From Stephanie.Cohen@oberlin.edu Tue Oct 1 14:10:59 1996 From: Stephanie.Cohen@oberlin.edu Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:05:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RESEARCH: WOMEN PASSING AS MEN To: GRANITE@nic.surfnet.nl, H-WOMEN@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU, MATFEM@csf.colorado.edu, WMST-L@umdd.umd.edu, WS238-L@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, GENDER@cios.llc.rpi.edu IN%"MATFEM@csf.colorado.edu", IN%"WMST-L@umdd.umd.edu", IN%"WS238-L@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu", IN%"GENDER@cios.llc.rpi.edu" I am a student in my senior year at Oberlin College. Presently, I am undertaking a year long research project. I am exploring the time period between 1890 and the beginning of the first World War, examining women who passed as men in order to enter the labor force in the United States. Within the context of race, class, gender, and sexuality, I will be paying particular attention to immigration patterns and labor opportunities during this time period. Note: I have cross-posted to the following lists: GRANITE, H-WOMEN, MATFEM, WMST-L, WS238-L, GENDER. An example of the type of story I am looking for is as follows: Mary Johnson, in search of greater job opportunities unavailable to women, passed as a man in the early 1900s. She assumed the alias name Frank Woodhull and in complete male attire, arrived at Ellis Island from Canada on October 4, 1908. Discovered to be a woman, Mary Johnson was detained over night, but immigration authorities released her the next day and allowed her to enter the United States passing as a man. Presently, I do not have any more information on Mary Johnson , the work she pursued or any more details of her life Another example of the type of information that I am investigating is the story of Harry Gorman: According to Jonathon Katz in, Gay American History, Harry Gorman was an employee of the New York Central Railway. Gorman was a ³man-cook² of about forty years of age. It was not until 1903, on account of a broken limb, that Gorman, brought to a hospital in Buffalo, New York, was discovered to be a woman. Prior to her discovery, Gorman had been passing as a man for over twenty years. Especially interesting to the story of Harry Gorman was that at the time, it was reported that about ten other women were passing as men and working for the New York Central Railway, in Buffalo New York. In the article, She Even Chewed Tobacco, it was stated that these women ³...were porters (most likely black women), train agents, Œswitchmen,¹ and cooks.² I would be immensely grateful for any assistance. I am interested in primary sources, names of women, any organization or archive that could be particularly helpful, pictures, book titles, and possibly other people who might be of assistance to me. It is important to note, that any information that you have that is close to but not necessarily within the constraints of the time period I am investigating would also be helpful. Also please contact me if you need me to mail you a self addressed, self-stamped envelope. Given the time constraints associated with this research project, I am prepared to pay for photocopies. Thank you for your time and future assistance. I eagerly await replies. Stephanie Cohen SSC8941@oberlin.edu 270 West Lorain St. Oberlin, Ohio 44074 216-774-6085 From Mary-Jo_POVISIL@umail.umd.edu Thu Oct 10 15:24:45 1996 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 96 15:59 EDT From: Claire_G_MOSES@umail.umd.edu (cm45) Subject: Feminist Studies To: Mary-Jo_POVISIL@umail.umd.edu (mp57) >Announcement from Feminist Studies to graduate students > >Please forward to any graduate student or graduate student list that you >know of! > >Feninist Studies, one of the leading journals of feminist scholarship, is >more than aware of the pennies that graduate students must pinch in order to >get by. 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Call for Papers. Thought some of you might be interested? Please feel free to re-distribute, forward, post, elsewhere. Thanks kindly, Jean Noble The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association Conference Memorial University St. John's, Newfoundland, June 9 & 10, 1997 Invites Papers on Race and Sexuality Because race is such a pervasive signifier in the organizations of societies, few papers could legitimately claim that race is of no concern to that topic. As such, we are seeking proposals which might address some of the following questions/themes: The racialization of sexual/gender identities. The social construction of whiteness. How racial identities are sexualized. The 'whitewashing' and gentrification of the "Queer Nation." How racial and sexual identities are (en)gendered. How racialized sexual identities inflect our efforts to organize for change. The reification of unmarked white queerness. How Eurocentric, white, and anglophone linguistic and cultural traditions affect the theoretical/empirical constructions of race and sexuality? Fragmentary borderlands and the splitting of identities: "gender/race/class/sexuality" - how do the "/" function? How does an analysis of the racialization of sexual identities inflect studies of romantic friendship, two-spirited people, Greco- Roman studies, etc? We especially encourage work by and about transgendered and bisexual identities. All proposals will be vetted and only papers which deal with the intersection of sexualities and race will be accepted. We invite Activists, Community-Workers, Students, and Faculty to submit proposals for presentation at the 1997 Conference. We also welcome both academic and non-academic submissions, including those which are artistic, visual and/or performance-based in a variety of print or visual mediums. Deadline: December 15, 1996 Please send abstracts to: Connie Carter c/o Graduate Programme in Women's Studies N909 Ross York University 4700 Keele Street North York, Ontario M3J 1P3 ccarter@yorku.ca This message was written by Jean Noble . FEMMEDYKES discussion is completely unmoderated. Post: femmedykes@queernet.org Unsub: majordomo@queernet.org: unsubscribe femmedykes