The Women’s Studies Program at Michigan State University welcomes you to the new millennium!  In this volume of the newsletter we’d like to highlight some of the accomplishments of the students and faculty associated with the Women's Studies Program, in addition to providing the most current list of speakers and events on the MSU campus.  If you would like to contribute to future editions of the Women’s Studies Newsletter, please send announcements to wmstdy@msu.edu or visit our website at http://www.msu.edu/unit/wmstdy/.

Upcoming Speakers
March 23, 2000: Mary Daly at 7:30 pm in Parlors A, B & C in the MSU Student Union.  She will be speaking about her current legal battle with Boston College and the issues surrounding her struggle to keep her Women’s Studies classroom “women-only” space.

March 24, 2000:  Valerie Traub at 3:00 pm in 213 Morrill Hall.  Dr. Traub is an Associate Professor of English and the Graduate Chair at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  Her most recent publication is entitled Mapping the Global Body (1999), and her talk with address issues of sexuality and geography.

March 27th-31st, 2000:   “Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices, Women’s Solutions: Shaping a National Agenda for Women in Higher Education.”  This national teleconference will run all week in Parlor Room C of the MSU Student Union.  The keynote speaker will be Johnetta B. Cole on March 27th, and on March 28th MSU will sponsor three sessions:(10 am-12 pm)  “Mentoring: Women’s Connectivity in Higher Education,” “The Women’s Studies Classroom of the Future,” and “Women Working with Women: Respecting & Supporting Each Other.”

March 29th-April 1st, 2000:  Mandy Carter will be speaking at a number of venues in Lansing/East Lansing. Mandy Carter is one of the nation's leading African American Lesbian activists. She has worked in multi-issue grassroots organizing for the last 32 years, and is currently campaign manager for FREE--Floridians Representing Equity and Equality, a coalition organizing to respond to efforts to dismantle Florida's Affirmative Action legislation.  She has been a consultant to the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum, Director of North Carolina Mobilization '96, (a political action committee that sought to defeat incumbent Senator Jesse Helms), and has received the prestigious Baynard Rustin Award for Political Activism.
For more information contact Brent Bilodeau, 517-355-8286 or bilodeau@msu.edu.

March 31, 2000:  Helen Thomas, White House press reporter, will be signing copies of her latest book, Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times,  at the Michigan Women’s Historical Center and Hall of Fame from noon-2 pm.  For more information call (517) 484-1880.

April 9, 2000:  Detroit Women Writers Creative Historians Readings Event and Exhibit,  featuring Virginia Law Burns, Nancy Bunge, and Kathleen Ripley Leo.  The event will take place at the Michigan Women’s Historical Center and Hall of Fame from 2 pm – 4 pm.  For more information call (517) 484-1880.

Student Accomplishments
Heather Brooks (Women’s Studies): Currently coordinates volunteers for the Council Against Domestic Assault (CADA).

Meghan Elliott (Psychology/Women’s Studies): Participated in the 2nd annual MSU production of Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues.”

Penny Gardner (American Studies, Graduate Student)
Grants/Awards/Honors:  For a lifetime of advocating for the rights of the LGBT community and women and for helping to enrich the educational environment, especially for her support to the MSU campus and the greater Lansing community as a volunteer and advisor, January 25, 2000.

Kimberly Kroll (Women’s Studies):  Lectured on the hazards of tampons at the March 1st International Women’s Day Teach-In.

Anna Nelson (James Madison College/Women’s Studies):  Presented a paper on feminism and King Lear at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in August of 1999.  She also interned at the Violence Against Women office in the US Department of Justice, and co-authored the Attorney General’s Annual Report to Congress on Stalking and Domestic Violence.

Yoko Tsutsumi: Participated and performed in the 2nd annual MSU production of Eve
Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues.”

Miscellaneous Announcements
Linda Patterson (University of Alabama, and a Women’s Studies Program Study Abroad student) won one of UAB's "Excellence in Women's Studies" Awards for her paper on breastfeeding.  Linda is also a finalist for a Truman Scholarship.

Faculty Accomplishments
Joyce R. Ladenson (Women’s Studies Program/ATL)
Publications:  “Jewish and Feminist Discourses in Marge Piercy’s He, She and It,” forthcoming in Revisioning Jewish-American Literature (University of S. Alabama); “Political Themes and Personal Preoccupations in Marge Piercy’s Novels,” reprint of 1991 article in forthcoming anthology of essays in American Literature; Review and editing of text manuscript, Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw Hall) forthcoming.

Katherine Fishburn (English)
Publications:  MSU Press will be publishing her collection of poetry, The Dead Are So Disappointing sometime during the Spring, 2000. Papers/Presentations:  On Friday, March 31, at 7 p.m., she will be giving a reading as part of the Michigan Writers Series in the Main Library's North Conference Room.  Grants/Awards/Honors:  Katherine Fishburn has been awarded an IRGP research leave for Spring semester 2000, to finish another collection of poetry, The Language of Pain.
 

Marilyn Frye (Philosophy)
Grants/Awards/Honors: Marilyn Frye was honored as the Distinguished Woman Philosopher for 1999 by the Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy, at a meeting in Boston, December 28, 1999.

Leslie Moch (History)
Publications:  Leslie Moch has written an essay "Gender and Migration Research" for a book titled Reflections on Migration Research; Constructions, Omissions, and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity, eds. Michael Bommes (U of Osnabruck, Germany) and Ewa Morawska (U of Pennsylvania).  U. of  California press, forthcoming.  Papers/Presentations:  At the Third European Social Science History Conference Amsterdam, 12-15 April, she will be commenting on the session "Cities for Women: Female Newcomers and Citizens in a Life Course Perspective" and giving  a paper titled: "Through a Gendered Lense: Bretons in Paris, 1875-1930.”

Maureen A. Flanagan (History)
Publications: She published an essay titled "Anna Wilmarth Ickes: A Staunch Woman Republican," in Melanie Gustafson, Kristie Miller and Elisabeth Perry, eds., We Have Come to Stay:American Women and Political Parties, 1860-1960 (University of New Mexico Press, 1999);   Papers/Presentations: Organized, chaired and commented on a roundtable session at the Berkshire Conference on Women's History, titled "Women in the City, Women of the City: Breaking  Boundaries between Women's and Urban History"  Grants/Awards/Honors: Maureen Flanagan is spending 4 months (February through May) on a Fulbright lectureship at the University of Alexandria, Egypt; she has just been appointed editor of a new journal, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, which will have its first issue come out in January 2002;

Ellen Pollak (English)
Publications:  "'Postlude' to Literary Women" in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 24.3 (Spring 1999): 739-47. Part of a forum commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Ellen Moers' Literary Women; Partial reprint of "Beyond Incest" in Aphra Behn (New Casebooks series); Ed. Janet Todd.  London:Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's, 1999, pp.; served as guest editor and wrote "Introduction" to "Constructions of Incest in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England," a special issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 39.3 (Fall 1998): 187-91; "Guarding the Succession of the (E)state: Guardian-Ward Incest and the Dangers of  Representation in Delarivier Manley's The New Atalantis in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 39.3 (Fall 1998): 220-37.  Grants/Awards/Honors:  Ellen Pollak received an IRPG Grant to finish her book Theaters of Desire   Papers/Presentations: Served as chair for the panel “Reproducing Citizenship” at the Modern Litearture Conference (on “Cultural Citizenship”) held at MSU last fall.

Kimberly Little (American Thought and Language)
Papers/Presentations:  "Down-in-the Dirt Development:  the Civilian Conservation Corps and early State Superintendency at Indian Springs State Park, Georgia."  American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Tuscon, Arizona, April 18, 1999.   "Loving, Leaving, and Liberation:  Women's Infidelity in Three American Films."  Twenty-ninth Popular Culture Association and Twenty-first American Culture Association Annual Conference, San Diego, California, April 1, 1999. [Nominated for award.]

Anne Meyering (History)
Publications:  A book chapter,  forthcoming: the title is "The Louvre 'Négresse'"    Papers/Presentations:"Planter's Daughter, Noble's Son:  Marriage and Creole Identity in the French Antilles, 1790-1817," presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Havana, Cuba,  April 1999.  An invited paper, "Les Antilles aux Yeux des Français à l'époque de la première abolition de l'esclavage," presented at an international conference, "Les Rélations des Antilles avec le Monde extérieur," sponsored by the Centre antillais de recherches et de documentations historiques of the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines of the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane at Schoelcher in Martinique, French West Indies, June 15 and 16, 1999.  Anne Meyering also "published" on H-Urban, an urban history list, a long review of a book on the bourgeoisie of Paris, 1690-1830, in Feb. 1999, and gave comments on three papers, only one of which had much to do with women or gender, at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies which met in Arlington, VA, and at Georgetown U. in Washington, D.C. in March 1999.  Her current research project is a book, provisionally entitled Aristocrats in Bourgeois Society, a study of aristocrats in France in the nineteenth century, based on the papers of the Benoist d'Azy family.

Linda O. Stanford, Professor (Art)
Chair, Art Selection Panel, City of East Lansing. Juror, Summer Small Group Shows 2000, Traverse City Arts Council.  Publications:, "MSU Alumni in the Visual Arts," MSU Alumni Magazine, Vol. 17, no. 1, Fall 1999, pp. 16-21. Three of the four artists discussed are women.

Laura Julier (American Thought and Language)
Publications:"Voicing the Landscape: A Discourse of Their Own."  With Paula Gillespie and Kathleen Blake Yancey.  In Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces. Eds. Kristine Blair and Pamela Takayoshi.  In New Directions in Computers and Composition Studies.  Series Eds. Gail Hawisher and Cindy Selfe.  Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1999. 297-325.

Jenifer Banks (English)
Publications:  On-going reasearch : The correspondence of Catherine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867).  Papers/Presentations: "Incestuous Relations? Catherine Maria Sedgwick's  Family Correspondence."  Caroline Kirkland  (1801-1865) Publication: "'A New Home' for Whom? Caroline Kirkland exposes Domestic,Abuse on the Michigan Frontier"  in Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America  ed. Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy (Routledge.1999).  Paper: "Bogged Down in Michigan: Caroline Kirkland Questions the Myth of American 'Progress'."

Job Announcements
Director of Women’s Studies, University of Cincinnati.  A twelve-month appointment during the 2000-2001 school year.  Files will be viewed starting April 1 and until the position is filled.  Applicants should submit a letter of interest, CV, and the name of three references to Professor Marcia Bellas, Chair of Search Committee, Center for Women’s Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0164.  For more information visit the Women’s Studies website at http://ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/womens studies/.

Calls for Papers
International Perspectives: The Political, Social and Economic Impact of Education for Women and Girls.  This conference, designed to offer a forum to explore how women create change in their communities and in the world, will take place November 17-18, 2000 in Washington DC.  The deadline for paper submissions is May 1, 2000.  For additional information email intsymp@aauw.org or visit the website at http://www.aawu.org.