Browse for 101: Kirk, Gwyn. Women's lives : multicultural perspectives / Gwyn Kirk, Margo Okazawa-Rey) 1998. 
domvio

bookstore:  2000-2001 Monthly Academic Calendar from Payne Publishers - the large 7" x 10" version ?? 
2. Martha Nussb aum , WOMEN AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, 
just buy it, save receipt. If not, order from library. 
3.  Karen Offen, European Feminisms (Stanford Press 200) please get a copy for me with receipt.
4. file folders ...could use a dozen or more. 

collect defs of feminism

emailed question to cheris---feminism is the radical notion that women are people-- 
Cheris Kramarae (cheris@oregon.uoregon.edu) and Paula Treichler.  I COULD EMAIL KRAMERAE  USED TO BE AT ILLINOIS @cHAMPAGNE/URBANA 

I have come across some organizations in Africa, possibly other non-western English usage areas, that have incorporated the term "feminist" in the group's title.  of course I can't find any of them when I need them, and I wondered if you can do a web search to find NGOs with "feminist" in them in S.  Africa, other countries as well.  let me know soon if you do come up with anything and i'll include it in the intro.

Feminist League (Almaty, Kazakstan) was established in 1994 as the first feminist group in countries of Central Asia.  Main objectives of this NGO are: feminist education and elimination of sexism in mass media; support of creative women 
The Center for Feminist Legal Research is based in New Delhi. It has been set up to promote women's rights, in particular, women's human rights, primarily through the conducting of workshops, trainings and seminars for women, and the development of feminist legal research in India. The activities of the Center transcend the boundaries of traditional legal discourse, one of its primary concerns being to promote feminist cultural studies. The Center explores how 
law and culture contributes to women's subordination and how it can serve as an 
important tool for women's empowerment. 
Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action  CAFRA is a regional network of feminists, individual researchers, activists and women’s organisations that define feminist politics as a matter of both consciousness and action.  We are committed to understanding the relationship between the oppression of women and other forms of oppression in the society, and we are working actively for change. 
Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE) is a shortwave radio program produced and broadcast in Spanish and in English daily by Radio For Peace International, a shortwave non-commercial radio station located on the campus of the University for Peace in Costa Rica.  It reaches over one hundred countries worldwide. ... It is part of The Women's Alternative Media Action and Service Center located at the Shooting School extension #2 of the Sports Training Center in Huairou. Women will call the shots at that training center!  The aim of the Center is to celebrate and demonstrate the work of women's alternative media networks, provide services for women's alternative media networks attending the NGO FORUM, and facilitate strategizing around media policy for the Platform for Action being considered at the Official Conference. 
Bad Jens Iranian feminist newsletter is a feminist online newsletter mainly addressing readers outside Iran. It is hoped to be a step towards improving links between activists/academics inside and outside the country. Seeing as intellectual and cultural exchanges between Iran and its neighbors are few and far between - especially regarding women's activities - we're particularly eager to reach readers in the Middle East. 
Feministische Partie DIE FRAUEN / Bayern, Fuerth, Germany 
Workinggroup Towards A Feminist Europe, the Netherlands 
Romanian Society for Feminist Analyses.  The organization, a professional NGO working on voluntary basis, is committed to understanding and improving the status of women in Romania; to developing and providing training and research on gender issues for different target groups; to introducing and developing women's studies programmes within and outside the universities and to building a library on women issues. All these objectives address in fact the issue of "gender capacity building". 
Fempress red de comunicacion alternativa de la mujer (Fempress alternative women's communication network), Santiago, Chile


opinion poll data on attitudes towards women's rights and feminism?  I think I did way back, but I may be mistaken.  In any case, do you have any current or recent U.S., and possibly non-U.S., measures? 

can you find something for either the European Parliament, proportion of women for 2000, or one or two developed countries showing the 1980 to 2000 shift.  Maybe the UN data book includes something. 
thanks, e. 
 

The U.S.  case also suggests that concerted efforts to field women candidates can shift electoral patterns.  In the 1980s and 1990s, organizations such as the National Women’s Political Caucus and EMILY’s List (the acronym stands for “Early Money Is Like Yeast”) urged women to run for office and to contribute funds to boost the campaigns of women candidates.  To counter voter apathy, self-identified “Third Wave” feminists launched a voter registration campaign among young women.  Between 1980 and 2000, the percentage of in Congress tripled, from 4 to 12 percent (3 percent of whom were women of color).  Women hold even more offices in U.S.  state legislatures, where their share increased from 10.5 percent in 1980 to 28.5 percent in 2000 (two percent of whom were women of color).  Twenty percent of the majors of major cities, and 28.5 percent of the state executives in the U.S. were female in the year 2000.


chap. 1 but i know you can find the cite on in the women's issues data bases cuz it was in SOJOURNER - it is the media article by Jennifer Posner about 2 years ago that uses the phrase "false feminist death syndrome." I want to cite it.

Mike says he can order the desk this Friday, for delivery to my office in early November.  The only hitch is I'll be out of town in early Nov, so I'd like to ask you to work out the delivery with him so that you can be there and then set up the computer on the computer desk.  I may need some extension cords with power strips. Also, Ruth Lowy will try to find a taker for the old desk, which I'll have to 
clear out before it goes.  I'll try to do that next time i'm in the office. Can you leave a cardboard file box [bookstore may sell them] or just a carton or two for me to put files from desk in, and envelopes etc? 

IN OFFICE:  EF AEV PLR   Estrich, Real Rape (one month only; subject to
recall by law school at any time)
IN OFFICE:  HQ1150 .W64 1995  Women looking beyond 2000
IN OFFICE:  HQ1236.5 .L37 C7 1999 Nikki Crask, Women & Politics in LatAm 

Dub copies: nu shu ZVC 14892 & also burning ants preview...

• @ArtRecall:  N8237.8 .R34 W66 1999  diane wolfthal, images of rape: heroic tradition...

• I'd like to give a figure for changing percent of women holding elected office in the U.S. from about 1980 or 1990, and 2000, or thereabouts.  I have a figure for state legislatures from the NYT from 1969-1999, but not for all offices, if such a figure exists. It would be easy to count the senate for two dates, but maybe there is something from the Eagleton center for women and politics at rutgers or through women's studies web sources that would include governors, legislators, mayors, etc, or some subset. 
• Law--DW AWV ZDP  copy Elizabeth Friedman's 1995 article "women's human rights"  in Peters and Wolper, Women's rights, human rights....  [routledge]. 
• 2.please send it, along with my mail, and also a travel reimbursement form from the history dept 
• 3.  i want to get a quote from Susan Okin's work to this effect:  The western social contract, in which men became citizens, rested upon an unstated sexual contract, in which women served the interests of men.  For Okin, ...
• "Philosophers who, in laying the foundation for their political theories, have asked 'What are men like?' 'What is man's potential?' have frequently, in turning to the female sex, asked 'What are women for?'  There is, then, an undeniable connection between assigned 'female nature' and social structure, and a functionalist attitude to women pervades the history of political thought." (Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought (New Jersey: Princeton Univ Press, 1979), 10. 
• ...the philosophy of Hegel, for whom the family and civil society are the utterly contrasting entities from which the state dialectically emerges--as a combination of the altruism of [end 284] the former and the universality of the latter.... however, we can see that the unity of the family is founded on the refusal to cede to women any independent existence at all...  Since women are not perceived as having any distinct life or interests at all, it is not difficult for Hegel to perceive the family as a place from which all discord and conflict of interest is absent, and where love and altruism reign supreme.  The loving unity of Hegel's family is founded on the denial of a personality to its wife and mother. (284-5)

 
• 4.  I think I want to quote at beginning of ch 15:  A revolution has begun and there is no going back.  --Gertrude Mongella, Secretary-General, U.N.  Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995 it is cited in the blurb for a UN pamphlet called Women: Looking Beyond 2000 if the library [gov docs] doesn't have this,can you order for $6.00, i have the order form, or call 1800 2539646 [i tried to look up the text of her speech at home but my version is an edited one...]
•    'A revolution has begun and there is no going back.  There will be no unravelling of commitments--not today's commitments, not last year's commitments, and not the last decade's commitments.  This revolution is too just, too important, and too long overdue.'

   These were my words to representatives of Governments and non-governmental organizations who attended the 39th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the final preparatory committee meeting for the Fourth World Conference on Women.... 
--Gertrude Mongella, "Moving Beyond Rhetoric," in Women: Looking Beyond 2000 (NY: United Nations, 1995), 121.

 
• 5.  I want to cite a case of political asylum in the U.S.  for an African woman fleeing genital mutiliation [for herself or her daughters] -- there were several in the past few years.  can you find the reference and give me a paragraph or so summary.
• 6.  on same point, have any asylum cases anywhere granted refuge to lesbians who feared imprisonment or other persecution?  maye the National Center for Lesbian Rights [NCLR] web page would have links to help here.  of the international lg rights org.
• I'd also love to find a concise, short update on feminist movements in

former soviet bloc countries - organizations, main issues, legal triumphs
or defeats. i've seen articles on poland, but i wonder if anyone has
looked at the region more broadly.  an anthropologist, Gail Kligman,
spoke here last year but I missed her talk, which sounded related. Check
for her recent publications for starters, and see women's studies web resources pick up anything else.

• 3: Quran on rape witnesses? 
• 5-6:  Griffin, Politics of Rape, various quotes
• 10:  non-U.S. example of anti-rape movement and societal responses
• By 1978 there were over 300 [domvio women's]shelters in the U.S. and...
• 22:  breaking silence, alerting others to incest...Allison quote "biggest part of the struggle as a child is about trying to believe you are not the monster you are being told you are...."
• 1999 UN report, violence against girls and women age 15-44 caused more death and dsiability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war? (AIDS Weekly Plus, 3/22/99). 

• 12:6 the sexual sell (sexualized female bodies) in europe..examples?
• 12:6 alfred kinsey translation record?
• 12:9  Hite report quote...(women lost ability to say no)..."it was now women's duty to be sexually available and excited, even if it meant faking orgasms to please male partners..."
• 12:10  Our bodies Ourselves, find quote pg. "
• 12:11 non-US discussion of sexuality i.e. vagina monologues? other areas less restrictive than u.s.? 
• 12:13 example, south asian marriage conflicts, honor...e.g.? 

• 1996 Polish law revision to 93 criminalization of abortion... allow abortion up to 12th tweek if econ;/personal hardship.  Included public funding for contracep/sex ed.  Current status?
• Contraceptive usage in africa--under 15% when?
• Baby M cases--more recent trends?

• 10:3  venerated Asian female goddess?  (Hindu/Indian Kali?)
• 10:4  sanctified female body in Tibetan Buddhism...
• 10:7 Ads using women's bodies to sell?  (Cars? non-U.s.?)
• 10:7 Music. 
• White music appropriating black?  (post-WWII)   ???
• Sexual objectification of women?  Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar":  immensely popular song about raping your slave.... (On Sticky fingers album, 1971--"Brown Sugar" one of the most popular rock "classics" of 1971). 

BROWN SUGAR (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) 
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields / Sold in a market down in New Orleans / Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright / Hear him whip the women just around midnight 

Brown sugar how come you taste so good? 
Brown sugar just like a young girl should 

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot 
Lady of the house wonderin' where it's gonna stop 
House boy knows that he's doing alright 
You shoulda heard him just around midnight 

Brown sugar how come you taste so good, now? 
Brown sugar just like a young girl should, now 

• 10:8 Weight watchers is 95% female?  HOW?
• 10:8 Brumberg 1986 girls' body dissatisfaction 
• ethnic breakup?  Orenstein? 
• 10:8 90% of anorexia cases are girls
• 10:10 women in medical profession...mexico? 50% in 19x0.  india?
• 10:11 med research redesigned to include women
• 10:12 figures on deathrate from breast cancer, national breast cancer coalition 
• 10:13 Causes of death for women in non-U.S.
• http://www.4woman.gov/media/statistics.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/00tables.htm#Mortality 
• 10:13  Almost half (46%) of those infected with HIV globally are female WHO 2000 report on AIDS
• 10:13  1995, UN reported 1500 deaths in childbirth each day, half pregnant women suffer from anemia, 59% women in dveloping countries receive prenatal care (developed 98%)

Emailed about preview copy of Smell of Burning Ants-- 9/14:   The Smell of Burning Ants is available for review. We offer a one week preview, with a $25 preview charge which is deducted if purchased. To order please forward either a purchase order or a request on letterhead to the address below.  James Knox / Jay Rosenblatt Media Library / 22-D Hollywood Avenue / Hohokus NJ 07423 / fax:201-652-1973 / phone: 888-367-9154  / TMCNDY@aol.com--mailed request 9.15.0

 

Furniture catalog from copenhagen--e has

women's music sampler from mr.lady 

Nu Shu(Chinese women's language) --Referred to Kathy Kerns --Joe Leggett said he received order 7/27... he ordered it early in aug. Emailed Joe leggette again mon 9/11--he emailed request to acquisitions on 8/11/00. --9.14 Joe said it will be rush ordered from Women Make Movies, should be in by 22nd. 

• MEASURE OFFICE
• estellelinks
• Make Estelle's "how to publish" list
• Look for quotes on maternal pressures: Joy Kogawa, Obasan PR9199.3 .K63 O2 1983 
• Look for quotes on revolutionary ideals/results: Ding Ling, I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling, intro by Tani Barlow.  PL2747.P5 A23 1989.  you can take a look for anything that might go into ch.4, or leave it for me with next delivery. maybe i'll try to come to stanford on the 28th, but i'll check with cathy next week first.

 
• Ana Juarez, Erotics of Conquest--precis

 
• 4.  I'd love to insert a quote by a South African or Palestinian woman to the effect that they shared national status with men of their group as much as gender status with women.  I think that I left Sherna Gluck's book about Palestinian women in the office -- on the same shelf where we have put library books, I think.  I have a book at home by Simona SHaroni about the Israeli-Pal.  conflict that you could use when we exchange books.  This too is a short-time request - if you can't find anything in an hour give up! 

 
• Write NYT about copyright?
• Desk stuff. Contact:  Sean, 800.729.0870 X6867

Item # BVS13115 Description - Table, Adj Leg, 48x30, BWA Cost - approximately $215
We requested delivery and set-up, for which there is an additional charge.  In addition, we ordered Laura a padded keyboard tray and document holder.  We had the keyboard tray installed as well (you have to request that when ordering as I understand it).  From BT Office Products---freestanding workstation 48x24 (60?) $350!
Also cruised Office Max, Office Depot (desks & tables), Cost Plus, on the peninsula, and the smaller Discount Depot in the Haight for desks.  Found a couple  of generic modular desk systems, 60" long by 30" wide/deep, for $179 (gray melamine), $129 (maple), with matching file cabinets that fit underneath ($169!).  E: Went to copenhagen and they have lots of desks that are 28 1/2 " high - must be the Scandanavian standard. they deliver, and i could get something like my home office in a teak or other wood, but I still have an image of a computer desk facing the bookshelf and a 5 foot working desk along the window side -- rather than a full corner set, since I want to get around and into the bookcases on the right. 
Designs in Wood / 251 W. El Camino / Sunnyvale / 408.730.1658 
Just go south on El Camino; when you cross Mathilda, look to your left 
--it's a small building with a red and white sign, right on the 
street...usually, there's some furniture on the sidewalk outside.  you 
have to pass it, hang a u, and come back...you can park on the street 
right outside the store. I talked with Mike 
 
• contact Sally at Berkeley (Barrie Thorne's FS101) sthomas@SIMS.Berkeley.EDU --emailed 7/28, will let us know when new RA assigned to course...
• Estelle's homepage
• Take old computer to Santa Clara Recycling

 

Check sent 10/17.  Internationalizing the Study of Women and Gender by Janice Monk and Deborah Rosenfelt ($10.00, plus $2.00 shipping).
The National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women  To order, print the following form and mail to NCCTRW, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252 . If paying by credit card you can fax your request to (410) 830-3469, phone it in at (410) 830-3943 or send an  e-mail to ncctrw@towson.edu
 
• Requested scans of UN photos from History RAs (for 2000-01 website)
• Make tape of music suggestions for estelle...find lyrics on Sampler CD
• Ordered two exam copies:  Fem.Frontiers V & Bonnie Smith's Global Feminisms (9.15.00)
• Search online for FS101 texts...
• Browse: Women Imagine Change, Routledge 
• Transfer archives, reorganize FS101 website....
• FS101 reader?  Reading Women's Lives--no.  Their core list contains only 5 of the 62 readings we used last year.

--101 syllabus for dates for next winter, editing out readings, etc. i'm going to send the draft to you for reference re: plugging in possible web page links and also looking for texts on the web. i've taken out all the FeministFrontiers readings and may copy some for the reader, but I'm trying to pare down, though I now have room for some new things here and there. 
 
• Look at Jaggar/Rothenberg Feminist Frameworks
• registered fs101 course website

• random bit: One study of 106 minority tribal women in Madhya Pradesh, India, found almost half engaged in construction work for 15-17 rupees per day (compared to 20 for men). Another twenty-five percent worked in drainage repair and road work.  Tribal women (usually married) immigrated to such temporary jobs, moving on when the job was completed.
• --Sudha Bhandari Anand, Crossing the Rubicon: The Patterns and Problems of Migration of Tribal Women Workers (New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications, 1996), 94. 
• HD6073.M392.U55 if the library has Jean Tepperman, Not Servants, Not Machines: Office Workers Speak Out (1976), can you check on p.66 to see who said this and what year: If people wouldrespect women’s work, naturally your wages are going to go up.  I think that’s the problem with low wages.  Women’s work is looked down upon.  It’s not really considered important, and you’re not going to be paid [good] wages for something that’s considered trivial.”  –[find name], Baltimore, 19–   I'd still prefer a non-U.S. worker quote to head the chapter, but this is good for the overall theme so far. [--have book, have reviewed page 66 several times, and entire book twice.  Cannot find this quote?  Page number from diff. edition?  Save for E to find?]
• update with 2000 data when available for labor force partic. rates, US and other countries, as noted throughout revised chapter 

 
• it would be nice to find [in a book or journalistic article on women in blue collar trades ,esp if non-U.S.] a nice quote for chapter heading that suggests both aspirations and obstacles, of shift from a traditionally female job to non-trad. job. -three cites found. 
• blue collar workers:

is there anything in the book from a firefighter who may have been hired because of the about the SF law suit , or a similar "i got this job because of the [legal change]? OR: how did the percentage of women in police and fire dept jobs change in SF after the decade long consent decree?
 
• minor request, if easy: any european data on trends in women in professions, entering law and medical school e.g, or increaseing percent of these professions [ p. 5 old draft].
• J of Epidemioilogy & Community Health has study report...by Christ McManus, analysis of official Natl Health Svc stats from 63 to 96....

"Still a tough job to reach the top" (underrep'n of women in education
Times Educational Supplement n.4256 (1/23/98, p. F22)
Women's Careers in Teaching report financed by the European Commission.  Women in Denmark 60% of staff in schools, but only 16% of senior posts. 
• double check that African American women's participation in US paid labor force in 1900 was 40%.  YES, per Amott & Matthei, and 1900 census...

 
• Employmnet and Earnings from US Dept of Labor, published annual, in gov. docs. - may help with some updates. I'm not sure if I need the ethnicity difference in paid work details I now have but if there is a quick list/table copy it.  If the UN gives a non-u.s. figure, for example, of immigrant workers in a European country, women's labor force particpation, let me know.  not crucial though.

 
• old p. 9: any non-US data on changing attitudes towards women working for pay? i'd love to get something juicy here.

 
• Get Arlie Hochschild's latest book from library, give me a sentence or two on how women's reasons for work have changed, and if there is a quote from a woman worker to that effect, great.  (see archives for more)

 
• Anything on non-US women's reasons for work would be nice, just a brief something if it exists easily. related: any quotables about women who choose to work outside the US not from necessity but for desire, fulfillment, impact whatever.   [list of Green titles on 3rdW women's labor? ]i have conflicting data on the percent of the world's paid labor force that is female - let me know UN official. Seager says 36% in 1997, but I thought it was about that in 1950, and almost a half by 2000. help! I dropped the sentence from the chapter, but for lecture it would be useful.
• Create TABLEIn 1997, women comprised at least one third of the world's labour force in all regions except Northern Africa and Western Asia.  (i.e. yes, confirming Seager, but differs depending on region)(see archives for more)
• old p. 11: any UN data on developing countries distribution of jobs by gender? one or two examples would suffice married women's labor partic rates for Europe for say mid 20th century and 2000 [1999 will do] Europe or UK or russia: occupational segregation data - e.g. % of craft or service workers who are female/male, or some such measure, change over time if possible.

 
• Victor Fuchs, economist, on women's labor force partic and wage gap - can i have a summary of his views, from book reviews e.g., and if there is a short chapter or article by or about his views, copy it for me. 
• E--download In Honor of Victor Fuchs" (pdf document, 310kb);  summary of book reviews forthcoming

 
• Is there any data on extent of sexual harassment in EU countries [cf 50% of women workers in us say harassed at some time]
• 8:6 China’s women...#s in work force (also quote on rev.?)

 also LatAm in 80s 90s (see archives for more) 
8.7 Race gap among U.S. workers.  By 1980 the race gap among women workers had almost disappeared, with about half of each group working for wages.  By 2000, 62.8 percent of black women were in the workforce; with white and Hispanic women participating at 59.4 and 55.6 percent respectively.  [U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings, January 2000.] 
 
• 8:9 NYT ’99, “Mothers in developing countries take jobs to pay for school fees and uniforms 

 
• “women should work” ideological attitudes towards women’s labor 1972-->1996, U.S. and non-U.S.

Almost 75% of women and almost 70% of men agree that a woman can be very successful in a high paying career and still be a very good mom. But nearly seven in ten of both genders agree that, although a woman’s income is needed, things would be better if women could just stay home and take care of the children. [Actual statement: "It may be necessary for mothers to be working because the family needs the money, but it would be better if she could stay home and just take care of the house and children." --men 69%, women 68%)]
("Stay-at-Home vs. Career Moms," and "Changes in Gender Roles," Washington Post 3.22.98, p. A16). 

NYT April 5, 1998, Sunday Magazine Desk , 2714 words 
By the Numbers      By Andrew J. Cherlin 
To understand the transformation that has occurred in American attitudes toward the role of mothers, consider this question, which has been asked in national surveys over two decades: ''Do you agree or disagree that it is much better for everyone inv ... 
 

• 8:10 women working in labor force, internationally
•  1950s, 31% worked for wages 
•  1970s, 35% women worked for wages 
•  1990s, a third?

 
• where birth rates have declined, labor force participation increased

find examples and exceptions 
 
• occupational segregation, women in developing countries

 
• 8:15 SWOP/Global sweatshops?

 
• 8:20 Professions in socialist countries, non-U.s.

 
• 8:23 non-U.S. wage gap

• update welfare laws, Gwen Mink, Whose Welfare
• date of death of Johnnie Tillmon, welfare rights reformers, b. 1930.  Wed., Nov. 22,1995 (obit NYT 11/27/95)
• any nifty article comparing US, UK or other countries in terms of 1990s welfare systems. I know the post-communist states are a mess, but I don't know much about western europe and what if any welfare systems exist in Africa and Latin America, let alone Asia. Not that I want you to figure all that out, but if you can do a literature search in women's studies and spy anything that looks useful, let me know.