========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 15:33:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LIBRARYLISTS Subject: Schlesinger Library web page The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America announces its web page! Please take a look and let us know what you think: www.radcliffe.edu/schles Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Radcliffe College 10 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: 617/495-8647 fax: 617/496-8340 e-mail: slref@radcliffe.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:02:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: Midwifery, and ERA too I am teaching Intro to Women's Studies for the first time this January. I am interested in finding good articles and/or films on the ERA (how it was lost?) and also on midwifery/critiquing the medical model of childbirth. Thanks in advance, and reply privately. Christine Smith 10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 21:08:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Creehan Subject: Re: Midwifery, and ERA too Christine Would you be willing to share what you receive on midwifery/critiquing the medical model of childbirth Thanks Pat Creehan pacreehan@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 23:13:14 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Marilyn J. Boxer" Subject: Query re WS tenure lines >From various sources I have gleaned the info that three universities provide 8 tenure lines that are fully housed in women's studies programs/depts; namely, the Univ of Arizona, Emory, and San Diego State. If anyone knows of others that equal or exceed this figure (or if my info is wrong), I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks very much, Marilyn Boxer ------------------------------------------------------------------- Marilyn J. Boxer Exec. Dir., N. Calif. Center for Interinstitutional Collaboration Prof. of History San Francisco State University 425 Market St, 26th flr, SF, CA 94105 Voice: (415) 904-2365 EMail: mboxer@sfsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:23:14 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Query re WS tenure lines In-Reply-To: note of 01/03/97 02:14 Hi Marilyn, University of South Florida now also has 8 tenure lines in Women's Studies. (And we are looking to hire someone in women's history this year and will be hiring again next year as well--or so we have been promised). Linda ********************************************* Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:55:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Nash, Kathleen S" Subject: Ideas/Suggestions for Outcomes Assessment for Womens Studies Programs Our WMStudies program assessment committee is collecting resources so we can devise some tools to assess how our program, now in its second year, is fulfilling its goals. We are considering student portfolios as well as exit surveys or questionnaires. I'd appreciate hearing privately about assessment techniques that have worked. Thanks. Kathleen Nash Le Moyne College Syracuse, NY (NASH@maple.lemoyne.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 14:51:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Feminist Teacher Subject: Re: Ideas/Suggestions for Outcomes Assessment for Womens Studies Programs FEMINIST TEACHER will have an article on assessment techniques in our next issue In the meantime, you could contact the article's author: tpatterson@urvax.urich.edu (Pa)Tricia Patterson Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Richmond Richmond, VA 23173 (804) 287-6457 > Our WMStudies program assessment committee is collecting >resources so we can devise some tools to assess how our program, now >in its second year, is fulfilling its goals. We are considering student >portfolios as well as exit surveys or questionnaires. I'd appreciate hearing >privately about assessment techniques that have worked. Thanks. >Kathleen Nash >Le Moyne College >Syracuse, NY >(NASH@maple.lemoyne.edu) Paula Krebs, for the Editorial Collective Feminist Teacher Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 Feminist_Teacher@WheatonMa.edu (508) 286-3732 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 16:41:51 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Debbie Connolly Subject: Employment listings I am looking for other lists or publications that inform of employment opportunities both in academe and in other sectors. I am a cultural anthropology PhD student with a feminist emphasis. I am particularly interested in non-profit organizations with a focus on women. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Debbie Connolly Univ. of CA. Santa Cruz email: Dconnoll@ix.netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 21:43:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: AWP Logo Art Contest: read & forward to artists & art listservs 1998 ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE LOGO CONTEST HELP US "CHART A NEW COURSE!" The 1998 Association for Women in Psychology Conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland. The theme for the conference is "Charting a New Course." We are looking for a conference logo that will incorporate the theme, the conference topics, the values of the organization, and the region's character. The Association for Women in Psychology is a not-for-profit scientific and educational organization committed to encouraging feminist psychological research, theory, and activism, with an awareness of and a responsibility to incorporate cultural diversity as well as a strong anti-racism position. The conference theme is nautical and emphasizes creating and following plans for women's future. The seas to be navigated include health care (including mental health), education, diversity, welfare, affirmative action, and dealing with violence, among others. As is true for those steering spinnakers, to make progress one needs to enlist the support of many forces. In sailing, the forces include the crew as well as the wind, currents, weather, and other forces of nature. In our case, we need to enlist the support of numerous human forces, e.g., political, community, spiritual, and educational, from diverse cultures in order to address and meet the challenges that face us. The theme will be displayed on the conference materials and souvenirs. Conference materials will be distributed in large numbers all over the United States and in smaller numbers to many other countries. Coverage will be particularly thorough in the Middle Atlantic Region. The artist whose design is selected will receive: * An award of $200.00. * Samples of the conference materials for inclusion in their portfolio. * Samples of souvenirs on which their logo appears. * Free admission to the conference and conference entertainment. * Increased visibility within the mental health field, academe, and government from the mailings. DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15TH, 1997 Designs should be submitted to: Lynn Collins, AWP Conference Coordinator, Division of Applied Psychology and Quantitative Methods, University of Baltimore, 1420 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-5779. For more information, please call or e-mail: Lcollins@ubmail.ubalt.edu; (410) 837-5283. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 14:29:51 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: evelyn a schlatter Subject: opportunity for your views to be heard (fwd) greetings, all. i received this from one of my colleagues and thought that some of you might be interested in responding to ms. bickford. i myself did, and received acknowledgment. i am forwarding this on her behalf, as she asked me if i could post it on lists whose members might be interested. thanks for your time. cheers, ev schlatter dept. of history univ. of new mexico evsch@unm.edu ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This message from lydia_bickford@ios.doi.gov Good afternoon- My name is Lydia Bickford and I am a political appointee in the Clinton administration. I am participating in a project for the White House Women's Office called At The Table. The explanation of this project has been posted on favnet in the past, as well as abigail's list I believe. I'm working on the project today at my office. I am trying to widen the circle; I have already submitted the views of about 1300 women but I want to keep going. It is an opportunity for you to send in your views which are passed along to the President and his top aides. I am going repost the explanation and hope you will respond. I would also like you to encourage other women to respond, put it on your college/university list serv's, and/or on other e:mail lists. Thank you for your help, I think you'll agree this is a wonderful idea. If you have any questions, please feel free to mail me and I'll answer as soon as I can. I'll be at work all next week. Take care. Lydia The Clinton administration has asked its women political appointees, like me (Interior-Indian Affairs), to meet with women around the country as they travel. Since I am pretty well anchored to my desk, I am conducting the project by internet. Please let me know what's on your mind. It can be issues/concerns/good/bad/all of the above. I will need your name and mailing address so the White House can send you a thank you note. (Don't get nervous if it takes a while, I do the reports in my spare time and can't always get to them right away.) Your name will NOT be sold or given away. Please describe yourself briefly so I can do a short demographic paragraph in my report. Then tell me what you want the President to know. I write reports of your views which go to the White House Women's Office, President Clinton, and his top aides. It can be as long or as short as you like. There is no time limit on this project, but if you could get back to me in the next month or so, I would appreciate it. Please share this information with other women you think might be interested. (Not to worry, this is not a poll and other women appointees are meeting with groups of women personally. This is my way to reach more women.) My internet address is: lydia_bickford@ios.doi.gov (That stands for Interior Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior, government.) Please do not send me attachments, I can't decode them. (Trust me, I had a team of four techies trying everything they could imagine.) Thank you for taking your time to do this. I truly appreciate it. It's a terrific project because of women like you who are willing to participate and help. Take care. I look forward to your responses. Lydia ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 18:01:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Please respond privately if you write to Ms. Bickford Just a reminder that if you choose to accept the invitation to make your views known to the Clinton Administration via Ms. Bickford, DON'T do it by pressing the reply key and sending your message to WMST-L. 1300+ people will get it, but she won't. Thanks. ********************************************* Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:08:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "JAMES M. HALL" Organization: University of Cincinnati-English Subject: position announcement Colleagues: Please read and pass on, as appropriate, the following announcement: Pending budget approval, the University of Cincinnati Department of English will make the following appointment, to begin September 1, 1997. Assistant or Associate Professor, American Ethnic and/or African- American Literature. Competitive salary, excellent benefits. Ph.D and teaching experience required; applicants must have demonstrated a commitment to scholarly research and teaching and be theoretically informed. Teaching assignments will include both graduate and undergraduate courses. Possible faculty affiliation and cross- listing of courses with the Center for Women's Studies. Send letter of application to James M. Hall, Head, Department of English, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210069, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069. Applications will be received until position is filled. We particularly encourage applications from women and minorities. The University of Cincinnati is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Questions may be directed to Professor Hall at the above address, by phone at (513) 556-5924, or by e-mail: halljm@ucenglish.mcm.uc.edu Thanks. James M. Hall ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 11:35:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Linda L. Anderson" Subject: Kitchen Table In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961225195041.006744d0@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu> does someone have current address and phone number for Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press? i have p.o. box 908, latham, ny 12110, and it was returned to me. thanks. linda anderson LLA@minerva.cis.yale.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 12:26:13 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa McGowan Subject: Re: Kitchen Table Hello, The address we have for them (current 1995) is: P.O. Box 40-4920 Brooklyn,. NY 11240 (518) 434-2057 At 11:35 AM 1/6/97 -0500, you wrote: >does someone have current address and phone number for Kitchen Table: >Women of Color Press? i have p.o. box 908, latham, ny 12110, and it was >returned to me. thanks. > >linda anderson > >LLA@minerva.cis.yale.edu > > Lisa McGowan Feminist Bookstore News 2358 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 tel: (415) 626-2039 fax: (415) 626-8790 email: Lisa@FemBkNews.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:13:57 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Arpad Subject: Grad School wanted Comments: cc: Susan Arpad In-Reply-To: <199701062104.NAA23563@gaudi.csufresno.edu> from "Lisa McGowan" at Jan 6, 97 12:26:13 pm A senior Anthropology and Women's Studies student is looking for a graduate school. Eventually, she probably wants a Ph.D. in Anthropology, but is considering an M.A. program in Women's Studies. Or are there any programs in Anthropology out there that have a strong feminist component or slant? She doesn't know what her options are and would appreciate contacts from anyone who knows of a likely department. She does not currently have an Email address, so please send replies to me and I will pass them on. Thank you. Susan_Arpad@CSUFresno.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 18:29:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tamara Agha-Jaffar Subject: Gender-related web sites Hello all, Could someone tell me how to get a list of gender-related web sites. I know that new websites have been announced on WMST-L in the past, but i would like to access a comprehensive list--if such a thing exists. WMST-L lists "Other Lists" but i don't think it lists websites. Or does it? Please reply privately since I don't want to clutter everyone's mail. thanks in advance tamara wskckcc@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 01:23:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: west sun Subject: Re: Gender-related web sites hello all, due to i'll take a long leave,so i would like to unsubscribe the wmst-l but i don't know how to do,can you help me? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 08:14:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Kitchen Table Kitchen Table moved more than a year ago to: PO Box 40-4920 Brooklyn, NY 11240-4920 718-935-1082 718-935-1107 (fax) Direct inquiries to Andrea Lockett. Barbara Smith is no longer associated with the press. KT:WOC is a member of the Women's Presses Library Project. Mev >does someone have current address and phone number for Kitchen Table: >Women of Color Press? i have p.o. box 908, latham, ny 12110, and it was >returned to me. thanks. > >linda anderson > >LLA@minerva.cis.yale.edu WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:18:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: am68 Subject: Re: Gender-related web sites In-Reply-To: <970106174105_1123539990@emout19.mail.aol.com> >Hello all, >Could someone tell me how to get a list of gender-related web sites. I know >that new websites have been announced on WMST-L in the past, but i would like >to access a comprehensive list--if such a thing exists. WMST-L lists "Other >Lists" but i don't think it lists websites. Or does it? Please reply >privately since I don't want to clutter everyone's mail. >thanks in advance >tamara Although Tamara asked someone to reply privately - I thought m;any of the WMST List would be interested. A colleague and I did two workshops on the Internet and Women and Society We compiled a selected list with the help of several Women's Studies faculty. It is not possible, in my opinion, to have a "complete list" as the available sites on women's issues, let alone gender issues. They change/increase/disappear every day. If enough people are interested, I might be able to get a student to type the web addresses into an e-mail missive. Otherwise, send me an s.a.e and I will mail to whomever is interested (address to Ann S> Masnik Public Service Librarian, Hornbake Reference 7011, University of Maryland, College Park,Md 20742 I would also like to mention the Winter 1996 issue of "Feminist Collections" which is devoted to Women's Studies and the Internet. You could also try the Univ. Of Wisc. Women's Studies Librarian's Office web site: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ thanks to the wonderful work of Phyllis Weisbard Holman. Ann Masnik (am68@umail.umd.edu) > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 10:12:17 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diana H Scully Subject: Re: Gender-related web sites In-Reply-To: <9701071418.AA12287@umailsrv1.umd.edu>; from "am68" at Jan 7, 97 9:18 am The best source I have found for Women's Studies/Gender web sites is maintained and frequently updated by Joan Korenman at http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/links.html -- Diana Scully Professor and Director of Women's Studies Virginia Commonwealth University Box 843060 Richmond, Virginia 23284 Phone 804.828.4041 FAX 804.828.4983 **NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS dhscully@vcu.edu http://www.has.vcu.edu/wst/home.htm ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:18:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Re: Gender-related web sites Thanks to Ann Masnik for mentioning our website as a source of information on websites on women and gender. In addition to the selected links from the site, we have been mounting the "Computer Talk" column in its entirety for the last several issues of FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES. This is a lengthy, if not comprehensive, column of new websites, gender-related discussion lists, electronic journals, and miscellaneous other computer-related nuggets. The direct URL for FEMINIST COLLECTIONS is http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm Sincerely, ************************************************************************ 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, 7 Jan 1997 10:30:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Linda L. Anderson" Subject: Yale job In-Reply-To: <27010709183817@vms2.macc.wisc.edu> PSYCHOLOGY AND WOMEN'S STUDIES: The Women's Studies Program and the Department of Psychology at Yale University seek to make a tenured joint appointment at the rank of either full or associate professor . Applications from outstanding candidates who do feminist scholarship in any field of Psychology are welcome. The candidate should have an international reputation in his or her area of specialization and must be able to provide the Women's Studies Program with intellectual and institutional leadership. We also seek in this candidate someone who can contribute effectively to both the undergraduate and the graduate teaching programs of the university. Deadline for receipt of applications is March 1, 1997. Applicants should send a letter of application describing research and teaching, a curriculum vita, and samples of written work, and they should arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to: Women's Studies/Psychology Search Committee, Women's Studies Program, Yale University, Box 208319, 315 WLH, New Haven, CT 06520-8319. Yale University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and applications from women and minority group members are especially encouraged. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 11:44:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Donna Hughes Subject: Membership data for women's organizations In-Reply-To: <9701071512.AA49578@saturn.vcu.edu> I am working on a project in which I am trying to quantify the strength of the women's movement in the United States. To do this I am using membership data from women's oganizations, such as N.O.W. Does anyone know where I can find yearly membership statistics for organizations from the first wave of the women's movement? I have seen membership statistics for individual years for the National American Women's Suffrage Association and the Federation of Women's Clubs, but I would like yearly figures (or at least every 5 years). I would also like membership information for Black women's clubs at that time. Does anyone know if this information is available? Thank you. Donna Hughes Carlson Chair University of Rhode Island dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 12:56:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Ferguson Subject: Grad program in WOST and Anthro 1/7/97 In response to the query from Susan Arpad about a recommendation for a graduate program in Anthropology and Women's Studies I would like to recommend UMass/Amherst. We have a new Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies (the equivalent of an MA) and a strong feminist faculty with interdisciplinary interests as well as a good Anthro department with feminist supportive faculty, including Helan Page (who deals with race, class and Afro-, African diaspora studies), Jackie Urla who deals with media images, John Cole who deals with Eastern Europe gender, race and class, etc and Bob Paynter who deals with imperialism, Native American issues and other progressive interests. Our Women's Studies faculty has 4 1/2 core faculty lines, including myself as joint in Philosophy (do feminist theory, ethics, sexuality, race, class gender), Arlene Avakian whose specialty is history and political autobiography, Jan Raymond who deals with feminist theory and international feminist issues, including women's human rights and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Leila Ahmed, a specialist in Arab and Islamic women and the Middle East, and Alex Deschamps who does feminist/womanist theory, Caribbean women and international development issues. Our WOST Graduate Certificate requires four core seminars to be drawn from a list of courses taught by associated faculty, a pro-seminar connected to a weekly lecture series of research work by graduate students, faculty and faculty visiting guest speakers. For more information on our faculty and the Graduate Certificate program please visit our Women's Studies Home Page on the WEB (To get that address please email womens-studies@wost.umass.edu. Nancy Patteson is the staff person to ask for in your post to get more detailed info about applications, etc. You can also call her at the Women's Studies office: 413-545-1922. Best Ann Ferguson Director, Women's Studies and Professor of Philosophy Women's Studies Box 30530 UMass, Amherst MA 01003-0350. email: ferguson@philos.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 14:25:56 +0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Michael P. Carroll" Subject: Job announcement The Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario has placed the following ad in several publications. I am re-posting it here since I think it might be of interest to people on this list: The Department of Sociology, The University of Western Ontario, invites applications for a tenure-track position, at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing July 1, 1997 or when the position is filled. Candidates must have a PhD. The position is in gender studies with research interests in modern sociology theory, social psychology, family or inequality. Undergraduate and graduate teachings are involved. The Department has a PhD program with emphasis on social demography, social class and social change, and health and aging. The closing date for applications is march 1, 1997. Interested candidates should send their curriculum vitae and names of three references to: Chair, Recruitment Committee, Department of Sociology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2. Positions are subject to budget approval. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada. The University of Western Ontario is committed to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the workplace, and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including women, members of visible minorities, aboriginal persons, and persons with disabilities. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 14:12:38 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan heald Subject: Girl-Child Prostitution In-Reply-To: <199701071756.MAA21274@asimov.oit.umass.edu> I am working with some Nicaraguan students who are interviewing girl prostitutes in their town. They are quite isolated and have asked me to help with reference materials dealing with child prostitution elsewhere. I would appreciate any suggestions, or materials that I could deliver there in mid-February. Materials written in Spanish would be especially appreciated. Please reply privately: heald@cc.umanitoba.ca Thanks. Susan Heald Women's Studies University of Manitoba Winnipeg ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 16:00:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: Membership data for women's organizations At 11:44 AM 1/7/97 -0500, you wrote: >I am working on a project in which I am trying to quantify the strength of >the women's movement in the United States. To do this I am using membership >data from women's oganizations, such as N.O.W. > >Does anyone know where I can find yearly membership statistics for >organizations from the first wave of the women's movement? I have seen >membership statistics for individual years for the National American >Women's Suffrage Association and the Federation of Women's Clubs, but I >would like yearly figures (or at least every 5 years). I would also like >membership information for Black women's clubs at that time. Does anyone >know if this information is available? > this is not going to be accurate. Many organizations are informal, grass roots, and don't have formal membership. the membership of the organization i helped start for instance which does some work with clinics and also has an escort service has a secret membership and mailing list because of the danger. You will learn little ab out the current strength of the women's movement from the big organizations, I am afraid. Marge Piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 16:00:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: web page With the help of a poet in Texas named Jackie Rosenfeld, i am setting up a web page for students writing papers on me, faculty doing research and people who want to study with me in a workshop setting. I have a few links to relevant sites on the web. Is there any others out there that I should have the web page linked to so that it may be even more useful for students & scholars? i have put bibliography of my work, of critical and academic studies, my schedule, relevant reference works, and so forth. If you have put anything on line about my work that you think would be useful, please reply privately Marge Piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 23:10:27 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Membership data for women's organizations In-Reply-To: DOnna, I wonder if this effort to "quantify" the strength of the women's movement -- as a movement, is even possible. For example, a lot of women who drew/draw their strength from the women's movement might never have been a member of a particular women's organization. Rather, they might have put their energies into other organizations or activities, such as peace efforts, environmental efforts, economic development issues, race and ethnic justice issues, education, health care, child and family care, and housing issues, and bring their commitment to women's issues to all of their other work. Also, a large number of women might be involved in such "movements" as Church Women United, which is not a membership organization as such, but which has a international and strong national support network. There are few names in terms of the total number of women who participate in activities and events sponsored by CWU; still many of these women also draw their strengh from the women's movement. Perhaps I'm suggesting that the question you are addressing might need to be rephrased, in terms of this broader connection to women's issues. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Donna Hughes wrote: > I am working on a project in which I am trying to quantify the strength of > the women's movement in the United States. To do this I am using membership > data from women's oganizations, such as N.O.W. > > Does anyone know where I can find yearly membership statistics for > organizations from the first wave of the women's movement? I have seen > membership statistics for individual years for the National American > Women's Suffrage Association and the Federation of Women's Clubs, but I > would like yearly figures (or at least every 5 years). I would also like > membership information for Black women's clubs at that time. Does anyone > know if this information is available? > > Thank you. > Donna Hughes > Carlson Chair > University of Rhode Island > dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 07:48:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauraine Leblanc Subject: educating about sexual assault Hello all. The local rape crisis center is starting an education program to educate youths (aged 12-22) about sexual assault and sexual assault prevention. I would like to know whether any of you have devised or encountered educational strategies (i.e. skits, exercises, discussion topics) that you have used in either your high school or college classes and which you have found to be particularly effective. I am interested in both large- and small-scale initiatives, large and small group strategies and both classroom and other settings. Please reply privately. If there is common interest, I will post the collected strategies to the list. Thank you! Lauraine Leblanc Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University lleblan@emory.edu "I am really too much of an anarchist to bother about all the trifling details; all I want is freedom, perfect, unrestricted liberty for myself and others." -Red Emma ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 09:51:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lee Ann Banaszak Subject: Membership in Women's Organizations I utilized yearly membership data from the National American Woman Suffrage Association in my recent book _Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunities, Culture and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage_ (Princeton U. Press, 1996). These data came from the treasurer's report in the Annual Proceedings of NAWSA. The membership figures are not completely accurate since they rely on self reports from the state organizations which sometimes misrepresented their membership to pay less dues or to gain more representation on the national board (Kraditor has a lengthy footnote on this in her book _Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement_). As far as I know there were no yearly figures for the National Woman's Party or for the predecessors of the NAWSA (the National Woman Suffrage Assoc. and th e American Woman Suffrage Assoc.). Marge Piercy's caution about using membership figures of the larger and more institutionalized groups as an indicator for the strength of the women's moveme nt is an important one though. There were many other women's groups in the first wave besides woman suffrage organizations. Lee Ann Banaszak ====================================================================== Lee Ann Banaszak Associate Professor Department of Political Science E-mail: LAB14@PSUVM.PSU.EDU The Pennsylvania State University FAX: 814/863-8979 107 Burrowes Building Telephone: 814/865-6573 or University Park, PA 16802 814/865-7515 ====================================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 10:11:59 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Film Review Added: The Preacher's Wife On Saturday, January, 4, 1997, I did a Summary of Best Feminist Films of 1996 on "The Women's Show," Tampa's womanist/feminist weekly radio show on WMNF-FM (88.5). This summary is now available from the FILM FILELIST. To obtain this review send the following command to Listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV194 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, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:27:35 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt In yesterday's New York Times (1/7/97) Gloria Steinem did a smashing review of the new Milos Forman film about Larry Flynt. It is bristling with outrage. I plan to use it for my one of my classes this semester. It is on the opinion page and should be accessible through the web. .......................... Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:37:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "D. Ewa Badowska" Subject: contact for Eva Hoffman? Greetings. A friend working on bilingual writers wishes to get in touch with Eva Hoffman, author of _Lost in Translation_ and _Exit into History_. Does anyone know how she can be contacted? Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give. Please reply privately to: deb1@cornell.edu Ewa Badowska ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:19:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chrys Ingraham Subject: position announcement (fwd) Comments: To: mult-cul@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu, afamhed@cwis-20.wayne.edu, afam-l@lists.missouri.edu, psn@csf.colorado.edu, matfem@csf.colorado.edu Comments: cc: Lisa Callahan , Maureen McLeod Russell Sage College for women, a member of The Sage Colleges, invites applications for a multi-year non-tenure track assistant professorship in Sociology, starting in Fall 1997. Applicants must be prepared to teach Introduction to Sociology, Research Methods (graduate & undergraduate), and Women and Health. Additional areas of teaching include two of the following: Sociology of Education, Marriage and the Family, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Gender, and Race and Ethnicity. The Sage Colleges are strongly committed to the recruitment of candidates who have been traditionally underrepresented on college faculties. Qualifications include Ph.D. in Sociology, evidence of teaching excellence, record of publication, and willingness to contribute to the college community. Russell Sage College is located on the Hudson River in Troy, NY, and is part of the Capital Region of New York. It is convenient to large urban centers such as Boston and New York City, as well as to outdoor areas such as the Catskill Mountains, the Adirondack State Wilderness Park, and the Green Mountains of Vermont. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names and addresses of 3 current references by Feb. 28, 1997 to: Sociology Search Chair, Dept. of Sociology & Criminal Justice Russell Sage College Troy, NY 12180 Lisa A. Callahan Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice Russell Sage College Troy, NY 12180 (518) 270-2278 CALLAL@SAGE.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:39:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem in the NYTimes Someone wrote to ask for the web address for the New York Times. I don't have access to the web from home so I am relying on my memory but if I recall correctly, it is http:\\www.nytimes.com ...................... Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 13:07:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Suzanne Hildenbrand Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem in the NYTimes In-Reply-To: <970108.124034.EST.PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU> I agree with Rosa Maria that the Steinem piece was great! How could anyone be glorified as a defender of the first amendment who displayed such cruelty to any life form but WOMEN! SH ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 13:59:21 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Stafford-Vaughan Subject: Searchable database of WS programs (fwd) Subject: Searchable database of WS programs (fwd) Background In 1990 National Women's Studies Association co-sponsored a directory of WS programs and library resources that brought together for the first time descriptive information on course offerings, degree options, faculty names with departmental affiliations, and library resources at over 400 U.S. institutions of higher education in the U.S. Now the University of Illinois (Urbana) Library, NWSA, and the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) are preparing an updated version of the directory which will be online as a relational database with Boolean search capabilities. That is, in addition to accessing names of individuals, courses, degree options, etc., this database/directory will make it possible to answer quickly and in one source such questions as which institutions in the Southwest offer courses in gender and geography. We need your input. Today, an online questionnaire for programs is available at the following: http:/www.grainger.uiuc.edu/wst/survey.htm You may respond online there. If you do not have access to a good Web browser such as Netscape, you can access the QUESTIONNAIRE VIA EMAIL via email at: wsprogs@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu We will email the survey via return email. You can then fill out the survey and return using the Reply function. This searchable database, which will be accessible at a number of Websites, will be updated periodically. (We will post an address later.) Later we will also contact others on our lists that might not have email. Direct questions to me, NOT to WMST-L --------------------------------------------------------------- Beth Stafford-Vaughan mailto:bstaff@uiuc.edu Women's Studies/WID Librarian Phone: 217-333-7998 University of Illinois Library Fax: 217-333-2214 1408 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61801 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 13:09:30 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Washington Subject: Re: educating about sexual assault In-Reply-To: I'd be interested in that information as well. Please reply privately. Thanks. PW ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:01:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: gnawratil Subject: Online Classroom Research: Request for Info Hello -- I've just started a doctoral progam in Adult Education, and am hoping this list might be of help in my search for resources, as well as to find others who are doing work in the area(s) I'm exploring. My research interest is computer-mediated communication (CMC), the 'online' classroom, and its use in Women's Studies, in particular. (While I have a background in feminist theory, I am taking my first online course this term, and the CMC literature is completely new to me!) I'm intrigued by the impact of technology on communication in the feminist classroom, and whether it lends itself to feminist pedagogy. I'm nowhere near formulating a question yet, but expect I'll want to look at some aspect of how marginalized groups experience agency and representation in the virtual classroom, and whether/how it differs from the conventional classroom experience. Any suggestions for sources that would be relevant, any empirical studies addressing these issues? Anyone doing research with a similar focus? Many thanks! Gabrielle Nawratil. = gnawratil@oise.utoronto.ca = ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:04:04 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Ezekiel Subject: Membership of feminist organizations I missed part of the discussion on this topic (computer was down). I hope this is still approprate. Using statistics from NOW is by no means sufficient to quantify movement involvement since at the national level it often meant sending in a check once a year. This may indicates sympathies, but not social movement involvement. In some cities, where NOW functioned as an activist group, membership takes on different meanings. Similarly, in some places, one would need to include certain activism in the YWCA, whereas elsewhere, the Y may not have connected with the movement at all. In my study of the women's movement in Dayton Ohio in the 1970s (city proper, some 250,000; half a million with urbanized area), I did try to quantify membership. To greatly simplify things, each of the four different feminist organizations studied, there tended to be a core group of some 30-40 women, with about 10-20 of them being nearly full-time activists. I'd say another hundred or so actively identified themselves as participants (for instance, during the period of CR groups, there is written evidence of six to ten groups at any given time each involving six to fifteen members). Membership criteria varied. For the group that required dues and a signed committment (a freedom of choice group), the largest figure for individual membership was 150, added to the many organizational members. Most groups, however, considered their mailing lists, consisting of people who had expressed interest, to be their membership list. The largest of these had some 2000 names. Phone calls and referrals were also useful. The earliest group got an average of 35 calls a week. The number of phone calls registered in the women's center logs was about 20,000 over some six years. Overlap was impossible to calculate. Using these, and several other indicators (events, demonstrations, contributions), I estimated that the women directly involved in, or effected by these groups went into the tens of thousands, not counting those who merely watched a television show or heard a speaker, but those who at least attended events, used services, or participated at some point. This, by the way, is a far higher number than NOW membership for Dayton. Regards Judith Ezekiel ************ ezekiel@univ-paris12.fr ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:29:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: web page So many people have asked me for the information on my web page for students and faculty when it is set up that i am posting the information on line. It exists now. The URL is www.capecod.net/~tmpiercy/ I would appreciate feedback on what could make it more useful, easier to use, whatever. Also more suggestions for relevant links. send feedback privately please Marge Piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:36:49 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Membership of feminist organizations snips from Judith Ezekiel's response.... >Using statistics from NOW is by no means sufficient to quantify movement >involvement since at the national level it often meant sending in a check >once a year. This may indicates sympathies, but not social movement >involvement. >there tended to be a core group of some 30-40 women, with about 10-20 of >them >being nearly full-time activists. I'd say another hundred or so >actively >identified themselves as participants got me thinking enough to add my perception.... There's a group of women such as myself that I'm not sure how you would "study" and could further skew your research. I have been a feminist for close to 20 years (I'm 41 now) and have done many forms of activism - mostly local organizing (much or it ad hoc), participation in events, demonstrations, petitions, rallies, education, writing, etc. To my recollection, I have NEVER officially joined any organization (national or local) that involved dues or official membership. (I have subscribed to a few local newsletters). I'd say my particiaption in a women's liberation *movement* has probably been more active than someone who simply sent dues into a national organziation such as NOW. In this sense, my active particiaption and contributions to a movement - and I take my work seriously - are "invisible" to attempts to come up with statistical evidences of movement participation. Mev WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:57:10 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MARGARET BARBER Subject: Re: Online Classroom Research: Request for Info In-Reply-To: Dear Gabrielle, I have forwarded your request to the Alliance for Computers and Writing discussion list and ask people to reply to you privately. A tremendous amount of work is going on in the field of computer-mediated composition by feminists right now. For starters, Read everything you can find by Cynthia Selfe and Gail Hawisher, who discuss the theoretical implications of CMC for women and diversity in general. Watch for the August, l997 issue of _Computers & Composition_, now going to press, which is a special issue on "Computers & Diversity" guest co-edited by Janice Walker, Laura Sullivan, and myself. It deals with many aspects of CMC and diversity of gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, class, age, and ethnicity. A future issue on Computers and Feminism is planned for l998 or l999, I believe, edited by Lisa Gerrard. If you can make it to the annual Computers & Writing Confence in Honolulu June 5-9, you can meet many of those doing seminal work in the field. I'd also recommend the computer/feminism sessions at Conference on College Composition and Communication in Phoenix March 12-15. Cynthia Selfe is program chair this year, If you cannot attend these in person, both maintain active online conferences so that you can participate -- and meet the people doing fundamental work in the field of your interest -- without leaving home. Let me know if need the URL's. Margaret Barber Assistant Professor of English University of Southern Colorado Pueblo, CO 81001 On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, gnawratil wrote: > Hello -- > > I've just started a doctoral progam in Adult Education, and am hoping > this list might be of help in my search for resources, as well as to > find others who are doing work in the area(s) I'm exploring. > > My research interest is computer-mediated communication (CMC), the 'online' > classroom, and its use in Women's Studies, in particular. (While I have a > background in feminist theory, I am taking my first online course this > term, and the CMC literature is completely new to me!) > I'm intrigued by the impact of technology on communication in the > feminist classroom, and whether it lends itself to feminist > pedagogy. > > I'm nowhere near formulating a question yet, but expect I'll want to look > at some aspect of how marginalized groups experience agency and > representation in the virtual classroom, and whether/how it differs from > the conventional classroom experience. Any suggestions for sources that > would be relevant, any empirical studies addressing these issues? Anyone > doing research with a similar focus? > > Many thanks! Gabrielle Nawratil. > = gnawratil@oise.utoronto.ca = > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:08:17 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Esther Skirboll Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt You wrote: > >In yesterday's New York Times (1/7/97) Gloria Steinem did a smashing >review of the new Milos Forman film about Larry Flynt. It is bristling with >outrage. I plan to use it for my one of my classes this semester. >It is on the opinion page and should be accessible through the web. > >.......................... > >Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu >University of Rhode Island >Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 >80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 >Kingston, RI 02881 > This is an excellent idea for anyone teaching women's studies courses. The article is well reasoned as well as passionate. I am also planning to use it as a basis for a discussion of women in the popular media as well as for pornography. One more thought. Don't support this film by spending your money to see it. I am encouraging others to pass it up. Esther Skirboll Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock Pa. 16057 esther.skirboll@sru.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 15:00:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: holzman Subject: Re: Kitchen Table The area code should probably be 718, which is Brooklyn, rather than 518, which is Albany. At 12:26 PM 1/6/97 -0800, Lisa McGowan wrote: >Hello, > >The address we have for them (current 1995) is: > > P.O. Box 40-4920 > Brooklyn,. NY 11240 > (518) 434-2057 > > > >At 11:35 AM 1/6/97 -0500, you wrote: >>does someone have current address and phone number for Kitchen Table: >>Women of Color Press? i have p.o. box 908, latham, ny 12110, and it was >>returned to me. thanks. >> >>linda anderson >> >>LLA@minerva.cis.yale.edu >> >> >Lisa McGowan >Feminist Bookstore News >2358 Market Street >San Francisco, CA 94114 >tel: (415) 626-2039 >fax: (415) 626-8790 >email: Lisa@FemBkNews.com > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:12:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: lesbian mothers/families photo project (fwd) Thought this message might be of interest to list members. Liora Moriel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Photograher and writer Barbara Seyda is working on a photo book project about lesbian families. She asked me to distribute this information. Please post it as widely as possible. The book will be called _From the Heart: Portraits of Lesbian Mothers & Their Families_. Seyda has been traveling around the U.S. photographing families and will be on the East coast in late Spring of this year. She would like to be put in contact with such families who would be comfortable being photographed. Some lesbian mothers already photographed by Seyda for this project include Beverly Little Thunder, a Lakota Sioux pipecarrier who lives in Arizona; Amana Johnson, an African-American sculptor in California; Ku'umealoha Gomes, a leading activist for native Hawaiian sovereignty rights in Hawai'i; and "Essence" editor Linda Villarosa, now expecting her first child. BIO NOTES: "Barbara Seyda is a photographer and writer living in Sedona, AZ. After receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers Univ. in 1982, she became Assistant Photo Editor for Stewart, Tabori & Chang in NY on their twelve-volume series, _The Smithsonian Guide to Historica America_. . . . From 1989 through 1991, she was a photojournalist and writer for _Outweek_. . . ." You can contact Barbara Seyda directly at: PO Box 10356 Sedona, AZ 86339 (520) 204-2940 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:16:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Feminist Teacher Subject: Re: Online Classroom Research: Request for Info On the issue of computers and feminist teaching: Feminist Teacher ran an article on distance learning, by Ellen Cronan Rose, in vol.9, number 2, and in past issues we've run articles by Suzanne Damarin on teaching and technology ("Would You Rather be a Goddess or a Cyborg?"). These articles will be reprinted in our anthology of the journal's "greatest hits," to be published by Teachers College Press in 1998. Anyone who is working on these issues and would like to write about her experience, please consider sending your articles to Feminist Teacher, at Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766. 3 copies, MLA style, please. Paula Krebs, for the Editorial Collective Feminist Teacher Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 Feminist_Teacher@WheatonMa.edu (508) 286-3732 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:42:29 -0500 Reply-To: ma_goldsmith@commnet.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Goldsmith Organization: Manchester Community-Technical College Subject: Bastard Out of Carolina (Movie) Did anyone see the Showtime movie "Bastard Out of Carolina?" I don't get Showtime and I heard very little conversation about it except for the troubles it had finding a home on tv. Would it be appropriate for a class on Violence Against Women? Does anyone know how to get a hold of it? Thanks for any thoughts or information. -- Diane Goldsmith Director, Transition and Women's Programs Manchester Community-Technical College Phone: 860 647-6056 e-mail: MA_Goldsmith@commnet.edu fax: 860 647-6238 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:01:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhea Cote Organization: University of Maine Subject: New Book Women's Studies This is a new book, regional, on older women. In order to be interviewed for the book the women had to be 80 years and older. - Introducing - "Old Women's Wisdom" A wonderful book about the life experiences of women with 80 plus years of living life to the fullest. Their stories of culture Franco-American, Acadian, Native American, Sweedish, and English language, isolation and economics are sure to intrigue and enlighten. The Women of this book are from Aroostook County, Maine and they give a genuine portrayal of the way life used to be for women growing up in "the County". (Aroostook County is the largest county west of the Mississsippi.) Read the women from these pages and learn why there has been much support for an important project like this. A book project supported by the Maine Women's Fund and developed by the Aroostook Area Agency on Aging, Presque Isle, Maine, USA. Part of the proceeds to aid disadvantaged women. $10.95 per book or audio cassette plus shipping & handling. Shipping & Handling: 1 book or audio $ 2.50 1-3 books or audios $ 3.25 3-6 books or audios $ 6.50 6-9 books or audios $ 9.75 9-12 books or audios $13.00 To order (Visa and Mastercard only), please phone (207) 764-3396 or Maine Toll Free 1-800-439-1789 or e-mail at . By snail mail, please write to: Aroostook Area Agency on Aging ATTN: Old Women's Wisdom 33 Davis Street Presque Isle, ME 04769 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:12:41 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Brigance Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt I read Steinhem's piece the morning after seeing The Crucible and could not help but notice the similiarities. I have not seen nor read Miller's play so don't know if my fury id directed at Hollywood, Miller, or all of the above. While the backdrop may be the witch trials in Salem, the story is an old Hollywood favorite....heroic man transcends the mess created for him by the virgin (his wife whose frigidity results in his lust for another female--a child in this case) and the whore (the sensual Winona Ryder.) To suggest that the witch trials were about two women fighting over Daniel Day-Lewis is an insult to all those women who were persecuted and died because they were WOMEN. When you think about the percentage of men who were victimized by the witch hunts compared to the percentage of women--it is an outrage that once again the whole story revolves around the "hero." Then last night I went to see Ghosts of Mississippi. Again, I don't know the "facts" of the story, but it seems as if, once again, the plot revolves around the nobel man (in this case ass't. prosecuting attorney of Mississippi) who risks personal and professional happiness to right a nearly 30 year wrong. Since, Myrlie Evers was a consultant for the film, I hesitate to critize the accuracy of the story...does anyone know whether the "hero" really deserved to be the center of this account of history (probably the first and only many will have of Medger Evers). I would really appreciate some feedback from others who have seen either of these films or know more about their origins than do I. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:36:32 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Eithne C. Foley." Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem in the NYTimes >I agree with Rosa Maria that the Steinem piece was great! How could anyone >be glorified as a defender of the first amendment who displayed such >cruelty to any life form but WOMEN! > I must have missed the start of this thread. WHat is the article? Is there any way I can get my hands on it? I'm a bit of a Steinim fan. Thanks. Eithne. Eithne C. Foley, Department Of Sociology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. E-mail: ecfoley@tcd.ie Phone: 353 1 677 1300 Fax: 353 1 608 1871 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:31:06 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karin Herrmann Subject: Gloria Steinem article Sorry to post this to everyone but I have just spend a very frustrating 2 hours trying to access the Steinem article on the web without success. If anyone has the dircet address ( I have the New York Times address), would you please post it? Thank you, kherrman2comp.uark.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:36:25 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan E. Starker" Subject: Hi Liora Liora, I can't remember but wasn't it you who had turned me on to using "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid. I'm hoping to use it in my class in a few weeks. If you've used it, let me know how it worked out. Thanks for sharing the information about the wonderful photo book project re: lesbian families. Take care, Joan JStarker@teleport.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:42:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: Bastard Out of Carolina (Movie) Comments: To: Diane Goldsmith In-Reply-To: <32D51FF5.1AB8@commnet.edu> I saw it and thought it was excellent. True to the novel, and to Dorothy Allison. I'd write her through her small press publisher -- Firebrand Books in Ithica NY. As for using it to teach, I'd say yes -- it's quite painful to watch the way women betray their daughters even though they love them. Poignant and hard to take but very important to discuss in classes on violence. And the brutality, subtle at first, of the stepfather. well, all of it. both kinds of issues come up. Female support/ male violence/family patterns. Class issues, education etc. The potentials are endless . . . Miriam K. Harris mharris@utdallas.edu On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Diane Goldsmith wrote: > Did anyone see the Showtime movie "Bastard Out of Carolina?" I don't > get Showtime and I heard very little conversation about it except for > the troubles it had finding a home on tv. Would it be appropriate for > a class on Violence Against Women? Does anyone know how to get a hold > of it? Thanks for any thoughts or information. > -- > Diane Goldsmith > Director, Transition and Women's Programs > Manchester Community-Technical College > Phone: 860 647-6056 > e-mail: MA_Goldsmith@commnet.edu > fax: 860 647-6238 > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:19:10 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Fighting for minority rights I was wondering whether it was appropriate to discuss this on the list, and since we are teachers and often teach about cultures other than our own, I think it is. This is a meditation on the general subject and not an personal attack on Linda Brigance. I wished to discuss it, however, because hers is a criticism I have heard leveled at the film _Ghosts of MIssissippi_ by a number of people. In her letter, Ms. Brigance makes the same criticism of the film that The Nation did: here we have another white guy at the center of a movie about black people's struggles. Doesn't Hollywood get it? I think it's very hard to film a story about a victim of violence without leav- ing all those who identify with that victim feeling that there is no hope. I saw a film some years ago on TV about Medgar Evers that ended with his assassination. It was heart-breaking; I came away from it feeling like there was no justice for non-white people. He was portrayed in heroic terms and he indeed deserved to be. A film-maker has a choice of the audience he wishes to target: In this case, is s/he telling the story of the valiant victim, of the Civil Rights Struggle through that victim, for black people and their children? Will the response of the few white Americans who see it be pity at the plight of the other, an "oh, gee, isn't it awful," and then perhaps to send a check to the NAACP if the white liberal guilt is strong enough? The victims are then "those people" and the rest of us can forget about them after a few hours. The utility of making a film that is targetted at the majority white audience with strong characterizations of the black characters is, in my opinion, that the villians are not all whites but rather those who are racist--even genteely--like the people in the country club, or the main character's own mother. To show a white man who goes against the tide and fights for the rights of the minority is a strong object lesson for change in our society. As minorities, we can fight for our rights, and fight for change, but without the cooperation of the majority culture, we will not get very far. All of the institutions of our society are set up for critical mass: One gets a voice if number of people is large enough to be heard, and seldom can the minority produce those numbers alone. Brown vs. Board of Education was decided in 1954--the year before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus; 11 years before Medgar Evers was mur- dered. It was a UNANIMOUS decision by the Supreme Court; it had been championed by a group of black attorneys led by Thurgood Marshall. That decision, by 9 white men, was a very controversial one not only for the substance of it, but also because it took into account sociological data about the effects of racism on black children. Yet more than forty years after _Brown_ we still have inequality in education. How does our society show its commitment to Civil Rights? How does it teach our children that racism is wrong? If we are lucky enough to have parents who abhor racism and work against it, that's a step in the right direction, but what about all those who don't? Is sending a yearly check to the NAACP or the Urban League enough? What about all those liberals out there who talk a good game but don't even do that? This film won't change the world but it is a step in the right direction. If makes young people think, if it makes some of them realize how the institutions are stacked against people of color, if it results in a few dozen people in every city in which it is shown deciding to become an attorney to fight for the rights of the disenfranchised, then it will do a world of good. The Civil Rights struggle isn't just for blacks or Latinos; we need everyone to be a part of it. Footnote: Some years ago, I worked on a campaign to elect Myrlie Evers to the Los Angeles board of supervisors or school board, I can't remember which it was. Whoopi Goldberg has portrayed her very much as I remember her. Rosie ................................................................ Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 14:52:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 queries from subscribers I am posting the following two queries from subscribers who are having problems posting messages. PLEASE RESPOND PRIVATELY to the addresses provided in the queries. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************** 1) hello all! i'm looking for up-to-date info on yemeni policies affecting women. specifically, their present social, political and religious status. what happens to women who are currently residing in yemen but refuse to adhere to their policies? info needed urgently for an up-coming refugee claimant case. thanks. please respond privately to: ar490@freenet.carleton.ca (Prema Oza) ***************************************************************** 2) I'm working on two related projects -- a legal literacy project for women and the American Women's Roundtable, a multi-media project to inform and connect women nation-wide. If anyone has an interest in either (or both) of these projects, please respond privately to -- Lorraine Pozzi femme2@scn.org BTW, these are both being planned by groups of very diverse, grassroots women organizers -- I am merely the Internet conduit -- and ideas/energy is welcome from all women. Details available upon request. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:24:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elisabeth Golding Subject: Ghosts of Mississippi I have not seen the film Ghosts of Mississippi, but I would strongly suggest starting with the book upon which it is based: Vollers, Maryanne. Ghosts of Mississippi : the murder of Medgar Evers, the trials of Byron de la Beckwith, and the haunting of the new South. Boston : Little, Brown, c1995. Beth Golding Florida State Archives egolding@mail.dos.state.fl.us ______________________________ Reply Separator_________________________ Then last night I went to see Ghosts of Mississippi. Again, I don't know the "facts" of the story, but it seems as if, once again, the plot revolves around the nobel man (in this case ass't. prosecuting attorney of Mississippi) who risks personal and professional happiness to right a nearly 30 year wrong. Since, Myrlie Evers was a consultant for the film, I hesitate to critize the accuracy of the story...does anyone know whether the "hero" really deserved to be the center of this account of history (probably the first and only many will have of Medger Evers). I would really appreciate some feedback from others who have seen either of these films or know more about their origins than do I. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:45:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Feminist Teacher Subject: publishers Any journal editors out there who are happy with their publishing arrangements? If so, please send me details privately. Thanks. Paula Krebs, for the Editorial Collective Feminist Teacher Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 Feminist_Teacher@WheatonMa.edu (508) 286-3732 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:31:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tamara Agha-Jaffar Subject: Re: Gender-related web sites Hello all, I received so many requests for gender/women related web sites that I thought it best to post the info to the list: Joan Korenman's Women's Studies/Gender web site: http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/links.html Winter 1996 issue of "Feminist Collections" has a lengthy colum of new websites,etc. URL for FEMINIST COLLECTIONS is http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm Univ. of Wisconsin's Women's Studies Librarian's Office web site: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Women's Studies Bobbi Kerlin's home page: http://bolt.lakeheadu.ca/~facedwww/Kerlin/home.html Scott Kerlin's home page: http://bolt.lakeheadu.ca/~facedwww/Scott/home.html Scott Kerlin's gender studies collection inside his library http://bolt.lakeheadu.ca/~facedwww/Scott/Library/gender.html Texas Woman's University web page: http/www.twu.edu Voice of the Shuttle: Gender studies page: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/gender.html I hope i got all my dots and slashes and whatnots in the right place. thanks to all of you who responded to my request. take care and all best, Tamara wskckcc@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:27:35 -0500 Reply-To: "Deborah A. Elliston" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah A. Elliston" Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project Comments: To: liora moriel In-Reply-To: What is her definition of "family"? "mothers/families" suggests she's relying on the normative heterosexual conception (no pun intended), which makes "family" contingent on the presence of children. If that's the case, I think it's a sad index of the extent to which normative patriarchal constructions of "family" (historically tied to property and inheritance laws, bloodlines, paternity, etc.) continue to pervade our lives: even when it comes to "lesbian families," "family" requires the presence of children. My wife and I _are_ a family, now, and will become only a larger one if we eventually choose to have children. Best, Deborah A. Elliston elliston@acf2.nyu.edu On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, liora moriel wrote: > Thought this message might be of interest to list members. > > Liora Moriel > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Photograher and writer Barbara Seyda is working on a photo book project > about lesbian families. She asked me to distribute this information. > Please post it as widely as possible. > > The book will be called _From the Heart: Portraits of Lesbian Mothers & > Their Families_. Seyda has been traveling around the U.S. photographing > families and will be on the East coast in late Spring of this year. She > would like to be put in contact with such families who would be comfortable > being photographed. > > Some lesbian mothers already photographed by Seyda for this project include > Beverly Little Thunder, a Lakota Sioux pipecarrier who lives in Arizona; > Amana Johnson, an African-American sculptor in California; Ku'umealoha > Gomes, a leading activist for native Hawaiian sovereignty rights in > Hawai'i; and "Essence" editor Linda Villarosa, now expecting her first > child. > > BIO NOTES: "Barbara Seyda is a photographer and writer living in Sedona, > AZ. After receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers Univ. in > 1982, she became Assistant Photo Editor for Stewart, Tabori & Chang in NY > on their twelve-volume series, _The Smithsonian Guide to Historica > America_. . . . From 1989 through 1991, she was a photojournalist and > writer for _Outweek_. . . ." > > You can contact Barbara Seyda directly at: > > PO Box 10356 > Sedona, AZ 86339 > (520) 204-2940 > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:35:26 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, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Correction: Film Review Added "10 Best of 1996" The subject line was wrong on the announcement of the new film review added a couple of days ago. It wasn't "The Preacher's Wife" it was my annual summary of the feminist films I liked best in the past year. It's number is FILM REV194 for those of you who deleted the message based on the misleading subject line. Sorry. Linda ********************************************* Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:17:23 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: Body Image Video Available Announcing... KILLING US FOR OUR OWN GOOD: DIETING AND MEDICAL MISINFORMATION What the diet industry doesn't want you to know about weight loss and your health. A Video Presentation by Dawn Atkins Sponsored by the Body Image Task Force The video has been remastered and is now available for sale. Includes a lecture by Dawn Atkins and music, "The Losing Game" by Cosy Sheridan. Topics covered include the success/failure rates of dieting, the possible side effects of weight loss, the current theories of weight and metabolism, examples of the way the media, insurance and diet industry manipulates medical research, the effects of discrimination on health and happiness, and ways that people can effect change. Unlike most documentaries, purchase of the video includes the right to show it publicly (as well as privately) for educational purposes including classrooms, meetings, workshops, and public access television. Running time is 1 hr. 45 min. Send check or money order for $19.95 plus $5 shipping and handling to Body Image Task Force, PO Box 934, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0934. All proceeds go to BITF for further distribution of the film. Dawn Atkins dawn-atkins@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:41:37 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: John Eckman Subject: ANNC: NEW LIST, modernism@u.washington.edu ****ANNC: Modernism: An Interdisciplinary Email Discussion List**** (Please circulate widely - apologies for duplications) mod*ern*ism (n): 1. Modern thought, character, or practice; sympathy with modern ideas, practices or standards. 2. Something, as a particular usage or style, that is characteristic of modern times. 3. The theory and practice of modern art. 4. An email discussion list. Modernism, , is a new electronic discussion list devoted to the discussion of modern culture in all its myriad forms. What does "Modernism" signify? What *is* Modernity, and how is it experienced and represented? What does it mean to *be* modern? To be anti-modern? post-modern? Subscribers from all disciplines are encouraged to join the conversation. What might modern political thought, modern architecture, modern literature, modern art, modern philosophy, modern history, modern anthropology have to say to each other? Modernism is an "open" list (anyone can subscribe), and is "moderated" only to prevent abusive attacks and unsolicited commercial postings. To subscribe: Address an email message to: listproc@u.washington.edu Leave the subject line blank, and write: subscribe modernism firstname lastname in the message body. (Of course, unless your name happens to be "firstname lastname," you should replace those blank signifiers with your own identity). For more information, contact: John Eckman Or visit: ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:54:53 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Ghosts out of Mississippi In-Reply-To: <009AE1A6.7E41C020.45@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu> I rarely watch late night talk shows, so don't know how I stumbled onto an interview with Whoppi Goldberg and Myrlie Evers the night "Ghosts of Mississippi" opened across the US, but both Whoppi and Myrlie both mention the importance of the "ghosts" film for the story that it tells -- that justice can come out of the evils of the racism of the south. Whoppi made two important points: 1) that the story is NOT about Medgar Evers, and those seeing it will benefit from knowing that ahead of time. (She also suggested that the Medgar Evers story deserves to be told in its own right, and urged someone one to do so.) 2) that Myrlie consulted with her and with the producers/director throughout the filming, and seemed pleased that the story of justice was told, and told well. Myrlie (who was present by phone interview only) confirmed this, and was full of praise and admiration for the manner in which Whoppi portrayed Myrlie in the film. She did allude to some difference of opinion among others in her family -- although she did not elaborate on this. Perhaps others saw this on one of the major network late night shows and can add another perspective. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 23:19:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: info re FAH and other women-related lists > Does anyone know how I should go about subscribing to CAAH at Princeton.Edu > (I have tried several different addresses and methods already), or how I > should enter my request to become part of FAH (Feminist Art History)? Many WMST-L readers may be interested to know that information about FAH and more than 200 other women-related e-mail lists is available both on the web (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/forums.html) and via e-mail (send the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you have web access, the web version is the one to use: it has a dozen topical sub-sections to make it easier to find lists on topics such as Arts & Humanities, Science & Technology, Sexuality/Sexual Orientation, etc. One all-purpose URL will take you to the "External Resources" section of the UMBC Women's Studies web site, where you'll find 1) the abovementioned listing of e-mail lists 2) a more selective listing of women's studies/women's issues web sites (mentioned earlier by Diana Scully [thanks, Diana, for the plug!]) 3) a listing of almost 200 WS programs' web sites around the world 4) the Source of All Wisdom (the WMST-L User's Guide) and more! The URL: http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/external.html Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:48:34 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bulgarian Society for Regional and Cultural Studies Subject: Field-research in the Russian Far North Is there anybody interested in field-research in the North of Russia, particularly Kola Peninsula (North-West Russia)? I have been working with the women in the semi-isolated, semi-nomadic reindeer-communities there for two years. Since I would like very much to continue, but the chances for a Bulgarian to apply for grant either in Bulgaria or abroad, are minimal, I would like to offer to those who are interested in how women experience the harsh nature of the North and how they respond to the post-totalitarian changes and the economic crisis, to make a joint-project. In this regard I am able to provide infrastructural help (accommodation, translation, etc.) and my own experience. I hope a possible collaboration will be more beneficial as academic work and will increase the opportunities for financial support. I'll appreciate any information that could help me. Thanks Petia Mankova Women's Studies Programme Bulgarian Society for Regional Cultural Studies (BSRCS) P. O. Box 59, BG-1233 Sofia, Bulgaria Telephone: (+359 2) 444 874 E-mail: bsrcs@sof. cit. bg ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:47:38 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Ezekiel Subject: Membership of feminist organizations In response to Mev Miller's saying her feminist activism was invisible ("mostly local organizing (much or it ad hoc), participation in events, demonstrations, petitions, rallies, education, writing, etc. ... NEVER officially join(ing) any organization (national or local) that involved dues or official membership. (I have subscribed to a few local newsletters)), it adds to my argument that NOW membership is grossly inadequate when trying to quantify movement involvement. However the method I described in my last message would certainly have included her, since since her name would have appeared in numerous lists. Regards Judith Ezekiel ************ ezekiel@univ-paris12.fr ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 08:20:52 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: Membership of feminist organizations Re: "invisible" movement membership. Does this issue not say to anyone that we *should* join organizations, if in name/dues only, to build our apparent strength? It makes it harderr for politicians to say, "We can disregard NOW -- it only speaks for XXX thousand people." ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:18:34 +0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Alice Subject: Cancer of cervix research Does anyone have information about recent research and treatment of cancer of the cervix please - I'm particularly interested in news of WWW sites, please respond privately. Lynne Alice Women's Studies @ Massey University, Private Bag 11-222 Palmerston North, New Zealand, tel. 64 6 350 4938 fax 64 6 350 5627 We offer excellence in teaching flexible courses and a friendly environment ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:29:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "David F. Austin" Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt In-Reply-To: <199701091608.IAA21924@dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com> Rosa Maria Pegueros wrote >In ... [the] New York Times (1/7/97) Gloria Steinem did a smashing >review of the new Milos Forman film about Larry Flynt. It is >bristling with >outrage. I plan to use it for my one of my classes this semester.... Interesting and provocative supplementary material can be found in: Kipnis, Laura. _Bound and gagged: pornography and the politics of fantasy in America_ (New York : Grove Press, 1996) or in Kipnis's essay in: _Cultural studies_, edited, and with an introduction, by Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Paula A. Treichler, with Linda Baughman and assistance from John Macgregor Wise. (New York: Routledge, 1992). David. David F. Austin Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy and Religion NCSU, Raleigh, NC ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:59:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: New interviews series on International Development (fwd) Greetings - I am working on a new project comprising a series of interviews on development and globalization. Although it has a focus on the Americas, many issues are global. The project is in progress, so interviews are being published in sets. The press release follows below. More interviews to follow as well as translations. Interviews are easy to read and current. They can be a valuable resource for both students and the general public and all materials are free for public reading. Sincerely, Vera Britto =============================================================================== ======== - "Talking about Development" - An interview series on development issues by Vera Britto "Talking about Development" is an interview series where seasoned professionals, politicians, grassroots activists, and others, talk about what is "development" and how their work fits in with the larger social, political, and economic framework of the world we live in and the goals they seek. Topics covered reach out in the vast realm of "development" which include, but are not restricted to, health, human rights, Platform for Action, women's rights, reproductive rights, education, economic, and social rights, foreign relations, international and national politics, citizenship and democracy, the environment, etc. These current interviews mix personal and macro politics experiences to delve into the complex dynamics of the world we live in. Interviews will be published grouped in different sets. The first set of interviews published include: - Celita Eccher - REPEM - Uruguay - Latin American popular education, gender inequality - Carolyn Elliot -AWID/ Ass. of Women in Development - USA - globalization, the challenge of women organizing globally - Sandra Moran - CIEP - Guatemala - the peace process, 14 years of exile, gender inequality, racism - Magaly Pineda - CIPAF - Dominican Republic - Latin American social movements, gender inequality - Maria Elvira Salles - House of Representatives - Brazil - 20 years of Brazilian politics - Stephanie Seguino - Univ. of Vermont - USA - a fascinating look at South Korea's economy - Vandana Shiva - The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy - India - Globalization, intellectual property rights, environmental and gender politics - Catherine Renno - IWED - fair trade, funding , women organizing globally - Jonathan Pitts - PAPDA - Haiti, development, agriculture - Ofelia Calcetas-Santos - United Nations - child prostitution, pornography and trafficking, plight of children - Peggy Antrobus - Barbados - women's movement, militarism "TD" is available at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~fiatlux/td/ Interviews are in their original language (English, Spanish, or Portuguese). Bilingual translations to being published in 1997. Vera Britto (fiatlux@umich.edu - http://www.umich.edu/~fiatlux) ........................................................................... Le Bret: Si tu laissais un peu ton ame mousquetaire, la fortune et la gloire... Cyrano: Et que faudrait-il faire? Chercher un protecteur puissant, prendre un patron, et, comme un lierre obscur que circonvient un tronc et s'en fait un tuteur en lui lechant l'ecorce, grimper par ruse au lieu de s'elever par force? Non, merci! Non, merci! Non, merci! Mais... chanter, rever, rire, passer, etre seul, etre libre... oui. "Cyrano de Bergerac" - Edmond Rostand ---2129131240-1192879873-850098905=:34092-- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:04:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: query - women and the law I am posting this for a friend who is not on-line. Please resond privately and I will pass it along. If there is some interest, I will post it back to the list. A friend, writing about women and child support decisions in the Canadian context has been advised of a body of literature around the following quote: "In the halls of justice, justice is done in the halls". She has had no luck finding the source of the quote and cannot find responses to it. Can anyone help? As well, she would like to know if there are plans for forthcoming publications from the conference that took place at Yale (November 8-10, 1996) 'Challenging Boundries'. I have misplaced the e-mail address of the conference organiser, Monika Vasil. Thanks in advance, Katherine Side klside@YorkU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:45:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: Baltimore Conference Committee Comments: To: power Hi, If there is anyone else who would like to join the committee that is organizing the 1998 Association for Women in Psychology Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, please e-mail me. We have a meeting at UMCP on Sunday. Thanks! Lynn Collins Division of Applied Psychology and Quantitative Methods University of Baltimore (410) 837-5283 Lcollins@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:50:34 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Eisenberg Subject: Re: Ghosts out of Mississippi I think that Linda Brigance's point is well presented and represents a keen and astute reading of the movie. Once again we are presented with a representation of historical events where the holier-than-an-angel protag- onist is a white male. If we were to rely on the mass media, in all forms, for information about AMerican society, we would learn that white men are the only people who create history and maintain order in our world. Of course, there are a few bad eggs among them, but only the white man can conquer such evil!!!!! Anne E. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:55:27 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: virginia borden Subject: movies In-Reply-To: <009AE26C.91DF0AE0.15@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu> As long as we're talking about movies, I'd thought I'd share this gem culled from a recently shown late night Elvis movie, "Kid Gallahad" "Always be courteous to broads!" -character played by Charles Bronson ------------------------------ Virginia Borden Biology Department University of Minnesota-Duluth vborden@d.umn.edu ------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:24:30 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Robin L. Murray" Subject: gender I am writing to request information concerning an article written about the writing of the entry on "gender" for Keywords. If you knwo where I could find the article, could you please send me the bibliographical information privately. I'm Robin Murray and my e-mail address is RMurray@Sosu.edu. Thanks! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:16:17 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry Walker Subject: women and power conference WOMEN AND POWER Women's Studies Conference, February 21-22, 1997 Middle Tennessee State University CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS Friday: 8:45 a.m. First of three feminist film presentations Noon Conference luncheon; performance of Devoted, a one act play by Claudia Barnett 1:30 p.m. Carol Gilligan, keynote, KUC theater 7:00 p.m. XICANISMA: La Plabra Brava, a multimedia presentation the illuminates the diversity, lives, histories, and struggles of Chicanas, performed by Debra Gallegos, Yolanda Ortega- Ericksen, and Rebecca Salinas 8:30 p.m. Reception, Garden Plaza Hotel Saturday 9:45 a.m. Misha No'gha, featured speaker, KUC 11:30 a.m. Workshop I: A Guided Mediation, Relaxation, and Box Lunch, JUB 2:45 a.m. Workshop II: Women in cyberspace: a demonstration on using the internet for Women's Studies Research Speaker/Artist Profiles Carol Gilligan, keynoter, is a professor of Education at Harvard University where she teaches courses on the psychology of adolescence and on clinical interviewing as a method of inquiry; she also teaches an advanced seminar on moral development and education. Misha No'GHa, featured speaker, is a writer, musician, and subsistence farmer who raises draft horses. Her prose has recently appeared in the Native author collection Blue Dawn, Red Earth; she is also the author of two collections of short fiction (Ke-Qua-Hawk-As and Prayers of Steel) and the award-winning novel Red Spider White Web. Linda Badley, coordinator and moderator of the Feminist Film Series, is a professor of English and Women's Studies at MTSU. She is the author of Film Horror, and the Body Fantastic and Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice. Claudia Barnett, author of Devoted, is an assistant professor of English at MTSU. Several of her plays have won national contests and have been performed in New York. Debra Gallegos, Yolanda Ortega-Ericksen, and Rebecca Salinas, each an artist in her own right, collaborate to produce XICANISMA: La Plabra Brava (The Fiery Voice). Ms. Gallegos works with the Colorado Department of Transportation, Civil Rights Division; Ms. Ortega-Ericksen is dean of student life at Metropolitan State College of Denver; Ms. Salinas is a counselor for the Student Development Center at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Details Accommodations and Travel: By air-Nashville, Tenn., has the closet airport to Murfreesboro. By car-Murfreesboro is on Interstate 24, approximately 30 miles south of Nashville or 90 miles north of Chattanooga, Tn. Shuttle Service: Shuttle Service from Nashville International Airport can be arranged through Anytime Transportation, Inc., at (615) 893-7611 (or 1-800-ANYTIME). Mention the Women and Power Conference to obtain the conference roundtrip rate of $45 round trip. We will provide complimentary shuttle between the Garden Plaza Hotel and MTSU throughout the conference. Parking: Parking is limited on campus. If you bring a car, you will need a permit. Indicate that you will need a permit on your registration and a permit (and campus map) will be sent to you. Spaces are reserved for conference participants at the Tennessee Livestock Center Parking Lot, reached via Greenland Drive. (shuttle service from there to KUC). Lodging: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Garden Plaza Hotel, 1850 Old Fort Parkway, Murfreesboro, TN 37129 (615/895- 5555, ext. 166; FAX 615/895-5555, ext. 169). Conference rates are $64.00, 1-4 people, for king or double/double. Rates for February 21-22 are guaranteed through January 15, 1997. You are responsible for making your own reservations. Alternative Lodging: For information on limited opportunities for low-cost housing and roommates contact Women's Studies Director Jackie Eller by January 15: (615) 898-5910 or jaeller@frank.mtsu.edu. Registration Information: Contact Dr. Mary Magada-Ward Philosophy Dept. MTSU Box 73 Murfreesboro, TN 37132 (615)898-5174(2907) FAX (615) 904-8085 e-mail mmagada@frank.mtsu.edu Registration cost: $45.00 non-student ($55.00 on site) $15.00 student/unemployed ($20.00 on site) $10.00 conference luncheon please indicate if vegetarian or other dietary needs $ 5.00 Saturday Workshop 1 includes box lunch Saturday's Workshop 2 (no fee, must reg.) Parking sticker (no fee) Make checks payable to MTSU Women's Studies Program. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:20:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patrice McDermott Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt In-Reply-To: Thanks, David--you are a braver soul than I am. I think the Kipnis analysis of Flynt/Hustler is powerful--& truly feminist. I have not yet been able to get the Steinem piece, but I doubt it has the same take as Kipnis! When I find it, I will use _both_ pieces for my class--what about you, Rosa? Patrice Patrice McDermott patricem@CapAccess.org On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, David F. Austin wrote: > Rosa Maria Pegueros wrote > > >In ... [the] New York Times (1/7/97) Gloria Steinem did a smashing > >review of the new Milos Forman film about Larry Flynt. It is > >bristling with > >outrage. I plan to use it for my one of my classes this semester.... > > Interesting and provocative supplementary material can be found in: > > Kipnis, Laura. > _Bound and gagged: pornography and the politics of fantasy > in America_ (New York : Grove Press, 1996) > > or in Kipnis's essay in: > > _Cultural studies_, edited, and with an introduction, by > Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Paula A. Treichler, with > Linda Baughman and assistance from John Macgregor Wise. > (New York: Routledge, 1992). > > David. > > > David F. Austin > Associate Professor of Philosophy > Department of Philosophy and Religion > NCSU, Raleigh, NC > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:38:24 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project Comments: To: "Deborah A. Elliston" In-Reply-To: Yes, the notion that "family" includes children is not to my taste or politics either! That's why I'm trying to introduce the concept of "the family of one." It's a concept whose time has come, though in workshops I held on "my" idea a year and two ago it was received with skepticism. The idea is simple: why should there be a minimum number of people for the definition "family"? Why is the concept of two parents and two children the normative one? In this age of transition both in medical terms (sperm and egg donors etc.) and human terms (divorce, reallignment, shifting sexual orientations, proliferation of single adults) why is the family paradigm something that now actually exists for only a few? So: why not a continuum between the family of one (a single adult living alone and not necessarily looking to be "completed" by a partner and/or child/ren) and the extended family (blood and/or choice)? I'm eager to hear comments and suggestions for rethinking the family. BTW, I was strangely not unhappy with DOMA (although I'm a lesbian in a long-term partnership with a woman I love) because while it defined "marriage" as a heterosexual union of man and woman it failed to do two things: it did not define "man" and "woman" AND it did not insert the need for children. Liora Moriel PS: Deborah, if you reject patriarchal concepts of family as needing children for definition, why stop there? Why defione your partner as "wife"? ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 07:42:45 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Esther Skirboll Subject: recommendations on women's history book I am seeking recommendations on the following books dealing with the 19th century women's movement. The book chosen will be the only one read on this topic, and should be for a general adult readership, not students -True Love and Perfect Women by Wm Leach -The Other Civil War by Catherine Clinton -The Limits of sisterhood by Boydston -Plow Women Rather Than etc, by Schramm I apologize for incomplete references or errors, as I copied the list rather quickly for a friend Please reply to me personally, and thank you Esther Skirboll Slippery Rock university esther.skirboll@sru.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:16:33 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Film Review Added: Michael On Saturday, January 11, 1997, I reviewed "Michael" on "The Women's Show," Tampa's womanist/feminist weekly radio show on WMNF-FM (88.5). This review is now available from the FILM FILELIST. To obtain this review send the following command to listserv@UMDD (Bitnet) or listserv@umdd.umd.edu (Internet): GET FILM REV195 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, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 14:44:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gail Dines Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt I have read Kipnis' work and found her analysis to be one that falls into the marketing trap that Flynt set to promote Hustler. In order to distinguish it from Plby and PH, Flynt marketed his magazine as one geared to working class men who cannot live at the standard dictated by Playboy. He has said in interviews that his magazine is for the "Archie Bunkers" of America who like "no frills" porn. In actuality, the cartoons trade on the most classist stereotypes of working class man who drink beer all day, and have as much trouble sustaining an erection as they do a job. The actual readeship of Hustelr earns on average $36, 000 per year (the same as Plby) and is described as "strongly middle class" in his material geared to advertisers. The marketing ploy here is to suggest that the magazine is geared to working class men in order to attract men who see themselves as middle class but interested in seeing what the deviant working class actually do for sex. This allows the reader to buy the magazine while not seeing himself as the intended reader of what is classed as a sleazy mag. The reader can thus, for the duration of reading the magazine, be privy to the workings of a social class that he does not identify with. Flyn is no working-class hero, the magazine ridicules poor whites, and blacks, and of course white women and women of color. Typical of of mainstream media, Flynt and Hustler are elevated to guardians of free speech and pornogprahy is cleansed of its sexist, classist and racist content. Gail Dines, WHE_FlO.ORG ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 15:11:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maria Bevacqua Subject: Readings on women's history Can anyone out there suggest good readings on women's history that are geared toward a general, nonacademic readership? A friend who recently had a baby girl is worried that when her daughter goes to school, she will be subjected to inaccurate or incomplete historical information, based on middle class white males as the norm. She and her husband want to be able to provide a more complete picture to their daughter to offset this potential problem. They are not academics, and they are looking for GENERAL books (ie, something on women's labor history in the late 18th century would be less than useful to them). They're not looking for children's books, but books that they can read, sort of as a primer on women's history that will equip them with the kind of knowledge they can pass on to their child. I've already suggested Sara Evans, BORN FOR LIBERTY and Paula Giddings, WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER. Further suggestions are welcome. Please respond off-list. Maria Bevacqua mbevacq@emory.edu Institute for Women's Studies Emory University Atlanta, GA ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 15:59:42 -0500 Reply-To: Kimberly Springer Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly Springer Subject: Anthology on Black Women's Contemporary Activism Call for papers for an edited volume on African American Womens Activism Since the Civil Right Movement I am seeking unpublished essays which address the continuity of African American womens activism since the end of the Civil Rights Movement. Recognizing that African American women have been leaders in numerous U.S. social movements (e.g. anti-slavery, suffrage, racial uplift, civil rights). The purpose of this volume is to demonstrate Black womens involvement in contemporary U.S. social movements since the late 1960s. This volume hopes to appeal to, but is not limited to, the following fields: womens studies, African American studies, ethnic studies, American Studies, history, sociology, and performance studies. This volume also endeavors to bring together up-and-coming scholars/activists with already established scholars/activists. Recognizing that these topics are not mutually exclusive, suggested topics include Black women and: * the Black Power/Liberation Movement * Third Wave feminism * student movements * feminist organizing * lesbian organizing * labor organizing * economic justice * womens health * HIV/AIDS activism * religious activism * environmental racism * grassroots/local activism * activism in academia * struggles with/within the U.S. government. Essays should be 20-25 pages (including references and tables). Please send a self-addressed stamped envelope, a curriculum vitae/resume and a 200-word abstract by April 1, 1997 to: Kimberly Springer Institute for Womens Studies 301S Calloway Center Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322. Essays accepted for inclusion will be due by July 1, 1997. Questions? Email address: kspring@emory.edu. ***PLEASE POST TO OTHER LISTS, ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTERS, ETC.*** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 14:40:10 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project At 09:38 PM 1/10/97 -0500, you wrote: >Yes, the notion that "family" includes children is not to my taste or >politics either! That's why I'm trying to introduce the concept of "the >family of one." It's a concept whose time has come, though in workshops I >held on "my" idea a year and two ago it was received with skepticism. >The idea is simple: why should there be a minimum number of people for the >definition "family"? Why is the concept of two parents and two children >the normative one? In this age of transition both in medical terms (sperm >and egg donors etc.) and human terms (divorce, reallignment, shifting >sexual orientations, proliferation of single adults) why is the family >paradigm something that now actually exists for only a few? >So: why not a continuum between the family of one (a single adult living >alone and not necessarily looking to be "completed" by a partner and/or >child/ren) and the extended family (blood and/or choice)? >I'm eager to hear comments and suggestions for rethinking the family. BTW, >I was strangely not unhappy with DOMA (although I'm a lesbian in a >long-term partnership with a woman I love) because while it defined >"marriage" as a heterosexual union of man and woman it failed to do two >things: it did not define "man" and "woman" AND it did not insert the need >for children. > > >Liora Moriel > >PS: Deborah, if you reject patriarchal concepts of family as needing >children for definition, why stop there? Why defione your partner as >"wife"? > >While there is no question that the traditional definition of the family is much too narrow to describe the kinds of groupings we have today, the problem I have with saying that one person can constitute a family, is that it leaves no room for what is NOT a family. Thus the term family loses any meaning. I live alone and have for some time but, especially at holidays and on weekends, I KNOW I'm not a family. There is no one I can make legitimate demands (OK requests-legitimate is the key word) on for company or interaction.One lion is not a pride of lions. One fish is not a school of fish. Perhaps as a sociologist I see family as people or a person whom you can make legitimate requests to when you are sick, when your car gives up in traffic, (OK so AAA is my family) . We use words like norms, reciprocity etc. Singly, Pauline ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 18:49:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellie Amico Subject: Re: Readings on women's history I'd suggest anything by Gerda Lerner, especially her series Creation of Patriarchy and Creation of Feminist Consciousness. Ellie Amico ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 19:42:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carmen Poulin Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project I would like to echo Pauline Bart's suggestion that calling one individual a family renders the word family meaningless (I do not even have much of a sense of my partner and me forming a family; we form a "couple." When we speak of our families, we speak of siblings and parents but that might be because we both come from large French Canadian families). I think the real issue concerns "legal rights" a family share between its members. Because of these rights, benefits, and responsibilities, we have fought to enlarge the definition of family (e.g. the Mossop(sp??) case in Ottawa). Beyond those legal aspects, I do not know whether it really matters what we call "a family" above and behond what Pauline said. I am interested in this thread because I teach a course where the concept of family is discussed. The present discussion may influence how I bring up the topic, and what sort of questions I invite students to discuss. Therefore, I would like to see this discussion continue, and if anyone has had good or bad experiences in the classroom to share, I would like to hear about those either privately, or on the list if appropriate. Carmen Carmen Poulin, Ph.D. Associate Professor Psychology Dept. University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B. Canada E3B 6E4 Tel: (506)453-4707 Fax: (506)453-4505 e-mail: carmen@unb.ca ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 23:56:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Edvige Giunta Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project Qunato sei sperto! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 00:46:53 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project Comments: To: liora moriel In-Reply-To: Recognizing that family constellations and understandings of who makes up a family is changing, the whole definition of family was raised and left open for inclusivity in preparation for and during the United Nations sponsored 1994 International Year of the Family (IYF). IYF holds significance because it provides opportunity to address issues of family in terms of public policy, practices and procedures in government, business and other institutions. The idea of one person being a family is not new. It is a concept I mention in my own work with family, dating back to mid 1970's. peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:14:30 +0200 Reply-To: Marilyn Safir Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Safir Subject: Forwarded mail.... Comments: To: alef , WISE For those of you who may have had some questions about the status of women in Israel, the following should be of interest to you. Marilyn *************************************************************************** * Marilyn P. Safir, PhD Internet: msafir@psy.haifa.ac.il * * Associate Professor Telephone: 972-4-8240929/21w 8245223/022h * * Department of Psychology Fax: 972-4-8240966 * * UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA Telex: 46660 UNIHA * * Haifa 31905, Israel * *************************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 09:28:03 +0218 From: Aviva Dankner To: msafir@psy.haifa.ac.il Globes-Jan. 10, 1997 MarilynI translated this article from Globes, which was excerpted from Yediot Ahronot: "FEMALE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT AGENCY RECEIVES LOWER PAY THAN MALE COUNTERPARTS Not only women in regular jobs receive lower salaries than men performing identical work; this holds true for heads of government agencies When the head is a woman she receives a lower salary than male heads of similar government agencies. This conclusion was reached after a investigation of Yediot Ahronot, and this finding was countenanced by the speaker for Finance Department. However, he claimed that this was not a case of sex discrimination , but rather technical differences. The case refers to the head of Environmental Agency; Nehama Ronen, who is the only woman head of all thirteen governmental agencies. . She was named to this post last summer. The only other woman director is Nili Arad, who is a permanent government worker, and her salary as director of the Judicial department is connected to the salary of district judges. The salary of the 12 male directors of government agencies is 21,858 shekels gross per month, while Ronen's salary is 931 shekels less or 20,927 per month. As all governmental agency directors shall receive an increase of 3.34% this month, the difference between Ronen's salary and her male counterparts will grow by 31 shekels, to 962 shekels this month. Nehama Ronen replied: "I was not aware that I receive almost 1000 shekels less a month than the male other directors, but I am definitely not surprised". Aviva. Aviva ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 07:37:21 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith E. Harper" Subject: Membership in women's organizations Since postings on this topic strayed far afield from Donna Hughes's original request for membership pertaining to first-wave women's organizations, I thought I'd share a fascinating article which relates to list discussion concerning membership in recent and contemporary women's organizations. PREDICTORS OF RANK-AND-FILE FEMINIST ACTIVISM: EVIDENCE FROM THE 1983 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY. Dauphinais, Pat Dewey; Barkan, Steven E., and Cohn, Steven F. in SOCIAL PROBLEMS 1992 39 (4): 332-344. This study uses data from a nationally representative sample to identify predictors of rank-and-file feminist activism by women in the US. Judith Harper Writer, Independent Scholar jeharper@ziplink.net ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 10:16:40 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Molinda S Laux Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project Carmen, I am also interested in seeing this thread continue as I am currently teaching Sociology of the Family. With a class of 32 seniors in primarily rural, midwestern setting I think it is essential to address diverse concepts of what family means. In fact, last week we created our "class" definition of family. I will be glad to share that if anyone is interested, Blessed Be! Molinda Lauxmiller ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 09:00:40 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MARGARET BARBER Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project In-Reply-To: <19970112.102244.8670.1.molinda@juno.com> Molinda, I would be most interested in the definition of family your class came up with, for my class to discuss. My English comp II (content emphasis on gender issues) class tossed this around and around last semester when the Colorado courts were deciding what to do about legalizing gay marriage, and the legislature promises to pick up the topic this session. Our town is a Democratic stronghold in the state, but it's just 40 miles down the road from Colorado Springs, home of Amendment 2, Will Perkins and Colorado for Family Values, and just a little farther from the stomping grounds of the founding father of Promise Keepers. Our Interstate even has an official tax-funded exit sign for the Focus on the Family headquarters, sort of a family-values theme park. Many of our students commute from C. Spgs., after being bombarded by reactionary propaganda insisting that "the family is a mommy, a daddy, and their children," and "homosexuals can't have families -- in fact, they shouldn't be homosexuals at all because it's sinful and letting them think they can have families makes a mockery of marriage and what families are really all about," blah, blah, blah ad infinitum. Actually, the public debate on this is a gift to a teacher trying to get first-year students to think about the nature of and different approaches to definition, of how they and others construct it, and how other terms like "gender" or ideas of "gender roles" were never defined in stone by god or any of her messengers. Margaret Barber Dept. of English University of Southern Colorado Pueblo, CO 81001 On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Molinda S Laux wrote: > Carmen, I am also interested in seeing this thread continue as I am > currently teaching Sociology of the Family. With a class of 32 seniors > in primarily rural, midwestern setting I think it is essential to > address diverse concepts of what family means. In fact, last week we > created our "class" definition of family. I will be glad to share that > if anyone is interested, > > Blessed Be! > > Molinda Lauxmiller > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 10:26:44 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ines Shaw Subject: women's studies nowadays I've been working on an upcoming talk about how women's studies is currently doing in the U.S., and I thought it would be good to gather some personal thoughts. If you are interested in sharing your thoughts on this subject, or if you feel that there are some things that need to be said or included, please reply privately to ishaw@badlands.nodak.edu. Thank you! Ines. Ines Shaw e-mail: ishaw@badlands.nodak.edu Linguistics & Women's Studies work: 701-231-9632 North Dakota State University fax: 701-231-1047 & Tri-College University ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:50:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah A. Elliston" Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project In-Reply-To: <199701112342.TAA18907@unb.ca> In response to the several listmember's who want to develop this thread for pedagogical purposes, I want to offer some anthropological perspectives on "family." Once upon a time, even the cross-cultural (anthropological) definition of "family" was contingent on the Euroamerican heterosexual nuclear family model: husband, wife, children. The legacy of that model continues to result in the coherence of the quite common term, "extended family," in which modifiers like "extended" are viewed as necessary in order to modify the assumed/ normative nuclear family. It really wasn't until the 1970s that the nuclear model family underwent significant revision in anthropology. And, even now, anthropological concepts of the family tend to rely on the remarkably resilient assumption that families require children. "Family" is, however, usually treated, by anthropologists, along with "kinship," and I've found the cross-cultural study of family and kinship extremely useful, politically and pedagogically, for getting American students to think more critically about the patriarchal, heteronormative meanings of "family" in this society. In the "family and kinship" course I teach, we study the practices of kinship and the different forms familial structures take in a variety of societies (Taiwanese, South Indian, Micronesian, Polynesian, and others). I teach the course as a feminist anthropology course, so we study these different family and kinship forms with an eye towards analyzing how each differentially structures and affects, provides openings for and closures to, women's sources of power and prestige. Denaturalizing the American kinship systems has proved a powerful way, in my experience, of getting students to think more generously about other societies (instead of dismissing other familial form as "wrong" or "bad), as well as more critically about their own. I use Kath Weston's wonderful ethnography of lesbian and gay kinship (_Families We Choose_ [NY: Columbia U.P., 1991]) towards the end of the course, along with showing Jenny Livingston's film, "Paris is Burning," to bring home the contested and ideological nature of "family" in American society, and the many family forms Americans presently practice. There are many other excellent studies of American kinship, valuable for helping ourselves and our students to think more critically about the ideological nature, and our own ideological investments, in the nuclear family model. Here are some recommendations: Collier, Jane and Sylvia Yanagisako. 1987. _Gender and Kinship_. Stanford: Stanford U.P. di Leonardo, Micaela. 1984. _The Varieties of Ethnic Experience: Kinship, Class, and Gender among California Italian-Americans. Ithaca: Cornell U.P. Ginsburg, Faye D. 1989. _Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community._ Berkeley: U of Califoria Press. Ginsburg, Faye and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (eds.). 1990. _Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture_. Boston: Beacon Press. [includes articles on the challenges new reproductive technologies pose to American constructions of family and kinship] Stacey, Judith. 1990. _Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late 20th Century America_. NY: Basic Books. Thorne, Barrie wit Marilyn Yalom (eds.) 1982. _Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions_. NY: Longman. Weston, Kath. 1991. _Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship. NY: Columbia U.P. Yanagiskao, Sylvia and Carol Delaney (eds.). 1995. _Naturalizing Power_. NY: Routledge. Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko. 1985. _Transforming the Past: Tradition and Kinship Among Japanese Americans_. Stanford: Stanford U.P. Deborah A. Elliston Dept. of Anthropology New York University elliston@acf2.nyu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 13:09:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Krista Scott Subject: Re: movies How about this little prize, from "The Saint" with Roger Moore: "We have a rule on this ship. No beating of women--in public." At 11:55 AM 10/01/97 -0600, Virginia Borden wrote: >As long as we're talking about movies, I'd thought I'd share this gem >culled from a recently shown late night Elvis movie, "Kid Gallahad" > > "Always be courteous to broads!" > -character played by Charles Bronson ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:12:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: Readings on women's history In-Reply-To: i would suggest 'the chalice and the blade' - by eisler. Vera Britto (fiatlux@umich.edu - http://www.umich.edu/~fiatlux) ........................................................................... Le Bret: Si tu laissais un peu ton ame mousquetaire, la fortune et la gloire... Cyrano: Et que faudrait-il faire? Chercher un protecteur puissant, prendre un patron, et, comme un lierre obscur que circonvient un tronc et s'en fait un tuteur en lui lechant l'ecorce, grimper par ruse au lieu de s'elever par force? Non, merci! Non, merci! Non, merci! Mais... chanter, rever, rire, passer, etre seul, etre libre... oui. "Cyrano de Bergerac" - Edmond Rostand On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Maria Bevacqua wrote: > Can anyone out there suggest good readings on women's history that are > geared toward a general, nonacademic readership? > > A friend who recently had a baby girl is worried that when her daughter > goes to school, she will be subjected to inaccurate or incomplete > historical information, based on middle class white males as the norm. > She and her husband want to be able to provide a more complete picture to > their daughter to offset this potential problem. They are not academics, > and they are looking for GENERAL books (ie, something on women's labor > history in the late 18th century would be less than useful to them). > They're not looking for children's books, but books that they can read, > sort of as a primer on women's history that will equip them with the kind > of knowledge they can pass on to their child. > > I've already suggested Sara Evans, BORN FOR LIBERTY and Paula Giddings, > WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER. Further suggestions are welcome. Please respond > off-list. > > > Maria Bevacqua > mbevacq@emory.edu > Institute for Women's Studies > Emory University > Atlanta, GA > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:44:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Grad School wanted Comments: To: Susan Arpad In-Reply-To: <199701062313.PAA08680@zimmer.csufresno.edu> The Anthropology Department of The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. offers a Master's Degree in Anthropology. Catherine Allen is the chair, and Barbara Miller, who chairs the women's studies program, is an anthropologist. Ruby Rohrlich . ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 22:27:14 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Molinda S Laux Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 09:00:40 -0700 MARGARET BARBER writes: >Molinda, > >I would be most interested in the definition of family your class came >up Here it is Margaret: Family according to Soc. 360 Winter 1997@ Wright State University, Dayton OH "Two or more members of a unit who share a common bond and interest and share economic and social support. The system provides the basic needs of its members.'' I am immensely pleased with this group work. It is our first draft. We created it in our opening session of the quarter and all the students are new to me. I think it is significant to know that one young man who contributed much of the definition is a quadraplegic who attends class in a sophisticated wheelchair and had his attendant dog "Zeus" with him. He pointed out that the members may not all be human, so our definition is species neutral. I am looking forward to input from this thread to take back to class. It will add to the process.. enrichment from the Net! Peace! Molinda >with, for my class to discuss. My English comp II (content emphasis on >gender issues) class tossed this around and around last semester when >the >Colorado courts were deciding what to do about legalizing gay >marriage, >and the legislature promises to pick up the topic this session. > >Our town is a Democratic stronghold in the state, but it's just 40 >miles >down the road from Colorado Springs, home of Amendment 2, Will Perkins >and Colorado for Family Values, and just a little farther from >the stomping grounds of the founding father of Promise Keepers. Our >Interstate even has an official tax-funded exit sign for the Focus on >the >Family headquarters, sort of a family-values theme park. Many of >our students commute from C. Spgs., after being bombarded by >reactionary >propaganda insisting that "the family is a mommy, a daddy, and their >children," and "homosexuals can't have families -- in fact, they >shouldn't >be homosexuals at all because it's sinful and letting them think they >can have families makes a mockery of marriage and what families are >really >all about," blah, blah, blah ad infinitum. > >Actually, the public debate on this is a gift to a teacher trying to >get >first-year students to think about the nature of and different >approaches to definition, of how they and others construct it, and how >other terms like "gender" or ideas of "gender roles" were never >defined in >stone by god or any of her messengers. > >Margaret Barber >Dept. of English >University of Southern Colorado >Pueblo, CO 81001 > > >On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Molinda S Laux wrote: > >> Carmen, I am also interested in seeing this thread continue as I am >> currently teaching Sociology of the Family. With a class of 32 >seniors >> in primarily rural, midwestern setting I think it is essential to >> address diverse concepts of what family means. In fact, last week >we >> created our "class" definition of family. I will be glad to share >that >> if anyone is interested, >> >> Blessed Be! >> >> Molinda Lauxmiller >> > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 06:34:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Reina Pennington Subject: Re: Readings on women's history Comments: To: Maria Bevacqua In-Reply-To: <01IE57BZ3O1M8Y6CA7@InfoAve.Net> Maria Bevacqua asked whether we could "suggest good readings on women's history that are geared toward a general, nonacademic readership?" -- books that parents might read "sort of as a primer on women's history that will equip them with the kind of knowledge they can pass on to their child." I'd like to suggest a few books that deal with women's military participation -- something that is almost always overlooked in the usual women's history sources. The following books are "popular" but generally accurate. Fraser, Antonia. _The Warrior Queens._. New York: Knopf, 1989. Focuses on women leaders from Boadicea to Indira Ghandi. Goldman, Nancy Loring, Ed. _Female Soldiers - Combatants or Noncombatants?: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives._ Vol. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. More "scholarly" but one of the few sources that examines women in non-Western regions. Hall, Richard. _Patriots in Disguise: Women Warriors of the Civil War._. New York: Paragon, 1993. Some photos. Newark, Tim. _Women Warlords._. London: Blandford/Cassell Artillery House, 1989. Probably the best starting point. Looks like a comic book, but the material's pretty solid. The colorful pictures will attract older children. Noggle, Anne. _A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II._. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994. Excellent collection of interviews with women combat veterans, from fighter pilots and bomber pilots to their mechanics. Saywell, Shelley. _Women in War._. Markham, Ont: Viking, 1985. Journalistic interviews of women veterans of the Second World War, Palestine, Vietnam, the Falklands and El Salvador. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Reina Pennington, editor Military Women Worldwide: A Biographical Dictionary Department of History e-mail: RPennington@InfoAve.net University of South Carolina fax: 803-777-4494 Columbia, SC 29208 USA phone: 803-777-5195 *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:13:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhea Cote Organization: University of Maine Subject: Re: Readings on women's history One suggestion of a source that often gets overlooked are the women of the family and their stories as a source of personal history which creates a base of knowing who you are and where you come from. Cultural history, cultural geography, family-specific linguistics, heritage and not subscribing to an amnesia which the general culture requires of us. But a knowing of who are the women in the family and what did they contribute to the family and the community. Something on the line of passing on an oral tradition which is older than the print tradition. Rhea Cote Robbins Rhea@maine.maine.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:55:43 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Eithne C. Foley." Subject: Andy Warhole. Hello All, Who was/is Andy Warhole? Why did Valarie Solonas shoot him? There is a film about the event coming out, and the only review I have read discribed her as a "man-hating, psychotic feminist", three words which, I fear the reviewer was using synonomously. Thank you. Eithne Foley. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 10:25:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "David F. Austin" Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt In-Reply-To: <970111144456.5331@FLO.ORG> Gail Dines replied to my suggestion that, for discussion of [Steinem on] Flynt, nteresting and provocative supplementary material can be found in Kipnis's work: >I have read Kipnis' work and found her analysis to be one that falls >into the marketing trap that Flynt set to promote Hustler. If this critique of Kipnis's work has been developed at greater length, then it, too, could usefully be included in any discussion. If this critique of Kipnis's work has not been developed at greater length, then it's clearly worth doing so. I hope that anyone who does the latter will let list members know of any work that results. Thanks. David. David F. Austin Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy and Religion NCSU, Raleigh, NC ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:35:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janice M Bogstad Subject: Re: NWSA 97 CFP Reminder Hi, Jacquelyn - how did this CFP go? I may be interested depending on the conference time - I am putting together a website for our WS program, but also teaching another class on women and the Internet- and may want to talk about the experiences with these two: 1) Cybrarian's approach to Womens Studies Research (now it its fourth year and 2) Women In Cyberspace (I am teaching it right now and will teach it again in June/July). How are things going for you in general? I am using an aritcle I wrote about the NGO forums in the women in cyberspace class tomorrow - it is interesting because most of the class are NOT WS majors, and of 19 students 5 are men - only 2 women have ever had WS courses before and MOST are graduating seniors....the course is two weeks. Want to see the syllabus? I am vetting it for update and inclusion in the Wmst-l syllabus list. Let me know if you are ste up for the women's conf. I haven't been in awhile - but that's another story...Jan B. >Hello All, Any librarian out there interested in doing some sort of >presentation/panel on women and technology, particularly women in the >Internet, putting together WS web sites, own sites. What about the info >there, how much control do women have???? ETc. Etc. I haven't thought in >detail but am interested in going to conference (have not been in awhile) >and talking about the technologies and research in some way. LEt me know >ASAP. Jacquelyn Marie > >Jacquelyn Marie >Reference Librarian/Women's Services Coordinator >McHenry Library >University of California >Santa Cruz, California 95064 >USA >Phone: 408/459-3255 >Fax: 408/459-8206 >E-mail: jamarie@cats.ucsc.edu > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Janice M. Bogstad, Associate Professor Collection Development Librarian Library & Information Services, McIntyre Library University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI 54702-5010 USA email: bogstajm@uwec.edu telephone: 715-836-6032 "I HAVE NEVER REGRETTED BUYING A BOOK, BUT I HAVE OFTEN REGRETTED NOT BUYING A BOOK." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 12:03:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elaine Orr Subject: gayatri spivak Dear List, I'm assuming that Gayatri Spivak is of Indian origin. Can someone confirm (or correct)? Please respond privately. Elaine Orr elaine@unity.ncsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 11:14:45 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nupur D Chaudhuri Subject: Re: gayatri spivak In-Reply-To: <199701131703.MAA24048@cc05du.unity.ncsu.edu> Yes, she is of Indian origin, more specifically she is from present state of W.Bengal. Nupur Chaudhuri, nupurc@ksu.edu On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Elaine Orr wrote: > Dear List, > > I'm assuming that Gayatri Spivak is of Indian origin. Can someone > confirm (or correct)? Please respond privately. > > Elaine Orr > elaine@unity.ncsu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 11:45:08 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: sheryl grana Subject: Re: CFP BEGIN DOCUMENT Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society (MSWS) announce a call for papers for the Spring, 1997 edition of the Midwest Feminist Papers. The theme of this volume is "Women and Justice." Contributors are asked to submit papers concerning issues associated with "justice" in women's lives. "Justice" is widely defined and interpreted; examples of this theme include, but are not limited to, papers concerned with women and domestic battery, women in prison, women attorneys, and women and sexual assault. Papers should be no longer than five single spaced (10 point font) pages. Hard copies of papers will be accepted (and must be camera ready) although the coordinator/editor would prefer both a hard copy as well as submission on disk (MS-DOS, WordPerfect 6.1 or lower). Submissions should be sent to Sheryl J. Grana, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, 228 Cina Hall, University of Minnesota- Duluth, Duluth, MN, 55812. Questions about submission can be directed to Dr. Grana at the address listed, or via phone (218.726.7529) or email (sgrana@d.umn.edu). The call for papers is open through February 28, 1997. END DOCUMENT Please note: The MFP is not a referred journal; it is a collection of papers published by the Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society. As the call specifies, any questions can be directed to me. Sorry about the rather close closing date; I did not originally post this on the WS-list but, as time draws near, am looking for more submissions. Cheers, Sheryl Grana ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:01:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carol A. Powers" Subject: Re: Andy Warhole. By the way, "Who Shot Any Warhole" is on videocassette (at my local grocery store!) for rental. Carol Powers Depts of Philosophy and Women's Studies Ohio Wesleyan U Delaware, OH 43015 capowers@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:04:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carol A. Powers" Subject: oops re: Warhol I may have given the wrong title for the Warhol video: "I Shot Andy Warhol." Carol A. Powers Depts of Philosophy and Women's Studies Ohio Wesleyan U Delaware, OH 43015 capowers@cc.owu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:40:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gail Dines Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt David, I have an article coming out next year in Violence Against Women Journal which develops the argument i made in the e-mail. Gail ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:47:01 -0600 Reply-To: Upper Midwest Women's History Center Sender: Women's Studies List From: Upper Midwest Women's History Center Subject: Re: Readings on women's history In message Women's Studies List writes: > Can anyone out there suggest good readings on women's history that are > geared toward a general, nonacademic readership? > There are a number of books that are available from the Upper Midwest Women's History Center catalog. Although the name is "Upper Midwest" we specialize in materials dealing with international women's history. Some of the things we have available are the "Women in World History" series, which features women's history in 11 different countries from ancient to modern times. We also carry a series of books called "Spindle Stories." These stories, from 10 different places and times in history, are entertaining stories for young people, but are based on the recent scholarship in women's history. I think these books would be very usefulfor parents who want to ensure that their children are familiar with all of history. If anyone is interested in receiving one of these catalogs, they can either reply to us privately by e-mail or reach us in one of the following ways: Upper Midwest Women's History Center 749 Simpson St St. Paul, MN 55104 phone: (612) 644-1727 fax: (612) 644-3350 "Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation." Gerda Lerner ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:12:15 -0500 Reply-To: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg Subject: ISO Fuss/hooks cite Hello, I'm looking for the citation for an article by Diana Fuss/bell hooks entitled "Essentialism in the Classroom." I've searched several databases in vain. I would appreciate hearing from you if you've a citation for this article. Please respond to me privately. Thank you. Lisa Bowleg Women's Studies Program Georgetown University Internet: lisabow@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:21:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah A. Elliston" Subject: Re: ISO Fuss/hooks cite Comments: To: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg In-Reply-To: It's a chapter in Diana Fuss's _Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature & Difference_ (NY: Routledge, 1989). The chapter runs from p. 113-119. bell hooks has nothing to do with it. Deborah A. Elliston Dept. of Anthropology New York University elliston@acf2.nyu.edu On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Ingrid Alisa Bowleg wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for the citation for an article by Diana Fuss/bell > hooks entitled "Essentialism in the Classroom." I've searched several > databases in vain. I would appreciate hearing from you if you've a > citation for this article. Please respond to me privately. Thank you. > > Lisa Bowleg > Women's Studies Program > Georgetown University > Internet: lisabow@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:50:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane E Strong Subject: Looking For Someone Comments: cc: Shawn L Mincer A friend is trying to reach an Elizabeth Wood who was teaching at Sarah Lawrence College in 1993. Anyone with information on how to contact her can reach him privately at this email: smincer@hopper.unh.edu. Thanks for the help. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - O DIANE E. STRONG (des@christa.unh.edu) O O Women's Studies Program / University of New Hampshire O O 203 Huddleston Hall / Durham, NH 03824 O Voice: (603) 862-2194 / Fax: (603) 862-4721 _|_ | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:03:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Grayson Subject: Re: ISO Fuss/hooks cite In-Reply-To: from "Deborah A. Elliston" at Jan 13, 97 03:21:37 pm Well, bell hooks does have a little bit to do with the title Essentialism in the clasrrom. she did a review of Fuss's book under this title or something similar to it. The review was published in American Literary History. Sorry. I no longer have the citation. Deborah ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:30:01 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Crystal Kile Subject: Gloria Steinem vs. Larry Flynt/NYT "Icons" feature In-Reply-To: <970111144456.5331@FLO.ORG> Has anyone been able to find the GS op-ed on the cursed and confusingly designed NYT website? I even "subscribe" to the online version but can't find the Steinem piece anywhere. Oh, but why worry when we can participate in the online forum the NYT is running based on its recent faux feminist "female icons" Sunday Magazine feature ;) Re: Laura Kipkis' work on _Hustler_, I think we also have to recognize that the stereotypical "tastes" and alleged "animal and/or violent nature" of poor and lower-middle class men have long been used by more privileged men as alibis for their own sexist behaviors. This phenomenon, known in the South as the "afterhours Bubba" or "[stripclub] Bubba" phenomenon, speaks volumes about men's ideas about masculinity and fear (STILL!) of the alleged emasculating forces of white-collar work, "women's lib" and "political correctness." Still, it doesn't change the fact that "'Tang," as they call it, is a quarry that unites men across class and race boundaries more surely than do beer and certain illegal drugs. Re: Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell on Larry King Live, all I could think was "bookends of American misogyny." What a revealing dialogue. Thought y'all should know that the New Orleans no-tell motel where Jimmy Swaggart shed tears of shame all over Jessica Hahn's breast is about to be torn down to make way for Still More Tacky Upscale Housing. Oh, what a wonderful time to be teaching women's studies! So much wonderful material has just been walking up and spitting in our faces lately, no? CK Crystal Kile Education Coordinator, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women ckile@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/text/www.html "Cyborg or goddess, goddess or cyborg? Decisions, decisions" ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:35:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Gloria Steinem and Larry Flynt My suggestion is that the people who run the InforM Website try to get permission to put the Steinem review of "The People vs. Larry Flynt" in the list of feminist movie reviews. If you read my review of "Michael" on Saturday, you'll know I'm not planning to review it. I thoughttthe Steinem piece was terrific and it convinced me I wouldn't give this film either my time or my money. Linda Lopez McAlister ********************************************* Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:51:17 -0600 Reply-To: ewavle@elmira.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Liz Wavle Organization: elmira college Subject: ELMIRA COLLEGE WOMEN'S STUDIES SYMPOSIUM Elmira College Women s Studies Program presents THE FOURTH ANNUAL JULIA BOYER REINSTEIN SYMPOSIUM: WOMEN AND WORK February 28-March 1, 1997 Elmira College Elmira, New York Friday: 6:30P.M. Evening Documentary Films Program and Discussion Kolker Auditorium Saturday: 9:30A.M.-4:00P.M. Dr. Randy Albelda "Collision Course?: Families and the Economy at the Crossroads" Dr. Lourdes Beneria "Women, Work and the Global Economy" Dr. Phoebe Jones Schellenberg "25 Years of Valuing Women: The Economics and Social Value of Unwaged Work" Each year the Elmira College Women's Studies Program sponsors a symposium to encourage and discuss scholarship by and about women on topics that are of importance to women and society. This year we have chosen to focus on the topic of women and work. The cost of the Symposium is $10.00 per person. This includes lunch and refreshments. The registration deadline is February 14, 1997 and is limited to 100 participants. For more information or to request a registration form please contact: Dr. Marilyn Wienk Elmira College One Park Place Elmira, New York 14901 607-735-1955 FAX: 607-735-1758 POSTED BY: Elizabeth M. Wavle Women's Studies Coordinator Elmira College ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:55:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" For some reason I was asked by someone in the U Minn. Women's Studies Dept. to post this job ad. LLM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Minnesota Women's Studies Department The University of Minnesota invites applications for a tenure-track, full-time, nine-month assistant professor position in the Department of Women's Studies starting September, 1997. The position is for a scholar and teacher whose area of specialization is international and/or cross-cultural contexts with a special emphasis on the developing world. The applicant must have graduate training inthe social sciences (eg. sociology, geography, political science, economics, anthropology, history or appropriate area studies). Applicants must have Ph.D. (or equivalent foreign degree) at the time of the appointment, scholarly potential, and demonstrated research and interdisciplinary teaching competencies in WomenUs Studies. Undergraduate and graduate teaching and advising; departmental/college service; strong expectation placed on research and scholarship. Salary is competitive at the assistant professor rank, and will vary depending on prior experience. Please send letter of application, vita, and three current letters of recommendation to Professor Amy Kaminsky, Chair, Women's Studies Search Committee, Women's Studies Department, 489 Ford Hall, University of Minnesota, Minnesota 55455. Deadline: for receipt of applications is February 5, 1997. Phone (612) 624-7319, (E-mail: kamin001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) Fax: (612) 624-3573. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. ********************************************* Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ********************************************* Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:28:55 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maya Hostettler Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem and Larry Flynt Why are all of you who write on the Larry Flynt issue so angry with this film? And why don't you go and see it? I did not get the impression that Forman tried to create a hero with his movie, rather a portrait of sex-and-porn-addict who is never growing up, but remains a childish sucker throughout. The movie opens with an episode showing Flynt as a boy which sets the tone: there is hardly a difference between the boy who sells self-distilled booze to alcoholics, eventually smashing a bottle into the face of one of his clients, and the man selling images of naked women (and sometimes men) to an audience who does not care to investigate either desire or sexuality. Therefore, the child-man attacking a child-man bourgeoisie. Forman is interested in the guy, as much as he was in Shaffer's play portraying Mozart as a rascal. Both are characters that are known equally not known to the mind of us all, one producing "The Magic Flute," a sexist opera, or "Cosi fan Tutte" and even more sexist opera, while the other produces some thirty or so boys' magazine's that are openly sexist thus much less upsetting. In fact, Flynt does not come over as a character at all - none of the people in this film do - but like robbot or statist that baby that scream when pushed (on their naval button) demanding mama's tits and pussy. The famous case represents what Flynt knows best: Men fornicating their mothers making it look like a joke that no one really would ever believe, would they? As little I would identify with Wolfgang "Amadeus" as little I would with "Larry Flynt," or with "the people." But I found it interesting to watch this movie, although I will have to go to Mexico or Europe to see it without the blackovers and garblings censorship has assigned to certain parts of this body of expression. Sexuality is one of the topics Forman explores in all of his movies. None of Forman's films are about women. While Mozart is able to sublimate his pornographic tendencies into a music that was (and perhaps still is) astounding for some of us (while some of the symphonies are terribly boring), Flynt translates them one to one. What you see is what you get. All of it, is terribly boring, which does not mean that it hasn't got the capacity to turn some of us on. There is no moral at stake here, is this why we are all so upset? And then, of course, there is the discourse the movie engages in. Very interesting, although, of course, upsetting. But I have to do some other work now. Go and see the movie(s) - maybe we then get a different discussion going? Maya maya hostettler visiting professor dep. of english and comparative literature university of california at irvine Tel. (714) 640-5067 e-mail mhostett@uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:12:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: R Aravich Subject: Re: ISO Fuss/hooks cite >Well, bell hooks does have a little bit to do with the title Essentialism in >the clasrrom. she did a review of Fuss's book under this title or something >similar to it. The review was published in American Literary History. >Sorry. I no longer have the citation. > >Deborah > > Its also a chapter "Essentialism and Experience" (p. 77-92) in _Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom_, bell hooks. NY: Routledge, 1994. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:27:31 -0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michiko Yoshioka Subject: Books on Sexual Harrassment on Campus Can anyone suggest books on Sexual Harassment on Campus? Thank you very much in advance. Michiko YOSHIOKA The Graduate School of International Development Nagoya University, Japan i45351a@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:36:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: lesbian mothers/families photo project Comments: To: Jacqueline Haessly In-Reply-To: Hi again, Jacqueline (and everyone else interested!) Glad you've had experience raising the idea of the family of one for decades! So: how has the feedback been? What has been the reception? I think this is an important issue because family has been defined as less than a village for only a very short time historically! Liora Moriel ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:07:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: Essentially Speaking Deborah Elliston is correct that the article is by Diana Fuss and in her book _Essentially Speaking_ and that bell hooks was not involved in this publication. hooks, however, does have a book called _Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom_ that includes a chapter, "Essentialism and Experience." (NY: Routledge, 1994) Barbara Scott Winkler WINKLER@wvnvms.wvnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 00:03:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt Since I started this discussion, I will respond to Maya Hostettler's query, "Why are all of you who write on the Larry Flynt issue so angry with this film?" First of all, I did not really state my position about the film. I suggested that Steinem's piece could be used in a classroom discussion. I liked it be- cause it was articulate, passionate, and because it lays out the issues in the debate. I do agree with her point of view, particularly her conclusion urging protest under the First Amendment to the Constitution. The debate itself--over pornography and other sexual images of women--is a very passionate one, which, I might add, I was deeply involved in some years ago, on the side of the pornographers, civil libertarians and other free speechers, as a board member of the ACLU and FACT (Feminists Against Censorship Taskforce) BUT the issue here is not the debate itself, which can consume end- less acres of cyberspace. I wanted to call attention to the Steinem piece because I thought that it would be a good one to use in the classroom along with other readings on the issue. Since the 1980s, there have been few good essays on the issue, and this one is a real peach. That's all. I am not angry but neither will I waste my money on the Flynt movie because I already know that Larry Flynt is a wretched piece of human flotsam and I don't need Hollywood to spell it out for me. ............................................. Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 07:14:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauraine Leblanc Subject: Re: Books on Sexual Harrassment on Campus In-Reply-To: <199701140125.KAA05610@nucc.cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp> Hi all-- Some suggestions: Dziech, Billie Wright, and Linda Weiner. 1984. _The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus_. Boston, Mass.: Beacon. Harris, Louis, and Associates. 1993. _Hostile Hallways: The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in America's Schools_. Washington, D.C.: American Association of University Women Educational Foundation. Larkin, June. 1994. _Sexual Harassment: High School Girls Speak Out_. Toronto, Ont.: Second Story Press. More generally: Langelan, Martha J., 1993. _Back Off! How to Confront and Stop Sexual Harassment and Harassers_. New York: Fireside. Lauraine Leblanc Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University lleblan@emory.edu "I am really too much of an anarchist to bother about all the trifling details; all I want is freedom, perfect, unrestricted liberty for myself and others." -Red Emma ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:44:45 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Eithne C. Foley." Subject: Re: Books on Sexual Harrassment on Campus >Can anyone suggest books on Sexual Harassment on Campus? >Thank you very much in advance. Hi Michiko, I'm not sure if this is the kind of book you are looking for, byt Katie Rophie's _The Morning After_ has an interesting critique of faminist reactions to sexual harassment. Eithne Foley. Dept of Sociology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:05:10 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christa Wille Organization: ARIADNE-Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek Subject: ARIADNE-Newsletter Dear members, we would like to inform you that ARIADNE-Newsletter Nr. 24 - an annotated list of new acquisitions in women's studies literature at the Austrian National Library in Vienna / Europe - has just been published in the WWW: http://www.onb.ac.at/00nl.htm Greetings from Vienna Helga Hofmannn & Christa Wille -- Christa Wille ARIADNE - Oesterr. Nationalbibliothek A-1015 VIENNA, Josefsplatz 1 Tel:+43-1-53410/487 Fax:+43-1-53410/437 Email:wille@onb.ac.at ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:27:30 -0500 Reply-To: kathryn.church@utoronto.ca Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn Church Subject: florence nightengale Dear List; Does anyone know of a good biography of florence nightengale (or autobiography/) Thanks kathryn kathryn.church@utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:13:05 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah Moreland moreland.utdallas.edu." Subject: Re: ISO Fuss/hooks cite Comments: To: Ingrid Alisa Bowleg In-Reply-To: Lisa-- See fuss's book *Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature, and Difference* (1989). Deborah Moreland Univ. of Texas at Dallas On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Ingrid Alisa Bowleg wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for the citation for an article by Diana Fuss/bell > hooks entitled "Essentialism in the Classroom." I've searched several > databases in vain. I would appreciate hearing from you if you've a > citation for this article. Please respond to me privately. Thank you. > > Lisa Bowleg > Women's Studies Program > Georgetown University > Internet: lisabow@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:41:57 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt In-Reply-To: note of 01/14/97 00:21 Just to follow up on Rosie's post, one of Steinem's points in her piece is that this Stone/Foreman film has done such an airbrust job on "Larry Flynt" that he's made to seem just a charming rogue. The grossness of the violent anti-woman porn he purveys in Hustler is so toned down it distorts what the man is actually about. I sugest that Maya Hostettler both read Steinem's piece and take a look at a copy of Hustler. She may then see that the feminist opposition to this film is not based, as she believes, on some American aversion to sexuality. I don't think the kind of porn Flynt sells has very much to do with sexuality, but it has a great deal to do with degredation and the infliction of serious physical and psychic harm on women. I object to this revisionist history and recuperation of Flynt and resist it in the ways I can. ********************************************* Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:26:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: david doughan Subject: Re: florence nightingale Comments: To: kathryn.church@utoronto.ca There are lots of biographies of Florence Nightingale (no autobiographies that we know of). The best-known modern one is probably the one by Cecil Woodham Smith (pen-name for a woman), originally published in 1950, and reprinted in various editions in Britain and the USA. There have been various others since, as well as editions of her letters, etc., but I think none quite of Woodham Smith's general quality (at least one recent one was devoted largely to demonstrating what a bitch she was). There are also a number of shorter biographical sketches in collective biographies of women, for example, the very good one in Margaret Forster's _Significant sisters_ (London: Secker and Warburg, 1984) - which is generally to be recommended as a source of short but perceptive biographical essays on historical feminists. David Doughan, The Fawcett Library doughan@lgu.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:40:42 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Books on Sexual Harrassment on Campus >Can anyone suggest books on Sexual Harassment on Campus >From the Women's Presses Library Project: Get Smart!: What You Should Know About (but Won't Learn in Class) about Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination, 2nd Edition, edited by Montana Katz and Veronica Vieland, The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993, 1-55861-071-5, pb, $12.95. With a new section on acquaintance rape and the most recent statistics available on sex discrimination, the second edition of "Get Smart!" is an essential resource for female students of all ages and backgrounds. It clearly outlines problems and disadvantages faced by women in college, and offers realistic, practical solutions to sexual harassment in and out of the classroom. The new edition covers changes in civil rights and discrimination law, and includes an expanded bibliogrpahy. Not only should "Get Smart!" be in the hands of students and faculty, this book will also be useful to university counselors, service personnel, and administrators. Mev WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:59:36 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Batya Hyman Subject: film title? Does anyone recall the name of the film about the women incarcerated in the Framingham Prison in Mass. for killing their batterers? I have a vague memory that the film may have won an Oscar as a documentary. Batya ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:12:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Krista Scott Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem and Larry Flynt Well, I've been lurking in the background here, but I have to speak up now. I think Maya is absolutely right. I saw this film last weekend. Milos Forman does not glorify Flynt's character; in fact, Flynt in the film refers to himself explicitly as a "scumbag" and purveyor of "bad taste". The problem of heroism lies, as I see it, in the casting of Woody Harrelson, who is just plain likeable even when he's playing a greedy smut peddler. Perhaps the same script with Jon Lovitz cast as Flynt would drive the point home?? Anyway, the film is clearly about censorship. Would the debate be as intense around someone merely publishing a magazine for spicy food lovers? I am a feminist who is NOT anti-pornography. I feel this way for a variety of reasons. In Canada where censorship laws have been put through, what gets censored? On Our Backs, a lesbian magazine. The Joy of Gay Sex. Just about anything from the US destined for Glad Day or Little Sisters, gay and lesbian bookstores. Art work by Eli Langer. You get my point. Frankly, I think commodifying women's bodies is no worse than the commodification of women's lives in general. Do you think the average guy who likes to masturbate to Hustler in a gas station bathroom (as one man referred to in the film) is going to be more feminist if his magazine is removed? Sexuality is an extremely difficult area to legislate; its chthonic force resists all of our attempts to politicize it properly. Many a "good" feminist agonizes about her desires and fantasies which don't always fit with a vanilla agenda. Rosie O'Donnell said, "I had a fantasy once about doing it with Prince. That's about as weird as making it with a Smurf." I know that if Hustler is censored, it certainly won't be before my feminist words are; it will only be after. Cheers, Krista krust@interlog.com At 03:28 PM 13/01/97 -0800, you wrote: >Why are all of you who write on the Larry Flynt issue so angry with this >film? And why don't you go and see it? I did not get the impression that >Forman tried to create a hero with his movie, rather a portrait of >sex-and-porn-addict who is never growing up, but remains a childish sucker >throughout. The movie opens with an episode showing Flynt as a boy which >sets the tone: there is hardly a difference between the boy who sells >self-distilled booze to alcoholics, eventually smashing a bottle into the >face of one of his clients, and the man selling images of naked women (and >sometimes men) to an audience who does not care to investigate either >desire or sexuality. Therefore, the child-man attacking a child-man >bourgeoisie. > >... >Go and see the movie(s) - maybe we then get a different discussion going? > >Maya > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:21:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: Books on Sexual Harrassment on Campus In-Reply-To: <199701141244.MAA17600@sun1.tcd.ie> On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Eithne C. Foley. wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the kind of book you are looking for, byt Katie > Rophie's _The Morning After_ has an interesting critique of faminist > reactions to sexual harassment. I think you misspelled the word "insulting" above. Rather than i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g, I've usually seen it spelled, i-n-s-u-l-t-i-n-g. Katie Roiphe doesn't do much more in her book than slam feminists for daring to suggest that victims are not the cause of their assault, and claims that they are really just whining maggots who had an incapable lover or an experience that they participated in but now regret and are crying about. Alana Suskin alanacat@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:11:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Porno wars Lest we end up in a huge flame war (we haven't had one around here in a while, thank heavens) I want to reiterate that I am NOT advocating censorship. Those of us who teach women's studies need essays like the one that Steinem wrote because materials that students can understand, that are written in clear, non-academic language, are not easy to find. The best combination--as far as I am concerned--is well-written commentaries illuminating various sides of the issue. This whole discussion should be about teaching...NOT about the relative merits of censorship. Go see it if you want to; go picket it if you want to; boycott it if you want to--all are valid courses of action under the Constitution. The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." _CONGRESS_, okay? A vigorous protest of Larry Flynt's degradation of women is NOT the same thing as getting Congress to pass a law against him. And boycotting the movie is an effective way to protest if that is your wont. Rosie Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:36:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Bystydzienski Subject: Web sites for women and international politics Several people asked me to post the results of my inquiry regarding Web sites that would be appropriate for students doing research on women in politics in international perspective. With the cooperation of computer and library support staff at Franklin College, I now have a page listing all the sites I found to be useful. For those interested, the Web page for my course has the following address: http://www.franklincoll.edu/libweb/pub/women.htm Jill Bystydzienski Department of Sociology & Women's Studies Program Franklin College Franklin, IN 46131 Tel: 317-738-8270 Email: BYSTYDJ@Franklincoll.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:57:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Harrison-Pepper Subject: Fwd: Re: Back Issues of NYT I wrote to a NYT help person listed at the website. Here is their response to my request for the Steinem piece on the Larry Flynt film: --------------------- Forwarded message: From: emediacs@nytimes.com (Help at NYT Web) To: Sallynla@aol.com Date: 97-01-13 18:11:33 EST At the present time, our search engine covers only the current day's news. Later this summer, we plan to introduce an Archive search with the contents of the past 7 days, as well as selected news desks back to June 1980. We have published a list of other resources for back issues of The New York Times on our Help Center page, under "Other Resources." The direct URL address for this page is http://www.nytimes.com/subscribe/help/index.html Regards, The New York Times on the Web Customer Service At 12:50 PM 1/9/97 -0500, you wrote: >I visited your web site for the first time today and was happy to subscribe. > However, it appears that the site only offers the daily paper. How do I >locate back issues? Specifically, I am looking for the recent Gloria Steimen >Op-Ed piece on the Larry Flynt film. > >Thank you, >Sallynla@aol.com > > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:37:24 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan R. Gundersen" Organization: CSU, San Marcos Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem and Larry Flynt It seems to me that we have three different conversations going here, and we need to not mix them. 1) a discussion about materials that might be useful in class (the Steinam piece). Since I haven't been able to access the Steinam piece, I can't be sure what line of argument it follows, but from comments it would seem to be taking taking the movie to task for making Flynt and his brand of pornography seem worthy of attention. 2) There is a thread pointing out how awful Flynt and the Hustler were. I have heard no defenses of this. However, some of those posting seem to blur the distinctions between a film ABOUT events (which can be critical of events) and the events themselves. Every film about war is not an endorsement of war, afterall. 3) Censorship. This is the thread I want to address . The Flynt case was about censorship, and so is the movie. These are important issues in constitutional law. Almost all freedom of speech cases involve "the words we hate" otherwise there would not have been an attempt to censor the words/ideas/pictures. Feminists do differ on the issue of pornography and censorship, and for good reasons. Both pornography and censorship have damaged women. There is no easy answer. If the film encourages discussion about the limits of pornogoraphy and law, and does so without glamorizing porn, then it is a responsible use of the media. As a historian, I was very concerned about the comments on this film and "Ghosts of Mississippi" which is again about a REAL legal case (not Medgar Evers' life). We can't just wish away real events or change the participants. I have been planning on using both films as extra credit assignments (along with an option of visiting a new museum exhibit in our area on Japanese in San Diego that covers their internment in camps during WWII) for a constitutional history course I teach. We may want other films made that show the damage done by pornography or that put the spotlight on the black community's struggle for rights, but that doesn't mean that films dealing with legal issues where white males play a major role don't also serve a good purpose, and in fact may have a place in women's studies courses. Joan Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:52:46 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Bette Tallen Subject: Feminist critiques of the mmpi For a colleague who is not on the list--I am looking for citations for works that give feminist critiques of the MMPI (the Minnesota Personality Inventory). Please reply privately to: BTallen@Rollins.edu Thanks, Bette ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:09:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: Re: film title? The film about battered women who killed, featuyring some of the Framingham 8, is "Defending Our Lives." It won an Academy Award a few years ago, for Best Documentary. I show it in my Psych of Women class every semester. Chris ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:12:14 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laurel guymer Subject: Re: florence nightengale >Dear List; >> >>Does anyone know of a good biography of florence nightengale (or >>autobiography/) >> >> Thanks >> >>kathryn >>kathryn.church@utoronto.ca > > >only a couple that i know: > >Woodham-Smith (1951) Florence nightingale 1820-1910 london: Fontana 1964 >revised > >Smith fb (1982) Florence nightingale reputation and power london: Croom Helm > >huxley, ej (1975) florence nightingale london: Putnam > >capri@deakin.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:37:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Krista Scott Subject: Re: porn-o-rama I know I'm going to get lots of flame mail on this, but to follow up the points I made earlier... yes, I have seen Hustler, lots of it in fact (I worked at an all male print shop where ten years' worth of back issues were stationed in the washroom). I wouldn't describe it as violent anti-woman porn, just cunt and lots of it. I have seen lots of porn in my life and would describe very little of it as violent or anti-woman. However, I acknowledge that for some, Playboy could be considered violent and anti-woman (although I consider it airbrushed and benign). In fact, prime time shows such as Murder One are worse in making an explicit connection between sex and violence. I'm actually throwing a monkey wrench into the whole debate here by pointing out my position as a feminist who is not anti-porn. I know this is kind of a strange position, but I feel a real aversion to the idea that to be a feminist means crusading against porn. Any political stance which puts me in bed (so to speak) with conservatives such as Falwell deserves questioning. Yes, Larry Flynt is a scumbag getting rich off women's bodies, and no, as I said before, the movie does not adequately convey that (I think due to Woody Harrelson's goofy and lovable mien). If you don't want to see the film, that is a perfectly appropriate point of view (and hey, with the price of movies these days...). Frankly, if porn is made it should be controlled and run by the women who make it. But in terms of my own body, I think the dioxins and chlorine in my tampons will get me quicker! Krista Krista Scott Graduate Women's Studies S716 Ross York University, North York, ON krust@interlog.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:10:37 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eileen Bresnahan Organization: Political Science Dept., U of U Subject: steinem review of flynt movie I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but the much- discussed Steinem review of the The People vs. Larry Flynt is available on the LEXIS/NEXIS database, to which many research libraries subscribe. On the database can also be found letters to the editor of the Times written in response to Steinem's review, along with a number of other articles and reviews about Flynt and the movie. If searched under the keywords "Steinem and Flynt," the Steinem review is 31 of 35 stories (as of today), Foreman's letter in reply is 3 of 35, and other letters are 4 and 5 of 35. There's also a 3200 word piece on Flynt from Newsday (32 of 35) and 2700 word piece from The Guardian (9 of 35). 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Free speech, pornography, and the like are important issues, but their discussion does not belong on WMST-L except in the explicit context of teaching and research. As most subscribers are aware, WMST-L has a continual problem with heavy mail volume; were the volume to increase (by broadening the list's focus), many people with limited disk space, limited time, and/or limited funds would be forced to unsubscribe. I am determined that that not happen. Other lists already exists for discussion of gender-related societal issues and the like. You can find an annotated listing of more than 200 women-related e-mail lists at http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/forums.html . A version of this listing is also available via e-mail for those without web access. Send the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . 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). If you get the digest, you should send a two-line message: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE UNSUB WMST-L Be sure to send this message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU , **not** to WMST-L. Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:29:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: pornography In-Reply-To: <199701142237.RAA10588@smtp.interlog.com> from "Krista Scott" at Jan 14, 97 05:37:51 pm Krista writes that she is not anti-porn. I applaud her for speaking up, because I too am a feminist who is not anti-porn. It seems impossible to me to oppose pornography without supporting censorship, and I am *strongly* opposed to censorship. While I dislike pornography, I oppose any government attempt to outlaw pornography. If the pornographers are silenced, how long will it be before I can be silenced too? *********************** Chris Saad, PhD saad@dolphin.upenn.edu saad@alumni.upenn.edu *********************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:45:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhoda Unger Subject: Special issue on gender issues in Israel and how to get it! From: IN%"izraeli@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il" "Dafna Izraeli" 14-JAN-1997 12:39:39.62 To: IN%"unger@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU" "unger rhoda" CC: IN%"Ungerr@alpha.montclair.edu" "rhoda unger" Subj: ISSR promo (fwd) Return-path: Received: from ashur.cc.biu.ac.il by BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (PMDF V5.1-4 #17138) with SMTP id <01IE7BYSFF9SQQP8SZ@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> for unger; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:39:36 EST Received: from localhost by ashur.cc.biu.ac.il (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA64198; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 19:33:36 +0200 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 19:33:36 +0200 (WET) From: Dafna Izraeli Subject: ISSR promo (fwd) To: unger rhoda Cc: rhoda unger Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-8 Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE This is the promo I would like to have circulated through women's networks. What do you think of it - t'was written by the ISSR editor - can it pass as is? Can you circulate it or advise me what to do? Thanks. DAFNA IZRAELI Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, 52900, ISRAEL Fax 972-3-6417459 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:40:55 +0200 (IST) From: Logan Catherine To: Dafna Izraeli Cc: "C.T. Logan" Subject: ISSR promo Dear Dafna, This is the text. Preface with something like: Reserve your copies=20 immediately. Copies printed over the normal subscription list will be=20 limited by presales. ------ =20 Announcing =20 Vol. 12(1)&(2), 1997=D1 a Special 2-part Issue of ISRAEL SOCIAL SCIENCE=20 RESEARCH, a multidisciplinary journal, on =20 FEMINIST ISSUES AND GENDER PROBLEMS IN ISRAEL =20 Special Guest Editors Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, Dalila Amir, Erela Shadmi, Rachel Giora =20 =20 ISSR is pleased to announce a special 2-part volume on feminist issues=20 and gender problems, ranging from theory to practice. Volume 12(1),=20 which will be published in the Spring, will include articles on the=20 politics of citizenship, the problems in creating a single feminist=20 organization capable of satisfying the needs of women from different=20 ethnic, socio-economic, and cultural groups, wife abuse as a method of=20 social control, factors influencing the recruitment of women into=20 national elite positions, "mother's" peace movements in contemporary=20 Israel, suicide and murder employed by heroines in literature as=20 indicative of transitional stages toward women's autonomy, an analysis of= =20 the works of Ronit Matalon, and a unique analysis of gendering in the=20 Israeli Defence Forces. Issues from the perspective of different ethnic=20 groups -- Jewish and Arab, Sephardi and Ashkenazi -- are represented in thi= s=20 first volume by Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, Nadera Shalhoub Kervorkian,=20 Beverly Mizrachi, Rachel Giora, Lily Rattok, Henriette Dahan-Kalev, Yael=20 Azmon, and Dafna Izraeli. =20 The second part of this important issue will appear in the Fall. While=20 the contents are not yet finalized, articles in hand include such subjects as police handling of abused women -- an analysis of social=20 policy, feminism, universalism and particularism, policy handling of=20 Ethiopian women by immigrant absorption authorities, the politics of=20 abortion and reproduction, a literary analysis, and two articles dealing=20 with Israeli Palestinian women -- a survey of their condition today, and a= =20 discussion of the practice of killing female family members in order to=20 maintain family honor and the changes in this pattern in modern Israel. =20 This 2-part volume promises to be a very important resource for both=20 researchers and students of feminist or gender issues, as well as for=20 interested laypersons. =20 Pre-subscriptions are now available. You are urged to get your order in=20 before end of February, since a limited number of copies will be=20 published, based on subscriptions and presales. Fax or e-mail your order=20 immediately, and a pre-sale invoice will be sent to you through the mail. =20 =20 =09=09Catherine T. Logan =09=09Managing Editor, ISSR =09=09=09e-mail: logan@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Cost for these two issues: $25 for institutions $15 for individuals mail included Mailing address: ISSR, Humphrey Institute for Social Research Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P.O. Box 653 Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel Fax: 972-7-647-1938 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:17:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: film title The name of the video about the women incarcerated in Framingham Prison in Mass. for killing their batterers is "Defending Our Lives." I've used it in my Introduction to Women's Studies course and it is very very powerful. I had remember one male student, who was otherwise quite conservative, saying in discussion afterwards that he was ashamed that men would act this way and outraged that the most of the women had not been released. (Only one woman was able to include the 'battered women's syndrome' in her defense - and she was the one who finally got clemency.) Good teaching film about biases in the judicial system as well as issues regarding violence against women. Barbara Scott Winkler West Virginia University WINKLER@wvnvms.wvnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:27:43 -0500 Reply-To: ma_goldsmith@commnet.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Goldsmith Organization: Manchester Community-Technical College Subject: Re: film title? Batya Hyman wrote: > > Does anyone recall the name of the film about the women incarcerated in the > Framingham Prison in Mass. for killing their batterers? I have a vague > memory that the film may have won an Oscar as a documentary. > Batya Its called Defending Our Lives and its available from Cambridge Documentary Films. Its an excellent film and very powerful in the classroom. Diane -- Diane Goldsmith Director, Transition and Women's Programs Manchester Community-Technical College Phone: 860 647-6056 e-mail: MA_Goldsmith@commnet.edu fax: 860 647-6238 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:34:51 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Shattering the silences (fwd) From: Linda Lopez McAlister A faculty member in my department passed this on to me and I thought it might be of interest to WMST-L folks. A PBS documentary that might be of interest: "Shattering the Silences: Minority Professors Break Into the Ivory Tower" on PBS on January 24, 1997. "Shattering the Silences" takes a surprising and provocative look at the success and distress of minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences in universities from Seattle to New York. This is bold, compelling documentary. There are poignant stories about the obstacles and challenges on the journey to the ivory tower. There is both humor and pain as these minority voices in the academy tell a double edged story. Minority scholars are introducing new perspectives and fresh questions in university classrooms. While they have invigorated disciplines by contributing a wealth of new scholarship, the number of minority professors is still alarmingly small and the pipeline is fragile. Across all disciplines ninety percent of professors are white. Opening up institutions does not come easily. New scholarship is by definition challenging and minority scholars are constantly drawn into a debate over who defines truth and what to teach. Answering to the needs of an overwhelmingly white institution, minority professors are also often overburdened by the demands put on them. The controversial issues of Culture Wars and Affirmative Action are part of the atmosphere in which our group of scholars are trying to make a difference. Student voices are also heard in this stylish, passionate and fast-paced documentary. This is a film filled with compassion, humor, anger and tears. The characters are engaging and provocative. They are superb teachers, riveting role models; and pathbreaking scholars in history, literature, sociology, ethnic studies and political science. -------------------- ********************************************* Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 08:43:21 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra L Spencer Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem on Larry Flynt In-Reply-To: In response to Linda McAlister's very articulate comment on the above, "Bravo and Amen"--Hustler is NOT about sexuality. Look it over. Read it. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:43:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem and Larry Flynt We may want other films made that show the damage done by pornography or that put the >spotlight on the black community's struggle for rights, but that doesn't >mean that films dealing with legal issues where white males play a major >role don't also serve a good purpose, and in fact may have a place in >women's studies courses. > >Joan Gundersen Joan: We may want these films til the cows come home, but the reality is that hollywood is run by a bunch of white guys who are motivated by the dollar almighty. Feminists are dismayed/outraged that $20-100 million at a pop are invested in representing the experiences of - in flint's case - scumbags and and Ghost's case a garden-variety principled white guy as opposed to a rare, sheroic woman who committed her life to securing justice for her murdered husband, her family, and the people of Mississippi. We should be proud of that outrage, and continue to question why Milos Foreman and Hollywood chose a sick misogynist to champion the first amendment, or why Rob Reiner can come up for the cash to make Ghosts in a heartbeat while a feature film on Medgar or Merlie Evers has never even prompted folks to do a power lunch. Do these films have a place in a women's studies course? Yes. Are they sufficient? Not by a long shot. Jaime jgrant@tui.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:27:11 -0500 Reply-To: sworst@uua.org Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Worst Organization: Beacon Press Subject: Sexual Harassment on Campus The following book was recommended as a resource on sexual harassment on campus: > Dziech, Billie Wright, and Linda Weiner. 1984. _The Lecherous Professor: > Sexual Harassment on Campus_. Boston, Mass.: Beacon. I thought I'd add that, while the book is no longer available from Beacon, a revised paperback edition is in print with the University of Illinois Press. Susan G. Worst sworst@bp.beacon.org Editor, Beacon Press tel (617) 742-2110 x551 25 Beacon Street fax (617) 723-3097 Boston, MA 02108 Beacon's WWW address is: http://www.beacon.org/Beacon ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:58:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Megan Hollmann Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem and Larry Flynt In-Reply-To: Greetings all, I am one of the few readers of this listserve, it seems, who actually went and saw _The People v. Larry Flynt_. I won't lie; I thought it was very powerful and addressed a lot of issues that seem to be left out of the discussion forum on this list. Which leads me to believe that before we, as feminists, bash the movie, we should have a little more to go on than Gloria Steinem's opinion and nothing else. And to address a statement that has been made numerous times in the last week or so, _The People v. Larry Flynt_ is NOT a glorification of Flynt's life. At the end of the film, Flynt is paralyzed from the waist down, incapable of sexual feeling, the widower of an AIDS victim who was the one person throughout his life who totally understood him. This film cannot, in my mind, be even remotely regarded as a positive statement about Larry Flynt's life. To quote Maya Hostettler, > Go and see the movie(s) - maybe we then get a different discussion going? > Megan *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Megan L. Hollmann 3301 Computer ScienceCenter editor, Women's Studies Database University of Maryland inforM College Park, MD 20742 University of Maryland 301-405-7833 megan@info.umd.edu *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:08:47 -0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Renee J. Heberle" Subject: Re: film title? >Does anyone recall the name of the film about the women incarcerated in the >Framingham Prison in Mass. for killing their batterers? I have a vague >memory that the film may have won an Oscar as a documentary. >Batya > The documentary is called "Defending Our Lives". It did win an Oscar. The organization of women was called "Battered Women fighting Back". It no longer exists but one of the women from the Framingham Eight whose story is told in the film is still in prison. Her case is being handled by Barbara O'Leary at 617-821-0990. Renee Dr. Renee Heberle, heberlrj@potsdam.edu Politics Department/Women's Studies Program 309a Satterlee Hall SUNY Potsdam Potsdam, NY 13676 Office Phone: 315-267-2555 Home Phone: 315-265-2513 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 12:21:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Katherine J. Mayberry" Subject: Public Policy Program I would appreciate any information I could get about the Public Policy Master's Program with a concentration in women's studies at George Washington University. If anyone knows about this program or knows someone who does, please respond to me privately at kjmgpt@rit.edu. And a second query. Does anyone know where Diana Henderson, formerly in the English and Women's Studies Departments at Middlebury College, might be reached? Many thanks. Kit Mayberry ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 12:59:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem and Larry Flynt In-Reply-To: <9701151443.AA11235@union1> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Jaime Grant wrote: > opposed to a rare, sheroic woman who committed her life to securing justice ^^^^^^^ I just wanted to point out my amusement with usages like this. The original Hero was a woman. We don't need to doubly feminize this word. Alana ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:00:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: Gloria Steinem and Larry Flynt (fwd) On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Jaime Grant wrote: > opposed to a rare, sheroic woman who committed her life to securing justice ^^^^^^^ I just wanted to point out my amusement with usages like this. The original Hero was a woman. We don't need to doubly feminize this word. Alana Suskin alanacat@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:54:19 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Bibliography on girls Comments: To: WMST-L%UMDD.Bitnet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU As some of you may remember, last October I sent out a request for information on cross-cultural studies of girls. I tried once to send the results of that query to the list, but my message was rejected for being too long. I have now had a student put all of the suggestions into bibliographic form and I'd like to pass them along to the whole list by way of thanks for your help. We have begun our seminar on the Girl and are having a wonderful time. Some of the bib. entries are not complete, because I couldn't find all the info on them. The texts that are either owned by Kenyon or available on the Consort system I've denoted by the (KEN) at the end of the entry. Entries are alphabetical and websites, pamphlets, journals are not listed. This is just a list of the texts. ******************************************************************************** Amit-Talai, Vered, and Helena Wulff (eds). _Youth Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Perspective._ New York: Routledge, 1995. Barnes, Virgina Lee. _Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl._ New York: Pantheon Books, 1995 (KEN) Cisneros, Sandra. _The House on Mango Street_. NY: Vintage, 1984. Cliff, Michelle. _Abeng: A Novel._ NY: Crossing Press, 1984. (OWU) Cofer, Judith Ortiz. _Silent Dancing._ Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1990. (KEN) Cutrufelli, Maria Rosa. _Canto Al Deserto._ Dangarembga, Tsitsi. _Nervous Conditions._ Seattle: Seal Press, 1989 (KEN). Danticat, Edwidge. _Krik? Krak!_ NY: Soho Press, 1995. (OWU) De Rosa, Tina. _Paper Fish._ Feminist Press, 1996 De Salvo, Louise. _Vertigo._ Dutton, 1996 Grahn, Judy. _Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World._ Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. (KEN) Griffin, Christine. _Typical Girls? Young Women from School to the Job Market._ London: Routledge, 1985. (OWU) Hey, Valerie. _The Company She Keeps: An Ethnography of Girls' FRiendships._ Open Univ Press, 1996 Holland, Dorothy C. _Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture._ Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 1990. (DEN WOO) Kadohata, Cynthia. _The Floating World._ New York: Ballantine, 1993. (OWU) Knight, Chris. _Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origin of Culture._ New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 1991. (DEN WOO) Kincaid, Jamaica. _Annie John._ NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995. (KEN) ---. _Lucy_ NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990. Lau, Evelyn. _Diary of a Runaway._ Lees, Sue. _Sugar and Spice: Sexuality and Adolescent Girls._ NY: Penguin, 1993 Mernissi, Fatima. _Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Childhood._ Reading: Addison, Wesley Pub, 1994. Orenstein, Peggy. _School Girls._ NY: Anchor Books, 1994. Roy, Anuradha Marwah. _The Higher Education of Geetika Mehendiratta._ New Delhi: Orient Longmann Ltd, 1993. Santiago, Esmerelda. _When I Was Puerto Rican._ NY: Vintage, 1994. (KEN) Schreiner, Olive. _The Story of an African Farm._ London: E. Benn, 1930. (KEN) Sinclair, Jo. _The Changelings._ Old Westbury: Feminist Press, 1985. (KEN) Smith, M.F. _Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa._ London: Faber and Faber, 1954. (KEN) White, Merry. _The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America._ Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 1993. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:48:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellyn Kaschak Subject: Engendered Lives I want to thank all of you who sent me such enthusiastic messages about your use of my book Engendered Lives. It meant a lot to me and I hope to have it back in print in short order. Meanwhile a reminder that it is currently available in single or multiple copies ($15) from: The Institute for Feminist Training 6114 LaSalle Avenue #299 Oakland, CA 94611 (510)339-2227 I would also appreciate those of you who are on this list passing this information to colleagues and students who do not have access to it. Thank you, Ellyn Kaschak, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology San Jose State University San Jose, CA 95192 (408)924-5630 Ellkas@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:34:52 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harvette Grey Subject: Women and Spirituality Conference The DePaul University Women's Center is sponsoring a 'Women and Spirituality' Conference May 22, 23, 1997(Thursday & Friday). We invite women from traditional and nontraditional religions to participate in the conference. We want our conference to reflect a diversity of ideas, cultures, religions, and ethnicities. For example: Is a Hindu woman's experience of spirituality similar or different from that of a Jewish or Protestant woman? Is a woman's experieince of the spiritual quest the same or different from a man's. Has the notion of spirituality enhanced feminist thought in the Catholic church ? Our goal is to begin women talking about spirituality across cultures, class, religions, and other aspects that might normally separate and divde us. If you are interesting in presenting a workshop or know of other women who might be, please submit a 100 words or less regarding your proposed presentation. (Workshops will last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes) Please include a title, topic, names, and contact addresses/telephone numbers of presentor If you are intersted in attending, please contact the Center for additional information. hgrey@wppost.depaul.edu fax 773-325-7467 phone 773-325-7558 snail -- Harvette Grey, Director Women's Center DePaul University 2320 North Kenmore #SAC166 Chicago, Illinois 60614 Thank you ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 02:30:39 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: OLYMPIC COMMITTEE I was asked to pass this on and thought others would find it interesting. I have copies of the petition in Women's Studies. Dawn Atkins --------------- Text of forwarded message --------------- FROM: Mary E. Atkins SUBJECT: OLYMPIC COMMITTEE I am collecting signatures to be sent to the Olympic Committee which states: WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, ARE SIGNING THIS PETITION IN SUPPORT OF THE DEMAND FOR THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE AND THE MEDICAL COMMISSION TO STOP MANDATORY SEX TESTING FOR FEMALE ATHLETES ONLY. THE IOC'S POLICY BANS "any form of discrimination...on grounds of race, religion, politics, sex or otherwise," YET THE IOC'S INSISTENCE OF TESTING WOMEN ONLY IS BLATANT DISCRIMINATION. THE IOC MUST EITHER TEST BOTH SEXES OR ELIMINATE THE TESTING ALTOGETHER. Anyone out there can collect signatures or send a postcard or letter to: Dr. Leroy T. Walker, One Olympic Plaza, Colorado Springs, CO 80909-5760 (719)632-5551 or better write: Prince Alexandre de Merode, Chairman of the IOC Medical Commission, Chateau de Vidy, Case Postale 356, CH-10007. Lausanne, Switzerland: (011) 2162-16111. What is this about you may ask? More can be read about this from Mariah Burton Nelson's incredible book, THE STRONGER WOMEN GET, THE MORE MEN LOVE FOOTBALL: Sexism and the American Culture of Sports, Harcourt Brace, 1994. Also the following is an article from the newsreport MEDIA WATCH, PO BOX 618, Santa Cruz, CA 95061. The full article in Media Watch by Ann Simonton is below: "Looking back at all the glory and anguish of the past 100th Olympic Games, what might have happened if, for example, gymnast Kerry Strug had not passed the sex test? Sex tests are a little known mandatory test for female athletes only. Those who fail - regardless of their assigned gender at birth and obvious genitalia - are banned from competition for life and stripped of their medals. Shocked and humiliated the women usually withdraw quietly, often faking an injury as suggested by tournament officials. In 1967, when women had just begun to break previous records and to close the gap between male and female Olympic performances, the IOC officially decided to test female athletes. Women athletes had to line up in front of male gynecologists-their shirts pulled up and pants pulled down to prove their "femininity." The press fondly dubbed these sex tests humorous "nude parades." Female athletes protested these humiliating "parades." So, the following year the IOC used a more scientific method called the Barr body test, where cells from the female's mouth were scraped and examined under a microscope. Today they use a more accurate polymerase chain reaction test to determine the "purity and authenticity" of the females. Ewa Klobukowska, a Polish sprinter, was the first woman to fail the Barr test after having passed a visual inspection of her body the previous year. The doctors at the 1968 Olympics stated she had "one chomosome too many to be declared a woman for the purposes of athletic competition." Klobukowska was stripped of her Olympic and other medals and removed from the competition. She, like six women in a thousand, have XXY chromosomes. The reality is that humans don't sort into two neat chromosomal packages, with all women coming out XX and all men XY. Humans exist within a broad range of chromosomal and hormonal possibilities. Women can carry an extra X or Y, while men may carry an extra Y or X. The double Y chromosomes in males were once correlated with violent behavior. Some men are born without testicles, while others can appear as "normal" males, yet also have a uterus. Gender is determined by a combination of chromosomes, hormones, gonads, external genitalia and the assigned gender given at birth. Sexual testing continues today and disqualifies as many as 12 women during the Olympic Games. Alison Carlson documented this fact in a paper entitled "The Athlete's View of Gender Verification in Sports" that she presented at the 1992 International Athletic Foundation Symposium on Gender Verification for International Team Physicians. In 1985 Kirsten Wengler suffered the horror of a false positive test before an international swim meet. The doctors even took it upon themselves to also inform her that she might be unable to bear children. After four months of testing it was finally determined that she had typical XX chromosomes. She received what many women athletes call her official "Fem-Card." Don't leave home without it! Runner, Maria Jose Martinez Patino of Spain made just that mistake. Maria, having passed the test at the Helsinki World Championships in 1983, merely forgot to take her "femininity certificate" to Japan in 1985. She contested her disqualification after failing the sex test in Kobe, Japan. In shock, she did as she was told and feigned a foot injury. Patino's genetic anomaly is called androgen insensitivity. As an embryo she didn't react to androgens and developed into a female who has XY chromosomes. She was labled a freak and lost her athletic scholarships, her friends and her trainers. It wasn't until 1988 when sex-test opponents argued her case before the IOC that she was finally reinstated. Physicians worldwide, including the American College of Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, oppose the tests because they lack scientific merit and are discriminatory. The IOC does not release test results and officially justifies testing every female Olympian to 'ensure femininity' to 'establish physical equality,' and 'to prevent unfair, male-like physical advantage.' In 1993, after an in-depth review of sex-tests, the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) recommended abolishing all gender verification tests. They found that men aren't masquerading as women (not one has been found in 25 years of testing) and there isn't evidence that those who are being eliminated have any biological advantage. Since the urine sample must be produced under direct visual observation, it should suffice as a visual inspection that would exclude the possibility of men posing as women. There are very few documented cases of men competing as women. In 1936 the winner of the 100-meter dash was questioned about her gender by the coach of the woman who came in second. She passed a male doctor's visual inspection. In 1955 a man who called himself Dora Ratjen admitted that in the 1936 Olympics he was forced by Hitler's Youth Movement to compete as a woman. Two French runners in 1946 were "found to be living as men." It remains unclear if they were really women posing as men or men pretending to be women. Dr. Albert de la Chapelle of the Department of Medical Genetics at the Univ. of Helsinki called for an end to this testing in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In 1987 Prince Alexandre de Merode, Chairman of the IOC Medical Commission, responded to Dr. de la Chapelle's complaint by insisting these female sex tests have eliminated the "Denunciations, rumors, and scandals" that persisted before 1968 and were "besmirching sports and the reputation of persons concerned." Eliminating the test, would lead to "a resurgence of scandals of which sport would be the victim.," he claimed. I called the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado and asked the Medical Staff if they had considered testing male athletes who might carry two Y chromo- somes - which would give them an unfair testosterone boost. I was passed from Arlinda to Nick and on to Jenny Stone ATC (certified athletic trainer) who sounded a bit flabbergasted. "I don't know enough about that to answer your question. Besides it's up to the IOC to determine the need to test men." She also said that female Olympians who fail the sex test can appeal. Since the actual games happen every four years in the span of a few weeks time, the appeal process, which can take years, is nearly useless. The IOC's policy bans "any form of discrimination...on grounds of race, re- ligion, politics, sex or otherwise," yet the IOC's insistence on testing women is blatant discrimination. Women will continue to astound the world with their athletic excellence. Why make their playing field so uneven? The IOC should either test both sexes or eliminate the testing altogether.-ajs" Dawn Atkins dawn-atkins@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:10:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: May Cohen Subject: Re: Feminist critiques of the mmpi In-Reply-To: <01IE7KZVEYUA000MDC@Fox.Rollins.Edu> I too wouuld like to receive such material if anyone is familiar with it. May Cohen cohenm@fhs. mcmaster.ca On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Bette Tallen wrote: > For a colleague who is not on the list--I am looking for citations > for works that give feminist critiques of the MMPI (the Minnesota > Personality Inventory). > > Please reply privately to: > BTallen@Rollins.edu > > Thanks, > Bette > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:44:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Dead WS URLs? Hi. As many of you know, I maintain a web page devoted to information-rich women's studies/women's issues web sites (the URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/links.html ). For some time now, I've been unable to reach one of the sites there (ANTIGONE, which I learned about from a posting on WMST-L), and two more sites that I've included in a soon-to-be-available book have also proved elusive. Can anyone help me track down the following sites: 1) ANTIGONE - AALS Section on Women in Legal Education. I have the URL as http://lawlibdns.wuacc.edu/wlegedu/index.html . Tracing back in the URL didn't help. 2) WomenSports - http://www.womensports.com/ . The server hasn't answered in at least a month. Other women's sports pages I've checked also have this URL, and it's just as dead there. 3) American Literature Survey Site - Daniel Anderson's rich collection of materials, including links to a web page for "The Yellow Wallpaper" and lots of other stuff. I don't need the YWP URL--what I need is a working URL for the overall American Literature site. I had it as http://www.en.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/amlit.html , but the server hasn't answered in about a week. I then checked Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle, since Alan tends to be as obsessive as I am concerning these matters. He has it, I think, as http://auden.fac.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/amlit.html , but there too the server didn't respond. If anyone has accurate, up-to-date information about any of the above sites, I'd be most grateful if you'd contact me PRIVATELY, not at my usual address (the server has some scheduled down time coming up) but rather at korenman@umbc.edu, the address from which I'm sending this. When the book (entitled Internet Resources on Women: Using Electronic Media in Curriculum Transformation) is available, I'll of course make an announcement (or two or three :-) ) on WMST-L. Since there's an online "updates" web page, I'll be able to announce any corrections or additions as soon as I learn about them. Many thanks for any help you can provide. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:58:53 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara G. Taylor" Subject: Re: Books on Sexual Harrassment on Campus In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:44:45 GMT from Also, Benice Lott and Mary Ellen Reilly's _Combatting Sexual Harassment in Higher Education_, NEA Professional Library Higher Education Series, 1996. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:10:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: film title? At 08:59 AM 1/14/97 -0700, you wrote: >Does anyone recall the name of the film about the women incarcerated in the >Framingham Prison in Mass. for killing their batterers? I have a vague >memory that the film may have won an Oscar as a documentary. >Batya > The film is DEFENDING OUR LIVES. I was referred to it on this list and am showing it next Wednesday. It is available from Cambridge Documentary Films in a half hour film version, 45 minute video and a Spanish version. It won the Oscar for Best Short Documentary Film and several other awards. Cambriddge Documentary Films POI BAox 385, Cambrdige MA 02139; 617 484 3993. email CDF@shore.net rental or sale available. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:27:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret R Parker Subject: staffing WGS courses I would like to hear from people in women's studies or women's and gender studies programs about the issue of male professors teaching core courses. Our program is Women's and Gender Studies, and some of our faculty oppose having a male professor teach a special topic course under our WGS rubric. If you have discussed this issue, I would be interested to hear how it was resolved, what the arguments were. Thanks, Margaret Margaret Parker, Director, WGS, LSU mparker@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:13:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Deitch Subject: M.A. Program In response to the recent query about the graduate program in Women's Studies, I would like to announce our new web page: www.gwu.edu/wstu~ Detailed information about our two M.A. degree programs, in Women's Studies and in Public Policy/Women's Studies, is included along with links to the graduate admissions office and the the university bulletin. We have just added a page on upcoming events on women's issues in the Washington DC area. Cynthia Deitch Associate Director Women's Studies Program George Washington University Washington DC 20052 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:15:11 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Bergmann Subject: Re: African American reading I know that there is an annual national reading of African American Literature each February, but I cannot put my hands on any information about it. There is some interest in starting it up at my school, but we will need to start planning now if it is going to take place. Could anyone help me make contact with this--sorry to be so vague, but it's been at least a year since I read about it, probably in the NCTE newsletter or some other English or writing related publication. Please answer privately. Thanks. Linda S. Bergmann Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65409 (573) 341-4685 bergmann@umr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:03:46 -0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Vogt Organization: The Thacher School Subject: Query:Gender Equity in Education I am interested in gender equality, and am currently doing a project on Gender Equity in Education, specifically science and math. I'm looking for additional resources for this project, including books, periodical articles or personal contacts who would be interested in helping me through their personal experiences. I am trying to find out why such a gender gap exists in these disciplines and the best means to counterract them. I also would like information on how studies on gender equity have been run in the past so that I can apply some of it to local schools and assess their status on gender equity. Thank you, and please respond privately with information or if you would like to know more precisely what my project is about. Lisa Vogt lvogt@thacher.org Thacher School, Ojai, CA 93023 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:27:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly Springer Subject: "Shattering the Silences" Just a note about PBS and broadcast times for the program, "Shattering the Silences". Your local PBS affiliate may be broadcasting at a different time than the national satellite feed. For example, the show will be shown in Atlanta on WPBA (channel 30) on Wednesday the 29th at 10pm. Call your affiliate for details! Sounds like a good program. Thanks for posting it to the list, Linda. Kim Springer kspring@emory.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:26:25 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Doris W Ewing Subject: FEMINISM AND MEN We are seeking a resource list of men's gr oups who are actively involved in social action toward achieving feminist goals for inclusion in our book on Feminism and Men (soon to be published by NYU press). Please send me either the name and address of a group with which you are familiar, or a 3-5 page program description if you are involved with such a group. We are not interested in men's conciousness raising groups or groups focusing on improving men's lives, even when these groups are guided by feminist principles. Likewise, we are not looking for groups where men play a cooperative or supportive role, but rather where men are working with other men to achieve feminist objectives. We anticipate that these groups will fall in one of three categories: 1. Men against violence toward women(eg; rape, battering, pornography, prostitution,etc.) 2. Strengthening families (eg; teaching fathering skills, marital conflict resolution, sharing of family responsibilities) 3. Workplace structure(eg; groups or unions working forpay equity, flex time, comparable worth, company based day care, paternity leave) All suggestions and leads are welcome and needed. Thanks! Please respond privately. dwe997f@wpgate.smsu.edu OR Dr Doris Ewing Department of Sociology and Anthropology Southwest Missouri State Univ. 901 S. National Springfield MO 65804 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:33:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Van Daalen-Smith Subject: Re: WMST-L Digest - 14 Jan 1997 to 15 Jan 1997 In-Reply-To: <199701160503.AAA25584@tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca> Could anyone help me with possible references or books on feminist criteria for self help books. I am researching self esteem groups for women held through public health departments, and need criteria from which to evaluate them. I like Hogie Wyckoff's approach, but I have yet to find other sources that discuss feminist models of self help group processes. Can any one help. Please respond to me privately. at cvandaalensmith@oise.utoronto.ca thanks, Cheryl. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 07:10:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "MARY L. ERTEL, SOCIOLOGY" Subject: request for traditionality/nontraditionality in gender roles instrument I am requesting the List's help in choosing a gender role instrument which would measure the extent to which women and men exhibit traditional or non-traditional characteristics/attitudes/behaviors in their gender role orientation. I have used a couple of such instruments in the past, but not recently. The information I would appreciate includes: - the name of such an instrument as well as where I can find it - any comments you have about the instrument itself Please respond privately, unless you think the information might be useful to the list. I want to use this instrument for some research I will engage my Women's Studies class in. I will post responses back to the List, if there are requests to do so; and if people respond privately and not to the List. Please send information to ertel@ccsu.ctstateu.edu OR ertel@ccsua.ctstateu.edu Thank you in advance for your help. Mary L. Ertel, Associate Professor, Sociology Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 07:42:39 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "C. Horwitz" Subject: Men? again? In-Reply-To: <970117071034.202c206d@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU> This is the second time I have found my Women's Studies students asking for and why there are no men in my class Woman as Body. Personally I don't really want men in the class because I feel we have enough on our plate with negotiataing each other's issues around embodiment but they seem to feel differently. Has this issue been discussed on the list before? I have absolutely NO desire to beat the bushes to find men for my classes - they fill completely as it is and I told them that. Thoughts? Carol Horwitz (Women's Studies at Knox College) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:20:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sharon Parrott (AMS)" Subject: Steinem review of Flynt film from NYT Here's a copy of the Steinem reveiw of the Flynt movie from the NYT. I got it thru our library system. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:17:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Sharon Parrott (AMS)" Subject: FirstSearch text delivery (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:32:24 From: First Search Mail To: sparrott@luna.cas.usf.edu Subject: FirstSearch text delivery ------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE DO NOT REPLY OR SEND MESSAGES TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS. ------------------------------------------------------------ NUMBER: 970107058556 AUTHOR: Steinem, Gloria TITLE: Hollywood Cleans Up Hustler NEWS SOURCE: New York Times SEC, PG:COL: A, 17:2 DATE: 970107 ILLUSTRATION: Photograph TEXT: Larry Flynt the Movie is even more cynical than Larry Flynt the Man. ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' claims that the creator of Hustler magazine is a champion of the First Amendment, deserving our respect. That isn't true. Let's be clear: A pornographer is not a hero, no more than a publisher of Ku Klux Klan books or a Nazi on the Internet, no matter what constitutional protection he secures. And Mr. Flynt didn't secure much. The Rev. Jerry Falwell sued him over a Hustler parody that depicted Mr. Falwell in a drunken, incestuous encounter with his mother. Mr. Flynt's victory only confirmed the right to parody public figures (if the result can't be taken as fact) and prevented plaintiffs from doing an end run around the First Amendment by claiming they suffered ''emotional distress.'' In fact, the Nazis who marched in Skokie, Ill., and the Klansman who advocated violence in Ohio achieved more substantive First Amendment victories than did Mr. Flynt. Yet no Hollywood movie would glamorize a Klansman or a Nazi as a champion of free speech, much less describe him in studio press releases as ''the era's last crusader,'' which is how Columbia Pictures describes Mr. Flynt. In this film, produced by Oliver Stone and directed by Milos Forman, Hustler is depicted as tacky at worst, and maybe even honest for showing full nudity. What's left out are the magazine's images of women being beaten, tortured and raped, women subject to degradations from bestiality to sexual slavery. Filmgoers don't see such Hustler features as ''Dirty Pool,'' which in January 1983 depicted a woman being gang-raped on a pool table. A few months after those pictures were published, a woman was gang-raped on a pool table in New Bedford, Mass. Mr. Flynt's response to the crime was to publish a postcard of another nude woman on a pool table, this time with the inscription ''Greetings from New Bedford, Mass. The Portuguese Gang- Rape Capital of America.'' Nor do you see such typical Hustler photo stories as a naked woman in handcuffs who is shaved, raped and apparently killed by guards in a concentration-camp-like setting. You won't meet ''Chester the Molester,'' the famous Hustler cartoon character who sexually stalks girls. (The cartoonist, Dwaine Tinsley, was convicted in 1990 of sexually molesting his daughter.) You certainly don't see such Hustler illustrations as a charred expanse of what looks like human skin, with photos of dead and dismembered women pinned to it. On the contrary, the Hollywood version of Larry Flynt, played by the charming Woody Harrelson, is opposed to violence. At an anti-censorship rally, he stands against a backdrop of beautiful images of nude women that are intercut with scenes of Hiroshima, marching Nazis and the My Lai massacre. ''Which is more obscene,'' the Flynt character asks, ''sex or war?'' Viewers who know Hustler's real content might ask, ''Why can't Larry Flynt tell the difference?'' Mr. Flynt's daughter Tonya, 31, is so alarmed by this film's dishonesty that she joined women who picketed its opening in San Francisco. She also publicly accused Mr. Flynt of having sexually abused her when she was a child, a charge he vehemently denies and attributes to her ''mental problems.'' ''I'm upset about this film because it supports my dad's argument that pornography does no harm,'' she has said. ''If you want to see a victim of pornography, just look at me.'' Unlike his film character, the real Mr. Flynt is hardly an unwavering advocate of free speech. Indeed, other feminists and I have been attacked in Hustler for using our First Amendment rights to protest pornography. In my case, that meant calling me dangerous and putting my picture on a ''Most Wanted'' poster. I was also depicted as the main character in a photo story that ended in my sexual mutilation. Given the number of crimes that seem to imitate pornography, this kind of attack does tend to get your attention. So, no, I am not grateful to Mr. Flynt for protecting my freedom, as the film and its enthusiasts suggest I should be. No more than I would be to a racist or fascist publisher whose speech is protected by the Constitution. My question is, Would men be portrayed as inviting, deserving and even enjoying their own pain and degradation, as women are in Mr. Flynt's life work? Suppose Mr. Flynt specialized in such images as a young African-American man trussed up like a deer and tied to the luggage rack of a white hunter's car. Or a nude white man being fed into a meat grinder. (Those are some of the milder ways in which Hustler portrays women.) Would Oliver Stone -- who rarely lets powerful men emerge unscathed -- bowdlerize and flatter that kind of man, too? Would Woody Harrelson, who supports animal rights and protests the cutting of trees, pose happily next to that Larry Flynt? Would Milos Forman defend that film by citing his memories of censorship under the Nazis? What if the film praised an anti-Semitic publisher? Would it be nominated for five Golden Globe awards? Would there be cameos by Donna Hanover Giuliani, the wife of New York City's Mayor; Burt Neuborne, a New York University law professor; Judge D'Army Bailey of the Memphis Circuit Court or James Carville, President Clinton's former political consultant? I don't think so. The truth is, if Larry Flynt had published the same cruel images even of animals, this movie would never have been made. Fortunately, each of us has the First Amendment right to protest. ------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for using FirstSearch. This e-mail account is only for distribution of FirstSearch documents. Please contact your librarian with comments or concerns. ------------------------------------------------------------ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:52:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Men? again? I have 6 men in my Intro to Women's Studes course. Two are women's Studies minors, and 4 are there for no apparent reason (they don't talk, they are rather intimidating to the other students). You might ask your student 1) why they want men, 2) what they think men could add to the class 3) in what ways might men detract from the class, and 4) what KIND of men do they want in the class? Yes, I love teaching all-women classes, but I don't mind men who are thoughtful and take the class seriously. Also, you might want to discuss WHY men do or don't take women's studies classes. I have found that some are sincere, but others are obviously there for other reasons (think it will be easy, want to give a "male" point of view, want to waste everyone's time by trying to discredit me and the material). Christine Smith Ball State University 10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:50:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Subject: Re: Men? again? Carol: I don't think it's your responsibility to recruit men for a class. But the question is a great one to raise discussion. Why do they think their male peers aren't signing up? Why don't they ask them and create dialogue? Do your students want to produce some kind of consciousness-raising event about the importance of classes such as Women as Body to men's intellectual and personal growth? How would a class on Woman as Body change if there was one man in it? Ten? Hope this is helpful. Jaime jgrant@tui.edu At 07:42 AM 1/17/97 -0600, you wrote: >This is the second time I have found my Women's Studies students asking >for and why there are no men in my class Woman as Body. Personally I >don't really want men in the class because I feel we have enough on our >plate with negotiataing each other's issues around embodiment but they >seem to feel differently. Has this issue been discussed on >the list before? I have absolutely NO desire to beat the bushes to find >men for my classes - they fill completely as it is and I told them that. >Thoughts? >Carol Horwitz (Women's Studies at Knox College) > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:56:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Men? Again? Regarding my last post on this topic, want to say--don't waste too much time on this issue. Everytime we want to discuss women and women's lives, some of my students will try to bring it back to men. It is a WOMEN'S STUDIES course. And this is exactly why. Christine Smith ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:32:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: david doughan Subject: Temporary closure of The Fawcett Library The Fawcett Library has been closed to personal visitors due to flooding caused by a burst water main in the street adjacent to the Library. There has been no damage to the LIbrary's collections. The water main has been repaired, but it will take some time to complete repairs to the fabric of the Library and to move the collections back into position. As a result of this, The Fawcett Library will re-open to personal visitors on Monday 3 February 1997. We are very sorry for the inconvenience this may cause to colleagues and readers. At the moment, we are offering a normal enquiry service by telephone, mail and e-mail (when e-mail is available). Please contact us as follows: Tel.: 0171-320 1189 Fax: 0171-320 1188 e-mail: doughan@lgu.ac.uk Website: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/fawcett.htm Please let colleagues and readers know the situation, and thanks to everyone for support at this time. David Doughan The Fawcett Library, London Guildhall University ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:38:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Krista Scott Subject: To Bruce Keener Sorry to waste mail space on this private mail, but I can't see any other way of doing it. So, if you're not Bruce Keener, you can delete this cheerfully. Bruce, your e-mail's not accepting my messages, so if you read this let me know how I can get in touch with you. Thanks, Krista Scott Graduate Women's Studies S716 Ross York University, North York, ON krust@interlog.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:49:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Krista Scott Subject: Men, men, men I replied privately to the prof who requested info about men in the classes, but I'll share my thoughts with you. I have only had overwhelmingly positive experiences with men in wmst, both as teachers of courses, guest lecturers, and students. Two wonderful profs who were men successfully taught feminist philosophy and Women in Sport. Part of the solution is to discuss the inherent issues right at the beginning of the class. One prof sets groundrules for class discussion. This eliminates the men who take the classes to "meet chicks". A feminist awareness and pedagogy does not have to preclude gender; I've met many female profs who are decidedly anti-feminist. Actually, I think the time has come for Men's Studies. Not the Iron John drums-in-the-woods crap, but a forum where men are able to use feminist techniques of deconstruction and critique to examine male gender expectations and stereotypes. Cheers, Krista Graduate Women's Studies S716 Ross York University, North York, ON krust@interlog.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:03:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carol Oukrop Subject: Re: request for traditionality/nontraditionality in gender roles instrument Please post gender role instrument suggestions to the list; sounds as if such a thing might be useful in my Gender Issues and the Media class. Thanks. >I am requesting the List's help in choosing a gender role instrument which >would measure the extent to which women and men exhibit traditional or >non-traditional characteristics/attitudes/behaviors in their gender role >orientation. I have used a couple of such instruments in the past, but >not recently. > >The information I would appreciate includes: > > - the name of such an instrument as well as where I can find it > > - any comments you have about the instrument itself > >Please respond privately, unless you think the information might be useful to >the list. I want to use this instrument for some research I will engage my >Women's Studies class in. I will post responses back to the List, if there >are requests to do so; and if people respond privately and not to the List. > >Please send information to > ertel@ccsu.ctstateu.edu >OR ertel@ccsua.ctstateu.edu > >Thank you in advance for your help. > >Mary L. Ertel, Associate Professor, Sociology >Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:00:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia B Christian Subject: outcomes assessment Dear colleagues, I have been asked to prepare a plan for outcomes assessment for our Vice President of Academic Affairs, and am looking for inspiration. We currently offer a certificate in WS and a minor. Most of the students in our courses are not getting either the certificate or the minor, although we award between 2 and 6 certificates a year (the minor is new, and we haven't had one yet, although I anticipate perhaps 5 to 8 this year...). Any advice or guidance would be appreciated from those who have been through this process. Thank you very much! Pat Christian Associate Professor of Sociology Director of Women's Studies Canisius College 2001 Main St. Buffalo, NY 14208 christia@canisius.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:38:20 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michaela Blaha Subject: Re: Men? again? I don't see how a teacher can or should answer this question. I believe female students need to direct their curiosity towards their male fellows. When I get into such a discussion myself, I always make a point out of finding out about men's *motives* to be in such a class. If it's just in order to defend their sex (as I have often found), I don't find their presence useful. Michaela Blaha Ruhr University Bochum ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:47:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Linda L. Anderson" Subject: APA In-Reply-To: <9701171738.AA17618@sth.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> can someone provide me an email address for "division 35," (women in psychology) of the American Psychological Association? i want to list a women's studies/psychology job on an appropriate electronic list/newsletter. please respond privately. linda l. anderson women's studies yale university LLA@minerva.cis.yale.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:55:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Copyright and newspaper/magazine articles I am writing to inform all WMST-L readers that articles from newspapers, magazines, and other sources covered by copyright SHOULD NOT BE SENT TO WMST-L. That includes Gloria Steinem's piece on Larry Flynt. I suspect that the person who sent the Steinem piece to WMST-L did so in ignorance. But please, folks, from now on, DO NOT SEND newspaper or magazine articles to WMST-L unless you have written permission from the copyright holder to do so. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:41:59 -0500 Reply-To: "Carolyn Dipalma (WOS)" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carolyn Dipalma (WOS)" Subject: upcoming TV documentary I was invited by a local newspaper's TV critic to attend a pre-screening and to take part in a post-screening panel discussion of a one hour documentary, to be shown on Cinemax on 1/27, titled: "Breasts." The documentary was made by a woman (whose name I have lost, sorry). There are 20 or so women (including some young children), and a transsexual, who discuss how they feel about their breasts and various "breast experience" stories: breast feeding, embarassment about early development, breast reduction, breast augmentation, mastectomy, body image, celebration, disappointment and so on. The majority of the women speak to the camera topless, the children and an older woman are fully clothed, several of the women have on bras, and some of the women--while obviously topless--are not revealed completely to the camera. The post-screening discussion (which lasted 90 minutes!) was fascinating--comments ranged from complaints about the voyeristic aspects, lack of critical depth, an appreciation for the opportunity to hear the voices of women speaking about such personal issues, a respect for the celebratory approach of several of the women, confirmation of notions once thought to belong only to oneself, to the potential (im)possibilities of generating useful discussion in living rooms across America. Given the breadth and depth of discussion generated, I think there is potential for use of this film in undergraduate classrooms. *********************************************************************** * Carolyn DiPalma email: cdipalma@luna.cas.usf.edu * * Assistant Professor phone: 813-974-0979 * * Department of Women's Studies fax: 813-974-0336 * * University of South Florida * * Tampa, FL 33620-8350 * *********************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:45:39 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan lehrer Subject: Re: staffing WGS courses In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:27:29 -0600 from We have a w.s. Program (20 year anniversary a while back), and have had men faculty teaching in the Program from its inception, some great, some, not-so-great. We have a clearly stated policy for x-listing courses (being an interdisciplinary Program) and our curric/personnel committee reviews the syllabus & interviews the faculty the first time it's x-listed, for all courses. We have rejected courses (proposed by both women & men faculty), and accepted them based on these criteria. One of our most popular courses has been taught forever by a cultural anthropologist (male) whose sudden death last semester will be felt for a long time. We do not subscribe to the 'you have to be one to teach it' notion. If that were so, how would any of us manage to teach beyond our immediate identity/experience? Best wishes for resolving this amicably! Susan. Susan Lehrer, lehrers@npvm.newpaltz.edu SUNY - New Paltz ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:02:20 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Palmer Subject: Re: Men? again? I remember asking that same question as a Master's student in one of Carolyn Heilbrun's classes at Columbia (i.e. wouldn't it be nice if there were some men in this class). She was adamant that it was better to finally have a class men wouldn't monopolize. In retrospect, I may have been asking the question out of an (egregiously) misplaced sense that unless men were interested in the class, it somehow didn't have as much value. My conscious motivation for asking the question was that I thought it would be nice to have some men's perspectives on the issues (women and marriage in literature) we were going to be discussing. Lisa ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:59:35 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy San Martin Subject: CFS: The 6th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival Comments: To: qstudy-l@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu., wmst-l@umdd.umd.edu. PLEASE SEND QUESTIONS AND SUBMISSIONS TO wocff@cats.ucsc.edu . Thank you. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:31:41 -0800 (PST) From: Catriona Rueda Esquibel To: Women of Color in Conflict & Collaboration Subject: Call for Submissions: The 6th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival The 6th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival University of California, Santa Cruz - May 1-3, 1997 The annual UCSC Women of Color Film and Video Festival features film/video screenings and conversations with independent film makers, videographers and visual media activists. Over the past five 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. SUBMISSION 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 UC Santa Cruz assume responsibility for tapes submitted for consideration 2. Please label submission tapes (inside and out) with the title of the work, filmmaker's name, address, phone number and 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 Application. 4. Do not use fiber-filled envelopes when mailing. 5. Final program decisions will be made March 20, 1997 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 the necessary rights for the submission of this film/videotape to the Festival 8. You certify that the information provided on the submission form is true and correct. Please send all material, postmarked no later than February 20, 1997 to: Women of Color Film & Video Festival Kresge College - UCSC Activities Office 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 For more information: phone: 408-459-3349 e-mail: wocff@cats.ucsc.edu web: http://www2.ucsc.edu/people/ktrion (look for a link to filmfest web-page) -------------------------------Entry Application-------------------------- The Sixth Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival University of California, Santa Cruz - May 1-3, 1997 Title: ____________________________________________________________________ Language: _______________________________________ Subtitled?______________ One sentence description (please include a longer description, if available): ___________________________________________________________________________ Year Completed ______________ Running Time: _______________ Format: _____1/2" _____3/4" _____16mm Director: _________________________________________________________________ Producer: _________________________________________________________________ Writer: ___________________________________________________________________ Principal Cast: ___________________________________________________________ Screening History: ________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Contact Person: ___________________________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________________________________ Phone:______________ Fax: ________________ e-mail:____________________ Return Video To: __________________________________________________________ Please submit a complete list of production credits, a short synopsis, b&w stills, and other relevant publicity materials with your preview cassette Signature: ______________________________________ Date:__________________ I have read and agree to the submission guidelines of the 6th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:08:08 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Daley, Ginny" Subject: Women's Liberation Research Network Comments: To: sixties-l@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU, H-WOMEN@h-net.msu.edu If you are interested in adding your name to a list of folks who are researching, teaching, writing or have other interests in the Women's Liberation Movement, please fill out the form below and return to me (DO NOT REPLY TO LIST). The idea of a network or directory of people doing research on this topic was sparked by a panel at last summer's Berkshire Conference. The objective of this directory is so that we can all be better aware of who is doing what kind of work around this topic and to help make connections when they are useful. Ginny Daley Women's Studies Archivist Special Collections Library Duke University vld@mail.duke.edu ___________________________________________________________________ Info. for Women's Liberation Research Network: Name Institutional/Organizational Affiliation Mailing Address E-mail Address Phone FAX Short description of your research project/interest in this topic Do you want to receive WLRN information in hard copy/e-mail/both/no preference? Any objections to putting this list up on a WWW site? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:14:35 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "J.E. McAdams" Subject: men in WS courses I think there are 2 different questions here: 1. Do men need to take WS courses? and 2. Do WS courses "need" men in them? Yes, no. Janet McAdams jmcadams@sfasu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:06:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carmen Poulin Subject: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women Announcing two NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM CRIAW (the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women) 1. "Memories and Visions: Celebrating 20 years of Feminist Research with CRIAW/ICREF 1976-1996" edited by Linda Clippingdale. Available in French under the title: "Souvenirs et perspectives d'avenir: Vingt ans de recherche f=E9ministe en compagnie de l'ICREF". 185 pages in Eng., 212 pages in Fr. Available from the CRIAW office for $20.00 plus $2.00 postage ($15.00 for CRIAW members). The book contains short pieces by a number of CRIAW's past presidents, an updated history and "hertorical essay" by Linda Christiansen-Ruffman and Keith Louise Fulton, and 11 articles by researchers representing a diversity of women across Canada. (Aussi en fran=E7ais - Souvenirs et perspectives d'avenir : Vingt ans de recherche f=E9ministe en compagnie de l'ICREF) 2. "Looking for Change: Working Towards Inclusion and Diversity in National Women's Organizations, A Documentation project": a report by the CRIAW research committee on the project funded by the Dept. of Multiculturalism. 38 pages large format. Available from CRIAW for $10.00 (including postage). For ordering copies or obtaining more information regarding the above or other publications from CRIAW, please contact CRIAW at: E-mail: criaw@worldlink.ca TDD/ATS: 613 563-1921 Tel: (613) 563-0681 FAX: (613) 563-0682 ***************************** Carmen Poulin, Ph.D Department of Psychology University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B. E3B 5A3 Phone: (506) 453-4707 Fax: (506) 453-4505 e-mail: CARMEN@UNB.CA ****************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:33:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carmen Poulin Subject: Feminist Research Ethics (tool) Announcing the release of the second edition of the "Feminist Research Ethics: A Process / =C9thique en mati=E8re de recherche f=E9ministe: Un= processus"=09 "Feminist Research Ethics: A Process / =C9thique en mati=E8re de recherche f=E9ministe: Un processus" - second edition - compiled by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) research ethics committee. This publication is a revised and expanded version of the original, with a series of vignettes to encourage and facilitate discussion of the ethical issues involving feminist research. 96 pages bilingual. Available from CRIAW for $10.00 in Canada ($12.00 American for U.S.) Postage included.=20 For ordering copies or obtaining more information regarding the above or other publications from CRIAW, please contact CRIAW at: E-mail: criaw@worldlink.ca http://www.worldlink.ca/=98criaw TDD/ATS: 613 563-1921 Tel: (613) 563-0681 FAX: (613) 563-0682 *************************************************************************** I want to add that the second edition is "twice the size" of the first edition. I think it is a great tool. Of course I am bias, given that I am a member of the committee who wrote it. Still, I do think it is a very useful (wonderful ;-) teaching tool. The first edition sold in three months! The response has been overwhelmingly positive. Finally, I will add that CRIAW's ethics committee is made up of both "academic" and "community" feminists. While the cost has doubled (so has the size), it is still a very affordable price for students. Carmen *********************************************************************** (What follows is only a more detailed description of this publication) "This bilingual document is a result of the work of a team of researchers over the past two years. This edition has been revised and expanded to incorporate comments made by evaluators of the 1st edition. A series of vignettes outlining various ethical dilemmas has been added to aid discussion and facilitate use of this tool. CRIAW has developed this research tool for feminist researchers within the academy and the community. The purpose for ethical guidelines in general is to provide a framework in which we can conduct research which is respectful. More specifically, when we speak about feminist research, implementing ethical concerns translates into research which is sensitive to all women and is concerned with gender, class, sexual orientation, income, race, language culture and ability. We think it is important for researchers to be aware of the assumptions and expectations which exist in conducting research, and the responsibility we have for making sure it is done ethically. Researchers often assume they share the same views with their colleagues. Our own experience suggests that we should name and discuss as many assumptions as possible, including definitions of terms, ethical considerations, project goals and outcomes, and working process."=20 ************************************************************************* ***************************** Carmen Poulin, Ph.D Department of Psychology University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B. E3B 5A3 Phone: (506) 453-4707 Fax: (506) 453-4505 e-mail: CARMEN@UNB.CA ****************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 20:42:09 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: men in WS courses At 06:14 PM 1/17/97 -0600, you wrote: >I think there are 2 different questions here: >1. Do men need to take WS courses? and >2. Do WS courses "need" men in them? >Yes, no. > >Janet McAdams >jmcadams@sfasu.edu > >I agree with what Janet McAdams said, because of my experience--and I have taught feminist women's studies courses (the adjective is now necessary) since 1969. While the majority of men in women's studies courses are fine apparantly it takes only one to make an enormouse amount of trouble. Most of us know about the man at the Univ Washington who took women's studies there to court. Similarly both at the Univ Ill at Chicago and at Cal State at Northridge one dissatisfied man ruined the class, and, in once incident, the Univ. Ill. used that to force me out of Liberal Arts so that I couldn't teach women's studies or sociology any more, and ultimately had to leave the University (and I was a tenured full professor) , and at Cal State Northridge I was so disgusted with the support he received from the head of women's studies there that I decided not to teach there anymore. We have a combination of two factors--apparantly the Universities take male complaints about feminist bias much more seriously than do do female complaints about other things, and second, ironically, because of the efforts on behalf of student power and student rights we worked for in the sixties, assuming that the students would be like us, the male students are quite aggressive about their complaints, and the University or its agents can use the rhetoric of student rights, to force the feminists out. After all, how can one teach a women's studies course, including violence about women, without upsetting men? Not and be honest about it. Sadly, Pauline ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:22:03 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: Women's Liberation Research Network At 06:08 PM 1/17/97 EST, you wrote: > If you are interested in adding your name to a list of folks who > are researching, teaching, writing or have other interests in the > Women's Liberation Movement, please fill out the form below and > return to me (DO NOT REPLY TO LIST). > > The idea of a network or directory of people doing research on this > topic was sparked by a panel at last summer's Berkshire Conference. > The objective of this directory is so that we can all be better > aware of who is doing what kind of work around this topic and to > help make connections when they are useful. > > Ginny Daley > Women's Studies Archivist > Special Collections Library > Duke University > vld@mail.duke.edu > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Info. for Women's Liberation Research Network: > > Name > Institutional/Organizational Affiliation > Mailing Address > E-mail Address > Phone > FAX > Short description of your research project/interest in this topic > > > Do you want to receive WLRN information in hard copy/e-mail/both/no > preference? > > > Any objections to putting this list up on a WWW site? > > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 06:39:49 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhea Cote Organization: University of Maine Subject: Re: Women's Liberation Research Network Info. for Women's Liberation Research Network: Name Rhea Cote Robbins Institutional/Organizational Affiliation University of Maine/Grad Student Mailing Address 641 South Main St., Brewer, Maine 04412-2516 E-mail Address RJCR@aol.com and Rhea@maine.maine.edu Phone 207-989-7059 FAX Short description of your research project/interest in this topic I am working on establishing a tradition of Franco-American women writers 1800s to present and also doing research on Grace Metalious who wrote four books and two have to do with the French culture of the Northeast, US. She was Franco-American and wrote Peyton Place. Peyton Place has been much maligned. The book takes up issues such as abortion, incest and more. Do you want to receive WLRN information in hard copy/e-mail/both/no preference? I would like to received both, thank you. Any objections to putting this list up on a WWW site? I would not like my mailing address or my telephone number put on the WWW site...only the email. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 06:44:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhea Cote Organization: University of Maine Subject: Re: Women's Liberation Research Network Very sorry about this...my error. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:35:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: Re: staffing WGS courses We have the problem of not being able to control who teaches our WS courses. The departments (we are a program) do the teaching assignments. Hence, we have had some very unfeminist women and men teaching our courses. It is continually frustrating for us. Christine Smith Ball State University ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:43:16 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnne Myers Subject: Re[2]: staffing WGS courses In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:35:47 EST The issues of staffing, cross-listing, etc WS courses are very important. Would any of you be interested in putting together a workshop or roundtable on these issues for the upcoming Women & Society Conference--held june 6-8 in Poughkeepsie NY at Marist College? If so, please e-mail me asap so I can include it as we look at abstracts. [JZLY@MaristB.Marist.edu] In sisterhood, JAM ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:47:17 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: FEWood Subject: Re: Men? again? Dear WMST-L: Without having read all of the strands of this thread, I'm jumping in with an observation in response to Jaime Grant's question: How would a class on Woman as Body change if there were one man in it? Ten? Having been in a number of women-only spaces over the past thirty years (from convents to domestic violence programs to university classrooms), one of the things that never ceases to amaze, confound, annoy, outrage me is the way that men/males' concerns, perceptions, opinions become central regardless of their physical absence. I believe that asking women students what they believe to be important about men's (physical) presence is a good opportunity to raise a number of issues. Among them are: 1)the ubiquitousness of male concerns, 2) the fact that relations between and among women and men shape everything from the politics of program/course-naming to safety in relationships (whether hetero or same sex) to what women think of their (and other women's) bodies, and 3) the opportunity to debunk the (never-ending) characterization of women's studies as male-bashing and/or group therapy. Internalized male gazes/world views are part and parcel of every women's studies setting. I am in favor of making this reality explicit, rather than implicit. Frances E. Wood Institute for Women's Studies Emory University, Atlanta, GA fwood01@emory.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:55:20 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: "Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator" Subject: Film Review Added: The Portrait of a Lady On Saturday, January 18, 1997, I reviewed "The Portrait of a Lady" on "The Women's Show," Tampa's womanist/feminist weekly radio show on WMNF-FM (88.5). This review is now available from the FILM FILELIST. To obtain this review send the following command to Listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV196 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, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa. Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX 813-974-0336/mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:57:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: breast exam video Oops! the Breast Exam video is by Girls in the Nose, not 2 Nice Girls (some of the same members). They have since broken up, but contact info for the video is: Girls in the Nose P.O. Box 49828 Austin, TX 76765. The video is 17 minutes. Chris ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:23:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Johnson Subject: SEARCHING FOR CALLS FOR PAPERS Hi--I'm new to the list--I'm a grad student in English with a focus on literature by women and cultural representations of women and female sexuality. I've been searching on the internet today for sites where people post calls for papers either for conferences or anthologies or other publication/presentation venues. I haven't found anything of that sort. Can anyone help out? Lisa Johnson br00852@binghamton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:07:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: SEARCHING FOR CALLS FOR PAPERS Lisa Johnson writes: > Hi--I'm new to the list--I'm a grad student in English with a focus on > literature by women and cultural representations of women and female > sexuality. I've been searching on the internet today for sites where > people post calls for papers either for conferences or anthologies or > other publication/presentation venues. I haven't found anything of that > sort. Can anyone help out? WMST-L carries many calls for papers, conference announcements, etc. These and others are then picked up by the Women's Studies Archive on InforM, quite probably the world's largest source of online materials about women. InforM makes them available on the web at http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ . There's a whole section devoted just to calls for papers. (Note: URLs are case sensitive: be sure to use capital letters where they appear, and nowhere else.) By the way, InforM is also available via telnet for those without web access. Telnet to inform.umd.edu and then look for Educational Resources, then Academic Resources by Topic, and then Women's Studies. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:40:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Van Daalen-Smith Subject: SELF HELP GROUPS FOR WOMEN I am looking for feminist criteria to evaluate self help groups/ health education series from. I am critiquing public health nurse run groups targeted at women who self(?) define as having Low Self Esteem. I like Hogie Wyckoff's stuff and I've just sent a post asking about models of Consciousness Raising, but can any one help me with some references I should be looking at. I've done many literature searches, and I come up with examples of Feminist Run Women's Health/Self Help Groups or Series, but I need criteria ... models ... in other words things I should be looking for when I observe groups for women. Thankyou so much, sorry for my first post not being very clear. Hope everyone is keeping warm, it was minus 42 degrees C with the windchill last night in Toronto. Take care, Cheryl. P.S. please respond to me personally at cvandaalensmith@oise.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:29:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Van Daalen-Smith Subject: Re: Consciousness Raising Group Methodologies Comments: To: Automatic digest processor In-Reply-To: <199701170459.XAA25187@tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca> I am looking for some good references on Consciousness Raising Groups and how they are/were run, including rationale, methodologies, guiding principles, perceived benefits, and possibly effects on women's sense of self hood, self esteem, and empowerment. As I described in my last post, I am investigating nurses run self esteem groups for women. They currently are structured in a top down style of interaction, where the nurse is the expert and the women are mere receptacles of information. The women are told to be more assertive! and get rid of their own inner-critic !! with (of course) no mention of sociopolitical forces at play that may have contributed to their "perceived" low self esteem. I am a nurse, and I think it could be so much more fruitful if these groups were based on the principles of feminist leadership, and include consciousness raising. I will be observing an eight week series starting next week, and I'd like some hard data from which to critique the groups. Help if you can. Any and all messages, including REFERENCES to look at about CR would be appreciated. Please respond to me personally at cvandaalensmith@oise.utoronto.ca In Sisterhood, Cheryl. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 20:50:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: SEARCHING FOR CALLS FOR PAPERS > Hi--I'm new to the list--I'm a grad student in English with a focus on > literature by women and cultural representations of women and female > sexuality. I've been searching on the internet today for sites where > people post calls for papers either for conferences or anthologies or > other publication/presentation venues. I haven't found anything of that > sort. Can anyone help out? > > Lisa Johnson > br00852@binghamton.edu Earlier today, I posted a reply referring Lisa to the extensive listings on the Women's Studies Archive at InforM (which includes most calls for papers after they appear on WMST-L, as well as some that appear elsewhere). I just remembered another source, not so women-focused but with even more of a literary emphasis: the archives of the list CFP. The archives are at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ . And there's also the CFP list itself, which concentrates on cfps having some bearing on English and/or American literature, including cultural studies, queer theory, etc. To subscribe, send the message SUB CFP Your Name to LISTSERV@ENGLISH.UPENN.EDU . There's a review of CFP in the current issue of Kairos (as well as a review of WMST-L): http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.3/index.html . Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:44:58 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Maranville Subject: Men in Women's Studies Courses This is a timely thread for me in rather concrete ways and I write seeking thoughts on how to best deal w/ particular consequences of (some) men in women's studies courses. Background. I teach a Feminist Theory and the Law Course at a law school. I've taught the course five or six times now having had from one to five men in a course no larger than 22 students. Until this quarter I've never had to deal with a student who was hostile to the basic premises of the course. This quarter my class has a particularly wide range of backgrounds, including one student with a women's studies major, several who have had 3-5 women's studies classes, and a couple complete novices (math/physics and business majors). Of the five men two express considerable doubt about whether women lack power/are subordinated/are discriminated against (however you want to phrase it) in our society. (In a discussion of Marilyn Frye's birdcage article, one expressed the view that the most powerful people in our society are beautiful young women because they can get hired for their looks with no talent/skills.) My Immediate Concerns. 1) Self-protection. I'm likely to be up for tenure next year and would prefer to avoid any major blow-ups. 2) Time management/Responding to journals. For at least one of the male students, responding to the substance of his journal in a serious/constructive way is likely to take disproportionate amounts of time. Would need to sort out his assumptions, analyze logical flaws, marshal information. I suspect it will be hard to respond on any more superficial level, and I don't want to generate complaints about discrimination against men by not commenting. (Though I suppose lengthy comments might have the same result!) And I wouldn't mind doing it if I thought my comments would have any effect. But I don't want to get all my energy redirected towards him and not the rest of the class. 3) Class discussion. In general this will be a challenging class to manage because of the wide range of backgrounds/perspectives. I'm already concerned that the more advanced students are/will be totally bored as I try to make sure the novices aren't totally lost. I don't want to aggravate that problem by continually getting off on threshhold issues. Any specific teaching suggestions from people who have successfully faced these challenges much appreciated. *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Debbie Maranville, Director, Unemployment Law Clinic U. of Washington, School of Law 4045 Brooklyn Ave N.E. Box 354563 Seattle, WA 98105 PH (206) 543-3434 FAX (206 685-2388 Internet: *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=**=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 01:05:47 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Crystal Kile Subject: Men/Journals in WmST classes In-Reply-To: <01IEDE11P044001ZIW@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> This is in part a response to the questions about men in women's studies classes, and partly a bit about the role of response journals in the women's studies classroom. 1) Men students: I've experienced both the annoying and the best sides of this. 1) men students who either pout, but keep quiet "b/c the course is part of a distribution requirement and I don't want to risk 'antagonizing' the instructor who, even though she may seem fair, really can't be b/c she's a feminist" (many will NOT open their mouths during class discussions); write the most ill-formed and informed "confessions of my sexism" pieces and turn them in as journal entires thinking that they'll "receive" a good grade it they can just self-flagellate ENOUGH; and/or were constantly in my office asking me "what I wanted from them"...my answer that their work should reflect careful consideration of course materials, their own research, and contemporary discourse about gender issues was pretty much met with suspicion. 2) men students from a variety of backgrounds who really engaged in the course and who connected the topics and issues we studied to their own relationships with mothers, SOs, daughters, friends, and student colleagues. It is my experience that the men who get the most out of and are comfortable members of women's studies courses ususally have life experiences off the "traditional" family/high school/college track or come from families where "feminist" principles (thought they may not have been articulated as such) were emphasized. There is a significant portion of the rising generation of men who really want to figure out how to not oppress and contribute to the ongoing oppression of women, and figure out how to live more satisfying lives as men. It is not "for" them that I skew my women's studies courses toward "gender studies;" it is because I really believe that feminist analysis and classroom practice must address not just "partiarchy," but the real lives and experiences of real men in the contexts of patriarchy, classism and racism. As one of my very engaged white male students from a rural background (headed for law school) said, "If I'm supposed to be so powerful and "oppressive," why am I so afraid of the future when I look at how miserable my divorced older brother is and how unsatisfied my father seems? I don't want that, but I see myself becoming that." (paraphrase) I know I'm starting to babble here, but the latter "real lives/real men" thing is why I find that _Bastard Out of Carolina_ works so well in an intro wmst course -- Allison makes so clear that complexity and humanity of even her most brutal male characters, and tries to understand the complex of gendered social factors that made them (and the women, especially) this way, even as her semi-autobio young protagonist is nurtured backhandedly by and fights with every tool availble to her her family atmosphere and her stepfather's assaults. I think it's really key for students to analyze how both women AND men are interpellated within patriarchy...makes discussing equal rights, equal resonsibilites, history, activism and legislation much richer, imho. I was at first surprised that some of the most engaging and pleasurable-to-work-with xy WMST students have been young former military men from religiously conservative working-class backgrounds. (These guys were particularly concerned with learning how to encourgage their wives, girlfriends and daughters: When one guy's financee wanted to drop out of school b/c "I'm going to be your wife and you'll take care of me," he talked her out of that notion using essays about women and poverty and the economics of sexism from the reader! That guy blew my mind all semester. Another -- who was very concerned about how to foster his daughters' self-esteem as they grew up -- did a really fine piece of research on the institutional responses of the military to recent high-profile sexual harassment cases.) That, I think, is the key to the first meetings/section of any wmst class, especially intro classes: explaining the history of women's studies and helping students -- women and men alike -- figure out their stake in the project of analyzing gender relations on personal --> institutional levels, and their intersections with discourses of race, class and sexuality. On a practical level, though, one does have to keep these excited guy students from monopoliZing discussion. It's fun to watch the women students "handle" that matter after we talk about communication style and claiming discursive space ;) Journals, though... what sorts of successes have people had requiring students to keep "response journals"? I've found that no matter how much I stress that entries should be RESPONSES to readings, class discussions, related cultural-political events, etc, they always devolve at some point into ultra-confessional mode. I realize that these sorts of personal realizations are very important, but I feel very uncomfortable being my students' confessor... often like I have them under uncomfortable surveillance... I know that would make me feel weird were I in their shoes... I mean, how do you "evaluate" that stuff? I've already decided that the next time I have an opportunity to teach an intro wmst (if I do), the response journal will not be a formal part of the course curriculum. In order to "justify" the time it takes to respond to journals, I find I must weight them more that I think is appropriate or pedagogically responsible. I'd much rather students just come to office hours fairly regularly...coversation, not "confession." I've also had success with offering students the *option* of pretty intense oral exams in wmst intro courses. Crystal Kile Education Coordinator, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women ckile@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/text/www.html "Cyborg or goddess, goddess or cyborg? Decisions, decisions" ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 08:42:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: fiction contest; Gilman conference The following two announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Sojourner: Women's Fiction Contest 2) Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference (Skidmore College) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Writing Between the Lines ========================= Sojourner: The Women's Forum is currently accepting short stories for its women's fiction contest. JUDGE: Dorothy Allison (author, Bastard Out of Carolina) DEADLINE: June 1, 1997 PRIZES: $250, $100, $50. HOW: * Submit 2 copies of typed, double-spaced manuscript * Include separate cover page with name, address, phone number and story title. Do not put your name on the manuscript * Include $5 entry fee * Mail story, cover page, and check (or money order) to: Sojourner Fiction Contest, 42 Seaverns Ave., Boston, MA, 02130. No SASE, stories will not be returned. Winners to be announced in September, 1997 issue of Sojourner --------------------------------------------------------------- Sojourner is a monthly feminist newspaper committed to publishing writing by & for women. In addition to feature articles, each issue includes news, fiction and poetry; letters & viewpoints; and literary, film, & art reviews. Sojourner: The Women's Forum sojourn@tiac.net 42 Seaverns Avenue 617.524.0415 Boston MA 02130 fax 617.524.9397 http://www.tiac.net/users/sojourn/ **************************************************************************** 2) The Second International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference June 26-29, 1997 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY An occasion for Gilman scholars in a range of disciplines to meet and share ideas about Gilman's life and work, the Second International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference will be held at Skidmore College, June 26-29, 1997. Featured presenters include Walter Stetson Chamberlin and Linda Stetson Chamberlin (Charlotte Perkins Gilman's grandson and great-granddaughter), Sheley Fishkin, Elaine Hedges, Mary Hill, Denise Knight, Ann J. Lane, and Gary Scharnhorst. SKIDMORE COLLEGE AND SARATOGA SPRINGS Skidmore College, located in Saratoga Springs, is an independent, residential college of 2,100 men and women students and 180 full-time faculty. Skidmore's modern campus is a pleasant summer place for recreation and contemplation as well as for work. The College's special programs include a variety of events: a film festival, art exhibits, theater productions, and lecture/demonstrations in modern dance. Skidmore's tennis, squash and racquetball courts, as well as an olympic-size swimming pool are located in its Sports and Recreation Center. There are nature trails for hiking, and joggers enjoy the winding campus roads. The 850-acre wooded campus is only a few minutes from downtown Saratoga Springs with its many unique shops and fine restaurants. A small, lively, and historical city, Saratoga Springs sets a tone for Skidmore. The city has evolved into a unique mixture of year-round resort, college town, and convention site. Saratoga Springs has long been famous for its many attractions: mineral waters, Victorian charm, the country's oldest thoroughbred race track, and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, which offers a wide range of entertainment from classical music and ballet to top rock and popular music groups (the Newport Jazz Festival will be held June 28 & 29). New York's scenic Adirondacks, the Berkshires in Massachusetts, and Vermont's Green Mountains are within easy driving distance, as are Boston, New York City and Montreal, which are within 180 miles of the campus. The city is most conveniently reached by automobile via the New York State Thruway and the Adirondack Northway (Exit 15). The Greyhound and Adirondack Trailways bus lines as well as Amtrak offer daily service to and from New York City and Montreal, and several major airlines have regular flights to the Albany County Airport. LODGING Dormitory rooms have been reserved in an air-conditioned building on the Skidmore campus. Both single and double accommodations are available with shared bathroom facilities. Bed linens, one blanket, one pillow, and two bath towels per person will be provided. REGISTRATION Pre-registration is essential. The registration form with full payment must be mailed to: Gilman Conference, c/o The Office of the Dean of Special Programs, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, no later than April 30, 1997. Checks should be made payable to Skidmore College. Registrations will be confirmed by mail and will include a campus map and other general information. We encourage early registration since space on campus is limited. =========================================================================== Conference Fee @ $75.00 (there is a reduced fee for graduate students of $45.00) (includes Thurs. banquet, Fri. evening theater performance, Sat. luncheon, program materials, refreshment breaks) Lodging & Meals-Full Plan @ $127.00 (includes lodging Thursday and Friday nights; Friday breakfast, lunch, dinner; Saturday breakfast) Lodging & Meals-Bed & Breakfast Plan @ $104.00 (includes lodging Thursday and Friday nights; Friday breakfast; Saturday breakfast) Lodging Saturday Night (no meals) @$41.00 For more information or a registration form, contact one of the three program organizers by email: Catherine Golden, English Department, Skidmore College (cgolden@skidmore.edu); Joanna Zangrando, American Studies Dept., Skidmore College (jzangran@skidmore.edu); or Judith Allen, Women's Studies Program, Indiana University (juallen@indiana.edu). ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 11:11:10 -0500 Reply-To: kathryn.church@utoronto.ca Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn Church Subject: Re: Men in Women's Studies Courses On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 21:44:58 -0500 Deborah Maranville wrote: >Until this quarter I've never had to deal with a student who was hostile to the > basic premises of the course. (snip) and For at least one of the > male students, responding to the substance of his journal in a > serious/constructive way > is likely to take disproportionate amounts of time. Would need to sort > out his assumptions, analyze logical flaws, marshal information. I > suspect it will be hard to respond on any more superficial level, and I > don't want to generate complaints about discrimination against men by > not commenting. (Though I suppose lengthy comments might have the same > result!) And I wouldn't mind doing it if I thought my comments > would have any effect. But I don't want to get all my energy redirected > towards him and not the rest of the class. ************************************ Just a brief comment on this from my experience of teaching a class last semester which, though not part of a women's studies program, used a feminist approach which validated the subjectivity of the students as well as their "objective" performance, focusing on what Peter Lyman refers to as "the history we live" as a means to come into knowledge. As instructor I occupied a position where my own life experiences were part of the course discussion, where I did not foreground only strength or knowing but also vulnerability and not knowing. Emotions were considered legitimate and not excluded from expression. There were fourteen students. Although our process (and there was heavy emphasis on process as much as content of the course) was not easy (and did in some cases appear to be about to blow up), thirteen of those students rose to the challenge. Attendance was very high; likewise with engagement. Some rather incredible papers were produced which included emotion and subjecitivity. We had one lone dissenter: a man who sat and steamed through the whole thing. As a class, and as individuals, we attempted to deal with this in two ways. First, by engaging with him and his issues. This generated a lot of anger in the class as other students, especially women, felt that too much attention was being lavished on him compared to folks who were really prepared to move ahead with things as I had set them up. The other response was to ignore him and move ahead in which case his angry silence filled the room in a way which was just as profoundly dominating of the class as if he was actually talking. In other words, he "won" on both counts. It was tremendously frustrating. I did not solve this dilemma. In the end, after the grades were safely in, this student asked to go for 'coffee' with me to discuss the class. I suggested that it was a bit late but went anyway. He then took the opportunity to tell me that all of his difficulties were due to my incompetence, my lack of strength. The fact that my pedagogy includes these things, or at least discussion of their meaning, seemed to have completely eluded him. With some people, nothing works. Finally, I do recommend an article by Jane Tompkins called "Pedagogy of the Distressed" in College English, volume 52 (6) October 1990 pp 653-660 which addresses some of these issues in a rather wonderful way. Good luck! Kathryn Church kathryn.church@utoronto.ca > > 3) Class discussion. In general this will be a challenging class to > manage because of the wide range of backgrounds/perspectives. I'm > already concerned that the more advanced students are/will be totally > bored as I try to make sure the novices aren't totally lost. I don't > want to aggravate that problem by continually getting off on threshhold > issues. > > Any specific teaching suggestions from people who have > successfully faced these challenges much appreciated. > > > *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* > > Debbie Maranville, Director, Unemployment Law Clinic > U. of Washington, School of Law > 4045 Brooklyn Ave N.E. Box 354563 Seattle, WA 98105 > PH (206) 543-3434 FAX (206 685-2388 > > Internet: > > *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=**=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 10:33:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Scrivner Subject: Re: Consciousness Raising Group Methodologies Hello again!! would you please forward the info you receive about the CR groups/models. I'm working at the YWCA and we want to establish a CR group with girls and adolescent women. I'd be interested in what you find.... Thanks, Amy Scrivner u of cincinnati scrivnac@ucunix.san.uc.edu > I am looking for some good references on Consciousness Raising >Groups and how they are/were run, including rationale, methodologies, >guiding principles, perceived benefits, and possibly effects on women's >sense of self hood, self esteem, and empowerment. As I described in my >last post, I am investigating nurses run self esteem groups for women. >They currently are structured in a top down style of interaction, where >the nurse is the expert and the women are mere receptacles of information. >The women are told to be more assertive! and get rid of their own >inner-critic !! with (of course) no mention of sociopolitical forces at >play that may have contributed to their "perceived" low self esteem. I >am a nurse, and I think it could be so much more fruitful if these groups >were based on the principles of feminist leadership, and include >consciousness raising. I will be observing an eight week series starting >next week, and I'd like some hard data from which to critique the groups. >Help if you can. Any and all messages, including REFERENCES to look at >about CR would be appreciated. > Please respond to me personally at cvandaalensmith@oise.utoronto.ca >In Sisterhood, Cheryl. > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 12:58:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Harrison-Pepper Subject: Re: Journals in WmST classes In a message dated 1/18/97 11:13:06 PM, you wrote: <> I regularly use Weekly Reading Journals as a feature in my classes, and find it to be one of the most powerful, useful, and RIGOROUS of my course requirements. I have had to learn, however, how to present the assignment so as to avoid "diaries" and instead get "reading journals." A few things that work well in this: I always distribute a hand-out tailored to the course topic and level that describes the Overall Approach to the assignment, the Goals of the assignment, and the Preparation Details. In this hand-out, I specify that students are to discuss the readings and to raise questions in thoughtful, provocative, rigorous ways. They they are to engage the text. That, while I do not expect formal, finished essays, their responses should be carefully written pieces of criticism. I also tell them that "while I am interested in your personal voice, and in your invested engagement with the material, you will need to find ways to theorize your experiences as they relate to the texts we read. I can grade you on your thinking, analysis, and writing abilities, but do not wish and really cannot grade your politics or your life." At the conclusion of a detailed narrative description in the hand-out , I also outline exactly what is necessary for an A, B, C, and D on a weekly entry. The "A" again emphasizes the theoretical, critical expectations; the "B" does as well, but points out that the response is not as specific, detailed, or deep and may also have become too personal without theoretical emphasis and analysis. This helps to hammer the point home some more. Finally, keeping the entries to 2 pages each week, and collecting them helps. Also, they are brought to class on the day of the assigned readings, and I have students use them in class -- possibly reading a section aloud, or exchanging them and writing responses to one another, things of that sort. This, too, eliminates the confessional mode, since I will not be the sole reader. I think journals are an essential tool in Women's Studies classes especially. Students have so much going on, and so much to think about, and need to be encouraged to do so in rigorous, critical, theorizing ways. Sally Harrison-Pepper sallynla@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 12:36:54 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie K Daniels Subject: Re: Journals in WmST classes In-Reply-To: <970119125804_1244414736@emout17.mail.aol.com> The turn this discussion has taken into the role of journals in the classroom reminds me of an earlier thread on the list about this very topic. It must exist in the archives (yes, Joan?), so perhaps people could benefit from the good suggestions that were mentioned before in addition to the specific helpful ideas that are being shared now. I'd like to add one suggestion that I've seen work in feminist courses that require weekly "responses" to the readings: post the responses to the class via email. When the professor has set up a discussion list of class members, all responses can be shared before class. I've seen this work well when the professor 1) limits the responses to one page, and 2) negotiates with the class just when the posting will take place (24-hours before the class meets is typical). The professor then pulls themes and issues out of the responses to use as a starting point for class discussion. This method allows for "careful consideration" of the readings and issues without the focus becoming "confessional." Once the students get to know each other better, some personal stories do come out online, but they rarely become the focus. I appreciate the initial poster of this thread: I think too many of us have had to wing it when it comes to integrating male students into women's studies classrooms, and sometimes I've felt afraid to reveal my uncertainty for fear of seeming inept. Thanks for all the suggestions. Julie K. Daniels PhD student in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication Minor in Feminist Studies Minor in Composition, Literacy, and Rhetorical Studies University of Minnesota danie029@maroon.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 14:35:11 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Jenny Lloyd, Director of Women's Studies, Department" Subject: Re: WMST L: men in WS courses We have a requirement that all students have to take a course that addresses women's scholarship and women's issues. Many interpret that as having to take a Women's Studies course, and consequently I always have at least one third (12+) men in my Intro class. I mostly find this positive, as long as I insist that this is a woman-centered class (and explain what that means), and begin by defining and naming male-bashing and what it isn't, otherwise the women do not speak. I do regret the loss of women's space, and have to work hard to make sure the men do not speak for more than their share of time, but my experience has made me realize that unless we educate men we will never end discrimination against women, and many men who think feminists are feminazis can be persuaded that they are not. Our feminist theory course does not fulfil the Persepctives on Women requirement--we deliberately keep it this way so that it contains only committed women's studies minors and they can find a small woman-centere d group there. Jenny Lloyd SUNY College at Brockport jlloyd@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 14:44:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Journals in WmST classes Julie Daniels writes: > The turn this discussion has taken into the role of journals in the > classroom reminds me of an earlier thread on the list about this very > topic. It must exist in the archives (yes, Joan?), so perhaps people > could benefit from the good suggestions that were mentioned before in > addition to the specific helpful ideas that are being shared now. Julie is right. We DID have an earlier productive discussion on WMST-L, and I gathered the messages together into a file that I called JOURNAL EVALUATE . To retrieve it from the WMST-L files via e-mail, send the message GET JOURNAL EVALUATE to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you want to see what other gems are available in the WMST-L files, add a second line containing just the two words INDEX WMST-L . Please be sure to send these commands to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU, not to WMST-L. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 13:54:19 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Schauer Subject: Re: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT On December 20 I posted a Position Announcement for a full-time tenure track position in Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to this list. There was on mistake in this posting. The correct FAX is 414-472-5328. I am sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. Ruth Schauer ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 16:11:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan D. Mandle" Subject: Womne's Studies Internship Available The Colgate Women's Studies Program will again be hiring an intern. The position begins August 1, 1997 and runs through May 31, 1998. Applicants must have graduated from college, have familiarity with (but need not have majored in) Women's Studies, and must provide evidence of organizing and programming experience, writing skills, maturity, and ability to work well with others. The Intern is responsible for organizing programming and projects which reach out to and educate Colgate students on issues of gender. She/he also serves as assistant to the Director of Women's Studies. Salary is in the range of $14,000 with medical benefits. Colgate is a liberal arts college of 2,700 students in rural Hamilton, New York. Interested applicants should send a cover letter, a resume, two letters of recommendation and grade transcripts to: Joan D. Mandle, Director Women's Studies Colgate University Hamilton N Y 13346-1398 For questions, e-mail the Program Secretary, Mary Keys:mkeys@center.colgate.edu PLEASE PUBLICIZE THIS POSITION. THANK YOU. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 15:24:10 +22305931 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth P Ginzberg Subject: Advising I am interested in finding out what kinds of advising others are offering to undergraduates who are interested in doctoral work in Women's Studies. I feel somehow "out of the loop" and like I really don't know what/how to advise undergrads with interests in graduate study in Women's Studies (there were no such programs when I was in graduate school). I guess the questions are the "usuals" -- "What kind of credentials will I need in order to apply to doctoral programs in Women's Studies (gpa? GRE scores? undergrad major in wmst? portfolio? containing what kinds of things? other?)? Would it be better to apply to an MA program or directly to a PhD program? What kinds of career paths are there for people with doctorates in Women's Studies? What is the job market like now? What is it expected to be like in years, when I would graduate? What is it LIKE being in a doctoral program in Women's Studies? What kind of financial support is available? Assistantships? Fellowships? Grants? What is "the norm" in this field? What kind of financial support should I hope for? Expect? Plan on? Are there different doctoral programs with different focuses or perspectives or strengths? What are they and where are they? Is an academic career the only thing one can do with a doctorate in Women's Studies? How hard is it to get into such programs? Should I even be thinking about this? Is there anywhere where I can combine a doctoral program in Women's Studies with Medical School (I currently have a student with this particular interest - help!)? Would it be better to get a doctorate in some other field and just do an MA or a supporting program in Women's Studies if I want eventually to teach Women's Studies at the college level?" Etc., etc., etc. I feel very much at a loss for what to tell students who have these sorts of questions, but I think it is part of my job to be able to say at least SOMETHING about them, preferably something that is more or less true. How are others advising undergraduates with these kinds of interests and/or questions? I am also interested in hearing from graduate students who are currently IN doctoral programs in Women's Studies. Do you have any good info/advice that you think should be passed along to undergraduates who are interested in getting a PhD in Women's Studies? Thanks In Advance. Ruth Ginzberg Women's Studies Beloit College ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 01:04:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Harrison-Pepper Subject: Journal Hand-Out Several people, including Joan Korenman, suggested I post the hand-out I mentioned earlier. So, here is a version I've used when teaching a course on "Women & Theatre: The Politics of Representation" in which students read plays and critical essays each week. As I developed my version, I received useful advice and/or models from Jill Dolan (CUNY), Patti Schroder (Ursinus), and Carolyn Haynes (Miami U). If you borrow ideas from mine, I hope you'll give me credit too! Sally Harrison-Pepper * * * * * * * * * * * WEEKLY READING JOURNAL GUIDELINES The purpose of the weekly journal is threefold. First, it will ensure that you complete the week's reading in a timely fashion and approach the work in a thoughtful and critical way. Second, the journal will support your participation in more stimulating discussions in class. Third, it will give you practice in writing dramatic criticism. OVERALL APPROACH As a general rule, you should focus your comments in each entry on: first, the play under consideration, and then, the supplemental critical essays. I would like to know what you think, but/and have no interest in a summary of the materials. I've read the materials, you can assume I have in your entry, and I will trust that you have too! Instead of summary, then, I want you to engage the text; question it; analyze it; respond to it. Locate the spots you would like to discuss in class. Try to put at least one specific question in writing, so that you can recall and ask this question in class. I will sometimes give you a list of potential questions the previous week that you may choose to consider, answer, or include in your response to the following week's materials. But you may als, or instead, ask additional questions, muse about concerns, look closely at a character, a moment, or an element in the play, make an argument about the play or one of the theoretical/critical essays, take issue with an essay, apply an essay to another play in the course, compare one week's reading to a previous week, do a close reading of a section of the play or an essay, trace a theme, image, or issue through the play, or deal in depth with what we have read or discussed in any way you feel is appropriate. Essentially, I want to know about the issues, problems, themes, or ideas that arose as you read the play and how the critical essays affected your views. I am seeking depth and detail in your thinking about the course materials. Think about these materials deeply, and then engage with the issues they raise in your writing. Also, focus on expressing yourself clearly. Say why and how the material worked to create the meanings you found there. What questions were prompted by the essays? Where do you agree and disagree? What information is new to you and what do you think of it? What questions do you wish to raise in class? Where do you stand on the issues raised in both the play and the essays? I do not expect and do not seek formal, finished essays, though you should absolutely use proper grammar, proofreading, and so on, and should still cite the article or book correctly (putting the page number in parenthesis) so that both you and I can find the place in the text if we wish and consider it in more detail. I do expect to see thoughtful responses. Please remember, too, that these are critical/ theoretical response journals. Although the assignment, and feminist practice in general, encourages a personalized response, your entries should not be "personal" in the ways a diary or other confessional form might be. Realize as you write that I want to grade you on your thinking, analysis, and writing abilities, but not on your politics or your life. So, while I am interested in your personal and critical voice, and in your invested engagement with the material, you may need to find ways to theorize your experiences as they relate to the texts we read. GENERAL PREPARATION DETAILS Always read the assigned plays and essays in the order in which they are listed on the syllabus. Sometimes you will be asked to read the play first; at other times, you will be assigned some introductory essays to introduce the play or provide a particular frame through which to view it. The order in which things are assigned is set-up to provide a certain perspective or to allow a particular angle to build gradually through the essays. Note the occasional writing themes assigned in the Topics & Assignments section of this syllabus. You must write a minimum of two typed pages (250 words) each week, and may write no more than four pages. Often, writing a short paper is harder than a longer one. You need to select ideas carefully and be very focused. Yes, do observe the conventions of correct writing (i.e. complete sentences, spell checking and proofreading, etc.), since these details reflect an author's commitment to and respect for good scholarship. Preparation details can affect your grade. And finally: ** LATE JOURNAL ENTRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED ** A NOTE ABOUT GRADES A = Journal entries that deserve an "A" are those that take the material far beyond the basic requirements of the assignment (journals that simply fulfill the assignment, on the other hand, are average, and "average" in my book equals "C"). "A" Journal entries are: carefully written; seem comprehensive in their scope; may raise useful and/or provocative questions about the material; often find ways to bring in readings from previous weeks and begin to draw connections; and, if they use personal experience (which is NOT a requirement ever), find ways to theorize that experience in useful, provocative, and intellectually rigorous ways. An "A" journal entry does not necessarily comment extensively on ALL the reading, but does find an angle, a path through the material that will provide a response that has depth, critical insights, seriousness, and good writing. B = Journal entries receiving a "B" have clearly addressed the reading materials and discussions, but aren't quite specific enough. While "B" journal entries have gone beyond the average assignment, they still need more depth and breadth of discussion and/or need to be more explicit in their critical analysis. A journal entry may also receive a "B" if the author includes a personal experience but has not made a genuine effort to utilize the choice in clear theoretical terms that have a relationship to the critical materials assigned. Most often, a "B" is the result of the writer overlooking a key point in the essays. "B" Journal entries may seem to skimp on the writer's commitment to delving into the material. C = "C," as mentioned above, means "average." It means the writer fulfilled the basic parameters of the assignment, but didn't do anything more with the materials. Journal entries receiving a "C" may be superficial in their approach to the materials, lack detail, or display a lack of attention to the reading assignments--either missing a key point or maintaining a position on the material that lacks sufficient support and clarification. "C" journal entries fulfill the basic requirements of the assignment but lack development. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 05:17:56 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: WS and $$$$ One of the issues that keeps emerging, not surprisingly, on WMST-L is the vulnerability of WS departments, programs, faculty lines, etc. when community colleges, colleges, and universities slice, mutilate, or cut programs because of decreasing legislative budgetary allocations. Although I applaud all the discussions about improving teaching, that's not nearly enough because, IMHO, that's just not what higher education rewards. The January 17 edition of the Washington Post published several interesting articles--"Alumnae Who Give--and Now Get" and "At Harvard, Alumnae Step Up Pressure" (pp. A1, A12, A13). To put it in a nutshell, the articles suggest, that, among other things, women alums are rarely asked to support women's programs, seldom serve on advisory boards, and generally feel alienated from their institutions. Since many female alums are now successful, they'd be willing to donate more if they were asked to serve on a committee that "helped shape policy on campus." I realize that trading off donations for campus power has dangers. Nonetheless, I think there are a lot of women alums who would support WS programs (both financially as well serving as mentors) if they were asked to do so--especially since they've been out in the "real world" and see that sex discrimination is a reality. Besides expending much of our energies on improving our teaching and producing damned fine publications, it wouldn't hurt to tap into alum resources to help WS programs. I haven't looked at it, but the URL for these articles is http:// www.washingtonpost.com . niki Benokraitis, Soc Prof, Univ of Baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 09:16:54 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: Men/Journals in WmST classes This is in response to Crystal Kile's query about response journals. I have up doing response journals early in my teaching career, primarily because I found myself resenting having to comment on material that was covered up to weeks earlier in the course. Instead I have my students hand in each class what I call a "log," a response to the readings for that class. That way I have only one piece of paper (rather than a pile of journals; and students are encouraged to send them via email if they prefer) and I am reading what is most currently on their minds. I have found this method works pretty well and avoids some of the problems of journals. ,,, (o o) +-------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------------------------+ | Laurie Finke, Women's and Gender Studies, Kenyon College | | Gambier, OH 43022 phone: 614-427-5276 | | home: 614-427-3428, P.O. Box 731 mail: FinkeL@Kenyon.Edu | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ () () ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 09:36:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: Men? again? In-Reply-To: <32E128C5.5BF4@Emory.Edu> On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, FEWood wrote: > Dear WMST-L: > Without having read all of the strands of this thread, I'm jumping in with an > observation in response to Jaime Grant's question: How would a class on Woman > as Body change if there were one man in it? Ten? > Having been in a number of women-only spaces over the past thirty years (from > convents to domestic violence programs to university classrooms), one of the > things that never ceases to amaze, confound, annoy, outrage me is the way > that men/males' concerns, perceptions, opinions become central regardless of > their physical absence. > I believe that asking women students what they believe to be important about > men's (physical) presence is a good opportunity to raise a number of issues. > Among them are: 1)the ubiquitousness of male concerns, 2) the fact that > relations between and among women and men shape everything from the politics > of program/course-naming to safety in relationships (whether hetero or same > sex) to what women think of their (and other women's) bodies, and 3) the > opportunity to debunk the (never-ending) characterization of women's studies > as male-bashing and/or group therapy. Internalized male gazes/world views > are part and parcel of every women's studies setting. I am in favor of > making this reality explicit, rather than implicit. > Frances E. Wood although i think frances makes some very good point above, i do get quite tired of this redutctionist, essentialist construction of "women" and "men" as if they were all clones in their respective categories. as anyone with any inkling of how oppression systems work, any group that dominates will do it ideologically too. i've seen such horribly small minded women in women's studies who, while bashing all good and bad and in between men alike, were only concerned with their incredibly petty, priveleged, white, able-bodied, U.S. American, etc. concerns and behaved in these respects exactly as the "men" they so insistently criticized as they monopolized the frames of the discussions and silenced voices from more disenfranchised "women" and "men", many of whom will never have a voice in the classroom because they are not part of the priveleged few who gets to sit in these classes. so, yes, i think it is important to stop and think how "men" monopolize a classroom whether they are there or not, but i think it's also a good opportunity to investigate how others may do it too. personally i find the spectacle quite tiresome. Vera Britto (fiatlux@umich.edu - http://www.umich.edu/~fiatlux) ........................................................................... Le Bret: Si tu laissais un peu ton ame mousquetaire, la fortune et la gloire... Cyrano: Et que faudrait-il faire? Chercher un protecteur puissant, prendre un patron, et, comme un lierre obscur que circonvient un tronc et s'en fait un tuteur en lui lechant l'ecorce, grimper par ruse au lieu de s'elever par force? Non, merci! Non, merci! Non, merci! Mais... chanter, rever, rire, passer, etre seul, etre libre... oui. "Cyrano de Bergerac" - Edmond Rostand ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 09:47:46 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Korn Shucks Subject: [LIBFEM] Share the Wealth (*ILLEGAL* SCAM) Comments: To: makemoney@compuserve.com Comments: cc: AfricaW@corso.ccsu.ctstateu.edu, bithry-l@brownvm.brown.edu, ee-women@cep.nonprofit.net, fem-biblio-request@listserv.aol.com, FEMINIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU, feminism-digest@ncar.ucar.edu, FEMISA@csf.colorado.edu, FEMREL-L@listserv.aol.com, GRANITE@nic.surfnet.nl, H-WOMEN@listserv.uic.edu, KOL-ISHA@shamash.nysernet.org, libfem@ifi.uio.no, LIVING-REQUEST@QICLAB.SCN.RAIN.COM, MAIL-MEN@USL.COM, MATFEM@csf.colorado.edu, MENOPAUS@psuhmc.hmc.psu.edu, RURWMN-L@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu, soc.women@andorra.it.earthlink.net, soc.men@andorra.it.earthlink.net, Texwohist@venus.twu.edu, WHIRL@psuvm.psu.edu, WIML-L@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu, WISA@ulkyvm.louisville.edu, wisp-l@cluster.ucs.indiana.edu, women@bilkent.edu.tr, ws238-l@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu to my sisters: sisters, this scheme below is *ILLEGAL*...it's called a pyramid scheme and as such, it is illegal in the US....please, i know this to be a fact, unfortunately...don't get in trouble and don't be enticed!... to the poster: although i'm sure your email must be fake (makemoney@compuserve.com), (which signifies to me that you do know full well that this is illegal), i am forwarding your email below to your postmaster with a complaint and request that your email privileges be revoked, as this scheme *IS* illegal (trust me, i know)...oh yes, and compuserve can and *has* kicked people off of their email for using it for an illegal ends.... ***********************ACTION*************EQUALITY*************PEACE************ *************** Jenny Korn ~ Thailand, Alabama, Boston ~~Know of summer internships combining public interest work & legal advocacy for women and minorities in the Boston area? 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Then he sent >the 5 bills, people added him to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had >over $10,000! > > TRY IT AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY!!! > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:41:36 GMT0BST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SAMANTHA GILES Organization: CCC, The University of Nottingham Subject: Re: men in WS courses It sounds to me as if the situation in the States is alot worse than here in Britain. Sure, some men who are "compelled" to do women's studies courses have to be convinced as to the value of the course, but through this many women (and men) are able to explore their own reasons for doing women's studies in the first place. After all, it's all about education, is it not? ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 12:06:03 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Donaldson Subject: Re: WS and $$$$ In-Reply-To: Niki certainly has it right with regard to female alums and their willingness to support WS activities. We've just started planning for a Women Scholars Endowment and just in talking about it -- not yet asking anyone -- we generated $1300 in commitments. And prior to this effort, a few faculty put together a WS Essay Contest with money for the prizes ($50 for grad and $50 for undergrad winners) coming from payroll checkoff. Unsolicited donations have come through the Alumni Office to supplement those prizes and allow us to have a nice celebration for the winners -- and that's what inspired us to start this bigger project. And it's fun -- one of the more joyous events we do as a group. Sandy Donaldson English and Women Studies University of North Dakota Grand Forks ND 58202 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:02:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan D. Mandle" Subject: Seeking Grant Information Hello everyone. My name is Sarah Lindseth and I am currently a senior at Colgate university who is majoring in History and minoring in Women's Studies. I wrote my honors thesis on the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary, a ferry pilot's organization during World War Two. I am going to London in the fall, and wish to continue my research on this organization in the hopes of one day turning it into a book. I would be interested in any information concerning grants or fellowships which might be available in the women's studies community for such a topic. Please note that I am an independent researcher; this endeavor is not part of graduate school. Thank you very much for your time. Sarah. Please respond to Sarah at: JDMANDLE@CENTER. COLGATE.EDU OR SlINDSETH@CENTER.COLGATE.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:30:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Grayson Subject: New Reproductive Technologies Help!I am in the middle of an article/chapter on Black women and gestational (as opposed to traditional or Baby M-style) surrogacy. I am trying to locate articles on recent reports in the press about mixups and problems with using new reproductive techniques. Examples of materials I have already found include the UC Irvine case, the case of the Virgina physician who used his own sperm to help infertile couples, the Dutch twins who were born of different races due to a mishap with in vitro fertilization. Can anyone think of any other examples? I feel like I am overlooking something in the material that I do have. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Deborah R. Grayson Assistant Professor UNiversity of ROchester drgn@uhura.cc.rochester.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 16:59:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Connie Koppelman Subject: Women's History Month event State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3456 Constance E Koppelman Womens Studies 516 632-9176 20-Jan-1997 04:43pm EST FROM: CKOPPELMAN TO: Remote Addressee ( _wmst-l@umdd.umd.edu ) Subject: Women's History Month event For those of you looking for Women's History Month events: Last March we had a very special performer come to our campus to present an outstanding performance. Her name is Robin Greenstein and she does a combination concert and talk called "Images of Women." She gave us a fascinating look at views of, by and towards women as found in Anglo-American and Afro-American traditional folk music. Robin sang an performed on both guitar and banjo. Our students were very impressed both with her talents and her presentation. Surprisingly, the folk material touched on many contemporary issues. Robin has a B.A. in Music from SUNY Stony Brook and a wide background in folk music research. She is also a wonderful performer and has a terrific voice and stage presence. I highly recommend her program. Robin mentioned to me that she still has several dates left to fill in for March. She is usually hired through campus activities departments or fine arts, but if anyone out there is interested in perhaps co-sponsoring, she would love to hear from you directly. Robin will be in NY state in mid March, PA/Virginia the third week of March and GA/Florida in late March. She can be reached at RobinPG@aol.com or via phone at (212)-877-2662 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:08:06 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: FEWood Subject: Re: Men? again? Comments: To: fiatlux@umich.edu Dear Vera Britto: While I appreciate your cautions about essentialism, I was responding to the ways the categories were set up in the initial posting(s). I have had more than my share of classroom experiences with solipsistic, narcissistic, uninformed, uncurious dominant folk. As a member of multiple marginalized and oppressed groups (queer, black, female, "non-traditional-aged," classically-trained, ... ad nauseum) I tire of the whining of the privileged, as well. To say that I experience interlocking oppressions would be a gross understatement. Nonetheless, I am keenly aware of the ways that I both share in privilege, and am held in suspicion for being in the classroom at all. As Audre Lorde has reminded, I wasn't meant to survive, anyway! Frequently, I wonder about the masochism involved for someone such as myself pursuing a life in the academy. While I am dismayed by the lack of thoughtfulness that is evidenced by students in (some) women's studies settings, I am near despair when I reflect on my experiences with some of the profs--women and men--who lack awareness of/consideration for the ways that ideological baggage and assumptions (their own as well as students') shape the classroom environment. Your response to me is a reminder of the limits of this medium for locating oneself in a variety of discussions. As one whose work deals with the complexities of subjectivities and the unhelpfulness of rigied labeling, I am grateful for your paying attention and taking the time to respond. Regards, Frances E. Wood Institute for Women's Studies Emory University, Atlanta, GA fwood01@emory.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:11:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: Men? again? Comments: To: FEWood In-Reply-To: <32E416F6.252E@Emory.Edu> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, FEWood wrote: > Dear Vera Britto: > While I appreciate your cautions about essentialism, I was responding > to the ways the categories were set up in the initial posting(s). I have had Just to note - although i replied to your post in particular, it was more as an entryway in the thread with the objective to post my comments to all the previous posts, rather than to single out your post. i should have made that more clear, because my intention was really to comment on the thread. > Your response to me is a reminder of the limits of this medium for > locating oneself in a variety of discussions. As one whose work deals with > the complexities of subjectivities and the unhelpfulness of rigied labeling, > I am grateful for your paying attention and taking the time to respond. > Regards, > Frances E. Wood > Institute for Women's Studies > Emory University, Atlanta, GA > fwood01@emory.edu > Regards, Vera Britto ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:27:33 +1100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laurel guymer Subject: feminists publishing in asia Just in case you were feeling left out - Spinifex has a new link on their homepage - FEMINISTS PUBLISHING IN THE ASIA PACIFIC - take a spin on the spinifex page and check it out!!! As an aussie, I for one welcome MORE INFO about our close neighbours!! http://www.publishaust.net.au/~spinifex Feminist Publishing in the Asia Pacific Spinifex has received some funding for developing promotional Home Pages for small, independent, women centred and women focused publishing houses in the Asia Pacific region. We would like to take this opportunity to network with the feminist publishing houses in this region. As a beginning we are putting up some information about the publishing houses that we already know of. We have talked about some of their books. We would be happy to hear about similar publishing houses operating from the same region. So, if you are a small, independent publisher or bookseller based in the Asia Pacific region and would like to promote your books on our Home Page please write to us at: Spinifex Press, 504 Queensberry St, PO Box 212, North Melbourne, Vic, 3051, Australia or fax your material to + 613-9329-9238 or email us at spinifex@publishaust.net.au for a taste of what you will find WFW, Bangladesh I remember the Bangladesh War of Liberation. To most of us in India it felt as if we were fighting the war. I remember marching on the streets with my school friends singing Nazrool songs and collecting money for the war fund in little tin boxes. When victory came in 1971, we had sent letters to school children in Dhaka congratulating them on the birth of their new country. Twenty five years later in Melbourne, I spend an evening with diaspora Bangladeshis. We celebrate the silver jubilee of 'victory day'. Little children on the stage sing the protest songs of my childhood. The woman sitting next to me shares her memories with me and we talk about another war. The ongoing war against poverty, against environmental degradation and against multinationals trying to market 'development' in our countries. We talk about Farida Akhter and Taslima Nasreen, about Norplant, Tangail saris and different ways of cooking fish. It was her lead that took me to Women for Women, the feminist organisation based in Dhaka which is also active in the field of publishing. Women for Women was established in 1973 with the objective of promoting gender equity. It conducts research studies on various women's issues and publishes the findings. It has also published the works of some 'lost' women writers. Women For Women can be contacted at: 15 Green Square Green Road DHAKA 1205 BANGLADESH Tel:(880)-2-50-37-94 Fax:(880)-2-813010 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:17:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Bendfeldt, Melani LITTLE-GRAPE" Subject: EVITA In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:27:33 EST Hello All: Just writing to see if anyone else viewed the Evita film. What a fabulous film. I found it very intersting that Eva Perone basically ran the government, while the "man" got most of the recognition. The only thing that was rather disturbing was the fact that Eva basically slept her way to the top!!!! I was just wondering what anyone else thought of the film. -Melani ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 21:52:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: more messages not to send to WMST-L Hi, again. The recent message about the film "Evita" prompts me to go into Official Nag mode and remind everyone that WMST-L is not a list for discussing movies. The list has a narrow focus: women's studies teaching, research, and program administration. If you want to discuss how to use a film in the classroom, that's fine; if you just want to talk more generally about a film and what you thought of it, that conversation should take place elsewhere, not on WMST-L. The list's heavy mail volume is a constant concern for many subscribers. Please be considerate and restrict your postings to those dealing with Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration. Many thanks. Joan Korenman, WMST-L Official Nag ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:49:44 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Eithne C. Foley." Subject: Re: EVITA Hi Melani, I confess I hated Evita. I was really looking forward to seeing it, and I like musicals, but I thought the whole Musical-On-Screen thing REALLY didn't work. Also, I thought Madonna looked wrong for the parts where she was younger than she is (i.e. 15+) Eithne. ************************************************************ Eithne C. Foley, Sociology Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? ************************************************************ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:42:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Subject: Men in Women's Studies Courses Two comments: Kathryn Church's experience of having a seething, defensive man take up tremendous space in her course leads me to wonder why we don't say, at the outset of our classes, that this course is not for people who think that sexism does not exist. I make it clear that my women's studies courses hinge on the beliefs that sexism, racism, homophobia and classism operate in American society today in ways that primarily disempower their targets: women, people of color, queers and poor people. Those in the dominant relative position -- men, whites, straights and people of means live distorted, sometimes stunted lives due to these systems as well, but they also accrue privilege and power in their wake. This isn't something I'm going to debate in my class, so folks who aren't there should take another class. In her book, Truth or Dare, Starhawk says: don't leave a group open to everybody if you aren't open to everybody. For me, that translates into: get rid of the high maintenance male who is going to be a huge drain. Not to be overly 'essentialist' about it (per Vera Britto's comment), but the social constructions that make men 'men' often make for awful male participants in women's studies courses. How we confront that phenomenon is a different issue from what we do with women in the practice of (as Barbara Smith long ago put it) female self aggrandizement rather than feminist query. Personally, I'd prefer to confront these women (by which, I mean have their peers confront them primarily) in an all-women space so that they get a lesson in the power and the limits of 'sisterhood.' Having an angry male and a self-aggrandizing woman in the same class often gives each of them support, fuel, and a means to muddy the waters. Jaime jgrant@tui.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:05:36 +22305931 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth P Ginzberg Subject: Re: Men in Women's Studies Courses In-Reply-To: <9701211442.AA01563@union1> from "Jaime Grant" at Jan 21, 97 09:42:27 am > Kathryn Church's experience of having a seething, defensive man take > up tremendous space in her course leads me to wonder why we don't say, at > the outset of our classes, that this course is not for people who think that > sexism does not exist. Gosh, I am finding that the majority of women in my Women's Studies Intro this semester (and last semester) think that sexism does not exist, at least at the outset of the class. We are just now starting the semester (discussed Marilyn Frye's pieces on "Oppression" and "Sexism" yesterday) and MOST of the class was angry and disbelieving and thought that the books were "outdated" and that things "just aren't like that any more (if they ever were)." They often are interested in studying sexy "gender bending" stuff when they get into the class, but are angry that I make them read "old fashioned" things about plain old sexism and oppression. Many of them HATE (& resent) the idea that they are not free to pull their own strings, and want very much to believe that the only limitations on their own possibilities in the world are simply their own failures of imagination. My own experience is that this is becoming more and more so every year that I teach, and that teaching Women's Studies is becoming harder and harder because of it. At least back when WmSt was more "marginal" in the curriculum, I think that the women who did take it were more likely to already accept the starting premises noted above. But as it becomes more "mainstream" I find that this is less and less so. It isn't just the men in the class... Ruth ginzberg@beloit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:47:30 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michelle Delaine Lundgren Subject: men in gender classes I'm teaching a composition class this semester titled "Gender and Identity." I started out the class by explaining that the majority of the readings would be Feminist in nature. I then explained that anyone who didn't feel comfortable with this topic, or didn't feel as though he/she could handle it maturely should drop this class and add a comp class with a different theme. I thought this "disclaimer" would help, but it hasn't. Because the class is a required comp class, I have about 5-7 men in each section (out of 22 total). I've found that the men will not admit to any sort of sexism in any arenas we've been discussing (work, education, home...) and the women feel angry about this. In one class, a male student has been openly hostile towards me and the subject matter. He disagrees with every assignment I give, every discussion I start. It doesn't matter what I say, he disagrees. The problem is that he is greatly diminishing my authority in the other students' eyes. The women in the class are intimidated by him, and will not discuss certain things that may "upset" the male student. He stayed after class one day to talk to me, and basically stood in my face trying to intimidate me. Very threatening. I talked to my comp director, who suggested I send the guy to him. Here's my problem: I don't want to do this, because it sends the message to this kid that as a woman, I can't handle this problem, and I need to send the problem to a man to solve. I find this especially damaging since I'm teaching a class that focuses on Feminism. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can 1)reaffirm my authority to the class 2)let this guy know he has to deal with me, and that I can handle the problem effectively? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:01:50 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: men in gender classes At 11:47 AM 1/21/97 -0600, you wrote: >I'm teaching a composition class this semester titled "Gender and Identity." >I started out the class by explaining that the majority of the readings >would be Feminist in nature. I then explained that anyone who didn't feel >comfortable with this topic, or didn't feel as though he/she could handle it >maturely should drop this class and add a comp class with a different theme. >I thought this "disclaimer" would help, but it hasn't. Because the class is >a required comp class, I have about 5-7 men in each section (out of 22 >total). I've found that the men will not admit to any sort of sexism in any >arenas we've been discussing (work, education, home...) and the women feel >angry about this. In one class, a male student has been openly hostile >towards me and the subject matter. He disagrees with every assignment I >give, every discussion I start. It doesn't matter what I say, he disagrees. >The problem is that he is greatly diminishing my authority in the other >students' eyes. The women in the class are intimidated by him, and will not >discuss certain things that may "upset" the male student. He stayed after >class one day to talk to me, and basically stood in my face trying to >intimidate me. Very threatening. I talked to my comp director, who suggested >I send the guy to him. Here's my problem: I don't want to do this, because >it sends the message to this kid that as a woman, I can't handle this >problem, and I need to send the problem to a man to solve. I find this >especially damaging since I'm teaching a class that focuses on Feminism. >Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can 1)reaffirm my authority to >the class 2)let this guy know he has to deal with me, and that I can handle >the problem effectively? > >What you are speaking about is an all too common problem. I don't think you can solve it yourself because you don't have the power. You are in fact lucky that someone higher up will support you. I had no such luck. Perhaps you could present it as an issue in hierarchy rather than a male female one. Just as we turn to the courts in the cases of woman abuse rape etc., with very mixed rssults, not to do so would leave victims to the mercy of the victimizers. As MacKinnon said, if we would only work with institutions that are not patriarchl,there would be no place to turn. Sadly, Pauline B. Bart ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:15:25 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: Men in Women's Studies Courses At 09:05 AM 1/21/97 +22305931, you wrote: >> Kathryn Church's experience of having a seething, defensive man take >> up tremendous space in her course leads me to wonder why we don't say, at >> the outset of our classes, that this course is not for people who think that >> sexism does not exist. > >Gosh, I am finding that the majority of women in my Women's Studies Intro >this semester (and last semester) think that sexism does not exist, at least >at the outset of the class. We are just now starting the semester >(discussed Marilyn Frye's pieces on "Oppression" and "Sexism" yesterday) and >MOST of the class was angry and disbelieving and thought that the books were >"outdated" and that things "just aren't like that any more (if they ever >were)." They often are interested in studying sexy "gender bending" stuff >when they get into the class, but are angry that I make them read "old >fashioned" things about plain old sexism and oppression. Many of them HATE >(& resent) the idea that they are not free to pull their own strings, and >want very much to believe that the only limitations on their own >possibilities in the world are simply their own failures of imagination. > >My own experience is that this is becoming more and more so every year that >I teach, and that teaching Women's Studies is becoming harder and harder >because of it. At least back when WmSt was more "marginal" in the >curriculum, I think that the women who did take it were more likely to >already accept the starting premises noted above. But as it becomes more >"mainstream" I find that this is less and less so. > >It isn't just the men in the class... > >Ruth >ginzberg@beloit.edu > >I agree that women's studies is all but impossible to teach now if one tells the truth, especially if one talls the truth about male violence against women. I have made it perfectly clear that the course is feminist, that we are not going to argue about whether women are subordinated, that they shouldn't take the class if they don't believe this etc. I put it on my syllabus and tell the class. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. One student left when I said they would have to vote in the presidential election; I had to withdraw that assignment when a man made a fuss about it and I didn't want the hassle. But you should know that I have been teaching women's studies since l969 (Women in Society and Literature) UC Berkeley, Dept of Sociology, and I have given up after last semester piled on top of being kicked out of the Univ Ill at Chicago with the cooperation of the head of Women's Studies and having the head of Women's Studies support the man against me every time he complained last semester. Perhaps we oldtimers, who were in women's liberation, which was about social change, and who now feel like dinasours although we know that what we say is true, should have a support group ourselves to keep from feeling that our lives were wasted. Remember-its not a private problem but a public issue. Love, Pauline ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:17:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jack Meacham Subject: Re: men in gender classes In-Reply-To: <199701211747.LAA170822@badlands.NoDak.edu> On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Michelle Delaine Lundgren wrote: > I'm teaching a composition class this semester titled "Gender and Identity." > I started out the class by explaining that the majority of the readings > would be Feminist in nature. I then explained that anyone who didn't feel > comfortable with this topic, or didn't feel as though he/she could handle it > maturely should drop this class and add a comp class with a different theme. > I thought this "disclaimer" would help, but it hasn't. One direction to go with this message is pedagogy, what to do in the class. But I couldn't help noticing that this message also opens up the question of how to avoid the problems that are arising in this class. If the course is titled "Gender and Identity," then in my view men ought to feel welcome in the class and they ought to expect readings that address issues that they feel are significant for them. Men do have genders, and they do have identities. So it is inappropriate, given the course title, to then say on the first day of class that the class will cover primarily feminist readings. If this is what the class is about, then the title ought to be something like "Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Ethnicity." Likely fewer men would enroll. This is basically a matter of truth in advertising. Re: encouraging men to drop and then add another class. Well, on my campus most of the students work. Their schedules are very complicated, trying to combine work hours, family, classes, and studying. Changes in schedules are often very difficult to work out. Also (taking the same line as in the message below) to drop the class is an admission that one "can't handle this problem." Looking back, there were classes that as an undergraduate I should have dropped, but it would have been hard for me as a student to admit this to myself during the first week. Instead, I gave it my best shot--and got some poor grades. > intimidate me. Very threatening. I talked to my comp director, who suggested > I send the guy to him. Here's my problem: I don't want to do this, because > it sends the message to this kid that as a woman, I can't handle this > problem, and I need to send the problem to a man to solve. I find this > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can 1)reaffirm my authority to > the class 2)let this guy know he has to deal with me, and that I can handle > the problem effectively? Some quick suggestions: (1) Reaffirm your authority by grounding it not in your own identity as a woman and as a feminist, but instead in the skills that students expect to get from the class and from college: writing, speaking, being able to express an opinion and support it with evidence and argument; (2) Demonstrate your confidence in your own position by being as open-minded as possible towards other positions. (3) Treat this student's questions as legitimate questions, but don't respond to them as questions raised for you personally. Instead, respond to the questions from the perspective of skills--suggest to the student that he write on the issue, or that he research on the issue, or suggest something that he can read that will show him that the issue is complicated. (4) Show that you are familiar with his perspective, e.g., "The argument that you are making is one that has sometimes been used against feminists. Indeed, you might be interested in this chapter or article, in which that anti-feminist argument is made very well. If you read this, it would provide some support for your point of view. But I would encourage you to also read this other chapter or article, which is a reply to the evidence and arguments raised in the first one. Then let's talk some more, or perhaps at that point you will feel ready to write on this topic." _____________ I've followed this discussion about men in women's studies courses with considerable interest, as this has also been a public issue on my own campus (SUNY at Buffalo). I appreciate all the good suggestions that have been made. It seems to me (my two cents worth) that the stance one ought to take and what one does pedagogically, etc. should depend on what sort of women's studies course we are talking about. There seem to be two types: (1) general education courses, in which men ought to be welcomed; and (2) courses in women's studies programs, some of which might reasonably serve primarily women. Men ought to be encouraged to participate in and contribute to the first group of courses; but in the case of the second group of courses, perhaps some discouragement is more appropriate, depending on the focus of the course. Jack Meacham SUNY at Buffalo ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:09:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gloria Cohen Subject: Re: Men, men, men In-Reply-To: <199701171649.LAA21077@smtp.interlog.com> On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Krista Scott wrote: > I replied privately to the prof who requested info about men in the classes, > but I'll share my thoughts with you. I have only had overwhelmingly > positive experiences with men in wmst, both as teachers of courses, guest > lecturers, and students. Two wonderful profs who were men successfully > taught feminist philosophy and Women in Sport. Part of the solution is to > discuss the inherent issues right at the beginning of the class. One prof > sets groundrules for class discussion. This eliminates the men who take the > classes to "meet chicks". A feminist awareness and pedagogy does not have > to preclude gender; I've met many female profs who are decidedly anti-feminist. > Actually, I think the time has come for Men's Studies. Not the Iron John > drums-in-the-woods crap, but a forum where men are able to use feminist > techniques of deconstruction and critique to examine male gender > expectations and stereotypes. > > Cheers, > Krista > Graduate Women's Studies > S716 Ross > York University, > North York, ON > krust@interlog.com > I totally agree with Krista. I am currently teaching a Women and Politics course where one third of the students are male. They are adding a positive element to the class and have helped to enrich our discussion. In the past, I have taucht this class with and without men enrolled. The presence of men has enhanced the quality of the discussion and the process of learning. Gloria T. Cohen-Dion Department of Political Science Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, PA. gcohen@planetx.bloomu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:02:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Sarch Organization: The College of Staten Island Subject: Re: men in gender classes I've frequently encountered aggressive, hostile male (and female) students responses to lectures on feminist theory or anything related to the women's movement. And being that I'm only about 5 feet tall and look younger than most of my students, asserting authority can be a problem at times. I teach Communications and insert feminist theory into almost all my courses and found that the most effective approach is to acknowledge these hostile views as valid (as another poster just stated, sorry I forgot names). I rephrase what they say and use facts, figures, theory to argue otherwise. One class, a student raised his hand and stated, "We all know that the woman's movement was started by a bunch of ugly ladies who couldn't get any." This was my second college course I ever taught. Well, I lost control of the class at that point and it was at the end of class so I just let them go early after trying, unsuccesfully go get them back on track. But the next class, I started off the class by writing his statment on the board and handing out parts of Robin lakoff's book on women and language. I had them read that in class, and then dissected his quote using her approach. This was very effective and I now use this example in my intro course when discussing gender and language. I also start out my lectures on feminism by asking the class, who thinks of themself as a feminist. no one raises their hand (or maybe one). and then i ask, who believes men and women deserve equal rights, etc. all or most raise their hands. then i ask, what connotations does the word feminist raise in your head? and then i get stuff like -- lesbians, don't shave their legs, hate men, etc. all that awful stuff, and i let them say it. then i lecture about why this is so, how come powerful women get this image, why does the media constantly talk about hillary clinton's hair. i don't have the cites offhand, but julia wood definitely talks abou tthis -- how powerful women in the media must also be pretty or have other stereotypical female qualities to be accepted. anyway, i realize your course isn't media related, but i hope these examples help. I am constantly dealing with this and am always trying to figure out ways to teach those hostile to feminist theory (and/or to a young female professor). Amy Sarch Communications College of Staten Island/CUNY ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:01:23 -0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Renee J. Heberle" Subject: Re: men in gender classes >I disagree that going to the "male higher-up" in such a situation is the best, much less the only solution. Keep him informed in case the student tries to attack you in other ways--or if it comes down to you telling him to leave the classroom...and document what happens... but from the limited knowledge I have from your posting, it seems there are a myriad of strategies for diffusing his impact on the classroom. Sending him to another guy--no matter how we couch it--will only affirm him, either that he is a victim of a nasty feminist, or that only men have the authority to tell him what to do. First, he did tacitly agree to a contract upon entering the class, ie. the syllabus, so if he disagrees arbitrarily with assignments, you don't have to respond or justify yourself. Do you know the other students well enough to have a sense of what they might say to this guy--given the opportunity and time to formulate a response (which often does not exist in the pressured context of a classroom)? Could you (without being obvious) devote class time to allowing them to respond and take on this guy themselves? Are the other students really as timid as you say in the post? Try throwing the questions he asks directly of you open to the class. "What does anyone else think?" If he goes after whoever responds, don't allow him to engage in one on one. Go round-robin around the class or something--anything to deprive him of the floor. If he insists, you have grounds for telling him to leave for being disruptive. Or try just nodding at him when he speaks, but going on to the next person or comment--sometimes I say we should "collect responses" before responding to any one argument to see how the group is doing with the issue. Do you have any ground rules about discussion--how many times one person can speak? If not, make some--even if they are targeted at him--be subtle about it. This will give you the "official" grounds to tell him to leave if he disrupts what the class has agreed to as a process. Often, when we are discussing issues that I know students will disagree strongly about (I teach in a very conservative area) like pornography or abortion, I suggest the students--rather than asserting opinions or challenging one another one on one-- turn their comments into questions to be posed to the group...even if it is as simple as adding "don't you think that?" One student translated her very settled opinion that abortion is murder into the following question: "What would life be like for women if we, as a society, all agreed that abortion is murder?"--for example. She surprised herself and the class with the discussion that followed. It encourages a spirit of inquiry. We should be aggressive--even "authoritarian"-- with destructive and hostile students in the classroom when other students' classroom experiences are being negated or ruined. If they cannot be encouraged to engage with the course, their impact can be diffused. Good luck. I responded at length because your problem struck a nerve rubbed raw by experience and because I really disagree with the strategy of sending the student to the higher-up. I look forward to reading about other strategies for making our classrooms "safe for conflict." Renee Dr. Renee Heberle, heberlrj@potsdam.edu Politics Department/Women's Studies Program 309a Satterlee Hall SUNY Potsdam Potsdam, NY 13676 Office Phone: 315-267-2555 Home Phone: 315-265-2513 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:35:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: men in gender classes Michelle - instead of trying to emphasize your authority vis-a-vis your resistant male student directly I would spend a few class sections de-emphasizing his 'voice' - either by asking everyone to respond to a particular text or question or by limiting the number of responses a person is allowed in any class session. (I found that this actually encourages the 'quiet' students to talk - your intimidated students may also be angry at him for taking up so much class time.) I had a very 'progressive' male student last semester who not only talked a _lot_ but also tried to 'show me up'. I finally resorted to giving out paper 'chits' that represented one turn. It did get the other students talking and made clear what the problem was. I only wish I had done it earlier! He had very good insights but was also very dominating and controlling, which incensed some of the students and made it difficult for me to get more people to voice their opinions until I used this exercise. Good luck - and I hope your weather gets better! Barbara Scott Winkler WINKLER@wvnvms.wvnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:55:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Harrison-Pepper Subject: Re: Dealing with a Disruptive Student > In one class, a male student has been openly hostile > towards me and the subject matter. He disagrees with every assignment I > give, every discussion I start. It doesn't matter what I say, he disagrees. > The problem is that he is greatly diminishing my authority in the other > students' eyes. The women in the class are intimidated by him, and will not > discuss certain things that may "upset" the male student. Nearly every university has a policy for dropping unruly or disruptive students from a class. My present university allows a professor to drop a student without notice if s/he is disrupting the class or otherwise limiting the educational experience for the rest of the students. Seems to me this man certainly qualifies! Locate the policy. Then you can either just drop him, or, if you want to try something potentially more beneficial for this student, point the policy out to him and tell him that if he wishes to stay in the class he must prepare a written Learning Contract in which he clearly states what he will do to participate and contribute positively to the professor's and the other students' experience of the course. No negotiations at this point. Sally Harrison-Pepper Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Affiliate Professor of Women's Studies Miami University, Oxford OH 45056 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:19:05 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Palmer Subject: men in gender classes Hi Michelle, I too have taught composition courses which use feminist texts to prompt class discussion, analysis, and paper assignments. I think you're brave to state your intentions upfront: I let my students know that one of my fields is feminist theory, and that I tend to have a feminist approach to texts, but I don't (or at least I haven't yet) invited them to leave it they can't cope. In any case, I had two thoughts on your problem. One would be to use a text that would make that male student aware of the ways gender are treated differently (and move from there to the awareness of the power implications of those differences). One assignment that has worked really well for me is to have the students read Jamaica Kincaid's Girl. It's very short--less than 2 pages--so you can even read it in class. Then, once they figure out what's happening in the text (it's a mother's diatribe toward her daughter, telling her what she should and should not do) I have them imagine (and write) a similar discourse from their own mother or father. In my experience, the students write interesting autobiographical pieces which then allow them to see far more clearly how gendered are many parental expectations, despite how little they may have thought they had been influenced by such things. That gives them a first step toward seeing how gender affects people on a larger social scale as well, and it allows a starting point toward thinking about how those expectations may be sexist (and what sexism means). The Kincaid piece is in ReReading America, eds. Colombo, Cullen, and Lisle (and probably many other places as well). My second thought was that, speaking from experience, it might not be such a bad idea to have that student speak with the director, especially if you could make it a mutual meeting with the three of you present, discuss your concerns with the director ahead of time and make sure that he knows exactly what you want to get across to the student, and make sure the two of you are working together to achieve those ends. That way you would still be in control and the student would get the point that your approach is legitimate and administratively sanctioned. I had a really awful seen once where I had to confront a (male) student who cheated on an exam. The Chair of the program (male) said he should be present though originally the professor (female) and I wanted to handle it on our own. In that particular case, both the professor and I were really glad for the Chair's presence especially, as it turned out, because he was male. The student was Asian American and apparently (I'm speaking from gross ignorance based on this one example and what I've heard since), being caught cheating is culturally construed as far more shameful than it would be for many white Americans. And it's especially shameful for a male to be caught by a female. Having a male there in the position of ultimate authority somehow served to make the student conscious of his error without also making him suicidal (at least that's the impression I got). Good luck! Lisa ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:25:30 -0500 Reply-To: J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo VanEvery Subject: men?again? Although I agree with many of the posters that the kinds of questions the women in the original posters class were asking just subverted the discussion away from women, I have found that for a lot of young women addressing these concerns directly allows them to get on with addressing women. One of the things we need to realize is the power of sexism in US/UK/other cultures. The discomfort expressed by women students about women only classes, not getting the male perspective, etc. is a SYMPTOM of this power. I have assigned readings about men in feminism (both for and against, there are lots out there by both women and 'pro-feminist' men) to raise the issues in an academic way. Hopefully if you spend one session clearing the ground by taking these questions seriously, you can do the things you want to do with your women-only group much better for the rest of the semester. One article that might help them see the connections might be Marilyn Frye 'Willfull Virgin, or: Do you have to be a lesbian to be a feminist' reprinted in her collection _Willfull Virgin_ Crossing PRess. It would enable discussion of how there peers and others react to their women and the body course and get them to think about their questions in relation to broader social relations. 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: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:35:57 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Palmer Subject: Re: men in gender classes But I couldn't help noticing that this message also opens up the >question of how to avoid the problems that are arising in this class. If >the course is titled "Gender and Identity," then in my view men ought to >feel welcome in the class and they ought to expect readings that address >issues that they feel are significant for them. Men do have genders, and >they do have identities. So it is inappropriate, given the course title, >to then say on the first day of class that the class will cover primarily >feminist readings. To say that one is reading feminist texts (and/or doing feminist readings of texts) does not mean ignoring the male gender. It means taking a certain approach toward reading/writing, as well as becoming aware of gendered assumptions which affect both men and women. Therefore I don't think any man should feel left out. Other than that, I appreciate Jack's suggestions. Lisa ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:54:53 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: pat gilmartin Organization: Youngstown State University Subject: Re: men in gender classes In-Reply-To: <199701211747.LAA170822@badlands.NoDak.edu> my advice is simple: nullify this guy in class every change you get and get right back in his face. bullies cannot hear or reason; they respond, if at all, to being outbullied. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:36:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Frances E. Wood" Subject: Re: men in gender classes In-Reply-To: This is an interesting and important thread for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the dynamic/behavior Michelle Lundgren describes is not limited to gender/women's studies classrooms. With respect to the potential for such a situation to occur in any classroom, I am weighing in with a response to Jack Meacham's reply. Specifically, there are three points I wish to raise: 1) This is an institutional/political/semantic issue on a number of campuses, and in a number of programs and departments. Using the truth-in-advertising caution raises a critical concern: the increasingly widespread practice of using the word, gender, as a synonym or code for woman, women, men, women's studies, men's studies, feminist, or feminism is inherently hazardous. Fuzzy use of language(s) is not identical with inclusivity of perspectives. Each of us is a gendered creature, regardless of gender *assignment*. 2) While I appreciate the "teaching moment" opportunity that may obtain here, it does not sound as if the student has so much a learning problem as one of social animus. Which brings me to the third point. 3) Jack Meacham's response totally ignores and thereby minimizes/dismisses the reality of women professors' and instructors' encounters with men's use of their bodies/size/physique to intimidate women. [In anticipation of protests about students' uses of their bodies as seduc(er)(tress), I maintain these are not analagous circumstances. Intimidation tactics imply, and at times have resulted in actual physical harm. "Temptation" tactics on the part of any student, however flattering, require that a prof. remember what body part actually is the brain, and act accordingly.] I fear that this is one of those situations where there is no substitute for having "been there; had that done," whether "there" is a high school date, walking down the street, or a college classroom. I'm not attempting to set women up as powerless in the classroom. Nor am I granting omnipotence to men. Having worked in field where taking physical intimidation seriously meant survival or death for some folks, I simply find that acknowledging the embodied realities in these circumstances makes the abstract, hypothetical, theoretical, political and tactical responses more helpful. Frances E. Wood Institute for Women's Studies Emory University fwood01@emory.edu If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all. James Baldwin On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Lisa Palmer wrote: > But I couldn't help noticing that this message also opens up the > >question of how to avoid the problems that are arising in this class. If > >the course is titled "Gender and Identity," then in my view men ought to > >feel welcome in the class and they ought to expect readings that address > >issues that they feel are significant for them. Men do have genders, and > >they do have identities. So it is inappropriate, given the course title, > >to then say on the first day of class that the class will cover primarily > >feminist readings. > > To say that one is reading feminist texts (and/or doing feminist readings > of texts) does not mean ignoring the male gender. It means taking a > certain approach toward reading/writing, as well as becoming aware of > gendered assumptions which affect both men and women. Therefore I don't > think any man should feel left out. > > Other than that, I appreciate Jack's suggestions. > > Lisa > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:24:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elaine Orr Subject: men Is someone creating a file on the discussion of men in women's studies/gender studies? A couple of years ago, our women's studies program underwent a review and we changed our name to Women's and Gender Studies. Presently, we are considering whether to change the name of our minor from Women's Studies to Women's and Gender Studies. This discussion seems relevant and demonstrates how naming matters. I would like to be able to forward the file of this discussion to my colleagues at North Carolina State. Thanks. Elaine Orr elaine@unity.ncsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:27:31 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty Glass Subject: managing classroom discussion "hogs" In-Reply-To: <01IEH633N5F0HG1THU@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Barbara Winkler wrote: > ... I had > a very 'progressive' male student last semester who not only talked a > _lot_ but also tried to 'show me up'. I finally resorted to giving > out paper 'chits' that represented one turn. It did get the other > students talking and made clear what the problem was. I only wish > I had done it earlier! He had very good insights but was also very > dominating and controlling, which incensed some of the students and > made it difficult for me to get more people to voice their opinions > until I used this exercise. Good luck - ... This technique was discussed in an instructional ideas seminar I attended last spring. Someone asked how to control participation by students who just like to hear themselves talk. The teacher used poker chips to regulate classroom participation. Blue chips were for asking relevant, worthwhile questions. White chips were for making irrelevant remarks. Red chips were for relevant contributions to the topic under discussion. Each student gave a chip to the teacher as part of each class participation transaction. The teacher kept a color-coded score to help form the class participation element of the grade. (This was presented as an "active learning" idea.) Betty ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:32:46 EST Reply-To: Joya Misra Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joya Misra Subject: Feminist theory/suggestions Comments: To: UGA Women's Studies , SWS-Georgia What five or ten books/articles do you think any student of feminist theory should read? I'm most interested in collecting a list of works for the last 10-15 years. I'll put together suggestions and post it to the list. Please reply to me privately at cmsjoya@uga.cc.uga.edu Thanks! Joya Misra CMSJOYA@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU *********************************************************************** Assistant Professor Department of Sociology University of Georgia Baldwin Hall Athens, Georgia 30602 (706)542-3190 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:37:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: men in gender classes One could always treat these jerks as pitious psych cases suffering from post adolescent rejection syndrome and set up group/individual counselling sessions for them with the campus psych serive--especially if you can find a sympathetic good humored imaginative feminist psych., esp. one such who is a grad student and wants an interesting project. These guys can be driven crazy if all of their rudeness and hostility is treated as symtoms of severe psych. disturbance. Why not do to them what has always been done to us? We, of course, never deserved it. We were always sane; it;'s just been the system that's nuts. But if the system is nuts, then so are the perveyors and perpetrators and believers in the system. They need therapy. I say give to them up the old euphemistic wazoo! Susan Koppelman huddis@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:40:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Carmen Poulin Subject: Re: men in gender classes At 13:17 97-01-21 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Michelle Delaine Lundgren wrote: > >> I'm teaching a composition class this semester titled "Gender and Identity." >> I started out the class by explaining that the majority of the readings >> would be Feminist in nature. I then explained that anyone who didn't feel >> comfortable with this topic, or didn't feel as though he/she could handle it >> maturely should drop this class and add a comp class with a different theme. >> I thought this "disclaimer" would help, but it hasn't. I want to mention some tricks I have used, keeping in mind what Pauline Bart has said before (i.e., "Remember-its not a private problem but a public issue"). I have only been in this job for six years. The first year, I had ideals about what feminist teaching was all about. I was wrong and sure paid the price for it. I got walked all over and was intimidated by male (and sometimes though not as often) & female students. I had the privilege of being coached by a woman who survived the military for 16 years; she taught me a few things. It helped me, it might help others (some suggestions are not necessarily politically "great" but they helped me): 1. Increase how loud I speak (use a mike if that is hard for you to do naturally) so that my voice fills the room. Don't allow people to interrupt you (i.e., ignore interruptions . . . with a louder voice, that's easier to do). You can turn the volume down later in the course if you feel like it. 2. Wear shoulder pads and try standing straight and think of filling out more space again (I am a thin woman with bad posture). 3. Don't smile until the end of October ;-) except with individual students (which doesn't mean that you cannot look interested by student's comments). 4. When a student asks a question or makes a comment and you feel your tension rising, if you think there are others in the vicinity that can respond, call upon them for their opinion on that question or comment(during that time, calm down and think about a way to diffuse or "re-contextualize" the issue . . . ) 5. As someone else mentioned earlier, ensure that your course title has the word Feminist in it, or that the description of it makes it obvious that your perspective is a feminist one. That usually deters a few. I have one of mine called: "Research in Sex and Gender Differences: Theoretical and Methodological Issues". The length of the title seems to scare students away, as well as the length of my syllabus (I write down everything; it is six pages long . . . small print!) 6. Have them work in small groups so that they can challenge each other (and you don't have to take it all . . . you cannot!), and put the groups together yourself (I have tried it both ways and when I have assigned the groups, students have ALWAYS had a better time). For the work in small groups, have well-structured exercise requiring them to hand-in a written "group" report as soon as the exercise is over (even if they don't complete the exercise). The task tends to keep them focussed and it reduces how much "ranting & raving" can go on. 7. Don't "take them on" in class. Suggest that you meet at a time that is convenient for both of you to discuss the issue or problem, or engage via E-mail (that is the best yet!). Well, that's some of the things I do. I know that one can deconstruct many (if not most) of these ideas and find something really wrong with each one. Nevertheless, it has helped me survive and come out on the other side. I still get anxious at times about new material I introduce, the ways I use to present it and make them work with it, etc. But I don't usually fear that they will attack me, challenge me in a way that I feel "personally hit." However, I must "contextualize" my comment by saying that I only teach one course which is required; the others are optional (that makes a difference too). Sorry about having gone on so long. I want to also remind people that we had another tread on this topic some time ago (Key word for browsing the index might be: "authority") and that it provided me with great ideas and support at the time. Thanks. Carmen ***************************** Carmen Poulin, Ph.D Department of Psychology University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B. E3B 5A3 Phone: (506) 453-4707 Fax: (506) 453-4505 e-mail: CARMEN@UNB.CA ****************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:59:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: men in gender classes Perhaps instead of saying the disruptive males suffered from post adolescent rejection syndrome, I should have diagnosed them with peri-post adolescent hormonal disorders. ( hyper-adrenalism, like steroid overdoses). The point is, really, that their behavior can be dissected in the same demeaning, discounting ways that women's, feminists's behavior/ideas can be "deconstructed." If they understand that they are playing games they have learned wthout learning they were learning games, they might understand that they can be beaten at that game. On the other hand, perhaps part of the problem for some of you is that students often reject theory because theory doesn't interest most people. Why not start with popular media material analysis--advertising, popular music (A woman's place in this old world is under some man's thumb, but if you're born a woman, you're born to be hurt" 0r "Lay Lady Lay" or "She's under my thumb!" ) Start with the culture they are immersed in. And being 5 ft. tall and young looking is indeed a challenge to authority. But I don't think there is a single way of being embodied that can't be construed as a challenge to one's authority. Try being fat and hairy and fifty! Many of you are describing disruptive student behavior that reminds me of the days when I taught in an upper east side NYC junior high. You might appeal to the class's consumer interests--what are they paying tuition for, to learn something or to listen to these jerks? You can be nice--most of the suggestions people are making sound effective and kind and pedagogically righteous. But they also sound "good womanly." Do any of you watch Pearl on Tuesday nites? How would Professor McDowell handle these students? You know you can all out-talk these jerks; you can bring them to their knees, you can shrink their weinies with a few well placed snidenesses and raised eyebrows and pointedly directed glances (below the belt). I have always found that they can be made to understand oppression, humiliation, discrimination, etc. by experiencing it. And they can be exposed to it, make to experience it, in ways that are too subtle for them to yet have a vocabulary to describe to themselves. We've done all the work to create the concepts and vocabulary. If they want to learn to defend themselves from the evils and uglinesses of they dish out but aren;t used to receiving, then they have to learn what we have figured out by paying attention in women's studies classes. They can learn, in your classes, if they want. Why are you all being so nice? That is my main question. What about our/you conditioning as female nurturers motivates you to waste your time on rude disruptive students? When we were first starting to create women's studies and we raised the kinds of questions in patriarchal sexist oppressive classrooms that these guys think they are raising in yours, no teachers took us aside to lead us gently back to reasonable discourse. They harrassed us intellectually and sexually, flunked us, refused to renew our grants and fellowships, and generally made our lives as miserable as they were able to. We didn't all survive. Many budding feminists left the academy. Reading this discussion is very sad. Are any of you in touch with, working closely with, elementary school teachers? There are all sorts of techniques for shutting up unruly students. See Dale Spender's book The Schooling Scandal. You are describing typical elementary school classrooms and curricula--designed to keep boys involved and under control. And I also suggest you get in touch with your colleagues who teach ADD students, because that's another aspect of what you are describing--attention deficit disorder. You are not dealing with intellectual peers. You don't really have to sink to their level, but you sure don't have to pretend they are at your level. I'm sorry for how long this is, but I am just so saddened to read what you are all writing, and it makes me so MAD! Your sister in struggle, Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:51:13 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Miriam Subject: Re: men in gender classes Comments: To: Michelle Delaine Lundgren Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L In-Reply-To: <199701211747.LAA170822@badlands.NoDak.edu> MIchelle, regarding the problem of disruptive men in your class I have a few sketchy approaches that perhaps others can flesh out further. First of all, I agree with you about not sending the culprit to your male supervisor--upt to a point. I might do so as a last resort but what I have found helpful is role playing with colleagues or other insightful friends as to how to have an eye-ball to eye-ball talk with this guy in a way that re-assumes your authority in his eyes. Although it sounds like you have already attempted this, you will probably gain different, sometiems surprising perspectives from other people. The task seems to be to reassert your authority so he's got to know that his grade might be jeapordized, for one. There might also be other ways to re-assert your authority in the class-room: i don't know if this is appropriate to your situation, but someimtes in a discussion oriented class I have done some lecturing to establish my position at crucial moments. As for the women students. I don't have any guaranteed solution, it varies depending on context, but I have always found it crucial to in anyway possible shift responsibility over to the women or to other men to confront culprits so that i am not locked into conflict with this one student. One way to do this (perhaps you've already tried this) is to always re-direct his points, as questions, to other students, find out what they think. I use small group work as much as possible to shift responsibility over to the studnets for a variety of things. YOu might want to try separating the class into groups of women an dgroups of men for discussion. These seems especially important for the women who you mention are being silenced by the problem student. And I would consider sending the male student over to your supervisor if nothing else works because, in my opinion, the most important thing is to foster the learning, now disrupted, of the other studnets rather than to hope for raising the consciousness of this one man. I hope this helps a bit and it'll be intersting to see what other list members come up with. Kathy (sorry for all the typos) Miriam kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:55:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joAnn Castagna Subject: Re: "chips" method of managing discussion my memory is that the "chips" method of equalizing discussion oportunities was used in early consciousness raising groups, to encourage women of varying levels of conversational assertiveness to participate. in those groups there wasn't a distinction made between types of comments. every member of the group began with the same number of chips, and you could use them however you wished, tossing them into the center of the circle. once you were out of chips, you couldn't speak until there was a re-distribution of the collected chips. i've done this in classes, and found that sometimes students gave their chips away, wanting to hear more from a particular speaker, for example.... small groups that report back to the whole group on their discussion, or "silent discussions" in which written responses circulate in the room for add-on comments, and then get collected and "published" by the prof are other ways to deflect monologue and involve more students... joann joann-castagna@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:01:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: creating a file on this thread Somewhere in today's messages, Elaine Orr wrote: > Is someone creating a file on the discussion of men in women's > studies/gender studies? A couple of years ago, our women's studies > program underwent a review and we changed our name to Women's and Gender > Studies. Presently, we are considering whether to change the name of our > minor from Women's Studies to Women's and Gender Studies. This > discussion seems relevant and demonstrates how naming matters. I would > like to be able to forward the file of this discussion to my colleagues at > North Carolina State. Thanks. It does look as if many people find this thread compelling, and so yes, I guess I will try to create a file. Please be patient, though--I may not be able to get to it right away. When the file is ready, I'll send a message to WMST-L as usual, letting people know how to get hold of it. One request: to make my task easier, and to make reading through the messages as they arrive less repetitious, please quote only brief EXCERPTS from the message to which you're replying rather than quoting long messages in their entirety. Many thanks. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:23:37 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Subject: Re: men in gender classes >Why are you all being so nice? That is my main question. What about our/you >conditioning as female nurturers motivates you to waste your time on rude >disruptive students? Because most of us NEED to get "good" teaching evaluations -- at some institutions we need to get spectacular ones -- in order to keep our jobs. Tenure and promotion committees neither know nor care whether the "bad" evaluations were written by disruptive antagonists or whether they were written by sensitive, knowledgeable majors. All they know is that if you get a certain number of teaching evaluations that say that you are biased, racist, sexist, rude, attempt to impose your own opinions on students, and only give good grades to those who agree with your own opinions (common charges by disruptive individuals against feminist teachers, BTW) ... you probably aren't going to get to keep your job (if you are untenured) or get promoted (if you are tenured). So unless untenured feminist teachers can get disruptive and unruly students to SOMEHOW engage in the behavior of writing good teaching evaluations at the end of the semester, or else to drop the class before teaching evaluations are given out ... they aren't going to be around to teach anything at all in a few years. When hostile and disruptive and angry students constitute more and more % of the total students in one's classes -- the dangers of getting fired for "bad teaching evaluations" rise proportionately -- and *NOBODY* is going to hire a person who was fired from their previous institution for "bad teaching evaluations." Its a drag, and it corrupts the educational process immeasurably, but its a very real fact of life for many young feminist faculty. Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt. Ruth ginzberg@beloit.edu ************* Ruth Ginzberg *************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:35:41 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Bendfeldt, Melani LITTLE-GRAPE" Subject: Multicultural Education Hello All: I am writing for suggestions regarding a Philosophy of Education course I am currently enrolled in. I am working with five other students to design an independent study relating multicultural education to theories or philosophies of education. Our professor has suggested that we use Banks' philosophy as one of our resources. One part of this course can focus on gender equity or feminism / women's studies. We are looking for any ideas regarding projects and/or research which will fulfill the course requirements and help us as future elementary teachers. Please forward this message to any individuals who could be of help or have a background teaching Philosophy of Education. Thanks so much for your help. Sincerely, Melani Bendfeldt KRLR@maristb.marist.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:47:25 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "J.E. McAdams" Subject: women students say there's no sexism. . . I'm responding to Ruth Ginzburg's post, in which she mentions the young women in her classes who deny that sexism exist (please correct me if I've got this wrong, Ruth. I'm typing from memory). Gloria Steinem has an excellent piece about this. She notes that women become more feminist as they get older in large part because college is such a liberated time for women and because we have not yet accumulated those many experiences that make us no longer able to "deny" the sexism all around us. I'm sorry I can't remember the name of this article, but perhaps someone else on the list will know. I read Steinem's article after teaching a feminist theory course and being very dismayed at how few women in the class were willing to call themselves feminists and how they, too, didn't think the issues of "2nd Wave" feminism were especially pertinent. (I had a similar experience with white students in my comp class last semester re: Racism, which they claimed existed "a long time ago." When I questioned them, it turned out "a long time" was "ten years ago"!). Reading Steinem's essay was so helpful to me--it made me sit down and think about who I was as a twenty-year old feminist. (I think young women cannot bear what is in store for them & deny & come to it very gradually--I know I did. Imagine knowing/finding out then that you were entering a world where, during your lifetime, you would never know equality, never be safe or free.) I imagine my ambivalent feminism troubled my teachers in a similar fashion--thinking about this has really changed the way I relate to women students. Janet McAdams English/ SFASU jmcadams@sfasu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:15:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: men in gender classes In-Reply-To: <199701211747.LAA170822@badlands.NoDak.edu> I must think about the serious problems the writer is having. But would suggest that instead of putting "he" first in the phrase "he/she", the pattern be broken and written as "she/he, putting the female pronoun in the position of primacy. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 20:03:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: men in wmst/gender classes Like Amy Sarch I have used an exercise to talk about what feminism means - in my large section (we also do smaller breakout discussion sections) of 100 students I gave the students a simple survey - asking if they believed in equal opportunity for women and men, then if they believed that women were still oppressed and discriminated against, then finally did they identify themselves as feminists. This took place a little over half way through the class. The results were very interesting: nearly 98% agreed with equal opportunity, and 96% believed women were still oppressed or discriminated against, but far fewer were willing to claim the title 'feminist' - about a third. This is our "Introduction to Women's Studies" class which has up to one-third male students enrolling. Some of the men students told me in section that the term seemed to them 'women- identified' and they needed a different term to explain where they were. Others, no doubt, we unwilling or afraid to be called feminist but were convinced by our discussions of discrimination against women in the workforce and violence against women, etc. I find that the male students in the class - which fulfills a university wide requirement - run the gamut - some openly or passively resistant, others interested and wanting to learn more. We have had male students who later recommend the course to their girlfriends! One thing I have noticed is that when it comes to the 'floor of talk' men still tend to dominate if I don't actively intervene, using exercises and discussion of participation styles and educational micro-discrimination that favors male assertiveness. I also hear from male students that the emphasis on the intersection of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation that overtly structures the class helps them feel their issues are includes. Since we talk about the social construction of gender we do a section on 'men and masculinity' as well. Barbara Scott Winkler WINKLER@wvnvms.wvnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 21:08:24 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judie Montoya Subject: Men in gender classes I'm afraid we are all feeling our way along here. Whether I am teaching about social problems, culture, or WS, I have sometimes found it helpful to use handouts (which place the focus on the ideas of another), videos (experiential as well as presenting others' ideas), journals (to give direct feedback from me to an individual), to use the situation itself as a learning exprience for the class, to use examples and stories from other countries and cultures which can then (once the point is made & you have some consensus) be brought back to the U.S. situation, and to use humor whenever possible -- perhaps to defuse, not to ridicule. I do agree that Pauline Bart is quite fortunate to have someone to back her up -- a sometimes rare resource, but I understand a reluctance to make use of a male in this way for fear of showing weakness. It seems that there is less "automatic" respect given to authority figures now than is the past (perhaps a good sign, I think), and we have to be sure to assert our power in some way, if only as the grade-giver. This won't be the last time you have to deal with such behavior, and I keep reminding myself that these are the very types of people we have to eventually reach anyway. Those who come in agreeing with us need us far less. Dissenters may have personal issues that are compounding the problem in class -- dad lost his job to an immigrant or woman less qualified, the authoritarian view (somewhat a class issue) that men are the "natural" leaders and heads-of-households, or something else that adds to a sense of being threatened. And still the vision of bra-burning, frizzy-haired, unshaven liberal women is the vision held in the heads of many. All cases are definitely not alike. Well, we're supporting each other, for whatever that may be worth. I like the idea of putting our information together in a file so that we may try one anothers' ideas and offer new insights and strategies. I have tried to keep the posts in a file myself. Many thanks to you, Joan, for educating me about this list and for developing a file when you have the time. Judie Montoya Dallas, Texas e-mail: judiem@swbell.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:57:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Fwd: men in gender classes I am resending this to you because I forgot to sign it: The following is from Susan Koppelman at <> --------------------- Forwarded message: Subj: Re: men in gender classes Date: 97-01-21 19:35:17 EST From: Huddis To: WMST-L@umdd.umd.edu "We were never meant to survive." I have some sympathy for those without tenure who hedge their bets, play down their rage. But for those with tenure who sacrifice principles for raises, I have no sympathy at all. Frances Woods says she has worked in fields where people's lives were actually in danger. I think that all of our lives are in danger--it's just a question of how close or far we are from the bullets at the moment. When I was talking to my son (he was 12 at the time) about a friend who is the daughter of survivors (you all know I mean concentration camps, WWII, right?), he looked at me in a very strange way and said, "Mom, we are all survivors. Just because Hitler didn't get this far didn't mean he didn;t intend to come!" He changed my perspective on everything when he said that. We must learn to assess our dangers realistically. We have to know when it is time to pack what we can and get out. And we have to know that we are in danger when they come for the people across the street or down the block. These people are dangerous. There may not be enough women in the academy to satisfy us; there certainly aren't enough women in higher ranks. But aren't women still doing most of the shit work in the academic world? What if you all went out on strike? What if you all refused to take it anymore? There really is power in communal action. I know you all feel isolated, or most of you feel isolated, working at rural or small town institutions, far from the friendly smile or hug of a sister. But we have the net and we can organize. Do you all remember Marge Piercy's wonderful poem, "The low road?" What can they do to you? Whatever they want. They can set you up, they can bust you, they can break your fingers, they can burn your brain with electricity, blur you with drugs till you can't walkl can't remember; they can take your child, wall up your lover. They can do anything you can't stop them 'from doing. How can you stop them? Alone, you can fight, you can refuse, you can take what revenge you can but they roll over you. But two people fighting back to back can cut through a mob, a snake-dancing file can break a cordon, an army can meet an army. Two people can keep each other' sane, can give support, conviction, love, massage, hope, sex. Three people are a delegation, a committee, a wedge. With four you can play bridge and start an organization. With six you can rent a whole house, eat pie for dinner with no seconds, and hold a fund raising party. A dozen make a demonstration. A hundred fill a hall. A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter. a hundred thousand, your own media; tem million, your own country. It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say WE and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more. This poem always makes me cry. And seethe. And get up and dance. I have a copy of it in a frame next to my computer. Then there is Susan Griffin's wonderful poem that starts I like to think of Harreit Tubman, Harriet Tubman who carried a revolver, . . . . I like to t hink of her especially when I think of the problem of feeding children. And then there is Gloria Hull's poem to Audre Lorde: What you said keeps bothering me keeps needling, grinding like a toothache or a bad conscience: "Your silence will not protect you" "Our speaking is stopped because we fear the visibility without which we can not really live" You quietly stand there, annealed by death, mortality shining: "Whether we speak or not, the machine will crush us to bits-- and we will also be afraid" "Your silence will not protect you" I ache for how frightened some of you sound. But you can't be safe, no matter what you do, no matter how you handle it. At least you can get mad. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 23:10:27 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: FEWood Subject: Re: Fwd: men in gender classes Comments: cc: huddis@aol.com Dear Susan Koppelman: While I find your (then) 12 year-old son's response poignant and profound, and while I know that none of us knows when the bullet will find us, and further, while I live daily with the knowledge of un-safety, I nonetheless am clear about the particularities of peoples' lives that distinguishes so-called random, stranger violence from the intimate terror in the homes of many women, children, the elderly and disabled of all ages and sexes. One of the lessons I have learned from the study of Jewish history is that the particularity of circumstances *does* make a difference in how we are treated. Not all of us are at risk for the same kind of harm at all times, even while each of us is at risk for some form of violence at any time. You cited a beloved sister spirit who is with me daily, Audre Lorde. My mantra for claiming all of who I am in the world, and acting with integrity, has been for many years, "your silence will not protect you." I am familiar w/both the poet, Pat Parker's "Where will you be when they come?" and Pastor Niemuller's confessional reflection on being silent, and having noone to speak for him. Nonetheless, I resist the temptation to conflate my life as your life, or yours as mine. I think this is important, because in such conflation and elision we miss important differences that result in our doing damage by omission as well as commission. Whereas I appreciate your view and invocations of Piercy, Rich and Lorde, I want to persist in particularizing life situations and circumstances out of respect for both the dialogics of difference and the dialectics of (shared) identities. Frances E. Wood fwood01@emory.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 23:29:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: virginia l rinkevich In-Reply-To: <32E5BD63.5564@Emory.Edu> ...how does one go nomail? much thanks... ginger ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 14:54:04 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michaela Blaha Subject: Students evaluating teachers During the discussion on disruptive class behavior in Women's Studies, someone mentioned the aspect of students evaluating teachers in the classroom. Is this a practice used in the entire American school system? When was it introduced? Please respond privately as the answer is probably not directly related to Women's Studies. Michaela Blaha Ruhr University Bochum, Germany ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:05:48 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 WS jobs; 2 other announcements The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Jobs: 2 in Women's Studies at CSU - Northridge 2) Interns/Volunteers sought: Operations Crossroads Africa (inc. focus on FGM) 3) FAVNET (Feminists Against Violence Network) - changes in management of e-mail list. For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) The Women's Studies Department at California State University, Northridge, announces two positions, beginning August 1997: 1) Tenure-track assistant professor in feminist theory and methodology, focus desirable in contemporary or historical study of women of color. Substantial teaching load in core and special topics courses, commitment to growing department required. Qualifications: Ph.D. by time of employment, graduate certification and teaching experience in Women's Studies or relevant field, evidence of feminist scholarship. 2) Tenure-track assistant professor jointly in Women's Studies and Chicana Studies Departments (locus of tenure Women's Studies). Subspecialty in twentieth-century literary and/or cultural studies approaches helpful. Substantial teaching load in core and special topics courses in both departments, commitment to growing department. Qualifications: Ph.D. preferred, background required in Chicana and Women's studies with relevant disciplinary perspective, theoretical and methodological training, and ability to contribute to Chicana scholarship. To apply: Review of applications begins February 15, continues till positions filled. Send letter of application, c.v., three letters of recommendation, course syllabi, graduate transcript to: Chair, Search Committee (specify position), Women's Studies Department, California State University, Northridge; Northridge, CA 91330-8251. AA/EEO Julia Watson, Chair Women's Studies Department California State University, Northridge Northridge, CA 91330-8251 Phone: 818 677-4785 e-mail: jw46979@email.csun.edu ******************************************************** 2) Subject: Women's Issues/Volunteers & Interns [AFRICA][BRAZIL] This year, Operation Crossroads Africa is celebrating its 40th Anniversary. We would be grateful for your help in making known summer opportunities with Crossroads (as Project Directors/Leaders and as Interns/Volunteers). Please see the announcement, below. Crossroads has a proud record -- since its founding in 1957, over 10,000 Volunteers have made contributions to development in Africa, the Caribbean, and South America. Alumni include such women as Eleanor Holmes-Norton and Dr. Ruth Love (former Superintendent, Oakland Schools). LaVerne Brown -- Crossroads' director -- is particularly concerned about the role of women in development, today. One of the public health projects Crossroads is planning will address the issue of Female Circumcision. Other projects will involve: primary care, tutoring and mentoring, distance learning, art and archaeology, computer literacy, rainforest conservation, dance and music, traditional religion and folklore. Special attention will be given to issues involving women and children. With the deadline for applying only weeks away, any help in sharing this information would be most welcome. SUMMER INTERNSHIPS/VOLUNTEER PROJECTS Operation Crossroads: Global Volunteers/Interns/Project DIRECTORS -> ONLINE applications now available for Proj DIRs & Interns [Africa/Brazil] Aimed at involving North Americans (and others) in sustainable development efforts in Africa and Brazil, while helping local communities to help themselves Academic Credit *highlights below* =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- O P E R A T I O N C R O S S R O A D S [AFRICA][BRAZIL] Global Volunteers/Interns/Project Directors Crossroads offers an opportunity to do summer work and participate in multi-disciplinary grassroots projects that Africans and Brazilians in rural & urban communities deem valuable. 20 - 25 projects are being organized; plans are for 150 - 200 volunteers/interns and 15 - 20 Project Directors. Crossroads recently announced that ONLINE applications (due over next few weeks) are available for Project Directors/Leaders (26 yrs and over with experience) & for Volunteers/Interns (college age & up; ALL are welcome) C R E D I T : Students generally arrange with their campuses to receive academic credit (typically 7 to 15 units) for their summer internship experience. The Program starts with a several-day Training Orientation in NYC in early July; Volunteers return to the US in mid-August. 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========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:12:17 -0600 Reply-To: Rachel Cassel Murphree Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rachel Cassel Murphree Subject: Re: Feminist theory/suggestions Comments: To: Joya Misra In-Reply-To: <970121.173505.EST.CMSJOYA@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Joya Misra wrote: > What five or ten books/articles do you think any student of feminist > theory should read? I'm most interested in collecting a list of works > for the last 10-15 years. > I'm sending this message to the entire list, because others may find these resources helpful. One list that may help you is the Feminist Theory Corelist which is maintained by the Women's Studies Section of ACRL (American Colleges and Research Libraries). The web site is: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/homemore.htm#corelists They're also available in print. The corelists are annually updated lists of 20-50 *in-print* books on various topics. The most important five to ten titles are asterisked. The 1997 lists should be available online within the next several months. It's a great collection of resources... --Rachel *************************************************************** Rachel Cassel Murphree Systems Librarian/Women's and Gender Studies Selector Louisiana State University Libraries 30 Middleton Library, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (VOICE)504-388-4742 (FAX) 504-388-6535 (NEW) notrcm@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:33:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: source - Piercy poem? In-Reply-To: virginia l rinkevich "" (Jan 21, 11:29pm) What is the reference for Marge Piercy's poem 'The Low Tide"? Thanks. Katherine Side klside@YorkU.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:01:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan C. Chrisler" Subject: Student Research Prize Comments: To: TIPS@fre.fsu.umd.edu Comments: cc: powr-l@uriacc.uri.edu, pwinet-l@vms.cis.pitt.edu In-Reply-To: <223730A5E71@sassette.uncp.edu> Announcing the 1997 Annual Prize for Psychological Research on Women & Gender Awarded by the Association for Women in Psychology and Division 35 (Psychology of Women) of the American Psychological Association Research Issues: Research topics eligible for this award should be construed very broadly and may represent work in any area of psychology. The research should be relevant in some significant way to women's lives, or, more generally, to the emerging psychological understanding of gender role influences on human behavior. The research may be basic or applied. Theoretical work or literature reviews are not eligible. Jointly authored papers are eligible, but the first author must have been a student (undergraduate or graduate) at the time the research was done. Entries should be of approximately journal length (do not send your unedited dissertation!) and written in APA style. Papers that have been submitted for publication or presented at professional meetings are eligible, along with papers that are unpublished, previously published, or accepted for publication. Do not submit reprints or manuscripts with the authors' names embedded in them. Submit four copies of the paper and a self-addressed, stamped post card and a self-addresses, stamped business size envelope by April 1st to: Joan C. Chrisler, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Connecticut College New London, CT 06320. A panel of psychologists will read all entries using a standard masked review procedure. Judging will be done on the basis of theoretical creativity, methodological skill, clarity and style of presentation, and importance of the research problem and findings. First and alternate winners will be announced at the APA convention in August. A $200 prize will be awarded for the best paper. Winners will be invited to present their papares at the 1998 conference of the Association for Women in Psychology. DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 1997. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:48:40 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Simone Shoemaker Subject: review of new video on women In-Reply-To: To all those of you who were interested in my new documentary on the changed situation of women in eastern Germany after the collapse of socialism: you can find a review of this documentary in the Video Librarian (January issue, page 23). If you are interested in reading this review but do not have access to this journal, or if you'd like any other information on this documentary, please contact me at simone@cts.com Simone Shoemaker ----------------------- Bronco Video P.O.Box 343 San Marcos, CA 92079 (619) 781-5714 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:24:13 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan R. Gundersen" Organization: CSU, San Marcos Subject: Re: men in gender classes There are several points I'd like to make: 1) What a disruptive male may say out loud may be what several other students in the class are thinking silently OR what they hear from friends and neighbors when they go home or to the dorm. Thus how the teacher responds may be very important to a number of students beyond those who are just outraged by the comment. 2) All students should be held to the same standards of accuracy. Thus in the case of the man who said something to the effect of "We all know that the women who started the women's movement were too ugly to get a man" I would reply, "Actually that's a media stereotype that's much older than the current movement." When the first women's movement started in the U.S. in the nineteenth century most of its leaders were married, but it was assumed that any woman who challenged women's place was unnatural and therefore was portrayed as a sexual misfit according to 19th century standards - either unmarried and ugly or promiscuous." There are of course other issues in the statement I could take up including assumptions about judging women by appearance, etc., but by going for something factual it defuses his "judgement." On the other hand, I also hold women to the same standards. Almost all statements beginning "We all know" or "All men" or "All women" represent generalizations that won't hold up. Students are asked to be more precise or recognize that the experience may not be universal. 3) Some students (male and female) are going to find ANY presentation of evidence concerning sexism, injustice, or inequity "negative" (of course it is!) and thus "Bashing". Some of these same students may feel a general guilt about belonging to a group that has had the power to perpetrate these wrongs. At the same time they may individually be feeling extremely disempowered in society at large. What works here is for people to begin to see that they may be focusing their anger on the wrong groups. I've found that a wonderful old radical film "The Salt of the Earth" is great for refocusing the discussion. If you don't know the film it was made by black-listed filmakers and a New Mexico miner's union in the 1950s and looks at a strike where the wives of the miners had to take over the picket line. 4) Except maybe for advanced women's studies courses, teachers should never make the assumption that students begin with feminist theoretical assumptions. In 22 years of teaching women's studies every class I've ever taught (except for one or two seminars) began with at least a third of the students unconvinced that women faced any remaining barriers in society. Joan Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:39:39 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Maureen Phillips Subject: Teaching Language & Gender Issues to Teens In-Reply-To: Dear WMST List Members: I will soon be teaching a two hour class to a teen group on language and gender. I haven't presented this type of material to that age group yet and was hoping for some suggestions. I'm thinking that an interactive session in which they negotiate some joint decision making and afterward "debrief" gender performance would appeal to their energy level. Does anyone have such an activity that they've tried? What were the results? Also, I am considering bringing some advertisements in and asking them to critique the representation of gender in them. I'd appreciate any feedback on what others have done. My goal is to make them more aware of how they "do" gender and how doing gender often means subordinating women. Many thanks, Maureen Phillips University of Washington ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:47:25 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Clara Dawnelle Loiselle Organization: Towson State University Subject: SpringboardQuestionsList I've been putting together the list of questions at the end of this note, hoping to use them to set my students thinking about the assumptions they bring into an introductory Women's Studies class. I haven't decided whether or not to print them out or to use them as springboards for free-writes early in the semester (or maybe both). Anyway, if you can help, I'm looking for feedback and/or more of the same. Thanks. Dawnelle Loiselle Towson State University loiselle@mail.wizard.net loiselle@midget.towson.net ---------------------------The questions:----------- -Where do you get the different kinds of power you have? -What sorts of things limit what you can do with and in your life? -Is it important to be able to tell the difference between men and women just by looking at them? -Is it ever anybody's business to butt into what's going on in somebody else's house? -Why do think most of the world's political leaders have been men? -What are some of the stories that sometimes circulate about women in their late 30s who have never been married? -Why do you think most US men don't wear make-up? -How do you account for the fact that a woman is raped in America every three seconds? -What do you think the world might be like if women had historically been given the same educational opportunites as men? -Why don't we study more women in school? -Why don't more of the world's religions allow women to be clergy? -Why do you think anorexia is a condition that affects mostly females? -What do you think would happen to some guy if he postponed or quit his job for five or six years to take care of his kids? -Is it ever anybody's business to butt into another religion or culture's traditions? -Why do we call dolls for boys action figures? -If you don't like the way things are, what do you do about them? -If you suspect that a friend or someone in your family is gay or lesbian, why do you think they haven't told you? -Why do you think women on average in America earn 70 for every dollar men earn? -Should a man's reputation be ruined if he wears skimpy clothing and then gets raped? -When a woman stays home with her kids, is she "babysitting"? -Who's to blame if you go to a woman's room and then get raped? -If you couldn't keep the only job you could get unless you worked with somebody important who was always grabbing at your body--though you couldn't prove it--what would you do? -If motherhood is natural for women, are women who don't have children unnatural? -Can you name five women artists you might expect to find in a national art gallery? -Do you think the way a family's assets are distributed during a divorce should have anything to do with whether or not the wife postponed or gave up a career to become a homemaker? -Why do you think the proportion of men to women on the internet (and Web) is seventy to thirty? -What do think success is for a woman? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:23:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: source - Piercy poem? >What is the reference for Marge Piercy's poem 'The Low Tide"? > >Thanks. > >Katherine Side >klside@YorkU.ca The poem is called "The Low Road." It is in THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE, published by Knopf in hardover and paperback in 1980 and still in print. i am always pleased when people use poems of mine and delighted that they quote them. I just wish they would include the copyright slug. [and then you wouldn't have to ask where it is from.] Marge Piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:47:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: P.S. men in WMST/gender classes I just read over my previous note about the survey I gave in my Intro class - meant to say that the survey was given about half-way through the _semester_. Thanks, Barbara Scott Winkler WINKLER@wvnvms.wvnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:00:29 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: source - Piercy poem? In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970122182300.00734958@capecod.net> What Marge Piercy isn't saying is that her Collected Early Poems has just been reissued, and her Poems 1970-1990 issued, by Norton. (They were reviewed over here recently.) Hint :-) --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:43:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Feminist theory/suggestions Comments: To: Rachel Cassel Murphree In-Reply-To: Why do you limit the material you want to collect on Feminist Theory to the last l0-l5 years? The present women's movement is more than 25 years old, and I remember some vibrant literature from all the disciplines from the earliest period of the present women's movement. Moreover, would you also exclude the works of Susan B. Anthony and the other feminists of the l9th century? Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:34:21 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tonja Olive Subject: questionnaire items Hi all, I'm developing a questionnaire/quiz for the first day of my Intro to Women's Studies class (per suggestions from WMST-L) to spur discussion. I've searched the web and have found some very good stats. I can't seem to find stats on the following. Can any of you help? -percentage of rape cases brought to trial -percentage of rape trials that end in conviction -average length of a rapist's prison sentence Also, if anyone uses a questionnaire the first day of class in a similar manner, I would greatly appreciate any feedback/suggestions/items of interest. Please reply to me personally. Thanks for all your help. Tonja Tonja Olive, Co-Director Center for Excellence in Oral Communication University of Colorado, Colorado Springs 719-262-3644 tolive@cc.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:57:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MARTHA J HUNT Subject: Re: questionnaire items In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970122223421.0067a884@rikki.cc.colorado.edu> from "Tonja Olive" at Jan 22, 97 03:34:21 pm try the justice departments web page. i believe that all of the info you need is there. if not call the justice dept directly in washington martha hunt georgetown univ > > Hi all, > > I'm developing a questionnaire/quiz for the first day of my Intro to Women's > Studies class (per suggestions from WMST-L) to spur discussion. I've > searched the web and have found some very good stats. I can't seem to find > stats on the following. Can any of you help? > -percentage of rape cases brought to trial > -percentage of rape trials that end in conviction > -average length of a rapist's prison sentence > > Also, if anyone uses a questionnaire the first day of class in a similar > manner, I would greatly appreciate any feedback/suggestions/items of > interest. Please reply to me personally. > > Thanks for all your help. > Tonja > Tonja Olive, Co-Director > Center for Excellence in Oral Communication > University of Colorado, Colorado Springs > 719-262-3644 > tolive@cc.colorado.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:57:50 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Batya Hyman Subject: Re: questionnaire items > -percentage of rape cases brought to trial > -percentage of rape trials that end in conviction > -average length of a rapist's prison sentence > 98 % of rape victims will never see their attackers apprehended, convicted, or incarcerated. 54 % of all rape prosecutions will result in either a dismissal or an acquittal. A rape prosecution is more than twice as likely as a murder prosecution to be dismissed and 30 % more likely to be dismissed than a robbery. Approximately 1 in 10 rapes reported to the police results in time served in prison. 1 in 100 rapes, including those that go unreported, is sentenced to more than one year in prison. Almost 1/4 of convicted rapists are not sentenced to prison but are instead relaeased on probation. Nearly 1/4 of convicted rapists receive a sentence to a local jail for only 11 months. Adding together the convicted rapists sentenced to probation and those sentenced to local jails, almost half of all convicted rapists are sented to less than 1 year behind bars. from: Violence Against Women: The Response to Rape. Prepared by the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee, May 1993. p. 11. Batya Hyman, Ph.D. College of Human Services ASU West Phoenix, AZ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:29:26 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pauline Bart Subject: Re: questionnaire items At 03:34 PM 1/22/97 -0700, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm developing a questionnaire/quiz for the first day of my Intro to Women's >Studies class (per suggestions from WMST-L) to spur discussion. I've >searched the web and have found some very good stats. I can't seem to find >stats on the following. Can any of you help? > -percentage of rape cases brought to trial > -percentage of rape trials that end in conviction > -average length of a rapist's prison sentence > >Also, if anyone uses a questionnaire the first day of class in a similar >manner, I would greatly appreciate any feedback/suggestions/items of >interest. Please reply to me personally. > >Thanks for all your help. >Tonja >Tonja Olive, Co-Director >Center for Excellence in Oral Communication >University of Colorado, Colorado Springs >719-262-3644 >tolive@cc.colorado.edu > >As RESEARCHER IN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, I GIVE OUT AN ANONYMOUS QUESTIONNAIRE ASKING IF THEY HAD EVER BEEN FORCED TO HAVE SEX, IF THEY KNEW ANYONE WHO HAD, AND IF SONEONE HAD TRY TO FORCE THEM TO HAVE SEX AND DID NOT SUCCEED. i GO THROUGH THE LIST OF INJURIES AGAINST WOMEN (E.G. INCEST, CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE OTHER THAN INCEST, SEXUAL HARASSMENT, BATTERY ETC AND ALWAYS INCLUDE THE QUESTION IF THEY KNEW ANYONE ELSE TO WHOM THIS HAPPENNED. i THEN READ THE RESULTS TO THE CLASS SO EVERYONE KNOWS THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO... sEXUAL HARASSMENT IS THE MODAL CATEGORY. I WAIT UNTIL I HAVE SOME RAPPORT WITH THE CLASS BEFORE I DO THIS, BECAUSE A FORMER STUDENT OF MINE DID IT RIGHT AWAY AND THE CLASS REBELLED. alSO RE THE STATS IT IS IMPORTANT TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN STRANGER AND NON-STRANGER RAPE. THE LATTER IS ALMOST NEVER PROSECUTED--INDEED RARELY MAKES IT TO THE TRIAL LEVEL. I WAS SO DEPRESSED WHEN I FOUND THIS IN MY LAST RESEARCH THAT I STOPPED RESEARCHING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. bEST, PAULINE B. BART ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 14:56:28 -0500 Reply-To: kjcook@usm.maine.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kimberly J. Cook - Criminology" Organization: University of Southern Maine Subject: Call for Proposals -- SASH Call for Proposals Sixth Annual Conference Sociologists Against Sexual Harassment "Issues, Trends, and Controversies: Sexual Harassment Research and Response for the New Millenium" Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto, Canada Sunday, August 10, 1997 Coordinated efforts by sexual harassment researchers and prevention and response practitioners are shedding new light on the social reality of sexaul harassment for victims and perpetrators. SASH 97 seeks proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and workshops addressing existing and emerging issues, trends and controversies in this increasingly volatile field. We are especially interested in cross-disciplinary work addressing, for example, K - 12 sexual harassment preventionand response, intersections between racism and sexual harassement, sexual harassment of lesbians and gay men, comparative research and action, First Amendment and hostile environment debatesand case studies, sexual harassment prevention program assessment results, and media representations of sexual harassment perpetrators. Sociologists Against Sexual Harassment is aninterdisciplinary organization of educators, researchers, practitioners, and consultants from the social sciences, the legal profession, and equal opportunity groups and agencies. SASH members share a strong commitment to addressing the problems of sexual harassment in employment and education through research and action. SASH conferences draw presenters and participants from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia, as well as Canada and the United States. SASH is co-sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Deadline for Submissions: FEBRUARY 1, 1997. Direct Programming inquiries and proposals to: Susan Hippensteele, SASH 97 Program Chair, Sex Equity Specialist, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2600 Campus Road, Room 209, Honolulu, HI 96822. 808-956-9499 (ph), 808-956-9616 (fax), hippenst@hawaii.edu. Direct Registration inquiries to: Kimberly J. Cook, SASH 97 Conference Organizer, Dept of Criminology, University of Southern Maine, P.O. Box 9300, Portland, ME 04104, 207-780-4399 (ph), 207-780-4987 (fax), kjcook@usm.maine.edu. Kimberly J. Cook Dept of Criminology University of Southern Maine P.O. Box 9300 Portland, ME 04104 U.S.A. 207-780-4399 (office) 207-780-4987 (fax) kjcook@usm.maine.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:45:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: 'Becca Subject: hostile students and email I had one note to add to a previous post which suggested that teachers discuss disciplinary problems with students via email. My suggestion? DO NOT DO THIS! I had a very disruptive, bratty student last year with whom I discussed two points via email: whether a paper she wrote deserved a better grade, and her behavior one day in class. Because I ended up handing her final exam in to the Honor Council (about 95% of it was blatantly plagiarized), her Daddy the Big-Shot Lawyer harassed me for months with threats of a lawsuit. The alleged basis for the lawsuit was that I hated his duaghter because she was hetersexual and therefore I was treating her unfairly. As proof of my bias he provided copies of email letters I had sent months earlier to this student. They were perfectly appropriate letters, but did have a bit of a 'tone' to them, as I was supremely irked at the student. (I gave her a very generous C- on her paper; she wrote back that I needed to take another look at it because it was a better paper than that!) So, unless you would like to be second-guessed, perhaps years later, by a judge, jury, council, committee, supervisor, or anyone else as to the minutiae of the tone, wording, intention, etc. of your correspondences, DON'T DEAL WITH TROUBLE VIA EMAIL. I have learned my lesson and now leave no 'paper' trail behind me. Sad, but necessary. 'Becca Cragin Institute for Women's Studies Emory Universoty ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:57:05 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jean Chambers Subject: Re: Teaching Language & Gender Issues to Teens In-Reply-To: I have several times used Robert Baker's article, "Pricks and Chicks: A Plea for Persons" as an inspiration to lead a brainstorming activity in which people provide non-obscene slang terms used to refer to the opposite sex: e.g. chick, broad, fox, doll, baby, stud-muffin, etc. Then I introduce the idea of 'metaphorical connotation' of terms, following Baker. I use Baker's example of the racist use of 'boy' and 'girl' to refer to adult African-Americans. These words carried metaphorical connotations, even though their users usually claimed that 'they didn't mean anything by it.' Just as white Americans had a duty to cease using such language, Baker's argument goes, men have a duty to cease using words with demeaning metaphorical connotations to refer to women. The women in the class are always shocked to discover that 'broad' originally meant 'pregnant cow,' and that many of the most popular animal terms used to refer to women are the names of prey or domesticated animals. This is a hot topic and never fails to generate discussion and insight, and often several male students volunteer that they will never use that kind of language again. The article was published in _Philosophy and Sex_, edited by Robert Baker and Frederick Elliston (N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984). I have only had this discussion with college students, but I feel confident that teens could relate to it. I don't feel comfortable tackling the more explicit parts of Baker's article in a class discussion. Jean Chambers Philosophy Department SUNY-Oswego On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Maureen Phillips wrote: > Dear WMST List Members: > > I will soon be teaching a two hour class to a teen group on language and > gender. I haven't presented this type of material to that age group yet > and was hoping for some suggestions. I'm thinking that an interactive > session in which they negotiate some joint decision making and afterward > "debrief" gender performance would appeal to their energy level. Does > anyone have such an activity that they've tried? What were the results? > Also, I am considering bringing some advertisements in and asking them to > critique the representation of gender in them. I'd appreciate any > feedback on what others have done. My goal is to make them more aware of > how they "do" gender and how doing gender often means subordinating women. > > Many thanks, > Maureen Phillips > University of Washington > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 02:47:41 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: hostile students and email In-Reply-To: On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, 'Becca wrote: > I had one note to add to a previous post which suggested that teachers > discuss disciplinary problems with students via email. My suggestion? DO > NOT DO THIS! I had a very disruptive, bratty student last year with whom I > discussed two points via email: whether a paper she wrote deserved a > better grade, and her behavior one day in class. > (del0 > So, unless you would like to be second-guessed, perhaps years later, by a > judge, jury, council, committee, supervisor, or anyone else as to the > minutiae of the tone, wording, intention, etc. of your correspondences, > DON'T DEAL WITH TROUBLE VIA EMAIL. I have learned my lesson and now leave > no 'paper' trail behind me. > I am beginning to wonder whether _anything_ is safe. Last year I had an email from a student I hardly knew, with an odd message; and -- part of my job is to help out with computer problems -- wrote back to ask if she needed help. She then sent me a mail trying to make trouble between me and another teacher. I didn't answer. Nothing happened. But _now_ I have, for the first time ever, a complaint from a student that I misled him about an examined essay; said it could be handed in late. His letter, written to the Exams Officer, is a complete travesty of the conversations we had. It was circulated the afternoon of the morning I'd seen it. In this case there is a paper trail that supports me, except for the one-to-one meeting in my office. I have been fortunate so far in that only 2 colleagues tried to make any kind of trouble about this, and they didn't make much. (The man of the 2 troublemakers actually did mislead a student last year, and the Chair misled another, and the rules were waived because of that. One law for the Top People... .) You have all my sympathies. It seems to me that anyone who tries to do their best for students and is friendly, _could_ come off quite badly. --------------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:49:50 +22305931 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth P Ginzberg Subject: Re: Teaching Language & Gender Issues In-Reply-To: from "Jean Chambers" at Jan 22, 97 08:57:05 pm > The women in the class are always shocked to discover that > 'broad' originally meant 'pregnant cow,' and that many of the most > popular animal terms used to refer to women are the names of prey or > domesticated animals. This is a hot topic and never fails to generate > discussion and insight, and often several male students volunteer that > they will never use that kind of language again. The article was Along the same lines ... an Associated Press article (printed in our local paper on Dec 22, 1996) reported that there are several Native American groups that are petitioning the state of Wisconsin to remove the term "squaw" from the geographical names of places in the state of Wisconsin. ("Squaw Valley", "Squaw Creek", etc.) Apparently the term "squaw" was a slang term (used by the early Europeans who had contact with the indigenous peoples of the area) referring to female genitalia. (Male) European traders, etc. referred to all indigenous women as "squaws" in the same way that some sexist contemporary men might refer to all women as "cunts." The groups that are petitioning the state to remove the term "Squaw" from all geographical place-names in Wisconsin (apparently there are 24 of them) contend that the use of this term is demeaning to all Native Americans and to all women. I distributed this article in my Intro WS class, and (no surprise) almost everybody in the class was shocked and dismayed, and many spontaneously expressed an interest in enlisting the support of their friends, political groups and churches (etc.) to convince the State to make these changes. I don't know how many of them actually are taking any action on this (probably fewer than said they would) but still, it was a very eye-opening experience for many of them. It also provided a good illustration of contemporary grass roots Native American feminist activism. Ruth ginzberg@beloit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:52:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Teaching Language & Gender Issues to Teens In-Reply-To: from "Jean Chambers" at Jan 22, 97 08:57:05 pm A fun activity if you are interested in looking at gender in sexuality: Divide your students into teams of approx. 4 students each. This activity works better with single sex teams. (I have found that it the genders are mixed, students will be shy about saying all the words they know.) Call out a word, and have the teams work together to brainstorm as many synonyms for that word as possible. Have them list the synonyms on newsprint. This works better as a contest than as a cooperative activity, because if it is not a contest students are often too shy to say all the words they know. Use the following words: "penis, vagina, clitoris, masturbation, intercourse." Call out a word, and give the teams 3 minutes to list all synonyms. Then call out the next word. In the discussion afterwards, you can help students notice that: -the synonyms for vagina are much more negative than the synonyms for penis -there are no synonyms for clitoris, which is the center of female sexual pleasure -the synonyms for masturbation and intercourse all focus on male sexuality This can then lead to a discussion of societal views of male/female sexuality. *********************** Chris Saad, PhD saad@dolphin.upenn.edu saad@alumni.upenn.edu *********************** > > Dear WMST List Members: > > > > I will soon be teaching a two hour class to a teen group on language and > > gender. I haven't presented this type of material to that age group yet > > and was hoping for some suggestions. I'm thinking that an interactive > > session in which they negotiate some joint decision making and afterward > > "debrief" gender performance would appeal to their energy level. Does > > anyone have such an activity that they've tried? What were the results? > > Also, I am considering bringing some advertisements in and asking them to > > critique the representation of gender in them. I'd appreciate any > > feedback on what others have done. My goal is to make them more aware of > > how they "do" gender and how doing gender often means subordinating women. > > > > Many thanks, > > Maureen Phillips > > University of Washington > > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:53:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "William W. Pendleton" Subject: Re: SpringboardQuestionsList In-Reply-To: <32E660B7.5197@mail.wizard.net> On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Clara Dawnelle Loiselle wrote: > I've been putting together the list of questions at the end of this > note, hoping to use them to set my students thinking about the > assumptions they bring into an introductory Women's Studies class. I > ---------------------------The questions:----------- > > -How do you account for the fact that a woman is raped in America every > three seconds? I think raising such questions is a good way to get discussion and thinking started, but I would look at this one carefully--it implies that the number of rapes in the country is over 10,000,000 each year whereas the uniform crime statistics give a number about 90,000. excluding statutory rapes. While all rapes are not reported, there is no reason to think the reported rapes are less than 1% of all that take place. > -What do you think would happen to some guy if he postponed or quit his > job for five or six years to take care of his kids? The 'some guy' designation is probably offensive to some of the men in the class. > -Why do we call dolls for boys action figures? I remember when they were toy soldiers! On the whole, I like this kind of exercise for students. Wm W. Pendleton Department of Sociology Emory University Atlanta, Ga. 30322 socwwp@emory.edu 404 727-7524 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:11:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: the Cheshire Cat Subject: Re: hostile students and email In-Reply-To: On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, 'Becca wrote: > So, unless you would like to be second-guessed, perhaps years later, by a > judge, jury, council, committee, supervisor, or anyone else as to the > minutiae of the tone, wording, intention, etc. of your correspondences, > DON'T DEAL WITH TROUBLE VIA EMAIL. I have learned my lesson and now leave > no 'paper' trail behind me. I suspect that in most cases having a paper trail may actually save people rather than cause trouble as it proves what actually was said rather than she said, he said stuff. I have always found that a paper trail is an *Excellent* thing to have when dealing with bureaucracy. ust make sure you keep all of it, and make sure that you keep in mind that you may have to pull it out and show it to someone someday. Use it to your advantage. Alana Suskin alanacat@wam.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:23:02 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diana York Blaine Subject: bullies in class I'd like to counter the suggestions that we "dish it back" and "get in the face" of bullies. That's exactly what they want and what they expect. It's not just that they hate feminism. They hate everything and were probably raised by miserable people. No good can come from feeding their built-in antagonism. It helps to get perspective on them and see how afraid they are. I don't say this because as a woman I am prone to "nurture"--far from it. My instinct is to antagonize back and if I thought it did one bit of good I would freely advocate it. Instead I try, 1) not to take it personally because it is not and it's fatal to think so and, 2) to rise above bully tactics. Last term my "bully" actually took the chalk and went to the board saying we were "hung up on social issues and needed to talk about important things instead." So I let him. After awhile I asked the class to vote on whether or not he should continue, just to let him know it was MY class. Eventually I said we needed to get back to the issues at hand and he sat down, defused. Later in the term he tried again to attack my authority as I was describing what I saw as similarities between "Pretty Woman" and _Lolita_. He said I should see a therapist for my paranoia. Looking him right in the eye I smiled and said "no, what I'm hearing is that this topic makes you uncomfortable, and that's a good thing because it means we're generating knowledge." Lifted that line right off a past discussion on this list (or FEMPED) and man has it come in handy. That smile and response bought me more credibility with my class than any "shrinking of his wienie" could have. If we have a legitimate platform then why do we need to respond defensively? Diana York Blaine University of North Texas dyb0001@jove.unt.acs.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:39:00 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: bullies in class Comments: To: Diana York Blaine In-Reply-To: Diane, I appreciate your insightful comments about responding to "bullies" with respectful, assertive behaviors. Decades ago, an elderly peace activist and pacifist, Igol Roodenko, told a group of students studying non-violence that if a protest or demonstration turns violent, it is because those who believe in the power of non-violence are not doing enough to promote alternatives to violence. The task, he suggested to my students, was to find a way to connect with the humanity with those who were themselves moving toward violence. That challenge is as pertinent to day as it was 25 yrs ago, even if the context is different. What frightens me as I read these many postings these days, is the ease with which there is a sense of "othering" the other -- be it men who are abusive or women who don't understand the issues. What is it that will empower all of us to "connect" with that other, to know, as Gandhi knew, that there is a kernel of truth in the words of all people, even those who might perceive us, -- or we them -- as enemy. What I wonder about, these many decades after the first stages of the women's liberation movement of the early 60's, is how we each connected with the succeeding generations. After all, these young women and men are -- many of them -- our sons and daughters, our grandsons and granddaughters, our nieces and nephews, the children of our neighbors, our friends, our co-workers. How have we connected our sense of outrage against injustice with the experiences of their lives? How have we connected our theories and analysis and research in a way that touches their hearts in the everydayness of their lives, those young ones who seem do angry, resistant, and/or distainful of what we have worked so hard for. And how do we do so without making them the other??? how do we soften our hearts so that we might soften theirs? We are, all of us -- women and men, young people and adults, students and professors, -- hurting in some way, angry in some way, afraid for our ourselves, our family, our work, our future, and in some cases, our very lives. Othering will not help. I have no answers, just an abiding awareness that connection is what is needed. Inclusivity is what is needed. A willingness to trust, to reach out and risk is what is needed. A willingness to listen to each others stories is what is needed. Can this happen in the academy??? Should it??? And it not there, then how do we take our theory, our analysis and our research, and our teaching and use it to empower others and transform our communities and our world? peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 08:06:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Claudia Lima Costa - Profa. DLLV" Subject: address request A friend of mine, who is not in the list, needs to contact Helene Cixous. Does anyone know her address (or e-mail, or phone/fax #)? Please, respond privately to . Thanks in advance. ******************************************************************************* Claudia de Lima Costa DLLV/CCE (55)(48)231-9293 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Campus Universitario - Trindade 88040-900 Florianopolis, SC Brasil Rua Paula Ramos, 1040 Tel/Fax: Coqueiros (55)(48)244-3620 88080-400 Florianopolis, SC Brasil ****************************************************************************** =================