========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 08:16:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sun-treader Subject: Re: Proactive AND beauty cruelties -Reply MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII In case this book has not been mentioned before, I *highly* recommend Jane Hirschmann and Carol Munter's book "When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies." In their terms, "bad body thought" are literally *never* really about one's body. These messages need to be decoded and understood in terms of the feelings and thoughts they truly mask. Candice Feldt, Tufts University ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 09:44:58 -0400 Reply-To: "Vera M. Britto" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: <199706010302.UAA06055@m2.sprynet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 31 May 1997, diana Mackin wrote: (...) > It is possible to starve oneself to a condition which could accurately > be called "underweight." In fact, it seems to take about two days' > highly uncomfortable. If a woman or girl is very thin but has not > shut off from her feelings of hunger and has not been intentionally or > coercedly undernourishing her body or forcefully starved, then she is > not likely "underweight" by any reasonable measurement, although she > may be thinner than the (innately flawed) height/weight charts allow > as "normal." > > It is extremely difficult to achieve what could accurately be called > "overweight." Again, within about two days of eating more than the > > So why, then, do some women weigh as much as 500 pounds? The effect > of triggering the body's anti-starving survival mechanism is to > prompt the upping of the body's genetically designed weight (called > setpoint). The most common way to reach exceedingly high weights > i think the issue of women, beauty, eating, genetics, metablism, etc is too complex to summarize or talk about here. but i do disagree with the above. i think a person can eat more or less than what's physically healthy for them (and thus become underweight or overweight). the whole psychological aspect of why people eat more or less is extremely complex and i won't even respond to it. > We live in a culture where fatness, and everything surrounding it, > including food and appetite, is judged by standards of morality as > well as aesthetics. In our culture, we have widely-accepted fat- > phobic concepts, one of which is "compulsive overeating." In fact an a distinction needs to be made. compulsive overeating is not a "fat-phobic concept". it is not fantasy, it is real. it is, like many other compulsive mechanisms, a condition that brings great suffering, anxiety, pain for many people who experience it and it is usually -- if not always -- the consequence of a person's psyche trying to deal with extremely difficult and painful experiences. whether the "compulsive eating" label gets thrown around to stymatyze all eating by overweight people or make them consume diet and self-help products, etc. is another issue. for those who think that eating problems do not exist and that anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive eating are mere fantasies of "fat-phobic" people, i again recommend becky thompson's book, which imo, has a beautiful feminist research praxis. btw, thompson has an excellent analysis of why we should use eating "problems" instead of eating "disorders". Vera (fiatlux@umich.edu) (...) > > Thanks. --diana (mdiam@sprynet.com) > > > ************************************************************************* > There is no final place called recovery. Among the reasons there cannot > be is that any girl growing up, and any woman, is likely to encounter > events reminiscent of early exploitation. > ********Louise Armstrong, _Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics_******** > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:05:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: Beauty Cruelties MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII While I continue to be disheartened by the number of students who respond to my question "Do you know anyone who has an eating disorder?" I am pleasantly surprised by not only the amount of medical information they have about anorexia and bulimia but also their reactions of dismay when they find out how many girls, and at a younger and younger age, are on diets. I've been using the video _The Famine Within_ and it has a good response, but it is quite long. (I have to cut if off after about an hour.) Does anyone know another good video on this subject - one that preferably includes info on fat oppression and mistaken notions about obesity - ie., that as the Norway study showed, women who were 25% over their "ideal" (whatever that is) weight lived _longer_ than underweight women? Barbara Scott Winkler WINKLER@wvnwvms.wvnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 01:10:20 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: diana Mackin Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 31 May 1997, Ruby Rohrlich wrote: >I agree with the splendid posts about "fat." I edited a book on >osteoporosis which discussed bulimia etc. as highly destructive of health >of young women, particularly. Nevertheless, medical doctors who are >conscious of the cultural bias against "fat," still recommend not being >obese, which is not good for the body in all kinds of ways. I expect to be >jumped on for this argument. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Thank you for giving me an 'in' to say what I omitted in my second post (I'll shut up after this one :). First, I forgot to say that since dieting (or any manner of semi-starvation) is unhealthy, it is invariably better to stop dieting. Eating when hungry and stopping when disinterested (the best indicator of fullness) usually results in maintaining one's setpoint weight. This goes for people of all sizes. Dieting is unhealthy, period. And the so-called health consequences of fatness are the direct result of dieting, as evidenced by *thin* weight- conscious folk being struck by these same illnesses. It is likely true that long-term repeat dieters who have gained hundreds of pounds over the course of years are not going to be as healthy as they would have been, sans the dieting. But there is no known *safe* method for turning fat people into less-fat people, no reason to believe that fat people are simply thin people + "excess" weight, and no cause for condemning people for the misery they have already endured. The good news is that our bodies are quite trustworthy, and they work very hard to ensure our survival. We have been taught to distrust and to fear our appetites, but given the chance to operate on their own, they really do work well. Mainstream medicine has had access to far more realistic information about the health consequences and the effects of dieting than it's offered the public, for over 50 years! Ancel Keys conducted research, starting in 1946, which showed that hunger is cumulative, dieters regain lost weight plus some, and the additional pounds are defended as necessary by the body thereafter. Yet medical science has brought us the group of surgeries known as stomach staplings (outlawed as "too cruel" for experimentation on dogs, and rightly so). These very expensive surgeries rarely promote long-term weight loss; what they do offer is a 100% post-surgery complication rate, from (sometimes irreversible) anemia, and a death rate of over six times that expected for all fat folk, not just the healthiest skimmed for surgery. The new brand of torture for fat folk involves pills, also incredibly unsafe and posing life- threatening side-effects--and these are being handed out like (lo-cal ;) candy at U.S. diet centers, wirh physician approval, including to women who are not visibly fat. My hope is that the knowledgeable doctors will stop concerning themselves with punishing people for the after-effects of dieting, and take on the pill pushers...but I am not holding my breath.... Hope this wasn't taken as "jumping." I do thank you for the chance to say what I'd forgotten! --diana (mdiam@sprynet.com) ************************************************************************* There is no final place called recovery. Among the reasons there cannot be is that any girl growing up, and any woman, is likely to encounter events reminiscent of early exploitation. ********Louise Armstrong, _Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics_******** ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 15:53:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:05 AM 6/1/97 -0400, you wrote: >While I continue to be disheartened by the number of students who respond >to my question "Do you know anyone who has an eating disorder?" I am >pleasantly surprised by not only the amount of medical information they >have about anorexia and bulimia but also their reactions of dismay when >they find out how many girls, and at a younger and younger age, are on >diets. I've been using the video _The Famine Within_ and it has a good >response, but it is quite long. (I have to cut if off after about an >hour.) Does anyone know another good video on this subject - one that >preferably includes info on fat oppression and mistaken notions about >obesity - Please post any responses to the list as i also will be looking for such a video in the fall. If there is none, would you mention the information about the video The Famine Within? For every ten women i have known with a true eating disorder causing her to work toward killing herself to be thin, i can come up with maybe half a woman i think has a real eating disorders causing them to be overweight. Most women who are clssified as overweight would be normal women in an earlier time period. A great deal of weight set points are genetic anyow and if you could look at women at a particular age, say forty or fifty, through generations all lined up in a row, i think we would see that enormous effort is required not to carry a certain weight or not to look lean and hungry. Think about the requirement that one work at being less. That amoutn of labor put into learning Mandarin Chinese or theoretical physics would give one something real. something that you could call upon later. But the "work" of being thin never ends, and gets harder and harder with most people as we age. Yes, losing weight gives women a feeling of being on track with what the society requires of you. so does cosmetic surgery. so does marrying a millionaire. Not gaining weight is part of the largeer programming of women not to grow older, not to undergo natural changes. You can't help getting older, and the effort to appear not to do so is a full time job. being fit or healthy has little to do with most of what is labeled overweight in our society. You can work out for an hour a day six days a week and still look your age and still carry much more weight than the charts say you should. i think this is important enough so I made "What are Big Girls Made of?" the title poem of my recent collection fo poetry. When i think of all the enrgy and misery involved in women trying to be thin, it makes me furious. If one tenth of that energy went into changing the society, we'd have a different country to pass on to the next generation. Marge Piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 15:08:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Bergmann Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: <199706010810.BAA26280@m2.sprynet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:10 AM 6/1/97 -0700, you wrote: >On Sat, 31 May 1997, Ruby Rohrlich wrote: >>I agree with the splendid posts about "fat." I edited a book on >>osteoporosis which discussed bulimia etc. as highly destructive of health >>of young women, particularly. Nevertheless, medical doctors who are >>conscious of the cultural bias against "fat," still recommend not being >>obese, which is not good for the body in all kinds of ways. I expect to be >>jumped on for this argument. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > >Thank you for giving me an 'in' to say what I omitted in my second post (I'll >shut up after this one :). > >First, I forgot to say that since dieting (or any manner of semi-starvation) >is unhealthy, it is invariably better to stop dieting. Eating when hungry >and stopping when disinterested (the best indicator of fullness) usually >results in maintaining one's setpoint weight. This goes for people of all >sizes. Dieting is unhealthy, period. And the so-called health consequences >of fatness are the direct result of dieting, as evidenced by *thin* weight- >conscious folk being struck by these same illnesses. It is likely true that >long-term repeat dieters who have gained hundreds of pounds over the course >of years are not going to be as healthy as they would have been, sans the >dieting. But there is no known *safe* method for turning fat people into >less-fat people, no reason to believe that fat people are simply thin people >+ "excess" weight, and no cause for condemning people for the misery they >have already endured. There's another element to be added to this discussion as well, though. At the same time as our culture bombards us with ideals and prescriptions for small bodies, it produces and bombards us and our children with advertising for high-calorie, highly-processed food products that are touted as offering pleasure. Advertising aimed at women can be particularly double-edged in this regard. 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: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 19:30:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970601195322.00c6ab24@capecod.net> from "hagolem" at Jun 1, 97 03:53:22 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I read somewhere that when Oprah Winfrey was asked what she considers her greatest accomplishment, she replied that her weight loss was the accomplishment of which she was most proud. I find it incredible (and rather sad) that this woman values her ability to get thin over all her professional success. Chris ******************************************************************* * Chris Saad, PhD * "a passion for books and a fondness * * Teacher, Ken-Crest * for cats are very often points of * * saad@dolphin.upenn.edu * intersection on the ven diagram of * * saad@alumni.upenn.edu * personality." * * (215) 844-1842, x423 * -Bill Richardson * ******************************************************************* > > Think about the requirement that one work at being less. That amoutn of > labor put into learning Mandarin Chinese or theoretical physics would give > one something real. something that you could call upon later. But the > "work" of being thin never ends, and gets harder and harder with most people > as we age. Yes, losing weight gives women a feeling of being on track with > what the society requires of you. so does cosmetic surgery. so does > marrying a millionaire. > > Marge Piercy hagolem@capecod.net > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 21:48:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: format for WMST-L messages (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT It's June...time for a new round of excerpts from the Source of All Wisdom, the WMST-L User's Guide. Here's today's exciting excerpt: ******************** 1) "IS THERE A PREFERRED FORMAT TO USE FOR MESSAGES SENT TO THE LIST (I.E., TO WMST-L@UMDD OR WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU)?" Yes. First of all, ALWAYS put your name and e-mail address at the end of every posting. (It is important that people be able to contact you privately if they wish, and some mail systems do not identify the writer anywhere in the header.) Also, please include a meaningful subject heading, so that people will know whether your message deals with a topic of interest to them. (MANY people automatically delete messages with no subject heading or with one that doesn't interest them.) Finally, if you are replying to someone else's posting, BRIEFLY quote or summarize that posting before you offer your reply. Doing so will make your message clearer and avoid confusion. (New subscribers are continually joining the list; they may not have read the original message. And since a number of topics are often being discussed on the list at any given moment, even long-time subscribers may not remember what prompted your remarks unless you remind them.) NOTE: if you're replying to a long message, do NOT quote it in its entirety! Include just a few relevant lines. ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. On the World Wide Web, the URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 22:39:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: <01IJJYX8XFFIKVNH58@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Barbara Winkler wrote: > While I continue to be disheartened by the number of students who respond > to my question "Do you know anyone who has an eating disorder?" I am > pleasantly surprised by not only the amount of medical information they > have about anorexia and bulimia but also their reactions of dismay when > they find out how many girls, and at a younger and younger age, are on > diets. I've been using the video _The Famine Within_ and it has a good > response, but it is quite long. (I have to cut if off after about an > hour.) Does anyone know another good video on this subject - one that > preferably includes info on fat oppression and mistaken notions about > obesity - ie., that as the Norway study showed, women who were 25% > over their "ideal" (whatever that is) weight lived _longer_ than > underweight women? Barbara Scott Winkler WINKLER@wvnwvms.wvnet.edu > Barbara (and others), I have used the video Slim Hopes by Jean Kilbourne, the person who did Killing us Softly and Still Killing Us Softly. It's 30 minutes and deals with the issues you're concerned with. And yes, I find my women students are obsessed with weight issues. A nice thing about Slim Hopes is that she shows how images are reconstructed via the computer. This seems very important to my students. Arnie Arnie Kahn kahnas@jmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 22:49:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia L Camp Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties Diana, I'd be interested in reading what you've written. I am 5'9" and generally weigh somewhere bwtween 160 and 180 now that I'm in my 40s. When I was in my 20s, I weighed 125-135. In my 30s, 135-145. I got cancer at 40, went on steriods and ballooned up to 200, had my appetite lost and was radiated and chemo-ed down to 130, and am now -today- 189. What does the future hold for my weight? I haven't dieted or starved, so where will my setpoint be? What weight is the correct one for me? Well, I know I weigh too much because I don't feel as well. I find it harder to climb from the basement to the second floor of my home. I have trouble chasing my 5 year old. In addition, I believe that as long as I can perform on a daily basis the way I'd like to, whatever weight I'm at is fine. And I eat at the *right* times rather than when I'm hungry. That doesn't suggest reaching a culturally correct weight or standard of beauty [let me also say that I'm black and therefore not within the generally accepted standard of beauty for America]. That suggests that I have other issues which affect/effect the way I eat. Like depression, frustration, boredom, or anger. Socializing around food. So what is going on is not really about food, eating, weight and body image, but about other issues expressed through those avenues. Patty bia43@juno.com -In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 21:08:58 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hagolem wrote: > > At 10:05 AM 6/1/97 -0400, you wrote: > >While I continue to be disheartened by the number of students who respond > >to my question "Do you know anyone who has an eating disorder?" I am > >pleasantly surprised by not only the amount of medical information they > >have about anorexia and bulimia but also their reactions of dismay when > >they find out how many girls, and at a younger and younger age, are on > >diets. I've been using the video _The Famine Within_ and it has a good > >response, but it is quite long. (I have to cut if off after about an > >hour.) Does anyone know another good video on this subject - one that > >preferably includes info on fat oppression and mistaken notions about > >obesity - > > Please post any responses to the list as i also will be looking for such a > video in the fall. If there is none, would you mention the information > about the video The Famine Within? > > For every ten women i have known with a true eating disorder causing her to > work toward killing herself to be thin, i can come up with maybe half a > woman i think has a real eating disorders causing them to be overweight. > Most women who are clssified as overweight would be normal women in an > earlier time period. A great deal of weight set points are genetic anyow and > if you could look at women at a particular age, say forty or fifty, through > generations all lined up in a row, i think we would see that enormous effort > is required not to carry a certain weight or not to look lean and hungry. > > Think about the requirement that one work at being less. That amoutn of > labor put into learning Mandarin Chinese or theoretical physics would give > one something real. something that you could call upon later. But the > "work" of being thin never ends, and gets harder and harder with most people > as we age. Yes, losing weight gives women a feeling of being on track with > what the society requires of you. so does cosmetic surgery. so does > marrying a millionaire. > > Not gaining weight is part of the largeer programming of women not to grow > older, not to undergo natural changes. You can't help getting older, and > the effort to appear not to do so is a full time job. > > being fit or healthy has little to do with most of what is labeled > overweight in our society. You can work out for an hour a day six days a > week and still look your age and still carry much more weight than the > charts say you should. > > i think this is important enough so I made "What are Big Girls Made of?" the > title poem of my recent collection fo poetry. When i think of all the enrgy > and misery involved in women trying to be thin, it makes me furious. If one > tenth of that energy went into changing the society, we'd have a different > country to pass on to the next generation. > > Marge Piercy hagolem@capecod.netHi, Here's some information re: The Famine Within - a Canadian documentary that is extraordinary and very moving - 90 minutes in length. I saw it originally at a movie theatre. I recommend it highly and have used it in my classes. Direct Cinema Limited Films: The Famine Within Contact: Direct Cinema Limited P.O. Box 10003 Santa Monica, CA 90410 ph (310) 396-4774; (800) 525-0000 fax (310) 396-3233 Email: directcinema@attmail.com By the way, I've been thinking of using your poem - "Unlearning to Not Speak" as a reading in my "Prime Time: Midlife" class at Marylhurst College next fall. Would that be O.K? It would be solely for educational purposes and, of course, I would include the complete source. Thanks. Joan jstarker@teleport.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 02:37:49 -0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cec=EDlia?= Sardenberg Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:10 01/06/97 -0700, you wrote: >On Sat, 31 May 1997, Ruby Rohrlich wrote: >>I agree with the splendid posts about "fat." I edited a book on >>osteoporosis which discussed bulimia etc. as highly destructive of health >>of young women, particularly. Nevertheless, medical doctors who are >>conscious of the cultural bias against "fat," still recommend not being >>obese, which is not good for the body in all kinds of ways. I expect to be >>jumped on for this argument. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu > >Thank you for giving me an 'in' to say what I omitted in my second post (I'll >shut up after this one :). > >First, I forgot to say that since dieting (or any manner of semi-starvation) >is unhealthy, it is invariably better to stop dieting. Eating when hungry >and stopping when disinterested (the best indicator of fullness) usually >results in maintaining one's setpoint weight. This goes for people of all >sizes. Dieting is unhealthy, period. > >--diana (mdiam@sprynet.com) I also agree with all the posts against fat-phobia and dieting crazyness. But I must confess that I was amazed at the large numbers of obese people I saw in the States... I am not an expert on the matter, but I do believe the problem is not so much one of 'dieting' but that of the kind of 'diet' Americans indulge in: donuts, chips of all kinds, cookies, and all sorts of junk food, most of it while watching TV. I must confess that during the 18 mos. I spent in Massachuestts, I also fell prey to some of that junk food and, added to the fact that it was too cold to walk around (and with cable TV, I would find myself munching on that stuff as any 'couch potato'), I ended up 8 kilos (17.6 lbs) heavier. Since I got back home to Brazil (nearly 6 mos. ago) and back to my 'normal' diet, I have managed to lose 4.5 kg (9.9 lbs) without 'dieting'. To the contrary, I have indulged myself on all the food I couldn't find or didn't have the time to prepare in the States (including generous helpings of rice, beans and manioc/cassava flour at least once a day, delicious Afro-Brazilian dishes made with coconut milk, etc...). I should add that I have never really gone on a 'diet' and would never think of starving myself to fit into a bikini. I am certainly not 'fat-phobic', but I do believe that there are certain limits that one must watch. These limits are always person-specific, that is, the moment that one's weight gets in the way of one's 'well-being' (let's say, if you find that it is getting more and more difficult to climb up two flights of stairs), then it is certainly time to let the donuts go... By the way, I have noticed that a lot of the 'junk'food I saw in the States, is now available in Brazil as well. THis is the kind of food that kids like and sure enough, sitting at the beach in Salvador this past summer (jan-mar), I could notice that the 'junk stuff' is already causing damages around here. Indeed, I saw a lot of teenage girls already full of cellulite (sp.?). Cecilia Sardenberg Universidade Federal da Bahia cecisard@ufba.br x ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 00:11:32 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Qhyrrae Michaelieu Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties Comments: To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cec=EDlia?= Sardenberg In-Reply-To: <9706020437.AA50022@canudos.ufba.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cecelia Sardenberg wrote: >I also agree with all the posts against fat-phobia and dieting crazyness. >But I must confess that I was amazed at the large numbers of obese people I >saw in the States... I am not an expert on the matter, but I do believe the >problem is not so much one of 'dieting' but that of the kind of 'diet' >Americans indulge in: donuts, chips of all kinds, cookies, and all sorts of >junk food, most of it while watching TV. >I must confess that during the 18 mos. I spent in Massachuestts, I also fell >prey to some of that junk food and, added to the fact that it was too cold >to walk around (and with cable TV, I would find myself munching on that >stuff as any 'couch potato'), I ended up 8 kilos (17.6 lbs) heavier. >Since I >got back home to Brazil (nearly 6 mos. ago) and back to my 'normal' diet, I >have managed to lose 4.5 kg (9.9 lbs) without 'dieting'. To the contrary, I >have indulged myself on all the food I couldn't find or didn't have the time >to prepare in the States (including generous helpings of rice, beans and >manioc/cassava flour at least once a day, delicious Afro-Brazilian dishes >made with coconut milk, etc...). >I should add that I have never really gone on a 'diet' and would never think >of starving myself to fit into a bikini. I am certainly not 'fat-phobic', >but I do believe that there are certain limits that one must watch. These >limits are always person-specific, that is, the moment that one's weight >gets in the way of one's 'well-being' (let's say, if you find that it is >getting more and more difficult to climb up two flights of stairs), then it >is certainly time to let the donuts go... >By the way, I have noticed that a lot of the 'junk'food I saw in the States, >is now available in Brazil as well. THis is the kind of food that kids like >and sure enough, sitting at the beach in Salvador this past summer >(jan-mar), I could notice that the 'junk stuff' is already causing damages >around here. Indeed, I saw a lot of teenage girls already full of cellulite >(sp.?). Hi - your post was interesting. When I went to Germany I had a somewhat different impression. Most women there seemed larger than what I'd observed back home, which was Arizona. And most of the men seemed much thinner. Having lived in California the last 7 years, I've noticed that most all the women here manage to fit within the "normal" range (thin to medium). Yet when I travelled thru Oregon and Washington state, in more rural places, there was a much greater variety of body types, ie. there were more large women. I concluded that women in rural areas felt less pressure to conform. But that's just a speculation... Qhyrrae Michaelieu UCSC - Psychology qym@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:24:51 +0100 Reply-To: ejb@usia.co.at Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Elisabeth J. Binder" Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > Hi - your post was interesting. When I went to Germany I had a somewhat > different impression. Most women there seemed larger than what I'd > observed back home, which was Arizona. And most of the men seemed much > thinner. Now that's quite interesting. Even though I am not from Germany but from Austria I think that people in both countries share a number of stereotypes about the US. One of the most popular stereotypes is about Americans being unbelievably fat, stuffing themselves with junk food at every possible occassion. I know that the latter is also a "class thing" since I've lived three years on the other side of the big water. Maybe it's also a matter of self-perception versus the perception of others? Elisabeth Binder ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 08:19:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties Comments: To: "Elisabeth J. Binder" In-Reply-To: <199706021721.KAA03456@gromit.usia.co.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII there has been recent research done showing that the percentage of overweight people in the US has reasonably increased in the last decades. i would venture that the number of very obese persons has also increased in a short period of time, although i haven't seen any particular stats. the percentage of women in the US with anorexia or an eating problem is also extremely high. and it is interesting how much junk (food) gets imposed on other countries in the name of democracy et al. 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 Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Elisabeth J. Binder wrote: > > Hi - your post was interesting. When I went to Germany I had a somewhat > > different impression. Most women there seemed larger than what I'd > > observed back home, which was Arizona. And most of the men seemed much > > thinner. > > Now that's quite interesting. Even though I am not from Germany but > from Austria I think that people in both countries share a number of > stereotypes about the US. One of the most popular stereotypes is > about Americans being unbelievably fat, stuffing themselves with junk > food at every possible occassion. I know that the latter is also a > "class thing" since I've lived three years on the other side of the > big water. Maybe it's also a matter of self-perception versus the > perception of others? > > Elisabeth Binder > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 00:10:21 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: diana Mackin Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: <9706020437.AA50022@canudos.ufba.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Cecilia Sardenberg wrote, in part: >I also agree with all the posts against fat-phobia and dieting crazyness. >But I must confess that I was amazed at the large numbers of obese people I >saw in the States... > >I must confess that during the 18 mos. I spent in Massachuestts, I also fell >prey to some of that junk food and, added to the fact that it was too cold >to walk around (and with cable TV, I would find myself munching on that >stuff as any 'couch potato'), I ended up 8 kilos (17.6 lbs) heavier. > >These >limits are always person-specific, that is, the moment that one's weight >gets in the way of one's 'well-being' (let's say, if you find that it is >getting more and more difficult to climb up two flights of stairs), then it >is certainly time to let the donuts go... > >Indeed, I saw a lot of teenage girls already full of cellulite >(sp.?). I know I said I'd be quiet, but the opportunity to undo some of the mythology surrounding eating and weight is too tempting. :) "Obesity" is usually defined as being 100 pounds above the "ideal" chart weight for one's height. What you found, Cecilia, is exactly what folks discover around the winter holidays where I'm from (U.S.). A diet which is richer than customary will temporarily bump up one's body's setpoint weight--so long as the unusual richness (high fat content) continues. This is a survival mechanism which previously allowed human beings to benefit from coming into a wealth of nourishment; if setpoint was unable to fluctuate in this temporary manner, then the great food find would not be as well- utilized. As you found, the setpoint bump-up is noticeable, but as weights go, it is not particularly significant. It doesn't, for example, explain weight fluctuations which are greater than 10-20 pounds, the normal setpoint range. It offers absolutely no explanation as to why some women weigh 150 pounds, and other women weigh 350. And, since the increase is temporary, when folks go back to eating their usual intake, the weight tends to go, too. As I wrote before, "obesity" is a cruelly condemning word: at its Latin root, it means to "eat all" or to "eat completely," implying that people are very fat because they eat too much and/or differently from the non-fat. The vast majority (12 of 13, I believe is the number in Bennett and Gurin's _The Dieter's Dilemma_) of studies attempting to *prove* that fat people ate more or differently failed miserably--fat people were found to eat the same, or *less,* when compared with those of average weight. What is common to fat people is a history prior semi-starvation, either their own, or their forebears'. There is a correlation between poverty, and also the richness of pigmentation of one's race, and high levels of body fat (with the exception of African-American men, who tend to be leaner than the male average in the U.S.). There is also evidence of a group of genetically average-size people enduring famine, wherein the succeeding generations were all far fatter. It was believed that those who survived to continue the gene pool were people capable of readily storing fat, and this is *one* of the bases for believing fatness is genetic, and also can be triggered--on a genetic level--by famine. Donuts aren't the issue. Physical conditioning is. And cutting out any particular food, or groups of foods, will do nothing to expedite getting into condition. Physical exercise, apparently especially that which elevates the heart rate some over tens of minutes, done several times a week, will. One of the things I try to stress, when I do public presentations, is that frequently women will tell me they felt far, far better when they were thinner; often I find they weighed less a number of years previous, and I offer that no matter how hard anyone tries, they will not be able to lose those last ten *years.* It's not always applicable, but I do think it's worth consideration. Cellulite, a non-medical term, actually refers to fat pockets on the buttocks and thighs, and its puckered appearance is the result of the skin's internal attachment structure, rather than evidence of "wrong" or "over" eating. One of the things I haven't mentioned, but will, briefly, is the concept of thin privilege. Since fatness, especially at extreme levels, is both an aesthetic and a moral affront in western culture, those who are invisibly average do get to think of themselves as being superior. Privilege is a wicked thing (and we most likely all have some in one area or another)--it's relatively invisible to those who do have it, and yet incredibly obvious to those who don't. As we discuss weight and eating and related issues, I would hope that we could be as aware of our positioning on this particular privilege scale as feminism compels us to be, on others. Demonization and otherization of the visibly fat, and, especially, of the very visibly fat (called supersize in fat activist terms, to honor the extreme cultural condemnation toward those of us who cannot access public seating, planes or even decent clothing due to oppression) is a common danger. This works to pit the nearer-normal (some-fat/visibly fat) against those who are most oppressed in this manner (the supersize among us), in a scramble to be different-but-not-alien. It might help us all to write as if every second woman on the list *were* routinely assaulted with words like "obese" because, being the (author-unseen) internet, it could be true. In sisterhood, and toward a world where we can all comfortably take up as much space as our bodies and our dreams would have us.... --diana ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:04:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelly Shareen Mayhew Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties Comments: cc: vickie shields In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The most recent aspect of this thread--junk food, TV, obesity, rural vs. urban--is beginning to make me very uncomfortable. What is missing here is some acknowledgement of CLASS. When one is poor, one can't always afford the healthy food thin-conscious people consume. Less healthy, generic food is cheaper, easy to prepare, and readily available. I'm curious about how people see class issues playing through dieting/beauty/body issues. Don't the numbers on eating disorders show that the majority of women who suffer anorexia/bulimia are middle-class and white? The corollary to this is how this society views large people. I'm beginning to think that a lot of that has to do with economics.... kelly mayhew bowling green state university ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:05:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JENNIFER HAMMER Organization: New York University Press Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties Re all the discussion on fat-phobia and dieting, you may be interested in a book which is just out called _Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West_, by Peter N. Stearns. The book discusses many of the issues being raised on this list and traces fat's transformation from a symbol of health and well-being to a sign of moral, psychological, and physical disorder. For additional information on the book, please contact our customer service department at the numbers listed below. Hope this information is helpful. With best wishes, Jennifer Hammer Associate Editor New York University Press 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 HammerJ@elmer2.bobst.nyu.edu NYU Press homepage: http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu Customer Service: 1-800-996-6987, 212 998 2575 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 15:43:21 +0100 Reply-To: ejb@usia.co.at Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Elisabeth J. Binder" Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > there has been recent research done showing that the > percentage of overweight people in the US has reasonably increased > in the last decades. i would venture that the number of > very obese persons has also increased in a short period > of time Well, what is this research based upon? The same definitions of "overweight"? I would love to see comparative charts of the "ideal" weight for women and men over time. I am sure it's out there and I am also pretty sure that the medical discourse contributes its own share to the beauty cruelties. > and it is interesting how much junk (food) gets > imposed on other countries in the name of democracy et al. Sorry, but I have to contradict here. I think every country is certainly capable of producing its own junk food. I invite anybody on this list who comes to Vienna on a tour of genuine Austrian junk food. Just start with Sacher Torte :-)) McDonalds and Pizza Hut (just starting in Austria) are mere ripples in a sea of grease and sugar which is the average Austrian cuisine. Elisabeth Binder ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 08:53:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith <10casmith@BSUVC.BSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Regarding weight and class, there is some research to suggest that poor people are fatter than wealthy people. Cheap foods are often low in nutrition and high in fat, Weight Watchers entrees are expensive, and so are gym memberships. And many working poor quite simply do not have the time to do regulated exercise. There is also some evidence that as African-American women move into the middle-class, their body dissatisfaction decreases. I would assume the same for European-American women. Christine Smith 10casmith@bsuvc.bsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:04:11 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII OK, just a couple of things: 1. back to the exercise thread. I may have missed it, but we neglected to mention "exercise bulimia," which is an "eating"/body image disorder which _many_ women work into after "recovering" from anorexia or binge/purge bulimia. Exercise bulimia _looks_ like "health" to our fitness-crazed culture and, sometimes, even to our doctors. I know. I've been there. When I teach eating disorder info in my classes, I try to explain to my students the difference between engaging in a activity and being _obsessive_ about it. When I was skipping work and giving up time with my family so I wouldn't miss my exercise, that was just as sick as when I was eating only 575 calories a day. Period. Exercise and "fitness" will not "solve" the problems of someone who has a body image disorder any more than losing 20 pounds will. Anorexia, bulimia, compulsive eating (which very often does _not_ result in "obesity" or even in being "overweight" [another word I hate]) are disorders of obsession and compulsion. The woman (usually, but not always) has a control problem. It only manifests itself in body image and eating disorders because that is a convenient and permissable outlet for control in our culture (for women, that is). Convenient because, no matter what else I cannot control in my life, I can control my body (I believe ;-), and permissable because of the social encouragement we receive when we lose weight (as many of us have already noted). 2. (Hi, Kelly) NO, eating disorders are _not_ primarily disorders of the upper middle classes. This is a classist assumption in and of itself. But Kelly is right in that class does play an important part in eating disorders: those who are adolescent and college-aged and who have ready access to wellness in their health care (i.e., the upper-middle classes) are the sufferers who usually get _caught._ And getting caught is how one very often gets help. Eating disorders are about control. If I am successful in manifesting my control issues through my body, no one will realize I am sick. it is only when I get _so_ sick as to be visibly ill that anyone will notice--and that is frankly pretty sick in our "fitness" culture that equates (erroneously) thinness with healthiness. In other words, there are poor women, women of all races and older women who suffer from eating disorders in the U.S. (and, as far as I know, in most Industrialized states). But class determines who gets diagnosed and, therefore, who is perceived to have problems. I personally know many women who have eating disorders who are from lower-working-class, rural, and poor backgrounds. These are the women I grew up with, and these are the women from whom I learned my attitudes about my body (it is _mine_ and I can treat it however I want. If that means starving it to feel like my life is in my control, so be it!). An interesting aside: I have a very close friend who is poor. She receives her mental health treatment at the health dept. here in town. She is terribly into eating disorders: between 6 & 20 laxatives/day; vomiting; bingeing, etc. She also has other behaviors that are often associated with eating disorders: self-mutilation, compulsive cleaning, etc. Her psychiatrist at the health dept. tells her "you do not have an eating disorder; you just have disordered eating." Then he can't figure out why he cannot get her depression meds to stabilize. Of course, we both know that she is getting unevenly dosed depending on what she does after she takes her pills (laxatives, vomiting, etc.). He will not even consider this a possibility. The patient advocate at the dept. is a (sorry to be rude, here, but it is true) management pawn, who says what the dr. tells her to say. The other drs. at the dept. listen to this man, who is the 'head' of the dept. Sigh. ?????????????????????????????what do you see????????????????????????????? "There is great power in being able to see the world as one will and then to have that vision enacted. But if being is seeing for the subject, then being seen is the precise measure of existence for the object." --Patricia J. Williams, from _The Alchemy of Race and Rights_ Jeannie Ludlow jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Popular Culture ???????????????????????????where is your power??????????????????????????? ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:28:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia B Christian Subject: young girls and fat MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I point out to my 11 year old daughter the pervasive images and messages we are all bombarded with equating beauty and goodness with thinness, including how many industries profit from making us think we are fat. By appealing to her intellect and sense of fairness (see how others profit from creating then fulfilling needs?) and giving her tools to use in discussion with others I *hope* to protect her from the worst of what is out there. We also talk about how bodies need SOME fat to function (the message they get is that ANY fat is evil). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Pat Christian Associate Professor of Sociology 716-888-2878 (voice) Director of Women's Studies Department of Sociology & Anthropology 716-888-2525 (fax) Canisius College 2001 Main Street christia@canisius.edu (e-mail) Buffalo, NY 14208-1098 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:34:11 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Vera M. Britto" Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties Comments: To: "Elisabeth J. Binder" In-Reply-To: <199706022240.PAA03885@gromit.usia.co.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Elisabeth J. Binder wrote: > > there has been recent research done showing that the > > percentage of overweight people in the US has reasonably increased > > in the last decades. i would venture that the number of > > very obese persons has also increased in a short period > > of time > > Well, what is this research based upon? The same definitions of > "overweight"? I would love to see comparative charts of the "ideal" > weight for women and men over time. I am sure it's out there and I am > also pretty sure that the medical discourse contributes its own share > to the beauty cruelties. > please do. and if you would like to post a balanced summary to the list it would be appreciated. > > and it is interesting how much junk (food) gets > > imposed on other countries in the name of democracy et al. > > Sorry, but I have to contradict here. I think every country is > certainly capable of producing its own junk food. I invite anybody on > this list who comes to Vienna on a tour of genuine Austrian junk > food. Just start with Sacher Torte :-)) McDonalds and Pizza Hut (just > starting in Austria) are mere ripples in a sea of grease and sugar > which is the average Austrian cuisine. > > Elisabeth Binder > every country is "capable" of producing junk, but that's not what many cultures are based on. if you look at many traditional foods/diets/cultures about food, they are not based on junk, even though you find a share of fatty, etc recipes. my point is that Northern countries (specially the US) do impose on Southern countries a lot of trash, junk, and rubbish, which is not limited to food (cigarrettes, pesticides, pollution, wars, arms, poverty, hollywood, harmful drugs, and yes horrible junk food or powdered milk as opposed to natural breastfeeding, for example). in many places poor people will bypass a glass of a nutritious drink to have coca-cola because of very "democratic" marketing and advertising techniques. and if you think that's great, then we definitely disagree. Vera (fiatlux@Umich.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:44:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara W. Gerber" Subject: Re: Advice on Women Studies in South Africa In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 30 May 1997 15:30:08 -0700 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=US-ASCII Check with Betty Harris, the current President of NWSA. She goes to South Africa to do research regularly. Barb Gerber bharris@ou.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:41:50 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Suzanne E. Franks" Subject: Re: feminist math classes Someone recently posted a request to the list for sources/ideas on adding a "feminist slant" to college math courses. Several posts to the list have offered interesting and useful suggestions for courses ABOUT mathematics. However, with the exception of a post from Paula Rothenberg, suggesting selections from a recent book from Teachers College Press, there have been almost no suggestions for MATHEMATICS COURSES. The original question, it seemed to me, was, how does one go about teaching algebra, geometry, calculus etc. as a feminist--not teaching ABOUT these subjects or their history (important and worthwhile projects in their own right) but teaching the subjects themselves. Sue Rosser's book "TEACHING THE MAJORITY" (sorry, I don't have a full cite with me right now) does offer some suggestions about how to actually teach math (and other scientific subjects) from a feminist perspective, with feminist goals (empowering non-traditional students, increasing interest of students and retention in math/science sequences). I am unaware of any other sources, other than Rosser's book and the book mentioned by Paula Rothenberg, that offer this kind of information, particularly in relation to mathematics. If anyone on the list can recommend any other sources, books or articles, I would be interested in hearing about them, and I'm sure the original poster would be, too. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 08:52:19 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Chastain Subject: that fat/thin thing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Dear Susan, As I mentioned, the post about my daughter (6) and her friend (8) thinking they were ugly and fat was meant to be a private response to your posting. I have been astounded at the responses that have resulted. I wanted to respond to your most recent post in particular because it is one of my life's projects: to dispell the fat/thin myths. I was in line at Dalton's books and a not-that-large woman was in line behind me. My daughter who was 2 or three at the time asked me, in the loud, innocent way that kids do, if that lady "has a baby in her tummy." The woman glared and nearly spit at us before I could utter an answer, saying "No, honey, I'm just FAT." The fact that she was mean and unhappy and rude did not bother me as much as the message that I felt it conveyed to my child. I wanted to explain to the woman as I have to Samantha that we don't use the "f" word that way. People come in all sizes and they can be beautiful, healthy and happy in any kind of body. We still have this conversation and it's true that the body battle is one I am constantly waging on all fronts-personal, parental, spiritual and professional. I understand that the "Body Shop" has a catalogue which I have not been able to get hold of. It portrays all kinds of bodies in a way that is terribly uncharacteristic of advertising and media. Let me know of other "all body" positive material and messages. Stephanie ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:55:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: evelyn a schlatter Subject: beauty and appearance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII greetings all--my partner and i just caught a movie over the weekend called *female perversions*, based on the book by louise kaplan. it was a powerful statement about how women perceive themselves and their bodies in this country and how men perceive women's bodies. the main character (for those who are not familiar with either this film or kaplan's work) is an attorney up for a judgeship and the film focuses on how this woman interacts with men and why that might be the case, as we are introduced to the attorney's sister (a ph.d. candidate whose research focuses on a village of women in mexico) and the latter's acquaintances (including a 13-year-old girl who seems repulsed by her mother's continued fascination with a man who clearly does not love her). we are also taken to the attorney's past via symbols and flashbacks and during the course of the film, we watch the attorney begin to question the role of men in her life and how she got to where she is and how male power has affected her and her relationships not only with men but other women. it was a visually moving and intense examination of the objectification of women in this culture and the lengths to which women will go in order to maintain "beauty" and "attractiveness." i highly recommend it. my partner and i also noticed that the title of the film and the poster advertising the film are extremely misleading; the poster shows a woman's leg with her foot encased in a high-heel shoe--a seductive effect, i suppose. but the film is not about perverted female sexual acts, as i am certain most of the people there expected to see. it's about how trying to attain and then maintain a gender stereotype is itself a perversion. i was amused to see several heterosexual couples in the theatre who were laughing and giggling prior to the film's beginning but who left at the end not saying anything at all. my partner wondered if the film's producers (and the production and directing cast is about 98% women) developed the concept for the poster with the intention to bring people in off the street who expected to see some tantalizing film noir about female vamps and then instead provide them with a powerful statement about men, women, and the ways the latter are constrained by an androcentric sex/gender system. at any rate, i think this film is pertinent to the discussion at hand about how and why young women develop their body images and the reverberations such perceptions have throughout young women's lives. i'd be interested to know what others thought of this film and of kaplan's work. cheers, ev schlatter dept. of history univ. of new mexico evsch@unm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:49:19 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Chastain Subject: class and wieght Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain This particular thread of the discussion which began on women, weight and smoking fascinates and appalls me. Working within the welfare department (o.k, go ahead, start shooting), I see a great number of women who are very poor, who smoke incessantly and who are "fleshier" than most. (I can usually recognize the heroin and crack addicts by virtue of their lack of weight, a rarity among women of all races here.) The connections between poverty, smoking and weight are complex. One thing I have noticed and which is documented are the eating disorders among those who receive foodstamps. At the first of the month, recipients spend and binge incredibly on every kind of packaged and prepared foodstuff. But in the last week or two of the month, foodstamps (which are already not generous) are gone and families literally starve. This is an interesting thought to add to the research (show last night on the hazards of dieting, anyone see it?) that those who starve or diet periodically are actually "fatter" than those who just eat a lot or well consistently. Stephanie ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:00:17 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kay Dodder Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Kelly Shareen Mayhew wrote: > When one is poor, one can't > always afford the healthy food thin-conscious people consume. Less > healthy, generic food is cheaper, easy to prepare, and readily available. Whoa, wait a minute here. This statement seems to be laden with its own assumptions about class. Where's the evidence that "thin-conscious" people eat healthier food? Gimmicky diets, "fat substitutes" and processed food are all popular with the "thin-conscious" AND the affluent. These products are far from healthy. And what do you mean by "generic food"? In my experience, less-affluent people tend to rely on inexpensive grains, beans, fruits and vegetables - a far healthier diet than anything in a processed package. As several other posters have noted, weight and size seem to have less to do with diet than with DIETING. Large people don't necessarily eat more, or differently than small people. But crash dieting can permanently affect your metabolism, and increase your "set" weight. > I'm beginning to think that a lot of that has to do with economics.... And a lot more of it has to do with pursuing an unrealistic "ideal". The socially-defined image of "beauty" is not always consistent with what is healthy or natural to the body. If it were, we wouldn't be associating the word "cruelty" with beauty. Kay Dodder kdodder@bird.library.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:38:07 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Re: Class and nutrition Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Kelly Mayhew writes: >The most recent aspect of this thread--junk food, TV, obesity, rural vs. >urban--is beginning to make me very uncomfortable. What is missing here >is some acknowledgement of CLASS. When one is poor, one can't >always afford the healthy food thin-conscious people consume. Less >healthy, generic food is cheaper, easy to prepare, and readily available. Christine Smith writes: >Regarding weight and class, there is some research to suggest that poor people >are fatter than wealthy people. Cheap foods are often low in nutrition and >high in fat, Weight Watchers entrees are expensive, and so are gym memberships. >And many working poor quite simply do not have the time to do regulated >exercise. Actually, good food--fresh vegetables, beans, pasta, rice, what's known as peasant food--is very cheap compared to junk food AND pre-package diet foods. What seems to be a problem with class here is rather that nutritional education is poor. And this is more likely to be a problem for the working class poor because of limited access to information. However, my upper-middle class students chose junk food OVER good food because they think if they replace a complete meal with, oh, say, Bugles and a diet Coke, that is much better than eating a decent complete meal. Packaged diet food is very poor in nutritional quality as well, heavy in sodium, low in vitamins and minerals. It's an illusion that good nutrition is expensive and this may be a product of poor nutrition education. It's also an illusion that exercise costs money. Walking is always a possibility, and many YWCA's offer inexpensive alternatives to fancy exercise programs. Exercise does take a commitment of 30 minutes, 3 times a week, to maintain cardio-vascular health. Still, I suspect that lack of exercise is not the reason many working class poor ( considering the kinds of hard labor and active jobs many do) have poor nutrition and are heavier than the middle and upper class (who have more access to all the strange wacko crash diets *as well as* better nutritional information). It does bother me that these girls who started this discussion only THINK that they are fat and all the suggestions telling them to visit with larger people and understand that they can be happy, merely confirms their false body image. I suspect they will, if encountering larger people as role models, simply view this as evidence that they are as large as they mistakenly view themselves to be. I, for example, as a child was teased and called "fat" because I was a new student. I look at pictures today and see the healthy athletic girl I was and remember how people said, "well, that's okay. Fat people are jolly" or "You can exercise if you want" or " Wear different clothes and you'll look thinner." All this did was CONFIRM that I was "fat" and help me create a *truly* false body image that I still struggle with today. We need to understand WHY these children think they are fat and they need to understand *why* to deal with their false body-image. Amy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. alw7315@acs.tamu.edu Department of English Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4227 "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." Emily Dickinson _Selected Letters_ (#330, p.196) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:57:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: John Kellermeier Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: Re: feminist math classes MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date sent: 2-JUN-1997 13:41:17 >I am unaware of any other sources, other than Rosser's book >and the book mentioned by Paula Rothenberg, that offer this >kind of information, particularly in relation to mathematics. >If anyone on the list can recommend any other sources, books >or articles, I would be interested in hearing about them, and >I'm sure the original poster would be, too. As Joan Korenman suggested, you might want to check out my syllabus on Math, Gender and Culture in particular for the bibliography. I do workshops on Teaching Mathematics from a Multicultural and Feminist Perspective much of which is based on materials taken from that bibliography. In particular I am including below the section on Feminist Pedagogy and Curriculum Inclusion. If anyone is interested in more discussion of feminist approaches to teaching mathematics, please contact me. John Kellermeier SUNY Plattsburgh kellerjh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliography Ayers-Nachamkin, B. (1992). A feminist approach to the introductory statistics course. Women's Studies Quarterly, 1&2, 86-94. Buerk, D., & Copes, L. (1981). Mathematics: A view and student's responses. Mathematics Teaching, V94, 42-45, 1981. Buerk, D. (1982). An experience with some able women who avoid mathematics. For the Learning of Mathematics, 3(2), 19-24. Buerk, D. (1985). The voices of women making meaning in mathematics. Journal of Education, 167(3), 59-69. Buerk, D. (1986). Sharing meanings in mathematics: An approach for teachers. Radical Teacher, 30, 26-29. Frankenstein, M. (1990). Incorporating race, gender, and class issues into a crmathematical literacy curriculum. Journal of Negro Education, 59(3), 336-347. Kellermeier, J. (1992). Writing word problems that reflect cultural diversity. Transformations, 3,(2), 24-30. Kellermeier, J. (1995). Queer statistics: Using lesbigay word problem content in teaching statistics. National Women's Studies Association Journal, 7(1), 98-108. Kellermeier, J. (1996). Feminist pedagogy in teaching general education mathematics: Creating the riskable classroom. Feminist Teacher, 10(1), 8-11. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:31:27 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Chastain Subject: young girls and fat -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Re: Patricia's post One thing I have found is that the messages that these girls are receiving are not being disseminated via their intellect. These messages are highly emotional messages appealing to something vastly different from resaon. I think that it is because of this that our "resonable messsages do not penetrate..." After all, I'm average weight and height yet feel every minute of my life that I am a huge, hulking giant of a person. One is my inteelectual perception of me and the other is an encultured, emotional view of myself. I'm looking to fight fire with fire in terms of the way messages are sent to our youth. Using "cognitive messages" to fight "gut-level" ones seems ineffective. My sincere thanks for all the postings on this questions. Stephanie >>> Patricia B Christian 6/2/97, 06:28am >>> I point out to my 11 year old daughter the pervasive images and messages we are all bombarded with equating beauty and goodness with thinness, including how many industries profit from making us think we are fat. By appealing to her intellect and sense of fairness (see how others profit from creating then fulfilling needs?) and giving her tools to use in discussion with others I *hope* to protect her from the worst of what is out there. We also talk about how bodies need SOME fat to function (the message they get is that ANY fat is evil). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Pat Christian Associate Professor of Sociology 716-888-2878 (voice) Director of Women's Studies Department of Sociology & Anthropology 716-888-2525 (fax) Canisius College 2001 Main Street christia@canisius.edu (e-mail) Buffalo, NY 14208-1098 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:54:23 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty Glass Subject: beauty and appearance, fat and function In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 2 thoughts: 1) In the 1970s, I had a coworker who was the daughter of a successful lawyer. She was petite and was then in her late 20s. She said at one point that she could eat something like cake only if cake was the entire meal. (She didn't have much of a sweet tooth, so this wasn't a big deal.) Sadder, she said she would never have children because she was so vain about her figure. 2) Within the last few months I saw a statement that Barbie had been banned in one of the middle eastern, predominantly Muslim countries because, paraphrasing, "she represents a culture of women who don't want to bear children." I would disagree. It isn't so much that USA women don't want to have children. It is more that they live in a society of "trophy wives" where outer physical shells are valued in lieu of inner qualities that make them good wives and mothers in the first place. Why should women feel compelled to apologize about the changes in their physical appearance after childbirth? That mentality says a great deal about a culture's value system for both mothers and children. (But I'm glad Barbie's visa was denied for at least one country, anyway.) Betty ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:57:35 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan R. Gundersen" Organization: CSU, San Marcos Subject: Re: feminist math classes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please note that the description of Women and Mathematics I sent (as taught at CSUSM) has students actually doing mathematical proofs and working with concepts of math, not just studying about math anxiety and history. It has a math prerequisite of College Algebra. Joan Gundersen CSUSM jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:38:04 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: diana Mackin Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Kay Dodder wrote: > Whoa, wait a minute here. This statement seems to be laden with its >own assumptions about class. Where's the evidence that "thin-conscious" >people eat healthier food? Gimmicky diets, "fat substitutes" and >processed food are all popular with the "thin-conscious" AND the >affluent. These products are far from healthy. Did you all know that artificial sweeteners (aspartame, etc.) are actually suspected of *raising* one's setpoint? The effect of some "low-calorie" foods is to trigger one's body to store more fat. Not only are they unhealthy, as Kay has said, but they may also work counter to their intended purpose! --diana ************************************************************************* There is no final place called recovery. Among the reasons there cannot be is that any girl growing up, and any woman, is likely to encounter events reminiscent of early exploitation. ********Louise Armstrong, _Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics_******** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:55:10 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: diana Mackin Subject: Re: class and weight In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stephanie Chastain wrote, in part: >One thing I have noticed and which is documented are the eating >disorders among those who receive foodstamps. At the first of the >month, recipients spend and binge incredibly on every kind of >packaged and prepared foodstuff. But in the last week or two of the >month, foodstamps (which are already not generous) are gone and >families literally starve. This is an interesting thought to add to >the research (show last night on the hazards of dieting, anyone see >it?) that those who starve or diet periodically are actually "fatter" >than those who just eat a lot or well consistently. I really appreciate your insight. Can I respectfully request that we avoid inadvertently making poverty into an eating disorder? The effect of having undereaten at the end of last month is to *need* to refeed at the beginning of this month. "Bingeing," in its customary use, seems to confuse cause and effect. It's now recognized that most "bingers," including bulimics, began as dieters, and the cycle is really one of 'undereat (undernourish)/refeed/purge or diet (undernourish)/refeed.' Eating disorders are believed to have a *psychological* underlying origin, and refeeding is a purely *physiological* phenomenon. We don't need psychology to explain why people who ran out of food last month are eating a lot now. Hunger *is* cumulative. Thanks, diana ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:15:06 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheryl Berg Organization: Wichita State University Subject: Re: Po folks can't afford the gym (!) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Kay Dodder wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Kelly Shareen Mayhew wrote: > > > When one is poor, one can't > > always afford the healthy food thin-conscious people consume. Less > > healthy, generic food is cheaper, easy to prepare, and readily available. > > I'm beginning to think that a lot of that has to do with economics.... > > And a lot more of it has to do with pursuing an unrealistic "ideal". All right now. I can speak as a woman who has been poor as an adult and who comes from a long line of poor people. Thankfully, I'm not poor now, but I remember what it was like. The bingeing behavior works for buying material things, not just eating (I bought frivolous items because I hated not being able to do so for most of the month. Not mature, I know, but understandable, I think) My grandmother is an example of a woman living in poverty who, although she never bought a gym membership or spent money on free-range chicken, spent plenty of time picking cotton and gardening for sustenance. She was never what anyone would consider overweight, because she was never sedentary. She ate her share of high-fat foods and bought plenty of bags of potato chips, though. I think we are leaving out a major factor in weight gain and body image: television. Grandma (and can we say that her case might be valid for more women in her class?) doesn't watch TV because she thinks it is "of the devil." I have left fundamentalism behind, but sometimes I agree with her ;-) on that one. By the way, my great-aunts who married wealthier men DID gain a great deal of weight. They have TV's. (And as for race, as opposed to class, considerations--since that has been brought up--we are Scottish/Irish/English/German/Cherokee, in that order.) Just some, um, food for thought. Sheryl Berg Wichita State University sberg@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 14:10:51 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Palmer Subject: Re: Class and nutrition Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Amy wrote: I look at pictures today and see >the healthy athletic girl I was and remember how people said, "well, that's >okay. Fat people are jolly" or "You can exercise if you want" or " Wear >different clothes and you'll look thinner." All this did was CONFIRM that >I was "fat" and help me create a *truly* false body image that I still >struggle with today. We need to understand WHY these children think they >are fat and they need to understand *why* to deal with their false >body-image. Amy's memory reminded me of going to the Museum of Natural History in NY when I was in my early twenties. They have (or had) a transparent plastic model of the *average* or *ideal* male and female body, and I was absolutely astounded to see that the female's abdomen pouched out a bit! I had been convinced that my little belly indicated that I was fat and hence not *normal*. Lisa (lpalmer@ucla.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:16:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: an end to the beauty/weight thread MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Well, folks, I think it's time for the WMST-L Official Nag to pull the plug on the beauty/weight/diet thread. There has been some interesting discussion, and a few people have mentioned useful resources for the classroom, but on the whole the thread seems to be the sort of more general discussion of gender-related societal issues that lies outside WMST-L's narrow focus on teaching, research, and program administration. So please, let's move on to other issues. If you'd like to discuss issues like this, please do so on another list. For a listing and description of 300 women- and gender-related lists, take a look at the "Gender-Related Electronic Forums" compilation at http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/forums.html (also available via e-mail by sending the message GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU). Many thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. Joan ***************************************************************************** * 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: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 14:38:15 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Chastain Subject: Re: class and weight -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Hi, Diana- I would never equate poverty with eating disorders (though I think there are some interesting thoughts in there) and I absolutely agree that the context in which eating problems occur must be kept in mind and very clear. I do have a problem with separating the psychological and physiological phenomena in the way that you do. And I tend to agree with the research that shows that the poor binge and starve as a result of both psychological and physical deprivations. That the cycle is not a result of dieting per se but results from nutritional, dietary and emotional needs doesn't change the fact it is almost identical (and producing the same problems) to what happens to young body-obsessed girls who gorge and starve themselves. But, in addition, I might deduce from what you are saying that if the poor suddenly had access to more and regular food that they would eat in a way that was healthy and regimented. I don't think that is (completely) true for a variety of psy and phys reasons. Thanks for writing. If you want to continue this privately, I'm interested. Stephanie chastsg@dshs.wa.gov ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 15:03:27 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Palmer Subject: dolls (compiled) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thanks to all of you who sent responses to my doll and beauty theory query. I especially want to thank you for your heartening words of encouragement and expressions of interest. Here is a list of the results, which several people requested (I'm cutting and pasting, so please excuse the non-uniform format): Fiction: Angelou, I KNow Why the Caged Bird Sings Djuna Barnes' *Nightwood* Whoopi Goldberg's characterization of a African American girl using a light colored towel to represent blond(e?) hair _Interview with the Vampire_ eliot'e _the mill on the floss_ "The Youngest Doll" by Puerto Rican-American writer Rosario Ferre, in a book of short stories by the same name: Papeles de Pandora, The Youngest Doll (NOTE: this is indeed one of the central texts in my dissertation) fairy tales Angela Carter's short story "The Loves of Lady Purple" Theory: Joseph Hansen and Evelyn Reed, *Cosmetics, Fashions and the Exploitation of Women* (NY: Pathfinder Press, 1987) Friere as a model for literacy -- ability to read one's reality bell hooks __teaching to Transgress__ Shulamit Reinharz book __Feminist Research Methodologies__ __When the Canary Stops Singing: WOmen's Perspectives for Transforming Business__ Ed. by Pat Ballantine; pub. by Barrett-Koehler -- __Rediscovering the Soul of Business__, (1995), and _The New Bottom Line: Bringing Heart and Soul to Business__; both are edited by John renesch and Bill De Foore, and both published by New Leaders Press, San Francisco. Lois Banner, _American Beauty_ An anthropologist at SFU (Simon Fraser University) or UBC (University of British Cloumbia) has written a book about the use of hair by North American women as a way to alter or change their direction or to announce a change in their direction. Wendy Chapkis' _Beauty Secrets_ Lakoff, Robin Tolmach and Raquel L. Scherr. "Beauty and Ethnicity." In _Face Value: The Politics of Beauty._ Routledge and Keagan Pal, 1984. 245-276 Thanks again for the leads, ideas, and encouragement. Lisa (lpalmer@ucla.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 20:55:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Darrah Subject: Re: feminist math classes In-Reply-To: <9706021541.AA03668@galois.fccc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Suzanne E. Franks wrote: > Someone recently posted a request to the list for > sources/ideas on adding a "feminist slant" to college > math courses. Several posts to the list have offered > interesting and useful suggestions for courses > ABOUT mathematics. However, with the exception of a post > from Paula Rothenberg, suggesting selections from > a recent book from Teachers College Press, there have > been almost no suggestions for MATHEMATICS COURSES. > The original question, it seemed to me, was, how does > one go about teaching algebra, geometry, calculus etc. > as a feminist--not teaching ABOUT these subjects or > their history (important and worthwhile projects in their > own right) but teaching the subjects themselves. Suzanne, Thanks for pointing this out. You're absolutely right that the original post asked about teaching the Math-content courses *themselves* from a feminist perspective -- although, of course, all the response were helpful to a degree. Kathy Ragan wrote asking the question, but she'll not have access to email for a few days, so I wanted to confirm your sense about her post. Kathy is an Instructional Assistant here in our Tutoring Center and has become interested in the question of whether these Math-content courses *can* be taught in a way that could be called "feminist." We are a community college, and we are just starting a Women's Studies program. As we begin to discuss courses which could be included, it becomes clear that most people think something like, "Well, math is math, right?" The overall consensus seems to be that the Math issue would be dealt with in other Women's Studies' courses. Even though I'm not a "math" person (rather, literature and English Comp), I feel that this is an unsatisfactory way to handle Math -- so the question remains: how can Algebra, Trig, Calc, etc. be taught that would "satisfy" the requirements of, say, the Math Department and still take into consideration the goals of Women's Studies? Thanks, Susan Darrah Tutoring Center Director Bucks County Community College darrahs@bucks.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 08:40:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Abinojar Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties In-Reply-To: Your message <199706012330.TAA01284@dolphin.upenn.edu> of Sun, 1 Jun 1997 19:30:18 -0400 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=US-ASCII I think in the conversation about thinness and beauty we should also look at the concept of size in general. Women are discouraged from being 'too big,' in this culture but, in other cultures size is equated with health and fertility in women. And size in our society is related to strength, at least for men, who reinforce the 'thin' standard for women. So encouraging women to be thin, small, 'petite,' little, is encouraging their diminutiveness and weakness, and for them to be unlike men, who thrive on, 'more is better.' santana ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 07:57:43 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Death and Dying Texts Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I hope this is not too late -- it's been a wild month. FROM THE WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT: Josef is Dying, Ulla Berkewicz, Post-Apollo Press, 1992, 0-942996-15-1, $11.00 pb. Powerful imagery allows the reader to witness the workings of death around and in the body of an old man alive to the last fraction of a second of his life. Fiction. The Eighth of September, Barbara Stevens Sullivan, Astarte Shell Press, 1995, 1-885349-01-7, pb, $12.95. "I'm tired of living," Shirley tells her husband of fifty years. Shirley and Ralph have raised two daughters, laughed, loved and fought their way through their marriage. Now Shirley's increasing debilitation and Ralph's inability to manage her care have made her life unbearable. What would they do? Fiction. You can find these titles in your local feminist or independent bookstore. If you need assitance locating them, please let me know. Mev >I am revising my Death and Dying class for fall semester. My plan is to move >away from the traditional texts, Kubler-Ross, readers, etc., and move to >novels and stories. I use Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Illych" and it works >quite well and engages the students in thoughtful discussion. I hope others >have suggestions about texts that would also engage students, provide for >meaningful dialogue, and focus on topics such as grief, mourning, rituals, >suicide, assisted death, family issues, etc. 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, 3 Jun 1997 09:04:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to unsubscribe MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Now that summer is here (at least, in the northern hemisphere), some people may wish to unsubscribe from WMST-L. If you wish to unsubscribe, send the two-word message UNSUB WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you receive the EDITED DAILY DIGEST, send the following TWO-LINE message to that same address: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L (a change from earlier versions!) UNSUB WMST-L BE SURE TO SEND THIS MESSAGE TO LISTSERV, NOT WMST-L. DO NOT HIT REPLY! If you simply want to stop your WMST-L mail for a while but not unsubscribe, send LISTSERV the message SET WMST-L NOMAIL if you get WMST-L as individual messages; if you get the edited digest, send the message AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L . When you want to resume mail, send the message SET WMST-L MAIL (to get individual messages) or AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE (to get the edited digest). Again, be sure to send the messages to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU , not to WMST-L . If you encounter problems, write to me PRIVATELY, not via WMST-L. My email address appears at the end of this message. Please be sure to let me know whether you receive WMST-L as individual messages or as the edited digest or in some other arrangement. NEVER--repeat, NEVER--send a message about your subscription to WMST-L. You will needlessly add to everyone's e-mail clutter. Please be considerate. Many thanks. Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:07:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kelly Shareen Mayhew Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties Comments: cc: vickie shields In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi Jeannie and all-- I didn't mean to imply that eating disorders were a one-class phenomenon (and I did say middle & not upper-middle, which were stats I've seen): obviously they're not. What I wanted to get at was the way body types culture-wide are viewed--how are larger people seen in U. S. society? How are smaller people seen? Why does smallness have so much purchase? And what does class have to do with this? I myself was responding to the post which talked about Americans, junk food, and sitting around watching TV, and felt that there were some class issues embedded in that description. I guess I'm also responding to the ways my students will talk about people on welfare--they spend their food stamps on junk food and sit around all day. I don't think they're just talking about welfare, but also about the ways they view poor people. kelly On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, jeannie ludlow wrote: > OK, just a couple of things: > > 1. back to the exercise thread. I may have missed it, but we neglected to > mention "exercise bulimia," which is an "eating"/body image disorder which > _many_ women work into after "recovering" from anorexia or binge/purge > bulimia. Exercise bulimia _looks_ like "health" to our fitness-crazed > culture and, sometimes, even to our doctors. I know. I've been there. > When I teach eating disorder info in my classes, I try to explain to my > students the difference between engaging in a activity and being > _obsessive_ about it. When I was skipping work and giving up time with my > family so I wouldn't miss my exercise, that was just as sick as when I was > eating only 575 calories a day. Period. Exercise and "fitness" will not > "solve" the problems of someone who has a body image disorder any more > than losing 20 pounds will. Anorexia, bulimia, compulsive eating (which > very often does _not_ result in "obesity" or even in being "overweight" > [another word I hate]) are disorders of obsession and compulsion. The > woman (usually, but not always) has a control problem. It only manifests > itself in body image and eating disorders because that is a convenient and > permissable outlet for control in our culture (for women, that is). > Convenient because, no matter what else I cannot control in my life, I can > control my body (I believe ;-), and permissable because of the social > encouragement we receive when we lose weight (as many of us have already > noted). > > 2. (Hi, Kelly) NO, eating disorders are _not_ primarily disorders of the > upper middle classes. This is a classist assumption in and of itself. > But Kelly is right in that class does play an important part in eating > disorders: those who are adolescent and college-aged and who have ready > access to wellness in their health care (i.e., the upper-middle classes) > are the sufferers who usually get _caught._ And getting caught is how one > very often gets help. Eating disorders are about control. If I am > successful in manifesting my control issues through my body, no one will > realize I am sick. it is only when I get _so_ sick as to be visibly ill > that anyone will notice--and that is frankly pretty sick in our "fitness" > culture that equates (erroneously) thinness with healthiness. In other > words, there are poor women, women of all races and older women who > suffer from eating disorders in the U.S. (and, as far as I know, in most > Industrialized states). But class determines who gets diagnosed and, > therefore, who is perceived to have problems. I personally know many > women who have eating disorders who are from lower-working-class, rural, > and poor backgrounds. These are the women I grew up with, and these are > the women from whom I learned my attitudes about my body (it is _mine_ and > I can treat it however I want. If that means starving it to feel like my > life is in my control, so be it!). > > An interesting aside: I have a very close friend who is poor. She > receives her mental health treatment at the health dept. here in town. > She is terribly into eating disorders: between 6 & 20 laxatives/day; > vomiting; bingeing, etc. She also has other behaviors that are often > associated with eating disorders: self-mutilation, compulsive cleaning, > etc. Her psychiatrist at the health dept. tells her "you do not have an > eating disorder; you just have disordered eating." Then he can't figure > out why he cannot get her depression meds to stabilize. Of course, we > both know that she is getting unevenly dosed depending on what she does > after she takes her pills (laxatives, vomiting, etc.). He will not even > consider this a possibility. The patient advocate at the dept. is a > (sorry to be rude, here, but it is true) management pawn, who says what > the dr. tells her to say. The other drs. at the dept. listen to this man, > who is the 'head' of the dept. Sigh. > > ?????????????????????????????what do you see????????????????????????????? > "There is great power in being able to see the world as one will and then > to have that vision enacted. But if being is seeing for the subject, > then being seen is the precise measure of existence for the object." > --Patricia J. Williams, from _The Alchemy of Race and Rights_ > Jeannie Ludlow jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu > Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Popular Culture > ???????????????????????????where is your power??????????????????????????? > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:36:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: searching for references about academic job search Comments: cc: postgrad-wo@mailbase.ac.uk, GWSSA-L@yorku.ca, IFF-L@research.haifa.ac.il, IRWMST-L@Danann.hea.ie MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am in the process of trying to compile a bibliography about the academic job search for a roundtable discussion at NWSA. I know it's a huge topic, so I'm trying to narrow it down to make it either specific to women and/or to women's studies. I have already managed to find some general readings on the topic (The Academic Job Search Handbook, Winning the Ph.D. Game, Finding A Job in Your Field, The Academic Handbook, Survival in the Academy, Acheiving A Ph.D.). I have some sources that are specific to women (The Ph.D. Expereince: A Women's Point of View, Lifting a Ton of Feathers - and Caplan's wonderful bibliography in that book). I haven't found much relating to Women's Studies specifically (an article by Lois Rita Helmbold from the Women's Review of Book, February, 1994). If you have suggestions for material that is non-US based I'd also like to recieve them. And please feel free to forward this message to other appropriate lists. I would appreciate any suggestions - privately or to the list if you think it's appropriate. When I have a compiled list I'll post it to the list, and perhaps it could be archived the way course syllabi are for future reference by list members. Thanks, Katherine Side klside@YorkU.ca Doctoral Candidate Graduate Programme in Women's Studies South Ross, 728 York University North York, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:41:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Liz McMahon Subject: Teaching feminist math classes MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >>...there have >> been almost no suggestions for MATHEMATICS COURSES. >> The original question, it seemed to me, was, how does >> one go about teaching algebra, geometry, calculus etc. >> as a feminist--not teaching ABOUT these subjects or >> their history (important and worthwhile projects in their >> own right) but teaching the subjects themselves. I'm replying to the list, because I find this topic very interesting. How we teach our non-women's studies classes in a way that we can live with as feminists is a very complex question. I'm tempted to add, particularly for those of us in the sciences, but I can certainly imagine that other disciplines share many of the problems I experience as a mathematician. The way I try to teach these kinds of courses as a feminist depends on the requirements of the course.For upper level courses or lower level courses that don't serve as prerequisites for other courses, what I like to do is to offer students more than one way to demonstrate that they can handle the material in the course. In these classes, my exams are in 2 parts: the first half in in-class and tries to test simply whether they understand the definitions, concepts, etc. They are very computational or "show that this object does or does not satisfy the definition of blobbo." The second half is take-home, and they may talk with anyone in the class, get hints from me, use their notes, book, etc. The restrictions are that they may not use books other than our text and if they ask a professor for help, they must tell them it is for an exam (that's usually enough to prevent my colleagues from doing the problems for them). In grading, I look to see how well they communicate what they have learned. For classes like calculus (or our introduction to proofs course) that serve as prerequisites to other courses, it would be hard for me to do this and not be accused of "coddling" the students (how colleagues see these things is a very interesting topic of its own). In these classes, I try to have times in class where I give students problems to work on together to make sure they are understanding the topic for the day. (I also teach a workshop calculus course where this is built into the structure of the class.) I encourage office hours as a time to talk about the material as well as to get comfortable with me, so that they aren't intimidated. I try to make my class as informal (jokes, talking back and forth with each other and me) as I can and still maintain some air of authority (sadly, still necessary, as some of the men in the class still cannot accept that I could possibly have anything to tell them that they don't already know). I would be very interested in what kinds of techniques other folks use in non-WS classes to further the aims and goals of feminism and WS. Please respond to the list (or to me privately as well as Kathy) if you have more. This list has been incredibly useful to me, both in the WS classes I teach (Intro to WS and Gender and Science)) and in helping me restructure my math classes. Thanks!! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Elizabeth McMahon, Department of Mathematics % Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042-1781 % 610-250-5274 % mcmahone@lafayette.edu % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:50:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Re: Beauty Cruelties It is not an empty stereotype or misconception on the part of outside visitors who notice more women in the U.S. are overweight than in their home countries. This is bolstered by statistics (unfortunately not at my disposal at the moment). And it is indeed a "class" thing -- for a variety of reasons. When my Mom was growing up poor in the "Hollers", she was thin and active -- true, everything she ate was laced with bacon grease, but that was all the fat they got in their diet. Today, it is different. Junk food is cheap entertainment. Junk food coupled with a tv set is VERY cheap entertainment. Second, people of higher education are more aware of the health dangers of being overweight -- but, I suspect, also more subject to societal ramifications of being overweight. Studies have shown you are less likely to be promoted, for example, if you are noticeably overweight (male or female). It is seen as an indicator of "lack of self-control". Third, whereas a hundred years ago a "large" man of substance was someone to be admired (clearly got enough to eat), today the sign of leisure is to be able to have the time to play tennis, do aerobic exercise -- "stay active". When is a woman (particularly one with children) who is working full time and holding a household together, going to find the TIME for aerobic activity to keep herself svelte and buff? And if you work full time, you are less likely to have time to make the types of food that are good for you and the family -- take-out tends to be high-salt and high-fat because those are cheap ways to make something taste good. If you have more money, if you have more time which today is money, you can get the kids to afternoon activities that are healthy and good for them -- instead of their sitting around watching tv and stuffing their faces. If we had any sense as a society, those activities would be available to all at schools in that 3-6 pm slot when most parents are still working or driving home. But as it works right now, you gotta DRIVE to it, which means there has to be an adult who can drive. An adult who isn't working. Again, if you have a higher income, you can eat out at places that make things taste good with spices and creativity. Eat more fish? Low income, you eat deep fried cod. High income, you have marinated tuna with steamed vegetables. When my husband was growing up in a working class rowhouse neighborhood in Baltimore, guys would come through the alley every day with fresh vegetables and fruit and fresh seafood. "Sof' crab alive" meant good and healthy eating. Now, you go to a neighborhood grocery store where it's slim pickin's for fresh vegies of high quality, and NO fresh seafood. If you're REAL poor and don't have access to a car (the guys take them if any are around), then you're stuck with a small corner grocery without a lot of choices. Lots of hamburger, though. This is, admittedly, impressionistic, but it is bolstered by the statistics that show that the U.S. has higher average weights per height than other nations, and that show that there is a correlation between weight level and income. It's kind of like the tan-as-status-symbol thing: when a sign of income was being able to stay indoors all day while the peasants (or people of color) were out there in the field, then (racism aside) light skin in a woman was a sign of the leisure class. But when the economy switched so that wage slaves spent their days indoors, it became a sign of higher income (for people of northern European heritage) to be able to play all day in the sun, and hence get a tan. A healthy lifestyle in the U.S. is, to put it bluntly, EXPENSIVE. Being thin is a sign of being upper class (can't be too rich or too thin) and hence suffering to make oneself thin translates into an effort to be upwardly mobile. An even more interesting conjecture given that young girls consistently choose thinner role models than young men find attractive. [I used to contrast a USA Today table showing guys who are nonsmokers will NOT date a woman who is a smoker; with one showing guys have no problems with a woman being ten pounds or even twenty pounds overweight -- which means, I would say, if you're smoking to stay attractive to get guys, it's the wrong strategy. Time to reiterate here why they call them "Virginia SLIMS".] Oh -- one more socio-cultural game we can play with weight. I haven't got the cites at hand, but basically you play the game "what is the ideal woman supposed to be like" with what fashions say. So the ideal woman of the Renaissance was ripe with a swollen belly; the ideal woman of the Victorian era was a virgin, a potential mother with a thin waist (no babies YET) but WIDE hips (babies in her future); the ideal woman of the post-World War I generation (with young men in Europe petrified of growing up and becoming cannon fodder) was a little girl playmate without breasts; the ideal woman of the 1950s was a combination sexpot/virgin/housewife/tease; what is the ideal woman today? (I ask my students -- we end up with a woman who is tightly muscular -- a playmate -- who has large tits -- a mother -- and no hips -- infertile, no danger of commitment -- check out the standard look of the Hooters girl.) And in case you think that appearance/weight just affects girls: I can remember 20 years ago joking that if Barbie dolls made girls grow up anorexic, then what was going to be the impact on guys of playing with The Hulk and other overmuscular fantasy creatures? I thought it was a joke. AUGHGHGHGH! The Gold's Gym monsters! My daughter, at the end of her sophomore year of high school, is tired of sports and wants to devote more time to writing, photograpy, and drama. That's fine -- should be great. But I will freely admit to being petrified that if she quits sports she won't get enough exercise and will revert to trying to stay thin by dieting. It was our son, however, who developed what I would call an eating disorder because he was a wrestler: under constant pressure from his coach and peers to fast and diet and binge. Moral of this story? It's not just girls: our whole society has objectified bodies, both male and female, as commercial products. You should be able to "buy" a perfect body. At least, that's what all my college students, male and female, think. Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of History, Villanova University (on indefinite medical leave since Jan 1995) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:57:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Forbes Subject: Re: feminist math classes In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear All In the event that my original posting was misconstrued and fell into the theorizing rather than the methodological aspect of this thread I suggested that the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto) might have some resource material available which would be of a pragmatic `teaching math' nature. I have not checked out the exact material, but I have attended presentations.. some several years ago related to research on teaching maths and sciences to women. It may have been that some of this work was aimed at high school level teaching but I think that it would be worth contacting them. Janet Forbes jforbes@yorku.ca Geography York University On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Susan Darrah wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Suzanne E. Franks wrote: > > > Someone recently posted a request to the list for > > sources/ideas on adding a "feminist slant" to college > > math courses. Several posts to the list have offered > > interesting and useful suggestions for courses > > ABOUT mathematics. However, with the exception of a post > > from Paula Rothenberg, suggesting selections from > > a recent book from Teachers College Press, there have > > been almost no suggestions for MATHEMATICS COURSES. > > The original question, it seemed to me, was, how does > > one go about teaching algebra, geometry, calculus etc. > > as a feminist--not teaching ABOUT these subjects or > > their history (important and worthwhile projects in their > > own right) but teaching the subjects themselves. > > > Suzanne, > > > Kathy Ragan wrote asking the question, but she'll not have > access to email for a few days, so I wanted to confirm your > sense about her post. Kathy is an Instructional Assistant > here in our Tutoring Center and has become interested in > the question of whether these Math-content courses *can* be > taught in a way that could be called "feminist." > > We are a community college, and we are just starting a Women's > Studies program. As we begin to discuss courses which could be > included, it becomes clear that most people think something > like, "Well, math is math, right?" The overall consensus > seems to be that the Math issue would be dealt with in other > Women's Studies' courses. > > Even though I'm not a "math" person (rather, literature and > English Comp), I feel that this is an unsatisfactory way > to handle Math -- so the question remains: how can Algebra, > Trig, Calc, etc. be taught that would "satisfy" the requirements > of, say, the Math Department and still take into consideration > the goals of Women's Studies? > > Thanks, > > Susan Darrah > Tutoring Center Director > Bucks County Community College > darrahs@bucks.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:23:12 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: J Poxon Subject: Cultural feminism bibliography Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Thanks to everyone who wrote with suggestions in response to my query=20 about cultural feminism. Since more than a few of you also asked me to=20 post the results to the list, here is a compilation of all the=20 suggestions I received, as well as several other titles that I came up=20 with on my own (in the hopes that these will also be helpful to others). And btw, I've included annotations to the suggestions when they were=20 provided. Judith Poxon poxon@saclink.csus.edu ********************** 1. There is a work being done on Franco-American women in the Northeast.=20 There are web pages which may or may not fit in with your work: http://members.aol.com/FAWI2000/index.html (in the FAWI address that is an i, not a one...) 2. Frontline Feminism 1975-1995: Essays From Sojourner's First 20 Years,=20 Karen Kahn, editor, Aunt Lute Books, 1995, 1-879960-42-7, $17.95 pb. Karen Kahn has selected over 100 essays - news, analysis, interviews, and letters - covering the major debates of feminism's "second wave." The selections are organized around eight broad topics: identity, economic justice, politics of family, reproductive freedom, women's health, sex and sexuality, violence against women, and alliance building - and each are clarified and contextualized by introductions that trace the issues as they've developed over the years. 3. The Woman-Centered Economy: Ideals, Reality, & the Space in Between, Loraine Edwalds and Midge Stocker, Editors, Third Side Press, 1995, 1-879427-06-0, $15.95 pb. The Woman-Centered Economy presents real stories of women running businesses based on feminist principles, within the feminist and lesbian communities. It also presents some theoretical thinking behind the day-to-day work and ideals toward which many women in our businesses and community nonprofit organizations strive. Many of these businesses are related to the making of culture -- bookstores, publishers, musicians, etc. 4. Johnson, Fern L. (1989). Women's Culture and communication: An =09analytical perspective. In C. M. Lont & S. Friedley (Eds.), =09BEYOND BOUNDARIES: SEC AND GENDER DIVERSITY IN COMMUNICATION. =09Fairfax, VA: George Mason Univ. Press. (pp. 301-316. 5. I'd recommend Adrienne Rich OF WOMAN BORN, the 1986 edition with the new preface. While the book itself can be/has been considered cultural feminist, the 1986 introduction shows how her theorizing had evolved over the course of a decade. 6. For an historical account of the ascendance of cultural feminism, see Alice Echols DARING TO BE BAD (1989). Echols' point of view is unapologetically anti-cultural feminist. 7. Linda Alcoff's piece on cultural and poststructuralist feminism, while some years old now, is I think good; and it supports your=20 classification. 8. _Feminist Parenting_, ed by Dena Taylor. The essays are a collection of= =20 writings by mothers, some daughters, and a few dads, describing the=20 experience of living within a culture of feminism within a family context. 9. Thalia Gouma-Peterson and Patricia Mathews, "The Feminist Critique of Ar= t History" in *The Art Bulletin,* 69, 3, Sept 1987. 10. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzald=FAa, Aunt Lute= =20 Books, 1987, 1-879960-12-5, pb, $10.95. In this work of magnitude, Gloria= =20 Anzald=FAa explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence of = those living on the frontier between cultures and languages. She meditates on the condition of Chicanos in Anglo culture, women in Hispanic culture, and lesbians in the straight world. 11. A Question of Balance: Artists and Writers on Motherhood, Judith Pierc= e Rosenberg, Papier Mache Press, 1995, 0-918949-53-X, pb, $14.00. Twenty-five well-known visual artists and writers (including Dorothy Allison, Faith Ringgold, Jane Yolen) articulate how the experience of being a mother has shaped their creative work. They candidly describe the practical details of how they organize their lives to nurture both their children and their art-often while holding down another job. 12. Present Tense: Writing and Art by Young Women, Calyx Young Women's Editorial Collective, CALYX Books, 1996, 0-934971-53-6, $14.95 pb. This anthology showcases the original art and literature of women linked by their youth, women of different sexual orientations, ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds. At different moments, this literature is "multicultural," "post-industrial," "chick lit," and "experimental." Always, it is striking and utterly contemporary. Poetry, short stories, photography and other works of art included. 13. Daly, Mary, _Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism_, Boston:= =20 Beacon Press, 1978 14. Eisenstein, Hester, _Contemporary Feminist Thought_, Boston: G.K. Hall= =20 & Co., 1983 This book draws heavily on the work of Rich and Daly, among=20 others. It's a critical but evenhanded treatment of cultural feminism. =20 15. Griffin, Susan, _Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her_, New York:= =20 Harper & Row, 1978=20 16. Kimball, Gayle, ed., _Women's Culture: The Women's Renaissance of the= =20 Seventies_, Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1981 This edited=20 anthology includes an interview with Robin Morgan as well as essays on=20 women in the arts, religion, and health. Contributors include Judy=20 Chicago, Marge Piercy, Z. Budapest, and many others. 17. Ratcliffe, Krista, _Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorica= l=20 Traditions: Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich_, Carbondale:=20 Southern Illinois University Press, 1996 18. Spretnak, Charlene, ed., _The Politics of Women's Spirituality:=20 Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power within the Feminist Movement_, Garden= =20 Grove, NY: Anchor Books, 1982 =20 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 13:43:55 -0500 Reply-To: dhennen@cyberramp.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: "David L. Hennen" Organization: Texas Woman's University School of Nursing Subject: Re: feminist math classes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If Taiwanese and Korean girls are scoring more than 16 points ahead of American boys on the same standardized math tests, why not explore what the Taiwanese and Koreans are doing in their education practice? David mailto:dhennen@cyberramp.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:18:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Some Diet/Weight Resources MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT WMST-L subscriber Nita McKinley sent me a message containing some resources about diet/weight that people teaching about or doing research on these issues might find useful. Nita sent the message to me because I had called a halt to the thread. I agree with Nita that these might be useful resources and are definitely within the list's focus, so here they are, followed at the end by Nita's signature file. Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu **************************************************** For a thorough discussion of the health implications of weight and dieting: Ernsberger & Haskew (1987). Rethinking obesity: An alternative view of its health implications. The Journal of Obesity and Weight Regulation, 6(2), 58-137. [particularly interesting is the list of health benefits of obesity on pg. 74, including lowered incidence of certain types of cancer, osteoporosis, eclampsia, premature birth, and hot flashes.] For research on how obesity is associated with downward mobility in women (but not men): Goldblatt, P. B., Moore, M. E., & Stunkard, A. J. (1965). Social factors in obesity. Journal of the American Medical Association, 192, 1039-1044. For a discussion of fat bias in research: Mayer, Vivian F. (1983a). The fat illusion. In Lisa Schoenfielder & Barb Weiser (eds.) Shadow on Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression, San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, p. 3-14. A psychological study of gender differences in a cognitive task: when researchers controlled for who was dieting, some of the gender differences disappeared and some were reduced: Etaugh & Hall (1989). Restrained eating: Mediator of gender differences on cognitive restructuring task? Psychology of Women Quarterly, 6, 465-481. Finally, two collections that challenge current beliefs about weight preoccupation and eating disorders: Brown and Jasper (eds.)(1993). Comsuming passions: Feminist approaches to weight preoccupation and eating disorders. Toronto: Second Story Press. Fallon, Katzman, & Wooley (eds.) (1994) Feminst perspectives on eating disorders. New YOrk: The Guilford Press. -- ********************************* * Nita Mary McKinley, Ph.D. * * Department of Psychology * * Bates College * * Lewiston, ME 04240 * * (207) 786-8312 * * nmckinle@bates.edu * ********************************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:14:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Emily Toth Subject: Sources about academic job search Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:36 AM 6/3/97 -0400, Katherine Side wrote: >I am in the process of trying to compile a bibliography about the academic >job search for a roundtable discussion at NWSA. I know it's a huge topic, >so I'm trying to narrow it down to make it either specific to women and/or >to women's studies. > >I have already managed to find some general readings on the topic (The >Academic Job Search Handbook, Winning the Ph.D. Game, Finding A Job in >Your Field, The Academic Handbook, Survival in the Academy, Acheiving A >Ph.D.). > >I have some sources that are specific to women (The Ph.D. Expereince: A >Women's Point of View, Lifting a Ton of Feathers - and Caplan's >wonderful bibliography in that book). To Katherine's fine list, I also add my own book: MS. MENTOR'S IMPECCABLE ADVICE FOR WOMEN IN ACADEMIA. Ms. Mentor, a crotchety character drawn by Nicole Hollander, gives spirited, detailed Q & A advice on such topics as "The Job Hunt," "The Conference Scene," "Slouching Toward Tenure," and more. It's literally just out (I got my author's copy), and can be ordered ($16 trade paperback). It's published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, and will be displayed at the NWSA conference, in the American Association of University Presses exhibit. I'll also be giving a talk related to it at NWSA on Friday afternoon, 1-2:30. Y'all come! Emily Toth Professor of English and Women's Studies Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 e-mail: etoth@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu office phone: 504-388-3152 English Dept. fax: 504-388-4129 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:32:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: chika shinohara Subject: Research on Japanese women(war-brides and younger women)in US since the end of World War II Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, I am going to research on a group of Japanese women in an area of Wisconsin. Many of those women are from Japan and have lived in the USA since the end of the second world war. They have been married to American men. I am going to interview them for my research on their life history (their lives in US, family and friendship networks, cultural difficulties,...etc). I am looking for information on Japanese women who came to the United States after the war. I would welcome any research documents, information about groups and individuals related to this topic, and suggestions to my research. For your suggestions and more information about my research, please contact Chika Shinohara shinohc@uwec.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 17:48:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: academic job search references MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Katherine Side writes: > I am in the process of trying to compile a bibliography about the academic > job search for a roundtable discussion at NWSA. I know it's a huge topic, > so I'm trying to narrow it down to make it either specific to women and/or > to women's studies. [snip] > I haven't found much relating to Women's Studies specifically (an article > by Lois Rita Helmbold from the Women's Review of Book, February, 1994). You may wish to look at several files in the WMST-L file collection that contain messages sent to the list about the academic job search issue. One file dates from 1994; it's called ACADEMIC SEARCH . The other file is in three parts (there was a tremendous outpouring of messages from many different perspectives) and dates from 1995; it's called JOB MARKET1, JOB MARKET2, and JOB MARKET3. To get all four files, simply send a message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU containing the following four lines: GET ACADEMIC SEARCH WMST-L GET JOB MARKET1 WMST-L GET JOB MARKET2 WMST-L GET JOB MARKET3 WMST-L If you want to see what other files are available, you can add yet another line that contains just the two words INDEX WMST-L . See the User's Guide for more details (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html). Be sure to send the above message to LISTSERV, not 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: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:25:28 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 announcements (list,job,web site) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following three announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) FLANNERY-L (Flannery O'Connor E-mail Forum 2) Job: Sociology (inc. gender & sexuality) - Sarah Lawrence C. 3) Help Needed on Behalf of French Feminist Web Site For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) FLANNERY-L e-mail list Georgia College & State University is pleased to announce Flannery-L. The Flannery O'Connor Forum is intended as a scholarly discussion about the life and writings of the 20th century American writer, Flannery O'Connor. Postings may include queries, calls for papers, discussion, conference announcements, information on new publications, and other topics relevant to O'Connor Studies. Commands and posts will be sent to the same address. Therefore, to subscribe to Flannery-L, send an e-mail message to the following address: flannery-l@grumpy.gac.peachnet.edu On the subject line of the message, please type: add me to the list Send your message. You should receive a response which welcomes you to the list and outlines the various commands. Nancy Davis Bray **************************************************************************** 2) Sociology (inc. gender & sexuality) - Sarah Lawrence College Sociology: Sarah Lawrence College invites applications for a 1 year full-time guest appointment in Sociology to begin September 1997. We are seeking candidates with teaching and research interests in comparative sociology. Expertise in some of the following areas highly desirable: mass media and representation, gender and sexuality, colonialism and post coloniality, human rights and civil rights. Ph.D. and undergraduate teaching experience, including working individually with students, required. Send vita, letter describing teaching and research interests, outlines of two proposed courses, sample of writing, and two letters of recommendation to: Ms. Janet Held, Faculty Secretary, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York 10708. Application Deadline: June 20, 1997. EOE. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 30, 1997 *************************************************************************** 3) Help Needed on Behalf of French Feminist Web Site A terrific group of French feminists who are involved in the parity movement (the attempt to get half the seats in the legislature for women) and who have worked tirelessly to improve women's position in French politics, edit a newsletter called Parite-infos. They also have established a very useful web site which is not only beautifully designed, but has tremendously useful bibliographic lists about the history of French feminism, women in politics, laws relating to women's issues, etc. They are now in the position of having to seek renewed funding from the European community to maintain and expand their web site. In order to do that, they need to show that it is visited by users all over the world. If you have the capacity, can you visit their site as often as possible in the next two weeks (the funding decision is June 15)? You'll not only become acquainted with an important resource for feminist scholarship, but help advance a good cause. The address: http://www.parite-infos.org thanks Joan Scott Sender: Women's Studies List From: Liza Fiol-Matta Subject: Feminist Math Classes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For suggestions on using ethnomathematics to transform a Math course, see Chiu-Min Lai's "Changing Introductory College Mathematics," [pages 146-149] in the Women's Studies Quarterly (Fall/Winter 1996) issue on Curriculum Transformation in Community Colleges. This issue is available from the Feminist Press, 311 East 94th Street, New York, NY 10128-5684; Tel: 212-360-4790. -------------------------------------------------- Liza Fiol-Matta, Ph.D. English Department LaGuardia Community College 31-10 Thomson Avenue Long Island City, NY 11101 lfiol@pipeline.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:07:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Teaching feminist math classes Regarding Liz McMahon 's post: My first reaction was, this is a good teacher. Why should good teaching be considered gendered? But then I hit the part about colleagues talking about "coddling" students. Aha. Yes, this is indeed a feminist issue. As someone who has struggled to deal with the problems of college students with learning disabilities and ADD, I have found the attitudes of most math departments incredibly frustrating. Note: I love math personally. When I was in junior high I scored so well on a math ability/spatial perception test they were trying out for Princeton that the test authors came down to stare at the girl geek. (This is no lie -- a GIRL was not supposed to do well on this test. Real good for a 13-year-old's self-image, let me tell you.) Math is often taught in an incredibly combative way. Also, from an early age, children are taught that they either "get" math or they don't. The "in" texts they have used for my daughter's state-of-the-art math classes have been (IMHO) horrors -- they encourage "guessing" which, in combination with getting graded, is a surefire way to falsely encourage some kids and discourage others. We cannot get the calculus professors at our local university to SLOW DOWN the course for students with learning disabilities - they will offer it one credit a semester, but they only give you one-third of a semester's time to do it in! Or they have "self-tests" on the computer, but you have to take ten-question quizzes and if you get less than 8 out of 10 right, you flunk. Then there is the obsession with tests and quizzes being completed in a certain window of time. Why? The end of the story is ANY WAY you can help students truly UNDERSTAND the math is wonderful. And your goal should be that EVERYBODY understand it. My husband teaches finance: he tells me he his goal is that everybody should get A's and B's in his class because he should keep working with then until they all understand the material. The students adore him. His colleagues accused him of ... coddling. But then when his students get in the next level up and were the best prepared, the criticism lessened. For years my husband was adament about not putting "trick questions" into his tests; into tailoring his teaching to the individual student's needs. And then when our daughter was diagnosed dyslexic, it became clear why: Bob is himself dyslexic, and intuitively understood the inherent injustice of requiring one single mode of teaching and testing. "Trick questions" and other combative teaching methods are worse for students with ADD or learning disabilities because they have to learn things in a different way than the teacher -- so with a "trick question", they have to first unravel it back to something they've seen before and then reformat it in the way that THEY understand it -- which takes more time, and these tests are ... always timed. I wonder how much of a grading curve has to do with the students for whom combative testing is PHYSICALLY very difficult for them. But it's "feminine" to care about that, isn't it? Nurturing. Here's something interesting: in executive ed, they don't teach in this combative way because older students whose bosses are shelling out a lot for these courses do not want to be "shown up" in front of everybody else. They do a lot in groups; they do a lot of small projects and hands-on problem solving. So how is this a feminist issue? Because the combative, competitive approach is a "masculinist" approach (in the dualistic world of male/female). Which, if science/math are "masculine", is the ONLY "correct" approach. A "soft", female, inclusive approach would weaken the discipline (even the word "discipline). "Coddling". And female students respond BETTER to encouragement and cooperative learning environments than to combative competitive environments -- I would argue because by college many women have already learned that they are on the short end of most power plays and competitive learning is a power play. But as some female students do well with the standard approach to a math class (I did); many male students don't at all, and they find it humiliating and mortifying. So -- from a practical standpoint, if you want to change the WAY your colleagues teach math, let me suggest that you present your methodology as state-of-the-art, and point to executive ed, for example -- gee, what could be more masculine than that? You're not "coddling" those students: you're ahead of the curve on modern methodologies for the new work environment. ;-) Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University (on indefinite medical leave with CFIDS/M.E./CFS since Jan 1995) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:14:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janice M Bogstad Subject: National Student Conference on Campus Sexual Violence Comments: cc: ucwomen@macc.wisc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi - I am posting this request for a friend - Wisconsin is hosting the National Student Conference, with a focus on Campus Sexual Violence, next year. They would like to line up good speakers - The message below is from one of their organizers, Sharlynn. If you have any suggestions, please SEND THEM TO HER. (reply privately) - Her conference email address follows this message. Jan, I would really appreciate suggestions on speakers for the 7th Annual National Student Conference on Campus Sexual Violence. Please post it to your list and we can see what everyone comes up with. Our planning committee will be deciding on the keynote in the next week or so. We are looking to present a multiculural focus for the conference, including racial and LGB issues. Thanks, Sharlynn "Sharlynn " (From Jan Bogstad, bogstajm@uwec.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:45:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: messages NOT to send to WMST-L (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the Source of All Wisdom, the WMST-L User's Guide: 3) "WHEN SHOULD I REPLY PRIVATELY RATHER THAN TO WMST-L?" WMST-L is set up so that replies will automatically go to all subscribers. If you respond to a WMST-L message by hitting a reply key or typing "reply," everyone will read your response. This is appropriate when the contents are likely to be of interest to a number of subscribers (most suggestions for reading lists and teaching strategies fall into this category). However, * if you are writing to request a copy of a paper someone has mentioned, please send your request PRIVATELY, NOT to WMST-L. * Similarly, comments directed at a particular person (e.g., "Right on, Rhoda. Good point," or "Thanks for the info," or "What a horrendous experience that must have been. I don't know why people do such things," or "Hi, Jane, I'm glad to see you've joined the list. Write to me," etc.) should be sent PRIVATELY, NOT to WMST-L. * Also, short general statements of approval, disapproval, or puzzlement (e.g., "Hooray! I'm glad someone finally said that!" or "I can't imagine how anyone can believe such nonsense" or "why did you send that message?") should NOT be sent to WMST-L. * Finally, please also send privately most expressions of thanks or apology. [People using Pine and a few other mail systems need to be especially careful about replies: these systems sometimes make list mail look as if it is coming from a private person. On Pine, hitting H while reading a message will show you the full header--be sure WMST-L is nowhere in any of the header lines. For a private reply in Pine, even if the mail seems to be from a private person, say NO both to using the Reply-to address and to replying to all recipients. And CANCEL your reply if any line is addressed to WMST-L or to "multiple recipients."] One further note: the above sorts of messages are OMITTED from the WMST-L digest. If the person you're trying to reach is one of the hundreds who reads WMST-L in digest form, she/he will not see the message if you send it to WMST-L. ******************************************** Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. On the World Wide Web, the URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 11:00:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Clark Bartlett Subject: academic job search Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all, Here's another resource, especially for scholars specializing in earlier fields: the *Medieval Feminist Newsletter* issue 18 (1994) contains an array of articles on job search tactics. I have an essay there, "An Entrepreneurial Approach to the Job Market." You may have a bit of trouble locating the *MFN,* unless you're at a school with a strong medievalist/feminist presence (and maybe even then!)... To learn more about the journal, contact The Center for the Study of Women in Society, at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201. (e-mail: mfn@oregon.uoregon.edu) peace, Anne "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool." --anon. Anne Clark Bartlett Department of English DePaul University abartlet@condor.depaul.edu office: (773) 325 7000 ext. 1768 home fax: (773) 588 5663 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:15:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: more messages not to send to WMST-L (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 3A) "Are there other messages that should not be sent to WMST-L?" There are a number of messages that should NEVER be sent to WMST-L. For example, most newspaper and magazine/journal articles are covered by copyright. Do not send articles covered by copyright unless you have written permission from the copyright holder to do so. The fact that the article may have appeared on another list is NOT in itself sufficient justification for sending it to WMST-L. Here are some other messages not to send: 1) Warnings about computer viruses. The "Good Times" virus is a tired hoax, and most other messages about viruses are equally unfounded. NEVER SEND A WARNING ABOUT A VIRUS TO WMST-L! Instead, check with the computer support staff at your institution. If for some reason you can't do this, or if they tell you there IS some cause for concern, write to me PRIVATELY at KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU . 2) Messages about Neiman-Marcus or Harrods or anyone else's cookies. This is an "urban legend" that has no business on WMST-L. 3) Stories about a poor child dying of a brain tumor who would like e-mail messages. Another urban legend that has no place on WMST-L. 4) Stories about the FCC's planning a modem tax. Another groundless tale. The above messages are wholly without foundation or are no longer true. Moreover, they have nothing to do with women's studies teaching, research, or program administration, and hence should not be sent to WMST-L for that reason as well. Also, please do not send jokes, whether or not they relate to Women's Studies. Jokes tend to precipitate an avalanche of messages: more jokes, complaints about the content, complaints about the complaints, complaints about the resulting excessive mail volume. So...NO JOKES. Petitions, too, should NOT be sent to WMST-L, regardless of how worthy the cause. They, too, tend to add unreasonably to the list's already heavy mail volume. If someone SENDS an inappropriate message, IGNORE it!!! DO NOT reply to WMST-L. If you wish to enlighten the sender, send her/him a message PRIVATELY. People who ignore the list's focus and persist in sending inappropriate messages or replies will find themselves removed from the list. ************************ Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. On the World Wide Web, the URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:48:17 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: ATTN: LIBRARIANS on this list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" FOR THE LIBRARIANS ON THIS LIST...from the Women's Presses Library Project. We have lots of events that will be sponsored by the WPLP at the ALA conference in San Francisco. I will post the informtion to FEMINIST, LEZBRIAN, and GAYLIBN. If you do not subscribe to any of these lists and want the complete information (author signings, meetings, reception), please contact me directly for details. I didn't want to use the bandwidth here for those who may not be interested. Thanks. 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: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 04:58:00 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Susan Turell (713) 283-3332" Subject: CFP - So. Central WS conf Comments: To: powr-l@uriacc.uri.edu, Lesac-net@queernet.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary (ID SbpSQ075z47rs+JXvUfLNw)" --Boundary (ID SbpSQ075z47rs+JXvUfLNw) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I am posting this for a colleague. We are hosting this conference in Houston in March 6-7, 1998. --Boundary (ID SbpSQ075z47rs+JXvUfLNw) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 17:42:00 CST From: "Gretchen Mieszkowski (713) 283-3312" Subject: SCWSA call/publications To: turbodog@IX.netcom.com Cc: Susan Turell MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Posting-date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 17:45:00 CST Importance: normal A1-type: MAIL June 11, 1997 Would you please announce the South Central Women's Studies conference in your publication? Thank you very much for your help. Sincerely yours, Gretchen Mieszkowski Professor of Literature Call for Papers Papers and panel proposals are invited for the 1998 annual conference of the South Central Women's Studies Association, March 5-7, Houston, Texas, at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Keynote speaker: Adrienne Rich. All academic fields welcome; proposals from practitioners, community organizers, and feminist activists gladly received. Send 250-word abstracts or proposals to Dr. Margaret Snooks, Univ. of Houston-Clear Lake, 2700 Bay Area Blvd., Houston TX 77058. For more information, call Dr. Susan Turell (281) 283-3332. Abstract deadline: November 14, 1997. --Boundary (ID SbpSQ075z47rs+JXvUfLNw)-- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 12:33:47 +0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Eva Isaksson Subject: [fwd] Fulbright scholar grants, Helsinki Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -----Forwarded message from Eeva H Raevaara ----- FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM: 1998-99 GRANTS FOR FACULTY AND PROFESSIONALS FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR GRANT IN WOMEN'S STUDIES/FOLKLORE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI 1998-99 CHRISTINA INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES AND DEPARTMENT OF FOLKLORE Category: Lecturing Grant activity: Teach graduate courses in women's studies, multiethnic studies and folklore, and gender and multiculturalism in the United States. Participate in curriculum development and staff training. Location: Christina Institute for Women's Studies and Department of Folklore, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Length of Grant: 4 to 9 months. Starting Date: September 1998 or January 1999 Application deadline is August 1, 1997. For further information on the application procedure, please contact Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5 M, Washington, DC 20008-3009, Telephone: 202/686-7877. Internet: cies1@ciesnet.cies.org World Wide Web: www.cies.org For information on the Christina Institute for Women's Studies, please contact coordinator Eeva Raevaara, Christina Institute for Women's Studies, P.O.Box 4 (Vuorikatu 4 A 9), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, tel. +358 9 191 23395, fax +358 9 191 23315, e-mail: eeva.raevaara@helsinki.fi, www: http://www.helsinki.fi/~kris_ntk/ -----End of forwarded message----- ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:53:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacque Kahn Subject: looking for Doreen Massey Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Does anyone know where I can reach Doreen Massey? She's a feminist geographer with many publications, but I haven't been able to discover where she works. Please respond privately to the address below. Thanks . . . Also, our WS program is planning a speaker series and accompanying reading group on "Gender, Space and Time." Any suggestions for possible speakers and/or readings would be deeply appreciated. j-kahn@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Jacque Kahn Women's Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 22:08:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet Hartman Subject: feminist mathematics Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I had some trouble posting this so it may be dated, but hopefully will be of interest to some of you still. Mary Harris, of the Institute of Education, University of London (UK) has done work on integrating traditional women's activities, such as needlepoint and weaving, into the teaching of (adult) mathematics. She has a chapter coming out in I.Gal (ed) NUMERACY DEVELOPMENT: A GUIDE FOR ADULT EDUCATIORS, to be published by Hampton Press (shortly). This same volume has suggestions for bridging the gap between real-life experiences and numeracy learning of adults, many of which are applicable to women with previous math-anxious experiences. I could probably locate a more specific contact address for Mary Harris if anyone is interested. Harriet ______________________ ---------------------- Harriet Hartman Department of Sociology Rowan University Glassboro, New Jersey 08028 (609) 256-4500 x 3787 hartman@jupiter.rowan.edu or hhartman@sju.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 09:32:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: source for quote Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am writing for some help. I am seeking the source of the following quotation, which someone gave me a number of years ago (1990-1992 or so). As Marina Warner puts it, "the idea of peace seems difficult to seize without referring to the absence of war, thus making war the standard. We need to change that perspective". Can anyone on this list point to a reference? Please reply privately. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 14:19:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo-Ann Pilardi Subject: death of Elaine Hedges Comments: To: pilardi@MIDGET.TOWSON.EDU, coulter@MIDGET.TOWSON.EDU, d7pca35@TOA.TOWSON.EDU, vanfoss@MIDGET.TOWSON.EDU, wilkotz@MIDGET.TOWSON.EDU MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Yesterday, June 5, Elaine Hedges died suddenly. Elaine was the foremother of Towson State University's Women's Studies Program, and a founding member of the NWSA. She published several things for Feminist Press (including the groundbreaking work in feminist criticism, her Afterword to Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"). Her article for WOMEN'S STUDIES QUARTERLY, a survey of 25 years of the journal's publications, is in press. She was a founder also of Towson State's Institute for Teaching and Research on Women (ITROW) and, with Sara Coulter (her comrade in many professional pursuits, but especially curriculum integration work), Elaine founded the National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources for Women (NCCTRW), here at TSU. Her publication for NCCTRW, "Getting Started: Planning Curriculum Transformation" is just out, and is among the last products of her tremendously productive life. She was our program coordinator until she retired two years ago. We are all in a state of shock over this; I know that many of you who knew her will be also. A service is planned for next week, but a formal memorial service will take place probably in the early fall. If anyone wants further information, email me privately: pilardi@towson.edu Jo-Ann Pilardi, Coordinator, Towson State U. WMST Program phone: 410-830-2860 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 09:36:14 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Meyer Subject: format for WMST-L messages (User's Guide) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It's June...time for a new round of excerpts from the Source of All Wisdom, the WMST-L User's Guide. Here's today's exciting excerpt: ******************** 1) "IS THERE A PREFERRED FORMAT TO USE FOR MESSAGES SENT TO THE LIST (I.E., TO WMST-L@UMDD OR WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU)?" Yes. First of all, ALWAYS put your name and e-mail address at the end of every posting. (It is important that people be able to contact you privately if they wish, and some mail systems do not identify the writer anywhere in the header.) Also, please include a meaningful subject heading, so that people will know whether your message deals with a topic of interest to them. (MANY people automatically delete messages with no subject heading or with one that doesn't interest them.) Finally, if you are replying to someone else's posting, BRIEFLY quote or summarize that posting before you offer your reply. Doing so will make your message clearer and avoid confusion. (New subscribers are continually joining the list; they may not have read the original message. And since a number of topics are often being discussed on the list at any given moment, even long-time subscribers may not remember what prompted your remarks unless you remind them.) NOTE: if you're replying to a long message, do NOT quote it in its entirety! Include just a few relevant lines. ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. On the World Wide Web, the URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 20:24:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah R. Wittig" Subject: HELP support use of Feminist Theory Comments: cc: Deborah Wittig MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology program at MSU. I am using a socialist feminist perspective with a life course paradigm as the framework for my dissertation which explores patterns of micro-level change in gender role beliefs, with an emphasis on the early adult stage. I am having a great deal of trouble convincing my committee this is the best perspective for my research. My, mostly male, committee says they don't buy it. I have a female committee member who used a similar theoretical perspective in her dissertation. She advised me to ask for references that employ the socialist feminist perspective in empirical studies, in a effort to help me know ways in which to develop my argument, that SF perspective is best. In my proposal defense, one member asked how a "feminist today, in the 90s, would argue that the life course perspective and SF theory could help to explain the more liberal gender role attitudes at a macro-level, and micro-level differences in life course outcomes both?" At least, I think that was the question. 8-). In all honesty, I have experienced car crashed that were less painful than my proposal defense. AND I thought I had it all spelled out!!! If any one can offer advise/references/readings that would help, please do!! And much appreciation, in advance! Deborah Richey Wittig Social Science Research Center Mississippi State University Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762 drb1@ra.msstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 13:08:28 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barrie Westerman Organization: AT&T Subject: Research Project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am doing a Ph.D. research project concerning women with cancer who are insured by HMOs. I would appreciate hearing privately from anyone who fits this catagory or anyone who knows of a woman who may fit the catagory. Please respond to: Sharon Ramsey-Swartz basha@worldnet.att.net Thank you for your help! ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 17:31:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Authorization/Approval to Post Messages (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 4) "I'VE TRIED TO POST A MESSAGE TO THE LIST, BUT I RECEIVED A MESSAGE BACK SAYING THAT I'M NOT AUTHORIZED TO DO SO. I'M A SUBSCRIBER --WHY WAS I TOLD I'M NOT AUTHORIZED?" B) "WHEN I SENT A MESSAGE TO WMST-L, I WAS TOLD IT HAD BEEN FORWARDED TO THE LISTOWNER FOR APPROVAL. WHY?" Only people whom the LISTSERV software recognizes as subscribers can post messages on WMST-L. To subscribe, send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): SUB WMST-L Your Name (e.g., SUB WMST-L Jane Smith). You will receive a response asking you to confirm your subscription request by replying to the response (use the "reply" feature; do not "forward" or start a new message). Your reply should not include anything but the expression OK (caps or lower case--it makes no difference). After you send back the reply, you should quickly receive a message welcoming you to WMST-L. If you've already subscribed to WMST-L and you run into problems, chances are that you subscribed under a different address than the one from which you sent your recent message--e.g., you subscribed under your Bitnet address and then sent a message from your Internet address, or your address has changed since you subscribed. The LISTSERV software recognizes subscribers by their e-mail address. If you subscribe under a Bitnet [or Internet] address, you have to send all messages to LISTSERV and WMST-L from that same address. If you are unsuccessful posting a message to the list's Bitnet address, try sending the message to the list's Internet address. If your e-mail address has changed since you subscribed, please contact me PRIVATELY (not via a message to WMST-L). B) Postings from all new subscribers (and old subscribers with new subscriptions) are now automatically sent to the listowner for approval. This cuts down on inappropriate messages from newcomers who haven't had time to read the welcome letter. After a few weeks, most subscriptions are quietly readjusted so that messages are no longer subject to prior review. ****************** Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. On the World Wide Web, the URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 13:31:15 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo-Ann Pilardi Subject: message on Elaine Hedges from Florence Howe Comments: To: pilardi@MIDGET.TOWSON.EDU, coulter@MIDGET.TOWSON.EDU, vanfoss@MIDGET.TOWSON.EDU MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT This message on Elaine Hedges is being posted for Florence Howe: "Elaine Hedges published three books with The Feminist Press, each of them bround-breaking: RIPENING, on Meridel LeSueur; and IN HER OWN IMAGE: WOMEN WORKING AS ARTISTS; as well as THE YELLOW WALLPAPER. During the past six months, when she was ill from time to time, she edited the 25th anniversary issue of WOMEN'S STUDIES QUARTERLY (with Dorothy O. Helly) and wrote an Editorial/Introduction for the issue. We have stopped production in order to insert a photograph of Elaine, dedicate the issue to her, and allow for a short obituary and some sentences from her scholarly friends, including Shelley Fisher Fishkin, with whom Elaine edited the significant volume ON SILENCES (Oxford Univ. Press). Also, the family would like--in lieu of flowers--that contributions be made in the name of Elaine Hedges to one of the following: National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women (Towson State Univ., Towson, MD 21252-0001); The Feminist Press at the City Univ- ersity of New York (311 E. 94 St., NY NY 10128); or Mother Lode Productions (8 Burke Ave., Towson MD 21204)." (For any further info., contact Jo-Ann Pilardi, Towson State U., pilardi@towson.edu, or E7W8PIL@toe.towson.edu, 410-830-2860. A Memorail Gathering is planned for June 13, Fri., at 3:00 P.M., Potomac Lounge of Univ. Union, TSU. A formal University Memorial Service for Elaine will be held in the fall.) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 14:21:02 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeff Finlay Subject: American Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending June 8 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS Week Ending June 8, 1997 (826-892) American Studies Opportunities & News is a weekly index produced by the American Studies Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads) and sponsored by the American Studies Association. The Opportunities list, which generates the index, posts ASA news, calls for papers, conference programs, fellowships, jobs, bibliographical & online resources, book reviews and tables of contents. The Opportunities archive and search engine is on the web at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html The following items of interest to WMST-L subscribers appeared on American Studies Opportunities & News from June 1-June 8, 1997. To order any one of them, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES followed by the item number to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (example: to get the first posting listed below, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 873 to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; for the first and second posting, your message will be GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 873 879). To subscribe to the FULL Opportunities index, or to submit a posting contact the Crossroads Administrator Fellowships & Prizes ==================== 873 Postdoc in History, University of Waikato NZ (due Aug 1) Calls for Panels for Conferences ================================ 879 Gender & Progressive Era Politics, AHA 98 864 Japanese Women & American servicemen, Pacific AHA, Aug 98 Bibliographical & Online Resources ================================== 869 Contemporary Women's Issues Database 887 New List, Feministsf, Feminist Science Fiction & Utopia 856 New Publication, Journal of Asian American Studies Book Reviews (abbreviated/by subtitle for clarification purposes) ================================================================= 834 Kimmel, Masculinity in America (Coulter) 851 Palladino, Teenagers: An American History (Heath) 835 Wikander et al, Labor Legislation for Women, 1880-1920 Tables of Contents ============= 891 Reviews in American History, March 1997 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 14:42:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susanne Dietzel Subject: computers in WmSt courses In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Listmembers: I am looking for input from teachers who have incorporated computers and various and sundry information technologies into their Women's Studies courses. I am not only interested in the nuts and bolts or technical details of this, but also what kind of assignments you have designed around computers. Most importantly, and this is where I am struggling with this, I am intersted in the question how the incorporation of the computer might or might not enhance our pedagogies and goals for the Intro class. Any feedback will be appreciated. And, may I make a plug for our roundtable discussion "Wiring Your Women's Studies Program" at the NWSA (roundtable participants: Crystal Kile, Beth Willinger, and my humble self) where exactly these kinds of issues will be discussed. Susanne Dietzel ********************* Newcomb College Center for Research on Women * That's right, the * Tulane University * women are smarter * New Orleans, LA 70118 ********************* ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 14:01:45 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lori Patterson & Roger Tucker Subject: Re: Request for information Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello I am a post-bac student in the women's studies department at Portland State University. We have a unique program here called Chiron Studies which allows students to teach their own courses not available in the regular schedule of classes. Theses courses are developed with faculty sponsorship and undergo an approval process by many levels of faculties and department heads. I would like to develop and teach a class called Gender, Race and Class: focusing on privilege, systematic oppression and their social construction. I will be using sources such as the Journal Signs, works from such authors as bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, June Jordan, Dorothy Allison, Patricia Hill Collins, Alison Jagger, Marilyn Frye and others. I also would like to have films and lectures. I know I want to have the final paper be an interview the students would conduct with someone who has issues with privilege or unaddressed privilege, etc. Any strategies for teaching a women's studies class such as this (100-200 level) ideas for books, films, etc. would be greatly appreciated. I plan to go all the way Ph.D. women's studies or maybe american studies concentrating on women's studies (depends on where I get in and if I can get scholarship, teaching assistantship, whatever.) I enjoy the discussions here and have great respect for everyone's opinion. You can e-mail me directly and I could post the completed list later. Thanks Lori Lori Patterson Roger Tucker Elijah Lapret lapret@cybernw.com 4808 NE 8th Ave #2 Portland, OR 97211 (503) 288-8037 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 16:54:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Frances K. Gateward" Subject: Race, Gender, Class Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Lori, What a great idea for a course. I did one with such a focus in media studies. I covered not only advertising, but also the popular press (romance novels, mysteries, and science fiction, young adult literature, the music industry, film, and television. If you have any questions about particular readings or approaches, please feel free to email me personally. But - I would like to suggest the following right now: First, why have your students interview others on the issue of privilege. How about getting them to reflect on their own, as well as the oppressions they experience. I feel that before a anyone tries to really understand such concepts and their effects on the personal they ought to think about where they themselves fit. For films, I would suggest: A Question of Silence, Oscar Winner Marlene Gorris' first feature. It concerns three women who murder a store owner in his clothing boutique. Each woman experiences sexism in different forms. The film also demonstrates the patriarchal influences on psychology and the legal system. A Different Image by African American filmmaker Alile Sharon Larkin. This film concerns multiple issues - racism and beauty ideals, as well as sexism in the African American community. El Norte is a great film, and sadly, still relevant though its been over 10 years since it's initial release. It concerns the issue of illegal immigration. A brother and sister flee Guatemalan dictatorship for "the North" only to struggle and suffer persecution in the U.S. Please feel free to contact me if you would like more, or a bibliography. Frances Gateward gateward@uiuc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 17:24:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "B.J. Eaton" Subject: Reporters for NWSA '97 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello to all, I still need reporters for the plenary sessions at NWSA '97 in St. Louis June 18 - 22. Are any of you attending and also willing to write up one of the plenary sessions for the fall issue of NWSAction (deadline Oct 1)? This might also be used as an opportunity for one of your students who writes well to get involved. I would prefer a senior or graduate student with a proven record of ability to grasp and note important points quickly. Please respond privately to the address below. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, B.J. Eaton, Richardson, Texas NWSAction Editor bjeaton7@airmail.net ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 15:30:12 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Joan R. Gundersen" Organization: CSU, San Marcos Subject: Re: Race, Gender, Class Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CSU, San Marcos has a course called "Gender and Race in Contemporary Society" which is required for the women's studies major and also meets a humanitites general education course. The course uses a number of materials depending on the instructor, but the core text used by most is Paula Rothenberg's book, _Race, Class, and Gender_. The readings in it cover almost every person and topic you are interested in. For a lower division course it would make a good core. Another possibility would be the similar reader by Virginia Shapiro. Good luck. Joan Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 06:26:57 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Annis Hopkins Subject: Technology in WST Intro classes Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In response to the posting by Susanne Dietzel, 3 teachers from ASU and UNLV will also be presenting a panel at NWSA on using technology in the classroom. I will be discussing teaching on television (for the past 8 years) and using Electronic Forum as a required component of the course, my GA Candace Collins will be discussing our web site development, and Ellen Rose will talk about her experiences teaching small, upper-division courses via closed circuit video between two University of Nevada campuses. We will be presenting some- what conflicting views, since Ellen's experiences have been far less positive than mine, so we hope to cover a wide range of issues. See you there. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 09:29:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: am68 Subject: Re: DV research on Jewish women? In-Reply-To: Domestic violence: Jewish women Marcia Cohn Spiegel has done research and a bibliography on the subject of domestic violence as regards Jewish women. My bibliography: The Jewish Woman: 1986-1995 has quite a few citations (unfortunately) You should find both the address for Marcia's short bib. iin my bib. (cited above) and the larger book length bibliography in many libraries. Otherwise, if you don't have BIP to check citation - reply to me, Ann Masnik at: am68@umail.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 09:53:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Johnson Subject: Re: Request for information Comments: To: Lori Patterson & Roger Tucker In-Reply-To: <199706082059.NAA01089@bert.cybernw.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi Lori, The intersection of race, class, and gender (and sexuality, right?) is getting the attention of a new generation of women whose issues and insights might be of interest to you and your students (they have been to me). The listserv discussion has brought up Barbara Findlen's collection _Listen Up_, and another similar work is Rebecca Walker's _To Be Real: Telling the Truth and changing the Face of Feminism_. Good luck-- Lisa br00852@binghamton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:40:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Leah C. Ulansey" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Leah C. Ulansey" Subject: Woolf quote In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi--Can anyone help me locate a quote from Virginia Woolf? Where does Woolf write that one of women's roles is "to reflect men at ten times their natural size"? Thanks in advance to all; please reply privately. Leah Ulansey leou@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:27:45 +0800 Reply-To: azura@space.net.au Sender: Women's Studies List From: Yvonne MacLean Subject: source for Dale Spender poem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know the source for the poem written by Dale Spender, entitled, "Gender and Marketable Skills: Who Underachieves At Maths And Science?" I've had a copy since '90, so it's not a recent one. ******************************************************* send e-mail to Yvonne MacLean azura@space.net.au Thanks ******************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 12:22:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L Edited Digest (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 6) "DOES WMST-L EXIST IN A DIGEST FORMAT?" Yes. If you choose the edited digest option, each day you will receive anywhere from one to five files containing most of the WMST-L messages of the past day (messages that should not have been sent to the list to begin with are omitted). Related messages will usually be put in the same file, and each file will begin with a table of contents. 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If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. On the World Wide Web, the URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 14:21:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: part-time vs. full-time--request In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi all, I hope this is within the range of acceptable questions for this list: I am a part-time instructor working at up to three different institutions each year. I would like very much to have a full-time tenure-line job, but I am having a hard time doing the part-time gig and getting publications out. I get out maybe one or two each calendar year. I have had two publications accepted with revisions, but don't seem to be able to get the revisions done on my schedule (I'm also a mom, an activist, a partner). I am teaching three classes this summer. Now I have to choose between teaching part-time next year (bcs of so much summer teaching, I can choose to teach only one or two courses each term) and hopefully, with the lighter load, actually getting some publications in OR taking a full-time, one-year instructorship (4 classes / term, with possibility for a grad course) in one of the depts. I currently teach for. I am leaning toward the part-time work. however, several friends who are also on the job market are telling me I am making the wrong choice. Part-time work for a number of years (I've been doing it for 4 years already) marks me, they say, as "damaged goods" to hiring committees. Is this true? Would folks who have been on hiring committees in the past couple of years PLEASE e-mail me PRIVATELY and tell me whether they honestly have heard of preference being given to people who are able to get full-time work rather than to part-time workers, even ones with loads of experience (I've taught 4 grad seminars as a part-timer) and great evaluations? Is part-timing a "kiss of death?" Would the full-time work be better for me than a couple more publications? I rec'd my PhD in 1992, and I know I am pushing the limit on my "marketability" anyway. I am really feeling that these next couple of years will be crucial for my career. Is it already too late? I would like to think that feminist hiring committees would take into account these kinds of circumstances, but I am told I am being unrealistic. I know this is probably not appropriate fodder for list discussion. I am also not looking for people to make my life choices for me. I just would like to know what hiring committees would consider important, so I can make my own, informed decision. Thanks for any responses . . . Jeannie ?????????????????????????????what do you see????????????????????????????? "There is great power in being able to see the world as one will and then to have that vision enacted. But if being is seeing for the subject, then being seen is the precise measure of existence for the object." --Patricia J. Williams, from _The Alchemy of Race and Rights_ Jeannie Ludlow jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Popular Culture ???????????????????????????where is your power??????????????????????????? ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 14:00:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joAnn Castagna Subject: Re: part-time vs. full-time--request MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT I think it is interesting that J. Ludlow asked for private replies to her question about the workings of hiring committees. I would imagine that the issues around what are the "real" hiring criteria for positions in academia ought to be the concern of all those involved, faculty, students, and those (e.g. taxpayers) who pay the bills in higher education. JoAnn Castagna joann-castagna@uiowa.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 15:53:16 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JoAnne Myers Subject: Re[2]: part-time vs. full-time--request In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of Mon, 09 Jun 1997 16:00:00 EDT June's issue of *Working Women* has an article on Women & Tenure... and hiring....not an optimistic article--women make up only slightly more of faculties then they did in 1920 according to this article. But the article does talk of positive changes made at Wellesley (if my memory serves me)... ciao, JAm JZLY@MaristB.Marist.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 15:55:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Subject: Re: Re[2]: part-time vs. full-time--request Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" See also the front page of the Chronicle of Higher Ed this month -- on 'star' women academics being refused tenure at Stanford, Harvard and Yale. J. At 03:53 PM 6/9/97 EDT, you wrote: >June's issue of *Working Women* has an article on Women & Tenure... >and hiring....not an optimistic article--women make up only slightly >more of faculties then they did in 1920 according to this article. > >But the article does talk of positive changes made at Wellesley (if >my memory serves me)... > >ciao, JAm JZLY@MaristB.Marist.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 15:31:00 +22305931 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth P Ginzberg Subject: Tenure Troubles Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > See also the front page of the Chronicle of Higher Ed this month -- on > 'star' women academics being refused tenure at Stanford, Harvard and Yale. > >June's issue of *Working Women* has an article on Women & Tenure... > >and hiring....not an optimistic article--women make up only slightly > >more of faculties then they did in 1920 according to this article. On a similarl subject (women & tenure, or just plain tenure) I recently saw a copy of an article in (I *think*) a recent issue of the American Psychological Association's _APA Monitor_ questioning whether teaching evaluations actually measure what they purport to measure (i.e., teaching effectiveness). Apparently some research psychologist did an experiment (& I know that Rhoda Unger wrote about this some time back...) I do not get the APA Monitor personally, and am currently vegging out to try to rejuvenate massively uncharged brain cells which were overloaded at the end of last semester -- thus do not have handy access to the Library to get the exact references. But maybe somebody else has them more readily at hand? Seems to me that there *are* some catch-22 type situations involving tenure evaluations, in which it is probably impossible to "measure up" to all of many various (& conflicting) "expectations" re. tenure simultaneously, giving tenure committees a great deal of lattitude re. whether they want to focus on the ones that a candidate DID meet (& thus give a strong vote in favor of the candidate) or whether they want to focus on the ones that a candidate did NOT meet (& thus give a "weak" recommendation, or a negative one). This seems like the equiv of "selective enforcement" w.r.t. (e.g.) traffic laws ... which has already been shown to be highly problematic and responsible for persistent discriminatory treatment of individuals who are Black, Hispanic, etc., etc. within Law Enforcement. I.e., I remember learning -- somewhere -- that the average driver will make at least one driving error within an average of something like 2 blocks, in city traffic, and of course this fact is used by some police officers to just wait until that one error is committed as a reason to "pull over" any driver that they think "looks suspicious" (e.g., driver who is the "wrong color" driving thru neighborhood, or driving a vehicle that they deem to be "suspiciously expensive" given [their beliefs about] the person who is driving it, etc.). I suspect that there are similar things happening in some tenure evaluations (perhaps moreso those of women faculty?) ... which (of course) make it relatively easy to provide a paper trail "proving" that everything was done "by the book" -- but which don't really allow for questions to be raised about whether "the book" that things are being "done by" itself is flawed. Ruth Ginzberg (not the Supreme Court Justice; she spells it differently) Women's Studies Beloit College ginzberg@beloit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 14:17:06 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Gundersen Subject: Re: Re[2]: part-time vs. full-time--request In-Reply-To: <09JUN97.17158881.0023.MUSIC@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To put the tenure business in perspective, people need to realize that the percentage of women on college and university faculties WENT DOWN after about 1928. The numbers did not rise again until the 1970s. When the percent of women going to graduate school began increasing, it took until the 1980s to reach the same percentage of faculty that women had achieved in the 1920s. Statistics on tenured women will naturally lag behind the percentage of all faculty by several years given that faculty may have to wait up to six years on the campus they are on before being reviewed, and that doesn't count the years before that on other campuses or in part-time work. For example, one of the conditions of my hire at the college where I first got tenure (in 1980) was that I waive all prior experience. Studies of tenure, however, show that women still lag slightly behind men in their same cohort in securing tenure track positions. As for Harvard and Yale, those institutions are notorious for their revolving doors of for ALL non-tenured faculty (male or female). What happens to faculty there is a completely different world from most campuses, especially liberal arts and comprehensive (i.e. not Ph.D. granting) universities. Don't get me wrong, I know that there are ways the tenure process can be unfair, especially to women and "minorities" BUT there is recourse and there are fair tenure reviews at many places. (PLEASE NOTE: I didn't say ALL.) The real trick is just getting hired on a tenure stream. Joan Gundersen jrgunder@coyote.csusm.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:15:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bruce Nordstrom Subject: 22nd National Feminist Men's Conference MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Some of you, or students you know, may be interested in the annual national conference of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS), coming up here in Minnesota next month (July 17-20, 1997). NOMAS is, I believe, the primary national organization organized around exploring and changing men's traditional roles and lives from a feminist, gay-affirmative, and anti-racist perspective. The conference in July will be the 22nd annual conference, which both women and men are welcome to attend, sponsored by the organization. The theme of this year's conference is "Spirituality, Community, and Social Change," and will be held at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota (about an hour northwest of the Twin Cities). The first day of the conference will include several one-day mini-conferences, including the annual meeting of the Men's Studies Association. Some of the speakers and keynoters include Margo Adair, Walt Bresette, Christine Downing, James Nelson, Suzanne Pharr, Robbie McCauley, Lou Bellamy, Harry Brod, and Terry Kupers. The conference is partly an academic conference, and a number of attenders are likely to be academics. But, judging from past national conferences, there is also a lot of opportunity just to get to know other people who are interested in rethinking men's lives, hear from people who are involved in actively working for social change, and personal growth. There is an emphasis on men's experiences and lives, but women's presence and voices as keynoters, session leaders, and attenders is valued. For more information, you may contact Charles Thornbury (conference coordinator) by e-mail at: cthornbury@csbsju.edu There is also a conference website: http://www.csbsju.edu/mm22/ which has the conference schedule, information on presenters, information about costs, links to NOMAS and men's studies resources, and so forth. Bruce (Nordstrom-Loeb) Sociology/Women's Studies, St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN) nordstrb@stolaf.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:30:11 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Tenure Troubles In-Reply-To: <9706092031.AA34447@beloit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Ruth P Ginzberg wrote: > Seems to me that there *are* some catch-22 type situations involving tenure > evaluations, in which it is probably impossible to "measure up" to all of > many various (& conflicting) "expectations" re. tenure simultaneously, > giving tenure committees a great deal of lattitude re. whether they want to > focus on the ones that a candidate DID meet (& thus give a strong vote in > favor of the candidate) or whether they want to focus on the ones that a > candidate did NOT meet (& thus give a "weak" recommendation, or a negative > one). This seems like the equiv of "selective enforcement" w.r.t. (e.g.) > traffic laws ... which has already been shown to be highly problematic and > responsible for persistent discriminatory treatment of individuals who are > Black, Hispanic, etc., etc. within Law Enforcement. That seems to me to be right--I'm thinking of promotion here, but the same holds. There is another factor at work here. (At least, in this country.) While we can all assume publications count the most, administration may or may not be important; but it helps. And the star jobs really help. And the person or people with the power to allocate the admin.-- and (a different point, but the same problem)--research supervision--can allocate people very different tenure and promotion prospects at any time. I just hope _that_ problem isn't too widespread. > I suspect that there are similar things happening in some tenure evaluations > (perhaps moreso those of women faculty?) ... which (of course) make it > relatively easy to provide a paper trail "proving" that everything was done > "by the book" -- but which don't really allow for questions to be raised > about whether "the book" that things are being "done by" itself is flawed. Sure--I mean, I suspect so too. (I mean, it might be the case. Purely hypothetically speaking and all that. ;-) ) ----------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using speech-recognition software----please ignore mistakes ----------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:55:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: part-time vs. full-time--request Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I post this message not to discourage wmst-ers but to point out a reality, which may actually help take the sting out of rejections in a job search: Sometimes there are job announcement made to fulfill a requirement for a public search, though a person has already been selected for the job. How one finds out whether the position really is open, I don't know. beatrice At 02:21 PM 6/9/97 -0400, you wrote: >Hi all, > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 05:42:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jgentzler@AMHERST.EDU Subject: Attracting women to Philosophy MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII An unsubstantiated rumor's been circulating, of late, that within the last five years the number of women in undergraduate and graduate programs in philosophy has been decreasing. I don't know if this rumor is true, but it is consistent with my own experience. For those of you who are connected to philosophy programs, has this been your experience? Any speculations about an explanation? Have any of you tried out any strategies for attracting women to philosophy and making them happy once they got there? Any success stories? Is there any literature on this topic? Thanks, Jyl Gentzler Philosophy Amherst College ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:24:47 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: John Albee Subject: RESEARCH TOOL: Needle in a CyberStack,Monday, June 9,1997 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi WMST-L Listmembers, Needle in a CyberStack at http://home.revealed.net/albee/ should be very helpful to you in advancing research and teaching on Women's Studies, as well as countless other subjects. Several women-specific search engine links, such as Femina and WWWomen are conveniently included. Other pages include sites such as Women Leaders Online. There are currently several interlinked pages including Business and Career Tools, the best of curriculum, research, reference, exploring, what's cool, fun, Cybrarian's Favorites, etc. I've tried to keep it simple, powerful, quick-loading (Table Format - no graphics), and useful - with links to all the best Search and Info Tools in the world. Comments and suggestions are much appreciated. If you know of a link that should be there please tell me!. If you like it please pass it on to your students, colleagues,listservs,newsgroups and webpages you participate in - if you feel it is appropriate. Thanks! John John Albee albee@revealed.net Teacher Davenport Community Schools Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder http://home.revealed.net/albee/ 736 Westerfield Road Davenport, Iowa 52806 319-386-2171 We are all Works In Progress... ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 08:13:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: part-time vs. full-time--request In-Reply-To: <199706091907.OAA15389@cc-gate.uiowa.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, joAnn Castagna wrote: > I think it is interesting that J. Ludlow asked for private replies to her > question about the workings of hiring committees. I would imagine that the > issues around what are the "real" hiring criteria for positions in academia > ought to be the concern of all those involved, faculty, students, and those > (e.g. taxpayers) who pay the bills in higher education. > JoAnn Castagna > joann-castagna@uiowa.edu > Hello JoAnn, You are absolutely right. I only made the request the way I did because I was trying to stay within the guidelines of the list's stated purpose and, at the time, perceived myself to be asking questions regarding a situation that was more personal than teaching-oriented. But the responses I have received so far echo your opinion. I will put together a collection of private responses to post to the list. Thanks for your suggestion. Cheer, Jeannie ?????????????????????????????what do you see????????????????????????????? "There is great power in being able to see the world as one will and then to have that vision enacted. But if being is seeing for the subject, then being seen is the precise measure of existence for the object." --Patricia J. Williams, from _The Alchemy of Race and Rights_ Jeannie Ludlow jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Popular Culture ???????????????????????????where is your power??????????????????????????? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 08:44:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: part-time/full-time MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello all, I have received several wonderful posts regarding my request already. Unfortunately, we had some kind of phone line glitch (apparently) as I was creating a file to save them in, and they are all gone. Big sigh. Would those of you who sent replies mind re-sending them (if this is possible) to me? I remember the substance of most of them, but not the specifics, and I wanted to send acknowledgments to folks. So far, it is looking like the majority of replies (although by no means all of them) are saying that full-time work is considerably more "respectable" than part-time. Also, however, people are emphasizing the importance of publication. It has been suggested to me (not by people on this list!) that of course what I really need to do is take the full-time job and get the publishing done. Since, as a part-timer, I have been teaching between 3 and 4 courses each semester (even summers), and have been unable to get enough writing done on that schedule, I am sceptical of my ability to accomplish all this. Also, there was one post which asked me to share responses bcs the poster (forgive me--I've "lost" yours, too) is doing research on this topic. I hope everyone will understand that I do not feel comfortable just forwarding others' messages for research purposes. I will be glad to share the researcher's e-mail address with those who reply. Or perhaps she could post to the list her research purpose (which sounds wonderful to me) and folks could "cc" their replies to my post to her. Please let me know what is the right thing to do. Thanks, Jeannie ?????????????????????????????what do you see????????????????????????????? "There is great power in being able to see the world as one will and then to have that vision enacted. But if being is seeing for the subject, then being seen is the precise measure of existence for the object." --Patricia J. Williams, from _The Alchemy of Race and Rights_ Jeannie Ludlow jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Popular Culture ???????????????????????????where is your power??????????????????????????? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 09:47:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susanne Dietzel Subject: Re: part-time vs. full-time--request Comments: To: jeannie ludlow In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I think Jeannie raises a very important issue for the list to discuss. The number of us part-timers is growing every year and needs to be discussed in more detail. I, for one, would be very much interesting in hearing from program administrators and chairs how they deal with part-timers, and from part-timers how they deal with the constant uncertainties of the academic jobmarket. Susanne Dietzel ********************* Newcomb College Center for Research on Women * That's right, the * Tulane University * women are smarter * New Orleans, LA 70118 ********************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 08:57:10 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Betty Glass Subject: slogan query In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970610035558.0067c63c@cuny.campus.mci.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In the past I have seen ads in NOW's newspaper for buttons and/or bumper stickers with a slogan something like: "Women's Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society" Can anyone remember the exact slogan? Do you know when it first came into being? Does it refer to an actual group? Any details would be appreciated. Thanks, Betty glass@admin.unr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 09:18:51 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Washington Subject: Re: Scholars/Activists In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Mary. I really enjoyed meeting and talking with Yuri. She also connected me with a number of other people that are superb. Thank you again for your help. Will you be attending NWSA? I would love to meet you. Pat ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:08:12 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah R. Wittig" Subject: Emperical research Comments: cc: "D. Richey Wittig" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I need some references of recently published emperical studies that use a feminist (Marxist, socialist, conflict) perspective as the framework of the study. In particular, in the area of family dynamics. Regards, Deborah Richey Wittig Social Science Research Center Mississippi State University Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762 drb1@ra.msstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:10:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Martha Tucker Subject: Re: Attracting women to Philosophy In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I was recently doing research on women in the humanities & sciences, and found some useful general data in the Digest of Educational Statistics, which has demographic stas on m/f in all the disciplines on a yearly basis. Hope that's helpful. Martha Trudeau Tucker Tufts University mtucker1@emerald.tufts.edu On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 jgentzler@AMHERST.EDU wrote: > An unsubstantiated rumor's been circulating, of late, that > within the last five years the number of women in undergraduate and > graduate programs in philosophy has been decreasing. I don't know if this > rumor is true, but it is consistent with my own experience. For those > of you who are connected to philosophy programs, has this been > your experience? Any speculations about an explanation? Have any of > you tried out any strategies for attracting women to philosophy and > making them happy once they got there? Any success stories? Is there > any literature on this topic? > > Thanks, > > Jyl Gentzler > Philosophy > Amherst College > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 17:15:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Frances K. Gateward" Subject: Book List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, I am running a book club this summer with a group of young women, ages 11-14. I am at a loss to come up with some good, feminist novels that are appropriate for that age range. What I would really like are books about girls their age, without too much sexual content. Can anyone help? Frances Gateward ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 17:35:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "C. Horwitz" Subject: Re: part-time vs. full-time--request In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Please send your replies to this list. I am certain that Jeannie is not the only one in this situation. Thanks. Carol Horwitz On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, jeannie ludlow wrote: > Hi all, > I hope this is within the range of acceptable questions for this list: > > I am a part-time instructor working at up to three different institutions > each year. I would like very much to have a full-time tenure-line job, > but I am having a hard time doing the part-time gig and getting > publications out. I get out maybe one or two each calendar year. I have > had two publications accepted with revisions, but don't seem to be able to > get the revisions done on my schedule (I'm also a mom, an activist, a > partner). I am teaching three classes this summer. > > Now I have to choose between teaching part-time next year (bcs of so much > summer teaching, I can choose to teach only one or two courses each term) > and hopefully, with the lighter load, actually getting some publications > in OR taking a full-time, one-year instructorship (4 classes / term, > with possibility for a grad course) in one of the depts. I currently teach > for. I am leaning toward the part-time work. however, several friends > who are also on the job market are telling me I am making the wrong > choice. Part-time work for a number of years (I've been doing it for 4 > years already) marks me, they say, as "damaged goods" to hiring > committees. > > Is this true? Would folks who have been on hiring committees in the past > couple of years PLEASE e-mail me PRIVATELY and tell me whether they > honestly have heard of preference being given to people who are able to > get full-time work rather than to part-time workers, even ones with loads > of experience (I've taught 4 grad seminars as a part-timer) and great > evaluations? Is part-timing a "kiss of death?" > > Would the full-time work be better for me than a couple more publications? > > I rec'd my PhD in 1992, and I know I am pushing the limit on my > "marketability" anyway. I am really feeling that these next couple of > years will be crucial for my career. Is it already too late? > > I would like to think that feminist hiring committees would take into > account these kinds of circumstances, but I am told I am being > unrealistic. > > I know this is probably not appropriate fodder for list discussion. I am > also not looking for people to make my life choices for me. I just would > like to know what hiring committees would consider important, so I can > make my own, informed decision. > > Thanks for any responses . . . > Jeannie > > ?????????????????????????????what do you see????????????????????????????? > "There is great power in being able to see the world as one will and then > to have that vision enacted. But if being is seeing for the subject, > then being seen is the precise measure of existence for the object." > --Patricia J. Williams, from _The Alchemy of Race and Rights_ > Jeannie Ludlow jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu > Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Popular Culture > ???????????????????????????where is your power??????????????????????????? > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:40:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Book List In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19970610170553.343f2e0e@staff.uiuc.edu> from "Frances K. Gateward" at Jun 10, 97 05:15:21 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How about: Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt several of Rinaldi's historical novels The Great Gilly Hopkins or Bridge to terabithia, both by Katherine Paterson Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Taylor How Do You Spell Geek? by Peters Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Greene Hope this list is helpful. Chris ******************************************************************* * Chris Saad, PhD * "a passion for books and a fondness * * Teacher, Ken-Crest * for cats are very often points of * * saad@dolphin.upenn.edu * intersection on the ven diagram of * * saad@alumni.upenn.edu * personality." * * (215) 844-1842, x423 * -Bill Richardson * ******************************************************************* > > Hi, > I am running a book club this summer with a group of young women, ages > 11-14. I am at a loss to come up with some good, feminist novels that are > appropriate for that age range. What I would really like are books about > girls their age, without too much sexual content. Can anyone help? > > Frances Gateward > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:45:37 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Girls' Books MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Whoops! I forgot some when I sent that last e-mail. You might also try: Nobody's Family Is Going to Change or Harriet the Spy, both by Louise Fitzhugh The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi Yolanda's Genius by Carol Fenner Chris ******************************************************************* * Chris Saad, PhD * "a passion for books and a fondness * * Teacher, Ken-Crest * for cats are very often points of * * saad@dolphin.upenn.edu * intersection on the ven diagram of * * saad@alumni.upenn.edu * personality." * * (215) 844-1842, x423 * -Bill Richardson * ******************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:12:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jerry Diakiw Subject: Re: Book List In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19970610170553.343f2e0e@staff.uiuc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Two brilliant titles for this age group are * The Goats * by Brock Cole and * The Abduction* by Mette Newth Jerry On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Frances K. Gateward wrote: > Hi, > I am running a book club this summer with a group of young women, ages > 11-14. I am at a loss to come up with some good, feminist novels that are > appropriate for that age range. What I would really like are books about > girls their age, without too much sexual content. Can anyone help? > > Frances Gateward > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:55:52 -0400 Reply-To: Andrea J Benintende Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea J Benintende Subject: Re: Girls' Books In-Reply-To: <199706102245.SAA05064@dolphin.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII my favorite: a wrinkle in time & a wind in the door, madeleine l'engle, science fiction catherine, called birdy & the midwife's apprentice, karen cushman, set in the middle ages my daughter loved these 2: the letter, the witch and the ring & the ghost in the mirror, john bellairs (the main characters are a young girl and a middled aged witch) suspense (a book i saved from childhood) ghosts i have been & and the sequels, richard peck....a great way to teach about class...as the story is about a very poor girl and one of the richest boys in a little town in the 1910's, brought together by psychic abilities. adventure and time travel. dragonsong, dragonsinger, dragondrums, anne mccaffrey, science fiction/ fantasy and one that we just bought at the book fair last week, that my daughter hasn't read yet, but is a newberry award winner: walk two moons by sharon creech.....about a 13 y/o girl who tells stories to her grandparents....interwoven with her own story. one that i aways liked but don't have is "the island of the dolphins" by ? good luck and have fun, andrea ************************************************************************** andrea j. berman-benintende ^^^^^^^^^^^ ajb9@acsu.buffalo.edu "Ecofeminism challenges all relations of domination. Its goal is not just to change who wields power, but to transform the structure of power itself" -Starhawk )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:49:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: josephine ryan Subject: Part-time vs. full-time Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm glad to see this coming up for discussion on this list. I took too long to finish my Ph.D. mostly because I was teaching too much. Part-timers overload themselves because of the miserable pay scale for adjuncts. Part-time teaching is not meaningful employment unless one teaches 3-6 courses a semester. The use of adjuncts as a cost-cutting measure is rampant in academia, but particularly hard to swallow in the women's studies environment. Pay equity issues have an ironic double significance for me--it's not just gender hierarchy, but academic pecking orders and exploitative hiring practices keeping me on my toes! I've taught 20 courses in the last two years, but as Jeanie points out, good evaluations won't compensate for my pariah status as a part-timer. Next year is my last year. On the positive side, I have had the opportunity to develop new courses and improve my teaching more quickly than the golden new full-time hires who look so good on paper and couldn't teach their way out of a paper bag . . . sometimes it takes years for them to become even minimally adequate teachers. I've been with many students, and that's been the best. I remind myself that I chose this route. Sometimes I think we can't look at this problem because it's a structural problem, an anonymous evil. I have encountered many attitudes over the last few years. The chairs usually attempt to avoid discussion of the system itself since they would be arguing from the moral basement on the issue, and most of them feel guilty about it. They aren't bad people, just pawns with intractable budgets and short-sighted administrators to deal with. Colleagues may be sympathetic, encouraging, snobbish, patronizing....there is a real range of response here. I've seen a lot of head-shaking and heard many expressions of "isn't it a shame the way things are going lately with so many part-timers" etc. but the bottom line is nobody wants to pay more for adjunct teaching. It works so well as it is! Administrators cut costs (while deceiving parents and students about the teaching staff), and it permits full time tenure track faculty to teach three classes a semester. For those seeking tenure, this permits them to get the necessary research and publication done. And besides, the adjuncts are gaining valuable experience, right? My ball-park estimate based on my set of experiences is that it takes about three years for the new tenured prof to really take on the cloak of denial that permeates this whole situation. One-three year contract hires just try to look good, so they ape the prevailing attitudes of the most powerful people in the department. Who knows, maybe they'll get to be on hiring committees sifting through the piles of applications looking for the best person willing to work for slave wages, no benefits, no travel, any maybe even no office. It's just too bad the way this is going, so many part-timers, tsk tsk . . . . I am having some real doubts as to whether I want to participate in this system as a full-timer. For me, this is very sad, because I love what I do. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:23:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Su Epstein Subject: Re: Book List MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi You might want to consider: _The MidWife's Apprentice_ (sorry forgot author) _The Great Gilly Hopkins_ K. Paterson _Fat Chance_ L. Newman or _The Wild Children_ F. Holman (about boys, but great story) good luck, su epstein epsteisc@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 00:35:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: Book List I would like to recommend RAINBOW JORDON by Alice Childress. It won all sorts of prizes--story of a young black girl whose mother is -- temorarily gone -- and she is living with a foster mother and father and struggling with her boyfriend over sexuality. Really good. I love Childress' work. She also did the y.a. novel A HERO AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A SANDWICH, a wonderful book as well. Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:21:32 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Book List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" There's a new book out called "GREAT BOOKS FOR GIRLS". It's filled with loads of good suggestions where the girls are positive and strong and adventuresome, etc. We carry it at Amazon Feminist Bookstore - you local feminist bookstore will probably have it too. Mev >Hi, >I am running a book club this summer with a group of young women, ages >11-14. I am at a loss to come up with some good, feminist novels that are >appropriate for that age range. What I would really like are books about >girls their age, without too much sexual content. Can anyone help? > >Frances Gateward ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:37:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: posting summaries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi everyone, I received a message about my offer to post a summary of responses to the part-time/full-time request, and I thought it advisable to post my response to that message. The post voiced a concern that, in putting together a compilation of responses, I might include "private" or personal info that was really just meant for me. I responded to her as follows: *********************** Hi, I am receiving many "private" posts, with obviously personal stories in them. What I had said I would do is post a "summary," which means I'll pull out very short phrases that are truly "advice" oriented (something like, for example, "here, I have found that I have had to argue with colleagues on hiring committees to get them to consider part-timers," or some such thing) and put them together in a paragraph. I would never reveal people's personal stories or names, etc., I promise. (Considering recent threads on this list, I sure do understand your wanting to clarify the situation, though!) ************************ I want to thank everyone for their helpful words of encouragement, advice, etc. Jeannie ?????????????????????????????what do you see????????????????????????????? "There is great power in being able to see the world as one will and then to have that vision enacted. But if being is seeing for the subject, then being seen is the precise measure of existence for the object." --Patricia J. Williams, from _The Alchemy of Race and Rights_ Jeannie Ludlow jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Popular Culture ???????????????????????????where is your power??????????????????????????? ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:40:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Kay Schleiter Subject: Women in Philosophy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The climate in many philosophy programs may not be woman-friendly. For example, the chair of a local philosophy department announced, at a diversity conference, that there have been no great women in his field. I don't know enough philosophy to argue with him, but I tried to steer the conversation to why women's achievements have not been recognized in that field, to no avail. Mary Kay Schleiter mks@cs.uwp.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:19:59 +22305931 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth P Ginzberg Subject: Re: Women in Philosophy In-Reply-To: from "Mary Kay Schleiter" at Jun 11, 97 07:40:44 am Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > The climate in many philosophy programs may not be woman-friendly. For > example, the chair of a local philosophy department announced, at a > diversity conference, that there have been no great women in his field. > I don't know enough philosophy to argue with him, but I tried to steer > the conversation to why women's achievements have not been recognized in > that field, to no avail. Cynthia Freeland (University of Houston) is currently in the process of constructing a SWIP (Society for Women In Philosophy) Web site which includes directories of current women philosophers, and pictures & bios of women philosophers whose work was (or is) especially noteworthy (both current & past). Women in Philosophy (need not necessarily hold academic posts at the moment (or ever); students, both undergrad & grad also welcome) should certainly become familiar with the Society for Women In Philosophy (SWIP) and join their local division (Eastern, Midwest, Pacific, Canadian & I believe there is a small Mexican chapter just getting started), attend meetings, receive calls for papers & conference announcements, SWIP Newsletter, get a discount on subscription to HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, etc., etc. I have been a member of SWIP since 1982 (when I was a Senior undergrad majoring in Philosophy) and have certainly found it to be an intellectually life-sustaining professional resource MANY times. I attended its conferences all throughout graduate school and this was often the ONLY way I was really able to "network" with (and become familiar with the works of) other contemporary feminist philosophers. I have read papers at SWIP conferences (starting my 1st year in graduate school), published my own work in HYPATIA, and received WONDERFUL help, support, serious critique, and professional advice from other women in philosophy throughout my academic career, almost entirely as a result of my participation in SWIP. One need not be a member of the APA (American Philosophical Association) to join SWIP, and although it does regularly hold sessions in conjunction with the APA, it also regularly holds independent conferences around the country which are not associated with APA meetings, and which usually feature wonderful programs, papers, issues-and-ideas sessions, etc. There are quite active Women of Color and Lesbian caucuses in some SWIP divisions (especially Midwest SWIP, so far as I know), which sponsor their own activities frequently. There is also a SWIP-L e-mail list run by Linda Lopez McAlister for SWIP members and guests. Ruth Ginzberg (SWIP-L Co-Moderator) Women's Studies Beloit College Beloit, WI ginzberg@beloit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:41:41 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "dbic6066@uriacc.uri.edu" Subject: Book List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Frances: I don't have any specific suggestions, but would like to recommend that you get a copy of the Arte Publico Press catalog. They have a series called "Pinata Books for Children and Young Adults" that I have ordered from often for my nephews. The descriptions are good and give age range recommendations. Their phone number is 1-800-633-ARTE or 713-743-2998. Donna Donna M. Bickford dbic6066@uriacc.uri.edu Department of English and Women's Studies Program University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:55:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jessica Haney Subject: Re: Book List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Check out The Moon Over Crete by Jyotsna Sreenivasan. It's an exciting feminist adventure novel. Lily goes back in time to ancient Crete, where women and men were equal. Find it in the Feminist Online Store (in the Feminist Majority Foundation Online) specifically at http://www.feminist.org/welcome/store/young_tmo.html . Find other gifts for young feminists - more fiction and non-fiction books, card games at: http://www.feminist.org/welcome/store/mainyoung.html I would also recommend A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry about a 13-year-old girl and her relationship with her critically ill sister. I also remember it being the first time I read about a character who didn't change her name when she got married. Feminist magazines for young women such as New Moon and Teen Voices might have suggestions as well - find links to these and other links for young women at http://www.feminist.org/other/girls/links.html Jessica Haney haney@feminist.org > >>Hi, >>I am running a book club this summer with a group of young women, ages >>11-14. I am at a loss to come up with some good, feminist novels that are >>appropriate for that age range. What I would really like are books about >>girls their age, without too much sexual content. Can anyone help? >> >>Frances Gateward > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:32:32 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dana Shugar Subject: NWSA pre-conference Lesbian caucus meeting To all interested in attending the NWSA pre-conference lesbian caucus meeting, the schedule for the day (Wednesday, June 18) will be as follows: 9:00-12:00: General Issues Discussion --Membership --Budget and Fundraising --Developing a Website --Future Role of Caucus and links to other caucuses/task forces --Suggestions for panels/papers for next year 12:00-1:00: Lunch 1:00-4:00: Discussion of future embedded conference on lesbianism/lesbian issues --keynote speakers --panels --papers --cultural activities: music, art displays, theater--? --other suggestions In addition, we hope to arrange visits by the presidents-elect to discuss future concerns of NWSA. If you wish to attend the meeting, please send your name and address to: Dana Shugar Women's Studies 315 Roosevelt Hall University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 (401) 874-4620 e-mail: dshugar@uriacc.uri.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:22:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Riger Subject: turkey baster babies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I want to write a paragraph comparing in-vitro fertilization (hi-tech) with turkey baster babies (lo-tech). Does anyone know of anything written on the latter (or a good, n on-technical source on the former)? I'd appreciate a private reply. Thanks in advance, Stephanie Riger sriger@uic.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:10:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Subject: girl's books Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'd recommend anything by Jacqueline Woodson, who I think has three young adult novels out now. I recently read 'Last Summer with Maizon' a great coming of age, girlfriends book with white and African American characters. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:05:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Davidson Subject: Re: Scholars/Activists dear Pat.. Glad that I could be of help..yes, I am always at NWSA..it is in my blood for good...so ,I look forward to meeting you in St.Louis....Mary DAvidson ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 16:11:38 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Wakeland Subject: Re: Part-time vs. full-time In-Reply-To: <199706110249.WAA22413@axp.cmpu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, josephine ryan wrote: > > On the positive side, I have had the opportunity to develop new courses > and improve my teaching more quickly than the golden new full-time hires who > look so good on paper and couldn't teach their way out of a paper bag . . . > sometimes it takes years for them to become even minimally adequate > teachers.> Dear Josephine and other folks, First, I've known as many long-time teachers in tertiary education who can't teach their way out of a paper bag as I have known new hires with the same affliction. There are some people with a natural gift for teaching who hit the ground running and some who will never acquire good teaching skills, no matter how long they practice (and then, of course, the majority of those in the middle who, with adequate practice will make adequate teachers). Personally, I believe search cttes should spend quite a bit more time thinking about the full RANGE of sometimes elusive qualities that they believe a good teacher will have; they should take more risks with the obviously dynamic, committed new PhDs and fewer risks with those who have long teaching histories but who clearly do not communicate well or motivate their students to learn (this includes many who are EXCELLENT researchers). Second, and related to the discussion of part-timers, it seems to me that the problem associated with an increasing number of part-timers is at least two-fold: 1. part-timers are exploited by the institution for which they work, as many on this list have discussed AND 2. the educational needs of undergraduate students are not necessarily being met by this system. Though, as I said above, many teachers, including some without their PhDs, may hit the ground running when they begin their teaching careers, there is little excuse for encouraging graduate students in their first and second years to teach undergraduate students without supervision unless the circumstances are extremely exceptional. It is unfair to the graduates (who not only are making low pay for long hours, but who also are taken away from their coursework and the initial work on their dissertations); it also is unfair to the undergraduates who are paying to receive the best education possible. This latter point is particularly relevant to larger universities, and one of the main reasons that (trying to put myself in the shoes of an undergraduate student) I am such a big supporter of small, liberal arts colleges. I certainly know that I got what I paid for when I attended one; I'm not sure that would have been the case for me at some of the larger, and, sometimes, more prestigious universities. My doctoral supervisor at Oxford initially could not understand why I wanted to begin teaching last year when I did not need to teach, and asked whether he could help me secure more funding for my research. Once I convinced him that this was a good professional step for me, I also had to convince him that the undergraduates that I would teach--most of whom are taught, these days, by folks with their doctorates--would benefit from having me as their teacher. (Thankfully, I had previous teaching experience, even if it was outside of a tertiary educational environment, on which he could, in part, base his decision.) This approach seems sensible to me, and one which does a good thing: it appeals to both the needs of the graduate student, who should not be completely torn away from their own research by the need to teach (whether that need be financial or professional) and to the needs of the undergraduate students who deserve to be taught by knowledgable folks committed to their intellectual development. Sorry for the rant, but it was my first lengthy one to this list. Amy Elaine Wakeland amy.wakeland@wadham.ox.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:15:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Edvige Giunta Subject: Re: Book List MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII How about Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street? Edi Giunta egiunta@jcs1.jcstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:31:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Joshi-Atlanta Subject: Re: Books for Girls, ages 5 - 8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear WMST-LA Subscribers: I have two nieces ages 5 and 8. I would appreciate any suggestions of books about and for little girls with a more enlightened perspective. Thank you. Private replies or replies via the WMST-LIST will be greatly appreciated. Aiko Anne Joshi GSU Women's Studies ajoshi@russreyn.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:24:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: Book List Comments: To: "Frances K. Gateward" In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19970610170553.343f2e0e@staff.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi Frances, Years ago I read "Summer of my German Soldier" which is a powerful story of a young girl in US south and her relationship with a German Prisoner of War. WHile I cannot attest to its "feminist" perspective -- I think it was written before that became a common issue of concern, what I recall is that the young girl is protrayed as someone with strength and compassion. I'd have to go back and look at an old biblio for other stories that formed a biblio of books for adolescents on peace and war themes. peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:14:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Debra Kirkley Subject: Syllabus: Nursing and Feminism In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am developing a new undergraduate course on Nursing and Feminism (and am searching for a catchy title to go with it). I am looking for some sample syllabi I might use for ideas. I have searched the WMST-L syllabus archives already and wondered if any listmembers might have any suggestions. Please respond privately. Thanks! -Debra- ******************************************************* *** Debra Kirkley, MEd, RNC *** *** Texas Woman's University, College of Nursing *** *** 1810 Inwood Road, Dallas, Texas 75235 *** *** iy52@jove.acs.unt.edu *** ******************************************************* "Never doubt how vitally important you are; Never doubt how important your work is - and never expect anyone to acknowledge it before you do. Every moment, in everything you do, you are making a difference. In fact, you are in the business of making a difference in other people's lives. In that difference lies thier healing and your power. Never forget it. " -Leah Curtin RN, DSc, FAAN- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:35:51 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Robin Parks Subject: Re: Women in Philosophy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 7:40 AM 6/11/97, Mary Kay Schleiter wrote: >The climate in many philosophy programs may not be woman-friendly. For >example, the chair of a local philosophy department announced, at a >diversity conference, that there have been no great women in his field. >I don't know enough philosophy to argue with him, but I tried to steer >the conversation to why women's achievements have not been recognized in >that field, to no avail. >Mary Kay Schleiter >mks@cs.uwp.edu Members of this list may be interested in the Society for the Study of Women Philosophers' call for papers, which follows: Why Are There No Great Women Philosophers? A Call for Papers The Society for the Study of Women Philosophers seeks papers or proposals for discussions at a session of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, to be held in March, 1998, in Los Angeles. Especially sought are papers on the following: -- Discovery of work by previously unknown women philosophers -- An aspect of the thought of a recognized woman philosopher -- Philosophical ideas in the work of women poets, novelists, artists, etc. -- The nature of philosophy as affected by women's contributions Completed papers should be no longer than 15 pages, typed, double-spaced. Presentations should be timed for 45 minutes or less, including discussion. Papers and proposals will be blind-reviewed by the SSWP Board. Send 10 copies of a one-page abstract, or 3 copies of the paper if already written, name on cover sheet only, to either SSWP Pacific meeting co-coordinator below. Robin Parks, 1696 Joan's Lane, Lummi Island, WA 98262 or Jane Duran, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-3090 Deadline for proposals and papers is September 1, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be made by December 1, 1997. Presented papers will be considered for publication in future collections of SSWP papers. Presenters are encouraged to become members of the Society (see below). For further information, contact Robin Parks, (360) 758-7244, email robingraphic@nas.com; or Jane Duran, (805) 893-8132, email jduran@education.ucsb.edu. Membership in the SSWP is based on the calendar year. To become or continue as a member, please send a check for $10 to The Society for the Study of Women Philosophers, with the information below, to: Cecile Tougas, SSWP Convener, 262 Connecticut Avenue, NE, Atlanta, GA 30307-2212 Name Address City, State, ZIP Phone (work and home) and Email Address Institutional Affiliation Major areas of philosophical interest -- Robin Parks robingraphic@nas.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:01:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Re: Emperical research MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit May I suggest that you look at the work of feminist economists? The International Association For Feminist Economics (IAFFE) has a discussion list called femecon-l@bucknell.edu, and it also has a journal. Everybody's either in Mexico or about to be there for the national meetings, but if you post your request to femecon-l in a couple of weeks when they're back, you should get some very useful responses. In the meantime, I'd start with the works of Nancy Folbre, Randy Albelda -- ah brain fog, can't remember more names -- and the Marianne Ferber text. -- Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:15:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Re: part-time vs. full-time--request MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit At some point you have to ask yourself: why am I doing this? Am I doing it to prove to myself that getting a graduate degree wasn't a bad idea? That's not enough of a reason. The graduate degree has value in and of itself to you and your life. It won't change things one way or another if you choose a life for yourself now that you really don't like. The bottom line with jobs is pubs, pubs, and more pubs. There are anecdotal tales of people getting into tenure track positions by being great teachers at prt-time jobs, but don't hold your breath for it to happen to you -- I have seen too many job searches. And the older you get -- and this is disgusting, particularly since many women do not peak productively until their 40s and 50s -- the more the department is going to "fit" you into an age-group range. They'll never say they're doing that. But they do. If you are not able to finish the revisions to get things published, this is a bad sign. At this point, I would ask myself: why am I doing this? Am I doing this to make a living? Then, how do you feel about the living you are making? Are you happy teaching this way? Are you happy with the amount of money? How is the rest of your life going? Can you afford to quit teaching for a while and just focus on publishing? Here's the real hard part: is this what you want to do for the rest of your life? If it isn't, then GET OUT NOW. I mean it. You are going to have to do it at some point. They hold the promise of a tenure-track job out through graduate courses, through writing the dissertation, and then through those shaky years as an adjunct -- well, the stats don't bear it out. Would you be happy in a community college? Can you get a permanent job there? Forget research, but do you like teaching? Sit down and look at the options in front of you. I can tell you right now that if you don't find a way to publish, you are not going to get the kind of tenure-track job you're thinking of. It's harsh, but the odds are very much against it. If you are in any way geographically immobile, the odds get worse. If you did not have this degree, what would you want to do with your life? How do you get from here to there? Start looking for choices outside academia, because I don't think academia is going to get any easier in the near future. (P.S. -- if what you want is a job as a professor, and are not wedded to the discipline you trained in, retrain into something like finance where a woman with a Ph.D. starts at $65,000 a year! Mind you, this is a case of do as I say, not as I do ...) Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:32:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Revision: WMST-L logfiles (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's revised excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide (the last paragraph tells of a new, simplified set of instructions): 10) "I'VE BEEN AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS. I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT I'VE MISSED ON WMST-L DURING THE TIME I'VE BEEN GONE. IS IT POSSIBLE TO ACCESS PREVIOUS MESSAGES?" [also useful for new subscribers] Yes. All WMST-L messages are automatically archived. The 1991 archives are arranged in monthly logs; beginning in Jan., 1992, the logs were changed to a weekly format. To find out what logs are available, you can send LISTSERV the following command: INDEX WMST-L . You'll then receive a list of the available logs. To obtain the logs, send LISTSERV the following command: GET WMST-L [filename] where [filename] is the name of the log file you want. For example: GET WMST-L LOG9609a will get you the log for the first week ("a") in September 1996 (9609 refers to the 9th month of 1996). LOG9612b is the log for the second week ("b") in Dec. 1996 (December is the 12th month). (It's possible that the wording of your request may take a slightly different form, depending on your mail system, but what you want is WMST-L LOGnnnnl.) Warning: some of these logs are LARGE (> 300K). As a result, you may not be permitted to get more than a few logs on any given day (the current limit is 20 files or 2M - i.e., 2000K). NOTE: Logfiles from before 1994 are no longer available on UMDD. To make room for newer logfiles, they were moved to the Women's Studies archive on InforM (http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ ). As time passes, other old logfiles will also be moved to InforM. The WMST-L filelist contains instructions designed to teach you how to search the UMDD logfiles for specific subjects. The instructions I recommend are contained in a file called SEARCH SIMPLE. It explains the new, simplified search procedures. To get this file, send the message GET SEARCH SIMPLE to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. These instructions apply only to logfiles on UMDD, not those that have been moved to InforM. ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. On the World Wide Web, the URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:13:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: Reporters for NWSA '97 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sorry for the tardy response, I just got back from a conference. Could you please clarify a couple of points for me? * what is NWSAction? * what would the responsibility of the reporters be? Thanks in advance. Katherine Side klside@YorkU.ca On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, B.J. Eaton wrote: > Hello to all, > > I still need reporters for the plenary sessions at NWSA '97 in St. > Louis June 18 - 22. Are any of you attending and also willing to write up > one of the plenary sessions for the fall issue of NWSAction (deadline Oct > 1)? > > This might also be used as an opportunity for one of your students > who writes well to get involved. I would prefer a senior or graduate > student with a proven record of ability to grasp and note important points > quickly. > > Please respond privately to the address below. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Regards, > > B.J. Eaton, Richardson, Texas > NWSAction Editor > bjeaton7@airmail.net > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:35:12 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: part-time vs. full-time--request In-Reply-To: <199706091907.OAA15389@cc-gate.uiowa.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I know that I would really like to read the responses to J. Ludlow's question. Perhaps they could be posted to the list? [If it gets to be too much mail, perhaps Joan could cut it off or the discussion could be archived?] Katherine Side klside@YorkU.ca On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, joAnn Castagna wrote: > I think it is interesting that J. Ludlow asked for private replies to her > question about the workings of hiring committees. I would imagine that the > issues around what are the "real" hiring criteria for positions in academia > ought to be the concern of all those involved, faculty, students, and those > (e.g. taxpayers) who pay the bills in higher education. > JoAnn Castagna > joann-castagna@uiowa.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:52:05 -0400 Reply-To: louis@umbc.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Louis Subject: Re: Part-time vs. full-time MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stop complaining, analyzing, commiserating--ORGANIZE! Debbie ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 16:36:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jessica Haney Subject: Re: Book List Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Another Web point of interest on the topic of books for girls is: http://members.aol.com/brvgirls Brave Girls and Strong Women Bookstore listing empowering books for girls from small publishers dedicated to creating a world of equality. There's also a handful of books for adults about girls' loss of self-esteem and a section on how to get help to write your own empowering book for girls. Jessica Haney haney@feminist.org ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:01:01 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: diana Mackin Subject: Re: Book List In-Reply-To: <01IJXS3YIHVY8YBROA@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Su Epstein wrote, in part: > You might want to consider: > _Fat Chance_ L. Newman Leslea N is inaccurate to the point of furthering female fat oppression; I'd be real careful with this one if you care about promoting fat bigotry. --diana ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:50:03 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Angela E Hubler Subject: Re: Book List In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970611203623.008cb69c@smtp.feminist.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII _Lyddie, by Catherine Patterson, is a great novel about a girl working in the textile mills and becoming involved in organizing. _Julie of the Wolves, is the story of an Eskimo girl who runs aways from an arranged marriage to live with a pack of wolves. The all time favorite of girls I interviewed for a forthcoming publication was the oldie but goodie, Anne of Green Gables. I's also suggest reading one of the Sweet Valley High series books only because they are so popular. The girls would benefit from some critical discussion of these books. I want to second the recommendations of _Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, and _The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Angela Hubler Asst. Prof of English and Womst Kansas State U. lela@ksu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 22:09:05 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Part-time vs. full-time In-Reply-To: <339F01E3.58E0@umbc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Deborah Louis wrote: > Stop complaining, analyzing, commiserating--ORGANIZE! Not as easy as it sounds. Setting up the Women's Group in Pol. Sci. here took a lot of work and some time and some grief; and careers were not always helped. And that is a much smaller job. I have a Union, affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. I can work through them. And I can push for equal opportunities here. (They happened anyway; at least, they are endorsed. Monitoring comes later.) I'm not claiming any credit for any of that: other people did it. The point I want to make is that organizing from zero is really very very difficult indeed; it is easy to single out individuals who try to organize or take part in action. How brave are you asking people who are already overburdened with teaching, and have next to no job security, to be? ----------------------------------------------------------- Judy Evans + Politics + jae2@york.ac.uk using speech-recognition software----please ignore mistakes ----------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 17:06:04 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Snow Subject: Re: Books for Girls, ages 5 - 8 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII For the older girls I remember loving _Member of the Wedding_ and _A Tree Grows in Brooklyn_. For the younger girls I highly recommend the _Amazing Grace_ books. The author escapes me at the moment but they very much from a feminist standpoint. I also love Carly Simon's book _Amy The Dancing Bear_. I work in a bookstore between semesters and recommend these two books over and over. Many customers come back to buy them for a neice, friend, etc. Sharon Snow Texas Woman's University g_snow@twu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 17:29:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "B.J. Eaton" Subject: Re: Reporters for NWSA '97 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Katherine, Here are the answers to your questions. I hope you, or some of your students attending the conference can help. Thanks for your inquiry. B.J. > >* what is NWSAction? NWSAction is the international newsletter that comes three times a year with membership in the National Women's Studies Association. >* what would the responsibility of the reporters be? To attend a specific plenary session, take notes of who spoke, and write a condensed version of the main points, **NOT A CRITIQUE**. This is for those who can't attend the conference to keep current with what occurred and was said. Either snail mail a typed hard copy to me or send as an E-mail attachment by Oct. 1. The reporter gets a by-line, but there is no payment or reimbursement of conference or travel expenses; I'm a volunteer, too. Plenary sessions are as follows: Thursday, 6/19, 10 am to noon, topic-Creativity,is an imbedded conference Friday, 6/20, 10 am to noon, topic-Technology Saturday 6/21, 1:15 to 3:15 pm, topic-Future of Feminism Sunday, 6/22, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm, topic-Coalitions: Past & Future > >Thanks in advance. > >Katherine Side >klside@YorkU.ca > >On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, B.J. Eaton wrote: > >> Hello to all, >> >> I still need reporters for the plenary sessions at NWSA '97 in St. >> Louis June 18 - 22. ********************** B.J. Eaton NWSAction Editor bjeaton7@airmail.net ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 20:38:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Book List In-Reply-To: <199706112001.NAA10977@m2.sprynet.com> from "diana Mackin" at Jun 11, 97 01:01:01 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I also had a problem with this book because is so didactic. I think any novel used for educational purposes should be, among other things, a good read. I did not find Fat Chance particularly interesting or enjoyable to read. Chris ******************************************************************* * Chris Saad, PhD * "a passion for books and a fondness * * Teacher, Ken-Crest * for cats are very often points of * * saad@dolphin.upenn.edu * intersection on the ven diagram of * * saad@alumni.upenn.edu * personality." * * (215) 844-1842, x423 * -Bill Richardson * ******************************************************************* > > On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Su Epstein wrote, in part: > > You might want to consider: > > _Fat Chance_ L. Newman > > Leslea N is inaccurate to the point of furthering female fat oppression; > I'd be real careful with this one if you care about promoting fat bigotry. > --diana > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 20:55:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Books for Girls, ages 5 - 8 In-Reply-To: from "Anne Joshi-Atlanta" at Jun 11, 97 09:31:00 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Check out Elizabeth Levy's "something queer" series. These books are easy- to-read mysteries in which the sleuths are two girls. The main character is the daughter of a working mother. The "good guys" are generally female in these books. And the books are a lot of fun! Also, Beverly Cleary's Ramona books are good read alouds. The Ramona series was written over the course of about 30 years, so of course the more recent titles are more "enlightened" than the ones written during the 50's. In any case, however, Ramona is a gutsy, spunky, pesky child with a lot of initiative and imagination. Chris ******************************************************************* * Chris Saad, PhD * "a passion for books and a fondness * * Teacher, Ken-Crest * for cats are very often points of * * saad@dolphin.upenn.edu * intersection on the ven diagram of * * saad@alumni.upenn.edu * personality." * * (215) 844-1842, x423 * -Bill Richardson * ******************************************************************* > > Dear WMST-LA Subscribers: > > I have two nieces ages 5 and 8. I would appreciate any suggestions of > books about and for little girls with a more enlightened perspective. > Thank you. > Private replies or replies via the WMST-LIST will be greatly > appreciated. > > Aiko Anne Joshi > GSU Women's Studies > ajoshi@russreyn.com > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:25:01 -0400 Reply-To: louis@umbc.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Louis Subject: Re: Part-time vs. full-time MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As brave as it takes. Debbie ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 07:17:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Su Epstein Subject: Re: Book List MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII >Leslea N is inaccurate to the point of furthering female fat oppression; >I'd be real careful with this one if you care about promoting fat bigotry. >--diana I'm curious why you would say this? In the text, the character does display stereotypical views about size (being large and being anorexic). However, what I see is one of the points of the text is that these views are inacurrate and inappropriate. Thus, the book allows for the issues to be raised, discussed and countered. Please feel free to respondoff list - if the list is not also interested. Su Epstein epsteisc@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:12:25 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Teresa Malafaia Subject: Transgression, Culture and Society MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am generating an undergraduate course on Transgression, Culture and Society. Its main topics are:Gender representations, Education and leisure, media. I would like to have some syllabi for confrontation. Any suggestions, namely concerning primary and critical sources? Thanks Teresa Malafaia University of Lisbon tvmalafaia@mail. telepac.pt ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:28:01 -0500 Reply-To: Misty L Sienkowski Sender: Women's Studies List From: Misty L Sienkowski MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Debbie, I don't think the intention behind the part time/Full time discussion was to complain or commiserate. This is an issue that is at the forefront of women in the academic arena. It will take more than organization. Misty ML-Sienkowski@neiu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:21:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Book title for girls club MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My 16-year-old daughter recommended a book with enthusiasm and then could not remember the name of it. Oh. FWIW, she says the plot has to do with a young girl in England who disguises herself as a boy so she can sign on as a cabin boy. Her favorite books are Cat's Cradle and Catcher in the Rye, but, she said, "they're all books about GUYS, aren't they?" She also recommended that in addition to reading, the girls write short stories for each other (she and her girlfriend have been doing that since they were both 10). She likes the game where you each give the other one a plot, or you all take the same basic plot. She also said it's fun to do a round-robin book (you alternate chapters). I think Carolyn has a good point here -- encouraging both sides of the creative process involved in novels -- writing as well as reading. And since it's the summer, there are no grades. She is dyslexic, so she would also want you to be understanding of spelling and grammatical errors. The purpose would be creativity. Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof. of History, Villanova University (on indefinite medical leave since Jan 1995 with CFS/CFIDS/Suhadolnik's Disorder) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:45:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: comment re nursing and feminism (private) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When you're pulling things together for this course, I would be curious is you find anything about nursing sisters -- women who entered the orders to travel the world and be nurses. On some levels, it seems comparable to the Protestant women who chose a life as a single woman to be a professional (such as a nurse) (because marriage meant pregnancy and pregnancy meant no more profession) -- but the institutional arrangements were of course different. I've really never seen any research address this issue, and it fascinates me. Second, I'm quite sure there must be a literature on the visiting nurse movement, which was a part of the settlement house and social worker movements of the turn of the century and early decades of this century. The visiting nurses had MUCH more autonomy than nurses in hospitals. If you look at good biographies of Florence Nightingale, you'll see how she struggled against the stereotype that a nurse was, um, something like a camp follower -- and that "easy virtue" (presumably because they are not innocent about male bodies) myth is still with us. (BTW, she suffered from a disease that some think was comprable to chronic fatigue syndrome -- I don't agree -- so in some quarters CFS is called "Nightingale's Syndrome" and her birthday, May 12th, is CFS Awareness Day.) Finally, you might want to look at Robyn Muncy's "Creating a Female Domain" (I may not have this title quite correct) about the social policies of the early twentieht century women's movement. She devotes a chapter to the rural clinics established by the federal government in the 1920s that were opposed and finally killed by the AMA because they were run by nurses. I've used the attitude of doctors toward nurses vs. medical students as an example in my classes of what the apprenticeship/ journeyman/master system was like in terms of social organization: the Mystery of Physicians outranks the Mystery of Nursing, so even the most experienced nurse on the floor is outranked by the most ignorant and green intern. A young woman in medical school told me that they have a course in medical ethics there, and the professor gave them the problem that a person is going into cardiac arrest and there's an experienced nurse and a medical student present: who does the CPR? The correct answer is supposed to be the medical student! (She argued vehemently against this conclusion and was kind of patted on the head.) Finally, you might want to just sit in the library and run through recent issues of professional nursing journals to see if you can find a good article on the current problem of HMOs and hospitals cutting costs by dramatically cutting nursing staff. So -- those are all avenues to look at. (P.S. -- re: children's books. Oh how I loved Cherry Ames when I was a kid; I dreamt of going all the places she did and being a competent nurse. But I flunked out of nursing school for my attytood ...) Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University (on leave) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:14:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Elizabeth Younger Subject: Re: Book List In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19970610170553.343f2e0e@staff.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would like to recommend two novels by Louise Fitzhugh, both about adolescent girls who are strong and intelligent and struggling. They are Harriet The Spy, (recently made into a not so great movie) and The Long Secret, which is a sequel to Harriet. I believe that both novels are feminist, and may provide the kind of text you are looking for. Beth Younger Department of English Louisiana State University ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:45:57 -0700 Reply-To: Deborah Maranville Sender: Women's Studies List From: Deborah Maranville Subject: Books for Girls MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Robin McKinley's The Outlaws of Sherwood (in which Marion is actually the star archer), The Hero and the Crown (about Aerin the dragon slayer), and The Blue Sword (the female character leads the troops in battle) I love all three, though they raise hard questions for me about what it means to create feminist stories for girls -- in Hero and the Crown, and to a lesser extent the Blue Sword the strong female leads are very much the exception, and in the Blue Sword the problem to be resolved is a military invasion (by non-humans) in which the heroine brings down a rockslide that buries the enemy army. *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* 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: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:33:54 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beth Subject: NWSA Jewish Caucus, 1997 meetings and events MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The following information is for anyone planning to attend the upcoming NWSA conference, who is interested in Jewish feminist events and programs. Wednesday, June 18th, 11am-4:30pm- Preconference meetings. *Note: to accomodate disability requests and because on-campus housing is not available the night before the preconference, the Caucus business meeting will not begin until 1:30. However, the Caucus will be meeting beginning at 11am for open discussion and introductions. Location: 314 Clark Hall, University of Missouri-St. Louis campus (room #s for other events will be available in the conference program, and at the preconference). Thursday, June 19th 8:30am sessions and papers a) "Current Jewish Feminist Midrash" b) "Negotiating Contradiction: An Exploration of Jewish Feminist Identities" 1pm session "Jewish Gendered Identities in Historical Perspective" Friday, June 20th 1-3:45 double conference session "The (Gefilte) Fishbowl on Feminism as Tikkun Olam: Mitzveh Feminism" 4-5:15 pm session "Poetry of Jewish Women and Girls" (this is a roundtable and conference attendees are invited to bring favorite poems to share) 5:30-7:00pm- Shabbat service with Rabbi Marsha Pik-Nathan Saturday, June 21st 11:30-1pm sessions a) Crosscurrents of Jewish Women: Ashkenazi, Mizrachi and Sephardic Women Weave Common Threads and Disparate Experiences in a Journey Toward Healing" b) Slideshow on Generations of Feminist Writers and Activists 3:15-4pm- Jewish Caucus meeting 6pm-7:30pm- Havdallah Service with Rabbi Susan Talve Information will also be available at Jewish Caucus meetings and services on St. Louis Jewish resources, archives, museums and exhibits of potential interest to Jewish feminists. If you are giving a presentation which is not listed here and which you think should be announced during the Caucus preconference, please write to me privately at: eribet@orion.oac.uci.edu b'shalom, Beth Ribet, chair, Jewish Caucus ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:00:23 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Denise Truskosky Subject: Cross-cultural Studies Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am posting this message for a friend. She is looking for recent cross-cultural studies on violence against women. If anyone has any resources or references for her, could you please respond to Elisabeth Reichert privately at reichert@siu.edu. Thanks, Denise Truskosky Psychology Dept Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62966 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:05:02 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Miriam Subject: part time/full time/organizing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In response to Misty's post that said it would take more than organizing: I think that Deborah has an excellent point and, frankly, I"m not sure what less than organizing will actually change the situation. I'm writing as someone who is finishing a dissertation this summer and beginning an indefinite career (given the stats) of part time teaching, starting this fall. I think that the issues raised in this discussion about the dismal status of the job market and the vulnerability of adjunct teachers goes to the heart of questions concerning the meaning of women's studies, the future of academic feminism as *feminist*. It has to do with tensions between acamademic feminism as a profession and as (rooted in) activism. If there is a collective dimension to feminist academics/women's studies, then we do need to start thinking about how to confront the problems facing part time lecturers, the problems facing professors dealing with tenure review etc, in a way that goes beyond an individualist approach that lets each woman sink or swim according to a game we either take for granted or fight with and against tooth and claw but in a piece meal way that ultimately means the same thing. Of course, these problems are part of a larger economic reality, and one that greatly effects women in particular--how the work force has become increasingly part time and temporary, among other things. The question is, if organization is what we need, does anyone have any ideas about strategy that confronts this issue in a big picture way, as well as the kind of pragmatic approach that it seems will be discussed at NWSA, and which, believe me, I am very grateful for?? Kathy Miriam kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:10:31 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet K Levi Subject: Re: computers in WmSt courses In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am replying to the list in response to Suzanne's query about incorporating technology into WS classes. I am giving a workshop at NWSA on Friday 4-5:30 on my "Women Around the World" course, that has been linked to First Course in the Internet. I have been incorporating the internet technology by e-mail, web assignments, on line discussion groups, both in and outside of the classroom. I have found it very exciting to teach that way, and the students feel much more connected to global issues. If anyone wants a syllabus, and won't be at NWSA, please let me know. Harriet Harriet K. Levi (hlevi@clark.edu) "every society honors Instructor/Coordinator its live conformists Women's Studies Dept.ph# 360-992-2170 and its dead troublemakers Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA - help reverse the trend!" ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:40:56 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Billie Korstrom Subject: Re: computers in WmSt courses Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:10 PM 6/12/97 -0700, you wrote: >I am replying to the list in response to Suzanne's query about >incorporating technology into WS classes. I am giving a workshop at NWSA >on Friday 4-5:30 on my "Women Around the World" course, that has been >linked to First Course in the Internet. I have been >incorporating the internet technology by e-mail, web assignments, on line >discussion groups, both in and outside of the classroom. I have found it >very exciting to teach that way, and the students feel much more >connected to global issues. If anyone wants a syllabus, and won't be at >NWSA, please let me know. >Harriet >Harriet K. Levi (hlevi@clark.edu) "every society honors >Instructor/Coordinator its live conformists >Women's Studies Dept.ph# 360-992-2170 and its dead troublemakers >Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA - help reverse the trend!" > >We are just beginning to look at using computer technology in the classroom at our university. I would appreciate receiving a copy of the syllabus you are using in your classroom. You can send by snail mail to Billie Korstrom Women's Studies Department Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 or b_korstrom@sfu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 18:46:43 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Book title for girls club In-Reply-To: <33A0140A.7037@ix.netcom.com> from "Mary Schweitzer" at Jun 12, 97 11:21:46 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This book may be one of Joan Aiken's books about Dido Twite. In any case, Joan Aiken's novels are great fun. She has a wonderful tongue-in-cheek writing style. Chris ******************************************************************* * Chris Saad, PhD * "a passion for books and a fondness * * Teacher, Ken-Crest * for cats are very often points of * * saad@dolphin.upenn.edu * intersection on the ven diagram of * * saad@alumni.upenn.edu * personality." * * (215) 844-1842, x423 * -Bill Richardson * ******************************************************************* > > My 16-year-old daughter recommended a book with enthusiasm and then > could not remember the name of it. Oh. FWIW, she says the plot has > to do with a young girl in England who disguises herself as a boy so > she can sign on as a cabin boy. Her favorite books are Cat's Cradle > and Catcher in the Rye, but, she said, "they're all books about GUYS, > aren't they?" > Mary Schweitzer, Assoc. Prof. of History, Villanova University > (on indefinite medical leave since Jan 1995 with CFS/CFIDS/Suhadolnik's > Disorder) > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 19:04:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Waldron Organization: College of the Atlantic Subject: Supplement to Contemp Women's Novel Thank you to everyone who sent additional suggestions for narratively interesting contemporary women's novels for my course. (An earlier list was posted a few weeks back). What follows is just the supplement. If you have any more ideas, please post privately. I will be set on nomail so I will not receive list messages over the summer. I plan to read and digest before making the final syllabus decisions. Thank you all again -- Contemporary Women's Novels List -- Supplement Ama Ata Aidoo, Changes, Sister Killjoy Paula Gunn Allen, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina Sawako Arioshi, The Doctor's Wife, River Ki Ann Beattie, Picturing Will Maeve Binchy, Circle Of Friends Judy Blume, Smart Women; Wifey Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle Marion Campbell, Lines of Flight, Not Being Miriam Patricia Chao, The Monkey King Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices Margaret Drabble Mary Crow Dog, Crow Dog Woman Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistlestop Cafe Margaret Forster, Lady's Maid Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman, Ellen Foster, Charms for an Easy Life Judy Grahn, The Queen of Swords Janet Campbell Hale, The Jailing of Cecelia Capture Jean Hano***, Jury of Her Peers Susan Hawthorne, The Falling Woman Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River Keri Hulme, The Bone People Davida Wills Hurwin, A Time For Dancing Gish Jen, Mona in the Promised Land Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman Jamaica Kincaid, Autobiography of My Mother Anne Lamott, Joe Jones Ella Leffland, Mrs Munck Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger Sharon McCrumb Gillian Mears, The Mint Lawn Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye Bharati Mukherjee, The Holder of the World, Jasmine Gloria Naylor, Bailey's Cafe, The Women of Brewster Place Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire; Marya: A Life Nawal El-Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero Sapphire, Push Georgia Savage, The House Tibet Diane Schoemperlen, In the Language of Love Ntozake Shange, Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter Paula Sharp, The Woman Who Was Not All There Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here Sinclair, Coffee Will Make You Black Lee Smith, Saving Grace, The Devil's Dream Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife Mildred Taylor, The Road To Memphis; Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry Joanna Trollope, The Choir and The Rector's Wife ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:51:35 +1300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Studies @ Massey University" Subject: Visiting Scholars to New Zealand Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear wmst-l subscribers attending the NWSA conference next week: I am attending the NWSA from Women's Studies at Massey University in New Zealand where we have a Visiting Scholar scheme. You can visit our webpage for more information : (http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms/VisitingScholar.html) or - if you would like to meet and talk about the possibility of a visit, please look me up at the conference. I will be staying at the St Louis University accommodation and giving my paper (Cancer is/as spectacle : an analysis of illness as art) on Thursday 1-2.15pm. Hope to meet up with you there! Lynne Alice Director of Women's Studies Women's Studies @ Massey University = Excellence in teaching, flexible courses and a friendly environment. Private Bag 11-222 Palmerston North, New Zealand 5301. Tel. 06 350 4938. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:43:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Marilyn Dell Brady Subject: Re: references about academic job search In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII My favorite book on such topics is Women in Academe: Outsiders in the Scared Grove, by Nayda Aisenberg and Mona Harrington. It is not on Women's Studies specifically, but excellent on the problems women face and why we need to be there. I wish I had had it when I was in grad school and first job hunting--just to understand what was going on around me. Marilyn Dell Brady Virginia WEsleyan College Norfolk, VA 23502 jayhawk@infi.net On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Katherine Side wrote: > I am in the process of trying to compile a bibliography about the academic > job search for a roundtable discussion at NWSA. I know it's a huge topic, > so I'm trying to narrow it down to make it either specific to women and/or > to women's studies. > > Thanks, > > Katherine Side > klside@YorkU.ca > Doctoral Candidate > Graduate Programme in Women's Studies > South Ross, 728 > York University > North York, Ontario > Canada > M3J 1P3 > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 17:59:12 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Thomason Subject: Re: computers in WmSt courses In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Wish I could be there. Since I can't please send a syllabus. Thanks. Enjoy your workshop! Jackie Thomason 5918 Dover St. Oakland, CA 94609 >I am replying to the list in response to Suzanne's query about >incorporating technology into WS classes. I am giving a workshop at NWSA >on Friday 4-5:30 on my "Women Around the World" course, that has been >linked to First Course in the Internet. I have been >incorporating the internet technology by e-mail, web assignments, on line >discussion groups, both in and outside of the classroom. I have found it >very exciting to teach that way, and the students feel much more >connected to global issues. If anyone wants a syllabus, and won't be at >NWSA, please let me know. >Harriet >Harriet K. Levi (hlevi@clark.edu) "every society honors >Instructor/Coordinator its live conformists >Women's Studies Dept.ph# 360-992-2170 and its dead troublemakers >Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA - help reverse the trend!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Jacqueline Thomason 510-547-1518 jackiet@sirius.com 510-612-4835 (cellular) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 07:00:29 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea Austin <3AJA1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Subject: Girls Books and Query A favourite of mine was Elizabeth Goudge's _The Little White Horse_. My mother, a librarian at an elementary school, tells me that the girls still love it. While we're on the subject: can anyone recommend some good books for little boys? non-sexist, but with a boy as the main character? Andrea Austin 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:56:56 +0000 Reply-To: susanne.webel@Uni-Koeln.DE Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Susanne Webel Subject: Women's and Gender Studies Database online We would like to inform all readers of WMST-L that gender INN, the Women's and Gender Studies Database at the University of Cologne is now available on the WWW. gender INN is a searchable database providing access to over 5000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focussing in particular on English and American literature. All records are carefully indexed using a feminist thesaurus. At present, English-speaking users will not be able to benefit from the thesaurus, since it is not yet available in translation. However, full text searches are possible (even without access to the keywords). We invite all students and teachers of women's and gender studies to visit gender INN at http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/datenbank/e_index.htm (English version) or http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/datenbank/index.htm (German version) If you find gender INN a helpful research tool, as we hope you will, please pass this information on to other E-Mail lists or interested colleagues. Comments and suggestion's on gender INN's design and content are welcome: database.genderinn@uni-koeln.de ________________________________ gender INN Women's and Gender Studies Database University of Cologne English Department Albertus-Magnus-Platz D-50923 Cologne database.genderinn@uni-koeln.de _________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:23:23 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea Austin <3AJA1@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> Subject: Girls' Books Sorry to send a second message on this subject--should've listed all at once in the first one :) My mother (the librarian) also tells me the Nancy Drew series is still big with the girls, and so is _The active-enzyme, lemon-freshened, junior high school witch_ (hope I got that title right!) Andrea ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:11:32 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Candace Collins Subject: Re: computers in WmSt course In-Reply-To: <199706122140.OAA16467@ferrari.sfu.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Annis Hopkins, Ellen Cronan-Rose, and Candace Collins will be presenting a "Women's Studies in Cyberspace" at the NWSA Conference in St. Louis. The session will be at 8:30am on Thursday in the Computer Center Building in room 005. We will explore the five technological innovations in Women's Studies: cable television, compressed video, virtual conferencing, e-mail, and the World Wide Web. We will discuss our experiences with using these media and discuss issues of technology as a force for enhancing the delivery of information to under-served populations and pedagogical concerns arising from use of technology. This session would be helpful (we hope:) to anyone using or planning to use technology in the Women's Studies classroom. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ *^ I used to be Snow White, but I drifted *^ *^ Mae West *^ *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ *^ Candace.Collins@asu.edu *^ *^ Candace Collins *^ *^ Arizona State University *^ *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 13:11:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "C. Horwitz" Subject: NWSA In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII It seems that all my St Louis friends are out of town and I find myself without accomodations for the conference. Does anyone need a nice, quiet, non-smoking roomate for Thurs and Fri nights? Carol Horwitz ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:10:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea J Benintende Subject: Re: Girls' Books In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ummm...us witches find "the active enzyme lemon freshened junior high school witch" pretty prejudice and sterotyped about those who practice earth-based, goddesses worshipping, shamanistic religions and refer to themselves as witches.....i'm sure that you wouldn't want your teen ager reading a book that makes fun of a very feminist and life affirming religion..........or any religion or group for that matter...i know i wouldn't.......we had a long discussion about how racist "jungle book" is (classic or not) when my daughter brought it home from school. ************************************************************************** andrea j. berman-benintende ^^^^^^^^^^^ ajb9@acsu.buffalo.edu On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Andrea Austin wrote: > Sorry to send a second message on this subject--should've listed all > at once in the first one :) > > My mother (the librarian) also tells me the Nancy Drew > series is still big with the girls, and so is _The active-enzyme, > lemon-freshened, junior high school witch_ (hope I got that title right!) > > Andrea > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:14:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Claire O'Brien Subject: novels for girls reading group Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I agree with Beth Younger about Louise Fitzhugh's work. HARRIET THE SPY is well known, and a great book but its sequal, THE LONG SECRET, has never received much attention. It is a masterpeice: just absolutely hilarious, perfectly written, deals with class issues, child neglect, and puberty, and stays so true to, and respectful of, its characters throughout. There are a few scenes that still make me roll on the floor - I read it at least once a year. Fitzhugh wrote another great book, NOBODY'S FAMILY IS GOING TO CHANGE. The hero is a fat eleven year old African-American girl who joins a secret children's army in New York City. Any book by Virginia Hamilton, who is famous in the world of children's literature. Most (not all) of her characters are African-American girls. She is in a league by herself. She has written extensively, and at different reading levels, so it's worth it to check out her stuff at the library first. Joan Aiken has a series of wonderful novels set in 18th century England, New England, and South America starring the irrepressible working class girl (we first meet her when she is about ten) Dido Twite. Dido is a world traveler who does not suffer bumbling or evil adults lightly. She takes charge of complicated and exciting world-class problems, as she crosses and re-crosses the Atlantic Ocean. I think the series starts with NIGHTBIRDS OVER NANTUCKET, then BLACKHEARTS IN BATTERSEA...can't remember them all ..THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN (the very best of the lot!) DIDO AND HER PA..am drawing a blank. Children's librarians, most of whom are women with strong opinions about good books for girls, will be able to fill you in on all of this. They are a great resource, and have read it all. Finally, I recommend Cynthia Voight, Newberry Award winning author of a series that starts with THE HOMECOMING, in which a 12 year old girl walks across several states with her small siblings after having been abandoned by their mother. Hope this helps. I think that a summer reading group for girls in this age group is a great idea. Claire O'Brien (ABD) Department of History Southern Illinois University cobrien@siu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 17:22:08 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shahnaz C Saad Subject: Re: Girls Books and Query In-Reply-To: from "Andrea Austin" at Jun 13, 97 07:00:29 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How old are the little boys? Here are some for preschool/primary grade children: William's Doll by Charlotte Zolotow, about a boy whose Dad refuses to buy him a doll Oliver Button is a Sissy, about a boy who dances Michael Bird Boy by Tomie De Paola, about Michael Bird Boy, who convinces Boss Lady to change her manufacturing style to minimize pollution For middle grade children: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, about a close friendship between a boy and a girl All About Sam by Lois Lowry, a book for elementary school children about a 3-year-old The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright, about 4 children who start a special Saturday club For middle and high school students: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! by M. E. Kerr, about a high school boy and his best friends, who are a fat girl whose mother works with drug addicts, an emotionally disturbed girl whose father has committed suicide, and a fact, arch-conservative boy Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher, about a friendship between a fat boy and an exceptionally courageous girl with an abusive father All of these are books I think are terrific. Chris ******************************************************************* * Chris Saad, PhD * "a passion for books and a fondness * * Teacher, Ken-Crest * for cats are very often points of * * saad@dolphin.upenn.edu * intersection on the ven diagram of * * saad@alumni.upenn.edu * personality." * * (215) 844-1842, x423 * -Bill Richardson * ******************************************************************* > > While we're on the subject: can anyone recommend some good books for > little boys? non-sexist, but with a boy as the main character? > > Andrea Austin > 3aja1@qucdn.queensu.ca > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:36:46 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Re: Girls Books Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Two books: _Jacob Have I Loved_ and _ A Gathering of Days_, this one is a the diary of a young 18th century New England girl. It's very good as a fictional diary. Amy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. alw7315@acs.tamu.edu Department of English Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4227 "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." Emily Dickinson _Selected Letters_ (#330, p.196) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 22:31:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Books for Girls, ages 5 - 8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Wondering: are there moves to get the 'Books for Girls' that sound so great into schools so that both girls and boys can be encouraged to read them? beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 22:32:59 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: part time/full time/organizing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm delighted that wmst'ers who will be at NWSA acted on my suggestion that job search issues be discussed there. Regrettably, I cannot get to NWSA this year, but I'll offer another suggestion, long-distance, in response to a request for strategies for organising for job availability and security kinds of issues: Work with alumni in two ways. One is to work with the WS program to send a mailing asking for support from graduates of the program. (If lists of students haven't been kept, this is a good time to start.) Second, get a list of women alumni from the alumni association. Some associations have categories of members in their data base; if not, you have to plow thru the whole list. In my talks with 'old grads' I found many wished there had been a WS program while they were students, were aware of discrimination in faculty hiring and curriculum, seemd willing to support remedies. - A caution on this: When I tried to get an alumni list during my tenure as WS Program Coordinator at Brooklyn, there was a battle going on between the long-standing and newly forming alumni associations and each guarded their lists jealously. Good luck! beatrice bkachuck.cuny.campus.mci.net > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 11:29:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L file collection (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide: 11) "HOW DO I FIND OUT WHAT FILES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WMST-L, AND HOW DO I OBTAIN THE FILES I WANT?" To find out what files are available, send LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (or, on Bitnet, LISTSERV@UMDD) the same command mentioned in the previous section: INDEX WMST-L. The list you'll receive from LISTSERV includes files as well as logs. To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] WMST-L where [filename] is the two-word name of the file you want. For example, suppose you send for the filelist (INDEX WMST-L) and see the following listing: * Policies for cross-listing courses with Women's Studies CROSSLST POLICIES ALL OWN V 79 436 92/12/07 20:41:03 To get this file, you'd send the message GET CROSSLST POLICIES WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). Note that [filename] consists of two words separated by a space and not a period. (Adding WMST-L after the two-word filename is optional; it simply makes sure that if two lists have a file with the same name, you'll get the right one.) IMPORTANT NOTE: women's studies syllabi are contained in a subdirectory called SYLLABI, while feminist film reviews are to be found in a subdirectory called FILM, and reference book mini-reviews are in the WMSTBOOK subdirectory. To find out what syllabi, film reviews, or reference book mini-reviews a subdirectory contains, send LISTSERV the command INDEX SYLLABI (or INDEX FILM or INDEX WMSTBOOK). To obtain the file(s) you want, send LISTSERV the following command: GET [filename] SYLLABI (or replace SYLLABI w/FILM or WMSTBOOK as needed) If you are requesting a film review, be aware that the filename always takes the form FILM REVx (e.g., FILM REV25); the name of the film is NOT the filename! You can request more than one file at once; just be sure to put each request on a separate line. LISTSERV will then send the file(s) to you either in a mail message or in Netdata format. You can force LISTSERV to send them in a mail message by adding F=MAIL at the end of each command. For example, GET [filename] FILM F=MAIL . Or, to retrieve files sent by LISTSERV in Netdata format, follow these instructions: If your e-mail address is on a VAX/VMS machine, when you get a message that one or more files have arrived at your e-mail address, you should type "RECEIVE *" (do not include the quotation marks) at the $ prompt. This command will put the file(s) into your main directory. You can then type "TYPE filename" (replace "filename" with the actual name of the file) to read the file. If it's a long file, you can read it more effectively by typing "TYPE/PAGE filename." If your e-mail address is on an IBM VM/CMS machine, either use your mailer front end or type RLIST and RECEIVE the file into your FLIST. Go into your FLIST to look at the file. If your e-mail address is on a different kind of machine OR you are using Profs or some other kind of similar mailing system, go ahead and try the above commands. If they do not work, CALL YOUR COMPUTER SERVICES OFFICE. The people there should be able to help you and/or give you a manual for your mailing system commands. NOTE: Many WMST-L files (and a lot more!) are also available on the Women's Studies archive on InforM, the University of Maryland's Online Information Service. The URL is http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ . If you don't have access to the Web, you can telnet to inform.umd.edu . Select Educational Resources, then Academic Resources by Topic, then Women's Studies Resources. InforM contains a goldmine of online information about women. Do have a look! ******************* Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to gopher or World Wide Web. Gopher to gopher.umbc.edu and select Academic Department Info, then Women's Studies, then WMST-L. On the World Wide Web, the URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . You can also get a copy of the guide via e-mail by sending the message GET GUIDE WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:21:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeff Finlay Subject: American Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending June 15 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS Week Ending June 15, 1997 (893-959) American Studies Opportunities & News is a new weekly index produced by the American Studies Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads) and sponsored by the American Studies Association. The Opportunities list, which generates the index, posts ASA news, calls for papers, conference programs, fellowships, jobs, bibliographical & online resources, book reviews and tables of contents. The Opportunities archive and search engine is on the web at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html To submit a posting, or to subscribe to the index, contact the Crossroads Administrator The following items of interest to WMST-L subscribers appeared on American Studies Opportunities & News from June 8-June 15, 1997. To order any one of them, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES followed by the item number to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (example: to get the first posting listed below, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 943 to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; to get the first two postings, send message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 943 946). American Studies Association News ================================= The ASA Annual Convention takes place in Washington DC, from Oct 30 - Nov 2. Full details in the five items listed below. 943 Prelimininary Schedule for ASA Convention 946 Preview Program for ASA Convention 944 Registration Forms 947 Teaching Day -- A Preview of Activities 945 Travel Assistance to ASA Convention Jobs ==== 929 Am Litt, Mukogawa Women's Univ, Japan (full prof, due Oct 10) Fellowships & Prizes ==================== 928 Postdoc, Teaching Introductory Studies, Stanford (due July 7) Calls for Contributions to Books/Journals/Media =============================================== 948 Love & Sex in C21, for Blue Mesa Review Bibliographical & Online Resources ================================== 896 Native American Women Playwrights Archive on Web ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:12:43 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shelley Reid Subject: Re: part-time/adjuncts (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Another couple of resources appended below -- for those who want more info, some recommended reading, and for those who want to act (not necessarily a different group from those who want more info), the e-mail address for the Nat'l Congress for Part-time, Non-Tenure Track, Adjunct & Grad Faculty, who would be happy to have your participation. For those of you doing grad work, you should also check out the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students at their web page: http://www.nagps.org/NAGPS/ For those of you doing grad work in languages/literatures, or working with grad students in those areas, I strongly encourage you to get in contact with the MLA's Graduate Student Caucus, which sponsors the discussion list e-grad (from whence I pulled this post) and is working on employment issues, and whose web site is http://www.reg.uci.edu/UCI/HUMANITIES/ENGLISH/ cheers, shelley sreid@austinc.edu ____________________________________ >From: Gabrielle Welford >To: Graduate Student Caucus of the MLA >Subject: Re: part-time/full-time (fwd) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-To: e-grad >X-Sender: welford@uhunix5 > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:26:33 -1000 >From: Vincent Tirelli >Reply-To: "National Congress of Part-Time, Non-Tenure-Tract, Adjunct, > and Grad. Faculty" > >For all of you interested in the discussion of academic labor: > >Run, don't walk, to your nearest academic book and journal seller and pick >up a copy of the latest issue of Social Text. It is Issue #51/ Summer >1997. It is a special issue devoted to Academic Labor, and it is edited >by Randy Martin (chair of social science at Pratt), and it has articles >with titles such as "Academic Capitalism" (Rhoades and Slaughter); "The >CUNY Wars" (Bart Meyers); "Adjuncts and More Adjuncts" (yours truly); and >"The Last Good Job in America" (Stanley Aronowitz); among others. > >My shameless self-promotion aside, I think the Issue contributes to this >debate in important ways. > >Comments and criticism, public or private are welcome. > >Vinny Tirelli > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 20:02:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 cfp, 2 jobs MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following four announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) CFP: TransPositions: Toward Transgender Studies 2) CFP: The Synthesized Human, From Data to Dolly 3) Job: Women's Studies/Social Science (U California, Riverside) 4) Job: Asst. Prof. of German (w/gender studies) - SUNY Buffalo For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Call for Papers: TransPositions: Toward Transgender Studies Cornell University, November 6-8, 1997 TransPositions is a general transgender studies conference to be held at Cornell University from November 6th to the 8th, 1997. A broad range of papers are sought that examine transgendered concepts, perspectives and lived experiences. All disciplines are invited; methodological inquiries are particularly encouraged. The conference will be a forum for presenting original explorations of the human relations constructed through or centered around the "blurring, traversal and bridging" of the boundaries of conventional sex and gender expressions and expectations (Feinberg, Transgender Warriors). Other concerns include examining the relevance of transgendered existence to the concerns and methods of various disciplines. How has the notion of transgender been taking shape as a distinct area of inquiry? Expected speakers include Sandy Stone, Shannon Minter (National Center for Lesbian Rights), Kate Bornstein, Anne Bolin, Sandra Bem, and Morgan Holmes (Intersex Society of North America, Canadian chapter). Talks should be approximately 45 minutes long. Submissions must be received by September 15, 1997. Please submit 2 copies of a 3 page abstract to: Richard Juang Department of English Goldwin Smith Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. rmj8@cornell.edu or W. Carter Smith Department of Psychology Uris Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, USA wcs2@cornell.edu ********************************************************************** 2) CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS: THE SYNTHESIZED HUMAN, FROM DATA TO DOLLY: CYBORGS, ROBOTS, ANDROIDS, AND CLONES, and CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE HUMAN As part of the First Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference to be held at California State University, Stanislaus, October 17-19, 1997, I eagerly invite the submissions of papers and panels exploring the topic of the synthesized human--manufactured and/or genetically engineered. A cyborg is defined as a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of organic, electronic, and synthetic components, an example of the intersection of the human body with technology. Because the boundaries between cyborg, robot/android, and (genetically engineered) human are ambiguous, questions may be raised for investigation: How does the synthesized human develop and assume subjectivity? What rights and responsibilities does the synthesized human have? For what purpose was such a being created? Might cyborg theory be analogous to postcolonial concepts of the hybrid? Other topics for investigation might be: Cyborgs--slave, human, or superhuman; Moral issues in the synthesis of "people"; Portrayal of cyborgs or robots in pop culture; Feminist cyborg identity (a la Donna Haraway, et al); Cyborg politics; Early representations of synthesized humans; Cyberpunk and cyborgs. Creative and/or analytical performance presentations are also welcome. A selection of conference papers will appear on a virtual journal. There will be three featured speakers at the conference: Juliet Flower MacCannell is Professor Emirita of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine and a visiting research professor at UC Berkeley, Dept. of Rhetoric. She has published several books including _The Regime of the Brother_ (1991), _Figuring Lacan_ (1986), _Thinking Bodies_ (1994), and _The Time of Sign_ (1982), co-written with Dean MacCannell. Dean MacCannell, currently a Professor of Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture at UC Davis, has influenced tourism studies with his book _The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class_ (1976/1989). His work on tourism is featured in a current six-part BBC television miniseries, "The Tourist." Valerie Traub is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. Editor of _Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects_ (Cambridge UP, 1996), she also authored _Desire & Anxiety:_Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama_ (Routledge, 1992). She recently received the Newberry Research Fellowship for her article "Mapping the Body" which deals with Renaissance cartography and ethnography. Conference Location: California State University, Stanislaus is situated in Northern California, midway between San Francisco and Yosemite. A day trip to Yosemite, a film presentation, and an evening concert are activities planned for participants. Please mail or fax abstracts of approximately 250 words by 8/1/97 to: Ms.Joan Canty 14828 Big Hill Road Sonora CA 95370 e-mail: joandalb@mlode.com Please direct questions and inquiries to: Interdisciplinary Conference Committee English Department c/o The Graduate Journal California State University, Stanislaus 801 W. Monte Vista Avenue Turlock, CA 95382 e-mail - gradjou@toto.csustan.edu fax - (209) 667-3720 voice - (209) 667-3361 Kristi Isaeff - kisaeff@toto.csustan.edu Kimberly Merenda - kmerenda@toto.csustan.edu ********************************************************************** 3) Job Opening: Women's Studies/Social Science Women's Studies/Social Science: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside Women's Studies Department. The Department of Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside invites applications for a one year position (with the possibility of renewal for a second year), beginning October, 1997, at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor at a salary of $32,000. Social Science background and research in the cross-cultural study of gender, sex, and sexuality in relation to issues of class and ethnicity as well as to issues of political economy desired, and a strong commitment to teaching excellence. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand by the time of appointment. Completed applications must be received by July 15, 1997. Send a curriculum vitae, 3 letters of reference, and a writing sample to Professor Marguerite Waller, Chair, Department of Women's Studies, UC-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521. The University of California, Riverside is a EEO/AA employer. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 20, 1997 ********************************************************************** 4) Job: Visiting Asst. Prof of German (w/gender studies bkgd) SUNY, Buffalo German: Visiting Assistant Professor 1997-1998. The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures invites applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of German Language and Literature for the 1997-1998 academic year. Duties: teach three courses per semester on topics as required, most likely two German language courses, an upper level/graduate course, and possibly an American Pluralism course. Candidates must: 1) hold the Ph.D. in German Literature or an appropriate field related to that area; 2) have strong teaching credentials; 3) demonstrate substantial commitment to interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies; 4) have native or near-native proficiency in German. Strong backgrounds in literary theory and another field (arts, gender studies, history, philosophy, sociology) are desirable. Send letters of application, dossiers with recommendations, and other supporting materials (teaching dossiers/videotapes) to Professor Michael M. Metzger, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260-4620. Deadline for receipt of applications: July 25, 1997. State University of New York at Buffalo is an AA/EO employer. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 20, 1997 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:38:12 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Adande Washington Organization: University of Transkei Subject: Re: computers in WmSt courses Comments: To: Harriet K Levi Your syllabus sounds wonderful. I am in South Africa and am incorporating the use of computers into my course work. I won't be at NWSA. Can you forward a copy to me. Thanks. A Washington ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:12:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: carol perkins Subject: adjunct teaching MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In case you live near Mankato, you may be interested in a very modest teaching opportunity: We will hire an adjunct to teach Women's Studies 220: Perspectives on Women and Change, one course winter quarter and one course spring quarter. Applicants must have a Master's Degree. Prior experience as a teacher or teaching assistant in Women's Studies is preferred. People who bring experience from diverse backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. A commitment to and knowledge of feminst theory and pedagogy is a prerequisite for Women's Studies teachers. Women's Studies 220 is a general education course. Enrollmment is limited to 40 students. Women's Studies at Mankato State University is committed to training scholars, activists and leaders who wish to promote social change. TO APPLY: submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, tentative course syllabus, and student evaluations of previous teaching expereince. Provide names and phone numbers of 3 references who are familiar with your teaching. Application deadline: September 1. Please apply to: Carol O. Perkins, Chair MSU 64 P. O. Box 8400 Mankato State University Mankato MN 56002-8400 Contact Department Secretary, Ms. Cindy Veldhuisen at 507-389-2077 with any questions. The office is open 8 a.m. - noon M-F during June and July. Carol O. Perkins, Chairperson Department of Women's Studies Mankato State University MSU Box 64 P.O.Box 8400 Mankato, MN 56002-8400 (507) 389-5025;2077 e-mail: COPWST@VAX1.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:33:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: NWSA program about the 4 wom. stud. CD-ROMs Women's Studies librarians Ruth Dickstein (U. of Arizona) and Phyllis Holman Weisbard (U. of Wisconsin) are presenting a session at NWSA on Friday afternoon 2:30-3:45 p.m. in room 106, Computer Center Building (CCB) on the UMSL campus. We will compare/contrast/demonstrate 4 electronic products in women's studies now on the market: 2 bibliographic databases (citations and some abstracts) WOMEN STUDIES ON DISC WOMEN'S RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL 2 full-text databases CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES WOMEN 'R' We invite everyone interested in the evolving nature of women's studies resources to come take a look with us at these four new products. ************************************************************************ 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: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 15:30:24 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Anderson Subject: Re: Book List In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19970610170553.343f2e0e@staff.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Melusine, by Lynn Reid Banks, i believe. wonderful story of friendship and resisting incest. >Hi, >I am running a book club this summer with a group of young women, ages >11-14. I am at a loss to come up with some good, feminist novels that are >appropriate for that age range. What I would really like are books about >girls their age, without too much sexual content. Can anyone help? > >Frances Gateward Linda L. Anderson telephone: 203/432-0845 Women's Studies Program fax: 203/432-8475 Yale University email: lla@minerva.cis.yale.edu P.O. box 208319 100 Wall St., 315 WLH New Haven, CT 06520-8319 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 15:28:22 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: American Woman's League Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Does anyone know anything about "The American Woman's League"? Thanks, Amy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amy L. Wink, Ph.D. alw7315@acs.tamu.edu Department of English Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4227 "A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." Emily Dickinson _Selected Letters_ (#330, p.196) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:57:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeff Finlay Subject: two jobs with Manavi (org for South Asian women in US) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT +++++++++++++++++ Crossposted from postcolonial@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU, copied to anthro-l , Council on Anthropology and Education , Educational Equity Discussion List , Gender and Education , Organizational Culture List , PAR-Announcements , Participatory Action Research List , postcolonial list Two full-time positions with benefits are now open in Manavi. Please apply ASAP. JOB ANNOUNCEMENT MANAVI PROGRAM COORDINATOR FULL-TIME POSITION Manavi P.O. Box 2131, Union, NJ 07083-2131 Ph. 908-687-2662 Fax 908-687-1868 Manavi is an organization for South Asian women (includes the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal) dedicated to ending violence in the lives of women of South Asian descent residing in the U.S. The Program Coordinator is responsible for overall coordination and management of Manavi's various programs. S/he will have to do some counseling. This is a full-time position with benefits. Responsibilities: * Over all coordination and management of Manavi's various programs * Fiscal management and fund-raising * Supervision of staff, volunteers, and interns * Liaison with the Board of Directors * Preparation of reports * Providing resources and referrals * Emergency back-ups * Coordinating legal clinic * Special tasks as assigned Qualifications: * Substantial experience of working with South Asian women * Knowledge on issues of violence against women * Well organized, self-directed, and highly motivated * Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks * Flexible hours required, some weekend/weekday evening hours may be needed * Speaking proficiency in one South Asian language POSITION BEGINS (GRANT DEPENDENT) JULY/AUGUST, 1997. Please send cover letter and resume to Manavi office or send fax to 908-687-1868. You can also send e-mail to: bala@research.att.com POSITION OPEN UNTIL FILLED EEO/AA ************************************************************* JOB ANNOUNCEMENT MANAVI SERVICES COORDINATOR FULL-TIME POSITION Manavi P.O. Box 2131, Union, NJ 07083-2131 Ph. 908-687-2662 Fax 908-687-1868 Manavi is an organization for South Asian women (includes the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal) dedicated to ending violence in the lives of women of South Asian descent residing in the U.S. The Services Coordinator is responsible for providing crisis intervention, counseling, and developing services, as well as outreach programs. This is a full-time position with benefits. Responsibilities: * Coordination of Manavi's service programs * Providing crisis intervention and counseling * Supervision of staff, volunteers, and interns * Liaison with the Board of Directors * Preparation of reports * Providing resources and referrals * Outreach to South Asian communities * Special tasks as assigned Qualifications: * Substantial experience of working with South Asian women * Knowledge on issues of violence against women * Well organized, self-directed, and highly motivated * Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks * Flexible hours required, some weekend/weekday evening hours may be needed * Speaking proficiency in one South Asian language POSITION BEGINS (GRANT DEPENDENT) JULY/AUGUST, 1997. Please send cover letter and resume to Manavi office or send fax to 908-687-1868. You can also send e-mail to: bala@research.att.com POSITION OPEN UNTIL FILLED EEO/AA ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:59:39 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Ezekiel Subject: looking for Michelle Renee Matisons Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>Dear all, >> >>The European Journal of Women's Studies would very much like to contact >>Michelle Renee Matisons. She is probably staying (living) in New York. >>Anyone who can give me an address, telephone, fax or email, please let me >>know on this email address: z.matti@fsw.ruu.nl >> >>Thanking you in advance, >>Zjan Matti (managing editor) ************ ezekiel@univ-paris12.fr ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 08:16:58 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: Everything Relative y On Saturday, June 14 I reviewed "Everything Relative" on "The Women's Show" the long-running Saturday morning feminist radio magazine of public radio station WMNF-FM 88.5 in Tampa, Florida. This review is now available from the FILM FILELIST in the WMST-L files. To obtain it send the following command to listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). GET FILM REV209 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: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:27:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: NWSA double session on fem. periodical publishing Here's a brief description of a dual-session NWSA program arranged by Linda Shult, Editor, FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: First session title, set for 1:00 - 2:15 Thursday: "Feminist Journals and Newspapers in a 'Post-Feminist' World: What to Write and Why?" Participants: Editors/staff of seven feminist periodicals, including off our backs, Hypatia, NWSA Journal, Calyx, Feminist Studies, Frontiers, and Feminist Collections. The first session will offer some brief background on feminist periodical publishing, look at why our journals/magazines/newspapers exist, what they're looking for in writing, and why women activists and women's studies faculty should write for them. We'll hear from scholarly journals, a news/activist publication, and an arts/literary periodical. The second session (immediately following): "Discussion of Writing/Submission Tips, the 'Whys' of Editorial Practice, Questions and Answers." This part will bring the more political/philosophical discussion of the first session into the practical world: specific submission guidelines and why they exist, writing tips, answering attenders' questions, and exchanging ideas. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Linda Shult 608-263-5754 Editor, Ofc. of Women's Studies Librarian shult@macc.wisc.edu 430 Memorial Library, 728 State St. Madison, WI 53706 Office URL: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:47:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: Book List I recommend that you look at THE ADOLESCENT IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL SINCE 1960 by Mary Hean DeMarr and Jane S. Bakerman (Ungar, 1986). It covers 600 novels written both for adults and adolescents that focus on adolescence. I have found it an invaluable reference and think it will help you find just what you are looking for. Good luck and good fun! Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 16:59:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: am68 Subject: Re: NWSA Jewish Caucus, 1997 meetings and events In-Reply-To: Beth: Did the bibliography come? I hope it do or will before NWSA. I just had a coffee with Evi Beck and I toldher I wasn't coming this year - but hope to another year. Ann Masnik ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:04:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 jobs: internet coordinator; field rep w/Feminist Majority MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following 2 job announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Internet Coordinator (Feminist Majority) 2) Field Representatives (Feminist Majority) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) The Feminist Majority Foundation Internet Coordinator ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Feminist Majority Foundation Online is seeking a full-time Internet Coordinator to manage our award-winning Web site beginning in August 1997. Applicants must have prior experience navigating the World Wide Web, creating HTML documents and working with graphics. Applicants must be comfortable in both Mac and Windows environments and have knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Netscape Navigator. Computer background, familiarity with Eudora Pro e-mail and LINUX network, and computer graphics experience are pluses. Self-motivation and willingness to learn most important. Knowledge of and commitment to feminism and women's issues required. Past activism on women's rights preferred. Applicants should be very familiar with The Feminist Majority Foundation Web site. Strong writing and communication skills required. Prior experience in journalism helpful. Responsibilities include: * Searching for, writing and/or editing Feminist Daily News, Monday-Friday * Responding to user feedback * Researching and writing action items * Creating new and updating old HTML documents throughout the site as needed * Identifying areas to be updated and supervising interns or working with staff * Coordinating additions to site with staff, interns, publishing company * Keeping Internet Gateway up-to-date - researching links * Approving submissions to the site * Monitoring level of visitation of the site, media comments, users' comments * Marketing site * Fundraising for the site * Working with vendors on site maintenance, LINUX network maintenance, PR * Acting as point-person for e-mail system and LAN Salary is commensurate with experience. Full-time position. Excellent benefits plus two weeks paid vacation. Position will begin in early August. Office is in Arlington, Virginia in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area and is metro- and bus-accessible. Send resume, writing sample, and cover letter detailing experience and interest in women's issues, computers, and Web editing to: Jessica Haney Internet Coordinator 1600 Wilson Blvd., Suite 801 Arlington, VA 22209 Fax (703) 522-2219 Or send specific inquiries to haney@feminist.org References will be requested upon review of initial application. Persons of color strongly encouraged to apply. Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer *********************************************************************** 2) Feminist Majority Foundation Field Representatives ----------------------------------------------------------------- WANTED: Feminist Activists Committed to Campus Organizing The Feminist Majority Foundation is seeking graduating seniors and recent college graduates to be part of the team developing the Feminist Majority's innovative campus project: Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances. As a member of the field team, representatives will attend a three month summer training session in the Feminist Majority Foundation's DC or LA office. After learning the organization and leadership skills necessary to establish Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances on college campuses, Field Representatives will alternate spending time in the field and in the office for the following academic year. For the '97 -'98 academic year, Field Representatives will spend ten weeks in the field establishing Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances and organizing the Campus Campaign for Choice. Qualifications and Applications The position requires a knowledge of and commitment to feminism and activism. Past feminist activism on campus is essential. Positions are limited and pay is modest. Health insurance and traveling expenses are included. The Feminist Majority Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to being a multicultural organization. People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. To apply, send or email resume, writing sample, two academic/professional references, and cover letter detailing experience and interest in feminist issues and grassroots organizing to: Dee Martin National Programs Associate Feminist Majority Foundation 1600 Wilson Blvd., Ste. 801 Arlington, VA 22209 703-522-2219 (fax) 703-522-2214 (phone) dmartin@feminist.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:21:11 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea J Benintende Subject: info needed In-Reply-To: <01IK6Q2E87CY004IPD@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII i'm looking for some more info on the first ecofeminism conference: "women and life on earth: a conference on ecofeminism in the eighties." it was held at amherst college in mass. in march 1980. please contact me if you know about it, were there, or know where i can get more info. thanks, andrea ************************************************************************** andrea j. berman-benintende ^^^^^^^^^^^ ajb9@acsu.buffalo.edu "Ecofeminism challenges all relations of domination. Its goal is not just to change who wields power, but to transform the structure of power itself" -Starhawk )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O( )O ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:52:14 GMT+10 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fiona Ann Papps Organization: School of Behavioural Sciences Subject: Research on commitment In-Reply-To: Dear Colleagues, I am currently completing my doctorate in psychology. My research is investigating the understandings that men and women in couple relationships ascribe to commitment. My work is being conducted within the theoretical framework proposed by Wendy Hollway (1984, 1989). I am looking for research that presents a feminist critique of commitment and/or marriage. I am familiar with the work that has been conducted in this area by Caryl Rusbult, a brief critique by Julia Wood, and Carol Pateman's work. I would be most appreciative of any other suggestions for references in this or related areas. Please respond to me privately, unless you feel that there are others on the list who would be interested in this material. email: fionap@bunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au fiona papps fiona ann papps school of behavioural sciences macquarie university NSW 2109 AUSTRALIA email: fionap@bunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 22:09:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Patten Subject: Re: Scholars/Activists Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Pat, I'm glad you connected with Yuri; that's great. No, I won't be attending the NWSA... but perhaps our paths will cross some other way, some day? great news about geronimo pratt, and the attica suit, huh? finally, some long-overdue good news, for a change... peace, and warm greetings, ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 22:26:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Patten Subject: excuse me... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ..for sending a private message to the list. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:08:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Murphy Subject: Books for girls In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Women and the suffrage/abolition movement (women's history)Picture Books * ~ Follow the Drinking Gourd. 1988. Jeanette Winter. Dragonfly books, Alfred A Knopf. * ~ Bloomers!. 1993. Rhoda Blumberg. Aladin paperback. Simon & Schuster. * ~ Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky. 1992. Faith Ringgoald. Scholastic Books. Crown Publishers Inc. A Picture book of Sojourner Truth. 1994. By David Adler. Scholastic Inc, originally pub. NY Holiday House. A Picture book of Harriet Tubman. 1994. David Adler. N.Y. Holiday House. For older kids (1st grade and up) Women of Our Time Series. Puffin Books. (Some of these may be out of print) * Amelia Earhart, Courage in the Sky Dorothea Lange: Life Through the Camera Babe Didrikson: athlete of the Century Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World Diana Ross: Star Supreme Betty Friedan: A Vocie for Woment's Rights Margaret Thatcher: Britain's Iron Lady Dolly Parton: Country Goin' to Town Our Golda: The Story of Golda Meir Mary McLeod Bethune: Voice of Black Hope Grandma Moses: Painter of Rural America Martina Navratilova: Tennis Power Mother Theresea : Sister to the Poor Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing up in the Little House * ~ You Want Women to Vote Lizzie Stanton. 1995. DyAnne Disalvo-Ryan. Scholastic books. G.P. Putnam's Sons. * ~ Harriet Tubman. 1988. Kathie Billingslea Smith. The Great American Series. Simon & Schuster. ~ Susan B. Anthony. Fighter for Women's Rights. 1993. Pamela Levin. Jr. World Biographies. Chelsea Juniors, a div of Chelsea House. ~ Elizabeth Blackwell. 1975. Jean Lee Latham. A discovery Book. Garrard pub. co.. ~ They Shall be Heard: Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1993 Kate Connell Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn Pubs. ~ The Road to Seneca Falls : a Story about Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1996 Gwenyth Swain, Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, ~The Ballot Box Battle, 1996. Emily Arnold McCully. New York : Knopf. ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Liberty . 1992. Kathryn Cullen-DuPont. New York. Facts on File. ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1987. Martha E. Kendall. Los Gatos, CA.:Highland Publishing Amelia Earhart: Aviator. 1987. Nancy Shore. American Women of Achievement series. Chelsea House. ~ Rights and Wrongs: Women's Struggles for Legal Equality 2nd Ed. 1986. Susan Nicholas, Alice Price, Rachel Rubin. The feminist Press. NY. Woman of Independence: The Life of Abigail Adams. 1992. Susan Provost Beller. Shoe Tree Press. White Hall Va. * books at the talk ~ Books with a local connection For Adults Seneca Falls Inheritance . 1992. Miriam Grace Monfredo. New York : Berkley Publishing Group. Monfredo has written 3 historical mysteries for adults set in Seneca Falls. I believe the Avon Library has them. A good resource is the National Women's History Project. 7738 Bell Road, Windsor CA 95492-8518. They have an extensive catalogue. Borders may have some of the books and many are available in Seneca Falls at the Museums. Pat Murphy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology Sociology Dept SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 murphy@uno.cc.geneseo.edu 716-245-5324 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:00:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: KAT Subject: wmst-math thanks I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who responded to my query on how to incorporate a math course into a women's studies program. I am in the process of organizing all the info and will be listing it on the wmst listserve, but until I complete the task I wanted everyone to know how much I appreciated their input. Thanks again, kathy ragan. ragank@bucks.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:52:42 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Research on commitment Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Shulamith Firestone's chapter on romance in her Dialectics of Sex remains a good source for inducements to commit. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci net At 12:52 PM 6/18/97 GMT+10, you wrote: >Dear Colleagues, > >I am currently completing my doctorate in psychology. My research is >investigating the understandings that men and women in couple >relationships ascribe to commitment. My work is being conducted >within the theoretical framework proposed by Wendy Hollway (1984, >1989). > >I am looking for research that presents a feminist critique of >commitment and/or marriage. I am familiar with the work that has been >conducted in this area by Caryl Rusbult, a brief critique by >Julia Wood, and Carol Pateman's work. > >I would be most appreciative of any other suggestions for references >in this or related areas. >Please respond to me privately, unless you feel that there are others >on the list who would be interested in this material. > >email: fionap@bunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au > >fiona papps >fiona ann papps >school of behavioural sciences >macquarie university NSW 2109 >AUSTRALIA > >email: fionap@bunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:19:04 GMT+10 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fiona Ann Papps Organization: School of Behavioural Sciences Subject: Re: Research on commitment In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970619025242.0067d820@cuny.campus.mci.net> > Shulamith Firestone's chapter on romance in her Dialectics of Sex remains a > good source for inducements to commit. > beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci net Thanks, Beatrice, this sounds great. Best, fiona fiona ann papps school of behavioural sciences macquarie university NSW 2109 AUSTRALIA email: fionap@bunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:55:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: National Org for Family Studies Comments: cc: Kathy Royce , Rosemary Blieszner Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The following membership information about the National Council of Family Relations (NCFR) might be of interest to women's studies scholars with an interest in the intersection of women's studies with family studies. NCFR will hold its annual 1997 Fall Conference in Arlington, Virginia, November 5-10. Theme is Fatherhood and Motherhood in a Diverse and Changing World. Plenary speaker is Patricia Hill Collins, who will address the topic "Producing the Mothers of the Nation: Race, Class and Contemporary U.S. Population Policies". The fall 1998 conference theme is "Families in a Global COntext: Media, Environment and Peace". IT will be held in Milwaukee, WI, November 12-16, 1998. Calls for papers for the 1998 conf will go out in Nov. 1997. For further infor re either NCFR or the Conference, see forwarded message, below. *********FORWARDED MESSAGE RE NCFR*********** From: Rosemary Blieszner To: Marilyn Flick , Jacqueline Haessly For over 50 years, National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) has linked multi-disciplinary family professionals through its journals, conferences, state affiliate councils, and special interest sections. NCFR is non-partisan and fully member-funded. Researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers from all family fields and disciplines share knowledge and information. NCFR was founded in 1938 by sociologist Ernest W. Burgess, attorney Paul Sayre, and Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein. Our Mission NCFR provides a forum for family researchers, educators, and practitioners to share in the development and dissemination of knowledge about families and family relationships, establishes professional standards, and works to promote family well-being. Established to Meet Your Professional Needs: NCFR disseminates information about families through two scholarly journals--Journal of Marriage and the Family and Family Relations--plus books, video and audio tapes, family life education materials, and a quarterly newsletter. NCFR encourages research on families. In addition to its research-based journals, NCFR offers several research awards, and an annual conference featuring more than 400 pieces of original research. Members are eligible for discounted conference fees. NCFR fosters dialogue among family professionals. Along with its annual conference, NCFR offers over 30 state/regional/provincial affiliates, 10 Special Interest Sections, and many topic focus groups. Networking is an valued association-side activity! NCFR promotes family life education. NCFR established the first criteria and curriculum guidelines for family life education. Its Certified Family Life Educator program now has nearly 700 participants. Tailored Membership Benefits Members may choose from seven different membership categories, based on the kinds and numbers of benefits that meet their needs. Publications: All members receive the quarterly newsletter, NCFR Report, to keep them updated on association activities and general family field news. Related job openings across the U.S. are included. NCFR also provides an employment service at its annual conference. Those who select journal-carrying catagories may choose to receive one or both journals. Journal of Marriage and the Family is a leading scholarly research journal in the family field. This quarterly publication features original research and theory, research interpretation, criticial discussion concerning all aspects of marriage and the family, plus book reviews. Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies, is an applied scholarly journal with a family practitioner focus. Emphasis is on relationships across the life cycle with implications for intervention, education, and public policy. It is published quarterly. Discounts: Members are eligible for discounts on over 150 products from NCFR's catalog and reduced annual conference registration and Certified Family Life Educator application fees. Professional Development and Networking: National members are automatically members of their state or regional affiliate councils. Over 300 councils offer opportunities for networking and information sharing at the local level. Affiliates also develop their own workshops, conferences, and newsletters. Ten Special Interest Sections provide opportunities to exchange ideas, research, and information: Education and Enrichment Family Policy Research and Theory Religion and Family Life Feminism and Family Studies International Family and Health Family Therapy Family Science Ethnic Minorities Fees are $5 per Section (Students $3 per Section). A number of awards recognize member achievements, including those for outstanding teaching and research in the family field, outstanding service to families, and graduate student awards. Certified Family Life Educators network throughout the year via annual conference meetings, several ongoing committees, and a quarterly newsletter. Fees Membership categories and U.S. fees are: Benefactor (includes both journals) $120 Organization (both journals) $110 Colleague (both journals) $80 Association (choose 1 journal) $55 Supporting (no journals) $33 Student with 1 journal $45 Student with 2 journals $65 Ordering information Visit NCFR's website at www.ncfr.com or contact us at 3989 Central Ave. NE, Suite 550, Minneapolis, MN 55421; toll free 888-781-9331; phone 612-781-9331; FAX 612-781-9348; e-mail ncfr3989@ncfr.com *****End -- Forwarded Message***** peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:30:39 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Harris Subject: CFP: Women and Class Jean Pfaelzer and Sharon M. Harris will co-edit a special issue of LEGACY that examines the discourses of women and class in U.S. literatures from the seventeenth century through the era of Tillie Olsen's *Yonnondio.* Two copies of a prospectus (maximum 500 words) should be sent to Prof. Jean Pfaelzer, Dept. of English, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. DEADLINE: December 30, 1997. For further information, contact Pfaelzer at pfaelzer@UDel.edu or Harris at sharris@unlinfo.unl.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 18:27:37 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harriet Nona Hungate Subject: Math and WS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Somewhat belatedly, I'm responding to the earlier post about math classes in a women's studies program, with some perceptions about how my being a feminist affects my teaching. I am at a community college, and have taught mathematics there off and on for several years. I returned to the classroom Spring 97, after four years writing and implementing grants. My general approach to mathematics, which I talk about with classes, is to place the student--rather than the subject--at the center. Many of our students have picked up the notion that math is something 'out there' that is impenetrable by all but a few who were born with some magical capability. For those (multitudes) who do not find math obvious, it is crucial to talk about the invisible intricacies, such as the use of language in mathematics, and the extensive tacit knowledge involved in even the simplest mathematical expressions. This can also be enlightening for those already successful at math. There are a couple of ways language is important, and these may not be obvious. One is that whereas we can be very casual in our use of ordinary English, in mathematics certain words have a very precise meaning. Two implications here: on the one hand it is a new idea, that a word might have a precise meaning -- when we communicate with other humans in 'ordinary' life, we can be very casual, and can misuse words yet still apparently be understood; on the other hand, many of these words are the same words that we use daily in a casual way, yet now they seem to have a different meaning. Thus, not only are we as ordinary humans unaccustomed to using words so carefully and gaining specific information from these words, also we may miss that a familiar word now has a different meaning. A second way that language is important (at least to most) in mathematics is in working out a problem. We need to think about various possibilities, we need to make decisions and weigh alternatives, it can be useful to think about goals and subgoals, and so on. Many of us do this thinking in words -- we talk to ourselves -- and for this we need some kind of language. There is a persistent myth that math does not require language; this notion does no one any favor. As to the tacit knowledge involved in even the simplest mathematical expressions, I like to write the numeral one on the board and ask what do we know is 'really' there even though we don't see it. Typically I need to start, maybe by asking whether it's positive or negative; there are shocks of recognition when they realize there's 'really' a plus in front, and they love it when they realize that they already had some of this fancy sounding tacit knowledge. We continue, by adding zero, dividing by one, and so on. Once we filled a huge space with this exercise, when we extended to equivalent expressions such as 2/2. I recall -- or perhaps I imagine -- an earlier post saying/protesting? that it sounded as if what people were proposing as feminist teaching was (just) good teaching. It's an interesting question; what would anti-feminism be in a math class if the pedagogy I discuss above is feminist -- old-style instruction, I guess. Any teaching that implicitly or explicitly excludes or minimizes the value of certain classes of people is not good teaching by my standards, so insofar as feminism promotes inclusion and valuing of women and girls, feminism is an essential part of good teaching. My own concept of feminism speaks to power -- a focus on power 'to' and 'with' rather than power 'over' -- and with that definition I'll happily say that good teaching is feminist teaching. Several years ago I taught in a two-year interdisciplinary program; this was, incidentally, by virtue of my background in philosophy, rather than mathematics. The format was lecture/discussion, and I was delighted by the level of students' participation. When I led the group, hands were always waving; many of these belonged to women and the handful of students of color. This struck me as significantly more valuable than any 'imparting of knowledge' that some seemed to expect. Later I read a summary of research on Women's Studies programs and/or people (sorry, don't have the cite) which indicated that the one commonality was that the primary measure of success was student participation. I found this very affirming of my own experience in that program; this opinion had not been expressed by my colleagues. It surely is a condition necessary for learning -- the old model of opening the top of the head, pouring in the information, and closing it up again has been shown not to work. This also ties back to my first point, about placing students, rather than the subject area, at the center. This post has gotten longer than I expected so I'll stop after some anecdotes about 'word problems' and the infelicities of gender etc. that often appear there. The best problems I have ever encountered in a math text were in an elementary computer science text -- yes, those are different subjects, but the problems can have a similar form. Not a single problem used anyone's name, never was 'he' or 'she' used in a problem, and they were good problems. The author was Julia Bradley -- are you out there, Julia? She showed it could indeed be done; wish it were becoming the style. A finite math book I just used had males earning lots of money and taking risks; an occasional problem involved a woman but she did something like go to the bank and make a modest deposit or inquire about a loan. In writing an exam I decided to have a woman make a bunch of money but somehow wrote 100 instead of 10 years so she got around .04% yearly interest (that's 4/100 of one percent) for those 100 years ... a long life of poverty. Was my face red when I realized it -- while correcting the papers, of course -- but it gave me an opportunity to mention in class how deep it goes ... . Another text I used once had a problem about a shortstop which used the 'default' he, and since the shortstop on the women's team was a student in the class we had fun with that infelicity. Thanks, Kathy, for your original post, and for your forthcoming summary. H. Nona Hungate, PhD ** Oakland CA 94606 ** harnet@telis.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 19:27:25 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeff Finlay Subject: American Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending June 22 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS Week Ending June 22, 1997 (682-747) Sponsored by the American Studies Association and provided as a free service to the community by the American Studies Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads) The Opportunities archive and search engine is on the web at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html To submit an announcement for posting, or to subscribe to the index, contact Jeff Finlay, Crossroads Administrator The following items of interest to WMST-L subscribers appeared on American Studies Opportunities & News from June 16-22, 1997. To order any one of them, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES followed by the item number to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (example: to get the first posting listed below, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 729 to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; to get the first two postings, send message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 729 722). Calls for Contributions to Books/Journals/Media =============================================== 729 Fiction/Poetry on Women & War, for Minerva Quarterly 722 Women & Class, for Legacy Journal Calls for Papers for Conferences ================================ 743 Towards Transgender Studies, Cornell U NY, Nov 6-8 97 Calls for Panels for Conferences ================================ 699 (Re)Constructing the Feminine, Sn Women Writers Conf 1998 Programs for Forthcoming Conferences (listed chronologically) ============================================================= 731 Style Conf, Bowling Green OH, July 25-28 Events, Institutes, Seminars & Special Notices ============================================== 744 Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, San Francisco, June 20-29 Bibliographical & Online Resources ================================== 682 New List, Women-Writing-Culture (women ethnographers) 708 Tenure & Technology Resources on the Web ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 07:23:22 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HadleyWood Subject: Children's Books Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I only saw the last bit of this discussion, so I don't know the nature of the original query; here are a few suggestions of good books for young boys (a variety of ages, since the age wasn't mentioned). Rumer Godden's Impunity Jane. For young readers. It cuts against sex-role typing for both boys and girls. It is about a female doll who hates sitting in a doll house and having tea. Her dreams of flying planes and taking risks and being adventurous come true when a little boy takes her and incorporates her into his games. One crisis occurs when his playmates discover he has a doll and it is nicely resolved. The book is not easy to find but it is worth the search. Elizabeth George Speare has written several excellent books. Boys would enjoy The Sign of the Beaver (about the development of mutual respect andunderstanding between an Anglo boy and an Indian youth, set in frontier days). Girls would find lots to enjoy in Calico Captive which presents one of the feistiest heroines I've met. Her other books (The Bronze Bow and Witch on Blackbird Pond) are also excellent and all involve a thoughtful handling of the clash of cultures. Other books for boys. Gary Paulsen has written several good ones, my favorites being Hatchet and Woodsong. Hatchet is a nice survival story that includes a very pragmatic and unmoralistic view of self-pity. Woodsong is a hodge-podge of reflections on animals followed by a day by day account of Paulsen's first run at the Iditarod. Paula Fox's book Slave Dancer is a superb look at how racial prejudice can take root in the heart of a well-meaning white person and at what can begin to undo racism. Older, emotionall mature readers will enjoy Robert Cormier's books, most of which treat very touchy subjects: nuclear war, vandalism, random violence, children with terminal illnesses etc. Books that girls might enjoy include: E.L.Konigsberg's A Proude Taste of Scarlet and Miniver, a whimsically written story of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the woman who was queen of France and later of England. Irene Hunt's Up a Road Slowly, the story of a young girl's dealing with the loss of her mother. The books gives a real sense of the slowness with which some processes take place within us. Realistic and very encouraging. Also Suzanne Fisher Stales' books Shabanu and Haveli. About the life of a young Muslim girl who belongs to a nomadic Pakistani family. (Author's last name is Staples.) I'm not sure who sent the original request but if you'd like other suggestions you can just e-mail me at woodLL@oa.ptloma.edu. Since I teach Children's Literature, among other things, I have lots of books I could recommend and I can appreciate how difficult it is to sort through what's out there. I can also recommend some books that will help you find children's books to suit your specific needs.-- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:33:34 -0400 Reply-To: "Leah C. Ulansey" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Leah C. Ulansey" Subject: Re: Math and WS In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Harriet Nona Hungate wrote > > I recall -- or perhaps I imagine -- an earlier post saying/protesting? that > it sounded as if what people were proposing as feminist teaching was (just) > good teaching. It's an interesting question; what would anti-feminism be in > a math class if the pedagogy I discuss above is feminist -- old-style > instruction, I guess. Any teaching that implicitly or explicitly excludes > or minimizes the value of certain classes of people is not good teaching by > my standards, so insofar as feminism promotes inclusion and valuing of > women and girls, feminism is an essential part of good teaching. My own > concept of feminism speaks to power -- a focus on power 'to' and 'with' > rather than power 'over' -- and with that definition I'll happily say that > good teaching is feminist teaching. Regarding girls and math, I can testify to what drove me from honors math class in high school: in a class of 10 boys and 2 girls, the boys all clustered at the front of the classroom and bonded with each other by competing to see who could call out the correct answer FIRST. This obsession with SPEED in arithmetic calculation is something I have since observed in adult men, even in situations where speed is not particularly of the essence. The adrenelin really starts to pump....My interest in math in high school was much more contemplative: I vaguely recall liking geometry because a world of numbers could be transformed into a world of pictures... Is speed reckoning still considered important for math education? Obviously it's an important practical skill. Leah Ulansey leou@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:52:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: joAnn Castagna Subject: The Style Conference MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT A friend not on the list has asked me to forward this message: THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF TIME TO REGISTER FOR THE STYLE CONFERENCE!!!!! July 25-28, 1997 at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green Ohio **KEYNOTE SPEAKER VALERIE STEELE,** author of FASHION AND EROTICISM and FETISH, and editor of the new journal FASHION THEORY **PERFORMANCE ARTIST Nick Cave** **FEATURED SPEAKERS:** MEAGHAN MORRIS on "Style and Cynthia Rothrock (`You can take the girl out of Scranton...'): Emulation and Identity in Martial Arts Movies" NOLIWE M. ROOKS on "Hair Dramas: Bodies, Style and African American Identity" ROBYN WIEGMAN on "Miss America Hair" > **ALSO APPEARING:** Joanna Frueh, "Dressing Aphrodite," Corey Creekmur, "Boots, Buckskin, Buttons, and Bows: Cowboy Drag in American Popular Culture," Emily Jenkins, "Body Conscious: Experiments and Interrogations," the "ADIOS, BARBIE"/HUES Fashion Hour, from the third wave feminist magazine's multiethnic editorial collective. **PLUS:** Cynthia Fuchs, "`I wasn't born with enough middle fingers!' Extreme Style, Rage, and Politics in Popular Music," Melissa Jane Hardie, "Camp Quality: Dolly Parton's Country Style," Chantal Nadeau, "Venus Is Back and BB Is Out: The Next Fur Generation in Canada." **AND MORE:** Embracing Your Inner Girl," The Politics of Virtual Style," `Rock Style' and the Older Woman," "Barbie as Extra-Terrestrial," "Patriarchy, Postmodernism and the Feminist Dress Sense," "When Bad Girls Do High Theory" NOT TO MENTION music, art, shoes, videos, lingerie, and food!!! > The tentative schedule is now online: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/wmst/style/ For more information: Laura Stempel Mumford (608) 238-3612 or Mary Thompson (419) 353-9308. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Registration fees: $75 Regular participants; $40 Non-BGSU Students/Underemployed/Unemployed; $30 BGSU Students/One-day registrants Meals:* $14 Conference Dinner Friday Night/Valerie Steele Keynote (vegetarian option available) $8 Monday Brunch/Meaghan Morris talk *Both talks are open to all conference registrants; you need not attend the meals to hear the speakers. Send payment to: THE STYLE CONFERENCE, 40 College Park, Bowling Green State > University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 or call (419) 372-8181; fax (419) 372-8667. Make checks payable to BGSU Style Conference; or use VISA, Mastercard, or Discover. (Refund policy: Before July 18, 1997: full refund; after July 18, 1997: 50% of registration fee.) Accomodations: Best Western, 1450 E. Wooster St., Bowling Green 43402; (419) 352-4671; Fri, Sat $81.95, Sun $61.95 + tax Buckeye Budget, 1740 E. Wooster St., Bowling Green 43402; (419) 352-1520; > $43.95 + tax Days Inn, 1550 E. Wooster St., Bowling Green 43402; (800) 325-2525; $48 + tax Quality Inn and Suites, 1630 E. Wooster St., Bowling Green 43402; (419) > 352-2521; $55 + tax Bowling Green State University Union Hotel, BGSU Campus; (419) 372-2741 Holiday Inn, Perrysburg, Ohio; (419) 874-3111; $79 + tax Travel: Car: North/South via I-75; East/West via I-80-90 Air: Toledo Airport is the closest to Bowling Green. Indicate on registration whether you will need ground transportation to campus;cost is $40 round trip. Travelers flying into the Detroit Metro Airport: you will need to take the shuttle bus to Toledo Airport and arrange ground transportation. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:14:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Oberhausen Subject: Re: Anna Jameson and Victorian Artists Hello: I am independant art historian working in the area of Pre-Raphaelite/Victorian studies. As a result of the research I have published on the painter Evelyn Pickering De Morgan (1855-1919) I have become interested in the influence of Anna Brownell Jameson's books on the imagery and iconography of saints by Victorian artists. De Morgan took several of her saintly subjects directly from Sacred and Legendary Art and Monastic Orders and I have therefore become curious as to whether other artists may also have done so. I am more interested in her female saints than I am in her Shakespearean heroines and more interested in female artists than male artists. However, since I am in the early stages of research I should probably look at everything. I am already aware of the few books and articles that are currently out there and have been in touch with Judy Johnston whose book on Jameson is still forthcoming. Any suggestions or help from members of this list would be very much appreciated. Cheers and thanks, Judy Oberhausen HAUZYN@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:30:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: Come to the Teaching Workshop at APA in Chicago! (fwd) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Speaking of great ideas for teaching, don't forget about the annual workshop that Mary Roth Walsh organizes for Division 35 of the American Psychological Association each year. It is a WONDERFUL opportunity not only to learn about teaching the psychology of women and/or gender, but to network with like and different minded individuals for mutual support, brainstorming, and mentorship! I am an alum of this workshop and thought it was incredible! Lynn Collins University of Baltimore ***PLEASE FORWARD, PRINT, & SHARE!*** PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN INSTITUTE TEACHING WORKSHOP: PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN AND GENDER Division 35 - American Psychological Association Pre-Convention Continuing Education Training Chicago, Thursday, August 14, 1997 Full-day: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (8 hrs CE credits) Half-day: 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (4 hrs CE credits) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: This is the tenth edition of a very successful workshop designed for graduate students, beginning faculty (both clinical and academic), and those who have been teaching for a number of years but who are looking for new ideas to enrich their teaching. Special features of the workshop include written networking sheets submitted in advance of the workshop; morning lectures by faculty; large group experience; lunchtime mentoring in small special interest groups led by afternoon roundtable leaders who are experienced faculty in a number of specialty areas related to women and gender. Sign up for half-day or full-day. All of the faculty are nationally prominent experts representing a diversity of topics requested by registrants in previous workshops. The networking sheets described below are your way, as a registrant for the workshop, of letting us know your needs and interests. CHAIR, ORGANIZER, & MORNING FACULTY MARY ROTH WALSH, PH.D., University Professor and Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Publications include Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply (1977, new edition forthcoming); Psychology of Women: Ongoing Debates (1987); Women, Men, and Gender: Ongoing Debates (1997) and a Study Guide to the Debates (in preparation), all published by Yale University Press. MORNING FACULTY FOR THE WORKSHOP: JANET SHIBLEY HYDE, PH.D. Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin- Madison. Publications include Understanding Human Sexuality, 6th edition (McGraw Hill, 1997); Half the Human Experience: The Psychology of Women, 5th edition (D.C. Health, 1996) and Parental Leave and Childcare (Iemple University Press, 1991). MARGARET MATLIN, PH.D. Distinguished Teaching Professor of Psychology, State University of New York, Geneseo. Publications by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich include The Psychology of Women, 3rd edition (1996); Cognition, 4th edition (1998); Psychology, 2nd edition (1995); Sensation and Perception, 4th edition (Allyn & Bacon, 1997). AFTERNOON FACULTY FOR THE WORKSHOP: SUSAN BASOW, PH.D., Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology, and chair of the Psychology Department, Lafayette College, is author of the textbook, Gender Stereotypes and Roles. Dr. Basow will make a roundtable presentation dealing with problems of gender bias in student evaluations of teaching, an area she has been researching since the 1970s. She believes knowledge is power and knowing the pitfalls connected to student evaluations can help you avoid problems. JOAN CHRISLER, PH.D., Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department, Connecticut College, is author of more than fifty articles and chapters on various aspects of the psychology of women as well as co-editor of three recent books on womens issues. Dr. Chrisler a co-editor of the forthcoming book, Arming Athena: Career Strategies for Women Academics and will share information at the workshop on women moving forward as faculty leaders and resolving role conflict issues. LYNN COLLINS, PH.D., Assistant Professor, University of Baltimore, has served as editor of the Association for Women in Psychology Newsletter and is Coordinator of the next Association for Women in Psychology Conference in Baltimore, MD, March 5-8, 1998. A clinical psychologist, Dr. Collins specializes cognitive-behavioral treatment of Anxiety Disorders, especially Panic Disorder. Lynn Collins, Joan Chrisler, and Kat Quina are co-editors of the forthcoming book, Arming Athena: Career Strategies for Women Academics, designed as a practical, scholarly manual to guide faculty women. Dr. Collins will share highlights from the book at the teaching workshop. She also developed interesting demonstrations of the relationship between power & gender role behavior and power & psychopathology, the latter of which will soon appear in PWQ. ALICE EAGLY, PH.D. Professor, Northwestern University, has published extensively on attitudes, gender stereotypes and sex-related differences in social behavior. She has taught psychology of women and gender courses since the mid-1970s at Purdue University, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Tuebingen (Germany). JUDY TAWA FERRIS is a counselor at Michigan State Universitys Multi-Ethnic Counseling Center and a doctoral student specializing in Native-American and bicultural concerns. She works in the area of womens adjustment to disability and post acute trauma. She would like to connect with others interested in issues related to being a person of color or having a disability. RUTH HALL, PH.D., Associate Professor, the College of New Jersey, is the recipient of the Christine Ladd-Franklin Award from the Association of Women in Psychology for outstanding service to feminist psychology. She has published on the topics of gay and lesbian issues, people of color, and sports psychology. She currently teaches psychology of women of color and sports psychology courses at the College of New Jersey. She has taught courses on the psychology of women, contemporary issues in the lives of lesbian and gay men and Afro-American psychology at Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania. ANNE PEPLAU, PH.D., Professor, UCLA, has a new reader, co-edited with Rosemary Veniegas (a 1996 teaching workshop participant), on multiculturalism (Prentice Hall, 1997). The book features an annotated guide to books, journals, and audio-visual materials. She has been teaching a 200-250 student psychology of gender course at UCLA for 24 years. Dr. Peplau is an award winning researcher on gay and lesbian issues and hopes to be able to attend. If she is unable to, she will be sending her teaching materials to the workshop. KAT QUINA, PH.D., Professor, URI, co-edited a classic curriculum guide to teaching psychology of women material entitled Teaching a Psychology of People (APA, 1988). She, Dr. Collins, and Dr. Chrisler are co-editors of an upcoming book for women faculty and graduate students entitle, Arming Athena: Career Strategies for Academic Women. She teaches continuing education courses on the psychology of women and has been doing so for almost 20 years. She teaches some courses via e-mail and . JOAN ROLLINS, PH.D., Professor of Psychology, Rhode Island College, is author of the recent 1996 textbook, Womens Mind s/Womens Bodies: The Psychology of Women in a Biosocial Context (Prentice-Hall). She formerly served as director of the womens studies program and has been teaching the psychology of women-course since 1978. JAN YODER, PH.D. Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is currently writing a textbook on the psychology of women for Prentice Hall. She has been teaching psychology of women courses with graduate students and undergraduates in psychology and in the Honors Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has won two outstanding teaching awards. REGISTRATION AND INQUIRIES: Registration for the workshop includes a one page networking sheet (which will be distributed to others at the workshop). Include your name, address, phone, fax, and e-mail addresses. The more you write, the greater your chances of making rewarding connections with others. It is now mid-summer, so please FAX your networking sheet and send your registration and check by U.S. mail to insure your place. YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP because we need advance notice to prepare the workshop packets which include each registrants networking sheet and lots of handouts to enrich your teaching and career success. ------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIL A CHECK (PAYABLE TO APA DIVISION 35) for $75.00 (full-day) or $40.00 (half-day)(fee includes large packet of workshop materials including syllabi) and FAX your one page networking sheet, and this form to: Mary Roth Walsh, Ph.D., 109 Spring Street, Arlington, MA 02174-7924. Answering machine number is (617) 646-1493; fax: (617) 646-3268. (between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time). Name: School/Occupation: Street Address: City, State, & Zip: Phone: Day: Evening: Continuing Ed Credit (circle one): Yes No Registration (circle): All day (S75) AM only ($40) PM only ($40) Division 35 reserves the right to cancel the workshop if necessary. Cancellations and refund requests must be in writing and received by July 14, 1997. A $15 handling fee will be deducted for all cancellations. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:34:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Preston Subject: Part-time positions What a difficult decision, between a full-time (if temporary) job which may leave little time for publication, and taking some time off to finish some publications in order to be more marketable for a full-time position! I thought the best advice was to reexamine your goals and preferences . There are many campuses (my own, for example) where good teaching does count and "one or two publications a year" would be highly acceptable, and if you've had trouble finishing revisions so far, wouldn't it be even harder at a research-oriented place where, although you wouldn't have to commute to four (!) different campuses, you would probably have to be involved in committee work, etc.? What I'd like to know is how the execrable increase in the use of part-timers has affected WS programs. We began our program with a base of tenure-track faculty in regular departments, which meant a lot of unpaid extra work for everyone but gave the program credibility, longevity, and chances to influence our male colleagues to incorporate gender into their courses. Now we're in a position to get hiring money for some part-timers, which is great for both them and the program, but there's a push toward hiring a full-time WS faculty member who would run the program and teach several courses. Most likely it would be either one of our part-timers or an outside person with, perhaps, a higher degree in WS. Am I right to worry that the program may become even more isolated than it already is, and that the person in the new job will be, too, without another base on campus? Or am I living in the past? Kathleen Preston Humboldt State Univ., Arcata CA KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:05:07 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan lehrer Subject: CFP - Challenges of women's sexual freedom I am pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our annual women's studies conference at the State Univ. of New York at New Paltz. This year's theme is Revolting Behavior: The Challenges of Women's Sexual Freedom. We welcome your inquiries, proposals etc. I can be reached on e-mail at: lehrers@npvm.newpaltz.edu. Susan Lehrer, Coordinator, Women's Studies Program. I'm looking forward to another exciting conference. Revolting Behavior: The Challenges of Women's Sexual Freedom November 1, 1997 How can women freely explore our sexuality in a culture which denigrates female power and autonomy? How has the state controlled female sexuality and how have women challenged various forms of state control? What contradictions are revealed by exposes of sexual harassment in the military and in government? How do double standards about sexuality affect women's lives? How do the sexual attitudes of young women differ from earlier generations? How has the AIDS epidemic affected sexual attitudes and practices? What is the impact of violence on women's sexual experience? How do race, class and ethnicity affect public policy towards sexuality and women's sexual experience? How can we reinterpret the spectrum of female sexual orientation and women's relationship to gender? We invite proposals for workshops, panels, dramatic presentations and papers that address these and other questions about women's sexuality. Some additional themes you might explore are: religion and women's sexuality; changing images of women's sexuality in the media; female sexuality and the law; historical or literary perspectives on women's sexuality; the relationship between reproductive rights and sexuality; sexuality at different life stages; the effects of heterosexism and homophobia on women's sexual choices. Workshop sessions are one and a half hours long. We strongly encourage proposals for workshops which include ample time for discussion. Our conference attracts students, faculty and community members from a wide variety of backgrounds. While we will accept proposals for individual presentations, we strongly encourage proposals for complete sessions led by either one presenter or a group. More than three or four presenters, however, often prevents adequate discussion. Workshops proposals should include: 1) One page description of the workshop, how it relates to the conference theme and what topics it will explore and/or activities it will include. 2) The names of each presenter with a short description of the experience and/or qualifications relevant to the workshop. 3) Name, address and phone number for contact person. If you have questions or would like to discuss an idea for a session, feel free to call Amy Kesselman (914) 257-2977, Pat Clarke (914) 257-2975 or Peri Rainbow (914) 688-9724. Send proposals to: Conference Program Committee, State University of New York, Women's Studies Program, 75 S. Manheim Blvd. New Paltz, NY 12561-2499. tel: 914-257-2975. FAX: (914) 257-2984. Susan Lehrer, lehrers@npvm.newpaltz.edu SUNY - New Paltz ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:17:59 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan lehrer Subject: CFP deadline omitted Oops! Due to vagaries of formatting, the deadline for conference paper submissions was omitted from my posting. Papers are due July 21. Susan Lehrer, lehrers@npvm.newpaltz.edu SUNY - New Paltz ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:59:02 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shelley Reid Subject: tenure or not -- Wash. Post story Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This just popped up on another list I'm on, & I thought in the context of our recent discussions that several people on this list might have stories to tell. Please don't contact me or respond to the list; instead contact NAGPS at the address at the end of the message. shelley sreid@austinc.edu _______________________________________ > >This came over the list: > > >Dear NAGPS Members and Friends; > >NAGPS has been contacted by a reporter with the Washington Post who is >doing a story on academic tenure. She is interested in speaking with >junior faculty who have some interesting story or unique perspective on >the tenure issue. Examples might include junior faculty who are on a >non-tenure track but want to be on tenure track, junior faculty who are >on tenure track and who support or do not support tenure, junior faculty >who feel they don't have sufficient guidance on the guidelines for >tenure, junior faculty with some other experience relative to the tenure >system. By junior faculty, she is referring to people who have been >teaching for a year or two, but I suspect she might be interested in >speaking with people who are as many as 5 years into academic teaching. > >If you or a colleague think you might have a perspective on this story >that is worthy of being considered, please send me an email with your 1) >name, 2) university affiliation, 3) telephone number, 4) email address, >and 5) one or two paragraphs about your particular perspective, idea, or >experience on this subject. I will then fax a print-out of your email >message directly to the reporter. As always, when we learn about the >article and it being published, we'll let you know. > >Email this to me at nagps@netcom.com > >Thanks. > >Kevin Boyer >NAGPS Executive Director >*========================================================================* >| >>>> The National Association of Graduate - Professional Students <<<< | >| 825 Green Bay Road, Suite 270 PHONE: 847-256-1562 | >| Wilmette, IL 60091 FAX: 847-256-8954 | >| Toll Free 1-888-88-NAGPS * Email to: NAGPS@NETCOM.COM | >*------------------------------------------------------------------------* >| NAGPS 12th National Conference - New Orleans, Louisiana | >| October 30 - November 2, 1997 | >+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------+ >| To access the NAGPS Internet Job Bank, send email to nagps@netcom.com | >*-----------------------------------+------------------------------------* >| #### WWW Site > http://www.nagps.org/NAGPS/ #### | >*========================================================================* > >_____________________________________________________________________________ > This message | Help on the lists nagps-help@nagps.varesearch.com > sent using the | Subscribe/remove/etc. > nagps-request@nagps.varesearch.com > NAGPS E-mail | General talk list nagps-talk@nagps.varesearch.com > Server | Reach NAGPS officers nagps-officers@nagps.varesearch.com > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 23:44:24 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lori Patterson & Roger Tucker Subject: Re: Request for Information Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello WMST-L ers! Has anbody heard of these two articles: "The Erasure of Black Women" by Elizabeth Spelman and "Pricks and Chicks" by Don(or Tom?) Baker. I need then for a class but I don't where they originated from. Thanks Lori Lori Patterson Roger Tucker Elijah Lapret lapret@cybernw.com 4808 NE 8th Ave #2 Portland, OR 97211 (503) 288-8037 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:41:15 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: Part-time positions In-Reply-To: <970624113240_1277422615@emout02.mail.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello all, I wanted to respond to a point in a ost about the part-time situation: > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Kathleen Preston wrote: > There are many campuses (my own, for example) where good teaching does count > and "one or two publications a year" would be highly acceptable, and if > you've had trouble finishing revisions so far, wouldn't it be even harder at > a research-oriented place where, although you wouldn't have to commute to > four (!) different campuses, you would probably have to be involved in > committee work, etc.? I wanted to respond to this because there are a couple of important clarifications that need to be made. First of all, I never stated that I had in my heart a position at a research-oriented institution. I need to publish so I can get jobs at _any_ institution. And I love to write--I would write even if it served no purpose at all in my job search. But the focus on academic published writing is for job reasons, primarily. I am not applying to many jobs at the big, research-oriented places because I have no illusions about being competitive in that market. The job situation is such that publication records are being used to screen out candidates for jobs at all levels, according to people I have spoken with at liberal arts colleges, "progressive" education institutions, and community and branch colleges. If this is a surprise to you, please advise your graduate students that, even for those who would love to work with, say, adult education in a community college (and many of us would love this), a publication record is important. Second, it is an erroneous assumption that part-timers do not do university service work. I do not know where this rumor started, but my strong suspicion is that it began with the _Chronicle_ articles about why part-timers are a detriment to higher ed. We, the story goes, are not "committed" to the institution, to the campus, to the students. We are only there long enough to cover our courses and then we go. Maybe it is that way for some campuses, but almost every part-timer I know is involved in service work. I attend only two dept. meetings each term, but that's because I am not "invited" to others (and, yes, we do get "invited"--this, of course, serves to indicate to us that we are not welcome to other meetings on a "walk in" basis). I am an active, invited member (by the dean of student life) of our Coalition Against Sexual Offenses on BG campus, and last year I co-chaired the committee on diversity issues and sexual offenses. I have recently received a phone call from a member of our Human Relations Commission which, I think, is another invitation to be a member of that group. I am active and visible on campus--my students see me at campus programs related to women's issues, race issues, and sexuality issues. I go to theater performances, music performances and art openings. And I announce these things in my classes and, sometimes, give extra credit for attending & writing about them. I am not an anomoly. We are there. We participate. Maybe I do not have as many committee meetings as a tenure-line person, but I would if my voice were considered important enough to be included by those who appoint the committees. In addition, there is often a coalition of part-timers and other non-tenure-line faculty that works together to try to gain small amenities like phones, offices, photocopying privileges, etc. I believe that the fallacy of the uninvolved part-timer is perpetuated on campuses in order to insulate the "real" faculty from those of us who might serve to challenge notions of what "real" is comprised of. Our presence is not comfortable for tenure-line folks because most are aware of and disapprove of our exploitation. I do not believe that this fallacy is perpetuated by tenure-line people, but by administrations. It is just part of the power structure. Please, don't read this as a flame--it was not meant that way. It is an analysis. That's all. Take care, everyone, Jeannie __________________________________________________________________________ The men are in assembly ) Jeannie Ludlow They speak, yes or no ) jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu and change the living ) Women's Studies to the dead. Such is the power of words. ) Popular Culture . . . ) Ethnic Studies This poem is written in the language ) Bowling Green SU the presidents speak. ) Bowling Green, OH That is another reason to learn a new tongue. ) 43403 --Linda Hogan, "Folksong" ) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 01:03:36 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: laurel guymer Subject: hols In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" i am going on hols how do i stop the email? not permanently though ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:38:15 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: IAPh Conference Brochure *** Resending note of 06/25/97 12:37 To: SWIP-L --CFRVM From: Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator We are just about ready to mail the brochure and registration materials for the 8th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers that will be held just prior to the World Congress of Philosophy in Boston next summer. If you did not receive our earlier mailing (the call for papers) and would like to be on our mailing list to receive the brochure and subsequent informati on, please reply to this message with your snail-mail address and we'll see that you get on it. ********************************************* 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, 25 Jun 1997 13:10:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Murphy Subject: Women in the 1890's In-Reply-To: <01BC7D75.C3D827E0@eng-sharris.unl.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Next spring I will be doing a presentation on Women in the 1890's as part of an advanced placement conference. I am looking for general historical references from that period. I'm familiar with the settlement movement, and the suffrage movement, but wondered if there was a book(s) similar to the women in the 2oth century series. Please respond privately and I'll compile and send the list to the list. I have the list from the 1920's and the 1930's if anyone is interested. Thanks in advance Pat Murphy Pat Murphy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology Sociology Dept SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 murphy@uno.cc.geneseo.edu 716-245-5324 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 14:24:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Donna Burnell (SOC)" Subject: Re: IAPh Conference Brochure In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hi, linda, this is from Diane wilkinson, and not donna burnell: please include my name on the mailing list. where do i find out about grad student attendance and the possibility of my presenting? i am taking a leave from n.o.w. activism and am in philosophy dept. at u.s.f. working on masters degree here (ph.d. elsewhere, I think.) thanks, diane wilkinson On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator wrote: > *** Resending note of 06/25/97 12:37 > To: SWIP-L --CFRVM > > From: Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator > > We are just about ready to mail the brochure and registration materials for > the 8th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers > that will be held just prior to the World Congress of Philosophy in Boston > next summer. > If you did not receive our earlier mailing (the call for papers) and would > like to be on our mailing list to receive the brochure and subsequent informati > on, please reply to this message with your snail-mail address and we'll see > that you get on it. > > ********************************************* > 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, 26 Jun 1997 10:29:43 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Edrie J Sobstyl Subject: Re: Request for Information In-Reply-To: <199706250642.XAA21645@bert.cybernw.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Lori, I'm not sure about the Spelman right now because I don't have my bookshelf handy, but the Robert Baker is "'Pricks' and 'Chicks': A Plea for Persons", and it's reprinted in Sharon Bishop and Marjorie Weinzweig (eds), _Philosophy and Women_, Wadsworth 1979; it originally appeared in _Philosophy and Sex_. Edrie Sobstyl School of Arts and Humanities University of Texas at Dallas P.O. Box 830688 Richardson Tx 75083-0688 (972) 883-2365 (972) 883-2989 (fax) On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 23:44:24 -0800 Lori Patterson & Roger Tucker wrote: > Hello WMST-L ers! > > Has anbody heard of these two articles: "The Erasure of Black Women" by > Elizabeth Spelman and "Pricks and Chicks" by Don(or Tom?) Baker. I need > then for a class but I don't where they originated from. > > Thanks > > Lori > > Lori Patterson > Roger Tucker > Elijah Lapret > lapret@cybernw.com > 4808 NE 8th Ave #2 > Portland, OR 97211 > (503) 288-8037 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:21:54 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: RFC822 error: TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was retained. From: Claire Garcia Subject: job advertising Comments: To: girlfriend , "JAMESF-L@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU" , Multiple recipients of list H-WOMEN , TROLLOPE READING GROUP , 19cawww MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit My department will be advertising a tenure-track position for a creative writer in the fall. We want to ensure that we have a strong pool of minority candidates for the position. Does anyone have any ideas about places to advertise to reach minority candidates? Because of the nature of the position (creative writing) we don't want to limit ourselves to people who have been working in academia, so we'd like to advertise in non-academic venues as well. Please respond privately. Thanks in advance. Claire Garcia ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 22:04:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Mothers and Daughters Conference (fwd) Comments: To: postgrad-wo@mailbase.ac.uk, GWSSA-L@yorku.ca, IRWMST@Listserv.hea.ie, bridges@shamash.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 14:07:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Cheryl Dobinson To: klside@YorkU.CA Subject: Mothers and Daughters Conference International Conference on: MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: MOVING INTO THE NEXT MILLENIUM Sept.26-28, 1997 York University Positioned at the threshold of the new millennium, this interdisciplinary conference aims to consider the most recent scholarship on mothers and daughters and investigate the concerns of mothers and daughters as they enter the next century. This conference will bring together the major writers in this area along with interested academics, students and activists in order to promote the development and dissemination of feminist scholarhip on mothers and daughters. Keynote speakers at the conference will include Miriam Johnson, Christina Baker, Sara Ruddick, Helen Lucey, Katherine Arnup, Patricia Bell-Scott, Suzanna Walters, Marianne Hirsch, Paula Caplan, Janet Burstein, Naomi Lowinski, Sylvia Hamilton and Esther Broner. Participants will have the opportunity to hear all the keynote speakers, as well as to choose from 34 conference sessions which are grouped broadly around the themes of disability, popular culture, state, feminist theory, lesbian mothering, literature, biography, race, class, education and family. Conference Agenda: Friday, Sept 26 2-4pm Registration 4-6pm Concurrent Sessions: Reproduction, Lesbian Mothering, Writing and Mothering, Immigrant Mothering, Biracial Mother/ Daughter Relationships, When Daughters are not Mothers, Power and Violence, The Last Closet: Motherhood and the Visual Arts. 6-7pm Dinner 7-9pm Keynote Event I - MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS AND FEMINISM 9-11pm Reception Saturday, Sept 27 8-8:30am Breakfast 8:30-10:30am Keynote Event II - MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: RACE, CLASS, SEXUALITY 10:30-11am Coffee Break 11-1pm Concurrent Sessions: Disability, Representations in Popular Culture: Media, Domestic Workers, Representation and Maternal Identities, Children's Literature, Aging and Motherloss, Motherwork, Third Wave: Initiatives in Education. 1-2pm Lunch 2-3:45pm Keynote Event III - MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS AND REPRESENTATION 3:45-4pm Coffee Break 4-6pm Concurrent Sessions: Home and School, State Policy, Theorizing Mother/Daughter Relationships, Canadian Literature, Bad Mothering, Personal Stories of Self as Mother, Class and Mothering, Young Girls Speak Out. 6-8pm Dinner 8-11pm Cabaret Sunday, Sept 28 8-8:30am Breakfast 8:30-10:30am Concurrent Sessions: Theorizing Mothering, Genre, Voices of Mothers and Daughters, Mothering Across Cultures in Literature #1, Jewish Mothering, Feminist Socialization, Mothering and Health, Teachers as Women: Creating Space for Girls' Voices While Exploring Their Own. 10:30-11am Coffee Break 11-1pm Concurrent Sessions: Representation in Film, Black Parenting, Coming Out as a Lesbian Mother, Infertility, Mothering in the Life Cycle, Mothering Across Cultures in Literature #2, Domineering Mothers? Resisting Daughters? Mother-Daughter Narratives in the Teaching and Learning of Women's Studies. 1-2pm Lunch 2-4:30pm Keynote Event IV - MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: TELLING OUR STORIES CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: Cost: $150 - regular $60 - student, limited number available To register for this event, please send the following information (via email, fax or mail) and a cheque to: Cheryl Dobinson Centre for Feminist Research 228 York Lanes York University 4700 Keele Street North York, ON M3J 1P3 Canada phone: (416) 736-5915 fax: (416) 736-5416 email: cjdobins@yorku.ca IF YOU REQUIRE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS CONFERENCE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT THE CENTRE FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH, AS PER ABOVE. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 22:40:34 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margo Okazawa-Rey Subject: need contact MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII i am looking for a contact person & contact info for now-defunct Woman of Power journal to secure reprint permission for article for intro to womst book.i have been trying for months.... thanks!!! margo okazawa-rey please reply privately to mor@sfsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:27:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Montelaro Subject: PRIMIS WOMEN'S STUDIES DATA BASE FROM MCGRAW-HILL MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Last week at the NWSA in St. Louis, McGraw-Hill officially launched its Women's Studies Database edited by Janet J. Montelaro and Patricia M. Ulbrich, both of the University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program. The response was absolutely overwhelming! One quote heard at the exhibit was, "This database will revolutionize the way we teach women's studies!" The database is available through Primis, McGraw-Hill's electronic publishing system. Primis allows professors to choose from a compilation of over 150 copyright-cleared, interdisciplinary readings, essays, articles, and textbook chapters. These readings are grouped under general topic areas that are most often taught in the introduction to women's studies courses. To give students more background in these topic areas, the editors requested original essays from a number of experienced and well-known authors and researchers. These introductory topic essays were written exclusively for the database by the following noted feminist scholars: Bernice Sandler, Diana Scully, Rhoda Unger, Mary Crawford, Chandra Mohanty, Vivian Ng, Eve Sedgwick and Denise Fulbrook, Judith Lorber, Carol McAllister, Jean Ferguson Carr. Mary Zimmerman, Sally Wall, Martha Schmidt, Verta Taylor, Martha Fineman, and Therese Lueck. In addition to great content, Primis provides the following advantages: your custom complimentary text is processed and delivered within 10 working days from your initial order; text orders for your class appear in your university or college bookstore within 3 weeks of finalizing your order; your students only pay for the readings you select; newly type-set readings ensure no more blurred or faded copies; all copyright permissions have been pre-cleared; flexibility to combine materials from over 21 disciplines and arrange them to match your course. To find out more, please email Cathleen Mattura or Beth Kaufman at McGraw-Hill: cmattura@mcgraw-hill.com or beth_kaufman@mcgraw-hill.com Or visit our website: http://www.mhhe.com/primis If you would like to talk to the editors, their email addresses are jjm6@vms.cis.pitt.edu (Janet Montelaro) ulbrich+@pitt.edu (Patricia Ulbrich) Thanks! Janet Montelaro Research Assistant Professor Women's Studies Program 2632 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412) 624-6485 jjm6@vms.cis.pitt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:00:21 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Robin Sheets Subject: women entrepreneurs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Colleagues: I am receiving an increasing number of inquiries from students and community members who are seeking information about women entrepreneurs. As a literary critic, I am having a really tough time responding. Can someone recommend a few basic and readily accessible readings on the topic of comen entrepreneurs? Thanks so much. Robin Sheets Robin Sheets, Director Professor of English Center for Women's Studies University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0164 tel: (513) 556-6652 fax: (513) 556-6771 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 18:01:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "William W. Pendleton" Subject: Re: women entrepreneurs In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have read that more women than men are establishing new businesses through the SBA (Small Business Administration) You might look at the web page for the Department of Commerce and look at their data resources, they are forminable. On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Robin Sheets wrote: > Dear Colleagues: I am receiving an increasing number of inquiries from > students and community members who are seeking information about women > entrepreneurs. As a literary critic, I am having a really tough time > responding. Can someone recommend a few basic and readily accessible > readings on the topic of comen entrepreneurs? Thanks so much. Robin Sheets > > Robin Sheets, Director > Professor of English > Center for Women's Studies > University of Cincinnati > Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0164 > > tel: (513) 556-6652 > fax: (513) 556-6771 > Wm W. Pendleton Department of Sociology Emory University Atlanta, Ga. 30322 socwwp@emory.edu 404 727-7524 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 03:46:17 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Andrea J Benintende Subject: Re: Women's Rights In-Reply-To: <33B48056.3704@zebra.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII from another list, maybe someone is interested......maybe not..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ andrea j. berman-benintende ajb9@acsu.buffalo.edu each heart is a world you find within yourself all that find without - nana simopoulos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Leslie Langdon wrote: > I've discovered a debate list entitled "Women's Rights" that seems to be > badly in need of some Feminist comments. The majority look rather anti- > women. I submitted a comment which has of course been (not intelligently) > put down. The web-page is: > > http://ww3.ncweb.com/gym/women.html > > I just thought that some of you would like to know. Thanks. > > -Leslie Langdon > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 15:04:29 +0200 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Teresa Malafaia Subject: English Culture Conference MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit English Culture Studies at the University of Lisbon The Department of English (Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon) announces its first one-day Conference on English Culture Studies FAMILY AND EDUCATION from early modern to postmodern times November 21, 1997 and calls for position papers and 15m-papers from a variety of disciplines and fields, such as cultural history, cultural theory, cultural studies, gender studies, youth studies, ethnicity and identity studies, or postcolonial studies, focusing on and/or exploring, among others, family concepts, ideals and projects, family formations and social classes, aspects and problems of cultural relations between family and society, configurations and frames of education processes within the family, codes and practices of identity formation and transformation, differentiation of sex and gender roles, equality possibilities and limits between masculinity and femininity models, as well as postmodern forms and modes of family and family education. Deadline for the reception of registration forms and 100-word abstracts of intended papers: September 30, 1997. Registration fee: PTE 2,500$00 (cheques only, to Prof. Teresa Malafaia) All correspondence to Primeira Jornada de Cultura Inglesa Departamento de Estudos Anglisticos Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Cidade Universitaria, 1699 LISBOA CODEX, Portugal Fax No. (+ 351 - 1) 796 00 63 Submission of abstracts also possible by e-mail to Prof. Teresa Malafaia (tvmalafaia@mail.telepac.pt) Prof. Alvaro Pina (ferpi@mail.telepac.pt) Registration form (please print) Name ___________________________________________ Title __________________ Affiliation___________________________ (Material mail) Address ________________________________________________ Postal code _________________ Town and country _________________________ Tel. 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Pat Ballantine, edited and produced by New Leaders Press and published by Barrett-koehler, named one of top ten business books by Industry Week for 1993; ($24.95) __The New Enterpreneurs: Business Visionaries for the 21st Century__, Ed. Michael Ray and John Rensech, 1994; ($29.95). __Rediscovering the Soul of Business: A Renaisance of Values__, Eds. John Renesch and Bill DeFoore, 1995; ($35.OO). __THe New Bottom Line: Bringing Heart and Soul to Business__, Eds. John Renesch and Bill DeFoore, 1996; ($32.OO). These each include essays by women entrepreneurs. These books can be ordered from the publisher, or from authors/contributors. (NOT bookstores!) You can order from me at Peace Talk Publications. 2437 N. Grant Blvd. Milwaukee, WI 5321O-2941. 414-445-9736. Add $3.OO postage and handling. Check also, Joline Godfrey, __Our Wildest Dreams: WOmen Entrepreneurs Making Money, Having Fun, Doin Good., Harper Business, New York, 1977. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Robin Sheets wrote: > Dear Colleagues: I am receiving an increasing number of inquiries from > students and community members who are seeking information about women > entrepreneurs. As a literary critic, I am having a really tough time > responding. Can someone recommend a few basic and readily accessible > readings on the topic of comen entrepreneurs? Thanks so much. Robin Sheets > > Robin Sheets, Director > Professor of English > Center for Women's Studies > University of Cincinnati > Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0164 > > tel: (513) 556-6652 > fax: (513) 556-6771 > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 19:15:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: women entrepreneurs Comments: To: Robin Sheets In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Robin, the NFWBO (National Foundation for Women Business Owners) has a new publication "Leading WOmen Entrepreneurs of the World 1997", profiling 5O business women. Some info from the most recent NFWBO NEws, says "in a number of countries, women are starting businesses at a faster rate than men, that their businesses are financially strong, and that women-owned firms are making a substantial contribution to the economic AND SOCIAL FABRIC of the world economy. . . .The business are headquartered in 22 different countries. It offers a leadership institute each fall in DC. One of its most popular items is "Key Facts" pocketfold brochure which cites "women-owned businesses emply one out of every four US company workers, and is growing. FOr Further info about NFWBO, write to them at 11OO Wayne Avenue, Suite 83O Silver Spring, MD 2O91O-56O3 USA Phone: 3O1-495-4975 FAX: 3O1-495-4979 Email: NFWBO@worldnet.att.net Web Page: http://www.nfwbo.org/nfwbo WEB page is updated each Monday! Hope this helps point folks in a direction for further info. Peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 14:49:04 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 Watermelon Woman On Saturday, June 28, 1997 I reviewed "The Watermelon Women" on The Women's Show" the long-running Saturday morning feminist radio magazine of public radio station WMNF-FM 88.5 in Tampa, Florida. This review is now available from the FILM FILELIST in the WMST-L files. To obtain it send the following command to listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). GET FILM REV210 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: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 13:35:11 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margo Okazawa-Rey Subject: Re: women entrepreneurs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" hi jackie got a possible contact for woman of power 707 8822793 (fax) it's mag called sage women hope this helps Margo Okazawa-Rey Professor School of Social Work San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 mor@sfsu.edu 415 338-6187 (tel) 415 338-0591 (fax) ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 21:42:54 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: val balding Subject: CFP Comments: To: fivers@athens.net Comments: cc: postgrad-wo@mailbase.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 21:11:14 +0200 (METDST) >From: "Ma. del Pilar Cuder Dominguez" >To: womens-studies@mailbase.ac.uk >Subject: CFP >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Unsub: To leave, send text 'leave womens-studies' > to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk >Reply-To: womens-studies@mailbase.ac.uk >Sender: womens-studies-request@mailbase.ac.uk >Precedence: list >Status: > >Please cross-post. > >Pilar Cuder >Coordinator. >Women's Studies Centre >University of Huelva, Spain > >Women's Exiles. >An International, Interdisciplinary Conference. >Universidad de Huelva, Spain. >30 April, 1-2 May 1998. > >The Women's Studies Centre at the University of Huelva invites proposals >for papers on the topic of women's exiles. This topic may appeal to >scholars from any of the Humanities and Social Sciences. We would like to >discuss the ways in which women have been marginalized throughout history, >and how as a result they have, willingly or otherwise, suffered literal or >figurative exiles, as well as the mechanisms they have used in order to >survive and even progress: > >-exiles of the mind and/or the body; >-exile as marginalization of women in language, education, the law, >society, the labour market, science and philosophy; >-famous women exiles, revolutionaries and pioneers: returns from exile; >-exile as shelter from a patriarchal world: the cloister, hysteria, >madness, magic, prostitution, etc; >-economic and political exiles: immigrant women; >-forced exiles: slavery, war, etc; >-exile as a journey or a flight in search of identity; >-etc. > >Deadline for abstracts (100-200 words in either English or Spanish): 31st >January 1998. Acceptance of papers will be notified around 1 March. >Papers (10 pages, around 2500 words) may be delivered in English or >Spanish. However, those contributors who want to have their papers >considered for publication in the proceedings should (re-)write it or >translate it into Spanish. > > >Please send your abstract by e-mail to: > >Dr. Zenon Luis at and carbon copy to >Ms. Sonia Villegas at > >Or by fax or snail-mail to: > >Prof. Mar Gallego. >Dept. Of English. >Facultad de Humanidades >Campus del Carmen >Huelva 21071 Spain. >Fax: (34) 59 27 09 87 > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 11:37:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Annette McElhiney Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT OF PUBLICATION OF AN ANTHOLOGY ON WOMEN, LAW AND LITERATURE Jacqueline St. Joan (Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs at the University of Denver College of Law) and I (Annette Bennington McElhiney, Professor of English and Women's Studies at Metropolitan State College of Denver) would like to announce the publication of an anthology we edited: BEYOND PORTIA: WOMEN, LAW AND LITERATURE IN THE UNITED STATES. This is an anthology of legal essays, literary criticism, short stories, poems , and bibliographies on the following general areas: Theories of Law, Literature and Feminism; Law and Literature on Families; Law and Literature on Abuse of Women; and Moving from Alienation to Community in the Classroom. Judith Resnik, the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School, and Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University, wrote the Foreword. On the back cover of BEYOND PORTIA appears a quote by Robin Morgan on the book. "A first for feminism, literature, and (certainly!) the law, this groundbreaking anthology will inform, enrage, inspire, surprise, and delight you." This book grew out of Jackie's and my work on combining law and literature in a judicial education project on domestic abuse. In the process of researching the subject, we found that many colleges and law schools offered law and literature course, but few included literature written by women or focused on subjects that affected women in particular. After three years of additional research, we have selected poetry, legal articles, literary criticism, essays, and short stories for this anthology, all of which focus specifically on women writers (many of them multicultural) and women's problems. Perhaps more importantly, we include extensive bibliographies on all of the above to provide readers with additional resources not included in the anthology. For those of you who might be interested in ordering the book for yourself or in encouraging your library to order it for you, I'm including the address of the publisher - Northeastern University Press, the ISBN numbers, and the prices. BEYOND PORTIA: WOMEN, LAW AND LITERATURE IN THE UNITED STATES Edited by Jacqueline St. Joan and Annette Bennington McElhiney Northeastern University Press c/o CUP Services Box 6525 Ithaca, NY 14851 ISBN 1-55553-305-1 $50.00 cloth ISBN 1-55553-306-x $20.00 paper Thanks for reading this announcement. We hope you will find BEYOND PORTIA beneficial to you in helping to promote "a better more humane world for women." Annette Bennington McElhiney mcelhina@ix.netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:06:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: Networking sheet for APA workshop on teaching Psych of Women Comments: To: power MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Here is the networking sheet and a summary of the information posted before. The address is at the end. Sample Networking Sheet Format for APA Teaching Workshop on the Psychology of Women: DIRECTIONS; PRINT OR TYPE ALL THE INFORMATION SO IT IS EASY TO READ FULL NAME IN EASY TO READ TYPE AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE STREET MAILING ADDRESS OR P. O. CITY, STATE, POSTAL CODE, AND COUNTRY PHONE NUMBER; FAX NUMBER E-MAIL OR INTERNEE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (IF YOU USE E-MAIL) Overview; After you include the above information, your networking sheet can then take any form you wish. Be creative but also be specific so people have clues to how they can make connections with you or relate to some facet of your work if they wish to contact you further. WRITE ONE PAGE ONLY FOCUS YOUR ONE PAGE ON WHAT YOU WANT FROM THIS PARTICULAR ONE-DAY TEACHING WORKSHOP BUT YOU CAN CERTAINLY INCLUDE LONG TERM GOALS. STARTER PHRASES: Below are some starters to help you write about your networking needs at this particular moment. Select as many of the following statements as suits your situation at this moment in time. You will probably have so much to write that you will have to edit what you say to squeeze it into one page. I am currently working, teaching, studying at (city, school, or other workplace) I think my greatest strength as a teacher is my... My previous training or work involving women and gender issues includes... I have used the following textbooks or supplementary in my learning or teaching... What I am looking for in this specific workshop is... At the end of the one-day teaching workshop I would like to be able to... I am just beginning.... I am actively involved in efforts to.... I feel that my teaching in this field needs... I am looking for..., I would appreciate..., I need..., I wonder..., I am concerned about..., My highest priority regarding what I get from this teaching workshop is that... *************************************************************************** ***PLEASE FORWARD, PRINT, & SHARE!*** PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN INSTITUTE TEACHING WORKSHOP: PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN AND GENDER Division 35 - American Psychological Association Pre-Convention Continuing Education Training Chicago, Thursday, August 14, 1997 Full-day: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (8 hrs CE credits) Half-day: 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (4 hrs CE credits) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: This is the tenth edition of a very successful workshop designed for graduate students, beginning faculty (both clinical and academic), and those who have been teaching for a number of years but who are looking for new ideas to enrich their teaching. Special features of the workshop include written networking sheets submitted in advance of the workshop; morning lectures by faculty; large group experience; lunchtime mentoring in small special interest groups led by afternoon roundtable leaders who are experienced faculty in a number of specialty areas related to women and gender. Sign up for half-day or full-day. All of the faculty are nationally prominent experts representing a diversity of topics requested by registrants in previous workshops. The networking sheets described below are your way, as a registrant for the workshop, of letting us know your needs and interests. MORNING FACULTY FOR THE WORKSHOP: CHAIR & ORGANIZER, MARY ROTH WALSH, PH.D., University Professor and Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. JANET SHIBLEY HYDE, PH.D. Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin- Madison. MARGARET MATLIN, PH.D. Distinguished Teaching Professor of Psychology, State University of New York, Geneseo. AFTERNOON FACULTY FOR THE WORKSHOP: SUSAN BASOW, PH.D., Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and chair of the Psychology Department, Lafayette College. LYNN COLLINS, PH.D., Assistant Professor, University of Baltimore. JOAN CHRISLER, PH.D., Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department, Connecticut College. ALICE EAGLY, PH.D. Professor, Northwestern University. JUDY TAWA FERRIS is a counselor at Michigan State Universitys Multi-Ethnic Counseling Center and a doctoral student specializing in Native-American and bicultural concerns. RUTH HALL, PH.D., Associate Professor, the College of New Jersey. ANNE PEPLAU, PH.D., Professor, UCLA. KAT QUINA, PH.D., Professor, URI. JOAN ROLLINS, PH.D., Professor of Psychology, Rhode Island College. JAN YODER, PH.D. Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. REGISTRATION AND INQUIRIES: Registration for the workshop includes a one page networking sheet (which will be distributed to others at the workshop). Include your name, address, phone, fax, and e-mail addresses. The more you write, the greater your chances of making rewarding connections with others. It is now mid-summer, so please FAX your networking sheet and send your registration and check by U.S. mail to insure your place. YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP because we need advance notice to prepare the workshop packets which include each registrants networking sheet and lots of handouts to enrich your teaching and career success. ------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIL A CHECK (PAYABLE TO APA DIVISION 35) for $75.00 (full-day) or $40.00 (half-day)(fee includes large packet of workshop materials including syllabi). Please FAX your one page networking sheet, and this form to: Mary Roth Walsh, Ph.D. 109 Spring Street Arlington, MA 02174-7924 Fax: (617) 646-3268 Answering machine number is (617) 646-1493. (between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time). REGISTRATION FORM: Name: School/Occupation: Street Address: City, State, & Zip: Phone: Day: Evening: Continuing Ed Credit (circle one): Yes No Registration (circle): All day ($75) AM only ($40) PM only ($40) Division 35 reserves the right to cancel the workshop if necessary. Cancellations and refund requests must be in writing and received by July 14, 1997. A $15 handling fee will be deducted for all cancellations. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:31:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bonnie Nelson Subject: debates within feminism MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Can anyone recommend some good, recent scholarly articles on debates within feminism today? You can reply to me personally Bonnie@KSU.EDU. Thanks! ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 16:20:35 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Snow Subject: Defending Our Lives MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Help. I've just shown the film Defending Our Lives to my students and they are anxious to write to the one woman who is still in prison. However, the printed information that gives addresses has been lost. Does anyone out there have her address? Sharon Snow Texas Woman's University g_snow@twu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 16:28:20 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy San Martin Subject: help w/distribution firms Comments: To: lesac-net@QueerNet.org In-Reply-To: <01IJLKRM9OSY0018B7@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hello all. i'm trying to put together some materials for a course on race, ethnicity, and feminism, and i'm looking for the distributors of the films _el norte_ and _grand avenue_. if anyone can provide info, please contact me privately at the email address listed below. thanks in advance, nancy san martin nancysm@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:22:03 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathryn T. Downey" Subject: Re: Defending Our Lives In-Reply-To: <01IKOUF5Z4NM006BRG@VENUS.TWU.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I, too am interested in the addresses, so please post to the list. Thanks -- Kathy Downey kdowney@zoo.uvm.edu University of Vermont On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Sharon Snow wrote: > Help. I've just shown the film Defending Our Lives to my students and they are > anxious to write to the one woman who is still in prison. However, the printed > information that gives addresses has been lost. Does anyone out there have her > address? > > Sharon Snow > Texas Woman's University > g_snow@twu.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:55:45 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joanna Cleo Frueh Subject: Lillian Robinson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know where I can contact Lillian Robinson? I want to invite her to contribute to a book I'm co-editing. Please reply privately. Joanna Frueh Department of Art University of Nevada, Reno jfrueh@scs.unr.edu