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&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Coalition of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN G&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;ERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 30                                                      March 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PAID YOUR DUES?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why begin the newsletter with this question? Because WiG needs money to carry out all our projects, quite a few of which are described in this newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And because sending out renewal notices is time-consuming and expensive. Please check your mailing label &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt;, and renew if your number is 30 (this issue) or below. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As most of you already know, Barbara Frischmuth has agreed to be WiG's guest at the 1983 conference, Oct. 13-16, at Thompson Island, Boston. Martha Wallach is working with the Austrian Institute to arrange Frischmuth’s visit, which will probably include two or three readings at university campuses besides her par­ticipation in the WiG conference. At this writing it still isn't clear how much money WiG will have to contribute toward Frischmuth’s travel and/or honorarium, but it is quite likely to be more than last year (as you may recall, last year we paid only the honorarium for Luise Rinser—which she donated back to us—and the Goethe Institute paid the rest).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IRMTRAUD MORGNER AND HELGA SCH&lt;span&gt;Ü&lt;/span&gt;TZ&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmtraud Morgner wrote that she and Helga Schütz would be happy to be WiG's guests in 1984! This is an exciting possibility—as Karen Achberger said, two are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; than twice as much as one! We have only just begun to investigate possible sources of funding to finance their trip, but again, we must be pre­pared to contribute a considerable amount—at the very least, the price of one round-trip plane ticket. Assuming that our membership supports the idea of bringing these two authors to our conference, the steering committee has dis­cussed the advisability of holding the WiG conference on the East Coast again in 1984—since travel to the West Coast would drastically increase the expenses of the guest authors. What are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; opinions on this? Also, if you have any good ideas for fund-raising, please write to the newsletter, or to Martha Wallach (U. of Wisconsin, Green Bay).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG YEARBOOK PROJECT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As agreed at the WiG business meeting at MLA, the steering committee is moving ahead with plans to produce a WiG 1982 yearbook. As you probably remember, this project was first proposed at the WiG conference in Boston. The yearbook will be a collection of papers selected from those sent in by the presenters at WiG 1982, WiG/AATG 1982, and WiG MLA 1982. All presenters have been sent a memo inviting them to send in their papers to be considered for inclusion in this volume by 1 May 1983. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(WIG yearbook, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Editors&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;referees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The steering committee members recommend that the yearbook be co-edited by two WiG members, we also think the yearbook should be a refereed publication, since most institutions discount unrefereed publications in tenure and promotion decisions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard (U. Illinois), who edited the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amsterdamer Beiträge&lt;/span&gt; 1980 special issue on Women and German Literature (Gestaltet und Gestaltend: Frauen in der deutschen Literatur), is willing to be one of the co-editors, provided that WiG members have no objection, we would welcome volunteers or nominations for the other co-editor. If we don't receive any, the steering committee will find someone willing so that the necessary work will get done.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concerning &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;referees,&lt;/span&gt; we think that each paper sent in should be reviewed by a WiG member (after all, who is better qualified to evaluate feminist research in Germanistik than we are?). The referee would provide written comments on the paper she reviews, recommending either: a) that the paper be published as sent; b) that the paper be revised according to specific suggestions before being published; or c) that the paper not be included in the yearbook. The co-editors would make the final decision. The author of the paper will receive a copy of the referee's comments.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WE ARE ASKING YOU, the members of WiG, to volunteer to review papers for the yearbook (except, of course, those planning to send in papers themselves). It would make it &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;much&lt;/span&gt; easier for the co-editors if they had a list of willing folks to choose from. Send Marianne a copy of your CV and say what areas of research you feel most competent to review. Do this by 1 May 1983. It would also be good to tell Marianne your summer travel plans. Address: Marianne Burkhard, [blackened out]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Publisher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne contacted the University Press of America. According to their brochure, and what we learned from participants in the Annual GDR Symposium (whose pro­ceedings are published by UPA), they offer organizations the opportunity to publish "on a timely basis and at a reasonable cost." The finished book is said to be available within 8 to 10 weeks of "camera-ready" manuscript submission.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The "reasonable cost" is as follows; the organization (i.e., us) must place a minimum order for 85 paperback copies at a 10% discount. (No other subvention is required). We think selling 85 copies in an organization of almost 300 members shouldn't be too difficult!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We see this first WiG yearbook as a pilot project, and plan to review and evaluate our procedures at the October 1983 WIG conference. In the meantime, let us know if you have comments, questions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TEXTBOOK COMMITTEE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linda Pickle writes that she has received most of the textbook reviews that were promised her, and expects the others soon. Since there are too many reviews to publish in one issue of the newsletter, we have decided to publish them all &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(textbook committee, coat.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;together. They will be mailed to all of you as a sort of supplement to the newsletter later this semester.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SYLLABI PROJECT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sydna (Bunny) Weiss and Sidonie Cassirer volunteered to collect syllabi from feminist courses WiG members have taught. Bunny wrote that she had applied for, and was granted, financial support from the Kirkland Endowment to fund the first part of the project—mailing the survey to all WiG members and to WS programs in the U.S. Also, there is a good chance that Hamilton College will help WiG fund publication of the results! Please respond promptly to the sur­vey when you receive it. (Note to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; WiG members; if you joined WiG later than Nov. 1982, your name and address aren't on the mailing list Bunny has.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her address: German Dept., Hamilton college, Clinton, NY 13323).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NON-PROFIT STATUS           -&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Encouraged by the WiG steering committee and sundry others, Jeanette is going to file an application to incorporate WiG as a not-for-profit organization.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The major advantage of that status for us seems to be financial: we'll be eligible for a lower bulk mail rate, we'll have tax-exempt status, and we'll also be eligible for certain grants and the like that aren't available to other organizations or to individuals. To get this status, of course, we have to invest a little money: a $26. filing fee and the attorney's fee (about $125.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FINANCIAL REPORT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Jan. - Dec. 1982) — from Jeanette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I thought you'd be interested in seeing where our money goes, so I've prepared a report for the calendar year 1982. since I've only been handling the money since August 1981, I can't say whether 1982 was a "typical" year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During 1982 we spent $1508.90, almost exactly the amount received in membership/ subscription income ($1512.50).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A big expense is typing, duplicating and postage for the newsletter and other mailings (e.g. calls for papers; the announcement of the Christa Wolf meeting mailed in Nov. 1982; outreach mailings). It may be possible to cut down these expenses somewhat, but keeping WiG members informed will continue to be a first priority. I made a decision to send all mailings involving a deadline (such as the August newsletter, which includes the conference program and registration form) by first class mail. Bulk mail is too slow and too unpredictable (can take 6 weeks or more for some members) when a deadline is involved. By next fall, I should have access to a word processor, and will try to develop a space-saving format for the newsletter, to reduce duplicating costs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concerning other expenses, I've asked the steering committee for advice and will be glad to receive suggestions from anyone else. So far, the only thing we (steering committee) have agreed on is not to have a separate cash bar at MLA again (cost was $100.21 for 1982), but rather to see if WiG can co-sponsor one with another organization, perhaps the Women's Caucus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 4&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(financial report, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This report &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;doesn't&lt;/span&gt; include income or expenses for the 1982 WLG conference in Boston, except that the money left over from WIG 1981 ($268.38, received Oct. 1982) was turned over to Joey Horsley to add to the travel reimbursement fund (for those who had to travel long distances to the 1982 conference and weren't eligible for travel money from their institution). All conference expenses, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Luise Rinser's honorarium, were paid for with income from conference registration fees.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tablecaption0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Money&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Received&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;interest earned on WIG account&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;$1512.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;268.38&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;80.78&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;$1861.66&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Money&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Paid&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;1.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;bulk mail imprint and permit for 1982, and renewal (12/82) for 1983&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;$ 120.00&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;2.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;typing, duplicating, postage for mailings to all WiGs (Feb., Mar., Aug., Nov.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;643.29&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;222.75&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;144.87&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;xeroxing and/or mailing of handouts, papers for&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;WiG at AATG, MLA&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;97.60&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;180.18&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Tablecaption0"&gt;$1508.90&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; 268.38 (money from WiG 1981 to travel fund for WiG 1982)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$1777.28&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The balance in the WiG account as of 31 December 1982 was $1190.63.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INCOME BREAKDOWN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also tried to do a breakdown by membership categories of the membership/ subscription income received during 1982. For various reasons, my records aren't complete. Sometimes I forget to record &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;when&lt;/span&gt; I deposited someone's check, or I neglect to write down &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;how&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;much&lt;/span&gt; someone paid. Other reasons why totals don't come out as expected are charges deducted by the credit union for handling a non-U.S. check, and checks received for amounts other than those specified for the various membership categories. The information I'm reasonably sure of is:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;1. New members during 1982&lt;br /&gt;11 who sent $ 3.00 $ 33.0&lt;br /&gt;14                  5.00    70.0&lt;br /&gt;14                  7.00    98.00&lt;br /&gt;17                 12.00   204.00&lt;br /&gt;3                   15.00     45.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;59                            $450.00&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;2. Renewing members in 1982&lt;br /&gt;13 who sent $ 3.00   $39.00&lt;br /&gt;16                  5.00     80.00&lt;br /&gt;36                  7.00    252.00&lt;br /&gt;42                 12.00   504.00&lt;br /&gt;11                 15.00   165.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;118                        &lt;br /&gt;$1040.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Page 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(financial report, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This adds up to 177 payments totalling $1490.00, which accounts for most of the membership/subscription income received in 1982. Again, I can't say how "typical" a year this was.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also have records of 40 subscribers who were dropped from the mailing list during 1982, either because their mail was returned to us or because they didn't respond to renewal notices.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DEPARTMENTAL SPONSORS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Remember the new membership category "departmental sponsors" introduced last November? So far, WiG has two such sponsors; the German Department at Ohio State University, Columbus; and (surprise) the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Indiana-Purdue, Fort Wayne. See the membership form at the end of the newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BACK ISSUES OF WIG&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Occasionally new subscribers (or even renewing ones) express an interest in receiving back issues of the newsletter. Most back issues are available in varying quantities, or copies can be made if the supply runs out. For some reason, though, I have &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; copy of issue 18 (Feb. or March 1979), and I'd very much appreciate it if someone who has a complete set would xerox that one and send it to me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i'll be happy to send back issues to anyone who requests them and is willing to pay the postage. To give you an idea, it would cost about a dollar to mail the three 1982 issues (Nos. 27, 28, 29). The earliest issues, from 1975, are very interesting to anyone wanting to know more about WiG's beginnings. —So, if you want back issues, write to me, Jeanette Clausen, at the newsletter address. Be sure to state how many you want (give issue numbers if you can).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CHRISTA WOLF&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As many of you already know, Christa Wolf will not be at OSU for the entire spring quarter, as originally planned. The April 9 meeting with her is can­celled; she will not be present at the conference on women, fascism, every­day life in Germany (April 28-30, 1983), which will take place as planned except for her participation. She will be at OSU in May, but will do &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; speaking engagements. So ist es eben. Ich wüsste nicht, was da noch zu sagen wäre.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CONFERENCE REPORTS &lt;strong&gt;MLA 1982&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By all accounts, the WiG sessions at MLA were well attended—too well, since over 200 people came to the film (Margareta von Trotta's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die blelerne Zeit) &lt;/span&gt;and the room had to be changed to accommodate them all; as a result, the session for presentation of papers was delayed, and the discussion didn't end until 11:30 p.m. Moral of the story: ask for a BIG room when scheduling a film showing. Marjorie Tussing prepared a useful handout with summaries of the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(conference reports, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;papers and a filmography on von Trotta, which was distributed at the session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sorry, the handout isn’t available for inclusion In this newsletter but you might write to Marjorie for a copy if you need one (Dept. of Foreign Lang, and Lit., California State U. at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92634). Marjorie also wrote that &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Film&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Quarterly&lt;/span&gt; had asked for a short write-up of the session, which she sent them in February. Thanks to Marjorie for all her work in organizing the program; thanks are also due to the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany, Los Angeles and the Goethe Institute, San Francisco for their support.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAIRY TALES IN THE CLASSROOM, chaired by Bunny Weiss (Hamilton College) and Wilma Iggers (Canisius College).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bunny writes that the session, held on Thanksgiving evening, attracted about 40 people and the papers sparked a very lively discussion. The presentations were:&lt;/p&gt;
1. Jane Barry (SUNY, Buffalo), "Female Archetypes in Märchen and the Classroom."&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;Images such as the witch, the seductress and the waif appear so frequently that it is important for both male and female students to understand what these images of women represent psychologically to the reader as well as to the writer and the culture as a whole. The archetypes are examined from a psychological point of view, and ways of dealing with them in the classroom are discussed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Maria M. Tatar (Harvard U.), "From Nags to Witches: The Stepmother in Fairy Tales." The witch in the woods who habitually menaces the protagonists of fairy tales often figures as a distorted mirror image of the stepmother at home. The paper explores the various transformations of the (step)mother in fairy tales and analyzes her dual role as witch and as enchantress. It attempts to show how the stepmother motif can serve as a point of departure for classroom dis­cussion of family structures in fairy tales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Cora Lee Nollendorfs (U. Wisconsin, Madison), "Fairy Tales as Ways of Learning: Approaches and Methods." The paper discusses the use of fairy tales in German classes at three levels, elementary language instruction; intermediate language Instruction; introduction to literary analysis. It outlines advantages to the use of fairy tales over other types of texts, and points out problems with the language of fairy tales and with their subject matter, especially stereotyped figures, it presents as examples ways in which several of the Grimm Märchen can be used.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAIRY TALE MOTIFS IN MODERN GERMAN/AUSTRIAN LITERATURE&lt;/p&gt;
1. Sue Bottigheimer (Princeton University), summation. In each of the papers, a fantasy world functions as a second, true reality. Most female figures appear to represent autonomous figures. Umfunktlonlerung of traditional fairy tale figures reveals shifting perceptions of these figures, and finally, such revisionist efforts are part of an ongoing tradition in fairy tale studies in general, not only by feminists, but also by Marxists, Freudians, Jungians, and social historians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(conference reports, cont.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Liselotte Weingant (Lake Forest College), "Barabara Frischmuths Soziale Zaubergeschichten." in the trilogy &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mystifikation&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;der&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sophie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Silber&lt;/span&gt; (1976), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;oder&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Metamorphose&lt;/span&gt; (1978), and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kai oder&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Liebe&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;zu&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;den&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Modellen&lt;/span&gt; (1979), Frischmuth utilizes elements from the fantasy world of fairy tales, especially by peopling her novel with characters from the fairy realm, as a descriptive medium for feminine reality. To help earthlings (die Enterischen), fairies take on human form and slowly lose touch with the harmonious world from which they came. The author's intention is to sharpen the reader's awareness of his/her own world, and prepare him/her to create it anew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Renate Delphendahl (University of Maine), "The Alienated Self in 'Undine Geht'." Growing out of the long tradition of Undine-Melusine figures, Bachmann's Undine represents the transfiguration and disappearance of the old figure. Her alienation in the world of loneliness and anguish parallels woman's alienation in a world of men. Furthermore, Undine rejects the language of men; her silence may be interpreted as Bachmann's verdict that women have no voice within the system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Karen Achberger (Saint Olaf College), "Beyond Language: Ingeborg Bachmann and Fairytales." While Bachmann's works often appear dark on the surface, at the level of realistic plot, for example, the actual utopian thrust of her prose lies beneath the surface in a mythical, musical, dream-drenched sub­structure of poetic allusions, often to fairytale characters, events, and relationships. Within her work one finds examples of fairytale motifs taken over unaltered, of role reversals, and total reworkings (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Umfunktionierungen) &lt;/span&gt;of fairytales, as well as "home-made" (mythopoetic) fantasies which Bachmann has created herself. Decoding these allusions to fairytales is crucial to understanding Bachmann's prose, which is informed by a tension between surface and subtext, that is between reality and a utopian vision beneath the surface of her prose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Joanna Ratych (Rutgers University), "Ilse Aichingers inquisitive Dwarfs." A large number of traditional fairy tale elements--dwarfs, seclusion in hermetically sealed places—appear in Aichinger's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dialogs&lt;/span&gt;. She uses these to integrate the phenomena of the everyday world with those of the world of magic, achieving the effect of distancing the phenomena of the everyday world in the eyes of the reader. Furthermore these fairy tale motifs function to reveal the problematic conditions in which growth and maturing take place.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG/AATF/ACTFL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MAINSTREAMING THE FL CURRICULUM: FEMALE AND MALE STEREOTYPING IN BEGINNING- LEVEL TEACHING MATERIALS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(One-day pre-conference workshop, Nov. 1982)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara D. Wright (U. Conn., Storrs)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The purposes of the workshop, which Betty Schmitz (Bozeman, Montana) and I organized, were: 1) to review progress made in removing sexism from teaching materials since the mid-1970's; (2) to identify problems that still exist; and (3) to propose new approaches and solutions based on recent research in Women's Studies. The morning session consisted of a keynote address by Peggy McIntosh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 8&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(conference reports, cont.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Director of Faculty Development, Wellesley Center for Research on Women), and presentations by Betty and myself. The afternoon was spent evaluating indi­vidual textbooks according to the guidelines of an evaluative instrument devel­oped by Betty.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Liberal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arts&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Curriculum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Peggy McIntosh emphasized that WS is profoundly altering our conception of liberal arts by asking how every academic discipline would change if it reflected the fact that women are half the world's population, and by investi­gating areas of human endeavor that have remained "invisible" up to now. She outlined the ways disciplines change when a WS perspective is applied, giving examples from history (focus not just on changes associated with "great" men, but also on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;un&lt;/span&gt;changing fabric of everyday life); political science (attention to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;informal&lt;/span&gt; structures of smaller social and political units rather than to men in formal power structures); art history (homecrafts, interior decorating, etc. rather than only a canon of "masterpieces"); and literature (besides necessary attention to "notable" women authors, also works in "pre-" or "sub-"literary genres, which may provide an alternative to the prevailing--male—world view); Peggy's remarks made clear that current FL textbooks, whether they emphasize "notables" and "masterpieces" or everyday life and social customs, don't even come close to taking into account the presence or contribution of women as 50% of a given society. WS gives us both the conceptual tools and the factual information for publishers and authors to draw on in order to create a more balanced, accurate picture. Also, publishers, authors and teachers must be open to ongoing re-evaluation and change, since a bias that has persisted so long can't be corrected in the course of one or two new editions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Convincing the Unbelievers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My talk began by following up on what Peggy had said concerning the teaching of culture. I have encountered many objections to teaching culture as she recommends that it be done. The four categories of objections and my responses to them are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1)   "But that's the way it really is." (our obligation to students to portray a given culture as it "really" is, not as we would like to have it). To this, I respond that, first, our texts must present an accurate picture of what women in that culture &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;really&lt;/span&gt; think and do, not what they are commonly believed to think or do. Second, when portraying women in "traditional" roles, we must communicate the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;value&lt;/span&gt; of the labor and services they provide—the homemaker or mother must not become the object of trivialization, humor or criticism, as has happened in the past. Third, when we encounter a seemingly undeniable cultural stereotype, we must still ask to what extent it reflects only a male perspective.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2)   The "good PR" argument: it's essential for FL to "win" students by presenting an attractive picture of country, culture and people (by implication, showing too much poverty or social inequity is "bad" PR). I believe this argument is ultimately self-defeating: students sense the inauthenticity of many of our texts and react with boredom or disinterest. We can't deliberately mislead them on the one hand, then expect them to trust us when we speak of the aspects of a culture that we admire. 3) "But it's good pedagogy for students to be able to identify with the people or subject matter they study." (hence, pre­sumably, the preponderance in FL textbooks of young, healthy, attractive, white, middle-class professionals-to-be). Here, we must ask "good for whom?" FL classes generally have more female than male students, yet male characters &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 9&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(conference reports, cont.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;consistently outnumber females in textbooks. Also, student populations are becoming more varied—and older—each year. We can no longer assume (if we ever could) that all FL learners will "identify" with the insipid post-adolescent concerns of so many textbook characters. 4) The "simplicity" argument: learning a FL and getting acquainted with a foreign culture are challenging enough without adding extra difficulties. Here, I think it is important to distinguish between legitimate simplification and irresponsible distortion. To leave unchallenged the stereotype of the German nuclear-family Hausfrau is no more defensible than letting students think all German men run around in Lederhosen. By incorporating the richness and vigor of WS research into the cultural component of our FL textbooks, we will have an intellectually stimu­lating, pedagogically responsible alternative to the predictable "explicit" cultural messages of FL texts, and a powerful antidote to their extraordinarily impoverished &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;implicit&lt;/span&gt; cultural messages as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Cultural&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Linguistic&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Connections&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I then turned to the connection I see between FL teaching and recent research by feminist linguists in discourse analysis, which has led to a better understanding of the differences between women's and men's speech. FL textbooks reflect an overwhelmingly "male" use of language, with emphasis on transmission of infor­mation and problem solving, and neglect of other uses. Yet McConnell-Ginet writes (in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Language in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Literature&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Society)&lt;/span&gt; that transfer of infor­mation is probably not the predominant use of language even outside literary contexts. She suggests, rather, that we talk above all to relate ourselves to others. When we look from McConnell-Ginet’s point of view at language as it is taught in current FL textbooks, we register the absence of countless phenomena of everyday speech: hedges and tag questions, "empty" adjectives, fillers, vocalized pauses. Dialogues students are expected to memorize contain almost nothing of the conversational dynamics that linguists have documented: topic initiation, interruption or switch of topic; conversation as a model for competitive or collaborative activity; and the sustaining of conversation by means of gambits, mediations, leading questions, interjections and the like (work, incidentally, which is shared in single-sex groups but which falls overwhelmingly to women in mixed-sex groups). Little attention is paid in most texts to the expression of strong emotion, to the subtleties and indirectness which characterize the speech of many women, or to the vast range of styles within a language: the language of intimacy, of newstelling or gossip, of irony, bawdy humor, storytelling and so on. As a result, students learn a bloodless and impoverished language, and gain no insight into the style they use in their native language, or into the conversational dynamics in which they themselves participate daily. If study of FL can teach students something of this, then they will have learned a powerful lesson indeed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Evaluating&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Available&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Materials&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Betty Schmitz explained that though progress has been made in the last decade in improving the image of women and minorities in teaching materials, the prob­lem is far from gone. She identified four aspects: 1) publishers' guidelines have not been systematically or consistently applied; 2) the new material on women added to textbooks has not been effectively integrated throughout the book; 3) a new generation of authors and editors is emerging with no knowledge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(conference reports, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;or consciousness of bias in textbooks, or with the perception that recent textbook revisions have distorted the reality of the target culture; and 4) the more subtle and pervasive forms of bias in language and culture have not been addressed. She identified six forms of bias in curricular materials: 1) exclusion, 2) stereotyping, 3) linguistic bias, 4) fragmentation or isolation, 5) unreality, and 6) historical inaccuracy or incompleteness. The first four of these are relatively easy for most of us to identify. Analysis for realism and historical accuracy would require specific expertise and a considerable time investment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During the afternoon session, participants used Betty's evaluative instrument to examine individual textbooks in French, German, Italian and Spanish, and concluded with a discussion of what we had found and how the texts could be improved. The wrap-up discussion was chaired by Michel Grimaud (French, Wellesley College). Though enrollment was not all we had hoped for, we were very pleased to have representatives from two publishing companies with us; Houghton Mifflin and Scott Foreman. Participants praised the workshop for the quality of the presentations and for the wealth of new insights it had given them. Just recently, Madeline Gutwirth of the MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession asked us whether we would be willing to repeat the workshop at the 1983 convention in New York, and the commission is now considering whether to sponsor us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG 1982&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(The following reaction to the Boston conference was received too late for the November newsletter)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Some&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;reactions&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;an&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;old-timer&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;who&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;hasn't&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;been for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;awhile&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So many conferences, however stimulating, deplete and exhaust one's energy. However tired I was after our 4-day Thompson Island conference, I was not depleted, nor exhausted. After a couple years' absence from our meetings, I was grateful to learn firsthand that we have managed to keep our original goals intact. We had, so long ago, at the MLA in S.F., 1975, decided to always con­vene in an informal atmosphere, one that would allow us to be supportive as we exchanged ideas and experiences—and Thompson Island was just such a setting. More than that, though, I could see that though we have grown considerably and though we now have a fairly large steering committee, WIG still retains and maintains its original intent. The organizational structure of the steering committee encourages an impressive openness, never becoming a cumbersome burden overshadowing our aims.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The impressions that remain with me are varied and mostly encouraging. Aside from the numerous personal contacts I renewed, and the energy and encouragement I gained from the many diverse papers and presentations, I felt a particular pleasure in being able to bring along my daughter Alyssa (her first WIG was in Ohio at 4 months of age). Having her along really meant combining those often at odds characters of mother and professional; it meant, too, the unex­pected pleasure of sharing with those women, whom I had known professionally a long time, what they, too, experience as mothers. It was a sort of "coming out". Joey Horsley and Barbara Wright deserve all our thanks for their&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(some reactions...cont.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tremendous talents in organizing everything—not the least, for me, was day­care. It enabled me to listen to papers, enter discussions, exchange ideas and information and also to enjoy myself. My grateful thanks to WIG for pro­viding child care. Having Alyssa along let me integrate my work with my life in a way that I've not been able to do before and many of my colleagues in various departments where I teach have expressed great enthusiasm for what WIG continues to do in a ground-breaking way. Although I think we can pat ourselves on our backs for this, there remain, nonetheless, some unspoken dilemmas. For the parent it frequently means a feeling of isolation as others naturally are preoccupied with the business at hand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our conference was so full that I've already exceeded my space limit without mentioning everything I wanted to. Let me then be brief in my conclusion: our ongoing effort to include inter-disciplinary views by inviting non-German speaking participants, as well as those professionally active in Germany, continues to be stimulating and exciting; our lengthy discussion on which language to use seemed unnecessarily divisive and I was glad to see us resolve it in an open manner (it seems to have been an "unspeakable"?!); did we realize the tremendous effort Patsy Baudoin (of Schoenhof's bookstore)--herself a Ph.D. candidate in Comp. Lit.—made in hauling all those great books to the island?!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What more can I say? —Plenty, mostly thanks to all those of you who have done ail the nitty-gritty work these past years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Charlotte Ärmster, Dartmouth College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG 1983&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;STIMME SUCHEN, STIMME FINDEN&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 13-16, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thompson Island, Boston&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The overall theme, "Stimme suchen, Stimme finden," is meant to encompass a wide spectrum of issues, ranging from being able to speak loudly enough to be heard, to speaking the "unspeakable," finding an authentic personal/professional voice in speaking and writing, and contributions from contemporary critical and theo­retical work on gender, voice, Öffentlichkeit, etc. to feminist work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14, morning. Interdisciplinary Panel, "Stimme suchen." Feminist Perspec­tives on Work from Other Disciplines. Presentations in English. Inquiries or proposals to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both:&lt;/span&gt; Helen Fehervary, German Dept., OSU, Columbus, OH 43210 and Judith Jamieson, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 April 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14, afternoon. "Fiction, Fantasy and Freedom: Testing the Limits in Post-War Women's Literature." Presentations in German. Three-page abstract or&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 12&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(calls for papers cont.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;detailed outline to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Dagmar Lorenz, German Dept., OSU, Columbus, OH 43210, and Barbara D. Wright, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, U. Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;15 May 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14, evening. Consciousness-Raising session. Topic; Rape and Sexual Assault. Inquiries to: Almut Poole, [blackened out]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 15, morning. "Stimme finden.” (1) Ten-minute presentations in German or English on practical strategies for success in finding a voice in the classroom and the university. (2) Role-playing of solutions to problems in classroom and university. Abstracts for (1) or/and descriptions of problem situations for (2) to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both: Irmgard Taylor,&lt;/span&gt;  [blackened out]                and Jeannine Blackwell, [blackened out] by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;15 March 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 15, evening. Reading by Barbara Frischmuth, followed by discussion. Coordinator: Karen Achberger, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 16, morning. "Lost Voices, New voices." the "canon." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Inquiries&lt;/span&gt; or proposals to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both;&lt;/span&gt; Dorothy Rosenberg, [blackened out] and Resa Dudovitz, [blackened out]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more detailed information, see the November issue of the WiG newsletter or contact the respective session organizers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanksgiving Weekend, San Francisco, CA&lt;/p&gt;
1. (Literary). "Women and Peace." Edith Potter, Dept. of German, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 91711, and Jorun B. Johns, Dept. of Foreign Languages, California State college, San Bernardino, CA 92407. Deadline for proposals was 1 March 1983.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. (Pedagogical). "Teaching About Women and Peace." Helga Kraft, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, U. Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, and Ric Johnson, Dept. of Mod. For. Lang., Indiana U.-Purdue U., FW, Fort Wayne, IN 46805. Deadline for proposals was 1 March 1983.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;December 27-30, 1983&lt;br /&gt;New York, NY&lt;/p&gt;
1. "Women Making Literary History: The New Generation of Women Writers in the German Democratic Republic." Patricia Herminghouse, Dept. of Germanic &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 13&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(calls for papers cont.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Languages and Literatures, Washington U., St. Louis, MO 63130, and Renate Delphendahi, Dept. of Foreign Langs, and Classics, U. Maine, Orono, ME 04473. Deadline was 1 March 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
2. "Feminist Re-Visions of Literary History." Treatment of women authors by literary historians, women and the literary canon, traditional periodization and women writers, etc. Paper or abstracts to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Bärbel Becker-Cantarino, Dept. of Germanic Langs., [blackened out]  U. Texas, Austin, TX 78712, and Sieglinde Lug, Dept. of For. Langs, and Lits., U. Denver, Denver, CO 80208, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 May 1983&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other programs planned for MLA 1983:           
&lt;p&gt;"Critical Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann." A Special Session Conmemorating the Tenth Anniversary of Her Death. Though Bachmann's name comes up during almost every discussion at WiG meetings, there has not yet been a session de­voted entirely to her life and work. This MLA special session, long overdue, will include an overview of Bachmann scholarship and feminist (re-)appraisals of her work. Abstracts to; Karen Achberger, Dept. of German, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;20 March 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Brecht and Women," program planned by the International Brecht Society for MLA 1983. A continuation of the discussion at MLA 1982, the topic Brecht and women will also be the subject of a special issue of the Brecht Yearbook. For 1983, we are especially (but not exclusively) interested in a focus on the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;mother&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;figure&lt;/span&gt; in Brecht's work. Preferred language is English. Graduate students, actors, directors and political activists are encouraged to participate. It would be wise to write a short version (10-20 min.) for oral delivery and a longer version, if youwishjforpossiblepublication. Abstracts to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Patty Lee Parmalee, [redacted] and Janelle Reinelt, [redacted] by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;15 May 1983&lt;/span&gt;. Deadline for final copy is 1 September 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Please Remember&lt;/span&gt;; potential speakers for the 1983 convention must be listed on the MLA membership rolls by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 April 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;IVG 1985, in Göttingen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Message from Marianne Burkhard.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Internationale Vereinigung für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (IVG) will hold its 7th Congress from August 25-31, 1985, in Göttingen. Prep­arations for the program are already underway. IVG has about 1000 members from all over the world, and holds a congress every 5 years presenting a cross-section of the "state of the art." Since participation by women panelists in 1980 left something to be desired and presentation of feminist perspectives was almost absent, WiG should make a concerted effort to change this for 1985. There are several things we can do:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Become members of IVG; dues are DM 100.- for 5 years, not an exorbitant sum when considering MLA dues for one year. Members will pay a substantially reduced conference registration in Göttingen. Applications for Beitragsermässigung oder -erlass are being accepted; whether they are easily granted I don't know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 14&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(IVG 1985, in Göttingen cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
2. Propose topics for a) entire sections, and b) individual papers. At this point, the general topic is known: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kontroversen, alte und neue&lt;/span&gt;. This summer there will be a sort of seminar in which the specific sections or fora will be further delineated. At the end of 1983 the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Vorankündigung&lt;/span&gt; will be mailed to members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Propose names of women who could be tapped for the (probably) 6-8 &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenarvorträge,&lt;/span&gt; for chairing sections, etc.
&lt;p&gt;I propose the following things for now; please send me your ideas for specific &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;sections&lt;/span&gt; by April 25. I will then condense them and send a letter to IVG pro­posing that these topics be considered this summer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also send me names of people for chairing them as well as for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenarvorträge&lt;/span&gt;. Probably we should suggest that one &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenarvortag&lt;/span&gt; be a feminist statement, i.e. present a feminist view of either a particular field or discuss feminist con­tributions on a larger scale. Of course, we don't know the general topics of these &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenarvorträge&lt;/span&gt; yet, but it would be good to offer topics and people. Next winter it will be up to all of us to send in proposals for papers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let me hear from you—it is time that we appear on this international scene as a new generation offering new and exciting perspectives! MY address: [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address of IVG: IVG, Sekretariat, Nikolausberger Weg 15, D - 3400 Göttingen. (I will get a supply of registration forms so you can also get them from me in some weeks.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONFERENCES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THIRD WORLD WOMEN AND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES, April 9-13, 1983, U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For information: Conference Coordinators, Office for Women's Resources and Services, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CONDITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS. An International Conference on German Women in the 18th and 19th Centuries, April 15-17, 1983, Nolte Center for Continuing Education, U. Minn., Minneapolis. For information; Leslie A. Denny, Program Coordinator, Dept. of Conferences, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN at NEMLA, April 14-16, 1983, in Erie, PA. Program on "Literary Representations of the Woman Revolutionary in the Literature of the FRG," Friday, April 15, 8:30-10:00 am. Chaired by Liselotte Kuntz, U. Georgia, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, Athens, GA 30602.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN, FASCISM, EVERYDAY LIFE IN GERMANY, April 28-3049834 Ohio State U. For information: Helen Fehervary, Dept. of German, [redacted] OSU, Columbus, OH 43210.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 15&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(conferences cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINISTISCHE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT: ZUM VERHÄLTNIS VON FRAUENBILDERN UND FRAUENLITERATUR, May 24-28, 1983, in Hamburg. For information: Inge Stephan/ Sigrid Weigel, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, 2 &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hamburg&lt;/span&gt; 13, Von Melle Park 6, FRG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN IN THE RENAISSANCE, The Newberry Library, May 20-21, 1983. For information: Mary Beth Rose, Center for Renaissance Studies, rhe Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610. [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINIST EDUCATION: QUALITY AND EQUALITY. Fifth Annual National Women’s Studies Association Convention, June 26-30, 1983, in Columbus, OH. For more detailed information see &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women’s&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Studies&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Quarterly,&lt;/span&gt; Vol. X, No. 4 (Winter 1982), p. 40. For conference information and registration: Marie Longenecker and Suzanne Hyers, Convention Coordinators, Center for Women’s Studies, [redacted] OSU, 230 West 17th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RECENT ARTICLES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies International Forum&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. 5, #6 (1982), Special Issue, "Reassessments of 'First Wave’ Feminism,” contains several articles on women and feminism in Germany:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ute Gerhard, "A hidden and complex heritage: reflections on the history of Germany's women's movements,” pp. 561-567.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christel Wickert, Brigitte Hamburger and Marie Lienau, "Helen Stocker and the Bund fur Matterschutz," pp. 611-18.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marion Kaplan, "Prostitution, morality crusades and feminism: German-Jewish feminists and the campaign against white slavery," pp. 619-627.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate Duelli-Klein, "Accounts of 'first wave' feminism in Germany by German feminists," pp. 691-696.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The publishing offices of WSIF are: (for North America) Pergamon Press, Inc., [redacted] (for the rest of the world)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, OX3 OBW, U.K.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recent German articles in English translation in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;off&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;our&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;backs&lt;/span&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Down With Social Work; German Feminists Criticize the Politics of Shelters," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;oob&lt;/span&gt; Nov. 1982, pp. 18-19. (first appeared in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;, July 1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview, "A Jewish Feminist in Germany: Many Reasons to Leave, But Many Reasons to Stay," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;oob&lt;/span&gt; Jan. 1983, pp. 12-13.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;******&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(recent articles cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A forthcoming issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Critique&lt;/span&gt; will contain an English translation interview with Christa Wolf, "Kultur ist, was gelebt wird," in which she dis­cusses &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Rein &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ort. Nirgends. &lt;/span&gt;The interview first appeared in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Alternative&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FORTHCOMING: third, revised edition of The Annotated Guide to Women’s Periodicals in the U.S, and Canada. For ordering information, write to T. Mehlman, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LOST WIGGIES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mail for the following people has been returned marked "undeliverable." Information as to whether they still wish to receive the newsletter would be appre­ciated. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anneliese M. Duncan                 Susan Cocalis&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[redacted]                                [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Report of WiG 1982 from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;, December 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Germanistinnen unter sich&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Thompson Island, eine grüne Insel, gelegen im Hafen von Bo­ston, rundum die Stadtsilhouette. Ich sitze in einem Raum mit 50 bis 60 Frauen; wir diskutieren Fragen feministischer Wissen­schaft und Erfahrungen aus dem Alltag von Frauen, die als Germa­nistinnen an Colleges und Univer­sitäten der USA lehren (oder stu­dieren). Anlaß ist die 7. Jahresta­gung von „Women in German". Dieser Verband ist ein Forum zum Austausch von Erfahrungen und Arbeitsergebnissen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Trotz der idyllischen Lage und .der außergewöhnlichen Zusam­menkunft entsteht kein Insel-Ge­fühl, wie es mich oft bei Frauen- Wochenendseminaren oder Frauenwochen beschleicht — in der Vorahnung des „Realitätsschocks" bei der Rückkehr in den patriar­chalischen Arbeitstag. Es sind nicht die durchs Fenster sichtba­ren Wolkenkratzer, die an die Wirklichkeit erinnern: Es ist das Selbstbewußtsein, die Selbstver­ständlichkeit, z.T. auch der Prag­matismus der Beteiligten, denen man anmerkt, daß sie ihre Arbeit weniger außerhalb bzw. am Rande der Institutionen machen als die Frauen in der BRD. Es ist auch ei­ne Atmosphäre der Sicherheit, die aus der Geschichte des Verbandes kommt, der inzwischen ein recht gutes Kommunikationsnetz hat und an die wichtigsten akademi­schen und Fachorganisationen an­geschlossen ist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Vor sieben Jahren ist „Women in German" gegründet worden, in­zwischen hat der Verband ca.280 Mitglieder, überwiegend Frauen, einige wenige Männer, die sich mit Frauenliteratur beschäftigen. Das Ziel ist die Institutionalisierung und das Bemühen, Positionen an den Universitäten, aber auch in Fachzeitschriften und -verbänden zu erlangen, um Women’s Studies, feministische Forschungiund auch einzelne Frauen fördern zu kön­nen. Inzwischen sind etliche Mit­glieder Professorinnen oder sitzen an Stellen, wo sie wissenschafts­politische Entscheidungen beein­flussen können. Mit 10% Frauen unter den Lehrenden an Colleges und Universitäten ist die Situation um einiges besser als in der BRD (3% in der Prof.-Gruppe).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Auf dieser Jahrestagung ging es um folgende Themen: Femini­stische Wissenschaft, Randbewe- gungen im deutschen Sprachraum, gibt es eine 'weibliche Germani­stik'? Aussprechen des Unaus­sprechlichen. Als Gast-Autorin war Luise Rinser eingeladen. Durch dieses Programm konnten theoretische, methodische, politische und persönliche Fragen des Feminismus in den Debatten und Vorträge zusammengeführt werden.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Für mich war der für deutsche Verhältnisse auffallend .pluralisti­sche’ Umgang mit Differenzen be­fremdend: faszinierend und ange­nehm, wie tolerant und ohne Drang zur Selbstdarstellung dis­kutiert wurde und wie sachlich und unbürokratisch gemeinsame Entscheidungen in einem großen Plenum gelangen; schön auch zu sehen, wie offen für die Interessen anderer sich die meisten zeigten, unverständlich aber auch, wie schnell einzelne von ihren Vorschlägen abließen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sigrid Weigel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;P.S. Ein ähnlicher Kongreß soll vom 24.-28. Mai 83 in Hamburg stattfinden mit dem Thema: „Fe­ministische Literaturwissenschaft zum Verhältnis von Frauenbildern und Frauenliteratur".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kontakt: Inge Stephan/Sigrid Weigel, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, 2 Hamburg 13, Von Melle Park 6&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Schoenhof’s&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;ESTABLISHCO 1856&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;SCHOENHOF’S FOREIGN BOOKS, INC. BOOKSELLERS - IMPORTERS - PUBLISHERS 1280 MASS. AVE.                                              CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 02138&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fiction by women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Arnim, Bettina von&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Günderode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Insel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;17.60 (hard)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Behrens, Katja (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Vom Lob der Frau&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Insel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;13.75 (hard)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Kamenko, Vera&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Unter uns war Krieg&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Rotbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5.20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Jannberg, Judith&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Ich bin ich&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F3735&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5.20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Novak, Helga&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Eisheiligen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F5068&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Balladen vom kurzen Prozess&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Rotbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Landnahme von Torre Bela&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Rotbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Offenbach, Judith&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Sonja&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;st 668&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Reinig, Christa&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Entmannung&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;SL 253&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;8.45&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Schroeder, Margot&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Ich stehe meine Frau&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F1617&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;3.90&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Der Schlachter empfiehlt noch &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;immer Herz&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauenbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;9.75&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Wolf, Christa &amp;amp; Gerhard Till&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Eulenspiegel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;SL 435&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;8.45&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;        &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Non-fiction about women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Burmeister, Elisabeth (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen machen Frieden&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Laetere&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Hammer, Signe&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Töchter und Mütter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 3705&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5.20&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Hausen, Karin (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen suchen ihre Geschichte&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Beck&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;13.00&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Meulenbett, Anja&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Feminismus und Sozialismus&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;konkret&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Radel, Jutta (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Liebe Mutter, liebe Tochter:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauenbriefe aus Dreijahrhun-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;derten&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;ullst. 20230&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Schenk, Herrad&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen kommen ohne Waffen...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Beck&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;11.05&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Weigel, Sigrid et al.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen, die pfeifen&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;es 968&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;7.80&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Weigel, S. &amp;amp; Geiger, R.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Sind das noch Damen?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauenbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;18.95&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;general &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;pedagogical interest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Erzählet Zeit: 50 Kurzgeschichten der Gegenwart&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;rec. 9996&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;7.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Wege der deutschen Literatur: ein Lesebuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;ullst. 35062&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Deutsche Erzählungen des 19. Jahrhunderts&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;dtv 2099&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;8.45&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Deutsche Gedichte von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 2197&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Wiener Moderne! Literature, Musik &amp;amp; Kunst zwischen 1890 und 1910&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;rec. 7742&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;12.50&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Wendepunkte deutscher Geschichte&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 3421&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Blinn, Hansjürgen  Informationshandbuch: deutsche Literaturwissenschaft&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 7318&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;11.05&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Payment can be made by check, mail order, MasterCard, VISA, or American Express (include expiration date of credit aard). For shipping please add $2.00 for the first three books and $0.50 for each additional one. We welcome special orders for books not in stock. Thank you very much.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt;, November 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;BÜCHER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection7"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kommt ein neues Buch aus der amerikanischen Frauenbewe­gung auf den Markt, wird es meist erst dann gelesen, wenn eine deut­sche Übersetzung vorliegt. Der Blick ins Lexikon macht das Lesen be­schwerlich.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Diese Sammlung von Erfahrungsbe­richten lesbischer Jüdinnen aus Amerika habe ich allerdings sofort gelesen. Denn dieses Buch hätte in Deutschland nicht geschrieben wer­den können, und es ist sicher auch kein Zufall, daß es bislang nicht übersetzt worden ist. Die physische und kulturelle Ausrottung von Jü­dinnen und Juden während des Nationalsozialsmus hat sich auch unter bundesrepublikanischen Verhältnis­sen soweit fortgesetzt, daß noch die jüngeren Generationen betroffen sind. Deutschland ist eben auch heutzutage kein Land, in dem Jüdin­nen eine eigene lesbische und femi­nistische Kultur entwickeln könnten. Und die deutsche Frauenbewegung ist kein Ort, wo Lesben und andere Frauen sich als Jüdinnen zusammen­finden. Es muß ganz kraß gesagt werden: Man kann in der bundes­deutschen Frauenbewegung Mutter sein, alleinstehend, kinderlos oder bärtig, asexuell, heterosexuell, behindet und lesbisch, verheiratet, geschlagen, vergewaltigt, Karrierefrau, Hausfrau, Hausbesetzerin, grün oder Sozialdemokratin, aber Jüdin kann man dort eigentlich nicht sein. Betretenes Schweigen, ratlose Gesichter, Pein­lichkeit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;„We don’t exist“, schreibt Evelyn Torton Beck in der Einleitung dieses Buches. Dennoch gibt es in den USA lesbische Jüdinnen, die über sich schreiben, die offensiv und ironisch sagen: „That’s funny, you don’t look like a jewish lesbian.“ Diese Frauen, Minderheit in der Frauenbewegung, Minderheit in der Lesbenbewegung und Minderheit in der jüdischen Gemeinschaft, konnten sich soweit zusammenfinden, daß sie selbst­bewußt über sich schreiben: Jüdische und lesbische Identität, Was bin ich für mich selbst?, Briefe aus Jerusa­lem, Juden im Patriarchat, Anti-Se-mitismus in der feministischen Be­wegung, schöne jüdische Frauen. „Nice Jewish Girls“ ist sicher kein brillantes Buch. Es bringt keine sen­sationellen Strategien und utopi­schen Wagnisse, aber viele Berichte sind voller Empfindsamkeit und Witz, Klugheit und Stolz. Es sollte auch hier möglichst bald erscheinen, damit die Diskussion beginnt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;VERA SLUPIK&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Nice Jewish Girls&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Evelyn Torton, Persephone Press&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Auf der Suche nach unseren Müttern&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hrsg. von Sara Lennox&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; Luchterhand, 16,80 Mark &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;Feministische Kulturkritik hat in Ame­rika nicht nur Tradition, sondern durch­aus Aktualität und Zukunft. Einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Tenden­zen der 70er Jahre bietet dieser Band, der, egal ob aus Zustimmung oder Kritik, die eingeschlafene Diskussion hierzu­lande wieder beleben könnte.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt; ******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DEADLINES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 May 1983:&lt;/span&gt; Papers for possible publication in WiG Yearbook to Marianne Burkhard, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 June 1983&lt;/span&gt; (or sooner!): WiG 1983 session organizers provide information (title of session, participants, description; equipment needed, if any to Edith Waldstein, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 August 1983:&lt;/span&gt; absolute final deadline for information to be included in August 1983 WiG newsletter. Newsletter address: WiG, Modern Foreign Languanges, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This newsletter was typed by Janice Guiff and Connie Munk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 19&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Number 29&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;November 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Another WiG conference has come and gone. If I had to sum up WiG 1982 in a word--and thank goddess I don’t--I would probably choose &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;action&lt;/span&gt;. Not to describe the various comings and goings, though there were quite a few, but the intense, action-oriented discussion, often leading to suggestions for practical steps we can and should take, as individuals and collectively, to make our organization even more effective, and the need to communi­cate these ideas to the whole membership. The sentence most often addressed to me personally was an imperative: "Put that in the newsletter!"--a grammatical form that also says something about the mood of WiG 1982. I hope you’ll find things you can act on among the many proposals, events and projects resorted on in this issue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;All was not urgent calls to action, of course; there was a lot to learn and enjoy. The conference summaries will give you some idea of the variety of topics addressed. LUISE RINSER was a vocal and interested participant in most of the sessions, besides giving an animated, delightful reading. She also generously returned her $200 honorarium to WiG, with the proviso that the money be used to buy books for students attending the conference. (Joey Horsley and a representative from Schoenhof books in Boston have worked out the details of this arrangement.) We decided to name Luise Rinser a lifetime &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ehrenmitglied&lt;/span&gt; of WiG in expression of our appre­ciation and respect.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Another welcome guest from the other side of the Atlantic was Sigrid Weigel from Hamburg. She announced a conference on femi­nism and Germanistik to take place in Hamburg in May (see announce­ment, p. 26). Sigrid has been a subscriber to WiG for several years, having learned of our existence from American exchange students. She has published on feminist topics, and hopes to form a German coalition of Frauen in Germanistik. She plans to join us again at MLA in Los Angeles, and will doubtless have more news to report by then. The prospect of our becoming a truly international feminist network seems more concrete because of Sigrid Weigel’s visit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The conference in Boston was also, as always, a chance to renew old acquaintances and make new ones. Not surprisingly, more women from eastern states attended than ever before, some for the first time (one woman told me she was "long overdue" for a confer­ence like WiG). However, many people noted with some chagrin that there seemed to be fewer students at WiG 1982 than at former conferences. A frequent topic of discussion was "für den Nachwuchs sorgen," and we agreed that student participation in the conference should be a priority of our "outreach" for 1983. Outreach for 1982 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;was coordinated by Barbara Wright, who did a heroic job of pre­paring a mailing to 1000 women AATG members in several eastern states. (Responses to that mailing are still coming in as this newsletter is being prepared!) Thanks are due everyone who worked on the conference, but especially to Barbara as general coordi­nator and publicizer; to Joey Horsley for making all the arrange­ments with the conference center and handling registration; and Martha Wallach for her work with the Goethe Institute to arrange Luise Rinser's visit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Joey Horsley reports that there &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;will&lt;/span&gt; be money to give (partial) travel reimbursement to those who requested it after all confer­ence expenses are paid. Joey also sent a list of all 1982 con­ference participants' addresses and phone numbers. If you would like to have this list in addition to the complete WiG membership list (enclosed), write to WiG and it will be sent to you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Work and planning are already underway for WiG 1983--see summary of the business meeting and calls for papers. In the meantime, don't forget all the other WiG events, coming up sooner than you think.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AATG 1982&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;7:30-9:45&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;full-day workshop, MAINSTREAMING THE FL CURRICULUM: Male and Female Stereotyping in Beginning-Level Teaching Materials&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAIRY TALES IN THE CLASSROOM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAIRY TALE MOTIFS IN GERMAN WOMEN’S WRITING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN BUSINESS MEETING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See August 1982 issue of WiG or AATG newsletter for workshop and session participants and topics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The major agenda item for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;business me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;eting&lt;/span&gt; is discussion of WiG's participation at the 1983 AATG meeting. The topic proposed for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt; 1983 sessions is WOMEN AND PEACE.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt; 9 (Sept. 1982) findet ihr einen Bericht über den Frauen-Friedensmarsch Berlin-Wien, 1982. "Nein, nein, das ist nicht wahr, nicht recht, die Frauen sind kein schwach Geschlecht ..." Informa­tionen über weitere Pläne über: Ellen Diederich, Finkenhofstr. 32, 6000 Frankfurt 1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Sessions arranged by WiG for MLA 1982:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;(291) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tue. Dec. 28&lt;/span&gt; BUSINESS MEETING AND CASH BAR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;5:15-7:30 pm Presiding: Marianne Burkhard, Linda Pickle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be a report on decisions made at the WiG business meet­ing at AATG; discussion of plans for WiG at MLA 1983 in New York (proposed topic: WOMEN AND LITERARY HISTORY); news of forthcoming events and projects, etc. Concerning 1983, we need to remember that, beginning in 1983, allied organizations may arrange &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;two &lt;/span&gt;meetings for a convention (with the proviso that a proposal for a third meeting may be submitted to the program committee for review—see MLA newsletter, fall 1982). This affects WiG, since we have always arranged two sessions &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; a business meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What are our alternatives?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(610) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wed. Dec. 29&lt;/span&gt; Film showing: DIE BLEIERNE ZEIT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7:15-9:00 pm                                                 Margareta von Trotta&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The film showing is made possible by the Goethe Institute, San Francisco.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(635) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wed. Dec. 29&lt;/span&gt; WOMEN AND GERMAN FILM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:00-10:15 pm Presentation of papers and discussion&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See MLA convention program for participants and topics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also of interest to us, especially given the many projects we pro­posed during the 1982 WiG conference, is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(264) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tues. Dec. 28&lt;/span&gt;, 3:30-5:15 pm OPEN HEARING OF THE MLA COMMISSION ON THE    STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As many of you know, one of WiG's founding mothers, Evelyn Beck (U. Wisconsin, Madison) was recently appointed to the commission. She encourages WiG members to attend the open hearing to state our concerns and to present proposals for projects, forums, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A few of the many other sessions that will interest WiG members are: (29) Feminist Re-Visions of New German Cinema; (104) The Rediscovery of Romanticism by Contemporary German Writers and Lit­erary Critics; (549) Critical Perspectives on Christa Wolf; (666) Brecht and Women. WiG members participating in these and other MLA sessions, please remember to take advantage of the opportunity to spread the word about WiG events and our organization!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As always at MLA there are many conflicts. To give just one example, the WiG business meeting conflicts with: (285) The Future of the Division on Women's Studies in Language and Literature; (298) The Gay Caucus Cash Bar; (299) The Women's Caucus Cash Bar. (!)--Can't be changed for this year, but we can speak up about it, and try to insist on more thoughtful programming for the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* Update: Marjorie Tussing reports a possible second film: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutschland&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;bleiche Mutter&lt;/span&gt; (Helma Sanders-Brahms). If available, it will also be shown on Dec. 28; watch the "Convention Daily."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 4&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEETING WITH CHRISTA WOLF&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Plans are underway for a one-day meeting for WiG members with Christa Wolf in Columbus, Ohio. The date is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 9, 1983&lt;/span&gt;, just two weeks before the conference on women and fascism, April 28-30, also in Columbus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;All WiG members in the US and Canada will be sent a special first- class mailing containing detailed information about the April 9 meeting, registration form, and so on. If you haven’t received this special mailing by early December, please contact Jeanette Clausen, Dept. of Modern Foreign &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Langu&lt;/span&gt;a&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ges, Indiana U.-&lt;/span&gt;P&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;urdue U.&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fort Wayn&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;, IN H68O5.&lt;/span&gt; Phones: [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;For information on the women and fascism conference, please write to Helen Fehervary, Dept. of German, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH 43210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG 1982&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;LUISE RINSER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;On Saturday evening (Oct. l6), Luise Rinser read two selections from her works. The first was a section from the Dorothea Lilien­thal story in her novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der schwarze Esel&lt;/span&gt; (1974), which describes the arrest of the old Jewish woman by the Nazis. Rinser then pre­sented parts of her new unpublished novel (still without title), which attempts a new interpretation of the Maria Magdalena figure emphasizing emancipatory aspects. A long, intense discussion followed the readings, focusing primarily on the second text, but it also included general questions about Rinser’s works.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;-- Elke Frederiksen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;ÜBER DIE FRAGE: GIBT ES EINE WEIBLICHE GERMANISTIK?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Oct. 15, 1982. Chaired by Sandy Frieden (U. Houston)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Each of the panelists responded to this question on the basis of her personal experience. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Elke Frederiksen&lt;/span&gt; (U. Md.) outlined some theoretical considerations. She urged conceptual clarification and differentiation ("feministisch,” “weiblich"), quoting Gisela Bock: "Wir wollen mehr als nur Objekt und Subjekt der Wissenschaft werden: wir wollen sie und die Gesellschaft verändern. Radikal." (opening address, first Frauensommeruni, Berlin 1976). Elke also emphasized that we must guard against having our work relegated to &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 5&lt;br /&gt;(weibliche Germanistik, continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a “Sonderecke für Frauen." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres&lt;/span&gt; (U. Minn.) addressed several "problem areas," among them: 1) Women's Studies as a program tends not to acknowledge national literatures other than English and American; (2) many Germanists oppose WS; (3) new research on women is often regarded with suspicion, by students as well as faculty; (4) conflicts between German and American Germanists; (5) isolation of feminist Germanists; (6) difficulties in doing interdisciplinary research. She urged that we not be intimidated by the "non-specificity" of interdisciplinary work and adopt/adapt new methods while guarding against over-using jargon and ahistorical analysis; she suggested that open-endedness may become the major contribution of feminist aesthetics. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sidonie Cassirer&lt;/span&gt; (Mt. Holyoke), picking up on points the first two speak­ers had made, gave a brief review of how the profession, especi­ally the MLA, has dealt with us since 1969 (when the MLA Commission on the Status of Women was created). She urged that we renew our emphasis on literature within WS, and that we make ourselves visible in new ways in the MLA and other professional organizations &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jeannine Blackwell&lt;/span&gt; (Indiana U.) sent the following summary of her presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;‘‘Anonym, verschollen, trivial. Methodologische Hindernisse in der germanistischen Forschung über Frauenliteratur."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To examine the distorted image of German women’s literature to which we have access primarily through standard reference works of Germanistik, we have to develop new ways of reading the "old" scholarship. Using the examples of Frederike Helene Unger and Therese Huber, I explained that we must learn "rückwärts lesen"-- we must turn articles and lexicon entries backwards to find the interesting, nonconformist information; we have to read appendices and later editions to discover pennames, anonymous writings, discrepancies in dating and false attributions; seek women's writ­ings under the names of fathers, sons, and husbands’, read title pages, forewords, and pictures (rather than library entry cards) to find more information on the author (place, earlier works, familial connections). We have to read 19th and early 20th cen­tury Frauenliteraturlexikone critically. We need to have scholar­ly feminist work on the following topics: Frauenzeitschriften; the differentiation of Frauenliteratur and Trivialliteratur; a new &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lexikon deutscher Frauen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;der Feder&lt;/span&gt;, with reviews of works and first editions listed, and with short discussions of novels from a feminist perspective. We need research on f.amily connections of female authors: LaRoche-Brentano-Arnim, Wolzogen-Schiller,Karsch-Chezy, Gatterer-Nathusius-Reuter; investigation of women's collaboration on journals, anthologies, etc. (Fouque and Helvig); work on women's income, self-support, and writing--women authors and money. And of course, we need a comprehensive history of German women's literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-- Jeannine Blackwell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 6&lt;br /&gt;(weibliche Germanistik, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After the panel presentations we divided into small groups to come up with concrete suggestions for dealing with the problems raised. Here is Sandy Frieden's summary of the small group reports, which she presented during the concluding session on Sunday, 10-17-82.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandy emphasized that we must learn to think of ourselves differ­ently: We, Women in German, are making history, and we need to take our WiG identity "out there" (i.e., everywhere), and think of ourselves as agents of change.&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ongoing items&lt;/span&gt; for publication in the WiG newsletter: a) re­ports of work in progress; (b) a thematic listing of new transla­tions of women's writings; (c) a listing of WiG members' special­ties (possibly to develop a speakers' bureau, etc.); (d) an ex­change of syllabi on feminist courses we've developed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Projects for potential publication in Germanist journals&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(a) collect and publish tips on feminist pedagogy; (b) publish articles on integrating feminist methodology and theory into Germanistik; (c) do a survey of German departments to find out where feminist courses are taught. (Ed. note: an example of how not to do such a survey is the one published by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Monatshefte&lt;/span&gt; in 1978 (Vol. 70, pp. 290-308). I would recommend we use the model of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Everywoman's Guide to Colleges and Universities&lt;/span&gt; (available from The Feminist Press, Old Westbury, NY 11568. $12.95 paper). In other words, we should aim to identify German depart­ments that provide a good environment for feminist study, teach­ing and research in German Studies).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For future WiG sessions&lt;/span&gt;: work as a group to update reading lists (for undergrad., M.A., and Ph.D. programs) so that German women writers are included. (This is related to identifying our specialties, 1.(c) above, since those who've worked in a given area could make the most informed recommendations).&lt;/p&gt;
4. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Coordinated WiG projects&lt;/span&gt;: a) publish a new WiG membership list (included in this mailing); (b) make a concerted effort to put pressure on publishers for new editions of out-of-print works, inexpensive editions of new and old works, and new translations; (c) organize a German-American feminist festival; (d) publish WiG conference proceedings; consider forming a publishing collective (the latter idea from Sidonie Cassirer; contact her if you are interested) .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;5. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;PR about WiG&lt;/span&gt;: a) expand the WiG mailing list; distribute the WiG information sheet (the yellow sheet enclosed with this news­letter) to non-members; (b) be mentors for other women ("für den Nachwuchs sorgen!"); become more visible at regional as well as national MLA meetings; (d) attend interdisciplinary conferences such as WAGS (Western Association for German Studies) and explain WiG's work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 7&lt;br /&gt;(weibliche Germanistik. continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;6. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tips&lt;/span&gt;: a) make an effort to get "our things" into university libraries (new editions, translations, etc.); (b) compile a bib­liography of alternative sources (e.g., sources that aren’t "normally" included in, say, a research methods course); (c) in­itiate faculty study groups on your campus; (d) think of other things to do, and let the rest of us know about them!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concluding session: MAKING CONNECTIONS, RESPECTING DIFFERENCES 10-17-82. Chaired by Sara Lennox and Jeanette Clausen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara opened the session by suggesting that we think about utopias, a theme of Luise Rinser's reading and a structuring theme for WiG (the annual WiG conference as a concrete utopia, a place to begin to realize some of our visions; the larger utopia—beyond getting women's literature into the curriculum). She proposed discussing: 1) how Wig 1982 had met and failed to meet our utopian expecta­tions; (2) the larger utopia and what keeps us from making the ' necessary connections (e.g., why did the unspeakable not get spoken?); (3) "Was tun, was nun?" Erste Schritte.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The discussion began with language, especially how the language used during the conference affects those attending for the first time. The discussion showed that, however non-hierarchical we strive to be, we may come to WiG with very different hierarchies in terms of our expectations. Some women felt strongly about us­ing more (or only?) German at WiG, especially when the guest author has difficulty understanding English. Others found the mix of languages comfortable and appropriate. Several people reminded the group that individuals may have strong emotional responses to using one or the other language to discuss sensitive (or unspeak­able) topics such as antisemitism. Some were not aware of the policy agreed on a couple of years ago (presentations in the lan­guage preferred by each speaker; discussion in both languages but in German as much as possible in consideration of the guest author).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Suggestions for dealing with some of these problems were: 1) to provide a list of all conference participants to everyone attend­ing; (2) to consider using a different color name tag for those attending WiG for the first time; (3) to review previous policy decisions at the beginning of the conference or before individual sessions; (4) to have more small groups, especially to begin the conference; to have small groups discuss personal concerns (rather than, or in addition to, focusing on a topic); (5) to ask presenters wishing to speak English to hand out a German summary (or ask presenters to prepare summaries in each language); (6) to specify that some sessions (especially those involving the author and/or her works) be in German, and that others (interdisciplinary sessions and CR-type sessions) be in English (or both languages) and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;announce&lt;/span&gt; this in the conference program.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Suggestions concerning the conference in general were: to have fewer presentations in each session, with time for discussion after &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;each&lt;/span&gt; presentation; to renew efforts to keep the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;length&lt;/span&gt; of presentations to 10 minutes; for longer sessions, to structure in a 10 or 15-minute break; to announce specific texts to be read ahead of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 8&lt;br /&gt;(Concluding session, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Suggestions concerning the BUSINESS MEETING were: to get nomina­tions (and, where appropriate, biographical information) to the steering committee in time to have an agenda duplicated and dis­tributed; to assign a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;time limit&lt;/span&gt; to agenda items to keep them from expanding to fill all the time available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Turning to the larger topic ("how can we use feminist Germanistik to change the world?") (not to forget how the world changes us!), we discussed mainstreaming, the need for more grass-roots work, outreach, etc. It was suggested that theoretical developments in Women’s Studies are tending more toward a separatist feminist po­sition, while the practical movement is not, and cannot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concerning "Was tun, was nun?" Sandy Frieden presented her summary of the suggestions that had come out of the small group dis­cussions on Friday evening (see p. 6).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-- summary by Jeannette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ERSTE SCHRITTE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Are you feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the "concrete suggestions" for action? Are you unsure what you personally can do? Here are some things we can &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; do, as &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;individuals&lt;/span&gt;, starting immediately.&lt;/p&gt;
1. Convince your department to become a SPONSOR of WiG (idea from Leslie Adelson and others at OSU). Sponsoring departments will pay $25.00 per year (or more if they choose) to receive the WiG newsletter and any other WiG mailings. Money generated in this way will be used to help finance WiG projects such as publi­cation of a yearbook or conference proceedings. See &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;revised membership form&lt;/span&gt; at the end of this newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Xerox 5 (or more) copies of the statement about what WiG is (the yellow sheet enclosed with this newsletter) and send it to women Germanists who aren’t yet members inviting them to join (check membership list, enclosed).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Give someone a gift subscription to WiG if you can afford to. (Special offer: you can give &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;two&lt;/span&gt; one-year student subscriptions for $5.00!)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. Encourage students to join WiG, attend conferences, send in proposals. When feasible, encourage students to choose course projects that dovetail with WiG session topics and/or the works of the author we invite. (Do this especially if you are a faculty member).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 9&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Erste Schritte, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
5. Try to get your department (or other university office or organization) to fund student travel to WiG. Say it’s important to a course project you're doing (see no. 4 above) or, if you're a faculty member, to a course students are taking from you. Es­pecially if you are a department chair or other administrator, help others learn how to get funding for travel, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. After you've attended a WiG conference or WiG sessions at other conferences, circulate a short summary of what went on to everyone in your department, offering to share bibliographies, etc. that you've brought back. (Idea from Jeannine Blackwell, who was pleasantly surprised at the number of responses she got to her summary of WiG 1982 from her colleagues: "I figured they'd use it for scratch paper, but they read it!")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Think about which larger project you'd like to work on, and let WiG know—the newsletter editor and steering committee can put interested people in touch with each other.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One project will already be underway by the time you read this: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sydna Weiss&lt;/span&gt; (Hamilton College) and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sidonie Cassirer&lt;/span&gt; (Mt. Holyoke) volunteered to write to all WiG members to collect syllabi for feminist courses, and to investigate possibilities for publishing or otherwise distributing them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(WiG 1982, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINISTISCHE WISSENSCHAFT 10-15-82. Chaired by Sara Lennox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our five panelists outlined recent developments in various areas of feminist scholarship. Linda Gardiner (Philosophy, Wellesley) located the concerns of feminist philosophy in the political and cultural context of a struggle for civil rights, a tradition of self-help psychology, and the lack of a left party here. Feminist philosophers have concentrated on ethics, the nature and causes of women's oppression, and on philosophy of language and the useful­ness of male methodology for feminists. Barbara Kaltz (Linguistics, Waterloo) distinguished three areas of research in feminist lin­guistics:              language and sexism; language, gender, and power; and the possibility of a women's language. She argued for linguistic precision (e.g. a distinction between sexist language and the sexist use of language)and said that much of the necessary research remains to be done. Hélène Wenzel (Women's Studies, Yale) dis­cussed recent French thought, stressing the contributions of Hélène Cixous (écriture feminine and writing the body), Luce Irigaray (the mother/daughter relationship, the importance of touch, a female morphology to replace that of male language), Julia Kristeva (the semiotic as a component of language deriving from the pre-oedipal relation to the mother), and Monique Wittig (the creator of a feminist discourse which draws on other French literary traditions). Gertraud Gutzmann (German, Smith) discussed themes important for women's writing in the GDR: tradition and generational continuity in women's writing, the importance of the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 10&lt;br /&gt;(Feministische Wissenschaft, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;generation of women who built the GDR (Wolf, Morgner, Wander), issues of isolation and alienation in younger GDR women's writing, and the relationship of literature to social changes toward which GDR women aim. Sigrid Weigel (Literaturwissenschaft1iches Seminar, Hamburg) outlined a theory for investigating German women's writ­ing, stressing their participation in and simultaneous exclusion from male norms, producing what she terms "der schielende Blick."(A longer version of this talk is published in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die verborgene Frau&lt;/span&gt;, to appear). The abundance of material presented in this session made it, Wiggles seemed to feel, both frustrating, since there was virtually no time to discuss the many issues the panelists had raised, and extremely fascinating.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;-- Sara Lennox&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bibliography&lt;/span&gt; distributed at the above session&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;(A selective listing &lt;i&gt;of&lt;/i&gt; works in feminist philosophy from the last ten years or so» focusing especially on very recent works. The books which contain substantial further bibliographies are marked with an asterisk.)&lt;/p&gt;
A. Bibliographies&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;N.T. Bazin, "The Concept of Androgyny: a Working Bibliography", &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies&lt;/span&gt; 2, no. 2 (1974).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;J. English, "Review Essay:                        Philosophy". &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt; 3 (Summer 1978).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;J. Moulton. "Review Essay:                       Philosophy". &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt; 2 (Winter 1976)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;C. Pierce. "Review Essay: Philosophy", &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt; 1 (Winter 1975).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;M.A. Warren, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Nature of Woman&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;an Encyclopedia and Guide to the Literature&lt;/span&gt; (1980).&lt;/p&gt;
B. Historical Anthologies&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;R. Agonito, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;History of Ideas on Woman&lt;/span&gt; (1977).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;M. Mahowald, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophy of Woman&lt;/span&gt; (1978).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;* M.L. Osborne, ed., Wo&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;man in Western Thought&lt;/span&gt; (1979). A. Rossi, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Feminist Papers&lt;/span&gt; (1973).&lt;/p&gt;
C. Anthologies of Current Articles&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;R.    Baker and F. Ellison, eds.» &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophy and Sex&lt;/span&gt; (1975).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;S.    Bishop and M. Weinstein, eds.» &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophy and&lt;/span&gt; W&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;omen&lt;/span&gt; (1979).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;* &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Building Feminist Theory&lt;/span&gt;:                              &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Essays from Quest&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;J. English, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sex Equality&lt;/span&gt; (1977).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;C. Gould and M. Wartofsky, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Philosophy&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Toward&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Theory of Liberation&lt;/span&gt; (1976: based on the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophical &lt;/span&gt;Forum issue listed below).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 11&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;(Anthologies, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
B. Harding, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Discovery and Reali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ty&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Perspectives on Metaphysics&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Epistemolog&lt;/span&gt;y, M&lt;span&gt;ethodology and the Philosophy of Science&lt;/span&gt; (forthcoming 1783).
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;* A. Jaggar and P. Rothenburg, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Frameworks&lt;/span&gt; (1978).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;A. Koedt, E. Levine, A. Rapone, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Radical Feminism&lt;/span&gt; (1973). J. Sherman and E. T. Beck, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Prism of Sex&lt;/span&gt; (1979).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;A. Soble, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophy of Sex&lt;/span&gt; (1980).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;M. Vetter1ing-Braggin, F. Ellison, J. English, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminism and Philosophy&lt;/span&gt; (1977).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;* M. Vetterling, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sexist Language&lt;/span&gt; (19B1).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;M. Vetterling, ed., "&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Femininity&lt;/span&gt;", "&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Masculinity&lt;/span&gt;”, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; ”&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Androgyny&lt;/span&gt;“: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;a Modern Philosophical Discussion&lt;/span&gt; (1982).&lt;/p&gt;
D. Special issues of journals&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Monist&lt;/span&gt; 57 (January 1973): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Liberation&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ethical&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Social and Political Issues&lt;/span&gt;. .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophical Forum&lt;/span&gt; 5 (Fall-Winter 1973-74): Women and Philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt; 7 (Spring 1982): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Theory&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Several journals in Women's Studies and in Philosophy regularly include articles on feminist philosophy: these include &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Studi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;es&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;International Journal of Women ' s Studies&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies International Forum&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophy and Public Affairs&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and New Left Review&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hypatia&lt;/span&gt;, a journal of feminist philosophy, will start publication in 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
E. Books&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;* M. Barrett, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women 's Oppression Today&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Problems in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Marxist-Feminist Analysis&lt;/span&gt; (1980).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;A. Dworkin, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Woman Hating&lt;/span&gt; (1974).&lt;/p&gt;
A. Dworkin, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pornography&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Men Possessing Women&lt;/span&gt; (1979).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Z. Eisenstein, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Rad i ca1 Future of Lib era 1 Feminism&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;* J.B. Elshtain, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Public Man&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Private Woman&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;N. Hartsock, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Money&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sex and Power&lt;/span&gt; (forthcoming 1983).&lt;/p&gt;
B. Hooks, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;* S. M. Ok in, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in Western Political Thought&lt;/span&gt; (1979).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;J. R. Richards, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Sceptical Feminist&lt;/span&gt; (1980).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;S. Rowbotham, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Woman's Consciousness&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Man's World&lt;/span&gt; (1973).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;S. Rowbotham, L. Segal and H. Wainwright, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beyond the Fragments&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminism and the Making of Socialism&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Linda Gardiner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Wellesley College&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 12&lt;br /&gt;WiG 1982 (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;RANDBEWEGUNGEN IM DEUTSCHEN SPRACHRAUM.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Oct. 15, 1982. Chaired by Linda Pickle and Brigitte Wichmann.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;’’Die neue bundesdeutsche Friedensbewegung.” Der Doppelbeschluß zur ’’Nachrüstung” der NATO vom 12. Dezember 1979 ist die wichtigste Ursache für das große Wachstum der Friedensbewegung in den letzten paar Jahren, das fast allen eine Überraschung war, sogar in der Bewegung selbst. Die NATO hat vor, amerikanische Pershing II-Mittelstreckenraketen und Marschflugkörper (cruise missiles) 1983 und 1984 in Europa, besonders in der BRD, zu stationieren, was ’’das Gleichgewicht des Abschreckens" ändern wird, denn sie hätte zum ersten Mal von Europa aus eine Erstschlagkapazität gegen die UdSSR. Besonders die Krefelder Initiative, eine Gruppe von Kirchenleuten, Wissenschaftlern, ehemaligen hohen Militärs und Vertretern politischer Parteien und Verbände versucht, die Mehrheit der Bundesbürger/innen gegen die Nachrüstung zu gewinnen. Der Kernsatz des Krefelder Appells lautet: "Wir appellieren an die Bundesregierung, die Zustim­mung zur Stationierung von Pershing II-Raketen und Marschflugkörpern in Mitteleuropa zurückzuziehen." Vom 16. November 1980 bis zum Früh­jahr 1982 haben 2,5 Millionen in der BRD den Appell unterzeichnet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Die Teilnahme der christlichen Friedensorganisationen und einzelner Christen ist die wichtigste Basis der neuen bundesdeutschen Friedens­bewegung. Die große Bonner Demonstration vom 10. Oktober 1981 wurde von der evangelischen Aktion Sühnezeichen organisiert. Vom 8. bis zum 22. November 1981 hatten 3000 evangelische Kirchengemeinden Friedenswochen. Die zweite Hauptquelle der Bewegung sind die Gewerkschaftler, obwohl sie heute weniger beitragen als in früheren Jahren. Der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund selbst bleibt relativ zurück­haltend. Die Ökologie-Bewegung ist nicht nur eine dritte wichtige Quelle der Friedensbewegung, sie ist zum Teil das Vorbild für die lokale und politisch autonome neue Bewegung, die sich erheblich von den allgemein-politischen Orientierungen der älteren friedenspoli­tischen Orientierungen unterscheidet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Viele Deutsche behaupten immer noch, daß die Friedensbewegung eine Randbewegung sei. Ich zitiere Dietmar Schonherr: "Ich habe gesagt-- in einer Live-Sendung des Schweizer Fernsehens--, daß ich es für eine Frechheit halte, wenn 300.000 Leute in Bonn auf die Straße gehen, das als eine Demonstration von Randgruppen zu bezeichnen." Als Germanisten/ innen müssen wir präzis mit der Sprache umgehen. Ich nenne die Friedensbewegung eine Alternativenbewegung, eine lebensnotwendige Alternative zum Wahnsinn der Aufrüstung. Und wenn wir diese Alter­native nicht zur Basis unseres Lebens machen, bleiben wir alle am Rande der atomaren Vernichtung.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;--Ric Johnson&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Ft. Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wish I'd said that dept.&lt;/span&gt;: "Ich wähle hier die weibliche sprachliche Form ’Studentinnen’ als allgemeine Form, da sie die männliche ein­schließt." (Sigrid Metz-Göckel, "Feminismus an der Hochschule").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 13&lt;br /&gt;(WiG 1982, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE, 10-16-82. Chaired by Angelika Bammer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This session was an exploration of the politics of language--the many (often unacknowledged and unconscious) ways in which social relations of power both shape and, in turn, are shaped by what we say, how we say it, and what remains unsaid. The presentations (by Lynnie Ozer, Marlene Heinemann, Jeanette Clausen) explored the importance of naming ("lesbian," "Jewish," "working-class") as a means of self-affirmation and respectful recognition of our differences. They also, once again, made very evident the fact that naming, in and of itself, will not bring about change as long as the names still function to mark categories of oppression in the society at large. In the ensuing small CR-group discussions, we collectively encountered some of the very language barriers the presentations had brought out. We found how easy and comfortable it is to use our (academically trained) verbal skills to avoid speaking of that which is confusing, painful, and often perceived as shameful to us. Intellectual abstraction, we found, can dis­guise the degree to which we are, in fact, "betroffen." We struggled, finally, with the question of how to use our ability to analyse and verbalize as a tool to help us confront and work our way through the territory of the unspeakable, rather than as a means of talking and getting around it. As each of the small groups in turn shared the result of their discussion with the group as a whole, we concluded, not with answers, but with the questions we wanted to think about and work on in the future. We asked (among other things): How much is important to say? Can one say too much as well as too little? Does naming separate us by reenforcing othernesses or does it create a community in which difference can be acknowledged? Can we identify ourselves in sol­idarity with an oppressed group without being a member of that group personally? Do we make sore spots more sore by touching them? Or does touching, ultimately, heal?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Bammer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 14&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG BUSINESS MEETING, Oct. l6, 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chaired by Marianne Burkhard and Linda Pickle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meeting began with announcements of forthcoming conferences (see list, p. 26).&lt;/p&gt;
1. It was moved and seconded (Helen Fehervary, Elke Frederiksen) that WiG pursue possibilities for obtaining institutional and other financial support. The motion was approved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. The first agenda item was to elect &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;steering committee&lt;/span&gt; members for vacant slots. Also, some modifications were proposed: (a) to lengthen the term to three years instead of two, because continuity is desirable and because the first year may be spent mostly in learning; (b) to make the treasurer/newsletter co­ordinator position ex-officio. This modification allows for six regular members with staggered terms and also gives more flexi­bility since the newsletter position isn't tied to an elected term. The following statement incorporating these modifications was approved:
&lt;p&gt;The Steering Committee is made up of 6 members of WiG who serve staggered three-year terms, and one ex-officio mem­ber with voting rights who is the treasurer and news­letter coordinator. The two members in their third year of service act as co-chairs for that year. New members are elected at the annual WiG conference but their term begins at the December MLA meeting and ends with the MLA meeting in three years' time. New members elected at the conference serve as non-voting members until the MLA meeting. Unexpected vacancies on the Steering Committee are filled by runners-up in the election. A geographic distribution of SC members is desirable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Steering Committee is responsible for conducting the ongoing business of the organization. They do this in accordance with the charges given them by the WiG member­ship as expressed at the annual conference. Their duties are determined by the concerns of the membership. De­cisions which have to be made in between the yearly con­ferences are accomplished by mail or phone contacts among SC members. Agreement of a majority of the SC members is necessary for such decisions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussion of vacancies and continuing positions followed. Linda Pickle preferred not to extend her term for a third year because she will be on leave. Marianne Burkhard, Martha Wallach, Joey Horsley and Almut Poole were willing to extend their terms. Nominations for the two vacant slots were then discussed. Two nominees, Sandy Frieden and Helen Fehervary, asked to withdraw their names because of their many other commitments but stated that they were willing to serve as alternates in case vacancies came up. Barbara Wright and Jeannine Blackwell were elected by ballot (a landslide) to &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 15&lt;br /&gt;(Business meeting, continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fill the remaining positions. So, the SC membership now is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1980-1983: Marianne Burkhard (U. Ill., Urbana), co-chair 1983 and chair, political action committee. Martha Wallach (UWGB), co-chair 1983 and fund-raiser for guest author.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1981-1984: Joey Horsley (U. Mass., Boston). Almut Poole (UCLA).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1982-1985: Barbara Wright (U. Conn.). Jeannine Blackwell (IU Bloomington).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Treasurer/Newsletter: Jeanette Clausen (IPFW), 1981-?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alternates: Sandy Frieden (U. Houston) and Helen Fehervary (OSU).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ed. note: Outgoing member Linda Pickle chairs the textbook com­mittee, which expects to publish its report in spring 1983. Thus, it seems reasonable to wait until the WiG conference 1983 to de­cide on a new chair for that committee. Other previously proposed SC duties (bibliography committee, outreach, etc.--see "charges, functions and duties," Nov. 1980 newsletter) need to be discussed at a future meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
3. WIG 1983 (and 1984)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Location&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was a long discussion of whether to hold the 1983 Los Angeles area (as proposed last year) or to remain in the east for another year. Ultimately, the group decided on the latter, the major reason being to build a strong active membership in the east (as we had done in the midwest) before moving to another area. The following resolutions were approved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a) to make a strong effort to reach and actively involve west-coast people, starting immediately (and especially during MLA 1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;b) to meet in the east at least one more year and review the whole situation again next year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;c) to agree to Thompson Island as an acceptable meeting place for 1983 while investigating other possibilities (the major reason being that flights from most major cities to New York usually cost less than to Boston, so a site easily accessible from La Guardia would probably be preferable to one in Boston). Members who agreed to investigate possible sites were: Martha Wallach, Barbara Wright, Sidonie Cassirer, Edith Waldstein.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;d) to hold a 3-day conference again in 1983 (Thursday evening through Sunday noon).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Business meeting, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to our previous agreement as to the date (third weekend in October) the dates will be Oct. 13-16, 1983 (unless the con­ference center isn't available then, or some such).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Conference organizers&lt;/span&gt; will be Joey Horsley, Edith Waldstein, Barbara Wright and Martha Wallach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Guest author&lt;/span&gt;, 1983 and 1984&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As agreed last year, IRMTRAUD MORGNER had been invited to be WiG’s guest in 1983. (Many thanks to Karen Achberger for assuming responsibility for contacting her). Morgner sent word that for family reasons she couldn’t accept for 1983 but was interested in being invited for a later date. Accordingly, it was agreed to write her right away to invite her for 1984. (NB: Karen has already done this).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After much discussion, the group voted in favor of inviting BARBARA FRISCHMUTH (Austria) for 1983. (NB: the letter of invitation, written by Karen, who is becoming something of an expert at this, has already gone out, so with luck we may have an answer by the time we meet again at MLA). If Frischmuth is unable to accept, Verena Stefan and Gabriele Meixner will be invited; if they can’t come, Ilse Aichinger will be asked. (Ed. note: if no one wants to come, the steering committee will go into a little frenzy of phone-calling).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Conference Theme and Session Topics&lt;/span&gt;, WiG 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The overall theme agreed on for WiG 1983 was STIMME SUCHEN, STIMME FINDEN. The theme is intended to encompass a wide spectrum of issues discussed this year, ranging from being able to speak loudly enough to be heard across the room, to "speaking the unspeakable," finding an authentic personal/professional voice (for writing and speaking), and more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With details still to be worked out by the respective coordinators, sessions agreed on were:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thursday evening&lt;/span&gt;: informal get-acquainted time, possibly with small­ group discussions of a personal nature rather than on an assigned topic. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Coordinator needed&lt;/span&gt;, please volunteer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday morning&lt;/span&gt;: Interdisciplinary panel, "Stimme suchen" (presen­tations in English), to include work from feminist psychology on voice, identity, space, conversation, Öffentlichkeit. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Coordinators&lt;/span&gt;: Helen Fehervary, Judith Jamieson.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday afternoon:&lt;/span&gt; Literary session (presentations in German), to include discussion of the guest author’s work. Focus will be fantasy if Barbara Frischmuth is the guest (coordinators: Dagmar orenz, Barbara Wright); if Verena Stefan and Gabriele Meixner are the guests, the focus will be translation (coordinators: Jeanette Clausen and another person).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 17&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Business meeting, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday evening&lt;/span&gt;: CR session, focus on violence against women. Coordinator: Almut Poole (and another person?).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday morning&lt;/span&gt;: “Stimme Finden." Focus on the personal/professional and how not to have the split between them. Coordinators: Jeanine Blackwell, Irmgard Taylor, with Almut Poole&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;: Business Meeting&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday evening&lt;/span&gt;: Author's reading, followed by discussion. Coordinator: Karen Achberger (if Barbara Frischmuth is the guest)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sunday morning&lt;/span&gt;: ''Lost Voices/New Voices." Coordinators: Dorothy Rosenberg and Resa Dudovitz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;For detailed announcements received so far, see pp. 18-19.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;4. WiG at AATG, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The topic agreed upon for both WiG sessions (I. pedagogy; II. literature/culture) at the 1983 AATG meeting is WOMEN AND PEACE. Members who volunteered to work on this topic were: Gertraud Gutzman, Helen Fehervary, Margaret Ward, Pat Herminghouse Irmgard Taylor, Laureen Nussbaum, Martha Wallach, Leonora Cayard. Coordinators for the two sessions Will be decided when it is known where the AATG will meet in 1983. If the meeting is in West Ber­lin, WiG members attending will try to plan an extra meeting with feminist Germanists there.&lt;/p&gt;
5. WiG at MLA, 1983 (to be held in New York).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Near the end of this four-hour meeting, Helen Fehervary moved that the WiG topic for MLA 1983 be "Women and Literary History," and the exhausted group approved this topic. Since there was neither time nor energy to work Out details, further discussion and appointment of coordinators will take place at MLA 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
6. The final item of discussion was the April 9, 1983 WiG meeting with Christa Wolf. Jeanette Clausen will coordinate the announce­ments, schedule, and registration; Leslie Adelson (OSU) will co­ordinate logistics in Columbus.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;-- Summary of meeting by JC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;FINANCIAL REPORT: a conservative calculation of WiG finances shows that after all expenses for 1982 are paid (including the November newsletter, other mailings, bulk mail permit renewal, and cash bar at MLA) We will still have at least &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;$1100.00&lt;/span&gt; in the WiG account!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 18&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1983: CALLS FOR PAPER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Friday morning, Interdisciplinary Panel, “Stimme Suchen.” Feminist Perspecties on Work from Other Disciplines (tentative title).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The coordinators see a variety of possibilities for WiG to begin discussing voice from a feminist perspective. Judy Jamieson suggests three broad areas: 1) social studies fields, both theoretical and applied; (2) politics, broadly defined to include media coverage of political events and issues as well as theory and/or women active in the political arena; (3) the arts, again broadly defined to include music, dance, crafts, etc. as well as literature and visual arts. Presentations might focus on German women using their voices in any of these areas. Helen Fehervary is especially interested in new theories of identity, sexuality, Öffentlichkeit, culture. She asks: “Do the findings of contemporary critical theory, structuralism, etc. provide models of discussion which we (feminists) can modify or expand? To what extent does our knowledge of such tradition help/hinder us in the search for women’s voices?” Possible topics might be Focault and the question of sexual and gender identity; Habermas or Negt/Kluge and the notion of Offentlichkeit regarding such forms as the salon; and/or others. Send questions proposals, suggestions to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Helen Fehervary, German Dept., [redacted] OSU Columbus, OH 43210, and Judith Jamieson, Prividence College, Providence, RI 02918, by April 1, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Friday evening, Consciousness Raising Session&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Almut Poole is planning a session to deal specifically with rape and sexual assault (rather than dealing superficially with the entire area of violence against women). She proposes to discuss: a) the scope and extent of the problem; (b) causes and prevention models, primarily a contrast of the traditional protection model as espoused by law enforcement and a (re-educational) empowerment model of feminist origin; (c) an analysis of why we have rape in society (possibly using a videotape about one. woman's victimization). The presentation will be followed by CR sessions in small groups. Almut writes: "I'd very much like to see a follow-up on this issue: how does literature deal with it? Another important related issue is language and the importance of language change. And, most of all, how can we incorporate these topics into our teaching?" Address: Almut Poole, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Saturday morning, "Stimme finden"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;1. Ten minute presentations (in German or English) on practical strategies for success in finding a voice in the classroom and in the university: for example, getting women authors into the German Dept. curriculum, methods for dealing with the administration, handling classroom problems of gender/genre/performance. One-page-abstracts by March 15, 1983 to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt; Irmgard Taylor, and Jeannine Blackwell, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 19&lt;br /&gt;(Stimme finden, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;2. We also ask everyone to send in their &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;specific&lt;/span&gt; classroom and university &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;problem situations&lt;/span&gt; : i.e. , racist student remarks, faculty interaction problems, administration refusal of money or space for women's studies projects, lack of German in women's studies courses. Send us your problems: we will try to find so­lutions in the small group discussion, using role playing. Please make the description very brief--less than one page. Send to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both &lt;/span&gt;Irmgard Taylor and Jeannine Blackwell.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday morning, "Lost Voices/New Voices" (tentative title)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Questions we would like to address include: What are the ideolo­gical functions of women's popular literature? What need does popular literature fill? Why have scholars been reluctant to look seriously at women's popular literature past and present? What are the relationships between popular literature and the "canon"? Send inquiries or proposals to both: Dorothy Rosenberg, [redacted] and Resa Dudowitz, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FACULTY POSITION IN GERMAN                                           &lt;br /&gt;Miami University, Ohio&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Chair&lt;/span&gt;, Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages; Senior&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;level appointment beginning Fall 1983. Specialist in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German literature &lt;/span&gt;or &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;linguistics&lt;/span&gt; with evidence of scholarly accomplishment and with commitment to teaching at all levels of the curriculum. Administrative experience desirable. Department consists of 15 full-time faculty teaching German, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. M.A. program in German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Send resume and 3 letters of reference by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;November 19, 1982&lt;/span&gt; to Dr. Joseph Urell, Dean, College of Arts and Science, Upham Hall, MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Oxford, Ohio 45056.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Miami University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following list of research projects was collected during the October 1982 WiG conference in Boston. All WiG members are in­vited to send information about their research to the newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margaret E. Ward, Wellesley College: working on a critical bio­graphy of Fanny Lewald (18II-I889); projected completion date January 1985.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mary ONeill, U. Maryland, Baltimore County: translating sections of Gabriele Wohmann, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ausflug mit der Mutter&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard, U. Illinois, Urbana: Grillparzer's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sappho&lt;/span&gt;, Stael's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Corinne&lt;/span&gt; and Goethe's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tasso&lt;/span&gt;: images of poets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut R. Poole, UCLA: Diss. Still (!) working on a linguistic analysis of modern feminist (German) literature (autobiographical writings) to show that certain linguistic features are utilized at a higher frequency by feminist writers than by others (male and female). Also: editor of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt;, newsletter that functions as a link between research and services related to rape and sexual assault.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sydna Weiss, Hamilton C.: germ of an idea only--Aging Women, probably in 19th and 20th C. German literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Patricia Herminghouse, Washington U.: Anthology of post-war women writers for new Suhrkamp/Cambridge series of readers for American students of German; recent developments in feminist criticism (for Wisconsin Workshop).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lioba Multer, OSU: book review/essay on Ingeborg Drewitz, Bettina von Arnim and others (Gisela Dischner), to appear in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Waldstein, M.I.T.: Bettina von Arnim and the Literary Salon (finished diss.); Comparison of Berlin and Boston salons (Bettina von Arnim u.a. and Margaret Fuller)--Goethe Institute Symposium 1983; Women's Studies and Germanistik--working paper for Wellesley Center for Research on Women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leslie Adelson, OSU: finished diss. "Botho Strauß and West Ger­man Prose of the 1970's." Research projects: the changing notion of history in contemporary literature; authenticity problematized; article on feminist aesthetics in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beyond the Eternal Feminine&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anna K. Kuhn, U. Pennsylvania: working on monograph on Christa Wolf (in English).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara D. Wright, U. Conn.: monograph on interaction of German expressionists (activists) and German women’s writing at beginn­ing of the 20th C.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 21&lt;br /&gt;(research projects, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Charlotte Armster, Dartmouth C.: article on "Stereotypes in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Katharina&lt;/span&gt; B&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;lum&lt;/span&gt;; anthology on 19th century writings on and by women (in English")""; article on Handke’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Left-Handed Woman&lt;/span&gt; — Gesture as Communication and Confinement.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg, Seattle: women, work and family in GDR litera­ture and society.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gertraud Gutzman, Smith C.: women's autobiographies l880's to present (especially working women, politically active women); women writing under and about Nazism; (especially Irmgard Keun, Seghers, Rinser); tradition and innovation in recent GDR women's writing; intertextuality, Anna Seghers and Christa Wolf. Book: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Literature and Society in Anna Seghers&lt;/span&gt;' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Exile Prose&lt;/span&gt; (Camden House 1984).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Lennox, U. Mass, Amherst: article on recent GDR women's writing to appear next year; essay on feminism and deconstruction; essay on Christa Wolf; review essay on Sander Gilman's "On Black­ness without Blacks: Image of Black in German Literature" (for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joey Horsley, U. Mass., Boston: working on article on Bachmann; work on women authors in the Weimar Republic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Julie Prandi, New York: working on article on Kleist's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Krug&lt;/span&gt;; also on bigger project: Glück/Entsagung in Goethe, focus on women characters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sue Bottigheimer, Princeton: Grimm's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tales&lt;/span&gt;: l) Spinning Tales; (2) Mute Women; (3) Illustrations 1812-1982; (5) Work Ethic. Also Spinning in Literature--please send quotes from poems, novels, plays!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elke Frederiksen, U. Maryland: Luise Rinser monograph, to appear in Autorenbücher series, Beck Verlag, Munich.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karen Achberger, St. Olaf C., Northfield, MN: 1) the mythic sub­text and musical structures in the prose of Ingeborg Bachmann; (2) article on humor in Irmtraud Morgner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dagmar C. Lorenz, OSU: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ilse Aichinger&lt;/span&gt; (1981); Stifters Frauen, A. Stifter Gesellschaft. In progress: Grillparzer, Dichter des Sozialen Konflikts (Neubearbeitung des österreichischen Vormärz, etc.) .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sigrid Weigel, U. Hamburg: Buch über Frauenbilder bei Kleist (zus mit Inge Stephan); Frauenliteratur der Gegenwart (für Hansers Sozialgeschichte); Ingeborg Bachmann.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell, Indiana U.: l) Frauen-Bildungsroman 1900-1982 (2) weibliche Robinsonaden 1720-1800; (3) Rage and Order in Helene Böhlau and Gabriele Reuter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 22&lt;br /&gt;(research projects, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandy Frieden, U. Houston: 1) diss. Autobiographical German- Language Writings of the 1970's: Self into Form (U. Siegen)--to appear soon, Peter Lang Verlag; (2) article on Elisabeth Plessen in fall issue, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar&lt;/span&gt;; (3) article soon on Bachmann’s Malina and Todesarten in GQ; 4) article on Schwaiger and Handke in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beyond the Eternal Feminine&lt;/span&gt;; (5) working on films of Ulrike Ottinger.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmgard Taylor, SUNY, Cortland: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Bild der Witwe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;deutschen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Literatur&lt;/span&gt; (1980).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha Wallach, UWGB: working on German prose turned into films (Katharina Blum, Marquise of 0, Effi Briest); figure of mother in German drama; female characters in Heinse's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ardinghello&lt;/span&gt;; German immigrant women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Bammer, Bryn Mawr C.’’Visions and Re-Visions: The Utopian Impulse in Feminist Fictions," diss. U. Wisconsin 1982 (analyses of Stefan, Christa Wolf; bits on Reinig).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Brigitte Cooper (Palmer, Alaska) and V. Joan Moessner (Dept. of Linguistics and FL, U. Alaska, Fairbanks, 99701) are looking for additional information on AUGUSTE ENDERS-SCHICHANOWSKI, a German artist who went to Alaska between 1900-1910 and is known to have had a brother in Brooklyn. They are working on a biography of Schich anowski and a translation of her book, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Im Wunderland Alaska&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Modern Humanities Research Association (King's College, Strand, London WC2R2LS England) publishes Germanic titles in its disser­tation series and will send listings upon request.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;LOST WIGGIES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mail for the following individuals has been returned marked "undeliverable. ’’ If you know where any of these women are, and if they still want to receive the newsletter, please write.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skippy Acuff [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gail W. Cope [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Susanne Mensel [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Verne Moberg [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elisabeth Ruge [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Annegret Stroetges [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;RECENT PUBLICATIONS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Semiotext(e)&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The German Issue&lt;/span&gt; (Vol. IV, No. 2). 522 Philosophy Hall, Columbia U., New York 10027. $5.95.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beyond, the Eternal Feminine&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Critical Essays&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and German Literature&lt;/span&gt;, eds. Susan Cocalis and Kay Goodman"”fstuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik, No. 98) (Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Harry G. Shaffer, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in the Two Germanies&lt;/span&gt;. A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Comparative Study of&lt;/span&gt; a. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Socialist and&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Non-Socialist Society&lt;/span&gt; (Pergamon Press, 1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Quote from Shaffer’s preface: ”I plead nolo contendere to being a man; but I do not feel that a study on women must necessarily be made by a member of the female sex. ... I do not believe that my sex interfered with my comprehension or in any way prejudiced my analysis of the issues treated in this book.” --Remember this statement when you look for information on lesbian rights; battered women's shelters; foreign women as workers and wives-- to mention a few topics not listed in the index. Still, the book does contain a lot of useful information and should be very help­ful to students, especially undergraduates. I think we should bring it to the attention of Women's Studies programs too, and urge for more courses on women's situations in German-speaking areas. (unsolicited commentary and advice from JC).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;off our backs&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. XII, No. 9 (Oct. 1982) contains an interview with Sibylle Plogstedt (one of the editors of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;) discussing German feminism.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jump Cut&lt;/span&gt;, No. 27 contains a special section, Film and Feminism in Germany Today (essay by Marc Silbermann); includes an essay on the German Women's Movement (by Renny Harrigan); Helke Sander on Feminism and Film; Gertrud Koch on Female Voyeurism; interviews with Helga Reidemeister, Jutta Bruckner, Christina Perincioli , and more. A forthcoming issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jump Cut&lt;/span&gt; will include the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;second &lt;/span&gt;installment of Film and Feminism in Germany. Address: [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Marie-Louise Janssen-Jurreit, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sexism&lt;/span&gt;, English translation from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Ruth-Esther Geiger/Sigrid Weigel, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sind das noch Damen? Vom &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;gelehrten Frauenzimmer&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Journal zum feministischen Journalismus &lt;/span&gt;Weissmann Verlag, Frauenbuchverlag, München 1981)” 204 S., DM 29.80.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Dokumente, Kommentare, Faksimiles. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sind das noch Damen&lt;/span&gt; ist ein Lesebuch zur Entwicklung der Frauenzeitschriften durch drei Jahrhunderte, das zugleich die Geschichte der deutschen Frauen­bewegung kritisch dokumentiert und dem Leser heute zugänglich macht. Adresse: Frauenbuchverlag, Kreittmayrstr. 26, 800 München 2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 24&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;RECENT PUBLICATIONS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Sigrid Weigel,“. . . &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und selbst im Kerker frei.“&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schreiben im &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gefängnis&lt;/span&gt;. Zur Theorie und Gattungsgeschichte der Gefängnisliteratur, 1750-1933. (Verlag Guttandin und Hoppe, 1982). 244 S. mit Abb., DM 24.80.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Senta Trömel-Plötz, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauensprache: Sprache der Veränderung&lt;/span&gt; (Reihe "Die Frau in der Gesellschaft," Fischer, Band 3725, 1982). DM 11.80.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Ricarda Schmidt, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Westdeutsche Frauenliteratur in den 70er Jahren&lt;/span&gt;. (Rita G. Fischer Verlag, Alt-Fechenheim 73, 6000 Frankfurt 61, 1982). 360 S., Paperback, DM 34.00, ISBN 3-88323-373-0.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Anhand exemplarischer Textanalysen der in den 70er Jahren im Kontext der westdeutschen Frauenbewegung hervorgebrachten Liter­atur werden Entwicklungen und Konzeptionen feministischer Prosa erarbeitet. Das Verhältnis zwischen Emanzipationsstreben und ästhetischer Form wird dabei im kulturellen Nexus betrachtet, um die Frage nach der Existenz einer weiblichen Ästhetik einzu­grenzen und zu präzisieren auf die Frage nach einer feministischen Ästhetik. Diese heuristische Kategorie wird im Prozeß der Analyse am konkreten Material entwickelt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Die Diskussion darüber, was Literatur von Frauen sein und leisten könne und ob es eine "weibliche" Ästhetik gebe, wird vertieft durch die Analyse der Gedanken von Frauen aus der Vergangenheit sowie moderner strukturalistischer Ansätze aus Frankreich und empirischer Untersuchungen in den USA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;isa Kahn, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Utahs Geheimnisse&lt;/span&gt; (Berlin: Stoedtner-Verlag), can be ordered through Mary Rosenberg [redcted] or the Trilogy Bookstore [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Inge Stephan, Sigrid Weigel, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die verborgene Frau&lt;/span&gt;: 6 Beiträge zu einer feministischen Literaturwissenschaft (Argument Verlag, Reihe "Literatur im historischen Prozess," Winter 1983).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Vorwort: Feministische Literaturwissenschaft - Auf der Suche nach der verborgenen Frau.&lt;/p&gt;
1. Inge Stephan, "Bilder und immer wieder Bilder ..." - Über­legungen zur Untersuchung von Frauenbildern in männlicher Literatur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Inge Stephan, Hexe oder Heilige? - Zur Geschichte der Jeanne d’Arc und ihrer literarischen Verarbeitung.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Sigrid Weigel, Wider die romantische Mode - Zur ästhetischen Funktion des Weiblichen in Friedrich Schlegels "Lucinde."&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;4. Sigrid Weigel, Der schielende Blick - Thesen zur Geschichte weiblicher Schreibpraxis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 25&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;PORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die verborgene Frau&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
5. Sigrid Weigel, Die geopferte Heldin und das Opfer als Heldin - Zum Entwurf weiblicher Helden in der Literatur von Männern und Frauen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Inge Stephan, "Daß ich eins und doppelt bin ..." - Geschlechtertausch als literarisches Thema.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen im Mittelpunkt&lt;/span&gt;/&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Focus on Women&lt;/span&gt;. Anthology of 11 post-war women writers, with introductions, notes, German-English vocabu­lary. (Suhrkamp/Cambridge, Spring 1983).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women Authors in Translation&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Isabelle de Courtivron and Margery Resnick (Garland Press, late 1982 or early 1983). Includes titles that have been translated into English from French, German, Spanish, Russian and Italian since 1945. (Helen Cafferty, one of the contributors to this volume, notes that the German section may be slightly out of date by the time this appears--the German con­tributors were the only group to meet the original deadline, which was spring 1980!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women: Politics and Literature.&lt;/span&gt; Anthology of recent (since about 1968) writing by women in the German-speaking countries, including literary texts, interviews, manifestoes, theory, etc. (Buffalo, New York: SUNY, spring 1983).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;* * * * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nov. 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;nachrichten&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;DIE WICHTIGKEIT DER MÄNNER UND DIE ENERGIEN DER FRAUEN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Die diesjährige Sommeruniversität für Frauen in Berlin hat die Macht der Männer in vorher nicht gekanntem Ausmaß zu spüren be­kommen. Sie wurde erstmals nicht als förderungswürdige Bildungsver­anstaltung anerkannt, d.h. es gab keinen Bildungsurlaub, so daß berufs­tätige Frauen sich kaum beteiligen konnten. Hauptgrund: Gefährdung der Sittlichkeit. Insbesondere Jugendliche sollten vor einer Bildungsver­anstaltung geschützt werden, an der nicht nur auch lesbische Frauen teilnehmen würden, sondern in deren Rahmen sogar homosexuelle Neigungen zum Thema gemacht würden. Kurz vor Beginn der Sommer­uni wurden auch noch 5 Veranstaltungen schlicht verboten, weil die Gefahr bestünde, daß in ihnen zur Gewalt (gegen die Staatsgewalt) aufgerufen würde.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Die Tatsache, daß das Lesbenreferat des Allgemeinen Studentenaus­schusses (ASTA der Freien Universität Berlin) als Veranstalter auftrat, mag diese Staatseingriffe erleichtert haben. Nicht nur, weil sich Männer vielleicht provoziert fühlen, wenn Lesben sich offiziell als solche be­zeichnen, sondern auch, weil studentische Vertretungskörperschaften formal kein „politisches Mandat" haben. Darauf aber sich zu berufen, um Verbote zu begründen, heißt lediglich, einen beliebigen juristischen Hebel zu benutzen.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;CONFERENCES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Common Differences: Third World Women and Feminist Perspective&lt;/span&gt;, U. Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, April 9-13, 1983. Guest speakers include Nawal El Saadawi, Cherrie Moraga, Goria Anzaldua, Gloria Joseph, and possibly Christa Wolf. For information write to: Office for Women’s Resources and Services, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fascism&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Everyday Life&lt;/span&gt;, April 28-30, 19Ö3, Ohio State Uni­versity, Columbus, OH. Keynote address by Christa Wolf. For registration and further information, contact Professor Helen Fehervary, Dept. of German, [redacted] OSU, Columbus, OH U3210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;First Feminist Germanist Conference in the FRG&lt;/span&gt;. Vom &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;24.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; bis zum &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;28. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mai 1983 &lt;/span&gt;findet in Hamburg eine Tagung statt zum Thema:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;FEMINISTISCHE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT ZUM VERHÄLTNIS VON FRAUENBILDERN UND FRAUENLITERATUR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Zielsetzung der Tagung ist die Kommunikation zwischen Frauen über Forschungsergebnisse und methodische Erfahrungen bei der Rekonstruk­tion weiblicher Kulturgeschichte. Wir wollen in erster Linie Literaturwissenschaftlerinnen, aber auch Frauen, die in anderen Fächern feministische Forschung betreiben, ansprechen. Die Tagung soll einen Überblick über den Stand historischer Forschung und Theorieentwicklung ermöglichen. Alle Teilnehmerinnen sollten die Ergebnisse und Probleme ihrer Projekte im Hinblick auf feministische Theoriebildung und Kulturkritik in die Diskussion einbringen. Am Ende der Tagung sollten Überlegungen und Planungen stehen, die eine kontinuierliche Weiterarbeit und Zusammenarbeit unter den beteiligten Wissenschaftlerinnen ermöglichen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Geplanter Tagungsverlauf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. Theoretische Überlegungen und historische Beispiele aus dem Gebiet "Frauenbilder”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Theoretische Überlegungen und historische Beispiele aus dem Gebiet "Frauenliteratur"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Projektvorstellungen aus den Gebieten "Frauenbilder" und "Frauenliteratur"&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;4. Feministische Wissenschaft in Geschichte, Kunstgeschichte, Psychoanalyse und anderen Disziplinen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;5. Feministische Wissenschaft - Erfahrungen in den USA und Per­spektiven in der BRD&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Alle, die interessiert und weitere Informationen haben wollen, bitten wir sich zu wenden an Inge Stephan/Sigrid Weigel, Literaturwissenshaftliches Seminar, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 27&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ninth International New Hampshire Symposium on the German Dem. Republic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;June 17-24, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;World Fellowship Center&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Conway, N.H.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;The 1983 New Hampshire Symposium on the GDR has been scheduled for the week June 17-24, to be held at the World Fellowship Center near Conway. As in past years, the Symposium will be interdisciplinary in approach. Economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, etc., as well as Germanists are invited to participate. Papers are being solicited for the following seminars:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar I&lt;/span&gt;: Economic, Social, and Political Issues in the GDR - Arthur A. Stahnke, Dept. of Government, So. Illinois Univ., Edwardsville, IL 62026; Volker Gransow, Fachbereich II, Universität Bielefeld, D-48OO Bielefeld.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar II&lt;/span&gt;: Relations of Church and State in the GDR: Luther Year, Peace Movement, Coexistence - Nancy Lukens, Dept. of German, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar III&lt;/span&gt;: Changes in Marx Reception in the GDR and in the West - Volker Gransow (Seminar I); Christiane Lemke, Zentralinstitut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, FU Berlin, Babelsbergerstr. 14-16, D-1000 Berlin 31.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar IV&lt;/span&gt;: Cultural Heritage and Tradition in the GDR: Art, Archi­tecture, Literature, Music, Restoration - Nancy A. Lauckner, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Lang., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916; James Knowlton, Dept. of German, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J. 08102.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar V&lt;/span&gt;: Theater and the Performing Arts in the GDR - Margaret Ward, Dept. of German, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar VI&lt;/span&gt;: Reception of GDR Literature in East and West - Duncan Smith, Dept. of German, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar VII&lt;/span&gt;: Changes &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in Language and Lexicography in the&lt;/span&gt; GDR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;H. Jochen Hoffmann, [redacted] Fritz König, Dept. of Modern Languages, University of No. Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50613.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar VIII&lt;/span&gt;: Travel Literature in the GDR - Alexander Stephan, Dept. of Germanic Lang., U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, CA 90024.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar IX&lt;/span&gt;: Lyric Poetry in the GDR - Christine Cosentino, Dept. of German, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J. 08102; Wolfgang Ertl, Dept. of German, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar X&lt;/span&gt;: Writers Relatively Unknown in the West - Margy Gerber, Dept. of German and Russian, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43402.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page 28&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar XI&lt;/span&gt;: Recent Developments in GDR Literature and Aesthetic Theory - Christine Zehl Romero, Dept. of German and Russian, Tufts University, Me&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;dford, MA&lt;/span&gt; 02155; Dieter Sevin, Dept. of German, Van­derbilt Univ., [redacted] St. B, Nashville, TN 37221.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar XII&lt;/span&gt;: Teaching of GDR Literature and Culture - Margy Gerber (Seminar X).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Detailed proposals (title plus 2-3 pages) should be submitted to the appropriate seminar organizer(s)—in case of co-organizers, two copies— by Feb. 1, 1983; completed papers must be submitted no later than April 15. Papers should not exceed 30 minutes; the preferred language is English. The proceedings of the Symposium will most probably be pub­lished. For more information on the Symposium, contact  W. Christoph Schmauch, World Fellowship Center, Conway, N.H. 03818, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;LIST OF DEADLINES                       '&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;January&lt;/span&gt;: preliminary deadlines for proposals to MLA and AATG— &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;check&lt;/span&gt; with the national offices!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;February 1&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1983&lt;/span&gt;: deadline for receiving &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;paid&lt;/span&gt; registrations for April 9 WiG meeting with Christa Wolf. To Jeanette Clausen, newsletter address.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;February 15&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1983&lt;/span&gt;: ABSOLUTE FINAL DEADLINE for items to be pub­lished in the March issue of WiG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;March&lt;/span&gt;: deadlines for detailed proposals to MLA and AATG—&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;check&lt;/span&gt; with the national offices!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;March 15, 1983&lt;/span&gt;: proposals for WIG 1983 session “Stimme finden,” to Jeannine Blackwell [redacted] and Irmgard Taylor [redacted].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 1&lt;/span&gt;, 1983: proposals for WiG 1983 session "Stimme suchen," to Judith Jamieson (Providence College, Providence, RI 02918) and Helen Fehervary (German Dept., [redacted] OSU, Columbus 43210).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This newsletter was typed by Marilyn Gibbons (Women's Studies,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IPFW) and Connie Munk (Mod. For. Lang., IPFW). During this same week, they also typed and mailed the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Femini st as Uni das&lt;/span&gt; newsletter, took care of their families, attended classes and did their work in their departments. Connie and Marilyn stand for many other women without whom organizations like ours couldn’t work. Please remember them when you read this newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministas Unidas&lt;/span&gt;, coalition of feminist scholars in Spanish, Spanish-American, Afro-Portuguese, Luso-Brazi1ian, Puerto Rican and Chicano Studies, meets annually at MLA and publishes a news­letter twice a year (November, April). For information: Linda Fox, Women's Studies, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 29&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;29&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;WiG sister, Jane 29 &lt;br /&gt;Feminist University &lt;br /&gt;Everywhere, USA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Unlike most professional organizations, WOMEN IN GERMAN has not raised its rates in the past three years. We are able to keep rates low for students and the unemployed in part because of individual members who voluntarily pay the supporting membership rates (see dues structure below). Membership/subscription money is used to finance the publication of the WiG newsletter (three issues per year, March, August, November) and to partially cover expenses for the annual WiG conference and other events.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;As part of our efforts to generate additional funds to support more extensive WiG projects, such as publication of conference proceedings, we have added an additional category, sponsoring departments. Besides receiving the newsletter and other information sent to the WiG member­ship as a whole, German departments which become WiG sponsors will be eligible to purchase published materials at the same discount available to individual members. Also, they will be listed as sponsors in the August issue of the newsletter and in any publications partially funded through their support.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Please fill out this section, detach and return with check (payable to Women in German) to: WOMEN IN GERMAN, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne, IN 468O5.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Number 37&lt;br /&gt;August 1985&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;EDITORIAL&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Since this is the conference issue, we propose the following suggestions, based on discussion of our regional meeting in June (report to follow). The focus of these proposals is to address graduate-student needs and concerns, and how these affect WIG as a whole:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;---- Providing official time at future WIG conferences for graduate students (a.k.a. Wiglets) only, to discuss issues which affect us. We need this time to organize and become a more cohesive group.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;---- In keeping with our intention to be a group within a group, we would then bring these concerns/issues to the larger group for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;---- Practical workshops on activities of the "profession", i.e. writing CVs, book reviews, job hunting... we want your help and experience!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;We see these proposals as a way of recognizing and addressing the diversity within WIG. If you have any suggestions, please write us or bring them up in October. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wiglets unite!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Karin Obermeier &amp;amp; Leslie Morris&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The Women in German Newsletter is published in March, August, and November of each year. Send newsletter items to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Women in German&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;German Department&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;University of Massachusetts/ [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Amherst, MA&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;01003&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image] REGIONAL WIG-CONFERENCE NORTHAMPTON, MA - JUNE 1985&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Susan Cocalis, Leslie Morris, Karin Obermeier&lt;br /&gt;Editorial Staff&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;THIS AND THAT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;WIG-AMHERST REGIONAL CONFERENCE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;WIG-Amherst held its first regional get-together June 7-8, at the home of Sara Lennox in Northampton. Twelve members participated, as well as several prospective members. Discussion the first evening centered around the need for smaller, regional get- togethers. Several women mentioned feeling isolated/"out of it" both in Germanistik and even in WIG. Each of the five graduate students present brought up the need for a more organized graduate student group within WIG. Although some members perceived this as promoting an un-wiggian sense of hierarchy, the future Wiglets believe that we have an (obviously) different relationship to WIG and to Germanistics than our more "advanced" colleagues. The evening “ ended with a presentation by Lola Gruenthal and Dagmar Stern about the current activities and planned projects of the NY WIG-chapter. Lola and Dagmar encourage all Wiggies to submit creative writing pieces for Frauenfahrplan II.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;The second day of the weekend started out with presentations of Works-in-progress. Jutta Bernstein briefly discussed her work on Ingeborg Drewitz that she has done in preparation for an interview this summer. Karin Obermeier spoke about her recent work on Karoline von Günderrode. Melissa Vogelsang talked about her concept of the Briefroman as a way that women have dealt with and transcribed a friend's death. Later in the day, discussion returned to previously raised issues. Some new topics brought up in the afternoon were: various "splits" experienced by women in the profession, i. e. German-Jewish tensions; being a feminist/progressive in a traditional, male-identified discipline. The small size of the group provided a safe and open atmosphere for sharing some of the more personal ways that being in Germanistics and in WIG affect us.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;NEWS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;BARBARA BECKER-CANTARINO has agreed to serve as Chair of the Department of German at The Ohio State University, beginning this fall. Her husband VICENTE has accepted a position in the Department of Romance Languages. ANGELIKA BAMMER, who is expecting twins, will be on leave from Vanderbilt University during the fall 1985 semester. JEANNINE BLACKWELL, who has been a "temporary" long enough to become an expert on the subject, has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. BARTON BYG has accepted a position at UMass, Amherst. HELEN CAFFERTY of Bowdoin College will be on sabbatical during 1985-86. MARILYN SIBLEY FRIES has accepted a position at the University of Michigan. KAY LABAHN, who taught in California last year, has accepted a permanent position at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. NANCY LUKENS is moving from the College of Wooster in Ohio to a new job at the University of New Hampshire. CAROL POORE (Brown University) is spending the summer and fall doing research in Berlin. DOROTHY ROSENBERG, lately of Colby College, will be in Berlin this year, and has an IREX grant for research in Berlin-GDR during the spring semester. GABI STRAUCH, who taught at U.-Wisconsin-Stevens Point for several years, has accepted a position at the University of Maryland. MARGARET WARD, who with her husband adopted a son a couple of years ago, now has another son, Derek Ward De Witt, born in May. BARBARA WRIGHT will spend the fall semester in Munich in connection with UConn's semester abroad program. Starting October KARIN OBERMEIER (UMass, Amherst) will be in Heidelberg for 10 months, using a DAAD grant to research her dissertation topic.&lt;/p&gt;
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-3-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TENTH ANNUAL WOMEN IN GERMAN CONFERENCE AND RETREAT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 24-27, 1985&lt;br /&gt;Portland, Oregon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guest Author: Luise Pusch&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Conference coordinators: Registration—Dinah Dodds (Lewis and Clark Coll.); Program—Charlotte Smith (Seattle, WA).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thursday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                       5:00 - 8:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Arrival, registration, room assignment&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;6:30 - 8:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Buffet-style Dinner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;8:00 — 10:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;WOHER, WOHIN?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;FIVE GENERATIONS OF WIG MEMBERS SPEAK OUT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Coordinators: Sigrid Brauner (Oakland, CA) and Sara Lennox (U. of Mass.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Presenters: Gisela Bahr (Miami U.)—Film of a WIG conference at Miami University; Jeanette Clausen (Indiana U.-Purdue U.); Sydna Stern Weiss (Hamilton Coll.); Almut Poole (UCLA); Biddy Martin (Cornell); Melissa Vogelsang (Yale).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                       &lt;br /&gt;8:00 am - breakfast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;9:00 - 11:30 am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;DEUTSCHE FILMEMACHERINNEN UND DER NEUE DEUTSCHE FILM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Coordinators: Sandy Frieden (U. of Houston) and Vibeke Keith (New York, NY)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Presenters: Heidrun Suhr (U. of Minnesota)—Women in Modern Germany: Literature and Film; Gabriele Weinberger (Ohio State U.)—Women, Language and Film; Jan Mouton (Loyola U. of Chicago)—Women as Mothers: Women as Other; Robert Acker (U. of Montana)—The Exemplary Nature of Jutta Bruckner’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hungerjahre&lt;/span&gt; in West-German Women's Cinema; Rick McCormick (UC Berkeley)—Organizing and Teaching a Unit of German Women Filmmakers.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;12:00pm - lunch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;1:00 - 2:30 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;RECENT TRENDS IN FEMINIST THEORY ANN CRITICISM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Coordinators: Patsy Baudoin (Boston, MA) and Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Presenters! Melissa Vogelsang (Yale)— Killer’s Tertium: Christa Wolf and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kassandra&lt;/span&gt;; Helen Cafferty (Bowdoin Coll.)— Feminist Citicismt Approaches and Alternatives.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;3:00 - 4:30 pm PROJECTS IN PROGRESS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Coordinator: Charlotte Smith (Seattle, WA)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN wants to start a new tradition by creating an open forum for all its members. Anyone who is working on or has just completed any project having to do with feminism and Germanistik (article, book, dissertation, grant proposal, new course, etc.) is cordially invited to share her/his work with everybody in a short 5-10 minute presentation. The purpose of the session is to offer a better opportunity for the exchange of ideas and to put WIG members working on similar projects in touch with each other.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;In order to be included in this session, please send your name and topic title &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;by OCTOBER 15&lt;/span&gt; to: Charlotte Smith, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;4:30 - 5:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;Steering Committee meeting&lt;br /&gt;Sandy Frieden and Jeannine Blackwell, chairs&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;5:30 pm - dinner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frieday evening&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;6:30 - 10:00 pm FRAUEN IM FILM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Coordinator: Jeannine Blackwell (U. of Kentucky).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Film showing: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutschland, bleiche Mutter&lt;/span&gt; (1979) by Helga Sanders-Brahms. Ellen Seiter (U. of Oregon)—’What have your sons done to you? &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Germany&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pale Mother&lt;/span&gt;; Jeannine Blackwell (U. of Kentucky)— Teaching Daughters the Language of Silence: Sanders—Brahms’ Icons of Speechlessness.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;There will be a big group discussion after the papers, followed by small group discussions on methods of teaching the film.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8:00 am - breakfast&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday morning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;9:00 - 11:00 am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;AUF DER SUCHE NACH EINER FRAUENFREUNDLICHEN SPRACHE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Coordinators&lt;/span&gt;: Charlotte Armster (Gettysburg College), Jeanette Clausen (Indiana U.- Purdue U.), and V. Joan Moessner (U. of Alaska, Fairbanks).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Panelists&lt;/span&gt; : Naomi Stephan (Santa Monica, CA) — "Fraut euch des Lebens! Übungen für eine (er)frauliche Sprache"; Barbara Wright (UConn, Storrs) — "The Language of Advertising in German"; Almut Poole (UCLA) — "A Feminist Liguistic Analysis of Negations in Modern German Literature"; Lee Mac Intyre Jenkens (San Francisco State U.) — "Cooperative Conversational Style Among Women".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;The first presentation will consist of role-plays illustrating problems of "Frauen­feindlichkeit" in German. Members of the audience will be invited to re-enact the role-plays and change the outcome by changing the language. Following these consciousness-raising "warm-up exercises, we shall hear brief presentations on the application of insights from feminist linguistics to teaching materials (Barbara Wright) and literary analysis (Almut Poole). Following the presentations, we shall divide into small groups to work on developing/rehearsing ways to integrate these insights into our own work as teachers and scholars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12:00 pm - LUNCH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday Afternoon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;1:00 - 3:30 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;WIG BUSINESS AND PLANNING MEETING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;For agenda items see page 18 of this newsletter. PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND. This is the time for you to have coming year your say in what does or does not get done in WIG during the coming year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3:30 - 5:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open for special interest groups, sports, free time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5:30 pm - DINNER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Saturday Evening&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;6:30 -8:30 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;ABENTEUER EINER FEMINISTISCHEN LINGUISTIN AUS DEM LEBEN ERZÄHLT              &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Guest Author: LUISE PUSCH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Discussion Leader: Ruth-Ellen Boetcher-Joeres (U. of Minnesota)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;An informal talk by the German linguist and feminist Luise Pusch on her experiences with and research on "Das Deutsche als Mannersprache," to be followed by an open discussion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 27&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sunday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                        8:00 am - BREAKFAST&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;9:00 - 11:30 am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;CONCLUDING SESSION: WIG MEMBERS SPEAK OUT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Coordinators: Helen Fehervary (Ohio State U.) and Melissa Vogelsang (Yale U.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Discussion of feelings, issues, problems and successes which have come up during the conference. In past years, this final open discussion has proven to be a very important forum for evaluating the conference and sharing both emotional and intellectual concerns regarding WIG and our individual relation­ship to it. Please plan to attend.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;12:00 pm - LUNCH&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;October 8-11 University of Maryland, Elke Frederiksen - contact&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;October 12-13 New York: Goethe Haus (tentative)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;October 14-15 Boston: Joey Horsley, Edith Waldstein - contacts&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;October 16-17 Montreal: Goethe Institut&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;October 18-19: University of Minnesota, Ruth-Ellen Joeres - contact &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 20-24: Stanford University/ University of California-Berkeley, Marilyn Yalom, Sigrid Brauner - contacts (tentative) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 24-27 October Portland, OR: WIG Conference&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;October 27-28 University of Illinois - Urbana, Marianne Burckhard - contact&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;At this time, the exact itinerary has not been determined. If you are interested in inviting Luise Pusch to your campus/town, contact Sandy Frieden (U. of Houston) or Ruth-Ellen Joeres (U. of Minnesota).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Die feministische Linguistik entlarvt die Geschichte und Struktur der Sprachen als Männergeschichte und Männerstruktur. Sprachen als Bau­werke, von Männern errichtet, damit Männer darin wohnen und wohlfühlen können.&lt;br /&gt;Die feministische Linguistik fundiert und dokumentiert die sprachkritische, sprachschöpferische und sprachpolitische Arbeit der Frauen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Über die Männersprache Englisch - Manglisch - sind bereits mehrere Monographien erschienen. Speziell zum Deutschen gibt es bislang nur die wissenschaftlichen und journalistischen Arbeiten der Konstanzer Linguistin Luise F. Pusch, die hier erstmals gesammelt vorgelegt werden. Luise F. Pusch, geboren 1944. Habilitation für Sprachwissenschaft 1978. Seit 1979 Heisenberg-Stipendiatin. Aufsätze und Bücher zur Grammatik des Deutschen, Englischen, Italienischen und Lateinischen. Spezialgebiete:  Kontrastive Linguistik, Übersetzungswissenschaft, feministische Linguistik. Herausgeberin des Bandes Feminismus — Inspektion der Herrenkultur. Ein Handbuch (edition suhrkamp 1192).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;aus: Lusie F. Pusch: Das Deutsche als Männersprache. Aufsätze und Glossen zur feministischen Linguistik. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1984.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Registration Form&lt;br /&gt;Women in German Annual Conference &lt;br /&gt;Portland, OR&lt;br /&gt;October 24-27,1985 &lt;br /&gt;Please complete all sides of form.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;NAME_______________________________ Tel.____________________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Address (after Sept. 30)___________________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Street                            Town State Zip&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;REGISTRATION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;If you plan to stay overnight, please use registration information I under blow. If you do not plan to stay overnight, please use information II below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;OVERNIGHT REGISTRATION:&lt;/span&gt; Cost for each night’s accommodation at the Convent of Our Lady of the Angels includes conference registration and expenses, three meals a day, lodging, and snacks.&lt;br /&gt;As in years past, we have calculated registration fees on a dual price structure to try to keep the conference affordable for those less able to pay. If you are employed, please pay the full amount, if you are unemployed, employed less than half time or a student, you need pay only half the normal fee. However, if you can afford the full fee, we would very much appreciate your paying it so that WIG can help those who cannot pay full fees and con also partially subsidize travel for those who must come long distances.
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;3 Nights&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Employed $126&lt;br /&gt;Student/Unemployed $63&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Nights&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Employed $84&lt;br /&gt;Student/Unemployed $42&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 Night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Employed $42    &lt;br /&gt;Student/Unemployed $21                         &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;I intend to spend the night(s) of Oct. 24 25 26 (please circle) at the Convent.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;11. NON-OVERNIGHT REGISTRATION (for those intending to attend the conference only during the day)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Please indicate below a)which days you will attend the conference and b)which meals you will be eating at the Convent.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Registration and costs:&lt;br /&gt;Employed $13/day&lt;br /&gt;Fri., Oct. 25&lt;br /&gt;Sat., Oct. 26&lt;br /&gt;Sun., Oct. 27&lt;br /&gt;Total X $13=&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Student/Unemployed $8/day&lt;br /&gt;Fri., Oct. 25&lt;br /&gt;Sat., Oct. 26&lt;br /&gt;Sun., Oct. 27&lt;br /&gt;Total X $8=&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meals: (to be filled out only by Non-overnight registrants) Breakfast ($2.50) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fri.____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sat.____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Sun.____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Total =____ x $2.50 = .&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Lunch ($4.50) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fri. ____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Sat. ____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Sun. ____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Total = ____ x $4.50 =____&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Dinner ($6.00) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thurs. ____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Fri. ____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Sat. ____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Total = ____ x $6=____&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;If you wish to combine OVERNIGHT with NON-OVERNIGHT services, for example, if you wish to spend one full day, one night plus port of the next day, please mark the appropriate boxes, figure your expenses from each category and then tally the total.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Cost from OVERNIGHT REGISTRATION $___________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Cost from NON-OVERNIGHT REGISTRATION $______&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Conference participants must become members of Women in German.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;People arriving by plane should take the "Airporter" to the Hilton Hotel in downtown Portland (921 SW 6th, near Taylor; cost one way $4.00), which leaves from the limousine/taxi parking area at the airport every 20 minutes starting on the hour, every half hour on weekends. You will be picked up in front of the Hilton on SW 6th St. by a WIG van and taken to the Convent. For those who have never been to Portland, this stop will provide on opportunity to see a little of the city. You may leave your bags at the baggage room of the Hilton if you wish to go for a walk. The nearby "Metro on Broadway" is a fun place to get something to eat or drink.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;For those arriving by Greyhound bus, the Hilton Hotel is directly across the street from the Greyhound bus depot. Those traveling by Amtrack will need to take a taxi to the Hilton unless they wish to walk the approximately 20-30 minutes from the train station.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Those driving their own cars should take the Terwilliger exit off 1-5, following the signs to Lewis and Clark College. The Convent is behind a big &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;hedge across the street&lt;/span&gt; from the College at 0858 SW Palatine Hill Rd. [redacted] Parking is in the back. Please write Dinah Dodds (see address below) for exact directions if you are unfamiliar with the area or if you wish instructions on using Tri-Met bus service.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;The von will make pick ups at the Hilton at the following times: On Thurs., Oct. 24: 3:00, 4:15, 5:15, 7:00, 8:30,10:00 if necessary.&lt;br /&gt;On Fri., Oct. 25: 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Please indicate when and by what means you will be arriving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;I will arrive______________________ (day, time) by________________________________ *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;I will depart______________________ (day, time) by________________________________ *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;*(Please indicate Airline and flight *, busline, Amtrack, car, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;**Please enclose SASE w/registration form, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;If you are driving&lt;/span&gt;. We'll send you a map&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;____ Please check if you are a student/unemployed and would like help&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;covering your travel expenses, especially for long distance travel. Cost of round-trip travel from your home to the conference: $_______________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CHILDCARE:&lt;/span&gt; WIG will provide childcare at the conference, however, children over 2 will be charged the room and board rate for student/unemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Please include this part in your registration calculations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;I plan on bringing the following child (children) to the WIG conference:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Name:__________________________ Age______&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Name:___________________________ Age______&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Please check as appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;___ Needs crib _________ Will share my room/bed (circle)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;___ Needs own room/bed (circle)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Please note special needs or other relevant information (e.g., I can bring porta-crib; toys)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;NATURAL FOODS OPTION&lt;/span&gt;: Although the Convent consciously strives to provide healthful foods, you may want the purely vegetarian option. This option is provided at no extra cost, but the cooks &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;need to know&lt;/span&gt; how many people to prepare for.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;I desire the vegetarian option for the following meals:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Oct. 24&lt;br /&gt;__ dinner                  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 25   &lt;br /&gt;_______ breakfast &lt;br /&gt;_______ lunch&lt;br /&gt;_______ dinner                       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 26&lt;br /&gt;_______ breakfast   &lt;br /&gt;_______ lunch       &lt;br /&gt;_______ dinner                     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 27&lt;br /&gt;_______ breakfast &lt;br /&gt;_______ lunch&lt;br /&gt;_______ dinner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;PAYMENT:&lt;/span&gt; Please make your check out to Women in German and send it with this registr&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ation for&lt;/span&gt;m to: Dinah Dodds, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, [redacted] Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, 97219.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SEPT. 30.&lt;/span&gt; Please note. If you register after September 30, we cannot guarantee you overnight accommodation and must charge you a late fee of $15.00.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;A Reminder: Conference participants must become members of Women in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading50"&gt;-10-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AUS UNSEREM BRIEFKASTEN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Dear friends in WIG,  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;I do enjoy receiving the Newsletter and reading about the ’progressive' things that are going on. German departments here are still in the Dark Ages as far as women writers are concerned! The examination syllabuses in secondary schools exclude women almost entirely and the pattern is largely repeated in the universities. It is therefore encouraging to hear about developments taking place elsewhere and particularly about ways of attempting to integrate women writers into existing courses. With best wishes for the continuation of the good work, yours sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Juliet Wigmore&lt;br /&gt;University of Salford, England&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;To: Women in German &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Together with a team of translators, including Ilse Andrews, Judy Greene, Gabriele Koch, Annemarie Kuhn, and Victoria Joan Moessner, I am currently editing an anthology of autobiographical texts of German-Jewish women who emigrated after Hitler’s rise to power.&lt;br /&gt;The tentative title for the anthology is DREAMS OP A BETTER LIFE: WOKEN IN EXILE. Most of the memoirs were collected at the Leo Baeck Institute (NYC), the Houghton Library (Cambridge), the Germania Judalca (Köln), and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Library (Jerusalem).&lt;br /&gt;In order to situate the texts and to build on the bibliography of women artists in exile, I am looking for slides (reproductions) representing the art by/about women in exile. My questions focus on this subject: 1) Do you know of women artists who currently are Involved with the topic matter of ”exile"? 2) Do you know of any past, present, or future exhibitions of women in exile art?&lt;br /&gt;Your help will be very much appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;Andreas Lixl&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Modern Languages&lt;br /&gt;Wabash College&lt;br /&gt;Crawfordsville, IN 47933&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Dear WIG:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;I have an IREX Grant for September-December 1985 to study the work of GRETE MEISEL-HESS in Leipzig and East Berlin. Melsel-Hess (1879-1922), who was born in Prague, spent her childhood in Vienna and lived in Berlin, wrote theoretical works on women, sexuality, and marriage, novels, and essays in the first two decades of this century. I would very much appreciate hearing from anybody who could suggest people in the GDR or the FRG whom I might contact about this project. Sincerely yours,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Wilma A. Iggers&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Modern Languages &lt;br /&gt;Canislus College Buffalo, NY 14208&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading50"&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIGGIES OF THE SOUTHEAST UNITE!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Are you interested in joining forces, particularly to present panels at our regional conferences? Please send year ideas, or your (English language) proposals for a WIG panel: "German Feminism: Literature and Society" for the 1986 Southeastern Women Studies Association meeting to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Pam Saur&lt;br /&gt;Department of English and Foreign Languages&lt;br /&gt;Auburn University at Montgomery&lt;br /&gt;Montgomery, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CAL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;We are soliciting contributions for an anthology on the everyday experiences of women in the US. This volume will be one of a series about women around the world being published by Express Edition in West Berlin. We are seeking essays, short fiction, oral history, interviews, humor, poems, artwork, and photographs evoking the variety of women’s experiences in the US -- including career women and fulltime housewives, women in nontraditional jobs and women in the pink-collar ghetto, women in two-career marriages and single mothers on welfare, teenagers and elderly women, women who have chosen abortion and women who have been sterilized against their will, women-identified women and "total women", country women and suburban women, and Black, Latina, Native American and Asian-American women. The purpose of this volume is to acquaint an international audience with the dreams and realities of women from different ethnic, national, and cultural backgrounds in the US. Contributions should be no longer than 2,500 words. Artwork and photographs should be suitable for printing in black and white. (If you would like your submission to be returned, be sure to include a stamped, self- adressed envelope.) Submissions should be sent no later than August 31, 1985, to either of the editors:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Barbara Armentrout [redacted]                          Viktoria Hertling [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Papers are being solicited for a session on "Contemporary German and Austrian Writers" to be chaired by Sieglinde Lug at the 1986 Wichita State University Conference on Foreign Literature (April 10-12, 1986). Please send a one-page abstract by November 15, 1985 directly to the conference coordinators, indicating the special session for which they are intended.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Prof. Eunice D. Meyers,&lt;br /&gt;Conference Coordinator&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Modern &amp;amp; Classical Languages &amp;amp; Literatures &lt;br /&gt;Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas 67208&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Calls &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Papers (cont'd.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AUSSCHREIBUNG FÜR BEITRÄGE FÜR DIE DRITTE TAGUNG VON FRAUEN IN DER LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Vorschläge für Beiträge zu den einzelnen Sektionen erbitten wir in der Form eines ein- bis zweiseitigen Exposés/Abstracts bis zum 1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Oktober 1985&lt;/span&gt; an das Tagungsbüro: Annegret Pelz, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6, 2 Hamburg 13, FRG. Um eine intensive Diskussion in den Sektionen zu ermöglichen, sollen die Beiträge in schriftlicher Form bis zum &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;31. März 1986&lt;/span&gt; vorliegen. Sie werden dann vervielfältigt und an alle für eine Sektion angemeldeten Teilnehmerinnen verschickt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tagung&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;FRAUEN - LITERATUR - POLITIK&lt;/span&gt; 16.-19.5.1986 / Hamburg, FRG&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sektionen&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;"Frauen und Tod/Tötung&lt;/span&gt;" - Hier soll es um das Verhältnis von Frauen/ Weiblichkeit und Tod in der Literatur gehen, z.B. um: das auffällige Verschwinden von Frauenfiguren in der literarischen Handlung, die Frau als Todbringerin (Medea, Judith, Klytaimnestra u.a.), Selbst­mord und Selbstmordphantasien in der Literatur von Frauen, das Ver­stummen von Frauen, tote Frauen in der Literatur, Aufbruch-Gewalt- und Rachephantasien von Frauen, die Tötung des Männlichen, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;"Eurozentrismus in der Literatur und Literaturtheorie&lt;/span&gt;" - Hier soll es um die AuseinanderSetzung mit Erscheinungen und Strukturen des Eurozentrismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus in der Literatur gehen, auch in der von Frauen. Zur Diskussion stehen Formen des Exotismus und der Vereinnahmung des Fremden, im weitesten Sinne die schwierige und theoretisch ungeklärte Beziehung zwischen Rassismus und Sexismus. Andererseits sollen die Texte und kulturellen ArtikulatIonsformen von Frauen befragt werden, die nicht dem weißen, bzw. dem euro- amerikanischen Kulturkreis angehören. Denkbar wären z.B, Beiträge über afrikanische, südamerikanische oder schwarze Autorinnen in den USA etc,- auch solche über jüdische Schriftstellerinnen oder Literatur von Ausländerinnen in der BRD.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;"Politische Erfahrungen in der Literatur/ Politische Effekte &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;literaris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;cher Strategien"&lt;/span&gt; - Hier soll es um die Thematlsierung politischer Erfahrungen bzw. die Politik als Gegenstand der Literatur von Frauen gehen, ebenso wie um die Diskussion einer Politik des Schreibens. Es geht dabei um einen anderen Politikbegriff bzw. um das Verhältnis des literarischen zum politischen Diskurs von Frauen. Einzelthemen könnten sein: Revolutionserfahrungen von Frauen, Berichte aus dem Gefängnis, dem Exil, dem Widerstand, Heroismus und Heldenkritik, Männerphantasien von "politischen Frauen", der Radikalitäts- und Handlungsbegriff in Texten von Frauen, politische Schreibweisen, der Ort von Frauen in der Avantgarde, zur Realismus­debatte, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hamburg Conference (cont'd.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Theorie (Ver)Lust"- Die Entdeckung der Lust an der Theorie im Feminismus ist nicht ein Politik-Verlust, sondern der Übergang zu einer Politik des Denkens, die das Aufbrechen der kategorialen Differenz zwischen wissenschaftlicher und künstlerischer Artikulation einschliest, Zur Diskussion stehen Fragen wie: Schrift/Sprache und sexuelle Differenz, zur Situierung von Weiblichkeit in der Sinn- und Subjektkonstitution, Psychoanalyse: das Unbewußte, die Übertragung, Weiblichkeit und Schrift, Subjektgenese und Imagination, Begehren/ Weiblichkeit im Spannungsfeld der symbolischen Ordnung, der Ort der Frauen in der Postmoderne und ihre Stellung zum Problem der Repräsen­tation, Wahrheit - Prozeß, Archäologie und/oder Dekonstruktion, Möglichkeiten und Implikationen des Diskursbegriffes, die Funktion von Weiblichkeit im vernunftskritischen Diskurs der letzten Jahre.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;* * * * * * * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONFERENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;IVG-Kongreß 25.-31. August 1985&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. Forum: Frauensprache - Frauenliteratur? Göttingen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Leitung: Marianne Burkhard, Sigrid Schmid, Inge Stephan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Versammlungen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Mo, 13.30:&lt;br /&gt;Gertrud J. Lews: Zur Rezeption des Werkes Gertruds von Helfta (&lt;span&gt;✝ 1302)&lt;br /&gt;Jill P. McDonald: Margarete Ebner: An Unheralded Fourteenth-Century Mystic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Mo. 14.45:&lt;br /&gt;Eva Meyer: Schreiben aus liebeswut. Mystik und Hysterie&lt;br /&gt;Marianne Schuller: "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Privattheater" und ästhetisch-literarische Inszenierung. Zum Fall der Hysterie um die Jahrhundertwende&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Di. 10.45:&lt;br /&gt;Helga Meise: Die Unschuld und die Schrift: Deutsche Frauenromane im 18. Jahrhundert&lt;br /&gt;Ruth P. Dawson: Im Reifrock den Parnaß besteigen: Die Rezeption von Dichterinnen im 18. Jahrhundert&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Di. 12.00:&lt;br /&gt;Magdalena Heuser: Der weibliche Bildungs-/Erziehungsroman am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Di. 14.00&lt;br /&gt;Ruth B. Bottigheimer: "Still, Grethe!" Studien über die zum Schweigen gebrachten weiblichen Figuren in Grimms Kinder- und Hausmärchen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Di. 15.15:&lt;br /&gt;Elke Frederiksen und Monika Shafi: "Sich im Unbekannten suchen gehen": Bettina von Arnims "Die Günderode" - weibliche Utopie durch Sprache&lt;br /&gt;Roswitha Burwick: Bettina von Arnim: Zum Selbstverständnis der Frau in der Romantik&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Do. 11.45:&lt;br /&gt;Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres: Die Darstellung von Frauen in der Erzählprosa von sozialkritischen Schriftstellerinnen im 19. Jahrhundert: Wo bleibt die Kritik?&lt;br /&gt;Livia Z. Wittmann: "Übergangsgeschöpfe". Eine erneute kritische Reflexion über Gabriele Reuters Novellenband "Frauenseelen" (1902)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Do. 13.45:&lt;br /&gt;Phillippa J. Reed: Von "the Angel in the House" zur 'neuen' Frau: Zu den Weiblichkeitsentwürfen in Hedwig Dohms Romantrilogie "Sibilla Dalmar" (1896), "Schicksale einer Seele" (1899) und "Christa ruland" (1902)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Do. 15.00:&lt;br /&gt;Anna K. Kuhn: Ich-Erweiterun und Ich-Aufspaltung: Überlegungen zu Max Frischs "Mein name sei Gantenbein" und Christa Wolfs "Nachdenken über Christa T."&lt;br /&gt;Margare Brügmann: Christa Reinig - eine Amazone mit der Feder. Subversive Aspekte in Christa Reinigs Roman "Entspannung"&lt;br /&gt;Gerlinde Geiger: Weiblichkeit in den Schriften von Männern und Frauen - ein Vergleich&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. Do. 16.15:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Luise F. Pusch: Mutter Natur und Vater Staat - Sexualisierungsfunktionen des Genus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. Fr. 11.45:&lt;br /&gt;Sigrid Weigel: Weiblichkeit in der Schrift? Weiblichkeit und Schrift? - Zum Weiblichkeitsstreit in der Literaturwissenschaft&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. Fr. 13.45:&lt;br /&gt;Inge Stephan: "Die Musen gehören zu den himmlischen Gestalten, die Mann und weib nicht kennen." Zur Androgynitätsauffassung in Kunst und Wissenschaft&lt;br /&gt;Sigrid Schmidt: die unbewußte Schrift der Frauen. Fremd- und Selbstbedeutung in der kontrollierten Kultur&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13. Sa. 9.30&lt;br /&gt;Abschlußgespräch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PROJECTS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;BIBLIOGRAPHY PROJECT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Elke Frederiksen informs us that the Bibliography Project will be published by the Greenwood Press as one volume of a series. The volume will appear under the title: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women Writers of Austria, Germany and Switzerland. An .Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide&lt;/span&gt; sometime in 1986.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Margot Schroeder Translation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Renate Delphendahl and Kathryn Slott are planning a bilingual edition of Margot Schroeder’s poetry intended for use in literature classes. The edition would include an introduction and notes. Anyone interested in such an edition should contact:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Renate Delphendahl&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Foreign Languages&lt;br /&gt;University of Maine &lt;br /&gt;Orono, ME 044-69-0140&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Now&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Available from&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;University Press of America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Women in German Yearbook 1: Feminist Studies and German Culture&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;edited by Marianne Burkhard and Edith Waldstein&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Focusing on the quality and functions of women's roles in German culture, this collection addresses a broad spectrum of issues relevant to a better understan­ding of German life and letters. The juxtaposition of analyses of literature, film, pedogogical, and socio­political text provides valuable insights into the forma­tion, conservation, and transmission of cultural values.&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exhibiting the work of Germanists who synthesize Women's Studies and German Studies, the volume demonstrates the ways in which feminist approaches can enrich the understanding of German culture. The broad range of topics addressed makes this book appealing not only to literature scholars, but to anyone with a keen interest in things German.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 1985, 168 pages&lt;br /&gt;Cloth, 0-8191-4600-5, $22.50&lt;br /&gt;Paper, 0-8191-4601-3, $10.75&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please return to:&lt;br /&gt;University Press of America &lt;br /&gt;4720 Boston Way&lt;br /&gt;Lanham, MD 20706&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISBN &lt;br /&gt;4600-5 Cloth&lt;br /&gt;4601-3 Paper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AUTHOR &lt;br /&gt;Burkhard./Waldstein&lt;br /&gt;Burkhard./Waldstein&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TITLE&lt;br /&gt;Women in German Yearbook&lt;br /&gt;Women in German Yearbook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;QUANTITY &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PRICE&lt;br /&gt;$22.50&lt;br /&gt;$10.75&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOTAL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Postage and handling ($1.25 for the first book, 50c for each additional book.)&lt;br /&gt;maryland residents add 5% sales tax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NAME________________________&lt;br /&gt;ADDRESS_____________________&lt;br /&gt;CITY/STATE/ZIP________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;ALL ORDERS FROM INDIVIDUALS MUST BE PREPAID BY CHECK OR MONEY ORDER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RECENT PUBLICATIONS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Taken from: Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft, Rundbrief 6, Juni 1985.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;All these titles listed here are available as xerographic reprints on paper in either soft or hard cover or on 35 mm microfilm. Titles published during or after 1976 are also available on microfiche; the prefix to the order number given with each title entry indicates the year of publication.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Dissertations listed here also appear in abstract form in Dissertation Abstracts Interdational between 1976 and 1984 (issues 36/10 to 45/07).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;DAS VERHÄLTNIS ZWISCHEN LIEBE UNO EINSAMKEIT IN DEN NOVELLEN THEODOR STORMS. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;DAVIS. MARK STEPHEN (M.A. 1980 FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY) 72p. 18/02. p. 171         PTA13-15993&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE BALLADE ALS KÜNSTLERISCHE NOTWENDIGKEIT IM 19. JAHRHUNDERT (DROSTE, HEBBEL, MEYER, FONTANE (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;BLUMBERG. SIGRID JUTTA (PH.D. 1980 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS) 208p. 41/D9A. p. 4049         &lt;br /&gt;PTA01-40371&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BILDUNGSROMAN MIT DAME: THE HEROINE IN THE GERMAN 'BILDUNGSROMAN' FROM 1770 TO 1800.&lt;br /&gt;BLACKWELL. L. JEANNINE (PH.D. 1982 INDIANA UNIVERSITY) 487p. 43/11 A. p. 3607             PTA83-07998&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MALWIDA VON MEYSENBUG: DIE SELBST. UND WELTDARSTELLUNG IN DEN 'MEMOIREN EINER IDEALISTIN." (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;BENTHIN. KARIN ELISABETH (PH.D. 1983 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK) 282p 45/01A, p. 194&lt;br /&gt;PTA64-09837&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AN EXAMINATION OF THE INDEPENDENT ROLE OF WOMEN IN FRIEDRICH HEBBEL'S MAJOR DRAMAS.&lt;br /&gt;AMBROSE. MARY JO (PH.D 1977 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) 273p 38/11A. 6752        &lt;br /&gt;PTA78-06554&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE BEFREITE PSYCHE: EMANZIPATIONSANSÄTZE IM FRÜHWERK IDA HAHN-HAHNS (1838-1848). (GERMAN TEXT, (FEMALE AESTHETIC. 18TH CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS. FRENCH STRUCTURALIST THEORY).&lt;br /&gt;GEIGER. GERLINDE MARIA (PH.D. 1984 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS) 438p. 45/O6A. p 1765 &lt;br /&gt;PTA84-18995&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PROTECTED 8ELF-REVELATION: A STUDY OF THE WORKS OF FOUR NINETEENTH-CENTURY WOMAN POETS. MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE, ANNETTE VON DROSTE-HÜLSHOFF. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. AND EMILY BRONTE. &lt;br /&gt;SCHLEIMER, GLORIA (PH.D. 1981 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE) 412p 42/10A. p 4443   PTA82-07034&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG: SENSORY REFERENTS IN THE WORKS OF HEINRICH HEINE. KOLB. JOCELYNE (PH.D. 1979 YALE UNIVERSITY, 228p 40/06A. p 3328              PTA73-26239&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE WANDLUNGEN DEB FRAUENBILDES IN DER LYRIK HEINRICH HEINES. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;POTASH. GEERTJE SUHR (PH.D. 1980 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN) 283p 41/11 A. p 4726&lt;br /&gt;PTA81-08630&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KARL GUTZKOW AND 'WALLY. DlE ZWEIFLIRIN': A BIOGRAPHICAL REVALUATION.&lt;br /&gt;VANVALKENBURG. JANET KAY ZACHA (PH.D. 1981 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, 280p&lt;br /&gt;PTA81-27723&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DAS POTENTIAL DER FRAU BEI HEINRICH VON KLEIST. (GERMAN TEXT). RITTER. LIESELOTTE TRAUTE (PH.D. 1981 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY) 259p. 42/12A. p 5136                  PTA82-12450&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DAS VERKLEIDUNGSMOTIV IN DEN PROSAWERKEN VON JOSEPH FREIHERRN VON EICHENDORFF. (GERMAN TEXT). &lt;br /&gt;FISHER. JOHN CHARLES (PH.D. 1976 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) 190p 37/06A. p 5153            &lt;br /&gt;PTA77-0214!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PSYCHOSEXUAL CONTRASTS IN THE GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES: THE YOUTH WHO FEARED NOTHING VERSUS THE GIRL WHO L0ST IT ALL.&lt;br /&gt;HAWES. JANE HARRIS (PH.D. 1978 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) 257p. 39/108. p 5068       &lt;br /&gt;PTA79-07090&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;'IDEAL’VERSUS-REAL': WOMANHOOD AS PORTRAYED IN THE LITERATURE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF EARLY GERMAN ROMANTICISM.&lt;br /&gt;MCCULLAR. SYLVIA YVONNE (PH.D. 1979 RlCE UNIVERSITY) 199p. 40/06A. p 3330                 PTA79-19610&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN AND THE FREEDOM-TO-BE IN SELECTED WORKS OF SCHILLER AND THE ROMANTICS.&lt;br /&gt;SHEERAN. JOAN GARNER (PH.D 1976 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA) 279p. 37/06A. p. 3617  &lt;br /&gt;PTA76-27932&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MARTYRDOM ANO SUICIDE: FEMALE FIGURES IN THE TRAGEDIES OF DANIEL CASPER VON LOHENSTEIN. (GERMAN TEXT)&lt;br /&gt;DIAKUN. GERTRUD (PH D 1983 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO) 213p. 44/O7A. p. 2155 &lt;br /&gt;PTA83-25058&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ANNA SEOHERS' EXILE LITERATURE: THE MEXICAN TEAM (1941-1947) (GERMANY).&lt;br /&gt;LABAHN. KATHLEEN JOANNE (PH.D. 1983 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 278p 45/02A. p 532  PTA84-10623&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;'DAS SPIEL MIT OFFENEN MÖGLICHKEITEN*: SUBJECTIVITY AND THE THEMATIZATION OF WRITING IN THE WORKS OF CHRISTA WOLF. LOVE. MYRA NORMA (PH.D. 1983 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. BERKELEY) 262p 44/08A. p. 2481&lt;br /&gt;PTA53-28968&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE SPRACHFIGUR IN DER LYRIK CHRISTINE LAVANTS: DER PFAUENSCHREI-DIE BETTLERSCHALE-SPINDEL IM MOND. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;BLAIR. BARBARA-MARIA (PH.D. 1981 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY THE STATE U OF NEW JERSEY (NEW BRUNSWICK)) 242p. 42/10A. p 4465        PTA82-04181&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PROSTITUTION IN THE WORKS OF ODON VON HORVATH. CARSTENS. BELINDA HORTON (PH.D. 1980 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL) 229p. 42/02A. p 720&lt;br /&gt;PTA81-14798&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN IN THE NOVELS OF GEORGE SAND, EMILY BRONTE, GEORGE ELIOT AND MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH: TO MITIGATE THE HARSHNESS OF ALL FATALITIES (ENGLAND FRANCE. AUSTRIA).&lt;br /&gt;EDRICH. EVA K. (PH.D. 1984 UNIVERSITY OF DENVER) 226p. 45/06A. p. 1744        &lt;br /&gt;PTA64-18360&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GERMAN WOMEN AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: LOUISE ASTON, FANNY LEWALD, MALWIDA VON MEYSENBUG AND MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH.&lt;br /&gt;GOODMAN. KATHERINE RAMSEY (PH.D 1977 THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 303p 38/10A p. 6149                   &lt;br /&gt;PTA77-25821&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DECADENCE AND THE FEMININE: THE CASE OF LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH (AUSTRIA, FRANCE).&lt;br /&gt;KORE. CLEA ELFI (PH.D. 1983 STANFORD UNIVERSITY) 357p 44/05A. p 1445    &lt;br /&gt;PTA83-20733&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GEIST UND GESCHLECHT. KARL KRAUS UND DIE WIENER MODERNE. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;WAGNER. NIKE (PH.D. 1980 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 399p 41/09A. p 4051                      PTA81-04771&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DAS BILD DER FRAU IN DEN KOMÖDIEN EDUARD VON BAUERNFELDS: 1830-1870. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;WHELAN, DOLORES HORNBACH (PH.D. 1977 THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT) 284p. 38/08A. p 4859&lt;br /&gt;PTA77-31234&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ARTHUR SCHNITZLER'S "THERESE: CHRONIK EINES FRAUENLEBENS.".&lt;br /&gt;CARR. EMORY WESLEY (PH.D. 1979 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON) 189p. 40/05A. p 2703&lt;br /&gt;PTA79-24328&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SOCIAL STEREOTYPES ANO FEMALE ACTUALITIES: A DIMENSION OF THE SOCIAL CRITICISM IN SELECTED WORKS BY FONTANE, HAUPTMANN, WEDEKIND, AND SCHNITZLER.&lt;br /&gt;ROSE, INGRID BARBARA (PH.D. 1978 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) 304p 37/03A. p. 1579  PTA76-20813&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE TWO MARYS: A STUDY OF THE WOMEN IN HERMANN HESSE'S FICTION.&lt;br /&gt;WARD, DOROTHY COX (PH.D. 1978 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) 220p. 37/07A. p. 4386   &lt;br /&gt;PTA76-29408&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE IMAGE OF WOMAN IN BERTOLT BRECHT'S POETRY. &lt;br /&gt;KUPLIS. AIJA (PH.D. 1976 THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON) 468p 37/06A. p. 3661  PTA76-2O904&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE IMAGE OF WOMAN IN THE WORK OF BERTOLT BRECHT. &lt;br /&gt;NUSSBAUM, LAUREEN KLEIN (PH.D. 1977 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON) 525p. 38/03A. p. 1428                           &lt;br /&gt;PTA77-18400&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DAS FRAUENBILD BEI HEINRICH BÖLL (GERMAN TEXT)&lt;br /&gt;GERSTLE. DORRIT E. (PH.D. 1984 CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK) 292p 45/07A p 2118&lt;br /&gt;PTA84-23001&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HEINRICH BÖLL'S FEMALE TRINITY AND THE "RESTAURATION": EVOLUTION OF A RESPONSE.&lt;br /&gt;HIRSCH, SUSANNE KATHLEEN (PH.D. 1976 THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUTIN) &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 292p 37/05A. p 2908 &lt;br /&gt;PTA76-26636&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-16-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PORTRAITS OF WOMEN IN SELECTED NOVELS BY GABRIELE REUTER (WEIMAR GERMANY).&lt;br /&gt;SCHNElDER, GEORGIA ANNE (PH.D. 1982 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY) 189p 43/07A. p 2357       &lt;br /&gt;PTA82-29O16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;STRUKTUR- UND MOTIVANALYSE AUSGEWAEHLTER PROSA VON INGEBORG BACHMANN. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;SCHULZ. BEATE ANNEMARIE (PH.D. 1979 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND) 350p. 40/07A. p. 4069                     &lt;br /&gt;PTA80-02087&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ENTFREMDUNG UND ISOLATION IN DEN PROSAWERKEN VON MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;SNAPPER. GERDA HUMMEL (PH.D. 1979 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY) 154p 41/01A, p 247 &lt;br /&gt;PTA80-14995&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;HILDE DOMIN: FROM EXILE TO IDEAL.&lt;br /&gt;STERN, DAGMAR CACILIA (PH.D. 1977 INDIANA UNIVERSITY) 174p 38/09A p 5506                   PTA78-00161&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE LYRIK ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLERS STILELEMENTE UND THEMENKREISE (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;SULL, YOUNG SUK (PH.D. 1980 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY) 224p 41/01A. p 269                       &lt;br /&gt;PTA60-14048&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HEINRICH MANN AND THE "FEMME FATALE.".&lt;br /&gt;THEURER. WALTER (PH.D. 1979 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) 181p 37/02A. p. 1001                    PTA76-17840&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE THEME OF REBIRTH IN FIVE DRAMAS OF NELLY SACHS.&lt;br /&gt;THOMPSON. JANE HEGGE (PH.D I980 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL) 144p 42/02A. p. 721&lt;br /&gt;PTA81-14886&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DAS BILD DES MANNES IM FRAUENROMAN DER SIEBZIGER JAHRE. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;WEINGANT. LISELOTTE (PH.D. 1981 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN) 367p 42/09A. p 3992&lt;br /&gt;PTAS2-03633&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE MALE-FEMALE CONFIGURATION IN CARL STERNHEIM’S DRAMAS IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS SOCIAL VIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;ZELLER JAMES ALBERT (PH.D. 1976 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS) 134p 37/09A. p 5865                  &lt;br /&gt;PTA77-06367&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DER MENSCH IM SPIEGEL DES TIERBILDES. UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUM WERK ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLERS (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;ZIMMERMANN. INGE MARGARETE ELISABETH (PH.D. 1980 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS) 269p 41/05A, p 2132&lt;br /&gt;PTA80-76710&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REFLECTIONS OF HISTORY: THE STORIES OF ANNA SEGHERR IN WEIMAR GERMANY AND IN EXILE 1924-1947.&lt;br /&gt;KALEYIAS. GEORGE PETER (PH.D. 1981 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND) 275p 42/09A. p 4016    &lt;br /&gt;PTA82-05235&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MOTHERHOOO FOR THE FATHERLAND: THE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN NAZI PROPAGANDA (GERMANY).&lt;br /&gt;VEDDER-SHULTS, NANCY (PH.D. 1982 THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON) 404p. 43/11A. p 3610&lt;br /&gt;PTA63-04299&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE CHARACTERIZATION OF WOMEN IN THE PLAYS OF FRANK WEDEKIND.&lt;br /&gt;PLACE, MARY ELIZABETH (PH.D. 1977 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY) 270p. 38/03A. p 1427                &lt;br /&gt;PTA77-19394&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SOCIAL STEREOTYPES ANO FEMALE ACTUALITIES: A DIMENSION OF THE SOCIAL CRITICISM IN SELECTED WORKS BY FONTANE, HAUPTMANN, WEDEKIND, AND SCHNITZLER.&lt;br /&gt;ROSE, INGRID BARBARA (PH.D. 1976 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) 304p 37/03A. p 1579                       &lt;br /&gt;PTA76-20813&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NATURALISTS AND THE WOMAN QUESTION: IMAGES OF MIDDLE-CLASS "EMANZIPIERTE" IN GERMAN AND SCANDINAVIAN DRAMA.&lt;br /&gt;ALLAN. LORELEI (PH.D. 1982 BROWN UNIVERSITY) 287p 43/10A. p 4486                  PTA82-06121&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE SITUATION OF WOMEN IN GERHART HAUPTMANN'S EARLY NATURALISTIC WORKS.&lt;br /&gt;THORNTON, HEIDEMARIE LIESELOTTE HEADLEY (Ph.D. 1981 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY) 207p. 41710A, p. 4456&lt;br /&gt;PTA82-06121&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOCIAL STEREOTYPES ANO FEMALE ACTUALITIES: A DIMENSION OF THE SOCIAL CRITICISM IN SELECTED WORKS BY FONTANE, HAUPTMANN, WEDEKIND, AND SCHNITZLER.&lt;br /&gt;ROSE, INGRID BARBARA (PH.D. 1976 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) 304p 37/03A. p 1579                       &lt;br /&gt;PTA76-20813&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RICARDA HUCH AND THE GERMAN WOMEN'S MOVEMENT. FRANK, MIRIAM HEDY (PH.D. 1977 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY) 258p., 38/04A. p 2150&lt;br /&gt;PTA77-21264&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MODES OF DOMINATION. THE SOCIAL DIMENSION IN INGEBORG BACHMANN'S FICTION (GERMANY).&lt;br /&gt;HARRIS, JUDITH MAY (PH.D. 1983 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY) 159p. 44/08A. p 2480&lt;br /&gt;PTA83-28907&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DIE FRAU IN GOTTFRIED BENN'S Werk: BILD UND FUNKTION. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HEATHER, BARBARA SCHULZ (PH.D. 1977 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON) 238p. 38/06A, p. 3527&lt;br /&gt;PTA77-26629&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STRATEGIES ANO COUNTER-STRATEGIES: DRAMATIC DIALOGUE IN THE MILIEU PLAYS OF MARIELUISE FLEISSER AND FRANZ XAVER KROETZ.&lt;br /&gt;HOFFMEISTER. DONNA LYNNE (PH.D. 1979 BROWN UNIVERSITY) 259p. 40/11A, p. 5682             &lt;br /&gt;PTA80-07019&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER - EINE BIOGRAPHIE ODER EIN WERK? (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;KLUSENER, ERIKA EMMA (PH.D. 1979 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY) 222p. 40/07A. p 4068       &lt;br /&gt;PTA80-02483&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WOMEN CHARACTERS IN THE WORKS OF UWE JOHNSON. LANGEROVA, VERA ZUZANA (PH.D. 1978 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY) 181p. 37/04A. p. 2209                                  &lt;br /&gt;PTA76-22352&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND AESTHETICS IN NEO-FEMINIST GERMAN FICTION: VERENA STEFAN, ELFRIEDE JELINEK, MARGOT SCHROEDER.&lt;br /&gt;LEVIN, TOBE JOYCE (PH.D. 1979 CORNELL UNIVERSITY) 300p. 40/09A. p. 5043&lt;br /&gt;PTA80-03848&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BETTINA VON ARNIM AND THE LITERARY SALON: WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE CULTURAL LIFE OF EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY.&lt;br /&gt;WALDSTEIN, EDITH JOSEFINE (PH.D. 1982 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY) 175p. 43/09A. p. 3003 &lt;br /&gt;PTA83-02387&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE ANDROGYNOUS IDEAL AND ITS RESURGENCE IN THE WORKS OF NOVALIS AND FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL.&lt;br /&gt;FRIEDRICHSMEYER. SARA LEDAHL (PH.D. 1979 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI) 257p. 40/12A. p 6297                  &lt;br /&gt;PTA8O-12227&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE ANDROGYNOUS IDEAL AND ITS RESURGENCE IN THE WORKS OF NOVALIS AND FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL.&lt;br /&gt;FRIEDRICHSMEYER. SARA LEDAHL (PH.D. 1979 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI) 257p. 40/12A. p 6297                  &lt;br /&gt;PTA8O-12227&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY IN LUDWIG TIECK'S TALES FROM THE "PHANTASUS." A PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION (FAIRY TALE, ROMANTICISM, FANTASY, GERMANY). BARRY, JANE ELIZABETH (PH.D. 1984 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO) 189p. 45/06A, p. 1764&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE CHTHONIC WOMAN IN THE NOVELLAS AND FAIRYTALES OF E. T. A. HOFFMANN.&lt;br /&gt;ELARDO, RONALD JOSEPH (PH.D. 1979 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) 257p. 40/05A., p. 2704&lt;br /&gt;PTA79-25141&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"GOETHES BRIEFWECHSEL MIT EINEM KINDE" - EIN WEIBLICHER BILDUNGSROMAN DES 19. JAHRHUNDERTS. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;BAUMER. KONSTANZE CHRISTINE (PH.D. 1983 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS) 198p 44/10A. p. 3075&lt;br /&gt;PTA84-02435&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE EMBLEMATIC AND MEDITATIVE POETRY OF JOHN DONNE, GEORGE HERBERT, ANDREAS GRYPHIUS, AND CATHARINA REGINA VON GREIFFENBERG.&lt;br /&gt;PRICE, LUCY JEAN (PH.D. 1977 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL) 210p 38/08A. p 3470&lt;br /&gt;PTA77-27296&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SIDONIA HEDWIG ZÄUNEMANN: POET LAUREATE AND EMANCIPATED WOMAN 1714-1740.&lt;br /&gt;DE BERDT, AUGUST JOSEPH JULIEN (PH.D. 1977 THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE) 260p 38/02A. p 815&lt;br /&gt;PTA77-18575&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE FRAU ALS BILDUNGSOBJEKT IN DEN DEUTSCHEN UNO ENGLISCHEN MORALISCHEN WOCHENSCHRIFTEN DES I8. JAHRHUNDERTS. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;MADHYASTHA, ROSEMARIE SCHULZE (PH.D. 1984 CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK) 381p 45/O1A. p 195&lt;br /&gt;PTA84-09409&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LEBEN UND ZEIT DER DICHTERIN A. L. KARSCHIN. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;SINGER, HEIDI MARIA (PH.D. 1983 CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK) 289p 44/10A. p 3076  &lt;br /&gt;PTA84-01957&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN GERMAN DRAMA: 1740-1784&lt;br /&gt;GRAYSON PATRICIA J (PH.D. 1978 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) 252p 37/O7A. o 4383       PTA77-00833&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE FATHER FIGURE IN LESSING'S DRAMAS.&lt;br /&gt;MCCLELLAND, DENNIS RAY (PH.D. 1980 THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA) 224p 41/08A. p 2625      PTA8O-28281&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LIEBE, EHE UNO FAMILIE IM DEUT8CHEN PROSA-"LANCELOT" I. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;KHAWUTSCHKE., PETER WILHELM (PH.D. 1978 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN) 322p. 37/03A. p 1637&lt;br /&gt;PTA76-19171&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE PORTRAYAL OF THE HEROINE IN CHRETIEN DE TROYES'S "EREC ET ENIDE." GOTTFRIED VON STRASSBURO'S "TRISTAN." AND "FLAMENCA".&lt;br /&gt;ZAK, NANCY CARPENTER (PH.D. 1981 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY) 338p. 42/07A. p. 3152&lt;br /&gt;PTA82-00318&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY IN MARRIAGE: CONNUBIALITY IN THE EPIC WORKS OF HARTMANN VON AUE.&lt;br /&gt;OLSON. SANDRA KAY (PH.D. 1982 THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN) 270p. 43/03A. p 798                    &lt;br /&gt;PTA82-17920&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A TOPOGRAPHY OF VIRTUE: HEINRICH FRAUENLOB'S DIDACTICS.&lt;br /&gt;FELKER. MARK VICTOR (PH.D. 1982 YALE UNIVERSITY) 400p. 43/04A. p. 1157   &lt;br /&gt;PTA82-20839&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;MELUSINE: MATRIARCH, ELEMENTAL SPIRIT. ARCHETYPE.&lt;br /&gt;HARRISON. JAMES WRIGHT (PH.D. 1976 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL) 215p. 37/08A. p. 5154&lt;br /&gt;PTA77-02043&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMALE HOMOEROTiClSM IN GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE.&lt;br /&gt;TUBACH. SALLY PATTERSON (PH.D. 1980 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY) 582p. 41/07A. p. 3126&lt;br /&gt;PTA8O-29615&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE BEDEUTUNO DER FRAU IN DÜRRENMATTS DRAMEN. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;FRANKE. ELKE KOERNER (PH.D. 1979 THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER) 296p. 40/04A. p 2082 &lt;br /&gt;PTA79-22931&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DOUBLE JEOPARDY; NINETEENTH CENTURY GERMAN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS.&lt;br /&gt;STUECHER. DOROTHEA DIVER (PH.D. 1981 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA) 279p 42/10A p. 4405    &lt;br /&gt;PTA82-06427&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ISOLATION ANO SOLIDARITY IN THE EARLY WORKS OF ANNA SEGHERS&lt;br /&gt;BUNTEN, KATHLEEN ANNE (PH.D. 1978 THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY) 170p. 39/02A. p 905  PTA78-12324&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE LITERATURE OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.&lt;br /&gt;STIEWE. GERHILD GERTRAUD (PH.D. 1979 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA) 301p 40/06A. p. 3330  &lt;br /&gt;PTA78-26177&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TOWARDS A FEMALE DIALOGIC: VIRGINIA WOOLF ANO CHRISTA WOLF (ENGLAND, GERMANY).&lt;br /&gt;HERRMANN. ANNE CHRISTINE (PH.D. 1983 YALE UNIVERSITY, 237p 46/02A. p 614                PTA84-11828&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN THE DRAMA OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. 1949-1971. (GERMAN TEXT). &lt;br /&gt;HOFFMAN, H JOCHEN (PH.D. 1980 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 2O6p 41/07A. p 3123 PTA81-01333&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE IDEA OF SELF-REALIZATION IN THE WORKS OF ANNA SEGHERS.&lt;br /&gt;ISAJIW. OKSANA OLNA (PH.D. 1977 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 284p 38/O3A. p. 1424          PTA77-18868&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REFLECTIONS OF HISTORY: THE STORIES OF ANNA SEGHERS IN WEIMAR GERMANY AND IN EXILE 1925-1947.&lt;br /&gt;KALEYIAS. GEORGE PETER (PH.D. 1981 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND) 275p 42/09A. p 4018    &lt;br /&gt;PTA82-O8236&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE WRITINGS OF CHRISTA WOLF: FROM OBJECTIVE TO SUBJECTIVE AUTHENTICITY.&lt;br /&gt;KINGSBURY. ALICE VICTORIA MADDOX (PH.D. 1981 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY) 2O8p. 42/12A.p 5135&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE CENTRAL WOMEN FIGURES IN CARL ZUCKMAVER'S DRAMAS.&lt;br /&gt;BALINKIN. AUSMA (PH.D. 1978 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI) 200p 37/05A. p 2907  &lt;br /&gt;PTA76-25485&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE IMAOE OF CHILDHOOD IN THE NOVELS OF ELISABETH LANGGASSER (GERMANY).&lt;br /&gt;BREARLEY. MARGARET BURROWS (PH.D. 1982 THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT) 125p 43/12A. p 3924&lt;br /&gt;PTA83-09243&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A STUDY OF CLARA VIEBIG'S "NOVELLEN".&lt;br /&gt;CARPENTER. VICTOR WALLACE (PH.D. 1978 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) 287p 39/03A. p 1605                    &lt;br /&gt;PTA78-16288&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WORT UND WAHRHEIT: DAS PROBLEM DER SPRACHE IN DER PROSA INGEBORG BACHMANNS. (GERMAN TEXT). &lt;br /&gt;CREWS, ELISABETH THOMPSON (PH.D. 1977 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA) 240p 38/10A. p 6148              &lt;br /&gt;PTA78-02852&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER'S DRAMA 'DARK RIVER': A TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH AND A CRITICAL COMMENTARY.&lt;br /&gt;CURTIS. JANE ELIZABETH (PH.D. 1982 THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA) 279p 43/03A. p. 814&lt;br /&gt;PTA82-13748&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FRAUEN UNO EROTIK IN OTTO FLAKES ROMANWERK (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;DARM0N. NICOLE MARIE SCHOENBERGER (PH.D. 1976 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA) 2O7p 37/04A. p 2209&lt;br /&gt;PTA76-22976&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LOUISE VON FRANCOIS: BETWEEN "FRAUENZIMMER" AND "A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN" (GERMANY).&lt;br /&gt;FOX, THOMAS CHARLES (PH.D. 1983 YALE UNIVERSITY) 295p. 44/09A. p. 2778&lt;br /&gt;PTA83-29251&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHARLOTTE BIRCH-PFEIFFER: DRAMATIST.&lt;br /&gt;EVANS, CATHERINE ANNE (PH.D. 1982 CORNELL UNIVERSITTY) 305p. 42/12A. p. 5134&lt;br /&gt;PTA82-10769&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE FUNCTION OF TRANCE AND DREAM IN THE POETRY OF ANNETTE VON DROSTE HÜLSHOFF.&lt;br /&gt;DI DONATO, ROBERT (PH.D. 1977 THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY) 203p. 28/08A, p. 4814&lt;br /&gt;PTA77-31858&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE LIFE AND WORKS OF LOUISE ASTON-MEIER.&lt;br /&gt;CARICO, MARILYN ESCHINGER (PH.D. 1977 THE UNIVERSITY [text cut off]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;UNCOMMON WOMEN AND THE COMMON EXPERIENCE: FICTION OF FOUR CONTEMPORARY FRENCH ANO GERMAN WOMEN WRITERS (BRUCKNER, CARDINAL, DREWITZ, MALLET-JORIS).&lt;br /&gt;MARTIN. ELAINE A. (PH.D. 1982 INDIANA UNIVERSITY) 417p. 43/09A. p. 2988      &lt;br /&gt;PTA83-01078&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EARTH, SPIRIT, VICTIM, OR WHORE? THE FIGURE OF THE PROSTITUTE IN GERMAN LITERATURE, 1880-1925.&lt;br /&gt;MCCOMS, NANCY KATHERINE (PH.D. 1982 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO) 289p. 43/03A, p. 815&lt;br /&gt;PTA82-19202&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MARIELUISE FLEISSER: HER LIFE ANO WORK.&lt;br /&gt;MEYER, MARSHA ELIZABETH (PH.D. 1983 THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON) 344p. 44/12 A, p. 3702&lt;br /&gt;PTA84-00488&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DAS OPFER EMANZIPIERT SICH: DIE TOCHTER IM DEUTSCHEN ROMAN DES 19. UND 20. JAHRHUNDERTS. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;REJDA. SYBILLE BERG (PH.D. 1983 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN) 209p 45/02A. p. 533             &lt;br /&gt;PTA84-12321&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A TYPOLOGY OF WOMEN CHARACTERS IN THE OERMAN NATURALIST NOVEL&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ROWE. MARIANNE LANGENBUCHER (PH.D. IBB, RICE UNIVERSITY) 244p. 42/02A. p. 721       PTA01-18980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;EFFI BRIEST: ERZÄHLSTOFF UND ERZÄHLINHALT. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;BINDOKAT, KARLA MARIA (PH.D. 1981 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA) 363p 42/10A. p 4465&lt;br /&gt;PTA82-06228&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE BALLADE ALS KÜNSTLERISCHE NOTWENDIGKEIT IM I9. JAHRHUNDERT (DROSTE, HEBBEL, MEYER, FONTANE). (GERMAN TEXT.&lt;br /&gt;BLUMBERG: SIGRID JUTTA (PH.D. 1980 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS) 206p. 41/09A p 4049               &lt;br /&gt;PTA81-O8371&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN BETWEEN NATURE MAGIC ANO EMANCIPATION. (GERMAN TEXT) (FONTANE).&lt;br /&gt;BURNS SIGRID ANITA (PH.D. 1984 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY) 261p. 45/05A. p 1412                 &lt;br /&gt;PTA84-18729&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NOVEL ASSOCIATIONS: THEODOR FONTANE ANO GEORGE ELIOT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY REALISM.&lt;br /&gt;DAVIS, GABRIELE A WITTIG (PH.D. 1978 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 250p 39/09A. p 5491 PTA79-05840&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A NEW READlNG OF FONTANE'S EFFI BRIEST: GENESIS AND INTERPRETATION.&lt;br /&gt;GILBERT, ANNA MARIE (PH.D. 1980 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE) I76p 41/10A, p 4408                      &lt;br /&gt;PTA81-06776&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SOCIAL STEREOTYPES AND FEMALE ACTUALITIES: A DIMENSION OF THE SOCIAL CRITICISM IN SELECTED WORKS BY FONTANE, HAUPTMANN, WEDEKIND, AND SCHNITZLER.&lt;br /&gt;ROSE. INGRID BARBARA (PH.D. 1976 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY) 304p 37/03A. p 1579              &lt;br /&gt;PTA76-2O813&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE FRAUENGESTALTEN IN THEODOR FONTANES BERLINER ROMANEN: ROLLE UNO FUNKTION IN DER DARSTELLUNG DES KONFLIKTS ZWISCHEN INDIVIDUUM UND GESELLSCHAFT. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;KIENBAUM. BARBARA E. (PH.D. 1978 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY) 156p 40/02A. p 882     PTA79-17732&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE UTOPIE OES WEIBLICHEN GLÜCKS IN DEN ROMANEN THEODOR FONTANES. (GERMAN TEXT). &lt;br /&gt;MITTELMANN. HANNI (PH.D. 1978 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES) 286p 39/O6A. p 3811&lt;br /&gt;PTA78-23392&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE WOMAN AS SURVIVOR: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEMALE FIGURE IN HEINRICH BÖLL’S FICTION.&lt;br /&gt;MOELLER. ALEIDINE JOHANNE KRAMER (PH.D. 1979 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN) 187p. 40/03A. p. 1492     &lt;br /&gt;PTA79-2O997&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DIE ISOLATION DER FRAU IN DER ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN DEUTSCHEN PROSA. (GERMAN TEXT).&lt;br /&gt;SCHECK. IRENE ELISABETH (PH.D. 1982 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON) 175p. 43/O8A. p 1986     &lt;br /&gt;PTA82-24884&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WIG ALBUM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[photos]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;WIG Agenda, 1985-86&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Name _______________________  &lt;br /&gt;Phone(s) _____________________&lt;br /&gt;Address ______________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Please fill in any or all of the following items and send this sheet to Jeannine Blackwell by 10 October 1985. Jeannine will collate the responses for the WIG business meeting agenda for the October conference. REMEMBER that you are welcome (even urged!) to participate in WIG planning whether you are able to attend the October meeting or not.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;I. Nominations for WIG Steering Committee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;The six SC members serve staggered 3-year terms (see Nov. 1982 newsletter). Please include name and address or affiliation; try to nominate from different geographical areas. Also, be sure the woman you nominate is willing to serve. &lt;br /&gt;1. __________&lt;br /&gt;2. __________                                                                         &lt;br /&gt;II. Suggestions for 1986 WIG sessions. Indicate whether you are willing to organize a session on the topic(s) you propose, and at which conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;A. AATG 1986&lt;br /&gt;(July 30-Aug. 2 in Berlin)&lt;br /&gt;1. _______ (Pedagogy)&lt;br /&gt;2. _______ (LIterature)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;B. MLA 1986&lt;br /&gt;(New York)&lt;br /&gt;1. ________&lt;br /&gt;2. ________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;C. WIG conference (probably in Portland, Oregon in 1986; guest(s) not yet decided).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;1. ______&lt;br /&gt;2. ______&lt;br /&gt;3. ______&lt;br /&gt;4. ______&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;D. Suggested guests (authors, other artists, or scholars) for future WIG conferences (Please include brief bio and list of major works).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;1. __________  &lt;br /&gt;2. __________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;III. WIG projects&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;A. Amount of time you would be able to work on a WIG project during 1985-86:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;B. Project(s) you would most like to work on (indicate what you could do):&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Textbook reviewing ________    &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Translation _____________        &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;WIG Yearbook (editing, refereeing of papers, typing, etc.)&lt;br /&gt;____________________________&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bibliography, book reviews, journal, reviews, etc. for WIG newsletter (be specific).&lt;br /&gt;____________________________&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;IV. General comments/suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;     ______________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mail to&lt;/span&gt;: Jeannine Blackwell, German Dept., U. Kentucky, 1055 Patterson Tower, Lexington, KY 40506.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proceedings of the Second Annual&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading40"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SYMPOSIUM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Women and German Studies:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Approach&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;September 24, 1977 &lt;br /&gt;Miami University &lt;br /&gt;Oxford, O&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;hio&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;WOMEN &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;AND GERMAN STUDIES:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND COMPARATIVE APPROACH&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Introduction ...1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Lucy Morros, The Lindenwood Colleges, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Impact of German Thought and Culture on Madame &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;de Staël's Thinking about Women&lt;/span&gt; ...5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Deborah Hertz, University of Minnesota, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Madame Staël's Counterparts: Literary Salons in Berlin, 1800&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panel&lt;/span&gt;: Susan Cocalis, University of Massachussetts-Amherst; Deborah Hertz; Lucy Morros; Marie-Claire Vallios, Miami University &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Heidi Tewarson, State University of New York at Stony Brook, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Woman Question in the Early Work of Alfred Döblin&lt;/span&gt;...25&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Renny Harrigan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Stereotype of the Emancipated Woman in the Weimar Republic&lt;/span&gt;... 47&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Panel&lt;/span&gt;: Renny Harrigan; Heidi Tewarson&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Evelyn Beck, University of Wisconsin-Madison, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Songs of the Women's Movement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Patricia K. Fossenden, Ohio State University, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;More Than a Question of Numbers&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women Deputies in the German &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;National Constituent Assembly and the Reichstag&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1919-1933&lt;/span&gt; ... 80&lt;/p&gt;
Jacques R. Pauwels, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, &lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women University Students, National Socialism and the War, 1939-1945&lt;/span&gt; ... 99&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Panel&lt;/span&gt;: Patricia K. Fossenden; Jaques R. Pauwels; Leila Rupp, Ohio State University&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christine Cosentino, Rutgers University/RUCCAS, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frau und Staatsbürger in Volker Braun's Schauspiel 'Tinka'&lt;/span&gt; ... 114&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helen Fehervary, Ohio State University, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and the Aesthetic of the Positive Hero in the GDR&lt;/span&gt; ... 121&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Panel&lt;/span&gt;: Gisela E. Bahr, Miami University; Christine Cosentino, Helen Fehervary; Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts- Amherst&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*I&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;tems without page numbers were presented&lt;/i&gt; at the &lt;i&gt;Symposium but do not appear in these Proceedings&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Weisefrau, Uta   37&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University&lt;br /&gt;Utopia, USA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;37&lt;/span&gt; • Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Renew &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt;, today, before you forget—sending out reminders is time-consuming and expensive, not to mention boring.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;[image]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MARCH 1985&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Coalition of Women in German, an allied organization of the MLA, invites students, teachers and all others interested in Feminism and German Studies to subscribe to the newsletter. See the last page of this issue for rates.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ritta Jo Horsley, U. Mass., Boston (1981-84)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut R. Poole, Los Angeles (1981-84)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell, Michigan State U. (1982-85)&lt;br /&gt;   Political Action Committee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara D. Wright, U. Conn., Storrs (1982-85)&lt;br /&gt;   Political Action Committee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandra Frieden, U. Houston (1983-86)&lt;br /&gt;   Fundraising Coordinator&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Waldstein, M.I.T. (1983-86)&lt;br /&gt;   Conference Coordinator, 1984&lt;br /&gt;   Coeditor (with Marianne Burkhard, U. Illinois), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Yearbook &lt;/span&gt;(1982-  )&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dinah Dodds, Lewis and Clark Coll. (1984-87)&lt;br /&gt;   Conference Coordinator, 1985&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sydna Weiss, Hamilton Coll. (1984-87)&lt;br /&gt;   Textbook Review Committee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Women in German Newsletter is published in March, August and November of each year. Send newsletter items to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Susan L. Cocalis&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of German—[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;University of Massachusetts &lt;br /&gt;Amherst, MA 01003&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Editorial Staff: Leslie Morris, Karin Obermeier, Colette van Kerckvoorde&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Table of Contents&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;WIG Newsletter in Transition ... 1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;WIG Projects ... 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Aus Unserem Briefkasten ... 6&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;AATG/MLA 1984 ... 7&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Calls for Papers ... 17&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Conferences ... 20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Announcements ... 23&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Books ... 27&lt;br /&gt;   Reviews ... 27&lt;br /&gt;   Recent Publications: Bibliography ... 30&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Subscriptions/Membership Form ... 32&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 36&lt;br /&gt;March 1985&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The final — and most coveted — installment for this newsletter has just arrived from Ft. Wayne: Erin Clausen's artwork. She, at least, will continue to serve on the editorial staff of the WIG Newsletter even if Jeanette will be enjoying a long overdue and certainly well-earned respite from her editorial chores. It is hard to conceive of a newsletter produced without Jeanette — in fact, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;so&lt;/span&gt; hard that she ended up doing most of the groundwork for this issue. Page after page of material with comments scribbled on attached scraps of yellow paper began to arrive in Northampton. Then there were the more extensive directives scribbled on white paper. These were followed up by phone calls: did you do this or that? one has to go here or there and do this or that ... did you call so-and-so? no??? well, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;we&lt;/span&gt; did ... ad infinitum. Then the mailing list came. Then Erin's drawings. I felt reassured: Jeanette &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;was&lt;/span&gt; still with us. I only wish she could stay with us but — alas — that is not to be. Thank you, Jeanette, on behalf of all of us in WIG for everything you have done over the past few years. It really has been service above and beyond the call of duty!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As soon as we get our act together, a collective of UMass graduate students and area faculty members will be involved in the production of future newsletters. The present issue will be a rather makeshift affair because of the transfer of materials and my belated awareness of what tasks still had to be assigned and done. Please bear with us for the time being.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Special thanks for this issue go to Colette van Kerckvoorde, Karin Obermeier, and Leslie Morris.                                                            &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SLC&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We've often talked about the problem of diversity in WIG and the need for various "voices." We graduate students are becoming an ever-growing, more active, and integrated part, yet we haven't articulated our needs as a group — we want to explore these needs and open up communication with each other to combat the all too-familiar sense of isolation in which we operate. We'd like the WIG newsletter to provide a forum for graduate students in Germanistik and Comp. Lit. to exchange information on our work and interests and to recognize each other's efforts. Any information, concerns, anecdotes, impressions, i. e. ANYTHING! would be very welcome.... Write to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leslie Morris/Karin Obermeier&lt;br /&gt;C/0 of German Dept. at UMass, Amherst&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;br /&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Spring 1985&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN is a feminist coalition committed to promoting feminist scholarship and pedagogy in German literary, cultural, and language studies at all educational levels. WIG was formed in 1975 and is open to students and teachers alike, as well as to feminists working outside academe. An allied organization of the MLA, WIG has created a communication network and support system for our 350 members in the USA, Canada, and six other countries. We have worked closely with feminist germanists in the FRG in founding a sister organization there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;WIG has held an annual fall conference since 1976 and sponsors both literary and pedagogical sessions at the annual conventions of the AATG and MLA. Our sessions have consistently been among the best attended. WIG publishes three newsletters annually and a yearbook. Other publications include a collection of 50 course syllabi and a compendium of textbook reviews; an anthology of prose by contemporary women writers in translation is in the planning stages. German departments and academic journals have become aware of a large and vigilant feminist presence in the profession; our voices have been heard (and to some extent heeded) in textbook departments of major publishers. We have begun to integrate German women writers into the curriculum and have created new courses for studying women's writings in the context of faninist theory. We have supported and inspired research on women by our students and colleagues. We are com­mitted to helping women gain tenure and to raising our voices in protest when they are denied it unfairly. In short, we have fought sexism and validated the study of women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Since 1980, we have invited a guest writer to our fall meetings: Margot Schroeder in 1960, Angelika Mechtel in 1981, Luise Rinser in 1982, Barbara Frischnuth in 1983, and limtraud Morgner and Helga Schütz in 1984. In addition, we have sponsored visits by Ingeborg Drewitz and Gisela Dischner to our MLA ses­sions. To become a member and subscribe to the newsletter, fill out and return the coupon with your check. Those who join at the supporting membership rate help us keep rates low for students and unemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG PROJECTS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Textbook Reviews&lt;/span&gt;: The steering committee member now in charge of textbook reviews is Sydna (Bunny) Weiss at Hamilton College. Let her know your concerns in this area, and offer to help on the new textbook project.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Women in German!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Please take 5 minutes to photocopy, then fill out the following questionnaire. Marianne Burkhard and I are trying to find out what women are doing In our profession, and think this form will help. Imagine it as everywoman’s guide to the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Monatshefte &lt;/span&gt;survey. I hope the results will be published somewhere (possibly the WiG Yearbook or maybe &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Monatshefte&lt;/span&gt;). Give copies to all the women German teachers you know —‘high school, community college, etc. Encourage them to get it in by May 15. The more, the better. Feel free to add extra commentary and to critique the form (you know those pesky feminists: meckern, meckern, meckern).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Jeannine Blackwell&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;MSU&lt;br /&gt;East Lansing, MI 4882&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questionnaire on women in German&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(Please make copies and give to your female colleagues)&lt;br /&gt;Return to: Jeannine Blackwell, MSU, East Lansing, MI by May 15, 1985&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="WordSection4"&gt;1. Describe the institution you work in:&lt;br /&gt;a. secondary school a. private&lt;br /&gt;b. undergraduate degree-granting institution&lt;br /&gt;d. business/professional sphere&lt;br /&gt;   a. liberal art orientation&lt;br /&gt;   b. technical/vocational&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. "Status" of your institution&lt;br /&gt;   a. age&lt;br /&gt;      1. 1-25 years old&lt;br /&gt;      2. 26-100 years old&lt;br /&gt;    b. sex distribution, students&lt;br /&gt;      1. under 40% female&lt;br /&gt;      2. 40-60% female&lt;br /&gt;      3. over 60% female&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   b. # of German majors (put # of minors in parentheses)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   c. German majors' main interest: rank from 1 (most) to 4&lt;br /&gt;____ literature&lt;br /&gt;____ German high culture (classics in art, music, architecture)&lt;br /&gt;____ social history/ contemporary culture&lt;br /&gt;____ vocational direction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   d. Most of our 3rd and 4th year students (check applicable categories):&lt;br /&gt;_____ are German majors&lt;br /&gt;_____ are in science/professional fields&lt;br /&gt;_____ are lower caliber than the average student here&lt;br /&gt;_____ could handle graduate study in German&lt;br /&gt;_____ are women&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Your job: What do you do for your dept. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   a. that men of your rank &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;do not&lt;/span&gt; do?&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;   b. that is instrumental in teaching innovation? (CAI, textbook innovation, A-V, teacher training, etc.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   c. that leads to program diversification or curriculum innovation? (film, business German, internship organizing, etc.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. What other administrative units do you participate in, and how? (women's studies, schools of communications, film studies, etc.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. What administrative functions do you have in addition to teaching and research? (coordinator or director of women's studies, affirmative action, chair or head of German section, programs abroad, honors, etc.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Your "status"&lt;br /&gt;   a. (present rank) ______&lt;br /&gt;   b. (years in rank) ______&lt;br /&gt;   c. temporary/permanent (circle)&lt;br /&gt;   d. fulltime/parttime (circle)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   e. if non-permanent or non-tenure track, check the category that best explains your job:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;I wanted a temporary job&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;the only job I could get nationwide was temporary&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I am limited geographically for family reasons, and want a temporary job&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I am limited geographically for family reasons, but want a tenure-track job&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;My research has not been up to the standards of the job applicant pool&lt;br /&gt;a. because of family responsibilities&lt;br /&gt;b. because of excess teaching load/work load&lt;br /&gt;c. because I am not dedicated to research fulltime&lt;br /&gt;d. because I was out of the research mainstream&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Men get full time, women parttime&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Faculty discrimination in hiring (give year of hiring________ &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bad counseling in graduate school (give year and location: ____&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I just wasn't'good enough for serious scholarship&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I had other priorities and interests in my life&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;My specialty is/was not in demand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;   f. years at institution______________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The biggest problem with/asset of the teaching of German today is:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;literary research:                 &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;relations with rest of college/school:&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MLA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;It occurred to some of us that WIG, which is an allied organization of the MLA, could make more of a difference in that organization if we had more representation on the executive committees of some of the MLA Divisions. So we're asking all of you who are MLA members to help us get some WIG members onto the executive committee ballot. We propose the following slate (these women have agreed to be nominated, and to serve if elected), and we're asking you to endorse our choices.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;JILL MCDONALD &lt;/span&gt;- German Literature to 1700&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;RUTH-ELLEN B. JOERES &lt;/span&gt;- 18th and Early 19th Century German Literature&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MARIANNE BURKHARD &lt;/span&gt; - 19th and Early 20th Century German Literature&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;JOEY HORSLEY &lt;/span&gt; - 20th Century German Literature&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;BARBARA D. WRIGHT &lt;/span&gt;- Women's Studies in Language and Literature&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Now, then. This is what needs to be done: If you're an MLA member, you will receive a mailing from the MLA in which, among other things, you are invited to make nominations to replace outgoing executive committee members for the Divisions you belong to. DON'T THROW THAT MAILING AWAY! Instead, refer to the above list and nominate the appropriate WIG member for each Division you belong to. If enough of us do this, our candidates will be included on the ballot. Then, of course, you'll have to remember to vote for them when MLA elections are held sometime next fall.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For detailed information about how the MLA Divisions and their executive committees operate, see PMLA Vol. 99, No. 4 (Directory, Sept. 1984), pp. 566-68.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Please do help get Wiggies elected to these positions. It will help us influence the programming in the German and Women's Studies sections at the MLA annual conventions.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt; We salute . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cyndi Lauper   Tina Turner   Pat benitar (sic!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- a women of the year and mother of a child (another on the way).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;great feminist!          46 year old great!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AUS UNSEREM BRIEFKASTEN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Der Besuch von Irmtraud Morgner und Helga Schütz an Washington University in St. Louis (27. - 30. Oktober 1984)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Durch die langjährige Lehrtätigkeit unserer WIG-Schwester Pat Herminghouse im Bereich DDR-Literatur und besonders durch die Aktivitäten um das hier publizierte GDR-Bulletin war ein großes Interesse für die DDR-Schriftstellerinnen Irmtraud Morgner und Helga Schütz an Washington University vorhanden. Bei uns arbeiten mehrere Doktorandinnen über DDR-Schriftstellerinnen, u. a. über Irmtraud Morgner. Wir wollen unseren WIG-Schwestern, vor allem Karen Achberger, dafür danken; habt ihr den Besuch doch erst überhaupt möglich gemacht. Durch Beitritt zu WIG konnte unsere Deutschabteilung die beiden Schriftstellerinnen tatsächlich einladen. Der Besuch war ein Riesenerfolg und wurde zu einem der sicherlich interessantesten und unvergesslichsten Ereignisse, die bei uns an der Abteilung in den letzten Jahren stattgefunden haben.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Da die Schriftstellerinnen einen Besuch in St. Louis nur von Samstag bis Dienstagmorgen einplanen konnten, las Helga Schütz am Sonntagnachmittag aus &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Julia&lt;/span&gt;. Daran spann sich eine anregende Diskussion mit einem der DDR-Literatur aufgeschlossenen Publikum. Trotz des ungewöhnlichen Termins waren viele Zuhörer gekommen. Die den Nachmittag abschließende Filmvorführung &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Leiden des jungen Werthers&lt;/span&gt; (Regie: Egon Günther. Szenarium: Helga Schütz) vermittelte einen Eindruck in die vielseitige Schaffenskraft von Helga Schütz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Am folgenden Nachmittag las Irmtraud Morgner. Wiederum war der Vortragsraum bis auf den letzten Platz voll. Morgner hatte das 79. Kapitel ("Die Heiratsschwindlerin - oder .Warum muß Barbara auf ihren Prozeß warten?") aus &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda&lt;/span&gt; ausgewählt, das sie selbst als eine der "knalligen" Stellen im Roman bezeichnete. Sie schloß mit einem Kapitel des neuen und dritten Teils der Laura-Salman-Trilogie ab. Ihre zwingende Vortragsweise machte den hexisehen-feministischen Humor ihres Werkes zu einer sinnlichen Erfahrung; es gelang ihr, auch die Skeptiker um den Finger zu wickeln. Die Morgner-Fans fanden die in sie gesetzten Erwartungen erfüllt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Der Besuch der Schriftstellerinnen war von zwei Parties umrahmt: am Samstagabend bei Dorle und Egon Schwarz und am Sonntagabend von einer Halloween-Party bei der Aachener Austauschstudentin Frauke Langguth. Hier konnten die beiden Frauen nur kurz bleiben, da sie die Gelegenheit nicht versäumen wollten, Formans &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amadeus &lt;/span&gt;zu sehen. Nach dem gemeinsam verbrachten Sonntag — wir hatten ihnen Midtown gezeigt —, ergab es sich, daß wir noch recht viel zusammen unternahmen. Beide Frauen waren mit der Erwartung hierher gekommen, daß St. Louis das Zentrum des Blues sei. Doch die Zeit der Bluesbars im 'Gaslight Square' ist schon lange vorbei. Dank der Tips von Rob Leventhal konnten wir eine Blueskneipe ausfindig machen und unseren Gästen den Wunsch, authentischen Blues zu hören, am Montag­abend noch erfüllen und zwar im '1860 Saloon' im Soulard Viertel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bei dem ’Sack-lunch' mit der Redaktion des GDR-Bulletins wurden die beiden Schriftstellerinnen mit den Aufgaben und Arbeitsweisen des Kollektivs bekannt gemacht. Leider mußte der spontan gefaßte Entschluß, in die Max-Beckmann­Ausstellung zu gehen, ins Wasser fallen, da das Museum ausgerechnet an dem Tag geschlossen war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Es fiel uns schwer, von Helga Schütz und Irmtraud Morgner Abschied zu nehmen. Unvergeßlich bleiben die vielen Fahrten in Pats altem Ford-Stationwagen unter allen erdenklichen Wetterbedingungen (Regen, Nebel, Kälte sowie Mondschein) und mit Nina Simone Musik. Zum Schluß noch eine kleine Anekdote: Mit ihrem bestimmten Auftreten konnte Morgner sogar uns Amerikaerfahrenen davon über­zeugen, daß die Uhr zum Herbstzeitwechsel nicht vor, sondern nachgestellt werde. Obwohl wir nicht von Zweifeln frei waren, glaubten wir ihr. Als wir am nächsten Morgen zur verabredeten Zeit in ihrem Hotel auftauchten, waren wir zwei Stunden zu früh und standen als die leichtgläubig Verführten da. Das war sicherlich kein bewußter Eulenspiegeltrick.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vielleicht, das ist unser Vorschlag, wäre es möglich, um 10. oder 15. Jubiläum irgendwo eine WIG-Sommerwerkstatt zu planen, zu der wir alle bisher von WIG eingeladenen Schriftstellerinnen wiederum zusammenbringen und eine Mammutfeier veranstalten: wenn wir gemeinsam davon träumen, wird es vielleicht Realität werden.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mit schwesterlichen Grüßen!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tineke Ritmeester, Magda Mueller und Hildegard Pietsch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AATG, MLA 1984&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image: 17. &lt;em&gt;Das Weib lenkt den Lauf der Welt&lt;/em&gt; (Deutscher Holzschnitt des 16. Jahrhunderts)]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The summaries published here repre­sent only a very partial picture of the WIG sessions held at the AATG and MLA conventions in 1984.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG - 1984&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN AND PEACE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderators: Irmgard Hunt, Texas Tech U., Irmgard Taylor, SUNY/Cortland&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Women in German session at the AATG, Chicago, went very well. We had three excellent and very different presentations that held the interest of the audience. In fact, the audience grew as we went along. That had a lot to do with the early hour (our session was from 8:30 - 9:30). Edith Waldstein spoke first on "Bertha von Suttner and the European Peace Movement of the Early Twentieth Century." The emphasis, as she explained prior to her talk, was on Suttner's novel "Die Waffen Nieder!" and the characterization of the main figures . (If anyone wants to have an intense experience of déjà-vue I recommend reading this novel — now in paperback in the FRG by Knaur Verlag, DM 9,80 — because so many of the current peace movement thoughts were expressed by Suttner so long ago.) Sara Friedrichsmeyer then spoke on "The Diary of Käthe Kollwitz" and her attitude toward war. Tineke Ritmeester reported on a "Women and Peace" course she teaches and distributed her syllabus. She started and ended with two powerful poems, and explained her personal commitment to the cause of peace.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My impression was that the papers, or rather the entire session, was very well received. The attendance was as good or better than other sessions that Sunday. I heard no further negative comments on the topic of the session as such and believe it best not to make a fuss about the time slot. After all, many people were scheduled for Sunday. Herta Stephenson explained the late Sunday time slot for the WIG cinema session by the very late submission of the session proposal (way past the deadline). One way to ensure preferential treatment for time slots would be to have a WIG member on the AATG Planning Committee, or at least an ally. Do we have one? It would be worthwhile to take note of next year's committee members.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmgard Taylor &lt;br /&gt;SUNY/Cortland&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"From Revolutionary to Pacifist: The Diaries of Käthe Kollwitz"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the decades since Käthe Kollwitz began to exhibit her graphic works, the appraisals they have elicited from art historians and other arbiters of taste have varied greatly, depending on the favor accorded the socially committed work of a woman artist. One constant in these vagaries of art appreciation, however, has been the recurring perception of Kollwitz as an artist with revolutionary impulses. In addition to her graphic art &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and sculpture, Kollwitz also left diaries, written between 1909 and 1943. In my presentation I assumed the literary merits of these diaries, and used them to examine this assessment of Kollwitz as a "revolutionary" artist. For if art historians seem to agree that the demand for the radical overthrow of existing social and political systems defines her work, a reading of her diaries challenges that consensus. The diaries not only put into perspective the revolutionary fervor which inspired some of her major works, but in chronicling her development, demonstrate what I suggested should be seen as Kollwitz's evolution from revolutionary to pacifist. In addition to discussing the link between that change and Kollwitz’s developing consciousness of herself as a woman and mother, I also stressed the connection between that particular awareness and the style of the journal entries, a style which corroborates recent claims for a female aesthetic. Kollwitz, as we all know, is worthy of close attention for her graphic works and sculpture. When the dimensions of her commitment to pacifism are recognized, she gains even more importance for our time, not only as an artist, but as a woman and diarist as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Friedrichsmeyer &lt;br /&gt;University of Cincinnati/Raymond Walters General and Technical College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Reevaluating Teaching ’Women and Peace”’&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I began my presentation with a reading of "I Am A Dangerous Woman" by Joan Cavanagh (in: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Reweaving the Web of Life&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Pam McAllister, Philadelphia, 1982, p. 2). Feminist teaching is a form of feminist activism. To teach a course on "Women and Peace" based on the notion that the nersonal is the political and vice versa requires a shift in emphasis from conventional issues of war and peace to violence against women in all its aspects. Students must be encouraged to ask questions about war and peace from a feminist perspective and to acquire an ability to perceive these issues as they directly affect the lives of all women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the paper I talk about my experiences in the German shelter movement ("Frauen helfen Frauen") and of my allegiance to the European peace movement at the time when I began planning the course. Five years later, I see that violence against women is still on the increase (20% increase in rape in 1984 in St. Louis alone) and that the peace movement has failed in its prime objective: halting the European deployment of cruise missiles. This raises the question of whether we, as feminists, ought not to rethink our place within the peace movement, My paper (and the course) address the following proposition: if peace does have a better chance with women, that is because women are closer to the roots of war and NOT because &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they are closer to the source of life. Feminist teaching must remain committed to promoting social change for women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tineke Ritmeester &lt;br /&gt;Washington U/St. Louis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image: 2. &lt;em&gt;Mann schlägt Frau&lt;/em&gt;. (Deutschland, 1456)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN AND GERMAN FILM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderator: Barbara Hyams, University of Tulsa&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Women in Weimar Cinema"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The purpose of my presentation was to introduce a variety of approaches for teaching courses on Women in Weimar Cinema and to provide information about available literature and films. (I would be happy to supply bibliographical information and film lists to anyone interested in teaching such a course.) The approaches included a more traditional concentration on plot analyses of films in which central female figures appear either as virgins or vamps, the investigation of cinematic techniques (shot composition and montage) in films that promote a patriarchal or male gaze, and the study of contributions by women in all branches of the cinematic institution during the Weimar Era. I suggested that, regardless of the focal point, instructors should challenge their students to perceive how aspects of standard commercial film production (including the star system and film genres), the commercial and political interests of the institution's leading executives and producers, the psychological instability of the lower middle class, and the status of the women's movement contributed to the production of female stereotypes in Weimar cinema.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although the study of contributions by women in Weimar cinema could be very rewarding, it is also the most difficult topic to integrate into a film course today. In addition to famous actresses such as Marlene Dietrich, Lilian Harvey, and Henny Porten, we can see how female producers (Asta Nielson and Henny Porten), directors (Leontine Sagan, Marie Harder, and Leni Riefensthal), scriptwriters (Thea von Harbou), and critics (Lotte Eisner, Lilli Kaufmann, Alice Simmel, and Trude Sand) contributed significantly to the development of Weimar cinema. Except for the films to which they contributed and, in the case of the critics, the reviews, very few primary and secondary sources are available. I believe that more attention should be paid to the work of these and other women as the interest in feminist film studies expands.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The discussion following the session on Women and Film centered on the portrayal of female figures in the films of the Third Reich. The discussion raised many questions and provided few conclusive answers. It might be worthwhile to organize a session on the topic for a WIG, AATG, or MLA convention in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bruce A. Murray &lt;br /&gt;University of Michigan&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;[image: The Blue angel: Marlene Dietrich as Lola Lola - provocative legs and an over-all impassivity.]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;"Introducing Students to a New Way of Viewing: Teaching Three Feminist Films from the New German Cinema"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This paper was an evaluation of my recent experience introducing students to three German feminist films as part of a fourth-year university course on the New German Cinema. Rather than submerge these three films into the general themes of the course, I treated them as central works that offer a new way of viewing. While this was only one segment of a course which dealt with fourteen contemporary German films, it elicited the liveliest discussion: the introduction of a feminist political stance offered students a new way of thinking about film, contemporary German society, and politics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helma Sanders-Brahms' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutschland, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;bleiche &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mutter&lt;/span&gt; (1978), Margarethe von Trotta's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;bleierne Zeit&lt;/span&gt; (1981), and Heike Sander's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;allseitig&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;reduzierte Persönlichkeit: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;REDUPERS&lt;/span&gt; (1977) were each shown twice during the course of the semester. Students were to have prepared themselves for the showings by reading articles in English and/or German. They were also provided with a list of questions to consider while viewing the films. These questions were designed to further a feminist approach and centered particularly on women’s role in history, women as narrators and their narrative perspective, the act of recognizing a film's political importance, the meaning of the titles, and the role of men and children in it. Ultimately students had to consider whether they had seen anything in the films which they had not seen before.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our general conclusions may be summarized as follows: all three films emphasized the limited, subjective nature of historical accounts and all attempted to propose a feminist alternative to conventional histories. The latter embraces what von Trotta calls the "Blick nach innen" and the "Blick nach außen." While the subject of the films might be women and women's issues, they were essentially defined by woman as narrator, woman as possessor of the gaze.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lynne Tatlock Washington U/St. Louis&lt;/p&gt;
[image: 57. The Mothers K. Kollwitz]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA -1984&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(RE)MAKING MYTH IN GERMAN WOMEN'S WRITING Moderator: Angelika Bammer, Vanderbilt University&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Allusions to Daedalus and Icarus in recent GDR art"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An examination of six generically different GDR artworks, all of which contain explicit or implicit allusions to one or both figures of the Greek legend, raises, expecially because of geo­sociopolitical restrictions in the GDR, more questions than it answers. Readings of Biermann's "Ballade vom Preußischen Ikarus," Wolfgang Mattheuer's "Ikarus" painting, Bettina Wegner's "Ikarus" song for Klaus Schlesinger's film of that title, Monika Maron's novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Flugasche&lt;/span&gt;, Helga Schubert's prose poem "Himmel," and Christa Wolf's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Voraussetzungen einer Erzählung&lt;/span&gt; nonetheless permit some preliminary speculations regarding the artists' assumptions of predetermined mythical concepts and the manner in which they rely (or not) on these assumptions. These hypotheses emerged from the reading: 1) that Daedalus and Icarus function equally as referents — and sometimes the reference is confusing (or confused); 2) that men are more likely than women to assume the existence of what Barthes calls "metalanguage," and anticipate reception in terms of that assumption; and 3) that women work either with attempted revision of the direct allusion or with obscure reference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Biermann and Mathheuer depend on imagistic representation, employ myth as ready-made language, and select from it that which serves their own purposes, thus neglecting the far-reaching sub-strata of signification suggested by the allusion. Wegner's Icarus is a child, oppressed by society’s whims and expelled from childhood by its realities. Maron deals as well with a protagonist oppressed by her everyday world of bureaucratic immobility. Schubert locates an unnamed "I" on the uneasy horizon between individuality and social conformity. Maron and Schubert conflate Daedalus and Icarus in a perhaps subconscious narrative action that suggests the fundamental inappropriateness of the familiar myth for women. &lt;br /&gt;These authors are involved in a "remaking," in an insistence on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;re-vision&lt;/span&gt; motivated not by conscious effort, but by the very fact of gender.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christa Wolf, finally, would have us return to the origins of the legend and question the verities of its initial syntax in order to discover how the original reading of myth has predetermined and predefined the welfare of western civilization, and especially the female component of that civilization.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Schubert, Maron, and Wolf permit resonances not found in the other works through their use of non-restrictive allusion and through the identification of women with a figure that seems to conflate the two legendary ones.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marilyn Sibley Fries &lt;br /&gt;Yale University&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;APPROPRIATING FAUST               .&lt;br /&gt;Moderator: Konstanze Bäumer, Syracuse University&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Goethe’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Faust&lt;/span&gt;: The Feminine in Creativity"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In my talk I analyzed the role of the feminine within the creative process, specifically in the Mothers’ scene but with implications for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Faust&lt;/span&gt; drama as a whole. I found that the realm of the Mothers is most accurately characterized not by the solitude traditionally emphasized, but rather by boundlessness. Faust must enter the void of the unfamiliar and unknown ("das Nichts") in order to discover endless possibility and potentiality ("das All").&lt;br /&gt;He must shed the expectations and preconceived patterns of perception which limit new experience and he must immerse himself in an elemental flux which defies any attempt at rational comprehension. The feminine realm is perceived as mystery and it promises everything lacking in Faust's overly scientific and categorized masculine world. Above all, it promises the mystery of creation. Faust's entire journey can be seen as a movement toward this ideal feminine realm, for creativity depends upon the union of the masculine and the feminine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Initially it would appear that the feminine plays an essential and positive role in the creative act. Upon closer examination, however, we find that the union is very out of balance. The imbalance is most visible in the activity and aggression of Faust as opposed to the passivity and sacrifice of the feminine throughout the drama. The source of woman's passivity lies in Goethe's idealization of her as mother, for this means that her creative contribution is centered in the womb. In the creative union of the feminine and the masculine, woman provides the matter and man the mind; the feminine realm represents a potential which must first be realized by the masculine. Woman then, I concluded, is necessary in Goethe's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Faust &lt;/span&gt;only for man to create. Her own creativity remains on a biological and merely symbolic level.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linda Lindsay &lt;br /&gt;Allegheny College&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image: &lt;em&gt;Mephistopheles führt Faust die Helena zu&lt;/em&gt;. Federzeichnung von Adrian Mathan um 1642]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REEVALUATING INGEBORG BACHMANN’S PROSE Moderator: Sara Lennox, UMass/Amherst&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karen Achberger again organized this MLA special session on Ingeborg Bachmann and was to serve as its chair. After the accident I agreed to chair the session as well as respond to the papers. Karen had chosen three papers that fit together extremely well and that particularly stressed the various political dimensions of Bachmann's writing. In my response I commented that these papers dealt with the three directions of Bachmann criticism, that seem to me most important at this point: French feminist readings of her work with respect to its treatment of gender, readings of her work which stress its social criticism, and readings that investigate her work in the context of the Austrian literary tradition. I concluded my comments by maintaining that my own work on Bachmann had led me to believe that an understanding of her work was best sought at the intersection of the issues these three papers raise; her love for a vanished Austrian past; her dismay at an imperialist present, which the vantage point of a Vienna now outside of history allows her to observe clearly; and her horror at the state of relationships between men and women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Lennox &lt;br /&gt;UMass/Amherst&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"The Authority of Language in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Franza&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Malina"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recent movements such as feminism, poststructuralism and hermeneutics have done much to undermine the traditional literary perspectives which characterized the initial reception of Bachmann's writing.&lt;br /&gt;Whereas Bachmann was once praised or rebuked as a lyrical subjectivist, the tendency of current criticism is to highlight the socio-political aspects of her work. The danger of this trend is, however, that traditional categories are not easily overcome. This critical shift risks re-instating orthodox concepts of social relevance which are inadequate for a discussion of Bachmann's thinking. While her prose reflects a form of cultural criticism, it is cultural criticism in a "new key." Bachmann's primary concern is the "linguistic dimension" of interpersonal and socio-political domination. In both &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Malina&lt;/span&gt; and in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Franza&lt;/span&gt;, the aggressive destruction of the female narrator is primarily an assault on her capacity to &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-16-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;write and speak. By first interpreting the psychoanalytical model presented by Jordan’s relationship to Franza, the reader gains an understanding of how his reordering of Franza’s words in effect destroys her memories, or to use Bachmann's metaphor, "assaults her narration." The same phenomenon occurs in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Malina &lt;/span&gt;where the tyrannical father is wantonly contemptuous of women and threatens the Ich-figure's capacity to speak. In Malina Bachmann personifies a dominant perspective in Western thought,« one that precludes the existence of the feminine principle in the world. Here, as elsewhere in Bachmann's work, far-reaching socio-political aspects of her critique can be found. For Bachmann, as for other twentieth-century thinkers, the European tradition is characterized by the domination of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;language &lt;/span&gt;of the Other.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Judith Harris Frick &lt;br /&gt;U Illinois/Urbana-Champaign&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Rereading 'Undine geht’: Ingeborg Bachmann and Feminist Theory"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My paper attempted to show how "Undine geht," written in the late 1950's, anticipates ideas of French feminists such as Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray by using their prescription for feminine writing as a framework for a reading of the story. In opposing the phallologocentrism of dominant western discourse, Cixous, Irigaray, and others have called for a new "écriture féminine," which may be described as having three objectives: to disclose and analyze the forms of women's repression in the male imaginary; to disrupt the logocentric order of male discourse; and to create a new feminine imaginary based on women's primary experience of themselves, their bodies, and their sexuality. Bachmann's text exposes and decenters myths of the feminine that have been a fundamental part of western culture. In the figure of the mermaid the story demonstrates the continuing force of associations of the feminine with nature, the non-human, the inarticulate unconscious, with a silence broken only by the seductive siren-call by which she lures men away from their place in the order of civilization, work, religion, the family. This "feminine principle" is a cultural construct, called into being by men as "the Other." Like the later theorists, Bachmann reverses the usual valuation of the dominant order and gives the feminine principle a positive value as the subverter of a corrupt reality. Finally, Undine's refusal to continue this role represents an effort to break out of this culturally assigned mythic identity. "Undine geht" also anticipates feminist prescriptions for disrupting logocentric discourse by formal qualities of plurality, circularity, and contradiction. The linear change of Undine's proclaimed departure contrasts with the circularity of her never-ending call and seduction. Men and male culture are presented both as monstrous and as godlike. The figures of Hans and Undine have multiple meanings. Undine is variously female subject, culturally-constructed feminine principle, and voice of the poet. She finally appears to merge with her opposites, the male, the "du" of the lover and the reader. Through these &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-17-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;plural and merging identities "Undine geht" presents a multi-faceted inscription of female experience, "was sich nicht festlegen läßt."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Despite its striking anticipation of contemporary feminist ideas and forms, Bachmann's text also demonstrates the difficulty of a woman attempting to challenge and re-vision the oppressive old order from a position still within it. Although she is conscious and critical of the repressive dynamics inherent in a dualist culture, Undine is herself still enthralled by those very categories and remains trapped in the fundamental dichotomy. Yet in this respect too, she shows a similarity with some recent feminist theory, which also runs the risk of perpetuating the very dualism and essentialism that it seeks to criticize.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Joey Horsley &lt;br /&gt;UMass/Boston&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WIG 1985&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;TENTH ANNUAL&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN CONFERENCE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;October 24-27, 1985 Portland, Oregon&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Guest: LUISE F. PUSCH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Luise F. Pusch, author of Das &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche als Männersprache&lt;/span&gt; (Suhrkamp 1984), is one of the most original and prolific writers on feminism, linguistics, and the German language today. She will be present during the entire conference, and will speak on Saturday evening, October 26.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Contributions are invited for the following conference sessions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;/p&gt;
1. Opening session, Thursday evening, October 24&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN: WOHER, WOHIN?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;For our opening session we wish to solicit from those who were WIG members in the beginning years a short description of their experiences, expectations and needs at the time WIG was founded, why they chose to become members, what questions were important for them then in the profession and in their personal lives, and what hopes they had for WIG. Your description can take any form you wish; the co-chairs will put the responses together and decide on the form most appropriate for their presentation. Please send a copy each to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Sigrid Brauner [redacted] and Sara Lennox [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
2. Film and film pedagogy, Friday morning, October 25&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;DEUTSCHE FILMEMACHERINNEM UND DER NEUE DEUTSCHE FILM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;We are seeking proposals for 10-minute informal presentations on German women filmmakers, new German cinema, and film pedagogy, including the use of feature films in the foreign language classroom and how to teach about film in high school and college. We would welcome slide presentations, models of teaching units, handouts, etc. Either English or German may be used, but please plan to prepare an abstract for the conference in the alternate language. Send a one-page abstract by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;May I5, 1985&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;each&lt;/span&gt; of the following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Nancy J. Brown [redacted]           &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sandy Frieden&lt;br /&gt;German Department&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of Houston&lt;br /&gt;Houston, TX 77004&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Viebeke Keith&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;[image: 51. MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM: The headmistress, a feminine Frederick the Great]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;br /&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WIG 1985, continued&lt;/p&gt;
3. Feminist theory, Friday afternoon, October 25&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;RECENT TRENDS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND CRITICISM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;The goal of this panel is to broaden our understanding of current discussions and recent trends in feminist theory. We would like to invite papers from Women's Studies and other languages as well as German, and we especially encourage contri­butions dealing with lesbian/feminist perspectives. Comparative, historical or cross-lingual approaches or possible application of work in other areas to German studies will be very welcome. Proposals by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;June 1, 1985&lt;/span&gt; to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg&lt;br /&gt;Modern Foreign Languages &lt;br /&gt;Colby College Waterville, ME 04901&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patsy Baudoin&lt;/p&gt;
4. Filmvorstellung und Diskussion, Friday evening, October 25&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Gesucht: a) zwei Diskussionsleiterinnen zum Thema Frauen, Film, Feminismus usw.; und b) Filmvorschläge. Resumöe (von etwa 250 Worten), Vorschläge, Anfragen an:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Jeannine Blackwell &lt;br /&gt;German, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;Michigan State University &lt;br /&gt;East Lansing, MI 48824&lt;/p&gt;
5. Feminism and language/linguistics, Saturday morning, October 26 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AUF DER SUCHE NACH EINER FRAUENFREUNDLICHEN SPRACHE&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;In this session we would like to examine: a) what effects the work of feminist linguistics has had/could have on both theoretical and applied linguistics; b) how insights from feminist linguistics can be employed in literary criticism; c) in what ways the German language has changed/is changing in response to conscious­ness-raising efforts by feminists; and d) how we can integrate any or all of the above into our teaching, making both the language and the subject matter more &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;frauenfreundlich&lt;/span&gt;. We envision a program with SHORT (10 minute) presentations followed by a workshop period during which all participants will work in small groups on developing and/or rehearsing strategies for implementing the ideas presented into our own work. Send a two-page abstract by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;May &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;IS, 1985&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlotte Armster&lt;br /&gt;German Department&lt;br /&gt;Gettysburg College&lt;br /&gt;Gettysburg, PA 17325&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Modern Foreign Langs.&lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U.&lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-20-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONFERENCES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;NORTHEAST WIG&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The WIG-Amherst collective is planning an informal "get-together" the weekend of June 8-9. Since many of us won’t be able to make it to Portland in October, we’d like to arrange a mini-conference in Amherst. Proposed sessions: informal discussions of works in progress/research; continuation of issues brought up last October; graduate student concerns. We would particularly like to welcome grad, students. Housing will be provided by local WIG members. Further info, to follow. For more info, contact Leslie Morris &amp;amp; Karin Obermeier, C/o German Dept., UMass/Amherst 01003.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;GDR &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SYMPOSIUM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The 1985 Symposium will be on the theme of "The GDR Today - 40 Years After the End of WWII." One of the panels will address the issue of "Changing Patterns of Male and Female Identity" and is conceived as an interdisciplinary seminar with papers on social and political issues and on the relection of this question in literature and culture in general. June 21-28, 1985/ World Fellowship Center, Conway, NH.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image: &lt;em&gt;Teaching&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SOCIETY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; FOR CINEMA STUDIES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The 1985 Society for Cinema Studies Conference will include a panel entitled "Women in Film in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland,” which will examine the work of women filmmakers, feminist film criticism, and the impact of film schools, funding and distribution systems on women in the BRD. Comparisons to the situation for women filmmakers and for feminist film criticism in the USA will be encouraged. In order to participate in the SCS conference it is necessary to become a member ($30 per year). For further information contact: Ellen Seiter, Telecommunication and Film Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; -21-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing: coffee]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A conference on the topic: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;"FEMINIST STUDIES: RECONSTITUTING KNOWLEDGE” &lt;/span&gt;is being sponsored by the Women's Studies Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at UW-Milwaukee from April 24-26, 1985. For further information contact:&lt;br /&gt;Conference Coordinator&lt;br /&gt;Center for Twentieth Century Studies&lt;br /&gt;University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;Milwaukee, WI 53201 [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The sixth meeting of Women Historians will take place in Bonn, FRG from May 29-31, 1985. Anyone interested should contact&lt;br /&gt;Women's Studies Research Group&lt;br /&gt;Universität Bonn&lt;br /&gt;c/o Hildegard Knitterscheidt&lt;br /&gt;Peter-Ruster-Str. 7&lt;br /&gt;53 Bonn 1&lt;br /&gt;FRG&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die dritte Tagung von &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft&lt;/span&gt; findet im Frühjahr 1986 in Hamburg statt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Seventh Congress of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Internationale &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Vereinigung für &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Germanische Sprachen und Literatur­&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;wissenschaft&lt;/span&gt; (IVG) will be held from August 25-31 in Göttingen, FRG. There will be a section there on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;"FRAUENSPRACHE-FRAUENLITERATUR?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;" &lt;/span&gt;which will be chaired by Marianne Burkhard (USA), Sigrid Schmid (Austria), and Inge Stephan (FRG).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-22-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Eine Gruppe von filmbegeisterten Feministinnen plant für den Herbst 198h ein &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;FRAUENFILMFESTIVAL&lt;/span&gt; in Ruhrgebiet. Gesucht werden noch Frauen die bei der Planung und Durchführung nitmachen. Es wäre gut, wenn sie etwas Ahnung vom Medium Film hätten. Da demnächst die Konzeption erarbeitet werden soll, wäre es sinnvoll, wenn sich die Interessantinnen möglichst schnell melden. Es finden regelmäßige Treffen alle 3 Wochen statt. Kontaktadresse: Jutta oder Barbara beim aktuellen forum, [redacted] (Aus: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt; 9/84)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;NWSA 1985&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The annual &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;NWSA Conference&lt;/span&gt; will be held at the University of Washington/ Seattle from June 19-23.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;NWSA 1986&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;at U. Illinois&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1986&lt;/span&gt; annual convention of the National Women's Studies Association will take place in June at the University of Illinois, Urbana. The program planning committee for 1986 is being co-chaired by WIG member Marianne Burkhard. She urges Wiggies to start planning now for possible panels, workshops or papers on German feminism/the German women's movements; women and German literature/literary criticism/language etc. ; German women in academe; women's lives in the various German-speaking countries, and so on. We should think about what we want member's of the NWSA to know about German Studies and Women's Studies, and then assemble panels, organize sections, or whatever is needed to present that information. Program time slots will be two hours long. If you have a good idea for a paper but don't feel up to organizing a panel or work shop, contact Marianne anyway— she may be able to put you in touch with others willing to work with you. WIG members in the great midwest, are you listening? Marianne Burkhard, Dept. of German, 3072 Foreign Languages Bldg, 707 S. Mathews, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;[image: 15 &lt;i&gt;Christine d&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;e Pisan leads the way to the 'Cit&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;é&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;des &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dames’&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;-23-&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ANNOUNCEMENTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;BERG WOMEN'S SERIES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The series will cover women who, from any period and from any part of the world, have made a signif­icant contribution to the sum total of human knowledge: novelists and mathematicians; poets and scientists; travellers and poli­ticians; artists ... Each volume will be devoted to one woman and will deal with three aspects of her life — its social, historical and geographical background; a short biography; an assessment of her achievement. A bibliography should be included. The books will appear in paperback and will have a length of some 40,000 words. There will be scope for a limited number of illustrations. They will be directed at the sixth-form or first-year university student, as well as the general reader, and will present a preliminary overall picture of the character concerned, they will not, therefore, be highly technical or pre-suppose a great deal of specialist knowledge. Would intending authors please contact Miriam Kochan, who will be happy to discuss their project with them:&lt;br /&gt;Miriam Kochan,General Editor&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;BROSCHÜRE "FRAUENARCHIVE UND -BIBLIOTHEKEN"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karin Schatzberg gibt in ihrer gerade erschienenen Broschüre ’’Frauenarchive und -bibliotheken" einen Überblick über Frauen bzw. -dokumentationszentren in Westdeutschland, Berlin, einigen west­europäischen Ländern (Italien, Niederlande, Österreich). Zur Einführung in die Thematik sind der Darstellung der einzelnen Einrichtungen Ausführungen zur Aus- und Weiterbildung von Frauen und zu den Prinzipien feministischer Bildungsarbeit und ihrer Rahmenbedingungen vorangestellt. Sie hat — soweit die Material­lage es zuließ — für jede Institution ein Profil erstellt, in dem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-24-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;die Entstehungsgeschichte, die organisatorische und inhaltliche Konzeption und — soweit vorhanden — die zugehörigen Publikationen vorgestellt wurden. Die Profile wurden anhand von Informations­blättern der jeweiligen Einrichtung, schriftlichen und mündlichen Interviews mit den dort arbeitenden Frauen und sonstigen Materialien zusaranengestellt. Im Anhang findet sich ein komplettes Adressen­verzeichnis der in- und ausländischen Einrichtungen und eine tabellarische Übersicht. Bestellen kann man die Broschüre durch Überweisung von DM 6,— auf das Postgirokonto 567211-209 Hamburg von Karin Schatzberg, Stichwort "Sonderkonto". Adressenangabe bitte nicht vergessen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS -- THE EUROPEAN WOMEN WRITERS SERIES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The University of Nebraska Press announces a new series, European Women Writers. This series will encourage and publish translations of major works by European women. The Press plans to begin pub­lishing series titles in 1987 and to publish up to four books each year. All genres will be considered though preference will be given to booklength prose fiction. Each volume will include an introduction, select bibliography, and notes where appropriate.&lt;br /&gt;An editorial board of four scholars, all with translation experience, will direct the series. It is hoped that the series will permit American readers greatly increased access to and understanding of European women and their literature. Though studies about European women writers will not constitute part of the series, the Press will welcome proposals which may serve to augment the aims of the series. The series will concentrate on twentieth-century works originally published in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, but proposals for translations of works from other languages will be welcome. Please send queries and proposals to W. G. Regier, Editor-in-Chief, University of Nebraska Press, 318 Nebraska Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0520.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marilyn Schuster and Susan Van Dyne, "Placing Women in the Liberal Arts: Stages of Curriculum Transformation," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Harvard Educational Review&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. 54, No. 4 (November 1984), pp. 413-28.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This article provides excellent arguments as well as statistical documentation for integrating material on women and minorities into the traditional curriculum. In it the authors propose a paradigm describing how teachers and students experience the process of curricular change and suggest various strategies for implementing the stages of such a paradigm for change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-25-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;HAGEMANN-WHITE NAMED WOMEN'S STUDIES PROF AT FREE UNIVERSITY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A chair for women's studies has been established at the Free University of West Berlin, the city’s commissioner for Women's Affairs, Carola von Braun, announced recently. To fill it, Berlin Senator for Research Wilhelm Kewenig named Carol Hagemann-White,Professor of Political Science/Women's Studies. A native of New Jersey, Professor Hagemann-White received her doctorate from the Free University and has taught there and at the University of Gießen. The appointment followed a public discussion within and outside the university, including accusations of discrimination against women when Kewenig initially opposed the creation of the part-time professorship. Kewenig had argued that the job description provided by the university's political science department appeared "too narrow" to merit creating the position. — In the meantime two members of the department, Professors Wolf Dieter Narr and Peter Grottian, each agreed to relinquish one third of their professorships for the next five years in order to make the women's studies position possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This Week in Germany — &lt;br /&gt;February 15, 1985&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FRAUENSTUDIUM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Kandidaten, sagen Sie mir, was fällt Ihnen an der Patientin auf?" — "Daß das Mensch einen seidenen Unterrock anhat."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-26-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;(Herausgeberinnen: Renate Berger, Inge Stephan, Sigrid Weigel - Hamburg)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;Rundbrief 4 * * * November 1984&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[image]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rundbriefabonnement&lt;br /&gt;Hiermit bestelle ich den viermal jährlich erscheinenden Rundbrief "Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Name: .....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Adresse: .....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Telefon: .....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Ich habe den Betrag von DM .... (DM 20,— für Studentinnen und Ar­beitslose, DM 50,— und mehr für Berufstätige) auf das Konto Renate Berger, Stichwort "Rundbrief", Hamburger Sparkasse, BLZ 20050550, Kontonummer 1258/446 577 überwiesen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;(Unterschrift)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-27-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BOOKS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LESBIAN ETHICS, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1984). Published three tines a year. Individual subscriptions $12 for 3 issues, 14 international. Sample copy $5 ($6 international). LE Publications, [redacted] Venice, CA, 90294.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The editor of this new journal, Jeanette Silveira, states that the idea for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesbian Ethics&lt;/span&gt; grew out of her conviction that the society Lesbians are creating ’’is the first one in which ethics have been possible.” Her approach is refreshingly straightforward: "I see ethics in two ways: as learning fron experience, and as saying what we want." (p.5) —What, I wonder, could be more necessary for feminism and feminist studies at this point in time?&lt;br /&gt;The first article in the volume, Julia Penelope's "The Mystery of Lesbians: I," minces no words about either of the above points. Penelope's experiences in the Women's Liberation Movement have taught her not to call herself a "feminist," or even a "lesbian-feminist," but rather to insist on a radically Separatist position. In her view, "the WIM has lost its early enthusiasm and the force of conviction has been drained from its rhetoric, which now echoes the bland, sluggish liberalism of the Democratic Party in the US." (p.23) Depending on your own politics, you may be angered or elated by Penelope's arguments, but either way I think you'll find them stimulating and relevant to vhat’s happening in feminist circles today. I, for one, am looking forward to part II of the article, in which Penelope promises to discuss distortions and confusions which she believes have helped defuse feminist radicalism and, along the way, she will answer the non-question«"can heterophobia be cured?"&lt;br /&gt;The remainder of the issue is, in my opinion, something of a mixed bag. Jeanette Silveira’s article "Why Men Oppress Women" is, in the author's words, "materialist in spirit and even Marxist in method," although the conclusions "sure quite opposed to those of current Marxists." (p.3b) True enough. She argues that the technology to produce test-tube babies, although fraught with dangers, could be "a means of reproducing the species without oppressing one half or the other of it." (p.52) Barbara Macdonald's short article "A Call for an End to Ageism in Lesbian and Gay Services" is forceful and eloquent. Everyone planning to be an old woman some day should also read Macdonald's book, coauthored with Cynthia Rich, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Look Me in the Eye&lt;/span&gt;? &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Old Women&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aging and Ageism&lt;/span&gt; (Spinsters, Ink. 803 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 9^*107). In &lt;sup&gt;ri&lt;/sup&gt;Rule Making," Jane Rule explores the necessity of rules &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;for ourselves&lt;/span&gt;: "Rules made to defend ourselves against those who disapprove of us are suicide weapons ..." (p.66)&lt;br /&gt;I found the contribution by Karen Fite and Nikola Trurabo, "Betrayals. Among Women: Barriers to a Common Language," at least as interesting for its form as for its content. The two authors write as "we," but shift to "I(K)" and "l(N)" when relating an individual, personal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-28-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;experience. Thus, an individual and a ’’collective’' first-person voice can emerge simultaneously. The authors state that in naming experiences of betrayal by their mothers and other women, they do not mean to blame the victim: "We, as women, are not innocent of the betrayals we commit, but our ignorance of what’s going on and why does rob us of the power to act otherwise.” (p.72) I found it difficult to keep their disclaimer in mind while reading and felt very un-affirmed as a mother, daughter, and friend of women by the end of the article. The volume concludes with a short essay, "Notes on the Meaning of Life" by Joyce Trebilcot, in which she analyzes the "ethic of experience" and the "ethic of achievement" as based respectively on male orgasm and the fathering of offspring.&lt;br /&gt;In all, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesbian Ethics&lt;/span&gt; Vol. 1, No.1 is a welcome addition to the still all too short list of journals where we can read about ourselves, in language that does not obfuscate or mystify but, for the most part, clarifies. I recommend it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AUFBAU FRIDAY, February 15, 1985&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deutsche Frauenliteratur aus New York&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dagmar Stern und Lola Gruenthal (Hrsg.). "Frauenfahrplan 1". Verlag: Starlight Press, New York. Zu beziehen durch: M. Goldschneider; P.O. Box 2131; New York, N.Y. 10009. 113 Seiten. Geheftet. $5,00 zuzüglich Porto.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     Unter dem Titel Frauenfahrplan hat sich eine neue Anthologie bzw. Zeitschrift vorgestellt mit deutschen Texten von Frauen aus dem New Yorker Raum, die der Arbeitsgemeinschaft &lt;em&gt;Women in German&lt;/em&gt; angehören und einmal im Monat im New Yorker Goethe House zusammentreffen. Unterscheidlich wie Alter und Herkunft der Mitarbeiterinnen sind Qualität, Schreibintention und Genre der versammelten Werkproben. Gemeinsamer Nenner des Hefts ist offenbar die Geschlechtszugehörigkeit der Verfasserinnen. Die neuere feministische Literaturtheorie hat seit Virginia Woolfs Manifest &lt;em&gt;A Room of One's Own&lt;/em&gt; (1928) diesen ansonsten völlig irrelevanten Aspekt zum ausschlaggebenden Kriterium literarischer Beurteilung und Arbeitsweise erhoben.&lt;br /&gt;     Die im &lt;em&gt;Frauenfahrplan&lt;/em&gt; enthaltenen Texte lassen sich einteilen in Lyrik und Prosa, diese wiederum splittert sich der Form nach auf in Kurzgeschichte, Romanauszug, Brief, Tagebuchaufzeichnung. Gemeinsam ist diesen Werkbeispielen der Charakter des Autobiographischen, des persönlichen Bekenntnisses und der Selbstbetrachtung. Am gelungensten erscheint die Kurzprosa, währedn der Lyrik häufig noch der Schein des amateurhaften Anfängerversuchs anhaftet.&lt;br /&gt;     Am faszinierendsten an dieser Präsentation sind jedoch nicht so sehr die formalen Eigenschaften, sondern eher die Haltung (etwa Ironie, Humor), aus der diese Selbstreflexionen und Erlebnisberichte geschrieben sind. Das macht die Stärke dieses Sammelbands aus, dem man noch manche Fortsetzung wünschen darf.&lt;br /&gt;g.n.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-29-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following bibliographical "review" appeared in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CHOICE&lt;/span&gt; (Jan '85) describing &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Feminism; Readings in Politics and Literature&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Edith Hoshino Altbach, Jeanette Clausen, Dagmar Schultz, and Naomi Stephan (SUNY Press, 1984):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;GERMAN FEMINISM: readings in politics and literature, ed. Edith Heshino Altbach et al. State University of New York Press, 1984. 389p index 83-17849. 39.50 ISBN 9-8739S-840-3; 12.95 pa ISBN 8-87395-841-1. CIP&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Two fine editorial introductions and a closing “Critical Outlook” frame and provide cultural setting for $4 translations that will acquaint US readers with an impressive range of German feminist authors. Excerpts chosen are carefully arranged to display the fiction, autobiography, journalism, and scholarship characteristic of the contem­porary German women’s movement, beginning with the late 1960s and the Paragraph 218 campaign of 1971. Each piece carries a brief headnote and an endnote identifying the German original. A biographical dictionary of editors and contributors is ap­pended. Among these authors, only Alice Schwarzer (founder and editor of the monthly &lt;i&gt;Emma)&lt;/i&gt; and East German novelist Christa Wolf are likely to be already known to many US readers. That this excellent German counterpart to &lt;i&gt;New French Femi­nisms,&lt;/i&gt; ed. by Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron (CH, May ’80), has been in search of a publisher since 1978 (and that no rival has been published meanwhile) can only lend credibility to claims of suppression of women’s writing. The editors’ persist­ence and the SUNY Press’s decision to publish deserve thanks—and orders—from libraries at all levels serving students of German literature, German history and society, and women's issues: virtually every public and ail academic libraries.—&lt;em&gt;V. Clark, CHOICE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Liselotte Gumpel (Univ. of Minnesota/Morris) has a new book coming out soon in the Indiana University Press's "Advances in Semiotics Series". The pre-publication announcement describes it as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Metaphor Reexamined: A Non-Arisotelian Perspective&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Breaking away from the traditional "neo-Aristotelian" view of metaphor, this study offers a new, "non-Aristotelian" approach based on the phenomenological semantics of Roman Ingarden and the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce. The author seeks to grasp the meaning of metaphor through an exhaustive exploration of meaning in language, from its acquisition by young speakers to its repeated origination in sound when spoken and in the visual sign when written. She identifies the fundamental semantic operations that differentiate literal from literary use of language. Next, metaphor is examined in all of its semantic idiosyncrasies. Gumpel's theory culminates in the development of a functional or structural metaphor that can neither disappear nor "die." Applying the theory, Gumpel presents several textual analyses, relating the categories of argument, dicent, and rheme to the use of metaphor by Brecht, Dickinson, and Celan. A final section provides an incisive critique of theories of metaphor from Aristotle to the present. An important intellectual accomplishment, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MR&lt;/span&gt; yields original insights and supplies a mine of information for scholars in the philosophy of language, literary theory, semiotics, and linguistics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-30-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RECENT PUBLICATIONS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weiblichkeit oder Feminismus? Beiträge zur interdisziplinären Frauentagung in Konstanz 1983&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Claudie Opitz, Weingarten: Opitz, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Verband der Filmarbeiterinnen, Eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen-Film-Handbuch: Lexikon aller Filmemacherinnen und ihrer Filme in der BRD und West Berlin seit 1945&lt;/span&gt;. Berlin, 1984. DM 74.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christine Buci-Glucksmann, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Walter Benjamin und die Utopie des Weiblichen&lt;/span&gt;. Reinbek, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Luise F. Pusch, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Deutsche als Männersprache: Aufsätze und Glossen zur feministischen Linguistik&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 198b.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Inge Stephan, Sigrid Weigel, Eds. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Literaturwissenschaft: Zum Verhältnis von Frauenbildern und Frauenliteratur&lt;/span&gt;. Berlin: Argument, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elisabeth Lenk, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die unbewußte Gesellschaft: Über die mimetische Grund­struktur in der Literatur und im Traum.&lt;/span&gt; München, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irene Guy, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sexualität im Gedicht: Heinrich Heines Spätlyrik&lt;/span&gt;. Bonn: Bouvier, 1984. DM 78.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helga Meise, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Unschuld und die Schrift: Deutsche Frauenromane im 18. Jahrhundert.&lt;/span&gt; Berlin: Gutandin &amp;amp; Hoppe, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothee Schmitz, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weibliche Selbstentvürfe und männliche Bilder: Zur Darstellung der Frau in DDR-Romanen der 70er Jahre&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt/M, Bern,NY, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Senta Trömel-Plotz, Ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gewalt durch Sprache: Die Vergewaltigung von Frauen in Gesprächen&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt/M., 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maria Wagner, Ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mathilde Franziska Anneke: Die gebrochenen Ketten— Erzählungen, Reportagen und Reden (1861-1873).&lt;/span&gt; Stuttgart, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karlheinz Fingerhut, Ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Louise Aston: Ein Lesebuch, Gedichte, Roman&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schriften in Auswahl (1846-1849)&lt;/span&gt;. Stuttgart, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christa Gürtler, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schreiben Frauen anders: Untersuchungen zu Ingeborg Bachmann und Barbara Frischmuth.&lt;/span&gt; Stuttgart, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ursula Linnhoff, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Zur Freiheit, oh, nur einzigen wahren— Schreibende Frauen kämpfen um ihre Rechte&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt/M, Berlin, Wien, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ricarda Schmidt, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Westdeutsche Frauenliteratur in den 70er Jahren&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt/M: Rita Fischer Verlag, 1982.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-31-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gerlinde Geiger, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;"Die befreite Psyche”: Emanzipationsansätze im &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frühwerk Ida Hahn-Hahns (1838-1848)&lt;/span&gt;. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Julie D. Prandi, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Spirited Women Heroes: Major Female Characters in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;the Dramas of Goethe, Schiller and Kleist&lt;/span&gt;. NY, Frankfurt/M, Bern: F. Lang, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ute Treder, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Von der Hexe zur Hysterikerin: Zur Verfestigungsgeschichte des ’Ewig Weiblichen&lt;/span&gt;*. Bonn: Bouvier, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;H.-J. Heinrichs, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der Körper und seine Sprache&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt/M: Qumram Verlag, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rolf Haubl, Eva Koch-Klenske, Hans-Jürgen Linke,eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Sprache &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;des Vaters im Körper der Mutter: Literarischer Sinn und Schreibprozeß.&lt;/span&gt; 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rahel Varnhagen, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gesammelte Werke in 10 Bänden/Rahel Bibliothek&lt;/span&gt;, ed. K. Feilchenfeldt, U. Schveikert, R.E. Steiner. München: Matthis &amp;amp; Seitz, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ingeborg Bachmann, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wir müssen wahre Satze finden: Gespräache und Interviews&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Christine Koschel and Inge von Weidenbaum. München: Piper, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ingeborg Bachmann: Sonderband von Text und Kritik&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Sigrid Weigel. München: 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lilian Bema-Simons, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weibliche Identität und Sexualität: Das Bild der Weiblichkeit im 19. Jahrhundert und bei Sigmund Freud&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt/M: Materialis Verlag, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Silke Schilling, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Schlangenfrau: Über matriarchale Symbolik weiblicher Identität und ihre Aufhebung in Mythologie, Märchen, Sage und Literatur&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt/M: Materialis Verlag, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate Schlesier, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Konstruktion der Weiblichkeit bei Sigmund Freud: Zum Problem der Entmythologisierung und Remythologisierung in' der psych&lt;/span&gt;o­analytisches Theorie. Europäische Verlagsanstalt. 198?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen-Zukünfte: Ganzheitliche feministische Ansätze, Erfahrungen und&lt;/span&gt; Lebenskonzepte, ed. R. Lütz. Beltz Verlag, 198?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die ungeschriebene Geschichte: Historische Frauenforschung— eine &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dokumentation des 5. Historikerinnentreffens&lt;/span&gt;. Wiener Frauenverlag, 1011 Wien, Postfach 614, DM 45.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sigrid Schade, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schadenzauber und die Magie des KSrpers— Hexenbilder der frühen Neuzeit&lt;/span&gt;. Wernersche Verlagsanstalt, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Methoden in der Frauenforschung: Symposion an der FU Berlin vom &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;30.11­-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;2.12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; 1983&lt;/span&gt;. ed. Zentraleinrichtung zur Förderung von Frauenstudien und Frauenforschung an der FU Berlin. Fft/M: R. Fischer Verlag, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weibliehe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wissenschaft - männliche Wissenschaft;&lt;/span&gt; Symp&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;osion an der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Universität Oldenburg vom 15.-16. Juni 1983&lt;/span&gt;. Tagungsbelträge, Oldenburg, 1983.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-32-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Weisefrau, Uta  36&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University&lt;br /&gt;Utopia, USA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;This is Newsletter 36 • Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Renew &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt;, today, before you forget—sending out reminders is time-consuming and expensive, not to mention boring.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;A new dues structure was approved at the October 1983 WiG conference. By increasing the rates for those earning higher salaries, we hope to be able to finance more projects, while still keeping rates low for students, the unem­ployed, and the underemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[images]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOVEMBER 1984&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Coalition of Women in German, an allied organization of the MLA, invites students, teachers and all others interested in Feminism and German Studies to subscribe to the newsletter. See the last page of this issue for rates.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ritta Jo Horsley, U. Mass., Boston (1981-84)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut R. Poole, Los Angeles (1981-84)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell, Michigan State U. (1982-85)&lt;br /&gt;   Political Action Committee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara D. Wright, U. Conn., Storrs (1982-85)&lt;br /&gt;   Political Action Committee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandra Frieden, U. Houston (1983-86)&lt;br /&gt;   Fundraising Coordinator&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Waldstein, M.I.T. (1983-86)&lt;br /&gt;   Conference Coordinator, 1984&lt;br /&gt;   Coeditor (with Marianne Burkhard, U. Illinois), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Yearbook&lt;/span&gt; (1982-     )&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dinah Dodds, Lewis and Clark Coll. (1984-87)&lt;br /&gt;   Conference Coordinator, 1985&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sydna Weiss, Hamilton Coll. (1984-87)&lt;br /&gt;   Textbook Review Committee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Women in German Newsletter is published in March, August and November of each year. Send newsletter items to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Susan L. Coealis &lt;br /&gt;Dept. of German- &lt;br /&gt;University of Massachusetts &lt;br /&gt;Amherst, MA 01003&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Table of Contents&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Page #&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Fritz Achberger Memorial  ... 1-2&lt;br /&gt;WIG Projects ... 2&lt;br /&gt;Aus Unserem Briefkasten ... 4&lt;br /&gt;WIG 1984 ...  6&lt;br /&gt;   What do Feminist Germanists Want . . . 7&lt;br /&gt;   Women and Humor ... 11&lt;br /&gt;   Practical Feminist Strategies for Teaching ... 14&lt;br /&gt;   Witches and Wise Women ... 17&lt;br /&gt;   Concluding Session ... 20&lt;br /&gt;   Letter from Karin... 22&lt;br /&gt;   Business and Planning Meeting ... 23&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Calls for Papers ... 30&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Books ... 35&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;WIG Research Projects ... 37&lt;br /&gt;WIG Membership List ...  42&lt;br /&gt;Subscriptions/Membership Form ... 49&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 35&lt;br /&gt;November 1984&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It still looks like November outside my window, but the calendar already says December—no use trying to deny it, I'm &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;late&lt;/span&gt; with this newsletter. By the time this reaches some of you, it'll be time to assemble the March newsletter—only it won't be me doing it by then, Gottin sei dank. The day before (you guessed it) Thanksgiving, Susan Cocalis called to say that things &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;were&lt;/span&gt; going to work out for her and the U. Mass, graduate students to take over the newsletter! From now on, send newsletter items to Susan Cocalis, Dept. of German—Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. Continue to send membership/subscription money and address changes to me, Jeanette Clausen, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As always at this time of year, the newsletter contains reports on the October conference, which was once again an exhilarating experience. Our two guests from the GDR, Irmtraud Morgner and Helga Schütz, arrived as planned and with­out apparent mishap, thanks to the unflagging efforts of many Wiggies, among them Martha Wallach, Margaret Ward, Edith Waldstein, Kay Goodman and Karen Achberger. Also, over 100 of us registered for the conference this year— the largest number ever—and what's more, most of those who registered actually showed up, necessitating some pretty fancy backing and forthing to find every­one a place to sleep. Margaret, Edith and others in the Boston area solved the problem by taking people home with them each night, since there simply weren't enough beds on the island. There was also a larger number of "first­timers" at this year's conference than ever before, and because the group was so big, it simply wasn't possible to get (re-)acquainted with everyone. I think we're still struggling to come to terms with the implications of how WIG has been growing and changing over the years. You'll see signs of the struggle in the conference reports and in our plans for next year, when the conference will move to the West Coast (finally!). For information about next year's conference site in Portland, Oregon see page 26. Dinah Dodds (Lewis and Clark Coll.) and Charlotte Smith (Seattle) will be the conference coordinators. Our guest for the 1985 conference will be feminist linguist Luise Pusch, author of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Deutsche als Männersprache&lt;/span&gt; (Suhrkamp 1984), indefatigable researcher/writer on women who've been left out of history, and all-around good person.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1984 WIG conference was saddened for all of us who know and love Karen and Fritz Achberger. As most of you know by now, Fritz and Karen were in an automobile accident in late September. Fritz was killed instantly. Karen is recovering from her injuries and will have a long convalescence. You can write to Karen at her home address [redacted]. A memorial fund for Fritz has been established by the University of Minnesota; the money contributed to the fund will be used for scholarships to enable students to go to Graz, Austria, which is where Fritz was from. Tax-deductible contributions can be sent to: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Memorial Fund, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Achberger Memorial Fund &lt;br /&gt;Minnesota Foundation &lt;br /&gt;120 Morrill Hall &lt;br /&gt;Minneapolis, MN 55455&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1984 WIG conference was dedicated to the memory of Fritz Achberger and Margaret Brearley. Margaret, a WIG member for several years, taught at Bates College. Her health had been somewhat shaky for a number of years; still, her death last spring came unexpectedly quickly, a shock for those who were close to her. A memorial fund has been established for her; to contribute, write to Denis Sweet (Bates College) or Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby College).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG PROJECTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG Yearbook&lt;/span&gt;: the first WIG Yearbook (Vol. I, 1982), forthcoming for quite some time now, may have actually come forth by the time you read this. Scheduled to be sent to "our" publisher, the University Press of America, by the end of the year, it should be available in early spring 1985. Coeditors Marianne Burkhard and Edith Waldstein also report that Vol. II (1983) of the yearbook is well on its way and that submissions for Vol. Ill (1984) will be accepted until Feb. 1, 1985. The contents of the first volume are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN YEARBOOK - VOL. I, ed. Marianne Burkhard and Edith Waldstein (University Press of America, 1985).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Jeanette Clausen, The Coalition of Women in German: An Interpretive History and Celebration.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sigrid Weigel, Das Schreiben des Mangels als Produktion von Utopie.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeannine Blackwell, Anonym, verschollen, trivial: Methodological Hindrances in Researching Women's Literature.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Martha Wallach, Ideal and Idealized Victims: The Lost Honor of the Marquise von 0., Effi Briest and Katharina Blum in Prose and Film.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Anna Kuhn, Margarete von Trotta's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sisters&lt;/span&gt;: Interiority or Engage­ment .&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Barbara D. Wright, The Feminist Transformation of Foreign Language Teaching.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeanette Clausen, Broken But Not Silent: Language as Experience in Vera Kamenko's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Unter uns war &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Krieg&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Richard L. Johnson, The New West German Peace Movement: Male Dominance or Feminist Nonviolence.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-3-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG Yearbook&lt;/span&gt;, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you order your copy in advance, you'll receive it without delay. To preorder, write to Marianne Burkhard, Dept. of German, 3072 Foreign Language Bldg., 707 S. Mathews, U. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801. The price will be about $10.00; you'll be billed for the exact amount.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Textbook Reviews&lt;/span&gt;: The second round of WIG textbook reviews, edited by Barbara Wright, was distributed to those attending the October conference and was recently mailed to all the rest of you. Please be sure to pass the reviews on to those who still maintain a lowered consciousness in matters of feminist critiques of teaching materials. The steering committee member now in charge of textbook reviews is Sydna (Bunny) Weiss at Hamilton College. Let her know your concerns in this area, and offer to help on the new text­book project.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For other news of WIG projects, see the summary of the October business meeting, pp. 23-26.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG Steering Committee Changes&lt;/span&gt;: The steering committee members serve staggered three-year terms; two new members are elected at the October con­ference each year. Those elected this year are Sydna Weiss (Hamilton Coll.) and Dinah Dodds (Lewis and Clark Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Political Action "slot" on the steering committee, vacant during 1984, has now been accepted by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;two &lt;/span&gt;committee members, Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.) and Barbara D. Wright (U. Conn., Storrs). See the inside front cover of this newsletter for a complete list of current steering committee members.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG, MLA 1984&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG sponsored two panels at this year's AATG, one on Women Women and German Film. Both were scheduled for unpopular time slots, but drew a good-sized audience anyway. WIG is sponsoring two sessions at this year's MLA, one entitled "(Re)Making Myth in German Women's Writing" (Dec. 28, 7:15 pm) and one entitled "Appropriating Faust" (Dec. 29, 3:30 pm). Also of interest is the special session "Reevaluating Ingeborg Bachmann's Prose" (Dec. 29, 8:30 am). We hope to have summaries of all the presentations from these pro­grams in time for the March newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition, WiG members have asked me to call attention to the following MLA events:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE 1990's&lt;br /&gt;Sat., Dec. 29, 1:45 pm&lt;br /&gt;Independence Room, Hilton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE 1990's, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the presenters on this panel is Jeannine Blackwell, who will present statistical information on women in German departments since 1963, including information on tenure and promotion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG member Karen Kossuth has produced some 20 computer programs for CAI in German. She invites you to visit her demonstration at the IBM booth at the MLA, or to write for information to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Academic Software&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;Claremont, CA 91711&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AUS UNSEREM  BRIEFKASTEN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Letters to WIG are always welcome and appreciated, whether they get published in the newsletter or not. Here are some excerpts that I wanted to pass on to all of you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Ich lege Ihnen meinen Antrag auf Mitgliedschaft in Ihrer Organisation bei. Falls Sie irgendwann etwas hören sollten von einer feministisch gesinnten Forscherin, die auf das &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nibelungenlied&lt;/span&gt; spezialisiert ist, so wäre ich Ihnen für die Mitteilung ihrer Adresse sehr dankbar. Mit meiner Idee, dass das &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nibelungenlied&lt;/span&gt; höchstwahrscheinlich von einer Frau stammt, befinde ich mich nämlich in einer sehr starken Isolierung. Der Kampf, den ich führe, ist insofern besonders schwer, weil ich nicht nur selbst eine Frau bin und auch einer Frau zu grösserem Ruhm verhelfen möchte, sondern weil ich darüberhinaus auch Nichtakademikerin bin. Als ein "background paper" für das, was ich zur Zeit als mein grösstes feministisches Anliegen empfinde, lege ich Ihnen einen populär gehaltenen Artikel bei . . . . "&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mit freundlichen Grüssen &lt;br /&gt;Berta Engelmann, Secretary &lt;br /&gt;Department of German &lt;br /&gt;Wilfried Laurier U.&lt;br /&gt;Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2L 3C5&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(The enclosed article is entitled "Die wichtigsten Verdachtsmomente für eine weibliche Verfasserschaft des Nibelungenliedes," and appears in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminismus&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Inspektion der Herrenkultur&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Luise Pusch, Suhrkamp 1983. Many of you are probably already familiar with Engelmann's article on the same topic which appeared in Monatshefte in 1980.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aus unserem Briefkasten&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"I just returned [in September 1984] from Berlin where I taught during the summer semester at the Free University a "Frauenseminar" on Sophie La Roche (there is, of course, no such thing as a "Männerseminar"), and a "Vorlesung," "Autorinnen zur Zeit der Romantik" with a colloquium. There was a great deal of interest in these topics and in a feminist approach which is usually only offered in a "Übung," if at all. (I am still reading term papers, reports, letters, inquiries about topics for "Staatsexamensarbeiten" etc.). Ingeborg Drewitz came and spoke about her study &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bettine von Arnim&lt;/span&gt;. Romantik, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Revolution&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Utopie&lt;/span&gt;; the students had lots of questions for her. Another guest was Luise F. Pusch on language and women; her feminist study Das &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;als Männer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;sprache&lt;/span&gt; has just appeared with Suhrkamp and should be interest to Wiggies. It also contains the "Sprachglossen" Pusch did for the—unfortunately now defunct—&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;. Wiggies visiting Berlin may be interested in visiting the Women's Studies office (its bureaucratic name "Zentraleinrichtung zur Förderung von Frauenstudien und Frauenforschung"), [redacted]. They have a good collection of German women's studies publications, current information on what's happening at the Free University (and in Berlin) concerning women and women's studies, and they publish a very informative "Frauen-Informationsblatt" each semester.&lt;br /&gt;All the best . . . . "&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bärbel Becker-Cantarino &lt;br /&gt;University of Texas, Austin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Being out of the country and having missed all the various conferences, i must be more responsible about keeping in touch. So, here is a good news report to you/WIG. The trip last year to Africa was fascinating, and we were able to talk to a fairly varied group of women, although not as many as we would have liked in the Black African countries. In North Africa, we were incredibly received and heard a lot about the problems the different women's groups are having, both university and community, in relation to the state.&lt;br /&gt;In Algeria, the group we met had been "kicked out" of the research center because their work was too subjective—i.e., poetry had been included in their publications. And the group in Morroco, who depended upon the "maison du culture," also lost this support. We are in the process of putting together a collection of essays for the Belgian publication "Les cahiers du grif," which may be ready next fall.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have finally come to the decision that the dissertation topic on which i have been suffering for too many years will never be finished, and that i must change my topic if what i want is to stay in academia. So when i arrived back in the US i presented the popular women's fiction project to my program and—i must be in a lucky stage of my life—they accepted. A wonderful new committee and more advice than i've had in all the years i've been working on the other topic. So my new topic is "Myth of Independence: Popular Women's Fiction in the US, France and Germany." Any suggestions people may have on the German side would of course be much appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aus unserem Briefkasten&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Other good news. The "Women in Academe" came out as a book in July 1984, published by Pergamon. I don't know how accessible it is, Pergamon doesn't seem to be the most visible. And the second piece of news is that the issue was awarded Honorable Mention for the "Best Single Issue of a Journal," by the Association of American Publishers: Professional and Scholarly Pub­lishing Division.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have an assistantship for the coming year to transcribe the interviews we did in Africa; and to work on the European section of my diss.; i'm going to spend the next year in Paris: 2 rue Emile Lepeu, Paris 75011, tel. (1) 370-92-10. If anyone should be passing through .... i'm sorry to be missing this year's WIG conference, and send my best to everyone."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resa Dudovitz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"I'm in Vienna for yet another year. My mailing address until June 85 will be Barawitzkag 6/11, A-1190 WIEN, Austria. This summer I was in the US briefly, spending most of my time in Texas in the library—the only cool place. The WIG conference looks exciting. Sorry to be missing it again.&lt;br /&gt;. . . My dissertation project is "Gegen die gedachte Linie: Feminism and Austrian Women Writers." It concentrates on 1) Haushofer, 2) Bachmann, 3) Frischmuth, 4) Jelinek, 5) Schwaiger. Hope the weather’s better than here in Vienna."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jackie Vansant&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The summaries published here present only a very partial picture of what the WIG conference was like. For one thing, not all presenters sent summaries of their presentations. Those of you who weren't able to attend the conference will especially miss reports of the evenings spent with Helga Schütz and Irmtraud Morgner; maybe those will be ready in time for the March issue of the newsletter. Another thing that's inevitably absent from these reports is the give-and-take of discussion, which is for many of us the most significant part of the conference. And of course, no mere description can give you any real idea of our second annual WIG Kabarett, in which every participating Wiggie gets to wear a wig. To prove my point, here's a summary:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LATE Saturday evening . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAUSTINE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Play in Approximately Five and a Half Scenes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Continuing our recent tradition of the WIG Kabarett and reinforcing the notion of "back to the classics," we this year presented &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Faustine&lt;/span&gt;, with no apologies &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to anyone, least of all you-know-who. Jeannine Blackwell portrayed an appropriately bewildered and docile Faustine, Susan Cocalis was voluptuous as "Das ewig Weibliche," and Dagmar Lorenz showed us yet another side of her talents as a punk Mephisto. The story goes like this: Faustine traded her soul for a Ph.D. in German, agreeing to lose if she ever says to her dissertation those fatal words "Verweile doch..." For success in Germanistik, the Mothers advised her to grow a penis or, failing that, to go into Systems Analysis; the Witches stripped away her Dress-for-Success outfit and led her and the audience in putting hexes on all our least favorite individuals and institutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See what we mean?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Summary by Jeannine Blackwell and Jeanette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thursday evening, October 18&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WHAT DO FEMINIST GERMANISTS WANT, AND NEED? &lt;br /&gt;Moderator: Dorothy Rosenberg, Colby College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Hiring and Hierarchies"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What do feminist Germanists want and need? In an obvious nutshell, we want emotional, intellectual, and professional fulfillment. Because this goal is even more difficult to achieve than ever when two partners are in the academic job squeeze, my talk was full of problems, questions, and, at best, options.&lt;br /&gt;I left it up to the discussion participants to help me and each other to come up with positive solutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To a large extent, we have very few options, since the job market makes many of the choices for us. We do, however, have to decide before applying the extent to which we want to bring our personal life into the application process. At what point do you mention your academic (possibly even Germanist) partner: from the start? at the interview? never? Assuming you apply separately, however, there are various options in the event of offers. These somewhat hypothetical options include: 1) to take the better of the two jobs, 2) to commute indefinitely, each partner taking her/his favorite (or only) offer, 3) to try to share a position, and 4) to wing it. Clearly the last option is the only viable choice, though the others have advantages as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The suggestion of taking the "better" job and having the other partner come along often has a hidden agenda, namely that each partner feels his/her job will be the "better" one. It often boils down to comparing apples and oranges, and there is bound to be resentment down the line. If each partner takes a job &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and one or both commute, however, we are faced with the problem of incessant adaptation to a new lifestyle. As soon as you get used to being alone, some­one comes along and has needs too! And when you've adapted to those needs and become accustomed to having someone around, you're alone again.&lt;br /&gt;Relationships tend to suffer without a common ground of experience, too. Though sharing a position seems ideal, it isn't. The advantages of geograph­ical proximity, shared experience, and opportunity for more research and/or family time are real. But you are often being exploited by the institution, which gets, in effect, two for the price of one. When the same people are constantly judging you, the competition factor is also very real.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So back to winging it. Talking to others in two-career relationships has shown me that there have to be individual solutions to each individual problem. An important postscript. In the discussion it was brought up that lesbians and other relatively "unconventional" couples have a much more difficult time than heterosexual married couples, for whom there is beginning to be some small degree of understanding in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;some&lt;/span&gt; institutions. One positive suggestion: I feel that the most important thing you can do in this most difficult situ­ation is to maintain a non-adversarial relationship with your partner There must be some measure of solidarity when facing the competitive environment we are forced to experience every day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Gail Newman&lt;br /&gt;Williams College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"The Chosen Other: Myths and Monoliths"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is there a contradiction between being Jewish and studying Germanistik? First: what is my personal/internal definition of Jewishness? This is a complicated issue that involves questions of legitimacy, identity and alle­giance. External definitions of Jewishness make up the "monolith" that my title refers to. The "monolith", the presumptions/assumptions originating "outside", locates Jewishness as a tangible absolute that provides an intellectual and social role to step into: a Jew is an "instant" intellec­tual. This monolith chooses not to recognize its own "Kehrseite", in which the paradigm of "intellectual" Jew can slip into that of the cunning/shrewd/ "morally inferior" Jew. The monolith also fails to recognize the complexi­ties, ambiguities and ambivalence—the humanness, in a way—of Jewish expe­rience. A discussion of the monolith of lesbian-feminist identity provides both parallel and contrast. A further question: is my rejection of the Jewish monolith a fear of complacency, of using my selfhood as a weapon of political expediency?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Leslie Morris&lt;br /&gt;U. Mass., Amherst&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[image: Fig. &lt;i&gt;II, 17&lt;/i&gt; HERRADE. &lt;i&gt;Superbia,&lt;/i&gt; from the &lt;i&gt;Hortus Deliciarum.&lt;/i&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Inside/Outside Academe"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For a brief moment in history, in the early 60's in America it seemed as if the small, closed society of scholars would open its scope and widen its numbers. I was among those who tried to get into the opening—only to find the doors closing heavily on me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wiggies search tirelessly for small cracks and most find one. Also they keep the vision alive. That vision sparked a response in women in New York.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although most of us are outside of academe and many never have been inside at all, we are able to share in the exciting process of giving women's writing greater importance and building bridges from German writers to America. Moreover we are also addressing creative writing impulses within ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We give each other support in not losing sight of our ideals and to explore together new roads to learning and to living.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Marianne Landré Goldscheider &lt;br /&gt;New York City&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Germanistik in Women's Studies"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problematic relationship of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Germanistik&lt;/span&gt; and Women's Studies begins with labelling: most often, when American feminists refer to women writers or artists, they mean English-speaking writers and artists. We need, as Elizabeth Minnich has emphasized, to remember the prefixes: women are not only women, they are old or young or Black or—German. Our respon­sibility, then, as Germanists, is to introduce that prefix into the minds of the Women's Studies programs that inhabit many of our colleges and universities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As to our strength as feminist Germanists: after a year in Munich and a lecture tour and attendance at a number of con­ferences relating to feminist issues, I can report that there is considerable growth on that side of the ocean in the numbers of those involved or interested in feminist theory as it can be applied to our field: a growth we have already seen demonstrated on our side of the ocean in our American &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Germanistik&lt;/span&gt;. I would suspect that thanks to WIG, we are probably being heard more than any other foreign language group of feminists. We haven't the outlet that the Germans have; we haven't the great numbers of willing publishers, small and large, who can publicize our findings, but we have still made inroads—particularly into the Academy, where German feminist Ger­manists are a marginal group, if that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But we need to make ourselves more visible even so. And some of us already are, by taking an active role in Women's Studies programs. Mine is a case in point: I have been active on the governing council of the University of Minnesota Women's Studies program almost since my arrival in Minnesota, have taught courses in its Feminist Studies in Literature program, have taken part in its &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;conferences. But now I have a particular opportunity to spread our message: last spring, I was made the Director of the new Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at Minnesota, a research center that also offers a minor in femi­nist studies for M.A. and Ph.D. students in almost any field. Including German. I shall do what I can to make them aware of me, while at the same time expanding my own sights. Interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary efforts are important for us all; that is one thing Women's Studies can teach us. And I shall make every effort to internationalize the Center while I am there on my 2-year term. Without much money it will be hard, but I intend to invite speakers (certainly Luise Pusch, if we can get her to WIG next year), to set up conferences in which Germanists will also play a role, and to initiate discussion on every level about the need for prefixes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If I have any concerns, they center around the tenuous balance between asserting ourselves as Germanists and our molding into the larger group of feminists. For we should not only intend to find a common ground among ourselves; we should also assert and protect our own uniqueness and indivi­duality—we should not, in other words, deny the prefixes. For we and the literature we investigate are as interesting for our differences as for our similarities. The peculiar situation of German women, their slow growth in consciousness, their often agonizing progress toward legal equality, are terribly important factors and must not be ignored. In the long run, a blurring of the edges is not useful. Interdisciplinary work is often con­demned as sloppy and unrigorous, but we can only fight that objection if we are precise and informed about our own particular literature before we start diving into other literatures or disciplines.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So we need our own community as well. But as in any human relationship, it is the attempt to find a common meeting ground without eliminating or ignoring the differences that will make us succeed. We should be a voice for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Germanistik&lt;/span&gt; in Women's Studies as well as powerful spokespeople for our own field. It is as simple—and as complex—as that!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres &lt;br /&gt;U. Minnesota&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"A Common Difference? Gay Liberation and Feminism"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More than ever, common ground must be found for progressive forces to work together. The point of my talk was simply to display various kinds of evi­dence. Fundamentally, gay people almost by definition come into conflict with the ruling mores of patriarchal society. This conflict does not remain abstract but takes on very real and concrete forms: forms of suffering and oppression. Patriarchal domination has as its butt not only women but also gay men. Kate Millet in her book &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sexual Politics&lt;/span&gt; points out the progressive impetus of Jean Genet's writings: "Genet explores the pathology of virility, the chimera of sexual congress as a paradigm of power over other human beings He appears to be the only living male writer of first-class literary gifts to have transcended the sexual myths of our era. His critique of the hetero­sexual politic points the way toward a true sexual revolution, a path which must be explored if any radical social change is to come about."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a certain hopefulness in those lines written in the sixties. But the attempt to air out reigning notions of gender and sexuality continue to meet with the staunchest resistance. Those who have most forcefully tried to do just that (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Harvey Milk, Mario Mieli, Rainer Fassbinder, for example) have been murdered or have committed suicide. It remains for us to continue on with a utopian thrust to our thinking, a kind of permanent Jacobinism (to use Hans Mayer's phrase). The danger from the right is clear, but there is also another danger: "The purpose of liberali­sation, for the present system, is above all to prevent and block any genuine liberation." The presenter of this paper believes that these words of Mario Mieli must be taken to heart.&lt;br /&gt;-- Denis M. Sweet&lt;br /&gt;Bates College&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday Morning, October 19&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN AND HUMOR, OR—WHY ARE THESE WOMEN LAUGHING? &lt;br /&gt;Coordinator: Karen R. Achberger, St. Olaf College &lt;br /&gt;Moderator: Sheila Johnson, Rice University&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"HUMOR:  positive and black in the prose works of women writing in German since ca. 1970"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The early seventies saw a tendency toward the integration of positive humor in women's writing in German (e.g. Frischmuth, Erler, Kirsch, Schutz, Morgner), a "berghohe Welle" of a phenomenon not limited by political boundaries. The lovely theories and hopes of these years have shown themselves slow to achieve realization. The humor in women's fiction began to reflect disillusionment, became darker (e.g. Morgner), remained bitter (e.g. Wohmann, Eisner, Reinig, Jelinek, Novak), or disappeared, at least until recently (e.g. Frischmuth, Konig, Erler, Kirsch).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Historical and psychological theories about humor have their useful sides for women writers (for women in general). A few relevant books on the historical relationship of humor and the comic to literature are the 1976, Preisendanz/ Waring volume, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Komische&lt;/span&gt; and the 1982 Grimm/Hincks &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Zwischen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Satire &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und Utopie&lt;/span&gt;:   &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Zur Komiktheorie und zur Geschichte der Komödie&lt;/span&gt;. One volume written by a woman touches somewhat humorlessly on our topic: Gorgina Baum's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Humor &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und Satire in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;der bürgerlichen Aesthetik&lt;/span&gt; (1959).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why aren't there more works by women on the subject of humor and the comic in German literature??????&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For laughs try &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Titters 101&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;An Introduction to Women's Literature&lt;/span&gt;, Anne Beatts, Judith Jacklin, Deanne Stillman (Perigee, 1984).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Sheila Johnson &lt;br /&gt;Rice University&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Das Unbehagen am Humor"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ausgehend von der ideologisch oft fragwürdigen Rolle des Humors in Werken des 19. Jahrhunderts, besonders was die Darstellung von Frauen und Minori­täten (Juden) angeht mit einem Seitenblick auf Raabe, Freytag, Busch u.a. werden typische Aspekte des Humors aufgezeigt, z. B. das Erreichen von Unverbindlichkeit des Gesagten—bei Thomas Mann oft als das souveräne Uber- den-Dingen-Schweben bewundert—, die Relativierung einzelner Textkomponenten, die Möglichkeit des Aussprechens ohne Verbindlichkeit und letztlich vorge­spiegelte Standpunktlosigkeit, die es ermöglicht, auch gegen Minoritäten Gerichtetes zu artikulieren ohne zur Verantwortung gezogen werden zu können. Es wird erwogen, ob die Lieblingstechnik des Realismus und Postrealismus, das humorvolle indirekte Sprechen der vorwiegend bürgerlichen und klein­bürgerlichen Autoren des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts auch in der Frauenliteratur die oben angeführten Eigenschaften der Verantwortungs- und Standpunktslosigkeit aufweisen kann—eine Frage, die durch die Analyse von Texten von Reinig, Elsner und Jelinek bejaht wird—und ob Humor als Modus literarischen Sprechens überhaupt in Frauentexten ein Desiderat ist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Dagmar C. G. Lorenz &lt;br /&gt;Ohio State University&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Lichte Augenblicke:&lt;br /&gt;Feminismus, Humor und Wissenschaft"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;einen lichten Augenblick haben&lt;/span&gt; - kurze Zeit bei klarem Verstand sein (Geisteskranker); (fig.) plötzlich klare Einsicht haben."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Wahrig, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsches Wörterbuch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;'"Je wichtiger ein Gegenstand ist, um so lustiger muss man ihn behandeln,' sagt Heine. Er muss es ja wissen als Aussenseiter von Geburt."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Luise F. Pusch, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Deutsche als Männersprache&lt;/span&gt;, p. 12.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I agree with Kate Clinton that the dichotomy between humorous and serious is a false one. (Kate Clinton, "Making Light: Another Dimension. Some Notes on Feminist Humor," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Trivia&lt;/span&gt;: A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Journal of Ideas&lt;/span&gt;, Fall 1982, pp. 37-42). I believe that humor can create possibilities for feminists to crack open the structures of scholarly discourse, making space for the feelings, fantasies, dreams, desires, etc. that are otherwise excluded.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In my presentation, I emphasized that it is not a question of humor per se, but of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;feminist&lt;/span&gt; humor. Some definitions:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"By women's humor, I don't mean women being funny. I mean a humor which recognizes a common oppression, notices its source and the roles it requires, identifies the agents of that oppression."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Naomi Weisstein, "Why We Aren't Laughing—&lt;br /&gt;Any More." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ms&lt;/span&gt; Vol. II. No. 5 (Nov. 1973), p. 89.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;"It is a humor based on visions of change. . . . &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Female&lt;/span&gt; humor may ridicule a person or a system from an accepting point of view ('that's life'), while the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;nonacceptance&lt;/span&gt; of oppression characterizes feminist humor and satire. . . . Feminist humor tends to be a humor of hope, female humor of hopelessness."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;—Gloria Kaufman, "Introduction," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pulling Our Own Strings&lt;/span&gt; (Indiana U. Press, 1980), pp. 13-14.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;As Kate Clinton points out, humor has been used against women for so long that many of us do not trust it, or we accept the (male-defined) view of it as trivial or trivializing. Yet feminists who use humor in their scholarly writing are able to employ it to good advantage. Humor can be used to call attention to serious problems, to make us see something familiar in a new light. Humor can be used to channel anger creatively and to transform pain into laughter—without dissipating the energy that can come with pain or anger. Humor can also be whimsical, offering a fantastical alternative to reality which we can explore at least in our imaginations, thus expanding old categories of thought and discourse. I illustrated all of these possible uses of feminist humor with examples from the writing of Luise Pusch, as well as a few examples from Christa Reinig. In my opinion, feminist humor creates "clear moments"—the "lichte Augenblicke" of my title—in the murky maze of scholarly discourse.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;—Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;LOU ROGERS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Mrs. Sam: It is terribly humiliating to me, Sam, to have you go to Europe in last cen­tury's hat. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Woman Citizen&lt;/span&gt;- &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Woman ' s Journal&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;[Taken from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Laughing Their Way&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Humor in America&lt;/span&gt; (NY: Macmillan, 1934).]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Unfortunately, a summary of Gertraud Gutzmann's presentation on humor in the works of Irmgard Keun was not received.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday Afternoon, October 19&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PRACTICAL FEMINIST STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING INTERMEDIATE GERMAN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderators:   &lt;br /&gt;Marlene Heinemann, University of Wyoming and&lt;br /&gt;Sandra Frieden, University of Houston&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"An ABC of Women in Literature"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An ABC of Women in Literature is a ten-minute slide/tape show which I made for use in undergraduate/introductory literature classes. Using 25 key words (e.g. angel, muse, prostitute, spinster) and 19th century woodcuts I explained how fictional female characters are representative of societally determined categories. An understanding of these categories is needed in interpreting works of literature. The slide show is in English so that it can be used for literature in translation courses as well, and although the script men­tions some examples of female characters from German literature, it can easily be adapted to other Western literatures. The practical teaching strategy I wish to emphasize is that of encouraging VISUALIZATION as a means of helping students relate their reading to their own lives and thus increasing their receptivity. Although the slide/tape show is not yet available for commercial distribution, it might be someday, so I welcome your comments and suggestions for future slide/tape shows, as well as any tips you may have for possible funding of such ventures.&lt;br /&gt;--Lucia Watson&lt;br /&gt;c/o German Dept., [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;University of Wisconsin&lt;br /&gt;Madison, WI 53706&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schattenriss einer Violinistin aus :&lt;br /&gt;University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Volk braucht Licht&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Frauen zur Zeit des Aufbruchs 1790-1848 In Ihren Briefen (Darmstadt 1970).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Liedermacherinnen im Unterricht"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My presentation illustrated with songs how I used Liedermacherinnen in courses I taught last year: to give examples of dialects, to give a musical view of women's issues, to dislodge perhaps a few stereotypes about "Germans." In my second-year class I gave the students hand-outs with the dialect version of a song and a standard translation which was then used for discussion. I illustrated this in Boston by playing Cilli Miculik's "I wass net..." which has the same theme as "Where have all the flowers gone." I ended my advanced course on works by and about women in the twentieth cen­tury with a couple of sessions on Liedermacherinnen. After "Die Ehe der Maria Braun" and "Geschlechtertausch" stories, this proved to be the right decision. I used in particular songs by the group &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schneewittchen&lt;/span&gt;. They are musically very interesting and original, and, more importantly, positive in content, e.g. "Nehmen Sie es wie eine Frau, Madam, das ist die Emanzipation" and "Schneewittchen, zerschlag deinen gläsernen Sarg."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Victoria Joan Moessner&lt;br /&gt;U. Alaska, Fairbanks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"What's in a Noun?"&lt;br /&gt;Toward a Feminist Critique of Communicative Competence&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What I tried to do in my presentation was give an assessment, from a feminist perspective, of different approaches to communicative competence. I devoted quite a bit of attention to Stephen Krashen's Natural Approach because he is the foremost language acquisition theorist in the US today, because his work is highly accessible and widely discussed, and because publishers like Houghton Mifflin are busy studying what he has to say. Apart from all that, what Krashen says about the importance of comprehensible input and a low affective filter makes eminently good sense to me. I also looked at the Strategic Interaction approach and the work of William Littlewood and David Wilkins.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All of these approaches earned mixed reviews. The major distinguishing characteristic of the communicative competence approach is that it acknowledges the importance of the social context within which we use language. On the face of it, that would seem to be music to feminist ears. In practice, however, being &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;conscious&lt;/span&gt; of social context is not at all the same as &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;having&lt;/span&gt; an &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;enlight&lt;/span&gt;­&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ened&lt;/span&gt; social consciousness. For example, an instructor may explain that male and female speech styles in the target language differ. What follows? Perhaps an appreciation of the different perspectives and values that female speech represents. Or perhaps a lapse into female speech stereotyping. Discouragingly my own survey of sample exercises leads me to expect the latter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition, I have found precisely the same shortcomings in teaching materials that Betty Schmitz and others have been criticizing for the last decade, including underrepresentation of women and minorities, dependency, cultural inaccuracy and an overwhelmingly androcentric perspective, along with other forms of bias such as racism and ageism. Beyond these problems, we need to &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-16-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;think about others: how we can teach collaborative as well as competitive models of conversation; how we can teach not only public or semi-public lan­guage but the language of intimacy, as well; and how we can make the expres­sion of emotion a legitimate part of classroom interaction, along with information transfer and problem solving.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If we want to accomplish any of this, it seems to me we are going to have to radically rethink our methods of reviewing teaching and teaching materials. Our existing methods for reviewing ALM-style textbooks are simply not going to be adequate anymore—because the communicative competence approach oper­ates with some radically different assumptions from ALM, because in part communicative competence instructors don't even use textbooks, or because the textbooks they do use are so open-ended that it is impossible to foresee how well or how poorly, how imaginately or how trivially, an instructor will use a given exercise. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;That&lt;/span&gt; means we have to go back to consciousness raising and training—at a time when the profession is far less interested than it was ten years ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Barbara D. Wright&lt;br /&gt;U. Connecticut, Storrs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WHAT'S WRONG HERE?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Illustration from a widely-used communicative competence textbook.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="WordSection2"&gt;-17-&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;W1G 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="WordSection3"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[images]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="WordSection4"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WHAT'S WRONG HERE?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Illustrations from a widely-used communicative competence textbook.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday Morning, October 20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WITCHES AND WISE WOMEN&lt;br /&gt;Moderator: Jeanette Clausen, Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Hexenjagd in Gelehrtenkopfen"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Der Beitrag diskutiert repräsentative Werke von Gelehrten und aus der Literatur, die die Hexe zum Thema haben. Dabei beziehe ich mich auf die Zeit von 1487 bis ungefähr 1567, das heisst auf die Zeitperiode vor dem Höhepunkt der Massenver­folgungen (1560 - 1700). Der Massenmord an Frauen zu Beginn der Neuzeit ist im geschichtlichen Begriff des Hexenwahns verharmlost und mythisiert worden.&lt;br /&gt;Ein Teil der Entmythisierung des Hexenpogroms ist es, zu zeigen, dass die Ver­folgungen kein historischer Zufall waren, sondern Bestandteil einer sehr kon­kreten Gesellschaftsstruktur, in der "Wahnsinn" ebenso organisiert war wie heute. Literatur ist Teil von diesem Organisationsprozess. Die "Hexe" war durchaus gesellschaftsfähiges Thema der Gelehrten und Gebildeten das 16. Jhdts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Der sogenannte "Wahn" wurde vor allem von ihnen in Gang gesetzt und am Leben gehalten. Ohne die Verbreitung des Hexenbildes gerade auch durch die Literatur des 16. Jhdts., die ja durch die Entwicklung der Druckkunst und der Flugschrift ganz neue Verbreitungsmoglichkeiten hatte, sind die Massen­verfolgungen von Frauen zu Beginn des Absolutismus in Deutschland nicht denkbar.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unsere Literaturgeschichten aber haben die Hexenliteratur noch immer als absurdes Exoticum ausgeschlossen und tabuisiert. Es ist an der Zeit, dass wir sie zum Teil des Curriculums machen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Sigrid Brauner&lt;br /&gt;U. California, Berkeley&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ein unerhörte ubernatürliche gestalt einer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;großgeschwollenen Junckfrawen zu Eßlingen/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;als hie förgemalet/und hernach gemelet würt.&lt;br /&gt;[image: G.1118 The Deceitful Woman of Esslingen [338 x 253] 1549 Gotha (eine Flugschrift--neues Massenmedium des 16. Jhdts.)]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;W1G 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"On the Trail of the 'Witches': Social Roles of the Accused in the European Witch Trials."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In order to ascertain the social roles of those accused in the European witch trials of the 15th - 17th centuries, it is necessary to differentiate between the official view of witchcraft as a devil-worshipping heresy, a view promulgated by the religious and secular authorities, and the beliefs and practices of the people themselves. The former view, as it coalesced on the Continent in the 15th century, defined witchcraft as consisting of four dis­tinct elements: 1. the notion of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;maleficium&lt;/span&gt;, of doing harm through super­natural means; 2. the image of the witch as an uncanny being who could fly through the air at night, who devoured babies, and was associated with wild and lonely places; 3. the notion of a pact binding the witch to the Devil as his servant; 4. the belief in a cult or sect which held periodic meetings or sabbats where the Christian religion was systematically parodied and the Devil was worshipped and had sexual intercourse with his servants. These beliefs are found in the demonologists' treatises and are reflected in forced confessions of suspects after torture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A layer of folk beliefs less shaped by the official theory can be discerned in trial documents which record the accusations made by the villagers and peasants themselves. In analyzing the roles of the accused in these deposi­tions it is helpful to distinguish among four categories: sorceresses, wise women, midwives, and witches. Anthropologists commonly distinguish between &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;sorcery&lt;/span&gt;, or harmful magic accomplished by technique or substance, and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;witch&lt;/span&gt;­craft, harm believed to be caused supernaturally by virtue of some mysterious power inherent in the witch herself. The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;wise woman&lt;/span&gt;, or white witch, is a practitioner of beneficent magic such as healing persons and animals, divining thieves, finding lost objects, foretelling the future, and providing love magic. The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;midwife&lt;/span&gt; is sometimes but not always also a wise woman, and often works with spells and charms.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The European materials show that while few of those accused in the witch trials were actual sorceresses, a good number (1/3 to 1/2) were wise women or the equivalent, and probably a much smaller number were midwives. In many cases the accused were probably believed by their communities to be witches in the sense of someone endowed with supernatural power to do harm, and some may have believed this of themselves. But the reality of either a Satanic cult or any organized vestigial pagan fertility cult is unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Joey Horsley &lt;br /&gt;U. Mass., Boston&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FOOD FOR THOUGHT:&lt;br /&gt;Would scholars diagram witchcraft this same way if most of the witches were men?&lt;br /&gt;[image]&lt;br /&gt;(diagram from: Jeffrey B. Russell, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Witchcraft&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;the Middle Ages&lt;/span&gt;, Cornell Univ. Press, 1972)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-20-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Witches and Subversives in Contemporary Literature"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, a summary of Dorothy Rosenberg's presentation was not received. Dorothy began by talking about having wanted to be a witch as a child, planting her first herb garden at age 12, and being vaguely aware that her fascination with witches had something to do with power.&lt;br /&gt;She then moved into a discussion of why witch figures are so frequent in contem­porary literature of the GDR, focusing especially on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda&lt;/span&gt; and quoting from an interview with Irmtraud Morgner that appeared in a recent issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weimarer Beiträge&lt;/span&gt;. Thus, after Sigrid's and Joey's presentations had explored some of the historical aspects of witches and their persecution, Dorothy brought us back to the present, and to literary criticism.&lt;br /&gt;It was just what we needed. The discus­sion that followed these three presenta­tions went on for an hour, and we finally stopped—reluctantly—only because we didn't want to miss lunch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For a better summary of Dorothy's presen­tation, write to her at Colby College.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—JC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday Morning, October 21&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concluding Session: WIG Members Speak Out&lt;br /&gt;Moderators:   &lt;br /&gt;Sandy Frieden, University of Houston, and&lt;br /&gt;Margaret Ward, Wellesley College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Sunday morning wrap-up session is always an occasion to have open discus­sion of the conference itself and to reflect on the future of WIG, as well as to make additional suggestions for next year's conference. All of these aspects were touched upon by a variety of speakers from the floor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some comments from two earlier sessions have stuck with me and seem closely related to the wrap-up discussion. Dorothy Rosenberg's comment, "Magie als Losung hat ihren Preis;" thus, cooperation is the obvious solution. Similarly, Barbara Wright talked about the need to develop a language competence model based on cooperation, not competition. Cooperation was certainly the model we tried to use to organize the conference. So many WIGgies were involved in the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-21-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;organization and the planning. It isn't a model which works like a well-oiled machine, but humanly it is very rewarding. We aren't always successful at it, however, a fact to which every session organizer can probably testify. And the sheer number of people at this year's conference (over 100) indicates that we need to work even harder at achieving that ideal of cooperation and communi­cation which we have for WIG. Dorothy Rosenberg expressed concern that per­haps the attempt to integrate newcomers after the Thursday evening session had not really worked as planned. Nevertheless, some people expressed their satisfaction with the welcome they had experienced. In general there was approval for the increased amount of free time which enabled people to really talk with each other.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Several newcomers spoke about their reactions to the conference. At least one was disappointed that her special area of expertise—translation—and her offer of help had been ignored when we discussed translation projects at the Business Meeting. Another expressed her sense that WIG was reaching out to high school teachers, but not really offering the kind of program which could help these women. If we recognize that at least on one level WIG is a service organiza­tion, then we need to think about groups with special needs, e.g. graduate students, high school teachers, those who now need support groups to discuss the political problems one runs into when one becomes an administrator. A number of women expressed their disappointment that no aspect of this year's program had had specifically to do with Lesbianism. It was pointed out that we had fewer general sessions because of having two guests this year; still, it seems important that this be given attention next year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A great deal of discussion took place about the future of WIG. Keeping in mind that next year we celebrate our tenth anniversary, there seemed to be a feeling that we as an organization were at a crossroads. There was a need to ask both &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;woher&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;wohin&lt;/span&gt;, without getting bogged down in self-reflection of nostalgia for the past. I felt in both this discussion and the one which took place Saturday morning a sense of impatience—a sense that we should get on with it, but an uncertainty about where we are going. Perhaps there is some need to slow down, evaluate, then accelerate again after we crystallize our goals. As the organization continues to grow we need to develop ways to maintain the intimacy and the respect for each other which make this such a special group. There was some sense that perhaps next year's conference should be a time for this kind of productive self-reflection, that perhaps no guest should be invited. But it was pointed out that a binding vote had already been taken on the subject of next year's guest at the Business Meeting the day before. Ruth-Ellen Joeres also reaffirmed that the person we had designated as guest would be just the kind of individual to help us with these deliberations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmtraud Morgner spoke for herself and Helga Schütz of their gratitude for the opportunity to come to the WIG conference this year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The final time available to us for wrap-up was devoted instead to a Quaker-style meeting in memory of Fritz Achberger, at which time a number of people were able to speak on tape to Karen to express their sympathy and love for her. For all those who participated in this testimony and experienced the outpouring of affection for Karen, without whom Irmtraud and Helga would never have come to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-22-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG, it seemed a fitting conclusion and brought us all closer to each other.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Margaret E. Ward &lt;br /&gt;Wellesley College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(In a note accompanying the above text, Margaret emphasized that this was a very &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;personal&lt;/span&gt; summary, representing her own subjective impressions of the concluding session. The following open letter, though it doesn't focus only on the Sunday morning session, offers another woman's view of some of the same things.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear fellow Wiggies!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I returned from my 2nd WIG conference with many impressions and some mixed feelings of hope and pain. Again the WIG conference proved for me to be an intellectually energizing, yet also emotionally draining experience. In spite of a mostly relaxed and supportive atmosphere, not to mention WIG's unique, thoroughly positive, non-hierarchical stance among the professional academic organizations, I have (had) difficulties in making personal contacts in such a large gathering. This is due to a degree of shyness, but also to the self- imposed classification of myself as a "graduate student" and all the accompany­ing inhibitions and lack of confidence that can bring. All of your protests are ringing in my ears!! I realize there are many "graduate students" and "non-graduate students" (ahem! professors of Germanistik, are you listening?) and many "non-students" of WIG who don't deal in these classifications. I am aware of the problem and working on it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, this difficulty in large groups is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not only&lt;/span&gt; a personal problem: there are others who, for whatever reasons, do not always find it easy at WIG con­ferences. When planning future WIG gatherings, I believe we should also be considered. I very much agree with the suggestion made at the Sunday meeting that we begin next year's conference with Thursday-night small-group sessions, discussing a topic which encourages good group and personal interaction. These groups should be given formal time to meet again sometime during the weekend.&lt;br /&gt;It would certainly be easier for me to have a few people with whom I had shared some personal feelings and thoughts. Another suggestion, already being imple­mented by the New York group, is for Regional Get-Togethers of Wiggies: this would allow for informal "small" gatherings over pot-luck meals and discus­sions of current projects. (The less structured, the better!) This is not meant to undermine the unity and power of us as a group, but provides for additional opportunities for personal and supportive contact. If any of you have further ideas on how to make integration easier for us "non-gregarious" types, it would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although we in WIG strive to be mutually supportive of each other, regardless of our classifications, I think it is important that we do acknowledge our different positions in the academic and non-academic "real" world of German­istik. I as a "graduate student" do have different needs and perspectives and demands made on me than those of you who are professors, administrators, trans­lators, writers, high school teachers, ... Let's acknowledge the "otherness" that's inherent to our Big-Middle-Little-Sister Network and work with it to empower us to change ourselves and the "real" world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-23-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It seems essential to WIG in its 10th year that we assess our purpose and our directions as a group and as individual members. Are we a feminist organiza­tion? What does feminism mean to me? These are questions I ask myself, and we should ask them of each other. I look forward to answering them together and to continuing to pose new and challenging ones. WIG is special and necessary for many of us (but we already know that!!). That I would feel comfortable in writing this letter is indicative of what we are and what we can become.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Karin Obermeier&lt;br /&gt;U. Massachusetts, Amherst&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday Afternoon, October 20, 1984&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG Business and Planning Meeting&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara Wright called the meeting to order, announcing that because there was so much business, there would be strict time limits for discussion of each topic.&lt;/p&gt;
I. The meeting began with reports as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tax-exempt status&lt;/span&gt; (Jeanette Clausen). WIG is incorporated in the state of Indiana and at the federal level. The corporation is automatically tax-exempt until such time as our income exceeds $5,000.00 a year (the "gross receipts test"). When that happens, we will apply for official tax-exempt status which, when granted, will be retroactive to the date of filing. If you don't understand this, never mind—all it really means is, there's no problem with our tax-exempt status.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Membership&lt;/span&gt; (Jeanette Clausen for Karen Achberger). WIG's new dues structure went into effect on January 1, 1984. Between January 1 and October 15, 1984, payments were received from 101 new or reinstated members (mostly the former) and 133 renewing members. The breakdown by dues cate­gory:&lt;br /&gt;                     &lt;br /&gt;                                               New Renewing&lt;br /&gt;A student,             $ 3.00/1 yr   24    9&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection4"&gt;   unemployed       $ 5.00/2 yr   22    18 &lt;br /&gt;                                               46    27&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B $10,000 to         $ 7.00/1 yr   18     11&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection4"&gt;$15,000 annually   $12.00/2 yr  7       11 &lt;br /&gt;                                               25     22&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C $15,001 to         $10.00/1 yr  1        5     &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection4"&gt;$20,000 annually   $15.00/2 yr  7        15&lt;br /&gt;                                               8        20&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D $20,001 to          $13.00/1 yr 2         7&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection4"&gt;$ $25,000 annually $20.00/2 yr 7         19&lt;br /&gt;                                               9         26&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-24-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection4"&gt;D $25,000              $16.00/1 yr 6         8&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection4"&gt;and up                   $25.00/2 yr 3         19&lt;br /&gt;                                               9         27&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;F supporting indi-    $20.00/1 yr 0         2&lt;br /&gt;viduals; libraries      $35.00/2 yr 2         7&lt;br /&gt;                                                2         9&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;G supporting depart- $25.00/yr   2         2&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection4"&gt;ments                                       2          2&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note that during this nine-month peiod there were more new than renewing members in category A (student/unemployed), and that over half of the new members were in the lowest income categories. Among renewing members there is more of a balance, with a majority choosing to pay the two-year rates. At the time of this report, our mailing list numbered 440, for the current membership, see the membership list included in this issue (pp. 42-48).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following departments have become departmental sponsors of WIG:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dept. of German, The Ohio State University&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of German, University of Minnesota&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of German, Washington University, St. Louis&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, Texas Tech University, Lubbock&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
C. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG Yearbook&lt;/span&gt; (Marianne Burkhard). Marianne reported that Vol. I (1982) of the yearbook would be sent to the University Press of America, which has agreed to publish it, by the end of the year; it will be out in early 1985. (For the table of contents of this volume and pre-publication ordering information, see pp. 2-3.) She also reported that Vol. II (1983) of the yearbook was almost finished, except for a few papers that had been sent out for re-review. By general acclaim, it was agreed that Marianne Burkhard and Edith Waldstein should continue as coeditors of the yearbook for Vol. III (1984). Deadline for submissions to Vol. III is February 1, 1985. Papers must be feminist in orientation; other than that there are no restrictions. The coeditors have a policy of blind submissions, so please, no name on the paper itself—name, affiliation (if any) and address on a separate cover sheet. Copies to &lt;span&gt;both&lt;/span&gt; Marianne and Edie. It was agreed that Marianne and Edith would send out a one-page announcement soliciting contributions to Vol. Ill since the newsletter announcement probably won't reach everyone before the February 1 deadline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Textbook Reviews&lt;/span&gt; (Barbara Wright). Barbara announced that Round Two of the WIG textbook reviews was ready for those attending the conference to pick up. She also reminded us that WIG's first collection of textbook reviews (May 1983, edited by Linda Pickle) is appearing in the fall 1984 issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;, along with articles by several WIG members and the guidelines for evaluating textbooks that were used for this year's set of reviews. She then brought up the fact that textbook reviewing needs to be done continually: right now we really need reviews of more high school German textbooks; likewise, WIG has not reviewed many textbooks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-25-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for the intermediate level yet, and textbooks produced in Germany also need attention. The steering committee member now in charge of textbook reviews is Sydna (Bunny) Weiss (Hamilton College).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;N.B.:  the above-mentioned textbook reviews ("round two") were mailed in December. If you haven't received them by the time you read this, keep an eye out for them for a few more weeks (bulk mail can be so unpredictable); if you feel that you've been overlooked in this mailing, write to Jeanette Clausen, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.- Purdue U., Fort Wayne, IN 46805 to request copies.&lt;/p&gt;
E. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Statistics Project&lt;/span&gt; (Marianne Burkhard). This project, when finished, will report on the number of women employed in German departments since 1963, including the number of women promoted. According to Marianne, the project is in imminent danger of being completed. Jeannine Blackwell will present some of the information from this study at the December 1984 MLA, in the session: Graduate Education in the 1990's. Saturday, 29 December, 1:45 pm, Independence Room, Hilton. This session is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not &lt;/span&gt;listed in the MLA conference program, so please pass the word along—it's important for Wiggies to have some say in this discussion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;F. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Syllabi Project 1983&lt;/span&gt; (Bunny Weiss and Sidonie Cassirer). There are still 100-plus copies left of the collection of course syllabi entitled &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German and Women's Studies&lt;/span&gt;, which was completed last year and mailed to members in November 1983 or so (and has been sent to all new members as a part of their membership). If for some reason you never received this 100-page booklet of 50 course syllabi, or if you want extra copies, send $2.00 (for postage and handling) to Jeanette Clausen, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;G. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Translation&lt;/span&gt;. 1. Bunny Weiss had agreed last year to serve as a "clearing-house" contact person to collect translations that WIG members had already done (to use in their teaching, usually). She received only three translations, and will pass them on to someone with an active project already underway. Dorothy Rosenberg later volunteered to take over the role of collecting translations already done. 2. Christiane Zehl Romero (Tufts U.) and Helene Scher (Smith Coll.) have a publisher for a collection of translations by women authors from the FRG, the GDR, Switzerland and Austria. (N.B.: it is my impression that they were finalizing their table of contents during the conference—for information, write to one of them). 3. Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.) and Nancy Lukens (Coll, of Wooster) are still actively seeking funding for the two- volume collection (GDR and FRG) of women's prose and poetry that they announced last year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was general agreement that translation projects should be &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;coordinated &lt;/span&gt;so that we don't duplicate efforts. The following recommendations and volunteer commitments were made:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Bunny Weiss and Sidonie Cassirer will analyze last year's syllabi collec­tion to see what needs for translated texts are indicated there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-26-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Gertraud Gutzmann pointed out that we should interest publishers in reissuing out-of-print translations, and volunteered to coordinate this work. In this connection, the volume on women writers in translation— out-of-print texts was mentioned as an important reference, and Elke Frederiksen reminded the group that an update is in progress; the volume is: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women Authors&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Translation&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Isabelle de Courtivron and Margery Resnick (Garland Press).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Pat Herminghouse reminded us that a new Suhrkamp volume containing annotated texts by 11 German women writers will be out in spring. It is suitable for use at the intermediate level or above. The title is Frauen im &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mittelpunkt&lt;/span&gt;/&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Focus&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. Following the reports, the following items of business were discussed:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A. The 1985 WIG conference.&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Conference site&lt;/span&gt;. Barbara Wright and others reviewed the history of our conference sites (1976-78 in Oxford, Ohio; 1979-81 in Racine, Wisconsin; and 1982-84 in Boston); a part of the plan has been to build up membership in the area of the country where the conference is held. Last year, several West Coast Wiggies were asked to look for possible sites. Dinah Dodds was present to report on the site in Portland, Oregon that she had investigated, and the group voted to approve it for next year's conference. Dinah provided the follow­ing information about it:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Location&lt;/span&gt;: Our Lady of the Angels, Sisters of St. Francis, 1858 SW Palatine Hill Rd., Portland, OR 97219. The convent sits atop a hill overlooking the Willamette River Valley, 10 minutes from down­town Portland, 30 minutes from the airport, across the street from Lewis and Clark College (where Dinah teaches).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Facilities&lt;/span&gt;: Housing is in double or single rooms. There is room for 55 people, with additional sleeping space for up to 62 on roll­away beds. If there are more than 62 registrants for the conference, the overflow will be accommodated somehow by the Portland women. The conference facilities include larger rooms that can hold 60-70 as well as smaller, more intimate rooms; there is also a largish room with a raised platform and a piano, and a gymnasium complete with facilities for volleyball, basketball, or ping pong and a stage.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Cost&lt;/span&gt;: at present, $20.00 per night, which includes three meals a day with choice of vegetarian or non-vegetarian food; snacks are also included.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Transportation&lt;/span&gt;: for local transportation, vans from Lewis and Clark College will be available to transport people to and from the airport.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Travel to Portland&lt;/span&gt;: present airfares are as follows (all prices round trip): Boston-Portland $450; New York-Portland $450; Denver-Portland $220; Chicago-Portland $390 (via Denver). Compare these fares with &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-27-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;present fares to San Francisco: Boston-SF $390; New York-SF $390; Denver-SF $200; Chicago-SF $330 (via Denver).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The convent has been reserved for WIG for October 24-27, 1985. The coordinator for conference registration and physical arrangements will be (you guessed i&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;t) DINAH DODDS, Lewis and Clark College, &lt;/span&gt;Portland, OR 97219. [redacted] The program coordinator will be Charlotte Smith, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Conference Program&lt;/span&gt; — general considerations. There was much talk about how to structure the conference so as to bring about the things we want to have happen (profound discussions on important topics, real exchanges of ideas, and so on—such as took place following the "Witches and Wise Women" panel this year). As Sara Lennox said, we need to give more thought to how we can &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;consciously&lt;/span&gt; plan for these things to happen, rather than letting it be more or less accidental.&lt;br /&gt;We should consider how we can provide for rigorous analysis and at the same time be experimental and open. Among the many points raised during the discussion were:
&lt;p&gt;—we need to be sure to allow &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;enough time&lt;/span&gt; (someone mentioned that this was the first year she had heard no complaints about too little time);&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;panels&lt;/span&gt; should be kept &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;relatively small&lt;/span&gt;, and presenters shouldn't read 25-minute-papers. (N.B.: this is a caveat that has been raised every year for as long as I can remember—it seems clear that most of us &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;want&lt;/span&gt; shorter presentations, so as to allow more time for discussion, but maybe people don't quite know how to make their presentations short and still say something worthwhile? That's my opinion, what's yours? —JC).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—we should remember that at WIG we don't have to prepare "Gesamtkunst- werk"-papers to present; at WIG we have the chance to learn to speak in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;our own voices&lt;/span&gt; and, by presenting Ansätze zur Diskussion, to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;give the group&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;voice&lt;/span&gt;; also, we shouldn't fear making mistakes when we speak German;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—we should respect WIG and the session organizers, and not leave WIGwork to the last (even though we know that Wiggies will forgive us, or let us have an extension on our deadline, etc. and MLA or AATG probably won't!); if we agree to be on a WIG panel or to organize a session, we should take that responsibility as seriously as we do other professional commitments;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—panel organizers should try for a mix of panelists, encouraging students and non-academics to particpate as well as those in university positions;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—because there's been a lot of antifeminist backlash in the last few years, and much retrenchment within feminism, we must be even more&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-28-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;insistent and outspoken in our support  of "uncomfortable" topics; we should have a panel that includes lesbianism every year;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;—we should not neglect important historical and political perspec­tives;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—not everyone is particularly interested in post-45 literature; we could invite other artists, or scholars, instead of authors;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—we should have one session devoted to our history (this point was made by Helen Fehervary, who mentioned the film made by Gisela Bahr (Miami U.) of the 1978 conference, which shows a real hammering-out of ideas during discussion);&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—we should follow our policy of choosing one experienced and one inexperienced coordinator for each session.&lt;/p&gt;
3. We then proceeded to discuss a possible &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;guest&lt;/span&gt; for WIG 1985. (The list of choices had been narrowed down to 5 by means of a straw vote the day before). There were quite a few in favor of inviting a film­maker, either Heike Sander or Ulrike Ottinger (though I don't think there was a consensus as to whom we would prefer). Interestingly, the straw vote had shown our top choice to be Christa Wolf, but we quickly decided against trying to invite her, in part because she is so much in demand that her presence, if she should decide to accept an invitation from us, might turn our conference into a kind of "media event," which would certainly be contrary to most of our aims. As the discussion progressed, a consensus seemed to emerge in favor of inviting someone "more like us," and we voted by a sizable majority in favor of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Luise Pusch&lt;/span&gt;. She is a feminist linguist, author of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Deutsche &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;als Männerspräche&lt;/span&gt; (Suhrkamp 1984), editor of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminismus&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Inspektion der Herrenkultur&lt;/span&gt; (Suhrkamp 1983), and author/editor of several books in progress including a feminist dictionary, a book on sisters of famous men (to be followed by a book on daughters, then one on mothers), and autobiographical prose. We were also not disappointed to learn that Pusch is a lesbian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;4. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1985 conference program topics&lt;/span&gt;. Having decided on the 1985 guest, we turned to a discussion of the program topics. Barbara, veritable paragon of a chairperson that she is, had prepared three alternative "skeleton programs" (based on the straw vote) to facili­tate discussion. Among the suggestions made were: to celebrate 10 years of WIG in some way (1985 will be the 10th annual conference); to show Gisela Bahr's film of the 1978 conference if possible; to include one session on lesbian-feminism in trends in recent feminist theory; to form a support group for administrators.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The program as approved by the group follows; of course, the session organizers will modify the titles and provide more detailed descrip­tions in their calls for contributions, to be mailed in January.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-29-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG 1985 October 24-27, Portland, OR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thursday, October 24&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thurs. eve. WOHER/WOHIN? (opening session: zehn Jahre WIG, CR, etc.). Coord. Sigrid Brauner (Berkeley) and Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday, October 25&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fri. morn. DEUTSCHE FILMEMACHERINNEN UND DER NEUE DEUTSCHE FILM. Coord. Vibeke Keith (New York) and Sandy Frieden (U. Houston).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fri. aft. RECENT TRENDS IN FEMINIST THEORY AND CRITICISM (to be fol­lowed by group discussion of how to make our instruction more interdisciplinary). Coord. Patsy Baudoin (Boston) and Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fri. eve. FILMVORSTELLUNG UND DISKUSSION. Coord. Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday, October 26&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sat. morn. DEUTSCHE SPRACHE, FEMINISTISCHE LINGUISTIK. Coord. Charlotte Ärmster (Gettysburg Coll.), Jeanette Clausen (IPFW), Joan Moessner (U. Alaska, Fairbanks).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sat. aft. WIG BUSINESS AND PLANNING MEETING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sat. eve. ABENTEUER EINER FEMINISTISCHEN LINGUISTIN AUS DEM LEBEN ERZÄHLT — LUISE PUSCH. Coord. Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday, October 27&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sun. morn. CONCLUDING SESSION. Coord. Helen Fehervary (OSU), Melissa Vogelsang (Yale), Lucia Watson (U. Wisconsin, Madison).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;B. MLA and AATG 1985—again, the session coordinators will provide more details later.&lt;/p&gt;
1. AATG 1985—over Thanksgiving weekend, in New York&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pedagogical session: Women's Biography and Autobiography &lt;br /&gt;   Coord.: Gertraud Gutzmann (Smith Coll.), Brigitte May (Alexandria, VA)
&lt;p&gt;Literary session: Expressionist Women&lt;br /&gt;   Coord.:  Sidonie Cassirer (Mt. Holyoke), Elisabeth Heinicke (Brookline, MA)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
2. MLA 1985, in Chicago&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Bettine von Arnim in Historical Context&lt;br /&gt;   Coord.: Elke Frederiksen (U. Maryland), Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres (U. Minnesota)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Racism in Post-45 Women's Literature&lt;br /&gt;   Coord.:  Linda Lindsay (Allegheny Coll.), Dagmar Lorenz (OSU)
&lt;p&gt;During this business meeting we also elected two new steering committee mem­bers: Bunny Weiss (Hamilton Coll.) and Dinah Dodds (Lewis and Clark Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next there was a big round of thanks to those who had done all the hard work of this organization for the past year: to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Martha Wallach&lt;/span&gt; for fundraising efforts, for making all the travel arrangements for Irmtraud Morgner and Helga Schutz, and—not least—for quite a lot of last-minute transatlantic phone-calling in September and October, to relay bits of information and keep things moving (for those who didn't know, Martha is spending the year at the University of Kassel); to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Karen Achberger&lt;/span&gt; for writing to Irmtraud Morgner to invite her to be WIG's guest, for keeping up a correspondence with her and Helga Schütz and not giving up when our luck seemed to run out, and for working with Martha to arrange the authors' speaking engagements at five universities in the US; to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Margaret Ward&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Judith Jamieson&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Edie Waldstein &lt;/span&gt;for organizing this year's conference—Margaret even took time out from her research trip to Berlin in April to visit Irmtraud and Helga on WIG's behalf and work out some details; we're also especially grateful to Margaret, Edie and others in the Boston area for their ingenuity in handling the overflow crowd for this year's conference. Finally, everyone applauded &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Barbara Wright &lt;/span&gt;for a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;great&lt;/span&gt; job of organizing and chairing the business meeting, and thanked YT (=yours truly) for another year's worth of, uh, I think the word was "inimitable" newsletters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After all this there was an animated discussion of the problems surrounding the appearance of an antisemitic ad in the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;. After discus­sion of the AATG's position, it was strongly recommended that WIG take an official stance deploring the policy that permits accepting such ads. Some­one volunteered to write a group letter on WIG's behalf; individuals were urged to write as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meeting adjourned in time for supper.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Summary and unsolicited editorial commentary by Jeanette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS - WIG 1985&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is not too early to be thinking about next year's WIG! Here are the calls for contributions available so far. Calls for contributions to the entire program will be published in late January or early February 1985.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-31-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/span&gt; — &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1985&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thursday evening, October 24&lt;br /&gt;Opening session&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women in German: Woher, wohin?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For our initial session we would like to solicit from those who were WIG members in the beginning years a short description of their experiences, expectations and needs at the time WIG was founded, why they chose to become members, what questions were important for them then in the profession and in their personal lives, and what hopes they had for WIG. Your description can take any form you wish. The co-chairs will put the responses together and decide on the form most appropriate for their presentation. Please send a copy each to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sigrid Brauner [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;Sara Lennox [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday evening, October 25&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Filmvorstellung und Diskussion&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gebraucht werden: (a) Vorschläge, welcher Film gezeigt werden soll (bis jetzt wurde Heike Sanders neuer Film "Liebe ist aller Schmerzen Anfang" erwähnt); und (b) zwei Diskussionsleiterinnen zum Thema Frauen Sprache Film. Plan: jede hat 10 Minuten für Fragestellung, Meinungen, Ansätze, (auch) zum Gebrauch von Filmen im Unterricht. Ich hätte gerne zwei Teilnehmerinnen, die schon Filme von Frauen unterrichtet haben, bzw. sich in den Werken von Sander und anderen Filmemacherinnen auskennen. Die Sektion wird auf deutsch sein.&lt;br /&gt;Resumée von etwa 250 Worten (oder Abriss) zum Thema, zum Film, oder zur Filme­macherin, an:&lt;br /&gt;Jeannine Blackwell [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday morning, October 26&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Auf der Suche nach einer frauenfreundlichen Sprache&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's not news to feminists that the German language is often more likely to be frauenfeindlich than -&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;freundlich&lt;/span&gt;. The purpose of this session is to examine: (a) what effects the work of feminist linguists has had/could have on both theoretical and applied linguistics; (b) how we can apply insights from feminist linguistics to our work as literary critics; (c) in what ways the German language has changed/is changing in response to consciousness­raising efforts by feminists; (d) how we can integrate any or all of the above into our teaching, to make both the language and the subject matter we teach more &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;frauenfreundlich&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-32-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/span&gt; — &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG 1985&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We invite contributions on aspects of feminism and language, linguistics, language pedagogy, or linguistic approaches to literature. We envision a program with SHORT (10 minute) presentations followed by a workshop period during which all conference participants will work in small groups on developing and/or rehearsing strategies for integrating the ideas presented into our work as teachers and scholars.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Send a two-page abstract to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt; of the organizers. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;May 1, 1985&lt;/span&gt;. If you have the germ of an idea but aren't sure if it would fit into the session as planned, give one of us a call and we'll think it through out loud with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlotte Armster&lt;br /&gt;German Dept.&lt;br /&gt;Gettysburg College&lt;br /&gt;Gettysburg, PA 17325&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Modern Foreign Langs. &lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U.&lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LATE Saturday evening ....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hope to continue our WIG-cabaret again in 1985. The theme will be WIG: woher, wohin? WIG 1975—ein Rückblick, WIG 1995—das Zukunftsbild. Think up possible scenarios and gather up friends and costumes to do them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MORE CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Information und Material gesucht für einen Workshop über&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"How to teach Women's Studies in German"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Der Workshop findet im Spring Semester an der University of California, Berkeley statt. Ich bin für Material über feministische Perspektiven für Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturunterricht dankbar, sowie für jegliche Information über Women's Studies Programs die auch Kurse über German litera- ture/language enthalten. Als Gegenleistung schicke ich gerne Program und Entwurf für den Workshop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sigrid Brauner für den Women Caucus in German Dept. of German Dwindle Hall &lt;br /&gt;University of California &lt;br /&gt;Berkeley, CA 94720&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-33-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MORE CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;REVOLUTION IN FEELING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Lessing society section of the Midwest Modern Language Association Con­vention, November 1985, invites submissions for its section on the topic &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Revolution in Feeling&lt;/span&gt;. Submissions should treat the German discourse of emotion and revolution in the late 18th century: radical change in the lan­guage and literature of emotion, political discourse in Sentimentality and Storm and Stress, or the intertwined imagery of emotion and politics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Send 500-word abstracts or completed 10-page papers to Jeannine Blackwell, Wells Hall A-721, German, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 by April 15, 1985.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image: WOMEN EXPRESSING REVOLUTIONARY FEELINGS]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-34-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;ELEVENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE SYMPOSIUM ON THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;June 21-28, 1985&lt;br /&gt;World Fellowship Center&lt;br /&gt;Conway, N.H.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The central theme of the 1985 Symposium will be “The GDR Today - 40 Years After the End of WW II.” As in past years, the Symposium will be interdisciplinary: economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, etc., as well as Germanists and specialists working in the areas of art, music, the media, etc. are invited to participate. Several of the seminars planned for 1985 will involve the treatment of topics from the perspectives of various disciplines. Papers are being solicited for the following topics:&lt;/p&gt;
I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GDR AS SEEN IN RETROSPECT - Anita M. Mallinckrodt, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;Panel discussion of historians and political scientists after initial short papers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;II. THE AMBIVALENCE OF PROGRESS - Volker Gransow, Institut fur Soziologie, FU Berlin, Babelsbergerstr. 14-16, D 1000 Berlin 31; Arthur A. Stahnke, Dept. of Government, So. Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 62026; Margy Gerber, Dept. of German and Russian, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Interdisciplinary seminar with papers on economic, social, political, and environmental issues, and on the treatment of this question in literature and other art/cultural forms.&lt;/p&gt;
III. THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN THE GDR TODAY/THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE SPHERE - Patricia Herminghouse, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627; Christiane Lemke, Zen­tralinstitut fur sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, FU Berlin, Babelsbergerstr. 14-16, D 1000 Berlin 31; Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Dept. of Sociology, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I. 02903&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Interdisciplinary seminar with papers on social and political issues and on the reflection of this question in literature and culture in general.&lt;/p&gt;
IV. CHANGING PATTERNS OF MALE AND FEMALE IDENTITY - Christiane Lemke (See III); Christiane Zehl Ro­mero, Dept of German and Russian, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Interdisciplinary seminar with papers on social and political issues, and on the reflection of the issue in literature and culture in general.&lt;/p&gt;
V. GDR LITERATURE IN ITS HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS - Gerd Labroisse, Duitse taal - en letterkunde, Vrije Universiteit, Kamer 10A-28, Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1105; Wolfgang Ertl, Dept. of German, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Seminar with papers on the influence of past forms of literary expression on GDR literature, and on GDR literature within the context of contemporary literature in general.&lt;/p&gt;
VI. RECENT TRENDS IN GDR LITERATURE AND CULTURE AND CULTURAL AND AESTHETIC THEORY - Christiane Zehl Romero (See IV); Nancy A. Lauckner, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages, University of Tennes­see, Knoxville, TN 37916&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Interdisciplinary seminar with papers by Germanists and other literary scholars, cultural historians and theoreticians.'&lt;/p&gt;
VII. VOLKER BRAUN - Christine Cosentino, Dept. of German, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J. 08102; Wolfgang Ertl (See V).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Seminar on the writings of Braun, stagings of his plays, and critical reception in East and West.&lt;/p&gt;
VIII. THE PLACE OF THE GDR IN THE WORLD TODAY/INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN RELATIONS/ THIRD WORLD - Gero Neugebauer, Zentralinstitut fur sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, FU Berlin, Babelsbergerstr. 14-16 D 1000 Berlin 31.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Panel discussion of political scientists and economists after initial short papers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Detailed proposals (title plus 2-3 pages) must be submitted to the appropriate seminar organizer(s) - in case of co-organizers, one copy to each - by January 15, 1985; completed papers must be submitted no later than April 1. Papers should not exceed 30 minutes. The preferred language is English. Selected papers from the Symposium will be published in the &lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;series &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;STUDIES IN GDR CULTURE AND SOCIETY. For more information on the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Symposium location&lt;/span&gt; and overall organization, contact&lt;/i&gt; H'. &lt;i&gt;Christoph Schmauch, World Fellowship Center, Conway, NH 03818, [redacted]. For additional informa­&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;tion about the program, contact Margy Gerber (See 11).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Registration fee, Room and Board for the whole week, all-inclusive: $190.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(This fee includes a $10 charge for a GDR Participant's travel fund.) &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(In order to encourage attendance for the duration of the Symposium, part-time participants will be charged a $25 registra­tion fee, and $35 daily rate, which includes 3 meals and an overnight.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Children under 12: $90 for the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Students to age 21: $110 for the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;-35-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONFERENCES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Society for Cinema Studies Conference&lt;br /&gt;June 12-15, 1985&lt;br /&gt;New York University&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1985 Society for Cinema Studies Conference will include a panel entitled "Women in Film in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland," which will examine the work of women filmmakers, feminist film criticism, and the impact of film schools, funding and distribution systems on women in the BRD. Comparisons to the situation for women filmmakers and for feminist film criticism in the USA will be encouraged. Particular interest in papers about FRAUEN UND FILM, and filmmakers who are not widely known in the US. In order to participate in the SCS conference it is necessary to become a member ($30 per year).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For further information contact: Ellen Seiter, Telecommunication and Film Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Symposium on MATHILDE FRANZISKA ANNEKE was held on Saturday, November 17, 1984 in Madison, Wisconsin. Speakers included Theodore Hamerow (UW-Madison), "Who Were the Fortyeighters?" Maria Wagner (Rutgers), "Mathilde F. Anneke, 'I Lived for Freedom,'" and a panel discussion to provide an appraisal of Anneke's life and work. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, the Wisconsin State Historical Society and the Women's Studies Center of UW-Milwaukee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BOOKS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Feminism. Readings in Politics and Literature&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Edith Hoshino Altbach, Jeanette Clausen, Dagmar Schultz, Naomi Stephan (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1984). $12.95 paper. 389 pp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The book contains literary texts by Irmtraud Morgner, Sarah Kirsch, Elfriede Bruning, Helga Novak, Christa Wolf, Maxie Wander, Margot Schroeder, Angelika Mechtel, Christine Wolter, Judith Offenbach, Jutta Heinrich, and Christa Reinig. Topics covered in the non-literary sections include "Body Politics," "Sisterhood," "Motherhood and Housework," "Feminist Strategy" and "Women's Studies." Be sure to order this for your university libraries, for the Women's Studies office on your campus, and of course for yourselves. Useful for courses on contemporary Germany East and West, or for literature in translation courses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenfahrplan &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ausgangspunkte&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Treffpunkte&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wendepunkte&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Dagmar Stern and Lola Gruenthal. (New York): Starlight Press, 1984. pp. 113.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ten founding members of the "WiG-Gruppe New York" put together this sometimes whimsical, sometimes touching collection of German poetry and prose pieces. Some authors refer to the inspiration and support they have gained from their&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-36-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;BOOKS&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG group, and the reader often has the feeling that these texts were written in the heat of the moment after an especially warm, sharing, and caring meeting of the group. There are stories about man-woman relationships, references to "Germanistinnen" experiences, and reflections on self­realization. Mothers, who always seem to come up eventually when women start talking about themselves, figure prominently in several works. Some of the authors grew up during the Hitler era and their personal testimony here con­tributes to our knowledge of what that period meant for women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was particularly interested in the ways these women express their feelings of being outside ordinary American society. As German-American immigrant women, they may express alienation from the city about them (Margot Scharpen- berg's "Slum") or a kind of bemused, even defiant joy in their acculturation to the city (Marianne Landre's "Heimat ist der Stuhl, auf dem ich sitze"). They make comparisons between their old and new world experiences (Scharpen- berg's "Rhein - Hudson"), miss things "over there" (Hilla Jaenicke's "Was ich vermisse") and feel inadequate vis-a-vis American women (Jaenicke's "Die amerikanischen Frauen"). My own research has shown that German immigrant women in the Midwest experienced and expressed similar feelings and reactions a century and more ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is something for everyone in this little volume: autobiographical pieces, fiction, meditations, and fun like Shayne Vitemb's "Beach Idyll" ("I lie on / the beach. Du luegst on the beach too.") I congratulate our New York WiG sisters! Wouldn't it be great to have a whole series of similar efforts?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Linda S. Pickle&lt;br /&gt;Westminster College, MO&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(To order copies of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenfahrplan 1, send&lt;/span&gt; $5.00 per copy to Marianne Goldscheider [redacted]. Make checks payable to M. Goldscheider, and add $1.00 postage for 1-2 copies, or $1.50 for 3 or more copies. The collection is very suitable for use in inter­mediate German classes (sehr aktuell!), and the authors represented in the collection are avail­able for direct contact with students.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Inge Stephan and Sigrid Weigel, eds. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Literaturwissenschaft&lt;/span&gt;: Dokumentation der Tagung in Hamburg vom Mai 1983. Berlin: Argument Sonder­band 120, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To Inge Stephan and Sigrid Weigel, who perhaps have done more than anyone else in the FRG to institutionalize Women's Studies as a legitimate academic disci­pline, we, as Women in German, certainly owe a huge debt of gratitude. In addition to their previous collaborative and individual efforts in behalf of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-37-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;BOOKS&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;feminist literary criticism, they undertook the often thankless task of planning the Hamburg conference in 1983 and of overseeing the inception of an organization of German-speaking feminist scholars. Thus on one level, essays like the introductory "Tagungsbericht" and Helga Grubitzsch's "Ein unheimlicher Widerspruch" document both the formidable opposition to feminist criticism at German universities and the strategies our colleagues are forced to develop to combat it, while Jeanette Clausen's "Sieben Jahre Women in German" presents a model for overcoming certain forms of opposition within the American academic system. On another level, the scholarly niveau of the actual literary/cultural criticism is intended to refute any potential alle­gations that a feminist perspective or methodology may not be "Instituts- fahig." While this latter circumstance often made for, let us say, "strenuous" conference-going, it undeniably enhances the published proceedings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some of the essays treat particular authors or problems, but most are of a broader, more theoretical nature. In all, a wide spectrum of feminist perspec­tives is represented here, including one explicitly non-feminist. Some con­tributors like Ulrike Prokop and Inge Stephan examine the image of women in the works of male authors (Lessing/Goethe, Schiller/Kleist) in order to ascer­tain how the emancipatory impulses characterizing the rise of the bourgeoisie or the French Revolution were neutralized in the case of the fairer sex.&lt;br /&gt;Others deal with literature by women: Theresa Sauter-Baillet provides an overview of themes common to American women writers; Irmela von der Luhe dis­putes the applicability of feminist criteria, as she understands them, to a woman writer like Ingeborg Bachmann. The nature of such feminist criticism/ criteria is discussed extensively in an informative and provocative paper by Sigrid Weigel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not all of the essays deal with literary issues. Gertrud Koch compares trends in women's filmmaking to the historical development of that medium; Renate Berger presents a photo-documentation of the ways in which women artists per­ceive themselves; and Brigitte Wartmann offers another installment in her evolving theory of the relationship between women's creativity and the economic role they perform in bourgeois society. The volume ends with an appendix containing a list of relevant American doctoral theses (1970-1981), a complete program including the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thesenpapiere&lt;/span&gt;, and the topics for the Bielefeld con­ference in 1984. Not having been able to attend the latter, I, for one, shall look forward to the published proceedings of the second annual conference with the high expectations raised by this first one. Thank you Inge and Sigrid.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Susan L. Cocalis&lt;br /&gt;U. Massachusetts/Amherst&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following list of research projects was collected during the 1984 WIG conference. For some reason, the handwriting seemed harder to read than usual; hope I didn't misquote too many of you. All members of WIG are invited to send information about their research projects to the newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-38-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Doris Stump (Univ. of Zürich, Schweiz)—Dissertation: Meta von Salis, 1855-1929. Schweizer Feministin und Schriftstellerin. Research project: Schweizer Schriftstellerinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard (U. Illinois)—Mitarbeiterin am obigen Projekt; Schweizer Schriftstellerinnen der Moderne.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres (U. Minnesota)—Books: 1. Catalogue of circa 6000 German items in the Gerritsen Collection of Women's History (Micro­filming Corporation of America, 1983); 2. (with M. J. Maynes) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Condi&lt;/span&gt;­&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;tion and Consciousness&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1780-1920&lt;/span&gt;. Studies in the Social and Literary History of German Women (Indiana University Press, 1985); (with Annette Kuhn) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenbilder und Frauenwirklichkeiten&lt;/span&gt;. (Vol. VI, Frauen in der Geschichte)(Schwann-Bagel, 1985). Articles for Luise Pusch: "Luise Büchner" (for the volume on Schwestern, Insel-Verlag 1984); "Gisela von Arnau" (? sp.?) (Vol. on Töchter); book on 19th century women writers, exemplarische Untersuchungen und Theorie; article for Wege der Forschung (Wiss. Buchges.), volume on social novels by German women, 1850-70; organization of large interdisciplinary project on autobiographies and life histories of women for the new feminist research center at the Univ. of Minnesota, etc.!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dinah Dodds (Lewis and Clark Coll.)—Took group of students to Thailand, did research on Thai prostitution; two articles are in circulation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vicki Kingsbury (Lansing Comm. Coll.)—gave talk in Halle (summer 1984) on Christa Wolf's Moskauer Novelle from the perspective of neurolinguistic programming; plan to develop this into publishable article.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marlene Heinemann (U. Wyoming, Laramie)—working on book on women writers of the Holocaust, using novels and memoirs; including new work on male and female bonding.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst)—Book on Bachmann with emphasis on connection of feminism and imperialism; Bachmann's philosophy of history and several philosophical backgrounds. Essay on Feministische Aufbrüche (USA, France, Italy) for collection edited by Renate Möhrmann.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Susan Cocalis (U. Mass., Amherst)—Monograph on German women novelists in the late 18th and early 19th century. Also, modern performance art in the FRG and in NYC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elke Frederiksen (U. Maryland, College Park)—Monograph on Luise Rinser; Reiseliteratur von Frauen im frühen 19. Jahrhundert; bibliography on German­speaking women writers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sigrid Brauner (U. California, Berkeley)—Dissertation: The Abbess and the Pastor's Wife—Wie hat die deutsche Reformation die soziale Rolle der Frau geändert? Vergleich der (eigentlich auto-) biographischen Schriften der Äbtissin Charitas Pirkheimer aus Nürnberg und der radikalen Protestantin Katharina Zell. Project: how to teach Women's Studies in German. Workshop at U.C. Berkeley, spring 1985 (I need materials and ideas!) —Is anyone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-39-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Sigrid Brauner, continued):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;interested in a bibliography on medieval women in the German area? I have a lot of material, would like to get together with someone else.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margaret Ward (Wellesley Coll.)—critical biography of Fanny Lewald.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Waldstein (M.I.T.)—Bettina von Arnim book coming out soon. New project on Bertha von Suttner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lucia Watson (U. Wisconsin-Madison)—Rahel Varnhagen (any ideas?)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gerda Fermand (U. Waterloo, Canada)—read paper at tenth annual GDR Symposium (Irmtraud Morgner's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Leben und Abenteuer&lt;/span&gt; and Peter Hacks' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Margarete in Aix&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A New Look at Troubadours in Socialism." Also working on last chapter of diss, (finally): "Awakening and Potency in Works by I. Morgner and G. Wohmann."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Melissa Vogelsang (Yale U.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nancy J. Brown (Fairfax County Public Schools, VA)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tamara Archibald (U. Maryland)—recent M.A. Thesis, "Christa Wolfs &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kassandra&lt;/span&gt;: Politische Botschaft und feministische Utopie."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yvonne Poser (U. Maryland and Howard U.)—Diss.: "Improving Foreign Language Reading Strategies. Teaching Control to Achieve Competency."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Susan Ross (U. Maryland)—M.A. Thesis: Image of Women in the Works of Wilhelm Busch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmgard Taylor (SUNY-Cortland)—1. Continuation of effort on "Women and Public Speaking and Debate" (grant proposal); 2. Development of courses on contem­porary Indian culture, including Indian women (South Asia)—sabbatical project; goal:  internationalization of curriculum.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.)—1. revising the German literary canon (immer noch); 2. Bekenntnisliteratur pietistischer Frauen; 3. Bekenntnisse aus den Hexenprozessen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joey Horsley (U. Mass., Boston)—1. Ingeborg Bachmann, besonders im Zusammen­hang mit feministischer und literarischer Theorie; 2. Irmgard Keun; 3. Exploring pedagogy of Women's Studies as contribution to teaching critical thinking; 4. developing courses (and competency?) and materials for European Women's Studies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gail Newman (Williams Coll.)—dissertation (waiting to be defended): Women and the Female Sphere in Novalis. Taking part in critical reading group of/by/for women—need suggestions for German/germanistische texts (in translation). Exploring in general.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ilse Andrews (New Hampton, NY)—interested in determining what translations are needed for feminist studies—I noticed in the syllabi collection that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-40-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Ilse Andrews, continued):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;unavailability of German lit. in translation was a genuine obstacle. As next step, I'd &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;like&lt;/span&gt; to participate in a translation project. Please note: This is what I'd &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;like&lt;/span&gt; to do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linda Frisch (Brandeis U.)—topics connected with dissertation on women in Middle High German &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;maeren&lt;/span&gt;—position of women in late Middle Ages (social, theological, literary).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elisabeth Heinicke (Brandeis U.)—grad, student, comp. lit. Working with Latin American and East German contemporary women's novel, i.e. Luisa Valenzuela, Isabel Allende, Marta Traba, Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, Anna Seghers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Brigitte May (U. Maryland, Baltimore County)—Vergangenheitsbewältigung aus der Sicht der Frau; interdisciplinary project (French, German, Spanish): maintenance and expansion of language skills in the third year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Susanne Zantop (Dartmouth Coll.)—Diss.: "Vorarbeiten zu einer Geschichts­schreibung der Gegenwart: Heinrich Heines &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Französische Zustände&lt;/span&gt; und Mariarro José de Larras Articulor" (? sp.?)—Untersuchung über das Verhältnis von literarischem und historischem Diskurs (kein feministischer Projekt). Cur­rent project on Goethe's "Confessions of a Beautiful Love" - critique of concept of narcisstic woman.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Miriam Jokiniemi (York U., Toronto)—Portrayals of Female Autonomy in Con­temporary GDR Literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Susan Wendt-Hildebrandt (U. Windsor, Ontario)—Currently editing interviews (taped during the past year) with German women writers (including K. Struck, K. Petersen, H. Schenk, B. Bronnen, K. Behrens and others), which deal with the writers' beginnings, works, problems, perceptions of the role of fiction, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lise Weil (Montague, MA)—Writing a dissertation on feminist realism in modern fiction—focusing on Luce Irigaray, Virginia Woolf, and Christa Wolf.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Victoria Joan Moessner (U. Alaska)—19th-20th C. women artists; Reiseliteratur (d.h. Tagebücher von reisenden Frauen); translating women's works.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.)—continuing work on young women writers in the GDR and role models for women in GDR lit., esp. changes in themes or style in writers of the postwar generations. Translation project—seeking funding and organizing translation of GDR and BRD women writers. Women's autobiographies:          Self-presentation and relative weights of the public and private sphere in autobiographies of socially or politically active women 1880-1980.&lt;br /&gt;Lu Märtens—looking for information on Märtens and her contributions to Marxist literary theory.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gabi Koch (B. U., Emerson Coll.)—interested in feminist teaching strategies within a contextual/communicative method (teaching first-year college in Boston). 20th century German and American women writers. Interested in getting involved in translation projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-41-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/span&gt;, continued&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barton Byg (Boston U.)—circulating: "Kafka Reception in the GDR." Disserta­tion on Straub/Huillet, Film Theory (history and narrative). Projects: 1. Book on Konrad Wolf; 2. Application of Sartre to film theory: Is the camera masculine?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sylvia C. Krausse (U. of Rhode Island Library)—Bibliogr.: Image of Women in German Literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vibeke R. Keith (New York U.)—Dissertation topic: "Die Politisierung des Literaturbegriffes." Kursbuch 1965-75.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marilyn Sibley Fries (Yale U.)—forthcoming: anthology of critical essays on Christa Wolf (in English). In progress: book on Christa Wolf; article on the Dedalus-figure in contemporary E. German women's writing; article on Monika Maron; article on German women writers 1870-1970 for anthology of international women's writing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara Mabee (Ohio State U.)—Dissertation: Die Lyrik von Sarah Kirsch: Entgrenzung als ästhetisches Problem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandy Frieden (U. Houston)—work in progress: contemporary autobiographies; films of Ulrike Ottinger.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Konstanze Bäumer (Syracuse U.)—umgearbeitete Diss, über Bettina von Arnim (wird 1985 bei den Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik erscheinen); Artikel über Bettinas Mönchenroman (? sp.?) "Gritta" (??) in Vorbereitung; Rezeption von Bettinas "Goethebuch" in Vorbereitung; Interview mit Ingeborg Drewitz (im August 84 aufgenommen); preparation of "culture capsules" for beginning German language instruction, based on photo material from Berlin (in connec­tion with a Lilly grant).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pictures on the cover and on p. 33 from Anke Wolf-Graaf, Die &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;verborgene Geschichte der Frauenarbeit&lt;/span&gt;. Eine Bildchronik (Beltz 1983). Drawings by Connie Munk (pp. 3 and 8) and Erin Clausen. Other illustrations as indi­cated or from miscellaneous issues of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Erin, Connie and Jeanette have—mostly!— enjoyed doing WIG newsletters for you.&lt;br /&gt;We appreciate your positive comments and encouragement. It is time, though, to take a rest and do some other things.&lt;br /&gt;(By the way, Connie notes that this issue contains a roll of scotch tape, two bot­tles of liquid paper, and a role of cover-up tape—could you tell?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-49-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weisefrau, Uta   35&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University&lt;br /&gt;Utopia, USA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;35&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renew &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt;, today, before you forget—sending out reminders is time-consuming and expensive, not to mention boring.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A new dues structure was approved at the October 1983 WiG conference. By increasing the rates for those earning higher salaries, we hope to be able to finance more projects, while still keeping rates low for students, the unem­ployed, and the underemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 34 &lt;br /&gt;August 1984&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NINTH ANNUAL WOMEN IN GERMAN CONFERENCE-RETREAT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;October 18-21, 1984&lt;br /&gt;Thompson's Island, Boston&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Guest Authors&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Irmtraud Morgner&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Helga &lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Schütz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference coordinators: Registration—Margaret Ward (Wellesley Coll.);&lt;br /&gt;Program: Judith Jamieson (Providence Coll.) and Edith Waldstein (M.I.T.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thursday evening&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                                            &lt;br /&gt;5:00 - 7:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Arrival, registration, room assignment&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6:00 - 7:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Steering Committee meeting&lt;br /&gt;Barbara Wright, chair&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7:00 - 8:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Buffet supper, social hour&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8:00 - 10:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;WHAT DO FEMINIST GERMANISTS WANT, AND NEED?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Gail Newman (Williams Coll.) and Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Dennis Sweet (UNH)—A Common Difference? Gay Liberation and Feminism; Leslie Morris (U. Mass., Amherst)—The Chosen Other: Myths and Monoliths; Ruth­Ellen Boetcher Joeres (U. Minnesota)—Germanistik in Women's Studies; Gail Newman (Williams Coll.)—Hierarchies and Hiring; Marianne Goldscheider (Brooklyn, NY)— Inside or Outside Academe.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After brief presentations by the panelists, there will be small-group discussions ot all the issues raised. The panelists and other group coordinators will con­tinue to be available at mealtimes on Friday and Saturday to welcome new arrivals and all others who wish to continue the discussion. We hope to use this structure to help bring out the issues which divide us and which unite us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 19&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday morning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                                               &lt;br /&gt;8:30 am - breakfast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:30 - 11:30 am &lt;br /&gt;WOMEN AND HUMOR, OR&lt;br /&gt;WHY ARE THESE WOMEN LAUGHING?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinator: Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Panelists: Sheila Johnson (Rice U.)—Women's Humor, Positive and/or Negative: Where Do We Find It In German Literature and Why Is It There?; Dagmar Lorenz (Ohio State U.)—Das Unbehagen am Humor; Gertraud Gutzmann (Smith Coll.) — Humor und Parodie in Irmgard Keuns &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nach Mitternacht&lt;/span&gt;; Jeanette Clausen (IPFW)— Lichte Augenblicke: Feminismus, Humor und Wissenschaft.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;11:45 - 1:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Open for special interest group meetings,&lt;br /&gt;sports activities, free time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1:00 pm - lunch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2:30 - 4:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;PRACTICAL FEMINIST STRATEGIES FOR&lt;br /&gt;TEACHING INTERMEDIATE GERMAN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Sandy Frieden (U. Houston) and Marlene Heinemann (U. Wyoming)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Lucia Watson (U. Wisconsin-Madison)—An ABC of Women in Literature; Victoria Joan Moessner (U. Alaska)—"Nehmen Sie es wie eine Frau, Madame, das ist Emanzipation:" Liedermacherinnen im Unterricht; Barbara Wright (U. Connecti­cut, Storrs)—What's in a Name? A Feminist Perspective on Communicative Com­petence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The panel presentations will be followed by small-group discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5:00 pm - dinner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6:00 - 7:30 pm — STRANDPARTY!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday evening&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;7:30 - 9:30 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Author: HELGA SCHÜTZ&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussion Leader: Patricia Herminghouse (U. Rochester)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An evening of readings by GDR author Helga Schütz, to be followed by open discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LAST FERRY 10:00 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 20&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8:30 am - breakfast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:30 - 11:30 am &lt;br /&gt;WITCHES AND WISE WOMEN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Patsy Baudoin (Schoenhof's Books) and Jeanette Clausen (IPFW).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Sigrid Brauner (U. California, Berkeley)—Hexenjagd in Gelehrtenköpfen; Ritta Jo Horsley (U. Mass., Boston)—On the Trail of the "Witches." Social Roles of the Accused in European Witch Trials: Some Cases and Their Significance; Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.)—Witches and Subversives in Contemporary Literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;11:45 - 1:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Open for special interest group meetings,&lt;br /&gt;sports, free time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;              &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1:00 pm - lunch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2:30 - 4:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;WIG BUSINESS AND PLANNING MEETING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For agenda items, and to contribute to the agenda, see tear-out sheet, p. 15. PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND. This is the time for YOU to have your say in what does or doesn't get done in WIG during the coming year!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6:00 pm - dinner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday evening&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;7:00 - 9:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Guest Author: IRMTRAUD MORGNER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussion leader: Christiane Zehl Romero (Tufts U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An evening of readings by GDR author Irmtraud Morgner, to be followed by open discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LAST FERRY 10:00 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IRMTRAUD MORGNER and HELGA SCHÜTZ in the US: our two guest authors will spend a total of about 3 weeks in the US, and will visit several university campuses to give readings. At this writing, their exact itinerary isn't known. If you are interested in finding out where they'll be before and after the WIG conference, call Edith Waldstein (M.I.T.), or Margaret Ward (Wellesley Coll.), or Judith Jamieson (Providence Coll.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 21&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8:30 am - breakfast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:00 - 11:30 am &lt;br /&gt;CONCLUDING SESSION: &lt;br /&gt;WIG MEMBERS SPEAK OUT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Sandy Frieden (U. Houston) and Margaret Ward (Wellesley Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussion of feelings, issues, problems and successes which have come up during the conference. In past years, this final open discussion has proven to be a very important forum for evaluating the conference and sharing both emotional and intellectual concerns regarding WIG and our individual relationship to it. So please plan to attend.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;12:45 pm - lunch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ferries departing from Thompson's Island at 9 am, 11 am and 1 pm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: for the conference registration form, see page 13 of this newsletter. The deadline for registering is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;September 15, 1984&lt;/span&gt;. Why so early? you may be wondering. Well, it's because we have to let the folks on Thompson's Island know one &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;month&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;advance&lt;/span&gt; how many of us there'll be and on which nights; arrival times (so boat transportation can be arranged) and that sort of thing. Also, this year there is no "overflow space" for us on the Island; only one building, with 63 beds, has been reserved for WIG. In other words, if you register late, you might have to find your own place to sleep!&lt;br /&gt;So do it now! Before you forget! Help us conference organizers make this our most efficient WIG yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AN EVENING WITH HELGA SCHÜTZ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday, October 19, 7:30 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday evening's program will feature GDR author Helga Schütz in reading and discussion of her works. Best known to Western readers as the author of the moving "Jette" stories, Helga Schütz is also recognized as an important figure in the film world of the GDR. Trained at the Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst at Potsdam/Babe1sberg and married to the well-known director Egon Günther, she has written the scenarios to important films such as the Georg Büchner story "Addio, piccola mla" (1979) and "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" (1976).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Highly autobiographical in nature, Schütz' best-known novels and stories are told from the perspective of a girl, Jette, who—like the author—grows up under fascism in a village in Silesia [&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Vorgeschichten oder Schöne Gegend Probste in&lt;/span&gt;, 1970] and is ttiken to Dresden in 1944 at the age of seven by her grandparents [&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jette&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dresden&lt;/span&gt; (West German edition: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mädchenrätsel&lt;/span&gt;), 1977 J. Further Jette episodes are contained in the volumes &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Erdbeben bei Sangerhausen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und andere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AN EVENING WITH HELGA SCHÜTZ (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Geschichten&lt;/span&gt; (1972) and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Festbeleuchtung&lt;/span&gt; (1973). In Schütz' latest novel, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Erziehung zum Chorgesang&lt;/span&gt;, Jette is a young woman who has dropped her nickname in favor of the more adult "Julia." It is not the serial nature of the Jette stories but rather their unvarnished account of the experience of fascism and its effects on a girl and her small world which accounts for the attention that has been paid to Schütz' work and her impact on readers in both East and West Germany. Those familiar with Christa Wolf's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kindheitsmuster&lt;/span&gt; may wish to compare how differently the two authors attempt to deal authentically with the same experience, Wolf with extraordinary complexity and Schütz with childlike naiveté.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most recently, Helga Schütz published &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Martin Luther&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Eine Erzählung für den &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Film&lt;/span&gt; (1983). With the exception of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Vorgeschichten&lt;/span&gt;, which is out of print, West German editions of all her works have been ordered by Patsy Baudoin and can be obtained through Schoenhof's Foreign Books in Cambridge, Mass.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Patricia Herminghouse &lt;br /&gt;U. Rochester&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AN EVENING WITH IRMTRAUD MORGNER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday, October 20, 7:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday evening's program will be devoted to readings by Irmtraud Morgner, followed by discussion. Morgner is widely acclaimed as the most innovative, witty and pro-feminist writer in the GDR today. Her concern has always been to bridge the gap between theory—the much-touted legal equality for women in the GDR—and the realities of women's daily lives. In Morgner's books, nothing is impossible. In &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Trobadora Beatriz&lt;/span&gt; (1974), we followed the adventures of a medieval troubadour who awakens after an 800-year sleep and travels to the GDR in search of a place that is livable for women. (Note the words "in search of"). Now, ten years later, we have the long-awaited second book of the planned trilogy, and we hear the author of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda&lt;/span&gt; (1983) grumbling that a certain Irmtraud Morgner didn't tell the story of Beatriz correctly! So Beatriz is brought back again, this time as a siren. Morgner's stories have become more fantastic, the voices—and silences— harder to overhear, the formal experimentation bolder as the realities of the con­temporary world have become more dangerous, more urgent. Irmtraud Morgner creates complex and visionary pictures of women's struggles to enter history and humanize the world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmtraud Morgner's major works are: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hochzeit&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Konstantinopel&lt;/span&gt; (Berlin/DDR &amp;amp; Weimar 1968, Darmstadt &amp;amp; Neuwied 1979); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gauklerlegende&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Eine Spielfraungeschichte &lt;/span&gt;(Berlin/DDR 1971, München 1971); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die wundersamen Reisen Gustavs&lt;/span&gt; des &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weltfahrers &lt;/span&gt;(Berlin/ DDR &amp;amp; Weimar 1972, München 1973); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen&lt;/span&gt; ihrer &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Spielfrau Laura&lt;/span&gt; (Berlin/DDR &amp;amp; Weimar 1974, Darmstadt und Neuwied 1976); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ein Hexenroman&lt;/span&gt; (Berlin &amp;amp; Weimar 1983, Darmstadt &amp;amp; Neuwied 1983).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Indiana U. - Purdue U., Fort Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To order books, contact: Schoenhof's Foreign Books, 76A Mount Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138. [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Good news from Wiggies&lt;/span&gt;: CHARLOTTE ARMSTER has a new job in the German Dept. at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA. EVELYN BECK has accepted the position of Women's Studies Director at the University of Maryland. MARIANNE BURKHARD (U. Illinois) has a visiting appointment at the University of Notre Dame for the fall 1984 semester. RUTH DAWSON (U. Hawaii) wrote that she wouldn't be coming to MLA alone this year—she's expecting a baby the end of July. HELEN FEHERVARY (Ohio State U.) has a daughter, a six-year-old from (I think) El Salvador who joined her last spring. GERTRAUD GUTZMANN (Smith College) got tenure, hurray! RENNY HARRIGAN (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) is expecting a baby in September. EDNA SPITZ (Stanford) is in Germany on an NEH grant, doing research on women's autobiographies in Marbach and Berlin. EDIE WALDSTEIN (M.l.T.) has a baby daughter, born in June 1984, and will be taking a leave from teaching during the fall semester. SYDNA WEISS (Bunny) was invited to teach a course on women in German literature at Middlebury College during summer 1984. The invitation was one of the after-effects of the WIG syllabi collection that Bunny edited, together with SIDONIE CASSIRER.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaking of the WIG syllabi collection, copies are still available. Just send $2.00 for postage and handling to Jeanette Clausen, newsletter address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SUPPORT WIG MEMBERS—Buy our books!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;very&lt;/span&gt; important that we &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; support feminist scholarship by ordering the new books on women for our university libraries as well as for our personal use. To illustrate just how important it is: Fischer Verlag, which has published many useful new titles in the series "Die Frau in der Gesellschaft," has told a prospective author that more works on women won't be scheduled if those recently published don't sell. Please BE SURE that your library orders the following two Fischer titles, both by WIG members (for reviews of these books, see the March 1984 issue of the WIG newsletter)—if they aren't sold soon, they will be "verramscht."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Anfänge der deutschen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenbewegung: Louise Otto-Peters&lt;/span&gt;, 1983. Fischer Taschenbuch 3729. DM 12,80.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Germaine Goetzinger, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Für &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SelbstVerwirklichung der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;F&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;rau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;: Louise Aston&lt;/span&gt;, 1983. Fischer Taschenbuch 3743. DM 12,80.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, please order the long-announced, endlessly awaited, hard-to-be 1ieve-but- it's-fina1ly-out anthology: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Feminism: Readings in Politics and Literature&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Edith Hoshino Altbach, Jeanette Clausen, Dagmar Schultz, Naomi Stephan (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1984). 389 pages. $12.95 paper.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG member Liselotte Gumpel (U. Minnesota, Morris) announces her new book Metaphor Reexamined. A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Non-Aristotelian Perspective&lt;/span&gt; (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984). Published in the series "Advances in Semiotics," ed. Thomas A. Sebeok.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More new titles will be reviewed in the November issue of the WIG newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONFERENCES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A conference on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Literature&lt;/span&gt; is scheduled for November 2-3, 1984 at the Goethe House, New York. On Friday evening, November 2, there will be a panel discussion "American and German Women Writers Exchange Experiences and Ideas." Panel moderator is Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.); panelists include Carolyn Forche, Jana Harris, Roberta Sklar, Friederike Roth, Gabriele Wohmann, Gisela von Wysocki. The authors will read from their works on Saturday, November 3. For more information, contact the Goethe House, [redacted].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A conference on Mathilde Franziska Anneke is being planned for this winter (probably February) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Anneke died in Milwaukee on November 24, 1884; she is the oldest feminist of German descent in this country. For further information on the conference plans, contact Renny Harrigan, Women's Studies Office, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211. [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BOOK&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;REVIEWS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ANNEKE, Mathilde Franziska. Die &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;gebrochenen Ketten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Erzählungen&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Reportagen und Reden&lt;/span&gt; (1861-1873). Ed. Maria Wagner. Stuttgarter Nachdrücke zu Literatur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, vol. 11. Stuttgart: Hans-Dieter Heinz Akademischer Verlag (1983). 226 pp. DM 18.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Like other Forty-Eighters, feminist writer and teacher Mathilde Franziska Anneke was firmly committed to the anti-slavery position during the Civil War. The title of the present anthology, which it shares with the first selection in the volume, clearly reflects this stand. Both "Ketten" and the second short story "Sclaven-Auction" expose the evils of the sexual exploitation of black female slaves. The central theme of "Uhland in Texas" is the fate of a benign German estate-owning and slave-holding family during the Civil War. All three fictional pieces were originally serialized in German-American newspapers. In placing them together under the present title, editor Maria Wagner realizes the thwarted efforts of the author, who was unable to publish such an anthology in her life­time. The addition of journalistic reporting and drafts of speeches makes the collection more representative of Anneke's work as journalist and feminist lecturer. A historical account of Indian/European encounters on Lake Michigan is followed by two Civil War reports, one about the dramatic death of a Union officer during the occupation of Alexandria, Virginia; the other offering behind-the-scenes detail of the battle of Fort Sumpter. They are intensely patriotic on behalf of the Union, fluidly written and very dramatic. The last two pieces are feminist speeches, one held on the occasion of the opening of a German hall in Milwaukee; the other, made on behalf of Susan B. Anthony, pleads for voting rights for women and shows a good understanding of common law and Anthony's test case. Both are eloquent and passionate appeals for the emancipa­tion of women. Anneke is at her best here. The quality of her journalistic prose and of her rhetoric exceeds that of her fiction. However, like the latter, the fiction in this volume makes for fascinating reading and is of great historical, sociological and feminist interest. This should be on all our shelves; useful for advanced classes too. Contains a good introduction.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Martha Wallach&lt;br /&gt;U. Wisconsin-Green Bay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BOOK REVIEWS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friedrichsmeyer, Sara. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Androgyne in Early German Romanticism&lt;/span&gt;. Bern, Frankfurt/Main, New York: Peter Lang, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this age of Boy George and Michael Jackson, of female vice-presidents and high-fashion menswear for women (to encompass the trivial and the revolutionary!), an historical study of androgyny is certainly timely. Sara Friedrichsmeyer's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Androgyne in Early German Romanticism&lt;/span&gt; provides a survey of the idea from its mythical and religious inception through the early 19th century, but ultimately leaves intact our curiosity about the sociopolitical and social-psychological need for an androgynous ideal in a given society, and the implications of such an ideal for feminists. The book is in need of a methodological introduction. Although Friedrichsmeyer periodically makes reference to the controversial nature of this or that Romantic notion from the contemporary feminist point of view, it is unclear throughout the book where she herself stands on these issues. No contemporary feminist theory, nor any contemporary theory of early Romanticism, is discussed in any detail.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The book's subtitle, "Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis and the Metaphysics of Love," already implies a primarily &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;geistesgeschichtliche&lt;/span&gt; orientation. The first two chapters provide a useful, though largely descriptive, overview of the history of the androgynous ideal leading to Novalis and Schlegel. In this section and throughout the book, I would welcome the replacement of "man" by "human" in her discussions. The chapters on Novalis represent an important step toward uncovering the complex significance of women and the "female" in his works. Friedrichsmeyer often manages to crystallize Novalis's complex aesthetics, pointing out his basic tendency toward the positing of polarities in the universe, and the search for their sublation as a synthetic unity. She is justifiably critical of the "suggestion of narcissism" associated with Novalis's preoccupa­tion with individual male development (p. 104). However, she falls into some of the traditional traps of one-dimensional Novalis interpretation. To attribute to Novalis an exclusive identification of women with "non-rational, unthinking, organic nature" (p. 67, see also p. 78) is to ignore his critical stance toward Fichte's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ich/Nichtlch&lt;/span&gt; dichotomy and its implications for the philosophy of nature. Similarly, Friedrichsmeyer's assertion that Novalis subscribes to a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Geschichts&lt;/span&gt;­&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;phi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;losophie&lt;/span&gt; based on "predestination" (p. 79) reveals a superficial understanding of his developmental theory. Finally, her statement that "there is curiously little advocacy of erotic love" (p. 78) in Novalis's works is off the mark. Friedrichsmeyer would have done well to dive into the "Klingsohr-Marchen" in order to understand both the central role of eroticism and some of the more active and fascinating female figures in Novalis's novel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friedrichsmeyer's discussion of Friedrich Schlegel's subtle development from women's/ human rights advocate to metaphysical Romantic is the strongest part of the book. It represents one of the only studies of the early Greek works from the perspective of their notion of female equality. 1 disagree with her rather arbitrary assumption that Schlegel's embrace of male and female polar opposites as necessary prerequisites for androgynous synthesis represented a concession to the Romantic "convention" of his friends, and a denial of his own "instinct" toward&lt;sup&gt;rt&lt;/sup&gt;an androgyny synonymous with sexual equality" (p. 161). On the whole, though, 1 find her discussion of Schlegel to be well-balanced and more with historical context and critical content than the Novalis richsmeyer's book is a limited but useful contribution to the of Romanticism's historical and contemporary relevance from a feminist perspective.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Gail M. Newman &lt;br /&gt;Williams College&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BOOK REVIEWS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Treder, Uta. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Von&lt;/span&gt; der &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hexe zur Hysterikerin&lt;/span&gt;. Zur Verfestigungsgeschichte des "Ewig Weiblichen." Bonn: Bouvier, 1984. (Abhandlungen zur Kunst-, Musik- und Literaturwissenschaft, Band 345).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Es lohnt sich, sich durch das erste Kapitel mit seiner zu dichten, daher oft unklaren theoretischen Konstruktion zum Problem Geschichtslosigkeit der Frau und Weiblichkeitsbilder in der Fiktion durchzubeissen. Was da angerissen wird, wird durch die Textanalyse konkret und spannend, wenn Uta Treder in ihrer Analyse realistischer Romane der Gründerzeit auf Spurensicherung des Weiblichen geht. Der Prozess der Domestizierung der bürgerlichen Frau wird anhand der weiblichen Protagonistinnen aus Kellers und Fontanes Romanen nochmals nachge­zeichnet. Von Hexen ist dabei weniger die Rede; doch werden die Hexenprozesse im theoretischen Vorspann als Bezugspunkt herangezogen. Sie markieren den ersten Meilenstein auf dem Weg zur Ausbürgerung der Frau aus der Geschichte, und, wie Treder zeigt, feiert die Hexe in der Gestalt der Hysterikerin Aufer­stehung. Die fiktiven Gestalten der Cecile und Effie dokumentieren, wie auf einer neuen Ebene der Sinnlichkeit, Vitalität und potentiellen Eigenständig­keit der Frau der Prozess gemacht wird.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die ersten Kapitel über die kindliche Hexe Meret, die untergehende Matriarchin Frau Margret, die "femme fragile" Cécile und die "nervöse" Effi lesen sich wie ein Gang durchs Horrorkabinett des Erziehungsprozesses zur abgerichteten Weib­lichkeit, dessen Ziel die völlige Entfremdung der Frau von sich selbst ist. Gleichzeitig entmythisiert Treder auch die "realistische Erzähldistanz" der männlichen Autoren; ihre Sprache trägt Wünsche und Herrschaftsgesten, die ihre Verstrickung in und Teilnahme an dem Domestizierungsprozess der Frau verraten.&lt;br /&gt;Die Ambivalenz des bürgerlichen Frauenbildes zwischen Idealisierung und Dämonisierung enthält aber auch seine dialektische Dimension und somit den Hinweis auf seine Überwindbarkeit. Kontrapunktische bringt Treder hierfür die Analyse der Frauengestalten Adine und Fentischka aus zwei Erzählungen von Lou Andreas­Salome ein—für mich der verblüffendste Teil von Treders Buch. Aus der Perspek­tive der weiblichen Autorin werden Facetten der Domestizierung wie weiblicher Masochismus und die Idealisierung des Mannes durch die Frau zu potentiellen Ansätzen eines Bewusstseinprozesses der Frau über die eigene Unterdrückung. Der Weg zur weiblichen Identität und Emanzipation führt, wie Lou Andreas-Salome an Fentischka demonstriert, über die Redefinition der dem repressiven Weiblich­keitsbild zugrunde liegenden Annahme der weiblichen Natur. Damit nimmt Lou Andreas-Salome die Umformulierung weiblicher Natur vorweg, wie er heute vom organischen Teil der Frauenbewegung wie Juliet Mitchell, Luce Irigaray und anderen vertreten wird.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leider fehlt eine Bibliographie; ansonsten ist Uta Treders Analyse genau das, was ich mir als Schützenhilfe zum Thema Weiblichkeit in der Literatur für Examens­oder Kursvorbereitungen immer wünsche: eine feministische Literaturkritik kon­kret am Text, voller Ansätze und Anregungen zur Diskussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Sigrid Brauner&lt;br /&gt;U. California, Berkeley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The editorial office of HYPATIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy has moved. Papers or inquiries to Margaret Simons, ed., HYPATIA, Dept. of Philosophical Studies, [redacted] Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 62025.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AATG Annual Meeting&lt;br /&gt;November 16-18, 1984&lt;br /&gt;Chicago&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women and Peace&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Irmgard Hunt (Texas Tech U., Lubbock) and Irmgard C. Taylor (SUNY, Cortland)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: (1) Edith Waldstein (M.I.T.), "Bertha von Suttner and the European Peace Movement of the Early 20th Century;" (2) Sara Friedrichsmeyer (U. Cinci­nnati), "From Revolutionary to Pacifist: The Diaries of Käthe Kollwitz;" (3) Tineke Ritmeester (Washington U.), "Women and Peace."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women and German Film &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presiding: Barbara Hyams (U. Tulsa)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: (1) Bruce Murray (Williams Coll.), "Women in Weimar Cinema;" (2) Hannelore Wilfert (Russell Sage Coll.), "The Image of Women in Feature Films of the Third Reich;" (3) Lynne Tatlock (Washington U.), "Introducing Students to a New Way of Viewing: Three Feminist Films from the New German Cinema;" (4) Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.), "Through a Daughter's Eyes: Helma Sanders­ Brahms' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Germany, Pale Mother&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG AT MLA&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MLA Annual Convention&lt;br /&gt;December 27-30, 1984&lt;br /&gt;Washington, D.C.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Re)Making Myth in German Women's Writing&lt;br /&gt;December 28, 7:15-8:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;State, Hilton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: (1) Marilyn Sibley Fries (Yale U.), "The Dedalus Myth in Recent GDR Women's Fiction;" (2) Gerlinde M. Geiger (Smith Coll.), "Isis/Orisis in Bach­mann's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Franza&lt;/span&gt;;" (3) Christiane Krämer (Ohio State U.), "Der Begriff 'Mythos' bei Christa Wolf."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG AT MLA (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Appropriating Faust &lt;br /&gt;December 29, 3:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;Hemisphere, Hilton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Konstanze Baumer (Syracuse U.) and Gerlinde Geiger (Smith Coll.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: (1) Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.), "Mann's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Doktor&lt;/span&gt; Faustus in Bachmann's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Maiina&lt;/span&gt; and Morgner's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Trobadora Beatriz&lt;/span&gt;;" (2) Sheila Johnson (Rice U.), "Faust gerichtet in Morgner's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda&lt;/span&gt;;" (3) Linda Lindsay (Allegheny Coll.), "The Feminine in Creativity in Goethe's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Faust&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Reevaluating Ingeborg Bachmann's Prose December 29, 8:30-9:45 am&lt;br /&gt;Military, Hilton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Special Session. Presiding: Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: (1) Peter Nutting (Cornell U.), '"Ein Stück wenig realisiertes Österreich': The Moral Topography of 'Drei Wege zum See;'" (2) Judith Harris (U. Illinois, Urbana), "The Authority of Language in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Malina&lt;/span&gt; and Franza;" (3) Ritta Jo Horsley (U. Mass., Boston), "Rereading 'Undine geht': Bachmann and Feminist Theory."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Respondent: Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The fall 1984 issue of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies Quarterly&lt;/span&gt; will contain the Women in German textbook reviews, an article about feminism and teaching materials by Barbara Wright, and other information about WIG—watch for the issue, and be proud of us!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG Chapter in New York&lt;/span&gt;: The New York WIG chapter has continued to meet regularly and the members have initiated several promising-sounding projects, including one on translation. The topics for their first fall meeting (September 19, 18 Uhr) are to continue discussion of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Heimat&lt;/span&gt;/&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mutter&lt;/span&gt;, and to begin discussion of Etty Hillesum's "An Interrupted Life." Anyone interested in more information should contact Gesine Worm at the Goethe House Library, 1014 Fifth Avenue, New York 10028.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Call for contributions&lt;/span&gt;: Gudula Lorez sucht bis Ende Dezember für eine neue Anthologie. Thema "Machtgelüste." Anschrift: Lorez, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AHEM! There is still a need for a new editor of the WIG newsletter. Jeanette is not going to do it any more. Please volunteer for this job, or suggest someone (with her permission). The job would probably be best handled at a larger depart­ment, where more than one person could help out and the university could provide facilities and (possibly) a bit of financial support. If you think you might be interested but aren't sure what's all involved, please give me a call (219 482-5431) and I'll be glad to tell you all about it. Call soon—ich halt's nicht viel länger aus. — Jeanette Clausen, MFL, IPFW. (Newsletter address.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Read and gnash your teeth&lt;/span&gt; (who says we've come a long way?). . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OFFENER BRIEF AN DIE JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITÄT MAINZ BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;den 18. Juni 1984&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;z. Hd. des Comités:&lt;br /&gt;Renate von Bardeleben, Professor, Amerikanistik&lt;br /&gt;Dietrich Briesemeister, Professor, Spanisch&lt;br /&gt;Juan Bruce-Novoa, Fulbright Dozent, Chicano Studien&lt;br /&gt;An der Hochschule 2&lt;br /&gt;6728 Germersheim&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sehr geehrte Kollegen:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wie wir erfahren haben, wird die Universität Mainz im Juli 1984 eine Konferenz zum Thema Chicano Kultur veranstalten. Wir begrüssen sehr diese Initiative und finden es sehr wichtig, dass die Chicano Kultur in der Bundesrepublik zur Kenntnis genommen wird und dass sie in die wissenschaftliche Diskussion Aufnahme findet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sehr bedauern wir jedoch, dass aus USA—mit einer Ausnahme—ausschliesslich männliche Vertreter teilnehmen werden. Uns ist klar, dass sich die Organisatoren nur ungenügend um die Teilnahme von Chicanas bemüht haben. Obwohl die Kriterien der Teilnehmerauswahl uns unbekannt sind, ist uns als Frauen das Resultat sehr bekannt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dass es viele qualifizierte Chicana Literaturwissenschaftlerinnen und auch Schriftstellerinnen gibt—bei einer Bevölkerungszahl von etwa 20 Millionen—ist kein Geheimnis. Dass nur eine Chicana an der Mainzer Tagung teilnehmen wird, verdient nicht die Bezeichnung "Zufall." Wir schreiben Ihnen, weil wir wissen, dass die Diskriminierung gegen Frauen oft unbewusst geschieht, und um Ihnen dessen bewusst zu machen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Als Chicanas und Mitglieder verschiedener Organisationen, einschliesslich von Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social beklagen wir diesen Sachverhalt vor der Öffentlichkeit. Wir werden uns künftig immer dort zu Wort melden, wo die Frauen der Dritten Welt als inexistent behandelt werden.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mit freundlichem Gruss&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(A list of 30 signatures was attached to the letter, which was sent to WIG by Dr. Yolanda Broyles. For more information, contact her at the University of Texas at San Antonio, 78285.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the thick of canning green beans, helping her daughter turn three, typing a couple of promotion cases and working full time at her regular job, Connie Munk typed, cut, pasted and did the miscellaneous other work necessary to transform a messy pile of papers into the neat, orderly newsletter you're holding in your hands on pp. 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 12 by Erin Clausen; the line cartoons are from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt; and other sundry feminist sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REGISTRATION FORM&lt;br /&gt;Women in German Annual Conference&lt;br /&gt;Thompson's Island, Boston, MA&lt;br /&gt;October 18-21, 1984&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Complete both sides of form.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: ___________&lt;br /&gt;Telephone: (______)__________ &lt;br /&gt;Address (after Sept. 15): __________________________&lt;br /&gt;# Street Town State Zip&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Registration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Choose the plan you prefer from section A, B or C below. Costs for overnight accommodation (A) include conference expenses, lodging, three meals per day and boat transportation to/from the island. As in past years, we have calculated registration fees on a dual price structure to try to keep the conference more affordable for students and the unemployed. If you "technically" fall into one of those categories but have adequate outside income, please consider paying the "employed" rate—this will help WIG partially subsidize travel for those who must come long distances.&lt;/p&gt;
A. Overnight accommodation (Please check your choice):&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;3 Nights&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Employed $150.00&lt;br /&gt;Student/unemployed 70.00&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Nights&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Employed $105.00&lt;br /&gt;Student/unemployed 50.00&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 Night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Employed $60.00&lt;br /&gt;Student/unemployed 35.00&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I intend to spend the night(s) of Oct. 18 19 20 (please circle) on Thompson's Island.&lt;/p&gt;
B. Day-hopping (Please check your choice):&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. Conference attendance only: includes boat transportation. Please check days you plan to attend:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Employed: $20.00/day&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 19____&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 20____&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 21____&lt;br /&gt;Total = ____ x $20 = ____&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Student/Unemployed: $15.00/day&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 19____&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 20____&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 21____&lt;br /&gt;Total = ____ x $15 = ____&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Meals. please check the meals you plan to eat on Thompson's Island:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunch ($6.00 each)&lt;br /&gt;Fri. _____&lt;br /&gt;Sat. _____&lt;br /&gt;Sun. _____&lt;br /&gt;Total = _____ x $6 = ____&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dinner ($10.00 each)&lt;br /&gt;Thurs. _____&lt;br /&gt;Fri. _____&lt;br /&gt;Sat. _____&lt;br /&gt;Total = _____ x $10 = ____&lt;/p&gt;
C. Combination plan:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you wish to combine services from A and B, please mark the appropriate boxes, figure your expenses from A and B, and then tally the total.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cost of services from A: $ ____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cost of services from B: $ ___&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total: $ ___                  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;PLEASE NOTE&lt;/span&gt;: Conference participants &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;must become members&lt;/span&gt; of Women in German.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name : _____&lt;/p&gt;
II. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Transportation Plans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;I will arrive ________  (day, time) by ______ *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;I will depart ____ (day, time) by ______ *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;*(Please indicate means, i.e., Airline Flight #, busline, Amtrack, car, etc.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please enclose a SASE for information regarding land/boat information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;____ Please check if you are a student/unemployed and would like help covering your travel expenses, especially for long-distance travel. Cost of round-trip travel from your home to the conference: $______.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(After all conference bills are paid, we will divide any remaining funds on a per­centage basis among those of you who request travel assistance. We very much want to help those who need it, but unfortunately we can't guarantee that money will be left after expenses or predict what percentage you may be reimbursed, especially since we have two invited guests this year.)&lt;/p&gt;
III. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Childcare&lt;/span&gt;: WIG will provide childcare at the conference but there is a charge for room and board for children over 2 (same as student/unemployed rate, over). Please include this part in your registration calculations. (In 1982 we were able to reimburse part of this expense, but it cannot be guaranteed in advance.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I plan on bringing the following child (children) to the WIG conference:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Name: ___ Age ___&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Name: ___ Age ___&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please check as appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;__ Needs crib__ Will share my room/bed (circle)&lt;br /&gt;__ Needs own room/bed (circle)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please note special needs or other relevant information (e.g. I can bring porta-crib toys): _____________________&lt;/p&gt;
IV. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Natural Foods Option&lt;/span&gt;: Although the conference center provides attractive vegetarian menu choices, a natural foods option (vegetarian) may be available for a modest sur­charge ($10 or less), to be collected &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;at the conference&lt;/span&gt;. If you choose this option, please check below. We &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;need to&lt;/span&gt; know in advance in order to provide enough food.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I desire the natural foods option for the following meals:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Oct. 18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___ supper&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 19&lt;br /&gt;___ breakfast&lt;br /&gt;___ lunch&lt;br /&gt;___ dinner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 20&lt;br /&gt;___ breakfast&lt;br /&gt;___ lunch&lt;br /&gt;___ dinner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 21&lt;br /&gt;___ breakfast&lt;br /&gt;___ lunch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please make your check out to "Women in German" and send it with this registration form and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;stamped, self-addressed envelope&lt;/span&gt; to:&lt;br /&gt;Margaret Ward&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;PLEASE NOTE&lt;/span&gt;: If you register &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;after September 15&lt;/span&gt;, we cannot guarantee you overnight accommodation and must charge you a late registration fee of $15.00.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference participants must become members of Women in German.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WIG Agenda, 1984-85&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name ________________&lt;br /&gt;Phone(s)_____________&lt;br /&gt;Address _______________&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div class="WordSection2"&gt;Please fill in any or all of the following items and send this sheet to Barbara Wright by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 October 1984&lt;/span&gt;. Barbara will collate the responses for the WIG business meeting agenda for the October conference. REMEMBER that you are welcome (even urged!) to participate in WIG planning whether you are able to attend the October meeting or not.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
II. Suggestions for 1985 WIG sessions. Indicate whether you are willing to organize a session on the topic(s) you propose, and at which conference.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. AATG 1985               &lt;br /&gt;(New York)&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;1.___________ (Pedagogy)&lt;br /&gt;2. ___________ (Literature)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B. MLA 1985&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;(Chicago)&lt;br /&gt;1. ___________&lt;br /&gt;2. ___________&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;C. WIG conference (probably in Portland, Oregon in 1985; guest(s) not yet decided).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. ___________&lt;br /&gt;2. ___________&lt;br /&gt;3. ___________&lt;br /&gt;4. ___________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;D. Suggested guests (authors, other artists, or scholars) for future WIG conferences (Please include brief bio and list of major works).&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;1. ___________&lt;br /&gt;2. ___________&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;III. WIG projects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. Amount of time you would be able to work on a WIG project during 1984-85: ___________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B. Project(s) you would most like to work on (indicate what you could do): &lt;br /&gt;1. Textbook revieweing _______&lt;br /&gt;2. Translation ________&lt;br /&gt;3. WIG Yearbook (editing, refereeing of papers, typing, etc.) _____________&lt;br /&gt;4. Bibliography, book reviews, journal reviews, etc. (be specific). ____________&lt;br /&gt;5. Other: _______________ (use back of page for additional comments)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IV. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Herzensergiessungen&lt;/span&gt;. What do you like most/least about WIG? ____________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mail to: Barbara D. Wright, U-137, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;-16-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SUBSCRIPTI0NS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weisefrau, Uta   34&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University&lt;br /&gt;Utopia, USA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;34&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renew &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt;, today, before you forget—sending out reminders is time-consuming and expensive, not to mention boring.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A new dues structure was approved at the October 1983 WiG conference. By increasing the rates for those earning higher salaries, we hope to be able to finance more projects, while still keeping rates low for students, the unem­ployed, and the underemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please fill out the section below, detach and return with your payment in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;11.S. dollars&lt;/span&gt; (check or money order made out to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt;). Subscribers outside North America: Please increase the amount in your category by one- third to help defray the cost of postage. Send membership form and payment to: WOMEN IN GERMAN, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Category      New      Renewing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A student, unemployed  &lt;br /&gt;$3.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$5.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B annual salary $10,000 &lt;br /&gt;to $15,000                     &lt;br /&gt;$7.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$12.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C annual salary $15,001 &lt;br /&gt;to $20,000                    &lt;br /&gt;$10.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$15.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D annual salary $20,001 &lt;br /&gt;to $25,000                    &lt;br /&gt;$13.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$20.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E annual salary $25,001  &lt;br /&gt;and up                          &lt;br /&gt;$16.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$25.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;F supporting individuals,  &lt;br /&gt;libraries                          &lt;br /&gt;$20.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$35.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;G supporting documents    &lt;br /&gt;$25.00 per year&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please fill in address exactly as you wish it to appear on mailing label. No more than four lines! Please type or print clearly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Name __________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address ______________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CHECK IF APPLICABLE: change of address___&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Women in German Newsletter &lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages &lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U.&lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;/p&gt;
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                <text>&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;[image]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;MARCH 1984&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Coalition of Women in German, an allied organization of the MLA, invites students, teachers and all others interested in feminism and German Studies to subscribe to the newsletter. See last page of newsletter for rates.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard, U. Illinois (1980-83)&lt;br /&gt;   Chair, Political Action Committee &lt;br /&gt;   Co-editor, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Yearbook&lt;/span&gt; (1982-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha Wallach, U. Wisconsin-Green Bay (1980-83)&lt;br /&gt;   Fundraising coordinator&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ritta Jo Horsley, U. Mass., Boston (1981-84)&lt;br /&gt;   Conference coordinator, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut R. Poole, Los Angeles (1981-84)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell, Michigan State U. (1982-85)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara D. Wright, U. Conn., Storrs (1982-85)&lt;br /&gt;   Chair, Textbook Review Committee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandra Frieden, U. Houston (1983-86)&lt;br /&gt;   Fundraising coordinator&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Waldstein, M.l.T. (1983-86)&lt;br /&gt;   Conference coordinator, 1983, 1984 &lt;br /&gt;   Co-editor, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Yearbook&lt;/span&gt; (1982-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Director of Membership: Karen R. Achberger, St. Olaf College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Women in German Newsletter is published in March, August and November of each year. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deadlines&lt;/span&gt; for material to appear in the newsletter: February 15 (March issue); August 1 (August issue); November 1 (November issue).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Send material to: Jeanette Clausen, Newsletter Editor, Women in German, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;TABLE OF CONTENTS&lt;/span&gt;:                           &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Page #&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;WIG Projects... 2.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;This and That... 3.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;AATG 1983... 5.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;MLA 1983 ... 9.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;WIG 1983 ... 15.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Calls for Papers... 16.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Bielefeld Conference ... 18.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Conferences... 19.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Book Reviews... 20.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;New Publications...  25.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Books...  26.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Films...  27.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Etc. ... 31.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Membership/Subscriptions ... 33.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 33&lt;br /&gt;March 1984&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not one to beat around the bush, mince words, equivocate, hedge, stall, obfuscate, procrastinate, prevaricate, waffle or fumble, let me get right down to brass tacks, come straight to the point, and let it all hang out. WiG has a lot planned for 1984, and we &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;need money&lt;/span&gt; to do it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you know, we've invited IRMTRAUD MORGNER and HELGA SCHÜTZ to be our guests at the 1984 WiG conference. What none of us yet knows for sure is how their trips will be financed, gulp. Martha Wallach applied to two funding agencies on WiG's behalf, IREX and the Monticello Foundation. IREX has already notified her that our pro­posal was &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; funded. We'll hear from the Monticello Foundation by May— however, there is obviously no guarantee that we'll get the funding we asked for. So—take a deep breath—we have to look to ourselves, the members of WiG, to raise money to finance the Morgner-Schütz venture. You probably remember that we agreed at the 1983 WiG conference to a call for voluntary donations from WiG members if necessary, suggesting $10.00 as the amount for individual donations. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Please&lt;/span&gt; support us—&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;any&lt;/span&gt; amount you can give will be gratefully accepted, acknowledged, and put in a special fund for Morgner and Schütz. If we are able to get the necessary funding from other sources, we'll decide as a group how to use the money we receive. THANK YOU in advance for your help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A word (several, actually) about WiG's status. We have filed the necessary articles of incorporation to begin the process of acquiring tax-exempt status for WiG as a non-profit organization. However, we haven't yet filed the necessary forms with the IRS (which took over a month to reach us). This is what our attorney told me I could advise you on this subject as of March 1, 1984:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Upon advice of counsel for the Coalition of Women in German, Inc., it is believed that all contributions to the corporation are tax deductible as charitable contributions. No formal ruling or determination has been made by the Internal Revenue Service establishing the exemption and none has been sought as of this date. Our attorney advises us that our organization is automatically exempt until such time as the gross receipts exceed $5,000 annually. In the event that such limitation is exceeded, the corporation plans to request a ruling or deter­mination of exemption." (Letter to J. Clausen from M. D. Ulmschneider, Attorney, March 1, 1984.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are willing to donate money to WiG whether or not your contribution will be tax-deductible, you needn't worry about the above any further. If you are only willing to make a tax-deductible contribution, you may want to check with&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;me—things may have moved along somewhat by the time you receive this news­letter. And in case you were wondering, our "gross receipts" are only a couple thousand annually at this point.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can also help by sending copies of the enclosed WiG information sheet to friends who haven't yet become WiG members and urging them to join.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG PROJECTS&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Syllabi collection&lt;/span&gt;. The WiG collection of course syllabi, edited by Sidonie Cassirer and Bunny Weiss, has been very well received, based on .comments that have come to me. The majority of requests for it have been from individuals, but some German departments, libraries and women's studies programs have ordered it too. Joan Moessner (U. Alaska) sent special thanks—as the only German faculty member and the only feminist in her department, she found the collection particularly useful! Many others have also written to express their appreciation and admiration for this collec­tion—the kind of "reader response" that is always welcome! —There are still over 200 copies of the booklet available (from 700-plus that we started out with), and the cost is a mere $2.00 for postage and handling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Textbook reviews—round two. The first collection of textbook reviews by WiG members, published last spring, was very enthusiastically received, and has been influential with publishers as well as in individual departments. We would like to follow up with a second round, and we'd like to have it ready to distribute at the October 1984 WiG conference. If you are interested in reviewing one of the textbooks you are using, contact BARBARA WRIGHT (U. Conn., Storrs), and she will send you a set of guidelines for doing the review. We would like to see reviews of textbooks for high school and other grade levels as well as of college-level texts for first and second year.&lt;br /&gt;(The texts reviewed in last spring's collection were: Feld/Nardroff, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Zielsprache Deutsch&lt;/span&gt; (1981); Goedsche et al., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsch fur Amerikaner&lt;/span&gt; (4th ed., 1979); Helbling &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;et&lt;/span&gt; al.&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;First-Year German&lt;/span&gt; (3rd ed., 1983); Lohnes/Strothman, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German: A Structural Approach&lt;/span&gt; (3rd ed., 1980); Moeller/Liedloff, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsch heute&lt;/span&gt; (2nd ed. , 1979); Neuner &lt;span&gt;e&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; al&lt;/span&gt;., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsch aktiv 1 and 2&lt;/span&gt; (1979); Schulz &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;et al&lt;/span&gt;., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; (2nd ed., 1982); Vail/Sparks, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der Weg zum Lesen&lt;/span&gt; (2nd ed., 1974); von Hofe &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;et al&lt;/span&gt;., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Perspektiven zu aktuellen Fragen &lt;/span&gt;(1978). Obviously, we are most interested in hearing from those of you teaching from texts other than these, or from more recent editions, if they are available.) —Barbara Wright, U-181, U. Conn., Storrs, CT 06268.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Translation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Reminders&lt;/span&gt;: Nancy Lukens and Dorothy Rosenberg are planning a two-volume collection (one GDR, one FRG) of poetry and prose by contemporary German women writers in translation. The collection will be organized around 3 topics: women and work, women and family, women and self-image. Nancy and Dorothy invite suggestions as to texts you'd like to see included; you can also write them to volunteer help as a translator. Nancy Lukens, Dept. of German, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, and Dorothy Rosenberg, Dept. of Mod. For. Lang., Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG PROJECTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Translation&lt;/span&gt;. (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, Bunny Weiss is collecting ideas, unpublished translations, pipe-dreams, etc. to generate (an)other translation project(s). What are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; priorities for texts in translation, other than Nancy's and Dorothy's project men­tioned above? Write to Bunny Weiss, [redacted], Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 21601.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;THIS AND THAT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GOOD NEWS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Karen Achberger&lt;/span&gt; (St. Olaf Coll.) was awarded the MLA-ACLS Fellowship in literature for 1984-85 to pursue her study of the significance of music in Ingeborg Bachmann's prose! Congratulations to Karen, and all the best to her in her work on this exciting project.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Renny Harrigan&lt;/span&gt; is employed full-time as a women's studies specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Plans are to build the WS office from a cross-listing of courses under the vice-chancellor to a research center based in the graduate school, while continuing with a certificate program for under­graduates. Renny writes: "So, when all is said and done, I can really get behind the job . . ." —Well said, Renny—I think we'd all share that senti­ment!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lyndel Butler&lt;/span&gt; has a job at Sharpstown Middle School in Houston teaching German to grades 6, 7 and 8. Lyn's note reminds us that there really are WiG members working "at all educational levels" (as we state in the goals of our organiza­tion), even though they may be less visible than our university-based members. We'd love to hear from others teaching German at the K-12 levels, in alternative schools, in adult education centers, or any other non-university settings. WiG's place is everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Course&lt;/span&gt; — WOMEN AND PEACE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tineke Ritmeester sent some information on a new course she's teaching this spring at Washington University. Entitled "Women and Peace," the 3-credit course is cross-listed by Women's Studies and German Area Studies; there are no prerequisites. A study of the roots and development of the contemporary women's peace movement, the course examines "women and peace" as a political- cultural phenomenon that manifests itself internationally in creative and nonviolent peace actions, film, theater, literature, music and changing life­styles. There is a special focus on West Germany, Central America and the US. Readings include Pam McAllister, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Reweaving the Web of Life&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Women's&lt;/span&gt; Peace &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Encampment Handbook&lt;/span&gt; (Romulus, NY); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Keeping the Peace&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Piecing it Together&lt;/span&gt;; WIRE readings on women in El Salvador; as well as two plays by Martha Boesing, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Antigone Too&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ashes&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ashes&lt;/span&gt; ... . Guest speakers have been&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THIS AND THAT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Course&lt;/span&gt; — WOMEN AND PEACE (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;invited to present information on WILPF, the peace encampments, Central America, RAVEN (a St. Louis-based men's group for nonviolence), and other topics. Slide shows and films, including "Controlling Interests," are also being used.&lt;br /&gt;Anyone wanting a copy of the syllabus is welcome to write to Tineke; she would also like to hear from others teaching courses on this topic. Tineke Ritmeester, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures,  [redacted]  Washington U., St. Louis, MO 63130.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PEACE CHAIN LETTERS. Probably many of you have received or heard about the women's peace chain letter (a couple of you received it from me!). No money is involved; all you do is forward 6 copies of the letter to friends, and send a card with the message "we wish for peace on earth" to the name at the top of the list. Within two months of doing this, 1 had received 12 such cards from 5 countries. The most interesting one was from a woman in California who wrote about an organization called the "Creative Initiative Foundation." It aims to spread a message of resolving conflicts without war all over the US, hoping to create a social movement as strong as abolition or women's suffrage. If you'd like to know more about this organization, you can write to Benita Rashall, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NEW YORK WIG CHAPTER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The New York WiG chapter has been meeting regularly since last September. Among the members' activities are: discussion of Christa Wolf's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kassandra &lt;/span&gt;(November meeting); reading their own writing to each other and discussing the writing process, the meaning of "Öffentlichkeit," etc. (December and January meetings); initiation of a project to publish a collection of their own writing, to be edited by Dagmar Stern; formation of a subcommittee to pursue a translation project (focus on poetry and prose by German-speaking women writers of the second half of the 20th century; coordinator Lola Gruenthal, [redacted]. Plans for future meetings include discussions of Margarethe von Trotta's new film &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Heller &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wahn&lt;/span&gt; and discussion of works by Irmtraud Morgner and Helga Schutz. For further information about this group, contact Gesine Worm at the Goethe House Library.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kay Goodman&lt;/span&gt; has proposed a conference tentatively entitled &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in East Germany: Fact and Fantasy&lt;/span&gt;. The suggested dates for the conference are Oct. 26-27, 1984 at Brown University; its purpose is to enable participants to gain a more balanced and subtle understanding of the lives of women in the GDR. For more information, contact Kay Goodman, German Dept., Brown U.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AAT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;G 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG session: WOMEN AND PEACE&lt;br /&gt;Friday, 25 November 1983&lt;br /&gt;2:45-6:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: &lt;br /&gt;Helga Kraft, U. Florida and Ric Johnson, IPFW (Pedagogy)&lt;br /&gt;Edith Potter, Scripps Coll, and Jorun B. Johns, Cal. State Coll., San Bernardino (Literature)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is the Apolitical Woman at Peace?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Looking at Women in the New German Cinema&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The social roles of women in war and peace are a topic of vital interest and importance in the New German Cinema. Comparing two West German feminist directors, Helma Sanders-Brahms and Helke Sander, we find that the former pro­vides an apology for the apolitical woman, whereas the latter's work exempli­fies the existence of a politicized female consciousness. The paper also demonstrates the technique of "sequence analysis," which teaches students of film to recognize how aesthetic constructs incorporate ideology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Barbara Hyams U. Tulsa&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women in the Military&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fifteen minutes was too short a time for a comprehensive analysis of how patriarchy, militarism, and feminism intersect in NATO, Warsaw Pact, and Third World countries, so I limited my comments to the pedagogical rationale behind the six-page collage that I distributed and to suggestions as to how it might be used to stimulate conversation in beginning, intermediate, and advanced language classes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have found the topic of women in the military to be effective in stimulating involved discussion and critical thinking. The students are familiar with the issue, because of the energetic recruitment of women for the US Army in the last decade and the controversy a few years ago surrounding the reinstitution of draft registration for men only, and they generally have strong and differing opinions on the subject. Feminists themselves take different sides, which makes it even more interesting. Since there has also been public discussion in both Germanies recently about the utilization of women in the armed forces, materials are available in German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The collage is made up of excerpts from articles and letters in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Spiegel&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bunte&lt;/span&gt;, texts to the songs "Feminal Tango" by Schneewittchen, "Ach, wenn ich doch nur als Mann auf diese Welt gekommen war" by Bettina Wegner, and "Partizaner Lid" by Hirsch Glik, and pictures and graphs. The pages can be used individually or as a packet. Each is laid out as provocative 1y as possible, with related arguments for and against women in the military placed side by side. Many feminist and non-feminist perspectives are represented.&lt;br /&gt;A bibliography of source materials and suggestions for further reading is included.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AATG 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women in the Military (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you would like a copy of the instructional packet and a tape of the three songs, please send me a self-addressed, stamped envelope and a blank cassette.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Kathryn Strachota&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of German Studies &lt;br /&gt;Stanford University &lt;br /&gt;Stanford, CA 94305&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Frauen für Frieden&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I reported on the project FRAUEN FUR FRIEDEN, Berlin. The literary part of this project comprises a first volume of poetry and short prose entitled &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;für Frieden: Gedichte Schilderungen Reflexionen&lt;/span&gt;, edited by Elisabeth Hartmann, Berlin (who plans to publish a second volume in spring 1984).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;für Frieden&lt;/span&gt; is a 112 page volume at a cheap DM 8.00. A 13-year-old girl is the youngest poet represented here. She has thoughts about the colors in her paintbox and paints peace in pink. Birgit Berg writes a "non-lullaby" beginning "The songs are dead." Gabriele Dietrich writes about the "Friedens­vogel" and has fun with puns, reminding us that such fun can at best be had with the subject of the environment and nuclear power plants - but no longer with bombs. Elisabeth Hartmann's own poem "Diagnosis" warns of the sickness of man in an apocalyptic time. Ingeborg Drewitz contributes "Flaschenpost an meine drei Enkel" and asks: "Sind wir nicht längst entmündigt, zu lieben, zu schützen und vorzubereiten, was früher einmal Zukunft hiess?" Sophie Goll writes about fear in her poems. Dorothee Solle, who also contributed some poems to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;für Frieden&lt;/span&gt;, researched the concept of fear with Sören Kierke­gaard. Solle writes: "Der angstfreie Geistlose kann nicht glauben, weil ihn nichts dazu nötigt. Er glaubt weiterhin an Bomben und Aktien." Eva Quistorp, most recently portrayed in DIE ZEIT, wrote the "Friedensaufruf" to women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hartmann's volume is a valuable resource. Typically, Fritz Martini, who wrote a chapter on anti-war podms in Benno von Wiese's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;deutsche Lyrik&lt;/span&gt; considers only male poets, ignoring such voices as Ricarda Huch's, Bertha von Suttner's or Else Lasker-Schüler's. Yet &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;deutsche Lyrik&lt;/span&gt; continues to be used by nearly all Departments of Germanics. The voices of women are also missing in a new volume called &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;'s ist Krieg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;'s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ist Krieg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;: Versuch zur deutschen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Literatur über den Krieg 1914-1933&lt;/span&gt;, edited by Eckhardt Momber (Berlin: Arsenal, 1981). Borrowing from Ingeborg Drewitz, I would like to conclude that with the Atomic Age, men have brought about "den Eintritt des Menschen in seine selbst­verschuldete Entmündigung." Having realized this, women will work and write towards "den Austritt des Menschen aus seinem selbstverschuldeten Wahn."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the end of the session, both men and women signed and collected signatures for a statement to the SPD and the Greens in West Germany in support of their disarmament efforts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Irmgard Hunt&lt;br /&gt;Texas Tech. U., Lubbock&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AATG 1983 (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christa Wolf: "Literatur heute muss Friedensforschung sein"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christa Wolf's writings have always been haunted by war: the Second World War and also the possible war to come. Recently, her works have begun to confront the threat of war directly, and she has made explicit connections between war, modern industrial society, traditional literary aesthetics, and patriarchy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wolf claims that "literature today must be peace research" because it is uniquely suited to the task. Unlike the languages of politics and science, the language of literature does not of necessity destroy its user's relation­ship to him/herself and reality. Although literature risks reproducing our culture's distorted relationship to reality, it is the one language capable of confronting that risk and providing an alternative perspective.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Western scientific and rationalist traditions aim at mastery through the elimination of contradiction. Based on objectification, they kill all com­plexity into dualistic opposition and systematize it to make, it less threatening. It is this alienated thinking that allows men who are not "evil" to commit the atrocities of war.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The language of literature can quicken our interest in our own lives, encouraging us to see ourselves as subjects rather than objects of public discourse. It allows for a more complex and ambiguous vision—a more "realistic" vision—than the languages of politics or science. In &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kassandra&lt;/span&gt;, the title figure reflects on this vision, which includes all that the Creeks, our cultural predecessors, exclude with their "sharp distinctions" of "truth or lie, right or wrong, victory or defeat, friend or enemy, life or death." Literature, to be peace research, must help us bring this vision forth so that it may not be said of us what Kassandra says of the Greeks: that they don't understand how to live.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Myra Love &lt;br /&gt;Purdue U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bertha von Suttner, Champion for Peace&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Lay down your arms. Tell that to many, many" were the dying words of Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914), writer, political journalist, founder of the Austrian Peace Society and first woman Nobel prize winner. Famous for her &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tendenzroman&lt;/span&gt; against war and for peace, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Waffen Nieder&lt;/span&gt; (Lay Down Your Arms) at the turn of the century, in the last two decades Suttner has under­gone a great revival both here and abroad with new editions of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lay Down Your Arms&lt;/span&gt; and the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Memoirs&lt;/span&gt;, several biographies, journal articles and monographs including the recent volume by Gisela Brinker-Gabler subtitled &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kämpferin für den Frieden&lt;/span&gt; with excerpted texts from her works on peace. The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nachlass&lt;/span&gt; is at the United Nations Library in Geneva but much material is available in the United States in the Alfred Hermann Fried collection of Suttner books and polemical pamphlets and speeches at the library of the Hoover Institute on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford. The Austrian pacifist Fried and Suttner were close associates: in 1891 he founded and she edited the pacifist journal &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Waffen Nieder&lt;/span&gt; which in 1899 became Die &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friedenswarte&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-8-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AATG 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bertha von Suttner, Champion for Peace (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;with Fried as editor and Suttner contributing a monthly column "Randglossen" ("Footnotes to Contemporary Affairs 1892-1914"), and also covering her two trips to America with "Briefe aus Amerika." (The Hoover library has all the volumes of these journals.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of special interest in a talk on Bertha von Suttner in San Francisco is a speech she gave in San Francisco in 1912 at the national Congress of the General Federation of Women's Clubs addressing the question: "What can we do to further world peace?" In this speech she discussed the various aspects of the peace movement, seeing universal peace not as a possibility but a necessity and looking to America for help. (Xerox copies of Suttner's speech were passed out at the meeting. It has been reprinted in the Beatrix Kempf biography of Suttner: Woman &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;for Peace&lt;/span&gt;. )&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Edna Huttenmaier Spitz &lt;br /&gt;Stanford U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Make Love, not War." Else Lasker-Schülers Pazifismus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Über den Eindruck des Exotischen, den Lasker-Schüler zweifellos vermittelte— Benn beschreibt, man konnte mit ihr nicht die Strasse überqueren, ohne dass Passanten stehenblieben und die tingelig Kostümierte anstarrten—vergassen viele Kritiker die Substanz ihres dichterischen Werks. Dieses vermittelt durch das Medium der Liebe und des Liebens das Motiv der Versöhnlichkeit und der Friedlichkeit. Nicht zuletzt setzt Lasker-Schüler die Erotik und Sinn­lichkeit auch gegen den Heroenkult ihrer Zeit ein.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Es lässt sich dabei eine Entwicklungslinie aufzeigen, wie die Friedensposition der Dichterin in einer kriegszerissenen Welt im Laufe der Zeit an Dringlichkeit zunimmt. Krieg und Töten entfremdet ihr auch geliebte Menschen, wie an der kalten Würdigung Marcs deutlich wird. ln den Dichtungen des &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Blauen Klaviers&lt;/span&gt;, geschrieben unter dem Eindruck von Exil und Vernichtung, rückt auch das Liebesmotiv in eine idealische Ferne—entweder die verlorene Kindheit, das verlorene Paradies oder die Unerreichbarkeit der Jugend. Sehnsucht lässt die Hoffnungslosigkeit der Liebesappelle deutlich werden.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die letzte Enttäuschung trifft Lasker-Schüler in Israel, das sie von ethnischen Konflikten zerrissen sieht. Kindlich wirken ihre Vorschläge, arabische und jüdische Kinder in Jahrmarktsveranstaltungen zusammenzubringen. Gleichzeitig fällt Lasker-Schülers Systemferne auf. Es geht ihr nicht um die Politik der Männer, sondern das sinnlose Leiden der verarmten, misshandelten Frauen und Kinder. Sie zeigt auf, dass deren Unterdrückung nicht an Herkunft oder Religion gebunden ist, sondern universal auftritt. In diesem Sinne auch Lasker-Schülers Kostümierungen und Übertretungen der Konventionen: diese bedeuten ihr als Frau, die in Deutschland und Israel sich in einer marginalen Position befand, zu wenig, als dass sie sie hätte respektieren wollen. Gerade nämlich in der Hierarchie, die die Menschen voneinander trennt und sie das Vorurteil lehrt, steht dem Frieden, wie sie ihn versteht, im Wege.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Dagmar Lorenz &lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AATG 1983 (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Sydna [Bunny] Weiss has not yet sent a summary of her presentation "A Teaching Module: Women and Peace." By all accounts, the above session was very well attended—according to Irmgard Hunt, "probably the best attended session at the conference." Following the presentation of papers, there was a brief business meeting chaired by Bunny Weiss. The major agenda items were announcements of WiG projects and selection of session coordinators for AATG 1984.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN MAKING LITERARY HISTORY: THE NEW GENERATION OF WOMEN WRITERS IN THE GDR Coordinators: Renate Delphendahl, U. Maine, Orono and Patricia Herminghouse, U. Rochester.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I=Myself.&lt;br /&gt;Women Taking Hold of Their Lives&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My paper deals with three GDR writers who see the world through the lens of their female experience, don't like what they see, and try to suggest changes. Their heroines, like themselves, are professional women trying to create a satisfying life and in so doing they must cope with a society that is still male-oriented.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helga Schubert's "Meine unverheirateten Freundinnen" (in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Verbotene Zimmer&lt;/span&gt;, Luchterhand 1982) describes the lives of single professional women who take their responsibilities seriously, thus being integrated into society, but who also shun conformity. They change husbands and lovers continuously, unable to find the ideal man with whom they could live permanently. They themselves are still caught up in the old man-woman game: in a love affair they, the indepen dent professionals, become yielding and dependent, creating a strain on the relationship which eventually breaks it. They are unable to resolve their dilemma and do not recognize that they are really pointing towards the future by supporting and being supported by their women friends, the only constant in their lives.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christine Wolter's "Ich habe wieder geheiratet" (in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wie ich meine Unschuld verlor&lt;/span&gt;, Aufbau 1976) shows another professional woman whose marriage breaks up. She, the professional equal, cannot sustain equality in her marriage; her husband starts to dominate her and leaves. She finds the ideal "marriage" in a relationship with another woman. This relationship works because her partner likes doing the things she doesn't like to do. And at the end we are not sure that this is a permanent solution when her partner goes off to spend the night with the narrator's former husband. There are too many unlikely prerequisites to make this a way of pointing to the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In her story "Ich werde ich," Monika Helmecke plays on the controversy body- soul, old-young. She visualizes a fusion of man and woman symbolized in the implantation of a young woman's brain into an old man's body. Contrary to expectation, it is the old body which absorbs the young brain after a fierce &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MLA 1983&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I=Myself. Women Taking Hold of Their Lives (continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;struggle in which the woman tries to hold on to her identity. Finally she realizes all she can salvage of her personality is the caring and empathy she feels toward the man's wife, and consoles herself with the hope of another transplant to enable her very gradually to transmit her experience from body to body and finally, in a distant future, to achieve a true male- female fusion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The three stories are first-person narratives, so we never learn the reactions of the other persons involved. But this intense identification with the heroine conforms to the need of women writers to express their side of the story, and is their contribution to a literature that had been dominated by men for so long.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Elisabeth Nations&lt;br /&gt;Augustana Coll.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Summaries of "The Year 1974: Laying the Foundation for the New Generation" by Gudrun Brokoph-Mauch (St. Lawrence U.) and "The Third Wave: New Women Writers and Women's Issues in the GDR" by Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.) were not received. Jeanette Clausen (1PFW) had to cancel her attendance at MLA for health reasons, so her paper on "Abortion Experiences in Recent Fiction by GDR Women Writers" was not presented.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINIST RE-VISIONS OF GERMAN LITERARY HISTORY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinator: Sieglinde Lug, U. Denver&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Methodological Considerations toward a New&lt;br /&gt;"Image" of Women in Literary History&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In general, a feminist analysis of women characters in works by male authors involves establishing a distance between critic and text by questioning the social, psychological, and historical assumptions that shape a given text.&lt;br /&gt;In this task letters and diaries of real women contemporary to the author may provide a helpful contrast to the fictional women; also, new feminist work in history and other subjects can spark new insights. Categorizations such as Earth Mother and femmes fatales are dated and of limited impact and value; it would be more profitable to concentrate on reinterpreting single literary works from the standpoint of the woman figure and her relation to text structure, plot and the remaining characters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It should be a basic tenet of feminist criticism that sex is a social cate­gory, relations between the sexes socially conditioned, and that male and female characters should therefore be evaluated by the same standards, rather than by sex-specific standards.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Three important theories of what women signify are 1) gender complementarity, 2) identification of women with love or sexual drives, and 3) woman as nature. "Geschlechtermythologie" (1) must be exposed as a paradigm of a certain group,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Methodological Considerations toward a New "Image" of Women in Literary History (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;era or author rather than as a timeless norm. Love must be seen in relation to power rather than as physical or emotional need. The equation of women with nature has been unfruitful. More exciting is the analogy between women and art works. Gilbert and Gubar have pointed out that much of the suffering of women in fiction is produced by the attempt of an author or character to "kill" the woman into art (in German literature, figures of Goethe, T. Mann, Dürrenmatt immediately come to mind). What needs then to be done is to scrutinize differing concepts of nature, taking nature for what it always is in literature: a social construct, a work of art, just like so many women characters in literary history.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Julie D. Prandi &lt;br /&gt;Columbia U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Deconstructing the Canon&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This study of the German literary canon is based on a survey of graduate reading lists and book lists in survey courses at universities granting M.A.'s or Ph.D.'s in German literature. I compiled these into one central list and analysed this collective list with regard to women authors. 1 located gaps in the list in the periods of Classicism/Romanticism (1771-1840) and in the period 1840-1920's (with the exceptions of Ricarda Huch and Else Lasker- Schüler). In general women authors on the list are pre-Reformation or twentieth century, and thus are temporally peripheral to the traditional periodization of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Germanistik&lt;/span&gt;. I speculated about the historical reasons for these omissions, and presented my own revised list of "who's who" in German women's literature. I will be submitting this for publication shortly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Jeannine Blackwell &lt;br /&gt;Michigan State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(A summary of "Working Class Women Writers in Wilhelmine Germany and the Literary Canon" by Joan Reutershan (New York U.) was not received.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Business Meeting, December 28, 1:00 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A brief and, by all accounts, mildly chaotic business meeting followed the session "Feminist Re-Visions of German Literary History." The first item of discussion was the need for fundraising to finance the visits of Irmtraud Morgner and Helga Schutz to the US in fall 1984. Martha Wallach, Sandy Frieden and Karen Achberger have assumed the major responsibility for this work. Another topic discussed was the recommendation (made for the first time by Karen during the 1983 WiG conference in Boston) that German depart­ments wishing to schedule visits by the authors WiG invites to our annual conferences should be WiG members. (Since no one reported any negative response to this recommendation, I assume the consensus was that we adopt it as policy. Departmental memberships are only $25.00 per year. Urge your &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Business Meeting, December 28, 1:00 p.m.&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;department to become a member of WiG. —Ed. note.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concerning WiG 1984, MLA 1984 and AATG 1984, announcements of dates and dead­lines were made and other "housekeeping" details attended to. (Calls for papers for all three meetings were mailed in early February.) Other announce­ments were made, including the second conference on feminist literary criti­cism in the FRG (see announcement, p. 18 of this newsletter).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was announced that 1985 will be the TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the annual WiG conference, an occasion which perhaps calls for a special celebration of some kind. Konstanze Baumer pointed out that 1985 is also the 200th anniversary of Bettina von Arnim's birth and suggested a focus on her life and/or work. Those present were asked for suggestions as to whom to invite as guest author for the 1985 WiG conference, which is being planned for the west coast (Kathryn Strachota, Dinah Dodds and Charlotte Smith have volunteered to locate a suitable site and help organize the conference). Some people argued in favor of inviting a woman filmmaker rather than an author for 1985 (Ulrike Ottinger and Margarethe von Trotta were suggested); other suggestions from the sign-up sheet that circulated were: Gisela Brinker-Gab1er; Brigitte Schwaiger; a Swiss woman author (if truth be told, Switzerland has gotten rather short schrift from WiG so far —Ed. note). No consensus was reached on any of the above topics, owing to lack of time and the small number of members able to stay for the meeting, which dwindled steadily as the hour grew later. The meeting, chaired by Martha Wallach, broke up/was adjourned at about 1:35 p.m.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Summary by JC, from information reported by Martha Wallach, Barbara Wright and Jeannine Blackwell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INTEGRATING WOMEN'S STUDIES INTO THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: NEW PROBLEMS, NEW SOLUTIONS&lt;br /&gt;Coordinator: Barbara D. Wright, U. Conn., Storrs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our session opened with Florence Howe, who asserted that women's studies [in this country] "has focused on its navel." In other words, women's studies has looked almost exclusively at the US and Britain, with sidelong glances at France—probably in large measure out of discomfort with the foreign lan­guages that would be required for a more international perspective. From her position as co-director of the Women's Studies International Network, she assured us of the vitality of women's studies in other parts of the world—as well as the palpable differences from Western feminism. She also announced that &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Feminist Press&lt;/span&gt; will soon publish a volume entitled Feminist &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Poetry from the Middle Ages&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;the Present&lt;/span&gt;, which will contain French, Spanish, Italian and German lyrics in the original language with facing-page English translations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Virginia Thordike Hules (French Dept., Wellesley Coll.) next talked about the "teacher/student (disJconnection." She called for a revaluing of passion, a&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INTEGRATING WOMEN'S STUDIES INTO THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: NEW PROBLEMS, NEW SOLUTIONS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;new definition of power, and the reintegration of both in the classroom. In discussing passion, Virginia referred to Carol Gilligan's&lt;a title=""&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; work on male and female psychological development: while men think of themselves as separate individuals in competition with other individuals, relying on rules and rights to order the competition, women are more likely to see themselves con­nected to others, feeling a responsibility for relationship and collaboration. Virginia argued that in a feminist pedagogy passion is joined with cognition, cooperation is stressed over competition and connection replaces disconnection- both between students and teacher, and among the students themselves. In dis­cussing power, she explained that it need not be regarded as scarce or coveted but rather as something available to all for the group welfare. Power can come from a variety of sources: force, rhetoric, money or fealty, for example. Of all of these, the power that comes from fealty is the most stable, ethical and equitable. Virginia closed by calling for power to be decentralized, democratized and shared in the classroom, though she acknowledged that this is difficult in a social context where disconnection, competition and rivalry predominate. For practical suggestions she referred the audience to two books, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Caring and Sharing in the Foreign Language Classroom&lt;/span&gt; by Gertrude Moskowitz, and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Learner&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Centered Language Learning&lt;/span&gt; by Arthur Copolia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My own remarks focused on the work that has been done thus far in evaluating foreign language textbooks for sexism, and on a critique of the kind of lan­guage we choose to teach our students. My arguments can be read in Barbara D. Wright, "The Feminist Transformation of Foreign Language Teaching" in the Women in German Yearbook, Vol. 1 (University Press of America, forthcoming, 1984).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our session closed with Francine Frank (Spanish and linguistics, SUNY, Albany). Surveying the last 10 or 12 years of feminist activity to eliminate sexism from foreign language teaching materials, she concludes that while much has changed, the battle continues and has in some ways become more difficult.&lt;br /&gt;Sexism survives, but often in subtler forms. The guidelines for avoiding sexism and stereotyping which many publishers adopted in the late seventies were rather permissive, none of them addressed FL texts specifically, and one might say they represented "equal opportunity" rather than "affirmative action." In 1981, when the MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession surveyed publishers, they expressed continuing desire to produce balanced and non-sexist materials.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, contacts with publishers in the last year showed that some authors have resisted attempts to remove sexist stereotypes and language from their texts. Having males and females represented equally in the text creates what some males perceive as a "feminist" tone and a threat to the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;status quo&lt;/span&gt;. One editor stated that their publishing house had "gone overboard" at times and had had to "correct back." Several editors argued that the foreign cultures involved were sexist and that non-sexist material would therefore not be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Carol Gilligan, I&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;n a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women's Development.&lt;/span&gt; (Harvard Univ. Press).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INTEGRATING WOMEN'S STUDIES INTO THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: NEW PROBLEMS, NEW SOLUTIONS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;authentic (none seemed to recognize that the same would hold true for our own culture). One editor did say it would be helpful to have current information about the women's movement in other countries and recent changes in lifestyle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finally, bringing us up to date, Francine reported that an informal telephone survey of some of the same publishers—carried out just the week before the MLA convention—revealed that the same opinions and concerns still exist. Guidelines for non-sexist usage are used by in-house editorial staffs, and the official policy is to delete derogatory of stereotypical material from new texts or old ones under revision. Above all, photographs are changed— but this remains a cosmetic change as long as the basic content of the book does not change. Editors must still be alert to sexist language, as many authors continue in their traditional ways. Secondary school textbooks seem to receive more scrutiny than college texts. As a reviewer of FL textbooks, Francine asserted that many new textbook proposals show no awareness of sex­ism on the part of the authors. Moreover, the list of questions which reviewers are asked to address does not include anything concerning sexism; apparently, editors believe they can handle this problem in-house without any outside help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Francine closed with comments on three recent Spanish textbooks, which she assumed would be typical of texts for most of the languages commonly taught in the US. She warned, though, that this is a conservative profession and that many instructors still use older textbooks. She also noted that both students and teaching assistants at her institution are aware of the sexism in the materials currently used there, but neither group seems to regard this as a crucial issue; it is accepted as somehow in the nature of things and peripheral to the main concerns of the foreign language course.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In 1979, Francine found that women continued to be underrepresented numeri­cally in dialogues and readings. Though several books had made an attempt to portray women in an unbiased way, deeply ingrained sex stereotyping had proven resistant to change; even the books which took pains to stress a woman's intelligence still dwelled on her physical appearance to a greater extent than for men. The persistence of sexism in grammar and vocabulary further revealed how difficult it was to eradicate stereotypes or discriminatory terminology, even when the will to do so existed. Perhaps most seriously, Francine also found that many books reflected a very masculine world where only the activities and concerns of men were important. Few texts provided a context where both women and men could feel comfortable. In conclusion, Francine was able to see some signs of hope and progress, but found that similarities with the past outweigh the changes or improvements.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The panel was followed by lively informal discussion and the distribution of various hand-outs, including the WiG collection of textbook reviews, which will also be published in a forthcoming issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;— Barbara Wright&lt;br /&gt;U. Connecticut, Storrs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing: STAMP OUT SEXISM IN &lt;br /&gt;TEXTBOOKS NOW!)&lt;/p&gt;
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-15-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG 1983&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(The following two items relating to the 1983 WiG conference in Boston were received too late to be included in the November 1983 newsletter.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finding a Voice in the University Administration&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A 1973 survey of 3,000 Americans, my survey of books on public speaking, a survey of students in Intermediate German, my observation of women's behavior in university governance meetings, and last but not least the responses to my WiG questionnaire on public speaking provide strong evidence that many persons (not all!), and especially women fear public speaking or have ambivalent feelings about it. Since women desire greater access to all areas of public life it is necessary that the problem of public speaking and assertiveness which is closely tied to it be addressed widely and effectively. This should be done with short term as well as long term goals.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As regards short term goals, we must improve our own skills in public speaking now and encourage other women to do so. We must be aware that we present role models now for the next generation. For immediate help I handed out a "kit" containing the following: A checklist of examples of behaviors that can be sex stereotypic in nature; "Talking Tough," an article on princi­ples of "powerspeak;" a list of reasons why women have the same difficulties in public speaking as men &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;plus&lt;/span&gt;; the "Public Speaker's Bill of Rights," an assertiveness test. Furthermore I recommended a recent book: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Talk-Power&lt;/span&gt;, A Systematic Training Program, Natalie H. Rogers, Dodd, Mead, &amp;amp; Co., New York, 1982, $12.95 (it includes strategies on quest ion/answer periods after a presentation). As possible improvement steps I recommended accepting leadership assignments wherever possible, speaking up at every opportunity, using the classroom as rehearsal stage, taking initiative (acting instead of reacting), anticipating controversial issues and preparing for verbal confrontation, networking with other women for moral support. These are all assertiveness- and confidence-building activities that will also enhance speaking skills.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Long term goals concern the next generation: our students, daughters, other young women. They should all be encouraged to engage in the activities described above. In the classroom we should strive for a less teacher- centered climate, give plenty of opportunity for participation, debate, short and longer presentations. These efforts on the part of students should receive feedback and be included in the evaluation of the course work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;P.S. After this workshop, Charlotte Armster, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, informed me of an organized approach to improving women's public speaking skills at Dartmouth, spearheaded by Professor Marilyn Reeve, Dept. of Speech. Please contact her or Professor Reeve lor details.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Irmgard C. Taylor&lt;br /&gt;SUNY, Cortland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-16-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG 1983 (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thompson Island&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In 1951 my first train trip in America had taken me to Massachusetts where a kindly foreign student adviser already had decided what I should study: Germanistik.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Germanistik has come to accompany me through life. Many times I tried to shake—it? her?—off. But—she—has clung to me. After 1968 she tried to shake me off. And I clung to her. In the form of Women in German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These women, most of them Americans and some Germans, for the first time formulated for me, put into words, the feelings I long had held for this discipline, dealing with my mother tongue and literature that was beloved to my mother and my father. WiG women legitimized the anger I had long felt for the mode in which I had allowed myself to be forced to study.&lt;br /&gt;WiG women for the first time read papers I found truly exciting. WiG women also made me fully aware that the Germanistik in whose arms I landed unwittingly and truly only half consciously (for that you must read the story of my journey to America) was a discipline conceived by men and for men. Conservative men. Men whom most of my ancestors at the time of con­ception of Germanistik would have considered "masters." Men who saw them­selves proudly as the elite.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Germanistik most certainly was not a child of my people. WiG women however have now adopted this child and begun the long and slow process of reeduca­ting and changing her. An arduous task, but a fascinating task. A task which to my great chagrin takes more youthful ardor than I can muster at this stage of my life.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My days on Thompson Island were filled with joy and with chagrin. The joy of watching the women making inroads in the transformation of Germanistik from a whore into a feminist—and the sorrow of being mostly a spectator rather than a participant of this process!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you, WiG Women, for extricating my language and my literature from the cold-hearted, objective and cruel surgeons. Thank you for bringing joy and warmth to the study of words and giving me hope that perhaps even I will live to see a renaissance of Germanistik—and, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps even still teach HER some day!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Marianne Landr&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;é&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Goldscheider &lt;br /&gt;Brooklyn, NY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Detailed calls for papers for all of the following sessions were mailed in early February; this listing is meant only as a reminder. To send in a proposal, please contact the coordinators directly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; [drawing: TOOT]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-17-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AATG 1984, November 16-18, Chicago&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and German Film&lt;/span&gt; (approaches to teaching films by women and/or images of women in film in any period of German cinema). Coord. Barbara Hyams, For. Lang. &amp;amp; Comp. Lit., U. Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104 and Sieglinde Lug, For. Langs. &amp;amp; Lits., U. Denver, Denver, CO 80210.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Peace&lt;/span&gt; (literature from any of the German-speaking countries, from any period). Coord. Irmgard Hunt, Gmc &amp;amp; Slavic, Texas Tech U., Lubbock, TX 79409 and Irmgard C. Taylor, Int. Comm. &amp;amp; Culture, SUNY at Cortland, [redacted] Cortland, NY 13045.
&lt;p&gt;MLA 1984, December 27-30, Washington, D.C.&lt;/p&gt;
1.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; Appropriating Faust&lt;/span&gt; (feminist reinterpretations of Goethe's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Faust&lt;/span&gt; or the Faust-myth; appropriations of Faust-myth in women's literature). Coord. Gerlinde Geiger, Smith Coll., Dept. of German, Northampton, MA 01060 and Konstanze Baumer, For. Langs. &amp;amp; Lits., Syracuse. U. 327 H.B.C., Syracuse, NY 13210.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;(Re)Making Myth in German Women's Writing&lt;/span&gt; (especially attention to formal aspects of the use of myth and ideological implications of these forms). Coord. Angelika Bammer, Dept. of German, Vanderbilt U., Nashville, TN 37235 and Karen Achberger, German Dept., St. Olaf Coll., Northfield, MN 55057.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG 1984, October 18-21, Thompson Island, Boston&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;What Do Feminist Germanists Want (or Need)?&lt;/span&gt; (Opening session—what direc tions should WiG be going in?) Coord. Gail Newman, Dept. of German, Williams Coll., Williamstown, MA 01267 and Dorothy Rosenberg, Mod. For. Lang., Colby Coll., Waterville, ME 04901.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Humor, or: Why are These Women Laughing?&lt;/span&gt; (humor in German women's writing—forms, functions, etc.). Coord. Karen Achberger, Dept. of German, St. Olaf Coll., Northfield, MN 55057 and Sheila Johnson, Dept. of German, Ohio State U., Columbus, OH 43210.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Practical Feminist Strategies for Teaching Intermediate German&lt;/span&gt; (locus on language and/or literature, and teaching of German film). Coord. Marlene Heinemann, Mod. &amp;amp; Classical Langs., [redacted] U. Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82070; Joan Moessner, Dept. of Ling. &amp;amp; For. Langs., U. Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99701; and Sandy Frieden, Dept. of German, U. Houston, Houston, TX 77004.
&lt;p&gt;5. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Witches and Wise Women&lt;/span&gt; (interdisciplinary panel; feminist reappraisals of the belief in, practice of, persecution for witchcraft in any histori­cal period). Coord. Jeanette Clausen, Mod. For. Lang., IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN 46805 and Patsy Baudoin, Schoenhof's Foreign Books, 76A Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Humor&lt;/span&gt;: There is a useful bibliography on women's humor in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Language News&lt;/span&gt; Vol. VII, No. 1, pp. 20-24. WLN is available from the University of Illinois, 244 Lincoln Hall, Urbana, IL 61801.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIELEFELD CONFERENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die zweite Tagung von &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft&lt;/span&gt; findet vom 8. bis 11. Juni 1984 in Bielefeld statt. Geplant werden folgende sieben Sektionen; es wird angenommen, dass ausser Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaftlerinnen auch Kunsthistorikerinnen, Soziologinnen, Psychologinnen, Historikerinnen, Philosophinnen, Religionswissenschaftlerinnen und Medizinhistorikerinnen teil­nehmen werden. Anregungen für ein "kulturelles Beiprogramm" (Fest, Lesungen, Rockband, Ausstellungen, Performances, etc.) werden auch gesucht. Termin für Vorschläge, Exposés, Anfragen usw. an die jeweiligen Planerinnen war der 15. January 1984. Kontaktadresse für die Vorbereitungsgruppe ist: Maria Kublitz, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Programm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sektion I: STRUKTURALISTISCHE UND SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTLICHE ANSÄTZE IN DER FEMINISTISCHEN THEORIE &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Planung: Sigrid Weigel, redacted], Ruth Schmutz, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sektion II: ROMANE VON FRAUEN AUS DEM 19. JAHRHUNDERT &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Planung: Susan Winnett, Friedrich-Legan-Str. [redacted], Kerstin Wilhelms, redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sektion III: WENN FRAUEN ÜBER FRAUEN SCHREIBEN&lt;br /&gt;Planung: Susanne Amrain, [redacted], Annegret Pelz, [readcted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sektion IV: ANDROGYNITÄT&lt;br /&gt;Planung: Inge Stephan, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, U. Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6, 2000 Hamburg 13. [redacted] oder [redacted] Irene Guy, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sektion V: KRANKE FRAUEN -- "KRANKHEIT FRAU"&lt;br /&gt;Planung: Maria Kublitz, [redacted], Ursula Geitner [redacted], Gabriele Bail, Ewaldstr. [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sektion VI: NEUERE LITERATUR VON FRAUEN IN DEN 80ER JAHREN &lt;br /&gt;Planung: Regula Venske, Grossheidestr. [redacted], Gerlinde Horsch, [redacted] Annette Bley, Rellingerstr. [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sektion VII: FEMINISTISCHE WISSENSCHAFT&lt;br /&gt;Planung: Marianne Schüller, Gabriel-Seidel-Str. [redacted] Renate Berger, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, U. Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6, 2000 Hamburg 13. [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Es gibt im Wissenschaftsbetrieb so gut wie kein Geld, keine Stelle, keine Chance für Frauen und Frauenforschung. Ist auch bundesweit der Anteil der Studentinnen auf 37%, gestiegen, gibt es nur ca. 8% Hochschullehrerinnen, und die wenigsten im Frauenforschungsbereich." (from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Rundbrief&lt;/span&gt; 1, "Frauen in der Literaturwissenschaft," November 1983).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONFERENCES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard sent the following information about the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;IVG Congress&lt;/span&gt; to be held in Gottingen, August 25-31, 1985:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"The call for papers for the 1985 IVG Congress is out. Proposals must be submitted by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 30&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1984&lt;/span&gt; to the section chairs. (I have complete info; contact me for details.) There will be a section on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauensprache&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;iteratur&lt;/span&gt; chaired by Inge Stephan (Hamburg), myself, and an as yet not deter­mined male. Of course, interested people should also think about submitting proposals to other sections (25 in all). The IVG is attended by Germanists from many non-European countries, so it's a chance to make our ideas more widely known. To submit proposals and attend the conference, you need not become a member of IVG, but non-members must pay a higher fee (DM 250 or 300 versus DM 100 or 150; the higher rate if payment is made after March 31, 1985).&lt;br /&gt;I have application forms if you want to join. A five-year membership costs DM 100, but you can apply for reduced membership fees by showing financial hardship. For application forms, information about section topics for the 1985 Congress, or any other questions, call or write me." — Marianne Burkhard, U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Eighteenth Annual Comparative Literature Symposium at Texas Tech Univer­sity, to be held January 24-26, 1985, will be an interdisciplinary conference with the topic WAR AND PEACE: PERSPECTIVES IN THE NUCLEAR AGE. There will be keynote speakers in literature, history, journalism, science, and theology. Proposals for papers must be received by May 1, 1984. Address: Irmgard Hunt, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, Texas Tech U., Lubbock, TX 79409.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Thirteenth Annual International Women's Writing Guild Conference will be held at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY from July 27 - August 3, 1984. The conference theme is "Aspects of Transformation II." The conference gives equal billing to writing for self-fulfillment as well as writing for publication, and is responsible for the publication of 65 books in the past 5 years by hitherto unpublished women writers. Close to 50 workshops will be offered in every genre of writing, including: word processing for writers, social biography, romances, fiction, poetry, journal writing, film and video script writing; as well as workshops on photography, storytelling, yoga, collage and kite flying. New York literary agents are always part of the event. Most evenings feature readings of work in progress by the attendees. The only prerequisite for participation is a sincere interest in the written word. Basic rates for the full week (room and board) are $365.00 double/ $405.00 single. For more information contact Hannelore Hahn, International Women's Writing Guild, Box 810 Grade Station, New York, NY 10028. Tel. (212) 737-7536.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-20-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BOOK REVIEWS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Goetzinger, Germaine. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Für die Selbstverwirkiichung der Frau: Louise Aston&lt;/span&gt; Frankfurt: Fischer TB 1280, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I like my secondary literature juicy, true, organized, pertinent, and larded with footnotes. Germaine Goetzinger has given me such a book.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For years we have been fed fleeting references to Louise Aston. She is either the German George Sand or a sexually flamboyant barricade fighter of 1848 about whom much is implied but nothing concrete reported. Those of us writing feminist dissertations read one or two of her "autobiographical” works. I, for one, was totally ahistorical and gullible in that reading.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And here Goetzinger sets us gently straight. She gives us carefully researched biographical detail (and tells us which sources are wrong), describes the ideology and history of Aston's detractors, and includes in the anthology the pertinent newspaper articles, police spy reports, diary entries, book dedications. Finally, and most important in my mind, she lets Louise Aston speak for herself. Goetzinger chooses the same excerpts I would take from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wilde Rosen&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Meine Emanzipation&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Verweisung und Rechtfertigung&lt;/span&gt;, Aus &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;dem Leben einer Frau&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Freischarler Reminscenzen&lt;/span&gt;, and Revolution und Contre- &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Revolution&lt;/span&gt;. It has clever illustrations, a good select bibliography, and a list of primary sources. What more could I want!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This inexpensive biography/anthology would be a) delightful reading for fatigued feminists, b) a good inclusion in a course on German women authors, c) an excellent antidote to Stifter in a 19th century course.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Jeannine Blackwell &lt;br /&gt;Michigan State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Anfänge der deutschen Frauenbewegung: Louise Otto-Peters.&lt;/span&gt; Frankfurt: Fischer TB 3729, 1983, 292 pp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This book is a welcome addition to the series &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Frau in der Gesellschaft&lt;/span&gt;. Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres is to be commended for her tenacity over the years in ferreting out both published—but inaccessible—and unpublished texts by Louise Otto. One can only deplore the decision of the publisher to shorten the manuscript by half. (see Anmerkung, p. 30) This kind of censorship in the name of "verlagstechnischen Gründen" continues to hamper the cause of feminist scholarship within German Studies. Only ready access to the full range of Louise Otto's work can lead to the kind of new assessment of nine­teenth century German feminists which is so needed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I especially like the organization of the volume into chronological units, each containing a "Lebenstafel" and introductory remarks, followed by the selected texts, with complete bibliographical information given at the end of the book. Joeres' general introduction and conclusion are highly sugges­tive of the kind of re-vision which can only be attempted when we have bet­ter access to the primary sources. She points out mistakes of fact that have been passed down from one secondary source to another. While Joeres&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-21-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BOOK REVIEWS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Anfänge der deutschen Frauenbewegung : Louise Otto-Peters&lt;/span&gt;. (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;does not try to provide a comprehensive analysis of Louise Otto, I find particularly provocative her suggestion that if we were to read the texts more attentively, we would not accuse L.O. of having become increasingly more conservative in later years. One hopes that Joeres herself will now undertake such a major study and that—in the meantime—other feminist scholars will react to her tentative conclusions as to why L.O. above all others was successful in organizing German women. (see Nachwort, pp. 265­272)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In a remarkable passage from Louise Otto's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Einflussreiche Frauen aus dem Volke&lt;/span&gt; (1869) included in the book (pp. 228-229), she emphasizes the impor­tance of women writing about other women in order to rectify "history." Joeres' book provides one more vital piece in the patchwork of "herstory" in nineteenth century Germany. But we are still left with fragments rather than the whole cloth. Gan we not individually and as a group (WiG) flood Fischer Verlag with requests that a second volume of documents—to which Joeres alludes—be published as soon as possible? 1 urge you (us) to express your (our) sisterly solidarity in the interest of excellent scholar­ship!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Margaret E. Ward &lt;br /&gt;Wellesley College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— While you're still in the mood, here is Fischer's address: [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The German Women's Movement&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Ingeborg Drewitz; transl. Patricia Crampton Bonn: Hohwacht Verlag, 1983. 152 pp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This collection of seven essays provides a broad overview of women's emanci­pation and the social role of women in Germany from the early nineteenth century to the present. It is divided into three sections: the period from 1815 to the March Revolution of 1848; the Bismarck era through the Weimar Republic; and post-war Germany.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first part consists solely of Renate Möhrmann's essay, "Female Emancipa­tion in the Period Preceding the 1848 Revolution in Germany," a condensed version of her foreward to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenemancipation im deutschen Vormärz&lt;/span&gt; (Reklam, 1978). The bibliography from that volume, with entries on Anneke, Aston, Dittmar, Hahn-Hahn, Lewald, von Meysenbug, Mühlbach and Otto-Peters is included, although unchanged. It would be more useful had it been updated.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Part II Mechthild Merfeld provides a succinct analysis of August Bebel's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Woman and Socialism&lt;/span&gt; (1879), particularly his critique of the nuclear family&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-22-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BOOK REVIEWS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The German &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Movement&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Ingeborg Drewitz; transl. Patricia Crampton. (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and middle-class sexual morality. In the longest essay in the volume (30 pages), Gisela Brinker-Gabler provides a basic introduction to both the middle-class and the proletarian women's movements in the German Empire for the general reader by focusing on the individual contributions of such key figures as Helene Lange, Hedwig Dohm, Clara Zetkin, Helene Stocker, Bertha von Suttner and Rosa Luxemburg. In her essay Renate Faerber-Husemann dis­cusses the attempted equality of women in the Weimar Republic through women's suffrage as well as the discrimination against women under the Nazi Regime, based on the "mawkish and bare-faced ideology of motherhood."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The third section summarizes the progress and problems of the contemporary women's movement in the FRG: In "Women"s Rights and Family Law since the 19th Century" Ute Gerhard sees the non-appreciation of housework as the "cardinal cause of the previous failure of all efforts in favour of equality." Ute B. Frohlich provides a comparison of the old and new women's movements in her contribution. Finally, in "The Political and Social Position of Women Today" Martina I. Kischke discusses the effects of the new Marriage and Family Act (1977) in the FRG and provides statistical information on women employed in the FRG today.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of the contributions in the volume are very brief and contain short bibliographies (of German works) which vary in quality. The book, which is beautifully illustrated, appeared simultaneously in German, English, French and Spanish and is geared towards a broad inter­national audience. The English translation seems forced in places and renders some terms rather imprecisely. The choice of contributions is curious: Mohrmann's essay in the first part, for example, does not hold its weight in view of the three part division. The book is, however, useful to feminists and germanists for general reference. It also contains a chronological table listing milestones in the fight for women's rights as well as an illus­trated bio-bibliography on the contributors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Gerlinde Geiger&lt;br /&gt;Smith College&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Nummer 1 (Mai 1983) des 2. Jahrganges widmet sich dem Thema: hiebe .ans der Sicht von Frauen. In einem einleitenden Vorwort—übertitelt "Entwirrungen"— weisen Heide Göttner-Abendroth und Lising Pagenstecher auf die herkömmlichen Vorstellungen von "Liebe" hin, die für Frauen meist immer verbunden sind mit "Pflichten," die "nie enden sollende, immer verständnisvolle, selbst­lose, aufopfernde Mutter-, Gatten- und Nächstenliebe, die tätige Liebe im Kreis der Familie. Erst später denken wir an Liebe, die mit Lust, Sinnlich­keit^ Körperlichkeit zu tun hat." (S. 3) Oder an die Vorstellung von "Hin­gabe" und "Aufgabe," die in den grossen "Liebenden" (Leidenden) wie Isolde, Julia, Gretchen ihre Verkörperung fanden. Die Herausgeberinnen des Heltes fordern auf zu "Entwirrung" von Vorstellungen, damit neue, eigene Bilder von Liebe geschaffen werden können. Der Leitgedanke ist somit die "Selbst­aneignung der Liebe" durch Frauen. Er erfordert die Blickrichtung aul sich selbst, das Erkennen der Übernahme von männlichen Vorstellungen und männ­lichem Erleben von Sexualität und die Neuformulierung von erwünschten, veränderten Beziehungen zu den Männern. Unter verschiedenen Aspekten entwickeln die Autorinnen einen eigenen, kritischen Begriff von Liebe.&lt;br /&gt;Hedwig Ortmann ("Uber die Schwierigkeiten in einer patriarchalischen Gesell­schaft das Leben mit Kindern zu behaupten") und Helgard Kramer ("Lässt sich sexistisches Verhalten verbieten?") beschreiben die Widersprüche, in die Frauen bei dem Versuch sich gegen "Fremdzuschreibungen und sexuelle Über­griffe zu wehren," geraten können (S. 5). Beide Arbeiten bringen wichtige Einsichten in die gegenwärtige arbeitsmarkt-, sozial- und sexua1po1itisehe Entwicklung, die durch Appelle wie "Gemeinsinn" und "Dienst an der Gemein­schaft" schon manches mal in der Geschichte die Se Ibstverwirk1ichungsver- suche von Frauen verhindert haben. Heide Göttner-Abendroths Untersuchung zur "Erotik in matriarchalen Gesellschaften," Sieglinde Eva Tömmels Beitrag zur "Sinnlichkeit in der frühen Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung," Sylvia Kades Recherchen "Uber die alternden Frauenidole in Rosa von Praunheims Arbeiten," über die unwürdigen Greisinnen mit sinnlichen Sehnsüchten- alle drei Arbeiten bereichern die Diskussion um einen neuen Begriff von Erotik.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wie die Beziehungen von Frauen zu Männern sich im Lichte einer von Frauen bestimmten Erotik-Diskussion und Neudefinition im Bild, d.h. in der Kunst darstellen, dazu liefert dann auch Gisela Breitling ("Der verborgene Eros. Zur Kunst von Frauen") einen neuen aufschlussreichen Beitrag. Dass der gegenwärtigen Kunst von Frauen ein "neues Bild des Mannes" noch fehlt, wird u.a. zurückgeführt auf die Tatsache, dass "Männer von sich selbst kein Bild mehr haben" (S. 9), dass auch sie beginnen müssten ein neues Muster zu suchen und entwerfen. Es gibt zuviele Beiträge, die es verdienten wenigstens durch Angabe ihrer Schwerpunkte hervorgehoben zu werden. Eins wird beim Durchlesen dieses Heftes klar, nämlich, dass es mit der simplen Kontrastierung von Frauen contra Männer nicht mehr getan sein kann. Man wird unwillkürlich erinnert an Christa Wolfs mahnenden Aufruf zum Schluss ihrer Frankfurter Poetik-Vorlesung, der betont, dass die Veränderung der Geschlechterverhält­nisse als gemeinsame Aufgabe von Frauen und Männern zu sehen sei, auf dass die Hoffnung aul mehr Humanität in der Gegenwart und Zukunft erfüllt werden möge.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ein ausführlicher Informations-Teil und Rezensionen zu neueren Publikationen ergänzen die wichtige, neue Zeitschrift zur Frauenforschung.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Trudis E. Goldsmith-Reber &lt;br /&gt;McGill University&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-24-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mechtel, Angelika. Gott und &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Liedermacher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; (München: List Verlag, 1983).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This particular novel has been eagerly awaited by those of us who had the chance to meet Mechtel in 1981. Not only does it signal a new, more militant stance of the author, but it also documents the way in which a German woman artist is confronted with patriarchal values during a singing tour through the United States. Thus for an American feminist audience the novel is of interest on several levels: what aspects of American culture are targeted for attack by a German author; what form does that attack take; how is it resolved; and not least of all, alas, which German departments and which of us or our colleagues are portrayed. I was somewhat disappointed on all counts. The novel, which consists of six chapters, depicts the trial of songwriter Julia Ritter, who is being sued for defamation of the male character per se. Although the trial is held in the FRG, the roots of the problem lie in the United States. During the trial the various stages of the singing tour are presented and analyzed both from Julia's standpoint and that of the male prosecution. The offensive material, i.e. the series of Julia's revisionist stories offering an alterna­tive, gynocentric interpretation of biblical and classical myths or German fairy tales, is included as evidence in the trial, as are the poetic texts by Claudius, Heine, Gryphius and others that Julia has set to music. The stations of her tour include New York, Boston, New Haven, "State College, Pa," Cin­cinnati, Chicago, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and Austin (not Racine!).* During the tour Julia becomes progressively disillusioned in her search to find "Godfather" (Gottvater!), the ultimate personification of patriarchal and capitalist values, whom she presumes to discover in this land of Patriarchy and Capitalism, until she gives up entirely. Her one source of solace is provided in Chicago by Kit, a non-male-identified man and a super­lover. In the end, after she flees from her identity as a performer and even abandons her alter ego as a latter-day "Scheherazade" (she tells stories to keep alive!), she takes refuge in a relationship to Kit on neutral territory (San Francisco). Eventually, though, she must also leave him and their undefined relationship in order to stand trial in West Germany.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I had problems with this novel, much as I otherwise enjoy Mechtel's work. I felt that she, who is so adept at evoking nuanced meaning in her careful pre­sentation of detail in her other novels and stories, had not been able to scratch the surface of the American experience. The trip through the country is so breathless that the description of people and places remains sketchy. Some of the details are striking, but they are immediately interpreted and pressed into the service of the "defense." As I read, I found myself wishing that Mechtel had taken some of those observations and created poems out of them, like those in the "hochhausgeschichten." Even the interpolated stories, which are the most playful element of the novel, seemed somehow too direct, too one­dimensional. Therefore, while I most certainly welcome the feminist conviction Mechtel brings to her work, I would encourage her to apply it to the situation in the FRG, to the German context that she portrays so well. Göttin und die Liedermacherin know that there's still a lot of work to be done there too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Susan L. Cocalis&lt;br /&gt;University of Massachusetts/Amherst&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*The 1981 Women in German conference was held in Racine, Wisconsin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-25-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NEW…&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CONFERENCE PAPERS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Barbara Wright&lt;/span&gt; (U. Conn., Storrs) will present a paper at NEMLA on March 29, 9:00-10:30 a.m., in a panel entitled "Linguistics and Women's Studies." The title of Barbara's presentation is "The Persistence of Sex-Role Stereotyping in Language."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Karen Achberger&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Angelika Banimer&lt;/span&gt; will present papers on Reappropriating Myth in Contemporary German Women's Writing at the National Women's Studies Association Convention, to be held June 24-28, 1984 on the Douglass College Campus of Rutgers University. Angelika's presentation on Christa Wolf and Irmtraud Morgner is called "Writing for Our Lives," and Karen's is entitled "Subverting 'Reality:' Ingeborg Bachmann's Mythic counterpoint."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ARTICLES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Hoshino Altbach, "The New German Women's Movement," forthcoming in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt;, spring 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Evelyn Torton Beck, "The Motherhood That Dare Not Speak Its Name," Women's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Studies Quarterly&lt;/span&gt; Vol. XI, No. 4 (Winter 1983), pp. 8-11. (This entire issue of WSQ is on mothering and motherhood—for ordering information, write to The Feminist Press, [redacted] Old Westbury, NY 11568, or call [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margaret Ward called our attention to the following articles on women in the GDR, written by a sociologist:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joan Ecklein, "Women in the German Democratic Republic: Impact of Culture and Social Policy," in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in the Middle Years: An Agenda for Research&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Janet Giele, a project under the auspices of the Social Science Research Council, Wiley and Sons, 1982, pp. 151-197.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joan Ecklein, "Women's Lives and Social Policy in East Germany and the United States," with Janet Giele, in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Studies in Comparative Communism: An Inter­disciplinary Journal&lt;/span&gt;, Fall 1981.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joan Ecklein, "Obstacles to Understanding the Changing Role of Women in Socialist Countries," in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Insurgent Sociologist&lt;/span&gt;, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*RUNDBRIEF — subscribe now!*&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first issue of the new West German &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Rundbrief&lt;/span&gt; "Frauen in der Literatur­wissenschaft" appeared in November 1983. It contains a progress report on the second conference on/for women in literary studies (June 8-11, 1984 in Bielefeld—see announcement, p. 18 of this newsletter), as well as reports on other conferences, projects, etc. of interest to feminists in various disci­plines. The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Rundbrief&lt;/span&gt; is to be published four times a year. A year's sub­scription costs DM 20.- for students and the unemployed, DM 30.- (or more) for the employed. Remit the appropriate amount to the account ol Renate Berger (Stichwort:            Rundbrief), Hamburger Sparkasse, Kontonummer 1238/446 577.&lt;br /&gt;Renate Berger is also the contact person for all manner of inquiries, sugges­tions, etc.: Renate Berger, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, Univ. Hamburg, Von-Me1le-Park 6, 2000 Hamburg 13. [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-26-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BOOKS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SCHOENHOF'S FOREIGN BOOKS has moved to new quarters. Their new address:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Inc. &lt;br /&gt;76A Mount Auburn St.&lt;br /&gt;Cambridge, MA 02138&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Their telephone number is still the same: [redacted] Patsy Baudoin sent the following list of recently received books:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Reinig, Christa: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der Wolf und die Witwen&lt;/span&gt; (Frauenoffensive, $7.80)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Goettner-Abendroth, H.: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die tanzende Göttin&lt;/span&gt;—&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Prinzipien&lt;/span&gt; einer matriarchen &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aesthetik&lt;/span&gt; (Frauenoffensive, $14.95)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Goettner-Abendroth, H.: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Göttin und ihr Heros&lt;/span&gt; (Frauenoffensive, $12.95)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Haller, Gret: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen und Männer—Die Zukunft der Gleichberechtigung&lt;/span&gt; (rororo, $3.90)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Frieden, Sandra: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Autobiography&lt;/span&gt;—&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seif Into Form&lt;/span&gt; (Peter Lang Verlag, $29.95)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wartmann, Brigitte (Hg.): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weiblich&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Männlich&lt;/span&gt;—&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kulturgeschichtliche Spuren einer verdrängten Weiblichkeit&lt;/span&gt; ($17.95)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hilzinger, Sonja: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kassandra&lt;/span&gt;—Üb&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;er Christa Wolf&lt;/span&gt; (Haag &amp;amp; Herchen Verlag, $6.50)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The proceedings of the conference FEMINISTISCHE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT: ZUM VERHÄLTNIS VON FRAUENBILDERN UND FRAUENLITERATUR, held in May 1983 in Hamburg, are being published by Argument Verlag, and may have already appeared by the time yo&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;u read this. To order, contact&lt;/span&gt; Argument directly or write to Sigrid Weigel, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FORTHCOMING . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Feminism&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Readings in Politics and Literature&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Edith Hoshino Altbach, Jeanette Clausen, Dagmar Schultz, Naomi Stephan (SUNY Press, to appear, July 1984). — You don't believe it, right? This book has been forth­coming for so long, this announcement must be just another red herring. Not so. The galleys were read and returned to the press in January, and if all goes well the book will appear on schedule in July 1984. It contains essays by West German and American feminists grouped under such headings as "Breaking the Silence," "Body Politics," "Sisterhood," "Motherhood and Housework," "Feminist Strategy" and "Women's Studies." There are literary selections by Irmtraud Morgner, Sarah Kirsch, Elfriede Bruning, Helga Novak, Christa Wolf, Maxie Wander, Margot Schroeder, Angelika Mechtel, Christine Wolter, Judith Offenbach, Jutta Heinrich and Christa Reinig. Please mark your calendars, or tie a string around your finger, or something, so you'll remember to rush right out and buy it when it (finally) appears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-27-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The ANNOTATED GUIDE TO WOMEN'S PERIODICALS IN THE US &amp;amp; CANADA lists over 250 publications from across the United States and Canada. Each publica­tion is briefly reviewed by category and indexed both alphabetically and by state. The ANNOTATED GUIDE is a 52 page, perfect bound booklet. Subscriptions are $12/ind. (2 issues), $20/inst. &amp;amp; lib. (2 issues), $6.50/ind. (single copy), $10/inst. (single copy). Bookstore and adver­tising rates available on request. Order from: Annotated Guide, c/o N.S.I.W.S., Box E-94, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FILMS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Gretchen Eisner-Sommer, new WiG member and Assistant Editor of JUMPCUT magazine, offered to help us locate films by German women filmmakers. Here is her list of such films already available from sources in the US. For a future issue of the newsletter, she will draw up a list of recent films and filmmakers not yet available here, so that we can get ourselves organized to demand them—or at least be sure to see them when we get the chance abroad.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;German Cinema and Women Filmmakers&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Distribution in America of films by German women filmmakers is sparse. There are many German films made by women which we, here, can only read about or— rarely—see if they happen to tour the country in packages sponsored by the Goethe Institute, or by the artist herself, who hopes to find an American distributor. However, many of these films are not picked up because American demand is not great enough to make their distribution a lucrative venture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One then gets the impression, when looking through a film rental catalogue, that all the films of the New German Cinema are made by men, with the possible exception of Margarethe von Trotta. Instructors of courses about German film correspondingly tend to focus on films made by men, and perhaps remain oblivious to the large body of work that is being done in Germany today by women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following list is an initial attempt to make teachers aware of the choices that are available to them in this country. It is hoped that distributors can be convinced of the need and demand in this country for a more well- rounded view of what is going on in German film today—but first the public itself must become aware of the choices.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Gretchen Eisner-Sommer &lt;br /&gt;JUMPCUT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Films available from commercial distributors&lt;/span&gt;. (listings are alphabetical according to the director's last name).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Export, Valie. INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES. 1976. 120 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"A feminist version of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. Packed with more changes and visual brilliance than a three ring circus, it is funny, violent, sexual." (Amy Taubin, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Soho Weekly&lt;/span&gt; News).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-28-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FILMS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Export, Valie. INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES. (continued)&lt;br /&gt;Rental...$150.00. Zanzibar Productions, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;c/o Public Cinema,&lt;/span&gt; Inc. 144 Bleecker St., New York, NY 10012. [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ottinger, Ulrike. MADAME X - AN ABSOLUTE RULER. 1977. 147 min.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Inspired by the story of a Chinese lady pirate of the thirties, Ottinger has made a film about a pirate ship with an all female crew and captain. Madame X, the pirate queen, appeals to the women of the world to join her, offering love, gold and adventure. Rental...$175.00. Zanzibar Productions (see above).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;____  TICKET OF NO RETURN. 1979. 108 min.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A study of two unusual and very different women. One is rich, eccentric; suppressing and disguising her feelings she deliberately drinks herself into death and oblivion. The other one, much poorer, drinks for the same reasons but less consciously. The film explores the effects of alcoholism on modern women. Rental...$200.00. Zanzibar Productions (see above).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Perincioli, Cristina. THE POWER OF MEN IS THE PATIENCE OF WOMEN. 1978. 80 min. This film tells the story of a woman who finally finds the courage to leave her abusive husband. Her story is a composite of the true story of the three women who act in the film. The tradi­tional narrative form is enhanced by the improvisational style and first-hand e&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;xperience&lt;/span&gt;s of the main characte&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;rs.&lt;/span&gt; Rental...$125.00. IRIS Films, [redacted] Berkeley, CA 94705. [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Riefenstahl, Leni. BLUE LIGHT. 1932. 70 min.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A romantic fantasy film, typical of the German mountain films of this artist falls in love with a wild mountain girl and of the glittering rock crystals of Santa Maria. Films, Inc., 733 Green Bay Road, Wilmette, IL 60091. Tel. Mary Gramley [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;____________  TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. 1934-35. 110 min. Documentary.&lt;br /&gt;Commissioned by Hitler, this film of the 1934 Nuremberg rallies is one of the supreme propaganda films of all time. Rental...$100.00. Films, Inc. (see above).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;____________  OLYMPIA. (parts I &amp;amp; II) 1936-38. 119 min.; 96 min.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skillful editing and epic photographic style transformed this sports documentary into an ode to physical endeavor. Rental...$125.00 each. Films, Inc. (see above).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sagan, Leontine. MADCHEN IN UNIFORM. 1931. 89 min.&lt;br /&gt;Based on the novel by Christine Winsloe,* this film tells the story of a sympathetic teacher and a motherless student in a girl's school.&lt;br /&gt;Its subversive, anti-patriarchal themes are astonishing when one realizes that the film was shot in Germany just two years before Hitler's coming to power. Rental...$100.00. Films, Inc. (see above).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*Is this another of those errors passed on from one secondary source to another? According to Christa Reinig, Winsloe's novel (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Mädchen Manuela)&lt;/span&gt; was written &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;after&lt;/span&gt; the film had been made, and is actually "ein&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-29-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FILMS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sagan, Leontine. MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM. (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Buch gegen den Film." See Christa Winsloe, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mädchen&lt;/span&gt; in Uniform (Frauenoffensive 1983); biogr. essay by Christa Reinig, pp. 241­248. (Ed. note).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;von Trotta, Margarethe (films listed in chronological sequence).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM. 1975. 102 min., co-directed with&lt;br /&gt;Volker Schlöndorff. Based on the novel by Heinrich Boll, this film tells the story of a young woman who is harassed by police and exploited by journalists for her brief affair with an alleged terror­ist. The sexism of these assaults and the emotional terror that they generate open up new levels of the traditional political thriller. Rental...$250.00. Films, Inc. (see above).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE SECOND AWAKENING OF CHRISTA KLAGES. 1977. 88 min.&lt;br /&gt;"Christa Klages is about friendship and the bonds of identification between women. . .it's the film that the touted GIRL FRIENDS and ONE SINGS THE OTHER DOESN'T claimed to be but never got around to."&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Chicago Reader&lt;/span&gt;). "Miss von Trotta is a feminist of striking filmmaking ability. [Her film] is mostly about uncertainty and the need to make choices. In this sense, it is more profoundly political than even the outraged BLUM." (Vincent Camby, NYT). Rental...$200.00. New Line Cinema, 575 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018. Call station to station collect [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SISTERS OR THE BALANCE OF HAPPINESS. 1979. 95 min.&lt;br /&gt;This film focuses on the conflict between two sisters. One sister has molded herself into the image of traditional success. The other painfully discovers that she can never fit into that mode. Rental... $200.00. ALMI Films. Contact Lee Krugman, Acct. Rep. [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;ALMI LIBRA CINEMA 5, 1585 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MARIANNE AND JULIANE. 1981. 109 min.&lt;br /&gt;Von Trotta again explores the relationship between sisters who have chosen different life styles. Burdens of the past and personal respon­sibility play important roles in this relationship which is loosely based on the story of Gudrun Ensslin. Von Trotta provides in-depth psychological analysis of her characters through gestures, glances and nuances. As in her other films, her concentration on personal relation­ships intensifies and exposes the political restraints of the world the characters occupy. Rental...$150.00. NEW YORKER FILMS, 16 West 61st Street, New York, NY 10023. [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. Films &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;available from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Write for complete list and rental information: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 4645 Reservoir Rd., N.W., Washington, DC 20007.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Brückner, Jutta, EIN GANZ UND GAR VERWAHRLOSTES MÄDCHEN. 1977. 76 min. Documentary of a day in Rita Rischak's life. The story is true and Rita plays her own role. She talks about her hopes, her dreams, her worries, her memories. The straightforwardness throughout is impressive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-30-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FILMS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Brückner, Jutta, HUNGERJAHRE-IN EINEM REICHEN LAND. 1979. 114 min.&lt;br /&gt;This film deals with the hate-love relationship of a mother and daughter in post-war Germany.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Genee, Heidi, GRETE MINDE. 1976. 107 min.&lt;br /&gt;Based on Fontane's novel. Grete Minde, a girl of sixteen, of Catholic-Spanish heritage is brought up in a Lutheran part of Germany. Having always been treated as an outsider, she decides one day to act like one, with tragic consequences.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;____________  EINS UND EINS GLEICH DREI. 1979. 85 min.&lt;br /&gt;The story of a young actress who is expecting a baby and has to decide between two men who offer to marry her. In the end she decides against marriage altogether.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sander, Heike. EINE ALLSEITIG REDUZIERTE PERSÖNLICHKEIT. 1977/1978. 100 min. This feminist film, as earnest, clear and chilly as its elegant black and white photography, tells the story of a free-lance photographer in West Berlin. She struggles not only to support herself and her child but also to define herself as an artist and a woman.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sanders-Brahms, Helma. DEUTSCHLAND-BLEICHE MUTTER. 1979. 130 min.&lt;br /&gt;Tells the tragic story of Germany's young women during and after the war.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Spils, May. ZUR SACHE SCHÄTZCHEN. 1967. 80 min.&lt;br /&gt;This film tells the story of a typical beatnik Martin and his friends and girlfriends.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stöckl, Ula. NEUN LEBEN HAT DIE KATZE. 1968. 91 min.&lt;br /&gt;A collage about five women in Germany in one week's time. All five women are in pursuit of happiness and are sure that they are on the right track.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;____________  ERIKAS LEIDENSCHAFTEN. 1976. 71 min.&lt;br /&gt;Two friends meet who, four years earlier, had shared an apartment and then separated. During the course of one night, the two friends engage in a detailed discussion of why their relationship failed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;As others see us&lt;/span&gt; . . . Ricarda Schmidt, a German WiG member currently living in England, wrote not long ago: "I find the WiG newsletter very stimulating because I can always tell that there are real people behind it who share their experiences, concerns and difficulties." As editor of the newsletter, I found this comment reassuring and affirming. To me, it says that we as individuals haven't disappeared behind a slick "professional" façade. Of course, that very "professionalism" is what gets us approval from the insti­tutions we work in. I'd be interested in hearing others' reactions. — JC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-31-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ETC&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CHRISTA WOLF was given an honorary doctorate in absentia at the Ohio State U. autumn quarter commencement on December 9, 1983. Wolf was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters for her contributions to literature and her critical examination of social issues. Because of her personal con­victions against the United States' deployment of nuclear missile systems in Europe, Wolf had declined to accept the honorary degree at the spring 1983 commencement when Vice President George Bush was the commencement speaker. OSU President Jennings later wrote to her extending the opportu­nity to accept the degree in absentia, and she accepted in a letter to him on September 12, 1983, explaining her position: "I would not have been able to express [my convictions] during the spring commencement with the US Vice President present, and this inability would have put me in a position that would have been intolerable to me. Your letter . . . suggests to me that you wish to confer an honorary degree upon me under conditions that are acceptable to me. I appreciate your understanding and am pleased to accept this title from Ohio State, a university with which I feel close."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— (summarized from information sent by Helen Fehervary)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HIERMIT GEBE ICH KUND UND ZU WISSEN . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I, Jeanette Clausen, would like to resign as editor of the WiG newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;I am willing to continue as treasurer and general record-keeper (maintain the membership list, etc.) for a few more years, but doing all this &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and &lt;/span&gt;the newsletter is TOO MUCH.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Would &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt; be interested in the job of newsletter editor? Or would you like to recommend someone for the position? It's a lot of fun, pays no salary, and gives you a chance to correspond with many wonderful WiG members while contributing to the cause of feminism in German Studies—and it only takes over your life for a few days three times a year (March, August, November).&lt;br /&gt;If you're interested, please write. All serious applications and nominations will be considered by the WiG steering committee when we meet at the October 1984 WiG conference. Write to Jeanette Clausen, newsletter address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Connie Munk typed, cut, pasted, assembled, and above all cared about this newsletter. Illustrations (except on p. 1) are by Erin Clausen, age ten.&lt;br /&gt;Veronica Munk, age two, did her part by refraining from spilling apple juice on the pages, since she had been told her new swing set would be partly financed by the money Connie earned from the newsletter. The cats kept pretty much to themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawings]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-32-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;JUST RECEIVED. . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This newsworthy news item was received at the very last minute, just before the neewsletter went off to be duplicated. We wanted to share it with you--there should always be room for more good news!&lt;br /&gt;Emplyee Advocate, AFSCME, UCLA, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1984&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext80"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;University Agrees to Settlement of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Almut Poole's Case&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext80"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Free Speech Issue Involved in Dispute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext80"&gt;Almut Poole, who coordinated UCLA’s rape prevention education program prior to leaving the staff to complete her Phd dissertation, has agreed to a mediation of her numerous complaints against management. The settlement, which includ­ed destroying all negative documents which had been placed in her personnel file as well as a substantial cash payment, re­solved more than, a dozen grievances which had been filed on Ms. Poole's behalf by AFSCME local stewards at UCLA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext80"&gt;Poole had raised the ire of her superiors by arguing for a broader approach to rape prevention, one which went beyond the crime prevention method promoted by the UC Police Depart­ment. She also won disfavor by criticizing the use of ster­eotypes of rape victims which held them partly responsible for their victimization. Such stereotypes sometimes appeared in various rape prevention programs held at UCLA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext80"&gt;As a progressive educator and advocate, Poole wanted to promote the viewpoint that rape is a symptom of social ills, not just a criminal abberation. Of course, she also taught specific techniques for prevention, including self defense.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext80"&gt;Because her consistent, principled advocacy of her views angered certain highly placed UCLA administrators, her job was threatened with numerous counseling memos and warning let­ters alleging non-compliance with departmental policy. This was despite the fact that Poole had a superior reputation in the community, including awards, as a rape prevention educator.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext80"&gt;Poole's case, involving as it did significant issues con­cerning rape prevention as well as an employee's right to free speech, received coverage both in the student press at UCLA and in the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;L.A. Times&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext80"&gt;It took several months of standing up to management harassment and the stress of being distracted from the work she wanted to do before Poole was able to win the mediation which settled all of her grievances.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(information sent by Almut Poole)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-33-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Weisefrau, Uta   33&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University&lt;br /&gt;Utopia, USA&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;33&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;A new dues structure was approved at the October 1983 WiG conference. By increasing the rates for those earning higher salaries, we hope to be able to finance more projects, while still keeping rates low for students, the unem­ployed, and the underemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOVEMBER 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;The Coalition of Women in German, an all led organization of the MLA, invites students, teachers and all others interested in feminism and German Studies subscribe to the newsletter. See last page of newsletter for rates.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard, U. Illinois (1980-83) &lt;br /&gt;   Chair, Political Action Committee &lt;br /&gt;   Co-editor, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Yearbook&lt;/span&gt; (1982-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha Wallach, U. Wisconsin-Green Bay (1980-83)&lt;br /&gt;   Fundraising coordinator&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ritta Jo Horsley, U. Mass., Boston (1981-84)&lt;br /&gt;   Conference coordinator, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut R. Poole, Los Angeles (1981-84)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell, Michigan State U. (1982-85)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara D. Wright, U. Conn., Storrs (1982-85)&lt;br /&gt;   Chair, Textbook Review Committee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandra Frieden, U. Houston (1983-86)&lt;br /&gt;   Fundraising coordinator&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Waldstein, M.l.T. (1983-86) &lt;br /&gt;   Conference coordinator, 1983, 1984&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director of Membership: Karen R. Achberger, St. Olaf College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Women in German Newsletter is published in March, August and November of each year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deadlines&lt;/span&gt; for material to appear in the newsletter:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;February 15 (March issue)&lt;br /&gt;August 1 (August issue)&lt;br /&gt;November 1 (November issue)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Send material to: Jeanette Clausen, Newsletter Editor&lt;br /&gt;Women in German&lt;br /&gt;Department of Modern Foreign Languages Indiana U.-Purdue U.&lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;TABLE OF CONTENTS&lt;/span&gt;:                   &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Page #&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;AATG and MLA 1983 ... 3.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;WiG 1983 ...  5.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;WiG 1984 ...  25.&lt;br /&gt;Call for Papers ... 26.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;FORUM ...  27.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Brief aus Berlin ... 31&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Research Projects ... 33.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;WiG Membership List . . . 39.&lt;br /&gt;Membership/Subscriptions ... 45.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 32&lt;br /&gt;November 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If I can't find my desk top under all the newsletter contributions, then this must be November. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Many thanks&lt;/span&gt; to all of you who sent in summaries, reactions, announcements, etc. Most of this issue concerns the October 1983 conference, which was, as always, a very intense and rich experience. In addition to our invited guest, Austrian author Barbara Frischmuth, we were joined by Margot Schroeder and Johanna Haake from West Germany, who decided in late summer to schedule their trip to the US to coincide with our conference. And, of course there were about 80 of us Wiggies present—the largest turnout at a WiG con­ference yet! As you will see in reading the conference reports, we seem to be experiencing some, uh, growing pains, you might say. We are also getting a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;lot &lt;/span&gt;accomplished. Not, of course, without a great deal of hard work by many women: special thanks to Edith Waldstein (MIT) and Joey Horsley (U. Mass., Boston) for all their work organizing the conference and coordinating arrange­ments with Thompson Island; Sidonie Cassirer and Bunny Weiss for their work on the syllabi project; outgoing steering committee member Martha Wallach for all her work on arranging Barbara Frischmuth's visit to WiG and subsequent readings at several universities (in cooperation with the Austrian Institute)--Martha, you have done an &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;outstanding&lt;/span&gt; job!--as well as to all the session coordinators and others who worked in one way or another to make WiG 1983 a success, not least among them Karen Achberger, who has become our resident expert in corresponding with authors and in getting new members (she has been named Director of Membership in recognition of this work). We also thank Patsy Baudoin of Schoenhof's Foreign Books, who again brought books to the island during the conference. Of course, we thank Marianne Burkhard (U. Illinois) and Edith Wald­stein (MIT) for their &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ongoing&lt;/span&gt; work on the WiG Yearbook project. And I know everyone who attended the conference joins me in thanking Susan Cocalis for getting people together on the spot to put on a hilarious cabaret on Saturday evening (with costumes, yet!), which featured such unforgettable appearances as Jeannine Blackwell as president of the South Carolina Future Homemakers of America, Dagmar Lorenz as Hausmutti des German Hauses, Margot Schroeder in an earlier incarnation as a Hamburg housewife, Susan Cocalis in "The Princeton Incarnation," and much much more--l would tell you more about it, but you had to be there, as the saying goes. --Back to "serious business;" here are some up-to- date reports on WiG projects.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG SYLLABI COLLECTION&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The syllabi collection, edited by Sidonie Cassirer and Bunny Weiss, was distri­buted to everyone who attended the conference, and was mailed to all the rest of you on November 10th. So it should reach you soon if it hasn't already (bulk mail can be so unpredictable!)--if you don't receive it soon, write to me, Jeanette Clausen, at the newsletter address. Additional copies can be ordered for $2.00 to cover postage (first class) and handling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG YEARBOOK&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Co-editors Marianne Burkhard and Edith Waldstein reported that they aim to have the manuscripts for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1982 Yearbook&lt;/span&gt; to the University Press of America by the end of December. After UPA reviews the collection, a camera- ready manuscript must be prepared; the finished book will be ready within two months or so of camera-ready manuscript submission. So, our first yearbook should be available by late spring 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the conference, we agreed that the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1983 Yearbook&lt;/span&gt; would not be restricted to papers presented at WiG sessions (as was the case for the 1982 volume), but rather, open to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all WiG members&lt;/span&gt; who wish to send a manuscript for consideration. Again, the manuscripts will be refereed by other WiG members, and the co-editors will make the final decision. All questions should be direc&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ted to the co-edit&lt;/span&gt;ors. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Send ma&lt;/span&gt;nuscripts (one copy to each) to: Marianne Burkhard, [redacted] &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Edith Waldstein, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;DEADLINE for receipt of manuscripts for the 1983 volume: February 1, 198A&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TRANSLATION PROJECTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As we have all known for years, the need for more English translations of works by women from the German-speaking countries continues to be acute. The WiG syllabi collection documents this in a very concrete way: many contributors to the syllabi collection use the one available anthology (Herrmann/Spitz, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women Writers of the 20th Century&lt;/span&gt;) in their courses, and many state that they would teach more courses in translation, or teach existing ones differently, if more texts were available in translation. YOU can help by contacting the following people:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Nancy Lukens and Dorothy Rosenberg are planning a two-volume collection (one GDR, one FRG) of poetry and prose by contemporary women writers in transla­tion. The collection will be organized around three topics: women and work, women and family, women and self-image. Nancy and Dorothy invite your sugges­tions as to texts you think most important to include. Also, let them know if you have done your own translation of a suitable work but haven't published it. Addresses: Nancy Lukens, Dept.of German, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, and Dorothy Rosenberg, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901.&lt;/p&gt;
2. Sydna (Bunny) Weiss is willing to act as "clearinghouse person" to generate (an)other translation project(s). What are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; priorities for texts in trans­lation other than Nancy's and Dorothy's project outlined above? Here, we are especially interested in your unpublished translations--as mentioned in the August newsletter, we suspect that if we collected all th&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ese, we&lt;/span&gt; would have the basis for at least one anthology. Write to Bunny Weiss, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.
&lt;p&gt;Also, please let Bunny know if you have knowledge of other translation projects currently underway. There is so much to be done that we wish to avoid duplica­tion of effort.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;P.S.: the collection &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Feminism: Readings&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Politics and Literature &lt;/span&gt;(eds. Hoshino, Clausen, Schultz, Stephan) is now (finally!) scheduled for publi­cation by SUNY Press in summer 1984 ("if nothing goes wrong.").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By the time you read this, the San Francisco AATG will be past history; however, here is the WiG program to refresh your memory.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN AND PEACE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday, 25 November, 2:45-6:OO p.m.&lt;/p&gt;
1. "Teaching About Women and Peace," coord. Kelga W. Kraft (U. Florida) and Richard Johnson (IPFW). Presenters: Barbara F. Hyams (U. Tulsa)--Images of Women and Peace in the New German Cinema; Kathryn Strachota (Stanford U.)-- Women in the Military; Sydna Stern Weiss (Hamilton Coll.)—A Teaching Module: Women and Peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. "Women, Literature and Peace," coord. Edith Potter (Scripps Coll.) and Jorun B. Johns (California State Coll., San Bernardino). Presenters: Irmgard Hunt (Texas Tech. U., Lubbock)--Frauen fur Frieden: Gedichte, Schi1derungen, Reflexionen; Myra N. Love (Purdue U.)--Christa Wolf: Literatur heute muß Friedensforschung sein; Edna H. Spitz (Stanford U.)--Bertha von Suttner,Champion for Peace: "Lay Down Your Arms. Tell that to Many, Many . . .;" Dagmar Lorenz (Ohio State U.)--Else Lasker-Schuler and Her Pacifist Ideas.
&lt;p&gt;A brief business meeting, chaired by Bunny Weiss, will follow. The major agenda items are selection of coordinators for next year's AATG sessions, one on film and one (again) on women and peace; and discussion of possible places to hold the WiG conference on the west coast in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hope you'll support WiG and WiG members by attending the following sessions, or, if you absolutely have to be someplace else during these times, telling other people to attend them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#27. THE POET AND THE POEM: RACE, SEX AND LANGUAGE IN INGEBORG BACHMANN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tuesday, 27 December, 7:00-8:15 p.m., Chelsea B. Sheraton&lt;br /&gt;Presiding: Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.). Presentations: 1. "'Die Weissen, sie sollen verflucht sein': Gender, Race, and History in Ingeborg Bachmann's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fall Franza&lt;/span&gt;," Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst); 2. "A Terrible Euphoria: Ingeborg Bachmann and Ulrike Meinhof," Helen Fehervary (Ohio State U.); 3- "Die Utopie hinter der Wand: Die weibliche Perspektive in Ingeborg Bachmanns Prosa," Sigrid Weigel (U. Hamburg). Respondent: Renate Voris (U. Virginia).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#68. WOMEN MAKING LITERARY HISTORY: THE NEW GENERATION OF WOMEN WRITERS IN THE GDR Tuesday, 27 December, 9:00-10:15 p.m., Senate, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Renate Delphendahl (U. Maine, Orono) and Patricia Herminghouse (U. Rochester). Presentations: 1. "The Year 197^: Laying the Foundation for the New Generation," Gudrun Brokoph-Mauch (St. Lawrence U.); 2. "The Third Wave: New Women Writers and Women's Issues in the GDR," Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.); 3. "I = Myself: Women Taking Hold of Their Lives," Elisabeth Nations (Augustana Coll., Illinois); 4. "'Weil es nicht selbstverständlich ist': Abortion Experiences in Recent Fiction by GDR Women Writers," Jeanette Clausen (Indiana U.- Purdue U., Fort Wayne).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#189. FEMINIST RE-VISIONS OF GERMAN LITERARY HISTORY&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, 28 December, 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m., Commonwealth, Sheraton&lt;br /&gt;Presiding: Sieglinde Lug (U. Denver). Presentations: 1. "Working Class Women Writers in Wilhelmine Germany and the Literary Canon," Joan Reutershan (New York U.); 2. "Methodological Considerations toward a New 'Image' of Women in Literary History," Julie Prandi (Columbia U.); 3. "Deconstructing the Canon," Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The program will conclude with a brief business meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#299. CASH BAR ARRANGED BY THE COALITION OF WOMEN IN GERMAN AND THE WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR THE MODERN LANGUAGES&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, 28 December, 5:15-6:45 p.m., Nassau A, Hilton &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#529. INTEGRATING WOMEN'S STUDIES INTO THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: NEW PROBLEMS, NEW SOLUTIONS&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, 29 December, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Commonwealth, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Barbara Wright (U. Connecticut, Storrs). Presentations: 1. "Set­ting the Context: Integration across the Liberal Arts," Florence Howe (SUNY, Old Westbury); 2. "Linguistics' Challenge to Foreign Language Methodology," Barbara Wright (U. Connecticut, Storrs); 3- "The Teacher/Student (Disconnec­tion," Virginia Thorndike Hules (Wellesley College); 4. "The Effects of Guidelines on Textbooks During the Last Decade," Francine Frank (SUNY, Albany).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;WIG CHAPTER IN NEW YORK&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The WiG chapter in New York, organized by Gesine Worm (Goethe House Library) and Marianne Goldscheider (Brooklyn) has been meeting once a month since September. At their first meeting they collected ideas and suggestions for a possible "Frauenliteraturtage" tentatively planned by the Goethe House for fall 1984. At the October meeting, Marianne Goldscheider reported to the group about the WiG conference in Boston. Plans for other meetings include discussion of Christa Wolf's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kassandra&lt;/span&gt; (November), and poetry translations done by the group members (December). Anyone wishing more information about this group should contact Gesine Worm at the Goethe House Library, 1014 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(if you are interested in starting a WiG chapter in your area, I will be happy to send you a zip-code-sorted list of current WiG members in your area to help you get started. --JC.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CORRECTION!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the August newsletter, Maria Wagner's book &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MathiIde Franziska Anneke&lt;/span&gt; was announced as forthcoming. This was grossly inaccurate--the book appeared in 1980 and is now out of print, erk. Maria Wagner's forthcoming book is: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gebrochene Ketten&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Maria Wagner. An anthology of Mathilde Anneke's slave stories, and samples of her femi­nist speeches. Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday evening                                  BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;br /&gt;October 16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The largest group of participants at the conference (about 85) gathered for the evening with Barbara Frischmuth. In my introduction, I focused on Frischmuth's unmistakably female voice within the--predominantly male--genera- tion of post-1965 writers with whom she is associated. (She was the only female member of the Forum Stadtpark in Graz.) She consistently criticizes from the perspective of women and children; her works are informed by a tension between fantasy (dreams, fairy tale and mythic elements) and reality. Often the line between the two is difficult to draw. Frischmuth sees the modern poet's imagina­tion, or that of her protagonists, as related to the more hallucinatory vision of a mystic like Hildegard von Bingen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the first half of the evening Frischmuth read an essay she had written espe­cially for our meeting ("Ich dachte mir, bei einer Gruppe von Germanistinnen, so müßte man . . .") . Entitled "Eine souveräne Posaune Gottes: Gedanken zu Hilde­gard von Bingen und ihrem Werk," the essay will be published in its entirety in the forthcoming WiG Yearbook. After a discussion of the Catholic tradition of mysticism and Hildegard's imagery there was a short break; during the second half of the evening Frischmuth read us a recent, still unpublished story in which a certain "Greta G." encounters a puma in Vienna. Interweaving the whimsical and the prosaic, the "real" and the "surreal," humor and seriousness, the story elicited an animated and satisfying discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Karen Achberger St. Olaf College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MARGOT SCHROEDER AND JOHANNA HAAKE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As most of you recall, Margot Schroeder was WiG's guest at the 1980 conference in Racine. Several of us who attended the Hamburg conference (May 1983) renewed our acquaintance with her there--so, when Margot received a Reisestipendium for travel to the US later in the summer, she and Johanna decided to attend WiG during their stay (Oct. 7-29, 1983). They spent their first several days in New York with Miriam Frank, and Margot gave a reading at the Deutsches Haus there. She also visited both U. Mass.-Boston and M.l.T. before coming to the WiG conference; she and Johanna then left for San Francisco. Johanna Haake, a librarian by profession, is active in the West German peace movement, as is Margot. So both of them were much in demand during breaks and at meals to bring Wiggies up to date on recent peace movement activities. Their addresses are: Margot Schroeder, [redacted] Johanna Haake, [redacted] Here is a fairly complete list of Margot Schroeder's books:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ich stehe meine Frau&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt: Fischer Tb, 1975, Roman; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Angst ist baden gegangen&lt;/span&gt;. Berlin: Fi et kau, 1976, Poem; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der Schlachter empfiehlt noch immer Herz&lt;/span&gt;. München: Wei smann, Frauenbuchver1ag, 1976, Roman; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wiederkäuer.&lt;/span&gt; Hamburg, 1977, Lyrik und Kurzprosa (vergriffen); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das kannst du laut sagen, Hannes&lt;/span&gt;. Hamburg: rororo rotfuchs, 1978, Jugendroman; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Und die Kneipe gleich nebenan&lt;/span&gt;. Uber Barmbeck und seine Menschen. Hamburg: M £ K Hansa-Verlag, 1980; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nichts fällt nach oben&lt;/span&gt;. Berlin: Fietkau, 1981 , Poem; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Vogelspinne&lt;/span&gt;. Monolog einer Trinkerin. München: Weismann, Frauenbuchverlag, 1982, Roman; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ganz schön abgerissen&lt;/span&gt;. Hamburg: rororo rotfuchs, 1983, Jugendroman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thursday evening, October 13, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Auf der Suche nach einer feministischen Germanistik"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For this opening session, I gave a brief review of WiG conferences over the past eight years, borrowing Christa Wolf's words "Wie sind wir so geworden, wie wir heute sind?" (bzw. wie wir noch werden!). I mentioned our ongoing attention to feminist process and its importance for collective decision-making and a productive sharing of ideas; our concern to find ways of working together to overcome the traditional active/passive (presenters/1isteners) split; the reasons underlying the scheduling of one "women only" session each year; our commitment to grappling with "uncomfortable" issues (homophobia, racism, antisemitism, classism) that have often divided women; and some issues that had surfaced in earlier discussions as to which language we use, German or English, and how these related to the conference theme "Stimme suchen, Stimme finden." I concluded by quoting Sara Lennox' 1982 description of WiG as "eine konkrete Utopie" and what that means to me: a space where I feel supported by and support other women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Following my presentation we counted off into small groups to get (re-)acquainted with each other. One member of my group, a woman who has attended many WiG conferences, mentioned a discrepancy between what I had said and what she was feeling: she felt anxiety over the presentation she was scheduled to give, an anxiety she hadn't felt in previous years, and which seemed to be related to the structure (more "formal") of the session. Another woman, who attended WiG for the first time this year, shared her thoughts about finding a voice: "hier brauchen wir uns nicht zu verstellen, hier kann ich mich so geben, wie ich wirklich bin--aber wie bin ich eigentlich?" She also addressed the necessity of our finding a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;collective&lt;/span&gt; voice politically. Later, another "old-timer" shared her feelings of discouragement at times during the past year, with pressures to "produce," meet deadlines and so on leading her to wonder, more or less, whether there's life after tenure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, my scribbled notes don't yield any further intelligible informa­tion about the discussion in my group and I don't have reports from the other groups. As you'll see from the reports of the concluding session, the answer to the question "wie werden wir noch/wie wollen wir werden?" isn't as clear as we might wish. After much thought, and discussion with other Wiggies, about WiG 1983, I keep returning to this thought: maybe one of the most important things we do at our conferences is to continually re-create our collective "self," by struggling to understand and respect each other's concerns. To quote Christa Wolf again: "Es muß dauernd entstehen, das ist es." (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Christa T.&lt;/span&gt;). I hope we won't be too hard on ourselves and each other when we can't always meet the many different and sometimes contradictory expectations and needs that each of us brings to the group. I also hope we can keep making good use--as we did this year--of recreation (dancing, fun, even silliness) for this process of re-creating and take pride in what we've accomplished over the past eight years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday morning, October 14&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;STIMME SUCHEN: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON WORK FROM VARIOUS DISCIPLINES. &lt;br /&gt;Moderator: Judy Jamieson, Providence College.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Women's Public and Private Voices in the German Romantic Salon"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The aim of this paper is to explain the romantic salon's significance for women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In order to do this, two preliminary questions must be addressed: 1) What is meant when one talks about the private and public spheres of this time? and 2) What did the romantic salon look like? In order to answer the first question, I examine conceptual categories introduced and discussed by Jurgen Habermas, Oskar Negt, Alexander Kluge and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Reflection upon these theoreticians, combined with socio-historical information about the period, leads me to conclude that the traditional definitions of the public as being that realm in which citizens share common information and experience and the private as the realm associated with domesticity and the family do not readily apply to the society of the Romantic Period. The sharp differentiation between these two spheres is not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A description of the romantic salon makes this observation clear. In this con­versational institution, which was led entirely by women and in which women were very well represented as guests, the private and public spheres merged. Public as well as private communication took place there. In addition, one finds a strong commitment to spontaneous conversation (as compared with the very structured dialogue of the seventeenth-century French salon) and the synthesis of intellect and sensuousness through conversation. This was to provide the individuals as well as the entire atmosphere with a sense of personal freedom, on the one hand, and a feeling of community, on the other. And it was the woman who was believed to be the most successful in realizing this synthesis of public and private, of political and personal concerns. With the swell of the Romantic Movement, which furthered the subjective in response to the extreme rationality of the Enlightenment, she could integrate these so-called female qualities, which were largely the result of her experiences in the private sphere, into her cultural and more public role of salon hostess or guest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, I would then say that the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;lack&lt;/span&gt; of differentiation between the private and public spheres in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries provided an opportunity for bourgeois women to develop their voices for a broader audience. The salons of Caroline Schlegel-Schel1ing, Rahel Varnhagen and Bettina von Arnim represent some of the most important women's voices of the Romantic Period. What they share is the refusal to differentiate between public and private issues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Edith Waldstein&lt;br /&gt;Massachusetts Institute of Technology&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"The Issue of Voicelessness in Grimms' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kinder- und Hausmärchen"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although the themes of silence and retirement from the world permeate German literature, they generally connote the crowning of a life of achievement for male &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Issue of Voicelessness in Grimms' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kinder- und Hausmärchen"&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;characters but a precondition for acceptable behavior for females. Modern feminist critics link language to power, understanding discourse as domination. In Grimms' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tales&lt;/span&gt; silence exists as a narrative element, as in a curse, enchant­ment, or requirement; as an actual silence, measured by the amount of direct speech allotted to each character; and in relationship to the conferral of authority by the introductory words (fragen-antworten-rufen-sagen-sprechen).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The relationship of silence to powerlessness is mediated also by means of associated imagery (hunger, spinning, being bound to the stake). Related per­haps to ancient traditions of female power over nature is the fact that con­juring of natural forces lies exclusively with young and/or beautiful female characters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Select bibliography&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elshtain, Jean Bethke: "Feminist Discourse and Its Discontents 'Language, Power, and Meaning." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt;, Spring 1982, pp. 603-621.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kamuf, Peggy: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fictions of Feminine Desire&lt;/span&gt;. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Landy, Marcia: "The Silent Woman" in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Arleyn Diamond and Lee R. Edwards. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977, p. 16.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Miller, Nancy: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Heroine's Text&lt;/span&gt;. New York: Columbia University, 1980.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ostriker, Alicia: The Thieves of Language: Women Poets and Revisionist Mythmaking." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt;, Autumn 1982, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 68-90.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Ruth B. Bottigheimer&lt;br /&gt;Princeton University&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Augusta Enders Schichanowsky: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Malweib&lt;/span&gt;, Miner, Madwoman"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Little in Augusta Enders Schichanowsky's life (1865-1936) indicated she would lead anything but the typical life of a nineteenth century middle class woman. Born in 1865 in Forchheim, Bavaria, the daughter of an army gunsmith, she attended "Das Institut der Englischen Fräulein" in Kempten from 1876-1881, where she had the subjects usual for girls of the time: religion, biblical history, reading, memory training, female handwork, music, art, and French. Augusta undoubtedly did as other girls of her time and class; she remained at home, maybe dabbled in art and music, and waited for a husband to appear. Alfred Schichanowsky, fourteen years her senior, co-owner of a bookshop, married her in 1884 in Bayreuth and took her to Varel, a small, deeply and narrowly provin­cial town in the heart of East Friesland. If she were seeking more personal freedom than she had known with her parents, it was not to be had in Varel. Her marriage lasted ten years. In 1895, she attempted to get a divorce but had no grounds. Because she refused to return to her husband, he was then granted a divorce and custody of their son. She went to Berlin and earned her living as a portrait painter, a "Malweib." In 1900, she was 35. After hearing and reading&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Augusta Enders Schichanowsky: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Malweib&lt;/span&gt;, Miner, Madwoman" (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;about gold rushes, she must have felt that it was "Nome or never," so she took an inheritance from her mother to finance the long trip to Nome and back. She went to Nome again in 1903 planning to stay, but was arrested, charged with insanity, convicted and sent to a hospital in Oregon, where she stayed until friends sent money for her return to New York. She spent most of the rest of her life in Munich earning her living from her art. She was a woman ahead of her times, wanting to be free of the strictures of her society and class, willing to go to extremes to achieve her goal. She clearly wanted out of the accepted female role of the period but set her goals too high and lacked the endurance and imagination to find one of the few possibilities open to women.&lt;br /&gt;Her desire to settle near Nome was not a rash act, for she obviously had planned her move. She correctly expected frontier society to be freer, more liberal and generous than her own; but she forgot that even adventurers, gold seekers, and camp followers take their society's prejudices and conventions with them. An "eccentric" German artist seeking gold to finance polar exploration was beyond their comprehension and simply had to be insane.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A study of Schichanowsky's life leads one into the little explored topic of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Künstlerinnenvereine&lt;/span&gt; and women's art education at the turn of the century, of women adventurers, and insanity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--V. Joan Moessner &lt;br /&gt;U. Alaska, Fairbanks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Aspects of the 'Maternal Feminine' in Modersohn-Becker, Zille, and Kollwitz"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thesis I: The feminine form, in and for itself, speaks of attitudes, directions, intuitions not to be understood as like or similar to the masculine. Woman, especially in her maternal designation, focuses in meta­physical terms on creativity, essences, and a profound knowing of things perhaps not verbally accessible. Question----► does modern feminism align itself, or discard, or juxtapose its &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;voice&lt;/span&gt; of indepen­dence with this 'maternal feminine'?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thesis II: A number of German artists, creating prior to the modern feminist upsurge, evidence in strong fashion (a) the form of the feminine ". . .von innen her getrieben in die Formen ihres Daseins.", and (b) delineate a tremendous &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;strength&lt;/span&gt; in this form, so much so that the viewer must acknowledge, without overt instruction, the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;voice&lt;/span&gt; of stability, care, creativity, intelligence, and humor, all so apparent as a continuing theme for the artists. Question --- ► was this voice, speaking to issues of feminine strength and independent quality, a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;deliberate&lt;/span&gt; presentation by the artists, or does the viewer, in hindsight, re-interpret the artist and 'hear' a now- pertinent and supportive theme?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Judy Jamieson&lt;br /&gt;Providence College&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday afternoon, October 14&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FINDING A VOICE IN THE PROFESSION. Moderator: Jeannine Blackwell, Michigan State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"On Teaching the German Letter 'G', retitled "Feminist Teaching Strategies"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This talk was intended to cover both anti-sexist and anti-homophobic teaching strategies. Due to the shorter-than-expected format of the session, it focused mainly on feminist teaching strategies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feminist pedagogy has three main elements, at least in its ideal state: a) con­tent about women and sexism, together with other "isms" such as racism, anti­semitism, classism; b) content about homosexuality and homophobia, because homo­phobia is used to reinforce traditional sex roles; c) the creation of a special relationship between teacher and students which makes possible mutual empowering, self disclosure, and valuing of personal experience. This relationship can be promoted in the traditional foreign language classroom by means of the following suggestions: 1) avoidance of political speeches; 2) the use of gestural repre­sentation and role modelling; 3) the taking of risks, for instance in self dis­closure or explaining the process of the course; 4) accepting traditional views in order to avoid teacher-pleasing statements and excessive hostility; 5) exposing students to feminist views based on personal experience where possible, and accepting the reality of the long process involved in consciousness raising; 6) choosing a text which corresponds to the students' language abilities, so that unrealistic expectations do not create oppressive conditions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two valuable articles on teaching about homophobia include Leonore Gordon's "What Do We Say When We Hear 'Faggot'?" (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;interracial Books for Children Bulletin&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. 14, Nos. 3-4) and Elly Bulkin's "Heterosexism and Women's Studies," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Radical Teacher&lt;/span&gt;, November 1980. Gordon describes consciousness raising exercises for elementary and junior high pupils: they are asked to think up labels or put downs for various groups, state how they would feel if they were the recipients of these labels, and comebacks they could use. Bulkin describes the heterosexism in Women's Studies and provides CR guidelines created by a group of interracial lesbians for heterosexual female teachers who wish to deal with their own homo­phobia and heterosexism. I would recommend these guidelines for small group dis­cussions at a future WiG meeting, along with strategies for surviving as a teacher or professor if one deals with homophobia in class.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Marlene Heinemann &lt;br /&gt;U. Wyoming&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Finding a Voice in Germany -- Thoughts on the Hamburg Conference"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meeting of European feminists in Hamburg was very different from WiG in Wisconsin or Boston: it proudly called itself &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;feministisch&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;wissenschaftlich&lt;/span&gt;, where American women scholars tremble at the words. There was a capacity crowd, with people turned away at the doors. Political protests about its location in the Amerika-Haus and aggressive denial of institutional support threatened it from the beginning. Inge Stephan and Sigrid Weigel, the organizers, could call on several years of feminist organizations — Frauenseminare, feminist presses &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Finding a Voice in Germany -- Thoughts on the Hamburg Conference" (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and periodicals, and Frauenuni, as well as Women in German -- as a pool of experience. They learned by doing, as does every feminist activist. The con­ference faced different challenges, because it entered the fray at a later stage in feminism than did WiG: after much theory had been worked through, after the naivete of the early women's movement was replaced with a certain grim cynicism, after there were really feminist "experts."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hierarchy based on "expertise" was a problem in Hamburg; the size of the con­ference (c. 300) forced its division into active speech givers and passive listeners. There was, however, a healthy feminist reaction from the "passive public," as students grouped to voice their complaints. By the last day of the conference there was a productive consensus about continuing the group. The last meeting brought in many participants and volunteers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Issues and opinions&lt;/span&gt;: true or false?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The defensive stance of struggling feminist scholars in Hamburg was more pro­nounced than among American feminist scholars because&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*** in America earlier social movements such as the civil rights movement have cleared some legal and emotional paths for women's participation in academe (Affirmative Action, regulation of tenure decisions, increase in the percentage of women, faster tenure), which is not the case in West Germany.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*** there is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; institutional support in West Germany for feminist scholarship, not even symbolic, superficial, or hypocritical, and therefore it is almost impossible for women scholars to enter the debate, except on the terms of the hierarchical male establishment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*** in America there are already some women in place as role models in academe, who feel a responsibility to support younger women scholars. This is not the case to a great extent in West Germany.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*** the male scholarly tradition in West Germany is more didactically science- oriented, shaped into outline form, and more dominated by the sarcastic put- down than its American counterpart, and thus is harder for women scholars to reject and/or overcome. The sexist agenda in American academe is more subtle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*** the argumentative stance of leftist political discourse in Europe has been passed on to European feminism and is both better and worse than American feminist dialogue: better because it cuts through the hogwash, phrases, and compromises down to real differences and gut feelings, worse because it divides women into camps when it is not necessary, separates the "experts" from the public, and reinforces many women's view of themselves as weak, inarticulate, or constantly wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Jeannine Blackwell &lt;br /&gt;Michigan State U.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bericht&lt;br /&gt;Tagung vom 24. bis 27.5-1983 in Hamburg zum Thema&lt;br /&gt;Feministische Literaturwissenschaft: zum Verhältnis von Frauenbildern und Frauenliteratur&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Zusammenfassung der &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thesen zur Feministischen Wissenschaft&lt;/span&gt;, die von Inge Stephan und Sigrid Weigel, Universität Hamburg, erarbeitet wurden:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) Feministische Wissenschaft wird in der BRD am Rande und ausserhalb der akademischen Institutionen betrieben, sie beruht auf unbezahlter Frauenarbeit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2) Es gibt Inseln femin. Wissenschaft: Es wird dabei Klarheit über die soziale, psychische und kulturelle Lage der Frau in der Geschichte gesucht.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3) An den Universitäten herrscht starker und militanter Antifeminismus. Oft sind etablierte und Erfolgreiche akadem. Frauen die schärfsten Gegnerinnen von Feministinnen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4) Der heutige Stand feministischer Wissenschaft ist wegen mangelnder Institu­tionalisierung und materieller Abhängigkeit der Frauen gefährdet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5) Alternativen, d.h. radikalfeministisehe Lern- und Arbeitsformen werden in der BRD wegen Stellenknappheit und Qualifikationsdruck kaum gewagt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6) Ausseruniversitäre Frauenprojekte stellen für die fem. Wissenschaft einen notwendigen Austausch dar, findet in der BRD doch kaum statt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7) "Frauenthemen" werden oft von Männern als konjunkturverdächtige "Modethemen" übernommen, entschärft und verwaltet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8) Es gibt fast nur "Ausnahmefrauen" (token women) an Institutionen, und unter diesen Frauen gibt es viele Macht- und Autoritätsprobleme.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9) Es besteht eine Angst unter Frauen, ihren eigenen Anteil an ihrer Unter­drückung zu untersuchen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;10) Frauen neigen dazu, sich zu unterfordern, sich zu schnell zufrieden zu geben.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;11) Jedoch hat man grosse Fortschritte in der Rekonstruktion weiblicher Kultur­geschichte und in Bezug auf die Ursachen und Funktionsweisen des Patriarchats gemacht.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;12) Noch unterentwickelt sind: feministische Methoden, Arbeitsweisen, Skepsis gegenüber Quellen und Deutungen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;13) Abträgig ist die Abhängigkeit der feministischen Wissenschaft von Markt­gesetzen, Verlagswesen und strukturellen Zensurmassnahmen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;14) Auswege sind lediglich in Ansätzen vorhanden (z.B. Teamarbeit, kollektive inner- und ausseruniversitäre Forschungs- und Lernprojekte, Organisation von Frauen auf fachspezifischer Ebene).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Helga Kraft&lt;br /&gt;U. Florida, Gainesville&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Eindrücke über die Konferenz "Feministische Literaturwissenschaft"&lt;br /&gt;in Hamburg."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Bedeutung der Konferenz für Germanistinnen in Deutschland kann nicht über­schätzt werden. Es wurde eine grosse Anzahl von Arbeiten vorgelegt, die entweder vorgetragen oder in kleineren Gruppen diskutiert wurden. Das Panorama reichte&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Eindrücke über die Konferenz . . ." (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;von feministischer Aesthetik über Cinematographik bis zu der Untersuchung von Frauenrollen in der Literatur. Der Beobachterin aus den USA konnte Folgendes auffallen: Hatte die Konferenz traditionell begonnen wie mancher Germanisten­kongress, so wurde sie langsam "revolutionär" unterwandert. Gruppen, die üblicherweise in Deutschland wenig zu Wort kommen, meldeten ihre Interessen an, so die Studentinnen, die gegen Ende gegen ihre auferlegte und verinner­lichte Sprachlosigkeit protestierten. Die Diskussionen zwischen den Sitzungen waren ebenso interessant wie die während derselben. Die Soziologie der deutschen Germanistinnen wurde sichtbar: wenige fest Angestellte, kaum im Hochschuldienst; viele Studentinnen, die studieren trotz schlechter Berufs­aussichten; Arbeitslose. Prominente Germanistinnen fehlten z.T. auf der Konferenz, Indiz für die noch immer defensive Rolle, die Feministinnen einzu­nehmen gezwungen sind. Daher auch der in Inhalt und Stil offensichtliche Drang, sich zu 1 egitimisieren, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;auch&lt;/span&gt; Wissenschaft zu betreiben, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;selbst&lt;/span&gt; unter feministischem Vorzeichen. Die defensive Einstellung dem eigenen Tun gegenüber führte oft zu einer Imitation der traditionellen, patriarchalisch strukturierten und männlich beherrschten Germanistik und ihrem Gestus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Letzteres war sicherlich nicht zuletzt der Grund, weshalb wiederholt diskutiert wurde, was eine feministische Literaturwissenschaft leisten könne, ob es sie überhaupt gebe--ob Germanistik an sich mit ihren herkömmlichen Prämissen unter die Wissenschaften zu rechnen zu sei. Die Konferenz eröffnete die Diskussion unter Germanistinnen in Deutschland. Hoffentlich wird sie fortgesetzt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Dagmar Lorenz &lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Thoughts on the Hamburg Conference: Language, Feminism and Scholarship"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To begin to clarify the relationship between feminism and scholarship, the con­cept "feminist criticism" and the use of traditional research methods for feminists, I proposed that we consider the implications of how we name ourselves and what we do. When we defend our feminist work as "scholarly," are we somehow claiming to be both feminist and "objective" at the same time? Are we impli­citly denying or minimizing the importance of our feminist ideology for radically transforming scholarship?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My observations from the Hamburg conference concerned the forms in which scholarly work is presented and discussed, and how these forms reproduce structures that divide us and/or divert our attention from the questions most important to us as feminists. The reading of lengthy prepared texts reproduces the active/ passive, expert/layperson split of traditional scholarship; argumentation tech­niques for defending or "proving" one's own thesis often force an unproductive either/or polarization of ideas and people. Some examples are: 1) reducing other people's conclusions to one (or a few) common denominator(s), rather than acknowledging and exploring difference and complexity; 2) separating theory and experience, presenting theory as more "important" than experience, rather than seeing experience as a valid basis for analysis and criticism; 3) dis­guising disagreement or lack of knowledge as something else (often as a concern for "method"), rather than acknowledging personal and political grounds for disagreement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Thoughts on the Hamburg Conference: . . ." (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Questions I proposed for group reflection and distussion were: How can we discuss strongly-felt differences without creating hostility? What interaction patterns are available to us for this, what is the role of language (technical, scholarly, conversational, etc.)? How can we achieve the often-stated feminist goal of allowing theory to emerge from practice? What do we think theory is? How would our perspective on our work, and on ourselves, change if we called what we do "feminism" rather than "scholarship"?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Ed. note: A summary of Irmgard Taylor's excellent discussion of public speaking, also presented in the session on "Finding a Voice," wasn't available in time for this newsletter.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday evening, October 14&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Rape -- Deny It a Future: A New Approach to Rape Prevention Education"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Outline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
I. Definitions of rape and sexual assault/sexua1 violence:&lt;br /&gt;1. social&lt;br /&gt;2. legal&lt;br /&gt;a. scope and extent&lt;br /&gt;3. from a victim's/survivor's perspective&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. Solutions (?)&lt;br /&gt;1. causes&lt;br /&gt;2. prevention models&lt;br /&gt;a. primary: elimination of causes&lt;br /&gt;b. secondary: protection/avoidance vs. empowerment/education&lt;br /&gt;3. tertiary: service and rehabi1itation/punishment &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. Main points:&lt;br /&gt;1. The issue of sexual violence is huge and complex.&lt;br /&gt;2. There is no direct connection between the motivation for sexual desire and sexual violence, but a connection between sexuality (as widely understood and practiced in our culture) and power (misuse of power) seems to be evident. We need to re-think the slogan of the early anti­rape movement: "Rape is violence - not sex" (as if the two have nothing in common).&lt;br /&gt;3. Because of 1., there are no easy, fast solutions.&lt;br /&gt;4. Women cannot prevent (in the sense of primary prevention) rape and sexual assault. "We can't prevent it since we are not doing it."&lt;br /&gt;5. Traditional rape prevention strategies (avoidance/protection model) can do more harm than good.&lt;br /&gt;6. A feminist empowerment model has a chance of changing our rape-prone culture into a rape-free society - but also encounters the greatest res¡stance.&lt;br /&gt;7. Rape Prevention Education belongs in the academic curriculum of universities &lt;br /&gt;--Almut R. Poole&lt;br /&gt;Los Angeles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday morning, October 15&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FICTION, FANTASY AND FREEDOM: TESTING THE LIMITS IN POST-WAR LITERATURE. Moderator: Barbara D. Wright, U. Connecticut.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Fantasy as a Weapon: Irmtraud Morgner's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda: Ein Hexenroman"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmtraud Morgner's humor and optimism have darkened in the past decade, however, her fantasy has developed. In &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda: Ein Hexenroman&lt;/span&gt; she has honed this unique fantasy and turned it into a literary weapon—wielded to help bring about radi­cal change in the trajectory of history. She presents her strategies in powerful, carefully worked out metaphor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Sheila Johnson&lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Grenz(über)gänge (Transgressions)"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christa Reinig's recent texts--her novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Entmannung&lt;/span&gt; (1976), her collection of short stories and essays, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der Wolf &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Witwen&lt;/span&gt; (1979), and her poetry cycle, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Müssiggang ist aller Liebe~Anfang&lt;/span&gt; (1979)—are written from a conscious and explicit feminist perspective. The questions they raise are basic: why are women oppressed and, above all, what are we going to do about it? All three texts set out from two premises: 1. that radical change is necessary, and 2. that it is possible. The prose texts are written from the perspective of a woman living and writing in a world controlled and ruled by men. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Müssiggang&lt;/span&gt;, on the other hand, a set of 365 poems which record, in calendar form, the daily events in one year of the poet's life with her woman lover, is written from a "gynocentric" perspective. The shift in tone and mode of these texts, from the aggressive satire of the fictional voice to the lyrical simplicity and vulner­ability of the poetic voice, reflects this shift in perspective. Seen together, they represent different attempts to create a space in which women can begin to become what we have the potential to be by going beyond the boundaries of what has been declared doable, thinkable, or even imaginable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Observing the ubiquitous daily violence against women, Reinig concludes that the oppression of women at the hands of men can have only one logical explana­tion: they must, she argues, be different species. The female, she suggests, comes from the Cromagnon people, while the male is genetically Neanderthal.&lt;br /&gt;The historical struggle between them, she concludes, is the struggle for survival of two similar, but essentially different species in competition for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lebensraum &lt;/span&gt;for themselves and their offspring. On the basis of these premises, Reinig proceeds to develop her vision, at once tongue-in-cheek satirical and grimly serious, of ultimate and deadly warfare between the sexes. In a war against opponents who will destroy us if we do not destroy them first, she insists, we must confront the need for violence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the context of a "New Femininity" within the German women's movement, Reinig's reminder that liberation is a power struggle with very real dangers and tangible consequences rather than a celebration of who we already are, is particularly important. However, her species argument is also quite problematic. For since it can too easily be misunderstood as mere ahistorical essentialism, it has a&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Grenz(über)gänge (Transgressions)” (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;dangerous reactionary potential. Of course, the satiric mode in which her argument is case defies us to take her “solution” seriously. By using satire to radically defamiliarize established ways of thinking about what has been and might yet be possible, she challenges us to rethink the analyses oh history and strategies for change that have thus far formed the basis for feminist theory and practice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Satire, however, is a difficult weapon to weild effectively; it is not altogether safe, for it cuts two ways. Continuously transgressing the boundaries between the serious and the fantastic, deliberately blurring the distinction between what is said and what is meant, it leaves us—-readers--to think our own way through the problems raised in and by the texts. In contrast to other contemporary German feminist writers who provide their women readers with comforting, and comfortable, “Identifikationsliteratur,” Reinig refuses to do the thinking for us. She aims to provoke and disturb and that she does. What conclusions we come to, and what we decide to do about it, she leaves up to us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; --Angelika Bammer&lt;br /&gt;Vanderbilt U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Roth and the ‘Hapsburg Myth’”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An important aspect of Ingeborg Bachmann’s prose fiction that has not been the focus of the recent excellent feminist criticism devoted to her work is its place within and its reaction to the mainstream of Austrian literature. Given the convincing claims for her exemplary anticipation of feminist issues and concerns, her apparent attraction to conservative tendencies within the Austrian literary tradition, manifestations of the so-called "Hapsburg Myth," demands scrutiny and explanation. This crucial matter can be examined in nuce in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Drei Wege zum See&lt;/span&gt;, the story that concludes the volume &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Simultan&lt;/span&gt;. This narrative ostensibly describes a homecoming. Elisabeth Matrei, a successful photojournal ist, returns to Klagenfurt for a visit with her father. Yet during her brief stay her thoughts consistently return to a man she knew twenty years earlier: Franz Joseph Eugen Trotta. Trotta, as his name suggests, cannot be understood fully on the primary fictional level of the text. His origins lie in another fiction, in Joseph Roth's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Kapuzinergruft&lt;/span&gt;, where he is mentioned briefly as the young son of the protagonist. By continuing the biography of this character and giving him a crucial role in the life of her heroine, Bachmann is not indulging in the Hapsburg nostalgia that permeates Roth's novel. Instead, her literary borrowing follows a more unconventional path and establishes dialogues on several levels of the text, dialogues between men and women, between tradition and innovation, between exile and home, and between literary history and personal history.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;--Leo A. Lensing&lt;br /&gt;Wesleyan University&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing: WARUM STEHT DIES ALLES NICHT&lt;br /&gt;AUF UNSEREM LEHRPLAN?!]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-17-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WîG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Negation und Utopie in Christa Wolfs &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort. Nirgends"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In my analysis of the narrative technique in Christa Wolf's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort. Nirgends&lt;/span&gt;, I come to the conclusion that the voices of the characters and that of the narrator tend to converge and merge when social issues (e.g. the individual's alienation from society, the idea of progress) are being discussed. The text voices which alternate in presenting, modifying and This stylistic organization fulfills two purposes: address, indirectly, the issue of the individual's reduction to a function within the whole of society, and it suggests a new model of communication which the narrative presents as a utopistic alternative to existing rigid patterns of interaction.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Sigrun D. Leonhard&lt;br /&gt;Carleton Col 1ege&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Barbara Frischmuth"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Einbildungskraft hat von vornherein in Frischmuths Werken eine wichtige Stelle eingenommen. Freilich hat sich im Laufe der Zeit die Rolle und Funktion der Imagination in Frischmuths Fiktion verändert. In ihren früheren Werken findet der imaginative Prozess in der Protagonistin selbst statt und ist oft nur eine Flucht vor der Wirklichkeit. Später finden wir eine kreative Imagination, die von der Erzählerin ausgeht, aber auch in verschiedenen Charakteren lokalisiert ist. Alltagsleben, Phantasie, das Übernatürliche, Intellekt, und utopische Vision werden auf diese Weise vereint. Diese Einbildungskraft hat sowohl einen visionären Charakter wie einen gesellschaftskritischen, indem sie die gedank­lichen Normen der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft angreift und ihre intellektuellen Äußerungen infrage stellt. Es ist eine befreiende und emanzipierende Imagina­tion. Während die Welt des Mannes krank und abgewirtschaftet erscheint, sind Kinder und Frauen Träger dieser kreativen Einbildungskraft.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Dagmar Lorenz &lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday morning, October 16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Lost Voices - New Voices:&lt;br /&gt;Women's Popular Literature and the Literary Canon."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderators: Resa Dudovitz (U. Illinois) and Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby College) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this session we posed four questions:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) What need does popular literature fill?&lt;br /&gt;2) What are the ideological functions of women's popular&lt;br /&gt;3) What are the relationships between popular literature and the "canon" &lt;br /&gt;4) Why have scholars been reluctant to look seriously at women's literature, past and present?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the discussion we considered the fact that this literature composes the vast bulk of what is read, by anyone who reads at all, including ourselves. It provides an extremely important example of the social function of culture,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Lost Voices - New Voices: . . ." (continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;providing models of behavior for both sexes and reinforcing conservative social values. We discussed the need for us, both as feminists and as scholars, of understanding what this literature is and what it does as a first step toward reevaluating and reconstructing models of women in society.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Dorothy Rosenberg &lt;br /&gt;Colby College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday morning, October 16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concluding session, "Viele Stimmen," chaired by Edith Waldstein (M.l.T.) and Barbara D. Wright (U. Connecticut).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started out with an outline of what Edie and I had identified as major themes of the conference: the public/private split and a variety of ways that values from the private sphere can be introduced into the public sphere; speech, silence and the difficulty that women can have finding a voice, particularly in the pub­lic sphere; anger, our discomfort and embarrassment with anger, and the necessity to transform anger from a paralyzing and destructive force into a positive one, especially in self-defense, in our institutions, and in our politics, particularly the peace movement; and the potential both of tradition and fantasy to provide liberating alternatives. ... I said that we had perhaps avoided some "unspeakable" topics at this conference . . . and I suggested we not get too comfortable in our treatment of the themes and issues the conference had raised.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When we opened the session to discussion, talk immediately turned from the specific themes I had raised to our process. [Some] argued that we had gotten too formal, too much like MLA . . . [while others] argued that the conference could &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;also&lt;/span&gt; provide practice for MLA-style sessions in a supportive atmosphere while allowing for dialogue and informal exchanges, too. . . . [Speaking the unspeakable] happened for us this year when we began to confess to one another, at the very end, that many of us felt like "outsiders" despite years of member­ship or even positions on the steering committee. . . . One of the things I tried to start discussion on was just what we mean by "feminism". . . . We do have a responsibility ... to provoke, confront, raise uncomfortable questions.&lt;br /&gt;We have a responsibility to keep the endeavor political. I don't know that it's just a question of scheduling more small groups, though. ... I think small group discussions can be just as useless as big formal lectures, if people in the group aren't working together or don't know what is expected of them.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe what we need is to get someone with experience to do consciousness-raising exercises with us . . . small groups, but with structure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Barbara Wright &lt;br /&gt;U. Connecticut&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of the "Viele Stimmen" discussion:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This session provided a forum for WiG members to express diverging perceptions and experiences. Concerns voiced were:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of the "Viele Stimmen" discussion: (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
1. The structure and content of the October conference, and of WiG as an organization:&lt;br /&gt;--concern about WiG's possible "bourgeoisification;" concern that WiG not become simply a "credentialing organization" where one gives/publishes (yearbook) papers, as in many other forums;&lt;br /&gt;--focus on WiG as a feminist organization; concern about attempts to avoid using the patriarchal model of having longish papers delivered from a podium, and then lacking time for a small-group interchange with a rotating chair; showing respect for each other by respecting WiG deadlines (supporting session chairs). (Ed. note: hear, hear!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Tensions within WiG&lt;br /&gt;--the way in which WiG members feel pressure because they perceive themselves as outsiders or insiders, or think they are so perceived; the degree to which it can be difficult to join a meeting in which most people appear to know each other already;&lt;br /&gt;--the concern participants may feel as to whether their feminism is "correct" enough when they speak;&lt;br /&gt;--tensions arising from differing perceptions of WiG's "mission," with some members committed to specific political positions and a desire to transform not only WiG and the profession, but the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Concern that we not silence the voices addressing homophobia, classism, racism, antisemitism and the voice of anger.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Out of this passionate and deeply honest discussion grew the proposal to devote the Thursday evening session of WiG 1984 to the question "What do we want WiG to be?" (chaired by Dorothy Rosenberg and Gail Newman), perhaps opening with a panel whose members address the question of what WiG means to them. The hope is that people will speak about personal and emotional issues, perhaps intro­ducing subjects on which they feel vulnerable; and that this (potentially) difficult session will have a liberating and unifying effect--on the order of the session "Viele Stimmen."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At WiG 1984 several people will meet at meals with people arriving during the conference to fill them in on what has happened prior to their arrival. We hope in this way to overcome tension based on how often one has attended WiG or on when one arrives at the conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Evaluation: The final "wrap-up" session is, I believe, an absolutely vital forum for evaluating the conference and sharing both emotional and intellectual concerns regarding WiG and our individual relationship to it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Bunny Weiss Vassar College&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing: Oh, Frau, ob die mich wohl mitmachen lassen?]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-20-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A comment on WiG 1983 by a "first-timer" . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thoughts on my first WIG conference&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As a graduate student whose financial situation made attending previous con­ferences impossible and having had only different versions of "the great WIG myth" to go on, I'd like to share my impressions on what it was like to finally be there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In general, I was not at all disappointed: I can say without qualification that this is the only conference I ever attended which provided a space in which I felt totally comfortable and which revitalized me instead of draining me of all resources.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I found the papers given in the Saturday morning session especially stimulating-- it made me feel that we are all pulling in the same direction, even if we can't put our finger on exactly what we're doing (theory ???) . After this session I did however wish for more discussion on the issues raised in the papers. I appropriated this space for myself by talking to Angelika and Sheila &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;privately &lt;/span&gt;since the public space was not appropriate (for me), though I would have liked to open our exchange to others. It was explicitly this point which was a basic problem for me throughout: expanding the borders of private discussions, i.e. integrating the private and the public into the space &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;inbetween&lt;/span&gt;. Perhaps this could be found by determining small interest groups in the general discussion and breaking up into these afterwards. Counting off by numbers did not seem to sufficiently meet everyone's needs. I would encourage us to look for this space inbetween at next year's conference, to leave some room for improvisation, though it will be especially difficult since our agenda is already crowded with so many exciting topics, to which we can hardly do justice in the time allotted.&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if less wouldn't give us more space inbetween.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Having experienced the frustrating pitfalls of large conferences whose very size gives way to hierarchical structures, I also want to make a case for watching for the danger signals of potential domination as WIG increases in size, which would split us into "they" (presenters/organizers/guest authors) and the passive masses. Even a rotating "they" is not something to be desired. Now that we know about the process of getting there, maybe we should devote some time to thinking about where we &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;want&lt;/span&gt; to go, without getting bogged down in the nostalgia of "the way we were".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Gerlinde Geiger&lt;br /&gt;Smith College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And a thank-you from Patsy:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On behalf of the Schoenhof's Foreign Books staff, I would like to thank you all for your interest, enthusiasm, encouragement and--yes, of course--your business. We hope that the information we bring you as well as the new titles we display are helpful to you and your students. Special thanks must be extended to Joey and Edith this year for the smoothness with which everything was organized and run. We look forward to attending future WIG conferences. Meanwhile, please let us know if we can serve you,your bookstores and your libraries better or more efficiently. See you all next year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Patsy Baudoin, Schoenhof's Foreign Books&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-21-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of WiG business and planning meeting&lt;br /&gt;Saturday afternoon, October 16&lt;br /&gt;Meeting chaired by Jeannine Blackwell&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Report from the WiG Yearbook co-editors&lt;/span&gt;. Marianne Burkhard and Edith Waldstein received 14 papers for the 1982 yearbook. They rejected three, based on reports by referees who are WiG members and their own judgement.&lt;br /&gt;Four of the papers were still out at the time of the October conference. The manuscripts will be sent to the University Press of America by the end of the year. For this first volume, the contributors will bear the cost of preparing the camera-ready manuscript.
&lt;p&gt;After discussion of how the yearbook might be done in the future, we agreed on the following: 1) to open the yearbook up to submissions from the WiG membership at large as well as to papers presented at WiG sessions, since mem­bers doing important feminist work might not be able to attend conferences; 2) to keep the topic open (rather than to announce a special focus or theme) so as not to limit ourselves for the present; 3) to make a policy of asking the guest authors if they want to contribute something to the yearbook (a short text, or an account of their experience at WiG); 4) Marianne and Edie will continue as co-editors for at least two years, so there will be conti­nuity. The deadline for receipt of manuscripts for the 1983 volume is 1 February 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Report on the syllabi project&lt;/span&gt; (Sidonie Cassirer and Bunny Weiss). Bunny reported that they had sent out about 650 letters to WiG members and MLA-listed Women's Studies programs requesting contributions to the syllabi booklet.&lt;br /&gt;They received financial support for the mailing and printing, etc. from Hamil­ton College and the Kirkland Endowment (a fund which supports projects for women's education).
&lt;p&gt;It was agreed that everyone who picked up their syllabi booklets during the conference would pay $1.00. It was also agreed that the booklets would be sent to all other WiG members without charge; and that non-members would be asked to pay $2.00 to cover postage (first class) and handling to receive the booklet. Women's Studies programs are to be notified by postcard that the booklet is available, and announcements should be placed in appropriate journals and news­letters. (N.B.: we already did this--Erin, Connie and Jeanette). Also, the booklet should be shown at other conferences (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt; can do this--and we hope you will!).&lt;/p&gt;
3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Finances&lt;/span&gt;. Jeanette Clausen gave a financial report, the gist of which was that while we are taking in more money than last year, we are also spending more. We are doing &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; mailings (in 1983: textbook reviews and syllabi in addition to 3 newsletter issues, plus a set of calls for papers in January). Newsletters keep getting longer and hence more expensive to duplicate and mail. Also, WiG had to pay for Barbara Frischmuth's overseas flight (the Austrian Institute paid her travel within the US), and we will almost certainly have to pay for one plane ticket next year, possibly two. And, money is needed to support special projects. A request from Marianne Burkhard for about $150.00 to pay a student assistant to help finish her project for WiG, a statistical report on women in rank in 120 German departments from 1965 on, was approved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-22-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WîG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of WiG business and planning meeting (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After considerable discussion, those present voted to approve a new dues structure &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;to take effect January 1, 1983.&lt;/span&gt; Note that this new structure represents an in­crease only for those earning higher salaries, not for students, the unemployed, or the severely under-employed. It is comparable to the dues structure of WCML, also an allied organization of the MLA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Category &lt;/span&gt;                &lt;br /&gt;A student, unemployed&lt;br /&gt;B annual salary $10,000. to 15,000.&lt;br /&gt;C                     $15,001. to 20,000.&lt;br /&gt;D                     $20,001. to 25,000.&lt;br /&gt;E                     $25,001. and up&lt;br /&gt;F supporting individuals&lt;br /&gt;G supporting departments --$25.00 per year&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For one year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$3.00&lt;br /&gt;7.00&lt;br /&gt;10.00&lt;br /&gt;13.00&lt;br /&gt;16.00&lt;br /&gt;20.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For two years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$ 5.00&lt;br /&gt;12.00&lt;br /&gt;15.00&lt;br /&gt;20.00&lt;br /&gt;25.00&lt;br /&gt;35.00&lt;/p&gt;
5. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Location of the 1984 conference&lt;/span&gt;. It was agreed that the WiG 1984 conference will be held in Boston once again, reasons being the horrendous increase in cost to bring &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;two&lt;/span&gt; authors to the west coast, and the necessity of first finding a team of 3-4 people in the west who are able and willing to take on the task of organ­izing the conference. Efforts will be made to find such people. Charlotte Smith agreed to consult other WiG members in the Washington/Oregon area, and we will ask Kathryn Strachota at Stanford about possibilities in that area.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edie Waldstein (M.l.T.) will again serve as general coordinator of the WiG con­ference. Judy Jamieson (Providence College) will coordinate registration and arrangements with the conference center on Thompson Island. The conference date was also discussed; and we agreed on the first weekend after October 15 of each year (to get lower plane fares available after Oct. 15). So, the dates of the next conference are October 18-21, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
6. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Election of new steering committee members&lt;/span&gt;. (Outgoing members are Martha Wallach and Marianne Burkhard). Nominated were: Angelika Bammer, Marianne Burkhard, Sandy Frieden, Dorothy Rosenberg, Edith Waldstein. Ballots were dis­tributed to everyone present. The two members elected are Sandy Frieden (U. Houston) and Edith Waldstein (M.l.T.). Karen Achberger (St. Olaf College) was appointed Director of Membership in recognition of the excellent work she's done in getting new WiG members and to encourage her to keep on doing this. Concerning specific positions on the steering committee, Barbara Wright (U. Connecticut) will be the new coordinator of textbook reviewing, and Sandy Frieden (U. Houston) will take over the position of fund-raising coordinator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-23-&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of WiG business and planning meeting (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
7. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Topics for WiG 1984&lt;/span&gt;. Many topics were suggested and there was much discussion, which I can't do justice to in a report. Here are the topics as agreed on during the meeting, bzw. as adjusted during the Sunday morning session.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thursday, Oct. 18: "What do feminist Germanists want (or need)?" What do we want WiG to be? Coord. Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.) and Gail Newman (Williams Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday morning, Oct. 19: Women and Humor. Coord. Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.) and Sheila Johnson (OSU).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday afternoon, Oct. 19: Feminist Pedagogy, to focus on three areas: the teaching of language, the teaching of literature, and the teaching of film.&lt;br /&gt;Coord. Marlene Heinemann (U. Wyoming) and Joan Moessner (U. Alaska).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday evening, Oct. 19: Helga Schütz, reading and discussion. Coord. Pat Herminghouse (Rochester U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday morning, Oct. 20: Witches and Wise Women. Coord. Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State), Patsy Baudoin (Schoenhof&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;s), and Jeanette Clausen (IPFW).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday afternoon, Oct. 20: Business and Planning Meeting, starring the WiG steering committee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday evening, Oct. 20: Irmtraud Morgner, reading and discussion. Coord. Christiane Zehl Romero (Tufts U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday morning, Oct. 21: concluding session, still untitled. Coord. Sandy Frieden (U. Houston) and Margaret Ward (Wellesley Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was also discussion of what we should do if one or both of our GDR guests should be unable to come to the conference. Sandy Frieden agreed to be respon­sible for finding a film to show on one of the evenings if this should be the case.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Ed. note: The issue of an evening's entertainment wasn't discussed at the busi­ness meeting, but some of us had fun thinking of possibi1ities--having a Hexen­sabbat, for example, or maybe a witch trial in reverse (the witches interrogate the inquisitors), or having people show up in costume, representing their favorite German "wise woman." If you have ideas for an entertaining evening, keep it in mind, or tell someone, or something--no need to be formal about it, just imagina­tive.) .&lt;/p&gt;
8. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA and AATG 1984&lt;/span&gt;. We ran out of time during this discussion, so Barbara and Joey quickly drew up a ballot listing all the topics that had been suggested; these were distributed Saturday evening and the results announced on Sunday morning. They are:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, to be held in Chicago. 1. Pedagogical session on German film. No coordinators yet. Kathryn Strachota's name was volunteered, but she wasn't present so this is not definite. 2. Literary session on women and peace. Irmgard Taylor (SUNY, Cortland) volunteered as coordinator; a second coordinator is still to be found.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;-24-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of WiG business and planning meeting (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA 1984&lt;/span&gt;, to be held in Washington, D.C. 1. "Remaking Myth," coord. Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.) and Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.); and 2. "Appropriating Faust," coord. Gerlinde Geiger (Smith Coll.) and Konstanze Bäumer (Syracuse U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That's about it. Grateful thanks to Jeannine for chairing this marathon, and to Barbara, Joey, and others for quick thinking to solve problems when we ran out of time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At various points during the conference, people objected to having the business meeting on Saturday afternoon--some felt bummed out by having to shift gears from thinking about literature and feminist criticism in the morning to trying to make decisions under pressure of time in the afternoon. Most of us felt that we can't have the business meeting earlier than Saturday afternoon, because our decisions about the following year grow out of what happens during the current year's conference. And most agree that having the business meeting on Sunday morning isn't good either, because (a) we're even &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; pressed for time, and (b) too many people are unable to stay for all of Sunday morning. Unlösbares Problem? Habt ihr eine Meinung?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--summary and editorial commentary&lt;br /&gt;by Jeanette Clausen, IPFW&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[image: Frau überläßt die Privatsphäre dem Mann.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-25-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thursday evening, October 18&lt;br /&gt;Opening session&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"What do Feminist Germanists Want (or Need)?" Coord. Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.) and Gail Newman (Williams Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What directions should WiG be going in? We would like to solicit papers from specifically lesbian, gay, jewish and other perspectives reflecting the diversity of WiG's constituency. After a panel presentation, panel participants (and others ) will act as coordinators for small group discussion of all the issues raised at the first evening's session. They will continue to be available at mealtimes on Friday and Saturday to welcome new arrivals and all others who wish to continue the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hope to use this structure to help bring out the issues which divide us and which unite us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Send proposals or inquiries to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Gail Newman, Dept. of German, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267 &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Dorothy Rosenberg, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday morning, October 20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Witches and Wise Women." Coord. Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.), Patsy Baudoin (Schoenhof's Foreign Books) and Jeanette Clausen (IPFW).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We haven't formulated a call for papers yet, but are still mulling over ideas, and would welcome any suggestions you have. Perspectives from other disciplines, especially history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and religion would be appropriate, as well as literary treatments of witches, women healers, midwives, and other "wise women." For those who would like to do some background reading we suggest the following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara Ehren re ich and De id re English, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Witches, Midwives and Nurses. A History of Women Healers&lt;/span&gt;, 2nd ed. (The Feminist Press, 1972).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Becker, Bovenschen, Brackert et al. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aus der Zeit der Verzweiflung. Zur Genese und Aktualität des Hexenbildes&lt;/span&gt; (edit ion suhrkamp 840).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Calls for papers for all the WiG 198A sessions will be announced at a later date.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wohlgemerkt&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Philosophen haben die Welt bisher nur männlich interpretiert. Es kommt aber darauf an, sie auch weiblich zu interpretieren, um sie menschlich verändern zu können. --Irmtraud Morgner (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda&lt;/span&gt;, 1983). (quote sent by Gisela Brude-Firnau, U. Waterloo).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-26-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tenth New Hampshire Symposium&lt;br /&gt;on the German Democratic Republic&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;June 22-29, 1984&lt;br /&gt;World Fellowship Center&lt;br /&gt;Conway, N.H.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The 1984 New Hampshire Symposium on the GDR has been scheduled for the week of June 22-29. As in the past years, thg Sym­posium will be interdisciplinary in approach. Economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, etc., as well as Germanists are invited to participate. Papers are being solicited for the following seminars:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR I: Economic, Social, and Political Issues in the GDR - Christiane Lemke, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 5 Bryant St., Cambridge, MA 02138; Arthur A. Stahnke, Zentralinstitut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, FU Berlin, Babelsbergerstr. 14-16, D-1000 Berlin 31.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR II: East-West Relations - Volker Gransow, Fachbereich II, Universität Bielefeld, D-4800 Bielefeld.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR III: The Function of the Arts and Media in GDR Society Duncan Smith, (Literature, Music, Art, Film, etc.) - Dept. of German, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR IV: Popular Culture in the GDR - Wolfgang Buscher, Yorckstr. 84A, D-1000 Berlin 61.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR V: Language and Linguistics in the GDR - H. Jochen Hoffmann, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 11 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; James Copeland, Dept. of Linguistics and Semiotics, [redacted] Rice University, Houston, TX 77251.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR VI: Translation (of GDR writings into other languages, of non-GDR writings into German in the GDR) - Fritz H. König, Dept. of Modern Languages, Univ. of No. Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50613.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR VII: Cultural Heritage and Tradition in the GDR: Art, Architecture, Literature, Music, Restoration - Nancy A. Lauckner, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916; James Knowlton, Dept. of German, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J. 08102.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR VIII: Lyric Poetry in the GDR - Christine Cosentino, Dept. of German, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J. 08102; Wolfgang Ertl, Dept. of German, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR IX: The Writer/Artist as Subject in GDR Literature - Wolfgang Muller, Dept. of German, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 17013.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR X: GDR Writers Living in the West: An Update - Margy Gerber, Munchenerstr. 9, D-1000 Berlin 30.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR XI: Recent Developments in GDR Literature and Aesthetic Theory - Christiane Zehl Romero, Dept. of German and Russian, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR XII: The State of the Art: Trends and Developments in the Study of the GDR - Joan E. Holmes, Soviet and East European Studies, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Proposals of topics not fitting into one of the above seminars are welcome and should be submitted to Margy Gerber (See Seminar X above).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Detailed proposals (title plus 2-3 pages) should be submitted to the appropriate seminar organizer(s) — in case of co-organizers, two copies — by Feb. 1, 1984; completed papers must be submitted no later than April 15. Papers should not exceed 30 minutes; the preferred language is English. Selected papers from the Symposium will be published in the series &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Studies in GDR Culture and Society.&lt;/span&gt; For more information on the Symposium, contact IV. Christoph Schmauch, World Fellowship Center, Conway, NH 03818 telephone&lt;/i&gt; [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Registration fee, Room and Board for the whole week, all-inclusive: $180&lt;br /&gt;(This fee includes a $10 charge for a GDR participant's travel fund.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(In order to encourage attendance for the duration of the Symposium, part-time participants will be charged a $20 registration fee, and $30 daily rate, which includes 3 meals and an overnight.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Children under 12: $80 for the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Students to age 21: $100 for the week.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FORUM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(The Women in German textbook reviews were sent out in May to all WiG members, and to the publishers and authors of the texts reviewed. The following letter from Renate Schulz is the only response from a textbook author received so far. Professor Schulz' letter is printed in full, followed by Dagmar Lorenz' reply.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was happy to see the recent efforts of WIG (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; Reviews of Selected Elementary and Intermediate Textbooks, April 11, 1983), reviewing selected instructional materials from a feminist perspective. Such reviews can indeed be helpful in sensitizing teachers, publishers, and textbook authors to recognize and avoid overt and covert sexism as well as class and age stereo­typing in pedagogical texts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As an author of one of the texts reviewed, I realize that any comment I make might be suspect. I feel nevertheless obligated to respond to Dagmar C. G. Lorenz' review of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, lachen, lernen&lt;/span&gt; (pp. 8-10 in your "Reviews"), since several inaccuracies and outright misrepresentations in the review lead me to suspect the objectivity of the reviewer. I hope you will find room for this letter in one of the future WIG publications.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just for the record, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, lachen, lernen&lt;/span&gt; is a supplementary &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;reader&lt;/span&gt; with communicative exercises for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;elementary high school&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;col 1ege&lt;/span&gt; instruction. The book contains no &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Grammatik-Sektionen&lt;/span&gt;, as implied by Professor Lorenz (p. 9).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The reviewer has done an exemplary job of selectively citing those examples which met her apparently predetermined purpose. For instance, we are told that the first illustrations depict seven males vs. three females. We are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not &lt;/span&gt;told that the cover page shows two females vs. one male, nor that other intro­ductory illustrations (appearing before those singled out for criticism) show six females vs. four males. Nor are we informed that none of the illustrations show women in what could be termed traditionally stereotypical roles. Unfortu­nately, some of the photos depict all-male groups, since the "Astronauten­kandidaten" of the BRD are all males (p. 69), as are most of the famous names associated with intellectual or artistic movements of the Weimar Republic (pp. 199-200).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The statement that "in den Übungen finden sich männliche Elemente gegenüber weiblichen in einem Verhältnis 4:1" is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; true. By what mathematical formula did Professor Lorenz calculate the ratio cited?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The text is criticized for listing only leisure time activities for the rich, e.g., "Ich mache gern Ferien in Kanada" (p. 11). Professor Lorenz does not mention that the same exercise (p. 11) gives the options of "Ich mache gern zu Hause / weit von der Autobahn / im Wald, etc. Ferien." Also, according to Professor Lorenz, sports mentioned are limited to "Skilaufen, Flugreise, Segel­fliegen, Wasserschi, Wellenreiten, etc." Does she purposely overlook the apparently more "proletarian" activities such as Fußball, Turnen, Leicht- atlethik, Wandern, Radfahren, etc. (pp. 11, 42-43, 46, 174, etc.)?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The reviewer did not mention that a considerable number of exercises deals precisely with uncovering and discussing stereotypical attitudes toward the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-28-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Forum) continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sexes as well as toward foreign nationalities and people of different age groups, (e.g., pp. 27, 38, 99, 107, 109, 169, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 191 , 192, 193, 19&lt;span style="font-size:11.6667px;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;). A further selective omission is that--with very few exceptions--professions, nationalities, etc. are given with their male as well as female equivalents.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To imply, as Professor Lorenz has done, that inclusion of words such as &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nutte, Zuhälter, glotzen, blöd, Schmäh, Sittlichkeitsverbrecher&lt;/span&gt;, or &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schwangerschaft&lt;/span&gt; would in themselves contribute to the pedagogical quality or usefulness of this or any other elementary text for college or high school students borders on the absurd, (incidentally, the review does not mention that words such as &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Busen&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hintern&lt;/span&gt; (p. 11.0); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Eifersucht&lt;/span&gt; (p. 95); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;blau sein&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;spinnen&lt;/span&gt; (p. 92); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Scheidung&lt;/span&gt; (p. 180); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schwein haben&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schnauze&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kneipe &lt;/span&gt;(p. 123) ; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Haschisch&lt;/span&gt; (p. 68); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kerl&lt;/span&gt; (p. 68); etc.--for whatever they are worth..., are included in the text.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whether seen from a feminist or any other perspective, scholarly convention dictates that a good textbook review should be accurate, objective, and keep in mind the text's purpose(s) and target audience(s). Professor Lorenz'&lt;sup&gt; &lt;/sup&gt;review shows none of these qualities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate A. Schulz &lt;br /&gt;Professor, U. Arizona&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Dagmar Lorenz replies:)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mit Interesse habe ich Prof. Renate Schulz' Reaktion auf meine Rezension des Textes &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; zur Kenntnis genommen. Ich finde es durchaus fair, wenn WIG, wie Prof. Schulz' anregt, ihren Brief abdruckt. Genau so gern schreibe ich, wie Du vorschlägst, ein paar Anmerkungen meinerseits, 'the response to the response.'&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate Schulz hat Recht, wenn sie den Verdacht hegt, daß meine Analyse des Textes . . . darauf ausging, etwas zu belegen, was für mich nach praktischen Erfahrungen mit dem Text eigentlich von vornherein feststand, ohne daß ich mir bisher im Detail darüber Rechenschaft abgelegt hätte, wieso: daß nämlich &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; für einen informativen und intellektuell stimulierenden Unterricht nicht brauchbar ist -- zumindest nicht für mich.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nicht nur einmal, mehrere Male, hat &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; die Ausgangsbasis für einen von mir unterrichteten Konversationskurs bi Iden sollen. ... Da der Text fester Bestandteil des Kurses war, stand es mir nicht frei, wie ich es nach der ersten negativen Erfahrung damit gern getan hätte, ihn abzubestellen noch den Studenten die Ausgaben für alternatives Material zuzumuten. Ich benutze absichtlich letzteren Ausdruck, denn es ist mir deutlich, daß die meisten zugänglichen Konversationsbücher sowohl vom Inhalt wie vom Aufbau her nichts taugen. Das jedoch hat für mich keine Motivation sein sollen, einem Buch, das in einigen Aspekten vielleicht weniger schlecht ist als viele, das Wort reden zu wollen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wie Schulz darlegt, ist &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; durchaus ein elementarer Konver­sationstext. Muß das aber heißen, daß ein solcher Text ganze, und, wie ich noch &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-29-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Forum&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;einmal festhalten möchte, spezifisch weibliche Lebensbereiche ausklammert?&lt;br /&gt;Das Argument, der Text richte sich auch an High School Students oder Anfänger am College und es sei daher absurd, Themenkreise wie Schwangerschaft, Prosti­tution udgl. verbal und inhaltlich zu erfassen, geht ganz an der Realität vorbei, besonders wenn der Text Reizworte wie Busen oder Hintern anbietet.&lt;br /&gt;Ganz im Gegenteil ist die Thematik Sexualität im gesellschaftlichen Kontext besonders relevant für Studenten, aber besonders Studentinnen im High-School und College-Alter, und ich meine damit nicht etwa nur die Erwähnung derartiger Komplexe um des Erwähnens willen. . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Übrigens möchte ich zu meiner "Vokabelkritik" hinzusetzen, daß diese weniger aus der Luft gegriffen ist, als es Prof. Schulz scheinen mag, sondern Vokab­ular einer der Gesichtspunkte war, nach denen die WiG Rezensentinnen angehalten worden waren, die Textbücher zu analysieren.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Statt auf alle Einzelheiten in Prof. Schulz' Brief einzugehen -- sie läßt ja auch die entscheidenden Gesichtspunkte meiner Rezension beiseite -- möchte ich ein paar Gesichtspunkte herausstellen, die ich an die Rezension dieses Textes herangetragen habe. Ich betrachte übrigens von diesen Kriterien her jedes Textbuch, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; ist keine Ausnahme.&lt;/p&gt;
1. Generell hege ich großes Unbehagen darüber, wie in den meisten Textbüchern, dieses hier ist eines davon, die Komplexe deutsche Kultur und Zivilisation auf eine trivialisierende Art und Weise miteinbringen, so daß Information, die auch auf der elementaren Stufe möglich ist, zu einer harmonisierenden, Problemen ausweichenden Anekdoterei wird: Briefe von Austauschstudenten, fingierten Freunden, bedeutungsloses Geplauder&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Aufgrund von uns allen bekannten Faktoren herrscht ein meiner Ansicht nach beklagenswerter Drang unter Sprachlehrern, &lt;span&gt;populär&lt;/span&gt; zu sein und Materialien anzubieten, die im Klassenraum die Atmosphäre von "fun" verbreiten. Gern lernen, damit es Spaß macht und nett in die Verrichtungen des restlichen Tages paßt, ja, beinahe selbst wie eine Freizeitbeschäftigung wirkt, lernen, als ob es wie von selber ginge — solche Vorstellungen umreißen etwa das Phänomen, von dem ich rede. Sich jedoch ernsthaft solchen Zielvorstel1ungen hinzugeben, heißt, m. M. n., sich selber das Wasser abgraben, denn Spaßmacher werden auf die Dauer nicht ernstgenommen; was sie zu bieten haben, ist letztlich keine Konkurrenz für ein fundiertes akademisches Wissen, für kritische Auseinander­setzung. Leider aber unterstützen Lehrbücher die fun-and-games Mentalität bis ins College, besonders Sprachtexte, indem ihr Angebot oft den Charakter eines Varieteprogramms hat. . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Das scheinbar Unideologische und universal Anwendbare solcher Texte ver­schleiert das Faktum, das sehr wohl Haltungen der eigenen wie auch der fremden Kultur gegenüber in ihnen impliziert sind. Durch den dargebotenen Mischmasch erlauben sie nicht, daß eine faktische, relevante Information durchdringt, in ihrer eklektischen, "wertfreien" (wertlosen?) Vielfalt ersticken sie kritische Gedanken schon im Keim und damit auch eine intellektuell stimulierende Klassen­diskussion. Dadurch, daß die Besprechung von Unbedeutendem breit aufgezogen ist (etwa: obskure deutsche Idiosynkrasien, welches Glas paßt wozu, udgl.) wird potentiell Brisantem der Raum und die Möglichkeit genommen. Dadurch, daß wirkliche Probleme, wie sie in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;L,L,L&lt;/span&gt; in Tuchfühlung auftreten mit Texten, die sie gleich zurücknehmen oder neutralisieren (Alkoholismus Arm in Arm mit den guten deutschen Spirituosen), wird ihre Nennung an sich schon zum Hohn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-30-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Forum&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Indem Textbücher in ihrem Weltentwurf gesamte Lebensbereiche, Personen­gruppen, Daseinsmöglichkeiten und zeitgenössische Probleme ausklammern, pflegen sie eine Realität darzustellen, die es weder in den USA noch in Deutschland gibt, eine, von der das 'target audience' -- i.e. unsere Studenten, aber auch Unterrichtende -- sich grundlegend entfremdet fühlt. Das trifft auf mich zu im Falle von &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;L,L,L&lt;/span&gt;. Weder bin ich als Unterrichtende imstande, mit Hilfe dieses Textes sprachliche oder kulturelle Inhalte zu vermitteln, noch fand ich Studen­ten bereit, diese vom Text her aufzunehmen. Ein Textbuch jedoch, finde ich, müßte auch anders, d.h. nicht nur als Karikatur, zu verwenden sein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Ein Blick auf unser 'target audience', High School und College, junge Erwachsene oder Jugendliche, weiblich und männlich, denen, besonders solchen an State Universities, Komplexe wie Arbeit und Arbeitslosigkeit vertraut und, studieren sie in den Humanities, wichtige Fragen sind. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;L, L, L&lt;/span&gt; geht mit der Freizeitemphase an ihnen vorbei, wie auch an ebenfalls schon für junge Leute höchst interessanten Problemkreisen der Sexualität im privaten wie sozialen Kontext, der Kriminalität, im Zusammenhang damit etwa der Gewalt, des Militar­ismus, der Rollen und Stellung der Geschlechter zueinander, Minderheiten, Rassismus, um nur einiges zu nennen, was um der Bequemlichkeit halber in Text­büchern nicht vorhanden ist oder so leger angeschnitten wird, daß man von einem 'tokenismus' sprechen kann, der sich in der bloßen Nennung erschöpft.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Noch eine Anmerkung zum Brief. In dem ersten Drittel dieses Jahrhunderts gäbe es keine deutschen Frauen von genügend Statur, daß sie in die angesprochene Übung paßten (Rosa Luxemburg, Bertha v. Suttner, Else Lasker-Schüler, Erika Mann u.a.)? Wenn die von mir Genannten dem Durchschnittsstudenten nicht so verfügbar sind wie andere Namen, wäre eine Einführung von ein bis zwei Sätzen doch durchaus machbar. Frage: was ist am Turnen, Leichtatlethik, Wandern, Rad­fahren oder Fußball denn so spezifisch proletarisch?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Damit will ich's aber bewenden lassen, so daß dieser Brief nicht ins Uferlose geht. Ich freue mich auf eine lebhafte Diskussion,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;mit besten Grüßen,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dagmar Lorenz &lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[drawing: ALSO, WO BLEIBT DENN &lt;br /&gt;DAS GELD FÜR UNSERE FRAUENPROJEKTE?!]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BEARS REEATING DEPARTMENT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women account for half the world's population; two-thirds of the world's work hours; one-tenth of the world's income and less than a hundredth of the world's property. Fewer than one-third of all women are literate and in many African and Asian countries only one in ten females even enters school. "Feminization of poverty" is a structural feature of the world political economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-31-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BRIEF AUS BERLIN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following "open letter" was received in late summer 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amerikanische Frauen&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche Frauen ein Austausch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wir wollen nicht schielen. Wir wollen sehen, erleben, erfahren, suchen, Ideen tauschen, beobachten und eintauchen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Was geht da vor - an anderen Ufern?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wo ist die Ferne, wo die Nähe?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wir wollen ein Austauschseminar für deutsche und amerikanische Frauen in den USA anregen und vorbereiten und suchen Frauen, die die Vorbereitung in den USA übernehmen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wir sind eine Gruppe Berliner Frauen, die in der Erwachsenenbildung tätig sind und die sich insbesondere mit Themen und Fragen der Frauenbewegung befassen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Zum Programm des Seminars schlagen wir zunächst ein breites Spektrum von Themen vor, über dessen Eingrenzung und Konkretisierung wir uns im Verlauf der Vorbereitung verständigen können. Diesen Themen könnten sich die Frauen in Arbeitsgruppen zuordnen und so einen themenspezifischen, sehr viel intensiveren Austausch und gleichzeitig auch persönlichen Kontakt herstellen. Wir würden gerne Treffen mit verschiedenen Frauengruppen und -projekten verabreden, um so direkt miteinander diskutieren zu können und durch die teils verschiedenen Erfahrungen gegenseitige Anregungen zu erhalten bzw. die jeweilige Situation näher kennenzulernen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mögliche thematische Schwerpunkte:&lt;br /&gt;- Rassismus und Sexismus; Kämpfe schwarzer Frauen, ihr Einfluß in der Frauen­bewegung, struktureller Zusammenhang, Unterschiede zu weißen Frauen.&lt;br /&gt;- Frauenkultur; Theater, Film, Experimente mit Video, Medien, z.B. Frauen­zeitungen, neuere Entwicklungen feministischer Literatur.&lt;br /&gt;- Frauen und Politik; Frauenrechtsbewegung, ERA, Einmischungen in Politik: Friedenspolitik, Sozialpolitik, Gesundheits- und Sexua1 politik; Verhältnis organisierte Frauen - autonome Frauen.&lt;br /&gt;- Gewerkschaftliche Frauenkämpfe; Arbeitssituation von Frauen, betriebliche Probleme und Forderungen, Frauenstreiks, Haltung der Gewerkschaften gegen­über Frauenforderungen und -kämpfen, Versuche, eigene gewerkschaftliche Strukturen aufzubauen und die Schwierigkeiten (z.B. CLUW).&lt;br /&gt;- Autonome Frauenbewegung als politische Bewegung; aktuelle Kontroversen der verschiedenen Strömungen, z.B. Autonomie - Separatismus, Situation lesbischer Frauen, ihre Position in der autonomen Frauenbewegung.&lt;br /&gt;- Feministische Theorie; feministische Forschung, Erkenntnisse patriarchalischer Herrschaftsstrukturen und -mechanismen, feministische Strategien, Geschichts­forschung.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Außerhalb dieses Austauschs in den Arbeitsgruppen könnten wir über die deutsche Frauenbewegung berichten und Referate vorbereiten.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Gruppe der deutschen Teilnehmerinnen soll aus 20 bis 25 Frauen bestehen, die verschiedene Interessengebiete haben und in der Frauenbewegung engagiert sind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-32-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Brief aus Berlin&lt;/span&gt; (cont inued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Das Seminar sollte möglichst Frühjahr/Sommer 198A stattfinden und zwei bis drei Wochen dauern. Der Ort sollte sich nach euren Möglichkeiten richten, und es sollte dort ein vielfältiges Spektrum der amerikanischen Frauenbewegung vor­handen sein (z.B. New York).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Um einen Fahrtkostenzuschuß zu erhalten, müßte von Eurer Seite eine Gruppe formal als amerikanischer Träger des Seminars auftreten. Aus finanziellen Gründen, aber auch wegen des intensiveren persönlichen Kontakts möchten wir gerne privat wohnen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Als Gegenbesuch möchten wir eine Gruppe amerikanischer Frauen nach Berlin ein­laden und werden die Vorbereitung übernehmen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wir würden uns freuen, wenn Ihr Interesse daran hättet und uns möglichst bald antwortet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mit iebem Gruß,&lt;br /&gt;Elke König, Monika Schmidt, Regine Steinhauer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Post bitte an: Monika Schmidt [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(--If any of you are interested in trying to organize an exchange along the lines outlined by the Berlin women, please contact Monika Schmidt directly.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt; is a newsletter for practitioners and researchers in the field of sexual assault treatment and prevention. It is published on a quarterly basis and is distributed to mental health, social welfare, health, law enforcement, criminal justice, rape crisis and research agencies. The newsletter is also available to community organizations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In ancient Greece, the Delphi was known as the place where gods gathered to confer, share information, and influence the future. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt; newsletter functions in a similar way. That is, this newsletter encourages an exchange of information that will help shape the future of sexual assault prevention and treatment work in a positive way. The main purpose of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt; is to provide current information to readers about sexual assau1t-related research, legisla­tion, materials, activities and services. Other goals of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt; are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--to encourage readers to share and make use of sexual assault-related resources and information not regularly used. Abstracts, resource information, announcements of services and other items are included in every issue to meet this goal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--to assist in the identification of gaps in sexual assault-related theory, research and service, especially within Southern California. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi &lt;/span&gt;reports on the development of research, materials and programs. Certain features as well as special articles are included in each issue for this purpose. To subscribe to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt; (1 year, 4 issues), send a check for $8.00 to: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt;, Almut R. Poole, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-33-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following list of research projects, work in progress and dissertations was collected at the October conference. All members of Women In German are invited to send information about their research projects to the newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bunny Weiss (Vassar Coll., 1983-84)--women and aging.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sheila K. Johnson (OSU, 1983-84)—women and humor (Männer nicht ausgeschlossen); modern drama.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard (U. Illinois, Urbana)—Swiss women authors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U)--revising the literary canon; female Bildungsroman; German film; issues of science and technology in German literature,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandy Frieden (U. Houston)--women and autobiography (1970's), published, Peter Lang 1983; articles on women's autobiographical writings; Christa Wolf; Peter Handke; film—Ulrike Ottinger.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gerlinde Geiger (Smith Coll.)—"Die befreite Psyche"--lda Hahn-Hahn (diss.); and other 19th century women novelists; weibliche Aesthetik; experimental theatre; Ingeborg Bachmann.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst)—Ingeborg Bachmann; feminism and racism (trying to learn American History!).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.)—myth and music in Ingeborg Bachmann's prose; intro, to new edition of Bachmann's prose in English translation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Diane St. Croix (U. Florida)—Deutsche Autorinnen entdecken Ibsen: Gabriele Wohmann und Elfriede Jelinek.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elisabeth Nations (Augustana Coll.)—translating GDR short stories by women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marlene Heinemann (U. Wyoming)—Women Prose Writers of the Holocaust (working on publication); female bonding--survival value; the Third Reich; feminist pedagogy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate Delphendahl (U. Maine, Orono)—Ingeborg Bachmann; women in Kafka's fiction; women writers of the Vormärz; Alienation (dictionary entry); Novalis and bis influence on H. Hesse.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Petra Visscher (U. Florida)—Die Politisierung der Liebe in Werken deutschsprach­iger Autorinnen (Jelinek, Stefan, Wolf, Schwaiger) (und wer noch mehr?).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.)--working on an anthology of feminist literary criticism (and some theory) with Evelyn Beck; interested in translating Christa Wolf's feminist essays and Christa Reinig's poetry (these projects have just begun).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmgard Taylor (SUNY-Cortland)--course in world literature (non-western); Women's Studies minor (international approach); women and public speaking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-34-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Research Projects&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Julie Klassen (Carleton Coll.)--working on an article regarding the "Versöhnung der Gegensätze" in G. Keller's "Fähnlein der sieben Aufrechten;" article on U. Plenzdorf, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;neuen Leiden&lt;/span&gt;, in progress.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sigi Leonhard (Northfield, MN)--working on Christa Wolf ("Aesthetik und Authen­tizität"); preparing a film course; would like to do something on the contem­porary German novel (female and male authors); began writing poetry.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beate Franzen (Colby Coll.)--der "Bref"—eine spezifische Form literarischer Produktivität? Dargestellt an Bettina von Arnim's "Die Günderode."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coli.)—working on articles on GDR women writers born since 1940 (comparing to earlier generations); women's autobiographies 1880's to present (self-image; public vs. private in autobio's of politically/socially active women); translations of GDR women writers/comparative popular literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helga Kraft (U. Florida)--Mutter-Tochter Thema; im Moment: Elfriede Jelinek's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Klavierlehrerin&lt;/span&gt;; first year college German text, "Deutsch zur Kommunikation;" Elisabeth Plessen, "Two Historical Novels of the 70's."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resa Dudovitz (U. Illinois)--Finishing dissertation which deals (in part) with A. Döblin and B. Traven; working on ideological function of popular women's fiction--hope to expand the project to include lit. written for women published in North Africa.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara Wright (U. Conn., Storrs)--Monograph on interaction between German Expressionist activists and first wave of German feminism (in progress); textbook on theory and techniques of translation, German-English; feminist language pedagogy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sue Bottigheimer (Princeton 11.)--Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Landré Goldscheider (Brooklyn, NY)--working on my mother's 2000-page handwritten memoirs (in German), my own writing (autobiographical fiction - in English).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Victoria Joan Moessner (U. Alaska)--women's art education at turn of century; Thomas Bernhard; East-West German lexicography.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gail Newman (Williams Coll.)--diss. on women and female sphere in Novalis (working title); preparing course on female and male images and roles in the Goethezeit for spring semester.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hildegard Pietsch (Washington U.)--planning to write my dissertation on "Die Figur der Schwarzseherin" (Arbeitstitel).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karin Obermeier (U. Mass., Amherst)--currently working on Karol ine von Günderode: "Tod als Metapher des Lebens."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Monika Shafi (U. Maryland)--working on an article comparing Böhlau's "Das Halb­tier" and Fontane's "Jenny Treibei." Thinking about a dissertation topic (utopia in women's lit.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-35-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Research Projects&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Uta Peterson (U. Maryland)—Essayistik of Heinrich Mann (Ph.D. candidate).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yvonne Poser (U. Maryland)--dissertation on foreign language reading instruction with focus on psycho 1ogical/emotional/cultural components of FL reading com­prehension; interested in women's literature which focuses on the contrast between a feminine/masculine Erzahlperspektive for article.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anna Kuhn (U. Pennsylvania)--book in progress, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Christa Wolf:&lt;/span&gt; A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Critical Study&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linda Frisch (Allston, MA)--dissertation on women in the Middle High German &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Maere&lt;/span&gt; (Stanford U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Denis Sweet (German Dept., UNH)—origins of ideology of fascism; anthology of essays on sexual politics (contributions invited).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margaret Brearley (Lewiston, ME) — Diss. (Dec. 1982): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Image of Childhood in the Novels of Elisabeth Langgasser&lt;/span&gt;; exploring topics in GDR literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gerda Neu-Sokol (Bates Coll.)--translation: Jurek Becker, Liber den Verfal 1 der Kultur in unserer Zeit. Poems and short stories.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut R. Poole (Los Angeles)--research on language and gender; linguistic anal­ysis of (some) modern feminist writers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margaret E. Ward (Wellesley Coll.)--in progress (NEH grant this year)—critical biography of Fanny Lewald. Working currently on chapters having to do with her emancipatory writings, her coming to authorship and problem of Goethe as lit­erary "paternity" figure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha K. Wallach (U. Wisconsin, Green Bay) — in progress: German-American women writers 1848-1918; translations into English of contemporary German-language women authors (would like to work with others).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ric Johnson (IPFW)--nonviolence in literature (esp. Christa Wolf); male dominance/feminist nonviolence in West German peace movement (recent paper).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christiane Zehl Romero (Tufts U.)--rororo monograph on Anna Seghers; article on "Weibliches Schreiben—Christa Wolf's Kassandra" (to appear in GDR Studies and Argumente); "Establishing a Female Tradition: (Seghers-Wolf) for volume on Wolf (ed. Fries).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ingrid Horst (E. Bridgewater, MA)--two mss in progress. "Touching our World"-- unusual travel accounts; "I Grew up under Hitler," a German childhood. Pub­lished: some non-academic articles in newspapers and periodicals. Member of English dept.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helene Scher (Amherst, MA)--Christa Wolf, "Neue Lebensansichten eines Katers" and other works commenting, usually negatively, on idea of scientific progress (work in progress).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Charlotte Armster (Dartmouth Coll.)--work in progress: monograph on Anna Seghers interested also in her role as mentor to Christa Wolf; newer GDR women writers (e.g. Christine Wolter and others).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-36-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Research Projects&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Waldstein (M.I.T.)--work in progress: reworking of dissertation (Bettina von Arnim and the German literary salon) into book; 3 papers which I hope will appear as articles: 1) Public and Private Voices in the German Romantic Salon; 2) Conversation in Bettina von Arnim's novels; 3) Bertha von Suttner: Fiction, Autobiography and Politics. Appeared in spring 1983: review essay oh Christa Wolf's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort. Nirgends&lt;/span&gt; (in OSU Women's Studies Review).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margrit Lichterfeld (GSAS Harvard U.)--Diss.: Lessing und das Bild der Frau im 18. Jahrhundert.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Judy Jamieson (Providence Coll.)—translation of Speser's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pia Deseridia&lt;/span&gt; for: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Religious Studies in Modern Western Civilization&lt;/span&gt; by Alexander &amp;amp; Dimoch; paper published and given at post-performance session of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dreigroschenoper&lt;/span&gt; by Cabot St. Playhouse; grant from Rl council on Humanities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lynne Layton (Boston)--reworking diss.: Fontane and Flaubert: Defeat of Subjectivity; book ms.: Narcissism and the Text: Literature and Issues in Self Psychology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kay Goodman (Brown U.)--women's movement at the turn of the century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trudis Goldsmith-Reber is preparing a publication, "Literatur im Faschismus: Weiblichkeitsbilder in der völkischen Literatur." She would be pleased to supply information or review literature related to this topic, and to be con­tacted by people sharing a similar interest. Trudis Goldsmith-Reber, Dept. of German, McGill University, S. Bronfman Bldg. [redacted] Montreal, P. Quebec Canada H3A 1G5-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT: AWARD FOR BEST UNPUBLISHED BOOK-LENGTH MANUSCRIPT IN WOMEN'S STUDIES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fairleigh Dickinson University Press announces a manuscript prize of $2,500 in . the field of women's studies. The winning book length manuscript will be pub­lished by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The manuscript may be a contribution to the scholarship or study of any disci­pline or interdisciplinary area: e.g., sociology, psychology, history, biography, literary criticism, philosophy, linguistics, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contest deadline is October 15, 198A. Authors should write for a copy of con­test rules and an entry form to: Chairperson, Editorial Committee, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison, New Jersey 07940.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-37-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MISCELLANEOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Conference&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Conference &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion and Paradigm&lt;/span&gt;, will take place at Princeton March 2-3, 1984 beginning at 4:30 on Friday and finishing at approximately the same time on Saturday. Associated with it will be an exhibit of illustrated childrens literature, not yet titled, with a large component being fairy tale illustrations. For information, contact Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Princeton Univ.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pubiications/Resources 1983 Index/Directory of Women's Media&lt;/span&gt;. This new directory contains 379 women's periodica1s (over 100 outside the U.S.), 92 women's presses and publishers, 74 women's bookstores, 37 women's music groups, and much more. Along with the Directory is an &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Index to Media Report to Women&lt;/span&gt;. This annotated index of women's media activities and research provides a history of the women's media movement. To order a copy, send $8 to WIFP, 3306 Ross Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Second International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women&lt;/span&gt;, University of Groningen, 17-21 April 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The congress is intended to provide a forum for those concerned with the question: How can we build strategies for empowerment of women? The program will be appro­priate to those who have long been associated with the women's movement as well as to newcomers: to academics and practitioners and to men and women alike.&lt;br /&gt;Keynote speakers will address the theme of the conference. Workshops, panels, symposia and other activities are designed to maximize the participation of the delegates.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REGISTRATION FEE IS Hfl. 400,-. Registration must be received in Groningen no later than January 15, 1984 or late fee will be charged. This fee includes participation in all sessions, social functions, lunches, program, volume of abstracts and directory, plus shuttle bus service. ADDRESS: Congress Secretariat, Sociologisch Instituut, Grote Markt 23, 9712 HR GRONINGEN, The Netherlands.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;MANY THANKS. . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Connie Munk typed, cut, pasted, assembled, and above all cared about this news­letter. Bill Klemme lent his typewriter so Connie could work at home. Erin Clausen took care of Veronica Munk (age two) so Connie could type without quite so many interruptions. Please remember them when you read this newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Erin Clausen drew the cartoon of Jeannine Blackwell on p. 24 and the drawings on pages 38 and 45.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-38-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Miscellaneous Announcements&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Wissenschaft Schweiz - Association Suisse &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Femmes, Féminisme Recherche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Founded in May 1983 the Swiss Association for Feminist Research/Women's Studies aims at furthering feminist teaching and research in connection with the principles and aims of the women's movement. For further information contact Brigitte Schnegg, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Proceedings from the Association's first conference 'Frauen und Wissenschaft: "Stärke weiblicher Schwächen or Schwäche weiblicher Stärken?"' (Women and Science: strength of female weaknesses &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;or weakness of female strengths?&lt;/span&gt;) available for SFr 5.00 from Käthi Belser, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenforschung in den Erziehungs Wissenschaften&lt;/span&gt; (Feminist Research/Women's Studies within Education) Annua 1 Congress of the German Educational Association - DGfE, at Kiel, March 25-28, 1984. The working title of the feminist research section is 'Ausgelernt und Angeschmiert' (something like 'Life after the degree: feeling cheated'): Frauenarbeit - Frauenbildung - Frauenerwerbslosigkeit (Women's work - women's education - women's unemployment). For further information write to Monika Oubaid, Langestrasse 25, Bielefeld 1, FRG, as soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Historikerinnentreffen Wien&lt;/span&gt;, April 16-19 to discuss feminist research and metho­dology with a focus on women's history. For further information write to His­torikerinnentreffen 1984 c/o Uni Frauenzeitung, Berggasse 5-25, Vienna, Austria.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Miss WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rikki from Fort Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[drawing]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-45-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Weisefrau, Uta   32&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University&lt;br /&gt;Utopia, USA&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renew &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt;, today, before you forget—sending out reminders is time-consuming and expensive, not to mention boring.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A new dues structure was approved at the October 1983 WiG conference. By increasing the rates for those earning higher salaries, we hope to be able to finance more projects, while still keeping rates low for students, the unem­ployed, and the underemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Number 31 &lt;br /&gt;August 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;EIGHTH ANNUAL WOMEN IN GERMAN CONFERENCE-RETREAT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;STIMME SUCHEN, STIMME FINDEN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;October 13-16, 1983 Island,&lt;br /&gt;Thompson’s Island, Boston&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Author: BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference coordinator: Edith J. Waldstein (M.I.T.); Registration: Joey Horsley (U. Mass., Boston).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thursday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                   &lt;br /&gt;5:00 - 7:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Arrival, registration, room assignment&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7:00 - 8:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Buffet supper, social hour&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8:00 - 10:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;AUF DER SUCHE NACH EINER FEMINISTISCHEN GERMANISTIK: ACHT JAHRE WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinator: Jeanette Clausen (IPFW).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A brief review of WiG's feminist history and goals, followed by small-group dis­cussions for getting (re-)acquainted with WiG and each other.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                    &lt;br /&gt;8:30 am - breakfast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:30 - 11:30 am&lt;br /&gt;STIMME SUCHEN: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON&lt;br /&gt;WORK FROM VARIOUS DISCIPLINES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinator: Judith K. Jamieson (Providence Coll.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Edith J. Waldstein (M.I.T.)--Women's Public and Private Voices in the German Romantic Salon; V. Joan Moessner (U. Alaska, Fairbanks)—Augusta Enders- Schichanowsky: "Malweib," Miner, Madwoman; Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Princeton U.)-- The Issue of Voicelessness in Grimms' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kinder- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und Hausmärchen&lt;/span&gt;; Judith K. Jamieson (Providence Coll.)--A Visual Voice: The "Maternal Feminine" in Modersohn, Kollwitz, and Zille.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;11:45 - 1 :00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Open for special interest group meetings, sports&lt;br /&gt;activities or free time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1:00 pm - lunch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;                                      &lt;br /&gt;2:30 - 4:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;FINDING A VOICE IN THE PROFESSION&lt;br /&gt;(tentative program)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.) and Irmgard Taylor (SUNY/ Cortland).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Marlene Heinemann (U. Wyoming)--Teaching the German Letter "G": Discussing Gender Roles and Sexual Choice in the Classroom; Irmgard Taylor (SUNY/Cortland)—Stimme suchen: In der Universitätsverwaltung; Helga Kraft (U. Florida), Martha Wallach (U. Wisconsin/Green Bay), Dagmar Lorenz (Ohio State U.), Jeanette Clausen (IPFW)--Four Perspectives on Finding a Voice in Germany: Thoughts on the Hamburg Conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(See also Irmgard Taylor's questionnaire on public speaking at the end of this newsletter.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4:45 - 6:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Steering Committee Meeting&lt;br /&gt;and free time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6:00 pm - dinner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday evening   &lt;/span&gt;                                     &lt;br /&gt;7:30 - 9:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women only! &lt;/span&gt;RAPE -- DENY IT A FUTURE: A NEW APPROACH TO RAPE PREVENTION EDUCATION &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women only!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feminist rape prevention education exemplifies the conference motto "Stimme finden An overview of sexual violence and the scope and extent of rape and sexual assault will be followed by discussion. This 2-hour workshop is planned to end on a positive, empowering note. Follow-up workshop on Saturday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LAST FERRY 10:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday morning&lt;/span&gt;                               &lt;br /&gt;8:30 am - breakfast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:30 - 11:30 am&lt;br /&gt;FICTION, FANTASY AND FREEDOM:&lt;br /&gt;TESTING THE LIMITS IN POST-WAR LITERATURE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Dagmar Lorenz (OSU) and Barbara D. Wright (U. Conn., Storrs).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Sheila Johnson (Ohio State U.)--Fantasy as a Weapon: Irmtraud Morgner's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ein Hexenroman&lt;/span&gt;; Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.)--A Species Argument: Christa Reinig's Case for Women's Liberation; Sigrun 0. Leonhard (Carleton Coll.)—Negation and Utopie in Christa Wolfs &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;rgends&lt;/span&gt;; Dagmar Lorenz (OSU)--Barbara Frischmuth; Leo Lensing (Wesleyan U.)--Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Roth and the "Hapsburg Myth." Presentations in German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;11:45 - 1:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Open for special interest group meetings, sports&lt;br /&gt;activities or free time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1:00 pm - 1unch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;                                 &lt;br /&gt;2:30 - 4:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;WIG BUSINESS AND PLANNING MEETING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For agenda items, and to contribute to the agenda, see tear-out sheet, p. 25.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday afternoon&lt;/span&gt; (cont.)                      &lt;br /&gt;4:45 - 5:45 pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women only!&lt;/span&gt; UNLEARNING SILENCE: A WORKSHOP ON VERBAL ASSERTIVENESS &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women only!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A follow-up to Friday evening's session on rape prevention education, with a focus on acquaintance rape and sexual harassment situations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6:00 pm - dinner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                    &lt;br /&gt;7:30 - 9:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinator: Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara Frischmuth will read from her work-in-progress, the novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ver­&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;körperung&lt;/span&gt;. She will also share her views on the Christian mystics Hildegard von Bingen and Theresa von Avila, and discuss the topic of occidental mysticism, which is also germane to her novel. Discussion in German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LAST FERRY 10:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sunday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;8:30 am - breakfast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:30 - 10:30 am LOST VOICES/NEW VOICES: WOMEN'S POPULAR LITERATURE AND THE "CANON"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.) and Resa Dudovitz (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Brief presentations followed by small group discussions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;10:45 - 12:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;VIELE STIMMEN!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Edith J. Waldstein (M.l.T.) and Barbara D. Wright (U. Conn.). Discussion of feelings, issues, problems and successes which have surfaced during the conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lunch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ferries departing from Thompson's Island at 9 am, 11 am, and 1 pm.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to all of the above, we are planning a short program of feminist entertainment, performed by WiG members, which will be added to the schedule wherever we can fit it in. Not to be missed!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference registration form at the end of this newsletter, pp. 23-24. Registration deadline is September 15, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DON'T FORGET: Bring materials to the conference to share--new course outlines, bibliographies, information about new and forthcoming publications, feminist organizations and events and etc.! The October conference is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;our&lt;/span&gt; space for networking and empowering each other. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Everyone&lt;/span&gt; has something she can contribute-- your knowledge is important to us all!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;BARBARA FISCHMUTH&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[photo]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We were delighted when Barbara Frischmuth wrote that she would like to discuss her ideas on women mystics with us. As Karen Achberger points out, this will tie in well with last year's conference, when Luise Rinser read from her work- in-progress, the "fifth gospel," relating the life of Christ according to Maria Magdalena; it will also give us an opportunity to continue our discussion of the politics of women's spirituality and of "Frauenmystik" that was begun in 1980 at the first Racine conference when Gabriele Strauch shared with us her research on Mechthild von Magdeburg.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For WiG members who want to prepare for the meeting with Barbara Frischmuth, Karen sent this selected bibliography.&lt;/p&gt;
1.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; Major Works&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trilogy: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Mystif&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ikationen der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sophie Sil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ber&lt;/span&gt;. Roman. Salzburg: Residenz, 1973- dtv neue reihe 6311.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;oder &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die Metamorphose&lt;/span&gt;. Roman. Salzburg: Residenz, 1978. dtv neue reihe 6312.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kai &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Liebe zu &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;den Model&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;len&lt;/span&gt;. Roman. Salzburg: Residenz, 1981. dtv neue reihe 6313.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Major Works&lt;/span&gt;: (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stories: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Rückkehr zum vorläufigen Ausgangspunkt&lt;/span&gt;. Erzählungen. Salzburg: Residenz, 1973. dtv neue reihe 6339.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Haschen nach Wind&lt;/span&gt;. Erzählungen. Salzburg: Residenz, 1974. dtv sonderreihe 5455.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bindungen&lt;/span&gt;. Erzählungen. Salzburg: Residenz, 1980. dtv 10142.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Secondary Literature&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interviews: "Die Macht neu verteilen, so daß sie keine Gefahr mehr für die Welt bedeutet!" In: Jürgen Serke, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen Schreiben&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ein &lt;/span&gt;neues Kapitel deutschsprachiger Literatur. Hamburg: Stern, 1979, pp. 15O-163.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Weibliches Bewußtsein in Sprache umsetzen." In: Hilde Schmölzer, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frau Sein und Schreiben&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Österreichische Sehriftstel1erinnen Definieren sich selbst&lt;/span&gt;. Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1982, pp. 63-72.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;General: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;KLG&lt;/span&gt; entry on Frischmuth (Stand 1.1.1982) by Ulrich Janetzki.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bibliography: Jorun B. Johns. "Barbara Frischmuth: Eine Bibliographie der Werke und der Sekundärliteratur bis Herbst 1980." In: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Modern &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Austrian Literature&lt;/span&gt;. Vol. 14, No. 1 (1981), pp. 101­-128.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Remember that all of Frischmuth's works that are currently in print are available from Schoenhof's Foreign Books, 1280 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara Frischmuth's (tentative) itinerary while in the U.S., arranged in cooperation with the Austrian Institute, is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Arrival in Boston, 11 October &lt;br /&gt;WiG Conference, 13-16 October &lt;br /&gt;Reading at U. Minnesota, 17 October &lt;br /&gt;Reading at Ohio State U., 20 October&lt;br /&gt;Reading at the "Deutsches Haus," Columbia U., 25 October &lt;br /&gt;Reading at Princeton U., 26 October &lt;br /&gt;Return to Vienna&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Questions about this itinerary should be directed to Martha Wallach (U. Wisconsin, Green Bay) or the Austrian Institute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE HAMBURG CONFERENCE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conference "Feministische Literaturwissenschaft: Zum Verhältnis von Frauen­bildern und Frauenliteratur," held May 24-27 in Hamburg, was attended by over 300 women! -- The majority were from the FRG, but there were also participants from Austria, Switzerland, Italy, England and the U.S. Morning sessions were devoted to the presentation of formal papers; afternoon and evening sessions consisted of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arbeitsgruppen&lt;/span&gt; for discussion of more narrowly defined topics within the general framework of each morning's presentations. The conference was superbly organized by Sigrid Weigel and Inge Stephan (U. Hamburg): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thesen­papiere&lt;/span&gt; for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arbeitsgruppen&lt;/span&gt; were mailed to everyone registered prior to the conference; a list of all participants was distributed at the conference; coffee and snacks were provided during the ample breaks between sessions; a wonderful women's carabet trio "Die Witwen" entertained us on Thursday evening— you get the idea. Sigrid's and Inge's resourcefulness also included on-the-spot flexibility: when the discussion group "Frauen und Film" bogged down in frustra­tion over the participants' wildly diverse experiences and backgrounds in film criticism, a showing of Ulrike Ottinger's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bildnis einer Trinkerin&lt;/span&gt; and a follow-up discussion period were quickly arranged for the following day, much to the satis­faction of those who attended. Several of us who were able to be present in Hamburg will report in more detail on the conference when we meet in October (see conference schedule, p. 2). By relating our impressions and individual experiences, we hope to be able to give you a sense of the intensity of it all, of the diverse and often contradictory expectations and assumptions on the part of those attending, and to communicate the significance of this first West German conference on feminist literary research and criticism for our ongoing dialog on finding a feminist voice in the profession.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Rundbrief&lt;/span&gt; mailed by Sigrid and Inge in July, negotiations are underway to publish the conference proceedings (formal papers and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thesenpapiere&lt;/span&gt;) ; we hope to have an update on this by October also. A planning committee was appointed to organize a second such conference for 1984; the contact address is: Ursula Geitner, Interdisziplinäre Frauenforschungsgruppe, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstr. 25, 4800 Bielefeld, FRG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG PROJECTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PROGRESS REPORTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Textbook reviews&lt;/span&gt;. By now you should have received your copy of the WiG textbook review special issue, which was mailed in May. If you are a very recent WiG mem­ber, you may not have received this mailing; if so, write to the newsletter requesting it. OF COURSE, we welcome your comments on the reviews, and will do our best to publish future reviews which this first effort might inspire you to write. See "Letters," p. 9, for one WiG member's reactions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Syllabi Project&lt;/span&gt;. Sydna (Bunny) Weiss and Sidonie Cassirer received a goodly number of excellent syllabi for courses on women and German literature/culture and have been working over the summer to edit and assemble a booklet, to be distributed this fall. Bunny writes: "It's breathtaking to see what marvelous and original work feminists are doing!" --The booklet, when ready, will be well worth waiting for, so try to be patient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG PROJECTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PROGRESS REPORTS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Yearbook&lt;/span&gt;. We were pleased with the responses to our call for assistance with the planned Yearbook (March newsletter). Edith Waldstein (MIT) volunteered to serve as co-editor; she and Marianne Burkhard met in July to discuss papers received and refereed so fpr (thank you to those who volunteered to referee papers), and will have a further progress report for us at the October con­ference in Boston.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ONGOING AND FUTURE PROJECTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you probably recall, a number of other projects were suggested at last October's conference (see the Nov. 1982 newsletter). Members of the steering committee and sundry others have discussed the need to organize some more of WiG's talent and energy to accomplish as many projects as possible. Here are some to think on; other suggestions are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;
1.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; Translation&lt;/span&gt;. The availability of works by German women authors in English translation continues to be a problem. We have discovered that a number of us, in our desperation, have simply sat down and translated texts to use in our teaching, then tucked them into our files. We suspect that if we col­lected these translations, we would have the basis for at least one anthology, perhaps more. One priority for an anthology of translated works, it seems to us, would be a collection of lesbian literature (short prose, novel excerpts, poetry). (Of the few German lesbian texts in English translation, one--Verena Stefan's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Shedding&lt;/span&gt; — is likely to be hard to obtain because the publisher, Daughters Inc., has gone out of business.) Another priority might be a collection of "older" (nineteenth century and earlier) women's writing; some of you may have other specific suggestions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bibliography&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;book reviews&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;journal reviews&lt;/span&gt;, etc. We need to find ways to help each other keep up with the ever-increasing number of feminist books, articles and journals, (isn't it nice to have this problem?) We would like to publish more book reviews (brief ones!) and bibliographies in the newsletter; it would also be good to have reviews of journal issues along the lines of those published in the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;GDR Bulletin&lt;/span&gt; (available from Washington U., St. Louis).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Conduct a new &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;survey of German departments&lt;/span&gt; to determine the frequency of course offerings on women and German literature, feminist criticism, etc.; resources and support for feminist research; faculty qualified to teach women's 1iterature/feminist theory, and so on. (In other words, produce a sort of "Everywoman's Guide to German Departments.") &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Monatshefte&lt;/span&gt; published the (rather meager) results of a survey on "Women's Studies and Germanistik" in 1978, and might be willing to publish an update; probably they would also make their mailing list available to us if we decide to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now then. What are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; interests and needs, and what are you able/willing to do to help? Concretely, how much time could you spend working for WiG during the coming year? One day each semester? Two? One day a month? More? Please think about this, and let us know how you'd like to contribute; volunteer your time, expertise and suggestions on the tear-out page (p. 25 of this newsletter) and return it to Jeannine Blackwell. Many thanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCEMENTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Chapter in New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gesine Worm, librarian at the New York Goethe House and new member of WiG, has offered her support in founding a NEW YORK WIG CHAPTER.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are inviting all the women in the area to our first meeting on Wednesday, September 21, at 6:00 pm at the Goethe House Library. Join us for a discus­sion of aims and functions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Goethe House is located at 1014 Fifth Avenue, between 82&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; and 83&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; Streets. For more information, call Gesine Worm at [redacted] or Marianne Goldscheider at [redacted].&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;WIGS ON THE MOVE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are the new locations of several WiG members who have changed or acquired jobs. Congratulations to them!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Konstanze Bäumer, Syracuse U., Syracuse, NY 13210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Bammer, Vanderbilt U., Nashville, TN 37253.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gerlinde Geiger, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marlene Heinemann, U. Wyoming, Laramie, 82071.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Patricia Herminghouse, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, II. Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Biddy Martin, Cornell U. , Ithaca, NY 14853-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, Susan Cocalis has at long last returned, from Berlin to U. Mass., Amherst. Bunny Weiss has a visiting appointment (one year) at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601. Miriam Frank has been in New York for some months, living in a German-speaking neighborhood, doing research on women in unions and teaching, in Humanities and Adult Education, as an adjunct faculty member at NYU.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BY THE WAY ... I can only announce relocations that come to my attention, so if you're moving--permanently or temporarily—please LET WIG KNOW.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;LOST WIGGIE . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know the current address of Pat Russian? Word has it that Pat has a baby daughter, and we would like to hear from her (them).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LETTERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Letters from WiG members are always welcome and appreciated, whether they get published in the newsletter or not. Here are a few excerpts from letters received during the past several months, for your collective enjoyment, inspiration, indignation, or action, as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From Charlotte Smith, Seattle: "Enclosed is a gift subscription for a friend (Germanistin) . . . The last newsletter, which .I just received, gave me the usual lift and reminded me that I am not alone. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thanks&lt;/span&gt; ..."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From Renate Delphendahl, Orono, ME: "I myself am very impressed with the good work you and the dedicated others have done. I can now see that we will consti­tute a network of women who can help each other. After the Boston conference of 1982 I gave a one-hour seminar on my campus reporting on the highlights of the meeting and the audience was impressed with what WiG has been doing. I got questions on which of Luise Rinser's works are available in English, and the idea of how women are portrayed in fairy tales sparked quite a discussion.&lt;br /&gt;. . . Even though no colleague from my department came to my talk, there were about 35 faculty members from English and Speech and other departments who were interested to find out about WiG."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From a new student member: . . . "How sad that as an undergrad I was taught only male authors, analysis, criticism--with the feminist approach . . or German women authors de-emphasized. I learned from the History Dept. that &lt;i&gt;[a&lt;/i&gt; WiG member? studied &lt;i&gt;[at&lt;/i&gt; _______ University?] -- I had never heard this and in fact when I told a German professor I was curious about [her], he asked me if I intended to be a radical feminist. So it seems they resent this if it is more than just innocent scholarship that doesn't intend to change things. . . .&lt;br /&gt;I am excited to have learned of your existence and I'm very hopeful about participating in the organization in the future ... I will also pass on all information to as many people as possible." (names withheld by editor).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From Mary M. El-Beheri, President, Texas Chapter AATG, San Antonio, TX: "In reading the Women in German Textbook Reviews, I was impressed with the thorough­ness of the reviewers and would like to know why books used in high school German programs were not reviewed. This is needed, especially in states like Texas, where millions of dollars are spent by the state for the textbooks, which are literally chosen by a state committee. . . . If, in fact, WiG wants to have among its membership high school teachers of German, then please con­sider directing something of interest to us. There are feminists among us and we are a very large segment of the teachers of German . . . Keep up the good work. Hope to attend the WiG business meeting in San Francisco." (ed. note: Textbook reviewing will be discussed at the October conference in Boston.&lt;br /&gt;The San Francisco AATG Meeting might be a good place to recruit people to review high school textbooks. Meanwhile, anyone interested in reviewing any German textbook from a feminist perspective should let WiG know.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women in German has arranged two sessions, one pedagogical and one literary, on the topic &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Peace&lt;/span&gt; for the 1983 AATG Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The sessions are scheduled for 2:45 - 6:00 pm on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday, 25 November&lt;/span&gt;. A business meeting will follow the literary session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2:45 - 4:15 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TEACHING ABOUT WOMEN AND PEACE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderators: Helga W. Kraft (U. Florida, Gainesville) and Richard Johnson (Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Barbara F. Hyams (U. Tulsa, 0K)--lmages of Women and Peace in the New German Cinema; Kathryn Strachota (Stanford U.)—Women in the Military; Sydna Stern Weiss (Hamilton Coll., Clinton, NY)--A Teaching Module: Women and Peace.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4:15 - 5:45 pm&lt;br /&gt;WOMEN, LITERATURE, AND PEACE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderators: Edith Potter (Scripps Coll., Claremont, CA) and Jorun B. Johns (California State Coll., San Bernardino).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Irmgard Hunt (Texas Tech. U., Lubbock)--Frauen für Frieden: Gedichte, Schilderungen, Reflexionen; Myra N. Love (U. California, Berkeley)—Christa Wolf: Literatur heute muss Friedensforschung sein; Edna H. Spitz (Stanford U.)--Bertha von Suttner, Champion for Peace: "Lay Down Your Arms. Tell that to Many, Many—;" Dagmar Lorenz (Ohio State U.)--Else Lasker-Schüler and Her Pacifist Ideas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Besides the two sessions on Women and Literary History agreed on last year for the 1983 MLA Convention in New York, WiG members have arranged and/or are participating in several other sessions at the meeting. Also, this year WiG is co-sponsoring a cash bar with the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages—the better to network with other feminists in the profession. See you at some or all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INGEBORG BACHMANN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tuesday, 27 December, 7:00 - 8:15 pm, Chelsea B, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE POET AND THE POEM:&lt;br /&gt;RACE, SEX AND LANGUAGE IN INGEBORG BACHMANN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst)--"Die Weißen, sie sollen verflucht sein Gender, Race and History in Ingeborg Bachmann; Helen Fehervary (Ohio State U.)--A Terrible Euphoria: Ingeborg Bachmann and Ulrike Meinhof; Sigrid Weigel (U. Hamburg) Die Utopie hinter der Wand: die weibliche Perspektive in Ingeborg Bachmanns Prosa. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Respondent: Renate Voris (U. Virginia).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MLA 1983 (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN AND LITERARY HISTORY&lt;/p&gt;
1. Tuesday, 27 December, 9:00 - 10:15 pm, Senate, Sheraton&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN MAKING LITERARY HISTORY:&lt;br /&gt;THE NEW GENERATION OF WOMEN WRITERS IN THE GDR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Renate Delphendahl (U. Maine, Orono) and Patricia Herminghouse (U. Rochester).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Gudrun Brokoph-Mauch (St. Lawrence ll.)--The Year 197**: Laying the Foundation for the New Generation; Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.)—The Third Wave: New Women Writers and Women's Issues in the GDR; Elisabeth Nations (Augustana Coll. Illinois)--I = Myself: Women Taking Hold of Their Lives; Jeanette Clausen (Indiana U.-Purdue 1)., Fort Wayne)--"Wei 1 es nicht selbstverständlich ist:" Abortion Experiences in Recent Fiction by GDR Women Writers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Wednesday, 28 December, 12:00 - 1:15 pm, Commonwealth, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINIST RE-VISIONS OF GERMAN LITERARY HISTORY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Sieglinde Lug (U. Denver) and Barbara Becker-Cantar¡no (U. Texas).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Joan Reutershan (New York U.)--Working Class Women Writers in Wilhelmine Germany and the Literary Canon; Julie Prandi (Columbia II.)—Methodo­logical Considerations toward a New "Image" of Women in Literary History; Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.)--Deconstructing the Canon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The program will conclude with a brief business meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINIST TEACHING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession is sponsoring the fol­lowing workshop coordinated by Barbara Wright; check MLA program for time and place:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INTEGRATING WOMEN'S STUDIES INTO THE FL CURRICULUM: NEW PROBLEMS, NEW SOLUTIONS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Barbara Wright (U. Conn., Storrs); Keynote speaker: Florence Howe (The Feminist Press). Panelists will speak on teaching and teaching materials for several languages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KAFKA CENTENNIAL&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The program arranged by the Kafka Society for the 100th anniversary of Kafka's birth includes the following workshop (check MLA program for time and place):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON KAFKA:&lt;br /&gt;FOCUS ON "DAS URTEIL."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Evelyn T. Beck (U. Wisconsin, Madison). Panelists: Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.); Jeanette Clausen (IPFW); Helen Fehervary (Ohio State U.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For NEMLA, March 29-31, 1984 in Philadelphia, Renate Delphendahl is planning a session on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Alienation in Kafka's Fiction&lt;/span&gt;. Send 7-8 page papers by Sept. 15 to: Renate Delphendahl, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Classics, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies Quarterly&lt;/span&gt; has issued a call for papers for special issues coming in 1983 and 1984:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for winter 1983: Teaching About Mothering/Motherhood (Deadline for submissions: 1 August 1983)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for spring 1984: Teaching About Women and Peace, Militarism, Women and the Military (Deadline for submissions: 1 October 1983)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for fall 1984: Teaching About Sexuality and Reproduction (Deadline for submissions: 1 December 1983)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The editors of WSQ wish to offer a nucleus of teaching materials around themes central to women's studies. They are seeking essays, as well as model course syllabi, key bibliographies, or reviews of clusters of books essential for the classroom. Essays may focus on pedagogy, on students' responses, on curricular design, or on particular aspects of the central themes, e.g., with regard to "Teaching About Mothering/Motherhood," they are interested in essays on teaching about such topics as mother/daughter relationships, single mothers, lesbian mothers, or mothers with particular racial or ethnic identities. Essays written from a single disciplinary perspective are welcome, as are those from an inter­disciplinary perspective, and essays related to teaching on the preK - 12 level and in community as well as campus settings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address: Florence Howe, Editor. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;, The Feminist Press, Box 334, Old Westbury, NY 11568.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Don't you think it's time we got some things about &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German&lt;/span&gt; into this journal? WSQ &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; interested in international feminism; two international supplements are published each year in addition to the four regular issues. For subscription and ordering information, write to the above address.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading50"&gt;Helaine Victoria Press&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CALL FOR RESEARCH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helaine Victoria Press, publishers of postcards on women in history, announced a call for "postcard manuscripts" at the National Women's Studies Conference in Columbus, Ohio, June 26-30.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HELAINE VICTORIA PRESS – CALL FOR RESEARCH (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"We need scholars, students, and other writers to submit pictures and information on women in history to develop into new postcards," Jocelyn Cohen, co-director of the Press said. "We are celebrating our Tenth Anniversary by expanding our production of cards and we need help to do it. We're especially interested in original source material, but do use secondary sources also."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The researcher will be credited on the card and will receive 100 first-run copies in appreciation for the work. Helaine Victoria Press is a non-profit educational organization which has printed and sold more than 100,000 postcards in the last ten years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"A postcard is first of all an exciting clear photograph," Nancy Poore, co­director of the Press said. "Concerning the text on the back, we want researchers to write a caption which further relates the picture to the subject. Specific historic details and accuracy are essential. The maximum length is about 190 words." The Press will take the researcher's text as a guide to write the actual caption. They also need a write-up about the woman or event, three to ten pages long, perhaps a research paper or article especially written for the Press to back-up the caption and to keep in the research files, and a short bibliography on the woman or event. Bibliographies will be available with the cards for teachers and others who want to read more about each subject.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Press needs postcard manuscripts for the next two to three year's publishing schedule. They plan four sets of cards on the following subjects: 1. Latin American and Hispanic Women in Politics, Culture and Change i.e. revolutionary activity, art and folk art, music and literature. 2. Haymarket Riot 100 Year Commemorative Set, focusing on the contributions of women to the struggle of organized labor in the U.S. from 1886 to 1986, particularly events involving immigrant, minority and rural working women. 3. Women's Brigades and Auxi­liaries - worldwide history of women organizing their own special groups, usually within a larger movement--for example, Women's Russian Brigade of Death, the Pullman Porters Ladies' Auxiliary. 4. Political Action by Minority Women in the U.S. in such causes as civil rights, women's liberation, environmental concerns, and peace. The publishers also plan a fifth set of cards centered on a theme suggested by researchers' contributions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For those not familiar with Helaine Victoria postcards, or who do not know which women have already been portrayed in cards, you may get the new catalog and two sample cards by sending $1 to Helaine Victoria Press, 4080 Dynasty Lane, Martinsville, IN 46151. Writers, researchers, historians--everyone interested— are invited to a Ten Year Retrospective of Helaine Victoria Press at Indiana University in Bloomington from October 1 to 22 in the Fine Arts Building.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please do not send original photographs. Send a good glossy print or even a xerox copy. If your idea can be used by the Press, they will get in touch with you about the original. Helaine Victoria Press will use as many of the postcard manuscripts as are suitable and as they can afford to publish. A special campaign to raise money to publish the cards is underway. All materials received will be acknowledged, but not returned as the material will be filed for possible future use. Where more than one person submits similar material Helaine Victoria will take from each and credit all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--There you are, folks—send Helaine Victoria some German, German-Jewish, German American, German-whoever women for this wonderful new project. (P.S. They already have a postcard of Rosa Luxemburg and Clara Zetkin.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NEW JOURNALS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINISTSCHE STUDIEN is a new interdisciplinary journal similar to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt;. It can be ordered by writing to Verlag Beltz &amp;amp; Co., Postfach 2346, Ch-4002 Basel, Switzerland. (Subscription DM35/year; single copy DM 20 plus postage.) A review of the first issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Studien&lt;/span&gt; (Nov. 1982) by Theresia Sauter Bailliet appeared in “”Feminist Forum,” the newsletter of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women’s Studies International Forum,&lt;/span&gt; Vol. 6, No. 2 (1983), pp. vi-viii. The address of WSIF is: (for North American) or (outside North America) Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, OX3 OBW England.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Incidentally, who out there would like to review subsequent issues of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Studien&lt;/span&gt; for the WiG newsletter?)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first issue of FEMINIST TEACHER is in preparation. This journal will regularly address the situation and problems of feminist teachers. For the first issue, essays or narratives about experiences in feminist teaching, and article-length manuscripts addressing the issues of feminist teaching within a historical, methodological, or pedagogical context were collected (deadline was August 1, 1983). For information, write to: Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective, Dept. of English, [redacted] Indiana U., Bloomington, IN 47401.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A new book review periodical began publication this summer. Conceived and planned by women currently teaching in Boston-area colleges and universities, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Women'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;s Review of Books&lt;/span&gt; will be a monthly newspaper-format publication.&lt;br /&gt;Our intention is to help solve a problem which many of us (both in the academic world and outside it) are increasingly aware of: that is, the fast-growing body of writing, both general-interest and scholarly, which has been one result of the contemporary women's movement, receives a disproportionately small share of attention in the established book review periodicals and in the media gen­erally. Keeping up with writing in the great variety of fields that feminist readers are typically interested in—from fiction to philosophy, anthropology to art, political science to poetry--gets harder every year, and the existing feminist magazines and newspapers can only partly respond to that need.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Women's Review of Books&lt;/span&gt; will do something to remedy this situation. Starting with a small pilot issue in June 1983, then, every month from next October onward,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NEW JOURNALS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we will publish a 20-page issue containing eight to ten substantial in-depth reviews of recently published books by and/or about women, both academic and general-interest in nature. The reviewing staff and editorial board will be composed of well-known and respected feminist writers working in all fields, both in and outside academia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The kind of books we expect to review include: feminist writing in all fields, both general - interest and academic women's studies, as well as autobiography, fiction and poetry by women, especially those whose writing focuses on identifiably feminist concerns. We will also, from time to time, look at a variety of other kinds of work of interest to our audience. These could include, for example, textbooks and children's books, especially the con­spicuously sexist and the conspicuously non-sexist, and misogynistic or homo­phobic books which attract particular attention or praise in the "male" media. We also plan occasional longer retrospective "review essays" focusing, for example, on trends in a particular area of Women's Studies, on the work of one poet or fiction writer, on the feminist writing within one ethnic or religious group, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For all of this to become a reality, we need support. We urge all of you to subscribe: our special pre-publication rate (up to September 1st 1983) is $9.00 for 12 issues plus the pilot issue; thereafter the subscription rate is $12 for individuals and $25 for institutions. In addition to subscription income, we also need (tax-deductible) donations to help us pay our start-up costs. For those with the resources, we offer a lifetime subscription for $200; but &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;anything&lt;/span&gt; you want to give will help us reach our goal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linda Gardiner &lt;br /&gt;Editor&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Donations and subscriptions should THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(N.B. : I have seen the June 1983 pilot issue, and it is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;very&lt;/span&gt; good. --JC.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DISSERTATIONS AND BOOKS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell's dissertation is available in softcopy/hardcopy from Univ. Microfilms, Diss. Abstracts Publication No. A-DG83-07995:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Blackwell, L. Jeannine. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bildungsroman &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;mît Dame: The Heroine in the German Bildungsroman from 1770 to 1900&lt;/span&gt;. University Microfilms Inter­national, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. (1982). Published on demand by University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A./London, England.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The major authors and works discussed are: Sophie von LaRoche, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim&lt;/span&gt;; Friederike Helene Unger, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Julchen Grünthal&lt;/span&gt; ; Johanna Schopenhauer, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gabriele;&lt;/span&gt; Therese Huber, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hannah, der Herrnhuterin Deborah Findling;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-16-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DISSERTATIONS AND BOOKS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karl Gutzkow, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wally die Zweiflerin&lt;/span&gt;; Fanny Lewald, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jenny&lt;/span&gt;; Wilhelmine von Hillern, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ein Arzt der Seele&lt;/span&gt;; Theodor Fontane, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mathilde Möhring&lt;/span&gt;; Gabriele Reuter, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aus guter Familie&lt;/span&gt;. The diss. also has a 25-page bibliography.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;'&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Unschuld und die Schrift&lt;/span&gt;." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche Frauenromane im 18. &lt;/span&gt;Marburg: Verlag Guttandin und Hoppe, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“ . . . die literarische Gattung des Romans lerweist sichl als Moglichkeit, die Anstrengungen zur Normierung der Frauen zu unterlaufen. Der Roman stellt einen anderen Raum dar, sowohl was seine Produktion angeht (die Frau am Schreibtisch ist wo-anders!) als auch was die Welt angeht, die er entwirft. Indiz dafür ist das Bewu3tsein, mit dem Heldinnen und, auf einer anderen Ebene, Autorinnen auf das Schreiben und das Produkt, den Roman, reflektieren. Die These von einer ungebrochenen Propagierung der Idreifachen Bestimmung des Weibes,1 die in der Frau als unschuldiger Heldin ihr Bild fände, laβt sich nicht halten. Das ambivalente Verhaltnis der Frauen zum Roman--die moralisch-didaktische Darstellung weiblicher Identitat und die gleichzeitige Irritation dieser Entwurfe-begreift sich selbst als asthetische Praxis, die die gesellschaftliche Situation der Frau thematisiert und ihre Chancen, literarisch zu arbeiten, Fiktionen zu entwerfen. Die Spuren dieser Problematik durchzlehen die Frauenromane des 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Schrift, Raum des Schreibens, erhebt Einspruch gegen die Unschuld als umfassendes Modell burgerlicher Weiblichkeit." (quoted from Helga Meise, “Thesen uber die literarische Produktion von Frauen im 18. Jahrhundert--am Beispiel  ‘Roman‘ ,“ p. 4.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Totgeschwiegen&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Texte zur Situation der Frau in Österreich von 1880 bis in die Zwischenkriegszeit&lt;/span&gt;. Hsg. Sigrid Schmid und Hanna Schnedl. österreichischer Bundesverlag, September 1983. ($248.—; DM34.80).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Schriftstellerinnen des ausgehenden 19- und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts setzen sich mit dem Alltag von Frauen verschiedener Herkunft auseinander, machen deren Zwänge und Konfliktsituationen deutlich. Für die Auswahl der Texte war vor allem die Authentizität, mit der historische Realitäten dargestellt wurden, maßgebend, nicht der Bekanntheitsgrad der Autorinnen."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dal Saiatto al Partito&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Scrittrici tedesche tra la rivoluzione borghese e il diritto di voto&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1748)&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Lia Secci. Milano: Savelli Editori, 1981.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Italian. Description of contents not available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG received a complimentary copy of Angelika Mechtel's new novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gott und die Liedermacherin&lt;/span&gt; (München: Paul List Verlag, 1983). The description on the back cover says:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-17-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DISSERTATIONS AND BOOKS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Respektlos erotische Kabinettstückchen weiblicher Phantasie sind die Geschichten der Liedermacher In, die sie während Ihrer Tournee durch die USA den Zuhörern präsentiert. Statt Lieder zu singen, wie es vertraglich ver­einbart war, beginnt sie angesichts der wachsenden Gefahr einer nuklearen Vernichtung ihres Heimatkontinents Europa Geschichten gegen Gott und die Welt der Männer zu erzählen, wie Scheherazade erzählt hat, um den Sultan vom Töten abzubringen. Das Schicksal der Liedermacher in verläuft allerdings anders als das der Scheherazade: als sie in die Bundesrepublik zurückkehrt, wird ihr der Prozess gemacht. Die Anklage lautet auf 'obszöne Verunglimpfung männlicher Werte.'"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(By an interesting coincidence, the USA-tour takes place in the fall of 1981, the year that Angelika Mechtel herself toured the US--and attended a WiG conference.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--If someone would like to review this book for a future issue of the WiG newsletter, write and I will send it to you.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Irmgard Eisner Hunt, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mutter &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und Muttermythos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in Günter Grass' Roman DER BUTT&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt/M., Bern, 1983. 235 S. Europäische Hochschulschriten: Reihe 1, Deutsche Sprache und Literatur. Bd. 647- (sFr. 61.--).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Die vorliegende Studie bietet eine Analyse der Frauengestalten in Günter Grass' Roman, Der Butt. Das Wunschbild der Frau als Mutter weist auf einen Muttermythos, der das Geschlechterverhältnis der Vergangenheit kennzeichnet und das der Gegenwart elegisch darstellt. Der offenendige Roman deutet eine utopische, doch unformulierte Hoffnung an, die der Autor in die Frau legt, da in seiner Sicht die patriarchalische Gesel1schaft gefehlt hat. Für die Zukunft ergeben sich mögliche Ansätze zur erforderlichen Überwindung des Muttermythos."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Aus dem Inhalt: Allgemeine Einführung in den 'Butt'—Analyse der Frauen- gestalten--Problematik der Geschlechterverhältnisse—Der Muttermythos und seine Überwindung."&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;FORTHCOMING: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in the Nineteenth &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Century:&lt;/span&gt; A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Social &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;History&lt;/span&gt;, ed. John C. Fout (Homes and Meier, 1984).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TABLE OF CONTENTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Preface&lt;/p&gt;
1. "Current Research on German Women's History," by John C. Fout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. "Enlightened Reforms and Bavarian Girls' Education: Tradition through Innovation," by Joanne Schneider.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. "Hannah Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen," by Deborah Hertz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DISSERTATIONS AND BOOKS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
4. "Henriette Schieiermacher: A Woman in a Traditional Role," by Gwendolyn E. Jensen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. "The Reading Habits of Women in the Vormärz," by Renate Möhrmann.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. "Prelude to Consciousness: Amalie Sieveking and the Female Association for the Care of the Poor and Sick," by Catherine M. Prelinger.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7. "Female Political Opposition in Pre 1848 Germany. The Role of Kathinka Zitz-Halein," by Stanley Zucker.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8. "German Women Writers and the Revolution of 1848," by Lia Secci.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9. "Self-Conscious Histories: Biographies of German Women in the Nineteenth Century," by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres.&lt;/p&gt;
10. "Growing Up Female in the Nineteenth Century," by Juliane Jacobi-Dittrich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. "The Radicalization of Lily Braun," by Alfred G. Meyer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. "The Impact of Agrarian Change on Women's Work and Child Care in Early Nineteenth Century Prussia," by W. R. Lee.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;13. "Domestic lndustry--A Refutation of the Stereotypic Image of German Industrialization," by Barbara Franzoi.&lt;/p&gt;
14. "Social Insurance and the Family Work of Oberlausitz Houseweavers in the Late Nineteenth Century," by Jean H. Quataert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15. "The Woman's Role in the German Working-Class Family in the 1890‘s: From the Perspective of Women's Autobiographies," by John C. Fout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16. "Women Under Medical Control: Health Propaganda and the Discipline of the Working-Class Family in Imperial Germany," by Ute Frevert.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;17. "The Female Victim: Homicide and Women in Imperial Germany," by Randolph E. Bergstrom and Eric A. Johnson.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;18. "An English Language Bibliography on the History of Women," by John C. Fout&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Forthcoming&lt;/span&gt; in the Fischer series "Die Frau in der Gesellschaft": Maria Wagner &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mathilde Franziska Anneke&lt;/span&gt; (Letters and documents of her life, with analysis and commentary by Maria Wagner).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beiträge zur feministischen Theorie und Praxis&lt;/span&gt; (the journal of the association "Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis für Frauen e.V.") has devoted issue No. 8 (spring 1983) to the theme "Gegen welchen Krieg--für welchen Frieden." There is a review of this issue in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Forum&lt;/span&gt;, the newsletter of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies International Forum&lt;/span&gt; Vo1. 6, No” 3 (1983), p. xiii. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gegen welchen Krieg-&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;für welchen Frieden&lt;/span&gt; is available for DM14.- (Yearly subscription DM38.-) from: Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis für Frauen, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A special journal issue on East German women writers is available from the association "Centro Studi Donna Woman Femme," [redacted] Articles in Italian, summaries in French and English&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;donnawomanfemme&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;QUADERNI DI STUDI INTERNAZIONALI SULLA DONNA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;N. 18 - Autunno 1981&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;CIELI DIVISI&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Le scrittrici della Germania Orientale&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sommario&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;3 Editoriale&lt;br /&gt;7 Vita e avventure della trobadora Beatriz secondo le testimonainze della sua musicante Laura, di Irmtraud Morgner&lt;br /&gt;17 Leggere e scrivere, di Christa Wolf&lt;br /&gt;31 &amp;lt;&amp;lt;L’officina&amp;gt;&amp;gt; di Anna Seghers e l’elaborazione dell’eredità culturale: un colloquio con Christa Wolf, a cura di Antonella Gargano&lt;br /&gt;43 L’ombra di un sogno. Cronaca di una lettura, di Vanada Perretta&lt;br /&gt;49 La questione femminile nella letteratura della Repubblica Democratica Tedesca: temi e tendenze, di Lia Secci              &lt;br /&gt;61  Per una teoria della dissonanza la &lt;i&gt;Mutazione&lt;/i&gt; di Christa Wolf &lt;br /&gt;73  Modelli di scrittura: tra autobiografia ed immaginario, di Antonella Gargano&lt;br /&gt;85  Maxie Wander e la letteratura documentaria, die Christine Wolter&lt;br /&gt;95  La letteratura femminile degli anni ’70 nella Germania Orientale, di Eva Kaufmann&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fonti&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;103 Le lettere di Stella Browne a The Freewoman, di Elisabetta Molinari&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;117 &lt;i&gt;Recensioni e schede di lettura&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;124 &lt;i&gt;Libri e riviste ricevulti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;127 &lt;i&gt;Résumés/Abstracts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;131 &lt;i&gt;Avviso&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;-20-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;THIS IS NEWS?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Hamburg conference ended late on the afternoon of Hay 27 with a press con­ference. Ten or so reporters were present; one of them a man. The item below was sent to WiG by Joan Moessner; though she didn't say what newspaper it's from, it seems very likely to have been written by said male reporter, who claimed to be from "Die Welt." —While the writer's attitude isn't exactly news to us, it does remind us, should we be so distracted as to forget, of what we're up against.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feminismus in Böhmen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;da - Palmström reiste einmal in ein böhmisches Dorf: &lt;span&gt;„&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Unverständlich blieb ihm alles dort, von dem ersten bis zum letzten Wort." Das war ihm ein Erlebnis &lt;span&gt;„voll von Honig". Am Freitag beschlo&lt;/span&gt;ß eine Universitätsgruppe ihre Tagung über &lt;span&gt;„Feministische Literaturwissenschaft" mit einer Pressekonferenz. Die wissenschaftlerinnen aus sechs Ländern untersuchten die Rolle der Frau in der deutschen Literatur der letzten drei Jahrunderte. Emilia Galotti - das ist die juegendliche Unschuld, die durch ihre angeborene Verführungskraft eben doch schuldig ist in den Augen der Männer; in ihr wird die Reinheit zum Fettisch. Muß man feministisch sein, um darauf zu kommen? Hingegen Ingeborg Bachmann - verkannt ist sie von männlichen Kritikern, ihre Texte können von Männnnern nicht entschlüsselt werden, nur weibliches Denken ermöglicht den richtigen Zugang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mit einer provikanten Frage („ Wer war der gr&lt;/span&gt;ößte Literatur-Macho?" wird nur Lächeln geerntet - es sind die gesellschaftlichen Gegebenheiten, die die Männer so denken lassen. Eine Wissenschaft entdeckt, daß Literatur ex tunc von den beiden Geschlechtern verschieden aufgenommen wird, ja, ihnen etwas Verschiedenes bedeuten muß. Alnders als für  Palmström ist dies nicht süß, sonder bitter, vor allem, wenn das, was für Literatur gilt, für Pressekonferenzen nicht gelten soll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Montag, 30. Mai 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NO COMMENT …&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Eigentlich ist das Wort konservativ ganz leicht zu definieren. Konservativ sein bedeutet an alten Gewohnheiten festhalten. Militärs von der alten Schule gelten zum Beispiel als konservativ, weil Tradition und Gehorsam für sie eine sehr wichtige Rolle spielen. Christlich orientierte &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Menschen und Frauen&lt;/span&gt; gelten oft als konservativ, denn auch sie — so glauben viele — wollen an alten Gewohnheiten festhalten.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From: Günther Bicknese. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hier und Heute&lt;/span&gt;. Lesen leicht gemacht. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1983), p. 1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(item sent by Helga Kraft.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-21-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AND IT GOES ON . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Item from the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;DAAD-Letter&lt;/span&gt; (Bonn: DAAD), No. 2, June 1983, p. 21, sent to WiG by Barbara Kaltz.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frankfurt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vorlesungen nur für Frauen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Die Initiative einiger Frauen an der Universität Frankfurt löste im vergangenen Semester erregte Diskussionen aus. Das &lt;span&gt;„Frauenplenum", eine lockere Vereinigung von Studentinnen - vor allem der Soziologie, Pädagogik und Germanistik -, die unter anderem in Arbeitsgruppen regelmäßig uni-spezifische und allgemeine Frauenfragen gemeinsam diskutieren, kündigte eine Ringvorlesung über zwei Semester an. Nicht das Thema „Feminsitische Wissenschaft" war es, an dem sich die Gemüter erhitzten, sondern der Hinweis in der Akündigung: „Nur für Frauen".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;In der Leserbriefspalte der Universitätszeitschrift wurde der Disput offen ausgetragen. &lt;span&gt;„Es ist dies, meines Wissens nach, die erste wissenschaftliche Veranstaltung an der Universität Frankfurt seit 1945, von der eine bestimmte Gruppe von Universitätsmitgliedern - gekennzeichnet durch unveränderte physiologische Merkmale - von der Teilnahme ausgeschlossen wurde", schreibt ein Professor der Gesellschaftswissenschaften und nennt das Verbot „widerrechtlich". Ein anderer, Professor der Mathematik, erinnert direkt an den Ausschluß der Juden von der Wissenschaft im Dritten Reich und zieht eine Verbindung zwischen „feministischer Wissenschaft" und „deutscher Physik".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Die Frankfurterinnen argumentieren dagegen, daß  Frauen dem &lt;span&gt;„weiblichen Ghetto" gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit nur entkommen könnten, wenn sie sich „eigene Diskussionszusammenhänge schaffen könnten". Männer seien dabei „nicht aufgrund ihrer Geschlechtszugehörigekit unerwünscht, sondern wegen ihres sozialen Umgangs damit".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilma Mohr, assistentin am Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften mit gutem Kontakt zum Frauenforum und aktiv an den Ringvorlesungen beteiligt, wundert sich über die Empörung der ausgeschlossenen Männer einerseits und ihr geringes Interesse für die Frauenforschung andererseits. Im Rahmen der offiziellen Veranstaltungen des Fachbereichs hielt sie ein Seminar ab über &lt;span&gt;„Frauenarbeit und ökonomisch-technischen Wandel". Von etwa 70 Teilnehmern waren nur vier Männer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um frauenbezigene Themen wie dieses, Themen der Wissenschaft, der Industriesoziologie, der Frauenbewegung wissenschaftlich behandeln zu können, hatten sich die Frankfurterinnen seit langem um einen Lehrstuhl für Frauenforschung bemüht. Die Professorinnenstelle wurde jedoch kürzlich vom Hessischen Kultusminister abgelehnt, An der Freien Universität Berlin existiert seit zwei Jahren eine in der Bundesrepublik einmalige „Zentraleinrichtung zur Förderung von Frauenforschung und Frauenstudien", deren Aufgabe es ist, den Frauenaspekt in Lehre und Forschung an der FU einzuführen und auszubauen. In Bielefeld wurde im vergangenen Wintersemester die Interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe Frauenforschung" eingerichtet, die in der Bundesrepublik auch die erste ihrer Art ist. Geplant sind Forschungsprojekte in den Bereichen „Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung und weibliche Erwerbstätigkeit", „Weibliche Bildung" und „Frauen und Dritte Welt".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-22-&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NEWS FLASH!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margot Schroeder writes that she has applied for a travel grant to visit the U.S. and if it comes through, she and her friend Johanna Haake will attend the October conference! They also want to visit San Francisco. If you would like to see them while they're here, write to WiG for more information (Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN 46805).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alexandra Busch [redacted] will write her Examensarbeit on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Djuna Barnes&lt;/span&gt;, and would like to correspond with other women who have worked on this author. She is interested in issues of Barnes- reception, where and in what context her works are taught, and recent trends in Barnes-criticism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Texas AATG Chapter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A committee of women from the Texas Chapter, AATG will sponsor a Tucholsky sumposium on May 4-6, 1985, (the 50th year after his death), to be held at the Goethe Institute, Houston. Paper proposals or inquiries may be sent to the committee chair, Mary M. El-Beheri, Douglas MacArthur High School, 2923 Bitters Rd., San Antonio, TX 78217.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DEPARTMENTAL SPONSORS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Departments which have joined WiG as sponsoring members are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;German Dept., U. Minnesota, Minneapolis.&lt;br /&gt;German Dept., Ohio State U., Columbus.&lt;br /&gt;Mod. For. Lang., Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The support of departmental members is appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;everyone&lt;/span&gt; who sent material for this newsletter, many many thanks. Special accolades and at least four cheers to Edith Waldstein, who sent &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; the con­ference information to me &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;on time&lt;/span&gt;, and to Joey Horsley for again coordinating registration.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By the way . . . the ABSOLUTE FINAL DEADLINE for material for the November 1983 newsletter is 1 November 1983. No exceptions! (I don't think.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Connie Munk typed, cut, pasted and above all cared about this newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;Erin Clausen drew the illustrations on p. 19 and p. 20.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-23-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REGISTRATION FORM&lt;br /&gt;Women in German Annual Conference&lt;br /&gt;Thompson's Island, Boston, MA&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 13-16, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Complete both sides of form.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: _______  Telephone: (__)_____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address (after Sept. 15):&lt;br /&gt;_______________________________&lt;br /&gt;# Street    Town    State    Zip&lt;/p&gt;
1.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; Registration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please choose the plan you prefer from section A, B or C below. Costs for over­night accommodation (A) include conference expenses, lodging, three meals per day and boat transportation to/from the island. As in past years, we have calculated regis­tration fees on a dual price structure to try to keep the conference more affordable for students and the unemployed. If you "technically" fall into one of those cat­egories but have adequate outside income, please consider paying the "employed" rate— this will help WiG partially subsidize travel for those who must come long distances. For childcare information, see over.&lt;/p&gt;
A. Overnight accommodation (Please check your choice):&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;3 Nights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employed $140.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;Student/unemployed $60.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;2 Nights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employed $195.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;Student/unemployed $40.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;3 Nights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employed $50.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;Student/unemployed $25.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I intend to spend night(s) of Oct. 13 14 15 (please circle) on Thompson's Island.&lt;/p&gt;
B. Day-hopping (Please check your choice):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Conference attendance only: includes boat transportation. Please check days you plan to attend:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employed: $15.00/day&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 14 ___&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 15 ___&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 16 ___&lt;br /&gt;Total = ___ x $15 = ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Student/Unemployed: $10.00/day&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 14 ___&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 15 ___&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 16 ___&lt;br /&gt;Total = ___ x $10 = ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Meals. Please check the meals you plan to eat on Thompson's island:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunch ($5.00 each)&lt;br /&gt;Fri.___&lt;br /&gt;Sat.___&lt;br /&gt;Sun.___&lt;br /&gt;Total = ___ x $5 = ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dinner ($8.00 each)&lt;br /&gt;Thurs.___&lt;br /&gt;Fri.___&lt;br /&gt;Sat.___&lt;br /&gt;Total = ___ x $8 = ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C. Combination plan:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you wish to combine services from A and B, please mark the appropriate boxes, figure your expenses from A and B, and then tally the total.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cost of Services from A: $ ____ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cost of Services from B: $ ____ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total: $ ____                &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference participants must become members of Women in German.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-24-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Name: ______&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Transportation Plans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will arrive ____ (day, time) by ____ *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will depart ___ (day, time) by ____ *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*(Please indicate means, i.e., Airline Flight #, busline, Amtrack, car, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please enclose a SASE for information regarding land/boat information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;_____ Please check if you are a student/unemployed and would like help covering your travel expenses, especially for long-distance travel. Cost of round-trip travel from your home to the conference: $______.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(After all conference bills are paid, we will divide any remaining funds on a percentage basis among those of you who request travel assistance. We very much want to help those who need it, but unfortunately we can't guarantee that money will be left after expenses or predict what percentage you may be reimbursed.&lt;br /&gt;After the 1982 conference we were able to reimburse 8 people approximately of their expenses.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;III. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Childcare&lt;/span&gt;: WiG will provide childcare at the conference but there is a charge for room and board for children over 2 (same as student/unemployed rate, over). Please include this in your registration calculations. (Last year we were able to reimburse part of this expense, but it cannot be guaranteed in advance.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;I plan on bringing the following child (children) to the WiG conference:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Name: _____ Age ______&lt;br /&gt;2. Name: _____ Age ______&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please check as appropriate:&lt;br /&gt;_____ Needs crib&lt;br /&gt;_____ Will share my room/bed (circle)&lt;br /&gt;_____ Needs own room/bed (circle)&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Please note special needs or other relevant information: ____________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IV. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Natural Foods Option&lt;/span&gt;: Although the conference center provides attractive vegetarian menu choices, a natural foods option (vegetarian) may be available for a modest sur­charge ($10 or less), to be collected &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;at the conference&lt;/span&gt;. If you choose this option, please check below. We &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;need to&lt;/span&gt; know in advance in order to provide enough food.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I desire the natural foods option for the following meals:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Oct. 13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___ supper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Oct. 14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___ breakfast&lt;br /&gt;___ lunch&lt;br /&gt;___ dinner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Oct. 15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___ breakfast&lt;br /&gt;___ lunch&lt;br /&gt;___ dinner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Oct. 16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___ breakfast&lt;br /&gt;___ lunch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please make your check out to "Women in German" form and &lt;span&gt;stamped&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;self-addressed envelope&lt;/span&gt; to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joey Horsley [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: If you register after September 15, we must charge you a late registration fee of $10.00.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-25-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG Agenda, 1983-84&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name ______  Phone(s) ______ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address ___________ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please fill in any or all of the following items and send this sheet to Jeannine Blackwell by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 October 1983&lt;/span&gt;. Jeannine will collate the responses for the WiG business meeting agenda for the October conference. REMEMBER that you are welcome (even urged!) to participate in WiG planning whether you are able to attend the October meeting or not.&lt;/p&gt;
1. Nominations for WiG Steering Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The six SC members serve staggered 3&lt;sup&gt;_&lt;/sup&gt;year terms (see Nov. 1982 newsletter).&lt;br /&gt;Please include name and address or affiliation; try to nominate from different geographical areas. Also, be sure the woman you nominate is willing to serve.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. _________________&lt;br /&gt;2. _________________                                                  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. Suggestions for 1984 WiG sessions. Indicate whether you are willing to organize a session on the topic(s) you propose, and at which conference.&lt;/p&gt;
A. AATG 1984    &lt;br /&gt;1. ______________  (Pedagogy)&lt;br /&gt;2. ______________  (Literature)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B. MLA 1984       &lt;br /&gt;1. ______________&lt;br /&gt;2. ______________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C. WiG conference (probably again in Boston in 1984; guest authors Irmtraud Morgner and Helga Schütz).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. ______________&lt;br /&gt;2. ______________&lt;br /&gt;3. ______________&lt;br /&gt;4. ______________       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D. Suggested guest authors for future WiG conferences (please include brief bio and list of the author's major works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. ______________&lt;br /&gt;2. ______________&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;III. WiG projects (see pp. 6-7).&lt;/p&gt;
A. Amount of time you would be able to work on a WiG project during 1983-84: _____&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B. Project(s) you would most like to work on (indicate what you could do):&lt;br /&gt;1. Textbook reviewing____________     &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection2"&gt;2. Translation_______________        &lt;br /&gt;3. WiG Yearbook 1984 (editing, refereeing of papers, typing, etc.)_____________&lt;br /&gt;4. Bibliography, book reviews, journal reviews, etc. (be specific). _____________&lt;br /&gt;5. Other:______________ (use back of page for additional comments)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mail to&lt;/span&gt;: Jeannine Blackwell, [redacted] by 1 October 1983.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-27-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Weisefrau, Uta   32&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University&lt;br /&gt;Utopia, USA&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renew &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt;, today, before you forget—sending out reminders is time-consuming and expensive, not to mention boring.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A new dues structure was approved at the October 1983 WiG conference. By increasing the rates for those earning higher salaries, we hope to be able to finance more projects, while still keeping rates low for students, the unem­ployed, and the underemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please fill out the section below, detach and return with your payment in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;11.S. dollars&lt;/span&gt; (check or money order made out to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt;). Subscribers outside North America: Please increase the amount in your category by one- third to help defray the cost of postage. Send membership form and payment to: WOMEN IN GERMAN, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Category      New      Renewing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A student, unemployed  &lt;br /&gt;$3.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$5.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B annual salary $10,000 &lt;br /&gt;to $15,000                     &lt;br /&gt;$7.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$12.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C annual salary $15,001 &lt;br /&gt;to $20,000                    &lt;br /&gt;$10.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$15.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D annual salary $20,001 &lt;br /&gt;to $25,000                    &lt;br /&gt;$13.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$20.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E annual salary $25,001  &lt;br /&gt;and up                          &lt;br /&gt;$16.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$25.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;F supporting individuals,  &lt;br /&gt;libraries                          &lt;br /&gt;$20.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$35.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;G supporting documents    &lt;br /&gt;$25.00 per year&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please fill in address exactly as you wish it to appear on mailing label. No more than four lines! Please type or print clearly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Name __________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address ______________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CHECK IF APPLICABLE: change of address___&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Women in German Newsletter &lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages &lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U.&lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Coalition of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEM IN G&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;ERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 30                                                      March 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PAID YOUR DUES?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why begin the newsletter with this question? Because WiG needs money to carry out all our projects, quite a few of which are described in this newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And because sending out renewal notices is time-consuming and expensive. Please check your mailing label &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt;, and renew if your number is 30 (this issue) or below. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As most of you already know, Barbara Frischmuth has agreed to be WiG*8 guest at the 1983 conference, Oct. 13-16, at Thompson Island, Boston. Martha Wallach is working with the Austrian Institute to arrange Frischmuth*s visit, which will probably include two or three readings at university campuses besides her par­ticipation in the WiG conference. At this writing it still isn't clear how much money WiG will have to contribute toward Frischmuth’s travel and/or honorarium, but it is quite likely to be more than last year (as you may recall, last year we paid only the honorarium for Luise Rinser—which she donated back to us—and the Goethe Institute paid the rest).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IRMTRAUD MORGNER AND HELGA SCHUTZ&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmtraud Morgner wrote that she and Helga Schutz would be happy to be WiG's guests in 1984! This is an exciting possibility—as Karen Achberger said, two are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; than twice as much as one! we have only just begun to investigate possible sources of funding to finance their trip, but again, we must be pre­pared to contribute a considerable amount—at the very least, the price of one round-trip plane ticket. Assuming that our membership supports the idea of bringing these two authors to our conference, the steering committee has dis­cussed the advisability of holding the WiG conference on the East Coast again in 1984—since travel to the West Coast would drastically increase the expenses of the guest authors, what are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; opinions on this? Also, if you have any good ideas for fund-raising, please write to the newsletter, or to Martha Wallach (U. of Wisconsin, Green Bay).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG YEARBOOK PROJECT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As agreed at the WiG business meeting at MLA, the steering committee is moving ahead with plans to produce a WiG 1982 yearbook. As you probably remember, this project was first proposed at the WiG conference in Boston. The yearbook will be a collection of papers selected from those sent in by the presenters at WiG 1982, WiG/AATG 1982, and WiG MLA 1982. All presenters have been sent a memo inviting them to send in their papers to be considered for inclusion in this volume by 1 May 1983. (WIG yearbook, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Editors and referees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The steering committee members recommend that the yearbook be co-edited by two WiG members, we also think the yearbook should be a refereed publication, since most institutions discount unrefereed publications in tenure and promotion decisions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard (U. Illinois), who edited the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amsterdamer Beiträge&lt;/span&gt; 1980 special issue on Women and German Literature (Gestaltet und Gestaltend* Frauen in der deutschen Literatur), is willing to be one of the co-editors, provided that WiG members have no objection, we would welcome volunteers or nominations for the other co-editor. If we don't receive any, the steering committee will find someone willing so that the necessary work will get done.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concerning &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;referees,&lt;/span&gt; we think that each paper sent in should be reviewed by a WiG member (after all, who is better qualified to evaluate feminist research in Germanistik than we are?). The referee would provide written comments on the paper she reviews, recommending either: a) that the paper be published as sent; b) that the paper be revised according to specific suggestions before being published; or c) that the paper not be Included in the yearbook. The co-editors would make the final decision. The author of the paper will receive a copy of the referee's comments.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WE ARE ASKING YOU, the members of WiG, to volunteer to review papers for the yearbook (except, of course, those planning to send in papers themselves). It would make it &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;much&lt;/span&gt; easier for the co-editors if they had a list of willing folks to choose from. Send Marianne a copy of your CV and say what areas of research you feel most competent to review. Do this by 1 May 1983. It would also be good to tell Marianne your summer travel plans. Address: Marianne Burkhard,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Publisher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne contacted the University Press of America. According to their brochure, and what we learned from participants in the Annual GDR Symposium (whose pro­ceedings are published by UPA), they offer organizations the opportunity to publish "on a timely basis and at a reasonable cost." The finished book is said to be available within 8 to 10 weeks of "camera-ready" manuscript submission.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The "reasonable cost" is as follows; the organization (i.e., us) must place a minimum order for 85 paperback copies at a 10% discount. (No other subvention is required). We think selling 85 copies in an organization of almost 300 members shouldn't be too difficult!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We see this first WiG yearbook as a pilot project, and plan to review and evaluate our procedures at the October 1983 WIG conference. In the meantime, let us know if you have comments, questions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TEXTBOOK COMMITTEE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linda Pickle writes that she has received most of the textbook reviews that were promised her, and expects the others soon. Since there are too many reviews to publish in one issue of the newsletter, we have decided to publish them all (textbook committee, coat.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;together. They will be mailed to all of you as a sort of supplement to the newsletter later this semester.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SYLLABI PROJECT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sydna (Bunny) Weiss and Sidonie Cassirer volunteered to collect syllabi from feminist courses wiG members have taught. Bunny wrote that she had applied for, and was granted, financial support from the Kirkland Endowment to fund the first part of the project—mailing the survey to all WiG members and to WS programs in the U.S. Also, there is a good chance that Hamilton College will help WiG fund publication of the results! Please respond promptly to the sur­vey when you receive it. (Note to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; WiG members; if you joined WiG later than Nov. 1982, your name and address aren't on the mailing list Bunny has.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her address: German Dept., Hamilton college, Clinton, NY 13323).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NON-PROFIT STATUS           -&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Encouraged by the WiG steering committee and sundry others, Jeanette is going to file an application to incorporate WiG as a not-for-profit organization.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The major advantage of that status for us seems to be financial: we'll be eligible for a lower bulk mail rate, we'll have tax-exempt status, and we'll also be eligible for certain grants and the like that aren't available to other organizations or to individuals. To get this status, of course, we have to invest a little money: a $26. filing fee and the attorney's fee (about $125.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FINANCIAL REPORT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Jan. - Dec. 1982) — from Jeanette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I thought you'd be interested in seeing where our money goes, so I've prepared a report for the calendar year 1982. since I've only been handling the money since August 1981, I can't say whether 1982 was a "typical" year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During 1982 we spent $1508.90, almost exactly the amount received in membership/ subscription income ($1512.50).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A big expense is typing, duplicating and postage for the newsletter and other mailings (e.g. calls for papers; the announcement of the Christa Wolf meeting mailed in Nov. 1982; outreach mailings), it may be possible to cut down these expenses somewhat, but keeping WiG members informed will continue to be a first priority. I made a decision to send all mailings involving a deadline (such as the August newsletter, which includes the conference program and registration form) by first class mail. Bulk mail is too slow and too unpredictable (can take 6 weeks or more for some members) when a deadline is involved. By next fall, I should have access to a word processor, and will try to develop a space-saving format for the newsletter, to reduce duplicating costs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concerning other expenses, I've asked the steering committee for advice and will be glad to receive suggestions from anyone else. So far, the only thing we (steering committee) have agreed on is not to have a separate cash bar at MLA again (cost was $100.21 for 1982), but rather to see if WiG can co-sponsor one with another organization, perhaps the Women's Caucus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(financial report, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thia report &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;doesn't&lt;/span&gt; include income or expenses for the 1982 WLG conference in Boston, except that the money left over from WIG 1981 ($268.38, received Oct. 1982) was turned over to Joey Horsley to add to the travel reimbursement fund (for those who had to travel long distances to the 1982 conference and weren't eligible for travel money from their institution). All conference expenses, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Luise Rinser's honorarium, were paid for with Income from conference registration fees.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tablecaption0"&gt;Money Received&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;membership/subscription income&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;balance from WIG conference 1981&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;interest earned bn WIG account&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;$1512.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;268.38&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;80.78&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;$1861.66&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Money&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Paid Out&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;bulk Mil Imprint and permit for 1982, and renewal (12/82) for 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;$ 120.00&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;2.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;typing, duplicating, postage for Mailings to all WiGs (Feb., Mar., Aug., Nov.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;643.29&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;3.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;outreach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;222.75&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;4.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;phone calls, postage for ongoing correspondence, misc. supplies and expense&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;144.87&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;5.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;xeroxing and/or mailing of handouts, papers for&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;WiG at AATG, MLA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;97.60&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;6.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;reimbursement to s.c. members&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;180.18&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;7.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;cash bar, MLA 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;100.21&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p class="Tablecaption0"&gt;$1508.90&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INCOME BREAKDOWN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also tried to do a breakdown by membership categories of the membership/ subscription income received during 1982. For various reasons, my records aren't complete. Sometimes I forget to record &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;when&lt;/span&gt; I deposited someone's check, or I neglect to write down &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;how much&lt;/span&gt; someone paid. Other reasons why totals don't come out as expected are charges deducted by the credit union for handling a non-U.S. check, and checks received for amounts other than those specified for the various membership categories. The information I'm reasonably sure of is: (financial report, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This adds up to 177 payments totalling $1490.00, which accounts for most of the menberShip/subscription income received in 1982. Again, I can't say how "typical" a year this was.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also have records of 40 subscribers who were dropped from the mailing list during 1982, either because their mail was returned to us or because they didn't respond to renewal notices.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DEPARTMENTAL SPONSORS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Remember the new membership category "departmental sponsors" introduced last November? So far, WiG has two such sponsors; the German Department at Ohio State University, Columbus; and (surprise) the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Indiana-Purdue, Fort Wayne. See the membership form at the end of the newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BACK ISSUES OF WIG&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Occasionally new subscribers (or even renewing ones) express an interest in receiving back issues of the newsletter. Most back issues are available in varying quantities, or copies can be made if the supply runs out. For some reason, though, I have &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; copy of issue 18 (Feb. or March 1979), and i*d very much appreciate it if someone who has a complete set would xerox that one and send it to me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i'll be happy to send back issues to anyone who requests them and is willing to pay the postage. To give you an idea, it would cost about a dollar to mail the three 1982 issues (Nos. 27, 28, 29). The earliest issues, from 1975, are very interesting to anyone wanting to know more about WLG's beginnings. —So, if you want back issues, write to me, Jeanette Clausen, at the newsletter address. Be sure to state how many you want (give issue numbers if you can).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CHRISTA WOLF&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As many of you already know, Christa Wolf will not be at OSU for the entire spring quarter, as originally planned. The April 9 meeting with her is can­celled, She will not be present at the conference on women, fascism, every­day life in Germany (April 28-30, 1983), which will take place as planned except for her participation. She will be at OSU in May, but will do &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; speaking engagements. So ist es eben. Ich wühte nicht, was da noch zu sagen ware.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;By all accounts, the WLG sessions at MLA were well attended—too well, since over 200 people came to the film (Margareta von Trotta's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die blelerne Zeit) &lt;/span&gt;and the room had to be changed to accommodate them all; as a result, the session for presentation of papers was delayed, and the discussion didn't end until ' 11:30 p.m. Moral of the story: ask for a BIG room when scheduling a film showing. Marjorie Tussing prepared a useful handout with summaries of the&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;papers and a filmography on von Trotta, which was distributed at the session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sorry, the handout isn’t available for inclusion In this newsletter but you&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;might write to Marjorie for a copy if you need one (Dept. of Foreign Lang, and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lit., California State U. at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92634). Marjorie also&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;wrote that &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Film Quarterly&lt;/span&gt; had asked for a short write-up of the session, which&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;she sent them in February. Thanks to Marjorie for all her work in organitlag&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the program; thanks are also due to the Consulate of the Federal Republic of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Germany, Los Angeles and the Goethe Institute, San Francisco for their support.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAIRY TALES IN THE CLASSROOM, chaired by Bunny Weiss (Hamilton College) and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wilma Iggers (Canisius college).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bunny writes that the session, held on Thanksgiving evening, attracted about 40 people and the papers sparked a very lively discussion. The presentations were:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Barry (SUNY, Buffalo), "Female Archetypes in Marchen and the Classroom."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Images such as the witch, the seductress and the waif appear so frequently that it is important for both male and female students to understand what these images of women represent psychologically to the reader as well as to the writer and the culture as a whole. The archetypes are examined from a psychological point of view, and ways of dealing with them in the classroom are discussed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria M. Tatar (Harvard U.), "From Nags to Witches* The Stepmother in Fairy Tales." The witch in the woods who habitually menaces the protagonists of fairy tales often figures as a distorted mirror image of the stepmother at home. The paper explores the various transformations of the (step)mother in fairy tales and analyzes her dual role as witch and as enchantress. It attempts to show how the stepmother motif can serve as a point of departure for classroom dis­cussion of family structures in fairy tales.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cora Lee Nollendorfs (U. Wisconsin, Madison), "Fairy Tales as Ways of&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learning: Approaches and Methods." The paper discusses the use of fairy tales in German classes at three levels, elementary language instruction; intermediate language Instruction; introduction to literary analysis. It outlines advantages to the use of fairy tales over other types of texts, and points out problems with the language of fairy tales and with their subject matter, especially stereotyped figures, it presents as examples ways in which several of the Grimm Marchen can be used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAIRY TALE MOTIFS IN MODERN GERMAN/AUSTRIAN LITERATURE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sue Bottigheimer (Princeton University), summation. In each of the papers    «&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;a fantasy world functions as a second, true reality. Most female figures appear to represent autonomous figures. Umfunktlonlerung of traditional fairy tale figures reveals shifting perceptions of these figures, and finally, such revisionist efforts are part of an ongoing tradition in fairy tale studies in general, not only by feminists, but also by Marxists, Freudians, Jungians, and social historians.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Liselotte Weingant (Lake Forest College), "Barabara Frischmuths Soziale Zaubergeschichten." in the trilogy &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Mystifikation der Sophie Silber&lt;/span&gt; (1976), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amy oder die Metamorphose&lt;/span&gt; (1978), and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kai Oder die Liebe&lt;/span&gt; zu &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;den Modellen&lt;/span&gt; (1979), Frischmuth utilizes elements from the fantasy world of fairy tales, especially by peopling her novel with characters from the fairy realm, as a descriptive medium for feminine reality. To help earthlings (die Enterischen), fairies take on human form and slowly lose touch with the harmonious world from which they came. The author's intention is to sharpen the reader's awareness of his/her own world, and prepare him/her to create it anew.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Renate Delphendahl (University of Maine), "The Alienated Self in *Undine Geht*." Growing out of the long tradition of Undine-Melusine figures,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bachmann's Undine represents the transfiguration and disappearance of the old figure. Her alienation in the world of loneliness and anguish parallels woman's alienation in a world of men. Furthermore, Undine rejects the language of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;men; her silence may be interpreted as Bachmann's verdict that women have no voice within the system.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Karen Achberger (Saint Olaf College), "Beyond Language: Ingeborg Bachmann and Fairytales." While Bachmann's works often appear dark on the surface, at the level of realistic plot, for example, the actual utopian thrust of her prose lies beneath the surface in a mythical, musical, dream-drenched sub­structure of poetic allusions, often to fairytale characters, events, and relationships. Within her work one finds examples of fairytale motifs taken over unaltered, of role reversals, and total reworkings (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Umfunktionierungen) &lt;/span&gt;of fairytales, as well as "home-made" (mythopoetic) fantasies which Bachmann has created herself. Decoding these allusions to fairytales is crucial to understanding Bachmann's prose, which is informed by a tension between surface and subtext, that is between reality and a utopian vision beneath the surface of her prose.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Joanna Ratych (Rutgers University), "Use Alchlngers inquisitive Dwarfs."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;A large number of traditional feiry tale elements--dwarfs, seclusion in hermetically sealed places—appear in Aichinger's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dialogs&lt;/span&gt;. She uses these to integrate the phenomena of the everyday world with those of the world of magic, achieving the effect of distancing the phenomena of the everyday world in the eyes of the reader. Furthermore these fairy tale motifs function to reveal the problematic conditions in which growth and maturing take place.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;MAINSTREAMING THE FL CURRICULUM: FEMALE AND MALE STEREOTYPING IN BEGINNING- LEVEL TEACHING MATERIALS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(One-day pre-conference workshop, Nov. 1982)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara D. Wright (U. Conn., Storrs)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The purposes of the workshop, which Betty Schmitz (Bozeman, Montana) and I organized, were: 1) to review progress made in removing sexism from teaching materials since the mid-1970's; (2) to identify problems that still exist; and (3) to propose new approaches and solutions based on recent research in Women's Studies. The morning session consisted of a keynote address by Peggy McIntosh&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Director of Faculty Development, Wellesley Center for Research on Women), and presentations by Betty and myself. The afternoon was spent evaluating indi­vidual textbooks according to the guidelines of an evaluative instrument devel­oped by Betty.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WS and the Liberal Arts Curriculum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Peggy McIntosh emphasized that WS is profoundly altering our conception of liberal arts by asking how every academic discipline would change if it reflected the fact that women are half the world's population, and by investi­gating areas of human endeavor that have remained "invisible" up to now. She outlined the ways disciplines change when a WS perspective is applied, giving examples from history (focus not just on changes associated with "great" men, but also on unchanging fabric of everyday life); political science (attention to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;informal&lt;/span&gt; structures of smaller social and political units rather than to men in formal power structures); art history (homecrafts, interior decorating, etc. rather than only a canon of "masterpieces"); and literature (besides necessary attention to "notable" women authors, also works in "pre-" or "sub-" literary genres, which may provide an alternative to the prevailing--male—world view); Peggy's remarks made clear that current FL textbooks, whether they emphasize "notables" and "masterpieces" or everyday life and social customs, don't even come close to taking into account the presence or contribution of women as 50% of a given society. WS gives us both the conceptual tools and the factual information for publishers and authors to draw on in order to create a more balanced, accurate picture. Also, publishers, authors and teachers must be open to ongoing réévaluation and change, since a bias that has persisted so long can't be corrected in the course of one or two new editions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Convincing the Unbelievers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My talk began by following up on what Peggy had said concerning the teaching of culture. I have encountered many objections to teaching culture as she recommends that it be done. The four categories of objections and my responses to them are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1)   "But that's the way it really is." (our obligation to students to portray a given culture as it "really" is, not as we would like to have it). To this, I respond that, first, our texts must present an accurate picture of what women in that culture &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;really&lt;/span&gt; think and do, not what they are commonly believed to think or do. Second, when portraying women in "traditional" roles, we must communicate the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;value&lt;/span&gt; of the labor and services they provide—the homemaker or mother must not become the object of trivialization, humor or criticism, as has happened in the past. Third, when we encounter a seemingly undeniable cultural stereotype, we must still ask to what extent it reflects only a male perspective.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2)   The "good PR" argument: it's essential for FL to "win" students by presenting an attractive picture of country, culture and people (by implication, showing&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;too much poverty or social inequity is "bad" PR). I believe this argument is ultimately self-defeating: students sense the inauthenticity of many of our texts and react with boredom or disinterest. We can't deliberately mislead them on the one hand, then expect them to trust us when we speak of the aspects of a culture that we admire. 3) "But it's good pedagogy for students to be able to identify with the people or subject matter they study." (hence, pre­sumably, the preponderance in FL textbooks of young, healthy, attractive, white, middle-class professionals-to-be). Here, we must ask "good for whom?" FL classes generally have more female than male students, yet male characters&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;consistently outnumber females in textbooks. Also, student populations are becoming more varied—and older--each year. We can no longer assume (if we ever could) that all FL learners will "identify" with the insipid post-adolescent concerns of so many textbook characters. 4) The "simplicity" argument: learning a FL and getting acquainted with a foreign culture are challenging enough without adding extra difficulties. Here, I think it is important to distinguish between legitimate simplification and irresponsible distortion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To leave unchallenged the stereotype of the German nuclear-family Hausfrau is no more defensible than letting students think all German men run around in Lederhosen. By incorporating the richness and vigor of WS research into the cultural component of our FL textbooks, we will have an intellectually stimu­lating, pedagogically responsible alternative to the predictable "explicit" cultural messages of FL texts, and a powerful antidote to their extraordinarily impoverished &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;implicit&lt;/span&gt; cultural messages as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Cultural and Linguistic Connections&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I then turned to the connection I see between FL teaching and recent research by feminist linguists in discourse analysis, which has led to a better understanding of the differences between women's and men's speech. FL textbooks reflect an overwhelmingly "male" use of language, with emphasis on transmission of infor­mation and problem solving, and neglect of other uses. Yet McConnell-Ginet writes (in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Language in Literature and Society)&lt;/span&gt; that transfer of infor­mation is probably not the predominant use of language even outside literary contexts. She suggests, rather, that we talk above all to relate ourselves to others. When we look from McConnell-Ginet’s point of view at language as it is taught in current FL textbooks, we register the absence of countless phenomena of everyday speech* hedges and tag questions, "empty" adjectives, fillers, vocalized pauses. Dialogues students are expected to memorize contain almost nothing of the conversational dynamics that linguists have documented: topic initiation, interruption or switch of topic; conversation as a model for competitive or collaborative activity; and the sustaining of conversation by means of gambits, mediations, leading questions, interjections and the like (work, incidentally, which is shared in single-sex groups but which falls overwhelmingly to women in mixed-sex groups). Little attention is paid in most texts to the expression of strong emotion, to the subtleties and indirectness which characterize the speech of many women, or to the vast range of styles within a language: the language of intimacy, of newstelling or gossip, of irony, bawdy humor, storytelling and so on. As a result, students learn a bloodless and impoverished language, and gain no insight into the style they use in their native language, or into the conversational dynamics in which they themselves participate daily. If study of FL can teach students something of this, then they will have learned a powerful lesson indeed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Evaluating Available Materials&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Betty Schmitz explained that though progress has been made in the last decade in improving the image of women and minorities in teaching materials, the prob­lem is far from gone. She identified four aspects: 1) publishers' guidelines have not been systematically or consistently applied; 2) the new material on women added to textbooks has not been effectively integrated throughout the book; 3) a new generation of authors and editors is emerging with no knowledge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;or consciousness of bias in textbooks, or with the perception that recent textbook revisions have distorted the reality of the target culture; and 4) the more subtle and pervasive forms of bias in language and culture have not been addressed. She identified six forms of bias in curricular materials;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) exclusion, 2) stereotyping, 3) linguistic bias, 4) fragmentation or isolation, 5) unreality, and 6) historical inaccuracy or incompleteness. The first four of these are relatively easy for most of us to identify. Analysis for realism and historical accuracy would require specific expertise and a considerable time investment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During the afternoon session, participants used Betty's evaluative instrument to examine individual textbooks in French, German, Italian and Spanish, and concluded with a discussion of what we had found and how the texts could be improved. The wrap-up discussion was chaired by Michel Grimaud (French, Wellesley College). Though enrollment was not all we had hoped for, we were very pleased to have representatives from two publishing companies with us; Houghton Mifflin and Scott Foreman. Participants praised the workshop for the quality of the presentations and for the wealth of new insights it had given them. Just recently, Madeline Gutwirth of the MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession asked us whether we would be willing to repeat the workshop at the 1983 convention in New York, and the commission is now considering whether to sponsor us.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;(The following reaction to the Boston conference was received too late for the November newsletter)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Some reactions of an old-timer&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;who hasn't been for awhile&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So many conferences, however stimulating, deplete and exhaust one's energy. However tired I was after our 4-day Thompson Island conference, I was not depleted, nor exhausted. After a couple years' absence from our meetings, I was grateful to learn firsthand that we have managed to keep our original goals intact. We had, so long ago, at the MLA in S.F., 1975, decided to always con­vene in an informal atmosphere, one that would allow us to be supportive as we exchanged ideas and experiences—and Thompson Island was just such a setting. More than that, though, I could see that though we have grown considerably and though we now have a fairly large steering committee, WIG still retains and maintains its original intent. The Organizational structure of the steering committee encourages an impressive openness, never becoming a cumbersome burden overshadowing our aims.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The impressions that remain with me are varied and mostly encouraging. Aside from the numerous personal contacts I renewed, and the energy and encouragement I gained from the many diverse papers and presentations, I felt a particular pleasure in being able to bring along my daughter Alyssa (her first WIG was in Ohio at 4 months of age). Having her along really meant combining those often at odds characters of mother and professional; it meant, too, the unex­pected pleasure of sharing with those women, whom I had known professionally a long time, what they, too, experience as mothers. It was a sort of "coming out". Joey Horsley and Barbara Wright deserve all our thanks for their&lt;br /&gt; (some reactions...cont.) tremendous talents in organizing everything—not the least, for me, was day­care. It enabled me to listen to papers, enter discussions, exchange ideas and information and also to enjoy myself. &lt;i&gt;My&lt;/i&gt; grateful thanks to WIG for pro­viding child care. Having Alyssa along let me integrate my work with my life in a way that I've not been able to do before and many of my colleagues in various departments where I teach have expressed great enthusiasm for what WIG continues to do in a ground-breaking way. Although I think we can pat ourselves on our backs for this, there remain, nonetheless, some unspoken dilemmas. For the parent it frequently means a feeling of isolation as others naturally are preoccupied with the business at hand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our conference was so full that I've already exceeded my space limit without mentioning everything I wanted to. Let me then be brief in my conclusion: our ongoing effort to include inter-disciplinary views by inviting non-German speaking participants, as well as those professionally active in Germany, continues to be stimulating and exciting; our lengthy discussion on which language to use seemed unnecessarily divisive and I was glad to see us resolve it in an open manner (it seems to have been an "unspeakable"?!); did we realize the tremendous effort Patsy Baudoin (of Schoenhof's bookstore)--herself a Ph.D. candidate in Comp. Lit.—made in hauling all those great books to the island?!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What more can I say? —Plenty, mostly thanks to all those of you who have done ail the nitty-gritty work these past years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Charlotte Ärmster Dartmouth College&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;STIMME SUCHEN, STIMME FINDEN&lt;br /&gt; Oct. 13-16, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thompson Island, Boston&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The overall theme, "Stimme suchen, Stimme finden," is meant to encompass a wide spectrum of issues, ranging from being able to speak loudly enough to be heard, to speaking the "unspeakable," finding an authentic personal/professional voice in speaking and writing, and contributions from contemporary critical and theo­retical work on gender, voice, Öffentlichkeit, etc. to feminist work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14, morning. Interdisciplinary Panel, "Stimme suchen." Feminist Perspec­tives on Wbrk from Other Disciplines. Presentations in English. Inquiries or proposals to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;; Helen Fehervary, German Dept., OSU, Columbus, OH 43210 and Judith Jamieson, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 April 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14, afternoon. "Fiction, Fantasy and Freedom: Testing the Limits in Post-War Women's Literature." Presentations in German. Three-page abstract or&lt;br /&gt; (calls for papers cont.) detailed outline to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Dagmar Lorenz, German Dept., OSU, Columbus, OH 43210, and Barbara D. Wright, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, U. Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;15 May 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14, evening. Consciousness-Rais&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ing session. Topic; Rape and Sexual &lt;/span&gt;Assault. Inquiries to; Alnut Poole,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 15, morning. "Stimme finden.” (1) Ten-minute presentations in German or English on practical strategies for success in finding a voice in the classroom and the university. (2) Role-playing of solutions to problems in classroom and university. Abstracts for (1) or/andescription^of problem Situations for (2) to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both; Irmgard Taylor,&lt;/span&gt;                                        |                                                       and Jeannine&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 15, evening. Reading by Barbara Frischmuth, followed by discussion. Coordinator: Karen Achberger, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 16, morning. "Lost Voices, New voices." the "canon." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Inquiries&lt;/span&gt; or proposals to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both;&lt;/span&gt; Dorothy Rosenberg,and Resa Dudovitz,&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;For more detailed information, see the November issue of the WiG newsletter or contact the respective session organizers.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanksgiving Weekend San Francisco, CA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;(Literary). "Women and Peace." Edith Potter, Dept. of German, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 91711, and Jorun B. Johns, Dept. of Foreign Languages, California State college, San Bernardino, CA 92407. Deadline for proposals was 1 March 1983.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;(Pedagogical). "Teaching About Women and Peace." Helga Kraft, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, U. Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, and Ric Johnson, Dept. of Mod. For. Lang., Indiana U.-Purdue U., FW, Fort Wayne, IN 46805. Deadline for proposals was 1 March 1983.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;December 27-30, 1983&lt;br /&gt; New York, NY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Women Making Literary History: The New Generation of Women Writers in the German Democratic Republic." Patricia Herminghouse, Dept. of Germanic (calls for papers cont.)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Languages and Literatures, Washington U., St. Louis, MO 63130, and Renate Delphendahi, Dept. of Foreign Langs, and Classics, U. Maine, Orono, ME 04473. Deadline was 1 March 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Feminist Re-Visions of Literary History." Treatment of women authors by literary historians, women and the literary canon, traditional périodisation and women writers, etc. Paper^or abstracts to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Barbel Becker-Cantarino, Dept. of Germanic Langs.,      U. Texas, Austin, TX 78712, and Sieglinde&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lug, Dept. of For. Langs, and Lits., U. Denver, Denver, ÇO 80208, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 May 1983&lt;/span&gt;. Other programs planned for MLA 1983;                                                          &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Critical Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann." A Special Session Conmemorating the Tenth Anniversary of Her Death. Though Bachmann's name comes up during almost every discussion at WiG meetings, there has not yet been a session de­voted entirely to her life and work. This MLA special session, long overdue, will include an overview of Bachmann scholarship and feminist (re-)appraisals of her work. Abstracts to; Karen Achberger, Dept. of German, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;20 March 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Brecht and Women," program planned by the International Brecht Society for MLA 1983. A continuation of the discussion at MLA 1982, the topic Brecht and women will also be the subject of a special issue of the Brecht Yearbook. For 1983, we are especially (but not exclusively) interested in a focus on the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;mother figure&lt;/span&gt; in Brecht's work. Preferred language is English. Graduate students, actors, directors and political activists are encouraged to participate. It would be wise to write a short version (10-20 min.) for oral delivery and a longer version, if youwishjforpossiblepublication. Abstracts to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Patty Lee Parmalee, and Janelle Reinelt, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;15 May 1983&lt;/span&gt;. Deadline for&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;final copy is 1 September 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Please Remember&lt;/span&gt;; potential speakers for the 1983 convention must be listed on the MLA membership rolls by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 April 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;IVG 1985, in Gottingen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Message from Marianne Burkhard.                                                          .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Internationale Vereinigung filr germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (IVG) will hold its 7th Congress from August 25-31, 1985, in Gbttingen. Prep­arations for the program are already underway. IVG has about 1000 members from all over the world, and holds a congress every 5 years presenting a cross-section of the "state of the art." Since participation by women panelists in 1980 left something to be desired and presentation of feminist perspectives was almost absent, WiG should make a concerted effort to change this for 1985. There are several things we can do;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Become members of IVG; dues are DM 100.- for 5 years, not an exorbitant sum when considering MLA dues for one year. Members will pay a substantially reduced conference registration in Gottingen. Applications for Beitragsermassigung Oder -erlass are being accepted; whether they are easily granted I don't know.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;(IVG 1985, in Gottingen cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Propose topics for a) entire sections, and b) individual papers.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the general topic is known: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kontroversen, alte und neue&lt;/span&gt;. This summer there will be a sort of seminar in which the specific sections or fora will be further delineated. At the end of 1983 the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Vorankündigung&lt;/span&gt; will be mailed to members.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Propose names of women who could be tapped for the (probably)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;6-8 &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenarvortrage,&lt;/span&gt; for chairing sections, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I propose the following things for now; please send me your ideas for specific &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;sections&lt;/span&gt; by April 25. I will then condense them and send a letter to IVG pro­posing that these topics be considered this summer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also send me names of people for chairing them as well as for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenarvortrage&lt;/span&gt;. Probably we should suggest that one &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenaryortag&lt;/span&gt; be a feminist statement, i.e. present a feminist view of either a particular field or discuss feminist con­tributions on a larger scale. Of course, we don't know the general topics of these &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenarvortrage&lt;/span&gt; yet, but it would be good to offer topics and people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next winter it will be up to all of us to send in proposals for papers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let me hear from you—it is time that we appear on this international scene as a new &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;generation offering new and exciting perspecti&lt;/span&gt;ves! MY address;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address of IVG: IVG, Sekretariat, Nikolausberger Weg 15, D - 3400 Gottingen. (I will get a supply of registration forms so you can also get them from me in some weeks.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONFERENCES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THIRD WORLD WOMEN AND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES, April 9-13, 1983, U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For information^ Conference Coordinators, Office for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Resources and Services,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CONDITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS. An International Conference on German Women in the 18th and 19th centuries, April 15-17, 1983, Nolte Center for Continuing Education, U. Minn., Minneapolis. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For information; Les&lt;/span&gt;lie A. Denn&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;y, Program Coordinator, Dept. of Conferences,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN at NEMLA, April 14-16, 1983, in Erie, PA. Program on "Literary Representations of the Woman Revolutionary in the Literature of the FRG," Friday, April 15, 8:30-10:00 am. Chaired by Liselotte Kuntz, U. Georgia, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, Athens, GA 30602.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN, FASCISM, EVERYDAY LIFE IN GERMANY, April 28-30^983^&amp;gt;hio State U. For information: Helen Fehervary, Dept. of German,                                                       OSU, Columbus,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OH 43210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(conferences cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINISTISCHE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT: ZUM VERHÄLTNIS VON FRAUENBILDERN UND FRAUENLITERATUR, May 24-28, 1983, in Hamburg. For Information; Inge Stephan/ Sigrid Weigel, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, 2 &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hamburg&lt;/span&gt; 13, Von Melle Park 6, FRG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN IN THE RENAISSANCE, The Newberry Library, May 20-21, 1983. For information: Mary Beth Rose, Center for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Renaissance Stud&lt;/span&gt;ies, rhe Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINIST EDUCATION: QUALITY AND EQUALITY. Fifth Annual National Women’s Studies Association Convention, June 26-30, 1983, in Columbus, OH. For more detailed information see &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women’s Studies Quarterly,&lt;/span&gt; Vol. X, No. 4 (Winter 1982), p. 40. For conference information and registration: Marie Longene&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;cker and Suzanne &lt;/span&gt;Hyers, Convention Coordinators, Center for Women’s Studies,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OSU, 230 West 17th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RECENT ARTICLES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women * s Studies International Forum&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. 5, #6 (1982), Special Issue, "Reassessments of *First Wave’ Feminism,” contains several articles on women and feminism in Germany:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ute Gerhard, "A hidden and complex heritage: reflections on the history of Germany's women's movements,” pp. 561-567.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christel Wickert, Brigitte Hamburger and Marie Lienau, "Helen Stocker and the Bund fur Matterschutz," pp. 611-18.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marion Kaplan, "Prostitution, morality crusades and feminism: German-Jewish feminists and the campaign against white slavery," pp. 619-627.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate Duelli-Klein, "Accounts of 'first wave' feminism in Germany by German feminists," pp. 691-696.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The publishing offices of WSIF are; (for North A&lt;/span&gt;merica) Pergamon Press, Inc.,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;________________________________________________  (for the rest of the world)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, OX3 OBW, U.K.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recent German articles in English translation in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;off our backs&lt;/span&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Down With Social Work; German Feminists Criticize the Politics of Shelters," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;oob&lt;/span&gt; Nov. 1982, pp. 18-19. (first appeared in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;, July 1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview, "A Jewish Feminist in Germany: Many Reasons to Leave, But Many Reasons to Stay," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;oob&lt;/span&gt; Jan. 1983, pp. 12-13.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(recent articles cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A forthcoming issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt; will contain an English translation interview with Christa Wolf, "Kultur ist, was gelebt wird," in which she dis­cusses &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Rein &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ort. Nirgends&lt;/span&gt;, The interview first appeared in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Alternative&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FORTHCOMING: third, revised edition of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Annotated Guide to Women’s Periodicals&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;the U.S, and Canada. For orderin&lt;/span&gt;g information, write to T. Mehlman,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LOST WIGGIES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mail for the following people has been returned marked "undeliverable." Information as to whether they still wish to receive the newsletter would be appre­ciated. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anneliese M. Duncan                            Susan Cocalis&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Report of WiG 1982 from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;, December 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Germanistinnen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;unter sich&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Thompson Island, eine grüne Insel, gelegen im Hafen von Bo­ston, rundum die Stadtsilhouette. Ich sitze in einem Raum mit 50 bis 60 Frauen; wir diskutieren Fragen feministischer Wissen­schaft und Erfahrungen aus dem Alltag von Frauen, die als Germa­nistinnen an Colleges und Univer­sitäten der USA lehren (oder stu­dieren). Anlaß ist die 7. Jahresta­gung von „Women in German". Dieser Verband ist ein Forum zum Austausch von Erfahrungen und Arbeitsergebnissen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Trotz der idyllischen Lage und .der außergewöhnlichen Zusam­menkunft entsteht kein Insel-Ge­fühl, wie es mich oft bei Frauen- Wochenendseminaren oder Frae- enwochen beschleicht — in der Vorahnung des „Realitätsschocks" bei der Rückkehr in den patriar­chalischen Arbeitstag. Es sind nicht die durchs Fenster sichtba­ren Wolkenkratzer, die an die Wirklichkeit erinnern. Es ist das Selbstbewußtsein, die Selbstver­ständlichkeit, z.T. auch der Prag­matismus der Beteiligten, denen man anmerkt, daß sie ihre Arbeit weniger außerhalb bzw. am Rande der Institutionen machen als die&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Frauen in der BRD. Es ist auch ei­ne Atmosphäre der Sicherheit, die aus der Geschichte des Verbandes kommt, der inzwischen ein recht gutes Kommunikationsnetz hat und an die wichtigsten akademi­schen und Fachorganisationen an­geschlossen ist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Vor sieben Jahren ist „Women in German" gegründet worden, in­zwischen hat der Verband ca.280 Mitglieder, überwiegend Frauen, einige wenige Männer, die sich mit Frauenliteratur beschäftigen. Das Ziel ist die Institutionalisierung und das Bemühen, Positionen an den Universitäten, aber auch in Fachzeitschriften und -verbänden zu erlangen, um Women’s Studies, feministische.Forschungiund auch einzelne Frauen fördern zu kön­nen. Inzwischen sind etliche Mit­glieder Professorinnen oder sitzen an Stellen, wo sie wissenschafts­politische Entscheidungen beein­flussen können. Mit 10% Frauen unter den Lehrenden an Colleges und Universitäten ist die Situation um einiges besser als in der BRD (3% in der Prof.-Gruppe).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Auf dieser Jahrestagung ging es um folgende Themen: Femini­stische Wissenschaft, Rapdbewe- gungen im deutschen Sprachraum, gibt es eine .weibliche Germani­stik'? Aussprechen des Unaus­&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Verhältnisse auffallend .pluralisti­sche’ Umgang mit Differenzen be­fremdend: faszinierend und ange­nehm, wie tolerant und ohne Drang zur Selbstdarstellung dis­kutiert wurde und wie sachlich und unbürokratisch gemeinsame Entscheidungen in einem großen Plenum gelangen; schön auch zu sehen, wie offen für die Inter. essen anderer sich die meisten zeigten, unverständlich aber auch, wie schnell einzelne von ihren&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Vorschlägen abließen,.                         ,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sigrid Weigel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;P.S. Ein ähnlicher Kongreß soll vom 24.-28.Mai 83 in Hamburg stattfinden mit dem Thema: „Fe­ministische Literaturwissenschaft zum Verhältnis von Frauenbildern und Frauenliteratur".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kontakt: Inge Stephan/Sigrid Weigel, Literaturwissenschaftll- ches Seminat, 2 Hamburg 13, Von Melle Park 6&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Schoenhof’s&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;CSTABLISHCO 188«                  &amp;lt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;SCHOENHOF’S FOREIGN BOOKS, INC. BOOKSELLERS - IMPORTERS - PUBLISHERS 1280 MASS. AVE.                                                          CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 02138&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fiction by women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Arnim, Bettina von&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Gunderode&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Insel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;17.60 (hard)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Behrens, Katja (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Vom Lob der Frau&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Insel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;13.75 (hard)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Kamenko, Vera&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Unter uns war Krieg&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Rotbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5.20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Jannberg, Judith&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Ich bin ich&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F3735&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5.20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Novak, Helga&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Eisheiligen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F5068&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Balladen vom kurzen Prozess&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Rotbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Landnahme von Torre Bela&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Rotbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Offenbach, Judith&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Sonja&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;st 668&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Reinig, Christa&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Entmannung&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;SL 253&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;8.45&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Schroeder, Margtt&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Ich stehe meine Frau&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F1617&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;3.90&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Der Shlachter empfiehlt noch&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;immer Herz&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauenbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;9.75&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Wolf, Christa &amp;amp; Gerhard Till&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Eulenspiegel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;SL 435&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;8.45&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="WordSection6"&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Non-fiction about women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Burmeister, Elisabeth (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen machen Frieden&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Laetere&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Hammer, Signe&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Tochter und Mutter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 3705&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5.20&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Hausen, Karin (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen suchen ihre Geschichte&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Beck&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;13.00&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Meulenbett, Anja&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Feminismus und Sozialismus&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;konkret&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Radel, Jutta (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Liebe Mutter, liebe Tochter:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauenbriefe aus Dreijahrhun-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;derten&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;ullst. 20230&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Schenk, Herrad&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen kommen ohne Waffen...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Beck&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;11.05&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Weigel, Sigrid et al.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen, die pfeifen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;es 968&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;7.80&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Weigel, S. &amp;amp; Geiger, R.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Sind das noch Damen?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauenbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;18.95&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;general &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;pedagogical interest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Erzählet Zeit: 50 Kurzgeschichten der Gegenwart&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Rec. 9996&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;7.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Wege der deutschen Literatur: ein Lesebuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;ullst. 35062&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Deutsche Erzählungen des 19. Jahrhunderts&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;dtv 2099&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;8.45&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Deutsche Gedichte von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 2197&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Wiener Moderne! Literature, Musik &amp;amp; Kunst zwischen 1890 und 1910&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;rec. 7742&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;12.50&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Wendepunkte deutscher Geschihte&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 3421&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Blinn, Hansjürgen  Informationshaandbuch: deutsche Literaturwissenschaft&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 7318&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;11.05&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Payment can be made by check, mail order, MasterCard, VISA, or American Express (include expiration date of credit aard). For shipping please add $2.00 for the first three books and $0.50 for each additional one. We welcome special orders for books not in stock. Thank you very much.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;P.S. All of Barbara Frischmuth's works that are currently in print are&lt;br /&gt; available through Schoenhof’s. Please contact us for details.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS from Emma, November 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;ommt ein neues Buch aus der amerikanischen Frauenbewe­gung auf den Markt, wird es meist erst dann gelesen, wenn eine deut­sche Übersetzung vorliegt. Der Blick ins Lexikon macht das Lesen be­schwerlich.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Diese Sammlung von Erfahrungsbe­richten lesbischer Jüdinnen aus Amerika habe ich allerdings sofort gelesen. Denn dieses Buch hätte in Deutschland nicht geschrieben wer­den können, und es ist sicher auch kein Zufall, daß es bislang nicht übersetzt worden ist. Die physische und kulturelle Ausrottung von Jü­dinnen und Juden während des Na­tionalsozialismus hat sich auch unter bundesrepublikanischen Verhältnis­sen soweit fortgesetzt, daß noch die jüngeren Generationen betroffen sind. Deutschland ist eben auch heutzutage kein Land, in dem Jüdin­nen eine eigene lesbische und femi­nistische Kultur entwickeln könnten. Und die deutsche Frauenbewegung ist kein Ort, wo Lesben und andere Frauen sich als Jüdinnen zusammen­finden. Es muß ganz kraß gesagt werden: Man kann in der bundes­deutschen Frauenbewegung Mutter sein, alleinstehend, kinderlos oder bärtig, asexuell, heterosexuell, be-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;mokratin, aber Jüdin kann man dort eigentlich nicht sein. Betretenes Schweigen, ratlose Gesichter, Pein­lichkeit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;„We don’t exist“, schreibt Evelyn Torton Beck in der Einleitung dieses Buches. Dennoch gibt es in den USA lesbische Jüdinnen, die über sich schreiben, die offensiv und ironisch sagen: „That’s funny, you don’t look like a jewish lesbian.“ Diese Frauen, Minderheit in der Frauenbewegung, Minderheit in der Lesbenbewegung und Minderheit in der jüdischen Gemeinschaft, konnten sich soweit zusammenfinden, daß sie selbst­bewußt über sich schreiben: Jüdische und lesbische Identität, Was bin ich für mich selbst?, Briefe aus Jerusa­lem, Juden im Patriarchat, Anti-Se- mitismus in der feministischen Be­wegung, schöne jüdische Frauen. „Nice Jewish Girls“ ist sicher kein brillantes Buch. Es bringt keine sen­sationellen Strategien und utopi­schen Wagnisse, aber viele Berichte sind voller Empfindsamkeit und Witz, Klugheit und Stolz. Es sollte auch hier möglichst bald erscheinen, damit die Diskussion beginnt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;VERA SLUPIK&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Nice Jewish Girls&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Evelyn Torton, Persephone Press&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Auf der Suche nach unseren Müttern&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hrsg, von Sara Lennox Luchterhand, 16,80 Mark &lt;/i&gt;Feministische Kulturkritik hat in Ame­rika nicht nur Tradition, sondern durch­aus Aktualität und Zukunft. Einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Tenden­zen der 70er Jahre bietet dieser Band, der, egal ob aus Zustimmung oder Kritik, die eingeschlafene Diskussion hierzu­lande wieder beleben könnte.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;DEADLINES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 May 1983:&lt;/span&gt; Papers for possible publication in WiG Yearbook to Marianne Burkhard,&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 June 1983&lt;/span&gt; (or sooner!): WiG 1983 session organizers provide information (title Waldstein,&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 August 1983:&lt;/span&gt; absolute final deadline for information to be included in August 1983 WiG newsletter. Newsletter address: WiG, Modern Foreign Languanges, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This newsletter was typed by Janice Guiff and Connie Munk.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;30&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG sister, Jane 30 Feminist University Everywhere, USA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unlike most professional organizations, WOMEN IN GERMAN has not raised its rates in the past three years. We are able to keep rates low for students and the unemployed in part because of individual members who voluntarily pay the supporting membership rates (see dues structure below). Membership/subscription money is used to finance the publication of the WiG newsletter (three issues per year, March, August, November) and to partially cover expenses for the annual WiG conference and other events.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Please fill out this section, detach and return with check (payable to Women in German) to: WOMEN IN GERMAN, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne, IN H68O5.&lt;/p&gt;
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