From hennessy@cnsvax.albany.edu Wed Apr 1 09:01:34 1998 From: hennessy@cnsvax.albany.edu To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:02:02 -0500 Subject: Re: new journal In-reply-to: Dear David, I just sent a messge to you via your cultural logic address and now see that you have another address, so let me reiterate what I said there in case you don't get that message: I am sorry it has taken me all these weeks to get back to you on your invitation to join the board. I really have had quite a hassle with my computer and getting on the web. I have had a chance to check the journal and it clearly is putting forward critical ideas that I endorse and that have so little venue now. I would be pleased to be a board member, and will consider sending my writing or writing a review and will encourage students to do the same. Let me know if the offer still holds and what you expect from board members. Best, Rosemary From emerald@lark.cc.ukans.edu Wed Apr 1 09:45:56 1998 id KAA0000004021; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:45:48 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:45:48 -0600 (CST) To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu From: "David N. Smith" Subject: Re: new journal Dear Rosemary Hennessy, You must have confused me for another David Smith, since (though I am a MatFem subscriber) I don't have a cultural logic address or any knowledge of the journal you mention. Good luck in finding the right Smith; as you know, there are quite a few of us. All the best, David Smith >Dear David, > >I just sent a messge to you via your cultural logic address and now >see that you have another address, so let me reiterate what I said >there in case you don't get that message: I am sorry it has taken me >all these weeks to get back to you on your invitation to join the >board. I really have had quite a hassle with my computer and getting >on the web. I have had a chance to check the journal and it clearly >is putting forward critical ideas that I endorse and that have so >little venue now. I would be pleased to be a board member, and will >consider sending my writing or writing a review and will encourage >students to do the same. Let me know if the offer still holds and >what you expect from board members. > >Best, > >Rosemary David N. Smith emerald@lark.cc.ukans.edu Associate Professor voice mail (785) 864-9412 Department of Sociology University of Kansas Lawrence KS 66045 From dasiar@brigadoon.com Wed Apr 1 10:31:08 1998 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:29:00 -0800 (PST) To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu From: dasiar@brigadoon.com (David Siar) Subject: Re: new journal Dear Rosemary, I'm delighted to hear from you, and I'm very grateful for your support! On your question about your role, Meyerson and I aren't making specific demands of our advisors. Some seem to do very little (though, for all I know, they may be making Herculean efforts to spread the word about the journal) while others--like Teresa, for example--have submitted essays, made suggestions about advertising, sent other writers our way, etc. In the future, I suspect that we'll need to call on some folks to peer-review papers, but we haven't done much of that so far because, for the most part, we've directly solicited essays from people whose work we know and wish to print. If you would be willing to take on the onerous task of reading an occasional unsolicited submission--once in a blue moon, probably--that would be great. And I'm of course excited to hear that you might be able to send us some writing of your own--whether a review or article. Right now, the fall issue is wide open, and we plan to have a special topic--"Marxism and Social Difference"--for the issue that will be out in a year from now. I'll just note that I originally thought about having an editorial collective run the journal, which is the way that RADICAL PHILOSOPHY, for example, operates. The idea still has great appeal for me in that inspiration would come from a number of different people, rather than from one or two main editors. I may float this idea to the advisory group in the near future to see if there's any interest in such an approach. Thanks again, then, and I look forward to our association. If I can answer any other questions that you have, don't hesitate to contact me--by e-mail or phone: (316) 636-2993. Best regards, David From md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu Wed Apr 1 11:04:16 1998 Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 13:04:20 -0500 (EST) From: md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu Subject: new journal To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu Reply-to: md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu hi rosemary, i have found the right david for you. he is "david siar". you are talking about the journal CULTURAL LOGIC they are editing with gregory meyerson. is that right? his e-mail address is: dasiar@brigadoon.com. their addresses are also indicated below.. best, mine doyran phd candidate dept of pol scie Suny/Albany david wrote: >Dear MatFem, >Gregory Meyerson and I edit CULTURAL LOGIC, a new, biannual on-line >journal >devoted to Marxist theory and practice. Our first issue is now up and >running on Carnegie Mellon U.'s English Server >(http://eserver.org/clogic), >and contains articles by a number of well-known writers, including Neil >Larsen, Teresa Ebert, Carol Stabile, and MatFem's own Martha Gimenez. I >want to take this opportunity to encourage MatFem members to submit >essays >and reviews to the journal, which is interdisciplinary and which offers a >forum for a wide range of positions within the materialist spectrum. >Our second issue has a special topic--"Post-Marxist Aporias"--and will >feature articles by Barbara Foley, Warren Montag, Kenneth Surin, and, we >hope, a review with Ted Allen. We are still accepting articles for this >issue, and the deadline for submissions is April 15. (Reviews need not >relate to the topic.) At this time, no special topic is slated for the >Fall '98 issue, so all subjects are welcome. >Submissions may be sent as attached files to: clogic@eserver.org >or they may be sent on disk (Mac or Pc) to: David Siar 7607 Magill Wichita, KS 67206 >Thanks for your attention, and best wishes to all. >Sincerely, >David Siar From njh1@cornell.edu Wed Apr 1 12:18:25 1998 Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 14:21:58 -0500 To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu From: "Nancy J. Hirschmann" Subject: Re: new journal In-Reply-To: Perhaps you are intending to do this, but assuming that you are not, you should know that you guys are broadcasting your private correspondence to the entire Mat-fem list-serv. Please be sure that the INDIVIDUAL's email address is in your "To" box. At 09:29 AM 4/1/98 -0800, you wrote: >Dear Rosemary, > >I'm delighted to hear from you, and I'm very grateful for your support! > >On your question about your role, Meyerson and I aren't making specific >demands of our advisors. Some seem to do very little (though, for all I >know, they may be making Herculean efforts to spread the word about the >journal) while others--like Teresa, for example--have submitted essays, >made suggestions about advertising, sent other writers our way, etc. In >the future, I suspect that we'll need to call on some folks to peer-review >papers, but we haven't done much of that so far because, for the most part, >we've directly solicited essays from people whose work we know and wish to >print. If you would be willing to take on the onerous task of reading an >occasional unsolicited submission--once in a blue moon, probably--that >would be great. And I'm of course excited to hear that you might be able >to send us some writing of your own--whether a review or article. Right >now, the fall issue is wide open, and we plan to have a special >topic--"Marxism and Social Difference"--for the issue that will be out in a >year from now. > >I'll just note that I originally thought about having an editorial >collective run the journal, which is the way that RADICAL PHILOSOPHY, for >example, operates. The idea still has great appeal for me in that >inspiration would come from a number of different people, rather than from >one or two main editors. I may float this idea to the advisory group in >the near future to see if there's any interest in such an approach. > >Thanks again, then, and I look forward to our association. If I can answer >any other questions that you have, don't hesitate to contact me--by e-mail >or phone: (316) 636-2993. > >Best regards, > >David > > > From hennessy@cnsvax.albany.edu Thu Apr 2 17:06:57 1998 Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 19:05:24 -0500 (EST) From: hennessy@cnsvax.albany.edu Subject: Re: new journal In-reply-to: <3.0.2.32.19980401142158.006d6c44@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu> To: MATERIALIST FEMINISM Mat Fem Readers, Sorry about subjecting you to my technological mistake! Rosemary From dasiar@brigadoon.com Fri Apr 3 14:57:19 1998 Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 13:55:22 -0800 (PST) To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu From: dasiar@brigadoon.com (David Siar) Subject: book/film reviews Dear MatFem, Remember the movie "Mars Needs Women"? Well, CULTURAL LOGIC (http://eserver.org/clogic) needs (materialist) women to submit book or film reviews for its next issue, which will go on line in early May. CULTURAL LOGIC is not a grade-C movie, but a top-notch interdisciplinary electronic journal of Marxist theory and practice which in vol. 1, no. 2 will feature essays by Barbara Foley, Neil Larsen, Warren Montag, Kenneth Surin, Amrohini Sayhay, and others, along with an interview with Theordore Allen, author of THE INVENTION OF THE WHITE RACE (Verso, 1994). Submissions may be emailed as unformatted text or as attachments to: clogic@eserver.org In solidarity, David Siar and Gregory Meyerson Editors, CULTURAL LOGIC From Mary-Jo_POVISIL@umail.umd.edu Tue Apr 7 15:24:51 1998 feminist-theology@mailbase.ac.uk, social-class@uic.edu, t-amlit@list.cren.net, femecon-l@bucknell.edu, h-women@h-net.msu.edu, swip-l@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu, Mary-Jo POVISIL , mujer-l@lmrinet.ucsb.edu, h-state@h-net.msu.edu, wmst-l@umdd.umd.edu, f-email@mailbase.ac.uk, whirl@psuvm.psu.edu, femped-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, wise-l@listserv.funet.fi, educom-w@cmsuvmb.umd.edu, femisa@@csf.colorado.edu Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 15:11:21 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Mary-Jo Povisil Subject: Graduate Student Prize To: mp57@umail.umd.edu Reply-To: mp57@umail.umd.edu X-: Priority: NORMAL X-: X-Authentication: none X-: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII ----------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------ From: Mary-Jo Povisil Reply-To: mp57@umail.umd.edu To: mp57@umail.umd.edu Subject: Graduate Student Prize Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 15:11:21 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Please post the following announcement or forward it any graduate student who may be interested or to any likely list. Help make the Feminist Studies Award a great success for both the journal and graduate student applicants. ANNOUNCEMENT Feminist Studies invites submissions for its Feminist Studies Award which will honor the best essay submitted to the journal by a graduate student. Graduate students researching any aspect of feminist scholarship are encouraged to submit a paper. For twenty-five years, Feminist Studies has embraced the variety and richness of women's studies,and the significance of interdisciplinary scholarship in uncovering the issues that affect women's lives. With this prize, we aim both to encourage and learn from a new generation of feminist scholars. The papers will be judged by our editorial board who will make their announcement in January 1999. The winner will have her essay published in Feminist Studies and will be awarded a prize of $500.00. The submission guidlines are the following: the paper should be a maximum of 10,000 words (including footnotes), that is, a total of 40 double-spaced pages; please send three copies and an abstract. The applicant must identify her or his affiliation by department, school and status and cannot have received her or his terminal degree before May 1998. Please send all materials to FSA, Feminist Studies, c/o the Department of Women's Studies, Woods Hall 2101, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742. The deadline is August 15, 1998. ---------------------- ---------------------- Mary-Jo Povisil mp57@umail.umd.edu ------------ End Forwarded Message ------------- From md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu Fri Apr 24 17:46:22 1998 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 19:47:19 -0400 (EDT) From: md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu Subject: Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, No.1 (fwd) To: MatFem@csf.colorado.edu COALITION AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN Electronic Newsletter No. 1 April 20, 1998 _____________________________________________________ The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) is a feminist non-governmental human rights organization dedicated to fighting all forms of sexual exploitation of women and children, especially prostitution and trafficking in women, sex tourism, bride trafficking, military prostitution, and pornography. The Coalition is composed of regional networks and affiliated individuals and groups. We work with national and international policy-makers, women and human rights advocates, and the United Nations to promote the fundamental human right of all women to be free from sexual exploitation. Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Web Site http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw The CATW web site is an online resource center for information on trafficking in women and sexual exploitation. There is information about the philosophy, work, and women of the Coalition. There are publications, reports, fact sheets, statements, resolutions, newsletters and WWW links on prostitution and trafficking in women around the world. One section of the CATW web site is dedicated to survivor testimony; another has information on services available for trafficked and prostituted women. There is information on upcoming conferences and on campaigns against sexual exploitation. Conferences: Organizing Against Sexual Exploitation - Regionally and Globally CATW - Bangladesh is asking people to globally join hands against sexual exploitation in their two conferences in Dhaka in 1998. On June 26-29, 1998 they are hosting a regional conference. Participants will focus on the problems of trafficking in women and sexual exploitation in South Asia and the Asia Pacific. On November 26-29, 1998, CATW-Bangladesh will host a world conference. For more information, see the announcement on the CATW web site at http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw/bangconf.htm Or contact: Sigma Huda, 52, Tejkuni Para, Tejgaon, Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh, Phone: 880-2-9125800, Fax: 880-2-9560210 or E-mail: ild@bdmail.net CATW at the 42nd Session, United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women (March 2-13, 1998) Excerpts from the Statement by CATW: "Whether called trafficking, prostitution, sexual entertainment, or sex work, the commodification of the female body for sex has grown from a local practice to an international business that reaps billions for global entrepreneurs. The contemporary crisis of sexual exploitation has profound implications for the four topics of this meeting - the girl child, women and armed conflict, violence against women, and human rights…. We must shift the moral and criminal responsibility for sexual exploitation from the women and girls who are its victims to the male customers who ensure that the industry thrives." For the full text of the CATW Statement at CSW go to http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw/csw98st.htm During the CSW meetings CATW, the International Council of Women and the National Council of Women sponsored panel presentations entitled "Prostitution: A Human Rights Crisis." and "Sexual Exploitation as Violence Against Women: Exploring the Connections." For a list of speakers and topics see the CATW web page http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw/csw98sp.htm Campaign: Oppose the New Status of Forces Agreement Between the United States and the Philippines. This agreement, already signed, but not ratified, will allow the U.S. military to use most of the important ports of the Philippines for ship visits and military exercises. It will give the US Navy access to 22 cities and towns of the Philippines for "R&R" a euphemism for prostitution and sex businesses, with accompanying child sexual abuse and Amerasian children for which U.S. men won't assume responsibility. It leads to an increased spread of STDs and HIV/AIDS. In addition this agreement puts the Philippines ecology at risk of oil spills, toxic, low-level radioactive leaks into the sea, and pollution or destruction of flora, fauna,and ground water by beach landings and military exercises. For more information on what you can do to oppose the enactment of this agreement see the CATW web page http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw/sofaagr.htm CATW Electronic Newsletter produced by Jenny Wray and Donna M. Hughes, Education and Research Coordinator, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, dhughes@uriacc.uri.edu _________________________________________________________ YOU HAVE PERSMISSION TO RE-POST THIS NEWSLETTER From Mary-Jo_POVISIL@umail.umd.edu Tue Apr 28 20:50:34 1998 femecon-l@bucknell.edu, h-women@h-net.msu.edu, swip-l@cfrvm.cfr.usf.edu, mujer-l@lmrinet.ucsb.edu, h-sawh@h-net.msu.edu, h-state@h-net.msu.edu, matfem@csf.colorado.edu, wmst-l@umdd.umd.edu, f-email@mailbase.ac.uk, whirl@psuvm.psu.edu, femped-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, educom-w@cmsuvmb.cmsu.edu Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:44:05 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Mary-Jo Povisil Subject: FEMINIST STUDIES vol. 24.2 To: mp57@umail.umd.edu Reply-To: mp57@umail.umd.edu X-: Priority: NORMAL X-: X-Authentication: none X-: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII ----------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------ From: Mary-Jo Povisil Reply-To: mp57@umail.umd.edu To: mp57@umail.umd.edu Subject: Re: pr Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:44:05 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) > >The Spring Issue of Feminist Studies is in the mail! > > > Volume 24, number 1 of Feminist Studies includes a >cluster of articles, written by various organizers of the >Committee of 100, examining the need to bring together >feminist scholarship and political activism in the fight >against the repeal of welfare. 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