WMST-L LOG9403C ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 08:52:39 AST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: <15MAR94.09614536.0189.MUSIC@UNB.CA> From: CARMEN POULIN Subject: Re: Abuse in Lesbian and Gay Relationships In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of SUN 13 MAR 1994 12:13:44 AST Dear Libbie Chute: Would you please forward a copy of the bibliography concerning abuse in homosexual relationships. I am interested personally and also in regards to a research team I am on which is looking at women in transition (re: from abusive relationships). Thanks in advance. Lynne Gouliquer P.S. Send to the same e-mail address used. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 07:41:27 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Richard Blomgren Subject: erratum Giovanni Stephens College is located in Columbia, Missouri, next door to the University of Misssouri. We are in the center of the state on I70, 2 hours from St. Louis and 2 hours from Kansas City by car. Sorry ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 10:44:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ventis Deborah G Subject: I am on vacation. Apparently-To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU dxgree@mail.wm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 10:15:58 +0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Michelle Calhoun Subject: My dinner with Schlafly First of allow me to thank all of you who sent me messages concerning questions I should ask of Phyllis, many of them made my day. As you requested I'm forwarding my comments of "My dinner with Phyllis Schlafly." Her demeanor was cool and as many of you stated her tone was quite arrogant. Her answers to questions consisted of one line answers and when asked to cite her sources, her reply was because that's how things are. Here are a few of the points she made during dinner.....the glass ceiling doesn't exist and feminists only created it because they are whiners and are not prepared to work as hard as men......there are no hungry children in America because they can all get food stamps...........husbands don't abuse their wives, live in boyfriends do and they are living in sin anyway, and besides women always have the choice to leave an abusive situation.......when I brought the discussion to sexual assault on campus she said that she has no sympathy for the girl who gets drunk and goes to a boys room and that the woman at the Kennedy compound basically "asked for it." She said women have no business in boys rooms or on a dark steet at night, that we put ourselves in the situation and then have the gall to cry rape.................Each time she was confronted with statistics or facts she said that the feminists over eggagerate everything because "we can't take it like a man." DOES SHE REALLY HATE HER GENDER THAT MUCH????????? Her lecture was an execercise in intolerance from both sides. Her whole speech was a string of attacks against; Hillary, Anita Hill, feminists and the Clinton administration. Brief highlights (lowlights): Feminists control the government, the schools and all textbooks, Hillary is a pin-up feminist, Patricia Schroeder is out to feminize the military and that women haven't any gratitude for Frank Kelso since he put women in combat. What made me the most sick to my stomach and actually very sad was the audience. Three young Republicans (who identified themselves that way) were sitting behind me (all in ties). Another young man in a tie came to the microphone and said that he had campaigned for Reagan. The young men behind me clapped and hollered wildly. Then the young man said that he was having a hard time reconciling being gay and Republican after the 1992 Repub, convention and asked what her thoughts were. Then the four men behind me hung their heads and one of the said rather loudly we don't want you fag! Another young woman in the crowd told a Jewish woman to get out of our Christian country when she argued the point that this counrty was founded on religious freedom. There was so much hate in the room, I could feel it. We also had the lesbian avengers in attendance who chanted and sang at the microphone which added to the drama of it all. But finally, I'd say the last 10 minutes of the Q & A was the most disheartening. One by one, young men and women came to the microphone and said "I just wanted to bring my daughter tonight to meet one of my biggest heroes". "I want her to see what she can be like when she grows up." and that's how it ended. (actually there was quite a long line for autographs.) I was upset, then I was sad, then angry. Now I'm trying to look for ways to reconcile and channel all that has happend. I feel like I want to write articles and join every volunteer and feminist's group imaginable. I need to act on this, I have to make this experience positive somehow. But I don't know how. I'm 25 years old, not a professor and feel like I have all this energy, and anger, but have to make a positive out of this experience. I'd like to ask what for suggestions if any of you have had experiences such as I've described, and what you did to turn it around for yourself. I'm struggling like I said to make this into a positive. I have listed my private address below. Michelle Calhoun calhoun@augsburg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 12:03:17 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Re: My dinner with Schlafly Regarding Michelle Calhoun's dinner with Mrs. Schlafly..... I just want to say "hooray for you, Michelle." Sounds as if you responded appropriately, asked good questions, didn't behave like a pig or a prig, and most of all, you've been galvanized for life.... As to the question, "What to do next?" I don't exactly know - but I imagine you will want to continue adding your calm, assertive, intelligent presence to conservation gatherings on your campus. I think it's a good contribution............ Also, you could plan to raise some nice, intelligent children with balanced views.... You might even want to become a journalist or something so that you can continue to report on these incredible happenings and outrageous statements. It's SO important for the public to know that people in prominence occasionally (!) lie.... Good luck, Judith judith f clark@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 15:12:15 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: professionalization cites I am searching for some citations that would appropriately support the following statement: "the process of professionalization during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in every area of economic endeavor had the effect of wresting power away from women -- one of the most successful of these efforts is obvious in the medical profession's medicalization of childbirth and the consequent denigration and delegitimization of midwifery." I need cites covering professionalization in a wide variety of occupations, not just medicine. I know I've read lots of stuff in these areas but tracking those down at the moment would require far more time than I have. Please respond privately. Thanks! Georgia NeSmith gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 16:03:02 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Kathleen Marszycki." Subject: Re: My dinner with Schlafly > Michelle--I just read your message re: Schlafly and, being a firm believer in communication on campus among women, I e-mailed it to several friends here at Trinity. You asked if Schlafly really hated her gender that much? Yes, she probably does, sorry to say. She reminds me of the evil queen in "Snow White" that Gilbert and Gubar write about so vividly -- the evil queen as a product of patriarchy, "almost" helpless to help herself. Don't give up & don't get discouraged! My guess is that those folks toward the end of the Q & A were probably plants by Schlafly & crew -- nothing like good 'ole PR to help feed the engine. I have twin daughters (age 13) who are quite independent & do not perceive themselves as Barbie-Dolls waiting for their Kens in a pink corvette. Hopefully, we women are our daughters/sons best role-models -- I returned to school in '84 to finish my B.A. and am now working on my PhD while working at the library here at Trinity. Next year, I'm chair of the President's Special Council on Women and I'm looking forward to working with a dynamic, intelligent group of women students, faculty and staff. That's the best I can do right now and I guess that's what we need to continue doing. Thank you for sharing your experience! kelly marszycki kathleen.marszycki@mail.trincoll.edu First of allow me to thank all of you who sent me messages >concerning questions I should ask of Phyllis, many of them made my day. As >you requested I'm forwarding my comments of "My dinner with Phyllis >Schlafly." > Her demeanor was cool and as many of you stated her tone was quite >arrogant. Her answers to questions consisted of one line answers and when >asked to cite her sources, her reply was because that's how things are. >Here are a few of the points she made during dinner.....the glass ceiling >doesn't exist and feminists only created it because they are whiners and >are not prepared to work as hard as men......there are no hungry children >in America because they can all get food stamps...........husbands don't >abuse their wives, live in boyfriends do and they are living in sin anyway, >and besides women always have the choice to leave an abusive >situation.......when I brought the discussion to sexual assault on campus >she said that she has no sympathy for the girl who gets drunk and goes to a >boys room and that the woman at the Kennedy compound basically "asked for >it." She said women have no business in boys rooms or on a dark steet at >night, that we put ourselves in the situation and then have the gall to cry >rape.................Each time she was confronted with statistics or facts >she said that the feminists over eggagerate everything because "we can't >take it like a man." DOES SHE REALLY HATE HER GENDER THAT MUCH????????? > Her lecture was an execercise in intolerance from both sides. Her >whole speech was a string of attacks against; Hillary, Anita Hill, >feminists and the Clinton administration. Brief highlights (lowlights): >Feminists control the government, the schools and all textbooks, Hillary is >a pin-up feminist, Patricia Schroeder is out to feminize the military and >that women haven't any gratitude for Frank Kelso since he put women in >combat. > What made me the most sick to my stomach and actually very sad was >the audience. Three young Republicans (who identified themselves that way) >were sitting behind me (all in ties). Another young man in a tie came to >the microphone and said that he had campaigned for Reagan. The young men >behind me clapped and hollered wildly. Then the young man said that he was >having a hard time reconciling being gay and Republican after the 1992 >Repub, convention and asked what her thoughts were. Then the four men >behind me hung their heads and one of the said rather loudly we don't want >you fag! > Another young woman in the crowd told a Jewish woman to get out of >our Christian country when she argued the point that this counrty was >founded on religious freedom. > There was so much hate in the room, I could feel it. We also had >the lesbian avengers in attendance who chanted and sang at the microphone >which added to the drama of it all. But finally, I'd say the last 10 >minutes of the Q & A was the most disheartening. One by one, young men and >women came to the microphone and said "I just wanted to bring my daughter >tonight to meet one of my biggest heroes". "I want her to see what she can >be like when she grows up." and that's how it ended. (actually there was >quite a long line for autographs.) > I was upset, then I was sad, then angry. Now I'm trying to look >for ways to reconcile and channel all that has happend. I feel like I want >to write articles and join every volunteer and feminist's group imaginable. > I need to act on this, I have to make this experience positive somehow. >But I don't know how. I'm 25 years old, not a professor and feel like I >have all this energy, and anger, but have to make a positive out of this >experience. I'd like to ask what for suggestions if any of you have had >experiences such as I've described, and what you did to turn it around for >yourself. I'm struggling like I said to make this into a positive. >I have listed my private address below. > > >Michelle Calhoun >calhoun@augsburg.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 13:11:19 -0800 Reply-To: shirley doop Sender: Women's Studies List From: shirley doop Subject: Chilly Climate? & Introduction (fwd) I'm trying again on sending this. Hope I have the address correct this time. Oh well as the saying goes--anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 07:11:48 -0800 (PST) From: shirley doop To: women's studies Subject: Chilly Climate? & Introduction I've been reading messages on the internet for a few weeks and have discovered the phrase "chilly climate." I'm in the M.ed for Adult Education at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington (the fourth corner of the state and the U.S.A.) I'm preparing a paper on planning a program using Adult Learning Theories and would like to know more about this concept to address in my writing. In the class I've just finished, Learning of Adults, issues of gender differences in the classroom were never addressed. What I've read so far, fits me to a tee. It's not so much just one thing it is the accumulation that keeps me feeling slighted. For instance, one of the terms used to describe "adult learning" in andragogy. The fact that the word is derived from the Greek root andr, andro--meaning male-centered--was never questioned. So I'm looking for help in hitting this topic hard in my paper. I teach in a Reading and Study Skills lab at Whatcom Community College here in Bellingham and am fortunate to have a job I love and to live in a beautiful setting. Bellingham is on the water (part of the inland passage to Alaska) and an hour away from great skiing. The town is about 50,000 and hosts one university and one community college. Thanks for listening Shirley Doop ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 14:29:40 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Ariel Subject: toni morrison nobel speech some time ago, there were several queries on the list about toni morrison's nobel prize speech. thought folks might like to know that it is now available on cassette from Random House Audio, 30 minutes; $6.00. Title: "The Nobel Lecture in Literature." joan ariel UC Irvine jariel@uci.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 19:44:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: JOANNE PRESTON Subject: Re: professionalization cites In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 15 Mar 1994 15:12:15 EST from Dear Georgia: I have an article on the professionalization of school teaching that makes exactly that point: women lose power during professionalization. It is forth coming (August, 1994) in Sex Segregation at Work ed. by Jerry J acobs and titled Gender and Professionalization: The Case of Public School Tea ching. An earlier version of this paper was published in the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women Working Papers Series. Write me if you would like a copy. Jo Anne Preston ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 20:08:53 -0500 Reply-To: korenman@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Please send Schlafly replies privately First of all, thanks to Michelle Calhoun for the follow-up report of her dinner with Phyllis Schlafly. However, though Michelle's account was fascinating, I am writing to urge those who wish to reply to her or to continue the discussion of the issues she raises to do so PRIVATELY, not on WMST-L. As the list's welcome letter tries to make clear, such discussion lies outside WMST-L's scope, and the list's already heavy mail volume precludes any broadening of that scope. Please be considerate of the many WMST-L subscribers who depend on the list as a professional resource but have limited time, limited disk space, and/or limited funds. If you wish to respond to Michelle, please send your message to the private e-mail address she provided: calhoun@augsburg.edu . Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 22:06:48 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beth Rushing Subject: Re: professionalization cites In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 15 Mar 1994 15:12:15 EST from The passage you quote re. the process of professionalization is consistent with Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English's _For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women_ (maybe a 1978 publication date). You might also be interested in Jeffrey Hearn's work on professionalization & masculinity. He has published a book in which he makes this argument, but the book is at my office and I cannot remember the title. Ehrenreich & English are primarily, if not solely, concerned with medical professionalization. Hearn addresses a wider range of professional occupations. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 21:48:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BARTLETT ANNE Subject: Teaching Margaret Atwood I'll be teaching a course on Margert Atwood's fiction this Spring (the new quarter starts in 2 weeks!), and I'd be very interested in hearing from others who've taught Atwood: what kinds of things worked, what didn't, what kind of approaches you used, etc. This course in a 300-level, cross-listed w/ English and Women's Studies. It's a dream course for me, since I love Atwood, but my primary area of research specialty in medieval women! The books I'm teaching are: Wilderness Tips, Lady Oracle, Surfacing, Dancing Girls & Other Stories, Bodily Harm, and The Robber Bride (not necessarily in that order). I'm avoiding the Handmaid's Tale, since many students will already have read it. Though I'm thrilled to be teaching this course, I'm also a bit anxious, since I hear that after the class filled (at 40), a group of students decided to form a reading group and read along with the class and discuss the material with people who were actually enrolled. (What I wish is that I could just open up the class to everyone, but then discussion would be impossible). So I'd welcome any pointers from Atwood specialists or amateurs! I want this course to the as fulfilling for my students as it will be for me! Please respond privately, and thanks in advance for your help! Anne Clark Bartlett DePaul University engacb@orion.depaul.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 23:20:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ri1 Subject: Re: UN Conference/95 In-Reply-To: <199402092056.PAA09756@umd5.umd.edu> Cecilia, como foi a conferencia? Quais sao as novidades em geral? Um abraco: Regina ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 23:23:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ri1 Subject: Re: UN Conference/95 In-Reply-To: <199402092056.PAA09756@umd5.umd.edu> To the Net: I apologize for sending a personal message (in Portuguese) through the net. It was unintentional. I was just a little tired and did not notice that the general address was WMST-L. When I noticed it, it was too late, my zapping did not reach the message that flew out from my screen. Sorry. Regina Igel Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20740 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 14:59:57 +1000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Katrina Schlunke Subject: kramarae-resistance to womens public speaking Subject: Kramarae- Resistance to Womens Public Speaking Does anyone have a copy or English version citation for Kramarae's article published in 1984 on Resistance to Women's Public Speaking???? Please reply privately and any other advice on work around this topic much appreciated. Thank you Katrina ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 23:03:52 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anna Vogel Subject: women and war Hello there everybody. I'm a new subscriber to the list. I would like to hear (privately, of course) from anyone out there who is interested on women's writing on war, from WWI to the present. I am particularly interested in novels by British and American women, including women of color. I'm a dissertator in the Department of English here. Let's chat! Peace --Anna Vogel University of Wisconsin-Madison e-mail: achevako@students.wisc.edu. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 22:35:18 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List Comments: Resent-From: "m.c. schraefel" Comments: Originally-From: mschrae@sol.uvic.ca (m.c. schraefel) From: "m.c. schraefel" Subject: chilly climate info >CHILLY CLIMATEt that anyone interested in the concept "chilly climate" anyone interested in Climate issues. great sources.... >1) check the national film board of canada video "the chilly climate" >2) check out the work of university of western law professor connie >backhouse's work >3) check the WMST-L archive for the chilly climate info relating to the >terrible scene at the University of Victoria >4) contact Dr. Somer Brodribb of University of Victoria Political Science >Dept, Canada's expert on chilly climates in the academy. > > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 13:24:06 +0100 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Ecker Subject: christian university ??? > > I wonder if any of you knows about a "international christian university". > All I know is that it is an American University and has a campus in Vienna, > Austria. > > What irritates me is the word "christian". The university is looking for > lecturers and I'm about to apply but I don't want to find myself in the > middle of some SCIENTOLOGY-guys or any other religious sect. (They are > looking for someone teaching management etc.) > > I'd appreciate any comments and hints very much. (Please reply privately.) > > Being Austrian, there might also be a problem with my understanding of > terms like "christian" if used together with "university". Can somebody > help me out please? Maybe in America "christian university" doesn't have > much to do with religion? > > ************************ > Barbara Ecker > ecker@isis.wu-wien.ac.at > -- ************************ Barbara Ecker ecker@isis.wu-wien.ac.at ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 07:49:49 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dorothy Miller Subject: Call for Panel Participation I have been invited to chair a panel on program assessment at the pre-conferenc e director's meeting at NWSA on June 14 (Ames, Iowa). I am looking for people w ho would like to be on such a panel. I am especially interested in success stor ies. Has your program gone through a university/college mandated program review or a ssessment process? What types of assessment tools (eg. student portfolios, comp rehensive exams, internal or external program reviewers) did you use? Which wer e most effective/useful? How do you assess the politics of the process? What "p itfalls" would you want to warn others about? Feel free to contact me for more information or if you are even vaguely interes ested in doing this. Please respond privately. Dorothy C. Miller, Center for Women's Studies, Wichit a State University, Wichita, KS 67208 - Phone: (316) 689-3358. e-mail: DCMILLER@TWSUVM ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 08:53:10 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jane Elza Subject: Re: professionalization cites In-Reply-To: <199403160050.TAA29096@holmes.umd.edu> the invisible bar by karen berger morello makes the same point for lawyers ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 12:30:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Sandy L. Colbs" Subject: Writings on Women and War I apologize for not responding privately...I inadvertently erased the original message... For the person who was looking for resources written by women about war, contact Betsy Brinson, bbrinson@gems.vcu.edu. Betsy has taught a course called "Women, War and Peace", and told me she'd be happy to share resources on this topic. Sandy Colbs scolbs@cabell.vcu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 13:44:22 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: Job Announcement - Frankfurt Linda Lopez McAlister HYPATIA _USF, TAMPA, FL 33620 F - L - O - R - I - D - A !!! Drinking orange juice makes you gay! *** Forwarding note from DLLAFAA --CFRVM 03/16/94 13:42 *** To: SWIP-L --CFRVM From: Linda Lopez McAlister Subject: Job Announcement - Frankfurt The Feminist student group at the Johann Wolfgang Goether-Universitaet in Frankfurt a.M. has asked me to post this notice regarding a job opening at their university. They are eager to get feminists to apply. At present applications are being accepted for a full professorship (C4) with emphasis on social philosophy (feminist philosophy is understood as social philosophy) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet at Frankfurt a.M. in Germany. The professorship has been advertised in _Die Zeit_ of 2/25/94. Application must be sent to : Praesident der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, PF 11 19 32, 600054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. For more information you may contact the Feminist student group: FAX 01149-69-555119. Linda Lopez McAlister HYPATIA _USF, TAMPA, FL 33620 F - L - O - R - I - D - A !!! Drinking orange juice makes you gay! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 14:07:39 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Margaret Susan Thompson Subject: Dorothy Allison's work In a few weeks, I'm going to be dealing with Dorothy Allison's *Bastard Out of Carolina* in my "20th-Century US Politics Through Fiction" course. Since this is the first time I have used this book in a class, I'd appreciate any cites or leads to criticism or scholarship on Allison--or any other work that might be helpful (good book reviews, etc.). Please reply privately to the address below. Thanks! Peggy Margaret Susan Thompson Dept. of History, 145 Eggers Hall Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1090 315-443-5882, 443-2210 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 13:39:17 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Mary Beth Ahlum-Heath Subject: WS-vs-Gender Studies Thanks to all who responded to my request. I had asked if you all had the perception that moving to "Gender Studies" was the "progressive" thing to do. This is what folks had to say: > When pushed to identify these progressive schools the > faculty were not able to name any specifics, just mumbled > something about schools on the east and west coasts :) Hi, Mary Beth. Greetings from that reputed bastion of progressivism, the Evil East Coast :-). I am happy to report that, as far as I know, the State of Maryland remains unrepentently retrograde: UMBC (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County), UMCP (U. of Md. College Park), Towson State University, and, I think, Johns Hopkins all have WOMEN'S STUDIES programs, not gender studies. I hope you'll post the results of your query on WMST-L. Best wishes, Joan ,,,, ,'(o o)', +------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo-------------------------------- | Joan Korenman, Director, Women's Studies Program | | University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 USA | | E-mail: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu (Internet) or korenman@umbc (Bitnet) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ () () ***************************************************************************** Mary Beth-- I am teaching this year at Emory, where I did my PhD (but not in Women's Studies --the graduate component of the program didn't exist when I came). This program has been developing over the last six years (the extent of my knowledge about it) from an undergraduate minor to major to graduate program, now offerring PhDs. Nowhere along the line was there any attempt to consider "gender studies" although I think there were some faculty around at the time WS started up who wanted to call it "feminist Studies," but that's sort of a different political issue. Don't know if this helps. There have been men acccepted into the graduate program, by the way. It's a small program to begin with (6-7 students a year). I personally thing gender studies are very important, but not the same thing as women's studies.I'd be interested in hearing what kind of responses you get to your question. Maria Pramaggiore mpramag@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu ************************************************************************* At this not-very-elite and definitely not East- or West-coast institution, we decided to use the term Gender Studies rather than Women's Studies on the theory that gender studies, which includes using gender as a category of analysis, is a later development or a more advanced stage of women's studies. A concern, however, was that gender studies would be perceived as pandering to those who think that women are not a proper/important subject of study; i.e., as reactionary, rather than progressive. I've also dis- cussed the terminology when I've consulted at other institutions. I do think there's an increasing use of gender studies, but can't say whether there's a clear trend or how many and what kind of programs are making the change. Barbara G. Taylor BT24761@UAFSYSA.UARK.EDU Director of Human Relations, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR *************************************************************************** From: Kathy Hansen Subject: Re: Gender Studies You asked if there is a trend toward calling programs Gender Studies rather than Women's Studies. My university (Stetson in Florida) comfortably rides the fence by calling its program Women and Gender Studies! Kathy Hansen khansen@suvax1.stetson.edu ************************************************************************** From: Helen Jones Subject: Re: Gender Studies Noticed your post after a reception here to Mary Daly, who is speaking tonight. She is pretty angry about the trend toward gender studies. As a participant recently in a WS search, it seems that a majority of the people we spoke with, seven finalists, leaned toward gender studies. They were not from notably progressive institutions, ranging from LSU to Vermont, and I surmise from their comments that many in WS feel that this is the trend of things. Helen Jones jones@shadow.scs.un.edu ************************************************************************ From: "LARRABEE MARY " Subject: gender studies I have noticed some academic publishers have shifted to only Gender Studies lists. I only know of UCLA's long-standing program. I have strong objections to Gender Studies only. MaryJeanne (PHLMJL@orion.depaul.edu) ************************************************************************ Date sent: 13-MAR-1994 16:36:48 Hi--Last year someone from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, spoke at my institution about their Gender Studies program. This person seemed initially to think that such a program would be quite radical, but has expressed her dissatisfaction with it since and may be moving back in the direction of valuing Women's Studies programs. At any rate, you might try writing Gender Studies at Bard. Good luck. Marjorie Pryse Women's Studies Program SUNY-Plattsburgh Hawkins Hall Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Internet:PRYSEML@SPLAVA.CC.PLATTSBURGH.EDU / Bitnet:PRYSEML@SNYPLAVA ************************************************************************* From: SusanKullmannPuz Subject: Re: Gender Studies >When pushed to identify these progressive schools the >faculty were not able to name any specifics, just mumbled >something about schools on the east and west coasts :) As I point of information, out here on the west coast I believe USC's Center for the Study of Men and Women used to (and maybe still does) take the gender approach. They now have a Center for Feminist Research that can be reached at (213) 740 - 8132. Let me know if you would like me to find someone there with an e-mail address. Personally, I think that gender studies dilutes women's studies too much. =) Susan Kullmann Puz ******************************************************************* From: Margaret Porter Organization: University Libraries of Notre Dame Subject: WS vs Gender Studies I don't think being progressive has anything to do with women studies vs. Gender Studies. Here at the University of Notre Dame I suspect it was more the opposite when the program was adopted with the name Gender Studies; less threatening than Women's Studies. This is not a progressive place. However, as the librarian in charge of collection development for the program I must admit that it gives me a little more flexibility. I suspect the library collections dealing with homosexuality would be much scantier if I didn't incorporate material in that area when I select material. Also, looking at curriculum and having been a member of the Gender Studies curriculum committee I find that 95% of the courses deal with women, the rest are comparative classe s dealing with gender issues. Margaret Porter porter.2@nd.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 14:51:34 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BARBARA MCCASKILL Subject: The Womanist --The Womanist--, a newsletter for Afrocentric feminist researchers, announces the first issue in production: "What Is Womanist Scholarship?" The editors solicit submissions, letters, inquiries, and announcements for both spring and fall issues. Direct messages please to Layli Phillips, Institute for African American Studies, University of Georgia, ldphllps@uga.cc.uga.edu; or Barbara McCaskill, Department of English, University of Georgia, bmccaski@uga.cc.uga.edu. Send your ideas today and sign up for our mailing list! Barbara McCaskill Department of English Park Hall 343 The University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-6205 phone (706) 542-2250 fax (706) 542-2181 e-mail bmccaski@uga.cc.uga.edu or bmccaski@uga.bitnet ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 15:54:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lauren J Bryant Subject: Battered women resource There is a new book available, called NEXT TIME, SHE'LL BE DEAD: BATTERING AND HOW TO STOP IT by Ann Jones that incorporates terrific legal research and background on laws regarding batterers as well as case studies. Also looks at the ways in which law, medicine, social science, and even feminists to a certain extent are complicit in allowing battering of women to continue in our society. Ends with comprehensive list of suggestiosn on how to effect change. New York Times Book Review will have review in this Sunday's issue (3/20). An excellent resource for those reseraching or teaching about battered women and the issues surrounding the problem. ljbryant@world.std.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 13:10:31 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Jacquelyn Marie Subject: research on rapes in Bosnia Hello, I am helping a woman I know in Croatia with her research on what the feminist press (U.S. and international) wrote about the rape camps in Bosnia. She is going to be giving a paper at the NWSA this June. I have looked in all the usual sources and have the articles from MS, Off Our Backs, Connexions, Media Report to Women (Summer 1993), Journal of Women's History (Spring 1993), Feminist Review (Sutumn 1993), and WIN News, Winter 1993. Does anyone remember any article other than these, perhaps in an international journal? Thanks for any help. Jacquelyn Marie, Women's Studies Librarian, UC Santa Cruz, Cal. 95064 E-mail: jmarie@scilibx.ucsc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 15:13:43 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Kaufman Subject: recall of memories of sexual abuse I have a doctoral student who is doing a dissertation on recall of formerly re- pressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. At this point she has found little in the area. Any ideas for search leads or specific cites would be extremely helpful. Particular areas she is looking for are; therapist-triggered memories,spontaneous recall, therapy-related recall. Please respond privately to Kaufman@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu. Thanks for any help. Judy Kaufman Department of Applied Behavioral Studies Oklahoma State University 308 N. Murray Hall Stillwater, OK 74074 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 16:27:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ann Marshall In-Reply-To: Your MAIL dated Tue, 15 Mar 1994 19:25:19 EST Thanks Judy for - forwarding the joke request ... see you soon. Ann ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 14:33:00 MST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joseph Boles Subject: Women in the Director's Chair >The Women in the Director's Chair International Film and Video Festival starts >tomorrow, March 17, in Chicago. The films look marvelous, with emphases >including "Homegirls," Identidades," "Analysis," "Transcendence," >"Disconnection," "Riddles," "Continuidad Y Cambio," "States," "Resolve," >"Frames," "Sharing Struggles," "Fascination," "Futures," Possession," etc. >Independent cinema from Chile, the Ibeji Women's Festival of the Arts, New >Works from the Escuela Internacional de Cine and Television, Habana are also on >the Program. Passes are $30.00 for 6 screenings and information can be >obtained at 312-281-4988 > >If anyone is going and would be willing to forward impressions, reviews, >suggestions, cautions about any of the films, I would appreciate private >responses. I will compile the comments and share with anyone else interested. > > >Thanks.... ************************************************************************** Joseph Boles Women's Studies Program Box 5695 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011 Internet= Boles@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU Bitnet= Boles@NAUVAX Phone= 602-523-3300 **************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 17:44:52 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Gaber Subject: inforM update: caucus newsletter The following directory and files have been added to the inforM Online Women's Studies Database: Educational Resources/Women's Studies/Politics/Congressional Caucus Updates/Update (Volume 14, Number 1) The latest issue of "Update on Women and Family Issues in Congress" from the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues is now available on inforM. To access the inforM database, telnet or gopher to INFORM.UMD.EDU. (If you do not know how to telnet or gopher, contact a local computer wizard, or try typing "telnet inform.umd.edu" or "gopher 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 18. Women's Studies The Gopher interface has a feature that allows users to send files to their e-mail accounts. After selecting a file, press "m". The system will then prompt you for your email address. 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 "inforM" directory by typing "cd inforM". 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 "inforM/Educational_Resources/WomensStudies". Your local Gopher System may be set up to automatically link to the Women's Studies Database. Check the "Other Systems" or "Other Gophers" directory or ask your system administrator for help. Even if you do not have real Internet access, it is still possible to get files from inforM. If you are interested in this option, please email me and I will forward a file written by Mark Whitis that explains how to do this. 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, 16 Mar 1994 15:23:49 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sherry Chavoya subscribe to WMST-L Sherry Chavoya ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 16:34:35 MST Reply-To: FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Francine Twine Subject: Call for Papers for NAES 1995 I am organizing a panel on multiracial families and specifically on the topic of white mothers, brown or black daughters. This panel seeks papers on the topic of transracial motherhood - which would include but is not restricted to transracial parenting and adoption. If you would like to submit a paper for consideration please send it to: Francine Winddance Twine, The Colorado College Department of Anthropology, 14 E. Cache La Poudre, Colorado Springs, CO 80903. 719.389-6359. My e-mail address on internet is FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu. Abstractsof papers must be received no later than May 1rst 1994. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 16:39:27 MST Reply-To: FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Francine Twine Subject: CAll for Papers National Association of Ethnic Studies 1994-95 I apologize to the WMST subsribers for not using the correct format when I sent the previous message regarding the call for papers. I am organizing a panel for the NAES which will be in Boulder Colorado next year. The exact title of the panel that I am organizing will be White Mothers, Brown Daughters: The Acquisition of a Racial Identity in Multiracial Families. If you are interested in submitting a paper please contact me privately. Thanks - Francine Winddance Twine, The Colorado College, Dept. of Anthropology 14 E. Cache La Poudre, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 e-mail: FTwine@cc.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 21:04:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Edwards, J. Michele" Subject: Re: Teaching Margaret Atwood Why not take advantage of the fact that many of the students may have read The Handmaids Tale? Their greater familiarity might facilitate deeper, more detailed discussion. Or you might be able to take advantage of the fact that they've read the novel and assign some engaging secondary material on this novel or on some of the issues it raises. If students are reading the novel for the second time, they could be encouraged to give greater attention to issue, use of language, etc. rather than focusing more on the basic narrative. It should be a fun course. Michele J. Michele Edwards (Music Dept.) 612/696-6521 Bitnet: edwards@macalstr Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105 Internet: edwards@macalstr.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 21:06:55 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: liana Subject: Women's Stdies/Queer Stdies in Grad. English Prgrms I would love to hear from anyone with personal knowledge of doctoral programs in English at Berkeley or Brown--as a perplexed prospective, my main concerns are finding: 1)Americanists who are not averse to a theoretical & comparatist approach, 2)feminists conversant with--and sympathetic to--current critical theory, and 3)support for queer studies. Is this possible in one department or program? I'm fairly removed from the academic loop, and the April 15 reply deadline is looming large (in a very exciting and very scary way.) Also, any feedback about the activist scene at the above would be welcome. I'll be leaving a job doing reproductive rights advocacy, but sense that balancing my (politically) academic and (critically) political lives will continue to be an Issue. Please respond privately to borgiav@snybksac.bitnet Thanks--Liana. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 09:56:44 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: repressed memories cites Judy Kaufman requested citations on repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, to be sent to her privately. However, I think these are likely to be of interest to other readers and so am posting them publicly. My collection was gathered for use in self-healing, so that is the orientation of these books. No doubt you are familiar with the classics by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, _The Courage to Heal_ and its accompanying workbook. Specifically devoted to repressed memories are: Renee Fredrickson, _Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse_ (NY Simon & Schuster 1992). This has a good bibliography. Mary Jane Williams, _Healing Hidden Memories: Recovery for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse_. (Deerfield Beach FLA, Health Communications, Inc. 1991). Two autobiographical accounts are: Betsy Petersen, _Dancing with Daddy: A Childhood Lost and a Life Regained_. (NY, Bantam 1991). Kathy Evert and Inie Bijkerk, _When You're Ready: A Woman's Healing from Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse by her Mother_. (Rockville MD, Launch Press 1987). This includes an afterword by Bijkerk, Evert's therapist. (Evert is a pseudonym) The only women's bookstore in Rochester (NY), Silkwood (716 473-8110), has an extensive and constantly updated section on sexual abuse and repressed memories. Many of the books are more "scholarly" and directed toward therapists rather than survivors. Since I have found those incredibly boring and not particularly useful to my own purposes, I've not purchased or read them, but they may be more along the lines of what a doctoral student would need. Georgia NeSmith SUNY Brockport Brockport NY 14420 gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 10:21:07 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Mary E. Kite" <00MEKITE@BSUVAX1.BITNET> Subject: request for sex difference reference I am writing a paper with a colleague and he recalls reading that women are more negative toward sanctioned behavior than are men whereas women are more negative toward the PERSON performing the behavior than are women. In other words, women 'hate the sin but not the sinner.' Unfortunately, he cannot recall where he read this. Does anyone know where we might locate a reference to that finding? Please respond privately: 00mekite@bsuvax1 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 10:30:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Heather Fitz Gibbon Subject: Women and criminal justice A colleague of mine will be teaching a course on women and crime and is looking for course readings addressing issues surrounding women in the criminal justice system. He is looking for either autobiographical material, novels (even mysteries) or social science monographs that discuss women's experiences in prison. He has (and I am familiar with) theoretical sources on feminism and criminology, but is looking for more experiential sources. These must be accessible to beginning level undergraduates. Please reply privately. Thank you in advance for your help! Heather M. Fitz Gibbon Department of Sociology and Anthropology College of Wooster Wooster, OH 44691 (216)263-2371 HFITZGIBBON@WOOSTER (bitnet) HFITZGIBBON@ACS.WOOSTER.EDU (internet) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 13:52:34 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Demetria Royals Subject: Re: Women and criminal justice In-Reply-To: <199403171531.KAA09413@holmes.umd.edu> I can't think of books, but there is a wonderful film, (A DOC that aired on PBS on the women in the Lexington Prison( which is a behavior control prison,) It was done by a woman named Nina Rosenberg, I think it was called Behind The Wall. On Thu, 17 Mar 1994, Heather Fitz Gibbon wrote: > A colleague of mine will be teaching a course on women and crime and is > looking for course readings addressing issues surrounding women in the > criminal justice system. He is looking for either autobiographical > material, novels (even mysteries) or social science monographs that discuss > women's experiences in prison. He has (and I am familiar with) theoretical > sources on feminism and criminology, but is looking for more experiential > sources. These must be accessible to beginning level undergraduates. > > Please reply privately. Thank you in advance for your help! > Heather M. Fitz Gibbon > Department of Sociology and Anthropology > College of Wooster > Wooster, OH 44691 > (216)263-2371 > HFITZGIBBON@WOOSTER (bitnet) > HFITZGIBBON@ACS.WOOSTER.EDU (internet) > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 12:58:41 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karin Herrmann Subject: Syllabus for course Thanks to everybody who suggested readings for a multicultural course. I just completed my syllabus and would like to share it with whomever would like a copy but I can't remember who all wanted a copy. So if you'd write to me again privately, I'd be happy to tell you what I came up with. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 14:34:27 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: professionalization cites 2 Thanks to all who have responded to my request for citations on professionalization and gender. I have a TON on the medical profession and midwifery, so it is not necessary for anyone to send more. I do, however, need references for other professions. I have one each for clerical work, architecture, education, and the law. This was my original request: I am searching for some citations that would appropriately support the following statement: "the process of professionalization during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in every area of economic endeavor had the effect of wresting power away from women -- one of the most successful of these efforts is obvious in the medical profession's medicalization of childbirth and the consequent denigration and delegitimization of midwifery." _____ I should note that this is for a piece on feminist perspectives in journalism historiography, with the basic suggestion being that the professionalization process in journalism (like other fields), which determined what ultimately would count as "real journalism," also would have delegitimized the work of many women journalists. No one (as far as I know) has studied the gender politics of the professionalization in journalism at the turn of the century, so I am making my argument by suggestive analogy. Thanks! Georgia NeSmith gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 14:47:32 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Collins Subject: Library of Congress On-line - Gopher access Hello and happy St. Patricks Day from UM - Rolla. ---------------------- F Y I ------------------------------------------ The Library of Congress has a TREMENDOUS amount of information on-line, including a good directory describing Internet Resources. To access it, telnet to marvel.loc.gov and login as marvel. I know LOCIS (Library of Congress Information System) was mentioned on WISENet some time ago, but I don't know if their gopher has been mentioned. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sally A. Collins e-mail: scollins@umr.edu Scientific Programmer/Analyst office: 114 M/CS Computing Services phone: 314.341.4841 University of Missouri - Rolla fax: 314.341.4216 "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." -Anne Herbert ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1960 01:17:30 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: buckner marland e Subject: IDENTITY Many thanks to all those who sent suggestion, bibliographies etc re: my query about creation of identity. I am very grateful. Aileen C. Moffatt mebuck@mail.wm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 15:45:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: kd55 Subject: biographies of lesbians I am currently working on biographies of lesbian women. Because my field is literary studies, nearly all of the names that have come to mind have been those of women authors, namely, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, HD, Emily Dickinson, Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, Amy Lowell, Natalie Clifford Barney, Elizabeth Bishop, Billie Holiday, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Obviously I am currently working with a flexible definition of "lesbian." I am aware that the above list fails to include many women of color (I am not aware of any biographies of Audre Lorde and I am not sure who else I should be considering). As you may gather from my omission of many recent lesbian writers, I must limit myself to those about whom biographies have been written. I would appreciate any names to add to my list. If you have any suggestions, please let me know briefly who someone is and in what sense you consider her lesbian. If you are certain that there is a biography about her, that information would also be helpful. Thanks in advance to those who are willing to be of help. Please respond privately. Kate Dobson kd55@umail.umd.edu Kathryn E. DOBSON Email:Kathryn_E_DOBSON@umail.umd.edu (kd55) Phone:53844 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 15:18:47 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Cheryl Meeker Subject: FILM I am looking for film to use in a course I teach on women and art. Any information on feminist films you have used successfully etc. As I am new to this format I wonder also how to get in touch with the reviewer -mcalister-whose reviews I found in the index to request instructions on how to get permission to use those reviews? I sent a message through internet using the address I received, and it came back undeliverable. Cheryl Meeker (internet)cherylm@wpoff.monm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 14:54:01 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: marlene Subject: Re: Syllabus for course In-Reply-To: <199403171858.NAA10749@holmes.umd.edu> from "Karin Herrmann" at Mar 17, 94 12:58:41 pm Hi Karen: My instructor would be very interested in your Syllabus. what books did you decide on? And would you be interested in connecting with her? This is her second semester teaching a minortiy women in lit class. If you send your Syl to me it will get to her thanks Judith aka marlene @netcom.com -- It is the friends that you can call at 4:00 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich marlene@netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 15:05:11 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Monica P. Kendel" Subject: accomodation during LEARNEDS We are four feminists who will be attending the LEARNEDS in Calgary this summer. We need some form of accomodation from June 6 to the 14th. We are graduate students and would like to rent some rooms, a floor, a backyard, or any combination of these for that time. Although we are rich in personality, we are financially challenged. We are hoping to find some accomodation that is less expensive than campus lodging ($32 per night) and would be happy to camp in a backyard and use showers (we are very tidy), or possibly park a motor home in a driveway or in front of a house near the university, or rent portions of a house (we can sleep on the floor). We are not fussy, and we would promise to brighten your life! or stay out of your way! Whatever. Please reply to me personally at kendel@uvvm.uvic.ca. ps: two of us are lesbian feminists with opinions/attitudes, in case that might be a sales point, or a disqualifying factor! In otherwords, we are looking for like minded or indifferent landowners, cuz we like to talk politics! ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 17:56:17 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Karin Herrmann Subject: Multi-culti syllabus Thanks to everyone who's interested in a copy of the syllabus. I'll file it with Joan Koreman (thanks Koan) and the WS-list, so you can get it from there ... probably by Monday. Karin Herrmann kherrman@comp.uark.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 15:54:37 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Yee-Tak Diana Khor Subject: WS at Eastern Washington In-Reply-To: <199403141823.KAA01130@leland.Stanford.EDU> from "Mary_Lee.Vance" at Mar 14, 94 01:00:00 pm I would like to hear from anyone who knows about or has had personal experience with the Women's Studies program in Eastern Washington University at Cheney in Washington. I have the basic information from the "NWSA Guide to Graduate Work in Women's Studies" but I would like to find out more about faculty involvement, inter-disciplinary connections, activities sponsored or initiated, etc... Thanks in advance and please respond PRIVATELY. Diana Khor (khor@leland.stanford.edu) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 18:09:37 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christina Paolucci Subject: Re: FILM i have some suggestions, however, i have been unable to send my message to you. my address is, paolucci@vax1.mankato.msus.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 19:25:36 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sue Schenk Subject: Re: Hair/Beauty In-Reply-To: <199403180009.TAA12961@holmes.umd.edu> I'm doing some research on the politics of beauty as it is played out in African-American women's writing (with a particular focus on hair). I know that writers like Ann Petry, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange and Audre Lorde have dealt with this issue, but I would like to expand my text base. If anyone has any suggestions for primary texts that would fit my topic, please contact me privately. Thanks! Sue Schenk sschenk@credit.erin.utoronto.ca ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 18:02:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: rebecca hill Subject: Re: Syllabus for course On Thu, 17 Mar 1994 12:58:41 -0600, Karin Herrmann wrote: >Thanks to everybody who suggested readings for a multicultural course. I >just completed my syllabus and would like to share it with whomever would >like a copy but I can't remember who all wanted a copy. So if you'd write >to me again privately, I'd be happy to tell you what I came up with. --- Hey! you didn't put your address on here, but please send me a copy! __Rebecca Hill hillx018@maroon.tc.umn.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 18:26:35 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Goldsmid Subject: "Next Time She'll Be Dead" author speaks Cf Lauren Bryant's post yestday about Ann Jones's book on battering "Next Time She'll Be Dead": Southern CA subscribers are invited to a women's shelter fundraiser at which Bryant will speak & sign books on Sat. 3/26 1:30-3:30 in the Crystal Cove Auditorium, UC Irvine Student Center. Contribution $15/students $5. [Joan--If this is too far off the list's purpose, I understand you won't post it, but thought I'd send as it's related to an earlier post. No response nec.] Paula Goldsmid PLGOLDSM@UCI.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 22:13:17 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Demetria Royals Subject: Re: FILM In-Reply-To: <199403172126.QAA11907@holmes.umd.edu> Check out the catalog for women make movies, located in New York City. They rent a wonderful collection of films made by women on women. With a strong emphasis on women of color. Demetria On Thu, 17 Mar 1994, Cheryl Meeker wrote: > I am looking for film to use in a course I teach on women and art. > Any information on feminist films you have used successfully etc. As > I am new to this format I wonder also how to get in touch with the > reviewer -mcalister-whose reviews I found in the index to request > instructions on how to get permission to use those reviews? I sent a > message through internet using the address I received, and it came > back undeliverable. > Cheryl Meeker > (internet)cherylm@wpoff.monm.edu > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 23:45:59 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: pat ulbrich Subject: Re: FILM In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 17 Mar 1994 22:13:17 -0500 from I want to show the film "Rosie the Riveter" in a course on women & work. Can someone tell me when we can rent or purchase a copy of this film. Please respond privately to R1PMYU@UAKRON. Thanks. pat ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 09:43:45 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Iana Pattatucci Subject: Book editors Can anyone recommend an editor(s) who works in fiction and is not afraid to review and consider for publication a project that could turn out to be controversial? Reply privately to: iana pattatucci "Luciana%bchem.dent@dxi.nih.gov" "iana@glib.org" ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 09:15:08 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Ullman Subject: repressed memory cite See Elizabeth Loftus's article on the topic in the March 1994 issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly. It also contains citations to important work in this area by John Briere and Linda Meyer Williams. Sarah Ullman University of Illinois, Chicago ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 09:21:55 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sally Collins Subject: Do you know of support for people with endomitriosis? Hello. I have several friends who have endomitriosis (sp?) and are looking for support organizations and resources. Does anyone have suggestions. Thank you and happy Friday. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sally A. Collins e-mail: scollins@umr.edu Scientific Programmer/Analyst office: 114 M/CS Computing Services phone: 314.341.4841 University of Missouri - Rolla fax: 314.341.4216 "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." -Anne Herbert ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 16:41:38 MET Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: VAN DEN BORRE CAROLINE Subject: RESULTS OF SURVEY: WOMEN ON THE NETWORK As some of you might have noticed, I conducted an investigation on the use women make of the network. The respons was overwhelming and I thank everyone who took the time to respond. A lot of people asked to send them a copy of the results. Due to the large amount of answers, I'm not able to send it to them personaly. I hope it reaches them in this way. The results presented here are a bit superficial, due to a lack of means and time to analyse them toroughly, but I think some conclusions can be made out of it. The figures presented result out of 75 answers to my survey: QUESTION 1 ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE A. Computer at home 10 13.3 B. University Computer 28 37.3 C. Public Computer 1 1.3 A&B 29 38.7 D. Other 7 9.3 QUESTION 2 A. Training programm 3 4 B. Learned it myself 44 58.7 C. Other 20 26.7 A & B 5 6.7 A & B & C 3 4 QUESTION 3 A. YES 13 17.3 B. No 59 78.7 C. N.a. 3 4 QUESTIONS 4 TO 6: open answers QUESTION 7 A. YES 23 30.7 B. NO 49 65.3 C. N.A. 3 4 QUESTION 8 A. YES 19 25.3 B. NO 56 74.7 QUESTION 9 A. YES 19 25.3 B. NO 55 73.3 C. N.A. 1 1.3 QUESTION 10 A. Regularly 50 66.7 B. Now and then 18 24 C. never 5 6.7 D. N.A. 2 2.7 QUESTION 11 A. YES 19 25.3 B. No 44 58.7 C. N.A. 12 16 QUESTION 12 (only when 11=yes --> N=19) A. YES 6 31.6 B. No 13 68.4 Hope to have been a help Regards from Brussels -- hw39399@is1.vub.ac.be (VAN DEN BORRE CAROLINE) Student Communicatiewetenschappen Vrije Universiteit Brussel ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 10:51:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: Re: Do you know of support for people with endomitriosis? Today, Sally Collins asked: > Hello. I have several friends who have endomitriosis (sp?) and are > looking for support organizations and resources. Does anyone have > suggestions. It turns out that there's an e-mail list called WITSENDO (!) that is specifically for endometriosis information and support. I know nothing more about it except its address: WITSENDO@DARTCMS1 (bitnet). To subscribe, send the following message to LISTSERV@DARTCMS1: SUBSCRIBE WITSENDO Your Name [e.g., Jane Smith] It's possible, by the way, to find out about the existence of some lists by sending LISTSERV@UMDD the message LIST GLOBAL/[keyword], where [keyword] is the subject you're looking for. E.g., LIST GLOBAL/endometriosis . You'll get back a file called LISTSERV LISTS that provides the information you're looking for. I did this and got the following message: >Excerpt from the LISTSERV lists known to LISTSERV@UMDD on 18 Mar 1994 10:48 >Search string: ENDOMETRIOSIS > >Network-wide ID Full address List title >--------------- ------------ ---------- >WITSENDO WITSENDO@DARTCMS1 ENDOmetriosis Treatment and Support Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 08:53:00 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Goldsmid Subject: correction to 3/17 "Next Time She'll be Dead" Oops-my 3/17 post about "Next Time She'll Be Dead" gave the wrong name for the speaker; of course it's really Ann Jones, the author of the book. Mildred Pagelow, author of "Family Violence" will also speak & sign books. I appreciate Lauren Bryant's message about this, as I'm on digest version & wouldn't have seen my mistake until tonight or tomorrow. Paula Goldsmid PLGOLDSM@UCI.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 09:57:13 -0700 Reply-To: FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Francine Twine Subject: Re: FILM I am interested in any films on Women and Work that could be used in a course entitled Race, Class and Women's Work. If you have any suggestions regarding films (and their distributors) please contact me. I am also interested in locating a copy of "Rosie the Riveter". Thanks Francine Twine. Please respond privately. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 10:09:39 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Adam Karp Subject: Re: Male feminist activists I am quite grateful to have taken the advice of my Feminist Thought professor. When asked where I could get my hands on a male counterpart to radical feminists like Daly or McKinnon, she suggested I take a look at John Stoltenberg. Needless to say, I am enthralled by his series of lectures entitled _Refusing to be a Man_. \ I would be indebted to anyone on the list who could recommend other competent, reputable male feminists (not the pseudo-sell-outs like Farrell or Bly). Thanx. Adam Karp Gonzaga University akarp@gonzaga.edu RESPOND PRIVATELY ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 10:24:22 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Elizabeth Chinn Subject: Re: FILM In-Reply-To: <199403172127.AA04923@mailhub.cc.columbia.edu> "She Must Be Seeing Things" is a film about a woman filmmaker; it's also about her jealous (female)lover who thinks she's having an affair with a man. I've seen mixed responses to this film, but I like the fact that it's very much about the creative process of filmmaking and about sexual and relationship ambiguity. It's worth seeing, even if you don't want to assign it in class. Sarah Chinn ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 10:33:53 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristina M Torgeson Subject: Re: FILM In-Reply-To: <199403180453.AA13306@mailhub.cc.columbia.edu> Hello all! Just wanted to bring people's attention to a useful pull-out supplement to this week's Village Voice called "Women's Options: A Village Voice Reference Directory". It contains descriptions and contacts of women-oriented organizations in categories ranging from "Services for Incarcerated Women" to "Feminist Publications". Many of them are not only New York specific organizations. It also includes information on the group Women Make Movies (mentioned in a recent post re: sources for women's films) stating that it "Has developed a nationwide distribution service and film archive and serves as a resource center for women's independent media." The address for Women Make Movies (WMM) is: 462 Broadway, Suite 500 New York, NY 10013 (212) 925-0606 Good luck! Kris Torgeson kmt1@columbia.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 13:06:00 CDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Phyllis Holman Weisbard Subject: finding out about women's films and videos This is prompted mainly by Francine's question about films on women and work, but I am responding to the whole list because we have published a general resource that should be useful to others looking for films/videos on a variety of topics. It is WAVE: WOMEN'S AUDIO-VISUALS IN ENGLISH: A GUIDE TO NONPRINT RESOURCES IN WOMEN'S STUDIES (1993). WAVE is an 88-page subject indexed, annotated guide to about 800 films, videos, and audiocassetes produced between 1985-1990. The "Economics/Business/Work" section lists 35 items. To obtain WAVE, send a request and check for $2 payable to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to the address below: 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: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:02:29 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Maria T. Pramaggiore" Subject: Re: Male feminist activists In-Reply-To: <9403181807.AA15478@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> On Fri, 18 Mar 1994, Adam Karp wrote: > I am quite grateful to have taken the advice of my Feminist Thought professor. > When asked where I could get my hands on a male counterpart to radical > feminists like Daly or McKinnon, she suggested I take a look at > John Stoltenberg. Needless to say, I am enthralled by his series of > lectures entitled _Refusing to be a Man_. > \ > I would be indebted to anyone on the list who could recommend other > competent, reputable male feminists (not the pseudo-sell-outs like > Farrell or Bly). > Try Michael Kimmel *Men Confront Pornography*, *Men's Lives*,*Changing men: new Directions in Research on Men and masculinity* or *Against the Tide: A History of Prof-Feminist Men in America 1776-1990* He just spoke here at Emory and was pretty good. He critiques Bly and the mythopoetic male movements for their racism and sexism. He discussed the importance of straight men supporting not only feminist but gay&lesbian movements. maria pramaggiore mpramag@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:13:31 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Beverly A. Hobson" Subject: Current research on Mothers and Daughters Please inform me via e-mail of any current research on Mothers and Daughters. My name is Beverly Hobson and I am a grad student at VCU in richmond va. in the school of social work my e-mail address is slw2bah@cabell.vcu.edu. Thanks for your help. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:16:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: GILLIAN RODGER Subject: Query about two WS programs A friend asked me today if I knew anything about Women's studies/Queer sutdies programs at either the University of Cincinnati or the University of Indiana in Bloomington, IN. I had to admit I didn't, but promised him I'd post this message to the list. Can anyone tell me a) are there programs at either of these schools and b) what are their relative strengths/weaknesses. Thanks in advance, Gillian Rodger gmrst8@vms.cis.pitt.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:49:28 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Gary Daily Subject: Re: Male feminist activists Adam, I decided to reply to the list because I can't remember seeing this title come up before. For an historical on male feminist activist see: Michael S. Kimmel and Thomas E. Mosmiller (eds.), _Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990: A Documentary History_. I've found using selections from this selection does help to at least arrest male resistance to feminisms in my classes. I would be interested in other sources along these lines. Thanks. gary daily hidaily@ruby.indstate.edu > Subject: Re: Male feminist activists > To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L > feminists like Daly or McKinnon, she suggested I take a look at > John Stoltenberg. Needless to say, I am enthralled by his series of > lectures entitled _Refusing to be a Man_. > \ > I would be indebted to anyone on the list who could recommend other > competent, reputable male feminists (not the pseudo-sell-outs like > Farrell or Bly). > > Thanx. > Adam Karp > Gonzaga University > akarp@gonzaga.edu > RESPOND PRIVATELY > ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:46:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shirley Scritchfield Subject: Re: Male feminist activists In-Reply-To: <199403181908.OAA17755@holmes.umd.edu> I would also suggest Michael Kimmel -- and you might want to get in touch with the NOMAS group, National Organization of Men Against Sexism, which I believe Kimmel was one of co-founders. My husband is a member of NOMAS, but I do not have the info on the group here at the office. If you are interested, I could get for you. Yes, there are others--you are not alone. ********************************************************** Shirley A. Scritchfield Ofc: (402) 280-2535 Dept of Sociology & Anthropology Fax: (402) 280-4731 Creighton University shirls@creighton.edu Omaha, NE 68178 (internet) ********************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:50:05 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Shirley Scritchfield Subject: Re: Male feminist activists In-Reply-To: <199403181949.OAA18147@holmes.umd.edu> And, Stoltenberg has another book just out entitled "The End of Manhood: A Book for Men of Conscience." ********************************************************** Shirley A. Scritchfield Ofc: (402) 280-2535 Dept of Sociology & Anthropology Fax: (402) 280-4731 Creighton University shirls@creighton.edu Omaha, NE 68178 (internet) ********************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 16:06:08 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Adam Karp Subject: Re: Male feminist activists Shirley (or other NOMAS contacts), At Gonzaga University we have a budding Women's Studies Program and two pro-feminist campus organizations. Personally, starting a NOMAS chapter at Gonzaga would be an endeavor quite fulfilling to me and at least a half-dozen male students and half-dozen faculty. I am eager to get connected. God/dess only knows, I feel manic half the time! Thanx Adam Karp, Junior Gonzaga University akarp@gonzaga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 19:56:30 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: David Greene Subject: pro-feminist men There is a wealth of good stuff to be gotten from NOMAS.... Suite 300 54 Mint St. San Francisco, Ca 94103 phone 415-546-6627 The Men's Studies Assn. (part of NOMAS), publishes a journal, "Masculinities" (Kimmel is the editor) that is very worthwhile. For more activist, artistic, etc., see the magazine, Changing Men: Issues in Gender, Sex and Politics (affiliated with NOMAS)...available from Feminist Men's Publications Inc. P>O> Box 908, Madison, WI 53701-0908 phone 608-256-2565...... NOMAS also has an annual conference on MEN & MASCULINITY that has lots of academic, activist, personal growth, etc. components...women are welcome (there are women on the NOMAS board)...this year's conference is ca. Aug. 4th at Brown U. David ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 22:22:21 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Beatrice Kachuck Subject: Re: request for sex difference reference In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 17 Mar 1994 10:21:07 -0500 from <00MEKITE@BSUVAX1> no, i don't have a ref for the particular sex diff study you describe. but i do urge suspicion about all such tests, especially when they offer evidence that stereotypes are based on facts. the tests are constructed to produce expected results thru the concepts, design and test items. almost always there are more differences within sex groups than between them, indicative of a questionable content validity, but that gets short shrift in using the results. beatrice beabc@cunyvm.cuny.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 13:22:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristine Thompson Concordia College Subject: Information please Can anyone tell me how to get in touch with the Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research? I had an address but my mail came back address unknown. Thanks Kris Thompson ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 21:54:00 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: BARTLETT ANNE Subject: request for information Does anyone know whether there are any lists that highlight issues related to adoption? There are lists for just about everything =) so I wondered if there might be one about this. My particular interest is in finding out whether there are ways (besides joining those expensive and sometimes ethically-dubious organizations) of finding out medical histories, etc. for adoptees. Thanks in advance for your help. Anne Clark Bartlett DePaul University engacb@orion.depaul.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 00:16:02 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Karin E. Beeler" Subject: Call For Papers For Women's Studies List (fwd) I am sending this call for papers for a colleague. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Dr. Karin Beeler, English Programme, University of Northern B.C. | |Primary address: beeler@unbc.edu | Other: kbeeler@unkraut.unbc.edu| +------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 23:57:44 -0800 (PST) From: Karin Beeler To: Karin at Unkraut Subject: Call For Papers For Women's Studies List (fwd) +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Dr. Karin Beeler |English Programme | University of Northern B.C. | |e-mail: | beeler@unbc.edu | kbeeler@unkraut.unbc.edu | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 09:14:47 -0800 (PST) From: Vicki McKendrick To: beeler@unbc.edu Subject: Call For Papers For Women's Studies List UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA N O R T H E R N P A R A L L E L S 4th Circumpolar Universities Cooperation Conference February 23-25, 1995 CALL FOR PAPERS THE CONFERENCE The University of Northern British Columbia will host the 4th Conference of the Circumpolar Universities Association from February 23-25, 1995. The Circumpolar Universities Cooperation Conference is held every two years as a part of an effort "to encourage cooperation and promote higher learning and research in northern areas of the world." The theme, Northern Parallels, has been chosen to initiate a critical examination of similarities and differences in the Circumpolar North. This analysis will suggest areas of shared experience and alternative frameworks for studying, sustaining, and living in this region of the world. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Members of aboriginal, academic, and scientific communities, students, members of the public, government policy-makers, administrators, and business representatives who have an interest in the Circumpolar North are encouraged to attend. CONFERENCE SUB-THEMES The following is a list of the conference sub-themes. Papers dealing with these themes in a circumpolar, northern or comparative perspective are welcome. Under each sub-theme are suggestions for paper or panel topics. Contemporary Issues of Aboriginal Peoples . An interdisciplinary theme which invites any submissions pertaining to aboriginal peoples of the Circumpolar North. Papers or panels which reflect aboriginal perspectives in relation to the other sub-themes are encouraged. Women and the North . This is also an interdisciplinary theme. Submissions on any topics which are relevant to women in the Circumpolar North are welcome. Ecosystem Health: Science and the Environment . Values and benefits of northern environments . Sustainability of ecosystems . Role of Science in defining ecosystem health . Ecosystem function and diversity Education, Culture, and the Arts . Distance education, schooling in the north . Educational counselling and guidance . Folklore, oral traditions, literature . Visual arts, architecture, and publishing Health and Community Development . Health care education strategies . Community development and health policy . Traditional medicine . Circumpolar disease epidemiology . Role of universities in the promotion of health in circumpolar communities Northern Development in Comparative Perspective . Economic and human resource development . Inter-regional/international cooperation in policy-making . Political leadership and administration in the north CALL FOR PAPERS Individuals who wish to present a paper are asked to submit an abstract of approximately 250 words outlining the objectives of the proposed paper. Please include the title of the paper and the full name, institutional affiliation, address, fax number, and e-mail address of the author at the beginning of the abstract. PANEL AND ROUND-TABLE PROPOSALS Individuals are also invited to propose entire panels. Please supply the title of the panel and the information requested under "Call for Papers" for each of the papers proposed for the panel. The name and contact information for the chair and discussant should also be supplied. Individuals who would like to organize a round-table discussion are invited to submit a 250-word proposal outlining the topic and objectives of the discussion. Once again, please include the name and contact information for each of the participants. The deadline for the receipt of abstracts and proposals is May 15, 1994. Abstracts and proposals should be submitted in English. Authors will be notified of the status of their submissions prior to July 31, 1994. Please submit all abstracts and proposals to the address on the "Preliminary Registration" form. LOCATION UNBC is the first wholly new, publicly funded university to be built in Canada for the past twenty-five years. It will open fully in September 1994 with approximately 1500 students. One of UNBC's unique features is a focus on the following interdisciplinary themes: First Nations Studies, Women's Studies, Environmental Studies, Northern Studies and International Studies. UNBC has a mandate to serve northern British Columbia (a province on Canada's west coast). The main campus is located in Prince George, 786 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. Teaching centres in other northern cities and distance education will help UNBC to achieve its regional mandate. Northern B.C. is an area of abundant natural beauty with the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Rocky Mountains on the other. PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION __ Please send registration materials and more information on the Conference. __ I am submitting an abstract or a proposal for the conference. __ I am interested in acting as a chair or discussant for a panel. Name ____________________________________________ Mailing Address _________________________________ Street _____________________ Postal Code ________ City _______________________ Country ____________ Telephone __________________ Fax ________________ e-mail __________________________________________ Institution _____________________________________ Complete, detach and send this forms to: "Northern Parallels" 4th Circumpolar Universities Cooperation Conference c/o The Office of International Programmes University of Northern B.C. P.O. Bog 1950 Prince George, B.C. V2L 5P2, CANADA Telephone: (604) 960-5702 Fax: (604) 960-5793 e-mail: sheena@unbc.edu DEADLINE FOR RECEIVING ABSTRACTS AND PROPOSALS IS MAY 15, 1994. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 01:05:05 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harold Frank Subject: E-mail privacy Subj: E-mail privacy RE: THE PRIVACY OF EMAIL COMMUNICATION I learned recently that the people who run our computers claim and exercise the right to look at mail when they have "probable cause." Their criteria for probable cause is a profile of some sort. They do not have to notify an account holder prior to or after looking at mail nor do they have to consult with anyone prior to conducting a search, Their justification for their right to search is that the University owns the bytes on the server. By that reasoning, the people who run the university phone service ought to have the right to listen in on calls made with University phones on university wires, and the mail service might use the same logic to look at least at mail before it gets a stamp, and at any intramural mail. Efforts I've made to get a notice that email is not private to appear upon logon have proved futile. Do any of you know of rules at your own institutions which require anything akin to a due process proceeding before files in an account assigned to an individual may be opened without permission. I've also learned that in a recent law suit an institution's entire backup file of some three years worth of messages was subpeoned by a plaintiff's attorney. Presumably that attorney now can look at anything on those tapes she or he wishes. Please respond privately to me. Thank you. ********************************************************************* + Dr. Hal Frank hfrank@mizar.usc.edu + + University of Southern California hfrank@bcf.usc.edu + + P.O. Box 41992 Phone: (213) 254-1022 + + Los Angeles, CA 90041-0992 FAX: (213) 740-0001 + *** Spring starts March 20th -- hang in there *********************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 12:36:00 GMT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kathy Ayers Subject: Re: women and war Dear Anna, I work on a related topic. I am studying how gender roles are perpetrated in the military, police, and here in lovely Northern Ireland, the paramilitary organizations. As such, I read the occasional piece on war literature. I am (I think, there are days when I have my doubts) a political scientist. So, I s suppose I am interested in chatting if only to get a different perspective. I haven't looked much at writings by women but I am intriqued by the portrayal of women in novels and film. The Crying Game being a wonderful example of seeing women's violence as disorder and dangerous. Unfortunely I must run now, so I will spare you my musings on women's place in this scheme of things. Kathy Ayers Queen's University, Belfast psg0004@ac.uk.qub.v2 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 10:05:03 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: Bosnia rapes/"Phallic Drift" A few days ago, someone (file deleted) asked for feminist media articles on the rapes in Bosnia. The current issue of _On the Issues: The Progressive Woman's Quarterly_ (Spring 1994) has a piece by Andrea Wolper on American rape crisis counselors working in Bosnia. Incidentally, in her overview of the issue, OTI editor Ronni Sandroff uses a wonderful phrase to describe the "powerful tendency for public discussion of gender issues to drift, inexorably, back to the male point of view." She calls it "Phallic Drift." Georgia NeSmith gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 10:13:20 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: Stoltenberg In yesterday's WMST-L digest several people spoke admiringly of John Stoltenberg's work (e.g., _Refusing to be a Man_). I have used _Refusing to be a Man_ twice now in my intro to wms class and have encountered a great deal of hostility not only from the men but also from women. The most common complaint is (surprise surprise) that he's a male-basher and he lumps all men together, as if all men's experience of sex, relationships with fathers, etc. were the same. The men tend to be the most vocal in their anger toward Stoltenberg. I wonder if there are any men on this list who have read Stoltenberg and have positive reactions to his work. If so I would like to collect them & use them in class. (Of course, I know his work is not without flaws, but the students are quite adept at finding them; they seem to be completely unable to see any possible truth in what he says.) Thanks Georgia NeSmith SUNY BRockport Brockport NY 14420 gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 10:39:04 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: correction of citation on domestic workers I sent a message last week about an article by Eveylyn Nakano Glenn on the subject of domestic workers. THe correct citation is Signs 1992 18(1);1-43. Sorry I sent someone off on a wild goose chase in Gender & SOciety, but it is a good journal to look through! Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 08:12:24 -0700 Reply-To: Stephanie Mahoney Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Mahoney Subject: CHILD ABDUCTION, FEMINISM, AND WOMEN'S STUDIES In-Reply-To: <9403172051.AA09496@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> Dear Professors and Other Participants in the Women's Studies List, I am writing this letter because I am disgusted with your response to my sister who wroted to the list a couple months ago when her daughter was abducted by her x-husband. She was asking for help or your input on her situation and the response she got was that this is not appropriate material for the Women's Studies List. To me that is a crazy response. What is the meaning of women's studies? Are you "feminists" just perpetuating and androcentric,exclusive,noncommunal,elitist, and unpractical way of thinking. I would say so. You sit there talking about female genital mutilation, women in film, and many other subjects that are off the specific topics that Joan Korenman the owner specifies to be the appropriate topics for this academically related list. I'm sorry but that is total bullshit that here my sister writes in in regards to a very pertinent issue pertaining to women and you tell her it is an inappropriate topic. A couple weeks ago some of you "academics" were comlaining about Camille Paglia and someone said that they think she is an outlet for young feminist women college students who are skeptical about feminism and women's studies. Well, OPEN YOUR EYES, when you blow off my sister like that when 380,000 children are kidnapped every year, no wonder she thinks Camille Paglia has some credibility. I am so disappointed and disgusted in the people on this list who find her topic inappropriate. I am a Women's Studies major graduating this spring of '94 and I would hope that if I ever go on in Women's Studies that the discipline and the people who carry on the most important area of study, women's studies, do not continue to be sooo exclusive in your topics and area of focus. Can we really afford to be so elitest and exclusive as women. I am disgusted. Another thought of mine is that one time there was a request for jokes because someone was collecting gender based jokes and she specifically asked for jokes concerning the Lorena Bobbitt case and I sent the joke to the list which it wasn't a very crude joke. My joke was the first response to this woman's request, at least the first response to the list and two women one of whom was Joan Korenman, the owner, wrote back saying that jokes about gender based violence are not appropriate and Joan would prefer no jokes on the list at all. Well, what is women's studies and feminism about anyway if we can't make jokes? Jokes and laughter are important parts of life. They make light of things in life that are hard to deal with. They are fun! I've discussed the outrageous respon professors. All of whom are well known,respected academic women and they are shocked. They find it inexcuseable that you would blow off a topic such as child abduction and there is no excuse when there are discussions on the list that are off the specified topics all the time. I'd say the majority of the time. Well enough on my part, if you want to do something about year, 380,000 which the FBI and other government police agencies consider low priority try starting up a discussion about what we can do as feminist and the frontiers of advancing the status of women on child abduction. You can write to me personally about any suggestions concerning my niece at e-mail address- umahoney@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu or you could write to my sister at e-mail address- gabrielle.mahoney@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu. Hopefully as women we will treat this as more that a DOMESTIC ISSUE,which is what she has been told it is by many women's organizations. Like wife battering was considered domestic in the 1960's. Thank you for listening. I hope my niece, Alora Mahoney can be returned to the person who was given legal custody of her, my sister, soon as she has been gone for almost four months now. I would appreciate your suggestions on how to find her as well as maybe a discussion on the list regarding child abduction. If you would like more information about the case so as to be able to address it more productively please write to me personally. Stephanie Mahoney e-mail address-umahoney@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 11:40:26 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: Rapes in Bosnia/"Phallic Drift" [For some reason this message has bounced back to me as a duplicate. I don't recall sending it twice, so I'm trying it again.] A few days ago, someone (file deleted) asked for feminist media articles on the rapes in Bosnia. The current issue of _On the Issues: The Progressive Woman's Quarterly_ (Spring 1994) has a piece by Andrea Wolper on American rape crisis counselors working in Bosnia. Incidentally, in her overview of the issue, OTI editor Ronni Sandroff uses a wonderful phrase to describe the "powerful tendency for public discussion of gender issues to drift, inexorably, back to the male point of view." She calls it "Phallic Drift." Georgia NeSmith gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 11:42:49 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: Stoltenberg [This also bounced back to me as a duplicate. Somebody please tell me if I am losing my mind . . . Perhaps I have a split/alter ego who is doing these things without my knowledge!] In yesterday's WMST-L digest several people spoke admiringly of John Stoltenberg's work (e.g., _Refusing to be a Man_). I have used _Refusing to be a Man_ twice now in my intro to wms class and have encountered a great deal of hostility not only from the men but also from women. The most common complaint is (surprise surprise) that he's a male-basher and he lumps all men together, as if all men's experience of sex, relationships with fathers, etc. were the same. The men tend to be the most vocal in their anger toward Stoltenberg. I wonder if there are any men on this list who have read Stoltenberg and have positive reactions to his work. If so I would like to collect them & use them in class. (Of course, I know his work is not without flaws, but the students are quite adept at finding them; they seem to be completely unable to see any possible truth in what he says.) Thanks Georgia NeSmith SUNY BRockport Brockport NY 14420 gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 08:51:48 -0700 Reply-To: Stephanie Mahoney Sender: Women's Studies List From: Stephanie Mahoney Subject: CHILD ABDUCTION, FEMINISM, AND WOMEN'S STUDIES (fwd) This message did not get to the list the first time I sent it because supposively it was already sent or there was a mistake in the address I sent it to. Hopefully it will get there on this try. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 08:12:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephanie Mahoney To: Women's Studies List Cc: umahoney@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu Subject: CHILD ABDUCTION, FEMINISM, AND WOMEN'S STUDIES Dear Professors and Other Participants in the Women's Studies List, I am writing this letter because I am disgusted with your response to my sister who wroted to the list a couple months ago when her daughter was abducted by her x-husband. She was asking for help or your input on her situation and the response she got was that this is not appropriate material for the Women's Studies List. To me that is a crazy response. What is the meaning of women's studies? Are you "feminists" just perpetuating and androcentric,exclusive,noncommunal,elitist, and unpractical way of thinking. I would say so. You sit there talking about female genital mutilation, women in film, and many other subjects that are off the specific topics that Joan Korenman the owner specifies to be the appropriate topics for this academically related list. I'm sorry but that is total bullshit that here my sister writes in in regards to a very pertinent issue pertaining to women and you tell her it is an inappropriate topic. A couple weeks ago some of you "academics" were comlaining about Camille Paglia and someone said that they think she is an outlet for young feminist women college students who are skeptical about feminism and women's studies. Well, OPEN YOUR EYES, when you blow off my sister like that when 380,000 children are kidnapped every year, no wonder she thinks Camille Paglia has some credibility. I am so disappointed and disgusted in the people on this list who find her topic inappropriate. I am a Women's Studies major graduating this spring of '94 and I would hope that if I ever go on in Women's Studies that the discipline and the people who carry on the most important area of study, women's studies, do not continue to be sooo exclusive in your topics and area of focus. Can we really afford to be so elitest and exclusive as women. I am disgusted. Another thought of mine is that one time there was a request for jokes because someone was collecting gender based jokes and she specifically asked for jokes concerning the Lorena Bobbitt case and I sent the joke to the list which it wasn't a very crude joke. My joke was the first response to this woman's request, at least the first response to the list and two women one of whom was Joan Korenman, the owner, wrote back saying that jokes about gender based violence are not appropriate and Joan would prefer no jokes on the list at all. Well, what is women's studies and feminism about anyway if we can't make jokes? Jokes and laughter are important parts of life. They make light of things in life that are hard to deal with. They are fun! I've discussed the outrageous respon professors. All of whom are well known,respected academic women and they are shocked. They find it inexcuseable that you would blow off a topic such as child abduction and there is no excuse when there are discussions on the list that are off the specified topics all the time. I'd say the majority of the time. Well enough on my part, if you want to do something about year, 380,000 which the FBI and other government police agencies consider low priority try starting up a discussion about what we can do as feminist and the frontiers of advancing the status of women on child abduction. You can write to me personally about any suggestions concerning my niece at e-mail address- umahoney@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu or you could write to my sister at e-mail address- gabrielle.mahoney@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu. Hopefully as women we will treat this as more that a DOMESTIC ISSUE,which is what she has been told it is by many women's organizations. Like wife battering was considered domestic in the 1960's. Thank you for listening. I hope my niece, Alora Mahoney can be returned to the person who was given legal custody of her, my sister, soon as she has been gone for almost four months now. I would appreciate your suggestions on how to find her as well as maybe a discussion on the list regarding child abduction. If you would like more information about the case so as to be able to address it more productively please write to me personally. Stephanie Mahoney e-mail address-umahoney@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 11:57:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: duplicate messages It looks as though some mail system is misfunctioning and returning messages that have already been sent out on WMST-L back to the original writer. The mail systems shouldn't do that, but....Anyway, the point of my message is to ask that you NOT send duplicate messages to WMST-L. If you receive any message telling you that your message didn't go through, check with me (or read the message carefully--experienced e-mailers can probably tell that the message being returned already appeared on WMST-L). The last thing that WMST-L needs is duplicate messages. Many thanks. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 13:09:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Consuelo Lopez Springfield Subject: Re: request for info. I just read of a citation for an essay in ON THE ISSUE: THE PROGRESSIVE WOMEN'S QUARTERLY. I would like some information on this journal. Thanks, COnsuelo Lopez Springfield CLACS, Indiana cspringf@ucs.indiana.edu ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1960 03:40:13 LCL Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: buckner marland e Subject: Identity As so many people inquired about the suggestions sent to me re: my inquiry on identity, I've decided to share it with the list instead of sending it personally. These are in the order that I recieved them: Judith Butler GENDER TROUBLE Carol Fairbanks & Sara Brooks Sundberg FARM WOMEN ON THE PRAIRIE FRONTIER (1983) Carol Fairbanks PRAIRIE WOMEN: IMAGES IN AMERICAN AND CANADIAN FICTION (1986) Joan Scott, particularly the essays where she discusses use of language by Gareth Steadman Jones & EP Thompson Nancy Grey Osterud BONDS OF COMMUNITY: THE LIVES OF FARM WOMEN IN NINETEENTH CENTURY NEW YORK Marciella Pandolfi, 1991, "Memory Within the Body: Women's Narrative and Idintity in a Southern Italian Village" in ANTHROPOLOGIES OF MEDICINE, Beatrice Pfleiderer and Gilles Bibeau (eds), Wiesbaden: Vieweg and Son Jane Pederson BETWEEN MEMORY AND REALITY,FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN RURAL WISCONSIN 1870 -1970 Linda Nicholson FEMINISM/POSTMODERNISM (Routledge 1990) "try Nancy Chodorow, Carol Gilligan (be sure you get her latest book), Carol Christ, or some other sources for feminist psychology. Also, WRITING LIKE A WOMAN is a classic" Denise Riley, AM I THAT NAME: FEMINISM AND THE CATEGORY OF WOMEN IN HISTORY, (MacMillan 1988) Monique Wittig, "One is Not Born a Woman" in FEMINIST ISSUES, Vol.1 No.1 Spring 1980 bell hooks, FEMINIST THEORY; FROM MARGIN TO CENTER, South End Press, 1984 Joan Jensen, LOOSENING THE BONDS Nina Gregg, "Trying to Put First Things First: Negotiating Subjectivities in a Workplace Organizing Canpaign", in Fisher & Davis, NEGOTIATING AT THE MARGINS; THE GENDERED DISCOURSES OF POWER AND RESISTANCE, (Rutgers, 1993) Zanardi, Claudia (ed.) ESSENTIAL PAPERS ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN, 1990. See Miller & Gilligan articles Keller, Catherine, FROM A BROKEN WEB:SEPARATION, SEXISM AND SELF, 1986 Kaschak, Ellyn, ENGENDERED LIVES: A NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE, 1992 Hall, Margaret C., WOMEN AND IDENTITY;VALUE CHOICES IN A CHANGING WORLD, 1990 Porter, Elisabeth, WOMEN & MORAL IDENTITY, 1991 Probyn, Elspeth, SEXING THE SELF: GENDERED POSITIONS IN CULTURAL ATUDIES, 1993 Marisa Zavalloni, "Ego-ecology: the Study of the Interaction Between Social and Personal Identity", in A. Jacobson-Widding (ed.). IDENTITY SOCIAL AND PERSONAL, 1983, Humanity Press Again, Many thanks. Aileen C. Moffatt mebuck@mail.wm.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 15:27:22 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Susan Ross Subject: Women's Studies in Core Curriculum The Loyola University Chicago Core Curriculum, where I direct the Women's Studies Program, is currently "under review." At present, we are a minor program, with a solid number of students, and many of our courses (e.g., Women in Lit, Women in Society, Women and Religion) "count" for core credit. The committee is currently "interviewing" various departments as to their views on core and implicitly also for them to make a case for inclusion in the new core. We also have a new President, who wants there to be a "Freshman Year Experience" (currently our core is totally distributive and has little coherence). I have two questions for which I would greatly appreciate feedback. 1) My colleague who directs African-American Studies and I will meet with this committee in a few weeks. I would be interested in hearing from people whose colleges and/or universities have gone through a core or general ed revision and have included women's studies, ethnic studies in the "new" curriculum, or did not get included. Rationales for including multicultural issues, including those of gender, race, and class would be helpful. 2) The WS Steering Committee and I are meeting with the new President this week to inform him about our program and to make a case for inclusion in this "Freshman year Exp." Is there anyone "out there" who has had to educate a new president and/or has also been involved in such an "experience" where issues of gender, race and class have been included? I don't think we'll have trouble with writing a rationale for either, but I would like to hear others' experiences--successes and failures--in curricular changes like these. Please reply privately, and if there is enough material that warrants it, I'll come back to the List with some of the answers. Many thanks. Susan Ross, Director of Women's Studies, Loyola University Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626 (312) 508-2934. e-mail: sross@orion.it.luc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 16:27:52 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judith Subject: Feminist Speakers Two events of interest to subscribers in the Southeast: Dorothy Allison will read at 8 pm on Monday, March 21st, and Mary Daly will speak at 8 pm on Wednesday, March 23rd, in Belk Auditorium at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Both events are sponsored by USC Women's Studies and a diverse coalition of campus and community co-sponsors. For more information, reply privately to Judith James (jgjames@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu). Phone 803/777-4007; fax 803/777-9114. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 14:24:16 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Theresa <60840883@WSUVM1.BITNET> Subject: feminism and child abduction In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 19 Mar 1994 08:12:24 -0700 from Stephanie: Hear hear. I didn't know about the child abduction issue; I go thro ugh my mail rather rapidly. I think it is indeed a topic fit for this list-- but I am not its director. Still, I have two daughters and I had custody (one is 21 and the other is almost 18). If my ex had stolen them, I would also be very upset and expect women to join in supporting me. The issue of fathers abducting children (and mothers also, who do not have custody) is a central issue of women's studies, I would think. Certainly women are not centered in the home anymore, but some 80% of all childcare is in the hands of women. I don't know what I can do to help you, Stephanie, but I do support your anger and your concern over what appears to have been this list's indifference to the problem. If the worry was over academic relevance, perhaps we could pose the problem as a question: how are we re-educating our students about child care and are we talking about current abduction problems with them? It is not sufficient to think women's victimization is only carried out against adults an d has no effect on children. In fact, historically, the abuse of women has bee n part of the systematic abuse of children. Boy children, of course, are per- ceived as becoming adults. Girl children never enter the "adult" world, so the abuse continues for them. And so on, as we all probably know ad nauseum. That we may know this, however, doesn't mean it should never be discussed. If the women's movements of the 90s don't want to give credence to people who say we are not victims (Paglia) of systematic abuse, then we need to listen when a woman reaches out to us. I wish I could help STephanie and her sister more. I suggest that if anyone knows of agencies that can help locate the little girl they write to Stephanie and let her know. Reach out. Theresa 60840883@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 14:55:30 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Harold Frank Subject: email privacy: ubdate re: Privacy of email: update I have received many replies to my "RFI" to WMST-L about email privacy practices. I am grateful. Thank you. Most asked me to forward what I have learned. Hence this reply to WMST-L The consensus among those I have consulted (i.e. attorneys, systems managers, etc) is that email is not private and there is no right to the privacy of email communications. It is widely, but not universally believed that at logon, and as part of the application for an account, users are entitled to be advised that email messages are not private. The following brief abstracts from EDUPAGE are instructive and representative regarding current Government and institutional practices related to privacy of communication generally, and of email in particular. (When I read some of them Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World and 1984 come to mind). ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING A measure soon to be introduced on Capitol Hill would require that all network providers, including the Internet and commercial on-line services, build in the capability to record any person's e-mail and deliver it to federal law-enforcement authorities. Government agents will need only to show a person merits investigation, rather than obtain a court order as is the case for telephone eavesdropping. (Business Week 3/14/94 p.55) KNOWLEDGE VANDALS Computer security expert Gene Spafford at Purdue "complains--in vain, as he freely admits--of computer science professors who assign their students sites on the Internet to break into and files to bring back as proof that they understand the protocols involved." (Scientific American 3/94 p.90). IS OPEN ACCESS A RIGHT? "It is far from clear whether the First Amendment will allow the government to treat the entire [information] industry as a common carrier, with open access to everyone's system [as prescribed by Vice President Gore] a condition imposed by government." (American Journalism Review 3/94 p.54) NETWORK CALLED BREACH OF RIGHTS A fledgling computer network for pharmacists in British Columbia, designed to screen chronic drug abusers and guard against potentially dangerous combinations of medication, should be shut down because patients have no control over who sees confidential records, according to the BC Civil Liberties Association. (Toronto Globe & Mail 3/09/94 A4). OUT OF FOCUS Saudi Arabia has banned satellite dishes in an effort to regulate what is being watched inside the conservative kingdom. (St. Petersburg Times 3/12/94 A8) -- end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end++++++end+++ + Dr. Hal Frank hfrank@mizar.usc.edu + + University of Southern California hfrank@bcf.usc.edu + + P.O. Box 41992 Phone: (213) 254-1022 + + Los Angeles, CA 90041-0992 FAX: (213) 740-0001 + **** Spring Arrives March 20! *************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 18:31:56 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Ellen Greenblatt Subject: 1994 ALA Gay/Lesbian Book Award Winners (Apologies for any inconveniences caused by the massive cross postings) 1994 GAY/LESBIAN BOOK AWARD WINNERS The American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Awards Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 1994 Gay/Lesbian Book Awards. The awards are given annually to two books of exceptional merit examining lesbian and/or gay experience and published during the prior calendar year. Established in 1971, the Gay and Lesbian Task Force Book Awards are the nation's oldest and long-lived. The two award winning books were selected by a group of thirteen academic, public, and special librarians from institutions throughout the United States. This year the ten finalists considered for the awards were selected from a list of 47 nominated titles, which in turn were drawn from a listing of over six hundred titles, fiction and non-fiction, that were identified as having gay or lesbian content. The 1994 Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature goes to Leslie Feinberg for STONE BUTCH BLUES (Firebrand Books), a poignant exploration of transgendered identity in the years surrounding the Stonewall Uprising. Chosen as the 1994 Nonfiction award winner, FAMILY VALUES: TWO MOMS AND THEIR SON by Phyllis Burke (Random House) chronicles the author's transformation from the closet to activistism though the catalyst of lesbian parenthood. Both books were selected from a list of ten finalists. Runners up of the awards, all worthy of recognition as some of the best books of 1993, include: LITERATURE: GROWING UP GAY: AN ANTHOLOGY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE edited by Bennet Singer (New Press) THE LAST GENERATION by Cherrie Moraga (South End Press) SCISSORS, PAPER, ROCK by Fenton Johnson (Pocket Books) SHE'S ALWAYS LIKED THE GIRLS BEST: LESBIAN PLAYS by Claudia Allen (Third Side Press) NON-FICTION: THE LESBIAN AND GAY PARENTING HANDBOOK: CREATING AND RAISING OUR FAMILIES by April Martin (HarperPerennial) LESBIAN CULTURE: AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe (Crossing Press) LESBIANS, GAY MEN AND THE LAW by William B. Rubenstein (New Press) STONEWALL by Martin Duberman (Dutton) The book awards will be presented on June 27, 1994, during an awards ceremony at the American Library Association annual conference in Miami, Florida. With the selection of the 1994 award winners, the Gay and Lesbian Book Award Committee now turns its attention to reading titles for the 1995 awards. The committee welcomes and encourages nominations from the general public, excluding only those persons affiliated with book publishing firms. Nominations for English- language books published in 1994 can be submitted through December 31, 1994. Nominations must include a brief statement -- about one-half page in length -- as to why the title is being recommended. Nominations may be sent by to Ellen Greenblatt, Chair, American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award Committee, Central Technical Services, Lockwood Library Building, State University of New York at Buffalo, Box 602200, Buffalo, NY 14260-2200. Nominations may also be sent by FAX to (716) 645-5955 or by email to either ULCREG@UBVM (BITNET) or ULCREG@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (Internet). ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 19:36:46 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Christine Smith Subject: bringing races together in the classroom First, I would like to than everyone who gave me suggestions on "Sex, gender, and biology". I gave my colleague the list and he was delighted! I also picked up some of the suggestions myself. Second, does anyone have suggestions for bringing together women of different racial groups together? Specifically, I have 2 groups of women (black and white) in my Psychology of Women class. The white students sit with the white students the black with the black students. And it definitely feels as if their are two separate entities in the class. I would like to bring them toegether more. We have talked about sisterhood, and the need to recognize and respect similarities and differences. The students aren't hostile by any means, but they aren't together as a group, rather divided along racial lines. Any suggestions? Christine Smith csmith@vms.cis.pitt.edu --Boundary (ID ZnFmi6fcyraRBFqn6ahCwg)-- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 17:55:00 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: shirley doop Subject: Re: bringing races together in the classroom In-Reply-To: <199403200037.TAA25271@holmes.umd.edu> You didn't mention how large your class is--ie how many students, but arranging chairs in a circle or horseshoe shape at least keeps students from looking at the back of others' heads. Doing small group work--having students count off by 3s or 4s or whatever seems appropriate. Again, gets students acquainted with each other. You can change the counting system to change the people in the group. Also last quarter I had a class that was very standoffish with each other and I had a longer break time. The result was that some began to socialize with each other a bit more. But they were in an isolated place with nowhere else to go. By doing a lot of group work during class time and then doing a team presentation--where I assigned students according to interests--to work together, and I was fortunate to have a classroom where chairs could be arranged in horseshoe shape, students interacted with each other. Good luck Shirley Doop Western Washington University Bellingham, Washington-- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 21:29:32 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: nijole Benokraitis Subject: Re: bringing races together in the classroom If students aren't hostile, why worry about bringing them together? Is this part of many women's feeling that everyone should look as though they're getting along (i.e., gee, I sure hope everyone is feeling comfy). I don't teach women's studies courses, but in most of my other classes (including Gender Roles, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Intro Soc, etc.), I've found more "clustering" by sex than race. Typically, most of the male students sit in the back and sides and women in the front and middle. Also, many black female students typically sit in the first few rows and center. Anyway, if seating preferences don't impede instruction or learning, why should students of different ages, sexes, races, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, etc. be expected to mix? niki Benokraitis ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 20:34:30 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Bob Bender Subject: Re: Stoltenberg In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 19 Mar 1994 10:13:20 EST from On the question of male feminists, I find it extremely interesting that most respondents are mentioning "authority" figures, many of whom publish "authoritative" book and edit journals on the question. Personally, I think local supportive men can be more useful. Bob Bender, Engbob@Mizzou1 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 20:54:47 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: shirley doop Subject: Re: chilly climate info In-Reply-To: <199403160638.BAA00803@holmes.umd.edu> Many thanks for your response to my request for information on "chilly climate." I archived the WMST-L and received a 60 plus page document that told the University of Victoria episode in depth. I am now looking for the video "The Chilly Climate." Thanks again. Shirley Doop Bellingham WA Western Washington U. On Tue, 15 Mar 1994, m.c. schraefel wrote: > >CHILLY CLIMATEt that anyone interested in the concept "chilly climate" > anyone interested in Climate issues. great sources.... > >1) check the national film board of canada video "the chilly climate" > >2) check out the work of university of western law professor connie > >backhouse's work > >3) check the WMST-L archive for the chilly climate info relating to the > >terrible scene at the University of Victoria > >4) contact Dr. Somer Brodribb of University of Victoria Political Science > >Dept, Canada's expert on chilly climates in the academy. > > > > > > ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 00:07:52 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Georgia NeSmith Subject: _On The Issues_ In response to the request for more information on _On the Issues_. _On the Issues: The Progressive Woman's Quarterly_ is a new magazine in its third year. It calls itself a "feminist humanist magazine of critical thinking, dedicated to fostering collective responsibility for positive social change." Among the contributing editors are Charlotte Bunch and bell hooks. Phyllis Chesler is editor-at-large. Chesler provides a wonderful critique of Naomi Wolf in the current issue. There are also articles on "Negotiating Passion on Campus," the history of black women and abortion, and a conversation with Surgeon General Elders, among other things. A 1-year subscription is $14.95 ($12.95 if you somehow get on their mailing list for promotions). Contact ON THE ISSUES PO Box 3000, Dept. OTI, Denville NJ 07834. Unlike Ms OTI accepts advertising but only from book publishers and feminist or socially-responsible oriented businesses. It's a rich resource, I think -- more affordable than Ms. and chock full of material accessible enough for undergraduate students. One contributor this time is a 17-year-old -- an article on Ninjutsu as a form of self-defense for women. Georgia NeSmith gnesmith@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 00:38:00 PST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: SusanKullmannPuz Subject: Re: request for information >Does anyone know whether there are any lists that highlight issues >related to adoption?.... According to the 1994 _Internet Directory_ there is one: ADOPTION: About anything and everything connected with adoption. Please join the list and listen in for a while before submitting. adoption-request@think.com There is also an Netnews Newsgroup: alt.adoption "for those involved with or contemplating adoption" BTW, I would suggest that while the 700-page _Internet Directory_ is not cheap at $25 (and likely to be outdated fast), it's a user-friendly "telephone book" for the net that's incredibly useful. --Susan K. Puz skpuz@beach1.csulb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 09:06:09 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Anita Heriot Subject: infrmation Does anyone know the name and address of a feminist institute in NYC which offers classes and workshops to professionals in the mental health feild for continuing education credits? I is not associated with a university. respond to heriot@acfcluster.nyu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 09:41:51 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sarah Ullman Subject: child abduction Stephanie, I remember your message to the list and I agree that this is a serious problem. I have never confronted it myself but know it happens to many women. Several thoughts which you may already be aware of are: contacting the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (would assume their number is available through 800 information), finding a local support group of women also dealing with this problem and if you have money finding a private investigator to help her track down the husband (there may well even be specialists in this area given how many mothers have their children kidnapped by ex-husbands). I realize police, criminal justice, and legal systems don't have mechanisms to enforce parental rights and as you said the FBI considers these 'low priority'. The system is failing in this area and I would say going after elected officials in government at state and local levels for accountability and response to this crime is also important. Finally, I would consider calling up all the daytime TV talk shows, as if the mother is able to get on national TV and get exposure that way, her child or someone who now knows the child, or even the father, might see that and come forward. Sometimes on these talk shows they manage to even locate and get the parent who wrongly has taken the child to come on the show as well--not that that enables the parent with custody to take them back necessarily, but anything you can do to get contact is critical to trying to get the child back. Ultimately, I am not sure what your sister can do if law enforcement is unwilling to go track him down and enforce the custody laws. I think activism is critical around this issue and that joining with other women who are dealing with this might be the best avenue. Their ideas may well be most helpful for her. I am sorry and angry to hear about your sister's victimization by her husband and the system. I hope she is able to find and get her child back as this must be traumatizing for the child involved as well. Sarah Ullman University of Illinois, Chicago ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 07:48:29 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: shirley doop Subject: Lost address from "chilly climate" respondant On March 15th I asked for assistance on information on the "chilly climate" in the classroom for a course paper in adult education. I received two replies. One I responded to, but the other much to my regret, I inadvertently deleted. The message was from an adult educator who has been following this for a long time and gave the anecdote about the instructor who "took over." If you see this could you please send again. I would very much like to stay in contact with you and share what I have found and hope to find. Your info was most helpful. Many thanks Shirley Doop Bellingham WA Western Washington U. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 08:22:32 -0800 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Adam Karp Subject: Re: Stoltenberg I have read a handful of Stoltenberg's essays from Refusing to be a Man and, though I say this with negligible qualification, I agree with EVERYTHING he says. Although he may generalize unnecessarily, his theory seems to me, intuitively, to hold up. I am not sure what type of commentary you want (e.g., studied reflection, source cites with reactions, overall reviews) but I could get you at least three responses (all from 19-21 year-old men who are feminist and plan on using Stoltenberg's material in an anti-rape group ("Rapist Ethics") and for a coffeehouse ("Feminist Activism and Male SExual Identity").) The resistance, among the overwhelming majority of men, to acknowledging to some degree their complicity in the patriarchal structures is natural (especially if your class is uncomfortable with Stoltenberg's intimate analysis between gay male and heterosexual male experience). I recommend the article "Why Men Resist" by William J. Goode [FAMILY IN TRANSITION, 6ed. Arlene Skolnick & Jerome Skolnick; Scott, Foresman, and Co., c1989]-- this balanced article is used in my Feminist Ethics class (a good primer, perhaps, for your male resisters). Adam Karp Gonzaga University Spokane, WA akarp@gonzaga.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 20:01:29 +0000 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Judy Evans Subject: Re: Stoltenberg In-Reply-To: <"leeman.yor.417:20.02.94.16.16.27"@york.ac.uk> My students do not respond well to Stoltenberg. However when I taught masculinity writers, they responded well to Arthur Brittan and Jeff Hearn. (They found Bob Connell a but difficult.) I taught them, a bit oddly, as part of a feminist theory course! Since then I have talked to Jeff Hearn who thinks - I'd already dropped that section, via student choice at the beginning of the course - that they fall better under something called say, gender studies. I think (the student vote against came from people who hadn't read them, that is inevitable under my choice sytem; on the other hand men students esp., have used Brod on pornography in Hearn ed, though critically) that *if* the idea is that students be introduced to male writers in the field Stoltenberg is a bad idea as a beginning. (My own view of him isn't relevant to this point.) * * * * * * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Judy Evans * jae2@unix.york.ac.uk Politics Department * * * * * phone 0904 433552 University of York * England * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 15:27:13 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ruth parlin Subject: Finding Internet discussion groups In addition to the suggestions already made, consider these other methods for finding bulletin boards or listservs of interest to you. Several online sources are available to assist you, including Diane Kovacs' _Directory of E-mail Conferences_. This source is included in the University of Michigan Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides. The Clearinghouse can be found by telneting to the Washington & Lee University Gopher at liberty.uc.wlu.edu, login: lawlib, then search for Kovacs. Another resource is Arno Wouter's guide, "How to Find an Interesting Mailing List." Send an email message to listserv@ndwuvm1.bitnet. Leave the subject line blank, and in the body type GET NEW-LIST WOUTERS F=MAIL. Among printed guides you could consult are _On Internet: An International Title and Subject Guide..._ (1993); Strangelove and Kovacs, _Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Discussion Groups_ (1992); and Wolff, _NetGuide: Your Map to Services, Information, and Entertainment on the Net_ (1994). Hope this helps, Ruth Parlin University of Miami Law School Library rparlin@umiami.ir.miami.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 05:30:17 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Megan McLaughlin Subject: Early Representations My thanks to everyone who sent me references on early representations of native american women in European sources. Since several people requested copies of the references, I am posting them to the list. I hope you find them as interesting as I did! Green, Rayna. "The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture." The Massachusetts Review 16 (Autumn, 1975): 698-715; reprinted in Ellen Du Bois and Vicki Ruiz, eds., Unequal Sisters (London, 1990). Hendricks, Margo, and Patricia Parker, eds., Women, Race and Writing in the Early Modern Period (?, 1994) Hutner, Heidi, ed. Re-Reading Aphra Behn. (No Publication data received)--article by Hutner Montrose, Louis. "The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery." Representations 33 (1991): 1-41 O'Meara, Maureen. "Planting the Lord's Garden in New France: Gabriel Sagard's Le Grand Voyage and Histoire du Canada." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 46 (1992): 11-24 Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. (No publication data received) Silverblatt, Irene. "Andean Women under Spanish Rule." In Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock, eds., Women and Colonization: Anthropological Perspectives (New York, 1980), pp. 149-85 Taufer, Alison. "The Only Good Amazon is a Converted Amazon: The Woman Warrior and Christianity in the Amadis Cycle." In Jean Brink, Maryanne Horowitz and Allison Coudert, eds., Playing with Gender: A Renaissance Pursuit (Urbana, IL, 1991), pp. 35-51 See also modern works by Laura Brown and Eleanor Leacock, as well as early works by Marie de l'Incarnation (Mary Guyart), Theodore De Bry, Thomas Astley, Juan de la Casas, John Underhill. One poster suggested looking for references to La Malinche, but my students haven't found anything yet Thanks again Megan McLaughlin, History Dept., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 309 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801 Tel: 217-244-2084 Fax: 217-333-2297 Bitnet: megmclau@uiucvmd Internet: megmclau@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 21:16:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lucy Candib MD Subject: books for pre-teens on gay and lesbian topics At a meeting of the multicultural committee of our kids' school, the teacher of the 8-9 year olds mentioned wanting some books geared to that age that at least opened up the areas of gay and lesbian issues. She has a boy in the class who she thinks may be/become gay, and wants to have materials that she and his parents might make available to him. Ideas? Send privately and I will compile, oh, if only there are a lot! Lucy M. Candib, M.D. Family Health and Social Service Center 875 Main St. Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 508-756-3528 lcandib@umassmed.ummed.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 09:15:09 -0400 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sun-treader Subject: feminist review periodicals Could someone please remind me of the names of the three periodicals, published, I believe, by S. Searing and the Wisconsin folks, for reviewing feminist books and journals? Subscription info would also be appreciated! Please reply to me privately. Thanks! Candice Feldt cfeldt@pearl.tufts.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 10:06:35 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Trisha Franzen Subject: self-esteem and body image workshops I am posting for a student in our feminist theory class. Please reply privatelyto her at "SJOHNSON@ALBION.BITNET." Thanks, Trisha Franzen I am a student in Feminist Theory. As part of my research I want to run a series of workshops for female students, 18-22, on self-esteem and body image. We are a predominantly white student population from the upper-Midwest. If you have any experience with such groups or suggestions for these workshops, please contact me privately at "SJOHNSON@ALBION.BITNET." Thanks, Stephanie ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 09:19:23 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Dorothy Miller Subject: nwsa panel on assessment In my recent request for panel participation on the subject of assessment of WS programs at the pre-conference directors meeting at NWSA, I noted that the dat e would be June 14. I have since been informed that the meeting will be on June 15. I'm still interested in hearing from you if your program has gone through a pro gram review and assessment process and you'd like to share information about yo ur experience. Please respond privately and let me know your regular mailing ad dress (including the full name of your university or college) as well as your e -mail address. Thanks. Dorothy Miller, Center for Women's Studies, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67208. e-mail: dcmiller@twsuvm ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 10:28:06 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Re: child abduction Re Stehpanie Mahoney's plea for information relative to her niece's abduction... In my book, "Encyclopedia of Child Abuse" (Facts on File, 1989), there is an appendix with various phone numbers, addresses, etc. of national agencies/organizations dealing with child abuse & neglect issues. In this listing is the # for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Washington, DC. It is 1-202-634-9821. Another organization that might be helpful in this regard is Child Key[[ers' International in Lake Worth, FL. They have a toll-free number: 1 -800 - 448-7676. Judith judith f clark@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 11:07:22 CST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Barbara Lantz Subject: child abduction Stephanie & other readers: I found your message to the list very moving and very appropriate even if difficult to read. I am a relatively new subscriber to the list and have been searching the messages for information and discussion of (among other things) family violence and its relation to custody disputes because of my own current struggle for custody of two very young children. I have also been interested to observe the discussion of rights of access of institutions and others to e-mail messages posted on the network. This second topic makes it very clear that in issues where confidentiality is important to individuals, the network is not a good place to discuss them. Still, I am left wondering if there is in fact a list where women are discussing issues of our place in the legal system, and society in general, when families become places of danger and oppression to ourselves and our children. It is precisely because of the highly political nature of the family and the household in our society that it needs to be at the center of our discussions of work, power, and our rights to equality in the public sphere. I have noticed endless messages on this list regarding the difficulties and disappointments of the job search for rising young academics. The intricacies and details of advice generously offered by more seasoned colleagues to those in need has been heartening to someone who spent a number of years on the academic job market more clueless than she would like to admit(!!). It seems to me that these same rising young academics might very well find the need for similarly close and detailed advice ten years down the road when (god/dess forbid) in the struggle to balance their professional and personal responsibilities they find themselves leaving partners and facing a difficult battle in the courts for the right to raise their children according to the same values that led them to their academic careers in the first place. I am in agreement with you, Stephanie, that there should be a place to discuss, evaluate, and build resources for women and their children who fall victim to abusive partners and to a system of justice and social hierarchy which places low priority on the protection of those victims. I have appreciated the messages pertaining to battering that have appeared recently. Since child abduction is so likely to be an extension of battering, it seems to me it is just as appropriate a topic for e-mail attention. It may well be, however, that this list has few subscribers with knowledge and experience to offer you. I am certainly at a loss as to how to advise you. But I know intimately the pain of losing my children, albeit temporarily, to my ex-partner's unscrupulous manipulation of the 'justice' system, and my heart goes out to you, to your sister, and to your niece. I encourage you to keep talking, keep that anger going, and to channel it to raise consciousness about the real risk that affects all women when we try to defend ourselves against men more interested in controlling us than respecting us. Barbara Lantz Barbara Lantz, Assistant Dean for International Programs 55 Goldwin Smith Hall Cornell University Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-3201 tel. (607)255-5004 e-mail to: bl13@cornell.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 10:42:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Janet Warman Subject: Conference on Violence and Violation Dear Colleagues: A National Conference on Women's Issues will be held at Elon College on February 23, 24, and 25, 1995. The conference topic is "Violence and Violation in Women's Lives: Myth, Metaphor, and Reality." We take this opportunity to extend a cordial invitation to you to participate as a presenter/session chair. We are seeking papers which explore violence and violations in women's lives from interdisciplinary, international, and cross-cultural perspectives. All disciplines are encouraged to send proposals. Please send an abstract by October 3, 1994 to Chandana Chakrabarti/ Seena Granowsky, 2201 Campus Box, Elon College, NC 27244-2020, USA. If you would like to organize and/or chair a session or present a paper, please indicate any special equipment you will need. We are planning to publish selected papers from the conference in a book of proceedings. Kindly note that we will not be able to provide funds for any expenses. If you would like further information, please contact: Chandana Chakrabarti (Philosophy/Religion) 910-538-2705 Anne Bolin (Sociology/Anthropology) 910-584-2191 BOLIN@VAX1.ELON.EDU Seena Granowsky (Psychology) 910-584-2358 GRANOWS@VAX1.ELON.EDU Kathryn Larson (Economics) 910-584-2105 LARSON@VAX1.ELON.EDU John Herold (English) 910-584-2588 HEROLD@VAX1.ELON.EDU We hope you will be able to participate. Sincerely, Women's Studies Elon College ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 10:35:37 -0600 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Lynet Uttal Subject: Workshop on Race, Gender, Class Curriculum The Center for Research on Women will hold its 6th national curriculum integration workshop on June 2-4, 1994. "In the Classroom and Beyond: Race, Gender, Class and the Curriculum in Higher Education" will allow participants the opportunity to work in small groups on course revisions and curriculum issues. Disccusions about the broader efforts to develop multicultural curriculum in colleges and universities, including general education issues, will also be addressed with scholars such as Maxine Baca Zinn, Kenneth Goings, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Lesley Ferris, Robert Frankle, Allison Graham, Gayle Pemberton, Mildred Griggs, Lynn Weber and Elizabeth Higginbotham. The registration fee is $325 before April 1, 1994 afterwards it is $350. For an application and additional information, write to the Center for Research on Women, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN 38152 or call (901) 678-2770. (Fax requests can be sent to (901) 678-3652.) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 11:39:26 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ruth parlin Subject: Discussion groups erratum For those of you trying to get the Arno Wouter document using by ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 11:45:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: ruth parlin Subject: Discussion groups erratum Sorry for sending the message I intended to delete. For those of you trying to get Arno Wouter's document using the instructions in yesterday's message, the actual email address is listserv@ndsuvm1. The message remains the same: GET NEW-LIST WOUTERS F=MAIL. Sorry for the incorrect address, and thanks to David Bullwinkle for bringing it to my attention. Yours, Ruth Parlin University of Miami Law School Library rparlin@umiami.ir.miami.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 12:16:27 -0500 Reply-To: korenman@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: WMST-L's focus and other lists Earlier today, Barbara Lantz wrote: > Still, I am left wondering if there is in fact a list > where women are discussing issues of our place in the legal system, and > society in general, when families become places of danger and oppression to > ourselves and our children. I'd like to call people's attention to the file OTHER LISTS (retrievable by sending the command GET OTHER LISTS to LISTSERV@UMDD or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU): it is a frequently-updated compilation of other gender-related e-mail lists. Among them are at least two that might meet Barbara's description: >WOMEN describes itself as a "general purpose list, intended to be a >connection between all women's groups and areas of interest for women and >their friends." To subscribe, write MAJORDOMO@WORLD.STD.COM (Internet) >FEMJUR is a feminist jurisprudence list. It describes itself as "a >forum for discussing theories and issues regarding feminism and women and >law." Send subscription messages to LISTSERV@SUVM (Bitnet) or >LISTSERV@SUVM.SYR.EDU (Internet). I'd also like to remind everyone that WMST-L is NOT an appropriate place to discuss child abduction and other gender-related societal problems, no matter how deeply we care about them. As anyone concerned with Women's Studies knows, millions of women around the world experience deplorable, heart-wrenching situations. If WMST-L were to expand its focus to include messages about all the problems afflicting women, we would have hundreds if not thousands of messages per day. Most of us, unable to deal with that kind of mail volume, would sign off, and rather than expanding its focus WMST-L would simply cease to function except for a small core of privileged e-mail addicts who have unlimited time, unlimited disk space, and/or unlimited funds. No list can be all things to all people. WMST-L is NOT an all-purpose Women's Studies list; it has one specific, explicitly-stated focus: Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration. Even with that rather narrow focus, the list's heavy mail volume poses a problem for some subscribers. Thus, WMST-L's focus cannot and will not be expanded. If anyone else wishes to reply to Stephanie or others about this issue, please do so PRIVATELY, not via WMST-L. And if you find that WMST-L's narrow focus does not correspond to your interests, you can unsubscribe by sending the message UNSUB WMST-L to LISTSERV@UMDD (if you subscribed via Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (if you subscribed via the Internet). If one address doesn't work, try the other. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 12:34:42 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Paula Gaber Subject: inforM update: glass ceiling report The following file has been added to the inforM Online Women's Studies Database: Educational Resources/Women's Studies/Gender Issues/ Glass Ceiling/update on the glass ceiling initiative "Pipelines of Progress: An Update on the Glass Ceiling Initiative," a Department of Labor report from August 1992, is now available on inforM. To access the inforM database, telnet or gopher to INFORM.UMD.EDU. (If you do not know how to telnet or gopher, contact a local computer wizard, or try typing "telnet inform.umd.edu" or "gopher 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 18. Women's Studies The Gopher interface has a feature that allows users to send files to their e-mail accounts. After selecting a file, press "m". The system will then prompt you for your email address. 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 "inforM" directory by typing "cd inforM". 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 "inforM/Educational_Resources/WomensStudies". Your local Gopher System may be set up to automatically link to the Women's Studies Database. Check the "Other Systems" or "Other Gophers" directory or ask your system administrator for help. Even if you do not have real Internet access, it is still possible to get files from inforM. If you are interested in this option, please email me and I will forward a file written by Mark Whitis that explains how to do this. 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: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 12:04:25 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Kristine Thompson Concordia College Subject: Re: request for information I have searched the net for anything related to adoption and have not found one list. I too would be interested in this information. Specifically, I am interested in finding out more about inter-cultural adoption. Kris Thompson Concordia College Kthompson@vax.cord.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 13:45:24 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: "Judith F. Clark" Subject: Re: child abduction Just a correction to my last posting: the second organization that I mentioned is "Child Keyppers' International" in Lake Worth, FL, 1-800-448-7676. judith f clark@dartmouth.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 14:43:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Sharon Russell Subject: gender/equity issues I am doing a presentation on gender/equity salary issues next week. I would like to know how these issues are handled on your campuses. Reply privately to: cmrusse@ruby.indstate.edu Thank you, Sharon Russell ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 14:40:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: 2 CFP, 1 job The following three announcements may be of interest to WMST-L readers: 1) CFP - Culture/Sex/Economies Conference (Australia) 2) CFP - Lesbian Theory, Lesbian Writing (book) 3) Job: Visiting Asst. Prof. of W.S. (U. of New Mexico) For more information, please contact the people named in the announcements, not WMST-L or me. Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu) ************************************************ 1) Culture/Sex/Economies Conference Melbourne, Australia, 16-18 December, 1994, Australian Feminist Law Foundation Inc, and Women's Studies Program, La Trobe University. An interdisciplinary conference on the cultural forms of producing economic order, value and sexed identities. Papers are invited on the connections between sexuality, the cultural practices of constituting economic actors, and the representations of value in economic texts. Themes will include images of embodiment in legal and economic writing, pictures of economy in popular culture, postcoloniality and economy, writing histories of legal fictions, metaphorical writing in legal and economic texts, historiographies of law, genealogies of economic knowledges. Researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit offers of papers and abstracts (300 words) before June 30, 1994. Convenor: Judith Grbich, Women's Studies Program, School of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, 3083. Telephone (03) 479 2689, Fax (03) 479 1607, Email legjeg@lube.latrobe.edu.au. Inquiries: Conference secretary Ms Glenis Massey, telephone (03) 479 2284. ***************************************************** 2) call for abstracts "lesbian:theory, lesbian:writing - new directions in lesbian scholarship on autobiography, life-writing and personalist discourse" edited by michelle reynolds centre for the study of theory and criticism the university of western ontario a book of lesbian autobiographical writing, theory and criticism. this collection will contain essays by and about lesbian life-writers who use personal experience as a frame for doing identity- & theory-work. papers that discuss creative approaches to women's theorizing & writing (in the traditions of, for example, elizabeth meese, nicole brossard, jane tompkins, audre lorde, daphne marlatt, alice parker, gloria andzaldua, barbra goddard, bell hooks etc.), employing strategies of the self (fictional selfhood, strategic provisionality, fiction/theory, writing the body, etc.) to disrupt ideas of traditional autobiography, literary criticism and theory are welcome. as well, critical work reviewing lesbian life-writings is welcome. send complete papers, or one page abstracts to describe the theoretical perspectives you will use, the writers you are interested in, the kinds of conclusions you will make, and your investments in lesbian autobiography, lesbian:writing and lesbian:theory. please address all correspondence to: ---------------------------- michelle reynolds centre for the study of theory and criticism university college london, ontario canada n6a 3k7 ----------------------------- tel:(519) 433-5673 fax:(519) 433-3421 email:reynolds@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca deadline: july 30, 1994. ******************************************************* 3) Women Studies: The University of New Mexico Women Studies Program invites applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Women Studies beginning August 15, 1994. Minimum requirements: Ph.D. or equivalent; a record of teaching experience; evidence of a commitment to multiculturalism; a record of feminist scholarly work. Preferred qualifications: teaching experience in Women Studies; demonstrated ability to teach Women in Contemporary Society, Race, Class, and the Feminist Movement or Feminist Theory, and a Senior Seminar; a research agenda which includes research on women of color; knowledge of the Southwest; demonstrated ability to develop a large introductory Women Studies Course. A completed application should include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, syllabi and teaching evaluations, samples of scholarly work and at least three letters of reference. Applications must be received by April 15, 1994 and addressed to Women Studies Search Committee, Women Studies Program, 2130 Mesa Vista Hall, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1586. The University of New Mexico is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 16, 1994 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 13:06:13 -0700 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Diane Price Herndl Subject: Citation for article on Bennetton In-Reply-To: <199403200506.AAA26065@holmes.umd.edu> Last December I saw an ad for a journal (I think it might be new?) that listed an article on the Bennetton company, I think maybe by Andrew Ross (?). I have, as you might guess from the above, lost the citation and have been pulling my hair out looking for it. If anyone has seen this essay (or another good critical piece on Bennetton ads), I'd be most grateful if you'd send me the citation PRIVATELY. Thanks in advance, Diane Price Herndl NMSU dpherndl@nmsu.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 14:20:14 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Pat Murphy Subject: chilly climate for students I have a couple students who want to do a mini study of the chilly climate on our campus. DOes anyone have or know where to find a sample instrument/survey they can use? I've found some for faculty and then some on students in high school. Please respond privately. Pat Murphy Murphy@uno.cc.geneseo.edu THANKS ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 15:43:23 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: judy long Can someone give me a complete citation for Jeffrey hearn's work on professiona lization and masculinity? I can't find him in our ibrary and don't readily hav e Books in Print at hand. thanx. --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: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 14:09:33 -0700 Reply-To: FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu Sender: Women's Studies List From: Francine Twine Subject: Re: Workshop on Race, Gender, Class Curriculum Hi Lynet. I don't know if you remember me. I am Gloria's friend, Francine. I met you right before you left to take your new position at Memphis. I am finishing my dissertation and deciding between two job offers at this moment. I would really like to participate in your conference. Please send me the information and application materials. I hope to see you in the near future. How is life in Memphis. I just spoke to Gloria Cuadraz last night. Francine Twine FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 17:01:18 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Rosangela Maria Vieira Subject: Race, Gender... Symposium In-Reply-To: <199403212115.QAA06144@holmes.umd.edu> Greetings Lynet: accidentally erased message about your conference--do not have your private e-mail address either; would also like to receive information on you upcoming symposium on Race, Gender... Thank you, Rosangela Maria Vieira, Editor The Journal of Afro-Latin American Studies and Literatures, Jalas&L Department of Modern Languages & Literatures Howard U. -- Internet: rmvieira@cldc.howard.edu On Mon, 21 Mar 1994, Francine Twine wrote: > Hi Lynet. I don't know if you remember me. I am Gloria's friend, Francine. I > met you right before you left to take your new position at Memphis. I am > finishing my dissertation and deciding between two job offers at this moment. > I would really like to participate in your conference. Please send me the > information and application materials. I hope to see you in the near future. > How is life in Memphis. I just spoke to Gloria Cuadraz last night. > Francine Twine > FTWINE@cc.colorado.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 17:14:43 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: d000wgsp@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU Subject: Inquiry on tenure-line appointments in WS] Hi-- I am meeting with some administrators at my school on Wednesday and would like to be able to cite some schools that have made tenure line appointments in women's studies, either joint appointments or in women's studies alone. Please send me the name of your school and the number of appointments in each category. I will post results to the list if people want me to. Thanks! Irene Goldman 00ICGOLDMAN@BSUVC.BSU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 18:21:00 EST Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: LAURA KRAMER Subject: plea for more descriptive subject headings Currntly using a very user unfriendly connection to the net. Makes the lack of a clear subject heading more frustrating than usual. Request for information tells us nothing! The convenience of the reply key keeps those "Re: request for information" headers coming for days afterwards, if it is a popular topic. If the initial posting isn't descriptive, please take the time to key in the wmst-l address and start your own subject header. Thanks from someone who wants to continue subscribing but is getting overwhelmed. kramer@apollo.montclair.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 21:19:00 EDT Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Joan Korenman Subject: "Women in Literature" syllabus added Thanks to Karin Herrmann, another syllabus has just been added to the syllabi filelist: WOMEN IN_LIT2 is the syllabus for the multicultural "women in literature" course that Karin plans to teach at the University of Arkansas in the fall. 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 WOMEN IN_LIT2 SYLLABI . To obtain more than one file, put each command on a separate line: GET WOMEN IN_LIT2 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 Karin Herrmann for her Women in Literature syllabus. Joan Korenman Internet: korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu Bitnet: korenman@umbc ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 22:39:21 -0500 Reply-To: Women's Studies List Sender: Women's Studies List From: Arnie Kahn Subject: best comeback line of the semester This has been a great semester in my Psychology of Woemn and Gender class. Today a student asked, "How do you respond when people ask, 'why is there a women's resource center on campus and not a men's resource center?'" Another student replied, "The university library is the men's resource center." Arnie ,,, (o o) +-------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo-------------------------------- | Arnie Kahn fac_askahn@vax1.acs.jmu.edu 703-568-3963 (day) | | Dept.of Psych., James Madison University 434-0225 (night)| | Harrisonburg, VA 22807 568-3322 (fax) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ () ()