WMST-L LOG9404D ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 13:24:57 JST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Subject: Too-long conference announcements I don't know if this is bothering anyone else, but I think that the full-length conference postings (lists with forms attached) are a bit much to wade through. It's easy to delete if you get individual messages, but that was getting to be too much, so I switched to DIGEST in order to reduce my message load. Is it possible to just state the contents of the conference and give a contact address to which the forms can be sent? A harried e-mail reader, Ingrid iorlow@jpnnucba ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 23:27:34 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harold Frank Subject: sex between faculty and students The climate on campus today as it relates to students who allege they have been abused by a faculty member in some way is not favorable to faculty. Moreover, the risk of a "roll in the hay" turning into love and of that love being crushed by a student who has a change of heart seems as great a risk. end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end+++ + Dr. Hal Frank hfrank@mizar.usc.edu + + University of Southern California hfrank@bcf.usc.edu + + P.O. Box 41992 Phone: (213) 254-1022 + + Los Angeles, CA 90041-0992 FAX: (213) 740-0001 + **** The Semester here ends May 6, "earthquakes notwithstanding" *** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 05:32:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Leslie Bender Subject: Consent, Case & Femjur I saw several postings linking the arguments from CASE about consensual professor/student sex and femjur (a feminist legal studies list) in a way that made it seem to me that femjur as a group endorsed CASE's policy. That is not true at all. While some subscribers of femjur may agree, many others do not, and I think it is misleading to attribute CASE's position to femjur as a whole. Please do not mistakenly link the two. Humbly, as a dissenter to CASE's policy implications and listowner of femjur, Leslie Bender *************************************************************** Leslie Bender email: lbender@mailbox.syr.edu Professor of Law or: lbender@law.syr.edu E.I. White Bldg. or: lbender@suvm.bitnet Syracuse U. College of Law telephone: (315) 443-4462 Syracuse, NY 13244 USA fax: (315) 443-5394 *************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 07:07:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "MARY L. ERTEL, SOCIOLOGY" Subject: Too-long conference announcements ??? I would like to disagree with the recent request to shorted conference postings. By way of contrast, I appreciate seeing the details of a conference. This shows me what people are interested in and holding conferences on - a way of keeping abreast of te field. It also gives me suggestions as to what to include in future or current courses. I do use the delete function readily if it's a conference I'm not interested in - so I do support the idea that any announcement should be limited to one such announcement. But many thanks to the folks who take the time to type in the info so the rest of us can keep informed. Mary L. Ertel, Sociology, Central Connecticut State University Internet ERTEL@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 07:51:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: sex between faculty and students This dialogue has also been raging on the SASH-List for some time. It seems to me that there and in this message the conversation turns on them against us, an unhealthy climate at best. As a faculty member who remembers what it was like to be a student in departments where female students were abused by male members of the faculty who expected something in return for getting their dissertations thru the hurdles, I find it not in the least threatening that women are now speaking up against these practices. The professor who speaks of a "roll in the hay" with his students might look elsewhere for this kind of activity; graduate school is fraught enough with anxiety for both men and women without having to deal with relationships that turn out to be misleading with those in power. Benay Blend blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 08:50:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosemary Feal Subject: WST contacts in Spain? If anyone has any contacts with faculty affiliated with the following, please respond privately. I need to establish some WST contacts in Spain. Seminario de Estudios de la Mujer Universidad Auto<'>noma de Madrid Madrid, Spain Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid, Spain Many thanks. Rosemary Feal rsfl@troi.cc.rochester.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 08:12:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Coleman Subject: belenky et al In response to Wendy's request to make this discussion of Women's Ways of Knowing "on-line"-- In a few days, I will collect the references sent to me so far and send them to the list--then we can see if folks want to discuss the issues further. Thanks to those who have responded so far! -- Linda S. Coleman Eastern Illinois University cflsc@eiu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 09:48:22 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Re: Too-long conference announcements ??? I am sympathetic concerning the issue of limited time, etc. but I do find that I agree with Mary Ertel about conference postings - they can be deleted pretty easily upon a quick review of the title, etc. Abbreviated announcements would not help busy people either, since it would necessitate another layer of contact, which takes time...!!! It is helpful to have ALL the information available on a posting. In fact, on the strength of conf. postings I have had a paper accepted, etc. and I know I never would have become involved in this particular conf. if it hadn't been for the completeness and comprehensiveness of the original announcement. Judith F. Clark ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 10:56:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "David F. Austin" Subject: Re: Sex between Students & Professors What do people think about two different but related cases?: (1) verbal, in-class discussions of sexual subject matters; and (2) use of sexually explicit pictorial material in teaching. If truly informed consent to a sexual relationship between powerful professor and less powerful student is infeasible, can a student be adequately informed by a syllabus, reviewed in class, about the likely effects of sexually explicit course material? I realize that 'teaching touchy topics' was a long thread on this list not long ago, but it seems appropriate to re-raise the issues in this context. David. David F. Austin Associate Professor of Philosophy and Assistant Head Department of Philosophy and Religion Winston Hall 101A Box 8103, NCSU Raleigh, NC 27695-8103 (919) 515-6102 FAX (919) 515-7856 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 15:55:57 GMT+1 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Catherine Dahlstrom Subject: Mary Wollstonecraft conference An anniversary conference to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecrafts voyage to Scandinavia will be held in Uddevalla Sweden 2-6 September 1995. Plenary speakers Isobel Armstrong, Joan B. Landes, Anne Mellor, Virginia Sapiro, Barbara Taylor. Conference strands Women and Travel, Feminist Theory, Women and Romanticism, Women and Revolution. Abstracts by 1 Dec 1994 to Catherine Sandbach-Dahlstrom, Department of English Stockholm University S 106 91 Stockholm or to Ulla Wikander, Sandhamnsgatan 10 S 115 40 Stockholm. Inquries by email to Dahlstrc@engelska.su.se ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 10:04:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BARTLETT ANNE Subject: women's health coverage-your replies Thanks to everyone who shared experiences and advice with me on choosing a health care plan from my university. We have open enrollment only once every three years, so it was crucial that I made an informed decision. Your help allowed me to do this, and I thought I'd summarize major points from the posts that I received, in order to help other WMST-L subscribers who are also making this sort of choice. The The chief point that arose over and over again was the need to select a compatible and competent primary health provider, in an HMO. The PHP is the one who will refer you to specialists, authorize tests, etc. And you want one whose interest is YOU, not the clinic's finances or "party line." Find out how easy it is to switch PHP's, if your original choice isn't working. Anothr recurring point was the differences between HMO's (as well as between an HMO in general and BlueCross/BS). Some fund abortions (BC/BS does not), some will only fund oral contraceptives, in terms of birth control; some do not have female gynecologists, midwives, etc., and some do; be sure you know what you want and whether you can get it. (This can be difficult--I called an HMO several times with a specific question and each time got a different answer). Finally, re: therapy for yourself or dependents. BC/BS offers no outpatient care, and HMO's do offer some. But it's usually a pain to get (you need a referral through your PHP and then you get authorized say, three visits at a time). Medication, not long-term analysis, is the treatment of choice. With all this in mind, I did end up choosing an HMO--I found one that included a women's health clinic that's right across the street from my apt. Interestingly, this clinic isn't mentioned by name in the list of providers--it's a sub-clinic of a bigger organization--I had to go across the street and ask them whether they were affliated with an HMO, then I had a long talk with thee clinic's administrator about my plan and my interests. So thanks again for your help, and if you have any questions about all of this, I'd be happy to correspond further with you privately. a votre sante! Anne. Anne Clark Bartlett DePaul University engacb@orion.depaul.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 10:38:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Sex between Students & Professors Most of us who teach English naturally have to deal with topics related to sexual issues as they are presented in the text. The key phrase is the last one. I teach at a high school for gifted students, and have never had a problem from students who've complained about an uncomfortable atmosphere in the class room, tho we've read such novels as Morrison's _The Bluest Eye_, which deals with just about every kind of relationship imaginable. Students know when the conversation veers away from the topic, as it has in other classes where there have been complaints about teachers who use their power to make unneccessary and extraneous remarks about sex. I can remember when this happened to me in the Sixties, but at the time I didn't have the resources or insight to do much about the situation. Benay Blend blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 12:02:27 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ramona Morris Subject: Re: chilly climate studies In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 21 Apr 1994 18:27:42 CDT from I will be happy to reply to all requests for info on the chilly climate work I' ve done, but currently I am swimming upstream against the tide to marking and a project that is just about to get off the group. I may be a couple of weeks to get back to this but I promise that I will... Hope I can be of some help. Ramona Morris Sociology York University REMORRIS @ vm1.yorku.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 13:17:55 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Sex between Students & Professors Regarding David Austin's recent query, I have a few thoughts. Hope I don't get flamed for sharing them....! In-class discussions of sexual subject matter are, surely, a far different matter than an intimate relationship between two people. It would seem that a professor might need to consider exactly how relevant such discussions were to the topic - e.g. an upper level psych course might well encompass issues necessitating such discussion. As far as sexually explicit pictorial material is concerned, I'm personally not sure how a preponderance of this material would inform the educational process. However, as part of an "exhibit" in discussions of pornography in a class dealing with first amendment right, for example, I could imagine the utility of such material, at least in limited quantity. Too frequently, I fear, the subject of sexual matters, either as discussion topics or as visual materials to supplement other teaching matter, is one that can be radically over-used. Also, the introduction of sexual topics/materials is, I would think, subordinate to larger issues and concerns in all but the most clinical and specialized courses. Judith F. Clark ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 10:57:47 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lisa M. Blockus" Subject: Gender v. Women's Studies I was recently speaking with a friend about the pro's and cons of calling an academic department "Gender Studies" versus "Women's Studies". At my university, after a certain amount of pressure, we changed our department name to the more neutral sounding "Gender Studies". It is agrued that by having it termed Gender Studies, we are appealing to a broader range of students-- in particular-- less men are skeptical and threatened and thus more likely to enroll in a few classes. I would really like to know other people's thoughts on this matter. Do you all notice an increase in the number of men participating in Gender Studies classes compared to Women's Studies? Or is this just an attempt to deny women of an identity and importance on college campuses. What are the attitudes on your campus? Respond personally or on line. -Lisa Blockus lblockus@teetot.acusd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 12:41:59 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Mitchell Subject: Expanding Your Horizons: Thank you A Thank You To Those Who Corresponded With The EYH Girls in El Paso ------------------------------------------- I would like to offer an enormous and heartfelt thank you to all those on the Internet who corresponded with the 8th grade girls attending Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) at the University of Texas in El Paso last week. The amount of support expressed for their efforts, and the invaluable amount of information on careers and opportunities, along with the warmth and humor and 'solidarity', were overwhelming. The impression made on the girls is incalculable. They were wowed. The more mail they read, the more excited they became. Each group had to literally be dragged away from the computers. They were able to print 2 or 3 messages that particularly spoke to them and take those home. It was obvious to me how precious those message were to them; your words of advice and encouragement could be living in a young girls bedroom drawer right now, as a lasting reminder to pursue her dreams. Thank you very much from myself, the organizers of our EYH, and from all the girls. Katherine A. Mitchell Computer Research Laboratory New Mexico State University ==================================================================== Attached are brief notes on how the day went, some of my observations, and a little followup on how the Internet could benefit young girls in the formation of their career goals. 1) The Mail We received an astounding 500 messages. Needless to say, each girl could only read 15 - 25 depending on her reading speed. They selected from the 500 which ones to open and read. The international mail was a big hit, and helped me to make my point about the power of the Internet. The girls did seem to gravitate to mail that described work which appealed to them. The biggest hit was the mail in Spanish. I'll discuss this further below. When they found mail in Spanish, they would tell their friends to go look at it, so I know that it intrigued them. Everyone who sent messages had a great sense of how to engage girls that age - messages were very age appropriate. Notes: a) We worked in Unix, Sun OpenWindows, and they picked it up very fast. No problems using the mouse, they opened the MailTool, scrolled through the list of messages, read mail, replied to mail, and printed. b) They really slowed down replying to mail because some have no experience at a keyboard. Most replied to one message. c) The SUBJECT field needed to say what career, or from where, or something to help them in finding the mail they would like to read (for example they found the Spanish if the subject field was in Spanish). Since girls actually did prefer mail in which the job interested them, I should have asked for a subject field listing career types. d) We really needed more time - they could happily have done this longer, and they would have benefited from it too. 2) Spanish and English The groups were about 80% Hispanic, 20% Anglo. The literacy problem was an eye opener for me. I'm sure others will chuckle at my naivete, but I had no idea. Although they all speak English like a native speaker, many of them can barely write in English, and do it slowly and with tremendous concentration. Since I saw how smart they were as a group, it's obvious this has nothing to do with their ability level. And they are just as illiterate in Spanish. They wanted so badly to read it, but often could only understand a message when I read it out loud to them (they speak and comprehend Spanish fluently; this is demonstrated by their understanding even my Spanish pronunciation which is atrocious). Notes: a) Replying to the mail was difficult for many of them because of literacy problems, it made them self conscious, and it went slowly. b) They were astounded that scientists speak Spanish, and actually use it in their work. **Showing bilingualism to be an asset may have been the most significant side effect of the whole day.** 3) The email as a resource I'm printing up packets and distributing these to the schools that participated; these in turn are being given to the girls that participated. I wish that this email could be used in some way as a resource in the future - I am very vague right now on how to do that. a) Perhaps these message, which house so much good information, and form a great example of what the Internet can do, should be re-used somehow. 4) The Internet as a resource It was extremely obvious that some ongoing access to the Internet would absolutely delight these girls. It combats provincialism, teaches them computing skills, and makes them write (I now see how important this is). It's important that middle schools and high schools have Internet access - and I'm going to start investigating whats happening around here. I have some follow-up to do here, but these are ideas which were mentioned to me: a) Pen pals on the Internet; a great idea. b) Mentoring on the Internet; I don't know what age this is most important for, but it seems a wonderful idea. ================================================ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 14:37:39 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Roberta C. Martin" Subject: Re: Sex between Students & Professors In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 22 Apr 1994 13:17:55 EDT from I agree with Judith Clark on this matter, and I would like to add that I think the ethos of the classroom is an ingredient we need to consider, also. In a 17th century survey course at ECU I was rolling along and ended up by referring to the "orgasmic" ending of Crawshaw's "The Flaming Heart"--a poem about St. Teresa. I was stopped by the scandalized expressions on the faces of my students, and realized that sex and religion together in the same reading had to be prepared for much more carefully than I had done and that I needed to chose my words more carefully. I will of course continue to treat the sensual nature of Crawshaw's poetry, but I will need to do so in a way that focuses them on what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it. Robin Martin. Roberta C Martin, assistant professor East Carolina University English GCB 2112 Greenville, NC 27858 (919) 757-6721 Bitnet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM1 Internet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 15:15:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: Too-long conference announcements ??? At the risk of dragging this conversation on far longer than necessary, let me suggest another reason for having complete conference announcements, which may perhaps only be relevant to those of us who are program directors. Because I have no central bulletin board space or program space I rely on an electronic bulletin board (a campus wide information system) to disseminate information to my faculty and to students who are scattered all over campus and may never come into the building I'm housed in. Every conference announcement or call for papers I get goes into this electronic space so others can access it easily and having complete information is absolutely necessary. so please don't shorten those announcements. ,,, (o o) +-------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------------------------+ | Laurie Finke, Women's and Gender Studies, Kenyon College | | Gambier, OH 43022 phone: 614-427-5276 | | home: 614-427-3428, P.O. Box 731 mail: FinkeL@Kenyon.Edu | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ () () ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 12:15:42 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "ELIZABETH A. KISSLING" Subject: textbook suggestions This fall, I will be teaching WMST 310: Issues in Women's STudies, for the first time. (Not a new course, but new one for me.) I'm looking for recommendations for a reader. The course is by nature a broad one, a core course in our women's studies minor, and for many of the students, an introduction to women's studies. 300-level at my university is junior and senior, and as a night course, it serves primarily nontraditional students. Please send publication information with your suggestion, so that I can contact publishers for review copies. Please respond to me privately, and I'll be glad to compile the responses for the list, if there is interest. I'll welcome suggestions for films and other materials as well. Thanks in advance. Elizabeth A. Kissling Eastern Washington University ekisslign@ewu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 14:41:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Mittler Subject: Information Request Could someone tell me where I might find a copy of a paper written by Peggy McIntosh on "Feeling Like a Fraud?" Please respond privately. Thanks. Mary Mittler marym@acs.oakton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 14:35:30 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marge Karsten Subject: housing-single women with children I have been asked for information on whether or not single women with children experience more discrimination in obtaining housing than married women with children. I am looking for article citations or other "leads" to studies that may have been done. Most of the material I am familiar with deals specifically with employment discrimination. Please respond to Marge Karsten, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Business Admin., UW-Platteville, 1 University Plaza, Platteville, WI 53818. email address-Karsten@uwplatt.edu. FAX 608-342-1466. Phone 608-342-1465. Thank you in advance. I will post a summary of responses. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 15:34:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Gender v. Women's Studies Recently, Lisa Blockus wrote: > I was recently speaking with a friend about the pro's and cons of calling > an academic department "Gender Studies" versus "Women's Studies". At my > university, after a certain amount of pressure, we changed our department > name to the more neutral sounding "Gender Studies". It is agrued that by > having it termed Gender Studies, we are appealing to a broader range of > students-- in particular-- less men are skeptical and threatened and thus > more likely to enroll in a few classes. > > I would really like to know other people's thoughts on this matter. This issue was discussed at some length on WMST-L less than a year ago. The discussion was then put into a file called WOMEN_VS GENDER that is available from LISTSERV. To get it, send the message GET WOMEN_VS GENDER (that's an underscore, not a hyphen, and a V, not a U) to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. I strongly recommend that people--especially relatively new subscribers--take a look at what other files exist. To get the entire filellist, send the two-word message INDEX WMST-L to listserv. Be sure to send these messages to LISTSERV, not WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 14:51:18 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bea Jacobson Organization: Augustana College - Rock Island IL Subject: Re: Gender v. Women's Studies I'd like to build on Lisa's request for a discussion regarding the issue of naming a program Gender Studies vs. Women's Studies, by asking about the differences between programs labelled Gender Studies and those entitled Women's Studies? How do they differ in curriculum, programming, objectives, etc. While attracting or discouraging certain students is certainly a consideration, how does the name change the contents of the program? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 16:15:30 -0500 Reply-To: korenman@UMBC.BITNET Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Too-long conference announcements ??? In-Reply-To: Your message dated "Fri, 22 Apr 1994 15:15:03 -0500 (EST)" <01HBHARQ59IQ001YXS@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> I'd like to propose a middle ground between bare bones conference announcements and exceedingly long ones. Though I'd frankly prefer short announcements with just a few highlights and an address and phone number that people can use to get more complete information, I recognize that there's something to be said for more detail as well. However, there are some things I'd like to urge people NOT to include in the announcements they send to WMST-L: 1) Registration forms - these take up a lot of space and are provide little useful information. Anyone seriously interested in attending the conference can send for a registration form. 2) Hotel/lodging information - this too should be sent only to those who are really interested. 3) Dining information 4) Other information not directly related to the conference Also, while I understand the wish not to have to scroll through one announcement to get to another, I must make it clear that if people send announcements to ME to post rather than posting them themselves, I will try to bundle several announcements together to cut down on the number of mail messages people receive. I recognize and regret that that may inconvenience some people, but I think heavy mail volume poses a more serious problem for many subscribers. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 14:32:29 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from PROFS to RFC822 format by PUMP V2.2 From: Antony Atkins Subject: Students and Professors I find myself largely in agreement with Ruth Ginzberg's comments, except the focus always seems to be on the most crassly obvious of cases. Of course one shouldn't have sex with one's students when you're teaching them, supervising or giving them references. But there are all sorts of situations where students and professors meet outside a professional relationship - they can't help it, when so much of university life is not academic. What then? What is the difference between meeting a student whom one is not teaching etc, and someone you might meet in another situation off-campus? Why should a professor in, say, a philosophy department and a student in a biology department, with no prospect of a professional relationship, be prevented from having a sexual relationship? There would still be an imbalance of power in terms of age, experience, income etc, but what would be the difference between this relation- ship and those between people with similar imbalances outside a university? A.Atkins, 3-5 Humanities Centre, Dept. of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2E5. Tel (403) 492-7833. Fax 492-8142. Email: aatkins@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 17:07:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kali Tal Subject: SIXTIES CONFERENCE: Call for Papers (fwd) Feminist scholars, take note: we are particularly looking for papers in the following subject areas: Women artists and writers of the 1960s Women activists in the antiwar movement Black women in the women's movement Gay and lesbian liberation movements Redstockings & other radical feminist organizations Women Strike for Peace Women in Third World liberation struggles Women in the labor movement Women in the civil rights movement __________________________________ SIXTIES GENERATIONS: FROM MONTGOMERY TO VIET NAM AN INTERDISCIPLINARY MEETING OF SCHOLARS, ARTISTS & ACTIVISTS Second Annual Conference November 4-6, 1994 Sponsored by _Viet Nam Generation_ and hosted by Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT Call for papers, session proposals, readings, performance art pieces, and workshops. Deadline for proposals: July 15, 1994. The First Annual Sixties Generations conference was held March 4-6, 1993, in Fairfax, Virginia. It was sponsored by _Viet Nam Generation_ and the American Studies, Film Studies and African American Studies Programs of George Mason University. Sixty academic paper presentations, eight poetry and prose readings, one play reading and a concert filled three days. We also held a full-day roundtable discussion, "On the Sixties in the Nineties," featuring participants who were activists in the Sixties and continue to be so today, including activists in SNCC, SDS, the Black Panther Party, the Yippies, various racial/ethnic formation, antiwar formations, political formations, women's groups and cultural workers. The event was such a success that _Viet Nam Generation_ decided to do it again this year. [Last year's program is appended to this Call for Papers.] We welcome submissions in all disciplines, in all topic areas related to the 1960s in the U.S. and internationally. SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS Please send abstracts (250-500 words) describing your individual presentations, or collections of abstracts describing your panel proposals. Panel sessions will be 90 minutes. Folks interested in putting together whole panels should limit the number of presenters to three, and hold the length of individual presentations down to 20 minutes each, so that sufficient time will be left for audience responses. We welcome individual paper submissions on any topic related to the 1960s. Individual presenters should also limit their presentations to 20 minutes. We will assemble individual presenters into panels. LITERARY READINGS, VIDEO, FILM, AND PERFORMANCE ART If you are interested in reading prose or poetry, submit samples of your work (and tapes of previous of readings, if available). Readings will be limited to 25 minutes per reader. We will consider videos, films, and performance art pieces of up to 45 minutes in length. Please send samples, tapes, video clips, or whatever documentation is most suitable for your medium. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Activists interested in putting on workshops at the conference can propose either 40 minute or 90 minute sessions. Please send a description of the workshop and related materials or publications. We welcome innovative ideas, so if you have an idea that doesn't seem to fit into one of the categories described above, write and tell us about it. Submit proposals either in hard-copy or over email to: _Viet Nam Generation_ 18 Center Road, Woodbridge, CT 06525 Fax: 203/389-6104 email: kalital@minerva.cis.yale.edu _____________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM FROM THE *FIRST* ANNUAL SIXTIES GENERATIONS CONFERENCE, *MARCH 4-6, 1993* HOLIDAY INN, FAIRFAX--FAIR OAKS Thursday, March 4 5:00-7:00pm Welcome Reception Cash bar 8:30-10:00pm Play Reading: Cellophane Xerox Friday, March 5 9:00-10:30am Panel 1: Reinterpreting the Sixties I "Still Blowin' in the Wind: Reinterpreting the 1960s in the 1990s," Cathey Calloway, Arkansas State Univ; "The Sixties as Great Awakening," Dr. David Williams, GMU"Rewriting the Sixties: How Current Cable Television Program Guidelines Create a Revisionist Look at the Events of the Decade," James M. Forsher Panel 2: Environmentalism in the Sixties: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment "Corporate Culture and the Commodification of Environmental Concern," Matthew Crane, Crozet, VA; "The Contrariness of Edward Abbey," Patrick Stejskal, Univ of Virginia; "More Notes on 'Camp,'" Dan Philippon, Charlottesville, VA; "You Say You Want a Revolution: Environmental Reform in the Literature of the 1860s and 1960s," Michael Branch 10:45am-12:15pm Panel 3: Reinterpreting the Sixties II "Pedagogy & Polarity: Understanding the Viet Nam War," Dan Scripture, UCSC; "Paradigms Lost: How Higher Education Killed the Sixties in America," John Milam, GMU; "Under the Counter Culture: Subtexts of the 60s, the 80s, and the 90s," Kim Worthy, Wagner College Panel 4: Reinterpreting the Sixties III "Again: The Drug Culture of the Sixties," Carolyn Buckley- LaRocque, GMU; "Lock and Load High School: The Landmark Battle Over the War in Vietnam and Free Speech at University High School, 1965-1970," Marc Jason Gilbert, North Georgia College; "'68: Gendering the Face of Political Action," Leah D. Hackleman, Bowling Green State Univ 1:30-3:00pm Panel 5: Gender, Sex, Nation: (Re)conceiving the Black Body Politic Marita Golden Marilyn Mobley Robert Carr Panel 6: Sixties Literatures "Officers Don't Cry: The Poetry of B.D. Trail," Dan Duffy, Viet Nam Forum, Viet Nam Generation; "Backwash Novels and the Vietnam War," Victoria E. McLure, South Plains College; "Laughing at Fathers and Titans: Thomas Pynchon's Masculinist Gigantism," Wes Chapman, Illinois Wesleyan Univ 3:15-5:15pm Panel 7: International Perspectives "Five U.S. Wars in Asia," Renny Christopher, UCSC; "American Countercultural Representations of India and Hegemonic Discourse," Mike Youngblood, Univ of Wisconsin; "What Were Those Viet Cong Women Really Up To?" Lady Borton;"The Role of the American Exile Community in the Viet Nam Era Anti-war Movement," Jack Calhoun Panel 8: Reinterpreting the Sixties IV "Recollection or Recognition: Negotiating the 'Sixties' as Concrete Utopia," Tom Moylan, GMU; "History, Popular Culture and the Viet Nam War," Andrew Martin, Univ of Wisconsin; "The Other Sixties," Paul Lyons, Richard Stockton State College 5:30-7:30pm Poetry Reading Vince Gotera, Jive Talk: Poems on Growing Up Filipino-American in the 60s Renny Christopher, Viet Nam and California M.L. Liebler: Hippie Baseball Christopher Leland, Memory Tapes 8:30pm Poetry Reading & Reception Rod Kane W.D. Ehrhart David Connolly Wayne Karlin Rod Kane is the author of Veteran's Day. W.D. Ehrhart is the author of several narratives, including Vietnam-Perkasie, Passing Time, and Going Back, as well as essays and poetry in cluding Just for Laughs, Winter Bells, The Outer Banks, and To Those Who Have Gone Home Tired. David Connally 's first book of poetry, Lost in America, will be published this year. Wayne Karlin is the author of four novels: Crossover, Lost Armies, The Extras, and US. Saturday, March 6 Roundtable Discussion: "On the Sixties in the Nineties" 10:00am-1:00pm and 2:00-5:00pm The day long Roundtable will feature participants who were activists in the 60's and continue to be so now. People who were active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panther Party, the Yippies, various racial/ethnic formations, antiwar formations, political formations, or women's groups, as well as cultural workers will be part of the Roundtable. The intention of the Roundtable is to get beyond the ideological traps of nostalgic reminiscences or cynical dismissal of the movements of the 60's. Rather, we hope to achieve a serious reflection on what was fought for, learned, lost, and gained in those years. Yet, we also hope for a further discussion centered on the dreams and the means of the 60's as they continue today--older, wiser, and multiple and diverse. The morning session will focus on recollections and reflections on people's involvement in movement work in the 60's. The afternoon session will focus on the value of the lessons and the continuing agendas and methods of the 60's movements as they affect the work of social justice in the 90's. We encourage conference participants to drop in on the Roundtable and join the ongoing discussion. Roundtable participants are also urged to visit other conference events and to join us for a cash bar, reception, and concert at the conclusion of the discussion. Conference Panels 9:00-10:30am Panel 9: Viet Nam War Film I "Viet Nam War Film," Cynthia Fuchs; "The Heart of Darkness Motif in Vietnam War Texts," David L. Erben, Univ of South Florida; "Warren Beatty and the Draft," Katherine Kinney, UC Riverside 10:45am-12:15pm Panel 10: Sixties Popular Culture "Folk Songs and Allusions to Folks Songs in the Repertoire of the Grateful Dead," Josephine A. McQuail, Tennessee Tech Univ; "Beatles, Beach Boys, Leave It To Beaver, Mustangs, GTO's Freedom Marches, a sexual revolution, a war and PTSD," John Ketwig; "Talking about the Beatles," Bernie Sanders 1:30-3:00pm Panel 11: Performing Arts "Planet Shakespeare: The Bard in Cold War America" Susan Fox, Washington, DC; "Shakespeare, Kerouac & Hedrick," Donald K. Hedrick, Kansas State Univ; "West African Dance and Race/Culture and Gender Identity in Los Angeles African American Communities," Phylise Smith, UCLA Panel 12: Reinterpreting the Sixties V "Peace Through Law: John Seiberling's Vision of World Order," Miriam Jackson, Kent, OH; "Reverend Malcolm Boyd and Bishop Paul Moore, Jr.," Michael B. Friedland, Boston College; Eros on the New Frontier: The Limits of Liberal Tolerance," Louis J. Kern, Hofstra Univ 3:15-4:45pm Panel 13: The Viet Nam War "The National Liberation Front in South Viet Nam," Ton That Manh Tuong; "The Tet Offensive and Middletown: A Study in Contradiction," Anthony O. Edmonds;"The Impact of the American Antiwar Movement on the South Vietnamese Urban Youth Struggle Movement," Nguyen Huu Thai Panel 14: Viet Nam War Film/Drama II "Decentering Genre: Vietnam War Films and Portrayal of Reality," Catherine E. Richardson, Chattanooga, TN; "The Death of the Sixties: Easy Rider & and Deliverance," Margie Burns, Cheverly, MD;"Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino," Dave DeRose, Yale Univ 5:00-6:30pm Panel 15: Music "Folkore of the Viet Nam War," Lydia Fish, SUNY-Buffalo; "In Country Songs," Chuck Rosenberg; "Pilot Songs of the Viet Nam War," Chip Dockery 7:30pm Concert & Reception O.V. Hirsch Chip Dockery Chuck Rosenberg ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 17:29:19 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Re: Students and Professors Re Antony Atkins query about imbalance of power in relationships.... I believe he has a point concerning profs and students on the same campus but not in a teaching/student relationship. On the other hand, the age, position, income, etc. thing is still a real curve ball. And anyway (sorry, it's Friday afternoon and I'm tired) would a mature (let's say age early 30's on up) instructor want to hang out with an undergraduate? I guess this is only one of the many permutations that exist in these relationships. Still the experience gap that is often there is a pretty wide one, even if age and income isn't a factor. Maybe the real clear prohibitions should be focused on students in a given prof's class. Otherwise everyone should be fair game?????? (not sure if I really believe this last conjecture of mine....time to go home!!) Judith F Clark ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 17:10:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Lloyd Subject: Re: Gender v. Women's Studies In message Fri, 22 Apr 1994 10:57:47 -0700, "Lisa M. Blockus" writes: > I was recently speaking with a friend about the pro's and cons of calling > an academic department "Gender Studies" versus "Women's Studies". At my > university, after a certain amount of pressure, we changed our department > name to the more neutral sounding "Gender Studies". It is agrued that by > having it termed Gender Studies, we are appealing to a broader range of > students-- in particular-- less men are skeptical and threatened and thus > more likely to enroll in a few classes. > > I would really like to know other people's thoughts on this matter. Do > you all notice an increase in the number of men participating in Gender > Studies classes compared to Women's Studies? Or is this just an attempt to > deny women of an identity and > importance on college campuses. What are the attitudes on your campus? > Respond personally or on line. > > -Lisa Blockus > lblockus@teetot.acusd.edu What was going to be the Women's Studies minor ended up being Women's and Gender Studies at my institution. The two main arguments for including "gender studies" in the title were that this would legitimize courses and research on MALE AND female issues and that such a title might be perceived as more welcoming to some students. (We checked out the titles of programs that were members of the National Women's Studies Association and found, as might be expected, that most did use only "women's studies" and that a few used "gender studies.") We didn't want "women" to become invisible as usual, so we kept that word in our title, as well. Marky Lloyd most liput Margaret A. Lloyd Department of Psychology Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA 30460-8041 (912) 681-5423 FAX: 912-681-0751 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 11:39:57 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University Subject: Students,Profs,Sex,Offense,Harm >What do people think about two different but related cases?: (1) >verbal, in-class discussions of sexual subject matters; and (2) use of >sexually explicit pictorial material in teaching. One distinction sometimes made in social/political philosophy is between the following liberty-limiting principles: a) Harm To Others Principle, which says... Individual's liberty may be limited to prevent harm to others. b) Harm To Self Principle, (Paternalism) which says... Individual's liberty may be limited to prevent individual from harming his- or her- own self. c) Offense Principle, which says... Individual's liberty may be limited to prevent offense to others. I haven't argued that *students* should be prevented from engaging in sexual relations with professors, or penalized if they do (#b above - Paternalism). The issue of restricting *professors'* liberty to engage in sexual relations w students is #a above - Prevention of Harm to Others -- which is different. It is like requiring people to stop at a red light, EVERY TIME, even though there might inded be individual instances in which not stopping at the red light would not in fact cause harm. Overall, the amount of liberty lost (liberty to travel forward unimpeded by red lights) is trivial compared to the amount of harm prevented by so limiting everyone's liberty in that way. This is analogous, I would argue, w restricting *professors'* liberty to engage in sexual relationships w students. I do not think that students ought to be prevented from doing what others believe might cause harm to themselves, just because others believe they might suffer. They have the right to take risks TO THEMSELVES. Ergo, I would *not* favor restricting students' liberty to engage in sexual relationships with anybody whomsoever. However, I do favor making professors responsible for not engaging in sexual relationships with students, for the reasons above. Note the issue of whether *professors* ought not to have sex with students is DIFFERENT from the issue of whether *students* ought not to have sex with professors. It is exactly because the relationship is *NOT* symmetrical which makes the whole business a bad thing in the first place. The 2 additional issues you raise about in-class discussions of "sexual subject matters" and use of "sexually explicit pictorial material in teaching" seem to fall into yet a 3rd category, #c above (Offense Principle). I don't think these issues are very much related at all. If universities are charged with avoiding offending students' sensibilities IN THE COURSE OF INSTRUCTION, then we're in deep pedagogical trouble. It is entirely appropriate to charge universities and individual faculty members with not causing HARM to students (#a above), but that is different from not causing OFFENSE to students (#c above). This is one of the conflations that has seriously hampered efforts to get HARMful sexual harrassment and racial harrassment (etc.) off of campuses and out of classrooms: it is that those who don't wish to have their liberty to harrass restricted are trying to claim that harrassment is merely OFFENSIVE, not HARMFUL. Those who want campus environments (or classrooms) free of harrassment want to claim that harrassment is MORE than "offensive", it is actually HARMFUL. When talking about "(1) verbal, in-class discussions of sexual subject matters; and (2) use of sexually explicit pictorial material in teaching" it is important to keep this distinction clear. ----------- Ruth Ginzberg (rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu) ------------ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 13:58:10 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: Re: Gender v. Women's Studies In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 22 Apr 1994 10:57:47 -0700 from The question about whether gender studies is a more inclusive title for a women studies program is interestingly put. I took exams in feminist and gender lit. studies. I made the distinction between the two categories on the basis of how separate I feel those two areas are. There are, I think, distinct differences between women's studies and gender studies as well. Women is a term that, at least in most minds, still refers to both a biological reality and a socio-cul- tural construction which in anglo america translates into an oppressed group. Gender is a term, I feel, that refers strictly (more or less) to a socio-cultur al construction which may or may not be oppressed. The biological essentialism element our society attaches to women is not present in gender--I think. So if we replace womens studies with gender studies, aren't we actually changing the focus away from the group that is oppressed and saying that the political as- pect of sex dominance and oppression doesn't matter as much as just studying everyone? I am not saying this is a bad or good shift, just that it is a shift in focus and emphasis that may or may not be desirable. If I sound hesitant, it is because I have not worked this all out and found any firm ground. I can see pros and cons to both names--always thinking, from my own very essentialist view, that what matters most is the outcome for women. If calling the study gender rather than woman or women or womens' will make life a bit easier for the women of the world (however we may choose to define that group), then we should change the title. If it means men (constructed or not) retain their current stranglehold on knowledge, then we should keep it women's studies. The problem is trying to see the longterm effect. I know the men in my department were far less threatened by the term "gender" than they were by the word "feminist" in my exams, yet I never once actually talked anything but feminist literary theory at any point. Maybe a rose is still a rose is still a rose? Theresa 60840883@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 17:39:15 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Wilkie Subject: Re: Expanding Your Horizons: Thank you In-Reply-To: <199404221842.OAA27949@holmes.umd.edu>; from "Katherine Mitchell" at Apr 22, 94 12:41 (noon) I want to say that I found what you did a fascinating effort. You should give yourself a pat on the back for the generation of the original idea and for your contiuned committment to this effort. We just took a few minutes to send a message, you have clearly put a great deal of yourself into this project. So Thank you! Jackie Wilkie Associate Professor of History Women's Studies Coordinator Luther College Decorah IA wilkieja@luther.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 17:49:16 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Wilkie Subject: Re: Students,Profs,Sex,Offense,Harm In-Reply-To: <199404222137.RAA00216@holmes.umd.edu>; from "Ruth Ginzberg" at Apr 22, 94 11:39 am I agree with Ruth Ginzberg that the most important distinction to made in limiting sexual relations between faculty and students is the one of professional standards. It is the professor, the person in the position of authority and power because of his/her occupation, who must be held accountable to a rigorous standard of behavior. Almost all of the professional organizations to which academics belong have policy statements governing the actions of their members toward students both in and out of the classroom. This is not a matter of treating students as children or of preventing them from making choices about self-harm, it is a matter of living up to the standards of our profession which require that we as faculty do no harm to those who are under our sway so to speak. Jackie Wilkie wilkieja@luther.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 20:21:02 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Stearns Subject: Re: Sex between Students & Professors In-Reply-To: <199404221457.KAA26086@holmes.umd.edu> from "David F. Austin" at Apr 22, 94 10:56:45 am David Austin writes: > > What do people think about two different but related > cases?: (1) verbal, in-class discussions of sexual subject matters; > and (2) use of sexually explicit pictorial material in teaching. > If truly informed consent to a sexual relationship > between powerful professor and less powerful > student is infeasible, can a student be adequately > informed by a syllabus, reviewed in class, about the > likely effects of sexually explicit course material? Hmmm...David has raised two different points here. One is that teaching sexual material or subjects is, in some ways, comparable to a sexual relationship between teacher and student. The second is the issue of informed consent--how can students be adequately prepared for course material or relationships? I don't have any deep thoughts about the second, but I would like to address the first. I actually think that the parallel between sexual relationships and academic discussions of sexuality is something of a red herring, since it draws on the similarity of content but ignores the difference in *context*. This parallel treats the key problem in teacher-student sexual/affective relationships as the sexuality, rather than the inappropriate use of power. As I see it, sexual relationships between teacher and student (or between boss and employee, etc.) are problematic because they can involve an abuse of power, in that the teacher may (consciously or unconsciously) pressure the student to engage in behavior outside of the requirements of the class, simply by virtue of his/her position of power relative to the student. However, teachers can also pressure students to do menial work (like xeroxing, etc.) which is not part of the course requirement (think of some of the horror stories of graduate students doing a professor's work, for example). It may well be that the latter form of pressure is not as distressing to students as sexual pressures, but I believe that it is a more comparable example than teaching sexual material, insofar as it is legitimately part of the course requirement. If I teach a course on human sexuality, it is completely appropriate (and not an abuse of power), to discuss genital functions, orgasm, sexual behavior, etc. On the other hand, if I am teaching a course on geology, but I use sexually explicit examples in class, that may well be an abuse of power (creating a hostile atmosphere, perhaps), _because it is not a legitimate requirement of the course_. In other words, rather than assuming that sexually explicit material is inherently problematic or inappropriate, I would rather examine such teaching in its context; similarly, rather than assuming that non-sexual requirements are always appropriate, I would also examine those within the context of what is a reasonable requirement for students in the class. In my opinion, then, it is more centrally a matter of power, and sex is simply one aspect of how power can be abused. Deborah Stearns stearns@cattell.psych.upenn.edu P.S. For those who were around for the "teaching touchy topics" thread that I started, you might be interested in what I finally decided. I did teach a section on pornography (both last term and this term), but I did not introduce actual pornographic material in the class (largely because of the tales I heard of people being fired for doing so). Thanks to everyone who gave me advice! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 20:14:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: K R McLain Subject: Re: Gender v. Women's Studies I have noticed when I have entered bookstores in the Houston Area, then when there is a shelf titled "Gender Studies", it includes mostly gay/lesbian books, some books about the men's movement and some women's studies books. This leads me to believe that renaming a department from Women's Studies to Gender Studies will be followed by pressure to study gay/lesbian theory and men's studies. Is this what you want to do? If not, you should keep the name of "Women's Studies." Karen R. McLain TA102297@jetson.uh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 22:53:38 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kim L. Gunning" Subject: history of sexuality list? Is anyone aware of a list concerned with discussion/information about the history of sexuality? I am aware of, and subscribe to, H-WOMEN (the women's history list) but am looking for a list that specifically focuses on sexuality. (My dissertation-in-progress is a study of sex work and sex workers in the 1920s and 1930s U.S.) Kim Gunning Depts. of History and Women's Studies Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ kgunning@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 21:44:47 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anna Livia Julian Brawn Subject: Re: sex between faculty and students In-Reply-To: <199404221250.FAA01799@uclink.berkeley.edu> Has anyone read the account of Jane Gallop's alleged harrassment of two lesbian graduate students in the recent issue of Lingua Franca? Or has everyone already discussed this? I thought it brought up interesting issues about which acts have to be consented to in advance and which are "free goods". Relationships between women, even professors and grad students, seems to involve a lot more free goods areas than relationships between men and women. I suppose because women touching women can so often be interpreted as "motherly". What does anyone else think? Anna ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 21:52:41 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: William Coats Subject: Information regarding H.I.V/ A.I.D.S for WSST project. Hi. I'm new to the e-mail system, so I may as well introduce myself first. My name is William Brent Coats and I am a soon-to-be graduate of the University of Otago, in the beautifully green country called New Zealand. Presently I am studying English literature, the Mandarin language/ Chinese culture and Women's Studies 303, which specifically looks at sexuality and it's relationship to science. I have two fantastically loving parents,one wonderful sister, a niece and a nephew who (to use an old cliche) are the apples of my eye, and am in a relationship with a women who is more amazingly special than I could describe and who I care about and love more than my heart could possibly put into words. The main reason I am writing to you is to ask for some assistance with a research project for my Women's Studies paper. We are creating an annotated bibliography of articles, messages, postings, etc which relate to our topic on sexuality-and-science. The task I have set myself is to look specifically at how the H.I.V/ A.I.D.S viruses have effected women. Because we can only hand in ten pieces frrom the e-mail responses, I have had to narrow my study (much to my dismay) to attempting to answer certain questions and presumptions we've come across in class: 1) Do women have more difficulty being accepted for H.I.V/ A.I.D.S research and for it's benefits (drugs, financial help, long-term health care) than men do? 2) If so, is the reason: a) Biomedical, eg: is the menstruation cycle a "problem" for controlled, reliable research of anti-H.I.V/ A.I.D.S drugs? b) What ARE the actual biomedical reasons, if any? c)Patriarchial: Is there a male-dominated science world which threatens women from being decently treated for these viruses? 3) What problems do women with the viruses come up against, in terms of help they receive, ie: is there a bureaucratic coldness and impersonality from the medical and economic sectors; is help from awareness and concern groups useful or not; what are the general public's attitudes; etc. 4) What are the (known) world-wide statistics for H.I.V/ A.I.D.S-positive women, especially women in specific 'groups': women of colour, heterosexual, lesbian, bi-sexual, drug-users, prostitutes, and what are the problems they individually encounter in getting assistance (relate to question 3)? What I am essentially wanting to know then is: how are women who have these viruses effected and what do they encounter from the professional sectors and society in general??? Much of my information so far has come from my course reader and a VERY powerful text-book called Women, A.I.D.S and Activism, by the New York A.I.D.S book group and an activist group called ACT-UP. Question 3 is based on an autobiography written by a woman who found she was H.I.V-positive years after she quit the drug scene. This was a VERY powerful piece!!! Well, time to go (Actually, I want to visit my indescribably wonderful partner). Thanks for any help! See you soon. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 12:19:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karla Walters Subject: Sex between faculty and students Ruth Ginzberg has cleary and cogently argued the difficulties of attempting to restrict students' behavior and has made a strong case for regulating the behavior of professors instead. In theory this makes sense, but it could present difficulties in practice. Aside from a professional code of ethics modeled after those in other professions such as medicine and law, I don't see how one can regulated the personal behavior of professors without in some way infringing on the liberties of students. I spent my undergraduate years on a campus that practiced en loco parentis, which was a paternalistic sheme designed to control the sexual mores of the entire campus. As one might expect, everyone's sexual behavior turned out to be controlled simply by controlling the goings and comings of the female students. Men could do as they please, more or less, so long as they left female students/faculty alone. They had no curfews, no room checks, no chaperone forms. Women students had room checks twice each evening. Anytime one left campus at night one had to fill out a card naming the person one was going with (going alone was forbidden). "Dates" required double-dating or chaperones. No men were allowed in the living areas of the women's dormitory, nor were women allowed to visit living areas in the men's dormitory. The system of surveillance (room checks, filling out permission forms for dates, etc.) gave the college all kinds of neat records to monitor whether students' behavior was in line with the campus code. If a man WAS found in a woman's room, for example, or if a lesbian encounter WAS discovered during a roomcheck, the students involved were expelled. An agressive female student seduced a young married faculty member, who left his pregnant wife to continue his affair with the student. The faculty member was fired and the student was expelled. Unmarried students who either became detectably pregnant or got married during the school year were expelled. Unmarried faculty who wised to date students had to get permission from the college administration to do so, and had to request special exemption for special occasion dates without double dating or chaperones. I graduated 25 years ago, and lest people think these are entirely archaic instances, a friend of my daughters is attending just such a college and reports that recently a couple who ended up pregnant were presented to the entire student body as examples of how not to behave, were expelled from the college from one year and told they had to get married before they could reenroll. They have re-enrolled. The rationale for putting so much control on the female students behavior under the system of en loco parentis was simply, one has to control one of the members of the group, and the women were the easiest ones to control. Anyone who has sat at one faculty meeting knows how impossible it is to control the behavior of faculty. If one cannot expect them to teach to uniform course syllabi, how can one expect to control their sexual behavior? Karla Walters kwalters@bootes.unm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 14:40:03 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Manlowe Subject: Deviance/Disorder I'm trying to construct a class on the rhetoric of mental health in relation to women who break social norms and are punished (or diagnosed/pathologized) for doing so: sex-workers, women who kill their batterers, women who abuse their children, child-free/childless women, sexually active women, women who eat when and what they want, etc. Does anyone have articles or texts suggestions that take a feminist look at the rhetoric of diagnosing "deviant" women? Please respond privately and I'll post what I find for the list. Thanks, Jennifer JManlowe@AOL.COM ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 14:49:13 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Roberta C. Martin" Subject: Re: Students,Profs,Sex,Offense,Harm In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 22 Apr 1994 11:39:57 LCL from Thanks again to Ruth G. for making important distictions. I have one caveat, however. Of course we shouldn't avoid "offensive" material when it is central to whatever the pedegogical enterprise is; there are times, however, when it is necessary to determine whether the offense students take at sexually explicit material or language gets in the way of larger, more important points that a teacher is trying to make. I therefore argue only for keeping a sharp eye on the pedegogical appropriateness of ANY kind of material and language we employ in the classroom. Robin Martin. Roberta C Martin, assistant professor East Carolina University English GCB 2112 Greenville, NC 27858 (919) 757-6721 Bitnet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM1 Internet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 15:01:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa Kaminski Subject: student evaluations FYI Fellow Academics: Just to let you know that here in Wisconsin, university students have been able to successfully compell (i.e. legally) the university to turn over to them student evaluations of courses. The students have argued that these evaluations are public property and that students have the right to know how "good" professors really are. I suspect that their real reasons are quite different. Has anyone run across similar situations? Please respond privately. Theresa Kaminski tkaminsk@uwspmail.uwsp.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 15:14:07 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: FILM REVIEW ADDED: Bad Girls On Saturday, April 23, 1994 I reviewed "Bad Girls" on "The Women's Show" a feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM (88.5) in Tampa, Florida. To obtain a copy of the review send the following command to Listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV109 FILM To obtain a list of all the film reviews available, send a message to the same listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one review, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The opinions expressed in these reviews were mine when I wrote the review and represent one woman's opinion at a particular time.We have over 2200 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 2199 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 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 17:15:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Sitomer Subject: summing up In response to Linda Hirshman's latest post, I have to object to her summation of the ACLU's testimony on VAWA. To my mind, the most important argument in the testimony was that the legislation is toothless. If 75% of sexual offenders require public defenders to defend against criminal charges, there's not much for women to gain in pursuing civil suits against penniless offenders, and it's unlikely that women will be able to get legal counsel to defend them in such suits. How then does VAWA empower survivors of sexual assault? Also, in her summation Hirshman conflates arguments about the dangers of warrantless searches in housing projects (these are the slippery slope arguments) with defenses of the ACLU's position on VAWA. Finally, she ignores the feminists who have tried to defend and/or reconfigure rights in a way that will be empowering to women (e.g., Martha Minow, Patricia Williams, Kimberle Crenshaw, and Christine Littleton to name a few). All this said, I don't know how I feel about the ACLU's position on VAWA. I think Hirshman oversimplifies the arguments that she addresses (too vague, too pressing, too time-consuming) but not beyond recognition. I would like to see more discussion of the substance of the bill itself and how it might or might not be empowering to women. Joan Sitomer University of Michigan Joan.Sitomer@um.cc.umich.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 20:33:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: disavowal of CASE A few days ago, a WMST-L subscriber posted a message about an organization called CASE (Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity) that had appeared on another list, FEMJUR. That message named Professor Brian Baigrie of the University of Toronto as a member of the CASE Executive Committee. Prof. Baigrie has written to me, asking that I post his disavowal of CASE. I have appended that disavowal below. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc _________________________________________________________________ For the record, I entirely support Ruth Ginzberg's remarks about student/professor relations, esp. her remarks about the parallels between the student/professor relationship and the client/care-giver relationship in clinical contexts. It is uncontroversial, I take it, to insist that we respect the vulernable positions of students. I lent my support to CASE on the supposition that it was created to provide an intellectual forum for discussing the nature and extent of sexual harassment, consent, and equality in academic culture. I think it important that we not identify asymmetrical relationships with abuse per se, as do many who are now working on regulations to control the non-academic conduct of faculty at universities and colleges. I believed that CASE was dedicated to the proposition that harassment is the problem, and not asymmetrical power relationships. Looking at CASE's mandate, I am deeply unsettled by what appears to be an endorsement of faculty/student relationships. I do not support, and never did support, what I regard as a violation of a trust between faculty and students. There are exceptions, of course, as when an academic has a partner who is working in a different field, but by and large I believe that the professor/student relationship must not be violated. I have therefore withdrawn my support from CASE and urged its proponents to put an end to its activities since CASE can only cause anxiety and confusion in what is already an explosive academic culture. yrs, Brian Baigrie ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 21:22:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: G. NeSmith essay available Georgia NeSmith has made available to WMST-L readers an essay she wrote in response to the debate on her campus about whether to ban "consensual amorous relationships" between faculty and students. I have added the essay to the WMST-L files under the filename AMOROUS RELATION . To obtain a copy, send the message GET AMOROUS RELATION WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). If you also want to receive a list of all the WMST-L files, add a second line that says INDEX WMST-L . Be sure to send these messages to LISTSERV, not WMST-L. Many thanks to Georgia for making her essay available. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 22:21:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Clarke Subject: Re: Deviance/Disorder The Looney Bin Trip by Kate Millett ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 07:55:48 -0400 Reply-To: ao241@freenet.carleton.ca Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Scott Subject: Re: Deviance/Disorder Margaret Gibson's work is almost exclusively about mental illness in women. The Butterfly Ward is a good collection of short stories to look at. Margaret Atwood's novel, Surfacing, is another one to consider. Some of her short stories are worth looking at too, but I don't have the title handy. I hope you wanted fiction as well as non-fiction on the topic. Barbara -- My skin stretches over the earth. I think of atlases and remember history and the future in the same moment. - Touch the Dragon - Barbara Scott ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 09:00:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry Linkon Subject: Address for C. MacKinnon Does anyone have an e-mail or snail mail address for Catherine MacKinnon? I have a student who wants to contact her. Thanks--Sherry linkon@unix1.cc.ysu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 06:47:43 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Susan Jones Subject: Re: Address for C. MacKinnon In-Reply-To: <199404241257.IAA08435@holmes.umd.edu> I recently acquired this address from another list. If I remember correctly, it was also noted that she was on leave or out of town until 5/21. This may or may not be correct. Also, I am working on a sr. thesis in WS on MacKinnon. If your student would like to exhange ideas/etc. I would be happy to hear from her. catharine.a.mackinnon@um.cc.umich.edu Susan Jones eahu290@orion.oac.uci.edu On Sun, 24 Apr 1994, Sherry Linkon wrote: > Does anyone have an e-mail or snail mail address for Catherine MacKinnon? > I have a student who wants to contact her. > > Thanks--Sherry > linkon@unix1.cc.ysu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 14:57:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Catherine Francis Subject: Looking for a Lawyer I am posting this for a colleague. She is getting jerked around by the university, who originally hired her in a non-tenure track position and then kept her so long they have to give her tenure or let her go, as of may. After dragging their feet for (literally) months, the administration announced they would be willing to change her current position to tenure-track, and she would come up for review for tenure in three years. I don't know all the intricacies, but she feels she has a good case against the university, and certainly she needs to talk to a lawyer. The problem is that no one at the university will recommend one since they don't want her getting legal help. She is looking for someone who is familiar with all the jumps and hurdles of the university, and would prefer a woman (she thinks the fact that she is lesbian may have something to do with the way she has been treated.) If you know of anyone who you would recommend who is in the Baltimore/Washington area, could you send me e-mail at e7w8fra@toe.towson.edu, and I will pass it along to her? Many thanks, Catherine ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 16:46:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Catherine Francis Subject: Re: sex between faculty and students I spent one year studying, three years teaching in a graduate writing program which used grad students to teach basic creative writing, as well as keeping a few grads around to teach the slightly upper-level classes. It seemed to me that it was, to be quite frank, the nerdier of the TAs and junior profs who dated or hung out with students. This was officially not-sanctioned -- but the head of the department ignored any and all complaints by students or other faculty. At any rate, I think that points to some of the allure of the relationship for a professor -- that it's a way for them to find someone who regards them as cool and knowing and altogether wonderful. And I think if you take that a little farther, it points to why the relationship is problematic, even when it's not a quid pro quo (you give me sex and I'll give you a good grade) thing -- that both participants may be terribly deluded about what's going on -- it just doesn't fit into my definition of a healthy relationship, even though both sides might be swearing up and down that this is the love of their life and it's pure chance that one is in a position of authority over the other. Still, every time I conducted orientation, the grad students would get terribly insulted that I was accusing them of being so low as to take advantage of the students and then, once they had seen that some of the faculty did it, they started too. It was not confined to the males, although they did seem to be in the majority. Catherine ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 19:02:16 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: women,work textbks In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 21 Apr 1994 13:38:29 -0400 from you'll find a good selection of novels, essays, etc. by women in india in "writ ing by women in india, 600 BC to the present" 2 volumes edited by susie tharu and k. lalita, New York: feminist press, 1993. it's mostly modern work with terrific discussions of the context of the writing in each period. beatrice beabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 22:48:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Wan I was wondering if anyone on the list could help me out and give me some information on the English programs at UConn and SUNY-Binghamton. I'm trying to get a feel for the climates of the departments for a graduate s school decision. Thank you very much amy wan stu_ajwan@vax1.acs.jmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 21:30:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Burton Subject: request on Deviance/Disorder Work you might find useful is done by Dorothy Smith. Smith, Dorothy. 1990. *The Conceptual Practices of Power* Toronto. University of Toronto Press, especially "The Statistics on Women and Mental Illness: The Relations of Ruling they Conceal"; "No One Commits Suicide: Textual Analyses of Ideological Practices"; and "Ideological Methods of Reading and Writing Texts: A scrutiny of Quentin Bell's account of Virginia Woolf's suicide". Smith, Dorothy. 1992(?) "K is Mentally Ill" in *Texts, Facts and Femininity*. (I can give you the full citation if you need it). Good luck with your work. Wendy Burton (burton@fvc.bc.ca) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 18:26:51 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: William Coats Subject: Information on Wellersley Can anyone give me the e-mial address for the Wellersley Research Centre for Women and any information regarding this place. Also, can anyone give me the e-mail addresses for: soc.men, soc.women and soc.gender discussion groups. Thanks heaps!!! William Brent Coats Universty of Otago New Zealand william.coats@stonebow.otago.ac.nz ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 08:36:21 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: rule of thumb A few months ago someone on this list asked for primary sources for the "rule of thumb" referring to the size of the stick with which one could beat one's wife (in English common law). I recently queried femjur, the feminist jurisprudence net, on the same subject and got some responses that hadn't appeared on wmst-l. FYI, here they are. (and FYI femjur's address is femjur@suvm.syr.edu) Stephanie Riger Univ of Il at Chicago ======================================================================== 19 The 1917 Law review article, "Right of Husband to Chastise Wife," 3 Virginia Law Register 239 (1917), states the rule of thumb as the common law rule and cites as examples two NC cases: State v. Oliver, 70 N.C.60 & State v. Rhodes, 61 N.C. 453. ======================================================================== 34 There was a discussion of this fact/factoid on soc.feminism a couple of months ago. I remember one budding etymologist in the readership suggesting that this story was basically apocryphal. In particular, however, the "rule-of-thumb" meaning as allowing wife-abuse was a "reverse formation" which occurred in the 19th century to justify an *increased* tolerance/advocacy of wife-abuse at that time versus earlier times. But it was projected back into the 15-16th century, where the phrase didn't really have such a meaning. I think I was fairly convinced by the citations the poster made for this etymological story, but I can't remember what they were. You might be able to find this in the soc.fem archives (I *think* it's all archived). It was about three months ago if I remember right. ======================================================================== 30 The source is Blackstone's Commentaries: one ref I have is Vol 1, 8th ed 1775 p.445 (that's from a judgment of Lord Denning of the English Court of Appeal in Davis v Johnson [1979] AC 264. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 08:46:42 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Erin Duffey Organization: The University of Alabama Subject: french and quebecois feminist theory I am a graduate student at the university of Alabama currently doing thesis research on Nicole Brossard and quebecois feminist theory. I am particularly interested in seein a dialogue between the french theory of "writing the body" and that of the quebecois feminists. If anyone can help, I'd be obliged. eduffey@woodsquad.as.ua.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 10:01:47 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Feltey Subject: Graduate program in Gender and Social Movements I have an undergraduate student who is beginning the application process for graduate school (to begin in Fall 1995). She is interested in studying gender and social movements (is currently working on a project studying women in anti-feminist social movement organizations). If you have a program or know of a program that would help her pursue her interests (especially in sociology), please contact me privately at R1kmf@akronvm. Thanks, Kathy Feltey ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 12:13:47 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "David F. Austin" Subject: Re: Students,Profs,Sex,Offense,Harm Ruth Ginzberg (rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu) writes: >One distinction sometimes made in social/political philosophy is between >the following liberty-limiting principles: > a) Harm To Others Principle, which says... > Individual's liberty may be limited to prevent > harm to others. > b) Harm To Self Principle, (Paternalism) which says... > Individual's liberty may be limited to prevent > individual from harming his- or her- own self. > c) Offense Principle, which says... > Individual's liberty may be limited to prevent > offense to others. > >This is one of the conflations that has seriously hampered efforts to >get HARMful sexual harrassment and racial harrassment (etc.) off of >campuses and out of classrooms: it is that those who don't wish to >have their liberty to harrass restricted are trying to claim that >harrassment is merely OFFENSIVE, not HARMFUL. Those who want campus >environments (or classrooms) free of harrassment want to claim that >harrassment is MORE than "offensive", it is actually HARMFUL. When >talking about "(1) verbal, in-class discussions of sexual subject >matters; and (2) use of sexually explicit pictorial material in >teaching" it is important to keep this distinction clear. Distinctions between harm and offense are certainly important here. One might want also to distinguish between necessary and unnecessary harm, often one purpose in obtaining informed consent. The most controversial cases here would involve pornographic material (as characterized by Steinem, MacKinnon/Dworkin, and others). Some have argued that using such material would almost always be unnecessarily harmful. This view is reflected in the following quote: Begin Quote===== Teachers who wish to teach such materials should be prepared to explain what they are doing to avoid creating a hostile learning environment* and to provide all students the equal benefit of an education.... Pornography, under current conditions, _is_ largely its own context. Many believe that in settings that encourage critical distance, its showing does not damage women as much as it sensitizes viewers to the damage it does to women. My experience, as well as all the information available, make me think that it is naive to believe that anything other than words can do is as powerful as what pornography itself does. At the very least, pornography should never be imposed on a viewer who does not choose--then and there, without any pressure of any kind--to be exposed to it. Tom Emerson said a long time ago that imposing what he called "erotic material" on individuals against their will is a form of action that "has all the characteristics of a physical assault." Equality on campuses, in workplaces, everywhere, would be promoted if such assaults were actionable. (Catharine MacKinnon, _Only Words_, 108-9) End Quote===== [*There is a clearly intended parallel with the language of sexual harassment law on 'hostile work environment'. For case law on the contextual nature of hostile environment, see Robinson v. Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc. 760 F. Supp. 1486 (M.D. Fla. 1991).] Suppose that a woman takes a university course on current debates about regulation of pornography; students are told on the first day (and in the syllabus) that some pornographic material will be shown for illustrative purposes. The course is not required in the student's curriculum. She takes the course, views the material, and believes that the showings create a hostile learning environment for women in the course. This case is radically underdescribed - without further information, I doubt that it's possible to evaluate the student's belief. The question I'm interested in is how in general to think about such cases; what sorts of additional details are required, and how do they affect the evaluation. Thanks to all those who have responded to my original posting. I've found the response very helpful. David. David F. Austin Associate Professor of Philosophy and Assistant Head Department of Philosophy and Religion Winston Hall 101A Box 8103, NCSU Raleigh, NC 27695-8103 (919) 515-6102 FAX (919) 515-7856 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 11:24:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Virginia Sapiro Subject: Re: Students,Profs,Sex,Offense,Harm I remember feeling so mature as an 18 or 19 year old when a middle-aged faculty member paid personal attention to me. This was just added proof to my rather young mind about how adult I was that such a distinguished and intelligent and mature person could take such an interest in my mind -- and whatever else. I know more about middle-aged men now that I, too am of that age, and I am more convinced than ever that regardless of age it is imperative that professors exercise a personal and professional code of ethics that says if you can't wait until the course is over or find alternative mentoring, the "maturity" problems are as much on the side of the professor as the student. Virginia Sapiro University of Wisconsin - Madison sapiro@polisci.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 12:50:00 -0400 Reply-To: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: conference announc. I'm forwarding this information from another list because I think it will be of interest to list members here: Black Nations?/Queer Nations? Lesbian and Gay Sexualities in the African Diaspora: A Working Conference will provide an occasion for conversation and organizing across communities both inside and outside the African diaspora. The conference will bring together workers, intellectuals, political organizers, scholars, artists, students and everyone committed to the struggle of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people of African descent to claim and live our lives. Our goal is to prove an environment which will facilitate collective discussion and analysis across the many communities of the diaspora where we actively struggle toward our own empowerment. The conference planning committee thus requests that proposals include a brief statement of the strategic and practical relevance of the proposed topic to sexual politics within the African diaspora. The conference planning committee invites submissions of proposals for papers and presentations that discuss, interrogate and contest these and related issues: * The Politics of Black Sexualities * Health, AIDS, Death and Dying * Drug and Alcohol Use/Abuse * Black Feminism as a Catalyst for Political Change * Sexism? Ableism? Classism? Ethnic and National Chauvinism among Black Gay Men and Lesbians * Immigration, Migration, an the State Regulation of Sexualities * Heterosexism of Black Scholarship * Homoerotics and Africa * Lesbian and Gay Childhood in the African Diaspora * Queer Sexualities and the Politics of Parenting * Spiritual Belief and Practices * Black Queer Imagery * Art, Culture, Politics, and Sexuality * Queer Sexuality in/and Black Youth culture * Race, Sexuality, and Work ( Sex Pleasure and the Erotic) * Race, Sexuality, and Identity * Science and the Formation of Racial Sexual Identities * The Impact of Lesbian and Gay Movements on Cultural Nationalisms * Rethinking the Basic Categories of Lesbian and Gay Studies * Building Feminist, Anti-Racist, Anti-Heterosexist, Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Movements * Sexual Freedom in/and International Liberation Politics. Black Nations?/Queer Nations? is made possible by the gendered support and assistance of The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Please send submission and queries to BNQN, c/o CLAGS, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. Proposal Deadline: May 31, 1994 ***** Giavanna gjm9u@darwin.clas.virginia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 13:59:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Toni Subject: Re: french and quebecois feminist theory In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 25 Apr 1994 08:46:42 CST from I'm sure you've heard of Helene Cixous who has done extensive work on writing with the body, but I'd thought I'd mention it just the same...Good luck Toni Brotons-Goodney Miami University ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 14:00:10 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jackie Wilkie Subject: legal aid I tried to send this message privately but it got kicked back wilkieja@luther.edu To request from Towson > You should contact the headquarters of the American Association of University > Professors and ask to be put in contact with someone on the National Committee > A--academic freedom and tenure. American Association of University Professors > 1012 Fourteenth St. NW Suite 500 > Washington DC 20005 (202) 737-5900. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 14:01:21 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "i. shaw" Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network Subject: gerda lerner &june sochen Request for info.: where can I find Gerda Lerner and June Sochen? Does anyone have a telephone number or address (e-mail or snail)? Please reply directly to ishaw@vm1.nodak.edu Thanks. Ines ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 14:16:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: L Musgrave Subject: Symposium call for papers Fourth Purdue University Women's Studies Symposium CREATIVE TENSIONS: WOMEN ACROSS AGES This year's theme involves women, age, aging, and the ages. We are interpreting this to include both contemporary and historical experiences of women across age(s). We are interested in common differences by culture, class, race, geography, sexuality, ability, generation, religion... and others. March 29 - April 1, 1995 Stewart Center at Purdue University Call for presentations, papers, workshops, roundtables, and performances. Innovative methods of presentation are invited in order to broaden and diversify this year's symposium. ~~~~~~~Deadline for submission is October 1, 1994~~~~~~~ Please submit a brief description of your presentation to: Women's Studies Program, 1361 L.A.E.B., Room 2260, Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN 47907-1361 Phone: (317) 494-7685 -- *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I will step into the pool. --Sojourner Truth- l. ryan musgrave Women's Resource Office Purdue University musgrave@sage.cc.purdue.edu *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 19:43:01 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Gender v. Women's Studies In-Reply-To: <"leeman.yor.415:25.03.94.18.15.14"@york.ac.uk> Sorry for this late reply - my messages have just started coming through after a 3-day gap! This is about whether "Gender Studies" attracts more men than "Women's Studies". My Theories of Gender course consistently attracts fewer men than my Feminist Theorists one! There are probably a lot more things involved than the name. (I know other people were talking about degree programs.) :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : Judy Evans jae2@unix.york.ac.uk : : Politics, York YO1 5DD phone 0904 433552 : : England fax 0904 433563 : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: On Mon, 18 Apr 1994, Margaret Lloyd wrote: > In message Fri, 22 Apr 1994 10:57:47 -0700, > "Lisa M. Blockus" writes: > > > I was recently speaking with a friend about the pro's and cons of calling > > an academic department "Gender Studies" versus "Women's Studies". At my > > university, after a certain amount of pressure, we changed our department > > name to the more neutral sounding "Gender Studies". It is agrued that by > > having it termed Gender Studies, we are appealing to a broader range of > > students-- in particular-- less men are skeptical and threatened and thus > > more likely to enroll in a few classes. > > > > I would really like to know other people's thoughts on this matter. Do > > you all notice an increase in the number of men participating in Gender > > Studies classes compared to Women's Studies? Or is this just an attempt to > > deny women of an identity and > > importance on college campuses. What are the attitudes on your campus? > > Respond personally or on line. > > > > -Lisa Blockus > > lblockus@teetot.acusd.edu > > What was going to be the Women's Studies minor ended up being Women's and > Gender Studies at my institution. The two main arguments for including > "gender studies" in the title were that this would legitimize courses and > research on MALE AND female issues and that such a title might be perceived > as more welcoming to some students. (We checked out the titles of programs > that were members of the National Women's Studies Association and found, as > might be expected, that most did use only "women's studies" and that a few > used "gender studies.") We didn't want "women" to become invisible as > usual, so we kept that word in our title, as well. > > Marky Lloyd > most liput > Margaret A. Lloyd > Department of Psychology > Georgia Southern University > Statesboro, GA 30460-8041 > (912) 681-5423 > FAX: 912-681-0751 > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 15:54:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Gaber Subject: inforM update The following directories have been added to the inforM Online Women's Studies Database: Educational Resources/Women's Studies/Other Gophers in Women's Studies A new directory with links to several other Women's Studies related Gophers. Educational Resources/Women's Studies/Gender Issues/Sex Discrimination/j. e. b., petitioner v. alabama The recent Supreme Court opinion concerning gender discrimination in jury selection is now available on inforM. The following directory has been renamed: Educational Resources/Women's Studies/Resources is now named "Reference Room" (FTP name "ReferenceRoom") To access the inforM database, telnet or gopher to INFORM.UMD.EDU. (If you do not know how to telnet or gopher, contact a local computer wizard, or try typing "telnet inform.umd.edu" or "gopher inform.umd.edu" at the main prompt of your computer account). Hit return to set the default terminal type or type "?" for a list of choices. Use either your arrow keys or number keys to select -> 4. Educational Resources 17. Women's Studies The Gopher interface has a feature that allows users to send files to their e-mail accounts. After selecting a file, press "m". The system will then prompt you for your email address. The inforM system is also accessible by anonymous ftp. FTP to INFORM.UMD.EDU. Login as "anonymous", and use your mail address as a password. Choose the "inforM" directory by typing "cd inforM". The command "cd [directory name]" will change the directory. The commands "dir" or "ls" will display a list of files in that directory. Use the command "get [filename]" to download a file into your account. The directory pathname for the Women's Studies Database is "inforM/Educational_Resources/WomensStudies". Your local Gopher System may be set up to automatically link to the Women's Studies Database. Check the "Other Systems" or "Other Gophers" directory or ask your system administrator for help. Even if you do not have real Internet access, it is still possible to get files from inforM. If you are interested in this option, please email me and I will forward a file written by Mark Whitis that explains how to do this. Please remember that the system is case sensitive. Anything that appears in quotes must be typed exactly as it is here. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Paula Gaber inforM, Room 4343 Coordinator, Women's Studies Database Computer Science Center gaber@inform.umd.edu University of Maryland (301) 405-2939 College Park, Maryland 20742 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 16:04:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chrys Ingraham Subject: Citation assistance Hi! I recently completed an essay where I cite the work of Pamela Abbott in an article she wrote in 1992 called "Feminist Perspectives in Sociology: The Challenge to 'Mainstream' Orthodoxy". It was anthologized somewhere and I've lost the name of the book. Can anyone help me? Please respond privately to: Ingraham@albnyvms Thanks! Chrys Ingraham, Russell Sage College ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 15:41:36 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnne Myers Subject: new list of interest In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of WED 13 APR 1994 23:20:08 EDT Hi all: There is a new list PUBADM-L aimed at discussing teaching public administration and public policy so that there will be non-sexist, non-racist, non-classist public policy implementation. If you are interested please mail to: listserv@VM.MARIST.EDU subscribe PUBADM-L (your name) sincerely, JAM ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 16:26:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to stop mail for vacation Summer is rapidly approaching. Many WMST-L subscribers may wish to stop their list mail temporarily while on vacation. To stop regular WMST-L mail (not the digest), send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed on Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed on Internet): SET WMST-L NOMAIL [NOTE: NOMAIL is one word] When you want mail to start arriving again, send the following message to the same address: SET WMST-L MAIL If the Bitnet address for listserv doesn't work for you, try the Internet address and vice versa. If neither works, write to me PRIVATELY, not via WMST-L. If you want to stop the DIGEST, even temporarily, you have to send listserv the message AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE . To re-start it, send the message AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE (and ignore the request that you establish a password). If you want to leave the list permanently, not just for the summer, send listserv the message UNSUB WMST-L . If you get the digest, be sure to add a second line that says AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE . Note: BE SURE TO SEND THESE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L! Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 15:45:51 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "i.shaw" Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network Subject: paula giddings Request for info.: earlier today I sent a message asking if anyone knows the institution with which Gerda Lerner is affiliated. If you also know Paula Giddings'affiliation (or if you know one or the other), please reply directly to ishaw@vm1.nodak.edu Thank you in advance. Ines ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 17:08:10 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Re: Students,Profs,Sex,Offense,Harm Congratulations to Virginia Sapiro for her forthright comments about the self-deception (!) inherent in almost any professor/student relationship. (Thank you, Virginia. Like you, I also now know that there is no Santa Claus................) Judith judith f. clark@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 14:46:46 PST8PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet Levi Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA Subject: Community College Womens' Studies I would like to network with other women who teach Womens' Studies at two-year schools, particularly publicly supported ones. Many of the discussions on the list apply to me, but many are specific to four year institutions. I attended the North West Womens' Studies Assn. conference in Tacoma, WA last week-end and was disappointed when only five persons attended the Community College Caucus. Are there more of you out there? We have been teaching Intro to WS at Clark since 1972, and have interdisciplinary courses in other departments as well. Are there any of you out there that will be at NWSA in June for networking? ...................................................................... Harriet Levi Every society honors its Women's Studies live conformists Clark College and it's dead Vancouver, WA 98663 troublemakers levihk@ooi.clark.edu help reverse the trend! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 19:42:00 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Re: student evaluations At our university, all student evaluations (the officially administered computer ones eventuating in numerical scores) are available in our library for anyone to see if she or he wants. I'm at a private, Jesuit university, but I seem to remember that when I taught at UCLA, the student evaluations were also publicly available (it may have even been part of a Freedom of Information requirement). We also have departmental narrative evaluations, which are not available except to colleagues (e.g., chair, committees) evaluating us. So I'm not sure how unusual it is to "compel" the public dissemination of evaluations. At UC Berkeley when I was an undergrad., a student organization published a booklet evaluating professors (I think based on hearsay as well as any official evaluations). I guess one could argue that students have a right to know of other students' views of their professors before paying the big bucks to take a class. Marilyn Edelstein, English, Santa Clara U ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 21:27:25 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: curtis%library.ucsb.edu@VOODOO.BITNET Subject: Re: African American Women and Beauty/Fashion I can't recall the name of it, but there is a wonderfully funny and loving animated short film on African American women & hair...perhaps someone out will recall the name. Sylvia Y. Curtis curtis@library.ucsb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 00:00:44 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Little Miss Orbit Subject: Re: African American Women and Beauty/Fashion In-Reply-To: <199404260431.AAA22601@holmes.umd.edu> On Mon, 25 Apr 1994 curtis@library.ucsb.edu wrote: > I can't recall the name of it, but there is a wonderfully funny and loving > animated short film on African American women & hair...perhaps someone out > will recall the name. > > Sylvia Y. Curtis > curtis@library.ucsb.edu > Actually I *do* remember this animated short. It was called "Nappy-Headed Women". I don't recall who was responsible for it, however. Hope this helps. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 06:46:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: James Bolner Subject: Need Information on Emily's List Grace and Peace! This is my first posting to this list. I am teaching a course on Women in American Politics; one of my students is writing a paper on Emily's List. She has found a number of refernces but fewer than she (and I) would like. I would appreciate your sending me any references concerning Emily's List. Thank you in advance. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL James Bolner, Sr. poboln@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu or poboln@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 06:49:48 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel Subject: Re: African American Women and Beauty/Fashion In-Reply-To: <199404260431.AAA22599@holmes.umd.edu> Is it DIANA'S HAIR EGO? I am separated at the moment from my Women Make Movies catalog, but I think they distribute it. Joan Ariel jariel@uci.edu On Mon, 25 Apr 1994 curtis@library.ucsb.edu wrote: > I can't recall the name of it, but there is a wonderfully funny and loving > animated short film on African American women & hair...perhaps someone out > will recall the name. > > Sylvia Y. Curtis > curtis@library.ucsb.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 09:52:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Giavanna J. Munafo" Subject: -Ellen Foster_ I'm writing a dissertation chapter about Kaye Gibbons's first novel, _Ellen Foster_. There is very little critical work on this novel, some popular press stuff, and a few reviews. If anyone knows about work on the novel that you think is interesting, could you please let me know privately. Thanks a lot. Giavanna gjm9u@darwin.clas.virginia.edu PS: Also, if anyone knows Gibbons or knows if she would be approachable, that would be good to know too. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 09:04:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vibs Petersen Subject: Re: large lecture intro. to w.s. class Hello Lee Ann Before agreeing with the admin. about changing the format it might be useful to point out to them that one of the things that distinguishes ws classes from most other offerings is a carefully worked-out pedagogy tham em--sorry-- that empowers the students. In other words, ws courses are classes where students among other things learn to look at themselves as holders of knowledge. In our program at Drake University one of the criteria for being a ws course is a pedagogy that strives towards such ends. To my knowledge, lecture courses do not, and we are extremely hesitant in crosslisting lecture classes with ws. On team-teaching, I just did that in a class of 50, and although my faculty colleague and I got to know and like each other very much, the intimacy so characteristic of intro classes was missing, sorely. Students commented on the size of the class and expressed their disappointment with the need to skip either student comments in class or depth of examination. One of them had to go. The long and the--not so--short of the story is, if you can fight this develop- ment, do so with tooth and nail. vibs petersen director of Women's Studies drake u des moines, ia 50311 vp0992r@acad.drake.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 09:09:22 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ines shaw Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network Subject: request-Lerner&Giddings Thank you all who responded to my request for info. regarding Gerda LErner and Paula Giddings. I have the info. needed. I want to tell you how much I appreciate the willingness of members of this list to share a variety of information. I feel a note of explanation is needed, however, concerning my requests. An opportunity came up for me to join a group of people writing a grant requesting funds for scholars' visit. However, I had extremely limited time to get some information needed. I knew that I could keep all the back-to-back commitments I had while waiting for answers from the list. So, I REALLY appreciate your willingness, unquestion- ingly, to share the info. you had. Ines ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 10:34:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn E Wilson Subject: Re: African American Women and Beauty/Fashion In-Reply-To: <199404260431.AAA22599@holmes.umd.edu> from "curtis%library.ucsb.edu@VOODOO.BITNET" at Apr 25, 94 09:27:25 pm curtis%library.ucsb.edu@VOODOO.BITNET wrote: > > I can't recall the name of it, but there is a wonderfully funny and loving > animated short film on African American women & hair...perhaps someone out > will recall the name. > > Sylvia Y. Curtis > curtis@library.ucsb.edu > There is a film called "Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed Women," that is distributed by Women Make Movies. I might also recommend an article by Kobena Mercer, "Black Hair/Style Politics" that appeared in _New Formations_ I believe in 1987. While not specifically about women, it does interesting explore some interesting issues. Kate Wilson Kwilson@sas.upenn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 10:39:34 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shelley Haley Subject: Re: African American Women and beauty[D[D[D[D Sylvia Curtis refers to a short film in her message about African American women and beauty. It is called Hairpiece, it is about ten minutes long (animated) and is very funny. It is distributed by Women Make Films. I use it in my Intro to Women's Studies and students usually get the point. I'd be interested in hearing from others who have used this film, especially the reactions of your students. Since I am African American myself and my students are overwhelmingly white, they seem hesitant to laugh, until I laugh! Hope this helps. Shelley Haley shaley@itsmail1.hamilton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 10:56:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mollie Sandock Subject: Gender Sts. Intro Syllabi We are designing an introductory course for our Gender Studies program (a minor at this point, perhaps someday to grow into a major). I know how to access the archive of Women's Studies intro courses, and am about to do so, but we would also like to see how people have designed intro courses for Gender Studies programs. We would very much appreciate seeing copies of such syllabi, course descriptions, etc.: if you have a course like this, could you please send copies of your materials to me through the mail or through e-mail?? Thank you in advance, Mollie Sandock English Dept. Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN 46383 MSandock@Exodus.Valpo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 09:21:46 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Llyn DeDanaan Subject: Re: Community College Womens' Studies In-Reply-To: <199404252150.RAA20291@holmes.umd.edu> Harriet Hello. I wonder to what extent women in two year schools even knew the meeting was happening? As a past presenter and member, I did not. And I'm certain none of my Evergreen Tacoma students knew. A number of us were at the region X "Road to Beijing " Meeting and we could have used you all. We are not a "women's studies" dept, of course, at Evergreen. But if the net were cast broadly, I'm sure many four-year and two year women in the NW would find significant ways to build coalition. Thanks. LLyn On Mon, 25 Apr 1994, Harriet Levi wrote: > I would like to network with other women who teach Womens' Studies at > two-year schools, particularly publicly supported ones. Many of the > discussions on the list apply to me, but many are specific to four > year institutions. I attended the North West Womens' Studies Assn. > conference in Tacoma, WA last week-end and was disappointed when only > five persons attended the Community College Caucus. Are there more of > you out there? We have been teaching Intro to WS at Clark since 1972, > and have interdisciplinary courses in other departments as well. Are > there any of you out there that will be at NWSA in June for > networking? > > ...................................................................... > Harriet Levi Every society honors its > Women's Studies live conformists > Clark College and it's dead > Vancouver, WA 98663 troublemakers > levihk@ooi.clark.edu help reverse the trend! > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 12:04:09 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: green deborah Subject: Re: large lecture intro. to w.s. class I would like to second the notion of fighting to keep small sections rather than converting to a large lecture format. Because our program is quite new we only recently set policies on class size. I have thought long and hard about what I will do when the inevitable questions arise about why we are adding sections rather than increasing section size. The pedagogical argument is the critical one and although I am sure many large institutions use lecture classes and cope very well I think it is critical to preserve the role of student discussion and "ownership" of the WMST classes. Perhaps we could help develop a "position paper" on this topic that would help make the argument. Deborah Green Coordinator, WMST College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23187 dxgree@mail.wm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 09:25:57 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Llyn DeDanaan Subject: Re: African American Women and Beauty/Fashion In-Reply-To: <199404260431.AAA22601@holmes.umd.edu> Sylvia: here is a vague enough answer...The film is called something like Nappy.....Nappy is in the title and it has been shown widely including several times at the Atlanta Film Festival. It is distributed I believe by the Women's film and video distributers.....?Women Make Movies???I'm less sure of their name. Any good film librarian could find it with this much information. On Mon, 25 Apr 1994 curtis%library.ucsb.edu@VOODOO.BITNET wrote: > I can't recall the name of it, but there is a wonderfully funny and loving > animated short film on African American women & hair...perhaps someone out > will recall the name. > > Sylvia Y. Curtis > curtis@library.ucsb.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 13:27:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Hansen Subject: Taking Our Daughters to Work Day As many of you know, Thursday (April 28) is Take Our Daughters to Work Day. I plan to bring my 9-year-old daughter, Mary, to work, but I'm kind of under-employed as an administrative assistant in a university art department at the moment. Still, I would like to expose Mary to strong role models and exciting career possibilities for women. I got the idea from Jean Doan's post about her Internet project with young women that maybe I could call upon the resources of the Internet and all the strong women in the discussion groups to which I belong to e-mail messages to Mary this Thursday about the types of research in which you are engaged, the kinds of work you are doing, etc., etc. If I could trouble all you wonderful correspondents to send inspiring messages to Mary that day -- essentially conveying the idea that women can aspire to any career they so desire and offering a range of possibilities -- I would be so grateful. Please e-mail to my address, naturally. It would probably be a good idea to put the name Mary in the subject line. Thanks so much for your help in inspiring Mary on April 28, Take Our Daughters To Work Day. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+ "I have only come here seeking knowledge; things they would not teach me of in college" --Gordon Matthew Sumner a.k.a. "Cousin" Sting katwoman * kathy hansen * khansen@suvax1.stetson.edu stetson university art department * 904/822-7266 empowering words from DeLand, FL * voice/fax 904/734-1747 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 13:46:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Tracy D. Proctor" Subject: ELLEN FOSTER Sorry, I would send this privately, but I didn't know the e-mail address. So, Giavanna, I hope this finds you. I am currently writing a graduate seminar paper on Ellen Foster. Would be interested in talking to about your work. e-mail address: tdprocto@mailbox.syr.edu Tracy Proctor ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 13:27:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Community College Womens' Studies On the brochure for the women's studies conference in Iowa, I seem to recall a community college caucus. This might help in networking with other women in two-year institutions. Benay Blend blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 11:52:18 PST8PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet Levi Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA Subject: Re: Community College Womens' Studies Thanks for the reply, now it's my turn to ask, "what meeting?" I refer to the region X Beijing meeting, which I knew nothing about. I would LOVE to go to Beijing "95. I teach "Women Around the World" and I have a hugh interest in international issues, primarily as they effect women. Can you tell me more? ...................................................................... Harriet Levi Every society honors its Women's Studies live conformists Clark College and it's dead Vancouver, WA 98663 troublemakers levihk@ooi.clark.edu help reverse the trend! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 12:03:29 PST8PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet Levi Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA Subject: Re: Community College Womens' Studies sorry, I think I sent a private message to the list! ...................................................................... Harriet Levi Every society honors its Women's Studies live conformists Clark College and it's dead Vancouver, WA 98663 troublemakers levihk@ooi.clark.edu help reverse the trend! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 13:58:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cd_Micheller Mash Subject: BUSINESS ETHICS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE: I AM INTEGRATING WOMENS' PEDAGOGY AND FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP INTO A BUSINESS ETHICS CLASS FOR SOPHMORES AND HAVING SOME PROBLEMS FINDING APPROPRIATE TEXTS AND TEACHING MATERIALS. I PLAN TO USE READINGS FROM CANNON, MILLS, CARD, GILLIGAN, NODDING, ETC., BUT I'M WONDERING IF ANY FEMINIST TEXT WHICH ADDRESSES FMINIST ETHICS, IDENTITY, AND MORAL REASONING APPROPRIATE TO JR. COLLEGE STUDENTS EXISTS OR HAS BEEN USED SUCCESSFULLY. I AM ATTEMPTING TO INDUCE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE IN THE CLASS BY PRESENTING ALTERNTIVE ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS SUCH AS CARING IN ADDITION TO JUSTICE AND UTILITARIAN MODELS. I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN ANY INFORMATION OR COMMENTS FROM FACULTY WHO HAVE ALREADY SUCCESSFULLY TRIED SUCH AN INTEGRATION OR WHO MIGHT BE TEACHING FEMINIST ETHICS AT THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL. NEED SYLLABI ALSO! PLEASE REPLY PRIVATELY, AND I WOULD BE GLAD TO POST RESULTS. THANKS. ETHICS AT THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL. PWHICH ADDRESSES ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 15:17:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mollie Sandock Subject: New Wm St Intro Syllabi I have just taken a look at the "Intro to WS" syllabi in the archive, and at the file of discussion about suggested texts for such a course. All of this material looks very helpful indeed, but I would also like to see some current, 1993-94- materials (our small program is developing an "Intro to Gender Studies" course which will probably be taught for the first time in 1995). I'd be happy to see any *new* syllabi for Intro to *WS* as well as Intro to GS, and to hear any helpful advice for people designing an intro course. Thanks once more, Mollie Sandock English Department Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN 46383 MSandock@Exodus.Valpo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 16:40:33 -0400 Reply-To: "Andrea M. Atkin" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Andrea M. Atkin" Subject: Re: student evaluations In-Reply-To: <199404231901.PAA05390@holmes.umd.edu> On Sat, 23 Apr 1994, Theresa Kaminski wrote: > FYI Fellow Academics: Just to let you know that here in Wisconsin, > university students have been able to successfully compell (i.e. legally) > the university to turn over to them student evaluations of courses. The > students have argued that these evaluations are public property and that > students have the right to know how "good" professors really are. I suspect > that their real reasons are quite different. > > Has anyone run across similar situations? Please respond privately. > > Theresa Kaminski > tkaminsk@uwspmail.uwsp.edu > I am curious as to what T.K. thinks are the "real reasons"--this sounds ominous. One possible problem with making students' evals of profs public is that students say incorrect or hurtful things (or racist, or sexist, or homophobic things, etc.). Can this harm the prof professionally as well as personally? But besides this problem (one can easily imagine ways to ride herd on it, too) I don't see why students shouldn't know how profs are evaluated by students who have experienced firsthand the professor's teaching. And I think that information that has no very very good reason for being kept secret ought not to be kept secret. This kind of information is in fact useful to students. And its being made public may also be useful to the profs. I speak as someone who was a student for a long time, a teacher while a grad student, and an actual faculty member. I would be more concerned about having control over what the evaluation form looks like, the kind of information it solicits, rather than whether students get to see that info. Is my teaching ability reduced to numbers, or can the students explain why they think I am/am not a good teacher. Andrea Atkin Dept. English, Wake Forest U atkinam@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 17:09:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: New Wm St Intro Syllabi Mollie Sandock writes: > I have just taken a look at the "Intro to WS" syllabi in the archive, >and at the file of discussion about suggested texts for such a course. All of >this material looks very helpful indeed, but I would also like to see some >current, 1993-94- materials (our small program is developing an "Intro to >Gender Studies" course which will probably be taught for the first time in >1995). I'd be happy to see any *new* syllabi for Intro to *WS* as well as Intro >to GS, and to hear any helpful advice for people designing an intro course. I'd like to second Mollie's request for syllabi and urge anyone with syllabi to share to send them to me at my umbc e-mail address below. I'll add them to the WMST-L collection and make an announcement providing instructions for retrieval. Paula Gaber will also then pick them up for the Women's Studies archive on InforM. We're interested in ALL WS syllabi (including Intro to Gender Studies), from the Intro course through graduate level courses. We welcome multiple syllabi for any course; the more Intro syllabi or Women and Film or Gender and Science syllabi the better. Please note: the syllabi must be in ASCII format (also known as DOS text format) and must have no lines longer than 75 characters, and each line must end in a carriage return (line feeds don't count). If you have syllabi in Wordperfect or other wordprocessing format, it is easy to convert them to ASCII format. Consult your wordprocessing manual for instructions. If you don't feel able to convert your wordprocessing file into an ASCII file, you can mail WMST-L participant Paula Gaber a computer disk (which will not be returned) with the file in wordprocessing format. She has kindly offered to do the conversion. If you do this, BE SURE TO INCLUDE A NOTE SAYING WHAT WORDPROCESSING PROGRAM THE FILE USES! She would prefer your sending a 3 1/2" disk, but she can also accept 5 1/4" disks. Send the disks to: Paula Gaber Computer Science Center - Room 4343 University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD 20742-2411 Two more things: 1) PLEASE BE SURE THE SYLLABUS INCLUDES YOUR NAME, THE NAME OF THE INSTITUTION WHERE THE COURSE WAS TAUGHT, AND THE YEAR THE SYLLABUS WAS USED; and 2) if you can, it would be especially desirable if you'd append to the end of your syllabus any projects, assignments, etc. that you used in the course and that worked well. If you wish to obtain a list of all currently available syllabi, send a mail message to LISTSERV@UMDD or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU that says: INDEX SYLLABI . To obtain a specific syllabus, send a message to the same address saying GET [FILENAME] SYLLABI, where "[FILENAME]" is the name of the file you want. For example, GET FILM WOMEN1 SYLLABI . To obtain more than one file, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM WOMEN1 SYLLABI GET RESEARCH METHOD4 SYLLABI GET MUSIC PRFRMNCE SYLLABI GET URBAN SOC_MVTS SYLLABI If you have questions, please send them to me privately at the address below. Many thanks. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 17:29:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kay Nicole I Subject: african-american women and hair I know that some of Becky Birtha's poetry deals with this subject of African- American women and their relationnship to hair... hope this info is useful. Nikki Kay Bryn Mawr College 1996 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 15:47:42 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cd_Micheller Mash Subject: FEMINIST PEDAGOGY IN BUSINESS ETHICS Hello! This is a request for information and assistance. I am integrating women's pedagogy and feminist scholarship into a business ethics class for sophmore students at the Community College of Denver. (Business law and Principle of Management are next.) I am having some problems finding appropriate texts and teaching materials. I plan to use readings from Cannon, Card, Gilligan, Nodding and Mills, etc., but I'm looking for a complete reader or text which addresses feminist ethics, identity, pschology, and moral reasoning. I am attempting to stimulate discussion about moral development and ethical frameworks by presenting alternative ethical frameworks, such as caring, to the usual pedagogy of justice and utiltarian models. I would be interested in infor or comments from faculty who have successfuly tried such integration or may be teaching feminist ethics at the undergraduate level. Need syllabi also. Have already purused the wmst syllabi list. Please send privately. I would be glad to post results. Thanks. Michelle Rabouin, Business Administration Program Coordinator, Community College of Denver. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 09:08:45 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Jennifer Bowman, Arizona State University" Subject: Question for archiving I was a subscriber a while ago, and I remember a discussion on young women not accepting the term "feminist." I also know that this is the topic of Naomi Wolf's new book "Fire with Fire." Is there an archiving system that logs topical conversations? Please respond to me privately. Thank you! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 21:06:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kim Hall Subject: African-American women and hair/fashion Shelley Haley recently asked about other people's experiences teaching Ayoke Chenzira's _Hairpiece_. I have until this semester had wonderful success with it. I usually teach it in Intro to Women's STudies with mostly white students. This semester I taught it in a cross-listed WS course, "Black Women in the US" which is at least 2/3 black women. I was quite taken aback by the hostile reaction to the film from a group of women who objected to Chenzira's "politics." Some complained that she should have used more "understandable" voices, etc. It would take too long to replicate the entire discussion, but it took a good 15 minutes of Q &A before I got them to talk about irony and why she used animation, etc. We did at last get to the heart of the matter which was that some of the women who had chemically treated hair felt that they were being attacked for what seemed to them to be purely a matter of personal choice. This in turn upset a lot of the women who have "natural" hair (and who get a lot of grief about it). My position in this was that women who step outside of accepted norms of "femininity" by having short hair, untreated hair, etc., tend to get more hostile reactions than women who have straightened hair and that women who choose that look should think about the langauge we have available for denigrating "nappy hair" and the benefits (a la Naomi Wolf) they get from having long, processed hair before they insist that the hair thing is only a matter of personal choice (and supposedly not political). I'm sorry to go on so long, but this discussion (and the battle lines drawn in it) have carried on throughout the class --including today when we talked about advertising--and I have been worrying through it for a while now. To the woman who posted the original message-- DIana's Hair Ego is about the cosmetologist who started the South Carolina AIDs education network and is not really about beauty. Your student might be interested in reading Lisa Jones' _Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex and Hair_. Its a wonderful collection of Jones' _Village Voice_ columns and has some fascinating info about hair politics (including an appaling piece about the white owner of "African PRide" products who is suing a black independent retailer with the claim that he has exclusive rights to the trademark "Africa" kim f. hall georgetown university-dept. of English KHALL@GUVAX.georgetown.edu" ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 19:36:36 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Alisa Klinger Subject: Re: African American Women and Beauty/Fashion Is the animated short you're looking for Ayoka Chenzira's "Hairpiece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People"? Chenzira's work is distributed by the National Black Programming Consortium, 929 Harrison Ave., columbus, OH 43215; 614/299-5355. If they don't have it, check with Women Make Movies, Inc., 212/925-0606. Alisa Klinger klinger@alishaw.ucsb.edu Women's Studies Program University of California, Santa Barbara ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 23:06:26 -0700 Reply-To: FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Francine Twine Subject: Re: New Wm St Intro Syllabi Sorry. I meant to send a private message ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 23:49:49 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Arthur R. McGee" Subject: Re: African Pride In-Reply-To: <199404270400.AAA01122@holmes.umd.edu> > an appaling piece about the white owner of "African PRide" products > who is suing a black independent retailer with the claim that he has > exclusive rights to the trademark "Africa" This has been dealt with already. Threats of boycotts quickly put an end to the lawsuit, and now Shark Products, the makers of "African Pride" hair care products are doing the usual corporate "give back to the community" shuffle, and trying to pretend nothing ever happened. Personally, I will continue to advise all Black and African peoples to not use this company's products. I don't care if they said they are sorry, the damage has been done. Art ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 08:38:23 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Taetzsch Subject: help: contemp. sh. stories about sisters A friend of mine is doing a project involving contemporary short stories about sisters. I'd appreciate any suggestions of authors or stories or collections you might recommend to her. Please respond privately to me: taetzsch@gwuvm.gwu.edu Thanks in advance. Lynne Taetzsch George Washington University ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 09:37:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Alissa M. Dirubbo" Subject: (Fwd) GRADUATE PROGRAMS ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- >From: Self To: WMST-l@UMDD Subject: GRADUATE PROGRAMS Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 09:32:06 To whom it may concern: I need information on what schools in the country offer graduate programs in Women's Studies, with an emphasis on literature, art, music, and a subspecialty on America West, Women Heroes Thank You Alissa M. DiRubbo AMDIRUBB@LAW.SYR.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 10:26:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carolyn Kost Subject: Mary Jo Neitz: instit. affiliation? Does anyone know of a sociologist named Mary Jo Neitz who studies witches in the U.S.? I'd appreciate an address (email or snail mail) or institutional affiliation. Thank you Carolyn ckost@fair1.fairfield.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 11:24:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nikki Kay Subject: Re: help: contemp. sh. stories about sisters >A friend of mine is doing a project involving contemporary short stories >about sisters. I'd appreciate any suggestions of authors or stories >or collections you might recommend to her. > >Please respond privately to me: taetzsch@gwuvm.gwu.edu > >Thanks in advance. > >Lynne Taetzsch >George Washington University dear lynne, i can't think of any short stories about sisters, but i just finished reading a short novel about sisters called HULA by Lisa Shea. it was very short and a very "quick read." i didn't love it, but it may serve your friend's purposes. it is about the coming of age of two sisters in a lower economic bracket. they face many adversities and like to beat up on each other. i didn't read it too carefully, (i was on vacation!) hope this is of help. nikki kay bryn mawr college class of 1996 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 08:28:47 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Brasher Subject: Re: Mary Jo Neitz: instit. affiliation? In-Reply-To: <199404271440.HAA07272@chaph.usc.edu> from "Carolyn Kost" at Apr 27, 94 10:26:50 am > > Does anyone know of a sociologist named Mary Jo Neitz who studies witches in > the U.S.? I'd appreciate an address (email or snail mail) or institutional > affiliation. > Thank you > Carolyn > ckost@fair1.fairfield.edu > Mary Jo Neitz studies a lot more than witches! As far as I know, she is currently at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. Brenda E. Brasher University of Southern California brasher@chaph.usc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 11:43:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paulette Olson Subject: request for position in women's studies Would any Women's Studies program in the Northern California [north of Monterey] like someone to teach a "women and the economy" course next year [1994-5]. I have a friend that is burned out teaching economics and has been given a leave of absense for a year. She is really interested in teaching one class a quarter /semester in women's studies. She doesn't have access to e-mail otherwise she would have written this. Anyway, if you need more info about her or you're interested, let me know. Thanks. PAULETTE OLSON POLSON@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU Department of Economics POLSON@WSU.BITNET Wright State University FAX (513)873-3545 Dayton, OH 45435 OFFICE (513)873-2409 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 08:55:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Re: African Pride and feminist pride In-Reply-To: <199404270648.CAA01971@holmes.umd.edu> from "Arthur R. McGee" at Apr 26, 94 11:49:49 pm I was struck by the resemblance between this "ownership" attempt over the word "Africa" and the successful move by Antoinette Fouque and her followers in France a while back to copyright the MLF initials [Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes]. I've forgotten the details, but there are several books about it, both in English and in French. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 12:37:51 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Taetzsch Subject: Clarification on need for sister stories On my request for sister stories, let me clear up a few things I was recently asked. My friend is looking for LIVING women writers. Short stories are preferred, but a novel or novella is fine also. The sisters meant are blood (or adoptive) sisters in a family, not Catholic nuns or other possible interpretations of the word sisters. I was requested to collect the suggestions and post them, which I will. Thanks to those who have responded already. Lynne Taetzsch taetzsch@gwuvm.gwu.edu George Washington U. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 13:26:35 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kim L. Gunning" Subject: grad. program in Women's Studies I don't know if this is common knowledge yet, but Rutgers University has just started an M.A. program in Women's Studies. It is too late to apply for this coming fall (1994), but you can always call to request information. I am a graduate student in History at R.U., with an emphasis in Women's History, and I have taught undergraduate courses in the Women's Studies program, and can say that it is an exceptionally strong program, with over 70 faculty members from over 20 departments participating. Strong fields include History, English, Political Science (all three of which have Ph.D. programs with an emphasis on women and gender), Labor Studies, Sociology, several languages, as well as Africana Studies and Puerto Rican-Caribbean Studies. Rutgers is a very supportive environment for women, for gays and lesbians, and for people of color. well, enough advertisement. the phone number of the program is; (908)932-9331. Kim Gunning Graduate Program in History Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 13:45:07 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Roberta C. Martin" Subject: Re: African-American women and hair/fashion In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 26 Apr 1994 21:06:42 -0400 from <{<{hair as a personal or political issue. It might be worth mentioning that hair has always had a political dimension. The '60s of course and long hair as an expression of anti-war and counter culture sentiment. Also, in the 17th century, the puritans wore their hair short as an expression of rebellion against religious hegemony. More interestingly, during the early 17th century women, in a rather shortlived effort to dress and look different affected short, "male" hair styles and it was this look that partly stimulated James I virulent anti-women stat ements and (I think, even laws) against women dressing like men (and men like women). Robin Martin. Roberta C Martin, assistant professor East Carolina University English GCB 2112 Greenville, NC 27858 (919) 757-6721 Bitnet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM1 Internet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 13:37:50 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jane downing Subject: Re: Mary Jo Neitz: instit. affiliation? In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 27 Apr 1994 10:26:50 -0500 from Mary Jo Neitz is at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Her mailing address at the university is: Department of Sociology 103 Sociology Building Univeristy of Missouri, Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 I feel fortunate to be a student of Mary Jo's. Her presence in the department here is one that has made my experience in graduate school thus far very positive and supportive. Jane ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 15:20:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Gaber Subject: inforM update: tailhook report The following directories have been added to the inforM Online Women's Studies Database: Educational Resources/Women's Studies/Government and Politics/ Military/tailhook 91 (part 1, review of the navy investigations) Part 1 of the Navy report about the Tailhook Convention of 1991. This report is the result of a review into the earlier Navy investigations of Tailhook 91. (Note: there is also a copy of this file located in the Women's Studies/Gender Issues/Sexual Harassment directory) To access the inforM database, telnet or gopher to INFORM.UMD.EDU. (If you do not know how to telnet or gopher, contact a local computer wizard, or try typing "telnet inform.umd.edu" or "gopher inform.umd.edu" at the main prompt of your computer account). Hit return to set the default terminal type or type "?" for a list of choices. Use either your arrow keys or number keys to select -> 4. Educational Resources 17. Women's Studies The Gopher interface has a feature that allows users to send files to their e-mail accounts. After selecting a file, press "m". The system will then prompt you for your email address. The inforM system is also accessible by anonymous ftp. FTP to INFORM.UMD.EDU. Login as "anonymous", and use your mail address as a password. Choose the "inforM" directory by typing "cd inforM". The command "cd [directory name]" will change the directory. The commands "dir" or "ls" will display a list of files in that directory. Use the command "get [filename]" to download a file into your account. The directory pathname for the Women's Studies Database is "inforM/Educational_Resources/WomensStudies". Your local Gopher System may be set up to automatically link to the Women's Studies Database. Check the "Other Systems" or "Other Gophers" directory or ask your system administrator for help. Even if you do not have real Internet access, it is still possible to get files from inforM. If you are interested in this option, please email me and I will forward a file written by Mark Whitis that explains how to do this. Please remember that the system is case sensitive. Anything that appears in quotes must be typed exactly as it is here. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Paula Gaber inforM, Room 4343 Coordinator, Women's Studies Database Computer Science Center gaber@inform.umd.edu University of Maryland (301) 405-2939 College Park, Maryland 20742 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 14:30:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: David Friesenhahn Subject: NEED ASSISTANCE?! Howdy out there in cyberspace......... I need some help and was wondering if you, yes INDEED you, could help me? To begin with, I have a friend who needs to talk with a lawyer, but would prefer to deal with someone recommended by N.O.W. in the Austin, Texas area. Does anyone out of Austin have such a list of lawyers who are either N.O.W. friendly or who now might recommend. A list, or phone number of a contact agency, or anything would be preferable. Secondly, I have a legal question of my own. Let us assume that I wanted to bring a civil suit against the University - is that possible? Others tell me that since the University is part of the state that I would have to get the state's permission before making such charges - is this the case, are there any loopholes around it? For illustration, how was the great Civil Rights case of Sweat verses the University of Texas arranged if the state first has to approve such an action? Or, more recently here at Texas A&M University, how was one of our female students able to sue the Corps of Cadets for abuse certain of its members had given her? O.K., if it is for some reason not possible to sue the University as a whole, can an individual sue another individual who works for the University - or does one have to receive state permission for that as well? Any help would be most appreciated!!!!!! DAF0537@Tamzeus @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ David Friesenhahn @ @ @ @ Address: 3201 Bahia @ @ College Station, Texas 77845-5928 @ @ Phone: home - 693-3365 work - 845-5613 @ @ Place of Employment: KAMU-FM @ @ @ @ "When you're feeling down, just crow like a rooster" Z @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@&&@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 16:04:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Seale Osborne Subject: Re: african-american women and hair In-Reply-To: <199404262126.RAA28704@holmes.umd.edu> Sorry if I'm repeating, but there's a great article in the latest issue of SAGE. Nancy Osborne osborne@oswego.oswego.edu On Tue, 26 Apr 1994, Kay Nicole I wrote: > I know that some of Becky Birtha's poetry deals with this subject of African- > American women and their relationnship to hair... hope this info is useful. > > Nikki Kay > Bryn Mawr College 1996 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 15:06:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: K R McLain Subject: Re: Need Information on Emily's List The "keeper" of Emily's List is Sherry Murphree who can be found at the Houston Area Women's Center. I do not have her direct phone number available right now but wanted to respond while I have the time. Send back a message to me if you want her phone number. Karen R. McLain TA102297@jetson.uh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 17:09:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Iana Pattatucci Subject: Science & Women I am interested in speaking to women with aspirations for a career in the so called "hard sciences", currently in grad school or holding a faculty position in one of these fields. I am also interested in speaking to women who started out with aspirations for a career in the "hard sciences" but changed their minds somewhere along the way. Please respond privately to: Iana Pattatucci "Luciana%bchem.dnet@dxi.nih.gov" "iana@glib.org" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 19:20:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: David Friesenhahn Subject: RESENT NEED FOR HELP Howdy out there in cyberspace......... I need some help and was wondering if you, yes INDEED you, could help me? To begin with, I have a friend who needs to talk with a lawyer, but would prefer to deal with someone recommended by N.O.W. in the Austin, Texas area. Does anyone out of Austin have such a list of lawyers who are either N.O.W. friendly or who now might recommend. A list, or phone number of a contact agency, or anything would be preferable. Secondly, I have a legal question of my own. Let us assume that I wanted to bring a civil suit against the University - is that possible? Others tell me that since the University is part of the state that I would have to get the state's permission before making such charges - is this the case, are there any loopholes around it? For illustration, how was the great Civil Rights case of Sweat verses the University of Texas arranged if the state first has to approve such an action? Or, more recently here at Texas A&M University, how was one of our female students able to sue the Corps of Cadets for abuse certain of its members had given her? O.K., if it is for some reason not possible to sue the University as a whole, can an individual sue another individual who works for the University - or does one have to receive state permission for that as well? Any help would be most appreciated!!!!!! DAF0537@Tamzeus DAF0537@ZEUS.TAMU.EDU @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ David Friesenhahn @ @ @ @ Address: 3201 Bahia @ @ College Station, Texas 77845-5928 @ @ Phone: home - (409)693-3365 work - 845-5613 @ @ Place of Employment: KAMU-FM @ @ @ @ "When you're feeling down, just crow like a rooster" Z @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@&&@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 20:34:26 -0400 Reply-To: Jane Rothstein Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Rothstein Subject: student evaluations I am a graduate student in the History Dept at Case Western Reserve University. I'm not sure what undergraduates here do with student evaluations, if anything. At my undergraduate institution, however, there was a committee of the undergraduate student senate which actually compiled the statistical info from student evaluations (you know, how much work did the course require, etc.) and made it public. I believe that students have every right to this information. Perhaps Ms. Kaminski does not realize that undergraduates often feel like they have very little power within the university (sound familiar?), especially those who take an active role in student affairs. -- Jane H. Rothstein "Yet history is not a true palindrome, thinks Tony. jxr62@po.CWRU.edu We can't really run it backwards and end up at a clean start." -Margaret Atwood, "The Robber Bride" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 20:37:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: COMING OF_AGE and READINGS FOR_MEN In the category of better late than never, I have added two files to the WMST-L collection, COMING OF_AGE and READINGS FOR_MEN. COMING OF_AGE is a compilation of the messages sent to WMST-L in late October-early November 1993 offering suggestions for female coming-of-age narratives in fiction and, to some extent, in film. READINGS FOR_MEN is the very useful compilation that Paula Goldsmid sent to the list last November of the suggestions she had received for beginning readings about gender issues and/or feminism for men who are well intentioned but not yet knowledgeable about these subjects. To retrieve both of these files, send the following two-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET COMING OF_AGE WMST-L GET READINGS FOR_MEN WMST-L To see the entire list of WMST-L files, send the two-word message INDEX WMST-L to the above listserv address. Be sure to send these messages to LISTSERV, not WMST-L. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 20:53:33 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Kaufman Subject: therapist preference Gays', Lesbians', and Bisexuals' Attitudes Toward Counseling/Psychotherapy Dear Internetter: I am a lesbian and a faculty member in the department of Applied Behavioral Studies in Education at Oklahoma State University. Three of my colleagues and I (Judith Kaufman) are interested in learning how important various factors are to gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals selecting a counselor/psychotherapist. In order to accomplish this task we are asking gays, lesbians, and bisexuals from various backgrounds to provide us with the information contained in this brief questionnaire. This questionnaire should take you approximately 10 minutes to complete. This information may prove to be important to professional training and in designing and providing mental health services. Your willingness to respond seriously to this questionnaire is gratefully appreciated. All identifying e-mail addresses will be erased to insure confidentiality and anonymity. Please e-mail your completed questionnaire to kaufman@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu. Should you have any questions regarding this research, you may contact Dr. Judith S. Kaufman (405) 744-6036 or Beth McTernan, University Research Services, 001 Life Sciences East, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, Telephone (405) 744-4700. Thank you for your cooperation. Judith S. Kaufman, Ph.D. Al Carlozzi, Ed.D. Donald L. Boswell, Ph.D. Kathy Wheeler-Scruggs, MS 1. Sexual orientation (place an asterisk next to one of the following) a. gay male b. lesbian c. bisexual d. other (please specify)_____________ 2. How open are you about your sexual orientation? (place an asterisk next to one of the following) a. I work very hard to hide it. b. I don't want people to know. c. I selectively tell people I trust. d. I am not too worried about people knowing. e. I never hesitate to tell people. 3. How many gay/lesbian/bisexual political or support meetings do you attend per year? _______ 4. About how many gay/lesbian/bisexual oriented mailing lists are you on? _______ 5. In how many marches for gay/lesbian/bisexual rights have you participated in the past three years? _______ 6. If you had a need for mental health services, would you prefer that the counselor/psychotherapist be a (place an asterisk next to one of the following) a. gay male b. lesbian c. bisexual female d. bisexual male e. heterosexual female f. heterosexual male g. does not matter 8. Imagine that you have decided to seek therapy. We are interested in the factors that are important to you in selecting a counselor psychotherapist. Please consider each of the following factors carefully, and then indicate how important each factor would be in choosing a professional from whom to seek help. Please underline a number along the scale where 1 = not at all important (naai) 6 = moderately important (mi) 11 = extremely important (ei) naai mi ei Degree earned . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Years of experience . . .1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 License and/or certification . . . . . .1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Theoretical orientation . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Specialty area of practice . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Age . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Sex . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Race and/or ethnicity . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Religion . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Cost of services . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Services covered by naai mi ei insurance . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Location of office . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Privacy . . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Previous experience with the professional . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Type of agency or setting . . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Reference by trusted friend . . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Reference by family member/relative . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Reference by gay/lesbian /bisexual person . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Reference by member of naai mi ei the clergy . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Reference by former client . . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Reference by crisis line/referral service . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Advertisement in the yellow pages . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Sexual orientation . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 8. How important do you think the sexual orientation of a counselor/psychotherapist is for each of the following general problems? Please underline a number along the scale where 1 = not at all important (naai) 6 = moderately important (mi) 11 = extremely important (ei) naai mi ei primarily sexual problems . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 primarily couple/ relationship problems . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 primarily family problems 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 primarily problems related to self (e.g. depression, anxiety, low self- esteem, etc.) . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 primarily problems related to work . . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 9. Age:__________ 10. Gender: _____ 11. Current Relational Status (place an asterisk next to one of the following) a. partnered (same sex) b. partnered (opposite sex) c. not currently partnered d. never partnered e. separated f. widowed g. other (please specify)_________________ 12. Ethnic Identity (place an asterisk next to all groups that apply) a. Anglo/white b. Asian-American c. African-American d. Hispanic e. Native American Indian f. Other (please specify) 13. Religion (place an asterisk next to one of the following) a. Agnostic b. Atheist c. Buddhist d. Catholic e. Hindu f. Jewish g. Mormon h. Muslim i. Protestant j. Other (please specify)__________________ 14. Educational Level (place an asterisk next to one of the following) a. less than high school b. high school diploma or GED c. less than 2 yrs of college d. 2-year college degree e. 4-year college degree f. less than 2 years of graduate school g. graduate degree (please specify)________________ h. other (please specify)_______________ 15. Current Family Income (place an asterisk next to one of the following) a. $15,000 or less b. $15,001 - $30,000 c. $30,001 - $45,000 d. $45,001 - $60,000 e. $60,001 - $75,000 f. $75,001 or more 16. Number of individuals (including self) supported by your family income________ 17. Occupation______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 04:23:52 -0400 Reply-To: E.Binder@jk.uni-linz.ac.at Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elisabeth J. Binder" Subject: Info needed--Carol Pateman Info needed urgently: A friend o fmine who's not on e-mail would need the address, phone, fax and e-mail number of CAROL PATEMAN. Please respond to me privately. Thank you, Elisabeth -- Elisabeth J. Binder Interuniversitaere Koordinationsstelle fuer Frauenforschung Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz Altenbergerstr. 69 A-4040 Linz Austria Tel.: +43-732-2468 9203 Fax.: +43-732-2468 9212 Email: K420170@alijku11.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 02:08:31 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rose Mary Volbrecht Subject: Feminist Ethics Syllabi Request I'm working on developing a course in feminist ethics and would appreciate copies of syllabi from those who have gone before me. So far I've only been able to find one syllabus on the net, while it has been helpful, I'd still like more examples of how others have treated this material. Thanks in advance, RoseMary Volbrecht (VOLBRECHT@Gonzaga.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 02:12:01 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rose Mary Volbrecht Subject: Info on women and mentoring? A colleague of mine is researching the issue of women and mentoring. Does anyone have any information or ideas on this subject that might not be found by the usual library and literature searches? If so please forward it to me at the address below. Thanks in advance, RoseMary Volbrecht (VOLBRECHT@Gonzaga.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 06:59:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Levine Subject: Freedom of Access to Clinics Bill (FACE) Please distribute the following: The Freedom of Access to Clinics Bill (FACE) has survived almost in toto the conference committee reconcilling the House and Senate versions and now goes to the floors for final vote. FACE is the bill that guarantees a woman the right to go to the medical clinc of her chose without being blocked, harassed, and injured by the dictatorial religious right. Please contact your congressional representatives to express your support of a woman's right to choose. FACE does not prevent freedom of speech - it prevents violence and dictatorship. Thank you for passing the word - irenestuber@delphi.com president, Arkansas NOW ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 08:07:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "NAOMI B. MCCORMICK" Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: Sex Research Society Dear Colleagues: I would like to tell you about The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex: The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex (SSSS) is the pioneer international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about human sexuality. The Society brings together an interdisciplinary group of professionals who believe in the importance of both the production of quality research and the clinical, educational, and social applications of research related to all aspects of sexuality. This is done by organizing four professional meetings a year, three regional and one international. This is also done through publishing two scholarly research journals, _The Journal of Sex Research_ (refereed, quarterly) and _The Annual Review of Sex Research_. The Society's _Newsletter_ publishes announcements and items of interest to the field. The Society also is an accreditation agency for higher education programs in sexology. For More Information, please contact: Howard J. Ruppel, Jr., Ed.D., Ph.D., Executive Director The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex P.O. Box 208 Mount Vernon, IA 52314 U.S.A. Tel: 319-895-8407 FAX: 319-895-6203 Yours truly, Naomi McCormick, President-Elect The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex ****************************************************************** Naomi B. McCormick Dept. Psychology State University of New York College at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh, NY 12901 USA @@@@@@@@ @@ @@ Telephone (518) 564-3076; 564-3382 @@@ (A A) @@@ FAX (518) 564-7827 @@@ L @@@ % \ {} / % E-mail MCCORMNB@SNYPLAVA.BITNET ---- MCCORMNB@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU | | /******\ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 08:36:22 EDT 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: Feminist historiography of philosophy *** Resending note of 04/28/94 08:34 Received: from CFRVM.BITNET by CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Mailer R2.08 PTF008) with BSMTP id 8206; Thu, 28 Apr 94 08:34:57 EDT Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 08:32:48 EDT Reply-To: Society for Women in Philosophy Information and Discussion List Sender: Society for Women in Philosophy Information and Discussion List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X To: Multiple recipients of list SWIP-L Hi. I know there are lots of feminist philosophers now working on history of philosophy (viz. the "rereading the canon" series). My question is whether there are feminists writing about feminist historiography of philosophy, i.e., people theorizing about writing feminist history of philosophy. Some work by Joan Scott I've seen has been helpful in this regard, but does anyone know of others dealing with this subject? Thanks. Linda ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 08:33:58 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Articles on Feminism in New York Times There have two excellent article in the New York Times in the last two days. April 27, 1994: p. B-1 "In the Young, Signs That Feminism Lives" (re: spontaneous feminism among high school girls) April 28, 1994 p. C-4 "Helping Teachers and Schools to Nip Gender Bias in the Bud" ("In First Grade the ways of power and victimization" [This is a welcome change: I am reminded that only ten years ago, I and a sev- eral other NOW members were interviewed by the NYT at a national NOW confer- ence, and got into a heated debate with the reporter because it was the NYT policy at the time to label every woman "Miss" or "Mrs." It would not accept "Ms.". So when we couldn't convince her to use "Ms." we told her that she should label us all "Rev." (for "Reverend"). She was flustered, but so were we.] Rosa Maria Pegueros University of Rhode Island PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 09:27:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa Kaminski Subject: student evaluations Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about the use of student evaluations. I had been a student for a long time but I've only been teaching for 2 years now, and I had never heard of this practice. My understanding was that evaluations were used as part of review and retention procedures and that as personnel matters, these were confidential. I still have a whole lot of concerns about making evaluations public; things that I'm still trying to sort out for myself. I am an active scholar and a dedicated teacher as well, and I'm always trying to improve in both areas. I always welcome suggestions from my students and do consider them seriously. But I have problems accepting the anonymous comments on evaluation forms that often have nothing to do with course content or teaching style. I'm referring to comments such as "She has bad hair" or "Her clothing is really ugly." What good are those kinds of comments in a public record about someone's teaching ability? Obviously students who are really dedicated to learning will not write such comments nor will they consider them important when selecting courses. And there is the question of power, which is an important one. While passing out evaluations during my first teaching year, one student said out loud something to the effect that did I realize that the evaluations would determine whether or not I would be retained. Anyway, these are just a few things that I've been thinking about as the semester draws to a close. Theresa ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 08:43:51 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Felicia Bender Subject: Re: Mary Jo Neitz: instit. affiliation? In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 27 Apr 1994 10:26:50 -0500 from Mary Jo Neitz is a Professor at the university of Missouri-Columbia. I don't know her e-mail address, but I'm sure you could get her through the Soc. department. Felicia Bender c391738@MIZZOU1 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 21:09:29 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kirsch Vicki L Subject: feminist historiography of philosophy Having just finished reading Mary Daly's most recent book OUTERCOURSE with my Feminist Theory students, both this book and her PURE LUST come to mind. Of course she does a pure "Dalyian take" on the subject in her cackling uproarious style... Vicki Kirsch College of William and Mary ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 10:22:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Janet E. McAdams" Subject: Multicultural Hist. of Fem. Thought Wanted In-Reply-To: <9404281417.AA20275@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> I'm trying to find a reader/anthology for an intro History of Feminist Thought class which includes work by women of color and lesbian women. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 10:56:09 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Seale Osborne Subject: Re: Info on women and mentoring? In-Reply-To: <199404280911.FAA13339@holmes.umd.edu> The new issue of INITIATIVES: JOURNAL OF NAWE (National Association for Women in Education) has an article on mentoring. Best, Nancy Osborne osborne@oswego.oswego.edu On Thu, 28 Apr 1994, Rose Mary Volbrecht wrote: > A colleague of mine is researching the issue of women and mentoring. Does > anyone have any information or ideas on this subject that might not be > found by the usual library and literature searches? If so please forward > it to me at the address below. > > Thanks in advance, > > RoseMary Volbrecht (VOLBRECHT@Gonzaga.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 11:28:19 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosie Subject: Re: Multicultural Hist. of Fem. Thought Wanted In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 28 Apr 1994 10:22:41 -0400 from I'm not sure that this would fit the bill, but you can look it over: Unequal Sisters, by Ellen Carol DuBois and Vicki Ruiz. It's a multicultural women's HISTORY book, but much of it is theoretically based, and quite excel- lent. Rosa Maria Pegueros University of Rhode Island PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 12:15:25 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Alabiso Subject: Re: Multicultural Hist. of Fem. Thought Wanted In-Reply-To: <199404281529.LAA16360@holmes.umd.edu> from "Rosie" at Apr 28, 94 11:28:19 am A great multicultural book which includes references about woman's history, though not in itself a history book, is _This Bridge Called My Back_ . It's edited by two women, one of whose first name is Cheri (last name M. something.) the other is Gloria Anzaldua. (sp.) sorry I don't have a complete reference here, the book is at home, i'm at work. hope this helps. jen ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 13:15:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gaea Honeycutt Subject: Gender-Based Violence, Testing, Role Models GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The WEEA Publishing Center is compiling a database of gender-based violence resources, service organizations and contact persons. Focuses include but are not limited to domestic violence, sexual harassment of girls and women, and females with disabilities. Please send responses privately. EQUITY IN STANDARDIZED TESTING I'm looking for resources and experts on gender and cultural bias in standardized tests. Please send responses privately. ROLE MODELS WITH DISABILITIES The Arc National Headquarters, an FY 1993-94 WEEA grant recipient, is looking for examples of female role models with disabilities for their project "Whose Future Is It Anyway?: Empowering Females with Cognitive Disabilities to Control the Educational Decision-Making Process." Please respond to me privately. "In each generation action frees our dreams..." -Katherine Hanson Gaea Honeycutt Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Publishing Center Education Development Center, Inc. 55 Chapel Street Newton, MA 02158-1060 800/225-3088; in MA, 617/969-7100 WEEAPUB@EDC.ORG ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 13:36:10 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Roberta C. Martin" Subject: Re: student evaluations In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 28 Apr 1994 09:27:15 -0400 from It is my understanding that at most places numerical data is made available to students, but not the written comments. Problems still remain, of course, but not the difficulty of irrelevant comments. The reasonable need for students to know the opinions of their peers, I think outweighs the difficulties in most ca ses. Robin Martin. (Re: student evalulations) Roberta C Martin, assistant professor East Carolina University English GCB 2112 Greenville, NC 27858 (919) 757-6721 Bitnet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM1 Internet: ENMARTIN@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 13:45:41 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marie A. Kopin" Subject: Higher Ed Administrators & Gender Hi! I am doing a study on Administrative Strategies to foster gender equity and respect on college campuses. It will be done qualitative research style. I would appreciate the following help: What are names of some universities where there has been a lot done with equity and respect issues with faculty and staff? Who are some administrators (both male and female) who have done outstanding work in successfully promoting gender equity and respect, especially for staff and faculty? Please reply to: Marie Kopin mak5g@Virginia.edu Thanks much and God Bless.... ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 13:47:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: kd55 Subject: Re: student evaluations In-Reply-To: <199404281328.JAA14525@holmes.umd.edu> One more comment on making evaluations available to students: At some point in the mid-80s, the Student Government Association at Vanderbilt University began making evaluations "public". However, their method was to synthesize the many student-evaluation forms. The forms used a numbered scale to evaluate things such as availability of professor outside of class, relative difficulty of course compared with courses at a similar level, etc. (all the usual categories). After giving the average score, they included a few student comments, also taken from the evaluation forms. This approach avoided such "feedback" as "bad hair." The SGA put these write-ups into a pamphlet that was available to all students. The material was helpful in avoiding professors who were ill-prepared or unavailable outside of class. The evaluations let students know which professors and classes their peers considered interesting and challenging. This was particularly helpful for selecting courses that fulfilled requirements outside of one's major. Some students used the evaluations to avoid "hard" classes, but hey, it's their money and their education. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 13:16:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Multicultural Hist. of Fem. Thought Wanted New from St. Martin's press is _The Woman That I Am: Writings By Women of Color_. It may be more literary than Jennifer wanted, but I find it a terrific addition to comparative lit, because it has drama, prose, poetry and context by various women writers. Benay Blend blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 14:19:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sue Spivey Subject: consciousness raising Has anyone out there got information regarding teaching and consciousness raising? I'm looking for sociological research in particular. Thank you. Sue E. Spivey James Madison University Fac_SSPIVEY@vax1.acs.jmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 14:19:48 -0400 Reply-To: Mollie Whalen Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mollie Whalen Subject: Re: Call for Papers In-Reply-To: This call has been extended to May 10: > CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, WORKSHOP PROPOSALS > > A joint conference sponsored by > > Mid-Atlantic National Women's Studies Association AND > Pennsylvania State System of Higher Educaion Women's Consortium > > DATE: Friday, October 21 through Saturday, October 22, 1994 > > LOCATION: East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA > ESU is located in the Delaware Water Gap, near the PA-NJ > border, right off Exit 51 of Route 80 > > THEME: Bridging the Gap Among Women's Communities > The conference theme is intended to highlight both the conference > location as well as the diversity among communities of women. In this > conference we bring together women's studies academics, women activists > for social change, and community women's groups. Together we can make a > difference in the world. > > DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: May 10, 1994 > Proposals should be limited to 2 typed pages. Please identify > your affiliation and indicate whether you are submitting your proposal on > behalf of Mid-Atlantic NWSA (if you are a member of Mid-Atlantic or are associated with a college/university other than one in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education) or the Pennsylvania Women's Consortium (if you are a faculty member, staff person or student of one of the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania System). If you are affiliated with a community-based organization or if you are an unaffiliated person submitting a proposal independently, indicate that you are submitting for the WISH conference. > Include a vita or brief bio of the presenter(s). > SUBMIT TO: Women's Conference Organizing Committee > Women's Center > East Stroudsburg University > East Stroudsburg, PA 18301 > > CONTACT PERSON: Dr. Mollie Whalen > Coordinator of Women's Studies > Phone: 717-424-3472 > Internet: womst@esu.edu > > NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: July 1, 1994 > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 12:54:23 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cd_Micheller Mash Subject: Re: Community College Womens' Studies Dear Harriet: I am part of an interdisplinary team at the Community College of Denver working on a Ford Grant to integrate women's scholarship and pedagogy into core curriculum classes. I would love to talk with you more about our work and the exciting reverberations its having on the college. Just wanted to let you know we're out here - and to encourage dialog. Michelle Rabouin 303/556-2487; P. O. Box 173363, Campus Box 900; Denver, CO 80217.CD _MICHELLER@MASH.COLORADO.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 14:56:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: barbie Subject: Re: student evaluations At the undergraduate college I attended (Penn), each year students would publish and sell a book that was made up of student evaluations from the previous year. Both qualitative and quantitative scores were in this book. In one section, the number ratings were given, and in another section, comments from students were summarized. The fact that it was popular enough to be sold in the university bookstore is indicative of the interest students have in knowing this information. Students made decisons on what courses to take based on this book. Other than heresay from upper classpeople, most students would have no idea how to find out if a teacher was good or not if this book were not available. I was somewhat surprised, when I first got here, that the university I now attend (Syracuse) does not do anything public with student evaluations. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Barbara W. Mc Grath BMCGRATH@SUED.SYR.EDU Cultural Foundations of Education (315) 443-4269 Syracuse University %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 15:12:38 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Feltey Subject: Take your daughter to work day Does anyone know who organized the "take your daughter(s) to work" day? Does anyone have a contact organization or person? I was stopped by the mom of one of my son's classmates and she shared with me that her husband had planned on taking their daughter to work and it had been advertised in the hospital he worked -- until they went on strike. After the strike was settled and they went back to work this week they were told the day was off. Her feelings were that the issue of union action and striking were as important as any other feature of the workplace, and an important introduction for the daughters who might have come to work today. Management gave no reason, just announced it was off. She would like to pursue this with the organizers/originators of the day. Please respond privately to: Kathy Feltey, R1KMF@AKRONVM. Thanks ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 15:06:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Kaminski Subject: Re: Graduate Programs in WS/International relations In-Reply-To: <199404281814.OAA18133@holmes.umd.edu> A junior French major asked me about graduate programs in women's studies that include a strong international focus. she is interested in both literature and politics. I'd appreciate any information about directions to suggest to her. Please reply privately. Phyllis Kaminski Saint Mary's College Notre Dame IN 46556-5001 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 13:17:18 -0700 Reply-To: Janice Williamson Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janice Williamson Subject: teaching evaluations I've read the very useful discussion of gender and student evaluations of teachers compiled in the TEACHING EVAL archive in Feb 1993. However, some issues not covered in this discussion have surfaced in this workplace and we welcome discussion from the WMST-L. In addition, we would appreciate receiving copies of student evaluation forms which have been developed in Women's Studies programmes. Please send them by snail mail to the address below or fax/e-mail them to me. A controversy has arisen about part of a new questionnaire proposed by the Arts Faculty. At the risk of taking up too much space, I'll reproduce the section to give you a sense of the context. The section of the questionnaire begins with a brief commentary which reads: "The following three statements are to be answered on the basis of how the instructor presented the material in this course. Do not answer them on the basis of the course content itself or the instructor's choice of topics." The statements read: -The instructor treated you and other students with equal respect regardless of sex, culture, or other special characteristics. -The instructor used language, examples or stories that were demeaning either to women or to men. -This instructor used language, examples, or stories that were demeaning to members of certain racial or cultural groups. The statements are to be answered from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree." The responses to this section as well as the rest of the questionnaire are computer scanned, but there is room for written comments on the back of the sheet. We would appreciate hearing your responses as to the effectiveness of this section or difficulties you might foresee. Cheers, Janice Williamson, Visiting Scholar, Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, 1896 East Mall, Vancouver, B.C. CANADA V6T 1Z1 Fax: 604-822-9169 e-mail: janicew@unixg.ubc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 16:25:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Susan Thompson Subject: Re: Take your daughter to work day "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" was originated by the Ms. Foundation. Peggy Margaret Susan Thompson Dept. of History, 145 Eggers Hall Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1090 315-443-5882, 443-2210 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 16:56:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Reagan Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville Subject: text requests I'm posting this publically because I have read several inquiries as of late and haven't had the time to check my bookshelves until now... I hope these titles are helpful to those looking: THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK: WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR. ed. Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldua. Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, NY, 1983. THE THIRD WOMAN: MINORITY WOMEN WRITERS OF THE UNITED STATES. ed. Dexter Fisher. Houghton Mifflin Co., Bostan, 1980. (collection of fiction and poetry) THIRD WORLD WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF FEMINISM. ed. Chandra Mohanty, et al. Indiana UP, Bloomington, 1991. UNEQUAL SISTERS: A MULTICULTURAL READ IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY. ed. DuBois & Ruiz. Routledge, NY, 1990. If you'd like to know more about any of these books please write me privately. Thanks, Stephanie Reagan ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 17:24:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lc22 Subject: Re: student evaluations In-Reply-To: <199404281328.JAA14525@holmes.umd.edu> There are two things I wanted to add to the discussion of student evaluations. While in principle in favor of making them public, there is, to my mind, a problem with the fact that all students' comments are given equal weight. That is, students who weren't in class all semester, or who were unwilling to work, or who were otherwise not the best judges of the course, will seem as well placed to critique the course as any of those who were there, did the work, put the necessary effort into learning, etc. A solution would be to have students themselves find ways of collecting the evaluations to be made public--students will have a better sense of what they want to know about a course/teacher, and what they ask will not always correspond to what the administration wants to know. The second problem is differential evaluation on the basis of sex (amother other possible factors). I have a sense, based at present primarily on anecdotal evidence, that women teachers are often judged more harshly than men, in part because students expect us to be nurturing (read: less demanding). (I'm sure somewhere there must be hard evidence to that effect.) Linda Coleman Department of English University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 LC22@umail.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 16:54:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Take your daughter to work day In addition I have a phone number which I assume is for the Foundation: 1-800-353-2525. Benay Blend blend@nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 14:13:35 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University Subject: student evaluations: numerical scores >It is my understanding that at most places numerical data is made >available to students, but not the written comments. Problems still >remain, of course, but not the difficulty of irrelevant comments. The >reasonable need for students to know the opinions of their peers, I >think outweighs the difficulties in most cases. I have very great hesitations about this. This assumes that students' numerical evaluations are free from the prejudices which are easily experimentally (re)produced in any and every population ever tested (not only STUDENT evaluations, but also among employers evaluations of employees, teachers' evaluations of students, etc., etc., etc.). Worries (Worries? Very Near Certainties!) are: Do more conventionally physically attractive people get higher numerical averages than people (especially women) who are less conventionally physically attractive? Psych studies have REPEATEDLY shown this effect, over numerous populations, in numerous different settings. Do fat women get lower numerical averages than thin women or than fat men? Again, studies seem to indicate... Do teachers of either gender who are teaching a subject not traditionally associated with their gender role get lower evaluations than those who are teaching a subject which is traditionally associated with their gender role? (i.e., female math & physics profs, male art or early childhood development, or WmSt profs., etc.) Do instructors' (especially women's) wardrobe choices affect their numerical average scores? Do Minority group members receive lower numerical average scores due to students' unconscious inabilities to se them as intellectual authorities, due to residual racism? Etc., etc., etc. ----------- Ruth Ginzberg (rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu) ------------ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 18:48:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Aletheia Turner Subject: Re: Graduate Programs in WS/International relations In-Reply-To: <199404282001.QAA19345@holmes.umd.edu> On Thu, 28 Apr 1994, Phyllis Kaminski wrote: > A junior French major asked me about graduate programs in women's studies > that include a strong international focus. she is interested in both > literature and politics. I'd appreciate any information about directions > to suggest to her. Please reply privately. Phyllis Kaminski Saint > Mary's College Notre Dame IN 46556-5001 Phyllis, Please forward responses to this inquiry to me. Thanks, Ali Turner turner@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 16:52:10 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Jones Subject: Student economics class issue I have talked with a student who is an economics major today. She is researching a paper in a class with a anti-feminist professor. He claims that there basically is not *feminization of poverty*, or that it is a *choice* women make. She feels secure about her research but is understandably worried about his reaction to her paper. She has subed to the femecon list also, and would welcome any ideas, constructive criticism or other assistance. Her e-mail address is: kellyo@unr.scs.edu Thanks! Helen Jones ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 20:30:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "tonight, tonight, won't be just any night..." <0231722@NORTHWEST.MISSOURI.EDU> Subject: help! finding survey Dear Members-- Does anyone out there know of a survey by BANKS in 1988 with the RHODE ISLAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER? Sorry, this is all the info I have for a reference. If you know of anything that can help me out, please respond PRIVATELY. Thanks in advance-- Natalie NWMSU e-mail: 0231722@northwest.missouri.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 22:47:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carl M Kadie Subject: Re: Students,Profs,Sex,Offense,Harm Ruth Ginzberg (rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu) writes: >One distinction sometimes made in social/political philosophy is between >the following liberty-limiting principles: > a) Harm To Others Principle, which says... > Individual's liberty may be limited to prevent > harm to others. [...] Doesn't it depend on the nature of the harm? In some cases harm might be prevented by means other than limiting liberty. For example, fighting "bad" speech with good speech, often prevents most of the harm caused by the "bad" speech, avoids the harm of limiting speech liberty, and avoids the harm of giving the authorities more power to suppress speech. - Carl