39993 For Your Information Volume 6 Issue 3 January 2001 SUSAN B. ANTHONY INSTITUTE FOR GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER April 20 Research Seminar 2:00-3:30 p.m. Melinda Knight, Simon School 540 Lattimore "What Can a Woman Do? Advice Manuals for Women in Business at the Meetings for Associates End of the Nineteenth Century" January 26 This meeting will be devoted to Other Institute Events 2:00-3:30 p.m. discussion about junior faculty 540 Lattimore mentoring, promotion, and tenure, with January 22 Dissertation Group Meeting the goal of establishing a mentoring 11:30 a.m. Other scheduled dates include system among Associates. All 540 Lattimore January 29, February 5, 12, 19, and 26 Associates are strongly encouraged to February 1 "Religious Studies: Disability and attend this meeting as these are vital 12:30-2:00 p.m. Cultures of Piety" issues for all areas of the university. Gamble Room Nancy Eiesland, Assistant Professor, April 27 Faculty Associate Retreat 361 Rush Rhees Sociology of Religion, Chandler 12:00 p.m. Library School of Theology, Emory University, Location TBA author of The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability Spring 2001 Research Seminars (Abingdon Press, 1994), and co-author of Human Disability and the Service of Seminars will take place on Fridays at 2:00 p.m. in God: Theological Perspectives on Lattimore 540, at the Institute Offices. The room is open Disability (Abingdon Press, 1998). at 1:30 p.m. so that any who are interested can gather before the seminars to talk with one another and to enjoy February 16 Call for Papers deadline for the Eighth some refreshments. Annual Gender & Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference February 9 Research Seminar See Graduate Student Activity on pages 2:00-3:30 p.m. Molly McNulty, Community and 3-4 for more information about this 540 Lattimore Preventive Health conference "Faculty Development and Gender- Based Obstacles: Highlights from a February 20 "AIDS and the Maiden: The Faculty Survey in the University of 1:00-3:00 p.m. Iconography of Death in Safer Sex Rochester School of Medicine and 540 Lattimore Campaigns," Nursing" James Miller, Faculty of Arts Professor, and Director, University of Western February 16 Research Seminar Ontario Research Centre for Gay and 2:00-3:30 p.m. Stephanie Brown Clark, Medical Lesbian Studies 540 Lattimore Humanities "Monsters Inside and Out: Reading the March 30 Eighth Annual Gender & Women's Body in Romantic Medicine and Time TBA Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Literature" Location TBA Conference See Graduate Student Activity on pages March 23 Research Seminar 3-4 for more information about this 2:00-3:30 p.m. Michele Simms-Burton, English conference 540 Lattimore “Women Writers and the Black Arts Movement” 2 For Your Information Co-Sponsored Events Memorial Art Museum," Gallery Gwendolyn Shaw, Assistant Professor, February 1 "Fraying Gauguin's Skirt: Gender, Race 500 University African American Studies and Art 5:00 p.m. and Liminality in the Pacific" Avenue History, Harvard University 506 Morey Margaret Jolly, Gender Relations Sponsored by Art & Art History Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra See Also of Interest on pages 7-8 for other local event Sponsored by the Anthropology listings. Department February 8 Susan B. Anthony Legacy Dinner 6:00 p.m. For more information: 275-8799, or May Room [email protected] Wilson Sponsored by The Anthony Center for The Susan B. Anthony Institute is pleased to offer grants Commons Women's Leadership to faculty associates, graduate students, and undergraduates to support their research in gender and March 1 Eva Feder Kittay, Professor of women’s studies. Proposals may include such items as 12:30-2:00 p.m. Philosophy, State University of New travel to professional conferences (in cases where the Gamble Room York at Stony Brook, author of Love's applicant is on the program), travel for research purposes, 361 Rush Rhees Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and and expenses connected with research and course Library Dependency (Routledge, 1999) development. Check the Institute's website Sponsored by the Warner School for "Frequently Asked Questions" about research grants March 13 "National Museum of the American (www.rochester.edu/college/wst/GRANT/grant.htm). 3:00 p.m. Indian: The Development of an Idea," Announcements are sent to those on the Institute’s 505 Morey Judith Ostrowitz, Adjunct Assistant mailing list before each deadline. Spring semester Professor, History of Art, Yale deadlines are February 7, and April 25. University Sponsored by Art & Art History We welcome information from Majors & March 16 - 17 "Theory and Practice," a Graduate Minors, Graduate Students, Faculty, and Time TBA Conference Alumni for the following sections. Please Location TBA Keynote speaker: Constance Penley, send any information for future FYIs to the Professor and Chair of the Department of Film Studies, University of Institute. California - Santa Barbara Call for papers deadline January 15 www.rochester.edu/College/AAH/news /theory.html Sponsored by the Program in Visual The Women's Studies curriculum director and and Cultural Studies undergraduate advisor is Professor Susan Gustafson ([email protected], 275-3517). March 30-31 "Change the World," Centennial Office hours are as follows or by appointment: Location TBA Celebration of Margaret Mead Monday & Wednesday March 31 Keynote speaker: Nancy Lutkehaus, 1:00 – 1:50 a.m. 7:30 p.m. student of Margaret Mead's, and author 425 Lattimore Hall of Margaret Mead and the Media: The Making of an American Icon Lattimore 540 has space to study, or to meet with others, Call for undergraduate papers deadline and a computer to access your email and word process. January 20 Stop in and check the room schedule. Sponsored by the Anthropology Majors & minors are encouraged to communicate with Department one another on their email newsgroup: April 5 "Funding a Home for Disability Studies [email protected] 12:30-2:00 p.m. in Higher Education," Interested in a Spring 2001 Internship? Gamble Room Lennard J. Davis, Professor of English, 361 Rush Rhees University of Illinois, Chicago A new list of Women's Studies Internships Opportunities Library Sponsored by the Warner School is available. Pick up a copy at the Institute, 538 Lattimore, or email [email protected]. April 8 "The Black Body in the White Box: 3:00 p.m. African American Artists in the Art 3 For Your Information Spring 2001 Courses of Interest Virginia Woolf, bell hooks, Alice Walker, Annie Dillard, WST 100 (CRN 53681) "Introduction to Women's Dorothy Allison, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Studies: Women…What Can We Say?" Andrea Patterson was awarded the Spring 2001 Teaching More information about this course can be found at the Fellowship to teach WST 100, a 2-credit course. This Institute's web site, http://www.rochester.edu/college/wst course uses ethics as a lens to examine the diverse lives of or call the Institute at 275-8318. women. Is there anything all women have in common? Undergraduate Research Colloquium Do all feminists support the same ethical agenda? What should we say about practices in other cultures that Women’s Studies students who complete internships oppress women? Through narratives, autobiographies, and/or independent studies during summer 2000, fall interviews, and essays, the class will explore diverse 2000, or spring 2001 will discuss their work with students perspectives. & faculty at the Women’s Studies Undergraduate Research Colloquium in the spring semester. WST 205 (CRN 61909) Philosophical Foundations of Feminism, taught by Professor Deborah Modrak, is a News About Our Majors and Minors foundation course. This course analyzes the conceptual Brie Blumenreich is studying 18th and 19th Century foundations of beliefs about the nature and behavior of women, examines different types of feminist theory, and British Literature, and Women in Medieval Europe in considers the political and ethical consequences of Bath, England this semester. feminism. Topics to be discussed include: woman as WST 200 Other, sex roles and self determination, liberal, Marxist and radical feminist theories, equal rights and abortion. Students in the fall 2000 Colloquium benefited from the chance to discuss the curriculum and opportunities in WST 237d (CRN 62158) "Reproductive Women's Studies with Professor Susan Gustafson. On Technologies," taught by Professor Lisa Cartwright, November 28 Priscilla Auchincloss directed an fulfills the requirement for foundation course WST exploration of Ecofeminism and Gender in Science, and 204 Feminism in Science and Technology or WST 396 Janet Berlo discussed the genre of memoir as a vehicle for Women's Studies Seminar. This course investigates the the expression of female experience and history. As cultural dynamics of human and animal reproduction, illustration, Professor Berlo read from her own creative taking into consideration pregnancy, birth, birth control, writing as memoir. parenting, population policies, and the new reproductive technologies as they shape and are shaped by women in FYI Listings of Particular Interest to Undergraduates the US and globally. See information about scholarships, fellowships, awards, WST 336 (CRN 54293) "African American Feminist internships, and employment on pages 6-7. Theory," taught by Professor Drema Lipscomb, fulfills the requirement for WST 396 Women's Studies Seminar. In this course, students read and analyze primary texts-- fiction and nonfiction--written by 19th and The Gender & Women's Studies Graduate Certificate early 20th- century African American women, who Advisor is Anne Meredith ([email protected], practiced and promoted feminist principles in their 275-9367). Office hours are as follows or by writings, speeches, art, theories, and social and political appointment: Friday 11:00 – 12:00 PM activism. 434 Rush Rhees Library Cluster: H1WST001 Race and Gender. January 22 Dissertation Group Meeting WST 340 (CRN 64126) "Creative Non-Fiction: 11:30 a.m. Other scheduled dates include Writing Women's Lives," taught by Professor Janet 540 Lattimore January 29, February 5, 12, 19, and 26 Berlo, fulfills the requirement for WST 396 Women's Studies Seminar. More than twenty years ago the poet February 16 Call for Papers deadline for the Eighth Muriel Rukeyser wrote "What would happen if one Annual Gender & Women's Studies woman told the truth about her life? The world would Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference th split open." In this course we shall examine women's lives to be held on March 30 . through the act of non-fiction writing. Focusing on prose Topics may include but are not limited writing (rather than poetry), each student will actively to the following. practice the creative act of telling the truth about her own Gender and . . . Psychology, Popular and other women's lives. We shall also read many diverse Culture, Technology, Politics, examples of women's autobiographical writing and other Literature, Business, Education, non-fiction genres, by such acclaimed practitioners as History, Academia, Pedagogy, Science, Authorship, etc. 4 For Your Information

Submit five hard copies of a one-page preparing for and presenting dissertation elements to abstract to the Institute, 538 Lattimore groups of experts in the field. The process refined and Hall, or send the abstract as an email sharpened her ability to articulate the conceptual and attachment to [email protected] practical parts of her research. She is applying for Questions? Email postdoctoral support to continue her development as a [email protected] behavioral scientist (health service research and sociolinguistics), and invites those with similar interests March 30 Eighth Annual Susan B. Anthony to contact her (637-3404 or [email protected]). Time TBA Institute for Gender & Women's Location TBA Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Presenters include SBAI Dissertation Fellows: Yvonne King ’89 graduated from Columbia University Mara Amster, English Department, with a Master's of Science degree in social work in 1997. "Reading and Writing the Female Body: She is a Ph.D. student in Social Work at the University of Sexuality and Legibility in Early Modern Discourses" Illinois, Chicago. Narin Hassan, English Department, Jocelyn Mazurkiewicz ’00 is working for the Political "Foreign Bodies: Medicine, Gender and Action/Legislation Department at the United Federation Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century of Teachers. Jocelyn is applying to law school. British Culture" Lynn Wemett Nichols, School of Taal McLean ’97 is working in the sales division at Nursing, “Prediction of Adherence of DKNY Shoes in New York City. Taal is also an active Women to Health Care Regimens” member of NOW NYC. Mailing List Grace Pazdan ’00 is a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco. The following is her description of the work she is doing. Graduate students who are on the Institute’s mailing list I am a health and sanitation volunteer, which means that receive information about opportunities and events. If my job is to assess the health concerns of the community you would like to be added to the list, send your and to work with them in addressing their needs. My site coordinates to [email protected]. is Merzouga, located in the southeastern corner of the country in the Sahara desert. Most of the work I am Graduate Certificate in Gender & Women’s Studies involved in thus far is geared toward women in the form The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s of family planning and safe motherhood practices. There Studies offers a formal Graduate Certificate in Gender is no reproductive health care at the health clinic in the and Women’s Studies for students who are enrolled in a village because no female nurses/doctors are on staff and graduate degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) program at the there are cultural taboos restricting women from seeking University of Rochester and for non-matriculated students this care from male staff. In addition to this, I am who complete four or more courses from at least two preparing short health education lessons (i.e. dental University of Rochester graduate programs. hygiene, hand-washing, and nutrition) to present to See requirements at students in the one grade school in the area. Also, this www.cc.rochester.edu:80/college/wst/grad.htm. spring I will be involved in bringing village girls to a The spring semester deadline is March 12. Take Your Daughters to Work conference in the province capital and bringing a craftswoman as well as her work to News About Graduate Students a Craft Fair geared for rural women in Morocco. And, of Charlene Pope presented, on behalf of Department of course I'm catching up on leisurely reading and learning Pediatrics co-authors Dr. Jonathan Klein and Caryn Graff, to crochet. "Dancing Outside the Box: Choosing Multidisciplinary Dana Ross ’00 is working with two year olds at a day care Partners for a Multidimensional Problem in Health Care" center in Rochester. Her goal is to find an editing job in at the Sixth CDC Annual Conference on Maternal and Boston. Child Health (MCH) Epidemiology in Atlanta, Georgia in December 2000. Charlene is finishing a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Brockport in the Department of Nursing. For graduate students, especially those doing research with little precedent, Charlene strongly recommends 5 For Your Information 2000 V.O. Key Award from the Southern Political Science Association and the 2000 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for his 1999 book, Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism. News from Associates Joyce McDonough, Linguistics, is the recipient of a Kamran Ali, Anthropology, is presenting "Responsible or Rockefeller Foundation grant which will enable her to Impotent: Choices for Men in Egypt," at the "Cities and spend part of her leave this spring at the Bellagio Citizenship: Questions of Comparison Conference," Conference Center in Northern Italy. The program organized by the Social Science Research Council announcement can be found at (SSRC) in Beirut, Lebanon from 4th-7th Feb. 2001. His http://www.rockfound.org/grantintro.html#top. manuscript, tentatively titled "New Selves: Planning the Family in Egypt," has been accepted for publication by Janet Wolff, Art & Art History, announces that a panel at the University of Texas Press. It will be published in the the annual College Art Association meetings in February UT Press's Middle East series in the Spring 2002. 2001, Chicago, will be devoted to her 1985 article, "The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Janet Catherine Berlo, Susan B. Anthony Professor of Modernity," and work which has been influenced by it, Gender & Women's Studies, and Art & Art History, gave and which has also taken issue with it. The panel is a talk on “Creative non-fiction as a genre for women’s called: "The Invisible Flâneuse?: Rethinking Women's artistic expression,” in Professor Mary Fox’s th Experience of Public Space in 19 -Century France." An Undergraduate Colloquium in Women’s Studies, interview with Janet Wolff will appear in Modern November 28, 2000. Her book, Spirit Beings and Sun Fidelities: Conversations on Feminism, History, and , was Dancers: Black Hawk’s Vision of the Lakota World Visuality, edited by Martina Pachmanova. The book, recently published by George Braziller Art Books, in New which has interviews with feminist artists, curators and art York. Her memoir, , is forthcoming Quilting Lessons historians, will be published in Czech by One Woman from the University of Nebraska Press in March. Her Press (Prague) this year. Co-publication in English is article, “Artists, Ethnographers, and Historians: Plains under discussion. Indian Graphic Arts in the 19th Century and Beyond” was recently published in the exhibition catalogue Transforming Images: The Art of Silver Horn and His Successors, The Smart Museum, University of Chicago. Young Women: Feminist, Activists, Grrrls, Spring 2001 Janet also gave a talk, “Creativity and Artistic issue, Canadian Women's Studies, Toronto Entrepreneurship in North American Women’s Arts of the [email protected] 19th Century,” in a conference “Re-Imagining Iroquoia: Submissions by January 30 A Cross-Disciplinary Examination of Indigenous Representation and Museum Practice,” Department of Art NWSA Journal, "25 Years of NWSA: Vision, History, SUNY, Buffalo, Oct. 23, 2000. Controversy, Transformation," [email protected] Lisa Cartwright, Susan B. Anthony Institute director; Submissions by February 1 English, Visual and Cultural Studies, and Film Studies, had Practices of Looking (Oxford University Press, 2001) "Civil Society in the Americas," the Fifth Congress of the published this month. The book was co-written with Americas, October 18-20, University of the Americas- Marita Sturken, University of Southern California. Puebla, Mexico www.udlap.mx/congress Stephanie Brown Clark, Medical Humanities, is giving a Submissions by June 1 lecture, "Sex, Scandal and Science: A Brief History of Women in Medicine," at the Rochester Academy of Women in Literature: Evaluating Fiction for Gender Bias Medicine on Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 p.m. See Also seeks contributors to a large-scale reference guide for of Interest on page 7 for more information about this general readers that will examine standard literary texts event. and less well-known titles that offer positive portrayals of women and girls. Ayala Emmett, Anthropology, won the Society for [email protected] Humanistic Anthropology poetry and fiction competition for her short story, "Going to American Under the Camera Obscura seeks substantial review essays which Jacaranda Tree." The story will be published in engage with current "academic" and "popular" debates in Anthropology and Humanism. feminism, culture, and media studies. There is also interest in publishing interviews with feminist Frederick Harris, Political Science; and director, Center practitioners in the mass or alternative culture industries. for the Study of African-American Politics, received the Published in January, May, and September 6 For Your Information http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress [email protected] May 18-20, Pan American Women's Leadership Conference, "Human Rights for Women: A Pan American Dialogue" Women's Pavilion Pan Am 2001, Buffalo, NY www.panamwomen.org June 7-9, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference Connecticut College and Yale University [email protected] June 8-9, "The Status of Women: Facing the Facts, February 9-10, "Women's Studies in Ruins?" Forging the Future" University of Northern Colorado, Greeley Institute for Women's Policy Research Sixth Women's [email protected] Policy Research Conference, Washington D.C. http://www.iwpr.org/ February 23, "Within Our Grasp, Building Community Through Diversity" June 13-17, National Women’s Studies Association SUNY Brockport Conference (716) 395-5917 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis http://nwsa.org/nwsa2001/ February 24, "Perspectives on Women's Studies as a Discipline" July 7-8, "Mothering: Power/Oppression - An Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association Annual International Conference Conference, University of Delaware University of Queensland, Australia http://www.udel.edu/WomensStudies/MAConference.html http://www.yorku.ca/crm/ February 27, "Sexuality and Space: Queering Geographies of Globalization" October 12-14, 2001, "The Ph.D. in Women’s Studies: Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies of the City University Implications and Articulations" of New York and the Sexuality and Space Specialty Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Group of the Association of American Geographers http://www.depts.drew.edu/wmst/ws_phd/CFP.htm [email protected] March 2-3, Conference on Gender and Disability Studies Rutgers University, New Jersey [email protected] March 2-3, "Mothering, Sex and Sexuality" York University, Toronto www.yorku.ca/crm March 15-17, National Conference on Undergraduate Research University of Kentucky, Lexington http://www.NCUR2001.uky.edu/ March 16-18, "Women's Rights are Human Rights" Southeastern Women's Studies Association, Atlantic University, Florida New Voices National Fellowship Program, Academy for www.wsc.fau.edu/sewsa2001 Educational Development, offers leadership and employment opportunities to recent graduates and others March 22-24, Graduate Symposium on Women's and interested in pursuing a career dedicated to social justice, Gender History www.aed.org/newvoices University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Applications must be received by February 1 [email protected] Teaching Fellowship and Women's Studies Program March 30-31, "Gendered Violence: Epistemologies and Dissertation Scholars, University of California, Santa Practices," Graduate student conference Barbara Women's Studies Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 7 For Your Information Jacqueline Bobo, Chair, Women's Studies Program guide to internships and other public policy learning University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 opportunities in Washington D.C. Apply by January 25 (202) 872-1585

Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester Gender Studies/Gender Theory, rank open, University of www.rochester.edu/college/aas/index.html Toledo, Ohio Apply by January 31 [email protected] Top Ten College Women Competition for college juniors, Review begins January 31 Glamour [email protected] Women's Studies Director, tenure track assistant/associate professor, University of Wisconsin-Superior Apply by January 31 http://frontpage.uwsuper.edu/wspage/ Graduate Scholarship Award, Graduate Scholarship in Apply by February 1 Lesbian Studies, Scholarship in Jewish Women's Studies, Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies and Abafazi - Women of Color Caucus Essay Awards, National Women's Studies Association Program, School of Social Science, Sonoma State www.nwsa.org/scholarship.htm University, California www.sonoma.edu/womenstudies Apply by February 1 Apply by February 17 Rockefeller Resident Fellowship, Center for the Study of Jobs in women's studies, National Women's Studies Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia Association, Changing Lives Through Feminist Education [email protected] http://www.nwsa.org/announce.htm Apply by February 15 See Feminist Career Center Job Listings http://www.feminist.org/911/jobs/joblisting.asp

Feminist Majority Foundation, Internships in Feminism and Public Policy, year round opportunities, Washington Other Local Events of Interest D.C. and Los Angeles www.feminist.org/welcome/intern1.html January 16 Stephanie Brown Clark, Medical 6:30 p.m. Humanities, is giving a lecture, "Sex, Feminist Women's Health Center internships, Atlanta 1441 East Ave. Scandal and Science: A Brief History of Georgia Women in Medicine" 1-800-877-6013 Informal gathering 6:00-6:30 p.m., Ms. Editorial Internship, Ms. Marketing Internship, Ms. presentation is followed by dinner Web Internship, New York, NY 275-9781 http://www.msmagazine.com/internship.html January 18 "Citizen Jane: Women, Participatory Check web site for application dates 7:30 p.m. Democracy and Sustainable Webb Auditorium Development in the New Millennium" NOW's internship program, Washington D.C. Rochester Patricia Morris, Deputy Director, http://209.207.163.32/organiza/intern.html Apply for summer by March 15 Institute Commission on the Advancement of of Technology Women for the NGO InterAction Internship/study programs, Fund for American Studies February 1 "Rastafari in Jamaican Society," Ennis and Georgetown University 3:30 p.m. Edmonds, Sociology, Barnard College www.dcinternships.org Welles-Brown Sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Apply through March 15 Room, 133 Rush Institute Internship opportunities can be found at the Feminist Rhees Library Majority Foundation web site February 14, 16 V Day 2001, Rochester Institute of http://www.feminist.org/911/internship/internship.html & 17 Technology's production of The Vagina Public Leadership Education Network has a student- 8:00 p.m. Monologues, organized in response to written book, Preparing to Lead, the college women's Ingle Auditorium violence against women 8 For Your Information Rochester www.rit.edu/womens_center Institute national web site: of Technology of Technology www.feminst.com/vday February 16 "Potable Mirages and the Will to Kill: 3:30 p.m. Notes on Life and the Cravenhood," Gamble Room Brackette Williams, Independent 361 Rush Rhees Scholar Library Sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Institute March 1 "Transnational Black Intellectuals," 3:30 p.m. Michelle Stephens, English, Mt. Welles-Brown Holyoke College Room, 133 Rush Sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Rhees Library Institute

April 8 "Museum Representations of African- Time TBA Americans," Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Memorial Art Assistant Professor, Art History and Gallery Afro-American Studies, Harvard University Sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Institute

April 19 "African-Americans and American 3:30 p.m. Foreign Policy," Carol Anderson, Gamble Room History, University of Missouri 361 Rush Rhees Sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Library Institute

Please stop by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, 538 Lattimore Hall, to get additional information on the items noted in this edition. (716) 275-8318 Fax (716) 461-9376 Email: [email protected] Web site: http://www.rochester.edu/college/wst