MISSION STATEMENT

In th e March NCFR REPORT, President Lynda Henley Walters encouraged NCFR m embers to contact her or another Board member with thoughts about the organization's mission . statement which will be discussed at the Spring ...... ::: :-:-·.·. ·.·.·.·.. ·.· ...... ·. ·.. .· .'. ·. .... ' . ' .' ...... ' . .· .·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.· Board meeting on April 20 and 21. This is an opportunity for members of the Feminism and FROM THE CHAIR... (904) 378-1262 (H). Family Studies Section to express their ideas about what the mission of NCFR should· be. As we "go to press," there's lots of good news and bad The 1991 Program... news for those of us interested in the intersection of gender I've heard a lot of positive comments about the innovations WIUTE OR CALL TODAY and family. 1l1e Court has just struck down the fetal in the program format that have been ins tituted by J\Iexis protection policies that force women to choose between Walker and the Program Committee. Colleagues from other economic security and future fertility and may have forced disciplines report that poster presentations have been their employers to start paying more attention to the safety of both primary format for program participation for years and that NEW BOOKS OF INTEREST female and male workers ... But, the battle for reproductive they feel they get more helpful, in-depth feedback from freedom seems to be heating up (if it can ·get any hotter) in other scholars working in their areas than they got from the Chafetz, Janet Saltzman. (1990). G.i:ruler. the states ... paper-reading format. We look forward to the same kind of Equity: An Integrated Theory of There's a lot of great news to report from the FFS Section, success! Stability and Change. Newbury Park, though. Sheila Riebe (NCFR's Business and Personnel I'm pleased to report that quite a numbct of outstanding CA: Sage. Director) recently released a year- end report of our Section's proposals for poster presentations and symposia were finances that includes information about the proceeds from Gordon, Suzanne. (1991). Prisoners of submitted to our Section for inclusion in the 1991 NCFR Men's Dreams: Striking Our for a New the 1990 Fundraiser. The net receipts approached $3000, program. All of the proposals have been "blind" reviewed by which brings the total amount in our endowment fund to three Section members who volunteered to serve in this Feminine Future. Boston: Little, Brown $8000+. Thus, thanks to the hard work of Rosemary capacity. (Thanks go to Katherine Allen, Elizabeth Bergen, & Company. Blieszner and the members of the Endowment fund Rosemary Blicszner, Kit Chesla, Sue Crohan, Susan Dalton, Hawkesworth, M.E. (1990). Beyond committee, our panel members (Jessie Bernard, Harriet Polly Fassinger, Mike Johnson, Edie Lewis, Mary Morgan, Presser, Helena Lopata, Matilda Riley, and Mirra Michelle Naughton, Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Peggy Quinn, Qp.pression: Feminist Theory and Komarovsky- -whose remarks are reproduced in this Patty Spakes, Unda 1l10mpson, Unda Dcth Tiedje, and Lynn Political Strategy. New York: Newsletter), the NCFR staff, and all of you who contributed Woodhouse for their insightful reviews.) The final decisions Continuum. to the fund, we are more than 80% of the way to our about the 1991 program will be made at the NCFR Board's Hirsh, Marianne & Keller, Evelyn Fox. $10,000 goal. Let's make 1991 the year we go over the top! spring meeting later this month. Authors will be informed of Organize your departments, hit up your book publishers, and the outcome of the review process sh01lly after that meeting. (~990) . Conflicts in Feminism. New reach into your own pockets one more time! When the fund If you would like to be involved in the review process for York: Routledge. reaches $10,000 it will generate enough interest income to the 1992 Program, please respond to our call for volunteers fund our $500 small grant each year. Nielsen, Joyce McCarl. (1990). Feminist at the business meeting in November, or drop me a note ... Research Methods. Boulder, CO: Speaking of awardr... In closing, help us continue the momentum developed by Westview Press. · Please note that the deadline for applications for both of Karen Polonko, Alexis Walker, and all the people who've our Section awards--the 1991 Award for Outstanding been so active in the Section since its beginning. Send your Ranke-Heinemann, Uta. (1990). Eunuchs Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective AND the teaching materials/ideas to Donna Sollie. Sign up for the for the Kingdom of Heaven: Women, 1991 Paper Award for Outstanding Contribution to Feminist mcntoring project by contacting Leigh Leslie. And most Sexuality, and the Catholic Church. Scholarship--has been extended to JUNE 15. Applications important of all--plan to attend the 1991 meeting in Denver New York: Doubleday. should be sent to me at the Department of , in November. - Connie Shehan University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611. More information Department of Sociology Rubin, Lillian. (1990). Erotic Wars: What about these awards is provided in this Newsletter. If you University of Florida Happened to the Sexual Revolution? have any questions, please call me at (904) 392-0261 (0) or Gainesville New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Stacey, Judith. (1990). Brave New Families. New York: Basic Hooke;. COMMENTS by MIRRA KOMAROVSKl' was right. And, indeed, at 22 having received an M.A. Why did I stay? AsscrJ iv~ness, training, whi~h' I r.\ay· fTom Columbia, I accepted the rank of instructor at have needed, in this case would have resulted in an {ED. NOTE: Dr. Mirra Komarovsky had been invited Skidmore College and was promoted to assistant offer to leave. What helped to suppress, perhaps even to participate in the panel discussion, "111e History, professor for the second year. to repress, the sense of unfairness was my otherwise Struggle, and Development of Women in Academe and I left Skidmore after two years to retum to graduate satisfying life. I loved teaching (! still teach), and was . . Feminist Research," for the Jessie Bernard studies at Columbia. There was not a single woman on happily married to a businessman who wouldn't leave Endowment Fund at the NCFR meeting last November. the Barnard faculty in sociology and certainly not at New York -- but then neither would I. I will tell you Unfortunately, an eye problem prevented her from Columbia. All my professors were men -- Ogburn, presently the hidden price of this seeming adjustment. attending the conference. Dr. Komarovsky has Maclver, Hankins and others. But first another vignette of sex discrimination. graciously agreed to share with our readers the speech she had prepared for the panel. We congratulate Dr. Now my second vignette. Between 1931-1935, I held A meeting of the Columbia Graduate Sociology Komarovsky, recipient of the 1991 "Career of several research jobs. Maciver, who chaired the Department-- Some 8 men and I, one woman, Distinguished Scholarship Award" from the American Barnard Sociology Department, knew me as a student, representing Barnard-- Sociologica I Association. j Ph.D. candidate at Columbia. In 1935, there was an Merton reported on applicants for admission to the opening for an instructorsh ip at Barnard. Instead of graduate department. He mentions quite casually that It is a pleasure to join colleagues on this panel. Our offering it to me, he divided the job. I was to teach a too many of the women applicants had high college stories will reveal both common experiences of our course on the family, a subject that at the time did not records. In order to have a desirable number of men, cohort of women sociologists, as well, I am sure, as interest me, whereas the male graduate student was men with ~ scores had been given preference. variations caused by different social and personality asked to teach two courses, on social stratification and A pause. My presence is an embarrassment. The men factors. Sociology is a very complex enterprise. on theory -- specialties that did interest me. Much look at me. With, alas, unusual for me sarcasm, I say, In order to deal with the cogent questions outlined by later Maciver explained that the man, unlike me, was "I suppose it depends on how far down the barrel you Karen Polonko within the limited time, I shall more likely, he thought, to remain in the profession. had to scrape to get your desired number of men." intersperse my narrative now and then with brief On my score he proved to be wrong. Merton doesn't like this. "Undergraduate women vignettes. Maciver's male candidate left Barnard for a better study more conscientiously than men and may get position and eventually I became a full-time instructor. better grades, but men are more creative and we can First a few words about my origins. My family In fact, I remained an instructor for five years after I expect more of them in the long run." arrived in the USA from , in 1922. I received my doctorate and published two books, I said that a hidden price must have been paid for was 17 years old and in the Spring of 1922 received favorably reviewed. This lack of promotion was not, my high school diploma from Wichita, Kansas and was this adjustment. It was difficult, for me at least, to however, caused by sex discrimination but by the maintain self-confidence and creativity when neither graduated from Barnard in 1926. conviction of Dean Gildersleeve of Barnard and the institution nor one's colleagues took me seriously. TI1e obstacles encountered by me as a woman are President Butler of Columbia that anyone whose name At a deeper level my confidence was eroding. complicated by the fact that my status-set involved was Komarovsky would somehow pollute the two other components unwelcome in the academy. Protestant ambiance of the faculty. How did I get out of the doldmms? I'll point to some internal and external factors. Now comes my first vignette. My undergraduate In the early 1940s the problems I had experienced as adviser was William F. Ogburn with whom I worked a very prim, intellectual undergraduate and later as a closely as a student and a research assistant. In my professional women, began pressing on my · senior year he suddenly asked me a puzzling question, consciousness with such force that I needed not merely "What do you plan to do after graduation?" "Teach to express but to conceptualize them and to fashion College Sociology, of course," I answered, amazed some middle range theory. that despite our work together my professional The external factor in my redemption was the arrival . commitment would be in question. "Not a realistic of Millicent Mcintosh as President of . option, " my mentor replied. "You are a woman, Her confidence in me led to my appointment in 1948 Jewish, and an immigrant." I was hm1 more by his as chair of the Barnard Sociology Department. Gladys seemingly calm blow to my life plan (I found out later Meyer, Bemard Barber, Renee Fox, and Roberta that I was mistaken in that) than by any fear that he Simmons all taught in the Department. The last two woul d have ccrta i ni )~ received tenure hat! they not been research specifically oriented to new hypotheses...... lured by offers from graduate schools. "Yes," states th e underlying new message: BOOK REVIEW "Personality is shaped by early socialization, but let us I don't want to give the impression that decades of not succumb to the doctrine of rigid determinism. It is Women, Feminism and Family Therapy (guest research on women would have followed merely time to recognize the potential for change as people edited by Lois Bravetman, Journal of Psychotherapy because I began to feel some appreciative resonance, move through life and encounter new oppm1unities and and the Family, 3.( 4), The Haworth Press, New York, not only in revi ews of my art icles and books, but m new rewards. This is especially applicable to women at Winter, 1987) looks at whether or not there is gender invitations to address academic and wider public a time of such rapid transformation in conditions and bias in family therapy models and asks whether family audiences -- Mrs. Roosevelt 's TV "Prospects of val~es affecting their lives." No doubt, there is an systems and feminist perspectives can co-exist. The Mankind,'' Canadian TV "Conference on Women," ideological component in the rejecti on of a doctrine of goal of this volume is to ex ~ mine family therapy Professional Women's Clubs, and the like. a rigidly-fixed personality. The doctrines of rigidity, concepts from a feminist perspective, to look at how a Now I want to tu m to some theoretical issues. What after all, serve to bolster the discrimination against feminist approach affects the training and supervision bearing does this brief life sketch, as well as the women. Male gatekeepers could all too easily claim of family therapists and to use a "feminist- sensitive substance of my work, have on some current polemics that reforms must await th e emergence at some future perspective" to treatment issues which arc specially in feminist scholarship? time of a generation of women properly socialized to relevant to women (p.S-6). assume new challenges. The first is the issue of determinism, of relative This book is designed to question the basic concepts rigidity of women's personality in a patriarchy. That is, As I look back at my life I believe that blocked upon which traditional family therapy is based and how powerful is socializati on in childhood and youth, opportunities, more accurately, an unsuppm1ive examines such issues as the use of sexist language in as well as, structural and cultural constraints environment, accounted for a loss .of nearly a decade all areas of intellectual inquiry, the invisibility of throughout life to keep women in their traditional of creative work. Different personalities might have women's work in family therapy, and what we should psychological mold? On the other hand, is personality overcome similar obstacles. For me, a beneficent accept as objective, universal and neutral. Among the' malleable? Does the social actor have some power to change in my personal life and the confidence in me considerations that these authors want taken into overcome constraints or at least to change when on the part of the new College President released account are that we need to understand the impact of a inhibiting constraints weaken? whatever latent abilities I possessed. It is a kind of patriarchal system on both men and women, that feedback loop process. The social actor receives a new institutions (such as motherhood and marriage) are Feminist writings until the 1970s stressed the impact challenge from an authoritative agent who shows fraught with sociopolitical impli cations for women and of differential socializati on upon adult personalities of confidence in the actor's ability to meet it. If the actor that we . need to develop a greater understanding of men and women. Whether drawing upon the existing succeeds, self-confidence, aspiration, and ambition women's sexuality, relationships between women, and literature or charting new research, the underlying rise. the importance of the biological effects of the female feminist quest was explicit: "What in socialization of . life cycle (p.8-9). children and adolescents might account for traits that As an aside, the question of malleability vs. rigidity are generally regarded as feminine deficiencies in or consistency of personality surely requires a more The authors of this edited volume are all practicing comparison with men?" complex model of research. The psychoanalysts I am psychotherapists who have worked to integrate feminist sure have di fferent traits in mind when they stress principles with family therapy. The book is divided This preoccupation with differential socialization was consistency. Eventually we shall have better answers as into sections on theoretical issues (is family systems no doubt motivated by the felt need to expose the to which aspects of personality are relat ively more or theory really systematic? enmeshment, fusion or social roots of "feminine deficiencies" and, more less consistent throughout li fe and under what relatedness?), clinical applications (women and familial generally, the mechanisms of maintaining gender conditions. Dut this is a topic for a different abuse, intergenerational aspects of treating women inequality. The polit ical message was clear: "It is not presentation. alcoholics, lesbian mothers and daughters who come in our genes." - November, 1990 out to each other, women and eating disorders, women With the passage of time we note, if not the muting and therapy, and women and rituals), as well as of references to childhood and adolescent socializati on, training and supetvision issues (women as students and at least the emergence of a new theme. Fem.inist ...... supervisors) . writers began to highlight the existing literature that - Marcie Parker confitmed the new theme and also to undert ake Information in this newsletter does not necessarily reflect the viewpoints of the National Council on Family Relations......

3 A REPORT ON: Can ga}' parents parent? National Council on Family Re!J·.tions Feminism and· · Family Studies Section "MISSING VOICES: HOMOSEXUALS AND LESBIANS­ The court s are concerned that adequate attention be pa id to MINUTES THEIR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN" the everyday needs of children such as homework help, Annual Business Meeting - November 12, 1990 by carpooling, medical care, and appropriate fashion guidance. Blakely Room, Westin Hotel; Seattle, WA Pepper Schwartz Do gay parents produce gay children? Attendance: 51 Distinguished Lecture, Feminism and Family Studies Section Gay men arc suspected of potential molestation, although Call to Order gay men are less likely to sexually abuse children than are l11e legitimacy of gay male and lesbian families has long Karen Polonko, Section Chair, called the meeting to order at heterosexual men. Evidence also suggests that heterosexual been included in the legal controversy over homosexual civil 11:35 a.m. families are more likely to produce gay offspring than are rights. After a substantial history of antagonism toward gay gay male or lesbian families. male and lesbian parents, the U.S. courts appear to be Minutes softening on the issue of sexual preference in their recent Will the children of homosexual parents be stigmatized? Rosemary Blieszner, Secretary, read the minutes of the treatment of child custody, adoption, and foster child care 1989 annual business meeting. ll1e minutes were approved In fact, children of gay male and lesbian parents are cases. According to Pepper Schwartz, however, this new as read. surprisingly free of stigma, reflecting the values necessary to leniency is not without its costs. While judges seem to be fit in with their peers. Treasmcr's Report less concerned than previously with the sex of a custodial parent's partner, great consideration is given to insure that Arc there any options for custody within the kin group that Rosemary Dlieszner, Treasurer, presented the third quarter the family unit ultimately sanctified by the court will not would be preferable to the gay family? report. As of 9/30/90, the Section had 307 members. The challenge traditional family values. year-to-date revenue was $4,115.16, including $1,109 from Because bow the court defines a case is significant for its memberships and $3,006. 16 for the Jessie Bernard In her lecture, Schwartz addressed eight concerns of the disposition, Schwartz stressed that this emphasis on Endowment Fund. The year-to-date expenses were $247.46 courts that form the current core litmus test for establishing conventionality effectively silences gay male and lesbian for postage, $1.21 for supplies, $406.88 for travel, $64.90 for the "traditional" viability of a gay male or lesbian family. parents and forces them into a conservatism beyond that annual meeting speakers, $54.81 for computer labels, $11.25 required of heterosexual couples. In short, the current court for long- distance phone calls from the NCFR office, and · Ar..e.Jmmosexual parents healthy compared to heterosexual agenda holds custodial rights for gay parents hostage to the $98.72 for printing, for a total of $885.23. The ending p.aren.ts1 • demands of a dying family ideal. balance for the third quarter is $5,548.30. l11e Treasurer's Judges prefer con.servative lesbians, frequently viewing gay report was approved as presented. - Kay B. Forest, Recorder men as less constant. Committee Reports Are gay people capable of commitment? Endowment. Rosemary Blieszner, Chair, reported that the Too often the court requires a higher standard than most Jessie Bernard Endowment Fund has received contributions couples can provide, given a lack of social means to of approximately $3,500 so far. lhe proceeds of the ticket legitimate gay relationships. Once a commitment is made, ELECTIONS sales for the fundraiser panel discussion and reception however, gay male relationships seem to )a<;t longer than Ballots have been sent out for the tonight will provide some additional funds. l11e fund balance either lesbian or cohabiting heterosexual relationships. election of new officers for NCFR. will not be available until after the reception and speaker travel expenses are paid. The annu al award for the best Do homosexual parents have role constancy? Is there a Biographical sketches of candidates appear proposal will be taken from the Section account until the I2arld.)!1 in the March newsletter. Elections will be endowment reaches $10,000. Mirra Komarovsky was unable held for national orficers, the national Judges seldom warm to ideology that seeks to interrupt to attend the meeting because of a recent eye problem; nominating committee, and the following conventional gender- role behaviors. Gay men are Helena Lopata graciously agreed to join the panel in particularly at risk, appearing too feminine if they claim sections: Family Policy, International, Komarovsky's place. Additional efforts are underway to maternal skills and too masculine if they emphasize only the Religion and Family Life, and Research solicit contributions from publishers of family/ fat her rot e. and Theory. Ballots must be postmarked gender/feminist studies. Section members were encouraged to by May 1, 1991 and returned to NCFR help seek additional contributions and help recruit new Docs the family have opposit e- sex friends who can provide headquarters. This is another opportunity members of the Section. Rosemary thanked the committee adequate gender-role models? for you to innuence the future direction of members: Katherine Allen, Gloria Bird, & th Emery, and Most families can comply. NCFR. Take time to review the platforms Shelley MacDermid. of the candidates ;md VOTE. ~. Polly Fassinger, 01air, reported that the awards for the Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship and

4 Outstanding Research Proposal' from a Feminist Perspecti ve (Chair), Katherine /\lien (Vice Chair), Polly f assinger via letter or bitnet. I will semi you an .application form will be presented at the session later today before Pepper (Sccretary{rrcasurcr), Kristine M. Baber (Newsletter Editor), to be retumed to me with a copy of your curriculum Schwartz presents the Section's Distinguished Lecture. She and Vi cki I ,. Layer-Carlson and Maureen A Perry- Jenkins vitae. Individuals will be paired .for one year on the thanked committee members, Colleen Murray, Mari e (Student/New Professional Representatives). basis of area(s) of interest and degree of assistance Osmond, Maureen Perry-Jenkins, and Alexis Walker. Connie Shehan invited comments and suggestions from requested and offered. A letter of introduction that Teaching. Dorothy Cali Dalancio, committee member, Section members, encouraged them to recruit new members, specifies the expected level of help requested and/or reported for Donna Sollie, Chair. 111e committee has and requested a~sistancc with reviewing conference offered, whichever is lower, will be sent to each received about 20 syllabi for courses from a feminist presentation proposals and presiding at conference sessions. member of a mentor pair. perspective and a number of other contributions such as 1991 Program annotated bibliographies and suggestions for course projects. While .mentors volunteer their services, individuals The Section members discussed concerns of some members Alexis Walker described the process of developing the who seek mentoring are asked to pay $10 (if income is who hesitated to submit their materials. It was decided to conference program format, sununarizcd evaluations of $20,000/yr. or less) or $20 (if income is over in.clude a call for a variety of course materials in the Section previous conferences, and stated two goals for the 1991 $20,000/yr.). This money will be contributed to the conference: for presenters and attendees to interact with each Newsletter, with a return sheet to facilitate quick and easy Section's Award Endowment Fund. In this way, responses. other (to be accompli~hcd via poster sessions) and for attendees to learn from each other (to be accomplished via program participants contribute to the Section and to Mentoriog. Alexis Walker, Chair, reported that the symposia and plenary speakers). Poster sessions will be the development of feminist scholarship. committee has developed questionnaires for those who desire arranged with papers on related topics, regardless of the mentoring and those who wish to provide it, a letter If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at presenter's Section, in the same room. explaining the program, and a list of recommended articles the address or bitnet number below. For your for the newsletter about professional development issues. TI1e meeting was adjourned at 12:35 p.m. convenience I have attached an initial interest form to After these articles arc written, they could be compiled into a - Rosemmy Blieszner, Secretary this page which can be mailed direct! y to me. I will handbook for use by those seeking tenure and promotion. then send you all necessary material. · The questionnaires and letter are ready for use by the new committee. - Leigh Leslie, Chair's Report FFS MENTORING PROGRAM Mentoring Program Coordinator Karen Polonko expressed two concerns about the Section. All necessary groundwork for the Feminism and ...... The first is that she received fewer proposals for conference Family Studies Mentoring Program has been presentations than last year, and, as a result, the Section had completed. Throughout 1990 the Mentoring Committee Mentoring Program Interest Form one fewer session on the program. The second emerges from developed policies, procedures, and materials that Name the first: Section members must strive to keep the would serve as the vehicle for running the program. momentum of feminist approaches growing in NCFR. The time now has come to begin the process of Address Alexis Walker, NCFR Program Vice President, reminded recruiting and pai ring mentors with individuals desiring the Section of the possibility of planning a preconference a mentor. Let me first, however,. refresh everyone's workshop on feminist issues. memory as to the purpose of this program. Announcement Purpose: Through the Mentoring Program the FFS I'm Interested in: __ serving as a Mentor Section will attempt to bring together professionals Margaret Crosbie-Burnctt reminded the Section that she __ being assigned a Mentor and Katherine Allen arc editing a special issue of Eami.ly. who need advice or assistance in the academic arena Relations on innovative teaching techniques. The deadline and those who have been successful in this system. for papers is March 1, 1991. The immediate goal is to help faculty establish MAIL TO: Leigh Leslie, Mentor Coordinator Officer Transition themselves professionally and be promoted and Dept. of Family & Community Development University of Maryland Karen Polonko thanked the outgoing Section officers: tenured. A broader, long-range goal· is to increase the College Park, MD 20742 Marie Osmond (Vice Chair), Alexis Walker (Past Chair), number of feminist professionals in senior ranks. Rosemary Blieszner (Secretary!freasurer), Katherine Allen Procedure: Any member of the FFS Section is BITNET #: IALESLIE@UMD2 (Newsletter Editor) and Polly Fassinger and Kay D. Forest eligible to participate in the program. Mentors and (Student/New Professional Representatives). She then introduced the new Section officers: Constance Shehan individuals wishing to be mentored need to contact me

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\ \ OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION OUTSTANDING RESEARCH TO FEMINIST I o~ PROPOSAL FROM ~ oo~ I_ SCHOLARSHIP PAPER ... I II I_ A FEMINIST - I II AWARD PERSPECTIVE AWARD ,,, ! c i!Ewom\ IJh¥00@\

The Feminism and Family Studies Section is seeking The Feminism and Family Studies Section is seeking applicants for our second annual "Outstanding Contribution to applicants for our first annual "Outstanding Research Proposal Feminist Scholarship Paper Award." Applications for this non­ from a Feminist Perspective Award." Graduate students and new monetary award are open to all graduate students and new professionals (with up to five years post-doctoral work) are professionals (with up to five years post-doctoral work). Papers encouraged to apply for this $500 award. Proposals will be should demonstrate contribution to feminist scholarship and use of evaluated for their potential contribution to feminist scholarship feminist frameworks and methods. Applicants should be sole and use of feminist frameworks and methods. Applications should author or first author of the published or unpublished paper. To include: a) an abstract of 100 words or less, b) a five page apply, please submit five copies of your paper by June 15 to: (maximum) proposal outlining the project's theoretical foundation, Dr. Constance Sh~han, Department of Sociology, University of research methods, and potential contribution to feminist Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32665. The award will be presented scholarships, and c) a half-page budget. Please send five copies at the ·1991 NCFR meeting. A summary of the paper will be by June 15, 1991 to: Dr. Constance Shehan, Department of published in the Feminism and Family Studies Newsletter. Sociology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32665. The award will be presented at the 1991 NCFR meeting. A summary of the recipient's research results will be published in the Feminism and Family Studies lvewsletter.