Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 12:55:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Julie Johnson <eamont@chopin.udel.edu> To: publicity list <h-amstudy@uicvm>, h-urban@uicvm, h-women@uicvm, htech-l@sivm, mersenne@mailbase.ac.uk, sci-tech-studies@ucsd.edu, wmst-l@umdd.umd.edu Subject: call for papers CALL FOR PAPERS: "His and Hers: Gender, Technology, and Markets" April 8, 1994 Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society's Spring 1994 conference will explore how gender influences the design, marketing, and use of technology. Both historical and current analyses are welcome. Prospective participants should submit a 1-2 page abstract and a curriculum vitae to: Dr. Julie Johnson Associate Director, CHBTS Hagley Museum and Library P.O. Box 3630 Wilmington DE 19807 Phone: 302-658-2400 Fax: 302-658-0568 DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: OCTOBER 1, 1993 Participants will receive lodging, travel reimbursement, and an honorarium. If you have any questions, please call, or email me at eamont@chopin.udel.edu. Thanks! Julie Johnson ------------------------------------------------------- Sender: Women's Studies List <WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET> From: BARBARA MCCASKILL <BMCCASKI@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Subject: Journal announcement To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L <WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET> Please pass this along to interested colleagues and students. Thanks.: --13th Moon--a biannual feminist literary magazine, invites submissions for a special focus section on current literature of women writers of the Caribbean. Pending funding, this issue will feature poetry, fiction, and drama of women of Caribbean descent writing today. Creative writings in Spanish and French and/or translations of such writings are especially solicited. Send inquiries to bmccaski@uga.bitnet or bmccaski@uga.cc.uga.edu Submissions and inquiries also may be sent to: Professor Barbara McCaskill Department of English Park Hall 343 Athens, GA 30602-6205 Telephone (706) 542-2250 Fax (706) 542-2181 ------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS WOMEN'S WRITING: Proposals or completed essays are invited for an anthology on literature by women writing about physical, emotional and/or sexual assault or abuse. Possible approaches include textual, sociological, psychological, psychoanalytic, historical, aesthetic, biographical, ethnic, or, ideally, interdisciplinary. Suggested topics include creation of safe space (through writing), from silence to voice, encoded texts, post-traumatic stress disorder, female development and sexuality. Authors one might consider would include Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Joy Kogawa, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker, Helena Maria Viramontes, Christa Wolf, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and the Brontes. Articles on writers not considered "professional," for example those included in recent anthologies on women's experiences of sexual abuse, are also appropriate. Send 500-word proposals by December 15 to Julie Tharp, University of Wisconsin Center-Marshfield, 2000 W. Fifth, P.O. Box 150, Marshfield, WI 54449 or to Tomoko Kuribayashi, Dept. of English, 207 Lind Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. ------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dr. Barbara Werner" <werner@PARROT.CREIGHTON.EDU> Subject: OSCLG Comments: To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L <WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET> The Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender will have its annual meeting Oct. 7-10 at Tempe, AZ. For more information contact Carol Valentine in Communication & Women's Studies at Arizona State. Phone (602) 965-8264. She's not on Internet or Bitnet. Barbara Werner Creighton University werner@parrot.creighton.edu I'll also be happy to share any information I have about the organization with you. ------------------------------------------------------- From: West Joan <jwest@UIDAHO.EDU> Subject: conference in Idaho Comments: To: WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list WMST-L <WMST-L@UMDD.BITNET> Someone asked about a women's conference to be held in Idaho--here's what appeared in my local paper last night: it's an international conference to be in Coeur d'Alene (that's in the northern part of the state) Oct. 29-31. It's a conference on empowering women--the fourth gathering of the Achieving Human Rights in the 21st Century group. Tony Stewart, Chair(man). There will be workshops covering topics such as culturally-imposed sexual violence, fundamentalism and violence against women, women in nontraditional occupations, social customs as barriers to economic security, gender bias in school curriculum, religious barriers to women's self-determination, creating a society that values work in the home and the impact of women in politics. Speakers include Riane Eisler, Christina Crawford, Ossie Davis, Arvonne Davis, Ada Deer, Rocio Palacios, Abida Khanum, Anne Firth Murray. The phone number to call is 509-667-5346. I will try to get more information and post it when I do. Joan M. West jwest@uidaho.edu ------------------------------------------------------- [Susan] Greetings! I am the chair of the Member and Chapter Activities Committee for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and of the AIMBE (American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering) Committee on Women in Bioengineering. I am in the process of organizing a session on Women in Bioengineering for the EMBS Annual International Conference which will be held in San Diego on October 28-31. The session will be held for an hour during the lunch break on Saturday, October 30th. Dr Monica Frieze (who holds a national women in engineering chair for Canada and has spent the past four years chairing a national committee to look at barriers and bridges for women in engineering) has offered to make a 20-min presentation on the Canadian situation, including the K-12 education system, universities, the workplace, and associations. I am looking for someone who can do the same type of presentation with data from the U.S. Any suggestions for possible speakers or for sources of funding the travel expenses for the speaker would be greatly appreciated! After the two presentations, the remaining 20 minutes will be used to discuss how we can create networks and continue to exchange information after we return home from the conference. I also plan to present a reworded version of the Baltimore Charter for Women in Astronomy which I picked up from WISENET. Ten years ago, about 1% of the 600 conference participants were women. This year we will probably account for 10% of the 1200 attendees. Women currently make up about 1/3 of the undergraduate population in bioengineering programs so conference participation should continue to rise in the future. I believe that we now have a critical mass for launching programs which could have a positive effect on the future of women in bioengineering. Susan Blanchard, s.blanchard@ieee.org Associate Professor Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering North Carolina State University ------------------------------------------------------- An independent study student, working with me, is interested in learning more about sexual harassment in informal settings, as opposed to more formal institutional settings. That is, she wants to know about harassment at parties, on the street, among casual acquaintances, rather than at work or in the classroom. She seems to think that behavior that would not be tolerated in the more formal settings is "gotten away with" in the less formal. She admits that she has "let go" inappropriate remarks or behavior in the less formal setting, even though the behavior has made her as uncomfortable as it would have at work or school. A colleague has suggested that one or two things on "street harassment" exist and is trying to find the references for us. My student and I are finding material primarily related to the workplace and college classroom. We certainly appreciate any leads you might give us. Lynda ------------------------------------------------------- I am teaching George Eliot's "Middlemarch" in a feminist religious studies class called "Philosophia." I have been having a tremendous amount of fun assembling a handout of quotes and excerpts of feminist responses to Eliot and to "Middlemarch" in particular. Even though the handout is already approaching six pages length (!), I thought I'd canvass the learned members of this list for your personal favorite articles/quotes on the topic. I have the obvious people - Showalter, Heilbrun, Gilbert/Gubar, Beer, etc. What I am looking for are those literary critics who would be known to people whose home discipline is English or Comp Lit. If there is interest, I'd be happy to send the finished work to individuals and/or the list. The handout contains a full bibliography, so it could be useful to others who are pursuing this topic. Please respond to me privately. Jennifer ------------------------------------------------------- I am pursuing a political philosophic study of Audre Lorde's essay "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power" (most accessible source for the essay is Lorde's _Sister Outsider_, Freedom CA: Crossing Press, 1984). Part of my project is to assemble a commentary on the essay, drawing on the myriad ways in which the article has been quoted, cited, honored, etc. I am asking for three kinds of assistance from interested listmembers. 1) If you know of any printed works in which reference is made to this essay (even just a brief passing reference), or you come across such references in your reading, please forward the reference to me. I have already examined many of the major works in African-American, lesbian, and women's Studies, but I will gleefully accept all bibliographic information. 2) If you yourself have found this essay to be important in your understanding of Lorde's thought, or of Black feminist thought, or any other subject, you can send me your personal reflections on the essay. Negative reactions are fine as well, of course. I will give full credit - bibliographic and personal - in any future publication of my work. Send me a brief biography along with your thoughts. 3) If you know of students who have written on this topic, or students/classes for which you might have good discussion notes on this essay, please speak to the students, and let me know if they would be willing to participate by sending materials. I am particularly interested in including voices which have been unpublished and/or marginalized. (Part of the concept with this project is to show how Lorde's confluence of poetry, politics, intuition and discursive thought creates a discussion in which a true diversity of voices can participate.) I insist that the students' be acknowledged, that their participation is fully recognized and legitimated, and that they don't feel pressured or compelled to participate in any way, at any time. This project will be in progress for most of this academic year. I appreciate any help which people offer and give; I am happy to give periodic updates if individuals would like to hear about the project. Please respond to me privately. Jennifer ------------------------------------------------------- A student of mine is doing an internship with me in which she will examine conditions of different workplaces for young women in their first jobs after college. She will prepare a handbook for women on campus about transitions from college to workplace. Any assistance you can give me in steering her in good directions is appreciated. Have there been projects like this on your campus? Can you send me any materials that women students have prepared (or that they receive from, say, career services?) My student will be looking at issues such as sexual harassment in the workplace for young women; health care and child care for women; gender discrimination; mentoring;forming alliances, and so forth. Please respong privately to: Rosemary ------------------------------------------------------- The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics in the Political Science Department at Iowa State University announces the establishment of the Carrie Chapman Catt Research Prize for Women and Politics. These awards will be granted to two scholars who are embarking in significant research in the area of women and politics. The Carrie Chapman Catt Research Prize includes a $1,000 award and travel expenses to Ames, IA where prizes will be awarded in March 1994. Recipients will be asked to present an overview of their research at a university colloquium. Eligibility. Applicants may be scholars at all levels. However, preference may be given to graduate students and junior faculty. Applications. Applications should consist of a curriculum vita and a letter describing the research. This letter should be no longer than 4 pages and should address 1) the type of project undertaken including specific information about the research plan and a timetable for completion of the research; 2) the relationship of this project to previous research in the field of women and politics; 3) the anticipated contribution which this research project will make to the field of women and politics; and 4) a brief biographical sketch focussing on professional interests and experiences relevant to the project. The application deadline is December 1, 1993. Awards will be announced January 31, 1994. For further information, contact Ellen B. Pirro, Interim Director, Carrie Chapman Catt Center, Political Science Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Telephone (515) 294-4584; FAX (515) 294-1003. -------------------------------------------------------