3n Comunal, San Luis >* Buen Amigo cooperative farm in San Luis (optional) > >SEMINAR COSTS > >The cost of this seminar is US$ 1,600 per person. International airfare i= s >not included in this price. A $17 exit visa from Costa Rica, which can be >purchased at the airport at the time of departure, is not included in the >seminar costs. Optional events and related transportation costs are not >included in the seminar fees. Program costs include all in-country >transportation, all lodging with breakfast and lunch daily, group dinners >as noted in the final program itinerary, guides and entrance fees, >presentations and guest lecturers, and IMV tuition fees. >> >TO RECEIVE AN APPLICATION FORM, COURSE ITINERARY, >OR FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: > >Dr. Ilse Leitinger, Coordinator of Gender and Women's Studies Programs >Instituto Monteverde >Apartado 69-5655 >Monteverde de Puntarenas >Costa Rica, Central America > >Telephones (in Costa Rica): 506-645-50-53 or 506-645-53-65 >FAX: 506-645-52-19 >e-mails: or > > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 01:39:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Noriko Muraki Subject: request for info MIME-version: 1.0 Dear List members, I am planning to conduct a research on cosmetic surgery. I hope I can interview women from various classes and ethnicities who have undergone cosmetic surgery for an aesthetic purpose. I am wondering if anyone could suggest how I can find my interviewees. I would be grateful for any informaion on this. Please respond privately to: murakin0058@uni.edu Thank you in advance for your help. Noriko Muraki Graduate Student Women's Studies/U. of Northern Iowa ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 07:37:20 -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 (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html): 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. If your address undergoes a change, Listserv will no longer recognize you, even if you're still able to receive mail sent to your old address. If the LISTSERV software doesn't recognize your address, you will be unable to post messages, stop mail, unsubscribe, etc. If you can still send mail from the address under which you subscribed, please do so. If you can no longer do so, contact me PRIVATELY (not via a message to WMST-L). B) Postings from all new subscribers (and old subscribers with new subscriptions) are now automatically sent to the listowner for approval. 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Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 11:29:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betsy Keller Subject: video that show suffragette trampled? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to figure out what video about the women's suffrage movement shows an actual film clip of a British suffragette rushing out in front of the King's racehorse and being trampled to death--a way of publicing the cause. I was sure it was in the 2 hour documentary shown on PBS as part of the "American Experience" series, but apparently not. I am interested in using that clip in class--can anyone point me to it? Betsy Keller elk@rci.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 11:34:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Donna M. Hughes" Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? In-Reply-To: <35F158F0.6B17FAC2@rci.rutgers.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It is "How We Got the Vote." It is no longer available through the Women's History catelogue, which used to carry it. If anyone knows of a way to get it, I'd like to know. I've been looking for a copy of a couple of years. Donna Hughes dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu At 11:29 AM 05-09-98 -0400, you wrote: >I am trying to figure out what video about the women's suffrage movement >shows an actual film clip of a British suffragette rushing out in front >of the King's racehorse and being trampled to death--a way of publicing >the cause. I was sure it was in the 2 hour documentary shown on PBS as >part of the "American Experience" series, but apparently not. I am >interested in using that clip in class--can anyone point me to it? > >Betsy Keller >elk@rci.rutgers.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 11:46:18 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Justice Subject: Re: suffragette trampled...Emily Davison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit there is a woman who threw herself in front of a horse in England as a statement, kamakazi sort of statement, to the world about the sincere interest in women's suffrage. her name was Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913). she was an oxford graduate, and Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) militant. she had been force fed almost 50 times in jail after hunger striking for the cause. hope this helps. janet. noexit00@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 12:13:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Barber Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? In-Reply-To: <35F158F0.6B17FAC2@rci.rutgers.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi Betsy, The film you are looking for is "Shoulder to Shoulder." This is a six-hour documentary on the militant women's suffrage movement in England (focused on the Pankhursts and the WSPU.) This was a PBS series that first aired in the late 1970s or early 1980s. It was produced/directed by Midge Mackenzie, Georgia Brown, and a third woman whose name I've forgotten. The narrator for the series is Jane Alexander. I think episode five, titled "Outage" is the one showing Emily Wilding Davidson throwing herself in front of the king's horse. This is a wonderful film that I use with my course on European women's history. Good luck in finding it. Susan -- Susan Barber Dept of History/Political Science College of Notre Dame of Maryland 4701 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21210 (410) 532-3192 barber@charm.net On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Betsy Keller wrote: > I am trying to figure out what video about the women's suffrage movement > shows an actual film clip of a British suffragette rushing out in front > of the King's racehorse and being trampled to death--a way of publicing > the cause. I was sure it was in the 2 hour documentary shown on PBS as > part of the "American Experience" series, but apparently not. I am > interested in using that clip in class--can anyone point me to it? > > Betsy Keller > elk@rci.rutgers.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 20:34:12 GMT Reply-To: cje@tavi.co.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tina Eager Subject: Re: suffragette trampled...Emily Davison ** Reply to note from "Women's Studies List" Sat, 5 Sep 1998 11:46:18 EDT > > there is a woman who threw herself in front of a horse in England as a > statement, kamakazi sort of statement, to the world about the sincere interest > in women's suffrage. her name was Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913). she was > an oxford graduate, and Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) militant. > she had been force fed almost 50 times in jail after hunger striking for the > cause. hope this helps. > janet. noexit00@aol.com > I think there is some debate about whether it was intended as a kamikaze type of statement - she bought a return ticket on the train (they found the return half in her pocket afterwards). It was at the Derby of that year, and if I remember correctly the horse was called Anwar. Ray Strachey's "The Cause" covers this whole period in more detail. Tina Tina Eager Business School Mid-Kent College of HE & FE, City Way, Rochester, Kent UK cje@tavi.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 15:59:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "B.J. Eaton" Subject: Re: "Shoulder to Shoulder," Emily Wilding Davidson In-Reply-To: <199808202131.QAA12532@chaos.artsci.lsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" "Shoulder to Shoulder" is listed in the internet movie database at http://us.imdb.com/ . It was produced in 1974 by BBC as part of a TV miniseries on sufrage, but no address for the BBC is listed, nor is there a "buy" link at this site. Try getting the address for BBC and contacting them directly for this video. Regards, B.J. Eaton, NWSAction Editor *Richardson, TX *bjeaton7@airmail.net * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 13:34:34 -0700 Reply-To: Trudy Mercer Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trudy Mercer Subject: Harriet Jacobs' _Incidents_ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear List Members, I am doing a text history on Harriet Jacobs' _Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl_. I am interested in knowing what editions any of you may have used to teach _Incidents_, especially prior to the release of Jean Fagan Yellin's 1987 edition (Such as Walter Teller's 1973 edition). Are those of you who are currently teaching this book primarily using Yellin's edition because of the extensive documentation, or have you selected another, such as the Schomburg edition? Are any of you making use of the online editions as teaching tools? If you know of other online editions besides those listed below, please send me the URL. Below is a bibliography of the editions I will be reviewing. There are other editions available, however these are the editions that I have been able to view personally (except for the 1862 British edition). Information on other editions is also appreciated. Thank you for for assistance. *Please post privately.* Trudy Mercer *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Trudy Mercer tmercer@u.washington.edu University of Washington http://expage.com/page/themercergirl *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Print and Online Editions of Harriet Jacobs' _Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl_: Print Editions: (1861) Brent, Linda. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written By Herself. Ed. L. Maria Child. Boston: Pub. for the Author. (1862) Brent, LInda. The Deeper wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself. Ed. L. Maria Child. London: W. Tweedie. [ca. 1969] Jacobs, Mrs. Harriet Brent. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written By Herself. Ed. L. Maria Child. Boston: Pub. for the Author, 1861. Detroit: Negro History Press. (1973) Brent, Linda (Harriet Brent Jacobs). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Introduction by Walter Teller. San Diego, New York, and London: A Harvest Book-Harcourt Brace & Company. (1987) Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Ed. Jean Fagan Yellin. Introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin. Cambridge, MA and London: Oxford UP. (1988) Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Introduction by Valerie Smith. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Electronic Editions: (1997) Brent, Linda (Harriet Jacobs). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself. ed., L. Maria Child. American Studies @ the University of Virginia. Hypertexts: Ongoing Hypertext Projects. Online. Web Author: Julie Adams. Created 1 July 1997. Available: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JACOBS/hjhome.htm. 8 May 1998. Available: http://www.gc.cc.va.us/~gcadamj/hjhome.htm. (Last updated 15 June 1998) 15 August 1998. (1997) Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York: The Digital Schomburg, The New York Public Library. File number 1997wwm97255.sgm. 1997. Available: http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm97255/. 31 August 1998. (ca. 1997) Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Boston: Pub. for the author,1861. ed. L. Maria Child. Making Of America. University of Michigan & Cornell University Online. Available: http://www.umdl.umich.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABT6782. 8 May 1998. (1998) Jacobs, Harriet Ann. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Documenting the American South. University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll. Online. Available: http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/jacobs/jacobs.html. 4 September 1998. *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Trudy Mercer tmercer@u.washington.edu University of Washington http://expage.com/page/themercergirl *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:17:31 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Lawrence Subject: The First Wives' Club Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have just watched The First Wives' Club, at the recommendation of almost everyone I know. Am I the only sane person in the world? Yes, the film was quite amusing. But when I consider the *content* -- well -- why is it that everyone regards this as a feel-good film, when it seemed to me, if anything, a feel-bad film? Why is it that everyone admires the three main characters and thinks that they did the right thing, while I think they are rather sad, immoral and not at all admirable. By defining themselves in terms of their ex-husbands, they are doing exactly the *wrong* thing. They are not getting on with their lives. They are not moving on. Yet everyone thinks that they (and the film) were striking a blow for something that is good for women. What? How? What have I missed? Perplexed, Sarah Lawrence ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 12:58:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: video that shows suffragette trampled? MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII The video (and shorter version film) is "How We Got the Vote." While this is a very startling image for the students, most of the video is on the American National Women's Party's attempts to get suffrage in the U.S. through a Federal Amendment. The longer version (about an hour) is more graphic on the force-feeding in prison, but I have found that my Intro students prefer the shorter version - they can't seem to sit through anything longer than a half hour! (sign). Best, Barbara Scott Winkler bwinkler@wvu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 13:56:41 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Grotzky Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I think it is in Shoulder to Shoulder, also a PBS documentary, a series. There is a companion book, which might help you figure out which episode contains the information you are looking for. My guess is that Shoulder to Shoulder came out in the late 70's or early 80's. Marilyn mgrotzky@castle.cudenver edu auraria library ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 09:18:01 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christopher and Rosemary Crick Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit you might call or write the museum of media in new york. that's not the exact name of the museum; it's been a few years since i contacted them, so i'm afraid i can't remember their full name. but they have a HUGE collection of films, television shows, documentaries, etc. i'll do some research through my old files and see if i can come up with a more complete reference for you. in the meantime, does anyone else know about this organisation? rosemary cricket@fidalgo.net ---------- > From: Donna M. Hughes > To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU > Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? > Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 8:34 AM > > It is "How We Got the Vote." It is no longer available through the Women's > History catelogue, which used to carry it. If anyone knows of a way to get > it, I'd like to know. I've been looking for a copy of a couple of years. > > Donna Hughes > dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu > > > At 11:29 AM 05-09-98 -0400, you wrote: > >I am trying to figure out what video about the women's suffrage movement > >shows an actual film clip of a British suffragette rushing out in front > >of the King's racehorse and being trampled to death--a way of publicing > >the cause. I was sure it was in the 2 hour documentary shown on PBS as > >part of the "American Experience" series, but apparently not. I am > >interested in using that clip in class--can anyone point me to it? > > > >Betsy Keller > >elk@rci.rutgers.edu > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 17:08:31 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Grotzky Subject: Re: Ring a ring o' roses (as it is known in the UK) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Tony Hillerman quotes Ring around with Roses Pockets full of posies Ashes. Ashes. We all fall down. As an ironic song about the plague which has lived on as a nursery rhyme, and it does seem to fit. (For Hillerman fans this is from "The First Eagle," the most recent Hillerman Leaphorn/Chee novel, which makes the point that our overuse of antibiotics is allowing some of the things we have used them to combat to become stronger -- things like the plague.) The roses are the fevers caused by disease, the posies the herbs and flowers people used vainly to protect themselves (this from that old standby, World Book) because plague was thought to be associated with air/smell. The other possibility for the ring is dancing in a ring, often in graveyards, during the plague, since dancing and exercise were thought to ward off the plague. The ashes are the discoloration that gave the Black Death its name. All fall down is clearly death. BUT the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes says Ring-a-ring o' roses A pocket full of posies A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down. was standardized in this form (it's clearly not actually standardized yet, since I never heard either of these forms) was not found in children's literature before 1881, though there were variations lines 3-4 All the girls in our town Ring for little Josie. as early as 1790 in Bedford, Mass. Foreign and 19th century versions indicate that the falling down was a curtsey or other dance move. The dictionary came out around 1950, so is probably not the latest word on the subject, but is the best I have found so far. For now Marilyn mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu auraria library ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 19:34:13 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane J Frechin Subject: Open University Hello WMST-L, I am currently involved with learning about and working on a module for gender equity as it would be presented through G. Britains Open University for Teacher Education. This program is new to the US, and some Calif. educators are looking at the program with the future in mind. I have been exposed to some aspects of Open University, but I would be curious in finding out more information from anyone who is familiar with it, or if anyone knows of available, fairly current research. Thank you, Diane Frechin dfrechin@juno.com _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 20:49:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: ending "rosey" and "first wives club" threads MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi, folks. I am writing to ask that we bring two threads to an end. One is the "ring around the rosey" thread. Its relevance to the list's focus was never clear. The other thread I would like to end now is the discussion of "The First Wives Club" and other movies you may or may not have liked. Though movie discussions that relate DIRECTLY to women's studies teaching and research are appropriate for WMST-L, the discussion of "The First Wives Club" et al. has not been presented in that context. Even with WMST-L's narrow focus on women's studies teaching, research, and program administration, the list's heavy mail volume poses a frequent problem for many subscribers. If we were to expand the list's focus to include more general discussion of gender-related societal issues and problems, the already heavy volume would increase substantially, forcing many people to sign off. I don't want to see that happen. Thus, I am once again assuming the role of Unofficial Wet Blanket and am asking that we bring these two threads to an end. Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. 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, 6 Sep 1998 21:04:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marina Koether Subject: Rule of Thumb Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The ring around the rosey actually originated from a discussion about this site on another list serve. Sorry for not introducing this topic first. Any comments? > >http://hugin.imat.com/~sheaffer/texts/ruleofthumb.html >Take a look at what it has to say: >The "Rule of Thumb for Wife-Beating" Hoax >Feminists often make that claim that the "rule of thumb" used to mean that it was legal to beat your wife with a rod, so long as >that rod were no thicker than the husband's thumb. Thus, one constantly runs into assertions like this: > > someone might want to be careful using "rule of thumb" in a sarcastic way. my criminal law teacher at UCLA > noted that rule of thumb started in England for punishing wives who cheated on their husbands. the rule was that > the rod used to beat them could not be thicker than one's thumb(!). > However, Christina Hoff Sommers documents how the link between the phrase "rule of thumb" > and wifebeating is a feminist-inspired myth of recent vintage. > In her book "Who Stole Feminism" (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994, p. 203) Sommers writes: > >...The 'rule of thumb' story is an example of revisionist history that feminists happily fell into believing. It reinforces their >perspective on society, and they tell it as a way of winning converts to their angry creed... > >The 'rule of thumb', however, turns out to be an excellent example of what may be called a feminist fiction. Is is not to be found >in William Blackstone's treatise on English common law. On the contrary, British law since the 1700s and our American laws >predating the Revolution prohibit wife beating, though there have been periods and places in which the prohibition was only >indifferently enforced. > > >That the phrase did not even originate in legal practice could have been ascertained by any fact-checker who took the trouble >to look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary, which notes that the term has been used metaphorically for at least three hundred >years to refer to any method of measurement or technique of estimation derived from experience rather than science. > >According to Canadian folklorist Philip Hiscock, "The real explanation of 'rule of thumb' is that it derives from wood workers... >who knew their trade so well they rarely or never fell back on the use of such things as rulers. instead, they would measure >things by, for example, the length of their thumbs." Hiscock adds that the phrase came into metaphorical use by the late >seventeenth century. Hiscock could not track the source of the idea that the term derives from a principle governing wife >beating, but he believes it is an example of 'modern folklore' and compares it to other 'back-formed explanations.' such as the >claim asparagus comes from 'sparrow-grass' or that 'ring around the rosy' is about the plague. > >We shall see that Hiscock's hunch was correct, but we must begin by exonerating William Blackstone (1723-1780), the >Englishman who codified centuries of legal customs and practices into the elegant and clearly organized tome known as >Commentaries on the Laws of England. The Commentaries, a classic of legal literature, became the basis for the >development of American law. The so-called rule of thumb as a guideline for wife-beating does not occur in Blackstone's >compendium, although he does refer to an ancient law that permitted "domestic chastisement".... > >In America, there have been laws against wife beating since before the Revolution. By 1870, it was illegal in almost every state; >but even before then, wife-beaters were arrested and punished for assault and battery. The historian and feminist Elizabeth >Pleck observes in a scholarly article entitled "Wife-Battering in Nineteenth-Century America": > > It has often been claimed that wife-beating in nineteenth-century America was legal... Actually, though, several > states passed statutes legally prohibiting wife-beating; and at least one statute even predates the American > Revolution. The Massachusetts Bay Colony prohibited wife-beating as early as 1655. The edict states: "No man > shall strike his wife nor any woman her husband on penalty of such fine not exceeding ten pounds for one offense, > or such corporal punishment as the County shall determine." > >[Pleck] points out that punishments for wife-beaters could be severe: according to an 1882 Maryland statute, the culprit could >receive forty lashes at the whipping post; in Delaware, the number was thirty. In New Mexico, fines ranging from $225 to > >$1000 were levied, or sentences of one to five years in prison imposed. For most of our history, in fact, wife-beating has been >considered a sin comparable to to thievery or adultery. Religious groups -- especially Protestant groups such as Quakers, >Methodists, and Baptists -- punished, shunned, and excommunicated wife-beaters. Husbands, brothers, and neighbors often >took vengence against the batterer. Vigilante parties sometimes abducted wife-beaters and whipped them. > >Just how did the false account originate, and how did it achieve authority and currency? As with many myths, there is a small >core of fact surrounded by an accretion of error. In the course of rendering rulings on cases before them, two Southern judges >had alluded to an 'ancient law' according to which a man could beat his wife as long as the implement was not wider than his >thumb. The judges, one from North Carolina and one from Mississippi, did not accept the authority of the 'ancient law.' The >North Carolina judge refered to it as 'barbarism,' and both judges found the husband in the case in question guilty of wife >abuse. Nevertheless, their rulings seemed to tolerate the notion that men had a measure of latitude in physically chastising their >wives. Fortunately, as Pleck takes pains to remind us, they were not representative of judicial opinion in the rest of the country. > >In 1976, Del Martin, a coordinator of the N.O.W. Task Force on Battered Women, came across a reference to the two >judges and their remarks. Neither judge had used the phrase "rule of thumb," but a thumb had been mentioned, and Ms. Martin >took note of it: > > Our law, based upon the old English common-law doctrines, explicitly permitted wife-beating for correctional > > purposes. However, certain restrictions did exist... For instance, the common-law doctrine had been modified to > allow the husband "the right to whip his wife, provided that he used a switch no bigger than his thumb" -- a rule of > thumb, so to speak. > >Ms. Martin had not claimed that the term "rule of thumb" originated from common law. Before long, however, the "ancient law" >alluded to by two obscure Southern judges was being treated as an unchallenged principle of both British and American law, >and journalists and academics alike were bandying the notion about. Feminist Terry Davidson, in an article entitled "Wife >Beating: A Recurring Phenomenon Throughout History," claims that "one of the reasons nineteenth century British wives were >dealt with so harshly by their husbands and by their legal system was the 'rule of thumb'" and castigates Blackstone himself. >"Blackstone saw nothing unreasonable about the wife-beating law. In fact, he believed it to be quite moderate." > >These interpretive errors were given added authority by a group of scholars and lawyers who, in 1982, prepared a report on >wife abuse for the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Under the Rule of Thumb: Battered Women and the >Administration of Justice -- A Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights_. On the second page, they note: >"American law is built upon the British common law that condoned wife beating and even prescribed the weapon to be used. >This 'rule of thumb' stipulated that a man could only beat his wife with a 'rod not thicker than his thumb.'" It went on to speak of >Blackstone as the jurist who "greatly influenced the making of the law in the American colonies [and who] commented on the >'rule of thumb,'" justifying the rule by noting that "the law thought it reasonable to intrust [the husband] with this power of... >chastisement, in the same moderation that a man is allowed to correct his apprentices or children." > >The publication of the report established the feminist fable about the origins of the term in popular lore, and the misogyny of >Blackstone and "our law" as "fact." Misstatements about the "rule of thumb" still appear in the popular press. > >That same 1993 Time magazine article that popularized the nonexistent March of Dimes study on domestic violence and birth >defects and reported that "between 22% and 35% of all visits by females to emergency rooms are for injuries from domestic >assaults" also cited new York University law professor Holly Maguigan: "We talk about the notion of the rule of thumb, >forgetting that it had to do with the restriction on a man's right to use a weapon against his wife: he couldn't use a rod that was >larger than his thumb." Professor Maguigan's law students would do well to check their Blackstone. Marina Koether, Ph.D. Phone Number: 770-423-6166 Assistant Professor of Chemistry Fax Number: 770-423-6744 1000 Chastain Road Office: Science Building 423 Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591 Lab: Science Building 460 If you want to climb mountains, don't practice on mole hills. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 18:31:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: holzman Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? In-Reply-To: <199809051634.JAA02950@ns1.fidalgo.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" You may be referring to the American Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Long Island City, New York, phone no. 718 784 4520. At 09:18 AM 9/5/98 -0700, you wrote: >you might call or write the museum of media in new york. that's not the >exact name of the museum; it's been a few years since i contacted them, so >i'm afraid i can't remember their full name. but they have a HUGE >collection of films, television shows, documentaries, etc. i'll do some >research through my old files and see if i can come up with a more complete >reference for you. in the meantime, does anyone else know about this >organisation? > >rosemary >cricket@fidalgo.net > >---------- >> From: Donna M. Hughes >> To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU >> Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? >> Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 8:34 AM >> >> It is "How We Got the Vote." It is no longer available through the >Women's >> History catelogue, which used to carry it. If anyone knows of a way to >get >> it, I'd like to know. I've been looking for a copy of a couple of years. >> >> Donna Hughes >> dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu >> >> >> At 11:29 AM 05-09-98 -0400, you wrote: >> >I am trying to figure out what video about the women's suffrage movement >> >shows an actual film clip of a British suffragette rushing out in front >> >of the King's racehorse and being trampled to death--a way of publicing >> >the cause. I was sure it was in the 2 hour documentary shown on PBS as >> >part of the "American Experience" series, but apparently not. I am >> >interested in using that clip in class--can anyone point me to it? >> > >> >Betsy Keller >> >elk@rci.rutgers.edu >> > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:09:41 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shirley Frank Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/6/98 2:56:38 PM, you wrote: <> Museum of Television and Radio, 25 West 52nd St. - (212) 621-6600. Shirley Frank ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:39:27 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: Re: video that shows suffragette trampled? In-Reply-To: <199809061654.MAA07543@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On suffrage videos: The trampling incident, which was British, would have been in "Shoulder to Shoulder." The force feeding is described quite vividly in "One Woman, One Vote," the story of the U.S. experience. Both programs appeared on PBS and our media center recently purchased One Woman, One Vote. Even if they are "out of print," I would think that most libraries can get them via ILL. (If there is another film about the American experience called "How We Got the Vote," perhaps it is older?) 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@gwu.edu fax: 202-994-7249 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 07:23:50 +0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: naomi graetz Subject: Re: Ring a ring o' roses (as it is known in the UK) In-Reply-To: <01J1HRX4WG5K0000QY@CASTLE.CUDENVER.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > The roses are the fevers caused by disease, the posies the herbs and flowers > people used vainly to protect themselves (this from that old standby, World > Book) because plague was thought to be associated with air/smell. The other > possibility for the ring is dancing in a ring, often in graveyards, during > the plague, since dancing and exercise were thought to ward off the plague. > The ashes are the discoloration that gave the Black Death its name. All fall > down is clearly death. The dance of the dead (in a ring) is depicted in medieval art. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 04:04:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: First Wives Club and WS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Before I had a chance to respond, Joan asked WMSTers to not post comments on the First Wives Club because the original message was a personal reaction. I'd like to say, however, that the movie/video can be used in a number of WS classes to illustrate stereotypes about men and women, social class, divorce, alimony, age, and race. I'm sure that wasn't the movie's intent, but it's a terrific example--at least to me--of Hollywood's having no clue about such issues (in terms of demographic data, scholarly publications, and "real life.") Maybe that's why the movie was initially popular. When there are very few movies that deal with REAL women (and men and children) after a divorce, a silly, stupid, and vapid film may be better than none for the "average" movie consumer. I'm NOT trying to continue the First Wives Club thread. Just wanted to suggest that the video would be a good example of sexism, classism, ageism, and racism in some WS classes. niki benokraitis, sociology, university of baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:15:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Fawcett Library Subject: Re: suffragette trampled...Emily Davison Comments: To: cje@tavi.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII There is in fact newsreel footage of this incident, when at the 1913 Derby Emily Wilding Davison, a noted militant suffragist, ran out in front of the King's horse, Anmer [sic] and was knocked down, receiving injuries from which she died a few days later. The footage has been used in a number of videos - try for example _Rise up women!_, a short video on the British militants produced by the Museum of London, London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN; phone: +44 171 600 0807. I can't remember if the BBC miniseries _Shoulder to shoulder_ (1974) used this footage - in any case, I wouldn't recommend it, since the portrayal of Emily Wilding Davison in that episode is bizarre (and atypical of the programmes as a whole, which have some very powerful and accurate stuff, as well as some more dubious historically .. ). The miniseries has never ben released commercially, so I don't expect an approach to the BBC to be of immediate effect. If you want to start a campaign for one, though, that's another matter. Finally, if you happen to be in London, and want to see original material relating to Emily Wilding Davison, such as her purse, with the return half of her railway ticket, hate-mail sent to her after the incident, etc., etc., look in at The Fawcett Library (check out our Website first - URL below). But if you can't make it here, look for _The life and death of Emily Wilding Davison_ by Liz Stanley and Anne Morley (London: Women's Press, 1987), which gives some very interesting background to the militant movement, as well as research methodology. David Doughan, Reference Librarian The Fawcett Library (The National Library of Women) fawcett@lgu.ac.uk http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/fawcett.htm Phone: 0171 320 1189 Fax: 0171 320 1188 ________________ "God and one woman make a majority" (Josephine Butler) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:27:59 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allison Kimmich Subject: Women's Studies Alumnae Organizations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear List Members, Here's a brief summary of the replies I received when I asked for information about Women's Studies alumnae organizations. * Ohio State WS alumnae are organizing & hope to plan social events, do community organizing, and attend conferences; ultimately they would like to sponsor student scholarships * Sonoma State University sends an alumnae newsletter, has planned reunion conferences, and has done occasional fundraising * George Washington University WS alumnae sponsor a student scholarship * Duke University sends newsletters, hosts alumnae conferences each semester, and has an active fundraising program. An excellent chapter outlining Duke's work with alumnae appears in _Feminism in Action_ by Jean Fox O'Barr (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1994), 219-238. For additional resources, I'd suggest the Women's Philanthropy Institute web page: http://www.women-philanthropy.org Many thanks to the people who replied. If anyone would like more details, please contact me privately. Best regards, Allison Kimmich akimmich@richmond.edu Dr. Allison Kimmich Assistant Director, WILL Program Westhampton College University of Richmond Richmond, VA 23173 phone: (804) 289-8840 fax: (804) 287-6061 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:39:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: First Wives Club and WS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Niki Benokraitis wrote: > I'm NOT trying to continue the First Wives Club thread. Just wanted to > suggest that the video would be a good example of sexism, classism, > ageism, and racism in some WS classes. Niki is quite right, of course, in pointing out that "The First Wives Club" and other films can be very useful in some women's studies classes. As I said in my posting, had the messages been focused on classroom use, they'd have been appropriate for WMST-L. However, the messages did not have such a focus, and so I've zapped the thread. 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: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:39:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy King Subject: Interp. of Wollstonecraft In-Reply-To: <01J1IOQLIBFS005BWX@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII While discussing Mary Wollstonecraft's _A Vindication of the Rights of Women_, an excerpt actually, the question of her attitude towards women came up. There are numerous negative references to women's behavior in the piece, such as "this artificial weakness produces a propensity to tyranize, and gives birth to cunning, the natural opponent of strength, which leads them to play off those contemptible infantine airs that undermine esteem even whilst they excite desire." I would posit that she is "playing her audience," trying to win them over by casting women in the worst possible light. It seems she attempts to give men the "moral high ground" so that they will be more inclined to agree with her goals. I'm wondering if anyone has read anything that would shed some light on her true position. Any ideas? Kathy Coudle King katking@badlands.nodak.edu Univ. of North Dakota ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:35:23 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kari B Mcbride Subject: Launching of the EMILJA database (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 15:47:59 +0200 From: Diana Anders To: WISE-L@LISTSERV.FUNET.FI Subject: Launching of the EMILJA database Announcement of the launch of "EMILJA: The Baltic and North West Russian Database for Women's Studies and Gender Research": NIKK (The Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research) is pleased to announce the launching of "EMILJA: The Baltic and North West Russian Database for Women's Studies and Gender Research" on the world wide web. EMILJA is a searchable, on-line database located within NIKK=B4s homepages at: http://www.esst.uio.no/nikkdb/baltic/emilja.html The aim of the database is to provide more reliable, comprehensive and up-dated information than is currently available on Women's Studies and Gender Research entities /activities in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and North West (N.W.) Russia. In its broad resourcing capacity, we hope that EMILJA will help to facilitate inter-Baltic/N.W. Russian AND cross country exchanges, dialogues, joint projects and initiatives in the field of Women's Studies and Gender Research. Currently, the database stores comprehensive information on over 50 organisations, programmes, units, networks and projects related to Women's Studies/ Gender Research/ women's issues located in the named countries. Now that it is possible to register information in the database directly via the Internet, we expect to see considerable growth of the database. We encourage you to visit the EMILJA database homepage and hope that the database can provide a valuable resource tool for those of you interested in and/or working with the various Women's Studies and Gender Research activities/ projects taking place in the Baltic and N.W. Russian regions. We anticipate that researchers, educators, students, policy makers and activists from within these areas and elsewhere will find the database particularly useful in their women's studies/ gender issues-related work. One can find the following types of information about each registered organisation/ unit/ project in EMILJA:: Symbol=85 Contact data (address, tel, e-mail, etc) Symbol=85 Type and structure Symbol=85 Goals and priorities Symbol=85 Funding sources Symbol=85 Staff/human resources Symbol=85 Courses offered/teachers Symbol=85 Research projects Symbol=85 Activities Symbol=85 Networking/links to other organisations/units/projects Symbol=85 Information and technical resources used Symbol=85 Publications and documentation Symbol=85 Future plans/needs Among other things, the EMILJA homepage can help you navigate, search and register in the database with its Users Guide and Help Functions. NIKK welcomes questions and feedback on the database and asks that you please help us spread the word about EMILJA.. To our Baltic and N.W. Russian colleagues, please be sure to register your organisation/ unit/ project in the database if you have not done so already. * Any questions about EMILJA can be directed to Diana Aaberg Anders at: NIKK, Nordic Institute for Women=B4s Studies and Gender Research University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1156 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway Tel: +47 22 85 88 71, Fax: +47 22 85 89 50, d.a.anders@nikk.uio.no MishawakaDiana Aaberg Anders Consultant: NIKK ( Nordic Institute for Women=B4s Studies and Gender Research) Contact: AOIFE Secretariat (Association of Insitutions for Feminist Education and Research in Europe) Tel: +47 22 85 88 71 Fax: +47 22 85 89 50 e-mail: d.a.anders@nikk.uio.no AOIFE homepage: http://wwworg.uio.no/www-other/nikk/AOIFE/homedaa.htm NIKK homepage: http://wwworg.uio.no/www-other/nikk/ Mailing address: (include "AOIFE Secretariat" if AOIFE related) Diana Aaberg Anders c/o NIKK University of Oslo PO Box 1156 Blindern N-0317 Oslo NORWAY ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:36:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sara Murphy Subject: Re: Interp. of Wollstonecraft In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Kathy King wrote: There is a great deal on Wollstonecraft's rhetoric and politics out there of course; but a major intertext for the Vindication is Rousseau's Emile, particularly the section that deals with the upbringing of girls in which he posits an ideal girl,Sophie, and the kind of upbringing she would have in order to make for his ideal boy,Emile, a fine wife. Whereas Emile will be raised 'naturally', to develop his true self as it were, Sophie gets raised like a little doll; her doll-quality, according to Rousseau, is her natural self. Emile's predilection, left tonature, is to rough house and fall down and whatever; Sophie's is to stare at herself in the mirror. > While discussing Mary Wollstonecraft's _A Vindication of the Rights of > Women_, an excerpt actually, the question of her attitude towards women > came up. I think the question you might want to ask is not so much about Wollestonecraft's attitudes toward women, tout court; but rather her attitude about the certain kinds of women whom she sees as the products particular kinds of socialization and upbringing. See your passage below. There are numerous negative references to women's behavior in > the piece, such as "this artificial weakness produces a propensity to > tyranize, and gives birth to cunning, the natural opponent of strength, > which leads them to play off those contemptible infantine airs that > undermine esteem even whilst they excite desire." You might note in this passage rather the assumptions about nature versus socialization, culture if you will, in this passage. She's not putting forth a negative attitude toward women in any general sense here; but rather "artificiality" which is associated interestingly enough with "tyranny"--check the date on that text!--cunning which is opposed to strength. In other words, women at least those of a certain class are being raised to move away from their natural selves--which infuriates MW, as it permits us to situate her as a predecessor of twentieth-century discourses on feminism; recall for example the shaving discussion of afew weeks ago. > I would posit that she is "playing her audience," trying to win them over > by casting women in the worst possible light. She is definitely acutely aware of her audience and has a complicated rhetoric going in this text. Women raised in this artificial way, she wants to point out, make terrible mothers. It seems she attempts to > give men the "moral high ground" so that they will be more inclined to > agree with her goals. > Check out the dedication to Talleyrand at the beginning of the text. > I'm wondering if anyone has read anything that would shed some light on > her true position. Any ideas? > I don't know if you'll get any closer to her true position, whatever that might be. But you might start by looking at the essays and background in the Norton edition and then if I'm recalling right there's a nice little essay by Tim Reiss in an anthology edited by Linda Hutcheon. All of this is kiknd of old now--but good starting places. > > Kathy Coudle King > katking@badlands.nodak.edu > Univ. of North Dakota > Sara Murphy sem2@is4.nyu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 14:21:16 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo-Ann Pilardi Subject: Re: Interp. of Wollstonecraft Comments: To: Kathy King In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Kathy, I would disagree with your interpretation. As you probably know, Wollstonecraft was extremely interested in changing the education of girls, so that women wouldn't turn out as she describes them in your quotation from her. I do agree that she isn't fair enough in her representation of women's virtues, and overstates their vices. Whether she had in mind to sway male readers is hard to say, but since she is also quite upset at a number of "progressive" men, such as Rousseau, and since she addresses the Vindication to Talleyrand, who had presented his program on public education to the Constitutent Assembly of the new French republic, I think her remarks are a complex but authentic expression of her own life's experiences as well as her intellectual and political beliefs about how to liberate women. Jo-Ann Pilardi, Towson Univ. WMST, jpilardi@towson.edu On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Kathy King wrote: > While discussing Mary Wollstonecraft's _A Vindication of the Rights of > Women_, an excerpt actually, the question of her attitude towards women > came up. There are numerous negative references to women's behavior in > the piece, such as "this artificial weakness produces a propensity to > tyranize, and gives birth to cunning, the natural opponent of strength, > which leads them to play off those contemptible infantine airs that > undermine esteem even whilst they excite desire." > > I would posit that she is "playing her audience," trying to win them over > by casting women in the worst possible light. It seems she attempts to > give men the "moral high ground" so that they will be more inclined to > agree with her goals. > > I'm wondering if anyone has read anything that would shed some light on > her true position. Any ideas? > > > Kathy Coudle King > katking@badlands.nodak.edu > Univ. of North Dakota > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:26:57 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christopher and Rosemary Crick Subject: Fw: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (web site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i got this announcement this morning and thought it might be of some use to other teachers and/or graduate students on this list. along these same lines, i've used a film (BBC?) of "the yellow wallpaper" when teaching that text in the past. i think it runs into the eternal film-version-of-a-book problem, in that it detracts somewhat from the power of gilman's words. it's an interesting and odd dilemma -- trying to make her work accessible to a class while still wanting to maintain its integrity *as* a written text. does anyone have any thoughts on this? any other teaching ideas? thanks, rosemary cricket@fidalgo.net ---------- > From: Kim & Andrew Wells > To: cfp@english.upenn.edu > Subject: CFP: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (web site) > Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 3:43 PM > > > CALL FOR PAPERS: THE DOMESTIC GODDESS WEBSITE IS EXPANDING! > > The Domestic Goddesses Website is adding a new author-- Charlotte = > Perkins Gilman. Check out the authors already featured on this website, = > which was recently featured as a selection in the Scout Report for = > Social Sciences Website. > Domestic Goddesses' URL is: > http://lonestar.texas.net/~kwells/dg1.htm =20 > > Papers are requested on any aspect of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's work = > and life-- submission ranging from 3 page informal papers to = > dissertation length works will be considered. =20 > > Please contact: kwells@texas.net for more information, or to submit a = > paper. =20 > > In addition to the Gilman papers, the website is also still accepting = > submissions on any of the other authors featured on the site: Louisa = > May Alcott, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate = > Chopin and Edith Wharton. =20 > See our permanent call for papers, as well as a list of contributors, = > at: http://lonestar.texas.net/~kwells/contributors.htm =20 > > Kim Wells, > Domestic Goddesses editor. > > =============================================== > From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List > CFP@english.upenn.edu > Full Information at > http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ > or write Jack Lynch: jlynch@english.upenn.edu > =============================================== ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 15:41:52 -0500 Reply-To: jmcalla1@airmail.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joanne Callahan Subject: Re: Rule of Thumb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Women's Studies List: > From: Marina Koether > > > >http://hugin.imat.com/~sheaffer/texts/ruleofthumb.html > >Take a look at what it has to say: > > >The "Rule of Thumb for Wife-Beating" Hoax I don't doubt that the "rule of thumb" may originally have had nothing to do with wife-beating. But I suspect Christine Hoff Sommers and some anti-feminist men's groups are using the story to show how we feminists "exaggerate" and "distort" the very real problem of men's violence against women. I have heard that the patriarchal Puritans were strongly against wife- beating. They would put abusive husbands in the stocks. I also read some statements from John Calvin where he admonished a parishioner to keep submitting to a husband who beat her. Calvin admitted the husband was wrong and he sympathized with the woman, but he never subjected him to "church discipline". This "rule of thumb" discussion is a tactic to get feminists stuck in the trees when we should be compelling people to look at the forest. If feminist scholars and activists made a mistake on the "rule of thumb", let's admit it. Nobody's perfect. But that doesn't mean we can't see the forest. Joanne Callahan jmcalla1@airmail.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 15:53:43 -0500 Reply-To: jmcalla1@airmail.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joanne Callahan Subject: Feminist Marriage/Family Therapists MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Women's Studies List: Is there an American directory of feminist family therapists? A feminist friend is having marital problems. She and her pro-feminist husband want to see a marriage counselor, but are very suspicious. They don't want to be subjected to the Mars and Venus Cult, to psychobabble about "the inner child" and "codependence", and to power issues trivialized as "communication problems". Also, I heard that there is a book which says that essentially, all marriages in the 90's are still patriarchal, even though some may look female-dominated. What is the title, author, and publisher of that book? "The Invisible Web" comes to mind. I'm very interested in feminist family therapy. I'm sure many of us would appreciate a good basic bibliography. Thanks. Joanne Callahan jmcalla1@airmail.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:38:45 +0300 Reply-To: shoshana@research.haifa.ac.il Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shoshana Mayer Subject: DALE SPENDER POEM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I was unsuccessful in tranSmitting a private message, so here it is. > This is probably the hundredth response, but still: It appears in a > book whose authors are DALE SPENDER AND ELIZABETH SARAH. Title: > LEARNING TO LOSE - SEXISM AND EDUCATION, The Women'Press, London, 1980, 128-130. - Almost twenty years ago and still timely? How sad. > Best of lucks! Shoshanna > S.Mayer Ph.D. > Women Studies > The University of Haifa > Israe ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:37:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "B.J. Eaton" Subject: Re: Fw: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (web site) In-Reply-To: <199809071836.LAA12975@ns1.fidalgo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On 9/7/98 you wrote: >along these same lines, i've used a film (BBC?) of "the yellow wallpaper" >when teaching that text in the past. i think it runs into the eternal >film-version-of-a-book problem, in that it detracts somewhat from the power >of gilman's words. it's an interesting and odd dilemma -- trying to make >her work accessible to a class while still wanting to maintain its >integrity *as* a written text. does anyone have any thoughts on this? any >other teaching ideas? >thanks,>rosemary>cricket@fidalgo.net End of Original Message The BBC film version of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is done well from a technical theatrical standpoint (acting, sets, etc.). However, there are major flaws in scholarship. If memory serves rightly, the BBC version protagonist is named Charlotte; Gilman's book does not give the protagonist a name other than John's wife. The "nameless invisibility" of women is a major point of Gilman's. However, this deficiency could be turned into a teaching tool in discussion after the film. Also, editor and biographer Anne J. Lane, who researched the Gilman papers at Radcliffe's Schlessinger Library, maintains Gilman declared until her death that YWP is not autobiographical. I know there is still debate on this point, but giving the protagonist the name Charlotte makes scholarly debate moot and gives the impression that the story IS autobiographical. The film leaves no room for debate on that point. Gilman's story is so vivid in the mind of readers, that of course the film pales in comparison. If students have previously read the story, then this, too, could be turned into a teaching tool. The film is done so well technically, it would be a shame not to use it, as long as these deficiencies are addressed in discussion afterward. Regards, B.J. Eaton, NWSAction Editor *Richardson, TX *bjeaton7@airmail.net * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 22:36:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Hackett Subject: Re: video that shows suffragette trampled? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Cynthia Harrison wrote: > > The trampling incident, which was British, would have been in "Shoulder to > Shoulder." The force feeding is described quite vividly in "One Woman, One > Vote," the story of the U.S. experience. Both programs appeared on PBS and > our media center recently purchased One Woman, One Vote. I seem to remember the trampling incident footage also being included in "One Woman, One Vote." That film contains a small section on the British women's suffrage movement, in light of its influence on Alice Paul. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 20:15:19 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christopher and Rosemary Crick Subject: Re: interp. of woolstonecraft MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit an interesting comparison is olympe de gouges' _declaration of the rights of woman and citizen_, (1791) written 2 years before woolstonecraft's _vindication_ and during the time when the first constitution was being debated in france. here is a brief passage from the _declaration_: The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious rights of woman, since this liberty guarantees that fathers will recognise their children. And citizen [citoyenne] can thus say freely: I am the mother of your child, without being forced by barbarous prejudice to hide the truth. ... (from article XI) joan wallach scott discusses olympe de gouges -- her "paradoxes," her political writings, her personal history and struggle to be recognised as an equal in a society in tumult -- in her chapter, "'A woman who has only paradoxes to offer': Olympe de Gouges Claims Rights for Women," in _Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution_ (sara e. melzer and leslie w. rabine, eds). the whole issue of the "other revolution" makes for a fascinating study of the end of the 18th century, and adds a whole different kind of significance to woolstonecraft's writings. rosemary cricket@fidalgo.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 02:08:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? In-Reply-To: <01J1HLI0MPSI0000IL@CASTLE.CUDENVER.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I've seen Shoulder to Shoulder, was deeply moved, and have generally admired the courage of Englishwomen in the struggle for the vote. Now - has do we reconcile that with another part of their history: as Antoinette Burton shows in Burdens of History, a centerpiece of their camapaign was assurance that they would carry the imperial banner in respect to India? I don't think we should write that off as simply a contradiction, but need to think through, and work through with students, how we look at and do a feminist project on one issue which does not harm others. (I'm not concerned about oppressive others in this) beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:30:44 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Fawcett Library Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 02:08:24 -0400 beatricekachuck wrote: > I've seen Shoulder to Shoulder, was deeply moved, and have generally > admired the courage of Englishwomen in the struggle for the vote. Now - has > do we reconcile that with another part of their history: as Antoinette > Burton shows in Burdens of History, a centerpiece of their camapaign was > assurance that they would carry the imperial banner in respect to India? > I don't think we should write that off as simply a contradiction, but need > to think through, and work through with students, how we look at and do a > feminist project on one issue which does not harm others. (I'm not > concerned about oppressive others in this) > beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net I believe that there are problems of oversimplification here. First, I think that what Antoinette Burton is saying is more complex than Beatrice implies - and certainly I know from contemporary documentation that by no means all British (Scots, Welsh as well as English) suffragists were keen on British imperial rule in India - a number of them went on to be supportive of the Indian independence movement, and interestingly it was Fred Pethick-Lawrence, one of the most prominent militant suffragists of either sex, who as Secretary of State for India from 1945 to 1947 presided over the measures that resulted in an independent India and Pakistan. Secondly, I should like to issue a warning about treating _Shoulder to shoulder_ as documentary history. It is indeed highly inspirational, and some episodes (most notably the Constance Lytton programme), faithfully reflect the contemporary documents. However, others do not, and the series as a whole follows the "script" outlined by Jane Marcus in her preface to "Suffrage and the Pankhursts" (compulsory reading for anybody investigating the historiography of the British suffrage movement, and of feminist history in general) - for example, Christabel Pankhurst is portrayed as rather flaky, cold, manipulative, right-wing and probably lesbian, while Sylvia is a good warm-hearted heterosexual socialist - very reassuring to the male writers of most of the scripts and the male director (Waris Hussein). And even then it portrays just one wing of the British suffragist movement. There were lots more things going on at the time that are not even hinted at in _Shoulder to shoulder_. Finally, when dealing with people in history we often find that while we can approve of many or most of their actions, we have problems with others, and that we do not share their world-view. Surely it is important for students to recognise this, and to try to avoid the "massive condescension of posterity". David Doughan, Reference Librarian The Fawcett Library (The National Library of Women) fawcett@lgu.ac.uk http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/fawcett.htm Phone: 0171 320 1189 Fax: 0171 320 1188 ________________ "God and one woman make a majority" (Josephine Butler) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 07:14:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's Edited Digest (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html): 6) "DOES WMST-L EXIST IN A DIGEST FORMAT?" Yes. 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Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 07:37:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan heald Subject: Femininity/Masculinity scales In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm wondering if there's some sort of simple scale that measures people's commitment to masculinity and femininity along a continuum that goes from, say, "Traditional" to "Feminist" or something like that, that would be suitable for use with 8-10 year olds? I don't usually do this kind of research, but it has occurred to me that t might be useful to identify different kinds of femininities and masculinities, or commitment to hegemonic femininity and masculinity amongst a group of children I am working with on their use of gendered racial discourses. Please reply privately. Thanks. Susan Heald Women's Studies University of Manitoba heald@cc.umanitoba.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:29:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet McAdams Organization: University of Oklahoma Subject: Re: Anzaldua and critiques of border theories MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I would appreciate citations/references for critiques of Anzaldua's Borderlands as well as critiques, recent theoretical work responding to or espousing border or borderlands theory. Thanks, Janet Janet McAdams assistant professor of English University of Oklahoma jmcadams@ou.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:29:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Film Review Added: Out of Season On Saturday, Sept. 5, I reviewed "Out of Season" on "The Women's Show" on WMNF-FM 88.5 in Tampa, Florida To obtain a copy of the review send the following command to listserv@umdd.umd.edu: GET FILM REV243 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: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:54:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Fawcett Library Subject: The Fawcett Library Website MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII This is just to let people know that The Fawcett Library now has a new website, with redesigned pages (frames, etc.) which we hope will make information easier to access. The new URL is: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/fawcett/main.htm David Doughan, Reference Librarian The Fawcett Library (The National Library of Women) fawcett@lgu.ac.uk http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/fawcett.htm Phone: 0171 320 1189 Fax: 0171 320 1188 ________________ "God and one woman make a majority" (Josephine Butler) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 12:33:19 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Image of Diarists in Contemporary Pop Culture MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hello all, I am currently working on a project about how the diarist is portrayed or created by contemporary popular media, positively or negatively. I am looking for tv images of the female diarist/journal keeper like Agent Scully from X-Files ( though Agent Mulder also keeps a journal) and Daria ( of MTV"s animated series Daria). I am also interested in the current trend in "self-help" workbooks, such as Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, and Susan Wittig Albert's _Writing From Life_, which encourages women to maintain journals and diaries in an effort to make their voices heard, to themselves and others. If you have any suggestions, please respond privately. I'll post to the list if there is sufficient interest. Best, Amy ****************** Dr. Amy L. Wink Department of English and Philosophy Stephen F. Austin State University P.O. Box 13007, SFA Station Nacogdoches, Tx 75962-3007 (409) 468-2007 awink@sfasu.edu "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." Emily Dickinson _Selected Letters_ (#330, p. 196) ******************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:09:06 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Bernhard, Linda" Subject: WS position available MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am posting this job position, but please do not contact me; contact the department if you are interested. ************************************************************************ ************* Linda A. Bernhard, PhD, RN Tel. 614-292-8336 Associate Professor, Nursing and Women's Studies Fax. 614-292-7976 The Ohio State University, 1585 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210 Bernhard.3@osu.edu****************************************************** ****** ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF WOMEN'S STUDIES OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN'S STUDIES In the last two years, the Department of Women's Studies at The Ohio State University has added five full-time scholars and teachers to its core faculty, for a total of 13 core faculty and 42 associated faculty. As a well-established and growing program, we offer one of the largest and most comprehensive selections of women's studies courses in the country. Our undergraduate program attracts more than 3,000 students each year and provides both an undergraduate major and minor. The M.A. program enrolls students from across the U.S. and around the world. We are currently inviting applications for a full-time tenured position at the rank of associate professor to begin September 1999. We seek a specialist in the interdisciplinary study of sexuality, but we will consider applications from scholars with other specialities who are qualified for tenure and the rank of associate professor. The candidate's scholarship should fall within the scope of the humanities. Desirable fields include, but are not limited to, historical and/or literary approaches to Latina, Asian American, Native American, or African American studies; religion; science; and colonial and post-colonial studies. Candidate must have a PhD in women's studies or a relevant field, graduate certification in women's studies and/or equivalent teaching experience in interdisciplinary women's studies core courses. Teaching responsibilities include core women's studies courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as courses in the candidate's area of expertise. Send letter of application, c.v., and three letters of recommendation by October 20, 1998. The review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Women's Studies Search Committee Department of Women's Studies 286 University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified women, minorities, Vietnam-era veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 07:26:50 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CE Randall/D Lynne In-Reply-To: <01J1K05FJ29U004Q37@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE SET WMST-L NOMAIL ACK ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:25:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Weinstock Subject: job ad for LGBTQA Services Coordinator at UVM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear WMST-L members, Below is a job announcement for a position at the University of Vermont to coordinate LGBTQA Services. If anyone would like additional information, you may contact me directly (I'm co-chairing the search). My address information appears at the end of the ad. --------------------------------------- University of Vermont to hire first time Coordinator for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Ally (LGBTQA) Services. Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Ally (LGBTQA) Services Coordinator at the University of Vermont. The position will be half time for two years with possible transition to full time after that time. Master's Degree in Education, Humanities, Women's Studies, Social Services or related field and two to three years related program development and implementation experience required, or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge can be acquired. Knowledge and awareness of LGBTQA issues and concerns essential. Responsibilities to include: to assess and identify educational, developmental, social and safety needs and to coordinate programs for students, staff and faculty specific to LGBTQA issues. Identify and develop external funding and programming resources, monitor program budgets and develop and provide mentoring support with general supervision from Executive Officer, Cultural Pluralism and Racial Equality. Interested candidates should submit a statement of interest in the position and a complete curriculum vitae, including names, addresses and telephone numbers of three references to: LGBTQA Search Committee, Center for Cultural Pluralism, 461 Main Street, University of Vermont, Burlington, 05405. Applications will be reviewed beginning 9/8 to 10/9/98. The University of Vermont is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a strong commitment to racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity. Nominations of and applications from bisexual and transgender people, and individuals from a broad spectrum of backgrounds are encouraged. ----------------- Jacqueline S. Weinstock Direct Phone: (802) 656-2058 HDFS Program Dept. Office: (802) 656-4050 University of Vermont Email: jsweinst@zoo.uvm.edu C-150 Living & Learning Center FAX: (802) 656-2687 Burlington, VT 05405 Homepage: http://www.uvm.edu/~jsweinst ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:25:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm sorry, I did overstate in saying "Englishwomen" - had in mind and should have said "feminist organizations" (tho if I recall correctly, Burton refers to "feminists" endorsing English rule in India). And I understand that there were feminists opposed to that rule. I had consulted a colleague, a historian who specializes in British history about Burton's description re feminists. She concurred, justified it by claiming that nobody was talking against colonialism at that time. That didn't make sense to me, I dug around, found some groups, individuals, particularly feminists, who were opponents. One such was Sylvia Pankhurst, part of a group of radicals. I don't think I'd call Annie Besant a feminist; anyway, she didn't support Indian independence until quite late. In any case, I believe my question holds: how do we, in our work - including teaching - deal with people/groups that support one issue we have in common, which stand for other positions we oppose? Don't we tacitly endorse the oppositional element, lend credibility, stregth to that group? The issue comes up in writing. I notice it in a variety of material I read, eg what gets left out of an analysis. And it comes up in discussing activist projects, particularly relevant in courses that include such. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net At 09:30 AM 9/8/98 -0400, you wrote: >On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 02:08:24 -0400 beatricekachuck > wrote: > >> I've seen Shoulder >to Shoulder, was deeply moved, and have generally >> admired the courage of Englishwomen in the struggle for the vote. Now - has >> do we reconcile that with another part of their history: as Antoinette >> Burton shows in Burdens of History, a centerpiece of their camapaign was >> assurance that they would carry the imperial banner in respect to India? >> I don't think we should write that off as simply a contradiction, but need >> to think through, and work through with students, how we look at and do a >> feminist project on one issue which does not harm others. (I'm not >> concerned about oppressive others in this) >> beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net > >I believe that there are problems of oversimplification >here. First, I think that what Antoinette Burton is saying >is more complex than Beatrice implies - and certainly I >know from contemporary documentation that by no means all >British (Scots, Welsh as well as English) suffragists were >keen on British imperial rule in India - a number of them >went on to be supportive of the Indian independence >movement, and interestingly it was Fred Pethick-Lawrence, >one of the most prominent militant suffragists of either >sex, who as Secretary of State for India from 1945 to 1947 >presided over the measures that resulted in an independent >India and Pakistan. > >Secondly, I should like to issue a warning about treating >_Shoulder to shoulder_ as documentary history. It is >indeed highly inspirational, and some episodes (most >notably the Constance Lytton programme), faithfully reflect >the contemporary documents. However, others do not, and >the series as a whole follows the "script" outlined by Jane >Marcus in her preface to "Suffrage and the Pankhursts" >(compulsory reading for anybody investigating the >historiography of the British suffrage movement, and of >feminist history in general) - for example, Christabel >Pankhurst is portrayed as rather flaky, cold, manipulative, >right-wing and probably lesbian, while Sylvia is a good >warm-hearted heterosexual socialist - very reassuring to >the male writers of most of the scripts and the male >director (Waris Hussein). And even then it portrays just >one wing of the British suffragist movement. There were >lots more things going on at the time that are not even >hinted at in _Shoulder to shoulder_. > >Finally, when dealing with people in history we often find >that while we can approve of many or most of their >actions, we have problems with others, and that we do not >share their world-view. Surely it is important for >students to recognise this, and to try to avoid the >"massive condescension of posterity". > >David Doughan, Reference Librarian >The Fawcett Library (The National Library of Women) >fawcett@lgu.ac.uk >http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/fawcett.htm >Phone: 0171 320 1189 >Fax: 0171 320 1188 >________________ >"God and one woman make a majority" (Josephine Butler) > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:02:40 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Naomi Saks Subject: Girls, Economic Literacy and Self-Esteem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I would like to introduce myself. I'm a graduate student and entrepreneur. I'm studying through a non-residential program at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In this Individualized Masters of Arts, you study with scholars in your field and create a degree plan centered on around your area of interest. I'm focused on entrepreneurship as a tool to strengthen self-esteem and encourage economic literacy in girls. I'm interested in finding out how one can use the path to a sense of self-efficacy and entitlement that entrepreneurs have and model that to help girls step into their powerful selves. I was wondering if anyone could recommend or knew anyone who could recommend, resources for research and scholars studying in this area? It is very interdisciplinary: Business, Women's Studies, Psychology and Communications. I'm new to research so any information is greatly welcomed. Thank you, Naomi Saks nsaks@aol.com 510-595-6820 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 07:18:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: what to do if mail stops (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html): 7) "WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MAIL FROM WMST-L SUDDENLY STOPS?" Note: if you've arranged to receive WMST-L in edited digest form, skip to section C below. Otherwise, read on. A) If you receive a message from LISTSERV informing you that your WMST-L options have been set to NOMAIL, that means that mail from the list was repeatedly returned as undeliverable, probably because of a mail problem on your system. 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Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:20:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Crystal Kile Subject: CFP:1999 SCWSA Conf/"Women@2K" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ** Please circulate widely. Thanks. ** The Women's Studies Consortium of Louisiana in conjunction with the South Central Women's Studies Association invite your participation in WOMEN@2K: Pasts, Presents, Futures The 1999 South Central Women's Studies Association Conference 11-13 March * Tulane University * New Orleans, LA Seize this early millennial moment to join in plotting the future of women's activism inside and outside the academy. What have we learned from the past centuries of womens social, cultural, economic and political struggles? What are the critical issues currently affecting women's lives and well-being, and how well are we addressing them? How can we continue to work together across differences to shape the world we want to bequeath to future generations? Who are "we"? Whither "feminism"? The conference committee welcomes proposals for presentations or full panels which address these broadly-drawn questions from activist, scholarly, pedagogical and theoretical perspectives. Presentations which incorporate strong and innovative strategic and tactical components are especially encouraged! CONFERENCE FEATURES: Special embedded conference organized by and for college and high school-age women * Creative writing section featuring readings and workshops * Special panels and events in honor of the Centennial of the publication of Kate Chopin's _The Awakening_ * Keynote speaker: Barbara Smith * Plenary speaker: Wendy Chapkis Younger women and women working outside the academy are especially encouraged to participate. Deadline for paper, performance, workshop and session proposals (250-500 words) AND for creative writing submissions (limit:10 pages of poetry, fiction, biography or memoir): 1 NOVEMBER 1998 ALL proposals and submissions MUST include your name, institutional affilliation (if any) and contact information ( phome or e-mail), and be accompanied by a brief, relevant biography. Please specify in your proposal any media equipment you will require for your presentation. If you wish your proposal to be considered for the embedded conference by/about younger women or for the Kate Chopin panels, please indicate that at the top of your proposal. The committee cannot be responsible for returning any materials submitted for our consideration. PLEASE DIRECT YOUR PROPOSALS AS FOLLOWS: Submissions for the *creative writing section only* should be sent to SCWSA 99 c/o Kay Murphy English Department University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA 70148 * The creative writing section will *not* accept electronic proposals. All other submissions should be sent to SCWSA 99 c/o Crystal Kile Newcomb College Center for Research on Women 200 Caroline Richardson Hall Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 voice: (504) 865-5238 fax: (504) 862-8948 e-mail: scwsa99@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (*These are also the general contact/info numbers/addresses for all matters concerning the conference.) Regularly updated information about conference planning, the program, registration and housing is available at http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/scwsa99 "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: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:03:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea O'Reilly Subject: Mothers and Sons Conference MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Forwarded mail from "Mail Delivery Subsystem" Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:46:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mail Delivery Subsystem" Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: umdd.edu: host not found) To: International Conference Mothers and Sons Today: Challenges and Possibilities September 25th-27th York University Toronto Ont The Centre for Feminist Research at York University is hosting an international confernce focusing on the unique relationships between mothers and their sons. This conference will bring together feminist scholars and experts from around the world. Keynote speakers will address such issues as mothers and sons in single parent families, mothers and sons with special needs, black mothers and their sons and mothers and gay sons. Mothers and Sons Today is the second in a series of conferences dealing with motherhood. It builds on last year's widely acclaimed conference on Mothers and Daughters. Featuring Key-note Speakers Marni Jackson, Redefining Attachment between Mothers and Sons Babette Smith, Mothering for Gender Equality Mary Kay Blakely, American MOn: Reflections of an Outlaw Jeanette Corbiere Lavell, Native Perspectives on the Mother-Son Relationship Carolyn Mitchell, Black Mothers to Sons Jacqueline Haessly, Mothering Sons with Special Needs Jess Wells, Lesbians Raising Sons Judith Arcana, Every Mother's Sons Joyce King, Black Mothers and Sons Linda Forcey, Mothers and Sons and the Art of Peace Building Amia Lieblich, Mother-Son Relationships in the Shadow of War Anne-Marie Ambert, Mother-Blaming by Clinicians: Matenrla Narratives Janet Sayers, Mothers and Sons: Attachment and Loss In addition, there will be a Pre-conference Interacitve Session. For more information and to register, please contact Conference Coordinator Andrea O'Reilly or Conference Organizer Christy Taylor at : mother@yorku.ca or 416 736-5915 or 416 736-2100 ex 40206 or fax: 416 736-5416 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:09:54 -0700 Reply-To: sharons1@airmail.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Snow Organization: Texas Woman's University Subject: danticat MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm considering using Edwidge Danticat's _Breath, Eyes, Memory_ for my intro class in the spring. Has anyone else used it? How did your students respond? Any tips on presenting it? Sharon Snow sharons1@airmail.net Texas Woman's University ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:07:33 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: WS Reading Rooms MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII One of our Community Associates is interested in making a contribution towards establishing a Women's Studies Reading Room in the our new library, which is under construction, and I have a scheduled a meeting with the Dean of Libraries to determine how receptive he is to the idea. How many of you are at universities or colleges whose libraries have reading rooms or sections set apart for women's studies (when I was in Philadelphia, Penn had a Women's Studies Seminar in Van Pelt Library, along with an Afro-American Studies Seminar; now, it seems, they have only the latter)? Please respond privately and I will post the responses to the list. Thanks in advance, Ellen Ellen Cronan Rose, Director, Women's Studies Program, UNLV 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5055 PHONE (702) 895-0838, FAX (702) 895-0850 ecrose@nevada.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 21:25:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam K Harris Subject: Re: WS Reading Rooms Comments: To: Ellen Cronan Rose In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Texas Woman's University in Denton has a great one, connected to their women's archive. ----------------------- Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. mharris@utdallas.edu University of Texas at Dallas Lecturer, Arts and Humanities PO Box 830688; JO 31 Richardson, Texas 75083-0688 On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Ellen Cronan Rose wrote: > One of our Community Associates is interested in making a contribution > towards establishing a Women's Studies Reading Room in the our new > library, which is under construction, and I have a scheduled a meeting > with the Dean of Libraries to determine how receptive he is to the idea. > How many of you are at universities or colleges whose libraries have > reading rooms or sections set apart for women's studies (when I was in > Philadelphia, Penn had a Women's Studies Seminar in Van Pelt Library, > along with an Afro-American Studies Seminar; now, it seems, they have only > the latter)? > > Please respond privately and I will post the responses to the list. > Thanks in advance, Ellen > > Ellen Cronan Rose, Director, Women's Studies Program, UNLV > 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5055 > PHONE (702) 895-0838, FAX (702) 895-0850 > ecrose@nevada.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:06:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: pamela kemner Subject: Re: Girls, Economic Literacy and Self-Esteem In-Reply-To: <445ed38f.35f5d3b0@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Naomi, Good for you doing Antioch's individualized MA program. I have a BA in women's studies from Antioch, MA's in English and women's studies from U of Cinti and am now in Cinti running the Clermont County Literacy Council and adjunct teaching women's studies. What I'd suggest you do is contact your nearest local YWCA -- maybe in Dayton -- about their life skills or life strides programs for women. Also obviously women's business associations. Self-sufficiciency is a big issue in welfare reform -- many Y's are trying to help women doing in-home childcare for other women get certified as business women. It's an interesting bizarre process. Good luck! Pamela Kemner ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:32:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Fawcett Library Subject: Re: video that show suffragette trampled? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:25:56 -0400 beatricekachuck wrote: > In any case, I believe my question holds: how do we, in our work - > including teaching - deal with people/groups that support one issue we have > in common, which stand for other positions we oppose? Don't we tacitly > endorse the oppositional element, lend credibility, stregth to that group? > The issue comes up in writing. I notice it in a variety of material I > read, eg what gets left out of an analysis. And it comes up in discussing > activist projects, particularly relevant in courses that include such. > beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net I think that we have to make it clear that people differ, the past is a different country, and that perceptions of what is correct / objectionable can change. For example, take the author of my favourite definition of feminism, Rebecca West, who also (among many other things) wrote approvingly of Serbian national culture in 1942, at a time when the Serbs were under attack by the Nazis and their Croatian allies. Ten years ago this was not cause for comment, but now she is perceived by many people as being excessively pro-Serbian (hence anti-Croatian, anti-Bosnian Muslim) ... which can affect the way her feminism is regarded, especially if you happen to be a Bosnian Muslim refugee. Basically, I don't think we should give the impression that our approval can only be reserved for those whose ideas / actions match 100 per cent with what we currently consider desirable. Having in the past seen feminists being attacked by other feminists for not agreeing on all points, I would much rather teach people (especially activists) that nobody's perfect (not even me). And I don't see how we tacitly endorse the opposition's view by admitting this. Does approving what some Republicans say about Clinton's behaviour mean that we tacitly endorse the Republican platform? David Doughan, Reference Librarian The Fawcett Library (The National Library of Women) fawcett@lgu.ac.uk http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/fawcett.htm Phone: 0171 320 1189 Fax: 0171 320 1188 ________________ "God and one woman make a majority" (Josephine Butler) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:19:56 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Preston Subject: masculinity-femininity scales Comments: To: heald@cc.umanitoba.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Susan inquired about methods of measuring "commitment to masculinity and femininity" along a continuum such as "traditional to feminist" for 8-10 year olds. Seems there are two different concepts here, masculinity-femininity and commitment to feminist ideas. There are a number of m-f scales, some "empirical," e.g. the Femininity Scale of the Calif. Personality Inventory, and some theory-based, e.g. Sandra Bem's Sex Roles Inventory. (Both of these are older but the latter was widely used in a spate of research in the '70s-'80s -- there are probably newer, better scales--I'm not up on the recent literature.) As for measuring feminism, at least a few years ago there were few if any useful scales as far as I could see. A grad student I worked with developed a short questionnaire from a factor analysis of commonly-held ideas about feminism; it seemed to work well (at the time) in identifying varying degrees of basic feminist commitment. The work was never published, but I'd be glad to share it with anyone who's interested. It may still be useful in some way. I'm not aware of any measures that would suit 8-10 year olds, but some of the adult measures might be adaptable, and besides, as noted before, I'm really out-of-date! Kathleen Preston Psychology and Women's Studies Humboldt State Univ., Arcata, CA KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:53:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: publicizing books, films, 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 (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html): 8A) "WHAT IS THE LIST'S POLICY ABOUT ADVERTISING? MAY I SEND AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT A BOOK, FILM, OR PERFORMANCE THAT I WISH TO RECOMMEND?" 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, performances, and other commercial resources that you have not created unless you are responding to a specific query. It's true that such notices might well be useful, but the dangers far outweigh the usefulness. The primary danger is that this already high-volume list will be INUNDATED with announcements from publishers, agents, friends, sponsors, companies, etc. etc. What publisher could resist free advertising to an ideal audience? Such advertising, with its concommitant increase in mail volume, could easily cause hundreds of people to have to sign off, destroy the edited digest, and even imperil the list's use of the university's facilities. Hence, the list's policy. ****************** 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 korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:13:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Johnson/ Robert Serinsky Subject: Women in the Arts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To all those interested in feminist analysis of contemporary multi-media art by women: A few months ago, I contacted this list soliciting responses to the idea of a text I was preparing with a colleague to support our multi-media Women in the Arts course. We received many good suggestions and have since signed a contract with a publisher. We now need a few good authors. The idea for the book is to devote a chapter to a major work (1960-now) by a woman artist in ten different arts disciplines. If you are a scholar of architecture (especially, Elizabeth Plater Zyberk), performance art (especially, Ana Mendieta), poetry (especially, Gwendolyn Brooks) or fiction (especially, Amy Tan), and would like to contribute a chapter to our text, please contact me ASAP at the above address. Unfortunately, there is only glory -- rather than money -- to be had and our deadline is somewhat tight. Nonetheless, to judge from the response to the book thus far, a work such as this could contribute much toward introducing women artists into the womens studies classroom. Deborah Johnson doctorj@providence.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:49:39 +0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: naomi graetz Subject: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating (announcement) In-Reply-To: <01J1N4L0UV4G004QYR@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Book Announcement Silence is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeting by Naomi Graetz We are pleased and excited to announce the publication of *Silence Is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating* by Naomi Graetz (Northvale NJ: Jason Aronson, 1998). Her book was chosen as a Main Selection of the Jewish Book News (September 3, 1998). If your local Jewish bookstore or distributor does not have the book you can order the book for yourself, a friend, your university or synagogue library by calling a TOLL FREE NUMBER: 1-800-782-0015 (bulk orders: ask for Fred). The book can also be ordered from the following: In the U.S. from Jason Aronson Inc. 230 Livingston Street, Northvale, NJ 07647 (201-767-4093). In Israel from M. Pomeranz Booksellers at Shmuel HaNagid 4, Jerusalem (Tel: 02- 623-5559; Fax: 02-993-2915). In the Europe and the United Kingdom from B. Horowitz, 20 King Edward Bldgs, Bury Old Road, Manchester M7 4QJ, England (Fax and Tel: 44-161-740-5897). In Canada from Copp Clark Professional, 200 Adelaide Street, West 3rd Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5H 1W7 (Tel: 416-597-1616; Fax: 416-597-1617). In Australia, Gold's Book and Gift Company, 36 William Street, Balaclava 3183, Victoria (Tel: 61-3-527-8775; Fax: 61-3-527-6434). To give you a sense of the book, here is the abbreviated Table of Contents: Preface Introduction by Elliot Dorff 1. Wifebeating and Jewish Society 2. Metaphoric Battering: The Groundwork for Domestic Violence in Patriarchal Society 3. A Prophetic Metaphor: God is to Israel as Husband is to Wife 4. The Connection between Metaphor and Halakha 5. Formative Laws and Principles in Support of Wifebeaters 6. Formative Laws and Principles Opposed to Wifebeating 7. Rabbinic Acceptance of "Lawful" Wifebeating 8. Rejection: There is No Excuse for Wifebeating 9. Modern Attitudes: Denial and Apologetics 10. Evasion of Responsibility: The Problem with Jewish Divorce Laws 11. Feminist Halakhic Solutions Apendix A: Reviving Takkanah in the Halakhic Process by Michael Graetz Appendix B: Chronology of Responsa Discussed in this Book Glossary Bibliography Index WHY SHOULD YOU BUY THE BOOK? Alice Shalvi, of the Israel Women's Network and Rector of the Shechter Institute of Judaism writes that "Graetz's book is another example, and an excellent one at that, of the current trend in feminist-critique of classical Jewish text, this time on a topic of importance to all who care about justice and equity in the family and in society." Ellen M. Umansky, Professor of Judaic Studies at Fairfield University, writes that "Naomi Graetz's *Silence is Deadly*, is an eye-opening exploration of Jewish domestic violence....Graetz's well researched and amply documented work reveals [that] biblical concepts and theological metaphors influenced the creation of rabbinic principles and laws that, despite the ongoing opposition of some rabbis, continue to support wifebeating as a permissible form of punishment and education.... Identifying herself as both a religious Jew and a Jewish feminist, Graetz's approach is both critical and constructive...she does not reject the halakhic system....She convincingly argues for the necessity and possibility of legal change." Umansky further writes that her book is "unflinchingly honest, troubling, challenging...scholarly and accessible...." Joel H. Meyers, Executive Vice-President of the Rabbinical Assembly, considers the work to be "a tour de force calling upon our rabbinic leadership to exercise the courage to amend Jewish law to grant compassion and caring for abused wives. She presents well-thought proposals for doing so including the call for a takkanah." Meyers predicts that this work will "serve as an impetus to halakhic change and a more ethical and moral view of women's rights in our legal tradition." Naomi Graetz teaches critical reading skills to students at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and lectures widely on women and Judaism. She is the author of *S/He Created Them: Feminist Retellings of Biblical Stories* (Professional Press, 1993). Her scholarly articles on women in the Bible and Midrash have appeared in numerous journals and edited books. Naomi Graetz will be on Sabbatical in the U.S. and Canada from mid- February until late June 1999 to lecture and promote her book. If you wish to contact her, her e-mail is graetz@bgumail.bgu.ac.il. Her snail mail address is p.o.b. 193, Omer, Israel. IF YOU RE-POST THIS, PLEASE SEND ME A COPY OF THE LIST TO WHICH YOU SEND IT. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:22:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Bevacqua Subject: Berkshires conference MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know whether registration information about the upcoming Berkshires women's history conference has gone out yet? If so, please let me know who I can contact about registering (or provide a URL if they have a website). Please respond privately. I will post the details if I get any. Cheers, Maria ************************************************************* Maria Bevacqua Visiting Assistant Professor Institute for Women's Studies Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 mbevacq@emory.edu Phone: (404) 727-7282 Fax: (404) 727-4659 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:48:47 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Naomi Standen Subject: Patriarchal obstetrics Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I want to spend a week or three of my Intro class dealing with bodies, and bodies and health. I am looking for a selection from a standard obstetrics textbook that demonstrates 'traditional' patriarchal attitudes to women in childbirth - eg. advocating the lithotomy position, treating childbirth as an illness, assuming that women giving birth have no mental function, etc, etc. This would be an older textbook I suppose, but then again, who knows how recent it could be? The more recent the better, naturally (for educational purposes, at least!) I'm a historian not a medic, and I'm hoping for a shortcut to something that suits my purpose. Is there anyone out there who knows of such a passage (it need not be long) and could give me a reference? Or is there anyone who could at least point me towards author(s) or title(s) that I could inter-library loan? Thanks, -- Naomi Standen | UW-Superior Department of History, Politics and Society | Belknap & Catlin, PO Box 2000 University of Wisconsin-Superior | Superior, WI 54880-4500 nstanden@staff.uwsuper.edu | USA ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:06:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "MARY L. ERTEL, SOCIOLOGY" Subject: Patriarchal obstetrics Christine Overall has a paper in which she reviews the very traditional, very patriarchal 1984 statement of the Ontario Medical Association entitled "Issues Relating to Childbirth." Overall's article is edited and printed in _Gender Basics: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Men_, edited by Anne Minas (1993, Wadsworth, pp 448-456). The original is "Childbirth," by Christine Overall, in _Ethics and Human Reproduction: A Feminist Analysis_ (Winchester, MA: Allen and Unwin, 1987), pp 88-110. Hope this is helpful. - Mary Mary L. Ertel, Associate Professor, Sociology Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:27:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ilene Kalish Subject: Re: Patriarchal obstetrics Comments: To: Naomi Standen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You should take a look at G.J. Barker-Benfield's The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century America. In chapters 7-11 he details the horrific history of gynecology in this country. Though this is a historical treatment of the issue, his critique is devastating, clearly showing how women were used as guinea pigs in order to end the female profession of midwivery and make way for the male gynecological "pioneers"--men who sliced and diced women's bodies in order to "cure" them. The book also details the history of female genital mutilation in this country. After reading this, you'll understand why hysterectomies were so popular in this country. (Cutting was the easiest way.) Good luck, Ilene Kalish ikalish@routledge-ny.com ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Patriarchal obstetrics Author: Naomi Standen at INTERNET Date: 9/10/98 3:48 PM I want to spend a week or three of my Intro class dealing with bodies, and bodies and health. I am looking for a selection from a standard obstetrics textbook that demonstrates 'traditional' patriarchal attitudes to women in childbirth - eg. advocating the lithotomy position, treating childbirth as an illness, assuming that women giving birth have no mental function, etc, etc. This would be an older textbook I suppose, but then again, who knows how recent it could be? The more recent the better, naturally (for educational purposes, at least!) I'm a historian not a medic, and I'm hoping for a shortcut to something that suits my purpose. Is there anyone out there who knows of such a passage (it need not be long) and could give me a reference? Or is there anyone who could at least point me towards author(s) or title(s) that I could inter-library loan? Thanks, -- Naomi Standen | UW-Superior Department of History, Politics and Society | Belknap & Catlin, PO Box 2000 University of Wisconsin-Superior | Superior, WI 54880-4500 nstanden@staff.uwsuper.edu | USA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 20:07:07 -0400 Reply-To: khp@visi.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Prown Subject: Re: Patriarchal obstetrics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Naomi Standen wrote: > > I want to spend a week or three of my Intro class dealing with bodies, and > bodies and health. I am looking for a selection from a standard obstetrics > textbook that demonstrates 'traditional' patriarchal attitudes to women in > childbirth - eg. advocating the lithotomy position, treating childbirth as > an illness, assuming that women giving birth have no mental function, etc, > etc. In _Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth_ (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995), Robbie Pfeufer Kahn devotes a chapter to _Williams Obstetrics_, a standard textbook and a rich source for evidence of the patriarchal bias in obstetrics. She compares various editions and through analysis of the language used traces a growing trend toward "managed" birth and diminished agency for childbearing women. Though she stops at the mid-80s, I would say her argument continues to apply today--a "text" to examine in that regard would be OBGYN-L, the popular listserv for obstetricians and gynecologists. Students can access it through the Web (http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gyn-l/index.html#archives) and determine for themselves the attitudes at work in modern obstetrics. Another excellent book I've used in the classroom is Robbie Davis Floyd's _Birth as an American Rite of Passage_ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). In the second chapter she presents a concise overview of modern obsetrical practice and analyzes it from a feminist/anthropological perspective. Students found her analysis very provocative, and it generated lively debate about the question of women's power in the birthplace. Katherine Prown Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies The College of William and Mary P.O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 757-221-3917 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:51:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Kamen Subject: Paula Kamen: speaker and author posting Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear scholars, students and fellow travelers: (I'm not sure if this was posted earlier on your list.....) This is a plug for my lecturing services. As a journalist, visiting research scholar, and the author of Feminist Fatale, the first "third-wave" book on young women's attitudes about feminism, I have spoken at more than 60 universities in the past several years. I wrote this book after reflecting on my experiences at as a student opinions columnist for the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois in 1989. When I had started to cover "women's issues" in a "militantly moderate" manner, I was alarmed that I instantly became labeled as a "radical feminist." Noticing my own inexplicable resistance to the word "feminist," I became curious to explore my generation's stigmas about the word. I was curious about the contradiction about how we support everything the movement stands for but won't stand up as feminists. The result: a nationally acclaimed book based on more than 200 interviews with young women across the country. This year I am also speaking about my second book, seven years in the making, Her Way, on young women's sexual attitudes (to be released next fall by NYU Press). This stands out as the only book yet to intensively research a generation's shifting sexual choices. My lecture topics, which can be modified: -- "Beyond the 'F' Word: Young Women's Visions for the Future of the Women's Movement," which discusses findings from the first book (actually still very relevant; the basic stigmas of feminists have gone unchanged. I also update the speech every year....).=20 --"From Sexual Revolution to Evolution: How the women's movement has transformed young women's sexual choices." This discusses how young women are conducting their personal lives more openly and more on their own terms because they have more power, both personal and political. Thank you for your time! Feel free to contact me with any questions or for references.=20 Sincerely, Paula Kamen Visiting Research Scholar, Northwestern University 1408 W. Catalpa Chicago, IL 60640 Tel. 773-561-5385 Fax 773-561-5392 p-kamen@nwu.edu More info, for the curious=85. BIO FOR PAULA KAMEN - 1998-99 Paula Kamen is the author of Feminist Fatale: Voices From the "Twentysomething" Generation Explore The Future Of The "Women's Movement" (Donald I. Fine, 1991). Based on interviews with a diversity of young women, the book explores a central conflict about feminism: resistance to the label of "feminist" but then support of the ideals of the women's movement. Feminist scholar bell hooks calls the book "one of the most well researched and thoughtful discussions of the factors that shape responses to feminist thinking among younger women." The Washington Post says that Kamen "blends intelligence, sophistication and youthful energy into a quest for how the women's movement might grow." Kamen, a visiting research scholar at Northwestern University with the women's studies program, is also the author of the upcoming Her Way: The Report on Young Women's Evolving Sexual Choices, to be published in 1999 by New York University Press. Based on more than a hundred lively, unfiltered, and honest in-depth interviews with women from across the country (along with academic research and pop culture studies), Her Way cuts through the sensationalism and speculation that characterizes popular discussions about young women and sex. The book reports the real story, the "big picture," of an entire generation's enhanced sexual expectations and choices -- now only visible in the wake of 30 years of women's drives for equal rights, education, careers and sexual information. It explores young women's sexual shifts to acting and thinking more like men -- while also redefining sex in women's terms and asserting the right to say "no" as well as "yes." The book terms this woman-defined movement a Sexual Evolution, contrasting it with the more visible and male-directed Sexual Revolution of the 1970s. Page 2 A Chicago-based writer and 1989 graduate of the University of Illinois, Kamen has distinguished herself as a national commentator on young women, feminism and the media. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Ms., the Chicago Tribune, EXTRA! (a publication of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), the Dallas Morning News, Newsday, and the anthologies Next: Young American Writers On The New Generation (W.W. Norton, 1994) and "Bad Girls/Good Girls": Women, Sex and Power in the Nineties (Rutgers University Press, 1996). In 1998, her work appears in the satire anthology, Shiny Adidas Track Suits and the Death of Camp (The Best of Might Magazine) (Putnam-Berkley), and in 1999, in the young feminist anthology R/Evolutions: Generation Contemporary Feminisms (SUNY University Press). =20 In other media work, she is on the Advisory Board of the Women's Media Watch Project of FAIR, a national media watchdog group. She was a researcher for the film documentary, Jane: An Abortion Service, which appeared in the January 1996 Sundance Film Festival and aired on PBS in= 1998.=20 Through her research and lectures, Kamen stays in close contact with college students. In the past eight years, she has spoken at more than 60 universities, including the University of Texas-Austin, Vanderbilt University, Colgate University, and Virginia Tech. She was the keynote speaker at the 1996 national conference, "Stopping Gender Violence on Campus," sponsored by the University of Chicago's Sexual Violence Prevention Resource Center.=20 Her first book, Feminist Fatale, is now being used across the country as a women's studies text at many colleges. It also has been excerpted in several major anthologies, including Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology, edited by Amy Kesselman, Lily McNair and Nancy Schniedewind (Mountainview, 1994). ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 03:14:34 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nat Scrimshaw Subject: Gender and Women's Studies Program Abroad in Costa Rica Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >>GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM ABROAD IN COSTA RICA >>Community Development and Social Change in Costa Rica: The Evolving >>Role of Women in the Development of a Rural Costa Rican Region >> >>Annual Course Program 1999-2000 >>Instituto Monteverde/IMV, Monteverde, Costa Rica >> >>Dates for 1999, 2000 >>Semester Course 1999 Jan. 31-May 22 * Summer Session June 24-Aug. 8 >>Semester Course 2000 Jan. 30-May 20 * Summer Session June 22-Aug. 6 >> >>Application Deadline >>Semester Course 1999 Nov. 13, 1998 * Summer Session April 14, 1999 >>Semester Course 2000 Nov. 16, 1999 * Summer Session April 12, 2000 >> >>Academic Credit >>Semester - 14 Semester Credit Hours >>Spanish 3; Fieldwork Methodology 3; Area/Gender/Women's Studies 8 >>Summer - 6 Semester Credit Hours >>Spanish 2; Fieldwork Methodology 1; Area/Gender/Women's Studies 3 >> >>The Setting >> Nestled high on the Pacific slope of the Tilaran Mountains in >>Northwestern Costa Rica and surrounded by the tropical cloud forests >>of the Bosque Eterno de los Ninos and the Monteverde Reserve, the >>Instituto Monteverde/IMV is a non-profit educational association >>specializing in socio-cultural and natural-history immersion. The IMV >>was initiated by the people of Monteverde to administer cultural, >>scientific, and educational programs to share Monteverde's natural >>beauty and biological riches with the rest of the world. Our students >>are given the opportunity to interact with local communities through >>homestays and field research, and to evaluate the intricacies of >>balancing conservation and development. The IMV provides technical >>and financial support to women's cooperatives, local schools, and >>programs benefiting education and the arts. It also operates a Vida >>Familiar (Family life) Program to support local families in holistic >>health, prevention of domestic violence, and adolescents' concerns. >> We know little of the original indigenous Maleku population in this >>region. The area was first settled by Costa Rican subsistence farmers >>during the 1920's and 1930's. In 1951, a group of US American Quakers >>came to Monteverde in search of a peaceful rural life, having chosen >>Costa Rica because of its earlier abolition of the army. The region >>now includes three rather densely populated neighboring communities >>(Santa Elena, Cerro Plano, Monteverde) and 24 outlying villages that >>economically depend upon the center. The multi-cultural character of >>the communities is enhanced by many scientists, artists, and visitors >>who come to study or enjoy the natural splendor of the area. Thus a >>region of subsistence agriculture and virgin forests has become an >>area where dairy farming, coffee growing, and tourism compete with, >>co-exist with, and as of lately ally themselves with environmental >>protection. >> >>The Academic Program >> The courses are part of a 10-year project to create a data bank that >>rescues the experiences of women in the development of this lush >>"Green Mountain" or Monte Verde region. The 70 years since its >>initial settlement have brought profound changes to women's lives, >>illustrating the overall transformation through globalization. >>Students will collect women's experiences through oral history and >>will witness diverse agricultural, technological, political, economic, >>social, cultural, and psychological aspects of this change and will >>serve the region's communities by documenting these experiences. Over >>time, this documentation will take the form of women's life stories >>for adults, bilingual story books for children, or bilingual plays >>illustrating conflictive issues in women's lives at different points >>in time. >> Eventually, the Gender and Women's Studies Program will expand its >>oral-history project to include men, both as respondents and as >>students, to live up to the true meaning of its name. At the moment, >>however, it is still more urgent in most communities to rescue women's >>experiences rather than to pay due respect to men's lives. >> >>Course Description and Themes >> Students will acquire theoretical knowledge on the diverse aspects of >>rural development in Costa Rica, and as participant observers they >>will develop an understanding of a culture that is undergoing profound >>changes under the impact of globalization. In turn, community >>members, women in particular, will benefit from the students' respect >>for their experiences and the planned documentation. >> Overall themes in the course include the debate about the nature of >>development, the Central American and Costa Rican socio-historical >>context, the specifics of the Monte Verde Region, basic concepts >>relevant to gender and women's issues in Costa Rica, the specifics of >>fieldwork methodology for qualitative research, and Spanish language >>preparation. >> >>Course Structure >> Both courses will be divided into three phases: (1) Preparation, (2) >>Field Research, and (3) Write-up/Reporting. In the semester, the >>three phases will take four weeks, eights weeks and four weeks. In >>the summer, they will last one, four, and one weeks respectively. >> >>(1) Preparation >> Intensive language instruction in Spanish is provided by local >>professionals and includes the development of research-specific >>vocabulary for diverse topics in oral history interviews. >> Area/Gender/Women's Studies classes and discussions explore relevant >>materials (in English and/or Spanish), including local history. >> Fieldwork methodology classes address project development through >>relevant readings (in English and/or Spanish) and project proposal >>writing. >> Total hours of class time: Semester, 148 hours; Summer: 37 hours. >> During the preparation phase, semester students will stay for a few >>days in a local hostel, thereafter with a family near the IMV. They >>will stay with another host family in their field research location, >>and return to the first family during the write-up phase. Summer >>students will spend the short preparation and write-up phases in the >>local hostel and the four weeks of their field research with a local >>host family. >> >>(2) Field Research >> At their research sites, students share the host families' lives and >>do participant observation, informal interviewing and oral history. >>They use their time as appropriate, including weekends that are often >>particularly conducive to interaction. Given the nature of their more >>short-term projects, summer students may stay with host families close >>to the IMV. >> Advisors visit students at least once a month for consultation, or >>students come to the IMV to use computers and resources. After four >>weeks in the semester, two weeks in the summer session, students >>return to the IMV for one day of reporting to the group and additional >>consulting. >> Total hours of fieldwork are approx. 280-300 during the semester, >>140-150 during the summer session. >> >>(3) Write-Up/Reporting/Community Service >> Students will use personal laptop computers or IMV computers on >>assigned schedules to write up observations, interview transcriptions, >>women's life stories, and their analysis of findings and insights. >>This includes a descriptive map of their communities. The IMV will >>copy the students' work to create a comprehensive data bank/archive. >>Students who produce art or visual information will complete (and >>duplicate) them during this period. Towards the end of the period, >>students will report to the group and (in Spanish) to their >>communities about their findings. >> Total hours of write-up/reporting are approximately 160 for the >>semester, 40 for the summer. >> Over time, students will become increasingly involved in developing >>final products (books, plays, displays) for the participating >>communities, possibly for wider audiences. Potential subject matter >>includes families' use of agricultural tools and products (coffee, >>corn, sugar cane), household (kitchen utensils, furniture) or other >>technology (transportation), children's toys, clothing, social >>relations, family traditions, entertainment, education, women's career >>aspirations, etc. Once it is published or produced, all contributors >>to a given project receive recognition for their contribution. >>> >>Student Prerequisites >> Admissible are undergraduates (with at least one complete year of >>college-level work) and graduate students from all disciplines, >>including education, the arts, the media, or theater. There are no >>upper age limits, nor preference by gender. Applicants should have a >>least one year of formal Spanish study, preferably more, or informal >>fluency on account of family background. Required grade point average >>is 2.75 or equivalent. Students who do not need academic credit will >>be accepted. >> >>Program Coordinator: Ilse Abshagen Leitinger, Ph.D. >> A pioneer researcher of women's issues in Costa Rica, Dr. Leitinger >>has been an OAS Research Fellow in the field of Women's Studies in San >>Jose and Fulbright Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at the >>Instituto de Estudios de la Mujer/IEM, Universidad Nacional >>Autonoma/UNA, Heredia. She served as Internship Coordinator and >>Research Supervisor of the Institute for Central American Development >>Studies/ICADS, and as Acting Director, Social Science Coordinator, and >>Research Supervisor of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest/ACM >>Off-Campus Study Program, both in San Jose. Dr. Leitinger has served >>as chair of the Sociology Department at Grinnell College, Grinnell, >>IA, and is a founding member of the Instituto Latinoamericano de >>Investigacion Feminista/ILIFEM, in San Jose. >> >>Teaching Assistants >> The IMV encourages graduate students with an interest in teaching or >>developing thesis research to apply for part-time work. Remuneration >>will consist of room, board, and in-country travel and excursions. >> >>Program Cost >> Spring Semester 1999: $4,800 (does not include tuition). Summer >>Session 1999: $3,450 (does not include tuition). Tuition cost per >>credit hour through UNA is $100, plus a $100 administrative fee for a >>total Semester tuition cost of $1,500, a Summer Session cost of $700. >> For the courses in the year 2000, expect a 5% rise in costs. >> At this time, the IMV is not able to offer financial aid. Students >>should consult with their home universities for funding alternatives. >> >>Registration information >> For information on registration, travel, health insurance and medical >>care, homestays, equipment, etc., please contact >> >>Nat Scrimshaw, Executive Director, Instituto Monteverde/IMV >>Apartado 69-5655, Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, America Central >>Phone: (506) 645-5053; FAX: (506) 645-5219 >>e-mail: Gender/Women's Studies >> >>Dr. Ilse Leitinger, Coordinator, Gender/Women's Studies Program IMV >>Mid-Aug. to mid-Jan. at 5067 South Mabre Court, Littleton, CO >>80123-1705 >>Phone: (303) 798-8642 e-mail: >> ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:40:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JUDITH ROY Subject: Re: Patriarchal obstetrics Comments: To: kalish@ROUTLEDGE.COM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A recent post recommended Barker-Benfiels's book "The Horror Of the = Half-Known Life" as a source of info re male physicains attitudes towards = women in the 19th century. This work should be used with caution. It is = quite dated now and has been superceeded by more balanced studies. It = adopts the victimization stance popular in some works of the early 70s and = does not evaluate therapeutics in the context of 19th century medical = knowledge. A more useful and recent overview of the history of women and = medicine can be found in Rima Apple, ed. Women, Health, and Medicine in = America, Rutgers U.P., 1992. The 1997 book by Joan Jacob Brumberg, The = Body Project, also has excellent material on 19th-century gynecology. Judith Roy, History Coordinator, Women's Studies Program Century College White Bear Lake, MN 55110 j.roy@cctc.cc.mn.us ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:20:55 -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 Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html -- please check the Guide before writing to me for help): 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 and arranged in weekly logfiles. For example, WMST-L LOG9709a is the log for the first week ("a") in September 1997 (9709 refers to the 9th month of 1997); WMST-L LOG9612b is the log for the second week ("b") in Dec. 1996 (December is the 12th month). If you want to see logfiles for a specific week, send the following command to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: GET WMST-L [filename] , where [filename] is the name of the log file you want. E.g., GET WMST-L LOG9803c will get you the logfile for the third week in March, 1998. Warning: some of these logs are LARGE (occasionally more than 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 2MB - i.e., 2000K). NOTE: Logfiles dating back more than about three years are no longer kept on the UMDD mainframe. To make room for newer logfiles, those more than three years old are moved to the Women's Studies archive on InforM (on the web at http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ or telnet to inform.umd.edu . IMPORTANT! You can search the UMDD logfiles for specific subjects without having to send for the logfiles or know when the messages were sent! Simplified instructions are now available on the web at http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/simplesearch.html . They are also available via e-mail: send the 3-word message GET SEARCH SIMPLE to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . The search instructions apply only to logfiles on UMDD, not the older ones 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 korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:53:12 -0500 Reply-To: jmcalla1@airmail.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joanne Callahan Subject: Professional Women's Networks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Women's Studies List: Is there any feminist research on professional women's groups, such as Society of Women Engineers, Women In Technology, etc? It seems to me that all of them have been forced to make "deals" with corporations in order to get any hearing. I have yet to see a professional women's network which hasn't been co-opted by patriarchy. Sad. On a slightly different note, the Women In Technology "Poll of the Week" is asking questions like "What does feminism mean to you?" Check it out at www.witi.org. Using the infamous TIME article as a spring- board, WITI is unwittingly showing our culture's astonishing depth of ignorance about feminism and womanism. It is sad to see technically educated people show so little *intellectual* grasp of this great (but imperfect!) social justice movement. The voices of WS profs are needed in that poll, which will "close" tomorrow. ;-) Joanne Callahan jmcalla1@airmail.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:16:33 -0400 Reply-To: Maria Bevacqua Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Bevacqua Subject: Re: Berkshires conference In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As promised, here is the Berkshires Conference URL: http://www-berks.aas.duke.edu/ The conference will be held in June 1999 at the University of Rochester. Cheers, Maria ************************************************************* Maria Bevacqua Visiting Assistant Professor Institute for Women's Studies Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 mbevacq@emory.edu Phone: (404) 727-7282 Fax: (404) 727-4659 On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Maria Bevacqua wrote: > Does anyone know whether registration information about the upcoming > Berkshires women's history conference has gone out yet? If so, please let > me know who I can contact about registering (or provide a URL if they have > a website). > > Please respond privately. I will post the details if I get any. > > Cheers, > Maria > > ************************************************************* > Maria Bevacqua > Visiting Assistant Professor > Institute for Women's Studies > Emory University > Atlanta, GA 30322 > mbevacq@emory.edu > Phone: (404) 727-7282 > Fax: (404) 727-4659 > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:54:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy King Subject: Re: Patriarchal obstetrics In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII While I can't refer you to a book, I can shamelessly plug a play I've written, _Bedside Manners_. The play deals with a woman's relationship with her ob/gyn and nurse practitioner over numerous years. The piece underscores the limited amount of control/input patients often experience in the medical setting today. If you are interested in receiving a copy, you can back channel me at katking@badlands.nodak.edu Kathy Coudle King Univ. of North Dakota - Women Studies/English ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:23:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fiona Young Subject: Women and Japanese manga culture Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am wondering if anyone can recommend some good resources - books or journal articles - which look at the portrayals of women in Japanese manga and anime. I am constructing a course looking at women in Japanese culture and have a variety of anime on video that I can use but I have very little written material on the topic. Fiona Young fiona-young@uiowa.edu Fiona Young, 2401 Hwy 6E, #4404, Iowa City, IA 52240-6700. Tel: 319-354-2634 "My mother said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors." - Maya Angelou. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:01:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Krebs Subject: coeducation conference Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm on the planning committee for a conference on Coeducation for the 21st Century, to be held at Wheaton College in Massachusetts on Oct. 30 and 31, and I wanted to encourage women's studies folks to participate. We have panels on such topics as Creating an Inclusive Curriculum (with Wendy Kolmar of the NJ Project), Gender, Feminism, and Backlash in the Classroom, and The Role of Women's Studies in Coeducation. Plenary speakers include Evelyn Fox Keller, Ronald Taylor, and Michael Kimmel. The conference website is http://www.wheatonma.edu/coedconference Thanks. Paula Krebs English Dept. Wheaton College Norton, Mass. pkrebs@wheatonma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:10:05 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Help finding U.S. popular magazines 1890-1920 online, please Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit For a research project, I am trying to find out if the following magazines are on line anywhere: Scribners, Harper's, Leslie's, Life, Judge, McClure's, and Cosmopolitan, 1890-1920. ANY help would be appreciated. Please reply privately. Thanks, Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 07:58:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L file collection(s) 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 (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html -- please check the Guide before writing to me for help): 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 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.UMD.EDU . 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 korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 20:31:07 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carol-Anne Grenier Subject: Patriarchal obstetrics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----Original Message----- From: Naomi Standen To: WMST-L@umdd.umd.edu Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 1:45 PM Subject: Patriarchal obstetrics >I'm a historian not a medic, and I'm hoping for a shortcut to something that suits my purpose. Is there anyone out there who knows of such a passage (it need not be long) and could give me a reference? Or is there anyone who could at least point me towards author(s) or title(s) that I could inter-library loan? The one book that comes to mind has both a historical and medical perspective is: Brought to Bed: Child-Bearing in America, 1750-1950 by Judith Walzer Leavitt I hope this helps. ********************************************* Carol-Anne Grenier ef926@freenet.carleton.ca "Change happens when people actively participate - lip service is what happens when people do not get involved" ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:48:45 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Erin E. Ceynar" Subject: feminist identity measures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Recently there was a brief thread about femininity - masculinity measurement scales. It occured to me that methodologically, I was unaware of scales, measures, surveys, etc. that historically have been used to research "feminist identity". Granted many recent debates have made these endeavors quite problematic but what, historically, has been done? How has "feminist identity" been researched quanitatively? What measures have worked better than others? Did individuals end up researching what they felt was unarguably a "feminist identity"? My mainly theoretical orientation has left me out of much of this literature so I am very curious what those in the know have to say. Erin Ceynar eceynar@prairie.nodak.edu Women's Studies and Sociology University of North Dakota ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 18:24:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhoda Unger Subject: Re: feminist identity measures MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Judith Worell at the University of Kentucky has a stages of feminism scale. You can find a discussion of her work in her textbook on counseling women and in several fairly recent articles in the Psychology of Women Quarterly (1994 or 1995 comes to mind). Rhoda Unger ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 13:49:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's job announcement policy (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 (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html -- please check the Guide before writing to me for help): ******************* 12) "MY UNIVERSITY HAS A JOB OPENING. MAY I POST AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON WMST-L?" WMST-L welcomes the posting of job and conference announcements, calls for papers, and the like, as long as the announcement has some explicit connection to Women's Studies. Announcements without such a connection should NOT be sent to WMST-L. The wish to reach more female candidates, however laudable, is NOT adequate reason to post non-Women's-Studies announcements. Heavy mail volume is a persistent problem on WMST-L; the list cannot accommodate the increased volume that a more liberal posting policy would bring. (Keep in mind that each year, there are literally thousands of academic job openings. Most institutions wish to show that they have tried to reach female and minority applicants. Whereas some commercial publications charge hundreds of dollars to carry even a small ad, WMST-L is free. Thus, unless we restrict postings, the list is likely to be INUNDATED with job announcements.) ************************ Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to 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 korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 18:56:27 -0500 Reply-To: jmcalla1@airmail.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joanne Callahan Subject: Feminist Credibility and the Clinton Scandal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Women's Studies List: I can't resist posting this one. Is it too early to measure liberal feminist credibility in the wake of the Clinton scandal? Have groups like NOW, NWPC, and the like gained members, lost members, or have things stayed the same? The truth is that many feminists have spoken against both Bill and Hillary Clinton for a long, long time. Barbara Ehrenreich and Andrea Dworkin immediately come to mind. In 1991, Glamour magazine had a pungent feminist article which criticized Hillary. Yes, it was in Glamour. However, the patriarchal mass media will not listen to "the feminists" unless we speak loudly with one, unified voice. Also, does anyone know how the liberal feminist groups are planning to respond? Will they use it as a wake-up call? Or will they remain stuck in maintenance mode? I remember when Eleanor Smeal said that America needed a woman's party. She was ridiculed by other liberal feminist groups. It may be time to reconsider her idea (and while we're at it, let's "give em hell" on the hegemony of America's two-party system). Finally, I'm wondering how Women's Studies groups will use this scandal. We can't stay silent. It is a great educational opportunity to teach students a few things about our modern patriarchy and the no-win "choices" it forces on women. Joanne Callahan jmcalla1@airmail.net ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 21:50:47 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandy Smith Subject: Re: Feminist Credibility and the Clinton Scandal Comments: To: Joanne Callahan In-Reply-To: <35FC5BAB.67C7@airmail.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NOW's last statement was issued Sept. 11; it must have been written before the Starr Report was released. Anyone who wants to suggest an alternative way for liberal feminists to view this subject, other than the usual stand-by-my-man position, can reach them at: now@now.org In my view liberal feminist orgs. are desperately in need of input. As to the implications for women within the classroom and without, a post on another list describes a chilling bar scene from last night in which men were lighting up cigars in droves and asking women if they were named Monica. This is really depressing, I can't see how we can hope to make a dent in the Republican Congress with out-of-control Bill in the White House. Apologies for the political aspect of this post, I'm feeling somewhat out of control myself. Sandy Smith Madsen ssmith2@emory.edu On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Joanne Callahan wrote: > Dear Women's Studies List: > > I can't resist posting this one. Is it too early to measure liberal > feminist credibility in the wake of the Clinton scandal? Have groups > like NOW, NWPC, and the like gained members, lost members, or have > things stayed the same? The truth is that many feminists have spoken > against both Bill and Hillary Clinton for a long, long time. Barbara > Ehrenreich and Andrea Dworkin immediately come to mind. In 1991, Glamour > magazine had a pungent feminist article which criticized Hillary. Yes, > it was in Glamour. However, the patriarchal mass media will not listen > to "the feminists" unless we speak loudly with one, unified voice. > > Also, does anyone know how the liberal feminist groups are planning to > respond? Will they use it as a wake-up call? Or will they remain stuck > in maintenance mode? I remember when Eleanor Smeal said that America > needed a woman's party. She was ridiculed by other liberal feminist > groups. It may be time to reconsider her idea (and while we're at it, > let's "give em hell" on the hegemony of America's two-party system). > > Finally, I'm wondering how Women's Studies groups will use this scandal. > We can't stay silent. It is a great educational opportunity to teach > students a few things about our modern patriarchy and the no-win > "choices" it forces on women. > > Joanne Callahan > jmcalla1@airmail.net > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:03:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: zapping the Clinton discussion MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sorry, folks, but WMST-L is not the place to discuss political issues or gender-related societal problems. Thus, I'm asking that discussion of Clinton be moved to other lists. Please do NOT continue that thread on WMST-L. Many thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman, WMST-L Official Nag and Wet Blanket ***************************************************************************** * 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, 13 Sep 1998 23:52:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 4 announcements, incl 1 job MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following four announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Cyberculture Working Group (U. of Md. College Park) 2) Job: American Studies/Women's Studies (Franklin & Marshall C.) 3) Gendered Landscapes Conference (Penn State) 4) CFP: Daughters Frame God the Father: Women Writers' and Artists' Representation of Religion in the Long 18th Century (UW, Milwaukee) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) ANNOUNCING... CYBERCULTURE WORKING GROUP The Cyberculture Working Group at the University of Maryland invites you and your colleagues to take part in our fall 1998 activities. Unless noted otherwise, all activities will take place at 3 pm in 1103 Taliaferro Hall. Refreshments served! September 21 @ 3:00 pm: Roundtable Discussion "What is Cyberculture and Why Should We Care?" October 12 @ 3:00 pm: Reading and Discussion Reading to be announced at first meeting. November 9 @ 3:00 pm: Web Page Workshop In conjuction with the Mini-Center for Teaching Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Society: "Designing Web-based Materials for the Classroom" Location to be announced. December 14 @ 3:00 pm: Community Action Service and location to be announced. The CYBERCULTURE WORKING GROUP, sponsored by the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies and the Department of American Studies, is a collection of University of Maryland and neighboring graduate students and faculty members from across the disciplines interested in exploring the intersections between the Internet, culture, and society. We are interested in approaching this intersection through a variety of lenses, including the lens of gender performance and the material relationships women have with technologies. We meet face to face once a month to pursue a number of activities, including hosting guest speakers; discussing selected readings; presenting original works-in-progress; conducting hands-on workshops for students, staff, and faculty; organizing community service projects; and assembling proposals and papers for local and national presentations, publications, and grants. For further information, see http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs or email: cwg@umail.umd.edu If you would like to be included on a low volume, bi-monthly email list or would like paper flyers announcing our events sent to you through campus mail, please contact us at: cwg@umail.umd.edu *************************************************************************** 2) Franklin & Marshall College American Studies/Women's Studies The American Studies Program seeks applicants for a new tenure-track position, with a specialization in Women's Studies. The successful candidate will serve as a core faculty in Women's Studies. In a 3/2 teaching load, the candidate will be responsible for the core course in Women's Studies (which places this scholarship in an international context that includes the Third World), an upper-level theory/methods course in Women's Studies, as well as core American Studies courses and seminars in a broadly interdisciplinary framework. Particularly appealing would be candidates whose teaching and scholarship incorporates the experiences of American women of Caribbean, Latin American, or Asian heritage. Course work and demonstrated teaching experience in American Studies or Women's Studies preferred. Founded in 1787, Franklin & Marshall College is a highly selective private liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism through the hiring of women and minorities. Please send letter of application and c.v. and have three letters of recommendation and all undergraduate and graduate transcripts sent to Chair, American Studies Program, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003. The search committee will begin reading applications on Oct. 15, 1998; application deadline, Nov. 1, 1998. We expect to interview on the west coast at the American Studies Association convention and on the east coast at the American Historical Association convention. AA/EOE **************************************************************************** 3) GENDERED LANDSCAPES: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space May 29-June 1, 1999 The Nittany Lion Inn The Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania The goal of the first Gendered Landscapes conference is to convene scholars from the many disciplines who study and are inspired by issues of gender and landscape history. This unique conference offers an opportunity for participants to establish new standards for communication across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. The conference theme allows for a broadly based, widely interpreted discussion regarding the cultural meanings of the spaces in which we have lived and worked. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Geographers; sociologists; historians of architecture, art, and the environment; anthropologists; public and urban historians; landscape architects; scholars in American Studies and Women's Studies; and others. CALL FOR PAPERS Proposals for panel sessions of three papers, as well as individual papers, are welcome. Examples of possible topics and instructions are available on the web site. Deadline for submission of abstracts of no more than 250 words is October 15, 1998. INVITED SPEAKERS #183# Nina Baym is the Swanlund Endowed Chair at the Center for Advanced Study and a professor of English. #183# James Duncan is a geographer at Cambridge University and author of numerous books which focus on issues of landscape representation. #183# James Loewen is a sociologist and the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong. #183# Daphne Spain is a professor of Urban and Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. *For complete details and up-to-date information, please visit the Web site at: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/GenderedLandscapes/ FOR MORE INFORMATION About program content: Bonj Szczygiel The Center for Studies in Landscape History Department of Landscape Architecture The Pennsylvania State University E-mail: bxs28@psu.edu Josephine Carubia Women's Studies Program and Department of English The Pennsylvania State University E-mail: jmc30@psu.edu Lorraine Dowler Department of Geography The Pennsylvania State University E-mail: lxd17@psu.edu About registration: Judy Hall, Conference Planner The Pennsylvania State University 225 The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel University Park PA 16802-7002 Phone: (814) 863-5100 E-mail: ConferenceInfo1@cde.psu.edu To be placed on the mailing list, nationwide, call 1-800-PSU-TODAY (1-800-778-8632) or send us an e-mail with your name, address, phone number, fax number, and Internet address to ConferenceInfo1@cde.psu.edu . Please be sure to reference GENDERED LANDSCAPES in all correspondence. *********************************************************************** 4) CFP: Daughters Frame God the Father: Women Writers' and Artists' Representations of Religion in the Long Eighteenth Century This special session will take place as part of the interdisciplinary American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee March 24-28, 1999. This panel will explore the ways in which eighteenth-century women novelists, poets, treatise-writers and artists frame religious discourse in their works. From writing Quaker tracts to versifying the Scriptures to manipulating religious discourse for proto-feminist and Abolitionist ends, women formulated, reinscribed, and rebelled against religious doctrine. This panel will explore both implicit and explicit interaction with religion in women's visual and literary work. Presentations from all theoretical perspectives and disciplines welcomed. Send 250-500 word abstracts or completed paper (15 min reading time) by 9/15/98 to Joy Arbor-Karnes, 7634 Windbridge Drive #97, Sacramento, CA 95831 or email to arbor@jps.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 08:40:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: More about the Clinton/feminism thread MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I have had several private messages asking me about where people interested in discussing the "Bill Clinton and feminism" thread can do so, since it lies outside WMST-L's focus. I used to be able to answer that question easily, but some lists that used to exist for general discussion of gender-related societal issues no longer exist. I have the following TENTATIVE suggestions, but since I don't subscribe to any of the lists I'm about to mention except FEMISA, I could be incorrect about their appropriateness. I welcome corrections and other suggestions--but NOT suggestions about how to discuss this issue on WMST-L or in any way involving WMST-L. ABIGAILS-L describes itself as a feminist activist discussion list. It's moderated, and its website says " Any direct action undertaken on behalf of the feminist/pro-feminist community is appropriate discussion material on ABIGAILS-L--from personal day-to-day decisions (domestic activities, consumer choices, work place issues, etc) to direct political action." Whether discussion of Bill Clinton and feminism counts, I'm not sure. You can check out the web site at http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/8984/ABIGAILS-L.html for more information. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE ABIGAILS-L Your Name Your Email Address to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM . FEMISA is a list (I can't remember whether it's currently moderated. I think it may be) for discussion of the interrelationship of feminism/gender/women and international relations. Since one of the messages I received was from someone concerned in part about the different perception of the Clinton/feminism matter outside the US, FEMISA might be an appropriate list. I'm not sure. (There's no discussion of this issue currently on FEMISA.) To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE FEMISA Your Name to LISTPROC@CSF.COLORADO.EDU . WOMEN-L (there are two lists with this name, alas--this is the 2nd) describes itself as "a free-form conference for the discussion and debate of all varieties of women's issues and exists for its subscribers to exchange personal views." To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE WOMEN-L Your Name to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM . (This is NOT the list at helix.net devoted to women and technology/internet issues.) The moderated Usenet newsgroup soc.feminism might be another place to discuss Clinton/feminism. Since access to Usenet differs from place to place, I suggest you consult with your Internet provider's technical support staff for more information. If you know of other appropriate lists and can provide subscription information about them, it might be good to respond to WMST-L and let everyone know. I should also point out that I maintain an annotated listing of more than 450 women- and gender-related email lists at http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/forums.html . That might prove helpful. The one exception to my ban on the Clinton/feminism thread involves discussion EXPLICITLY and DIRECTLY focused on how to TEACH about this. You're welcome to hold such discussion on WMST-L. However, if the discussion wanders too far afield, or if it becomes clear that people are simply using teaching as a ruse to hold the sort of discussion I've declared to be off-limits, then I'll have to zap even the teaching discussion. But I'm willing to give it a try. 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: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:40:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Robert Jensen Subject: Feminist Graduate Student Conference, March 1999 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 The 13th Annual National Feminist Graduate Student conference is presently accepting proposals for our March 4-7, 1999 conference in Austin, Texas. The conference is entitled Feminist Identities: Around the Globe and in the Academy. This year's conference will provide a venue for an interdisciplinary gathering of graduate students doing feminist work. Proposals may be positioned as a feminist intervention in a given field, a contribution to existing feminist debates, or an application of feminist theory, research methods or praxis. We seek diverse and innovative perspectives, voices, formats and performances that will enlarge our understanding, challenge our assumptions, and prompt our thinking. The conference organized by and for graduate students. Our hope is to create a space for conversations and for the development of relationships with similarly interested and focused students. Currently we have organized two full days of paper presentations and two evenings with prominent speakers, one nationally known and one local feminist. The key note speaker will be Chandra Talpade Mohanty, associate professor of Women=EDs Studies at Hamilton College. At this time we have asked Joni Jones, professor at the University of Texas, Austin and performance artist to perform. Other planned conference events include: grassroots activism workshops with Gen Vaughn from the Foundation for a Compassionate Society; Lisa Sanchez from PODER; and Rachel Muir, founder and director of Smartgrrls; and a roundtable of feminist faculty members from local universities to discuss their negotiations of feminism in pedagogy and in research. There will also be two afternoon screenings of graduate students films and an art exhibit. Proposal submissions should include: (1) one copy of a 750-1000 word proposal (2) a cover letter complete with: (a) name, address, phone and e-mail; (b) institution, department, program and year of study; (c) audio visual requests; (d) information about co-authors/presenters; (e) format of contribution (paper, performance, slide/film/multi-media); (f) a 50 word abstract for conference materials; and (g) other personal needs such as child care, wheelchair access, sight and hearing impaired concerns, or others. We will accept proposals for individual papers and panels. Those proposing a panel must include a proposal for each paper and a description of the panel. Because of the size of the conference we will only be able to allow one appearance per person and will not be able to make accommodations for time or day of presentation. Submissions must be received by November 1, 1998 and may be sent by e-mail (no attachments please) to lnramsey@mail.utexas.edu, or mailed to: Feminist Graduate Student Network SOC #69 100-C West Dean Keeton Street Austin, Texas 78712 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 10:24:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Martha Charlene Ball Subject: Job Announcement Comments: cc: linda bell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Following is an announcement of a position in women's studies at Georgia State University: The Women's Studies Institute at Georgia State University seeks candidates for an anticipated tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor, with possible joint-appointment to another department. The position calls for an interdisciplinary approach to global feminisms and feminist theory. To be considered for appointment, candidates must have the Ph.D. or equivalent degree. The degree may be in women's studies or in a discipline in the humanities or social sciences. The Women's Studies Institute offers the M.A. and the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, as well as an interdisciplinary minor. In addition, the Institute has developed the Women's Movement Program, a program that includes archival collections from women's movements (at the moment, primarily concentrated on the ERA cmpaign in Georgia) as well as oral histories, presentations, and opportunities for academic research and publication. Send a letter of application, vita, and three letters of reference to Women's Studies Search Committee, Women's Studies Institute, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Review of applications will begin November 15, 1998, and will continue until the position is filled. AA/EEO employer. 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: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 10:08:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: viki soady Subject: Re: check out valuwomen In-Reply-To: <01J1SGWNFB42005169@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We would be happy for those interested in discussing Clinton or other political matters and feminism to join our listserv at Valdosta State University. We will even send you a few back-entries to catch you up. send a message to listproc@catfish.valdosta.edu sub valuwomen your name all lowercase Cheers, viki Dr. Viki Soady Regents' Distinguished Professor, 1998-1999 Director of Women's Studies 124 West Hall Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698 912-249-4842 FAX 912-333-7389 vsoady@valdosta.edu XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX amor vincit omnia nos cedamus amori - Vergilius XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 10:37:38 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kim McNabb Subject: Award winning short film available Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Attention teachers, librarians, scholars and everyone else: Let me present to you a film to add to your library and classroom collections!! The award winning short film, GIFTS FROM MY FATHER, is now available for purchase (VHS $25 + 3.00 shipping) or 16mm film rental ($50). Description of film follows. Contact Kim McNabb at: Kmcnabber@aol.com GIFTS FROM MY FATHER was named one of Critic's Choice in Chicago's Women in the Director's Chair, Director's Choice at Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Best of Show at Iowa Independent Film Festival, and was a winner of the D.C. Area Rosebud Award which included screenings at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and on WETA/ public television; GIFTS FROM MY FATHER has played in many other venues as well, including the 1997 NASSS conference. GIFTS FROM MY FATHER A film by Kim McNabb 18 min., B/W, 1997 Gifts From My Father is a short documentary film which provides a rare reflection on the intersections between family, sport, and sexuality. It explores a father-daughter relationship through one young girl's experiences in basketball and her struggles to understand her emerging lesbian identity in the face of her father's drinking and the eventual break-up of her family. The film presents ten short vignettes, spanning a fifteen-year period, of lessons her father taught her about basketball and unknowingly, life. They chronicle McNabb's earliest memories of the sport of basketball as it was introduced to her at a young age by her ambitious father; her first young love with a teammate and subsequent 'discovery' of her lesbianism; her abandonment of basketball when her father abandoned his family; her personal struggles to shed the enduring pain caused by homophobia, alcoholism and shattered dreams; and finally, to her eventual reclaiming of her passion for basketball, her lesbian past, and a new meaning for the things her father taught her. Kim McNabb has an MFA in Film Production and Writing from Ohio University. Gifts From My Father has won numerous awards on the festival circuit. This past year McNabb also wrote and co-produced her first feature film, Out of Season (dir. Jeanette L. Buck) which is also playing on the festival circuit. She is currently working on a new screenplay. For more information to see if this film is suitable for you, please contact: Melinda Levin at: melinda@unt.edu Nancy Bouchier at: bouchier@mcmail.CIS.mcmaster.CA Beez Schell at: G_2SCHELL@VENUS.TWU.EDU Thanks for your support. Kim McNabb Kmcnabber@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:08:27 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Showalter and Lingua Franca -- is there no accountability? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Someone just posted the following on femecon. It is from an article on Elaine Showalter in September's Lingua Franca. Believe me, it was a bit of a shock: from Emily Eakin, "Who's Afraid of Elaine Showalter: The MLA President Incites Mass Hysteria," Lingua Franca, September 1998: Some close readers of Showalter's work were taken aback. "In The Female Malady, she was saying that hysteria's a prison, a category that annihilates the adventurous, the non-familiar, the antibourgeois," says Michael Neve. "But in Hystories, she sounds like a psychiatrist-like Charcot." To Neve, the idea of a literary historian assuming the mantle of medical authority is downright reckless: "This woman has global reach. She's the Bill Gates of the diagnostic category, applying it transnationally, transculturally, even globally!" Suddenly, it's hard not to see Showalter as a charismatic, latter-day Freud or the high drama inspired by her book-tour appearances as classic Charcotian theater. Besieged on talk radio, cable TV, the Internet, and in bookstores for breaking faith with medical science ("Brain scans show in many chronic fatigue patients diminished blood flow to frontal and other areas of the human brain") and feminism ("How can you call yourself a feminist when you discredit women who have recovered memories of sexual abuse?"; "I hate you, you fucking antifeminist bitch"), Showalter responded with patience, good humor, and affectionate condescension. The more unruffled her calm, the more unhinged her opponents appeared. In the spring of 1997, The Chronicle of Higher Education took note of one of Showalter's most ardent critics, a historian at Villanova. University named Mary Schweitzer, described as a virtually bedridden chronic fatigue sufferer on her third year of disability leave. In response, Showalter sent the Chronicles reporter a clipping from a recent issue of a chronic fatigue sufferers' periodical depicting a vigorous-looking Schweitzer, fist raised, leading a demonstration in San Francisco. More recently, in an essay for the London Review of Books, Showalter turned an account of her book tour into a standup comedy routine-in which all the jokes were at the expense of the kooks who turned out to debate her[....] --------------- What did I do to deserve this treatment from this woman (and the author of the piece, who did not bother to find out who I was)? I wrote a book review. You can find it at: http://pw1.netcom.com/~schweit2/review.html I shouldn't have to defend myself for being part of a very small and very short rally at the San Francisco Federal Building while there at a conference on CFIDS -- but for accuracy, I would like it clarified that my fist was not "in the air" but reaching behind me to hold on to the fence, because I was petrified I was going to fall. (When I got back to the hotel, boy did some of the doctors yell at me for being overactive! Dammit, you have to TRY to live!) I have said on this list, everywhere I can think of, that I am willing to debate Elaine Showalter face to face, in public, anywhere, any time. This is how she answers back. This woman is a chaired, full professor of "humanities" at Princeton University, has more academic clout than I can dream of, has a continuing career with mine now stopped halfway through. She has access to the media and I don't. My doctor even tried to debate her on this, and ended up so furious she almost punched her out (rather amusing since my doctor is a very tiny woman and Showalter is rather large). But Showalter said she didn't want to be "prejudiced" by listening to doctors who "made their living" off of us. I guess if the President of the MLA says it, it must be true. Authors don't have to check anything any more. When you live in a fantasy world that everything is "perception," then who cares if the words you print are accusing a living, breathing person of being a liar, a cheat, a goldbrick. The mocking tone reminds me of the scene in The Fantasticks when everyone is wearing masks and laughing at the poor people (the young girl is being taught to wear a mask and join in the mockery). If there is any one here connected with Lingua Franca, please convey my deep pain at this paragraph. Ask the author ... why? (If anyone wants another picture of me at a rally this spring -- I refuse to die quietly -- go to: http://fmshugs.com/events/may121998/mvc002f.jpg Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of History/Women's Studies Villanova University (on medical leave since January 1995) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:45:14 +0200 Reply-To: shoshana@research.haifa.ac.il Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Shoshanna B. Mayer Ph.D." Subject: wmst for teachers - query MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am teaching wmst to teachers as part of their training and find myself delving again and again into sources sometimes a decade or even decades old, along with not enough current ones. There I can find a plethora of excellent material, including such as has become feminist canon. Still, I would like to read more reasonably recent p r i ma r y sources - let's say from the nineties - on the following topics which were widely debated in the seventies and eighties - all in relation to grade and high school . After all, the old problems have not all been solved. CLASSROOM INTERACTION ANALYSIS, TEACHER + MALE/FEMALE STUDENTS. MALE AND FEMALE IN TEXTBO0KS. FEMINIST CURRICULA. Thank you for suggestions. S. Mayer, University of Haifa 26a, Vitkin str. Haifa, Israel 34755 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:07:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Lengermann Subject: Re: zapping the Clinton discussion Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joan and List Fm: Pat Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley This is a feminist issue and it is most certainly--as we can attest from our women's studies courses this semester at Gettysburg College and last semester at Wells College and Hobart and William Smith Colleges--an issue of much concern to students. It touches on feminist theory, feminist analyses of politics and media, feminist ethics--to name just a few. We thought Joanne Callahan's and Pauline Bart's opening statements in this discussion both excellent. (We have replied privately to Joanne suggesting an NWSA Panel for 1999 on this topic.) MAY WE PLEASE HAVE SOME DISCUSSION FROM OTHER LIST MEMBERS ABOUT WHETHER THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE TOPIC FOR WMST-L? > Sorry, folks, but WMST-L is not the place to discuss political issues >or gender-related societal problems. Thus, I'm asking that discussion of >Clinton be moved to other lists. Please do NOT continue that thread on >WMST-L. > > Many thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. > > Joan Korenman, WMST-L Official Nag and Wet Blanket > >***************************************************************************** >* 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, 15 Sep 1998 15:24:05 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Carr Subject: Re: wmst for teachers - query Comments: To: shoshana@research.haifa.ac.il Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The October issue of MS. magazine includes a letter from a middle school teacher who has taught an introductory women's studies course to seventh and eighth graders at the Barrie School, just outside of Washington, DC. and who is interested in connecting with other teachers who are struggling with similar issues. She further indicates that she is willing to share her curriculum and ideas with them. Her name is Sheryl Chard and her address is listed as Takoma Park, Maryland. There is not other identifying information. Judy Carr, Co-Director The Center for Curriculum Renewal Essex, Vermont ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:02:10 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Miriam Subject: Re: zapping the Clinton discussion In-Reply-To: <199809151907.PAA25521@postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I agree with this last post. I believe it is crucial to discuss the issue and we shuld just make an effort to focus our dicussion in terms of pedagogical and research questions. Kathy Miriam kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Patricia Lengermann wrote: > To: Joan and List > Fm: Pat Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley > > This is a feminist issue and it is most certainly--as we can attest from our > women's studies courses this semester at Gettysburg College and last > semester at Wells College and Hobart and William Smith Colleges--an issue of > much concern to students. It touches on feminist theory, feminist analyses > of politics and media, feminist ethics--to name just a few. We thought > Joanne Callahan's and Pauline Bart's opening statements in this discussion > both excellent. (We have replied privately to Joanne suggesting an NWSA > Panel for 1999 on this topic.) > MAY WE PLEASE HAVE SOME DISCUSSION FROM OTHER LIST MEMBERS ABOUT > WHETHER THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE TOPIC FOR WMST-L? > > > Sorry, folks, but WMST-L is not the place to discuss political issues > >or gender-related societal problems. Thus, I'm asking that discussion of > >Clinton be moved to other lists. Please do NOT continue that thread on > >WMST-L. > > > > Many thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. > > > > Joan Korenman, WMST-L Official Nag and Wet Blanket > > > >***************************************************************************** > >* 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, 15 Sep 1998 18:21:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo-Ann Pilardi Subject: Re: zapping the Clinton discussion Comments: To: Patricia Lengermann In-Reply-To: <199809151907.PAA25521@postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As I understand this list, it is for women's studies course related issues: help with bibliographies, with information on resources, etc., and with other issues as they affect the "discipline" of women's studies. There are often discussions about other issues, and that's fine, but I think we should respect the listowner's judgment advising us about how long the discussions should last. So--that's how I see it. Jo-Ann Pilardi, Towson Univ., jpilardi@towson.edu On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Patricia Lengermann wrote: > To: Joan and List > Fm: Pat Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley > > This is a feminist issue and it is most certainly--as we can attest from our > women's studies courses this semester at Gettysburg College and last > semester at Wells College and Hobart and William Smith Colleges--an issue of > much concern to students. It touches on feminist theory, feminist analyses > of politics and media, feminist ethics--to name just a few. We thought > Joanne Callahan's and Pauline Bart's opening statements in this discussion > both excellent. (We have replied privately to Joanne suggesting an NWSA > Panel for 1999 on this topic.) > MAY WE PLEASE HAVE SOME DISCUSSION FROM OTHER LIST MEMBERS ABOUT > WHETHER THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE TOPIC FOR WMST-L? > > > Sorry, folks, but WMST-L is not the place to discuss political issues > >or gender-related societal problems. Thus, I'm asking that discussion of > >Clinton be moved to other lists. Please do NOT continue that thread on > >WMST-L. > > > > Many thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. > > > > Joan Korenman, WMST-L Official Nag and Wet Blanket > > > >***************************************************************************** > >* 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, 15 Sep 1998 19:20:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sara Murphy Subject: Re: zapping the Clinton discussion In-Reply-To: <199809151907.PAA25521@postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Patricia Lengermann wrote: For what it is worth, it seems that Pat and Jill are making eminent sense here. Not only is the Clinton "thing"--as it were--a feminist issue on many diverse fronts, it is also as they point out not unrelated to questions of pedagogy in women's studies classes and other courses that deal with issues of gender/sexuality/power in popular culture, in political science, legal studies, American history, etc. Sara Murphy sem2@is4.nyu.edu > To: Joan and List > Fm: Pat Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley > > This is a feminist issue and it is most certainly--as we can attest from our > women's studies courses this semester at Gettysburg College and last > semester at Wells College and Hobart and William Smith Colleges--an issue of > much concern to students. It touches on feminist theory, feminist analyses > of politics and media, feminist ethics--to name just a few. We thought > Joanne Callahan's and Pauline Bart's opening statements in this discussion > both excellent. (We have replied privately to Joanne suggesting an NWSA > Panel for 1999 on this topic.) > MAY WE PLEASE HAVE SOME DISCUSSION FROM OTHER LIST MEMBERS ABOUT > WHETHER THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE TOPIC FOR WMST-L? > > > Sorry, folks, but WMST-L is not the place to discuss political issues > >or gender-related societal problems. Thus, I'm asking that discussion of > >Clinton be moved to other lists. Please do NOT continue that thread on > >WMST-L. > > > > Many thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. > > > > Joan Korenman, WMST-L Official Nag and Wet Blanket > > > >***************************************************************************** > >* 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, 15 Sep 1998 16:26:50 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Su Patel Subject: PBS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT RACE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" P.O.V., PBS' award-winning independent documentary series, would like to invite you to Tune-In to it's Fall broadcast special, FAMILY NAME on Tuesday, Sept. 15th at 10:00pm (ET) on PBS (TONIGHT!!--please check local listings). After the television broadcast, please feel free to peruse our website and partake in a variety of online activities including discussions about race, educational activities for students, genealogical searches, and much more! Please join us at http://www.pbs.org/pov/familyname/ The national broadcast of FAMILY NAME will also launch the Television Race Initiative (http://www.pbs.org/tvraceinitiave), a multi-tiered effort utilizing diverse, character-driven public television broadcasts (such as filmmaker Macky Alston's FAMILY NAME, which chronicles his journey to unearth the history of his slave-owning ancestors and explores the links to the African Americans that share his name) to support community dialogue and problem-solving around the issue of race relations. The Initiative works in partnership with select public television stations, interfaith networks, national organizations and businesses, as well as educational institutions, local media and community-based groups in five pilot cities across the country: San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, Raleigh/Durham and the Twin Cities I hope that you'll be able to TUNE-IN to this amazing program tonight and bookmark the web site in your technology center at the library! Please feel free to drop me a line and tell me what you thought of the program and the FAMILY NAME web site. Thank you in advance! Regards, Su Patel connect@pov.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:10:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Ortman Subject: i agree with Jo-Ann Pilardi about the Clinton thread MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I seldom say much on this, but I was thinking about how to say what Jo-Ann said. Since she said it so well, I thought I would just second it. Pat Ortman, peo@nicom.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:37:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's focus MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Yesterday, in my second message, I said the following: > The one exception to my ban on the Clinton/feminism thread involves > discussion EXPLICITLY and DIRECTLY focused on how to TEACH about this. > You're welcome to hold such discussion on WMST-L. However, if the > discussion wanders too far afield, or if it becomes clear that people are > simply using teaching as a ruse to hold the sort of discussion I've > declared to be off-limits, then I'll have to zap even the teaching > discussion. But I'm willing to give it a try. That is the only way in which the discussion belongs on WMST-L. Most discussion of gender-related societal issues should take place elsewhere (and Viki Soady offered the valuwomen list as a place where interested people could discuss such matters, including Clinton). The fact that something is a feminist issue does NOT make it appropriate for WMST-L. WMST-L has more than 4000 subscribers from almost 50 countries. Every one of these countries has an array of important feminist issues. If we opened up the discussion to even a small fraction of these issues, the list could easily find itself carrying several hundred messages a day, causing MANY people to unsubscribe because they can't deal with that kind of mail volume. I am determined not to see that happen. People can and should tailor their subscriptions to suit their interests and needs. If you wish to discuss an array of feminist issues, or even just the Clinton matter, nothing prevents you from subscribing to more than one list. Those people who don't wish to have such discussions, or can't afford the connect time, or simply don't have time to slog through hundreds of email messages per day but DO value WMST-L's focus on women's studies teaching, research, and program administration can subscribe just to WMST-L. That seems fair to everyone and does not place an undue burden on any one list and its subscribers. No list can be all things to all people. If you find you simply can't abide the list's narrow focus, I suggest you sign off WMST-L and find another list more suited to your needs and interests. To sign off, simply send the message UNSUB WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you get the edited digest, you must add a second line that says AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L . Please, let's end the discussion of the list's focus. The focus is not going to change, for the reasons outlined above. Further discussion would simply add needlessly to the list's mail volume. Thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. 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, 15 Sep 1998 20:34:21 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lili Pintea-Reed Subject: 1000 title FEMINIST WOMEN"S BIBLIOGRAPHY Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello, I've put together a thousand title Feminist and Women's resource Bibliography. Can be seen at: http://members.aol.com/PinteaReed/fem_books.html or its mirror site http://www.feminista.com if you have link capacity in your email click FEMINIST BIBLIOGRAPHY or FEMINISTA MAGAZINE Hope you find this useful. Lili pinteareed@aol.com Lili Pintea-Reed, MA Family Therapist http://members.aol.com/PinteaReed/LPR.html Senior Contributing Editor FEMINISTA MAGAZINE http://www.feminsta.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:54:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynnette Chapman Subject: Conf. / Students Needed Comments: To: WVUWOMEN@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU, WVWMST-L@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU, dreese@wvwise.org, WMSTFA-L@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Do you know of any college students who would be interested in attending the Safe Schools conference, "Sexual Assault and Harassment on Campus," in Orlando from October 15-17 for free? As a SpeakOut exec member we try to recruit current students to attend the conference so there is a student presence there, since most of the attendees are campus administrators. The Safe Schools organizers are supportive of this and covers the cost for 8 free student registrations and two hotel rooms for the nights of the conference. We still have space for a few more students. The students that come also have the opportunity to present a SpeakOut sponsored workshop with other students. We have three workshops to choose from this year: 1)Students and Administrators working together 2) Large scale programming (Take Back the Night, Clothesline Project, etc.) and 3) Avoiding victim blaming in Prevention Programs. Pass this info on to anyone that may be interested. SpeakOut is the North American Student Coalition Against Sexual Violence. For more information about attending the conference, please contact Melanie Beres at the University of Alberta at mberes@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca or 403/434-1134. For more information about SpeakOut please see our website at http://members.aol.com/nascasv/home.htm. Thanks for your interest in sexual assault prevention! ********************************************************************* Sharlynn K. Daun Community Education Specialist Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault (WCASA) 123 E. Main St., Madison, WI 53703 skd@itis.com; Phone: 608/257-1516; Fax: 608/257-2150 _____________________________________ Lynnette M. Chapman West Virginia University MA Candidate Liberal Studies Intro. to WMST Instructor Center for Women's Studies 218 Eiesland Hall, PO Box 6450 Morgantown, WV 26506-6450 (304) 293-2339 (304) 293-3041 (FAX) Fairmont State College Part-Time Instructor Language & Literature 308 Jaynes Hall Fairmont, WV 26554 (304) 367-4793 Lynnette Chapman ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:54:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marva Nelson Subject: Re: zapping the Clinton discussion Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:07 PM 9/15/98 -0400, you wrote: >To: Joan and List >Fm: Pat Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley > >This is a feminist issue and it is most certainly--as we can attest from our >women's studies courses this semester at Gettysburg College and last >semester at Wells College and Hobart and William Smith Colleges--an issue of >much concern to students. It touches on feminist theory, feminist analyses >of politics and media, feminist ethics--to name just a few. We thought >Joanne Callahan's and Pauline Bart's opening statements in this discussion >both excellent. (We have replied privately to Joanne suggesting an NWSA >Panel for 1999 on this topic.) > MAY WE PLEASE HAVE SOME DISCUSSION FROM OTHER LIST MEMBERS ABOUT >WHETHER THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE TOPIC FOR WMST-L? > >> Sorry, folks, but WMST-L is not the place to discuss political issues >>or gender-related societal problems. Thus, I'm asking that discussion of >>Clinton be moved to other lists. Please do NOT continue that thread on >>WMST-L. >> >> Many thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. >> >> Joan Korenman, WMST-L Official Nag and Wet Blanket I'm afraid I'm with Joan on this one. While this thread covers areas mentioned, it is at best a discussion best carried on somewhere else. I quite often read/lurk to glean information of an academic nature; this topic, for me, carries too much of an element of prurient gossip. I'd sincerely like not to pursue this any further and would like to ask that we sisterly respect Joan's decision to kill this thread. There are too many other places that one can have a womanist discussion of this situation. In sisterhood, Marva Nelson (a/k/a Wet Blanket #2) Women's Studies Southern Illinois University at Carbondale ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:07:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Porter Subject: Junior Faculty Mentoring Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear List Subscribers: The University Committee on Women Faculty and Students at the University of Notre Dame has almost completed the report of a survey sent to junior faculty at the University regarding mentoring by senior faculty. One of our goals was to find out if there are differences between the levels of mentoring between female and male faculty. As we discussed the survey and its findings we decided it would be helpful to include in the report, if possible, what types of mentoring goes on at other institutions, both formal and informal; if there are mentoring programs in place, how are they set up, how successful are they, how is the level of success measured. Have Women's Studies programs or departments set up their own mentoring programs. Any information would be useful; if there are programs in place we would appreciate a contact person if possible. Responses can be sent to me personally. If there has been a discussion of this topic already, please let me know and I'll search the WMST-L archives. Thank you very much. Margaret Porter *************************************************************** G. Margaret Porter Librarian, Reference Department University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556 Phone:219-631-7620 Fax: 219-631-8887 E-Mail: porter.2@nd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:29:48 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Kaminski Subject: Re: Junior Faculty Mentoring In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980916080709.00ab5280@nd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Margaret--at Saint mary's we have a structured Mentoring program for Junior faculty--that provides each newly hired full time person his or her own mentor. Tom Parisi, Dept. of Psychology is currently one of the directors and could supply you with appropriate documentation. In WS we continue to have an informal but I think quite efective outreach to new faculty. Phyllis ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:51:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Maria R. Lowe" Organization: Southwestern University Subject: Re: PBS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT RACE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Su, How might an educational institution order a copy of this video? Maria Lowe Assistant Professor of Sociology Dept of Soc/Anthro Su Patel wrote: > P.O.V., PBS' award-winning independent documentary series, would like > to > invite you to Tune-In to it's Fall broadcast special, FAMILY NAME on > Tuesday, Sept. 15th at 10:00pm (ET) on PBS (TONIGHT!!--please check > local > listings). After the television broadcast, please feel free to peruse > our > website and partake in a variety of online activities including > discussions > about race, educational activities for students, genealogical > searches, and > much more! Please join us at http://www.pbs.org/pov/familyname/ > > The national broadcast of FAMILY NAME will also launch the Television > Race > Initiative (http://www.pbs.org/tvraceinitiave), a multi-tiered effort > utilizing diverse, character-driven public television broadcasts (such > as > filmmaker Macky Alston's FAMILY NAME, which chronicles his journey to > unearth the history of his slave-owning ancestors and explores the > links to > the African Americans that share his name) to support community > dialogue and > problem-solving around the issue of race relations. The Initiative > works in > partnership with select public television stations, interfaith > networks, > national organizations and businesses, as well as educational > institutions, > local media and community-based groups in five pilot cities across the > > country: San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, Raleigh/Durham and the > Twin Cities > > I hope that you'll be able to TUNE-IN to this amazing program tonight > and > bookmark the web site in your technology center at the library! > Please feel > free to drop me a line and tell me what you thought of the program and > the > FAMILY NAME web site. Thank you in advance! > > Regards, > Su Patel > connect@pov.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:25:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cyndi Bunn Subject: Re: PBS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT RACE In-Reply-To: <35FFD06E.3672F935@southwestern.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII http://www.pbs.org/pov/familyname/ After the broadcast, copies of FAMILY NAME are available from: First Run/Icarus Films 153 Waverly Place 6th Floor New York, NY 10014 1-800-488-6652 On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:51:26 -0500 "Maria R. Lowe" wrote: > Su, > > How might an educational institution order a copy of this video? > > Maria Lowe > Assistant Professor of Sociology > Dept of Soc/Anthro > > Su Patel wrote: > > > P.O.V., PBS' award-winning independent documentary series, would like > > to > > invite you to Tune-In to it's Fall broadcast special, FAMILY NAME on > > Tuesday, Sept. 15th at 10:00pm (ET) on PBS (TONIGHT!!--please check > > local > > listings). After the television broadcast, please feel free to peruse > > our > > website and partake in a variety of online activities including > > discussions > > about race, educational activities for students, genealogical > > searches, and > > much more! Please join us at http://www.pbs.org/pov/familyname/ > > > > The national broadcast of FAMILY NAME will also launch the Television > > Race > > Initiative (http://www.pbs.org/tvraceinitiave), a multi-tiered effort > > utilizing diverse, character-driven public television broadcasts (such > > as > > filmmaker Macky Alston's FAMILY NAME, which chronicles his journey to > > unearth the history of his slave-owning ancestors and explores the > > links to > > the African Americans that share his name) to support community > > dialogue and > > problem-solving around the issue of race relations. The Initiative > > works in > > partnership with select public television stations, interfaith > > networks, > > national organizations and businesses, as well as educational > > institutions, > > local media and community-based groups in five pilot cities across the > > > > country: San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, Raleigh/Durham and the > > Twin Cities > > > > I hope that you'll be able to TUNE-IN to this amazing program tonight > > and > > bookmark the web site in your technology center at the library! > > Please feel > > free to drop me a line and tell me what you thought of the program and > > the > > FAMILY NAME web site. Thank you in advance! > > > > Regards, > > Su Patel > > connect@pov.org > ---------------------- Cyndi Bunn, Staff Specialist Women's Studies, Duke University, Box 90760, Durham, NC 27708 phone 919.684.5683, fax 919.684.4652, e-mail cpbunn@duke.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:48:27 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "dbic6066@postoffice.uri.edu" Subject: CFP: NWSA 1999 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" As a result of my interest in using literature to develop critical consciousness, I've put together the following panel proposal for the 1999 NWSA Conference. Please consider submitting a paper proposal!!! -------------------------- Curriculum, Change, and Coming-to-Consciousness: What Literature(s) Can We Teach To Move Our Students to Social Action? Educating for critical consciousness often invokes methodologies such as Paulo Freire's conscientization or feminist consciousness-raising. These pedagogical strategies can be translated into approaches to politically committed literature which educates in similar ways. Literary representations of the processes of conscientization or consciousness-raising (seen in genres such as testimonio, the testimonial novel, or the consciousness-raising novel) allow us to explore what types of political activism are made possible after the coming-to-consciousness process is experienced. If these literatures of social change serve as a possible model of moving into political action, what are the effects of reading that literature on our students? I'm especially interested in papers that both analyze this aspect of activist literature and discuss its (possible) impact in the classroom. Please send your proposal to: Donna M. Bickford, 455 Camp Fuller Road, Wakefield, RI 02879, email: . Deadline for proposals: October 31, 1998. ---------------------------------- Donna M. Bickford dbic6066@postoffice.uri.edu Department of English and Women's Studies Program University of Rhode Island Independence Hall Kingston, RI 02881 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:27:06 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Murphy Subject: Trying to locate Ruth Hubbard, Anne Fausto Sterling In-Reply-To: <970514.141413.EDT.PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We are trying to put together a year long series on biological determinism vs social construction and would like to look into having Ruth Hubbard and Anne Fausto Sterling Speak. Does anyone have any a contact number/email for them? We've tried the Harvard Web page for Hubbard. Also has anyone heard them speak and could comment on their accessibility for undergraduate audiences. Thanks for any assistance. Pat Pat Murphy, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology Sociology Dept SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 murphy@uno.cc.geneseo.edu 716-245-5324 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:24:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Call for papers: Panel African American Children's Lit MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=DEC-MCS Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE I am forwarding this for a friend. Please respond to her. Michelle H. Martin =09=09=09=09=93Having Their Say=94:=20 =09=09African-American Children=92s and Young Adult Literature,=20 =09=09=09=09Than and Now =09A Session of the National Association of=20 =09 =09African-American Studies Conference, =09=09=09February 9-13, 1999 =09=09=09Houston, Texas This session of the National Association of African-American Studies Conference seeks papers relating to all facets of African-American children= =92s and young adult literature. Research questions might address historical or contemporary issues, particular themes running through African-American children=92s and young adult texts, censorship concerns, the role of this literature in the lives of African-American children, the place of picture books within this genre, or the future of this specialized field of study. All relevant topics will be considered. Papers from English, Education, Library Science and other fiel= ds are welcome; professionals as well as students are invited to submit abstracts. =20 Please submit 1-2 page abstracts by mail, email or fax by November 16 to: Dr. Michelle H. Martin Department of English and Philosophy P.O. Box 13007-SFA Station Nacogdoches, Texas 75962 Phone: 409-468-2327 Fax: 409-468-2614 Email:mmartin@sfasu.edu Dr. Michelle H. Martin, Assistant Professor of English P.O. Box 13007-SFA Station Nacogdoches, Texas 75962 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:26:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Corrected CFP African American Children's Lit MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=DEC-MCS Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sorry all, received a corrected copy to send. Again, contact Professor Martin for further information. Michelle H. Martin =09=09=09=09=93Having Their Say=94:=20 =09=09African-American Children=92s and Young Adult Literature,=20 =09=09=09=09 Then and Now =09=09=09=09 A Session of=20 =09The National Association of African-American Studies Conference =09=09=09=09February 9-13, 1999 =09=09=09=09 Houston, Texas This session of the National Association of African-American Studies Conference seeks papers relating to all facets of African-American children=92s and young adult literature. Research questions might address historical or contemporary issues, particular themes running through African-American children=92s and young adult texts, censorship concerns, t= he role of this literature in the lives of African-American children, the place of picture books within this genre, or the future of this specialized field of study. All relevant topics will be considered. Papers from English, Education, Library Science and other fields are welcome; professionals as well as students are invited to submit abstracts. Please submit 1-2 page abstracts by mail, email or fax by November 16 to: Dr. Michelle H. Martin Department of English and Philosophy P.O. Box 13007-SFA Station Nacogdoches, Texas 75962 Phone: 409-468-2327 Fax: 409-468-2614 Email:mmartin@sfasu.edu=20 Dr. Michelle H. Martin, Assistant Professor of English P.O. Box 13007-SFA Station Nacogdoches, Texas 75962 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:08:55 -0500 Reply-To: "Wesley J. Chenault" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Wesley J. Chenault" Subject: Re: Women and Japanese manga culture MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fiona, I recently wrote an essay focusing on female characters in anime, and I too found very few resources. One lead is Annalee Newitz's article, "Magical Girls and Atomic Sperm: Japanese Animation in America." I believe it can be found in Film Quarterly, 1995. If you are interested, I'll e-mail other articles I have, most of which are newspaper/magazine articles that focus on anime/manga in the US. Good Luck!! Wesley Chenault Women's Studies Institute Georgia State university -----Original Message----- From: Fiona Young To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 11:16 AM Subject: Women and Japanese manga culture >I am wondering if anyone can recommend some good resources - books or >journal articles - which look at the portrayals of women in Japanese manga >and anime. I am constructing a course looking at women in Japanese culture >and have a variety of anime on video that I can use but I have very little >written material on the topic. > >Fiona Young >fiona-young@uiowa.edu >Fiona Young, >2401 Hwy 6E, #4404, >Iowa City, IA 52240-6700. >Tel: 319-354-2634 > >"My mother said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but >understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were >more educated and more intelligent than college professors." > - Maya Angelou. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:37:38 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Grotzky Subject: Re: Trying to locate Ruth Hubbard, Anne Fausto Sterling MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Ruth Hubbard is listed in Who's Who in America. Her office is listed as Harvard University Dept of Biology, 16 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138- 2020. I didn't find Sterling in WWA. You might try Contemporary Authors, which some libraries have online, or Books in Print -- if she has a recent book or has been published often by one publisher, she may be contactable throuogh the publisher. (Is contactable actually a word?) She may be in Biography and Geneology Master Index, which will refer you to collected biographies in which she appears, and her address will be there. The Master Index is also online in some libraries. If Hubbard is no longer at Harvard, the Biology Dept should have her address. I did use the most recent WWA -- I don't know how often they check to be sure they are entirely up to date. Perhaps someone else on the list-serv knows. Judging from the number of inquiries we get for locations of fellow feminists, I wonder if a short session in finding information about feminist authors/ speakers/educators might not be useful somewhere in the WS curriculum. >From the point of the list-srv, since many of us are international, would it be useful to add the most likely country of residence when we send out inquiries to locate people? I was very impressed by Joan's description of who all is on this list. Regards Marilyn mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu auraria library ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:36:44 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea O'Reilly Subject: (Fwd) Mothers and Sons Conference MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Forwarded mail from From: Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:46:56 -0400 To: listserv@umdd.edu Subject: Mothers and Sons Conference International Conference Mothers and Sons Today: Challenges and Possibilities September 25th-27th York University Toronto Ont The Centre for Feminist Research at York isUniversity is Featuring Key-note Speakers Marni Jackson, Redefining Attachment between Mothers and Sons Babette Smith, Mothering for Gender Equality Mary Kay Blakely, American MOn: Reflections of an Outlaw Jeanette Corbiere Lavell, Native Perspectives on the Mother-Son Relationship Carolyn Mitchell, Black Mothers to Sons Jacqueline Haessly, Mothering Sons with Special Needs Jess Wells, Lesbians Raising Sons Judith Arcana, Every Mother's Sons Joyce King, Black Mothers and Sons Linda Forcey, Mothers and Sons and the Art of Peace Building Amia Lieblich, Mother-Son Relationships in the Shadow of War Anne-MArie Ambert, Mother-Blaming by Clinicians: Matenrla Narratives Janet Sayers, Mothers and Sons: Attachment and Loss ---End of forwarded mail from ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:45:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea O'Reilly Subject: Toni Morrison Conference MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Call for Papers An international one-day Symposium on Toni Morrison's novel Paradise, Febraury 24, 1999, York University, Toronto, Canada. Papers are invited on the novel, topics related to the novel and comparative novel studies. Please send a 50 word abstract and bio by November 16, 1998 To: Dr. Andrea O'Reilly, Chair, Toni Morrison Symposium, McLaughlin College, York University 4700 Keele St., Toronto Ont., Canada, M3J 1P3 Phone: 416 736-5128; Fax: 416 736-5436 E-mail aoreilly@yorku.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:54:09 -0400 Reply-To: grhf@hsph.harvard.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ra'eda S. Al-Zu'bi-GRHF" Subject: Reproductive Health/Rights Website MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Colleagues: I'm writing you to inform you about the Global Reproductive Health Forum (GRHF), at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet, a new Internet networking project about reproductive technologies, health and gender based at the Harvard School of Public Health. This website is a tool for students, activists and researchers interested in reproductive technologies and gender to rapidly access new information and discussions about these questions. The central idea of the project is that new Information and biological technologies continue to reformulate and challenge notions of sexed bodies, identity and gender and confront us with both new possibilities and problems. Technology has been argued to open new avenues of challenging current power structures, but also of re-inscribing and policing set gender categories. We seek to inquire into changing notions of the body, health, and sex and the subsequent implications for the practice of reproductive health (+ public health) in a global context. The project provides interactive fora located in Southern and Northern countries, and solicits material from a variety of disciplinary perspectives for distribution through our website. The website provides a free gateway to an extensive archive of on-line information about: - Gender, Biology and Technology - Reproductive Rights - HIV/AIDS - Emerging Reproductive Technologies - Biomedical information pertaining to Reproductive Health We also work in partnership with academics, activists, and libraries in South Asia to electronically publish original work on issues of gender, health and notions of development. The South Asia project is currently on-line at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/SAsia/forum.html . Your input and participation are invaluable to us. We encourage you to submit your articles and viewpoints, and to give us feedback, both on our main Website and on our regional project sites. You can submit material through the website or by e-mailing us at grhf@hsph.harvard.edu. If you would like more information on our project, please contact us at the above e-mail address. We look forward to hearing from you in the near future. Sincerely, Ra'eda S. Al-Zu'bi Project Coordinator Global Reproductive Health Forum Harvard School of Public Health http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/ Tel: (617) 432-2936 Fax: (617) 566-0365 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:17:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Toth Subject: Seeking Beatrice Kachuck Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Could Beatrice Kachuck please contact me? 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: 225-388-3152 English Dept. fax: 225-388-4129 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/ Ms. Mentor's new column: http://www.chronicle.com/jobs ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:27:06 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diana H Scully Subject: Position Announcement Tenure Track Position in English and Women's Studies Virginia Commonwealth University We are seeking to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor, a joint appointment in English and Women's Studies, beginning in Fall, 1999. The successful candidate must be able to teach Introduction to Women's Studies, Feminist Literary Theory, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in one of these areas of literary specialization: Early American, 20th Century British and Irish, Ethnic American, or World Literature in English. Record of effective teaching and evidence of scholarly accomplishment in one of the literary fields listed above is essential. Candidates are expected to have completed the Ph.D. before the beginning of the Fall semester 1999. This position is contingent upon availability of funds and final administrative approval. Send queries and/or letters of application, cv, and dossier (including at least three letters of recommendation) to Richard Fine, Chair, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University, Box 842005, Richmond, Virginia 232844-2005. Deadline for application is 11/20/98. VCU is a large urban teaching/research university with an enrollment of approximately 21,000 students and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, and persons with disability are encouraged to apply. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Diana Scully Professor of Sociology & Director of Women's Studies Virginia Commonwealth University Box 843060 Richmond, Virginia 23284 804.828.4041 (phone) 804.828.4983 (fax) dhscully@vcu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:40:44 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Deitch Subject: wmst for teachers - query MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have been rushing through email so I'm not sure if Judy in the query below is asking for contact information or responding to previous postings. If you have trouble reaching Cheryl Chard, email me privately and I should be able to put you in touch. Cheryl is a graduate from our Women's Studies MA program. She developed a women's studies course (mentioned in Ms. and the query below) for middle school students as a project related to an internship seminar she took with me and has been teaching it for a number of years now. Cynthia Deitch George Washington University Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:24:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Judy Carr Subject: wmst for teachers - query The October issue of MS. magazine includes a letter from a middle school teacher who has taught an introductory women's studies course to seventh and eighth graders at the Barrie School, just outside of Washington, DC. and who is interested in connecting with other teachers who are struggling with similar issues. She further indicates that she is willing to share her curriculum and ideas with them. Her name is Sheryl Chard and her address is listed as Takoma Park, Maryland. There is not other identifying information. Judy Carr, Co-Director The Center for Curriculum Renewal Essex, Vermont ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:06:53 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Grotzky Subject: Re: Trying to locate Ruth Hubbard, Anne Fausto Sterling MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII By checking Contemporary Authors, I found that AFS was Anne Fausto-Sterling, I had been looking under S, not F. Next I tried Bio and Geneology Master Index, which referred me to American Men and Women of Science, the 1998 edition (Contemporary Authors gave me a 1986 listing so I wanted something more up-to-date). In both books, she is listed as at Brown University -- most recently in the Biochem Dept, 97 Waterman St. Providence, RI 02912-9079. Your library is a great resource. Make friends with a librarian. Marilyn mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu auraria library staff ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:27:15 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Max Dashu Subject: Re: Showalter and Lingua Franca -- is there no accountability? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Another great, hard-hitting critique! >I wrote a book review. You can find it at: > http://pw1.netcom.com/~schweit2/review.html Max Dashu Suppressed Histories Archives email: maxdashu@lanminds.com PO Box 3511 Oakland CA 94609 USA >>>International Women's Studies, founded 1970<<< ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:30:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Trying to locate Ruth Hubbard, Anne Fausto Sterling In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980916152706.00ae7434@uno.cc.geneseo.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Pat Murphy wrote: > We are trying to put together a year long series on biological determinism > vs social construction and would like to look into having Ruth Hubbard and > Anne Fausto Sterling Speak. Does anyone have any a contact number/email > for them? We've tried the Harvard Web page for Hubbard. Also has anyone > heard them speak and could comment on their accessibility for undergraduate > audiences. Anne Fausto-Sterling is at Brown University. The Brown web site has a page about her that includes a picture, a phone number, and an email address, as well as a description of her work. The URL: http://biomed.brown.edu/Faculty/F/Fausto-Sterling.html I can't help you with Ruth Hubbard, who may well have retired from Harvard by now. I can say that she spoke at UMBC about 15 years ago, and I recall her being very accessible to an undergraduate audience. Joan Korenman Joan Korenman, Director Center for Women and Information Technology University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21250 USA korenman@umbc.edu http://www.umbc.edu/cwit ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:20:56 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Trying to locate Ruth Hubbard, Anne Fausto Sterling In-Reply-To: <01J1VNLKX0IA0022QG@CASTLE.CUDENVER.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Marilyn Grotzky wrote: > Ruth Hubbard is listed in Who's Who in America. Her office is listed as > Harvard University Dept of Biology, 16 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138- > 2020. She isn't on their current Faculty List, though. I searched altavista. She is listed there as having been appointed Professor Emerita in Biology in 1990. (I agree that the Dept of Biology should know where she is.) > Judging from the number of inquiries we get for locations of fellow feminists, > I wonder if a short session in finding information about feminist authors/ > speakers/educators might not be useful somewhere in the WS curriculum. That's a good idea. I would add using the Web search engines, as they turn up feminist writers who aren't (that's a guess) in Who's Who; they are particularly useful for me, working from here. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans jae2@york.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:41:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Watkins Subject: Psychology of Women Class Comments: To: "POWR-L@uriacc.uri.edu" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I have recently been given the opportunity to teach a Psychology of Women course with a different perspective and in a unique setting. Please pass along the following information to any students you believe might be interested in such a class. For additional information I can be contacted directly at psywatkn@acs.eku.edu STUDY "PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN" IN FRANCE - Summer 1999 During the summer of 1999 students from all over have the opportunity to study Psychology of Women (from a French perspective) in France through a summer abroad program sponsored by the Kentucky Institute for International Studies. Centered in Paris and Autun, the KIIS program in France is a five-week academic program, including classes five or six days per week and selected excursions. The Psychology of Women course (taught in English) will focus on the psychology of gender. For this course, particular emphasis will be placed on the ways in which expectations which are bound in one's cultural and historical setting affect the growth and development of women. Students will document in journal format their observations of gender differences in France, comparing those differences with psychological theories and their own cultural/developmental history. Students attending the KIIS program may enroll for up to six credit hours, chosen from the Psychology of Women class, two other psychology classes (one in child development from a French perspective and one in human ethology), or six French classes. The Psychology of Women class will be taught by Dr. Judith Watkins of the Eastern Kentucky University Psychology Department. A licensed psychologist, Dr. Watkins holds a bachelor's and master's in French and lived and worked in Grenoble, France from September 1974 through August 1975. Additional information on the KIIS summer programs can be obtained by visiting the KIIS website at www.kiis.org (currently has information on this past summer's programs) or by contacting: Dr. Judith M. Watkins Department of Psychology Eastern Kentucky University 102 Cammack Building Richmond, KY 40475 Phone: (606) 622-1291 E-mail: psywatkn@acs.eku.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:06:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Porter Subject: Re: Trying to locate Ruth Hubbard, Anne Fausto Sterling In-Reply-To: <01J1VNLKX0IA0022QG@CASTLE.CUDENVER.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Most academic libraries have copies of Tha National Faculty Directory, which is an excellent starting place to look for addresses of academics. At 03:37 PM 9/16/1998 -0700, you wrote: >Ruth Hubbard is listed in Who's Who in America. Her office is listed as >Harvard University Dept of Biology, 16 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138- >2020. > >I didn't find Sterling in WWA. You might try Contemporary Authors, which >some libraries have online, or Books in Print -- if she has a recent book >or has been published often by one publisher, she may be contactable throuogh >the publisher. (Is contactable actually a word?) She may be in Biography and >Geneology Master Index, which will refer you to collected biographies in which >she appears, and her address will be there. The Master Index is also online >in some libraries. > >If Hubbard is no longer at Harvard, the Biology Dept should have her address. >I did use the most recent WWA -- I don't know how often they check to be sure >they are entirely up to date. Perhaps someone else on the list-serv knows. > >Judging from the number of inquiries we get for locations of fellow feminists, >I wonder if a short session in finding information about feminist authors/ >speakers/educators might not be useful somewhere in the WS curriculum. > >From the point of the list-srv, since many of us are international, would it >be useful to add the most likely country of residence when we send out >inquiries to locate people? I was very impressed by Joan's description of >who all is on this list. > >Regards >Marilyn >mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu >auraria library > *************************************************************** G. Margaret Porter Librarian, Reference Department University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556 Phone:219-631-7620 Fax: 219-631-8887 E-Mail: porter.2@nd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:58:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elana Newman Subject: Suggestions for Intro to Women Studies Readings on Eating Disorders Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We are trying to update our undergraduate Introduction to Women Studies course at the University of Tulsa to include a interdisciplinary approach to focus upon women and eating, eating disorders, body-image, and self-esteem. We welcome any recommendations for readings that you might have. Thanks. Elana Newman, Ph.D. University of Tulsa Department of Psychology 600 South College Avenue Lorton Hall 308 Tulsa OK 74104-3189 Phone: (918) 631-2836 Fax (918) 631-2833 Email: elana-newman@utulsa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:01:21 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dra. Veronica Vazquez Garcia isei" Subject: Conference on Gender and Higher Education, Mexico City MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE The Gender Studies Program at the Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico, is=20 organiazing a two-days conference on gender and higher education in=20 Mexico, England and the U.S.A. The program is almost ready, but we are still looking for a British keynote speaker. We want a well-established scholar and feminist, in her fifties or so, with experience in Women=B4s Studies Programs and internationally known publications on gender issues.=20 Her travel and living expenses will be totally covered by us. Any=20 suggestions, will be fully appreciated (we need them soon!!!). Thanks in advance Veronica Vazquez, Ph.D. Associate Professor Colegio de Postgraduados vvazquez@colpos.colpos.mx ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:18:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laura hudson Subject: your local reference librarian speaks out! MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following post brings to mind a point which has been lingering in my mind for awhile. I am constantly amazed by the amount of information requested on this list which could be found in five minutes by a librarian in almost any academic library. This worries me because, as an academic reference librarian **and a member of a feminized profession**, I already have a suspicion that faculty members (most, not all) neither know nor care what I do or can do for them--I am simply support staff and a place to send students. I am constantly seeing terribly written library assignments and students foisted on the library with no preparation whatsoever. I am continually amazed by the fact that teachers don't realize that sending 100 or more students to the library to use the same book might cause problems. I am up to my ears in library scavenger hunt assignments which are reminiscent of library school assignments and thus ridiculously difficult for freshmen or even junior students who have had no formal library training. We advertise assignment consultations as well as library instruction sessions. Seeing that many faculty members don't even realize that we answer brief factual questions makes me wonder if the problem is even worse than I thought. I hope that those of you who haven't familiarized yourself with your local library/librarian will do so soon--we love to help and we have a great deal of specialized knowledge. Laura Hudson Alden Library Reference Department Ohio University Libraries hudsonl@ohiou.edu At 08:06 AM 9/17/98 -0500, Margaret Porter wrote: >Most academic libraries have copies of Tha National Faculty Directory, which is an excellent starting place to look for addresses of academics. > >At 03:37 PM 9/16/1998 -0700, you wrote: >>Ruth Hubbard is listed in Who's Who in America. Her office is listed as >>Harvard University Dept of Biology, 16 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138- >>2020. >> >>I didn't find Sterling in WWA. You might try Contemporary Authors, which >>some libraries have online, or Books in Print -- if she has a recent book >>or has been published often by one publisher, she may be contactable throuogh >>the publisher. (Is contactable actually a word?) She may be in Biography and >>Geneology Master Index, which will refer you to collected biographies in which >>she appears, and her address will be there. The Master Index is also online >>in some libraries. >> >>If Hubbard is no longer at Harvard, the Biology Dept should have her address. >>I did use the most recent WWA -- I don't know how often they check to be sure >>they are entirely up to date. Perhaps someone else on the list-serv knows. >> >>Judging from the number of inquiries we get for locations of fellow feminists, >>I wonder if a short session in finding information about feminist authors/ >>speakers/educators might not be useful somewhere in the WS curriculum. >> >>From the point of the list-srv, since many of us are international, would it >>be useful to add the most likely country of residence when we send out >>inquiries to locate people? I was very impressed by Joan's description of >>who all is on this list. >> >>Regards >>Marilyn >>mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu >>auraria library >> >*************************************************************** >G. Margaret Porter >Librarian, Reference Department >University of Notre Dame >Notre Dame IN 46556 > >Phone:219-631-7620 >Fax: 219-631-8887 >E-Mail: porter.2@nd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:20:23 -0400 Reply-To: speeraw@appstate.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy W. Speer" Subject: CALL FOR ART WORK Comments: To: Whirl , SWIP , H-WOMEN , FEMPED , femisa MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII NWSA Journal invites submissions of artwork for consideration for cover art for a special issue on Appalachian and the South: Place, Gender, Pedagogy. While the cover image might be printed in four colors, depending on funding, any color images submitted should also translate well to black and white reproduction. Images submitted should be reproducible in a horizontal or vertical format of 3"x 4". This issue will explore the unique position of women in Appalachia and the southern U.S., the new populations, the older gender, race and class-based political economies, the rehistoricization of the received wisdom of the past, as well as other topics relating to this overall theme. Send black and white photographs, and if color, also send color slides, to: NWSA Journal, PO Box 32132, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608-2132. E-mail inquiries to Managing Editor Amy Speer, speeraw@appstate.edu, or call 828-262-6541 ---------------------- Amy W. Speer Managing Editor, NWSA Journal 109 IG Greer Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 704-262-6541 FAX: 704-262-6543 speeraw@appstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:28:14 -0400 Reply-To: speeraw@appstate.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy W. Speer" Subject: Call for reviewers Comments: To: femisa , H-WOMEN , SWIP , Whirl MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII NWSA Journal will publish a special issue on Appalachian > and the South: Place, Gender, Pedagogy, scheduled for fall, > 1999. This issue will explore the unique position of women > in Appalachia and the southern U.S., the new populations, > the older gender, race and class-based political economies, > the rehistoricization of the received wisdom of the past, > as well as other topics relating to this overall theme. > > If you would be interested in serving as an external > reviewer for this special issue, involving reviewing one or > two manuscripts during the next 6 months, please let us > know by e-mailing your name, address, e-mail address, > telephone number, and a statement of areas of scholarly > expertise and interest along with a short vita to Managing Editor Amy Speer: NWSA Journal, PO Box 32132, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608-2132. 828-262-6541 speeraw@appstate.edu > ---------------------- Amy W. Speer Managing Editor, NWSA Journal 109 IG Greer Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 704-262-6541 FAX: 704-262-6543 speeraw@appstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:07:17 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Grotzky Subject: Re: your local reference librarian speaks out! MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Right on, Laura Hudson! I'm a staff person, not a librarian, but I can say that everyone in my library would say all of the same things. Librarians are nearly always happy to colaborate on the writing of library assignments, and could teach the basics of finding people (Faculty Directory, Master Index, Contemporary Authors) in less than a half hour to any interested faculty. Our own Women's Studies Department has devised exercises for getting acquainted with Women's Studies sources that look totally simple, are are not difficult to do, but which actually teach where things are, what is there, and what the difference is between types of sources. This information trans- fers easily to other fields. (To be more clear, "our own Women's Studies Department" is the Metropolitan State College of Denver Institute for Women's Studies and Services in Denver, Colorado.) I continue to say that your library is a great resource. Make friends with a librarian. Sandy Shattuck, on this listserv, has recently written an excellent article on cooperation between librarians and teachers at the college level. Perhaps she will provide the citation. Marilyn mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu auraria library ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:39:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kennedy, Kathy" Subject: FACULTY POSITION IN WOMEN'S STUDIES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Agnes Scott College invites applications for a tenure-track position in women's studies, starting August 1999. Candidates should be able to teach the introductory course in women's studies, a course in feminist theory, and other women's studies courses in the candidate's area of expertise, in addition to being prepared to direct the Program in Women's Studies. The successful candidate will also teach in one of the other liberal arts disciplines taught at the College. Possible disciplines for this affiliation include, but are not limited to, English, anthropology, history, and art history. The appointment will be at the rank of assistant or associate professor. Applicants should have completed the Ph.D. in an appropriate discipline by July 1, 1999. Candidates should have teaching and research experience in women's studies. Agnes Scott College is an independent, Presbyterian-affiliated, liberal arts college for women located in metropolitan Atlanta. To ensure full consideration, applications should be received by December 1, 1998. Send letter of application, c.v., and dossier or three letters of reference to Professor Katharine Kennedy, Director, Program in Women's Studies, 141 East College Ave., Decatur, GA 30030-3797. Agnes Scott has a strong commitment to diversity and urges members of underrepresented groups to apply. EOE. Web site: http://www.AgnesScott.edu. Katharine Kennedy kkennedy@agnesscott.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:36:24 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Russo Subject: Suggestions for Intro to Women Studies Readings on EatingDisorders -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain I would suggest, Becky Thompson's book, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep - is excellent, interdisciplinary, ethnography, multiethnic/cultural, looks beyond beauty-based and psychological sources of eating problems, etc. Very good and provocative and meaningful. Ann Russo, Women's Studies, DePaul University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:46:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gill Wright Miller Organization: Denison University Subject: Re: Suggestions for Intro to Women Studies Readings on Eating Disorders MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Susan Bordo Unbearable Weight Elana Newman wrote: > > We are trying to update our undergraduate Introduction to Women Studies > course at the University of Tulsa to include a interdisciplinary approach > to focus upon women and eating, eating disorders, body-image, and > self-esteem. > > We welcome any recommendations for readings that you might have. Thanks. > > Elana Newman, Ph.D. > University of Tulsa > Department of Psychology > 600 South College Avenue > Lorton Hall 308 > Tulsa OK 74104-3189 > > Phone: (918) 631-2836 > Fax (918) 631-2833 > > Email: elana-newman@utulsa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:51:25 EST5EDT Reply-To: lanen@garnet.cla.sc.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Lane Organization: University of South Carolina Subject: cfp: The Mother in French Literature MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary=Message-Boundary-4150 --Message-Boundary-4150 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Please post the attached announcement to the list: Nancy Lane Dept. of French and Classics University of South Carolina Columbia SC 29208 phone: 803-777-6867 fax: 803-777-0454 e-mail: lane-nancy@sc.edu or: lanen@garnet.cla.sc.edu --Message-Boundary-4150 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Text from file 'flierweb.wpd' CALL FOR PAPERS The Mother 27th Annual French Literature Conference (FLC) University of South Carolina Columbia March 25-27, 1999 Papers should address the construction, the function, the thematics, or any other aspect of the notion of "the mother" (including, for example, the maternal, maternity, the mother tongue, the mother-land, etc.) in French-language literature of any period or provenance. Two anonymous copies of complete papers, in English or in French, must be submitted by November 2, 1998, for consideration by the FLC committee. Submissions should be prepared according to the MLA Handbook and should not exceed fifteen pages (25 lines per page, double-spaced, with ample margins). Reading time at the conference is limited to 20 minutes. Proceedings will be published as volume XXVII of FLS (Amsterdam: Rodopi). For more information, please contact: Nancy Lane Dept of French and Classics University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 PHONE: 803-777-4881; FAX: 803-777-0454 EMAIL: lanen@garnet.cla.sc.edu URL: http://www.cla.sc.edu/fren/FLC.htm --Message-Boundary-4150-- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:21:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Subject: Re: Suggestions for Intro to Women Studies Readings on Eating Disorders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Another suggestion is: Jennifer Manlowe's Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image and Religion. Chris Taylor Ten Percent Campus Box 25 Wichita State University 1845 Fairmount Wichita, Kansas 67260-0025 clouburst@feist.com -----Original Message----- From: Gill Wright Miller To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 4:48 PM Subject: Re: Suggestions for Intro to Women Studies Readings on Eating Disorders >Susan Bordo > Unbearable Weight > > >Elana Newman wrote: >> >> We are trying to update our undergraduate Introduction to Women Studies >> course at the University of Tulsa to include a interdisciplinary approach >> to focus upon women and eating, eating disorders, body-image, and >> self-esteem. >> >> We welcome any recommendations for readings that you might have. Thanks. >> >> Elana Newman, Ph.D. >> University of Tulsa >> Department of Psychology >> 600 South College Avenue >> Lorton Hall 308 >> Tulsa OK 74104-3189 >> >> Phone: (918) 631-2836 >> Fax (918) 631-2833 >> >> Email: elana-newman@utulsa.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 22:29:21 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carol-Anne Grenier Subject: Re: Suggestions for Intro to Women Studies Readings on Eating Disorders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Try Consuming Passions: Feminist Approaches to Weight Preoccupation and Eating Disorders ed.by Catrina Brown and Karin Jasper. Second Story Press 1993 (Canadian) I hope this helps. ********************************************* Carol-Anne Grenier ef926@freenet.carleton.ca "Change happens when people actively participate - lip service is what happens when they don't" ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 07:52:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Frances Gateward Subject: Re: your local reference librarian speaks out! In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19980917151813.006a3728@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Laura, This issue came up on another listserv to which I subscribe. I can understand where are are coming from, and I agree with you on several points, but as one scholar on the other listserv pointed out, all academic libraries are not equal, and many do not have access to the same resources. Frances Gateward gateward@uiuc.eduAt 11:18 AM 9/17/98 -0400, you wrote: The following post brings to mind a point which has been lingering in my >mind for awhile. > >I am constantly amazed by the amount of information requested on this list >which could be found in five minutes by a librarian in almost any academic >library. This worries me because, as an academic reference librarian **and >a member of a feminized profession**, I already have a suspicion that >faculty members (most, not all) neither know nor care what I do or can do >for them--I am simply support staff and a place to send students. I am >constantly seeing terribly written library assignments and students foisted >on the library with no preparation whatsoever. I am continually amazed by >the fact that teachers don't realize that sending 100 or more students to >the library to use the same book might cause problems. I am up to my ears >in library scavenger hunt assignments which are reminiscent of library >school assignments and thus ridiculously difficult for freshmen or even >junior students who have had no formal library training. We advertise >assignment consultations as well as library instruction sessions. Seeing >that many faculty members don't even realize that we answer brief factual >questions makes me wonder if the problem is even worse than I thought. I >hope that those of you who haven't familiarized yourself with your local >library/librarian will do so soon--we love to help and we have a great deal >of specialized knowledge. > >Laura Hudson >Alden Library Reference Department >Ohio University Libraries >hudsonl@ohiou.edu > >At 08:06 AM 9/17/98 -0500, Margaret Porter wrote: >>Most academic libraries have copies of Tha National Faculty Directory, >which is an excellent starting place to look for addresses of academics. >> >>At 03:37 PM 9/16/1998 -0700, you wrote: >>>Ruth Hubbard is listed in Who's Who in America. Her office is listed as >>>Harvard University Dept of Biology, 16 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138- >>>2020. >>> >>>I didn't find Sterling in WWA. You might try Contemporary Authors, which >>>some libraries have online, or Books in Print -- if she has a recent book >>>or has been published often by one publisher, she may be contactable throuogh >>>the publisher. (Is contactable actually a word?) She may be in Biography and >>>Geneology Master Index, which will refer you to collected biographies in which >>>she appears, and her address will be there. The Master Index is also online >>>in some libraries. >>> >>>If Hubbard is no longer at Harvard, the Biology Dept should have her address. >>>I did use the most recent WWA -- I don't know how often they check to be sure >>>they are entirely up to date. Perhaps someone else on the list-serv knows. >>> >>>Judging from the number of inquiries we get for locations of fellow feminists, >>>I wonder if a short session in finding information about feminist authors/ >>>speakers/educators might not be useful somewhere in the WS curriculum. >>> >>>From the point of the list-srv, since many of us are international, would it >>>be useful to add the most likely country of residence when we send out >>>inquiries to locate people? I was very impressed by Joan's description of >>>who all is on this list. >>> >>>Regards >>>Marilyn >>>mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu >>>auraria library >>> >>*************************************************************** >>G. Margaret Porter >>Librarian, Reference Department >>University of Notre Dame >>Notre Dame IN 46556 >> >>Phone:219-631-7620 >>Fax: 219-631-8887 >>E-Mail: porter.2@nd.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:50:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: millerc@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU Subject: Video help Comments: To: powr-l@uriacc.uri.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Colleagues, Does anyone know of a video that addresses "the psychology of the rapist?" Cindy Miller millerc@oneonta.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:31:18 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claudia Ditmar Coffield Subject: Re: your local reference librarian speaks out! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Absolutely! Make friends with a librarian, especially a women's studies librarian. I'm a 49 year old student just entering graduate studies. I would have never made it though undergraduate studies if it hadn't been for the librarians at my undergrad institution. Well, that may be an exaggeration, but I certainly would have never made it from there onto graduate school! While an undergraduate student, I worked in our writing center as a consultant (tutor). Encouraging students to develop a working relationship with a librarian was some of the best advise I could give other students. I often made appointments with students, walked with them to the library, and introduced them to librarians in their major fields. I was able to do this because I knew the librarians myself. In fact, I made my final decision to attend The Ohio State University after spending a day in their library, and one of the things that kept coming back to mind was the time their women's studies librarian had devoted to me. Too many instructors assume that students have both non-technical computer operating skills and library research skills. At the graduate level many students are coming close to this expectation, but at the undergraduate level most are not. I was amazed as an undergraduate working with graduate students and faculty (primarily as a copy editor) at how few had developed the skills to do a thorough literature review and/or to identify the major arguments offered within the context of their particular theoretical approach to a substantive area. These skills can be introduced in the classroom and their importance can be punctuated there, but they can only be mastered in the library--and there, most readily mastered, with the guidance of a librarian. C. Ditmar Coffield Cditmar7@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:03:01 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dra. Veronica Vazquez Garcia isei" Subject: Conference on Gender and Higher Education, Mexico City Comments: cc: 100623.1236@compuserve.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Thanks for the many responses to my search for a British keynote speaker. Does any one have the e-mail addresses of the following professors Valerie Walkerdine Sheila Allen Henrietta Moore Sheila Rowbotham Olwen Hufton A number of people asked whether there was a "call" for this conference.=20 There wasn=B4t, we went by invitation. But everyone is welcome to attend.= =20 We will have three panels> one on women=B4s representation in academia=20 across disciplines, the second on the history of women=B4s programs in the= =20 three countries (England, USA and Mexico), and the third on women=B4s=20 experiences as females and feminists in male domintated academia. The conference will take place in Mexico City, on November 17th and 18th,= =20 at the new facilities of the British Council. I don=B4t have the address=20 yet (they just moved). If anyone is interested in attending, please send=20 me a message in late October. Veronica Vazquez, Ph.D. Associate Professor Colegio de Postgraduados vvazquez@colpos.colpos.mx ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:34:18 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Grotzky Subject: Re: your local reference librarian speaks out! MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII As has been recently pointed out, all academic libraries are not equal, and do not have the same resources. At the same time, one of the other staff people at my library (a fairly small one), pointed out that most of the sources I mentioned are available at any medium sized public library in the US, along with many more. Knowledge really is a form of power. Even knowing that books that will help us locate people and basic information about them exist is power. Information brokers are beginning to develop businesses to help clients find information. BUT we and our students can get it fast and free from libraries. We need to connect more with libraries, then teach our students to do the same. Sometimes I find a student with a good library exercise. He or she proceeds from one point to another, learning where different departments are and the kinds of things available, as well as how to access. What can be learned in a well- spent hour or two is amazing. Most of this knowledge can be transferred to any other library as well. You can probably call your library, ask for a women's studies librarian or a library instruction librarian (lacking those, ask for someone who likes to work with faculty who want to know more about the library), and make an appointment to learn more about what reference books and periodicals related to women's studies are available for your students, as well as how the check- out collection is developed. You may be able to get instruction for your class in how to use library computers. You may be able to get help in creating a library exercise for your students. Try the exercise yourself. The next year, you may be able to refine/revise for more effectiveness. Outside of the US, you may have more, or fewer, problems. A recent library user from Europe who was looking for a place to do research in the US said that our libraries and librarians were friendlier and more service-oriented than those in his home country. However, in many countries there are real efforts to make resources more available. Some of these programs are described in "Women, Information, and the Future: Collecting and Sharing Resources Worldwide" edited by Eva Steiner Mosley. Libraries tend to respond to the people who use them. Libraries will respond to women, women's studies, and feminists if we make our presence known in the libraries available to us. Marilyn mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu auraria library staff ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:34:44 -0400 Reply-To: mcstef@ark.ship.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Michelle C. Stefanisko" Organization: Shippensburg University Subject: Women's Conference- 10/16 & 10/17 PA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please share this information with interested colleagues, friends, students. We're hoping this electronic version spreads the news quickly (and cost-effectively) to everyone. Thanks, Michelle Public Myth & Private Struggles in the Lives of Women Annual Conference of PA SSHE Women's Consortium and Tri-State Teaching Women's Studies Association Shippensburg University (Southcentral PA) (2 hours from Baltimore & D.C.; 3-4 hours from Philadelphia / Pittsburgh) October 16-17,1998 Conference Keynote Speakers & Guests Kathleen Krenek has worked for social justice and human rights for the past thirty years. From 1985 until 1988, Krenek served as executive director of the Women's Resource Center, a large urban battered women's shelter in Racine, Wisconsin. In 1989, Krenek assumed the role of policy development coordinator for the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Krenek is currently the director of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRC), a project of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. NRC proactively supports the work of national, state, and local domestic violence programs in hopes of ending violence in the lives of women and their children. The Sisters of Satisfaction are a country-music duo hailing from Toad Suck, Arkansas. They will appear with their back-up band, The Hot Flashes. The Sisters have performed mainly in maximum-security penal institutions and honky tonk bars across the United States. Their fame has even spread to third world countries. Billie Jo Bobb and Bobbi Lu Bobb parody the traditions of country music and the patriarchy that spawned the genre. In real life Billie Jo is D. Ditzler, Prevention Specialist for the Cumberland Perry Drug and Alcohol Commission. Bobbi Lu is Barbara Kohutiak, Executive Director of the YWCA of Carlisle. The Hot Flashes are Benny Keck on drums and Art Calaman on guitar. Margaret Lucia received her bachelor's and master's degrees in piano from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. Lucia has appeared in music festivals throughout California and the Midwest. She has also spent considerable time presenting lecture recitals on music by women throughout the US. Lucia is currently on the music faculty at Shippensburg University. Dr. Mary W. Burger joined the State System of Higher Education as vice chancellor for academic and student affairs in August 1993. Prior to her acceptance of this position, Dr. Burger served as professor and assistant professor of English at California State University (CSU), Sacramento, Tennessee State University, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Missouri, St. Louis and Lincoln University, Montana. Dr.Burger is a member of the Golden Key Honor Society, the National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society. Maria James is a 1996 graduate of Shippensburg University. With an undergraduate degree in communications, James currently is employed as Shippensburg University's assistant dean of admissions. James began writing at an early age but it was not until her family moved from the state of Washington to Pennsylvania that her poetry writing became a passion. The emotions generated from her 3,000 mile move propelled James to write on many topics, her favorites being womanhood, culture and spiritually. James was inspired by her father who is also a poet. Donna Dee Hardy holds a bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan and her master's of arts from the University of Pittsburgh. Hardy is presently seeking her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Besides teaching music at Shippensburg University, Hardy also directs the Cumbelaires, a female singing ensemble. The two day conference consists of paper presentations, panel discussions, guest speakers, art exhibits, entertainment, and some wonderful exhibitors. Topics for sessions address Welfare Reforme, Violence Against Women, Stereotypical Myths, Development of the Self, Application of a Feminist Lens, Networking issues, Feminist Pedagogy, Sexual Diversity, Community Organizing and more. For more information, please send an e-mail to mcstef@ark.ship.edu to receive a complete conference program. Registration: Before October 5 Fulltime students/staff - $35 Parttime students/staff - $30 After October 5, add $10 Send checks (payable to SU Women's Consortium) to: Shippensburg University Department of Psychology Attn: Diane Clark 333 Horton Hall Shippensburg, PA 17257 Again, thanks for your interest. Please e-mail directly if you have any further questions. -- *********************************************************************** Michelle C. Stefanisko, Ph.D., NCC Counseling Psychologist / Assistant Professor University Counseling Center Phone: (717) 532-1481 Shippensburg University Fax: (717) 530-4041 1871 Old Main Drive E-mail: mcstef@ark.ship.edu Shippensburg, PA 17257 American College Counseling Association Secretary, 1998 - 2000 ACCA website: http://www.raritanval.edu/internet/acca ACCA discussion list: acca-l@ecnet.net ACCA is one of 17 divisions within the American Counseling Association For more information regarding ACA, call 1 (800) 347-6647 or view the ACA website at: http://www.counseling.org *********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:06:44 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phillipa Kafka Subject: Re: Conference on Gender and Higher Education, Mexico City Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Veronica: Have you ever read, heard Dale Spender, an Australian? She will make your audience laugh and cry simultaneously. At 10:01 AM 9/17/98 -0600, you wrote: >The Gender Studies Program at the Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico, is=20 >organiazing a two-days conference on gender and higher education in=20 >Mexico, England and the U.S.A. > >The program is almost ready, but we are still looking for a British >keynote speaker. We want a well-established scholar and feminist, in her >fifties or so, with experience in Women=B4s Studies Programs and >internationally known publications on gender issues.=20 > >Her travel and living expenses will be totally covered by us. Any=20 >suggestions, will be fully appreciated (we need them soon!!!). > >Thanks in advance > >Veronica Vazquez, Ph.D. >Associate Professor >Colegio de Postgraduados >vvazquez@colpos.colpos.mx > > Dr. Phillipa Kafka Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies Women's Studies J303 Kean University Union, New Jersey 07083 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 15:33:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Frances Gateward Subject: Re: your local reference librarian speaks out! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On the issue of librarians - I was not suggesting that people not make use of libraries and the knowledgable people who staff them. I was just cautioning people not to suggest to others that their queries not be posted because they involve information accessible at libraries. Though all libraries should have those publications you note - remember that everyone does not even have equal access to the library! Frances ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:48:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela M Pattatucci Subject: Apathy toward feminism MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have encountered an attitude of apathy toward feminism on my campus -- not that feminism is "dead", but rather that feminism is no longer necessary. The general view seems to be that feminism is something that the students' mothers did, but it really doesn't have much relevancy now. Since this issue has been raised as a matter of concern at other times on this list, I wanted to share a reference that has helped me immensely in generating interest among students. It is the video "Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Rock Video", written, edited and narrated by Sut Jhally. (There is now a Dreamworlds I & II.) This is a difficult video series to watch, but it is precisely because it is so difficult to watch that it generates discussion. The strength of the approach is that Jhally removes the music, leaving only the imagery portrayed in the video. It is taking the videos out of their usual context that makes Dreamworlds so provocative. As a word of warning, Dreamworlds 1 juxtaposes the rape scene portrayed in the film "The Accused" with excerpts from various rock videos. I used this film for a 300 level course titled "Race, Gender, & Science" that spanned over 7 class periods in conjunction with Nancy Tuana's book, The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature -- dividing it up into parts interspersed with discussion. Thus, I was able to warn my students in advance about the excerpts from, "The Accused", and excuse those that did not care to see it. This approach made the excellent historical analysis of Nancy Tuana "alive" for the students. After watching and discussing this film along with the reading material, there is no one remaining in my class that still believes that feminism has lost its relevance. Iana ampatt02@athena.louisville.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:39:01 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Miriam Subject: Re: Apathy toward feminism In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I agree that the use of dream worlds can be very effective. I was really surprised to find that my students were as moved as they were by the film. I myself have some very serious reservations about the video--some voiced by Martha McCaughey (sp?) in her book Mean Women, namely that I question the strategy of continuously reproducing images of women's victimization in a classroom that aims to interrogate and overturn that state of victimization as I do in my classroom. Another reservation I have is with the video-maker's analysis--although much of his analysis staunchly problematizes the relationship between male power and capitalism as the context of the dreamworld flow of images of fantasy girls, in the end he seems to suggest that corporate interests (rather than male interests in conjunction with other interests) are the ultimate defining cause of these representations. Having said all this, until I construct my own media and pornography and slide show (or can afford to bring someone like Gail Dines who, by the way, does a brilliant slide show), Dreamworlds is surprisingly effective for helping students to become aware of their own stakes in feminist issues. One male student told me that he talked with his housemates about the film for hours after class. On a related note, in this same class I had a guest speaker who is a former prostitute. I was also surprised to see that the students were deeply moved to hear the story of someone who had survived the conditions that they had previously only read about. I had feared that they would be too jaded by a talk-show culture, or, in my university setting (santa cruz) by a culture that is sanguine, if not celebratory about the supposed sexual freedom that the prostitute is shown as representing. My students also told me that it was very important that I had prepared them with weeks of reading and discussing related topics (the course was focused on sex and race discrimination) before viewing the dreamworld video or listening to the guest speaker, both of which might have been too emotional difficult/had too much shock value, otherwise, to absorb. The moral of the story for me, at least this summer, is that even ultra "Liberal" students who think that they already know everything there is to know aobut "political correctness" etc (this is the form of apathy that I face) can be moved to see the relevance of feminism (and anti-racist) work. Kathy Miriam kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 15:55:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Toth Subject: Re: Women--videos Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Another excellent resource about women in videos is Robin Roberts's book LADIES FIRST (University Press of Mississippi). It's the only feminist analysis of music videos, and the book also comes with a free video. Not to be missed! At 04:48 PM 9/18/98 -0400, Angela Pattatucci wrote: > >, I wanted to share a reference that has helped me immensely in >generating interest among students. It is the video "Dreamworlds: >Desire/Sex/Power in Rock Video", written, edited and narrated by Sut >Jhally. (There is now a Dreamworlds I & II.) This is a difficult video >series to watch, but it is precisely because it is so difficult to >watch that it generates discussion. The strength of the >approach is that Jhally removes the music, leaving only the >imagery portrayed in the video. It is taking the videos out of >their usual context that makes Dreamworlds so provocative. > 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: 225-388-3152 English Dept. fax: 225-388-4129 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/ Ms. Mentor's new column: http://www.chronicle.com/jobs ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:15:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: women -- videos MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I also recommend Robin Roberts' book _Ladies First_ - it covers a variety of genres from country music to rap and has an interesting critique of Jhally's work. Barbara Scott Winkler bwinkler@wvu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:48:38 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Miriam Subject: Re: Apathy toward feminism In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A correction to my last post: the book I referred to by Martha McCaughey is not Mean Women but Real Knockouts. Kathy Miriam kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:12:40 +0200 Reply-To: shoshana@research.haifa.ac.il Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Shoshanna B. Mayer Ph.D." Subject: Sara Delamont MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit UK subscribers (and others): I am looking for Sarah Delamont's address, the author of extensive work on sexism in education. Thank you, Shoshanna 26a Vitkin st. Haifa, Israel ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 07:33:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson Subject: third wave intro texts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am teaching Intro to WS again next semester and am wanting to use more third wave feminism material since the students that I have had in the past seem to relate to it better. Is there, or can anyone recommend, an intro text that is written from a third wave perspective? ************************************************************* Honesty is more than just not being dishonest. It is an active choice to be responsible for the choices we make before we act upon them so that we can stand up for them and not be tempted to be dishonest. ************************************************************* Sharon Jacobson SUNY Brockport Women's Studies Program Brockport, NY 14420 justakid@frontiernet.net (716) 395-5697 ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 09:44:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Aprahamian" Subject: Re: third wave intro texts In-Reply-To: <199809191133.HAA124612@node21.frontiernet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, You can get a list of recommended readings on Third Wave feminism through This list (WMST-L). Hypatia vol. 12, no. 3, summer 1997 was dedicated to Third Wave Feminism. The introduction by Jacquelyn N. Zita, "Third Wave Feminisms: An Introduction" is particularly suitable for your purposes. With best wishes, Sima Aprahamian, Ph.D. Simone de Beauvoir Institute Concordia University Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3G 1M8 E-mail: aprhsma@alcor.concordia.ca On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Sharon Jacobson wrote: > I am teaching Intro to WS again next semester and am wanting to use more > third wave feminism material since the students that I have had in the past > seem to relate to it better. Is there, or can anyone recommend, an intro > text that is written from a third wave perspective? > ************************************************************* > Honesty is more than just not being dishonest. It is an active choice > to be responsible for the choices we make before we act upon them so that > we can stand up for them and not be tempted to be dishonest. > ************************************************************* > Sharon Jacobson > SUNY Brockport > Women's Studies Program > Brockport, NY 14420 > justakid@frontiernet.net > (716) 395-5697 > ************************************************************* > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 11:18:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Film Review Added: One True Thing On Saturday, Sept. 18, I reviewed "One True Thing" on "The Women's Show" on WMNF-FM 88.5 in Tampa, Florida To obtain a copy of the review send the following command to listserv@umdd.umd.edu: GET FILM REV244 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: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 10:22:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susanne Dietzel Subject: Re: third wave intro texts In-Reply-To: <199809191133.HAA124612@node21.frontiernet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would recommended the following texts: Anna Findlen, ed. LISTEN UP, Rebecca Walker, ed. TO BE REAL Green and Taormino, eds. A GIRL'S GUIDE TO TAKING OVER THE WORLD (use with caution however, the book is mostly limited to white girls) Hilary Carlip, GIRL POWER as far as I know there is no textbook which is written from a third wave perspective. Susanne Dietzel, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies ******************** Newcomb College Center for Research on Women * That's right, the * Tulane University * women are smarter * New Orleans, LA 70118 ********************* (504) 865-5248 http://www.tulane.edu/~dietzel ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:13:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ellen M. Gil-Gomez" Subject: Re: third wave intro texts In-Reply-To: <199809191133.HAA124612@node21.frontiernet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sharon, I'd highly recommend _Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist Doing Feminism_ from Minnesota UP. It is created with a third wave approach--I'm not sure it might be too much theory? Depends I'd guess... Some chapters are--What is the Third Wave?Third WaveCultural Contexts; The Third W and Representation; Third W Negotiations; and Third W Activism and Youth Music Culture. It does contain a nice foundation for Third W Feminism in the intro too. Best wishes--Ellen. *************************** Ellen M. Gil-Gomez Assistant Professor of English Russell Sage College Troy, NY 12180 gilgoe@sage.edu (518) 244 2406 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 13:20:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Cooper Subject: Ally McBeal tapes/Peter Jennings tape MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi everyone: I'm doing a feminist critique of the new FOX series Ally McBeal, but missed a few episodes during last year's season. If you taped the program, and would be willing to make copies of specific episodes (I'll reimburse expenses), please contact me at bcooper.cc.usu.edu. Also, several of us on the list were looking for copies of the Peter Jennings 1992 special--Men, sex and rape. It's now available from Insight Media for $99. Thanks. Brenda Cooper --------------------------------- Brenda Cooper, Women's Studies Director Assistant Professor Department of Communication UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Logan, Utah 84322-4605 435/797-3253; 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: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 13:41:43 -0700 Reply-To: Harriet K Levi Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet K Levi Subject: Sports video MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear list, I wonder if any of you have any information about an excellent video on women in sports called, "A Passion to Win". It aired as an ABC sports special in 1995, and our media specialist has been unable to locate it in any of the regular sources. Thanks, Harriet P.S. reply privately to the address below. Harriet K. Levi (hlevi@clark.edu) "every society honors Instructor/Coordinator its live conformists Women's Studies Dept.ph# 360-992-2170 and its dead troublemakers Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA - help reverse the trend!" ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 18:12:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CSMITH@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU Subject: lgbt studies MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII The Gender Studies program here at Lewis & Clark College is trying to get division funding for an Intro To Lesbian & Gay Studies course for Spring 1999. To help our case, we would like to have a list of other liberal arts colleges that offer LGBT studies courses. Unfortunately, I need to have this by Monday afternoon (21st)! If you or your school offer a lgbt course, please email me privately. Thanks! Christine Smith casmith@lclark.edu csmith@vms.cis.pitt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 20:40:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Roberta Rosenberg Subject: Book/Syllabi suggestions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I will be teaching a senior seminar in "Family Relations in Literature" next spring for majors in our literature, language arts (teacher training) and writing tracks. Has anyone taught such a course? Are there good short story collections? I have seen one entitled "American Families" and another by Graywolf on "The New Family." Does anyone know of an international collection. I would appreciate any/all suggestions on this topic. Please reply to Professor Roberta Rosenberg, Department of English rrosenb@cnu.edu Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:11:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: PBS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT RACE Comments: To: "Maria R. Lowe" In-Reply-To: <35FFD06E.3672F935@southwestern.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Announcing a new book about race and diversity which explores the topic from the perspective that sees diversity not as a problem to be solved but as an opportunity to be embraced. Working Together: Producing Synergy by Honoring Diversity includes essays by 20 authors who either describe their own experiences with issues of diversity, or their work in the field. Edited by Angeles Arrien, and published by New Leaders Press. 1998. $28.75. plus PH Contributors include Riane Eisler, David Goff, Mikhail Gorbachev, James Calvin, Perviz Randeria, Wendy Nomathemba Luhabe, and myself, among others. Book can be ordered from the publisher or individual contributors. One source is Jacqueline Haessly, Peace Talk Publications, 2437 N. Grant Blvd. Milwaukee, WI 5321O-2941. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 23:12:55 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PinteaReed@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Apathy toward feminism Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 98-09-18 17:42:30 EDT, you write: << bout the supposed sexual freedom that the prostitute is shown as representing. My students also told me that it was very important that I had prepared them with weeks of reading and discussing related topics (the course was focused on sex and race discrimination) before viewing the dreamworld video or listening to the guest speaker, both of which might have been too emotional difficult/had too much shock value, otherwise, to absorb. The moral of the story for me, at least this summer, is that even ultra "Liberal" students who think that they already know everything there is to know aobut "political correctness" etc (this is the form of apathy that I face) can be moved to see the relevance of feminism (and anti-racist) work. Kathy Miriam kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu >> I noticed this also when I taught a class on psychological testing and addressed feminist issues in psych testing. It was at a college where most of the students were military as we were next to several large military bases. Most of my class were younger women and men who thought I was trying to "make an issue." Interestingly the military women in the room did not question my mentioning of sex and racial bias (no one argued with that one) in psychological testing which one had to be aware of when interpreting results. Unless the young women have actually" hit the glass ceiling" its hard to get them to notice that our work as feminists is not done as our work on racial awareness is not done. I was constantly mistaken (since I am multi-ethnic ) for some "ex" bar girl wife of a military man, rather than the daughter of an east coast newspaper editor. People constantly walked into my class and asked for "the teacher." Since racism was so embarrassingly demonstrated every day in class, I was able to make some progress with what people called "your feminist rap." Relating it to racial issues and anti-semitism make it easier to see for many students whose only work experience has been minimum wage jobs and volunteer work. One technique is to tell the same story without mentioning race or gender, and then tell it with mentioning a race or a gender and see how peoples perceptions change. Lili pinteareed@aol.com Lili Pintea-Reed, Phd* http://members.aol.com/PinteaReed/LPR.html ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:37:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: lgbt studies MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > The Gender Studies program here at Lewis & Clark College is trying > to get division funding for an Intro To Lesbian & Gay Studies > course for Spring 1999. To help our case, we would like > to have a list of other liberal arts colleges that offer LGBT > studies courses. Unfortunately, I need to have this by Monday > afternoon (21st)! If you or your school offer a lgbt course, > please email me privately. Thanks! > Christine Smith > casmith@lclark.edu Professor John Younger maintains a frequently updated listing of University LGBT Programs at http://www.duke.edu/web/jyounger/lgbprogs.html There's a link to Younger's listing at the start of my Women's Studies Programs, Departments, and Research Centers page (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/programs.html) Hope this helps. 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, 20 Sep 1998 17:17:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bob Evans Subject: $2000 short story and essay contest In-Reply-To: <01J21D7XZUQA000H83@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Please note that the deadline of the Frank O'Connor short story and essay contests has been extended to January 1, 1999. For full information, please visit http://members.aol.com/litpage/litpage.html Essays from feminist perspectives are particularly welcome, as are stories by or about women. Please share this information with anyone who might be interested. Thanks! Robert C. (Bob) Evans Auburn University at Montgomery bobevans@strudel.aum.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:27:57 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty Glass Subject: your local library footnote In-Reply-To: <199809182039.PAA15777@staff1.cso.uiuc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Frances Gateward wrote: > On the issue of librarians - > Though all libraries should have those publications you note - > remember that everyone does not even have equal access to the library! > Frances Just a reminder that very few libraries have as deep and wide a collection as you would wish on various subjects. But most academic and public libraries participate in an "interlibrary loan service," making it possible for you to borrow a book or film from elsewhere or to order a copy of a journal article that is unavailable locally. A good message to get out to your students is to get started on their research well before term paper deadlines. That way, when they realize the "perfect" journal article or book is not in your campus' library, they'll have time to order it via interlibrary loan (and have time to read it and incorporate it into their paper) before the assignment is due. Betty _________________________________________________________ Betty Glass, Humanities Bibliographer Getchell Library/322 1664 N. Virginia St. University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557-0044 email: glass@admin.unr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:22:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 announcements (inc. 1 job) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Job: Women's Studies Asst. Prof. (Arizona State Univ.) 2) New M. A. in Women's Studies (Texas Woman's Univ.) 3) Intersections: new e-journal on gender and CFP For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Arizona State University) Gender, Race and Class in a North American context position. Teach lower and up per division Women's Studies courses, including survey courses; conduct curriculum development in the area of Gender, Race and Class in a North American context; engage in research and writing desti ned for publication; and perform professional service relevant to the university and community. Qual ifications required: Demonstrable expertise in interdisciplinary Women's Studies and Gender, Race and Class; active research agenda in Women's Studies and one or more of the following: African Ame rican, Asian American, Latina, Native American or Diaspora Studies; Ph.D. or appropriate term inal degree by August 15, 1999. Previous successful teaching experience highly desirable. Women's Studies currently has seven Tenured and Tenure Track Core Faculty, inclu ding a full- time Director, as well as 98 Affiliated Faculty representing every college in the Uni versity. Women's Studies fields a strong undergraduate bachelor's degree program and is beginning a graduate certificate program. It is well-supported and housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. To apply, please submit letter detailing academic experience, research agenda an d Women's Studies background; current curriculum vita; three letters of recommendation; and a writ ing sample to be received by October 19, 1998 to: Georganne Scheiner, Chair, Search Committee, W omen's Studies Program, PO Box 873404, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-3404. Review begins October 19, 1998, and continues every Monday thereafter until position is filled. Teaching materials may be requested at a later date. Application file MUST be complete, including all let ters of reference, before review by search committee. Visit our Web Site at http://www.asu.edu/cla s/womens_studies/ AA/EOE **************************************************************************** 2) M.A. in Women's Studies (Texas Woman's University) Texas Woman's University announces a new Master of Arts degree in Women's Studies and invites students to apply. Students pursuing the MA degree will work with a faculty advisor in developing a personalized degree plan. The degree will consist of five core courses (feminist theories, feminist pedagogy, feminist epistemology, women of color, and a capstone seminar), nine hours of women's studies or approved cross-listed courses, and nine to twelve hours of recommended courses designed to further research, writing and analytical abilities. Internships will be available. Students will have the opportunity for one-on-one mentoring with an appropriate faculty member, a peer, and also by a member of the community or corporate sectors. The Mentoring and Professional Development Program will also include an orientation and colloquia series, workshops, and leadership training. Texas Woman's University offers students considerable faculty resources with expertise about women as well as one of the top three women's library collections in the nation. TWU is the world's largest public university primarily for women and enrolls a diverse student body. Students at TWU range in age from 18 to the 70s, with an average age of 31. Over one-fourth of TWU students are women of color. TWU is a mission-driven institution designed "to serve as a resource and depository for information and knowledge about women, their cultural diversity and their particular contributions to the history and progress of the state of Texas, the nation and the world." The M.A. in Women's Studies is a central part of this mission and the most recent accomplishment of TWU's strategic plan, "Pioneering Our Future." Graduate teaching assistantships will be available for the Spring semester, 1999. Interested students can contact the program director, Dr. Brenda Phillips, in the following ways: Internet: Bphillips@twu.edu or womenstudies@twu.edu www.twu.edu or www.twu.edu/as/ws Phone: 940-898-2117 or 2110 Fax: 940-898-2101 Address: Women's Studies Program PO Box 425557 Texas Woman's University Denton, TX 76204-5557 ***************************************************************************** 3) NEW E-JOURNAL OF GENDER AND CALL FOR PAPERS Carolyn Brewer and Anne-Marie Medcalf, the co-editors, are extremely pleased to announce that the inaugural issue of _Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context_, is up and running on http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/hum/as/intersections/ Intersections is a refereed electronic journal conceived as an interactive forum for new research and teaching in the area of Gender Studies in the Asia-Pacific region. It stems from the School of Asian Studies of Murdoch University in Western Australia. Placed at the junction of historical and contemporary concerns, this new e-journal will emphasise the paramount importance of research into the region's multiple historical and cultural gender patterns. In this sense the journal is multidisciplinary and crosses cultural and gender boundaries. At the same time, Intersections is intended as a means to explore innovative ways of 'doing' history using new technologies. As such, Information Technology is not seen as an end in itself, but as a place where oral, written and visual history can tangibly cross paths allowing for new connections to be made. Hence, visual materials such as photos, maps, artistic reproductions as well as video clips or sound tracks will be included where indispensable to the argument being developed. CONTENTS of the Inaugural Issue: September, 1998, now on the web: Refereed Papers Crossing Gender Boundaries in China: Nushu Narratives by Anne McLaren The Language of Liberation; Gender and Jiefang in early CCP Discourse by Harriet Evans Ethnography and Video: Researching Women in China's Floating Population by Tamara Jacka & Josko Petkovic Mapping China - Considering the Presentation of Statistical and Cultural Data for Large Readerships by Stephanie Donald Review Section Vera Mackie,_ Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activis_m, 1900-1937 by Sandra Wilson Hanifa Deen, _Broken Bangles_ by Maria Degabriele CALL FOR PAPERS We are now calling for papers for the second and third issues of Intersections due for publication in March and September 1999. The second issue will be dedicated to topics related to the crossing of gendered boundaries, and the third to gender and colonialism in the context of Southeast Asia. We will, of course, also consider papers outside of the main theme for each issue. To allow for the refereeing and possible revision processes to take place, the respective deadlines are 15 January and 1 June 1999. Papers should not normally be longer than 5000-6000 words, and should include an abstract of 100-150 words. We will receive contributions for consideration via email as an attached file. HTML formatting specifications are available from the Editors, and are especially important if images, sound or video are included. Alternatively, send a floppy computer disk with your paper in Word 6, 7 or 8, or RTF file format. Also send two hardcopies, on one side of A4 only, double-spaced. Referencing to be Endnote system without the use of op. cit. or ibid.All pages to be numbered, and, to allow for anonymous refereeing, the author's name and institution should be typed on a separate sheet and submitted with the manuscript. The referee process is double blind. As far as possible all papers will be sent to a university other than that of the contributor. Please send contributions to: The Editors, Intersections School of Asian Studies Murdoch University South Street WA 6163, AUSTRALIA Telephone: +61 (0)8 9360 6251 Fax:+61 (0)8 9360 6575 email: Intersections: intrsect@murdoch.central.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:32:06 -0700 Reply-To: kym bird Sender: Women's Studies List From: kym bird Subject: feminist pedagogy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am teaching a 4th year feminist theory course and am wondering if anyone out there has teaching strategies for doing so; any kind of teaching strategy, feminist in its impetus, that has worked for you would be of real interest to me. Much thanks, Kym Bird Dr. Kym Bird School of Women's Studies York University, Toronto Ontario E-mail kbird@yorku.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:27:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Lengermann Subject: Women in History of Sociology Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: WMST-L Subscribers Interested in Women in Sociology Fm: Patricia Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley Re: NEW ASA Section-in-Formation PLEASE HELP US. We are serving as interim organizers of a new ASA section-in-formation--The History of Sociology. This section represents an important opportunity for women's studies scholars. First, it is an opportunity to work collectively to revise the history of the social sciences to reflect women's ongoing contributions to the discipline from its beginnings and to correct biases that present that history as the story of the ideas of a few great white men. Second, the section will be true to the principle of inclusivity which is part of a feminist vision, allowing scholars who are working on the historic contributions to the social sciences of racial and ethnic minority members, of persons in less privileged class or regional or academic positions, and of persons who contributed not only to the patternings of social science theory but also to its multiple fields and its organizational structures. Third, the section will help make scholars aware that there are now sufficient texts and original sources available to incorporate women into the teaching of the history of social science. HOW CAN YOU HELP? We are very close to making the membership criteria for becoming a section in this our first year of organizing. If you are an ASA member and would be willing to help us launch this new section (membership is only $5.00), please reply PRIVATELY to us at the above e-mail address or call us at 717-334-4330 and we will get back to you immediately with details of how to join. PLEASE RESPOND QUICKLY AS TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR THIS YEAR'S COUNT AT ASA. Thanks for any help you can give. Pat and Jill ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 07:59:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mev Miller Subject: Re: Suggestions for Intro to Women Studies Readings on Eating Disorders Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable >From the Women's Presses Library Project: Consuming Passions: Feminist Approaches to Weight Preoccupaton and = Eating Disorders Catrina Brown and Karin Jasper, Editors Second Story Press 1993 0-929005-42-2 P $16.95 459pp. Hunger=B9s Table: Women, Food, & Politics Margaret Randall Papier-Mache Press 1997 1-57601-000-7 P $10.00 128pp. Interior Passages: Obesity and Transformation Francine Saillant Second Story Press 1996 0-929005-04-X P $16.95 160pp. SomeBody to Love: A Guide to Loving the Body You Have Lesl=E9a Newman Third Side Press 1991 1-879427-03-6 P $10.95 224pp. These titles should be available at your local feminist or = independent bookseller. If you have difficulty loating them, please = let me know. Thanks. Mev >We are trying to update our undergraduate Introduction to Women Studies >course at the University of Tulsa to include a interdisciplinary approach >to focus upon women and eating, eating disorders, body-image, and >self-esteem. > >We welcome any recommendations for readings that you might have. Thanks. > > >Elana Newman, Ph.D. >University of Tulsa >Department of Psychology >600 South College Avenue >Lorton Hall 308 >Tulsa OK 74104-3189 > >Phone: (918) 631-2836 >Fax (918) 631-2833 > >Email: elana-newman@utulsa.edu WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller, Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@litwomen.org www.litwomen.org/wplp.html ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 07:22:56 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Su Patel Subject: Re: PBS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT RACE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Maria, FAMILY NAME is available for purchase (and rental, I think) through First Run/Icarus Films, 153 Waverly Place, 6th Floor, NY, NY 10014 or by phone, 1-212-727-1711. In addition, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the FAMILY NAME web site, as we've one out of our way to design a highly interactive site, that we hope will be useful for both educators (including a study guide commissioned from Facing History and Ourselves which is entirely downloadable on the site, at no cost) and laypersons. I hope that you'll have a minute to peruse the site, http://www.pbs.org/pov/familyname, and share your thoughts with me. One last thing, there are alot of interesting programs coming up as part of the Television Race Initiative on PBS, including AFRICANS IN AMERICA, in October and a Fred Friendly Seminar on Affirmative Action in the new year. If you would like to receive more information about the Television Race Initiative and related programs, please let me know if you would like to be added to our mailing (please send your mailing address) or email list. You can also check out the web site at http://www.pbs.org/pov/tvraceinitiative . Thanks again! I'll be looking forward to hearing from you. Regards, Su At 09:51 AM 9/16/98 -0500, Maria R. Lowe wrote: >Su, > >How might an educational institution order a copy of this video? > >Maria Lowe >Assistant Professor of Sociology >Dept of Soc/Anthro > >Su Patel wrote: > >> P.O.V., PBS' award-winning independent documentary series, would like >> to >> invite you to Tune-In to it's Fall broadcast special, FAMILY NAME on >> Tuesday, Sept. 15th at 10:00pm (ET) on PBS (TONIGHT!!--please check >> local >> listings). After the television broadcast, please feel free to peruse >> our >> website and partake in a variety of online activities including >> discussions >> about race, educational activities for students, genealogical >> searches, and >> much more! Please join us at http://www.pbs.org/pov/familyname/ >> >> The national broadcast of FAMILY NAME will also launch the Television >> Race >> Initiative (http://www.pbs.org/tvraceinitiave), a multi-tiered effort >> utilizing diverse, character-driven public television broadcasts (such >> as >> filmmaker Macky Alston's FAMILY NAME, which chronicles his journey to >> unearth the history of his slave-owning ancestors and explores the >> links to >> the African Americans that share his name) to support community >> dialogue and >> problem-solving around the issue of race relations. The Initiative >> works in >> partnership with select public television stations, interfaith >> networks, >> national organizations and businesses, as well as educational >> institutions, >> local media and community-based groups in five pilot cities across the >> >> country: San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, Raleigh/Durham and the >> Twin Cities >> >> I hope that you'll be able to TUNE-IN to this amazing program tonight >> and >> bookmark the web site in your technology center at the library! >> Please feel >> free to drop me a line and tell me what you thought of the program and >> the >> FAMILY NAME web site. Thank you in advance! >> >> Regards, >> Su Patel >> connect@pov.org > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 10:35:01 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Olmsted Organization: Western Kentucky University Subject: tenure in male-dominated fields MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit WMST-L Members, Do any of you, especially those in male-dominated fields, have any suggestions for resources for someone denied tenure with the excuse the students don't find her "sensitive." See excerpt from a note from a colleague of mine at another college. thanks, jane.olmsted@wku.edu We have a woman in the math department here who has been denied tenure. She is the only woman who teaches upper division math courses. The excuse they are using to deny tenure is that they said that several students have complained that she is not "sensitive" toward them. She's plenty sensitive in my book, and I suspect that she's being caught in an issue of gender bias. She is appealing the decision and is looking for resources regarding students' expectations of female faculty, especally those in male-dominated fields. Is there anything that you can think of that would be helpful for her case? ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:53:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marina Koether Subject: Re: tenure in male-dominated fields In-Reply-To: <36062BD5.7AA84996@wku.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I think this occured on the list earlier. Females get poorer evaluations than men. Is it because females are precieved as being motherly and if they are not then they get poor evals? At 10:35 AM 9/21/98 +0000, you wrote: > WMST-L Members, >Do any of you, especially those in >male-dominated fields, have any suggestions >for resources for someone denied tenure with >the excuse the students don't find her >"sensitive." See excerpt from a note from a >colleague of mine at another college. > >thanks, >jane.olmsted@wku.edu > >We have a woman in >the math department here who has been denied >tenure. She is the only woman who >teaches upper division math courses. The >excuse they are using to deny tenure >is that they said that several students have >complained that she is not >"sensitive" toward them. She's plenty >sensitive in my book, and I suspect that >she's being caught in an issue of gender >bias. She is appealing the decision >and is looking for resources regarding >students' expectations of female faculty, >especally those in male-dominated fields. Is >there anything that you can think >of that would be helpful for her case? > Marina Koether, Ph.D. Phone Number: 770-423-6166 Assistant Professor of Chemistry Fax Number: 770-423-6744 1000 Chastain Road Office: Science Building 423 Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591 Lab: Science Building 460 The secret of success is to be like a duck -- smooth and unruffled on top, but paddling furiously underneath. If you want to climb mountains, don't practice on mole hills. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:28:27 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MGROTZKY@CASTLE.CUDENVER.EDU Subject: Re: your local library footnote MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII My thanks to Betty Glass for her reminder about the value of InterLibrary Loan in many libraries. By using this service, we and our students can get our hands on nearly any book or article we want. This makes the book review sections in journals and book reviews in The Women's Review of books especially useful. A problem with women's studies and libraries is that while some material appears in the Women's Studies section, much material about women is found in other areas -- history, political science, literature, etc. -- which makes finding the information more difficult for our students. Information about women is -- and should be -- everywhere in the library. That's a great idea, but it sure doesn't make it easier for women who want to know about women. Marilyn mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu auraria library ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:50:54 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Muldy Sculler Subject: Re: tenure in male-dominated fields In-Reply-To: <199809211650.MAA11595@KsuMail.Kennesaw.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Greetings, I experienced this. I was in a non-tenure track position--instructor. My department chair became angry with my because I refused to "mother" students. I told him that was/is not my style--I treat students as adults, if they need a mother--call home. Barbara Barbara Maitsuru Hogue Bibliographic Access Management Rasmuson Library University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 756811 Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6811 ffbmh@uaf.edu 907.474.7206 907.474.5068 (fax) I can't stand this indecision married with a lack of vision. Tears for Fears ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:49:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betsy Sato Subject: Re: tenure in male-dominated fields In-Reply-To: <36062BD5.7AA84996@wku.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I don't know what the criteria for tenure are at the school in question, but normally they focus on research, teaching and service. Do the stated policies of the department or college say that a faculty member must demonstrate sensitivity? If your colleague is going to appeal the decision, then the focus should be on the stated criteria for tenure. I don't mean for this to sound like a hard-hearted statement, but if one must venture into the legal realm, then you have to look at the policies and see if they were followed. This comes from my experience of many years as an AAUP advisor. Now, on the other hand we all know that there is lots of room for subjective (not to say biased) judgement in tenure decisions. The question is, is your colleague being held to a different standard than her male colleagues? Good luck. This is not an easy path. Can you enlist the support of your state AAUP's Committee W? At 10:35 AM 9/21/98 +0000, you wrote: > WMST-L Members, >Do any of you, especially those in >male-dominated fields, have any suggestions >for resources for someone denied tenure with >the excuse the students don't find her >"sensitive." See excerpt from a note from a >colleague of mine at another college. > >thanks, >jane.olmsted@wku.edu > >We have a woman in >the math department here who has been denied >tenure. She is the only woman who >teaches upper division math courses. The >excuse they are using to deny tenure >is that they said that several students have >complained that she is not >"sensitive" toward them. She's plenty >sensitive in my book, and I suspect that >she's being caught in an issue of gender >bias. She is appealing the decision >and is looking for resources regarding >students' expectations of female faculty, >especally those in male-dominated fields. Is >there anything that you can think >of that would be helpful for her case? > ############### Elizabeth Sato, Ph.D. Associate Director, Institute for Global Studies and Affairs University of Cincinnati PO Box 210640 Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0640 tel: (513)556-4402 FAX: (513)556-2990 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:17:02 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nikki Senecal Subject: manipulative women Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am working on an essay about the Susan Smith case. I ran across this quote in Newsweek. Dr. Randall Alexander, a child-abuse expert at the University of Iowa medical school says, "if you get a more elaborate cover-up, that's mainly a female domain." Do women really "cover up" for their crimes differently from men? Where's a fact like that checked? I make an argument that women are stereotyped as manipulative. That will probably suffice for my work at this point. Short of studying criminology, how can I learn if it is the tools or definition that are sexist or if women really do tend to have more "elaborate" stories to get themselves "off the hook"? Thanks for your help, Nikki Nikki Senecal Department of English University of Southern California internet: senecal@scf.usc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:17:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: awink@SFASU.EDU Subject: Re: tenure in male-dominated fields In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I highly recommend reading Ms Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academe by Emily Toth ( Univ. of Penn. Press, 1997) for advice on this and other situations. ****************** Dr. Amy L. Wink Department of English and Philosophy Stephen F. Austin State University P.O. Box 13007, SFA Station Nacogdoches, Tx 75962-3007 (409) 468-2007 awink@sfasu.edu 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, 21 Sep 1998 13:13:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: tamara jo berg Subject: evaluating WS courses In-Reply-To: <01J21D7XZUQA000H83@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am co-leaing an intro to WS course that consists of a 3-wk intro followed by five 2-wk modules that are taught by 5 different WS faculty members from various discipines followed by student/group presentations and a week of "conclusion". We would like to evaluate each module during the last class period of each module (the class meets 2 times per week). Does any one have any ideas for evaluating WS courses in general or modules in particular? Tamara Berg Winona State University Winona, Minnesota ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:04:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Johnson/ Robert Serinsky Subject: Women in the Arts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To all those interested in feminist analysis of contemporary multi-media art by women: A few months ago, I contacted this list soliciting responses to the idea of a text I was preparing with a colleague to support our multi-media Women in the Arts course. We received many good suggestions and have since signed a contract with a publisher. We now need a few good authors. The idea for the book is to devote a chapter to a major work (1960-now) by a woman artist in ten different arts disciplines. If you are a scholar of architecture (especially, Elizabeth Plater Zyberk), performance art (especially, Ana Mendieta), poetry (especially, Gwendolyn Brooks) or fiction (especially, Amy Tan), and would like to contribute a chapter to our text, please contact me ASAP at the above address. Unfortunately, there is only glory -- rather than money -- to be had. Nonetheless, to judge from the response to the book thus far, a work such as this could contribute much toward introducing women artists into the women's studies classroom. Deborah Johnson doctorj@providence.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:51:30 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Donna Rowe Organization: Women's Center UMBC Subject: Kaplan's "Is the Gaze Male?" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone on the list tell me where I can find a copy of Kaplan's article "Is the Gaze Male?" I need this quickly and appreciate your help. PLEASE...reply privately to this message to drowe@umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:56:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KIM Subject: Male Reviewers of Qualitative Women's Studies Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have a research question related to women's studies: Why do male reviewers of academic articles request that qualitative studies on women's behaviors (ie., learning styles or computer barriers) be changed to include quantitative, traditional statistics testing hypothesis? Even when the purpose is to analyze behaviors of what is actually occuring through non-participatory observation in a grounded-theory design? So bascially, my research is being judged by our peers through traditionally male methods? Hmmm....I see some irony here.... Kim Blum Ph.D. Student dawn1@flex.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:20:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tami Waggener Subject: Women, Law and Violence In-Reply-To: <3606A032.B1CADB0@umbc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am hoping to locate a general text that address how the law treats women's use of violence. I am specifically interested in finding information on the different contexts in which the government condones women's use of violence (i.e., women protecting their children against a threat) and contexts in which the government is not so condoning (i.e., women's use of violence against abusive spouses/lovers). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please respond in private. Tamara Waggener Department of Government University of Texas at Austin waggener@jeeves.la.utexas.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:16:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gill Wright Miller Organization: Denison University Subject: Re: manipulative women aka "if you get a more elaborate cover-up, that's mainly MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Nikki Senecal wrote: > Dr. Randall Alexander, a child-abuse expert at the University of Iowa > medical school says, "if you get a more elaborate cover-up, that's > mainly a female domain." and > [Do] women really ... tend to have more "elaborate" stories to get > themselves "off the hook"? I suspect the stereotypical "male=linear; female=contextual/spherical/webbed/connected" ideology is at work here. If men tend to be more linear, then their tales may not be framed as elaborate. If both the teller/experiencer and the questioner/criminologist are male, the tale might be very simple. If women tend towards complex and connected understandings of the multiple pulls and tugs on a situation, then their tales might need more elaborate explaining to get the listener to understand all the influences and relative weights coming into position that collectively caused what is perceived as a criminal response. A criminologist might frame their tales as more elaborate particularly if the teller is female and the listener is male. If I steal a quarter from the table in my mother's bedroom, I can either see the tale as A. "I stole it. I wasn't supposed to. It wasn't mine. I commited a crime." or as B. "I DID take the money, it's true. But the women who came to the door had a sickly and hungry child in her arms, and she said she needed a quarter to feed her child, and I knew you were in favor of helping people, and you would not have liked to see this starving child, and also the bills were paid up--you said that to Dad last night--and my allowance had already been spent--I didn't know I was going to get this request from this woman who randomly appeared on my doorstep, child in hand--so it seemed like weighing everything, this was a reasonable response, to give the woman your money ..." You get the picture ... magnify it. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:46:16 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CarolineLD@AOL.COM Subject: Re: manipulative women aka "if you get a more elaborate cover-up, Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit However, the "elaborate coverup = female involvement" could also be based on the attitudes of those like the criminologist Oscar Pollak who insisted that women were criminal but got away with it because we are innately more deceitful and devious (it all comes from faking orgasms...). This viewpoint also sees women as protected from the consequences of their criminality by male chivalry. [It was not supported by self-report or victimisation studies of crime which go behind the official figures]. It may be that your expert wants to see female collusion where no real evidence of it exists - the allegation of women's involvement on the basis of the type of lies told without more does seem to mirror Pollak's view of female criminality being prevalent on the basis of nothing more than his stereotyping of women as deceitful and cunning. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:48:44 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UNGERR@ALPHA.MONTCLAIR.EDU Subject: Resisting gender: Twenty-five years of feminist psychology Comments: To: powr-l@uriacc.uri.edu Comments: cc: kahnas@jmu.edu, unger@brandeis.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I am pleased to announce that the book that I have been working on for a long time has finally been published (my fault not the publisher's). It is called "Resisting gender: Twenty-five years of feminist psychology" and was just published in England by London: Sage and will be published in the US in November. The book is a reflexive social history of the development of the psychology of women as an academic field of research and teaching. Core areas of concern to feminist psychology are examined in the framework of conceptual stages. These include: discrimination, power and social control, critique of theory and content in psychology, and epistemology. It also highlights on-going questions and dilemmas for the field. As anyone who knows me can attest, the book is extensively referenced and should be a useful source for women's studies (especially history and socio- logy) as well as psychologists. The paperback will sell for about $23.50 and can be obtained by contacting Sage via their website (www.sagepub.com). This links the user to order@sagepub.com. I am including this information because people have had difficulty discriminating between London and US Sage which are not completely parallel operations. This book is part of a series edited by Sue Wilkinson called "Gender and psychology. If anyone is interested in other titles in this series, please get in touch with me and I will supply the information. Rhoda Unger ungerr@alpha.montclair.edu or unger@brandeis.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 06:29:03 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Henwood Subject: Re: job announcement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Please note that the following is addressed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents: University of Toronto, Erindale College and Department of English, invites applications for a tenure-stream position at the rank of assistant professor in the area of critical theory and women's/gender studies. Qualifications: PhD in English, with specialization in critical theory and women's/gender studies. Applications are welcomed from candidates qualified to teach, supervise theses, and carry out research in critical theory and women's/gender studies. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses in the English Programme and the Women's/Gender Studies Programme at the Erindale Campus (as well as contributing to the administration of this latter programme), and graduate courses in English. Appointment to commence July 1, 1999. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Demonstrated excellence in research and teaching in both areas is sought. Candidates should submit a current curriculum vitae and ONE writing sample of scholarly work of not more than 25 pages, and should arrange to have three letters of recommendation (or dossier) and graduate transcripts sent directly to Professor Brian Corman, Department of English, 7 King's College Circle, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1. Applications arriving after November 20, 1998 may be too late. The University of Toronto encourages applications from qualified men and women, members of visible minorities, aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 07:18:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nbenokraitis@UBMAIL.UBALT.EDU Subject: Re: manipulative women In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Nikki Senecal wrote: > I am working on an essay about the Susan Smith case. I ran across this > quote in Newsweek. > > Dr. Randall Alexander, a child-abuse expert at the University of Iowa > medical school says, "if you get a more elaborate cover-up, that's mainly > a female domain." I know nothing about Alexander's evidence for such a quote, but (and as most of us realize) such newsmagazines as Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report and others sell their stuff through sensationalistic nonsense, "fluff" that is scientifically unsupported (but intuitively appealing to journalists), and, often, statements taken out of context by researchers. > Do women really "cover up" for their crimes differently from men? To my knowledge, there's no such research. (But, as a previous poster noted, the lack of research hasn't discouraged such criminologists as Otto Pollak, THE CRIMINALITY OF WOMEN, 1950, from concluding that women offenders are more deceitful than men.) > Where's > a fact like that checked? I make an argument that women are stereotyped as > manipulative. That will probably suffice for my work at this point. Again, I've seen no empirical evidence that women are more manipulative than men (especially in such violent crimes as the Susan Smith case). > Short of studying criminology, how can I learn if it is the tools or > definition that are sexist or if women really do tend to have more > "elaborate" stories to get themselves "off the hook"? Aha...now we're cookin'! This semester in my "Women and Crime" course (undergraduate), I'm using two textbooks that you might find helpful in the discussions of sexism, classism, and racism: Clarice Feinman's WOMEN IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM (3/e, Praeger, 1994) and Chesney-Lind and Shelden's GIRLS, DELINQUENCY, AND JUVENILE JUSTICE (2/e, Wadsworth, 1998). Although I think that much of the data that the authors cite are not as up-to-date as they should be, both books imply some explanations for why such (undocumented) comments as "Women get 'off the hook' (and they don't, btw) by 'elaborate stories'" are rubbish. niki benokraitis, sociology/criminal justice, u of baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:37:12 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Tomei Subject: Re: manipulative women aka "if you get a more elaborate cover-up, that's mainly MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="---- =_NextPart_000_01BDE597.6B1B1000" ------ =_NextPart_000_01BDE597.6B1B1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have been working in the area of pornography in Russia and by = necessity have been exploring the actual writ of law. As of the fin de = siecle, when my work is centered, the law in no way related to women. = Women were property (see laws concerning defamation, etc.), but not = agents. Thus the law had to be manipulated to apply to women at all, = since the word "men" used to mean _only_ that and not this revised = "universal" man stuff. It would be easy to imagine that most laws have vestiges of the old = system of perpetual tutelage -- where women were constantly in the = custody of other beings, usually male (I think back to buying my house = in PA where it went into my husband's name against my will and I got to = be "ux" even though it was all my money on the table...) So, my advice is to narrow it down to the exact law under question and = read the law carefully. Women are historically less directly under its = provenance by writ (not wit!). Christine D. 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Thanks for your help, Nikki >> Hi Niki, I recently did some research at the Dept of Justice... Check out their site at: http://www.ncjrs.org/ There are a host of articles all of which you can get free or download off the NET... You will find that crime is basically a male preserve (for example 97 per cent of all rapes are committed by men). In my experience as a forensic therapist men are much better at bald face lying and making up stories...Women usually cry , tell the truth, and throw themselves on your mercy for their collusion with the perps..... Additonally, the Office of Juvenile Justice reports that IN CASES OF VIOLENCE TOWARD CHILDREN nearly 1 in 3 (one in three) victims below the age of twelve were sexual offenses most of these committed by males..("Juvenile Offenders and Victims" from OJJ, page28). The male apologists who try and paint women negatively really lack actual evidence. The bulk of child abuse is done by males as sexual offenses... Quite a startling stat.. It goes on to state: quote: "This descrepancy was even more pronounced in the offense profile of young children (those below age six). When violent crimes against young children were referred to law enforcement, nearly 1 in 2 was a violent sex offense." end quote... Since sex offenses are comitted 97 percent of the time by men (per FBI and Bureau of Justice stats in print) we know most of these offenses are done by males... Cynically, Lili pinteareed@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:53:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: The Fawcett Library Subject: Re: Apathy toward feminism MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII In October 1952 the British writer Marghanita Laski said: "... Older and nobler women struggled that I should be free, and did their work so well that I've never even bothered about being bound. Rights for women, so far as my generation is concerned, is a dead issue." We have been here before .... In fact, by the 1960s Ms Laski did realise that the issue was not as dead as all that, and became a valuable campaigner. So tere's hope for these young women yet. David Doughan, Reference Librarian The Fawcett Library (The National Library of Women) fawcett@lgu.ac..uk http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/fawcett.htm Phone: 0171 320 1189 Fax: 0171 320 1188 _________________ "Anon. was a woman" (after V. Woolf) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:00:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Conference info: NCFR In-Reply-To: <01BDE597.6B136EE0@as5200-3-25.hgl.ny.frontiernet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII If your Woman's Studies Department or program includes some focus on family studies or intergenerational studies the following announcement might be of interest to you, other faculty and students. Milwaukee, WI hosts the 1998 National COuncil on Family Relations annual conference Nov 14-17. The theme of this year's conference is "Families in a Global Context: Media, Environment and Peace". Keynotes include speakers from the UN, and from Russia (Media) and Norway (violence and war and its affects on families.) This four day conference brings together family scholars, researchers, educators, policy makers, and practitioners from many countries. There are more than 400 workshops, paper and poster presentations as well as special programs for students and new professionals. There is also a lot of celebration, with dances or receptions hosted by special groups every evening. There are also special student rates for registration and housing. Call NCFR at 1-888-781-9331 for futher information. In addition to the conference itself, there will be two days of pre-conference events. 1) Theory and Research takes places Thursday and Friday, Nov. 12-13. 2) Thrusday only - AN INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE TRAINING SESSION - 9-4, INFORMATION BELOW; 3) A tour of agencies which work to both serve and empower homeless people, followed by lunch and debriefing - Friday AM, Nov 13, 8:30-12; 4) Choice of one or two workshops, Media or Legislative Action, Fri, 1-8 -------------------------------------------- PRECONFERENCE INTERGENERATIONAL TRAINING: CREATING COMMUNITIES OF CARE AN INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE TRAINING WORKSHOP Thursday, November 12, 1998; 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Hyatt Regency Hotel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Workshop Facilitators: James Gambone, Intergenerational Trainer and Jacqueline Haessly, Peace and Family Life Educator WHAT: Intergenerational Dialogue is a Strategy for Community Building and Problem Solving. Intergenerational Dialogue begins when individuals and leaders from family, education, business, government, religious and community organizations decide that a particular issue is of great importance to the well-being of the community and its residents. WHY: The Intergenerational Dialogue approach to community improvement is based on two simple, yet powerful concepts: 1) Each generation in a community has a unique and valuable perspective that must be included in addressing any community problem or opportunity; and 2) All generations must work together to solve community problems or create community opportunities. HOW: Using the Intergenerational Dialogue approach, people across generations listen with respect to each other's position and find common ground to develop intergenerational action-steps for solving community problems and creating community opportunities. In community settings across the United States, intergenerational groups have examined such issues as flood disaster relief, welfare reform, youth and elder empowerment, entitlement programs, the deficit, and community violence. WHO: Family Life Educators, Parent Educators, Religious Educators, staff of Family Serving Agencies, elders, parents, youth and interested religious, business, government and other community leaders will have an opportunity to join with researchers, educators and family life practitioners from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) to examine issues and identify actions needed to address the growing problem of community violence from an intergenerational perspective. INDIVIDUAL FEE: The fee for this Preconference Workshop is $50 for NCFR members, and $65 for others. This includes registration, workshop materials, beverages, and a box lunch. ORGANIZATIONAL FEE: Send teams of up to five people ages 14 through 104 - including staff, board members, volunteers, and clients - for an organizational fee of $225. Co-sponsored by the NCFR 1998 National Conference Local Arrangements Committee, the NCFR Peace Focus Group, and the NCFR Association of Councils in cooperation with Peacemaking Associates. Make check payable to NATIONAL COUNCIL ON FAMILY RELATIONS - INTERGENERATIONAL WORKSHOP and mail to NCFR Annual Conference, 3989 Central Ave. NE. Suite 550, Minneapolis, MN, 55421 1-888-781-9331. Name Phone: ( ) Email: Organization Address City State Country Zip/Postal Code Generational Group:___(14-21);___(22-30);___(31-42);___(43-54);___(55-66);___(67-78); ___(78-89);___(90-100+) Paid: $50 - NCFR Member; $65-Non-member. [ ] Check here if you want NCFR conference packet. $225 - Organizational fee. (Please provide name, address and age group for up to five people on separate list! . Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:18:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elana Newman Subject: Bibliography on Eating Disorders for Women Studies Intro Comments: To: anne-stavney@utulsa.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Many thanks to the colleagues who provided suggestions on potential readings to update our undergraduate Introduction to Women Studies course at the University of Tulsa to include a interdisciplinary approach to focus upon women and eating, eating disorders, body-image, and self-esteem. Here is the compiled list of recommendations from WMST-L members. ****************************************************************** Novels 1) *Breath, Eyes, Memory* by Edwidge Danticat in 2) Life-size_ by jenefer shute, that deals with an anorexic young woman and her reasons for becoming ill, which have a lot to do with perceptions of women, and prescribed roles for them, in modern culture. 3) Becky Thompson's book, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep - is excellent, interdisciplinary, ethnography, multiethnic/cultural, looks beyond beauty-based and psychological sources of eating problems, etc. Very good and provocative and meaningful. 4 Roberta Seid's Never Too Thin and Articles and Books 1. Bordo, Susan. 1993. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and theBody. Berkeley, Los ngeles, and London: U. of California press. 2. (mentioned by many people) 3. Chernin: The Slender Tyranny 4. Chernin, The Hungry Self 5. Becky Thompson's book, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep - is excellent, interdisciplinary, ethnography, multiethnic/cultural, looks beyond beauty-based and psychological sources of eating problems, etc. Very good and provocative and meaningful. 6. Jennifer Manlowe's Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image andReligion. 7. Consuming Passions: Feminist Approaches to Weight Preoccupation and Eating Disorders ed.by Catrina Brown and Karin Jasper. Second Story Press1993 (Canadian) 8. Becky Wangsgaard Thompson's "'A Way Outa No Way': Eating Problems Among African-American, Latina, and White Women" [Gender & Society, 6:4 Dec 1992 ALSO in Feminist Frontiers IV] 8- There's is a very good, short piece in LISTEN UP, ed. by Findlen called "The Body Politic," Videos Slim Hopes is done by Jeanne Kilbourne, who also did the "Killing Us Softly" and "Still Killing Us Softly" videos abt advertising and female bodies. The difference with Slim Hopes is that it focuses more on the links between advertising, thinness and eating disorders. The films is about 35 minutes long. Websites http://www.cis.vt.edu/ws/McCTeachingResources/EatingFood.html Elana Newman, Ph.D. University of Tulsa Department of Psychology 600 South College Avenue Lorton Hall 308 Tulsa OK 74104-3189 Phone: (918) 631-2836 Fax (918) 631-2833 Email: elana-newman@utulsa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:02:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "L. Yanney" Subject: Re: manipulative women aka "if you get a more elaborate cover-up, that's mainly MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Nikki Senecal wrote: > > > Dr. Randall Alexander, a child-abuse expert at the University of Iowa > > medical school says, "if you get a more elaborate cover-up, that's > mainly a > female domain." > and > > [Do] women really ... tend to have more "elaborate" stories to get > > themselves "off the hook"? Rather than continuing to engage in speculation about what the person really meant, why not try direct contact? Try this: Randell Alexander 209 Hs The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 319-353-6136 The e-mail is probably I think Hs means Hospital School, which serves people with disabilities and their families. Linda J. Yanney, Ph.D. lyanney@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu unaffiliated scholar ----- Libraries, librarians and directory assistance: ancient tools for the modern world. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:17:21 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PinteaReed@AOL.COM Subject: Re: manipulative women aka "if you get a more elaborate cover-up, Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I've been a therapist in forensic settings for (uggh) over 23 years. My experience with women in these settings was very much validated by the Dept of Juv. Justice study(s) which used the FBI data. ergo: Most crimes against young children are done by males (sorry guys). Often the female role is that of "colluder," or if abuse is done, is often motivated by "shut the kid up as to not bother the male syndrome," or in some way a reflection of the abusive situation the woman finds herself in. In 23 years in the business, I've seldom seen a child abuse situation in which a male was not involved either as perp or primary abuser/stressor on some semi-hinged woman. What I've noticed in terms of difference of stories in abuse events is that the males either deny the event or try to blame the woman. The woman offers a detail laden circular explanation of why she couldn't stop him and generally tries to construct a senario in which she wasn't to blame. Again I strongly recommend the Dept. of Justice site for "primary" sources of information rather than just taking therapist's word (including mine) in these matters. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ Its an amazing site. Janet Reno and Freed at the FBI are to be commended for such a resource. Lili pinteareed@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:49:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Daphne Patai Subject: Child abuse statsistics MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT A friend who has done research on women's violence sent me the following info, which contradicts Lili's message. --------------------------------- daphne.patai@spanport.umass.edu 55 percent of parents who kill their children are mothers. John M. Dawson and Patrick A. Langan, Murder in Families (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice/Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 1994), p. 3. Child abuse perpetrators are disproportionately single mothers, while men and women in two-parent families are equally likely to be the abusers. See Joan Ditson and Sharon Shay, "Use of a Home-Based Microcomputer to Analyze Community Data From Reported Cases of Child Abuse and Neglect," Child Abuse and Neglect, v. 8, 1984, pp. 503-509; Richard J. Gelles, "Child Abuse and Violence in Single-Parent Families: Parent Absence and Economic Deprivation," American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, v. 59, 1989, p. 492. In New Jersey in 1990-91, 60 percent of child abuse cases were attributed to mothers, 17 percent to fathers, and the rest to "others." In cases of physical abuse, mothers were the perpetrators 44 percent of the time, fathers 29 percent; in cases of "multiple abuse" (a combination of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglect), mothers are responsible in 54 percent of the cases and fathers in 17 percent. Child Abuse and Neglect in New Jersey: 1991 Annual Report, New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Youth and Family Services, April 1992. Similar data are available from other states. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:25:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: pamela kemner Subject: Re: Child abuse statsistics In-Reply-To: <0EZP00HGQGWHKD@pobox1.oit.umass.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In New Jersey in 1990-91, 60 percent of child abuse cases were attributed to mothers, 17 percent to fathers, and the rest to "others." In cases of physical abuse, mothers were the perpetrators 44 percent of the time, fathers 29 percent; in cases of "multiple abuse" (a combination of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglect), mothers are responsible in 54 percent of the cases and fathers in 17 percent. Child Abuse and Neglect in New Jersey: 1991 Annual Report, New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Youth and Family Services, April 1992. Similar data are available from other states. The above quoted source raises some interesting questions. The source is the department of human services, which we all know has more contact with women than with men. It seems unavoidable that in situations in which caseworkers deal primarily with mothers of abused/neglected children, they will hold the women responsible more often. What is the definition of "responsibility" for abuse? How was it decided to which parent the caseworker should "attribute" abuse/neglect? How was the info about abuse/neglect gathered? Notice the passive voice -- "child abuse chases were attrributed" -- attributed by whom? Who reported -- the mother? The caseworker? Were these home visits? Domestic abuse calls? Were there cops involved? Police reports? Such big amazing stats. So little real information. Pamela Kemner ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:05:45 -0500 Reply-To: jmcalla1@airmail.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joanne Callahan Subject: Women and Societal Stockholm Syndrome MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Women's Studies List: I am reading Dee Graham's "Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men's Violence and Women's Lives". When Graham theorized in the early 90's that women suffer from Societal Stockholm Syndrome, lots of people got defensive. I'm now wondering, how has Graham's theory held up among feminist psychologists? I think she makes a convincing case in "Loving to Survive". It's not pleasant, but it makes sense. Basically, I'd just like an update on the status of Societal Stockholm Syndrome theory. Thanks. Joanne Callahan jmcalla1@airmail.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 06:25:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Tallan Subject: Berkshire Conference 1999 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Could someone please send me the address of the website for the 1999 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women? In order not to clutter up the list could you please send it to me privately. Thanks, Cheryl Tallan ctallan@chass.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:41:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Tomei Subject: Child abusers -- from the dep't of justice MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This could be the printed source. I feel there's a problem dealing with = these statistics, because they are estimates. However, assuming the = numbers are valid and given the enormous representation of parents as = abusers, the female abusers do not seem disproportionately represented. Perpetrators Seventy-seven percent of perpetrators of child maltreatment were = parents, and an additional 11 percent were other relatives of the victim. It is estimated that over 80 percent of all perpetrators were under = age 40 and that almost two-thirds were females. An estimated three-quarters of neglect and medical neglect cases = were associated with female perpetrators, while almost three-quarters of sexual abuse cases were associated with male = perpetrators.=20 Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Child Maltreatment 1996: = Reports from the States to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government = Printing Office, 1998). Christine Tomei=09 The Harriman Institute of International Studies Columbia University cdtomei@frontiernet.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:28:11 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MGROTZKY@CASTLE.CUDENVER.EDU Subject: Re: Child abuse statsistics MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Daphne's recent posting on child abuse stats reminds me of what I'm learning on this list-serv that I need to remember while teaching women's studies and that I need to teach students: Make no assumptions. Enjoy speculating, but after 10 minutes, start looking for information If you have a question about something someone has said or written, ask that person (if possible). The threads for "ring around the rosey," cognitive dissonance, "women are more elaborate in lies," and "rule of thumb" (among others) connected this way for me. Thank you all for the valuable reminders. Marilyn mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu auraria library ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:37:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Janice Mclane" Subject: Job Announcment Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, all-- I am sending our job announcement to WMST-L, even though it is not specifically a feminist position, since we as a department are always interested in applicants who are politically aware. Thanks-- Janice McLane Morgan State University jmclane@morgan.edu MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: The Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies of MSU, an Historically Black Urban University, seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in philosophy to teach undergraduate courses in ethics and logic and in two of the following three areas: philosophy of science and technology, legal philosophy and history of world philosophy. The standard teaching load is twelve credits (4 courses) per semester. Appointments begin in August 1999. Salary and benefits are competitive. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in philosophy and show promise of excellence in teaching and scholarship. Send letter of application, resume, official transcripts and three letters of recommendation to: Dr. Otto Begus, Chairperson, Dept.of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Morgan State University, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland 21251. The Department will hold interviews at the APA convention, Eastern Division, Dec. 1998. Application Deadline: November 20, 1998. Information about the University and the Department of Philosophy and Rel. Studies is available on www.morgan.edu Morgan State University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Janice McLane Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies Morgan State University Cold Spring Lane and Hillen Road Baltimore, MD 21251 jmclane@morgan.edu 433/855-1803 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:32:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne Vromen Subject: Re: Berkshire Conference 1999 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would like the same information. Thank you. Suzanne Vromen On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Cheryl Tallan wrote: > Could someone please send me the address of the website for the 1999 > Berkshire Conference on the History of Women? > In order not to clutter up the list could you please send it to me > privately. > Thanks, > > Cheryl Tallan ctallan@chass.utoronto.ca > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:49:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Berkshire Conference/How to Search MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Two people have now asked about the URL for the Berkshire Conference web site. Here's the message I sent privately to the first of the two. Anyone else not familiar with search engines and how to use them might find it useful: The URL for the Berkshire Conference site is http://www-berks.aas.duke.edu/index.html . I got that by going to a search engine (I chose AltaVista, though there are many that could have provided the info) and seeking "Berkshire Conference" . In less than 10 seconds, I had the information I sought. If by chance you're not familiar with search engines, you should take a few minutes to become familiar. They're as basic to the web as a dictionary is to writing. There are any number of places where search engines are listed. If you're using Netscape 4, at the top of your browser under Edit is the option Search Internet. That will take you to a page with lots of search engines. I think it opens on Excite (one of the search engines). I hope this helps. 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: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:02:12 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jamie Anderson Subject: Women's History Month Programming Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I'm a nationally touring feminist singer-songwriter-comic and I'd love to perform at your university for Women's History Month or any time. I've performed at a lot of universities as well as other venues. My repertoire includes songs about women's issues including breast cancer, body image and sexuality. I'm easy to work with and my contract is shorter than the Louisianna Purchase. If you're not familiar with my work, I can send you a press kit and a CD. Private replies please. Thanks! -- Jamie Anderson tsunamiinc@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 14:28:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Call for Proposals: Women, Peace and Conflict, W.S. conf. in Wis [I am posting this for the conference committee. Please do not send proposals to me, but rather to Anne Statham (statham@uwp.edu). Thanks. Phyllis] Call For Proposals: Women, Peace, and Conflict, the 24th annual conference of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium and the 15th Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, October 21-23, 1999, at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Proposals for papers, workshops, and round-table discussions on the conference theme, especially proposals that link or show interrelationships between women, peace, and conflict on the individual, local, national, and international levels are welcome. E-mail your name, address, phone number, proposal title, and a two paragraph maximum description of your proposal to Anne Statham (statham@uwp.edu) by February 15, 1999. The full call for proposals can be accessed at http://vms.www.uwplatt.edu/~wsprogram/conference.htmlx. For more information contact Laura Wendorff at wendorff@uwplatt.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:01:07 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GNesmith@AOL.COM Subject: Gender & Child abuse stats Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit It has been reported from a number of reliable statistical resources on this list that the majority of child abusers are female. I wonder....could it be....could the disproportion be due to the fact that women spend more time with children, and that fathers are often absent from the home, leaving the women with more responsibility, more stress, and thus greater likelihood to be the abusers? Have any statisticians explored a possible correlation between absentee fathers and female abuse of children? Have any statisticians looked at female vs. male abuse of children in intact or two-parent families? The simple statistic that more children are abused by females tells us virtually nothing about gender and child abuse. Furthermore, I assume we are talking here about physical abuse such as hitting, and not sexual abuse, as the proportions are dramatically reversed in sexual abuse. Georgia NeSmith gnesmith@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:40:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: Gender & Child abuse stats In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 23 Sep 1998 GNesmith@AOL.COM wrote: > It has been reported from a number of reliable statistical resources on this > list that the majority of child abusers are female. > > I wonder....could it be....could the disproportion be due to the fact that > women spend more time with children, and that fathers are often absent from > the home, leaving the women with more responsibility, more stress, and thus > greater likelihood to be the abusers? Although I do not have any stats, I do know that when I worked at a domestic violence shelter, we found that often, abused women would "punish" their children rather harshly in efforts to keep the children "quiet" or "out of his way"--in other words to try to prevent the children's inadvertantly setting off the male abuser's temper. Of course, this is nothing more than anecdotal evidence . . . I would think, however, that any set of stats on child abuse (or any other kind of family/domestic violence for that matter) would be incomplete, as stats would not be able to adequately represent the layers of power and power struggles in these households (at least, stats as I am able to imagine/understand them would not be able to). Just a thought . . . Jeannie __________________________________________________________________________ "It is this passion for Jeannie Ludlow ideas, for critical thinking jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu and dialogical exchange that American Culture Studies I want to celebrate in the Women's Studies classroom, to share with Bowling Green State U students." --bell hooks, "Ecstasy" Bowling Green Ohio ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:34:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marc Sacks Subject: Re: Child abuse statistics Comments: To: kemnerp@EMAIL.UC.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Pamela Kemner comments on the statement attributing most child abuse to mothers as follows: "The above quoted source raises some interesting questions. The source is the department of human services, which we all know has more contact with women than with men. It seems unavoidable that in situations in which caseworkers deal primarily with mothers of abused/neglected children, they will hold the women responsible more often. What is the definition of "responsibility" for abuse? How was it decided to which parent the caseworker should "attribute" abuse/neglect? How was the info about abuse/neglect gathered? Notice the passive voice -- "child abuse chases were attrributed" -- attributed by whom? Who reported -- the mother? The caseworker? Were these home visits? Domestic abuse calls? Were there cops involved? Police reports? "Such big amazing stats. So little real information." While it is always useful to call methodologies into question, I detect that if it were fathers rather than mothers primarily responsible, the report would not get such a critical reaction. Of course, the skeptic's approach is always to be a bit more careful when a phenomenon runs counter to one's intuitions or prejudices, and this report certainly does. However, any theory has to account for its outliers, and mere presupposition that any woman who would harm a child must be a victim herself does not provide proof. As the son of an abusive mother and thoroughly nonviolent father, I can't accept any universal claim in this matter as definitive. Perhaps there is no universal theory of why adults abuse children. I'm open to that possibility. However, Pamela's putdown of the New Jersey report does not constitude refutation. Surely the study merits a closer look, especially by feminists. Any theory, in order to be strong, has to pay close attention to disconfirming evidence, not dismiss it. Marc Sacks, Ed.D msacks@world.std.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:43:02 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Miriam Subject: Re: Child abuse statistics In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In response to Marc Sacks' comments I want to suggest that Pamela Kemner's remarks were not a "dismissal" but rather the kind of critical inquiry that feminist scholarship requires. True, some or many of us are likely to scrutinize these stats more carfully than we would those that, as Marc points out, confirm our "intuitions." These "intutions," are based in years of movement activism and research. this doesn't mean that we ought not continue to scrutinize our own assumptions. But with respect to the child-abuse stats, in addition to the questions raised by Pamela Kemner and Jeannie Ludlow, I think we need to ask whether the data is so surprising. Have feminists really questioned, generally, that women -physically- abused their children less than men? My understanding was that a discrepancy between male and female -sexual- abusers was the pertinent focii of analysis and the stats posted do not seem to challenge this assumed/researched discrepancy. Kathy Miriam kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Marc Sacks wrote: > Pamela Kemner comments on the statement attributing most child abuse to > mothers as follows: > > > "The above quoted source raises some interesting questions. The source is > the department of human services, which we all know has more contact with > women than with men. It seems unavoidable that in situations in which > caseworkers deal primarily with mothers of abused/neglected children, > they > will hold the women responsible more often. What is the definition of > "responsibility" for abuse? How was it decided to which parent the > caseworker should "attribute" abuse/neglect? How was the info about > abuse/neglect gathered? Notice the passive voice -- "child abuse chases > were attrributed" -- attributed by whom? Who reported -- the mother? The > caseworker? Were these home visits? Domestic abuse calls? Were there > cops > involved? Police reports? > > "Such big amazing stats. So little real information." > > While it is always useful to call methodologies into question, I detect > that if it were fathers rather than mothers primarily responsible, the > report would not get such a critical reaction. Of course, the skeptic's > approach is always to be a bit more careful when a phenomenon runs counter > to one's intuitions or prejudices, and this report certainly does. > However, any theory has to account for its outliers, and mere > presupposition that any woman who would harm a child must be a victim > herself does not provide proof. As the son of an abusive mother and > thoroughly nonviolent father, I can't accept any universal claim in this > matter as definitive. > > Perhaps there is no universal theory of why adults abuse children. I'm > open to that possibility. However, Pamela's putdown of the New Jersey > report does not constitude refutation. Surely the study merits a closer > look, especially by feminists. Any theory, in order to be strong, has to > pay close attention to disconfirming evidence, not dismiss it. > > Marc Sacks, Ed.D > msacks@world.std.com > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:59:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Manlowe Organization: Southampton College of L.I.U. Subject: Readings on Eating Disorders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In response to: Elana Newman Subject: Suggestions for Intro to Women Studies Readings on Eating Disorders We are trying to update our undergraduate Introduction to Women Studies course at the University of Tulsa to include a interdisciplinary approach to focus upon women and eating, eating disorders, body-image, and self-esteem. ---- I realize this was mentioned before but I wanted to give a blurb for it and order information... Please consider my book: "Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image and Religion" by Jennifer Manlowe (New York: NYU Press, 1995). You can order it by calling 1-800/996-NYUP. Here's a short review (or blurb) about the book, "This provocative work with a theological overlay ties together sexual abuse and eating disorders in women... This book definitely belongs in libraries serving programs in religious studies, women's studies, counseling, and social work."---CHOICE Jennifer Manlowe Long Island University Southampton NY 11968 jmanlowe@southampton.liunet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 19:17:09 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "McAlister, Linda Lopez" Subject: Job: Chair of Women's Studies, Univ. of South Florida Comments: To: "swip-l@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA. The Department of Women's Studies invites applicants for the position of Full Professor in Women's Studies to chair the department. This will be a full-time, tenure-earning, twelve-month appointment to begin in August 1999, contingent upon funding. Successful candidates will be expected to have a Ph.D., strong experience with university administration and working within a multi-disciplinary environment, evidence of excellence in teaching, national visibility, and on-going scholarship in Women's Studies. Application deadline: December 1, 1998. Submit letter of application, current curriculum vitae, sample of recent scholarly work, and three letters of reference to: Ingrid Bartsch, Recruitment Chair, Department of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, FAO 153, Tampa, Florida, 33620-8350. Internet: bartsch@chuma1.cas.usf.edu. The University of South Florida (USF) values excellent teaching and is a multi-campus research university serving more than 37,000 in 10 colleges. Established 25 years ago, Women's Studies is an autonomous department within the College of Arts and Sciences and offers a BA and an MA in Women's Studies. Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer that encourages women and minority candidates to apply. For disability accommodations, please call (813) 974- 5520. Linda Lopez McAlister, Chair Tel. (813) 974-0982 Dept. of Women's Studies, HMS 413 Fax. (813) 974-0336 University of South Florida e-mail: mcalister@chuma1.cas.usf.edu Tampa, FL 33620 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 20:01:55 -0400 Reply-To: chinnie.ding@yale.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chinnie Ding Subject: two queries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi-- I am looking for materials on 1) feminist approaches to the mind/body problem, and 2) the ontology of motherhood. I realize that both are rather vast areas, but any suggestions from list-members of relevant readings would be much appreciated. Please respond privately. Thanks in advance, Chinnie Ding Yale College ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:05:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: pamela kemner Subject: Re: Child abuse statistics In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Kudos to those who have taken up for my questioning about how abuse stats are gathered. I'm really continually amazed by the range of responses to tough issues on this list. In my attempt to stay keeping with Joan's guidelines, my responses are geared more towards questions of what constitutes good skepticism, good research methods, good teaching, and good questionings of data. That's where my commitment as a feminist scholar/teacher is. About the larger mythologies -- whether women perp more often than men, whether women lie about perping more intricately than men, and, from last summer's hot-and-fast thread, whether all abuse "memories" are legit -- damned if I know. What I'm doing is trying to ask smart questions. That's what my best profs trained me to do, and what I try to teach my students. It amazes me to see some people respond in such a way as to imply that to ever question anyone's claim about abuse or victimization of anyone, ever, is somehow anti-feminist. How can this be? I thought the goal here was to support/challenge eachother in critical analysis. How else are we to get anywhere near "truths?" Pamela ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:52:36 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: FLORENCH@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Women in History of Sociology Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I am not volunteering, but cheering you on. We need histories of all the "disciplines." Florence Howe (florench@aol.com) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:30:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: millerg@CC.DENISON.EDU Subject: Mind/Body Comments: To: Chinnie Ding In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Chinnie Ding wrote: > I am looking for materials on 1) feminist approaches to the mind/body > problem, and 2) the ontology of motherhood. List members might be interested in the vast amount of mind/body literature not usually discovered by feminist researchers in the dance materials. Texts like Jane Desmond's *Meaning in Motion* and Susan Foster's *Corporealities* may introduce you to another world! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:52:56 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: Child abuse statistics Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:43 PM 9/23/98 -0700, you wrote: >In response to Marc Sacks' comments I want to suggest that Pamela >Kemner's remarks were not a "dismissal" but rather the kind of critical >inquiry that feminist scholarship requires. True, some or many of us are >likely to scrutinize these stats more carfully than we would those that, >as Marc points out, confirm our "intuitions." >These "intutions," are based in years of movement activism and research. >this doesn't mean that we ought not continue to scrutinize our own >assumptions. But with respect to the child-abuse stats, in addition to >the questions raised by Pamela Kemner and Jeannie Ludlow, I think we need >to ask whether the data is so surprising. Have feminists really >questioned, generally, that women -physically- abused their children less >than men? My understanding was that a discrepancy between male and >female -sexual- abusers was the pertinent focii of analysis and the stats >posted do not seem to challenge this assumed/researched discrepancy. > >Kathy Miriam >kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu >I would like to add another methodological point to the info re rate of women who abuse kids. Unless the stats correct for amount of time spent with the kids such stats are meaningless. I am not denying that women physically abuse kids. But if they spend five times as much time (a random number)with kids than men, that must be taken into consideration in data analysis. Pauline >On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Marc Sacks >wrote: > >> Pamela Kemner comments on the statement attributing most child abuse to >> mothers as follows: >> >> >> "The above quoted source raises some interesting questions. The source is >> the department of human services, which we all know has more contact with >> women than with men. It seems unavoidable that in situations in which >> caseworkers deal primarily with mothers of abused/neglected children, >> they >> will hold the women responsible more often. What is the definition of >> "responsibility" for abuse? How was it decided to which parent the >> caseworker should "attribute" abuse/neglect? How was the info about >> abuse/neglect gathered? Notice the passive voice -- "child abuse chases >> were attrributed" -- attributed by whom? Who reported -- the mother? The >> caseworker? Were these home visits? Domestic abuse calls? Were there >> cops >> involved? Police reports? >> >> "Such big amazing stats. So little real information." >> >> While it is always useful to call methodologies into question, I detect >> that if it were fathers rather than mothers primarily responsible, the >> report would not get such a critical reaction. Of course, the skeptic's >> approach is always to be a bit more careful when a phenomenon runs counter >> to one's intuitions or prejudices, and this report certainly does. >> However, any theory has to account for its outliers, and mere >> presupposition that any woman who would harm a child must be a victim >> herself does not provide proof. As the son of an abusive mother and >> thoroughly nonviolent father, I can't accept any universal claim in this >> matter as definitive. >> >> Perhaps there is no universal theory of why adults abuse children. I'm >> open to that possibility. However, Pamela's putdown of the New Jersey >> report does not constitude refutation. Surely the study merits a closer >> look, especially by feminists. Any theory, in order to be strong, has to >> pay close attention to disconfirming evidence, not dismiss it. >> >> Marc Sacks, Ed.D >> msacks@world.std.com >> > > (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, 24 Sep 1998 11:39:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Megan Blake Subject: teaching the personal (fwd) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear wmst-l: In a recient issue of Antipode, a geographer describes her harassment what she thinks is another member of our academic community (Antipode 30:4, 1998, pp.305-332). The paper includes disturbing images of letters she recieved from her harasser. The harassment focuses on the author's identity as a lesbian and on her work writing and researching sexuality. While this piece is very personal, Valentine does an excellent job of making this work "academic". This brings up a number of questions/issues for teaching: Feminists have argued that the personal is the political, and the the researcher is firmly embedded in the research process. With some exceptions, there has been little discussion (in geography at least) of situating the personal in the classroom. Does anyone have techniques for practicing "feminist" teaching, particularly in classes that are required or are not specifically feminist in topic? It seems to me there is a fine line between being too personal and distancing ones self too much from the material. Valentine also describes some tools for dealing with the illegal forms of harassment that she has experienced. She also discusses the effect that the harassment has had on her connections with family, friends and collegues. But, as we have discussed before on this list, there are recriminations for being "too feminist" in the classroom that are not seen as harassment (e.g. lower course evaluations, difficulty getting tenure, difficulty getting jobs, etc.). At the vary least, this seems to support the notion that the need for feminism is not dead. It seems also that the way we teach as well as the way we do research is firmly embedded in the political. I am also interested in the material ways that people on this list resolve the desire to "be feminist" with the need to communicate with the class in a way that students who dismiss feminism still hear the message and can understand the importanceand relevance of gender to the topics they are learning. Lastly, by focusing on the unconverted, do we leave out or fail to make spaces for those who are looking for a "safe haven"? Is there a necessary paradox here? How do we lend support and provide example to the "converted" while at the same time convert the unconverted? I look forward to your comments. Megan Blake Visiting Instructor, Dartmouth College Ph.D. Candidate, Clark University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:56:19 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Henwood Subject: Re: Psychology of Women MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I am looking for a film or audio recording to supplement the session in my Intro to Women's Studies class devoted to the psychology of women (we will be reading excerpts from Gilligan and Chodorow). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Dawn Henwood dawn.henwood@utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:13:27 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marc Sacks Subject: Re: Gender & Child abuse stats Comments: To: GNesmith@AOL.COM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Georgia NeSmith raises some thought-provoking questions in her posting yesterday: "I wonder....could it be....could the disproportion be due to the fact that women spend more time with children, and that fathers are often absent from the home, leaving the women with more responsibility, more stress, and thus greater likelihood to be the abusers? "Have any statisticians explored a possible correlation between absentee fathers and female abuse of children? "Have any statisticians looked at female vs. male abuse of children in intact or two-parent families?" These questions are all worth exploring. I would add that women's frustrations with being housewives instead of working may have had something to do with it as well, at least in the days when more women stayed home with their children. But this, like the possibilities in Ms. NeSmith's questions, needs investigation. However, her statement, "The simple statistic that more children are abused by females tells us virtually nothing about gender and child abuse" is not true. It tells us that more children are abused by females. It may not tell us why, but it tells us something. What I appreciate in Ms. NeSmith's posting is her accepting the premise, however reluctantly. We can't learn anything by refusing to see what at least may be in front of us. Marc Sacks, Ed.D. msacks@world.std.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:11:15 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: naomi graetz Subject: Re: Gender & Child abuse stats In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII While we are asking questions about this? Is there a distinction being made between sexual, physical and mental abuse in the statistics being quoted? Naomi Graetz ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:19:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tami Waggener Subject: Re: Gender & Child abuse stats In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > While we are asking questions about this? Is there a distinction being > made between sexual, physical and mental abuse in the statistics being > quoted? I recall one set of statistical figures from the original posting that were based on sexual and physical abuse. At least in those figures, sexual and physical abuse were combined. Tamara Waggener ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:07:17 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PinteaReed@AOL.COM Subject: child abuse-diff between "reports" and "convictions" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit hello all, I think someone raised a good point. There is a difference between "reports" (people can report to a child help line or call 911 all they want) and "convictions" which have to be legally justified in court via an adversary process. Many studies take their data from the "report" data base, and others like the FBI and Justice DEPT take theirs from the "conviction" data base.... ergo what appears to be conflicts in our studies. Many of the *anti-mother* studies use "report" data rather than the actual "convictions" for any crime which requires "proof" in a court of law (physical evidence like injuries and semen, witnesses, testimony form corroborating sources etc...). The recent revisions in the Justice Analysis reflect this. They focus strongly on convictions, actual FBI stats of crime in America, court records, actual prison and probation/parole populations, etc. and not "reports by parties known or unknown to child protection agencies. " This demonstrated that when convictions are examined men are the primary perps against children. The primary mode of killing or injuring children is sexual assault followed by kicking, and finally hitting. If Joan will print it I've also sent under separate cover a summary article I put together a few months ago with some frequent correspondence with the Justice Dept. including Dr. Greenfield of the Bureau of Justice Stats. Lili pinteareed@aol.com http://members.aol.com/PinteaReed/LPR.html --FBI clearances-- ---State Expert witness abuse and rape cases--- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:13:31 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PinteaReed@AOL.COM Subject: WOMEN AS VICTIMS (Article-Long) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Women as Victims of Violent Crime: a review of the Department of Justice Statistics by Lili Pintea-Reed, MA pinteareed@aol.com September Feminista! Magazine, 1998 (all rights belong to the author) Abstract: Popular images of women as victims in violent crime have probably strayed far from reality. Most violence is committed by men on other males.Rather than a mature women attacked by strangers in alley ways, the average female victim is young (often a child), poor, and a passing aquaintance of the attacker. The perpetrator is most likely an older male of the same race, with a past history of violence toward others. Article: If you asked the average person on the street to describe the "typical" victim of violent crime, they would most likely describe a woman in mid-life pulled down an alley way off a busy city street who is robbed and raped by a group of attackers of a different race. This is the image frequently portrayed in film, television, and popular fiction. It has become so pervasive a series of images that we seldom question this perception of violence in America. However, an examination of the most recent USA Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports indicate a much different picture. The average victim of violent acts is a male attacked by another male (Ringel, 1997). The only type of violence where women are more frequently victimized than males is sexual assault (Greenfield, 1997). The women who are most commonly victimized, rather than mature, are young, poor, and an aquaintance of the perpetrator, who generally is a much older male of the same race (Craven, 1996). While domestic violence is the second most frequent factor in violent crime against women, it was surprisingly below "violence by aquaintance" as a risk factor --- with just 29 percent of all violence to women committed by "intimates" as opposed to the 40 per cent rate by "aquaintances," and the 23 percent rate for "strangers." The only part of the popular image that appears to be accurate is the higher rate of violence per capita in urban areas as opposed to rural (Ringel, 1997). These startling statistics should give pause to those actively involved in anti-crime, anti-rape, and victim prevention programs. To be effective, we need to match our anti-violence planning and prevention programs to the reality of victimization and not fall into acting on stereotypical and popular images of crime. The Victim: The average victim of violent crime as we mentioned before is most often male with rates of violence toward men reported at one third more frequently than for those of women (Ringel, 1997). However, women are victims far more often in cases of rape and sexual assault at rate 91 percent for this type of violence (Greenfield, 1998). In all types of violence toward women the overwhelming number of victims are young. People between the ages of 16 and 19 had the highest rates of victimization, followed closely by those 20-24 (RIngel, 1996). In cases of rape ( which statistically is crime against women) the age of the average assault is even younger, with half the victims of rape being under the age of 18 years. A full third of all the rapes that occur overall happen to the age group between the ages of 12 and 17 (Greenfield, 1997). Obviously the most typical rape victim is a teenager. The income level of the "average victim" is very low with most victims coming from homes with incomes under $10,000 a year. Women from low income households are 4 times as likely to experience violence of any sort than women in the income bracket above $50,000 (Craven, 1996). When violence does occur women are most at risk for injury in an altercation with a person known intimately rather than with those with strangers (Craven, 1996). Women who were robbed were least likely to have known their offenders (Ringel, 1997). Race, unlike income, does not appear to be a factor in female victimizations (Craven, 1996). To summarize the " average" female victim is a poor teenager living in an urban area. Race does not appear to be factor in victimizations, but poverty has a very strong correlation with victimization. The Violent Offender: The typical violent offender for all violent crimes is male and most likely a male who has offended before (Greenfield, 1997; Ringel, 1997; Craven, 1996). Even in the case of violent crimes against children where male apologists frequently cite possible female violence, the perpetrators are overwhelmingly male at a rate of 97 percent for all crimes against children (Greenfield, 1996). Of violent offenders most have offended before at the high rate of 73 percent (Greenfield, 1997) and most sex offenders at the high rate of 61per cent had been convicted of similar or other violent crimes. Violent offenders more than any other group of criminals reported never being married at a rate of 47 percent and sex offenders had an even higher rate of no prior marriage at 60 percent. Of those who did have prior relationships many reported a high rate of divorce. Of all violent offenders only slightly more than 17 per cent were married at the time of incarceration (Greenfield, 1997). Of people on probation for violent crimes a whopping 41 percent will be re-arrested for some sort of violence (Greenfield, 1997). While violent offenders for all offenses as a group had an average age of first condition in the group 18 to 24. the average age of first conviction for the typical sex offender is over the age of 30. The race of the typical violent offender is pretty evenly divided between whites and other ethnic groups, but the race of the typical sex offender is white at a rate of 73.9 per cent (Greenfield, 1997). This is quite different than the image of a black male lurking in the alley of popular culture. To summarize the "average" violent offender is a single (never married) male in his twenties race unspecified. If sexual offenses are the violent crimes involved, he is most likely a single ( never married) white male in his thirties. The Location: Most violent crimes occur in urban areas at a rate not quite twice that of rural areas (Ringel, 1996). There was a definite difference between male and female victims in terms of the"place of crime." Most female victims are assaulted indoors most frequently in their own homes or the residence of a friend or aquaintance. Most frequent locations after this were parked cars. This is contrast to male victims of violence who are most frequently assaulted outdoors (Ringel, 1997; Craven, 1996). Implications: Implications for programs planning violence prevention should be clear. The targets of anti-female violence are most often young urban women. They are most often assaulted by older single males who are aquaintances of them or their families. When rape occurs, the age of the assailant is most often even older, the rapist most likely being a single male in his thirties. Unlike males who are victims of violent crime, the young women are assaulted in their own homes or those of friends or family. How many are lured into the attackers home is unclear. Prevention programs should focus on educating young women, particularly those in risk areas like urban locations, or places with many strangers like colleges, to never enter indoors with older males not very well known to them. Since poor women seem to be at greatest risk, programs which assist them in other efforts should include information on violence prevention. Criminal justice professionals and law makers should be aware that violent criminals of all sorts are at great risk to re-offend. Efforts to deny bail, prolong incarceration, withhold probation or parole of violent criminals need to be made to protect the public safety unless exceptional demonstration of rehabilitation can be demonstrated. Treatment of violent offenders in custody needs to identify that these people differ substantially in many respects form the average person, and may need to focus on their lack of ability for intimacy in human relationships. REFERENCES: Craven, Diane:Female Victims of Violent Crime, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1996. Greenfield, Lawrence: Violence by Intimates, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998. Greenfield, Lawrence: Sex Offenses and Offenders, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1997. Greenfield, Lawrence:Child Victimizers: violent offenders and thief victims, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1996. Ringel, Cheryl: Criminal Victimization 1996, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1996. Copyright, 1998 no reprints without the author's permission Lili Pintea-Reed pinteareed@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 23:25:32 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Huddis@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Mind/Body Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Have you all seen "Hair Spray," the John Walters film with Divine, a fat Rikki Lake, Sonny Bono, Jerry Stiller, etc. Great stuff about being a fat girl. And check out Elaine Viets new mystery, RUBOUT. Wonderful funny stuff about the sexaully alluring women who actually EAT FOOD and DRINK BEER in front of men who have spent their lives with skinny women. There is a wonderful strain of righteous humor developing in lots of the new mysteries by women. In these books the authors can make any reality they want. And in their new reality, skinny women get killed and the autopsy reveals that they have shrivelled livers and premature osteoporosis, while the plump detectives have men following them around drooling with excitement about their love handles andsoft curves. A true revolution in fiction! Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 17:45:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tami Waggener Subject: Re: Mind/Body Comments: To: Huddis@AOL.COM In-Reply-To: <4ebe6172.3609bbac@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > There is a wonderful strain of righteous humor developing in lots of the new > mysteries by women. In these books the authors can make any reality they > want. And in their new reality, skinny women get killed and the autopsy > reveals that they have shrivelled livers and premature osteoporosis, while the > plump detectives have men following them around drooling with excitement about > their love handles andsoft curves. A true revolution in fiction! Do you really want to call a plot that cast fat women against skinny women and defines men's approval as the trophey a revolution in fiction? The inversion of the "beauty" hierarchy may be new but it stays within predictable boundaries. Are there any new mysteries by women which manage a humorous critique of the "skinny is better than fat" notion of beauty without relying on traditional plot boundaries? Tamara Waggener ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:42:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Toth Subject: Women's Friendships course Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For a course on Women's Friendships (interdisciplinary, but mostly books rather than mass media), I'd like suggestions. Especially for non-fiction books, but also good novels, short stories, and suchlike. Please reply privately, and thank you. 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: 225-388-3152 English Dept. fax: 225-388-4129 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/ Ms. Mentor's new column: http://www.chronicle.com/jobs ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 07:31:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl van Daalen-Smith Subject: feminist pedagogy Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I am looking for suggestions for a reading course I am designing for myself in my PhD in Adult Education and Women's Studies. Can anyone suggest some books, readings, sources on Feminist Pedagogy, especially practices. If you could, please respond to me privately at cvandaalensmith@oise.utoronto.ca Many thanks, Cheryl. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:22:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sathi Dasgupta Subject: Negotiating salary and benefits. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would like to get some suggestions as to how to negotiate salary and benefits when you are offered a job. You can respond to me in private at sathidg@udel.edu. Sathi. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:03:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: reading lists on fem. pedagogy and other subjects Cheryl wrote: I am looking for suggestions for a reading course I am designing for myself in my PhD in Adult Education and Women's Studies. Can anyone suggest some books, readings, sources on Feminist Pedagogy, especially practices. If you could, please respond to me privately at cvandaalensmith@oise.utoronto.ca I am sending this response to everyone because I want to be sure list members know about the series of "Core Lists in Women's Studies" (including one on Feminist Pedagogy) that are compiled by women's studies librarians and are mounted on our website. These lists could serve as independent reading lists as well as collection development resources for libraries and other purposes. They are mounted at Note that these are not retrospective lists. All books listed were in print as of January, 1998. 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: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:02:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ines Murzaku Subject: Re: Negotiating salary and benefits. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sathi, Can you share the information with me please. Thanks in advance, Ines A. Murzaku -----Original Message----- From: Sathi Dasgupta To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Date: Friday, September 25, 1998 9:21 AM Subject: Negotiating salary and benefits. >I would like to get some suggestions as to how to negotiate salary and >benefits when you are offered a job. You can respond to me in private at >sathidg@udel.edu. > >Sathi. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:59:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amelia Carr Subject: Re: Negotiating salary and benefits. Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) >From watching many hirings at Allegheny college, i would make the following observations about negotiating benefits if you're considering positions at a small liberal arts college. Things might be different in the major leagues, but smaller places offer lots of possibilities. 1. There are very real limits about what can and should be offered an incoming person. In a small college like ours, it is unthinkable to bring in somebody with a vastly better package than others doing essentially the same job. Money restrictions are real. People find out. The job market is such that there is competition for the position. BUT 2. Within those restrictions, a great deal can be negotiated. 3. And once you are offered the job, you should not hesitate to ask for what you would like and need. At Allegheny, the person who is offered the job is usually highly desired by the College. While not everybody might have had you first on her list of candidates, and thus, there might be (have been) other candidates in the wings, when the job offer is made, you are the only person who is in contention. You should feel free to take the complete "two weeks" to consider (the AAUP recommended) and negotiate. Asking for more time might mildly irritate some folks, but if you're any good, you're worth it. Most faculty support giving their candidates the best package possible. They won't (and can't) rescind the job offer just because you asked for more money. Many people will understand if you need a little bit more time to negotiate with other places--especially if you are in the middle of the interview process. It never hurts to ask. 4. At our college, raises are often percentages calculated on a salary base, so the higher you come in, the better your salary will be down the road. Ask for more money, especially if you have reason to believe that folks iin your category are generally doing better than what is offered. Once you are in place, you are equal to many very qualified people competing for scarce resources, so the moment of your entrance is really the best (maybe the only) time you will really individually negotiate many of the terms of your employment. Go for it. 5. But, as I said before, some restrictions are real, and you might talk to potential future colleagues about what those are. For example, at Allegheny we have no Domestic Partner policy, and no amount of persuasion on your part will grant you an exception. (Talking to some of us might let you know that such a policy is under consideration however--you can judge that restriction for yourself.) 6. Ask everything possible about family leave and other employment policies. Don't mention it if you're pregnant--we can't ask legally, anyway. Once you take the job, you should be able to go in and negotiate that situation just as if you had been employed for a long time. Try not to be cowed by a perceived lack of status. In our College, there are folks who can help you work that out--ask other women, the EEOC officer, etc. Women's Studies have tried to be supportive of this potentially awkward situation--that can often work out just fine. 7. Consider other, non-salary items to be negotiated: moving expenses, first year course reductions (as you get your feet wet), faculty development funds. (I had a research trip paid for before stepping a foot in a classroom at Allegheny College). Consider asking for your office to be remodelled, equipment for your classroom (an artist colleague got some extra funds for purchase of a printing press), your lab, xeroxing budget, etc. You can inquire discreetly about partner employment--a small college like ours tries to help out, but usually can't promise anything. Don't take it personally if partner jobs don't come through. 8. Should you negotiate speeding up your contract sequence so that you'll come up for tenure early? If you were coming to Allegheny, I'd give a resounding NO, especially if you're being hired at the Assistant professor level. Give yourself time to establish a campus-wide presence. You will be expected to produce "new" publications in your time here--not be tenured on old ones. Teaching is really important, and folks feel comfortable with a largish amount of evidence about your performance in the classroom. Don't underestimate the amount of time you'll need to settle in, make yourself known, get appointed to committees and coordinate your projects to the college mission. I've known too many people who were not well served by speeding up the tenure clock. 9. When might you piss off your colleagues irretrievably? We usually understand that folks are negotiating with several colleges at once--especially the most qualified candidates. But when it becomes clear that we are being taken advantage of, that's not so good. Colleagues who ask repeatedly for extensions of the deadline for agreeing to take the position don't impress us too much. We usually respond well to open discussion of your employment situation, but don't insult future employers by implying too insistently that any other offer you might get is more desirable. Some departments don't take kindly to the implication that we "must" hire your partner, simply because some other department wants to hire you. Once you've agreed, by AAUP and other standards, you're morally bound to take the job--and legally obliged after you've signed the contract. While there's very little that an individual employer can do to punish you if you renege on a signed contract, it's not good for your reputation. You might be surprised at how that reputation gets around. Smaller and less renowned colleges can be sensitive about their relative status in the college hierarchy and very proud of what they do accomplish. Snobbishness is not appreciated--a lot of us maybe didn't think of ourselves as small college professors, either, at first. Common courtesy is much appreciated. 10. Finish your dissertation. Really. Don't lie about how close you are to completion, or overestimate your own abilities to finish the project before school starts in the fall. Some places might hire you anyway. But they will expect you to be a full player, and they will expect that thing to be done asap. Don't expect the college to help fund its completion, either. Professional work before the dissertation doesn't count. The single biggest place I've seen women trip up in the job process concerns this factor, and the slow completion of the Ph.D. has gotten more folks off on the wrong foot than I can count. Lying about it compounds the situation (the "bill clinton credibility factor"?) 11. If you really don't want the position, you're not doing anybody any favors by lingering over the decision. Say no. Give the College a chance to hire somebody almost as good as you. Behaving considerately at this point might actually pay off. If a few weeks down the road you find yourself reconsidering, I wouldn't hesitate to call the person who offered you the position in the first place and indicate your new situation. Just last year a person turned us down, the other job didn't pan out, and he called us back--and because we hadn't really been able to come to agreement on another candidate, we hired him. We all consider ourselves lucky, now. Your question made me think about some things that are on my mind as we go into a hiring season. Thanks for the nudge. Hope this helps. Good luck Amelia Carr Director of Women's Studies Allegheny College acarr@alleg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:37:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: corzines@SIU.EDU Subject: Tenure for "Sensitivity" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello everyone. This response is being sent for an individual who is not on the listserve, but who has quite a bit of experience with tenure issues. Deb Morrow Women's Studies Mailcode 6518 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 **************************************** I spent 18 months on a negotiating team bargaining for university faculty. Naturally, tenure decisions were a big part of the negotiations. Based on my experience in debating the issues, I recommend that the math department faculty person should forget about proving that there is a bias in student evaluations. Frankly, there is considerable evidence that student evaluations are not very valuable unless taken five (5) years after graduation. However, the key to her grievance may well be to determine if the "sensitivity" requirement is a stated criterion for all faculty being considered for tenure, and if so, how is it determined and by whom. It would clearly be a discrimination violation if only female faculty were being considered on this quality. My assumption is that there is no such requirement and that would be the end of the argument. If sensitivity is required, then it must be required of all. That is the quickest and easiest way to fight this tenure decision rather than trying to dredge up research that those with bias will discount anyway. Thank you for allowing me space on this listserve to state my opinion. Beverly Stitt, Director Women's Studies Mailcode 6518 Southern Illinois University Carbondale IL 62901 bstitt@siu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 08:36:44 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty Glass Subject: Negotiating salary and benefits In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Also, if you are interviewed at a public/state university, find time to visit the campus library while you are there and ask at the Reference Desk to see the state's publication of salaries for the faculty and staff at the university. This is public information at state universities. It may or may not list individual names, but it should list academic departments and positions on campus, along with their current salary. (If the library doesn't have it at the Reference Desk, ask if they are a state depository library. If so, ask if the information is contained in the state documents area of the library. You should be able to obtain this information from some state depository library in that state.) Keep in mind, however, that merit raises are a factor in salary differences, too. A couple of years ago, I had occasion to observe a very young professor almost hyperventilating over the salary another person had in her department, but this youngster failed to recognize that the other person had 20+ more years experience than she did, and their salary reflected various cost-of-living and merit increases. Betty _________________________________________________________ Betty Glass, Humanities Bibliographer Getchell Library/322 1664 N. Virginia St. University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557-0044 email: glass@admin.unr.edu On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Sathi Dasgupta wrote: > I would like to get some suggestions as to how to negotiate salary and > benefits when you are offered a job. You can respond to me in private at > sathidg@udel.edu. > > Sathi. > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 08:53:56 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty Glass Subject: Mind/Body course resource In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Tami Waggener wrote: > Do you really want to call a plot that cast fat women against skinny women > and defines men's approval as the trophey a revolution in fiction? The > inversion of the "beauty" hierarchy may be new but it stays within > predictable boundaries. > Are there any new mysteries by women which manage a humorous critique of > the "skinny is better than fat" notion of beauty without relying on > traditional plot boundaries? > Tamara Waggener The movie "In and Out" may lend itself to class discussions not only about sexual orientation but women's identity and body image issues. Humor is used in a subplot concerning the disappointed bride and the super model girlfriend of the Oscar-winning actor, Cameron. The model is offended at the mere concept of actually eating "food," and the actor winds up imploring her to "Eat something!" The jilted bride has several scenes expressing the traditional female line: She reworked herself for over 3 years, waiting for the Kevin Kline character to validate her worth as a person by agreeing to marry her. The movie does adhere to traditional plot boundaries, in the sense that the movie ends suggesting that the would-be bride and the actor wind up together, but he at least gives her a pep talk on how he'd always perceived her as beautiful, even before she spent 3 years losing weight, etc. In the closing scenes of the movie, when everyone is dancing, the super model is shown in a slow dance with a retarded man (the brother of the Kevin Kline character). So, it is a breakthrough moment, in the sense that there seems to be a message that only a man with limited mental capabilities would be interested in a woman whose only apparent asset is a pencil thin figure. Betty ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:49:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: Women's Friendships course MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Emily, I'm delighted to be ab;e to help you. I'd suggest the following (long list): Thompson, Trierl (1987) Dear Girl: The diaries & letters of 2 working class women 1987-1917 Donoghue, Emma (1995) Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 (a particularly asute response to Faderman's claim, in Surpassing the Love of Men, that women friends historically did not have sexual relationships with each other) A newish book, Ed. Jacqueline Weinstock and Ester Rothblum (1996) Lesbian Friendships: For Ourselves and Each Other 2 works of fiction: Kim Chernin & Renate Stendhal (1990) Sex & Sacred Games Marks, Shula (1987) Not Either An Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of 3 South African Women Also see Pat O'Connors' Book: (1992) Friendships Between Women: A Critical Review It is a good review of some of the social psychology, sociology and psychology scholarship on the topic - to my mind, a little short on feminist writings) A Canadian book by Mary Meigs, about the making of the film A Company of Strangers (I showed the film when I taught a section on women's friendships in intro WS) Susan Koppleman's collection of short stories on the topic (1991) And another edited collection: Mickey Pearlman (1994) Between Friends: Writing Women Celebrate Friendship Also, Suzanne Raittt (1993) Vita & Virginia; The work and friendshp of Vita Sackville-West & Virginia Woolf Now also a play titled, Vita and Virginia. (I could look it up; I don't have it in my office at the moment) I am quite critical and probably wouldn't use: Ester Rothblum and Kathleen Brehony (1993) Boston Marriage: Romantic but Asexual Relationships Among Contemporary Lesbian,s but you might want to look at it... >From psychology: Rosemary Blieszner and Rebecca Adams (1992) Adult Friendship More philosophical in approach: Marilyn Friedman (1993) What Are Friends For: Feminist Perspectives and Personal Relationships & Moral Theory Also philosophical and radical feminist in perspective: Raymond, Janice (1986) A Passion for friends: Toward A philosophy of Female Affection & Hunt, Mary (1994) Fierce Tenderness: A Feminist Theology of Friendships These two are more popular in approach: Anndee Hochman (1994) Everyday Acts and Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home & Lindsey, Karen (1981) Friends As Family: New Kinds of Families and What They Could Mean to You 2 British books that I reviewed in the European Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 4, No. 4 November 1997): Valerie Hay (1997) The Company She Keeps: An Ethnography of Girl's Friendships & Coates, Jennifer Women Talk (lingusitc in approach, but an extremely insightful work) These 2 are more sociological: Oliker, Stacey (1989) Best Friends and Marriage: Exchange Between Women & Finch, Janet (1989) Family Obligations and Social Change (about familial relationships but sheds some interesting light on the topic of friendships) Also more popular: Eichenbaum & Orbach, Susie (1988) Betweem Women: Love, envy and competition in Women's Friendships Also, I have contributed an essay to a collection coming out in Great Britain (though not yet in print) about the ways that second wave feminism and second wave feminist scholarship tackled the topic od women's friendships and if you want, I can send you a copy of that paper. I have promised to write another one (although I am woefully behind on it) on girl's friendship, specifically in the films, Matilda and harriet the Spy (both films I'd recommend). The editors for this collection on girl's friendship and film are Frances Gateward & Murray Pomerance. I am so, so jealous of you - this is a course I would love ot teach! By the way, when I was in Dublin (instead of at NWSA) I had a pint of Guinness in a pub called Gleesons, in your honour!! Regards, Katheirne Side kside@nickel.laurentian.ca Women's Studies Programme Laurentian University Sudbury, Ontario Canada P3E 2C6 Emily Toth wrote: > For a course on Women's Friendships (interdisciplinary, but mostly > books rather than mass media), I'd like suggestions. Especially for > non-fiction books, but also good novels, short stories, and suchlike. > Please reply privately, and thank you. > > 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: 225-388-3152 > English Dept. fax: 225-388-4129 > 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/ > Ms. Mentor's new column: http://www.chronicle.com/jobs ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:40:16 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cari Michelle Carpenter Subject: 2nd-wave feminism In-Reply-To: <360BAD79.E36F6C78@nickel.laurentian.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm wondering if anyone knows when the term "Second-wave feminism" originated--that is, did it develop during the wave itself or in retrospect? Thanks in advance- Cari _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Cari Carpenter Graduate Student Instructor English/Women's Studies University of Michigan carimc@umich.edu _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:02:45 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maurice & Stephanie Hamington Organization: Oregon State University Subject: Addams Panel at NWSA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is anyone interested in creating a panel on Jane Addams for the National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico June 17-20, 1999? I have done some work on Jane Addams and an ethic of care and I would be very interested in putting a panel discussion together for the conference. A panel consists of 3 participants all of whom must be members of NWSA by the time the program goes to press in April. The call for papers indicates that prearranged panels have a better chance of being accepted than do individual proposal. If you are interested, please contact me privately at hamingts@ucs.orst.edu Maurice Hamington ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:14:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Reina Pennington Subject: ancient feminists Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A student in my History 101 (Western Civ) course recently asked the following question: >I'd like to comment on the documents we have been >reading in class. It seems that we have proof that women have been unhappy >with their current position and have been fighting battles all along for >equality. . . . >Were there any like primitive activist groups for women? Or any documents >that were found pertaining to the battle of equality written by women? I replied that for most of history, women's struggles were more at the individual than the societal level, and recommended the following sources as a starting point: Fantham, Elaine, et al. _Women in the Classical World: Image and Text_. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Lefkowitz, Mary R. and M. B. Fant. _Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982. Pantel, Pauline Schmitt, Ed. _A History of Women in the West: I. From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints_. 5 vols. Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap, 1992. However, I realized that the courses I took in Women's Studies focused mainly on theories of feminism and only very recent history. Is anyone aware of any mass movements or proto-feminism in the classical era or middle ages? Reina Pennington Dept. of History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:39:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy King Subject: Re: Women's Friendships course In-Reply-To: <199809242142.QAA02467@chaos.artsci.lsu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Emily Toth wrote: > For a course on Women's Friendships (interdisciplinary, but mostly > books rather than mass media), I'd like suggestions. Especially for > non-fiction books, but also good novels, short stories, and suchlike. > Please reply privately, and thank you. > > > 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: 225-388-3152 > English Dept. fax: 225-388-4129 > 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/ > Ms. Mentor's new column: http://www.chronicle.com/jobs > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:08:44 -0700 Reply-To: Kay Dodder Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kay Dodder Subject: Re: ancient feminists In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Reina Pennington wrote: > . . . the courses I took in Women's Studies > focused mainly on theories of feminism and only very recent history. Is > anyone aware of any mass movements or proto-feminism in the classical era > or middle ages? > > Reina Pennington > Dept. of History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington An invaluable source for understanding the position of women in European society fron the Middle Ages onward is Gerda Lerner's work, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness. (published as vol.2 of a larger work called "Women and history"; vol.1 is titled "The Creation of patriarchy") While for the most part you are correct that "women's struggles were more at the individual than the societal level", Lerner's work illustrates some avenues that women were able to use to combine their power and influence for the benefit of other women, in particular the establishment of religious orders within which women could live in safety, have access to education, and participate in intellectual and political discourse. Lerner's work is a must for any women's history class. Lerner, Gerda, "Women and History"; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986-1993. Kay Dodder University of Arizona kdodder@bird.library.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:33:25 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Jabbra Subject: ancient feminists Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" What about the Beguines of the Middle Ages? I can't think of a source. Also Women: Models of Liberation, by Marie Anne Mayeski (Sheed and Ward, 1988. Finally, there is a fairly recent book on women religious from their origins in early Christianity. I can't recall its title or author, but will post when I unearth these. I agree that in non-state/pre-state societies women's resistance would be largely individual, because of the usual small size of these societies. One more good source: Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, OUP, 1993. Nancy Jabbra, Loyola Marymount University, ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:58:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Laurel Fulkerson Subject: Re: ancient feminists In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980925103325.00ca9aec@lmumail.lmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII there is also a story of a group of roman noble women (late republic, i think) who protested about a law restricting the amount of wealth they were allowed to display on their persons. the lex oppia, i think. they did get it revoked. laurel fulkerson columbia university ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:14:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Adams Subject: Re: Negotiating salary and benefits. In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sathi, could you share this with us, please? jacqueline At 09:22 AM 9/25/98 -0400, you wrote: >I would like to get some suggestions as to how to negotiate salary and >benefits when you are offered a job. You can respond to me in private at >sathidg@udel.edu. > >Sathi. > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:44:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: ancient feminists In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980925103325.00ca9aec@lmumail.lmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII One issue of the feminist magazine Quest (if it's not still being published, you should be able to track it down) has a pretty good history of the Beguines. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:25:51 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: FLORENCH@AOL.COM Subject: Re: feminist pedagogy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit See Women's Studies Quarterly in each issue, plus an issue about three years ago simply on that subject. Florence Howe (florench@aol.com) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:04:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela M Pattatucci Subject: FEMVIEWS issue-oriented discussion list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII FEMVIEWS was established to provide a forum for undergraduate students enrolled in women's studies classes and graduate students in women's studies to discuss/debate issues. I created the list with the hope that participation might help students to delve more deeply into issues and to think more critically about them. The ultimate goal is that the quality and depth of response papers and other assignments will be significantly improved. This remains to be seen. Participation is open to anyone, including faculty. However, keep in mind that a majority of participants on the list will likely not be at your level of scholarly sophistication. I expect all participants to be sensitive to this. The goal is to encourage student discussion/debate rather than to stiffle it. In addition to Monica Lewinsky, we have been discussing issues brought out in Joan Jacobs Brunberg's book, The Body Project. Another recent thread has been exploring how the evolution of the word "slut" today is in some ways paralleling the evolution of the word "dyke" in past decades. To join the list, interested students and/or faculty should send me a personal e-mail at the address listed below containing your full name (not an alias) and your COMPLETE e-mail address (not just your user name). Angela (Iana) Pattatucci List Moderator, FEMVIEWS ampatt02@athena.louisville.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:17:08 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KATHKNIGHT@AOL.COM Subject: A History of Women's Studies Comments: To: klc2@axe.humboldt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Last spring Kathryn Corbett and I published a history of women's studies at Humboldt State University. At a delightful book-signing party at the campus bookstore last week, we learned that about 30 other women's studies programs have ordered copies, for which we are pleased and very grateful. If any other programs, libraries, or individuals would like copies, the ordering information is shown below. Although much of the volume is local history, many of our experiences will sound familiar, and we have included essays on topics of general interest to WMST-L members, such as feminist pedagogy, naming a program, program vs. department, cross-listing, diversity, and the relationship between academics and activism. I should also mention that any profits from the sale of this book will go directly to our women's studies program. Ordering Information _From the Catbird Seat: A History of Women's Studies At umboldt State University 1971-1996_ by Kathryn L. Corbett and Kathleen Preston Two "founding mothers" look at the first 25 years of Women's Studies at Humboldt State University. They surveyed students, faculty and program leaders, and collected data on how the program and curriculum evolved. Representing two generations, they have drawn freely on their own memories and opinions. This lovingly motivated critique of one program's development shares commonalities with women's studies everywhere. Publication date: May, 1998; 216 pp, soft cover ISBN 0-9663867-0-1 Price: $11.95 To Calif. addresses, add 7 1/4% sales tax Shipping and handling: $5.00 Totals: $17.82 (Calif. address); $16.95 (non-Calif. address) Please send check, purchase order, or credit card number/signature to: Shar Evans, General Book Department HSU Bookstore Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521 (707) 826-3741; e-mail sle7001@axe.humboldt.edu Thanks to all -- Kathleen Preston KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:15:51 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tess Pierce Subject: Re: ancient feminists MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I, too am pi**ed off that women are historically marginalized and disregarded, especially in my field of human communication studies. I have an excellent internet site that I frequent that might be of interest to students and professors alike. It lists short bibliographies of women writers and there is a page which lists 15 women in the past 15 centuries. The site is called "Sunshine For Women" the URL is: http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine (main page) http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/biblio/bibtot.html (for the bibliography) http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/15women.html#miletus (for the 15 centuries of women list) The list can be downloaded and distributed as long as the credit is attributed to Sunshine. I also love the book, The Rhetoric of Feminity, by A. Weber, which chronicles Teresa of Avila's writings. A couple of good colonial perspectives are by Louise Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale, and Goodwives. I have a bibliography (incomplete and building) of feminist writings that I would be willing to share with the list. It is quite long (35 pages) If anyone is interested, I can send you a disc. Please respond privately to: Tess@harmonysoftware.com -------------------------- Tess, Kick-Ass Liberal Curmudgeon -------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:20:02 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tess Pierce Subject: Re: ancient feminists MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I owe an apology to Dr Thatcher Ulrich, her first name is Laurel not Louise as I posted earlier. I love her books and look forward to many more. By the way, she has a great quote that I also love. "Well-behaved women rarely make history." I've been "misbehaving for 46 years and counting! -------------------------- Tess, Kick-Ass Liberal Curmudgeon -------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:52:40 -0400 Reply-To: "jgrant@tui.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Organization: The Union Institute Subject: FW: Aurora Levins Morales Book Tour To the list: FYI. -----Original Message----- From: Judorican@aol.com [SMTP:Judorican@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 1998 9:19 PM To: Judorican@aol.com Subject: Aurora Levins Morales Book Tour AURORA LEVINS MORALES 1998 BOOK TOUR Announcing the release of two new books by Aurora Levins Morales and a national tour of readings and lectures. Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas Beacon, $24.00 "There is no other book like Remedios. It is history, anthropology, poetry, and myth; it is a song and a prayer. Aurora Levins Morales is a Jewish Latina curandera who embraces diverse legacies with passion and eloquence. In stories so beautifully told they soar off the page...she offers us remedies that heal our bodies and souls and feed our spirits of our many forgotten ancestors. How generously she nourishes us with ginger, mint, and maguey, but also with memories of terrible sorrow and gorgeous joy; so we will always be grateful for the struggles of the women who came before us, giving us the life we must learn to cherish each day." Ruth Behar, author of The Vulnerable Observer Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity South End Press, $13.00 Drawing vibrant connections between the colonialization of whole nations, the health of the mountainsides and the abuse of individual women, children and men, Medicine Stories offers the paradigm of integrity as a political model to people who hunger for a world of justice, health and love. Aurora Levins Morales writes lucidly about the complexities of social identities. Her lyrical meditations on ecology, sexuality, and history show how political transformation and personal healing are inextricably bound. At the heart of this book is the conviction that our survival depends on crafting a politicalpractice capable of healing all our wounds from global, macro- economic injustices to the most intimate scars of cruelty in our own lives. "Starting from a multi-layered, many-stranded exploration into Puerto Ricans' colonized past, Aurora Levins Morales opens our eyes to the risks we need to confront in order to do serious feminist history." Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases Fall Schedule: Sept 16 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Sept 28 University of Connecticut, Storr, CT Oct 9 The Union Institute, Cincinnati, OH Oct 12 Antioch University (tentative) Oct 16 & 17 Puerto Rican Studies Association Conf., Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY Nov 5 Hamilton College, NY (tentative) Nov 6 Connecticut College, CT (tentative) Nov 18 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Nov 30-Dec4 Puerto Rico (exact locations TBA) Dec 17 Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, CA Jan 7 Black Oak Books, Berkeley, CA Dr. Levins Morales is available to read from both books and to speak on a number of subjects, including: * Puerto Rican, Latina/o, multicultural US and women's history * Privatization, global greed and the recent Puerto Rican general strike (with slide show) * Cultural politics--language, identity, memory and power * Activist scholarship and "medicinal" history * Healing and liberation, individual and collective responses to violence * Child sexual abuse: repoliticizing the conversation/rebuilding an activist response * Integrity and justice: whole person activism * Writing workshops on writing about family and culture, and personalizing our intellectual passions. For more information or if you are interested in booking a reading or talk by Dr. Levins Morales please contact Elizabeth Garcia at lizy@uclink.berkeley.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:11:46 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Robin Sheets Subject: Planned Parenthood on campus Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Do other Women's Studies programs or Women's Centers have any experience in distributing materials from Planned Parenthood on their campuses? As part of her internship eperience, one of our graduate students prepared a packet of information on safe sex practices which she asked to distribute through freshman orientation packets. The packet did NOT contain information on abortion. The graduate student quickly became involved in lengthy discussions among various university offices; final authority over orientation packets apparently rests with the vice-president for enrollment management (used to be called dean of admissions). He determined that three items from the original packet could be distributed: (1) a summary birth control and STI brochure which included abstinence, and included addresses of PP centers; (2) a brochure on P Parenthood's telephone-based public service Facts of Life Line; and (3) a flyer on emergency contraception. The University would not allow Planned Parenthood to package this information, advertise services, provide a map to the PP clinic, or distribute condoms with PP name on them. Nor would the Univiversity allow inclusion of any information of a political nature (they denied the PP brochure on pending legislation relating to family planning). As the conversations were reported to me, the two main issues seemed to be: (1) the University can't take a stand on a political issue; and (2) all sides must be given equal treatment. Thus, although no information on abortion was included, our graduate student had to agree to provide information on adoption and abstinence. Meanwhile, the campus common is covered with white crosses displayed by the Students for Life organization. Is this experience typical? Have other Women's Studies programs/Women's Centers faced similar obstacles when they, their faculty, and/or students attempted to collaborate with Planned Parenthood? If so, what strategies did you devise? Please reply privately. If persons replying privately give me permission, I'll summarize the answers and post to the list. If persons replying privately want their responses to be confidential, I'll keep their response confidential. Thanks. Robin Sheets Robin Sheets, Director Professor of English Center for Women's Studies University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0164 tel: (513) 556-6652 fax: (513) 556-6771 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:18:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "B.J. Eaton" Subject: Re: Negotiating salary and benefits. In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >I would like to get some suggestions as to how to negotiate salary and >benefits when you are offered a job. You can respond to me in private at >sathidg@udel.edu.>Sathi. * * * * * * * * The Spring 1998 NWSAction newsletter contains an article by Annis Pratt, "Negotiating Higher Salaries" in the Academic Discrimination Task Force report on page 21. To join the National Women's Studies Association, contact Membership Chair, Marjorie Pryse, at mpryse@cnsvax.albany.edu . Regards, B.J. Eaton, NWSAction Editor *Richardson, TX *bjeaton7@airmail.net * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:22:08 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WSKCKCC@AOL.COM Subject: Re: ancient feminists Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Reina, See also Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. all best, tamara wskckcc@aol.com In a message dated 9/25/98 12:13:13 PM Central Daylight Time, rpennington1@EARTHLINK.NET writes: << . . . Is anyone aware of any mass movements or proto-feminism in the classical era or middle ages? Reina Pennington Dept. of History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington >> ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:13:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen O'Grady Subject: Taslima Nasreen; writer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Last week I heard the disturbing news that Taslima Nasreen attempted to return home to Bangladesh (despite the fatwa on her) to visit her family but has now gone missing. I have since heard no other news of this. Does anyone know if she has been located? If she is ok? I've checked the NOW site and several news webpages with no luck. The original report was a 3 sentence broadcast on CNN. It was not covered in any of the newspapers I checked. Interestingly the news that the fatwa on Rushdie has been lifted made frontpage headlines the same week. Many thanks, Kathleen -- Kathleen O'Grady Department of Religious Studies University of Calgary Social Sciences 1308 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Phone: (403) 220-7063 Fax: (403) 210-0801 Email: kogrady@ucalgary.ca or ko10001@hermes.cam.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:05:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Basgall Subject: Re: Taslima Nasreen; writer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just returned from Bangladesh and while there the newspapers announced that Taslima Nasreen had entered the country, but then they could find no verrification. Her door man claimed that she had not returned to her home, etc. Who knows what the truth is, but it certainly made front page news on both the English and Bangla newspapers. Sandra Basgall Assistant Chair Program in Intercultural Management School for International Training Brattleboro, VT 05302-0676 (802) 258-3330 (802) 258-3320 FAX sandra.basgall@sit.edu sbasgall@javanet.com Kathleen O'Grady wrote: > Last week I heard the disturbing news that Taslima Nasreen attempted > to > return home to Bangladesh (despite the fatwa on her) to visit her > family > but has now gone missing. > > I have since heard no other news of this. Does anyone know if she has > > been located? If she is ok? > > I've checked the NOW site and several news webpages with no luck. The > > original report was a 3 sentence broadcast on CNN. It was not covered > > in any of the newspapers I checked. > > Interestingly the news that the fatwa on Rushdie has been lifted made > frontpage headlines the same week. > > Many thanks, > > Kathleen > > -- > Kathleen O'Grady > Department of Religious Studies > University of Calgary > Social Sciences 1308 > 2500 University Dr. NW > Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada > > Phone: (403) 220-7063 > Fax: (403) 210-0801 > Email: kogrady@ucalgary.ca > or ko10001@hermes.cam.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:09:08 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diana H Scully Subject: Re: NWSA National Office In-Reply-To: <360FFC12.56009AB1@acs.ucalgary.ca>; from "Kathleen O'Grady" at Sep 28, 98 3:13 pm If you have been trying to call the NWSA National Office this week and haven't received an answer, it is because we moved into a larger office suite (same building, phone number, and address but Suite 500) and the phones haven't been connected yet. Anyone who has visited the National Office knows what a tiny cramped office we occupied. The new office will contribute considerably to a more efficiently run organization and to an improved quality of life for our staff. Thank you for your patience, everything should be working by Wednesday afternoon. Diana Scully, NWSA Treasurer -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Diana Scully Professor of Sociology & Director of Women's Studies Virginia Commonwealth University Box 843060 Richmond, Virginia 23284 804.828.4041 (phone) 804.828.4983 (fax) dhscully@vcu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:19:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Lea Mayberry Subject: Need video version of film MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello. I am posting this for a friend who does not have access to this listserve but is teaching a course in which he needs a video version of the film (16mm, which he has) "The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter". He uses the film in an Industrial & Organization class he teaches. Does anyone know where he might locate a inexpensive video tape version of this film? Please respond privately. Thanks. Brenda Mayberry bleam@ksu.edu **************************************************************** Brenda Lea Mayberry Graduate Student,Ph.D. bleam@ksu.edu Curriculum & Instruction Home Page: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~bleam/ Issues of interest: Feminism, Sexual Harassment, Gender Equity, Sexual Orientation, Women's Health, Women and Leadership **************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:52:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Bystydzienski Subject: Course on Women in Transition to Democracy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In the spring, I will be teaching a new course focusing on the experiences of women in the transitions to liberal democracy and capitalist market economies, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in Latin America and South Africa. I am looking for recent books/texts as well as films/videos to use in this course, but also articles and chapters that could be placed in a packet of readings and/or on a reading list. Any suggestions would be welcome. Please reply privately. Jill Bystydzienski Women's Studies Program Iowa State University 349 Carrie Chapman CAtt Hall Ames, IA 50011 (515)294-9733 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:53:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Peters Organization: Southampton College of L.I.U. Subject: Does anyone remember MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi, In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most likely sea apes. Does anyone recall or is anyone familiar with this? I've tried doing searches, but apparently I don't have the right key words because I've come up with nothing. Can someone help? Thanks and Peace, Barbara "Single Mothers play an important role in society raising the next generation. . . and deserve recognition and respect, not ecnomic hardship." Joy Magezis Barbara J. Peters, Assistant Professor Social Sciences Division Long Island University - Southampton 239 Montauk Highway Southampton, NY 11968 (516) 287-8236 FAX: (516) 287-8203 e-mail bpeters@southampton.liunet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:13:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "l. patterson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello All I am in the Women's Studies PhD program here at the U of Iowa (the fist WS PhD at the UI) and my question is are there any other black women who already have a PhD in Women's Studies? If there are any heads of departments that know this kind of information, I'd appreciate it. Thanks Lori Patterson lori-patterson@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:53:13 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rubina Ramji Subject: [Fwd: New Feminist book in Religious Studies] Just got a copy of this book and it has some great essays in it. R. Ramji University of Ottawa > ANNOUNCING A NEW PUBLICATION: > > > Bodies, Lives, Voices: Gender in Theology > Editors, Kathleen O'Grady, Ann L. Gilroy and Janette Gray > > Published August 1998 > Sheffield Academic Press, UK. > ISBN 1 85075 854 9 > Price: 16.95 Pounds; $24.50 US > > Bodies, Lives, Voices, a project at the critical juncture of feminism > and religious studies, participates in the vibrant tradition of the > feminist anthology. This volume is part of a broad feminist discourse > that continues to grow less monolithic and more varied in material, > method and style with each passing year. The papers are divided into > three main sections: "Bodies" examines the representation of women in > sacred texts and theologies. "Lives" explores the fundamental need to > recover the heritage of women, and to return to women their history. > The final section, "Voices", weaves together canonical texts with > contemporary feminist theory in order to address anew age-old > philosophical and theological problems. Together, the essays collected > here share a concern for enriching and transforming traditional > representations of women's religious lives. > > Kathleen O'Grady is at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Ann > Gilroy is Dean of Studies at the Catholic Institute of Theology, > Auckland, New Zealand. Janette Gray is at Emmanuel College, University > of Cambridge. > > TO ORDER (or request REVIEW COPY) > > email Access/Mastercard/Eurocard/Visa/Switch card number to: > > sales@sheffac.demon.co.uk > > or contact: Sheffield Academic Press > Phone: +44-(0)114-2554433 > Fax: +44-(0)114-2554626 > -- rramji@aix1.uottawa.ca University of Ottawa If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. --W. Somerset Maugham ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:03:21 -0400 Reply-To: inrcarey@ACS.EKU.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Carey Subject: Re: Does anyone remember MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Barbara Peters wrote: > > Hi, > In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or > the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down > out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out > of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most > likely sea apes. > > Does anyone recall or is anyone familiar with this? I've tried > doing searches, but apparently I don't have the right key words > because I've come up with nothing. Can someone help? > > Thanks and Peace, > Barbara > "Single Mothers play an important role in society > raising the next generation. . . and deserve > recognition and respect, not ecnomic hardship." > Joy Magezis > > Barbara J. Peters, Assistant Professor > Social Sciences Division > Long Island University - Southampton > 239 Montauk Highway > Southampton, NY 11968 > (516) 287-8236 > FAX: (516) 287-8203 > e-mail bpeters@southampton.liunet.edu Barbara, I think the title of the book is "The Descent of Woman" but I can't remember the author's name. Sorry. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:06:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lee Ann Lloyd Subject: Call for Papers: The Politics of Caring IV MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII [I am posting this for the Politics of Caring Committee. Note that abstracts will be accepted by mail only. Please direct all inquiries to the Politics of Caring at poc@emory.edu. Thank you.] ________________ Call for Papers The Politics of Caring IV Imagining Women's Minds: Changing Perspectives on Mental Health May 21-23, 1999 Emory University Atlanta, Georgia Women play key roles in nurturing the young and the old, in holding distressed families together, and in maintaining health and economic stability. When they suffer emotional and psychological distress, the impact can be felt regardless of class, culture, or ethnicity. The Politics of Caring IV will provide a multidisciplinary, multicultural, and multimedia look at the issue of women and mental health both historically and in contemporary culture. How has mental illness in women been portrayed in literature, art, film and the media, and how have these representations affected the conceptions of mental illness and the ways in which it is treated? We encourage theoretical and empirical work, as well as more narrative or artistic reflections on mental illness or caring for the mentally ill based on personal and/or professional experience. We especially encourage work that looks at -- mental health issues that disproportionately affect women on both a personal level, as primary caregivers and health care decision-makers in most families. -- the impact of mental illness on women's physical and spiritual well-being. -- issues of domestic violence and substance abuse. -- issues facing specific populations of women, such as homeless and incarcerated women. -- the ways in which women as policy makers and service providers are having an impact on reshaping our conceptions of mental illness. As with the first three conferences, The Politics of Caring IV holds the promise of a multidisciplinary and socially diverse forum in which all voices will be valued. Deadline for submissions of abstracts--December 1, 1998. Send submissions to Politics of Caring, c/o Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322. Authors will be notified by February 15, 1999. Each abstract submission must meet the following criteria: 1. In English. 2. One page with 1 1/2" left margin and 1" margins for top, bottom, and right. 3. Typed, single-spaced with no less than 10 and no more than 12 characters per inch. 4. Double space between paragraphs with no indentations. 5. Flat, not folded, for duplication in conference proceedings. Each abstract submission must include: 1. One copy of the Abstract Cover Page. 2. Seven copies of the abstract: a. Two copies which are camera ready and include the title and author(s) name(s), current position, employer, address, and email address, centered with presenter's name underlined. b. Five copies with title only for blind review by the selection committee. c. Stamped self-addressed envelope. For visual or performing arts presentations, please also include slides, tapes, and/or video. Symposium guidelines: Each symposium presentation must have an overview abstract in addition to the above packet. One of the presenters must be designated as the contact person, signified by an underlined name on the symposium title page. Presentations: Accepted abstracts will be grouped with related topics and allotted 20 minutes for oral presentation and discussion. Symposium sessions will be limited to one hour, including discussion. Posters will be presented at a poster session. Send comments/questions to poc@emory.edu or call (404) 727-0096. web address: www.emory.edu/WOMENS_STUDIES/POC ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:32:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: sasha Subject: Re: Does anyone remember In-Reply-To: <1CEC8961D6@shark.liunet.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Isn't it called "The Descent of Women"? Can't remember the author, though. Sorry. Sasha McInnes sasha@worldchat.com At 12:53 PM 9/29/98 -0500, Barbara Peters wrote: >Hi, > In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or >the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down >out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out >of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most >likely sea apes. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:43:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ria Davidis Subject: Re: Does anyone remember In-Reply-To: <1CEC8961D6@shark.liunet.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I think you mean Elaine Morgan's _The Ascent of Woman_, which came out in 1972 or thereabouts. Hope this helps. Ria Davidis Visiting Assistant Professor English Department Haverford College >Hi, > In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or >the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down >out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out >of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most >likely sea apes. > > Does anyone recall or is anyone familiar with this? I've tried >doing searches, but apparently I don't have the right key words >because I've come up with nothing. Can someone help? > >Thanks and Peace, >Barbara >"Single Mothers play an important role in society >raising the next generation. . . and deserve >recognition and respect, not ecnomic hardship." >Joy Magezis > >Barbara J. Peters, Assistant Professor >Social Sciences Division >Long Island University - Southampton >239 Montauk Highway >Southampton, NY 11968 >(516) 287-8236 >FAX: (516) 287-8203 >e-mail bpeters@southampton.liunet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:04:00 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Does anyone remember In-Reply-To: <1CEC8961D6@shark.liunet.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Barbara Peters wrote: > In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or > the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down > out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out > of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most > likely sea apes. It's Elaine Morgan, The Descent of Woman, London (Corgi paperback -- sorry, no hardback details) 1972. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans jae2@york.ac.uk Writing from home using Dragon Systems Voice Recognition Software ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:03:43 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "McAlister, Linda Lopez" Subject: Need Part Time Instructor in "Third World Women Writers" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain The faculty member who normally teaches Third World Women Writers for the Women's Studies Department at University of South Florida is on sabbatical this year. We just found out that the second of the two adjunct faculty who have taught this course for us before is unable to teach the course in Spring, 1999. If there's anyone out there who might be planning to be in the Tampa area in the Spring who would be qualified to teach this course and would be willing to do so on an adjunct faculty basis (one or two sections), please respond privately. This is no plum job, but if you're writing a dissertation or something and could do that in Tampa, it wouldn't be a bad way to spend 16 weeks out of the cold. The cost of living here is relatively low. Linda Linda Lopez McAlister, Chair Tel. (813) 974-0982 Dept. of Women's Studies, HMS 413 Fax. (813) 974-0336 University of South Florida e-mail: mcalister@chuma1.cas.usf.edu Tampa, FL 33620 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:09:34 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "G. WILSON" Subject: feminist grad student conference MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII There was a posting to this list a few weeks ago with a CFP for this year's National Graduate Student conference on Feminist Theory. I think it is being held at UT Austin this year. I've deleted the information. Could someone please send the the post again privately, thanks greg wilson * "I grow old. I grow old. I shall wear the * bottoms of my trousers rolled." * Greg Wilson * New Mexico State University * gwilson@nmsu.edu * http://web.nmsu.edu/~gwilson ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:57:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Toth Subject: Re: Negotiating salary and benefits. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Amelia Carr's answer to this list is excellent. You might also see the info about salary negotiations in my MS. MENTOR'S IMPECCABLE ADVICE FOR WOMEN IN ACADEMIA (listed after my signature). You're very smart to investigate these questions! At 09:22 AM 9/25/98 -0400, you wrote: >I would like to get some suggestions as to how to negotiate salary and >benefits when you are offered a job. You can respond to me in private at >sathidg@udel.edu. > >Sathi. > 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: 225-388-3152 English Dept. fax: 225-388-4129 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/ Ms. Mentor's new column: http://www.chronicle.com/jobs ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:27:36 -0700 Reply-To: jharlan@west.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: jharlan@WEST.NET Subject: Re: Does anyone remember MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Barbara wrote: "In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most likely sea apes." Barbara, I think you may be thinking of THE DESCENT OF WOMAN, a play off The ASCENT of Man. I don't have the author or date, but it fits your discription. Cheers, Judith Harlan http://www.west.net/~jharlan ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:59:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Toth Subject: Re: Does anyone remember Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" There's THE ASCENT OF WOMAN (I think) by Elaine Morgan. At 04:32 PM 9/29/98 -0400, you wrote: >Isn't it called "The Descent of Women"? Can't remember the author, though. > Sorry. > >Sasha McInnes >sasha@worldchat.com > >At 12:53 PM 9/29/98 -0500, Barbara Peters wrote: >>Hi, >> In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or >>the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down >>out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out >>of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most >>likely sea apes. > 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: 225-388-3152 English Dept. fax: 225-388-4129 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/ Ms. Mentor's new column: http://www.chronicle.com/jobs ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:22:46 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Laurel Guymer Subject: Re: Does anyone remember In-Reply-To: <1CEC8961D6@shark.liunet.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" do you mean THE DESCENT OF WOMAN THE CLASSIC STUDY OF EVOLUTION Elaine Morgan Souvenir Press Laurel >Hi, > In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or >the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down >out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out >of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most >likely sea apes. > > Does anyone recall or is anyone familiar with this? I've tried >doing searches, but apparently I don't have the right key words >because I've come up with nothing. Can someone help? Laurel Guymer Deakin University Faculty of Arts Geelong, 3217 http://www2.deakin.edu.au/aworc/finrrage.html capri@deakin.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:17:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Film Review Added: Relax...It's Just Sex On Saturday, Sept. 26, I reviewed "Relax...It's Just Sex" on The Women's Show" on WMNF-FM 88.5 in Tampa, Florida To obtain a copy of the review send the following command to listserv@umdd.umd.edu: GET FILM REV245 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: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:26:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Adams Subject: Re: Course on Women in Transition to Democracy In-Reply-To: <199809291553.KAA13619@mailhub.iastate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Jill, Would you mind sharing this with me? I'd appreciate it. One article is Noonan's 'Women against the state', reprinted in Social Movements, a text book by McAdam and Snow. It's about Chile. Very good. Jacqueline Adams At 10:52 AM 9/29/98 -0500, you wrote: >In the spring, I will be teaching a new course focusing on the experiences >of women in the transitions to liberal democracy and capitalist market >economies, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in Latin America >and South >Africa. >I am looking for recent books/texts as well as films/videos to use in this >course, but also articles and chapters that could be placed in a packet of >readings and/or on a reading list. >Any suggestions would be welcome. Please reply privately. > >Jill Bystydzienski >Women's Studies Program >Iowa State University >349 Carrie Chapman CAtt Hall >Ames, IA 50011 >(515)294-9733 > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:29:07 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PinteaReed@AOL.COM Subject: Re: ancient feminists Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The ancient Kelts had at least one great warrior queen, Boudicea, of the Icene tribe who fought the Roman invasion of England. She was successful until betrayed by her lover. Some resistance obviously to her authority. Xenobia led armies against Rome also in what is now Iran. In Anglo-Saxon England women could own their own property and divorce --rights women never had again until 1918 in the USA... Someone has a list of women who led battles in history. Another place women held great power and intellectual authority were the abbesses of the religious houses particularly in the Dark and early Middle Ages. As fedual government and later monarchy took more power the women were driven from authority in the CHurch and in society generally. Lili pinteareed@aol.com 1000 Title Feminist Bibliography http://members.aol.com/PinteaReed/fem_books.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:39:47 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jberis@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Does anyone remember Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The book is by Elaine Morgan, THE ASCENT OF WOMAN, I believe is the title. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:53:28 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: Re: Does anyone remember Comments: To: Karen Carey In-Reply-To: <36113D09.26F5@acs.eku.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sarah Hrdy. Ellen Cronan Rose, Director, Women's Studies Program, UNLV 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5055 PHONE (702) 895-0838, FAX (702) 895-0850 ecrose@nevada.edu On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Karen Carey wrote: > Barbara Peters wrote: > > > > Hi, > > In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or > > the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down > > out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out > > of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most > > likely sea apes. > > > > Does anyone recall or is anyone familiar with this? I've tried > > doing searches, but apparently I don't have the right key words > > because I've come up with nothing. Can someone help? > > > > Thanks and Peace, > > Barbara > > "Single Mothers play an important role in society > > raising the next generation. . . and deserve > > recognition and respect, not ecnomic hardship." > > Joy Magezis > > > > Barbara J. Peters, Assistant Professor > > Social Sciences Division > > Long Island University - Southampton > > 239 Montauk Highway > > Southampton, NY 11968 > > (516) 287-8236 > > FAX: (516) 287-8203 > > e-mail bpeters@southampton.liunet.edu > Barbara, I think the title of the book is "The Descent of Woman" but I > can't remember the author's name. Sorry. > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:56:34 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tess Pierce Subject: Re: Does anyone remember MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The book Is The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan. published 1972 by Bantam books, now out of print. I have seen several copies at used book stores. Also there is an excellent source for out of print books on the web it is: http://www.interloc.com/ -------------------------- Tess, Kick-Ass Liberal Curmudgeon -------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 06:16:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: two queries Comments: To: Chinnie Ding In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII York University in York, Ontario offers educational programs on Mothering. Contact either Andrea O'Reilly or Sharon Abbey who are both doing research in this area, and who co-chaired the first international conference on Mothers and Daughters a year ago, and who also just co-chaired the very successful Mothers and Sons conference this past week. They are in the process of organizing an international Association for Research on Mothering. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Chinnie Ding wrote: > Hi-- > > I am looking for materials on 1) feminist approaches to the mind/body > problem, and 2) the ontology of motherhood. I realize that both are > rather vast areas, but any suggestions from list-members of relevant > readings would be much appreciated. Please respond privately. > > Thanks in advance, > > Chinnie Ding > Yale College > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:45:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: ancient feminists In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The Beguines, I believe,constitute a proto-feminist movement in the middle ages. As a Catholic working-class women's movement, they achieved a good deal of independence and mobility, until the Church squelched them. But I believe they lasted for a couple of centuries -- the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, I think -- in France and Flanders. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:15:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Peters Organization: Southampton College of L.I.U. Subject: Got the Descent of Woman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thanks to everyone for answering my pleas so quickly. This list is just too wonderful. I'm teaching the Sociology of Gender and we got into quite a discussion about the patriarchy by going into the past to construct support for or against it. Peace, Barbara "Single Mothers play an important role in society raising the next generation. . . and deserve recognition and respect, not ecnomic hardship." Joy Magezis Barbara J. Peters, Assistant Professor Social Sciences Division Long Island University - Southampton 239 Montauk Highway Southampton, NY 11968 (516) 287-8236 FAX: (516) 287-8203 e-mail bpeters@southampton.liunet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:22:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Martha Charlene Ball Subject: Re: Does anyone remember Comments: To: Karen Carey In-Reply-To: <36113D09.26F5@acs.eku.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The book was *The Descent of Woman* by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Don't know the exact year nor the publisher. On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Karen Carey wrote: > Barbara Peters wrote: > > > > Hi, > > In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or > > the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down > > out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out > > of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most > > likely sea apes. > > > > Does anyone recall or is anyone familiar with this? I've tried > > doing searches, but apparently I don't have the right key words > > because I've come up with nothing. Can someone help? > > > > Thanks and Peace, > > Barbara > > "Single Mothers play an important role in society > > raising the next generation. . . and deserve > > recognition and respect, not ecnomic hardship." > > Joy Magezis > > > > Barbara J. Peters, Assistant Professor > > Social Sciences Division > > Long Island University - Southampton > > 239 Montauk Highway > > Southampton, NY 11968 > > (516) 287-8236 > > FAX: (516) 287-8203 > > e-mail bpeters@southampton.liunet.edu > Barbara, I think the title of the book is "The Descent of Woman" but I > can't remember the author's name. Sorry. > 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, 30 Sep 1998 09:26:06 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Martha Charlene Ball Subject: Re: Does anyone remember In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII You're right! The book I was thinking of was Elizabeth Gould Davis' The First Sex. Sorry. On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Ria Davidis wrote: > I think you mean Elaine Morgan's _The Ascent of Woman_, which came out in > 1972 or thereabouts. > > Hope this helps. > > Ria Davidis > Visiting Assistant Professor > English Department > Haverford College > > >Hi, > > In the mid-seventies, a book came out re: the evolution of women or > >the ascent of women. The premise was that humans didn't come down > >out of the trees, but emerged from the seas and that females got out > >of the water first and the males followed. Humans were then most > >likely sea apes. > > > > Does anyone recall or is anyone familiar with this? I've tried > >doing searches, but apparently I don't have the right key words > >because I've come up with nothing. Can someone help? > > > >Thanks and Peace, > >Barbara > >"Single Mothers play an important role in society > >raising the next generation. . . and deserve > >recognition and respect, not ecnomic hardship." > >Joy Magezis > > > >Barbara J. Peters, Assistant Professor > >Social Sciences Division > >Long Island University - Southampton > >239 Montauk Highway > >Southampton, NY 11968 > >(516) 287-8236 > >FAX: (516) 287-8203 > >e-mail bpeters@southampton.liunet.edu > 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, 30 Sep 1998 08:48:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Bystydzienski Subject: Re: Course on Women in Transition to Democracy In-Reply-To: <199809292333.QAA12091@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Jacqueline, Thank you for the suggestion. I'll send you a list of the references I receive. Jill At 04:26 PM 9/29/98 -0500, you wrote: >Jill, > >Would you mind sharing this with me? I'd appreciate it. > >One article is Noonan's 'Women against the state', reprinted in Social >Movements, a text book by McAdam and Snow. It's about Chile. Very good. > >Jacqueline Adams > >At 10:52 AM 9/29/98 -0500, you wrote: >>In the spring, I will be teaching a new course focusing on the experiences >>of women in the transitions to liberal democracy and capitalist market >>economies, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in Latin America >>and South >>Africa. >>I am looking for recent books/texts as well as films/videos to use in this >>course, but also articles and chapters that could be placed in a packet of >>readings and/or on a reading list. >>Any suggestions would be welcome. Please reply privately. >> >>Jill Bystydzienski >>Women's Studies Program >>Iowa State University >>349 Carrie Chapman CAtt Hall >>Ames, IA 50011 >>(515)294-9733 >> > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:08:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Astone Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable WESTERN SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 41st Annual Conference Call for Papers WOMEN=3DS STUDIES SECTION April 21-24, 1999 Fort Worth, Texas Abstracts are requested for papers on all aspects of Women=3Ds Studies. = Abstracts no longer than 150 words should be submitted with proposals. = In addition we are requesting proposals from individuals who can = organize panel paper sessions, and/or roundtable discussions. The Western Social Science Association (WSSA) is a professional = educational organization committed to interdisciplinary and = multidisciplinary scholarship, service, and collegiality. Membership in = the Association is not required for participation although it is = strongly recommended. The final deadline for submitting proposals is:=20 November 1, 1998 Include name(s), affiliation(s), mailing address, telephone number, FAX = and email addresses. =20 Send proposals and abstracts to: Mary Astone, Ph.D. Phone: (334) 670-3143 Sorrell College of Business Fax: (334) 670-3599 Troy State University email: mastone@trojan.troyst.edu Troy, AL 36082 Abstracts submitted via email are strongly encouraged. Attachments in = MS WORD 97 are acceptable.=20 Please use accompanying forms for 150 word abstracts and/or audio-visual = equipment you will need for your presentation.=20 WSSA CONFERENCE ABSTRACT FORM Fort Worth, Texas April 21-24, 1999 SECTION:_________________________________________________ AUTHOR(S):_______________________________________________ AUTHOR=3DS MAILING ADDRESS:______________________________ (150 WORD ABSTRACT) AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT REQUEST SECTION: PRESENTER: PLEASE PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT FOR MY PANEL = PRESENTATION IN THE ___________________________ SECTION. Send proposals and abstracts to: Mary Astone, Ph.D. Phone: (334) 670-3143 Sorrell College of Business Fax: (334) 670-3599 Troy State University email: mastone@trojan.troyst.edu Troy, AL 36082 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:31:02 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MGROTZKY@CASTLE.CUDENVER.EDU Subject: Re: Does anyone remember MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Books in Print lists Elaine Morgan's book as "The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution," and says it was published (republished) by the Independent Publishing [or Publishers, I forgot to write it out in full] Group in Chicago. It is listed as 4th edition. The record is active (still in print); cost is $12.95; ISBN is 0285627007. Morgan has been writing on this subject for some time -- other works are "The Aquatic Ape" (1982+85); "The Scars of Evolution" (1995); and "The Descent of the Child" (August 1998). Books in Print is available in almost every library and most bookstores. It is available online through some libraries. Books can be found by author, title, and subject. Though a helpful source, it is not entirely reliable, often listing slightly different page numbers, prices, and even different versions of author's names. As far as I know, it is still the best source for what it does, which is list books that are available or have recently been available so that we can find them, order them, or get them through Interlibrary Loan. Interlibrary Loan was praised recently on this list-serv, but can hardly be mentioned too often, ao -- Interlibrary Loan is a service available in most libraries in the US and large numbers of libraries around the world. It can and will get you nearly any book you want to read or examine. The service is often free. Articles may also be obtained through ILL. Contact your nearby library for information. (I recently obtained "Woodcarving in Estonia," which everyone said sounded impossible, 2 days after requesting it.) A library is a wonderful resource. Make friends with a librarian. Marilyn mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu auraria library ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:49:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Astrid Henry Subject: job: univ of WI-Milwaukee, History MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 20th-century United States. The history department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for tenure-track assistant professorship in U.S. social and economic history, with specialties in urban and women's history. Appointment begins August 1999, and candidate is expected have Ph.D. in hand by that point. The candidate's tenure home would be the History Department, but for the first three years budgeting would be 50% in the History Department, 25% in the Urban Studies program and 25% in the Center for Economic Development. The candidate would thus teach introductory survey and more advanced courses in the History Department and undergraduate and graduate courses in the Urban Studies program, as well as be expected to contribute to applied economic development research, including that involving extramural funding, at the Center. Areas of specialization might include: gender, ethnicity, and urban development; social welfare policy; underrepresented racial/ethnic groups; development of social and economic institutions; gender and public policy. Send application letter, vita, and three references by December 15 to Professor Marc Levine, Search Committee Chair, Dept. of History, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201. The department will interview by invitation at the AHA. AA/EO employer. Names of applicants who have not requested that their identities be withheld and all finalists will be released on request. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:36:02 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Jabbra Subject: Zenobia Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Zenobia was queen of Palmyra, now called Tadmor. It is in the Syrian desert east of Homs and north of Damascus. The modern town is not large, but the Roman and Palmyrene ruins there are quite impressive, as is the huge oasis. Zenobia ruled in the 3rd century AD, and fought Aurelian's armies. Her history is told in Richard Stoneman, Palmyra and its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt Against Rome, University of Michigan Press, 1994. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:49:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo-Ann Pilardi Subject: Grad. course, Public Policy Comments: cc: Sara Coulter , Toni Marzotto MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Can list members help with suggestions for texts for a graduate course in "Women, Public Policy, and Social Change," which will be the core course for our Master's in Women's Studies, for those who take the "Women and Public Policy" Concentration? We are especially interested in a *theoretical* text that might accompany other texts and articles with more specific policy analyses. Jo-Ann Pilardi, Director, Women's Studies, Towson University jpilardi@towson.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:36:34 -0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cecilia Sardenberg Subject: Re: Course on Women in Transition to Democracy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Jill: Here are some 'must' suggestions as to women in Latin America: 1. ALVAREZ, Susan, 1990,- Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women's Movements in Transition Politics. Princeton U. Press. 2. ALVAREZ, Susan & ESCOBAR, Arturo (eds.),1992 - The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy. Westview Press. (There are great articles in this collection, especially: "Feminisms in Latin America: From Bogot=E1 to San Bernardo", by Alvarez et al.) 3. ECKSTEIN, Susan (ed.), 1989 - Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, U. of California Press. (article by Marisa Navarro) 4. JELIN, Elizabeth (ed.), 1990 - Women and Social Change in Latin America, United Nations Institute for Social Development and Zed Books. Cecilia Sardenberg NEIM/Universidade Federal da Bahia/Brazil cecisard@ufba.br =20 At 10:52 29/09/98 -0500, you wrote: >In the spring, I will be teaching a new course focusing on the experiences >of women in the transitions to liberal democracy and capitalist market >economies, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in Latin America >and South >Africa. >I am looking for recent books/texts as well as films/videos to use in this >course, but also articles and chapters that could be placed in a packet of >readings and/or on a reading list. >Any suggestions would be welcome. Please reply privately. > >Jill Bystydzienski >Women's Studies Program >Iowa State University >349 Carrie Chapman CAtt Hall >Ames, IA 50011 >(515)294-9733 > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:31:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phillipa Kafka Subject: Re: ancient feminists Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Ruby: In Bruges, Belgium a few years ago, we saw a compound in which the signs said that the Beguines lived and flourished as a communitarian enterprise there until they were driven out. That is all I remember. Anyone know any more about the Beguines historically? I think students would be as moved and inspired as I remember myself to have been as I stood looking at their house. I have always been longing to live in an all- women's community, wondering what they were like, ever since I briefly lived in one for about 4 months in 1952, in the Lesbian community in Greenwich Village, also now historic. It was wonderful--but this is all in retrospect. The faculty and administrators of the Women's Studies Program, at least on my campus, although I kvetch about them, are the closest I can imagine in terms of atmosphere and conduct, so maybe those of us in such programs have some relationship to the Beguines, as well, in some ways. Perhaps this WS-L is also one of the Beguines' spiritual successors. Perhaps we're in some kind of similar golden age here on e-mail, with our Official Nag, like our Second Wavers. Like Martha Boesing, I certainly had no idea, of the historic significance of our picketing, our marches, and so many other actions that we took, what it would mean, that we would be analyzed and critiqued, somewhat unjustly, from a historic perspective (for provincialism and racism, while we thought ourselves so expansive, such powerful, courageous rebels against the oppressive patriarchy at the time). I never realized we were a movement, especially in terms of American history, once it receded. I was referring above to Martha Boesing's "Rushing Headlong Into The Fire At the Foot of the Mountain," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society," Special Issue Edition: Feminist Theory and Practice, 21 (4): 1011-1023, 1996, which provides excellent published memories from a personal perspective similar to mine. Anyone writing who relates us to the Beguines, other earlier communitarian visionaries? Also, when did we first get to be called "Second Wavers"? I saw the question on the list. Anyone know the answer? We certainly weren't called that, to my memory. We conceptualized ourselves in those heady days as "sisters" in a vast circle of sisterhood, attempting to break our acculturation (popularized by Desmond Morris in his Descent of Man) that men bonded while women were divided in continual conflict over men with each other. Believe me, that's how we were trained, and ruthlessly, if you consult the old editions of glossy mags like Seventeen, etc. Remember the old cliche. "I can't go out with you as we had planned, Jane, John just called and asked me out"? Phillipa. At 08:45 PM 9/29/98 -0400, you wrote: >The Beguines, I believe,constitute a proto-feminist >movement in the >middle ages. As a Catholic working-class women's movement, they >achieved a >good deal of independence and mobility, until the Church squelched them. >But I believe they lasted for a couple of centuries -- the twelfth and >thirteenth centuries, I think -- in France and Flanders. >Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > > Dr. Phillipa Kafka Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies Women's Studies J303 Kean University Union, New Jersey 07083 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:36:36 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MGROTZKY@CASTLE.CUDENVER.EDU Subject: Re: ancient feminists MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I think the Zisner and Anderson book, A History of Their Own, had some info about beguines. I'll look it up and see if I'm correct, let you know tomorrow. Marilyn mgrotzky@castle.cudenver.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:47:14 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Howetall@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Does anyone remember Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dear folks, We are actually confusing two very similar books with similar premises the first is the Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan and the other is The First Sex by Elizabeth Gould Davis (Penguin 1971). The second has some very interesting archeological evidence. Bette Tallen Howetall@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:49:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Libra Subject: cfp: feminist mothers and their allies task force MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Call for Papers: Feminist Mothers and their Allies Task Force A new NWSA task force has been formed to address the issues of feminist mothering. One of the most pressing issues is the availability of childcare at NWSA conferences, which has only inconsistently been made available. At Oswego, excellent childcare was available, but was not mentioned in the program book and was located on the periphery of campus, a 20 minute walk (each way!) from the sessions. In addition, the two panel discussions on feminist mothering were scheduled at the same time, again pointing to a systemic lack of awareness and attention paid to these issues. Interestingly, the two panel discussions, "Motherhood and Families Reconceived" and "Feminist Motherhood Roundtable: The Move from Individual Suffering to Social Activism" fell along the lines of "theory" and "practice." Instead of remaining apart and forcing conference participants to choose between the two panels, the panelists joined together in one room to share our thinking and among other things, combine our efforts to visualize how we might address feminist mothering within NWSA. Some of the proposals include: a plenary session on both the theoretical and practical issues of feminist mothering; a writers series featuring some of the extensive feminist writing on mothering and motherhood; centrally located (particularly to accommodate nursing mothers) and continuously available child care for the entire span of the conference, and the development of a feminist children's program to address the hypocrisy of talking feminism while our children play with sexist toys and videos that are the norm in most daycare centers. Proposals for individual papers and panels addressing motherhood are now being accepted by members of the Feminist Mothers and their Allies Task Force for next year's conference. Already several compelling and inspiring papers and a photography exhibition have been proposed. We also invite narratives, fiction and poetry writing, film and video and other creative expressions on feminist mothering. Please send your ideas and proposals to: Ellen M. Gil-Gomez Assistant Professor of English Russell Sage College Troy, NY 12180 gilgoe@sage.edu (518)244-2406 For further information contact any of the following people or see our information on the NWSA Web Page at www.nwsa.org and click on the link for caucuses and task forces; w'ere under task forces. Sandra D. Shattuck Denise Bauer 4014 E. Fairmount St. 52 Edgewater Lane Tucson AZ 85712-3850 Port Jervis, NY 12771 University of Arizona SUNY at New Paltz shattuck@u.arizona.edu libra@warwick.net (520)326-4026 (914)856-1273 M. Rivka Polatnik Batya Weinbaum 2426 Stuart St. Dept. of English Berkeley, CA 94705 University of Cleveland Berkeley Center for Working Cleveland, OH 4415 Families batyawein@aol.com rivkapol@jps.net page 2 of 2 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:19:53 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Max Dashu Subject: Re: ancient feminists Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >The Beguines, I believe,constitute a proto-feminist >movement in the middle ages. As a Catholic working-class women's >movement, they achieved a good deal of independence and mobility, >until the Church squelched them. >But I believe they lasted for a couple of centuries -- the twelfth and >thirteenth centuries, I think -- in France and Flanders. >Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu The Beguines were still radical and kicking in the mid-1300s, in Germany and Switzerland as well. Bishops and inquisitors started persecuting them around 1250, attacking them for "laziness," "unchastity," "disobedience," and for refusing to adopt a monastic rule. Many tried to avoid priestly jurisidiction, confession, etc. By the early 1300s leaders such as Marguerite a Porete were being burned at the stake. Repression of the Beguines was an important factor in the entry of the Inquisition into Germany, who took over their houses for use as prisons and operations centers. Before that, the Beguinages were an important resource and refuge for peasant women streaming into the cities, offering shelter, work and community, and often, a mystical alternative to institutional christianity that rejected masculine authority. The Beguines weren't stamped out in western Germany and Switzerland until the 1400s, and they survived, in their most orthodox form, in Belgium and northern France into modern times. Another group of feminist christians were the Guglielmites of Milan, followers of the female pope Guglielma. They regarded her as the Paraclete, christ reincarnated in a female form in order to restore balance to the world. Under the new order, the pope and cardinals would now be women, and there would be a new gospel. After her death (1281), a woman named Manfreda took up the mantle and once again, the Inquisition stepped in to crush the heretics. Manfreda and two others were burned, along with Guglielma's body. Max Dashu Suppressed Histories Archives email: maxdashu@lanminds.com PO Box 3511 Oakland CA 94609 USA >>>International Women's Studies, founded 1970<<< ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:31:49 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane J Frechin Subject: Re: Course on Women in Transition to Democracy Hello Jill, a new course focusing on the experiences of women in the transitions to liberal democracy and capitalist market economies, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in Latin America _Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice_ by Francesca Miller, Univ Press of New England/Hanover& London, 1991. Excellent research. Hope this helps. Diane Frechin dfrechin@juno.com ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:58:59 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen O'Grady Subject: Beguines, etc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is an excellent essay by Grace Jantzen on the beguine, mystic and theologian (and martyr, I might add), Marguerite Porete, entitled, "Disrupting the Sacred" in Bodies, Lives, Voices: Gender in Theology. Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Also in this volume is a good essay on Petronilla de Chemille, head of the Fontevraud order by Berenice Kerr, entitled, "Petronilla de Chemille; Mulier Fortis". -- Kathleen O'Grady Department of Religious Studies University of Calgary Social Sciences 1308 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada Phone: (403) 220-7063 Fax: (403) 210-0801 Email: kogrady@ucalgary.ca or ko10001@hermes.cam.ac.uk