========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 06:56:21 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: anne elizabeth macneil Subject: Re: State Women's Halls of Fame In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:51:14 EDT Dear Jane and Beth You will of course already know that New York State has a women's hall of fame in Seneca Falls. You can get more information (phone numbers, mailing address) by writing any state office in New York, including the bureau of tourism. Best, Anne MacNeil ma5c@midway.uchicago.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 08:44:46 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Subject: Career Paths I am wondering about what taking an administrative position in Women's Studies does for one's career. (Director of... Chair of... etc) Interested in hearing stuff like: Is it fulfilling? Do you find yourself just being a paper-pusher & spending a lot of time in meetings? Does it completely kill any chances to do your own research, or are there people in admin positions in WmSt who are still actively pursuing their own scholarly work (& if so, how is that working)? Is admin work in WmSt a dead-end, thankless job, or is it exciting & rewarding and a way to see some real things accomplished that you care about? If there are things about this that you don't want to say publicly, please feel free to e-mail me privately; otherwise I rather suspect there might be other subscribers who are interested in hearing about this aspect of one's career choices in Women's Studies as well. ----- RUTH GINZBERG ----- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 10:57:49 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: How to Make an American Quilt On Saturday, October 14, 1995 I reviewed "How to Make an American Quilt" on "The Women's Show"a weekly womanist/feminist radio magazine on WMNF-F (88.5) "Radio Free Tampa." My review is now available for retrieval from the FILM FILELIST. To obtain this review send the following command to Listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV154 FILM To obtain a list of all the film reviews available, send a message to the same listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one review, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The opinions expressed in these reviews were mine when I wrote the review and represent one woman's opinion at a particular time.We have over 3000 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 2999 other views. If you would like to share yours, please do NOT do so on the WMST-L itself, but send your messages to me personally at the addresses below. I have appreciated the feedback I've received. Thanks. Linda ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 11:00:20 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: Career Paths Ruth, I have been a director of a WS program for 3 years now (this is my fourth) and about ready to talk about my sense of what kind of effect it might have on a career. Another issue I'd add to your list is burnout. What is the effect of teaching every semester courses that keep you more or less in a state of rage. There are days when I think teaching Beowulf would be quite soothing. I am a person who loathes administrative work. I hate budgets, scheduling, organizing, and other such stuff. My office looks hopeless and I can't file. I have no secretarial help. However, at Kenyon the administrative duties of dept. and program chairs are not as onorous as they are elsewhere, so I can't complain too heavily. I still don't like doing them, and at times I think they suck up too much time, but my primary duty here is teaching. That probably takes up the majority of my time so I doubt I am more hampered in getting to my own research than my colleagues here. However I could sure use a sabbatical. I have not had the impression that taking on such a job has hampered my career in any way, though others might have different stories to tell. There are many aspects of being out of a department I enjoy, others I miss. I like not having to go to department meetings or teaching courses I'd rather not teach, but I miss the companionship of having people who are most interested inwhat you are interested in right at hand. Hope that helps get the ball rolling. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 07:51:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ellen berry Subject: Re: Career Paths In-Reply-To: <951014.085258.EDT.GINZBER@ukcc.uky.edu> Hello, All- Ruth's query about the level of fulfillment of women's studies directors came at an opportune moment as I've been trying to decide whether I want to continue as a director of our program, whether change has actually been accomplished and whether it's worth the personal cost, etc. Our program has an undergraduate major and a graduate concentration along with five joint appointment faculty and a full time secretary. This is my fourth year as director. We do a great deal of programming for the university community including frequent speakers, a bi-monthly Feminist Forum, amd special features like our month-long series of programs for women's history month. This year we're hosting a national conference on the topic Feminist Generations. We've felt that such programs are necessary to keep the program visible. I've also served on many major University committees, again, so that the women's studies perspective is represented and so that education for change can go on at these levels. We've also tried to make visible the research accomplishments of our faculty as I'm afraid that the notion of women's studies as a "fluff" discipline still prevails in many quarters here. This overall strategy has worked fairly well I think. We've gained majors in the past four years; our perspective is consulted frequently by major administrators; and we got a new joint appointment line last year in a climate where very few faculty lines were being given out. Our program is strong, I believe, and we are much less vulnerable than we were. Still these kinds of building and public relations efforts have come at a tremendous cost to me personally. I struggle to get my own research done and although I've been fairly successful it's a constant battle and means basically working very hard seven days a week. I also grow weary of the many meetings I have to attend and the constant active role I feel I have to play. So part of my effort has also been to "train" our joint appointments and other faculty to do some of this work. I don't like the idea of the program depending on one person in this way but the joint appointments are divided by duties to their home departments--it's not fair that they should work 200% but this is in fact what ends up happening as the home departments expectations do not decrease. And power still basically resides within the department structure--interdisciplinary programs of all kinds very often fall through the cracks because they are not integrated into the decision-making structure in the same way departments are. So I've been working to change this inequity as well. Burnout is a definite possibility. Hope this hasn't been too rambling. Ruth's questions hit close to home and it's hard to think them through in a calm and rational way. Ellen E. Berry Director, Women's Studies Bowling green State University Bowling Green, Ohio eberry@bgnet.bgsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 18:50:52 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: D HUGHES Subject: Re: Career Paths In-Reply-To: <951014.085258.EDT.GINZBER@ukcc.uky.edu> I think Ruth Ginzberg's questions about being the director of a Women's Studies program are very interesting in light of the number of job postings there have been for this position in the last month. Are the number of vacancies just coincidence? Is a cohort starting to move on? To where? And why? Donna Hughes dhughes@bradford.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 15:22:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: John Kellermeier Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: Request for Lesbian and Bisexual Women Date sent: 15-OCT-1995 15:14:45 I am preparing to do a workshop on sexism for gay and bisexual men in a few weeks. In preparation for that workshop, I would like to ask lesbian and bisexual women to respond to the following questions. I intend to use the responses in my workshop to show how sexism affects queer communities. 1. How has sexism affected you personally within queer communities? 2. What advice do you have for gay and bisexual men in confronting and combatting sexism? Thank you for your help. John Kellermeier DO NOT send replies to WMST-L. Send responses to: kellerjh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu or kellerjh@snyplava.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 22:40:25 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ms. Dainty" Subject: Info From Les/Bi Women A couple of days ago there appeared a request for statements from lesbian and bisexual women concerning sexism within the les/bi/gay community. Could anyone please provide me with the correct e-mail address for Mr. Kellermeier (I believe). I attempted to send him a reply, and my mail bounced. Please respond privately. Thanks in advance. Melissa Dean Cleveland-Marshall College of Law ************************************************************************** /\__/\ ALL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LIFE I LEARNED /\__/\ |* __* | FROM MY CAT |* __* | \____/ (and "CARMEN") \____/ Nichts zu wollen mit Drohn und Bitten, kein Schmeicheln hilft und keine Wut; grad der andre ist gern gelitten, obwohl er schweigt, bin ich ihm gut. **************************************** Ms. Dainty ************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 07:41:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elizabeth M. Bounds" Subject: help in "women in the classroom" training I have been asked to introduce graduate teaching assistants to issues of gender in the classroom. While I have insights and intuitions from a few years of teaching and a lot of years of involvement in feminism, I would like some advice. Has anyone done a session like this and has some suggestions for any exercises? Any recent articles and/or statistics that might be helpful? I'll ask for answers to be posted to the list as I imagine others would be interested. If I've missed an on-list exchange on this topic that's on file with the WMST archives, let me know! Elizabeth M. Bounds 540-231-7617 Religious Studies Program elizabeth.bounds@vt.edu Major Williams 204 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0135 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:14:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Titus Subject: proposals-call Call for proposals: For the NWSA Conference, June 12-16, 1996. Skidmore College, saratoga Spring, NY Proposals for a roundtable session of women faculty who are working on defining their relationship to their academic institution: their voice, their role, their views on membership, given the institution's history, character, etc. What does belonging mean/require/give...? The session will draw on Part One of Gail Griffin's *Calling: Essays on Teaching in the Mother Tongue* as a point of reference. Send a brief abstract and a little relevant personal information (perhaps the same thing) to Mary Titus. email: titus@stolaf.edu, or US mail: 907 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057. The conference proposal deadline is November 1, so please respond asap. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 13:17:12 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Delboni Organization: The American University Subject: Looking for Barbara Ehrenreich I would appreciate any information anyone might have to locate Barbara Ehrenreich, like phone, fax, and preferably e-mail address. Please send it directly to me, CDELBES@AMERICAN.EDU, not to the list. Thanks a lot in advance, as usual, Chris Delboni ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:36:01 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Garber Subject: Feminism and Multiculturalism There's a new collection of black feminist thought edited by Beverley Guy-Sheftall that looks like an excellent resource for teaching both historical and contemporary perspectives on feminism and racism. The publisher is New Press. Those of you who attended the '95 NWSA conference will remember Guy-Sheftall's wonderful keynote speech drawn from her research for the new anthology. Linda Garber linda_garber@csufresno.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:42:00 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cathy Bray Subject: most popular courses? In these times of cutbacks I imagine that most wmst program directors, like myself, are encouraged to offer courses that result in "high enrolments". Can list members tell me/us what courses (either disciplinary or interdisciplinary) are most popular and producing high enrolments? Which ones aren't so popular? Thanks Catherine Bray, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada cathyb@cs.athabascau.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:03:53 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Jones Subject: Re: Comments on abortion film In-Reply-To: The ordering info for "Leona's Sister Gerri" is: POV 220 W 19th St., 11th floor, New York, NY 10011 tel: 212.989.8121, FAX: 212.989.8230 The length is 56:40 A caveat: I don't know whether or not it has been shown on PBS; could be my preview copy had to do with showing it. Helen Jones ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 15:05:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Victor Kennedy Subject: SAMLA in Atlanta Can anyone provide information about the SAMLA convention in Altanta coming up in November? (Please reply to my email address) Thanks ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 16:17:50 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn Swanson Subject: Graduate programs in Gender Studies I am interested in a list of schools offering graduate work in gender studies. Please let me know where such a list might be available. If your school offers a graduate program, I would be interested in a brochure (snail mail to the WRC at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360) or an e-mail with contact person's name & number. We have an inter-disciplinary minor in WS which succeeds in getting students' interest aroused and want to "capitalize".. Send directly to me, or to the list. Thanks, Kathryn Swanson kswanson@robles.callutheran.edu Kathryn Swanson kswanson@robles.callutheran.edu WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER & MEN'S INFO DESK located in SECOND WIND in Regents 17 PHONE: 805-493-3345 FAX: 805-493-3332 California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks CA 91360-2787 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:01:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nanette Helene Loftis Subject: Re: SAMLA in Atlanta In-Reply-To: On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Victor Kennedy wrote: > Can anyone provide information about the SAMLA convention in Altanta coming > up in November? > > (Please reply to my email address) > > Thanks Could someone tell me what the SAMLA convention is about? I live in Atlanta and might be interested in attending some or part of it. Thanks. Nan Loftis gs01nhl@panther.gsu.edu "This city is full of people who are experts at avoiding reality." ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:09:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Graduate programs in Gender Studies Kathryn Swanson writes: > I am interested in a list of schools offering graduate work in gender > studies. Please let me know where such a list might be available. You might try the NWSA Guide to Graduate Work in Women's Studies. Here's the information that has appeared earlier on this list: ******************************************************* At the end of 1994, The National Women's Studies Association issued an updated version of their Guide to Graduate Work in Women's Studies. It describes the degrees offered by each program, what courses are available, who is on the faculty, etc. etc. There is a very useful index arranged according to field--so that, for example, if you're especially interested in psychology, you can find out which schools offer graduate work in women's studies with strength in psychology. The Guide sells for $9.00 (US) for individuals (payment must accompany order), $15.00 for institutions (prepayment or purchase order). NWSA's snail mail address is National Women's Studies Association University of Maryland 7100 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 301 College Park, Maryland 20740 USA Telephone: (301) 403-0524 or 403-0525. The NWSA office can also be reached by email at nwsa@umail.umd.edu . Credit card orders (Mastercard or Visa only) are also possible via phone or email. Be sure to include your credit card # and expiration date. ************************************************************ Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 23:43:19 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: most popular courses? In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:42:00 MDT from My undergrad course, Political Economy of Women, gets a good enrollment at Brooklyn College, a commuter school with very mixed demographics by race, ethnc ity, religion, age. It's an elective, given every 2-3 years. So does Contem- porary Feminist Thought, at the Grad Center, for MA, PH.D. students, required for the WS concentration in the MALS program and the Certificate Program for Ph.D in a trad discipline; demographics not so mixed but usually some students from various countries. Beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 23:41:46 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chris Delboni Organization: The American University Subject: Looking for Susan Faludi Thank you all very much for the info on whearabout of Barbara Ehrenreich. Sorr y for bugging you all again with another one. I am looking for Susan Faludi again and am not sure if she is back in the country. In the summer, I was told that she was doing some work in Sweden. If anybody knows anything about her, where she is now, phone, fax, etc, please, please, let me know. I am still trying to interview her for a mainstream Brazilian magazine, and am definitely hoping she is back. Please send any information to me directly, CDELBES@AMERIC AN.EDU, and not to the list. Big Thanks again, Chris Delboni ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 00:12:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: most popular courses? > In these times of cutbacks I imagine that most wmst program directors, > like myself, are encouraged to offer courses that result in > "high enrolments". Can list members tell me/us what courses > (either disciplinary or interdisciplinary) are most popular > and producing high enrolments? Which ones aren't so popular? In my experience, a course's popularity often results from the instructor as much as the subject matter. Also, I would imagine that what works at one school may not at another. With those caveats, I can say that at UMBC (U. of Maryland Baltimore County, a public university with a diverse student body), the courses that are currently very popular include "Gender and Inequality in America," an American Studies/Women's Studies course that we offer every semester, usually in more than one section, and it almost always has a waiting list; "The Psychology of Women," which is now offered every semester because it always has a large waiting list; and almost any course with "sex" or "sexuality" in the title. (Surprise, surprise :-) ) Arranging for a course to fulfill the university's "general education" or "distribution" requirements also often helps to boost enrollment. Our "Introduction to Women's Studies" fulfills such a requirement, and we have no difficulty filling the course every semester, though it doesn't usually have the overflow enrollment of the courses I mentioned above. I hope this helps. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County Bitnet: korenman@umbc * * Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:17:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cameron MacDonald Subject: Trying to locate Shellee Colen In-Reply-To: <01HWIYSK121E000Y9E@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> I would appreciate any assistance in locating a phone number or e-mail address for Shellee Colen. I am interested in contacting her regarding her research on Carribean domestic workers in New York City. Please reply privately. Thank you. Cameron Macdonald Harvard University Macdon2@husc.Harvard.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:06:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jane quaid rickman Subject: Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS CELEBRATING DIFFERENCE/EXPLORING COMMONALITY: WOMEN'S STUDIES IN THE 90s South Central Women's Studies Association 1996 Annual Conference March 29-30, 1996, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Panel proposals or papers on theme of Celebrating Difference/ Exploring Commonality: Women's Studies in the '90s: Women's Studies in the '90s applied to anthropology, pedagogy, law, medicine, science, literature, art, music, communication, history, sociology, or other relevant topics. 250 word abstracts/panel proposals (in English) including name(s) of oranizer/author (please include all participants for panel of organizer/author (please include all participants for panel proposals): mailing address; phone number; professinal/institutional affiliation; title/position/audio-visual needs.a Deadline: December 2, 1995 (Notification of acceptance by January 15, 1996) Send to: Dr. Betty Harris, Women's Studies Program, 528 Physical Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019. (405) 325-3481 e-mail: AA0383@UOKMVSA.bitnet FAX: (405) 325-5068 Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 08:40:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betsey Woody Subject: High School Women's Studies I am looking for any information on women's studies courses taught at the high school level (public or private schools). I currently know of two, and I have a feeling there is more going on out there. I would prefer information about specific women's studies courses, however info courses like "women in literature" would also be appreciated. Also any suggestions of articles on high school women's studies (theory/pedagogy)? Please send info directly to: bwoody@garnet.berkeley.edu Thanks for your help! Betsey ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:07:53 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Todd Subject: Re: help in "women in the classroom" training In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 16 Oct 1995 07:41:00 -0500 from Re Elizabeth Bounds' request about gender in the classroom and TAs: I did such a workshop and also spoke as part of a panel at our university-wide TA orientation in August. For the panel I organized my comments around Catherine MacKinnon's question, "what difference does gender difference make?" I used text selection, language, examples, stereotypes/generalizations, and classroom dynamics as being dimensions of classroom teaching that can be influenced by a sensitivity to gender difference. My workshop was enhanced by the fact that many in attendance were advanced TAs who freely shared examples from their teaching experience in which gender was the dynamic in the classroom. I began with some information about the status of women students (e.g. a majority of students but more likely to w/d for financial reasons, get less financial aid, more frequently have family responsibilities that add to the juggling act of an urban commuter student), different learning styles and the chilly climate. Then we spent the rest of our time on faculty and student behaviors that can encourage inclusivity, feminist pedagogy and language. We could have spent far longer than the hour-and-a-half we had on the subject, and I have suggested to our Council on Effective Teaching and Learning that more workshops like this should be offered over the course of the year. I hope this helps a bit. Mary Todd Women's Studies The University of Illinois at Chicago marytodd@uic.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 12:23:56 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lawrence Johnson Subject: Equality Comments: To: hgrey@wppost.depaul.edu Harvette, YES, we can take racism, classism, elitism out of feminism! But to do so, requires that we unlearn the prevailing culture of dominance/violence, which says that someone of a "superior" status has the right to dominate/abuse someone of a "lesser" status. As Rianne Eisler describes in "The Chalice and the Blade", a shift in cultural paradigms is called for....Lawrence -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lawrence C. Johnson phone: 217-786-6222 Associate Chancellor for Affirmative Action fax: 217-786-6511 University of Illinois at Springfield e-mail lajohnso@uis.edu Springfield, IL 62794-9243 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 17:01:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Rozga Subject: call for papers Someone posted a call for papers recently for a conference in Texas to be held in February. Please send me the information; I can't seem to find it. Margaret Rozga mrozga@uwcmail.uwc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 18:54:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelly Ann Burns Subject: NWSA Does anyone know when and where the NWSA Conference will be held? Also, does anyone have an address and deadline for submissions? I thought their deadline was around Nov. 1st. Thanks, Kelly Burns Indiana University keburns@indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 20:18:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elaine Orr Subject: American Studies Assoc. I am attending the American Studies Association meeting in Pittsburgh Nov. 9-12 and am looking for someone to share a room. For Women's Studies folks, there are many exciting panels in feminist and multi-cultural studies. If anyone on the list is planning to attend and needs a room, please get in touch. I'm staying at the Doubletree--not the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers, which is where the meeting will be held (there are no more rooms available). But the Doubletree is within walking distance. A double room is $120 and we can split that at $60 a piece. The way I understand it, if you share a room at the Hilton it's $95 a piece. Please respond privately to elaine@unity.ncsu.edu. Thanks, Elaine Orr ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 21:14:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: NWSA Comments: To: Kelly Ann Burns In-Reply-To: The 1996 conference will be held at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York June 12-16. Proposals should be 1-2 pages with an additional 15-20 word abstract for program book. Dead line for proposals is Nov. 1st. send to: NWSA '96 SKIDMORE COLLEGE SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866-1632 OR EMAIL] PRUBIO@SKIDMORE.EDU OR FAX 518/584-7963 --------- Miriam Harris On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, Kelly Ann Burns wrote: > Does anyone know when and where the NWSA Conference will be held? Also, > does anyone have an address and deadline for submissions? I thought their > deadline was around Nov. 1st. > > Thanks, > Kelly Burns > Indiana University > keburns@indiana.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 07:59:47 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Baird Subject: Re: High School Women's Studies In-Reply-To: ; from "Betsey Woody" at Oct 17, 95 8:40 am Please post the information to the list as I am (and I would assume others are) interested also. Thanks, Karen Baird baird@brick.purchase.edu On Oct. 17, Betsey Woody wrote:> > I am looking for any information on women's studies courses taught at the > high school level (public or private schools). I currently know of two, > and I have a feeling there is more going on out there. I would prefer > information about specific women's studies courses, however info courses > like "women in literature" would also be appreciated. Also any suggestions > of articles on high school women's studies (theory/pedagogy)? > > Please send info directly to: bwoody@garnet.berkeley.edu > > Thanks for your help! > Betsey > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:28:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Viki_Soady Subject: Re: NWSA In-Reply-To: The NWSA will meet at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs New York, June 12-16. Deadline for submissions is November 1. The conference theme is BORDERS/CROSSINGS/PASSAGES. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:57:11 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Elise Cline Subject: Re: NWSA I missed the original posting of this announcement. Could someone please e-mail it to me? thanks ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:01:48 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dana Shugar Subject: Call for proposals - NWSA conference Call for proposals for NWSA Conference, June 12-16, 1996 at Skidmore. Proposals for a roundtable session on Lesbian/Lesbian-Feminist Spirituality, co-moderated by Dana Shugar (University of Rhode Island) and Annette VanDyke (University of Southern Illinois). This session is designed to explore the relationship between lesbianism and spirituality. We envision a roundtable of panelists who initiate the discussion with 5 minute (2-3 page) comments. Please send your proposals (a 1-2 paragraph abstract will do) to Dana Shugar by fax, (401) 792-2950, e-mail (dshugar@uriacc.uri.edu), or snail mail: Women's Studies Program, 315 Roosevelt Hall, Kingston, RI 02881. Because NWSA's deadline is Nov. 1, please respond as soon as possible. Questions? Contact Dana Shugar at (401) 792-5150 or Annette VanDyke at (217) 786-7421. Dana Shugar English and Women's Studies University of Rhode Island dshugar@uriacc.uri.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:30:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Katz Subject: Re: Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS A Women's Studies STUDENT CONFERENCE on "THE WOMEN WE HAVE BECOME" Fairfield University Fairfield, Connecticut March 23, 1996 Keynote speaker, Regina Barreca, Professor of English, University of Connecticut, author of "They Used to Call Me Snow White...But I Drifted," and "Perfect Husbands (And Other Fairy Tales)." Papers and panels are invited on a broad range of topics, including Feminist political theory, race, gender and ethnicity, affirmative action, women in science, sexual orientation/preference/practices, women in art, feminism and postmodernism, campus political climates, curriculum and pedagogy, date rape and sexual assault, eating disorders, women in history, reproductive rights activism. Deadline for submissions: DECEMBER 15, 1995 Send a 200 word description of your proposed panel or paper to Kathy Nantz Department of Economics Fairfield University North Benson Rd. Fairfield, Ct. 06430 For information call: Kathy Nantz - 203-254-4000 x 2271, or Lucy Katz - 203-254-4000 x 2840 or EMAIL KNANTZ or LVKATZ @FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 10:45:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JMason Subject: Re: High School Women's Studies In-Reply-To: <9510181159.AA43654@brick.purchase.edu> On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, Karen Baird wrote: > Please post the information to the list as I am (and I would assume others > are) interested also. > > On Oct. 17, Betsey Woody wrote:> > > I am looking for any information on women's studies courses taught at the > > high school level (public or private schools). I currently know of two, 1. Check with The Tilton School, (School Street, Tilton, New Hampshire 03276 - 603-286-4342; I don't know if they're on email yet) where they have taught a series of courses in "Gender Studies" at 11th/12th grades for a couple of years now. Contact people would be Karen Dorsch, chair of humanities division; and Tyler Moran, history department. 2. I recommend you post this request to the GENED - Gender and Education K-12 - list, where you'll find a number of high school teachers who may know of programs. Post to GENED: gened@acpub.duke.edu Subscribe to GENED: majordomo@acpub.duke.edu Send the message "subscribe gened" (without the quotes). John Mason -------------------------------------------------------- John B. Mason (410)339-4188 The Center for Contemporary Education at The Park School The Park School * Old Court Rd * Brooklandville MD 21022 -------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 12:02:08 +0059 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: June Corman Subject: Re: NWSA In-Reply-To: I am collecting written histories of the creation struggles involved in setting up a Women's Studies Program. Please send them to June Corman, Women's Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1. (email is fine too) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 12:05:33 +0059 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: June Corman Subject: Re: NWSA In-Reply-To: Proposal call for the Canadian Women's Studies Association Meetings to be held the last week of May in St. Catharines, Ontario at Brock University. St. Catharines is one hour from Toronto, Ontario and one hour from Buffalo, New York. Send a short abstract in written form and on disc or by email to June Corman, Women's Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. L2S 3A1. Deadline is December 20th and you will hear about acceptance by the end of January. Only graduate students qualify for a travel grant and they are usually about $300. Looking forward to seeing you at the conference. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:29:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Pollack Subject: women and sports research Can anyone help me find out the research that the recent Nike TV ads are based on? The ads show young women playing sports saying that they play sports and stay in school or don't get pregnant, etc.... ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:50:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Brandyberry Subject: Color of Fear Video I have ordered this video, but have yet to hear from the company; I need to follow up with them, but have discovered I no longer have their number for ordering materials. If anyone is aware of the number I need to call, please email me privately. Thanks, Lisa Lisa J. Brandyberry, Ph.D. Counseling Center, Women's Programming Coordinator University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 ljbrandy@unccvm.uncc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 14:03:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith DiIorio Subject: Job Announcement I am posting the following job announcement for a Dean of Arts and Sciences on WMST-L for two reasons. First, the Dean's responsibilities at our university include the Women's Studies program, which presently offers a B.A. degree. Secondly, I as a former director of this program and the Chair of the Dean Search Committee, I want to reach not just women applicants but feminist applicants with strong affiliations to Women's Studies who will take their responsbilities for our program seriously. Judith DiIorio, Asst. Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs diiorio@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu *****************JOB ANNOUNCEMENT*********************** Indiana University©Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. The Dean, who reports to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, administers the School consisting of the following fourteen departments: Audiology and Speech Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Communication, Geosciences, English and Linguistics, History, Mathematical Sciences, Modern Foreign Languages, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychological Sciences, and Sociology and Anthropology. Additional programs include Ä ÄWomen's Studies, Ä ÄTransitional Studies, Liberal Studies, Peace Studies, Gerontology, and International Affairs. The School has over 175 full©time faculty and offers 32 bachelor's and 5 master's degree programs. Qualifications must include: a terminal degree in one of the disciplines represented in the School; a record of teaching, scholarship, research and/or creative endeavor and service sufficient to qualify for appointment at the rank of professor in one of the School's departments. Preference will be given to candidates with proven records of administration in higher education at or above the level of department chair. Candidates must be able to provide leadership in faculty development, external fund raising to support school activities, faculty research and creativity, and student relations, including student recruitment and retention. IPFW is a comprehensive, nonresident, urban university offering more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree options to more than 10,000 full©time and part©time students enrolled in the eight academic units. Fort Wayne is the second©largest city in Indiana, with a metropolitan area exceeding 450,000 and is noted for its cultural institutions, recreational opportunities and its fast growing, diversified industrial and commercial economy. Complete applications must include a letter of interest addressing the qualifications listed above; a statement of administrative and educational philosophy; a current curriculum vitae; and names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least five references. All communications should be sent to: Betty Yockey Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Indiana University©Purdue University Fort Wayne 2101 Coliseum Blvd.East Fort Wayne, IN 46805©1499 Screening of applications will begin on December 1. Expected date of appointment is July 1, 1996. IPFW is an Equal Opportunity\Affirmative Action employer that encourages applications from women and members of other minority groups. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 15:29:21 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: shelley park Subject: beauvoir biographies I'm preparing a philosophy course on Simone de Beauvoir for the spring. I want include a biography of Beauvoir as one of our texts. My problem is that there are at least 25 different biographies out there, plus of course Beauvoir's autobiographical works (and I'm not an expert, so have not and cannot read all of these). I'd appreciate any thoughts on which you feel would best fit the following criteria: 1. Must be accessible to an undergraduate (junior and senior audience). 2. Would like it to be engaging and lively, not dry and dull. 3. Not too expensive 4. does a reasonable job of outlining both her relationship with Sartre and her relationship with french feminists (this course will fulfill either/both a philosophy requirement and a women's studies requirement) 5. Fairly depicts the richness of her life and work (i.e. doesn't focus in too narrowly on any particular theme to the exclusion of others) 6. Complements certain course themes, eg. freedom (intellectual, sexual and other); aging, death, and sex/gender. Thanks in advance for any advice. Please respond privately. Shelley Park ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 16:45:07 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea <3AJA1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Subject: Re: NWSA In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 18 Oct 1995 12:05:33 +0059 from Dr. Corman, have panel topics been set, or can proposals be sent for panels as well as papers? Thanks much, Andrea Austin 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 22:02:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 CFP, 1 conference The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) CFP: Writing and Speaking the Body: Rhetorical & Feminist Studies 2) CFP: 1996 Berkeley Women and Language Conference 3) Women's Ordination Conference, Nov. 10-12 For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Call for Abstracts for a collection of essays on Writing and Speaking the Body: Rhetorical and Feminist Studies of Reproductive Technologies Deadline: January 22, 1996 This collection of essays will address the rhetorical construction of women's bodies and women's reproductive functions. The essays will focus on particular cases (historical or current) or theoretical overviews in which the connection between language and science or technology illuminates the attitudes, values, and goals of reproductive science and technology. Three academic presses have expressed a strong interest in the collection. We invite scholars and researchers using a variety of methodologies to submit abstracts. However, we would like the proposed essays to approach the question of science/technology and women's bodies, particularly reproductive functions, from the "lens" of language and rhetoric. We imagine, therefore, that interested authors will look at texts (for example, medical texts, scientific articles, and transcripts from public hearings), specific wording or language choices (for example, metaphors, definitions, and rules and regulations), rhetorical strategies (for example, persuasive choices, establishment of credibility, and identification with discourse communities), or rhetorical situations (for example, competing values, development of genres, and intersections of knowledge, power, and discourse). This collection was inspired by the Gender, Women, and Science Question conference at the University of Minnesota in May 1995 and will contain a preface by the conference organizers, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Helen Longino. Scholars and researchers, including conference participants, are invited to submit an abstract for a proposed paper to be included in the collection. The sponsoring body for the collection is the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. The editorial collective for the collection consists of Clare Gravon (Administrator in Center for Advanced Feminist Studies and the Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute); Laura Gurak (Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric); Mary Lay (Professor, Department of Rhetoric, and Director, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies); and Cynthia Mynnti (Co-Director, Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute) from the University of Minnesota. Interested authors should submit a two-to-three-page abstract and a 100-200-word biographical sketch by January 22, 1996 to: Editorial Collective--Writing and Speaking the Body Center for Advanced Feminist Studies University of Minnesota 496 Ford Hall 224 Church Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455-0110 FAX: 612-624-3573 Internet: gurakL@epx.cis.umn.edu Submissions may be made via FAX, US mail, or the internet. Electronic files should be in ASCII or RTF format only; if you wish to send a compressed file, binhex is the only compression format we can accommodate. Please send en email message with specific questions if you anticipate any difficulty with an electronic file submission. Authors will be invited to submit papers based on successful abstracts. Papers will be due in early summer 1996, with revisions submitted in fall 1996. Please address any specific questions to Mary Lay, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the address above, or call 612-624-9809, or communicate via internet to mmlay@maroon.tc.umn.edu. ************************************************************************** 2) *CALL FOR PAPERS* 1996 Berkeley Women and Language Conference Gender and Belief Systems April 19-21, 1996, Berkeley Conference Center, Berkeley, CA The topic of the Fourth Berkeley Women and Language Conference is Gender and Belief Systems. This includes such issues as expression of spirituality; how language reflects beliefs about gender; beliefs about the language of particular groups; and the interaction of language and gender with religions, political, social, cultural or intellectual systems. Beliefs of many types are often taken for granted both in studies of language structure and in those of gender. Belief commonly serves as a starting point, but is not investigated in its own right. This topic encourages works exploring the foundations of ideological/epistemological constructs. We especially encourage innovative approaches to subfields of linguistics not traditionally associated with gender studies, such as phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics, in addition to sociolinguistic, pragmatic, and discourse analyses. Papers from various fields such as religious studies, anthropology, education, psychology, ethnic studies, legal studies, language and literature are encouraged. However, all papers should involve both language and gender. Invited speakers include: Niko Besnier, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University Suzanne Fleischman, Dept. of French, UC Berkeley Nancy Henley, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA Janet Holmes, Dept. of Linguistics, Victoria Univ. of Wellington Cheris Kramarae, Dept. of Women's Studies, Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign John McWhorter, Dept. of Linguistics and African-American Studies, UC Berkeley Barrie Thorne, Dept. of Sociology and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley and presenting a special panel: A Retrospective on progress in the field since the 1983 publication of "Language, Gender and Society" with Nancy Henley, Cheris Kramarae, and Barrie Thorne As a condition of participation, all speakers are expected to submit their conference papers for publication in the Proceedings of the 1996 Berkeley Women and Language Conference. (We may also publish selected papers with a major publisher.) Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions. To submit an abstract, send six copies of an anonymous 500-word proposal (one page, unreduced) to the address below, along with one copy of a 150-word abbreviation of this proposal for publication in the conference program. The deadline for abstracts is January 10, 1996. We ask that you make your abstract as specific as possible, including a statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions. Abstracts should be accompanied by a single 3 x 5 card with: (1) the title of the paper, (2) the author's name, (3) the author's affiliation (department and university), and (4) the phone, e-mail, and street address at which the author wishes to receive notification in early February,1996, of acceptance or rejection. Please address all correspondence to: Berkeley Women and Language Group, 2337 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720 (telephone: 510-642-2757; e-mail: bwlg@garnet.berkeley.edu; fax: 510- 643-5688). BWLG Web site: http://trill.berkeley.edu/users/sutton/BWLG.html Registration Fees: Before March 30, 1996: $20 for students, $30 for non- studentsfter March 30, 1996: $30 for students, $40 for non-students Wheelchair accessible *********************************************************************** 3) WOMEN'S ORDINATION CONFERENCE HOSTS ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY GATHERING "DICIPLESHIP OF EQUALS: BREAKING BREAD/ DOING JUSTICE" NOVEMBER 10-12 IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA. The Women's Ordination Conference is one of the oldest grassroots feminist reform groups of the Roman Catholic church. For 20 years, WOC has labored for the ordination of women to a renewed priestly ministry. At the November Gathering, WOC will proclaim a new paradigm-that of Discipleship of Equals. Through the Plenary rituals and panels, and through the smaller focus groups, WOC will demonstrate and explore how the ordination of women does not resolve the problem, and that nothing short of a major deconstruction of clericalism, patriarchy, and hierarchy - kyriarchy, as Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza likes to say - will do. REGISTER NOW FOR THIS HISTORIC GATHERING! $195 include full registration and a box lunchon Satyrday day and festive ritual meal Saturday evening. $95 Student rate with photo copy of picture I.D. CALL (703) 352-1006 FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER WITH AMEX. VISA, OR MASTERCARD. PEACE AND BLESSINGS. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 20:01:13 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cindy Stearns Subject: Women's Resource Center Coordinator POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Women's Resource Center Coordinator Sonoma State University The Women's Resource Coordinator will oversee the Women's Resource Center; provide educational services and advocacy within the University community on women's and gender equity issues; recruit and supervise student assistants, volunteers and interns; develop and facilitate workshops and training opportunities; and provide leadership in Women's History Month activities and other multi- cultural and academic programming. As a member of the Office of Campus Life, the Coordinator will advise sororities and Panhellenic Council; coordinate and promote weekend programs and activities; assist with leadership development activities, including retreats, workshops as well as other activities. The qualifications include two years of professional experience in college student affairs or related field and equivalent to graduation from a four year college or university; or equivalent combination of experience and education. A Master's degree in college student personnel, women's studies, or a related field is highly desirable. For more information about the position, necessary qualifications and Sonoma State University, contact: Sonoma State University Human Services Rohnert Park, CA 94928 (707)664-2166 The monthly salary range is $2,698 to $3,242. The final filing date for applications is NOVEMBER 3, 1995 -------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Cindy Stearns, Women's Studies, Sonoma State University (Stearns@Sonoma.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:56:29 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: Re: beauvoir biographies Shelley, I've actually found the interviews by Alice Schwarzer with de Beauvoir to be very evocative. I think more so than the descriptiveness of a bio. Lynne Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 07:45:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Gmelch signon wmst-l gmelchs ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 07:31:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucindy Willis Subject: Re: beauvoir biographies shelley, What about Toril Moi's *Simone De Beauvoir: The making of an intellectual woman.* Published in 1994, it is in paper back (can't remember how much I paid for mine.Not only does it reveal the social and political world in which beauvoir lived, it also presents a multifacited woman-- not just a feminist, not just the author of *The SecondSex* and not just a "friend" of sartre's. As the blurb on the cover says: it cnanot be categorized as simply "biography or literary criticism." It forges "a new alliance between socio-historical and psychoanalytical perspectives. Good luck. Lucindy Willis Elon College ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:51:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fran Hoffmann Subject: Re: NWSA Andrea Austin asks if proposals for panels as well as papers are being accepted for the 1996 NWSA meetings. They are welcome. Proposals for complete sessions as well as individual papers or presentations are due November 1. For more information, the NWSA '96 Conference office can be reached at (518) 584-5000, ext. 2387, e-mail PRUBIO@SKIDMORE.EDU. Loretta Younger is also available at the NWSA national office to answer questions, NWSA@UMAIL.UMD.EDU. Frances L. Hoffmann, Director Institute for Women's and Gender Studies University of Missouri - St. Louis 8001 Natural Bridge Road St. Louis, MO 63121 (314) 516-5588 FAX (314) 516-5415 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 11:38:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Travers Subject: Tips on Teaching the Internet - Results of Query I received many requests to post the results of my recent query to the list regarding tips for teaching the Internet. Many thanks to those who sent me suggestions. ************************************************* FROM: ckile@BGNET.BGSU.EDU (Pop Tart) Homepage for teaching Intro. to WMST. (URL: http://www.bgsu.edu/~ckile/ws200) FROM: rwallach@CHARON.USC.EDU (Ruth Wallach) Suggestion: Approach dealing with the issue of authoring on the Web. How that creates (or doesn't) new feminist communities and how the web shapes our identities. FROM: cbell@eosc.osshe.edu (Colleen Bell) ** I highly recommend contacting Colleen and requesting a copy of her "Teaching The Internet, Parts I, II, and III". Although very lengthy, her tips were *most* helpful. I have asked if she would be willing to send copies to other interested folks. She said feel free to give out her name. These tips are a compilation of her queries on other lists. She posted her "Teaching the Internet" on BI-L and NETTRAIN already. FROM: dickstei@bird.library.arizona.edu (Ruth Dickstein) Ruth, along with other librarians at UA, used powerpoint slides for workshops they have been running. FROM: KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Joan Korenman) Joan suggested checking the UMBC WMST's Home Page (URL: http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/). From the main menu choose Section G (Electronic Forums for Women's Issues) and Section H (WMST's WWW Pages and Gophers). FROM: Jaz@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MUSU.EDU (Chris Jazwinski) Home Page (URL: http//www.stcloud.msus.edu/~jaz) FROM: holzmr01@MCRCR6.MED.NYU.EDU (Clare Holzman) FeMiNa (URL: http://www.femina.com/femina) "The first comprehensive World Wide Web based directory and information resource containing information exclusively for and about women and girls online." FROM: Hannigan@Zodiac.rutgers.edu (Jane Hannigan) http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/kayhp2.html Has feminist section with several pages. Included are linkable sites to feminist/women's websites. Also nice example of a faculty page designed for students among others. ************************************************* Thanks again for everyone's help. Enjoy. Ann D. Travers (Agtravers@aol.com) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 15:01:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Goldschmidt Organization: The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars Subject: women as leaders seminar Application deadline fast approaching! This is a reminder to those of you whose students are applying to the The Washington Center's "Women as Leaders" Academic Seminar in January, 1996. Applications should be in The Washington Center's office by November 13th, _not_ post-marked by the 13th. Applications have already begun to come in, so please remind your students about the deadline. For anyone who has not received information about the seminar, Women as Leaders is a two-week academic seminar that provides leadership training, mentoring, and an exploration of critical issues facing women today. Students will examine the meanings and forms of leadership as they interact with today's top women leaders-- women who have been agents of change, who have been "firsts" in their field, and who have sometimes quietly but significantly improved women's lives. The program includes speakers; panel discussions; workshops; site visits; readings; a structured, graded jounral; and daily small group discussions with experienced faculty. Seminar Dates: January 2-13, 1996 May 13-24, 1996 Location: Washington, D.C. This seminar is a wonderful resource for women's studies departments. Speakers for the January and May seminars include: Johnetta Cole, President of Spelman College; DeeDee Myers, host of CNBC's Equal Time; Brigadier General Wilma Vaught; Anna Maria Arias, founder of _Latina Style_ magazine; Judy Woodruff, of CNN; Geraldine Ferraro; and a few surprises as well. We also work in collaboration with numerous professional associations, human service providers, and women's rights advocates in the Washington D.C. area. Students can receive academic credit through their home institutions. For a brochure and application, or for information on our Women in Public Policy Internship Program, please call 1-800-486-8921, or contact me via e- mail. If anyone is interested in serving as a faculty leader for either seminar, please call me directly at (202) 336-7599. Mary Goldschmidt Director, Women's Leadership Programs The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars maryg@twc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 15:13:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Brandyberry Subject: Thanks Just wanted to drop off a quick thanks to the numerous people who sent me info on the Color of Fear video.... You all were a quick and great help. Lisa Lisa J. Brandyberry, Ph.D. Counseling Center, Women's Programming Coordinator University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 ljbrandy@unccvm.uncc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 15:51:44 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: shelley park Subject: Re: beauvoir biographies In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 19 Oct 1995 07:31:12 EST from Lucindy or others who've read Moi's biography of de Beauvoir: Do you think this would be accessible to undergraduates (who may not have had any background in literary criticism)? Shelley ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 16:36:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra K Herzan Subject: NWSA Call for Proposals * * CALL FOR PROPOSALS * * * * OCTOBER 27 DEADLINE * * for a panel at the National Women's Studies Association Conference Conference Theme: Borders/Crossings/Passages: Women Reinterpreting Development. June 12-16, 1996, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Panel Description: VISIONS OF THE FAMILY IN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S NARRATIVES OF DEVELOPMENT ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The family has long been the site of development, knowledge, conflict and ambivalence in coming of age narratives by women writers. Certainly in some cases the family unit in these texts is the stereotypical intact, stable, nuclear family. Just as often, though, the protagonist's development occurs in an array of possibilities or visions of the family. Multi-ethnic, multi-generational, single parent, adoptive, surrogate, mobile, figurative, gay or lesbian families all have their place in women's development narratives. The panel will explore and examine the many possible family configurations depicted in contemporary women's narrative about female coming of age. Completed papers are allowed 15-20 minutes reading time. Please submit 250-word abstracts including paper title, your name, academic affiliation, address (current and for Spring 1996), phone numbers and e-mail address ** by FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 ** to: Sandy Herzan Department of English 207 Lind Hal, 207 Church Street SE University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-332-5274 FAX: 612-624-8228 E-mail: herz0001@gold.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 20:08:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Hannigan Subject: Resource needed in research I would be very grateful if anyone could indicate an appropriate source(s) that explore content analysis as a research methodology from a feminist perspective. I am trying to find some theoretical analysis of this methodology. Please send responses to me not the list. This is something I want to include in teaching. Thanks. Jane Hannigan@Zodiac.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 22:09:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Suzanne D. Green" Subject: CFP Reminder In-Reply-To: <199510101545.KAA05704@mari.acc.stolaf.edu> Hi folks! Just a brief reminder that the call for papers for the 8th Annual Conference on Linguistics and Literature in Denton, Texas closes on 31 October. We've got some exciting speakers...including Emily Toth from LSU...lined up, and some good papers dealing with both women's issues and literature. We'd love to see submissions from some of y'all! I'm attaching a copy of the call for anyone who's interested, or you can check out our still-under-construction web site at http:\\www.engl.unt.edu. It's still pretty rough, but improving daily! Thanks! Suzanne ____________________________________________________________________________ CALL for PAPERS 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON LITERATURE AND LINGUISTICS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS February 2-3, 1996 Radisson Hotel and Conference Center, Denton, Texas Keynote Speakers: Emily Toth, Louisiana State University Haj Ross, University of North Texas Sponsored by the University of North Texas Department of English and the GSEA Abstracts dealing with any aspect of linguistics or literature are solicited, including: Literary Analysis Linguistic Analysis Technical Writing Film Studies Critical Theory Theoretical Linguistics Composition Theory Women's Studies Creative Writing 1st/2nd Lang Acquisition Comp/ESL Pedagogy Minority Literature Creative submissions of poetry, fiction or essays are also welcome, as are complete symposium proposals. Instructions for paper abstracts, symposium proposals, and creative submissions--including deadlines for submission--are below. Submissions from graduate students are particularly encouraged. E-mailed or FAXed proposals are accepted. Conference on Language and Literature Department of English PO Box 13827 University of North Texas Denton, TX 76203 GSEA@TWLAB.UNT.EDU Fax: 817/565-4355 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Instructions for PAPER ABSTRACTS: Abstracts for papers should be no longer than two pages and should exclude name and affiliation. On a separate page, please send the following information: Name Affiliation Paper title Postal address E-mail address Phone number FAX Audiovisual needs Status (graduate student, faculty) DEADLINE for RECEIPT of paper abstracts: October 31, 1995 Abstracts for papers will be reviewed anonymously by selected faculty members. Notification of acceptance will follow no later than December 1, 1995. Persons with papers accepted for presentation will be asked to provide a short abstract (300 word maximum) for the conference handbook by January 10, 1996. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Instructions for SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS: Symposium proposals must include (a) an overall abstract (2 page maximum) outlining the nature of the symposium as a whole; (b) a short abstract for the overall symposium (300 word maximum) to place in the conference program (c) a short abstract (300 word maximum) from each presenter. As above, these abstracts should be submitted anonymously. On a separate page, please send the following information: Symposium title Symposium paper title Name of organizer(s) Name of paper presenter Affiliation of organizer(s) Affiliation of presenter Postal address of organizer(s) Postal address of presenter Phone number of organizer(s) Phone number of presenter E-mail address of organizer(s) E-mail address of presenter FAX number of organizers FAX number of presenter Audiovisual needs DEADLINE for RECEIPT of Symposium Proposals: November 31, 1995 Symposium proposals will also be reviewed anonymously by selected faculty members. Notification of acceptance of the symposium will be made only to the symposium organizer(s) and will follow no later than December 10, 1995. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Instructions for CREATIVE SUBMISSIONS: Creative submissions of poetry, fiction or essays are also solicited. Those wishing to present must submit the complete text of the work, though without name. On a separate page, please send the following information: Name Affiliation Title of work Postal address E-mail address Phone number FAX Audiovisual needs Status (graduate student, faculty, etc.) DEADLINE for RECEIPT of creative works: October 31, 1995 Creative submissions will also be reviewed anonymously by selected faculty members. Notification of acceptance will follow no later than December 1, 1995. ______________________________________________________________________________ | Suzanne D. Green | An unpublished writer is one who tries Department of English | to get it perfect. University of North Texas | P. O. Box 13827 | A published writer gets it done by Denton, Texas 76203 | Tuesday. sdgreen@jove.acs.unt.edu | Joanna Russ _____________________________________|__________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 23:25:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "d.l. hudecki" Subject: JOB OPPORTUNITY: ACADEMIC DEAN The Catholic college for women that I teach in is looking for an academic dean. See the ad, below. Applications should be in by November 15, but they will be accepted afterwards, for a period of time. For more information, don't hesitate to contact me. Please forward this ad to other lists, if you think that it is appropriate to do so. Thanks. Dennis Hudecki, Philosophy, Brescia College, 1285 Western Road, London, ON, N6G 1H2, tel (519) 432-8353, ext. 245. e-mail:dhudecki@julian.uwo.ca ********************** Brescia College invites applications and nominations for the position of Academic Dean. Brescia is a Catholic college for women, affiliated with The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. The college has about 850 students in Arts, Social Sciences and Home Economics. Brescia is proud of its Catholic tradition and its commitment to prepare women for the challenges of the future through education. The college community welcomes faculty, staff and students of diverse religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds. The Dean will report to the Principal and will work closely with the Registrar. The responsibilities of the Dean will include such duties as the supervision and development of courses and programs and dealing with student and faculty academic concerns. The Dean will maintain close academic ties with UWO and other affiliated colleges. The successful candidate will have a record of excellence in leadership, teaching and research, as well as experience in administration. Some teaching in one of the disciplines offered at the college will be part of this appointment. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Brescia College is committed to employment equity and invites applications from all qualified candidates. Applications and nominations, together with a curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of three references, should be forwarded to: Sister Dolores Kuntz, Brescia College, 1285 Western Road, London, ON N6G 1H2 Consideration of applications will begin after November 15, 1995. The position will commence on July 1, 1996. The normal term of first appointment will be 5 years. *********************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:56:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Pattatucci, Angella" Subject: Sexism among graduate advisors I have heard on several occasions over the past few years, references made to research that documents a diffferential assignment of graduate and postdoctoral research projects. The bottom line is that males are given the "cutting edge" work (that with a potential for high visibility and to promote upward career advancement), whereas women tend to be given the "grunt work" - work that is important and needs to be done, but is generally perceived as "luke warm" and descriptive. Although people seem to repeat this finding with conviction, I cannot seem to find a reference anywhere for it, nor have people citing the research at meetings been of any help. Has this research actually been conducted? Is it published and if so can anyone provide a reference? Angela Pattatucci pattatua@dc37a.nci.nih.gov ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:08:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Frederika Scarth Subject: Re: beauvoir biographies In-Reply-To: Shelley, Having read Moi for my research, I think that it would be difficult, though worthwhile, for undergraduate students. I would suggest using it as supplementary reading for motivated students rather than as a required text. It is also by no means a traditional biography, focusing mainly on a few moments of Beauvoir's life and her literary reworking of those moments (in her novels, memoirs and The Second Sex) in order to highlight certain tensions in her thinking. If you are looking for more traditional biographies, those by Deirdre Bair((1990) and Margaret Crosland (1992) (both titled "Simone de Beauvoir") are the best of a rather uneven lot, in my opinion. Bair's is undoubtedly more thorough, but Crosland benefitted from greater access to SB's letters. Both of these books are long; you might want to assign only portions of them. BTW, I am in the midst of a research project on Beauvoir, and would be very interested in seeing how you eventually decide to structure your course. If you could send your reading list/syllabus , I'd apreciate it. Fredrika Scarth Department of Political Science University of Toronto fscarth@epas.utoronto.ca On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, shelley park wrote: > Lucindy or others who've read Moi's biography of de Beauvoir: Do > you think this would be accessible to undergraduates (who may not > have had any background in literary criticism)? > > Shelley > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:14:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marsha Miller Subject: New AAUW research report: Growing Smart A comprehensive, first-of-its-kind report was released October 18 by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation. The report documents how classrooms and communities around the country have used innovative teaching techniques, strategies, and basic principles to raise girls' interest and achievement in math, science, and tehcnology, areas traditionally dominated by boys. "Growing Smart: What's Working for Girls in School" cites cooperative learning, single-sex classes, greater hands-on access to computers and tools, the pairing of teachers and classes for consecutive grades, and mentoring among the innovative practices shown to reduce gender bias and shrink the math/science gender gap between girls and boys in school. These creative techniques effectively encourage girls to achieve, take risks, pursue advanced level classes, and become more involved in school activities. Indianapolis' Girls Incorporated was one of the programs mentioned in the report. Girls Inc.'s National Resource Center has information on single-sex classes for math, science and other subjects and can be reached at 441 W Michigan St., Indianapolis IN 46202 (317) 634-7546. Girls Inc.'s Operation SMART is a national program to eliminate the gender gap in science, math and technology. Unlike earlier research on girls, "Growing Smart" moves the discussion of gender bias against girls in America's schools beyond a chronicle of where schools are shortchanging girls to proivide practical and innovative solutions. The Foundation report does not limit itself simply to addressing gender, but takes into account race, socioeconomic status, and other factors that influence girls' ability to excel in school. The Foundation report calls not just on schools but on whole communities to share in the responsibility to help girls succeed. Parents, teachers, school administrators, community leaders, business people and policymakers are all stakeholders who need to create ongoing and productive partnerships in order to eliminate gender bias and further the achievement and healthy development of girls. "If girls are to grow up smart, schools need to get smarter and use creative strategies such as cooperative learning and single-sex classes," said Alice Ann Leidel, president of the AAUW Educational Foundation. "In order to reach girls effectively, educators must look at each child as an individual and tailor their strategies accordingly. Unlike the T-shirt industry, one size doesn't fit all. America can no longer afford to ignore this valuable lesson." A unique and exhaustive synthesis of more than 500 academic studies and papers dating primarily from 1989 through 1994, "Growing Smart" draws on a wealth of previously untapped and nontraditional resources such as focus groups, interviews, project reports, and annual reports from community service organizations for girls that are too often ignored by researchers. The research also reveals that successful education reform does not necessarily hinge on more money, rather, creativity and innovation can yield positive results for all students. "One of 'Growing Smart's' most exciting findings is that nontraditional teaching strategies such as multi-age classrooms and mentoring program not only benefit girls, but boys as well," added Anne Bryant, AAUW executive director. "Gender equity is a two-sided proposition. School reform that fosters more positive interaction and growth between girls and boys will help all students develop to their full potential. "In 1992 AAUW issued a bleak diagnosis of the state of girls in America's schools. Boys were rewarded for agressive behavior and girls became spectators in learning. "Growing Smart" provides the compass headings for a new course in education reform by answering the question of what girls need to succeed." Past AAUW Foundation research revealed pervasive gender bias against girls through differential treatment by teachers that steered girls away from math and science and through competitive learning environments where boys tended to dominate and girls were marginalized. Girls' self-perceptions of their academic abilities were found to play a critical role in guiding their course selections and influencing their pursuit of leadership opportunities. Sunny Hansen, Joyce Walker, and Barbara Flom, researchers from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, identified five basic principles that when woven into teaching practices, formal and informal curricula, and school activities such as team sports, strengthen girls' confidence and their ability to achieve. They are: celebrate girls' strong identity; respect girls as central players; connect girls to caring adults; ensure girls' participation and success; and empower girls to realize their dreams. To integrate these five principles into educational reform efforts, the Foundation report recommends that schools: --Reinforce girl's individuality through single-sex classes that boost girls' lagging self-perceptions in areas such as math and science. --Foster girls' involvement through cooperative learning groups that eliminate competitive classroom practices that often marginalize girls. --Provide girls with mentors and role models by pairing teachers and classes for consecutive grades and by creating multi-age classrooms that reduce the risk of girls' dropping out of math, science, and technology courses. --Give girls equal access to learning through hands-on experience with computers and lab equipment, tools that are often dominated by boys. --Empower girls to achieve goals by working with community groups and businesses to provide girls with routes to success other than traditional measures as testing, grades, and class participation. "Growing Smart" identifies many cutting-edge, school-based, after-school and community programs that embody the researchers' key findings. It also provides a useful action guide for school administrators, teachers, counselors, parents, and policymakers. AAUW, representing 150,000 college graduates, is the nation's leading advocate for educational equity for women and girls. The AAUW Educational Foundation funds significant research on girls and education and is the nation's oldest and one of the largest sources of noninstitutional funding of graduate education for women. Recent research included "Hostile Hallways: The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in America's Schools," the first-ever scientific survey on sexual harassment in school; "The AAUW Report: How Schools Shortchange Girls," a landmark report on gender bias in school; and "Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America," a poll on girls' self-esteem and declining interest in math and science. To view the Growing Smart Executive Summary and Action Guide, contact the AAUW Sales Office, Dept 327, POB 251, Annapolis Junction MD 20701-0251; 800-225-9998, ext. 327. Information is also available on the other studies mentioned above. The Growing Smart Executive Summary sells for $12.95; the academic review sells for $35.95. Marsha Miller, Instruction Librarian Indiana State University Libraries Terre Haute IN 47809 Internet: libmill@cml.indstate.edu Phone: 812/237-2604 Fax: 812/237-2567 ================================================ "fantasy is the food for the minds, not facts" [thurber] ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:31:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Scott P. Kerlin" Subject: Re: Sexism among graduate advisors Comments: cc: bakerlin@FLASH.LakeheadU.CA Angela and others interested in this issue: We have in the past, and would like to continue, discussing this issue in our graduate studies discussion forum, which focuses on a wide range of issues affecting graduate students and graduate education. Our own research has focused quite extensively on factors influencing progress of females in doctoral studies, and we invite you to contact us privately if you would like to discuss this further. Also, all are invited to write us for details on how to join the AERA-GSL Graduate Studies Discussion List. Scott and Bobbi Kerlin Hosts, AERA-GSL Graduate Studies Discussion List >I have heard on several occasions over the past few years, references made >to research that documents a diffferential assignment of graduate and >postdoctoral research projects. The bottom line is that males are given the >"cutting edge" work (that with a potential for high visibility and to >promote upward career advancement), whereas women tend to be given the >"grunt work" - work that is important and needs to be done, but is generally >perceived as "luke warm" and descriptive. > >Although people seem to repeat this finding with conviction, I cannot seem >to find a reference anywhere for it, nor have people citing the research at >meetings been of any help. Has this research actually been conducted? Is >it published and if so can anyone provide a reference? > >Angela Pattatucci >pattatua@dc37a.nci.nih.gov > > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:48:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Pramaggiore Subject: CFP > > REQUESTING SUBMISSIONS FOR A GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE AT > NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, RALEIGH, NC > > MARCH 29-31, 1996 > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > CULTURAL CARTOGRAPHIES: > SURVEYING THE POSTCOLONIAL BODY > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > > Questions concerning the "body" are central to postcolonial inquiry. > What is the relationship between the individual body and the body > politic? Between identity and its embodiment? Between the speaking > subject and the dominant discourse? By surveying film, literature, and > other cultural texts, CULTURAL CARTOGRAPHIES seeks to identify and > explore the racialization and sexualization of postcolonial bodies. The > conference will attempt to chart how textuality, adornment, violence, and > subjectivity affect the construction and comprehension of personal and > political identity in the context of colonial and postcolonial power > dynamics. > > We welcome papers, creative manuscripts, and panel proposals that exhibit > a variety of critical and artistic engagements with postcolonial > discourse. Submissions may be specific to a national or regional > literature, to a single author or theorist, or they may treat broader > subjects such as new definitions of Genre, Gender, Eroticism vs. > Pornography, or Literary Sexuality, as well as specific issues of national > and colonial representation. > > Chris Eyre, a Native American filmmaker, will highlight the schedule of > conference events with a screening of his latest project. Additional > activities will include addresses by visiting faculty, and a $100 prize > for an outstanding paper sponsored by the electronic journals Postmodern > Culture and Jouvert: a journal of postcolonial studies. > > PLEASE MAIL OR E-MAIL A DETAILED 1-2 PAGE ABSTRACT BY JANUARY 13, > 1996 TO: > > Mike Malouf (mgmalouf@unity.ncsu.edu) > > OR SEND CREATIVE MS TO: > > Matt Krieb (makreib@unity.ncsu.edu) > > Mailing address for both: > Cultural Cartographies > c/o English Department > Box 8105, Tompkins Hall > North Carolina State University > Raleigh, NC 27695-8105 > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:39:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucindy Willis Subject: Re: beauvoir biographies Reply to Shelley. Probably not. I suppose I did not read the fine print. I guess I was just so thrilled to read a work on de beauvoir in which Sartre did not overshadow her I felt impelled to mention it. Mea culpa Lucindy ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:03:09 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Linda J. Allred" Subject: wmst for med students A group of 4th-year med students here have asked one of the med school faculty to teach a course on Women's Studies for them in the spring. The faculty member wants to know what would be appropriate in the way of texts, readings, etc., for this particular group. I've looked at the syllabi in the archive, and several appear to be somewhat helpful. Has anyone else taught a similar course, something that would address the kind of health-related interests of the students but would also provide introductory material written at an upper level? These students tended to be science majors as undergrads, and they have spent 3.5 years in medicine, in a program that avoids controversy, for example, by refusing to teach abortion techniques. ("If we pretend it's not there, maybe it will go away!") This is an excellent opportunity to make an important contribution to their education, by providing them with ideas from outside the traditional medical curriculum.Thanks in advance for any suggestions! Linda Allred PSALLRED@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 09:21:28 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kay Dodder Subject: Re: New AAUW research report: Growing Smart In-Reply-To: <2C1E84D75DC@cml.indstate.edu> Regarding the new AAUW report on techniques for encouraging the success of girls in school, expecially in science and math: this kind of documentation is much needed, and the inclusion of practical suggestions for improving instruction for girls should be of enormous help. I was dismayed, however, by the statement from AAUW's executive director that "One of 'Growing Smart's' most exciting findings is that nontraditional teaching strategies . . not only benefit girls, but boys as well." I find it sad that, even in the context of a study/report specifically focusing on the problems faced by girls, the "most exciting" aspect should be the benefits to boys! It would seem that educational programs and strategies which benefit girls are still undervalued unless they benefit "all students", ie: boys as well. Are we shortchanging girls once again with this attempt to seem universal? I guess valuing girls for themselves is still a radical idea. Kay Dodder University of Arizona kdodder@bird.library.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 00:33:25 +0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Seaton Subject: Re: wmst for med students In-Reply-To: Linda Allred wrote: > A group of 4th-year med students here have asked one of the med school > faculty to teach a course on Women's Studies for them in the spring. The > faculty member wants to know what would be appropriate in the way of > texts, readings, etc., for this particular group. I'm not in the medical profession, but a title that immediately jumped into my mind was: "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing," by Christiane Northrup, M.D. (July, 1995) Hope this helps. Kathleen Seaton, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Foreign Languages Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. krf@s867.thu.edu.tw > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:58:12 CST6CDT Reply-To: mack@soc.msstate.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Karin A. Mack" Subject: Videos on women & religion Can anyone recommend videos for the classroom which deal with women and religion which have a least some material on christianity? We're trying to build the women's studies resources here and a possible funding agency is one that gives money for the study of christian religion--I have a list of books on the topic but I was hoping there might be some good videos out there too. Thanks for your help! Karin Karin A. Mack, Ph.D. mack@soc.msstate.edu Department of Sociology, Phone: 601-325-7874 Anthropology and Social Work FAX: 601-325-4564 P. O. Drawer C Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 39762 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 13:01:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Delese Wear Subject: Re: wmst for med students In-Reply-To: from "Linda J. Allred" at Oct 20, 95 12:03:09 pm i just read your message seeking information about a women's studies course for medical students. i am a faculty member at a medical school--i teach in the medical humanities program (literature) and am the assoc. director of women in medicine program. i've been integrating women's studies into my syllabi for over a decade now, mostly focusing on women's health issues portrayed in fiction and literary nonfiction such as autobiography and memoir. i've tried looking at women across the lifecycle or focused on particular issues such as childbirth. regardless of the text or topic, i encourage students to read gender, class, and race into all that we read/discuss in class AND in medical practices in hospitals,clinics, offices, etc. i systematically use essays from women's studies texts when we're reading on a particular subject: we may read audre lorde's THE CANCER JOURNALS along with barbara smith's "the truth that never hurts: black lesbians in fiction in the 1980's. and so on. sorry for the self-promotion, but my colleage lois nixon and i have a book LITERARY ANATOMIES:WOMEN'S BODIES AND HEALTH IN LITERATURE (SUNY, 1994) that you may want to look at if you want an explicit link between medicine and literature--but maybe you don't, and i think that'd be real fine too--often students will only listen to talk that is about medicine or that has explicit medical implications, which is another tired, monotonous, predictable privileging of medical discourse. so a straight up course in women's studies, with medicine arising incidentally rather than the other way around, would be interesting and i think important. good luck! delese wear northeastern ohio universities college of medicine dw@uhura.neoucom.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:41:27 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilee Reimer Organization: St.Thomas University Subject: Re: November U of Havana conference To the list: I am forwarding this on behalf of a friend who is not on the list. Please respond to Joan McFarland (mcfarlan@stthomasu.ca) if you know anything about the conference. Thanks, Marilee Reimer (mreimer@stthomasu.ca) Can anyone out there help me? I have registered for the conference "Women on the Threshold of the XXI Century" organized by the University of Havana Women's Studies Program to be held Nov. 22-25. It includes a session on "Reflections about the encounter in Beijin". My problem is that I have not heard back from the organizers since I registered in the summer. I have an email address for the conference but have gotten no response. I need to go ahead with my travel arrangements but I don't know if I should get a tourist visa etc. If anyone is going or has more information please get in touch with me: mcfarlan@stthomasu.ca Joan McFarland Marilee Reimer St.Thomas University Fredericton, N.B., Canada Email MREIMER@StThomasU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:45:08 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhoda Unger Subject: request for assistance with a reference I am in the final throes of copy editing a textbook and have found an incorrect reference to a chapter in a book that is neither in my library nor that of my coauthor. The book is edited by J. Alexander and others and is entitled "Women and aging" published by Calyx Press in 1986. I am trying to find out whether the article on Elizabeth Layton was written by L. Lipper or Lippard. If anyone can help me out, I would be very grateful. Thank you. Rhoda Unger ungerr@alpha.montclair.edu P.S. Please respond privately, I don't think this is of interest to the whole list. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:02:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: cheshire calhoun Subject: historical performance In the past two years, we have had historical performances of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and of Elizabeth Cady Stanton during women's history month. This year we would like to have a performance centered around an historically important woman of color. I would appreciate recommendations of performers that we might contact. thanks. c_calhou@colby.edu (207)872-3594 Philosophy, Colby College, Waterville ME ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 16:46:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen E Green Subject: Re: wmst for med students In-Reply-To: Have a look at _The Black Women's Health Book_, ed. Billye Avery, founder of the National Black Women's Health Project. Kathy Green University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee kgreen@csd.uwm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:20:46 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Victoria Olsen Subject: Girls and Homeschooling In light of the recent AAUW report on how schools are responding to critiques of gender bias against girls, and for all interested in the topic of girls, schooling, and self-esteem, I want to point out that there is a new book out by Susannah Sheffer on homeschooled teenage girls. Using 55 case studies, Sheffer finds that homeschooled girls don't suffer the same crisis in self-esteem that has been so widely discussed among public-school adolescent girls. Though I haven't read this book yet, Sheffer is the editor of John Holt's letters and the Growing Without Schooling newsletter whose work I know well, so I have every reason to expect this book will be worth reading. The citation, for those who want it, is Susannah Sheffer, A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls, Portsmouth,NH: Heinemann Publishers, 1995. ISBN: 0-86709-357-9. I'd be interested to hear feedback from anyone who reads it... Victoria Olsen vcolsen@slip.net