WMST-L LOG9308C ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 14:24:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Spinsters Ink address Spinsters Ink was recently purchased by Joan Drury of Minneapolis. New address is P.O. Box 300170, Minneapolis, MN 55403. Phyllis Holman Weisbard (608) 263-5754 Acting Women's Studies Librarian pweis@wiscmacc (Bitnet) University of Wisconsin System pweis@macc.wisc.edu (Internet) Room 430 Memorial Library 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 11:51:36 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X Comments: Resent-From: Linda Lopez McAlister From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Pitt Conference: Fem. Ethics & Social Policy *************************************************************** HYPATIA has her old e-mail address: dllafaa@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu But Linda has a new one she'd prefer you to use for non-Hypatia and non-SWIP-L mail. It's mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu Thanks. *** Forwarding note from SWIP-L --CFRVM 08/15/93 11:34 *** Received: from CFRVM.BITNET by CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Mailer R2.08 PTF008) with BSMTP id 0096; Sun, 15 Aug 93 11:34:58 EDT Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 11:34:21 EDT Reply-To: Society for Women in Philosophy Information and Discussion List Sender: Society for Women in Philosophy Information and Discussion List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Pitt Conference: Fem. Ethics & Social Policy To: Multiple recipients of list SWIP-L Iris Young has sent along some preliminary information on the upcoming conference on Feminist Ethics and Social Policy: FEMINIST ETHICS AND SOCIAL POLICY NOVEMBER 5-7, 1993 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Plenary speakers: Alison Jaggar, Anna Yeatman (Australia), Joan Tronto, Selma Sevenhuijsen (Netherlands), Graciella Hierro (Mexico), Claudia Card, Maria Lugones. Panels on: Issues in Health Care (including conceptions of health, health care policy, reproductive and medical technologies, cosmetic surgery, abortion); sexual harassment; systematic violence; self-defense; ageism; anti-poverty politics; ecofeminism;identity politics; parental rights; equality in the workplace; feminist jurisprudence; women and international politics; and more. Panelists include: Bat-Ami Bar On, Lorraine Code, Marilyn Friedman, Sara Lucia Hoagland, Uma Narayan, Sara Ruddick, Ofelia Schutte, Mary Shanley, Caroline Whitbeck, and dozens more. ADVANCE REGISTRATION NECESSARY Participants must register by September 15 due to space limiations. Registration fees: $45 Senior Faculty; $35 Junior Faculty; $0 Graduate Students. For full program and registration forms contact Rita Hill (412) 624-6614 or Sandy Kennedy (412) 624-6656. *************************************************************** HYPATIA has her old e-mail address: dllafaa@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu But Linda has a new one she'd prefer you to use for non-Hypatia and non-SWIP-L mail. It's mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 21:26:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: speakers bureau Joan Korenman and I have discussed briefly the problems and possibilities and problems of setting up a WMST-L speakers bureau. Louie Crew has created an electronic list of people doing research on LesBiGay issues. A form was distributed electronically and people who wanted to be included in the list completed it. When it was distributed I found it fairly useless--he simply appended each person's information. There was no order and it was impossible to search for field, area of the country, or research topic. And it was a *very* big file. I am also familiar with the American Psychological Association's creation of faculty who do research in the psychology of women, set up by the Committee on Women in Psychology, and a similar list of faculty who do research on lesbian and gay issues, set up by the Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns. In these two cases, questionnaires are mailed to department heads. In both cases listings are done by state. If we were to create a WMST-L speakers bureau, how should it be organized? What is the critical information that should be contained? How could it be updated? My thought is that the following information would be most relevant: Name Address Telephone Email Fax Discipline Topic(s) How far willing to travel Honorarium above expenses? How much? What other information should be included? For example, should there be references one could contact to check on whether the person is a good speaker? My thought is that this might be maintained by a single individual on some sort of data base (Quattro Pro, D-Base, Excell) where it could be sorted to suit the needs of the person requesting the information. For example, if one wanted, she or he could get a list by topic, or state, or discipline. I am not, at this point, agreeing to do such a thing. But I think it might be something that could (and perhaps should) be done. Please send me (NOT WMST-L) you thoughts. I'll compile them and let you know what I receive. And, if YOU are interested in doing this, please take charge. Finally, the list would have a disclaimer that the information provided has not been check for qualifications. Listing is on a voluntary basis and no claim for the quality of the speaker can be made (or something like that. Thoughts to...... Arnie Kahn Internet: fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu Bitnet: fac_askahn@jmuvax ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 09:31:09 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ethel Tobach Subject: Re: Intellectual Isolation In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 14 Aug 1993 17:11:46 LCL from Bravo, Ginsberg. Themore exposure the better. What can we do to help. Ethel Tobach ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 09:51:05 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anne Carson Subject: Monique Wittig Does anyone have Monique Wittig's current address? Thanks. Anne Carson Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 ac3x@cornellc (bitnet) ac3x@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (internet) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 09:30:13 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Consuelo Lopez Springfield Subject: apt in La Jolla I am posting this for a friend who is not on the list and who is looking for a small apt. in La Jolla, Ca. for this upcoming quarter. She will also be interested in sharing one or in a room. She is an Ethnomusicologist, specializing in Afro-Caribbean culture, who will be teaching there. If you know of something, please contact me. Consuelo Lopez Springfield cspringf@ucs.indiana.edu fax: 812-855-5345. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 12:23:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: spinsters ink since spinsters ink seems to be the press that was purchased and moved to minneapolis, what is spinsters press in san francisco? beth blsimon@macc.wisc.edu dictionary of american regional english university of wisconsin-madison ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 15:17:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jessica Phyllis Weinberg Subject: housemate(s) wanted Sorry to take up WMST-L space with this, but I have very little time to find someone to fill a LARGE room in the house I am renting, so that I don't have to move. The house is in Hyattsville, Maryland, very close to the University of Maryland at College Park. The rent for the room is $300-400 (depending upon how many people are in the house total: 5 or 6), and it is very large. Large enough for a couple with a lot of stuff, for two people to share, or for one person who wants a lot of space. Non-smokers only please. Women preferred, but like-minded men okay as well. Please contact me PRIVATELY, as soon as possible, if you are interested, or if you know someone who is. The lease would begin Sept. 1. By the way, the house is split into two apartments, so the 5 or 6 people would not be sharing one kitchen, bath, etc. Thanks for your indulgence. Jessica Weinberg jessicap@wam.umd.edu OR info-14@info.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 15:02:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristine Anderson Subject: Re: Monique Wittig In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 16 Aug 1993 09:51:05 EDT from Monique Wittig is at the University of Arizona, Tucson 85721-001. She teaches in the Department of French and Italian. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 13:46:41 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "E. Butler-Evans" Subject: Narratives by Black Lesbians I am trying to identify narratives written by African American lesbians or that deal with themes related to African American lesbian sexuality and racial identity. I want to examine works of the quality of Audre Lorde's "Zami." I would greatly appreciate all suggestions. This is for inclusion for a course I am teaching in the fall on the narrative construction of race, gender, and sexuality. Thanks, Elliott Butler-Evans ebevans@humamitas.ucsb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 17:36:59 -0400 Reply-To: korenman@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Addresses needed for W.S. scholars One of my colleagues needs to have VERY CURRENT (fall '93) professional addresses for the following Women's Studies scholars: Rosalind Petchesky Sandra Harding Allan Brandt Judith Walzer Leavitt Ricky Solinger Joan Jacobs Brumberg If you have up-to-date information for any of these people, I'd be most grateful if you'd send it to me. I've put a reply-to header pointing back to me so responses will go to me, not WMST-L. Many thanks. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 20:47:30 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Scott Winkler Subject: Intellectual isolation I am glad Ruth brought up this subject, which I think belongs on-list. I'm a relatively new faculty member (started here at WVU last January). I came from a campus that is relatively "rich" in feminist intellectual colleagiality (Michigan, Ann Arbor) and right away felt that I absolutely had to find something similar here at WVU for my own survival and development! I also suspected that there would be other feminist faculty who felt similarly. We just had our first VERY successful faculty development seminar - not just interdisciplinary in sense of cross-department, but cross-school. (Arts and Sciences, Curriculum and Instruction, Nursing, etc. and WVU, Wheeling Jesuit, Bethany College, etc.) We will continue to meet - to talk about mentoring, teaching, and our research. I highly recommend organizing a few day seminar like this as a kick-off - it gives "legitimacy" in the eyes of Deans, as well! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 00:40:22 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allison Fraiberg Subject: Address for Raymina Y. Mays Requested I am posting this message for Joycelyn Moody who is on the list but is having trouble posting. Please send responses privately to Joycelyn at jmoody@u.washington.edu. Thanks, Allison Fraiberg fraiberg@u.washington.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 21:11:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Joycelyn Moody I hope to contact one of the contributors to HOME GIRLS: A BLACK FEMINIST ANTHOLOGY, edited by Barbara Smith and published by Kitchen Table Press a while back. Does anyone have an address for RAYMINA Y. MAYS? Please reply privately. Thank you. Joycelyn Moody University of Washington, Seattle jmoody@u.washington.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 09:53:00 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Gaber Subject: inforM changes Beginning Tuesday, August 17, 1993, the login procedure for inforM will be changing. Once the change has been made, the first prompt that will be displayed during the login process is the prompt for the terminal type (i.e, users no longer have to enter "gopher", "info", or "oldmenu"). Entering a valid terminal type and pressing return (or just using the default terminal type) will automatically access the inforM menus using the gopher client program. Also, during the month of August we are busily reconstructing the file organization of the inforM system. The underlying files do not directly reflect the menus displayed when using the gopher login and our aim is to make the filenames reflect more directly the menus displayed within gopher. To this end, the names of all directories within the inforM system will be changing. This effort will take several weeks to complete as we must insure that the system remains complete and that we don't miss anything. We appreciate your patience in this effort. For those who want to know a little more technical details... The info system files all reside in the /usr/ftp/info directory. During contruction, the newly organized files will be in /usr/ftp/inforM. Thus /usr/ftp/info/CampusCalendars will ultimately be accesible from /usr/ftp/inforM/Campus_Calendars. Upon completion, the directory /usr/ftp/info will be made to be an alternative name for the diretcory /usr/ftp/inforM. The idea is that as we construct the new directory tree, we will create links from the old tree into the new tree. This will retain the old diretcory path names until all references to the old file anmes have been changed to refer to the new path names. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. Paula Gaber Coordinator, inforM's Women's Studies Database gaber@inform.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 10:05:26 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X Comments: Resent-From: Linda Lopez McAlister From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Conference Announcement *************************************************************** HYPATIA has her old e-mail address: dllafaa@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu But Linda has a new one she'd prefer you to use for non-Hypatia and non-SWIP-L mail. It's mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu Thanks. *** Forwarding note from DLLAFAA --CFRVM 08/17/93 10:04 *** To: SWIP-L --CFRVM From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Conference Announcement I've been asked to post the following announcement: The Graduate Faculty Women in Philosophy of The New School will be hosting a Fall conference on Saturday, October 9, 1993 at 10:00 a.m. This conference, entitled "Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy?," aims to facilitate discussion around issues concerning feminist thought and philosophy. Specifically, to articulte, question, and speak across these academic and political boundaries. The conference will be ehld at The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 11101. Doors will open at 9:00 a.m. for thow who wish to arrive early. For further information, please call Emma Bianchi (212) 475-6616; or Camille Atkinson (718) 263-3987. *************************************************************** HYPATIA has her old e-mail address: dllafaa@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu But Linda has a new one she'd prefer you to use for non-Hypatia and non-SWIP-L mail. It's mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 09:30:09 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elizabeth A. Meese" Subject: Re: Narratives by Black Lesbians In-Reply-To: <9308170423.AA00229@umd5.umd.edu> you might want to look at Carolivia Herron's fabulous novel, Thereafter Johnnie. It deals with lesbianism as well as incest. it is terrifically moving and intelligent. elizabeth meese@english.as.ua.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 09:32:49 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Elizabeth A. Meese" Subject: Re: Intellectual isolation In-Reply-To: <9308170612.AA08351@umd5.umd.edu> I worked at a terrific conference at WVU last summer, and found some wonderful feminists in the English department there. Have you met Elaine (Mickey) Ginsburg and Dennis Allen? They've been there a long time and are extremely cordial people. feel free to say that I suggested you contact them. elizabeth meese@english.as.ua.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 13:45:12 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Elizabeth Chinn Subject: Re: Narratives by Black Lesbians In-Reply-To: <199308162048.AA25132@mailhub.cc.columbia.edu> Are you familiar with Barbara Smith's essay "Home" in _Home Girls_? She creates a fictive homecoming with her now dead female relatives. It's very well written, although I think it deconstructs itself (the home she narrates is already impossible by the time she imagines it). Either way, you can read it "straight" or ironically and it's still a great piece. Also, Beverly Smith's narrative of being at a friend's wedding (I don't remember the title) in _This Bridge Called My Back_. Michelle Cliff's novel _Abeng- is not explicitly lesbian but it is clearly autobiographical, dealing with a light skinned class-privileged girl's childhood in Jamaica and her friendship with a dark skinned rural girl. That's all I can think of offhand. Hope it;s helpful. Sarah Chinn sec8@columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 14:24:22 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: Intellectual Isolation In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 13 Aug 1993 12:26:00 EST from christine smith, you're not alone in finding an absence of acknowledgement of f eminist theories in your department. i've been on a graduate curriculum commit tee at brooklyn college (the committee that must approve new courses, programs, etc., before it goes to faculty council for final approval and into the curric ulum). i've been appalled at the absence of inclusion of feminist thought, of women, of self-consciousness of males' gender in course proposals. more dismal was the committee's willingness to accept the proposals as adequate scholarship e. g., old-style political science. mine remains a small minority - of one. i'd like to be optimistic about a change in the next generation but i don't see it. there's very much invested, materially and ideologically, in maintaining t he status quo. how to become more aggressive? as post-kuhnians we know that changes in paradigms emerge from political action, not solely within the commun ity of scholars. beatrice beabc.cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 14:48:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Jody Lee Rust (Jolrust)" Subject: Re: Intellectual Isolation In reading all of the postings on intellectual isolation, I am even more weary of going on to do my graduate work. This isolation reality is among many of the "warnings" I've gotten concerning women doing their graduate work at small and large universities -- whether or not their work revolves around feminist theroy. When I first started inqiring into graduate school, most people I spoke with seemed eager to talk me out of the idea. I'm not sure if they were really trying to give me a clear picture of what grad. school is like,or what. Many reasons have crossed my mind -- one of them being that I am a woman. After much thought, I think I want to compare 19th century British and American Literature -- my interest leaning toward lower class women in each society. (but even that I am unsure of). With the stress of graduate work -- for both sexes -- I would like very much to avoid a school in which intellectaul sharing is minimal in any avenue I may take. Any suggestions? Jody Jolrust@indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 19:14:44 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Scott Winkler Subject: WVU faculty Hi, Elizabeth. Yes, I know both Micky and Dennis. (Dennis gave a very animated talk on "the gaze" in my intro class spring semester.) I gather the conference you mentioned (and which I hired too late to take part in, unfortunately) was the one on gay and lesbian studies? It crystallized student interest as well and I will be teaching a course on sexuality in American Culture as a result! Good to hear from you. barbara.winkler@um.cc.umich.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 20:42:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: speakers bureau I have received more suggestions about the speakers bureau than I can process. I wish to thank all of you who have made suggestions, but I ask that suggestions stop for the moment. It's going to take me a while to sort through all the wonderful advice I've been given, and I leave for Toronto and the American Psychological Association meetings on Friday. The good news is that it looks like we'll have a speakers bureau...soon. Arnie fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 07:45:22 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: l9th cen working women sorry to post to list, but i can't get through. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 07:44:21 EDT From: Mailer-Daemon@grits To: jelza@grits Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 Host ucs.indiana.edu not found for mailer ether. 550 "Jody Lee Rust (Jolrust)" ... Host unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: Received: by grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28559; Wed, 18 Aug 93 07:44:21 EDT Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 07:42:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: Intellectual Isolation To: "Jody Lee Rust (Jolrust)" In-Reply-To: <9308172033.AA07647@umd5.umd.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII we don't have a phd program, but your area of interest has been explored by one of our english profs, Dr. Patricia Marks. Her e-mail address is: PMARKS@GRITS.VALDOSTA.PEACHNET.EDU On Tue, 17 Aug 1993, Jody Lee Rust (Jolrust) wrote: > In reading all of the postings on intellectual isolation, I am even more weary > of going on to do my graduate work. This isolation reality is among many > of the "warnings" I've gotten concerning women doing their graduate work > at small and large universities -- whether or not their work revolves around > feminist theroy. When I first started inqiring into graduate school, most > people I spoke with seemed eager to talk me out of the idea. I'm not sure if > they were really trying to give me a clear picture of what grad. school is > like,or what. Many reasons have crossed my mind -- one of them being that I am > a > woman. After much thought, I think I want to compare 19th century British and > American Literature -- my interest leaning toward lower class women in each > society. (but even that I am unsure of). With the stress of graduate work -- > for both sexes -- I would like very much to avoid a school in which > intellectaul sharing is minimal in any avenue I may take. Any suggestions? > > Jody > Jolrust@indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 10:03:22 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Thomas Subject: Gender and Geography Does anyone know anything about a new journal, "Gender and Geography"? I'm trying to find the editor and an address/phone for this forthcoming publication. Please respond privately. Thanks. Wendy Thomas, Public Service Librarian Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College 10 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)495-8647 WENDY@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 10:21:26 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SHARON E BOYD Subject: Int'l Women's Conference, Idaho, Oct 93 Does anyone have information or a contact person about such a conference? Sharon Boyd BOYDSE@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 10:40:37 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Gaber Subject: inforM Update: Caucus Newsletter The following files and/or directories have been added to the inforM Women's Studies Database: Educational Resources/Women's Studies/Politics/CaucusUpdates/Update-vol13no7 The August 6, 1993 edition of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues newsletter is now available on-line. The newsletter, Update On Women and Family Issues In Congress, gives details about recent Congressional actions of concern to women. To access the inforM database, telnet to INFORM.UMD.EDU. (If you do not know how to telnet, contact a local computer wizard, or try typing "telnet inform.umd.edu" at the main prompt of your computer account). Hit return to set the default terminal type or type "?" for a list of choices. Use either your arrow keys or number keys to select "4. Educational Resources". After that, select "12. Women's Studies". The Gopher interface has a feature that allows users to send files to their e-mail accounts. Scroll to the end of the file and type "m", or at any time press "q" (for quit), then "m". The inforM system is also accessible by anonymous ftp. FTP to INFORM.UMD.EDU. Login as "anonymous", and use your mail address as a password. Choose the "info" directory by typing "cd info". The command "cd [directory name]" will change the directory. The commands "dir" or "ls" will display a list of files in that directory. Use the command "get [filename]" to download a file into your account. The directory pathname for the Women's Studies Database is info/Teaching/WomensStudies. Your local Gopher System may be set up to automatically link to the Womens's Studies Database. Check the "Other Systems" or "Other Gophers" directory or ask your system administrator for help. Please remember that the system is case sensitive. Anything that appears in quotes must be typed exactly as it is here. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Paula Gaber inforM, Room 4343 Coordinator, Women's Studies Database Computer Science Center gaber@inform.umd.edu University of Maryland (301) 405-2939 College Park, Maryland 20742 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 12:08:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: Gay/Lesbian/Bi syllabi request This is for a women's studies professor whose computer is down: She is developing an interdisciplinary course on gay/lesbian/bi studies from the perspectives of philosophy, language, English, sociology/anthropology, and history. Is anyone currently teaching or developing a course covering gay/ lesbian/ bi studies who could share with her a syllabus or thoughts about structuring such a course? Please respond to me privately, and I'll forward responses to her. Please forward this request to other relevant discussion lists. ***************** Phyllis Holman Weisbard (608) 263-5754 Acting Women's Studies Librarian pweis@wiscmacc (Bitnet) University of Wisconsin System pweis@macc.wisc.edu (Internet) Room 430 Memorial Library 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 13:42:17 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Gender Studies Program UNAM A while ago I posted a rudimentary address for the gender studies program at the Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico. I've mow just received a borchure about the program and can give the exact address and correct telephone and fax numbers: P.U.E.G. (Programa Universitario de Estudios de Genero) COORDINACION DE HUMANIDADES, UNAM. Cto. Mtr. Mario de la Cueva, Cd. de las Humanidades, Zona Cultural Cd. Universitaria 04510 Mexico, D.F. Tels: 622-75-65 to 75 FAX: 606-97-79 Linda Lopez McAlister *************************************************************** HYPATIA has her old e-mail address: dllafaa@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu But Linda has a new one she'd prefer you to use for non-Hypatia and non-SWIP-L mail. It's mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 14:25:05 -0400 Reply-To: Lila Hanft Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lila Hanft Subject: Re: Narratives by Black Lesbians I too have this quest; when I teach a similar course (race,class, gender, sexuality), I use _Zami_, and then mainly Latina writing (Cherie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua's _Borderlands_, and of course the anthologies _This Bridge Called my Back_ and _Making Face Making Soul_). I use Joan Nestle's _A Restricted Country_ to talk about the narrative construction of sexuality and class. But I'd like to include more writing by African-American women. --Lila Hanft lxh16@po.cwru.edu > >I am trying to identify narratives written by African American lesbians or >that deal with themes related to African American lesbian sexuality and >racial identity. I want to examine works of the quality of Audre Lorde's >"Zami." I would greatly appreciate all suggestions. This is for inclusion >for a course I am teaching in the fall on the narrative construction of race, >gender, and sexuality. >Thanks, >Elliott Butler-Evans >ebevans@humamitas.ucsb.edu > > -- Lila Hanft Internet: lxh16@po.cwru.edu Assistant Professor of English Phone: (216)-368-2372 Case Western Reserve University Fax: (216)-368-2216 Cleveland, OH 44106-7117 Bitnet: lxh16%po.cwru.edu@cunyvm ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 13:31:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Carpenter Subject: M. A. Programs in Psychology with a Feminist Tendency I have a student who is graduate school bound. She would like to attend a university in the Southeast U. S. that has a strong emphasis on women's studies. However, she also wants a "rigorous/experimental" background in psychology also. She is interested in women in organizational settings, so is looking for a social psychology program that is applied in some way (organizational, law, etc. ) Any suggestions would be helpful. Please respond privately. Thank you Sandra Carpenter UAHSAC01@UAHVAX1 (bitnet) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 14:48:17 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HILDEGARD Organization: University of NC at Greensboro Subject: query on the Moravian faith I am about to begin my thesis research and am hoping that some of you may have some suggestions. I would like some research ideas/ponderings regarding the Moravian faith, especially the role of women in the development of the faith. Even more specifically, if possible, the role of African American women--but also men--in the Moravian faith. I will assisting in an exhibition in conjunction with Old Salem in North Carolina, and would like to begin my research within the mentioned parameters. Any opening ideas would be most appreciated, even "branching" ideas! Barbra Brady Weatherspoon Art Gallery UNC Greensboro BRADYB@uncg.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 15:18:12 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: judy long Subject: intellec isolation Having just read Beatrice Kachuk's account of her experience on curriculum comm ittees --yes yes. Kuhn's comfort to us that paradigms change not by the accumu lation of evidence (much less by "critical experiements") but by the revolution of generations. This suggests that we're seeing the last backlash by guys who are about to retire, and/or we'd better change the graduate curriculum so as to affect the next generation. I just returned from my discipline's convention where the president began his talk by reminiscing about the 1940's, when he entered the profession, skipped without a nof to reconstructed history to the old white (European) fathers of the discipline, and then regretted that the field "became politicized" in the 1960's. I hope I won't be sitting through too many more talks like that one. --JUDY LONG, SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY -- --103 SIMS IV, SYRACUSE, NY 13244-1230, USA (315)443-4580 -- --Bitnet: JLONG@SUVM Internet: JLONG@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU -- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 15:37:26 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry Linkon Organization: Youngstown State University Subject: Women Writers Projects Help! I keep seeing announcements on various e-mail lists about the Brown University Women Writers Project, which is supposed to have an e-mail list. I have sent messages to the contact people, but received no response. Does anyone out there know anything about it? How do I sign on? If you have any information, please contact me privately. Thanks--Sherry ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 15:07:43 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Ting Subject: African American gay and lesbian resources I'm posting this publically, since there seem to be several people interested in African American lesbian and gay resources. Bill Pincheon heads the Shango Project: National Archives for Blacks Lesbians and Gay Men, which has a archive and a database of speakers. I will quote from the brochure below: "The Shango Project is a newly conceived effort to collect, preserve, and maintain materials of historical interest which document aspects of African-American Lesbian and Gay existence in contemporary and historical society. The Project entails the acquisition, collection, and preservation of newspapers, articles, books, magazines, journals, memorbilia, diaries, and other artifacts (recors, field recordings and interviews, compact discs, film, video, song texts, art pieces, folklore, commentary, fiction, poetry, etc.) which document the Black lesbian and gay male presence. In conjunction with other groups, organizations and individuals, the Shango Project will serve as asupport organization to aid in project design, research aims, film festivals, and other activities whose function is to educate, enlighten, or promote change. [some text deleted] The Shango Project is dedicated to increasing the visibility of lesbian and gay Blacks and the exploration of issues central to our lives. "Through its newsletter, _Purple Drum_, the Shango Project allows writers, film-makers, scholars, researchers, students, activists and others an avenue of communication on a variety of events, new works and activities through announcement and critical, informed review of books, film, video, music, commentary and television. "One long-range goal of the project is to develop a resource center serving not only as an archive but maintaining a database of all research and historical materials pertaining to Black Lesbian and Gay Men in African Diaspora. Such a central database will allow the use of a much-needed resource tool in exploring aspects of leslbian and gay male life and to further much-needed work on the multidimensional issues faced by lesbians and gay men of African descent in society [sic] across the world. "If you would like to contribute to this effort, please contact the director by writing to the address listed or phone 812-334-8860. Donations which bear on some aspect of the Black lesbian and gay experience are always welcome and will be maintained and preserved in the donor's name. Scholars, reviewers and writers are always welcome to submit short commentary, letters, articles, fiction and nonfiction for publication in _Purple Drum_, or may deposit such items to the archive if they wish to become a part of the permanent collection." Bill Stanford Pincheon, Director The Shango Project P.O. Box 2341 Bloomington Indiana 47402-2341 812-334-8860 ------end of brochure---------------- The Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York also has an extensive collection of historical and imaginative material on African American lesbians. Magazines like _Azalea_, _Sage_, and _BLK_ are indexed in the Alternative Press Index under "Black Lesbian/Gay Life." Happy hunting! Jennifer Ting Department of American Civilization Brown University jen <--> st403328@brownvm <--> st403328@brownvm.brown.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 15:50:14 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jo Malin Subject: contact I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 18-Aug-1993 03:42pm EDT From: Jo Malin JMALIN Dept: Talent Search Tel No: 773-7718 TO: Remote RSCS/NJE Network User ( _JNET%WMST-L@UMDD ) Subject: contact I hope this is an appropriate thing to do on this list: network. I am an applicant for a position at Monroe Community College in Rochester NY and am hoping one of you works there or knows someone who does. The position is Dean of Liberal Arts. Jo 607-771 5403 JMALIN@BINGVAXA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 16:48:17 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn E. Hanninen" Subject: Re: query on the Moravian faith Hi! A good resource for Moravian faith questions is: Moravian College Bethlehem, PA 18015 I'm not sure who to contact; maybe public relations or the library. (I'm a Moravian alum.) lynn ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 18:11:04 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Patricia Patterson Subject: Re: Gay/Lesbian/Bi syllabi request The Teaching Resources Center of the American Sociological Association has compiled several syllabi (editors Paula Rust and Martin Levine) in a publication entitled "The Sociology of Sexuality and Homosexuality: Syllabi and Teaching Materials." Contact the ASA Teaching Resources Center, 1722 N Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036. Or call (202)-833-3410. These materials are quite affordable and useful. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 18:09:28 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: jen From: jen Please cross-post as appropriate. jen <--> st403328@brownvm <--> st403328@brownvm.brown.edu ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT QAPA-L: Queer Asian Pacific American Discussion List Need advice on coming out to your tutu? Feeling like the only lesbian in the history of your Asian American Student group? QAPA-L is a forum for networking, resource sharing, discussing politics, and sharing our experiences as the queer children of the Asian diasporas. The purpose: building an electronic community of Asian Pacific queers. We are: --bisexual, lesbian, transvestite, gay, and queer --women, men, and others --seventh generation mixed race through f.o.b. --Hawaiian, Chinese, Korean, Samoan, Filipino, Cambodian, South Asian, Vietnamese, Hmong, Malaysian, Japanese, Laotian, and more! To subscribe, send a message to listserv@brownvm.brown.edu: sub QAPA-L ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 18:00:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: women writers projects if anyone has the information sherry linkon asked about, would you post it here on WMST-L please. thanks, beth blsimon@macc.wisc.edu dictionary of american regional english university of wisconsin-madison ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 19:29:57 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Jacobson Subject: Re: women writers projects In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 18 Aug 1993 18:00:00 CDT from To subscribe to the women's writers project at brown send a message to listserv to subscribe to wwp-l ************************************************************************ Sharon Jacobson Dept of Recreation and Leisure Studies University Affiliated Program Hardman Hall House D 706-542-5064 706-542-3457 ************************************************************************ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 20:37:50 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kay Mussell Organization: The American University Subject: Re: women writers projects In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 18 Aug 1993 18:00:00 CDT from I sent this privately to Sherry Linkon this afternoon, but here it is for everyone else. The list is WWP-L, the Women Writers Project at Brown University. You can subscribe by sending a message to: listserv@brownvm.brown.edu. This is not a very active list in terms of messages but the archives have some interesting materials. Kay Mussell, American University mussell@auvm.american.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 20:59:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Women Writers Projects Earlier today, Sherry Linkon wrote: >Help! I keep seeing announcements on various e-mail lists about the Brown >University Women Writers Project, which is supposed to have an e-mail list. I >have sent messages to the contact people, but received no response. Does >anyone out there know anything about it? How do I sign on? If you have any >information, please contact me privately. Thanks--Sherry What follows is a description sent by the WWP-L listowner when I subscribed in 1991. The list has remained fairly inactive in spite of the attractive possibilities outlined below: ************************************************* The list, as I see it, has a two-fold purpose: to discuss specific activities of the Women Writers Project and to keep you informed about the particular texts that we have available, and to focus more generally on issues of teaching and research with respect to texts by women in English during the period from approximately 1350 through approximately 1850. Topics appropriate to the WWP, itself, might include (and probably will include at least some of the following over the next few days): the current list of texts we have available; the text of our newsletter; information about the series of print volumes we will be producing with Oxford University Press over the next several years; copies of syllabi that suggest ways of integrating work by women writers into standard courses; comments about your experiences teaching with any of our texts; requests for specific texts to be made available as possible, etc.; what kinds of information does the WWP include in the electronic versions of our texts; in what formats can you receive certain texts; what is the impact of the Text Encoding Initiative on projects like the WWP (and our impact on the TEI); as we can answer them, specific questions you might have about the WWP. A more general set of topics might include why teach these texts?; requests for information on particular authors; requests for texts on particular topics; mla sessions of interest; other conferences; new books and other resources. You know what some of your other questions or preferred topics of discussion are or might be. We may discover that wwp-l members prefer to hold their philosophical discussions about courses and texts and research elsewhere, in which case the list can function primarily as a bulletin board with periodic updates of the list of available texts. The WWP was conceived of, in part, as a resource for scholars and teachers and students interested in women's writings. Please help us make it a reality. Elaine Brennan (ELAINE@BROWNVM) Assistant Director ********************************************************** To subscribe, send the following message to LISTSERV@BROWNVM (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Internet): SUB WWP-L Your Name . I don't know much more. If you have further questions, I'd recommend your sending them to Elaine Brennan at ELAINE@BROWNVM or ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 21:25:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 3 announcements The following three announcements may be of interest to WMST-L readers: 1) Visiting & Affiliated Scholars Program (Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Stanford Univ.) 2) Job opening: Sociology (inc. Soc. of Gender) (Smith College) 3) Job opening: Women's Center Director (Northwestern Univ.) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc) ******************************************************* 1) THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN & GENDER SERRA HOUSE STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD, CA 94305-8640 invites applications for our VISITING AND AFFILIATED SCHOLARS PROGRAM The Stanford University Institute for Research on Women and Gender invites qualified individuals to apply for its Visiting and Affiliated Scholars Program. Scholars interested in research projects on women and gender may apply for unsalaried positions twice a year -- September 15 and February 15 -- to begin at any time during the academic year. Visiting scholars may apply for appointments from one quarter to one year. The Institute offers Visiting scholars office space, access to Stanford libraries, and other University privileges. Affiliated scholars are independent scholars without other full-time academic bases who reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are appointed for a two year term, and with the exception of shared office space, receive most of the privileges of Visiting scholars. Both Visiting and Affiliated scholars participate in ongoing research seminars and discussion groups, scheduled throughout the academic year. Scholars are expected to be actively involved with the scholarly and educational programs supported by the Institute and to give at least one presentation of their work during their appointments. Scholars are also encouraged to make themselves available as resources to the greater University community. CRITERIA Candidates in any field may apply. Evaluations will be based on academic credentials (including having the Ph.D.); publications; proposed scholarly projects; general academic promise; likelihood of involvement in the Scholars' program; other activities that may enrich the Institute's intellectual life. In selecting among candidates, committee members will also consider the Institute's desire to maintain diversity in background and substantive scholarly interests among the scholars. The procedure is the same for Visiting and Affiliated scholars: To apply, send a curriculum vita, a two to three-page abstract of the proposed research to be undertaken at the Institute, and two letters of reference from full-time faculty members to Sally Schroeder, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Serra House, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-8640. *************************************************************************** 2) Department of Sociology Assistant Professors Smith The Department of Sociology invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level beginning Fall 1994. Requirements: (l) applicants should be prepared to teach two sections of Introductory Sociology, a required course in classical theory, an advanced course in contemporary theory, and an additional course in a traditional substantive field, (2) applicants should be prepared to teach two sections of Introductory Sociology, an intermediate-level course on the Sociology of Gender, a required course in statistics or quantitative methods, and an additional course in a traditional substantive field. Additional substantive fields of interest include Religion, Family, Ethnic Minorities, Work and Occupations, Law, Medical and others. Preference will be given to candidates who will complete their doctorate by June 1994. Submit letter of application indicating position desired, describing teaching and research interests, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation to: Patricia Miller, Chair, Department of Sociology, Smith College, Box 500, Northampton, MA 01063. Screening of applicants will begin October 15, 1993. Smith is a highly selective undergraduate liberal arts college for women with approximately 2,500 students located 100 miles from Boston in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. Faculty members have easy access to the combined resources of the Five Colleges. An affirmative action-equal opportunity institution. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 1993 *************************************************************************** 3) Northwestern University Women's Center Director Northwestern University invites nominations and applications for the position of the Director of the Women's Center located on Northwestern's Evanston campus. The Women's Center offers advocacy, counseling, and education to support the university's women students, staff, and faculty. Responsible for coordinating all the Center's activities, the Director also works with other university groups and offices and with the larger university community to improve the status of women on campus and promote cultural diversity and equity. The Director reports to the University Provost. Qualifications for the position include outstanding leadership capability and communication skills; a strong background in women's issues and education; at least three years of administrative experience; experience in working with community and advocacy groups for women; seminar, workshop, or conference planning skills; experience with counseling services; and a willingness to build on the Center's strong foundation while shaping it to meet the challenge of the next century. An advanced degree is desirable. Nominations, applications (with curriculum vitae), or inquiries should be sent by October 1, 1993 to: Dr. Penny L. Hirsch Chair, Women's Center Director Search Committee Office of the Provost Northwestern University Rebecca Crown Center 633 Clark Street Evanston, IL 60208-1101 Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer; applications from minorities are encouraged. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 1993 *************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 07:24:45 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: women writers projects In-Reply-To: <9308190123.AA20498@umd5.umd.edu> there's a WRITERS%NDSUVM1.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU in list of lists which is described as a discussion group for professional writers and those who aspire to be. non-bitnet users can access archives or subscribe by sending sub writers full name at listserv%ndsuvm1.bitnet@vm1.nodak.edu back issues can be gotten by writing index writers to listserv@ndsuvm1 The brown project is listed in the educator's list, but it is where I am not at the moment. On Wed, 18 Aug 1993, Beth Lee Simon wrote: > if anyone has the information sherry linkon asked about, would you > post it here on WMST-L please. > > thanks, > beth > blsimon@macc.wisc.edu > dictionary of american regional english > university of wisconsin-madison ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 08:55:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Tamar Mayer, Middlebury College" Subject: Re: Gender and Geography The new journal about gender and geography is Gender, Place, and Cultre: A Journal of Feminist Geography/ The US editor is Mona Domash, Geography, College of Liberal Arts, Florida Atlantic University, 2912 College Ave., FL 33314. The first issue is due in January 1994. The Publisher is Carfax Publishing Company. Tamar Mayer Geography/WS Middlebury College MAYER@MIDD ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 09:10:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Helen Bannan Subject: Re: Gender and Geography Wendy, I thought other WMST-L people might also be interested in this new international journal: GENDER, PLACE AND CULTURE: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY is due to begin publishing in January 1994. One of my colleagues, Mona Domosh at Florida Atlantic University, is the American co-editor; Liz Bondi of the University of Edinburgh is the other. There are two addresses for subscriptions, one UK and one US: Carfax Publishing Company P.O. Box 25 Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3UE FAX: +44(0) 235 553559 Carfax Publishing Co. P.O. Box 2025 Dunnellon, FL 34430-2025 It promises to be a very interesting, interdisciplinary feminist journal. Helen Bannan, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Bannan@FAUVAX ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 12:19:13 +0501 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathryn Wall Subject: Gendered Pronouns A friend of mine asked me how he ought to handle using third person singular pronouns in non-specific examples for class. I've heard numerous opinions ranging from the grammatical "use his or him always," to a suggestion that you use the pronoun of your OWN gender (men use his/him, women use hers/her), to newly invented neutral pronouns like hirs/hir. Any opinions? - Kathryn ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 11:58:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: WRITERS the WRITERS list is not what you want beth blsimon@macc.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 12:08:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: gendered pronouns There has been an excellent discussion, including data sets, references, anecdotal material, etc., on the LINGUIST list, on the theoretical and practical questions of gendered pronouns, and use of singular and plural pronouns/verb agreement, etc. Also, this discussion was put together so that we could all see the responses. I can forward what i have to anyone who wants to read it, or you could join LINGUIST, at least so that you could see what was in the archgives for yourself (selves). beth simon blsimon@macc.wisc.edu dictionary of american regional english university of wisconsin-madison ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 08:39:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ANGELA SECREST Subject: Re: Women Writers Projects Hello to all! As far as I know the Brown WWP is still in existence, but the email list seems to be defunct. Other than the original messages send by the moderator when I signed on, I've received nothing. I even tried to visit once, but the person who I had corresponded with was out of the office the day I was to visit, even though I was expected. This isn't very helpful, I know. Your frustration is shared. I may still have paper copy of some old messages, and will be glad to share the "text list" with any who are interested. This project interests me because we have a collection of manuscripts from a four-county area originating from the women in a club. Constance Runcie founded the first women's club in America (according to the material in our collection), and founded a women's club here that is still in existence. Women wrote stories, poetry, essays, and music for presentation at the regular meetings. We are interested in making the contents of that collection available electronically as text and images. I would be glad to hear from any of you who are involved in similar project. Best wishes, Angela ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Angela Secrest Coordinator, Technical Services and Automation Hearns LRC, Missouri Western State College Internet: secrest@acad.mwsc.edu If that which you seek you find not within, you will never find it without. --Doreen Valiente, "The Charge of the Star Goddess" ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 13:46:45 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Rose Subject: Re: gendered pronouns In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 19 Aug 1993 12:08:00 CDT from Beth, I'd appreciate it if you would forward the summary of the discussion on g endered pronouns to me. (I thought I was replying privately to you, but I thin k this is going on the list.) Thanks! Sharon Rose The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga srose@utcvm.utc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 14:06:04 LCL Reply-To: sandym@MIT.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandy Martin Subject: sexuality software?? Does anyone know of any educational software or laser discs available that could be used by medical students in a course called "Sexuality". I'd like students to be exposed to as broad a definition of that term as possible. respond to: freedman@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 16:09:14 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: query re master's tools Can someone give me the exact phrasing and the source (author and reference if possible) to the comment that you can't tear down the master's house using the master's tools? I'd also be interested in knowing how people feel about this comment. Many thanks, in advance. D. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 15:13:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: gendered pronouns i have, in the last four hours since posting the announcement about LINGUIST discussion of pronouns, received many requests for the material. It would be much more efficient, for me, to post it once, here. i don't however, want to misuse this forum. i think it is appropriate in terms of the purpose of wmst-l, but could (delete "could"). if i hear from more folks in the next hour or so, i'll post it here, okay? (rising intonation, discourse analysis as you like). beth blsimon@macc.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 16:09:56 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: susan heald f Subject: Re: query re master's tools In-Reply-To: <9308192009.AA27879@mach1.wlu.ca> Audre Lorde, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House," in THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK: WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR. Ed. Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua. New York: Kitchen Table, 1981, pp. 98- 101. I think she's correct, but I don't think this should be taken as a suggestion that we don't also need to know how to use the master's tools while we're finding new ones. I use it when thinking about language: how to say something truly different using the same old words. Susan Heald sheald@mach1.wlu.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 17:58:40 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Paige - Georgia Southern University Subject: Re: Intellectual Isolation I tried to send a private message to Ruth Ginzberg but it didn't go through. I read her entry on "intellectual isolation" with interest. I'm not sure how much I can say via the e-mail, but I would like to partially share my experiences with the group. I too suffer from an inordinate amount of student loans and little pay. This is probably not surprising, for we in the South tend to have low salaries, in general. I teach English in a rather large dept.--about 90 full time/part time/temps. Only about 25 of us are tenured. I am now starting my 5th year at Georgia Southern U., a small school of about 14, 400. When I came here, I was astounded by how few women served in any type of administrative capacity. At the General Faculty Meeting in the Fall of '89, only one woman set on a stage with 13 males. That woman, I soon discovered, got where she was by making no waves. I felt--and still do feel--isolated. My interest in this discussion group is, to a large part, a response to my sense of isolation. Do not misunderstand me--I do relate to my students and was a finalist this year for Prof. of the Year, but I find few feminist colleagues at my institution. My second year here, I became involved in The Women's Network, a group on campus with whom I believed I could share ideas and learning experiences. I became secretary of the organization and brought many ideas for panels, discussions, and speakers to the group. Unfortunately, I think the group really didn't want to do much--other than write "Women's Network" on the vita. Indeed, when we invited Elizabeth Fox-Genovese to our campus, as a pre- requisite to starting a new women's studies program, I found that the network became more like a web. Our asst. dean of liberal arts didn't want Fox-Genovese to come to campus because she had heard that Fox-Genovese was not pro Women's Studies--a friend of hers had divulged this info. to her--and, of course, the Fox- Genovese visit was put on hold until it died. Fox-Genovese had graciously said that she would come to Southern, in fact, for whatever we could raise as she knew we would be starting a new Women's Studies Program and she wanted to support it. My own feeling was that even if Fox-Genovese were to say something with which we disagreed, she had a right to her own views, and certainly, we could always challenge any notions with which we disagreed. The visit never came to fruition. Indeed, we never got any nationally known speaker in--or even a regional speaker. The Women's Network did not like the idea of the colloquia much either--even though we had about 60 people or so in attendancy either--even though we had about 60 people or so in attendancy whoops-- in attendence. I found that the so-called feminists on campus were far from being feminists at all. I dropped out of the Network--and probably won't go back until I see that it wants to do something other than a social or a brown bag lunch. I also want to see other women be able to join the Network--not just mainly professors. I know there is a need on this campus for a real network, a real sharing. Even though initially I was placed on an Ad Hoc Committee for Women's Studies, I soon found that I had no voice. Essentially, only three people wrote up the proposal--though our committee had made lots of suggestions, had gone through lots of committee meetings. I soon realized that the Ad Hoc Committee was really kind of a sham. We essentially did very little--actually, almost nothing, but, I suppose, on paper it looks as if we really did have voices. I met with the female administrator that I mentioned earlier. She was chairing the committee. I explained to her that we should hold some public forums to see what people wanted in a new Women's Studies Program; I suggested that we meet with the Women's Network and hear what those individuals wanted in a Women's Studies Program; I suggested that we contact other programs already in existence; I mentioned that many of us on the committee had already met and made suggestions--work which had been discarded. I told this administrator that we needed to hear more voices on this campus. You can guess the look in my administrator's eye when I said all of this. I realized even at the time that I had stepped into dangerous territory. Ultimately, I was ignored--maybe even seen as a bit of a trouble maker--I'll never know. I do know that when a Women's and Gender Studies Program became approved, a committee was appointed for it. A political favorite here became appointed as the Director of the program. No one sent out a call for those who desired to serve on the committee. One day in our boxes we just received notice that the Director had been selected. Finally, a brochure came out with a committee, but no one knows how that committee was selected. Some of the people on the committee have never been interested in the Women's Studies area, to my knowledge. Not all of my story is a downer. I am still active on campus. I brought back from the dead a student group called Revision. We do lots of interesting things, including a panel "Gays and Women in the Military," three days of workshops on "Dating Practices," a program on "Birth Control: Whose Respon- sibility Is it?" and even a "Madonna Debate"--our last event which drew a crowd of over 200. Still, I miss working with other feminists--though two of my English Dept. colleagues, Terry Norman and Roger West, help me to sponsor Revision now. I don't believe I will be able to teach a women's studies course here--though I would have loved to do this. I will, however, get to teach some English Dept. courses that focus on women. In the Winter Quarter, I shall, in fact, be teaching Women and Literature, a course which in the past has rarely been able to make. I know I shall have no trouble in getting enough students to sign up for the class. I have come away from my experiences here so far as a bit of a skeptic. I think this is still an ole boy system down here and is likely to remain one for some time to come. The few women with any degree of power are ones who don't "rock the boat," as the cliche goes. I still believe in a sister- hood for women, but I'm also acutely aware of the differences in women. I'm also more aware of the politics that go on at an institution--a sort of game playing about wanting change, but not really wanting change at all. I now have a pronounced awareness of the term "political agenda." I say all of this not because I believe that my situation is hopeless, but because it is a reality--one with which many women like me probably live. The network has been for me like finding a rare book; I relish leafing through its pages. Linda Rohrer Paige LPAIGE@GSVMS2.CC.GASOU.EDU internet ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 18:54:34 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" Subject: Re: query re master's tools In-Reply-To: Message of 08/19/93 at 16:09:56 from sheald@MACH1.WLU.CA Audre Lorde's statement "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" was made as part of her comments at "The Personal and the Political Panel", Second Sex conference, New York, September 29, 1979. The essay is also reprinted in *Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde* The Crossing Press, 1984. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 19:39:28 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Selma Singer Subject: Master's Tools-House THE MASTER'S TOOLS WILL NEVER DISMANTLE THE MASTER'S HOUSE is by Audre Lorde. It can be found in SISTER OUTSIDER publshed by the Crossing Press. It can also be found in many anthologies. Selma Singer Northern Essex community College Haverhill, MA ssinger@rcnvms.rcn.mass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 19:52:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Selma Singer Subject: Master's House-Tools Audre Lorde I signed off before I realized that you had asked for comments. This is the title of a discussion that is very profound as is most of what she has to say. Let me quote just one paragraph to illustrate: "Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference-those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older-know that SURVIVAL IS NOT AN ACADEMIC SKILL. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identi- fied as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. FOR THE MASTER'S TOOLS WILL NEVER DISMANTLE THE MASTER'S HOUSE. they may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support." The emphasis is Lorde's, not mine. I couldn't agree with her more. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 19:16:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: gendered pronouns, epicene pronouns, from LINGUIST First: the apology/explanation: I'm simply going to forward the messages as I received them. N Note that this issue necessarily involves some others as well, and that some of the material pays (more) attention to these others than to gendered pronouns in particular. I am including what I think is an interesting question/discussion about set formulae which include gender specific terms. Finally, because I don't know how to download these into my processing program, make a single file and then send it, I'll be forwarding them semparately, but will try to do so in order. g'night. beth simon dictionary of american regional english (we allspeak dialect) university of wisconsin-madison blsimon@macc.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 21:01:29 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "John G. Benjafield" Subject: Mary Wollstonecraft's psychological theories I would like to trace a paper given by Camille Burns at Cheiron in 1979. The paper is called "The role of emotion in the devlopment of thought: The psychology of Mary Wollstonecraft". Was this paper ever published? Did Burns ever write anything else on this topic? I am also interested in any other material dealing with W.'s psychological theories. Thanks, John Benjafield jbenjafi@spartan.ac.brocku.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 20:01:56 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joycelyn Moody Subject: Re: query re master's tools In-Reply-To: <9308192009.AA01035@bashful.u.washington.edu> see audre lorde's essay "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" in her collection of essays from early 80s, sister outsider. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 23:38:56 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "ALLAN D. HUNTER " Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Subject: Re: query re master's tools In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 19 Aug 1993 20:01:56 -0700 from Comment: If tools OTHER THAN the Master's tools are to be used with effectiveness towards dismantling the Master's house, they have to be good Alternative tools which can still interface effectively with the substance of that house. It is difficult to dismantle anything you cannot touch. Given that, I strongly agree with Lorde. More specifically, within academia, I think we have to proceed with a willingness to redefine excellence, evidence, and validity while still playing with those ideas and the pre-supporting premises according to which traditional academics believe in such notions. Feminist epistemologies can be offered up as the foundations for a different way of establishing what is or is not verifiable evidence in science (list participant Antje Wiener has written some interesting material in that area); feminism-inspired or -informed priority sets can be discussed and then used to select literature or other readings as excellent for mental stimulation and expansion of thought in the classroom; and so on. Is the willingness to play with ideas such as "excellence", "evidence", and so on a case of STILL using the Master's tools? If so, a reasonable trajectory away from them will have to es- tablish some basis for effective communication; it has to go beyond a thickly intellectualized trashing of the hierarchical/western/ male belief system that enjoys such standards, even if we can gain a lot from such critiques. It has to leave an audience of academics whose mental experience is 90% or more patriarchal vs 10% or less alternatively (e.g., feminist) informed with a way to see matters differently; otherwise, the critique will only be unpalatable and that which is being criticized will be defended as if it were the final bastion of All That is Good in Thought and Inquiry. I think insufficient material has been written about feminist al- ternatives in defining academic excellence and/or explaining what modalities of interaction, communication, and shared understandings could replace such standards. I think there has been some good beginnings among radical feminist assertions about feeling as the basis of meaning, which happens to allow for the idea that goodness (and even "superior quality") exist, although the standards which determine where it lies cannot be rendered into words or any other formal intellectualized format. Not everyone would agree with that, though. Recent critiques of that have been mounted as well. The Master's house is a bad place to live and needs to be dis- mantled, but it is currently inhabited, so its dismantling must take into account the concerns of at least some of its inhabitants. - Allan Hunter ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 00:13:38 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: intellec isolation In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 18 Aug 1993 15:18:12 EDT from i think i did not make clear to judy long, and perhaps to others, what i meant by `postkuhnian'. i had in mind that kuhn wrote as tho revolutions in science o ccur solely within the community of sciences. actually, i believe the revolutio ns emerge as a result of political action outside that community, which is one facet of a society. sandra harding discusses this in the last chapters of `the science question in feminism' i do think that political pushes within and amon g communities of scholars are vital, too, so i sometimes get involved in curric ulum struggles on my campus, in my department and college committees, and somet imes offer papers in the ed psych division of apa, where i've been described as raising `interesting questions' by colleagues who admit their fear of making w aves and changing paradigms. it gets discouraging but there's nothing to do bu t to keep on trying. beatrice ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 00:35:38 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: query re master's tools In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 19 Aug 1993 16:09:14 -0400 from in response to the inquiry on master's tools and his house: it's audre lorde's essay `the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house' in her colle ction of essays and speeches `sister outsider' crossing press, 1984 and possibl y in other sources. beatrice ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 00:39:28 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: query re master's tools In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 19 Aug 1993 16:09:14 -0400 from after giving the source of the master's tools comment, i saw the inqiry for it again, asking for opinions of it. it's a good reminder to be wary of trapping yourself with tools (ideas, language, etc.) of oppression but i think it's wise to examine the tools that might be useful. it doesn't make sense to discard a g ood quality knife to cut my food, but i should look and listen to understand ab out the knife and use it wisely. beatrice ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 08:54:04 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Organization: Princeton University Press Subject: LIT CRIT SUGGESTIONS I am teaching a course using Alice Walker's MERIDIAN; Toni Morrison's BELOVED; Amy Tan's JOY LUCK CLUB; Margaret Atwood's LADY ORACLE; Kate Chopin's AWAKENING. We will be looking for themes of "awakening" in these novels. I am looking to find a feminist reader or articles that analyze any of these novels. Does anyone have any suggestions? Does anyone have tips on other novels that deal with a woman's "awakening" to herself/social situation? Thanks.EMAIL: J.MANLOWE@PUPRESS.PRINCETON.EDU SNAIL: JENNIFER L. MANLOWE, PHD PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 41 WILLIAM STREET PRINCETON NJ 08540 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 11:03:34 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: gendered pronouns In-Reply-To: <9308191923.AA15626@umd5.umd.edu> please send discussion of gendered pronouns to me as well. thank you ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 08:11:12 PST8PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: WOMEN'S PROGRAMS CLK COL Organization: Clark College, Vancouver WA, USA Subject: Re: LIT CRIT SUGGESTIONS What about Zora Neal Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God?" Janie's story is certainly one of awakenings. Snail: Barbara Saur Women's Programs Clark College 1800 East McLoughlin Blvd Vancouver WA 98663 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:19:43 MDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from PROFS to RFC822 format by PUMP V2.2 From: Lahoucine Ouzgane Subject: Help Locate Article From: Lahoucine Ouzgane Can someone on the list help me locate the place and date of publication of the following: Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"? Thanks in advance. Lahoucine or ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 11:47:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: am68 Subject: Re: Help Locate Article In-Reply-To: <9308201539.AA21319@umd5.umd.edu> >From: Lahoucine Ouzgane > > > >Can someone on the list help me locate the place and date of publication of >the following: Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible >Knapsack"? Thanks in advance. > >Lahoucine or Try your local librarian -- funny how people forget/take foregranted/how useful librarians can be in helping retrieve references such as yours.> ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 12:16:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: sexuality syllabus available Thanks to Lynne Alice, another syllabus has just been added to the SYLLABI FILELIST. SEXUALTY GENDER is the syllabus for a course Lynne taught this year at Murdoch University, Western Australia, on gender and sexuality [please note that "SEXUALTY" is spelled without an i to keep to 8 characters]. To obtain a list of all available syllabi, send a mail message to LISTSERV@UMDD or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU that says: INDEX SYLLABI . To obtain a specific syllabus, send a message to the same address saying GET [FILENAME] SYLLABI, where "[FILENAME]" is the name of the file you want. For example, GET SEXUALTY GENDER SYLLABI . To obtain more than one file, put each command on a separate line: GET SEXUALTY GENDER SYLLABI GET DIFFRNCE SOC_ANAL SYLLABI GET MUSIC PRFRMNCE SYLLABI GET URBAN SOC_MVTS SYLLABI If you have syllabi in electronic form that you'd be willing to make available in the WMST-L SYLLABI files, send them directly to me as a file or in an e-mail message at either of the addresses given with my signature below. The syllabi must be in ASCII format (also known as DOS text format) and must have no lines longer than 75 characters, and each line must end in a carriage return (line feeds don't count). If you have syllabi in Wordperfect or other wordprocessing format, it is easy to convert them to ASCII format. Consult your wordprocessing manual for instructions. If you don't feel able to convert your wordprocessing file into an ASCII file, you can mail WMST-L participant Paula Gaber a computer disk (which will not be returned) with the file in wordprocessing format. She has kindly offered to do the conversion. If you do this, BE SURE TO INCLUDE A NOTE SAYING WHAT WORDPROCESSING PROGRAM THE FILE USES! She would prefer your sending a 3 1/2" disk, but she can also accept 5 1/4" disks. Send the disks to: Paula Gaber Computer Science Center - Room 4343 University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD 20742-2411 Two more things: 1) PLEASE BE SURE THE SYLLABUS INCLUDES YOUR NAME, THE NAME OF THE INSTITUTION WHERE THE COURSE WAS TAUGHT, AND THE YEAR THE SYLLABUS WAS USED; and 2) if you can, it would be especially desirable if you'd append to the end of your syllabus any projects, assignments, etc. that you used in the course and that worked well. Note: PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME PAPER COPIES OF THE SYLLABUS. I have neither the time nor a good enough scanner to convert them to an electronic format. If you have any questions, please contact me privately, not via WMST-L. Again, many thanks to Lynne Alice for her Gender and Sexuality syllabus. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 12:36:41 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Von Bakanic Organization: College of Charleston Subject: Re: Help Locate Article McIntosh's article is in Independent Schools V. 49 Winter 90 p. 31 _____________________________________________________________________ Von Bakanic (803) 792-7105 Dept. of Sociology internet address: College of Charleston bakanicv@cofc.edu Charleston, S.C. 29424 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 12:47:20 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Elizabeth Chinn Subject: Re: Gendered Pronouns In-Reply-To: <199308191623.AA04871@mailhub.cc.columbia.edu> I try, and encourage my students, to use third person plural for nonspecific examples. So instead of saying "a reader" "a student," etc.and then having to struggle with the choice between "he" and "she," we say "readers," "students," "teachers," and "they." Of course this doesn't always work, but it takes care of a lot of examples. Otherwise "she or he" or vice versa, but it does get pretty clunky. Actually I've found that when students say "a person" they usually mean *themselves* but they move it into the third person to give the impression of "objectivity." At those times I ask them who they're *really* talking about, and suggest they just say "I." Sarah Chinn sec8@columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 12:58:07 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: White Privilege essay Earlier today, Lahoucine Ouzgane wrote: > Can someone on the list help me locate the place and date of publication of > the following: Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible > Knapsack"? Thanks in advance. The essay has appeared under different titles in a number of places, among them RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER: AN ANTHOLOGY, edited by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1992), pp. 70-81, where it bears the title, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies." It's undoubtedly a version of the essay referred to above; it even includes the phrase "unpacking this invisible knapsack" (p. 76). This is a useful essay, but I am troubled by its tendency to treat "white" people as if they have a uniform experience. Even though McIntosh acknowledges that class, religion, ethnic status, and other factors are "inextricably intertwined" privileging factors, much of her essay seems to ignore this. Thus, for example, although most Jews have "white privilege," they might not necessarily make the following statements (from McIntosh's essay): > I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to > mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me. > > I can be reasonable sure that my neighbors [if I move to a new > neighborhood] will be neutral or pleasant to me. > > I could arrange to protect our young children most of the time from > people who might not like them. Or, in the following examples, if one substitutes "ethnicity" for "race," the statements may be problematic for many who nonetheless enjoy "white privilege": > I can be pretty sure that my children's teachers and employers will > tolerate them if they fit school and workplace norms; my chief worries > about them do not concern others' attitudes toward their race. > > My culture gives me little fear about ignoring the perspectives and > powers of people of other races. > > I can arrange my activities so that I will never have to experience > feelings of rejection owing to my race. I think the essay's strengths far outweigh its weaknesses, and McIntosh continues to modify the essay in response to comments. Toward the end, for example, she has added a useful discussion of heterosexual privilege that was not in some early versions. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 13:14:26 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Feminist Ethics & Social Policy Conf. Program TENTATIVE PROGRAM FEMINIST ETHICS AND SOCIAL POLICY CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY (SWIP) AND THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, NOVEMBER 5-7, 1993 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 11:30 - 12:30 Registration 12:30 - 2:00 ECOFEMINISM Chair and commentator: Patricia Mills Karen Warren, "Environmental Policy since Rio: An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective" Chris Cuomo, "Ecofminism and U.S. Population Policy" CONCEPTIONS OF HEALTH Chair and commentator: Lisa Shapiro Susan Sherwin, "The Ethical Significance of Metaphors" Laura Purdy, "A Feminist View of Health: Implications for Social Policy" RIGHTS AND EQUALITY Chair: Kasha Paprzycka Eva Kittay, "Equality, Rawls, and the Dependency Critique" Elizabeth Kiss, "Feminist Objections to Rights-based Policy Approaches" Commentator: Elisabeth Conradi 2:15 - 4:15 MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY AND PRACTICAL ETHICS Chair: John Haugelund Caroline Whitbeck, "Instead of Abstraction: Some Implications of Recent Moral Theory for Practical Ethics" Lorraine Code, "Incredulity, 'Experientialism' and Moral Epistemology" Hilde Nelson, "Resistance and Insubordination" SEXUAL HARASSMENT Chair: Susan Hansen Ann Cudd, "When Sexual Harassment is Protected Speech" Dorothy Leland, "Difference and the Reasonable Woman Standard" Debra DeBruin, "Identifying Sexual Harassment: The Reasonable Woman `Standard'" Friday, 2:15 - 4:15 ABORTION: POLITICS AND LAW Chair: Karen Jones Marlene Fried, "Finding Common Ground in the Abortion Debate: Some Grass Roots Efforts" Lucinda Peach, "Legislating Women: Casuistry and the Abortion Debate" Janet Farrell Smith, "Adversarial Jurisprudence and Moral-Political Conflict Over Abortion" Friday, 4:30 - 6:00 PLENARY Chair: Iris Young Alison Jaggar, "Feminist Practical Dialogue" Anna Yeatman, "Feminism, Judgment and Policy" Friday, 7:30 - 9:00 FAMILIES AND JUSTICE Chair and commentator: Rebecca Kukla Sara Ruddick, "Injustice in Families: Assault and Domination" Susan Hekman, "Family Matters: Justice and Moral Discourse" WOMEN AND HEALTH CARE POLICY Chair and commentator: Robin Gregg Kate Mehuron, "Undemocratic Affliction: Feminism and the U.S. AIDS Regime" Arlene Dallery, "Hormone Replacement Therapy: Interpretation of a Policy Issue" SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6 9:00 - 10:30 SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE Chair and commentator: Diana Meyers Bat-Ami Bar On, "Self-Defense" Larry May, "Rape as a War Crime" SEXUALITY AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE Chair and commentator: Patrice DiQuinzio Shane Phelan, "The Return of Justice" Janet Jakoksen, "Must it Be War? Models of Alliance and Agency in Public Discourse over Sexuallities" Saturday, 9:00 - 10:30 APPLICATIONS OF ETHICS OF CARE Chair and commentator: Janice McLane Mary Varney Rorty, "Three Faces of Care" Anita Silvers, "Damaged Goods: Does Disability Disqualify People from Just Health Care?" WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Chair and commentator: Nancy Hartsock Uma Narayan, "Male Order Brides: Protecting Women in `Inter- National' Marriages" Victoria Kamsler, "The Politics of International Women's Rights" REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES Chair: Alan Meisel Patrick Hopkins, "Frozen Embryos, Custody Battles, and the Right Not to Procreate" Anne Donchin, "Feminist Critiques of New Fertility Technologies: Implications for Social Policy" Commentator: Corinne Becker Saturday, 10:45 - 12:00 PLENARY Chair: Iris Young Joan Tronto, "Social Welfare Policy and the Ethic of Care" Selma Sevenhuijsen, "Feminist Perspectives on Public Health Policies" 12:00 - 1:00 Box lunch on premises 1:00 - 2:30 ETHICS, NURSING AND CRISIS COUNSELING Chair: Nathaniel Hupert Nancy Potter, "Crisis in Trust: Discretionary Power and Broken Trust in Crisis Counseling" Joy Kroeger-Mappes, "Feminist Ethics and the Role of Nurses in Health Care" Commentator: Sandera Krol SELF-DEFENSE Chair: Tamara Horowitz Susan Brison, "Self-Blame, Self-Defense, and Survival" Melissa Zinkin, "Robin West and Right to Self-Defense" Commentator: Nicolle Zeegers Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 IDENTITY POLITICS Chair and commentator: Carol Moller Debra Shogun, "`Constitution' of Experience: Lesbian Invisibility and Public Policy" Naomi Zack, "Mixed Race and Public Policy" IMAGES OF WOMEN IN FEMINIST IDENTITY Chair and commentator: Alice Crary Alisa Carse, "Pornography: An Uncivil Liberty?" Ruth Ginsberg, "Feminist Conceptions of the Self: Impacts on the Public Notions of 'Self Defense,' Self Control,' and 'Self-Determina- tion" FEMINISM AND ANTI-POVERTY POLITICS Chair: Phyllis Coontz Natalie Dandekar,"Transformative Power--Feminist Praxis in Successfulful Poverty Alleviation Programs at the Margins of Development" Marion Mohle, "Social Basic Rights: Poverty and the Gender Issue" Commentator: Mary Hawkesworth 2:45 - 4:00 PLENARY Chair: Ofelia Schutte Graciela Hierro, "La Mujer Sola" (The Woman Alone) Saturday, 4:15 - 5:45 AGEISM AND GENDER Chair: Jennifer Whiting Sara Hoagland, "Care and Ageism" J. A. Mattfeld, "Gender Bias and in the Treatment of Women under the Social Security Program" Commentator: Barbara Krasner MILITARY AND PEACE Chair and commentator: Virginia Held James Sterba, "Feminist Justice and the Pursuit of Peace" Judith DeCew, "Women, Equality and the Military" JURISPRUDENCE Chair: Carol Bohmer Victoria Davion, "So What's the Difference? Feminist Ethics and Feminist Jurisprudence" Sharon Hartline, "Can We Care in the Courtroom? Relational Subjectivity and the Criminal Justice System" Commentator: Anita Allen Saturday, 4:00 - 6:00 COSMETIC SURGERY Chair: Sandra Bartky Kathy Davis, "The Rhetoric of Cosmetic Surgery: Luxury or Welfare?" Kathryn Morgan, "Rights Talk and Cosmetic Surgery" Lisa Parker, "Female Beauty: Cultural Contest, Medical Rhetoric, and the Transformation of Choice" ABUSE IN FAMILIES Chair: Mary Beth Sciff Colleen Burns, "Autobiographical Writings of Incest Survivors and the Deconstruction of Expert Discourse(s)" Rita Manning, "Caring in Abusive Families" Rosalind Ladd, "Social Policy, Domestic Violence, and `Justice'" 5:45 - 7:00 Reception 8:00 - 9:00 PLENARY Chair: Patrice DiQuinzio Claudia Card, "The Military Ban and the ROTC" SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 9:00 - 10:30 PARENTAL RIGHTS Chair and commentator: Julie Bartkowiak Mary Shanley, "Parental Rights: Is There a Difference Between Fathers and Mothers?" Harriet Baber, "Parental Leaven ABORTION: ISSUES AND IDEOLOGIES Chair: Kim Francis Gail Weiss and Jacqueline Glover, "Sex-Selected Abortion and Social Policy: Can the Relational be Rescued from the Relative?" Laurie Shrage, "Fetal Ideologies: A Feminist and Cultural Relativist Approach to Abortion" Commentator: Mary Mahowald MULTICULTURALISM Chair and commentator: Janice Dowell Ann Ferguson, "Multiculturalism, Homosexuality and the Academic Value Panic" Marilyn Friedman, "`Political Correctness' and Feminist Ethics: Policy Issues in the Academy" Sunday, 10:45--11:45 PLENARY Chair: Alice Crary Maria Lugones, "Boomerang Perception and the Colonizing Gaze" 12:00 - 1:30 EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE Chair and commentator: Jon Mandel Carolyn Magid, "Does Comparable Worth Have Radical Potential?" Virginia Warren, "Preferential Hiring: The 'Master's Tools' at Work in Moral Philosophy" GLOBAL POLITICS Chair: Valerie Staats Ofelia Schutte, "Feminist Ethics and North/South Relations: Constructing the Personal Out of the Political" Linda Damico, "Feminist Philosophy and Cuba" Commentator: Margaret Walker MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES: ETHICAL DILEMMAS Chair and commentator: Mary Segers Joan Callahan, "Ensuring a Stillborn: The Ethics of Using Fatal Injection in Later Abortion" Helen Bequaert Holmes, "DNA Fingerprinting: Will Women Benefit?" NOTE: To obtain registration forms write Rita Hall, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. *************************************************************** HYPATIA has her old e-mail address: dllafaa@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu But Linda has a new one she'd prefer you to use for non-Hypatia and non-SWIP-L mail. It's mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 10:27:34 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Daryl G. Smith" Subject: Re: Help Locate Article McIntosh's article on white privilege is published as well in Race, Class and Gender an anthology by Andersen and Collins. Daryl Smith smithd@clargrad ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 17:58:00 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandra Basgall <0005575992@MCIMAIL.COM> Subject: Ph.D. program I'm looking for a Ph.D. program for a friend in clinical psych., social work, or interdisciplinary that is supportive of challenging the established treatment models, providing multicultural access, and with a feminist perspective. Thanks, Sandra Basgall 557-5992@MCIMAIL.COM ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 14:23:06 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Gaber Subject: inforM update: Mary Wollstonecraft The following files and/or directories have been added to the inforM: Women's Studies/ReadingRoom/Nonfiction/VindicationofRights An electronic text version of Mary Wollstonecraft's book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is now available on inforM. To access the inforM database, telnet to INFORM.UMD.EDU. (If you do not know how to telnet, contact a local computer wizard, or try typing "telnet inform.umd.edu" at the main prompt of your computer account). Hit return to set the default terminal type or type "?" for a list of choices. Use either your arrow keys or number keys to select "4. Educational Resources". After that, select "12. Women's Studies". The Gopher interface has a feature that allows users to send files to their e-mail accounts. Scroll to the end of the file and type "m", or at any time press "q" (for quit), then "m". The inforM system is also accessible by anonymous ftp. FTP to INFORM.UMD.EDU. Login as "anonymous", and use your mail address as a password. Choose the "info" directory by typing "cd info". The command "cd [directory name]" will change the directory. The commands "dir" or "ls" will display a list of files in that directory. Use the command "get [filename]" to download a file into your account. The directory pathname for the Women's Studies Database is info/Teaching/WomensStudies. Your local Gopher System may be set up to automatically link to the Womens's Studies Database. Check the "Other Systems" or "Other Gophers" directory or ask your system administrator for help. Please remember that the system is case sensitive. Anything that appears in quotes must be typed exactly as it is here. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Paula Gaber inforM, Room 4343 Coordinator, Women's Studies Database Computer Science Center gaber@inform.umd.edu University of Maryland (301) 405-2939 College Park, Maryland 20742 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 11:56:14 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kris Montgomery Subject: Re: query re master's tools Just to add the lit perspective: this phrase has been used to support arguementsagainst the use of literary theory (deconstruction, new historicism, etc.) whic h has chiefly been written by white men. Others say that Lourde was not against using theory. Anyone have a take on this? Kris Montgomery montgome@sonoma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 15:18:04 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Richardson Subject: Women's Studies: A Tool of the Masters? The posts about Audre Lorde's maxim brought up thoughts I have had about The Master's Tools. What counts as tools that belong to the master? What about government-funded universities? Or, for that matter, alumni- and corporate-funded universities? Are they not tools of the famous military/industrial complex? If we study women's issues (or black issues or gay/lesbian issues or latina/o issues) within that structure, are we using the master's tools, and so unable to create true change? And (going beyond the bounds of women's studies proper, with some trepidation) what about qualities of patience, humility, kindness, and other virtues that have been labeled (by the masters) "womanly," to keep women in their place? Perhaps they have been the master's tools - does this mean that now we shouldn't use them? This is all in the form of questions because I'm working on these ideas as I go along. Tentativeness: a tool of the master? + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Sarah Richardson +++ srich@vtvm1.bitnet +++ srich@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu A lot of times people wreck the things that make them nervous. -- Lynda Barry ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 14:18:51 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Cohen Subject: Ph.D. program -Reply Tell your friend not to overlook counseling psychology Ph.D. programs. Counseling psych has less of a psychopathology/ mental illness focus than does clinical psych, so my impression is that it would be more receptive to feminist perspectives. I'm nearing the end of my Ph.D. program in counseling psych at University of Missouri-Columbia. Your friend might want to send for info from here. We have one new African-American woman on our faculty who is teaching a multicultural practicum starting this fall (I'll be taking it), we have a multicultural class, and we have a white female faculty member who teaches psych of women (undergrad) as well as feminist therapy perspective in practicum. Oh, her husband teaches grad level gender issues. I wouldn't call our program the best in feminism and multiculturalism, but we're striving and making progress. Beth Cohen, Ph.D. Candidate, Counseling Psychology Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 bethc@fcm.missouri.edu or c508371@mizzou1.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 20:46:02 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: HILDEGARD Organization: University of NC at Greensboro Subject: Re: query on the Moravian faith Lynn, Thanks so much for writing to me re: Moravian College. I did not know about it, so your suggestion is indeed welcome. Do you know, by chance, if there is an art gallery/ historical museum on campus? Thanks again! Barbra Brady UNC Greensboro Weatherspoon Art Gallery BRADYB@uncg.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 19:49:24 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Fran Paden Subject: McIntosh I first saw the McIntosh in Peace and Freedom, July/August 1989, pp. 10-12. It's a short version of her longer piece which is available from her at Wellesley. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 21:52:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: UMDD may be down on Sunday I have received word that UMDD, the mainframe housing WMST-L, will be down for hardware maintenance on Sunday, August 22, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. If that happens, there will be no WMST-L mail during that time. Probably it would be wise not to send messages to WMST-L on Sunday. They may wind up in e-mail heaven. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 23:45:24 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Film Review Added: The Secret Garden On Saturday, August 21, I will review "The Secret Garden" on "The Women's Show"--Tampa's feminist radio program on community radio station WMNF-FM, 88.5. That review is now available on WMST-L's FILM FILELIST. To obtain a copy of this review send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV83 FILM To obtain a list of all the film reviews available, send a message to the same listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one review, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The opinions expressed in these reviews were mine when I wrote the review and represent one woman's opinion at a particular time.We have over 1800 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 1799 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 *************************************************************** HYPATIA has her old e-mail address: dllafaa@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu But Linda has a new one she'd prefer you to use for non-Hypatia and non-SWIP-L mail. It's mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 23:18:20 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mindy Fiala Subject: Re: query re master's tools Kris, I don't know the answer to your question about Lorde and literary theory, but my question is if you don't use some kind of a theory, what do you use? Mindy Fiala mfiala@vax1.umkc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 00:19:35 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BG1640%ALBNYVMS.bitnet@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU Subject: master's tools/house Of course, A. Lourde was right in the sense that the "master's r tools" are intimately linked with the way power moves in our society/culture. The master is the Master because he has the tools which are most widely recognized as effective; ie powerful--but (somehow) acceptable. Part of our job (as non-masters) is to expose the fact that these tools and the house of their results have gained 'power' and 'acceptability' and 'effectivity' often through the oppression, ommission and negligance of the many in the interest of the few. Meanwhile, because the big M's tools are the tools of power, we need to know themn well and to learn to use them in new ways. Afterall. a lever is a tool. it can be used barbarically as a catapult in war but it can also be used to lift something that outweighs us or to raise something to new heights. Ultimately, I suspect, the problem is less in the master's tools than it is in how they are employed and/or in how the master's house has become a fortress to protect both master and tools from close examination. Belle Gironda SUNY-AlbANY BG1640@ALBNYVMS ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 00:22:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Vivien Ng Subject: Rockefeller Fellowships in Lesbian/gay Studies The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) of the City University of New York (CUNY) is offering two Rockefeller Residency Fellowships for the 1994-95 academic year. The theme for this year will be Self-Concepts in the Lesbian and Gay world. Under this general rubic, we are looking for projects that address issues of identity; for example, the implications of different self-characterizations (e.g., "queer") or the debate on whether sexual orientation is fluid or fixed. Proposals relating to the shaping of sexual identity in different historical/cultural contexts would also be relevant. All applications will be reviewed and evaluated by a jury of scholars and specialists in diverse areas of gay/lesbian studies who are not affiliated with CLAGS. Fellows will receive $35,000, plus a $2,000 travel/relocation stipend, for residency from September 1 to June 1. Applications for shorter-term residencies can be considered, provided the proposed project is suited to the abbreviated time period and the Fellow has sustained interaction with CLAGS. For participation as a Residency Fellow for 1994-95, applications must be completed and returned by February 15, 1994. The full application includes a cover page; a 10-page narrative detailing the proposed project; a complete curriculum vitae/ resume; samples of the applicant's publications or other relevant work; and three letters of reference from persons familiar with the applicant's work. Application forms are available from: Martin Duberman, Director, CLAGS, CUNY Graduate School, 33 West 42nd St., NY, NY 10036. 212-642-2924. Please share this with other distribution lists. Vivien Ng aa0509@uokmvsa.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 08:31:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: lc22 Subject: Re: Gendered Pronouns In-Reply-To: <9308201716.AA28613@umd5.umd.edu> One practice many linguists use, to the extent that it's becoming an editorial norm in the field, is alternating gendered references (usually after revising to get as many generic references as possible into the plural to avoid the gender issue altogether). Thus, authors try to include at least as many instances of sentences like "The typical professor spends half her time on library research" as of the masculine equivalent. Using examples that clearly include both genders has another advantage, in my opinion: it forces the reader at least occasionally to think of women as the norm. Readers may otherwise simply read masculinity into gender-neutral sentences, reading a sentence like "typical professors spend half their time on library research", for example, and envisioning a group of males. Linda Coleman Department of English University of Maryland lc22@umail.umd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 11:14:47 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: master's tools/house To what extent are the master's tools the master's tools because we are so invested in property? After all while the tools might be real material useful things, that they are the *master's* is an abstraction. How can one person appropriate the labor of others? That seems a relatively obvious Marxist critique of liberal individualism. Perhaps the tool least likely to dismantle the master's house is that liberal individualist notion of property. Just a thought. Laurie Finke finkel@kenyon.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 11:19:55 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Lynn E. Hanninen" Subject: Re: query on the Moravian faith Hi! Moravian is a small private College who's big claim to fame is being the 12th or 13th oldest College in the U.S. There's also a seminary and a private K-12 academy (I'm not sure how much the College, seminary & academy are connected). Bethlehem, PA is to a large extent, Moravian capitol of the world. There are numerous museums sprinkled on and off campus I hear one excellent museum is the Kemmerer Museum in Bethlehem. (I've never been there.) lynn ************************** Lehigh office: rm. 221, CU #17 office phone #: (215) 758-3662 home phone #: (215) 758-1367 e-mail: leh1@lehigh.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 08:53:42 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Bryan Strong: Psychology / UC-Santa Cruz" Subject: Teaching sexuality I am working on an introductory essay on teaching human sexuality that will begin the instructor's manual for my forthcoming human sexuality textbook. Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, experiences, or anecdotes that might be useful for instructors? Anything that would be especially useful for instructors teaching human sexuality for the first time? Thanks ..... Bryan Strong Psychology Board of Studies University of California-Santa Cruz bartleby@cats.UCSC.EDU / bartleby@cats.UCSC.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 12:56:01 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Ginsberg, Elaine K" Subject: Re: master's tools/house In-Reply-To: Message of 08/21/93 at 00:19:35 from , BG1640%ALBNYVMS.bitnet@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU It seems to me that the discussion of "the master's tools" can often get caught in the same either/or dilemma that other discussions (e.g. sexuality, gender, theory, etc.) often do. I try to caution my students to be wary of any discussion that forces you to choose between two oppositional positions, for rarely in this world (and certainly not in the "world" of social action)are there only two, mutually exclusive, possibilities. As for the use of "the master's tools"--whether the "tools" are seen as language, theory, laws, or social actions--it seems to me that we should use those tools that are useful for the time and the purpose, whether they are "patriarchal" or not. ELAINE K. GINSBERG DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH INTERNET: EGINS@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BITNET:EGINS@WVNVM ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 13:13:27 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Converted from OfficeVision to RFC822 by PUMP V2.2X From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Film Review Added: Sophie On Saturday, August 21, I broadcast a review of "Sophie" on "The Women's Show"--Tampa's feminist radio program on community radio station WMNF-FM, 88.5. That review is now available on WMST-L's o FILM FILELIST. To obtain a copy of this review send the following message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): GET FILM REV84 FILM To obtain a list of all the film reviews available, send a message to the same listserv address that says: INDEX FILM To get more than one review, put each command on a separate line: GET FILM REV6 FILM GET FILM REV14 FILM GET FILM REV39 FILM The opinions expressed in these reviews were mine when I wrote the review and represent one woman's opinion at a particular time.We have over 1800 subscribers to WMST-L so there are probably 1799 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 *************************************************************** HYPATIA has her old e-mail address: dllafaa@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu But Linda has a new one she'd prefer you to use for non-Hypatia and non-SWIP-L mail. It's mcaliste@chuma.cas.usf.edu Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 11:37:44 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brenda Brasher Subject: Re: master's tools/house In-Reply-To: <9308211513.AA12817@chaph.usc.edu> from "STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE" at Aug 21, 93 11:14:47 am I *like* Lorde's cryptic comment, and think it conveys much subtle and not-so-subtle wisdom. Tools don't only act upon the object towards which they are applied. They act upon the wielder as well. To tranform her poetic insight into a didactic dualism obscures the keen-edged complexity of her observation. Rather than ask blanket, to my mind non-feminist questions regarding whether she meant that theory, etc. must be avoided, I find it more helpful to understand her as urging a profound thoughtfulness regarding the choices we make in what we pull out of the culture to use in our work -- because what's available and identified as `tools' are largely the products of an incredibly racist, sexist and classist culture that's quite resilient in its ability to reproduce itself. Brenda E. Brasher USC ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 23:25:10 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Ting Subject: Re: Teaching sexuality >I am working on an introductory essay on teaching human sexuality that >will begin the instructor's manual for my forthcoming human sexuality >textbook. Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, experiences, or >anecdotes that might be useful for instructors? Anything that would >be especially useful for instructors teaching human sexuality for the >first time? Thanks ..... > >Bryan Strong >Psychology Board of Studies >University of California-Santa Cruz >bartleby@cats.UCSC.EDU / bartleby@cats.UCSC.BITNET Are you interested in hearing from people who have taught "human sexuality" psychology courses, or from anyone with experience teaching courses that make use the idea of "sexuality" to focus a set of questions? Just a clarifying question. Jennifer Ting Department of American Civilization Brown University jen <--> st403328@brownvm <--> st403328@brownvm.brown.edu