========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 09:01:37 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: opds%BDILUC01.BitNet@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Subject: psychological violence and wife battering Please excuse me for my English whWe are doing research on wife abuse, and we ar measuring psychological violence. We have a list of 30 items expressing problems women may have with their male partner. Some of these items may be considered as psychological violence - and we are trying to find an objective criterium to distinguish between psychological violence and other problems (f.e. communication problems, problems with the role performance of the partner) in the relationship. Some people may consider all the 30 items as forms of psychological violence, but we think that it is not fair to consider f.e. a lack of attention as psychological violence. We tried a factor analysis, but this gave us 11 hardly interpretable factors, which is not surprising since our population is a clinical one (women going to a shelter because of relationship-problems). Does anyone has any experience with the measuring of psychological violence ? Which definitions or which criteria did you use ? Please contact me. Sybille Opdebeeck, Belgium. OPDS@BDILUC01.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 00:15:05 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ava Rosenblum Subject: Re: Feminist Standpoint Theory I am new to this list, so I don't know if you have mentioned Dorothy Smith's work in the context of feminist standpoint theory; however, if not, The Everyday World as Problematic, 1987, by Northeastern University Press, is a must to read. Ava Rosenblum University of Oregon, Department of Sociology arosen@oregon.uoregon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 07:22:32 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHILDON@MOREKYPR.BITNET Subject: Re: SPEAKER NEEDED I am replying to Allison Laurie's suggestion that the celebration speaker (Women's History Month) come from outside the U.S. While I agree that there are many good scholars outside the U.S., we need to celebrate our own women of color. Donna Phillips phildon@morekypr ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 08:05:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: abortion of female fetus Search for information on this topic may be more successful using the header "sex selection." - See brief comments in Hastincs Cetner Report Oct-Nov, 1987, Vol 17, No. 5, p. 2 which cites widespread abortion of female fetuses in India. This article cites another in Nature (Nov. 29, 1986; 324:202) which I have not seen for a study of clinics in Bombay showing that of 8000 abortions, 7997 were of female fetuses. This issue has been very difficult here for pro-abortion health care providers confronted by a woman patient from India with a plea for sex determination in order to abort another female child (she had 2 daughters and no sons). Our residents pointed out the conflict between Abortion-on-demand (for any reason) and No-gender-determination-to-permit-sex-discrimination-by-abortion. If anyone has read any feminist discussions of this problem, particularly from the point of view of Indian women, I would be interested. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 07:25:06 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Subject: Re: List server addresses In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 30 Nov 1992 15:38:00 EST from cancel ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 22:10:38 +0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RDIBBLEB@CC.CURTIN.EDU.AU Subject: Re: List server addresses $ send listerv@umdd get other lists ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 09:23:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mengvall@HAMP.HAMPSHIRE.EDU Subject: RE: Listserv addresses Thanks for the offer and I'll take you up on it. >I have a list addresses for lesbigay lists which includes Sappho and Gaynet >that I am willing to pass along to any one who wants. Since it is a long >list I would rather not post it to WMST-L. If you would like a copy please >reply to me privately. > >John > > * * * * * * * John Kellermeier +----------+ >* * * * * * * * Department of Mathematics | Fight | > * Bisexual * SUNY Plattsburgh | Racism | > * * * * Plattsburgh, NY 12901 | Fight | > * Pride * (518) 564-4134 | Rape | > * * * * +----------+ > * * * BITNET: kellerjh@snyplava > * INTERNET: kellerjh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu Madilyn Engvall Program in Science Education Hampshire College mengvall@hamp.hampshire.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 09:15:50 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Wilkie Subject: Mentoring Women in Science I am sending this message for the Associate Dean. She has recently been assigned to pick up writing a grant proposal in midstream. One aspect of the proposal she needs help with is in identifying either someone who does research on the process of mentoring women and minorities in the biological sciences who we could get to come here and do faculty development in our biology department or finding a national conference to which we could send our folks which focuses on the same subject. The killer point is that she needs this information by this afternoon, Dec. 1, 1992 to make the deadline she's been given. Can any one help us? Please reply to: Wilkieja@luther.uni.edu Jackie Wilkie Women's Studies Luther College Decorah, Ia 52101 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 10:25:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vicki Kirsch Subject: feminist methodology One text that I use in my feminist theory course that I think would be a good place to start is BEYOND METHODOLOGY edited by Mary Margaret Fonow and Judith A. Cook. There are several articles that directly uncover problems in the interview process and suggest femininist alternatives in the social sciences. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 10:28:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vicki Kirsch Subject: feminist methodology Sorry, I forgot to identify myself in my last posting - Vicki Kirsch College of William and Mary vlkirs@wmvm1 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 15:17:00 GMT Reply-To: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Bailey Subject: If you need books from Europe... I'm posting this because several email friends have asked where they can obtain books from the UK, for example the new Jeanette Winterson novel which will not be published in the US until February. All the usual disclaimers apply. Anyone needing publications not available in the US, or other countries, may appreciate the mail order facility offered by Europe's largest women's bookshop. Silver Moon, lesbian owned and run, stocks more than 10,000 books, as well as calendars, video-tapes and various other items. They also publish lesbian fiction under their own imprint. With close contact with many publishing houses they know of most forthcoming works and host signings, so can sometimes supply signed copies of new publications. They do not stock second-hand or antiquarian books, but could probably advise on sources of these that specialise in women's titles. >From the US their phone number is 011 44 71 836 7906. Their fax number is 011 44 71 379 1018. They accept American Express, Visa and MasterCard - all of which deal with the currency exchange without cost to the card holder. The postal and street address is: Silver Moon Women's Bookshop 64-68 Charing Cross Road London WC2H 0BB United Kingdom Anyone who saw the movie or read the book, '84 Charing Cross Road' will know that street is London's centre for special bookstores. If you visit London, it should be on your list of places to see. The recent currency adjustment by which the pound sterling is worth around $1.52 makes purchasing from this direction much better value than of late. Diane dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 11:07:06 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michele M Zurakowski-1 Subject: Ti-Grace Atkinson Does anyone know what ever happened to Ti-Grace Atkinson? I'm doing research on her rhetoric and would like to find out what she's been up to since 1978. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 09:10:26 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Somer Brodribb Subject: Feminist Standpoint Theorists Mary O'Brien's work is often discussed in terms of standpoint theory. See The Politics of Reproduction (Routledge, 1981) and Reproducing The World, Essays in Feminist Theory (Westview, 1989) and the special issue of the journal, Resources for Feminist Research, "Feminist Theory: The Influence of Mary O'Brien" vol. 18, no. 3, Sept. 1989 (order $6.50 from RFR, OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ont., Canada, M5S 1V6). Also the article by O'Brien in The Sexism of Social and Political Theory, ed. by Lorenne Clark and Lynda Lange, "Reproducing Marxist Man". S. Brodribb brodribb@uvvm Dept. Political Science, Box 3050 University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P5 Canada. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 09:51:38 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: qym@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: Re: feminist methodology I would reccomend N. Gavey's article 'Feminist poststructuralism and discourse analyses' in 1989 Psychology of Women Quarterly. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 12:52:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ACS_JENNI@JMUVAX.BITNET Subject: Women's Studies rep at West Chester University I'm looking into a women's studies/English master's program at West Chester University. I would like to chat with someone from the the university. If anyone from West Chester University subscribes to this list, could you please respond to me privately. I have a few questions I'd like to ask you. Thanks in advance. Jenni Leister ACS_JENNI@JMUVAX ACS_JENNI@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 13:05:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JCCHR@CONNCOLL.BITNET Subject: Re: psychology articles? eply Elaine- Would you please share with me the results of your inquiry about Psych of Women readings? Perhaps others on the list would be interested as well. Joan C. Chrisler jcchr@conncoll ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 10:18:44 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joneskf@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU Subject: aborting female fetuses If you have info to respond to the recent request for data on women choosing to abort a female fetus, please post it to the list. I have had this same argument with a pro-life colleague and cannot find the supporting data. Thanks. K.Jones, CSUS Library ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 14:22:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Request for bibliographic assistance I need the pages numbers for 2 chapters in a book that my library does not have (I think I read these chapters while on sabbatical). If it is easy for someone on the network to do so, please send me the pages nos. privately. Thank you. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu They are both in a book cited below: D. Crews (Ed.). 1987. Psychobiology of reproductive behavior: An evolutionary perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. The chapters I need are: D. Crews. Diversity and evolution of behavioral controlling mechanisms. and R. M. Sapolsky. Stress, social status, and reproductive physiology in free- living baboons. I need these rather urgently. HELP! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 13:17:07 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Tafoya-Barraza Subject: Research Programs/faculty-Adult survivors A prospective graduate student needs information on faculty who conduct research on child sexual abuse/adult survivors of incest in Clinical Psychology. She is interested in receiving information on graduate programs as well. Please send information (names of faculty and/or relevant clinical programs) to me PRIVATELY and I will forward the information to the student. Thanks. -------- - Helen M. Tafoya-Barraza - ASU, Hispanic Research Center Bitnet: aghmt@asuacad - Tempe, AZ 85287-2702, USA Internet: aghmt@asuvm.inre.asu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 16:15:14 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAVIDSET@SNYONEVA.BITNET Subject: Re: Ti-Grace Atkinson "Radical Feminism: Declaration of War" (1974) was reprinted by permission of Hyperion Press in WOMEN AND VALUES: READINGS IN RECENT FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY, ed. Marilyn Pearsall, Wadsworth, 1986. The notes say Atkinson is "a feminist philosopher and teacher in NYC." Pearsall was at California State University, Sacramento, when she edited this anthology. You could ask her, or Hyperion Press. (WOMEN AND VALUES is an excellent anthology of essays by well-known feminists, by the way.) Does anyone know what happened to Shulamith Firestone? Terry Davidson, Depts. of English and Women's Studies, SUNY/Oneonta, Oneonta NY 13820. DAVIDSET@SYNONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 16:17:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAVIDSET@SNYONEVA.BITNET Subject: Re: Feminist Standpoint Theorists Help me out. Please define "feminist standpoint theory." Thanks. Terry Davidson, Depts. of English and Women's Studies, SUNY/Oneonta, Oneonta NY 13820 DAVIDSET@SYNONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 16:23:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: LESBIGAY LISTS available from LISTSERV John Kellermeier has sent me a copy of the compilation of lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual e-mail lists that he offered yesterday to WMST-L subscribers. I have added it to the WMST-L files, so that people no longer have to write to John for copies. To get a copy, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET LESBIGAY LISTS WMST-L Here's some info from the start of the file: > An Unofficial List-of-Lists/NetGuide for > Lesbigaytrans* People > > Version 1.04 > 3/15/92 > > (Replaces Version 1.03 of 9/11/91) > > > Source: braddlee@ucs.indiana.edu > (Indiana University) > > This is an unscientific compilation of mailing lists, > newsgroups and other forums that may be of interest to gender > minorities and our fellow-travellers. It may well (no, is > pretty much certain to) contain errors and omissions. It's > not intended to be a complete how-to guide, but some > guidelines/tips are included. Remember: please send your requests to LISTSERV, NOT WMST-L!! Many thanks to John for making this list available, and to braddlee@ucs.indiana.edu, who compiled it. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 17:08:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: allan hunter Subject: Ruth Benedict / Synergy In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 1 Dec 1992 11:07:06 -0600 from I am interested in anything written by or about Ruth Benedict and her theory of synergy as expounded upon by psychologist Abraham Maslow in his 1971 book _The Farther Reaches of Human Nature_. His reporting of her and her theories implies that she had not been published or heard much of as of the time of his writing, and that he was crediting her with her work but was working from unpublished materials. Synergy was her name for a theory of integrated self- and social- interests, as opposed to systems of adversarial interest. If you know anything, please reply to me privately at the below address. Thanks! - allan hunter or ` ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 16:35:31 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Danoff-Burg Subject: Re: Atkinson & Firestone In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 1 Dec 1992 16:15:14 -0400 from In the Winter 1992 "On the Issues" magazine, Phyllis Chesler writes, "I have seen the best minds of my generation go 'mad' with battle fatigue, give up, disappear, kill themselves, die--often alone, and in terrible isolation" (p. 59). Further, Chesler writes that she recently attended a rent party for Ti-Grace Atkinson, who is suffering greatly from exposure to low-dose radiation. She also reports that "Shulamith Firestone...a welfare recipient, had to battle hard to hang onto her rent-controlled apartment in between 'visits' to Bellevue in the late 1980s. The fact that none of these women has written second books impoverishes us all." Sharon Danoff-Burg University of Kansas sharondb@ukanvm ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 13:30:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Roberts Subject: Re: SPEAKER NEEDED Suggestion: Dr Glenda Simms, now President of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of WOmen, which is a government-appointment but independent body that funds superb feminist research on status of women stuff including just about any facet of society you could think of as it impacts on women, and advises the Can govt on this area. Of course the govt is free to ignore its advice and does so regularly. Glenda was teaching at a Can university before her appointment a few years ago and she is also an active feminist, antiracist worker, and has many years experience at the community level on issues related to racism, feminism, and social justice. She was among other things formerly president of the Canadian Congress of Black Women, and also has considerable experience in the aboriginal education system. She can be contacted through the council in Ottawa. Oh, she is also herself originally an immigrant, so she knows about that as an experience as well as a social activism and policy issue. Barbara Roberts, Women's Studies, Athabasca university, Alberta Canada barbarar@cs.athabascau.ca (if it isn't obvious, I am seconding the suggestion of the list member from Aotearoa) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 16:45:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "R. CHATTERJEE" Subject: Re: abortion of female fetus Concerning Lucy's interest in reading feminist discussions of the conflict between "Abortion-on-demand (for any reason) and No-gender-determination- to-permit-sex-discrimination-by-abortion" "particularly from the point of view of Indian women" I think MANUSHI may be helpful. MANUSHI: A Journal About Women and Society is one of India's many feminist journals which deals with these and numerous other issues in very powerful prose. I'm sorry but I can't be more specific about which volume deals with the issue of abortion. If MANUSHI is not available in your library, you can order your subscription from (in the USA): Rita Narang, 75 Fieldston Terrace, Rochester, N.Y. 14610 or (In Canada): Khursheed Ahmed, 96 Haddon Avenue, Hamilton, Ont., L8S 4A5 Hope this helps, Ranita rchatter@uwovax.uwo.ca Dept. of English Univ. of Western Ontario London, Ont, Canada ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 10:00:08 WST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne=Bennett%IS=Staff%CURTIN@BA1.CURTIN.EDU.AU Subject: re: Re: Biden Bill Allen, you say you'd rather be dead than caged inone of THOSE places. I suspect that if it really came to the crunch you would rather hang on to life, even the existance offerd by a gaol. Personaly I dont BEGIN my retreat from the death sentence when the victim is female. I simply dont belive that there can be any moral justification to a death sentence ever,no matter how much (at times) one feels that that is what the offender "deserves". In punishing the offenders in suvh a fashion we "solve" the problem precisley on their terms. Violence begets violence, it must stop somewhere. I do think that there may be a lot of good in VERY long sentences for such offenders, accompnied by counselling while in prison. I know that some places have counselling facilites set up (in Oz at least). Finally, I was on a "Reclaim the Night" Rally not so long ago and one of the points that was most important for the women there to emphasisi was a SEEMINGLY simple, one "When I say no I mean NO". When will men ever learn that? cheers Lynne:-) **************************************************************************** INTERNET bennettl@ba1.curtin.edu.au ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 21:34:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Delbes Subject: Re: LESBIGAY LISTS available from LISTSERV In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 1 Dec 1992 16:23:00 EDT from I would also like to thank John very, very much for the lists. Chris ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 21:38:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Delbes Subject: marriage study I am looking for the actual study about married women as the unhappiest category of people. If someone has knows what I am referring to and has any leads, I would certainly appreciate. If someone has a copy of it and would be willing to either fax or send me, it would be terrific. Please respond to me privately. Chris (cdelbes@american.edu) phone/fax (202) 363-5694 4849 Conn. Ave., NW #919 Washington, DC 20008 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 00:01:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Feminist Aesthetics Bibliography available Phyllis Holman Weisbard, the Acting Women's Studies Librarian for the University of Wisconsin System, has just made available on WMST-L another bibliography in the WISCONSIN BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN WOMEN'S STUDIES series. It is ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FEMINIST AESTHETICS IN THE LITERARY, PERFORMING, AND VISUAL ARTS, 1970-1990, prepared by Linda Krumholz as part of a book-in-progress by Estella Lauter entitled FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS IN AESTHETICS. Because of its size, the bibliography has been divided into three files. WISCON BIBLIO6A includes a general introduction and coverage of literary criticism and theory; WISCON BIBLIO6B covers the performing arts (film, music, and theater); WISCON BIBLIO6C covers the visual arts. An unannotated supplement of citations through 1991 is appended at the end of WISCON BIBLIO6C. Also available are the five bibliographies announced earlier: WOMEN AND SCIENCE: ISSUES AND RESOURCES (WISCON BIBLIO1). WOMEN AND WORLD LITERATURE: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTHOLOGIES OF WOMEN'S LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (WISCON BIBLIO2). WISCONSIN WOMEN WRITERS OF ADULT FICTION AND POETRY 1962-1992 (WISCON BIBLIO3). BRAVE, ACTIVE & RESOURCEFUL FEMALES IN PICTURE BOOKS (WISCON BIBLIO4). ISSUES RELATED TO WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT (WISCON BIBLIO5 AND 5A) To obtain any one of these bibliographies, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: GET WISCON BIBLIO[n] WMST-L, where [n] is the number of the one you want. For example, GET WISCON BIBLIO6A WMST-L. If you want more than one, put each request on a separate line: GET WISCON BIBLIO5 WMST-L GET WISCON BIBLIO6A WMST-L GET WISCON BIBLIO6B WMST-L Warning: some of these are large files; you may not be permitted to get all of them at one time, especially if you've already requested other files on the same day. To obtain a list of all files available from the WMST-L filelist, send the following message to LISTSERV: INDEX WMST-L To obtain a list of all syllabi available from the SYLLABI filelist, send the following message to LISTSERV: INDEX SYLLABI To obtain a list of all feminist film reviews available from the FILM filelist, send the following message to LISTSERV: INDEX FILM These three commands can be sent in one mail message; just be sure to put each on a separate line. See the WMST-L User's Guide, sections 10 & 11, for more information about files. If you've misplaced your copy of this font of all wisdom, you can get another copy by sending the following message to LISTSERV: GET GUIDE WMST-L. PLEASE BE SURE TO SEND ALL THE ABOVE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L! <================== Once again, many thanks to Phyllis for making these valuable bibliographies available through the list (i.e., from LISTSERV :-) ). Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 21:53:23 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly Westad I am a student who is new to this hotline. My professor has given us the assignment to find two articles in a topic of interest and then to join a hotline and get atleast 2 people to respond to our articles. I am doing my paper on women and technology and I have read Carol Gilligan's book, In a Different Voice and Victoria Leto's article, "Washing, seems it's all we do: Washing technology and womens communication. Although these two works have many great points, I am restricted to only a few key issues. I felt these articles went together well and I will briefly tell you about them. Throughout Gilligan's book, she stresses that men and women are different and she shows that women feel danger in isolation and men feel danger in attachment. She also shows how most men arrive at decisions through systems of logic & law, while women do so personally through communication & relationships. I found these two aspects of Gilligan's work could be applied to Leto's article. Leto discusses the invention of washing machienes and dishwashers. These machienes have compromised convenience for companionship, Leto says. Women used to help each other with laundry, or atleast kept each other company while they waited for their clothes to dry at the riverside. With dishwashing, this task used to be divided among the family members where they could enjoy after-dinner conversations. However, these machienes were intended for single person usage, which meant that these women were now doing these tasks by themselves. This was addressed by Gilligan as fearing isolation. (Not to mention that the machienes are so noisy, that they alone inhibit conversations). Also, it is important to note that the inventors of such machienes are men (and most of the users are women). It would seem that problems would be inherent just in the fact that machienes developed by men might not exactly service the needs of women. Gilligan says that men use logic to arrive at decisions and whereas women use communication and relationships. Thus, technologies invented by men reinforce the values of a patriarchal society; efficientcy, rationality and materialism. However, these aren't the primary concerns of the women. Women disliked the repititious & monotonous work, which was not alleviated by the advent of these machienes. This technology has ended a valuable source of communication for women and has ignored the fact that women came up with the solution and found that communication between them was a way for them to cope with the monotony of the tasks. DISCUSSION ---------- Does anyone have any feedback? Do you think these articles correspond with eachother? Do you have a different viewpoint? Did I totally miss the point? What do you think? I look forward to your responses- and I would appreciate them as soon as possible as my paper is due soon. Thank You! Kim Westad co134fbm@SDCC4.UCSD.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 21:54:45 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly Westad send Index WMST-L ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 22:00:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pegueros@HISTR.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU Subject: More information on Audre Lorde's memor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED FROM: Pegueros,Rosemarie(G) HISTORY Return-path: Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 13:05:06 -0600 From: Papusa Molina Message-Id: <9212011905.AA21315@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu> To: sappho@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: More information on Audre Lorde's memorial in New York Cc: gaynet@gallifrey.kent.edu The Audre Lorde's Memorial Service will take place on January 18, 1993, 2-4 pm. The service will be at the Cathedral os St. John the Divine, Amsterdam Avenue at 112th St., New York City. If you want to get involved in any way, please call me at (319)335-1486. Please post this information a and the information on the Memorial fund to any publication/person that you consider will be interested. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 08:56:36 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sarah M. Pritchard" Subject: Feminist research methods Two recent books that provide a good introduction to this vast literature are: Neilsen, Joyce McCarl, ed., Feminist Research Methods: Exemplary Readings in the Social Sciences (Westview Press, 1991). Miller, Connie, with Corinna Treitel. Feminist Research Methods: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1991). Both would be helpful for getting at notions of "feminist" interviewing and questionnaire techniques, as requested by the previous posting on this topic. Sarah Pritchard Smith College spritchard@smith.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 09:06:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.T.Norton@CYBER.WIDENER.EDU Subject: Western Civ texts To historians on the list: I would be interested to know whether anyone has identified Western Civ texts a) authored by a woman/women, and/or b) written from a feminist perspective? I'm aware of the various women's history texts (e.g., Anderson and Zinsser, Kinnear, etc.); what I'm looking for is a general text not exclusively focused on women's history but including it in greater measure than, say, McKay et al. Barbara Norton Humanities/History Widener University (pfbtnorton@cyber.widener.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 08:47:31 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NAME Subject: Re: Feminist methodology Shulamit Reinharz's new book FEMINIST METHODS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH (N.Y.: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992) is a terrific introduction to feminist research methods. Kristin Esterberg (kesterberg@vax1.umkc.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 10:11:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Undergraduate assignments and WMST-L I've been hearing this morning from WMST-L subscribers about the undergraduate student who posted a message to WMST-L because her professor gave the class an assignment to "join a hotline" and "get some responses." One subscriber wrote: > I applaud the teacher who is trying to introduce her students to > feminist uses of technology, etc., but (my real concern) I don't really > want to take on 100,000-or-so new students each semester (as would be the > case if -- e.g. -- each faculty member on wmst-l gave such an assignment to > his or her intro class each semester). Ought we to discourage the use of > wmst-l for students wishing to carry out such assignments? There are > plenty of other places (soc.women, etc). I STRONGLY agree that, however worthwhile the assignment's goal, we should discourage students from carrying out such assignments on WMST-L. There are MANY other gender-related lists that have relatively light mail volume and can thus accommodate such requests more easily than WMST-L. If you give such an assignment, please instruct students NOT to send their inquiries to WMST-L, and PLEASE PASS THIS REQUEST ALONG TO YOUR COLLEAGUES. The WMST-L User's Guide and the file OTHER LISTS provide the addresses of many other gender-related lists students can use. Please understand that the issue is simply WMST-L's inability to serve the purposes for which it was established if mail volume grows heavier because of such assignments. Thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc P.S. If you choose to reply to the undergraduate who sent the message, please do so PRIVATELY, not via WMST-L. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 10:24:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Carter Subject: Margaret Bourke-White Anyone out there have some good articles on Margaret Bourke-White's photography? I am working on an article and would appreciate. THANKS. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 10:54:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: format of WMST-L messages (User's Guide) At the start of 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:". Here is section one: 1) "IS THERE A PREFERRED FORMAT TO USE FOR MESSAGES SENT TO THE LIST (I.E., TO WMST-L@UMDD OR WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU)?" Yes. First of all, ALWAYS put your name and e-mail address at the end of every posting. (It is important that people be able to contact you privately if they wish, and some mail systems do not identify the writer anywhere in the header.) Also, please include a meaningful subject heading, so that people will know whether your message deals with a topic of interest to them. 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.) ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 14:45:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KRUSE@XAVIER.BITNET Subject: marriage study I think Chris Delbes' request for the reference to the study on married women and unhappiness would be of interest to many subscribers. I'd be interested in having this information posted to the list, particularly since yet another backlash article indicating that married women with both jobs and children are happier than any other women hit my local paper over the weekend. (Of course, the newspaper article didn't explain what the researchers thought accounted for this or say anything about the researchers' methodology.) Felicia Kruse Dept. of Philosophy Xavier University KRUSE@XAVIER.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 16:20:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WPSADGV@WMMVS.BITNET Subject: Unhappiness in marriage Although the focus of these studies is clinical depression rather than the more generic "unhappiness" McGrath et al. (1990). Women and depression: Risk factors and treatment issues. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association review the impact of "Family roles and intimate relationships" in depression on pp. 23-24. One quote "the ECA [epidemiological catchment area] data on marital status and risk of depression... [show]that marriage conferred a greater protective advantage on men than on women. An unhappy marriage, however, constituted a grave risk to a woman's mental health. The ECA data showed the gender-related difference in 6-month prevalence rates for major depression was more pronounced for married than for separated/divorced or single men and women. In unhappy marriages, women were three times as likely to be depressed, and almost half of all women in unhappy marriages were depressed. In happy marriages the incidence of depression was much lower, but women were almost five times as likely as men in such marriages to experience depressiion (Weissman, 1987). ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 16:24:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WPSADGV@WMMVS.BITNET Subject: Unhappiness in marriage (con't) The Weissman reference cited in my previous post is Weissman, M. M. (1987). Advances in psychiatric epidemiology: Rates and risks for major depression. American Journal of Public Health, 77, 445-451. Deborah G. Ventis, Coordinator of Women's Studies College of William & Mary WPSADGV@WMMVS ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 18:37:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GOLD@SCSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU Subject: RE: abortion of female fetus Lucy, on abortion for sex selection purposes, for good philosophical analysis see Dorothy C. Wertz and John C. Fletcher "Fatal Knowledge? Prenatal Diagnosis and Sex Selection" Hastings Center Report May/June 1989 also see Mary Ann Warren, "The Ethics of Sex Preselection" ub in J. M Humber and Robert F. Almeder Biomedical Ethics Reviews - 1985 Clifton NJ Humana Press 1985, pp.73-89 I can copy these if you need it steve gold GOLD@SCSU.CTSTATEU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 22:12:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LM12@SWTEXAS.BITNET Subject: RE: MARRIED FEMALES AND UNHAPPINESS While sitting at the Reference Desk, I decided to use PsychLit, SocioFile, and Social Sciences databases. I found six articles that might help you: Bryant, Fred B. and Veroff, Joseph. 1982. "The structure of pychological well-being: A sociohistorical analysis." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 43(4), 653-673. Carey,Raymond G. 1977. "The widowed: A year later." Journal of Counseling Psychology 24(2), 125-131. Jueptow, Lloyd B., Guse, Margaret B., and Hyden, Colleen. 1989. "Sex Role Ideology, Marital Status, and Happiness." Journal of Family Issues 10(3), 383-400. Booth, Alan and Edwards, John N. 1989. "Transmission of marital and family quality over the generations: The effect of parental divorce, and unhappiness." Journal of Divorce 13(2), 41-58. Haavio-Mannila, Elina. 1989. "Influence of work place sex segregation on family life." Marriage and Family Review 14(1-2), 107-126. Chiriboga, David A., Roberts, John, and Stein, Judith A. 1978. "Psychological well-being during marital separation." Journal of Divorce 2(1), 21-36. Hope these can help!!!!! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 22:26:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LM12@SWTEXAS.BITNET Subject: RE: MARRIED FEMALES AND UNHAPPINESS I am very sorry, but I sent the short bibliography on married females and unhappiness without identifying myself under LM12 account. Leslie S. Marshall Alkek Library Southwest Texas State University San Marcos, Texas 78666 (512) 245-3893/3894/3894 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 23:48:19 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WOMENCTR@MAINE.BITNET Subject: Thanks for your help. To those on th list who responded to our request for help Re. Feminist Standpoint Theory, we, and our student, thank you very much. University of Southern Maine Women's Center. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 12:35:01 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: gallivan@CAD.UCCB.NS.CA Subject: RE: Feminist research methods An excellent source/resource for femist methodology is Feminist Methods in Social Research by Shulamit Reinharz Joanne Gallivan gallivan@cad.uccb.ns.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 11:12:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PGRAHAME@BENTLEY.BITNET Subject: Social Class Reader Needed I'm looking for help in locating an exciting, accessible to undergrads collection of readings for a sociology course on social class. Help! I've been wading through publishers' catalogs with not much success. I need a text which is integrative of race and gender issues. Thanks! You may reply to me privately. Kamini Email Address: PGrahame@Bentley.Bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 11:18:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Where to send messages (User's Guide) At the start of 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:". Here is section two: 2) "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LISTSERV@UMDD AND WMST-L@UMDD? HOW DO I TELL WHICH ADDRESS TO USE?" WMST-L@UMDD (or WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU on Internet) should be used ONLY for messages that you wish to send to all WMST-L subscribers. Messages concerning your WMST-L subscription should be sent to LISTSERV@UMDD (or, on Internet, LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU). For example, send messages to LISTSERV, not WMST-L, when you wish to Cancel your subscription: UNSUB WMST-L Stop receiving mail temporarily: SET WMST-L NOMAIL Start receiving mail again: SET WMST-L MAIL See who is subscribed to WMST-L: REVIEW WMST-L NOTE: If you subscribed under a Bitnet address and sent your subscription request to LISTSERV's Bitnet address (LISTSERV@UMDD), you must send ALL subsequent mail to the list's Bitnet addresses. Similarly, if you subscribed under an Internet address and sent your subscription request to LISTSERV's Internet address (LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU), you must send ALL subsequent mail the the list's Internet addresses. If you try to set your subscription to NOMAIL or you try to signoff and are told you don't have a subscription, chances are you are sending your request to the wrong address for LISTSERV. Simply try the other address. (See also section 3) For more extensive information about LISTSERV commands, send LISTSERV the following two-word message: INFO GENINTRO. You'll receive a file entitled LISTSERV.MEMO. (See section 11 for how to retrieve files sent to you in Netdata format.) If you have a question about your subscription that you want a human being to read, do not send it to either WMST-L or LISTSERV. Instead, send it to the list owner, Joan Korenman [KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet)]. ****************** Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 10:31:18 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne.G.Brooks@DARTMOUTH.EDU Subject: Suffragist Video I am trying to purchase a video called "The Long March of the Suffragists." Back in 1982 we received a news release about a video called "The Long March of the Suffragists." (50 minutes, color/B&W.) It was produced by BBC and Time-Life Films, and is a documentary that was part of the series, YESTERDAY'S WITNESS IN AMERICA. At that time it was available for purchase in 1/2" format for $200 from Time-Life Videos. Time-Life Videos no longer exists, but a company called Ambrose bought many of their titles. It did not buy this one. Does anyone out there know where this video can be purchased? Or if it is available for rental? Or, are there any other videos people can recommend about the struggle for suffrage or the role of women in that period. Thanks, Anne Brooks Coordinator, Women's Studies Program Dartmouth College Return mail should be sent to: Anne.G.Brooks@Dartmouth.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 09:06:39 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Siang-Cheng Lim Subject: I'd like to thank... Six weeks ago, I posted a S.O.S. message requesting for assistance to do a paper titled "Global Communications Between Women in Industrialised Countries and Women in Developing Countries." The paper has been completed and therefore, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the following people for their generous offerings: Ms. Joan Ariel, Mr. John Berg, Ms. Deborah Louis, Mr. Terry Davidson, Ms. Sue Curry Jansen, Ms. Cindy Tittle, Ms. Gillian Kranias, Ms. Jo Hinchliffe, Ms. Frances Wasserlein, and moss@herald.usask.ca. If I have left someone out of this list, please forgive me. For those who have sent me one-liners, I thank you all the same. Thank you so much for all your assistance. Sincerely, Mabel Lim easu281@orion.oac.uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 12:43:16 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHILDON@MOREKYPR.BITNET Subject: Re: Unhappiness in marriage I sent this citation to Chris privately, but with all the current discussionon the list I think it prudent to send it to the list also. Probably the original citation for women's unhappiness in marriage, and the greater happiness of single women is Jessie Bernard's _The Future of Marriage_ (1972). She concluded that marriage maeks women sick..... Donna C. Phillips phildon@morekypr ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 14:13:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GABRIEL@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA Subject: assistance needed on feminist collectives I am looking for information on feminist collectives/cooperatives. I have checke d the major library sources and have come up with very little. I need info on how they function, etc., rather than listings. Any suggestions? Gabriella Hochmann Concordia University Montreal GABRIEL2VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 13:30:25 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Bryan Strong: Psychology / UC-Santa Cruz" Subject: Re: assistance needed on feminist collectives Deborah Wolf's classic Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1979 has considerable research on lesbian/feminist collectives. Bryan Strong Psychology Board of Studies University of California-Santa Cruz bartleby@cats.UCSC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 16:01:09 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NAME Subject: attitudes toward abortion I have a student who is interested in doing some work on attitudes toward abortion. He wants to see if attitudes toward abortion are correlated with attitudes toward sex education and family policy. (Essentially, he wants to see if those who oppose abortion also oppose sex education and so forth.) Although he's seen a lot of political materials that make this claim (he works for a local abortion rights group), he's having trouble locating scholarly research on it. Does anyone have a few citations to get hime started? Please respond to me privately. Thanks! Kristin Esterberg kesterberg@vax1.umkc.edu (or kesterberg@umkcvax1) 816-235-2514 Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, KC, MO 64110 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 14:18:37 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Lesch.McCaffry@SONOMA.EDU Subject: Feminist Lit /Indigenous Date 12/3/92 Subject Feminist Lit /Indigenous >From Barbara Lesch McCaffry To WMST Subscribers Subject: Time: 7:40 PM OFFICE MEMO Feminist Lit /Indigenous Date: 11/22/92 I will be teaching a Feminist Perspectives literature course this Spring with an emphasis on Indigenous Peoples: the Colonized and the Dispossessed and including both male and female authors (with novels by Ali Ghalem, Etel Adnan, Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Joy Kogawa, Bharati Mukurjee, Michelle Cliff, & Buchi Emecheta). I'd like to include a number of short stories and autobiographical articles from a U.S. and world prespective which deal with issues of the colonized sense of self and the issues of dispossession/needing to flee. So far I am finding a treasure trove on immigrants to the U.S. in the multi-culural anathology, Imagining America. I'd appreciate any suggestions you might have for non-Western sources in English or in translation. If you respond to me privately, I'd be happy to share the responses with the list. Barbara.Lesch.McCaffry@sonoma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 17:41:08 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "L. Banaszak" RE: Looking for course material for a Women and Politics Course I am teaching a women and politics course for the first time in Spring Semester, and am looking for some readings on the Gay/ Lesbian Rights Movement to include in the course. The course is for upper-level undergraduates. Does anyone have some suggested readings which they have used in similar courses or which they think would be good for such a course? Thanks, Lee Ann Banaszak Iowa State University s1.lab@isumvs ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 20:57:28 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laurieaj@MATAI.VUW.AC.NZ Subject: Re: List server addresses > >$ send listserv@umdd get other lists > Alison J.Laurie, Womens Studies, VUW, Aotearoa/New Zealand. . > n >blwiesne@cc.owu.edu Alison Laurie Womens Studies Victoria University of Wellington telephone +64 4 472 1000 ext. 8731 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 21:03:00 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laurieaj@MATAI.VUW.AC.NZ Subject: Re: Listserv addresses > * * * BITNET: kellerjh@snyplava > * INTERNET: kellerjh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu Please send me the list of lesbian/gay addresses. Alison J.Laurie, Womens Studies, VUW, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Alison Laurie Womens Studies Victoria University of Wellington telephone +64 4 472 1000 ext. 8731 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 20:25:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NADELHFT@MAINE.BITNET Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Call for papers for the first annual conference on NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY focussing on WOMEN AND MEN IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA, 1840-1880 June 3-5 1993 sponsored by The WASHBURN HUMANITIES CENTER in association with the University of Maine and the University of Southern Maine The Washburn Humanities Center welcomes the submission of papers representing a broad range of disciplines. Topics might include but are not limited to the general subjects of religious reform, abolition, men's and women's Civil War service, travelers, participation in Reconstruction, art, architecture, material culture, fiction, and to individuals such as Neal Dow, Dorothea Dix, Elihu and Cadwalladar Washburn. The Center encourages the submission of complete two or three person sessions. The annual Washburn Humanities Conference is designed to illuminate the social, cultural, political, and economic history of northern New England, the region's impact on the nation and the nation's on the region. Future topics, more focused after the initial conference, will be: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: NATIVE-AMERICANS AND WHITES; ALCOHOLISM AND TEMPERANCE IN RURAL AMERICA; ARISTOCRACY MIDST THE DEMOCRACY: GREAT FAMILIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC. The Conference will be held at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, a 445 acre site containing a restored one room school house, farmer's cottage, free standing library (housing the extensive Washburn family collections), a 200 seat 1828 Universalist Church, and the 1867 Washburn mansion. Submit 250 word abstracts by January 24 to: Jennifer Perlof Washburn Humanities Center Norlands RFD 2, Box 1740 Livermore Falls, ME 04254 Phone: (207) 897-4366 Previously published material should not be submitted. For additional information, contact me privately. Nadelhft@Maine Jerome Nadelhaft History Department University of Maine ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 20:34:34 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carole marmell Subject: looking for a reference someone has formulated a typology called "stages of encounter with racism and sexism" (or something like that. the stages are pre-encounter, enounter, immersion, and transformation. does anyone know who the author is? does anyone have a reference to it? does anyone know of other typologies which may be similar or different which reflect adjustments/adaptations/whatever to racism or sexism? the encounter scale reflects individual encounters. is there a similar typology at a group level reflecting a stages a minority group might go through in adapting/adjusting/assimilating/resisting,whatever to a majority culture? any help will be appreciated. please send it to me personally (e-mail address below). thanks, carole marmell/university of houston/socwlr @ uhupvm1 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 23:09:56 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laurieaj@MATAI.VUW.AC.NZ Subject: Re: LESBIGAY LISTS available from LISTSERV e GET LESBIGAY LISTS WMST-L 2 91) >> >> Alison Laurie Womens Studies Victoria University of Wellington telephone +64 4 472 1000 ext. 8731 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 23:16:30 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laurieaj@MATAI.VUW.AC.NZ Subject: Re: >send Index WMST-L Alison Laurie Womens Studies Victoria University of Wellington telephone +64 4 472 1000 ext. 8731 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 22:32:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Dissertation Scholarship Announcement I am posting the following announcement for Pat Cohen, who is having temporary problems posting to the list. Please send all inquiries to her at the e-mail address she provides below, not to WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc *************************************************************** Here is the official announcement of our Dissertation Scholars Program, now entering its third year of competition. Apply to me at the mailing address below; questions cheerfully answered by e-mail, regular mail, or telephone. TEACHING FELLOWSHIP: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM WOMEN'S STUDIES DISSERTATION SCHOLARS The Women's Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for a dissertation fellowship in Women's Studies for the academic year 1993-94. Candidates must be advanced to candidacy and expect completion of dissertation during term of residence. Women's Studies Dissertation scholars will teach one undergraduate course and present one colloquium. The Women's Studies Program has a multidisciplinary, multicultural curriculum and faculty. Applicants from any of the humanities or the social sciences should demonstrate strong research and teaching interests in race, class, gender and cultural difference. Applications from racial, ethnic and other women candidates are strongly encouraged. The duration of the award is nine months, with the fellowship grant approximately $16,000. Scholars are required to be in residence during the entire fellowship period. To apply, send curriculum vitae, a brief description of the dissertation project, a writing sample (approximately 25 pages), and arrange to have three letters of reference sent to Professor Patricia Cline Cohen, Chair, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93l06 , by March 15, 1993. An Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. That is the full text of the ad. If you have any questions, try me on e-mail: Pat Cohen, pcc@sbitp.bitnet or internet: pcc@sbitp.ucsb.edu Telephone is (805) 893-4330. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 01:25:57 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: Re: Readings, L/G Rights Movement In-Reply-To: <9212040536.AA02573@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "L. Banaszak" at Dec 3, 92 5:41 pm > > I am teaching a women and politics course for the first time in > Spring Semester, and am looking for some readings on the Gay/ > Lesbian Rights Movement to include in the course. The course > is for upper-level undergraduates. Does anyone have some suggested > The Teaching Resources Center of the American Sociological Association recently published a resource manual that includes syllabi of courses on sexuality and courses on lesbian/gay issues. The courses range from general courses to courses on specific l/g topics. Many courses are interdisciplinary. The manual also includes exercises and assignments, and pedagogical essays. It is titled "The Sociology of Sexuality and Homosexuality: Syllabi and Teaching Materials" and it is distributed by the ASA Teaching Resources Center, 1722 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20036, (202) 833-3410. It was edited by Martin Levine and Paula Rust (that's me). In my course called "Psychosexual Diversity," I have students read: Faderman, Lillian. 1991. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America. NY:Columbia U. Press (selected chapters) Adam, Barry D. 1979. "A Social History of Gay Politics" in Martin Levine (ed.) Gay Men. NY: Harper and Row. Beam, Joseph (ed.) 1986. In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology. Boston: Alyson Publications. The chapters by Joseph Beam "Introcution: Leaving the Shadows Behind" and Craig G. Harris, "Cut Off from among Their People" Wittstock, Melinda. 1990. "The Best of BOth Worlds and Still Nothing: Bisexuals Come Out to Talk," in Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook. Thomas Geller (ed.) Times Change Press. Kaplan, Rebecca. 1992. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Bisexual Existence: Toward a Bisexual Feminist Understanding of Heterosexism" in Elizabeth Reba Weise (ed.) Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism. Seattle, WA: Seal Press. I also used to have students read Deborah Goleman Wolf, chapter 2 on "Socio-Historical Background" in The Lesbian Community. I've recently taken it off the syllabus in favor of Faderman. Other books that on this topic that I have on my shelf are: Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr (eds.) Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. (This might be about earlier historical periods than the ones you are looking for) Barry D. Adam. 1987. The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement. Boston: Twayne Publishers. Bob Cant and Susan Hemmings (eds.) 1988. Radical Records: Thirty years of Lebian and Gay History. NY:Routledge Toby Marotta. 1981. The Politics of Homosexuality: How lesbians and gay men have made themselves a political and social force in modern America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (I haven't read this one, so I don't know how appropriate it is for this list). In my course, I also show the videos "Before Stonewall" and "Rights and Reactions." Rights and Reactions is about the debate surrounding the passage of New York City's anti-discrim- ination on the basis of sexual orientation law. The resource manual I described above also includes helpful lists, like an annotated film/video list and a bibliography. Paula Rust, Hamilton College, prust@itsmail1.hamilton.edu -- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 17:13:01 WST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne=Bennett%IS=Staff%CURTIN@BA1.CURTIN.EDU.AU Subject: book title Hi Barabra, you asked for suggestions for feminist reading in cultures outsied the US. The following may be of use to you. It is an autobiograpical story of one woman's attempt to discovey her ancestery. The aurhor, Sally Morgan, is an aboriginal but was brought up not knowing this fact. Her mother and grandmother concealing this from her and her brothers and sistes because even as recently as the 1950's our goventment was still taking balck children from their parents and "educating" them for their station in life (hate that phrase), which was housemaid, labourer etc. Sally is about my age (30's) studied librarianship at this campus and then went on to unravel her family history. It is a moving and powerful book. Its feminism comes not overtly but through the strength of the women (Sally, her mother and grandmother). The book also looks at the way women treated as property by the landowners they worked for. In this instance - although not absolutly stated,as the people she was writing about are still alive, one is lead to the conclusion that Sally's grandfather and father were the same (white) man. This book is remakable in a lot of ways. I am sure that only 15 years ago this work would never have seen the light of day, things are changing, but much too slowly. Sorry about the preamble, I sort of got carried away. Sally MORGAN, My Place; Fremantle, Western Australia, Fremantle Arts Press, 1987 Hope you like it. sisterly yours Lynne Bennett :-) ***************************************************************************** INTERNET bennettl@ba1.curtin.edu.au **************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 07:05:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dl81 Subject: Re: looking for a reference In-Reply-To: <9212040237.AA11192@umd5.umd.edu> Typologies too simplistic and tend to (conveniently) trivialize as complex a process in human/social behavior as confronting racism, sexism, other ideologies of oppression. As in typology cited, just as frequent a pattern might be labeled pre-encounter, encounter, fight-or-flight, or pre-encounter, encounter, denial... In terms of groups, Frantz Fanon's THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH has yet to be improved upon, with Sartre's introduction still one of the most illuminating pieces of literature out there in respect to viewpoints/reactions of the colonized to the colonizers. The psychodynamics of oppression he was one of the first to identify in respect to colonial relationships is as applicable to other relationships of subjugation as well. The old "feedback model" from sociology (interaction of culture, social organization, biology and environment, with the "encounter" we're looking at occurring in the environment and generating a "figure 8" dynamic through all four aspects of the respective cultural groups) is the best shorthand tool I have found for exploring this issue with students. The model allows for the specific characteristics and history of each group to be considered in the process of explanation and prediction of outcomes, and our own enculturated blind-spots are somewhat overcome by insistance of the model on looking at factors we might otherwise dismiss or take for granted. The typologies, however, seem to feed into our enculturated preferences and facilitate generalizing about groups and dynamics in ways that continue to obstruct genuine understanding about what's going on. DEB LOUIS (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 07:24:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAVIDSET@SNYONEVA.BITNET Subject: Re: I'd like to thank... I'm Ms. Terry Davidson. I've been wondering if I should change the spelling of my name, as I am very much woman. DAVIDSET@SNYONEVA.CC.ONEONTA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 09:02:59 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda=Bernhard%LSP%CON@NURSING.CON.OHIO-STATE.EDU Subject: women & politics; gay/lesbian movements Janice G. Raymond, "Putting the politics back into lesbianism" _Women's Studies International Forum" 12(2), 1989, 149-156. Margaret Cruikshank, _The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement_ Routledge Chapter 5, "Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism" in B.D. Adam, _The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement_, 1987, Boston: Twayne Publishers. Linda Bernhard BernhardL@nursing.con.ohio-state.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 10:51:27 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sonya Elaine Fichter Subject: lesbian feminist collectives Forwarded message: > From fichters Fri Dec 4 10:50:35 1992 > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 10:50:34 EST > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem > Subject: Returned mail: User unknown > To: fichters > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 wmst-l.umdd.bitnet... User unknown > > ----- Unsent message follows ----- > Received: by student2.cl.msu.edu (4.1/MSU-2.01) > id AA08259; Fri, 4 Dec 92 10:50:34 EST > From: Sonya Elaine Fichter > Message-Id: <9212041550.AA08259@student2.cl.msu.edu> > Subject: lesbian femininst collectives > To: wmst-l.umdd.bitnet > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 10:50:33 EST > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 10:47:12 EST > > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] > > > > Does anyone have information about Lesbian Feminist (Separatist) residential > > cooperatives or communes? Specifically I'm looking for locations, and the > > individuals who founded them and/or live in them. > > > > Thanks, > > Sonya Fichter > > fichters@student.msu.edu > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 11:04:28 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Beth Ahlum-Heath Subject: Women Studies Minor Requirements TO: Women Studies Programs FROM: Mary Beth Ahlum-Heath (mba@NebrWesleyan.edu) Women Studies Coordinator Nebraska Wesleyan University For purposes of comparison I would like to know what your requirements are for a minor in WS. We currently have a 15 hour minor with only 1 required core course (Intro to WS) the remaining 4 courses are chosen from a list of electives. I am curious to compare these requirements with those in other programs. Please respond privately. Thanks!! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 14:02:22 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: <04DEC92.15180264.0226.MUSIC@UNB.CA> From: REIM000 Subject: Ronnie Steinberg talk In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of WED 25 NOV 1992 11:44:00 EST Pat, I wasn't able to attend the Ronnie Steinberg talk on the social construction of skill because I am so much further east -- in New Brunswick, Canada (Fredericton) -- however, I would greatly appreciate hearing what the talk was about, or any publications she has recently produced. I do research in the same area, and plan to do a study of pay equity plans in Canada next year. Thanks, Marilee Reimer, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 4W8 Canada (Reim@unb.ca) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 17:09:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Authorization to post messages (User's Guide) At the start of 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:". Here is section three: 3) "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?" Most of the time, this problem occurs when someone subscribes under one address and then tries to post under a different address (e.g., she/he subscribes under a Bitnet address and then tries to post from an Internet address). The WMST-L software recognizes subscribers by their e-mail address. If you subscribe under a Bitnet [or Internet] address, you have to send all messages to LISTSERV and WMST-L from that same address. If you are unsuccessful posting a message to the list's Bitnet address, try sending the message to the list's Internet address. ****************** Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 21:45:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Winkler@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Subject: stages of encounter with racism and sexism I would also be interested in the reference on typologies of stages of encounter. Thanks ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 22:27:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: RE: Women Studies Minor Requirements Earlier today, Mary Beth Ahlum-Heath wrote: > For purposes of comparison I would like to know what your requirements > are for a minor in WS. We currently have a 15 hour minor with only > 1 required core course (Intro to WS) the remaining 4 courses are chosen > from a list of electives. I am curious to compare these requirements > with those in other programs. Please respond privately. Thanks!! I'm responding to the list because I suspect that this topic may be of interest to a number of subscribers. UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County) has an 18-hour minor with three required courses: WMST 100 - Introduction to Women's Studies WMST/AFAM 370 - Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives WMST 480 - Theories of Feminism The only restriction concerning the three remaining courses is that they must be listed or crosslisted as WMST. Also, though students may do a Women's Studies internship at a local business or organization, the internship must be in addition to the 18 hours of courses required for the minor. Joan Korenman, Director korenman@umbc (bitnet) Women's Studies Program korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu (internet) UMBC Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 23:00:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Winkler@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Subject: thanks Lynne, thanks so much for the book title. Sounds very interesting! Barbara Scott Winkler, Ann Arbor ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 22:44:53 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHIL7@JETSON.UH.EDU Subject: Fellowships for w.s. students? In the past year I have received a large number of requests for information about fellowships and financial assistance for women's studies students. Is there some central resource I can turn to for information on this? We have a number of older students and students returning to college after having families or other careers. Does anyone know of resources that would be particularly appropriate for them? I know of a few things like AAUW fellowships but many of the other programs I have heard of seem to target women who are returning to college in order to study "practical" things like business or engineering. I am completely at a loss and would appreciate any advice people can offer. Thanks, Cynthia Freeland University of Houston phil7@jetson.uh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 10:32:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CSMITH@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU Subject: Thank you for the advice. Could I have more? About six weeks ago I asked for suggestions on dealing with hostility between students in my Psychology of Women class. I would like to thank everyone who gave me suggestions. I have saved all the suggestions, some I implemented, others I will use early next semester to, hopefully, avoid the same situation. I was able to reduce some of the hostility by having the students sit in a circle (which they hated at first and loved by the end of the class) and by having the students give a mid-terms evaluation of the course and suggestions for improving the course and relations in the course. Well, I need more advice. The last class of the semester was deemed the woman-positive class. I had students bring in clippings, songs, poems, videos depicting women positively. It went over very well. Only one student brought in something questionable, clippings from "The Little Mermaid". My question is this, how I deal with a student who does something questionable such as this? I didn't want to embarrass her in front of the class, but I also didn't want the class to think that I agreed with this as woman-positive. I didn't ask the students specifically what they were bringing in, because that might send the message that I can't trust them, and that only I know what is woman-positive. Any advice? Finally, it is gift-giving season. Does anyone know of a book or other materials that are sort of an "intro to feminism" that would be appropriate for a 15 year old young woman? Thanks. Please respond privately. Christine Smith CSMITH@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 07:31:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia McRae Subject: Re: Thank you for the advice. Could I have more? In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 4 Dec 1992 10:32:00 EST from Good morning, Chris. First I'm not clear concerning what you found objection- able about the Little Mermaid clippings the student brought in as part of her assignment for women-positive day. If your objection has to do with the stereo typical standard of beauty imposed on women, one might start from the Mermaid itself and point out, one this is a fish..not a human woman; second, ask the student what was it about the Mermaid she/he felt constituted something posit- ive about woman..if it was the beauty angle, one could point out that such is an idealization imposed from outside the woman. Alternatively one could point out that the focus on body has been skewed and shifted away from the notion of health to one of a form of beauty that often is pursued to the detriment of the woman [expensive make-ups; plastic surgery, etc.] Also, Chris, would you post to the list the suggestions you receive for books on feminist theory that would be deemed appropriate. Being the head of a large extended family, I have often wondered how to get across to nieces and cousins another view of the world besides the *home view*. Thanks, Patricia McRae PATMCRA@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU PATMCRA@UNIVSCVM USC-Coastal Carolina College ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 07:50:52 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: survey of ws grads We are planning to do a survey of our women's studies grads, asking them how the program affected them and how they are now using their women's studies training. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done such a survey. Which questions work best? How did you word your cover letter to maximize response? If possible, please send me a copy of the survey. Thanks in advance for your help, Stephanie Riger Women's Studies Program (M/C 360) Univ. of Il. at Chicago 1022 Behavioral Sciences Building 1007 W. Harrison St. Chicago, Il. 60607-7137 Bitnet: u29322@UICVM Fax: 312-413-4122 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 10:01:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SSWOOD@HARVARDA.BITNET Subject: WORKING PAPERS We are now trying to decide on paper submission guidelines for our women 's studies program working papers series. Knowing we could benefit from the ex perience of other programs, we would like to hear about guidelines used by othe r programs either through the net or privately. JAP bitnet SSWOOD@HARVARDA ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 11:50:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: PC and the Feminist Movement At a recent Women's Studies meeting, one of my colleagues distributed copies of a short essay by Joan D. Mandle, Director of Women's Studies at Colgate University, entitled "Political Correctness and the Feminist Movement." The essay, which appeared in the Sociologists for Women in Society NETWORK, raises questions about "the extent to which feminist practice and politics have generated strategies and styles inconsistent with the goal of successullly challenging and reducing sexism." My colleague was very impressed with the essay, and so was I. I wrote to Joan, a WMST-L subscriber, and asked whether she had an electronic version of the essay that she'd be willing to make available on the WMST-L filelist. I've now added that essay to the WMST-L files, calling it PC_AND FEMINISM. To get a copy, send the following command to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET PC_AND FEMINISM . Please note that the underscore (_) between PC and AND is a vital part of the title. Also, please remember to send your request to LISTSERV, NOT--repeat, NOT--to WMST-L. Many thanks to Joan Mandle for making this valuable essay available on WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 11:54:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Stopping Mail Temporarily (User's Guide) At the start of 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:". Here is section four: ****************** 4) "I'M GOING ON VACATION FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. CAN I STOP MAIL WHILE I'M AWAY, OR DO I HAVE TO UNSUBSCRIBE?" You can stop mail temporarily by sending the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed on Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed on Internet): SET WMST-L NOMAIL When you want mail to start arriving again, send the following message to the same address: SET WMST-L MAIL Note: BE SURE TO SEND THESE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L! ****************** Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 11:19:31 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MFIALA@VAX1.UMKC.EDU Subject: PC and Feminism I just finished reading Joan Mandle's essay and want to say that I agree with her completely. It has often occured to me that we are in danger of becoming what we fear: "mean-spirited and zero-sum" sexist ideologues. We must not forget that sexism is a label that cuts two ways. If in fact, our goal is to eliminate sexism, we must not perpetuate sexist behavior. Mindy Fiala MFiala@VAX1.UMKC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 14:05:45 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: New Film Review: "Gas, Food, Lodging" My review of "Gas, Food, Lodging" by independent filmmaker Allison Anders was broadcast today on "The Women's Show," a weekly feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM in Tampa, and is available now on the FILM FILELIST. To obtain a copy of this review send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV56 FILM To obtain a list of all the film reviews available, send a message to the same listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one review, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The number of files you can request on any calendar day is limited to twenty. 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 1300 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 1299 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/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 12:54:34 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel x4970 Subject: Re: Fellowships for w.s. students? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Dec 92 22:44:53 CST." <9212050507.AA09885@cpl2.ns.nts.uci.edu> Re: fellowships for WS students: most libraries should have FINANCIAL AIDS FOR WOMEN, annual (or bi-annual) edited by Gail Schlachter. A good guide to many sources of fellowships, etc. Joan Ariel Women's Studies Librarian UC Irvine jariel@uci.edu > In the past year I have received a large number of requests for information > about fellowships and financial assistance for women's studies students. > Is there some central resource I can turn to for information on this? We > have a number of older students and students returning to college after > having families or other careers. Does anyone know of resources that > would be particularly appropriate for them? I know of a few things like > AAUW fellowships but many of the other programs I have heard of seem > to target women who are returning to college in order to study "practical" > things like business or engineering. I am completely at a loss and would > appreciate any advice people can offer. > Thanks, > Cynthia Freeland > University of Houston > phil7@jetson.uh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 12:56:57 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel x4970 Subject: Re: survey of ws grads In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Dec 92 07:50:52 CST." <9212051357.AA13611@cpl2.ns.nts.uci.edu> RE: Survey of WS grads: would respondents please post to the full list? This is of interest to many of us who would like to do surveys. Thanks. Joan Ariel UC Irvine jariel@uci.edu > We are planning to do a survey of our women's studies grads, asking them > how the program affected them and how they are now using their women's > studies training. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done > such a survey. Which questions work best? How did you word your cover > letter to maximize response? If possible, please send me a copy of the > survey. > Thanks in advance for your help, > Stephanie Riger > Women's Studies Program (M/C 360) > Univ. of Il. at Chicago > 1022 Behavioral Sciences Building > 1007 W. Harrison St. > Chicago, Il. 60607-7137 > Bitnet: u29322@UICVM > Fax: 312-413-4122 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 20:41:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dianne L Harper Subject: Re: Ti-Grace Atkinson Last I heard Ti-Grace was doing graduate work in the Philosophy Dept. at bia. That would have been in the early eighties. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 09:58:47 IST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: amith ben-david Subject: sign-off please unsubscibe me ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 09:16:09 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Subject: Re: PC and Feminism In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 5 Dec 1992 11:19:31 -0600 from On Sat, 5 Dec 1992 11:19:31 -0600 said: >I just finished reading Joan Mandle's essay and want to say that I agree >with her completely. It has often occured to me that we are in danger >of becoming what we fear: "mean-spirited and zero-sum" sexist ideologues. >We must not forget that sexism is a label that cuts two ways. If in fact, >our goal is to eliminate sexism, we must not perpetuate sexist behavior. > >Mindy Fiala >MFiala@VAX1.UMKC.EDU Oh, y'all ain't so bad. For every feminist with female chauvinism type tendencies, there's one who falls all over herself with gratitude when- ever a MAN actually cares about and supports women's causes, and there's several kpz are woman-oriented in her politics but treat each individual male as a person accountable for his behavior but not individually the same as The Patriarchy. Personally, I've always found feminists in general to be the most op- timistic and visionary of universally caring people, and that includes the wrath and fury part as well - therefore, my choice of role models in how to be a person. I hope to become likewise, and will be quite comfortable in contending with any real-life anti-male chauvinistic women as well as the much larger supply of problem people of my own sex. Meanwhile, for the most part, keep on doin' what you do so well. - allan hunter ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 09:51:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BLWIESNE@OWUCOMCN.BITNET Subject: 3rd anniversary Montreal Massacre December 6th is the third anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. Three years ago self-proclaimed anti-feminist, Marc Lepine, walked into an engineering classroom and opened fire on the women students. Fourteen women lost their lives. Please remember to show solidarity with all women who have experienced and continue to experience male violence. blwiesne@owucomcn blwiesne@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 09:55:11 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: ws minor requirements Requirements for our minor are 15 semester hours, including WS 101 (Women in U.S. Society) OR WS 103 (Women in History, Literature and the Arts) AND 102 (Women in International Perspective) and 390(Senior Seminar) and two Women's STudies courses at the 200 (soph) level or above. This last requirement includes courses in other departments that are cross-listed in women's studies, and other courses not cross-listed,with the consent of the Women's Studies Committee. Feel free to contact me if you have questions about this. Stephanie Riger Women's Studies Program (M/C 360) Univ. of Il. at Chicago 1022 Behavioral Sciences Building 1007 W. Harrison St. Chicago, Il. 60607-7137 Bitnet: u29322@UICVM Fax: 312-413-4122 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 11:31:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: RE: Women Studies Minor Requirements Last Friday, Mary Beth Ahlum-Heath (mba@NebrWesleyan.edu), Women's Studies Coordinator at Nebraska Wesleyan University, wrote: > For purposes of comparison I would like to know what your requirements > are for a minor in WS. We currently have a 15 hour minor with only > 1 required core course (Intro to WS) the remaining 4 courses are chosen > from a list of electives. I am curious to compare these requirements > with those in other programs. Please respond privately. Thanks!! I think it might be useful if I compiled a file of responses to add to the WMST-L filelist. Thus, in spite of her request that you respond privately, you might consider responding to WMST-L. Or, if you prefer to respond privately, I'd be most grateful if you'd forward a copy of your response to me as well at either of the addresses given below. I'll put them into a file, add it to the filelist, and then make an announcement on WMST-L. That way, people six months from now will have an easy place to begin a search for information, and those of us who have posted responses this time won't have to repeat ourselves. Many thanks. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 16:05:02 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wes Chapman Subject: Re: PC and Feminism In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 5 Dec 1992 11:19:31 -0600 from While I admire the spirit of Joan Mandle's "PC and Feminism," especially its urge towards inclusiveness and its insistence that feminists (and non- feminists) have the right to criticize feminism, there is at least one aspect of it that I find disturbing: its seemingly absolute denial of the legitimacy of separatism. Surely separatism is _one_ valid political and philosophical option (not the only option, but one option)? To dismiss separatism altogether would be--well, dismissive, precisely what Mandle is trying to avoid. Wes Chapman Illinois Wesleyan University weschap@uiucvmd.bitnet weschap@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 13:05:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cathy Bray Subject: Re: 3rd anniversary Montreal Massacre I don't re-member the antifeminist's name. I remember the women: Genevieve Bergeron, 21; Helene Colgan, 23; Nathalie Croteau, 23; Barbarar Daigneault, 22; Anne-Marie Edward, 21; Maud Haviernick, 29; Barbara Maria Klueznick, 31; Maryse Laganiere, 25; Maryse Leclair, 23; Anne-Marie Lemay, 27; Sonia Pelletier 28; Michele Richard, 21; Annie St Arneault, 23; Annie Turcotte, 21. Source Le Devoir, The Calgary Herald, La Gazette Written by Rita Wong and Bernadette Andrea, reprinted in the Alberta Status of Women Action Committee Newsletter, November 1992. Catherine Bray, Women's Studies, Athabasca University ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 16:54:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: Jong on Packwood and Feminism I, too read the Jong piece in today Washington Post, and most of my reaction was similar to Mona Danner's. However, let me extract one piece. >Jong notes that sexual harassment >is "an abuse of power" but wonders what men are to do, "even men >of 30 are confused. 'What's the line between flirtation and >harassment?' they often ask. Terrified of rejection by women >they fancy, they now have to face court-martial by the sexual >harassment commandoes. It will be surprising if any erection >ever survives this scrutiny. I think this is a very real fear of many young men. They don't want to sexually harass but they do want sex. I think we have to teach them where this line is and how to recognize it. I think Joan Mandel's piece speaks to this--let's stop bashing other feminists for being too pc and insufficiently pc. Arnie Kahn fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 14:59:37 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "E. Butler-Evans" Subject: PC AND FEMINISM I, too, have retrieved, read, and discussed with friends, both men and women, Joan Mandle's essay. My first response was that it was largely anecdotal and somewhat hyperbolic; my second response was that it indeed addressed an issue that needed some exploration. As a African American male who focuses some of his research on the significance of feminist issues to women of color, my experiences with the problem described have been somewhat unique. I became interested in such issues because I was strongly encouraged by Donna Haraway at UC Santa Cruz, while a graduate student in the History of Consciousness program. Professor Haraway actually served on my dissertation committee. I was further encouraged by Barbara Johnson, with whom I had a collegial relationship as a post doc visiting scholar at Harvard's Center for Literary and Cultural Studies. Moreover, individual black feminist have supported my scholarship . Yet, in other contexts, I have seen the kind of hostility Professor Mandle describes. It is very painful to attempt to establish communications with any group of people and find yourself dismissed because of some questionable ontological status. ("You are male; therefore, you cannot possibly have anything useful to say.") Let me say, however, at the risk of making this discussion even more controversial, it is my opinion that such behavior is largely engaged in by young white cultural feminists who are inextricably locked into the feminist equivalent of the black cultural nationalism of the 60s. Elliott Butler-Evans (ebevans@humanitas.ucsb.edu) English Department UC Santa Barbara ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 18:00:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Tallan Subject: Re: 3rd anniversary Montreal Massacre In-Reply-To: <9212061451.AA28879@epas.utoronto.ca>; from "BLWIESNE@OWUCOMCN.BITNET" at Dec 6, 92 9:51 am I too want to remember the Montreal massacre. But I think that it is important not only to remember the names of the women and to show solidarity with women who experience violence, though both these things are very important, but to find out why this kind of violence is being perpetrated against women with the goal of stopping it. Cheryl Tallan ctallan@epas.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 17:29:18 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eleanor Midkiff Subject: RE: Women Studies Minor Requirements In-Reply-To: <9212061629.AA18371@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>; from "Joan Korenman" at Dec 6, 92 11:31 am At Easterm Illinois University we have an 18-semester-hour minor with one required course, Feminist Theory. The other courses can be taken from a number of disciplines with Women's Studies crosslisted. The only other course to originate from Women's Studies is an introductory-level course entitled Women, Men, and Culture. Eleanor Midkiff Psychology/Women's Studies -- Eleanor Midkiff (cfeem@eiu.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 19:03:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PERICLES@TEMPLEVM.BITNET Subject: Re: Jong on Packwood and Feminism In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 6 Dec 1992 16:54:28 -0500 from Re Arnie Kahn on Jong's piece, it strikes me that there's some unneces- sary confusion about the difference between flirtation and harassment. Harassment as we speak of it in this context is usually an abuse of power: a teacher's power over a student, a superior in the workplace over an employee, etc. etc. Recognizing how destructive abuses of this power can be, folks have taken steps to restrict them. Flirtation could occur in these contexts, but it's very hard to separate out where flirtation by a professor ends and harassment--in the form of subtle pressure, intimidation, etc.--begins. Certainly the notorious cases of the past year or so--Sen. Packwood, Justice Thomas, etc.--have if they're true involved abuse of power. So one answer for "young men" would be: "flirt" with people who aren't under your sway, not with students (to take the easiest case). Of course, real life gets more complex than this.(Should one "flirt" with non- tenured colleagues, for instance? Can't one develop intense feelings toward a grad student doing his/her thesis with one? It could also be argued that even one's ostensively "equal" female colleagues or friends can be "harassed," gender asymmetry being what it is.) These are messy intermediate instances, however. To claim that "harassment" and "flirtation" in general are indistinguishable is to ignore the role of power in the cases usually cited. Dan Tompkins, Dept. of Greek and Roman Classics, Temple U. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 19:45:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L Digest (User's Guide) At the start of 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:". Here is section five: 5) "DOES WMST-L EXIST IN A DIGEST FORMAT?" Yes. Since the end of January, 1992, WMST-L has had a digest option. If you choose this option, you will receive each day one large file containing most of the WMST-L messages of the past day (messages that should not have been sent to the list to begin with are omitted). On days when the mail volume warrants it, I'll break the digest into several files rather than one; you'll automatically receive them all. If you would like to receive the daily digest file rather than individual mail messages, you should send the following 2-line e-mail message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if your WMST-L subscription is under your Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if your subscription is under your Internet address): AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE SET WMST-L NOMAIL Note: If you've subscribed on Bitnet, the digest may arrive as a file rather than as an e-mail message. If you don't know how to receive a file, see section 11 of the WMST-L User's Guide or ask the computer support people at your institution. If you'd prefer to receive the digest(s) inside mail message(s), alter the abovementioned AFD ADD statement to read as follows: AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE F=MAIL . Also, LISTSERV may ask you to set up an AFD password. You're best off not doing so. Finally, if at some point you wish to stop receiving the digest, simply send LISTSERV a message that says AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE. If you do that, you may also wish to set your subscription back to MAIL. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 20:43:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: janice drakich Subject: naming victims not killers We wanted to respond to the posting on the 6 December 1989 massacre of 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique, Universite de Montreal. We think this response is important to the members of the list because of the discussions of violence against women which take place in our classrooms. Mary Lou Dietz, a criminologist at the University of Windsor, has argued that in speaking and printing the names of serial and mass murderers we elevate them to the "star" status rather than treating them as the common criminals they are. If you study the lives of these men, their only fame or notoriety is achieved through these odious acts. It is the acts that are important and the victims, not the individuals who perpetrate these acts of violence against the women we see as victims of femicide. Too many academics and media persons are seduced, by the notoriety of mass and serial killers, into giving them credibility. For example, Barbara Walters' interview of the loser who killed John Lennon. This argument against naming the killers is elaborated and discussed as "the new pornography" in "Killing Sequentially: Expanding the Parameters of the conceptualization of Serial and Mass Killers" by Mary Lou Dietz. For copies of the paper and/or a discussion of this issue contact Mary Lou Dietz privately at DIETZ@UCC.UWINDSOR.CA In our commemoration of December 6th, we want to remember the women who were killed and not to use the name of their killer: Genevieve Bergeron, Anne-Marie Edward, Nathalie Croteau, Maryse Laganiere, Anne-Marie Lemay, Michele Richard, Annie Turcotte, Helene Colgan, Barbara Daigneault, Maryse Leclair, Maud Haviernick, Anne St-Arneault, Sonia Pelletier, Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz. Janice Drakich DRAKICH@UCC.UWINDSOR.CA Mary Lou Dietz DIETZ@UCC.UWINDSOR.CA Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario Canada N9B 3P4 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 21:12:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Grant Subject: Montreal Massacre Further to Janice Drakich's note earlier today, I wanted to share with the list the following statistics which were reported as "The Violence Index" in *The Globe and Mail*, December 5, 1992, p. D1. *In Canada* Percentage of female assault victims who are attacked by a current or estranged partner: 43 Of males by a female partner: 3 Percentage of female homicide victims killed by a current or estranged partner: 38 Number of female victims of violent crime per 1,000 population: 77 Of males: 90 Percentage of homicide victims who are male: 66 Percentage of those charged with violent crime who are male: 91 Percentage of those charged with all serious crime who are male: 90 Percentage of spousal assault charges laid against men: 93 Percentage of wife assault occurring during a first pregnancy: 40 Percentage of wife assault occurring while children are present: 50 Percentage of battered women who say partner also battered their children: 26 Percentage of women who say they have been sexually harassed at work: 37 Average number of minutes between sexual assaults (including rape): 17 Average number of minutes between rapes in the U.S.: 6 *The World* Percentage of children in the U.S. who are victim of sexual offences: 19 Percentage of U.S. women who say they have been sexually assaulted at some time in their lives: 27 Percentage of wives who are regularly battered in poor districts of Bangkok: 50 Percentage of wives who are battered in rural New Guinea: 67 Percentage of all reported crime in Peru that is wife assault: 70 Percentage of Austrian homicide victims who are women and children when the murderer is a family member: 90 Number of women in Beijing who have attended seminars on their rights in relation to spousal abuse: 90,000 Number of women in Africa whose clitoris has been altered or removed: 80 million Number of police-recorded killings in India of brides in dowry disputes, 1987: 1,786 Number of aborted fetuses at a Bombay clinic, out of 8,000, that were female: 7,999 Money spent in India for medical care of firstborn daughters expressed as a percentage of that spent on firstborn sons: 38 Ratio of boys to girls receiving the benefit of hospital treatment in an impoverished Bangladesh community: 50 to 1 Sources of data: Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics; Solicitor- General of Ontario, Federal Ministry of the Solicitor-General; Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women; Ontario Women's Directorate; Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres; Angus Reid Group, Inc.; Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse; International Journal of Women's Studies; World Health Organization; Worldwatch Institute. Compiled by Salem Alaton "First mourn, and then work for change." Karen Grant ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 20:35:31 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathleen A. Boardman" Subject: women and rhetoric--request for info. As part of a rhetoric course I am planning for spring, I want to reconsider the role of women in (and against) the Western rhetorical tradition. I'd like to know what readings others have found helpful. In particular, I'm interested in the ways pre-twentieth-century women used, contributed to, and challenged the principles and practices of this male-oriented hierarchical tradition. Kathleen Boardman kab@equinox.unr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 08:25:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LAURA KRAMER Subject: pc column Having been trained as a positivist, I found myself assuming that "anecdotal" was used as a pejorative in describing Joan M's column. MY projection on to the piece, when I first received it in the SWS newsletter was "here's a piece intended to get us talking about a problem" - not a problem that is common, just a problem that does exist, perhaps infrequently. It does not require a systematic piece of work to defend raising the topic - anecdotal will be fine (esp. since many of us have first or second hand constructions of such events). We discussed it in our women's studies faculty group - as a spring board to the issues she raises. I do think, as often is noted on this list, that many of us identify as not having much power in the academy, and so it is sometimes difficult to remember that within our class rooms many/most of our students view us as having all the power (not accurate, but a constructed reality we have to work on/with) I agree with Alan Hunter that this is not a widespread problem; however, it is particularly disturbing when we encounter it given our own experiences with being silenced. Thanks to Joan M. (again) for writing it and to Joan K. for putting it on wmst. kramer@apollo.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 08:45:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda=Bernhard%LSP%CON@NURSING.CON.OHIO-STATE.EDU Subject: women's studies minor At The Ohio State University our minor consists of 23 credit hours, at least 13 of which must be at or above the 300 level, including at least 5 hours at or above the 500 level. One of the following is required (WS299 Introduction to Feminist Analysis, WS210 Women, Culture, and Society, or WS210 Introduction to Women's Studies in the Humanities); and one of the following is required (WS368 Black Women Writers: Text and Context, WS505 Women's Worlds: Cross Cultural Analysis, or WS520 Women of Color and Social Activism). [WS courses are 5 credits each]. The remaining 13 credits may be selected from a list of WS and discipline based courses. Linda Bernhard BernhardL@nursing.con.ohio-state.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 09:10:45 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally L Kitch Subject: sports and rape I am looking for studies of the relationship between sports and sports training and rape. I have anecdotal evidence that coaches, for example, invoke unflattering feminine terms for the opposing team in order to inspire the proper amount of aggression in their players. I do not so far find any systematic study of this phenomenon. I would also like some data on the incidence of rape among male athletes and the treatment of their victims by university communities and/or society. I would appreciate any assistance people on the list can offer. Sally Kitch, Director, Women's Studies, Ohio State sallyk@humanities1.cohums.ohio-state.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 09:24:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: RE: Women Studies Minor Requirements Kenyon's Women's and Gender Studies program is a concentration rather than a minor. The requirements are 3 units (Kenyon talk for 6 courses or 18 hours). Two courses must be in WGS: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies and the Senior Seminar. Two courses (or one unit) must include courses in a single department, ie. two history courses, two psych courses, with the final two courses elected from cross-listed courses. Laurie Finke Women's and Gender Studies Ascension Hall Kenyon College Gambier OH 43022 finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 08:35:18 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: pc and feminism Thanks to Joan Korenman for posting and to Joan Mandle for writing the excellent piece on pc and feminism. This piece criticizes the "zero-sum and mean-spirited politics of exclusion" and "using our victimization to flagellate others...". As someone who has had a close look at this kind of behavior recently, I am troubled by how to respond to it. In my experience, speaking privately to those who engage in these tactics does little good; after all, they believe that they are politically correct. Public criticism of feminists by other feminists gives comfort to the enemies of feminism, but not speaking out may be misunderstood as approval of this behavior. What have others found to be an effective response? Stephanie Riger Univ of Il at Chicago u29322@UICVM.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 10:41:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: women's studies minor In-Reply-To: note of 12/07/92 08:57 The minor in W.S. at University of South Florida is six courses: Introduction to Women's Studies or Issues in Feminism, plus 5 additional courses chosen from our six areas of concentration with no more than 2 courses from any one area and at least 2 courses at the 4000 level and above. (The areas of concentration are: 1. Multicultural Issues, 2. History, 3. Humanities, 4. Social Sciences, 5. Theory/Philosophy, 6. Public Policy). We have a B.A. in Women's Studies (36 hours) and a concentration in Women of Color Studies which can work as a minor. It requires 15 hours selected from the following specific courses: Black Women in America, Women in Cross Cultural Perspective, Women of Color: Activism and Social Change, Women in the Developing World, Research Issues on Women of Color, Literature by Women of Color, Third World Women Writers. Linda Lopez McAlister/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 11:07:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BLWIESNE@OWUCOMCN.BITNET Subject: Re: naming victims not killers Please accept my apology for naming the killer and not the victims. I received the message on another list and since nothing was on wmst on on dec 6 about this, i sent the information i had. I certainly did not mean to offend. Mid October of this year I lost a friend in a similar incident. She and three other women were working at a Social Services office in Watkins Glen NY. A man upset about having to pay child support went to the office and shot and killed all of the women working there. I am more upset about this than i can express on email. it seems to me that in incidents like these the victims are very often women. and i am continually upset that women are not safe in their homes, in their cars, at work, anywhere. once again, please accept my apologies. barbara wiesner blwiesne@owucomcn blwiesne@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 11:25:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SHAVER@DENISON.BITNET Subject: Re: Women's Studies Position In response to Deb:The women faculty at Denison are satisfied that our vacancy in Women's Studies is not created by backlash. The principle is a tough one, but anyone interested in this position can apply with a clear conscience; the principle is not at stake here. I hope that candidates who end up with campus interviews will quiz us mercilessly until they are satisfied. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 11:35:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Unexpected Mail Stoppage (User's Guide) At the start of 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:". Here is section six: 6) "WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MAIL FROM WMST-L SUDDENLY STOPS?" Occasionally, mail sent from WMST-L may fail to reach you. If you notice that you haven't received any WMST-L mail for at least 24 hours, you should do the following: A) Send the following two-word message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address): QUERY WMST-L If you get back a message saying that you're not subscribed to WMST-L, send the QUERY WMST-L message to the other LISTSERV address (i.e., if you sent the message to LISTSERV@UMDD, try sending the same message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU). If your message is successful, you should get back a message from LISTSERV telling you how your "options" are set. The key part will look something like this: > > query wmst-l > Distribution options for Jane Doe , > list WMST-L: Ack= No, Mail= Yes, Files= Yes, > Repro= Yes, Header= Short, Conceal= No Your options may vary; the important part is Mail=Yes. If it says Mail=No, that means your subscription has been set to NOMAIL. The most likely explanation for its being set to NOMAIL is that mail started to bounce and so I set your subscription to NOMAIL. If you've been receiving other mail, the problem was probably shortlived and you can set your subscription back to MAIL (for instructions, see B below). If the reply from LISTSERV says Mail=Yes, contact your computer support staff to find out whether they're aware of a mail problem. If they don't know of any problem, contact me privately (NOT VIA WMST-L). B) To set your subscription back to MAIL, simply send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if one doesn't work, try the other): SET WMST-L MAIL If you have questions or encounter problems, please write to me privately at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). Under NO circumstances should you send messages about your subscription to WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 11:24:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: John Kellermeier Subject: Re: Thank you for the advice. Could I have more? > Finally, it is gift-giving season. Does anyone know of >a book or other materials that are sort of an "intro to >feminism" that would be appropriate for a 15 year old young woman? >Thanks. Please respond privately. >Christine Smith >CSMITH@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU I would be interested in this too. I have a 16 year old son who unfortunately does not live with me. He has recently expressed an interest in getting books on feminism and women's studies after spending Thanksgiving with me and having many conversations about these topics. John - - - - - - - John Kellermeier +----------+ + + + + + + + - Department of Mathematics | STOP the | + Bisexual - SUNY Plattsburgh | War | + - + - Plattsburgh, New York 12901 | Against | + Pride - (518) 564-4134 | Women | + + - - +----------+ + + - BITNET: kellerjh@snyplava + INTERNET: kellerjh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 13:05:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diana H. Scully" Subject: Re: sports and rape In-Reply-To: <9212071413.AA26015@cabell.vcu.edu>; from "Sally L Kitch" at Dec 7, 92 9:10 am For a somewhat uncritical analysis, see Gary Alan Fine, WITH THE BOYS: LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL AND PREADOLESCENT CULTURE, University of Chicago Press, 1987. Diana Scully dscully@Cabell.VCU.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 13:07:17 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Rushing Subject: Re: Thank you for the advice. Could I have more? In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 7 Dec 1992 11:24:00 EST from RE: ideas for gifts for older teens. Depending on their maturity level (they vary a lot, I guess), I might consider Susan Faludi's _Backlash_. It really does debunk a lot of myths, and is probably fairly easy to read. Plus, it is in paperback now. I think younger people would probably like its style and appreciate most of the critiques. The references are also generally good, for those who want to read further. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 12:03:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Marantz Subject: RE: Thank you for the advice. Could I have more? (Sorry to send to entire list -- couldn't get through privately) To Christine Smith: Christine, if you do get private responses to request for "stuff" for a 15 year old, I'd very much appreciate it if you would share it. Thanks. Barbara Marantz bmarantz@snyescva.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 11:31:16 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: daniels@HG.ULETH.CA Subject: Re: Thank you for the advice. Could I have more? EGALIA'S DAUGHTERS is a wonderful novel . Many of us have indicated that we use this book in our women's studies classes, but i think it makes a wonderful gift and would be accessible to young readers of 15 yrs.+. It is a satire in which the traditional roles of men and women are switched. It is not likely to be readily available unless you have a good women's bookstore nearby...by try the college bookstore first! dayna daniels daniels@hg.uleth.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 14:13:36 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JDMANDLE@COLGATEU.BITNET Subject: Re: PC and Feminism Wes Chapman writes that I am dismissive of separatism in my piece, "PC and Feminism." In fact I am arguing two very non-dismissive points: 1. Separatism legitimate as a personal or philosophical option, but it has some very negative political consequences in the real world if what we as feminists are about is trying to change society by eradicating sexism. It in fact is decidedly not an effective strategy for political change. That is why I stated 2. That feminists should leave homogeneous and isolated communities "ENOUGH OF THE TIME" to also reach out to educating and consciousness- raising with non-self-defined feminists. We need more of us not fewer! That is not an absolute rejection of separatism, but defines it as a personal strategy of survival which we don't have the luxury in which to exclusively indulge. The feedback from this essay has been great. Keep your comments and criticisms coming. I'm learning alot. JDMandle@colgateu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 16:25:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Marantz Subject: Re: PC and Feminism Could someone please repeat the source for retrieving Joan Mandle's article -- In my haste, I wiped out the posting. Thanks for (someone's) help. Barbara [bmarantz@snyescva.bitnet] ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 16:13:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "JENNIFER R. SCANLON" Subject: women's studies minor This is in response to the request for more information about women's studies minor programs. Here at SUNY Plattsburgh we have an 18 credit women's studies minor with three levels: a two-course introductory sequence , a three-course elective component, and a capstone seminar course. The first course is Introduction to Women's Studies; the second is Feminist Frameworks, an introductory theory course. The electives, offered by associates of the program across the campus, include Women in Art, History of Canadian Women, Sociology of Women, African American Women Writers, Perspectives in Women's Health, Feminist Sexuality, and others. We are fairly well represented across the campus, with a few notable exceptions: political science, education, and the sciences. The introductory courses and the capstone seminar are taught by the 2 full- time members of our department (I am one of them). The capstone seminar changes in topic from year to year. Last year the focus was 19th century U.S. women's history, using the archives of our library's Special Collections. This spring (the course is offered every spring) the focus will be on women of color in the U.S. One thing we have tried to do with the capstone course is to have an active component. For the 19th century history course, the students collectively wrote a guide to doing research on women in the 19th century using Special Collections. This guide is now available to others. It turned out very well. I haven't yet decided what the active component will be for the women of color course, and I would love to receive any suggestions others might have. We have a few other courses I should mention as well. One is a teaching internship in women's studies; students act as teaching assistants in the introductory women's studies classes. One of our newest courses-- it will be offered for the first time this spring-- is the women's studies internship. While we've done unofficial internships with students, this is a formal process. Students will take a three-credit course that focuses on community work and processes, and they will take from 3-9 additional credits of internship work in a community or campus agency. Only 3 of these credits, however, are applicable to the minor. That's all I can think of for now. I'd be happy to provide more information if anyone wants it. Jen Scanlon Jennifer Scanlon ______ Women's Studies Program / *| State University of New York | | Plattsburgh, New York 12901 _________ / | > | / | BITNET: SCANLOJR@SNYPLAVA.BITNET |_______________ | Telephone: (518) 564-4228 \_ | FAX: (518) 564-3932 \ | `__| === ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 16:40:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: PC and Feminism Earlier today, Barbara Marantz wrote: > Could someone please repeat the source for retrieving Joan Mandle's > article -- In my haste, I wiped out the posting. Thanks for (someone's) > help. Barbara [bmarantz@snyescva.bitnet] Since I've also received several similar requests privately, I think I'll simply repeat the earlier announcement, made on Saturday: At a recent Women's Studies meeting, one of my colleagues distributed copies of a short essay by Joan D. Mandle, Director of Women's Studies at Colgate University, entitled "Political Correctness and the Feminist Movement." The essay, which appeared in the Sociologists for Women in Society NETWORK, raises questions about "the extent to which feminist practice and politics have generated strategies and styles inconsistent with the goal of successullly challenging and reducing sexism." My colleague was very impressed with the essay, and so was I. I wrote to Joan, a WMST-L subscriber, and asked whether she had an electronic version of the essay that she'd be willing to make available on the WMST-L filelist. I've now added that essay to the WMST-L files, calling it PC_AND FEMINISM. To get a copy, send the following command to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET PC_AND FEMINISM . Please note that the underscore (_) between PC and AND is a vital part of the title. Also, please remember to send your request to LISTSERV, NOT--repeat, NOT--to WMST-L. Many thanks to Joan Mandle for making this valuable essay available on WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 15:54:49 -0600 Reply-To: "Michele M. Zurakowski" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Michele M. Zurakowski" Subject: Re: women and rhetoric--request for info. Kathleen, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell's _Man Cannot Speak For Her- (2 volumes) is a wonderful source. Volume one contains early speech texts and volume 2 consists of Campbell's critiques. Most of the speeches are concerned with Woman's Suffrage, but not all. The critiques evaluate how women negotiated the traditional expectations of speakers versus the special needs of women in the role of rhetor. Sorry I can't remember the publisher (Greenwood?). They came out in 1990 or 1991. She also has a new volume on U.S. Female Rhetors due out this coming year. Michele Zurakowski University of Minnesota zura0001@student.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 16:58:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: Re: women's studies minor At James Madison U. we have an 18 credit minor with two required courses, Intro to WS and a senior-level capstone course in which a major paper/project is undertaken. Arnie ******************************************************************************** Arnie Kahn, Psychology, JMU, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 (703) 568-3963 - day fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (preferred) (703) 434-0225 - night fac_askahn@jmuvax (703) 568-3322 - fax ******************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 17:09:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheila Greenbush Subject: RFI re women in Higher Ed in South Africa A doctoral student of my is looking for sources of information and statistics on South African women in higher education as students and faculty from 1965 to the present. She has only recently received an electronic mail account, so I said would make the first posting for her. She is looking information about Faculty field of study gender tenure status (if applicable) rank (assitant, associate, full, instructor) number of year employed institution/school Number of students registered by gender by race by year of graduation She is particularly interested in Higher Ed institutions such as Cape Town, Western Cape, WITS, Durban-Westoville, University of Natal, Port Elizabeth and Rhodes. However, this is only a partital list and others are welcome. Please communicate directly to her at inmaf5020x01@cutcv2.columbia.edu. Should you not be able to reach her, the information can be sent to me at the address below. sckg Sheila KIeran-Greenbush Columbia University sheila@columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 15:05:29 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie McElhinny Subject: single-sex colleges On Nov. 29 Susan Ervin-Tripp asked if there was any comparison of coed and single-sex colleges which controlled for family socio-economic status when asking where girls/women were more likely to be successful. I don't know of any data on colleges (that doesn't mean there isn't any), but as a result of a comprehensive paper just submitted to me by Katie Clancy, a student in Stanford's Intro. to Feminist Studies, I do have some citations which address this question vis-a-vis single-sex high schools. Riordan, Cornelius. 1985. "Public and Catholic Schooling: The Effects of Gender Context Policy" Am. Jl. of Education 93(4):518-540. Compares coed public schools, coed Catholic schools and single- sex Catholic schools. Finds girls and boys more successful in single-sex Catholic schools. Rowe, Kenneth J. 1988. "Single -Sex and Mixed-Sex Classes: The Effects of Class Type on Student Achievement, Confidence and Participation in Mathematics" Australian Jl. of Education 32(2): 180-202. Divided 7th and 8th grade students into single-sex and mixed-sex math classes for a school year. Girls did better in single-sex classes, and were more likely to continue in mathematics after experience in single-sex class. Stables, Andrew. 1990. "Differences Between Pupils from Mixed and Single-Sex Schools in their Enjoyment of School Subjects and in Their Attitudes to Science and School" Educatoinal Review 42(3):221-30. Girls and boys in single-sex schools were more likely to prefer non-traditional subjects, with girls in particular much more likely to choose science. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 17:48:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Wallace Subject: white ribbon campaign I have noticed several wmst-l subscribers are from Canada. Maybe you can help me. What is the white ribbon campaign, and why are some women's groups against it? Thanks in advance, Mary Wallace University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa mwallac3@ua1vm ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 19:07:08 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHILDON@MOREKYPR.BITNET Subject: Re: women's studies minor Our new Women's Studies minor at Morehead State University is a 21 credit hour minor. Two courses are required: Intro to W.S. and an Ingetrative Capstone. The capstone course merges the women's studies perspective with their major. They can choose to do research or a creative project, which ever is more appropriate. We will also teach them to write a resume and cover letter and role play job interviews. We will also teach them about affirmative action and avenues of recourse. We envision the capstone ending in a ceremony in which our minors will be graduated into the world. (this course has not been taught yet - est. abour two years before we will have students to take it.) The rest of our courses are crosslisted from other departments. Faculty request crosslisting their courses by filling out a form (a copy of the form is available from either Joan or myself). This spring we have four courses crosslisted.Donna Phillips, Director Women's Studies Program Advisory Council Morehead State University phildon@morekypr ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 21:28:18 +0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marie-Anne Poussart Subject: Re: white ribbon campaign In-Reply-To: The white ribbon campaign was launched by a group of men wanting to identify themselves against violence made to women. What feminist groups are unhappy about is the fact that people who wear a white ribbon could and should do more for that cause. An abused ex-wife recently wrote in the Globe and Mail that her husband, who has a very important position and is very influencial, wears such a ribbon only for show. However, no one would ever suspect he used to beat his wife. She wrote the article to prove how little meaning wearing a white ribbon could actually mean. She only wishes, as feminist groups do, that men and women truly concerned about the problem would engage in more constructive action. Marie-Anne Universite de Moncton New Brunswick, Canada (e8902119@umoncton.ca) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 20:52:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: File CROSSLST POLICIES now available from LISTSERV I have just added another file to the WMST-L filelist. This one includes the policies of seven Women's Studies programs regarding their criteria for crosslisting courses. I've called the file CROSSLST POLICIES (note that there's no "i" in CROSSLST). To get a copy of this file, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET CROSSLST POLICIES WMST-L REMINDER: SEND THIS MESSAGE TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L. DO NOT HIT "REPLY"! Many thanks to all who contributed to this file. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 17:59:24 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie McElhinny GET PC_AND FEMINISM ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 09:22:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RBUDDEBE@UCS.INDIANA.EDU Subject: domestic violence in Russia Does anyone know of any sources on domestic violence in Russia? I would guess that there is probably a high incident, considering the amount of alcohol abuse. (Of course, alcohol is not the cause of violence!) So far my professors have always been very good in switching the subject or giving me some vague info on shelters in Russia when I asked them about this subject. Thanks in advance. Rachel Rbuddebe@ucs.indiana.edu (internet) Rbuddebe@iubacs (bitnet) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 09:29:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: women and rhetoric Recent article addressing issue of rhetoric in critiqes of Gilligan: Kathy Davis. Toward a feminist rhetoric: the Gilligan debate revisited. Women's Studies International Forum 1992;15:219-232. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 10:16:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Getting WMST-L Subscriber List (User's Guide) At the start of 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:". Here is section seven: ************************ 7) "HOW CAN I GET A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO WMST-L?" To get a current list of WMST-L subscribers, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): REVIEW WMST-L. You'll get back either a mail message with the subject heading "File: 'WMST-L LIST' being sent to you" or a message telling you that the list is being sent as a Netdata file (not a mail file); listserv apparently chooses which method to use. (See section 11 below for instructions on how to retrieve files sent in Netdata format.) Either way, the file contains a list of subscribers, arranged alphabetically by e-mail node (the part of the e-mail address after the "@" sign), not by subscriber's name. If you prefer to receive the list sorted more or less alphabetically by subscriber's last name, send the following command: REVIEW WMST-L BY NAME. ****************** Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 09:53:07 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Susan G. Crowell" Subject: the direction of women's studies programs I am a gradute student presently working on a paper that (1) offers an overview of the status and intent of women's studies programs today and (2) offers exam ples of strategies that are used for full integration into the core curriculum. I would appreciate feedback on several questions. I would appreciate private re sponses and will then present a compilation of these responses to be posted. My e-mail address is SGCROW00@UKCC.uky.edu. The 1969 constitution stated: "Women's studies is the educational strategy of a breakthrough in consciousness and knowledge. The uniqueness of women's studie s has been its refusal to accept sterile divisions between academy and communit y, between the growth of the mind and the health of the body, between intellect and passion, between the individual and society. Women's studies, then, is equ but to women not only to entstitution reaffirms that commitment."I am asking th e question what does childcare and postmodernist thought have in common? If one considers that the two structural barriers to womens' full participation in so ciety appear to be (1) forms of male competition (2)family commitments I would expect more public talk on these issues within the domain of scholarship. The p olemics I presently observe often seem distantly related to the daily lives of many women as they negotiate social reality. (2)Secondly, what are the gains an d losses women's studies programs experience in the attempt to integrate into the core curriculum. I have noticed that discussions of crosslisting seem to generate a general concern of assimilation. What are the advantages of maintain ing a program separate and independent from institutional realities? (3) finall y, I would appreciate any experiences or examples of integration efforts that involve implementing participatory practices to overcome faculty resistance. These might be either top down or bottom up approaches. Thank you very much. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 11:21:48 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pierre J Boulos Subject: white ribbon campaign The white ribbon campaign began as a men's initiative to protest against violence against women. The first campaign began last year to coincide with the marking of the two years since the Montreal massacre. The campaign itself has been marked with a fair bit of controversy since it started. For instance, it was difficult to understand how and why members of Parliament (includ- ing high ranking officials) could wear a white ribbon when they repeatedly voted to allocate money to silly and stupid things when women's shelters were continuously being underfunded. This year many men's "awareness" groups claimed that the final day of the campaign would be "reserved" for women to grieve the massacre (the final day was Dec. 6). Many women's groups were angered by this "giving of permission to grieve." I for one did not wear a white ribbon because I think there is a time for men to talk and there is a time to listen. This, to me, was a time to listen and show support; although men need to address their violence against women, upstaging women and women's groups is just another example of a power dynamic that is overdue for change. Pierre J Boulos pboulos@uwovax.uwo.ca boulos@server.uwindsor.ca Department of Philosophy The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 5B7 519 258-3851 (res. Windsor) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 09:25:04 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dklein@TRITON.UNM.EDU Subject: Minor requirements Our program is 20 years old and we offer a minor in Women Studies as follows: 24 hours with core requirements of 9 hours to be satisfied by: Intro Race, Class and the Feminist Movement OR Contemporary Feminist Theory Senior Seminar The other 15 hours are satisfied by electives from four different groups: Women in Cultural Context (3 hours min), Social Science Analyses of Women, History of Women, Women Studies in the Arts and Humanities. We find that students oftentimes take more hours than the required in anticipation of applying for graduate programs in women studies. Deborah Klein Internet: dklein@triton.unm.edu Women Studies Mesa Vista 2136 Phone 505 277 3854 UNM Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1586 "One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it." E. Bowen ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 11:25:16 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHILDON@MOREKYPR.BITNET Subject: AIDS knowledge and Safe Sex Most college studies show that students have a high degree of knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS. But they also show that students are not praciticing safe sex. There has been a lot of concern because students are becoming a high risk group. Researchers want to know why students are knowingly taking risks with sexual behaviors. In class last night, some intro to sociology students shared with me 'information' being disseminated by a biology professor on campus. I would like to share some of the highlights. 1. 'there are 200 cases of H.I.V. in the U.S. for which no known source can be found - no sexual contact, no I.V. drug use, etc.' 2. 'medical doctors and scientists are terrified that H.I.V. will become air-borne soon, since it is an ever-mutating virus. We are all at risk.' 3. 'H.I.V. can be transmitted by mosquito bites' 4. 'There are 50 known cases on this campus' (I have spoken with our health clinic personnel a number of times and first, of all, they never give ANY estimate of campus involvement, second, they only quote national college stats which state that there are approximately 3 H.I.V. positive students per 1000 on a college campus.) 5. 'AIDS can be transmitted through tears and salava' I wonder if there are professors 'teaching' such info on most college campuses. This man is seen by students as an expert and in fact several students have suggested that I go to his class and get educated about the 'real' dangers of AIDS. Others have suggeted that I invite him to talk to all of my classes. They imply that because my field is sociology, I am not educated on the FACTS of AIDS. If this is general information being given out in Intro Biology courses, it is no wonder that students don't practice safe sex. They think it won't matter because everyone is at risk. Does anyone else have such experiences on their campuses? Any ideas on what can be done? We have tried AIDS workshops, but few students take advantage of them. Donna Phillips phildon@morekypr ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 12:19:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KMON Subject: Re: 3rd anniversary Montreal Massacre GREAT RESPONSE!!!! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 10:50:27 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.Lesch.McCaffry@SONOMA.EDU Subject: AIDS knowledge and Safe Sex Date 12/8/92 Subject AIDS knowledge and Safe Sex >From Barbara Lesch McCaffry To WMST Subscribers Reply to: AIDS knowledge and Safe Sex Donna-- Forgive me posting to the list, but I was unable to send this message to the address you provided. I can understand your dilemma. I have been serving on the campus' AIDS Coordinating Committee and we had Dr. Richard Keeling head of the American College Health Association's AIDS/HIV Task Force as a speaker for a university-wide convocation on AIDS in March of 1990. He has a wealth of information about AIDS/HIV in higher ed settings (he is also a director of a student health center at a college in Virginia). He speaks eloquently about the problems of self-esteem as they impact the choices for safe sex. The American College Health Association should have a wealth of info for you to use to counteract what appears to be a campaign of mis-education. Good luck! Barbara.Lesch.McCaffry@sonoma.edu -------------------------------------- Date: 12/8/92 9:51 AM To: Barbara Lesch McCaffry From: MAILER::"<@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU: Most college studies show that students have a high degree of knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS. But they also show that students are not praciticing safe sex. There has been a lot of concern because students are becoming a high risk group. Researchers want to know why students are knowingly taking risks with sexual behaviors. In class last night, some intro to sociology students shared with me 'information' being disseminated by a biology professor on campus. I would like to share some of the highlights. 1. 'there are 200 cases of H.I.V. in the U.S. for which no known source can be found - no sexual contact, no I.V. drug use, etc.' 2. 'medical doctors and scientists are terrified that H.I.V. will become air-borne soon, since it is an ever-mutating virus. We are all at risk.' 3. 'H.I.V. can be transmitted by mosquito bites' 4. 'There are 50 known cases on this campus' (I have spoken with our health clinic personnel a number of times and first, of all, they never give ANY estimate of campus involvement, second, they only quote national college stats which state that there are approximately 3 H.I.V. positive students per 1000 on a college campus.) 5. 'AIDS can be transmitted through tears and salava' I wonder if there are professors 'teaching' such info on most college campuses. This man is seen by students as an expert and in fact several students have suggested that I go to his class and get educated about the 'real' dangers of AIDS. Others have suggeted that I invite him to talk to all of my classes. They imply that because my field is sociology, I am not educated on the FACTS of AIDS. If this is general information being given out in Intro Biology courses, it is no wonder that students don't practice safe sex. They think it won't matter because everyone is at risk. Does anyone else have such experiences on their campuses? Any ideas on what can be done? We have tried AIDS workshops, but few students take advantage of them. Donna Phillips phildon@morekypr ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 13:14:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LINDA@GACVAX1.BITNET Subject: Re: Minor requirements Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota has a minor in Women's Studies with the following requirements: Five courses, chosen in consultation with an adviser in Women's Studies and distributed as follows: PIll J Introduction to Women's Studies (currently under revision to a semester long course) At least two courses selected from among the Core Courses. At least one course selected from among the Complementary Courses. Core Course definition: Courses seeking designation as Core Courses in the WS program must demonstrate that the central purpose and focus of the course is to discuss issues relating to women. The central subject matter of these courses will be the lives, work, values, and ideas of women. Complementary Courses: must demonstrate that the central purpose and focus of the course is to address issues of "difference." Issues of diffeence may include but are not limited to discussions of race, class, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, education, employment, age, able-bodiedness, and gender. The ultimate purpose of any discussion of difference in an academic setting should be to address the ways that those who are not white, upper-middle-class, educated, healthy, employed, self-determining, and male (i.e. those people whose lives and work have traditionally been the subject of serious academic inquiry) have been excluded from serious study, and how that exclusion may have distorted traditional ways of viewing the world. In addition, Complementary Courses in Women's Studies must include some discussion of issues of women. Currently designated courses: Core: 19th Century British Women's Fiction, HI-Family Ties, PE-Women's Health Issues, PE-Women and Sports, PI Intro. to Women's Studies, EN- American Women Writers, British Women Writers, Modern Fiction, FR Quebecois Writers, GN Conversation and Composition, HI Women in America, History of Sexuality, Women in Europe, American Women' Rights, History of Feminism in Europe and America, PI Racism and Sexism, Feminist Philosophy, RE Women and the Bible, TH-Race and Gender Issues in Theater. Complementary Courses: CL-Gender in ANtiquity, GN-The Other Germany, GN-German Film: Representing the 3rd Reich, HI-Do the Right Thing (Martin Luther King/Malcolm X), PI-African Philosophies, HI-African-American History, American Radicalism, Everyday Life in Preindustrial Europe, SA-Cultural Anthropology, American Minorities and Native Americans. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 11:12:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Roberts Subject: Re: white ribbon campaign I think it is a good idea to have men do what women working on stopping violence against women have demanded for ages: men take responsibility for stopping men's violence. I agree with Pierre that there are times to talk and times to listen, but I wonder if the symbolic act of wearing a white ribbon if the guy really means it, isn't useful albeit only a teeny bit? There is also a time to act and I think one useful act the white ribbon campaigners could undertake would be to undertake vigourous, sustained, and well- publicised lobbying to their brothers in all levels of government to put our money where their mouths are, re stepping up the funding for services to women who have suffered from violence, and to come up with additional, repeat additional (as opposed to taking some that would otherwise go to women's groups) to deal with penalties, treatment, and prevention of the ubusers' side of things. I am very glad that the men are getting going on this, good for them. But until men are willing to use every bit of their influence and links with other men and with men's organisations and with men-dominated institutions and organisations, to make those guys really shift their priorities and make ending male violence against women a true priority issue and act on this priority in their public and private lives...well, the white ribbon campaign, however well intentioned, might fall into the just-another-pretty-face category. I personally think they are sincere and they will act. I hope. Barbara Roberts barbarar@cs.athabascau.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 15:43:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mmurrain@HAMP.HAMPSHIRE.EDU Subject: Re: AIDS knowledge and Safe Sex >Most college studies show that students have a high degree of >knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS. But they also show that students >are not praciticing safe sex. There has been a lot of concern >because students are becoming a high risk group. Researchers want >to know why students are knowingly taking risks with sexual >behaviors. > >In class last night, some intro to sociology students shared >with me 'information' being disseminated by a biology professor >on campus. I would like to share some of the highlights. >1. 'there are 200 cases of H.I.V. in the U.S. for which no > known source can be found - no sexual contact, no I.V. drug > use, etc.' >2. 'medical doctors and scientists are terrified that H.I.V. > will become air-borne soon, since it is an ever-mutating > virus. We are all at risk.' >3. 'H.I.V. can be transmitted by mosquito bites' >4. 'There are 50 known cases on this campus' (I have spoken with > our health clinic personnel a number of times and first, of > all, they never give ANY estimate of campus involvement, > second, they only quote national college stats which state that > there are approximately 3 H.I.V. positive students per 1000 > on a college campus.) >5. 'AIDS can be transmitted through tears and salava' > >I wonder if there are professors 'teaching' such info on most >college campuses. This man is seen by students as an expert and >in fact several students have suggested that I go to his class and >get educated about the 'real' dangers of AIDS. Others have suggeted >that I invite him to talk to all of my classes. They imply that >because my field is sociology, I am not educated on the FACTS of AIDS. > >If this is general information being given out in Intro Biology >courses, it is no wonder that students don't practice safe sex. They >think it won't matter because everyone is at risk. > >Does anyone else have such experiences on their campuses? Any >ideas on what can be done? We have tried AIDS workshops, but >few students take advantage of them. A few comments on this (I will restrict my comments to those directly related to issues on campus because of the focus of the list. If you have some other questions, since AIDS is my field, you can write me privately): 1. Even students who are well versed in the "more reasonable" version of HIV transmission don't practice safer sex. Some of us who do and have done safer sex education have trouble translating this to our real lives and practicing it ourselves. 2. If the workshops really realistically deal with the students experience, and are not dry "AIDS 101" type workshops, the information is more likely to sink in. Translating this information to sexual practices is one of the major stumbling blocks in AIDS education right now. Safer sex information in the gay male community worked so well because: a) gay men saw thier friends dying, b) the information was really relevant to their lives and explicit, and c) there were real efforts to make safer sex erotic and interesting. Just say no, or just use a condom doesn't usually work real well. Also, bringing up issues around negotiating for safer sex is really important, especially for women. 3. I don't know who the clown was who was teaching the AIDS "information"! Yes, things are not as clear cut as some sources of information might lead you to believe, but most of *that* info was totally misleading. I hope this is not a widespread phenomenon. Goes to show, just because someone is a biologist, doesn't mean they know biology! _________________________________ Michelle Murrain School of Natural Science, Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 549-4600 x688 email: mmurrain@hamp.hampshire.edu "knowledge is wealth, share it" _________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 15:06:42 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: video:inequity in class Has anyone seen the video "Inequity in the classroom" who can tell me if it is worth buying? I'm trying to find a video on sex inequality in the classroom. This one is from Concordia U in Canada, and they say it's not possible to previ ew it. I'm looking for something to show not only to students, but also to fac ulty in workshops. Thanks in advance for your help, Stephanie Riger Univ of Il at Chicago u29322@UICVM.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 16:05:28 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deb Nordgren Subject: Women's Studies Program The Women's Studies minor at the University of Wisconsin-Superior was re- vitalized last year. The Women's Studies Committee has been very active in the process. The assistant vice-chancellor, Dr. Rhea Das, and the Chancellor, Dr. Betty Youngblood, were very supportive. The 22-credit minor (semester credits) is coordinated by the chair of the Sociology/ Anthropology/Social Work Department, currently Dr. Michael Ball. The committee is in the process of reviewing the required courses. New this year is an introductory course, Sociology of Women, and "The Study of the American Indian Woman". We also offer courses in Psychology of Women, Women in Management, Literary Women, History of Women, Women and the Criminal Justice System and others. We plan to include a senior seminar, capstone experience. Deb Nordgren Technical Services Librarian Jim Dan Hill Library University of Wisconsin-Superior Superior, WI 54880 (715)394-8233 dnordgre@uwsuper.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 18:39:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stacey Shulman HPRED Subject: oops!! oops!! i accidentally erased the big message that tell you how to do things like temporarily stop incoming mail...could someone please forward that info to me, as i would like to temporarily stop my messages when i leave town for winter break...i know that it has come down through the line before, and i hate to ask for a repeat, so just send it to me...(i never saved those items as i thought i had them already!!) thanks again!! stacey stacey@moe.coe.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 21:25:19 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Susan G. Crowell" Subject: the direction of women's study It has been noted that my earlier posting, "the direction of women's study" had a garbled passage. That should read: "Women's studies, then, is equipping wome n not only to enter society as whole and productive human beings, but to transf orm it. This constitution reaffirms that commitment." Thanks ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 06:36:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dl81 Subject: gift appeal The NWSA board has not made any effort--organizationally or personally--to actively support the laid-off National Office employees in regaining their equilibrium after unexpectedly losing their jobs last August, and continue to postpone payment of severance amounts owing until "sometime in the spring." For me, this has all along been very strange--and disappointing--behavior on the parts of "feminists," and I would like to do something to help the two other families caught in this nightmare to have a nicer holiday season than I expect is shaping up for them now. I guess I just come from a different place about these kinds of things than many of my peers in the Academy, but if anyone else out there is with me in this and would like to make a (non-tax-deductable, totally personal) contribution to a collective gift from the Women's Studies community to each of these families, please send whatever you can to Loretta Younger at the NWSA National Office (University of MD, College Park, MD 20742-1325). She will evenly divide whatever comes in by the 21st and forward it to the two families, with a holiday message in appreciation of their work on our behalf. (Checks can be made out to Loretta, with a "former employee gift" memo). If you could share this message with colleagues who are not on the network, I'd appreciate it. Deepest thanks in advance for your response. I'll let you know how it turns out on the 21st. DEB LOUIS (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 09:39:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Murphy Subject: Re: AIDS knowledge and Safe Sex There is an interactive role playing game, Close Encounters: Adolescents and AIDS that is useful in teaching negotiation skills available from the Laboratory for Interactive Learning At UNH. It is most appropriate for First and second year students, or for students who want to be trained as educators to work with high school population. Many of the encounters involve women negotiating sex and/or safe sex with a male partner. I will send an informational flyer to all who are interested. pat Murphy Murphy@geneseo.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 09:47:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Kivel HPRED Subject: PFLAG Info A few months back, someone had requested information on how to contact PFLAG (Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays). I just recently found a toll-free number which I called and found out is actually a working number. It is: 1-800-432-6459. Better late than never. beth@moe.coe.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 10:57:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: gallivan@CAD.UCCB.NS.CA Subject: RE: white ribbon campaign It's about men being actively involved in helping to reduce/eliminate violence against women and children. Recent criticism tends to focus on the fact that their literature requests contributions and suggests that the money will go to programs, etc. that deal with this (transition houses, e.g.). however, the director recently admitted that only about 10% of the money raised through this campaign will go to those programs. The costs of their promotional, educational, and organizational activities uses the rest, I take it. Joanne Gallivan gallivan@cad.uccb.ns.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 10:20:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: When to reply PRIVATELY Pat Murphy's recent offer to send information to anyone interested dovetails nicely with today's excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide, which has to do with when NOT to reply to WMST-L. Please do not--repeat, do NOT--send requests to WMST-L asking for Pat's information. Write to her privately. If you have problems reaching her, consult the computer support people at your institution or knowledgeable colleagues for help. ******************* 9) "WHEN SHOULD I REPLY PRIVATELY RATHER THAN TO WMST-L?" WMST-L is set up so that replies will normally be sent 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 or disapproval (e.g., "Hooray! I'm glad someone finally said that!" or "I can't imagine how anyone can believe such nonsense") should NOT be sent to WMST-L. ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 10:37:18 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauraine LeBlanc Subject: AUDRE LORDE MEMORIAL Hello. I was told that there would be a memorial service for Audre Lorde in New York in January. Could someone please let me know where and when this will be held? Please reply privately. Thanks. Lauraine Leblanc GRCJ056@EMUVM1 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 08:54:36 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joneskf@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU Subject: AIDS and teens All this talk about AIDS and safe sex prompts me to let you know about a new book I have just read which was written for teenagers about AIDS. A colleague of mine, Robert Locke, (whose pen name is Clayton Bess), has self published an excellent novel aimed at teenagers about AIDS. It is available in paperback for $7.95 or hard cover for $14.95 plus 7.75% tax and $2 for shipping and handling from Lookout Press, P.O. Box 19131, Sacramento, CA 95819. Bob is a librarian, playwright, and published author of books for young people. The book is very well written and looks very professional, not your usual self published appearance. I think his usual publishing channels wouldn't touch it because of the subject. For those librarians out there, copies of the book will be available for perusal (and maybe purchase) at ALA's midwinter conference in Denver in January. Kay Jones (kfjones@csus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 12:24:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CSMITH@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: Thank you for the advice. Could I have more? Hello John: Here are the replies I received regarding materials on feminism for a 15 y.o. young woman. /It warms my heart that young men are also interested in feminism! Our Bodies, Ourselves Women on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy The Color Purple, by Alice Walker The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison Egalia's Daugheter, no author given Backlash, by Susan Faludi Faces of Feminism, by photographer Pam Harris Hope you find this useful. Christine ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 13:46:48 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHILDON@MOREKYPR.BITNET Subject: Egalia's Daughters The author of Egalia's Daughters is Gert Brantenberg. I cannot recommend this novel enough. I have used it in a variety of courses and it is imaginative and wonderful. Turns our whole concept of gender roles upside down (males cannot do hard physical labor because they have penises and could be injured, for example). Thakns for the list of books. I appreciate it. Donna Phillips phildon@morekypr ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 16:45:32 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PHILDON@MOREKYPR.BITNET Subject: Position Opening Morehead State Univeristy Position Announcement Assistant Professor of Sociology Morehead State University invites applications and nominations for a tenure track position of Assistant Professor of Sociology, beginning August, 1993. The department has 18 full-time faculty supporting 350 majors (in Social Work as well as Sociology) and offers undergraduate degrees in sociology, social work and corrections and the M.A. degree in Sociology. Successful candidate will teach courses in Appalachian Sociology focused upon political economy. Ability to teach undergraduate courses in several of the following areas: Social Psychology, Cultural Anthropology, Minority Relations, Family, and Social Problems. The Department is also interested in persons with training in critical theory and/or feminist theory. Ph.D. preferred, nearly complete ABD's will be considered, Teaching experience and versitility desirable. Applications will be reviewed upon receipt with closing date of January 30. Submit letter of application highlighting teaching areas and research plans, curriculum vita, and names and phone numbers of at least three references to: Office of Personnel Service Attn: David R. Rudy, Department Chair Morehead State University HM 101 Morehead, KY 40351 Women, ethnic and racial minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Note from Donna Phillips (not part of advertisement): Morehead State has a newly approved Women's Studies Minor and the successful candidate will have many opportunities to participate in a variety of women's projects here. We have a dynamic group of women who are doing a number of exciting things. If you want additional information please e-mail me at PHILDON@MOREKYPR. (That addresss gave some folks problems earlier this week and I don't know why.) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 18:05:45 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Delbes Subject: Feminist Marriage To all of you who sent me such enthusiatic, challenging and wonderful response regarding my research on marriage and feminism, I am very sorry I have not yet gone any further with me. Hopefully, I will be sending the questionnaire before the end of the year. At this point, though, I don't wan to make false promises, as I did before. If you don't hear from me soon, you will hear later. I can promise this much. I do appreciate the cooperation. Thanks again to all of you. Have a wonderful holiday and a terrific 1993. Chris (cdelbes@american.edu) phone/fax (202) 363-5694 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 20:28:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: safer sex on campus The subject of safer sex is centrally related to the power inequities in the college dating scene. With date rape statistics what they are, we know that many women have no control over some sexual encounters, and many others have very little. Discussing and negotiating safer sex ahead of time requires mutual agreement that sex might take place. Many women do not anticipate it, and in fact would prefer not to have sex, so the opportunity for discussion does not occur for them. The enormous use of alcohol in college fraternity houses is also not conducive to prior discussions. Research evidence suggests that people who engage in some high risk activities (smokers, for instance) are less likely to use other safety precautions (seat belts, for instance). Attitudes toward risk are related to gender and perceived power and invulnerability. Safer sex needs to be discussed with these "facts of life" in mind. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 17:37:00 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMITHD@CLARGRAD.BITNET Subject: gay parents I understand there are some books out now dealing with children of lesbian and/or gay parents. One or more of these books is by a psychiatrist. Does anyone have references for them? Daryl Smith SMITHD@CLARGRAD Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 21:57:46 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NAME Subject: Re: gay parents There is a growing body of work on lesbian/gay parents (mostly lesbian parents). Some books that I know of include Alpert's WE ARE EVERYWHERE: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT LESBIAN PARENTS (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press); F.W. Bozett (ed.), GAY AND LESBIAN PARENTS (N.Y.: Praeger); and S. Pollack and J. Vaughn, POLITICS OF THE HEART: A LESBIAN PARENTING ANTHOLOGY. Charlotte Patterson, a psychologist at Univ. of Virginia, is doing some longitudinal research on the children of lesbian parents. She has presented papers at a number of conferences and is, I think, editing a special volume of one of the developmental psych. journals on the issue. I have several of her conference papers and wuold be happy to send them on to you. Kristin Esterberg (kesterberg@vax1.umkc.edu or kesterberg@umkcvax1.bitnet) Dept. of Sociology University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, MO 64110 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 23:22:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: CROSSLST PROBLEM1 added to WMST-L filelist I have just added another file to the WMST-L filelist. This one includes Donna Phillips' query about how to handle departmental reluctance to crosslist courses with Women's Studies, along with ten responses that were offered, both on WMST-L and privately to Donna. I've called the file CROSSLST PROBLEM1 (note that there's no "i" in CROSSLST). To get a copy of this file, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET CROSSLST PROBLEM1 WMST-L To get a list of ALL files on the WMST-L filelist, send LISTSERV a message that says INDEX WMST-L. Please note that this message has only two words--you don't say "send" or "get," just INDEX WMST-L. REMINDER: SEND THESE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L. DO NOT HIT "REPLY"! Many thanks to all who contributed to this file. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 23:15:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JOE NATALE Subject: Newsletter/Woman's Collection The Texas Woman's University Library has revived its newsletter DATA ENTRIES and is making it available in electronic form through free subscription over the Internet. DATA ENTRIES will cover events at the Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library in Denton, Texas, as well as developments in public services and the Woman's Collection (see below for more information about TWU's several special collections.) To subscribe to the quarterly newsletter, simply send a note requesting a subscription to one of the following addresses: s_natale@twu (BITNet) or s_natale@twu.edu (Internet) --- <<<<<:::::<<<<<-----*----->>>>>:::::>>>>> ============ TWU Woman's Collection Perhaps it's not surprising that Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas, has a "woman's" collection in the library, but the fact that this collection is among the finest in the nation may be a surprise to many. Begun in 1932 at the behest of one of the university's presidents, biographies of significant women were collected to serve as role models for the students at Texas State College for Women, later to be called Texas Woman's University. Today, the Woman's Collection, housed at the Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library on the TWU campus, contains more than 42,000 books and periodicals, 2500 feet of manuscript and archival records, and approximately 20,000 photographs. In addition, the library acquires many of the large microfilm editions of manuscripts and printed collections published by other libraries and boasts a woman's clothing and textile collection. The historical manuscripts include the personal papers of Hermine Tobolowsky, the "Mother of the Texas Equal Legal Rights Amendment," Sarah Weddington (Roe v. Wade), and authors Claire Myers Owens, LaVerne Harrel Clark, and Edith Deen. In addition, the library has collected the records of significant women's organizations such as the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, The Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women, the American Association of University Women (Texas), and the Texas state archives of Delta Kappa Gamma. In addition, to add to its growing collection on women in the military, TWU acquired the records of the WASP, Inc., the veterans organization for the Women's Airforce Service Pilots who flew during World War II. The Cookbook and Menu Collection has become one of the major collections in the world since the acquisition of the Julie Benell Cookbook Collection and the greater portion of the Cookery and Gastronomy Library of Mrs. Thomas M. Scruggs and Margaret Cook. The entire collection numbers approximately 12,000 volumes. TWU, the largest university primarly for women in the U.S, has approximately 10,000 students and is located 35 miles north of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The Library houses more than three-quarters of a million items. For questions about the Woman's Collection, contact Dawn Letson 817-898-3754 or at s_letson@twu.edu (Internet). <<<<<:::::<<<<<-----*----->>>>>:::::>>>>> To access the Texas Woman's University Library Collections via Internet: 1. TELNET to TWU.EDU 2. At the USERNAME: prompt enter IRIS 3. At the login: prompt press ENTER 4. At the ONLINE CATALOG Menu enter 1 To exit enter E from the Main Menu, then enter 3 ================================================================================ Please excuse the cross-postings of this message. ================================================================================ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 18:44:00 JST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kazuko Watanabe Subject: Re: AUDRE LORDE MEMORIAL Dear Lauraine, I live in Japan so I did not know what happened ot Audre Lorde. Please let me know about it. My internet number is kazuko@ksuics.kyoto-su.ac.jp I have been working on her autobiographical work, Zami for my book. Thanks for your information. Kazuko, Associate Professor of Kyoto Sangyo Unviersity, Kyoto Japan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 07:38:24 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Donna K. Fitch" Please post this announcement for Director, Harwell G. Davis Library, Samford University, Birmingham, AL. DIRECTOR, HARWELL G. DAVIS LIBRARY Samford University invites applications and nominations for the position of Director of Harwell G. Davis Library, the main University Library. The Davis Library serves seven schools (Arts and Sciences, Business, Divinity, Education, Music, Nursing, and Pharmacy) and cooperates with the Law Library. The Director has primary responsibility for the Davis Library and coordinating responsibility for other campus collections. Davis Library houses 517,000 volumes including a Special Collection and a Government Documents Depository. The Library Staff is composed of 9 professionals and 18 paraprofessionals. With an addition scheduled for completion by fall, 1993, Davis Library will provide a total library space of 102,500 square feet. Preferred qualifications for the position of Director include: a minimum of a Master's Degree from an ALA-accredited institution; significant administrative experience; personal qualities characterized by openness and genuine concern for faculty, staff, and students; and a supportive, enabling leadership style which results in effective advocacy of the library and its programs. The mission of Samford University is to nurture persons, offering learning experiences and relationships within a Christian community, so that each participant may achieve optimal personal fulfillment, academic or career competency, social responsibility, and spiritual strength; and continuously improve its effectiveness so as to be valued by all its publics. Samford is aggressive in applying quality improvement principles and practices to managerial and academic processes. Samford University, an institution of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, is the largest private university in Alabama with 4300 students from 40 states and 42 foreign countries. Its classic Williamsburg campus sits on 280 acres of rolling hills just minutes from downtown Birmingham, Alabama's largest city with a metro area population of approximately one million people. The salary for this position will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience with a range beginning at $50,000. Applications and nominations should be received by February 15, 1993. Send materials to: Dr. William E. Hull, Provost Samford University Birmingham, AL 35229 Samford University is an Equal Opportunity Institution and welcomes applicants for employment and educational programs from all individuals regardless of race, color, sex, handicap, or national or ethnic origin. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 09:26:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L Archives (User's Guide) At the start of 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:". Here is section ten: 10) "I'VE BEEN AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS. I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT I'VE MISSED ON WMST-L DURING THE TIME I'VE BEEN GONE. IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACCESS PREVIOUS MESSAGES?" [also useful for new subscribers] Yes. All WMST-L messages are automatically archived. The 1991 archives are arranged in monthly logs; beginning in Jan., 1992, the logs were changed to a weekly format. To find out what logs are available, you can send LISTSERV the following command: INDEX WMST-L . You'll then receive a list of the available logs. To obtain the logs, send LISTSERV the following command: GET WMST-L [filename] where [filename] is the name of the log file you want. For example: GET WMST-L LOG9105 will get you the May '91 log (9105 refers to the 5th month of 1991). LOG9106 is the June log, LOG9107 the July log, etc. (It's possible that the wording of your request may take a slightly different form, depending on your mail system, but what you want is WMST-L LOGxxxx.) Warning: some of these logs are LARGE. The June '91 log is almost 500K. (Fortunately, things calmed down in July, but even so the log is about 250K.) As a result, you may not be permitted to get more than one log per day. Because of the logs' unwieldy size, the format was changed to weekly beginning in 1992: WMST-L LOG9201A is the log for the first week in January '92, WMST-L LOG9201B is for the second week, etc. ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 11:09:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally L Kitch Subject: Women's Studies position at Ohio State The Ohio State University Department of Black Studies and Center for Women's Studies invite applications and nominations for a tenure-track joint appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor with Black Studies as the tenure home. Teaching responsibilities are divided equally between the Department and Center, and include undergraduate and graduate instruction. The position calls for specialization in African American Women's Literature, and Balck womanist/feminist theory. Desirable sub-specialties could include Black women's drama/theater and/or film and women's writing of the diaspora. PhD must be completed by September 1, 1993. Successful candidate will present evidence of the potential for excellence in teaching and scholarship. Salary and benfits are highly competitive. Candidates should submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation by January 8, 1993~(or until position is filled) to: Professor Abiola Irele, CHair African American Literature Search Committee Department of Black Studies The Ohio State University 486 University Hall 230 North Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210-1367 614-292-3700 ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE POSITION WHO WILL BE ATTENDING MLA SHOULD CALL PROFESSOR IRELE BETWEEN DECEMBER 20TH AND DECEMBER 23RD TO INQUIRE ABOUT INTERVIEWS AT THE CONFERENCE OR LOOK FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS OF ROOM LOCATIONS AND/OR PHONE NUMBERS ON THE BULLETIN BOARD AT THE CONFERENCE. sallyk@humanities1.cohums.ohio-state.edu (through Dec. 14) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 10:43:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gaelyn Davidson Subject: Women Scientists & Engineers in Industry REGISTRATIONS ARE DUE THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 14, 1992DDHURRY! The Committee on Women in Science and Engineering Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel National Academy of Sciences National Research Council CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: The National Research Council's Committee on Women in Science and Engineering will be holding its second annual conference at the NAS/NAE Beckman Center in Irvine, California on January 17-18, 1993. This year's topic is Women Scientists and Engineers in Industry: Why So Few? The conference is for: ? Women scientists and engineers who are or have been employed in the industrial sector ? Experts in issues related to the employment of women scientists and engineers in industry ? Managers of technical workforces in industry ? Industrial human resources staff ? Researchers examining conditions and other issues affecting women scientists and engineers in industry FACTS: ? Women comprise approximately 16 percent of all employed scientists and engineers and 12.5 percent of scientists and engineers employed in industry. ? About 10 percent of the women scientists and engineers employed in 1986, across all employment sections, were minority women. ? Women scientists and engineers are more likely to be unemployed than their male counterparts. ? Women scientists and engineers are more likely to be underutilized than their male counterparts. ? Once employed, women in industry face both lower salaries than their male peers and invisible barriersDDthe "glass ceiling" and the "glass wall"DDto vertical and lateral movement in the corporate structure. CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES: ? To highlight some effective company programs for women in industry as described by management and human resources people, ? To explore working conditions of different groups of women scientists and engineers in industry, and ? To achieve insight into why there are not more women scientists and engineers employed in industry. In addition to the formal agenda, participants will have "off- conference" opportunities for networking and sharing experiences and resources with respect to women's programs, through the provision of a hospitality room and a resource room. The Committee on Women in Science and Engineering DR. MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair DR. ESTHER M. CONWELL, Xerox Corporation, Vice Chair DR. BETSY ANCKER-JOHNSON, World Environment Center DR. GEORGE CAMPBELL, JR., National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering DR. JEWEL PLUMMER COBB, California State UniversitiesDDLos Angeles and Fullerton DR. CAROLA EISENBERG, Harvard Medical School DR. BRUCE ANDREW FOWLER, University of Maryland Medical School DR. LILLI S. HORNIG, Wellesley College MS. PAT HILL HUBBARD, American Electronics Association DR. SHIRLEY A. JACKSON, Rutgers University DR. CHARLOTTE V. KUH, Educational Testing Service DR. GIAN-CARLO ROTA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology DR. GARRISON SPOSITO, University of CaliforniaDDBerkeley DR. KAREN K. UHLENBECK, University of TexasDDAustin Staff Officer: Linda C. Skidmore Project Assistant/Senior Secretary: Gaelyn Davidson IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN RECEIVING REGISTRATION MATERIALS, PLEASE CONTACT GAELYN DAVIDSON AT THE BELOW ADDRESS AND PHONE/FAX NUMBER; REGISTRATIONS ARE DUE THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 14, 1992 AND ARE HANDLED ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS. Committee on Women in Science and Engineering National Research Council 2101 Constitution Avenue, NWDD2133/211a Washington, DC 20418 (202) 334-1372 FAX: (202) 334-2753 or email me! Bitnet: GDAVIDSO@NAS ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 13:58:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WPSADGV@WMMVS.BITNET Subject: Women's Studies Minor At the College of William and Mary our minor requires 19 hours; our 4-credit core course, at least 6 hours of women's studies courses in humanities departments and 6 hours in social science departments. We are considering requiring our upper level feminist theory course as well. Deborah G. Ventis, WPSADGV@WMMVS ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 10:37:38 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: RE FUND APPEAL As Co-chair of the Steering Committee of NWSA I want to respond to Debbie Louis' appeal for funds. I am glad that Debbie has taken steps to help organize some holiday cheer for Amy Howard (a part-timer in the National Office last year) and Goldie Thomas (who worked as a consultant in conference planning.) I wish, however, that Debbie could have been generous to friends without attacking NWSA. She knows as well as anyone outside the SC the size of the debt with which we are grappling. We have not postponed paying Goldie's severance pay, for example, because we are mean-spirited, but because we lack the funds at this time to both pay it and keep NWSA afloat. As subscribers think about the holidays, I hope they will think about both individual and organizational needs. Goldie and Amy need your friendship; NWSA needs your memberships. Sue Mansfield (SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 14:08:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: EGINS@WVNVM.BITNET Subject: Request for information For a presentation at this month's Modern Language Association meeting, I would be interested in hearing from people who have experience with mentoring progra ms for new women faculty, either connected with women's studies or not. Who is involved; how do such programs get organized (if they are formal); are such pro grams successful? Please reply to Elaine Ginsberg, Department of English, West Virginia University. EGINS@WVNVM ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 14:04:13 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kat Quina Subject: Re: safer sex on campus Our research on HIV-risky behavior in college women reveals another risk factor: prior sexual abuse, particularly childhood sexual abuse/incest. These women are not generally "risky personalities" but appear also to feel unable to assert themselves in sexual situations. We have developed a scal of sexual assertiveness and have done several studies (submitted for publ) on this issue. For copies/preprints contact Women & AIDS Research Project, Social Science Research Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston RI 02881. I'll be happy to talk with anyone further. Kat Quina, Visiting Scholar, Center for Women's Studies, UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 (414) 229-6855 (sabbatical 1992-93). KQUINA@csd4.csd.uwm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 15:03:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Julia.Grant" <22772MGR@MSU.BITNET> Subject: WMST-L Digest (User's Guide) In-Reply-To: The letter of Sunday, 6 December 1992 7:45pm ET AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE F=MAIL SET WMST-L NOMAIL ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 18:27:08 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: Re: gay parents In-Reply-To: <9212100716.AA20472@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "SMITHD@CLARGRAD.BITNET" at Dec 9, 92 5:37 pm > > I understand there are some books out now dealing with children of lesbian > and/or gay parents. One or more of these books is by a psychiatrist. Does > anyone have references for them? > Daryl Smith > SMITHD@CLARGRAD > Thanks. > There is a book called something like "Different Mothers" that is a collection of writings by children of lesbian mothers. The children are of different ages, and they talk about what it is like for them to have lesbian mothers. I don't have the book here, so I can't give more info on it. Also: Cheri Pies, Considering Parenthood, 1988, San Francisco: Aunt Lute Frederick W. Bozett (ed.) Gay and LEsbian Parents, 1987, New York: Praeger. (This book was already mentioned in another message, but I want to emphasize its value; it cites *numerous* studies on different topics related to gay and lesbian parenting, and can be used not only for its own arguments, but as an annotated bibliography. Jeanne Jullion, Long Way Home: The odyssey of a lesbian mother and her children, 1985, San Francisco: Cleis Press. (The story of a mother's custody battle) The following two books have chapters on legal issues (custody, etc): the editors of the Harvard Law Review, Sexual Orientation and the Law, 1989, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press Richard Green, Sexual Science and the Law, 1992, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 18:48:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: Re: Lesbian/Gay course In-Reply-To: <9211240411.AA05175@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "Erin C. Hewitt" at Nov 23, 92 3:14 pm > > I am preparing a new course that has been titled "The Psychology of > Sexual Orientation". It's being offered in a psychology department and > will be cross-listed in Women's Studies. I also teach a Psychology of > Women that is cross-listed. I am looking for suggestions for texts/ > readings for this course. Students taking this course are only required > Erin C. Hewitt > ECHEWITT@VM1.YORKU.CA Another plug for the manual that Marty Levine and I just produced for the ASA: Rust, Paula C. and Martin P. Levine (eds.) The Sociology of Sexuality and Homosexuality: Syllabi and Teaching Materials. 1992. Distributed by the ASA Teaching Resources Center, 1722 N Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20036. (202) 833-3410. I forget the exact price, but we kept costs down. Definitely less than $20; I think less than $15. (We don't get any royalties) The manual contains syllabi from general courses on sexuality as] well as courses on lesbian/gay sexuality, and courses on specific aspects of lesbian/gay sexuality. Although primarily sociological, most courses are interdisciplinary and not all are taught in Sociology departmerns (e.g., one is a history course). The manual also contains pedagogical essays, an annotated film list, and a bibliography divided into topics. (I know that the message I am responding to is a bit outdated; sorry, end of semester crunch) PCR, prust@itsmail1.hamilton.edu -- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 19:14:50 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pam Subject: RE: gay parents (an aside) I'm a new subscriber so I hope I am not repeating info. already listed. An aside to the replies to the request for academic books on gay parenting: there is quite a continuing debate over the "suitability" of two children's books--_Daddy's Roommate_ by Michael Willhoite and _Heather Has Two Mommies_ by Leslea Newman for public consumption and/or library acquisition. There's a good summary of the affair in the Dec 1992 AMERICAN LIBRARIES, P. 917+. Pamela Rush Univ. of KY Somerset KY Sender: Women's Studies List From: hcbolak@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: psych grad programs with sexuality emphasis hello! I have a student who is intrested in locating graduate programs in psychology where there are folks working on sexuality and and ideally gay issues. If anyone knows of such psych grad programs -- clinical or social I would appreciate you sharing the info. You can respond to me privately. thank you hale bolak hcbolak@cats.bitnet hcbolak@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 20:59:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 8 announcements (6 job openings) I have received the following eight announcements: 1) Director of MA in Women's History (Sarah Lawrence College) 2) Assoc./Full Professor of Psychology/Women's Studies (S. Carolina) 3) Asst. Professor Women's Studies/Africana Center (Cornell Univ.) 4) Coordinator, Caltech Resource Center for Women 5) Asst. Professor, Women's Studies (Bowdoin College) 6) Asst. Professor, Women's Studies/Social Work (U. of Georgia) 7) Research Associates, Five College W. S. Research Center 8) Visiting Scholars, Rutgers Institute for Research on Women For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc *********************************************************** 1) Sarah Lawrence College invites applications for the anticipated position of Director of the MA program in Women's History to begin September, 1993. The director will hold a tenure-track position in U.S. history, with release time given to direct the graduate program. Candidates must have a Ph.D., teaching experience, as well as demonstrated scholarly potential in women's history, a commitment to curricular development, and an ability to work effectively with administration, faculty, and students. Field of specialization open within 19th or 20th Century U.S. Women's History. Sarah Lawrence is a small liberal arts college that emphasizes seminars and tutorials. Please send c.v., three letters of reference, two sample syllabi, and a letter describing your scholarly and teaching interests to Janet Held, Faculty Secretary, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY 10708. Deadline: January 15, 1993. Interviews will be conducted at the AHA meetings in Washington, D.C. on December 28th and 29th. Minority candidates are particularly encouraged to apply. ***************************************************************** 2) The Department of Psychology and the Division of Women's Studies at the U. of South Carolina (Columbia) invite applications for a position at the level of associate or full professor. We are seeking a psychologist of national reputation with a research focus on women. Other than the focus on women, the research area within the field of Psychology is open. The position entails being a member of the Department of Psychology (with affiliation with one of the graduate programs in Psychology) and being Graduate Director of Women's Studies with equal emphasis on both aspects of the position. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct an active research program and assume a leadership role in Women's Studies, working with Dr. Sue Rosser, Director. Teaching responsibilities will be one course in Psychology per semester, which would include a specialized research methodology course in women's issues. Salary will be commensurate with experience, and start-up funds are available. The Department of Psychology has Ph.D. programs in General-Experimental; Clinical-Community, and School Psychology, and Women's Studies has an active and newly-instituted graduate certificate program. Curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests, and three letters of reference should be sent to: Psychology/Women's Studies Search Committee, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. 29208. Complete applications will remain open until the position is filled. EOE ********************************************************** 3) The Africana Studies and Research Center and the Women's Studies Program at Cornell University are seeking candidates for a joint tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level (with the possibility of appointment at a higher level for an exceptionally qualified candidate). We seek applicants whose scholarly research, publications, and teaching focus on the intersection of gender and race in either of the following categories: 1) Social sciences and education 2) Popular culture, particularly visual or performing arts, communications or media; material culture; ethnomusicology; folklore Preference will be given to candidates whose work bridges any two African world areas such as African and African-American, African and African-Caribbean, or African-American and African-Caribbean. Candidates should ask three referees to send letters of recommendation and should themselves submit a letter of application and two (2) copies of a single representative publication or dissertation chapter and of their curriculum vitae. All materials should be sent to Professors Locksley Edmondson and Sally McConnell-Ginet, Joint Search Committee, 310 Triphammer Road, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Review of materials will begin by January 15, 1993. AA/EOE ****************************************************************** 4) California Institute of Technology: Coordinator of the Caltech Resource Center for Women/Center for Women in Science and Engineering. The mission of the Center is to promote the education and careers of all women at Caltech: faculty, students, and staff, especially in science and engineering. The Coordinator will identify the needs of campus women and implement programs to meet those needs. The Coordinator will cooperate with other campus organizations as well as work independently to provide workshops, seminars, and educational programs to heighten awareness of gender issues and foster equality throughout the Caltech community. Experience in performing these duties and knowledge of and commitment to women's issues are essential. Experience in science of engineering is desirable. Salary and benefits will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. Caltech is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, veterans and disabled persons are encouraged to apply. The deadline for application is February 28, 1993. Please send a resume and have three letters of recommendation sent to: Women's Center Search Committee, Mail Code 147-75, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125. ****************************************************** 5) Bowdoin College seeks a tenure-track assistant professor to teach in the Women's Studies Program, beginning fall 1993. Ph.D. required. Salary level is dependent on teaching experience and scholarly achievement. Area of specialization is open; appointment will be made in the department which is the area of specialization. To teach four courses a year in the area of women's studies, which may include the introductory course in women's studies; an intermediate course in feminist theory and methodology; a senior capstone course in women's studies; a cross-listed women's studies course in the area of specialization. Candidates should demonstrate the promise of excellence in teaching and scholarship. We welcome and encourage candidates with administrative experience in Women's Studies who are interested eventually in directing the program. The review of applications will begin on December 15, 1992. Applications accepted until December 31, 1992. Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation to: Professor Marilyn Reizbaum, Chair of the Search Committee, Women's Studies Program, 24 College Street, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011. EOE; women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply, and invited to identify themselves as such. ***************************************************************** 6) University of Georgia: The Women's Studies Program and the School of Social Work invite applications for a jointly appointed assistant professor to begin September 1993. Field is open but preference is given to those in policy, practice, or human behavior. Research must be related to women's issues and it must be feminist in orientation. Requirements are: one graduate degree in social work, Ph.D., promise in research and teaching, and a strong commitment to women's studies and curriculum development. Teaching will include graduate and undergraduate opportunities: e.g., Introduction to Women's Studies; Feminist Theory; special topics in area of expertise, and appropriate courses in social work. Send curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, evidence of commitment to women's studies, and three letters of reference by January 6, 1993, to: Search Committee, Women's Studies Program, University of Georgia, 230F Main Library, Athens, GA 30602. AA/EOE ************************************************************** 7) The Five College Women's Studies Research Center (a new project of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst) invites applications for its Research Associate positions for 1993-94. Associates are provided with office and/or living space, library privileges at the five institutions, and the collegiality of a diverse community of feminist scholars and activists. No financial support is available; deadline for application is February 1, 1993. For application materials, contact the Center at Dickinson House, Box C, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075. Tel: (413) 538-2442; fax: (413) 538-2082. *************************************************************** 8) The Rutgers Institute for Research on Women invites applications from postdoctoral scholars working in any discipline for unsalaried Visiting Scholar appointments for 1993-94. IRW offers office space, support, faculty privileges, participation in Institute programs, conferences, and seminars, as well as contact with scholars across the university working on issues of women and gender. Deadlines: February 15, 1993, for Fall 1993 and April 1, 1993, for Spring 1994. For more information and application procedures, please call (908) 932-9072. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 02:05:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: AHUNTER@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU Subject: Re: safer sex on campus In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 9 Dec 1992 20:28:07 -0500 from Yeah...as Catharine MacKinnon likes to point out, a lot of women end up acquiescing to male sexual pressure out of fear that if they DIDN'T go along with it, the result of their refusal could well be violent rape. And, as a court case in (I think it was) Texas recently illustrated, it isn't particularly likely to support the premise of involuntary sex if the woman suggests that a condom be deployed. - allan hunter PS-- I'm outta here for awhile; just finished my last coursework (!) and plan to be ABD soonish. Gonna help my folks build a "dream house" for their retirement pleasure and do dissertating things by night. Just set WMST-L to NOMAIL. See ya in Feb! P.PS-- When I get back: two papers avail for sharing out: 1. "Situation Unseen: Feminism, the Unconscious, and the Question of Women's Erotic Relationship to Sexual Objectification" 2. "On the Erotic, the Emotional, and the Economic: Towards a Rad- ical Feminist Theory of the Economic System" (some conceptual overlap, believe it or not). - allan ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:15:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RBUDDEBE@UCS.INDIANA.EDU Subject: atrocities against women in Bosnia: Death and rape camps This a forwarded, forwarded message that, even though it is not related to women's studies, I feel is important enough to be spread. I apologize for the clutter of the message which is due to its forwarded nature... Rachel Rbuddebe@ucs.indiana.edu ---------Forwarded message begins here-------- From: PO1::"femecon-l@bucknell.edu" 10-DEC-1992 18:18:10.41 To: Multiple recipients of list CC: Subj: Rape and death camps in x-YU (from Haluk) Dear network members: I am forwarding a message from a Croatian women's group called "Tresnjevko". They are documenting the sexual and other atrocities committed against women and children during the genocide being committed against Bosnian Muslims an Croatians (by the Serbs actively and by the rest of the world passively). They are calling for an end to these war crimes and are asking support from all international groups and women's groups. I am forwarding their report and appeal for support and I am also asking for your suggestions about what we can do as a group and as individuals. I am also asking you to forward this message to other organizations and individuals. I thought we could write a petition and send it to the president bush and president-elect clinton, to the u.n. secretary general, and write to "tresnjevko" to express and offer our support and contact other women's groups like NOW. Please send your suggestions. Thank you. nilufer cagatay dept. of econ., univ. of utah cagatay@econ.sbs.utah.edu ****** START OF FORWARDED MESSAGE ****** Date: Tuesday December 8, 1992 15:04 To: CAGATAY@EDU-UTAH-SBS-ECON From: korkut erturk\ -- KORKUT@EDU-UTAH-SBS-ECON (806E7200:C0CD2C56) Subject: Rape and death camps in x-YU (from Haluk) ****** START OF FORWARDED MESSAGE ****** Received: from cc.utah.edu by pcmailgw.cc.utah.edu with SMTP id AA256883 ; Tue, 08 Dec 92 02:42:41 UTC Received: from VM.BYU.EDU (YMAIL@BYUVM) by CC.UTAH.EDU with PMDF#10043; Tue, 8 Dec 1992 02:42 MST Received: from BYUVM.BITNET by VM.BYU.EDU (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 8611; Tue, 08 Dec 92 02:42:36 MST Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 23:05:00 -0800 From: Al Trh Subject: Rape and death camps in x-YU (from Haluk) Sender: Turkish Cultural Program List To: Multiple recipients of list TRKNWS-L Reply-to: Turkish Cultural Program List Message-id: <2AE65FA282012C5C@CC.UTAH.EDU> X-Envelope-to: KORKUT@ECON.SBS.UTAH.EDU, MUMTAZ@ECON.SBS.UTAH.EDU, OZEL@ECON.SBS.UTAH.EDU X-To: trknws-l at uscvm Forwarded message: >From cms1.ucs.leeds.ac.uk!TEX5HAD Mon Dec 7 21:57:15 1992 Via: uk.ac.leeds.ucs.cms1; Tue, 8 Dec 1992 05:28:37 +0000 Date: Tue, 08 Dec 92 05:26:46 GMT From: Haluk DEMIRBAG Subject: Rape and death camps in x-YU To: TRH@JACK.SNS.COM Message-Id: <08 Dec 92 05:28:28 GMT #4414@UK.AC.LEEDS.CMS1> 8<----------------------------Cut here-(C)----------------------------->8 Women's group "Tresnjevika". Mlinarska 71. 41000 Zagreb, Croatia Tel: 38 41 50 35 31 Zagreb, September 28, 1992 REPORT The Women's Group "Tresnjevka" addresses the issue of the protection of women and children, victims and refugees of the war against the countries of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. The stream of survivor testimonies which we came across, together with the work of other organisations throughout Croatia and information gathered in refugee camps throughout Europe, prompted our investigation into the systematic sexual atrocities being committed against women in the context of the Serbian and Montenegrin occupations of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. We are in the second month of our research, which is bringing staggering and appalling results. At the time when the world was shocked by the media pictures of Nazi- style concentration camps on the occupied areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina, we were finding out about the existence of rape/death camps for women and children, mostly of reproductive ages, in occupied territories of both Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia. Very little is known about the fate of these women, and unfortunately the topic of sexual abuse is still treated as a secondary concern within the world organisations and the media which are investigating the war crimes that are occurring on these territories. RAPE/DEATH CAMPS The existence of rape/death camps must be understood as a strategy or tactic of genocide, of a "final solutions". Unlike rape camps which were set up during the wars in, for example, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Korea, the camps in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia are not solely sexual abuse centers but are a part of an organised system leading to liquidation, i.e. "ethnic cleansing" of those of Muslim and Croatian nationalities. Sexual abuses in this context have modern precedents only in Nazi Germany. The Serbian-Chetnik strategy of "final solution" has resulted in the establishment of over 100 concentration camps and forced exoduses of more than 1,500,000 non-Serbian refugees from Bosnia-Hercegovina. Over 120,000 people from all occupied parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina have been deported to concentration camps as a part of this Serbian-Chetnik genocidal operation. Three major groups of captives make up the population of those in concentration camps: 1. people of reputation and hose who are in positions of local power 2. important intellectuals 3. other less "threatening" civilians Captives of the first and second groups are condemned to liquidation because they represent the most educated and influential aspects of those ethnicities targeted for "ethnic cleansing"; genocide requires the destruction of the intellectual, cultural, and national identity of a people. Those who comprise the third group are primarily civilians from rural areas. Some of their names have been disclosed to international humanitarian organisations. This group also includes the largest number of women, most of whom have been forgotten. Thus far, not enough attention has been paid to the sufferings of women and children in this current war of occupation. The governments of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina have presented them as individual and random cases (i.e. 150 women left in late pregnancy from gang-rape), which taken as a whole are not considered very significant. Women and children are the victims of grenades, snipers, the knives of Chetnik butchers, diseases, hunger, exhaustion from hiding in shelters and basements. They comprise almost 70% of the total number of killed people in the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina. They are 75% of the known number of 120,000 captured people in concentration camps. Yet everyone remains silent about them. These figures attest to the fact that these are not sporadic cases but are a gender-specific onslaught that is systematic. Our sources indicate that there are over 35,000 women and children in Serbian-run rape/death camps, enduring the most frightful methods of terror and torture. Such tortures include rapes, gang-rapes, forced incest, the draining of the blood of captives to provide blood for transfusions for the needs of the criminals, setting children ablaze, and drowning babies. These are only a part of the daily death crimes. Females between the ages of 10 and 30 years of age are the primary objects of daily gang-rapes. They are raped daily by between 40 and 50 Chetniks. The females suffer from venereal diseases, internal injuries, starvation, and other forms of humiliation based on both gender and ethnicity. The Women's Group "Tresnjevka" demands that the concentration camps be shut down immediately. This also means that we demand that women's rights to sexual and reproductive control be upheld absolutely and without compromise both in this present situation and in all circumstances. To this end of condemning and halting the war crimes, we appeal to all international organisations and to all women's groups and initiatives to assist us. Women's groups "Tresnjevka" Zagreb, Croatia* Vice President. Nina Kadic* This appeal and research is being done in conjunction with women's organisations in Bosnia-Hercegovina, of which Nina Kadic is coordinator. Address: Office of the Government of Bosnia- Hercegovina in Croatia, Savska St., 41000 Zagreb, Croatia. Women's group "Tresnjevika". Mlinarska 71. 41000 Zagreb, Croatia Tel: 38 41 50 35 31 Zagreb, September 28, 1992 A LIST OF RAPE/DEATH CAMPS IN BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA 1. Motel "Vilina Vias", Visegrad. This camp was established at the end of April 1992. The number of women captives is not known, but we suspect that it is very high since the areas surrounding the camp have been rendered almost completely "ethnically clean". 2. Hotel "Galeb", Brcko County. 3. Restaurant "Vestialia", Brcko County. 4. Brezovo Polje, Brcko County. 5. Hotel "Elvis", Brcko County. These four concentration camps were set up immediately after the Serbian occupation of Brcko. Their captives come mainly from east and west Bosnia. The rape/death camp of Brezovo Polje has been moved to the school centre in Bijeljina County. 6. Trnopoije, near Prijedor. Survivors testify about the establishment of a number of smaller local residences for the purposes of sexually abusing females. 7. Secondary School Center, Bijeljina County. 8. Peikovici Village, Bijeljina County. 9. Mrakovica Mountain, on the way from Prijedor to Bosanska Dubica. The female population from the Croatian and Muslim villages on the slopes of the Kozara Mountain are prisoners in this rape/death camp. This camp was established at the beginning of 1992 since part of Bosnia-Hercegovina has been under occupation for over a year. The number of captives is not known. 10. Lakiasi, Baja Luka County. There is a rape/death camp for girls and women up to 24 years of age. 11. Teslic, near Prijedor. This is the main center for the ultrafascist Serbian military forces from Western Bosnia. This camp of over 1000 women and children is located in the woods, 20 km. from Teslic. Survivors testify that girls of 10 years of age were also raped. Twelve (12) women who managed to escape the camp are now in advanced stages of pregnancy, and are awaiting birth in Zagreb hospitals. 12. Ripac, near Bihac. At the beginning of May 1992, Serbian forces massacred the Muslim and Croatia populations of this area. Some survivors fled to Bihac and Cazin. Some were taken to this camp for Croatian and Muslim Inmates. 13. Lomnica, near Sekovici, Tuzla County. This is a rape/death camp in which over 200 girls up to 15 years of age have been enduring sexual atrocities for several months now. 14. Jesenica, near Bosanska Krupa. This rape/death camp was established in May 1992. Its captives are from Bosanska Krupa, Cazin and from surrounding regions. 15. Kamen-Grad, Sanski Most County. 16. Duboki Potok on Kozara Mountain, near Mostanice Monastery. We have no information about when this camp was founded, but women from Banja Luka and its surrounding villages have been held captive there for over a year. There is no specific age group, but the largest number is of reproductive age. Vice President. Nina Kadic 8<----------------------------Cut here-(C)----------------------------->8 _ |-| /-\ |_ |_| |< ****** END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE ****** ****** END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE ****** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 12:20:39 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: Re: psych grad programs with sexuality emphasis In-Reply-To: <9212110439.AA19846@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "hcbolak@CATS.UCSC.EDU" at Dec 10, 92 5:02 pm > > I have a student who is intrested in locating graduate > programs in psychology where there are folks working > on sexuality and and ideally gay issues. If anyone > knows of such psych grad programs -- clinical or social > I would appreciate you sharing the info. You can respond > to me privately. > Hale, I'm responding on WMST-L because this info might be useful to others as well. Does your student know about the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036? It is an interdisciplinary center, and they might be able to provide information on graduate programs in psychology as well as other info on lesbian and gay studies. The Founder and Executive Director is Martin Duberman, historian. Also on the Board are Cheryl Clarke, Richard Elovich, Ann Pollinger Haas (Sociology), Beverly Horton (English), David M. Kahn (History), Esther Katz (History), Seymour Kleinberg (English), Sylvia Molloy (Humanities), Vivien Ng (History, Women's St), Samuel Phillips, Shepherd Raimi, Alisa Solomon (English), Kendall Rhomas (Law), Sharon Thompson, Randolph Trumbach (History), Gilda Zwerman (Psychotherapist, Sociology). CLAGS publishes a newsletter for members. Paula Rust, prust@itsmail1.hamilton.edu -- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:27:50 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: TV/TS Speakers In-Reply-To: <9211190432.AA10791@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "RHODA UNGER" at Nov 18, 92 8:44 pm I teach a course titled "Psychosexual Diversity," and for the past four years I have had transvestite and transsexual people come to speak to this class. The speakers belong to an organization in Syracuse, New York called "Expressing Our Nature" and they do an excellent job of speaking to students about the gender community, crossdressing, TV/TS politics, their personal lives, etc. Until now, they have not had a formal speakers' program, but they are now thinking of developing one because of the success they have had in my class and at other places they have spoken. They have asked me to find out if there are other professors out there who might be interested in having them come to speak to their classes. I told them I would post the request on email. If there is anyone out there who is interested or who would like to know more about this group and their program (we are looking primarily for interested people in the upstate New York area), please email me privately. Paula Rust, prust@itsmail1.hamilton.edu -- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:46:15 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauraine LeBlanc Subject: SOUTHERN WS ORGANIZATIONS Hello. It's me again. I've been asked by some colleagues to post the following inquiry: Does anyone know of any Southern or Atlanta-based women's studies organizations? If so, could you please send me their addresses if you have them? Please respond privately. Thanks. Also, thank you to everyone who responded to my question about Audre Lorde. Lauraine Leblanc GRCJ056@EMUVM1 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 14:12:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: mo@HEALTH.OTA.GOV Subject: atrocities against women in Bosnia: Dea Rachel: I am stunned by your message. I have sent a message to everyone in our agency about it and have requested that we pool our efforts - possibly with this list? I'm having a hard time coming up with something other than a petition.....but will keep working on it. There has already been a great response here to my message - so I'll get a meeting together and let you know what develops. Thank you so much for bringing this issue to attention. Michelle Odom modom@ota.gov ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 15:55:00 EST Reply-To: korenman@umbc.BITNET Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Bosnia messages: not on WMST-L Earlier today, Michelle Odom (mo@health.ota.gov) wrote: > I am stunned by your message. I have sent a message to everyone in our > agency about it and have requested that we pool our efforts - possibly with > this list? I'm having a hard time coming up with something other than a > petition.....but will keep working on it. There has already been a great > response here to my message - so I'll get a meeting together and let you know > what develops. Thank you so much for bringing this issue to attention. Quite frankly, the message to which she refers, about the situation in Bosnia, should not have been sent to WMST-L; it is outside the scope of the list. Therefore, please DO NOT SEND MESSAGES TO WMST-L as part of efforts to respond to the crisis described in the posting. Those of you who want to do something should probably contact Michelle PRIVATELY (MO@HEALTH.OTA.GOV) or the person who sent the message to FEMECON-L. That person is Nilufer Cagatay, whose e-mail address is CAGATAY@ECON.SBS.UTAH.EDU. Part of the message apparently appeared on the Turkish Cultural Program List, TRKNWS-L@USCVM, which is another possible place for people to write. I don't know whether FEMECON-L@BUCKNELL.EDU is also an appropriate place. I do know that WMST-L is not. The list already has all the mail volume it can handle. Were its scope to broaden to include the huge range of gender-related societal problems, the list would no longer be able to serve the purposes for which was established. Two additional remarks. Even when you have messages that DO fall inside WMST-L's scope, please do NOT send such long messages to the list. The Bosnia message was the equivalent of a 9-page typewritten paper! Also, when forwarding a message, please edit out excessive routing information and other unnecessary material. If you don't know how to do this, ask the computer support people at your institution. Thanks for your continued understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:38:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Patterson Subject: Re: Bosnia messages: not on WMST-L In-Reply-To: <199212112146.AA10482@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> I disagree. The Bosnia message belongs on ALL lists..even the gardening or opera lists. If the word is to be spread and, I pray to God, something done about it, the more people who know and respond the better. ............................................................................. Barbara Patterson patterso@McMail.McMaster.CA School of Nursing or patterso@sscvax.McMaster.CA HSC 2J22 525-9140 ext. 2403 ............................................................................. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:43:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MFF1@PSUVM.BITNET Subject: Re: Bosnia messages: not on WMST-L In-Reply-To: patterso AT MCMAIL.CIS.MCMASTER.CA -- Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:38:00 -0500 What is more pertinent to women's studies than the matter of life or death of women and children? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:52:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Roberts Subject: War rapes in Bosnia A colleague of mine at Athabasca University sent me a copyof the enclosed message that he had received via various networks, about the systematic use of sexual assault as a weapon, in Bosnia. I am passing it on to allof you. I apologise for the miles of headers from the various pathways it travelled on email, but I don't know how to remove them. Anyway it gives an indication of who now has received the information. I am afraid I have no more information about it so if you want to know more I suggest you reply privately to one of the various email addresses included in the pathways below. Barbara Roberts >From mohamedm Thu Dec 10 18:43:00 1992 Return-Path: Received: by aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (/\==/\ Smail3.1.24.1 #24.4) id ; Thu, 10 Dec 92 18:43 MST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 18:43 MST From: mohamedm (Mohamed Mahmoud) To: barbarar Subject: Women in Bosnia Status: R I received this today. I just wanted to share it with you. Mohamed >From QUCDN.QueensU.CA!eleceng.ee.queensu.ca!msa-request Thu Dec 10 16:52:08 1992 Return-Path: <@QUCDN.QueensU.CA:msa-request@eleceng.ee.queensu.ca> Received: by aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (/\==/\ Smail3.1.24.1 #24.4) id ; Thu, 10 Dec 92 16:51 MST Received: from eleceng.ee.queensu.ca by QUCDN.QueensU.CA (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Thu, 10 Dec 92 18:44:38 EST Received: by eleceng.ee.queensu.ca (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12838; Thu, 10 Dec 92 18:42:26 EST Sender: msa-request@eleceng.ee.queensu.ca Reply-To: H.R.Yazgan@qmw.ac.uk From: H.R.Yazgan@qmw.ac.uk (H.R.Yazgan) Message-Id: <20072.199212101708@alpha.qmw.ac.uk> Subject: Rape and death camps Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 17:08:07 GMT To: msa@eleceng.ee.queensu.ca Status: R Number: msa/10Dec92/968 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim >From TRKNWS-L%USCVM.EARN@uk.ac.earn-relay Tue Dec 8 10:40:08 1992 Message-Id: <9853.199212081040@alpha.qmw.ac.uk> Received: from omega.qmw.ac.uk by alpha.qmw.ac.uk; Tue, 8 Dec 1992 10:40:06 GMT Received: from earn-relay.ac.uk by omega.qmw.ac.uk via JANET with NIFTP (PP) id <19089-0@omega.qmw.ac.uk>; Tue, 8 Dec 1992 10:36:50 +0000 Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 8601; Tue, 08 Dec 92 10:36:20 GMT Received: from UKACRL by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 9370; Tue, 08 Dec 92 10:35:25 GMT Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 23:05:00 -0800 Reply-To: Turkish Cultural Program List Sender: Turkish Cultural Program List From: Al Trh Subject: Rape and death camps in x-YU (from Haluk) X-To: trknws-l at uscvm To: Multiple recipients of list TRKNWS-L Status: RO Forwarded message: >From cms1.ucs.leeds.ac.uk!TEX5HAD Mon Dec 7 21:57:15 1992 Via: uk.ac.leeds.ucs.cms1; Tue, 8 Dec 1992 05:28:37 +0000 Date: Tue, 08 Dec 92 05:26:46 GMT From: Haluk DEMIRBAG Subject: Rape and death camps in x-YU To: TRH@JACK.SNS.COM Message-Id: <08 Dec 92 05:28:28 GMT #4414@UK.AC.LEEDS.CMS1> 8<----------------------------Cut here-(C)----------------------------->8 Women's group "Tresnjevika". Mlinarska 71. 41000 Zagreb, Croatia Tel: 38 41 50 35 31 Zagreb, September 28, 1992 REPORT The Women's Group "Tresnjevka" addresses the issue of the protection of women and children, victims and refugees of the war against the countries of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. The stream of survivor testimonies which we came across, together with the work of other organisations throughout Croatia and information gathered in refugee camps throughout Europe, prompted our investigation into the systematic sexual atrocities being committed against women in the context of the Serbian and Montenegrin occupations of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. We are in the second month of our research, which is bringing staggering and appalling results. At the time when the world was shocked by the media pictures of Nazi- style concentration camps on the occupied areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina, we were finding out about the existence of rape/death camps for women and children, mostly of reproductive ages, in occupied territories of both Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia. Very little is known about the fate of these women, and unfortunately the topic of sexual abuse is still treated as a secondary concern within the world organisations and the media which are investigating the war crimes that are occurring on these territories. RAPE/DEATH CAMPS The existence of rape/death camps must be understood as a strategy or tactic of genocide, of a "final solutions". Unlike rape camps which were set up during the wars in, for example, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Korea, the camps in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia are not solely sexual abuse centers but are a part of an organised system leading to liquidation, i.e. "ethnic cleansing" of those of Muslim and Croatian nationalities. Sexual abuses in this context have modern precedents only in Nazi Germany. The Serbian-Chetnik strategy of "final solution" has resulted in the establishment of over 100 concentration camps and forced exoduses of more than 1,500,000 non-Serbian refugees from Bosnia-Hercegovina. Over 120,000 people from all occupied parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina have been deported to concentration camps as a part of this Serbian-Chetnik genocidal operation. Three major groups of captives make up the population of those in concentration camps: 1. people of reputation and hose who are in positions of local power 2. important intellectuals 3. other less "threatening" civilians Captives of the first and second groups are condemned to liquidation because they represent the most educated and influential aspects of those ethnicities targeted for "ethnic cleansing"; genocide requires the destruction of the intellectual, cultural, and national identity of a people. Those who comprise the third group are primarily civilians from rural areas. Some of their names have been disclosed to international humanitarian organisations. This group also includes the largest number of women, most of whom have been forgotten. Thus far, not enough attention has been paid to the sufferings of women and children in this current war of occupation. The governments of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina have presented them as individual and random cases (i.e. 150 women left in late pregnancy from gang-rape), which taken as a whole are not considered very significant. Women and children are the victims of grenades, snipers, the knives of Chetnik butchers, diseases, hunger, exhaustion from hiding in shelters and basements. They comprise almost 70% of the total number of killed people in the republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina. They are 75% of the known number of 120,000 captured people in concentration camps. Yet everyone remains silent about them. These figures attest to the fact that these are not sporadic cases but are a gender-specific onslaught that is systematic. Our sources indicate that there are over 35,000 women and children in Serbian-run rape/death camps, enduring the most frightful methods of terror and torture. Such tortures include rapes, gang-rapes, forced incest, the draining of the blood of captives to provide blood for transfusions for the needs of the criminals, setting children ablaze, and drowning babies. These are only a part of the daily death crimes. Females between the ages of 10 and 30 years of age are the primary objects of daily gang-rapes. They are raped daily by between 40 and 50 Chetniks. The females suffer from venereal diseases, internal injuries, starvation, and other forms of humiliation based on both gender and ethnicity. The Women's Group "Tresnjevka" demands that the concentration camps be shut down immediately. This also means that we demand that women's rights to sexual and reproductive control be upheld absolutely and without compromise both in this present situation and in all circumstances. To this end of condemning and halting the war crimes, we appeal to all international organisations and to all women's groups and initiatives to assist us. Women's groups "Tresnjevka" Zagreb, Croatia* Vice President. Nina Kadic* This appeal and research is being done in conjunction with women's organisations in Bosnia-Hercegovina, of which Nina Kadic is coordinator. Address: Office of the Government of Bosnia- Hercegovina in Croatia, Savska St., 41000 Zagreb, Croatia. Women's group "Tresnjevika". Mlinarska 71. 41000 Zagreb, Croatia Tel: 38 41 50 35 31 Zagreb, September 28, 1992 A LIST OF RAPE/DEATH CAMPS IN BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA 1. Motel "Vilina Vias", Visegrad. This camp was established at the end of April 1992. The number of women captives is not known, but we suspect that it is very high since the areas surrounding the camp have been rendered almost completely "ethnically clean". 2. Hotel "Galeb", Brcko County. 3. Restaurant "Vestialia", Brcko County. 4. Brezovo Polje, Brcko County. 5. Hotel "Elvis", Brcko County. These four concentration camps were set up immediately after the Serbian occupation of Brcko. Their captives come mainly from east and west Bosnia. The rape/death camp of Brezovo Polje has been moved to the school centre in Bijeljina County. 6. Trnopoije, near Prijedor. Survivors testify about the establishment of a number of smaller local residences for the purposes of sexually abusing females. 7. Secondary School Center, Bijeljina County. 8. Peikovici Village, Bijeljina County. 9. Mrakovica Mountain, on the way from Prijedor to Bosanska Dubica. The female population from the Croatian and Muslim villages on the slopes of the Kozara Mountain are prisoners in this rape/death camp. This camp was established at the beginning of 1992 since part of Bosnia-Hercegovina has been under occupation for over a year. The number of captives is not known. 10. Lakiasi, Baja Luka County. There is a rape/death camp for girls and women up to 24 years of age. 11. Teslic, near Prijedor. This is the main center for the ultrafascist Serbian military forces from Western Bosnia. This camp of over 1000 women and children is located in the woods, 20 km. from Teslic. Survivors testify that girls of 10 years of age were also raped. Twelve (12) women who managed to escape the camp are now in advanced stages of pregnancy, and are awaiting birth in Zagreb hospitals. 12. Ripac, near Bihac. At the beginning of May 1992, Serbian forces massacred the Muslim and Croatia populations of this area. Some survivors fled to Bihac and Cazin. Some were taken to this camp for Croatian and Muslim Inmates. 13. Lomnica, near Sekovici, Tuzla County. This is a rape/death camp in which over 200 girls up to 15 years of age have been enduring sexual atrocities for several months now. 14. Jesenica, near Bosanska Krupa. This rape/death camp was established in May 1992. Its captives are from Bosanska Krupa, Cazin and from surrounding regions. 15. Kamen-Grad, Sanski Most County. 16. Duboki Potok on Kozara Mountain, near Mostanice Monastery. We have no information about when this camp was founded, but women from Banja Luka and its surrounding villages have been held captive there for over a year. There is no specific age group, but the largest number is of reproductive age. Vice President. Nina Kadic 8<----------------------------Cut here-(C)----------------------------->8 _ |-| /-\ |_ |_| |< -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Name: Harun Resit Yazgan | Dept. of Mechanical Eng. email: H.R.YAZGAN@QMW.AC.UK | Queen Mary & Westfield College Fax: 071-975 5500 | University of London Tel. 44-81-747 8051(H) | Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ___________________________ H.R.Yazgan@qmw.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:54:01 EST Reply-To: korenman@umbc.BITNET Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Bosnia and WMST-L Earlier today, Barbara Patterson wrote: > I disagree. The Bosnia message belongs on ALL lists..even the gardening > or opera lists. If the word is to be spread and, I pray to God, something > done about it, the more people who know and respond the better. The problems involving women in Bosnia are serious, but so too are the problems women are facing in Somalia, India, Kenya, South Africa, Germany, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, the United States, and elsewhere. If messages about all important crises and problems appeared on ALL lists, every list would carry hundreds if not thousands of messages a day, and few people would subscribe to ANY list. The point of having lists with different focuses is so that people can tailor their e-mail to meet their interests, their time, and their e-mail quotas. Another subscriber sent the following unsigned posting: > What is more pertinent to women's studies than the matter of life or > death of women and children? This comment misconstrues the nature of WMST-L. I will take the liberty of quoting from a message I sent to the list some months ago: > This list is not and cannot be an all-purpose Women's Studies and > women's issues list. Its focus is the academic side of Women's > Studies teaching, research, and program administration. While I agree > emphatically that broader political discussion is relevant to Women's > Studies, there are other electronic forums for that purpose. WMST-L > already has a problem with heavy mail volume just in handling the > messages for which it was established. If it broadened its scope the > way some would like, it would cease to be useful for the many people > who have more limited time and/or e-mail space. > > We've gone over this same ground many times before. WMST-L is not > going to broaden its scope. The User's Guide contains an entire section > devoted to other gender-related lists to which people can subscribe for > discussions of political and social issues. > > Please be considerate of other subscribers whose time and/or e-mail > space may be more limited than yours. If you want messages about the > academic side of Women's Studies, subscribe to WMST-L. If you also want > other sorts of gender-related discussions, subscribe in addition to other > forums that exist for that purpose. That way, everyone can tailor their > subscriptions to their needs. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:50:59 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: welford@SONOMA.EDU Subject: mla I am going to the MLA in NYC Dec.27-30 and need a place to stay--sleep on floor,whatever. Anyone out there have a floor? Anyone else going to the MLA and have a hotel room they wouldn't mind sharing. I would, of course, contribute to cost. I'm coming from California. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:03:37 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: welford@SONOMA.EDU Subject: MLA Convention I just sent a message out trying to find a place to stay for the MLA Convention in NYC and didn't put my name and address at the end. They are: Gabrielle Welford. Welford@Sonoma.edu set wmst-l ack ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 11:30:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: New Film Review: "The Good Woman of Bangkok" A review of "The Good Woman of Bangkok" by filmmaker Dennis O"Rourke (AUS) was broadcast today on "The Women's Show," a weekly feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM in Tampa, and is available now on the FILM FILELIST. To obtain a copy of this review send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV57 FILM To obtain a list of all the film reviews available, send a message to the same listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one review, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The number of files you can request on any calendar day is limited to twenty. 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 1300 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 1299 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/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:11:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L Files (User's Guide) At the start of 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:". Here is section eleven: 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 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 name of the file you want. For example: GET USSR WOMEN WMST-L 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.) 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. To find out what syllabi (or film reviews) the subdirectory contains, send LISTSERV the command INDEX SYLLABI (or INDEX FILM). To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTERV the following command: GET [filename] SYLLABI or GET [filename] FILM 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. 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. ******************* Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 01:09:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Arlene.Saitzyk" <22669ARS@MSU.BITNET> Subject: films index film f=mail ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 09:29:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Rabinowitz Subject: Re: TV/TS Speakers In-Reply-To: <9212112232.AA06823@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "Paula Rust" at Dec 11, 92 1:27 pm Paula, Do let me know what you have on the group in Syracuse. It feels funny to talk to you on e mail. I hope you are still here and get this message. Disregard the repetition at the end here; it comes of not remembering how to use the editor. Let's talk. let me have what you have on them. It g ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:19:58 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CXCA000 Subject: information Dear all, I have finished my M.A. in Brazil, where I studied a feminist Non-governa- mental Organization which published a newspaper in the 1980's. Now I am willing to continue my graduate studies (PhD) either in Canada (where I live now) or in the United States. As I have started to think about the plan for a future research, it seems to me that there still are many things to be done around my Master thesis subject - informal organizations founded by women -, specially if I could focus it on how the feminist identity is affected by problems of or- ganization ("hierarchy", "competence", "professional qualifications" etc). I would appreciate very much if you send me references and information about people in Canada or United States who study this. Thereza Montenegro ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:27:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: two more files available I have just added two more files to the WMST-L filelist. One, called INTRO TEXTS1, is a compilation of suggestions concerning texts to use in an Introduction to Women's Studies course. These 27 messages were sent to WMST-L in November 1991 and March-April 1992. The second file is the text of an essay by Daphne Patai entitled "The Struggle for Feminist Purity Threatens the Goals of Feminism." The essay appeared last February in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The author, a professor of Women's Studies and of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a WMST-L subscriber, voices her dismay at what she calls "ideological policing within feminism." Her essay thus shares some concerns with the piece by Joan Mandle ("Political Correctness and the Feminist Movement") that was added to the filelist last week as PC_AND FEMINISM. When Daphne Patai's essay appeared in the Chronicle, I sent a note to WMST-L recommending it, and I'm very pleased that the author has now made it available through the WMST-L filelist, where it bears the filename FEMINIST PURITY. To retrieve these files from the WMST-L filelist, send the following 2-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET INTRO TEXTS1 WMST-L GET FEMINIST PURITY WMST-L Obviously, if you want only one of the files, send only the appropriate one-line message. To get a list of all the files in the WMST-L filelist, send the following 2-word command to listserv: INDEX WMST-L (just those two words). PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND THESE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L! Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:31:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Daphne.Patai@SPANPORT.UMASS.EDU Subject: ideological policing in WoSt Joan Korenman has made my article on ideological policing available to WMST-L subscribers. I'd just like to add that I'm working on a book on problems in contemporary feminism (especially within women's studies programs), together with Noretta Koertge, a philosopher of science at Indiana University. I'd very much like to have reactions to the piece (published in the Chronicle of Higher Educ. last February) and hope people will write to me about it. Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu Many thanks, to Joan for listing the piece and to anyone who takes the trouble to read it and respond. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:52:58 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Paula W. Sunderman" Subject: Re: TV/TS Speakers Nancy, Am I the right Paula? I noticed that your message is in reply to Paula Rust--I'm Paula Sunderman. If I am the right Paula, would you please refresh my memory in regard to your message. What group in Syracuse do you mean? Thanks. Paula ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:56:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: To: WMST-L%UMDD.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU Comments: Resent-From: carole Comments: Originally-From: "Paula W. Sunderman" Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was WMST-L@UMDD From: carole Subject: Re: TV/TS Speakers Please, folks, check where your reply is going. These should be personal replies, not for the net. Thanks. carole marmell/university of houston/socwlr @ uhupvm1 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Nancy, Am I the right Paula? I noticed that your message is in reply to Paula Rust--I'm Paula Sunderman. If I am the right Paula, would you please refresh my memory in regard to your message. What group in Syracuse do you mean? Thanks. Paula ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:44:02 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: karen prager Subject: Re: Bosnia and WMST-L In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:54:01 -0600 from When atrocities reach holocaust proportions, they are not just any crisis. I appreciate very much being informed.. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:25:53 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JLONG@SUVM.BITNET Subject: ideological policing in WoSt In-Reply-To: Your MAIL dated Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:31:08 -0500 Dear Daphne, I am looking forward to your work on problems within WS. I have j ust ordered the piece on WMST-L. I'll take advantage of the moment (I am not a correspondnet) to say how much I value your book with Gluck. My students in a grad. seminar on Life History profited from it last spring, and I continue to d o so as I complete my book on Telling Women's Lives. I'll certainly comment on the WS piece. Cheers. --JUDY LONG, SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY -- --103 SIMS IV, SYRACUSE, NY 13244-1230, USA (315)443-4580 -- --Bitnet: JLONG@SUVM Internet: JLONG@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU -- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:06:56 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CY1Q000 Subject: biography For a feminist history discussion, I would like to update a bioblio- graphy of recent works. Could people send me what they consider the 3 most important articles and/or books published on writing feminist biographies. Remember, this is for historians. You can answer me privately: CY1Q@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA Andree Levesque ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:12:11 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JLONG@SUVM.BITNET Subject: Feminist Marriage In-Reply-To: Your MAIL dated Wed, 9 Dec 1992 18:05:45 EST Dear Chris, I am sure you have excellent consultants for yr project. If you don"t, I would be gflad to look it over for you. If you want me to participate as a respondent, let me know. I do believe a married feminist wages battles with (as well as alongside) a male feminist partner. That's one way. Best. --JUDY LONG, SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY -- --103 SIMS IV, SYRACUSE, NY 13244-1230, USA (315)443-4580 -- --Bitnet: JLONG@SUVM Internet: JLONG@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU -- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:51:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "NAME \"any information\"" Subject: Ph.D programs One of my students asks that I post this message for her. You may reply through me. The message: "Lesbian feminist scholar looking for Ph>D. program that will support and value her work. Master's already completed. GPA 4.)0. (4.0 scale). Strong writing samples, low GRE's. HELP!!!" Thanks for lending us a hand. Mary Beth Pringle Wright State University Dayton, Ohio 45435 Reply to: MPringle@desire.WSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:01:38 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KMARCH@MAINE.BITNET Subject: M Pringle Sorry for the general message to the list. Could you send me your e mail addre ss to get info to you regarding a PhD program in Women's Studies? Kathleen Mar ch ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:07:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Rust Subject: Re: TV/TS Speakers In-Reply-To: <9212131430.AA04783@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>; from "Nancy Rabinowitz" at Dec 13, 92 9:29 am Yes, it is strange to be talking on email! It's not so much the email that's strange, I think, as the contact *through a list* that's based somewhere in the ether when we are both based right here, a few hundred yards from each other. I'll probably be at Backus for lunch almost every day this week, so if you're there too, I'll tell you about EON. Are you thinking about having them come speak to your class next semester? -- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:15:23 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: women's athletics A colleague has asked for names of people who could consult with a national gro up on women's athletics. Any suggestions? Stephanie Riger Univ of Il at Chicago u29322@UICVM.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:32:13 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MFIALA@UMKCVAX1.BITNET Subject: Re: TV/TS Speakers What class? Where is the Backus? Why is this on this list? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:08:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara.E.Ryan@CYBER.WIDENER.EDU Subject: Reply to biography I would also be interested in the latest articles and books on feminist biography and I don't think this information is only for historians. Barbara Ryan Sociology ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:10:08 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LPEACH@UCS.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: Bosnia and WMST-L I agree with the assessment that the situation of women in the rape-death camps in Bosnia is of such atrocious proportion that all women's studies scholars should want to be informed, if not take action. Although I appreciate Joan's concerns regarding the space and subject matter limita- tions of the network, I also feel that such news items are of central concern and importance to women's studies, and need to be disseminated, not only to each other, but also to our students. I'd be interested in hearing from others on the issue of the appropriateness of activism and political involvement by women's studies scholars and organizations. Lucinda Peach Instructor, Women's Studies Indiana University ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:13:59 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ethel Subject: Re: Bosnia and WMST-L In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:10:08 EST from Sorry to keep repeating myself but the wonderful statement by L. Peach stimulated me once more: women's studies without conc ern for the conditions of women and the political activity necessary to change them will put women's studies into the same situation that mainstream, official psychology finds itself in: studying the mind as though it existed in some vacuum locked up in a laboratory, an office or books and journals. I am with Peach. Ethel ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:56:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Bosnia and WMST-L Earlier today, Lucinda Peach wrote: > I agree with the assessment that the situation of women in the rape-death > camps in Bosnia is of such atrocious proportion that all women's studies > scholars should want to be informed, if not take action. Although I > appreciate Joan's concerns regarding the space and subject matter limita- > tions of the network, I also feel that such news items are of central > concern and importance to women's studies, and need to be disseminated, not > only to each other, but also to our students. I'd be interested in hearing > from others on the issue of the appropriateness of activism and political > involvement by women's studies scholars and organizations. I too think this is an important issue, and one that should be widely known. But WMST-L can't be the forum for disseminating all important messages concerning women. Lucinda, Ethel, and others who wish to receive messages that go beyond the scope of WMST-L should subscribe to other lists in addition to WMST-L, and people who receive information like the Bosnia message and wish to spread the word among women should send it to lists like FEMAIL, WOMEN, WON, soc.feminism, and ACTIV-L (an activist list dealing with human rights around the world. To subscribe, send a message (SUB ACTIV-L Your Name) to LISTSERV@UMCVMB or LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU). For all the reasons that I've already enumerated in earlier messages to the list, WMST-L is not going to broaden its focus. If for some reason you feel that none of the abovementioned lists provides adequate coverage of societal problems involving women, you might consider starting such a list. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:39:46 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Rushing Subject: Re: Bosnia and WMST-L In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:56:00 EDT from I agree with Joan. In fact, I received the Bosnia message twice, once on WMST-L and once on another list (I forgot which, probably GENDER). This duplication frequently happens when messages that really don't belong on WMST-L get posted there -- they also get posted on lists with more general missions. I agree wholeheartedly with various people who have indicated the importance of information contained in these postings, but there are times and places where this information is more appropriately posted. Subscribe to those other lists, and keep WMST-L postings true to the list's intent. Beth Rushing NRUSHING@KENTVM ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:45:50 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie McElhinny I support Joan's position on limiting the scope of this list. I do believe the dissemination of information on atrocities like those in Bosnia is important, but if the number of entries on this list becomes much larger, I will be forced to unsubscribe. I already to subscribe to several other lists that address my particular configuration of interests. I believe it's entirely reasonable to suggest that others do the same. Bonnie McElhinny mcelhinn@csli.stanford.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:49:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "NAME \"Helen Eberle\"" Subject: Re: gay parents There are two books on the market for children that deal with gay parents. The American Library Journal just had an article concerning the adding the books to children's collections' I believe the titles ar "Heather has Two Mommies" and "My Fathers Roommate" Helen Eberle Eberlehb@sluava.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:21:02 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: COHENG@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA Subject: occupational roles and gender role We are currently engaged in research looking at practice patterns of young male and female family physicians. One of the issues which we are interested in is the interaction between gender of physician and the expectations which patients bring to their encounter as a result of their internalized stereotypes of how they see male and female physician attitudes. We believe that to some extent male /female differences in practice patterns may be patient driven. We are interested in knowing of anyone who has explored this hypothesis and whether similar issues may be true in other male dominated professions in which we now see increasing numbers of women professionals- for example law (where more women than men tend to enter family law) In other words do client expectations in these professions differ because of the sex of the provider?Thank you for any information of references you may have. May Cohen coheng@sscvax.cis.McMaster.CA ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:49:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LAURA KRAMER Subject: Re: Bosnia and WMST-L I agree that activism and political reality belong in the women's studies classroom Please discuss how you are including Bosnisan situation in that framework - I am very interested in learning more about that challenge. In particular, if you teach on a campus with many students descentded from servbs/croats;/bosnian immigrants how do you deal with this in the classroom? With Joan, I don't think wmst-l should be for updating ourselves on the news, unless it is in that frame work. please excuse any weird stuff here (only slight irony),, having some challenges from new machine hookup.. kramer@apollo.montclair.edu (by "that framework" I am referring to the purposes of wmst-l) sIclassroom. P ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:32:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Mold Subject: Bosnia I have been reading the Women's Studies List for a few weeks now with great interest, and recently I have followed the Bosnia discussion with even more interest. It seems to me that the posting from Bosnia is relevant even if it is inappropriate for the list. I would suggest posting it to all lists, regardless of their focus, to reach people with such news since I have not heard anything like this through the media. However, quite apart from Bosnia, it has become clear to me that fully 1/3 if not more of the discussion on this list concerns what is not appropriate to the list. This is ridiculous. If you don't like a message or are uninterested in it, simply delete it without reading it. But far, far more of the messages I receive are lengthy debates over if and why so and so has sinned by posting such and such a message to the list, than was taken up by the message in the first place. And generally those over which there is a lengthy debate over appropriateness are the most interesting messages anyway. Perhaps this says something about the list service itself. But if you think a message does not belong, why not tell the person privately and then let it go! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:33:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: EMURRAY%MUNIN@NORWICH.BITNET Subject: Studies of gender & profession In Vermont, a study of the perceptions of women attorneys in the court system (by law enforcement workers, judges, etc) was done last year. I assume it is available from the Vermont Commission on the Status of Women. I do not know whether it included a review of clients' perceptions of their attorneys. Perhaps this would be useful to you. It is interesting to me to see a study of this sort being done about physicians. A recent article on the growth of women's health centers appeared recently in The Boston Globe, I believe. It suggested that women get better treatment (i.e., medical and interpersonal treatment) from women physicians. I suppose that should come as no surprise after reading about the dearth of research including women as subjects in medical studies. It is also interesting to me because a classmate of mine at Wellesley College in the late seventies (a pre-med student) did a research paper on exactly that topic (perceptions of women physicians by patients) as an undergraduate. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:05:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosemary Feal Subject: textbook inquiry I am considering using the 1993 FEMINIST FRONTIERS III for an Intro. to Women's Studies course. Has anyone used the earlier editions, or taken a look at the new one? I'd appreciate any feedback or advice. Please respond to me privately. Rosemary Feal Univ. of Rochester rsfl@troi.cc.rochester.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:09:07 WST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: yku@CC.NCTU.EDU.TW Subject: women's studies at Dalhousie Dear friends, I'm planning to spend my year of sabbatical visiting Dalhousie University for 1993-1994. I would appreciate it very much if anyone would provide me with information concerning the women's studies program there, its address and the name of the contact person. Thanks a lot. Yenlin Ku Gender Studies Program National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu, Taiwan 300 Internet:yku@cc.nctu.edu.tw ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 09:02:12 LCL Reply-To: RGINZBERG@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Subject: ISSUE & QUESTIONS Recently a memo came around (from our wmst Dept Chair) which said something like (paraphrasing): Its Holiday Time again. I want to urge everyone to contribute to 's Holiday Bonus because, as you might not know, she is ridiculously underpaid & overworked & doesn't even get health insurance. As you may or may not know quit because she just couldn't make ends meet on her paltry salary, let alone pay for food & health care for her kids. Its not that we haven't tried to rectify this situation. We've asked the Administration every year to increase it to a full- time position. But they keep rejecting... (you could probably fill in the rest) I reacted (emotionally) to this memo with sorrow, anger & confusion. But I am quite confused about how to respond In The World. There is part of me that wants to drop everything & organize a job action. ("Women's Studies Faculty Refuses To Submit Adm9inistrative Paper Work Until Women's Studies Secretary Receives Benefits & Full Time Salary") There is another part of me that says, "Yeah, & what good is THAT gonna do for ? She'd probably get laid off or something, but nothing would happen to us (faculty). Besides that, any retribution would only fall on the students. Get Real." There is part of me that just wants to vent anger about how if a WOMEN'S STUDIES DEPARTMENT can't provide any better terms of employment for its own secretary, what in the @#%&# are we doing presuming to educate STUDENTS about women's issues while not getting out own house in order? Do we really expect them all to go out into the work world & find employers who are more attuned to women's issues in the workplace than our own WMST Dept is??? There's another part of me that says "Don't indulge your penchant for taking up 'causes' -- you don't need to gratify your own activist streak at this particular moment. Just write a check, & go on to the 2 million other things you're already buried beneath." I'm curious whether other women's studies faculties have dealt with these issues, & how? ------------------------ Ruth Ginzberg Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 09:37:17 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Karras Subject: Re: gay parents In-Reply-To: ; from "NAME \"Helen Eberle\" at Dec 15, 92 2:49 pm The two books Helen Eberle suggested about children with gay parents are not bad. :They're the same ones the New York public schools are having all the hassle about. My problem with these books (as a parent; this is not related to my academic work) is that they highlight lesbian or gay parenting as an issue; I would like to see books where it's in the background, taken as a normal part of life. I would make an analogy to the situation 10 years ago when there were a lot of children's books on the theme of "what happens when Mommy goes to work," whereas now there aren't so many books that focus on that as an issue, but many that assume as a matter of course that Mommy works. I certainly want my child to learn that it's just fine for Heather to have two mommies, but reading a book focused on that issue highlights it as something special or worthy of comment, and ultimately I'd like to have my child not think it's a big deal, just accept it as one of the many kinds of families. Ruth Karras rkarras@mail.sas.upenn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:46:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UAHEBP01@UAHVAX1.BITNET Subject: E-Mail to Clinton/Gore?!?! Just a brief note to let everyone know you can send E-Mail to the Clinton/ Gore team. I found out, via another list, that Clinton has an E-Mail address via Compuserve. It is: 75300.3155@compuserve.com This is an Internet address. I have not tried it personally, but someone who did received a response from an aide who indicated that it is planned for this to become the "Clinton/Gore Email Connection" and a public channel of communication. Might be worth saving. --Liz -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Elizabeth Pollard Bitnet: uahebp01@uahvax1 Systems Librarian Internet: uahebp01@asnuah.asn.net Univ. of Ala./Huntsville Compuserve: 72457,1560 Huntsville, AL 35899 Phone: (205) 895-6313 Fax: (205) 895-6862 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 09:30:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: UAHEBP01@UAHVAX1.BITNET Subject: Correction - E-Mail to Clinton/Gore team Oops!! Typed too fast. That address for E-Mail to Clinton should be: 75300.3115@compuserve.com (not 3155 as originally typed) Sorry about that! --Liz -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Elizabeth Pollard Bitnet: uahebp01@uahvax1 Systems Librarian Internet: uahebp01@asnuah.asn.net Univ. of Ala./Huntsville Compuserve: 72457,1560 Huntsville, AL 35899 Phone: (205) 895-6313 Fax: (205) 895-6862 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:44:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kali Tal Subject: Conference Announcement SIXTIES GENERATIONS CONFERENCE: FROM MONTGOMERY TO VIET NAM A Conference of Scholars, Activists and Artists FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA MARCH 4-6, 1993 SPONSORED BY THE GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM, FILM STUDIES PROGRAM AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM, AND BY VIET NAM GENERATION. We were disappointed at the small number of abstracts submitted by Women's Studies scholars and so are actively soliciting late proposals from those interested in presenting papers on the women's movement and related issues. We are particularly interested in presentations dealing with issues of import to women of color. We are also looking for women poets, writers and performance artists who would be interested in either doing readings/performances or in holding workshops. Except in this one crucial area, we have been very pleased by the response to our call for papers and anticipate an exciting interdisciplinary event which will include academic presentations, performance art, music and literary readings. We look forward to an extremely lively three days in March, and anticipate that this will be the first of an ongoing conference series. The conference committee is in the process of assembling the program and we will have a schedule of presentations completed by late January. We have made arrangements with the Holiday Inn--Fair Oaks for an extraordinarily reasonable room rate for the DC metropolitan area. All conference sessions will be held at the Holiday Inn, though other events--such as films and readings--associated with the conference may also be taking place off-site. Rooms at the Holiday in are $55 per night, single or double occupancy, plus 6.5% tax. Please make your reservations as soon as possible by phoning (703) 352-2525, and mentioning that you are a part of the Vietnam Generation room block. We encourage you to make your reservations by February 10, 1993. After that date, rooms are subject to availability and a rate increase. Conference pre-registration is $50. Late registration is $65. Late registrations are postmarked after February 20, 1993. We apologize for the necessity of charging such a high fee, but we are not subsidized by funding from any university or professional organization. Registration for students is $30, and xerox of student identification must be enclosed. We can also offer an extremely limited number of hardship waivers for those who simply cannot afford to attend the conference if they must pay the $50 fee. Because our capacity to waive registration fees is so limited, we ask that you request such a waiver only in the case of the greatest need. On Friday, March 5 and Saturday, March 6 we will maintain a Book Room where copies of your publications can be displayed and sold. The room will be staffed by George Mason University student interns. If you would like your publications to be made available at the conference, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can make arrangements. The Book Room will be open from 9:00 in the morning until 9:00 in the evening on Friday, and from 9:00 in the morning until 6:30 in the evening on Saturday. Post-conference publications: We anticipate assembling at least one anthology of papers presented at the conference, to be published by Viet Nam Generation. If you would like your presentation considered for publication as an article, please plan on submitting it to Viet Nam Generation at the conference, or by no later than March 20, 1993. We will also be videotaping conference sessions, and we will make the tapes available as teaching tools. We are currently planning on a Welcome Reception on Thursday, March 4, from 5:00 to 7:00 in the evening, which will include hors d'oeuvres and a Cash Bar. On Friday and Saturday we will run four concurrent tracks (two academic tracks, one activist track and one artist track) from 9:00 in the morning until 6:30 in the evening. Sessions in each track will last one-and-a-half hours each. There will be receptions and performances on both Friday and Saturday night, which will include music and either theater, dance, or readings. PLEASE ADDRESS INQUIRIES FOR MORE INFORMATION, OR MAIL REGISTRATIONS TO: VIET NAM GENERATION 2921 TERRACE DRIVE CHEVY CHASE, MD 20815 (301) 608-0482 email address: kali@access.digex.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:06:07 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: women & athletics Thanks to the many who responded so quickly to my query about women's athletics . I've forwarded your responses to my colleague, who has refined his request. What he is looking for is someone with expertise in survey research who knows the research on women's athletics. If you know of anyone who fits this descrip tion, please write me privately and I will forward your messages to my colleagu e. Stephanie Riger Univ of Il at Chicago u29322@UICVM.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:51:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ECTGPT@RITVAX.BITNET Subject: Reference sought Sometime recently I read a review of Mississippi Masala by belle hooks. I've misplace the reference, alas. Can anyone help. Thanks, Elaine Thiesmeyer (ECTGPT@RITVAX) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:17:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Marantz Subject: Request for Readings suggestions: Women's attitudes on work. A student who is a male Union Organizer, as a final project forw his Women's Psychology learning contract, is planning to interview women workers. His goal, to gain a better understanding of their *personal* experience of gender related issues/problems in the workplace. If anyone could suggest readings beyond the broadly based literature on women in the work world -- particularly those drawing on interview material -- we would appreciate the direction. Thanks to you all. Barbara Marantz bmarantz@snyescva.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:07:46 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Rushing Subject: Re: Request for Readings suggestions: Women's attitudes on work. In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:17:00 EDT from One of my favorite volumes on women and work is called _My Troubles are Going to Have Trouble With Me_ ; this is an excellent collection of essays on women's work experiences. It's on loan now, so I can't provide the bibliographic details. My recollection is that most of the essays are written by anthropologists and sociologists, and that most (if not all) use ethnographic data. Beth Rushing Department of Sociology Kent State University NRUSHING@KENTVM ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:20:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JLONG@SUVM.BITNET Subject: Request for Readings suggestions: Women's attitudes on work. In-Reply-To: Your MAIL dated Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:17:00 EDT Has he examined Working it Out? --JUDY LONG, SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY -- --103 SIMS IV, SYRACUSE, NY 13244-1230, USA (315)443-4580 -- --Bitnet: JLONG@SUVM Internet: JLONG@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU -- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:50:18 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diana H. Scully" Subject: Request for address Some time ago, there was a message on the list about Brenda Wong Aoki, a feminist Noh storyteller, and the contact, Alison Furlong. My e-mail keeps coming back and would appreciate a correct address if anyone has it. Sorry to put this on the list, please respond to me personally. Diana Scully dscully@Cabell.VCU.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:59:53 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Danoff-Burg Subject: Re: Request for Readings suggestions: Women's attitudes on work. In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:17:00 EDT from I recommend the oral histories in "Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles." Compiled by Fran Leeper Buss, Univ. of Michigan Press, 1985. Sharon Danoff-Burg University of Kansas sharondb@ukanvm ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:29:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LAURA KRAMER Subject: graduate anthro programs with a "feminist accent" Prospective graduate student seeks info on "anthropology programs with a feminist accent" Please respond privately to klein@apollo.montclair.edu (posted by laura kramer) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:33:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L "vacation" * * * * IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT * * * * UMDD, the mainframe on which WMST-L is housed, will be down from sometime on Monday, December 28 through Thursday, December 31. Thus, there will be NO WMST-L MAIL during that time, nor will you be able to communicate with LISTSERV in any way. Probably the wisest thing would be not to send any mail to WMST-L after Sunday, December 27 until at least Friday, January 1. Mail sent during that time may very well disappear into e-mail heaven, never to be seen again. I will repeat this message several more times between now and December 27. Best wishes to everyone for a Happy Chanukah, a Merry Christmas, a Joyous Winter Solstice, and a Peaceful and Fulfilling New Year. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:08:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GOLD@SCSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU Subject: RE: women's studies at Dalhousie I don't know much about the women's studies program, but I do know Susan Sherwin in the philosophy department, at least by mail and phone and print. She does excellent work in philosophy, feminism and health care steve gold philosophy, SCSU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:08:39 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Melissa Dyea SET WMST-L to NO MAIL ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:11:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Lowney set NOMAIL ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:58:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Marantz Subject: Thanks for Women and Work References A "global" thank you to all who sent suggestions; they were all helpful and right on target. My student and I are grateful -- What a wonderful help this list is! Have a good holiday, all. Barbara Marantz bmarant@snyescva.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:14:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: stopping mail temporarily Several messages erroneously sent to WMST-L tonight prompt me to remind subscribers that if you wish to stop WMST-L mail temporarily, DO NOT WRITE TO WMST-L!! Instead, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if WMST-L mail is sent to your Bitnet address) or to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if WMST-L mail is sent to your Internet address: SET WMST-L NOMAIL Please note that the command contains THREE words, and that NOMAIL is written together as ONE word. If in response to your SET WMST-L NOMAIL command you get back a message from LISTSERV telling you that you don't have a subscription, send the identical command to LISTSERV's other address (Bitnet if you first tried Internet and vice versa). DO NOT FORWARD your rejected message. The message must contain only the three words SET WMST-L NOMAIL When you want to resume mail, send the following message to LISTSERV: SET WMST-L MAIL Happy Holidays. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:21:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LYNNSH@EPCC.BITNET Subject: Funding sources/women's issues Does anyone know of potential funding sources for programs dealing with women's issues and problems, or whw where I might go to find information on such funding sources? Any help/info/direction appreciated. Lynn Shelton Bitnet: LYNNSH@EPCC Internet: LYNNSH@LAGUNA.EPCC.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:54:01 WST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: yku@CC.NCTU.EDU.TW Subject: women's impact on national elections Dear friends, We are having national elections for 161 legislative seats on Dec.19. The Awakening Foundation, the first and for almist ten years the only feminist group in Taiwan, held two forums in two electoral districts (cities) in which all candidates were invited to give speeches on their platform concerning women's issues, such as equal right to work, marriage property, childcare, old age care, etc. It is the first time in Taiwan that non-governmetnal organizations ever organized such rallies that all candidates from different parties were invited and accepted the invitation. And it is also the first time that campaign speeches were limited to one single issue. I'm interested in finding out whether such event has ever been organized anywhere else in the world and would love to receive your feedback. Yenlin Ku Gender Studeies Program National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu, Taiwan Internet: yku@cc.nctu.edu.tw ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:53:36 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson HPERD Subject: Sex Differences in the Brain (fwd) I received this message on another line and thought it might be of interest to this group. happy holidays sharon jacobson@moe.coe.uga.edu Forwarded message: > From sshea@EAGLE.MIT.EDU Wed Dec 16 21:54:45 1992 > Message-Id: <9212170252.AA27505@EAGLE.MIT.EDU> > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 23:08:59 > From: sshea@EAGLE.MIT.EDU (Sharon Shea) > To: women@Athena.MIT.EDU > Subject: Sex Differences in the Brain > > > This message is being forwarded to the 'women' list by a member who > wishes to remain anonymous - > > Sharon, list administrator > > ------- Forwarded Message > > I just read an article in the September 1992 _Scientific American_ > entitled "Sex Differences in the Brain", by Doreen Kimura. Based on > her experiments and others', she concludes that intellectual > differences in men and women cannot be purely environmental, because > of the effects that sex hormones have on brains, even before puberty. > > I have previously mentioned on systers Kimura's finding that men do > better on spatial ability tests at times of year when their > testosterone level is lower. This article says that men with low > testosterone levels (not just seasonally low) perform significantly > better on tests of spatial ability and mathematical ability than men > with high testosterone levels. (The magnitude of the difference was > hard to tell from the article.) Women with high testosterone levels > outperformed low testosterone women on these two tests. Low > testosterone levels were an advantage for tests of perceptual speed. > The full set of relations is shown below: > > Spatial: (low T men) > (high T women) > (high T men) > (low T women) > Math Reasoning: (low T men) > (high T men) > (high T women) > (low T > women) > Perceptual Speed: (low T women) > (low T men) > (high T women) > (high T > men) > > This means that if techie men try to give us a hard time by suggesting > that either (1) since we're good at math we must have abnormally high > male hormone levels, or (2) since we're female, we're unlikely to be > good at math/spatial ability, we can legitimately let them know that, > by the same research, they are likely to have low testosterone levels. > Men do not like to hear this. (This beats answering them with that > joke about why women have poor spatial ability, although that can be a > fun way of getting the last laugh in the right crowd.) > > An interesting feature of the article is it includes (an equal number > of) examples of problems on which members of each sex generally > perform better. > > I found out about the article through a reference on the Usenet group > bionet.women-in-bio which has been discussing, of all things, whether > there is a gender imbalance in computer science. (Most of them did > not think there was!) > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:53:46 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: serdult uwe Subject: irony and women studies Hi everybody, lately I have written a paper about the mens movement. The professor who corrected the paper was - at first - complaining about the ironic style I made use of. The question is: What are the effects of irony used by a women on men? When and in which context do women use irony? Has any research about this topic being done yet? Do you know of any interesting books or articles regarding to women and irony? Please reply privately and not on the list to: k579314@czhrzu1a Thanks a lot and merry christmas to you all Uwe and Iris. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:35:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ethel tobach Subject: Re: Bosnia and WMST-L In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:49:00 EST from I am eager to work this problem through, Joan, and I wonder if the following is a possibility. For me the issue is the one that is formulated the way Kramer did: activism and political reality in the women's studies classroom. Can we set up a subnetwork on this topic? I do not want to get into the other networks that are sug- gested because I have other ways of learning what issues women in "general" are confronting...but the kernel is the issue as Kramer puts it. Also, can we postpone any decisions about this until after the beginning of the year? I think many of us are in the malestrom of end of term/year deadlines, etc. In case I donot have a chance to write again before I sign of temporarily, HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL AND TO BETTER THINGS TO COME IN THE NEW YEAR. ETHEL ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:49:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "IRENE HANSON FRIEZE. PSYCHOLOGY" Subject: Holiday Wishes and thanks Speaking for many of us, I suspect, I would like to thank Joan for all the work she continues to put into our list. And, best wishes to everyone for the holidays and new year. Irene Frieze ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:29:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: sherring@WILEY.CSUSB.EDU Subject: Re: irony and women studies Dear Uwe and Iris, This is not a reference, really, but your posting sets me to thinking. In my research on women's and men's participation on electronic discussion lists, I characterize use of irony and sarcasm as rhetorical intimidation (in that the user criticizes *indirectly*, thus making it more difficult for those criticized to respond); in my data, men make use of this far more than do women. While 'intimidation' may be too value-laden a label, I suspect that the use of irony (and sarcasm, and flippancy, and humour more generally) may be one of those things that 'looks better' on a man than a woman -- like being assertive, self-promoting, etc. (In other words, it's what I might call a culturally-identifiable feature of 'men's discourse'.) Another dimension of this is that as a (female) teacher, I dislike heavy irony or sarcasm and find it inappropriate for student papers in general (and also for academic papers written by practicing professionals, but there's not much I can do about them). Why irony should be *especially* inappropriate in student work is an interesting question. It suggests to me that there is a power dimension involved -- the successful use of irony (or any rhetorical strategy that has the potential to intimidate) presupposes that the user has the legitimate power to do so. This would explain why we (as a culture) perceive it as appropriate for men (powerful), but not for women or for students of either sex (less powerful). In any event, you raise a good question, and I'd be interested to know what kinds of references you come up with. Best wishes, Susan Herring Program in Linguistics University of Texas Arlington, TX 76019 susan@utafll.uta.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:48:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vasso Petoussi Subject: criminology Hi all, I will be teaching Criminology in the spring semester --a class which I have taught before. I am interested in finding some good feminist readings for the students which would address criminological issues "including women." I am looking at women's crime and its theoretical treatment throughout the course and not as a special issue. I would appreciate any help with readings and/or syllabi. Please respond to me privately (unless you think others may be interested in the subject also) Thank you in advance, Vasso Petoussi Dept of Sociology-Virginia Tech APIROTAN@VTVM1.BITNET P.S. I am trying to get in touch with other women in the academia who come originally from Greece or work there. Please respond privately. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:06:40 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Weinstone Subject: organizing women I just finished editing a book called "Organizing for Our Lives." It is an oral history of six rural grassroots organizing efforts. Many of the featured organizers are women with labor union backgrounds. It's available from NewSage Press in Portland or from California Rural Legal Assistance in San Francisco. Ann Weinstone syd@igc.apc.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:13:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michael Hancher Subject: Re: irony and women studies There is an excellent general discussion of connections between irony and power in Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson, _Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage_, Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Michael Hancher / English / University of Minnesota mh@umnacvx ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:20:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "IRENE HANSON FRIEZE. PSYCHOLOGY" Subject: Data of interest? Audrey Murrell, Irene Frieze, Phyllis Coontz and Ellen Detlefsen are studying student attitudes at the Unversity of Pittsburgh. Some of our preliminary findings may be of interest. In the fall semester, we were able to survey 719 students regarding their attitudes about gender roles, politics, feminism, sexual harassment, and future jobs. - 26% of women and 18% of men agree that sexual harassment is a problem at Pitt. - About 40% of men and 15% of women believe that Justice Thomas was telling the truth about Anita Hill. - About 12% of students surveyed had had a professor make jokes or remarks that put down African Americans. 29% reported a professor that had put down women. - Only 23% of the students were registered to vote. There were no gender differences. - Slightly more students report being liberal than conservative in their general political views, with women being more liberal than men. - About 30% of students report being at least somewhat pro-feminist, with women overall being more feminist than men. Only 3% reported being strongly anti-feminist. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:13:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: W.S. Minor Requirements File Available I've just added another file to the WMST-L filelist. Entitled MINOR REQS, it includes statements about the requirements for the Women's Studies minor at twenty-seven colleges and universities. Fifteen of the statements originally appeared on WMST-L; the others were sent privately to Mary Beth Ahlum-Heath, who was kind enough to compile and forward them to me. (One additional response forwarded by Mary Beth has been omitted, since I never received the writer's permission to include it.) To retrieve this file from the WMST-L filelist, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET MINOR REQS WMST-L To get a list of all the files in the WMST-L filelist, send the following 2-word command to listserv: INDEX WMST-L (just those two words). PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND THESE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L! Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:46:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson HPERD Subject: women and athletics Can anyone help? I seem to have lost the address for the person looking for a specialist in women and athletics to serve on a committee. If someone could send me the address, I would appreciate it. Thanks Sharon jacobson@moe.coe.uga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:00:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: six announcements I have received the following six announcements: 1) Conference: Feminism and the Law (U. of Minnesota) 2) Award: International Women's Anthropological Conference 3) Conference: Gender & Society & Technology (U. of Waterloo) 4) Fellowships: Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CUNY) 5) CFP: Postcolonial, emergent, and indigenous feminisms (SIGNS) 6) CFP: Sexuality (GENDER & SOCIETY) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc) **************************************************************** UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CONFERENCE: "Feminism and the Law", September 1993 A conference, "Feminism and the Law," will take place at the University of Minnesota in September 1993 in conjunction with the forthcoming special issue of SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY devoted to the topic. Sponsored by the university's Center on Legal Studies, the conference will focus on how women in differing cultural contexts are using and resisting laws and whether feminists should use the law as a strategy of social change. It will explore whether reform efforts in particular countries and areas of the law have improved the lives of women and how a country's social and legal institutions operate to limit such reform efforts; it will also consider which legal approaches and strategies should be pursued for pressing social issues facing women today in different cultural contexts. The conference will also explore international perspectives on women's struggle for human rights and its jurisprudential sources and consider the role of feminist jurisprudence in the training of lawyers and legal scholars in various countries. For more information, contact Priscilla Crary, University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55455; telephone 612-626-0264. ************************************************** INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ANTHROPOLOGY CONFERENCE: LEACOCK AWARD The International Women's Anthropology Conference will present the first Eleanor B. Leacock Award at the Thirteenth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, to take place July 29 - August 5, 1993, in Mexico City. An award of US $2,000 will be given to the author(s) of an article published during the past five years (or in press) that best carries forth a particular theme in the legacy of Leacock's work as a Marxist and feminist anthropologist. Leacock's legacy covers a wide range of subjects related to her interests in radically redressing inequities in social power created by class-stratified societies and building more egalitarian forms of life. The specific theme of the first award is "contemporary forms of potentially transformative collective action among Third World and minority populations." A small stipend will be available to assist the award recipient with the expenses of attending the conference. Submit six copies of articles by May 1, 1993, to The Eleanor B. Leacock Award, c/o Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10001-7780. For more information, call Mara Drogan of the foundation at 212-683-5000. *********************************************************** GENDER AND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION First Canadian Conference, July 31 - August 5, 1993 The GASAT (Gender and Science and Technology) Association announces its first Canadian conference, July 31 - August 5, 1993, at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. The GASAT Association provides a forum for individuals and organizations concerned about the inclusion of girls and women in the world of science and technology, from early childhood to work environments. For more information, contact Ann Holmes, Ontario Women's Directorate, 480 University Avenue, 2d Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5G1V2, Canada. ******************************************************* ROCKEFELLER RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIPS The City University of New York's Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) is offering two or more Rockefeller Residency fellowships in each of the 1993-94, 1994-95, and 1995-96 academic years. Fellows will each receive $35,000 plus a $2000 travel/relocation stipend for residency from September 1 to June 1. Preference each year will be given to projects focused on a particular theme; the theme for 1993-94 is "race and class in gay/lesbian communities." Applications for the 1993-1994 fellowship must be returned by FEBRUARY 15, 1993. For further information and applications, contact Martin Duberman, Director of CLAGS, CUNY Graduate School, 33 West 42d Street, New York, NY 10035-8099; telephone 212-642-2924. ********************************************************************** SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY seeks submissions for a special issue on postcolonial, emergent, and indigenous feminisms, slated for publication in 1995. The special issue editors welcome theoretical and historical approaches and are especially interested in interdisciplinary and comparative work. Articles that address women's activism and the theorizing of social change in colonial, neocolonial, and postcolonial contexts are particularly welcome. For further information about this special Issue, contact Joanna O'Connell, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 34 Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant Street S.E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455; telephone 612-625-0110; or Angelita Reyes, Department of Women's Studies, 486 Ford Hall, 224 Church Street S.E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455; telephone 612-626-7824. *********************************************************** GENDER AND SOCIETY invites submissions for its special issue on sexuality, which will explore the gendered nature of sexual experience. Topics of interest include cultural and social structural analyses of sexual identities, sexual behaviors, sexual relationships, sex communities, sexual law and social policy, social activism related to sexuality, and sexual representation in all forms of knowledge. Of special interest is research that explores, illustrates, or illuminates the linkage between systems of gender, race, and class oppression and heterosexuality as an institution. Historically and comparative studies and all methodological or theoretical approaches are welcome. Beth Schneider, University of California, is the special issue editor. The anticipated publication date is SEPTEMBER 1994. Each paper must be accompanied by a $10 submission fee (payable to GENDER AND SOCIETY) and must be submitted by May 1, 1993, to Margaret L. Anderson, Editor, GENDER AND SOCIETY, Department of Sociology, c/o Office of the Provost, University of Delaware, 129 Hullihen Hall, Newark, DE 19716. ********************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:50:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Gaber Subject: new INFO ON-LINE files The following files and directories have been added to the Information On-Line Women's Studies Database: Teaching/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/GettingIt The Getting It Gazette is a bipartisan publication dedicated to increasing visibilty of women's issues. Teaching/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/Updates Update is the newsletter of the Congressional Women's caucus. The latest issue has been added to INFO. Teaching/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/Women+Computers/cottrell-article An ACM article by Janet Cottrell detailing women's relationships to computing. Teaching/WomensStudies/WS-Why+How A new directory devoted to the "how and why" of Women's Studies. Includes pedagogical info and publications about women's studies as a discipline. To access the Information On-line database, telnet to INFO.UMD.EDU. Login as either GOPHER or INFO. If you login as "gopher", use either your arrow keys or number keys to select "Info-Gopher Interface". Then select "Teaching", and after that, "WomensStudies". If you login as "info", use either your arrow key or number keys to select "Teaching", then "WomensStudies". The Information On-line system is also accesible by anonymous ftp. Ftp to INFO.UMD.EDU. Login as "anonymous", and use you mail address as a password. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:34:58 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: ILLINOIS-NWSA 1993 MANUSCRIPT AWARD The University of Illinois Press and the National Women's Studies Association will sponsor a 1993 Women's Studies Manuscript Award. Manuscripts may be on any subject in Women's Studies that enhances our understanding of women's lives and gender systems, and may be either interdisciplinary or discipline-specific. Authors who are asked to submit full manuscripts must agree not to submit their work elsewhere between Feb. 15 and June 1 93. If there is no clear winner, there will be no award. Application forms may be secured from the NWSA national office ("Loretta_YOUNGER@umail.umd.edu"). Forms plus a 2 page abstract (on which applicant's name should not appear) must be returned to NWSA, U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1325, postmarked no later than Jan. 30, 1993. Award: $1000 and publication by U. of Illinois Press. Announcement posted by Sue Mansfield, Co-chair, NWSA Steering Committee. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:29:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: requests for proposals on joint U.S.-Russian efforts in women's The University of Wisconsin Women's Studies Consortium is in the process of developing a system of working relationships with Russian feminist scholars and activists. Proposals are being sought for a catalog to be produced by the Consortium Cooperative Initiatives Committee Joint U.S. Russian Collaborative Efforts in Women's Studies. russian colleagues seek a range of collaborative activities involving training/teaching, project development, and research. Current partnership needs expressed by Consortium colleagues in Moscow include practical training courses for women on employment or business skills job creation social and health services life changes developing strategies for problem solving raising business capital dealing with a sexist bureacracy developing women's cooperatives in banking and economic development Also needed are intensive workshops and lecture courses on women's studies publishing skills entrepreneurship for women in the arts training in grassroots political organizing for women For further information please contact Sarah Harder, Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54701; telephone 715-836-5717; FAX 715-836-2380; email harderss@uwec (bitnet) Also, Sondra O'Neale of the Univ. of Wisconsin at La Crosse is facilitating the import of goods produced by Russian women's producer cooperatives, and also hopes to facilitate the organization of seller cooperatives in this country, thus providing jobs for women in both countries. She is looking for people with skills in such areas as building cooperative structures, import/export procedures, marketing strategies, and sales (commercial and group), as well as finding U.S. producers for exporting to Russia. For information, contact Sondra O'Neale, Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601, telephone 608-785-8357. Phyllis Holman Weisbard pweis@macc.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:02:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: dl81 Subject: Re: Funding sources/women's issues In-Reply-To: <9212170524.AA27639@umd5.umd.edu> Response to your query about funding sources would take pages--not only need to know the sources, but the politics of the funding community and effecytive strategies for making requests. You need someone who specializes in this to work with you or your group (program? project?). If you tell me where you are, I might know someone closeby who does this. If you are in the DC area, I am one of the people who does this. You will waste a lot of time if you just get lists and write to whoever's on them. DEB LOUIS (DL81@umail.umd.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:23:44 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hcbolak@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: readings on psych of wom dear colleagues, next quarter, I am teaching a psychology of women course. luckily, I am blessed with the new text by Unger & Crawford (strongly recommended!) I also use a reader with theoretical and experiential pieces. since most material can be depressing to the students, I am particularly looking for affirmative pieces on such possible topics as women's relationships, careers, self image, etc. If you have any suggestions for empowering pieces, I'd appreciate the information. thank you and have a happy holiday! hale bolak hcbolak@cats.bitnet hcbolak@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:45:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers A list of the 1993 NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers is now available on the WMST-L filelist. The file is called NEH SEMINARS and replaces the file by the same name that contained descriptions of last year's seminars. Unfortunately, this year's list includes only one seminar that has a clear Women's Studies focus, a 7-week history seminar entitled "Women and American Politics, 1920-88" offered by Elizabeth Pleck, Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College. A number of other seminars may well include a focus on women (e.g., "The African-American Slave Narrative Tradition"; "Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Modernism"), but only Pleck's makes that focus explicit and central. To get the entire list, including additional information about the seminars (deadline for applications: March 1, 1993), send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET NEH SEMINARS WMST-L Be sure to send this message to LISTSERV, not to WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 13:26:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CSMITH@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU Subject: readings on psych of women I would also be interested on empowering pieces for my psychology of women class. It seems that so much of the discussions focus on negatives (or maybe I am just more affected by those). This may be something that many subscribers are interested in, so I would like to see suggestions posted on the List. Christine Smith CSMITH@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 10:01:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Roberts Subject: Re: ILLINOIS-NWSA 1993 MANUSCRIPT AWARD Is this manuscript contest for US writers only? Andif so is that based on citizenship or geography? What is "full-length"? Thanks for clarification. Barbara Roberts barbarar@cs.athabascau.ca ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:28:42 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Malin Subject: video available I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 19-Dec-1992 06:20pm EST From: Jo Malin JMALIN Dept: Talent Search Tel No: 773-7718 TO: Remote RSCS/NJE Network User ( _JNET%WMST-L@UMDD ) Subject: video available A friend who is a director of an abortion clinic has asked me to post an announcement of a video tape of interest to anyone interested in recent trends in abortion practice. "Connecting the Head and the Heart: Abortion Counseling" is available from the Choice Foundation, 4228 N. Central #206, Dallas TX 75206, for $25 plus $#.50 shipping and handling. Jo Malin jmalin@bingvaxa ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:43:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: RE: readings on psych of women Hi Hale and Christine and happy holidays to everyone. Mary Crawford and I are working on a book of readings to accompany our text "Women and gender." We haven't gotten all the readings together yet, but there are some that I think are particularly empowering for students. In particular, I recommend the article by Naomi Weisstein entitled "How can a little girl like you teach a great big class of men" the chairman said, and other adventures of a woman in science." This is from a book called Working it out that was edited by Sara Ruddick and Pamela Dainel (oops) Daniels in 1977 (NY: Panteho Pantheon Books. There are a number of other excellent biographies in the book as well. Another favorite is Alice Walker's "In search of our mothers' gardens." Unfortunately, the book may be out of print, but you should be able to get it from your library (failing that, I can send you a xerox of the two readings). Another article I find empowering (strangely, perhaps, because it was the last paper Nancy Datan presented before she died of cancer) is "Illness and imagery: Feminist cognition, socialization, and gender identity." It is in booked entitled Gender and thought edited by Mary Crawford and Margaret Gentry (1989, Springer-Verlag). It is full of black humor about the concern with breasts rather than life following a mastectomy. Good luck--the material can be depressing, but humor helps. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu INTERNET ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:48:08 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karla Saari Kitalong Subject: Professional staff sabbaticals The Professional Women's Caucus at Michigan Technological University is planning to propose that the university institute a sabbatical leave program for professional staff. We would like to know if other universities or companies have such programs in place or in the works, and would appreciate the names/addresses/phone numbers of people who could provide full details. I realize this isn't truly a WMST-L topic; please reply privately and I will summarize to the list if there is interest. Thank you. ------------ Karla Saari Kitalong [kitalong@mtus5.bitnet] or Mary Zanoni [mmzanoni@mtus5.bitnet] ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 12:25:21 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: NWSA-PERGAMON GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS Two Pergamon-NWSA Graduate Scholarships will be awarded in 1993 to students who are engaged in the research or writing of a Master's thesis or PhD dissertation in the interdisciplinary field of Women's Studies. Special preference will be given to members of NWSA and to those who research projects on women examine variables of race or class. Applications can be obtained from NWSA national office ("Loretta_YOUNGER@umail.umd.edu"). The completed application form, a 2-3 pp. abstract of the work in progress, and three letters of recommendtion should be submitted to NWSA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1325, postmarked no later than February 15, 1993. First place award: $1000; 2nd place, $500. Sue Mansfield, Steering Committee, NWSA ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 11:05:08 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Malin Subject: correction I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 20-Dec-1992 11:03am EST From: Jo Malin JMALIN Dept: Talent Search Tel No: 773-7718 TO: Remote RSCS/NJE Network User ( _JNET%WMST-L@UMDD ) Subject: correction Sorry about the error. The shipping and handling is $3.50. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:17:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JMURPHY@MAINE.BITNET Subject: Looking for address of EMMA, the German Feminist magazine Would someone provide me with the mail address for EMMA, the feminist magazine from Germany founded and published by Alice Schwarzer? My Userid is JMURPHY@MAINE. Thanks! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:20:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jayati Lal Subject: Review of Missisipi masala In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:51:24 -0400 from For the person seeking Bell Hooks review of "Missisippi Masala": it appeared in an issue of "Z Magazine" a few months ago (Sept/Oct, I'm not sure which). It was an excellent review and made me rethink my own reactions to the film as an expatriate Indian. Jayati Lal Sociology Cornell University ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:00:32 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VANL@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU Subject: Conference Announcement Illinois, Beginning with Women . . . Histories and Cultures an interdisciplinary, multicultural conference highlighting history in the making and women making history March 26-27, 1993 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street Urbana, Illinois Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Afro-American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Project Directors: Phyllis Vanlandingham and Valinda Littlefield Funded in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General Assembly. Conference Overview An interdisciplinary, multicultural conference organized to reclaim the history of Illinois women seems especially appropriate during March, National Women's History Month. The main objective of "Illinois , Beginning with Women . . . Histories and Cultures" is to foster awareness, discussion, and understanding of the roles played by women in shaping the state's values and history, and the roles class, race, ethnicity, and geography have played in shaping women's changing lives throughout history. By making available the compelling new scholarship on women, this conference will serve to enlarge our knowledge of the past and our understanding of the present. Conference Highlights Activities begin with registration, Friday, March 26, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at the Levis Faculty Center and conclude with a reception, Saturday, March 27, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Plenary Sessions *Poetry Reading Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and the Illinois State Poet Laureate (Open to the General Public) *Keynote Address "Not Just Survival, But Progress Too: Black Women Building Communities in the Midwest," Darlene Clark Hine, John A. Hannah Professor, American History, Michigan State University *Luncheon Lecture "Gender and Autobiography: Jane Addams and Theodore Roosevelt," Robyn Muncy, Assistant Professor, History, University of Maryland, College Park *Slide Presentation "The Women of Hull House, the Settlement House Vision, and the Neighborhood in 1893" Mary Ann Johnson, Director, Jane Addams' Hull House Museum, University of Illinois, Chicago Workshops Concurrent workshops are planned including: The Theory and Practice of Telling Women's Lives, The Telling Women's Lives Project: An Historical Encyclopedia of Chicago Women, Chicago Area Women's History Conference, coordinated by Rima Lunin Schultz, project director Children and Historical Research: A Child's Book of Biographies of Women and Minority People in Champaign County, presentation of project materials by third and fourth grade students at Leal Elementary, Urbana, coordinated by Nancy Coombs, teacher and co-project director Moderated Panel Presentations Concurrent panels will present moderated papers examining Illinois women's lives as they impact and connect with: Ethnicity Social and Political Activism Labor Activism Higher Education Schools without Walls Life on the Prairie Law and the Legal System Popular Culture Science and Engineering Literature Nursing and Medicine Music and Theatre Visual Arts Collateral Exhibits Book exhibit hosted by the University of Illinois Press featuring books by or about Illinois women Clara Brian: Home Bureau Photographs, 1919-1926 in the Illini Union Art Gallery, March 1-April 3, 1993. Sixty photographs of women and children in McLean County taken by Brian, a Home Bureau Advisor from 1918-1945. Registration Information Conference registration is required and limited to 250. Priority given to those who register by March 5, 1993. No meal reservations taken after March 12. Late registration and onsite registration based on space availability. Registration fee waived for University of Illinois students, faculty, and staff. Conference Registration Form Illinois, Beginning With Women . . . Histories and Cultures March 26-27, 1993 Levis Faculty Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Please print or type) Name_________________________________________________________________ Affiliation__________________________________________________________ Address ______________________________________________________________ City__________________________________State_____________Zip___________ Work Phone ( )- Home Phone ( )- Registration Fee $25 ($10 students/low-income) _____________ (by 3/5/93) Late Registration $35 ($15 student/low-income) _____________ Friday Dinner/Hine $15 _____________ Saturday Lunch/Muncy $10 _____________ (Please check if you prefer vegetarian meals ______.) TOTAL: $ _____________ Make checks payable to the University of Illinois. Mail conference registration to: Illinois Women Conference, University of Illinois, Women's Studies Program, 708 S. Mathews, Urbana, Illinois 61801. For more information, call Phyllis Vanlandingham, Co-Project Director: 217-333-2990, FAX 217-333-9142. e-mail address: Vanl@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:41:07 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: NAIAD-NWSA SCHOLARSHIP IN LESBIAN STUDIES NAIAD PRESS and NWSA will award one 1993 scholarship of $1000 to a graduate student who is engaged in the research or writing stages of a Master's Thesis or PhD dissertation in the field of Lesbian Studies. Preference will be given to NWSA members. The application form can be secured from the NWSA national office ("Loretta_YOUNGER@umail.umd.edu"). Completed application, a 2-3 pp. abstract of the work in progress, and three letters of recommendation must be sub- mitted to NWSA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1325, postmarked February 15, 1993. The National Office will be closed Dec. 25th - Jan. 4th. The application form asks for name, address, college or university, daytime phone; Title of thesis or dissertation; Date of expected completion; brief statement of financial need; Feminist or community activities; Relevance of research to NWSA goals. All of this info should fit onto one page. Sue Mansfield, Steering Committee, NWSA "SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU" ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:28:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L "vacation" (repeat) * * * * IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT * * * * UMDD, the mainframe on which WMST-L is housed, will be down from sometime on Monday, December 28 through Thursday, December 31. Thus, there will be NO WMST-L MAIL during that time, nor will you be able to communicate with LISTSERV in any way. Probably the wisest thing would be not to send any mail to WMST-L after Sunday, December 27 until at least Friday, January 1. Mail sent during that time may very well disappear into e-mail heaven, never to be seen again. I will repeat this message several more times between now and December 27. Best wishes to everyone for a Happy Chanukah, a Merry Christmas, a Joyous Winter Solstice, and a Peaceful and Fulfilling New Year. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:22:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RAMAN@SJC.BITNET Subject: Re: Review of Missisipi masala Please read the review of "Missisippi Masala" in the recent Manavi newsletter. P.S. Manavi is an association of Asian Indian Women based in New Jersey. The review has some very interesting perspectives on the representation of Indian women. Shyamala Raman Saint Joseph College West Hartford, CT 06117 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:17:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: gay/lesbian/bisexual librarian list The following may be of interest to WMST-L readers. ******************************************************** GAY-LIBN@USCVM The Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Librarians Network GAY-LIBN@VM.USC.EDU GAY-LIBN is an electronic forum for discussions of interest to gay, lesbian, and bisexual librarians (and friends). Discussions on the list will often be directly related to libraries or library associations. Since the list is devoted to the general concerns of LesBiGay librarians, however, some of the exchanges on the list will be of a more general nature. To join the list and receive mailings from GAY-LIBN: At Bitnet nodes (IBM machines), type the following at your system "ready-prompt": TELL LISTSERV AT USCVM SUB GAY-LIBN Firstname Lastname At Bitnet nodes (VAX machines), type the following at your system "ready-prompt": SEND LISTSERV@USCVM SUB GAY-LIBN Firstname Lastname At other nodes, send mail to LISTSERV@USCVM.BITNET or to LISTSERV@VM.USC.EDU as follows: SUB GAY-LIBN Firstname Lastname [Note: Leave the "Subject:" line blank. Do not include any other text, such as a signature file, in your mail to LISTSERV@VM.USC.EDU.] LISTSERV will forward subscription requests to the list owner, who will process the requests and add new subscribers as quickly as possible. List owner: Keith R. Trimmer trimmer@vm.usc.edu University Libraries University of Southern California Los Angeles, California 90089-0182 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:36:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ECTGPT@RITVAX.BITNET Subject: Re: Review of Missisipi masala Many thanks; it made me rethink my reactions to as a white woman. ECT ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:55:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: New Film Review: "Thunderheart" A review of "Thunderheart" directed by Michael Apted was broadcast on Saturday, December 19 on "The Women's Show," a weekly feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM in Tampa, and is available now on the FILM FILELIST. To obtain a copy of this review send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV58 FILM To obtain a list of all the film reviews available, send a message to the same listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one review, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The number of files you can request on any calendar day is limited to twenty. 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 1300 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 1299 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/HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Women's Studies Dept. Internet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Univ. of South Florida Bitnet: DLLAFAA@CFRVM Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-5531 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:07:51 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: 1993 NWSA SCHOLARSHIP IN JEWISH WOMEN'S STUDIES 1993 NWSA SCHOLARSHIP IN JEWISH WOMEN'S STUDIES The 1993 award will be given to a graduate student who is enrolled full-time for the 1992-93 academic year and who has a special interest in the lives, work and culture of Jewish women. Application form can be secured from NWSA national office (Loretta_YOUNGER@umail.umd.edu". The completed form plus two letters of recommendation and a 5 page essay must be returned to NWSA, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742-1325, postmarked February 15, 1993. The essay should address 1) what in your academic life demonstrates your interest in Jewish Women's Studies; 2) how have your campus-related activities demonstrated your interest in Jewish life and feminist life on campus? 3) what additional biographical details might shed light on how you understand the relation of feminism and Judaism? The award is $500.00 and will be announced in June. The application form should include Name, Address, Home and Work phone; University, Department, MA or PhD Candidate; Major Study Area; Dissertation or Thesis Title; Expected Date of Completion and name of two people who will send recommendations. This should all fit on one page. Posted by Sue Mansfield, Steering Committee, NWSA WARNING: National Office will be closed from Dec. 24th to Jan. 4th. I will be unreachable during the same period. Sue ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:32:38 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: ILLINOIS/NWSA AWARD APPLICATION FORM For the 1993 ILLINOIS-NWSA MANUSCRIPT AWARD, if you don't want to wait while the national office is closed over the holidays, you could create your own application form. It should be clearly marked "1993 Illinois'NWSA Manuscript Award" and include the following informatin: Name; addresd; daytime phone; title of book; academic affiliation (if any); nwsa member (yes/no) and Relevance of manuscript to NWSA goals: This should all fit onto one page and be accompanied by 2 page abstract of the manuscript (on which the applicants name should not appear.) Happy Holiday. Sue Mansfield "SMANSFIELD@BENSON. CLAREMONT.EDU" ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:37:52 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: PERGAMON/NWSA SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FORM For the 1993 PERGAMON-NWSA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES, if you don't want to wait while the NWSA national office is closed over the holidays, you could screate your own application form. It should be clearly marked "1993 NWSA Graduate Scholarships in Women's Studies" and include the following information: Name; Address; College or University; Daytime phone; Title of thesis or dissertation; Date of expected completion; Brief Statement of financial need: Feminist or community activities; Relevance of your research to NWSA goals. Should be accompanied by 2-3 pp abstract of the work in progress; must also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to national office. Have a happy holiday. Sue "SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU" ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:38:04 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hcbolak@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: thanx for suggestions on grad programs to all of you who wrote with sugestions for grad programs with focus on sexuality, thank you so much! It was a great help! hale ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:43:15 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: J.BERG@ACAD.SUFFOLK.EDU Subject: Greetings * ============================================ + | + * * ============================================ *- * | | . . . | . . . | | > +--+--+ < * * | | . . . | . . . . | | *-//| * | | Season's Greetings to you! . /| | + | + * * | |. . . | . . . / | | * * | |\. | . /\ /. | | + | + * * | | \ . /\ . . |. /\. / \/. | | *- | * | | \. /. \ ./\ | ./ \ ./ . \ . | | > +--+--+ < * * | | . \/. \/\/ \ | / . \/ . . | | *-//| * | |=====================================| | + | + __________ * * | | . .\ * \ .|\/ . . .\ . .. | | | | * * | | . \. *** . | \. . \. .*| | | | * * | | . . *****. | .\ . . \ / | | |__________| * * | | . . *******. | . . . * \. / | | * * | | . . ********* | . *** . /__| | ====================== * * | | . . * . | . ***** . | | ======************====== * * | | . . . | . ******* . . | | ======************====== * * | | . @______ . . | . ********* . | | ======*** ***====== * * | | ._+___+_. | . *********** . | | ======** **====== * * | | . . . . | . * . | | ======**________**====== * * | |_________________|___________________| | ======__|______|__====== * ******************************************************************************* --John Berg j.berg@acad.suffolk.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:12:04 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: U17334@UICVM.BITNET Subject: optimistic research The most upbeat research I have published is about the JANE collective-the group of laywomen who learned to do abortions before Roe and performed ll,000 before they disbanded. It demonstrates that as one woman said "If you want to learn to do something you can, and all that stuff about how you have to be an expert to fix your vacuem cleaner or ...is just a way to make you feel incompetent in your own life." There are two main articles--one on thorganization of the collective and why it worked and the other on the "empowering" effect it had on the women who worked in the collective (written with my daughter). Thecites are"Seizing the Means of Reproduction: An Illegal Feminist Abortion Collective - How and Why it Worked." Qualitative Sociology, l0,4,l987, pp.339-357 and "Collective Work and Self Identity" in Workplace Democracy and Social Change ed. Lindenfeld and Rothchild-Whitt and reprinted in Feminist Frontiers: Rethinking Sex, Gender and Society, First Edition (not in second) ed. Walum and Taylor. Given the chilly climate on abortion these articles should make your students feel better. You might also try my piece on women who wwre attacked and avoided rape, in the second edition of the Walum and Taylor reprinted from Signs, Autumn, l984, l0,1,l983, but I think the Jane one is more positive. Pauline B. Bart U17334@UICVM.UIC.EDU (University of Illinois at Chicago) Everything is data, but data isn't everything... Don't kill the messenger! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:40:38 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JMURPHY@MAINE.BITNET Subject: Update on Gay Spouse benefits at Universities The following colleges/universities have recently granted health insurance and other spouse benefits to gay/lesbian spouses of employees: University of Iowa Stanford University University of Chicago If you have more info or questions, please contact me: JMURPHY@MAINE. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:17:10 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: NWSA 1993 CONFERENCE THE 1993 NWSA Ccnference - REWEAVING WOMEN'S COLORS: SCHOLARSHIP, CURRICULUM AND OUR LIVES - will be held June 16 - 20 at the Marriott Hotel, Washington, D.C. At its 1993 conference, NWSA enters a new chapter of its history. We stand at a critical juncture in a changing political, economic and academic climate. The new NWSA constitution, adopted in Austin and ratified by the membership in December 1992, reaffirms our commitment to the goals of feminist, multi-cultural education at all levels, strengthens the voice of the membership in our governance, and improves the organization's ability to represent and serve its diverse constituencies. PLENARY SESSIONS: "Women Shaping the National Agenda: Shaping a National Agenda for Women," "Breaking/Making Paradigms: Feminism and Knowing" "Intellectual Foundations of Women's Studies: Beyond Political Correctness" "Women's Lives/Women's Stories" LOCATION AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: The conference head- quarters, exhibit hall and most sessions will be in the Washington Marriott Hotel. The Marriott is offering single or double rooms at $99 plus tax (49.50 plus tax per person for a double); triples and quadruples at $199 plus tax ($29.75 plus tax per person for a quad). NWSA hopes to locate some less expensive or possibly free housing. The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by Roxana Moayedi, Director of Women's Studies, Trinity College. INFORMATION ON CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS WILL FOLLOW. Sue Mansfield, for NWSA Steering Committee "SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:37:35 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: CORRECTION ON NWSA CONFERENCE COSTS NWSA 1993 JUNE CONFERENCE AT WASHINGTON MARRIOTT In giving hotel costs, my finger slipped and my eyes didn't catch the mistake til it came back to me by E-mail. The cost for a triple or quadruple at the Marriott will be 119 plus tax. Hence the mathematical possibility that the cost would be 29.75 plus tax per person for a quad. Sorry about the mistake. Sue Mansfield. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:33:02 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: NWSA CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS The June 16-20 1993 NWSA Conference (Marriott Hotel, Washington, D.C.) will address its theme - REWEAVING WOMEN'S COLORS: SCHOLARSHIP, CURRICULUM AND OUR LIVES - with emphasis on scholarship, teaching and activism and the interrelationships between them. We are committed to a program that integrates issues of gender, race, class and sexual preference throughout our discussions. We believe that this conference will help to define and shape directions for NWSA itself and for women's studies at large at this critical juncture, in a changing political, economic and academic climate. NWSA invites proposals that illuminate the aspects of the conference theme from all dis- ciplines and interdisciplinary areas and from all educational levels and settings. We are especially interested in proposals for: scholarly papers and panels on the conference theme and plenary topics [see earlier message} sessions on women's studies progrm needs: introdductory and capstone courses, faculty/student issues, funding, pedagogical strategies; sessions that carry forward a multivoiced dialogue on diversity in NWSA and women's studies; sessions on the successes and frustrations of the "year of the woman" in national politics; papers and panels on feminist/womanist/lesbian theories and epistemologies; intellectual and curricular strategies for getting beyond "the canon wars" in the 1990's; sessions on the relationship betweeen our theory and our practice, our personal and our profes- sional lives, our scholarship and our experience of personal and work relationships; sessions on gender, history, and critical theory; explorations of storytelling, personal accounts, and political critique. PROPOSALS ARE DUE IN THE NWSA NATIONAL OFFICE, POSTMARKED FEBRUARY 15, 1993 (NWSA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 20742-1325) Attach to your proposal a one page sheet giving TITLE; PRESENTER NAME(S) & AFFILIATION(S); ADDRESS(ES); PHONE(S) SESSION TYPE (Circle one): Panel, Workshop Paper (15-20 min.); Exhibit, Film or Vide; Performance, Pre-conference session EQUIPMENT OR OTHER NEEDS DAY PREFERENCE (NOT GUARANTEED) SESSION LENGTH PREFERRED: One hour and 15 minutes One hour and 30 minutes Posted by Sue Mansfield for NWSA Steering Committee "SMANSFIELD@BENSON.CLAREMONT.EDU" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:05:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ly15 Subject: GIFT APPEAL This message is from Loretta Younger of NWSA. This is to thank the four ladies who were able to contribute some holiday cheer for Amy Howard and Golie Thomas. They are: Sue Mansfield, Rae Rohfeld, Joan Korenman and Pauline Bart. I know your contribution will be greatly appreciated and it has been forwarded to them. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:24:30 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "JANIS BOHAN (556-3088/3205, MSC BOX 54)" Subject: Re: readings on psych of wom A quick "plug" for a recently published collection of Psy of Women articles: _Seldom Seen, Rarely Heard: Women's Place in Psychology_ edited by Janis Bohan, Westview Press, 1992 (just out in Nov) is a constructionist look at the discipline itself in terms of psychology's treatment of women -- both as subjects/clients and as professional participants. It has a bit of historical focus, beginning with some classic work (Weisstein, Sherif ...) and finishing with some recent and provocative work -- including some by British feminist psychologists, an exciting and thoughtful group of people often unfamiliar to American feminists. I admit to a degree of bias, but I think the book IS affirming for its emphasis on women's impact on the discipline rather than merely on psychology's mistreatment of women. Janis Bohan (an objective commentary, obviously) BITNET%"BOHAN@MSCD" ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:15:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KJMGPT@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU Subject: Re: readings on psych of wom Can anyone help me with the name and author of the recent book analyzing women's sellf-help books? Please respond to KJMGPT@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU. Thanks. Kit Mayberry Rochester Institute of Technology ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:20:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kimberly J. Cook" Subject: self help books > Can anyone help me with the name and author of the recent book analyzing > women's sellf-help books? The author of a book analysing self-help books for women is Wendy Simons. She is a sociologist at Emory University. I don't know the exact title, nor do I know the publisher... sorry. Happy Holidays. Kimberly J. Cook, K_Cook@unhh.unh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:39:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: CKOPPELMAN@CCMAIL.SUNYSB.EDU Subject: NY Woman's Studies Association Conference State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3456 Constance E Koppelman Womens Studies 516 632-9176 24-Dec-1992 11:38am EST FROM: CKOPPELMAN TO: Remote Addressee ( _wmst-l@umdd.umd.edu ) SUBJECT: NY Woman's Studies Association Conference I would like to reach all those who might be interested in knowing about the New York Women's Studies Conference to be held at SUNY at Stony Brook N.Y. March 26, 27, 28, 1993. Brave New World's For Women will cover many topics including humanist, social, political, and economic contexts of technological change; computer learning; virtual realities; reproductive technology; employment; utopias and dystopias: ( historical and litery); computer games; feminist futures; women's health; teaching science/technology/computers to girls and women; women's models for learning; science fiction, etc. To be put on our mailing list address me at CKoppelman@ccmail.sunysb.edu or surface mail Women's Studies, Old Chem 105, SUNY at Stony Brook N.Y. 11794-3456. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:41:17 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Kruger Subject: Re: readings on psych of wom In-Reply-To: <9212241615.AA02642@nfs-serv.netcom.com>; from "KJMGPT@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU" at Dec 24, 92 11:15 am KJMGPT@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU sez: > > Can anyone help me with the name and author of the recent book analyzing > women's sellf-help books? Please respond to KJMGPT@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU. > Thanks. Kit Mayberry > Rochester Institute of Technology > I would also be interested in the name of that book as well. Please respond to me at shadow@netcom.com Thanx ......... Cynthia -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% | "When a woman seriously asks herself what it | means to be a woman she is pulling at a | thread that can unravel an entire culture." | | Kim Chernin - "Reinventing Eve" | %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:52:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L "vacation" (repeat) * * * * IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT * * * * UMDD, the mainframe on which WMST-L is housed, will be down from sometime on Monday, December 28 through Thursday, December 31. Thus, there will be NO WMST-L MAIL during that time, nor will you be able to communicate with LISTSERV in any way. Probably the wisest thing would be not to send any mail to WMST-L after Sunday, December 27 until at least Friday, January 1. Mail sent during that time may very well disappear into e-mail heaven, never to be seen again. I will repeat this message at least once more between now and December 27. Best wishes to everyone for a Happy Chanukah, a Merry Christmas, a Joyous Winter Solstice, and a Peaceful and Fulfilling New Year. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:46:40 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hcbolak@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: Re: optimistic research thank you pauline. I always cite your research on rape and it opens up a discussion about fighting or not fighting a rape. I'll check out the other article as well. hale ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:52:55 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hcbolak@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: Re: readings on psych of wom janis, I just ordered this book for the library yesterday. I looked over the contents and was delighted to see most of my favorites included. you did a great job! hale ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:54:17 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hcbolak@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: Re: readings on psych of wom I would be interested in this reference as well and would appreciate it if you could let me know at hcbolak@cats.bitnet thanx hale ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:00:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: RHODA UNGER Subject: Re: readings on psych of wom The book you want is by Wendy Simonds. It is entitled "Women and self- help culture: Readings between the lines. It was published by Rutgers University Press in 1992. Rhoda Unger unger@apollo.montclair.edu INTERNET ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:41:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: women's self help books and review: Cynthia Schrager wrote a review of Wendy Simonds' book and Wendy Kaminer's book [I'm Dysfuncitonal, You're Dysfuncitonal: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions, Addison Wesley, 1992] in WOmen's Review of Books, Oct. 1992. Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:38:23 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hcbolak@CATS.UCSC.EDU Subject: thanx for suggestions thanks to all who have responded with helpful suggestions for readings on psychology of women. I apologize for some of the private messages I sent that mistakenly appeared on the network! hale ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 10:08:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L vacation (revised) As previously announced, the UMDD computer that houses WMST-L will be down from sometime on Dec. 28 through Dec. 31. During that time, there will be no WMST-L messages and no interactions possible with LISTSERV. Do not send messages to WMST-L or to LISTSERV during those dates. Also, the UMBC computer system (where I have my primary account) is scheduled to be down Dec. 28 and 29, and I will be away Dec. 29 through Jan. 5. Thus, if you have WMST-L computer problems or questions during that time, I will be unable to help you. Best wishes for a happy, healthy, peaceful New Year. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 19:56:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MUSSEY@ZODIAC.RUTGERS.EDU Subject: request for references I'm planning some revisions in the Women's Studies introductory course that I teach, and I'd like some help with readings in two areas: feminist group process and the social construction of race. Regarding the first, I use group work in class and I do some talking about group process and they do some reading on feminist pedegogy. But I'm not satisfied that they actually are able to implement feminist process in their group work. They seem to fall into the easiest pattern which is to allow the most forceful and vocal person to "lead" and the rest follow, often disgruntled and disatisfied. They complain that they don't like to work in groups. I realize that I must try and track their process (any suggestions) a little better, but I would also like to assign some reading on feminist group process. Any ideas? My second request is for material that talks about race as a socially constructed category of difference. The course material I use on gender does this, but I realized that although we focus on race and racial difference quite a lot, I've allowed race as a "biological fact" to remain unchallenged. Any suggestions on either topic would be welcome. Thanks. Ann Mussey mussey@zodiac mussey@zodiac.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:52:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "KAREN A. WOHLBLATT" Subject: Re: request for references This posting is in response to Ann Massey's request for references on both group process and the social construction of race. I have one suggestion for the first and two for the second. _Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery_, by Starhawk, (Harper & Row, 1987) is a book from the feminist spirituality community (Starhawk is a wiccan witch). It might be too flaky for pedagogical purposes, depending on the kind of classroom or breadth of resources drawn from, because the spiritual emphasis is clear. At the same time, the author spends about 3/4 of the book on group process, most of it at a very nitty-gritty, practical level. If it doesn't seem professional enough for being part of a syllabus, it might still be very valuable to you, Ann Massey, or anyone else who's trying to think intelligently and creatively about group process. On the social construction of race, I would recommend two articles, both of which I feel more confident would be valuable. The first is from _Critical Inquiry_, 1992, vol 18(3), entitled "Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice", which is about blacks and Jews and their relationship to each other. The second is from vol 18(4) of _Critical Inquiry_, entitled "Race into Culture: A Critical Genealogy of Cultural Identity", which is about blacks and Jews and native Americans. Neither of these articles are general summaries; both are excellent analyses of specific cultural and historical constructions. It seems to me that to talk about construction of race, gender, or what have you, you can't talk generally, since the whole point is that there are not automatic attributes of blacks, whites, men, women, whatever, but rather that there are specific power-imbued meanings of things. So I don't consider it a drawback that these are not general articles. Another quality in these articles is that they talk about more than just black and white, which makes it clear that any particular race is part of an entire matrix of race, class, gender, ethnicity, etcetera, which also helps to underscore the constructedness of it all. Hope these suggestions are helpful. ------------------------------------------------------- Karen A. Wohlblatt wohlblka@husge1.harvard.edu Harvard Graduate School of Education ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:50:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joya Misra Subject: Re: readings on psych of wom In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:15:10 -0400 from The book you may be thinking of is Wendy Simonds' excellent WOMEN AND SELF HELP CULTURE available from Rutgers (1992) in hard and paperback On Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:15:10 -0400 said: > Can anyone help me with the name and author of the recent book analyzing > women's sellf-help books? Please respond to KJMGPT@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU. >Thanks. Kit Mayberry > Rochester Institute of Technology > Re: readings on psych of wom >du ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:59:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joya Misra Subject: Re: request for references In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:52:28 -0500 from You may also try YOURS IN STRUGGLE: THREE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON ANTI-SEMITISM AND RACISM for social construction of race. Its written by Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith, published by Firebrand Books in 1984.