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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;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 "fur den Nachwuchs sorgen," and we agreed that student participation in the conference should be a priority of our "outreach" for 1983. Outreach for 1982 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;AATG 1982&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Thur. Nov.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;26:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&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;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1982&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,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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;(26U) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tues. Dec. 28&lt;/span&gt; OPEN HEARING OF THE MLA COMMISSION ON THE 3:30-5:15 pm                 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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;example, the WiG business meeting conflicts with:                                                                                                              (285) The Future&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;of the Division on Women's Studies in Language and Literature;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(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;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutschland&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;blei che Mutter&lt;/span&gt; (Helma Sanders-Brahms). If available, it will also be shown on Dec. 28; watch the "Convention Daily."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;MEETING WITH CHRISTA WOLF&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 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:&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 1*3210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;WIG 1982&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;OBER 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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;werden:    wir wollen sie und die Gesellschaft verändern. Radikal."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;(opening address, first Frauensommeruni, Berlin 1976). Elke also emphasized that we must guard against having our work relegated to 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;/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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;take our WiG identity "out there" (i.e., everywhere), and think of ourselves as agents of change.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&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;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Projects for potential publication in Germanist journals&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;not to do such a survey is the one published by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Monat she ft e&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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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, l.(c) above, since those who've worked in a given area could make the most informed recommendations).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Coordinat ed 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;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&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 ("fur 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;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&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;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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: l) 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: l) 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; (h) 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;/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 I), 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;ERSTE SCHRITTE&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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;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;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;H. 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;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;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. U 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;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;to her summary of WiG 1982 from her colleagues: "I figured they'd use it for scratch paper, but they read it'.")&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;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;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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),&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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;/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."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;(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;&lt;b&gt;(A &lt;/b&gt;selective listing &lt;i&gt;of&lt;/i&gt; works in feminist philosophy from the &lt;b&gt;last &lt;/b&gt;ten years or so» focusing especially on very recent works. &lt;b&gt;The &lt;/b&gt;books which contain substantial further bibliographies are marked with an asterisk.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bibliographies&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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 &amp;lt;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;Th e 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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Historical Anthologies&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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 i n 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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anthologies of Current Articles&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;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;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Perspectives on Metaphysics&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Epistemolog&lt;/span&gt;y, M&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ethodology and the Philosophy of Science&lt;/span&gt; (forthcoming 1783).&lt;/p&gt;
&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;“: ä &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Modern Philosophical Discussion&lt;/span&gt; (1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Special issues of journals&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Books&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;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;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hooks, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ain't&lt;/span&gt; X 5. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Woman&lt;/span&gt;? Black Wo&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;men and Feminism&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;*       S. M. Ok in, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women i n Western Political Thought&lt;/span&gt; (1979).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;J. R. Richards, The. S&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ceptical Feminist&lt;/span&gt; (1980).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5- 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;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&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;&lt;b&gt;Linda Gardiner Wellesley College&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;WiG 1982 (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;RANDBEWEGUNGEN IM DEUTSCHE» 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)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;1983 und 198b 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-G5ckel, "Feminismus an der Hochschule").&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;/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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;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;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;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:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;(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;
&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 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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;chair, political action committee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha Wallach (UWGB), co-chair 1983 and fund-raiser for guest author.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1981-         I98H: Joey Horsley (U. Mass., Boston).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut Poole (UCLA).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1982-         1985: Barbara Wright (U. Conn.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;WIG 1983 (and 1984)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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 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;/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; &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; &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;/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; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&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;/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;: “Stimine Finden." Focus on the personal/professional and how not to have the Split between them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;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;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;WiG at MLA, 1983 (to be held in New York).     '     •&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;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;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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 198B 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;/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; &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., 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?"&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 both Irmgard Taylor, and Jeannine Blackwell,&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?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What are the relationships between popular literature and the&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Send inquir&lt;/span&gt;ie&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;or proposals to both&lt;/span&gt; : Dorothy Rosenberg,           and Resa Dudowitz,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FACULTY POSITION IN GERMAN                                           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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Oxford, Ohio 45056.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Miami University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.&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 Work-shop).&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 Strau^ 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;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Charlotte Ärmster, 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 198U).&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; (H) Work Ethic. Also Spinning in Literature--please send quotes from poems, novels, plays I&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: l) the mythic sub­text and musical structures in the prose of Ingeborg Bachmann;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(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; (l98l); Stifters Frauen,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandy Frieden, U. Houston: l) 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; U+) 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;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;deutschen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Literatur&lt;/span&gt; (l980).&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;
&lt;p&gt;*****&lt;/p&gt;
&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;
&lt;p&gt;*****&lt;/p&gt;
&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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gail W. Cope&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Susanne Mensel      &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Verne Moberg&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elisabeth Ruge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Annegret Stroetges&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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;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, 19&amp;amp;1).&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:&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;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&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)” 20U S.,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;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;/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;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&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). 2UU S. mit Abb., DM &lt;i&gt;2k.&lt;/i&gt;80.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Senta Tromel-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, S000 Frankfurt 61, 1982). 360 S., Paperback, DM 3^.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 or the Trilogy Bookstore&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&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;nach der verborgenen Frau.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Inge Stephan, "Bilder und immer wieder Bilder ..." - Über­legungen zur Untersuchung von Frauenbildern in männlicher Literatur.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Inge Stephan, Hexe oder Heilige? - Zur Geschichte der Jeanne d’Arc und ihrer literarischen Verarbeitung.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sigrid Weigel, Wider die romantische Mode - Zur ästhetischen Funktion des Weiblichen in Friedrich Schlegels "Lucinde."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;4. Sigrid Weigel, Der schielende Blick - Thesen zur Geschichte weiblicher Schreibpraxis.&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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sigrid Weigel, Die geopferte Heldin und das Opfer als Heldin - Zum Entwurf weiblicher Helden in der Literatur von Männern und Frauen.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Inge Stephan, "Daß ich eins und doppelt bin ..." - Geschlechter tausch als literarisches Thema.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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 19^5. (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 19^8) 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;nachrichten&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;Dis 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;
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&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,                                           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;i&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;2b.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; bis zum &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;2Ö. &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 Theorieentvicklung 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;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Theoretische Überlegungen und historische Beispiele aus dem Gebiet "Frauenbilder”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Theoretische Überlegungen und historische Beispiele aus dem Gebiet "Frauenliteratur"&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Projektvorstellungen aus den Gebieten "Frauenbilder" und "Frauenliteratur"&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ninth International New Hampshire Symposium on the German Pern. Republic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;June 17-24, 1983 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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;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,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Peace Movement, Coexistence - Nancy Lukens, Dept. of German,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;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,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;TN 37916; James Knowlton, Dept. of German, Rutgers University,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;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&lt;br /&gt; 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, _____________________________________________  _____________________________________________  _____________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;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 Erti, 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;/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.,                          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 (SeminarX).&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 '                                                  '&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Schmauch, World Fellowship Center, Conway, N.H. 03818,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*****&lt;/p&gt;
&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;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;with the national offices!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;finden," and&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,"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;to Judith Jamieson (Providence College Providence, RI 02918)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and Helen Fehervary (German Dept.,                                                                                                         OSU, Columbus 43210).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This newsletter was typed by Marilyn Gibbons (Women's Studies, 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;
&lt;p&gt;* * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministas Uni das&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;/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 29- Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;WiG sister, Jane 29 Feminist University Everywhere, USA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Unlike most professional organizations, WOMEN IN GERMAN has not&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 28                                                                                                           August 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SEVENTH ANNUAL WOMEN IN GERMAN CONFERENCE-RETREAT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;October lH-17, 1982&lt;br /&gt; Thompson's Island, Boston&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Author: LUISE RINSER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference coordinator: Barbara Wright (U. Conn., Storrs); Registra­tion:          Joey Horsley (U. Mass., Boston); Interpreter for Luise Rinser:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gudrun Gill (California State U., Fullerton).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October l4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thursday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                                          5 :00-7 : 00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Arrival, registration, room assignment&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7:00 pm-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Buffet 3upper, social hour, music?&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;Friday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                        9:00-11:00 am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINISTISCHE WISSENSCHAFT:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN VARIOUS DISCIPLINES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators:                Kay Goodman (Brown U.), Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters and topics: Gertraud Gutzmann (Smith Coll.)—the GDR; Barbara Kaltz (U. of Waterloo)--LinguiStics; Helene Wenzel (Yale)-- French, Women's Studies; Linda Janik (Wellesley Coll.)—Philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Each panelist will give an introduction to important questions in her field and distribute information. Discussion will follow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;                                      1:30-3:30 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RANDBEWEGUNGEN IM DEUTSCHEN SPRACHRAUM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters and topics: Linda Pickle (Westminster Coll.)--the Women's Movement; Renny Harrigan (Milwaukee)—Women and the Peace Movement; Brigitte Wichmann (Hanover Coll.)--Terrorism.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4:00-5:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Steering Committee Meeting&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                        7:00-9’-00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ÜBER DIE FRAGE: GIBT ES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;EINE WEIBLICHE GERMANISTIK?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderator:            Sandra Frieden (U. Houston). Presenters: Jeannine&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Blackwell (Indiana U.); Ruth-Ellen Boetcher-Joeres (U. of Minnesota); Sidonie Cassirer (Mount Holyoke Coll.); Elke Frederiksen (U. of Maryland). Small group discussions will follow the presentations based on the speakers' own experiences as women, feminists, Germanists.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October l6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                    9:00-11:00 am                                                              &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WOMEN ONLY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderator:            Angelika Banner (U. of Wisconsin). Presenters and topics:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marlene Heinemann (Milwaukee), "Broadening the Struggle: Notes on Becoming a Jewish Feminist;" Lynnie Ozer (New York), "Speaking about Lesbianism in German Literature:" Jeanette Clausen (IPFW), "On Reading Vera Kamenko’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Unter uns war Krieg&lt;/span&gt;." After the panel presentation, we will divide up into CR groups to discuss issues raised by the presentations and our personal, emotional reactions to them. How are we &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; affected by the parts of lives which remain unspoken/unspeakable, and how are we affected differently?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;                                       1:30 pm-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG BUSINESS AND PLANNING MEETING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding:              Marianne Burkhard (U. of Illinois) and Linda Pickle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Westminster Coll.), Steering Committee co-chairs, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To allow the widest possible participation in decision-making, and (we hope) to enable us to conduct our planning meeting with less pressure, we are asking for suggestions on various topics in advance.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The registration form (at the end of this newsletter) has spaces for WiG members to propos. topics for future conferences, suggest authors we might invite, and nominate people for steering committee vacancies. You are, of course, welcome to make these and other suggestions whether or not you plan to attend the conference. As agreed last year, the business meeting may be continued Sunday morning if we run out of time on Saturday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                          7:00 pm-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LUISE RINSER READS FROM HER WORKS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderator:            Elke Frederiksen (U. of Maryland). As this newsletter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;is being prepared, we still haven’t found out what texts Luise Rinser plans to read. For those of you who aren’t familiar with her works,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elke Frederiksen especially recommends the following: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mitte des Lebens&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gefangnistagebuch&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ein Bundel weifler Narzissen&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Per schwarze Esel&lt;/span&gt; (all Fischer Taschenbuch); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Unterentwickeltes Land Frau&lt;/span&gt; (Wurzburg: Echter Verlag); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Den Wolf umarmen&lt;/span&gt; (autobiography; Fischer (hardback), 1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sunday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                      9:00-11:00 am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MAKING CONNECTIONS, RESPECTING DIFFERENCES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderator:            Evelyn Beck (U. of Wisconsin). The substance for this&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;final discussion will come directly from the preceding two days’ experiences. We hope to isolate the issues which have really come out of the conference and which may have been raised by our willing­ness to face difficult questions. We will try to weave together theoretical, personal* political and academic questions as they affect and reflect our differing perspectives on and involvement in the women’s movement, feminism in the US and Germany, our view of our discipline—at the same time recognizing the commonalities that bring us all together.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;LUISE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;            RINSER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Biographical Date&lt;/span&gt; : Luise Rinser was born April 30, 1911 in Pitzling, Upper Bavaria. She studied pedagogy and psychology in Munich, receiving her degree i_. 193&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;*. She taught elementary school from 1935 to 1939« She was married in 1939 to Horst-Günther Schnell (conductor), who was killed in Russia in 19^3. Her two sons, Christoph and Stephan, were born in 19^0 and 19^1. Her first book, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gläsernen Ringe&lt;/span&gt;, appeared in 19^0. Forbidden to publish after 19^1, she was arrested and convicted of high treason and undermining military morale in 19HU. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gefängnistagebuch&lt;/span&gt; (19^6) describes her prison experience. After the war she worked as a literary critic for the American paper &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Neue Zeitung&lt;/span&gt;. In 1950 her novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mitte des Lebens&lt;/span&gt; appeared; it has since sold more than one million copies and been translated into 15 languages. It was awarded the René Schickele Literature Prize in 1952. In 1961 &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mitte des Lebens&lt;/span&gt; was published together with the novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aben&lt;/span&gt;­&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;teuer der Tugend&lt;/span&gt; under the new title &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nina&lt;/span&gt;. Rinser was married to composer Carl Orff from 195^ to 1959- She has been a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 1956. Other publications include her essay &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Unterentwickeltes Land Frau&lt;/span&gt; (1970), her diaries &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Baustelle&lt;/span&gt; (1970), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Grenzübergänge&lt;/span&gt; (1972), and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kriegs spiel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;zeug&lt;/span&gt; (1978) as well as numerous novels, collections of stories, documentary prose, and radio and TV plays. She was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1977, the Italian National Prize for Literature in 1979, and the Roswitha-Gedenkmedaille by the city of Gandersheim in 1979. Her autobiography &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Den Wolf &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;umarmen&lt;/span&gt; (l98l) was on the bestseller list for several months. She has published over thirty books, several of which have been translated into at least 10 languages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hilla Jaenicke, Goethe House New York&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have invited Hilla Jaenicke of the New York Goethe House to be our guest and resource person at the WiG conference. We very much appreciate her assistance, and the support of the Goethe Institute, in arranging Luise Rinser’s visit. To find out Luise Rinser’s com­plete itinerary during her three-week stay in the US, please contact the Goethe House.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Membership News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since the WiG newsletter moved to IPFW in August 1981, approximately HO new members have joined our organization. This brings our mailing list to a total of 270, including 50 whose subscriptions have expired. Please remember to check the number to the right of your name on your mailing label, and send a check for the appropriate amount if your number is 28 (this issue) or lower. Dues information is on the membership form at the end of this newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Conference -Her-Story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Especially for newcomers to WiG (but also for "old" members who'd like to reminisce), here is a brief account of how our conferences have evolved and grown since the first one. Held in September 1976, it was announced as a weekend retreat combined with a one-day sym­posium entitled "Feminism and German Studies: An Interdisciplinary Perspective." The format for the second conference was similar, but that year the group decided to restructure the next meeting as fol­lows (I quote from the Nov. 1977 WiG Newsletter):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the second annual Women in German Conference/Retreat, we discussed various ways of restructuring the third con­ference (1978) in order to encourage greater involvement on the part of all participants. It seemed to us that &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arbeitsgruppen&lt;/span&gt; could facilitate collective work by breaking up the conventional formalities of academic conferences, encouraging greater involvement, and eliminating the typical split between "active" paper-givers and a "passive" audience. Far from decreasing academic work, the forma­tion of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arbeit sgruppen&lt;/span&gt; has the potential of opening up new avenues and methods of research. Collective work requires one to consider closely the results of others' research and to attempt to synthesize it with one's own in order to bring forth a product that is greater than the sum of its parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Translating these principles into practice has been an important part of our annual conferences since then.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1978 conference weekend was the first one to devote the opening session to discussing our experiences surviving in or on the margins of our male-dominated profession. Entitled "Personal and Professional Survival as a Woman Germanist," that evening generated much enthusiasm and initiated a tradition of opening each conference with a session where we can discuss and share our personal/professional/political experiences, become (re-)acquainted with each other, and affirm that the personal is political--&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; scholarly!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another decision made that year was to designate one session of the 1979 conference "for women only." Quite simply, we had found that we needed to provide the kind of space where women can feel free to speak about experiences and issues we do not wish to share with men (no matter how supportive or pro-feminist they may he). This too has now become a tradition of our annual conferences.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1979 conference was exhilarating--and exhausting. We decided to schedule only three Saturday panels for the 1980 conference, rather than four as in previous years, so as to allow more free time for networking, exchanging ideas on our special interests, and just plain relaxing. We also decided to seek funding for bringing a German woman writer to the conference. Margot Schroeder was our guest in 1980, Angelika Mechtel in 1981.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Attendance at the conferences had been increasing each year, and with over 50 attendees in 1980 it became impossible for all participants to contribute to each discussion. Our solution was to organize the following year’s sessions to include small group discussions with a plenary session at the end of each, as well as to ask session organizers to announce specific primary works to be discussed in advance, so everyone wishing to do so could read them before the conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In 1981 we decided that a weekend conference was simply no longer enough. We took a deep breath and agreed to make the 1982 conference a day longer. Also, w_ realized that in our eagerness to explore theoretical issues, literary analysis, new ways of reading, etc. and to find ways to make visible and confront the long unspoken oppres­sions which have historically so often divided women, we had begun to lose sight of a very important and practical focus of our early con­ferences:   the sharing of basic information, such as course syllabi&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;or reading lists, news of women’s organizations or projects we learned about during trips abroad, and so on. We have planned this year’s conference to incorporate this early "tradition" as well as to con­tinue those discussed above.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hope and expect that the 1982 conference, the first to be held outside the Midwest, will be the best one yet. If you have materials you would like to share with the group, please bring them to Boston when you come. See you there!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please remember: even if you won’t be able to attend the conference, you can still use the registration form to propose future session topics for conferences, suggest authors we should consider inviting, and nominate people for steering committee vacancies. If you choose to do this, your suggestions will be among those discussed during the business meeting in October.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;THANKS!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many, many thanks to everyone who wrote in response to the March 1982 newsletter—Jeanette and Connie appreciate the encouragement a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;whole &lt;/span&gt;lot! A few of your contributions are being held for the November newsletter, to keep this issue light enough to be mailed first class.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCING...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Christa and Gerhard Wolf in the US&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As many of you already know, Christa and Gerhard Wolf will both be teaching in the OSU German Department during the spring quarter of 1983 (March 28 to June 10). They plan to arrive in the US at the beginning of the quarter and haven't yet decided whether they will extend their stay beyond 'arly June.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helen Fehervary writes that the Wolfs have expressed the desire to spend most of their time in Columbus, and they have been assured that their time will be protected. They will probably be able to accept very few speaking engagements elsewhere. -- In other words, if we want to meet them, we should try to go to Columbus rather than ask them to come to us'.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Events planned at OSU during the Wolfs' stay (mark your calendars!):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RETREAT:      A one-day, informal retreat for WiG members to meet and talk&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;with Christa Wolf has been scheduled for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April&lt;/span&gt; 9., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More details will be announced and discussed at the WiG conference in October, and published in the November newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CONFERENCE:      An international conference entitled "Women, Fascism,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Everyday Life in Germany" is scheduled for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 28-30, 1983&lt;/span&gt; at the Fawcett Center, OSU, Columbus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters who have confirmed their participation as of this writing include:                        Christa Wolf (Berlin/GDR; Ohio State), Annemarie Troger&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(University of Hannover/FRG), James Steakley (U. of Wisconsin),&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leila Rupp (Ohio State), George Mosse (U. of Wisconsin), Jost Hermand (U. of Wisconsin), Jeffrey Herf (Harvard U.), Miriam Hansen (Rutgers U.), Atina Grossman (Rutgers U.), Ingeborg Drewitz (West Berlin/&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;U. of Texas), Jessica Benjamin (A. Einstein College of Med.), Evelyn Beck (U. of Wisconsin).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Program topics confirmed so far include: woman as national symbol; the public sphere of women; anti-semitism and the holocaust; family, sexual reform, homosexuality; melodrama and film; oral history: women's recollections of fascism; boundaries of war and postwar experience; peace initiatives past and present.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more information on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;any&lt;/span&gt; of the above, please write to: Helen Fehervary, Dept. of German, Dieter Cunz Hall 31H , Ohio State Univer­sity, Columbus, OH 1*3210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Registration for the conference will begin after January 1, 1983; information on child care, hotel accommodations, complete program information and so on will be mailed later this fall. The conference is sponsored by the OSU Graduate School, College of Humanities, Dept. of German, Center for Women’s Studies, Division of Comparative Studies in the Humanities; and the Ohio Arts Council.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pre-Conference Workshop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MAINSTREAMING THE FL CURRICULUM.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Male and Female Stereotyping in Beginning-Level&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Teaching Materials&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wednesday, Nov. 2h, 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:00 am - 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm, and 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Directors:                Betty Schmitz (Montana State U., Bozeman, MT)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and Barbara D. Wright (U. of Conn., Storrs).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters:              Michel Grimaud (Wellesley Coll.) and Peggy McIntosh&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Wellesley Cc’1. Center for Research on Women).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Mainstreaming"--the process of integrating the findings of Women’s Studies research into the liberal arts curriculum--wi11 be a major concern of curriculum reform in the coming decade. In this work­shop, existing materials are surveyed and an evaluative instrument is distributed enabling participants to examine a wide range of commonly used texts and other teaching materials. Findings are reported and discussed and will be widely distributed after the workshop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The workshop is co-sponsored by AATG, WiG, and AATF. It is intended for teachers of French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish at both the high school and college level; also for textbook authors, editors, publishers, and producers of standardized tests, filmstrips and other teaching materials. It will be held at the New York Hyatt; cost will be comparable to other workshops of similar length.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG Conference&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Pedagogy)                          FAIRY TALES IN THE CLASSROOM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Co-chairs:               Wilma Iggers (Canisius Coll., Buffalo, NY) and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sydna Weiss (Hamilton Coll., Clinton, NY).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters:              Maria M. Tatar (Harvard U.), "From Nags to Witches:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Stepmother in Fairy Tales;" Cora Lee Nollendorfs (U. of Wisconsin, Madison), "Fairy Tales As Ways of Learning:            Approaches and Methods;" Jane Barry (SUNY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;at Buffalo), "Female Archetypes in Marchen and the Classroom."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Literature) FAIRY TALE MOTIFS IN GERMAN WOMEN'S WRITING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday, Nov. 26&lt;br /&gt; 30-6: 00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chair:                     Ruth Bottigheimer (Princeton U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters:              Liselotte Weingant (California State U., Hayward),&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Soziale Zaubergeschichten: Barbara Frischmuths Feen- und Geisterwelt;" Renate Delphendahl (U. of Maine,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Orono), "The Alienated Self in Ingeborg Bachmann’s ’Undine geht;'" Karen Achberger (Saint Olaf Coll.), "Ingeborg Bachmann: Fairy Tale as Metaphor;" Joanna M. Raytch (Rutgers Coll.), "Use Aichinger's Inquisitive Dwarfs."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Women in German business meeting will follow the above session.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG at MLA, 1982:                       WOMEN AND GERMAN FILM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators:                Marjorie Tussing (California State U., Fullerton),&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg (Seattle).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1982 WiG program at MLA in Los Angeles will begin with a&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;screening of one of Margarets von Trotta's films. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Bleierne Zeit&lt;/span&gt; (1981) has been requested, but at this writing we're not sure whether or not it will be available. If it isn't, Trotta's film &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schwestern&lt;/span&gt; will probably be shown.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After the film screening and a break, the program will continue with papers and discussion &lt;b&gt;is &lt;/b&gt;follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters:               Martha K. Wallach (U. of Wisconsin, Green Bay), "The&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lost Honor of the Marquise of 0, Effi Briest , and Katharina Blum;" Anna Kuhn (U. of Pennsylvania), "Interiority in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sisters&lt;/span&gt;;" Dagmar C. Stern (Columbia U.), "The Third Awakening of Margarets von Trotta;" Bernd Moeller (U. of Texas, Austin), "Dominance, Violence and Solidarity in the Cinema of Margarets von Trotta "&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussants: Sandra Frieden (U. of Houston) and Miriam Frank (Berkeley).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NEW this year: Women in German will have our own cash bar at the MLA convention—so plan on happy hour with us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also:         WiG members interested in sharing a suite at the convention&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;this year, write to Martha Wallach (CCC, UWGB, Green Bay, WI 5^301)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;WOMEN EDUCATORS announces the Fourth Annual Curriculum Materials Award, to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educa­tional Research Association in Montreal, March, 1983- Please send two copies of materials relating to women that have been developed since 1976 for use in educational settings to: Mary Harris and Nancy Smith, Curriculum Award, WOMEN EDUCATORS, Department of Curri­culum and Instruction, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 Include a one-page description of how the materials relate to sexism sex-role stereotyping, and the image of women and girls and the rationale or theoretical/empirical foundation for the material. Entries must be postmarked by December 1, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS: "Alienation in Art and Literature," NEMLA,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;April lU-l6, 1983, Allegheny Coll., PA. Papers (8-10 pages) by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sept. 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt; to: Renate Delphendahl, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Classics, U. of Maine, Orono, ME 0UH69.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;DEADLINE for material to be included in the Nov. 1982 newsletter is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;November 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;REGISTRATION FORM&lt;br /&gt; Women in German Annual Conference&lt;br /&gt; Thompson’s Island, Boston, MA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14-17, ’82&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: __ ________ Telephone: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;(________ )&lt;/span&gt;________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address (after Sept. 15): ______________________________ ______________________________  &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;# Street                                         Town                                                     State                                                     Zip&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Registration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please choose the plan you prefer from section A, B or C below. Costs for overnight accommodation (A) include conference attendance, lodging, three meals per day and boat transportation to/from the island. If you select attendance and meals only (B), boat transportation is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; included. Round-trip boat fare is $4.00. Registrants must become members of WiG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Overnight accommodation (Please check your choice):&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I intend to spend the night(s) of Oct. 14 15 16 (please circle) on Thompson’s Island. Day-hopping (Please check your choice):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Conference attendance only: $5.00 per day. Please check days you plan to attend:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oct. 15 _____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 16 _____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 17 _____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total = _____  x $5 = _________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Meals. Please check the meals you plan to eat on Thompson’s Island:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lunch               Fri._______                                   Dinner                         Thurs. ____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;($4.00 each)Sat. __________  ($6.00 each)Fri. _______________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sun. _______  Sat. __________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total = ______  x $4 = _________  Total =____________ _______________ x $6 = ____________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total cost of attendance and meals: $__________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;C. Combination plan:&lt;/p&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;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Transportation Plans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&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 enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for information regarding land/boat transportation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;____ Please check if you are a student/unemployed and would like help covering your travel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;expenses. Cost of round-trip travel from your home to the conference: $_____________________________________________________ .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(In November, after WiG has paid all its bills for the conference, we will divide any remai&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ning&lt;/span&gt; funds on a percentage basis among those of you who request &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;travel a&lt;/span&gt;id. We very &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;much&lt;/span&gt; ho&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;pe to&lt;/span&gt; be able to help some of you who must travel long distances, but &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;unf&lt;/span&gt;o&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;rtunately we can&lt;/span&gt;'t guarantee that money will be left after expenses or predict what percentage you may be reimbursed).                                                                                               "&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;name ;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-                                                                                                    ’Page&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Childcare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 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____                                       Needs own room/bed(circle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Please note special needs or other relevant information: _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you will need childcare, please enclose an additional stamped, self-addressed envelope so that we can forward childcare information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Natural Foods Option&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;A natural foods option (vegetarian) will be made available for a modest surcharge ($10 or less) which will 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;must&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;
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&lt;p&gt;Nominations for WiG Steering Committee (optional)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;___________________________________________________  (Please include name and address or&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;2                                                                                           affiliation. Try to nominate from&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;’ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  different geographical regions.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;___________________________________________________&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;VI. Suggested Topics for 1983 WiG Sessions: (optional)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;AATG 1. ___________________________________________  (Pedagogy)&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;                                                                              (Literature)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MLA 1. ____________________________________________&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;________________________________________&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;WiG conference (to be held on the West Coast in 1983)&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;                                                                         &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;                                                                         &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;__________________________________________&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;_________________________________________&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Suggested guest authors for future WiG conferences&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. ___________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;                                                                         &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please make your check out to "Women in German" and form and stamped, self-addressed envelope(s) to:&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 28. Read your label and renew when numbers match&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Jane Goodwomon                     28&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Feminist University Everywhere, USA&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 27                                                 &lt;br /&gt;March 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, I don’t know about the rest of you, but uns hat der winter geschat über al. January and February in Fort Wayne consisted mainly of snowstorms, cancellations, school closings and bus delays— all very pesky, and not conducive to efficiency. I hope you all received the calls for papers that Connie, Ric and I finally managed to mail in mid-February, barely in advance of some of the deadlines for receiving proposals. Thinking about all the deadlines to be met, and knowing how many obligations most of us have, I'm impressed all over again with WiG's accomplishments during the past months, and seeing them pile up for this newsletter helps me be optimistic about our plans for the rest of 1982 and beyond.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One thing that dealt the old optimism something of a blow was the letter Martha Wallach received from CHRISTA REINIG on March 1. It begins: "Hier ist leider Schlimmes passiert. Meine Freundin hat sich bei einem Unfall die Hand so schwer und dauernd verletzt, daß sie mich nicht begleiten kann, sondern umgekehrt der Fall eingetreten ist, daß ich für sie sorgen und ihr helfen muß." In short, Christa won't be able to be present at our October conference after all. Thud. So, the Steering Committee members did some fast phone-calling and thinking; we decided to ask the Goethe-Institute to invite LUISE RINSER, since she is someone WiG intended to invite several years ago (remember, it was the "Rinser fund" which became the seed-money for Margot Schroeder's visit), and also because her interest in the peace movement and other "Randbewegungen" fits into the program we have planned for October. The Goethe-Institute agreed to extend the invitation, so we can be assured of their support—provided, of course, that Rinser can accept an invitation at this relatively late date. We promise to keep you informed as things develop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We also agreed that Martha should write to Christa Reinig expressing our sympathy and emphasizing that we hope she'll agree to be our guest at some future conference, when and if she feels able to make the trip. It's certainly disappointing that she can't come this year, but let's hope for better luck another time, and keep our fingers crossed that things will work out with Luise Rinser.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So much for bad news, now for an upper. As some of you already know, and are doubtless pleased to hear again, CHRISTA WOLF will be at Ohio State University during the spring quarter 1983 (March 2U to June 3). Gerhard Wolf will also be there, and the OSU Women's Studies program and German department are planning a number of events to coincide with their stay. One is a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;conference on women and fascism&lt;/span&gt;, to be held the last weekend in April 1983. (Ingeborg Drewitz, who'll be at U-Texas, Austin that semester, will be one &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;of the participants also). Helen Fehervary is still working on the possibility of scheduling a Women in German day with Christa Wolf, along the lines we discussed at the WiG business meeting at MLA. She has promised to let WiG know as soon as she has some­thing definite to report. If you have questions on anything related to the Wolfs' stay at OSU, please call or write Helen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Report on the Funding of Visits by Speakers from Germany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We owe thanks to the Goethe Houses of Hew York and Chicago, and to the Goethe Institute-Boston for generous support during the past year. Angelika Mechtel’s visit was funded by Chicago, Ingeborg Drewitz’ by New York. The Goethe Institute-Boston and the Goethe House New York had recommended to the Munich Goethe House headquarters that Christa Reinig’s visit be funded Gisela Dischner’s visit at the MLA convention was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and she was under no obligation to do other readings. If any of you wish to invite Wept German academics to your campus, the Forschungsgemeinschaft is a good place to apply for funds; this year, they funded three people who read papers at the MLA convention. As you know, the funding for Dischner came through very late, after we had already received contributions from individual WiG members. Thanks to all of you who contributed to the "Dischner Fund." Because the funding from the Forschungsgemein schaft did come, we are willing to refund your money if you want it back. Otherwise, we suggest that it be converted into a special fund to help students attend WiG conferences.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Martha Wallach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ingeborg Drewitz 1983 USA Visit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ingeborg Drewitz will be at the University of Texas at Austin from the end of January until mid-May 1983. On April 7 8he will be in Boston and is able to schedule appearances elsewhere around this date. Contact her as early as possible if you want to invite her to your campus—her calendar filled up very quickly when the Goethe House was putting her schedule together for this January.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Martha Wallaeh&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MLA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at MLA, December 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our session "German Women Writers of the Romantic Period" was a big success. There were excellent papers and a lively discussion despite the late hour. We received much positive feedback: comments on the high quality of the papers, inquiries about our plans for MLA 1982 in Los Angeles; one woman asked "how do I Join you?" We can consider it an indication of our status at MLA that we were assigned the Regency Ballroom! And we filled it. Doubtless many of the new faces &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at this session were there because of Ingeborg Drewitz, who pre­sented a sensitive portrait of Rahel Varnhagen between the two ses­sions listed in the program. Funding for Drewitz’ visit came through too late for her name to be included in the printed program, but we improvised by printing posters, mailing them to WiG members and to German departments, and posting and distributing them at the convention. Besides the full house at our session on the 29th, we had a large crowd at the party we held in Elke’s room for our guests before taking them to dinner on the 28th. The party was &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;so&lt;/span&gt; well attended that we are wondering if there are people who would like to share a suite at the next MLA convention, so that we might have more space for that kind of event. If you are interested in doing this, write to Martha Wallach (CCC, UWGB, Green Bay, WI 54301).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;POINT OF VIEW&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women in German — Live from the Regency Ballroom&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Musings on the WiG MLA session&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The WiG Romantic Extravaganza, organized by Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach, was as good as we thought it would be. It might just be the best WiG session we’ve ever had—great papers on pro­found topics, constructive and uncatty commentary on the papers from Helga Kraft and Edith Waldstein, and Ingeborg Drewitz and Gisela Dischner there as inspiration, women who are scholars and poets. But there were so many people there, sitting in neat rows, with a raised podium, that I had the uneasy feeling we were no longer the comfortable, down-home, frowsy, cheerfully disorganized small circle of friends that WiG used to be. And a good thing, too, as nice as those intimate sessions of twenty were. As much as we scurried about during the half-time break trying to make the pom­pous Regency Ballroom a livable, humane women’s space, talking and hugging, unruffling the Romantic good-old-boys who came to the ses­sion, I still sensed that something had changed. Let us face it, we’ve gone big time: while we are not yet as full of ourselves as, say, the Lessing Society, people now come to our sessions not because they are women, or because they want feminist analysis or a refuge from the MLA storm, but because the topics are significant, the papers consistently good and the discussion interesting. We have gained a lot, because they are listening to us now, but we are of necessity losing that sense of togetherness which those conven­tion sessions sometimes provided. Our very success in numbers makes the circle impossible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If success has killed that tiny-room intimacy we used to have, we are still lucky enough to have a place to get recharged emotionally as well as intellectually—the Women in German October conference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is doubly important to us now—as we try to warm up the cold, gloomy, chandeliered Great Halls of the MLA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-- Jeannine Blackwell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SOPHIE MERAU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at MLA 1981 -- Summary of "Courtesan as Role Model”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This paper dealt with the influence of Ninon de Lendos, a 17th century French courtesan, on Sophie Mereau. Mereau, the second daughter of Gotthelf Schubart, and Johanna Sophie Frederike Schubart, was born on March 28, 1770. She was educated at home in modern languages, music, and drawing. She was married to Friedrich Mereau, a law professor at Jena, from 1793-1801, and to Clemens Brentano from 1803 until her death in 1806.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mereau was fascinated by the life and letters of Ninon de Lendos. She translated Lendos’ letters, which appeared in Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker’s periodical &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Erholungen&lt;/span&gt; in 1797. Her most important work on Lendos was an essay "Ninon de Lendos,” published in the journal &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kalathiskos&lt;/span&gt; in 1802. In this essay Mereau sketches Lendos’ life as the attainment of full sexual and intellectual freedom. She held up Lendos as a personal model and a model for bourgeois women of her time, seeing in Lendos’ life a positive alternative to marriage.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mereau struggled to attain the same freedoms which Lendos valued. Social pressures and domestic problems forced her to compromise her freedom and to neglect her work. After she divorced her first hus­band she was determined to remain unmarried, and only after dis­covering her pregnancy did she agree to marry Brentano. She described her marriage with him as containing elements of both heaven and hell, but mostly hell. With three pregnancies, one child to look after, various financial problems, and Brentano’s moodiness, Mereau had little time for herself or her work. It is ironic that someone so concerned with equality and sexual freedom finally suffered the fate of many other women of her time. On October 30, 1806 Mereau died after giving birth to her fifth child.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Jackie Vansant&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG WORKING&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Business Meeting, Dec. 29, 1981, MLA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. The meeting was chaired by Sara Lennox. She announced that &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Marianne Burkhard&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Linda Pickle&lt;/span&gt; have agreed to serve as co-chairs for the coming year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. We discussed the WiG sessions for the 1982 AATG meeting, to he held in New York. Since there were no volunteers for a second coordinator of the proposed session "Fairy Tale Motifs in German Women’s Writing," the responsibility for finding one was turned over to the Steering Committee. (Obviously, this has since been done—see calls for papers mailed in February!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Helen Fehervary announced Christa Wolf’s planned visit to OSU during the spring quarter 1983 (March 2H-June 3). Various possibilities for a WiG-sponsored event were discussed, including a more general conference (1-2 days) on women writers, to be co-sponsored by the OSU Women’s Studies program and other groups; planning a special one-day retreat with Wolf for WiG alone (pos­sibly but not necessarily in tandem with another, more general conference, or with the NWSA convention, which will be held in Columbus, June 1983). Those present agreed we should still go ahead with plans for the annual October conference in the Los Angeles area in 1983, including plans to invite an author, as decided last October in Racine. We also agreed to try to schedule an informal one-day WiG event in Ohio during Wolf’s visit, and Helen agreed to try to arrange this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. We discussed the 1982 MLA WiG sessions on Women and German Film, in response to Marjorie Tussing’s and Dorothy Rosenberg’s request for advice on choice of film(s) and/or filmmakers for the ses­sions. After much discussion, we agreed on the following, listed in order of preference:&lt;/p&gt;
tie 1. Käthe Kratz (Austrian feminist filmmaker; very accessible, according to Jackie Vansant, who sent a list of her films to Marjorie and is willing to initiate contact with her).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tie 1. Christine Perincioli (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Macht der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Männer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ist &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Geduld &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen&lt;/span&gt;; semi-fictional film about battering; very favorably reviewed, e.g. in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Medium. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Zeitschrift &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;fur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hörfunk, Fernsehen, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Film, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Presse&lt;/span&gt;, Dez. 1978, pp. U2-U3) .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Heike Sander, known especially for her film &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Redupers&lt;/span&gt; and her work for the journal &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;frauen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;film&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Margareta von Trotta (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bleierne Zeit&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schwestern oder die Balance des Glucks&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages&lt;/span&gt;; other films with Schlöndorff).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. Helma Sanders-Brahms (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutschland, bleiche Mutter&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
5. Ulrike Ottinger (most recently, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Freak Orlando&lt;/span&gt;--very mixed reviews in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;, Dec. 1981, and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt;, Jan. 1982).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was suggested that a "special event" status be requested from MLA for the film showing itself. (Helen Fehervary suggested WiG might consider purchasing some films to begin a feminist film resource for members. She agreed to look into this possibility).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5. Discussion of the 1982 WiG conference, Oct. lU-17, on Thompson’s Island in Boston Harbor. Martha Wallach reported on funding efforts; the Goethe Institute had indicated possible willing­ness to provide some support for Christa Reinig’s visit if &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;additional speaking engagements for Reinig could be arranged. Reinig had indicated that she was willing to do a one-month Lesetour in the New England area. The Steering Committee would be responsible for finding someone to pursue and possibly coordinate this aspect of her visit.&lt;/p&gt;
6. New Business&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Barbara Wright reported on the Denver AATG workshop on non­sexist German instruction, indicating that valuable material had been presented to a disappointingly small audience, and suggested that WiG find a way to continue this project. (Barbara is working on this; see announcement elsewhere in this issue).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Jackie Vansant reported that the Textbook Committee was solic­iting reviews of first- and second-year textbooks and critiques of first- and second-year German programs (see announcement elsewhere in this issue).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Bonnie Beckett-Hoffmann announced the International Symposium on the GDR (June 18-2U, 1982, in Conway, NH).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— minutes taken by Joey Horsley&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG 1982&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REPORT PROM JOEY -- WiG 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joey Horsley, who is responsible for making arrangements with the Thompson’s Island conference center and for conference registration, has the following information about cost: the basic price is $30. per day, which includes 3 meals and the overnight, as well as boat transportation to the island. The sliding scale we have had for other conferences still has to be worked out, but you can see it will be based on a cost of $90. for those attending the entire con­ference (Oct. lU-17). If you bring your child(ren), you will have to pay their lodging too. Child care will be arranged for those who need it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conference center requires that we pay, by August 15, a deposit of 20% of the total. Thus, if we had e.g. 60 people, the deposit would be ca. $1200.--and paying such a deposit would more than wipe out the WiG treasury at one swell foop. So, to deal with this problem, the steering committee proposes the following: all of you who are on the program in some ’’official" capacity (as coordinators, presenters, etc.) will be asked to register by August 1, 1982. (We are assuming it won’t make that much difference to most of you whether you pay your registration early or late, since you are already com­mitted to attending the conference). This advance registration will give us the money to pay the deposit &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; allow us to have a "normal" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;registration deadline of September 15 for everyone else. We felt that having an August 1 deadline for everyone would reduce atten­dance at the conference, since many people are away during the summer and don’t return until September. When the sliding scale has been worked out, we’ll send you the information. So that we can know who the program participants will be, all coordinators should contact Barbara Wright (U Connecticut, Storrs) no later than &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;May 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tobe Levin (University of Maryland, European Division) wants WiG members to know that &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Verena &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Stefan and Gabriele Meixner&lt;/span&gt; are willing and eager to be the guests of WiG at some future conference (Tobe suggests 1983). Verena Stefan of course needs no introduction, but some of you might not know (I didn’t) that Gabriele Meixner was a founding sister of Amazonen Verlag in Berlin before moving to Frauenoffensive to serve for 3 years as Geschäftsführerin; she had the major responsibility for French feminist writing, as Lektorin and translator. Gabriele and Verena have been working, with Tobe, on translating Adrienne Rich’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dream of a Common Language&lt;/span&gt;. Both are, of course, intimately familiar with contemporary German women’s poetry, and would like to discuss with us their experiences trans­lating Rich, as well as the reception their translation will have received by 1983. (Being predisposed to grandiose ideas, I promptly envisioned a conference with Verena, Gabriele, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Adrienne Rich-- wouldn’t that be exciting, and wouldn’t that require even more, urn, Amazonian fund-raising efforts than we're facing now’. —Just a thought.) —Do send your reactions to Tobe’s suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG/ACTFL, Nov. 1982, Mew York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you know, we're hoping to have two WiG sessions during the 1982 AATG meeting: "Fairy Tales in the Classroom" (coord. Wilma Iggers and Bunny Weiss), and "Fairy Tale Motifs in German Women’s Writing" (coord. Jorun Johns and Ruth Bottigheimer).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition, Barbara Wright is working with an AATF member, Rebecca Valette, to propose a one and one-half day &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;pre-conference workshop&lt;/span&gt;, an expansion of the one Barbara and Gabriele Wickert arranged for the Denver meeting last November. The program envisioned for this fall is tentatively entitled "Female and Male Stereotyping" and would be co-sponsored by AATG, AATF, and ACTFL, to attract a wider audience. Also, workshop participants would be able to earn graduate credit, through the University of Connecticut. The program, if it is approved, would be more or less as follows: (1) presentation of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;guidelines for analyzing stereotyping in teaching materials; (2) participants work in groups of two or three, each group analyzing a different set of materials (a textbook; standardized tests, film­strips, cultural films, etc.); (3) plenary session and discussion. Following the workshop itself, participants would be expected to write up reviews of the material in publishable form; reviews to be presented to publishers, and made widely available. Barbara and Rebecca are planning to encourage not only teachers, but also text­book authors, publishers, cultural attachés, and distributors of teaching materials to attend. Doesn't this sound good? If for some reason it isn't approved as a pre-conference workshop this year, we will probably try to find another way to present it—it's long past time to get really serious about sexist teaching materials'. If you have any questions or suggestions, contact Barbara Wright at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;* * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A relatively recent and easily accessible article on the impact of feminist research on the curriculum: "Women's Research Challenges Long-Held Beliefs," New York Times, Nov. 23, 1981« Evelyn Beck suggested that we make the most of "big media" articles such as this one when pushing for the integration of feminist materials into the general curriculum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[cartoon]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DENVER 1981&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REPORT — &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG/ACTFL, 1981 Pre-conference Workshop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the Denver pre-conference workshop "Forward to Basics: Non-Sexist German Instruction at the Beginning Level," coordinated by Gabriele Wickert and myself, was to identify sex bias in German texts commonly used at the elementary level (high school and college), and to present corrective strategies for adapting existing texts to non­sexist use, enriching language programs with cultural materials on women and supplementing regular instruction with non-sexist games, exercises and readings. We also discussed ways to turn the fight against sexism in language teaching from an individual struggle into a department- or school-wide policy. Bibliographies, brochures on women from the GDR and FRG, and a list of significant women in German history were handed out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After an introduction and panel presentation, we originally planned to break down into smaller working groups. However, low enrollment allowed us to form a roundtable discussion, and we all enjoyed the opportunity to work directly with each other. Helen Frink (Keene State College, NH) shared her "Checklist for Identifying Sexism in Language Textbooks" (reproduced here). Ursula Beitter (Hamilton College, Clinton, NY) dis­tributed copies of her rewritten fairy tales. Our favorite was "Aschenputtel auf der TH." Dinah Dodds (Lewis and Clark College, Port­land) demonstrated several games which push students to use their lan­guage skills creatively beyond the framework of the textbook. Karen Pederson (Minneapolis Public Schools) and I addressed the lacunae in our knowledge of notable women in German history, politics, science and culture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the end of the session we spent some time discussing the low atten­dance and ways to give the workshop again more effectively. Apart from the extra time and considerable expense for participants, it was sug­gested that including teachers of other languages and treating male stereotypes as well might help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Barbara D. Wright&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helen Frink’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Checklist&lt;/span&gt; is reproduced on the next two pages. If your department has a textbook selection committee, why not tear these pages out and hand them to the chairperson? (First, make copies for your col­leagues in French, Russian, Spanish . . .) Barbara suggests that in using this or a similar checklist, it would be helpful first to distin­guish four major ways in which the presentation of women can be biased, whether in dialogues, readings, exercises, vocabulary, illustrations, etc.: (1) by simply &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ignoring&lt;/span&gt; women--their number, occupations, respon­sibilities, and achievements; (2) by showing them only or primarily in a position of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;dependency&lt;/span&gt; on men—as girlfriend, wife; as assistant rather than leader; as observer rather than doer, etc.; (3) by showing them only in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;traditional&lt;/span&gt; roles with traditional characteristics and modes of behavior; (4) by treating them in a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;pejorative&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;degrading &lt;/span&gt;manner (whether a "traditional" portrayal or not). (Note: Barbara's categories are similar to those used by Audrone Willeke and Ruth Sanders:  (1) Exclusion; (2) Subordination; (3) Distortion; (4) Degra­dation. See "Walter is intelligent und Brigitte ist blond. Dealing with Sex Bias in Language Texts," UP 1978, No. 2, pp. 60-65.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-10-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helen Frink&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHECKLIST FOR IDENTIFYING SEXISM IN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS&lt;/p&gt;
I. Exclusion and underrepresentation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. Dialogues&lt;br /&gt;1. Total number of dialogues in book&lt;br /&gt;2. Number with only female participants&lt;br /&gt;3. Number with only male participants &lt;br /&gt;4. Number with females in dominant role&lt;br /&gt;5. Number with males in dominant role&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B. Readings&lt;br /&gt;1. Total number of readings in book&lt;br /&gt;2. Number which focus on important women &lt;br /&gt;    Names of women subjects:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Number which focus on important men &lt;br /&gt;    Names of men subjects:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C. Number of dialogues or readings devoted to current social, political, or economic status of women                                                                                       &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. Women in society &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. Women at work&lt;br /&gt;1. Do women travel for study or professional reasons! Yes__No__&lt;br /&gt;2. Are women shown at work? Yes__No__&lt;br /&gt;3. What trades or professions are given for women?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the remaining items, rank the book on a three point scale, where 1 means the item is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; a feature of the book (non-sexist), 3 indicated the book shows some instances of bias for this aspect, and 5 indicates an unacceptable level of sexism; the feature appears repeatedly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;B. Social interaction: negative traits&lt;/p&gt;
1. Women appear in a role subordinate to men (e.g. getting a traffic fine, asking men for directions or help)    1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;2. Men control finances and money    1  3  5   &lt;br /&gt;3. Women are shown as extravagant    1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;4. Women are engaged in the humanities, while men are involved in science, technology, politics, or business     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;5. Women’s activities appear less interesting, exciting, or important than those of men &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;1  3  5 &lt;br /&gt;6. Women engage in traditional female activities, cooking, child care, etc.     1  3  5                            7. Women discuss ’’trivial” matters (appearance, health, fam­ily) while men discuss "serious" subjects (politics, economics, history, culture)      1  3  5 &lt;br /&gt;8. Women are more concerned with their physical appearance than men are   1  3  5&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexism in Language textbooks, cont. &lt;br /&gt;Page 2&lt;br /&gt;Helen Frink&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. Portrayal of women&lt;br /&gt;1. Women are described in terms of their phsical appearance more often than men     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;2. Women are identified by their relationship to men or family (wife, sister)     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Compared to men, women are characterized as:&lt;br /&gt;3. Less intelligent     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;4. More emotional    1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;5. More quarrelsome     1  3  5&lt;br /&gt;6. Younger     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;7. Physically smaller     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;8. Suffering more from ill health     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IV. Sexism in Grammar and Vocabulary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Occupational terms are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; given in the feminine for traditional male occupations (list examples for which no female equivalents are given)     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Occupational terms given in teh feminine identify traditional roles only (list examples for which no male equivalents are given)     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. When both feminine and masculine forms appear (for family members, uccupations, etc.) the masculine is fiven first     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. In presenting feminine and masculine forms appear (for family members, occupations, etc.) the masculine is given first for:&lt;br /&gt;a. Parts of the body     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;b. Items of clothing     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;c. Personal grooming   1  3  5   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V. Sexism in Illustrations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. How often are women pictured? Men?&lt;br /&gt;2. How many pictures show only women? Only men? 3. How often is a female pictured in a dominant role (i.e., center, full-face, doing rather than watching?) a male?                                                  &lt;br /&gt;4. How are women dressed? Men?&lt;br /&gt;5. What are women pictured doing? Men?&lt;br /&gt;6. What interpretations do captions or commentary on the illustrations offer?&lt;br /&gt;7. What kind of information about women and men is offered in other illustrative material (graphs, charts, statistical tables, cartoons, advertisements, etc.)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Textbook Committee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The textbook committee invites reviews of first- and second-year German textbooks, and also of programs for the first two yefcrs of German. If you would like to review a textbook for the committee but are afraid you’ll duplicate someone else’s work, write to Sandra and Jackie telling them which book you’d like to review and they’ll get in touch with you: Sandra Shattuck/Jackie Vansant, Dept. of Germanic Lang, and Lit., Univ. of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX 78712.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Guidelines&lt;/span&gt; suggested by the committee for reviewing a textbook: 1. How many women appear in the text? 2. What are the occupations of the women vs. the men? 3. How are they distributed throughout the text? 4. How are women portrayed? (e.g. are women described in terms of physical characteristics — "hubsch," etc.; are traits such as intelligence mentioned only for men?) 5. Are there other biases apparent? (age, class, etc.; example from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Modern &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German&lt;/span&gt;: "&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arme&lt;/span&gt; haben viele Kinder.") 6. Is the 3d sg. feminine pronoun &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;sie &lt;/span&gt;equally represented in grammar exercises? 7. How would you rate the text overall?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Questions for reviewing programs&lt;/span&gt;: 1. What books are used for the first- and second-year program? 2. Is there a textbook selection committee? If so, is there any concern about sexist content? 3. Have you been able to eliminate sexist texts? If hot, is there a way to incorporate a critique of the material while using it in the classroom?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sample&lt;/span&gt; from Jackie’s and Sandra’s review of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsch 2000 &lt;/span&gt;(detailed breakdown of roles)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 1, "Wer ist das?"&lt;br /&gt;2 women (Verkäuferin, Sekretärin)&lt;br /&gt;1 man (Student)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 2, "Im Studio"&lt;br /&gt;3 women (Sekretärin, Verkäuferin, Ansagerin)&lt;br /&gt;3 men (Quizmaster, Reporter, Student)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 3, "Was sind Sie?"&lt;br /&gt;2 women (Verkäuferin, Sekretärin) &lt;br /&gt;4 men (Quizmaster, Student, Reporter, Flugkapitän)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 4, "Im Supermarkt"&lt;br /&gt;2 women (Lehrerin, Kassiererin)&lt;br /&gt;1 man (Journalist)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 5, "Im Restaurant" &lt;br /&gt;no women&lt;br /&gt;4 men (der Ober, 3 Gäste)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 6, "Entschuldigen Sie, bitte. . ."&lt;br /&gt;1 woman (pedestrian)&lt;br /&gt;4 men (driver, 3 pedestrians)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unit 7, "Mein Wagen ist kaputt"&lt;br /&gt;1 woman (Sekretärin)&lt;br /&gt;1 man (Chef)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unit 8, "Fräulein Heim telefoniert"&lt;br /&gt;2 women (Sekretärin, operator)&lt;br /&gt;1 man (Chef der Werkstatt)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FRAUEN ANTWORTEN AUF RASSISMUS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following essay by Dagmar Schultz appeared as a kind of post­script to her report on the 1981 NWSA convention in the October 1981 isbue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;. If you want to read the entire report (5 pages), and don’t have access to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage,&lt;/span&gt; send WiG a small donation and I’ll xerox it for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Teilnahme an dieser Konferenz brachte mir zum Bewußtsein, daß die Auseinandersetzung mit Rassismus bei uns ebenso notwendig ist, aber in der Frauenbewegung noch weitgehend umgangen wird. Den meisten von uns ist klar, daß Rassismus gegen Ausländer und deutsche Farbige ein Grundzug unserer Gesellschaft ist und daß Antisemitismus nur deshalb weniger offensichtlich ist, weil Juden in Deutschland kaum (mehr) vorhanden sind. Aber wo machen sich Rassismus und Antisemitismus in uns bemerkbar? Wie wurde uns beigebracht bestimmte Vorurteile zu übernehmen? Wie können wir uns dagegen wehren, daß stereotype Bilder, die wir bewußt ablehnen, aus dem Unterbewußten in erfider Weise wieder auftauchen? Wie gehen wir mit solchen Gefühlen und Haltungen um? Und was sind die politischen Implikationen von Handlungsstrategien, die diesen Aspekt mit einbeziehen oder ihn ignorieren?&lt;br /&gt;     Seit Jahren gibt es Projekte, die von Frauen für und teilweise mit Ausländerinnen entwickelt wurden - dort ist diese Diskussion ansatzweise geführt worden. Häufig ging es in diesen Projekten jedoch mehr darum, ein Informationsdefizit über Ausländerinnen zu füllen, als Vorutreile zu unersuchen.&lt;br /&gt;     Wir haben uns bisher in weit geringerem Maße mit Rassismus und Antisemtismus auseinandergesetzt als unsere amerikanischen Schwestern. Zum Teil sicherlch, weil Ausländerinnen und deutsche farbige Frauen diese Kritik und Selbstkritik weniger energisch von uns fordern.&lt;br /&gt;     Als Alix Dobkin ihre Konzerte damit einleitete, daß sie von ihrer Angst sprach, als Jüdin in Deutschland zu sein, war die Antwort des Publikums ein unwilliges, ungeduldiges Raunen: red doch nicht soviel, sondern sing - wir haben keine Lust, uns von dir Schuldgefühle für etwas einreden zu lassen, womit wir nichts zu tun hatten.&lt;br /&gt;     Sicher, wir sind nicht schuldig für die Taten unserer Eltern, aber wir sind mit verantwortlich für das, was heute geschieht. Und unsere Gesellschaft ist nicht so beschaffen, daß eine Jüdin keine Angst zu haben braucht, in Deutschland zu sein. Die Geschichte lebt weiter und ist somit auch unsere Geschichte. Wenn eine jüdische Frau mit uns nicht über ihre Ängste sprechen kann, verneinen wir die Realität, die diese Geschichte für sie hat, und unsere Verantwortung für die Gegenwart. Auf diese Weise werden wir indirekt zu Komplizinnen von Kräfen, die übrigens auch irgendwann den sozialen Rassismus gegen uns als z.B. lesbische Frauen anwenden mögen.&lt;br /&gt;   Was bedeutet es, wenn wir uns durch Türken bedrohter fühlen als durch Deutsche? Kommen deutsche Männer plötzlich zu gut weg? Deutsche Männer, die den Hauptprozentsatz von Vergewaltigern ausmachen, und die unsere Arbeits- und Lebensmöglichkeiten kontrollieren?&lt;br /&gt;     Was steht dahinter, wenn wir von &lt;span&gt;„Türkenfrauen" und „Türkenfamilien" sprechen? Würden wir je „Franzosenfrauen" sagen?&lt;br /&gt;     Seit einigen Wochen treffen sich in Berlin Frauen, um diesen Fragen nachzugehen. Wir versuchen, uns darüber klar zu werden, was wir von Kindheit an an Antisemitismus und Rassismus mitbekommen haben, wann und wie diese Vorurteile oft ungerufen und unerwünscht wieder hochkommen. Wir stehen an den Anfängen einer komplexen Selbstuntersuchung und wissen nur, daß sie notwendig ist - für uns selbst, für unsere Beziehungen zu denen, die in der Gesellschaft diskriminiert werden und für unsere politische Arbeit. Wir würden uns freuen, wenn Frauen aus der BRD uns ihre Gedanken und Erfahrungen mitteilen. Für Berliner Frauen: die Gruppe ist weiterhin offen und wird sich zu Diskussionen und zur Planung von Veranstaltungen treffen. Am Sonntag, dem 11. Oktober sind wir um 18.00 Uhr im Frauencafé am Winterfeldtplatz (Winterfeldtstr. 38) und werden von unseren bisherigen Gespr&lt;/span&gt;ächen und Überlegungen berichten&lt;br /&gt;     Dagmar Schultz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Janis Murphy (Univ. Washington, Seattle) is writing her dissertation on the German dramatist &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Elsa Bernstein&lt;/span&gt;, who wrote during the period 1895-1910, mostly under the pseudonym Ernst Rosmer. Janis heard from a colleague that something about Bernstein had appeared in a WiG newsletter several years ago (prior to March 1980) – do any of you remember this? Janis is in corresponding with ot&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;hers &lt;/span&gt;address: Janis Murphy, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Corry Moore (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa) is doing research on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mädchenlektüre im 16. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;17. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jahrhundert&lt;/span&gt;, focusing on three questions: Where did women attain literacy? What kinds of role models were presented to girls? Who wrote for a younger female audience? She hopes eventually to produce a book on this topic. Corry also sent a copy of a recent article: Cornelia Niekus Moore, ’’’Mein Kindt, nimm diß in acht.’ Anna Hoyers’ &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gespräch eines Kindes mit seiner Mutter von dem Wege zur wahren Gottseligkeit&lt;/span&gt; als Beispiel der Erbauungsliteratur für die Jugend im 17. Jahrhundert,” &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pietismus und Neuzeit&lt;/span&gt;, Band 6 (1980), I64-I85.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renny Harrigan is reading "masses of popular literature of the Weimar Republic” for her NEH-funded research project in Berlin (though she sometimes thinks it might be more useful to write a "Schlüsselroman” about women in academe!) —Besides her many publications on women in Weimar literature, Renny has an article on West German cinema forthcoming in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jump Cut&lt;/span&gt;. She writes about the Film Festival in Berlin: "There are lots of women's films, but I’m no longer happy seeing them listed Just as "women’s films”—what &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;are&lt;/span&gt; women’s films if not everything. And we'd never dream of lumping everything else together as "men's films.” The fine line between affirmation and cooptation ... we need autonomy, but we need more than "women" as a label to exist!”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joan Moessner (Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks) is researching a chapter on Germans in Alaska, for a book (sponsored by the German government) on Germans in the American Northwest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Ways of Reading&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(This summary was received too late to be included in the last newsletter)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The women and men in Angelika Mechtel's stories "Die Träume der Füchsin,” "Kuckucksfrau,” and "Zweimal ein Sohn” seem to live ac­cording to such different principles that their desperate attempts at communication most often end in suicide or violence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Instead of showing us possibilities for new behavior patterns, Angelika makes us painfully aware of the enormous gulf between male and female roles through the dichotomy of concave and convex forms of behavior. The passive concave form is female, pliable to the demands of others to the point of giving up the self. Convex male behavior Juts out into space, acts in order to accomplish a goal even if the means are the destruction of the other. The polarity is so static that it leaves some readers hopeless, with a heightened awareness and no identification figure for a positive alternative in sight.- This polarity also frustrates some readers enough that they work toward their own synthesis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In our session we criticized prescriptive work with literature which would blame Angelika for not writing positive role models. When we are fixated on identification figures, especially in women’s litera­ture, we become blind to deeper meaning possibilities within the text and expanding from the text. For example the frustration with the underlying concave-convex polarity in these texts can inspire asking about the images which might portray woman as a whole person.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We could reinscribe the ancient female symbols of the column and the spiral to show a grounded personality at the center of a social group on the one hand or to show a personality in constant inner (personal) and outer (social) development on the other. (For the historical usage of these signs see Cillie Rentmeister, "Das Ratsei der Sphinx. Matriarchatsthesen und die Archäologie des nicht odipalen Dreiecks,"in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weiblich-Männlich. Kulturgeschichtliche Spuren einer verdrängten Weiblichkeit&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Brigitte Wartmann (Berlin: Ästhetik und Kommunikation, 1980), pp. 151-193.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Instead of supporting a monolithic view of femininity, the Moebius strip could spark awareness of the paradoxical continuum of male­ness and femaleness within personal wholeness. By taking a strip of paper, turning one end over and connecting the ends, one creates a surface in which Side A becomes Side B. (For the implications of this image see Sydna Stern Weiss ’’Dürrenmatt ’ s ’The Physicists’: The Moebius Strip as Structural Analogue," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Science/Technology and the Humanities&lt;/span&gt;, 3, No. 2 (1980), pp. 98-107.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We might look for these images of female personality in literature while considering the significance of their origin, potential and associations in modern society.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Karen Jankowsky&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Miscellaneous News from WiG members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OF WIG BORN.—word has reached us of the following recent births: a daughter, Linnea, in November 1981, to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nancy Vedder Shults&lt;/span&gt; (Linnea was with Nancy and Mark at MLA, and slept peacefully through a Brecht session . . .); a son, Lucas, to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Vicki Williams Hill&lt;/span&gt;, in December 1981; a son, Tilman Ripp Achberger, on January 19, 1982, to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Karen and Fritz Achberger&lt;/span&gt;. Happy parenting, folks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-16-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Irmgard Taylor&lt;/span&gt; (now full professor, and in her second year as chair of her department at SUNY College at Cortland) attended the First International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in Haifa, Israel in December 1981, and presented a paper based on her monograph &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dae Bild der Witwe in der deutschen Literatur&lt;/span&gt; (reviewed in the Nov. 1981 issue of this newsletter). She writes that the next Congress is tentatively planned in three years in Ireland or one of the Scandi­navian countries. Anyone wishing more information can write to Irmgard, or you can ask to be put on the mailing list by writing to: Marilyn P. Safir, Chairperson, Dept. of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG in Boston, 1982.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—FEMINISTISCHE WISSENSCHAFT. Coord. Sara Lennox [redacted] and Kay Goodman (German Dept., Brown U, Providence, RI 02912). No deadline specified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-RANDBEWEGUNGEN IM DEUTSCHEN SPRACHRAUM. Coord. Linda Pickle [edacted] and Brigitte Wichman [redacted]. Deadline was March 1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE. Coord. Angelika Bammer [redacted] and Jeanette Clausen [redacted]. Deadline is April 1, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
2. WiG at AATG, 1982. FAIRY TALES IN THE CLASSROOM, coord. Bunny Weiss (Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323) and Wilma A. Iggefs (Mod. Lang., Canisius College, Buffalo, NY 1U208), and FAIRY TALE MOTIFS IN GERMAN WOMEN’S WRITING, coord. Jorun Johns (California State College, San Bernardino, CA 92^07) and Ruth Bottigheimer (Germanic L + L, 230 E. Pyne, Princeton U, Princeton, NJ O85HU). Deadline was March 1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. WOMEN AND GERMAN FILM, WiG at MLA, 1982. Deadline was March 1, 1982. Coord. Marjorie Tussing (F&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;LL, California State U., Full&lt;/span&gt;erton, CA &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;82634)&lt;/span&gt; and Dorothy Rosenberg[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * *&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Film&lt;/span&gt;: The next issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt; is a special issue on film. It contains a discussion with Judith Mayne, Claudia Lenssen, and Helen Fehervary on Women and Film.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0" style="text-align:center;"&gt;* * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The MLA Commission on the Status of Women seeks participants for the following anticipated forum workshops and sessions for the 1982 Con­vention (unless otherwise indicated, all addresses are in the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-17-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;september 1981 PMLA Directory): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Race and. Power&lt;/span&gt;, Carmen Salazar Parr, Los Angeles Valley College; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Politics of Women's Bodies&lt;/span&gt;, Hortense Spillers, Dept. of English, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 190kl; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sexual Politics&lt;/span&gt;, Mary Jacobus, Cornell University; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Black Women in Colleges&lt;/span&gt;, Deborah McDowell, Colby College. Please send papers or abstracts by 15 March.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MORE CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;International Brecht Society&lt;/span&gt; is sponsoring two sessions at the 1982 MLA convention. The session topics, “Brecht and Socialism” and ’’Brecht and Women”, will be the topics of the next two IBS Yearbooks. The editors plan to select the best contributions for publication, so the more “finished” the papers are, the more likely they will be selected. Abstracts of 1-2 pages to each of the two chairpersons, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no later than April 15, 1982&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Brecht and Socialism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Papers on any aspect of Brecht’s relationship to socialism, be it in his plays, poetry, prose, or his life. Abstracts to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;David Pike, German Dept.&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of N. Carolina&lt;br /&gt;Chapel Hill, NC 27514&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Fuegi, Comp. Lit.&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of Maryland&lt;br /&gt;College Park, MD 20742&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Brecht and Women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Papers on the characterization or treatment of women or women's issues in any of Brecht's works, as well as any women in his life as it might have affected his work or productivity. Abstracts to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;K. Lew Thomas, Dance Dept. &lt;br /&gt;University of California   &lt;br /&gt;Los Angeles, CA 90024   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gisela E. Bahr, GREAL&lt;br /&gt;Miami University&lt;br /&gt;Oxford, OH 45O56&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Participants must be MLA members or apply for membership before April 1, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;* * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Denver Quarterly&lt;/span&gt; is planning a special issue devoted to Literary Images of Women, to appear in Winter 1983. Critical essays, short stories, and poetry are invited; translations will also be considered. Send submissions by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;June 30, 1982&lt;/span&gt; to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Sieglinde Lug, Guest Editor&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures&lt;br /&gt;University of Denver&lt;br /&gt;Denver, CO 80208&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leland H. Chambers, Editor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Denver Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of Denver&lt;br /&gt;Denver, CO 80208&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;East-Central Europe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, is assembling a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Special Issue on the GDR&lt;/span&gt;. Manuscripts on all aspects of the contemporary GDR are invited, most especially studies on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;current themes in East German literature&lt;/span&gt;. Please send manuscripts &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in triplicate&lt;/span&gt; to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;C. Bradley Scharf, Editor, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;East-Central Europe &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Dept. of Political Science &lt;br /&gt;Seattle University &lt;br /&gt;Seattle, WA 98122&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession is , seeking two new members to be appointed for three-year terms 1982-85. This year the commission is particularly interested in applications from members in the Midwest. Members interested in serving on the commission should send their curricula vitae and letters describing their qualifications for commission work to either Madelyn Gutwirth, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, West Chester State College, West Chester, PA 19380, or to Helene Moglen, Division of Humanities + Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 950614. The dead­line for applications is 10 April, and appointments to the commission will be made by the MLA Executive Council in May 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TRANSLATION&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helen Fehervary reminds us that an English translation of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort., Nirgends&lt;/span&gt; will be published by Farrar Straus + Giroux in 1982, pos­sibly in time for fall semester classes. Wolf’s Buchner-prize acceptance speech appeared in English in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt; 23 (Spring/Summer 1981). And if all goes well, an English translation of her essay “Berührung" (Foreword to Maxie Wander’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Guten &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Morgen&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;du &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SchSne&lt;/span&gt;) will be included in an anthology that Naomi Stephan, Dagmar Schultz, Edith Hoshino and Jeanette Clausen hope to have ready for publication by late 1982. (Notice I said "hope"—much remains to be done for this project).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Still speaking of translations: the lack of them continues to be a problem for most of us who want to teach women authors. For example, the only English translations of Christa Reinig’s work seem to be in DIMENSION: the chapter "Xenia" from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Entmannung&lt;/span&gt; (vol. 9, No. 6, 1976) and miscellaneous short pieces and poems scattered in various issues of that journal. Ilze Mueller, a WiG member, has translated Reinig’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Müßiggang ist aller Liebe Anfang&lt;/span&gt;, and submitted it to Cleis press, which unfortunately is likely to turn it down,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;primarily because of the copyright fees, etc. they would have to pay Reinig's publisher, Eremiten-Presse. Another example is Ingeborg Drewitz—apparently none of her works are available in English!&lt;br /&gt;Helen suggested that Drewitz’ book on Bettina von Arnim should be high on the list of works needing to be translated. Surely all of you could suggest any number of other high priorities—what may be most needed is expertise and connections/networking—getting (potential) translators in touch with receptive publishers, knowing how to bargain for lower permission fees, etc. Perhaps it’s time to establish a WiG committee on translation? What are your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Membership and finances&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Early in January I took a couple of deep breaths and then an unprecedented (I think) step: I sent out notices to 107 WiG members whose subscriptions to the newsletter had expired. There was a respectable number of responses to this reminder, which was nice for ye olde WiG treasury, however, there are still about 75 people who didn’t respond. I haven’t deleted any unpaid members' names from the mailing list, though, except to stop mailing to those whose mail was returned marked "undeliverable" in September and November--see list of ’’Lost Wiggies” below. One reason is practical and financial: in order to get the bulk mailing rate (10.9 cents), we must have a minimum of 200 ’’mailing pieces” (post office jargon), and deleting 75 names would put us below 200. Another is that I know how mobile many of us are, whooshing back and forth across continents and oceans for research leaves, visiting appointments, and who only knows what all. Still, it seems unfair for paying members to subsidize a large number of non-paying readers (or non-readers, it's impossible to tell). I'd be glad for some suggestions as to what might be a reasonable policy. Still on the subject of mail and finances: we could get a much lower mailing rate (5.9 cents per ’’mailing piece”), as well as tax deductions for your contributions, if we had not-for-profit status. I vaguely recall that someone (Pat Russian?) investigated this possibility some years ago in Madison, and would like to know if anyone remembers why we didn't go ahead with applying for that status.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LOST WIGGIES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mail for the following people has been returned marked “undeliverable." If you know where these people are, and if they still wish to receive the newsletter, please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lorelei Allan [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Eva-Maria Bolte [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anne Charlotte Briggs [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kathryn Buck [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-20-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jamie Owen Daniel [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Roswitha Anna Flach [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dr. I. Tschimmel  [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LIST OF DEADLINES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;: proposals for the session "Speaking the Unspeakable", WiG 1952 in Boston, to: Angelika Bammer [redacted] and Jeanette Clausen [redacted].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;15, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1982&lt;/span&gt;: proposals for Brecht sessions at MLA 1982: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Brecht and Socialism&lt;/span&gt;, to: David Pike (German Dept., Univ. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 2751M and John Fuegi (Comp. Lit., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Brecht and Women&lt;/span&gt;, to: K. Lev Thomas (Dance Dept. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA 9002U) and Gisela E. Bahr (GREAL, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;May 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;: WiG 1982 coordinators provide information on their sessions (participants, if known; description; equipment needed, if any, etc.) to Barbara Wright, U. Connecticut, Storrs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;August 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;: absolute final deadline for material to be included in the August WiG newsletter (this newsletter includes the conference program and registration information, so it must be mailed in early August).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies International Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. U, Ho. U (1981) is a special issue on the women's liberation movement in Europe and North America. The European countries covered are the Netherlands, France, the FRG, the GDR, Finland, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-21-&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;27&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jane Goodwomon       27&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University &lt;br /&gt;Everywhere, USA&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading10" style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 26&lt;br /&gt;November 1981&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Only a few weeks have passed since our conference in Racine, and already so many things have happened that it’s difficult to know where to begin ("At the beginning," said the king gravely, "and go on until you reach the end, then stop.").&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, some very exciting news from Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach about the WiG session at the December MLA: INGEBORG DREWITZ will be present after all. Her stay is being funded by Goethe-Hays, and she will speak on Dec. 29 at 8:15 pm in the Sheraton Regency Ballroom; her topic is “Rahel, die Poetin des Ich: Die Chance, ‘Ich’ zu sagen.” (see complete program inside). Elke also writes that Drewitz will be staying in the US until Jan. 22, 1982, and can accept a few additional speaking engagements. If you would like to invite her to your campus, contact: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ulrike Woods-Dorda&lt;/span&gt;, Goethe Haus New York, German Cultural Center, [redacted]. Ingeborg Drewitz’ unexpected decision to accept the Goethe Institute’s invitation means that we’ll have a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;very&lt;/span&gt; full program at MLA. Elke and Martha are still working to raise money to pay part of Gisela Dischner’s travel to New York. They received $102. in individual donations from conference participants in Racine and $50. from WiG. Several granting agencies they approached turned them down, but the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft is still considering their request. Anyone who would like to contribute to the “Dischner fund” should send a check to Martha Wallach (made out to her), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 54302.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;By the time you read this, the 1981 AATG meeting may be past history (see program inside), and WiG participation at the 1982 AATG, which is up in the air at the moment, will probably be settled one way or the other. As agreed in Racine, Marianne Burkhard (for the WiG Political Action Committee) has written to the president of AATG urging the Association &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; to hold its 1982 meeting in New Orleans and emphasizing that Women in German will not arrange sessions for the meeting if it is held in an unratified state. We will keep you informed, if necessary by a special mailing, of what happens; we agreed at the Racine meeting that Women in German should continue to insist that professional meetings be held only in states which have ratified the ERA &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;whether or not&lt;/span&gt; the amendment is passed by three more state legislatures before June 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This year’s conference in Racine was, in a word, outstanding (did you expect anything less?) Our guest, Angelika Mechtel, was every bit as interested in learning about WiG as we were in getting to know her and her work. Her participation at WiG was part of a six-week Lesetour of the US and Canada, arranged and funded by &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;published in March, so please send material by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;February 15, 1982.&lt;/span&gt; (Mark your calendar! Tie a string around your finger! Whatever—just don’t forget.) Our address: Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Sisterhood,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeanette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at MLA&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dec. 27-30, 1981&lt;/span&gt;— all WiG sessions are on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tuesday&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dec. 29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5:15-6:30 pm                    &lt;br /&gt;(534) Women in German Business Meeting&lt;br /&gt;Dominion A, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At this meeting we need to take care of some unfinished business from the October meeting. (1) We elected new members to the Steering Committee (see minutes) but we didn’t elect the co-chairs for 1982. (2) We didn’t appoint anyone to coordinate the arrangements for Christa Reinig’s visit to WiG in Boston in 1982. Martha Wallach and Linda Pickle will work on fundraising; however, it would probably be best if someone in the Boston area could be responsible for corresponding with her, for keeping track of details once the funding is secure, and to be the contact person there—-arrange transportation, housing, etc. (Are there any volunteers?) (3) Also concerning next year’s conference, we should decide whether the Saturday evening session is to be “women only” as it has for the past few years. Would it be better to have one of the morning or afternoon sessions for women only, when transportation to and for Thomson’s Island would be easier? (4) We’ll need to bring each Thomson’s Island would be easier? (4) We’ll need to bring each other up to date on plans for 1983, for the 1982 MLA and AATG, and so on. (5) Any other things that come up between now and then. If you have items for the agenda, please send them to Sara Lennox or Jeanette Clausen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7:15-8:15 pm                    &lt;br /&gt;(571) German Women Writers of the Romantic Period I: New Perspectives&lt;br /&gt;Regency Ballroom, Sheraton             &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presiding:   Elke Frederiksen, Univ. of Maryland, College Park and Martha Wallach, Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(1) "Das Problem des 'Androgynen' und des 'Müßiggangs' in der Jenaer Romantik," Gisela Dischner, Universität Hannover. (2) "Rahel Varnhagen's Letters," Kay Goodman, Brown Univ. (3) "Courtesan as&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA 1981&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Role Model: The Influence of Ninon de Lenclos on Sophie Mereau," Jacqueline Vansant, Univ. of Texas, Austin. Discussant: Helga Kraft, Univ. of Florida.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8:15pm&lt;br /&gt;"Rahel, die Poetin des Ich: &lt;br /&gt;Die Chance, 'Ich' zu sagen,"&lt;br /&gt;Ingeborg Drewitz. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00-10:15 pm         &lt;br /&gt;(596) German Women Writers of the Romantic Period II: Bettina von Arnim&lt;br /&gt;Regency Ballroom, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding:   Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(1) "Bettina von Arnim oder die Transzendenz der Kindlichkeit," Konstanze Bäumer, Univ. of California, Davis. (2) "Bettina's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Günderode&lt;/span&gt;: One Woman's Solution to the Question of Form," Marjanne E. Gooze, Univ. of California, Berkeley. (3) "The Women Romantics and Christa Wolf," Sara Lennox, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst. Discussant: Edith Waldstein, M.I.T.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at AATG/ACTFL&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Denver, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. Pre-Conference Workshop: Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1981    &lt;br /&gt;Noon-4:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Forward to Basics:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Non-Sexist German Instruction at the Beginning Level&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: &lt;br /&gt;Barbara Drygulski Wright, Univ. Connecticut, Storrs&lt;br /&gt;and Gabriele Wickert, Manhattanville Coll., Purchase, NY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contributors: &lt;br /&gt;Ursula E. Beitter, New York; Dinah Dodds, Lewis and&lt;br /&gt;Clark Coll., Portland, OR; Helen Frink, SUNY, Albany; Karen Weinschenker, Minneapolis Public Schools.&lt;/p&gt;
2. Literature session: Saturday, November 28, 1981    &lt;br /&gt;8:00-9:00 am&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mothering in German Literature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators:   &lt;br /&gt;Karen Achberger, St. Olaf Coll., Northfield, MN&lt;br /&gt;and Richard L. Johnson, IPFW&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contributors:   &lt;br /&gt;Jeannine Blackwell, "Erst kommt das Vorbild, dann die Moral: Mothers in the German &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bildungsroman&lt;/span&gt;;" Margaret Klopfle Devinney,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG 1981&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Gertrud von LeFort and Mothering;" Lyndel Butler, "Mothering in German Literature, 1970-1980: Re-examining the Past, the Pluralism of the Present, the Myth Revisited."&lt;/p&gt;
3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Business Meeting&lt;/span&gt;: Saturday, Nov. 28, 1981&lt;br /&gt;1:45-2:45 pm
&lt;p&gt;The agenda will depend on the AATG's decision as to a site for the 1982 meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following is a list of dissertations and other research projects/ topics collected during the 19Ö1 WiG conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christa Wolf: From Objective to Subjective Authenticity. Vicki Kingsbury, Michigan State Univ.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Comparative Analysis of Yiddish and Middle High German: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gudrunslied&lt;/span&gt;. Gabriele Strauch, UW-Madison.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Ideological Function of Popular Women’s Fiction: USA, France, and Germany. (Comp. Lit. Diss.) Resa Dudovitz, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Bildungsroman mit Dame: The Female Protagonist in the German Bildungsroman from 1770-1900." Jeannine Blackwell, Indiana U., Bloomington.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Image of Woman as Represented in "Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim" and "Die Leiden des jungen Werther." Sally Winkle, UW-Madison.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feministische Kritik an &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre&lt;/span&gt;; Männer und Frauen im dritten Reich. Ric Johnson, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Peter Handke; Frauen in der Frühzeit des Theaters (18. Jahrhundert). Hannelore Heckmann-French, Lafayette College, PA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Novelle (vor allem im 19. Jh.) als Mythos. Lillian Hoverland, U. of Kentucky.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;German Women Writers (BRD and DDR) in the last 10 years re women’s relations to other women. Lynnie Ozer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christa Wolf: The Political Implications of Feminism. Linda Pickle, Westminster College, Fulton, M0.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Utopian Impulse in Contemporary Feminist Fictions (u. a. Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, and French and American writers). Angelika Bammer (Comp. Lit.), UW-Madison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Research Projects&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;German-American Socialist Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century (1979). Carol Poore, UW-Madison.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Autobiographical Writings (German language) of the 1970’s: Self into Form. Sandy Frieden, Univ. Houston (Diss. U. Siegen).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mother Figures in the (German language) Novel: 1968-80: The Assimilation of the Past, the Pluralism of the Present, the Myth Revisited. Lyndel L. Butler, Univ. Houston (Diss. U. Siegen).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A comparison of Ilse Aichinger, Ingeborg Bachmann, Barbara Frisch­muth, Brigitte Schwaiger in the larger context of the Austrian women’s literary and feminist movement. Jackie Vansant, Univ. Texas-Austin.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Botho Strauß and West German Prose of the 197G’s. Leslie Adelson, Washington Univ., St. Louis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linguistic analysis of modern feminist writers (focus on negations and questions) (Dissertation). Almut R. Poole, UCLA. [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Schweizer Schriftstellerinnen (zur Zeit vor allem 70er Jahre, aber später auch die von früher); Dichterbilder (Sappho- Grillparzer, Corizino- Staël, Tasso- Goethe). Marianne Burkhard, Univ. Illinois.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Böhmisch-jüdische Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte. Wilma Iggers, Canisius Coll., Buffalo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Double Jeopardy: German-American Women Writers in the 19th Century (recently completed). Dorothea Stuecker, Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rainer Maria Rilke, Women and Love. Tineke Ritmeester, Washington Univ., St. Louis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helga Novak, Gabriele Wohmann, Jutta Heinrich: Mutter-Tochter Beziehungen. Barbara Kosta, Univ. Florida.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Motherhood Propaganda in Nazi Germany. Nancy Vedder-Shults.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Deconstructing &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort. Nirgends&lt;/span&gt; and the Reception of Christa Wolf in the FRG and GDR. Karen Jankowsky, Washington Univ., St. Louis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*******************&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nancy Vedder-Shults sent this reference to the TAZ article: Atina Grossmann, "ein offener Brief aus New York an Henryk Broder und die TAZ," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tageszeitung&lt;/span&gt; (Berlin), Wednesday, May 27, 1981.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1981 CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Karen Achberger&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leslie A. Adelson&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angelika Bammer&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evelyn T. Beck&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeannine Blackwell&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marianne Burkhard&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lyndel l. Butler&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Jeannette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Department of Mo. For. Lang.&lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U. at&lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne&lt;br /&gt;FortWayne, IN 46805&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Susan L. Cocalis&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Irene DiMaio&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resa Dudovitz&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gerda Fermand&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elke Frederiksen&lt;br /&gt;[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;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hannelore Heckmann-French&lt;br /&gt;Department of Languages&lt;br /&gt;Lafayette College&lt;br /&gt;Easton, PA 18042&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marlene Heinemann&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patricia Herminghouse&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joey Horsley&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lilian Hoverland&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of German, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;University of Kentucky &lt;br /&gt;Lexington, KY 40503&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilma Iggers &lt;br /&gt;German Department&lt;br /&gt;Canisius College&lt;br /&gt;Buffalo, NY 14208&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karen Jankowsky&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ric Johnson&lt;br /&gt;MFL, IU-PU/Fort Wayne&lt;br /&gt;2101 Coliseum Blvd. E.&lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nancy Kaiser&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Victoria M. Kingsbury&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barbara Kosta&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Langs.&lt;br /&gt;261 Arts and Sciences Bldg.&lt;br /&gt;University of Florida&lt;br /&gt;Gainesville, FL 32611&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helga Kraft&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Langs.&lt;br /&gt;and Literature&lt;br /&gt;261 Arts and Sciences Bldg.&lt;br /&gt;University of Florida&lt;br /&gt;Gainesville, FL 32611&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sara Lennox&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deborah Lund&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;Washington Univ.-&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of German&lt;br /&gt;St. Louis, MO 63130&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biddy (Carolyn) Martin&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ria Mayer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gisela Moffit&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magda Müller&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martina Müller&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lynnoe Ozer&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Linda S. Pickle&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hildegard Pietsch&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almut Poole&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carol Poore&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary Rhiel&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tineke Rittmeester&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dorthy Rosenberg&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charolotte K. Smith&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gabriele Strauch&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dorothea Stuecher&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karen R. Thompson&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;German&lt;br /&gt;Washington Univ.&lt;br /&gt;St. Louis, MO 63130&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jackie Vansant&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nancy Vedder-Shults&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha K. Wallach&lt;br /&gt;CCC/UWGB&lt;br /&gt;Green Bay, WI 54302&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bunny (Sydna) Weiss&lt;br /&gt;Hamilton College&lt;br /&gt;Clinton, NY 13323&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brigitte Wichmann&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sally Winkle&lt;br /&gt;[redacted] or&lt;br /&gt;German Dept.&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison&lt;br /&gt;Madison, WI 53706&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barbara D. Wright&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG CONFERENCE 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Summary of the WiG Business Meeting, Sunday, Oct. 18, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, everyone was invited to applaud and thank the women who organized this year’s conference, especially Nancy Vedder-Shults , who coordinated registration, arranged rides, and worked with the Siena Center personnel, and Martha Wallach, who provided the natural foods option.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Business Meeting&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A second round of thanks went to Marianne Burkhard, who served as "outside reviewer" for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;five&lt;/span&gt; of the six WiG members who received tenure during 1980-81. The "outside" evaluation of manuscripts (and in some cases, even of published work) has become increasingly important in the tenure/promotion review process at many campuses, and the time-consuming, "invisible" work done by Marianne and other "senior" WiG members--reading masses of material and composing thoughtful, persuasive letters to deans and committee chairs-- deserves appreciation and recognition, since it benefits not only those who received tenure and promotion, but our entire organization.&lt;/p&gt;
1. The first order of business was the nomination and election of new members of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Joey Horsley&lt;/span&gt; (IT. Mass., Boston) was nominated and elected as the new representative from the Eastern region and to head the bibliography committee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Almut Poole&lt;/span&gt; (UCLA) was nominated and elected as the new representative from the Western region. She will be in charge of fund-raising for the 1983 conference and for making preliminary arrangements for the 1983 conference, which will be held the first weekend after Oct. 15 in the Los Angeles area. Almut will try to have information on a possible site by the December WiG meeting at the MLA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. We discussed problems which arise in arranging for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;guest authors &lt;/span&gt;at the annual October conference. We decided it was best to agree on several possible guest authors in the event that our first (or second, or third) invitation is turned down. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Christa Wolf&lt;/span&gt; will be approached first; Sara Lennox agreed to write to her. The other choices, in order, were Irmtraud Morgner, Ingeborg Drewitz, and Jutta Heinrich; they will be kept in mind for future conferences if Christa Wolf agrees to come in 1983.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. A lengthy discussion about WiG participation at the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1982 AATG &lt;/span&gt;conference followed. It was decided that WiG members attending the 1981 AATG meeting will announce that WiG will not participate in 1982 if the meeting is held in a non-ratified (ERA) state, as seems likely. The Political Action Committee was asked to write the AATG in advance of the Nov. 1981 meeting to urge them to hold the 1982 meeting in a ratified state, to inform them that WiG will not participate by arranging sessions for the 1982 meeting if it is held in a non-ratified state, and that we will also urge our membership not to attend. The session topics agreed upon for the WiG sessions at AATG will be used in 1983 if WiG doesn’t meet at the 1982 AATG. The topics agreed upon are: (1) Fairy Tales in the Classroom (coordinators: Bunny Weiss, Hamilton College, and Wilma Iggers, Canisius College) and (2) Fairy Tale Motifs in German Women’s Writing (coordinators to be selected at the Nov. 1981 AATG). Remember, these plans are tentative, subject to the AATG’s final decision on a location for the 1982 meeting.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. Topics for the WiG sessions at the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1982 MLA&lt;/span&gt; in Los Angeles were discussed. The group agreed to accept Marjorie Tussing’s suggestion that both sessions focus on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and German Film&lt;/span&gt;. A variety of possible formats was discussed, for example, arranging for a film &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Business Meeting&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to be shown before the first session, with the first session devoted to discussion of that film and the second on a related topic; inviting a German woman filmmaker to be present, and others.&lt;br /&gt;Coordinators are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg&lt;/span&gt; [redacted] and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Marjorie Tussing&lt;/span&gt; (Cal. State Univ. at Fullerton); any suggestions for the format and content of these sessions should be sent to them &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;by Dec. 15, 1981.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5. Jeanette Clausen gave a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;financial report&lt;/span&gt;. There was a balance of $1231.70, plus a little money left in Madison to take care of final expenses there. A lengthy discussion of possible uses for these funds followed. It was decided that funding for Christa Reinig's 1982 visit should be the first priority, and that $500. will be reserved to be used for matching funds in raising money to pay her expenses if we are unable to get funding any other way.&lt;br /&gt;It was also agreed that $50. should be given to Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach to help pay part of Gisela Dischner’s travel to the Dec. 1981 MLA, with the possibility of an additional con­tribution for Dischner if there are funds left in Madison after all expenses for the 1981 conference in Racine have been paid.&lt;br /&gt;We also discussed the possibility of reimbursing some people who traveled a long distance to attend this year’s conference, but couldn't resolve this because it wasn't clear how much, if any, profit there would be from this year's conference. Therefore, it seems best to have the Steering Committee decide how to use any "surplus" funds after the final figures are known.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Linda Pickle reported that the Goethe Institute had not yet made a decision on whether or to what extent they would help fund Christa Reinig's stay. She indicated that Reinig's necessity to travel with a companion and her inability to commit herself to other speaking engagements because of her poor health were seen as "problems" in funding her visit. Martha Wallach offered to help work on fundraising for Reinig's visit, so any communication concerning this should be sent both to Martha and to Linda Pickle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. The next agenda item was the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1982 WiG conference&lt;/span&gt; itself.&lt;br /&gt;It was decided that next year's conference will be a day longer than in the past; it will be held &lt;span&gt;Oct. lU-17, 1982&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span&gt;Thomson's Island&lt;/span&gt; in Boston harbor. The physical arrangements will be coordinated by Joey Horsley (U. Mass, Boston) and the general coordinator will be Barbara Wright (U. Conn., Storrs). To facilitate planning for future meetings, it was suggested that the conference registration forms include spaces for nominations to the Steering Committee, suggestions for session topics at the 1983 AATG, MLA, and WiG conferences, and suggested guest authors. The format and topics agreed upon for the 1982 conference follow; see also the calls for contributions on the following pages.
&lt;p&gt;Thursday, Oct. 14: arrival and social evening, getting acquainted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Business Meeting&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday, Oct. 15: &lt;br /&gt;morning: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Wissenschaft&lt;/span&gt;, Sara Lennox and Kay Goodman, coordinators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;afternoon: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Randbewegungen im deutschen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;raum&lt;/span&gt;, Linda Pickle and Brigitte Wichman, coordinators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;evening: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministik/Germanistik&lt;/span&gt;, Jeannine Blackwell and Sandy Frieden, coordinators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday, Oct. 16: &lt;br /&gt;morning I: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Speaking the Unspeakable&lt;/span&gt;, Angelika Bammer and Jeanette Clausen, coordinators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;morning II: small group/CR discussion on the above, facilitators to be selected.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;afternoon: Business and planning meeting (to be continued on Sunday morning if necessary).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;evening: Christa Reinig&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday, Oct. 17:      &lt;br /&gt;morning: wrap-up session, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Making Connections, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Respecting Differences&lt;/span&gt;, Evelyn Beck and another person to be selected, coordinators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thomson’s Island has a capacity of 125, so that was decided as the upper limit on registration. Because of the deposit required by the conference center, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;preregistration&lt;/span&gt; will have to be made by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;August 1 , 1982&lt;/span&gt;, with a penalty for late registration.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7. As the final order of business, it was decided that the Political Action Committee would send a letter supporting the petition for peace which was circulated by Angelika Mechtel (N.B.: this has been done). The text of the petition follows. Appeal circulated by the Verband deutscher Schriftsteller, Postfach 1282, 7000 Stuttgart 1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meeting was adjourned at noon. Minutes were taken by Linda Pickle and Sara Lennox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Authors from all european countries appeal to the world public. Mankind is now supposed to accept the criminal notion that it is possible to wage a limited nuclear war with new atomic weapons, neutron bombs, cruise missiles etc. We hold the opposite to be true: no limited war can be waged with nuclear weapons, it would annihilate the entire world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beyond all boundaries between states and social systems, beyond all differences of opinion, we address our urgent appeal to those responsible to quit this new arms race and to join without delay in negotiations on further disarmament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We call upon the world public not to acquiesce but instead to speak out with still greater energy for peace.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let us act together, so that europe does not become the atomic battlefield of a new and final world war.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nothing is more important than peace."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG CONFERENCE 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. Friday evening session, Oct. l6: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprache, Gefühl, und Feminismus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Friday evening sessions in the past several years have been planned to allow conference participants to renew old acquaintances and make new ones while discussing an issue where the personal, professional and political intersect. As most of you know, this year’s topic was prompted by our experiences last year, when-- for the first time--the major language of the conference was German, in consideration of guest author Margot Schroeder, who understood little English.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Naomi Stephan had planned a series of consciousness-raising exercises around the topic &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprache, Gefühl und Feminismus&lt;/span&gt;, but was not able to attend the conference, so a much-simplified version of her plan was worked out in some haste by Susan Cocalis, Sara Lennox and Jeanette Clausen. After a general welcome and announce­ments, we divided into nine small groups. Members of each group introduced themselves to each other and then discussed &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in German &lt;/span&gt;such topics as their preferred language for relating personal experiences, for writing scholarly papers, and the possibilities (or lack of them) for feminists in speaking and writing. After a half-hour, the groups were asked to continue their discussion &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in English&lt;/span&gt;, and after another twenty minutes they were asked to stop the discussion, talk about how they had felt speaking each language, and to prepare a brief report summarizing their dis­cussion for the group as a whole. After all the reports were given, Nancy Vedder-Shults led the group in singing Holly Near’s "Like a Ship in the Harbor."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two of the group reports follow. Many of the issues raised will be continued in more depth next year, in a session entitled "Feministik/Germanistik," to be coordinated by Jeannine Blackwell and Sandy Frieden.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Group 1 - Protokoll: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Problems seen&lt;/span&gt;: having learned feminist theory from England and the US, it seems strange to explain it in German; a feminist writing style is often wanted (by author) and seen (by readers) as more personal; if readers are not in tune with feminism they see this as unscholarly and unfit for critical work; the genre (scholarly article, etc.) and intended &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1981&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;publication (journal envisioned for submission) can create &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Selbstzensur&lt;/span&gt; and cause writers to shift styles. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Question&lt;/span&gt;: to what extent shall we fit ourselves to the traditional mold of the pro­fessional scholar and scholarly writing/arguing style? "Feminist" writing can create its own syntax (metaphors instead of logical words, new logic emerging). &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Historical perspective&lt;/span&gt;: problem of a "too personal" style existed before, cf. controversy around Emil Staiger, who explicitly starts with personal reactions to text; the German (bundesdeutsche) critics criticized this very much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Comparison&lt;/span&gt; between use of German and English: for both non-native speakers and native listeners there was virtually no difference (except in speed, but even that was not too noticeable). Non-natives felt comfortable; therefore, the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;environment&lt;/span&gt; has obviously a lot to do with whether or not one feels comfortable to use the foreign idiom. (This explains why German is a real barrier for asking questions in official conference sessions with lots of people (men!) attending.) What did change was the body language and inner feelings.&lt;br /&gt;--summary by Marianne Burkhard&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Protokoll - Gruppe 9: Diese Gruppe fand, daß das Verhältnis der Beteiligten zu der Sprache (Deutsch oder Englisch) ein anderes war, je nachdem in welcher Sprache man/frau &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;was&lt;/span&gt; erlebt. Objektivieren geschieht in der Fremdsprache, und für die meisten Frauen ist der Feminismus eine sehr subjektive Sache. Im Gespräch unter uns stellten wir fest, daß der Anfang immer schwierig ist (sich den anderen vorstellen--Monolog halten); daher schien Deutsch zu stocken, Englisch schien fließender zu sein, nämlich weil das Schwierigste schon auf deutsch erledigt war. In Bezug auf Kriterien für einen persönlichen Stil (männlich? weiblich?) kamen wir zu dem Schluss, daß jede(r) für sich die Kriterien bestimmen muss, und vor Augen halten, daß Sprache schließlich ein Mittel der Kommunikation ist.&lt;br /&gt;--summary by Debbie Lund&lt;/p&gt;
2. Saturday am: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ways of Reading&lt;/span&gt; (summaries not yet received)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Saturday pm: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German-Jewish Women Writers&lt;/span&gt;. Irene Stocksieker Di Maio: "Fanny Lewald: Ambivalence." In her autobiography, Fanny Markus Lewald (18H-I889) reveals ambivalent attitudes toward her Jewish and her sexual identities. Avoidance of the fact that the Markuses were Jews failed to protect Fanny from the effects of anti-Semitism. Being female was even more problematic than being Jewish to Fanny, for according to societal norms, her intellectual endeavors were at odds with her sexual identity. The two factors converged in the issues of naming and baptism. Her brothers initially resisted the family name change, but Fanny, conditioned to expect a name change, accepted it. Whereas Jewish men, including her brothers, were coerced into conversion to open career opportunities, baptism could only jeopardize the only future "career" for Fanny—marriage. Initially attracted to Christianity, Fanny finally received permission from her father to convert. But her rationality, stemming in part from enlightened Jewish tradition, ultimately prevented her from believing the central tenants of Christian faith. Lewald worked out the shame over the sophistry of her confession of faith in her second novel, &lt;span&gt;Jenny&lt;/span&gt;. This novel presents Jews and Jewish society positively, unpleasant characteristics being attributed to the oppression of Jews. The novel is a plea for emancipation not by total assimilation, but&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1981&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by allowing Christian and Jew to live side by side. The tragic outcome of the love plots reveals that Germany was not ready.
&lt;p&gt;Wilma Iggers’ paper dealt with the multiple identies of the novels of Auguste Hauschner (1850-192H, Prague - Berlin): German - Jewish - Bohemian - Writer - Woman. Having only partial models to follow at best, she designed a role suited to her own talents and at least as much to the needs of other people-women more than men—as to her own. Hauschner was acutely aware of the dilemna of women between dependence and security on the one hand, and, when striking out on their own, suffering from insecurity, loneliness and ostracism on the other. Her feminism, akin to that of some of her most admirable contemporaries and well integrated into her broader social concerns, seems to have implied a specifically feminine gentleness and a constant pattern of reaching out toward people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lynnie Ozer--A Jewish Woman in Germany from 1966 to 1971: I related my experiences as a woman and a feminist in Germany, giving examples of the strong male chauvinism I found when living with two families and on dates. The main thrust of the presentation, however, was my confrontation with latent and overt German anti-Semitism as well as my confrontation with my own principles regarding being honest about my Jewishness. At the conclusion of the paper, T expressed my new­found peace with the Germans; I can now accept them as they are and understand their feelings. Finally, I realized that I had asked too much of myself while I lived in Germany, total objectivity and fairness. Individual Germans and Jews can experience meaningful friendships, but it will take many, many years to erase the bitter­ness between the two peoples.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. Saturday evening: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Angelika Mechtel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Mechtel, in a brief introduction of herself, described herself as a feminist by nature. She never nurtured any doubts as to her abilities and qualities as a woman. However, she was extremely surprised when she discovered in her teens that women were not considered men’s equals. She never joined a feminist group even though she stands, politically and ideologically speaking, on the same side as the German feminist movement.&lt;br /&gt;Following the introduction, A.M. read from her works: 1) the first ’Reportage’ in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Keep Smiling&lt;/span&gt;, 2) two short stories ('Kuckucksfrau’ and ’Katrin') in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Traume der Fuchsin&lt;/span&gt; and, 3) some poems. A lively discussion followed, centering on Mechtel’s perception of women and on the violence that her female characters display so frequently.&lt;br /&gt;--summary by Brigitte Wichmann&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Looking Ahead to WiG 1982&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For WiG members who haven’t yet had the pleasure of reading (or even for those who have), here are a few places to begin:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-16-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Christa Reinig&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt; I (Jan. 198l) contains an article by Ernestine Schroeder, "Christa Reinig: Die Doppelte Dissidentin," pp. 43-44, and a short prose selection "Die schlafende Riesin," from Reinig's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der Wolf und die Witwen&lt;/span&gt;. See also &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt; 1+ (Apr. 19Öl), which contains three pieces by Reinig: "Ripper und Co," p. 5 (about violence against women); "Das kleine Mädchen, das ich war," pp. 36-39, and "Lebenslänglich," Reinig’s account of how she became a feminist activist. (if you can’t obtain these articles through your library or interlibrary loan, I can send you copies if you send $ to cover xeroxing and postage--JC). A partial list of Christa Reinig's works:&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wolf &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;Witwen&lt;/span&gt; (München: Frauenoffensive, 1981; Düsseldorf: Eremiten-Presse, 1980). "Es sind Appelle, Argumentationshilfen, Anweisungen für Frauen, die sich gegen eine von den Männern dominierte Welt zu behaupten suchen. Nicht überleben heisst die Parole, sondern Widerstand." (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt; I, p. 44).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;2. Müßiggang ist aller Liebe Anfang&lt;/span&gt;. Gedichte. (Frauenoffensive 198o~ Eremitenpresse 1979). "Zwei Frauen bauen eine Beziehung auf. Das ist der Sprachgebrauch, und daran scheitern sie zunächst. Denn es gibt so wenig Dinge, sich darauf gemeinsam zu beziehen und soviele Möglichkeiten uneins zu sein. Sie schaffen sich ein Tagebuch an. Jeden Abend soll daraus vorgelesen werden. Aber, das Tagebuch enthält unendlich erbitterte Fortführungen der abge­brochenen Streitigkeiten, und zum Schluss wird die Schrift unleserlich, und das ist auch das beste an der ganzen Sache. Ein neues Tagebuch wird angeschafft, und jeden Tag soll nur ein einziger Satz darin stehen, deutlich in lesbarer Schrift, und diesmal gelingt es. Am glücklichen Ende eines Jahres sitzen einige Frauen zusammen und Christa Reinig sagt:     "Und wenn wir nicht beide Frührentner gewesen wären, und wenn wir nicht so unendlich viel Zeit miteinander gehabt hätten, dann wäre es nicht gelungen." Eine Frau am Tisch sagte:  "Ja, ja, Müßiggang ist aller--Liebe Anfang." Und das wurde dann der Titel des Buches." (from inside back cover of the Frauenoffensive edition).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Prüfung des Lächlers&lt;/span&gt;. Gedichte. (DTV 1980)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Entmannung&lt;/span&gt;. Roman. (Luchterhand 1977)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mein Herz ist eine gelbe Blume. Christa Reinig im Gespräch &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;mit Ekkehard Rudolf&lt;/span&gt; (Eremiten-Presse 1978)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die himmlische und die irdische Geometrie&lt;/span&gt; (DTV 1978, Eremiten- Presse 1975)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-17-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Contributions needed for 1982 WiG conference sessions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Wissenschaft: A Review of Recent Developments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    In this session we would like short presentations (ca. 10 minutes) modeled on the review essays in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt; which survey and comment on recent developments in feminist scholarship within and outside of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Germanistik&lt;/span&gt;. You may define your area as narrowly or as broadly as you wish. We would like to see such topics represented as: women writers prior to 1700; the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries; recent feminist criticism and theory in Germany, France, England and the US; women writers of autobiography, poetry, drama and fiction; women and culture, psychoanalysis, economics, anthropology and so on. Panelists should also distribute an annotated bibliography of the works they are discussing. Please send papers or proposas to both: [redacted] and Kay Goodman, German Dept. Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.&lt;/p&gt;
2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Randbewegungen im deutschen Sprachraum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this session we wish to provide information on recent events and developments in any or all of the various &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Randbewegungen&lt;/span&gt; in the German-speaking areas, z.B. Feminismus, die radikale Linke, die Grünen, die Friedensbewegung,usw,Please send papers or proposals to Linda Pickle, [redacted] and Brigitte Wichmann, [redacted. Deadline: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;March 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Speaking the Unspeakable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As Adrienne Rich said, “the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;unspoken&lt;/span&gt; . . . becomes the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;unspeakable&lt;/span&gt; . . . the nameless becomes the invisible." (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sinister&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wisdom&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;6). &lt;/i&gt;In past years, WiG has had sessions on "Lesbian Themes in German Literature" (1979), "The Forms of Our Bodies—How Do Women 'Write Themselves'" (1980), and "German-Jewish Women Writers" (1981). We want to confront the realities of antisemitism and other forms of racism, homophobia, biases based on age, class--all the oppressions which have historically been used to divide us. By naming them and by talking about how they affect us in our relation­ships with one another, in our own lives, in our work, we have chosen to make them visible and to continue to confront them. We ask: How have these oppressions silenced, muffled, or distorted our voices?&lt;br /&gt;How have we &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; been affected, and how have we been affected differently? How have these oppressions been spoken, when, and by whom? How does our reading/speaking the "unspeakable" affect (and change) us?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To address these questions we are planning a session "Speaking the Unspeakable" for Saturday, Oct. 16, 1982, to be followed by small- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Calls for Papers&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;group CR discussions on the issues raised by the presentations and our personal, emotional reactions to them. We invite presentations based on your experience, on texts you have read, or writers who address these concerns in their work. We will also need CR group facilitators. Please send papers or proposals, or volunteer as a CR facilitator to: [redacted] &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Jeanette Clausen, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN 1+6805. DEADLINE: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Here are a few articles I’ve found helpful for thinking about this session--JC)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elly Bulkin, "Heterosexism and Women’s Studies," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Radical Teacher&lt;/span&gt;, Nov. 1980, pp. 25-31 (contains preliminary guidelines for CR groups meeting to deal with homophobia/heterosexism).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;---- , "Racism and Writing," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sinister Wisdom&lt;/span&gt; 13 (Spring 1980), pp. 3-22 (contains guideline questions for beginning to develop an anti-racist approach to feminist criticism).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. IX, 3 (Fall 198l) (contains reports on the CR sessions at the 1981 NWSA convention).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NEW MATERIALS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An English translation of the 1901+ novella &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Werde die du bist &lt;/span&gt;(Become the Woman You Are) by German radical feminist Hedwig Dohm is available. The fictional journal of an aged middle-class widow, it is a bitter and provocative indictment of a society which does not give women the chance to fulfill their potential and discards them as useless when they are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;old. (1+6 pp. typescript).&lt;/span&gt; For copies contact Ilze Mueller, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now available for ca. $5.00 from Adler's Foreign Books, NY or Reclam Verlag, Postfach 111+9, 7257 Ditzingen bei Stuttgart: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Frauenfrage in Deutschland 1865-1915&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Texte und Dokumente&lt;/span&gt; , hsg. Elke Frederiksen (Reclam 1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Inhalt&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Einleitung:   Zum Problem der Frauenfrage um die&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Jahrhundertwende ...  5&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;I. Allgemeine Positionen zur Frauenfrage ...  45&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Programme in Frauenzeitschriften ....  46&lt;br /&gt;Einzelstimmen zur bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung  ...  66&lt;br /&gt;Einzelstimmen zur proletarischen Frauenbewe­gung ... 88&lt;br /&gt;Zur Politisierung bürgerlicher und proletarischer Positionen ... 107&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Materials&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
II. Die Stellung der Frau in Ehe und Familie... 123&lt;br /&gt;Positionen der bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung zu Ehe und Familie ... 123&lt;br /&gt;Positionen der proletarischen Frauenbewegung zu Ehe und Familie ...  154&lt;br /&gt;Alternativen zur traditionellen Rolle der Frau... 170&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. Mädchenerziehung und Frauenbildung ...  200&lt;br /&gt;Erfahrungen und Forderungen bürgerlicher Frauen... 201&lt;br /&gt;Erfahrungen und Forderungen proletarischer Frauen ... 268&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IV. Frauenarbeit ... 296&lt;br /&gt;Bürgerliche und proletarische Position zur Frauen­arbeit ... 297 &lt;br /&gt;Formen und Bedingungen von Frauenarbeit... 325&lt;br /&gt;Forderungen zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsbedin­gungen... 364&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V. Zur politischen Gleichberechtigung der Frau .... 372&lt;br /&gt;Erfahrungen und Forderungen bürgerlicher Frauen... 373&lt;br /&gt;Erfahrungen und Forderungen proletarischer&lt;br /&gt;Frauen ... 407
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Editionsbericht ... 431&lt;br /&gt;Literaturhinweise ... 433 &lt;br /&gt;Verzeichnis der Autorinnen, Autoren, Titel und Quellen ... 451&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Review ofIrmgard C. Taylor, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Bild der Witwe in der deutschen Literatur&lt;/span&gt; (Darmstadt: Gesellschaft Hessischer Literaturfreunde, 1960).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Witwe ist das, was ubrigbleibt, venn der Mann stirbt." Irmgard C. Taylor cites a contemporary quote from a television documentary in her pioneering study of a neglected group in German literature and traditional society, those left behind and without a "function" upon the death of their spouses. Her carefully documented research ranges chronologically from pre-literary evidence to indications of recent changes upon the parts of authors and their widowed subjects as to possible options for both young and old widows. A concise introduction to the problem of' widows--"Witwen stellen eine Randgruppe der Gesellschaft dar, die von Jeher als Belastung empfunden wird, auf' die ungern und, wenn uberhaupt, nur unter moralischem Druck reagiert wird und die die Opferbereitschaft der Mitmenschen voraussetzt." (p. 7)--is followed by a particularly penetrating discussion of the implications of St. Paul's First Epistle to Timothy, 5, 3-16, which set the misogynist tone for Christian treatment of widows for the next millenia. Germanic exceptions, like Kriemhild, are noted in a survey format which, while informative for orientation as to a given period, tend to have an "aufzählend" effect in the aggregate. Professor Taylor has quantified her data in charts which may be less informative than her excellent summaries; in addition, she includes a model analysis of the motif of the unfaithful widow that raises &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in nuce&lt;/span&gt; many of the issues touched upon in passing in the course of the study.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-20-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It, and the work of which it constitutes a sort of precis, are useful and provocative additions to the history of women in German literature. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Bild der Witwe in der deutschen Literatur &lt;/span&gt;is available through Adler Foreign Books, 162 5th Ave., N.Y., NY 10010 for $10.95.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(This book review is printed as submitted by Irene Cannon-Geary, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N1 11794. )&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT: WOMEN EDUCATORS’ announces the Fifth Annual "Research on Women in Education" Award, to be presented at the American Edu­cational Research Association meeting in New York, March 19-23, 1982. Published or unpublished research reports in journal article format on any aspect of women in education are eligible if conducted or written up during 1980-81. The deadline for entries is 1 December 1981. Send five (5) copies of the entry (on four of which the author is not identified) and five (5) copies of a 200-250 word abstract of the entry to: Cheryl L. Wild, Coordinator Elect, WOMEN EDUCATORS, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J. 08941.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LIST OF DEADLINES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dec. 15, 1981&lt;/span&gt;   Suggestions or preliminary proposals for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1982 MLA&lt;/span&gt; sessions on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and German Film&lt;/span&gt; t Marjorie Tussing (Cal. State Univ. at Fullerton) and Dorothy Rosenberg [redacted].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feb. 15, 1982&lt;/span&gt;   Letters, articles, announcements, etc. for publication in March 1982 WiG newsletter to: WiG, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;March 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;   Papers or proposals for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Randbewegungen im deutschen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprachraum&lt;/span&gt; (WiG 1982) to Linda Pickle, [redacted] and Bridgette Wichmann, [redacted].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;   Papers, proposals, inquiries for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Speaking the Unspeakable &lt;/span&gt;(Wig 1982) to Angelika Bammer, [redacted] &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Jeanette Clausen, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana Purdue at Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-21-&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;26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt; Read your label and renew when numbers match&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 25&lt;br /&gt;August 1981&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;SIXTH ANNUAL WOMEN IN GERMAN CONFERENCE-RETREAT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tablecaption0"&gt;October 16-18, 1981&lt;br /&gt;Siena Center, Racine, Wisconsin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guest Author: ANGELIKA MECHTEL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Conference Schedule&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fri. Oct. 16&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;5:00-8:00 pm: Arrival, supper, general get-acquainted tme&lt;br /&gt;8:00-10:00 pm: Opening session, "Sprache, Gefühl und Feminismus" &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sat. Oct. 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8:00 am: Breakfast&lt;br /&gt;9:00:11:00 am: Session I: "New Ways of Reading"&lt;br /&gt;11:00-noon: Open for special interest group meetings&lt;br /&gt;Noon: Lunch&lt;br /&gt;1:30-3:30 pm: Session II: "German-Jewish Women Writers"&lt;br /&gt;3:30-4:00 pm: Break&lt;br /&gt;4:00-5:00 pm: Steering Committee meeting&lt;br /&gt;5:30 pm: Dinner&lt;br /&gt;7:00 pm- ? Angelika Mechtel reads from her works&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sun. Oct. 18&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;8:30 am: Breakfast&lt;br /&gt;9:30-12:00: Business and Planning Meeting&lt;br /&gt;Noon: Lunch, followed by departure&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We agreed at last year's conference to organize sessions into small group discussions with a plenary session at the end of each. We also agreed to use German as the language of the conference as much as possible in consideration of our guest, with program contributions still being in the language of the presenter's choice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See following pages for program description, registration information and announcements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 2&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG Conference Program, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Friday evening                &lt;br /&gt;Opening Session&lt;br /&gt;8:00-10:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprache, Gefühl und Feminismus &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Facilitator: Naomi Stephan, San Francisco, Ca.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;At last year’s conference we began for the first time to deal with the language we used to communicate with each other. The presence of Margot Schroeder, who knew little English, "forced" us to use German and consequently to examine the reasons why English had dominated our conferences, even though German was/is our "trade."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It became apparent that the problem of out preferred language of communication was somehow intimately linked with our feelings and our feminism, but we had little time to explore just how and to what extent this was true. For these reasons, we decided to use the opening session of this year’s conference to explore with each other the relation of language, feeling and feminism. How do we balance speech (a left brain function), emotion (right brain) and feminism (which involves both hemispheres)? Do we have a preferred "emotional language"? Is there a language for feminism in German? Is language itself a barrier to our expression of feminism?&lt;br /&gt;AND MUCH MORE!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday morning              &lt;br /&gt;Session I&lt;br /&gt;9:00-11:00 am&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Ways of Reading:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Critical Feminist Approaches to Selected Texts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Susan Cocalis (18th C.), Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; Biddy Martin (late 19th C.), Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Karen Jankowsky (20th C.), Washington Univ., St. Louis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our purpose is to contribute to a cultural history of femininity by developing new critical tools of textual analysis. There will be three separate workshop groups, each to focus on one text (see below), and to be followed by a plenary session for the presenta­tion and discussion of theoretical perspectives.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The texts for discussion are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Eighteenth Century: Silvia Bovenschen, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Imaginierte Weiblichkeit &lt;/span&gt;Late Nineteenth Century: Frank Wedekind, the Lulu plays Twentieth Century: Angelilca Mechtel, "Die Träume der Füchsin," "Kuckkucksfrau," and "Zweimal ein Sohn," in: Die &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Träume der Füchsin&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Conference Program, cont.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Saturday afternoon           &lt;br /&gt;Oct. 17, 1981                 &lt;br /&gt;Session II&lt;br /&gt;1:30-3:30 pm&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German-Jewish Women Writers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Evelyn T. Beck, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison/Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (1981-82); Lynne Ozer, New York Univ., NYC.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This panel focuses on writers who grapple in their work with the complex intersection of what it means/has meant to be German-Jewish and a woman--an intersection of multiple identities and oppressions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Gabriele Strauch, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point: "Glikl von Hameln: A Seventeenth-Century Autobiography;" Irene DiMaio, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge: "Fanny Lewald: Ambiguities;" Wilma A. Iggers, Canisius , College,    "Auguste Hauschner: A Bohemian-Jewish Writer;" Bianca Rosenthal, California Polytech­nic State Univ., San Luis Obispo, CA: "Hilde Domin."&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Saturday evening              &lt;br /&gt;Oct. 17, 1981&lt;br /&gt;Session II&lt;br /&gt;7:00 pm - ?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Author Angelika Mechtel will read from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;feinen Totengräber&lt;/span&gt; (1968), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hochhausgeschichten&lt;/span&gt; (1972), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Träume der Füchsin&lt;/span&gt; (1976), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Keep &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Smiling&lt;/span&gt; (1976), and work in progress, Her reading will be followed by discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday morning               &lt;br /&gt;Oct. 18, 1981    &lt;br /&gt;Business and Planning Meeting             &lt;br /&gt;9:30-12:00 noon&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chaired by Sara Lennox and Jeanette Clausen, steering comm. co-chairs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As in previous years, we will have a very full agenda for the business meeting. Agenda items include: replacement of outgoing steering committee members; committee -reports; financial report; the establishment of session topics, theme, and format for the 1982 conference (Oct. 15-17, 1982 at Thomson’s Island, Boston), and appointment of coordinators; suggestions for a guest and site for the 1983 conference; establishment of session topics and selec­tion of coordinators for the 1982 WiG sessions at AATG and MLA, and so on. If you have items for the agenda, please contact Sara or Jeanette.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note that the steering committee will meet to plan the agenda on Saturday at 4:00 pm, so if you have suggestions, give them to us at or before that meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Did you know: CHRISTA REINIG has accepted our invitation for 1982! Linda Pickle will report on the status of her fund-raising work to finance Reinig’s visit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 4&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at AATG/ACTFL, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Pre-Conference Workshop                  &lt;br /&gt;AATG/ACTFL, Denver, CO&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Forward to Basics:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Non-Sexist German Instruction at the Beginning Level&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1981 &lt;br /&gt;12:00 noon to 4:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Barbara Drygulski Wright, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, and Gabriele Wickert, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Contributors: Ursula E. Beitter, New York; Dinah Dodds, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR; Helen Frink, SUNY, Albany; Karen Weinschenker, Minneapolis Publ. Schools.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;The purpose of this workshop for secondary and post-secondary instructors of German is to sensitize them to problems of overt and covert sexism in the materials and methods commonly used at the beginning level of instruction. A variety of corrective strategies will be presented and participants will have an opportunity to break down into small groups and try out the techniques which have been introduced. Bibliographies, resource information and other materials will also be available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;AATG Conference                                  &lt;br /&gt;Nov. 26-28, 1981, Denver&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mothering in German Literature&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(a one-hour session)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Karen Achberger, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN and Richard L. Johnson, Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Fort Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Contributors: Jeannine Blackwell, "Erst kommt das Vorbild, dann die Moral: Mothers in the German &lt;span&gt;Bildungsroman&lt;/span&gt;;” Margaret Klopfle Devinney, "Gertrud von Le Fort and Mothering;" Lyndel Butler, "Mothering in German Lit­erature, 1970-1980: Re-examining the Past, the Pluralism of the Present, the Myth Revisited."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The three presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes each to allow time for discussion. The session focuses on mothering as woman-affirming experience and as woman-denying institution in German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Business Meeting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Saturday, Nov. 28, 1981 &lt;br /&gt;1:45-2:45 pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 5&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at MLA, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Women in German will have two sessions and a business meeting at the December 1981 MLA convention, to be held in New York, December 27-30. The session topic is &lt;span&gt;German Women Writers of the Romantic Period&lt;/span&gt;; organizers are Elke Frederiksen (Univ. of Maryland, College Park) and Martha Wallach (Univ. of Wisconsin-Green Bay).&lt;br /&gt;The two sessions have been organized as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Session I: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Perspectives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Papers: "Das Problem des ’Androgynen’ und des ’Müssiggangs’ in der Jenaer Romantik," Gisela Dischner, Universität Hannover, FRG; "Rahei Varnhagen’s Letters," Kay Goodman, Brown Uni­versity; "The Courtesan as Role Model: The Influence of Ninon de Lenclos on Sophie Mereau," Jacqueline Vansant, Univ. of Texas at Austin. Discussant: Helga Kraft, University of Florida.                              &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Session II: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bettina von Arnim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Papers: "Bettina von Arnim oder die Transzendenz der Kindlichkeit," Konstanze Bäumer, Univ. of California, Davis; "Bettina’s &lt;span&gt;Die Günderode&lt;/span&gt;: One Woman’s Solution to the Question of Form," Marjanne E. Goozé, Univ. of California, Berkely; "The Women Romantics and Christa Wolf," Sara Lennox, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst. Discussant: Edith Waldstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note: Elke has asked that WiG consider ways to help defer part of Gisela Dischner’s travel expenses to New York for MLA. We will discuss this at the conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Announcement&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN EDUCATORS announces the Third Annual "Curriculum Materials Award," to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York City, March 19-23, 1982. Please send one copy of materials "relating to women that have been developed for use in educational settings to: Mary Harris and Nancy Smith, Curriculum Award, WOMEN EDUCATORS, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506. Include a one-page description of how the materials relate to sexism, sex-role stereotyping, and the image of women and girls. Entries must be postmarked by Dec. 15, 1981.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;November issue of the WiG Newsletter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The November issue of the WiG newsletter will include summaries of the October 1981 conference sessions, reports of decisions made during the business meeting, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you have other items you want published in the Hovember issue, please send them by Oct. 30, 1981, to WiG’s new address: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt;, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 6&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1981 WIG WORKSHOP INFORMATION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1981 WIG Workshop will be held October 16-18, again at the Siena Center in Racine, Wisconsin. The conference fee includes lodging, all meals (supper on Friday thru lunch Sunday) and other costs. Included in the fee is an estimated amount to cover anticipated child­care costs, as agreed at the last WiG conference. If—because we have a large number of children--we need additional funds to cover childcare costs, a surcharge will be assessed during the conference. All conference participants must become members of Women in German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since we must let the Siena Center people know well in advance how many of us will be attending, we are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;serious&lt;/span&gt; about the September 15 registration deadline! A $5.00 surcharge will be assessed on registrations received after that date. As you will note from the attached form, a "natural foods" option is also available this year, and registration fees have been established on a dual price structure, in an attempt to keep the conference affordable for students and the unemployed. If you "technically" fall into either of these categories but can nonetheless afford to pay the full fee, please do! We need the $$$!           .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A bit of information regarding childcare for any of you who anti­cipate bringing a child (children):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) You must fill out the form on page 8, and submit it &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;with your registration form&lt;/span&gt; if you plan on bringing a child (children).&lt;br /&gt;Please do not finalize your plans to do so, however, until you have had confirmation from us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2) While the Siena Center has adequate space for childcare, they have very little by way of facilities or equipment (cribs, high- chairs, etc.) Each child will have to be accompanied by 2 or 3 favorite toys, disposable diapers, bottles and formula, clothing, and other necessities. Milk, juice, snacks and other childcare basics will be provided at no charge, but the parent will have to pay for older children’s meals if taken with the group, and for lodging if the child does not share the mother’s room.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3) We will provide childcare staff. (they will be paid at about $4.00 per hour) for hours during which meetings are scheduled, and will also try to arrange for babysitters to keep an eye on children upstairs after they have been put to bed Friday and Saturday evenings. We may, however, need some volunteers to help with this.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please register as early as possible if you plan on bringing a child (children). We will give you further information on costs, what to bring, etc., at that time. If you have any other questions, contact Nancy Vedder-Shults, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 7&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1981 WIG WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;PLEASE REGISTER EARLY&lt;/span&gt;! &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;FINAL REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 15, 1981&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;Name _____________ Telephone &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;(__ )&lt;/span&gt;______&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mailing Address __________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wish to register for the 1981 WIG WORKSHOP to be held October 16-18, 1981. &lt;br /&gt;Cost: (Check appropriate box)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For students and those unemployed&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;__ $37.00 (2 nights lodging &amp;amp; all meals &amp;amp; other expenses) &lt;br /&gt;__ $30.00 (1 night lodging &amp;amp; all meals &amp;amp; other expenses) &lt;br /&gt;__ $23.00 (no lodging but all meals &amp;amp; other expenses)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For those employed or with adequate outside income:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;__ $44.00 (2 nights lodging &amp;amp; all meals &amp;amp; other expenses) &lt;br /&gt;__ $38.00 (1 night lodging &amp;amp; all meals &amp;amp; other expenses) &lt;br /&gt;__ $32.00 (no lodging but all meals &amp;amp; other expenses)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the Natural Foods option, see form on page 8.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All conference participants must become members of WiG (see page 9).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Payment must accompany your registration form. Make checks payable to WOMEN IN GERMAN. A $5.00 late registration fee will also be assessed on registration forms received after the September 15 deadline.&lt;br /&gt;I enclose $___ for fees and ___ niht(s) lodging.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Check appropriate box and note further instructions/information below)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;__ I will arrive by car on/at ________________ (specify day and approx. time)&lt;br /&gt;     Please send map and instructions on how to locate conference center.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;__ I will arrive by plane at the Milwaukee (Mitchell Field) airport: day ___ approx. time ___ airline &amp;amp; flight no. ___ and depart by plane on ____ day ___ approx. time ___ airline &amp;amp; flight no. ______&lt;br /&gt;    Please send information on car pool &amp;amp; possible pick-up arrangements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Please note&lt;/span&gt;: Conference participants arriving by plane should schedule their arrival time between 3:00-5:00 pm on Friday, October 16 and their departure time between 2:00-4:00 pm on Sunday, October 18. If you can schedule your flights within these times, we will try to pick you up at the airport. If you cannot, you may either have a long wait at the airport, or will have to arrange your own transportation to the conference center. If we cannot pick you up, we will send info on car rental and names of people you may be able to carpool with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENCLOSE WITH YOUR REGISTRATION A STAMPED, SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE (4x9) FOR USE IN MAILING FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS TO YOU. MAIL FORM WITH CHECK TO NANCY VEDDER-SHULTS, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 8&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CHILDCARE REGISTRATION FORM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: ______  Tel:  &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;(___ )&lt;/span&gt;_________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address: ________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I plan on bringing the following child (children) to the WiG Workshop:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: ___ Age__ Arrival/Departure Dates/Times:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: ___ Age ___________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check as appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;___  Needs crib ___ Will share my room &lt;br /&gt;___  Needs own room/bed&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Any special needs/information: ______________                                       &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RETURN THIS FORM WITH YOUR REGISTRATION FORM. PLEASE ENCLOSE AN ADDITIONAL STAMPED, SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE SO THAT WE CAN GET BACK TO YOU WITH FURTHER CHILDCARE INFORMATION.&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;NATURAL FOODS OPTION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A natural foods option (vegetarian) will be made available for a modest surcharge ($10.00 or less), which will 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;must&lt;/span&gt; know in advance in order to provide enough food.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name :   ________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I desire the natural foods option for the following meals:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;___  Saturday breakfast &lt;br /&gt;___  Saturday lunch &lt;br /&gt;___  Saturday dinner&lt;br /&gt;___  Sunday breakfast          &lt;br /&gt;___  Sunday lunch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RETURN THIS FORM WITH YOUR REGISTRATION FORM.&lt;/p&gt;
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&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;25&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We held firm as long as we could, BUT the rising costs of everything made it impossible to continue to produce &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German &lt;/span&gt;for $5.00. Therefore, we have raised the fee to $7.00; $3.00 for students and unemployed. If you can afford to, please consider becoming a supporting member ($15.00 or more).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Make checks payable to WOMEN IN GERMAN. Send your check and this membership form to: Women in German, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enclosed you will find my check for: (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;please check appropriate &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;category&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;                               New Renewal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$7.00 for one year                                &lt;br /&gt;$12.00 for two years       &lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------                   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$3.00 for one year &lt;br /&gt;$5.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$15.00 or more for supporting membership&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NAME ______________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ADDRESS ___________________________ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please check if applicable: Change of address ___&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women in German&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages &lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Fort Wayne &lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference materials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Open at once.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Number 24                                                &lt;br /&gt;March 1981&lt;br /&gt;Membership/Subscription Fee: $7.00 ($3.00 if unemployed or student)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear WIG Members,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our March issue brings our readers special greetings in honor of Interna­tional Women's Day. This annual day of celebration on March 8th was first called for by Clara Zetkin, who proposed it to the Second International Socialist Conference in 1910. Her inspiration came from the active efforts and struggles of working women, in particular the women garment worker's strike in New York on March 8, 1908. It is especially important to re-collect the historical struggles in which women have engaged at a time when many of our own efforts and successes are being threatened by an anti-feminist, conservative trend.&lt;br /&gt;In the spirit of International Women's Day and our need to unite in these times, we dedicate this Newsletter to women who have striven for women's emancipation in the past.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We would like to thank all of you who have shown their support for the WIG newsletter through renewals as well as new subscriptions. Financially, we seem to be in "good shape" now. Unfortunately, however, we need more than just financial input in order to keep our newsletter alive. If we wish to adhere to our policy, i.e., "to promote feminist scholarship and pedagogy in German literary and cultural studies, as well as in German language teaching" (WIG #22) then we need to become involved in a more creative, more sharing, more active way. The Newsletter should continue to be a means for dissipating information particularly relevant to all of us who are interested in German studies from a feminist perspective.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please, send us information about your current work, share discoveries you've made. Maybe you read an interesting book, heard a new record, saw a beautiful movie. We also would like to bring back to life the "Dear Wiggy" column. Gedankensplitter aller Art sind willkommen. Remember, this is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;your &lt;/span&gt;Newsletter and the Collective here in Madison is but a "Sammel-und Verteilungsstelle for your information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Once again, in the spirit of International Women's Day, let us renew our committment to a viable and exciting Newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing: Hiermit erkläre ich das Matriarchat für ausgebrochen und den Tag der Frau zum "Tag des Mannes"!]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;LETTERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear WIG,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have formed a little group of Italian academic women (Universities of Rome, Perugia and Pescara) interested in women 's studies in German.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately we have no organization in Italy, although a comparatively high percentage of women already attends German studies in a number of univer­sities. Of course, we often go to Germany and are in touch with germanists, but it would be very interesting for us to know something more about the initiatives you take in the USA as germanist women abroad. We have received till now the Proceedings of Women in German 1977 and the special feminist issue of New German Critique; but we would be very pleased if you could inform us about meetings, courses, papers, publications etc. in Massachusetts and else­where. We are prepared to subscribe some American journals.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our interest focuses on the 19th century (we are currently at work on an anthology "Dal salotto al partito" which is going to be published next fall). But we are interested both in GDR and FRG contemporary women writers as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I thank you in advance for everything you will do for us and I remain&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yours sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lee LiAman&lt;br /&gt;Giuli Liebman Parrinello&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG WORKSHOP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is another sunmary of the WIG Workshop session on "Forms of Our Bodies":&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sat. a.m. session: "The Forms of Our Bodies"&lt;br /&gt;Organizers: Bonnie Beckett and Jill McDonald&lt;br /&gt;Participants: Sara Lennox, Johanna Moore, Jeanette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt": this quota­tion from Wittgenstein served as a motto for the session. How do women express their physical existence? Are references to women's bodies used by female authors as part of particular language devices intended to overcome the "Sprachlosigkeit" they experience in a patriarchal world? Is the use of such references part of a general attempt on the part of women writers to create a new poetic language?&lt;br /&gt;The three presentations in the session taken together addressed all these questions They complemented each other and provoked a lively discussion of these and related issues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Lennox analyzed the central image of nearsightedness in Ingeborg Bach­mann's "Ihr glücklichen Augen" as an expression of the distortions of patriarchal society (Miranda's astigmatism) and Miranda's acceptance of the patriarchal system (her "willed" myopia in that she refuses to wear her glasses). The patriarchal ideology of heterosexual love leads to Women's subjection and to men's victimization as well. Bachmann seems to have felt that women’s self­expression is coifled by patriarchy but not totally confined by it. Yet stepping outside the norms of this society usually leads to the destruction of Bachmann’s women, as when Miranda is cut by the glass door she walks into at the end of the story. In Gabriele Wohmann's "Ernste Absichte," women's physical being is reduced to their hair. As Johanna Moore pointed out, this part of the body comes to represent the whole. The focus on hair in our society as an expression of sexuality and the object of advertising propaganda is important here. The&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;fact that hair is actually dead thus becomes significant, as does its dis­appearing at times (under the habits of nuns) and its use as a camouflage.&lt;br /&gt;The heroine, a writer recovering from an "Unterleibsoperation", combs her hair back as she faces herself and the prospect of death openly. Jeanette Clausen showed the importance of the examination and articulation of the body as part of Verena Stefan’s attempt to restructure langauge as a female vehicle of expression ("Häutungen"). This writer, the one of the three to be writing in the most overtly feminist context, is the most explicit in connecting the expression of the body with reconstituting of language. Of the three, her linguistic experimentation represents the most optimistic attempt to overcome woman's "Sprachlosigkeit," or at least to begin to create new linguistic possibilities for doing so.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The ensuing discussion of the session began with the expression of a need of a new term other than "heterosexual love" to designate the negative manifesta­tions of the sexual ideology of patriarchy. "Patriarchal love relationships" was suggested as an alternative to avoid the alienation which the negative use of "heterosexual love" has for feminists involved in positive relationships with men. The discussion then turned to whether women can "speak through their bodies" since these traditionally have been possessed by men. It was pointed out that women are still largely speaking and writing out of a patriarchal perspective. In connection with this, Margot Schroeder reminded us that women should beware of being overly concerned with the expression of their bodies and their physical being. Such a one-sided focus is similar to the reduction of women to physical, biological beings so dominant in patriarchy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorder: Linda S. Pickle &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Political Action Committee was created at the WIG 1980 Workshop. The following is a reminder of how all WIG members can help this committee function effectively.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At its meeting in Racine last October, WIG decided to create a committee that would concern itself with political issues such as the hiring, promoting and tenuring of women Germanists, or the recent MLA decision to replace the pro­posed policy recommendation regarding sexist language by a simple suggestion that MLA members avoid discriminating language.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To be effective (within the means of our limited time), the committee needs the cooperation of WIG members. Please let us know your concerns!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More specifically, we would like to ask you to send us any information you might have concerning hiring and promotion/tenure. We would like to start collecting information on these issues. Therefore let us know your and/or your friends' problems and success stories; let us know your experiences in job interviews. Our goal in this area is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a)  to collect statistics that will transcend the bare facts to be gleaned from the Personalia section in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Monatshefte&lt;/span&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;b)  to develop statistics with regard to the hiring and promoting/ tenuring of women by individual departments;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;c)  to set up a file of specific cases (short description of problem and attempts of and/or solutions) for reference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If anybody needs some advice concerning a problem and the ways of handling it, I will be glad to share my experience (including three years on a College Faculty Appeals Committee) with you. Or contact any other member of the committee—we all want to pass on whatever knowledge we have acquired in this area.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let us hear from you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marianne Burkhard, Chair&lt;br /&gt;U. of Illinois, Urbana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Renny Harrigan&lt;br /&gt;U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helen Fehervary&lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U., Columbus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ritta Jo Horsley&lt;br /&gt;U. of Massachussetts-Boston&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sara Lennox&lt;br /&gt;U. of Masschussetts-Amherst&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***********&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Minutes of Business Meeting at MLA - Houston, December 28, 1980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;: Marjorie Tussing asked to be replaced because of too many other commitments. It was agreed that Martha Wallach should be asked despite the fact that she is not from the West.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA 1981&lt;/span&gt;: Proposal for two sections back to back on "German Romantic Women"; coordinators are Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG 1981&lt;/span&gt;; AATG would allow a half-day preconference workshop on Tuesday before Thanksgiving. These workshops are for high school teachers. Gabriele Wickert and Barbara Wright would coordinate "Women in the Curriculum: Methods and Materials for Non-Sexist Education."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Proposal deadline is early in January, Jeanette Clausen will contact people to see if proposal can be submitted; if this is impossible, we will pro­pose two sessions: 1) "Mothering in German Literature" (Ric Johnson, Karen Achbrger) and 2) on pedagogy as substitute for workshop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG Workshop 1982&lt;/span&gt;: Since Christa Wolf cannot come, we decided to try to invite &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sara Kirsch&lt;/span&gt;. Linda S. Pickle will coordinate the grant writing for the money, will be glad for any suggestions and help!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Site&lt;/span&gt;: Barbara Wright and Joey Horsley found the Thompson Island Education Center, a place on an island in Boston harbor. Price for two nights+meals+trans- portation from shore: $49.00. The Steering Committee decided that this should be the site for the 1982 WIG Workshop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Financial Report&lt;/span&gt;: Small profit from T-shirts, they are now available from Jeanette Clausen, Fort Wayne for $5.00.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bibliography&lt;/span&gt;: Send titles of relevant publications to Sara Lennox, U. of Massa­chusetts, Amherst.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Political Action&lt;/span&gt;: Suggestion that we all make efforts to make students aware of procedures for sexual harassments (where they exist). Please send all info regarding tenure/promotion (good and bad) to Marianne Burkhard, U. of Illinois, Urbana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG CONFERENCE SIT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;E&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joey Horsley has Informed us that she was able to reserve the retreat center at Thompson Island in Boston Harbor for the 1982 WIG Workshop (October 5-17). The Island has 157 acres with beaches, groves, saltmarshes, self-guiding trails, playing fields and a gym. It is one mile from Boston by boat. It sounds wonderful! Thank you, Joey. Remember that the 1981 WIG Workshop will be held again in Racine, Wisconsin (October 16-18).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AATG Annual Meeting, November 1980, Boston, MA WIG Session: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Teaching in Practice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
I. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;"Frauen" - A Model Curriculum Unit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Developed by Karen Weinschenker (Minneapolis Public Schools) as part of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;A World of Women&lt;/span&gt;, a larger curriculum project directed by Mary Jane Roe (Minneapolis Public Schools), and funded by the Minnesota Council on Quality Education. Presented by Suzanne P. Jebe (Minnesota State Dept. of Education).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The objectives of these non-graded secondary learning materials (suitable for grades 7-12) are to increase student and teacher awareness of the role of females in German speaking cultures and to increase teacher effectiveness in the teaching of non-sexist materials. The curriculum packet includes annotated lists of 50 women who have made significant contributions to the arts, sciences, letters, or political and social developments, presented in both English and German; a smaller number of women are discussed at some­what greater length, some in English and some in German. Related classroom activities and brief reading selections for various levels focus on occupa­tional, family, and social roles. Posters and a synchronized slide-cassette tape presentation provide additional historical and contemporary material for classroom use.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A limited number of the curriculum packets may be available; inquiries should be directed to Dr. Jermaine Arendt, Minneapolis Public Schools, Modern Language Department, 807 Northeast Broadway, Minneapolis, MN 55413.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;II. The Invisible Woman: Woman in the GDR - Issues and Social Policy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margaret E. Ward, Wellesley College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Too often in classrooms and instructional materials the women of the GDR have suffered a double invisibility, neglected both as part of a less familiar society and as women. An understanding of the situation of women in the GDR requires basic knowledge of official social policy in the GDR, which in its constitution, laws, and various institutions guarantees equal rights for women. This egalitarian social policy has provided important vehicles for significant progress in four areas:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) The sphere of public and political activity: Increasing numbers of women are active as elected officials and work to promote women's issues, although a pyramid still exists in SED party structure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2) Employment: Laws and programs providing incentive and training to women have resulted in 87% of women being employed, and in female representation in all sectors of the economy. Women are still underrepresented in top-level positions, however.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3) Education: The gap between the sexes has been dramatically narrowed; all children receive the same 10-year polytechnical education and women now make up more than half of university-level students.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4) Family: Official policy (Family Law, 1966) maintains that women's right to work and self-development is not to be hindered by housework or childraising, which are to be joint responsibilities of men and women. This principle is reflected in the availability of sex education, the pill, abortion; extra financial support for children, 26 weeks paid maternity leave, and state-supported kindergarten and Krippen. But this "private sphere" has also been most resistant to change: in addition to their paid labor women still spend 37 hours per week on housework compared to men's six hours.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Despite the fact that attitudes and behaviors change more slowly than constitutional guarantees of equality might suggest, the GDR's progressive social policy in these areas has brought rapid changes in women's role and status. See attached list of selected resources.&lt;/p&gt;
III. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bettina Wegner: Liedermacherln of the GDR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Victoria Joanne Moessner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Born in Berlin in 1947, Bettina Wegner was briefly imprisoned, and expelled from the Berlin Schauspielschule in 1968 after distributing hand­bills in protest of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Despite this offense she was allowed to study at the Zentrales Studio für Unterhaltungs­Kunst from 1971-72, and thus had an entree into the officially sanctioned pop music scene of the GDR. Wegner quickly turned from such superficial popular music, however, to the production of songs of criticism and serious social comment in the tradition of Biermann and Brecht, working as a free­lance Liedermacherin in Berlin since 1973.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In June 1978 Wegner appeared at the Internationale Literatur-Tage in West Berlin; a recording of this performance is available ("Sind so Kleine Hände"). After Wegner joined other GDR intellectuals in protesting the government's action against Wolf Biermann her opportunities for performing in the GDR were restricted. In March 1980 she, her Husband Klaus Schlesinger, and their three children were granted visas to travel and live in West Berlin and the FRG for three years; Schlesinger is now working as a journalist in West Berlin.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In her songs Wegner often takes the part of the underdog and powerless, especially children, criticizing social and governmental pressures to con­form. She treats aspects of woman's existence in the "Männergesellschaft", as she termed GDR society in an interview in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Zeit&lt;/span&gt;. With their accessible vocabulary and style and vivid message Wegner’s songs are useful for intro­ducing students to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Liedermacher&lt;/span&gt;, and for beginning a discussion of such topics as the position of women in the GDR and the problems of dissident artists and intellectuals. See attached list of selected resources.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary by Joey Horsley, Session Chairperson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in the German Democratic Republic: Issues and Social Policy&lt;/span&gt; — Margaret Ward, Women in German/Feminist Pedagogy Section, AATG Meeting November 23, 1980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Selected Sources&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Books&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Allendorf, Marlis. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in Socialist Society&lt;/span&gt;. New York: International Publishers, 1975.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Die Frauen sind das Beste an der DDR." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;In Leben in der DDR&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Eva WindmBller and Thomas Hüpker. Hamburg: Sterabuch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen in der DDR: Zwanzig Erzählungen&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Lutz-W. Wolff. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1978. (dtv 1174).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kirsch, Sarah. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Pantherfrau: Fünf Frauen in der DDR&lt;/span&gt;. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 1978. (rororo neue frau, 4216).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Menschik, Jutta, and Evelyn Leopold. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gretchens &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;rote Schwestern: Frauen in der DDR&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1974. (Fischer 1394).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wander, Maxie. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Guten Morgen, du SchBne: Frauen in der DDR&lt;/span&gt;. Protokolle mit einem Vorwort von Christa Wolf. Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1979. (sammlung luchterhand, 289).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wie Emanzipiert sind die Frauen in der DDR? Beruf-Bildung-Familie&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Herta Kuhrig, and Wulfram Speigner. Cologne: Pahl Rugenstein, 1979. (kleine bibliothek, 171).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wiggershaus, Renate. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Geschichte der Frauen und der Frauenbewegung in der BRD und in der DDR nach 1945&lt;/span&gt;. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer, 1979.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;GDR: Facts and Figures&lt;/span&gt;. Dresden: Verlag Zeit im Bild, 1975.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women Under Socialism&lt;/span&gt;. 2nd ed. Berlin (East): Panorama, 1976.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Films&lt;/span&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;United States Committee for Friendship with the GDR 130 E. 16th &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Street, 3rd&lt;/span&gt; Floor, New York, NY 10003 Telephone: [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Happiness of Women&lt;/span&gt;—Traces lives of women in various occupations. 16 mm, $10, 30 min., English and German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in the GDR&lt;/span&gt;, 16 mm, $5, 20 min., English.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Available from: &lt;br /&gt;Audio Brandon Films&lt;br /&gt;34 MacQuesten Parkway South, Mount Vernon, NY 10550&lt;br /&gt;Telephone: [redacted] (outside NY) [redacted]          (inside NY)&lt;br /&gt;Additional addresses and WATS lines in Illinois, Texas, California&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Seventh Year&lt;/span&gt; (1969), 35 mm, $75, 82 min., English subtitles. "Das Siebente Jahr", written and directed by Frank Vogel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bettina Wegner; Selected Sources&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Selected Bibliography&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Record: Bettina Wegner, "Sind so kleine Hände." CBS 83507, 1979. CBS-Studio-Frankfurt am Main.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Book: Bettina Wegner: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wenn meine Lieder nicht mehr stimmen&lt;/span&gt; (mit einem Vorwort von Sarah Kirsch). Rowohlt Nr. 4399, 1979. Rowohlt Taschen­buch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Article: "Troubadora mit Löwenherz. Ein Porträt der Liedermacherin Bettina Wegner aus der DDR." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Zeit&lt;/span&gt; Nr. 5, 25 January 1980.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Selected &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Paperbacks&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
1. Thomas Rothschild: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Liedermacher: 23 Porträts&lt;/span&gt;. Fischer Nr. 2959, 1980. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main. (Has one comment about Wegner, but gives a good idea of Liedermacher in West Germany, Switzerland and Austria.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Karl Riha: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Moritat, Bänkelsong, Protestballade, Kabarett-Lyrik und engagiertes Lied in Deutschland&lt;/span&gt;. Athenäum Taschenbücher, 1979. Athenäum-Fischer Taschunbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Inge Latz (Hrsg.): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen-Lieder&lt;/span&gt;. Fischer Nr. 2957.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Peter Schleuning (Hrsg.): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kinderlieder selber machen&lt;/span&gt;. Rowohlt Sachbuch Nr. 7115.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Another Possibility&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Von Oma Punk zum Plättli Blues: Neue Frauenmusik. Feministische Buchverlag. 3501 Naumburg/Elberberg&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Trouba Disc.&lt;br /&gt;Frauen Musik Vertrieb Gmbh&lt;br /&gt;Arcisstrasse&lt;br /&gt;8000 Munich 40&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG WORKSHOP 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be a session on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German-Jewish Women Writers&lt;/span&gt; at the 6th annual &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; conference, October 16-18, 1981, in Racine, Wisconsin. This session is intended to focus on writers who grapple in their work with the complex intersection of what it means/has meant to be German Jewish and a woman—an intersection of multiple identities and oppressions. We are not placing a limit on the time periods or genres to be included. Please send all inquiries, ideas, abstracts, or working drafts to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt; Evelyn T. Beck, 2319 Huidekoper Place, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007 and Lynne Ozer, [redacted] by April 15, 1981.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;There will also be a session tentatively titled "New Ways of Reading: Critical Feminist Approaches to Specific Primary Texts." Our purpose is to contribute to analysis. There will be three separate workshops, each to focus on one preselected primary text from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a large plenary session for the presentation and discussion of theoretical perspectives. More specific information about texts will be printed in the next newsletter. In the meantime, if you have suggestions or inquiries, write to: Susan Cocalis (18th c.), Department of German, University of Massachusetts- Amherst, Amherst, MA; Biddy Martin (late 19th c.), Department of German, Univer­sity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53703; Karen Jankowsky (20th c.), Depart­ment of German, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG CONVENTION 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG Pre-Conference Workshop Proposal&lt;/span&gt;: Denver, November 1981&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Forward to Basics: Non-Sexist German Instruction at the Beginning Level&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This workshop will first sensitize participants to problems of overt and covert sexism in German language instruction. A variety of corrective strategies will then be presented: 1) for adapting existing textbooks to non-sexist use, 2) for enriching language programs with cultural materials that focus on women, and 3) for supplementing regular instruction with non-sexist exercises and games. Finally, participants will have an opportunity to analyze a sample lesson plan for sexual bias and modify it using the techniques which have been discussed. Bibliographies and resource information will also be distributed. If you would like to make a presentation within this general framework, please submit an abstract (2-3 pages) by April 15, 1981. Send your proposal to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gabriele Wickert&lt;br /&gt;German Department&lt;br /&gt;Manhattanville College &lt;br /&gt;Purchase, NY 10577                &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barbara Wright&lt;br /&gt;Germanic &amp;amp; Slavic Languages&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of Conn., U-137&lt;br /&gt;Storrs, CT 06268&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS, MLA CONVENTION, DECEMBER 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Coalition of Women in German will sponsor two sessions on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women Writers of the Romantic Period: New Perspectives&lt;/span&gt; at the MLA Convention in December 1981 in New York. Please submit abstracts for papers (2-3 pages) by March 15, 1981. Send proposals to:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Elke Frederiksen                &lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Germanic &amp;amp; Slavic Languages and Literatures &lt;br /&gt;University of Maryland &lt;br /&gt;College Park, MD 20742&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha Wallach&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Foreign Languages &lt;br /&gt;University of Wisconsin-Green Bay &lt;br /&gt;Green Bay, WI 54302&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF WOMEN WRITERS AND CRITICS "Breaking the Sequence: Women, Literature and the Future" will be held at Wllesley College April 30-May 2, 1981. Workshops on the BRD and GDR; Ingeborg drewitz will represent the BRD. For information and registration write to Margaret Lafferty, Coordinator of Special Events, Wellesely College, Wellesley, MA 02181, Telephone: [redacted].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BOOKS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;THE LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF PAULA MODERSOHN-BECKER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Translated and annotated by J. Diane Radycki Introduction by Alessandra Comini &lt;br /&gt;Epilogue by Adrienne Rich and Lilly Engler&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;370 pages 1980 illus. LC: 80-18993, ISBN 0-8108-1344-0, $17.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The developing persona of a young woman painter at the turn of the century, living in vulnerable isolation, struggling to resolve the conflict between what she demanded of herself as an artist and what society expected of her as a married woman is chronicled in &lt;i&gt;The Letters and Journals of Paula Modersohn- Becker.&lt;/i&gt; It is one of those rare documents that allows us to see someone become who she is. This major early Expressionist created deeply felt images, “monumental in their intimacy,” in her paintings and in her writings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The reader is provided with an intriguing guide to the art capitals of Berlin, London, and Paris as seen through the eyes of a woman studying art, and we view through “a sometimes hyperborean light” the changing relationships between Becker and her friends, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Clara Westhoff (the sculptor who married Rilke), and her husband, the painter Otto Modersohn. The letters begin when Becker is in art school and end within a month of her tragic death in 1907 at age thirty-one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;This is the first presentation of Becker’s writings in English— an event long overdue. The extensively annotated translation uses contemporary sources to delineate the artistic milieu and the relevant historical-social-feminist situation in 1900. New light is shed on the art education of Becker, who, like Klthe Kollwitz, is one of the first woman artists to come from a non- artistic background. '&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The volume is eloquently introduced by Alessandra Comini, author of &lt;i&gt;The Fantastic Art of Vienna&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Egon Schiele’s Portraits&lt;/i&gt; (nominated for the 1973 National Book Award). The epilogue includes Rilke’s intense “Requiem” of 1908 (trans­lated by Lilly Engler and Adrienne Rich, and never before published) and Rich’s own moving “Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff." Of special interest to artists, art historians, and feminists, this record of a short and fiercely lived life will draw all readers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;About the translator/annotator&lt;/span&gt; Diane Radycki is an art historian who began her study of tum-of-the century art and art education as a graduate student at Hunter College. She is included in the recently published &lt;i&gt;Voices of Women,&lt;/i&gt; and is currently writing a biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Linguistische Berichte &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;69&lt;/span&gt; special issue on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Language, Sex and Power I &lt;/span&gt;edited by Luise Pusch and Senta Trömel-Plötz just appeared. It contains the first guidelines for non-sexist use for the German language.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Language, Sex and Power II&lt;/span&gt; will appear as "Linguistische Berichte 71" in February 1981. Both can be ordered individually through any bookstores.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Publisher: Verlag Vieweg - Braunscfaweig/Wiesbaden - West Germany&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&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 deutschen Literatur.&lt;/span&gt; Hessische Beiträge zur deutschen Literatur. Darm­stadt: Gesellschaft Hessischer Literaturfreunde (1980). 120 pp. $10.95.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The book is handled in the U.S. by Adler Foreign Books, New York, and advertised in their fall catalogue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmgard C.Tayler is interested in having someone write a review of her book for the next WIG News­letter. If you are interested, please contact us in Madison.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;23&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; is a feminist coalition open to all those who are interested in promoting feminist scholarship and pedagogy in German literary and cultural studies, as well as in German language teaching, on all levels and in all educa­tional settings. We are a non-hierarchical group open to students and teachers alike. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG&lt;/span&gt;, as our group is affectionately named and known, was formed in 1975. Since that time it has created a viable communication network and support system across the United States and Europe by means of its &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Newsletter&lt;/span&gt;, the annual national &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG&lt;/span&gt; conference, as well as workshops held in conjunction with the national organizations and regional branches of AATG and MLA. We have had a considerable impact on the profession. Departments of German as well as journals have become aware of a large and vigilant feminist presence. Our sessions at meetings are consis­tently among the best attended and our voices have been heard (and to some extent heeded) in the text book departments of major publishing houses. We have begun the task of integrating women writers into the traditional curriculum and have created separate courses where the writings of women can be studied in the context of feminist theory and in conjunction with the works of other women. We have encouraged the publication of anthologies of women’s writings both in German and in translation; we have supported and inspired doctoral theses on feminist topics and encouraged undergraduates to research the work of women. We are committed to helping women gain tenure and to raising our voices in protest when they have been denied it unfairly. In short, we have fought sexism and have validated the study of women. This year we were able to bring Margot Schroeder to our annual conference and are in the process of making plans to bring Angelika Mechtel in 1981. Over the years we have provided the kind of nourishing support and stimu­lating intellectual discussion that has helped many of us get through a year in isolation. We are pleased to count among our numbers women who do not earn their living by their German degrees but maintain an interest in German studies from a feminist perspective. In such diversity lies our strength. For details concerning membership see coupon below; there is a sliding fee scale based on financial need.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN NEWSLETTER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 23                                                        November 1980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Membership/Subscription Fee: $7.00 ($3.00 if unemployed or student)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nearly a month has passed since many of us were in Racine for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG &lt;/span&gt;conference. For some it was possibly the first exposure to a conference with such a relaxed atmosphere, so conducive to intellectual exchange and support. For others it has become the yearly occasion to renew friendship and enjoy the exchange of ideas and experiences. For all of us, yet another Fall has been marked by a memorable weekend of concern about Women in German. The presence of Margot Schroeder, our first guest writer from the Federal Republic, certainly enriched the experience and convinced us of the value of having a woman writer in our midst, sharing her writing, her life and activity with us. Those of us who had a chance to spend time with Margot in Madison and/or Racine enjoyed and benefitted immensely from her intellectual, political and personal involvement, her warmth, her candor and her wit. She not only enhanced our experience of her work and texts, but contributed enormously to our discussions and understanding of women’s writing generally. We will continue this newly established tradition next year (in Racine, October 16-18) when Angelika Mechtel from the FRG will join us, and in 1982 when we hope to have a woman writer from the GDR.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On behalf of all the conference participants, we want to thank Johanna Moore, Beth Weckmueller and Hildegard Melstrand for the fantastic job they did of organizing the physical arrangements for the conference (and for their humor), Jeannette Clausen for her superb job of program coordination, and Jeannette and Naomi Stefan for coordinating Margot Schroeder's visit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG&lt;/span&gt; welcomes your responses to the Racine conference; be sure to send them to us! To initiate discussion, we of the Newsletter collective would like to applaud our decision to incorporate more small group workshops into the individual sessions next year, and to announce the specific primary works to be considered far enough in advance to encourage more informed and broader-based participation in discussion. In this year's session on "The Forms of Our Bodies," Johanna Moore began her presentation on Gabriele Wohmann's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ernste Absicht&lt;/span&gt; with an assertion that stimulated a great deal of discussion and provided incentive for next year's session on "New Ways of Reading: Critical Feminist Approaches to Selected Primary Texts." (Tentative title.) Johanna suggested that "finding the body (or sexuality) in a text requires new ways of reading." Susan Cocalis, Biddy Martin and Karen Jankowsky will coordinate a session that will include both presentations on theoretical perspectives, and small group workshops, organized by centuries, to do collective textual analyses. The texts to be considered will be announced in the next newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are equally excited about the proposed session on German-Jewish women writers, to be coordinated by Evelyn Beck and Lynne Ozer, a session that intro­duces a field and a range of political and personal issues that are only beginning to be raised in our work. Certainly the Friday evening workshop on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprache&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gefühl&lt;/span&gt; und &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminismus&lt;/span&gt;, to be coordinated by Naomi Stefan, will open up the concrete and very fascinating problems we encountered this year around our choice of language. The implication of our discomfort with one or the other language in particular contexts was a persistent concern and discussion topic. All of these sessions reflect the incredible degree to which our conferences and workshops involve genuinely collective and ongoing intellectual concerns and excitements.&lt;br /&gt;We have two suggestions for future conferences:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a) What about adopting a theme for a future conference, such as is done in the Westberlin Frauensommeruni (see article in this issue).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;b) Perhaps part of the open business session at subsequent conferences could be held on Saturday during the noon hour when more people could participate in discussion of future topics, themes, guest writers, format; or, alternatively, we could create more opportuni­ties for people to submit written suggestions for those items should they be unable to attend the Sunday session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With these ideas in mind, we welcome your thoughts to help build the next &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG &lt;/span&gt;conference!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You will have noticed from reading the first page of this newsletter that we are working to intensify our outreach efforts. All members are urged to photocopy the first page of this newsletter and pass it along to potentially interested colleagues. Two hundred extra copies of the newsletter are being printed for distribution at the upcoming AATG and MLA conferences. Until March!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG WORKSHOP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of Business and Planning Meeting &lt;br /&gt;5th Annual Women in German Workshop &lt;br /&gt;October 14, 1980&lt;br /&gt;Chaired by Karen Achberger and Charlotte Smith&lt;/p&gt;
I. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Financial Report&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After several brief announcements the financial report was given by Johanna Moore on the 1980 workshop and by Biddy Martin on the status of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG&lt;/span&gt; Newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Johanna indicated that after paying expenses a surplus was left. It was decided that this surplus together with $100 from the Newsletter fund would go to Jeanette Clausen as a refund for the amount she advanced on Schroeder’s airplane ticket. The Rinser fund designated for paying travel expenses did not cover the entire ticket due to a sharp increase in prices for air travel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Biddy Martin reported that the Newsletter is in good financial shape. It now has 220 paying subscribers. Since few people are sustaining members of WiG, everybody who can afford to do so was encouraged to become a sustaining member ($15 per year). The following measures for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;outreach&lt;/span&gt; were also approved:&lt;/p&gt;
1. The first page of the Newsletter shall bear a short description of the character and function of WiG and a registration form so that it can easily be photocopied and handed out. WiG members were encouraged to do so as well as to send Biddy Martin names of prospective members so that she can forward one copy of the Newsletter to these persons. Have your nearest library subscribe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. 200 extra copies of the next Newsletter will be printed to be distributed at the upcoming AATG and MLA conferences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;II.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Continuing members: Marjorie Tussing, Biddy Martin, Jeanette Clausen, Sara Lennox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In order to make the Steering Committee more effective, the following charges, functions and duties for each member were suggested and approved:&lt;/p&gt;
1. A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;bibliography&lt;/span&gt; of the current year’s primary and secondary pub­lications relevant to a feminist approach to German literature and culture to be published in each spring issue of the WiG Newsletter. Members are urged to send short annotated biblio­graphical items to Sara Lennox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Textbook reviews&lt;/span&gt; and bibliography. Marjorie Tussing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Outreach&lt;/span&gt; to be coordinated by the liaison member to the Newsletter,Biddy Martin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. AATG and MLA &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;organizational research&lt;/span&gt; to assist WiG section chair­persons in developing and organizing their sessions at the national conferences. Jeanette Clausen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Political action&lt;/span&gt;; the representative chairs the Political Action Committee to be established.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Grant writing&lt;/span&gt; and fund raising for financing travel and other expenses of future WiG Workshop guest writers.
&lt;p&gt;The new members elected to serve on the Steering Committee are Marianne Burkhard, Urbana, Illinois, for position no. 5; and Linda Pickle, Columbia, Missouri, for position no. 6.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. &lt;span&gt;1981 WiG Workshop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Members present expressed gratitude to Johanna Moore, Beth Weckmueller, and Hildegard Melstrand for once again organizing the physical arrangements for this year’s conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Date&lt;/span&gt;: A motion was made and approved to establish a regular date for the Work­shop on the third weekend in October, with the second priority given to the second weekend of the same month. For the coming year, the dates of October 16-18 were set for the Workshop with a registration deadline of September 15, 1981.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Site&lt;/span&gt;: The site for the 1981 Workshop will again be the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Siena Center&lt;/span&gt; in Racine, Wisconsin. The Steering Committee will make the decision on a site for the 1982 Workshop at the WiG business session during the 1980 AATG conference upon recommendations from Susan Cocalis, Barbara Wright and Joey Horsley, who are investigating a possible site in the Northeast.&lt;br /&gt;Miriam Frank and Dorothy Rosenberg are looking into possibilities on the West Coast.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Coordination&lt;/span&gt;: Coordinator for the physical arrangements will be Nancy Vedder-Shults; Helen Fehervary will serve as program coordinator; Renny Harrigan will again make child care arrangements; a natural foods option will be pro­vided and arrangements for it will be organized by Martha Wallach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Program&lt;/span&gt;: It was agreed to use German as the language of the Workshop as much as possible in consideration to the guest writer, program contributions still being in the language of the presenter’s choice; we also decided to organize sessions into small group discussions with a plenary session at the end of each. The sessions agreed upon are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday p.m. Sprache, Gefühl and Feminismus, coordinated by Naomi Stephan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday (1) "New Ways of Reading:" Critical Feminist Approaches to Selected Texts. Chaired by Susan Cocalis (18th century), Biddy Martin (19th century), Karen Jankowsky (20th century).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(2)  German-Jewish Women Writers, coordinated by Evelyn Beck and Lynne Ozer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(3)  The evening session will concentrate on a presenta­tion by the West German writer &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Angelika Mechtel&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our thanks go to Naomi Stephan for her excellent planning and fund raising that are making this visit possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IV. &lt;span&gt;Political Action Committee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was agreed that a Political Action Committee be established to monitor tenure cases of women in German and to give support to women experiencing problems in obtaining tenure. Elected members of the committee are Marianne Burkhard, Joey Horsley, Helen Fehervary and Renny Harrigan. (cont'd)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first item of business for this newly elected group was to draft a letter in support of Renny Harrigan’s tenure case. The motion to accept the letter was unanimously passed. The letter will be sent to the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with copies to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the Chairperson of the German Department, and the MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. It will be signed by Marianne Burkhard as "Affirmative Action Officer" of WiG.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V. &lt;span&gt;Textbook Committee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A textbook committee was established to work with the Steering Committee Funding Officer (newly elected Linda Pickle) in the long-range project suggested by Susan Cocalis to write non-sexist German language texts. Susan Cocalis, Martha Wallach, Naomi Stephan, and Marjorie Tussing were elected to this committee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VI. &lt;span&gt;AATG and MLA Sessions of WiG in 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the three MLA sessions will be on "German Women Romantic Writers," coordinated by Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The literary session at the 1981 AATG meeting will be on the topic: "Mothering in German Literature" and will be coordinated by Ric Johnson and Karen Achberger. The pedagogical session topic and coordinators will be elected at the Boston AATG business meeting of WiG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The other two session topics and coordinators for the MLA 1981 will be determined, as in past years, at the 1980 AATG and MLA meetings respectively.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Charlotte K. Smith &lt;br /&gt;Acting Secretary&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*********************&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS 1980&lt;/p&gt;
I. "Transforming the Structures of Our Lives and Our Work," facilitated by Angelika Bammer and Evelyn Beck.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The open discussion we had called for at last year’s meeting came easily and quickly at our first session; the particular shape it took was a reflection of concerns we had left unspoken in the past. After a brief presentation by Evelyn and Angelika on how and why this session had come about and on our increas­ing need to bridge the gaps between our "personal" and "professional" encounters, we moved into smaller groups to discuss the issue of our bonding (or not bonding) with other women within the context of our work. Questions we considered were: what are the obstacles we encounter, what are the joys, strengths, or fears we discover, why and in what ways is this bonding between women who work together important? After lively interaction in our small circles, we all gathered together again in one large group. In the ensuing discussion a particular aspect of women-bonding was addressed with considerable concern and insistence: how does our sexual orientation affect our patterns of bonding or failing to bond? How have we in Women in German—as lesbians, as women relating to men, as women&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;without partners—experienced these sexual differences? In our discussion Friday evening we did not reach conclusions. What we did do was begin to express feelings we had not wanted to risk saying before. In that process we saw that we now have the necessary trust to say difficult things to one another and the willingness to face them together.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Bammer&lt;/p&gt;
II. The Forms of Our Bodies&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Zerrsichtigkeit ist ärger als Blindsein: The Language of the Body in Ingeborg Bachmann’s ’Ihr glücklichen Augen”'&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My discussion of this short story from Bachmann’s collection &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Simultan&lt;/span&gt; is part of a larger study of her late prose works, the novel cycle "Todesarten." My central thesis in this study is that Bachmann, like other recent feminists, locates women within a patriarchal ideology into which they are inserted through their acceptance of their sexual identity and their socially defined relationship to men as men’s others and inferiors. Our constitution as the gendered human beings we are is accomplished through our acquisition of language, our learning the rules of thought of the social and sexual order. Outside of that language it is impossible, strictly speaking, to think, as Wittgenstein, in whom Bachmann had been interested since her student days, maintained: "Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt." As Bachmann asserts in her own case and as Luce Irigaray also argues, women have no voice within this system to express who they really are, for language belongs to men. To speak at all, they must find some non-verbal language outside our rational order to express themselves; and this may occur in their dreams (as in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Malina)&lt;/span&gt;, in their madness, or as both Georg Groddeck, to whom Bachmann dedicated "Ihr glücklichen Augen," and Irigaray argue, in the very bodies of women, in hysteria and psychosomatic symptoms. The main agent of women’s destruction, the primary "Todesart" in the novel cycle and in the story is heterosexual love, which most fundamentally represents women’s acceptance of their subjective possibilities as patriarchy has defined them. That is, in love with men, women act within structures of patriarchy which define them as men's objects and others, allowing them no autonomous subjectivity or sexuality.&lt;br /&gt;Her women almost always rebel; they are never completely contained by patriarchy.&lt;br /&gt;But almost always their rebellion also means their own destruction.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this short story, Bachmann's near-sighted central figure Miranda refuses to see the reality of her patriarchal context, literally making herself blind to it. Her bad eyesight indicates her accession to patriarchal ideology and, if we accept a psychoanalytic reading (eyes = testicles), she also castrates herself, accepting the social definition of women as castrated men, without an independent sexuality of their own. This is fateful for her susceptibility to the enticements of romantic heterosexual love, for her life revolves around her love—"auf dem ersten Blick"—for Josef, in which she has deposited all her claims for subjective happiness. When Josef leaves her for another woman, Miranda tries to protect herself by feigning a new love affair, yet both she and Josef realize dimly that he has ordered her execution. Her body speaks the distress she will not admit: blindly she walks into a revolving door and is thrown bleeding to the floor amid a hail of glass. This accident, unconsciously intended, expresses the reality of her condition, that she is constrained within a system from which there is no door open for her escape, and that the heterosexual love around which her life is structured is a "Todesart" which will destroy her.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Lennox&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Urn’s Haar zum weißen Fleck"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The thesis psoposed was that we must find a new way of reading women's literature. On the basis of Gabriele Wohman’s novel ERNSTE ABSICHT this new approach revealed heretofore "hidden" elements which were in no way concealed but might have been overlooked had we read the novel from the "traditional" perspective. Wohmann’s obsession with women’s hair, for instance, would have escaped our attention had we not intended to detect the forms of our bodies in women’s writings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Johanna Moore&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeanette Clausen rounded out the session with an interesting comparative analysis of Verena Stefan’s and Elfriede Jelinek’s approaches to "The Places That Have No Names." Jeanette raised and discussed four major questions: How have feminist women in German-speaking countries attempted to write the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;reality&lt;/span&gt; of our bodies? What names do we have for this reality? What linguistic means do feminist authors use in the attempt to transform this reality? A summary of Jeanette’s presentation will appear in the next newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
III. The Voices of Working Women&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Emancipation or Double Burden: Women and Paid Labor in DDR Literature&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This paper poses the question: Given the theoretically emancipatory con­ditions of legal equality and full employment of women in DDR society, how has popular literature responded in presenting cultural role models to women and what conclusions can be drawn from this example?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After sketching in the economic background, the paper outlines the stages of DDR literature from 1945 to the present. Then, taking Elfriede BrUning as a typical popular writer, it compares her 1955 novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Regine Haberkom&lt;/span&gt; with her 1978 work &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Partnerinnen&lt;/span&gt; to illustrate the development of a critical presentation of women’s double burden of labor inside and outside the home. The paper closes with a brief discussion of recent trends in DDR literature in which women writers have declared that private relations are political and begun to question the legitimacy of inherited social assumptions and institutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women in 19th Century German-American Socialism&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This paper discussed the role of women in the German-American socialist movement, the most significant ethnic radical movement in the 19th century United States. It focused on three areas of discussion: 1) the attitude of German-American socialists towards women’s rights and suffrage as expressed in their official statements, which generally saw women’s emancipation as "secondary" to the emancipation of the working class; 2) the portrayal of women workers in literature by German-American socialist writers; and 3) the actual role of women in socialist organizations and culture. This last point is perhaps the central one, for if we realize that the real strength of German-American socialism lay to a large extent in its cultural and "sub-political activities in which women played a major part, it then becomes evident that women were much more important in this radical movement than traditional methods of history, which focus on political parties, organizational conflicts and "great men", would lead us to believe,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Carol Poore&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**********&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wohnungssuche&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Von Moni van Rheinberg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;über 100 telefonate, 56 (!!) wohnungen angeguckt, rumgefahren, nach leeren fenstern gesehen etc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;ca. 20 wohnungen hätte ich haben können, an den verkehrsreichsten straßen, eine wohnung mit einem zimmer ohne fenster, wohnungen die feucht waren und mit dicken Schimmelflecken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;und dabei wollte ich in einer wohnung l.e.b.e.n...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sachen gibt's:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;- 3 wohnungen, die ich beziehen könnte (umsonst), wenn ich mit dem vermieter regelmäßig schlafe&lt;br /&gt;- 2 wohnungen, wenn ich den "vermieter" heirate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;- fragen nach meiner politischen einstellung&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;- viele wollen wissen, wie lange ich und das kind am tage aus dem haus sind (je weniger ich die wohnung bewohne, um so weniger nutze ich sie ab...)&lt;br /&gt;- vielen vermieterinnen war ich zu jung und damit zu "lebenslustig"&lt;br /&gt;- und überhaupt wie ich aussehe - und noch Künstlerin!&lt;br /&gt;- ob ich verhütungsmittel nehme&lt;br /&gt;- ob der vater meines kindes ausländer sei, vielleicht sogar ein schwarzer...&lt;br /&gt;- wie (?) meine intimen kontakte zu männern seien&lt;br /&gt;- ob ich anständige möbel hätte&lt;br /&gt;- was ich für beziehung ich zu frauen habe&lt;br /&gt;- ob ich auch putzen könne&lt;br /&gt;- frau (alleinstehend)? und mit kind? nein! - das absolute handikap&lt;br /&gt;- geben sie doch erst mal ne heiratsanzeige auf, dann könnense nochmal anrufen&lt;br /&gt;- der gemeinnützigen wohnungsbaugesellschaft war mein sozialer status (arbeitslosenhilfeempfängerin) noch zu a-sozial. obwohl ich drei bürgen für 9 monatsmieten nannte...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;u.s.w.&lt;br /&gt;und so weiter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh du sozialer staat &lt;br /&gt;mit deinen besitzern&lt;br /&gt;du verdammter&lt;br /&gt;ich habe eine solche wut.&lt;br /&gt;...und dabei wollte ich nur in einer&lt;br /&gt;wohnung mit meinem kind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;l.e.b.e.n...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;-10-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;MEETINGS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Attention all WiG members! Sandy Frieden has generously offered to help those of us who are attending the MLA in Houston find alternative lodging (i.e., a cheaper hotel) possibly someplace in the downtown area where we could be together. If you would be interested In such alternative arrangements, let Sandy know immediately. Whether you need help with rooms or not, Sandy would like to know you’re coming to Houston and where you can be reached so she can plan a WiG get-together. It sounds like fun! Sandy Frieden, German Department, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77005.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The coalition of Women in German will sponsor two evening sessions at the annual MLA meeting in Houston on Saturday, December 27. (Numbers in parentheses refer to listings in the official MLA program guide.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(28.) German Women Authors Prior to 1800&lt;br /&gt;7:00 - 8:15 p.m., Mesa, Sheraton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Program arranged by the Coalitoin of Women in German. Presiding: Julie Prandi, Univ. of California, Berkeley, and gabrielle Strauch, Univ. of Wsconsin, Madison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. "The Topos of 'Affected Modesty' in the Works of German Women Mystics," Gertrud J. Lewis, Laurentian Univ.&lt;br /&gt;2. "The Lesson Sophie Learned: Education in Sophie von Laroche's Geschichte des Fräulein von Sterheim," L. Jeannine Blackwell, Indiana Univ., Bloomington.&lt;br /&gt;3. "Magdalena of Freiburg: 'Die Prophetin' as Mystic and Spiritual Authority," Karen Greenspan, Univ. Of Massachussetts, Amherst.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;For outlines of papers and bibliographies write to Julie Prandi.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;(54.) Dichterinnenwahrheit: Women's Poetry in the Context of Their Lives&lt;br /&gt;9:00 - 10:15 p.m., Statesman C, Sheraton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Program arranged by the Coalition of Women in German. Presiding: Viktoria Harwig, Mt. Holyike Coll., and Naomi Stephan, valparaiso Univ. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. "Philippine Engelhard Gatterer," Ruth Dawson, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa&lt;br /&gt;2. "Anna Louise Karsch: Erträumtes Glück," Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Univ. of Bochum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two feminist pedagogy sessions of interest to WiG readers will take place on Sunday, december 28 at the MLA in Houston.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(66.) Feminist Pedagogy: Positions and Points of View&lt;br /&gt;8:30 - 9:45 a.m., State, Whitehall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Program arranged by the Division of Women's Studies in Language and Literature. Presiding: Jusith Fetterley, State Univ. of New York, Albany, and Elaine Marks, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. "Feminist Teachers: The Power of the Personal," Carolyn Allen, Univ. of Washington.&lt;br /&gt;2. "Self-Disclosure and the Commitment to Social Change," Evelyn Beck, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison.&lt;br /&gt;3. "Authority in a Feminist Classroom: A Contradiction in Terms," Susan Friedman, Univ. Of Wisconsin, Madison.&lt;br /&gt;4. "Mastery, Identity, and the Politics of Work: A Feminist Teacher in the Graduate Classroom," Nancy K. Miller, Columbia Univ. and Bunting Inst., Radcliffe College.&lt;br /&gt;5. "A Pedagogy for Liberation: Unloosening the Double Bind," Hortense Spillers, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(93.) Context of Feminist Pedagogy: The Presentation of "Self" &lt;br /&gt;10:15 - 11:30 a.m., State, Whitehall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Program arranged by the Division on Women's Studies in Language and Literature. Presiding: Evelyn Beck, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, and Hortense Spillers, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panelists: Mary Lydon, Univ. of wisconsin, Milwaukee; Margo Culley, Univ. of Massachussetts, Amherst; Biddy (Carolyn) Martin, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; CathyPortuges, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; Susan O'Leary, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;There will be a session on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German-Jewish Women Writers&lt;/span&gt; at the 6th annual&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; conference, October 16-18, 1981, in Racine, Wisconsin. This session is intended to focus on writers who grapple in their work with the complex intersection of what it means/has meant to be German-Jewish and a woman—an intersection of multiple identities and oppressions. We are not placing a limit on the time periods or genres to be included. Please send all inquiries, ideas. abstracts, or working drafts to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt; Evelyn T. Beck, [redacted] and Lynne Ozer, [redacted] by April 15, 1981.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;There will also be a session tentatively titled "New Ways of Reading: Critical Feminist Approaches to Specific Primary Texts." Our purpose is to contribute to a cultural history of femininity by developing new critical tools of textual analysis. There will be three separate workshops, each to focus on one pre­selected primary text from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a large plenary session for the presentation and discussion of theoretical perspectives.&lt;br /&gt;More specific information about texts will be printed in the next newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, if you have suggestions or inquiries, write to: Susan Cocalis (18th c.), Department of German, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA; Biddy Martin (late 19th c.), Department of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53703; Karen Jankowsky (20th c.), Department of German, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: SEND SUGGESTIONS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The WiG steering committee thinks it would be useful to include an annual bibliography in the spring issue of the WiG newsletter. The bibliography will contain primary works of women’s writing and secondary works on feminist theory and scholarship. It could also include journals where we might publish and any other publications interesting for WiG members. It would concentrate on German writing, but other important works (particularly from American feminist) could also be included. The bibliography will consist mostly of your suggestions—so it's important to hear from you about what should be in it. It would be most helpful if you could also include &lt;i&gt;a&lt;/i&gt; sentence or two of annotation telling us what the work is about and why it is important to us. Sara Lennox will be compiling the bibliog­raphy for the steering committee. Please send your suggestions for the bibliography to her at the German Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;WOMEN EDUCATOR'S announces the Fourth Annual "Research on Women in Education" Award, to be presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting in Los Angeles, April 13-17, 1981. Published or unpublished research reports in journal article format on any aspect of women in education are eligible if con­ducted or written up during 1979-80. The deadline for entries is 15 December 1980. Send five (5) copies of the entry (on four of which the author is not identified) and five (5) copies of a 200-250 word abstract of the entry to: Charol Shakeshaft, Coordinator Elect, WOMEN EDUCATOR’S, School of Education, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11550.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN EDUCATOR'S announces the Second Annual "Curriculum Materials" Award, to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Associa­tion in Los Angeles, April 13-17, 1981. Please send one copy of materials relating to women that have been developed for use in educational settings to: Janet E. Kuenne, Ed.D. , Curriculum Award Chair, WOMEN EDUCATOR’S, [redacted]. Include a one-page description of how the materials relate to sexism, sex-role stereotyping, and the image of women and girls. The deadline for entries is December 15, 1980.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&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;Kurt Schleucher, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Leben der Amalia Schoppe und Johanna Schopenhauer&lt;/span&gt;, Darmstadt: Turris-Verlag, 1978.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Das Werk ist aus mehreren Gründen von Interesse. Es liefert ein gutes Bild des deutschen "Literaturbetriebes" aus der Sicht des Talents einer Frau in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Amalia Schoppe wird sonst nur im Zusammenhang mit der Hebbelforschung beachtet und dieser Autor versucht ihr ihres eigenen Wertes wegen gerecht zu werden, arbeitet also lange Vernachlässigtes auf. Zudem bringt das Buch Schoppes ausführliche Berichte Uber Amerika im allgemeinen und das geistige Klima des Union College in Schenectady, NY, im besonderen. Das Buch ist sorgfältig rescherschiert, mit Engagement geschrieben und liest sich mit Nutzen und Genuss.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Im Anhang befindet sich ein fiktives Gespräch zwischen Schoppe und Schopenhauer in denen beide ihre persönliche, literarische und politische Haltung als Frauen aus der Rückschau kommentieren. Ausserdem befindet sich hier die Liste von Schoppes Büchern, eine vielseitige Bibliographie, Personen-und Ortsregister sowie Nachweis der Abbildungen. Das Buch umfasst 526 Seiten, Ganzleinen, DM 29,50. (Irmgard C. Taylor)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Englisch Amerikanische Studien, Zeitschrift für Unterricht, Wissenschaft und Politik. Heft 2, Juni 1980, Verlag Pahl Rugenstein, Köln, Einzelheftpreis 9, DM.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Women’s studies" gibt es im anglo-amerikanischen Raum schon sehr viel länger als bei uns, und zwar außerhalb wie innerhalb der Universitätseinrichtungen. Man spricht dort bereits von einer "feministischen Bildungsbewegung", die sich ent­scheidend auf den weiblichen LebensZusammenhang bezieht, sich an den Kämpfen der Frauenbewegung praktisch orientiert und zum Ziel hat, die Fraueninteressen verpflichteten Problemstellungen innerhalb der Wissenschaft aufzuarbeiten.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Zeitschrift für "Englisch Amerikanische Studien" hat jetzt "Women’s studies zum Themenschwerpunkt eines Heftes gemacht. Mit Gewinn, meine ich, zumal ein direkter Bezug zu vielen—noch vereinzelt und ohne Kontinuität—stattfindenden Frauenseminaren hierzulande besteht, die oft als "unwissenschaftlich" abqualifiziert werden. Die Herausgeber des Heftes wundert das nicht, denn: "stellen sie (die Frauenstudien) die männlich dominierten Wissenschaften und Methoden doch nicht nur grundsätzlich in Frage, sondern zwingen diese auch dadurch zum Offenbarungseid, indem sie eigene Erkenntnisinteressen und -ziele verfolgen, die dem »auBerwissen­schaftlichen’ Kampf gegen die Unterdrückung und Diskriminierung von Frauen verpflichtet sind."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ging es im vergangenen Jahrhundert darum, Frauen den Zugang zur Bildung unbeschränkt zu öffnen, so geht es heute um die Veränderung des Bildungssystems selbst. Ursachen und Entstehung der feministischen Bildungsbewegung sind vielfältig als Teil der Frauenbewegung enstand sie ab 1969 in den USA. Entscheidende Impulse erhielt sie aus der Anti-Vietnam-, Bürgerrechts- und Studentenbewegung. Das Bildungsmonopol der Professoren wurde—ähnlich wie bei der "Black-studies Bewegung"- kritisiert und parteilose Wissenschaft gefordert. "Women’s studies" bieten neben einem kompletten Kursprogramm auch praktische Hilfen, z. B. Kurse, um den Anschluß bzw. WiederanschluB an die Berufswelt zu finden oder Fortbildungskurse für Lehre­rinnen, die sich der rollenspezifischen Inhalte ihrer Unterrichtsmaterialien bewußter werden wollen. (cont’d)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Darüber hinaus enthält das Heft u. a. informative Aufsätze Uber Sexismus in der englischen Sprache und die englische Arbeiterinnenbewegung. Referendarinnen und Lehrerinnen berichten von ihren Identitässchwierigkeiten in der Institution Schule.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Recht auf eigenen Lebensraum klarerer Sprache und Ansätzen weiblicher Ästhetik verdeutlicht ein Artikel über Lyrik von Frauen aus den USA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Zeitschrift "Englisch Amerikanische Studien" will ihre Beiträge zu diesem Thema fortsetzen. (Dorlies Pollmann, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche Volkszeitung&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OF INTEREST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Frauen-schaffen-Wissen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vom 16. bis 18.4.80 fand in Berlin eine Konferenz der Planungsgruppe für einen Frauenstudien-und Forschungsbereich statt. Diese Planungsgruppe war auf Druck der Frauenbewegung eingerichtet worden. Sie sollte erforschen, welche Bedürfnisse die Frauen und Dozentinnen an der FU nach Frauenstudien haben und einen Plan dazu erstellen. Die Planungsgruppe ist auf 2 Jahre begrenzt worden. Sie soll allerdings durch ein fest eingerichtetes Sekretariat eine Art Koordinations­stelle, abgelöst werden. Am Ende dieser Planungsphase wurde von den Mitarbeiterinnen diese internationale Konferenz veranstaltet, mit der Motivation internationale Ziele, Inhalte und die Institutionalisierung von Frauenstudien und Frauenforschung kennenzulernen. Vertreterinnen der Wissenschaftsfrauen waren aus den USA, aus Italien, Frankreigh, Schweden, Holland und England anwesend. Während der drei Tage der Konferenz wurde inaltlich mit ca. 250 bis 300 Frauen diskutiert. Die Erwartungen der Planungsfrauen Uber einen internationalen Austausch und neue Aspekte wurden erfüllt. Die 23 Projektanträge, die aus der Arbeit der Planerinnen beantragt wurden, haben allerdings nur für 5 Projekte von Herrn Lämmert eine mündliche Zusage bekommen. (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Tageszeitung)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Women in the FRG Election Results&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nach dem bisher vorliegenden Ergebnis der Bundestagswahl werden dem 9. Bundestag 44 Frauen angehören. Bei einer Gesamtzahl von 519 Abgeordneten beträgt ihr Anteil 8,48 Prozent. Der SPD gehören 19 Frauen an, der CDU/CSU 18, der FDP 7.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Damit hat sich der Anteil der Frauen im Bundestag gegenüber der achten Legislaturperiode (7,5 Prozent) etwas erhöht. Zieht man jedoch einen Vergleich mit weiter zurückliegenden Legislaturperioden, ist ein Rückschritt zu verzeichnen: Vor zwanzig Jahren, in der Zeit von 1957 bis 1961 (3. Legislaturperiode), stellten Frauen 9,2 Prozent der Bundestagsabgeordneten. (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche Volkszeitung)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Die Frauensommeruni 1980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;10,000 women from the Federal Republic came together for the 5th Annual Women’s Summer University in Westberlin in early October. The summer university has become the largest discussion forum for the westgerman autonomous women’s&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;movement, where women from many areas of activity exchange information and experiences, as well as develop theories and strategies for change. They have, moreover, nearly a week to get to know one another and build ties of friendship and solidarity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This year’s overall theme, "die Erwerbstätigkeit der Frau," was addressed by diverse and differentiated perspectives and points of focus. Women could choose to participate in over 130 discussion sessions examining the daily life and activity of women: topics for presentation and discussion included women’s labor in the household and sphere of reproduction; forms of sexism; identity crises; the area of sexuality; ideologies of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weiblichkeit&lt;/span&gt;; concerns of Lesbians; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenforschung&lt;/span&gt;; problems in the FRG educational system; securing of peace and disarmament; repression and resistance of women in Chile and South Africa. In addition, women attended media/film showings and workshops on culture and literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The women’s university concluded with suggestions to initiate complementary forums in cities in the FRG.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading40"&gt;Margot Schroeder:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Bundespräsident Karl Carstens hätte gern mehr Ehrenpatenkinder. Sie seien zu einer Seltenheit geworden, beklagt er sich. Warum?&lt;br /&gt;Weil eine Ehrenpatenschaft erst ab dem siebten Kind für einen Bundespräsidenten in Frage kommt. Die Familien nutzen ihre kleinen Wohnungen für eine große Kinderschar nicht genügend aus. Sie wollen unverschämterweise gemütlich wohnen. Bei der Kinderfreund­lichkeit in der Bundesrepublik ist es in der Tat erstaunlich, daß sich immer mehr Frauen weigern, Kinder in diese wunderschöne Umwelt zu setzen. Jedes siebte Kind und darüber hinaus könnte mit dem Bundespräsidenten Wandern gehen und die (interessant gebauten Atomkraftwerke bewundern oder in verseuchten Feldern buddeln. Vielleicht wäre Karl Carstens auch bereit, kinderreiche Familien In seine Bonner Villa aufzunehmen. Es soll ja bekanntlich Hauswirte geben, die sogar eine Familie mit nur einem Kind ablehnen. Kinder sind zwar nicht so laut wie Autos, aber sie lachen noch viel zu oft Das Lachen wird ihnen dann allerdings in den Schulen ausgetrieben.&lt;br /&gt;An Lehrern und Schulen wird gespart, aber wenn jede dritte Familie sieben und mehr Kinder hätte, wäre der Klassenkontakt natürlich viel hautnaher: Jeweils ein Kind müßte ein anderes auf den Schoß nehmen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Ich frage mich, ob der Bundespräsident uns Frauen auf den Arm nehmen will. Außerdem verstehe ich seine Klage sowieso nicht ganz. War er nie in Berlin-Kreuzberg oder in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg etc.? &lt;br /&gt;Es gibt sehr viele kinderreiche Ausländerfamilien. Warum übernimmt er nicht eine Ehrenpatenschaft für diese gesellschaftlich extrem vernachlässigten Kinder?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Sie muß wohl bundesdeutsch sein, seine sehnsüchtig gewünschte Kinderschar. Bundesdeutsch für die Bundeswehr, bundesdeutsch als Garantie für den fleißigen, pünktlichen, ordentlichen Arbeiter. Bun­desdeutsch als züchtige Hausfrau mit eingepferchtem, geflochtenem Haar und leidenschaftlichem Gebärtrieb.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Familien, die auf diese ehrwürdige Art das Volk ohne Raum oder in einer modernen Version das Volk ohne öl vermehren, werden vom Bundespräsidenten königlich belohnt. Sie erhalten neben einer Eh­renurkunde für ihren attraktiven Leistungssport einen einmaligen Be­trag von 200 Mark. Nicht einmal die Finanzierung für die sieben Regale, in denen der Nachwuchs dann gestapelt werden könnte, ist damit möglich.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Aber ich glaube, darum geht es dem Bundespräsidenten auch gar nicht. Er möchte möglichst vielen Ehrenpatenkindern über die Köpfe streicheln können. Das macht sich einfach gut für den Vater der Nation und für das Vaterland: liebe, kleine Wandervögel, die so spielend das Marschieren lernen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;(Deutsche Volkszeltung)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading40"&gt;Christa Wolf:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Die Sprache der Literatur scheint es merkwürdigerweise zu sein, die der Wirklichkeit des Menschen heute am nächsten kommt; die den Menschen am besten kennt, wie immer Statistiken, Zahlenspiegel, Normierungs- und Leistungstabel­len dagegen angehn mögen. Viel­leicht weil immer moralischer Mut des Autors — der zur Selbster­kenntnis — in Literatur eingeht Vielleicht, weil Übereinkünfte in ihr festgeschrieben sind, die — mühselig genug, gefährdet genug und immer wieder verletzt — doch über die Jahrhunderte hin jenes Gewebe schufen, das wir „Gesit­tung“ nennen. Unser Befremden vor diesem überholten Wort mag uns bewußt machen, wie bedroht der Bestand dessen ist, wofür es steht. Und doch hat dieses Wort, anders als die Termini von Politik und Wissenschaft, einen Hof, eine Aura, so wie die zufällig in mir auftauchenden Wörter „Frieden“, „Mond", „Stadt", „Wiese“. „Leben“, „Tod“. Wollen wir sie wirklich fal­len lassen? An ihrer Stelle die Be­griffe „nukleares Patt“, „Erdsatel­lit“, „Siedlungsgroßraum“. „Grün­land“, „Bewegungsform der Mate­rie“ und „Exitus" setzen?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Die Naturwissenschaftler haben Ihre Erfindungen mit Hilfe einer Spezialsprache vor ihren eigenen Gefühlen ln Sicherheit gebracht; schelnloglsche Sprachkonstruktio­nen stützen die fixe Idee von Poli­tikern, die Rettung der Menschheit liege In der Möglichkeit, sie mehr­fach zu vernichten.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Literatur heute muß Friedensfor­schung sein. Es schreibt sich nicht leichter, seit wir wissen, daß unsere beiden Länder, die einmal „Deutschland“ hießen und diesen Namen verwirk­ten, als sie ihn durch Auschwitz verdarben — daß das Land zu bei­den Seiten der Elbe im Fall der „atomaren Auseinandersetzung“ als eines der ersten ausgelöscht sein würde. Es wird wohl schon Landkarten geben, welche die Pha­sen dieser Auslöschung aufgezeich­net haben. Kassandra, denke ich mir, muß Troja mehr geliebt haben als sich selbst, als sie es wagte, ih­ren Landsleuten den Untergang ih­rer Stadt zu prophezeien. Sind vielleicht, frage ich mich, tiiese beiden Länder von ihren Bewoh­nern nicht genug geliebt worden und neigen dazu — wie ein Mensch, der nicht geliebt wurde und daher nicht lieben kann —, sich und andere zu zerstören? Dies frage ich, um mir heftig zu wider­sprechen, und als Beweis des Ge­genteils nehme ich, wie absurd es scheinen mag, die Literatur. Es ge­nügte nicht, ich weiß es, hätte ein Volk Heimat nur in seiner Litera­tur. Und doch, schlage ich vor — wie die Lage ist, sollte jeder, auch der abwegigste Vorschlag erlaubt sein —: Soll doch jener Todeskarte die Literatur ihre eigne Karte ent­gegenhalten dürfen. Soll, was sie an Ort- und Landschaften, an menschlichen Zusammenhängen ge­nau, gerecht und parteiisch, schmerzvoll, kritisch, hingebungs­voll, angstvoll und freudig, iro­nisch, aufsässig und liebend be­schrieb, von jener Todeskarte ge­tilgt werden und für gerettet gel­ten. Soll endlich einmal die Litera­tur der Deutschen nicht folgenlos bleiben; soll, was in den beiden deutschen Staaten die Literatur über drei Jahrzehnte lang an Trauer- und Freudenarbeit gelei­stet, soll die „Wahrheit des Dies­seits“, der sie sich gestellt hat, doch einmal zu Buche schlagen und den beiden Ländern zugute kommen. Soll Literatur endlich einmal, dieses eine Mal, beim Wort genommen und herangezogen wer­den, um sichern zu helfen den Be­stand des Irdischen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Heller Wahnsinn, sagen Sie. Nun gut. So fehlt mir — in der Sprache der Psychiatrie — die Krankheits­einsicht, und ich gebe mich diesem hellen Wahnsinn hin, um nicht der finsteren Seite der Vernunft an­heimzufallen. Vielleicht mag es wirklich einem Generalstab schwe­rer werden, über einer Stadt das Kreuz zu machen, die innig und genau beschrieben wurde, als über einer, die keiner kennt. Die nie­mandem so nahe ging, daß er sie an seine Kindheitsstadt, als Stätte seiner Demütigung oder seiner er­sten Liebe beschreiben mußte.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Nun lächeln Sie über meine Nai­vität. Über meine Unvernunft. Er schien &lt;i&gt;ganz vernünftig, sprach mit den Leuten,&lt;/i&gt; hieß es bei Büchner über Lenz. Er &lt;i&gt;tat alles, wie es die anderen taten; es war aber eine entsetzliche Leere in ihm, er fühlte keine Angst mehr, kein Verlangen, sein Dasein war ihm eine notwen­dige Last.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Auch ln jenem Land jenseits des Glaubens, gerade dort, wird, wenn auch leise, gesprochen werden. Ein Gespräch über Bäume, über Was­ser Erde Himmel Mensch — ein Versuch, der mir realistischer vor­kommt als die strikt wahnwitzige Spekulation auf den Weltunter­gang. Nachdem die Wahrheit, die das Wort „verkehrt“ enthält, nach allen Seiten hin untersucht wäre, würden wohl andere Worte auftauchen, die wir nicht prahle­risch, sondern behutsam in den Mund nehmen wollten. Wüßten wir doch: Keines von ihnen, auch das redlichste nicht, wäre das letz­te Wort. Hofften: Keines wäre das &lt;i&gt;letzte&lt;/i&gt; Wort.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Auch diese Haut wird abgezogen werden und ln Fetzen gehn.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Am 18. Oktober erhielt die In der DDR lebende Schriftstellerin Christa Wolf den Georg-Büchner-Prels 1980 der Darmstädter Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. - Wir veröffentlichen den letzten Absatz Ihrer Rede.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 22                           March 8, 1980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Membership/Subscription fee: $7.00 ($3.00 if unemployed or student)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;On this date in 1908, 30,000 women garment workers walked off their jobs and on to the streets of New York to demand a minimum wage, an end to discrimina­tory labor practices and the establishment of child care facilities. Two years later, Clara Zetkin, a German Socialist leader, inspired by the militant fight­ing spirit of these women, proposed to the Second International Socialist Conference that March 8 be declared International Women’s Day. Since many of the social patterns that precipitated the creation of IWD still exist, this day is more than a nostalgic celebration. It symbolizes the need for women to unite.for equal rights for all women in all countries.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear WIG Members:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On this timely occasion of International Women's Day, March 8, we send you special greetings and at the same time wish you a year of activity that will improve our work and our lives! As we take note of International Women’s Day we are concurrently aware of talk focusing on military registration/conscription&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;of women in the U.S.A. as well as in the F.R.G. Not only does this issue seem of great concern to us as teachers and students in German but also as activists/ concerned women. More specifically, F.R.G. Defense Minister Apel and the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bundegwehrverband&lt;/span&gt; have recently suggested that women be made liable for military service, even though such a measure would run counter to Article 12.3 of the " F.R.G. constitution. The reason most often given is the probable shortage of approximately 200,000 recruits by the end of this decade, owing supposedly to the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pillenknick&lt;/span&gt;, or to women having taken the pill.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Those who have spoken in favor of this proposal have Included business lobbying groups who argue it would constitute a ready solution to the growing problem of unemployment among women. These voices have been joined in support by Alice Schwarzer, editor of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt;. She maintains women should have equal oppor­tunity in this formerly exclusively male area of activity as well, although she herself would refuse to be drafted. While there have been some women in the F.R.G. favoring military conscription of women, others have spoken out against it, Including a group of women from unions, the arts, professions and sciences. They maintain military service would only serve to militarize society and further­more question whether emancipation means learning to do everything men have always done, including ordering, obeying, killing, dying. Generally pacifist in response, these women view emancipation of women within the context of peace, disarmament and detente. Margot Schroeder, guest at our next WIG conference, reflects in this issue in a similar, oppositional manner in her poem that we print below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope this thumbnail sketch of the issue and its ramifications in the F.R.G. women's movement will provide an interesting addition to your discussions here in the U.S. If you're interested in hearing more on the discussion in the F.R.G., refer to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt;, October 1979, Nr. 10 and November, 1979, Nr. 11 and to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche Volkszeitung&lt;/span&gt;, Nr. 32, August 9, 1979, and Nr. 6, February 7, 1980. If you know of other responses or further information, please write us so that we can all receive a more complete picture of the current debate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OUTREACH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following idea was contributed by Naomi Stephan who has tried it at her university with considerable success. She suggests that each of us xerox our current copy of WIG and place it wherever your other German language magazines are displayed, in the German office, in the library or reading room. This way, both students and other staff members can easily be introduced to WIG with very little financial outlay from any one individual.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Margot Schroeder &lt;br /&gt;Kriegsdienstverweigerung&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Nur nicht die Flinte &lt;br /&gt;ins Korn werfen &lt;br /&gt;nein&lt;br /&gt;das Gewehr im Anschlag &lt;br /&gt;die Kornfelder &lt;br /&gt;verbrennen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ich&lt;br /&gt;die Gefreite&lt;br /&gt;Margot Schroeder&lt;br /&gt;nie Uber diesen Dienstgrad&lt;br /&gt;hinausgekommen&lt;br /&gt;soll schon morgen&lt;br /&gt;gleichberechtigt&lt;br /&gt;im Gleichschritt&lt;br /&gt;marschieren.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Frauenbewegung&lt;br /&gt;eine militärische Truppe&lt;br /&gt;gehorsam&lt;br /&gt;angepaßt&lt;br /&gt;treu bis in den Tod.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ich&lt;br /&gt;aufgestellt&lt;br /&gt;in Reih und Glied&lt;br /&gt;soll auf Befehl&lt;br /&gt;eure Abzugshähne&lt;br /&gt;bedienen?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Räumt endlich die&lt;br /&gt;Vogelscheuchen Brüderlichkeit &lt;br /&gt;von euren Vaterländern.&lt;br /&gt;Ich will eure Schwester sein &lt;br /&gt;aber keine Lazarettschwester &lt;br /&gt;aber kein Engel der Gefangenen &lt;br /&gt;und nicht&lt;br /&gt;in ewiger Kameradschaft &lt;br /&gt;euer Flintenweib.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ich möchte auf der Macht &lt;br /&gt;pfeifen&lt;br /&gt;wie auf einer Flöte&lt;br /&gt;damit ihr Ratten&lt;br /&gt;das Tanzen lernt&lt;br /&gt;damit die Disziplin&lt;br /&gt;im Fremdwörterlexikon vergilbt. &lt;br /&gt;Ihr habt das Mutterglück&lt;br /&gt;erfunden&lt;br /&gt;und bedeutungsgleich&lt;br /&gt;das Wort&lt;br /&gt;Kanonenfutter.&lt;br /&gt;Ihr habt die Neutronenbombe &lt;br /&gt;erfunden&lt;br /&gt;und [illegible]&lt;br /&gt;das Wort&lt;br /&gt;Unmensch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glaubt ihr&lt;br /&gt;ich werde freiwillig &lt;br /&gt;eurer Religion &lt;br /&gt;beitreten?&lt;br /&gt;Ich vernichte&lt;br /&gt;meine Tochter nicht&lt;br /&gt;für eine bessere Mutterwelt.&lt;br /&gt;Ich kreuzige&lt;br /&gt;meinen Sohn nicht&lt;br /&gt;für die Versöhnung&lt;br /&gt;im Untergang.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ich schlage nicht zu&lt;br /&gt;solange &lt;br /&gt;mein Herz &lt;br /&gt;schlägt.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;-4-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS, Presentations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;1) November 21-23, 1980: AATG/ACTFL Meeting, Boston, MA.&lt;br /&gt;Women In German Session on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Pedagogy&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Deadline for submission: April 15, 1980.&lt;br /&gt;Papers of 1500 words or less are requested on the following topics of interest to teachers of the German language at the high school or college level:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Feminist Perspectives In Language Teaching: classroom activities without stereotypes.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Women’s Culture: what teachers should know and tell their students about women in Austria/Switserland? the F.R.G./the G.D.R.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Reading Materials: works by women authors that can be read in German courses at beginning and intermediate levels.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Please send a copy of your paper or a detailed outline to each address below:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Ilse Evans                      &lt;br /&gt;Foreign Languages &amp;amp; Literature &lt;br /&gt;Mass. Institue of Technology &lt;br /&gt;Cambridge, MA 02139&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Joey Horsley &lt;br /&gt;Department of German &lt;br /&gt;Harbor Campus &lt;br /&gt;Boston, MA 02125&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;2) December, 1980: MLA Conference&lt;br /&gt;Deadline for submissions: April 1, 1980&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;a) SESSION I: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women Writera Prior to 1800&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Please submit abstracts fot pàpera (2-3 pages) by. above-mentioned deadline to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gabriele Strauch [redacted]  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Julie Prandi [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;b) SESSION II: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dichterinnenwahrheit: Women’s Poetry in the Context of Their Lives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please submit proposals (1 page) by above-mentioned deadline to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Naomi Stephen                  &lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;Valparaiso University&lt;br /&gt;Valparaiso, IN 46383&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Viktoria Harwig&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1980 Women in German Workshop — PRESENTATIONS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We would like to remind all prospective contributors that the format of the 1980 WIG conference calls for prepared discussion topics instead of finished scholarly papers which are read to an audience. We would like to maintain a more informal, collective method of dealing with these topics, (cont’d.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Participants and contributions are invited for the following sessions.&lt;br /&gt;Please send abstracts to the coordinators whose names are listed below:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;DEADLINE TOR SUBMISSION OF PRESENTATIONS: JUNE 1, 1980&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) The Forms of Our Bodies, coordinated by:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bonnie Beckett                      &lt;br /&gt;Illinois Wesleyan University&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;Bloomington, IL 61701&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jill McDonald&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Bloomington, IL 61701&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2) Voices of Working Women, coordinated by:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Miriam Prank                        &lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nancy Vedder-Shults&lt;br /&gt;German Department&lt;br /&gt;UW-Madison&lt;br /&gt;Madison, WI 53706&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3) Seminar (evening session): Women Relating to Women, coordinated by:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Susan Cocalis&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kay Goodman&lt;br /&gt;German Department&lt;br /&gt;Brown University&lt;br /&gt;Providence, RI 02912&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women only&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;BOOKS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regelindis Westphal (Hrsg.). Die Frau im politischen Plakat. Verlag Fröhlich &amp;amp; Kaufmann, Wildenowster. [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image: Nieder mit den Abtreibungsparagraphen!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Käthe Kollwitz, Deutschland, 1908. Herausgegeben von der KPD. - Museum für Deutsche Geschichte, Berlin.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Das älteste Plakat ln Regelndis Westphals Buch ist im ersten Jahr der Französischen Revolution er­schienen: die Frau als Symbol der Freiheit. Auf dem jüngsten, 1978 gedruckt, demonstrieren italienische Frauen für ein Gesetz, "das die Frauen und die Gesellschaft von der illegalen Abtreibung und denen, die davon profitieren, befreit." Dazwischen, chronologisch geordnet, ein aufregender Geschichtsunterricht anhand von Plakaten aus vielen Ländern. Sie . spiegeln denKampf für das Frauen­wahlrecht, gegen die "unwürdige Gesindeordnung", gegen Elendsquartiere, Hunger und Krieg. Staatliche Plakate fordern auf zur Frauenarbeit in Rüstungsbetrieben, zum Eintritt ln das Heer. Parteien werben durch alle Zeiten mit ihrem Frauehbild.(cont’d.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Die Plakate der sechziger und siebziger Jahre, u.a. die der Internationalen Frauentage, zeigen die aktuellen Themen der Auseinandersetzung um Gleichberech­tigung.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Die Schrlften der modernen Frauepbewegung," Evelyn Torton Beck and Patricia Russian, in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Neues Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft: Literatur nach 1945 II&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. 22, ed. by J. Hermand. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1979, pp. 357-386.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This essay provides an overview of the writings of the contemporary women's movement in the United States and Europe (with particular emphasis on West Germany). It highlights the impact fdadhiat thinking has had on the production of literature, the development of feminist literary theory, criticism, scholar­ship, and the teaching of literature.Much attention is given to literature by and about minorities, particularlyAmerican-Jewish, black, and lesbian writers. Bibliography appended (up to 1976) when essay was first written.    &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karin Huffzky. Wer muß hier lachen? Das Frauenbild im Männerwitz. Eine Streitschrift.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Witz ist Teil der Kultur. Witze, die von Frauen handeln, auch. Frauen als Witzobjekt werden in unserer Gesellschaft ausnahmslos frauenfeindlich dargestellt. Das stellt die Hamburger Journalistin Karin Huffzky als Hauptergebnis ihrer Streitschrift "Wer muß heir lachen? Das Frauenbild im Männerwitz" fest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Systematisch suchte upd sammelte die Autorin umfangreiches Material. Sie. verwendete Interviewtelle, analysierte Wort- und Bildwitze, auch persönliche Erfahrungen spielten eine Rolle. Ein schwieriges Thema, dessen Veröffentlichung hier Neuland betritt und in Form und Inhalt auch persönlichen Mut beweist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ergebnis ist eine vielseitige Zusammenstellung, die wirklich alle Ausgeburten herrschender Weiblichkeitsideologie, bürgerlicher Doppelmoral und reaktionärer Frauenleitbilder beleuchtet. Erstaunlich und erschreckend, in welchem Ausmaße pich gesellschaftliche Vorurteilsstrukturen im Witz wiederfinden, daß Lösungs­möglichkeiten von Konflikten nur auf Kosten der Frauen angeboten werden, wie der Witz als "populäres Kulturprodukt" ständig alltägliche Frauenfeindlichkeit demonstriert und widerspiegelt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Da gibt es Witze mit Pointen gegen die berufstätige Frau, über die Fran als Konkurrentin von. Frauen—vornehmlich älteren Geschlechtsgenossinnen, wo Mädchen &amp;gt; physisch wie geistig prinzipiell als unfertige Menschen dargestellt werden.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thema mit breitem Raum ln dieser Sammlung ist die Reduzierung von Frauen auf ihren Körper, die Hervorhebung der Frau als Sexualobjekt; ein wichtiges anderes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gewalt gegen Frauen, die "witzig ist, denn Aggression ist Männertugend". Am meisten stieß Karin Huffzky bei ihrer Materialzu«ammenstellüng auf die sogennanten "Ehe" witze, wo am deutlichsten konservative Rollenklischees verklärt, verteidigt und immer wieder erneuert werden. "Die Ehefrau als Strafe" oder such der phantasievolle Mord an ihr sind ständig wiederkehrende Themen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ebenso wurden Sprache und Sprachgebrauch von Karin Huffzky analysiert. Die "Vatersprache" z. B. dient der "Abwertung der Mutter." Sie entdeckte bei dieser Systematik auch, was niemals Gegenstand von "Frauen" witzen ist: z. B. die "Angst des Sohnes vor dem allmächtigen Vater". Ein Fazit der Autorin ist, daB vieles dafür spricht, "daß es von Frauen erfundene Witze als anerkanntes Kulturprodukt nicht gibt.” (32) Grund: Es fehlt ihnen die entsprechende Öffentlichkeit. "Alle Witze, die von Frauen handeln, sind...antiemanzipatorisch. Ihre politische Bedeutung liegt u. a. darin, daB sie Menschenbilder entwerfen, welche die Verständigung, besonders zwischen Männern und Frauen, verhindern.&lt;br /&gt;Sie trennen die Männer von den Frauen und sie isolieren die Frauen voneinander... Die selbstbewußte Frau läßt der etablierte Witz nicht zu."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche Volkszeitung&lt;/span&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;Dorlies Pollmann&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Brinker-Gabler, Gisela (Ed.), Deutsche Dichterinnen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart: Gedichte und Lebensläufe. Frankfurt/Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (1978). 430 pp. DM 9.80&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Brinker-Gabler's anthology of women poets from the sixteenth century to the present is an important book since she has ediscovered undeservedly fotgotten or neglected poets and has selected poems [ilegible[ thematic variety. She gives more space to unfamiliar writers whose works are not really accessible than to familiar authors, and for this reason women poets of the twentieth century, particularly those writing after World War II, are treated more briefly. Besides selecting poems with such traditional "women's" themes as religion, love and domestic matters, Brinker-Gabler emphasizes poems which go beyond these traditional boundaries and deal, for example, with political and social questions, with women's anger about injustices and their lack of rights in society.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In her fine and extensive introduction, Brinker-Gabler traces the development of women's poetry in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present. Particularly enlightening is her discussion of the difficulties faced by women writers in a patriarchal society. She stresses how societal expectations of women's roles, women's lack of education and their lack of literary contacts all Inhibited , women's writing. She discusses anti-feminist literature and quotes from lead­ing male authors, showing that women writers, for the most part, were not taken seriously. Against this background, she traces how women struggled to write and to support themselves by their writing. It is one of the best essays I have read on the development of women writers in Germany and it also throws light on the situation of women writers in other countries. For each of the sixty authors (presented chronologically) Brinker-Gabler provides short biographies which give useful insights into the women's life and works. The bibliography lists extensive material for further study.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The German Quarterly&lt;/span&gt; (November 1979)&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer E. Michaels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We would like to bring to your attention a recent West German film sure to be of interest to feminists: &lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta, it relates the unforgettable story of a daycare worker who robs a bank In order to save the center from bankruptcy. On the run from the police, she seeks refuge first with a Lutheran minister who is horrified when he learns of what she has done. She then turns to a childhood friend who is now married to a Germanmilitary officer. Through her contact with Christa, this friend sees the shortcomings of her marriage and work as a cosmetician. She helps Christa flee to Portugal and herself joins her there later. The two work together in a Portuguese coop but are eventually expelled because they are suspected of Lesbianism. They return to Germany, and Christa is eventually caught by the police--only to he free by a surprise ending.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The film is available for the horrendous rental price of $350 from New Line Cinema, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT 1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Seeking: Historian of Modern Germany, Northwestern University, Assistant Professor, regular-line position, beginning September 1980.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are looking for a scholar specializing in the histoy of 16th, 19th or 20th century Germany, and will consider applicants in all fields of German history—social, political, economic, diplomatie, intellectual, etc. Candidates applying for. the position should have a completed draft of their dissertation or one able to provide evidence of strong teaching potential. We are conducting our search according to Affirmative Action guidelines, and -are especially interested in hearing about promising minority and female historians in the field. Since we are contemplating a junior-level appointment, it would be especially helpful for us to know of female graduate students in this field who have just completed, or are in the process of completing, the writing of their dissertations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sarah C. Maga, Assistant Professor and Chair of Search Committee, Department of History, [redacted] Northwestern University, College of Arts and Sciences, Evanston, IL 60201&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCMENT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; 2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We received from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Education, the following announcement concerning Opportunities abroad for teachers in the academic year 1981-82:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Office of Education sponsors teacher exchange programs and summer seminars abroad under The Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961. (cont’d.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Teacher exchange positions are available for all elementary and secondary school teachers, college instructors and as countries: Canada, Denmark, France, West Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summer Seminars include programs for elementary and secondary.teachers, college instructions and assistant professors of German and for instructors and professors of German cultural studies. Eligibility requirements: U.S. citizenship, a bachelor’s degree, three years of teaching experience for teacher exchange positions and two years experience for seminars. Applicants &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;must&lt;/span&gt; be currently employed. Brochures and application forms for the academic year. 1981 82 are available in August 1980. Application deadline is November 1, 1980. Address requests to: Teacher Exchange Section, Division of International Education, U.S. Office of Education, Washington, D.C. 20202.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MEDIA WATCH ETC……&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of continuing the struggle women are waging against media misogyny and abuse, we’d like to call everyone's attention to some recent books and movies that promote violence against women and sexual minorities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;United Artists has recently released two films that portray a violent and psychotic view of Lesbian and gay life. "Windows" features a psychotic lesbian who hires a man to rape her secret love. Her goal is to manipulate the victim into having an affair with her after arranging the ultimate in male violence against her. "Cruising" is about a man who stabs gay men to death while having sex with them. Almost every character who cruises is brutally murders to that the first justifies [unclear] the victim.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Norton has recently published a book by George Stade entitled &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Confessions of a Lady-Killer&lt;/span&gt;. Victor Grant’s confessions are featured in the novel, which revolves around Victor’s mental explosion when his wife, Samantha, leaves him for the wife of his best friend, Jude, a leading feminist theoretician. In an effort to get Samantha back, Victor plots to murder the entire staff of the feminist magazine, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ms. Chief&lt;/span&gt;, where Samantha and Jude work. We are spared no detail of his career as mass murderer, and his mental and physical escapades result in a display of pornographical violence against women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is important to express our strong disapproval against this kind of propaganda by taking time to write letters of protest to Norton, United Artists, land local theaters showing these films.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the West German scene, watch for this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das zynische Wörterbuch&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ein &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Alphabeth &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;harter Wahrheiten&lt;/span&gt;, zugemutet von Jörg Drews &amp;amp; Co., Diogenes-Verlag, 6,80 DM.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Die Frau ist ein menschliches Wesen, das sich anzieht, schwatzt und sich wieder auszieht", sagt Voltaire. Der chinesische Volksmund befand, "ein großer Mann ist ein öffentliches Unglück". Der Aphorist Lichtenberg gab den frauenfeindlichen Vorschlag zum besten, "alle neugeborenen Mädchen zu ersäuffen".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Solche und andere zynische gute und böse Sprüche über Gott, Welt und die Menschen hat Jörg Drews gesammelt. Sie drücken die ärgerlichen, gemeinen, aber auch witzi­gen Vorurteile früheren und gegenwärtigen Denkens aus. Übrigens meistens das der Männer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-10-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG CONFERENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 1980 WIG Workshop will be held this year on October 3-5, 1980, again at the Siena Center in Racine, Wisconsin, Hildegard Me1strand, Johanna Moore and Beth Weckaueller will be coordinating the physical arrangements, housing and transportation, with Jeanette Clausen and Ric Johnson serving as general program coordinators. Exact costs are not yet available, but we can give you the following information:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Approximate cost will be $35.00-$40.00, including all meals and lodging. As voted by the membership at last year's conference, we will charge on a sliding scale, with a lower fee assessed for the unemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Limited child care facilities will be available, if needed, with related costs to be absorbed by all conference participants. Renny Harrigan will be coordinating child care arrangements, and it will be essential for her to know &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;well in advance&lt;/span&gt; the number and ages of children needing care. If you anticipate bringing a child (or children), contact her as soon as possible with the pertinent information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- A natural foods option will be available, with a small surcharge assessed to conference participants wanting this option. Jeanette and Ric will be coordinating this, but we will include an option box on the conference registration form.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- As soon as exact costs can be determined, we will be sending out conference registration forms either in aspccielmailing or in an early Fall newsletter. You can expect to receive the form in August or early September. But in the meantime don't forget:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;. . . . notify Renny Harrigan as soon as you can about your child care needs!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;. . , . make your plane reservations &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;early&lt;/span&gt;. If you book well in advance, you may be able to get a sireable discount!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;. . . . contact Johanna or Beth if you have any other questions, or if you will not be around in August/September and want to make an early reservation!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CONTACT ADDRESSES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Renny Harrigan&lt;br /&gt;UW-Milwaukee German Dept.&lt;br /&gt;[redacted] Milw. WI 53201&lt;br /&gt;Telephone: [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Johanna Moore&lt;br /&gt;UW-Milwaukee German Dept.&lt;br /&gt;[redacted] Milw. WI 53201&lt;br /&gt;Telephone: [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beth Weckmueller&lt;br /&gt;UW-Milwaukee DARR&lt;br /&gt;[redacted] Milw. WI 53201&lt;br /&gt;Telephone: [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;No renewal notices will be sent.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Read your label and renew immediately when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We held firm as long as we could, BUT, the rising costs of everything make it impossible for us to continue to produce &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; for $5.00. There­fore, we are raising the &lt;i&gt;fee&lt;/i&gt; to$7.00; $3.00 for students and unemployed. Send your subscription to Women in German, Department of German, 818 Van Hise Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53707.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enclosed you will find my check for: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;(Please check&lt;/span&gt; appropirate boxes)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;New Renewal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$7.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$12.00 for two years                                              -------------------------------------------------------      $3.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$5.00 for two years     &lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------      $15 or more for supporting membership&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Please check if applicable: Change of address __________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This newsletter was prepared by Evelyn Torton Beck, Christa Hildebrand, Sara Markham, Biddy Martin, Mary Rhiel, James Steakley, and Gabriele Strauch.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 21                                                December 5, 1979&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Membership/Subscription fee: $7.00 ($3.00 if unemployed or student)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This issue will be a rather short one since you really did not have much time to respond to the November Newsletter containing all the exciting information on the WIG Workshop in Racine, Wisconsin.&lt;a title=""&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; However, we are pleased to let you know that we received many new subscriptions and even more renewals. We take this as an encouragement on your part for us to continue our work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We would like to confirm the announcement made in our last issue (#20) that the 1980 WIG Workshop will definitely again be held at the Siena Center in Racine, Wisconsin, on October 3-5, 1980. Margot Schroeder will be joining us at our conference. In preparation for this event we are printing a bibliography of Schroeder’s work as well as a book review of her &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ich stehe meine Frau&lt;/span&gt;. (We thank NGC for their friendly cooperation.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This Newsletter will hopefully reach you before classes resume so that you can take with you our best &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;wish&lt;/span&gt;es for a relaxing .vacation as well as &lt;br /&gt;"Einen&lt;br /&gt;guten&lt;br /&gt;Rutsch&lt;br /&gt;ins&lt;br /&gt;Neue&lt;br /&gt;Jahr&lt;br /&gt;1980!!!!"&lt;/p&gt;
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* Just before the newsletter was ready to be typed we received this note on the WIG Workshop: "I really enjoyed meeting all and sharing thouhts and feelings with so many fine women who are changing the world we live in. I could use a spiritual lift like that several times a year."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MMLA Women’s Caucus Workshop: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jewish Women Writers from an International Perspective&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This workshop is intended not only to introduce the work of Jewish women writers (from the 17th century to the present in Europe and the United States), but also to raise questions concerning the cultural contexts in which Jewish women write. The session will focus on presentations that synthesize the work of a single writer or that deal with questions concerning Jewish women’s writing in a particular time period or place. Some questions to be considered: How does the Jewish tradi­tion affect the Jewish woman as writer? What literary forms does she choose in which to speak? To whom does she seem to be speaking? How has she been heard?&lt;br /&gt;What does she struggle to say? Send abstracts by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;March 1&lt;/span&gt;; completed papers by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 15&lt;/span&gt; to: Professor Evelyn Torton Beck&lt;br /&gt;Women’s Studies Program&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Because it is MMLA policy to duplicate and distribute papers in advance of the meeting, length is strictly limited to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;8 single-spaced pages&lt;/span&gt; (including footnotes). No papers will be read at the session. If you are not a member of MMLA your name will not appear on the program, so please join. Dates for the 1980 meeting: November 6-8 in Minneapolis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG at the 1980 MLA&lt;/span&gt;. Call for papers on Women Writers Prior to 1800. Please submit abstract for papers (2-3 pages) by April 1, 1980. Send proposal to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gabriele Strauch&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julie Prandi&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Because, in the early years of our publication, there used to be so few women- related papers and sessions, it was easy for us to list all of these in our pre- MLA issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG&lt;/span&gt;. This year, to our surprise and delight, the number has increased to such an extent, that a complete listing of all these sessions would take up more pages than we can afford to print at this time. We are, therefore, listing only those sessions that we have reason to believe are directly related to the teaching and study of German literature and language. If we omitted anyone, we are sorry in advance. The MLA program is at best a little overwhelming!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Sessions&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pre-Literary Forms and German Women's Writing I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;1:00-2:15 p.m., Governors I, Hyatt, December 28&lt;br /&gt;Presiding: Sara Lennox and Miriam Franck&lt;br /&gt;papers: &lt;br /&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg, "Christa Brück's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schicksale hinter Schreibmaschinen&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;Viktoria Harwig, "&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lili Körber's Eine Frau erlebt den roten Alltag&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;Nancy Vedder-Shults, "Breaking the Silence: Women's Documentary Literature in the Federal Republic"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pre-Literary Forms and German Women's Writing II&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2:45 - 4:00 p.m., Governors I, Hyatt, December 28&lt;br /&gt;Presiding: Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Papers: &lt;br /&gt;Renate Delphendahl, "Women’s Language"&lt;br /&gt;Kay Goodman, "Reading Women’s Autobiography"&lt;br /&gt;Susan S. Lanser, "Feminism and Form"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Business Meeting of the Coalition of Women in German&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;4:30-5:45 p.m., Governors I, Hyatt, December 28&lt;br /&gt;Presiding: Miriam Frank and Sara Lennox&lt;/p&gt;
1. "Feminist Criticism in Germany," in International Feminist Criticism, 7:00-8:15 p.m., Plaza Square, Hyatt, Thursday, December 27 (Evelyn Beck)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. "Teaching [German?] in Alternative Settings" (the German is not 100% certain) 8:30-9:45 a.m., California, Hilton, Friday, December 28 (Miriam Frank)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. "Women’s Studies in the Foreign Languages." Though no single paper addresses itself to German per se, the discussion of the theoretical and practical issues might prove useful. Olympic North, St. Francis, 10:15-11:30 a.m., Friday, December 28.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. "What Makes a Paper Publishable?" (Of special interest to us is the presenta­tion by Ruth Angress, long time WiG member, editor of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;, and member of the MLA Commission on the Status of Women.) 1:00-2:15 p.m., California,&lt;br /&gt;West St. Francis, Friday, December 28.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. "Feminine Aesthetics and Women's Writings," in German Literature of the 70s. 9:00-10:15 a.m., Plaza Square West, Hyatt, Sunday, December 30 (Sara Lennox)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This seems a good moment to call your attention to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Concerns&lt;/span&gt;, the Newsletter of the Women’s Caucus of the Modern Languages, which, in its December issue was able to offer a complete listing of MLA woman-related sessions. We urge you to join this caucus, which has done much to bring about the integration of women’s material into the MLA. Look for WCML open house at MLA. For membership forms and further information write to: Thelma Shinn, Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One closing thought: How many of these dozens of women-related sessions at MLA (or anywhere else for that matter) will provide a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;feminist&lt;/span&gt; analysis of the material? If you have thoughts or observations on this subject, please send them to us for our next issue. (Submission date March 15, 1980)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ANNOUNCEMENTS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Resources for Feminist Research&lt;/span&gt; is a quarterly periodical of review essays, abstracts of current publications and work in progress in Women’s Studies. (Canadian and International) Address: Dept. of Sociology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada M5S 1V6.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We recently received the following announcement from Jennifer Newton, one of the editors of this Canadian journal and thought we would pass it along to our readers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear Friend,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is to ask you to participate in the lighter side of feminist studies. As you will no doubt have noticed, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Resources for Feminist Research&lt;/span&gt; tries at all times to be even-handed and mild-tempered in its presentation. For once, however, we would like to give our readers and ourselves the chance to vent that often felt, but perhaps too seldom expressed exasperation, outrage, and plain old disbelief that we so often experience in our work and study related to women in society.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Therefore, we announce our FIRST OCCASIONAL IRASCIBILITY SPECIAL SECTION, to be edited by low-key editorial board member, Marylee Stephenson. You are invited to take those entirely deserved pot-shots at your least favourite book, article, theoretical approach, government (at any level) policy, school, university or college tradition. Topics that come to mind include: "support" for feminist studies by colleagues—real or imagined?; sexism in the social life of your work­place; the books you love to hate; how I lost my women’s studies references in the local library; how to be left out of the collective description of the staff where you work or play; "man and society" courses—where did we go? were We ever there?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You name it—just write us about it. We’d like a typed page or two, or even more. Serious or humourous in intent and/or style. Graphics and other artwork considered. We welcome as many as are fit to print.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The deadline is January 10, 1980, and we hope to get it all in the March issue. Address your contributions to Marylee at the RFR office.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don’t let this opportunity slip past, for want of sufficient spleen or energy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG WORKSHOP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. WiG Workshop 1979 Continued...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dürrenmatt and Intermediate German:&lt;br /&gt;Mixing Feminism With Language Skills&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In order to deal with the seemingly contradictory goals that Intermediate German not only promote conversation skills but also provide intellectual substance appropriate to a college level humanities elective, I designed a 3rd semester course that concentrated on one author, Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Four of his works are published in this country in annotated editions, and recordings of Hörspiele and a filmed version of "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi" can be obtained with some effort.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I chose DUrrenmatt because his style is clear and direct, and the issues he raises, such as materialism, the limits of scientific inquiry, and the relationship of women and power, appeal to today’s students. By narrowing the scope of the course to a single author, I was in a better position to encourage students to discuss thematic, structural, and stylistic elements in each work and to examine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;critically the social issues Dürrenmatt raises, in particular his negative portrayal of women. Because the students worked within the mind-set of one writer, they gained a deeper appreciation of literature and contributed to class discussion with a degree of confidence that would be difficult to attain if the course were to jump from author to author and span a century or more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first part of this paper discusses pedagogical concerns of the intermediate level and suggests ways to combine grammar exercises with an analysis of Dürrenmatt’s style. The second part presents several methods of discussing the text that assure student participation and, on occasion, even furnish the instructor with unexpected insights. The last part provides a detailed analysis of the women characters in the four annotated texts and invites further discussion of Dürrenmatt’s disturbing portrayal of women with power as the ultimate expression of the grotesque.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ilse Klemperer Evans&lt;br /&gt;Massachusetts Institute of Technology&lt;/p&gt;
2. Schroeder Bibliography&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Follow up on the fifth annual WiG Workshop to be held at the Siena Center, Racine, Wisconsin (on the shores of Lake Michigan), October 3-5, 1980. (This date is now confirmed.) Mark your calendars and start reading ahead. We are in the process of inviting Margot Schroeder to participate in this weekend, and for this reason, we are including a list of her texts, and her own description of herself:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Margot Schroeder&lt;/span&gt;, geboren 1937 in Hamburg. Verheiratet, zwei Kinder.&lt;br /&gt;Erlernter Beruf Buchhändlerin. Seit 14 Jahren Hausfrau, nebenberuflich Schriftstellerin.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Veröffentlichungen&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ehebefragung&lt;/span&gt;, Hörspiel, NDR 1972.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Prestigelücke&lt;/span&gt;, Hörspiel HR 1975.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ich stehe meine Frau&lt;/span&gt;, Roman, Fischer Taschenbuch Berlag, Frankfurt 1975.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Angst ist baden gegangen&lt;/span&gt;, Gedichte, Fietkau Verlag, Berlin 1976.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der Schlachter empfiehlt noch immer Herz&lt;/span&gt;, Roman, Frauenbuchverlag, München 1976&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is our plan to have Schroeder participate in several of the sessions and to be available for informal discussions as part of our program. We are very excited by the prospect of closing the gap between Women and German, and we feel that having such close contact with a major contemporary feminist writer is an excellent way of proceeding. If any of you already know some of her work and would like to write anything about it for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG&lt;/span&gt;, send in your essays or reviews by March 15, 1980.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
3. Schroeder Book Review&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Schroeder, Margot, &lt;i&gt;Ich stehe meine Frau&lt;/i&gt; (A Woman You can Count On).* Ed. with the cooperation of the &lt;i&gt;Hamburger Werksiati Schreibender Arbeiter,&lt;/i&gt; Peter Fischbach and Bernhard Wenger. Frankfurt/Main: FischerTaschenbuch, 1975. 190 pp. D.M. 4.80.                              '&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Schroeder’s novel has many virtues and many flaws. An account of a thirty- seven-year-old woman’s attempt to organize an independent community project &lt;i&gt;(Biirgerinitiative),&lt;/i&gt; here a playground for an apartment complex, &lt;i&gt;Ich stehe meine Frau&lt;/i&gt; addresses many of the problems and the successes of “ordinary” women engaged for the first time in political activity. Charlie Bieber is uncertain of her own abilities, jealous of other women, guilty about the time her politics robs from her children, and harried by her never-ending responsibilities as a part-time grocery clerk and housewife. She is torn between a working-class husband who has never recognized her needs and a sensitive student given to leftist phraseology. The novel is narrated as Charlie’s interior monologue which reveals her as tough, energetic and terribly funny. It is punctuated by Hamburg slang and obscenities. The technique allows Schroeder to show from within Charlie’s growing consciousness of her needs as a woman (along with her doubts and setbacks), her resistance to those who thwart them (for instance, she “strikes” on weekends, forcing other family members to take over household tasks), and her increasing solidarity with other women who share similar problems.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The novel’s defects may, one suspects, be related to the fact of its publication in the &lt;i&gt;Werkkreis Literaiur der Arbeitswelt&lt;/i&gt; series. Though disguised in part by the lively style, the novel suffers from excessive schematicism and the employment of certain obligatory characters in the worst tradition of socialist realism. Discussions between the women participating in the campaign tend to resemble a dramatized presentation of theoretical principles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;But the faults of &lt;i&gt;Ich stehe meine Frau&lt;/i&gt; are are related much more to its leftist than its feminist politics, if such a distinction can legitimately be made. As a feminist, Schroeder has a great deal to offer the German women’s movement, especially as it attempts to ally itself with the organized left: her book shows working-class women engaged in a grassroots organizing effort, the difficulties they encounter and the personal and social changes they bring about. Despite her apparent allegiance to the DKP, Schroeder is also very clear about the amount of sexism oppressing all classes of women, and the need for separate women’s organizations to combat it. Certainly Schroeder’s Charlie is a positive hero engaged in exemplary political activity, yet we feminists do have occasional need of positive role models, and in the final assess­ment Schroeder’s book contains much more that is true than is false to the nature of women’s experience.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Lennox&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;* The phrase exists in accepted usage only in the masculine: &lt;i&gt;Ich &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;stehe &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;meinen &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mann.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;We would like to thank &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt; for letting us use the bookreview.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 20                                                   November 1, 1979&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Membership/Subscription fee: $7.00 ($3.00 if unemployed or student)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two themes that emerged over and over again in the discussions of women’s writing at this year’s Women in German Conference were Christa Wolf’s "die Schwierigkeit ’Ich’ zu sagen" and Helene Cixous’ "Woman must put herself into the text—as into the world and into history—by her own movement."&lt;a title=""&gt;[*]&lt;/a&gt; The problem of speaking ourselves resonated for us so strongly because it is a central concern for all of us as teachers and students of German within institutions that either silence us or make us feel ’other’. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; has provided a means for us to say not only ’I' but ’we’ as well within the profession. Over the past five years this ’we’ has grown both in numbers and in its sense of itself. Some of the decisions reached at last week’s annual conference dealt with the possibility of expanding our ’we* even further. For the first time, a German woman writer will be joining us next year at our conference in Milwaukee.&lt;br /&gt;We decided to use the Luise Rinser Fund to bring Margot Schroeder here next year and would like to be able to invite Angelika Mechtel for the year after. To that end we came up with a new category of membership for those WIG supporters who can afford to be CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS at $15.00 and up per year.&lt;a title=""&gt;**&lt;/a&gt; Although we are not incorporated, such a contribution would be considered professional dues and is therefore tax deductible.***&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On behalf of all conference participants, we of the newsletter collective in Madison want to take this opportunity to thank Johanna Moore and Beth Weckmueller for the wonderful job they did in organizing the conference. As has been our experience in the past, the weekend proved to be stimulating, validating and supportive for those of us who attended. We neither want to assume that our experience reflects everyone’s nor do we want to assume that it doesn’t. For that reason, we would like to dedicate part of our Dear Wiggy column next issue to your thoughts and feelings about/from the conference. We were thrilled to get so many responses to our Wiggy column this time.&lt;br /&gt;(See last section of newsletter.) Keep them coming. As we said in Newsletter #5, "....what you send us is the fabric of this Newsletter."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to comment on our footnotes. They are deliberately not MLA style.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* From "The Laugh of the Medusa" in" Signs, 1976, vol. 1, no. 4, p. 875&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;** We are also applying to the Goethe House for funds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*** See memberrship blank for other exciting membership possibilities and changes in subscription fees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**** In response to people's interest at the conference, we are going to start a Research in Progress column next issue. Let us hear from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BOOKS&lt;/b&gt;                               &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On Bringing &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Shedding&lt;/span&gt; to Fort Wayne, Indiana&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This past semester I concluded my course on Women in German literature with Verena Stefan’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Shedding&lt;/span&gt; (trans. Johanna Moore and Beth Weckmueller, Daughters Press 1978). The impact of the book was even greater and the students’ responses more positive than I had anticipated, considering the makeup of the class (10 students, all but one taking the course to fill a requirement; 3 men; only 3 women who identify themselves as feminists).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The class discussions of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Shedding&lt;/span&gt; were the most stimulating we had; there was much more sharing of personal experience and also greater expression of support and considers tion for each other’s differences than in most other class sessions. (Only one student responded negatively, saying she saw Verushka’s "homosexual" experiences as "repulsive," while the others chose to focus on the need for greater closeness among women.) Several students had shared the book with friends and lovers, and brought these "outside" per­spectives to the class. Three students chose to write their term papers on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Shedding&lt;/span&gt;; I quote from one whose paper was in the form of a letter to Verena Stefan:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All women who read your book &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Shedding&lt;/span&gt; can easily find themselves somewhere along the pages. You open up old wounds, old feelings. We go slowly, hiding at the ends of sentences and around the corners of paragraphs, hoping we won’t meet ourselves along the way. It is frightening, this truth. It is embarrassing, this frankness. Our feelings have surfaced. Our soft sides are exposed. We feel we should read it with our eyes closed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To me, one of the most impressive aspects of this paragraph is the way this student in writing about her reaction to/interaction with the text, has adopted a rythm and style of writing similar to Stefan’s. This tendency also appeared, somewhat more sporadically, in the writing of several other women students (even in their final exam essays), and I mentioned this to one of them, who responded emphatically: "Well, sure! Stefan gave us a language!" I found this an eloquent testimony to the power of the text to move, to inspire creative self-expression and, not least, to the quality of the translation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If any WIG readers have been wanting to teach &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Shedding&lt;/span&gt; but feared their students might not be "ready" for it, I encourage them to wait no longer. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Shedding&lt;/span&gt; was a success in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Middle America, USA. Need I say more?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG CONFERENCE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of Business and Planning Meeting&lt;br /&gt;4th Annual Women in German Workshop&lt;br /&gt;October 14, 1979&lt;br /&gt;Chaired by Naomi Stephan, Karen Achberger, Charlotte Smith&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Finances&lt;/span&gt;                                 .&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Evelyn Beck reported the Newsletter Collective’s income and expenses for the past year. Only &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;paid&lt;/span&gt; members of WiG can continue to receive the Newsletter. It was decided to raise membership dues again and to reduce the number of newsletters published annually to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;three&lt;/span&gt;, with one issue to be published shortly before the annual WiG Workshop, one shortly before the December MLA Convention and one in the spring.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The revised dues scale as approved at the meeting is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$3.00 graduate students and unemployed, $7.00 employed (one year)&lt;br /&gt;$5.00 graduate students and unemployed, $12.00 employed (two years)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also approved was the establishing of supporting memberships. Those able to contribute &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;$15.00 or more per year&lt;/span&gt; will become supporting members. We hope that money can be raised in this way to fund various projects; currently all of the money available goes to publishing the Newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG and AATG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Steering Committee reported that as of 1980, AATG meetings will be held only in states which have ratified the ERA. The 1980 AATG National Meeting will be in Boston. It was agreed that WiG should try to have a session on feminist pedagogy at this 1980 meeting; the Steering Committee will contact the AATG program planning committee to request one. The proposed session is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feminist Teaching in Practice: New Teaching Materials. Coordinators are Joey Horsley and Ilse Evans. The session will focus on language teaching, women’s culture and reading materials; will provide sub­stantive material to be distributed to all participants; and will aim to involve high school teachers as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Guests at future WiG Workshops&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Naomi Stephan reported that she had contacted Margot Schroeder and Angelika Mechtel, and that both were willing to participate in future WiG Workshops. Also, WiG still has the money ($530) raised last year to bring Lulse Rinser, whose visit did not materialize. It was decided to invite &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Margot Schroeder&lt;/span&gt; for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1980&lt;/span&gt; WiG Workshop and to use the "Rinser fund" to pay her fare. The possibility of having Schroeder speak at various universities will be investigated. The WiG Newsletter will pub­lish a bibliography of Schroeder’s works.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Angelika Mechtel&lt;/span&gt; will be invited to the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1981&lt;/span&gt; workshop. Planning this far in advance will allow time for us to seek funding from the Goethe Haus or other sources.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The possibility of inviting a GDR author in 1982 was discussed. Donna Hoffmeister will investigate possible sources of funding for this.&lt;/p&gt;
4. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1980 WiG Workshop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The next WiG Workshop will again be held at the Siena Center in Racine, Wisconsin, on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 3-5, 1980&lt;/span&gt;.* &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beth Weckmueller&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Johanna Moore&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hildegard Melstrand&lt;/span&gt; of Milwaukee will coordinate the physical arrangements. The cost of registration,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* Because of an important conference that is taking place in Minneapolis on October 3-5, 1980, we will possibly want to change the dates of our next conference. Watch the newsletter for this change. It is likely to be changed to the second weekend in October.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;lodging and meals will be on a sliding scale. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Renny Harrigan&lt;/span&gt; of Milwaukee will coordinate child care arrangements. It was agreed that the costs of child care should be absorbed by the group as a whole. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ric Johnson&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jeanette Clausen&lt;/span&gt; will serve as general coordinators. A natural foods option will be provided; conference participants wanting this option will pay a small surcharge (contact Ric and Jeanette).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;All&lt;/span&gt; conference participants must become &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;members&lt;/span&gt; of WiG. There will be a procedure for providing some travel money for those travelling long distances.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A site for future WiG Workshops is needed. Sandy Frieden is investigating the possibility of having our conference in Texas in 1981. Other possible sites (preferably west of the Mississippi) should be investigated; this will be brought up at the December 1979 WiG business meeting at MLA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;span&gt;Sessions for 1980 Workshop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was agreed to reduce the number of Saturday sessions to three to allow more time for discussion; to schedule two "free" time periods so small groups can form and discuss their special interests or projects; to schedule time for self-criticism at the end of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;each&lt;/span&gt; session; and to have one session conducted as &lt;i&gt;a&lt;/i&gt; seminar (ovular) The sessions agreed upon are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday p.m. Transforming the Structures of Our Lives and Our Work, coordinated by Evelyn Beck and Angelika Bammer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday &lt;br /&gt;(1) The Forms of Our Bodies, coordinated by Bonnie Beckett and Jill McDonald.&lt;br /&gt;(2) Voices of Working Women, coordinated by Miriam Frank and Nancy Vedder-Shults.&lt;br /&gt;(3) Seminar (evening session): Women Relating to Women, coordinated by Susan Cocalis and Kay Goodman. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women only&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Naomi Stephan will be responsible for contacting Margot Schroeder and coordinating her visit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;span&gt;WiG at the 1980 MLA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The topic agreed upon for the 1980 WiG session at the MLA Convention is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women Writers Prior to 1800, coordinated by Gabriele Strauch and Julie Prandi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. &lt;span&gt;WiG Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt; (Continuing members: Karen Achberger, Charlotte Smith, Marjorie Tussing)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A modification of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;structure&lt;/span&gt; of the Steering Committee was approved. In the future the committee will consist of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt; members, one of whom will serve as Treasurer and Liaison to the Newsletter Collective. Further, Steering Committee members will be elected at the annual WiG Workshop but their term will begin at the December MLA meeting and end with the MLA meeting in two year’s time. New members elected at the WiG Workshop will serve as non-voting members until the MLA meeting. New Steering Committee members are: Biddy Martin (Treasurer/Liaison), Sara Lennox, Jeanette Clausen. An effort will be made to reimburse Steering Committee members for phone calls made to conduct business when the WiG budget allows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. &lt;span&gt;WIG Newsletter—Job Announcements&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was agreed that in the future the WiG Newsletter will publish job announcements, but only those relating to German and Women’s Studies. The announcements will be printed &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;as sent&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, we really did accomplish all these things! Yay us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeanette Clausen, Acting Secretary&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presentations:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women Writers Before 1800&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mechthild von Magdeburg&lt;/span&gt; (13th century)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mechthild’s work &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Fliessende Licht der Gottheit&lt;/span&gt; (The Flowing Light of the Divine) is generally called the first great literary work of German mysticism, but, in fact, very little is known about her or her work. Her text has been covered, buried by hundreds of years of "objective” research which did and does not allow Mechthild’s work to be known, simply by concealing her text through erasure. To lay bare one example of the vicious cycle women’s writing is trapped in, I dis­cussed the tendency among literary (male) historians and critics to distinguish between two forms of mysticism: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenmystik&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nonnenmystik&lt;/span&gt; (intuitive mysticism) and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mystik der Meister&lt;/span&gt; (speculative mysticism) and to trivialize the former. In the course of a feminist analysis of Mechthild, it becomes necessary to challenge and question these and other categories, statements, and views on women writers, not for the sake of pulling women writers out of the darkness and abysses of oblivion and putting them on the same pedestal with male contemporaries. That seems hypocritical and by no means truly feminist. We should not re-cover women writers by interpreting their works to be like or equal to the writings of men and thus worthy of the patriarchically defined canon of literature; nor should we be afraid to find in the writings of women that which is specifically female as a result of their female experience, or shy away from attributing to these writings the value and recognition they deserve.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With regard to Mechthild and her classification as representative of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenmystik&lt;/span&gt;, I suggest that we can adopt this label and transform it because it acknowledges— at least on the surface level—the existence of a literature that reflects a uniquely female experience. What we must reject, of course, is the value system overshadowing what at first glance appear to be objective categories with their attempt to invalidate, ridicule if not discredit the writings of women. In the course of the discussion, I tried to apply these theoretical points (that I derived from studying Mechthild’s work) and attempted to challenge the traditional definition of her writings as pure mysticism by showing the ways Mechthild "wrote herself into the text—as into the world and into history—by her own movement." (Helene Cixous)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One exciting way of illustrating Mechthild’s historical and literary importance was the discussion of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beguine&lt;/span&gt; movement, a religious lay women's movement in which Mechthild was actively involved. The Beguine movement had its beginnings in the 12th century and represents a successful attempt to counteract the church's discriminatory and classist policy toward women and their aspirations of leading a religious life. Mechthild wrote her text in the German vernacular, thus providing the beguines with an educational tool and helping to further this religious move­ment, which was of profound political importance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gabriele Strauch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[image: The Beguines]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Image of Womankind: Eve and Mary in the Middle Ages&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rather than discuss women writers or women in history, I traced the background of the images of Eve and Mary through the high Middle Ages. The characteristics of both served as models for all women. I began with the discussion of Eve in Genesis and explored how this image was modified and applied to all Womankind by the church fathers. My approach to Mary was similar. Beginning with her treatment in the New Testament, I looked at the development of Marian theology in the first four or five centuries of the young church, a crucial time in terms of formation of church doctrine. As background to the doctrines of Eve and Mary, 1 discussed Merlin Stone's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;When God Was a Woman&lt;/span&gt;. In years preceding the patriarchy, God was apparently a woman and was seen as the Divine Ancestress of all humankind. Society was both matrilinear and matrilocal in the days of her reign.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jill McDonald&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;II. &lt;span&gt;Lesbian Themes in German Literature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I introduced the topic by emphasizing that it makes no sense to study lesbian images in texts without understanding what it means/has meant to be a lesbian in our society. Possibly the most significant factor about the panel was that it took place at all, that some of us at the meeting broke the taboos and spoke out as lesbians, expressing our solidarity with the nation-wide March on Washington in support of gay rights that took place that same weekend. It is important to note that we did not select the Bachmann story; it chose us. The fact that three papers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;all focused on this one story says a good deal about the dearth of lesbian themes in the German literature in print and about attitudes towards lesbianism in Germany. Miriam reported on the cultural-political scene in Germany; feminist publishers like Amazonen Verlag and Come Out Press are now making new and old lesbian material available. We agreed that it was time to break the old stereo­types and create new, positive images; to do this, we must become articulate and visible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Evelyn Beck&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Lesbian Relationship in Ingeborg Bachmann's "Ein Schritt nach Gomorrha"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In "Ein Schritt nach Gomorrha" Ingeborg Bachmann uses a lesbian relationship to call into question traditionally accepted sex roles in marriage. She illuminates the male-dominated world of decision-making and controlling and thus clarifies for her protagonist, Charlotte, that she, like many other women, has existed solely as an appendage to this world. But despite an apparently positive view of lesbianism, Bachmann finally shows that love between two women is not a real alternative to the prevailing heterosexual norm, not because lesbian love is inherently sinful, as is strongly suggested in the title, but because the love between the two women as shown by Bachmann is no different from the love between a man and a woman: both result in partnerships of unequal power. Bachmann suggests the need for new myths, new images and new language to help create better love relationships. She rejects the old myths of Adam and Eve and Sleeping Beauty and calls for a world "wenn dies nicht mehr gilt—Mann and Frau." However, she ultimately provides no model after which women who want equal relationships can pattern themselves.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dinah Dodds&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Self-identity and the Relationship to the Other in Ingeborg Bachmann's "A Step&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Towards Gormorrah"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bachmann focusses on the question of defining and evaluating female identity and the relationship between self and other. There are several attempts made to invalidate the old belief that a woman can define herself only in relationship to a man and that female-identity is primarily associated with the model of complementarity. The encounter with Mara may be seen as an attempt at exploring new possibilities of defining female identity without relatedness to men. Through­out the text there are indications that a new concept of women’s selfhood should be based on a woman’s own judgement disregarding how men view her. Mara challenges Charlotte with questions of what is important for her as a woman: her music, her profession, or loving. But Charlotte does not answer these questions positively; instead, there is a note of resignation when she concludes that it was "too late for everything." Charlotte’s comment that the language of men was bad but the language of women worse, indicates that she cannot respond positively to either men or women. Thus, the relationship between self and other is rendered meaning­less. The quest for self-identity does not lead to emergence of greater knowledge of self but results in alienation and in detachment. For Charlotte feels separated from women, "from their language, their suffering, their heart." Although Charlotte is acutely aware of the hypocrisy and meaningless of the conventional male/female relationship, she is not able to envision how a woman to woman relation­ship would be a meaningful experience that would enable her to define female- identity in a new light. Bachmann seems to suggest that the encounter between the two women was without significance, and did not lead to emergence of woman’s selfhood.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate Delphendahl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Lesbian Theme in Bachmann's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;"Ein Schritt nach Gomorrha"—its Literary and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Human Significance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The paper attempted to analyze the encounter between Charlotte and Mara in terms of its significance for Charlotte’s awakening insight into the oppressiveness of her feminine role. As a lesbian Mara is particularly suited to representing a position outside of society and its conventional bourgeois values; she provides the distanced perspective required for a critique of these values and offers an alternative form for a new life beyond the traditional male-female relationship.&lt;br /&gt;As a woman like Charlotte and in love with her, moreover, Mara also fosters the unfolding of Charlotte’s female psyche in a unique way, in part as a projection of suppressed aspects of Charlotte’s self which must be brought to consciousness if she is to attain insight and wholeness. The emotional and perceptual impact of this encounter liberates Charlotte's thoughts and feelings from the old patterns "Ihre Gefühle, ihre Gedanken sprangen aus dem gewohnten Gleis, rasten ohne Bahn ins Freie. . . . Sie war frei. Nichts mehr erschien ihr unmöglish." This freedom allows Charlotte to criticize the traditional male-female relationship in a pain­fully profound way, and stimulates her attempt to envision a new form of existence beyond a society divided on the basis of sex.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Charlotte’s failure to imagine let alone to realize a genuine alternative to exploitative relations reveals some typical problems of traditional portrayals of lesbianism as well as reflecting Bachmann's personal and historical situation. Charlotte perpetuates patriarchal society's negative valuation of woman and its exploitative, hierarchical organization by her acceptance of the traditional masculine role of domination as the only route to selfhood and in her ambivalent belittling responses to Mara's body and speech. To some extent Bachmann may be bending to a perceived expectation on the part of society that lesbians be por­trayed as unsuccessful, unnatural, unloving, and as inevitably repeating roles of dominance and submission. Bachmann's lack of contact to a woman's movement, moreover, may have had much to do with her difficulty in affirming a female self and with her character's inability to image a more genuinely liberated future, based on a clearer critique of unequal power relationships. Thus, while the story points ahead in its suggestion that the lesbian relationship poses a critical and creative challenge to the limiting, self-denying role of woman in a traditional heterosexual relationship, its ambivalent and contradictory portrayal prevents it from being a model for future literary treatments of lesbianism.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ritta Jo Horsley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. &lt;span&gt;Women and Aesthetics&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leslie and I introduced the panel on Women and Aesthetics by stressing the importance of considering the question of women and aesthetics in terms very different from traditional notions of aesthetics and in ways that avoid the tendency to build a prescriptive or a descriptively binding "feminist" aesthetic that cannot begin to approach the fundamental interconnectedness of form, ideology, sexuality, gender, and history. Focusing on Christa Wolf seemed particularly appropriate in this context.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Biddy Martin&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A general presentation of Wolf's present political and aesthetic position prefaced a discussion of her latest work, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort, Nirgends&lt;/span&gt;. Christa Wolf's political position was discussed within the specific context of the GDR, in which she addresses structures of domination as they are imbedded in concepts and language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her literature is an attempt to break down these structures through the creation of language and form. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort, Nirgends&lt;/span&gt; was discussed specifically in this context. In that work, Wolf is exploring the roots of oppression in the past which help in our understanding of the present in all of its complexity. Although this work is part of a trend toward re-evaluating Kleist in the GDR, it is also unique in its concentration on the roots of women’s oppression through the figure of Karoline von Günderrode.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mary Rhiel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Politics of Form&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The purpose of my presentation was to raise some questions about the woman writer’s complex relationship to the patriarchal literary tradition and to language itself. I suggested that the study of women’s writings extend beyond the exploration of "content” to the study of form; form, indeed, is itself ideologically determined and is therefore a kind of content, manifesting a wealth of assumptions, perspectives, and responses to censorship. One fruitful area of formal analysis in fiction is the study of narrative voice—the relationship of the textual speaker to her story, to her audience, and to the writing act itself. For women the securing of narrative authority is particularly problematic, and this problem is reflected in a range of narrative devices in women’s texts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To illustrate my suggestions I looked briefly at some narrative practices in the works of Christa Wolf. I noted the role of prefatory disclaimers and epigrams, the experiment with narrative person that characterizes her corpus, the tendency in her prose to eliminate the grammatical subject of a sentence and the general "difficulty of saying ’I”’ that is expressed not only thematically but structurally in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nachdenken Uber Christa T.&lt;/span&gt; and the later works, all of which may be contrasted with the formal and thematic conventionality of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Per geteilte Himmel&lt;/span&gt;. Finally, I raised some cautions from the study of feminism, women and literary form, noting the importance of avoiding premature closure and of exercising caution in dis­tinguishing characteristics of "female" or "feminist" literary consciousness.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sue Lanser&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IV. &lt;span&gt;Feminist Pedagogy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have not yet received abstracts from the coordinators or presenters for this workshop. We hope to be able to print them in the next issue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT 1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lisa Kahn notified us that a second article on "American Women Writers Who Write in German" has recently appeared in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MELUS&lt;/span&gt; (Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnis Literature of the United States). She writes: "The number of women writers has now increased to 20, the three new ones: Gerda Nishan, Lilo A. Pretzer (Dickinson College), and Rita Terras (Connecticut College). My approach in this article is rather different from the one in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schatzkammer&lt;/span&gt;, as you will notice." (We mentioned her first article in WIG #19.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As to the periodical &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schatzkammer&lt;/span&gt;, Lisa Kahn points out that it "regularly publishes poetry and short prose written in German. In the past, much of it, if not most, has been by women. This should be of special interest to those WIG who write creatively in German and have a hard time finding a publisher. In addition, other American papers and periodicals which publish poetry and prose in German are listed in footnote 9 of Lisa Kahn’s first article in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schatzkammer&lt;/span&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MEETINGS: 1979 MLA&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pre-Literary Forms and German Women's Writing I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;1:00-2:15 p.m., Governors I, Hyatt, December 28 Presiding: Sara Lennox and Miriam Frank&lt;br /&gt;Papers: &lt;br /&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg, "Christa BrUck's &lt;span&gt;Schicksale hinter Schreibmaschinen" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Viktoria Harwig, "Lili Körber's &lt;span&gt;Eine Frau erlebt den roten Alltag"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Nancy Vedder-Shults, "Breaking the Silence: Women's Documentary Literature in the Federal Republic"&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pre-Literary Forms and German Women's Writing II&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2:45-4:00 p.m., Governors I, Hyatt, December 28 Presiding: Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Papers: Renate Delphendahl, "Women's Language"&lt;br /&gt;Kay Goodman, "Reading Women's Autobiography"&lt;br /&gt;Susan S. Lanser, "Feminism and Form"&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Business Meeting of the Coalition of Women in German&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;4:30-5:45 p.m., Governors I, Hyatt, December 28 Presiding: Miriam Frank and Sara Lennox&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT 2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leontine Sagan's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mädchen in Uniform&lt;/span&gt; (1931) has recently become available for rental again. The film deals with life in a Prussian boarding school. It is a sound film, black and white, German with English subtitles and has an all-woman cast. It is based on Christa Winsloe's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gestern&lt;/span&gt; und Heute (English translation The Child Manuela). Contact Films, Incorporated, [redacted]. Telephone [redacted]. Rental fee for a single showing: $125.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Members who wish to send letters of support for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Anthology of German Women Writers of the 1970's&lt;/span&gt; by Jeanette Clausen and Naomi Stephan should please address them to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gloria Z. Greenfield&lt;br /&gt;Persephone Press&lt;br /&gt;P.O. [readcted]&lt;br /&gt;Watertown, MA 02172&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Editorial Advisory Committee&lt;br /&gt;Women and Culture Series&lt;br /&gt;University of Michigan Press&lt;br /&gt;1058 L.S.&amp;amp;A. Building&lt;br /&gt;Ann Arbor, MI 48109&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Letters should be sent immediately, as we expect decisions forthwith and letters they receive will certainly help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-11-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dear Wiggy:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No More Cinderellas or&lt;br /&gt;Some Observations on the Disadvantages of Being a Woman in German (French, English, Russian, etc., etc.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Though I shall mainly draw on my personal experience as a teacher of German, I could list (by name!) a number of women who have encountered almost identical or similar situations. I know of some who have been able—for many different reasons—to over­come their adverse circumstances. Others will continue to suffer from them, as I do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If, during the period of approximately 1950 to 1965, you were looking for a position in German, but happened to be married to somebody who was a college teacher, you were faced with the nepotism law. Lucky the couple who lived in a metropolitan area, for sooner or later there was bound to be a vacancy in a less prestigious school or a high school, and many wives would jump at the opportunity (as I did) to get "back into the field." Little did I know!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As the job market widened in the late sixties, why did these women not grasp at the chance to move upward on the ladder to a "better" school? Fortunately, a few did.Many of them did not, and these are some of the reasons:&lt;br /&gt;a. They had not been working in their field for a number of years, and this disqualified them.&lt;br /&gt;b. They were now at a high school or a college with a poor reputation and could not compete with job seekers from more prestigious schools.&lt;br /&gt;c. They did obtain good offers, but could not leave town because of their obligations towards husband and children.&lt;br /&gt;d. Other universities in the metropolitan area had no interest in getting the wife of the chairman (or otherwise prominent professor) of the "rival" school.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Financially, the situation was not devastating, though they always received a far smaller salary than their husbands, while their working loads were much heavier, namely twelve hours per week (I have taught many a semester 15 hours!), compared to the husbands’ six or nine hours. Husbands either had a secretary of their own or one who did some work for them, most of the secretaries had some knowledge of German. At the wive’s school the secretary generally does not speak a word of German, but then, she is not available anyway. There may be ten or more people in a Foreign Language Department, and the chairperson generally keeps her busy enough.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If the husband wants to do research, his school will grant him a semester or two sabbatical. The wive’s school may be in such financial difficulties that she can only take a leave of absence (without pay, naturally) and that is not always granted!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Supposing husband and wife have equal interest and devotion to their work, need we ask whose list of publications will be longer?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And who will have more time for committee work? The partner who has dinner served to him when he comes home, or the partner who has to shop and clean and cook and set the table and serve?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And who will be invited to present lectures, read papers at prestigious colloquia, be a guest lecturer at a summer school, etc.? The one who has made a name for himself through publications? Or the one who has published little (if anything)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And who will reap the golden fruits of research grants from national and international institutions and organizations?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is not unlikely that the discussion among "learned men" who award Fulbrights and Guggenheims and Alexander von Humboldts, etc., goes somewhat like this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Adam Soandso, teaches at....(prestigious name), is (was) chairman for....years, received a....grant in...., and a....grant in..............., look at the volume of his publications!" And the names of colleagues who have written letters of recommendation for him read like a Who’s Who in the field."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contrast this evaluation with the sizing-up of the female applicant:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Eva Soandso, teaches at....(where is that? never heard of), what, still Asst. (Asso.) Prof?, must be something wrong there. No book (one) published, only articles! Doesn’t look very impressive to me. Who’s recommending her? Never heard of. Perhaps, her chair­man (chairperson)? Good grief, she’s already 50! When I was 50, I had already written (book) and (book), and look at Adam Soandso!"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Any doubts to whom the coveted grant will go?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is there anybody among these learned men who would say, well, if under all these hardships such as the tremendous teaching load, plus family, plus household, she has been able to publish, imagine how productive this woman might be if she had only one sabbatical!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So the old wives sit, continue to teach 12 or more hours, continue to do their research and writing at night, type their own MSS, receive few and small grants—if any!—and continue to be ignored by the luminaries whose arrogance would never allow them to admit that they can publish largely due to their good fortune of light teaching loads, unpaid housekeepers, sabbaticals, grants, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Suggestions for breaking the vicious circle: Let us elect more women into stipend- and grant-giving committees. Let us alert everybody in the profession that women need not do inferior work just because they have had lesser opportunities. If only she gets a chance, she may try especially hard to prove herself. This goes not only for research grants, also for promotions and calls to more renowned schools.&lt;br /&gt;The vicious circle which I have tried to describe must be broken for those in our profession who are still young and should not be trapped into the frustrating situations in which we older ones try to survive.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name Withheld&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;New York, July 7, 1979&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Women In German &lt;br /&gt;818 Van Hise &lt;br /&gt;Madison, WI 53706&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;This is in response to the suggestion of sharing experiences of alternate solutions to academic employment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;I myself passed, in May 1969, at the age of 37, my Ph.D. orals in German at Columbia University. In September of 1969 I found myself without a job and without any income. I had gotten divorced one year earlier and was living alone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;My first impulse was to try to apply for welfare and write a dissertation while on welfare. I found I lacked in savvy for that solution.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;My next attempt was to find work with language schools and to do private tutoring. Actually I got off to a very good start, but lacked in confidence and whenI was offered part-time, editorial clerical work, at $2.75 an hour, I accepted it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Psychologically and emotionally I was not ready, as I see it now, to work without the security of a small steady income, and also the companionship an office provides.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;During that time I was trying to get certification to work on the secondary school level, or to work in a private school. German however, in New York, is just about not taught. It is not even on the list of approved subjects of the Board of Education.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;1 was also toying with the idea of working in a Free School, or living in a commune. Or - joining a street theater group (the Pageant Players were my favorite group.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;"However, when in March 1970 I was offered a full-time clerical position as editorial assistant by the American Foundation for the Blind, at $125.- week, I accepted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Another year later I was promoted to the professional level (no more timeclock to punch!) and given the title of "editor" and a glorious salary of some $8,000 a year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;I now had an office with a window, assistants and a typist. I was rarely more than five hours a day behind that desk - they seemed like fifty.. The days and weeks seemed endless, the boredom of it all abysmal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;To my greatest relief the job came to an end by Christmas 1972.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;I was considering re-training as a social worker/psychotheraplst. Instead I found myself painting walls in the fall of 1973. It was bliss compared to sitting behind a desk in an office.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Nevertheless I was now 41 and I realized I was doing work geared to young, strong men. At the end of the day I was in a stupor of physical exhaustion and could not read, think, or talk. That was upsetting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;I now lived on Second Avenue and 11th Street - an area of Manhattan where New York University Is expanding rapidly and a major employer. I decided to try to get a job in their administration and to enroll at the same time in a Councelllng Program.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;This venture lasted from September 1974 to April 1975. In my writings I have documented this experience in great detail.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;In the fall of 1975 I decided to resume my "career" as teacher/tutor/translator of German. Again I felt the need to supplement my insecure earnings with a part time office job. This time I worked for an exporter of used pinball machines to South East Asia.. He had a great deal more sympathy for my predicament than any of my previous employers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;I have learned to live in Manhattan on incomes ranging from $4000.- to $5000.- a year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Until June 1978, when the younger of my two sons graduated from highschool, I was tied to Manhattan by my children. Their father and I had joint custody. They grew up alternating between my homes (I kept moving) and the homes of their lawyer/businessman father (he kept moving also.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Since October 1978 I have lived for the first time exclusively on free-lance work income. My job with the exporter came to an end in late 1977. Until October 1978 I received a small unemployment check:- $36.- a week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The house with the loft on Second Avenue, that I shared with a painter, burned in February 1978. The landlord has not made repairs. The boiler stopped functioning. My painter friend decided to stay. I moved.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Now I live in a $200.- a month small tenement flat. My income since October has been sufficient to support my exceedingly modest life style.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;This story would not be complete without mentioning the many "job efforts" I made in the course of this decade: I have a whole drawer filled with letters to colleges and to schools asking for teaching work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;My latest effort has once again involved New York University. I am a native German and my previous teaching experience is one year at U.C.L.A., four years at Columbia University and one year at St. Joseph's College for Women. I have taught beginning courses, conversation courses and reading knowledge courses. I loved teaching from the moment I stepped in front of my class at U.C.L.A. at the age of 22. From the first minute I felt in my element. I communicate with people with great ease. With every single class I ever taught I felt great rapport.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The doubts I had about the academic system while I taught at U.C.L.A I never explored. I became pregnant and rather than wonder what I had liked, and what I had disliked about academic life, I became Involved with my two children.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;I returned to teaching at Columbia U. in the fall of 1965. Again, it was love at first sight. This time however I came to explore&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;the academic system and my role in it at great depth. Also, from 1963-65 I had devoted myself to the intense study of sociology, largely German sociology, a field that still fascinates me. It gave me tools to explore many questions that have troubled me going all the way back to my German Gymnasium education that was briefly started In 1942 and resumed In 1946 (the interruption due to a Jewish grandfather.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Mount Holyoke College, where I arrived on a scholarship In 1951, also has been food for much belated thinking.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;I had a lot of time In the course of the past decade for thinking. Obviously my funds also did not allow for that many other diversions than thinking.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;In 1959 I started writing. I wrote a novel In 1959, another In 1961. 1964 I made a first attempt to document the dynamics of my marriage. In the summer of 1976 I repeated that attempt. In both of these "essays" a lot of room is given also to my encounter with the academic institutions. Besides that I have written fairly extensively about "work situations". Until now I have not found the energy to publish any of my work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;German women writers (I write only In English, still, I lived in German speaking territory until I was 19) are an obvious area of interest for me. Even though I never lived in Germany again after 1951 I find in my "documentary" style of writing a kinship to present German writers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;I still dream of being some day perhaps with a group of young people with whom I can jointly explore my interest In German writing. That would give me great pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marianne Landré Goldscheider&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;P.3. Since I moved to East 6th Street I kept a diary that I have called "6th Street Log". I Just concluded 200 single spaced pages: It Is a documentation of my first year as a free lance teacher/tutor/translator/writer - and also deals with my relationship to my sons (mother), the painter who decided to dissolve our relationship after the fire (lover) and to my friends (friend). The juggling act all these roles Imply - and the fact also that they leave no time and energy for political involvement (citizen). I have been denied the role of citizen from the age of six months, when, in January 1933 I became stateless, due to my Jewish grandfather!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;September 26, 1979&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Dear Wiggy,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;When I entered graduate school (1969) I had no idea I would have to consider alternatives to teaching. My father was a teacher, and I would be one, too. The bottom dropped out of the market in 1970-71, but I still didn’t worry. The MLA conventions came and went, but even two loose-leaf notebooks filled with rejection letters didn’t convince me. Even now I refuse to believe absolutely I will never be a tenured professor with a nine hour course load and summers free.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;If other women feel as I do, a column will never be enough apace to contain even a fraction of the anger we feel. By choosing German as a major, and teaching as a career, I was programming myself to fail in a patriarchal system. To be fair, even if I had recognized that in 1966, I might still have majored in German (it was easy), and I might still have gone to graduate school. However, the one smart thing I did was opt for the Doctor of Arts instead of the Ph.D. because this program allowed me to take one-third of my course work in a related field. I chose Higher Education Administration, and am start­ing my fifth year as Assistant Academic Dean at a small women’s college in New York State. It isn't full time teaching, but it is education.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;My current dilemma is that I am a single parent with a two year old daughter. I am fighting for flexible scheduling so I can spend time with her while continuing to be an effective administrator. I am not meeting with much success.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;I feel two things are essential to our survival--flexibility and endurance. What makes our struggle different from that of earlier women is our networking, our realization that we can and must stand together.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;I apologize for the length of this letter. Please use all/any/none of it. I have followed the development of WIG since its inception, and am delighted with your success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;Susan Karr&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;No renewal notices will be sent&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Read your label and renew Immediately when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We held firm as long as we could, BUT, the rising costs of everything make it impossible for us to continue to produce &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; for $5.00. Therefore, we are raising the fee to $7.00; $3.00 for students and unemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enclosed you will find my check for: (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Please check&lt;/span&gt; appropriate boxes)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New  Renewal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$7.00 for one year&lt;br /&gt;$12.00 for two years &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$3.00 for one year &lt;br /&gt;$5.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$15 or more for supporting membership&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NAME ________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ADDRESS _________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please check if applicable: change of address _____&lt;/p&gt;
This newsletter was prepared by Evelyn Torton Beck, Yvette Brazell, Sara Markham, Biddy Martin, Mary Rhiel, James Steakley, Gabriele Strauch and Christa Hildebrand.</text>
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