From socjacx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu Fri Feb 3 00:20:27 MST 1995 Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 01:56:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Jamie A. Carboy" Subject: International development question To: matfem@csf.colorado.edu Greetings... I am relatively new to the list and would like to introduce myself and ask for some assistance. My name is Jaimie Ann Carboy and I am a graduate student in sociology in Atlanta, Georgia. My current interest focuses on theoretical feminist implications for international development programs... I was hoping folks on the list could send me citations of any relevant texts in this area. I am also attempting to establish contacts within organizations and agencies that engage in international development. I would greatly appreciate any and all comments/advice/critiques of major issues on development and cross-cultural studies as they apply to women. Thanks in advance for your help. Jaimie Ann Carboy socjacx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu From gimenez@csf.Colorado.EDU Fri Feb 3 09:31:01 MST 1995 Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 09:30:58 -0700 (MST) From: Martha Gimenez To: Matfem@csf.Colorado.EDU Subject: New Feminist Magazine (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 16:44:37 -0700 From: Dmglass@aol.com Subject: New Feminist Magazine **************THE WOMAN REBEL**************** THE WOMAN REBEL, a new feminist magazine has just hit the stands in six major cities (San Fran, Minn, New York, Atlanta, Boston, Seattle). The magazine attempts to combine feminist issues with humor, activism, and art. If anyone would like a subscription pamphlet sent to them please e-mail me back with your name and address at : dmglass@aol.com Thank You, Diane Glass editor/publisher The Woman Rebel J.W. McCormack Post Office P.O. Box 2474 Boston, MA. 02208 From jl34@cornell.edu Tue Feb 14 14:56:25 MST 1995 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:01:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jayati Lal" Sender: jl34@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu Reply-To: jl34@cornell.edu To: Subject: Call for Papers, Beijing Conference MATFEM Folks: Appended below is a call for papers for a proposed panel at the upcoming Beijing conference. If anyone is interested, or has questions about the conference/panel, please feel free to contact me. JL. _________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS For a Proposed Panel Sponsored by the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) at the NGO Forum On Women, Beijing, China. August 30-September 8, 1995. (DE)CONSTRUCTING "THIRD WORLD WOMEN": POWER AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN CROSS CULTURAL RESEARCH Recent feminist research and writings, influenced by the postmodernist turn within social science disciplines and literary and cultural criticism, have foregrounded the construction of the third world female subject as essentialized "other"--victimized by society-wide development processes such as those brought about by structural adjustment policies in the public arena on the one hand, and by the micro politics of domestic violence, cultural practices, and patriarchal control in the private arena on the other hand. Fuelled by the gaining popularity of a self-reflexive turn in methodology and an acknowledgement of the authorial power of representation, this work makes important contributions to rethinking the relationships between "researchers" and "researched", between those occupying locations within the "North" and "South", and between "self" and "other". Most critically, this research suggests the urgent necessity for reworking social science discursive constructions of gender in/and the third world to account for the full range of agency and resistance, power and praxis, specificity and variation at local, regional, and global levels that is all too often clustered together under the label "third world woman". This panel will offer a timely and highly visible forum for presenting theoretical and methodological advancements that have been made in recent years, indicating the degree to which various disciplines in the social sciences have built upon the insights of contemporary social and feminist theory. The purpose of the panel is to make visible theoretical and methodological strategies which construct representations of "third world women". These metatheoretical strategies are typically embedded at implicit levels and hence rendered potentially invisible in social science writing. It will also serve as an opportunity to present this research cohesively, much of it previously dispersed across diverse areas of sub-specialization such as development, ecology and the environment, work and occupations, religion, social movements, culture, and sexuality. This international event will thus ensure a global reception and showcasing of heretofore overlooked pathbreaking advances in the area of gender research. Furthermore, this panel will provide a platform for discussions on how such paradigmatic (re)constructions might be further construed outside academic debates--for policy and action at local levels. Particularly welcome are research based papers that address these issues in a wide variety of fields and a broad spectrum of countries and regions. Papers should attempt to push the implications of methodological reworkings for substantive discourse, and should thus address the question(s): How are these methodological strategies deployed in substantive analysis? What are the implications for the critical (RE)constructions of "gender" in the "third world" within your substantive field? How does it problematize extant constructions of theoretical categories such as those of "labor" or "class", "ecology", "social movements", "sexuality", "identities" etc.? Furthermore, how do these substantive issues intersect in deeply important ways--as complexly and problematically interwoven aspects of women's lives? What are the implications of these intersections for theorizing about "third world women" -- all too often unidimensionally conceived as either "workers", "mothers", or "sex objects"? Contributors are further urged to address themselves to the broad audience expected at the Beijing Conference; to actively seek to open up channels of discussion around these issues between academics, activists, policy makers, and practitioners. Submission Note: Persons interested in presenting papers at this panel should contact/submit abstracts to the organizer at the address listed below as soon as possible (preferably before 2/23/95). Please include your full institutional affiliation along with contact information and an extended abstract (450-500 words) that details how the paper will address the issues outlined in the panel description. In addition to two (paper) copies of the abstracts, please also include abstracts on file (as text files or in Wordperfect) on 3.5" IBM diskettes. Panel Organizer: Jayati Lal Department of Sociology 323 Uris Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 PHONE: (607) 657-2607 FAX: (607) 255-8473 EMAIL: JL34@cornell.edu Jayati Lal Department of Sociology 323 Uris Hall Ithaca, New York 14853-7601 email: jl34@cornell.edu Fax: (607) 255-8473 From jbarison@students.wisc.edu Wed Feb 15 15:58:56 MST 1995 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:05:00 +0900 To: matfem@csf.colorado.edu From: jbarison@students.wisc.edu (jeannette barisonzi) Subject: lucy parsons I am searching for information on Lucy Parsons or anything at all on the Working Women's Union that existed in Chicago from 1882-1886 which Parsons organized with Elizabeth Rodgers, Lizzie Swank Holmes, and Elizabeth Morgan. Parsons was a founding member at the IWW Convention in 1905 but there is little record of her continued participation. I would be grateful in anyone has any other information. Please e-mail me directly at jbarison@students.wisc.edu Thanks, Jeannette Barisonzi From DML3@CCDCPC1.EM.CDC.GOV Thu Feb 16 09:29:34 MST 1995 From: "Long, David" To: ecofem , femisa , matfem Subject: Gender education Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 11:22:00 EST Encoding: 13 TEXT content-length: 503 Could anyone please recommend examples of politically correct or at least gender unbiased text books for primary and secondary school students? Are there any publishing houses out there that specialize in this? I am looking for all subjects, but most especially social studies and history... Please send to me (David Long) or my colleague Jaimie Anne Carboy. Thanks in advance and I apologize for cross-postings. David Long dml3@ccdcpc1.em.cdc.gov Jaimie Anne Carboy socjacx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu From jlo@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu Wed Feb 22 12:21:55 MST 1995 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:18:34 EST From: JUDITH LORBER To: SWS-LIST@NCSU.EDU Subject: possible new beijing list From: MX%"beijing95-l@netcom.com" 22-FEB-1995 06:30:01.04 To: JLO CC: Subj: PROPOSAL: alt.women.u-n.conference.beijing95 CORRECTION Return-Path: Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 01:44:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jennifer Gagliardi Subject: PROPOSAL: alt.women.u-n.conference.beijing95 CORRECTION To: gaglaijn@netcom.com Sender: owner-beijing95-l@netcom.com Precedence: list Reply-To: beijing95-l@netcom.com On Wed, 2/22/95, I submitted the following proposal for the creation of a new .alt USENET group: "alt.women.u-n.conference.beijing95 concerning the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 9/95" This group will discuss the upcoming UN Women Conf, Social Summit, all attendant events, travel arrangements, NGOs, etc. This USENET group is a compliment to the fully moderated, women-only mailing list: BEIJIN95-L@netcom.com because although they cover the same topics (with very limited cross-posting), alt.women.u-n.conference.beijing95 is unmoderated & gender-inclusive. If you support the creation of alt.women.u-n.conference.beijing95, please send a message to alt.config. Please forward this post to all feminist/activist mailing lists/'net spaces. If you have any further suggestions, please email me at the address below. thanks! jennifer gagliardi gagliajn@netcom.com moderator BEIJING95-L _________________________________________________________________________ Judith Lorber Sociology, CUNY Graduate School 33 West 42 Street, NY, NY 10036 212-642-2416 FAX:212-642-2420 JLO@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU From MFARREN%KSUVM.BITNET@vaxf.Colorado.EDU Wed Feb 22 13:54:28 MST 1995 by VAXF.COLORADO.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #8140) 22 Feb 1995 13:48:49 -0700 (MST) by KSUVM.KSU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with RFC822 id 2798; Wed, Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:32 -0600 (CST) From: toni farren Subject: Re: International development question In-reply-to: Your message of Fri 03 Feb 1995 00:21:12 -0700 To: matfem@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Hey Jaimie, Have you tried Maria Mies and Rosemary Hennesy? Toni From lennox@german.umass.edu Wed Feb 22 22:54:06 MST 1995 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 00:53:42 -0500 (EST) From: Sara Lennox Subject: Essential texts of MATFEM In-reply-to: <01HNCOUY8TXE000MU5@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU> To: matfem@csf.colorado.edu I was very pleased to discover this discussion list existed! I have just subscribed, and now I would like to ask members of MATFEM for their advice and help. I have been asked to contribute to a German volume on contemporary Marxism, and I offered the title "Materialistischer Feminismus und Postmoderne"--Materialist Feminism and Postmodernism. I was thinking I would primarily focus my article on a reading of Rosemary Hennessey's book. But the article would be even more useful for the Germans, I think, if I could talk about the range of positions that could be considered materialist feminist and also provide a sample bibliography of the most important texts. So I'd like very much to hear from you all about what texts it would be most important for me, and for the Germans, to consider. Thanks for your help! Sara Lennox From lthiwil@uwovax.uwo.ca Thu Feb 23 06:34:14 MST 1995 From: "L. THIELEN-WILSON" To: matfem@csf.colorado.edu Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 08:28:44 EDT Subject: Re: Essential texts of MATFEM In-Reply-To: of Sara, you should include FEMALE SEXUALIZATION: A COLLECTIVE WORK OF MEMORY Verso Press, 1983. By Frigga Haug and Others. (It's a blend of marx, foucault, and feminist analysis of the sexualization of bodies and consciousnesses within systemic oppressions.) Haug and Others are German feminist socialist theorists. Haug also has a more recent book out: BEYOND FEMALE MASOCHISM: MEMORY-WORK AND POLITICS, Verso Press, 1992. (But the earlier book is better in my opinion.) Good luck. Leslie Thielen-Wilson. LTHIWIL@uwovax.uwo.ca From goldsrj@mail.auburn.edu Thu Feb 23 09:54:27 MST 1995 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 10:54:01 -0600 (CST) From: "R. J Goldstein" To: matfem@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Essential texts of MATFEM In-Reply-To: content-length: 204 Sara, Another relevant book is Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean, Materialist Feminisms from 1993 (I think Blackwell published it but it may be Routledge). James Goldstein Goldsrj@mallard.duc.auburn.edu From MEYERSON@steffi.uncg.edu Thu Feb 23 15:08:58 MST 1995 id <01HNE9UKPU5S8WXIPR@IRIS.UNCG.EDU>; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:08:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:08:28 -0400 (EDT) From: MEYERSON@steffi.uncg.edu Subject: Re: Essential texts of MATFEM To: matfem@csf.colorado.edu Organization: University of NC at Greensboro I can think of a few: Mies (already mentioned), Barbara foley, Lynne Vogel, nancy Hartsock, Beth Mintz, M. Gimenez,Teresa Ebert, Jennifer Cotter (grad stueent at syracuse), iris Young? (not sure, what do we even mean--i assume roe ofcap. accumulation and international gendered div. of labor must be prominent); various "women in the global factory" type books. I mysef would love to see some biblio on this. Alan Gilbert? (pol. science); Deborah Massey? That's all I can think of. From MFARREN%KSUVM.BITNET@vaxf.Colorado.EDU Mon Feb 27 14:51:02 MST 1995 by VAXF.COLORADO.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #8140) 27 Feb 1995 14:47:58 -0700 (MST) by KSUVM.KSU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with RFC822 id 8535; Mon, Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:22 -0600 (CST) From: toni farren Subject: Re: Essential texts of MATFEM In-reply-to: Your message of Wed 22 Feb 1995 22:56:56 -0700 To: matfem@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Dear Sarah, Try Veronica Beechey, Unequal Work 1987. Toni From INGRAHAM@ALBNYVMS.BITNET Mon Feb 27 15:25:55 MST 1995 From: INGRAHAM@ALBNYVMS.BITNET id <01HNJVJRT4FK8X1KX4@albnyvms.BITNET>; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 17:20:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 17:20:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Essential texts of MATFEM To: matfem@csf.colorado.EDU Rosemary Hennessy and I are currently putting together a book on materialist feminism titled Materialist Feminism: A Reader to be published sometime next year. It will include archival works as well as new articles and an extensive bibliography. It's gratifying to hear that there's an interest/need for such a reader. Of course, we're very interested to see if there are any materialist feminist works we may have overlooked. We'll keep you posted about the progress. Chrys Ingraham Russell Sage College Ingraham@albnyvms or Ingrac@hopper.sage.edu From RNBBC%CUNYVM.BITNET@vaxf.Colorado.EDU Mon Feb 27 16:55:24 MST 1995 by VAXF.COLORADO.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #8140) 27 Feb 1995 16:52:24 -0700 (MST) by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with RFC822 id 8274; Mon, Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 18:53:02 -0500 (EST) From: Renate Subject: Re: Essential texts of MATFEM In-reply-to: Message of Mon, 27 Feb 1995 15:28:16 -0700 from To: matfem@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Sounds fascinating! What authors do you have so far? query from Renate Bridenthal: RNBBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU. From CYSU@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA Tue Feb 28 09:36:40 MST 1995 by VAXF.COLORADO.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #8140) 28 Feb 1995 09:33:37 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:35:14 -0500 (EST) From: Rebecca Subject: RE: Essential Texts To: matfem@csf.colorado.edu Hello, Speaking of essential texts, I'm wondering what the general consensus is on the _South Atlantic Quarterly_ Fall 1994 issue on Materialist Feminism. Like most journals, there's some really interesting stuff but I've never really thought of Zizek or Foucault as materialists. I also don't think white chocolate is really chocolate but, heh, that's me :-) Rebecca Sullivan I don't really fight social injustice when bellbottoms and chokers are involved. A gal's judged by the company she keeps Very Vicky From gimenez@csf.Colorado.EDU Tue Feb 28 17:23:53 MST 1995 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 17:23:47 -0700 (MST) From: Martha Gimenez To: matfem@csf.Colorado.EDU, Sara Lennox Subject: Re: Essential texts of MATFEM In-Reply-To: Sara, You might find useful my article "The Mode of Reproduction in Transition: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Effects of Reproductive Technologies" (Gender & Society, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 1991, pp. 334-350), and my chapter "The Production of Gender Divisions" in Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg, and Carole Biewener, eds., MARXISM IN THE POSTMODERN AGE. Confronting the New World Order. Guilford Press, 1995. I hesitated before making these suggestions for obvious reasons. You decide if they are "essential." :-) I think I speak for all of us in MATFEM: we would like to see your article; could you share a first draft with us? cordially, Martha E. Gimenez ______________________________ On Wed, 22 Feb 1995, Sara Lennox wrote: > I was very pleased to discover this discussion list existed! I have just > subscribed, and now I would like to ask members of MATFEM for their > advice and help. I have been asked to contribute to a German volume on > contemporary Marxism, and I offered the title "Materialistischer > Feminismus und Postmoderne"--Materialist Feminism and Postmodernism. I > was thinking I would primarily focus my article on a reading of Rosemary > Hennessey's book. But the article would be even more useful for the > Germans, I think, if I could talk about the range of positions that could > be considered materialist feminist and also provide a sample > bibliography of the most important texts. So I'd like very much to hear > from you all about what texts it would be most important for me, and for > the Germans, to consider. Thanks for your help! Sara Lennox >