========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 13:34:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: new activist list and more I have two announcements about new lists and listings. First of all, there is a new feminist activist discussion list, ABIGAILS-L. Full information about that list will be found below. Also, the WWW version of my frequently-updated compilation of Women-Related Email Lists may now be easier to use, thanks to the addition of topical sub-sections for the following categories (all deal with women-related lists): Activist Lists Arts and Humanities Lists Education Lists Health Lists International Lists Internet Information Lists Religion/Spirituality Lists Science/Technology Lists Sexuality/Sexual Orientation Lists Social Science Lists Women of Color Lists Women's Studies Lists The URL for the Women-Related Email Lists compilation is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html . It is also available via email without the topical sub-sections by sending the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Here is the announcement I received about ABIGAILS-L, the new feminist activist discussion list: Announcing A B I G A I L S - L A F E M I N I S T A C T I V I S T D I S C U S S I O N L I S T "We are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation." -- From Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March, 1776 ....................... * ........................ ABIGAILS-L is a new email list dedicated to gaining full and equal women's rights through immediate actions. ABIGAILS-L: A Feminist Activist discussion List is an email list named in honor of Abigail Adams: women of letters, american patriot, businesswoman, wife & mother. In order to realize Abigail Adams' "rebellion" of the full emancipation of women (thereby achieving the liberation of humankind & creation), a rebellion which continues on many fronts--most recently at the NGO/UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and on many email lists, most notably BEIJING95-L, BEIJING95-WOMEN, CATTS-CLAWS, & WOAH-HERSTORY--the email list BEIJING95-WOMEN was renamed ABIGAILS-L on December 28, 1995. Irene Stuber and Jennifer Gagliardi co-moderate ABIGAILS-L, focusing on issues concerning and impacting the feminist community. It is hoped that this information exchange on ABIGAILS-L will facilitate feminist activism. Whereas any topic pertaining to the feminist community is an appropriate topic for discussion on ABIGAILS-L, ABIGAILS-L also serves as a compliment to issues raise on Beijing95-L a email list dedicated to the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995; Catt's Claws a feminist newsletter; and Women of Achievement & Herstory a daily posting celebrating women. Action alerts, announcements, queries, etc of interest to the feminist community are also welcomed. To subscribe to ABIGAILS-L send an email msg: To: listserv@netcom.com Subject: (leave blank) Text: subscribe abigails-l The message will then be forwarded to the list-owner/admin as soon as possible (your patience is appreciated). We look forward to seeing you on-list soon! Irene Stuber comoderator ABIGAILS-L editor CATTS-CLAWS editor WOAH-HERSTORY Jennifer Gagliardi list-admin & comoderator ABIGAILS-L list-admin CATTS-CLAWS list-admin WOAH-HERSTORY moderator BEIJING95-L Happy New Year! Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 16:28:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 6 more email lists Shortly after I posted my earlier message about a new feminist activist list, ABIGAILS-L, and changes to my compilation of Women-Related Email Lists, I received a message from Eva Isaksson telling me about NAISTUTKIMUS, a Finnish women's studies list that has 450 subscribers. Here is the information Eva sent me: > NAISTUTKIMUS is the Finnish women's studies list. The postings are > in Finnish, although announcements can be posted in other languages > also. To subscribe, send the subscription message > (SUBSCRIBE NAISTUTKIMUS Your Name) to LISTPROC@UTA.FI > The technical listowner can be contacted at: eisaksso@cc.helsinki.fi In addition, I have added five more lists to the compilation. Two, CATTS-CLAWS and WOAH-HERSTORY, are not discussion lists, but they ARE women-related and a source of much useful information. The new additions (other than NAISTUTKIMUS) are the following: CATTS-CLAWS is a thrice-weekly posting of news concerning the feminist community, created by Irene Stuber. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE CATTS-CLAWS to LISTSERV@NETCOM.COM . (Recent issues can be found on the WWW at http://worcester.lm.com/women/is/cattsclaws.html .) LDS-WOMEN is a women-only list devoted to discussion of Latter Day Saints feminism and gender issues. It is open only to LDS, former LDS, and interested non-LDS *women*. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE LDS-WOMEN to LISTSERV@NETCOM.COM . SIS-L is a closed email women's meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. To join the group, send an email message to SIS-L-REQUEST@NETCOM.COM stating your adherence to the Third Tradition of AA: "The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking." WOAH-HERSTORY (Women of Achievement and Herstory) is a daily posting by Irene Stuber (irenestuber@delphi.com) about the achievements and lives of women throughout history. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE WOAH-HERSTORY to LISTSERV@NETCOM.COM . Recent issues of WOAH-HERSTORY can be found on the World Wide Web at http://worcester.lm.com/women/is/achievement.html . WOMENS-CYCLING is an unmoderated list for those interested in the issues, etc., of women on self-powered cycles, especially bicycles. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE WOMENS-CYCLING to LISTSERV@NETCOM.COM . Many thanks to Eva Isaksson for informing me about NAISTUTKIMUS. I welcome more additions and corrections. The entire listing can be found at http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html. If you don't have access to the World Wide Web, you can get an email copy by sending the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:07:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Evan Harrington Subject: Re: Girls' Testimony on 4 Winds In-Reply-To: Some time ago I saw a talk show which focused on involuntary institutionalization of teens. While some of the teens were girls, none were grrls, but there was one aspect which may be relevent to this disussion. One person who was featured who was trying to combat involuntary institutionalization of teens was a fellow named Seth Farber. Dr. Farber has a book out called "Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels." This book has a number of narratives by survivors of psychiatric abuse and involuntary institutionalization. Dr. Farber has an address in the book for an organization he has started, although he appears to be a bit erratic in responding. I sent requests for info and never received a reply but I later got the chance to meet and talk with Dr. Farber. Farber seems to take the road pioneered by Thomas Szasz, but he applies it to real world situations. His book may be of interest for those who wish to read more about the anti-psychiatric movement as it relates to involuntary institutionalization of teenagers. Evan Harrington Temple University ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:19:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Evan Harrington Subject: Re: More on Steinem In-Reply-To: I have seen the John Stossel video on which this thread is based and I agree that this is a good example of how the media can oversimplify and mis-state scientific matters. However... I would like to ask what the response would be had David Buss or some other "sex difference" proponant said that gender egalitarianism is "anti-American crazy thinking." I do not see that this sort of statement is acceptable from a liberal science perspective no matter who says it. This statement implies that whoever does such research is anti-American and crazy. Evan Harrington Temple University ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 09:18:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Format for WMST-L Messages (User's Guide) Today's monthly reminder from the WMST-L User's Guide: ******************** 1) "IS THERE A PREFERRED FORMAT TO USE FOR MESSAGES SENT TO THE LIST (I.E., TO WMST-L@UMDD OR WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU)?" Yes. First of all, ALWAYS put your name and e-mail address at the end of every posting. (It is important that people be able to contact you privately if they wish, and some mail systems do not identify the writer anywhere in the header.) Also, please include a meaningful subject heading, so that people will know whether your message deals with a topic of interest to them. (MANY people automatically delete messages with no subject heading or with one that doesn't interest them.) Finally, if you are replying to someone else's posting, BRIEFLY quote or summarize that posting before you offer your reply. Doing so will make your message clearer and avoid confusion. (New subscribers are continually joining the list; they may not have read the original message. And since a number of topics are often being discussed on the list at any given moment, even long-time subscribers may not remember what prompted your remarks unless you remind them.) NOTE: if you're replying to a long message, do NOT quote it in its entirety! Include just a few relevant lines. ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 10:35:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Travers Subject: Psych. Web Sites Query Can anyone suggest good Intro. to Psych. Web sites? Also good sites for Psych. of Women? Please respond privately. Many thanks in advance. Ann D. Travers Agtravers@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 08:55:03 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: FLEISHER_H_KASSIA Subject: Re: Bias/Discrimination in course evaluations. In-Reply-To: as to bill's question about research regarding gender gaps in student evaluations, i thought there was an article on this in the _chronicle of higher education_ perhaps 18 months ago. i've been looking for it myself. does anyone remember this or have access to a _chronicle_ index? (i don't.) thanks, kassie fleisher ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:59:28 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: anne elizabeth macneil Subject: grrls Hello all, I am uninformed about the definition of grrls. Where did the term come from? To what, exactly, does it refer? Many thanks in advance, Anne MacNeil ma5c@midway.uchicago.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:12:04 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Rothschild Subject: Re: Brains & Gender In-Reply-To: "02 Jan 96 12:05:32 MST from" no, it was from the message you sent us from the wst list, but oh well, we can forget it! m Mary L. Rothschild, Director Women's Studies Program Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1801 Phone: (602)965-2358 FAX: (602)965-2357 =-= BITNET: IFMXR@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:43:01 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Cheryl L. Meeker" Subject: end of class celebration -Reply Susan: sounds like a wonderful project. Would you please elaborate? Cheryl L. Meeker 700 East Broadway, Monmouth, Il. 61462 or cherylm@wpoff.monm.edu >>> Susan C. Turell 12/29/95 05:29pm >>> I assign a gender role reversal as a project during the semester, and have them present that they did the last day of class. They also bring snacks to make it more of a party atmosphere. I ask the students to do some behavior during the semester that _they_ consider inappropriate for themselves (or haven't done in the past) due to gender roles. I ask that it be non-violent and legal; other than that, I give little direction, much to their dismay. I find it ties the class together well--the women feel empowered, the strength of pressure to adhere to gender roles is illustrated nicely, progress in terms of relaxing gender roles is also noted. The men also have very interesting expereinces, usually negative--and we talk about why they might have those experiences. (also ties in the research on gender roles coveredearlier in the semester). If anyone wants more information about the assignment, feel free to email me privately. Susan Turell turell@cl4.cl.uh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 14:54:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: Gender and creative writing I tried to reply to Sue Hubbard's post on Gender and Creative Writing, and got an "undeliverable as addressed" message. Did others have the same experience? Sue, if you're reading this, could you contact me directly and verify your e-mail address? -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:29:12 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: job announcement The University of South Florida invites applications for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor in Women's Studies with a specialty in Psychology of Women. PhD. in Psychhology and/or related field with strong interdisciplinary background required. Minor concentration in Women's Studies preferred. Send c. v., letter of application describing research and teaching interests, sample of scholarly work, and three letters of recommendation to: Dr. Kim Vaz, Chair, Women's Studies Search Committee, Women's Studies Department, HMS 413, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620-8350. Salary is competitive. Position is contingent upon funding. Deadline: January 22, 1996. USF is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Institution. For disability accommodations, please contact Kim Vaz (813) 974-0985 at least five business days in advance. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:22:17 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty J Glass Subject: Re: 2 new books In-Reply-To: Here is information about 2 recent books, FYI: Eilberg-Schwartz, H. & Doniger, W., eds. _Off with Her Head! The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture_. U of CA Press Schofield, Janet W. _Computers and Classroom Culture_. (2 chapters specifically deal with gender issues) Betty glass@UNR.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 00:02:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynn Domina Subject: women & spirituality I'm compiling a resource list of electronic discussion groups that address women & spirituality or religion and gay/lesbian spirituality or religion. If anyone knows of any I've likely missed, please send me their addresses and subscription info. Respond privately if you prefer. Thanks, Lynn--LDOMINA@ccmail.sunysb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 07:48:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Travers Subject: Good Psych. Mailing Lists I am getting great suggestions for Psych. Web sites which I will post to the list after I compile them. In the same vein, with this list being so exceptional, can anyone recommend Psych. mailing lists that have been as comprehensive and supportive as WMST-L? Please respond privately and my thanks in advance. Ann D. Travers Agtravers@aol.com) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 12:19:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to unsubscribe, etc. (User's Guide) Today's monthly reminder from the WMST-L User's Guide: 2) "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LISTSERV@UMDD AND WMST-L@UMDD? HOW DO I TELL WHICH ADDRESS TO USE? AND HOW DO I UNSUBSCRIBE?" WMST-L@UMDD (or WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU on Internet) should be used ONLY for messages that you wish to send to all WMST-L subscribers. Messages concerning your WMST-L subscription should be sent to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (or, on Bitnet, LISTSERV@UMDD). If you wish to unsubscribe, for example, send the message UNSUB WMST-L to the LISTSERV address, not to WMST-L. If you receive the edited DIGEST and want to unsubscribe, your UNSUB message still goes to LISTSERV but should have two lines: UNSUB WMST-L on one line, AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE on the other. Here are some additional examples of messages to send to LISTSERV (NOT to WMST-L): Subscribe to WMST-L: SUB WMST-L Your Name Stop receiving mail temporarily: SET WMST-L NOMAIL Start receiving mail again: SET WMST-L MAIL Start edited digest: [See paragraph marked *** below] Stop edited digest but stay on WMST-L: [See paragraph marked ** * below] Stop edited digest and unsub from WMST-L (2 lines): UNSUB WMST-L AFD DEL WMST-L P ACKAGE ===> NEVER SEND A MESSAGE TO WMST-L ABOUT YOUR SUBSCRIPTION!!! NOTE: If you subscribed under a Bitnet address and sent your subscription request to LISTSERV's Bitnet address (LISTSERV@UMDD), you must send ALL subsequent mail to the list's Bitnet address. Similarly, if you subscribed under an Internet address and sent your subscription request to LISTSERV's Internet address (LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU), you must send ALL subsequent mail to the list's Internet address. If you try to set your subscription to NOMAIL or you try to signoff and are told you don't have a subscription, chances are you are sending your request to the wrong address for LISTSERV. Simply try the other address. (See also section 4) *** Also, to switch from receiving individual messages to receiving the edited digest, send the following two-line message to LISTSERV: AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE (on one line), SET WMST-L NOMAIL ACK (on the other line). Ignore suggestions to set a password. To stop the digest and go back to individual messages, send LISTSERV the following 2-line command: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE (on line 1), SET WMST-L MAIL NOACK (on line 2). Reminder: If you wish to stop the digest AND unsubscribe, you must send LISTSERV a two-line message: UNSUB WMST-L on one line, AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE on the other. See section 6 for more information about the digest. For more extensive information about LISTSERV commands, send LISTSERV the following two-word message: INFO GENINTRO. You'll receive a file entitled LISTSERV.MEMO. (See section 11 for how to retrieve files sent to you in Netdata format.) If you have a question about your subscription that you want a human being to read, do NOT send it to either WMST-L or LISTSERV!! Instead, send it to the list owner, Joan Korenman [KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (or, on Bitnet, KORENMAN@UMBC)]. ****************************************** Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 12:43:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynn Schlesinger Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: gender bending -- Date sent: 3-JAN-1996 12:42:20 Sorry list members, I tried to send this directly to the original poster, but the message wouldn't go through -- > >Hi -- I don't know if you can access the archives of the QUALRS-L list ( >qualitative research) but 2-3 years ago there was an exchange that got >quite hot about this topic -- A person, I still don't know whether a he or >she, named Jean sent a message -- someone responded to Jean as "he", this >lead to some discussion about why assume "he", does it make any difference, >and as I recall some people got quite nasty -- I was one of the people who >said that gender does make a difference....anyway, if you want more info >about the list please let me know... > >Sincerely, > >Lynn Schlesinger >schlesl@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu > >Dept. of Sociology >SUNY Plattsburgh >Plattsburgh NY 12901 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 13:23:28 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: caroline nachman Organization: sqn inc. Subject: Easier cross-referencing for interdisciplinary studies Comments: To: wmst-l%umdd.bitnet@listserv.net Cross-referencing is one of the most useful enhancements to any collecti on of n otes and ideas. But traditionally it's been a time-= consuming, difficult task. That's why many serious researchers, collectors, aca demics and authors never get around to extensive cro= ss-referencing of their notes and ideas. Now easy to use software which runs on any IBM-compatible PC is availabl e -- FR EE -- to make cross-referencing fast and easy. It's= called SquareNote, and it's time-tested by thousands of users at 1,100+ college s and universities, and by thousands of professional= s, researchers and business people in 39 countries around the world. For information about getting your free copy of SquareNote3.5, email "SQ N35NET@ SQN.COM". Or just download SquareNote3.5 from our w= ebsite, "HTTP://SQN.COM". It takes just three minutes to download, less than th at to install on your PC. Happy cross-referencing! Caroline Nachman, SQN Inc. | For free SquareNote3.5, "Collects, organizes,indexes | email "sqn35net@sqn.com" best ideas, notes, clippings." | or open "http://sqn.com" =1A ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:43:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ilene D. Alexander" Subject: Persephone Hi, I'm looking to add to my collection of poems, short stories (and so on) that take their themes from the myths of Persephone and Demeter. For example, Meridel LeSueur's short story "Persephone," or Charlene Spretnak's re-telling of the myth, or Rita Dove's recent trilogy of poems. I use the poems/stories as part of the opening week discussion in poetry and lit courses. Please send your suggestions (and as much of a citation as you can) to the e-mail address below. ****************************** Ilene D. Alexander alexandr@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu ****************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 09:02:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: messages NOT to send to WMST-L (User's Guide) Today's monthly reminder from the User's Guide (this is the most needed one): 3) "WHEN SHOULD I REPLY PRIVATELY RATHER THAN TO WMST-L?" WMST-L is set up so that replies will automatically go to all subscribers. If you respond to a WMST-L message by hitting a reply key or typing "reply," everyone will read your response. This is appropriate when the contents are likely to be of interest to a number of subscribers (most suggestions for reading lists and teaching strategies fall into this category). However, if you are writing to request a copy of a paper someone has mentioned, please send your request PRIVATELY, NOT to WMST-L. Similarly, comments directed at a particular person (e.g., "Right on, Rhoda. Good point," or "Thanks for the info," or "What a horrendous experience that must have been. I don't know why people do such things," or "Hi, Jane, I'm glad to see you've joined the list. Write to me," etc.) should be sent PRIVATELY, NOT to WMST-L. Also, short general statements of approval, disapproval, or puzzlement (e.g., "Hooray! I'm glad someone finally said that!" or "I can't imagine how anyone can believe such nonsense" or "why did you send that message?") should NOT be sent to WMST-L. Finally, please also send privately most expressions of thanks or apology. [People using Pine and a few other mail systems need to be especially careful about replies: for a private reply, say NO both to using the Reply-to address and to replying to all recipients.] [One further note: the above sorts of messages are OMITTED from the WMST-L digest. If the person you're trying to reach is one of the hundreds who reads WMST-L in digest form, she/he will not see the message if you send it to WMST-L.] ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 07:50:14 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Terra Anderson Subject: Re: messages NOT to send to WMST-L (User's Guide) I want to get in touch with Peggy McIntosh. The information I have shows her at Wellesley College, Center for Research on Women. Does anyone know if this is still current or have phone. or e-mail addresses for her? Thank you in advance and please respond privately to: Terra Anderson anderson_t@fortlewis.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 11:49:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jane quaid rickman Subject: SCWSA EXTENDED CALL THE SOUTH CENTRAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE "CELEBRATING DIFFERENCE/EXPLORING COMMONALITY: WOMEN'S STUDIES IN THE '90S" Our Call for Papers has been extended. If you got caught up in the Holiday/end of Semester activities please send the proposal/abstract/panel to us as soon as possible! The Conference is in Norman, OKlahoma March 29-30. The OU Women's Studies Program will be celebrating out 20th Birthday as well as National Women's History Month. Proposals or papers should follow theme and concern Women's Studies in the '90s applied to anthropology,history pedagogy, law, medicine, science, literature, art, music, communication, history, sociology, psychology or other relevant topics. 250 word abstracts or panel proposals in English should include names of organizer/author (all members of panels) mailing address; phone number, professional /institutional affiliation; title/position as well as audio-visual needs. Please send ASAP to Dr. Betty Harris, Women's Studies Program 528 PHSC, University of Oklahoma, Norman OK 73019 OR CALL (405) 325-3481, E-MAIL AA0383@uokmvsa.bitnet FAX: (405) 325-5068. We look forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:16:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Job Announcement: Correction I inadvertently posted the wrong text for the USF job announcement yesterday. The correct wording for the position and the correct deadline date are as follows: The Universityof South Florida invites applications for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor in Women's Studies to teach courses such as "Psychology of Women," "Gender and Medicine," "Introduction to Women's Studies," "Human Sexual Behavior," and "Women's Body/Women's Mind." Ph.D. in the Social Sciences with a concentration in Women's Studies is required. Send c.v., letter of application describing research and teaching interests, samples of scholarly work, and three letters of recommendation to: Dr. Kim Vaz, Chair, Women's Studies Search Committee, Women's Studies Department HMS 413, University of South Florida, Tampa 33620-8350. Salary is competitive. Position is contingent upon funding. Deadline: January 8, 1996 USF is an Equal Opporunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access institutuion. For disability accommodations, please contact: Kim Vaz (813) 974-0985 at least five business days in advance. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 14:42:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Liane Curtis Subject: poet vs. philosopher Dear Women's Studies List, I am interested in finding out if their might be a historical context (particularly in the early decades of the twentieth century) for juxtaposing the terms poet/philosopher, and alligning this juxtaposition with the feminine/masculine one. [poet=feminine/philosopher=masculine]. This question stems from my research on composer Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979). In 1919 her Viola Sonata tied for first place in a contest with 70 other entries; hers was the only one by a woman. The contest sponsor Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge herself broke the tie, awarding first prize to Ernest Bloch's Suite for Viola. The judges then said that the winning piece was the work of a philosopher, while the runner-up was that of a poet. I think this poet/philosopher binarism seems similar to the intuition/reason binarism that is so commonly alligned with feminine/masculine but I wondered if anyone could cite some specific instances of other uses of this poet/philosopher. Thanks! Liane Curtis Music Dept. Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME 04011 lcurtis@polar.bowdoin.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:19:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Kuzmack Subject: Fellowship panelists sought The American Association of University Women Educational Foundation Board of Directors is seeking panelists for their American and International Fellowships awards panels. Fellowships are awarded to women doctoral and postdoctoral scholars in all fields. Panelists review applications in advance and meet once a year in Washington, D.C. in March to select the awardees for recommendatin to the Board for approval. For appointments taking effect July 1, 1996, panelists are sought in the fields of English, linguistics, mathematics, sociology/anthropology, economics/finance/business, education, foreign language studies, biological sciences, health sciences, chemistry, nutrition/public health, engineering/computer science, architecture/urban planning, women's studies, and government/political science. An AAUW vita form must be completed, which is available by calling the AAUW Executive Office (202-785-7717). Vitae must be postmarked by January 17, 1996. Vitae postmarked after that date will be held for future appointments. AAUW values and seeks diversity in its appointments. Panelists need not be AAUW members. Please pass on this information to scholars in other departments at your institution who support AAUW's mission of education for women and girls, and would be good reviewers for fellowships. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 21:42:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Montelaro Subject: position available The University of Pittsburgh is reopening its search for qualified candidates for the position of DIRECTOR OF WOMEN'S STUDIES, starting September 1996. Candidates should be published scholars, with strong records in Women's Studies' research, teaching, and administration. They should be able to provide leadership for the Program and should be qualified for a tenured appointment at the associate or full professor level, preferably in a department in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or possibly in a professional school at the university. Send a letter outlining interest in the position, a curriculum vitae, names of three or more references, and an article length writing sample to Women's Studies Program, 2632 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260. Deadline is February 1. The University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program, one of the oldest in the nation, began in 1972. About fifty full-time faculty members currently do research on gender and cross-list courses with us; part- time faculty and teaching assistants and fellows teach about forty more cross-listed courses and sections each year. We offer an under- graduate certificate and a graduate certificate; there is much student interest in establishing a major. We particularly encourage applications from minorities and women. For further information, contact Dr. Marianne Novy, current Director of the Program, at mnovy@vms.cis.pitt.edu Please post this notice in your department or program office. Janet Montelaro (JJM6@vms.cis.pitt.edu) Research Assistant Professor Women's Studies Program University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 08:15:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: authorization/approval to post (User's Guide) Today's monthly reminder from the WMST-L User's Guide: 4) "I'VE TRIED TO POST A MESSAGE TO THE LIST, BUT I RECEIVED A MESSAGE BACK SAYING THAT I'M NOT AUTHORIZED TO DO SO. I'M A SUBSCRIBER --WHY WAS I TOLD I'M NOT AUTHORIZED?" B) "WHEN I SENT A MESSAGE TO WMST-L, I WAS TOLD IT HAD BEEN FORWARDED TO THE LISTOWNER FOR APPROVAL. WHY?" A) Only people whom the LISTSERV software recognizes as subscribers can post messages on WMST-L. To subscribe, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): SUB WMST-L Your Name (e.g., SUB WMST-L Jane Smith). 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This cuts down on inappropriate messages from newcomers who haven't had time to read the welcome letter. After a few weeks, most subscriptions are quietly readjusted so that messages are no longer subject to prior review. ****************** Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 09:55:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Constance J Ostrowski Subject: Re: poet vs. philosopher Liane Curtis observed the parallelism between the poet-philosopher opposition and the feminine-masculine and intuition-reason binarisms, and asked for historical context, esp. in the early 20th century. I don't know if you were asking for only fairly recent instances, but my mind immediately flashes to the patriarch of western binarism, Plato (and his student, Aristotle). In his _Republic_, Plato (as he did in just about everything else he wrote) privileged philosophy (the use of reason to attain the abstract realm of the TRUTH), here in the form of philosopher kings. Poets, on the other hand, because they were three times removed from the TRUTH, telling what he characterized as lies, were by-and-large banished (poetry was, actually, though he could handle epic poems, if narrative poets like Homer would clean up their act; the dramatists, however, were not to be tolerated). Manly logic/reason was clearly supreme; imagination/emotions/intuition (which is non-logical, non-rational) was associated with the feminine. (I don't have my _Republic_ here to pull any quotes.) Similarly, manly (martial) music (re: rhythms, melodies, and instruments) was okay, but music that excited the emotions--music that would "unman" reason--was absolutely out. Rhetoric, by the way, was also put on the "feminine"/lying side, and was equally disparaged by Plato, who savaged the sophists. Aristotle, while rescuing rhetoric, did have to unhappily admit that it was unfortunate the emotions creep into people's behavior and have to be dealt with--that's why he could rescue rhetoric. However, logic was still supreme for Aristotle. And in his writings (I forget which ones), he made quite clear his association of reason with masculine and emotion (imagination/ intuition) with feminine. Has anyone ever written an apology for philosophy? Yet, there have been numerous justifications for poetry (literature) written over the centuries. And while philosophy courses may not be the hottest college electives, and are not required courses in most high school curricula (to the best of my knowldge)--and in fact, while there seems to be a fair amount of negativity towards the abstraction that tends to characterize much of what is currently viewed as philosophy, still the courses that tend to be more prized nowadays--the "practical" courses, esp. in the hard and some social sciences, and engineering--are largely based on the logic privileged by philosophy. (And modern theoretical and applied science--"science" meaning knowledge--is a descendant of what used to be called "natural philosophy".) Please excuse the length of this post--and the length of that one sentence in the prior paragraph: it must have been my feminine emotions carrying me away!!! But clearly, in the association of the sciences with the masculine and the humanities with the feminine, this binarism persists (although note how philosophy today has shifted towards the feminine. Plato must be turning in his grave!) Connie Ostrowski ostroc@rpi.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 08:06:58 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty J Glass Subject: NEW: crone - Changing spititual needs of womyn (fwd) Comments: cc: wmsprt-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu FYI, Betty ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 21:41:37 CST From: Shoshana Edwards Crone via Crone-request@smartlink.net The Crone list is for discussion of subjects related to the changing spiritual needs of menopausal and post-menopausal womyn. The list encourages participation by womyn and men, and invites participants of all ages. The orientation is pagan, with an emphasis on honoring the Goddess in Her three incarnations: The Maiden, Mother and Crone. The Crone list is a majordomo run list open to all interested subscribers. To subscribe send email to Crone-request@smartlink.net and put the word SUBSCRIBE in the body of your letter. Owner: Shoshana Edwards bree@auldbooks.com Moderator of the Crone Mailing List ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:37:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Phyl G. Rubinstein" Subject: VIDEO: ACTING OUR AGE Comments: To: glass@UNR.EDU Help please! Someone recently posted information about a video called ACTING OUR AGE. I accidently deleted the distribution info. Could you send it to me? Thanks phyl g. rubinstein PRubinstein@Mailbox.UNE.Edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 19:13:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne Hamilton Young Subject: Bryher-H.D. letters Hello all. I remember reading sometime recently that an edition of letters between H.D. and Bryher was due out but can find no evidence that it's been published. Does anyone know anything about this project and what stage it's in? Please reply privately. Thanks, Suzanne Young University of Virginia shy3y@darwin.clas.virginia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 11:01:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to stop mail temporarily (User's Guide) Today's monthly reminder from the WMST-L User's Guide: ****************** 5) "I'M GOING ON VACATION FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. CAN I STOP MAIL WHILE I'M AWAY, OR DO I HAVE TO UNSUBSCRIBE?" You can stop mail temporarily (except for the edited digest) by sending the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed on Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed on Internet): SET WMST-L NOMAIL [NOTE: NOMAIL is one word] When you want mail to start arriving again, send the following message to the same address: SET WMST-L MAIL If you want to stop the edited DIGEST, even temporarily, you have to send the message AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE . To re-start it, send the message AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE (and ignore the request that you establish a password). Note: BE SURE TO SEND THESE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L! Also, if you receive a message back telling you you're not a subscriber, see section 4) above. ****************** Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 15:10:18 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Film Review Added: The American President On Saturday, January 6, 1996, I reviewed "The American President" on "The Women's Show" a weekly womanist/feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM (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 REV162 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: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 10:49:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: too many messages? try edited digest (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 6) "DOES WMST-L EXIST IN A DIGEST FORMAT?" Yes. If you choose the edited digest option, each day you will receive anywhere from one to five files containing most of the WMST-L messages of the past day (messages that should not have been sent to the list to begin with are omitted). Related messages will usually be put in the same file, and each file will begin with a table of contents. The digest reduces both mail clutter and, usually, mail volume. (Please note that this is NOT the huge, unselective bundle of messages that many listserv digest features provide. Do NOT use their digest command.) If you would like to receive the daily digest file rather than individual mail messages, you should send the following 2-line e-mail message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if your WMST-L subscription is under your Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if your subscription is under your Internet address): AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE SET WMST-L NOMAIL ACK Note: If you've subscribed on Bitnet, the digest may arrive as a file rather than as an e-mail message. If you don't know how to receive a file, see section 11 of the WMST-L User's Guide or ask the computer support people at your institution. If you'd prefer to receive the digest(s) inside mail message(s), alter the abovementioned AFD ADD statement to read as follows: AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE F=MAIL . However, even if you receive the digest(s) as mail messages, YOU CANNOT REPLY AUTOMATICALLY! If you wish to reply to a message in the digest, you must start a new message and address it either to WMST-L or to the individual. Also, LISTSERV may ask you to set up an AFD password. You're best off not doing so. Finally, if at some point you wish to STOP receiving the digest, either temporarily or permanently, send LISTSERV a message that says AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE . If you wish to unsubscribe AND stop the digest, add a second line that says UNSUB WMST-L . ************************ Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 12:18:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan hubbard Subject: gender and writing (2) Earlier i asked this list for sources relevant to research on gender stereotypes that may affect teaching and learning of creative writing. Thanks to all who responded so far. I'm still looking for more commentaries, anecdotes, and hard data. Here's a broader question: If you know of empirical research on gender and writing (any sort), could you pass info along to me? And if any of you who teach writing have comments, please send those. I'm impressed by how much research has been done on gender's apparent influence on oral communication styles,and how little seems to have been done on its influence on writing styles. I'm chairing a panel discussion on gender and creative writing this April at the AWP conference in Atlanta, but I'll be happy to share my findings with any interested persons. thanks. --susan hubbard (shubbard@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 16:18:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Ross Subject: position available ** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 16:19:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Ross Subject: position available We are hoping some of you will apply for this position. We will not be insisting on the "immigration specialty" part if the candidate is willing to teach a course in the subject. If interested, contact Prof. Charles Carreras, School of American/International Studies, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey 07430. You can call him at 210 529-7429. RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY TENURE TRACK FACULTY POSITION HISTORY-Assistant Professor of U.S. History with expertise in post-1945 immigration, preferably Asian immigration, and ability to teach courses dealing with multicultural issues in education for secondary teacher education program. Other teaching responsibilities include general education courses, such as Social Issues or Western Studies. Ph.D. in U.S. History and college teaching experience required. ABD with strong credentials and close to completion of dissertation may be considered. Search Committee Chair: Dr. Charles Carreras, School of American and International Studies. Ramapo College, a 4-year, barrier-free, undergraduate institution, approximately 25 miles from New York City, is committed to "global education." Ramapo College is an equal opportunity employer. Applications from minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and veterans are especially welcome. On-site child care is available. Ellen Ross eross@ultrix.ramapo.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:41:04 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: Correction: Women's Studies position in New Zealand An earlier message was sent without the correct address for applications. Please pass the following on to anyone who may be interested in applying. Please note the closing date of February 29th. Happy New Year Lynne Alice ____________ MASSEY UNIVERSITY Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies Women's Studies Programme The Women's Studies Programme at Massey University offers 24 courses at undergraduate level, a BA major, Graduate Diploma, M.A, M.Phil and Ph.D study. Courses are available in both internal and extramural modes. The Programme is seeking applications for a new Appointment at Lectureship or Senior Lectureship level. You should possess a doctoral degree and scholarship, teaching and administrative experience in Women's Studies or related areas. Qualified applicants are sought who are able to teach feminist research methods at third year level and to contribute to other undegraduate courses, some of which are taught in extramural mode; to supervise graduate students and to help develop the postgraduate programme. We seek an excellent teacher and an active researcher with a strong publications record, as well as demonstrated ability to network with women's groups in the community and the university. Although applications from persons in any field of Women's Studies and feminist-focused research will be considered, it is likely that preference will be given to candidates whose interests and skills address the needs of the existing programme. Massey University is an equal opportunity employer and Maori or Pacific Island women are especially invited to apply. It is expected that you will commence duties on or before the second semester, commencing July 15 1996. Appointment will be on the Lecturer or Senior Lecturer scale according to qualifications and experience. Closing date for applications : February 29th, 1996. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment or to appoint by invitation Information about Women's Studies may be obtained from the programme's Web pages, http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms. Enquires of an academic nature should be directed to the Director : Dr L.C.Alice, Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. tel. 350.4938 fax 350.5627 or email : L.C.Alice@massey.ac.nz An information package including Conditions of Appointment is obtainable by telephoning 06-350-5984. Applications, including a full curriculum vitae and the names, addresses and fax numbers of three referees must be sent to 'Academic Vacancies', Human Resources Section, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, New Zealand, before the closing date specified. ______________ MASSEY UNIVERSITY Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in women's Studies JOB DESCRIPTION OBJECTIVES: To contribute to scholarship and research in the interdisciplinary area of Women's Studies; to encourage and develop undergraduate and postgraduate research and course work, in both internal and extramural modes; to maintain effective programmes of research and publication and to ensure ongoing links with the relevant community, national and international organisations. PROGRAMME: Women's Studies RESPONSIBLE TO: Director of Women's Studies ACCESS TO: Full-time Secretary OTHER TEACHING STAFF: The Director and contributing staff in fourteen disciplinary areas across the University. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. To contribute to the development of Massey Women's Studies as a field of scholarly endeavour and to promote research and publications in Women's Studies. 2. To co-ordinate and teach the 300-level Women's Studies research methods course. 3. To supervise postgraduate students and to help develop a range of courses in the existing postgraduate programme 4. To engage in advanced research in Women's Studies or a related area. 5. To engage in course teaching and Programme administration at undergraduate and graduate levels , both internally and extramurally, as required. 6. To contribute to the profile of Massey Women's Studies and encourage links with the community and scholars in other institutions. PERSONAL QUALITIES: 1. Be able to reflect an awareness of the cultural context of Aotearoa/New Zealand in teaching, research and course administration. 2. The ability to communicate with a wide range of people in a number of modes. Dr. Lynne Alice for Board of Women's Studies Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:38:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jyl Gentzler Subject: Re: poet vs. philosopher In-Reply-To: <199601051455.JAA35726@alum01.its.rpi.edu> Hi. I was surprised by some of the remarks that Constance J. Ostrowski about Plato on Friday, Jan. 5. Would any of you be interested in continuing this discussion? CJO wrote: > Liane Curtis observed the parallelism between the poet-philosopher opposition > and the feminine-masculine and intuition-reason binarisms > my mind immediately flashes to > the patriarch of western binarism, Plato (and his student, Aristotle). > > In his _Republic_, Plato (as he did in just about everything else he wrote) > privileged philosophy (the use of reason to attain the abstract realm of the > TRUTH), here in the form of philosopher kings. Poets, on the other hand, > because they were three times removed from the TRUTH, telling what he > characterized as lies, were by-and-large banished > Manly logic/reason was clearly supreme; imagination/emotions/intuition (which > is non-logical, non-rational) was associated with the feminine. (I don't > have my _Republic_ here to pull any quotes.) Similarly, manly (martial) > music (re: rhythms, melodies, and instruments) was okay, but music that > excited the emotions--music that would "unman" reason--was absolutely out. I would like to see some actual references here. I agree that Plato believed that poetry was potentially subversive because it appeals to "the inferior part of the soul" (R. 605b)-- i.e., what in Rep. IV are viewed as the two parts that contain the emotions (spirit) and the appetites (the appetitive part). But it is also because poetry appeals to these parts of the soul that he believes that it is so useful as a tool in early education (377bff). I see no reason to believe that Plato believes that spirit is always non-rational (in fact, Plato suggests that spirit is always allied with reason) (R. 440b-d). (Aristotle, too, believed that moral education required the training of reason, feelings, and appetites, and viewed the emotions and appetites as "having a share in reason" (NE i. 13)). Although both believed that reason and emotion were ideally allied rather than opposed, they also believed that conflict was possible. Like a good guard/attack dog, Plato thought, spirit can get a bit out of control and act in ways that are contrary to the interest of the whole self (e.g., anger can lead one to do things that are self-destructive, as well as motivate one to stand up to external forces that threaten self- destruction.) I cannot find any place where Plato associates poetry and the emotions with women in particular (Aristotle, of course, is a different story). In fact, as far as the basic constitution of the soul is concerned, Plato seems quite explicit in his view that both women and men have the same sort of soul-- one containing reason, spirit, and appetite (454c-d). It seems to me that the views of both Plato and Aristotle are much too complex to describe as examples of "binarism". > Rhetoric, by the way, was also put on the "feminine"/lying side, and was > equally disparaged by Plato, who savaged the sophists. Where is rhetoric associated with lying women? > Aristotle, while rescuing rhetoric, did have to unhappily admit that it was > unfortunate the emotions creep into people's behavior and have to be > dealt with--that's why he could rescue rhetoric. Isn't Aristotle's entire *Ethics* premised on the assumption that intellectualists like Socrates were simply wrong to suppose that the sole motivating force behind human action is one's belief about what is best? It's clear that Aristotle bemoans the fact sometimes people behave viciously (either because they have the wrong views or they have weak wills or conflicting desires), but I do not recall any place where Aristotle bemoans the simple fact that emotions and appetites play a role in motivating people to action. > However, logic was still > supreme for Aristotle. I'm not sure about this. I guess it depends on what scale logic is supposed to count as supreme. It's clearly not supreme in ethics. Aristotle mocks people who believe that doing philosophy is sufficient for being a virtuous person (NE 1105b13-18). > And in his writings (I forget which ones), he made > quite clear his association of reason with masculine and emotion (imagination/ > intuition) with feminine. Well, in the *Politics* Aristotle does suggest that non-slave women's reasoning is not "authoritative", because they are often moved by their emotions against their better judgement. (This is also true of a lot of men.) Slave men and slave women are in the same boat: they are both entirely lacking in reason. (Pol. I 13) > Has anyone ever written an apology for philosophy? One might reasonably view all of Plato's Early Dialogues as apologies for philosophy. Jyl Gentzler ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:56:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: what to do if WMST-L mail stops (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: ************************ 7) "WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MAIL FROM WMST-L SUDDENLY STOPS?" Note: if you've arranged to receive WMST-L in digest form, skip to section C below. Otherwise, read on. A) If you receive a message from LISTSERV informing you that your WMST-L options have been set to NOMAIL, that means that mail from the list was repeatedly returned as undeliverable, probably because of a mail problem on your system. The fact that LISTSERV's notification reached you indicates that the problem was probably short-lived and is now resolved. You can set yourself back to MAIL by sending the message SET WMST-L MAIL to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address). If one address doesn't work, try the other. B) If you haven't received a notification, but you also haven't received WMST-L mail for a day, send the following two-word message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed under a Bitnet address) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed under an Internet address): QUERY WMST-L If you get back a message saying that you're not subscribed to WMST-L, send the QUERY WMST-L message to the other LISTSERV address (i.e., if you sent the message to LISTSERV@UMDD, try sending the same message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU). If your message is successful, you should get back a message from LISTSERV telling you how your "options" are set. The key part will look something like this: > > query wmst-l > Distribution options for Jane Doe , > list WMST-L: Ack= No, Mail= Yes, Files= Yes, > Repro= Yes, Header= Short, Conceal= No Your options may vary; the important part is Mail=Yes. If the reply from LISTSERV says Mail=Yes, contact your computer support staff to find out whether they're aware of a mail problem. If they don't know of any problem, contact me privately at KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). If the reply from LISTSERV says Mail=No, that means your subscription has been set to NOMAIL. The most likely explanation for its being set to NOMAIL is that mail started to bounce and so I or my assistant set your subscription to NOMAIL but the notification from LISTSERV bounced, too. In that case, contact your system's computer support staff to find out whether the problem has been solved. If it has, you can set yourself back to MAIL (see section A above). 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Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:52:44 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy C Sanmartin Subject: cfs -- film and video festival Comments: cc: lesac-net@queernet.org, lesbian-studies@queernet.org, qstudy-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu The following is a call for submissions to the fifth annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival at the University of California, Santa Cruz to be held May 16-18, 1996: The annual UCSC Women of Color Film and Video Festival features film/video screenings and conversations with independent filmmakers, videographers, and visual media activists. Over the past four years, this festival has drawn diverse audiences and has been a crucial venue for discussions about the production and circulation of images of women of color. This year the theme of the festival will organize itself around visual representations of "rupture"--rupture of identities and subjectivities as well as the (dis)ruption of dominant paradigms of race, class, gender, sexuality. Works sought include, but are not limited to, those dealing with threats to Affirmative Action, indigeneity, immigration, resistance, hybridity, queer-ness, despair, desire, transgressions, and erotics. SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES 1. Only 1/2" VHS tapes will be accepted for preview. Although reasonable care will be taken to protect submission tapes from loss or damage, neither Kresge College nor UCSC assumes responsibility for tapes submitted for consideration. 2. Please label submission tapes (inside and out) with the title of the work, the filmmaker's name, address, phone number, and the date of submission. Please label the spine of all tapes submitted with the name and length of the work. 3. Submissions will not be considered unless accompanied by a completed entry form. (For a copy of the entry form, please contact nancysm@cats.ucsc.edu). 4. Do not use fiber-filled envelopes when mailing. 5. Final program decisions will be made by March 15, 1996. 6. Please note, there is no entry fee for the festival; however, preview tapes of works not accepted for screening in the festival will be returned only if you have enclosed a stamped, self-addressed envelope for return. 7. You certify that you hold all necessary rights for the submission of this videotape to the festival. 8. You certify that the information provided on the submission form is true and correct. Please send all materials, postmarked no later than February 15, 1996, to: Women of Color Film & Video Festival Kresge College -- UCSC Activities Office 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 For more information, please contact Maylei Blackwell at 408-427-3466 or maylei@cats.ucsc.edu . ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 11:58:27 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Naples For an edited collection on the diversity of women's community-based activism, I am looking for an article on the Lesbian Avengers or any manuscript that center's lesbian activism. Will consider something published elsewhere. Any suggestions please e-mail me at nnaples@uci.edu. Thanks, Nancy Nancy A. Naples Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies University of California, Irvine Irvine, California 92717 714-824-5749 (office phone) 714-824-4717 (fax) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 12:39:42 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Naples Subject: Graduate Feminist Emphasis Here at UCI, we have just finished the first year of our new Graduate Feminist Emphasis, an interdisciplinary emphasis for Ph.D. students in 9 different disciplines/departments. We ran into some challenges in implementing the Emphasis and would like to hear from other Women's Studies programs who have similiar graduate programs. Here are our dilemmas: 1. What is the best way to organize the Emphasis given that we have only 3 (at most 4) courses to work with? We began with two core courses: Contemporary Theories and Problems in Feminist Research plus two electives of the students choice. But the division in the core courses didn't work very well - we ran into problems with different expectations/different needs for the Humanities and Social Science students. The division between Theory and Methods only hightened the split. One proposed solution is to utilize the team teaching approach but we remain unconvinced that the theory/method divide is the most appropriate way to organize the core courses in any event. 2. Students expressed interest in gaining more of a foundation or historical perspective. What books, authors, debates would be considered central to such an endeavor given that we have only a 10 week quarter? One suggestion we are working with is to prepare a list of recommended readings that the students will have access to before taking the Core Courses. But creating such a list also poses a related dilemma: what are the most significant texts in Women's Studies/Feminist Studies given that we are attempting to introduce students to a broad-based interdisciplinary framework? We would greatly appreciate any suggestions you might have. We would appreciate hearing from you regarding: significant texts and debates as well as ideas regarding structure. If you have an emphasis in place, could you also send us copies of your requirements and any course outlines that you would be willing to share. Please send relevant materials to: Nancy A. Naples Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies University of California, Irvine Irvine, California 92717 We, in turn, would be glad to share the results of our work to restructure the Graduate Feminist Emphasis. Thanks in advance for your help. Sincerely, Nancy ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 16:44:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maureen Reddy Subject: Essays on mothering/antiracism/feminism I am editing a collection of essays for the Seal Press on the connections among mothering, feminism, and antiracism, and am turning to the members of this list for help. The collection is at a fairly advanced stage, with 21 essays accepted thus far from a nice variety of perspectives and experiences. However, Asian-American feminists are under-represented. I've gone through my own networks of friends and colleagues, with little success in locating Asian- American feminists interested in writing on this topic. If you're interested in seeing the full "call for submissions," please e-mail me off list. Thanks in advance. Maureen Reddy MREDDY@GROG.RIC.Edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 15:14:22 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Edelstein Subject: Re: poet vs. philosopher Re: Plato making an association between women and emotion vs. men and reason (and thus the former with poetry vs. the latter with philosophy), let me quote a few bits from the translation of the Republic (Bk. X) that I have on hand at the moment. Advising on how to improve poetry to make it better for society, Socrates/Plato says "We shall do well, then, to strike out descriptions of the heroes bewailing the dead, and make over such lamentations to women . . ." Plato also refers to emotion as the "inferior part of the soul<" and refers to the stoic, "quiet and patient" response to loss and grief as "manly" vs. the giving into sympathy and weeping as "the part of a woman." He also refers to poetry's appeal in metaphors of desire, portraying poetry/woman as a seductress whose charms one must resust, and that we must"after the manner of lovers give her up, though not without a struggle." I don't have my usual ed./trans. of Plato around, but in the Ion he clearly links poetry and emotion and says poetry doesn't nurture the rationality necessary for philosophy. I don't think he uses explicitly gendered metaphors there. I'm pretty sure in the Republic, he refers to emotional men as "effeminate" (at least in the trans. I usually use). In Aristotle's Poetics, he writes "Even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless"; he adds that "valour in a woman, or unscrupulous cleverness, is inappropriate." (This I note just to suggest that these great "fathers" of Western philosophy reflect the beliefs about gender of their time--and/or helped to create these ideologies of gender.) When I teach several classical philosophers in my History of Literary Criticism class, I point out, if the students don't, the assumptions about women--and slaves, to show the blind spots or prejudices of even great thinkers and to culturally and socially contextualize the works. There'a a book I haven't read yet called _The Man of Reason_ that examines the linkages between rationality and masculinity in the history of Western philosophy that might be of interest to those pursuing this thread. Marilyn Edelstein, English, Santa Clara U, Santa Clara CA 95053 medelstein@scuacc.scu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 00:46:14 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: poet vs. philosopher In-Reply-To: <01HZRSGOB7GI006SCI@scuacc.scu.edu> On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Marilyn Edelstein wrote: > the works. There'a a book I haven't read yet called _The Man of > Reason_ that examines the linkages between rationality and > masculinity in the history of Western philosophy that might be > of interest to those pursuing this thread. Marilyn Edelstein, Genevieve Lloyd wrote it -- it's supposed to be really good (I haven't read it yet either! --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using voice-recognition software: please ignore editing errors --------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 20:10:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tracey Hurd Subject: "still killing us softly," in 1996 When I have shown the film "Still killing us softly," in undergraduate classes, student invariably express disbelief that the advertisements which are displayed and analyzed in the film - that present and represent women as objects- would ever be prevalent in the media today. The New York Times Magazine section (Sunday, Jan. 7, 1996) provides for skeptics something from 1996 -- a two page spread on "fashion", with pale, corpse-like women shown, dangling from clothespins on a clothesline. The caption presents them as "sundried tomatoes." Tracey Hurd, PhD Brown University ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 02:34:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jyl Gentzler Subject: Re: poet vs. philosopher In-Reply-To: <01HZRSGOB7GI006SCI@scuacc.scu.edu> Marilyn Edelstein's reply to my posting helps to clarify my dispute with Constance Ostrowski's characterization of Plato and Aristotle. I certainly would *not* want to claim that Plato and Aristotle were free of misogyny. It's clear that they both believed that contemporary Athenian women engaged in certain behavior--e.g., lamentations-- that they characterized as an excessive display of emotions. And neither one of them was above grossly sexist remarks. But I don't think that this is sufficient to show that they were guilty of "binarism", according to which reason, philosophy, men are associated and viewed as good and emotion, poetry, and women are associated and viewed as bad. For Aristotle, an excessive display of emotion was viewed as a vice, but so too was a complete absence of emotional response. Plato could never make up his mind on the value of emotions and feelings. But I doubt that his problem with these states was their association with women. In fact, his *primary* examples of those with excessive appetites and emotions were not women, but men displaying emotions and appetites typically associated with men: anger, blood-thirst, greed, lust, and gluttony. My only point is that the views of Plato and Aristotle are much too complex to be dismissed *tout court* as examples of "Western binary thinking". Jyl Gentzler ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 09:01:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: archives of past messages (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 10) "I'VE BEEN AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS. I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT I'VE MISSED ON WMST-L DURING THE TIME I'VE BEEN GONE. IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACCESS PREVIOUS MESSAGES?" [also useful for new subscribers] Yes. All WMST-L messages are automatically archived. The 1991 archives are arranged in monthly logs; beginning in Jan., 1992, the logs were changed to a weekly format. To find out what logs are available, you can send LISTSERV the following command: INDEX WMST-L . You'll then receive a list of the available logs. To obtain the logs, send LISTSERV the following command: GET WMST-L [filename] where [filename] is the name of the log file you want. For example: GET WMST-L LOG9309a will get you the log for the first week ("a") in September 1993 (9309 refers to the 9th month of 1993). LOG9312b is the log for the second week ("b") in Dec. 1993 (December is the 12th month). (It's possible that the wording of your request may take a slightly different form, depending on your mail system, but what you want is WMST-L LOGnnnnl.) Warning: some of these logs are LARGE; log9309a is approximately 300K. As a result, you may not be permitted to get more than a few logs on any given day (the current limit is 20 files or 2M - i.e., 2000K). NOTE: Logfiles from before 1993 are no longer available on UMDD. To make room for newer logfiles, they were moved to the Women's Studies archive on InforM (telnet or gopher to inform.umd.edu . Select Educational Resources, then Academic Resources by Topic, then Women's Studies Resources. On the World Wide Web, try http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html and then select the first link, "Absolutely Best W.S. Online Archive (InforM)"). As time passes, other old logfiles will also be moved to InforM. The WMST-L filelist contains two sets of instructions designed to teach you how to search the UMDD logfiles for specific subjects. One, intended for absolute beginners, is called DUMMY GUIDE; the other, also very clear and more detailed, is entitled SEARCH LOGFILES. To get both, send a two-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU that says GET DUMMY GUIDE on line 1 and GET SEARCH LOGFILES on line 2. These instructions do not apply to the logfiles on InforM. ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:46:34 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Brigance Subject: Re: "still killing us softly," in 1996 I used "Still killing us softly" in a class last semester. This wasthe first time I had used it in several years. I, myself, was leary of the relevancy of its message. However, all it took was a quick skimming through several "mainstream" magazines to show me that, unfortunately, the video is not dated. Because many of the examples in the video are older examples....I followed the viewing with examples found only weeks earlier. That had quite an impact on my students. Tracey---thanks for the NY Times tip.....I'll be using the video again this semester and am leaving now to hunt down a copy of the magazine section. Linda Brigance University of Iowaa ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:14:47 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DIANE PRICE HERNDL Subject: Re: poet vs. philosopher In-Reply-To: On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Jyl Gentzler wrote: > I don't think that this is sufficient to show that [Plato & Aristotle] > were guilty > of "binarism", according to which reason, philosophy, men are associated > and viewed as good and emotion, poetry, and women are associated and > viewed as bad. > > My only point is that the views of Plato and Aristotle are much too > complex to be dismissed *tout court* as examples of "Western binary > thinking". I suspect that most of the sense of Plato (at least) as "buildty of 'binarism' comes largely from the very excellent critique of Plato in Luce Irigaray's _Speculum of the Other Woman_; the last third of the book, the section called "Plato's Hysteria," is a critique of binary thinking in Plato, especially the linking of body-emotion-woman and setting that in binary opposition to mind-reason-man. It is not always perfect, but it is a very challenging and useful essay, esp. to understanding the feminist critique of binary thinking in Western metaphysics in general. Diane Price Herndl NMSU English Dept. dpherndl@nmsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:55:50 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: brenda beagan Subject: Re: "still killing us softly," in 1996 In-Reply-To: <0099C210.96B770C0.49@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu> i, too have found using recent ads counters student suggestions that "still killing us softly" is old news however, i actually find the first video, "killing us softly" more effective in class than the follow up "Still killing..." it seems to develop its analysis in greater depth and if the advantage of the second one is that it is more current, but you have to show recent ads anyway... i find using the original video with up to date ads, the most effective combination brenda beagan@unixg.ubc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:38:36 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bill Subject: Paglia, (if you can bear it), again. I am almost sorry that I missed all of the discussion about Camille Paglia last year. Looking back over the dialogue, I was surprised that people debated so much the merits of Ms. Paglia's ideas. The question of why anti-feminists like her get all of the popular press, is to me, a more important question. I can't help but wonder what comments Susan Faludi might have about this. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:00:11 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Xeturah M. Woodley" Subject: Re: "still killing us softly," in 1996 In-Reply-To: <0099C210.96B770C0.49@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu> Greetings all, I too used the "Still killing us video" in my Women's Studies courses. Unfortunately, the message still rings true even today. I would like to recommend another video along those lines. The name of the video is "Warning: The media may be harzardous to your health." The woman in this video has a more "in your face" approach to addressing sexism in the media. Sorry if this is repetitive information. In sisterhood, Xeturah ****************************************************************************** X. Woodley-Tillman,Instructor * "I am not FREE, while any woman is African Amer. Studies & Women's Stud. * UNFREE, Metropolitan State College of Denver * Even if her SHACKLES are very _O_ * DIFFERENT from my own. | * -Audre Lorde- ****************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 17:44:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan ferber Subject: Re: "still killing us softly," in 1996 In-Reply-To: I have been fascinated by the NYT fashion article and the video discussion, as I am researching feminism and advertising campaigns directed at young women. I am focusing on Maidenform and Keds, and countering with Virginia Slims' "You've come a long way baby" campaign. Does anyone hav suggestions of other ad campaigns/ videos/ critical articles? Advice appreciated. Susan Ferber ferber@husc.harvard.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 19:40:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rebecca Charlotte Hyman Subject: Re: Ferber's media request In-Reply-To: from "susan ferber" at Jan 9, 96 05:44:23 pm I think the series of ads run by Nike a little over a year ago were really good at co-opting feminism for marketing purposes--but I don't know at what age your "youth" limit ceases. This series of ads ran in "women's" mags (Glamour, etc.) and each was three to four pages, back to back. The first page has a picture of a young woman's face, and across her face is text, saying things like "you were never asked to the prom. You were smarter than other people. you wondered about the meaning of the universe, etc" (i.e. geek adolescent fantasies) The next page has the woman a little older, with more lines about college and first job. The last page has an "adult" 30ish woman smiling broadly, in full fitness wear, having (we presume) come to terms with herself as a feminist woman, and the "just do it" slogan. Scary stuff. I hope this helps, Rebecca Hyman University of Virginia ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:12:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society Subj: Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society A former student sent me the following question. If you have an answer send it to me at kahnas@jmu.vax unless you think the answer would be of interest to others. Arnie Kahn ***************************************************************** Hi there! I have a question I have been unable to get answered and thought of you. For Christmas, I got a t-shirt with a "Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society" emblem on it and I know I have seen this elsewhere. I don't know its origin or if it is a real group. I'm pretty sure that it is (or was at one time). Have you heard of it? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:38:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 jobs, 1 fellowship The following four announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) JOB: Sabbatical replacement in theology (inc. feminist theology) 2) JOB: Assoc./Full Prof. of Black Feminist Thought (U.of Michigan) 3) JOB: Senior Researcher (Stone Center, Wellesley College) 4) Chicana Dissertation Fellowship (UC Santa Barbara) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) ALBERTSON COLLEGE OF IDAHO, a private liberal arts college with historic ties to the Presbyterian Church, announces a one-year, approximately two-thirds sabbatical replacement position for 1996-1997, with potential rollover into a new tenure-track position in systematic/philosophical theology (including feminist theology) in the 1997-1998 academic year (pending final institutional approval of the position and satisfactory performance in the replacement position). Teaching responsibilities in the first year would emphasize introductory philosophy courses, with some courses in religious studies: the subsequent tenure-track position in theology (all areas to be considered, including feminist theology) would require additional teaching competence in one of more of the following, in decreasing order of preference: Religion and Society, General Religious Studies, Theological Ethics, or General Biblical Studies. Ph.D. required by starting date of tenure-track position: teaching experience expected; able to work effectively with persons from a variety of faith perspectives. Tenure-track responsibilities include teaching eight courses a year (3-2-3), plus advising (including pre-seminary advising) and committee work; emphasis on undergraduate teaching. A more detailed position description is available on request (e-mail tmazurak@stimpy.acofi.edu; phone 208-459-5203; fax 208-454-2077). Send letter of application (including a brief statement of your understanding of the role of religious studies in the liberal arts curriculum), complete CV and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Terry Mazurak, Religion Search Committee, Albertson College of Idaho, 2112 Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, ID 83605. All materials must be received by February 1, 1996. EOE/AA. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. *************************************************************************** 2) THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Center for Afroamerican & African Studies and Women's Studies Program BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT The University of Michigan Women's Studies Program and Center for Afroamerican & African Studies seeks teacher/scholars for a joint position at the associate or full professor level beginning Fall 1996. Candidates in any field working on Black Feminist Thought in the African diaspora are encouraged to apply. We are especially interested in candidates who would welcome the opportunity to work in two well established interdisciplinary units. Send a letter of interest and CV by March 1, 1996 to: Women's Studies/ CAAS Search Committee, 200 W. Engineenng Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092. The University of Michigan is an EOE/AA Employer. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, 1996 *************************************************************************** 3) WELLESEY COLLEGE Senior Researcher in Prevention Research The Stone Center at Wellesley College is seeking a full-time senior researcher to develop and implement an innovative prevention research program related to the mental health concerns of women, children, and families. The Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies is dedicated to the prevention of psychological problems, we enhancement of psychological well- being, and we search for a more comprehensive understanding of human development. This work is carried out through the counseling division, research and action projects and theory development. The Jean Baker Miller Training Institute is housed at the Stone Center and the Center is part of a consortium which includes the Wellesley College center for Research on Women. The position offers a unique opportunity to work with researchers at the Center for Research and with faculty and students at Wellesley College. Requirements: a PhD. in psychology, sociology, education, or public health is required as is a record of successful research grant writing. Substantive areas of expertise should include experience with women children and families of diverse cultural backgrounds, prevention of emotional problems, and action research/ intervention studies. Expertise in one or more of the following areas is preferred: college-age women adolescent issues, depression, family studies, child development. Salary range mid-fifies to mid seventies depending on experience. We will begin reading letters of nomination and applications accompanied by a curriculum vitae on February 1, 1996. Applications wilt be accepted until the position is filled. If interested, send cover letter and resume to: Patricia E. Basque, Manager of Employee Relations, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181. Wellesley College especially welcomes applications and nominations from ethnic minorities. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, 1996 *************************************************************************** 4) University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Chicano Studies CHICANA DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP The Department of Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for two Chicana Dissertation Fellowships for the academic year, 1996-1997. Candidates must be advanced to candidacy by the beginning of the fellowship year and expect completion of the dissertation during their term of residence. Duties of Chicana Dissertation Fellows include working toward completion of the dissertation and teaching one undergraduate course in the area of their research expertise. The Department of Chicano Studies is committed to assisting promising Chicana scholars complete the dissertation, prepare for university teaching and research, and achieve increased professional recognition and associations. The Department of Chicano Studies at UCSB has an interdisciplinary curriculum organized into three broad academic categories: Gender Studies, Institutional Studies, and Cultural Studies. We invite applications from candidates in any of the humanities or social sciences. The duration of the fellowship is nine months and the amount of the total award is $18,000 plus benefits. Fellows are required to be in residence during the entire period. Fellows have highest priority for campus housing. To apply, submit a letter of application describing progress toward the Ph.D. (including date of advancement to candidacy), a dissertation proposal, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and arrange to have two letters of recommendation sent by April 1, 1996 to: Dr. Chela Sandoval Department of Chicano Studies University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Awards will be announced by April 15, 1996. An EEO/AA Employer From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, 1996 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:37:18 +0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Keane Subject: Re: Ferber's media request I've come in late on this discussion, but I was interested in Rebecca Hyman's post about the nike ads. My question is why exactly is this 'scary stuff', given the realities of late consumer capitalism ? While I think it's important to interrogate the use of feminism by the market I don't think we should always assume that it is an unquestionably bad thing. This seems to suggest a pure feminism that exists somewhere unsullied by complexities and negotiations of politics and power. What would it mean if we thought about the possibility of feminism appropriating capitalism as well as capitalism appropriating feminism ? Nike paid for the advertisements but can't control how they are read... Helen Keane Australian National University ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:55:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan ferber Subject: Re: Ferber's media request In-Reply-To: <199601100239.NAA11845@anugpo.anu.edu.au> Some interesting ideas have been put forth on feminism and advertising. Thnank you one and all for your suggestions on videos. Is anyone out there writing about this topic at the moment from a historical POV? Please respond privately, if you wish. I would like to continue this discussion. Susan Ferber ferber@husc.harvard.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:31:33 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Ferber's media request In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:37:18 +0700 from Re Helen's question on objection to the Nike ad: The objection comes from the difference between feminism and the ad. Feminism is a liberatory concept and practice. In its various manifestations, it aims to emancipate women from oppression and exploitation as women. For some, or many, of us, this means to work thru the diversity of women's conditions globally. Nike, in contrast, is using the power of its money and status to say that to be a feminist is to buy its products. Are women taken in by such ads? Some are; I'm sure many are not. Those who don't know what feminism is all about are misled into thinking it's about women looking and doing what the ads say. On the question of whether there's a `pure' feminism. I think the better question is what we think feminism is about, what our position is as feminists, the direction we set for feminism, and what we oppose. beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:38:21 GMT-2 Reply-To: sheena@ls.ru.ac.za Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheena Subject: nike ad Without having seen the ad in question, my suggestion is that the ad might be "scary stuff" because it suggests, along emancipationist feminist lines, that women can, with gumption, just get out there and do it for themselves, without any activism necessary to radically transform society. It doesn't seem to recognise the social constructions, and their correlative ideational systems, which marginalise certain non-mainstream people, like people of colour, lower classes, people who are handicapped, gay etc etc. Racists in South Africa, where I live, are fond of using the example of there being one black millionaire to prove that all poor blacks are just lazy. I find the relationship between capitalism and feminism to be a problematic one, because while I laud images of powerful women in the media, and in women's magazines, which counteract the pictures of women being pretty and passive, I think that the primary sites which cause women's oppression are not identified or challenged. These thoughts were prompted, for those who are new to this thread, by ideas on how feminism and the market relate, with particular referance to the Nike ad, in which the development of a young girl who didn't "make it" in the beauty stakes, made it as a woman, who obviously became a succesful business woman and sports jockette. Powerful in body and status. Regards, Sheena@ls.ru.ac.za -- Sheena Stannard sheena@ls.ru.ac.za Tel: 27 461 28113 (international) 0461 28113 - SA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 06:37:13 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "C. Horwitz" Subject: Re: "still killing us softly," in 1996 In-Reply-To: You might note that the dance wear industry repeatedly sexualizes children in its promotional campaigns -- everything from flat chested ten year olds with hands on hips and a "come hither" look in their eyes to five year olds with big hair and make-up. Boys are usually portrayed fighting or dominating girls through threatening gestures or hair pulling. The realm of children's dance has gone totally unmonitored - the realm of children (read girls) and women. Meanwhile some companies are making big bucks (BIG bucks) selling and telling the public that children's dance is about sexuality - tits and ass for kids. Carol Horwitz respond privately chorwitz@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, susan ferber wrote: > I have been fascinated by the NYT fashion article and the video > discussion, as I am researching feminism and advertising campaigns > directed at young women. I am focusing on Maidenform and Keds, and > countering with Virginia Slims' "You've come a long way baby" campaign. > Does anyone hav suggestions of other ad campaigns/ videos/ critical articles? > Advice appreciated. > > Susan Ferber > ferber@husc.harvard.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:02:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L file collection (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 11) "HOW DO I FIND OUT WHAT FILES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WMST-L, AND HOW DO I OBTAIN THE FILES I WANT?" To find out what files are available, send LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (or, on Bitnet, LISTSERV@UMDD) the same command mentioned in the previous section: INDEX WMST-L. The list you'll receive from LISTSERV includes files as well as logs. To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] WMST-L where [filename] is the two-word name of the file you want. For example, suppose you send for the filelist (INDEX WMST-L) and see the following listing: * Policies for cross-listing courses with Women's Studies CROSSLST POLICIES ALL OWN V 79 436 92/12/07 20:41:03 To get this file, you'd send the message GET CROSSLST POLICIES WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). Note that [filename] consists of two words separated by a space and not a period. (Adding WMST-L after the two-word filename is optional; it simply makes sure that if two lists have a file with the same name, you'll get the right one.) IMPORTANT NOTE: women's studies syllabi are contained in a subdirectory called SYLLABI, while feminist film reviews are to be found in a subdirectory called FILM, and reference book mini-reviews are in the WMSTBOOK subdirectory. To find out what syllabi, film reviews, or reference book mini-reviews a subdirectory contains, send LISTSERV the command INDEX SYLLABI (or INDEX FILM or INDEX WMSTBOOK). To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] SYLLABI (or replace SYLLABI w/FILM or WMSTBOOK as needed) If you are requesting a film review, be aware that the filename always takes the form FILM REVx (e.g., FILM REV25); the name of the film is NOT the filename! You can request more than one file at once; just be sure to put each request on a separate line. LISTSERV will then send the file(s) to you either in a mail message or in Netdata format. You can force LISTSERV to send them in a mail message by adding F=MAIL at the end of each command. For example, GET [filename] FILM F=MAIL . Or, to retrieve files sent by LISTSERV in Netdata format, follow these instructions: If your e-mail address is on a VAX/VMS machine, when you get a message that one or more files have arrived at your e-mail address, you should type "RECEIVE *" (do not include the quotation marks) at the $ prompt. This command will put the file(s) into your main directory. You can then type "TYPE filename" (replace "filename" with the actual name of the file) to read the file. If it's a long file, you can read it more effectively by typing "TYPE/PAGE filename." If your e-mail address is on an IBM VM/CMS machine, either use your mailer front end or type RLIST and RECEIVE the file into your FLIST. Go into your FLIST to look at the file. If your e-mail address is on a different kind of machine OR you are using Profs or some other kind of similar mailing system, go ahead and try the above commands. If they do not work, CALL YOUR COMPUTER SERVICES OFFICE. The people there should be able to help you and/or give you a manual for your mailing system commands. NOTE: Many WMST-L files (and a lot more!) are also available via ftp and gopher in the Women's Studies archive on InforM, the University of Maryland's Online Information Service. Telnet or gopher to inform.umd.edu . Select Educational Resources, then Academic Resources by Topic, then Women's Studies Resources. On the World Wide Web, try http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html and then select the first link, "Absolutely Best W.S. Online Archive (InforM)." The Women's Studies archive contains a goldmine of online information about women. Do have a look! ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:05:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Von Bakanic Organization: College of Charleston Subject: Re: Ferber's media request In-Reply-To: "Your message dated Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:31:33 -0500 (EST)" One other point, Nike is notorious for its exploitation of third world women. They save labor cost and overhead by "employing" impoverished women in countries where labor laws, and occupational safety are only utopian dreams. > Re Helen's question on objection to the Nike ad: The objection comes from the > difference between feminism and the ad. Feminism is a liberatory concept and > practice. In its various manifestations, it aims to emancipate women from > oppression and exploitation as women. For some, or many, of us, this means to > work thru the diversity of women's conditions globally. Nike, in contrast, is > using the power of its money and status to say that to be a feminist is to buy > its products. Are women taken in by such ads? Some are; I'm sure many are not. > Those who don't know what feminism is all about are misled into thinking it's > about women looking and doing what the ads say. > On the question of whether there's a `pure' feminism. I think the better > question is what we think feminism is about, what our position is as feminists, > the direction we set for feminism, and what we oppose. > beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu _____________________________________________________________________ Von Bakanic, Ph.D. (803) 953-7105 Dept. of Sociology internet address: College of Charleston bakanicv@cofc.edu Charleston, S.C. 29424 FAX (803) 953-5738 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:43:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gail Dines Subject: Re: Ferber's media request While it is true that Nike cannot control how we read the ad, let us not forget that real power over our lives is not simply about making any meaning we want from a text produced by a multi-billion dollar a year corperation. To celebrate reader resistence in a time of corperate globalization, "downsizing" and general decay, is to be the type of resister that capitalists love. Ed Herman has a great article in the Jan. issue of "Z" on the problems of the Postmodern approach in media studies. I don't care how polysemic a text is, until we all get to control the media, it continues to be a major insitution of social and ideological control. Gail Dines Whe_Dines@Flo.Org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 11:33:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Linda L. Anderson" Subject: Feminist presses can someone give me phone/fax numbers for kitchen table press? please respond privately. thanks. Linda Anderson lla@minerva.cis.yale.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 11:55:18 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire Alexander Subject: Re: Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society In-Reply-To: <01HZTJSSE1OI90N515@VAX1.JMU.EDU>; from "Arnie Kahn" at Jan 9, 96 9:12 pm >Arnie Kahn >***************************************************************** > >Hi there! I have a question I have been unable to get answered and >thought of you. For Christmas, I got a t-shirt with a "Ladies >Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society" emblem on it and I know I have >seen this elsewhere. I don't know its origin or if it is a real group. >I'm pretty sure that it is (or was at one time). Have you heard >of it? > My apologies for emailing group, but address arnie gave didn't work.I tried adding bitnet and edu and that didn't help either. when i bought the above shirt,it was also possible to buy "Men's auxillary to the ladies . . ."; i assumed it was a spoof. if it is a real group, i too would like to know. claire vva@mace.cc.purdue.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:26:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" Comments-on: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:23:22 EST Comments-of: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" ***----------------------> Original Mail From <----------------------*** "Ginsberg, Elaine K" ***------------------------------------------------------------------*** The Modern Language Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession is organizing three panels for the Association's annual meeting December 27-30, 1996 in Washington, D.C., and solicits abstracts and papers on these three topics: 1. "AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS, AFFRIMING THE DISCIPLINES" How has affirmative action and a focus on race and gender transformed the discipline of English and modern languages and literatures? Please send abstracts and papers by March 10 to Mihoko Suzuki, Dept. of English, Univ.of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124; email: msuzuki@umiami.ir.miami.edu and Eileen Julien, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Indiana Univ.,Bloomington, IN 47405; email: ejulien@indiana.edu 2."CHILDREN, PARTNERS, ELDERS: MAKING FAMILY AN ACADEMIC ISSUE" As part of our continued work on family care issues, we are seeking proposals which address some aspect of family care over the generations: child care, commuting couples, split appointments, domestic partnerships, or elder care. While all these issues have been addressed in the past, we are focussing now specifically on policy recommendations to be implemented. To that end, consider the following: -How do family care responsibilities influence an academic's professional development? career choices? -What policies are currently in place which provide for an academic's family? how are they implemented? funded? -What policies would you like to see created? -What strategies would you propose for seeing these policies enacted? Please send 1-2 page proposals, with your full contact information (including e-mail) to both co-chairs by February 29: Naomi Miller Greta Gaard Dept. of English Dept. of Composition University of Arizona 420 Humanities Bldg. Tucson, AZ 85721 University of Minnesota Duluth, MN 55812 ggaard@d.umn.edu Preliminary inquiries welcome. 3. DIMINISHING RETURNS? WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE ACADEMY The number of women of color in tenure-track positions in modern languages and literatures is still appallingly low. This situation raises a number of questions: Are women of color reluctant to pursue academic careers in the fields of literature? If they are, why are they? What obstacles do they face in the profession, on all levels? Do all ethnic groups face the same challenges? And, finally, what are some strategies that might help us address the situation, particularly in view of current attempts to dismantle or discredit Affirmative Action? Please send paper proposals of no more than 2 pages by March 1, 1996, to: Barbara T. Christian African American Studies 3335 Dwinelle Hall # 2572 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 e-mail: bchristi@library.berkeley.edu and to: Susanne Zantop Department of German Studies Dartmouth College Hanover, N.H. 03755 e-mail: susanne.m.zantop@dartmouth.edu Elaine K. Ginsberg Department of English P.O. Box 6296 West Virginia University Morgantown WV 26506-6296 egins@hermes.icrc.wvu.edu Elaine K. Ginsberg Department of English P.O. Box 6296 West Virginia University Morgantown WV 26506-6296 egins@hermes.icrc.wvu.edu ***---------------------> End of Original Mail <---------------------*** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:08:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Villanova University Subject: subtle gender discrimination in college applications I thought I would draw the group's attention to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer a week ago about the admissions process at Penn. A reporter had been permitted to sit in on the process by which students were chosen for early decision in a combined engineering and liberal arts program. ALL of the students were "qualified" (at least most were) in any sense of the term. So the whole thing came down to judgment calls. What caught my eye was that the committee discussed this male student, that male student, another male student. Then they finally discussed a female student (why did they KNOW this was a female, I wondered?). Here's the amazing part -- she was at a school with a male student who had also applied. She had the better GPA and SATs, and also had participated in a number of extracurricular activities. I can't remember what he did that was so special t hat caught their eye. BUT -- her essay was on Benjamin Franklin. Which they thought was ... uninspired. So they put her in the "maybe" list, while they put him in the "accepted" list. (At the end of the session, they did decide to include her, perhaps thinking they were making an exception for gender. This really bothered me. (I wasn't the only one -- a (male) statistician wrote in that perhaps they should set a floor in terms of credentials, and then use a lottery system.) Is it my imagination, or is this an open invitation to subtle gender discrimination on the part of those who think they're "above" all that? If this is not an issue for this group, I apologize. -- Mary Schweitzer, Department of History, Villanova University (on leave 1995-96); schweitz@ucis.vill.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 21:04:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison For my women's history course, I give the students an assignment in which they are asked to select two autobiographies of women (twentieth-century) who are of different ethnic/racial backgrounds and then to write an essay describing commonalities in life experience based on gender and ways in which race/ethnicity/class/region produce differences in their lives. I have a list of autobiographies/diaries/memoirs grouped by race/ethnicity, but I would appreciate suggestions in order to expand the lists. I'd be happy to post a compilation of responses if there are others interested. Thanks to all. Cynthia Harrison Associate Professor History/Women's Studies Funger 506G The George Washington University 2201 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20052 telephone: 202-363-4356 e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu fax: 202-994-7249 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:50:15 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dr A Fauser It would be helpful to receive this compilation, but it would also be interesting for me personally to hear about your experience with these courseworks. I know that the situation in Britain is different from the States, and I know that work in a women's history course has other objectives than a course in musicology (which is my subject), but since I am very much interested in the writing of women's lives in music, I would appreciate some feedback. Thanks ever so much. Annegret Fauser >For my women's history course, I give the students an assignment in which >they are asked to select two autobiographies of women (twentieth-century) >who are of different ethnic/racial backgrounds and then to write an essay >describing commonalities in life experience based on gender and ways in >which race/ethnicity/class/region produce differences in their lives. > >I have a list of autobiographies/diaries/memoirs grouped by >race/ethnicity, but I would appreciate suggestions in order to expand the >lists. I'd be happy to post a compilation of responses if there are others >interested. Thanks to all. > >Cynthia Harrison >Associate Professor >History/Women's Studies >Funger 506G >The George Washington University >2201 G Street, N.W. >Washington, D.C. 20052 >telephone: 202-363-4356 >e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu >fax: 202-994-7249 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:26:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L announcement policy (User's Guide) Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: ******************* 12) "MY UNIVERSITY HAS A JOB OPENING. MAY I POST AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON WMST-L?" WMST-L welcomes the posting of job and conference announcements, calls for papers, and the like, as long as the announcement has some EXPLICIT connection to Women's Studies. Announcements without such a connection should NOT be sent to WMST-L. The wish to reach more female candidates, however laudable, is NOT adequate reason to post non-Women's-Studies announcements. Heavy mail volume is a persistent problem on WMST-L; the list cannot accommodate the increased volume that a more liberal posting policy would bring. (Keep in mind that each year, there are literally thousands of academic job openings. Most institutions wish to show that they have tried to reach female and minority applicants. Whereas some commercial publications charge hundreds of dollars to carry even a small ad, WMST-L is free. Thus, unless we restrict postings, the list is likely to be INUNDATED with job announcements.) ************************ Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. For those who prefer World Wide Web, the URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/user-guide.html . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:15:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Feminist presses Kitchen Table is a member of the Women's Presses Library Project. They can be reached at: PO Box 40-4920 Brooklyn, NY 11240-4920 718-935-1082 718-935-1107 (fax) Other members of the project include: Astarte Shell Press Portland, ME Aunt Lute Books San Francisco, CA CALYX Books Corvallis, OR Cleis Press Pittsburgh, PA Down There Press San Francisco, CA Feminist Bookstore News San Francisco, CA The Feminist Press at CUNY New York, NY Firebrand Books Ithaca, NY gynergy books/Ragweed Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada Kelsey St. Press Berkeley, CA Knowledge, Ideas,Trends, Inc. Manchester, CT Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Brooklyn, NY Madwoman Press, Inc. Northboro, MA New Victoria Publishers Norwich, VT Papier-Mache Press Watsonville, CA Paradigm Publishing San Diego, CA Post-Apollo Press Sausalito, CA Press Gang Publishers Vancouver, BC, Canada Rising Tide Press Huntington Station, NY Second Story Press Toronto, ONT., Canada Sistervision Books Toronto, ONT., Canada Spinifex Press No. Melbourne, VIC. Australia Third Side Press Chicago, IL Torrance Publishing Sebastopol, CA Women's Press (Canada) Toronto, ONT., Canada Women in the Moon Publications Cupertino, CA If you would like more information about these presses or the project, please contact me privately. >can someone give me phone/fax numbers for kitchen table press? >please respond privately. >thanks. > >Linda Anderson >lla@minerva.cis.yale.edu ********************************************************************** Women's Presses Library Project "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller, Project Coordinator 1483 Laurel Ave., St. Paul., MN 55104-6737 (phone) 612-646-0097; (fax) 612-646-1153; (email) wplp@winternet.com ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:39:18 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Taylor Subject: Re: Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:12:59 -0500 from The Ladies' Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society emblem dates from the late 60's or early 70's. It's not a real organization, although some women's CR groups jokingly adopted the name. Barbara G. Taylor University of Arkansas ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:13:43 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HELEN FALLON Subject: REFQUERY-CONTENTS SERVICES Text item: Text_1 11th January 1996 Could anyone tell me which electronic talbes of contents services they have found most useful for Women's Studies journals. According to the article "Table of contents services: retrieving Women's Studies Periodical literature." by Koch and Preece in RQ 35, no. 1, Fall, 1995, p. 76-86, Carl Uncover offers the most extensive contents page cover of Women's Studies. I'd be interested to hear of any other electronic contents services which people have used and found useful, also any useful sites on the Internet for either full text or contents pages of Women's Studies journals. I am currently doing research on electronic sources of information in Women's Studies for an M.A. Thank you. Helen Fallon, Dublin City University. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:37:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Travers Subject: Psych. Lists & Web Sites Summary (long) Many thanks to those offering tremendous support to me with their suggestions. MAILING LISTS NOTE: In "Message", means TIPS (Teaching in Psychology). Subscribe at: listserv@fre.fsu.umd.edu Message: Subscribe TIPS your name OCD-L (no subscription info. provided by sender) ANXIETY-L (no subscription info. provided by sender) POWR-L (previously mentioned on this list by listowner) Psychtalk Subscribe at: psychtalk-request@fre.fsu.umd.edu Message: subscribe psychtalk your name INTERNATIONAL CLINICAL-PSYCHOLOGY LIST Subscribe at: Listserv@vm1.NoDak.Edu Message: subscribe CliniPsy your name OR subscribe Clinical-Psychologists your name NUVUPSY (Discussions of sociological, political, and existential issues in psychology) Subscribe at: LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU Message: SUBSCRIBE NUVUPSY your name Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (for OB or I/O Psy.) Subscribe at: LISTSERV@BUCKNELL.EDU Message: SUBSCRIBE OBTS-L your name PSYCHOSYNTHESIS Subscribe at: listproc@robles.callutheran.edu Message: none provided by sender BOWLBY - Discussions of Attachment Theory Subscribe at: Listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu Message: SUBSCRIBE BOWLBY your name L-ACLRNG - Active and Collaborative Learning Subscribe at: LISTSERV@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Message: SUBSCRIBE L-ACLRNG you name DEARTANIA - Tania's Advice Line (Advice line for those who are in need of honest, sincere, open-minded advice on RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE, FRIENDS, DATING, SEXUALITY, CHILD SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE, SIBLING RIVALRY, DISFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES, DEPRESSION, EATING DISORDERS, DRUGS ...) Subscribe at: LISTSERV@WIN95.DC.LSOFT.COM Message: SUB DEARTANIA your name WEB SITES http://www.coil.com/~grohol/web.htm (General Support and Psych. Resources on the Web) http://www.gasou.edu/psychweb/resource/selfhelp.htm (Psychology Resources on the Internet) http://www.io.org/~madmagic/help/help.html http://pages.prodigy.com/IA/linda/linda.htm (Careers for Psych. Majors - Some Sites to Explore) http://sunsite.unc.edu/jembin/mb.pl (Find out your Jungian archetype) http://www.utm.edu/~zachry/honpsy.html/honpsych.html (Web-based Honors General Psychology course - well worth taking a look at!) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/ (Psych. page for Columbia Univ.) http://www.umich.edu/~tmorris/goodbook.html (Impressive 300-item annotated bibliography of good popular books in psychology - again, well worth taking a look at) http://www2.hawaii.edu/~maluso (Diane Maluso's homepage with links to psych. sites) http://lecaine.music.mcgill.ca/~welch/auditory/Auditory.html (Collection of auditory demonstrations and tutorials) http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/neurotut.html (Basic Neural Processes Tutorial) http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/sen_tut.html (Tutorial in Sensation and Perception) http://sin.fi.edu/~helfrich/music/psychaco.html (Sound Perception Activities) http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~andreas/Teaching/Music/Experiments.html (Music Cognition Activities) http://psy.ucsd.edu/otherpsy.html (Psychology Web Pages) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:20:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Von Bakanic Organization: College of Charleston Subject: Sociologist needed ASAP We have to replace a faculty member at the last possible moment. One of our colleagues was taken ill suddenly and is on medical leave. We need a sociologist that can teach intro and possibly urban sociology. Today was our first day of classes, so we need someone ASAP. Applicants must have at least a master's degree in sociology. Call: Dr. Christine Hope, Chair Dept. of Sociology College of Charleston Charleston, S.C. 29403 (803) 953-5738 FAX (803) 953-5824 The good news is that the professor was schedules to teach a Tues.-Thurs. schedule, so a commute may be managable. _____________________________________________________________________ Von Bakanic, Ph.D. (803) 953-7105 Dept. of Sociology internet address: College of Charleston bakanicv@cofc.edu Charleston, S.C. 29424 FAX (803) 953-5738 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:36:34 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janice M Bogstad Subject: Ladies Sewing Circle I guess I should have done this right off. The Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society comes from a science fiction short story by Kathering Maclean who write it in the late sixties. The story is about a man who was sent to another planet to destabilize a totalitarian state. On a bet, he made up this name as the most unlikely one to cause a political revolution and began putting up posters with their name on it. Soon there were societies and the totalitarian regime was overthrown. I am sure Katharine is quietly delighted to see that this name caught on. J. Bogstad bogstajm@uwec.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:15:53 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Nancy A. Lariviere" Subject: 20/20 Episode I am quite interested in using the John Stossel segment on gender differences in my Psych of Women class. (The idea of using this in conjunction with a discussion of bias in research was an excellent suggestion). The problem is that I can't seem to locate my copy of this segment and the person I called at ABC News told me that copies were unavailable. Does anyone know of somewhere I could purchase this tape or is anyone willing to lend (rent) a copy to me so that I could show this in class? I would appreciate any help at all (and would be willing to pay for the use of the video). I am quite desperate at this point since I will need to restructure the beginning of my course if I cannot locate a copy! Thanks for any help at all. Please respond privately. Nancy Lariviere (NancyL@wpoff.monm.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 16:33:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: Ferber's media request In-Reply-To: beatrice "Re: Ferber's media request" (Jan 10, 12:31am) I didn't see many of the Nike advertisements that have been referred to, (I don't read many of the magazines that ran these advertisements), but what might not be considered particularly feminist about these athletic shoes and their advertisers, is the manner in which they are produced. I suggest that those who are intersted follow up on an article that Cythnia Enloe wrote in a back issue of Ms. magazine - like many other products athletic shoes tend to mass-produced in free-trade zones in countries of the south, where women work for below subsitence wages and in horrific conditions. If I remember correctly there was a rather paternalistic letter to the editor in a follwoing issue, essentially arguing that these companies are just offering women the opportunity of paid labour. Katherine Side klside@YorkU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 16:55:20 U Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carol Edelman Subject: Help creating course We are creating a minor and (soon to follow) a major in women's studies at our university. Next week, a colleague and I are writing a course proposal to create a course on "Approaches to Feminist Inquiry." It will be a course focusing on theory and methods, with more emphasis on the former. If any of you have taught such a course and have a syllabus on your computer that you could share via email with us, we would greatly appreciate it. It would help us so much in writing our syllabus to see what others are doing. Thanks in advance for your help. Carol My email address is: cedelman@oavax.csuchico.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:03:00 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: Marge Piercy I'm trying to locate Marge Piercy who reads this list. Marge we have a couple of books awaiting you but have mislaid your address. Please reply privately : Lynne Alice L.C.Alice@massey.ac.nz Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 04:49:20 -0500 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Organization: The University of Birmingham Subject: gender and advertising This is an interesting discussion but seems to be happening on a level of gut responses to the ad rather than academic consideration of the ad in question (or advertising more generally). I teach a Gender course with Maureen McNeil to 2nd and 3rd year students in the Cultural Studies Department at Birmingham University. Advertising is one topic covered on the course and their first assignment (for 20% of the grade) is to analyse an advertisment. The reading assigned for the seminar on advertising is Myra Macdonald (1995) 'From Myrs Happyman to kissing chaps goodbye: advertising reconstructs femininity' Chapter 3 of _Representing women: Myths of femininity in the Popular Media_ London: Edward Arnold. Macdonald addresses the way advertisers have appropriated feminism (and would thus be useful for thinking about the Nike ad mentioned in previous posts) in the context of a discussion of historical shifts in representations of femininity in advertising. By the way, many of the analyses done by the students were very good, picking up on a lot of these issues. Women may want to consider assigning such an exercise. Ours was a 1500 word essay analysing ONE advertisement in terms of representations of gender relations and gender divisions. Dr. Jo VanEvery Dept. of Cultural Studies University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom 0121-414-3730 J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:09:14 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dina Haruvi Subject: Re: autobiographies of women In-Reply-To: <199601110928.JAA19788@netmail.city.ac.uk> I am interested in this subject and would ike to have access to this compilation. Thanks Dinah Haruvi Tel-Aviv University > >For my women's history course, I give the students an assignment in which > >they are asked to select two autobiographies of women (twentieth-century) > >who are of different ethnic/racial backgrounds and then to write an essay > >describing commonalities in life experience based on gender and ways in > >which race/ethnicity/class/region produce differences in their lives. > > > >I have a list of autobiographies/diaries/memoirs grouped by > >race/ethnicity, but I would appreciate suggestions in order to expand the > >lists. I'd be happy to post a compilation of responses if there are others > >interested. Thanks to all. > > > >Cynthia Harrison > >Associate Professor > >History/Women's Studies > >Funger 506G > >The George Washington University > >2201 G Street, N.W. > >Washington, D.C. 20052 > >telephone: 202-363-4356 > >e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > >fax: 202-994-7249 > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:08:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Maj Aurelia A. Blake" Subject: Impact of Literature Form: Memo Text: (4 lines follow) Can anyone refer me to any studies on the impact of children's literature on self image and self esteem? I know about the research in the Cinderella complex. Has anyone made any long term study of the impact of literature and the developing self image in adolescence? Use Proportional Font: true ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:31:36 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marjanne Gooze' Subject: Re: Your mail In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 10 Jan 1996 21:04:36 -0500 from I too would like to see Cynthia Harrison's list of autobiographies. Marjanne E. Gooze' Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Langs. University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Telephone: Office: (706) 542-2450; Home: (706) 549-2831 E-Mail: MGOOZE@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:55:46 -0500 Reply-To: lsee@owens.cc.oh.us Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda See Organization: Owens Community College Subject: community college women's studies I have been given permission to develop a proposal for a women's studies program as a transfer program for a two-year community college. I would like to correspond with anyone with experience in women's studies at the two-year level. linda b. see owens community college lsee@owens.cc.oh.us ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 13:25:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: do NOT contact C. Harrison via WMST-L! > I too would like to see Cynthia Harrison's list of autobiographies. So far, there have been at least two such replies sent to WMST-L. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT SEND "please send me" or other messages meant only for one person and of interest only to that person to WMST-L! Send the message privately, in this case to Cynthia Harrison, whose email address is harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu. If you can't get through, ask your system's computer support people for help. If you've lost the person's address that you want to contact, learn how to get listserv to retrieve the person's message for you. Excellent instructions for retrieving past messages can be found in two WMST-L files. To get them, send the following two-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: GET DUMMY GUIDE GET SEARCH LOGFILES Whatever you do, do NOT send "please send me" or "please post your info" messages to WMST-L. Send them privately. WMST-L has about 4000 subscribers. If only 5% of them sent such messages, we'd have 200 additional postings. Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Please DO NOT reply to this message. 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: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:10:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: Re: autobiographies of women I am very interested in the topic of autobiographies of women and would be interested in getting a copy of whatever you receive. I am currently working on a book entitled "Women Educators: Creators Of Change," Two very interesting autobiographies by the same woman Sylvia Ashton- Warner from New Zealand Myself and I Passed This Way are good examples of autobiography. Thanks Phyllis Povell Povell@Eagle.LIUNET.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:19:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: Re: Impact of Literature I'm not sure of the answer but two wonderful sources are Donna Norton (I believethe University of Texas at Austin) and Bee Cullinan at New York University. Phyllis Povell Povell@eagle.liunet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:34:29 -0500 Reply-To: Cynthia Harrison Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: autobiography list I'll post the compilation to the list for all who are interested. (Sorry, Joan, for not asking for only private replies.) Cynthia Harrison Associate Professor History/Women's Studies Funger 506G The George Washington University 2201 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20052 telephone: 202-363-4356 e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu fax: 202-994-7249 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 08:41:06 +0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Seaton Subject: Re: Your mail In-Reply-To: <960112.103207.EST.MGOOZE@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> I also would like to see Cynthia Harrison's list of autobiographies. Kathleen Seaton, Department of Western Languages Tunghai University Taichung, Taiwan, ROC. email: krf@s867.thu.edu.tw On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Marjanne Gooze' wrote: > I too would like to see Cynthia Harrison's list of autobiographies. > > Marjanne E. Gooze' > Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Langs. > University of Georgia > Athens, GA 30602 > Telephone: Office: (706) 542-2450; Home: (706) 549-2831 > E-Mail: MGOOZE@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 22:11:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 calls for papers The following two calls for papers may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Women and 20th-Century Protestantism 2) 4th Berkeley Women & Language Conference: Gender and Belief Systems (NEW DEADLINE) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) WOMEN AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY PROTESTANTISM A Call for Papers Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism is a three-year program of historical research designed to generate a fresh and systematic look at women and Protestantism in the period from 1890 to the present. The project seeks papers from within the historical discipline on topics related to women in all varieties and dimensions of twentieth-century North American Protestantism. It will seek to examine how the dominant themes of modern Protestant history-institutional realignments, theological conflict, rising sectarianism, and growing awareness of racial and cultural diversity--might be modified if women are taken fully into account. In addition, the project will attempt to explore how categories of feminist historiography and criticism may be of help in understanding women's experience within Protestantism. A limited number of $3,000 grants have been set aside to fund article-length studies by both younger and more senior scholars. The deadline for proposals is April 15, 1996. For more information on grants contact: Women in Twentieth-Century Protestantism Andover Newton Theological School Newton Centre, MA 02159-2243 Tel. 617/964-1100, Ext. 292 E-mail: isae@david.wheaton.edu Funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts *************************************************************************** 2) New Deadline Because we have had so many requests, we are sending out the Call for Papers once again, with a *new* deadline. Please note that we have extended the deadline to **January 17** because of the snowstorms in the East (and Jan. 17 is a receipt deadline, not postmark). We prefer hard copy but will accept e-mailed submissions. Also, we discourage faxed submissions, but if you have to fax it, you should fax only one copy each of the short and long abstracts. [here is the revised call for papers] *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 17, 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. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:09:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Hannigan Subject: Re: Impact of Literature Check with Kay Vandergrift at Rutgers University. Her address is Vandergrift@Zodiac.rutgers.edu. You might check her website that has several references that might prove helpful http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/kayhp2.html There is a dissertation at Rutgers (Vandergrift is advisor) by Hilary Crew on Mother/Daughter Relationships that addresses self image. Longitudinal studies are few and far between. Jane ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 11:13:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Film Review Added: Eye for an Eye On Saturday, January 13, 1996, I reviewed "Eye for an Eye" on "The Women's Show" a weekly womanist/feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM (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 REV163 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, 13 Jan 1996 15:44:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sara Ebenreck Subject: Re: SSWP Call for Papers The Society for the Study of Women Philosophers Spring 1996 CALL FOR PAPERS The SSWP seek proposals for papers or discussions at our 1996 sessions to be held at the December Eastern Division APA meetings. This year we especially encourage some submissions that are interdisciplinary in nature, i.e., that reflect on philosophical ideas in the poetry, fiction, autobiography or essays of philosophically-minded women not formally recognized as philosophers. Generally, presentations may be centered on any of the following: * Discovery of work by previously unknown women philosophers * Any aspect of the thought of a recognized woman philosopher * Philosophical ideas in women poets, novelists, etc. * The nature of philosophy as affected by women's contributions * Experiences in integrating women thinkers into the curriculum. Send NINE copies of a one-page proposal or abstract (or paper, if you have it now) to: Therese Dykeman, Program Chair, 47 Woods End Road, Fairfield CT 06430. DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: APRIL 15, 1996 Completed papers should be 15 pages or less, typed, doublespaced. Presentations should be timed for 45 minutes or less, including discussion. Proposals will be blind-reviewed by the SSWP board. Notification of acceptance will be made by early summer 1995. Presented papers will be considered for publication in future collections on SSWP papers. Presenters are encouraged to become members of the Society. E-mail contact: Sara Ebenreck at sebenrec@oyster.smcm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 11:15:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Kaufman Subject: new book I wanted to let members of the list know that Laura Kaplan's book _The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service_ (Pantheon, ISBN 0-679-42012-6) was released in the first week of January. Its an important and radical book about a group of women who saw a need for safe abortions in Chicago, and evolved to the point where they provided them. In this sense, its much more than a book about abortion - its about empowerment in the true sense of the word - about the moment when you recognize that you have the power to do what needs to be done. The book is also compelling for me because it is the first insider account of underground abortion work. I did some abortion work as part of the lay women's health care movement in the late 70's. The stories of our immediate history were exchanged with each other, but not publicly. In telling this story, Laura makes the work that we all did a part of the public record, a part of our history. Laura is a friend of mine and has asked me to let the list know about this book. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Judith S. Kaufman Department of Applied Behavioral Studies in Education PH (405) 744-6036 Oklahoma State University Fax (405) 744-6756 308 North Murray Hall Stillwater, OK 74074 Internet Address kaufman@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:54:31 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kassie Fleisher Subject: critiquing women in ads... because of system problems i ahve been in and out of this conversation, so forgive me if you've seen this before...but has anyone mentioned john berger's _ways of seeing_? it contains an excellent chapter on how women are represented by "publicity" (he writes about british ads). it's organized around theory and my students sometimes have trouble with the material but i have them read it twice and they really respond to it. it's dead-on, as we say. just a thought. kassie fleisher ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 09:02:55 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JANE ANN BARFORD Organization: The Robert Gordon University Subject: Re: Impact of Literature A considerable amount of work was done in the 1970s and 1980s on sexism in children's books, notably: Michel, Andree." Down with Stereotypes! Eliminating sexism from children's literature and school textbooks". Unesco, 1986 - gives many examples of the influence of such literature. Rosemary Stones' work with Ladybird books in the UK quotes a 1976 study of the impact of sexist stories on re-school children: L.Z.Arthur and S.V.Eisen. Achievements of male and female story-book characters as determinants of achievement behaviour in boys and girls. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 33, April 1976. Similar work has been done by Kathryn Scott and Shirley Feldman-Summers (Journal of Educational Psychology 1979) As in other research seeking to establish causal behavioural links, isolating one source of influence (literature) from family/peer/media influences is tricky, to say the least. Jane Barford J.Barford@rgu.ac.uk are also dependent on home life, peer pressure etc. l ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:39:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Cannibal Women Some time ago, I sent a message to the list about the film "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" which I hAve sometimes used at the end of Women's Studies classes. Several people asked for further information, and this is what I've found: 1989. PG-13. 90 minutes. Directed by J.D. Athens. Stars Sharon Tweed, Adrienne Barbeau, Karen Mistal, Barry Primus, Bill Maher. Available on Paramount Home Video. 5555 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038-3197. Telephone: 213-956-5000. List price $79.95. "Tongue-in-cheek cult classic features erstwhile playmate Tweed as feminist anthropologist who searches with ditsy student and mucho-macho male guide for lost tribe of cannibal women who dine on their mates." (Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever 1994) For all who like this kind of stuff, enjoy! -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:04:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet McCann Subject: Re: Cannibal Women I also used *Cannibal Women* at the end of my Female Bildungsroman class, twice, but then quit using it because of complaints (some of our students have an underdeveloped sense of humor.) I have had that problem with other assignments, and did not quit using them, but I thought that since *Cannibal* did not have an important pedagogical purpose, I would bow to the pressure. I am interested in hearing how others handle this kind of problem. Janet ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:26:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ?????? Subject: Re: MLA (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:20:55 -0500 From: EmpressT@aol.com Call for Papers (MLA) Papers are solicited for a 1996 MLA session (pending approval) on "Reading, Teaching, and Theorizing Japanese Women Writers." The convention will be held in Washington, D.C., from December 27 to 30. The session proposes to examine Japanese women writers whose works are available in English translation with the objective of teaching them in the American college classroom to students who may or may not have good understanding of the language and culture of Japan. Papers are to be addressed to college professors who wish to teach Japanese women writers and/or further their research on the same. Two-page abstracts or ten-page papers are to be submitted by March 15, 1996 to Tomoko Kuribayashi, Assitant Professor of English, Humanities Department, Trinity College of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401. Inquiries should be addressed to the same address or (802) 658-0337, ext. 258. Alternatively, the e-mail address for inquiries or submissions is EmpressT@aol.com. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:22:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Alana J. Erickson" Subject: Re: Million Women and Children March on Washington (fwd) Comments: To: h-women@msu.edu Hi, I'm forwarding this from Victoria de Grazia, director of Columbia University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Please reply either to me (aje4@columbia.edu) or to her directly (vd19@columbia.edu). Thanks. Alana J. Erickson aje4@columbia.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- In one of her messages about the negotiations around the budget and the impact on children, Marion Edelman spoke of being more visible, maybe a march on Washington. How about a Million Women and Children March on Washington ? For May or June, with children and anybody else, e.g. men! It may be too late for this round of negotiations, but not for the innumerable local decisions and the upcoming national elections. Young people are especially baffled about the enormous effects of what is happening-- I mean college and high school kids and littler ones like my eleven year old who says "why don't we march on Washington like you guys used to do?" The support would be huge, from the some of the same churches and other organizations that sent a million men to Washington and from many women's organizations, and goodness knows from liberal college and high school faculty and students! Maybe there are already plans along these lines. Maybe there are plans to discuss this at the Children's Defense Fund meetings in February. What do you think? Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University, History Department and Institute for Research on Women and Gender ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:58:48 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sonita Sarker Subject: About School of Oriental and African Studies, London I would be grateful if anyone could e-mail me personally with the snail-mail address, e-mail address, fax number, telephone number, (any means of contact!) of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), in London, England. More specifically, I'm trying to locate Helen Kanitkar in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS; her essay " 'Real true boys':moulding the cadets of imperialism" is in the anthology "Dislocating Masculinity." This is in relation to my project on the issues of gender and space as they are pertinent to Indians (Asian) in Britain. Any other information or response on this subject (such as bibliographies, etc.) would also be most welcome. Thank you, Sonita. Sonita Sarker Assistant Professor Women's Studies and English Macalester College Office Phone: (612)696-6316 Fax: (612)696-6430 e-mail:sarker@macalstr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:11:54 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lorraine Pozzi Subject: Re: Million Women and Children March on Washington (fwd) In-Reply-To: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > In one of her messages about the negotiations around the budget and > the impact on children, Marion Edelman spoke of being more visible, maybe > a march on Washington. How about a Million Women and Children March on > Washington ? For May or June, with children and anybody else, e.g. men! WHAT A GREAT IDEA! It's heartening to see this on a Women's Studies list -- too often grassroots women see academia as an "ivory tower" with little interest in direct action and little understanding of what they really need. The support would be huge, from the some of the same churches and > other organizations that > sent a million men to Washington and from many women's organizations, > and goodness knows from liberal college and high school faculty and > students! > Maybe there are already plans along these lines. Maybe there > are plans to discuss this at the Children's Defense Fund meetings in February. > What do you think? > Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University, History Department and Institute > for Research on Women and Gender > I hope this thread continues and leads to ACTION! The issues are indeed complex and confusing and few people seem interested in discussing them thoughtfully and with concern for women and children -- we are living in very mean-spirited times. But action does energize. So where is the leadership among women to make something like this happen? Lorraine Pozzi femme2@scn.org ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 14:36:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Von Bakanic Organization: College of Charleston Subject: Women and Children March I'm not sure how long it takes to organize a national grass roots march, but I do know that in Washington,DC you need permission to assemble from three different agencies; the Parks Service, the city and the Captiol. Is there anyone who lives in the DC area that could call and find out how far in advance we need to apply to be able to plan an assembly? _____________________________________________________________________ Von Bakanic, Ph.D. (803) 953-7105 Dept. of Sociology internet address: College of Charleston bakanicv@cofc.edu Charleston, S.C. 29424 FAX (803) 953-5738 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:21:52 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carole K. Chaney" Subject: Re: Cannibal Women In-Reply-To: <0099C6BE.3E70DC00.1959@acad.ursinus.edu> from "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology," at Jan 15, 96 10:39:43 am I just saw this movie on Comedy Central last month. That's another source. Carole > > Some time ago, I sent a message to the list about the film "Cannibal > Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death" which I hAve sometimes used at > the end of Women's Studies classes. > > Several people asked for further information, and this is what I've found: > > 1989. PG-13. 90 minutes. Directed by J.D. Athens. Stars Sharon Tweed, > Adrienne Barbeau, Karen Mistal, Barry Primus, Bill Maher. Available on > Paramount Home Video. 5555 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038-3197. > Telephone: 213-956-5000. List price $79.95. > > "Tongue-in-cheek cult classic features erstwhile playmate Tweed as feminist > anthropologist who searches with ditsy student and mucho-macho male guide > for lost tribe of cannibal women who dine on their mates." > > (Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever 1994) > > For all who like this kind of stuff, enjoy! > > -- Gina (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:24:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bill Oetjen Subject: Bias/Discrimination in course evaluations. This is a reposting of a message I sent out about a month ago. It is possible some list members may have missed it because of the holidays. Hello, The Women's Studies Program here at the University of Vermont is looking into the reported discrepancy between evaluations of female and male faculty by students in course evaluations. There's lots of anecdotal evidence that female faculty are regularly evaluated more harshly than male, but there seems to be little quantitative proof. If you know of research on this question, or reports about the problem, please contact me at: WOetjen@moose.uvm.edu Thank you very much, Bill Oetjen ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 19:15:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: No More Women/Children March messages, please I'm writing to ask that no more messages about the women and children march be sent to WMST-L. As the list's welcome letter tries to make clear, messages about politics or societal problems lie outside WMST-L's focus on teaching, research, and program administration. The list's mail volume poses a constant problem to many subscribers, and if we opened the list up to political messages as well, the volume would increase dramatically (especially since we have subscribers from 40 different countries, with different sets of political issues), and many people would be forced to sign off. I don't want to see that happen, and so, though I'm very much in sympathy with the content of most political messages sent to the list, I must ask that such messages be sent elsewhere, not to WMST-L. Fortunately, there is now a list explicitly designed for messages about political and social issues: ABIGAILS-L, a feminist activist discussion list dedicated to gaining full and equal women's rights through immediate actions. To subscribe, send the message SUBSCRIBE ABIGAILS-L to LISTSERV@NETCOM.COM. Your subscription request will be forwarded to the listowners for approval. The question of political messages has been discussed a good deal in the past and should not be re-hashed now. If you're interested, you can send the message GET FOCUS EXPLAIND (yes, "explaind" with only one "e") to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU; you'll get a file containing messages that discuss this issue and help to explain the list's focus in more detail. If you feel that because of its narrow focus, WMST-L does not meet your needs, you can unsubscribe by sending the message SIGNOFF WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you get the edited digest, be sure to add a second line that says AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE . Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:43:49 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Miriam E. Joseph" Organization: SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY St. Louis, MO Subject: January 1996 Reference Book Notices Available REFERENCE BOOK NOTICES FOR JANUARY 1996 The third file of the new monthly WMST-L feature, "Reference Book Notices," is now available for retrieval from the WMSTBOOK FILELIST. *Educator's Guide to Free films, Filmstrips & Slides, 55th ed. *The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion *Holocaust Literature: A Handbook of Critical, Historical, and Literary Writings *Jubilation!: African American Celebrations in the Southeast *Making a Difference College Guide: Outstanding Colleges to Help You Make a Better World, 3rd. rev. ed. *Media Review Digest, 1995 *Peterson's Sports Scholarships and college Athletic Programs *A Who's Who of Sports Champions: Their Stories and Records To obtain the file containing notices for these titles send the following command to Listserv@UMDD (Bitnet) or Listserv@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET WMSTBOOK 3 To obtain a list of all the reference book notices available, send the following command to Listserv@UMDD (Bitnet) or Listserv@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): INDEX WMSTBOOK To get more than one set of notices, put each command on a separate line: GET WMSTBOOK 1 GET WMSTBOOK 2 GET WMSTBOOK 3 ************ This file consists of descriptions of selected reference books-- across all subject areas--that feature significant information about women, gender, and/or feminism. Each "notice" includes a complete bibliographic citation, publisher address and phone number for orders, ISBN, current list price, a brief description emphasizing content that makes the title relevant to Women's Studies, and identification of some published critical reviews (if available). The purpose of this feature is to alert teachers, librarians, and students to resources that have potential for supporting Women's Studies instruction and basic student research. These are *not* formal book reviews! The inclusion of these titles in this feature does, however, reflect the contributors' (all WMST-L subscribers) beliefs that these sources are useful. Look for an announcement of the availability of future files on the 15th of every month. We'll decide in May 1996 whether to continue, but would appreciate feedback in the interim. Please let me know (contact me privately--not via WMST-L) if you've found this feature useful or if you would like to join our small band of contributors. Miriam Miriam E. Joseph Reference Librarian, Pius XII Memorial Library Saint Louis University josephme@sluvca.slu.edu (314) 977-3584 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:34:14 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Feminist presses In-Reply-To: Kitchen Table Press is the name of a woman's publishing company dedicated to publishing the work of women of color. The project is sponsored by The Center for Women, a collaborative effort of scholars and activists of The Union Institute. Here is more information regarding this Press. GET INVOLVED WITH THE KITCHEN TABLE PRESS HOUSE PARTY CAMPAIGN Founded in 1981 by Audre Lorde and Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press is the only US press run autonomously by and for women of color. Kitchen Table is committed to publisishing and distributing the writing of Third World women of all racial and cultural heritages and sexualities. The Kitchen Table House Party Campaign is a national, grassroots fundraising campaign to benefit the Press. House Parties are being organized in the following cities for Fall 95: Brooklyn, NY Decatur, GA Dekalb, IL Richmond, IN Roxbury, MA Washington, DC We need folks to support these parties at all levels. For more information and an organizing kit to help you develop a house party in your own community contact The Union Institute, Center for Women, 1410 Rhode Island Ave, Washington, DC, or call (800)969-6676, e-mail: grant@tmn.com Hope this helps. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly, The Union Institute jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Linda L. Anderson wrote: > can someone give me phone/fax numbers for kitchen table press? > please respond privately. > thanks. > > Linda Anderson > lla@minerva.cis.yale.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:20:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "OU Women's Studies Program 325 (405)" Subject: Final SCWSA CALL WE CALL AGAIN FOR THE LAST TIME. THE HOLIDAYS HAVE HELD SOME OF YOU BACK FROM SUBMITTING YOUR PROPOSALS. THIS IS THE LAST CALL. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:25:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "OU Women's Studies Program 325 (405)" Subject: SCWSA CAll Details The Call for papers for the South Central Women's Studies Assn. Celebrating Difference/Exploring Commonality: Women's Studies in the '90s University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK March 29-30, 1996 Panel proposals or papers on theme of Celebrating Difference Exploring Commonality: Women's Studies in the '90s: applied to anthropology, pedagogy, law, medicine, science, psychology, literature, art, music, communication, history, sociology, or other relevant topics. 250 word abstracts/panel proposals (in English) including names of organizer/author (please include all participants); mailing address; phone number; professional/institutional affiliation; title/position and audio-visual needs. 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, 16 Jan 1996 09:36:12 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pamela Brubaker Subject: Re: Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society In-Reply-To: <01HZTJSSE1OI90N515@VAX1.JMU.EDU> I was just able to locate the flyer that came with my shirt, which I purchased in the mid-1980's. After retelling a feminist folk-tale, the flyer says "The LSCTS was born over apithcer of beer whared with two close friends in 1974, and it has existed in our minds ever since. (You need not tell everyone it's imaginary. Half the fun is letting people wonder.) You can make what you want of it." The flyer also reported that thousands of women had the shirts. It was signed by Sally-Jo Bowman, 38956 Place Road, Fall Creek Oregon 97438. I don't know if the shirts are still available, but one could inquire at this address. Pamela Brubaker brubaker@callutheran.edu On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Arnie Kahn wrote: > Subj: Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society > A former student sent me the following question. If you have an > answer send it to me at kahnas@jmu.vax unless you think the answer > would be of interest to others. > > Arnie Kahn > ***************************************************************** > > Hi there! I have a question I have been unable to get answered and > thought of you. For Christmas, I got a t-shirt with a "Ladies > Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society" emblem on it and I know I have > seen this elsewhere. I don't know its origin or if it is a real group. > I'm pretty sure that it is (or was at one time). Have you heard > of it? > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:42:26 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gaea Honeycutt Subject: Multicultural Summer Fellowship Comments: To: gened@acpub.duke.edu, eled-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, multc-ed@umdd.umd.edu, ra-equity@hub.terc.edu, sash-l@asuvm.inre.asu.edu, edequity@tristram.edc.org, wisenet@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU Please send your reply to the following message directly to Kim Briscoe at EDC. Thanks. Education Development Center, Inc.. (EDC) is an innovative research and development organization. Our wide-ranging project focus on health, education, technology, human rights,and the environment. EDC's services and capabilities include curriculum and materials development, technology applications, institutional development, research and evaluation, and training and technical assistance. EDC offering an opportunity for up to five undergraduate and graduate students to work on projects based in New York City and Newton, Massachusetts. This opportunity is extended to students of color as EDC wants to enhance the field of education and research and development by diversifying its future pool of leaders and researchers. Applicants must be undergraduate and graduate students of color who are United States citizens or permanent residents. For the 1996 summer fellowship program EDC is seeking applicants with significant coursework in a range of areas including: linear algebra, calculus, science education, mathematics education, instructional design, computer science, early childhood education, sociology, political science, woman's studies, Latino studies. or other ethnic studies. All applicants must also have solid writing and inquiry skills, familiarity and ease in operating computers, and good oral communication skills. For more information I can be reached via email at briscoe@edc.org. Please feel free to post and share this information with others. Kim Briscoe Program Coordinator EDC Fellowship Program ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:14:12 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Chastain Subject: dissertation experiences In-Reply-To: I am interested in the unusual (or not so unusual) experiences which have come up in your dissertation writing, especially as these pertain to your attempts to weave Womens Studies issues into the (often rigid ) academic framework. There are perhaps some personal and professional issues involved here just as this interests me for both personal and prof reasons. Please respond to me privately. If your experience does not lend itself to this electronic transmission, I can give you an address or phone number to write or call. I look forward to hearing from you and about you. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 15:47:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Greenblatt Subject: Lesbian and Gay Biography: Call for Contributors I am posting a call for contributors for a new reference book of gay and lesbian biographies for it's editor, Mike Tyrkus (who has no Internet access) Pls. direct all questions, comments, etc. to Mike whose address and phone number are given below. Thanks! -- Ellen Greenblatt January 16, 1996 REQUEST FOR CONTRIBUTORS FOR _ST. JAMES PRESS GAY AND LESBIAN BIOGRAPHY_ Dear Proposed Contributor: I am editing the first edition of a new St. James Press book entitled _St. James Press Gay and Lesbian Biography_, a reference work featuring biographies of 275 notable gay men and lesbian throughout the world, from all periods, occupational fields, and ethnic backgrounds. Each entry will include a signed biographical essay of 800, 1200, or 2400 words. I would like to post an open invitation to experienced, knowledgeable writers to participate in this new project as a contributor of biographical essays. Contributors will be paid an honorarium of $50, $75, and $100 (depending on length) for each new, original essay of 800-2400 words upon publication. Contributors will also be asked to provide an electronic manuscript on computer diskette and a short writing sample prior to being assigned entries. The book will be published in the fall of 1996. I plan to begin making assignments to contributors in early February and will continue making assignments through late February 1996. Contributors will be asked to return completed essays eight weeks from the date of assignment. I do hope you're interested in participating as a contributor. In light of the tight schedule for this project, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you by January 26, at which point I will provide you with an entrant list so that you may choose those you would prefer writing on. You may contact me by phone, 1-800-347-4253, ext. 1452, or (313) 961-2242, ext. 1452, and by fax at 313-961-6950. You may also mail a reply to me at Mike Tyrkus/ St. James Press / 835 Penobscot Bldg. / Detroit, MI 48226. Sincerely, Michael J. Tyrkus Editor, _St. James Press Gay and Lesbian Biography_ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:22:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: U.Wis. Women's Studies Librarian's Office Website Comments: To: LIBRARIES-ALL@vms2.macc.wisc.edu, FEMINIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU, FEM-GRADS@vms2.macc.wisc.edu Announcing New Website UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM WOMEN'S STUDIES LIBRARIAN'S OFFICE URL: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ Visit our homepage for * Descriptions of our publications and services * Tables of contents and articles from FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES * Full-length bibliographies including "The Glass Ceiling," "Ecofeminism," "Feminist Aesthetics," "The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology," "Women Mystery Writers," and "Wisconsin Women's History" * Core lists of women's studies books on such topics as "Health," "Language," "Lesbian Studies," "Mass Media," and "Women of Color in the U.S." * Catalog of the U. Wisconsin System Women's Studies Audiovisual Collection * Links to selected other websites on women and gender including * Online newsletters and periodicals * First chapters of books * Syllabi and other course-related materials * Subject-arranged list of sites on art, business, music, science,international concerns, women's studies research centers, women writers, and more * Archives of electronic discussion lists * Links to search engines and general databases phw 1/16/96 email: wiswsl@doit.wisc.edu ************************************************************* Phyllis Holman Weisbard (608) 263-5754 Women's Studies Librarian pweis@wiscmacc (Bitnet) University of Wisconsin System pweis@macc.wisc.edu (Internet) Room 430 Memorial Library 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:35:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Women in Science Program position THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH PROGRAM DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM WOMEN AND SCIENCE PROGRAM AND COORDINATOR, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH SCIENCE OUTREACH PROGRAM Applications are invited for an administrative position in the Office of the Dean, College of Letters and Science. The successful candidate will administer the University of Wisconsin System Women and Science Program and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Science Outreach Program. Each is a half-time position. The appointment may be either at a senior level with tenure or as continuing academic staff, depending upon experience. Qualifications: Ph.D. in mathematics or a science; college teaching experience; expertise in gender, race and ethnicity issues in science; required. Success in obtaining extramural grants in science education; outreach and/or administrative experience; preferred. Responsibilities: coordination and development of both programs; proposal writing; communication and interaction with faculty, staff and administrators at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, at other University of Wisconsin System campuses, and in school districts in Wisconsin and nationally. The Women and Science Program is a System-wide program whose goal is the reform of introductory science courses -- content, climate, pedagogy -- to encourage capable students,> particularly women and minorities, to continue their study of science. Faculty development programs have been central to the program efforts to date. The Program was developed by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium, and the Program Director will work closely with the System-wide Advisory Board. University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Science Outreach provides continuing education for teachers of the region and the nation, as well as programs targeted at K-12 students. The objectives of these programs are to improve science instruction and accessibility at the K-12 levels. Please send a letter of application, resume, three current letters of recommendation and transcripts to Michael Zimmerman, Dean, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901. For more information call: (414)424-1210, e-mail: mz@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu. Closing date: March 29, 1996. The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:24:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Jenkins Subject: Query about Separatism I am a lecturer in Commerce and am currently doing some research on women-only organizations. In relation to this, I have been looking for articles/books that deal with separatism or separatist actions. I have read Marilyn Frye's article "Some reflections on separatism and power", and various general books on first and second wave feminism. Does anyone know of some articles/books that look at this issue? You can reply to me privately at jenscomm@fac.anu.edu.au Thanks Sarah Jenkins ______________________________________________________________________________ Sarah Jenkins Ph: +61 6 249 4872 Department of Commerce Fax: +61 6 249 5005 Faculty of Economics and Commerce Email: jenscomm@fac.anu.edu.au The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:42:22 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Mary L. Spencer" Subject: Impact of Literature I was on a Master's Thesis committee a few years ago for Elisa DeLuna Campbell here at the University of Guam. Her thesis topic was: An Examination of Ethnic and Sex Representation in Three Seventh-Grade Basal Readers. She was concerned about the representation of Pacific Island and Asian characters in the mandatory school materials in our public schools. She cited concern over the effect of materials lacking a students cultural values and background knowledge on educational development (grasping meaning, comprehending reading materials): Cantoni-Harvey, G. (1987) Content area language interaction: Approaches and strategies. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley;Tonjes, M. J. (1991). Secondary reading, writing, and learning. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon; Pritchard, R. (1990) The effects of cultural schemata on reading processing strategies. Reading Research Quarterly, 15 (40), 273-295; Racism and Sexism Resource Center for Educators. (1977). Sexism and racism in popular basal readers 1964-1976. New York. She argued that character identification leads students to mold their own behaviors after their model characters (Busch, F. (1972). Interest, relevance, and learning to read. In S. J. Zimet (Ed.). What children read in school: critical analysis of primary reading textbooks. NY: Grune & Stratton). If students do not sufficiently see their ideas, cultural values, and faces in their textbooks, there may be a negative effect on educational development. If minority and female students cannot find charcters and settings sin stories with which they can identify, their vision of themselves as belonging in school and being academic achievers may be affected. McArther & Eisen. (1976) Achievements of male and female storybook characters as determinants of achievement behavior by boys and girls. Journal of Personalaity and Social Psychology, 33, 470-473 --found students stayed longer on task and remembered the story of achievement of a character of their same sex. Students were more likely to accept a female i another story to be achievement oriented. The more exposure to non-sexist materials, the more influenced and able to retain values and attitudes of the materials. Scott,K. P. 1977, Elementary pupils' perceptions of reading and social studies materials: Does sex of the main character make a difference? Dissertation Abstracts UMI 780973--found that elemetnary students who read successful stories of people who fought sex discrimination in non-traditional jobs caused the children to have less stereotypical attitudes toward careers and activities encountered in later stories. Eliza's own study found the distressing result that the current basal readers do just as poor a job at race and sex representation as they did 20 years ago. Moreover, there were no Pacific Island characters. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:32:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Burk Tamara L Subject: WS/Sociologist Position To all WMST-L members: Following is a job announcement--please pass on to anyone who may be interested who is not a member of this particular list,...thanks! Tamara L. Burk Women's Studies College of William and Mary 804-221-2671 ****************************************************************** TENURE TRACK SOCIOLOGY/WOMEN'S STUDIES FACULTY POSITION Tenure eligible joint appointment with Sociology and Women's Studies, beginning as Assistant Professor starting in the Fall of 1996. Position will include construction of gender in non-western cultures; feminist research methods (especially comparative and ethnographic). Successful candidates' scholarship will link theoretical perspectives with empirical investigation in a way that emphasizes practices/conceptualizations of gender in non-western cultures and moves analyses away from assumptions of western centrality. Tenure home will be Sociology; teaching split evenly with Women's Studies. Strong commitments to teaching and productive scholarship essential; experience in program development desirable. Salary and benefits competitive. Letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation should be sent to: Professor Elaine M. Themo Chair, Search Committee Dept. of Sociology The College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 (804) 221-2590 Review will begin March 1, 1996 and will continue until the position is filled. The College of William and Mary is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. Members of underrepresented groups (including people of color, persons with disabilities, Vietnam veterans and women) are encouraged to apply. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:54:16 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: address request A colleague, who doesn't subscribe to the list, needs to get in touch with Alice Walker and Cynthia Ozick for a project she's working on. If anyone has the address or either or both, would you please send it/them to me privately? Thanks in advance. Ellen Cronan Rose, Director, Women's Studies Program, UNLV 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5055 PHONE (702) 895-0838, FAX (702) 895-0850 ecrose@nevada.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:15:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: address request Ellen Cronan Rose writes: > A colleague, who doesn't subscribe to the list, needs to get in touch > with Alice Walker and Cynthia Ozick for a project she's working on. If > anyone has the address or either or both, would you please > send it/them to me privately? Thanks in advance. Some months ago, a very useful message was sent to the list explaining how to find writers' addresses. I'm reproducing it here to help Ellen's colleague and anyone else who may wish to contact a novelist or poet; it even includes a phone number: > There are occasional queries on the list about finding writers for gigs. > The best way to go is to look in A DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN POETS AND FICTION > WRITERS, published by Poets & Writers Inc, 72 Spring St, New York NY 10012. > You can also call them if you are in a hurry. 212 226 3586. > > Adrienne Rich does list her publisher, so that is the route you take. That > is unusual. Most writers list their own addresses or that of their agents. > unless a writer requests that you go through the publisher, as Adrienne > does, you shouldn't, since publishers are notoriously slow at forwarding > mail. [Writers] sometimes receive letters that go through [their] publisher > six months after the letter has gotten there. > > The directory generally comes out every two years. Thus it is relatively > current. It lists by states, but also has an index in the back. > If you know where someone teaches, of course you can "finger" them there. For those who'd like more information about "finger" and other online methods of finding email addresses, send the message GET FINDING ADDRESS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU or check the same file on the World Wide Web: http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/addresses.html . 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: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:06:08 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pamela Armstrong Lakin Organization: Herrick Memorial Library, Alfred University Subject: [Fwd: I have a favor to ask.....] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -----------------------------560127125216 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joan, could you please send the following announcement forward for a colleague who is not on the list? Thanks Pam Lakin Alfred University, Alfred, NY flakin@bigvax.alfred.edu -----------------------------560127125216 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:50:19 -0500 (EST) From: Subject: I have a favor to ask..... To: FLAKIN@bigvax.alfred.edu X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Hi Pam, I have a favor to ask: Would it be possible for you to post the following announcement to the WST-List for me? I need to get as much publicity as I can about this program and know that the WST-List would be a perfect way to get it. Thanks you so much, Karen ******************************************************* CALL FOR APPLICATIONS SOCIOLOGISTS FOR WOMEN IN SOCIETY (SWS) INVITES APPLICATIONS FROM COLLEGES AND CONSORTIA TO HOST THE 1996 FEMINIST LECTURESHIP ON WOMEN AND SOCIAL CHANGE, RECENTLY AWARDED TO RONNIE J. STEINBERG, PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND WOMEN'S STUDIES, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY. THE 1996 LECTURESHIP IS NAMED IN HONOR OF MURIEL GOLDSMAN CANTOR (1923-1995). PROFESSOR STEINBERG WILL DELIVER THE LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON IN FEBRUARY, 1996, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SWS MIDYEAR MEETING, SPEAKING ON "GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF CONTAINMENT." IN ADDITION SHE WILL PRESENT HER LECTURE TO AUDIENCES AT TWO OTHER COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES TO BE SELECTED BY THE FEMINIST LECTURESHIP COMMITTEE. GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED CAMPUSES ARE GIVEN PRIORITY IN THE SELECTION PROCESS. SWS PROVIDES AN HONORARIUM FOR THE LECTURER. HOST SCHOOLS ARE EXPECTED TO PAY ALL OTHER EXPENSES. IF YOUR CAMPUS IS INTERESTED IN HOSTING THE 1996 LECTURER, PLEASE SEND A LETTER OUTLINING PLANS TO KAREN PORTER, DIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ALFRED UNIVERSITY, ALFRED, NY 14802. THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS FEBRUARY 20TH. ANYONE WISHING FURTHER INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT KAREN PORTER AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS OR BY E-MAIL (FPORTERK@BIGVAX.ALFRED.EDU) *************************************************************** -----------------------------560127125216-- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:47:32 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: gwendolyn foster Subject: Re: Query about women in film discussion groups In-Reply-To: from "Sarah Jenkins" at Jan 17, 96 11:24:25 am I'm new to the net and looking for discussion groups on women in film. I am particularly interested in women as film directors. I just published an encyclopedia of women film directors for Greenwood but my present work is on women filmmakers of the Black Diaspora. Are their groups out their talking about women in film? Gwendolyn Foster University of Nebraska,Lincoln gfoster@unl.info.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:15:40 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Temma F. Berg" Subject: Global Feminism First I would like to thank everyone for their responses to my request for introductory texts with global feminism content. I would also like to apologize for my lateness in posting the accumulated replies to the list but we've had a lot of snow here in the East. The replies were not many but they were a happy few. Janice Wood Wetzel's THE WORLD OF WOMEN: IN PURSUIT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (Macmillan 1993. available in paperback) The Hunter Collective's WOMEN'S CHOICES, WOMEN'S REALITIES (2nd edition. Oxford University Press 1995) WOMEN, CULTURE AND SOCIETY: A READER, edited by Barbara Balliet and Susanna Fried (Kendall-Hunt 1992) THIRD WORLD WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF FEMINISM edited by Chandra Mohanty et al Johnson-Odim's COMMON THEMES, DIFFERENT CONTEXTS Ehrenreich and Fuentes' WOMEN IN THE GLOBAL FACTORY Enloe's BANANAS, BEACHES, AND BASES Sources for more titles: the catalog BOOKS ON WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT (January 1995) and the catalog supplement of July 1995, available from WOMEN, INK (Telephone: 212-687-8633; FAX: 212-661-2704). Since the text will be read by a group of faculty interested in knowing more about global feminism, I will probably use Mohanty's THIRD WORLD WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF FEMINISM. Again thanks for all your help, Temma Berg ---------------- Temma F. Berg Department of English Gettysburg College Gettysburg PA 17325 tberg@gettysburg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:39:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: Re: address request Get finding address ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:19:52 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Chastain Subject: Re: Million Women and Children March on Washington (fwd) In-Reply-To: What do I think? I think I'd be there. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:03:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 jobs, 1 Turkish journal The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Job: Asst. Prof. in Feminist Theory, etc. (Ohio State) 2) Job: Coordinator, Sexual Abuse Awareness Program (Dartmouth) 3) CFP and current issue: J. of American Studies of Turkey For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN FEMINIST THEORY, ETC. - OHIO STATE Assistant Professor in Feminist Theory, Methodology, and Pedagogy with specialization in the analysis of gender and social/economic systems and theories of diversity. The Department of Women's Studies at the Ohio State University has been authorized to expand its faculty over the next few years. Several full-time and joint appointments will be advertised as the newly designated department--after 25 years as a program and Center--solidifies its interdisciplinary core at the graduate and undergraduate levels and expands its disciplinary affiliations. The Department offers an undergraduate major and minor as well as an M.A. in Women's Studies. For the current full-time position, we seek a specialist in interdisciplinary contemporary feminist theory, methodology and pedagogy, who also focuses on the analysis of gender and social and economic systems, primarily in U.S. culture, as well as on theoretical approaches to cultural diversity. Teaching responsibilities include large lecture courses (especially the introductory level Women, Culture, and Society course), undergraduate courses (including a course in Women and Work), and graduate seminars. Ph.D. required. Candidates should present evidence of women's studies teaching and curriculum design experience, as well as specific training in women's studies. Such training could include a Ph.D. in W.S., a graduate certificate or other doctoral-level credential in the field, or equivalent professional experience. Send letter of application, c.v., and three letters of recommendation by April 1, 1996, to Chair, Feminist Theory Search, Department of Women's Studies, 286 University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, Vietnam-era veterans, disabled veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. ************************************************************************ 2) JOB OPENING Position: Coordinator, Sexual Abuse Awareness Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Description: Reports to the Health Resources Department and the Women's Resource Center. Assumes responsibility for the College's Sexual Abuse Awareness Program, which involves administrative, programmatic, advocacy, and crisis counseling activities. The program is designed to heighten the awareness of the Dartmouth community to issues of rape, sexual assault and harassment, domestic violence, as well as related issues involved with relationships and gender. Responsible for coordinating and overseeing services in response to all reported incidents of student sexual abuse. Must have at least two years of experience working with late adolescent/college-age populations within an educational institution or community agency with programs concerning sexual abuse (including rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment); a Master's degree in Counseling, Social Work (ACSW), Health Education, or closely related field, with expertise in sexual abuse. Must be able to design and deliver workshops, trainings, and educational programs and train/advise peer education and advocacy groups. Must possess sensitivity, sound clinical judgment, good communication skills, and an ability to assess and evaluate crisis situations. In the context of sexual abuse, must demonstrate an awareness of and ability to address intersections of gender, race, sexual orientation, and other significant aspects of individual and cultural identity. Must be able to work after hours when appropriate/necessary and be available for consultations on all cases of sexual assault involving Dartmouth students. Salary: $26,000 - $32,000/year, commensurate with experience and qualifications. Dartmouth is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The review of applications is currently underway and will continue until the position is filled. We plan to schedule interviews during early April, 1996 and anticipate a start date of July 15, 1996. Please send letter of application and resume to Leslie Clancy, Search Coordinator, HB 6143, Dartmouth College Health Service, Hanover, NH 03755. ************************************************************************* 3) JAST - Journal of American Studies of Turkey Editor: Gonul Pultar Book Review Editor: Ayse Kirtunc Film Review Editor: Michael Oppermann The second issue of JAST is out with the following articles of interest to womens studies: Lale Demirturk: Black Women's Selfhood in Alice Walker's 'Possessing the Secret of Joy' Semiramis Yagcioglu: Language, Subjectivity and Ideology in 'A Rose for Emily' Gonul Pultar: 'Jasmine' (by Bharati Mukerjee) or the Americaniztion of an Asian There is also a review, by Ruchan Kayalar, of Ayse Kirtunc's 1995 book on Marge Piercy, 'Sozcukler Melegi: Marge Piercy ve Ilkorneksel Elestiri' (Angel of Words: Marge Piercy and Archetypal Criticism). The JAST homepage, containing various information and all articles, is available on the www at the following address: http://www.bups.bilkent.edu.tr/jast/ For subscription and/or single copies, write to Gulriz Buken, Department of History, Bilkent University, 06533 Ankara, Turkey, fax: *90 (312) 266 4960, e-mail: buken@bilkent.edu.tr For more information about JAST and/or details concerning submission of articles for consideration for publication, write to the Editor, Gonul Pultar, Department of English Language and Literature, Bilkent University, 06533 Ankara, Turkey, fax: *90 (312) 266 4934, e-mail: gonul@bilkent.edu.tr The deadline for submission of articles for the next issue, Spring 1966, is March 1, 1966. NB: Two points have to be made clear: First, it may not be obvious to those of you who are not familiar with Turkish names, but the publisher (Buken), the editor (Pultar), the book review editor (Kirtunc) as well as the authors whose articles or review are mentioned are all women. Secondly, as there is no serious academic ws journal (in English) in Turkey, we have to make do with JAST. Gonul Pultar Editor, JAST Department of English Bilkent University 06533 Ankara Turkey fax: *90 (312) 266 4934 e-mail: gonul@bilkent.edu.tr ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:32:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fleah Subject: Israeli women In-Reply-To: <9601172047.AA23239@unlinfo.unl.edu> I am looking for sources about Israeli women and reproductive rights in Israel. Does anyone know where or what would be good reading on this subject? Thanks, Leah Nelson ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:15:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society The shirts ARE still available. Check at your local feminist bookstore. we've had them at Amazon (Minneapolis) off and on over the past few years. Mev >I was just able to locate the flyer that came with my shirt, which I >purchased in the mid-1980's. After retelling a feminist folk-tale, the >flyer says "The LSCTS was born over apithcer of beer whared with two >close friends in 1974, and it has existed in our minds ever since. (You >need not tell everyone it's imaginary. Half the fun is letting people >wonder.) You can make what you want of it." The flyer also reported that >thousands of women had the shirts. It was signed by Sally-Jo Bowman, >38956 Place Road, Fall Creek Oregon 97438. I don't know if the shirts are >still available, but one could inquire at this address. > >Pamela Brubaker >brubaker@callutheran.edu > >On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Arnie Kahn wrote: > >> Subj: Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society >> A former student sent me the following question. If you have an >> answer send it to me at kahnas@jmu.vax unless you think the answer >> would be of interest to others. >> >> Arnie Kahn >> ***************************************************************** >> >> Hi there! I have a question I have been unable to get answered and >> thought of you. For Christmas, I got a t-shirt with a "Ladies >> Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society" emblem on it and I know I have >> seen this elsewhere. I don't know its origin or if it is a real group. >> I'm pretty sure that it is (or was at one time). Have you heard >> of it? >> ********************************************************************** Women's Presses Library Project "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller, Project Coordinator 1483 Laurel Ave., St. Paul., MN 55104-6737 (phone) 612-646-0097; (fax) 612-646-1153; (email) wplp@winternet.com ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:15:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Query about Separatism >From the Women's Presses Library Project: The Woman-Centered Ecomony: Ideals, Reality, & the Space in Between, Loraine Edwalds, Editor, Midge Stocker, Editor, Third Side Press, 1-879427-06-0, 1995, P, $15.95, The Woman-Centered Economy presents real stories of women running businesses based on feminist principles, within the feminist and lesbian communities. It also presents some theoretical thinking behind the day-to-day work and ideals toward which many women in our businesses and community nonprofit organizations strive. Some of them are separatist-based. The Lesbian Heresy, Sheila Jeffreys, Spinifex Press, 1-875559-17-5, 1993, P, $19.95. Sheila Jeffreys is a strong separatist. In this book, she explores how the lesbian feminist agenda to overturn the sexual system of male dominance and female submission has recently been considered "heresy" by a lesbian sex industry making profit from women's oppression. The final chapter is titled "A Deeper Separation." Her previous books (also spearatist but published by mainstream houses) include _Anticlimax_, and _The Spinster and Her Enemies_. Other books I would PERSONALLY recommend (not in the WPLP) include: For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, edited by Sarah Hoaglund and Julia Penelope, Onlywomen Press. Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory, by Julia Penelope, Crossing Press. Dykes-Loving-Dykes: Dyke Separatist Politics for Lesbains Only, by Bev Jo, Linda Strega, and Ruston, Battleaxe press. Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value, Sarah Lucia Hoaglund, ILS Press. I also recall an issue of Signs sometime in 94 or 95 that addressed issues of separatism. Mev >I am a lecturer in Commerce and am currently doing some research on >women-only organizations. In relation to this, I have been looking for >articles/books that deal with separatism or separatist actions. I have read >Marilyn Frye's article "Some reflections on separatism and power", and >various general books on first and second wave feminism. Does anyone know >of some articles/books that look at this issue? > >You can reply to me privately at jenscomm@fac.anu.edu.au > >Thanks >Sarah Jenkins > >______________________________________________________________________________ > >Sarah Jenkins Ph: +61 6 249 4872 >Department of Commerce Fax: +61 6 249 5005 >Faculty of Economics and Commerce Email: jenscomm@fac.anu.edu.au >The Australian National University >Canberra ACT 0200 >Australia > >____________________________________________________________________________ >__ ********************************************************************** Women's Presses Library Project "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller, Project Coordinator 1483 Laurel Ave., St. Paul., MN 55104-6737 (phone) 612-646-0097; (fax) 612-646-1153; (email) wplp@winternet.com ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:16:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: politics of women's bodies >I am editing an anthology of previously published pieces for Oxford >on the politics of women's bodies. I am still looking for articles/ >chatpers to reprint on the following topics: > Here is a suggestion from the Women's Presses Library Project. Consuming Passions: Feminist Approaches to Weight Preoccupaton and Eating Disorders, edited by Catrina Brown, Second Story Press, 0-929005-42-2, 1993, P, $16.95. In this far-reaching collection, twenty-two experts share their extensive knowledge on women's preoccupation with body size. They consider the continuum of eating behaviors ranging from dieting and exercise for weight control to anorexia and bulimia, as well as exploring recent research in such areas as the failure of dieting to weight control, and the increasing disputed links traditionally made between weight and health. Please let me know if you need help in locating this title. Sincerely, Mev Miller >religous ideas about women's bodies >ideas about women's bodies embedded in violence against women/ >impact of violence on women's lives >sexuality/sexual orientation >abortion >fetal "rights" >women of color > >The anthology is aimed at juniors/seniors. Any suggestions welcome. >Responses directly to me would be most useful. Thanks. > >Rose Weitz >Department of Sociology >Arizona State University >ROSE.WEITZ@ASU.EDU ********************************************************************** Women's Presses Library Project "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller, Project Coordinator 1483 Laurel Ave., St. Paul., MN 55104-6737 (phone) 612-646-0097; (fax) 612-646-1153; (email) wplp@winternet.com ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:16:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Gender and creative writing >My research concerns ways in which gender affects the practice and >perception of creative writing, especially ways in which gender stereotypes >affect the creative writing workshop. Here are some suggestions from the Women's Presses Library Project: Collaboration in the Feminine: writings on women and Culture from Tessera, edited by Barbara Godard, Second Story press, 0-929005-57-0, 1994, P $14.95. For ten years some of Canada's most innovative and critical writers have published their work in _Tessera_. This collection vividly explores the breaking down of formal barriers, the writing across genres that have been such an important facet of feminist literary projects of the last decade. The contributors provide fresh insights into themes such as race and gender, writing and memory, power and ethics, feminist theory and translation. By, For and About: Feminists Re-Present Literary Theory, edited by Wendy Waring, Women's Press Canada, 0-88961-203-X, 1991, P, $15.95. Nowhere has the impact of feminist thought on literary theory been more forceful than in the field of representation. Feminist insistence that narratives ABOUT women should be BY and FOR them has entailed, for the literary mainstream and for feminism, a re-examination of how narrative is constituted, a re-ordering of the social construction of cultural production, and a politicized attention to the hand that holds the pen. If you have trouble finding these titles, please let me know. Sincerely, Mev Miller for the Women's Presses Library Project If you have any sources, data, >examples, or anecdotes, please pass them along to me at this address: >shubbard@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu.(I'm an assistant professor of English at the >University of Central Florida.) Thanks! > >--Susan Hubbard >shubbard@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu ********************************************************************** Women's Presses Library Project "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller, Project Coordinator 1483 Laurel Ave., St. Paul., MN 55104-6737 (phone) 612-646-0097; (fax) 612-646-1153; (email) wplp@winternet.com ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:16:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: girls studies >For a project with middle school and high school girls, I am interested >in any work that has been done around girls studies, or in talking to >anyone who has done this sort of work. Here is a suggestion from the title listing of the Women's Presses Library Project. Sexual Harassment: High School Girls Speak Out, June Larkin, Second Story Press, 0-929005-65-1, 1994, P, $1994. Intended more for educators and administrators than for students, it contains first-hand interviews with teenage girls and shows how sexual harassment is a part of daily high school life. Please let me know if you need assistance in locating this title. Sincerely, Mev Miller Also, I would love to know the >names of any creative artists or others who might be able to be a visiting >artist or scholar with girls, particularly any Latina and African American >women. We have a lot of information on a number of programs, and would >welcomeany other ideas or suggstions. > >Thanks. > >Helen Jones >Women's Resource Center >University of Nevada, Reno >jones@scs.unr.edu ********************************************************************** Women's Presses Library Project "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller, Project Coordinator 1483 Laurel Ave., St. Paul., MN 55104-6737 (phone) 612-646-0097; (fax) 612-646-1153; (email) wplp@winternet.com ********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:35:28 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: politics of women's bodies In-Reply-To: <199601182011.OAA15938@icicle> I am seeking scholarly references on topic peace education with families, which also goes by names such as Peacemaking for Families, Parenting for Peace and Justice, and Family Life Education for Peace. Titles which I already have include xy>Thank you for the references. Here are some titles that I know of. >Wonder if there are more out there. > >McGinnis, Kathleen and James, Parenting for Peace and Justice, Orbis > >Dorn, Lois and Penny Eldgridge Martin, Peace in the Home > >Khavali, and Khavali, Creating the Successful Family > >Haessly, Jacqueline, Peacemaking: Family Activities for Justice and Peace > Learning to Live Together > >Wonder what else might be out there -- eithr books or articles. Can >yoiu help? > >Is ther likely to be anything that is scholarly? That is really what I >would to discover> The above references are written for parents, and are not scholary in format, althought e content is good. ALso, I am looking for references for research about this topic. There is quite a bit of research on peace and women's issues. I am particularly looking for material that focuses on the family perspective. I would also appreciate references from a cross-cultural and international perspective. Please reply privately. If there is sufficient interest, I will post the list publicly. Thank you in advance for your help. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 07:37:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan hubbard Subject: Re: Gender and creative writing Dear Mev Miller, Thanks so much for the titles. I'm headed out of town for the weekend and will check our library for them on Tues. --Susan ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:14:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "David F. Austin" Subject: Michigan Conference on Prostitution: Follow-up Comments: cc: carolleigh@aol.com During March, 1995, there was a discussion on this list of the 1992 UMichigan conference on prostitution. A variety of perspectives were discussed. According to some, MacKinnon (and others) censored some sexually explicit videos made by women sex-workers; according to others, neither MacKinnon nor anyone else engaged in what is properly called censorship. The WMST-L archives contain relevant material. Anyone interested in these issues may want to take a look at: Marjorie Heins, "A Public University's Response to Students' Removal of an Art Exhibit," Symposium: The Sex Panic: Women, Censorship and "Pornography" _New York Law School Review_ v 38 nos 1-4 (1993) 201-223 [ISSN 0145-448X] [Back issues: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1285 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14209] This article contains the most complete published account from the "it was censorship" perspective. I hope that a similarly detailed account will be available from those who see things differently. David F. Austin Associate Professor of Philosophy and Assistant Head Department of Philosophy and Religion Winston Hall 101A Box 8103, NCSU Raleigh, NC 27695-8103 (919) 515-6102 FAX (919) 515-7856 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:29:30 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Kay Schleiter Subject: Discrimination in Science SWS, the Sociologists for Women in Society, has a committee which provides support to women in sociology who are discriminated against because of their gender. Do women in Biology or women in science have a similar group? Is there a group which helps African American women who believe they have been discriminated against in Biology departments? Mary Kay Schleiter Director of Women's Studies University of Wisconsin-Parkside mks@cs.uwp.edu 414/595-2536 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 09:13:38 +1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: Women's Studies research facilities I'm compiling a list for our Web pages of Women's Studies departments, programmes and centres that offer fellowships, residency and facilities for visiting feminist scholars, (anywhere in the world). If your programme does, or you've been somewhere that has great facilities whether or not they offer a stipend, please email me privately and I'll compile and post the results to the list. Thanks Lynne Alice Women's Studies Programme, Massey University, PO Box 11-222, Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand) http ://cc-server9.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:52:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Holtzman Subject: Re: girls studies Have you seen "Reviving Ophelia" (I've lent my copy and have forgotten the author's name but she is a pyschotherapist who addresses issues of adolescent girls-predominantly white) or "Schoolgirls" by Peggy Orenstein? "Schoolgirls" is an anecdotal account of girls at two schools-- one predominantly white and middle class and the other multiracial, urban, poor-redominantly African American and Latino. Linda Holtzman Webster University St. Louis MO ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 22:33:01 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet Hartman Subject: Israeli women I apologize for the delay but wish to thank all who sent me suggestions for material on Israeli women, and pass some of the info I received to those who are interested. I have used as a text, and it was suggested by many: Calling the Equality Bluff: Women in Israel (1991) edited by Barbara Swirski and Marilyn Safir. Another book gathering articles on a number of subjects is: Yael Azmon and Dafna Izraeli (Eds) Women in Israel Transaction Books, 1993 I havenUt seen this yet, but it is probably a good and up-to-date overview: Telling the Untold Tale: Feminism (Chapter 8) in The Changing Agenda of Israeli Sociology: Theory, Ideology, and Identity - by Uri Ram (SUNY Press, 1995) New books, focusing especially on the impact of the current political situation on both Jewish and Arab/Palestinian women in Israel include: Women andthe Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change (1994) edited by Tamar Mayer; Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance (1995) by Simona Sharoni ; An American Feminist in Palestine by Sherna Berger Gluck; Gender and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: My Home, My Prison, an autobiography by Raymonda Tawil (addresses the issue of women and state control). Some other books include: Exile in the Promised Land - A Memoir, by Marcia Freedman (Firebrand Books, 1990) - autobio of feminist activist who won a seat in Knesset with Shulamit Aloni's political party in the early 1970's; Lesbiot, Israeli Lesbians Talk About Sexuality, Feminism, Judaism, and Their Lives, edited by Tracy Moore (Cassell Press, 1995) - oral histories of 21 Israeli lesbians. Active Voices - edited by Maurice Sacks (mostly on Jewish women, with some comparison to Israeli women) Kibbutz Journal, by Kathy Ferguson Tamar El-Or , Educated and Ignorant (a book on religious women) ( I havenUt seen the latter 2 yet) These 2 books delve into womenUs roles in Israeli history, including state-building: Deborah Bernstein (ed) Pioneers and Homemakers, Greenwood Press 1992; Deborah Bernstein The Struggle for Equality, Westview Press, 1991 For current information, there are 2 newsletters in English coming out of Israel about Israeli women: The Haifa Feminist Center English language newsletter ( Isha LIsha, Hillel Street # 47, Haifa The Israel Women's Network newsletter Box 3171, Jerusalem 91031 I have seen the latter and it is extremely informative especially about contemporary legal achievements and areas of change and development. I have a fairly extensive biblio of articles on different subjects about Israeli women (e.g., education, labor force, army, war, violence) thru approximately 1992. If anyone is interested in a copy please let me know privately. I still find a gap in terms of scholarly research on the two topics I originally wrote to the list about: sexual harassment, and the movement of Women at the Wall. IUll take this opportunity to plug an upcoming book I have coauthored, Gender Equality and American Jews, to be published by SUNY Press this summer, which includes a chapter comparing American Jews and Israeli Jews in terms of gender equality. (It is based on the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey in US, and uses comparable Israeli data for comparison) For any other contemporary works on Israel or questions about other sources, please contact me privately: hhartman@sjuphil.sju.edu Harriet Hartman Bryn Mawr College Dept. of Sociology Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 08:59:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne Hildenbrand Subject: Websites on academic women Can anyone recommend websites with information on the status of academic women in the US? General data, such as number % percent in various ranks, or more specialized data on women in individual disciplines are both ok. SH ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 14:33:37 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "K. O'Grady" Subject: PostDoc. Opportunities.... Comments: To: Lynne Alice In-Reply-To: I am interested in finding out about PostDoc. opportunities in feminist studies. Does anyone know of an electronic source for this? Or have any helpful addresses? Please respond to me privately at: ko10001@cus.cam.ac.uk Thank you! Kathleen O'Grady Trinity College Cambridge University ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 10:24:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: Israeli women In-Reply-To: Harriet Hartman "Israeli women" (Jan 19, 10:33pm) Re: Leah Norton's request for information about NRTs in Israel Alison Solomon has an article in the book about Israeli women that Harriet Hartman mentioned: "Anything for a Baby: Reproductive Technology in Israel" Callin the Equality Bluff: Women in Israel, (1993) Barbara Swirski & Marilyn Safir [Eds.] New York, Teacherss College Press pp. 102-107. Marilyn Safir's article in the same book, "Religion, Tradition & Public POlicy Give Family First Priority" pp. 57-65. might also be interesting, although it has been some time since I have read it. Katherine Side klside@YorkU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 09:42:03 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carolyn plampin Subject: Re: Websites on academic women You wrote: > >Can anyone recommend websites with information on the status of academic >women in the US? General data, such as number % percent in various ranks, >or more specialized data on women in individual disciplines are both ok. >SH > Please post any results, or send it directly to me, as I will be interested. Carolyn Goodman Plampin, cplampin@ix.netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 15:55:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shirley P Brown Subject: Re: girls studies In-Reply-To: <960119175224_201415852@mail02.mail.aol.com> from "Linda Holtzman" at Jan 19, 96 05:52:26 pm Reviving Opherlia is by Mary Pipher. In my opinion, SchoolGirls is greatly underrated book and very good. There's another book dealing with girls in school that I'm just now reading - Sounds from the Heart by Maureen Barbieri (Heinemann). Shirley ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 19:32:11 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Film Review Added: Dead Man Walking On Saturday, January 20, 1996, I reviewed "Dead Man Walking" on "The Women's Show" a weekly womanist/feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM (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 REV164 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, 20 Jan 1996 23:49:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: Listen Up I know this book has been mentioned before, but Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation, edited by Barbara Findlen (Seal Press, ISBN 1878067613) is absolutely fantastic for the Intro to WS class. The students have been reading ahead of the assignments and they just love it. I highly recommend it. Arnie Kahn kahnas@jmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:41:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Pre-patriarchal cultures I am going to be teaching Women's Gender Studies course in pre-patriarchal goddesses and cultures. I would appreciate any information regarding resources or any other suggestions regarding the structure of the course. Thank you very much! Mary Ann Drake ddrake@mylink.net ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:30:37 GMT+1200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Caldwell Organization: UNITEC Institute of Technology Subject: Request for information. Feminism and nursing. to all subscribers. Hello, this is my first attempt to use internet for information. I am working on my thesis for my Masters degree in adult and higher education. My area of interest is feminism and nursing, particularly nursing education. Key questions I want to explore include: 1.What are the tensions between nursing and feminism? Are they now only of historical significance? What is the evidence? 2. The social construction of the nurse subject.What are the contradictions...( using a poststructuralist framework). 3.Teaching Women's Studies/ feminist theory in undergraduate and post graduate nursing programmes. What is being taught?How do the teachers and the students percieve its relevance to the practice of nursing? What papers. articles, or books have been written about it? 4.The interface between Women's Studies/feminist theory and nursing practice. What has been written? Has anyone published a thesis on this or a related topic? I would be most grateful for any information anyone could give me. I would also be most grateful for the address of any other Listserv which might be of some use to me. In anticipation, thankyou. Shirin Caldwell Lecturer. Department of Nursing Faculty of Health UNITEC Private Bag Auckland New Zealand. esc@admin.unitec.ac.nz ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 07:58:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Heidi Hutner Subject: Job Opening: Chair English ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CHAIR SUNY Stony Brook seeks a distinguished scholar of English to lead a nationally prominent Department of English. Evidence of administrative skills and awareness of the role of the public university are important. Minority candidates are encouraged to apply. Stony Brook is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Applications, including a current CV and a list of referees, should be sent to Professor David Sheehan, Chair, Search Committee, Department of English, SUNY Stony Brook, New York 11794-5350, and should be received by March 25, 1996. All applications will be acknowledged on receipt. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:24:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PopTart Subject: Feminist Generations conf. update/CHILDCARE In-Reply-To: <01I092GHJC5I8ZFHXZ@VAX1.JMU.EDU> Hi Everyone -- The big Feminist Generations conference here at Bowling Green State University (20 miles south of Toledo, Ohio) is a scant twelve days away!! The planners wanted to remind everyone that there's still time for you to register and get in on all of the events. For more information point your web browser to http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/wmst/femgen.html (An updated version of the program will be posted there within the next 24 hrs... the most important change is that in the time Michele Wallace will be speaking on Saturday: the time of her address has been changed from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.) MOST IMPORTANTLY, though, we want to remind people that child care and educational/fun programs for children (many related to the themes of the conference) will be available during the conference to children of conferees for an additional small charge. WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY CHILDREN WILL BE ATTENDING BY *THIS* FRIDAY (JANUARY 26) AT 3 p.m. If you want more information about the conference, about programs for children, et cetera, call or send e-mail to Arlene Spoores (aspoore@bgnet.bgsu.edu) (419) 372-7133 Thanks! Hope to see some of you there! Crystal Kile, for the conference planning group ___________________________________________________ Crystal Kile is PopTart is ckile@bgnet.bgsu.edu Instructor POPC and WMST & ABD in ACS Drop by the Home Toaster: http://www.bgsu.edu/~ckile/ckile.html __________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:25:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Pamela Shelton -- - Mt. Clair Shores" Subject: Feminist Writers To: wmst-l, allist Inet >From: Pamela Kester-Shelton, editor, Feminist Writers: St. James Press Publishers is seeking contributing essayists for Feminist Writers, an upcoming guide to 300 noteworth writers within a variety of fiction and non-fiction genres. Bylined essays will vary between 300-1800 words in length; ms. deadlines are ongoing through May 30, 1996. A sample of the essays still to be assigned include those on: Ama Ata Aidoo; Simone de Beauvoir; E.M. Broner; Catherine de Pisan; Colette; Ding Ling; Maureen Duffy; Andrea Dworkin; Susan Griffin; bell hooks; Karen Horney; Joy Kowaga; Mary Lavin; Kate O'Brien; Elaine Pagels; Grace Paley; Judith Rodriguez; Sheila Rowbotham; George Sand; Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza; Verena Stefan; Clara Zetkin; and more. Anyone interested in contributing to Feminist Writers should send his or her resume, a 2-3 pp. writing sample, and area of expertise or interest in the field of feminist study to: Pamela Kester-Shelton, editor Feminist Writers 22536 Hoffman St. Clair Shores, MI 48082 Phone (810)296-7836 Fax (810)296-1626 e-mail: pshelton@reach.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:45:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Pollack Subject: CAPSTONE COURSE SYLLABII I teach at a community college that offers a 2 year degree in Women's Studies -- as part of our program review we have decided that we would like to include a capstone course. Our current required courses include Perspectives on Women, Women and Work, Images of Women, Women and Health, Non-Discriminatory Communication, Women and History, Contemporary Women Writers, Women and Art, plus options for internships and independent studies. I am looking for suggestions -- syllabi you might have and would be willing to share (from 2 or 4 year colleges) .... you can reply privately POLLACS @SUNYTCCC.EDU thanks, Sandy Pollack ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 20:16:14 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Montelaro Subject: Request WS Internship Sites in Europe I am advising an undergraduate Women's Studies Certificate student who will be in Nantes and Paris (May 30-July 12) with the Pitt in France Program this summer. She would like to extend her stay in Europe after July 12 if she can find an appropriate internship site in either France, Switzerland, or England. If you know of individuals or organizations in these countires that serve women or work on women's issues, please contact me privately. Thanks, Janet Montelaro (JJM6@vms.cis.pitt.edu) Women's Studies Program University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 23:50:27 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Horlitz Subject: Redstockings Manifesto One of the readings in a class I am co-teaching is the Redstockings Manifesto that was published in Sisterhood is Powerful by Robin Morgan. There is no information included with it. I know the Redstockings were a British feminist group but I am not sure if they are the source of this document. Does anyone have any information on this? Thanks, Beth Horlitz@uhavax.hartford.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 00:29:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Yvonne Klein Subject: Ida B. Wells film Will whoever wanted the information about the Ida B. Wells film please contact me privately? I seem to have the wrong address. Yvonne Klein yklein@dawsoncollege.qc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 00:58:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatrice Subject: Re: Redstockings Manifesto In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 22 Jan 1996 23:50:27 EDT from Beth and others interested, the Redstockings I know were a group of women in th e New York area. It may still exist, since I attended an event sponsored a few years ago. A book I bought there has the title ``Redstockings' and `Feminist Revolution' published in 1975, editor: Kathie Sarachild. It seems to be a journal, tho with no volume or issue numbers, with many short articles but nothing called a `manifesto.' beatrice bfdgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 07:46:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: Redstockings info Beth Horlitz wrote asking about the Redstockings Manifesto. Actually, the Redstockings were a NY-based Radical Feminist group that included Kathie Sarachild and Carol Hanisch. The group put out a "journal" or booklet in 1975 called "Feminist Revolution" that included Sarachild's article on consciousness-raising, articulated the group's "pro-woman" line, and distinguished their position from liberal feminism. (This also included criticisms of Gloria Steinem, alleging a connection to the CIA, and accusing Ms. Magazine of being part of a CIA plot to supplant radical feminism with liberal feminism.) For more info on the Redstockings see Alice Echols, _Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 (Mpls.: University of Minn. Press, 1989), esp. pp. 139-58 and 265-269 on the accusations about Steinem and liberal feminism.) Barbara Scott Winkler, Center for Women's Studies, West Virginia University. WINKLER@wvnvms.wvnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 07:57:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: Redstockings P.S. Just a follow-up: the Redstockings "Manifesto" was first included in _Notes From the Second Year_ (1970) edited by Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt. WINKLER@wvnvms.wvnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 08:39:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan D. Mandle" Subject: Re: Redstockings Manifesto The Redstocking were an early women's liberation group in NYC. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:36:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JMason Subject: Help finding Barrie Thorne On behalf of another school I'm working with, we would like to get in touch with Barrie Thorne. Does anyone on list have a phone number and/or email address for her. Many thanks! Reply privately. John Mason -------------------------------------------------------- John B. Mason (410)339-4188 http://www.softaid.net/jmason/center.html The Center for Contemporary Education at The Park School The Park School * Old Court Rd * Brooklandville MD 21022 -------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 08:38:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Redstockings' book FEMINIST REVOLUTION: an abridged edition with additional writings by Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, was published by Random House in 1975. ************************************************************************ Phyllis Holman Weisbard University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian Room 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706 http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ pweis@doit.wisc.edu ************************************************************************ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:36:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Carolyn V. Bell" Subject: Spanish writing In-Reply-To: I am in need of hard copies of Lidia Falcon's La Respuesta and Tres Idiotas espanolas, as well as Paloma Pedrero's Resguardo Personal. This is for a class that begins 1/25. Please respond privately.. Carolyn Bell bell@kutztown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:52:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosemary Wright Subject: Re: Help finding Barrie Thorne In-Reply-To: I have the address bthorne@garnet.berkeley.edu, which I used in December, so should be still good. Rosemary Wright Fairleigh Dickinson University On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, JMason wrote: > On behalf of another school I'm working with, we would like to get in > touch with Barrie Thorne. Does anyone on list have a phone number and/or > email address for her. Many thanks! Reply privately. > > John Mason > -------------------------------------------------------- > John B. Mason (410)339-4188 > http://www.softaid.net/jmason/center.html > The Center for Contemporary Education at The Park School > The Park School * Old Court Rd * Brooklandville MD 21022 > -------------------------------------------------------- > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:30:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo-Ann Pilardi Subject: Redstockings I believe the Redst. Manifesto was first published in NOTES FROM THE SECOND YEAR (can't find my copy just now). See Mimriam Schneir' FEMINISM IN OUR TIME, which carries the piece, with an intro'y note. In the edition of SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL that I have, the group is included in an appendix of "Women's Liberation Movement Contacts", complete with their N.Y. address (this was 1970 edition). --Jo-Ann Pilardi, Towson State Univ., Balt. MD --Women's Studies Program. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 14:24:17 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Catherine Decker Subject: Re: Request for information. Feminism and nursing. Breast feeding and feminism first caused a sensation in the late 18th c. The need for more soldiers to fight for and against the French lead governments to cultivate maternity and breast feeding (more babies survive than when wet-nursed). Isabelle Charriere's Letters from Mistress Henley (1782) recently reprinted by MLA press discusses the issue from a women's perspective. The heroine is horrified because her husband decides to have a doctor examine her to see if she is fit to breast feed his child. Cathy Decker ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:09:41 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer D Hickerson Subject: Women Writers I am working with several other students to create a website on 19th century American women writers--specifically those referred to as "domestic" or "sentimental." If you would like to suggest authors for inclusion or if you have links we might include, please let us know. Or if you would like to suggest inclusions for our bibligraphy. We shall let the entire wmst list know when our site is up and running. thank you for your help, Jennifer Hickerson jhickers@flute.aix.calpoly.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 20:29:32 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Horlitz Subject: Thank you for the Redstockings information I appreciate all the Redstockings information. It gives greater meaning to the Manifesto to be able to place it in its historical context. Beth Horlitz@uhavax.hartford.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 20:37:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Women Writers Jennifer Hickerson asked for suggested links for a website on 19th century American women writers--specifically those referred to as "domestic" or "sentimental." One I might mention is the "Yellow Wallpaper" site-- http://www.en.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/wallpaper/wallpaper.html. It also contains a link to another YWP web site. There's a large collection of links to web sites for women writers--not just 19th century American--at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/writers.html . Also, the same query might also be sent to t-amlit@list.cren.net (teaching the American literatures list) and perhaps wwp@brownvm.brown.edu (women writers project--for pre-Victorian texts). 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, 23 Jan 1996 19:45:23 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joan r saks berman Subject: best backlash readings (fwd) I was asked to forward this posting because the writer has been having some kind of mail difficulties. Please reply directly to her and not to the list or to me. Joan R. Saks Berman, Ph.D. jberman@unm.edu PHS Indian Hospital (505) 256-4083 801 Vassar Drive NE FAX (505) 256-4088 Albuquerque, NM 87106 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:49:25 -400 From: Mykol Hamilton To: jberman@unm.edu Subject: Re: best backlash readings Joan--Here's the original message. Thanks. Mykol In my "Women: The 51% Minority" interdisciplinary (psych, bio, theology, anthro) course, I'm assigning readings on the current feminist movement and backlash and wondered whether anyone had ideas on what would best round out the following readings: the "Backlashes Then and Now" chapter of Susan Faludi's _Backlash_ and the "Backlash Myth" chapter from ChristinaHoff Sommers' _Who Stole Feminism_. I'd like students to read a short response to CHS's response to Faludi, but don't know of a good one. Please answer privately at the e-mail address below. Thanks! *********************************************************** Mykol C. Hamilton, Associate Professor of Psychology Centre College 600 W. Walnut St. Danville, KY 40422 606 238-5332 mykol@centre.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 07:05:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marge Piercy Subject: redstockings Redstockings were a New York based radical feminist group, as stated, that became visible in 1969. There was I believe also a Notes from the First Year. Shulamith Firestone was the most famous member (at the time) and influenced a great many of us outside the group. There may have been an offshoot in Boston. About two years ago, a young woman contacted me on email about a meeting in Boston to revive REdstockings there. I don't know what happened. The origin of the name is clear enough: as opposed to bluestockings. They were not quite as visible as WITCH, because WITCH did media-smart demonstrations, like the disruption at the bridal fair in NYC. But they were one of the early groups in the late 60's, early 70's that generated a great deal of energy and ideas and strategies, and their analysis was far more influential. Marge Piercy hagolem@delphi.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:09:36 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fride Eeg-Henriksen Subject: Research post PRIO Norway ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW POST SENIOR RESEARCHER & RESEARCH DIRECTOR PRIO has a new permanent position available for a Senior Researcher (Forsker I/II) with the initial five years as Research Director. The position of Research Director may be renewed thereafter by mutual consent. Starting date is 1996. The Research Director will assist and advise the Institute Director in developing the research work of the Institute. The responsibilities of the position are: - To be an active researcher; - To share responsibility with the Institute Director for working with researchers to develop their research plans, project ideas and grant applications; - To assist the Institute Director in relations with KUF (Education Ministry), the NFR (Research Council), other institutes, government departments and funding sources in Norway and in the Nordic region in general, and to ensure quality control on research applications that are written in Norwegian; - To share responsibility with the Institute Director for ensuring competence development and evaluation of researchers including the fulfilment of projects; - To recruit hovedfag students, monitor their progress, ensure they receive adequate supervision; - To take a role in library planning. Despite the long list of responsibilities, the basis of the position - and of the Institute's eventual decision on whom to hire - is that the Research Director must be an active researcher with a solid and proven scholarly competence. PRIO's three research programmes are: - The Conditions of War and Peace; - Ethnic and Nationalist Conflicts; - Foreign and Security Policies. The post of Research Director requires a scholar who can give advice on some of the problems and research possibilities in at least two of these areas. The Institute is therefore seeking a scholar with a relatively broad research background. Since peace research is an inter-disciplinary field, a commitment to that way of working is essential and a working knowledge of concepts in more than one discipline is an advantage. The position requires somebody with the commitment and energy needed to fill three roles: - As a senior scholar; - As a mentor and director of studies; - As a source of ideas for initiating and financing research programmes and projects. The latter role necessitates familiarity with funding sources. The Research Director will be expected to develop that familiarity particularly in the Nordic region. Experience in raising research funds within the Nordic region is therefore an asset and fluency in a Scandinavian language is a necessary qualification for this post. No formal allocation will be made of percentages of time that the Research Director should spend on his/her own research and on supervising the work of others. The contract that will be offered to the successful candidate is permanent as a researcher and for a five year period as Research Director. At the end of the five years, the Institute will conduct a review with the Research Director. After that, the decision will be taken on whether to continue with the arrangement. Renewal and non-renewal after five years are both options. At this stage, the Institute is not committed to either option. Non-renewal as Research Director will not affect the permanence of the employment contract. The post is for a Senior Researcher - Forsker I or II. The Institute will not necessarily select the candidate with the highest formal competence if this is not matched by other qualities. Rather the Institute will appoint the candidate who best meets the requirements for fulfilling the position of Research Director, as outlined above. The appointment will be made at the seniority level that is appropriate to the successful candidateis proven competence. The salary level will be according to the official Norwegian scale, salary step 47 (currently NOK 290,600 p.a.) if the appointment is made at Forsker I level and step 43 (currently NOK 269,500) if at Forsker II. The Research Director will be responsible to the Institute Director and through him to the Institute Board. Application procedure To apply, send the Institute Director: - a curriculum vitae including list of publications; and - a letter describing current research interests and research plans. References, recommendations and publications for assessment by an evaluation committee will be sought from those applicants who show both the academic competence and the scholarly breadth required for this position. Following evaluations, a short list of candidates will be invited for interview. =46or further information, contact Dan Smith (Institute Director) or Helga Loetuft (Administrative Director). Deadline for applications is 31 January 1996. Ole Berthelsen Information Director Tel: (47) 22 55 71 50 =46ax: (47) 22 55 84 22 e-mail: ole@prio.no ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 08:53:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: responses to WHO STOLE FEMINISM DEMOCRATIC CULTURE, the newsletter of Teachers for a Democratic Culture, volume 3, no. 2 (Fall 1994) was a special issue/symposium on responses to the book from Nina Auerbach, Dale Bauer, David and Myra Sadker, Susan Friedman, John K. Wilson, and others. The responses are each about one-page long. You can contact the organization at P.O.B. 6405, Evanston, IL 60204; email: jkw3@midway.uchicago.edu *** Phyllis Holman Weisbard ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:10:55 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "K. O'Grady" Subject: Cambridge, UK Lecture series: WOMEN'S VOICES IN RELIGION.... (Feel free to distribute) WOMEN'S VOICES IN RELIGION PRESENTS (January -- May): Margie Tolstoy Cambridge University "Feminist Theologians and the Holocaust" 22 January 2:30pm Room 3 Grace Jantzen Manchester University "Disrupting the Sacred: Religion and Gender in the City" 22 February 2:30pm Room 3 Morny Joy University of Calgary "Passionate Encounters: Irigaray and an Erotics of Ethics and Hermeneutics" 29 February 2:30pm Room 3 Linda Hogan Leeds University "Boundaries and Knowledge: Feminist Ethics in Search of Sure Foundations" 5 March 2:30pm Room 3 Pamela Anderson University of Sunderland "`Abjection...the most propitious place for communication': Celebrating the Death of the Unitary Subject" 13 March 2:30pm Room 9 Lakshmi Holmstrom "Protest Literature in Tamil: A Dalit Woman's Story" 2 May 2:30pm Room 3 All events held at the FACULTY OF DIVINITY St. John's St., UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom Everyone Welcome! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 11:51:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Priya Sridharan Subject: new directory on inforM The following directory has been added to inforM: Educational Resources/Academic Resources by Topic/Women's Studies Resources/ Government and Politics/International Directory of Women's Political Leadership This directory, prepared by the Center for Political Leadership & Participation at the University of Maryland at College Park, provides information about women leaders and women's organizations all over the world. It is organized first by region, and then by country. To access the inforM database, telnet or gopher to INFORM.UMD.EDU. (If you do not know how to telnet or gopher, contact a local computer wizard, or try typing "telnet inform.umd.edu" or "gopher inform.umd.edu" at the main prompt of your computer account). Hit return to set the default terminal type or type "?" for a list of choices. Use either your arrow keys or number keys to select -> 4. Educational Resources 2. Academic Resources by Topic 23. Women's Studies 10. Government and Politics 6. International Directory of Women's Political Leadership The Gopher interface has a feature that allows users to send files to their e-mail accounts. After selecting a file, either scroll to the end of the file or type "q", then press "m". The system will then prompt you for your email address. The inforM system is also accessible by anonymous ftp. FTP to INFORM.UMD.EDU. Login as "anonymous", and use your mail address as a password. Choose the "inforM" directory by typing "cd inforM". The command "cd [directory name]" will change the directory. The commands "dir" or "ls" will display a list of files in that directory. Use the command "get [filename]" to download a file into your account. If you are accessing inforM's web site, the URL for this file is: http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/Government+Politics/ InternationalDirectory Your local Gopher System may be set up to automatically link to the Women's Studies Database. Check the "Other Systems" or "Other Gophers" directory or ask your system administrator for help. Even if you do not have real Internet access, it is still possible to get files from inforM. If you are interested in this option, please email me and I will forward a file written by Mark Whitis that explains how to do this. Please remember that the system is case sensitive. Anything that appears in quotes must be typed exactly as it is here. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Priya Sridharan inforM Coordinator, Women's Studies Database Room 4343 Diversity/Sexual Orientation Computer Science Center priya@info.umd.edu University of Maryland (301) 405-3026 College Park, Md. 20742 ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:54:52 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Srimati Basu Subject: postdoc opportunities >To: listserv@umdd.umd.edu >From: topeshay@siu.edu >Subject: postdoc opportunities > >Like K. O"Grady, I am also interested in finding postdoc opportunities, particularly in Cultural Studies, Women's Studies or Women in DEvelopment. I would much appreciate anyone with such information sharing it on wmst-l (or privately if that's not appropriate). > >Srimati Basu >topeshay@siu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 12:14:49 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: gwendolyn foster Subject: Re: Hannah Webster Foster In-Reply-To: from "Jennifer D Hickerson" at Jan 23, 96 10:09:41 am > > I am working with several other students to create a website on 19th > century American women writers--specifically those referred to as > "domestic" or "sentimental." > > If you would like to suggest authors for inclusion or if you have links > we might include, please let us know. Or if you would like to suggest > inclusions for our bibligraphy. > > We shall let the entire wmst list know when our site is up and running. > > thank you for your help, > > Jennifer Hickerson > jhickers@flute.aix.calpoly.edu IHOPE YOU WILL INCLUDE HANNAH WEBSTER FOSTER, author of the coquette and the boarding school. i published an article on the Boarding school which is a fascinating hybrid between sentimental novel and conduct book. Gwendolyn Foster English Department Univwersity of Nebraska, Lincoln > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:00:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Travers Subject: Web Sites on Women's Health Issues I am looking for comprehensive Web sites on women's health issues that would interest women of *all* ages. If there's enough interest, I will compile the results and post them to the list. Please respond privately and thank you for your assistance. Ann D. Travers (Agtravers@aol.com) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:22:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Web Sites on Women's Health Issues > I am looking for comprehensive Web sites on women's health issues that would > interest women of *all* ages. If there's enough interest, I will compile the > results and post them to the list. One good starting place is the set of Women's Health links I've set up on the UMBC Women's Studies web site. The URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_hlth.html . Many of these women's health links have rich sets of links themselves. If you want to see the entire set of UMBC's WS links, not just those dealing with women's health, change links_hlth.html to links.html in the above URL. I'm sending this to the list rather than replying privately as a way of reminding people that the UMBC Women's Studies web site has lots of useful information. It has links to about 70 other useful web sites, plus frequently-updated information about women-related email lists (including topical sub-directories), WMST-L, finding people's email addresses, etc. The overall URL is http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/ . Best wishes, 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: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:27:55 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anna Maree Parkinson Subject: German Lesbian films? Hi everyone, I am writing on the problematics of lesbian identity in terms of an anti-psychoanalytic reading of German and American film. At present I am concentrating on the film The Hunger (US), and Monika Treut's " Verfuehrung: eine Grausame Frau". Any further suggestions? Also, can anyone suggest some good women/lesbian groups which are accessible on the net? Purely for reasons of research, of course...I am especially interested in German women's groups, so if there are any recommendations, please reply to me personally at: a.parkinson@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au Thanks in advance, Anna Parkinson ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 21:54:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellie Amico Subject: NWSA Directory Hello. I need to know whether the 1990 edition of the NWSA Directory of Women's Studies Programs etc is the latest or not. Also, if not, how I can obtain an up-to-date edition (I am a member of NWSA, but no longer connected with a university). Ellie Amico Heartwell@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 22:16:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 announcements The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Assistant professor of Women's Studies (UW-La Crosse) 2) Conference on Southern Women 1900-1950 (Valdosta State U.) 3) Contributing essayists sought for _Feminist Writers_ For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Tenure track position in the Women's Studies Department at UW-La Crosse. Tenure-track assistant professor starting Fall 1996. Requires PH.D.; teaching experience in Women's Studies or gender, class, race issues; expertise in one of: international feminism, women's history, African- and/or Native American Studies, women and science, evidence of scholarship and service or activism. Letter, curriculum vitae, three reference letters, transcripts, copy of representative published research to: Sandra Krajewski, Chair, Women's studies, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601. (608)785-8732, fax (608)785-8119, e-mail kraje_ss@mail.uwlax.edu All materials must be received by February 20. All positions contingent on funding. Names of applicants who haven't requested confidentiality in writing, and all finalists, must be released on request. Women, minorities are encouraged to apply. AA/EOE. **************************************************************************** 2) The Women's Studies Program at Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, announceS the First Annual Conference on Foundations to the Future: Southern Women from l900 to l950. March 8-9, l996 Academics, students, community activists and other interested individuals are invited to submit proposals for papers, workshops, roundtables, complete panels (3-6) papers, and performances examining women's lives and educational experiences in the South from l900 to l950. Individual papers will typically be twenty minutes in length. Proposers might consider the following subject areas as they pertain to Southern women of any class and/or ethnicity: *literary representations of Southern women's lives *writings by Southern women *social reconstruction of women's lives *scientific accomplishments by women *law and legal status of women *artistic endeavours by women during the time period *helath aspects of women's lives *histories of women's organizations *women's lives in a rural/urban setting *religion as a distinctive feature of women's lives *women in business and entrepreneurship Send proposals, abstracts (200 words, double-spaced), or completed papers no later than January 31, l996 to: Dr. Vicki Soady, Director of Women's Studies, Room l09 Ashley Hall, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Ga. 31698, 9l2-249-4843, fax 9l2-333-7389, email: vsoady@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu or Dr. Donna Sewell, English Department, Room 207 West Hall, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Ga. 3l698, 9l2-333-5946 *************************************************************************** 3) CONTRIBUTING ESSAYISTS SOUGHT FOR _FEMINIST WRITERS_ St. James Press Publishers is still seeking contributing essayists for _Feminist Writers_, an upcoming guide to 300 noteworth writers within a variety of fiction and non-fiction genres. Bylined essays will vary between 300-1800 words in length; ms. deadlines are ongoing through May 30, 1996. A sample of the essays still to be assigned include those on: Ama Ata Aidoo; Harriet Arnow; Simone de Beauvoir; Jessie Bernard; Emily Carr; Catherine de Pisan; Colette; Nancy Cott; Ivy Compton-Burnett; Ding Ling; Cicely Hamilton; Karen Horney; Nellie McClung; Kate O'Brien; Elaine Pagels; Eileen Power; Pandita Ramabai; Sheila Rowbotham; George Sand; Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza; Lillian Smith; Madame de Stael; Verena Stefan; Marie Stopes; Rose Tremain; Sigrid Undset; Clara Zetkin; and more. Anyone interested in contributing to Feminist Writers should send his or her resume, a 2-3 pp. writing sample, and area of expertise or interest in the field of feminist study to: Pamela Kester-Shelton, editor Feminist Writers 22536 Hoffman St. Clair Shores, MI 48082 Phone (810)296-7836 Fax (810)296-1626 e-mail: pshelton@reach.com (originally posted on H-WOMEN) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:44:34 +0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gerry Yokota-Murakami Subject: GC Spivak at Columbia Thanks to all who made the effort to assist me in locating Prof. G.C. Spivak. Unfortunately I got several conflicting replies and it was rather confusing for a while, I sent inquiries to all the possibilities mentioned just in case. I finally got a response, and thought it might help others on this list who may also have been confused to know that her current affiliation is with Columbia U., not U. of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, or other possibilities that were mentioned. GYM, Osaka U., Japan ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 23:07:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: Autobiographies In-Reply-To: In response to the many requests I've had, here is the list I've compiled of suggested autobiographies and memoirs, grouped by race/ethnicity. To the best of my understanding, these are all non-fiction. (I also did not include every suggestion, but focused on those that I thought would work for my assignment (=20th cntury U.S.). Thanks to all for your help. I. African-American women Maya Angelou. I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. 1969. Septima Clark. ECHO IN MY SOUL. 1962. Evelyn Fairbanks. THE DAYS OF RONDO. 1990. Mamie Fields. LEMON SWAMP AND OTHER PLACES. 1983. Charlayne Hunter-Gault. IN MY PLACE. 1993. Zora Neale Hurston. DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD. 1942. Mary Mebane. MARY, WAYFARER. 1983. Anne Moody. COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI. 1968. Pauli Murray. SONG IN A WEARY THROAT (pap. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLACK ACTIVIST) 1987. Itabari Njeri. EVERY GOOD-BYE AIN'T GONE. 1990. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip. THE SWEETER THE JUICE. 1994. II. Asian-American women Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. FAREWELL TO MANZANAR. 1973. Maxine Hong Kingston. THE WOMAN WARRIOR. 1976. Monica Sone. NISEI DAUGHTER. 1953. Jade Snow Wong. FIFTH CHINESE DAUGHTER. 1950. III. European-American women Fay Ajzenber-Selove. A MATTER OF CHOICES. 1994. (physicist) Florence Allen. TO DO JUSTLY. 1965. (first woman federal judge) Mary Anderson. WOMAN AT WORK. 1951. (first dir. Women's Bureau) Kim Chernin. IN MY MOTHER'S HOUSE. 1983. Rose Cohen. OUT OF THE SHADOWS. 1995. Anne Dillard. AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD. 1987. Anne Ellis. THE LIFE OF AN ORDINARY WOMAN. 1929. (mining/mountain life) Rebekah Kohut. MY PORTION. 1925. Charles Le Guin, ed. A HOME-CONCEALED WOMAN: THE DIARIES OF MAGNOLIA WYNNE LE GUIN, 1901-1913. 1990. Katharine Lumpkin. THE MAKING OF A SOUTHERNER. 1946. Faye Lewis. NOTHING TO MAKE A SHADOW. 1971. Mary McCarthy. MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD. 1957. Margaret Mead. BLACKBERRY WINTER: MY EARLIER YEARS. 1972. Joan Nestle. A RESTRICTED COUNTRY. 1987 (Lesbian) Mary Canaga Rowland. AS LONG AS LIFE: THE MEMOIRS OF A FRONTIER WOMAN DOCTOR, 1873-1966. 1994. Rose Schneiderman. ALL FOR ONE. 1967. Virginia Sorensen. WHERE NOTHING IS LONG AGO: MEMORIES OF A MORMON CHILDHOOD. 1955. IV. Hispanic women Judith Ortiz Cofer. SILENT DANCING. 1990. (Puerto Rican) Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert. WE FED THEM CACTUS. 1954. (New Mexico) Cleofas Jaramillo. ROMANCE OF A LITTLE VILLAGE GIRL. 1955. (New Mexico) Mary Helen Ponce. HOYT STREET: MEMORIES OF A CHICANA CHILDHOOD. 1993. Esmeralda Santiago. WHEN WAS PUERTO RICAN. 1993. V. Native American women Mary Crow Dog. LAKOTA WOMAN. 1990. Mourning Dog. MOURNING DOVE: A SALISHAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 1990. Wilma Mankiller. MANKILLER, A CHIEF AND HER PEOPLE. 1993. Helen Sekaquaptewa. ME AND MINE. 1969. (Hopi) Leslie Marmon Silko. STORYTELLER. 1981. Irene Stewart. A VOICE IN HER TRIBE: A NAVAJO WOMAN'S OWN STORY. 1980. Cynthia Harrison Associate Professor History/Women's Studies Funger 506G The George Washington University 2201 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20052 telephone: 202-363-4356 e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu fax: 202-994-7249 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:26:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" Subject: Responses to backlash A new book, expected out next month, deals with antifeminist backlash. It is "Antifeminism in the Academy" edited by Shirley Nelson Garner, Ketu Katrak, VeVe Clark and Margaret Higgonet. Publisher is Routledge. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:46:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheryl Nestel Subject: Re: Autobiographies In-Reply-To: I wonder whether or not I am the only one puzzled by Cynthia Harrison's grouping of Jewish women's autobiographies under the heading *European Women* when she has stated that the categories reflect race/ethnicity. It could certainly be argued that Jewish immigrants to North America have been racialized in various ways over the last century and a half. Certainly the *Europeaness* of a Margaret Mead diverges radically from that of Kim Chernin or Joan Nestle whose writings draw on their experiences of marginalization as Jews. Sheryl Nestel Dept. of Adult Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:07:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: PAT Subject: Psycwomen list for students Last spring, when I first had the opportunity to teach Psychology of Women, I started the Psycwomen list for my students. The list is open to any student (and lurking instructors) interested in discussing issues related to the Psychology of Women. Although the list was not very active, I want to try again this semester, while teaching the course for the second time. If you know any students who might be interested, or you want to get your classes involved, please share the following instructions: Send the message: subscribe psycwomen your name To: psycwomen-request@fre.fsu.umd.edu I am considering giving my students an optional assignment (to replace one of the three I have required) that incorporates use of the internet, as an incentive for their involvement. If anyone has ideas for an assignment, I would enjoy hearing about them. Our internet access for students is not at the level where I could require student use of the internet. Thank you for any help. Please respond privately, Pat Santoro e2pysan@fre.fsu.umd.edu Frostburg State University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:35:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Kuzmack Subject: Re: Autobiographies -Reply Yes, I agree that categorizing Jewish women as "European" does not fit. As you point out, their is far too much diversity within this ethnic group to limit them to European culture. There are strong groupings of arabic and north african Jews, for example. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:42:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Diana H. Scully" Subject: Re: NWSA Directory In-Reply-To: <960124185608_303405694@emout06.mail.aol.com>; from "Ellie Amico" at Jan 24, 96 9:54 pm Since others might be interested, I'm sending this to the entire list. The directory listed in Ellie Amico's message is the latest. However, there is an updated version of the "Guide to Graduate Study in Women's Studies (1994). It can be obtained by contacting Loretta Younger, NWSA National Office, University of Maryland, 7100 Baltimore Ave., College Park, MD 20740. Phone: 301/403-0524; FAX 301/403-4137; e-mail: NWSA@UMAIL.UMD.EDU Diana Scully > Hello. > > I need to know whether the 1990 edition of the NWSA Directory of Women's > Studies Programs etc is the latest or not. Also, if not, how I can obtain an > up-to-date edition (I am a member of NWSA, but no longer connected with a > university). > > Ellie Amico > Heartwell@aol.com > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 10:59:47 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Kenney Subject: feminist internships Can anyone give me advice about internship possibilities for graduate students interested in working in a feminist organization? Are there any guides or has this information been collected? I am advising masters students in public affairs who are concentrating in women and public policy. Internship possibilities in the San Francisco area (paid, or unpaid) are especially coveted. Sally J. Kenney Associate Professor of Public Policy Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Co-Director, Center on Women and Public Policy University of Minnesota skenney@hhh.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:06:58 -0500 Reply-To: lsee@owens.cc.oh.us Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda See Organization: Owens Community College Subject: Re: Psycwomen list for students Dear Pat, In regard to your recent posting on WMST-L: One suggestion might be to provide the internet address of the archive files at WMST-L or InformU or elsewhere, asking the studeint to download and read some psych-relevant files and report on them. One of our instructors made a brief video instructing students on the use of our system and left it on reserve in the library for interested students to watch That solved the internet-orientation problem. linda b. see owens community college. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:41:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Harrison Subject: Re: Autobiographies In-Reply-To: Any categorization creates trouble; I suspect within each category, the experiences of the women differ dramatically from each other because of other qualities beside continent of family origin. I grouped the Jewish women with the (other) European-Americans because in terms of the specific assignment, that grouping made sense to me. I also can't always tell when the person is Jewish. (Since I was compiling this list from an array of sources in time for a class, I had not read all the books. I had no idea about Joan Nestle, for example. Names are not always good guidelines. Most people can't tell from mine that I'm Jewish.) I noted additional identifying characteristics (Jewish, Mormon, Puerto Rican, etc.) when I knew them and I thought they might make a difference to a student choosing the books to read for the assignment. Plainly, everyone can reorganize this list in a way that's most suitable for her/his use. Cynthia Harrison Associate Professor History/Women's Studies Funger 506G The George Washington University 2201 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20052 telephone: 202-363-4356 e-mail: harrison@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu fax: 202-994-7249 On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Sheryl Nestel wrote: > I wonder whether or not I am the only one puzzled by Cynthia Harrison's > grouping of Jewish women's autobiographies under the heading *European > Women* when she has stated that the categories reflect race/ethnicity. It > could certainly be argued that Jewish immigrants to North America have > been racialized in various ways over the last century and a half. > Certainly the *Europeaness* of a Margaret Mead diverges radically from > that of Kim Chernin or Joan Nestle whose writings draw on their > experiences of marginalization as Jews. > > Sheryl Nestel > Dept. of Adult Education > Ontario Institute for Studies in Education > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 15:03:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Molina Subject: Re: feminist internships In-Reply-To: <11971B2ABA@hhh-1.hhh.umn.edu>; from "Sally Kenney" at Jan 25, 96 10:59 am Are you Sally who used to be at Iowa? If that's the case, respond to me privately and I'll write to you. Greetings, Papusa ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 15:54:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Kuzmack Subject: Fellowship panelist wanted The American Fellowships panel of the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation is seeking a guest panelist in Linguistics to review 18 applications. The panelist would read the applications in February, then come to the panel meeting in Washington, D.C. March 8-10. The AAUW Educaitonal Foundation's American Fellowships panel annually awards 64 fellowships to women graduate and postgraduate scholars. The Linguistics guest panelist must live/work on the east coast, have a Ph.D., teaching experience, and publications. Please reply to Linda Gordon Kuzmack, Sr. Programs Manager Kuzmackl@mail.aauw.org ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 16:04:06 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine McMahon Subject: History of Women's Studies Can anyone point me in the direction of a bibliography on the history of Women's Studies Programs in the U.S.? or does anyone know what's available on the topic? Where the first Women's Studies program was developed? I've been researching the background of programs in my area (Ohio) but am also needing quick information on the larger picture. I'd appreciate any help. Kate McMahon mcmahokg@muc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 16:56:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "ROSE B. PASCARELL" Subject: info on beliefs about women when VMI was founded I am forwarding this request. Please respond privately. *************************************************** >From Lenore J. Weitzman, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Sociology and Law, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va 22030 e-mail: LWEITZMA@OSF1.GMU.EDU I am doing some background research on the Virginia Military Institute case currently before the US Supreme Court and wanted to know if anyone could point me to some research on what people believed about women's education at that time (1820-1850). More specifically, did people really accept the ideas in Dr. Edward Clarke's 1873 book -- that educating girls would "overload their brains and interfere with the development of their reproductive organs"? I would be grateful for any references, citations and leads a.s.a.p. If it is easier, please call me collect: 703-352-7575 Thank you. Sincerely, Lenore J. Weitzman Please respond privately to: LWEITZMA@OSF1.GMU.EDU *************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 14:22:11 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel Subject: Re: History of Women's Studies In-Reply-To: The best sources for this information to my knowledge are two publications from the Ford Foundation: 1. Catharine Stimpson. WOMEN'S STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES. 1986. 2. Beverly Guy-Sheftall. WOMEN'S STUDIES: A RETROSPECTIVE. 1995. You may be able to get a copy of both free by calling the Ford Foundation (sorry, don't have the number at hand). *************************************************** Joan Ariel Women's Studies Librarian and Project Officer Main Library 390 University of California Irvine, CA 92713-9557 phone: (714) 824-4970 fax: (714) 824-5740 email: jariel@uci.edu *************************************************** On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Katherine McMahon wrote: > Can anyone point me in the direction of a bibliography on the history > of Women's Studies Programs in the U.S.? or does anyone know what's > available on the topic? Where the first Women's Studies program was > developed? I've been researching the background of programs in my > area (Ohio) but am also needing quick information on the larger > picture. I'd appreciate any help. Kate McMahon > > mcmahokg@muc.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 20:18:37 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rubina Ramji Subject: Movie "Last Seduction" In-Reply-To: ; from "Cynthia Harrison" at Jan 25, 96 12:41 pm I am trying to find sources, articles, reviews (on and off line) about the movie "The Last Seduction". If anyone has any hints, please e-mail me at the address below. Thanks, R. Ramji -- rramji@aix1.uottawa.ca university of ottawa "If there is time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." Judge Louis Brandeis, 1927 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 20:37:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Using Internet in teaching American culture Randy Bass, the director of the American Studies Association's Crossroads Project, has asked me to post the following request for information. NWSA is one of several organizations cooperating with ASA in this project. I think Randy is not currently a WMST-L subscriber, so please send all replies directly to him at the address he has given: tamlit@gusun.georgetown.edu . Many thanks. Joan Korenman ************************************************** From: Randy Bass, Director/American Studies Crossroads Project The Crossroads Project is seeking to gather information about how women's studies practitioners have used the world wide web and other internet resources in the teaching of American history and culture as it relates to women's studies curricula. We are particularly interested to learn what websites you have found useful, how you've integrated them into your courses, how successful your endeavors have been, and what (if any) difficulties you encountered. We hope to gather all the information we receive and make it accessible on the Crossroads Website as a resource. Please spare a few minutes, if you would, to write a paragraph or two on these subjects, and please send them direct to the following address: tamlit@gusun.georgetown.edu Many thanks for your help! Randy Bass Director American Studies Crossroads Project Georgetown University phone: (202) 687-4535 fax: (202) 687-5445 http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:03:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: History of Women's Studies > Can anyone point me in the direction of a bibliography on the history > of Women's Studies Programs in the U.S.? or does anyone know what's > available on the topic? Where the first Women's Studies program was > developed? I've been researching the background of programs in my > area (Ohio) but am also needing quick information on the larger > picture. I'd appreciate any help. Kate McMahon Though it was published in 1982, I'd still recommend Marilyn J. Boxer's excellent review essay on Women's Studies, "For and About Women: The Theory and Practice of Women's Studies in the United States" (_Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society_, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 661-695). It deals with the history of Women's Studies and has sections, too, devoted to "political issues," "theories," and "structures." With well over 100 footnotes, it should also provide the foundation for a good bibliography. And _Signs_ can probably be found in most university libraries. 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: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:21:08 +0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gerry Yokota-Murakami Subject: Antifeminism in the Academy In connection with the recent announcement about the forthcoming book on Antifeminism in the Academy: In addition to my major area of research (the formation of classical canons and their material consequences for women today, especially canons of traditional drama, considering the powerful effect of their visual images), I am also interested in the problem of the backlash against feminism: the perception of feminism and feminists in academia, on the Internet, and in society in general. I feel a strong need to actively pursue this concern in addition to my specialized research, to maintain a constant awareness of the need for balance between theory and praxis. When I spend too much time in theaters and with libretti and books of theory, I feel I lose my ability to apply my knowledge and understanding of theoretical feminist issues effectively to real-life situations where I encounter actual sexism, even though that is the avowed goal of my research. And so I hereby solicit correspondence with anyone who might be interested in cooperating in some informal projects such as joint media-watching, e.g., analyzing sexism in mass media (mainly print media) reports about women and feminism and formulating effective responses. As a matter of fact, I happen to have on hand right at this very moment a problematic article published in a national newspaper written by a male academic who accuses the moderators of a certain feminist discussion group on the Internet, and by extension all feminists on the Internet, of being "militant male-bashing censors" and "fundamentalists." And mind you, this is not in a letter to the editor on an opinion page; it is presented in the format of "objective" reportage. I make no claim to be an expert in this field, but I welcome correspondence from anyone who might be interested in pursuing private discussion about this problem. Yours in the spirit of thinking globally and acting locally, Gerry Yokota-Murakami Faculty of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan gyokota@lisa.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:13:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dana Shugar Subject: Re: Redstockings info In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 23 Jan 1996 07:46:07 -0500 from For those of you interested in further information on Redstockings, other radical feminist groups of the 60s and 70s, and their roles in the creation of radical-feminist, lesbian-feminist, and/or lesbian-separatist theory, you might wish to look at my new book, *Separatism and Women's Community* Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. The first section in particular discusses the genesis and progression of their writings. Dana Shugar English and Women's Studies University of Rhode Island dshugar@uriacc.uri.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:11:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: women & media watching Some useful resources for media watching are WOMEN AND THE MEDIA: RESOURCES FOR ANALYSIS AND ACTION, compiled by Michele Valiquette. 88 p. $15 from MediaWatch, Suite 204, 517 Wellington Street W., Toronto, Ontario M5V 1G1 CANADA This is a bibliography of work on media analysis and activism. I found the description of the book in an issue of MEDIA REPORT TO WOMEN, a quarterly newsletter that covers the relationship between women and the media -- journalistic coverage, advertizing, status of women journalists, etc. It is published by Communications Research Associates, 10606 Mantz Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20903-1228. Current subscription rates are $30 indiv., $40 (supporting), $50 institutions; plus $10 surface rate and $20 for air mail to foreign subscribers. A third resource I think is still being published, although I don't have any current issues. It is GENDER & MASS MEDIA newsletter, ISSN 1100-9098; An issue from 1992 has this address: Ulla B. Abrahamsson, Audience and Programme Research Department, Swedish Boradcasting Corporation, S-105 10 Stockholm, Sweden. It also reviews media research, efforts to improve the portrayal of women by the media, etc. ************************************************************************ Phyllis Holman Weisbard University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian Room 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706 http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ pweis@doit.wisc.edu ************************************************************************ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:37:34 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Kaufman Subject: New Textbooks Dear Women's Studies Colleagues, I am the editor of Women's Studies and Gender texts in McGraw-Hill's College Division and am wondering about your current textbook "needs" for women studies (and related) courses. Are there any areas where a certain textbook is needed but none exists? For example, there seems to be a need for a good intro to women's studies textbook. I am interested in hearing your thoughts/observations about perceived "gaps" in textbook offerings. I would also love to hear from people who are interested in textbook writing. We all know that it is imperative to have good and plentiful resources for students--especially in a discipline as important as women's studies! Please respond to me directly at Beth_Kaufman@McGraw-Hill.com. McGraw-Hill is interested in expanding its college list in women's studies/gender and would greatly benefit from your guidance. Your feedback is really important to us! Thanks in advance for your input and expertise. I look forward to hearing from all of you!! Best wishes, Beth Kaufman Senior Associate Editor, Women's Studies & Psychology McGraw-Hill College Division (617)262-1160--phone e-mail: Beth_Kaufman@McGraw-Hill.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:42:01 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sandra K. Herzan" Subject: Midwest MLA call for papers CALL FOR PAPERS MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION November 7-9, 1996 Minneapolis Marriott City Center Minneapolis, Minnesota Storytelling in Contemporary American Women's Narratives Storytelling has a long-standing presence within American literature. This panel will focus attention on the role and practice of storytelling in contemporary American women's narratives. Possible topics include the role of storytelling in connection to family and cultural history, the relationship between storytelling and individual, ethnic or gender identity, breaking silences by telling stories, the significance of storytelling in mother- daughter relationships, storytelling as instruction, autobiography and storytelling, multiple voices and stories within narratives, narrative structure and storytelling. Possible authors include Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, Janet Campbell Hale, Whitney Otto, Grace Paley, Paule Marshall, Joyce Carol Oates and others. Send 500 word (about 2 typed, double-spaced pages) abstracts no later than April 1, 1996 to: Sandy Herzan Department of English 207 Lind Hall, 207 Church Street SE University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: 612-332-5274 FAX: 612-624-8228 Email: herz0001@gold.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 14:08:39 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bryna Barsky-Ex Subject: Lesbians please help Subject: Time:10:28 AM OFFICE MEMO Lesbians please help Date:1/26/96 This is a request for participants for a research project about coming out in the workplace. Looking for lesbians who are "out" in the workplace as well as those who are "closeted." To participate requires filling out two short questionnaires, will take 25 min. of your time, and is completely anonymous. If you: live in California, work 32 or more hours/wk (but are not self-employed) and are between 21-60 yrs old, please e-mail me at bryna@seaside.quad.ucsb.edu with your home or work address and I will send you a packet in a plain envelope with no identifying info. If you need to contact me, please e-mail me at the aforementioned address. If you want to talk with me over the phone, you can e-mail me with this request and I will leave you my phone #. Thank you for your help. Bryna Slotnick Barsky-Ex. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 17:26:09 +0900 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gerry Yokota-Murakami Subject: Relevance of Asahi article to WMST-L Dear Friends, I do not wish to involve this list in arguments that might appear to stray beyond the aims of WMST-L as stated in the guidelines. But I do believe that the incident of Andrew DeWit's publication of his grievance against Femisa in the mass media is relevant to our concern about feminism and antifeminism in the academy, and would like to make just a few brief observations about why. I have never ever called Andrew a misogynist nor do I think of him as one. I am one who has often deeply appreciated and benefited from his contributions to Femisa. But I have urged him to consider that, in this particular case, he is severely overreacting and exhibiting the sort of behavior that is typical of a misogynist male suffering from a bruised male ego. And I believe it is relevant to our concerns as academics in Women's Studies to consider that, in this incident, we can observe an example of a man who would appear to be abusing his privilege as a male in a male-dominant society by taking his personal grievance to a hegemonic national newspaper with which he has connections rather than making the effort to resolve the difference at the local level. I believe it is also relevant to our concerns that he appears to not have even considered the courtesy of forwarding his article to the moderators of Femisa before submitting it for publication. I cannot help but wonder whether he did not in fact secretly hope that they would never know about it and thus never have the opportunity to present their side of the story. I am aware of and appreciate the positive efforts Andrew has made to advance recognition of feminists in the Japanese academic world. But I do not feel those activities make up for his egocentric behavior on this particular occasion. Yes, I firmly believe that "the personal is the political." I acknowledge that his personal experience with Femisa moderation is relevant. But the fundamental premise of "the personal is the political" is that the personal experience *must* be viewed in relation to the overall political context. I regret that Andrew's article in Asahi Evening News is quite lacking in such perspective and rather severely distorts the situation through the lenses of his narrow self-centered view. I hope others besides myself will find some lessons to be learned from this incident that will contribute to the advancement of the understanding of the importance of actively maintaining a live connection between feminist theory and praxis in the academy and in the world at large. Gerry Yokota-Murakami, Faculty of Language and Culture, Osaka University ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 07:59:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Holtzman Subject: Re: women & media watching Another useful source is an anthology by Gail Dines and Jean Humez, Gender, Race and Class in Media. Linda Holtzman Webster University St. Louis MO Leahanna@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 10:14:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Antifeminism, Relevance, and WMST-L Let me get to the bottom line first: 1) DO NOT SEND ANY MESSAGES ABOUT THE GERRY YOKOTA-MURAKAMI/ANDREW DEWIT CONTROVERSY TO WMST-L. None. 2) DO NOT SEND ANY MESSAGES ABOUT CONTROVERSIES ON OTHER E-MAIL LISTS TO WMST-L. (If you want to discuss Femisa, join Femisa. The subscription address is listserv@csf.colorado.edu .) Now to explain. Yesterday, Gerry Yokota-Murakami sent a message with the subject header "Antifeminism in the Academy" to WMST-L in which she criticized an unnamed "male academic" who had sent a letter to a national newspaper in Japan about a feminist email list (not WMST-L). The unnamed male academic, Andrew DeWit, sent a response to me, asking me to post it on WMST-L. I read his message when I woke up this morning. My inclination was not to post it, since he had not been named and the e-mail list that had been criticized was not WMST-L. However, when I continued reading my email, I found that Gerry Yokota-Murakami had sent a second message to WMST-L, written in response to DeWit's message, naming DeWit and discussing his conduct. I also found a private message from Yokota-Murakami explaining that she had thought, erroneously, that DeWit's message had been sent to WMST-L and asking whether I could hold her second message until after I posted his (which I couldn't--I don't see most WMST-L mail until after it's posted). I DO NOT WANT TO TURN WMST-L INTO A FORUM FOR DISCUSSION OF ANDREW DEWIT, FEMISA, OR MALE BEHAVIOR. However, I think in fairness to DeWit, a former WMST-L subscriber, I should post the message he asked me to. But that's the end. If some people want to continue the discussion, they should do so privately or, if it's appropriate, on FEMISA, but NOT ON WMST-L! Here is Andrew DeWit's message, written in response to Yokota-Murakami's first message (the one that didn't name him): ***************************************** Dear Ms Korenman, Though I am not a member, I hope the Women's Studies list will allow me to respond to Ms Yokota-Murakami's misrepresentation of my article. I quote her in part below, and then answer the implied charge of being antifeminist. Thank you, Andrew DeWit > As a matter of fact, I happen to have on hand right at this > very moment a problematic article published in a national newspaper > written by a male academic who accuses the moderators of a certain > feminist discussion group on the Internet, and by extension all > feminists on the Internet, of being "militant male-bashing censors" > and "fundamentalists." And mind you, this is not in a letter to the > editor on an opinion page; it is presented in the format of > "objective" reportage. I am the author of the article Ms Yokota-Murakami has misquoted. It is in a recent edition of the Japanese English-language daily, Asahai Evening News, and relates an incident of censorship on the Femisa e-mail list for gender and IPE. The incident in question occurred around mid-January, and I am more than happy to post to this list the article as well as my communications with the Femisa moderators. In fact, Ms Yokota-Murakami received my last message to the Femisa moderators so she is aware that the matter is not so easily depicted as a misogynist male vs all feminists on the internet. I knew the "backlash" accustion would come up, and hence took pains to be very precise about the censorship and show readers where they could access the records to determine, for themselves, whether some members of Femisa have been permitted to bash males, which was the focus of my criticism. Ms Yokota-Murakami is also aware that I am no misogynist, and have instead worked hard to include feminist perspectives in activities I organized through 1993-95 at the University of Tokyo. For example, I organized well-publicized talks there by four women scholars -- two (including Allison Wetherfield, former legal director for NOW) spoke on sexism and sexual harassment law in Japan, one (Jill Norgren of CUNY) spoke on "the angry white male" phenomenon in US politics, and one (Germaine Hoston, of UCSD) on Marxist approaches in Japanese politics. I also insisted on including women board members and feminist perspectives on SSJ-FORUM, the Tokyo University-based e-mail list on Japanese politics that I and a fellow researcher set up and moderated (it has 500 members, mostly faculty in Japan, North Am., and European universities). Further, I worked to have articles by feminist/women authors in the Tokyo U. Institute of Social Science newsletter, including the November 1994 article on Japan's Equal Employment Legislation by Kim Misook (Chongju U., SK)and others where the editors took my suggestion to contact specific authors. I was also viciously attacked by the Japanese academic nominally in charge of the list because of my efforts to include more women and Asians on SSJ-FORUM (I wanted a more representative list). But just as I would not quietly shut up during the Femisa episode, I fought back during the previous incident until I left to come here to Canberra. I suspect several of the women members of your list are current or former members of SSJ-FORUM whose contributions I actively encouraged. They and the others noted above can tell that I do not like censorship of any kind, no matter what gender, ethnic group, or party line it's serving. Thank you for the opportunity to state my point of view. Andrew DeWit *************************************************** PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY MORE MESSAGES ABOUT THIS MATTER TO WMST-L. If you want to contact DeWit or Yokota-Murakami privately, their email addresses are as follows: Andrew DeWit's is andrew@ajrc.anu.edu.au ; Gerry Yokota-Murakami's is gyokota@lisa.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp . Even if you can't get through, DO NOT SEND MESSAGES ABOUT THIS TO WMST-L. Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 10:54:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: Feminist humor I'm looking for a book or some suggestions on feminist humor for the introduction to a keynote address on feminist biiography. Thanks. Phyllis Povell Povell@eagle.liunet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 10:56:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janice Blathwayt Subject: nursing and feminism To Elizabeth Caldwell. Since this method of communication is new to me too, you may or may not have received my first message. If you did, disregard this one. I am an occupational therapist who is also a women's studies grad student. While there are many differences between nursing and O.T., there are also similarities which you might be able to use. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy ran a complete issue on feminism. Try to get AJOT (1992) vol 46#11. Articles which I saved from it are "Embracing our past, informing our future: a feminist re-vision of Health care" p1028-1038 and "Interwoven threads: Occupational therapy, feminism, and holistic health" p1013-1019. You might also find useful "Developmental stages of occupational therapy and the feminist movement" in AJOT (1976) vol 30 #9 p560-567. I would love to hear how you make out because since I started women's studies, I have always assumed that somewhere along the line I would do some work connecting my two spheres. Best wishes with your work. Jan Blathwayt ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:13:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jessica Heriot Subject: african american lesbian couples I am looking for articles/book chapters, etc. about issues, concerns, difficulties of african american lesbian couples. I am also especially interested in any articles about counseling this population. jessica heriot, jheriot@umabnet.ab.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:10:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: Re: Relevance of Asahi article to WMST-L Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI In-Reply-To: <199601270826.RAA06900@lisc.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp> Gerry's criticisms of Andrew DeWit's criticisms of the FEMISA list's censorship is, I think, of relevance to the WMST-list for one simple reason: it so well reflects the difficulty many feminists have in dealing with any criticism (no matter how well deserved) of things done in the name of feminism. As a subscriber to FEMISA I must state that I too was disturbed at some of the decisions FEMISA made; I too considered them to be inappropriate instances of censorship; I too felt they reflect badly on feminism. And I too have mentioned these events in articles of mine. Perhaps this makes me, as well, a candidate for Gerry's characterization of DeWit (see below): > this particular case, he is severely overreacting and exhibiting the > sort of behavior that is typical of a misogynist male suffering from a > bruised male ego. And I believe it is relevant to our concerns as > academics in Women's Studies to consider that, in this incident, we > can observe an example of a man who would appear to be abusing his > privilege as a male in a male-dominant society by taking his personal > grievance to a hegemonic national newspaper with which he has > connections rather than making the effort to resolve the difference at > the local level. Until feminism learns to deal with criticism without name-calling, it will continue to alienate thoughtful people on all sides. No movement that so instantaneously vilifies any and all critics is either healthy or viable. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 17:12:00 WET Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Roisin Conroy Subject: Re: Wild Women unsubscrive WMST-L ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:22:51 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Antifeminism in the Academy In-Reply-To: <199601261321.WAA04945@lisc.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp> Gerry, I do educational training programs on what I call "The Subtle Curriculum" and "Towards Inclusiveness" which examines images and language usage in media. I would be delighted to stay involved in this issue with you and others who are interested in exploring the topic more in depth. Have you read Elizabeth Minnich's book, Transforming Knowledge? It's offers theory, analysis and points the way to practice re canon's of knowledge and disciplines. peace, Jackie jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:49:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea Austin <3AJA1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Subject: Re: Feminist humor In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 27 Jan 1996 10:54:00 -0500 from Good starting places for feminist humour criticism: Regina Barreca, *Untamed and Unabashed*, Wayne State UP, 1994. -------------- *They Used to Call Me Snow White*, Viking, 1991. Judy Little, *Comedy and the Woman Writer*, Nebraska UP, 1983. June Sochen, *Women's Comic Visions*, Wayne State UP, 1991. Nancy Walker, *A Very Serious Thing*, Minnesota UP, 1988. Andrea Austin Dept. of English Queen's University 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 17:02:48 -0500 Reply-To: "Virginia T. Bemis" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Virginia T. Bemis" Subject: Re: Midwest MLA call for papers In-Reply-To: <310912600034002@gold.tc.umn.edu> Call for papers for a proposed forum on disability studies at MMLA, in Minneapolis, Nov. 7-9, 1996. DISABILITY, IDENTITY AND STORY Representations of disability in literature and film, women and disability, writers with disabilities view themselves and their work, teachers with disabilities--personal and institutional concerns, disability as literary metaphor and as reality. Papers invited on these and other topics relating to disability and disability studies, including personal narratives or examinations of writers like Nancy Mairs, Connie Panzarino, etc. Papers or abstracts by March 15, please. Inquiries welcome. Virginia Bemis voice: 419 289-5120 English Department Ashland University Ashland, OH 44805 vbemis@ashland.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 18:30:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kassie Fleisher Subject: anti-feminism and the academy for gerry's question...i wonder about definitions, and by way of testing this, wonder whether anyone out there finds to be "anti-feminist" the recent "controversial" article by julia dock in the current PMLA regarding the feminist scholarship surrounding "the yellow wallpaper." the "controversy" was covered by the _chronicle of higher education_ this week. i guess i have many things to say there, the first of which is that the essay seems to imply that feminists should be held to a higher standard of scholarship than other fields -- ? i mean, other fields don't make similar errors, etc? what did folks think of it? thanks, kassie fleisher ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 20:36:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Italian women's autobiographies I am posting this for Edi Giunta, a WMST-L subscriber who is having trouble posting messages to the list. Joan Korenman *********************************************************** I want to add some bibliographical information on women's autobigraphy, since the list of European American autobiographies did not have any Italian American women. Louise De Salvo has written a memoir, Vertigo, forthcoming in 1996. Also, Helen Barolini, editor of The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women (1985), has been composing a fragmentary autobiography that includes essays such as "Becoming a Literary Person Out of Context" asa well as other essay, and even a cookbook. Also, Rosa, the Life of an Italian Immigrant, an oral autobiography recorded by Marie Hall Ets (University of Minnesota Pres, 1970). I would like to know if anyone on this list has done or is doing any work on Italian Amerucan women. Thanks. Edi Giunta faustyj@eden.rutgers.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 20:55:26 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Film Review Added: Shanghai Triad On Saturday, January 27, 1996, I reviewed "Shanghai Triad" on "The Women's Show" a weekly womanist/feminist radio magazine on WMNF-FM (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 REV165 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 Linda Lopez McAlister Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida ************* FLUNK THE FRESHMEN IN NOVEMBER ****************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 21:28:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynn Schlesinger Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: call for course materials Date sent: 27-JAN-1996 21:26:45 In the past several list members have noted an interest in gender and health. If you or others you know of have included issues of disability in sociology courses, including material on women and disability, please consider the following: The American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center invites submissions for its Guide to Sociology and Disability STudies. Materials may include but are not limited to: syllabi, course outlines, handouts, exercises, assignments, review of relevant materials (books, films, etc.), or any other written material relevant to the inclusion of disability related issues in teaching sociology. Deadline for submsiions is April 30, 1996. Contact Lynn Schlesinger, Department of Sociology, SUNY, Plattsburgh , NY 12901; 518-564-3004; fax 518-564-3333; email: SCHLESL@SPLAVA.CC. PLATTSBURGH.EDU; or Diane Taub, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4524; 618-453-7628; fax 618-453-3253. Thank you very much! Please feel free to forward this to other people and lists. Sincerely, Lynn Schlesinger ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 01:30:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: The Yellow Wallpaper Kassie Fleisher asks whether Julie Dock's article on "The Yellow Wallpaper" in the January 1996 issue of PMLA is "anti-feminist." Though Dock certainly distances herself from the "feminist critics" who are her target, I don't know whether I'd call her piece "anti-feminist" so much as willfully obtuse and meanspirited. These are harsh words, I know, and I feel a little uncomfortable using them, since I think Dock's article offers some valuable information and a useful corrective to some past scholarship. But the author seems painfully unaware (or resentful) of the debt literary scholars--including Dock herself--owe to Elaine Hedges and other feminist literary critics who first brought these virtually forgotten texts to public attention. Dock is not content to point out the errors these pioneers may have made; she has to minimize their achievement. Thus, when talking about the texts feminist scholars have rediscovered, Dock puts "rediscovered" in quotation marks, so as to call their accomplishment into question. She rejects Annette Kolodny's claim that "The Yellow Wallpaper" was "quickly relegated to the backwaters of our literary landscape," though Dock offers no specific supporting evidence for this rejection, just the vague assertion that "it saw print in mainstream publications far more than might be expected for a 'suppressed' literary work." Dock is probably too young to have experienced how thoroughly "The Yellow Wallpaper" had disappeared from the literary horizon in the decades before Hedges' edition. But even if she were older, she still might not appreciate what Hedges accomplished. Dock seems curiously indifferent to the pleasures of literature. Trying to explain what she regards as feminist critics' wrongheaded approach to "The Yellow Wallpaper," Dock writes: "There would be scant pleasure in unearthing a nineteenth-century story if the original audience read it exactly as twentieth-century readers do. . . . Critics must differentiate themselves from earlier readers, not just for self- gratification but also to validate the importance of the find" (p. 60). In her excessive zeal to "validate the importance of the find," Dock presents as monumental even the smallest of errors while at the same time utterly failing to appreciate the very significant achievements of Hedges and other feminist critics. As a result, she winds up seeming petty and meanspirited. Joan Korenman (who loves "The Yellow Wallpaper" and feels deeply indebted to Elaine Hedges and to The Feminist Press) ***************************************************************************** * 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: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 10:53:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Hannigan Subject: Re: The Yellow Wallpaper I, too, must admit that I was disappointed in the Dock article. Joan Korenman writes of it as meanspirited and I would agree. Context and debt are factors of importance to feminism. One of my growing fears is that some pseudo scholars may seek to emulate the performances of those women who attack feminism to gain instant spotlight attention or perhaps they believe that it will help them to gain tenure or promotion. I do not particularly like The Yellow Wallpaper but I certainly believe it to be an important contribution. I have see a class of graduate students argur seen a class of graduate students argue the question of blame and walk away from class with alternative views. Jane ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:22:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Povell Subject: Re: Feminist humor Dear Andrea, Thanks for the bibliography. I will check them out today. Phyllis ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:04:16 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen E Green Subject: Re: The Yellow Wallpaper In-Reply-To: <01I0JHH9FXJA8XI68L@zodiac.rutgers.edu> This issue of a feminist critic's context and reception is worthy of more discussion, I believe, especially because differing opinions on this topic have tended to lead to femininst-against-feminist quarreling that the more mainstream media seems to adore so much. (I haven't yet seen the Chronicle article, but will look it up.) I, too, found the Dock article troubling for various reasons, including but not limited to what I found to be a rather narrow methodological approach. (To her credit, however, that's what the PMLA special issue seemed to warrant, but that's another point.) Yet, I am also doing a bit of work on "The Yellow Wallpaper" which attempts to challenge many previous feminist approaches to the story. As a graduate student, I have struggled with the fact that my work might be put in the "young upstart" category--despite the fact that I am deeply committed to studying Gilman's work and, in fact, first encountered Gilman when I wrote my high school thesis on _Women and Economics_ many year ago. I also happen to love the story. I mention my own work because I think the dilemma in which I find myself is typical of the experiences of feminist graduate students, especially those writing the dissertation or writing for publication for the first time. We do struggle with how to position our work vis-a-vis other feminist critics. Part of the issue seems to be where you place the work--PMLA versus Signs, for instance. Partly, it's just a matter of respecting the history of feminist criticism and theory and knowing how to convey that adequately in your writing. It's also a disciplinary issue. For instance, I sometimes find myself infuriated beyond reason by the work of feminist critics who come from different disciplines and don't reference the history of feminism that I know exists. I know this is not good, but I must admit it sometimes happens anyway. Sorry to go on so long, but I am very interested in what others think about the wider issue of feminists revising other feminists' work. Kathy Green University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee kgreen@csd.uwm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 14:03:18 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhoda Unger Subject: Sherif Award Announcement CALL FOR NOMINATIONS CAROLYN WOOD SHERIF MEMORIAL LECTURESHIP The Carolyn Wood Sherif Memorial Committee of Division 35 (Psychology of Women) of the American Psychological Association invites nominations for the thirteenth annual award. This award is given to an individual who has made distinguished, longstanding, and substantial contributions to scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and leadership in the field of the psychology of women. Previous winners of the award are Rhoda Unger, Nancy Henley, Barbara Wallston, Kay Deaux, Martha Mednick, Irene Hanson Frieze, Ravenna Helson, Florence Denmark, Helen Astin, Nancy Felipe Russo, Phyllis Katz, and Gail Wyatt. The recipient of the award will receive a plaque, a cash award, and an invitation to deliver the Sherif Memorial Address at the 1997 APA convention. To nominate individuals for the award, please send a letter of nomination (including the nominee's address and phone number) to Rhoda Unger, Chair of the Sherif Awards Committee, Honors Program, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 by March 1, 1996. If you require further information about the award or the criteria for this award, you may also call Rhoda Unger at (201) 655 4401 or contact her via email at: ungerr@alpha.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:22:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elizabeth M. Bounds" Subject: feminist criticism/traditions It seems to me the discussion here of the Dock article raises some serious issues about what it means to be a "discipline" with, by now, a "tradition." Reading the Chronicle article (and not the PMLA article itself), it seems to me that it is a terrible temptation in scholarship to earn one's niche by bashing everyone else--and doesn't this just sound like the traditional patriarchal/elitist model!! Camille Paglia has, perhaps, taken this move into the realm of art, or, at least, a place on the academic map. As a junior scholar (tenure-track), I struggle to express disagreement without attack (at least of my feminist foremothers---there are other folks I write about who are quite worthy of sharp attack!!). In my field, feminist theology and religious ethics, I do disagree with some of the existing scholarship but this is to be expected--fields change and new contestations emerge. If we really are trying to do something new in women's studies, then we have to pay attention to the way we are engaging each other. Criticism and disagreement are essential but there are crucial differences in agenda, form, content, and tone. Elizabeth M. Bounds 540-231-7617 Religious Studies Program elizabeth.bounds@vt.edu Major Williams 204 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0135 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 17:21:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Hannigan Subject: Re: The Yellow Wallpaper Yes, I think Kathy raises important issues for all teachers to consider. I want to examine new interpretations and new standpoints but I also want to find in the authoring a sensitivity to and respect for what has come before. I do not mean that one should not criticize or disagree with earlier interpretations but rather that one might phrase objections in less strident language. Jane ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 16:54:05 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: The Yellow Wallpaper In-Reply-To: Kathy, first, hi from another Milwaukean. Second, I experience this with this in my work with peace studies. And find the overlap between feminist analysis and peace and justice work sometimes fails to take into account the work of those out there in the "practice" of peace work, peace education, and peace studies long before these became formal areas of academic study. There is a similarity here, I think, with the early research into women's studies. Elizabeth Minnich addresses this dilemma in Transforming Knowledge and urges that consideration be given to those whose work leads to the transformation while they themselves may not be taking time to address the issues of theory or do the research needed to document the process of what it is that is being transformed. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Kathleen E Green wrote: > This issue of a feminist critic's context and reception is worthy of more > discussion, I believe, especially because differing opinions on this topic > have tended to lead to femininst-against-feminist quarreling that the more > mainstream media seems to adore so much. (I haven't yet seen the > Chronicle article, but will look it up.) I, too, found the Dock article > troubling for various reasons, including but not limited to what I found > to be a rather narrow methodological approach. (To her credit, however, > that's what the PMLA special issue seemed to warrant, but that's another > point.) > > Yet, I am also doing a bit of work on "The Yellow Wallpaper" which > attempts to challenge many previous feminist approaches to the story. As a > graduate student, I have struggled with the fact that my work might be put > in the "young upstart" category--despite the fact that I am deeply > committed to studying Gilman's work and, in fact, first encountered Gilman > when I wrote my high school thesis on _Women and Economics_ many year ago. > I also happen to love the story. > > I mention my own work because I think the dilemma in which I find myself > is typical of the experiences of feminist graduate students, especially > those writing the dissertation or writing for publication for the first > time. We do struggle with how to position our work vis-a-vis other > feminist critics. Part of the issue seems to be where you place the > work--PMLA versus Signs, for instance. Partly, it's just a matter of > respecting the history of feminist criticism and theory and knowing how > to convey that adequately in your writing. It's also a > disciplinary issue. For instance, I sometimes find myself infuriated > beyond reason by the work of feminist critics who come from different > disciplines and don't reference the history of feminism that I know > exists. I know this is not good, but I must admit it sometimes happens > anyway. > > Sorry to go on so long, but I am very interested in what others think > about the wider issue of feminists revising other feminists' work. > > > Kathy Green > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > kgreen@csd.uwm.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 21:18:20 -0500 Reply-To: jeannie ludlow Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: feminist criticism & context In-Reply-To: In response to Kathleen Green (and others) RE: feminists' criticisms of feminist criticisms--when I was doing my MA thesis (1987), I worked in a critical style that was encouraged (through kudos, good grades, and example) by most of my (mostly male) instructors. First, I "contextualized" my own criticism within the body of critiques (for that paper, feminist/woman-centered readings of Margaret Atwood's _The Edible Woman_) by showing how mine was different (indeed, more accurate than) all the others. In doing so, I often caught myself (perhaps out of inexperience--?) throwing out the good in a critical piece with what was presumably the less accurate (than my own). In other words, the prevailing non-feminist scholarship style was to prove oneself right by proving all the others wrong. And I did do that, although I did not ever feel completely comfortable with it. It was only later, during my doctoral work, that I started working with a little different mindset in terms of my own research. Rather than expecting myself to write some definitive study of whatever work (thereby invalidating all the scholarly work that came before mine), I worked hard to try to situate my work within a very broadly-based analogic conversation among all the theorists. I somehow feel that this method of working was, for me, more "feminist" because it allowed me to feel free to explore in my research. I no longer felt that horrible pressure to be "absolutely right" in any way. And I was extremely fortunate to be working with a few very positive, very encouraging, challenging feminist scholars, who understood what I was trying to do, and helped me to accomplish it. All of this has been a rather long, rambling (sorry) way to say that I often wonder if our concerns that, in positing a "new" or "different" reading, we might be invalidating earlier works stem from an older, individuistic model of scholarship that most people do not seem to be working in any more? If you read something differently than I, does that mean that one of us has to be right? Of course not. As Kathleen very rightly pointed out, the crucial element is respect for the accomplishments of those who worked there before you (and at the same time as you!). This is, as Joan as said, something that the Dock article lacked. And it is exactly the lack of that respect (when it happens) that so delights the backlash folks. *********************Thoughts of Peace for the New Year******************** Sun, gleaming in frost, reach me. Jeannie Ludlow Touch through the window this seed that longs jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu little by little to flare up orange and sing. Peace is waged Branches turn to threads against the sun. with respect, --"Winter Burn" by Roberta Hill Whiteman (Oneida) not with weapons. *****************Peace and Thoughtfulness for the New Year****************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 02:36:20 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Gundersen Subject: video source I am teaching in Finland on a Fulbright this semester. One of my courses is on gender and race in contemporary literature. The department I am in has a very good collection of video adaptations of works of literature, but none of the writers I am working with. I don't read Finnish and need some help to get ordering information for the following videos which I know have appeared on TV or in theatrical release: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Joy Luck Club The Color Purple The Women of Brewster Place You may reply to my usual California E-Mail. Don't bother the list with the replies. Joan Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:41:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: scholarly attacks and identity politics Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI In-Reply-To: Elizabeth M. Bounds wrote: > As a junior scholar (tenure-track), I struggle to express > disagreement without attack (at least of my feminist foremothers---there > are other folks I write about who are quite worthy of sharp attack!!). I think she is pointing to a serious problem: how to determine which folks are "worthy of sharp attack." To suggest that "feminist foremothers" necessarily are not, while others are, is to utilize political criteria rather than scholarly ones. The usual rejoinder at this point is that "all scholarship is political" (or, even more broadly, that all everything is political). This, I think, is true only in a trivial sense. Lysenkoism is not real science, it is a debased politicized pseudo-science. Throwing out "Jewish science" as the Nazis did is also an example of the contamination of scholarship and knowledge by political criteria (identity politics, in this latter case). I fail to see why "feminist foremothers" or "feminist scholarship" should be uniquely exempt from critical scrutiny. Not only can such an attitude lead to ever weaker scholarship, it also carries the implication that feminist scholarship cannot withstand serious scrutiny and hence must be "exempted"--on political grounds. Several of the contributors to this discussion who describe their own method of contextualizing (rather than bashing all prior work) are, in my view, simply describing responsible scholarly methods, in any field. This does not, however, mean that when serious disagreements arise, or when indeed a scholar finds something worthy of criticism or disagreement, that should be suppressed for the sake of some purportedly political agenda. To recognize the political implications of (much) scholarship is important; to reduce it all to "politics" so that one acts with an eye always on the politics and secondarily, if at all, on the scholarship, is to pave the way toward an ever more compromised scholarship that is nothing more than a servant of the political passions of the moment. There are plenty of historical examples (n addition to the two notorious ones I cited above) of how scholarship, knowledge, and even politics itself, fare in such a system. To believe that. unlike any other groups in the past who attempted to make everything, including scholarship and teaching, serve their particular political agenda, feminists today are uniquely in possession of the right ideas and ultimate truths, which can reliably guide feminist assessment of all scholarly and political questions, is to embrace a dangerous illusion. But if one recognizes that this is an illusion, one has no choice but to try to develop (however difficult the task) some sort of independent, i.e., non-political, criteria for sorting between different knowledge claims, for evaluating prior scholarship, etc. Much traditional scholarship has, in fact, attempted to do precisely that. And it was in the context of such challenges that much early feminist work attempted to correct the historical/scholarly record. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:56:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Nancy A. Barta-Smith" Subject: Re: feminist criticism & context >I agree that critique need not mean negating previous research. In fact, I think that it is the conceptual metahor we use to think about "finding the truth" that invites an idea that we are all on the path to truth and passing up places left behind on the way. A global idea of place as more than point on a trajectory would suggest that it is only when we hear from every location that the full picture emerges. Here everyone contributes a piece of the truth, no one has a definitive claim on it, and we value the contributions of all made in good faith. The real question here becomes whether one is interested in finding out the full story and hearing from all or something else. Nancy Barta-Smith nab@sruvm.sru.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:51:38 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Ellen Green Kaiser Subject: Re: The Yellow Wallpaper In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:04:16 -0600 from I agree with Joan K. about the tone of Dock's piece-- "feminist" in her article tends to stand in for "those for whom politics replaces research." However, I agree with Kathleen that the piece is probably a necessary corrective, and it is helpful to people like me who often teach Gilman in survey classes but who haven't researched her life/work in depth. I wanted to pick up on Kathleen's comment on the piece's placement in PMLA-- a few years ago, it would have been placed in a less prestigious, though certainly necessary journal, like American Quarterly.... I have noticed the lit. profession as a whole moving towards issues like textual editing and away from critical questions about meaning, canonicity, etc. In short, even though sexuality studies are peaking, I think I'm seeing a backlash in literary studies, a retrenchment in which scholarship is turning back to late 19th century concerns with texts and history (albeit in a poststructuralist framework). I find it hard to say whether this, too, is a good corrective to the airy theorizing of the eighties, or indicates a backlash against the work in gender and sexuality of the same period. I think, for those of us who are feminist literary critics, these developments certainly bear watching. Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, jgkais00@ukcc.uky.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:22:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lori Rogers Subject: Call for Contributing Essayists NEIL JORDAN: THE NOVELIST A Call for Contributing Essayists I am seeking contributing essayists for _Neil Jordan: The Novels_ , an anthology focusing on Jordan's fiction, including his novels and short stories. Jordan, who has become internationally famous as a filmmaker (The Crying Game, Interview With the Vampire, etc), began his career as a novelist and has just published his third novel, _Nightlines_ , in the US. There has been a great deal of writing about Jordan's filmmaking; this compilation invites essayists who have studied the themes of race, mutation, gender roles, post-colonial change, and performativity in Jordan's prose fiction. Queer, feminist, and other readings outside the usual ken of Irish Studies are particularly encouraged. Essays may reference Jordan's films, tracing the development of themes found in his fiction to themes presented in his films, but the primary focus must be on his fiction, which includes: *The Past *The Dream of A Beast *Night In Tunisia *Nightlines (or Sunrise With Seamonster) Anyone interested in contributing should send abstracts or completed papers (maximum 40 pages--MLA style) to: Lori Rogers, Dept. of English, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155. You can also email me for more information at rogerslr@aol.com Please respond to me privately and NOT to the list. Deadline for proposals: May 1, 1996 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:49:34 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: feminist criticism & context In-Reply-To: <199601291756.MAA17912@ftp.sru.edu> Hi Nancy, as I read your message about honoring each other's truth, and recognizing that we each only hold a small piece of that truth, I remembered an incident that occured 6 yrs ago when a national peace organization held its annual conferene. The org had been formed at the start of WWI by two male ministers. By 1990 the org included women and men, and people of all and no faith traditions, as well as people of various racial, ethnic and cultural groups. The speakers at this five day conference were all men, and the two men of color spoke about race relations within society (not the organization) leading me to wonder why those two men couldn't have been asked to speak on topics of importance to the organization and society that had nothing to do with race. That was one issue. The membership recruitment efforts included the display of cartoons, characatures of people in various roles all around the meeting hall. All were of white olks, and all in stadard m/f roles. The women at the conference wer angry, disturbed, enraged, hurt, etc, etc, etc, because of the absense of any women in prominent speakers roles, and the limited recruitment posters. So they formed an alternative woman's session. The woman's break-out sessions met daily for four days, and addressed a number of issues related to this org and women's roles in it. The sessions did not address the issue of race and culture which were also an issue. And the sessions were scheduled at a small gthering place along the lake at the bottom of a long winding stairway leading to the water, thus effectively restricting access to the sessions to those who were young enough to navigate steps or not physically challenged in other ways. There are so many truths, so many issues to address. Somehow, we as women need to begin to see the connections between the issues we address in the classroom and those that take place in the world of practice and action, and make the link. This seems to require as you suggest, a stance of openness to the ideas of others from all perspectives and places on the planet. Thanks for sharing. Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Nancy A. Barta-Smith wrote: > >I agree that critique need not mean negating previous research. In fact, I > think that it is the conceptual metahor we use to think about "finding the > truth" that invites an idea that we are all on the path to truth and passing > up places left behind on the way. A global idea of place as more than point > on a trajectory would suggest that it is only when we hear from every > location that the full picture emerges. Here everyone contributes a piece of > the truth, no one has a definitive claim on it, and we value the > contributions of all made in good faith. The real question here becomes > whether one is interested in finding out the full story and hearing from all > or something else. > > Nancy Barta-Smith > nab@sruvm.sru.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:57:07 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: feminist criticism & context Comments: To: jeannie ludlow In-Reply-To: Jeannie, first, thanks for the Peace wishes. I enjoyed them. Regarding respect and validation for the work that came before, I just received a copy of an essay published in an international book on peace education which states that a particular school and school system in our city began offering peace education training to teachers after 1985. No where is there reference to the years of training that I and others offered as early as 1970, or others even before us. In those years peace studies was barely a course in most colleges or universities and surely did not constitute any form of academic discipline. Those working in peace studies were working -- I think -- much like those in area of women's studies -- before THAT field became a discipline. AN important aspect to consider, in this and other fields is that ALL learning is process, and builds on what came before. Thus I appreciate your comments that criticism and divergent viewpoints must first recognize the place and the people who came before, and build on that. An image comes to mind -- of the building of a structure that has beauty and balance, even as it adds additions year after year, as different from a need to continuously go in and tear down to build something new. There may , at times be a need to tear down, to renovate. But it need not, nor should not, be one's only option. Thnaks for continuing the conversation. peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, jeannie ludlow wrote: > In response to Kathleen Green (and others) RE: feminists' criticisms of > feminist criticisms--when I was doing my MA thesis (1987), I worked in a > critical style that was encouraged (through kudos, good grades, and > example) by most of my (mostly male) instructors. First, I > "contextualized" my own criticism within the body of critiques (for that > paper, feminist/woman-centered readings of Margaret Atwood's _The Edible > Woman_) by showing how mine was different (indeed, more accurate than) > all the others. In doing so, I often caught myself (perhaps out of > inexperience--?) throwing out the good in a critical piece with what was > presumably the less accurate (than my > own). In other words, the prevailing non-feminist scholarship style was > to prove oneself right by proving all the others wrong. And I did do > that, although I did not ever feel completely comfortable with it. It > was only later, during my doctoral work, that I started working with a > little different mindset in terms of my own research. Rather than > expecting myself to write some definitive study of whatever work (thereby > invalidating all the scholarly work that came before mine), I worked hard > to try to situate my work within a very broadly-based analogic > conversation among all the theorists. I somehow feel that this method of > working was, for me, more "feminist" because it allowed me to feel free > to explore in my research. I no longer felt that horrible pressure to be > "absolutely right" in any way. And I was extremely fortunate to be > working with a few very positive, very encouraging, challenging feminist > scholars, who understood what I was trying to do, and helped me to > accomplish it. > > All of this has been a rather long, rambling (sorry) way to say that I > often wonder if our concerns that, in positing a "new" or "different" > reading, we might be invalidating earlier works stem from an older, > individuistic model of scholarship that most people do not seem to be > working in any more? If you read something differently than I, does that > mean that one of us has to be right? Of course not. As Kathleen very > rightly pointed out, the crucial element is respect for the > accomplishments of those who worked there before you (and at the same > time as you!). This is, as Joan as said, something that the Dock > article lacked. And it is exactly the lack of that respect (when it > happens) that so delights the backlash folks. > > *********************Thoughts of Peace for the New Year******************** > Sun, gleaming in frost, reach me. Jeannie Ludlow > Touch through the window this seed that longs jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu > little by little to flare up orange and sing. Peace is waged > Branches turn to threads against the sun. with respect, > --"Winter Burn" by Roberta Hill Whiteman (Oneida) not with weapons. > *****************Peace and Thoughtfulness for the New Year****************** > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:18:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jean Noble Subject: (Fwd) Canadian queer studies publication Comments: To: boychicks@queernet.org, dykenet-l@netcom.com, femmedykes@queernet.org, lesac-net@queernet.org, queercampus@vector.casti.com, queerplanet@abacus.oxy.edu --- Forwarded mail from Queer Studies List Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 20:19:14 -0500 From: Edward Jackson Subject: Canadian queer studies publication To: Multiple recipients of list QSTUDY-L Reply-to: Queer Studies List CENTRE/FOLD 9 NOW PUBLISHED The most recent issue (No 9, Winter 1995) of CENTRE/FOLD, the twice-yearly publication of the Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies is now available. 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PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE THIS NOTICE! --- End of forwarded mail from Queer Studies List ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 17:51:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Monique Buzzarte Subject: Vienna Philharmonic & Women Academics in Women's Studies departments frequently cite examples of gender-based discrimination in American, but may not be aware of employment policies of some european orchestras. I have forwarded the following post to the WMST-L list with the author's permission (William Osborne email: 100260.243@compuserve.com). While I realize that the focus of this list is NOT to engage in discussions of gender-based societal problems, I also believe that many subscribers might find his post of interest. PLEASE DIRECT PERSONAL RESPONSES DIRECTLY to Bill at: 100260.243@compuserve.com (William Osborne), and NOT to the WMST-L. Thanks. Monique ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: William Osborne (100260.243@compuserve.com) Subject: Vienna Philharmonic & Women After living in Germany for the last 16 years, I have some material useful to those of you interested in the employment policies of European orchestras toward women musicians. My complete post is in in three sections, as follows: 1. Letters from the Vienna Philharmonic, explaining why they categorically forbid membership to women. 2. Comments from an Austrian professor of horn, defending the Vienna Philharmonic's policy, since in his view ethnic and gender uniformity create aesthetic superiority in orchestras. 3. A statement made by Lorin Maazel defending the orchestra's exclusion of women. I. The Vienna Philharmonic's letters were written to a film maker, Brenda Parkerson (100260.1064@compuserve.com), who recently made a 90 minute documentary about trombonist Abbie Conant. They explain that the orchestra forbids membership to women because they take too much sick leave. I quote here the salient points from the letters, and can fax or mail the originals, which are on Vienna Philharmonic letterhead, to anyone interested. In answer to Ms. Parkerson's questions they write: "There are no women in the Vienna Philharmonic, and there are 149 members, exclusively men." "There have been no women in this orchestra since it was founded in 1842, and there were no women in its predecessor, der Hofmusikkappelle, which was founded in 1497." "For the last 35 years the auditions have been held behind a screen." Ed. note: I should note here that no women play behind the screen, since their applications are rejected at sight. In a second letter they explain this is because women are too often on sick leave. They write that the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic are drawn from the same pool of 149 musicians who rotate between the opera and the philharmonic. Then conclude: "Due to the statistically expected sick leave stemming from the employment of women it would be necessary for us to employ nearly 200 musicians, which would not permit us to break the pool of musicians into two integrated parts: The Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic." In other words they assert that 25% more personnel would be needed if the orchestra hired women. In answer to another question they write: "In Austria there are laws against gender discrimination in employment. The Vienna Philharmonic, however, is a private club, which it has been since 1842, and thus these laws are not applicable." Women commonly face such discrimination in German and Austrian orchestras. At my last count the Berlin Philharmonic had 121 men and 3 women. The Czech Philharmonic also categorically forbids membership to women. These orchestras stand as national symbols for their countries, and represent western culture through out the world. II. I posted a notice about these letters on the net and it was forwarded to the Horn-List. Prof. Hans Pizka, principal horn of the Munich State Opera, responded with a defense of the orchestra's discrimination. He often subs with the Vienna Philharmonic, and is one of the world's foremost hornists. He is influential in the International Horn Society, a sought after teacher, and a very respected professor in Germany, Austria, and internationally. He is a recording artist and has a well-known publishing company for horn music. He is German speaking so there are some some grammatical errors in his English. These quotes are exactly his writing and not a translation. All spelling, grammar, capitalization and punctuation are his. The quoted excerpts do not change the meaning of what he wrote. They are all from posts dated October 23, 1995 by the horn-list server. I will send the complete text to anyone who wants them. He states a belief not uncommon in the German speaking world that ethnic and gender uniformity create aesthetic superiority in orchestras. Prof. Pizka writes: "The organisation of the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC is a male society. It is their decision from the very beginning in 1842 and we have to respect this." "First of all, the Vienna Philharmonic is a private club like organisation. They can make their own laws for their own club. This has nothing to do with discrimination!" "Again a word about the Vienna Phil: the same educational & musical & ethical background together with the same male feeling created this unique body of music, or is there any doubt ? An all women orchestra with all having the same educational & musical & ethical background will sound phantastically harmonic also, no doubt, but how about all the intrigues ????? Sorry, perhaps without. Men used to have intrigues also, but seem to handle them easier." "And be fair to me, isn't the general spectrum of feelings (psychical sensations, enthusiasm, sadness, etc.) different between man & woman? Isn't the same the case between nationals & no-nationals? It is, believe me. And because of this particular uniformity, the Vienna Philharmonic have this very particular sound & expression & success & success as best selling recording orchestra. This is the success secret of the Vienna Philharmonic." "Dear (female) sexists, you should understand, that until now, some jobs will remain men's jobs, but others will remain women's jobs. May be, medicine could change that in the future, but how about the ethical question ? The fe"male" sexists are now fighting for their superiority above men. Wanting to become a "domina", hey ? Sorry, but it seems like." "How about the Berlin Philharmonic ? Will you throw away their CDs also? How about getting mad by ambition ? Hasn't that become a typical female illness now. Sorry, but the truth. Many of them (not all, no generalisation) like to perform everything better than men, no matter at what costs, - and they will lose everything. Can you do weightlifting as we can do it ? No, as your muscles are not built for that. Can we (men) get children. No, as our body is not made for that." "Best solution: respect each other, help each other, but do not reach for the unreachable or unwanted as there are many many other chances." In addition to gender uniformity in the Vienna Philharmonic, the Professor also spoke of its national or ethnic uniformity, and illustrated his point with a racial joke and remarks about there being no "native colored Austrians". In the German speaking world these are not the remarks of an isolated crank, but rather views that are commonly found in many orchestras. This is why orchestras like the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics can be national symbols and exclude women with little or no protest. (Perhaps I should note that only 3% of the professors in Germany are women.) III. In a interview in the last 1995 issue of _Bunte_, a well-known German magazine, Lorin Maazel was asked why there are only men in the Vienna Philharmonic. He responds: "Because it is a guild like the Meistersaenger. Only the sons or male students of the musicians were allowed to enter. It is, therefore, the only orchestra in the world that has held on to its own style for over 150 years. The members decide who directs each new years concert. In 1996 I will do this for the ninth time." There was no explanation quoted about why women would damage the orchestra's musical style. The situation of women in German and Austrian orchestras is incomprehensible to many North American colleagues. If you would like to read a detailed description of trombonist Abbie Conant's 13 year struggle in the Munich Philharmonic please find it on the web at: http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte/ladies.html http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte/conant.html These documents tell an absolutely incredible story! I think they could be very useful for research about women in orchestras. If I can be of further assistance with the information in this post please be in touch. I would be happy to help. William Osborne 100260.243@compuserve.com ------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** Monique Buzzarte http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte buzzarte@dorsai.org *********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 03:44:38 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Gundersen Subject: Wallpaper In-Reply-To: <9601300737.AA19832@coyote.csusm.edu> Finding the way to disagree with those that go before is always difficult, but I'm more concerned by another comment in this conversation. This is a women's studies list, hence by its very nature interdisciplinary. Those of us in different disciplines may have different perspectives on "prestige" places to publish. The American Quarterly is hardly viewed as a lesser journal by those of us not in literature. It is the premier journal in American STudies, and as such is an extremely tough place to have a publication accepted. Several years ago there was a study of the odds of a paper being accepted in various journals that took work on history, and the American Quarterly was among the toughest. A piece in AQ is much more likely to find an interdisciplinary audience than is the PMLA. We need to be careful that we don't try imposing disciplinary hierarchies on women's studies that might not apply. Joan Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 06:57:45 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: anne elizabeth macneil Subject: Re: Vienna Philharmonic & Women In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 28 Jan 1996 17:51:29 -0400 As a member of the American Musicological Society's Committee on the Status of Women, I have been cataloguing the debate about hiring practices in the Vienna Philharmonic. Please copy all responses concerning William Osborne's post to me as well. Thank you! Anne MacNeil ma5c@midway.uchicago.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:27:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Please stop Vienna Philharmonic discussion I am writing to ask that no more messages about the Vienna Philharmonic's hiring practices or similar topics be sent to WMST-L. The person who sent the original message acknowledged that discussion of gender-related societal issues lies outside WMST-L's focus. She therefore should not have sent her message, nor should people respond to or continue the discussion on WMST-L. WMST-L has a continual problem with heavy mail volume; were the volume to increase (by broadening the list's focus to include discussion of most gender-related societal issues), many subscribers with limited time, disk space, or funds (some people pay for each message they receive) would be forced to sign off, UMDD (which is already concerned about how much of its resources go to WMST-L) might decide it can no longer house the list, and an excellent list would go down the tubes. I am determined not to have that happen. Thus, please do not send messages about societal problems, male/female relations, politics, etc. to WMST-L. Other lists exist where such messages are appropriate; to get a large compilation of women-related email lists, send the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU or go to http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html on the Web. Since this issue has been discussed on WMST-L many times before, and since a file now exists that details the argument (send the message GET FOCUS EXPLAIND to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU), please do not send messages about this to WMST-L. [Note: the spelling EXPLAIND is deliberate.] If WMST-L's narrow focus no longer meets your needs, you can unsubscribe by sending the message SIGNOFF WMST-L (or UNSUB WMST-L) to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (or, if you subscribed via Bitnet, to LISTSERV@UMDD). Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 09:14:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Laura Mumford Subject: feminist criticism & context In a message dated 96-01-30 02:41:49 EST, Jeannie Ludlow writes: >All of this has been a rather long, rambling (sorry) way to say that I >often wonder if our concerns that, in positing a "new" or "different" >reading, we might be invalidating earlier works stem from an older, >individuistic model of scholarship that most people do not seem to be >working in any more? Certainly (although I'd argue with the "most people" part, especially since previous messages make it clear that this "individuistic model" is precisely what's still at work). But also, & maybe more important, I think it's a function of the assumption that we each have to take a specific, identifiable, coherent theoretical position, join a "school" rather than drawing on an array of congenial arguments to construct our own eclectic feminism theories. If you begin with that premise, you necessarily have to trash (literally & figuratively) pretty much everything about theories other than your own favorite. BTW, this is a very interesting thread for someone (me) who works as an independent/unaffiliated scholar because it reminds me of how connected my own writing is to what is going on within & in relation to the formal academic institutions. Laura Stempel Mumford, Madison WI Lsmumford@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:47:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christy L Minadeo Subject: Women's Studies in London The Women's Studies Program at Michigan State University offers the opportunity while in London to study British women's lives. London is a perfect setting for a cross-cultural and cross-dsiciplinary investigation into British women's writings and culture, feminist movements, and feminist theories and perspectives. Classroom discussion and readings will be enhanced by contacts with women's organizations (e.g. England's Campaign Against Domestic Violence), a trip to the world's largest women's bookstore (The Silver Moon), to the London Women's Resource Center, films and theater, museums and galleries, and conversations with British women writers, directors, feminist activists and British women's studies professors and students. Students will enroll for as many as eight semester credits from the following course offerings: WS 491--Special Topics in Women's Studies (4 credits) WS 490--Independent Study (1-4 credits) Housing: Students will live in a British residence hall in central London which is within walking distance of the classroom and near the British Museum. Instructor: Dr. Maria Bruno is an associate professor in the Department of American Thought and Language and has taught extensively in the Women's Studies Program at MSU. She has written about and lectured on women's literature, culture and history. She is also a widely published fiction and screen writer. Program cost: Accomodations, some meals, overseas program fee, and class activities fee will be approximately $2,397. Program costs do not include tuition and fees, or transportation to and from England, which students may arrange through Overseas Study or on their own. Additional funds will be required for other meals, spending money, and any personal travel students wish to do in England and Europe. Program dates, prices, and arrangements may be subject to change due to unexpected circumstances. Enrollment Deadline: Students may now enroll in the program at MSU Overseas Study [(517) 353-8920] A $75 application fee is required at the time of enrollment. A $250 down payment is due prior to the enrollment deadline of March 15. Both fees are nonrefundable if a student is accepted into the program, and will be applied to the program cost. Potential participants are reminded that the number of openings is limited, so it is wise to reserve a place in the program as soon as possible. Acceptance will be based on academic standing and approval of the program instructor. Financial Assistance is available. Please contact the Office of Overseas Study and the MSU Office of Financial Aid for more information. Contacts: Overseas Study 109 International Center Michigan State University E. Lansing, MI 48824-1035 Phone: (517) 353-8920 Fax: (517) 432-2082 Internet: gopher.msu.edu ********************************************************* Professor Maria Bruno American Thought and Language 258 Bessey Hall Michigan State University E. Lansing, MI 48824-1033 Phone: (517) 432-2572 email: bruno@pilot.msu.edu ********************************************** Women's Studies Program 301 Linton Hall Michigan State University E. Lansing, MI 48824-1044 Phone: (517) 355-4495 Christy Minadeo Women's Studies Advisor Michigan State University minadeoc@pilot.msu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:48:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christy L Minadeo Subject: Call for participation > > > > > CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > > > > Michigan State University > > The American Studies Fall Festival and American Studies Graduate Student > > Association > > > > Fall Festival and National Conference: > > November 13-16, 1996 > > What is an American?: > > Changing Faces of Identity in American Life > > > > > > Featured Events Include: > > > > *Keynote Speaker--Bharati Mukherjee, Professor of English, UC Berkeley > > *Keynote Speaker--Eric Foner, Professor of History, Columbia University > > *Theater Production--_Angels in America, part 1_ > > *Kresge Art Museum Exhibit--"Jacob Lawrence:Thirty Years of Prints, 1963-199 3" > > > *MSU Museum Exhibit--"Ethnic Images: Immigration and Caricature" > > > > > > The Fall Festival and its national conference will be organized around th re > e > > major themes: Ethnicity and Race, Borders and Boundaries, Immigration and > > Assimilation. The first recognizes the importance of exploring how identity i > s > > shaped in a race-conscious society and how language is implicated in the > > process. The second explores the geographic, social, cultural, and > > intellectual boundaries Americans have used in negotiating individual and gr ou > p > > identities. The third embraces the experiences of the variety of peoples wh o > > have struggled with life in America. What similarities and differences have > > marked their experiences? How have their own ways been transformed in a new > > environment and how have they been transformative of it? > > This conference seeks to interrogate issues in a multi- and > > interdisciplinary forum. We invite proposals for papers, panels, dialogic > > seminars, workshops, book and film discussions, and performances on how > > Americans define themselves and how these self-definitions compare to > > political, socio-cultural, and economic external definitions. > > Possible topics include immigration; assimilation; acculturation; cultura l > > relativism; political responses to diversity; ethnic, racial and gender > > identity in literature, film, comics, folklore, the plastic and performance > > arts, and the media; challenging the status quo/protest; education; changing > > the curriculum; the campus P.C. debate; diversity and the Republican RContra ct > > > With AmericaS; affirmative action; external versus self-definitions; ethnic, > > racial or gender separatism; economic inequality; and academic praxis. > > Include your address, phone number(s), e-mail address, the title and format of > > > your presentation, a one-page abstract, and a one-page vita. Please limit > > individual presentations to 20-25 minutes and panels and seminars to 90 > > minutes. If your presentation includes co-presenters or panelists, please > > include their names and contact information. We encourage submissions from > > graduate students. Send proposals to: > > > > American Studies Conference Committee, Peter Levine--Director, > > American Studies Program, Michigan State University, 318 Linton Hall, East > > Lansing, MI 48824 > > e-mail: amstudys@pilot.msu.edu For further information, call (517) > > 353-9821. > > > > DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS MARCH 15, 1996. > > > > > > PLEASE POST > > > Christy Minadeo > Michigan State University > minadeoc@pilot.msu.edu > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 13:31:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elizabeth M. Bounds" Subject: feminist scholarship Wow, I am going to have re-read my comments before sending them to this list as I left myself/the list open for this whole politicization/pure scholarship issue to re-emerge in Daphne Patai's response. When I say I want to respect my feminist foremothers, I do not mean every feminist scholar who ever walked the earth, but those particular feminist scholars who have shaped my own work. Thus I share common commitments/presuppositions but also have significant differences--and I seek to criticize on the basis of these differences. However, it has been my experience that some of the most vicious cutting up can occur in this small, linked group as we struggle for scholarly recognition in a profoundly professionalized and segmented educational marketplace. So when I talk about caution in criticism, I am talking not about the act of criticism (I agree with Patai that all positions should be considered open for critique) but the tone and agenda behind that criticism. And when I speak of those who I criticize far more profoundly, I speak of scholars whose work seeks to avoid or even undermine justice/recognition claims by poor and marginalized persons. If I am discussing a scholar who seeks to blame feminism for the decline of the family, it is indeed time for sharp critique. I do NOT share commitments/presuppositions with this person. This does not mean, however, "bashing." As for the political/impartial question--while recognizing the "politicization" examples raised by Patai, in the areas I work (feminist ethics, religious social ethics, economic ethics), it's a little hard to envision that "independent, i.e., non-political criteria." And I would not want to, either. Elizabeth M. Bounds 540-231-7617 Religious Studies Program elizabeth.bounds@vt.edu Major Williams 204 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0135 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:32:27 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elaine K. Miller" Subject: erica jong article request Hello - for a course I'm teaching on gender and communication I'm looking for information about an article written recently by Erica Jong on public perceptions of Hillary Clinton. Does someone know where it was published? The NPR program mentioned the publication, but I didn't get it. Thanks for any help. ElaineMiller (please answer privately unless judged of interest to whole list. emiller@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:33:58 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Gundersen Subject: Wallpaper In-Reply-To: <199601311331.IAA09871@holmes.umd.edu> As several of the posters have noted, feminist scholars do disagree. One of the things I keep telling my women's studies students is that its really "feminist theories" and not a single theory. I tend to approach these issues of criticism by using a conversation metaphor. If we are good listeners in a coversation we will be attentive to contradictions, slips, etc. We also will acknowledge that we are entering a conversation that has been under way before we arrived. Conversation quickly ends when everyone agrees. There's nothing left to talk about. On the other hand, conversation also ends when it becomes a personal attack or shouting match. Good conversationalists do not try to humiliate the people they are talking with, but will take responsibility for improving the conversation by clarifying, prodding ideas to see where they lead, and stripping away distractions. If we allow women's studies writing to become a zero sum game where a scholar has to lose everytime another one writes, conversation ends, and feminist voices will be silenced. Joan Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:58:18 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jodi Wetzel Subject: Leslie Marmon-Silko One of my faculty members, Annette McElhiney, is trying to find Leslie Marmon- Silko. Dr. McElhiney and Jacqueline St. Joan are writing a book, BEYOND PORTIA: LAW AND LITERATURE BY AMERICAN WOMEN (Northeast University Press) and they want to use one of her works entitled STORYTELLER for which they need her permission. It is believed that she is in the Tucson area. If you know where she is and how to reach her you may e-mail Dr. McElhiney at MCELHINA@MSCD.EDU or call Jacqueline St. Joan at (303) 355-0504. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:39:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BETTY POWELL Organization: Mars Hill College Subject: teaching ws classes Hi All: I'm in search of innovative teaching practices in the Women's Studies classroom. I've searched the files list and haven't come up with anything that seems helpfu ( or I haven't recognized it as such). I'm teaching a women writers course from a women's studies perspective at a small 4 year liberal arts college. This is the first time a women writers course has ever been taught here, let alone a Women's Studies course. Does anyone have any successful (or untried) pedagogy for teaching Women's Studies? Thanks. Betty J. Powell Assistant Professor of English Mars Hill College Mars Hill, NC 28754 e-mail: bpowell@mhc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:02:18 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Julia M. Allen" Subject: Call for Articles Call for Articles for an anthology on humor in lesbian fiction We seek to publish an anthology of writings discussing the uses of humor in lesbian fiction. We have observed, for instance, humor functioning to bond members of a group in collective laughter at themselves and in derisive laughter at others; most important, we have seen humor work to undo the power of those whose motives are to harm or control. We are interested in articles discussing a wide range of works--crossing time, class, ethnic, and national boundaries. We define "fiction" broadly and would consider articles discussing experimental fiction, autobiographical fiction, narrative poetry, or extended comic strips, as well as more traditional narrative forms. Articles should focus on specific devices, such as irony, hyperbole, metaphor, satire, and parody and should demonstrate how the humor device functions in the text--how it works to shift definitions or otherwise challenge conditions. Thus, articles should also consider the context in which the text in question was written and published. Successful articles will probably focus on one text, or, at the very most, works of one author. We are not interested in articles that attempt broad generalizations across the range of lesbian fiction. Articles should be written in English. Though articles should be theoretically informed, they should be free from jargon. The audience for the anthology will be cross-disciplinary. Articles should be 15-30 pages in length. Please use MLA documentation style. For more information, contact Julie Allen at allen@sonoma.edu or at the address below. Send two copies of the completed article plus abstract by June 1, 1996 to: Julia M. Allen/Robin Hackett English Department Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, CA 94928 allen@sonoma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 16:35:16 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Mary Shelley & Frankenstein Hi! Is anyone out there who has studied Mary Shelley's sources of inspiration in writing FRANKENSTEIN? If so, could you contact me privately, not through WMST-L? I'd like to ask a couple of questions and get some leads but they are not questions that particularly relate FRANKENSTEIN to women's studies, so I won't pose them on the list. Thanks! -- Gina Oboler (roboler@acad.ursinus.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 19:30:16 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joyce Warren Subject: conference Conference Notice: 19th-Century American Women Writers in the 21st Century. May 20-June 2 1996 Trinity College and Harr Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford, Connecticut For information contact Sandra Andrews (203) 297-2562