Feminism and Philosophy Newsletter. The Feminism and Philosophy Newsletter is sponsored by the APA Committee on information about the status of women in philosophy and to make more widely available the resources of feminist philosophy. The Newsletter will contain discussions of recent developments in feminist philosophy and related work in other disciplines. It will include literature overviews and book reviews, suggestions for eliminating gender bias in the traditional philosophy curriculum, and reflections on feminist pedagogy. It will also keep the profession informed about the work of the Committee on the Status of Women in Philosophy. The Newsletter will provide a forum for queries and informal discussions of topics relevant to feminist philosophy and also to the status of women in the profession. The editor invites contributions to the Newsletter. Submission Guidelines: All submissions must be limited to ten manuscript pages and must follow the APA guidelines for gender neutral language (APA Proceeding). Essays should be submitted in duplicate with the author's name on the title page only for the anonymous reviewing process. Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced and references must follow Chicago Manual style. Please send articles, comments, suggestions, and all other communications and inquiries to: Nancy Tuana, Arts and Humanities, JO 3.1, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083–0688.
Call for papers for the May, 1989 issue: The May, 1989 issue of the Feminism and Philosophy Newsletter edited by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone and Nancy Tuana will focus on Feminism, Sexuality, and the Body. The issue will be devoted to investigations of the relationship of feminism to the clinical body, feminism to the visual body, feminism to the social body (the body as social subject/social object), feminism to the felt body, feminism to the reproductive body, and so on. The focus will be on the concrete flesh and bone body, but in different guises, settings, and/or with specific emphases. For this issue the Newsletter is seeking: (1) Essays (no more than 10 pages); (2) Book reviews of related works; (3) Relevant bibliographies of philosophical interest; (4) Curricular discussions and suggestions regarding the use of materials on feminism, sexuality, and the body in philosophy courses.
All submissions must be limited to ten manuscript pages. Essays should be submitted in duplicate with the author's name on the title page only. The deadline for submissions is January 1, 1989. Send manuscripts to Nancy Tuana, Arts and Humanities, JO 3.1, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083–0688.
Nemesis is seeking written work and photographs from Separatists, Lesbians, and Radical Feminists which tell our tales of heteropatriarchal disruption and womyn-positive reality building. For more information send a SASE to Nemesis, c/o Amber L. Katherine, P.O. Box 417042, Chicago, IL 60641–7042. Deadline for submissions: Dec. 1, 1988.
Call for Papers: A Special Issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly: Theory and Method in Feminist Psychology. Readers are invited to submit original manuscripts for a special issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly on the subject of theory and method in feminist psychology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• links between feminist theorizing in such disciplines as philosophy, political science, and literary studies and theorizing in feminist psychology;
• the postmodernist challenge to empirical psychology and its relevance to the study of women and gender;
• explication of the meta-theoretical assumptions that underlie the production of knowledge in the psychology of women;
• the inter-relation of scholarship and action, including examination of the ways that the sociopolitical milieu has shaped the feminist research agenda, as well as critical analyses of the extent to which our scholarship has succeeded or failed as a guide for feminist activism.
Papers based on either conceptual analyses or empirical analyses are welcome. Innovative approaches to scholarship are especially encouraged. Articles should conform to APA guidelines for style and length. The deadline for submission is January 15, 1989. Send all submissions to the issue editor: Dr. Jeanne Marecek, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081.
Sage: A Scholarly journal on Block Women. The editors of Sage are collecting manuscripts for a special issue on Black Women's Studies (Submission Deadline: January 15, 1989). For the Black Women's Studies Issue (which is supported in part by the Ford Foundation), the editors encourage:
• essays which describe teaching strategies, theory, and methodology in Black Women's Studies
• articles which describe Black Women's Studies curricula in various settings, e.g., in the university, outside the academy, in high schools, and the Caribbean
• personal narratives, interviews, and retrospective analyses from scholars, program directors, and students
• representative sample syllabi from teachers from any given time period
The editors welcome manuscripts which focus on the lives and cultures of Black Women wherever they reside. For submission guidelines, contact the editor. Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, P.O. Box 42721, GA 30311–0741.
A student issue of Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women which includes work from young scholars around the country will be published this spring. This issue is supported in part by the Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education.
Single issues are $5. Individual subscriptions to Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women are $15/year; institutional subscriptions are $25/year. For more information contact Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Co-Editor, Box 42741, Atlanta, GA 30311–0741 (404–681–3643 ext. 362).
Conference on “Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice”: to be held October 7–8, 1988, at University of Minnesota, Duluth. Keynote speakers are Charlotte Bunch and Sara Ruddick. Recent work in feminist ethics has been rich, exciting, and diverse. This conference will address such questions as: What is feminist ethics? Is there a relation between sex/gender and morality? How do traditional moral theories contribute to or contradict feminist ethics? Do feminist ethics endorse a restrictive view of women's place? What results from feminist ethics can we expect in the social, political, economic, and academic arenas? Scholars in all disciplines, and feminist practitioners in all areas, are encouraged to submit papers. Contact Eve Browning Cole, Dept. of Philosophy & Humanities, University of Minnesota–Duluth, Duluth, MN 55803 or Susan Coultrap-McQuin, Head, Institute of Women's Studies, University of Minnesota-Duluth, MN 55803.
11th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (C-SWIP). Women in Particular: Feminist Social and Political Philosophy. September 16–18, 1988, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. For further information, call Lynda Lange (403) 432–2055, 432–4999, or Debra Shogan (403) 432–2018.
Society for Women in Philosophy. For information on membership in regional divisions which include program announcements and a subscription to the national SWIP Newsletter, as well as a subscription to Hypatia, contact:
Pacific SWIP: Executive Secretary Riata Manning, UC San Jose State, San Jose, CA 95192. Treasurer Ruth Doell, San Francisco State University, Dept. of Biological Science, 1600 Halloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132.
Midwest SWIP: Executive Secretary Jean Rumsey, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point, Steven's Point, WI 54481. Treasurer Carol Van Kirk, 1401 N. 58th St. Omaha, NE 68106.
Eastern SWIP: Executive Secretary Libby Potter, Dept. of Philosophy, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041. Co-Executive Secretary Joan Ringelheim, Apt. la, 150 W. 74th St., New York, NY 10023. Treasurer Jana Sawicki, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. The Directory of Women in Philosophy is available from the Executive Secretary in each division. Cost is $2.00.
Matrices: A Lesbian-Feminist Research Newsletter. A Networking Newsletter for Lesbian Researchers. Includes networking notes and queries, lists of books, articles, and periodicals of interest to Lesbian research, book reviews, calls for papers, conferences, bibliographies, etc. Subscriptions: U.S. $5.00, Foreign $7.00, Libraries $9.00. Mail to: Jacquelyn N. Zita, Managing Editor, Women's Studies, Ford Hall 492. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
The Social Philosophy and Policy Center will hold a conference on The Foundations of Moral and Political Philosophy, September 22–24, 1988, at Bowling Green State University. Participants include Jean Hampton (Philosophy, Pittsburgh); Judith Jarvis Thomson (Philosophy, MIT); Terence Irwin (Philosophy, Cornell); Russell Hardin (Philosophy and Political Science, Chicago); Holly Smith (Philosophy, Arizona); Eric Mack (Philosophy, Tulane); Peter Railton (Philosophy, Michigan); Allan Gibbard (Philosophy, Michigan); and Stephen Darwall (Philosophy, Michigan). For further information, contact Kory Tilgner, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, (419) 372–2536.
Society for the Study of Women Philosophers. Call for Papers. The next conference of the Society for the Study of Women Philosophers will be held in conjunction with the meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, in December of 1988. We are interested in receiving the following:
• papers on any aspect of the thought of a woman philosopher (where “philosopher” is traditionally defined)
• papers on other women thinkers (e.g., poets, novelists, diarists, mystics)
• papers which reflect on the nature of philosophy specifically in light of women's contribution to the history of thought
Papers should be no longer than 15 pages, double spaced. Since they will read under blind review, please attach two cover sheets. On the first, put your title, name, address and social security number. On the second, put your title and social security number only. Send seven copies of the paper to: Veda Cobb-Stevens, Philosophy Department, University of Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854. Deadline: Sept. 1, 1988.
A major new addition to the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection at the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, is now available on microfilm. Entitled “Supplement to the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection,” this one-reel addition contains “Raya Dunayevskaya's Last Writing, 1986–87: Toward the Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy.” Dunayevskaya, the founder of the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism, died in Chicago on June 9, 1987. Dunayevskaya's notes for the unfinished book she had tentatively titled “Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy: ‘the party’ and forms of organization born out of spontaneity” are included in this addition, along with her journalism on world events. Of special significance is Dunayevskaya's extensive correspondence with “non-Marxists Hegel scholars” George Armstrong Kelly, Louis Dupre, and A. V. Miller. Copies of this one-reel addition to the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection may be obtained from Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs for $20. The full, 12,000-page collection is available on six microfilm reels for $120. For further information and order forms, please contact Philip P. Mason, Director, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 48202.
Sinister Wisdom. Call for Submissions for Issue 38: Italian-American Lesbians. Guest editor: Rose Romano. Deadline: February 15, 1989. Please mark envelope — ATT: Rose Romano. All work should be submitted in duplicate. SASE must be enclosed. Issue 37: open (no theme–deadline: Oct. 15, 1988). Issue 39: on disability (deadline: June 15, 1989). Current editor: Elana Dykewomon, P.O. Box 3252, Berkeley, CA 94703. Published three or four a year. Subscription $17/year, $6 for sample (current) issue.
Call for Papers. A special topics issue of Gender & Society will focus on physical and psychological violence against women and children. We are particularly interested in papers showing the systemic interrelationship of the various forms of violence, the impact of institutional violence, and the threat of violence as a means of social control over women and children. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions and are especially looking for articles dealing with women and children of color or from working-class backgrounds. The submissions should have some relationship to the real world in which real women and real children live. Pieces analyzing or critiquing social policies and programs designed to ameliorate violence against women and children would be appropriate submissions. Reports of research grounded in a structural analysis of violence against women and children are welcome, but this issue will not be limited to articles written in standard academic style. Experiential data, poetry, drawings and photographs, used as illustrative material in analytic pieces or as separate submissions are also welcome, but we cannot accept fiction. Guest editors for this issue of Gender & Society are Pauline B. Bart, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago; Patricia Y. Miller, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Smith College; Eileen Moran, Executive Director, Westchester NY Children's Association, and Elizabeth Stanko, Department of Sociology, Clark University and London. Deadline for submissions: April 1, 1989. Expected date of publication: Decmember 1990. All submissions should be sent to: Judith Lorber, Editor, Gender & Society, Dept. of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, 33 West 42 Street, New York, NY 10036. Please send five copies and a $10 submission fee and follow Gender & Society guidelines for submission.
