WMST-L LOG9308E ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 08:40:09 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Becky Howard, Department of Interdisciplinary Writing, Colgate University" Subject: Re: writing class Ann Weinstone, I would be glad to pass along your query to the H-RHETOR discussion group (history of rhetoric), but I'd like your permission first. Becky Howard Department of Interdisciplinary Writing Colgate University BHOWARD@COLGATEU.BITNET ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 11:18:23 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: DAPHNE PATAI Subject: James Baldwin query I tried to send the following query to a Black Studies list but haven't gotten any replies at all. I'm hoping one of you will recognize the passage I'm trying to identify - and please excuse me for going beyond the usual concerns of this list; it's sheer desperation! Thanks. D. Forwarded message: > I am trying to get a precise reference for a comment made by James > Baldwin somewhere (I have it only in a Spanish-language text without > notes!). It's roughly this: "Every time I attend a conference of white > writers, I have a method for finding out if my colleagues are racist. > It consists of uttering stupidities and maintaining absurd theses. If > they listen respectfully and, at the end, overwhelm me with applause, > there isn't the slightest doubt: they are filthy racists." > Can anyone help me? Many thanks in advance. -- ====================== Daphne.Patai@spanport.umass.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 11:15:20 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Allan Hunter Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Subject: Re: "feminist theory" In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 28 Aug 1993 15:21:30 CDT from The good theorist, who is a good artist whose art is theory, uses categorization and distinctions because they are important tools, and can create more than they destroy in enabling us to understand our world. Robert Pirsig pointed out (ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE) that in Western culture, we forget that the art of analysis is indeed an art; we look at the world all divided up into categories and forget to look also at the wold as an undivided, uncategorized set of exper- iences that we know by FEEL rather than (verbal, categorical) THOUGHT; and we forget to include, in our picture of the world, the person who is engaged in the artistic practice of categorizing and dividing. The categories are not there until that person's mind makes a distinction, or "cut", which divides like a knife moving rapidly. The validity of what the person with the analytical knife does depends on the fact that this person, also, FEELS; that analysis is an ART, and excellence in that art requires a FEEL for what Pirsig calls "Quality"--that which is good, but which cannot itself be defined, because to define it is already to intellectualize it, and the process which allows good categories to develop cannot itself be described in terms, which already depend on categories, without deifying those categories. Feel comes FIRST; think depends on feel for its validity. He also points out that when the entire, undivided, uncategorized whole is subjected to the knife, something IS destroyed; there really is something special about the view of something that gets lost as soon as categorical distinctions have been made. But something is also CREATED in the process. Pirsig is in no sense an overt feminist, but when I read his work, I saw a rich resource for feminist epistemology here. I strongly recommend a familiarity with his material, and I presume that the relevance of what I have outlined here has a connection to the dis- cussion of feminist theory that's obvious and apparent. - Allan Hunter ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 09:52:20 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Herring Subject: ideological bias in the literary canon I'm preparing to teach a graduate seminar on 'discourse and idealogy'. Can anyone recommend a good summary article or articles identifying ideological (sexist, racist, etc.) bias in the traditional literary canon, and/or in the literature that is studied by children in schools? I know there must be interesting feminist scholarship on these topics -- any suggestions as to where to start? Thanks in advance, Susan Herring susan@utafll.uta.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 10:38:20 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kris Montgomery Subject: Re: "feminist theory" I also find catagories necessary, but dangerous. The catagory "feminist" or "woman" (as in woman writer) suceeds in discouraging readers/learners from including works labeled as such in their broader reading (i.e. sociology, or literature, which still have those ((necessary)) classes that separate women out as catagories of study). This connects to the discussion about colleagues who feel no need to study "feminist" or "women (fill in the blank)" because they already have "the truth" in the male traditions. In other words, a student can go through school, and take a PhD without studying that pesky "woman-stuff." Then there is the problem of the label affixed by the reader: a colleague who teaches 18th c lit recently had a young male student fearfully ask her if hers is a "feminist" class, because "You've got so many women on the reading list!" She pointed out that about 1/3 of the writers on the syllabus were women, and he was visibly relieved. Even without the announced label, we're labeled. Sigh. Kris Montgomery montgome@sonoma.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 12:54:36 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: terry g wilfong Subject: Women in Late Antiquity--New Book A new book has just come out that might be of interest to the list: Gillian Clark, _Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Life-Styles_ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), ISBN 0-19-814675-2. Pp. xix + 158. I haven't had a chance to go through it in detail, but it seems like a good, general, scholarly survey. One of its major virtues is that it bridges the traditional gap between Classical and Mevieval quite nicely, relating its material to both sides. It would probably be an excellent textbook for graduate students or even advanced undergrads. Terry Wilfong The Research Archives of the Oriental Institute University of Chicago t-wilfong@chicago.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 14:04:36 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jerome Nadelhaft Subject: Re: Rape on Film It has been a while since I saw the movie, but I believe the New Zealand film SMASH PALACE has a scene of marital rape of a woman who is about to leave her husband. Jerome Nadelhaft History University of Maine ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 15:51:53 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Returned mail: User unknown (fwd) sorry to post to list ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 17:29:03 EDT From: Mailer-Daemon@grits To: jelza@grits Subject: Returned mail: User unknown ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Connected to umdd.umd.edu: >>> RCPT To: <<< 550 User 'WMST-' Unknown 550 WMST-@UMDD.UMD.EDU... User unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: Received: by grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07031; Fri, 27 Aug 93 17:29:03 EDT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 17:28:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Jane Elza Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (fwd) To: WMST-@UMDD.UMD.EDU Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 17:27:28 EDT From: Mailer-Daemon@grits To: jelza@grits Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 Host uclamvs.bitnet not found for mailer ether. 550 Kimberly Santini ... Host unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: Received: by grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07015; Fri, 27 Aug 93 17:27:28 EDT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 17:20:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: Survey To: Kimberly Santini In-Reply-To: <9308270113.AA05744@umd5.umd.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I AM FEMALE MY AGE IS 50 CURRENTLY I AM EMPLOYED AS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE A FEMALE ROLE MODEL IS A FEMALE SOMEONE ADMIRES, FOR WHATEVER REASON. A MALE ROLE MODEL IS A MALE SOMEONE ADMIRES, FOR WHATEVER REASON. WHEN I WAS 10 MY ROLE MODEL WAS MY BROTHER WHEN I WAS 15 MY ROLE MODEL WAS MYSELF WHEN I WAS 20 MY ROLE MODEL WAS A FRIEND MY CURRENT ROLE MODEL IS A FRIEND MY BROTHER'S QUALITIES WERE HIS INTELLECT AND PROTECTIVENESS AT A TIME I NEEDED PROTECTING. AT 15, I DIDN'T THINK ANYONE KNEW AS MUCH AS I DID MY FRIENDS ARE ALSO TEACHERS AND I SHARE MANY OF THEIR VALUES. WOMEN ROLE MODELS: MOTHER TERESA JANE ADDAMS MOTHERS, GENERALLY ALICE WALKER GLORIA STIENAM MALE ROLE MODELS: ML KING, JR. GANDHI FATHERS, GENERALLY JUSTICE HUGO BLACK SAUL ALINSKY ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 13:27:35 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Somer Brodribb Subject: Update on UVIC Poli Sci Backlash From: Brodribb@uvvm.uvic.ca FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1993 THE CHILLY CLIMATE COMMITTEE, UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA Two main issues figure in the UVic political science department: workplace fairness and equal access to education for women. These have both been grievously affected by the eight tenured men's continued hostility to the Committee to Make the Department More Supportive to Women Students (The Chilly Climate Committee) and the refusal of the UVic Administration to prevent or condemn the retaliation we have experienced since last March when we raised issues of equity and systemic discrimination in our Report. On May 26 we received a letter from Vice President Academic Sam Scully urging us to comply with the threatening letter from the 8 tenured men and their demand that we withdraw sections of our report. In June, we brought forward our class action complaint against the UVic administration and the 8 tenured men to the BC Ombudsman and the Human Rights Council. Yet on Wednesday August 25 President Strong appointed an external review commission to investigate the working and learning environment for men and women in the Department of Political Science. The terms of reference were developed with input from the eight tenured men. Since presenting our report in March, the Chilly Climate Committee has suffered retaliation and defamation. We have reported this harassment yet the Administration claims it must be neutral and not intervene. Before the external review was appointed, we asked President Strong to publicly distance himself from the defamatory and harassing actions of the eight tenured men which are done with benefit of university resources. This has not been done. Such a gesture on Strong's part would convince us of the administration's genuine commitment to addressing systemic discrimination and ending the retaliation we now endure for raising issues of equity. In good faith we accepted the invitation of the department in May 1992 to recommend ways in which to make the environment more supportive to women but we have been targetted and maligned for doing so. Further participation in any university appointed process is contingent upon the recognition of the current harassment we have suffered and a commitment to ending and redressing it. Until the retaliation against us for reporting systemic discrimination is recognized and remedied, there can be no meaningful and sincere inquiry into improving the environment for women students and staff. We have received support from over twenty four women's organizations, students' and scholarly associations, such as the Canadian Women's Studies Association, the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, the United Steelworkers of America local 9288. We will be happy to assist the university in developing policies and procedures to improve the climate for women when the harassment we have endured for developing such recommendations in our March Report is addressed and the University takes the responsibility for ending it. Chilly Climate Committee: Dr. Somer Brodribb (Chair) 598-6061; Sylvia Bardon 592-3672, Phyllis Foden, Nadia Kyba, Denise McCabe, Theresa Newhouse (students). -- 30 -- ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 13:29:51 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Cronan Rose Subject: evaluating WS courses The curriculum committee of our WS program would like information about what instruments other programs use to evaluate "core" and cross- listed WS courses (evaluation forms, peer reviews, classroom visitation, etc.). Standard university evaluation forms seldom ask questions that elicit the sort of information (e.g., about feminist pedagogy) we need in order to determine whether a course is "really" a WS course. Please reply either to the list or to me personally: ecrose@nevada.edu. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 15:47:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: Rape on Film, Smash Palace There is a potential problem with using *Smash Palace* for this purpose, in that it is, underlyingly, a buddy film, and while one understands why the wife leaves him, the story, and the sympathy of the film, is very much with the husband. By the time of the rape then, in a very domestic scene, there is a strong sense of complicity, and also, of desire from both sides. beth simon blsimon@macc.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 13:50:04 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Anderson Subject: Re: evaluating WS courses Please post responses to the request re teaching evaluation to the list. I expect that many of us will be interest. Thanks. karena@ccit.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 15:53:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Lee Simon Subject: evaluating WS courses I too would like to have the responses to the request re teaching evaluation posted to the list. I suggest that a helpful thing for the poster to do is to collect the various responses, one compiltation, and post that. beth simon blsimon@macc.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 18:18:32 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: d000wgsp@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU Subject: Re: ideological bias in the literary canon I think that the two best and most basic articles on the subject of bias in the literary canon are: Nina Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors" American Quaterly 33 (1981) and Paul Lauter, "Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties" Feminist STudies 9 (1983) I should have said that they are the best on bias in the American literary canon. They have both been reprinted several places. Irene Goldman 00ICGOLDMAN@BSUVC.BSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 01:58:16 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Charlene E. Depner" Organization: PsychNet, Inc. Subject: Feminism, Infertility, & Adoption My research on infertility and adoption decision-making makes me hungry for a feminist perspective on these issues. The literature is replete with traditional/hypermom images and I don't find much discussion of the class issues raised by adoption. (Some notable exceptions are Solinger's "Wake Up Little Susie" and Knowles' "Motherhood: A Feminist Perspective". Are there other scholars out there grappling with these issues? Can anyone suggest some reading to illuminate the inquiry? **************************************************************** * ////// ---------------------- * // // "Electronic Networking For / PsychNet.Com / * ////// "Professional Psychology." /Serving Psychologists/ * // sychNet (1-800-541-2598) / World Wide / *// ----------------------- ************************************************************ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 19:15:18 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karen Anderson Subject: Re: Feminism, Infertility, & Adoption Nancy Russo, Psych. Dept. at Arizona State University, has done survey research on decisions regarding unwanted pregnancy and the decision to put a baby up for adoption. Maybe she can help with related literature. karena@ccit.arizona.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 21:49:02 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lisa Auanger Does anyone perchance know what percentage of persons working in the nation's public schools are female? Does the census bureau publish this information? Can it be accessed over the Internet? Should it be accessed? Non-academic Curiosity, Lisa Auanger c513024@mizzou1. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 22:24:29 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: Lisa Auanger Comments: Originally-From: Lisa Auanger From: Lisa Auanger Addendum: "Should," in reference to, in short, the number. Sorry, L.A. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Does anyone perchance know what percentage of persons working in the nation's public schools are female? Does the census bureau publish this information? Can it be accessed over the Internet? Should it be accessed? Non-academic Curiosity, Lisa Auanger c513024@mizzou1. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 15:23:06 +0300 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: naomy graetz Subject: Re: wife-beating in literature (fwd) Since I don't know how to upload and down lod from my modem at home--I'm just going to add two more entries, Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; and Louisa May Alcott, Work: A story of Experience. I've alphabaetized the list and made several corrections and as soon as I get some help will send the very nice looking list. I have one more query: Someone mantioned Lee Smith's novels. Anyone have some titles for her (him?). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 08:54:58 +0300 (IDT) From: naomy graetz To: Women's Studies List Cc: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L Subject: Re: wife-beating in literature Here is an up to date listing. Please continue to send more. WIFE BEATING IN LITERATURE 1. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 2. Sula, Toni Morrison 3. Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker 4. Lee Smith's novels (e.g.????) 5. Margaret Atwood's novels (e.g. ???) 6. Taming of Shrew and Othello 7. Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching 8. Anne Bronte, Tenant of Wildfell Hall 9. Olivia Goldsmith, First Wives Club 10. Tina Turner, I, Tina 11. V.s. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) 12. Toni Morrison, Bluest Eye 13. Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife 14. Agnes Smedley, Daughter of Earth 15. Andrea Dworkin, Mercy 16. Faulkner, "Spotted Horses" (short story) 17. Mary Wollstonecraft. The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria 18. Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland. 19. Tennessee Williams, Streetcar Named Desire 20. Tanith Lee, "Wolfland" in Red as Blood: Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (I just love that title) 21. Toni Morrison, Bluest Eye. 22. Suzette Hadin Elgin. Judas Rose 23. Zora Neal Hurston. Their Eyes were Watching 24. Dorothy Allison. Bastard out of Carolina. Last call for more before the "final" list!! Thanks for cooperating. Naomi Graetz (graetz@bgumail.bgu.ac.il) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 09:14:42 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: STRETCH OR DROWN/ EVOLVE OR DIE Subject: Re: ideological bias in the literary canon Another very important feminist article on the canon is Lillian Robinson, "Treason our Text" which initially appeared in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (1st or 2nd volume if memory serves) and has subsequently been reprinted elsewhere. ,,, (o o) +-------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------------------------+ | Laurie Finke, Women's and Gender Studies, Kenyon College | | Gambier, OH 43022 phone: 614-427-5276 | | home: 614-427-3428, P.O. Box 731 mail: FinkeL@Kenyon.Edu | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ () () ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 09:35:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: am68 In-Reply-To: <9308300258.AA08181@umd5.umd.edu> >Does anyone perchance know what percentage of persons working in the nation's >public schools are female? Does the census bureau publish this information? >Can it be accessed over the Internet? Should it be accessed? > Non-academic Curiosity, Lisa Auanger c513024@mizzou1. Try Department of Education Statistics - they are a more likely source than the Census. For example: The Digest of Education Statistics.> ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 09:37:10 LCL Reply-To: womens-studies@MIT.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandy Martin Subject: Re: Feminism, Infertility, & Adoption Sojourner, the women's newspaper here in boston, has had a number of articles questioning adoption and fertility issues from a feminist perspective. at least one i can recall was by a black woman adopted into a white suburban family who feels very ambivalent about her experience. you could contact the editor of Sojourner, Karen Kahn, at 617-524-0415, or 42 Seaverns St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, to ask what they've printed on the issue. (i know there's been a number of pieces over the past few years, but i can't recall details. but she's got a good memory for such things and will remember what else there is.) --sandy martin, womens-studies@mit.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 09:37:00 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Donna Jacques Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University Subject: Leona Woods (Marshall) I am trying to locate information on Leona Woods (Marshall), a woman physicist who worked with Enrico Fermi on the first atomic reactor. I sent the message to this list because of its emphasis on feminist scholarship. I received a couple of responses, one of which suggested I read Susan Griffith's new book! - but actually I am trying to find out if anyone is doing work on Woods (Marshal) specifically. [I put Marshall in brackets because she worked on the project under the name Woods, but changed her name to MArshall sometime after that]. I have also contacted the Memphis State Project - the database of who is doing what research on which women - As an experienced reference librarian with a women's studies background, I do not need SOURCES on how to find information on women. I need to know if anyone is doing research on this particular woman. FLIB2256.selu.edu Donna Jacques Assistant Professor Head of Reference Southeastern Louisana University HAmmond, LA. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 09:17:29 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharyl Bender Peterson Subject: Re: wife-beating in literature (fwd) Someone asked about Lee Smith's novels. The first three are: Black Mountain Breakdown, Oral History (in my opinion, her best), and Family Linen. She also has a recent novel that I haven't read, and therefore can't recall the title of right now. Hope this is helpful. Sharyl Bender Peterson speterson@ccnode.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 11:19:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ly15 Subject: NWSA Directory To all interested in information re: NWSA Directory Title: NWSA Directory of Women's Studies Programs, Women's Centers and Women's Research Centers, it was printed near the end of 1990 and contains 1,048 entries. The cost of the publication is $9.00. Please forward a check of purchase order to obtain this book. We only have 12 copies left and I don't know when we'll reprint or update. Write to NWSA % Univ. of MD, College Park, MD 20742-1325, Attn: Loretta Younger. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 09:22:17 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharyl Bender Peterson Subject: Sexual Orientation & Therapy I am requesting your help identifying current critiques/analyses of the effects of attempts to change persons' sexual orientation. While I can locate the current literature on this in the psychology journals (I'm a psychologist, but not a clinician), what I'm particularly interested in is good critiques, and a sound sense of what is current thought about this. Everything I've read (although it's been a while, since this is out of my field) suggested that it causes serious psychological violence to a person, but I'm interested in finding current data/thought about this. I don't subscribe to any of the nets for lesbian women, so if someone is willing to pass this along, I'd appreciate it. Thank you for your help. Sharyl Bender Peterson Colorado College speterson@ccnode.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 08:48:00 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Wendy Burton Subject: ideological bias/literary canon A book you might find useful, both for its content and its bibliography, is Deanne Bogdan*Re-Educating the Imagination: Toward a poetics, politics, and pedagogy of literary engagement* Boynton/Cook 1992. Wendy Burton/University-College/Fraser Valley burton@fvc.bc.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 10:56:46 +22311151 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Linda Coleman Subject: canon formation There are a number of good "summary" articles in a collection by Lentricchia and McLaughlin--Critical Terms for Literary Study. L. Coleman cflsc@eiu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 12:07:43 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathleen Marszycki." Subject: Re: ideological bias in the literary canon >I'm preparing to teach a graduate seminar on 'discourse and idealogy'. >Can anyone recommend a good summary article or articles identifying >ideological (sexist, racist, etc.) bias in the traditional >literary canon, and/or in the literature that is studied by children >in schools? I know there must be interesting feminist scholarship >on these topics -- any suggestions as to where to start? > > >Thanks in advance, > >Susan Herring >susan@utafll.uta.edu Last year my freshmen became quite vociferous when we tackled several critical articles on the fairytale, Cinderella. Not only was the Walt Disney (modern American version) discussed along with the earlier versions of the tale, but several articles on folktale/fairytales (in general and C. in particular) were included with an emphasis on the feminist perspective. Nina Auerbach's new(er) book on fairytales and Alison Lurie's "Don't Tell the Grownups" are both intriguing works. Students, I believe, respond well to this genre because they've grown up with it in one form or another. Sorry - the text I used in my class was "Writing & REading Across the Curriculum" and that chapter on Cinderella is included. Good luck! Kelly Kathleen.Marszycki@trincoll.edu Trinity College Hartford, CT ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 11:13:40 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: d000wgsp@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU Subject: Re: Leona Woods (Marshall) One of my colleagues has recently given a number of presentations about the women involved in developing the bomb during WWII, and I suspect she has done some research on Woods within that context. How much further she is taking it I don't know. Her name and address are: Dr. Ruth Howes Department of Physics Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 I don't know if she is on line with bitnet or internet. Sorry I couldn't send this directly to you but I can't reach your address. Irene Goldman 00ICGOLDMAN@BSUVC.BSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 13:12:33 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Carl M. Kadie" Subject: masters' tools In-Reply-To: Beatrice Kachuck's message of Fri, 27 Aug 1993 22:31:06 EDT <9308280243.AA13056@umd5.umd.edu> I had the pleasure of reading the _Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave_ this weekend. Douglass believed that the master's tools for bondage were also the slave's tools for liberation. The most important of these tools for Douglass was reading. He talks about how important it was to learn to read and how he over heard one of his masters explain to his (the master's) wife why slaves should not be allowed to learn to read. Another important tool was intellectual discussion. The book that influnced Douglass the most was _The Columbian Orator_. Its discussions of slavery (I believe translations from old Latin and Greek sources) gave him his first intellectual and philosophic tools to convince many people of good will that slavery was immoral. Although, not covered in his narrative, I believe it also helped him develop a wide enough understanding of oppression that he opposed all oppression, not just oppression against black or slaves. (He was a delegate to the first women's rights convention in 1848 and he signed the Declaration of Sentiments, there.) Finally, he used the tool of free expression (as much as he could), to speak and write against slavery. - Carl @BOOK{Douglass1845, Author = "Douglass, Frederick", Title = "Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave.$Written by himself.", Publisher = "Pub. at the Anti-slavery office", Address = "Boston", Year = "1845", COL = "xvi, 125 p.$illus.$17 cm.", NOG = "Preface signed: Wm. Lloyd Garrison.", Subject = "Slavery in the U.S.--Maryland" } @BOOK{Bingham1812, Author = "Bingham, Caleb", Title = "The Columbian orator: containing a variety of original and selected pieces, together with rules, calculated to improve youth and others in the ornamental and useful art of eloquence", Edition = "15th", Publisher = "Printed by Manning \& Loring", Address = "Boston", Year = "1812", COL = "300 p. ;$18 cm.", NOG = "'Designed for a second part to the American preceptor.'--Pref.", NOG = "Signatures: A-Z6Aa6:$$1,3 signed (-A", Subject = "Recitations; Readers--1800-1870; Speeches, addresses, etc" } ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 09:55:24 LCL Reply-To: womens-studies@MIT.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sandy Martin Subject: Re: evaluating WS courses The women's studies program here at mit created a form about 3 years ago because the other evaluation forms around the school weren't very useful for us. below is a copy of the form we use-- it's specifically designed to be different from the computerized-fill-in-the-dots-with-a- number-2-pencil-type that the students do so many of. it's also designed as a mid-semester evaluation form for 2 reasons: 1. so that ws professors can still correct misunderstandings or alter their methods before the entire semester has been wasted for confused or disgruntled students; and 2. because all our courses are cross-listed, the students already have to fill out a departmental form and a school-wide form at the end of the semester, and filling out 3 at once wouldn't be very useful. i'd be interested in seeing what other school use-- so please do send other responses to the list. thanks-- sandy martin, womens-studies@mit.edu ********************************************************** MIT Women's Studies Program Mid-Semester Course Evaluation This questionnaire is designed to provide your instructor(s) and the Women's Studies Program with information about the quality of this course. Questionnaires will be anonymous -- do not write your name on this form. The instructor(s) will read the evaluations and may use the completed forms as the basis of a classroom discussion. The forms will be reviewed by the Women's Studies Program and kept on file in the Program office. (Fall 90) Course Title and Number ___________________________________________________ Semester/Year______________ Instructor(s)__________________________________ Your major_____________________________ Student Year____________ Are you a Women's Studies Minor?__________ or Concentrator?___________ Poor (Low):1 Fair:2 Satisfactory:3 Very Good:4 Excellent (High):5 [If you are in a course with more than one instructor, please be sure to specify which comments address which instructor.] 1. Instructor's skill as a lecturer and/or discussion leader.......................... 2. Clarity and organization of instructor's presentation.............................. 3. Clarity with which requirements and objectives of course were stated at the beginning of the semester....................................... 4. Extent to which course goals have been reached ................... 5. Instructor's enthusiasm for the course .................. 6. Instructor's availability and helpfulness to students ......... 7. Instructor's respect for student's ideas ................ 8. Difficulty of material ................. 9. Quantity of work required ........................... 10. Contributions of this course to improving your thinking, writing and discussion skills ..................... 11. Contributions of this course to broadening your perspective ..... 12. Overall quality of the course ............................ Please be as specific as possible in answering the following questions. 12. Why did you choose the course? 13. What aspect of the course has been most helpful in furthering your understanding of the subject: readings? lectures? discussions? written work? 14. Have different perspectives been presented in this course? Do readings and lectures cover, for instance, the perspectives of blacks, Third World people, lesbians and gays, and poor people? Are these perspectives treated respectfully? 15. Are you comfortable speaking in class? If not, is it because (check as many as you want) ____you are often unprepared for class? ____you believe that other students won't respect your ideas? ____you believe that the instructor won't respect your ideas? ____you're never comfortable speaking in classes? ____the topics are too personal to speak about in class? ____other (please explain) ________________________________________ 16. What are the best aspects of this course? 17. How would you improve this course? What aspects of the course would you change? 18. Are there class dynamics which you particularly like or with which you feel uncomfortable? Have these dynamics been addressed in any way? 19. Any and all other comments and ideas are welcome. (Please feel free to attach another sheet.) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 18:08:12 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joanne Goodwin Subject: Re: evaluating WS courses In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 29 Aug 93 13:29:51 -0700. <199308292043.AA08664@animal-farm.nevada.edu> I see from the wmst-l that you have "met" Karen Anderson (UArizona/SIROW/WmStd) indirectly. I was surprised she didn't send some information on their evaluation forms. Anyway, MIT's looks helpful. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 20:48:40 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Victoria L Herring Subject: Re: ideological bias in the literary canon I just saw your surname and thought I would reply because mine is the same - probably no relation, but it is not a common name. I'm on the WMST-L too, am a lawyer in Des Moiens, Iowa. Good luck in gaining an answer to your query, just thought I would say hi! vlherring@igc.apc.org. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 21:06:35 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Victoria L Herring Subject: Closure of WS Programs A friend of mine is involved in investigating the closure (pending) of a women studies program - over time the WS program has been hit with butdet crunches. My friend needs to know of other situations where $$$ has been drained from Women's Studies department over time, crippling the prograam and ultimately causing its closure (happens in alot of cases but his interest is with WS). I just need ideas of where this has happened in academia as well over past 3-5 yrs. You can email me att - Victoria L. Herring vlherring@igc.apc.org. Thanks. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 14:04:48 +0930 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susanne Schech Subject: gender and work journal In-Reply-To: <9308190241.AA27244@umd5.umd.edu> from "Joan Korenman" at Aug 18, 93 09:25:00 pm I have heard that a new journal is coming out in 1994 on gender, work and organisations, edited by Jill Rubery. Does anyone know the publisher? I would like to order it for our library. Thanks in advance for your help. Susanne Schech SSchech@adam.adelaide.edu.au ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 14:39:31 +0930 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: K Schaffe Subject: listserv subscribe WMST-L kay schaffer -- ############################################################################### Kay Schaffer, PhD Associate Professor: Women's Studies e-mail: kschaffe@adam.adelaide.edu.au University of Adelaide Ph: +61 8 303 3675 South Australia FAX:+61 8 224 0464 ############################################################################### ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 10:59:41 MET-1 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ronald Camstra Subject: Life of Joanne: part III Here's part III of the life of Joanna. Still based on Roidis's book. After their forced and premature departure from the cloister of Mosbach, Joanna and Frumentius embark upon a wandering trough Europe. First they arrive at Sankt Gallen, where they are lovingly taken into the cloister. However, on the first night, one of the monks notices that Joanna's ears are pierced. The sight of a feminine earlob starts a wave of erotic desire through the cloister, and the Abbot asks Joanna and Frumetius to leave straightaway. After Switserland, they board a ship en they travel down the Rhone to Lyon. There they visit the Bishop who gives them money and good advice. Further down the Rhone, they get to Arles, which is 'famous for its sausages and women, who like the English horses, own their beauty to their intermingling with arabs'. In Arles they are welcomed into a frivolous Bendict nunsconvent. Here they are spoiled for three months, but then Joanna falls ill. Her cheeks fell in and het eyes became dull. She suffered off the terrible and dreaded disease of Jealousy. Bleeding didn't help, so it was decided that Joanna should go on a pilgrimage to the cave of Saint Magdalena at Saint Boma. After a journey of three days, which she, Frumentius and the donkey make fasting, they reach the cave. The donkey, crazy with hunger, eats a holy shrubery (makes you think of The Quest of The Holy Grail; Monty Python; "We are the knights that say SHRUBERY'). The animal and all his sort are damned. This is why donkey have always been mocked and beaten since. De lovers run of the mountain, and arrive in Toulon. Here they board a ship, taking them to Corinthe. Joanna's jealousy is past, and she and Frumentius are once again cuddleing and kissing. From Corinthe they are taken to Athens by a greek slave Theonas. In Athens they are welcomed by the Bishop and treated to a banquet. During the meal Joanna works on her contacts with philosophers, theologists and so forth. Joanna discusses and is taken seriously. In ten days Joanna and Frumentius do the sights. Then they settle in a hermitage nearby. The fame of brother Joanna, her beauty, knowledge and sharp-wittedness spreads through the country. Teachers, phiposophers and theologists visit her. While the circle of admirers grows, Joanna's love for Frumentius cools. Frumentius isn't thrilled, naturally. He contemplates cutting Joanna's throat. Luckily he can restrain heimself. Joanna is starting to get fed up with the not so welcome anymore attentions of Frumentius. Meanwhile, Joanna's big secret is starting to get around: ze wasn't sleeping with Frumentius anymore, but she was sharing the bed with Bishops and philosophers. Frumentius was tormenting her inside the hermitage, and outside, pietious monks were ready to stone her. Time to get out, Joanna thought. A ship in the harbour of Pireaus would leave for Rome the next morning. For a moment, Joanna contemplated on taking Frumentius with her, but she decides to leave the millstone around her neck behind. She wanted to let him go easy, so they made love one more time. So passionate was the lovemaking, that afterwards Frumentius dropped into a deep sleep. Joanna stole away to the ship. When Frumetius woke next morning, he missed his love, and he saw her in a dingy, rowing towrds the ship. Frumentius jumped into the water and started swimming after her. He couldn't catch up, and the thought to go on swimming till death follows crossed his mind. But, afraid as he is of hell, he turns back. On the shore, he wails and wails, for 15 days. Then he falls asleep, and in his dream he is visited by Bonifacius who frees him of his thought of Joanna. The next morning, he wakes with the thought that there are more women than Joanna. To be continued. Anton Oskamp E-mail AOSKAMP@IVIP.FRW.UVA.NL ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 09:54:38 ADT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: <31AUG93.10742230.0063.MUSIC@UNB.CA> From: CARMEN POULIN Subject: PUBLICATION TITLES For those of you not familiar, I would like to introduce CRIAW, the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. CRIAW is a non-profit organization. It publishes on various topics of special interest to women. To give you an idea of the types of publications available, I am providing a sample of available titles. Some of the reports and briefs are free of charge, and most other series are available at relatively low costs. I have used some of CRIAW's publications in my Psych of Women course and I know of a colleague who uses them in a Women in Literature course. The student's response was positive in both cases. The CRIAW address is 151 Slater Street, Suite 408, Ottawa, Canada, K1P 5H3. Their phone # (613)563-0681 fax # (613) 563-0682. e-mail: WCSCRIAW@CARLETON.CA ********************************************************************* #29/CP Star Gazing: Charting Feminist Literary Criticism by Andrea Lebowitz 69pp. 1991 This paper reviews the work of feminist readers and writers from 1970 to the present. It offers a new conceptual model for understanding this varied body of work. Rejecting the notion of chronology, Star Gazing groups the criticism into TconstellationsU of inquiry which are internal commonalities. In addition, each constellation is related to fundamental issues of gender and representation that are common to all the TconstellationsU. Through this organization the author shows how the criticism has grown and developed but also how it has continued to pursue recurring ideas. Covering the work of community and academic critics, Star Gazing discusses both the collaborations and conflicts of feminist literary criticism. #24/CP Canadian WomenUs Autobiography in English: An Introductory Guide for Researchers and Teachers by Helen M. Buss 50pp. 1991 This study surveys a wide range of Canadian womenUs autobiographical writing in order to describe the ways in which women have constructed themselves as female subjects. A selected list of texts on the study of autobiography is also included. #23/CP Taboo, Silence and Voice in WomenUs Writing: Intertidal Life as Case in Point by Tunde H.Nemeth 35pp. 1989 Nemeth uses feminist theory about womenUs silence as a window into the exciting work of contemporary women writers. She examines the reality of the tradition of womenUs silence; the subversiveness and marginality of womenUs writing; the material conditions and socialization that affect women writers; and the silencing of women by patriarchal language and the structure of narrative. The womenUs voices raised in the public realm are breaking long-standing taboos, says Nemeth, and Audrey ThomasU Intertidal Life, examined here, shows how women writers use both silence and voice to get their meaning across. #15/CP Literary Mothers & Daughters: A Review of Twentieth-Century Poetry by Canadian Women by Diana A.M. Relke 32pp. 1987 Until recently, the important events in the history of Canadian poetry have been recorded in terms of the concerns pre-occupying male poets. Relke presents the English Canadian women poets of the 20th Century as a community sharing a body of ongoing literary concerns that have evolved to the present day. Selective and descriptive rather than comprehensive and analytical, the paper suggests new ways of reading womenUs poetry in order to arrive at a new concept of interdependence and literary history. #11/CP Talking about Ourselves: The Literary Productions of Native Women of Canada by Barbara Thompson Godard 44pp. 1985 This study explores the relationship between womenUs literature and Native literature in the oral form. By showing how the oral text can be considered as a literary work, Barbara Godard provides arguments for the inclusion of many of womenUs cultural productions into our concept of TliteratureU. #4 /CP Recording Angels: Private Chronicles of Women from the Maritime Provinces of Canada: 1750-1950 by Margaret Conrad 36pp. 1982 This paper is an account of the Maritime WomenUs Archives Project, whose primary goal was the collection of memories, diaries and autobiographical letters written by women from the Maritime provinces between 1750 and 1950. Diaries were the focus of the projectUs early research efforts and provide the basis for ConradUs report. She includes some fascinating samples from the collection as well as an analysis of their revelations. Anyone interested in womenUs history will find this paper a useful resource. #3/CP Women & Culture: Selected Papers from the Halifax Conference 61pp. 1982 This special issue comprises five essays from several academic disciplines representing different aspects of research on womenUs culture. These treatises were chosen from among those presented at the 1981 CRIAW conference. For those who took part in the assembly, this collection will recall the excitement of the event. For those who were not there, this sample will provide a hint of the range and diversity of the conference, and its implications for this field of feminist research. RRA Reproductive Technologies and Women: A Research Tool 133pp. [$8 incl. postage] 1990 This bilingual publication contains a wealth of information for all researchers interested in NRTs. The tool contains essays and glossaries in both French and English, extensive bibliographical material and abstracts of key feminist articles and books in English. RRA Our Bodies ... Our Babies? Women Look at New Reproductive Technologies Resource kit [$10 incl. postage] 1990 This community resource kit contains: fact sheets on key issues such as infertility, in vitro fertilization and surrogacy; information on what you can do about NRTs; a glossary and a list of resources; back-up articles; and Dilemmas, a publication by the Quebec Council on the Status of Women. #20/FP The Trouble with Licensing Midwives by Jutta Mason 29pp. 1990 This paper examines the movement to have midwives officially licensed - a change the author contends will inevitably make things worse for women. Jutta Mason contends that Rdespite much good will and hard work by licensing advocates, the midwifery system - like all complex systems - aspires to leave no space outside itself.S She fears a shift in loyalty from the women who resist medical management of childbirth to Rthe system.S #14/FP La refonte des soins de sant destin s aux femmes/ Redesigning Health Care for Women by Monique B gin 38pp. 1989 This paper examines the history of the provision of health care in Canada and concludes that neither the conventional bio-medical model nor the daily practice of health care deals justly with womenUs health concerns. A number of action goals for female users of the health care system are identified, including: the de-medicalization of life; the empowerment of women through reappropriation of the body, self- examination, self-help groups, womenUs clinics and other practices; and questioning the machine model of scientific medicine and recognizing its cultural and other biases. #11/FP Getting Older and Better: Women and Gender Assumptions in CanadaUs Aging Society by Susan MacDaniel 24pp. 1988 In this article some assumptions about gender and gender differences which guide much thinking, including supposedly scientific thinking, are explored and questioned. In particular, these assumptions are shown to have importance as women become more central in CanadaUs aging society. Some of the challenges as well as opportunities for women in an aging Canada are high-lighted. PRO Women and Wellbeing/Femmes et mieux- tre 1987 Winnipeg Proceedings 237pp. [$17.95 paper/$34.95 cloth] 1987 The importance of a concern for womenUs well-being cannot be overemphisized. The pervasive patriarchal assumption is that women are generally responsible for the well-being of others. Consequently, the issues dealt with in Women and Well-Being are often ignored. Vanaja Dhruvarajan has selected 20 articles from those presented at the 11th CRIAW conference. Together they identify conditions which are beneficial or detrimental to a womanUs well-being and explore ways and means of advancing awareness of the issue. #6/FP But What Will They Mean for Women? Feminist Concerns about the New Reproductive Technologies by Linda S. Williams 31pp. 1986 This overview describes the feminist response to in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, surrogate motherhood and sex selection, and concludes that, in the long run, reproductive technologies will further undermine what little control women have over their reproductive lives. #28/CP Politics and the Hidden Injuries of Gender: Feminism and the Making of the Welfare State by Thelma McCormack 74pp. 1991 This paper examines the development of Rpolitical womanS in Canada over the last century, from Suffrage to the Welfare State, with a view to understanding the political sensibility and the nature of our gendered political cultures. The hidden injuries women have sustained through their depiction in political theory and political practice have left their mark negatively in the political alienation of women and positively in their vision of the welfare state. Dr. McCormack suggests that there have been two welfare states: one based on crisis management, the other on an evolutionary development; one on economic and administrative initiatives, the other on values and culture. The strong association between women and the welfare state is examined from two perspectives: l) neo-maternalist theories about Rmaternal thinkingS, 2) the historical structuring of inequality. We speculate about the future of women and the formation of a global political culture as the nation-state declines. RRA A Policy Handbook: Strategies for Effecting Change in Public Policy 47pp. [$5 incl. postage] 1991 The Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport (CAAWS) believes that lobbying for policy and/or legislative change is one of the strategies women need to use in working towards equality. This policy handbook is concerned with the how-to of the change process. It includes chapters on how to create a vision of sport and physical activity from a women-centred perspective; how to identify and clarify the issues; how to advocate or lobby; how to write or critique policy; as well as on implementing, monitoring and evaluating policy. This tool will interest any group working to effect change in public policy; the steps and guidelines are not specific to sport and physical activity. #16/FP The Canadian WomenUs Movement, Equality Rights and the Charter by Lise Gotell 57pp. 1990 This article examines the contradictory consequences of the entrenchment of a sexual equality clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for the Canadian womenUs movement. At the same time as the Charter provides a symbolic assurance of womenUs equality, its use as an instrument for ensuring such equality risks legalizing and judicializing the quest for improvements in womenUs status. Through an exploration of a number of legislative and judicial decisions in recent years, the author suggests the womenUs movement should exercise caution in its embrace of a charter-based strategy. #12a/FP Smooth Sailing or Storm Warning? Canadian and Quebec WomenUs Groups and the Meech Lake Accord by Barbara Roberts 46pp. 1988 This article provides an overview of the positions taken by various womenUs groups across Canada as presented to the Special Joint Committee on the 1987 Constitution Accord. Particular emphasis is given to explaining the positions of womenUs groups in Quebec to their sisters elsewhere in Canada. The dangers posed by the different positions are examined, as well as dangers resulting from lack of information and communication, and weaknesses in the constitutional process itself. Based on research commissioned by CRIAW. In addition to the title article are included a chronology of Constitutional events, the text of the Accord, the FFQUs presentation to the Joint Committee, and an overview of positions taken by national womenUs groups on the Accord. An attempt to clarify and heal some of the wounds suffered by the womenUs movement over the Accord. #16/17/CP WomenUs Involvement in Political life: A Pilot Study 199pp. 1987 This unique study was designed to investigate Canadian womenUs participation in political life in a comparative way. Commissioned by Unesco, Division of Human Rights and Peace (Paris), the project was carried out by a dozen CRIAW members across Canada and explores what ordinary women conceive political activity to be, and factors that have favoured or discouraged their involvement. The groups interviewed include: Alberta New Democratic Party, WomenUs Section, Alberta Status of Women Action Committee, Women of the North, Concerned Farm Women of Ontario, MUMS (Mothers United for Metro Shelter), F.A.N.E. (F d ration Acadienne de la Nouvelle-Ecosse), Pandora, and the R.C.M. Comit -femmes du Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Montr al). #26/CP The WomenUs Movement and its Currents of Thought by Francine Descarries-B langer and Shirley Roy 58pp. 1991 This article consists of an essay of typology of the different currents of thought that have developed within and around the womenUs movement over the past decades. It aims at a better comprehension of the content and the stakes involved in the key debates. Thus it proposes a simple and systematic grid of analysis by which to understand what is happening in the world of feminist thought, to grasp the issues, and to bring to light the multiplicity, complexity and continuity of the perspectives presented; this in order to become aware of, explain and transform the many facets of the individual and collective experience of women #16/FP The Canadian WomenUs Movement, Equality Rights and the Charter by Lise Gotell 57pp. 1990 This article examines the contradictory consequences of the entrenchment of a sexual equality clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for the Canadian womenUs movement. At the same time as the Charter provides a symbolic assurance of womenUs equality, its use as an instrument for ensuring such equality risks legalizing and judicializing the quest for improvements in womenUs status. Through an exploration of a number of legislative and judicial decisions in recent years, the author suggests the womenUs movement should exercise caution in its embrace of a charter-based strategy. #5b/FP The WomenUs Movement: Then and Now by Micheline Dumont 46pp. 1986 A historical summary and current overview which reveals the depth and the complexity of the womenUs movement in the West. The authorUs style and format make this paper accessible to a wide audience, and help to demystify RfeminismS by increasing womenUs awareness of their history and common struggles. It also presents an overview and an analysis of some of the socio-political struggles that are being fought by todayUs movement: choice, pornography, sexist language, sexual harassment and so on. #4a/FP The Pro-Family Movement: Are They For or Against Families? by Margrit Eichler 37pp./49pp. 1986 RAnti-familyS is just one of the charges that have been brought against feminists by groups calling themselves Rpro-familyS. In this paper, Margrit Eichler examines the policies of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) concerning wives, homemakers and mothers to determine whether these charges are accurate or not. She then goes on to look at the central positions of so-called Rpro-familyS groups such as Real Women and the Alberta Federation of Women United for Families. Eichler concludes by addressing the following questions: What kind of family is the Rpro-familyS movement promoting? What will happen to Canadian families if the movementUs policies are accepted? What can feminists do to prevent the restoration of the patriarchal family? #1/FP Lament for a RPatriarchy LostS? Anti-feminism, Anti-abortion and R.E.A.L. Women in Canada by Karen Dubinsky 51pp. 1985 A Masters student in WomenUs Studies at Carleton University brings fresh insights to the examination of right-wing women in Canada, and the ideology behind anti-abortion and anti-feminist groups such as R.E.A.L. Women. A brief history of Canadian abortion legislation and the rise of pro-choice and anti-abortion organizing is followed by an overview of pro-life ideology through a review of the movementUs literature. In discussing several feminist theoretical works which attempt to explain the rise of anti-feminist sentiment, Ms. Dubinsky challenges feminists to re-assess the impact and significance of this new phenomenon. #25/CP Searching for Subjectivity in the World of the Sciences: Feminist Viewpoints by Roberta Mura 67pp. 1991 Can sciences which do not deal directly with human beings (for example, physics, mathematics, zoology, engineering) be subjected to a feminist critique? This article argues in favour of applying a feminist perspective to the RhardS sciences since they are all ultimately created by human beings, most often, by men. Some of the images, symbols, and methaphors contained in these sciences reflect a masculine bias that is itself rooted in an androcentric culture. #19/FP Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Liberation by Linda Briskin 31pp. 1990 In this paper the author argues that in order to develop a feminist pedagogy, we must unravel the contradictions women experience as learners, as teachers, as feminists, as change-makers. This paper deals with three sets of contradictions: first, the contradictions in the messages that women carry around in everyday life and bring into the classroom as students and as teachers; second, the contradictions women experience as educators, especially as feminist educators; and third, the contradictions women experience as activists and as change-makers. Out of these contradictions, three strategies emerge: teaching leadership, anti-sexism and reclaiming feminism in the classroom. The feminist pedagogical standpoint -- a standpoint of teaching and learning liberation -- is generated from the interplay between these contradictions and strategies. #22/CP Speaking from the Shadows: An Introduction to Feminist Thinking in Anthropology by Helga E. Jacobson 41pp. 1989 This wide-ranging article focuses on questions and theories concerning sex, gender and the situation of women, including beliefs about the universal inferiority of women based on biological characteristics. In doing so, she explains how assumptions about gender affect generalizations in anthropological work and shows how to make a feminist critique of work concerned with other cultures. #7/FP Sex-Role Learning and the Woman Teacher: A Feminist Perspective by Rosonna Tite 25pp. 1986 In this insightful account of an elementary school action research project that evolved into a Rgender issuesS committee, Rosonna Tite challenges those researching sex-role stereotyping in the schools to understand the work of the classroom from the teacherUs point of view. She points out that to focus on instructional activities is to disconnect teachers from the reality of their work and disregard their experiences and the context in which they take place. Researchers, teachers, parents and all who are concerned about education will welcome the new conceptual frame-work she proposes. #3/FP Bilan et perspectives de recherches f ministes/ Feminist Research: Overview and Outlook by Francine Descarries-B langer and Micheline de S ve 60pp. 1985 This publication incorporates two papers which offer a critical appraisal of the role and impact of womenUs studies and feminist research in Quebec. Francine Descarries-B langerUs paper on the history and present situation of feminist studies is followed by an essay by Micheline de S ve which questions the nature of feminist research and its relationship to womenUs experience. Recognizing the wealth of important research carried out within the feminist research community in Quebec, and the lack of distribution of this research in English Canada, CRIAW has undertaken to publish these papers in a bilingual format in order to publicize them to a wider audience. #6/CP Sexism in Research and its Policy Implications by Margrit Eichler 35pp. 1983 This paper, which constitutes the text of the opening speech for the 1982 CRIAW conference, demonstrates that research is overwhelmingly RandrocentricS -- that is, sexist -- and explores the five ways in which sexism can infiltrate the research process. This important document, the first detailed examination of the subject, also offers concrete proposals for eliminating sexism in research and effecting a RCopernican revolution in scholarshipS. #17/FP Towards Family Policies in Canada with Women in Mind by Susan A. McDaniel 33pp. 1990 That Canadian families are changing is a subject of increasing political and intellectual discussion and debate. The family has emerged, on both sides of the 49th parallel, as a central political issue as never before in history. There is talk, some of it serious, of instituting policies which might prop up the traditional family. There are also policy initiatives on other fronts such as day care, reproductive control, employment equity, which may have profound implications for women in Canadian families. In this paper, some issues of importance to women on which family policy might build are examined in light of existing research and trends in family change. Emphasis is placed on women in families and the need for attention to the concerns of women within family concerns. #10/FP The Work of Child-rearing by Michelle Duval 41pp. 1988 In this paper, originally written in French, Michelle Duval explores this burden of mothers as the basis on which patriarchyUs oppression of women has been built. In DuvalUs analysis, she describes the characteristics and institutionalization of TmotherworkU and its effect on mothers; she further suggests, to feminists and to mothers in particular, some parameters of what is essentially a revolutionary strategy to transform the institution of motherhood and to facilitate the emergence of new values and, ultimately, of a new society. #20/CP The Politics and Experience of Co-Parenting: An Exploratory Study of Shared Custody in Canada by Cerise Morris 40pp. 1988 This paper explores the growing phenomenon of shared parenting arrangements between former spouses. Research centered on the nature and terms of the choice to co-parent after marital dissolution; the predictable problems that arise in co-parenting families, and strategies for their management; and how mothers, fathers and children respectively evaluate their experience in co-parenting familes. The co-parenting, or Tbi-nuclearU family, is then analytically linked to the increasing social visibility of families which do not conform to the assumptions of the traditional nuclear family model. Finally, new feminist concerns about the current promotion of joint custody are considered. #21/FP Role Muddles: The Stereotyping of Feminists by Christine Overall 22pp. 1991 Overall writes: RThis is a largely autobiographical account of my Trole muddlesU that is my confusion about my identity as a feminist academic. I first describe several examples of role muddles, and indicate their epistemological and moral dimensions. After exploring the possibility of just living with tensions about the concept of TfeministU, I situate these tensions within the context of the current media focus on Tpolitical correctnessU and its insidious effects on feminism. Finally I offer some tentative suggestions for dealing with feminist role muddles.S #27/CP Is Feminist Ethics Possible? by Lorraine Code, Maureen Ford, Kathleen Martindale, Susan Sherwin and Debra Shogan 46pp. 1991 In this collaborative project, the authors seek to explain their understanding of feminist ethics and to reason about the importance of theory for its development. They also write about the ethical practice of collaborating across differences. [The authors are white, anglophone academics who differ in age, class and sexual orientation. They sometimes agree and sometimes disagree about the analyses they want to present.] #15/FP Confronting Pornography: A Feminist on the Front Lines by Jillian Ridington 36pp. 1989 Feminists have struggled with the issue of pornography for over a decade. Many articles have been written by feminists who favour regulation of material which they see as a form of violence against women. Other feminists have expressed strongly their views that any restriction on sexually explicit material will serve to silence women. The debate has dealt more with theory than with content. This article provides concrete information about the content of Tadult sophisticateU magazines on Canadian newstands from 1984-1988 when the author, as Chairperson of the B.C. Periodical Review Board, regularly examined these periodicals. #21/FP Role Muddles: The Stereotyping of Feminists by Christine Overall 22pp. 1991 Overall writes: RThis is a largely autobiographical account of my Trole muddlesU that is my confusion about my identity as a feminist academic. I first describe several examples of role muddles, and indicate their epistemological and moral dimensions. After exploring the possibility of just living with tensions about the concept of TfeministU, I situate these tensions within the context of the current media focus on Tpolitical correctnessU and its insidious effects on feminism. Finally I offer some tentative suggestions for dealing with feminist role muddles.S #27/CP Is Feminist Ethics Possible? by Lorraine Code, Maureen Ford, Kathleen Martindale, Susan Sherwin and Debra Shogan 46pp. 1991 In this collaborative project, the authors seek to explain their understanding of feminist ethics and to reason about the importance of theory for its development. They also write about the ethical practice of collaborating across differences. [The authors are white, anglophone academics who differ in age, class and sexual orientation. They sometimes agree and sometimes disagree about the analyses they want to present.] #15/FP Confronting Pornography: A Feminist on the Front Lines by Jillian Ridington 36pp. 1989 Feminists have struggled with the issue of pornography for over a decade. Many articles have been written by feminists who favour regulation of material which they see as a form of violence against women. Other feminists have expressed strongly their views that any restriction on sexually explicit material will serve to silence women. The debate has dealt more with theory than with content. This article provides concrete information about the content of Tadult sophisticateU magazines on Canadian newstands from 1984-1988 when the author, as Chairperson of the B.C. Periodical Review Board, regularly examined these periodicals. #13/CP RWhy do Women do Nothing to end the War?S by Barbara Roberts 37pp. 1985 This paper gives us a glimpse of the Canadian womenUs peace network during World War I through biographical portraits of feminist pacifists with strong ties to the farm, labour and socialist movements of the day. The paper raises interesting questions about the complexities of female resistance to war -- its sources, motivations and organizational formations. At the same time, it asks the reader to think about power and domination in the context of womenUs values, particularly maternal ideologies which were shared by militarists and pacifists alike. ******************************************************************** I hope this is helpful for some of you. I have more titles but I ran out of steam! If you are interested, however, let me know and I will put them on file and send them individually (unless there is many requests in which case I will post to the list again). Carmen. ******************************************************************** Carmen Poulin, PhD Psychology Department Bag Service # 45444 University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada, E3B 6E4 e-mail: MBCP@UNB.CA ******************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 09:50:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: Virginia Women's Studies Association Conference Note who the keynote speaker is. Hope folks nearby can attend. Arnie **************************************************************** Virginia Women's Studies Association 1993 Program November 5-6, 1993 James Madison University WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Plans are underway for the VWSA 1993 Meeting at James Madison University and we invite your participation and preregistration. Friday, November 5 2:00 p.m. Registration: Taylor Hall, 307 Soft drinks and snacks will be available all afternoon in Taylor Hall, Multipurpose Lounge, 4th Floor. 3:00 p.m. Welcome: Dr. Deborah Ventis, President, Virginia Women's Studies Association and Dr. Bethany S. Oberst, Vice President for Academic Affairs, JMU. Student Panel: "Why Am I Interested in Women's Studies?" 4:15 p.m. Panel: "The State of Women's Studies Programs in the Commonwealth" 6:00 p.m. Dinner: On your own. We will have sign up at the registration desk for dinner groups. If you have a topic you would like to discuss with a group over dinner, please see preregistration information below. 8:00 p.m. Performance and reception: Phillips Hall Saturday, November 6 8:00 a.m. Registration: Taylor Hall, 307 8:15 a.m. Business meeting: Coffee, juice and pastries will be available 9:00 a.m. Concurrent sessions: 1. Multimedia demonstration: Dr. Ming Ivory, Department of Political Science, JMU, will give a demonstration of interdisciplinary teaching in a multimedia classroom. The demonstrations will begin at 9:00, 9:30, and 10:00 in the Classroom for the 21st Century, located on the ground floor of Moody Hall. 2. Poster session: Women's Resource Center. Poster sessions will involve individual presentations of research, program development, course development, group activities, or scholarly production in some area focusing on women. Each presenter will display his or her topic and related information on a 2' X 3' poster. The posters will be exhibited in the Center, located in the basement of Logan Hall, with each presenter available to discuss the topic. We encourage participation of faculty and students in the poster session. If you are interested in making a poster presentation, please see preregistration information below. 10:45 Panel: "A Question of Diversity: Are We Making the Connections?" If you are interested in being a part of this panel, please see preregistration information below. 12:30 Lunch: Warren Hall, Highlands Room Speaker: Joan Korenman, Director of Women's Studies, University of Maryland at Baltimore County and creator of WMST-L, the international Women's Studies electronic mail network. 2:00 p.m. Informal Discussion: "Computer Communication Among VWSA Members," Deborah Ventis, College of William and Mary. We will also have a book exhibit and a syllabus exchange during the course of the conference (Friday, 2-8 pm and Saturday, 8 am-4 pm in Taylor Hall, Multipurpose Room, 4th Floor). If you would like to have your syllabus available, please bring 40 copies with you or send them to Violet Allain. Also, you might consider presenting information about your course during the poster session on Saturday morning. "Women and Information Technology" November 5-6, 1993 James Madison University SEE YOU THERE!! PREREGISTRATION INFORMATION Student Housing: Free student housing will be arranged for any student requesting it. Please contact Amy Wan, P. O. Box 2896, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, by October 29th. Hotel information: The following hotels are holding a block of rooms for conference participants. Contact the hotel directly for reservations by the date indicated. Hampton Inn, 85 University Blvd., [take I-81 exit 247A, Rt. 33 east, to University Blvd. (second stoplight) and turn right], 703/432-1111. Rate: $42/person a night plus tax. Reservation deadline: October 22nd. Howard Johnson's, Port Republic Road, [take I-81 exit 245], 703/434-6771. Rate: $35/person a night plus tax. Reservation deadline: October 5th. Preregistration: Name Address City/State/Zip Code Telephone (Day Time) E-mail Address Name and institution information as you would like to have it appear on your name tag: Registration fees: Full-time employed $30 Part-time employed $20 Student $10 Amount enclosed Make checks payable to the Virginia Women's Studies Association. Send completed preregistration form and check by October 1st to Violet Allain, Department of Secondary Education, Library Science, and Educational Leadership, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807. Preregistrants will receive conference materials and a parking permit prior to the meeting. On-site registration will be available for those who do not preregister. Dinner Topic: Indicate your suggestion below for a Friday night dinner topic and a sign-up sheet will be available at the registration desk for conference participants to form dinner groups. Topic PROGRAM PARTICIPATION If you are interested in participating in the panel and/or poster session on Saturday morning, complete the form below and send in by October 1st to Violet Allain, Department of Secondary Education, Library Science, and Educational Leadership, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 or FAX to 703/568-6920. Yes! I want to participate in the program, "Women and Information Technology ." Please indicate your preference below. __ Serve on the panel, "A Question of Diversity: Are We Making the Connections?" __ Participate in the Poster Session: (check one) __ A presentation of a research project either completed or in progress. __ A description of a program or course offered at your college/university. __ An example and description of a scholarly production. __ A description of group activities/events. Name ____________________________________________________________ Address City/State/Zip Code Telephone (Day Time) E-mail Address ??Questions?? Contact Violet Allain at the above address; Telephone: 703/568-6486; FAX: 703/568-6920; Internet address: FAC_VALLAIN@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 09:25:59 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Brooke Fredericksen Subject: part-time academic employment and women I'm new to the list and have been looking in for a week or so now. I haven't seen anything on this topic and frankly I'm anxious to see a discussion of women and their exploitation in part-time academic employment. I received my Ph.D. last year in comparative literature and because the job market is hideous I've been forced to take a part-time position. Unfortunately, what I've noticed is that 90 percent of the part-time employees in the english dept. are women. We are overworked (we usually teach at least 1 and 1/2 to 2 times the courses that full-time, tenured or tenure-track professors do) and underpaid. I am currently receiving less money than I did as a graduate teaching associate. What is really driving me crazy is that I, as a part-time employee, am the only one in my department proposing feminist courses. And in addition to this, I am publishing more articles and books than other, tenured members of the english department. I wonder if others out there are suffering this same fate and if so, what we can do about it. My experience has been that every time someone tries to organize part-time academic employees, there are hundreds of out-of-work teachers to take their place. And the MLA (Modern Language Association) is no help at all. They issued a very weak statement last year that *urged* departments not to hire part-time people but instead to try to develop new, full-time lines. Can we discuss this? I'm feeling very oppressed and depressed right now. Brooke Fredericksen, email fredericksen@vax1.umkc.eduir ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 10:22:50 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Mold Subject: Re: James Baldwin query Perhaps from his essays, Notes of a Native Son? Sorry, I'm not sure. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 12:15:05 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jennifer Organization: Princeton University Press Subject: Vegetarian Issues My friend Carol J. Adams does not have access to the network and has asked me to ask all of you who are interested to respond to her search for stories, anecdotes, articles, case studies on teenagers who are vegetarian (or who are trying to be vegetarian) and their gender concerns. I gave her an example of three women who I interviewed who struggled with not-eating meat as teenagers. These women were also sexually abused by the very same fathers' who insisted that they eat meat. Another example could be the trivialization of vegetarianism as a trend. Any suggestions would be welcomed by Carol (author of "The Sexual Politics of Meat" and Ecofeminism and the Sacred"). Her address is: Carol J. Adams 814 Grinnell Drive Richardson TX 75081 Or you can funnel your suggestions through my email address below. Thanks for your help. EMAIL: J.MANLOWE@PUPRESS.PRINCETON.EDU SNAIL: JENNIFER L. MANLOWE, PHD PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 41 WILLIAM STREET PRINCETON NJ 08540 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 11:55:45 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dennis Longmire Subject: Re: Vegetarian Issues The question of vegetarianism and gender identification among adolescents is interesting . . . I once belonged to a network that focused on just about anything you can imagine in re vegetarianism . . . lots of mail so be careful! If you are interested, here's how to subscribe: To subscribe to the list, send a message to LISTSERV@GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU saying: SUBSCRIBE VEGGIE First_Name Last_Name Again, that list gets a lot of action! I'll bet someone on VEGGIE can answer your questions! Good luck, Dennis ICC_DRL@SHSU ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 13:15:35 PDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "KFJONES. Internet address: JONESKF@CSUS.EDU" Subject: help I am broadening my search for information for a graduate student here at CSUS who is looking for anything on the National Tradeswomen Network... is it an association? Address? Phone number? Has anyone ever heard of it? Any hint would be appreciated. Kay Jones, CSU-Sacramento Library (kfjones@csus.edu) Thanks!