========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 00:13:27 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Garry and Pearsall 2nd ed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A poster on another list asked the following, and I thought members of this list would probably be able to give a more sophisticated answer: I have _Women, Knowledge, and Reality_, edited by Ann Garry and Marilyn Pearsall, both the 1st and 2nd editions. It would help me to get some useful recommendations on what to read from this volume, and perhaps some ideas on what the concensus is on the different positions taken by authors in that volume. Also, is there any particular reason Evelyn Fox Keller's "Feminism and Science" essay was removed from the 2nd edition? ------- Also, those of you who collected good introductory biblios on feminism -- I could use one to suggest readings to economists who know zippo on the subject. Thanks -- Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History, Villanova University (on medical leave since January 1995) mailto: schweit2@ix.netcom.com http://pw1.netcom.com/~schweit2/home.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 23:50:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: virginia l rinkevich Subject: disabilities in literature In-Reply-To: <199709301950.OAA09570@shrike.depaul.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hello... with a please and thank you in advance -- i ask the readers of this list -- do you know of -- can you recommend of --- literature (fact or fiction) that reflects a protagonist who appears with a disability or handicap ? (examples: the me in the mirror by panzarino...the passion by winterson) todah, ginger ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 23:22:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: MadonnaKolbenschlag Subject: WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC UNIVERSITY MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 The WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC UNIVERSITY (WIEU) = is interested in identifying and locating the following: 1. Courses in Women's Studies (and other subjects of interest to women) that are actually being taught ONLINE. 2. Commercially produced or original COURSEWARE that instructors have used successfully, tested, or discarded. (e.g., Web CT, Learning Space, Authorware, etc.) 3. Courses currently being developed for online distribution. We are aware that there are many courses being offered online on campuses that may or may not use Web components. We would like to encourage interested teachers to go worldwide! Visit our website and learn more about WIEU! http://www.wvu.edu/~womensu Send replies privately to: Madonna Kolbenschlag WIEU Web Midwife MadonnaK@compuserve.com or mkolbens@wvu.edu = ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:35:59 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Aine Humble Organization: University of P.E.I. Subject: inclusive family definition MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Can the person I sent the inclusive family definition to please reply to me personally? I've had a request from someone regarding your request for definitions and what you received from others. Thanks! Aine ______________________________ Aine M. Humble, MSc (FLE), PHEc Lecturer (Family Studies), Home Economics Department University of PEI, 550 University Avenue Charlottetown, PEI, C1A 4P3 phone: (902) 566-0528 fax: (902) 628-4367 email: ahumble@upei.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 07:39:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: ending the disabilities thread MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi, folks. I'm writing to ask that responses to the inquiry about disability in literature NOT be sent to WMST-L. WMST-L is a list for topics dealing with Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration, not literature in general, nor marginalization in general. Mail volume on the list tends frequently to be quite heavy and to pose a problem for many subscribers with limited time, limited disk space, and/or limited funds (some people have to pay for every message they receive). If WMST-L is to continue to function as a useful professional tool for these people, the list's focus must retain its specific focus. Messages without a clear connection to Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration should NOT be sent to WMST-L. Many thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman ***************************************************************************** * Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * * U. of Md. Baltimore County * * Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * * * * The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 07:55:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Donna Hughes Subject: Re: ending the disabilities thread In-Reply-To: <01IOA9C98LUQ00AWJO@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I must disagree with Joan on this one. While the author of the request did not specify WOMEN and disability, I would like to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she is interested in literature in which women with disabilities appear. Women with disabilities are too often invisible, even in women's studies classes. Women from the the disability rights movement are often critical of feminists for not being aware of issues of importance to women with disabilities. Look at the many women's studies anthologies, how many of them include readings on women with disabilities? This request may be an opportunity for many of us to learn. I don't think the topic should be made further invisible by only private responses. Donna Hughes Carlson Chair University of Rhode Island dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu At 07:39 AM 01-10-97 -0500, you wrote: > Hi, folks. I'm writing to ask that responses to the inquiry about >disability in literature NOT be sent to WMST-L. WMST-L is a list for >topics dealing with Women's Studies teaching, research, and program >administration, not literature in general, nor marginalization in general. >Mail volume on the list tends frequently to be quite heavy and to pose a >problem for many subscribers with limited time, limited disk space, and/or >limited funds (some people have to pay for every message they receive). If >WMST-L is to continue to function as a useful professional tool for these >people, the list's focus must retain its specific focus. Messages without >a clear connection to Women's Studies teaching, research, and program >administration should NOT be sent to WMST-L. > > Many thanks once again for your understanding and cooperation. > > Joan Korenman > >***************************************************************************** >* Joan Korenman korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu * >* U. of Md. Baltimore County * >* Baltimore, MD 21250 http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/ * >* * >* The only person to have everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe * >***************************************************************************** > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:17:51 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vera Tarr Subject: Berkshire Conference Hi! A few days ago there was a notice about the 1999 Berkshire Conference. I needed to clear my email and so the message was erased. I would appreciate hearing about the conference-I recall it was to be held in Rochester. Thanks for the info. Vera ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:34:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Heather Howard-Bobiwash Subject: Call for Proposals -- CASCA 1998 Session (fwd) Comments: cc: ANTHRO-L@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu, coswa-l@relay.doit.wisc.edu, femisa@csf.colorado.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ***** C A L L F O R P R O P O S A L S ***** SESSION PLANNED FOR CASCA 1998 MEETINGS (Canadian Anthropology Society) AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO **FEMINIST PRINCIPLES IN ACADEMIC ACTION** TOWARDS TRANSFORMING THE STRUCTURES OF DIALOGUE IN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROFESSION Organizers: Cory Silverstein, Heather Howard-Bobiwash, Rae Anderson ________________________________________________________________________ Now that many anthropologists are moving towards values and methods of cooperative collaboration, it is timely to ask if and how the practice of feminism within the academy has developed any applied principles that may be of value to the discipline as a whole. In order to address this question, feminist anthropologists must clarify and refine the practical implications of feminist principles as applied to various academic settings. To initiate this dialogue, we are soliciting expressions of interest in preparing BRIEF and REFLEXIVE introductions to some aspect of the following questions. 1) In what ways do the values and structures of the profession inhibit and/or enhance co-operative dialogue and collaborative research within academia and beyond? 2) What issues surround the application of feminist principles within the contexts of teaching and supervisory practices, publishing processes and professional networking? As plans presently stand, we anticipate inviting six people to speak to issues arising from the above questions (those acting as introductory speakers will have a maximum of 5 minutes to speak), and then the session will turn to "open discussion" of the themes amongst all those present. It is our plan to tape the session as we hope to publish "proceedings" from the discussions. One of our objectives is that the form of the session itself should experiment with the principles of co-operative dialogue within the setting of the academic conference. If you are interested in contributing to the session and wish to be considered as one of the introductory speakers in this "dialogue," please submit an abstract proposal (max. 200 words) and a brief one-paragraph statement about your professional background. The abstract should clearly outline your chosen issue, and how it relates directly to your own experience. You are welcome to submit as an individual or may collaborate with others in making a submission. We are interested in including the work of both established senior scholars and those newly emerging, and we encourage those engaged with issues of cooperation and collaboration in their work to prepare to attend the session! ___DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACT PROPOSAL: NOVEMBER 15, 1997.___ Please submit your proposals to: Rae Anderson Centre for Urban and Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto, ON Canada M5S 2G8 Tel: 416/651-3313, Fax: 416/651-9469, E-mail: raea@yorku.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:37:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: ending the disabilities thread MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Donna Hughes writes: > I must disagree with Joan on this one. > While the author of the request did not specify WOMEN and disability, I > would like to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she is > interested in literature in which women with disabilities appear. > > Women with disabilities are too often invisible, even in women's studies > classes. Women from the the disability rights movement are often critical > of feminists for not being aware of issues of importance to women with > disabilities. Look at the many women's studies anthologies, how many of > them include readings on women with disabilities? > > This request may be an opportunity for many of us to learn. I don't think > the topic should be made further invisible by only private responses. Donna makes a good point, and I agree that responses focused on women with disabilities may usefully be sent to the list. I'd simply like to ask that in the future, people sending queries to WMST-L make clear the connection (if it's not obvious) to the list's focus. The sender of the disability query did not, nor did she include her e-mail address in her posting, as the very first section of the User's Guide requests. I therefore assumed that she hadn't paid much attention to the list's focus and was simply sending her query to whatever lists she subscribed to. And while I'm in Nag Mode, let me ask once again that people NOT send messages to the list asking for a repetition of past messages. If you've deleted a message--or a thread of messages--you can easily find it by asking the listserv software to do a database search of the list's archives. Instructions for doing that can be found at http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/simplesearch.html . Those without web access can get this document by sending the message GET SEARCH SIMPLE to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . (Or, for explanation of a somewhat more complicated procedure that I prefer, send the message GET SEARCH LOGFILES to the same address.) Many thanks. 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: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:27:16 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jack Meacham Subject: Re: disabilities in literature In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, virginia l rinkevich wrote: > > with a please and thank you in advance -- i ask the readers of > this list -- do you know of -- can you recommend of --- literature (fact > or fiction) that reflects a protagonist who appears with a > disability or handicap ? (examples: the me in the mirror by > panzarino...the passion by winterson) > When I saw the movie "Contact" (this past summer), I was struck by the fact that someone with a handicapping condition (blind) is given a role that is not only intelligent but also is central to the action/plot of the movie (he is the one who deciphers the code at a critical point). And in addition the main role in the movie was played by a woman. I was delighted that my 14-year-old daughter immediately bought the original novel and read it, because there is a lot of science in it (as well as some good discussion about the relationship between science and religion). But I haven't read the novel myself, and so I don't know whether the blind man is portrayed as positively or has as central a role to the action as in the movie. The novel is by Carl Sagan. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 06:37:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: disabilities in literature Here is a portion of a bibliography I've put together on women and disabilities and chronic illness. It includes various genres, a variety of media. I'm sorry that the citations are incomplete, but this is a work in progress. Susan Koppelman <> DEAFNESS (mystery novel) Ruffly Speaking: A Dog Lover's Mystery by Susan Conant. Doubleday hardcover, April, 1994; Bantam paperback, November, 1994. About hearing loss, adjustment to hearing aids, hearing assistance dog. "Like a Native" by Joanne Greenberg. Originally in Denver Quarterly; collected in With the Snow Queen. New York: Arcade Publishing, Little, Brown, and Co., 1991. Short story about a hearing adult who grew up among deaf mutes and never feels at home in the hearing world but is rejected by the deaf mute world because she is a hearie. (fiction--novel) In This Sign by Joanne Greenberg. Deafness. (fiction--short story) "An Independent Thinker" and "Defiant Light" about deafness by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. (fiction--short story) John Varley's story "The Persistence of Vision." Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March, 1978; the title story of Varley's 1978 collection published by The Dial Press. A story of a commune founded by the adults whose mothers had been in their first trimester of pregnancy during the 1964 German measles, Rubella, epidemic. They were among the five thousand children born deaf and blind that year. (fiction--novel) Madelon Arnold's novel about the lesbian teenager and the depressed deaf woman, both committed to a mental institution to be "cured," the lesbian of her sexuality, the deaf woman of her use of sign language. Bird-Eyes. Seattle: Seal Press. Ellen Glasgow writes about her own deafness in her posthumously published autobiography The Woman Within (N. Y.: Harcourt, 1954): "there was no escape from the closing barrier of deafness which held me, imprisoned, with my sorrow and my memories. Not for a solitary minute in time could that wall of silence be broken through or pushed back into nothingness" (195). (dramatic performance) The Theater of the Deaf. NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENTS (short story) "255--How to Win" by Rosellen Brown in Street Games: A Neighborhood. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974; reprinted by Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, 1991. Mother grieves about her six year old neurologically "mis-wired" son as she walks him to school, remembering his life, the impact on her life and marriage of his neurological disability, loving him, fearing for his future, understanding how others react to him. (short story) "Elizabeth Baird" by Joanne Greenberg. Originally in Denver Quarterly; collected in With the Snow Queen. New York: Arcade Publishing, Little, Brown, and Co., 1991. "She had been born with a very slight cerebral lesion and it produced brief pauses in her speech and the movements of her body. . . ." Because the behavior produced by the slight lesion is valued and interpreted differently in different cultural environments, how she is seen varies widely and makes for great differences in the roles she is allowed to play. A great study in the cultural determination of the meaning of disability as well as wonderful short story. ORTHOPAEDIC DISABILITIES (cartoons) the cartoons by Callahan with the cover cartoon showing an empty wheelchair from which lead two parallel tracks into the desert and the trackers say, (which is the title of the book) Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot. (n. f. -- memoir/autobiography) book by guy who becomes paraplegic and treats it as if it were a sci. fi. adventure, i. e., as if he had become stranded on a planet with an environment for which his species is maladapted. (television episode) the Cagney and Lacey episode where Chris has a brief affair with the man who has lost an arm and a leg in a motorcycle accident. Chris spends time in a wheel chair to learn all the problems--like a stiff neck from looking up, being accosted by stares, parents pulling away their curious children, waitpersons asking your companion what you want as if you were incapable of speech or choice, etc. CHRONIC EMOTIONAL ILLNESS (n. f., memoir) Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Depression by Martha Manning. Harper San Francisco, 1995. $20.00, 197 pp. ("Martha Manning descended into hell and has returned to tell her story, and to accompany those on similar journeys. She does so with a courage and lucidity that can be obtained in no other way." Lauren Glen Dunlap, Belles Lettres, Summer, 1995, p. 8.) (fiction--novel) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg. Teenage schizophrenia. (fiction--detective novel) Abbie Padgett's manic-depressive detective-child welfare worker. People say the first of her three is the best. (fiction--short story) Nancy Hale's story about the woman who lives an intense and satisfying life in a "rest home" where she has lived for decades since she "broke down." The story is narrated by an classmate from their elite college who has come to visit her and is reporting on her visit to a third classmate. Filled with wonderful ironies about the nature of adventure and expectation. (fiction--short story) "High Heels" by Chris Straayer, 1980, in Between Mothers and Daughters: Stories Across a Generation edited by Susan Koppelman, Feminist Press, 1985. INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (fiction--either the short story or the novel that was written in response to the great popularity of the story) Flowers for Algernon by a man whose name I can't remember right now. An intellectually disabled janitor agrees to be the subject of an experiment to increase human intelligence. It works, and he gradually falls in love and becomes a genius. But the change is temporary and he reverts to his original condition. (diary with commentary) Yesterday was Tuesday, All Day and All Night: The Story of A Unique Education by May V. Seagoe. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1964. The story of "Paul Scott" who "was short, a pygmy of a man. He was quick and agile, almost double-jointed. Yet he was curiously awkward, too. . . . His tiny blue eyes were oblique and narrow, with epicanthal folds that had made him appear almost Asiatic in childhood. His thick lips made it difficult to keep hs large, flabby, deeply creased tongue from protruding." The Downs Syndrome son of an extremely wealthy man is given the opportunity to develop as much capacity as he can through travel and tutoring. OBESITY (fiction--short story) "Even As You and I" by Fannie Hurst. First in COSMOPOLITAN, April, 1919. Included in HUMORESQUE; A LAUGH ON LIFE WITH A TEAR BEHIND IT, Harper & Bros., 1919. Circus fat woman falls in love with sick circus sword swallower, who takes advantage of all she has to offer him in the way of care and support until he is well and then he runs off with an ingenue. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's story about the fat man who takes the place of the fat woman in the freak show to protect her delicate sensibilities, which no one but he acknowledges because as a fat person she is not expected to have delicate sensibilities), as just one more difficulty in life, as reason for failure and as spur to triumph. "The Strange Sad History of Suzanne LaFleshe" by Hollis Seamon in 13th Moon: A Feminist Literary Magazine, Vol. XV, Numbers 1 & 2, 1997, pp. 114-125. (dramatic performance) Fat Lip Theater ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 11:09:06 -0400 Reply-To: p_wiley@fre.fsu.umd.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Phoebe A. Wiley" Organization: Frostburg State University Subject: Re: Berkshire Conference MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vera Tarr wrote: > > Hi! > A few days ago there was a notice about the 1999 Berkshire Conference. > I needed to clear my email and so the message was erased. I would > appreciate hearing about the conference-I recall it was to be held > in Rochester. Thanks for the info. Vera copied this from information in a longer post: 1999 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Call for Papers The 11th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, "Breaking Boundaries," will be held on June 4-6, 1999 at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA. The Program Committee welcomes proposals that transcend regional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries; that break traditional boundaries of academic presentation and explore innovative ways of presenting material and involving the audience. The Committee also seeks proposals that discuss pedagogy, public history, collaborative research, and feminist activism. The Committee encourages international participation and panels that represent a diversity of participants. The preceding was with a post on a proposed peace panel, but I assume it's the overall theme. Phoebe Wiley ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:33:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ines Shaw Subject: administrative info. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This is a request for information directed at chairs of Women's Studies departments and Women's Studies Programs who write annual evaluations for Women's Studies faculty: I'm interested in the criteria used for annual evaluations of faculty for their work in Women's Studies. Perhaps these faculty have a line in Women's Studies, or perhaps part of their position is in Women's STudies. I'd really appreciate if you could share this information with me. Please, reply privately to ishaw@badlands.nodak.edu Thanks in advance. Ines Ines Shaw, Ph.D. ishaw@badlands.nodak.edu Linguistics/Women's Studies 318-C South Engineering North Dakota State University (701) 231-9632 office Tri-College University (701) 231-1047 fax Fargo, ND 58105 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 13:52:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elaine Blakemore Subject: Reviving Ophelia MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Does anyone know why the book "Reviving Ophelia" would have that title? In other words, what is the literary or mythological referent that would logically lead to that title? Thanks, Elaine Blakemore +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Elaine Blakemore Associate Professor and Department Chair Department of Psychological Sciences Indiana - Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN 46805 219-481-6400 219-481-5472 (fax) Blakemor@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu http://cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu/www/depts/as/psy/blakemor.htm ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:40:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Re: Reviving Ophelia In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971001135257.0068cc20@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Elaine Blakemore wrote: > Does anyone know why the book "Reviving Ophelia" would have that title? In > other words, what is the literary or mythological referent that would > logically lead to that title? > > Thanks, > Elaine Blakemore The literary reference is to Ophelia, in Shakespeare's Hamlet, who, treated miserably by the "mad" prince, confronted by her inability to please him, and follow socially subscribed norms presented by her father, her brother, her betrothed, and all the rest of the Danes, drowns herself in a river. She's also somewhere between 13-16, if I recall correctly. Best, Amy ****************** Dr. Amy L. Wink Department of English and Philosophy Stephen F. Austin State University P.O. Box 13007, SFA Station Nacogdoches, Tx 75962-3007 (409) 468-2007 awink@sfasu.edu 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: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:52:04 -0500 Reply-To: sbasu@DEPAUW.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Srimati Basu Subject: films on violence against women MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello everyone: Thanks for all the wonderful suggestions about films on violence against women. Here is the list I have received so far, including any editorial comments that were attached, plus I've added the films I was originally interested in using. My original list included: The Accused (Gang Rape and the legal system: Jodi Foster, Kelly McGellis) Bhaji on the Beach (on South Asian community in Britain, about DV but also about a community about very diverse women) Calling the Ghosts (stunningly well made, see below) A Question of Silence (Dutch? film, on three women killing a storeowner and the woman lawyer defending them, about the workings of patriarchy and violence) And your suggestions: What's Love Got to Do with it? (About Tina Turner) Dolores Claiborne Once We Were Warriors (a New Zealand film about a Maori family, headed by a violent man. It takes place over the course of a few days, and shows the effect of domestic abuse on the entire family. I warn you though, the violence in the film is very difficult for many to handle.: Frances Gateward) Suzanne Suzanne (the VERY powerful documentary byCamille Billops, available from Third World Newsreel (212)947-9277, is a documentary on her cousin - Suzanne, a recovering drug addict who reveals in the film the physical abuse she suffered from her father. One of the most telling scenes is when she asks her mother why she did not help. The mother then reveals the abuse she suffered from her husband, Suzanne's father.: Frances K. Gateward") Defending Our Lives : 4 votes (a documentary about women in prison convicted of killing their abusive spouses. It's an interesting film for the conversation/discussion it can raise. One word of caution, make sure to point out, if it doesn't come up from students, that most of the women seem to be lower socio-economic class and this may be the reason they are in prison for defense. By its ommission, the film raises the socio-political question of whether justice is for sale in the U.S.: Karen Orr Vered. This is a good film for a class because it stimulates discussion--some of the cases seem more justifiable than others, and also because it is very well done. It won the academy award for best documentary about two years ago. Gloria Cowan. I use this in my Women and Justice class and it ALWAYS creates discussion. It is powerful -- I would suggest you watch it first so you are prepared. Even though I have now seen it innumerable times, I still end up crying. It's made by Cambridge Documentary Films: Sheryl Grana) _My Husband Is Going to Kill Me_, documentary, a Frontline video (PBS) (have used this with great success in 2 classes. it is "the Pamela Gunther story" about a woman who is ultimately killed by her husband and the failure of the system to protect her. very compelling. --Lorraine Bayard de Volo) *Still Killing Us Softly* and *Dreamworlds II* (Used in intro classes w/good results. These films are about images of women in the media and music video, respectively, but the images are then connected to violence against women in our society. -- Donna Bickford) *The Date Rape Backlash* ( a wonderful film that deconstructs the arguments the media uses to claim that the figures are inflated, or that women just want to act like victims, etc. It includes footage of Katie Roiphe pontificating about date rape, and then people like bell hooks and Katha Pollitt responding to her statements. Students are outraged when they get a different (and in my opinion, more enlightened and accurate) view of these matters.: Donna Bickford) Calling the Ghosts (Even though you mentioned it already in your post, let me put in a loud second for the motion in favor of _Calling the Ghosts_. Not only does the film confront head-on an unfortunately current issue, but it also ends with a very empowering message (the central women going to the Hague to fight back with international legal assistance against their attackers). The students in an international women course last year were positively riveted by it and said as much in the course evaluation at the end of the semester.-- Gina Buccola. The video CALLING THE GHOSTS: A STORY ABOUT RAPE, WAR AND WOMEN is distributed by Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 500 E, NY, NY 10013; 212-925-0606; orders@wmm.com) "It's Time to Say No!" (a documentary film on domestic violence in Turkey, contact Pinar Ilkkaracan wrp-ist@fenestra.comlink.de, Women for Women's Human Rights for brochure and further info). In the Company of men (I haven't seen this yet (and as I now work in rape crisis and have to protect my affect a lot, I don't think I'll be ready to in a while), but I have heard in various reviews that the woman "seduced and scorned" is deaf. Apparently, the two men take advantage of this by disparaging her in her presence. This, if true, could lead into a discussion of women's awareness of male manipulation/violence/patriarchy. Also, it raises many distrubing points about men's treatment of women and others with physical challenges. While it sounds to me like this film could be a useful pedagogical tool, I wonder whether it shouldn't be presented as optional (like "The Accused" often is)--not for everyone, and then with some preparation.: Lauraine Leblanc Rosewood, (the recent video about a white woman who covers up her victimization by her husband by allowing an African American man to be confronted by the white community on a rape charge in 1920s Florida. It is part of a section in my Women and Violence course that focuses not only on how sexual assault allegations have been used against communities of color, but also to begin to explore how women of color have been asked to avoid accusing brothers. I use an episode of Frontline called Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, Public Hearing, Private Pain. It includes interviews with people like Paula Giddings. I am supporting "Rosewood" with: from P. Giddings _Where and When I Enter_, "To Sell My Life..."; from bell hooks' _Ain't I a Woman_; Opal Palmer Adisa , "Undeclared War: African American Women Writers" from the new anthology _GenderViolence_ by Laura O'Toole and Jessica Schiffman. I am supporting "CT, AH..." with: James Jones' "Whites Are from Mars, O.J. Is from Planet Hollywood..." in Off White and I am considering looking at a chapter of Jill Nelson's book called _Straight, No Chaiser_: Heather Dell. Two caveats: That there was no analysis of the white woman's point of view; she was simply made to be the villain. Why did she hide the abuse by the man (not her husband as I recall) who beat her? What were the forces that caused her to place blame on an African American man? On the other hand, the film gave a great deal of understanding attention to the white male storeowner placing him more at the center than necessary and pretty much excusing his exploitation of African American men and women and his white wife.: Jackie Thomason. Jackie, the motivation for hiding the abuse was to hide the fact that she was having an affair. She could not charge the man who beat her with assault since as a married woman she was not supposed to be with him in the first place. Secondly, the forces that caused her to place the blame on an AfricanAmerican male involve the stereotype of African American men as rapists and the erroneous belief that all African American men lust after white women.During the period in which the film takes place, lynching of African American men (and women) was common - often based on false and imagined assaults on white women. Relating to abuse of children: the feature film w/Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio - This Boy's Life ir the provacative documentary by Ayoka Chenzira (available from Women Make Movies) Secret Sounds Screaming. Again, thanks everyone!! Srimati Basu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 16:39:16 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 announcements MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following 3 announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) CFP: "After the (Welfare) Revolution: The Impact of Public Policies on Women's Lives" (Midwest Sociological Society) 2) 7th Annual National Student Conference on Campus Sexual Violence 3) Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy: Calendar of Events (U. of Massachusetts, Boston) 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*** The Midwest Sociological Society is hosting its annual meetings April 2-5, in Kansas City. As usual, the meetings promise to be engaging, thoughtful, and fun. I am organizing a session, sponsored by the Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society, entitled "After the (Welfare) Revolution: The Impact of Public Policies on Women's Lives." I am interested in organizing paper presentations from graduate students, faculty, and community activists to discuss the massive changes taking place on the ground after historic cuts in basic government provisions for poor women and their children. Theoretical and empirical papers on a wide array of topics are welcome, including, but not limited to: homelessness, job creation (or lack thereof), childcare issues, evaluations of public/private entrepenurial programs, women's economic empowerment groups, "workfare" programs, social service agency responses, etc. Works in progress are welcomed as well. If you are interested in presenting, please email either an abstract (one page) proposal or a copy of your paper, as well as any audio-visual equipment you might need. Also, feel free to forward this to other lists and potentially interested people. The deadline for paper proposals is OCTOBER 20, 1997. Thanks! Caryn Aviv ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caryn Aviv caviv@earthlink.net Department of Sociology/Anthropology Loyola University Chicago ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ************************************************************************** 2) The 7th Annual National Student Conference On Campus Sexual Violence. West Coast Conference, University Of California, Santa Barbara, Feb. 27-March 1, 1998 Hosted by the Rape Prevention Education Program (RPEP) of UCSB. Envision Equality: Dissolving The Foundations Of Sexual Violence Sexual violence is more than just a crime, it is part of the society we live in. Everything from attitudes to advertisements contributes to an environment in which rape is both allowed and accepted. Our goals are to be proactive and dissolve the foundations of sexual violence. We are challenging sexual and cultural norms that contribute to sexual violence. By emphasizing and striving for equality, we can challenge this crime of power and fear. By fostering relationships of communication, love, and respect we can take a giant step in the struggle to end sexual violence. --------------------------- The conference will run from February 27-March 1, 1998, Friday-Sunday. This year the west coast conference is being held at UC Santa Barbara, East Coast: University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 27-29, 1998. Canada: University of Alberta, March 20-22, 1998. ------------------------------------ WORKSHOP PROPOSALS We are calling for proposals for program presentations and workshops. We encourage proposals for programs that reflect our theme, tying sexual violence with other forms of oppression. Workshops should focus on techniques for successful peer education such as facilitation skills, program development and peer group development. If you would like to submit a proposal please fill out and send in the form available soon through the RPEP/Conference Website at: www.sa.ucsb.edu/orgs/rpep/index.html Proposals can be returned via fax, email, or postal (snail) mail. All proposals are due by November 10, 1998. Proposal decisions will be sent out on Nov. 17. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Any questions call: Conference Co-Coordinators: Stacy Rennebu & Mike Lin RPEP Coordinator: Carol Mosely; RPEP Assistant Coordinator: Rita Ornelas. UC Santa Barbara Women's Center Building 434 Phone: (805) 893-3778 Fax: (805) 893-3289 Email: rennebu-s@sa.ucsb.edu ************************************************************************** 3) **CENTER FOR WOMEN IN POLITICS & PUBLIC POLICY** John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs University of Massachusetts Boston (617) 287-5541 ********************************** OCTOBER, 1997 CALENDAR OF EVENTS **************************************** WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Past Perspectives - Future Challenges Saturday, October 18, 1997 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. John F. Kennedy Library Columbia Point, Boston, MA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-sponsored by THE KENNEDY LIBRARY, THE MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES, and THE CENTER FOR WOMEN IN POLITICS & PUBLIC POLICY, the conference will provide a forum for discussing the conditions, opportunities and obstacles faced by women seeking to influence public policy historically and in the present day. This special event will feature a variety of distinguished speakers and moderators. For further information, please contact Sheila Gagnon phone: (617) 287-5541 e-mail: gagnon@umbsky.cc.umb.edu ______________________________________________________________________ WOMEN'S RESEARCH FORUM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wednesday, October 22, 1997 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. Chancellor's Conference Room Administration Building University of Massachusetts Boston ______________________________________________________________________ Women of Color will present their research findings during this special event, co-sponsored by the CENTER FOR WOMEN IN POLITICS & PUBLIC POLICY, the WOMEN'S STUDIES DEPARTMENT and the CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE. For further information, please contact Carol Cardozo phone: (617) 287-5530 e-mail: cardozo@umbsky.cc.umb.edu ..................................................................... THE CENTER FOR WOMEN IN POLITICS & PUBLIC POLICY was established as a unit of the McCormack Institute in 1994 to engage in educational programs, research initiatives and public service projects of relevance to women of diverse cultural and economic backgrounds and to promote women's leadership in the public arena. The CENTER conducts studies and holds policy forums aimed at expanding the body of knowledge and information on the status and political progress of women in Massachusetts. The cornerstone of the CENTER is its graduate education program which combines policy-related courses with public sector internship opportunies. ON THE WEB: www.umb.edu (Community Connections-Centers & Institutes) E-MAIL: womenpol@umbsky.cc.umb.edu ..................................................................... ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 20:23:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie Vick Subject: Re: Reviving Ophelia In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971001135257.0068cc20@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU> from "Elaine Blakemore" at Oct 1, 97 01:52:57 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On page 18, Mary Pipher explains that Ophelia loses her identity as an adolescent when she tries to live up to the expectations of Hamlet and her father. She has no inner direction or self-value but lives for approval from these two men. Unable to meet their demands she goes mad and drowns herself in a stream. Ergo, the subtitle of the book, "Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls." Julie Vick, University of Pennsylvania > > Does anyone know why the book "Reviving Ophelia" would have that title? In > other words, what is the literary or mythological referent that would > logically lead to that title? > > Thanks, > Elaine Blakemore > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Elaine Blakemore > Associate Professor and Department Chair > Department of Psychological Sciences > Indiana - Purdue University > Fort Wayne, IN 46805 > 219-481-6400 > 219-481-5472 (fax) > Blakemor@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu > http://cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu/www/depts/as/psy/blakemor.htm > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:15:05 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheilagh A Mogford Subject: Multiple Choice Assessment MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear List Members: I want to amend my request from last week wherein I requested a multiple choice "assessment" tool to use in intro. WS courses to assess knowledge/attitudes/etc. My colleague who had originally asked me to post the request, is really looking for *ANY* multiple choice test that has been used in *ANY* WS course. I guess I was being a bit too narrow in my request. If anyone has access to, or knows the whereabouts of, any test like this, please reply privately to me at samogfo@bentley.unco.edu. Thank you in advance. A few list members have asked for me to forward any information I get, so after I have received any and all responses, I'll let those folks know. Sheilagh A. Mogford samogfo@bentley.unco.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 19:51:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: History of Take Back the Night? Comments: To: "JENNIFER R. SCANLON" In-Reply-To: <01IO9K634IFM00KWOQ@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I suggesed two books earlier that capture that history: My Jewish Face by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (Spinsters/Aunt Lute 1990) and Fight Back: Feminist Resistance to Male Violence by Frederique Delacoste and Felice Newman, eds. Cleis 1981 They are not scholarly histories but memoirs that capture the times and the marches. Excellent reading tho prob. out of print and available only at libraries (I'm guessing on that) Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. mharris@utdallas.edu 972/866-6711 ph. 214/630-1169 fx. On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, JENNIFER R. SCANLON wrote: > I have noticed discussion of TAke Back the Night. The student feminist group > on our campus is organizing a forum on the history of TAke Back the Night and > needs help. Does anyone know of anything written on the history, or does > anyone have that history to share? > > Please post privately or to the list. > > Thanks, > > Jennifer Scanlon > Director of Women's Studies > Plattsburgh State University > scanlojr@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:08:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Re: administrative info. In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19971001153311.0067a0ec@badlands.nodak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This is useful information for others as well. Mary Ann Drake ddrake@mylink.net At 10:33 AM 10/1/1997 -0500, you wrote: >This is a request for information directed at chairs of Women's Studies >departments and Women's Studies Programs who write annual evaluations for >Women's Studies faculty: > >I'm interested in the criteria used for annual evaluations of faculty for >their work in Women's Studies. Perhaps these faculty have a line in >Women's Studies, or perhaps part of their position is in Women's STudies. > >I'd really appreciate if you could share this information with me. > >Please, reply privately to ishaw@badlands.nodak.edu > >Thanks in advance. > >Ines > > > >Ines Shaw, Ph.D. ishaw@badlands.nodak.edu >Linguistics/Women's Studies 318-C South Engineering >North Dakota State University (701) 231-9632 office >Tri-College University (701) 231-1047 fax >Fargo, ND 58105 > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:00:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: new syllabus: INTERNET WOMEN1 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I am very pleased to announce that I have just added to the WMST-L syllabi collection the syllabus for Clark College Prof. Harriet Levi's course "Women Around the World." Here's a brief description from the syllabus: > This course is intended to teach students how to use the > computer-mediated communication and resource tools of Internet technology > and apply them to the study of the social, political and cultural issues > currently encountered by women around the world. If you'd like to retrieve a copy of the syllabus, send a message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU that says GET INTERNET WOMEN1 SYLLABI . If you'd also like to see what other syllabi we have ( > 100), add a second line that says INDEX SYLLABI . And if in the past you've sent for files, had them supposedly arrive but you couldn't find them, you can probably cure this problem by adding F=MAIL to the above lines (e.g., GET INTERNET WOMEN1 SYLLABI F=MAIL ). For more information, see the WMST-L User's Guide: http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html . Reminder: send these messages to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU, **NOT** to WMST-L. Many thanks to Harriet Levi for this valuable syllabus. 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: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:06:50 -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 now October, time for a new round of excerpts from the Source of All Wisdom, the WMST-L User's Guide. Here's the very important first section: ******************** 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 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, 2 Oct 1997 10:19:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne King Subject: Re: Reviving Ophelia In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971001135257.0068cc20@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ophelia is the exploited teenage girl in HAMLET--she becomes insane and drowns herself when Hamlet not only rejects her but kills her father and brother. Anne Mills King Prince George's Community College Largo, Maryland 20774 301-322-0594 FAX 301-808-0418 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:00:56 -0500 Reply-To: "cklewis@indiana.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Camille K. Lewis" Subject: Self-esteem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit About 12-18 months ago the media reported a study comparing African-American, Asian-American, and Euro-American women's self esteem. The Asian-American women and the Euro-American women both had significantly negative self-esteem while the African-American women had not only higher self-esteem but positive. Do any of you know the source of this study (I heard about it on Dateline) or the validity of the research? Thanks. Camille Lewis (cklewis@indiana.edu) Indiana University Communication and Culture ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:17:44 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: viki soady Subject: Conference call for papers - VSU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Call for Papers - Call for Papers - Call for Papers - Call for Papers WOMEN'S VOICES, WOMEN'S SILENCES Third Annual Women's Studies Conference March 5-7, 1998 - VSU University Center Valdosta State University - Valdosta, Georgia 31698 Teachers, students, community activists, and other interested individuals are invited to submit proposals for papers, workshops, roundtables, complete panels (3-6 papers), and performances examining Women's Voices, Women's Silences. Please note that topics are not limited to academic presentations only. Organizers are interested in creative submissions. Complete performance pieces (short stories, poetry, dramatic presentations) and proposals for academic papers must be postmarked by November 21, 1997. E-mail submissions are also accepted. Since Tillie Olsen's book Silences, silence has become an evocative metaphor for women in all fields. Olsen called for investigations into the ways that women have been silenced. Of course, silence also calls up its opposite: voice. Despite the limitations on women's voices throughout the ages, some women have been heard. The theme of this conference focuses on the ways in which women have claimed voices and the ways in which women have been denied voices. This year's keynote speaker: Daphne Patai, author of Professing Feminism. Proposers might consider the following subject areas as they pertain to women of any class and/or ethnicity: * theoretical examinations of voice and silence * literary, religious, artistic, and historical representations of women's voices and silences * professional means of silencing and giving voice to women, such as in the areas of law, medicine, science, and business * organizational and educational systems that provide opportunities for women's voices and that silence women Any other proposals related to the conference theme are also welcomed. All inquiries, correspondence, and submissions should be addressed to the following: Viki Soady Director of Women's Studies Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 (912) 249-4843 - FAX: (912) 259-5042 vsoady@valdosta.edu Dr. Viki Soady Director of Women's Studies Nevins Hall Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698 912-249-4842 FAX 912-259-5042 vsoady@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:37:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nita McKinley Organization: Bates College, Lewiston, ME Subject: Re: Self-esteem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I believe the AAUW's report "Short-changing girls, short-changing America" has statistics on school girls' self esteem. The website for a description of the studying and book ordering information is http://www.aauw.org/2000/resinit.html#J1 Here is the ordering information from their website: AAUW Sales Office Department 370, P.O. Box 251 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701-0251 Telephone Orders 800/225-9998 ext. 346 Fax Orders 301/206-9789 -- ************************************************************* Nita Mary McKinley, Ph.D. Department of Psychology (207) 786-8312 Bates College nmckinle@bates.edu Lewiston, ME 04240 http://www.bates.edu/~nmckinle/index.html ************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 09:44:24 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sheilagh A Mogford Subject: Re: Self-esteem Comments: To: "Camille K. Lewis" In-Reply-To: <01BCCF1A.351E2A80.cklewis@indiana.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I don't know what research Dateline was citing, but similar findings are reported in Sadker and Sadker's _Failing at Fairness_, particularly, I think, in the section on middle school at adolescence. Hope this helps. Sheilagh Mogford samogfo@bentley.unco.edu On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Camille K. Lewis wrote: > About 12-18 months ago the media reported a study comparing > African-American, Asian-American, and Euro-American women's self esteem. > The Asian-American women and the Euro-American women both had > significantly negative self-esteem while the African-American women had not > only higher self-esteem but positive. > > Do any of you know the source of this study (I heard about it on Dateline) > or the validity of the research? > > Thanks. > > Camille Lewis (cklewis@indiana.edu) > Indiana University > Communication and Culture > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 14:58:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jean Potuchek Subject: Re: Self-esteem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" About 12 years ago, I was working with an undergraduate who was doing a senior thesis on the relationship between low self-esteem and adolescent pregnancy. She had spent the previous summer working in a program that targetted African American girls; the goal was to raise their self-esteem in order to prevent adolescent pregnancy. My student came from this work experience with the assumption that African American girls were particularly likely to have low self-esteem and was shocked to discover that pretty much all the available research showed that African American girls had relatively high self-esteem. (The thesis turned into an analysis of the dangers of extrapolating from research on pregnant white teenagers to pregnancy prevention programs targetted at African Americans:).) Jean Potuchek >On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Camille K. Lewis wrote: > >> About 12-18 months ago the media reported a study comparing >> African-American, Asian-American, and Euro-American women's self esteem. >> The Asian-American women and the Euro-American women both had >> significantly negative self-esteem while the African-American women had not >> only higher self-esteem but positive. >> >> Do any of you know the source of this study (I heard about it on Dateline) >> or the validity of the research? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Camille Lewis (cklewis@indiana.edu) >> Indiana University >> Communication and Culture >> > > --------------- Jean L. Potuchek Women's Studies, Gettysburg College jpotuche@gettysburg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:14:39 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: Hypatia Third Wave Feminism special issue now out ********************************************* 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 *** Forwarding note from HYPATIA --CFRVM 10/02/97 16:06 *** To: WMST-L --CFRVM SWIP --CMSNAMES From: Linda Lopez McAlister, SWIP-L Moderator Subject: Hypatia Third Wave Feminism special issue now out Guest editor: Jaccqulyn N. Zita Table of Contents: Rita Alfonso and Jo Trigilio: Surfing the Third Wave: A Dialogue Between Two Third Wave Feminists Cathryn Bailey: Making Waves and Drawing Lines: The Politics of Defining the Vicissitudes of Feminism Catherine Orr: Charting the Currents of the Third Wave Deborah L. Siegel: The Legacy of the Personal: Generating Theory in Feminiism's Third Wave Madelyn Detloff: Mean Spirits: The Politics of Contempt Between Feminist Generations David Golumbia: Rethinking Philosophy in the Third Wave of Feminism Ann Ferguson: Moral Responsibility and Social Change: A New Theory of Self Cressida J. Heyes: Anti-Essentialism in Practice: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Philosophy Abby Wilkerson: Ending at the Skin: Sexuality and Race in Feminist Theorizing Lisa Heldke: In Praise of Unreliability Peg O'Connor: Warning! Contents Under Heterosexual Pressure Corrine Bedcarre: Swear By The Moon ********************************************* 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, 2 Oct 1997 16:59:35 -0400 Reply-To: mthomson@comnet.ca Sender: Women's Studies List From: margaret thomson Subject: CULTURE OF FEAR MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am sending this request from another list. > Alison Gzowski of CBC Radio"s "This Morning" is trying to put a panel > together entitled "The Culture of Fear". A british sociologist, Frank > Furedi, argues that we are a society paralyzed by fear, much of it > ungrounded (he uses examples like toxic shock sydrome, mad cow, SIDS). He > says that women are particularly susceptible to these "ungrounded" fears. > Alison is looking for a woman in North America (i.e. doesn't have to be > Canadian) to take him on. > Any suggestions? > Alison's phone number is 416-205-2617. You can call collect. Or if you > rather email, feel free. > Thanking in advance The e-mail address to respond to is agzowski@toronto.cbc.ca Thank-you. Margaret Thomson mthomson.comnet.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 21:38:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynne Taetzsch Subject: Call for Papers Comments: To: margaret thomson In-Reply-To: <34340B37.EDE@comnet.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Call for papers and workshops: "Women in Politics and Policy": The Morehead State University Wilma E. Grote Symposium: March 26-28, Morehead, Kentucky: The symposium seeks to create an interdisciplinary atmosphere of collaboration and exchange. The 1998 session will focus on women and politics and public policy. Ideas for possible presentations include, but are not limited to: political attitudes, voting, local, state and national officeholding, family, advocacy, education, health care, welfare, employment, equity, criminal justice and other policy issues. You are invited to submit your ideas, research, creative projects/performances, demonstrations, etc., for refereed selection. Send: 1. One cover page including the title of the paper, presentation, or performance, author's name(s), mailing address, and telephone number. 2. indicate if the presentation is for a workshop, paper, or panel discussion. 3. Three (3) copies of a titled abstract of approximately one page that describes the major focus of the presentation and related results and conclusions. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts on women's issues related to the paper topic. Submission should be postmarked by December 1, 1997. Authors will be notified in early January 1998 regarding the status of their work. Send inquiries and abstracts to: Program Committee Chair, Marilyn Mote-Yale Morehead State University 201 Ginger Hall Morehead, KY 40351 Telephone: 606-783-2354 Fax: 606-783-5046 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:50:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Welch Subject: Re: ending the disabilities thread Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am also interested in responses dealing with Women and disabilities. A couple of our faculty members are interested in developing a course dealing with the issues. Cynthia H. Welch Cynthia H. Welch CPS, Program Assistant Women's Studies, UW-Eau Claire phone 715-836-5717 fax 715-836-5019 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 07:42:37 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to unsubscribe, etc. (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: 2) "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LISTSERV@UMDD AND WMST-L@UMDD? HOW DO I TELL WHICH ADDRESS TO USE? AND HOW DO I UNSUBSCRIBE?" WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU should be used ONLY for messages that you wish to send to all WMST-L subscribers. Messages concerning your WMST-L subscription should be sent to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU . If you wish to unsubscribe, for example, send the message UNSUB WMST-L to the LISTSERV address, not to WMST-L. 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However, if you have a question, please first consult the User's Guide (http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/user-guide.html) to try to get the answer for yourself. ****************** 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 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, 3 Oct 1997 08:55:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nancy Stanley Subject: Re: ending the disabilities thread In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19971002085513.0877eff8@uwec.edu> from "Cynthia Welch" at Oct 2, 97 08:50:50 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Faye How are you today? I am pretty good. We are going to mother's tomorrow. I hope maybe next Sat we can drive up to Paul's. It is a little far for one night but I don't want to take off from work. Gladwin is having beautiful weather for his retreat! Go to the shiny diner and tell me how the food is. Have a good week-end. Nancy ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:33:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "William W. Pendleton" Subject: Re: ending the disabilities thread In-Reply-To: <199710031255.IAA17284@cc05du.unity.ncsu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Because we are discussing the nature and variations in the assignment of gender roles and the reciprocity implicit in all roles in my class on the family, the meeting of the Promise Keepers this weekend seems right for discussion. I would be interested in knowing how some of you might be treating that topic, especially with respect to issues important in Women's Studies and particularly with reference to role redefinition. Wm W. Pendleton Department of Sociology Emory University Atlanta, Ga. 30322 socwwp@emory.edu 404 727-7524 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:36:09 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "William W. Pendleton" Subject: Definition of Roles In-Reply-To: <199710031255.IAA17284@cc05du.unity.ncsu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII My request for ideas and information about role redefinition was inadvertantly sent with a wrong subject line. Please forgive that error. Wm W. Pendleton Department of Sociology Emory University Atlanta, Ga. 30322 socwwp@emory.edu 404 727-7524 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:23:17 EST5EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kim Cordingly Organization: Job Accommodation Network Subject: Re: ending the disabilities thread In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19971002085513.0877eff8@uwec.edu> There's an article in the May 1997 issue of Mainstream Magazine entitled _On the Margin of the Myth: Exploring the Landscape of Disabled Women's Lives_. There are some booklists related to this issue at these 2 web sites... http://www.inch.com/~dog666/hub/Women.html and http://www1.us.nizkor.org/~axis/womrec.html There's also an article called _Employment, Equality and Gender_ by Rannveig Traustadottir from Syracuse University that may be useful. This is available online at . I would also suggest doing a search on "women & disability" at both the Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble web sites for recently released titles. Kim Cordingly kcording@wvu.edu West Virginia University > I am also interested in responses dealing with Women and disabilities. A > couple of our faculty members are interested in developing a course dealing > with the issues. > > Cynthia H. Welch > > > Cynthia H. Welch CPS, Program Assistant > Women's Studies, UW-Eau Claire > phone 715-836-5717 fax 715-836-5019 > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:11:45 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Arpad Subject: women in business course MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Women in Business Course Women in Science Course A colleague in the Management Department of our Business School has offered to teach a new Women's Studies course in the Business School next fall. She would like to correspond with others who have taught such a course. If there is someone teaching a Women in Business course at your school, will you please send me their names and Email addresses? Thank you for your help. Another colleague in the School of Natural Sciences is thinking about teaching a Women in Science course. I would also like to have the names and Email addresses of women on your campuses who are teaching such a course. -- Susan Arpad Women's Studies Program California State University, Fresno Fresno, CA 93740-0078 Email: Susan_Arpad@CSUFresno.edu Tel: (209) 278-4079 FAX: (209) 278-7664 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 11:17:19 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristin Gerhard Subject: Call for Papers Serials Librarian will be bringing out a special double issue on women's studies serials. We have a pretty good issue put together, but I'm noting some holes. One of the areas that is not addressed directly is lesbian-related women's studies serials. The research papers in the volume almost invariably conclude that these materials are not accessible enough, etc., but there is no paper that actually looks at the topic head-on. I'm wondering if there's anyone on this list who has research in progress, a paper they've given, or just some organized thinking they would be interested in presenting in approximately 10 pages (I'm aiming for the 7-20 page range). The timeline is very short at this point -- I need absolutely final copy by November 15th. (Augh). If you are interested in seeing the table of contents to this point, you can find it from my web page: If you are interested in contributing to the issue, please drop me a line at kgerhard@iastate.edu to let me know of your interest. Thanks! Kris Gerhard Women's Studies Selector Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 kgerhard@iastate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:25:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jo hinchliffe Subject: Visiting Scholar Position In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations Visiting Scholar Program 1998-99 THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA offers a Visiting Scholar Program as an integral part of its Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations. Scholars working in these areas are encouraged to apply to spend leave time (one to six months) in affiliation with the Centre. The goal of the Centre is to stimulate feminist research and to facilitate interchange of ideas and collaboration among scholars, at U.B.C. and elsewhere. Scholars will be expected to participate in the activities of the Centre and to give a public lecture in the Centre's "Lecture Series" during their term. The Visiting Scholar programme is open to faculty, both untenured and tenured, as well as to independent scholars who are engaged in critical work on women and gender, who are not currently working on a higher degree at any institution and who reside in areas outside the B.C. Lower Mainland. Scholars from "developing" countries are encouraged to apply. In its selection of visitors, the Centre hopes to create a diverse community of junior and senior scholar-researchers. The Centre is particularly interested in applicants who work in the area of Women & Film and/or Women and Development. These two topics will be the focus of events at the Centre during 1998-99. Funds are limited and are not available for salary. Their permanent geographical location and their other forms of supports will determine the level of assistance available to successful applicants. Normally, no one residing in North America will be eligible for more than $1000 in assistance. Scholars will normally be provided with shared office space, phone, access to a computer and secretarial assistance. The University's academic year runs from September to April, therefore applicants are encouraged to schedule the majority of their visit to the Centre during these months. Scholars will normally only receive funding on one occasion. Applications must include: - curriculum vitae, - a detailed statement of research plans for the time period, - the length of time for which they are applying and the beginning date, - an indication of required funding. The applicant must also arrange to have two referees forward their assessments to: Visiting Scholar Program, Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, 1896 East Mall, University of B.C., Vancouver Canada, V6T 1Z1. The closing date for receipt of applications is October 31st, 1997 jo hinchliffe women's studies centre university of b.c. vancouver, canada joey@unixg.ubc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 13:04:30 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Horlitz Subject: Ellen Goodman column on The Promise Keepers Ellen Goodman wrote an excellent column on the Promise Keepers on Oct. 2. It can be accessed at http://www.boston.com/globe/columns/goodman. Beth horlitz@uhavax.hartford.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:26:02 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Washington Subject: Gay/lesbian Family Resources Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" List Members: Please share any information you may know of concerning research which examines children reared in lesbian/gay families. I am particularly interested in parent-child relationship information. Thank you so much Pat Washington washing3@mail.sdsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 12:50:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: courtney sears Subject: women, literature and disability Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" _Autobiography of a Face_ by Lucy Grealy, 1994, Houghton Mifflin is a wonderful autobiography about a woman who is diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, an extremely rare type of bone cancer. Despite the fact that the survival rate at that time was only about 5% (it is not much, if any, better now) Lucy goes ahead and has a portion of her jaw removed and survives. The book describes her experiences with diagnosis, treatment, and how the surgeries affect her perception of self after the surgeries alter her face. In addition to being a wonderfully inspiring story that- and I am aware this sounds dorky- will make you laugh out loud and cry, it provides a wonderful analysis of the construction and value placed on female beuty in the United States. I highly recommend for any number of women's studies classes. Courtney Sears searscy@email.uc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 11:02:34 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: kgirton 5-9523 Organization: College of Nursing, Univ. of Utah Subject: Request - Campus Climate Survey Greetings to all list members! I wondered if you could recommend any particular campus climate surveys, in general, and any specific survey addressing the needs of women in higher education and the quality of their experience? As a member of a new women's commission agency, at the University of Utah, I am interested in learning more about existing instruments on the subject of campus climate. Thank you for your consideration and time! Kathy Girton Kathryn M. Girton Staff Coordinator/Graduate Assistant University of Utah Presidential Commission on the Status of Women Phone: (801) 585-9523 Fax: (801) 581-4642 EMail: kgirton@nurfac.nurs.utah.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 16:31:39 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kris Montgomery Subject: Failing at Fairness Author to Speak Comments: To: WRAC-L@LLISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII David Sadker, coauthor of Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, and genderequity specialist Phyllis Lerner will lead a one-day training for teachers, parents and others who care about girls success in and out of the classroom, on Sat., Oct. 25, at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA (about an hour north of the Golden Gate Bridge). Co sponsored by the Project on Girls and Women, the Women's Resource Center and the National Women's History Project, the 9 a.m.-4 p.m. workshop will cover topics such as: * teaching strategies for insuring gender fairness in the K-12 classroom * and strategies for helping girls achieve and have a healthy sense of self-esteem outside the classroom. For more information, contact the Women's Resource Center, 9-4 p.m, M-F, at 707/664-2845. Fees (including lunch) are: $50 general, $35 for student with current ID (bring ID to registration). To sign up for 7 CEUs, there is an additional $25 fee, payable at registration only. Please pass the word! It's a chance to hear one of the pioneers of gender equity speak and talk about his 20 years of research, plus to train with a teacher and equity specialist of 15 years. ### ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 21:41:32 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: S Swift Subject: Re: Gay/lesbian Family Resources Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > List Members: > > Please share any information you may know of > concerning research which examines children > reared in lesbian/gay families. I am > particularly interested in parent-child > relationship information. > > Thank you so much > > > Pat Washington > washing3@mail.sdsu.edu Have you heard o COLLAGE it is an international organization for lesbian and gay families. Especially for the kids. I think it is based in San Francisco. Good luck with your work. S Swift mercrise@sirius.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 07:55:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: when to reply privately (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Today's very important excerpt from 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). 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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 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: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 11:34:05 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gail Dines Subject: Re: inquiry I have a friend who is looking for feminist readings for a Jewish wedding. Can anyone suggest any poems, short stories etc. Thanks. Whe_dines@flo.org ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 10:20:20 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Garber Subject: lesbian-related WS serials MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kris Gerhard mentioned in a recent cfp that her contributors were all concluding that there is a lack of information about lesbian-related WS serials. I thought it might be of general interest to the list that I compiled a 700+ page bibliography of periodical articles: _Lesbian Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, 1970-1990_ (Garland). Although it is no longer up to the minute, there is a lot of useful information indexed by subject category, as well as a list of periodicals (WS and otherwise) whose lesbian content I indexed. I hope this is helpful to Kris as well as to individual researchers. Please ask your library to order a copy if they don't already own one! Linda Garber Asst. Professor Women's Studies Program California State University, Fresno Fresno, CA 93740-0078 (209) 278-5721 fax (209) 278-7664 email: linda_garber@csufresno.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 18:06:03 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Teresa Malafaia Subject: Women and Interactive technologies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Teaching a MA Course on Culture and Modernity, I am specially interested in women's attitudes towards interactive technologies and in the transformation of public and private spheres caused by a networked world. I would also like to know about groups in which those questions are discussed. Teresa Malafaia University of Lisbon tvmalafaia@mail.telepac.pt ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 12:56:47 -0700 Reply-To: Anila Hedayat Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anila Hedayat Subject: Self-esteem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The book, _Schoolgirls_ was used at an intro WS class I took. It used the survey "Shortchanging girls, shortchanging America" along with personal stories of girls from two junior high schools. It's a great book and I think most students really enjoyed it. It raises many issues...eating disorders, racism, sexual harassment, sex, peer pressure... Also, the author's (whose name I can't recall) style of writing makes the book accessible to all levels of students even high schoolers or younger, although some of the content is rather disturbing. Anila Hedayat, UC Irvine ahedayat@uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 15:47:33 -0500 Reply-To: virginia l rinkevich Sender: Women's Studies List From: virginia l rinkevich Subject: disabled women.... Comments: To: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII First, I sincerely wish to thank Susan Koppelman for the outstanding, helpful and enlightening bibliography on *disabilities and chronic illness* . This indeed shows the extreme definition of the term "disability" and also shows the hiddenness that perhaps we have never thought to address....and if we do... how we do address *it*... I also wish to give a nod of thanks to those who have commented on my request. Before asking the *list* for "help" in my search for the written words in this area, I had done a lists/wmst/archives search for women and disabilities and was given a *zero*... In response to Ms Koreman... I apologize for not making myself MORE clear in my request...but I felt that the books I used as examples (Winterson and Panzarino) were indeed indictor of Women writer and Women Studies...which therefore would imply teaching, research and proposal of course implementation. Also...in scanning the previous post for the last week...very few have sigs attached (email address)...I remove my sig. to save space and because the address and mail appear in the "from" box...I guess I am not the only one to be breaking rules and shattering screen glass... I do wish to muchly thank Ms. Koreman as the overseer of this list for her sending out of reminders and updates on listserve functions. It has helped me many a time when a "file" as disappeared by way of cyber troll. I fully understand and realize the time and effort this much take.. I do not mind being "used" as a learning tool for others in proper methods but I mind being address as a "lesser" individual with no focus. We all have focus and concerns directed towards Womens Studies... otherwise? why would "We" be on this list? I have taken my time to reply...my mother always told me never to touch a hot skillet...."let it cool" she would whisper as she would softly blow on the burning finger.... now I will leave you with someone elses words: Women with disabilities traditionally have been ignored not only by those concerned about disability but also by those examining womens experience. Even feminist scholars to whom we owe great intellectual and political debts have perpetuated this neglect. The popular view of women with disabilities has been one mixed with repugnance. Perceiving disabled women as childlike, helpless and victimized, non-disabled feminists have severed them from the sisterhood in an effort to advance more powerful, competent, and appealing female icons. As one feminist academic said to the non-disabled co-author of this essay: "Why study women with disabilities? They reinforce traditional sterotypes of women being dependent, passive, and needy." (p.4) from: Women With Disabilities: Essays in Psychology, Culture, and Politics. Introduction: Beyond Pedestals. ed: Michelle Fine & Adrieinne Asch. Temple University Press. Philadelphia. 1988. ISBN 0-87722-474-9. culpa mea.. ginger virginia lee uRzendowsky-rinkevich university of nebraska libraries university of nebraska @ lincoln love library - lincoln gingrink@unlgrad1.unl.edu unl library-high school coordinator glr@unlinfo.unl.edu gingerr@unllib.unl.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 17:11:09 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: Re: inquiry Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:34 AM 10/4/97 -0400, you wrote: >I have a friend who is looking for feminist readings for a Jewish wedding. >Can anyone suggest any poems, short stories etc. Thanks. >Whe_dines@flo.org > Anite Diamant has an anthology of Jewish wedding readings out. It has a wide variety of pieces in it. There is also a section in my own MY MOTHER'S BODY of wedding pieces. Those are the two i know about that people seem to use a lot. marge piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 11:11:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kim Christensen Subject: Feminist Theory Syllabi Dear WMST Subscribers, This spring, I will be teaching "Feminist Theory" (a junior/senior level course) for the first time. Although I have taught "Intro. to Women's Studies" and "Economic/Political History of Women in the U.S." for fifteen years, I have never taught feminist theory, and I'm a bit overwhelmed at the possibilities. I would greatly appreciate it if WMST subscribers who have taught feminist theory would foward their syllabi to me. My e-mail address is kchrist52@aol.com. If your syllabus is on software not compatible with your e-mail program (like mine), please feel free to send it "snail mail." My address is: Kim Christensen, SUNY/Purchase College, Economics/Women's Studies, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase NY 10577. Thanks VERY much and I look forward to hearing from you. Kim Christensen ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 15:25:55 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tina LaPorta Subject: Re: Women and Interactive technologies Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Teresa, I have been creating interactive multi-media work in the realm of fine art since 1991. I earned my MFA in this area in 1994 and have been teaching(freelance) since 1995. Currently I was selected as an Artist-in-Residence for Ars Electronica's FutureLab where I have installed an interactive work titled TRACES. TRACES is one part of a trilogy of Web pieces. I am currently completely the second piece for the series which will be installed on the Alt-X site as part of a project called Being in Cyberspace. I am also a member of FACES which is an international group of cyberfeminists who create work in the area of new media. You can contact me privately or to list if you want more information in this area of Women and Interactive technologies. Sincerely, Tina LaPorta laporta@interport.net http://wintermute.aec.at/traces ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 17:07:06 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Phillips Subject: CFP: Feminist Critiques of Science MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII CALL FOR PAPERS ANNOUNCEMENT Currently abstracts for papers are being accepted for a session entitled Feminist Critiques of Science: Implications for Theory and Education at the 1998 Pacific Sociological Association's annual meeting in San Francisco, April 16-19. The organizers are part of PROMISE, or Projects for Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Study and Education, which is a joint Women's Studies, Sociology, and Geoscience project funded by the National Science Foundation at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Our project's goal is the transformation of science education utilizing a feminist framework. Part our purpose for organizing this session is to promote discussion and discourse regarding the implications of feminist science studies. Abstracts or inquiries must be received no later than November 1, 1997 for consideration. If you are interested in more information about this session or wish to send an abstract please contact: Jaime Phillips or Cheryl Radeloff, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Department of Sociology, Box 5033, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5033. Phone (702) 895-4616, fax (702) 895-4800, or by e-mail: phillipj@nevada.edu or radelofc@nevada.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 21:06:58 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 6 academic job openings MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following 6 job openings may interest WMST-L readers: 1) English (Women's Lit/Feminist Theory) - James Madison University 2) Religious Studies (incl. feminist/womanist philosophy - Union Theological Seminary 3) Asst. Prof.of Spanish (inc. feminist theory) - U. of Pittsburgh 4) Distinguished Chair in Women's Studies (Gender & Science) - Hamilton C. 5) Criminal Justice (involvement in WS Program) - Old Dominion U. 6) Director of Women's Studies/Assoc or Full Professor of Psychology - U. of Connecticut For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) English: James Madison University, Department of English, MSC 1801, Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807. Pending funding, the English Department seeks applicants for 3 positions to teach a 4-4 load starting 24 August 1998. [1st two positions deleted] 3) Women's Literature and Feminist Theory, Assistant Professor, revolving termWe welcome a secondary area of interest in post-colonial literatures, modern dramas, feminist/gender theory, or cultural studiesDr. Annette Federico, Search Committee Chair. Courses for all positions include first-year composition, surveys, upper division topics courses, and graduate seminars. Candidates should have Ph.D. in hand by beginning of appointment. Review of applications begins 10 November and continues until position is filled. Please send letter and curriculum vitae to appropriate search committee chair. James Madison University is an AA/EOE. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 1997 *************************************************************************** 2) Religious Studies: Union Theological Seminary will fill a senior-level post in Christian ethics in Fall 1999. Requirements: Doctorate in religious ethics or related field; teaching experience, introductory and advanced level, with particular attention to Christian ethics; engagement in the work of feminist, womanist, mujerista Christian ethicists/social philosophers. Competence in social theory related to racism and/or economic justice, and selected questions of moral philosophy and theology. Send application or nominations to: Faculty Search Committee, c/o James P. Nally, Assistant to the Dean, Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, New York, New York 10027, by November 30, 1997. Applications will include letter, curriculum vitae, names/addresses of three references. Union Theological Seminary, a multicultural and multiracial community, is an equal-opportunity employer, which seeks a faculty that is broadly representative of the whole of American society and sensitive to cross-cultural issues. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 1997 *************************************************************************** 3) Spanish: Assistant Professor of Spanish. The Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh is seeking applications for a tenure stream position in Latin American Literature at the starting Assistant Professor level, effective September 1998. We are looking for someone with special interests in any or several of the following areas: Caribbean Studies, Feminist Theory, Literary Theory, Post-Colonial Studies, Pre-Columbian and/or Indigenous literature and culture, Postmodernism, Latin American Cultural Studies, Latino Studies. Additional expertise in Modern Peninsular literature a plus. Applications will be received until November 25, 1997. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, three recommendation letters, and publication samples to Mabel Morana, Chair, 1309 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania l5260. Phone: 412-624-5225; fax: 412-624-8505. The University of Pittsburgh is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 1997 ****************************************************************************** 4) 1998-1999 JANE WATSON IRWIN DISTINGUISHED CHAIR Gender and Science Hamilton College Hamilton College invites applications and nominations for the Jane Watson Irwin Distinguished Chair in Women's Studies with a special focus on the sciences for 1998-99. The Irwin Chair is a visiting professorship endowed for the purpose of serving the needs and interests of women at Hamilton College. Teaching responsibilities include a science-based course appropriate for cross-listing with Women's Studies, a course in area of specialization, and a women's studies course such as Introduction to Women's Studies or Feminist Theory. Salary and other responsibilities, such as programming and campus outreach, are negotiable. Rank is open. Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names of three references to: Margaret Gentry, Jane Watson Irwin Search Committee, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, New York 13323. Application deadline is December 15, 1997. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Hamilton College is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 1997 ***************************************************************************** 5) Criminal Justice: The Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice seeks to fill a tenure track position beginning August, 1998. Ph.D. in criminology, criminal justice or sociology expected at time of appointment. Candidates will be evaluated on their potential for quality research and teaching, and their ability to bring variety to our curriculum. Evidence of potential success in earning external support for research activities is especially desirable. Duties will include occasional teaching in the televised distance learning program (TELETECHNET). Opportunities exist to participate in the graduate program in Applied Sociology, University's Institute for the Study of Minority Issues, Women's Studies Program, and Graduate Programs in International Studies. Applications are welcomed from those with minority, feminist, or international perspectives in their teaching and research. Submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, and a list of at least three references including phone numbers and addresses to: Search Committee, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529. Review of applications begins December 1 and continues until the position is filled. Inquiries regarding the position should be directed to Garland White (E-mail gwhite@odu.edu) or visit our web page (www.odu.edu/~artsltrs/sociology/welcome.htm). Old Dominion University is an affirmative action and equal opportunity institution and requires compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 1997 **************************************************************************** 6) UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT Director of Women's Studies/Associate/Full Professor of Psychology The University of Connecticut invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Department of Psychology with a joint appointment as the Director of Women's Studies, Beginning in the Fall semester, 1998. The position will be at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. Responsibilities include providing academic leadership and overall administrative direction to the Women's Studies Program (which offers a B.A. and undergraduate and graduate certificates) and teaching. The appointment of the Director of Women's Studies is for a 5-year term. Once leaving the administrative position, the faculty member will teach in both Psychology and Women's Studies. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in psychology and research expertise in the psychology of gender issues; qualified applicants in any area of psychology are invited to apply. Academic administrative experience is required. Experience as faculty involved in teaching, and administrative qualifications and interests, a curriculum vitae, no more than three reprints or preprints of publications, and three letters of recommendation to: Janet L. Barnes- Farrell, Ph.D., Chair, Director of Women's Studies Search Committee, University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology, U-20, Storrs, CT 06269-1020. Screening will begin on November 1, 1997. The University of Connecticut encourages applications from under-represented groups including minorities, women and people with disabilities. (Search# 98A110} From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 1997 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 21:37:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 announcements (jobs, grants, etc.) 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) Three job openings at Antioch College: Literature, Philosophy, Women's Studies 2) 1998 Grants for Women from Developing Countries 3) Breaking the Cycle: Ending Domestic Violence For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) 3 job openings at Antioch College Antioch College has played an important and distinctive role in higher education since its founding in 1852, and has been a pioneer in such areas as cooperative education, study abroad programs and participatory governance. . . . Antioch recently received a three-year grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to enhance the long-term stability of the College, and with the participation of students, faculty, alumni and trustees, has completed a comprehensive Strategic Plan to move the College forward into the next century. As part of the implementation of its Strategic Plan, the College invites applications from committed teachers and scholars to fill [the following 3] tenure-track positions at the Assistant or Associate level. LITERATURE The position requires teaching expertise in the nineteenth and twentieth century British novel, post-colonial literature (focus on African and/or Afro-Caribbean literatures is especially desirable), and the ability to contribute to the women's studies program. The ability to teach a course in literary theory and criticism is also welcome. Ph.D. and teaching experience are required. PHILOSOPHY The successful candidate will be expected to participate in a broadly defined program in philosophy from the global perspective within a history, philosophy and religious studies major. The candidate must be an analytic philosopher with well-documented teaching excellence. He/she should be competent and willing to teach courses such as contemporary analytic philosophy, logic, epistemology, and history of philosophy. In addition, he/she will be expected to make contributions in two of the following areas: philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, African philosophy, environmental philosophy and philosophy of science. Ph.D. required. WOMEN'S STUDIES The position involves teaching courses such as Introduction to Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Women in Development and Women in Cross-cultural Perspective. The successful candidate will also take a leadership role in the future development of the Women's Studies Program in collaboration with faculty who contribute to Women's Studies curriculum across the College. The field is open but applicants from social sciences or history are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants should have a strong commitment to multicultural and international perspectives. Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree and teaching experience are required. Faculty members at Antioch College teach six courses a year, including one 3.5 week block course in the summer. All faculty members have advising and committee responsibilities and must contribute to the intellectual and cultural life of the community. A commitment to undergraduate liberal arts education and interdisciplinary teaching is essential, and an appreciation for the interaction of classroom with experiential and service learning is preferred. Antioch is particularly interested in candidates who are able to incorporate multicultural, race, class and gender issues into the context of their teaching and research. All candidates must have appropriate degrees in hand by August, 1998, unless otherwise specified. All positions are tenure track and appointments will be made at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Salary is commensurate with experience. The search committee will begin reviewing applications November 3rd and will continue until the positions are filled. For additional information regarding Antioch's academic program, contact the Dean of Faculty's office or Antioch's web site at www.antioch-college.edu. Candidates should submit 1) a letter of interest, 2) a vita, 3) photocopies of graduate transcripts, 4) a sample of teaching evaluations (when applicable) and 5) three current letters of reference to the address below: HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT, SEARCH COMMITTEE, Antioch College, P.O. Box 465, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 Antioch College is committed to creating a community in which a diverse population can live and work in an atmosphere of sensitivity, civility, and respect for the rights of each individual. Antioch University provides equal employment opportunity for all qualified applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, family status or disability. AA/EOE From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 1997 **************************************************************************** 2) 1998 Grants for Women from Developing Countries The Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund was established in 1981 to honor the late Margaret McNamara and her commitment to the well-being of women and children in developing countries. The purpose of the grant is to support the education of women from developing countries. Previous grant recipients were studying in fields such as agriculture, architecture and urban planning, civil engineering, education, forestry, journalism, nursing, nutrition, pediatrics, public administration, public health, social sciences,and social work. The MMMF awards five grants of about $6,000 each year; they are not renewable. Requests for application forms for the 1998/99 academic year will be accepted from September 1997 until January 15, 1998. The deadline for completed applications is February 2, 1998. The MMMF will announce the recepients about April 15, 1998. ELIGIBILITY: The MMMF invites women who meet the following criteria to apply: 1. She has a record of service to women and children in her country. 2. She plans to return to her country in about two years. 3. She can demonstrate financial need. 4. She is enrolled in an accredited educational institution in the US by September 1997 and during the entire period covered by the grant. 5. She is a national of a developing country* residing in the US, but not a permanent resident (green card holder). 6. She is at least 25 years old by December 31, 1997 (born before 1973) 7. She is not related to any World Bank Group staff member or his/her spouse. APPLICATIONS must be REQUESTED in writing from: The Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund 1818 H Street, NW, Room G-1000 Washington DC 20433 Reposted from FEMISA ************************************************************************** 3) IN HONOR OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH Women's Information Network (WIN) Social Action Network Presents BREAKING THE CYCLE: ENDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15th, 6:30 p.m. Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562 United States Senate Washington, DC FEATURING Ellen Riddleberger, Legislative Assistant Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) Grace Orsini, Director, Community Outreach My Sister's Place Bill Christenson, Community Educator Men's Rape Prevention Project Eileen Dombo, Adult Therapist Washington, DC Rape Crisis Center For more information, contact: Women's Information Network 1511 K Street NW, Suite 635 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-347-2827 Fax: 202-347-1418 Web: http://www.DemsCalendar.com/win/ ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 21:51:00 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Saad, Shahnaz" Subject: Re: disabled women.... Two comments: 1) I have enjoyed the thread about women with disabilities tremendously. It has been personally helpful to me (because I am a woman with a disability). It has also been professionally interesting to me (because I teach in a special education department). I am very glad this thread has been allowed to continue. I appreciate all the recommendations which have been made! 2) My email server doesn't tell me the name and email address of the poster in the heading, so if the person does not sign her message I have no idea who sent the message. S. Chris Saad, PhD ssaad@wcupa.edu ---------- now I will leave you with someone elses words: Women with disabilities traditionally have been ignored not only by those concerned about disability but also by those examining womens experience. Even feminist scholars to whom we owe great intellectual and political debts have perpetuated this neglect. The popular view of women with disabilities has been one mixed with repugnance. Perceiving disabled women as childlike, helpless and victimized, non-disabled feminists have severed them from the sisterhood in an effort to advance more powerful, competent, and appealing female icons. As one feminist academic said to the non-disabled co-author of this essay: "Why study women with disabilities? They reinforce traditional sterotypes of women being dependent, passive, and needy." (p.4) from: Women With Disabilities: Essays in Psychology, Culture, and Politics. Introduction: Beyond Pedestals. ed: Michelle Fine & Adrieinne Asch. Temple University Press. Philadelphia. 1988. ISBN 0-87722-474-9. culpa mea.. ginger virginia lee uRzendowsky-rinkevich university of nebraska libraries university of nebraska @ lincoln love library - lincoln gingrink@unlgrad1.unl.edu unl library-high school coordinator glr@unlinfo.unl.edu gingerr@unllib.unl.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 00:48:29 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lori Waserman Subject: Re: Gay/lesbian Family Resources In-Reply-To: ; from "S Swift" at Oct 3, 97 9:41 pm A great book on Lesbian Parenting in Canada is: Arnup, Katherine.1995. "Lesbian Parenting: Living with Pride and Prejudice" Charlotttown: gynergy books Lori Waserman lwaserma@ccs.carleton.ca ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 09:17:52 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Celia C Winkler Subject: Glenn and Blankenhorn MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Last week I received in the mail a glossy report by Norval Glenn, with a cover letter by David Blankenhorn, purporting to critique sociology of family textbooks, with special attention to those which challenged the idea that the patriarchal nuclear family might not always be the best form for individuals. Today my local paper published an editorial basically praising the report, taking the "findings" as gospel. When I first got the report (published, printed, and mailed by the Council on Families) I wondered who else, besides family instructors and the media, was on the mailing list. Does anyone know? Deans, university presidents, chairs, boards of regents, trustees? Does anyone know whether the report was ever submitted to any journals? I don't know if I'm being unnecessarily paranoid, but when I saw the report the thought crossed my mind that this was an attempt to enforce a conservatively correct teaching of family sociology, as an end-run around traditional scholarly discussions (i.e. in _Teaching Sociology_). I'd be grateful for any information. Celia Winkler Department of Sociology University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-1047 Office: (406) 243-5863 Fax: (406) 243-5951 cwinkler@selway.umt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 12:56:54 -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 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, 5 Oct 1997 14:11:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "C. Horwitz" Subject: Women in Development In-Reply-To: <01IOG5LCNJSY00BPPK@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Friends - Can anyone tell me what is meant by the course offering "Women in Development" mentioned specifically in the Antioch Women's Studies Job Description? Does this mean economic development? fund raising? personal development? developing countries. Reply privately. Many thanks. Carol Horwitz ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 15:17:31 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: Women in Development Comments: To: "C. Horwitz" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Perhaps many of us would like this term defined. I believe the definition might be campus specific in many cases. True? Or is "Women in Development" a specialty recognized by many folks out there? Thanks. Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. mharris@utdallas.edu 972/866-6711 ph. 214/630-1169 fx. On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, C. Horwitz wrote: > Friends - Can anyone tell me what is meant by the course offering "Women > in Development" mentioned specifically in the Antioch Women's Studies Job > Description? Does this mean economic development? fund raising? > personal development? developing countries. Reply privately. Many > thanks. > > Carol Horwitz > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 20:05:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan heald Subject: Re: Women in Development Comments: To: Srimati Basu In-Reply-To: <3432A9E4.343B@depauw.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I can't speak for Antioch College, but I'd be very surprised if "Women in Development" referred to anything OTHER than women in developing countries, with a focus on women's involvement in and struggles with the often externally-imposed "development" projects which affect their lives, usually negatively. I've been teaching "Women in Development" courses for nearly 10 years; I guess I'm a bit surprised at it not being recognized as a "specialty." Earlier today a colleague in Sociology at another university was telling me about how surprised she is that students from women's studies classes don't seem to know more about international development issues for women. Is is not fairly common now for such issues to be a routine part of any intro course? The first thing we do in my "Women in Development" course is to critique the whole notion of "development"; in my first sentence above I meant to say "women in so-called `developing countries'." I do not mean to suggest that the term "women in development" is unproblematic--it is extremely so--just that it should have a readily-recognizable referrent. Susan Heald Women's Studies University of Manitoba ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 21:35:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Definition of Roles In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The question on gender role definition was in relation to Promise Keepers. In discussing this with students, I think the complexity of the Promise Keepers operation should be addressed. It works with three branches from the gender tree, each with leaves and twigs taking form particular to sites. In the branch involving personal encounters, the men leave women home to go on tending children and domestic responsibilities. (I'm assuming Promise Keepers are heterosexuals because attention to wives and family is a major issue for them. Even if some are gay now, the centrality of this issue suggests strongly that they were once married or in an intimate relation with women.) They come together, affirming their solidarity as heads of patriarchal families and work out tactics to make that position palatable to women. Maureen Dowd in today's New York Times, 10/4, considers their leaving home for meetings and rallies a substitute for getting out of the house to play golf. She's right, again displays sharp wit in debunking masculine pretense. But I'm suggesting that Promise Keepers go further than she notes. Offering to wash a wife's feet is, of course, a token, a momentary act. One wonders why they don't offer to wash the kitchen floor. But even if they did, they would still be in charge: choosing the task - and when they'll do it. That's a familiar tactic of pretense to change gender relations. It's one of the maneuvers discussed in the introduction to Lydia Sargents' 1981 essay collection: 'Women and Revolution.' To the extent that Promise Keepers is responding to feminist risings in their wives, as some people say they are, they're playing an old game. Another way of looking at this is to see that they're keeping control of the discourse: it's men's needs they're talking about ('I'm sorry, honey. See how I feel? Look at how much I want to be good. I even cry, like women do' - neat way to stay in control, keep attention focused on them.) The Promise Keepers identity with Christ brings religion to the service of secular gender practice. They fuse themselves with a male god, taking on his supremacy, omniscience and omnipotence. The second branch has a further reach, in which their Christianity is important. They are part of the evangelical Christian challenge to the power of mainstream churches. The challenge is strong enough so that some of the latter are joining forces. We see this in the US in the recent agreement of the Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ and Reformed churches - the Episcopalian want to join but the Lutherans put that off. (The fact of an increase in Muslims in the country is undoubtedly part of the threat perceived.) A major agreement was to combine missionary work, clearly a response to the inroads of evangelical churches in South America and elsewhere. We also see the Pope's global travels rallying Roman Catholics. What we have, then, are religious organizations dominated by men, or as in the Promise Keepers comprised entirely of men, with gender scripts that vary only slightly (Heterosexuality as a 'family value' is important), competing for membership. On the other hand, the Promise Keepers are positioned in opposition to the Million Man March, which gave an edge to its Muslim leader and spoke to African American separatism, and any fallout from it. So the Promise Keepers have on their side both those who see this as a threat from another group of men and other evangelicals led by men. In the third branch, the Promise Keepers bring Christianity together with the recolonizing moves in the current global economy. To understand this, we should note the evidence of growing strength in states that were recently colonies of Western states, where the dominant religion is Christianity. In fact, some of those recently independent states are competing with the US and other Western states for economic advantage. (Malaysia in South America is an example.) In these states, the dominant religions are Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and other systems of beliefs. (In some, as in the Balkans, there are Christian churches independent of the Western.) Moreover, and this is important, too: the relationship was long ago racialised: 'white' had power over those 'of color.' Economic power does not work without a militia ready to reinforce it. To have a militia has meant having men to persuade or be coerced to go to war. An essential reason given has been, historically, protection of home and family, a way of life, those 'family values.' In affirming their position as Christian men taking care of their families, the Promise Keepers are, in effect, asserting their readiness to stand behind the US alliance with its multinational corporations to maintain US capitalist power by all means necessary. They can be counted on, against the Others of different color and religion as well as Europeans competing with the US, e.g., France, the latest to defy the US in contracting with Iran to build a pipeline. - A link to the political right? Seems so. Long message. Hope it was useful. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 22:39:57 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: josephine ryan Subject: Re: Women in Development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have a love-hate relationship with this list. I learn so much, benefit so much from the practical advice and lists of resources. I been lurking for the last few months, but feel compelled to post. I don't mean to offend anyone on the list who doesn't know what Women in Development is because I've learned of specialities and areas of interest myself from this list. But they were mostly offshoots and refinements of older, broader concerns. The fact that anyone wouldn't know what WID is worries me. I'm worried about any Women's Studies Program that doesn't have folks teaching it. If so, the program needs to be renamed (American Limited Vision) Women's Studies Program. Relevance, if that is a concern, does extend beyond the academy, and even beyond the shores of this country. Please don't flame me, since it will only make Joan work harder and we're giving her enough trouble as it is right now. I'm not trying to create a problem here, just feeling the tension of being an anthropologist in a women's studies environment. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:40:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nelda K Pearson Subject: Women in Development MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear All- I too teach a WID course in our Race, Class, and Gender studies program. Despite the fact that our university wants to "mainstream" international content, the administration sees it as a "luxury" course and is trying to have it removed from the catalogue. For those of you who are unfamiliar with WID there is a huge body of literature on the subject, there is an international association AWID, and there is a very large active group of researchers and practioners. I will say that WID is more recognized as a discipline outside the US than inside. Also, the term does NOT just apply to women in the third world but rather looks at women's role in economic issues internationally,e.g. structural adjustment policy and the relationship between first world and second, third, and fourth world in general. As with any field there are subdisciplines and sub theories,e.g. how to mainstream women into existing development vs. how to make development user friendly to women vs.transforming development using feminist theory. For those who would like to familiarize themselves with some issues I suggest: Shiva and Meis ECOFEMINISM ZED Books Moser GENDER PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Rutledge Braidotti et al WOMEN, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ZED Books Sparr MORTGAGING WOMEN'S LIVES ZED Books As a general intro to international development as an issue I suggest: McMichael DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE Pine Forge Press ZED Books are distributed by Women's Ink in the US. These books are not even the tip of the ice berg. however, they are the ones I usually recommend for starters. Nelda K. Pearson Chair, Race, Class, and Gender Studies ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:42:09 EST5EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherrie Inness Organization: Miami University Hamilton Campus Subject: international girls anthology Please bring this call for papers to the attention of scholars around the world. I'm interested in representing as many different cultural and national perspectives as possible. Thank you for helping to distribute this CFP. Sherrie A. Inness Assistant Professor of English Miami University Call for Papers: New Anthology on Contemporary Girls' Culture from a Global Perspective How are girls from various national, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups suggesting new ways of being a girl as we approach a new century? What forces are shaping contemporary girls and girlhood in its many forms around the world? How are girls creating a different vision of girlhood in the 90s than earlier in this century? How do today's girls resist the forces that seek to mold them into "correctly" socialized women? These are a few of the questions that will be addressed in a proposed anthology about contemporary girls and their many cultures. Issues that might be discussed include, but are not limited to, girls and toys, girls and television, girls and reading, girls and music, girls and clothing, girls' publishing, and girls' communities on the internet. In all cases, essays should consider the ways that today's girls are resisting the societal norms that surround them and how girls are reshaping what it means to be a girl. I welcome explorations by scholars in American Studies, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Hispanic Studies, English, History, Women's Studies, and other disciplines that highlight questions of power, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. I also welcome essays that examine and contrast girlhood in different countries. Essays (25 to 30 pages, not including notes and works cited) should be broadly informed by the insights of interdisciplinary and cultural studies. Please send completed paper, an abstract of 250-300 words, and curriculum vita by November 1, 1997, to Professor Sherrie A. Inness, Miami University, Department of English, 1601 Peck Boulevard, Hamilton, Ohio 45011 (innesss@muohio.edu). Early submissions are encouraged. Sherrie A. Inness is the author of Intimate Communities: Representation and Social Transformation in Women's College Fiction, 1895-1910 (Bowling Green, 1995), The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), and Tough Girls: Women, Popular Culture, and the Gendering of Toughness (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming). She is also the editor of Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing (with Diana Royer; University of Iowa Press, 1997), Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series (Bowling Green, 1997), and Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures (New York University Press, forthcoming). ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:33:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: "development" has multiple meanings MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Earlier today, an anonymous subscriber wrote: > The fact that anyone wouldn't know what WID is worries me. I'm > worried about any Women's Studies Program that doesn't have folks teaching > it. If so, the program needs to be renamed (American Limited Vision) > Women's Studies Program. I was somewhat bothered by this message for several reasons. First of all, I want people on WMST-L to feel comfortable asking questions about the meaning of terms they don't understand. Though it may not have been meant as a personal criticism, the above message seems to me to discourage such inquiries. I was also bothered by the impression the worried writer gives that the term "women and development" has one and only one meaning. As an anthropologist, she knows what the term means in her field. However, that's NOT the only way the term is used, even at the university. At many--perhaps even most--universities, "development" also refers to fund raising, for example, and efforts to involve women or target women could very well be called "women and development." The Vice-President for Development (or whatever the chief administrator in charge of shaking hands and wallets is called) might find it amusing and/or worrisome that someone doesn't know this :-). It's also possible that some psychologists might understand the phrase "women and development" still differently. Terms like "development" have different meanings in different contexts. Even within Women's Studies, the term can be used in differing ways. In this case, the original question asked how the term was being used in a job ad, where any number of meanings are possible. Finally, I think the writer is correct to emphasize the importance of courses like "Women and Development," but I don't think it's necessary to take digs at programs without such courses. Most of our programs probably have important areas we don't cover because we lack the faculty or the funding. At my institution, UMBC, we do offer a course on "women and development" every other year, but only thanks to the fact that we have money in our budget to offer one elective each semester that wouldn't otherwise be offered. If we did not have this money (and many programs are not so fortunate), the course would probably not be offered at all. Finally, since writing this message has put me in Official Nag mode, I'd like to remind everyone to include their name and e-mail address at the end of every posting to WMST-L. As other people have pointed out, some e-mail systems don't provide that information, and there will be no way for such people to know who you are or to make private replies unless you include that information inside your message. Many thanks. 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, 6 Oct 1997 09:37:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: too many messages? Try 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. The digest reduces both mail clutter and, usually, mail volume. (Please note that this is NOT the huge, unselective bundle of messages that many listserv digest features provide. Do NOT use their digest command.) If you would like to receive the edited digest rather than individual mail messages, you should first subscribe to WMST-L (if you don't already have a subscription) by sending the message SUBSCRIBE WMST-L Your Name to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU. You will be asked to confirm your subscription request. Once you've done that and have received the list's welcome letter, you should send the following 2-line e-mail message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE SET WMST-L NOMAIL ACK Note: If your mail system also has a Bitnet connection, the digest may arrive as a file rather than as an e-mail message. If you don't know how to receive a file, see section 11 of the WMST-L User's Guide or ask the computer support people at your institution. If you'd prefer to receive the digest(s) inside mail message(s), alter the abovementioned AFD ADD statement to read as follows: AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE F=MAIL . However, even if you receive the digest(s) as mail messages, YOU CANNOT REPLY AUTOMATICALLY! If you wish to reply to a message in the digest, you must start a new message and address it either to WMST-L or to the individual. Also, LISTSERV may ask you to set up an AFD password. You're best off not doing so. If at some point you decide you want to stop the digest and switch back to receiving individual messages, send the following two-line message to LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU: AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L [on line 1] and SET WMST-L MAIL NOACK [on line 2]. To unsubscribe and stop the digest, put AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L on line 1 and UNSUB WMST-L on line 2. ************************ 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 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, 6 Oct 1997 09:19:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Battle Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE!!! REMOVE FROM YOUR LIST PLEASE. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: more messages not to send to WMST-L (User's Guide) Author: Women's Studies List at Internet Date: 10/5/97 12:56 PM 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 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, 6 Oct 1997 09:46:08 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: disabilities in literature Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =46rom the Women's Presses Library Project: Across Borders: Women with Disabilities Working Together Diane Driedger, Irene Feika and Eileen Gir=F3n Batres, editors gynergy books/Ragweed Press 1996 0-921881-38-X P $14.95 192pp. Awakening to Disability: Nothing About Us Without Us Karen G. Stone Volcano Press 1997 1-884244-14-9 P $14.95 Imprinting Our Image: An International Anthology By Women With Disabilities Diane Driedger and Susan Gray, Editors gynergy books/Ragweed Press An unprecedented collection of writings from 17 countries. 1992 0-921881-22-3 P $12.95 224pp. Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies Persimmon Blackbridge Press Gang Publishers One cover-up follows another as Diane hides her learning disabilities from her new employer and her girlfriend. And when she meets Shirley-Butch at the bar, her lesbian identity and her psychiatric history become irrevocably intertwined. 1996 0-88974-068-2 C $21.95 96pp. and in relation to those with psycholgical disabilities.... Beyond Bedlam: Contemporary Women Psychiatric Survivors Speak Out Jeannie Grobe, editor Third Side Press 1995 1-879427-23-0 C $30.95 256pp. 1995 1-879427-22-2 P $15.95 256pp. Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement Irit Shimrat Press Gang Publishers Shimrat's escape from psychiatric incarceration and subsequent involvement in the psychiatric survivors' movement (a.k.a the mad movement) is documented here 1997 0-88974-070-4 P $ 224pp. >literature (fact >or fiction) that reflects a protagonist who appears with a >disability or handicap ? (examples: the me in the mirror by >panzarino...the passion by winterson) > >todah, >ginger 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: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:43:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michele McGrady Subject: popular culture and gender I am doing research on the effects of popular culture on gender socialization. Can anyone help me out with some suggestions of books or articles? Thanks! Please respond privately. Michele McGrady venus97708@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:26:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jason Kandankery Subject: Re: too many messages? Try edited digest (User's Guide) Comments: To: KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit AFD add WMST-L package set WMST-Lnomail ACK ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 14:48:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "SALLY N. WALL, COLLEGE OF NOTRE DAME OF MD FAX 410-532-5799" Subject: NWSA panel - WS at Catholic/religious affil. schools Just received the call for papers for the NWSA conference in June and am interested in organizing a panel to discuss the special issues faced by WS programs at Catholic schools, or schools with a religious affiliation. We're looking for participants from other institutions who would discuss the issues their programs have faced. Please respond to: Saly Wall, Coordinator WS College of Notre Dame of Maryland swall@ndm.edu I should add that all presenters at NWSA must be or become NWSA members. Thanks. Sally ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:59:58 UT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: cecilia blewer Subject: Foot Washing/Promise Keepers The message of footwashing is not primarily servile -- among Christians it is a message of leadership. Christ washed his disciples' feet at the Last Supper and The Pope, Bishops, and other church leaders now do the same on Maundy Thursday. It is a sign of the Promise Keepers' identification with Christ as LEADER that makes this image powerful because the act consitutes who is Leader (Husband) and who is Follower(Wife). The servile imagery is secondary to this and is the same old patriarchial stuff. Cecilia Blewer, M.Div. cblewer@msn.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:04:45 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: Women in Development As a founding member of the Association for Women in Development, I would say this term has a *very* specific meaning to me. I assumed that the meaning I'm thinking of was the one Antioch intended, though of course I could be wrong. AWID is a group of people working in and teaching about promoting social and economic "development" (which, of course, is not an unproblematic concept) in poor nations and regions. The concern of WID specialists is to see that women's economic and social contributions are taken into account in the study of socioeconomic change, and that women are fully incorporated into plans for improving economic opportunities and the quality of life. My own major WID-oriented research was published under the title WOMEN, POWER, AND ECONOMIC CHANGE: THE NANDI OF KENYA. My guess is that courses about the processes and problems of socioeconomic change in the Third World and poorer parts of the developed world, as they affect women, are what is meant by the words "Women in Development" in that job description -- especially as it is paired with cross-cultural perspectives as another specialty area. -- Gina Oboler ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:46:57 EST5EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kim Cordingly Organization: Job Accommodation Network Subject: women and disability There is a major section of this month's NEW MOBILITY magazine devoted to issues of women and disability. From what I've read so far, it's well worth taking a look at. Kim Cordingly West Virginia University kcording@wvu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:51:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Aine Humble Organization: University of P.E.I. Subject: (Fwd) Automatic distribution (AFD) of file "WMST-L DIGEST3" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >Last week I received in the mail a glossy report by Norval Glenn, with a >cover letter by David Blankenhorn, purporting to critique sociology of >family textbooks, with special attention to those which challenged the >idea that the patriarchal nuclear family might not always be the best form >for individuals. >Does anyone know whether the report was ever submitted to any journals? I'm not sure who all got the report, but it *was* published in a journal: It was published in "Family Relations", July 1997 issue (volume 46, no. 3), pp 197-208. You should really look at pages 195- 226- which include the editor's note, adn 3 responses to the author (Glenn) including the author of the text that was rated "tops" and two of the authors of books that were rated as "lowest" and then finally, a response from Glenn to the 3 authors. The editor has also invited comments from Journal readers, and some space will be used in the January 1988 issue. I am really looking forward to that, as there should be some very interesting views included. I read the article with much interest as soon as it arrived, and had some grave concerns myself- in fact, one of the books rated quite lowly I thought sounded pretty critical and interesting. Aine ______________________________ Aine M. Humble, MSc (FLE), PHEc Lecturer (Family Studies), Home Economics Department University of PEI, 550 University Avenue Charlottetown, PEI, C1A 4P3 phone: (902) 566-0528 fax: (902) 628-4367 email: ahumble@upei.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:16:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathleen J. Wininger" Subject: Wom in African Phil Courses? Comments: cc: SWIP-L@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In the course of bringing up two courses before our Curriculum Review Committee I'm finding that I have to defend "African Philosophy" and "Women Philosophers from Africa and the Diaspora" to the philosophy department. There are indications that this will be a battle. Both of these courses are taught as history of philosophy courses. In 'African Philosophy' Claude Sumner's work on early Ethiopian philosophy is helpful on the historical front. I'm also using Gail Presbey's recent article on those texts "Should Women Philosophers Love Wisdom?" in Research in African Literatures which refers toYeshi Miriam's work in this area. But most of what I usually use is quite contemporary, from the 1970s onward. Even Placide Tempels is 1945. Can anyone offer suggestions for more historical readings? (We have 'historical' courses on the books which deal with 20th century European philosophy. I will make a variety of strategic arguments along these lines but I find that overwhelming people with references in an area they want to say doesn't exist is a more potent strategy.) Can people send Syllabi for African Philosophy courses, especially ones which include gender issues as a significant component? Suggestions of articles and books by woman on /in African Philosophy would be helpful. (I have Sandra Harding's work). Thank you, Kate Kathleen J. Wininger, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Philosophy 96 Falmouth Street University of Southern Maine Portland, ME 04104-4300 tel (207) 780-4928 fax (207) 780-4226 Wininger@USM.Maine.EDU--------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:14:55 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Feltey Subject: Inclusive family definition responses I posted this question a few weeks ago: > I've been asked to provide an inclusive definition of family for a state-level > feminist organization to use in hiring/employee benefits policies. Anyone > knowing of domestic partner or inclusive family definitions that have been > developed, please respond privately. Thanks. The responses are as follows: 1) Each DP policy is different. the one they use in West Hollywood requires taht DPs not be related by blood; that neither person is legally married, nor related to each other by marriage; that they are the sole DP of each other and have no other DPs; that they are responsible for each other's welfare (this is so vague-- in some places it is required that they be responsible for each other's basic living expenses, which is also vague); that they agree to notify the city of any change in their status of their DP agreement. I have heard that some organizations do not require the person to be your intimate other, but that you can designate up to a certain number of people (by name) whom you consider your "family." Unfortunately, I do not have any examples of this kind of policy Obviously, there are many problems with the DP "definition" of family. It's modeled after a legal definition of family for married, monogamous, nuclear family-type couples; certainly family can go much broader. I would encourage tehm to be SURE to not require of DPs anything that is not required of married couples. For example, policies require that the DPs share a residence. married couples do not have to live together to be legally married. Another thing to be careful of is not requiring DPs to have been in a relationship for any particular duration of time in order to qualify. Other sex couples can marry spontaneously, no additional requirements should be imposed on DPs. And, of course, each state varies in how it defines it's requirements for marriage, so the DP will be different also becasue of that. 2) I'm replying to the list, as I think others might be interested in this also. The Vanier Institute of the Family (a nonprofit organization in Canada) developed the following "working definition" of a family in 1992: Any combination of two or more persons who are bound together by ties of mutual consent, birth, and/or adoption/placement and who, together, assume responsibilities for variant combinations of some of the following: physical maintenance and care of group members; addition of new members through procreation or adoption; socialization of children; social control of members; production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services; and affective nuturance. 3) My personal definition is: Family is a range of personal-system options from the family-of-one to the family-of-choice. An adult single person may not be living with any family members (by blood or choice) but is nevertheless not a floating nonentity; that single person has family ties. Thus, the definition of family, to be complete, must not neglect the adult who is alone. The rationale? Families made up of two or more individual adults may not be a cohesive unit (there may be strife, indifference, etc.) but still the unit remains somehow intact (in terms of shared housing space, etc.) So a choice of single-hood must not be privileged over a choice of cohabitation. Moreover, in my view, a definition of family must be divorced from a definition of marriage. Hope this is helpful. 4) There is no single inclusive statement on family, but there are several themes usually focused on spouse or spouse equivalent, dependent children, and other dependents. Spouse or Spouse Equivalent: The inlcusive language here usually identifies all that apply, sucha as legally married spouse or just spouse and domestic partner or spouse equivalent or spouse substitute (spouse and dp are preferred). Dependents: The inclusive language here usually lists 3 to 4, including biological chidren, adopted children, and step-children, or other children who live in your household and are dependent on you. Others: Some benefits have gone so far as to include dependent parents or parents-in-law. ************************************************************************* KATHRYN FELTEY R1KMF@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU DIRECTOR OF WOMEN'S STUDIES KFELTEY@UAKRON.EDU 204 LEIGH HALL UNIVERSITY OF AKRON 330-972-7008 (PHONE) AKRON, OH 44325-6218 330-972-5263 (FAX) ************************************************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:17:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tamara Agha-Jaffar Subject: Books for Teenage Girls Dear List Members, I was recently invited by one of my colleagues to be a guest speaker in his class. Afterwards, one of the students, looking very distraught and upset, came and talked to me. Apparently, she has three daughters. The two oldest are doing exceptionally well in school and seem to have their priorities in order. The youngest, 14 years old, used to be an excellent student. But now she has completely lost iinterest in school. She has become obsessed with her appearance, (loosing weight, make-up, etc). According to her mother, the problem seems to be compounded by the fact that the child is very beautiful and her friends keep telling her she should not bother with school but should become a model. The girl is now cluttering up her mind with romance novels and living in a "fairy-tale world." Meanwhile, her grades continue to decline. I know it is a very familiar story. The mother is understandably very upset and is tryiing to find ways to counteract the destructive influences that her daughter is being bombarded with. She asked me for suggestions/advice. We talked for about half an hour, and in the process of the conversation, I learned that the girl is an avid reader. So I promised the mother I would try to come up with a list of age-appropriate novels that contain some strong female role models. The trouble is I don't have a clue what books to recommend. I don't have any daughters, so I don't even know what they read anymore. Do any of you have suggestions/recommendations for some good novels that the girl might enjoy--and benefit from? I probably will not see the student again, but I did promise to write to her once I have compiled a list of books. I also recommended that she continue to listen to her daughter and to talk to her. My experience with my teenage son has taught me that even though sometimes teenagers appear to tune us out, some (much??) of what we say does register--eventually. Do any of you have any other suggestions I could pass on to her? I do want to do everything I can to help her. Thanks in advance for your suggestions, recommendations, and advice. Please reply privately unless you think others might be interested. All best, Tamara wskckc@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 14:11:51 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Molony Subject: Conference of California Women's Studies Program Directors and Faculty Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Colleagues in California-- Women=27s Studies and Gender Studies Program Directors and Faculty are = invited to a one-day conference at Santa Clara University (in the Bay = Area) on Friday, 24 October. The Conference will feature workshops on: --Cooperation between Ethnic Studies and Women=27s Studies --Teaching What We Are Not --Building Bridges between Women=27s Studies and the Sciences --Lesbian/Gay Studies within Women=27s/Gender Studies --Assessment: Why We Should Do It --The Impact of Proposition 209 and the New Welfare Laws on our = Students and Program --Individual Caucuses of Directors and Faculty of UC campuses, CSU = campuses, community colleges, and private colleges Joan Mandle, Director of Women=27s Studies at Colgate University, will = present a luncheon address on =22Sisterly Critics.=22 Workshop facilitiators will include Bonnie Zimmerman, Ellen DuBois, Alma = Garcia, Patricia Rozee, Kay Trimberger, and others. =5BConference organizers are Kay Trimberger, Sonoma State University, and = Barbara Molony, Santa Clara University.=5D The registration fee (until 20 October) is =2420.00 (thereafter, =2425.00),= and includes coffee and muffins, lunch, and a light reception. Limited = hotel accommodations are available on a first-come basis. For further information and a registration brochure, please contract: Barbara Molony Director of Women=27s Studies Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA 95053 (408)554-4433 email:bmolony=40mailer.scu.edu or=20 Rosa Duenas Women=27s Studies Program Assistant Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA 95053 (408)554-4461 email:rduenas=40mailer.scu.edu Barbara Molony bmolony=40mailer.scu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:53:08 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D." Subject: Re: Books for Teenage Girls Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Tamara: Your story sounds awfully familiar to me. I have 3 daughters, all of whom are gorgeous (one did TV stuff for a while and runway modeling), smart (honors students), and potential (at least in their minds) model material. In addition, they are avid readers (I brought them up that way). I lived in the fashion world for quite some time (my dad was seriously into fashion advertising, photography, etc.). What did we learn? Tell them the truth. If you want to be a model it is cutthroat, vicious, and very very difficult. Let them see what it's like. Take them to tryouts, let them see who wins. I was up front with each of my daughters. Told it like it is/was and then supported their efforts ON THE CONDITION THAT THE GRADES DID NOT SLIP! My oldest lasted a year, the middle one about the same time, the littlest gave up real quickly after she saw what her sisters went through. I got the primo photographs (glossy head shots) and let them audition. And I monitored their grades closely. I told them that if they wanted to do this and subject the family to all of the consequences of modeling, then I was going to be each face over the grades. We even signed a contract with the DadModeling Corporation. Consequences of failure to maintain grades were made very clear and were enforced when necessary (and there were many times when I had to invoke the contract agreement). Wanna do this? Then we do it the way it works in the real world. Contract failure, you're fired! It wasn't easy for any of us. But I think the girls learned a number of good lessons, they got to try out modeling, and they ended up deciding it wasn't for them after all. I constantly talked to them about it, etc. I have the feeling that if you support their efforts and make it clear what that support will cost and the consequences of failure, it will work out well. Teenagers are tough. As for role models, I would contact the American Association of University Women. They ought to be able to give you any number of good pieces of information. Good luck, Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D. At 06:17 PM 10/6/97 -0400, you wrote: >Dear List Members, > >I was recently invited by one of my colleagues to be a guest speaker in his >class. Afterwards, one of the students, looking very distraught and upset, >came and talked to me. Apparently, she has three daughters. The two oldest >are doing exceptionally well in school and seem to have their priorities in >order. The youngest, 14 years old, used to be an excellent student. But >now she has completely lost iinterest in school. She has become obsessed >with her appearance, (loosing weight, make-up, etc). According to her >mother, the problem seems to be compounded by the fact that the child is very >beautiful and her friends keep telling her she should not bother with school >but should become a model. The girl is now cluttering up her mind with >romance novels and living in a "fairy-tale world." Meanwhile, her grades >continue to decline. > >I know it is a very familiar story. The mother is understandably very upset >and is tryiing to find ways to counteract the destructive influences that her >daughter is being bombarded with. She asked me for suggestions/advice. We >talked for about half an hour, and in the process of the conversation, I >learned that the girl is an avid reader. So I promised the mother I would >try to come up with a list of age-appropriate novels that contain some strong >female role models. The trouble is I don't have a clue what books to >recommend. I don't have any daughters, so I don't even know what they read >anymore. Do any of you have suggestions/recommendations for some good novels >that the girl might enjoy--and benefit from? > >I probably will not see the student again, but I did promise to write to her >once I have compiled a list of books. I also recommended that she continue >to listen to her daughter and to talk to her. My experience with my teenage >son has taught me that even though sometimes teenagers appear to tune us out, >some (much??) of what we say does register--eventually. Do any of you have >any other suggestions I could pass on to her? I do want to do everything I >can to help her. > >Thanks in advance for your suggestions, recommendations, and advice. Please >reply privately unless you think others might be interested. > >All best, >Tamara >wskckc@aol.com > Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D. Computer Medicine Group, Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 300 North Ingalls Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2007 USA Ph: (313) 936-2102 [also message] Fx: (313) 936-2116 em: wittenm@umich.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:20:29 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Miriam Subject: Re: CFP NWSA?? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Did I miss the CFP for the next NWSA? If so can someone forward it to me? If not, can you forward to list? much thanks, Kathy Miriam kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:06:53 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hale bolak Subject: job announ:clinical core faculty Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We are looking for a clinical faculty to join our unique progressive masters program at New College of California in San Francisco. We have an MFCC program that trains students in psychodynamics/family systems with multicultural sensitivity and political savvy. A relational approach is reflected in the program's overall perspective. The position is full-time (32,000/yr) with part-time a possibility if we get the right person. At full time, the responsibilities include teaching three courses in the Feminist Clinical concentration (one each during our three 12 week trimesters), advising, committee work related to student and faculty recruitment and retention, and short and long term program development. Qualifications include a PhD (clinical), LCSW or MFCC,teaching and clinical experience, a demonstrated commitment to feminism and diversity. Schedule is somewhat flexible, but some on-site time is required Tuesday through Thursday. Position is available immediately. We would like to be able hire a woman of color to strengthen our core faculty. Please contact Hale Bolak, PhD, Dean, Graduate Psychology, New College of California, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. Phone: 415-437-3438/Fax: 415-865-2636. Hale Bolak hcbolak@ncgate.newcollege.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 01:24:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "N. Benokraitis" Subject: Family textbooks in sociology In-Reply-To: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Aine Humble wrote: > >Last week I received in the mail a glossy report by Norval Glenn, with a > >cover letter by David Blankenhorn, purporting to critique sociology of > >family textbooks, with special attention to those which challenged the > >idea that the patriarchal nuclear family might not always be the best form > >for individuals. > >Does anyone know whether the report was ever submitted to any journals? > > I'm not sure who all got the report, but it *was* published in a > journal: It was published in "Family Relations", July 1997 > issue (volume 46, no. 3), pp 197-208. You should really look at > pages 195- 226- which include the editor's note, adn 3 responses to > the author (Glenn) including the author of the text that was rated > "tops" and two of the authors of books that were rated as "lowest" > and then finally, a response from Glenn to the 3 authors. I don't think it's entirely accurate to say that the "lowest" rated authors of the textbooks responded. The authors of the two textbooks that got the "failing" grades in the Institute for American Values brochure (which is slick, slick, slick) were NOT included in the FAMILY RELATIONS periodical. Don't know if they weren't invited to do so by the editor or if they said "no, thanks." In addition, I've found it curious that the so-called "A" textbook relies, for the most part, on 1980s data (though published in 1996). That didn't seem to bother the reviewer (Glenn), however, or any of the FAMILY RELATIONS respondents. > The editor has also invited comments from Journal readers, and some > space will be used in the January 1988 issue. I am really looking > forward to that, as there should be some very interesting views > included. I'd be very surprised if any readers commented because this seems to be an ideological battle between Glenn and the people who were invited to respond. My major criticism has been that the editor of FAMILY RELATIONS invited a few of the textbook authors to reply instead of soliciting the comments of faculty who actually use marriage/family textbooks in their courses but are not authors. Certainly said something to me about in-house ideological battles rather than pedagogy--especially since Glenn ignored almost everything in marriage and family textbooks except who does and who doesn't promote marriage and nuclear families as virtues and goals. > I read the article with much interest as soon as it > arrived, and had some grave concerns myself- in fact, one of the > books rated quite lowly I thought sounded pretty critical and > interesting. Go for it! My textbook got a "not too horrible" review and I had mixed feelings. On the one hand, it's a bit of a relief not to be skewered. On the other hand, I've wondered if my marriage/family textbook is not as feminist as it should be. Even though Glenn's review has received very favorable reviews in newspapers and magazines, I expect that, like Aine, a number of feminists will look at the textbooks that Glenn rated as "D" and "F" more closely and may adopt them for classes. Great but ironic, ain't it? niki Benokraitis, Soc Dept, University of Baltimore nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 00:24:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: josephine ryan Subject: Women in Development--an apology Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Since the incivility of my post on the name recognition and importance of Women in Development was serious enough to merit a both a private and public comment from our Listkeeper, who is concerned with promoting communication instead of obstructing it, I wish to apologize for the rude nature of my remarks. I do feel strongly about this issue, and I can't say I repent my basic views on WID and its role within Women's Studies, but certainly I should have put forth an argument in a more reasoned and tactful manner. It is not my intention to create walls, and I sincerely apologize. Josephine Ryan jryan@cmpu.net ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:26:38 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to stop mail temporarily (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: ****************** 5) "I'M GOING ON VACATION FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. CAN I STOP MAIL WHILE I'M AWAY, OR DO I HAVE TO UNSUBSCRIBE?" You can stop mail temporarily (except for the edited digest) by sending the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed on Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed on Internet): SET WMST-L NOMAIL [NOTE: NOMAIL is one word] When you want mail to start arriving again, send the following message to the same address: SET WMST-L MAIL If you want to stop the edited DIGEST, even temporarily, you have to send the message AFD DEL WMST-L PACKAGE WMST-L . To re-start it, send the message AFD ADD WMST-L PACKAGE (and ignore the request that you establish a password). Note: BE SURE TO SEND THESE MESSAGES TO LISTSERV, NOT TO WMST-L! Also, if you receive a message back telling you you're not a subscriber, see section 4) ****************** 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 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: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:48:57 -0500 Reply-To: ginzberg@beloit.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth P Ginzberg Subject: Vocabulary Words MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been thinking about the recent exchange re. 'Women In Development' and it occurred to me that we have a similar problem with the notion of 'Feminist Theory', which is a term that is also tossed around quite a bit. In fact, the recent exchange re. 'Women in Development' really helped to illuminate (for me) some very perplexing things that happened in my professional life (and classroom) in the past year-and-a-half. I changed jobs in the summer of '96. I've been "in" Women's Studies for at least 15 years now, as an Academic, and for a good 10 years before that as a non-academic activist, so none of this should be brand new to me ... but I guess I must be a slow learner or something. I (trained as a philosopher) was hired in my present position, among other things, to teach 'Feminist Theory'. I thought I could do that. Last Spring I did indeed teach a course in 'Feminist Theory' which was a course for upper level majors and minors in our Women's Studies Program, to which many students had been looking forward for a number of years. Unfortunately, it was a total disaster. It was really a horrible experience for all of us (students and me alike) and many students expressed their vivid disappointment and frustration over it. (I was equally disappointed and frustrated -- and we had a mid-semester heart-to-heart chat about that, but it only barely prevented a major revolt on the part of the students, and didn't really solve anything.) What went wrong? I think part of the problem is the cross-disciplinary understandings and misunderstandings that occurred over the notion of 'Feminist Theory'. What was interesting was that 2 members of the search committee that hired me (students serve on search committees here) took the class, and both were appalled. I was puzzled; SURELY they (more than any of the other students) knew "who they had hired" and thought I was qualified for the position, yet they were among the most vividly disappointed and angry about what I think they saw as my total incompetence in 'Feminist Theory'. One wrote that the class had been the most disappointing of all her experiences in college, and many students were angry and bitter. A number of students wrote on their teaching evaluations that they were certain that my hire was the worst mistake the Women's Studies Program had ever made, and that they were worried about its future. (Yes, of course this hurt.) I *THINK* that (among other possible explanations, for which I am not totally guiltless) PART of the problem was in terminology and cross-disciplinary mis-communication. The students were eagerly anticipating a course in Feminist LITERARY Theory (I *think* -- at least that is what I gleaned when I asked them mid-semester what they thought we SHOULD be reading, instead of the "boring, useless, outdated and irrelevant" readings were doing ... at least given the authors and titles they suggested, that is what I surmised). I had said on the first day of class that it was NOT going to be a course in "postmodern literary criticism" because I am not qualified to teach that, and indeed there are others here on campus who are MUCH more qualified and knowledgeable to teach such a course than I. They all nodded. But in the middle of the term, one of the things that came to light was that they did not know what "postmodern literary criticism" WAS ... but it turned out that what I had been calling "postmodern literary criticism" (don't even know if that is the right terminology) was EXACTLY what they had been expecting in the course, and they thought that WAS what 'Feminist Theory' was all about. So of COURSE they were angry and frustrated that we were not doing that in the class. *sigh* In thinking more about what 'Feminist Theory' might actually BE, it occurred to me that there really is NO agreement WHATSOEVER across disciplines, and across various perspectives on feminsm (liberal, radical, marxist, etc.) within those disciplines, what 'Feminist Theory' IS. There are even quite a few written works, many from women of color, criticising the notion of 'Feminist Theory' at ALL, or pointing to it as a source of continuing racism and elitism within white middle-class academic feminism. (We did read a number of those in class.) I don't know what to make of all this .. except that I saw shades of the same problems in the recent exchange over 'Women In Development'. I guess at very least what it means is that I need to take "Feminist Theory" OFF my c.v. as an alleged area of teaching competence. How can I possibly claim competence or expertise in something that I cannot even define? I also think that it means that as Women's Studies matures as a discipline in its own right, we need to pay some careful attention to some of these "internal" difficulties that we are having with Words ... before some of the folks who'd just as soon kill Women's Studies Programs altogether start using our students' expressed frustration and outrage (when things like this happen) as "proof positive" that Women's Studies is a useless and disorganized and only "pseudo"-academic field ... with particular attention to majors and minors in our programs filing charges of "incompetence" and disorganization and stuff which they may well describe as "WS faculty not knowing our a**es from holes in the ground." Indeed, in part as a result of this experience, and just from being weary of having these sorts of difficulties be a permanant part of my life, I have resigned from my current position as of the end of this term, and will be leaving Academia, probably permantly. I truly hope that those who remain manage to do a better job with the tangle that we currently have... Ruth Ginzberg Beloit College ginzberg@beloit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:56:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Gay/lesbian Family Resources Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the Women's Presses Library Project: All The Ways Home: Parenting and Children in the Lesbian and Gay Communities, A Collection of Short Stories Cindy Rizzo, editor New Victoria Publishers 1995 0-934678-68-5 C $19.95 224pp. 1995 0-934678-65-0 P $10.95 224pp. Lesbian Parenting: Living With Pride and Prejudice Katherine Arnup, editor gynergy books/Ragweed Press 1995 0-921881-33-9 P $19.95 432pp. Politics of the Heart: A Lesbian Parenting Anthology Sandra Pollack and Jeanne Vaughn, Editors Firebrand Books 1987 0-932379-36-2 C $26.95 360pp. 1987 0-932379-35-4 P $12.95 360pp. These books are available at your local feminist or independent bookstore. If you have difficulty locating them, please contact me. Mev > List Members: > > Please share any information you may know of > concerning research which examines children > reared in lesbian/gay families. I am > particularly interested in parent-child > relationship information. > > Thank you so much > > > Pat Washington > washing3@mail.sdsu.edu WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:06:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: popular culture and gender Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the Women's Presses Library Propject: Kid Culture: Children & Adults & Popular Culture Kathleen McDonnell Second Story Press Saturday morning TV, Barbie dolls, military toys, and overall violence are only a few of the questions addressed in this exploration of kids and popular culture. 1994 0-929005-64-3 P $14.95 184pp. >I am doing research on the effects of popular culture on gender >socialization. Can anyone help me out with some suggestions of books or >articles? Thanks! >Please respond privately. > >Michele McGrady >venus97708@aol.com WOMEN'S PRESSES LIBRARY PROJECT "...keeping women's words in circulation" Mev Miller Project Coodinator 1483 Laurel Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104-6737 612-646-0097 612-646-1153 (fax) wplp@winternet.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:48:47 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosa Maria Pegueros Subject: Re: Vocabulary Words Wow! Ruth, I am so sorry that this sort of thing has forced you to take such drastic action. While I teach Latin American history and have taught one course in women's studies (since I have a law degree, I chose to teach women and the law), the theory stuff has dissuaded me from attempting to teach a feminist theory course. I understand the postmodern/deconstruction stuff somewhat but it is is still new to Latin American historians and I am not convinced that it is worth it to learn it well. I don't say this to start a firestorm--I believe that it is fine for literary studies and has its own value: I am not attacking its intrinsic value but I don't really see the value for my own discipline. Furthermore, when I was teaching women and the law, I found it was very slow going because it employs its own vocabulary which was unfamiliar to my students. At least, however, there was a law dictionary (which I required them to purchase) to help them make sense of things. With the vocabulary of postmodernism, one can look up the words and then try to figure out what definition the writer has conjured up from the penumbra of the standard definition. Unless one is formally trained in it, learning it is very difficult because it can only be learned by reading particularly works of certain theorists. It is true that every discipline has its own baggage, but I find this area to be particularly difficult to understand. As for the problem of literary theory sliding into feminist theory, I think it can be a real problem for women's studies. Instead of continuing a tradition of being interdisciplinary, it is being homogenized by one accepted theoretical mode of expression. It bothers me greatly that we are coming to be expected to understand postmodernism/deconstructionism even if it is not part of our own disciplines. I don't think I am saying this well: What I'm trying to say is that is becoming the "default setting" of feminist studies and I don't like it one bit. I wouldn't expect my colleagues in other fields to understand my historical or legal theories; I can't understand why this is becoming the currency of women's studies. Again, I repeat, I am NOT TRASHING postmodernism or deconstructionism. I AM QUESTIONING its encroaching hegemony over all of women's studies. ____________________________________________________________ Rosa Maria Pegueros pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Department of History phone: (401) 874-4092 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 fax: (401) 874-2595 Kingston, RI 02881 "Qui me amat, amat et canem meum." ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:05:50 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: Re: CFP NWSA?? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII If you have not yet received a CFP for the 1998 NWSA conference, you can request one from the national office. Call (301) 403-0525 or e-mail nwsa@umail.umd.edu Ellen Cronan Rose, Director, Women's Studies Program, UNLV 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5055 PHONE (702) 895-0838, FAX (702) 895-0850 ecrose@nevada.edu On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Kathy Miriam wrote: > Did I miss the CFP for the next NWSA? If so can someone forward it to > me? If not, can you forward to list? > much thanks, > > Kathy Miriam > kmiriam@cats.ucsc.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:55:48 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: feminist theory Comments: cc: DAPHNE PATAI MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I was quite surprised at Ruth's description of her experience teaching "feminist theory"--in which it turned out her students wanted to study feminist *literary* theory, postmodernism, etc. I cannot imagine how feminist literary theory can be anything other than a subset of some broader feminist theory (in fact, a standard criticism is that it's too much feminism and too little literary theory). When I used to teach feminist theory-- which I haven't done in some years and don't expect to ever do again -- I used Allison Jaggar's book as a basic text, and supplemented it with lots of other articles and a handful of other books. I often also included articles about feminist approaches to one or another discipline. But I always felt I was INsufficiently qualified to teach feminist theory above all because I was NOT trained as a philosopher. Ruth surely has precisely the qualifications to teach "feminist theory" competently. I wonder if the situation she describes is a local one; it certainly sounds like a peculiar one. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 12:25:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: am68 Subject: Re: inquiry In-Reply-To: <971004113405.533d@FLO.ORG> >I have a friend who is looking for feminist readings for a Jewish wedding. >Can anyone suggest any poems, short stories etc. Thanks. >Whe_dines@flo.org The bibliography "the Jewish Woman" compiled by myself (Ann Masnik) and publishd by Biblio Press in 1996 has lots of anthologies of poems and stories by Jewish women - as well as other selections that may well have feminist readings for a Jewish wedding. Please see it in a library - or, I can hopefully give you an address where to purchase it )am68@umail.umd.edu Putting on whole list to remind everyone of this bibliograpy! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 13:25:03 -0400 Reply-To: jeannie ludlow Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: feminist theory In-Reply-To: <199710071555.LAA19920@emily.oit.umass.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am terribly sorry that Ruth's experience with teaching feminist theory was so terrible. I agree with Rosa that there has been a tendency to "privilege" postmodern/poststructuralist theoretical perspectives in feminist theory of late. I would note, however, that this same tendency is evident in other fields as well--perhaps not to the same degree, but still evident. I am thinking of anthropology, popular culture studies, sociology, even environmental studies, among others. I think this "po'mo" approach may just be the current theoretical strength. (This is not to say that it is a "fad"--I do understand and teach poststructuralist studies; I also understand that these approaches should not subsume others, in any field.) I think, Ruth, that the problem of students' expecting something different than what the course offered is _not_ unusual, especially in interdisc. fields. It sounds to me like you were, in some senses, "set up" for disappointment--not by any person or group of people, but by the exceptionally high expectations that seem to result from anticipation. In other words, the course was eagerly and long-awaited. In that time and eagerness, students had opportunity to wonder about what they might learn in a feminist theory course, and to build up unreasonably high expectations about the course. There was no way you could win, first time out. This is _not_ to say that your experience was not horribly hurtful. It is to say that the forces behind that hurt may have much less to do with you and your "competencies" to teach feminist theory than with your (or any of our) inability to be all things to all people. I think this kind of situation not only provides "fodder" for anti-Women's Studies forces; I believe very strongly that it is the result of those forces. If the program/dept. had been able to teach _some_ aspects of the theoretical approaches your students were expecting (and you note that there are people on campus who could do so), then your students would have, possibly, been very happy with the kind of approach you took (which, although you didn't describe it at length, sounds fine in your post). Last spring, I taught a grad seminar in Feminist Theory. I covered _lots_ of ground, including historical works, radical theory, etc. In fact, the outline of that course looked something like the paragraph in Ruth's original post in which she discusses what feminist theory _is_, and how it changes from perspective to perspective. So we covered the po'mo stuff, and body politics, and feminist philosophy, and political feminism, and even feminism and science. And, because I am an anti-racism scholar, we wove anti-racist feminist theories throughout all the various approaches. The two big complaints: too much reading (I always get this one); and too much theory. One student in particular kept saying: "this is not feminism. Feminism is for the 'common woman' and theory has no part in it. If we want to learn real feminist theory, we need to read about consciousness raising groups." So teaching what "feminist theory" is/can be/are/should be turned out to be a good approach to take. Ruth, did you get support from others in the program? was anyone working on "your side?" Did it occur to anyone to ask whether the students' "expectations" had been constructed by other courses in Women's Studies that they had taken? (maybe in another WS class, someone had done a little "intro" section to "theory" and only taught one kind . . .) Are you going to be OK? Is anyone trying to talk you out of leaving? Do you want someone to? Maybe, if you don't even want to be asked to teach Feminist Theory again, but you would like to cover what you are trained in and interested in, you could market yourself in some other way? I am sorry this happened. __________________________________________________________________________ . . . Thus wrote ) Jeannie Ludlow ( "Lord, you know me, a woman, partly brave / ) jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu ( I'm liable to say and partly good, ) Women's Studies ( anything; so if who fought with what / ) Popular Culture ( I've offended she partly understood ) Bowling Green SU ( anybody, well hence she was labelled / ) Bowling Green OH 43403 ( . . . tough." harpy, shrew and whore ) ( --Dolly Parton --Adrienne Rich ) ( ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:23:50 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Words I am sad to learn of Ruth's difficulties and decision to leave Academia. I agree with her that we have grounds here for a highly fruitful discussion. When I saw the Antioch ad the thought of sending in an application crossed my mind, because Antioch is my adored alma mater. Well, there are a host of good reasons why I can't really do that. However, the job sounded like they had devised it for me. Then, like Ruth, I started wondering just what was meant by "Feminist Theory" in that job description, and whether what I would teach under that heading (and that I do feel "qualified" to teach) is what the institution wants. So I would love to see people respond to the question of just what should be covered in a course on "Feminist Theory." As to "Women in Development" -- true, "development" can mean many different things, but the phrase "Women in Development" in academic discourse has, I think, a single, dominant referent. And I too find it disappointing that not everyone knows what it is and sees it as central to Women's Studies. -- Gina ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:01:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan heald Subject: Re: feminist theory Comments: To: jeannie ludlow In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I can't imagine that any course could cover the whole range of feminist theory, though I have the privilege and luxury of teaching a 26-week course, every year (it's a requirement for our majors). Students generally respond well, though the class numbers are very low, suggesting some, at least, are voting with their feet. Still, I feel that there has to be a place where students really want to read and think theoretically can do so. And we do read a lot: I use Tong's Feminist Thought, Weedon's Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory, Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, Unsettling Relations, Spelman's Inessential Woman, and a LARGE book of readings I've selected. From amongst the many possible approaches, I've chosen to organize the course according to issues that feminists are theorizing about, including representation, reproduction, essentialism, race, sexuality, etc., etc. I suppose many people would find my course particularly low on literary theory, though there is some, and no one has complained of this. But what I find essential is that we spend a considerable about of time talking about just what theory IS, what feminists are and should be theorizing ABOUT, and how and when students might understand themselves as DOING THEORY. To me, that's what's important: not whether they can cite theorists, or label different kinds of theory as belonging to one category or another, but that they can see THEORIZING as an active and engaging process with a strong relationship to what any of us might do, as feminists, in the world. When the inevitable debate comes up about why we're sitting in here reading instead of being out there as activists, there are usually students who respond both that they ARE also "out there" and that doing theory is also activism--one group called it "interior activism"--in the sense of actively changing their understandings of the meaning of various possible actions. I'm not, of course, suggesting that Ruth or others who have expressed disappointment with their Theory courses DON'T do all these things, and possibly more, and possibly better. I do think, though, in response to Rosa's post, that for some of us our "discipline" IS women's studies, and as such we should be expected to have a familiarity with a very broad range of possible approaches. Such approaches are not necessarily locked into a particular OTHER discipline, and the kind of interdisciplinarity required means there are other things we can't do. But if we are offering students a degree in Women's Studies, I do believe we need to offer them an education in Women's Studies QUA Women's Studies, and not Women's Studies as seen from the perspective of traditional disciplines. Just some thoughts, Susan Heald Women's Studies University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:13:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Crowder Subject: Re: Feminist Theory I am really saddened, Ruth, to hear about your experience in teaching feminist theory. I hope you will re-think your notion of getting out of the profession, since I have always found your thoughts/reflections on teaching and research to be among the most sensible and helpful on the list. I teach a sophonmore introduction to feminist theories, and a senior seminar in which we try to look at very current issues being debated by feminist thinkers. I have chosen to make the lower-level course cover basic history of feminist ideas in the U.S. (because our intro course has no time to cover that and students are ignorant of basic U.S. history from a feminist perspective), and then look at the basic types of feminist theories, using Tong, and Jaggar/Rothenberg's Feminist Frameworks. Th goal of this course is to give students a basic sense that different feminist theories involve very different assumptions, which in turn lead to different goals and strategies. This course invariably leads to frustration/confusion because students tend to see feminism as a monolith, and because the come to realize that different perspectives lead to very different concrete choices. We are careful to draw out the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. By the end of the course, students tell me they fell better able to tease out the hidden assumptions behind an article or arguement, and better able to ask themselves what the possible outcomes of a given theory might be. I supplement the texts fairly heavily, and end with a short unit on postmodernism in feminist theories. I guess I have always assumed that a course in feminist theory would not be tied to a specific discipline, since feminist theories did not generally emerge from a specific one. For instance, people who explain women's subordination in terms derived from Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis range from literary critics like Julia Kristeva to social scientists! Postmodernism and theories derived from it are associated with everything from architecture to anthropology. Clearly, if your students were expectiing a course in postmodernist literary theory, they had a seriously limiting notion of feminist theory (and theory in general). Anyway, as one who knows well the frustrations and difficulties of teaching WST at a small liberal arts college, I wanted to say I sympathize with your hurt and dissappointment, and I wanted to offer my support. Diane Diane Griffin Crowder crowder@cornell-iowa.edu Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA 52314 USA ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 16:30:25 -0400 Reply-To: "jgrant@tui.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Organization: The Union Institute Subject: feminist theory I want to second Diane's comments about hoping that Ruth reconsider leaving academia over her difficulty with her feminist theory course. I've come to count on her as the voice of reason in a lot of sticky arguments. Jaime ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 17:41:01 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patrice McDermott Subject: Re: feminist theory Comments: To: Jaime Grant In-Reply-To: <01BCD33E.53ACD500.jgrant@tui.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Jaime Grant wrote: > I want to second Diane's comments about hoping that Ruth reconsider leaving > academia over her difficulty with her feminist theory course. I've come to > count on her as the voice of reason in a lot of sticky arguments. > > Jaime > While I know that "Me, too" messages are anathema on this list (and others), I think it is very important for Ruth to hear how many people find her voice and thinking essential additions to the conversations on this list -- and I count myself among them. Say it ain't so, Ruth! Patrice McDermott patricem@CapAccess.org ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 18:33:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Foot Washing/Promise Keepers In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thanks for the clarification, Cecilia. The foot-washing is, then, an act of humility in Christian practice, but actually a sign of power and has evolved that way? That it's intended so was confirmed by McCartney, the Promise Keepers founder, on PBS's Jim Lehrer program Monday evening: when there's a difference in opinion btw husband and wife, he said, 'tenderly and gently the man needs to take the lead.' The evolution, with no clear origin, offers an instructive example of constructivism. Feet as a part of the body thru which to express social relations seem to have been common in the part of the world where Jesus lived. Not surprising, given the contacts thru travels, trade, and wars fought there. (Jesus's disciple Thomas is said to have visited India. ) Luke in the Christian bible speaks of a woman who was a sinner washing, kissing and annointing Jesus's feet as an act of contrition - his report of the dismay of the Pharisee that she even touched him suggests tht Jews had touchability rules, separating the pure and polluted, regulated who may touch whom and what, tho not codified into a caste system as in Brahmanical Hinduism. In Hinduism touching someone's feet is an act of deferential reverence. Thus, when disciples (male) came into the lobby of a Ramakrishna mission guest house where I stayed at one point, they greeted their sage by touching his feet. And there's a Hindu tradition, I don't know how widely it's practiced, for a wife to touch her husband's feet for the same reason. But a lower-ranked person showing the bottom of the feet to someone of higher rank is considered offensive. At a university guest house during a Women's Studies conference, my Hindu-reared roommate pointed out that sitting as she was with her feet up so that I could see the soles was against tradition because I was her senior in age and academic status. Among Muslims, before you enter some mosques you wash your feet outside at the facility provided, then walk in barefoot. In the US, there's a residual linking of feet to deference, or it may have arisen independently. People are required to cover them in designated places, e.g., stores post signs forbidding bare feet, or keep them low, on the floor. Schools require both: wear shoes and keep the feet down. Sitting with your feet up, even with shoes on, in an office is considered disrespectful of the setting; a man puts them down fast when his boss walks in or shows defiance of the rules if he doesn't (at least in movies). Wearing sandals in an office is at best dubious. A lawyer arguing a case wearing sandals would probably be expelled by the judge for not showing proper respect for the court. Women are supposed to always sit with their feet together on the floor, a signal of proper self-control. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net At 03:59 PM 10/6/97 UT, you wrote: >The message of footwashing is not primarily servile -- among Christians it is >a message of leadership. Christ washed his disciples' feet at the Last Supper >and The Pope, Bishops, and other church leaders now do the same on Maundy >Thursday. It is a sign of the Promise Keepers' identification with Christ as >LEADER that makes this image powerful because the act consitutes who is Leader >(Husband) and who is Follower(Wife). The servile imagery is secondary to this >and is the same old patriarchial stuff. > >Cecilia Blewer, M.Div. >cblewer@msn.com > > ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 18:08:41 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: Three Film Reviews Added y In the past few weeks I have reviewed three new films, "Career Girls," "It's in the Water," and "MURDER and murder." on the WMNF Women's Show. (88.5 FM in Tampa, Florida). These reviews are now available from the WMST-L. To obtain it send the following command to listserv @UMDD (Bitnet) or UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). GET FILM REV217 FILM (Career Girls) GET FILM REV218 FILM (It's in the Water) GET FILM REV219 FILM (MURDER and murder) 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 These reviews may also be obtained from the Web at URL: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/FilmReviews/ but there may be a considerable delay in their being put up on the web site. 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, 7 Oct 1997 13:26:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Leah C. Ulansey" Subject: Re: Vocabulary Words In-Reply-To: <971007.111436.EDT.PEGUEROS@URIACC.URI.EDU> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've been wanting to ask a related question: how, in practice, do people define the difference between a "feminist theory" course and an "intro. to WS course"? In my case, the boundary is pretty flexible. My school has a WS minor but no WS department. So feminist theory is often, in effect, an introductory course, without prerequisites. For many students at my school (is this unusual?), feminist theory ends up being a first exposure to feminism and sometimes the only feminist course their schedules and other requirements will permit. I remember a discussion a while back about the politics of naming WS departments (Women's Studies; Women's and Gender Studies, etc.). Perhaps the term "feminist theory" is somewhat evasive, in that it avoids raising the issue of advocacy in the classroom. In other words, it suggests that the instructor is teaching "about feminism" rather than "teaching feminism(s)" (ie., exploring the soundness of various feminist frameworks from the engaged standpoint of those whose lives could be changed by them.) Would a course entitled "Feminist Theories" have different connotations? I think it would. To me, "feminist theory" puts the accent on a specific skill--theory--being taught, while "feminist theories" puts the accent on the purpose of the theories. Leah Ulansey leou@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 18:13:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth Ginzberg Subject: Re: feminist theory Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >While I know that "Me, too" messages are anathema on this list (and >others), I think it is very important for Ruth to hear how many people >find her voice and thinking essential additions to the conversations on >this list -- and I count myself among them. > >Say it ain't so, Ruth! Hi, Please, please, DON'T clog the list with "me too" messages, I BEG you! I've been trying for the last 2 hours to compose a message to post (deleting and rewriting much) ... but I *really* want to say that I have already resigned (mid year, December 31), do not have another academic position to go to, do not WANT another one, (am NOT "fishing for offers") and am not looking for one at this time. I need more than a "break" or a "change." I need *OUT*. This is about ME, and MY sanity, not about becoming "upset" over a single "bad class." I am totally overwhelmed by all the e-mail I've received from folks, most of it sent privately, and I DO want to respond to each of you individually, though it may take time. But this is NOT a "snap" decision, or one made in dispair "over a bad set of teaching evaluations." Trust me, I've been around FAR too long to do that. I regret having given that impression. At any rate, I will post more later, when I can collect my thoughts better to say what I want to say, because there *are* some professional issues here that I *do* think need some collective attention from all those still "in" academic Women's Studies. But for now, PLEASE, I *BEG* you -- do NOT waste this opportunity to start discussing some substantive ISSUES in Women's Studies that are actually vastly under-theorized and under-discussed, under- addressed, and that may well form some major cracks in the very foundations of academic women's studies as it is practiced now in U.S. colleges and universities. The issue of "What, exactly, 'IS' 'Feminist Theory'?" is, in my view, just the tip of an enormous iceberg; there are many others. HAVE those conversations! But don't AVOID them by instead focusing on MY personal career choices. Use my story as an example if it helps, but if not, then ignore it, but FOCUS ON THE ISSUES, the largest and most important of which is NOT my career decision. Honest. xxooxox, Ruth Ginzberg Women's Studies Beloit College ************* Ruth Ginzberg *************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 17:37:04 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nikki Senecal Subject: Interdisciplinary work was Re: Vocabulary Words In-Reply-To: <199710071348.IAA06818@beloit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The following message was composed early this morning, and I wanted a day of thinking before I posted it. I have read the responses thus far (10/7 5:00 Pacific) In the end, I am sending it as is because I think it raises some of the "iceberg issues" Ruth alluded to. As background, I have been a student in Feminist Literary Theory, Feminist Theory (from a Polisci professor), and Feminst Theory and the Law (team taught: law and philosophy professors). ### One of the things that struck me while reading Ruth's post, in fact, strikes me (and I *mean* the violent image here) quite often when I read the Women's Studies List is our inability to really deal with interdisciplinary work. Other departments don't do it like us, so they're bad (and English is the WORST). Not "just different" but BAD. Sometimes I am left reeling by the attacks on my field, which I take quite personally. Our shared fields, both Feminist Theory and Women's Studies (if you want to make that distinction), are inherently interdisciplinary. But universities do not reward interdisciplinarity (even USC which thinks interdisciplinarity is a form of "excellence" doesn't reward it. For example, our law professor had to fight tooth and nail to get the non-law students grades that meant something in their fields (A's rather than number grades that don't correspond)). Tenure seekers everywhere have difficulty getting "credit" for interdisciplinary work. In the end, it is in our best interest not to be interdisciplinary. As we erase lines between programs by having interdisciplinary classes, we give the powers that be reason to eliminate our departments, the thinking seems to go. We all know our approaches are distinctive--and our departments are necessary, and every line we have is of use and we need more! (Note: I am not willing to buy all of these distinctions.) But it's like we are siblings bickering over who will get the most attention from dad. We should spend more time critiquing the institution that has "allowed" women's studies but on its ("Their") terms, rather than allow ourselves to be led into fights in which we don't really want to participate (or so we say). And let me just say, I'm disappointed in Ruth's literature students; I have always found that I can learn from her posts, so I assume she'd be able to teach me a thing or two in the classroom. But I am also disappointed that Ruth thinks leaving academia is her only alternative. (Which may be a reflection on me, as I stand on the abyss ready to dive into a miserable market thinking "is this all there is?") Nikki Senecal Department of English University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354 Internet: senecal@scf-fs.usc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 23:09:50 -0500 Reply-To: ginzberg@beloit.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruth P Ginzberg Subject: Re: feminist theory In-Reply-To: from Ruth Ginzberg at "Oct 7, 97 06:13:30 pm" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I said, in my last post to this list, > I need more than a "break" or a > "change." I need *OUT*. This is about ME, and MY sanity, not about > becoming "upset" over a single "bad class." Hi- Sorry to post about this topic again, but I am still being overwhelmed with personal responses, and I *KNOW* that this represents an outpouring of respect and support which I really *DO* appreciate ...but I find myself (alas) starting to actually get almost grouchy at a steady stream of e-mail messages begging me "not to leave over one bad class" or suggesting that "maybe I ought to try looking for another job." I don't want to be *grouchy* over an obvious outpouring of love and support, so please let me try to explain a little more, and forgive my general anger which is NOT at the individuals who have written to me (or those who haven't) but rather toward a system that is killing me. I have already had SIX full time academic jobs, and this is my TWELVTH year of full time college/university level teaching. I have a publication record that is longer than that of most people who are granted tenure at most institutions, and several additional pages on my c.v. of talks I've given at various professional venues, and other professional activities. I've taught dozens of different classes at half a dozen different colleges and universities, in at least 4 different "departments" or "disciplines" or "interdisciplinary programs." I'm 44 years old, I've had a doctorate for almost a decade, and have been working continuously within my field, quite actively and quite hard in fact, and I'm still an untenured Assistant Professor, with RAPIDLY FADING chances of getting YET ANOTHER job as an Assistant Professor (hey, all you folks in grad school, I'm still competing with YOU for the SAME "entry level" jobs -- because I have not "advanced" in my career ONE IOTA beyond "entry level" yet). And I don't have a degree in Women's Studies because they didn't even HAVE THEM yet when I was in school. My knowledge and ideas and approaches are no longer "state of the art" but rather they are becoming "outdated." I don't do the "sexy new stuff", I do the "boring old stuff" NOT because I am "too lazy" to learn anything new, but because I actually think that some (not all, but some) of the "older" and "more outdated" approaches to feminism and to teaching are BETTER than some of the newer ones, in my considered professional opinion (which I am officially not even entitled to have yet). For example, I am getting worse and worse teaching evaluations as the years go by, because I don't use "multi-media" approaches in the classroom; I still insist that my classes READ and WRITE and DISCUSS written material with one another -- and these days that is seen as "old fashioned" and "lazy" on the part of the teacher (or so students report on my teaching evaluations -- and NOT just "here" at Beloit College). And with decreasingly "good" teaching evaluations as time goes by, my chances of ever getting tenure anywhere are fading fast. I do not have the competencies and specializations that programs and departments are asking to hire these days, because they werent even invented yet when I was in graduate school, and I have been too busy trying to teach my ever-changing classes (incorporating the newest materials -- I have one class this semester with NO books with publication dates prior to 1995, and the students are STILL complaining that the material is "old" and "Out of Date"), writing papers and articles and chapters, moving around the country (east coast to west coast to midwest, more than once each) as many summers as not (when I should have been doing research -- or keeping up with newer developments in my field, etc.) It has been literally DECADES since I have had any kind of sense of belonging to any stable community whatsoever -- moving across the country frequently rips and severs relationships and friendships regularly, almost as soon as they are getting off the ground. This is not good for the soul, at least not past a certain point. My daughter grew up "on the road" living in shabby rental housing and not being able to form lasting bonds within her communities either. I returned to school hell-bent on getting an education and a career no matter what it took when she was 18 months old, and she is now a senior in college, and I STILL don't have a "solid career" underway yet. My family worries that maybe I am mentally ill or something because I "just don't seem to be able to settle down." I have never yet owned a home, and even were I to buy one today, my 30-year mortgage wouldn't be paid off until I was 75 years old, if I'm fortunate enough to live that long. Its not that I am "giving up too easily" or that I just need some kind of emotional support in order to weather this one little "crisis" and then I'll be fine. It is that as a mature, mid-life woman with a doctorate and over a decade of experience in my field, and more than a few people who actually think that I am fairly good at what I do, I NEED and DESERVE more from my career than what I am getting from it. NOBODY with my experience and credentials in ANY other field OTHER than academics would EVER consent to being treated like a still "unproven apprentice" for SO much of their career and stretching WELL into mid-life without giving at least a good hard "Think" to whether maybe they ought to get out of the profession they're in, and into something else. I am leaving because I VALUE my time and my life and my energy and my attention TOO MUCH to spend even a single IOTA more of it trying to "prove myself" to yet one more person (or group or committee) who still has the power to "approve" or "disapprove" of my "application" for "entry" into this field as a respected professional who is DONE serving all the necessary "apprenticeships" and who has now proven to everybody who ever needs proof that she is COMPETENT ENOUGH to be able to move beyond the "entry level" and start just DOING HER WORK and have the de facto presumption be that she IS qualified to do it. These should be the PRIME YEARS of my career, when I can explore, invent, create, synthesize, and DO MY WORK ... not yet MORE ADDITIONAL YEARS of STILL trying to win enough approval from all the right people to be "allowed" to be regarded as minimally competent. In any OTHER field, I would be treated (and PAID, I might add) like a mature and competent professional by this point in my life and career, given the time and effort I have put into it. It is out of SELF-RESPECT that I am deciding to escape this career path (or quagmire) NOW, before it erodes any more of my life, energy, passion and soul, so that 20 years from now I can retire HAPPY about what I have done in the world rather than bitter and angry about what I have NOT done. I am sick and tired of STILL trying to "please" folks with my work, so that I may be "allowed" to continue. (BTW, this is why tenure and academic freedom are SO important -- because it is stifling and deadly for people to try to engage in research and teaching for decades on end without them. It kills souls, it kills intellectual curiosity, it kills passion for one's work, and it kills research and innovation... and education will suffer SEVERELY if they are allowed to fall by the wayside as "relics of another era," IMHO. I hope you all will continue to fight FOR tenure and academic freedom, which are being eroded away daily, as we speak.) Anyway, that is why I am leaving Academe -- NOT because of "one bad class" or "one bad set of teaching evaluations" or a lack of enough fortitude to be able to weather "one bad semester." I have already invested more of my life than I should have in this career. It is time to cut my losses and get out while I still have enough of my life and health and passion for my work in front of me to rebuild a Life and a career doing something else which is more satisfying and less deadly to the soul. xxooxox, Ruth Ginzberg Women's Studies Beloit College ginzberg@beloit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 23:50:57 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Palmer Subject: Re: Books for Teenage Girls Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Tamara, I'm just catching up on my email and I read your post about the 14 yr. old who is obsessed with her looks and losing weight, etc. I have a suggestion for an opposite tack on approaching her--I started modeling at a fairly young age, myself, and in fact put myself through Stanford and Columbia doing so. I know firsthand how important it is to get a good education and a solid sense of one's own values and perspectives before embarking on such a twisted career. If it might help, I'd be happy to email or write her about what modeling is like as a career and perhaps help her approach it from a healthy angle, if she's really interested in doing that as a career. Lisa (lpalmer@ucla.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 08:32:44 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: what to do if mail stops unexpectedly (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: 7) "WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MAIL FROM WMST-L SUDDENLY STOPS?" Note: if you've arranged to receive WMST-L in edited digest form, skip to section C below. Otherwise, read on. 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Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 08:52:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ellen M. Gil-Gomez" Subject: Re: feminist theory In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello, I've been listening to, with great interest, the discussion on feminist theory Ihope we can continue to talk about it. My reason for writing is that some people have mentioned texts by Tong and Jaggar/Rothenberg. I'm hoping someone can send along the publication info as these names don't strike anything in my memory. I'm at the beginning of developing a class on feminist theory and as a literature person I'm much more heavily focused in the postmodern stuff and the literary criticism--I'm wanting to bring it into a much more interdisciplinary focus and discuss what many of you have suggested--what feminists theorize about... Could someone send me the publishers so I can check out these texts? Thanks much in advance. Two books I was considering including just to keep the discussion going are-- Whelehan's _Modern Feminist Thought: from the Second Wave to Post Feminism_ and _Front Line Feminism, 1975-1995_ ed. by Kahn. The second text is a collection of essays from _Sojourner's_ and deals with a range of topics from theoretical to "real" and issues like--women's health, economics, and sex. *************************** Ellen M. Gil-Gomez Assistant Professor of English Russell Sage College Troy, NY 12180 gilgoe@sage.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 08:34:12 -0500 Reply-To: Susanne Dietzel Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susanne Dietzel Subject: Re: feminist theory In-Reply-To: <199710080409.XAA26518@beloit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am writing in response to Ruth's posts about leaving the academy. Even though it is very, very sad (and I have enjoyed Ruth's comments as long as I have read this list), Ruth's decision raises some very important issues about what is going on in academia right now. Believe me Ruth, you are not alone. Many of us out here in the trenches face the very same decision you have just made everyday and I am glad you have articulated them so succinctly. Graduate students, adjuncts,part-timers, and yes assistant professors face a saturated jobmarket, they know that much of the work they do is not appreciated, and they are barely staying alive with the little money that they make. Building community, raising children, and saving towards retirement remains an impossibility for many of us. Yet many of us stay on, hoping that one day that elusive tenure track job and the validation that comes with it (or not) will be ours. Are we surprised that more and more people, all highly qualified and gifted teachers, are dropping out? So, I guess I have to commend Ruth's courageous decision and I applaud her willingness to share this painful process with us. Good luck to you, Ruth, and let us know if the "real" world is more rewarding than academia. Susanne Dietzel P.S. Another listmember and I are in the process of exploring the possibilities of founding a part-timer and adjunct caucus in the NWSA. Does anyone know how to go about this and might anyone be interested in helping us? Please respond privately. Susanne Dietzel ********************* Newcomb College Center for Research on Women * That's right, the * Tulane University * women are smarter * New Orleans, LA 70118 ********************* ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 09:35:12 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Carson Subject: Elaine Showalter About a month ago there was a discussion of Elaine Showalter's interpretation of chronic fatigue syndrome. List members in upstate New York/northern Pa. might be interested to know that Showalter is giving a lecture entitled "The Politics of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: from neuraasthenia to now" at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, on Friday October 17 at 4 p.m. in Room D of Goldwin Smith Hall. Call 607-255-7274 for more information. Anne Carson Cornell University Law Library carson@law.mail.cornell.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 09:46:50 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "C. Horwitz" Subject: WID In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As I started this thread, I want to thank the writers of the many responses I received. I thank the "critical" writer who wanted to know how I could be involved in Women's Studies without knowing what WID was for reminding me how a critical voice can effectively silence the person who innocently and an honestly asks a question. I want to thank Joan for supporting my right to ask the questions. But most especially I want to thank the writers who responded by providing me with a list of readings to help me inform myself. I had thought WID was as it has been described in your posts until I started doing fundraising at the Feminist Clinic where I work and found that at the clinic Women in Development means a VERY different thing. This opened the door to numerous possibilities for the meaning of the phrase, to me. On the topic of Feminist Theory, I have learned to use the title Feminist Theories - making it sound more like what I believe it is, a collection of opinions about women's places in the world and the many ways women have come to make sense of their lives. I believe there is a history which can be examined and taught, but the process is alive and as such is always changing. C. Horwitz ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:25:20 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: WID Carol -- What *does* WID mean at the Feminist Clinic? -- Gina ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:28:09 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: theory thread Comments: To: WMST-L%UMDD.Bitnet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU Well, I was going to keep out of the feminist theory discussion, but I find so many of the concerns raised speak to issues that I deal with when I teach the course, that I can't help but add my $.02. I have taught Feminist Theory for many years (at least 10 or 11) and often when I'm in the midst of it, like Ruth, I can't quite decide what it is. I should say that my original training is in English literature but I haven't taught that for many years and I don't primarily do literary theory when I teach feminist theory (though I suppose I cannot help it that my perspectives will be tainted by my training). The last time I taught it the focus was heavily on sociological theory because I had several sociology majors in my class who had a great deal of background in sociological theory. But it probably differs everytime I teach it. Recently I had a chance to articulate for myself what I thought theory was and what it was for, when a student asked to interview me for a class assignment which required them to compare the methodology of another field with the methodologies of economics. This students chose to do women's studies. One fo the questions she asked was, "In your discipline, what are the qualities of a 'good' theory? How important are explanatory power and predictive power?" My answer to this question was twofold, though I told her I was probably answering only for myself and wasn't sure I could speak for the field. For me a theory requires 2 things to be persuasive. I guess you could call one explanatory power, though I'm not sure I mean the same thing an economist would mean. For me a theory has to explain or articulate something I could explain or articulate before. It has to open my eyes, make me say "aha, this makes sense." As heretical as it may be to say this, poststructuralist theory really did this for me in the 80s in very real ways. As I was struggling, writing my dissertation and trying to get some fledgling work out there, poststructuralist theories helped me to formulate some ideas that I was struggling to give birth to. I don't think I could have said some of those things any other way or thought them through in any other way. When I read Derrida, Foucault, and others, it was really like I was seeing things in a new way. The same is true for much of the feminist theory I was also reading at the time. [Paragraph so you can rest] The other thing I think a *feminist* theory must do is to explain how social change happens. This may be the most important thing and it is something I have recently tried to put at the center of my feminist theory course. This insight came to me when I read an essay by Ellen Messer-Davidow called "Know-How." It was in a collection of essays she edited (sorry I don't have the reference at hand). She argues that the whole point of feminism is to correct inequalities, to change a social system that promotes inequality. If our theory courses don't speak to *how* that happens, then they are worthless. The collaborative and collective project that is feminist theory must not only show *that* change has happened, it must theorize about how it has happened. Then can we begin to understand how our activism can make a difference and perhaps plot a politics that are likely to succeed. The central project of my course is that students have to select a moment of historical change and show how at least three different feminist theories would explain how that moment happened. THis is a difficult assignment for the students and for me because it's something they aren't usually asked to do, but I think it's worth struggling through. The first 3-5 weeks of my course are spent looking closely at good old-fashioned liberal feminism (I use Zillah Eisenstein's *Radical Future of Liberal Feminism*) because I think students need to see the ways in which the assumptions that they think are simply 'the way things are' are themselves theoretical. This is an historical examination of political theory going back to John Locke, trying to understand the way economic and social developments of the 17-18 centuries led to the articulation of liberal theory,individualism, and capitalism and the ways political theory, economics, and philosophy informed one another. We read Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mills and Harriet Taylor, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others. Since most of my students don't think of liberalism as a theory, this is often the most radical thinking they have to do all semester, trying to understand how the common sensical and natural are far from timeless and universal but historically specific. This said, I still struggle with many issues in this class. OF course there is the perennial issue of representation that we have discussed on this list in the past month (how to introduce students to non white and non US/European perspectives). I also struggle with (and usually alternative between) teaching the course through classifications or schools (liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, psychoanalytic, radical etc.) and working against that tendency. I'll let you know if I ever find a solution for that one. I've gone on long enough. I'm sure there are other issues I'm leaving out. Cheers Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:54:18 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rhoda Unger Subject: Sex, race, and class MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I am teaching an honors seminar on the social analysis of race, sex, and class next semester and am struggling to find any textual material that bridges the gap between the many excellent introductory anthologies available in this area and materials from professional books and journals. This class is primarily for sophomores in our honors program with diverse majors who have had few courses in social science (if any). I can assign a couple of textbooks because they each receive a book allowance for courses taken within the honors program. I would appreciate any suggestions of books people on this network have found useful. I think replies can be made to the list as a whole because others may also be interested in suggestions. Thanks in advance. Rhoda Unger ungerr@alpha.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:00:49 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Watson Subject: women in development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Since terminology is so crucial to communication and understanding, I think, the discussion of "women in development" is very significant. I have also been confronted situations where people had very different ideas about this, some referring to it as a psychological issue, obviously referring to the individual development of women as persons. One way to avoid this, would be to state "women in international development" or "women and international development". I like the latter form better since it provides more flexibility in what can be included.barbara watson Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke Department of Women's Studies San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182 mbwatson@mail.sdsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:35:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeff Finlay Subject: American Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending October 5 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS INDEX Week Ending October 5, 1997 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) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To subscribe to the Opportunities index, or to submit a posting, contact Jeff Finlay, Crossroads Administrator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What follows is only an index. To get any item you will need to send a separate message to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM The following items of interest appeared on American Studies Opportunities & News from Sept 28-Oct 5, 1997. To get any item send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES followed on the same line by the item number to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (example: to get the first posting below, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 743 to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; for the first two, send GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 743 770). For best results, send messages exactly as given in the example format. Do not put commas or periods between or after the item numbers. Jobs ==== 743 Af Am Litt/Women's Studies, Beaver College PA (tenure) 770 Am Litt/Cultural/Women's Studies, U Queensland (tenure, due Oct 20) 752 English (field open), U Minnesota (3 jobs, tenure, due Nov 7) Fellowships & Prizes ==================== 767 ABD Fellows Program for Minority Students, Virginia Tech (due Jan) 768 Pre-Doctoral Minority Fellows (2), Lawrence U WI (due Dec 10) Calls for Contributions to Books/Journals/Media =============================================== 819 Feminisms & Internationalism (essays for journal) 818 Gender & Economies of Power (essays for journal) 812 The Body in Early America (essays) 811 Thinking Online (Writing/Theorizing about the Net) 813 Women's Issues with an International Perspective (essays) 815 Women, Complexion and Caste (essays) Calls for Papers for Conferences ================================ 836 Activism & the Academy, Washington DC, March 28, 1998 840 Artifacts/Material Culture in Women's History, NY, Aug 20-22/98 833 Justice and the Humanities, Montgomery AL, March 20-22, 1998 New Web Resources ================= 733 Southern Women in Civil War -- Web Exhibit at U Virginia (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/hearts) 798 Women's Liberation Movement -- Website (http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Opportunities archive and search engine is on the web at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:37:00 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Saad, Shahnaz" Subject: Books for teenage girls Hello, everyone- I tried sending this privately, but it came bouncing back. Please excuse me for sending it to the entire list. The girl might be a little old for it, but she may enjoy Deenie by Judy Blume. It is the story of a very beautiful girl who is pushed to be a model but who ultimately decides that she might like to be a doctor instead. Ella Enchanted by Levine is a terrific new novel. It is the kind of book that people of all ages can enjoy. A curse is put on Ella at birth which makes her always obedient. This is the story of how Ella manages to remain an individual and ultimately escapes the curse. it is a modern day Cinderella story. Catherine Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice by Catherine Cushman are both wonderful books set during the middle ages. Catherine Called Birdy tells of a spunky girl's resistance to her father's attempts to wed her to a rich man. The Midwife's Apprentice is about a homeless waif who manages to make a ;life for herself as a midwife's apprentice. All of Cynthia Voigt's novels feature strong girls. Homecoming and Dicey's Song are my favorites. Both are about Dicey Tillerman, a tough, prickly girl who manages to keep her family together after their mother abandons them. Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson tells about a pair of twins. One twin is pretty, musical, and delicate. It is the awkward. moody and strong twin, however, who is the more interesting of the two. She works as a fisherman (sic) for many years. Then she decides to become a doctor, but as a young woman, she finds herself barred from medical school. She therefore becomes a nurse/midwife, and she practices in a secluded small town, where she is the only healer available. Yolanda's Genius by Fenner is about a bright, strong, fat, African American girl who fiercely loves her small brother. Yolanda manages to fight off bullies, protect her brother, and convince their mother that the brother is a genius. An "oldie but goodie" is Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George. Julie, an Eskimo, undergoes an arranged marriage when she is 13. When her new husband tries to rape her, Julie runs away and lives on the tundra with a wolf pack. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi is about an English girl who lives during the nineteenth century. She is pretty, feminine, and trusting at the beginning of the story. Then she is sent on a voyage to America, and she discovers that the ship's captain treats the sailors in a shockingly cruel way. She bands together with the sailors and becomes one herself, donning their clothes and working with them. Together they overthrow the captain. Hope this helps! Chris (S. Chris Saad, PhD ssaad@wcupa.edu) ---------- From: owner-wmst-l To: WMST-L Subject: Books for Teenage Girls Date: Monday, October 06, 1997 6:17PM Dear List Members, I was recently invited by one of my colleagues to be a guest speaker in his class. Afterwards, one of the students, looking very distraught and upset, came and talked to me. Apparently, she has three daughters. The two oldest are doing exceptionally well in school and seem to have their priorities in order. The youngest, 14 years old, used to be an excellent student. But now she has completely lost iinterest in school. She has become obsessed with her appearance, (loosing weight, make-up, etc). According to her mother, the problem seems to be compounded by the fact that the child is very beautiful and her friends keep telling her she should not bother with school but should become a model. The girl is now cluttering up her mind with romance novels and living in a "fairy-tale world." Meanwhile, her grades continue to decline. ... So I promised the mother I would try to come up with a list of age-appropriate novels that contain some strong female role models. All best, Tamara wskckc@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:12:43 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Gina Oboler, Anthropology & Sociology, Ursinus College" Subject: Re: women in development Ok, the problem with "women in international development" is that not all work being done in this area is necessarily international. Many scholars are interested in the development of a specific country. Whatever the country is, it's not "international" to those who live there. Nor is the focus necessarily comparing the situation of women in poor and rich countries -- it might be about poor and rich regions or population segments of the same country, even a rich one. I may be way out of it, but though I've heard people in psychology talk about "women's development" or "the development of women," I never heard them talk about "women *in* development." In my experience that term has only referred to social/community/economic development issues. Admittedly, my experience is probably limited. -- Gina Oboler ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:29:54 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stacey Short Subject: Re: Sex, race, and class Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Rhoda & Interested Others-- I would highly recommend using at least parts of Joan Scott's _Gender and The Politics of History_. She discusses and demonstrates that issues of sex, race and class are inextricably bound together, and any attempt to analyze the effects of only one of these issues will be inherently flawed. This book was the catalyst for a big change in my personal feminist philosophies. While her discussion revolves around the textile/garment industry in early France, she makes the connections to our social structure fairly clear. Good luck w/your course! Stacey Short 220C Blocker Dept. of English, MS 4227 Texas A&M University College Station, TX scs9332@acs.tamu.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:32:16 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nelda K Pearson Subject: Re: feminist theory Comments: To: sdietze@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu In-Reply-To: from "Susanne Dietzel" at Oct 8, 97 08:34:12 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear All- Yes it is sad to hear that Ruth has decided to leave academe. As I read her post explaining her decision I kept thinking "well, there is still maybe a chance, etc.etc." only to realize that I have said at least a dozen times over the past year--"If I could find another job that pays this much at my age I would leave." I am a tenured full professor who does not move around but feel some of the same things that Ruth feels. With post tenure review a reality and bean counting the name of the game we are experiencing having to prove ourselves and our specialties and our scholarly interests and whatever, over and over again. The general feeling here is no matter how much you work it is never, ever good enough. We just got our evaluations and for everyone it was one line of what you did well and 30 lines of what you did wrong even if that wrong was so tangential that it was nearly irrelevant. For me it was that 8 students dropped my two upper division classes. And, if this "pattern" continues I will be re-evaluated. And ,hey, my chair and our VP for Academic Affairs are women. So, its not the usual suspects. If this is going on here it is going on elsewhere. My heart goes out to Ruth. She obviously has had it. How have we come to this. Nelda K. Pearson Chair, Race, Class and Gender Studies Radfrod University npearson@runet.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:00:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Crowder Subject: Re: Feminist theory I want to thank Laurie Finke for sharing her thoughts on feminist theories classes, and expand upon them and my earlier posting. (First-- pardon all typos--we much have the world's hardest-to-use e-mail editor!) I'm currently in the midst of teaching the sophomore theories course I alluded to earlier this week. I agree wholeheartedly with Laurie that it is very important to teach students that liberal feminist theory is a theory--not just the way things are. Ideas like competition, equality as a goal, individualism, etc. are so ingrained in American students that they find it difficult to conceive of these as not only one set of theoretical concepts among many possible ones, but they also find it difficult to see the inherent limitations of these ideas and the ways they shape what liberal feminisms can and especially cannot do. then we read critiques of liberal feminism on grounds that it's ideal of equality generally means equality with the dominant class and that it therefore constructs feminism as a white and middle class one, and students are suddenly and forcefully struck by how such abstract concepts can lead to very concrete (unintended and/or undesired) results. We can then turn to other, less "All-American" notions of feminism with a fresh eye to how they might offer other answers to problems. I have been teaching variations of this course for about 7 years now, and my experience is that students really need a kind of "comparative feminisms 101" because they are extremely unsophisticated about the relations between theories and results. One assignment I give them is similar to the assignment of looking at historical moments through the lenses of various theories. I have them choose a current issue about which feminists might disagree, and write a paper on how three different feminist theories would or do treat that issue. The goal of the paper assignment is to deepen their understanding of the relationship between the theorie's central assumptions/concepts and the ways holders of that theory would make strategy and goal choices in the practical world. Over the years this assignment has generated a very uneven set of results, but I think it has been as valuable for teaching students what theories can't/don't address certain issues as well as the differences between those that do. Alison Jaggar's Living with Contradictions is a good resource in that it gathers together articles on different topics of current interest upon which feminists have strong disagreements. Finally, I want to agree with Laurie that a feminist theory is one that gives us tools for action, and that is why I keeps bringing theories back to concrete examples, to show students how they must make choices in their theoretical understandings and how those choices will lead them to act in various ways. Thanks to all who have participated in this thread, and to Ruth for beginning it. Diane Diane Griffin Crowder crowder@cornell-iowa.edu Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA 52314 USA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:05:50 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: feminist theory Nelda Pearson asks how we have come to the state of affairs that she and Ruth Ginzburg describe. I think one issue we need to consider carefully is the state of graduate programs. Why are there so many graduate programs? Why are these programs churning out more phds than can possibly ever get jobs? Do we need to think more about the implications of this policy which has been ignored for at least the 17 years I have had my phD. When I came out in 1980 there were already signs that graduate programs were producing more phds than they were creating jobs. It was hard finally getting atenure track job and I was one of the extremely lucky ones (believe me I recognize that every day). And the system is still doing its number. Does every single university really need to have a phd program in every single discipline? Often phd programs serve primarily to ensure that professors don't have to teach undergraduates (I know that my husband who teaches at larger research institutions has hardly seen any undergraduates in the last 10 years of teaching and when he does they get much less of his attention than his graduate students). Perhaps we need to be putting more back into undergraduate education and paring down phd programs, bringing the number of graduates more closely in line with what the market can bear. Perhaps that is a cynical and somewhat less than idealistic view of the purpose of phd programs. I know people will say that there are those who go into it for the love of learning and I can respect that. But the bottom line is that as long as universities go one producting more phds than there are jobs for the situations Ruth and Nelda so tragically describe (and I think they are tragic) will continue. What do you think? Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon (after months of silent lurking I seem to be running off at the mouth today). ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:07:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vera Whisman Subject: race, class, and sex MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I recommend R.W. Connell's Gender and Power, and also his more recent book, the title of which escapes me. His strength is his analysis of ranked masculinities. Vera Whisman whisman@hws.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:03:26 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shelley Reid Subject: academic ills (was feminist theory) In-Reply-To: <009BB78C.82A04E40.137@kenyon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Laurie Finke wrote: >Nelda Pearson asks how we have come to the state of affairs that she and Ruth >Ginzburg describe. I think one issue we need to consider carefully is the >state of graduate programs. Why are there so many graduate programs? Why are >these programs churning out more phds than can possibly ever get jobs? This sounds like the kind of topic that may quickly move beyond the scope of this list, but I'll just add my $.02, hopefully in a somewhat women's-studies-ish mode. While I agree that PhD programs are sometimes created for the wrong reasons, I believe that the same system(s) that is/are providing other forms of oppression of faculty members can and should be cited here. There *are* enough students needing to be taught to employ most if not all of the current qualified teachers -- *if* we allow for sane class sizes, course loads, employment options, and compensation rates. Money- and student-hungry PhD program directors? maybe. But let's not forget the economic, political, and social structures influencing the larger moves to de-value, speed-up, objectify, and put limits on good teaching and good teachers. We would do this kind of analysis for any other group of struggling women (or humans); we need to do it for ourselves, too, before divide-and-conquer wins the day. If there ever were days in which academics were not activists, they are fast disappearing in the face of the continued threats to quality education and the daily battles we fight (and sometimes, sadly, can no longer fight) to preserve it. shelley ***** Shelley Reid English Department, Austin College (Home of the Fighting Kangaroos) Sherman, TX 75090 SREID@austinc.edu ***** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:37:00 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Saad, Shahnaz" Subject: Ruth Ginzberg and feminist theory Hi, everyone- It seems to me that the most feminist response to Ruth is to assume that as an adult woman she is capable of making her own decisions. Let's support her without insisting that she reconsider, Chris (S. Chris Saad, PhD ssaad@wcupa.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:59:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Debra Kirkley Subject: Re: feminist theory In-Reply-To: <009BB78C.82A04E40.137@kenyon.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, STRETCH OR DROWN/ Why are there so many graduate programs? Why are > these programs churning out more phds than can possibly ever get jobs? Do we > need to have a phd program in every single discipline? > > Laurie Finke > finkel@kenyon > > PhD programs have proliferated because of economics. State funded universities receive enormous funds to educate doctoral students as compared to undergrads. Programs grew as administrators realized that their PhD programs were padding the budget so they could afford to fund their undergraduate programs (which typically are money-losers). It never had anything to do with "creating knowledge" and filling a need for faculty vacancies. -debra- ******************************************************* *** Debra Kirkley, MEd, RNC *** *** Assistant Clinical Professor *** *** Texas Woman's University, College of Nursing *** *** 1810 Inwood Road *** *** Dallas, Texas 75235 *** *** Doctoral Candidate, University of No. Texas *** *** 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, 8 Oct 1997 15:01:32 CST6CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Dewey Joycechild Organization: College of Liberal Arts, U of MN Subject: I'm FOR it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Bravo, Ruth Ginzberg. Well-said and well-lived. My hat's off to you. Lisa Dewey Joycechild ****************************************************** Lisa Dewey Joycechild, Career Services Coordinator College of Liberal Arts Career & Internship Services 220 Johnston Hall, 101 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis MN 55455 ljoyc@adv.cla.umn.edu (612)624-0382 FAX(612)624-2538 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 20:37:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: holzman Subject: Re: Sex, race, and class In-Reply-To: <01IOKA5C7TOI9889AS@alpha.montclair.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" You might want to take a look at _Critical race feminism_, edited by Adrien Katherine Wing (New York: NYU Press, 1997). It's an anthology of articles. mostly reprinted from feminist law journals, but it's very accessible to a non-lawyer, and many of the authors use a very personal, story-telling approach to analyzing a legal issue that impacts on women of color. At 11:54 AM 10/8/97 -0400, you wrote: >I am teaching an honors seminar on the social analysis of race, sex, and class >next semester and am struggling to find any textual material that bridges the >gap between the many excellent introductory anthologies available in this area >and materials from professional books and journals. This class is primarily >for sophomores in our honors program with diverse majors who have had few >courses in social science (if any). I can assign a couple of textbooks because >they each receive a book allowance for courses taken within the honors program. >I would appreciate any suggestions of books people on this network have found >useful. I think replies can be made to the list as a whole because others may >also be interested in suggestions. Thanks in advance. >Rhoda Unger >ungerr@alpha.montclair.edu > __________________________ Clare Holzman 330 West 58th Street, 404 New York, NY 10019 212 245 7282 holzmr01@mcrcr.med.nyu.edu VISIT: http://www.en.com/users/abackan/headline.htm ____________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 01:06:30 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: Sex, race, and class In-Reply-To: <01IOKA5C7TOI9889AS@alpha.montclair.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For an honors seminar on the social analysis of race, sex, and class, try Chandra Mohanty's essay 'Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests and the Politics of Solidarity' in 'Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures' M. Jacqui Alexander & Chadra T. Mohanty (Eds.). New York: Routledge, 1997. She compares lacemakers in Narsipur, India, electronic workers in Silicon Valley, US, and migrant workers in Britain. The essay offers a context showing how race, sex, and class work together - its global dimensions, which I think are very important for students to grasp. Some of the terms in the introductory section will be overly familiar to readers well read in the topic and they might wish she illustrated, analysed them more; her 'futuring' seemed to me undertheorised and underdeveloped. But there's much good theorising and empirical stuff in the essay. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 00:48:58 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathleen Preston Subject: Development I appreciated Joan's reminder that there are several meanings of the term "development." Recently I sent a brief resume to a feminist publication (mentioned on WMST-L) that is looking for book reviewers. One of my specialties in psychology is "developmental" or "development" (child, adult, life-span, cognitive, linguistic, etc.), and I was delighted when they asked if I'd review a book in that area. When the book arrived, I discovered it was about "women and development" (international, developing nations, etc.), which looked very interesting and important but which I was not at all qualified to review. Most disappointing! Kathleen Preston Psychology & Women's Studies Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521 KathKnight@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 08:32:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's advertising policy (User's Guide) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Here is today's monthly excerpt from the WMST-L User's Guide. It is part of section 8: FURTHER NOTE: Do not send commercial advertising to some or all WMST-L subscribers, not even privately. People who use their access to WMST-L to gather e-mail addresses to use for commercial advertising, or to give or sell to others, will be removed from WMST-L and barred from re-subscribing. (However, if you have created a women's-studies-related book, video, etc. and wish to let subscribers know about it, you may announce it on WMST-L. Indeed, you are encouraged to do so. You may also mention other books and resources, even if you have a commercial interest in them, if you are responding to a specific query for which the books/resources are directly relevant.) ****************** 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 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, 9 Oct 1997 09:11:32 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: academic ills (was feminist theory) Let me say that I agree 100% with Shelley Reid's post. There is no doubt that teaching is being devalued in many ways and there is a move afoot to treat students as if they were commodities and teachers as if we were fast food employees. And I think the desire of university professors to move away from undergraduate teaching (which then becomes more like fast food) into graduate teaching contributes to this devaluing. Shelley's andmy analyses, I can't help but feel, are linked in some way. I guess what I am pushing for (and I do think it is relevant to the business of this list--women's studies teaching) is more valuing of undergraduate education. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon. edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:52:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nelda K Pearson Subject: Re: academic ills (was feminist theory) In-Reply-To: <009BB81B.CC3B0740.10@kenyon.edu> from "STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE" at Oct 9, 97 09:11:32 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nelda here. I agree with Shelley and Laurie, esp the idea that students are commodieites and teaching is fast food. BTW, I got by PhD in 1975 in sociology and there were NO jobs then so this too many doctorates is a thirty year old probelm if that is the problem but I don't think it is the key. To return to the WID thread. Global down sizing and shifting primary labor market jobs into the secondary labor market is the name of the game. This means that as part of a global movment academica is replacing tenure track jobs with temporary partime, low pay no benefit, no mobility no security, poor working condition jobs. Currently, 25 per ceent of all jobs in the US are temporary which is a huge increase over the past 15 years. Academia echoes the rest of the economy. What is schizophrenic and impacts heavily on our teaching is that we are told to see our students as both products and consumers. HUH ? Wow, what role does learning have in that contradictory paradigm. Women's Studies and feminist theory has, for me, been an idea that we will change some fundamental structures in society in profound ways. That these changes will be greater social justice, voicing the silenced, empowering ( I almost blush to use this term it has been so stretched) our students and our colleagues, among a few other things. Well, guess what, we haven't, or to be kinder we have in some places but apparently not in our own home--the academy. This concerns me not because my job is crappy right now but because I DO want to see Women's Studies and Feminisms create this world. I work, figure, research on how we can make this happen and what causes us to "fail" in creating our vision. BTW, I posted this summer as to the source of the phrase "kitchen table talk" to refer to women's grassroots activity and got no response--perhaps because it was summer and we were all somewhere else. If anyone knows please post me privately at npearson@runet.edu Nelda Pearson Take care all- Nelda ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:57:09 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Basgall Subject: Re: women in development MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I tend to stay out of the fray, but could not this time. Women in Development historically was an outcome of the World Bank's decision to target the poorest of the poor in "developing countries" and as they began to look at this target audience, the found that most of the were women and WID began to take shape. It was further strengthened by USAID's development of a WID division and the "lipservice" they gave indicating that every development project should include a WID component. For a time in development, WID was considered the idea of the moment, but for a number of years, I have heard development practitioners saying it is no longer necessary. An excellent book which really critiques the USAID/WID office was written by Kathy Stout and publisher by Prager. Sandra Basgall Program in Intercultural Management School for International Training Brattleboro, VT 05302-0676 Barbara Watson wrote: > > Since terminology is so crucial to communication and understanding, I > think, the discussion of "women in development" is very significant. I have > also been confronted situations where people had very different ideas about > this, some referring to it as a psychological issue, obviously referring to > the individual development of women as persons. One way to avoid this, > would be to state "women in international development" or "women and > international development". I like the latter form better since it provides > more flexibility in what can be included.barbara watson > Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke > Department of Women's Studies > San Diego State University > San Diego, CA 92182 > mbwatson@mail.sdsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:30:02 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl A Rickabaugh Subject: Query about Women and Science Video Comments: cc: Emily E Culpepper Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Our campus group formed around the issue of women and scientific literacy is considering the purchase of a video, "Asking Different Question: Women and Science", distributed by the National Firm Board of Canada. We're not sure from the description whether the film is a documentary on feminist/activist scientists or also addresses the issue of social construction of scientific inquiry. Any comments would be appreciated. Please respond back channel. Cheryl R. _______________________________________________________________________________ Cheryl A. Rickabaugh Phone: (909) 793-2121, ext. 3866 Associate Professor and Department Chair Fax: (909) 793-2029 Dept. of Psychology University of Redlands e-mail: rickabau@uor.edu Redlands, CA 92373-0999 http://newton.uor.edu/FacultyFolder/Rickabaugh/Rickabaugh.html _______________________________________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 13:20:54 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: jeannie ludlow Subject: Re: academic ills (was feminist theory) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello everyone, This thread on "why so many PhDs" is very interesting to me (as you all probably already know), and a couple of posters have said some things that are crucial to our understanding (IMHO) _not_ of why there are so many of us, but of why so many of us are under-, un-, and mis-employed. Shelley reminded us of the "economic, political and social structures influencing the moves to de-value, speed-up, objectify and put limits on good teaching." She put her finger right on the issue with that statement. This is, I think, the standard politicians' rationale for the changes we are seeing in academe. And by politicians, I do not mean just Board of Regents members and elected officials; I am also referring to our university & college administrators. The standard line is: teaching is becoming more cost-effective and more flexible this way. At the same time, Nelda's statement that 25% of all jobs in the US are temp. really shocked me. In all actuality, then, academia is _not_ reflecting the "larger society"--every recent estimation I have seen shows that between 49 and 53% of all post-secondary courses are being taught by non-tenure-line teachers. And more than 60% of these non-tenure-line individuals are women and people of colors. (Correspondingly, more than 60% of tenure-line workers are male--I don't remember off the top of my head if it is "white male" or just "male--don't have my source with me right now.) I am getting these numbers from the most recent issue of _Social_Text_ and from Cary Nelson's edited anthology _Will_Teach_for_ Food_. I know that the '70s were a time of limited job opportunities for new PhDs; I think, however, that the reasons were very different. For one thing, I would want to look at the job opportunities in the '70s for *administrators* in academics before I started making comparisons. In my research, I have also learned that the _only_ area of academic work (besides part-time work) in which $$ and the # of jobs is going up is higher administration. I know our own campus has recently published new salaries for administrators--for the 5 people they listed, they could hire more than _31_ of me here. I am full time temporary, teaching 8-10 courses per year. So, for those 5 administrators' salaries, the campus could be teaching roughly 300 classes at my current position. Now, I know that in many ways I am comparing apples & oranges, but I think fruit can be rotten no matter what it's tree looks like. (Sorry, old Hoosier-ism there, from an old Hoosier.) As someone who was raised working class, with union membership in almost every nook & cranny of my mom's family, I am very suspicious of a system that is making the jobs of the "lower rungs" les and less stable, respected, and recompensed at the same time that the positions of the "higher rungs" gets more stable, powerful, and (better) recompensed. We've been hearing for several years about the "disappearance of the middle classes" in the US--that soon we'll be two classes--upper and lower. I see this happening in academics already. Soon, those "middle" classes--the tenure-line positions--will be gone and we'll all be administrators or adjuncts. I do not believe that it is any coincidence at all that this is happening at a time when women, people of colors, and people from working class backgrounds are entering professional teaching in greater and greater numbers. Perhaps the "disintegration" of tenure is a response (reaction?) to the shifts in power that occur when previously disempowered people (and I use that term with no hesitance or irony at all ;-) begin to have access to the institutions that symbolize power (education; employment; government, etc.). Just some random thoughts from my current soapbox . . . Best to all, and my sincere respect to Ruth. Jeannie __________________________________________________________________________ . . . Thus wrote ) Jeannie Ludlow ( "Lord, you know me, a woman, partly brave / ) jludlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu ( I'm liable to say and partly good, ) Women's Studies ( anything; so if who fought with what / ) Popular Culture ( I've offended she partly understood ) Bowling Green SU ( anybody, well hence she was labelled / ) Bowling Green OH 43403 ( . . . tough." harpy, shrew and whore ) ( --Dolly Parton --Adrienne Rich ) ( ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:26:38 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kim Christensen Subject: Re: academic ills (was feminist theory) RE: Nelda's comments on creating a feminist vision: I think that one reason we have been less than successful is that we have not paid sufficient attention to class and its profound impact on American politics, including the politics of the academy. Although we certainly don't want to just import Marxian or liberal/sociological analyses of class which ignore women's unpaid labor, inferior occupational status, etc., we really haven't come up with a coherent feminist alternative (other than very personalized discussions of individual class prejudices.) By saying this, I don't mean to degrade the work of feminist economists (myself included) who are attempting to do this work. But I think our deficiencies in this area have had a profound impact on our political effectiveness. Kim Christensen (Economics/Women's Studies - SUNY/Purchase) kchrist52@aol.com or christen@brick.purchase.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 14:24:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jeff Finlay Subject: WOMENET - New List for International Women in American Studies MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > From: Judy Babbitts , for the ASA Women's Task Force Announcing WOMENET A New American Studies Association Discussion List for International Women in American Studies The American Studies Association Women's Task Force is initiating WOMENET to facilitate discussion of the status of international women in American Studies and the intersection among womenAs studies, American Studies, and international perspectives. We hope WOMENET will encourage networking among international women and the exchange of information about resources, conferences, publications, job openings, and other matters of particular interest to international women. But most of all, we want to create opportunities to think out loud. and talk with each other about our research, our teaching, and our positions as scholars in academic institutions around the world. WOMENT will be housed at Georgetown University. To subscribe, send a message in the following format to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.GEORGETOWN.EDU SUBSCRIBE WOMENET Yourfirstname Yourlastname For example, if your name is FRIEDA KALHO, your message will be: SUBSCRIBE WOMENET FRIEDA KALHO ********************************************************************* DIRECTORY OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN AMERICAN STUDIES In addition to establishing a listserv for international women, the ASA International Women's Task Force is publishing a Directory of International Women in American Studies. We would like to include you in the Directory. You may choose to be in both the listserv and the directory or just the Directory. If you would like to be included ONLY in the directory, complete this questionnaire and send it to Judy Babbitts, WOMENET Moderator Please indicate at the top of the questionnaire whether or not you also wish to subscribe to WOMENET. ********************************************************************** WOMENET QUESTIONNAIRE ********************************************************************** I wish to: [ ] Subscribe to WOMENET [ ] Be in the Directory Given name: Family name: Postal address: Occupation (university professor, lecturer, secondary school teacher. University student, librarian, government official, journalist, independent scholar, etc): Research interests: Teaching interests: If you live and work outside the United States, have you ever visited or studied in the U.S.? If yes, when? Where? Were you a high school or university student? What did you study? Do you hold any U.S. degrees? The above items will be printed in the Directory of International Women in American Studies. In addition to this information, we would like to have in our databank a short (one page) vita describing your main areas of research, teaching fields, and recent publications that can be distributed to people looking for research collaborators, conference panel participants, speakers, and candidates for job openings. If you do not know how to email your vita, you may send it us on disk. Please send a 3.5. disk and attach a note specifying the world processing format it is in. Send the disk to: WOMENET American Studies Association 19th Street, NW, Suite 301 Washington, DC 20036 United States of America Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 14:24:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susanne Dietzel Subject: call for papers In-Reply-To: <199710080409.XAA26518@beloit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Crystal Kile and Susanne Dietzel are looking for participants for a roundtable/discussion on the Generation Gap in (Academic) Feminism for next years NWSA conference in Seneca Falls. This roundtable wants to explore and discuss in more detail the questions raised during this year's plennary session in St. Louis, particularly the issues brought up by Florence Howe. Short presentations are sought that seek to explain, understand, and bridge the perceived differences between older and younger generations of feminists in the academy. We invite both younger and more seasoned scholars to engage in conversation, to talk about the perceived gap between theory and practice, radical feminism and post-structuralism, and to learn to respect each other as scholars, teachers, and activists. We are looking for approximately six participants Please respond privately before October 20 to sdietze@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu ckile@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Susanne Dietzel ********************* Newcomb College Center for Research on Women * That's right, the * Tulane University * women are smarter * New Orleans, LA 70118 ********************* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:45:23 +0200 Reply-To: shoshana@research.haifa.ac.il Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shoshana Mayer-Young Subject: texts of pro+con feminist issues Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In my courses I am using Mary Roth Walsh's THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN - Ongoing Debates(1987, Yale U. Press) in which major feminist concerns are debated from two opposed standpoints. I find it helpful in stimulating critical thinking/discussions, and I would like to get hold of other similar compilations of looking-at-it-from-both-sides. Thanks for you suggestions. Shoshanna S. Mayer-Young Ph.D. shoshana@research.haifa.ac.il ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 08:50:06 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gabrielle Meagher Subject: Race, sex and class: Bob Connell's other book MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear All, Vera Whisman made the following suggestion, with which I heartily agree - I would add that Connell's Gender and Power is *methodologically* really useful for understanding social structures and institutions without resorting to subtle or not so subtle mechanical metaphors. His more recent book is called, simply, Masculinities. >I recommend R.W. Connell's Gender and Power, and also his more recent >book, the title of which escapes me. His strength is his analysis of >ranked masculinities. >Vera Whisman >whisman@hws.edu Gabrielle Meagher email gabriell@sue.usyd.edu.au Department of Economics, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 08:49:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: how to find past 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. Please refer to it rather than sending requests to the list for past messages: 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 1995 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. This file is available on the web or via e-mail. The web URL is http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/simplesearch.html . To get it by e-mail, 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 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, 9 Oct 1997 21:09:42 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Tomoko Kuribayashi Organization: Trinity College of Vermont Subject: financial question Dear Colleagues, I would like to get some information as to how academic institutions--especially private ones, but I would be interested in hearing about public schools--have managed financial crises by asking their employees to contibute--to take pay cuts, to give up some benefits, or to donate free labor. Have any schools taken loans from their employees, like government bonds? What freedom do the schools have to take away a chunk of our paychecks even when we don't want (because we cannot afford) that to happen? Please respond privately. Thanks. Tomoko Kuribayashi Tomoko Kuribayashi Humanities Dept. Trinity College of Vermont Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 658-0337 ext. 258 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:42:30 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Catherine A. Smith" Organization: Agnes Scott College Subject: Women and Technology Colleagues: Does anyone know if there has been any research done on the role of technology in women's colleges? I am interested in this arena both as a coordinator of information technology at such a college, and as a student of higher education. I have searched both the web and various library databases. While I find much has been written on how to make technology palatable for women and girls, I find little on the role of eucational institutions in promoting such. How do we fit technology into the liberal art curriculum? ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:25:01 EST5EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kim Cordingly Organization: Job Accommodation Network Subject: Re: Women and Technology In-Reply-To: Although not particular to women's colleges, these 2 resources may be helpful. Cheris Kramarae & Maureen Ebben:_Women, Information Technologies & Scholarship_ published by the University of Illinois Center For Advanced Study, May 1993. The order form & book description can be found at . There is also a book by Teresa Harrison & Timothy Stephen (eds.) called _Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First Century University_. There is a good chapter outline at the Amazon.com web site. Various authors talk about integrating use of computer technology into various departments and curriculums. It is not specific to involving women students though. This very topic was one of my possible dissertation topics, but I've in the end opted to go in a different direction. From the preliminary research I did, there's not a lot out there on this. Kim Cordingly kcording@wvu.edu West Virginia University > Colleagues: > Does anyone know if there has been any research done on the role > of technology in women's colleges? I am interested in this arena > both as a coordinator of information technology at such a college, > and as a student of higher education. I have searched both the web > and various library databases. While I find much has been written on > how to make technology palatable for women and girls, I find little > on the role of eucational institutions in promoting such. How do we > fit technology into the liberal art curriculum? > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:10:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Libra Subject: critque of Promise keepers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am writing an editorial to my local paper in response to a columnist's attack on the feminist response to the Promise Keepers. I need some help in identifying some of the Promise Keepers particularly egregious main points (for example, that men should always have the ultimate decision making power in a family). Would anyone send to me privately some salient ammunition for this all too common (and aggravating!) attack on feminism??! Denise Bauer libra@warwick.net ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:16:17 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "S. Kudsieh" Subject: re. feminine medieval speech patterns In-Reply-To: <9709048733.AA873390948@ccmail.dcu.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello to all. I need help re. any studies done about identifying feminine voices/compositions during the middle Ages. I am researching the feminine voice in the kharjas of muwashshahat in medieval Spain. I have found sources that linked the kharjas to other medieval compostiotions regarded as having feminine voice (e.g. cantigas d'amigo & fraulieder). What I would like to know if there are any analytical linguistic studies that have been conducted in order to establish/refute the femine voice in any medieval text/composition whose authorship remains unknown. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance. You can write to me personally and I can send an e-mail re. all responses to WMST-L. later on. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Suha Kudsieh, Near East Studies, Box 353120, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195, (206) 543-6033 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:25:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: critque of Promise keepers Comments: To: Libra In-Reply-To: <199710102114.RAA00967@host.warwick.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This is not an attack on feminism, but an attack on democracy, on egalitarianism. Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 06:47:23 -0500 Reply-To: Kimberly Simmons Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kimberly Simmons Subject: Gender/Race/Class for High School Students Comments: cc: Kim8892@aol.com As part of a program designed to empower students to address civil rights / prevent hate crimes within thier middle and high schools, we are putting on a 2 day training conference. I am trying to find materials/ways of helping these students understand the complexity of these issues and the idea of a "matrix of domination" rather than simply putting it to them that they are the "helpers" for "victims" (this is the way it seems to play out when it gets so simplified). I am a grad student in sociology, and thus have access to a lot of more difficult texts, articles, etc. which I have used in academic courses, but none of them translate into presentations for 7-12 graders. I'd appreciate suggestions - if people post privately, I'll post a summary of resources, training tools, etc. Thanks, Kim Simmons. ********************************** Kimberly Clarke Simmons simmo003@tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 09:10:32 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Donna Hughes Subject: Radical Feminism: A Documentary History In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971008203757.006a5548@mcrcr6.med.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have seen a prepublication annoucement about a new anthology entitled _Radical Feminism: A Documentary History_, edited by Barbara Crow. The publication date is January 1998. Does anyone know more about this volume? Donna Hughes Carlson Chair, Women's Studies University of Rhode Island dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 10:07:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: Radical Feminism: A Documentary History Query I have seen a prepublication annoucement about a new anthology entitled _Radical Feminism: A Documentary History_, edited by Barbara Crow. The publication date is January 1998. Does anyone know more about this volume? Donna Hughes Carlson Chair, Women's Studies University of Rhode Island dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu Reply: I saw a manuscript of this volume a couple of years ago. Routledge I think is publishing it. It reprints a lot of hard to get documents from the 60s and 70s, part of the history of radical feminism. Many of these documents only existed in mimeographed form; they were never formally published. So it promises to be an important volume for teaching. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 10:08:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Brasher Subject: Christian Evangelicalism/Promise Keepers In response to the post on Promise Keepers, I am in the process of writing a book on the PK movement & have completed a book on women's ministries available this January via Rutgers University Press [_Godly Women: Fundamentalism and Female Power]. For a helpful editorial slant, I suggest that you take some time to explain to your readers the religious context of PK--as a development of a huge evangelical subculture where gendered ministries are widely popular, and where women's ministries outnumber men's ministries many times over (a phenomenon the media consistently ignore). If I can help you with any specific questions, please feel free to contact me off list. Brenda E. Brasher Mount Union College brashebe@muc.edu ! ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:28:57 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith Subject: Re: critque of Promise keepers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I would suggest you check out NOW's website (www.now.org). They have been leading the attacks on Promise Keepers, and are the leading group being attacked for not supporting Promise Keepers. The wesite has alot of info, including a link to the PK website. Christine Smith csmith@axpvm1.cis.pitt.edu casmith@lclark.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 13:31:13 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rita A Marinko Subject: Job Announcement I am posting this to the list for someone who is not a subscriber. This is a job announcement for a position at Iowa State University. Please reply to the address in the job announcement, not to me. Thanks! --- Rita A Marinko Social Sciences/Humanities Reference Librarian (515) 294-3643 rmarinko@iastate.edu JOB ANNOUNCEMENT POSITION: Collections Archivist RANK: Assistant Professor APPOINTMENT CONDITIONS: Full-time, 12 month, Faculty status. Faculty are expected to meet promotion and tenure requirements. DESCRIPTION: The Iowa State University Library invites applications and nominations for the position of Collections Archivist, reporting to the Head, Special Collections Department. The department has responsibility for the following unique/rare collections and collecting areas: the ISU Archives and Records Management Program; historical manuscripts (i.e., Iowa agriculture and rural life, veterinary medicine, history of science, technology and engineering, the evolution/creation debate, and statistics); the Archives of Women in Science and Engineering; the American Archives of the Factual Film, and rare books. The department contributes cataloging records for its archival collections to RLIN and OCLC and provides Web-based access to its collections and services. The department includes 4.0 FTE faculty, 2.5 FTE paraprofessional staff, and 2.0 FTE student assistants. Responsibilities: The Collections Archivist leads the department's new collections management unit which is responsible for effectively managing the preservation and access of archival materials such as university records, faculty/alumni papers, private manuscripts, organizational records, films and photographs. The unit staff is comprised of the paraprofessional Collections Assistant and approximately 1.0 FTE of student assistants. The Collections Archivist performs as well as supervises unit staff in accessioning, arranging, describing, preserving, cataloging, and managing web access. Also assists the Department Head in appraisal of the above archival materials. Works closely with the Library's Technical Services and Automated Systems Divisions. Assists the Department Head with grant writing and grant project administration, contributes to the overall management of the department with other departmental faculty and provides support as necessary in other areas of the department. QUALIFICATIONS: REQUIRED: MA or ALA-accredited MLS degree with a minimum of nine hours of archival studies course work. Knowledge of current standards and changes in the archival profession. Experience and/or knowledge of archives/manuscripts appraisal, processing, archival cataloging (MARC/APPM), World Wide Web site management/HTML, and archival preservation management. Effective interpersonal skills as well as excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to work within a strongly participatory departmental environment. Must be able to lift 40 lbs. boxes multiple times daily. Evidence of abilities to meet promotion and tenure requirements. PREFERRED: Knowledge of archives and special collections in still and moving image, audio, and digital formats. Minimum of two years of relevant archival experience. Experience with managing and reducing archival backlogs. Experience with personnel management. Grant writing and/or grant project administration experience. SALARY: $28,500 minimum, depending upon qualifications BENEFITS: TIAA/CREF, excellent group medical, dental and life insurance, 24 working days vacation and 18 days sick leave per fiscal year. THE LIBRARY AND IOWA STATE: Iowa State University fosters an environment that promotes the value of diversity and offers a positive opportunity for contribution and growth. Situated on a beautiful campus, the Library actively serves over 25,000 students and supports nationally recognized collections of 2.0 million volumes, 2.3 million microforms and 21,400 current serials. An automated Library system (NOTIS) is in operation. The Library is a member of ARL, CRL, BCR and OCLC. Ames is a community of approximately 50,000 located 35 miles from Des Moines, the state capital. The city supports quality schools and outstanding cultural attractions and was recently recognized as one of the top ten areas of its size in the country. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Review of applications will begin December 1, 1997 and will continue until an adequate pool is developed. Anticipated start date is March 1, 1998. TO APPLY: Submit letter of application, official transcripts of all college and graduate work, resume, and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three references to: Chair, Collections Archivist Search Committee, Iowa State University, 302 Parks Library, Ames, IA 50011-2140. Iowa State University has a strong commitment to equal opportunity and affirmative action. Members of protected classes are especially encouraged to apply. Iowa State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 11:59:44 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trudy Mercer Subject: reviews of Their Eyes Were Watching God Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hello all, I am a graduate student at the University of Washington. For one of my seminars I am doing a presentation on Zora Neal Hurston's _Their Eyes Were Watching God_. Since my group is one of the first presenting, we have little time between selecting the topic & the presentation date or we would have more time to prepare. The focus of the seminar is American Dreams (& Nightmares). Because of this focus we are primarily using novels and cultural documents from time they were written, or current research that deals with those documents. One of the things that I would like to offer the class is one or more reviews of _Their Eyes_ written at the time of its first publication. I know that many on this list have taught this book. Have any of you come across collections or reprints of any of the reviews? I am especially interested in Richard Wright, Alain Locke and Sterling Brown (mentioned in the introduction). Any help is greatly appreciated. We are presenting on Oct. 21. Unless you think the information of interest to the class, please post me privately (at my sprintmail.com address.) Thanks in advance. Trudy Mercer tmercer@sprintmail.com tmercer@u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 15:12:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: beatricekachuck Subject: Re: critque of Promise keepers In-Reply-To: <199710102114.RAA00967@host.warwick.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Gloria Steinem's letter to the New York Times, 10/9, quotes from a PM tract, "Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper' in which "Reclaiming Your Manhood" prescribes how to deal with the recalcitrant wife who refused to "turn everything over to you ... Unfortunately, there can be no compromise here ... you must lead." From the platform, she says, PK speakers say that women must "submit to male authority, that even counseling a woman on abortion is a worse "crime" than beating your wife or abusing your child, and that abortion equals murder. She says, too that PK have made their position clear, and it is the reverse of the movement that she 'and the pro-equality majority of women have in mind, that the PK advocate a return to patriarchy (man obeys God and woman obeys man), not the equal partnership that many men, both secular and religious, work toward. beatrice bkachuck@cuny.campus.mci.net At 12:10 PM 10/10/97 -0400, you wrote: >I am writing an editorial to my local paper in response to a columnist's >attack on the feminist response to the Promise Keepers. I need some help in >identifying some of the Promise Keepers particularly egregious main points ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 17:09:04 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Chelsea Starr Subject: NWSA Womyn's Music/RG panel CFP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I'm thinking about proposing a panel session entitled: "Waves of Musical Activism: Womyn's Music and Riot Grrrl as Feminist Movements" for next June's Natn'l Women's Studies Assoc Meetings (Oswego, NY June 10-14). Would anybody on the list be interested in participating with a short presentation? Right now we have two Riot Grrrl papers, and need two on Womyn's Music (as in the lesbian/feminist music movement that makes feminist politics central, NOT music made by women in general). There's room for one more on theory, or either genre, besides. I'd like the focus to be on the social movement/activist aspect of the genres--a panel might be best so there could be a conversation allowing attendees who aren't familiar with the political/generational/sexuality aspects of the music to be in dialog with the presenters. Other ideas? Any interest? Let me know before Oct 25th. Thanks Chelsea ==================================================================== Chelsea Starr, ABD | http://www.no-fi.com/orbit (Canis meus id comedit) | cstarr@orion.oac.uci.edu Social Relations, University of California, Irvine ==================================================================== ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 08:40:27 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Finding syllabi & other files (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 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, 12 Oct 1997 07:52:56 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Washington Subject: Proposed Call for Roundtable Participants Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Please post: > > "Who Owns the Language of Struggle: Have Lesbians and Gays > Appropriated the Language of Civil Rights?" > > > Call for Roundtable Participants for Oswego, New York, > NWSA Meeting June 1998 > > > Anyone interested in being a part of a strutured roundtable discussion addressing the charge that lesbians and gay activists have co-opted the language of Civil Rights, please contact: Pat Washington: > Email: washing3@mail.sdsu.edu > > Contact by Friday, October 24, 1997 > > This roundtable is being sponsored by the Lesbian > Caucus as part of NWSA 1998 National Conference. > > For more information, please contact: > Pat Washington > washing3@mail.sdsu.edu > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 22:00:52 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Jennifer E. Ruocco" Subject: Seeking Students MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > ATTENTION: STUDENTS STUDYING SEXUALITY! > > > > We are seeking input from students who are currently being trained and/or > > educated in any academic discipline to work in the sexuality profession. > > For the purposes of this survey, we are defining 'sexuality profession' > > as those disciplines associated with sex therapy, human sexuality > > education, and/or sex research. We also define 'sexuality profession' as > > research/academic work associated with sexuality within your academic > > discipline (i.e. research of sexual orientation under a sociology > > department). This research project examines sexuality profession from a > > student's perspective, and we'd like to hear from you! > > > To participate in this survey, please send a *PRIVATE* request for a > copy of the questionnaire, with your email address to: > > jruocco@dolphin.upenn.edu > > > Please DO NOT reply to this message as it will be sent to > > the entire list. > > > If you have any questions about this project, please e-mail us. > > > > Thank you for your time and perspective. Your participation is greatly > > appreciated and valued. > > > > Jen Ruocco > > jruocco@dolphin.upenn.edu > > > > Ann Kolodji > > annkolod@dolphin.upenn.edu > > ------> Jen Ruocco <----- *jruocco@dolphin.upenn.edu* ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:25:25 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Thomason Subject: Re: lesbian avengers In-Reply-To: <199709101632.MAA29007@lessing.oit.umass.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Here are some web sites: SF Lesbian Avengers: http://www.lesbian.org/sfavengers/ Chicago Lesbian Avengers: http://www.lesbian.org/chicago-avengers/ Both sites talk about mission and (mostly local) history. The Chicago site has a link to the Lesbian Avengers Handbook: http://www.lesbian.org/chicago-avengers/avengerhandbook.html I've also come upon sites for the UK in the past but they didn't show up in my latest search. But these should give you info on the organization and places to find more info. Jackie >Does anyone have any information about a group called Lesbian >Avengers? Many thanks. >-- >====================== >Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Jacqueline Thomason 510-547-1518 jackiet@sirius.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 07:41:19 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L Job/Announcement Policy (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: ******************* 12) "MY UNIVERSITY HAS A JOB OPENING. MAY I POST AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON WMST-L?" WMST-L welcomes the posting of job and conference announcements, calls for papers, and the like, as long as the announcement has some explicit connection to Women's Studies. Announcements without such a connection should NOT be sent to WMST-L. The wish to reach more female candidates, however laudable, is NOT adequate reason to post non-Women's-Studies announcements. Heavy mail volume is a persistent problem on WMST-L; the list cannot accommodate the increased volume that a more liberal posting policy would bring. (Keep in mind that each year, there are literally thousands of academic job openings. Most institutions wish to show that they have tried to reach female and minority applicants. Whereas some commercial publications charge hundreds of dollars to carry even a small ad, WMST-L is free. Thus, unless we restrict postings, the list is likely to be INUNDATED with job announcements.) ************************ Each month, I post sections from the WMST-L User's Guide to remind subscribers of the list's resources and procedures. If changes have been made since the last time a section was posted, the subject header will begin "Revision:". Also, you can now consult the User's Guide anytime you'd like if you have access to 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, 13 Oct 1997 12:01:31 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Susan B. Marine" Subject: looking for video- Not Bad for a Girl? Hello, I'm looking for a video copy or a distribution firm for the documentary "Not Bad Fora Girl". It is a video made in 1996 (I believe) about feminist punk/ rock music aka "riot grrl" bands. Please email me privately, thanks susan susan.marine@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:45:48 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: NWSA 1998 CFP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Several people have requested that I post the CFP for the 1998 NWSA on WMST-L. So here it is: FOUNDATIONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Scholarship, Activism, Community June 10-14, 1998 SUNY-Oswego Oswego, New York One hundred and fifty years after 68 women and 32 men assembled in Seneca Falls, New York, to sign a Declaration of Sentiments that initiated a new, activist phase of the women's rights movement, the National Women's Studies Association convenes in nearby Oswego to ponder that legacy on the eve of a new millenium. What provides the underlying base or support from which women's studies and the NWSA can move confidently into the twenty-first century? Have we a fund of knowledge to draw on? A history of direct vigrous action in support of women and girls? Are we a body of persons with a common history or interests? As a scholarly field, where is women's studies now? Are we a unified "discipline?" Should we be? What can we learn from reexamining our origins? Since women's experience, issues, and realities color and pervade other academic disciplines, what is distinctive about women's studies scholarship? How critical is the existence of women's studies programs/departments to feminist scholars in the university? How thoroughly has feminist scholarship been integrated into the traditional disciplines? To the extent that feminist scholarship has been integrated into the disciplines, has it been coopted into being less critical and potentially transformative? Twenty-five years ago, women's studies was conceived as "the academic arm of the women's movement." What is the relationship, today, of women's studies to the community? What is the relationship between feminist theory and praxis? Has scholarship informed activism? Has activism shaped scholarship? What has happened to the women's movement, or--as bell hooks prefers--to feminist movement? Why, after a presence of almost 30 years in the academy and on the streets, do most people (including state commissioners of higher education) not know what women's studies is? Who comprises "the women's studies community?" Have we discrete and/or overlapping communities: communities of scholars, learning communities, disciplinary and metadisciplinary communities, issues-oriented communities? What models of collaboration, coalition, and governance have we developed? "Women's Rights Around the World: Past, Present, and Future" is the title of the embedded conference, cosponsored with Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York. Questions to be explored include: What theoretical perspectives inform rights language(s)? How do languages of rights translate in various cultures? Can an international community create common language? What has been/is the role of international organizations like the United Nations in expanding, protecting, and defining women's rights? What are the costs of women's rights activism? How can/does an international community of women's rights activists support and encourage each other? To observe the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention, theorists, scholars, and activists are invited to explore the legacy, advance the agenda, and create the networks to sustain women's rights activism into the twenty-first century. Conference plenaries are organized around four major topics: The Politics of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Communities; Feminist Science Education: Towards Interdisciplinary Knowledge and Practice; Beyond the Sex Wars: Sex Work and Feminism into the 21st Century; and Activism. We invite proposals from teachers, students, scholars, activists, and community and cultural workers that address the issues raised by both the general and embedded conference themes, or by the plenary topics. We particularly welcome presentations about women's studies administration, curriculum, scholarship, pedagogy, academic politics, feminist theory, and the relationships between our theory and our practice, our personal and our professional lives, our scholarship and our experience of personal and work relationships. We encourage interdisciplinary papers as well as presentations from all fields in the humanities, the natural and social sciences, the creative and performing arts, health, law, social work, education, community development, and other professional and paraprofessional fields. Proposals may be submitted for individual papers, panels, workshops, and roundtables. A panel is composed of three to four individual papers presenting theoretical issues or research data organized around a common theme pertaining to any women's studies field. A workshop is an in-depth presentation designed to share skills, knowledge, and/or experience in a new area of women's studies. In a roundtable, presenters offer ideas and facilitate group discussion on problems of mutual concern, focusing on new ideas and problem solving. Pre-arranged panels will have a better chance of acceptance than individual proposals, workshops, and roundtables. NWSA Conference 1997 Proposal Deadline: November 1 PLENARY TOPICS THE POLITICS OF GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDERED COMMUNITIES On the eve of the twenty-first century, how fully integrated into local, national, and international communities are lesbians and gay men? Is such integration desirable? What alternative communities have been developed by queer identities and politics? What is or ought to be the relationship between lesbian studies and women's studies? Between queer theory and feminist theory? How do intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual preference inform feminist theory? How can women's studies faculty continue to integrate material on lesbian and gay lives into our classes? What do the politics of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered struggles tell us about the social construction of gender? Is being "out" in the classroom a dilemma or a duty? How can gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered student and teacher activists work together to end homophobia in our colleges and high schools? Can gay/straight student alliances help transform pain to pride? What role can coalition politics play in addressing the needs of queer students? How can we make our schools safe for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered teens? What role does school play in growing up lesbian? FEMINIST SCIENCE EDUCATION: TOWARDS INTERDISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE How do language and cultural values affect the understanding and production of scientific knowledge? Is scientific knowledge "situated knowledge?" What can women's studies scholars and scientists learn from (and teach) each other? How do feminist theory and pedagogy operate in the science classroom? What are specific processes that foster the integration of feminist theory and practice and how can these processes be implemented in the science classroom? What classroom activities will encourage students to situate science in historical and socio-political contexts? Can the science classroom become a site of transformative learning, motivating students and teachers alike to undertake environmental, social, and political action? Can feminist science education become an arena in which theory and practice combine to effect social change? BEYOND THE SEX WARS: SEX WORK AND FEMINISM INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY How can we move beyond the pro-sex/anti-sex debates in feminist analyses of the sex industry and sexuality? How can understand the application of new technologies to the commodification of sexuality? Do feminist critiques still make sense now that cybersex on the internet allows for a diversity of sexual fantasies that do not fit traditional gender hierarchies? What can women's studies scholars and sex workers learn from each other? How do we create a praxis that breaks down a divide between sex workers and academics? What is the line between sex work and other commodified forms of sex in contemporary culture? ACTIVISM What does activism mean in a feminist context? How, throughout history and in various countries and communities, have women organized to protest, to effect social change, or to preserve the status quo? Around which issues have they organized? Are there particular forms of activism that women have historically engaged in? What encourages activism? Do icons, images, actions inspire others? How do media limit and expand activist options? Are women's ways of working for social change different from men's ways? What has been women's experience in mixed-sex organizations or social protest movements? What is the relationship between activism and female/feminist consciousness? How does activism transfer to different groups and generations? What have been the political, economic, and social consequences of collective protest for women in different cultures and societies and at different moments in history? Send proposals for sessions or individual presentations, postmarked by November 1, 1997, to: Beatrice Thompson, Conference Coordinator 529-A Sooner Drive Norman, OK 73072 e-mail: bthompson@ou.edu IMPORTANT: Each proposal will be acknowledged as received. When a proposal has been accepted, a letter will be sent to each presenter, informing her or him of the NECESSITY of being a MEMBER OF NWSA and of REGISTERING for the conference. WOMEN'S RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE An Embedded Conference of the 1998 National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference June 10-14, 1998 Oswego, New York From Seneca Falls to Beijing, numerous conventions, summits, and meetings for the rights of women have taken place. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention, the embedded conference, "Women's Rights Around the World," focuses on the construction of the identities "woman" and "rights," fully recognizing that rights-based strategies have been hotly contested and that definitions of "woman" and "rights" change over time. This embedded conference will explore the relevance of rights and rights talk to shaping women's experiences of inclusion, seclusion, and exclusion in ethnic groups, regions, nation states, and continents around the world. It will celebrate leaders of women's rights movements and interrogate the practices that are successful in defining and defending women's rights. Realizing that definitions of "women" and "rights" are not universal, it seeks to gather many voices together to understand strategies, philosophies, successes, and failures. We envision a richness of workshops, sessions, speakers, and presentations that will match the richness of women's activism world-wide. Participants are invited to reflect upon and explore such questions as the following: How have women engaged in human rights struggles, past and present? What role does feminism play in women's activism on their own behalf? Are there common agendas that women in various countries can pursue? Are particular strategies, languages, and actions effective at particular moments? In what contexts are rights-based arguments successful in achieving rights for women? In what ways are they constraining? Does the equation of women's rights and human rights assist in moving forward an agenda for women? For more information on the embedded conference, contact: Vivien Rose 1998 Embedded Conference Committee Chair Women's Rights National Historical Park Seneca Falls, NY 13148 (315) 568-0007 e-mail: VIVIEN_ROSE@NPS.GOV Ellen Cronan Rose, Director, Women's Studies Program, UNLV 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5055 PHONE (702) 895-0838, FAX (702) 895-0850 ecrose@nevada.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:05:51 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pamela McClure Subject: Re: critque of Promise keepers In-Reply-To: <199710102114.RAA00967@host.warwick.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Yes, it is that "no one knows where to place a finger on that map" feeling about the PKs that makes me nervous. A friend of mine remarked that she didn't trust them because "they don't read feminist theory" which is a lot to ask, yes? It's a strangely nebulous group. The God to man, man to woman stance that they take is where I begin to frame my argument . . .at least to my students. It would be interesting to query some of the women in the wings of the movement . . . Pamela McClure Dr. Pamela McClure engpm@showme.missouri.edu "Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea." Dylan (not Bob) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:47:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Anderson Subject: women's names Comments: cc: lmc94002@uconnvm.uconn.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" i am posting this for a student; please respond to her, not me. thanks. I am looking for names of women who have died from illegal abortions for a consciousness raising project i am doing at the University of Connecticut, Storrs campus. I will put the names on cardboard headstones and place them on the student union mall where many students and others will see them. please contact me as soon as possible, as the installation will go up next week. thank you. Lynn Callilng lmc94002@uconnvm.uconn.edu * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Linda L. Anderson tel: 203/432-0845 Women's Studies Program fax: 203/432-8475 Yale University email: linda.anderson@yale.edu P.O. Box 208319, 315 WLH New Haven, CT 06520-8319 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:15:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Dr. Nancy Jabbra" Subject: promise keepers women Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It occurs to me that women who subscribe to the Promise Keepers belief system are those who, like the men, are what Rebecca Klatch, in her book on the new right, called social conservatives. As such, they believe that men and women are essentially different. Thus, in their view it's both entirely appropriate, and indeed supported by Christian scripture, for women and men to have different roles in society and for women to be subordinate to men. Nancy Jabbra Loyola Marymount University njabbra@popmail.lmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:29:13 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jace Condravy Subject: Looking for Berkshire Conference Panel Participant Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am posting this for a friend not on the list. Please respond to her privately. Her address is jaclyn.gier@sru.edu. Thank you I'm trying to pull together a panel for the >Berkshire Conference, (proposals are due January 1998 for the 1999.)Although >the conference is in women's history, interdisciplinary approaches which >include women's historical experience are welcome. > >I have one friend at U. of Pitt. (in Russian Lit) who is interested in >giving a paper on representations of women in Russian women's magazines from >the 19th C., I'm planning a piece on the representations of women in British >labour and working class publications; we are looking for one other paper, a >chair, and a commentator. Any ideas welcome. Jace Condravy English Dept. Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock, PA 16057 jace.condravy@sru.edu "Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning." Kate Millet ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:57:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith Subject: Re: promise keepers women MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT There is a sort of "ladies auxilliary" of the Promise Keepers called Heritage Keepers, and a similar group called Suitable Helpers. I know the Heritage Keepers are having rallies similar to the Promise Keepers. There was one in Indianapolis last month. They planned a conference here in Portland for November 1st but it was cancelled due to lack of interest. There is a whole website called "Women of the Promise Keepers," although I cannot remember the site address right now. Christine Smith csmith@axpvm1.cis.pitt.edu casmith@lclark.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:08:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Rogers Subject: Re: promise keepers women MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I believe there is an affiliated women's group called the Heritage = Keepers. I tried to search for it on Yahoo! And pulled up mostly PK = sites and church bulletins. Beth Rogers nrogers@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:45:21 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trudy Mercer Subject: Thank you WMST-L--Hurston reviews Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I am so swamped that I haven't taken time to post everyone individually to thank you all for the valuable information on Zora Neale Hurston & her early reviewers. I now have a nice selection of materials that will help me locate the reception of her work historically. Now I will actually have time to read everything! The members of this list are always so helpful and supportive that I want to make sure that I at least make a public thank you to let you know how valuable you are to me. Also, I haven't forgotten that I promised to send a compliation of infor on the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus query I sent out some time ago. As soon as I dig out from under this pile I'll get it posted. I have a compilaton of URLs on Hurston that I've prepared as part of a handout for our seminar. I'll send it along in a second post. Once again, thank you. Trudy Mercer tmercer@sprintmail.com tmercer@u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:45:23 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trudy Mercer Subject: Hurston URLs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Web Pages dedicated to Zora Neal Hurston Conjured Into Being: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching = God- an essay by Rita Hooks. http://splavc.spjc.cc.fl.us/hooks/zora.html Genius of the South:Novelist, Folklorist, Anthropologist. This page = contains links of interest on African American Studies. A page by = Cheryl L. Coward containing biographic and bibliographic information = about Hurston, and links to sites pertaining to her on the World Wide = Web. http;//www.geocities.com/SoHo/3035/hurston.html Hurston, Zora Neale [kip] - renowned African-American = novelist/anthropologist; features story excerpts, photos, = information, essays, links. http://pages.prodigy.com/zora/ Chronology of Zora Neal Hurston's life including publication dates, = personal events, work with Langston Hughes and dates of research = trips. This link is available from "information" link on Kip's page = (above). http://pages.prodigy.com/zora/zchronol.htm Hurston, Zora Neale. Maintained by Tim Gallaher. http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gallaher/hurston/hurston.html Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. Information = about the annual festival celebrating the work of Zora Neal Hurston. = (Eatonville, Florida). http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~zora/ Sweat - critical studies of Hurston's work, "Sweat". "Narrative Strategy in Hurston's 'Sweat'" by Rachel Miller. http://www.as.wvu.edu/~ginsberg/sweat.htm Wired for Books: Community Reconsidered - an interactive book = dicussion site featuring RealAudio programs about the fiction of = Raymond Carver, Zora Neale Hurston, Leo Tolstoy, and Toni Morison. http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/hurston.ram Perspectives on Gossip - selections from Ogden Nash, Richard Brinsley = Sheridan and Zora Neale Hurston that present differing views of = gossip. http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/jbrutlag/gossip.htm Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color Home page with biography, bibliography and many good links to other = home pages dedicated to Zora Neal Hurston. This page was researched = and submitted by: Laurie Dickinson on 9/12/96 http://www-engl.cla.umn.edu/lkd/vfg/Authors/ZoraNealeHurston A Celebration of Women Writers. Maintained by Mary Mark Ockerbloom http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/celebration.ht= ml Harlem Renaissance: >From PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide. An Online Ongoing Project, =A9Paul P. = Reuben. "Chapter 9: Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937" (Also known as the = "New Negro Movement"). This site contains links to Hurston, Du Bois, = Hughes, Alain Locke and many others. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/chap9.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:29:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 announcements (inc. 1 job) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following two announcements may interest WMST-L readers: 1) Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies 2) Job: Asst. Prof. of Women's Studies, Beloit College For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) List members are invited to visit and contribute to the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies . Established in January 1997, RCCS is a not-for-profit organization devoted to providing resources and materials to students, teachers, journalists, writers, artists, activists, and creators of cyberculture. Among the newer resources are: * A book-of-the-month section featuring extensive book reviews of cyberculture-related titles, including this month's selection: Janet Murray's _Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace_; * A set of links to over 90 online syllabi for college/university-level courses on cyberculture, gender and technology, and virtual communities; * A set of online interviews with such noted digerati as Sherry Turkle and Allucquere Rosanne (aka Sandy) Stone; * An extensive annotated bibliography revolving primarily around the topics of virtual communities, community networks, and virtual identities. Feel free to distribute this message as far and wide as you wish. For more information, contact: David Silver, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies PhD Student, American Studies, University of Maryland rccs@otal.umd.edu ************************************************************************ WOMEN'S STUDIES TENURE-TRACK POSITION Beloit College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Women's Studies, starting fall 1998. Specialization within Women's Studies open, exclusive of U.S. or European history and English. Preference given to individuals able to enhance international or multicultural aspects of the curriculum. Individuals with backgrounds in natural or social sciences are especially encouraged to apply, although applicants from all disciplines will be considered. Will teach six courses per year, at least four exclusive to Women's Studies at the introductory and advanced levels. Qualifications: PhD; graduate training or extensive experience in Women's Studies; demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence; desire to work in a liberal arts setting; clear research strength in feminist studies; capacity to serve in all-College programs. The Women's Studies Program was established in 1984 and offers a major and a minor. Beloit College is a select liberal arts college enrolling 1200 students. It is located on the Wisconsin/Illinois border close to Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison. The college is committed to a diverse community, and urges applications from all interested persons. Candidates should send a letter of interest, C.V., a writing sample, transcript, and three letters of recommendation to Sonja Darlington, Beloit College, 700 College Street, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511, by January 1, 1998. Inquiries: 608-363-2324. AA/EEO Employer Kim Kline, Secretary Department of Education Beloit College 700 College St. Beloit, WI 53511 Phone:(608)363-2325 FAX: (608)363-2718 e-mail: klinek@beloit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:40:50 +0000 Reply-To: j.van-every@bham.ac.uk Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Dr J Van-Every Subject: feminist theory MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I concur with others in regretting the action Ruth feels she needs to take and would like to add my two cents about the problem. I see it as a symptom of a wider problem about interdisciplinarity. In my experience those of us teaching women's studies are usually trained in a discipline and have moved into women's studies (this is confirmed by some of the discussions on the list about job prospects for graduates of newish PhD programmes in WS). The disciplinary background influences the way we see/do women's studies. While we all talk a lot about interdisciplinarity we don't actually seem to discuss the difficulties. What exactly is it? And how do we (as individuals) do truly interdisciplinary work? (this links into various discussions about introducing material that we are not really that familiar with...) Anyway, when I taught a Feminist Theory course a couple of years ago it was an option in the Sociology dept. That meant that the focus of the course was on theoretical debates relevant to feminist sociology. But the organizing principle of the course might be useful for others. I taught it around 'debates' in feminist theory. I imagine that in a more interdisciplinary setting debates about 'French Feminism' (for example) could be used or even debates about 'postmodern feminism'. The advantage of focusing on debates is that it gets students thinking about theory as a series of ongoing discussions rather than a fixed body of stuff that everyone agrees on. It also enables you to demonstrate to the students that there is no agreement on what a Feminist Theory course should include. If you're interested in the syllabus for my course (a couple of years old now), it is in theWMST-l file. Dr. Jo VanEvery Dept. of Cultural Studies and Sociology University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom 0121-414-3730 0121-414-6061 (fax) J.Van-Every@bham.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:17:13 +0900 Reply-To: acwsewha@mm.ewha.ac.kr Sender: Women's Studies List From: acwsewha Organization: Ewha Womans University Subject: Call for Papers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="CALL FOR PAPERS.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CALL FOR PAPERS ASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUDIES Asian Center for Women's Studies Ewha Womans University Seoul, Republic of Korea The Asian Journal of Women's Studies (AJWS) is an interdisciplinary journal, publishing articles pertaining to women's issues in Asia and the international context from a feminist perspective. The first edition of the journal was published in May, 1995 to mark the opening of the Asian Center for Women's Studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. From 1997 this is to be published four times every year. This journal welcomes from international sources the submission of articles, book reviews and commentaries with regard to all aspects of women's issues, including sexuality, labor, cultural and political issues, especially in Asian context. However, we do welcome contributions on women's and gender issues pertaining to all other parts of the worlds. The editors encourage contributors to demonstrate the highest standards of excellence in conceptualization, exposition, methodology and craftsmanship. INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS : All papers considered appropriate to this journal are reviewed anonymously and authors can be requested to make revisions. Manuscripts already submitted to other journals or published elsewhere, are not considered for this journal. Manuscripts must be in English, typed in double-space, and on one side of A4 paper only. In general, the AJWS considers papers of no more that 30 pages in length. Contributors are requested to send a hard copy and, if possible, a copy on a 3.5" diskette, in MS WORD or WORD PERPECT 5.1 or by e-mail. Manuscripts submitted are not returned to the contirubutor. Submission deadlines for the quarterly issues are as follows: Vol 3 (1997) no. 4 : November 30, 1997 Vol 4 (1998) no. 1 : February 28, 1998 Vol 4 (1998) no. 2 : May 31, 1998 CORRESPONDENCE : Papers, book review, letters, information, news, notes, and other correspondence should be sent to the Editor. MAILING ADDRESS: Editor, Asian Journal of Women's Studies Asian Center for Women's Studies Ewha Womans University Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea Phone 82-2-360-2150 Fax 82-2-360-2577 E-mail address : acwsewha@mm.ewha.ac.kr ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:11:14 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Celia C Winkler Subject: Kitchen Tables MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I apologize for cluttering the list. I seem to have deleted the request for assistance with the term, "Kitchen Table ..." I do not know if this is the origin of the term, but Marianne Gullestad's 1984 book was entitled "Kitchen-Table Society: A case study of the family life and friendships of young working-class mothers in urban Norway" as a borrowing of William Foote Whyte's "Street Corner Society." In note 2 to the introduction, Gullestad writes, "The scene of female friends gathering around the kitchen-table of one of them and discussing their lives has given the book its title." There may be some clues in the book as to other uses of the term "kitchen table..." Celia Winkler Department of Sociology University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-1047 Office: (406) 243-5863 Fax: (406) 243-5951 cwinkler@selway.umt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:06:31 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Janet S. Gray" Subject: CFP: "Workin' It" The deadline has been extended to 15 January 1998 for a special issue of _Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture_ titled "Workin' It." We are looking for scholarship, criticism, and theory as well as creative visual and written work. Some topic triggers: * Robo-Genders * Bodies at Work * Sex Without Bodies * Patents and Paternity * Whoredom and Hustling * Professing Gender Studies * (Un)faithful Reproductions * Women's Work Shame Power * Affective Labor: What a Drag * Performing Selves Performing Jobs * Gender and Work: Terminal / Interminable * Working the Runway, Working the Racks * Putting Her All Together: Gender and the Assembly Line Manuscripts should be prepared following the Chicago Manual and two copies sent with SASE to: Lisa Fluet and Paul Kelleher, editors CRITICAL MATRIX Program in Women's Studies Princeton University 113 Dickinson Princeton NJ 08544 Inquiries: matrix@princeton.edu - Janet Gray, managing editor jsgray@pucc.princeton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:50:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Bystydzienski Subject: Graduate Programs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A former student of mine just contacted me asking for advice about graduate programs in Sociology/Women's Studies that combine international development, collective/social movements, sex and gender, and possibly cultural sociology. This student has been working for the past few years for a development group that sent her to various parts of the world to manage international development projects. Ultimately,she would like to combine teaching and research with applied field work. The recent discussion on women in development leads me to believe that there are people on this list that may be affiliated with graduate programs of interest to this student. If you are in or know of such programs please contact me privately. Thank you. Jill Bystydzienski Department of Sociology and Women's Studies Program Franklin College Franklin, IN 46131 BYSTYDJ@Franklincoll.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 14:22:55 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Schweitzer Subject: Re: promise keepers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I find the easiest way to start into a discussion about what the Proomise Keepers really mean is to take some of their literature and reverse genders. What if it had been thousands of wives descending upon Washington, leaving their children behind, making the same promises? What would men have said? How do your students react to that proposition? Also, much of what the Promise Keepers are all about that is positive is simply respecting their wedding vows. Why can't they respect their wedding vows without all this hoopla? I appeal to men -- I say, those of you who ARE honest, who ARE faithful, who DO keep your vows -- don't you think this is all rather insulting? Whose choice is it for her to work? Why? Do they really think that most American families can make it today on a single income? What happens if he loses his job? What happens if she can get a job with benefits and he can't? The usual solution is both work -- so what does that mean within the household? Do you students think that they can make it on a single income? When they marry, is the wife going to stop working then and there? Are they saving so that they have money to cover the drop in income when she quits? Or are they buying CD's? Finally, I would ask -- what happens within the household when there is disagreement? Suppose she wants him to do the dishes and he wants to watch Monday Night Football because, "I have worked hard all day and all week and I did yard work all weekend and I deserve some rest." Who wins? Why? The house they live in, the neighborhood they live in, the money allocated toward a car, who gets the car, who gets free time for what? How do the Promise Keepers resolve such disputes? What if he wants sex and she's exhausted. Does she close her eyes and "think of England", as they used to say? Sure, he's not supposed to push it on her -- but she's not supposed to say no in the first place. That's her Duty. If she is a Good Wife, and keeps her promises, without having to go to Washington and make a big deal over it, and he changes his mind in 10 years when the kids are older, and breaks his, what will be her fate? If you want to get religious about this, there is a different group called "Marriage Encounter" that is based upon holding marriages together -- but it is joint counseling, joint discussions, joint understanding. Marriage as a partnership. I come from a long line of farm families who believed in marriage as a partnership, and I have a partnership marriage. The Promise Keepers intrude on that partnership, take the man away, have him make promises to other men, leave the woman alone in her relationship -- for no one to REALLY know what goes on behind those doors. Oh, this is nothing new. We've been there, done that. Mary Schweitzer, Dept. of History/Women's Studies, Villanova Univ. (on indefinite medical leave since Jan 1995) mailto:schweit2@ix.netcom.com http://pw1.netcom.com/~schweit2/home.html ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:38:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Nupur D Chaudhuri Subject: cfp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I will appreciate if you circulate the following CALL FOR PAPER ANNOUNCEMENT. Thank you. Sincerely, Nupur Chaudhuri, History Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, nupurc@ksu.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:14:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Nupur D Chaudhuri Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: 1998 NWSA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In view of the fact that the Call for Proposals for NWSA 1998 has been late getting circulated, we are extending the deadline for receipt of proposals from November 1 to November 15 (postmarked no later than November 10). Please send proposals to: Beatrice Thompson, Conference Coordinator University of Oklahoma PO Box 3058 Norman, OK 73072-3058 e-mail: bthompson@ou.edu Important: Each proposal will be acknowledged as received. When a proposal has been accepted, a letter will be sent to each presenter, informing her or him of the necessity of being a member of NWSA and of registering for the conference. Ellen Cronan Rose, Director, Women's Studies Program, UNLV 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5055 PHONE (702) 895-0838, FAX (702) 895-0850 ecrose@nevada.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:21:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diana Humphrey Subject: Indiana University's Office of Women's Affairs is searching for a Dean DEAN, OFFICE OF WOMEN#S AFFAIRS INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA The Bloomington campus of Indiana University is seeking applications and nominations for the position of Dean for Women#s Affairs. Responsibilities: The Dean is responsible for enhancing opportunities for women on campus by serving as an advocate for women students, staff and faculty; helping resolve grievances and complaints; dealing with sexual harassment, assault and personal safety issues; providing information, support and interventions about matters such as salary, promotion and tenure, career development, workplace conflict, and educational opportunities; and performing other related duties. Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have a record of research and teaching appropriate for tenure. A record of administrative effectiveness and leadership is also required. The candidate should demonstrate an ability to work with diverse interest groups and have a demonstrated commitment to women#s issues. Environment: The Bloomington campus of Indiana University, founded in 1820, has 35,000 students, 1,539 faculty and 6,500 staff. The Office for Women#s Affairs, which the Dean oversees, was established in 1972. Eight people report to the Dean. The Dean reports directly to the Chancellor/Vice President of the Bloomington Campus. For further information about Indiana University visit its Web site at www.indiana.edu/iub. For further information about the Office for Women#s Affairs visit its Web site at www.indiana.edu/~owa/ The suggested starting date is July 1, 1998. Applications and nominations should be received before December 1, 1997. Applicants should send a detailed letter of interest, a full vita, and names of three references to: Dean Search Committee Indiana University School of Business 1309 East 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405 Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Women and minorities are urged to apply. If you have questions, please e-mail Diana Humphrey, humphre@indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:18:19 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Amy Speer Subject: *NWSA Journal* Deadline for Affirmative Action Special Issue Comments: To: Margaret McFadden MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER THE DEADLINE FOR THE *NWSA JOURNAL* SPECIAL ISSUE ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WAS EXTENDED TO NOV. 1ST. This deadline is now two weeks away and we would like to hear your voice. If you have questions concerning this issue, need an extension or would like another copy of the Call for Papers, please respond privately to: Amy Speer Managing Editor, *NWSAJ* speeraw@appstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:27:45 -0400 Reply-To: "jgrant@tui.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Organization: The Union Institute Subject: Re: *NWSA Journal* Deadline for Affirmative Action Special Issue Amy: I'd like to submit this for the affirmative action issue. Thanks. Jaime COMMENTARY by Jaime M. Grant I keep reading that the national "consensus" on affirmative action is eroding, as if civil rights have ever been gained by consensus in this country. If we'd waited for a "consensus" on desegregation, we'd still be waiting. What's truly eroding is any kind of real leadership from the top (Congress, the Administration, the courts) about the critical importance of affirmative action in opening doors that remain firmly closed to white women and all people of color. The current rhetoric posits that affirmative action programs provide an unfair advantage to "a certain group" (read: African Americans) and thus are "tearing us apart as a nation." The truth is, white racism is tearing us apart, and the tragedy is that despite decades of affirmative action policies, there has been little effect on white male hegemony at the top of corporate, university, military, non-profit, (insert arena here) power structures. In an effort to suggest that the work of affirmative action is over, conservatives cite statistics claiming gains for women and people of color over the last decade, hard won gains that are a direct result of affirmative action officers across the nation toiling against the tide. But let's be serious. Look at the CEO make-up of the top five hundred corporations. The managing partner profiles at the top 500 law firms. The presidential profile of the top 100 universities. White men continue to fill over 92% of these positions while constituting 33% of the full population. This, amidst endless howling about the injustice of "reverse" racism. The conservative position is that "fairness" is at the bottom of the American cultural ethic, and any program that smacks of "preference" is bound to fail. At a conference three years ago, I engaged in a heated debate with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia about this issue. He opposed affirmative action on the grounds that it "robs" white women and all people of color of the opportunity to compete "fairly" with white men, negatively impacting both our self-esteem and our actual performance. Because he has achieved great success out of working class origins, he imagines that he has done so strictly on merit. But when Justice Scalia graduated law school, Justice O'Connor was also graduating from Stanford Law at the top of her class and could not find a law firm interested in her. The reality is that Justice Scalia has never had to compete fairly with his female peers or his peers of color. He has benefited from the white break and the male break his entire life (and his self-esteem appears remarkably intact nonetheless). His privilege has shielded him from ever having to consider this, and like many of his peers, he finds legal remedies to such tenacious discrimination distasteful. Today, the persistence of a supermajority of white men in positions of power demands that we as a nation continue to pursue policies that enable women and people of color to compete fairly for these positions. While I am of the belief that those in power are very consciously holding on to it, some suggest that it is unconsciously held attitudes, rather than heavy-handed racist and sexist beliefs, that account for the disparities that persist. Whatever the case, it is clear that people in power continue to hire people like themselves as successors. Without affirmative action programs to impose consideration of a wider pool of applicants, we can hope for little change. In my ten years of advocacy work in feminist, gay and lesbian, and public interest organizations, I have heard movement leaders defend their inaction on the issue of diversifying leadership with speeches that amount to "despite our best intentions, we have not yet hired [women or people of color] into the ranks of our leadership." But we must not evaluate our hiring practices on the basis of our intentions. Affirmative action calls whites to be accountable for the results of our hiring practices. And despite decades of working within these guidelines, our results remain shameful. Within the my sphere of peers, for example, the directors of all (70+) but a few of the national research center's on women and gender, and the directors of all but a few of the women's studies programs in this entire country remain overwhelmingly white (over 90%). This is the track record within an arena where anti-racist rhetoric abounds. If those of us who direct academic women's centers and women's studies programs would commit to hiring women of color as our successors, we could make a revolutionary change in the leadership base of women's/gender studies as a discipline. This would go a much longer way toward healing years of racist division in the women's movement than our endless touchy-feely diversity training sessions. When I asked Justice Scalia to explain the persistence of white male hegemony in major, power wielding institutions in this country, or even to comment on why nearly everyone at this conference was white, while all the people serving us were Black, he told me he couldn't account for people's aspirations. I assured him that the women changing our towels had aspirations beyond this hotel, and that there were women besides Justice O'Connor in his generation who possessed both the ambition and the talent to join him on his very exclusive bench (and it pleases me no end how clearly the new gal on the block, Justice Ginsburg, gets his goat on a regular basis). I looked into his eyes and realized that our discussion was having little affect, and that this man was going to make hundreds of decisions over the next several years that will negatively impact my life and the life of my children for generations. White feminists must ask ourselves, every day, in every hire, in every decision we make about how we frame feminist issues, craft our boards, and nurture leadership whether we are (perhaps unwittingly) supporting Scalia's version of the world, or creating a new path. Jaime M. Grant serves as director of The Union Institute Center for Women -----Original Message----- From: Amy Speer [SMTP:speeraw@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 1997 5:18 AM To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Subject: *NWSA Journal* Deadline for Affirmative Action Special Issue REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER THE DEADLINE FOR THE *NWSA JOURNAL* SPECIAL ISSUE ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WAS EXTENDED TO NOV. 1ST. This deadline is now two weeks away and we would like to hear your voice. If you have questions concerning this issue, need an extension or would like another copy of the Call for Papers, please respond privately to: Amy Speer Managing Editor, *NWSAJ* speeraw@appstate.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:36:04 -0400 Reply-To: "jgrant@tui.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Organization: The Union Institute Subject: apology Sorry that I posted my reply to Amy to the list. J. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:05:50 -0500 Reply-To: "cklewis@indiana.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Camille K. Lewis" Subject: Women and the Cold War MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there any evidence of a deliberate campaign to get women back in the home after WWII? All those Rosies were out making tanks and cars--certainly something had to change them into Lucys and Junes. Any ideas? Thanks. Camille Kaminski Lewis Indiana University Communication and Culture cklewis@indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:39:48 -0500 Reply-To: "cklewis@indiana.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Camille K. Lewis" Subject: History of Changing Roles MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a former student who's looking for a general survey of women's changing roles in America. I have a few sources, but they are not too recent, and I don't pursue these kinds of generalities anymore. Any ideas? Thanks. Camille Lewis Indiana University Communication and Culture cklewis@indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:50:10 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katherine Side Subject: Re: Women and the Cold War Comments: To: "Camille K. Lewis" In-Reply-To: <01BBBA95.862844A0.cklewis@indiana.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Camille K. Lewis wrote: For examples in Great Britain, read Denise Riley's War in the Nursery. Katherine Side kside@acs.ryerson.ca Department of Sociology Ryerson Polytechnic University Toronto, Ontario Canada > Is there any evidence of a deliberate campaign to get women back in the > home after WWII? All those Rosies were out making tanks and > cars--certainly something had to change them into Lucys and Junes. Any > ideas? > > Thanks. > > Camille Kaminski Lewis > Indiana University > Communication and Culture > cklewis@indiana.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:04:38 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ruby Rohrlich Subject: Re: Women and the Cold War Comments: To: "Camille K. Lewis" In-Reply-To: <01BBBA95.862844A0.cklewis@indiana.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Why yes, something did change lthem back into Lucys and Junes; they were fired from their jobs, which were given to returning G.I.s Ruby Rohrlich rohrlich@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Camille K. Lewis wrote: > Is there any evidence of a deliberate campaign to get women back in the > home after WWII? All those Rosies were out making tanks and > cars--certainly something had to change them into Lucys and Junes. Any > ideas? > > Thanks. > > Camille Kaminski Lewis > Indiana University > Communication and Culture > cklewis@indiana.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 17:35:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne King Subject: Re: Women and the Cold War Comments: To: "Camille K. Lewis" In-Reply-To: <01BBBA95.862844A0.cklewis@indiana.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Camille: I would say there was a definite campaign. The women were fired from their jobs. See the film "Rosie the Riveter"--a classic--for some ways women's lives were forcibly changed. I was one of these. You've given me some ideas about trying to analyze this problem seriously. It took me years to figure out that we were being conned into *kinde kuche kirche*--which we thought we'd escaped! On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Camille K. Lewis wrote: > Is there any evidence of a deliberate campaign to get women back in the > home after WWII? All those Rosies were out making tanks and > cars--certainly something had to change them into Lucys and Junes. Any > ideas? > > Thanks. > > Camille Kaminski Lewis > Indiana University > Communication and Culture > cklewis@indiana.edu > Anne Mills King Prince George's Community College Largo, Maryland 20774 301-322-0594 FAX 301-808-0418 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:30:35 -0500 Reply-To: "cklewis@indiana.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Camille K. Lewis" Subject: Re: Women and the Cold War MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think I need to be more specific. While the women's magazines in the 40s (then being taken over by men) quite obviously presented the newly domesticated woman and women were fired from their jobs, I'm pursuing a more deliberate governmental campaign. I mean, the people on the Bikini Atoll were "happy" to be leaving their home so the US could nuke it. Enlisted men were convinced that running into a nuclear explosion wouldn't hurt them at all. This is how the government convinced us that the Bomb was moral and welcome. Was there are such propaganda to try to convince women that they should be "happy" to be wholly domestic? Thanks again. Camille Lewis Indiana University Communication and Culture cklewis@indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:14:40 -0500 Reply-To: "cklewis@indiana.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Camille K. Lewis" Subject: Cold War Campaign at Women MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thank you all for your ideas! I have a presentation tonight, and I just needed some ideas. You all came through. If you have any more suggestions, I still welcome them. I'm probably going to do a close textual analysis of one of these texts this semester, so I appreciate the brainstorming. Thanks! Camille Lewis Indiana University Communication and Culture cklewis@indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 18:38:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Amy L. Wink" Subject: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello everyone, I will be teaching a course in the Spring semester entitled Women's Voices/ Women's Lives: American Women's Autobiography and Life-Writing. In addition to the texts we will read in class, I will ask students to examine a text on their own. I am currently trying to compile a list for the students to choose from. I would like this list to have the additional purpose of showing students how many women have written an autobiography/ life narrative, and broadening their definition of "autobiography." I welcome suggestions from the list, and will submit the bibliography when it's done. I would be particularly interested in non-tradition autobiographies, such as diaries, letters, oral narratives, printed collections of self-portaits, etc. Thanks, Amy ****************** Dr. Amy L. Wink Department of English and Philosophy Stephen F. Austin State University P.O. Box 13007, SFA Station Nacogdoches, Tx 75962-3007 (409) 468-2007 awink@sfasu.edu 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: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 18:53:33 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Benay Blend Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Amy, I've just proposed to teach "Studies in Autobiography" next spring myself, so will be interested in what others contribute. My course will not focus on women, but I will probably use the Norton collection Women's Lives that I am using right now in Women's History. Other suggestions would be Bell-Scott, editor, Life Notes, and Madison, Ed., The Woman That I am, which has a section of personal narratives. Benay Blend blend@alpha.nsula.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 19:15:33 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing Comments: To: "Amy L. Wink" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I will come back and mention several more but right now I want to recommend several little known works by Claire Myers Owens (1896-1983). Students will prob. have to order from interlibrary loan but these are accounts of Owens' spiritual awakening, subsequent journey to enlightenment and eventual embrace of Zen. Very unusual stories and form -- worth analyzing. Not much exists on Owens -- I just finished a biography I want to get published. You asked for unusal and these are: (all by Claire Myers Owens) Awakening to the Good: Psychological or Religious. Boston:Christopher House 1958 Discovery of the Self. Boston: Christopher House 1963 Zen and the Lady. NY: Baraka 1979 If anyone chooses to work on her, have them contact me and I'll give them specific info. Sounds like a great class. Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. mharris@utdallas.edu 972/866-6711 ph. 214/630-1169 fx. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:25:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Winkler Organization: West Virginia Network Subject: Women and Cold War MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Camille Kaminski Lewis asked if there is any evidence of a _deliberate campaign_ to get women back into the home after WWII. (My emphasis added.) The film "Rosie the Riveter" shows that there was - at least on the basis of the propoganda films from the War Dept. And I understand that factory women were actually laid off/fired from their jobs. However, much of the cultural shift was more subtle - emphasis in magazines, movies, etc. on domesticity, life in the suburbs, "feminine" fashion. Two books I recommend are: Susan Douglas, _Where the Girls Are_ and Wini Breines, _Young, White, and Miserable_. I am using both in my course this semester on "Women and Popular Culture Since WWII." Barbara Scott Winkler, WVU Center for Women's Studies ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 17:46:30 -0700 Reply-To: jstarker@teleport.com Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Some thoughts: Autobiographies by Margaret Mead (Blackberry Winter) Life Notes ( edited by Bell-Scott) - which has already been mentioned Nancy Mair's "Plaintext: Essays - I read this years ago. I think she has MS. I also came across another possibility ( which I haven't read) but looks good: Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by 20th Century American Women Writers Also, some related books: Carolyn Heilbrun's Writing a Woman's Life Also Judith Barrington, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art Joan Starker, Ph.D. Lewis and Clark College jstarker@teleport.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 18:41:47 -0700 Reply-To: jstarker@teleport.com Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Another thought - With the Power of Each breath - a Disabled Women's Anthology by Susan E. Browne, Debra Connors, and Nanci Stern Joan Starker, Ph.D. Lewis and Clark College jstarker@teleport.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:49:02 +1300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Studies@ Massey University" Subject: Women's Studies courses available in 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MASSEY UNIVERSITY (NEW ZEALAND) WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAMME 1998 Excellence in teaching, flexible courses and a friendly environment. In 1998 we are offering the following courses both on campus and by distance education: international students are welcome. Check us out:http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwwms/ The BA major in Women's Studies required courses are: 70.101; 70.102; 70.201; 70.301; 70.302 and a further 15 points at 200-level and 30 points at 300-level from the list below. The Diploma required courses are: 70.701 and 70.702 and other approved courses to a further 45 points. The MA required courses are 70.701, 70.702, 70.704, 70.705 and a 100 point thesis. Required courses may be substituted with approval. The MPhil may be completed by thesis only. Postgraduate course entry requires a personal (or phone) interview with the Director prior to enrolment, preferably by mid-December in the preceding year. Enrolments in the doctoral programme in Women's Studies are available in selected areas. Further information is available from Dr. Lynne Alice, Director of Women's Studies, telephone 06 350 4938; email : L.C.Alice@massey.ac.nz KEY: (1) =first semester (2)=second semester (D)=double semester I/E=available internally and extramurally I=available internally only E=available extramurally only Undergraduate courses (Single semester) 70.101 Introduction to Women's Studies (1) I/E 70.102 Women of Ideas and Action (2) I/E 70.201 What is Feminism? (1) I/E 39.261 The Literature of Women (1) I (D) E 48.210 Women and History: Australia and New Zealand (2) I (D) E 50.203 Mana Wahine: Maori Women (2) I/E 68.233 Gender and Health (2) I/E 76.211 Women, Sex and Work (1) I/E 87.205 Women and Education (D) I/E 14.330 Equal Employment Opportunity: Policy and Procedures (2) I/E 14.358 Gender Issues in Organisations (1) E 39.361 The Literature of Women (1) I (D) E 46.307 The Cultural Construction of Gender (2) I (D) E 54.302 Gender and Media (1) I 70.301 Contested Feminisms (2) I/E 70.302 Research for Social Change (2) I/E 75.311 Psychology of Women (1) I/E 76.314 Women: Social Structure and Ideology (D) E Postgraduate Courses (Double Semester) 14.794 Special Topic: Gender Issues in Organisations (D) E 39.707 Feminist Literature and Theory (D) 39.759 Post-colonial Women's Writing (D) (I) 31.703 Gender and Development (2) I (D) E 68.707 Women and Health 70.701 Theoretical Perspectives in Women's Studies I/E 70.702 Research Methods in Women's Studies I/E 70.704 Advanced Feminist Theory :Bodies, gender and power I/E 70.707 Feminist Textual Subversions E 70.709 Feminisms and Queer Theories I/E 76.722 Women: Social Structure and Ideology (D) E 76.720 Postfeminism(s) and Cultural Forms (D) E 79.769 Women and the Social Services NA 1998 79.776 Women and Work (D) E 87.735 Women in Educational Organisations (D) I/E For enrolment forms, apply directly to the Enrolment Office, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North 5301, New Zealand. 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, 16 Oct 1997 07:11:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Miriam Harris Subject: women's autobiographies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Three other favorites that offer stimulating themes: Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments (mother/daughter) Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman " Stations of Solitude Someone mentioned Nancy Mairs -- all of herbooks are autobiog. and all deal with her progressive MS. Miriam K. Harris, Ph.D. mharris@utdallas.edu 972/866-6711 ph. 214/630-1169 fx. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:41:43 -0400 Reply-To: "jgrant@tui.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jaime Grant Organization: The Union Institute Subject: Re: women's autobiographies I don't know if this would work with your course, but I'd think about pairing Dorothy Allison's _Bastard Out of Carolina_ with her autobiographical text _One or Two Things I Know For Sure_. In the latter, she sifts through the truths of her life and how they feed the story in _Bastard_. Wonderful stuff. It's hard to say which of her 'voices' -- fictional or her non-fictional -- are more powerful or more 'true.' ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:16:31 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Trigg Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Although these are not nontraditional autobiographies, the following are women's autobiographies I have read and used in teaching: Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Mary Catherine Bateson, With A Daughter's Eye Mary Brave Bird, Ohitika Woman and Lakota Woman Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Jill Ker Conway, The Road From Coorain True North Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road Doris Lessing, Under My Skin Audre Lorde, Zami (this is nontraditional) Emma Mashinini, Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life Jill Nelson, Volunteer Slavery Gayle Pemberton, The Hottest Water in Chicago Ida B. Wells, Crusade For Justice Jean Fagan Yellin, ed., Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) Doris Grumbach, Extra Innings: A Memoir Annie Dillard, An American Childhood Madeleine L'Engle's three part autobiography Patricia Preciado Martin, Songs My Mother Sang to Me (nontraditional) James McBride, The Color of Water (Although written by a man, it's about his mother, and is a wonderful book) I hope these are helpful! Mary Trigg >******************* > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:43:19 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: hagolem Subject: girls and body image Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am posting this query for a woman who is not on this list. Answers should be sent to me and i will give them to her [her institution is switching providers and her email is not reliable at the moment]. The grade schools and middle school on the Outer Cape have purchased a Puberty Education Curriculum related to developing a positive, realistic body image during transition from children to puberty to adulthood. I am quoting the propaganda with the brochure for the curriculum. Typically, these days, no provision was made to fund the teaching of the purchased curriculum. My colleague has volunteered to teach the psychological area [her field of expertise], but while she is aware of many resources for adults and college students, she has no resources for girls around puberty. She has also found the curriculum deficient in any media analysis and analysis of the fashion industry, and would like to locate materials that would work for her target age group. Send replies by private email to me, please. I hope we can help her, as many girls, she has already discovered, are starving themselves in the fifth and sixth grades. marge piercy hagolem@capecod.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:39:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GILLIAN RODGER Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I'd highly recommend any of Miles Franklin's books (My Brilliant Career and My Career goes bung come to mind). The depict the problems of a young woman choosing not to follow traditional paths in early 20th c Australia and are based on her own experience. She has also written one based on her experience working as a journalist in the United States (I can't think of the title off-hand) that may be more accessible to an American audience. Gillian Rodger ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:58:02 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah Moreland moreland.utdallas.edu." Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Frida Kahlo's paintings tell her life story over and over again: more accurately, they represent her life in a variety of ways, creating many different contradictory identities. *The World of Frida Kahlo* contains a so-so biography of her; more interesting is the collection of her work in it. I would recommend it highly as a non-traditional autobiography. More traditional, but very interesting is Maxine Kingston's *The Woman Warrior,* and Samuel Delany's The Motion of Life in Water. The latter is concern a gay writer/artist coming of age in Greenwich Village in the 50s. Lorde's Zami and Woolf's various memoirs (esp. Sketch of the Past) are excellent. A small piece, really an essay, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack Up, included in his collection of essays called, I think, The Jazz Age. And Zelda Fitzgerald wrote Save Me the Waltz, her life story in fictional form, while hospitalized for mental illness in the early 30s. Hope these might help. Deborah Moreland University of Texas at Dallas On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Amy L. Wink wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I will be teaching a course in the Spring semester entitled Women's > Voices/ Women's Lives: American Women's Autobiography and Life-Writing. In > addition to the texts we will read in class, I will ask students to > examine a text on their own. I am currently trying to compile a list for > the students to choose from. I would like this list to have the additional > purpose of showing students how many women have written an autobiography/ > life narrative, and broadening their definition of "autobiography." I > welcome suggestions from the list, and will submit the bibliography > when it's done. I would be particularly interested in non-tradition > autobiographies, such as diaries, letters, oral narratives, > printed collections of self-portaits, etc. > > Thanks, > > Amy > > > ****************** > Dr. Amy L. Wink > Department of English and Philosophy > Stephen F. Austin State University > P.O. Box 13007, SFA Station > Nacogdoches, Tx 75962-3007 > (409) 468-2007 > awink@sfasu.edu > > 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: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:05:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Deborah Moreland moreland.utdallas.edu." Subject: Re: women's autobiographies Comments: To: Jaime Grant In-Reply-To: <01BCDA17.B6E51260.jgrant@tui.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I will second Allison's work, and add to these recommendations a collection of essays *Skin: Talking about Sex, Clas, and Literature* (1994). Deborah Moreland University of Texas at Dallas On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Jaime Grant wrote: > I don't know if this would work with your course, but I'd think about > pairing Dorothy Allison's _Bastard Out of Carolina_ with her > autobiographical text _One or Two Things I Know For Sure_. In the latter, > she sifts through the truths of her life and how they feed the story in > _Bastard_. Wonderful stuff. It's hard to say which of her 'voices' -- > fictional or her non-fictional -- are more powerful or more 'true.' > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 08:56:32 -0500 Reply-To: "cklewis@indiana.edu" Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Camille K. Lewis" Subject: Re: Women and Cold War MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thank you. I'll get those books and the movie this weekend. Thanks! Camille -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Winkler [SMTP:WINKLER@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 1997 6:25 PM To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Subject: Women and Cold War Camille Kaminski Lewis asked if there is any evidence of a _deliberate campaign_ to get women back into the home after WWII. (My emphasis added.) The film "Rosie the Riveter" shows that there was - at least on the basis of the propoganda films from the War Dept. And I understand that factory women were actually laid off/fired from their jobs. However, much of the cultural shift was more subtle - emphasis in magazines, movies, etc. on domesticity, life in the suburbs, "feminine" fashion. Two books I recommend are: Susan Douglas, _Where the Girls Are_ and Wini Breines, _Young, White, and Miserable_. I am using both in my course this semester on "Women and Popular Culture Since WWII." Barbara Scott Winkler, WVU Center for Women's Studies ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:40:06 -0700 Reply-To: jstarker@teleport.com Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Starker Subject: Re: women's autobiographies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Someone mentioned The Color of Water - it's a wonderful, beautifully written book - written by a man - but with sections written by his mother - I'm using it this term as a text in my class. Joan Starker, Ph.D. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 10:38:16 -0500 Reply-To: yklein@total.net Sender: Women's Studies List From: yvonne klein Subject: Women & Cold War MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit While I can't speak for the US, there is considerable evidence of a conscious policy in Canada to assure the return of women to the home, and Canadian policy at the time often reflected US concerns. For example, the Film Board package of archival films, "Women of the 40's & 50s" contains several films that suggest a gov't policy. Particularly interesting is "Careers & Cradles" which observes how women have achieved equality but now can expect to find their ambitions fulfilled in the home where all sorts of marvellous new appliances will relieve them from drudgery and free them for civic involvement. -- ***************************************************************** Yvonne M. Klein English Department, Dawson College 3040 Sherbrooke St W. Que. H3Z 1A6 yklein@total.net ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:29:59 -0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Robbins Subject: Women's Studies Ph.D. in Asia In-Reply-To: <199710142352.UAA23304@unb.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am writing on behalf of a University of New Brunswick graduate in Women's Studies who would like to go on to a Master's or PhD in Women's Studies somewhere in Asia. Does anyone on the list know where she can find information about any programs operating in, for example, China or Hong Kong? Her background is Political Science. Could you please send any suggestions or information to: Carla Lam via email at h7u1@unb.ca Thanks. Dr. Wendy J. Robbins Professor of English & Co-ordinator of Women's Studies University of New Brunswick Box 4400 Fredericton NB E3B 5A3 CANADA Tel: (506) 458-7411 Fax: (506) 453-5069 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:57:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cynthia Deitch Subject: call for papers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am posting this for someone not on the list. Please be sure to respond to Elaine Hall and not to me. Thanks. *** *** GENDER DYNAMICS IN DEPARTMENTAL LABOR *** *** As a member of the Committee on the Status of Women of the Eastern Sociological Society, I am organizing a session for the March 19-22, 1998 conference in Philadelphia on the topic of GENDER DYNAMICS IN DEPARTMENTAL LABOR. One form of conventional gender stereotypes that women faculty may encounter is the assumption that they are more interested in and/or competent to perform departmental housekeeping tasks, such as positions addressing undergraduate student's needs or routine committee work about nongovernance or policy issues. As a form of subtle sexism, a concept initially defined by Nijole Benokraitis and Joe Feagin, inequitable arrangements of departmental labor may foster the perception that women faculty are less professional, and can contribute to a work load that reduces their productivity when compared to men faculty. To begin looking at this topic of departmental labor and how it influences gender relations in (sociology) departments, the Committee on the Status of Women wants to encourage people to present a variety of paper types -- conceptual, quantitative, ethnographic, interpretative, and personal reflections, to names a few options. Extending the deadline for submitting abstracts to October 31 is the perfect opportunity to consider writing a paper on this topic. Submit abstracts directly to: Elaine J. Hall Department of Sociology Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242 Feel free to contact me directly for further information (Office: 330-672-2749; Department for messages: 330-672-2562; Home: 330-678- 3683; email: EHall1 @ KentVM.Kent.Edu). Please post on other lists as seems appropriate. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:19:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Taylor Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Born in the Delta by Margaret Jones Bolsterli is an interesting one by a woman who, in her scholarly role, has also edited women's diaries (e.g., Vinegar Pie and Chicken Bread.) At 06:38 PM 10/15/97 -0500, you wrote: >Hello everyone, > >I will be teaching a course in the Spring semester entitled Women's >Voices/ Women's Lives: American Women's Autobiography and Life-Writing. In >addition to the texts we will read in class, I will ask students to >examine a text on their own. I am currently trying to compile a list for >the students to choose from. I would like this list to have the additional >purpose of showing students how many women have written an autobiography/ >life narrative, and broadening their definition of "autobiography." I >welcome suggestions from the list, and will submit the bibliography >when it's done. I would be particularly interested in non-tradition >autobiographies, such as diaries, letters, oral narratives, >printed collections of self-portaits, etc. > >Thanks, > >Amy > > >****************** >Dr. Amy L. Wink >Department of English and Philosophy >Stephen F. Austin State University >P.O. Box 13007, SFA Station >Nacogdoches, Tx 75962-3007 >(409) 468-2007 >awink@sfasu.edu > >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) > >******************* > Barbara G. Taylor bt24761@uafsysb.uark.edu Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources University of Arkansas, 222 Administration Building Fayetteville, AR 72701 (501) 575-2158 (501) 575-6971 FAX ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:35:11 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn H. Collins" Subject: Adjunct needed to teach multicultural course Comments: To: power MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, The Division of Applied Psychology and Quantitative Methods at the University of Baltimore, Baltimore MD, which awards a Masters Degree in Applied Psychology, is seeking adjunct faculty members to teach Multicultural Counseling in Spring 1998. The course will be offered at two off-campus sites -- Shady Grove Regional Center of University System of MD in Montgomery County and Gateway Center in Howard County. Applicants should have a PhD or PsyD and experience which qualifies them to teach this course. The course description follows: Multicultural counseling explores the impact of social and cultural norms on several groups in the population. Particular emphasis will be place on aging, ethnicity, gender issues and psycho-sexual orientation. Cultural differences and their impact on the counseling relationship will be examined. Many students of this course are seeking certification as Professional Counselors. Please send a curriculum vita and letter of interest to: Margaret J. Potthast, Ph.D. Program Director, M.S. in Applied Psychology University of Baltimore 1420 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201-5779 phone: (410) 837-5290 fax: (410) 837-5336 mpotthast@ubmail.ubalt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:17:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liora moriel Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing Comments: To: "Amy L. Wink" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII How about the moves made by Getrude Stein (Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) and Jamaica Kinkaid (Autobiography of my Mother)? And BTW, who did Emily Dickinson write that letter-on-letters to? Liora Moriel Comparative Literature Program University of Maryland 2107 Susquehanna Hall College Park, MD 20742-8825 lioram@wam.umd.edu "We have cooperated for a very long time in the maintenance of our own invisibility. And now the party is over." - Vito Russo ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:08:59 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sidonie Smith Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing In-Reply-To: <01IOUGVUZPSY0013Y3@ALPHA.NSULA.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII For those of you teaching courses on women's autobiography/life writing I'd like to let you know about a book Julia Watson and I have edited that is coming out from the University of Wisconsin Press in the spring. We have put together a reader entitled Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader. It is a collection of some 40 essays (some excerpted) on women's autobiographical writing published over the last ten years. We have written a long introduction tracing the history of work on women's autobiography and outlining various theoretical approaches to women's texts. We include an extensive bibliography of work on women's autobiography and alist of over 250 primary texts. It is reader book designed for classroom use. If you would like more information please feel free to contact me privately. Sidonie Smith Director of Women's Studies and Professor of English 234 West Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092 313-763-2047 On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Benay Blend wrote: > Amy, I've just proposed to teach "Studies in Autobiography" next spring > myself, so will be interested in what others contribute. My course will > not focus on women, but I will probably use the Norton collection Women's > Lives that I am using right now in Women's History. Other suggestions > would be Bell-Scott, editor, Life Notes, and Madison, Ed., The Woman > That I am, which has a section of personal narratives. > Benay Blend > blend@alpha.nsula.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:06:28 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: McPherson S Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have made up and submitted to my dept. a course outline on Researching Women's Lives: Narratives and Autobiographies, because I felt that there was a need for it. It comprises an integration of qualitative sociological research methods and feminist approaches to life stories, which I believed would be appropriate to sociology. I received no feedback on my proposal, only the scantiest acknowledgement that it had been received. Nevertheless, I have the outline and a book list (30 books). If anyone would like to see/use it or has any suggestions on how to get these idea across to others, I would appreciate it if you would contact me privately. I have put a lot of work into this and have received no recognition. I may *only* be a PhD student, but I have had a lifetime of experience which informs my feminist/sociogical approach. I feel strongly about this because women's voices have been silenced, but even in creating a practical mechanism to rectify this problem, I have been ignored. Sue McPherson PhD student Department of Sociology University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UK CO4 3SQ email: smcph@essex.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:04:50 -0400 Reply-To: gcarr@bucknell.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Glynis Carr Organization: Bucknell University Subject: women's autobiography Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'd like to second the suggestion of Audre Lorde's *Zami* and recommend two others that would go nicely with it: Diane DiPrima's *Memoir of a Beatnik* and Hettie Jones' *How I Became Hettie Jones.* All three tell life-stories of rebellious women of the beat era, all exploring what it means to live an artist's life. DiPrima might be controversial (some read her book as pornography). Additionally, Jones provides fascinating insights from a Jewish woman's perspective on the social construction of race. Along these same lines, Joan Nestle has some great autobiographical essays in her collection of late 1980s (title escapes me--sorry) about sexuality, feminism, politics, etc. Best wishes on your interesting course. P.S. If many people are responding privately, I hope you can find time to compile suggestions and post to the list. -- Glynis Carr Associate Professor of English Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 gcarr@bucknell.edu www.bucknell.edu/~gcarr ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 10:46:52 -0400 Reply-To: gcarr@bucknell.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Glynis Carr Organization: Bucknell University Subject: women's autobiographies Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'd like to second the suggestion of Audre Lorde's *Zami* and recommend two others that would go nicely with it: Diane DiPrima's *Memoir of a Beatnik* and Hettie Jones' *How I Became Hettie Jones.* All three tell life-stories of rebellious women of the beat era, all exploring what it means to live an artist's life. DiPrima might be controversial (some read her book as pornography). Additionally, Jones provides fascinating insights from a Jewish woman's perspective on the social construction of race. Along these same lines, Joan Nestle has some great autobiographical essays in her collection of late 1980s (title escapes me--sorry) about sexuality, feminism, politics, etc. Best wishes on your interesting course. P.S. If many people are responding privately, I hope you can find time to compile suggestions and post to the list. Glynis Carr Associate Professor of English Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 gcarr@bucknell.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:06:49 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Harrison-Pepper Subject: Life Writing: a new novel to recommend Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing, I just finished reading the debut novel of Diana Wagman, SKIN DEEP, that offers some fascinating reflections on beauty. The novel is layered with differing levels of meaning and significance, and was also informed by the author's life -- so it's indirectly autobiographical, I'd say. It departs from a plot-driven story to become a weird, mysterious, even scary interior journey of the central character, who reflects upon and talks about beauty, but who interestingly is never described or "seen" in the book. There is a "mystery story" quality to the book at times, and also an intentionally scary plot device that is also quite mysterious and thought-provoking. There are some reviews of it posted at www.amazon.com (where I ordered the book for 30% off and got it in just a couple days). (I think the Kirkus review misses the mark completely, however, by focusing on the fact that Wagman is also a screenwriter. This book bears NO resemblance to a screenplay.) I've also learned that Wagman will be giving a reading of her novel at Llammas Women's Bookstore in Washington, D.C. on October 26th. I plan to adopt this book for a course I'm teaching in the fall. I think it's written in a style that will appeal to today's students, and provides lots of points of discussion and thought-puzzles to ponder. I recommend it! Sally Harrison-Pepper Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Affiliate Professor of Women's Studies Miami University, Oxford OH ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:26:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 1 conference, 1 job, 1 cfp 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) Conference: Attending to Early Modern Women: Crossing Boundaries 2) Job: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies (U. Colorado, Boulder) 3) CFP: 5th Berkeley Women & Language Conference For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) CONFERENCE---LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!!!! ATTENDING TO EARLY MODERN WOMEN: CROSSING BOUNDARIES At University of Maryland, College Park, November 6-8, 1997 The Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland will sponsor "Attending to Early Modern Women: Crossing Boundaries," the third in a series of symposia on women in the Renaissance, November 6-8, 1997 on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Participants will consider how notions of the female self were shaped through gendering the body; how legal codes reflect and shape gender beliefs; where, when, and why early modern women traveled. Additionally, one of the four plenary sessions and many of the workshops will concentrate on incorporating the study of early modern women into humanities curricula. The keynote speaker is Karen Newman, Professor of Comparative Literature and European Cultural Studies at Brown University. For registration information, please e-mail crbs@umail.umd.edu or call Susan Jenson at 301-405-6830 or visit the conference website at http://www.inform.umd.edu/crbs/Women where you can find a copy of our program and registration form. *************************************************************************** 2) Joint Position in Ethnic Studies and Women Studies The Department of Ethnic Studies and the Women Studies Program of the University of Colorado at Boulder seek to fill a joint appointment in the area of newly emerging Asian immigrant communities in the United States. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the position, we foresee that research and teaching will bridge both the disciplines of Ethnic Studies and Women Studies. This joint position would be especially important for strengthening the ties between gender and ethnic studies on the Boulder campus, as each of these specializations share mutual intellectual interests and scholarly concerns for diversifying the college curriculum. The position will be tenure track, at the Assistant Professor level, and rostered 50% in Ethnic Studies, 50% in Women Studies, with an annual teaching load of four courses. We are particularly interested in, but not limited to, the areas of South Asian, Korean, and Vietnamese American communities. These substantive areas are of growing importance for the study of race, ethnicity and gender in the United States and a scholar with this field of expertise would make a significant contribution to the intellectual life of the campus. Such a scholar would contribute to the study of women in the labor force, an area of need in both academic units, and would provide a scholarly base from which to expand the colleges offerings in the areas of new community formation, transnationalism, and critical feminist analyses. Both Ethnic Studies and Women Studies are nationally known for the study of gender, race and ethnicity. A joint position would enrich the natural connection between these two units, each of which has already demonstrated the value and success of an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and teaching. The successful candidate will develop courses that would fill existing needs in their respective curricula. Among these are Asian Immigrant Women in the United States, Transnationalism, and Asian American Women. These courses would be cross-listed with both units. Please send letter of candidacy, curriculum vitae, and a list of five references with complete contact information (mailing address, phone, fax and email) to: Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Campus Box 339, Boulder, CO 80309-0339. We will begin considering applications by December 15, 1997 and until the position is filled. Inquiries are welcome: Evelyn Hu-Dehart Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies tel. (303) 492-8852 fax. (303) 492-7799 hudehart@spot.colorado.edu http://stripe.colorado.edu/~ethnicst Janet Jacobs Director, Women Studies Program tel. (303) 492-3202 fax. (303) 492-2549 jacobsjl@stripe.colorado.edu http://www.colorado.edu/womenstudies The University of Colorado at Boulder is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment. *************************************************************************** 3) Call for Papers: Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference April 24-26; Berkeley Conference Center, Berkeley, California The Berkeley Women and Language Group is currently welcoming abstracts for the Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference, with a submission deadline of December 15, 1997. In addition to individual papers, you may organize and submit panel sessions. This year's conference has no specific overall theme, but all papers and panels must in some way involve issues of language and gender. The Women and Language Conference is interdisciplinary, and usually includes work from a variety of fields ranging from anthropology to mass communication, with everything else in between. We are particularly interested in topics not usually seen at the conference: methodology of language and gender research, phonetics of gender, non-biased language movements, historical change in gendered language, and the like. Papers need not explicitly compare women's and men's speech, and while we encourage work on women's and girls' speech, studies of men's or boys' speech is also welcome. This year's invited speakers are: Deborah Cameron, Department of English Studies, Strathclyde University, Glasgow Janice Gould, Department of English, University of Northern Colorado Jeri Jaeger, Department of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo Bea Medicine, Faculty of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta Leslie Milroy, Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan Patricia Nichols, Department of Linguistics & Language Development, San Jose State University Suzanne Romaine, Merton College, Oxford University Ana Celia Zentella, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York And a special presentation by Ursula K. LeGuin, author As a condition of participation, all speakers and panels must submit their conference papers for publication in the Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Please note that this year, all authors must bring a completed version of their papers with them to the conference. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Submitted panels will be allowed 1, 1 1/2, or 2 hours, of which part should be used for questions. To submit an abstract for an individual paper, send six copies of an anonymous abstract to the address below, and one copy of a 150-word short abstract for the conference program. The long abstract should be just one page long, although a second page may be used for data, figures, and references. Make your abstract as specific as possible: include a statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions. Along with the abstracts, include a card with 1. the paper title, 2. your name, 3. your department and university affiliation, if any, and 4. the email and street address at which we can contact you. (Make clear whether the affiliation is part of the address.) Submitted panels will not be reviewed anonymously, and panel abstracts may be up to 4 pages long. They must state 1. who the primary organizer of the panel is, 2. who will participate in the panel in what way, 3. what the structure of the panel will be, 4. how much time you would like allotted, and 5. all the contact information listed above for individual submissions. You may be primary author of one individual paper and also either the second author of another paper or a participant in a submitted panel. The deadline for receipt of all submissions at our office is December 15th, 1997. Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered. Acceptance and rejection notifications will be mailed out in early February, 1998. Address all correspondence to: Berkeley Women and Language Group, 2337 Dwinelle Hall, #2650, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720. Email: bwlg@socrates.berkeley.edu. We will accept emailed abstracts, but cannot accept faxed abstracts. BWLG web page: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BWLG/. The Women and Language Conference is wheelchair accessible. To be added to or deleted from our mailing list (email or postal mail), send a message to bwlg@socrates.berkeley.edu. *************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:59:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Julie K Daniels Subject: Re: women's autobiography Comments: To: Glynis Carr In-Reply-To: <34462D12.4B1B2645@bucknell.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Joan Nestle has some great autobiographical essays in > her collection of late 1980s (title escapes me--sorry) about sexuality, > feminism, politics, etc. I believe the title is _In a Restricted Country_, and I recommend the book as well. Julie Julie K. Daniels Department of Rhetoric 64 Classroom Office Building University of Minnesota St. Paul, MN 55108 email: Julie.K.Daniels-2@tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:35:12 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Washington Subject: Proposed Panel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Please post: Proposed Panel for June 1998, NWSA National Conference Oswego, New York "Women's Studies: The Promise and the Limitations of Inclusion" Anyone interested in being a participant on a panel which explores the promise and limitations of women's studies for women of color, please submit proposal abstract to : Pat Washington emaiL: washing3@mail.sdsu.edu Women's Studies Dept. San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-8138 by October, 24, 1997 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:05:31 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stacey Meadow Subject: Re: Womens' Autobiography In-Reply-To: <01IOVQ5QEO42001S2R@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII These are all great suggestions. Some others you might want to consider are "Bone Black: Memoirs of Girlhood" (bell hooks), "Coming of Age in Mississippi: An Autobiography" (Anne Moody), "Angela Davis: An Autobiography," and though I have not read it, the new Anita Hill book "Speaking Truth to Power" has gotten some good reviews. Also, if you wanted to adress the issue of personal disclosure in feminist scholarship, Patricia J. Williams' "The Alchemy of Race and Rights" is very autobiographical, not to mention cantaining good theory. Please do post your bibliography to the list. ************************************* Stacey Meadow Barnard College - Columbia University Women's Studies / Psychology sm445@columbia.edu ************************************* ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:15:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Allison B. Kimmich" Subject: Women and Autobiography Resources MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Martine Brownley and I have edited a collection of critical essays and autobiography excerpts on women's lifewriting that will be published in the fall of 1998 as part of Scholary Resources "Worlds of Women" series (the collection is not yet titled). The text is intended for undergraduate classroom use, and includes an introduction which defines issues that are central to the study of women and autobiography, explanatory headnotes for each selection, and an annotated bibliography of critical sources. Allison Kimmich akimmic@emory.edu _____________________________ Allison Kimmich Visiting Assistant Professor Institute for Women's Studies Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:54:46 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Ann Drake Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Please compile all the responses you get and post them to the list. That would be a wonderful gift for everyone. Peace, Mary Ann Drake ddrake@mylink.net At 09:17 AM 10/16/1997 -0400, you wrote: >How about the moves made by Getrude Stein (Autobiography of Alice B. >Toklas) and Jamaica Kinkaid (Autobiography of my Mother)? >And BTW, who did Emily Dickinson write that letter-on-letters to? > >Liora Moriel >Comparative Literature Program >University of Maryland >2107 Susquehanna Hall >College Park, MD 20742-8825 >lioram@wam.umd.edu >"We have cooperated for a very long time in the maintenance of our own >invisibility. And now the party is over." - Vito Russo > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:08:27 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sonja V. Batten" Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19971016205446.0073a6e8@pop.mylink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII You might also try "Composing a Life" by Mary Catherine Bateson, which is a combination autobiography and biography of four other extraordinary women. ___________________________________________________ Sonja V. Batten University of Nevada Reno svbatten@scs.unr.edu ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:45:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: CFPs: 1) Women in Judaism 2) Queer Theory MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The following two calls for papers may interest WMST-L readers: 1) CFP: Women in Judaism 2) CFP: "How Queer Are We Here: Interrogating the Efficacy of Queer Theory and Politics" (U. of Minnesota) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************************* 1) Women in Judaism - Call for Papers Submissions are invited for a new periodical: WOMEN IN JUDAISM: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism This refereed journal will be published exclusively on the Internet as a forum for debate on gender-related issues in Judaism. The ultimate aim of the journal is to promote the reconceptualization of the study of Judaism, by acknowledging and incorporating the roles played by women, and by encouraging the development of alternative research paradigms. It is particularly intended to advance critical analysis of gender inequalities within Jewish religion, history, society and culture. The journal does not promote a fixed ideology, and welcomes a variety of approaches. The material may be cross-methodological or inter-disciplinary. Articles, book reviews, short notes and bibliographies from all disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences are welcomed. Submissions for the Fall and Winter issues are concurrently accepted and should be made by regular mail to: Dina Eylon c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1 Canada or by e-mail to: dina.eylon@utoronto.ca We are also seeking short biographical articles (500-2000 words) for our "Women in Judaism Encyclopedia Project". For further information and guidelines for contributors, please consult our web page. *********************************************************************** 2) CALL FOR PAPERS QGPA, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Graduate and Professional Association of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Announces an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference: "HOW QUEER ARE WE HERE?" INTERROGATING THE EFFICACY OF QUEER THEORY AND POLITICS APRIL 24-26, 1998 Univeristy of Minnesota, Twin Cities Recent critical and political theory has attempted to formulate the notion of "Queer" identity as a radical response to various institutions of power and domination; critics have posited this queer identity as both a disruption of traditional subject positions as well as an opportunity for the creation of alternative, destabilized configurations of subjectivity. Increasingly, however, queer identity seems in danger of "assimilation" by the very institutions that it ostensibly challenges. Can queer theory and politics continue to offer effective resistance to these normalizing regimes of power, and if so what tactics of deployment will allow them to retain their subversive edge? Our conference will explore the current situation by posing questions including, though certainly not limited to, the following: How--if at all--has the development of a "queer" culture problematized the earlier "gay" and "lesbian" cultures that came before it? To what extent do the devotees of queer or other resistant sexual styles (S&M, Drag, etc.) illustrate the precepts of academic theory by recognizng their deployment of these styles as actually formative, rather than merely expressive, of their identities? How do notions of queer identity intersect with the discourse of political action? How does queer theory "resist" or "subvert" hegemony? And can one speak of a "queer revolution?" Have the strategies of radical organizations like Queer Nation enabled the creation of a quepractices merely reinforced the identity categories already in place? Has the recent popularization of the "camp" aesthetic negated its subversive power to re-signify cultural products, thereby reducing camp's resistance of the market economy to the commodified lure of "kitsch?" Does the current trend toward sexual ambiguity in popular advertising signal the emergence of a new "queer" target audience? If so, what is the relation of queer identity to contemporary capitalism? Has the surge of interest in "drag" performance created "queer" cabaret spaces in which variously sexed subjects can re-negotiate their own identity positions? Or do these performances simply repeat and thus replicate the common conventions of a male/female gender dichotomy? What are the implications of genetic research for "queering" our notions of biological "sex?" Will the "encoding" of the body effected by the Human Genome Project reconfigure our definitions of gender, or further fix the criteria employed in the binary division of sex? How will the increasing institutionalization of Queer Studies within the Academy affect its ability to challenge the dictums of power and authority? Please send a one page single-spaced abstract by December 15, 1997 to: Thomas Haakenson Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature 350 Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant Street Southeast University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN 55455 For further Information, please send inquiries to the above address, or by e-mail to: Thomas.O.Haakenson-1@tc.umn.edu or Awesley537@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:39:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Barbara C. Ewell" Subject: Caribbean Novels by Women Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm trying to compile a short list of novels by women from the Caribbean basin (available in English) to offer my Women in Literature students as potential subjects for their final group projects. I am familiar with Jamaica Kincaid's work (specifically, _Autobiography of My Mother_ and _Annie John_) and Michelle Cliff's _Abeng_ and Christine Garcia's _Dreaming in Cuban_. But I'd appreciate a few more specific suggestions of novels that would be appropriate for a women's studies classroom. I might add that these will follow readings of Aphra Behn's _Oroonoko_, _Jane Eyre_ and _Wide Sargasso Sea_ as instances of how women have written about this particular part of the "new world"--and how gender and race get shaped by each other in those contexts. Thanks for your help. You can reply privately to me at "bewell@loyno.edu". Barbara C. Ewell English/City College Loyola University New Orleans, LA 70118 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:36:05 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisbeth Gant-Britton Subject: Re: Caribbean Novels by Women In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Here's a few more: Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven (Jamaica), a sequel of sorts to Abeng. Simone Schwarz-Bart's The Bridge of Beyond (Guadeloupe), survival power of three generations of strong women. Maryse Conde's Tree of Life (Guadeloupe), recreation of a black Guadeloupian dynasty, complete with magic realism. They're all considered classics. Lisbeth Gant-Britton, UCLA At 09:39 PM 10/16/97 -0500, you wrote: >I'm trying to compile a short list of novels by women from the Caribbean >basin (available in English) to offer my Women in Literature students as >potential subjects for their final group projects. > >I am familiar with Jamaica Kincaid's work (specifically, _Autobiography of >My Mother_ and _Annie John_) and Michelle Cliff's _Abeng_ and Christine >Garcia's _Dreaming in Cuban_. But I'd appreciate a few more specific >suggestions of novels that would be appropriate for a women's studies >classroom. > >I might add that these will follow readings of Aphra Behn's _Oroonoko_, >_Jane Eyre_ and _Wide Sargasso Sea_ as instances of how women have written >about this particular part of the "new world"--and how gender and race get >shaped by each other in those contexts. > >Thanks for your help. > >You can reply privately to me at "bewell@loyno.edu". > > >Barbara C. Ewell >English/City College >Loyola University >New Orleans, LA 70118 > > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:43:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacqueline Haessly Subject: Re: women's autobiographies In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'd add the works of Sylvia Ashton Warner, both her autobiograpy and her novels, which are really autobiographical in nature. Also, __Teacher__, which describes her work in New Zealand. peace, Jacqueline Haessly jacpeace@acs.stritch.edu Image Peace! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 23:32:39 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: Proposed Panel In a message dated 97-10-16 19:38:14 EDT, you write: << "Women's Studies: The Promise and the Limitations of Inclusion" Anyone interested in being a participant on a panel which explores the promise and limitations of women's studies for women of color, please submit proposal abstract to : >> When I saw the title of this call for participants, I was excited about it. I thought that at last there would be a place where we might have the kind of coming together at NWSA of all kinds of women -- and may I suggest that it is the majority of women -- who are excluded from women's studies. I know that most women are excluded from women's studies NOT just because the people who "do" women's studies professionally at educational insitutitons are limited, as we tend to blame them for being, but because women's studies is happening at educational institutions where the limitations, the habit of limiting, of excluding, of separating out and away, of hierarchalizing the world in as many ways as possible, is integral to the history and development of those institutions. Anyway, for several years, the Jewish women's caucus and the disability and chronic illness caucus have been trying to get together with the lesbian caucus and the women of color caucus for a day long pre-conference conference. We in the Jewish women's caucus and the disability and chronic illness caucus are deeply concerned about the fact that when these four groups meet simultaneously, as we are almost always scheduled to do, we are all forced to make extremely dififcult and painful and divisive and unsatisfacory no-win choices. These elements of identity do not exist separately from one another for many us. Perhaps they do separate easily for those who either do not belong to one of these caucuses or who belongs to one and, although she might perfectly logically belong to one or more of the others, doesn't have a great enough investment in that aspect of her identity to feel the pain of the forced choice. At any rate, when I saw this proposed panel title, I thought it would be a place we could talk about these things. Then I read the panel description and I saw that only one "excluded" group was to be discussed under this title of inclusivity. I would like to propose that we plan a series of connected sessions focusing on each of the excluded groups -- and that we are very careful about our enumeration of excluded groups, taking care not to exclude those who have been so successfullly excloded that they are no longer represented in our organization. And I suggest that this series of panels culminate in a double or triple session in which we all come together and talk about the operating system of exclusivity. What is simliar in all our experiences of knowing ourselves to be excluded, and as well as in the ways we are accused by others of excluding them? Why do people who experience the pain and disaffection and alienation and deprivation and cruelty and loss of pleasure because they are excluded nevertheless exclude others, especially others who belong to groups which are excluded as indifferently as they are? My health is very poor and I don't have the physicl or temporal resources to organize this. Is anyone interested? In Sisterhood, Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:18:32 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: michelle moravec Subject: NWSA Panel Proposal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am looking for panel participants for the NWSA section on Activism who are interested in presenting on feminist activism in the arts during the 1970s. These papers should not focus on reflections of feminism in the art work of women, but rather on women artists, writers, theater groups, musicians etc. that conceived of their artistic endeavors as a form of activism. My paper will discuss the art activism of members of the Los Angeles Woman's Building. As the postmark deadline of Novemember 10 is fast approaching, please respond ASAP. Michelle Moravec mmoravec@ucla.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:30:51 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Adeline Apena Subject: Re: Texts on Life in Developing World. In-Reply-To: <971016213438_1200581657@emout19.mail.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Pls post. Iam seeking a text-gender based cross regional/interdisciplinary/cultural for an undergraduate course --Life in Developing World. I shall also appreciate novels recommendation. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 13:44:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the Women's Presses Library Project: Amy, this may be more than what you need. Please let me know if you need more detailed information. Mev Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands Shirley Geok-lin Lim The Feminist Press at CUNY 1996 1-55861-144-4 C $22.95 248pp. Black and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder Mary White Ovington The Feminist Press at CUNY 1995 1-55861-099-5 C $19.95 184pp. 1996 1-55861-156-8 P $10.95 184pp. Forty-Three Septembers: Essays Jewelle Gomez Firebrand Books Essays that weave together the varied strands of experience contributing to a writing life. 1993 1-56341-038-9 C $22.95 200pp. 1993 1-56341-037-0 P $10.95 200pp. Making Peace With My Mother Sylvia Grossman Knowledge, Ideas & Trends, Inc. 1992 1-879198-07-X P $14.95 210pp. Memories: My Life as an International Leader in Health, Suffrage and Peace Aletta H. Jacobs The Feminist Press at CUNY 1996 1-55861-137-1 C $45.00 272pp. 1996 1-55861-138-X P $18.95 272pp. Orlando's Sleep: An Autobiography of Gender Jennifer Spry New Victoria Publishers A personal yet political discussion of courage, gender, sexuality, and transformation. 1997 0-934678-80-4 P $12.95 200pp. Sandy Dennis: A Personal Memoir Louise Ladd and Doug Taylor Papier-Mache Press Memoir of Sandy Dennis, actress and writer. 1997 1-57601-001-5 C $14.95 112pp. Sisters of the Wind: Voices of Early Women Aviators Elizabeth S. Bell Trilogy Books 1994 0-9623879-4-0 P $14.95 206pp. Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature Dorothy Allison Firebrand Books 1994 1-56341-045-1 C $26.95 264pp. 1994 1-56341-044-3 P $13.95 264pp. Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side Bella Spiwack The Feminist Press at CUNY Memoir of Bella Spewack, Jewish immigrant and author of serveral films and plays, including Kiss Me, Kate. 1995 1-55861-115-0 C $19.95 180pp. 1995 1-55861-153-3 P $10.95 180pp. There Were Times I Thought I Was Crazy: A Black Woman's Story of Incest Vanessa Alleyne Sister Vision Press 1997 1-896705-08-1 P $13.95 176pp. Women Who Touched My Life: A Memoir Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Ph.D. Knowledge, Ideas & Trends, Inc. 1996 1-879198-22-3 P $14.95 150pp. >Hello everyone, > >I will be teaching a course in the Spring semester entitled Women's >Voices/ Women's Lives: American Women's Autobiography and Life-Writing. In >addition to the texts we will read in class, I will ask students to >examine a text on their own. I am currently trying to compile a list for >the students to choose from. I would like this list to have the additional >purpose of showing students how many women have written an autobiography/ >life narrative, and broadening their definition of "autobiography." I >welcome suggestions from the list, and will submit the bibliography >when it's done. I would be particularly interested in non-tradition >autobiographies, such as diaries, letters, oral narratives, >printed collections of self-portaits, etc. > >Thanks, > >Amy > > >****************** >Dr. Amy L. Wink >Department of English and Philosophy >Stephen F. Austin State University >P.O. Box 13007, SFA Station >Nacogdoches, Tx 75962-3007 >(409) 468-2007 >awink@sfasu.edu > >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) > >******************* 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, 17 Oct 1997 13:45:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Women's Presses Library Project, Mev Miller" Subject: Re: Caribbean Novels by Women Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the Women's Presses Library Project: This may be a little far afield, but thought I'd offer it anyway.... Sans Souci: And Other Stories Dionne Brand Firebrand Books Stories of contemporary black life in Canada and the Caribbean offer an intimate view of women driven by poverty to leave their homes for a hostile new country. 1989 0-932379-71-0 C $18.95 150pp. 1989 0-932379-70-2 P $8.95 150pp. Mev >I'm trying to compile a short list of novels by women from the Caribbean >basin (available in English) to offer my Women in Literature students as >potential subjects for their final group projects. > >I am familiar with Jamaica Kincaid's work (specifically, _Autobiography of >My Mother_ and _Annie John_) and Michelle Cliff's _Abeng_ and Christine >Garcia's _Dreaming in Cuban_. But I'd appreciate a few more specific >suggestions of novels that would be appropriate for a women's studies >classroom. > >I might add that these will follow readings of Aphra Behn's _Oroonoko_, >_Jane Eyre_ and _Wide Sargasso Sea_ as instances of how women have written >about this particular part of the "new world"--and how gender and race get >shaped by each other in those contexts. > >Thanks for your help. > >You can reply privately to me at "bewell@loyno.edu". > > >Barbara C. Ewell >English/City College >Loyola University >New Orleans, LA 70118 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: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 07:41:05 +-800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: NFAM Subject: Women's Autobiographies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Asian-American writer Hilary Tham's Lane With No Name (Lynne Rienner = Publishers, Boulder, 1997) makes an illuminating reading as well.Tham is = also a poet and hence, has included several poems in her memoirs as = well. Faridah fabma@pc.jaring.my ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:23:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Glynis Carr Subject: Re: Caribbean Novels by Women Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Regarding novels by caribbean women, I compiled a bibliography, "Caribbean Women Writers," that was published in NWSA *Perspectives* 5.3 (1987): 16-18. The bibliography is now ten years old: to update it, I'd start with the catalogues from Heinemann, Longman, and MacMillan publishing companies, each of which have excellent series in caribbean lit. For secondary/critical material, look at UWI (University of the West Indies) press,Toronto UP, Duke UP. If your library doesn't have *Perspectives,* I'd be happy to send you a copy of my old bibliography via snail mail if you send me your address. Best wishes on your project. Happy reading! Glynis Carr Associate Professor of English Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 717-524-1553 gcarr@bucknell.edu http://www.bucknell.edu/~gcarr ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:04:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Koppelman Subject: Re: Women and Autobiography Resources Here are some of my favorite suggestions: I'd start with Linda Wagner-Martin's TELLING WOMEN'S LIVES: THE NEW BIOGRAPHY (Rutgers, 1994) for an easy to read, lively overview of the "issues" that a biographer and an autobiographer might be forced to consider as s/he decides what, how much, from what angle, etc. to tell a life story of a woman. The book is incredibly rich, drawing on her own experience as a person and a biographer and includes a wonderful bibliography. Then I would include some of the life writings of feminists who are still active and who have done much to shape our struggle and our field of women's studies. Among them I would include (I am trying not to name anything that has already been named) Louise De Salvo's VERTIGO: A MEMOIR (Dutton, 1996), Mary Kay Blakely's AMERICAN MOM: MOTHERHOOD, POLITICS, AND HUMBLE PIE, (Simon and Schuster, 1994, Pocket Books 1995) and RED, WHITE, AND OH SO BLUE: A MEMOIR OF POLITICAL DEPRESSION (Scribner, 1996), Cathy Davidson's 36 VIEWS OF MOUNT FUJU: ON FINDING MYSELF IN JAPAN (Dutton, 1993) A lot of U. S. feminists have interwoven life writing or autobiographical material with their political writing -- because their political development is a major aspectof their sense of their own lives and because they are committed to representing the political in terms of the personal. Barbara Smith has wonderful essays that use the personal and the political toilluminate each other, as do Andrea Dworkin, Joan Nestle, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, among many many others. One of my all-time favorite collections of autobiographical writings by women about their intellectual/political/professional lives is the truly inspiring BETWEEN WOMEN: BIOGRAPHERS, NOVELISTS, CRITICS, TEACHERS AND ARTISTS WRITE ABOUT THEIR WORK ON WOMEN edited by Carol Ascher, Louise De Salvo, and Sarah Ruddick, recently rereleased with a new foreward by Carolyn Heilbrun by Routledge in 1993 after Beacon allowed the 1984 version to go out of print. I think I would never use only one book from any category of women. In other words, I would never allow a single individual to represent a category. It is as important to see the variety within categories as it is to see the variety of categories. So, for instance, in addition to the wonderful writing of Nancy Mairs on disability, I'd include Connie Panzarino's THE ME IN THE MIRROR (Seal Press, 1994) Hannah Merker's LISTENING: WAYS OF HEARING IN A SILENT WORLD (HarperCollins, 1992) Lizard Jones' TWO ENDS OF SLEEP (Press Gang PUblishers, 1997) (reviewed in the Oct. '97 issue of Sojourner). and any of a number of others I'd be happy to send you the titles of. Then, of course, there are all the wonderful collections of coming out stories. The first ones were lesbian coming out stories, but since the original COMING OUT STORIES edited by Julia Penelope Stanley and Susan J. Wolfe with a foreword by Adrienne Rich, Persephone Press, 1980, and LESBIAN NUNS edited by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan, Naiad, , there have been disabilty coming out collections including the one mentioned earlier on this list -- WITH THE POWER OF EACH BREATH from Cleis and one co-edited by Florence Howe and Marsha Saxton from the Feminist Press (I can't remember the title right now--Florence, if you're reading this, please fill it in), fat coming out collections-- SHADOW ON A TIGHTROPE and others, class coming out collections -- WORKING CLASS WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY: LABORERS IN THE KNOWLEDGE FACTORY edited by Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Fay, U. Mass Press, 1993, ethnic collections such as Helen Barolini's THE DREAM BOOK: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITINGS BY ITALIAN AMERICAN WOMEN (Schocken, 1985) priosn writings WALL TAPPINGS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITINGS BY WOMEN PRISONERS edited byJudith A. Scheffler, Northeastern U. Press, 1986, and other collections focusing on a particular aspect of identity such as motherhood or religion. The Feminist Press has been publishing an impressive group of autobiographies in recent years, too. I would certainly consider them. I would also think long and hard about which publishers I wanted to support with book orders. I would, therefore, after such thought, order as many books as possible from feminist publishers. My bookshelves are literarlly sagging under the weight of all the life writings I have collected over the years, including some wonderful nineteenth century books. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps CHAPTERS IN A LIFE is a magnificent book, wonderful to read along with her brilliant novel THE STORY OF AVIS. I could go on and on, but I'll stop now. Susan Koppelman <> ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 20:07:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dawn Atkins Subject: PROMISE KEEPERS YUK Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am forwarding this request to the list for my mother. She wants some background information on movements like the Promise Keepers. Please send references to me and I will forward them on to her. Dawn Atkins dawn-atkins@uiowa.edu --------------- Text of forwarded message --------------- FROM: Mary E. Atkins SUBJECT: PROMISE KEEPERS YUK My deep concern about the Promise Keepers is that we, as Feminist, be prepared for the debate women are beginning that it would be a great thing to be "taken care of" or to "have an man be responsible and in charge of their lives." What I would like is a documented time line of many movements through history from women who have the dates and infor. - of other times in history when large groups of "religious-seeking" men have "taken care of" and "protected" women and children. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 17:16:01 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Charlene Muehlenhard Subject: Asst Prof, Women and Politics (Sexual Orientation, Race, Ethnicity) Comments: To: QSTUDY-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU, H-WOMEN@H-NET.MSU.EDU Comments: cc: lbitel@falcon.cc.ukans.edu, d-gerner@UKANS.EDU, b-loomis@UKANS.EDU, dbcarlin@UKANS.EDU, charlene@UKANS.EDU, Sandra Albrecht , ronfran@lark.cc.ukans.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Position Announcement The Women's Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas anticipate a joint tenure-track position at the assistant professor level to begin August 18, 1998, contingent upon final budgetary approval. Department: Women's Studies and Political Science (joint appointment) Title: Assistant Professor Length of Appointment: 9 months Required Qualifications: ABD in political science, demonstrable research and teaching commitment in the intersection of women and politics, either in the United States or internationally. Evidence of excellence in research and teaching is required. Preferred Qualifications: Ph.D. in political science; published research; teaching experience in women and politics; and research on race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Duties: Teach four courses over two semesters, research, service in both programs. Salary: $37,000-$40,000 To Apply: Send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, at least three current letters of recommendation, writing samples, graduate transcript, and, if available, evidence of teaching performance. Initial review of applications will begin November 21, 1997, and will continue until the position is filled. Interviews will be conducted at the University of Kansas. Write to Professor Charlene Muehlenhard, Chair, Search Committee, c/o Department of Political Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. Telephone: (785) 864-9860; fax: (785) 864-5700. The University of Kansas is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Applications are sought from all qualified persons, regardless of race, color, sex, disability, and, as covered by law, veteran status. In addition, university policies prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, marital status, and parental status. ______________________________________ NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS AND AREA CODE ______________________________________ Charlene L. Muehlenhard, Ph.D. Department of Psychology 426 Fraser Hall University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045-2160 Phone: (785) 864-9860 [Note new area code] Fax: (785) 864-5696 [Note new area code] charlene@ukans.edu [Note new e-mail address; my full address is charlene@lark.cc.ukans.edu, but the shorter address works and is easier to remember] ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:20:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jill Zahniser Subject: U Mn-Twin Cities job announcements MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWO ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITIONS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES APPLICATIONS DUE DECEMBER 1, 1997 The Department of Women's Studies at University of Minnesota, one of the oldest=20 women's studies departments in the country, invites applications for two=20 tenure-track, full-time, assistant professor positions beginning Septembe= r, 1998. One position is for an applicant whose area of specialization is=20 African-American women, theories of race, class, and gender, in literary,= =20 cultural or social/historical studies. The second position is for an applicant=20 whose area of specialization is women's studies and at least one of the=20 following ethnic studies concentrations (Chicano Studies or American Indi= an Studies and/or Asian American Studies) with disciplinary or interdisciplinary=20 training in the humanities, social sciences or history. Preference will b= e given to candidates with formal training in women's studies, feminist or gender= =20 studies. Requirements include demonstrated or promising scholarly productivity=20 and research and teaching competencies in women=D5s studies or other rele= vant areas, including contemporary theory and method. The Department is committed=20 to connections between academic women=D5s studies and broader communities= , and=20 preference will be given to candidates with relevant experience, interest= s and=20 abilities. Applicants must have Ph.D. (or equivalent foreign degree) a= t the=20 time of the appointment. Consideration will be given to applicants with = a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in literary, cultural, social or historical studies or in an=20 interdisciplinary field such as women=D5s studies, American or ethnic studies. =20 Responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate teaching and advising= ;=20 departmental/college service; and research and scholarship. The appointment=20 coincides with the inauguration of University of Minnesota=D5s Women=D5s Studies=20 Ph.D. program which will offer the challenge of participating in a new graduate=20 program. Salary is competitive at the assistant professor rank, and will vary=20 depending on prior experience. Please send letter of application, vita, and=20 three current letters of recommendation to Professor Amy Kaminsky, Chair = of the=20 Women's Studies Search Committee, Women's Studies Department, 489 Ford Hall,=20 University of Minnesota, Minnesota 55455. Applications are due December = 1, 1997. Phone (612) 624-7319, Fax (612)624-3573. (E-mail:=20 kamin001@maroon.tc.umn.edu). The University of Minnesota is committed to the=20 policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origi= n, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status= , or=20 sexual orientation. Posted by: Jill Zahniser zahniser@minn.net on behalf of UM Women's Studies Dept. Please reply to the e-mail address in the announcement and NOT to me. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:55:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Constance J. Ostrowski" Subject: Re: Women's Autobiographies/Life Writing I have a suggestion of an example of a type of women's life writing which is definitely canonically non-traditional, and which could help students expand not only their definition of "autobiography" but also their definition of "text"--and that is the life writing done by survivors of gender-related violence when they tell their stories, in verbal and pictorial form, on the shirts of the Clothesline Project. I don't know whether there would be a local display at which your students could actually "read" these texts, though local battered women's shelters and/or rape crisis programs (or college women's centers) may often display the Clothesline Project at various times; state coalitions against domestic violence and against sexual assault will also often display the Project, especially during legislative awareness (lobbying) efforts. If this kind of text for a reading assignment needed any kind of scholarly attention in order to legitimate it (which it shouldn't, actually--but we know the system), there have been a couple of articles on the Clothesline Project. One of them I wrote--a piece called "The Clothesline Project: Women's Stories of Gender-Related violence," published in the Spring 1996 _Women and Language_ (19.1: 36-41; citations usually list it as beginning on p.37 because they do not, for some reason, include the page of my photographs that faces the first page of the article). The _Women and Language_ article addresses the narrative aspects of the shirts in the Clothesline Project (another article I've written, for a book which is in negotiations, addresses the Clothesline Project from a rhetorical perspective); by the way, that issue of _Women and Language_, a special issue devoted to "Women and Storytelling," contains other articles which could be valuable resources for your class. I'd also like to suggest that women's quilts (at least some) might be good examples of life-writing; I'm not an expert in this area, but have seen some research that (to me) suggests them as a possibility. Connie Ostrowski ostroc@rpi.edu (For background for those unfamiliar with the Clothesline Project, it was started in 1990 by members of the Cape Cod Women's Agenda as a way to enable women to record their experiences of gender-related violence. Women use words and/or various forms of pictorial representation to tell their stories and speak out on shirts, which are often color-coded regarding the various forms of violence, and which are displayed on clotheslines in public places. Since October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the U.S., there may be many local displays this month. The Clothesline Project has extended beyond the boundaries of the U.S. as well.) ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:53:49 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: stephanie bower Subject: seeking address for Jessica Hagedorn Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Greetings all: I'd like to contact Jessica Hagedorn to invite her to speak at our college. If anyone knows how to get in touch with her, I'd appreciate the info. Please respond privately. Thanks in advance. Stephanie Bower Claremont McKenna College sbower@mckenna.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 12:45:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynn Schlesinger Organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA Subject: women and autobiography MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date sent: 18-OCT-1997 12:44:06 >> Two great books that I'ved used in class: >> Past Due, by Anne Finger >> Final Negotiations by Carolyn Ellis >> both have to do with living with disabilities/chronic illness -- either >> one's own, or others' (partner, child). Lynn Schlesinger Dept. of Sociology SUNY Plattsburgh 101 Broad St. Plattsburgh, NY 12901 518-564-3004 518-564-3333(fax) SCHLESL@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 13:43:13 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Brasher Subject: gender separate ministries Gender-separated ministries are extremely popular within the evangelical subculture of the US these days. PK is one manifestation of this, but only one. What may be of significant interest to participants on this list is that women's ministries in this subculture vastly outnumber men's by a factor of at least ten to one; yet, it is a men's ministry (PK) that has secured significant (& largely favorable) media interest. The only women's ministry to attract considerable media interest has been the female ancillary group of this men's ministry. [making nearly invisible the hundreds of free-standing evangelical female ministries that have no association w/PK]. A brief ethnographic description of the Washington DC PK rally which I wrote has been published on Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies web site. You can access it at http://www.mille/org/brasher.html Brenda E. Brasher Mount Union College brashebe@muc.edu ! ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 15:58:43 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Eames Subject: Posting Gender and Science Job, Bates College Comments: cc: Jan Bureau MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Joan et al. at WMST-L, in August I posted the unofficial announcement of the GENDER, RACE AND SCIENCE job in the Bates College Women's Studies Program. Here, now, is the *official* wording! I hope this gets into NWSAction? Or must I do something in addition? Thanks, Elizabeth Eames, Chair, Women's Studies, Bates College, Lewiston ME 04240 (207) 786-6335 eeames@bates.edu > > > > Bates College > > Program in Women's Studies > > New tenure track position with the Bates College Program in Women's Studies > available Fall 1998 in SCIENCE STUDIES, FOCUSSING ON GENDER AND RACE. We > are looking for a candidate with expertise in the complex > inter-relationships between scientific knowledge/practice and social, > economic and political dynamics such as those intersecting gender, race, > ethnicity and culture. We anticipate that the successful candidate will > have a degree or at least formal training in one or more of the natural or > mathematical sciences. Possible areas of expertise include: Gender > Aspects of Science; Gender, Science and Difference; Science, Culture and > Race; Social Contexts of Science; History of Science, Technology or > Medicine; Biotechnology and Ethics; Gender Aspects of Health; Feminist > Epistemology; Sociology or History of Science; and related fields. It > should be noted that in addition to Women's Studies, Bates College > currently has interdisciplinary programs in Biochemistry, Neuroscience and > Environmental Studies as well as American Cultural Studies, African > American Studies, Classical & Medieval Studies and Asian Studies. Bates > College is a small liberal arts undergraduate institution where excellence > in teaching and scholarly research are equally valued and where all > appointments include some administrative duties, such as committee work or > student advising. Deadline for receipt of applications is DECEMBER 1, > 1997. Mail cover letter, transcripts, curriculum vitae, research and > teaching statements, research or writing sample, and three letters of > recommendation to: > > Chair, Women's Studies Search > c/o Secretarial Services > Bates College > 2 Andrews Road, 7 Lane Hall > Lewiston, ME 04240 > (Fax: 207-786-6123) > Bates College values a diverse college community and seeks to assure equal > opportunity through a continuing and effective Affirmative Action Program. > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 16:05:21 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Elizabeth Eames Subject: Employment Services Network; (fwd)/FYI (fwd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For interested graduate students (or their advisors) on WMST-L > THIS INFO IS FROM THE LATINA/O SECTION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSN > > From laos@uci.edu Wed Oct 15 07:02:42 1997 > > Subject: Employment Services Network; (fwd) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:52:17 -0500 > > From: Patricio Navia > > To: LATINO-L@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU > > Subject: Employment Services Network; (fwd) > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:40:04 CDT > > From: U49041@UICVM.UIC.EDU > > > > From: "Eden Torres" > > Subject: Available Positions > > > > Two positions are available in the Women's Studies Dept. at the > > University of Minnesota. One for a specialist in Chicana/Latina Studies, > > American Indian Women's Studies, or Asian American Women's Studies. The > > second is for a specialist in African American Women's Studies. A formal > > description follows: > > > > UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA > > TWO ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITIONS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES > > APPLICATIONS DUE DECEMBER 1, 1997 > > > > The Department of Women's Studies at University of Minnesota, one of the > > oldest women's studies departments in the country, invites applications > > for two tenure-track, full-time, assistant professor positions beginning > > September, 1998. > > > > One position is for an applicant whose area of specialization is > > African-American women, theories of race, class, and gender, in literary, > > cultural or social/historical studies. The second position is for an > > applicant whose area of specialization is women's studies and at least one > > of the following ethnic studies concentrations (Chicano Studies or > > American Indian Studies and/or Asian American Studies) with disciplinary > > or interdisciplinary training in the humanities, social sciences or > > history. Preference will be given to candidates with formal training in > > women's studies, feminist or gender studies. Requirements include > > demonstrated or promising scholarly productivity and research and teaching > > competencies in womens studies or other relevant areas, including > > contemporary theory and method. The Department is committed to > > connections between academic womens studies and broader communities, and > > preference will be given to candidates with relevant experience, interests > > and abilities. > > > > Applicants must have Ph.D. (or equivalent foreign degree) at the time > > of the appointment. Consideration will be given to applicants with a > > Ph.D. (or equivalent) in literary, cultural, social or historical studies > > or in an interdisciplinary field such as womens studies, American or > > ethnic studies. Responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate > > teaching and advising; departmental/college service; and research and > > scholarship. The appointment coincides with the inauguration of > > University of Minnesotas Womens Studies Ph.D. program which will offer the > > challenge of participating in a new graduate program. > > > > Salary is competitive at the assistant professor rank, and will vary > > depending on prior experience. Please send letter of application, vita, > > and three current letters of recommendation to Professor Amy Kaminsky, > > Chair of the Women's Studies Search Committee, Women's Studies Department, > > 489 Ford Hall, University of Minnesota, Minnesota 55455. > > > > Applications are due December 1, 1997. Phone (612) 624-7319, Fax > > (612)624-3573. (E-mail: kamin001@maroon.tc.umn.edu). The University of > > Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal > > access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, > > color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, > > disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual > > orientation. > > > > --995740-11155-876182473=:563031822-- > > > > From: ALEMAN > > Subject: Job Openings--University of Kansas > > > > Please post and/or distribute the following job announcement. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ------------- > > . . . . . . . > > Begin 08/18/98, contingent on final budgetary approval; 9-month > > tenure-track or tenured, depending on qualifications; salary commensurate > > with qualifications and experience; Ph.D. by start date. Full descriptions > > available. > > > > Position 1: > > > > Assistant Professor, Composition Studies or Rhetoric. Duties: > > teaching courses in composition studies, rhetoric, undergraduate writing, > > and possibly introductory literature; research and writing leading to > > publication; service. Required qualifications: specialization in > > composition studies or rhetoric as evidenced through coursework and > > writings; evidence of successful teaching; preparation to teach beginning > > and advanced courses in specialty, undergraduate writing courses, and > > introductory literature courses; Preferred qualification: relevant > > publication. > > > > Position 2: > > > > Assistant/Associate Professor, Composition Studies or Rhetoric. Duties: > > same as Position 1, plus teaching advanced graduate courses and directing > > graduate students' work in specialty. Required qualifications: same as > > Position 1, plus publications and professional activities in specialty. > > Preferred qualifications: significant publication; successful experience > > working with graduate students in specialty; experience or interest in > > administering writing programs. Complete application (see below) also > > must include sample publications. > > > > Position 3: > > > > Assistant Professor, African American Literature. Duties: > > teaching beginning and advanced courses in African American literature; > > introductory literature, and possibly composition; research and writing > > leading to publication; service. Required qualifications: specialization > > in the study of African American literature; evidence of successful > > teaching; preparation to teach courses in specialty, introductory > > literature and composition courses. > > > > Complete application (please specify position for which you are applying) > > must include: letter of application, CV, transcript or other record of > > coursework, and at least 3 recent letters of recommendation evaluating > > scholarship and teaching. Initial review of applications begins 11/10/97 > > and will continue until positions are filled. Interviews at MLA. Contact: > > Richard F. Hardin, Chair, Department of English, 3116 Wescoe Hall, > > University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2115. Fax 785/864-4298. EO/AA > > Employer. > > > > --------------2129108981-1176964009-876428466=:15512--------------- > > > > From: Alberto Herrera > > Subject: Job Announcement, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > > > > Director, Roberto Hernandez Center for Latino Studies > > > > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > > > > The University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee invites nominations and > > applications for the position of Director of the Roberto Hernandez > > Center for Latino Studies. Candidates should be scholar-teachers in the > > area of U.S. Latino Studies, with substantial records of publication and > > professional service, and a commitment to community involvement. The > > successful candidate will have a Ph.D. or its equivalent and qualify for > > a tenured appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Prof