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Title A name given to the resource WiG Newsletters Subject The topic of the resource Feminism; Germanists; Congresses Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Lennox Files, Wisconsin Historical Society Women in German Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978 - 2016 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG PDF Language A language of the resource eng ger Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Newsletters Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource December 1974 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Feminism; Germanists; Congresses Description An account of the resource December 10, 1974 NEWS from Women in Germanistik We exist. As planned, we met this fall in St. Louis in conjunction with the Midwest MLA. Response to our notice in the AATG Newsletter was very enthusiastic, and it is clear that our group is meeting a definite need. We women in Germanistic need to keep in touch with others in our discipline. We need to know who we are, where we are located and what we are doing in our teaching and research, especially in relation to women’s studies. Therefore, we have decided to establish a newsletter of our own which a group at Wisconsin will put together and send out from time to time. This is the first issue. First, several important announcements: (1) At the next annual meeting of the AATG (Thanksgiving 1975 in Washington, D.C.) there will be a section of "Women and Germanistik." The format allows for two to three (short) papers and a panel discussion. All members of the profession, including graduate students, are cordially invited to submit papers, abstracts or suggestions. For this first meeting of its kind, preference will be given to position papers, introductory or methodological treatments or surveys, rather than to narrowly focused papers, although the latter will be considered too. The main criterion is quality. Topics to be treated might include: the methodology of feminist criticism; neglected women writers; feminist revisions of accepted interpretations; women scholars; the status of women in the profession; sexism in textbooks. For further information please contact the chairperson: Gisela E. Bahr Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages Miami University Oxford, Ohio U5056 (2) Pat Herminghouse of Washington University (St. Louis) has contacted the editors of several Germanistik journals for our group. At this time we have reasonable assurance that an entire issue of one of these journals will be devoted to the topic of "Women and Germanistik." This issue will probably appear in the Spring of 1976. For this reason, we should be thinking seriously about potential contributions and getting these into shape. In preparing papers, we suggest that you follow the AATG guidelines listed above. Since many of these topics are new, it might be advantageous for people to pool information and ideas: to work together, rather than alone. (3) A workshop on International Feminist Criticism is being planned by the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages (Midwest branch) at the MMLA next fall in Chicago. They are especially eager to hear from women who could give -2- presentations on Feminist Criticism in Germany. Mary Helen Becker [redacted] (4) The next meeting of our coalition will take place in conjunction with the MLA in New York City: Friday morning, Dec. 27, 10:30-12:30 in VENDOME 10, Americana. BE SURE TO COME! Please save this information and note it down: this meeting was not announced in the official program of the MLA but will be included in the supplement [ ] to be distributed at the meeting. If you lose the information, check the bulletin hoards. Next, some proposals for what our group can accomplish: (1) Through cur Newsletter we can function as an information exchange center. The Newsletter is eager to publish: (a) descriptions and text lists of courses which pertain to our interest in Women and Germanistik. This includes projected courses as well as those that have already been taught. We would also like to hear about your experiences in teaching these courses: things that have worked as well as those that have failed. In this way we can learn from each other. (b) reports of research in progress: articles, dissertations, books. (c) suggestions for research. Since the amount of work still to be done is almost overwhelming, and since no one of us can do it all, it makes sense for us to pool our information and call attention to unexplored areas that we come across in our own research. (d) suggestions for translations of works by and about women. Those teaching German Literature in Translation will already be aware of the need for such texts. Anyone interested in translating should also contact us. The Newsletter can help people with similar interests get in touch with each other. -3- (e) bibliography exchange. Please send in brief descriptions of old and new books and articles focusing on any aspect of Women and Germanistik. These contributions will not only appear in the Newsletter, but will also be circulated at a workshop of the MMLA in Chicago in the fall of 1975. This workshop is being planned by the Women’s Caucus as a bibliography exchange for women in all of the modern languages. After this meeting, the Newsletter will publicize the information relevant to our discipline. Hopefully, this kind of exchange will be an on-going project of our group. (f) resource information. If you know of any collections of documents, books, films, journals or newspapers relating to women in Germanistik, please contact the Newsletter. We have already received information about a "large and unique . collection of women’s studies material in the Spencer Library at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, known as the Gerritsen Collection. The core of the collection was assembled by the first woman physician in the Netherlands, a Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs (1854-1929), who concentrated on works in GERMAN, French, and Dutch, and apparently bought any title she discovered dealing with any phase of the'Frauenfrage during her career in Amsterdam and her extensive travels in behalf of feminism around the turn of the century." This information was sent in by Carol D. Worth, who has prepared an overall description of the collection, soon to appear in Feminist Studies. (2) We can also provide a sounding board for questions with which we are all struggling. For instance: (a) What does it mean to be identified as a feminist in Germanistik? What are the problems and possibilities? (b) How can we establish contact with women’s studies programs? (c) How can we best deal with sexism in textbooks? Send in examples you encounter while teaching and we will publish them. Can we write our own texts? How can we get these published? -4- (d) How can we encourage section leaders to invite women to contribute papers to sections of the MLA and other conferences? (e) How can we encourage women to speak up at meetings? (f) How can women become more directly involved in governing the sections at the MLA? This may require some planning on our part. (g) Should we urge the AATG to create a permanent section or seminar on Women and Germanistik? To meet every year? Every other year? (h) There has been some talk of a survey to study the status of women in Germanistik on every level, from high school to university, including women graduate students. What questions would you like to see on such a survey? Would you be willing to help administer it? In what capacity? Should the AATG be tapped to fund this? (i) Would you be in favor of a week-end workshop? If so, when? where? What would we want to talk about specifically? (j) What else could this coalition do? Should we act as a pressure group? If so, how? In what direction? As you can see, our coalition and this Newsletter, which is its voice, have myriad possibilities within Germanistik. Everything remains to be done. In this regard, please note that this Newsletter is in no way intended to replace Concerns, the publication of the Women’s Coalition of the Modern Languages. In fact, if you are not already a member, we urge you to join and work with the Women’s Caucus on the national as well as the local level. Our group and the Newsletter are merely intended as a supplement to strengthen the ties among those of us in Germanistik and to provide us with a forum related specifically to our discipline. Often, we are the only woman professor in the department; graduate students frequently are without women faculty of any kind. To break this isolation we must communicate. We hope to see you in New York, and/or to hear from you soon. Send ideas, comments, questions. Evelyn Torton Beck and Nancy Vedder Shults Contributions to the Newsletter should be sent to: Evelyn Torton Beck German Department University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Women in German Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Women in German Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Dec_1974 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/">No copyright - United States</a> https://wig-herstory.com/files/original/adbac10f5d808b21cee3b50a79de6123.pdf bd23f022179a5dc818882f4bbc61b615 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource December 1975 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Feminism; Germanists; Congresses Description An account of the resource NEWS FROM WOMEN IN GERMAN Number 5 December 15, 1975 What you send to us is the fabric of this newsletter. When we sat face to face at the MMLA in Chicago and at the AATG in Washington D.C., we discovered that people had much information and many ideas which they had not yet shared with us. When placed in a larger context, each individual item of information takes on new and greater significance. Therefore, do not hesitate to send us anything concerning Women in German. To facilitate quick and easy communication, we agreed to overlook the amenities in our correspondence. Therefore, don’t feel obliged to send even a cover letter. Just put whatever information you have into a stamped envelope^ address it to us and mail it. Please note the following important CORRECTION to the San Francisco MLA Program: WOMEN IN GERMAN will meet in OPEN (not closed) session on Saturday morning, December 27, 8:30 a.m., in the Windsor Room, second floor of the ST. FRANCIS Hotel. Be sure to spread the word about our meeting, since even the incorrect notice is buried in the program. This is our one opportunity to establish direct contact with West Coast Women in German who may not have had the opportunity to come to our previous meetings in the East and Midwest. Reports from the Women in German Meetings MMLA Attendance, at this meeting of the coalition was high; interest was as usual keen: over 35 people attended. A report was given on our questionnaire results. Not surprisingly, we found no non-sexist textbooks. Ideas generated: As a follow-up to responses on the sexism in textbooks questionnaires, we discussed strategy for reaching publishers more effectively at the MLA. The following were suggested: 1) Invite publishers whose texts we have examined to our coalition meeting in San Francisco. 2) Create confrontational happenings concerning sexism in textbooks at the publishers’ booths in San Francisco. Come with ideas. One suggestion is to have teams of two go to the booths and read aloud (in English) pre-selected portions of texts which are particularly offensive, then repeat this dialogue several times. The purpose of the tactic is to call public attention to the nature of these texts and hopefully to embarrass publishers into action. Another idea is to organize a succession of individuals who would naively question the publishers about the sexism in their textbooks: point to a specific passage and ask in all innocence and surprise, "Are you aware ...?" After five people have done this, the publishers may get the point. -2- 3) Any time a text is not used by you or your department, be sure to inform the publishers that their text has been rejected for sexist reasons. Let them know exactly how many copies you would have used for how long a period of time, so that the extent to which sexism is not in their selfinterest becomes clear. If your department has not rejected a text in spite of its sexist bias, send your objections to the publishers anyway. 4) At the MLA we are planning to frame a collective letter to be sent to publishers from the Coalition of Women in German. A letter-writing campaign will also be organized there. 5) We discussed the need for writing our own non-sexist introductory texts. Collectives of people are urged to begin planning such texts. AATG The coalition of Women in German which met at the national meeting of the AATG in Washington, D.C., unanimously passed the following resolution: "Moved that the editorial board of the AATG be urged to devote one issue of the German Quarterly to the theme of ’Women and German Literature." It was stressed that if the board decided to do this, the German Quarterly should provide sufficient and widely distributed notice of this special issue, thus giving people ample time to prepare contributions. The need for an issue on this theme was brought to the attention of the editors of German Quarterly at the open meeting of the journals held the previous evening. It is not known whether this suggestion will be implemented. If you support this idea write directly to the editor of GQ, William Little at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. The "Women and Germanistic" section of the AATG was very well attended in spite of its being scheduled inconveniently at the very end of the meeting. Clearly people stayed just to hear it. Response to the panel was so enthusiastic that the AATG voted to include another section on "Women and Germanistic" at the summer meeting of the AATG in Philadelphia, 1926. Hopefully this section will become a permanent one. One important discussion at the AATG concerned discrimination in school systems and the need for information about affirmative action. Anyone who has access to information or experience of this kind should contact us and we will print their names so that they may be contacted as resource people. One booklet suggested during our discussion was Sue the Bastards, written by a feminist lawyer and available from Aeoleon Press. A Week-end Conference of Women in German? The idea of a week-end conference was enthusiastically supported by the coalition of Women in German which met both at the MMLA and the AATG. Two people have expressed interest in organizing this week-end: Naomi Stephan (Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana) and Gisela Bahr (Miami Univ., Oxford, Ohio). Gisela is looking into the possibility of having the meeting in Ohio in the early fall of 1976. It is likely that Gisela and Naomi will work together on this project. Anyone interested in working with them should contact them directly. -3- MLA Seminar The MLA seminar on Feminist Perspectives in Teaching German Literature, instituted by the Coalition of Women in German, will meet Monday, December 29 from 9-10:15 a.m. in San Francisco. Discussion will focus on position papers by Barbara Drygulski Wright (Univ. Conn.), Naomi Stephan (Valparaiso Univ.), and Judith M. Harris (U.Ca.-Berkeley) concerning Kabale und Liebe and Maria Magdalene as bürgerliche Trauerspiele. Barbara will trace the role of the passive suffering martyr, as it gradually becomes restricted to an intelligent and powerful female, from the martyr plays of the baroque period to the bourgeois plays of Lessing, Schiller and Hebbel. She will explore the ways in which female chastity became one of the few bourgeois moral virtues- considered worth defending to the death, during and after the rise of an educated bourgeoisie. Naomi will examine how new concepts of drama as a vehicle for social change failed to offer a base for the development of the female figure toward any of the idealistic goals of emancipation, independence and freedom from oppression so enthusiastically propounded by the theorists and dramatists of the day. She will discuss how weakness and passivity in women were used to illustrate powerlessness and oppression of the middle class in the 18th century, and how, by suspending woman’s humanity, the middle class man could find some compensation for his political impotence. Naomi will also consider questions of presentation and reception of such plays as Kabale und Liebe in terms of reinforcing cliched notions of the female. Judith will focus on Maria Magdalene as a reflection of Hebbel's literary image of women versus the social reality of the nineteenth century. By viewing the drama in the context of Hebbel’s theory of tragedy, his desire to revive the bourgeois tragedy, and some of the socio-political events of the first half of the nineteenth century, she will point out some of the crucial contradictions and questions which go beyond a critique of the narrow bourgeois patriarchy of the play. The dynamics of Klara’s relationships to the men in her life and the demise of the three female figures will be viewed against Hebbel’s (usually misogynistic) diary notations. Judith will also draw attention to Kroetz’s recent re-working of the play. No papers will be read at the seminar, which will instead be entirely devoted to discussion. Persons wishing copies of the participants' brief position papers before the seminar should send a self-addressed stamped envelope with request to: Patricia Herminghouse, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature, [redacted] Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130. Announcements The deadline for the "Women in German" issue of Unterrichtspraxis has been extended till mid-January. Send contributions to Gerhard Weiss, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. The journal is interested in any articles pertaining to women so long as they have a pedagogical perspective. MLA Job Interviews: In previous years women have had numerous complaints concerning treatment at job interviews. This year we will have some recourse. Kathryn Buck will be available at the MLA Job Information Service in San Francisco to receive and investigate complaints on the spot. If you do not have time to reach her there, contact her by letter c/o the MLA, [redacted] -4- Female Studies VIII: A collection of essays and syllabi concerning Teaching About Women in the Foreign Languages should be available at the MLA. Look for it at the information tables sponsored by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages or inquire at the Feminist Press booth. Information as to how you can obtain it by mail and for how much will be provided in the next Newsletter. We also hope to include a critique of how useful it is particularly to teachers of German. Bibliographies: We have received two bibliographies: one from Pat Herminghouse on "Women and Contemporary German Society" and one from a collective in Bloomington, Indiana, "German Women Writers in English Translation." We will reorganize these bibliographical listings and publish them in the next newsletter. Nadean Bishop is compiling a bibliography of bibliographies with respect to Women in English and in the foreign languages. If anyone is compiling a bibliography, send the information to her at [redacted] Anthology Project Pat Herminghouse is exploring possible funding from the "Women’s Educational Equity Act" for compiling an anthology of German women writers in translation. She would like to see the project go beyond literature to include some good feminist criticism and some sociological and historical material. Anyone with suggestions on what should be included and/or indications of materials which they would like to translate, or for which they would like to write introductions, can contact Pat at the following address: Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature, [redacted] Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130. In addition, some people at the recent AATG conference expressed a need for a women-writers-in-German text for fourth semester level instruction. Anyone with ideas on such a project or interested in helping develop it should also contact Pat. Research in Progress Karin Struck Sara Platzer is preparing a colloquium about Karin Struck to be presented sometime in February at the University of Colorado, Boulder campus. She will use critiques of Die Mutter, and also intends to start a dialogue about Struck in a later issue of this Newsletter. The Aggressive Woman in Theodor Fontane Renny Harrigan is working on an article about the aggressive woman in Theodor Fontane’s Mathilde Moring. This is a part of a larger project entitled "The Limits of Female Emancipation: Theodor Fontane’s Lower Class Women," soon to be completed. This newsletter was prepared by Angelika Bammer, Evelyn Torton Beck, Viktoria Harwig, Jeanne Howell, Sara Pietsch, Christa Stutius, and Nancy Vedder-Shults, with thanks to Susan Sniader Lanser for contributing her typing "to the cause." Sue is a graduate student in Comparative Literature who earns extra money by typing papers and dissertations. She now refuses to type any that use sexist language. We pass this idea on as a potentially effective consciousness-raiser. NOTE: If you have not yet paid your subscription fee, please do so now. If you have, we thank you for your support. Send your check for $2 ($1 if unemployed) for a year’s subscription to Women in German, German Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. 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Title A name given to the resource December 1976 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Germanists; Feminists; Congresses Description An account of the resource <div class="WordSection1"> <div class="WordSection1"> WOMEN IN GERMAN Number 9 December 1, 1976 Subscription fee: $2.00 per year ($1.00 if unemployed) Since it is our purpose to break cliches and stereotypes, Women in German can best summarize the Ohio conference and retreat by turning around the old cliché 'die Vorfreude ist größer als die Freude.' Without a doubt the conference itself far surpassed our anticipations; not only were the papers and discussants’ presentations in and of themselves exciting and stimulating, but the atmosphere was one of free exchange among equals. This open atmosphere was made possible in part by the format of short formal presentations and panel presentations with emphasis on discussion of the larger questions raised by the material and on participation by the substantial portion of the audience. Because there was so much enthusiasm over the exchange of ideas and the contact with other coalition members from all sections of the country, it was decided on the spot to hold another conference next year at the same place and at about the same time. Kay Goodman and Ruth Sanders will be co-ordinating the conference; Viktoria Harwig and Christa Stutius are planning the retreat; any ideas and suggestions as to format and topics should be addressed to: Kay Goodman or Ruth Sanders Coordinators: Women in German Conference 1977 Dept. of German, Russian, East Asian Languages Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 Suggestions for the retreat should be sent directly to Viktoria and Christa: c/o Women in German Dept. of German 814 Van Hise Hall Madison, Wisconsin 53703 On behalf of ourselves and all conference participants we would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the women at Ohio University who organized the entire conference so carefully, down to the nitty gritty of donuts, coldcuts! SYMPOSIUM All participants in the symposium on "Feminism and German Studies" and in the retreat in Ohio were asked to submit abstracts of their presentations and their critiques. Those abstracts which we received are printed below with few editorial changes; in some cases we have had to summarize the main points of the papers or the critiques because the abstracts were not yet available. The abstracts or summaries are printed in the order in which they appeared on the program with those contributions to the retreat given last. Please note that we have sent this Newsletter first class due to the deterioration of the Postal Service. This has seriously depleted our funds, but we thought it worthwhile. For this reason, we must urge all those who have not yet sent their $2 for this year to do so immediately. If anyone feels able to send more, please do. We need it. -2- "What Did You Do In The War, Mommy?": Susan M. Levin (summarized by Women in German staff) Levin described the experiences of the Baroness Fredericke Riedesel (the wife of a Hessian general) who spent several years travelling with her husband while he was on active duty with Burgoyne's army in the American Revolutionary War. The Baroness kept an account of her daily life and this is now available in English as Letter and Journals relating to the War of the American Revolution and the Capture of the German Troops at Saratoga by Mrs. General Riedesel, trans. W. L. Stone. Originally published in 1867, it has been reprinted by Arno Press in its recent series Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution. This presentation provoked discussion concerning autobiography in relationship to women who, in the 19th and 20th centuries, have made extensive use of this mode. Discussant: Kay Goodman, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio In dealing with a genre such as the journal- traditionally referred to as a woman's form--the discussion of a particularly female contribution to the form as well as the choice of this form to convey one's experience becomes especially significant. Although beginning this discussion, Levin could have pursued it further. The role model which journals establish is, because of their sense of actuality, doubly important. Levin emphasized the positive image of a strong, capable woman learning to use her resources. However, by ignoring the historical and political implications of the Baroness Riedesel's position both as Baroness and wife to a German General commanding troops against the American Revolutionaries, Levin overlooked the far stronger doctrine of submission which the Baroness both explicitly preached and actually represented. The effect of the Baroness' journal is to subvert the potentially empowering awareness of one's own strength to the cause of husband, family and fatherland--the patriarchal status quo of Germany in 1800. "German and English Contributions to the Emancipation of Women": Timothy Sellner In my paper I sought to compare the first two major contributions to the idea of the emancipation of women, Mary Wollstone craft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel's Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Weiber, both of 1792. I contrasted the works in terms of the background of the authors, the style and approach of the works, and their history since the time of publication. The main purpose of my paper was to make known the ideas contained in Hippel's heretofore unknown work, to show the way in which the work of Hippel complements that of Wollstonecraft, and to provide grounds for the idea that the two works together, representing both female and male viewpoints on the subject of the emancipation of women, more nearly comprise the first complete manifesto on feminism than does either of the works taken alone. Discussant: Susan L. Cocalis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Hippel's On Improving the Status of Women remained without any noticeable effect on German audiences and, despite its author's reputation as a satirist, is written in a tediously pedantic style which serves to obscure the main arguments. The latter could be summarized as follows: "Solange die Weiber bloß -3- </div> <div class="WordSection2"> Privilegia und nicht Rechte haben . . . wird nicht das Weib den großen Beruf der Natur: das Weib ihres Mannes, die Mutter ihrer Kinder, und, kraft dieser edlen Bestimmungen, ein Mitglied, eine Bürgerin, und nicht bloß eine Schutzver- wandtin des Staates zu seyn--nur immer sehr unvollkommen . . . erfüllen." (Status, Pt. II). Woman is to attain these "rights" gradually through a new education, which she would pursue in addition to her "special schooling as mother and housewife" (Part V). Hippel's work is not revolutionary, much less seditious, and would serve to enhance the established social order through minimal reforms in education. Women should be granted the right to call themselves citizens, (but not to vote), by making themselves more "useful" members of society. If one does accept the premise of contrasting Hippel to Wollstonecraft, their similarities should be stressed rather than their differences. Mr. Sellner's portrait of Wollstonecraft as revolutionary notwithstanding, she also appeals for gradual reforms of a woman's status through equal opportunities in education. The "revolutionary" aspect of her work is largely metaphorical: e.g., "It is time to effect a revolution in female manners--time to restore them to their lost dignity--and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. " Her diatribes against property would also fall under the heading of "utility," i.e., she criticizes the "idleness" which comes from having too much property, not the idea of property itself. Therefore there are allowances made for "usefully employed" aristocrats as well as for idle members of the lower classes. In no way is she advocating wo-manning the barricades as Sellner suggests. Finally, educational reforms would ultimately improve woman's utility to her husband, her children, the state, and herself. Both works propose educational reforms, bot both works remain firmly situated within the restrictions of the existing social order. The two treatises differ, of course, in their male/female viewpoints, in the question of sexual license, and in the matter of style. In conclusion I would tend to look at the novel or at the moral weeklies for the antecedents of a German women's movement, since it was those genres which were most influential in shaping public opinion. Isolated works, like Hippel's, with "feminist-sounding" titles can often be misleading and can seduce us into construing false causal relationships which obscure the problems at hand. "Revolutionary Women in Imperial Germany": Bill Pelz Legend has it that German women have almost always been a passive, apolitical if not outright reactionary group. Yet, the mass of German working class women made a significant contribution to the Socialist movement from the 1870's to 1919 despite the sexism of the Male-dominated movement. Women were involved in all forms of struggle from trade union work to the Berlin street fighting during the German Revolution of 1918-19. Moreover, this was not accidental. Marxist theory clearly showed a way forward which would offer female emancipation as well as human freedom. "A Comparative Analysis of Sex Role Stereotyping in Children's Readers: USA vs. GDR": Donna Slepack To assess the current status of women in a socialist society, a field study in the German Democratic Republic was conducted in conjunction with an analysis of women's image in GDR children's textbooks. The impact of the socialist educational system and other social organizations on women's career roles and sexist attitudes in society are described from a theoretical, historical and per- -4- sonal perspective. Observations made during the field$ study provided the context of sociopolitical reality from which the analysis of the textbooks was interpreted. GDR children's readers for grades 1-6 were analyzed for sex-role stereotyping, utilizing the criteria employed by Britton in her study of USA textbooks (1974). A percentage analysis was used to compare the GDR books with Britton's analogous data. Analysis of the GDR readers revealed a statistically significant increase in career role options and frequency for women in the GDR textbooks ( p < . 005). Male major characters dominated both USA and GDR readers; however, the dominance was less marked in the GDR readers. A Sex Bias Index, combining the various parameters analyzed, yielded results consistent with the author's hypothesis that a more positive image of women would be found in the textbooks of a socialist state. In the USA readers, the only positive role for women was that of "mother." In contrast, women's career role in GDR readers presented women as capable, active and resourceful figures. However, in reality and in the readers, women are still double-burdened with the responsibilities of home and career. Consequently, helpfulness and co-operation is the most desirable behavior model ed for children in the GDR readers. The GDR's struggle against sex bias appears to be directed more toward improving objective conditions which facilitate women's employment and equality, rather than dealing with attitudes per se that maintain women's inferiority. It may be assumed that these changing realities will alter stereotyped attitudes sooner than changing attitudes will alter reality. "Feminist Theater in West Germany and USA": Evelyn Beck, Betsy Edelson, Nancy Vedder-Shults Feminist theater is political theater: its strategy is to use drama as a catalyst to bring women's oppression to public attention in order to work against it. Feminist theater was first developed in the United States in the late 1960s in the context of the growing women's movement and the social ferment of those years. It began to be used in West Germany in 1972 and continues to be a tool of the developing women's movement in that country. The earliest forms of feminist theater in both countries was the "political happening" (e.g., disruption of bridal fairs and beauty contests), but other modes have since become popular and perhaps even more effective. These include: agit-prop plays which rely on satire to deliver a clear message (such as pro-abortion reform, especially in West Germany); myth plays which retell traditional myths and legends from a feminist viewpoint; "Bildungsroman" which depict the gradual development of a feminist political consciousness, making concrete the feminist belief that "the personal is political"; and historical documentary which often retrieves and celebrates the history of women in the context of the lost history of all oppressed groups. Most recently, "politicized role playing" has provided the opportunity for women in subordinate positions to act out situations from their own lives and in this way prepare the way for their taking greater control of their own lives. Discussants: Viktoria Harwig, Christa Stutius In the collective paper presented by Evelyn a view of Alternative Theater as an organ for the transformation of present-day social conditions is given. Alternative Theater makes use of various techniques for effect, such as a direct confrontation with stereotypes and the reversal of sex roles, which are intended to make us conscious of the degrading sexist and reifying structures of our society. But unless this confrontation, which we agree is an important and necessary first step, is viewed within a social-political framework, there is a danger, as we see </div> -5- <div class="WordSection3"> it, on the one hand of relying exclusively on Skandal der Tatsachen or on the other hand, of ascribing exploitation and oppression of women to men alone. Thereby the decisive accent of feminism, namely, women's oppression seen within a context of social class struggle, is lost. Only the feminist critique which is able to base its ideological position in an understanding of the social contradictions of classes and material conditions, and not in a vague need for "social change" nor in a more radically formulated "disgust with men as exploiters, " can sustain a lasting movement. The collective made an important contribution to feminist criticism; nevertheless we felt that certain fundamental ideological questions should be raised in addition not only to the paper but also to a discussion of feminism in general. "The Politics of Popularity in Elle": Mary Ann Burke This paper discusses Elle as a space of exchange in which rhetorical structuring informs as well as translates the readers' concept of woman. The analysis focuses on the operational polarization of terms used to express woman (normal/ abnormal = subservient/dominant) which explicitly is directed against the separatist politics of radical feminism.” This polarization, however, is a rhetorical posture in the sense that it superficially centers on a highly biased and dialectical examination of the two terms and thus gives the impression that one term will eventually appropriate the other, whereas its true function is first to render both terms equally unacceptable, and then to create a space of desire for a mediating third term. The latter is found by moving from an authoritarian concept of female/ male relationships in which one sex must transcend the other to a politics of immanence in which woman's "otherness" is no longer defined in terms of hierarchy: in her difference woman coexists with man in a sororal-fraternal context which allows her to form a separate image of herself without having recourse to separatism itself. Elle never confronts the problem of how to define "otherness, " although one feels that it ultimately would be on the basis of traditional sex roles, an implicit return to authoritarianism. The conclusion is that the rhetorical structuring of Elle creates a framework of duplicity as it postulates two terms which conceal and lead to a third which in turn leads back to the initial bias. "A Critical Look at Brigitte": Dorothy Wartenberg Brigitte, for almost twenty years one of the most popular women's magazines in Germany, has gradually opened its editorial pages to items on women's rights in the past five years. Brigitte's progress is deceptive, however, since most of the editorial material, including interviews and short stories, reinforces the traditional view of woman as wife, mother or virginal ingenue. Beauty, fashion and cooking features still predominate and are designed to occupy the greater part of the reader's day. Advertising, which accounts for an average of 55% of the magazine's space, presents woman in a less inhibited but also traditional role-- that of primitive temptress, vamp, or mistress. Brigitte's editorial features on behalf of the "new woman" are thus successfully "de-fused" by a sophisticated and insistent appeal to women as consumers, in the old, familiar roles. -6- Retreat Discussions: The workshop on feminist pedagogy and feminist literary criticism had originally been planned for Friday night. But, though we began with the discussion of feminist pedagogy because it seemed easier to deal with, we found that we had so much to say on the subject that the discussion of criticism had to be postponed to Saturday. We began by speaking about teaching techniques which some of us had been able to use in classes about women in literature, with a majority of women students. But we also recognized that most of us are not able to teach women's courses every semester (or even at all). So we also tried to determine whether some of the teaching techniques we seemed to be identifying as "feminist" could be applied to standard German department course offerings. Many of us, it seems, use techniques to break down "male" authority patterns and humanize our classrooms, both in literature and language classes, and we were able to share many of the techniques with which we have experimented. We do not have the concrete examples discussed at the workshop ready at this time, but we would like to print them in the next newsletter. Those of you who were not at the Ohio retreat may wish to send us descriptions of your reading experiences. Our experiments seem to have met with varying degrees of success: though students generally respond positively, some of us have met resistance to our techniques both from students and from our male colleagues. What was most exciting about the workshop was the feeling of support and solidarity which derived from discovering that a great many women were struggling to create an alternative classroom situation which would reflect our feminist principles. It was exciting as well to discover many of us felt that feminists should not only examine a different subject matter, but that they should do it in a different way (i.e. , feminism changes form as well as content). One discussion participant indicated that she had attended many Women's Studies conferences, but had never participated in a workshop which devoted so much attention to "process" (i.e., the way in which a group activity takes place in contrast to the subject with which it is dealing), and she hoped that this indicated a new direction for Women's Studies as a whole. Sara Lennox Saturday evening's discussion of Neglected Women Writers was tied into the continuing discussion of feminist criticism and centered on two major foci: the quantitative or bibliographical problem of locating material about and by women writers and the much more complex qualitative issue of which writers are worth dealing with from the point of view of feminist values and/or literary merit. After a lively exchange of bibliographic leads and resources, discussion centered on the second question. All participants agreed this topic was far too profound to resolve without a great deal of ground work, which would probably have to be undertaken by groups rather than individuals. It was finally decided that we will use the forthcoming year until our next workshop to explore the terrain and come to the 1977 session prepared to suggest periods in which we wish to concentrate our energies and form work groups for collective research and the pooling of resources. Persons with suggestions in this respect or interest in organizing such work groups should contact Pat Herminghouse or the workshop planners. Pat Herminghouse -7- "Women in German Literature: Ideas on how to teach the course" The main points covered in the discussion included: (1) practical administrative questions (e.g., course approval, class size); (2) goals of the course; (3) student reaction; (4) suggestions for changes. The course I taught in the Fall of 1975 tried to investigate the changing literary and social roles and images of women from the beginning of the 19th Century to the present day: Woman as seen by man, by another woman and in introspection. Following an introduction to feminist criticism the investigation focused more specifically on major questions such as: Which roles did women play (stereotype or not) ? Which themes were prevalent for different authors and to what extent did they change? Why do we find certain images or roles at a particular time and what social, historical, or psychological factors influenced certain interpretations of female characters? The literary images of women were discussed in works by Goethe, Schiller, Bettina von Arnim, F. Schlegel, Droste-Hiilshoff, Grillparzer, Ibsen, Schnitzler, Aichinger, Bachmann, Wohmann, Bruning and Wolf. Excerpts from works by Bebel, Baumer, Zetkin, Nietzsche, Freud, Helwig, Friedan, Beauvoir and Schwarzer provided an insight into the social role of woman in the past and today. Elke Frederickson Women in Literature Work shop--Women's Role--Myth and Reality An interdisciplinary course taught by women faculty members from the Departments of Biology, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, History, English and Foreign Languages. Topics examined included: Biology of Sex and Motherhood - basic text Males and Females Experiments on Nurturing: Mothering and Freud's Theories on Women's Sexuality - On the Psychology of Women Motherhood in American History - The Oven Birds Mother Figures in Shakespeare Coriolanus and Shakespeare's androgynous heroines Non-motherhood Of particular interest to Teachers of Women in German The Mother Figures in The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Yerma Doris Auerbach MEETINGS Several sessions of the M.L.A. this December inN.Y.C. are of particular interest to Women in German. These are listed below. However, we also urge our coalition members to attend the many interesting sessions sponsored by such caucuses as the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages, the Radical Caucus, the Gay Caucus, and the Marxist Literary Group--all of whom take special care to integrate a focus on women in their program. These groups are interested in enlarging their horizons to include the relatively neglected area of German studies. If we wish German to be more fully represented, all we need to do is provide the material. </div> -8- <div class="WordSection4"> Special German sessions at the M.L.A.: 1. "Women Figures in the Works of Berfolt Brecht. " Tuesday, 12/28/76, 2:30 p.m., Rendezvous Room, Hilton 2. The Twentieth Century German Literature section is featuring a focus on women under its title "Prose Fiction, New Forms, Neglected Writers. " Hilde Domin will speak about her own work; Richard Johnson will speak on Gabriele Reuter; Sigrid Bauschinger on Annette Kolb; Pat Russian on women as neglected and excluded writers. 3. There will also be a Coalition meeting of Women in German Tuesday, 10/26/76, 10:30 a.m., Room 520, Hilton. Be sure to attend. Especially for those who could not attend the Ohio retreat and symposium it will be an excellent opportunity to meet face to face, to exchange ideas and information. In April 1977, there will be the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Columbus, Ohio. Textbook authors will be present to answer questions. We think this will be a great opportunity to talk once again about sexism in textbooks. If you need more information on this conference, please write to Ursula Haas, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202 (Department of Romance and Germanic Languages and Literature). SYLLABI Printed below are two syllabi--one for a course in progress at Indiana University which has focused on twentieth-century autobiographies by women and one for a course on 'Women Writers since 1945' to be offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in spring semester. We encourage readers to submit their own course proposals or the syllabi they have developed for courses of interest to "Women in German." The following is a reading list from a Women in German reading group at Indiana University, compiled and discussed in part as a preparation for the course on Autobiography. The course list is then given below. Klara Mülller Jahnke: Wir Frauen Emma Doltz: Hoffnung; Die Heimarbeiterin Margarete Beutler: Die Büros; Die Brücke; Moderne Familie; Die Puppe; An einen moralischen Freund; Nach der Weinlese; Der Garten; Herbstrausch Ricarda Huch: Mondaufgang; Frühlingstriumph; Frauen 1; Tropft die Stunde nieder. . . Ricarda Huch: Mein erstes Jahrzehnt (essay) Hertha Kraftner: Betrunkene Nacht; Dorfabend; Wer glaubt noch Gertrud Kolmar: Troglodytin; Die Dichterin; Die gelbe Schlange; Wahn Elsa Lasker-Schüler: Weltschmerz; Weltende; Mein blaues Klavier Elsa Lasker-Schüler: Der letzte Schultag (essay) Hilde Domin: Geburtstage Renate Rasp: Die Beiden; Russisch Leder; Bildnis * Lyrical poetry Unless otherwise indicated -9- Rosa Luxemburg: Frauenwahlrecht und Klassenkampf (political article) Klara Zetkin: Die Anfänge der bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung in Deutschland (historical essay) Gertrud Bäumer: Die Frau in der Krise der Kultur (essay) Gabriele Reuter: Das Tränenhaus * * * * * Gertrud Bäumer: Lebensweg durch eine Zeitenwende Helene Lange: Lebenserinnerungen Adelheid Popp: Jugendgeschichte einer Arbeiterin Alma Mahler-Werfel: Mein Leben Christa Wolf: Nachdenken über Christa T. Karin Struck: Klassenliebe Syllabus for German Women Writers since 1945: Evelyn Beck, Instructor This course is viewed as an exploration rather than a definitive conclusion about the terrain, which as yet remains largely unknown. The list of texts was chosen to represent a spectrum of women's writing in those genres in which women have been productive: short fiction, the novel, and reportage. Availability of texts in paperback was an important determining factor in this reading list. Luise Rinser: Mitte des Lebens. Fischer Bd. 256 Ingeborg Bachmann: Simultan. DTV 1031 Barbara König: Die Personen person. DTV 438 Ursula Erler: Die neue Sophie. Raith Verlag Karin Struck. Klassenliebe. Suhrkamp Christa Wolf: Nachdenken über Christa T. Luchterhand Ingeborg Drewitz: Wer verteidigt Katrin Lambert? Fischer 1734 Verena Stefan: Häutungen. Verlag Frauenoffensive Erika Runge: Frauen. Suhrkamp 359 Sarah Kirsch: Die Pantherfrau. Langewiesch Brandt Alice Schwarzer: Der Kleine Unterschied und seine grossen Folgen. Fischer In addition, short stories by Anna Seghers, Marie Luise Fleisser, Helga Novak, Sigrid Brunk, Gabrielle Wohmann, Angelika Mechtel and Gisela Eisner will be handed out. If it were less expensive and easier to obtain we would include Irmtraud Morgner's very important feminist novel, Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura, on the regular reading list. As an interim procedure we will place this on reserve and bring it into the class by means of oral reports. -10- The following chronology was prepared by Jan Brown-Lowe (Bloomington, Indiana). We would like to extend it beyond 1930 and expand on the period from 1848-1930 if possible. Please send your contributions for use in the next newsletter. ZEITTAFEL DER DEUTSCHEN FRAUENBEWEGUNGEN 1848 - Revolution; Anspruch des bürgerlichen Standes auf politische Rechte; Einfluss auf Louise Otto-Peters, Redakteurin der Zeitschrift "Die Frauenzeitung" bis 1850. Kommunitisches Manifest von Marx; standige Industrializierung Deutschlands Zahl Männer zu Frauen in Fabriken 5:1 1850-1860 - politische Reaktion; Vereine von Dienstboten, Näherinnen und Krankenpflegerinnen gingen ein. 1851 - Gesetz gegen Zugehörigkeit von "Frauenpersonen, Geisteskranken, Schülern und Lehrlinge" zu politischen Vereinen. 1865 - Lette-Verein, Berlin. Unterstutzung von Kaiserin. Ziel: Ausbildung von Frauen im Proletariat und Mittelstand. Der Allgemeine deutsche Frauenverein, Leipzig. Leitung von Louise Otto-Peters und Auguste Schmidt. Ziel: Wohltatigkeitsprogramm, Ausbildung, Forderung pol. Rechte. Besprechung der Frauenfrage in den, sozialdemokratischen Parteien mit keinen bestimmten Ergebnissen; beeinflusst von bürgerlicher Auffassung der Frau. 1868 - Frauen als vollberechtige Genossen in der Internationale. 1869 - Debate in der Partei über Definition von Frauenarbeit - Verbot oder Forderung? Stellung zum Wahlrecht - für alle oder nur Männer? 1875 - Parteitag in Gotha; Wahlrecht fur "alle Staatsangehorige" 1877 - Lette-Verein und AdF erreichen Zahl von 25,000 Mitglieder. Weitere Erkenntnis der Probleme erwerbstatiger Frauen. 1878 - Ausnahmegesetz gegen die Sozialdemokratie bis 1890. Bebels Frau und Sozialismus; Frauenfrage fest im Zentrum der Arbeiterfrage. 1884 - Engels Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigentums und des Staates; Kritik an persönlicherVersklavung der Frau. 1885-1890 - Möglichkeit einer Zusammenarbeit von beiden Bewegungen abgelehnt. 1887 - Lange; Petition für höhere Mädchenschule und ihre Bestimmung vor dem preussischen Landtag. 1890 - Klara Zetkin als anerkannte Vertreterin der Bewegung in der Partei. Redakteurin "Die Gleichkeit" - theoretisch. -11- 1890 - Lange; Allgemeine deutsche Lehrerinnenverein. 1892 - Begriff "Vertrauenpersonen" erlaubte Frauentatigkeit in der SPD. 1893 - Lange; erstes Gymnasium. für Mädchen Internationaler Frauenkongress, Chicago. 1894 - Sozialdemokraten verlangten Wahlrecht fur Frauen im Reichstag; erfolglos. Lange; Bund deutscher Frauenvereine "Die Frau" unter Mitarbeit Lange und Bäumer. 1895 - 19% aller Frauen in Deutschland berufstätig. 1900-1914 intensiver Kampf für Wahlrecht 1907 - 30% aller Frauen in Deutschland berufstätig. 1908 - Zulassung Frauen auf Universitäten. Ende des Verbots gegen Frauen in politischen Vereinen. 1914 - Kriegsausbruch; nationale Farbung beider Bewegungen. Prozent der Frauen in Industrien stieg auf 152% in den Kriegsjahren. 1918 - Frauen durch allgemeine Arbeitslosigkeit sehr betroffen. 1919 - Erwerbung des Wahlrechts in der Weimar Verfassung. 1920-1930 - Zerspaltung beider Bewegungen, begrenter Einfluss. Auflösung unter kommenden Faschismus. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This newsletter was prepared by Sara Pietsch, Evelyn Torton Beck, Biddy Martin, Viktoria Harwig, Christa Stutius, and Angelika Bammer. -12- FRAUEN KOMMT HER frauen kommt her, wir tun uns zusammen frauen kommt her, wir tun uns zusammen frauen kommt her, wir tun uns zusammen gemeinsam sind wir stark. solang du allein, wirst du getreten solang du allein, kannst du dich nicht wehren solang du allein, musst du dich fügen tag und nacht. du sollst für ihn eine gute frau sein: und seinen kindern eine gute mutter sein du sollst vor allem die drecksarbeit zu hause tun das alles nur aus liebe. -13- Textbook: German Women Writers in Translation--progress report and important questionnaire I have received a positive response on publishing an anthology of German women writers in translation. According to the prospective publisher, I need "informal assurances of course adoption from 25 to 35 teachers." The publisher wants to know names, college affiliations, title of the course, and approximate number of students in each class. Therefore, I am asking coalition members to indicate their interest in the proposed anthology at the bottom of this sheet on the form provided. I would also appreciate your contacting women's studies institutes on your campus or colleagues in your department. I propose three possible approaches to such a text and am open to further suggestions or alterations. Please note that the anthology will contain biographical and bibliographical material plus notes, and will largely include literary selections not previously available, from all German speaking countries. The possibilities I envision are: 1) Post World War II German women writers from East and West (primarily prose fiction and some poetry) 2) Women's Voices of the 20th century: (to include non-fiction as well): topical sections might include: Woman as hero; woman alone; the battle of the sexes*; women about women. *the publisher especially liked this sub-topic 3) German women speak of their experiences: selections from women's diaries, letters, memoirs, journals (mainly 20th century?) Please indicate which of the three possibilities you like best; or, if you have other suggestions, write them in the space provided. This informal adoption notice is not legally binding, but is meant to provide the publisher with some assurance of a market for this text. Projected size of book, 250 pages, estimated cost for paperback, between 5 and 6 dollars. Suggestions and Comments: Yes, I would use an anthology of work by German women writers in translation in my class. I prefer (1)__ (2)__ (3)__. 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Title A name given to the resource December 1979 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Congresses; Feminism; Germanists Description An account of the resource <div class="WordSection1"> WOMEN IN GERMAN Number 21 December 5, 1979 Membership/Subscription fee: $7.00 ($3.00 if unemployed or student) 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.<a title="">*</a> 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. 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 Ich stehe meine Frau. (We thank NGC for their friendly cooperation.) This Newsletter will hopefully reach you before classes resume so that you can take with you our best wishes for a relaxing .vacation as well as "Einen guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr 1980!!!!" </div> * 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." -2- <div class="WordSection2"> CALL FOR PAPERS MMLA Women’s Caucus Workshop: Jewish Women Writers from an International Perspective 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? What does she struggle to say? Send abstracts by March 1; completed papers by April 15 to: Professor Evelyn Torton Beck Women’s Studies Program [redacted] Because it is MMLA policy to duplicate and distribute papers in advance of the meeting, length is strictly limited to 8 single-spaced pages (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. WIG at the 1980 MLA. Call for papers on Women Writers Prior to 1800. Please submit abstract for papers (2-3 pages) by April 1, 1980. Send proposal to: Gabriele Strauch [redacted] and Julie Prandi [redacted] 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 WiG. 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! WiG Sessions: Pre-Literary Forms and German Women's Writing I 1:00-2:15 p.m., Governors I, Hyatt, December 28 Presiding: Sara Lennox and Miriam Franck papers: Dorothy Rosenberg, "Christa Brück's Schicksale hinter Schreibmaschinen" Viktoria Harwig, "Lili Körber's Eine Frau erlebt den roten Alltag" Nancy Vedder-Shults, "Breaking the Silence: Women's Documentary Literature in the Federal Republic" -3- Pre-Literary Forms and German Women's Writing II 2:45 - 4:00 p.m., Governors I, Hyatt, December 28 Presiding: Jeanette Clausen Papers: Renate Delphendahl, "Women’s Language" Kay Goodman, "Reading Women’s Autobiography" Susan S. Lanser, "Feminism and Form" Business Meeting of the Coalition of Women in German 4:30-5:45 p.m., Governors I, Hyatt, December 28 Presiding: Miriam Frank and Sara Lennox 1. "Feminist Criticism in Germany," in International Feminist Criticism, 7:00-8:15 p.m., Plaza Square, Hyatt, Thursday, December 27 (Evelyn Beck) 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) 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. 4. "What Makes a Paper Publishable?" (Of special interest to us is the presentation by Ruth Angress, long time WiG member, editor of the German Quarterly, and member of the MLA Commission on the Status of Women.) 1:00-2:15 p.m., California, West St. Francis, Friday, December 28. 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) This seems a good moment to call your attention to Concerns, 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. One closing thought: How many of these dozens of women-related sessions at MLA (or anywhere else for that matter) will provide a feminist 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) ANNOUNCEMENTS Resources for Feminist Research 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. -4- 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. Dear Friend, This is to ask you to participate in the lighter side of feminist studies. As you will no doubt have noticed, Resources for Feminist Research 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. 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? 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. 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. Don’t let this opportunity slip past, for want of sufficient spleen or energy! WIG WORKSHOP 1. WiG Workshop 1979 Continued... Dürrenmatt and Intermediate German: Mixing Feminism With Language Skills 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. 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 -5- 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. 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. Ilse Klemperer Evans Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2. Schroeder Bibliography 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: Margot Schroeder, geboren 1937 in Hamburg. Verheiratet, zwei Kinder. Erlernter Beruf Buchhändlerin. Seit 14 Jahren Hausfrau, nebenberuflich Schriftstellerin. Veröffentlichungen: Ehebefragung, Hörspiel, NDR 1972. Die Prestigelücke, Hörspiel HR 1975. Ich stehe meine Frau, Roman, Fischer Taschenbuch Berlag, Frankfurt 1975. Die Angst ist baden gegangen, Gedichte, Fietkau Verlag, Berlin 1976. Der Schlachter empfiehlt noch immer Herz, Roman, Frauenbuchverlag, München 1976 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 WiG, send in your essays or reviews by March 15, 1980. -6- 3. Schroeder Book Review Schroeder, Margot, Ich stehe meine Frau (A Woman You can Count On).* Ed. with the cooperation of the Hamburger Werksiati Schreibender Arbeiter, Peter Fischbach and Bernhard Wenger. Frankfurt/Main: FischerTaschenbuch, 1975. 190 pp. D.M. 4.80. ' 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 (Biirgerinitiative), here a playground for an apartment complex, Ich stehe meine Frau 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. The novel’s defects may, one suspects, be related to the fact of its publication in the Werkkreis Literaiur der Arbeitswelt 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. But the faults of Ich stehe meine Frau 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. Lennox * The phrase exists in accepted usage only in the masculine: Ich stehe meinen Mann. We would like to thank New German Critique for letting us use the bookreview. </div> -7- 17 <---> 18 <div class="WordSection3"> No renewal notices will be sent. Read your label and renew immediately when numbers match. SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP We held firm as long as we could, BUT, the rising costs of everything make it impossible for us to continue to produce Women in German for $5.00. Therefore, we are raising the fee 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. 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This change of title is not capricious, but reflects our own growing awareness of the fact that language matters. Germanistik is the name of our discipline on the college and university level. However, we want to establish communication with all teachers of German. Therefore, we have decided to use a more neutral, all-inclusive term. A word of explanation for those who may be seeing this newsletter for the first time. Its purpose is to facilitate communication among women in german and stimulate research in relation to women’s studies. The newsletter is put together by a group at the University of Wisconsin: Angelika Bammer, Evelyn T. Beck, Kay Goodman, Nancy Vedder Shults, and Christa Stutius. Anyone who is interested in working with this group or receiving the newsletter should write to NEWS from Women in German, c/o Evelyn T. Beck, Dept. of German, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Sexism in Textbooks We have become increasingly aware that the majority of German teachers are women. At the MLA in New York we decided to take advantage of this fact. If we work together, we can have a direct effect in fighting sexism in textbooks. In pursuing this goal we urgently need feminist critiques of those textbooks which are most frequently used. For example: although we have not thoroughly, examined Lohnes and Strothmann, German: A Structural Approach, anyone who has taught beginning German in conjunction with this textbook is aware of its blatant sexism. The most obvious sexist remarks and stereotypes occur in the reading passages, especially in the mouth of the main character, Schmidt-Ingelheim, but also earlier: Erika wants to marry; but Hans wants to study. "Sie wissen ja, wie Frauen sind." Even exercise material is not neutral: "Sie ist nicht nur schön, sondern auch -2- intelligent!" At the University of Wisconsin-Madison we have changed from Lohnes and Strothmann to Vail and Sparks, Modern German for our first year program. In our opinion this second text is much less reprehensible in its treatment of women. We are collecting feminist critiques of textbooks which are currently in use. For this we need your cooperation. Please send us critiques of those texts with which you are familiar. If you do not have time for a lengthy review, simply return the questionnaire which we have appended to the newsletter. We will use the material you send us as the basis for petitions to editors and publishers of German texts. We realize that this is only a first step. Ultimately we will have to write new texts. Regional Meetings There will be a short, informal meeting of New England Women in German at the New England AATG Conference, May 3 at Brown University. After discussing the need for regional meetings at the MLA, we are pleased to announce that Pat Russian (Brown University) has already organized the first such get-together for New England. Contact betwen women in each geographical area is one of the first goals we need to achieve. Decisions about what directions we want to take as a group can only be reached after we have become acquainted with each other and our respective situations. Therefore, if anyone is interested in organizing Women in German meetings in the South and the West, either at regional AATG or MLA conferences, please let us know and we will publicize them in News. Another way of organizing is through the newsletter itself: if professors could provide us with the names of graduate women in their departments or other people who would be interested in Women in German, we will add them to our mailing list. Conference Activities The need for work in Women's Studies has gained a great deal of recognition. However, it is. equally important for us to maintain close ties with the traditional -3- seminars and sections in our professional organizations. It must become a matter of course that women give papers and lead sections. To some extent this is beginning to happen. At the last MLA Evelyn T. Beck (University of Wisconsin-Madison) was elected secretary of German 5 (Modern German Literature) for 1975, which means she will chair the section in 1976. Helen Fehervary (Ohio State) will be co-chairing the Marxist Literary Group in the Midwest. German 5 consists of several short papers on a single theme. The Marxist literary group sponsors a number of workshops in conjunction with the Midwest MLA which next meets in Chicago in 1975. Evelyn and Helen are both open to suggestions for topics for their respective sessions. We would like to publicize all such information. If you know of any other women who will be chairing sessions in German at any national or regional meeting, please let us know. Seminar in Feminist Pedagogy Some concrete results from our meeting at the MLA in New York: we have created a new seminar to discuss methodological and pedagogical problems of teaching "traditional" material in German literature from a feminist perspective. Pat Russian (Brown University) and Pat Herminghohse (Washington University) will be coordinating this seminar. The topic will be the teaching of the "Bürgerliches Trauerspiel" and we will focus specifically on Maria Magdalene and Kabale und Liebe. No papers will be given, since the entire seminar will be devoted to discussion. Therefore, please be prepared to talk about these texts from a feminist perspective. Summer Seminar A seminar on Women in Contemporary German Literature: East and West will be offered from June l6-July 11 at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana) by Christiane E. Keck. The seminar, which is part of a larger program, Perspectives on Modern Germany, may be taken separately for three hours of credit; it is -4- open to graduates and undergraduates. Readings to include works by Christa Wolf, Anna Seghers, Use Aichinger, and Ingeborg Bachmann; the images of women in works by male writers will also be studied. For further information write directly to Purdue. Bibliographical Exchange In our first newsletter we suggested exchanging bibliographical material relating to women in German. As a result of the interest expressed in such a bibliographical exchange, Naomi Stephen (Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Inidana) has offered to compile and coordinate the material submitted. Any bibliographical information which would be of interest should be sent directly to Naomi. As soon as she has collated the bibliography, we will publish it in our newsletter. This information exchange is an on-going project. So please keep collecting material, and we will periodically update the bibliography. Visiting Women Writers The German author Barbara König (Spielerei bei Tage and Schöner Tag, dieser 13.) will be visiting the University of Texas-Austin next year (1975-76) for one semester. This is a good opportunity to invite a woman writer to lecture at various schools. Some of us should get in touch with her either directly or through the German Department in Texas. Unfortunately, we do not have information on the precise dates of her visit. Also, Karin Stuck (author of Klassenliebe) may be visiting this country next year. We would appreciate more precise information about this possibility. These are the kinds of items we would like to include in our newsletter on an on-going basis. So if you hear of visits by any German writers or scholars of interest to women, please let us know. -5- Feminist Poets The poetry journal, Women Poetry (Cambridge, Massachusetts) has expressed interest in publishing translations of German (socialist) feminist authors. Is there a German journal that publishes such poetry and might like to reciprocate by publishing translations of the poets associated with this journal? Please send us any relevant information. New German Critique New German Critique is eager to publish articles written from a socialist-feminist perspective. Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate to: New German Critique German Department [redacted] University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 Note: If you know of any German articles written from this point of view which should be translated, please send the bibliographical details directly to the journal. 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Title A name given to the resource February 1976 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Germanists; Feminism; Congresses Description An account of the resource <div class="WordSection1"> WOMEN IN GERMAN Number 6 February 18, 1976 Subscription fee: $2.00 per year ($1.00 if unemployed) News from Women in German is more than a newsletter; it’s a process involving ongoing dialogue between readers and producers. We see ourselves as a part of emerging Women’s Studies programs, contributors to the new scholarship on women and supporters of the new attention to women in academics. The newsletter staff itself is in the process of growth and development. As you may have noted in our last issue, we are now seven on the editorial staff. We would like to see this growth process extend beyond Madison; we want to utilize everybody’s resources and energies. Many letters indicate that the newsletter has been a source of support for women who may be isolated in their jobs. A typical response was "I love it--it’s a great source of ideas—and inspiration!” We are delighted to be a source of support and would like to emphasize again that we can only be a support if we ourselves are supported. At this point, we're not lacking funds, but we can never have enough ideas. To stand W. H. Auden on his feet, a newsletter "should not be, but mean." SEXISM IN TEXTBOOKS We will have to write our own texts—free from sexism, racism and .class bias. Although we suspected such an outcome to our questionnaires on "Sexism in textbooks," the response was more than overwhelming. It was unanimous! Of the 16 texts critiqued in 19 responses, not one was found free from sexism. And this is true despite the new guidelines recently prepared by several publishers (Cf. News #2) . We had hoped that perhaps those texts published after the new wave of feminism might be less reprehensible. However, even those books published since 1969 contained blatant remarks denigrating women and sex role stereotyping like the following: "Herr L. interessiert sich für Musik und...wo er auch hinfährt, schleppt er Mutti immer mit. Aber ich glaube, sie interessiert sich mehr für die Modeschau, die Eleganz des Publikums..." (Conversational German One, Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1970). Even gratuitous sexism was sometimes included: "Rosen sind rot, Veilchen sind blau, Meine Frau ist sehr nett, Aber meine Schwiegermutter au! au!" One respondent added that her female students refused to complete certain exercises, as a result of comments about beautiful girls, a leitmotif which continued throughout the text (German through Conversational Patterns, Dodd, Mead: 1974). </div> -2- <div class="WordSection2"> Your responses make it clear that we need to continue our fight against sexism in textbooks, something which was discussed in detail at the last MLA meeting. RETREAT AND SYMPOSIUM At the membership meeting in San Francisco (December, 1975), plans were made for a weekend retreat, combined with a one-day symposium, to be held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, September 24-26, 1976. I. Retreat A small, rustic camp operated by Miami University and situated 2-3 miles outside Oxford has been reserved, free of charge. Sleeping accommodations (14 bunk beds, some space on the floor) require sleeping bags and are for women only. The meeting areas, however, are larger, and we can thus accommodate more people if they are willing to stay in near-by motels. In addition, guest accommodations on campus can probably be arranged for active participants in the symposium. The program will be co-organized by Charlotte Gebhardt (German, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NJ 03755) and Sarah Lennox (Comparative Lit., Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 02134). They need suggestions for workshops and/or seminars and for volunteer leaders. Please write them directly. The registration fee to cover food and supplies is $10 for all retreat participants and should be sent to Gisela Bahr no later than September 10, 1976. Cancellations received after September 14 will be refunded only at the discretion of the organizers. The best transportation is by car. If need be, ONE airport pick-up (preferably in Dayton) for Friday afternoon may be arranged. Anyone willing to offer a ride or anyone needing a ride should send this information to the Women in German Newsletter. II. Symposium A symposium on "Feminism and German Studies: An Interdisciplinary Perspective," co-chaired by Evelyn Beck and Gisela Bahr, is planned for Saturday, September 25, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm. Ideas for the treatment of topics which are either comparative (German and another literature) or include another discipline (for example, history, sociology, etc.) are being invited from individuals or groups, including graduate students. The topics should be of interest to an audience Outside of German, too. Presentations will be in the form of summaries or a set of theses with a discussant for each topic. Please submit ideas by March 15, in duplicate, one copy to Evelyn Beck (German, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706) and the other to Gisela Bahr (GREAL, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056). </div> -3- <div class="WordSection3"> ******** REGISTRATION FORM******** I want to register for the retreat on September 24-26, 1976. Please reserve ......................... place(s) in the camp ( ) send information on near-by motels. I/we expect to arrive on ..................... ( ) by car, at approx.............. (time). ( ) by plane: airport ......................... ; time .......................... ; flight no........ Name(s) .................................................... Mailing address ............................................... Telephone . (.......)..................................... Please enclose $10 per person (checks payable to Gisela Bahr) and a stamped, self-addressed envelope; mail to Gisela Bahr, Dept. of GREAL, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. ************************************** MEETINGS As a follow-up to the MLA seminar in Feminist Approaches to Teaching German Literature, a second seminar is being planned for 1976. This time the focus will be on "Women in Brecht’s Works". Christiane Keck (German Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana) and Susan Cocalis (German Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01060) will serve as co-chairs. Send a copy of your paper to each of them by March 31. In response to the highly successful section of "Women in Germanistik" held at last year’s AATG, there will be another section on a related topic at the annual AATG in Philadelphia in the summer of 1976: Sexism in Textbooks. This session will be chaired by Naomi Stephan, German Dept., Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, [redacted] Indiana 46383. Please send brief papers or ideas for presentations to Naomi by April 1. The panel will focus on sexism in all foreign language textbooks and will include high school as well as college texts. This is an extremely important topic and we hope many people will respond. The Modern Section on German Literature at the MLA next December will have as its topic: "New Approaches to Neglected Writers" and hopes to include several women writers among those who have been most neglected. Papers should be sent in no later than April 1. Send one copy to each chair. The meeting will be co-chaired by Evelyn Beck (German Dept., Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706) and Guy Stern (German Dept., Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221). Please note, we can only include women writers in our discussion if we receive appropriate papers. We hope many will be forthcoming. -4- Tentatively the Amherst Colloquium in 1977 will focus on the topic: Women as authors, critics, and audience. Please note: We expect to hold meetings of the Coalition of Women in German in conjunction with all national and regional meetings of the MLA and AATG. Look for the announcements of time and place in the programs for these meetings. If your region has not had a coalition meeting and you wish to set one up, just write to the person responsible for that particular meeting. SPECIAL FORUMS The fourth Congress of the International Brecht Society will meet at the University of Texas in Austin, November 17-20, 1976. The theme for the congress is: "Where now?—An Appraisal of Brecht." Proposals should be submitted by April 15; invitations to participate will be extended to May 15. Topics: Theater for a Scientific Age; The Brecht Industry; Me-Ti/Buch der Wendungen; Problems in Gestic Acting; Gesamtkunstwerk; Performance of a Brecht Piece; Contemporary Poets in the Shadow of Brecht; Brecht and American Theater; Diaries and Journals; Literary Criticism: Chronology of Brecht Reception; Brecht's Scenography; Films from the Twenties; Documentary Films; Brecht and Marxism; Brecht's Directorial Technique; additional topics (write-in). Interested colleagues are invited to write to the congress organizers for registration information and details concerning active participation in lecture sessions, seminars, and workshops. Organizers are: Hubert Heinen, Janet King, Betty Nance Weber; Brecht Congress, Germanic Languages, [redacted] University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712. Telephone [redacted] The MMLG is currently soliciting papers for this year's Marxist Forum at the MMLA on "Literature and Revolution in the Bicentennial Year," to be held from Nov. 4-6 in St. Louis. One possibility would be studies of a cross cultural nature, such as the effect of the American, French, Cuban, or Vietnamese Revolution on European, American, or Third World writers. Another alternative would focus on the development of revolutionary movements not culminating in wide-scale confrontation, such as studies of the Jacobins in Germany in the late 18th Century, or of minority movements in the USA today. One could also deal with the pedagogical problem of teaching literature dealing with revolution or revolutionary thought. Papers should be no more than 8 pages single-spaced and should be submitted by the beginning of May to the coordinators for this Forum: Ileana Rodriguez and Marc Zimmerman, [redacted] or Bob Holub, [redacted] University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. Collective projects are encouraged. Please note: Women in German would like to encourage women's contributions to the conferences. If you wish to concentrate on a feminist aspect, this would be possible by focusing on women within the given topics or by creating new topics with an exclusive feminist perspective. </div> -5- <div class="WordSection4"> ANNOUNCEMENT Sue Fernandez, editor in charge of feminist publications for Indiana University Press, is looking for manuscripts. She would prefer single-author books: either monographs on feminist topics or anthologies of one author's important writings. She does not want collections of excerpts from many different authors. In addition, she needs people to review manuscripts in their fields and will probably pay by the hour for this work. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS German Women and Autobiography: 1870-1933 Katherine Goodman, in her dissertation "German Women and Autobiography: 18701933", examines autobiographical form and the consciousness of literary women, women in the "Frauenbewegung" and proletarian women. (GREAL, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056). German Literary Feminism: 1865-1914 Ute McNab is working on a dissertation entitled "German Literary Feminism: 1865-1914". (Dept. of German, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3C5). NO COMMENT The following was received from Renata Berg-Pan, Assistant Professor at Queens College, New York. We pass this on to you without further comment. "------- Last fall I was fired by the Department of German and Scandinavian (i.e. denied tenure, which amounts to the same thing.) Our department has tenured only one woman in its 37-year history. It has not tenured a single woman since 1945. It has never had a woman in the position of professor, and only two women were ever given a position as Associate Professor.----" *********************** *** ************** This newsletter was prepared by Angelika Bammer, Evelyn Torton Beck, Viktoria Harwig, Jeanne Howell, Sara Pietsch, Christa Stutius, and Nancy Vedder-Shults. Since we unexpectedly found that we had more people on our mailing list than we had bibliographies we had to make a choice. We gave priority to our subscribers and regular contributors. If you are on our mailing list but have not sent in your subscription fee, then please do so now. </div> <div class="WordSection5"> -6- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS ON WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN SOCIETY GDR Die Frau — der Frieden und der Sozialismus (Berlin: Staatsverlag der DDR, 196?). Documentation of resolutions and guidlines for Förderung and Qualifizierung of women in the 1960s. Frauenförderung, BGL, Frauenausschüsse, hrsg. vom Sekretariat des Bundesvorstandes des FDGB (Berlin: Verlag Tribune, 1967). Documentation of the the problems, failures and successes of the attempt to meet the needs of women in industry. Inge Hieblinger, Frauen in unserem Staat. Einige Probleme der Förderung der Frau unter den Bedingungen der wissenschaftlich-technischen Revolution in der DDR (Berlin: Staatsverlag der DDR, 1967). -Often critical. Hieblinger, along with Inge Lange, is probably the most forceful and effedtive spokesperson for women in the GDR today. Erika Runge, Reise nach Rostock, DDR (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 197?). Contains some very revealing interviews with women...and with men about their relationship to women. Frau und Wissenschaft, hrsg. Anita Grandke (Berlin: Akademieverlag, 1968). Numerous essays, statistical documentation. Helga Hörz, Die Frau als Personlichkeit. Philosophische Probleme einer Geschlechter psychologie (Berlin: Dt. Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1971). The only book I know on psychology of women and generally uninteresting. Deals mostly with the importance of work for women, by repeating routine propaganda. Does contain a critique of Simone de Beauvoir. Barbara Bronnen/Franz Henny, Liebe, Ehe, Sexualität in der DDR (München: R. Piper, 1975). Die Frau und die Gesellschaft. Hrsg. von der Forschungsgemeinschaft "Geschichte des Kampfes der Arbeiterklasse um die Befreiung der Frau" and der Pädagogischen Hochschule, (Leipzig, 1974). Familienrecht. Lehrbuch. Autorenkollektiv unter Leitung von Anita Grandke (Berlin-Ost, 1971). Halgasch, Richard (Hrsg.), Wir bleiben zusammen. Eine Diskussion um Ursachen von Ehekrisen, (Berlin, Ost , 1971). Homann, Heinrich, Ein glückliches Familienleben — Anliegen des Familiengesetzbuches der DDR/ Berlin- Ost, 1965). Kleine Enzyklopädie Die Frau, 7. Aufl. (Leipzig, 1968). Kuhrig, Herta. (Hrsg.) Probleme der Frauenqualifizierung, (Berlin- Ost, 1971). Kuhrig, Herta. Die Gleichberechtigung der Frauen in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik/ Berlin- Ost, 1973). Menschik, Jutta, und Evelyn Leopold, Gretchens rote Schwestern. Frauen in der DDR, (Frankfurt/Main, 1974). Merfeld. Mechthild. Die Emanzipation der Frau in der sozialistischen Theorie und Praxis, (Hamburg, 1972). Riemer, Joachim Siegfried, Probleme der Ausbildung, der Berufsfindung- und der Berufstätigkeit der Frau in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Plat, Wolfgang, Die Familie in der DDR. (Frankfurt/Main, 1972) -7- Dissertation (unveröffentlicht) (Köln, 1970). Scharnhortst, Erna, Süppchen kochen, Zeitung lesen. Erziehung zur Gleichberechtigung, (Berlin-Ost, 1970). Stern, Katja, und Brigitte Boeck. Das schöne Geschlecht. (Berlin—Ost, 1970) Gabriele, Die politische Rolle der Frau in der DPR/ Düsseldorf, 1973). R. Kluscarits. Arbeiterinnen Kämpfen um ihr Recht. Autobiogr. Dokumente zur Emanzipation rechtsloser und entrechteter "Frauenspersonen" in Deutschland und Österreich des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. (Hammer, 1975). Baumann, J. Das Abtreibungsverbot des 218. Eine Vorschrift, die mehr schadet als nützt. Sammlung Luchterhand Bd. 62, (Luchterhand, 1971). Borris, M. Die Benachteiligung der Mädchen in Schulen der Bundesrepublik und West- berlins. 3. Aufl. (Eva, 1973). Dehler, J. Jungarbeiterinnen. (Raith, 1974). Erler, U. Die Lesbe. Frauenoffensive (Trikont, 1975). and Mutter in der BRD. Ideologie und Wirklichkeit. (Raith, 1973.) Feuerstein, T. Emanzipation und Rationalität einer kritischen Erziehungswissenschaft. Methodologische Grundlagen im Anschluß an Habermas. (Kösel, 1973). Frauenarbeit--Frauenbefreiung. Praxis. Beispiele und Analysen. Hrsg. v. A. Schwarzer. es Bd. 637.(Suhrkamp, 1973). Frauenjahrbuch 1975. Hersg. v. Frauenzentrum Frankfurt. (Roter Stern, 1975) Frauenjournal (Ersch. 6 x jährl.) H.2. 1975. Feminismus und Ökologie. H.3. 1975 Erziehung zur Ohnmacht. (Trikont, 1975). Gleichberechtigung der Frau Eine Dikumentation von Recht und Politik der Vereinten Nationen. Hrsg. v. I. Maier. (Heggen, 1975). Heinz, M. Politisches Bewußtsein der Frauen. (Goldmann, 1971) Herve, F. Studentinnen in der BRD. Eine soziologische Untersuchung. Kleine Bibliothek Bd. 33. (Pahl-Rugenstein, 1973). Holzinger, E. and H. Mende. Wider die Sklavenproduktion. (1972, Raith) Jacobi, J. Frauenprobleme. Eheprobleme. (Walter, 1968). Jansen/Raith/Höchstetter. Die verlorene Emanzipation. (Raith, 1975) Körner, G. Mit Dreißig muß man wissen was man will. Gespräche mit Frauen. (S. Fischer, 1975). Kunstmann, A. Frauenbefreiung. Privileg einer Klasse?. 1971 and Frauenemanzipation und Erziehung. 3.Aufl. (Raith, 1973). Lamprecht, R. Evas Tochter werden mündig. Die Rolle der Frau in unserer Gesellschaft. (DVA, 1972). Mabry, H. Unkraut ins Parlament. 2.Aufl. Theorie über praktische Kritik Bd. 34, (Achenbach 1974.) -8- Frauenarbeit--Frauenbefrelung, Praxls-Belsplele und Analysen. hrsg. Alice Schwarzer (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1973). Good introductory essay, interviews with working women from all walks of life. Contains list of addresses of women's liberation groups in the Federal Republic, Austria, Switzerland. Cordula Koepke, Die Frau und die Gesellschaft (Wien: Guenter Olzog Verlag, 1973) Broad historical survey of the past, present and future of the women's movement, particularly in Germany. Rolf Lamprecht, Evas Toechter werden muendig. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1972). Essayistic. Ernest Bornemann: Das Patriarchat. Ursprung und Zukunft (Frankfurt, Fischer, 1975) Forthcoming, "Das am sorgfältigsten und umfassendsten recherchierte Buch über die frauenrechtlichen Gesellschaftsordnungen der Vorgeschichte und die Konterrevolution der Maenner, das je irgendwo veroeffentlicht wurde. Dem Kampf . der modernen Frauenbewegung gibt Bornemann mit seinem Haupt- und Lebenswerk entscheidende Impulse...." Alice Schwatzer: Per "kleine Unterschied" und seine grossen Folgen (Frankfurt: Fischer, 1975) Forthcoming. "(Schwarzer) brandmarkt in ihrem brisanten Buch die Situation der Frauen in unserer Gesellschaft und ermutigt sie, den Maennlichkeits- wahn zu beenden—ohne in den Terror neuer Normen zu verfallen.". Antje Kunstmann: Frauenemanzipation und Erziehung (Raith Verlag, 1971) Otto Gmelin, Helen Saussure: Bankrott der Maennerherrschaft (EVA, 1971) This book is unfamiliar to me. Said to contain studies of schoolbook Images of women, too. 1 think Gmelin died decades ago, so do not know just what this might be. Worth checking into, though. Demosthenes Savramis: Das sogennante schwache Geschlecht (Munich: Paul List Verlag, 1973). Unfamiliar to me. Erika Runge: Frauen. Versuche zur Emanzipation (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1969) 16 Tobaninterviews. Helge Pross: Ueber die Bildungschancen von Maedchen in der Bundesrepublik (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1969) Jutta Menschik: Gleichberechtigung oder Emanzipation. Die Frau im Erwerbsleben der Bundesrepublik (Frankfurt: Fischer, 1971) Erika Runge: Bottroper Protokoll (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1973?) Gerd Wurzbacher: Leitbilder gegenwärtigen deutschen Familienlebens (Stuttgart, 1969). Comparative study of families in period 1950-1968. Critical of Riehl, Horkheimer, Fromm et al. KURSBUCH 17 (June, 1969) Was devoted entirely to the topic Frau, Familie, Gesellschaft. 1 think there were other editions, too, that dealt with Frauenemanzipation. Bericht der Bundesregierung ueber die Situation der Frauen im Beruf, Familie und Gesellschaft.(Bonn. 1966) 639 pages of data. (This is the so-called Frauenenquete.) Bericht der Bundesregierung ueber die Massnahmen zur Verbesserung der Situation der Frau (Bonn, 1972) Alleinstehende Elternteile mit abhaengigen Kindern, hrsg. vom Bundesminister fuer Jugend, Familie und Gesundheit, Bonn-BadGodesberg 1970. -9- Bauer, Gudrun, Literaturbericht zur Situation der weiblichen Jugendlichen In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Forschungsbericht des Deutschen Jugendinstituts (Muenchen) 1970). Bericht der Bundesregierung ueber die Lage der Familie In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bad Godesberg, 1968) BT-Drucks. V/2532. Binder-Wehberg, Friedeling, Ungleichbehandlung von Mann und Frau, Eine soziologische und arbeitsrechtliche Untersuchung/ Berlin, 1970) Borris, Maria, Die Benachteiligung der Maedchen In Schulen der Bundesrepublik und Westberlins (Frankfurt/Main, 1972). Breuer, Lore, frauenhandbuch (Koblenz, 1974). Brandt, Gisela, Zur Frauenfrage im Kapitalismus (Frankfurt/Main, 1973) Cuny, Anneliese, Unterhalt und Versorgung der geschiedenen Ehefrau. Beitraege zur Reform des Ehescheidungsrechts (Frankfurt/ Main, 1970). Dessai, Elisabeth, Sklavin--Mannweib--Weib. Streitschrift fuer eine weibliche(re) Gesellschaft Muenchen 1970). Die Frau in Familie und Beruf, hrsg. vom Statistischen Bundesamt Wiesbaden£ Stuttgart und Mainz, 1972). Ehe und Familie in beiden deutschen Staaten. Hrsg. von der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 1972). Erler, Ursula, Muetter in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ideologie und Wirklichkeit (Starnberg, 1973). Frauen und Gewerkschaften, hrsg. von der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung{ Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 1972), Fuelles, Mechtild, Frauen in Partei und Parlament (Koeln, 1969). Fuer die Befreiung der Frau, hrsg. von Marianne Kunze (Frankfurt/Main, l972) Graetz, Frank, Berufsaussichten fuer Frauen (Muenchen, 1974) Heinz, Margarete, Ueber das politische Bewusstsein von Frauen in der Bundesrepublik (Muenchen, 197l). Hoffmann-Bludan, Barbara, Das Gleichberechtigungsgebot im Arbeits- und Sozialrecht (Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 1972) Huefner, Agnes, Frauenarbeit in der Bundesrepublik (Hamburg, l972) Jaide, Walter, Junge Arbeiterinnen- Muenchen 1969. Kunstmann, Antje, Frauenbefreiung—Privileg einer Klasse? (Starnberg, 1971) Langkau-Hermann, Monika, und Jochen Langkau, Der berufliche Aufstieg der Frau. Arbeitsmarktstrategien zur verstaerkten Integration der Frau in der Arbeits- und Berufswelt (Opladen, 1972). Lehr, Ursula, Die Frau im Beruf (Frankfurt/Main, 1969). Loewisch, Manfred, und Wolfgang Gitter, Annamarie Mennel, Welche rechtlichen Mass- nahmen sind vordringlich, um die tatsaechlicbe Gleichstellung der Frau mit den Maennem im Arbeitsleben zu gewaehrleisten? Gutachten zum 50. Deutschen Juristentag 1974 (Muenchen 1974). -10- Nave-Herz, R. Das Dilemma der Frau in unserer Gesellschaft. Per Anachronismus in den Rollenerwartungen. Luchterhand Arbeitsmittel Hochschule. (Luchterhand, 1972). Reitz, G. Die Rolle der Frau und die Lebensplannung der Madchen. Deutsches Jugend- institut Bd. 7. (Juventa, 1974). Schmidt, H.D. u.a. Frauenfeindlichkeit. Juventa Paperback (Juventa, 1973). Vorgänge. Zeitschrift fur Gesellschaftspolitik. Ersch. 6 x jahrlich H.8. Womens Lib in der Bundesrepublik. (1974, Beltz) Zinnecker, J. Emanzipation der Frau und Schulausbildung. 2. Aufl. 1974. Sozialgeschichte der Mädchenbildung. (Beltz, 1973) Zur Frauenfrage im Kapitalismus. Hrsg. v. Brandt/Kootz/Steppke. eh Bd. 58l. (Suhrkamp, 1973). Hassenkamp, Annemarie. Frauen stehen ihren Mann. Porträts deutscher Unternehmerinnen. (Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Düsseldorf/Koln, 1966) Spiegel: ’’Frau 1975: GroBe, Exotische Mutter" Nr. 27, 30. Juni, 1975 3. 30-41. and special essay "Der anatomische Imperativ" S. 42-43. "Heiße Luft" Nr. 21, 19 Mai, 1975. Scala: "Frauen in Deutschland—die Rentnerin" Nr. 3, 1975. S. 16-19. "Frauen in ‘ Deutschland—die Arbeiterin" Nr. 13, 1974. S. 12-15. "Frauen in Deutschland—die junge Mutter" Nr. 1, 1975. S. 12-15. "Frauen in Deutschalnd—Karriere im Büro" Nr. 2, 1975. S. 14-17. Eltern: Ehe-Rubrik, "Wie einsam ist die Hausfrau wirklich?" Nr. 6, Juni, 1975» S.125-126. Mabry, Hannelore. Unkraut ins Parlament: Bedeutung weiblicher parlamentarischer Arbeit für die Emanzipation der Frau, (München. 1971) Münch, Eva-Marie von, Das Recht der Frau. Eine Sammlung aller einschlägigen Bestimmungen, (München, 1970) Pfeil, Elisabeth, Die Berufstatigkeit von Müttern. (Tübingen, 1961) Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung (Hrsg.), 109 Tips für die Frau, (Bonn, 1974 Pross, Helge. Gleichberechtigung im Beruf? Eine Untersuchung mit 7000 Arbeitnehmerinnen in der EWG. (Frankfurt/Main, 1973). Reitz, Gertraud, Die Rolle der Frau und die Lebensplannng der Mädchen, Analysen und Untersuchungen. (München, 1974). Roesch, Hans. Das dritte Talent. Die Leistung der Frau als Unternehmerin gestern, heute, morgen. (Berlin, 1970). Ruthe, Reinhold. (Hrsg) Ist die Ehe überholt? Aspekte und Prognosen, (München, 1971) Scheffler, Sabine. Wiederaufnahme einer Erwerbstatigkeit bei Frauen. Dissertation, (Bonn, 1970). Schelsky, Helmut. Wandlungen der deutschen Familie in der Gegenwart, 5. Auf. (München, 1967) -11- Schubnell, Hermann. Per Geburtenrückgang in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Entwicklung der Erwerbstätigkeit von Frauen und Muttern. Bd. 6 der Schriftenreihe des Bundesministers für Jugend, Familie und Gesundheit, (Stuttgart, 1973) Schwarzer, Alice. Frauen gegen de § 218. 18 Protokolle (Frankfurt/Main, 1971) Siebenschön, Leona. Ehe zwischen Trieb und Trott. Eine frivole Soziologie. (Frank- furt/Main, 1971) Silbermann, Alphons, und Udo Michael Drüger. Abseits der Wirklichkeit. Das Frauenbild in deutschen Lesebüchern. (Köln, 1971)- Staatliche Dokumente zur Forderung der Frau in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. (Berlin-Ost, 1973) Stadlbauer, Alois. Das Recht der berufstätigen Frau. (München, 1968) Studie über die soziale Lage der Verheirateten Studenten (Bonn, 1971) BT-Drucks. VI/2864. Sullerot, Evelyne. Die Frau in der modernen Gesellschaft. (München, 1972) Thumm, Eckart. Einstellungen der Eltern zur Rolle der Frau und die Schulaufbahn der Tochter, Forschungsbericht des Deutschen Jugendinstituts. (München. 1972). Timm, Helga. Das gesellschaftliche Problem der Frau heute und morgen. (Bonn, 1970) Um eine ganze Epoche voraus, 125 Jahre Kampf urn die Befreiung der Frau. (Leipzig, 1970) Windmöller, Eva, Ehen in Deutschland. Auf der Suche nach neuen Formen des Zusammenlebens Hamburg,/Düsseldorf, 1972) <div> BRD and GDR </div> Friesen, Marie Elisabeth von, Frauen in Deutschland--Frauen in der DDR (Hannover 1974). Helwig, Gisela, Zwischen Familie und Beruf. Die Stellung der Frau in beiden deutschen Staaten (Koeln 1974). Helwig, G. Frau 75. Bundesrepublik Deutschland — DDR. 1975» Zwischen Familie und Beruf. Die Stellung der Frau in deiden deutschen Staaten. Bibliothek Wissenschaft und Politik 3d. 10 (Wissenschaft und Politik, 1975). Uses facing page technique for comparisons of situation of women in the BRD and DDR In areas of family, educationk work, politics. Many tables, good bibliography, (contains items not on this list!) (Helwig is interested in visiting the US and talking about women in German society.) James, S./M. Della Costa. Die Macht der Frauen und der Umsturz der Gesellschaft.-- Internationale Marxistische Diskussion Bd, 36. (Merve, 1973). -12- A List of Literature by German Women Authors in -English Translation Anthologies, chronologically arranged German Classics of the 19th and 20th Century. Ed. Kuno Francke and W.C. Howard. N.Y.: German Publishing Society, 1913-1915. 20 vols. (PT 1113 F8). vol. 7: Bettina von Arnim:"Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child" Annette Droste-Hulshoff: 5 poems, "The Jew’s Beech"(story) vol. 18: Isolde Kurz: "Necropolis" Lulu von Strauss and Torney: "Seafarer” Agnes Miegel: "The Fair Agnete" Ricarda Huch: "Recollections of Ludolf Ursleu the Younger" "Midnight" (story) vol. 19: Helene Böhlau: "The Ball of Crystal" (story) Clara Viebig: "Burning Love" (story) A German Garden of the Heart. Tr. John Rothensteiner. St. Louis: Herder, 1934. (Pt 1160 E8R8). Droste-Hülshoff: "At Fourteen Years," "On the Watch-Tower" Ruth Schaumann: "Adam,” :The Bolt," "The Violin," "World" Twentieth Century German Verse. Tr. H. Salinger. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1952. (PT 1160 E8S16). I.-Kurz: "The First Nicht" R. Huch: "Deep in the Heavens" A. Miegel: "Ghost" Ina Seidel: "Marriage" German Stories and Tales..Ed. Robert Pick. N.Y. : Knopf, 1954. (PT 1338 P5). Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: "Rrambambuli" (Story) New Young German Poets. Ed. Tr. Jerome D. Rothenburg. San Francisco: City Lights, 1959. (PT 1160 E8R77). Ingeborg Bachmann: "The Time Allotted," "Psalm," "Curriculum Vitae" Anthology of German Poetry. Ed. Angel Flores. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960. (PT1160 E5F63) Droste-Hülshoff: "The Jew’s Beech" Modern German Poetry, 1910-1960. Tr. M. Hamburger and C. Middleton. Elsa Lasker-Schüler: "My People, "George Grosz," "To My Friends," "Over shining Shingle" Gertrud Kolmar: "The Unicorn," "The Old Woman" Christina Busta: "Snow at Advent" I. Bachmann: "Every Day," "The Firstborn Land," "Fog Land" Contemporary German Poetry. Connecticut: New Directions, 1964. (PT 1174 S38). I. Bachmann: "Songs during Flight," "Borrowed Time" C. Busta: "Encounter on a Thruway," "Seasons" Hilde Domin: "Only a Rose for Support," "On a Cloud’s Affidavit," "Morning and Evening II" Marie Luise Kaschnitz: "I lived, i "Dear Sun," "Burial of a Poet" Christine Levant: "Orison," "My souls, sound and secure," "My loneliness," "If you let me in" A. Miegel: "Wagon after Wagon" -13- German Writing Today. Ed. C. Middleton. Baltimore: Penguin, 1967. (PT 1113 M62). I. Bachmann: "To the Sun" H.Domini "Fear-Dream" Nelly Sachs: "In the blue distance," "One may come from far" Poems from the German. Ed. Helen Plotz. N.Y.: Cromwell. 1967. (PT 1160 E5P7). I. Bachmann: "The Respite" Droste-Hülshoff: "The Pond" Vera Lachmann: "Remembering Sonia" N. Sachs: "To you That Build the New House" Cross-Section: Anthology of the PEN Centre GDR. Ed. Wieland Herzfelde and Gunter Cwojdrak. Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1970. (PT 3732 C95). Dinah Nelken: "Only the Last One Really Dies" (Story) Ruth Schaumann: "Ismael's Fall" (Story) Anna Seghers: "Shelter" (Story) Christa Wolf: "An Afternoon in June" (story) Works, alphabetically arranged by author Ilse Aichinger: Herod's Children..N,Y.: AthenaSum, 1963.?PT 2601 116 G82) " Selected:Short Stories and Dialogs. N.Y.: Pergamon, 1966. (PT 2601 I16 A6). Hannah Arendt: Raphel Varnhagen (a biography). In paperback. Ingeborg Bachmann: The Thirtieth Year. Tr. M. Bollock. N.Y.: Knopf, 1964. Vicki Baum: Central Stores. London: G. Bles, 1942. Falling Star. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1934. Grand Hotel. N.Y.: Doudleday, 1931- As A drama in 3 acts in Best Plays of 1930/31. Helene. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1933. It was all quite different. Memoirs. N.Y.: Funk and Wagnells, 1964. Career. London: G. Eles, 1936. Martin's Summer. N.Y.: Cosmopolitan, 1931 Results of an Accident. London: G. Bles, 1931. Secret Sentence. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1932. Shanghai '37. N.Y.: Book League of America, 194Q. Sing, Sister, Sing. N.Y.: Doubleday, 1936. Tale of Bali. N.Y.: Literary Guild of America, 1938. Christine Bruckner: Gabrielle. Tr. Paul Selver. London: Hale, 1956. Katarina. Tr. M. Savill. London: Hale, 1958. Annette Droste-Hülshoff: "The Jew's Beech". London: Calder, 1958 (PT 1160 E5F63) Poems, ec. M.E. Atkinson. N.Y.: Oxford U.P. 1964 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Aphorisms. Tr. G.H. Needier. Toronto: Macheachern, 1959. Käthe Kollwitz: in Revelations: Diaries of Women. E. Mary Jane Moffat and Charlotte Painter. Vintage V 151, 1974. Gertrud von Le Fort: The Judgement of the Sea, Chicago: Regnery, 1962. Song at the Scaffold. N.Y.: Sheed and Ward, 1951. The Wife of Pilate. Tr. MC. Buehrle. Milwaukee: Bruce, 1957. Adelheid Popp: The Autobiography of a Working Woman. Chicago: F.G. Brown & Co., 1913. Anna Seghers: Revolt of the Fisherman of Santa Barbara and A Price on his Head. Berlin: Seven Seas, 1960. -14- Clara Viebig: Absolution. Londons Lane, 1908. Our Daily Bread. Lofldon: Lane, 1909* The Son of his Mother. N.Y.: London: Lane, 1913. "Margret's Pilgrimage" in W. Patten, Short Story Classics. N.Y.: Collier, 1907. vol 3: German. Daughters of Hecuba. London: Allen & Unwin, 1922. Golden Hills. London: Lane, 1928; N.Y.:Vanguard, 1930. The Sleeping Army. London: Eenn, 1929» 1930. The Woman with a Thousand Children. N.Y.: Apple ton, 1930. "The Milk Boy" in H.S. Modern German Short Stories. London: Oxford, 1938. Christa Wolf: Quest for Christa T, N.Y.: Farrar, 1970. Clara Zetkin: "My Recollections of Lenin," in Feminism: The Sssential Historical Writings and in The Emancipation of Women, from the writings of V.I. Lenin. N.Y.: International Publ., 1966. Other "Foundations of Communist Work Among Women: The German Social Democracy," in Women in Revolution (Journal of Women's Commission of the Spartacist League, #8 and 9, 1975). In Dimension (Austin, Texas. PT 1 D58): 1.1 (1968) : Ghrista. Reinig: ^Before Leaving" 1.2 : Margot Scharpenberg: "From my Town" (series of poems) Gabriele Wohmann: He Still has the Anchovy Sandwich in his Hand: Evildoer; Again Everything has Gone Quite Well Nelly Sachs: Chorus of Trees; Now Infinite Knowledge of Yours 11.1 (1969): Ilse Aichinger:"Platforms" (story) Helga M. Novak: 11 poems;"Main Post Office," The Bookmark" (stories) 11.2: Christa Reinig: Poems and Prose Katrine von Hutten: Eleven Visitations Elisabeth Porchers:"Murder, or This Story is no Proof" (story) 11.3: Nelly Sachs: Beryl Sees in the Nicht (lyric drama), Ingeborg Bachmann:"A Place for Incidents" (story) III, 1. (1970) 1 Gisela Eisner: "The Initiation" (story) IV, 1 (1971): Gabriele Wohmann: 3 stories Friederike Mayröcker:"Tender Buttons for Suicides"(concrete poem) IV, 2 : Christa Reinig: 5 poems; Tales of Hantipanti (stories V, 1 (1972): Katrine von Hutten: poems V, 2 : Gisela Frohlinde-Meyer: 2 poems Heike Doutine: 2 poems Annemarie Zornack: 2 poems VI, 1 (1973). Friederike Mayröcker: "in a rundown neighborhood" (story) Margot Scharpenberg:"Rehabilitation? (story) VI, 2.: Angelika Mechtel: High-Rise Story Lisa Kahn: 5 poems Gabriele Wohmann: Norwegian Wood (Radio play) VI,3: Helga Novak:"Journey of A Woman Nihilist to Verona in Late Autumn" (story) VII, 1 (1974): Christa Reinig:"The Dog with the Key" (story) Gisela Eisner: "The Engagement" (story) </div> -15- Bibliogranhical Resources: Katharine Anthony. Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia. N.Y.t Henry Holt & Co., 1915. Bayard Quincy Morgan» A Critical Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation 1881-1935 (and supplements) German Literature in British Magazines. Madison Univ. of Wisc. 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Title A name given to the resource February 1978 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Feminism; Congresses; Germanists Description An account of the resource WOMEN IN GERMAN Mailing address: 818 Van Hise Hall, Madison, WI. 63706 February 6, 1978 Number 14 Subscription fee: $2.00 per year ($1.00 if unemployed) With the arrival of 1978 WiG is celebrating its 3rd successful year. Not only do we feel that the Newsletter – thanks to all of you - has contributed to an important exchange of ideas, but it has also served as a center of unity in the struggle against women’s oppression in our professional sphere. We strongly hope that it will continue to be a valuable forum for sharing our experiences and inspiring us further in our challenge to the norms and values of a male-dominated field. As we are all aware, the literature of women has been systematically excluded from studies in literary history and criticism. Unfortunately this deficiency still becomes apparent when it comes to planning and teaching courses in most departments. Also, in our work, the socio-cultural implications of a sexist language are still being ignored in most pedagogical materials. By emphasizing such information and encouraging participation, we hope to raise additional relevant issues and stimulate more discussion. We are especially happy to begin this year’s issue with a preview of a very promising 3rd Conference/Retreat which will be held again in Oxford, Ohio, in September. We realize that this may seem like an early start, yet with the new conference format of Arbeitsgruppenn we feel the project deserves careful planning and ample time to mature. In choosing the Arbeitsgruppen, we want a productive alternative to the typical elitist academic conference, which so blatantly reflects patriarchal values. Last but not least, we extend a welcome to our numerous new subscribers. Your support is most important, for only in unity can we become stronger and hope to achieve change. -2- WiG Newsletter THIRD WOMEN IN GERMAN CONFERENCE The third annual Women in German Workshop/Retreat will take place on Sept. 22-24, 1978, at Miami University, Oxford Ohio. Participation and contributions are invited for the following sessions: Sexism in the German Language (Pat Russian and Detti Ledochowski), The Women’s Qeustion and Aesthetics (Sara Lennox and Pat Herminghouse), Contemporary Women’s Culture (Evelyn Beck and Gisela Strand). Work in progress and collective projects are especially encouraged, rather than formal papers. For further information and to submit suggestions/contributions write to WiG workshop, GREAL, Miami University, Oxford, Oh 45056. TENTATIVE PROGRAM FOR THE WOMEN IN GERMAN WORKSHOP September 22-24, 1978 Miami University, Oxford, Oh. Friday, Sept. 22 5:00 – 8:00 pm Arrival; supper 8:30 – 10:00 pm Evening activity: please make suggestions Possibility: assertiveness training sessions Saturday, Sept. 23 5:00 – 8:00 pm Arrival; supper 8:00 – 10:00 pm Sexism in the German Language Co-ordinated by Pat Russian and Detti Ledochowski 10:00 – 10:30 Break 10:30 – 12:00 The Women’s Question and Aesthetics Co-ordinated by Sara Lennox and Pat Herminghouse 12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 – 3:00 Women Authors in the 19th Century Co-ordinated by Elke Frederiksen and Kay Goodman 3:00 – 3:30 Break 3:30 – 5:00 Contemporary Women’s Culture Co-ordinated by Evelyn Beck and Gisela Strand 6:00 – 7:30 Supper 8:00 – 10:00 Evening Activities: Please make suggestions Movie? A sing-along? A performer? Slide show? Sunday, Sept. 24 8:00 – 8:30 am Breakfast 8:30 – 10:00 Business and planning meeting 10:00 – 12:00 Open: Please Make suggestions -3- WiG Newsletter We suggest June 1, 1978 as the deadline for submission of projects to the workshop coordinators, and will list this deadline in the announcements. We request that the coordinators send us a description of their workshop, including names of contributors, by July 1, 1978 so that we can prepare copy for the September issues of WiG. We would appreciate it if you could send a copy of your response to each of us to speed up communication. Jeanette will attend MLA and will be glad to talk with whoever is present to proceed with the planning. Thank you. Audrone B. Willeke GREAL Miami University Ocford, OH. 45056 [redacted] Jeanette Clausen Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages Indiana University - Purdue University at Fort Wayne 2101 Coliseum Blvd. East Fort Wayne, IN 46805 [redacted] INTERVIEW WITH MARGARETHE VON TROTTA During a recent visit to Germany I had an opportunity to talk with Maragarethe von Trotta about her ideas on film-making and the women’s movement. The discussion of Strohfeuer at the WiG Second Annual Conference had raised a number of questions, and I was interested in what von Trotta herself had to say about cinema. She perceives the main difference between men and women’s films as one of subject matter. Genres such as Westerns, Krimis and adventure are distinctly male. Handlung and Eroberung are the main components. Women, she noted, concentrate more on the relationship between people and on the less spectacular events that make up their daily lives (the focus of women’s collective experience heretofore having in fact been the private sphere). Handlung in and of itself is less important to women than an arrangement of scenes through which personal development and interaction unfold. The emphasis on presenting the situation of women and their feelings – Lebensausschnitte. Despite differences between men and women’s films, von Trotta sees the criteria for evaluating both as the same. The difficulty with most criticism, she continued, is that it’s written by me who simply reject what they don’t understand. She feels that the problem with criticism will only improve when there are more women critics and when a tradition is established upon which a women’s aesthetic can be based. Such a tradition is just beginning, and she stressed the necessity for greater numbers of women to participate in all fields of art and culture. -4- WiG Newsletter Strohfeuer, she added, had been caught in a cross-fire between those who didn’t understand it (they saw the conclusion as a happy ending) and those who criticized her for not having gone far enough. She believes Germans were not yet ready for the film when it came out, although it was received much more favorably in the U.S. Von Trotta’s view of feminism and of the political nature of such media as film was disappointing. She rejects a political perception of feminism and was irritated at the suggestion that cinema could be used as a medium for political change. She seems, in fact, to lack any political consciousness at all. Although she considers herself a feminist, she definiens feminism as self-recognition and self-development that is outwardly reflected. She does not view this as a process with political goals. Film is strictly considered an art form through which self-expression finds fulfillment. It does not contribute to social change, or if so, only very slowly. The attempt to use film as a medium for political expression, according to Trotta, can only compromise its value as art. Von Trotta stresses that she has nothing against men but sees the necessity for women to focus on themselves as effectively excluding men for a time. She does not believe that film-directing is made any more difficult by the fact that she is a woman, and pointed out that a large number of films produced for West German television are made by women. Von Trotta finds women’s film companies un-necessary, but were they to form, she would welcome them as a further expression of women’s growing involvement in leadership roles in the cultural sphere. Although Strohfeuer was co-authored by von Trotta and husband-producer Volker Schlöndorff, they no longer work together. She explained that they both have completely different ideas about film, and in an earlier interview in Frauen und Film von Trotta complained that although Schlöndorff recognized her partnership privately, he was loathe to do so in public. Together with the München author Luisa Francia, she has just completed a new film about women, Das zweite Erwachen. Marsha Meyer -5- WiG Newsletter SOMMERUNI FÜR FRAUEN Between October 3 and October 8, West Berlin’s Free University was the site of the second national Women’s Studies Symposium, the Sommeruni für Frauen. Over 5,000 women attended the six-day conference, with an estimated 2,000 in attendance at any given time – an almost overwhelming response to the interests of a very young discipline in the Federal Republic. In contrast to last year’s Sommeruni, which attracted only 600 participants due to poor publicity, this fall’s turn-out is a clear indication of the demand for courses in Women’s Studies, In fact, many of the informal discussions as well as several scheduled workshops focused on the best strategies for hiring feminist faculty members and setting up courses within the curriculum as it exists today. The major theme for this year’s Sommeruni was particularly conducive to such pragmatic considerations: women as paid and unpaid workers (Frauen als bezahlte und unbezahlte Arbeitskräfte). The vast majority of the lectures and workshops dealt with this topic, as well as the two pane discussions on Tuesday and Thursday night. Each of these evening symposia dealt with political strategy and women’s work: Tuesday – debate about wages for housework; Thursday – discussion of demanding 50% of all skilled jobs for women. Other important areas covered were the situation of women under fascism, the use of oral history as a tool in the study of women’s history, feminist aesthetics (although there were very few literary studies), discussion of how women are peculiarly affected by Berufeuerbote, and preparation for the Russel Tribunal on that topic. As expected, the best-attended session was the debate on Wages for Housework. What surprised me, however, after more than a year at the Free University – where the wages for housework campaign has been quite successful – was how resoundingly most participants rejected this strategy, a fact which is even more surprising considering the number of housewives in attendance. At least 10% of all participants were non-students, despite the difficulties of getting time off from work or engaging a baby-sitter. This was particularly satisfying for the organizers, who struggled for recognition of the Sommeruni as suitable for Bildungeurlaub (paid time off for further education). In contrast to last year, when the Sommeruni was organized by the Dozentinnengruppe (women’s faculty group) at the F.U., this year’s conference was planned by a group of both faculty and students – including myself. For perhaps the -6- WiG Newsletter first and last time at such a Women’s Studies’ meeting, all proposed workshops and lectures were well prepared in advance. As a result, over 70 sessions took place. Considering the rapid growth in interest, this procedure probably will need to be replaced by a type of selection process next year. Nevertheless, it often produced a lively level of debate, despite an all-to-prevalent expectation on the part of participants to be spoon-fed information. This difficulty, one of the major points of discussion at the wrap-up session, was exacerbated by attendance so high at certain workshops as to exclude meaningful discussion. Next year’s Sommeruni will have to develop new structures to avoid these patriarchal pitfalls in the academic process, as well as providing more cultural stimulation. It seems we all had such a good time dancing to “Lysistrata” (a new women’s band in West Berlin) that we’ve started to crave even more women’s culture. (My informants tell me that a similar predilection was noted at the Women in German Conference!) Nancy Vedder-Shults CALL FOR PAPERS I. WOMEN IN GERMAN ANTHOLOGY/YEARBOOK We are seeking manuscripts for a Women in German Anthology/Yearbook. We would like to select fro among articles based on papers delivered at various Women in German sessions in the past as well as from new material. We are also interested in translations of shorter works by women. Please send one copy of your manuscript to each of: Susan Cocalis German Dept. [redacted] University of Massachussetts Amherst, Mass. 01002 and Kay Goodman GREAL [redacted] Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 Deadling: September, 1978 II. MLA Women in German will sponsor two special sessions at the 1978 MLA convention on the topic “Postwar West German Women Writers.” The papers may deal with work of one or more contemporary West German women authors. They may also concern themselves with questions of aesthetics, tradition, language, and/or criticism as they pertain to these writers. The first session will be primarily informational with 3-4 presentations (10 minutes each); the second session will be devoted to a discussion of the topics -7- WiG Newsletter raised in the first one. Panelists as well as respondent will be requested to prepare an abstract or outline and a bibliography for distribution at the sessions. Those interested in submitting proposals for papers or in participating as respondants should contact both Linda S. Pickle, Foreign Language Dept., Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. 65251, and Heidi T. Tewarson, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook, N.Y. 11790. Abstracts from graduate students are also welcome. Proposals of 2-3 pages sent to each of the above-named co-chairpersons, are due April 6, 1978. Tentative deadline for the final papers is September 1, 1978. III. MMLA MARXIST LITERARY FORUM – PEDAGOGY SESSION The aim of the Marxist Literary Forum is to explore pedagogical approaches which not only legitimize the Marxist method but also further develop it. Papers submitted should discuss the teaching of poems, short-stories, films, or music focusing on the Women’s question. Within the framework of the Forum, papers are encouraged which stress the specific male supremacist and racial aspects of oppression by linking them to class society, social contradictions, and their historical development. Proposals are welcome until April 15, 1978; deadline for completed papers is July 31, 1978. Send one copy each to Beth Flynn Department of Literature Antioch College Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 Viktoria Harwig German Department University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisc. 53706. NEW PUBLICATIONS We continue to seek information from our readers on films and publications of interest to women in the field of German studies, as well as course syllabi of any courses you may be offering on images of women in literature, German feminist writings and so on. As an example of the kinds of leads we’d like to carry regularly: Rowohlt Verlag is launching a new series call “neue frau” set to include -8- WiG Newsletter “erzählende Texte aus den Literaturen aller Länder, deren Thema die konkrete sinnliche und emotionale Erfahrung von Frauen und ihre Suche nach einem selbstbestimmten Leben ist. ” Already in print are : Elisabeth Albertsen, Das Dritte: Geschichte einer Entscheidung (rororo neue frau 4134, DM 3.80); Evelyne and Claude Gutman, In der Mitte des Betts (4134, DM 4.80); Isabel Miller, Patience und Sarah (4152, DM 4.80); and Emma Santos, Ich habe Emma S. getötet (4161, DM 3.80). Planned for the next two months are: Doris Lessing, Der Sommer vor der Dunkelheit (4170, DM 5.80) and Violette Leduc, Die Bastardin (4179, DM 8.80). Amazonen Verlag has published three texts and is planning several more for the next year, Sind es Frauen? by Almee leDuc is a paperback reprint of a turn-of-the century text that describes a Lesbian community of intellectuals. It has long been out of print and unavailable. The Verlag has also translated Jull Johnston’s Nationa Lesbisch from the American and most recently, Monique Wittig’s Aus deinen zehntausend Augen Sappho from the French. Books can be ordered from Gabriele Meixner, [redacted] We would also like to draw your attention to some historical publications which recently caught our eye: Leila J. Rupp, “Mother of the Volk: The Image of Women in Nazi Ideology,” in Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture 11/2 (Winter 1977), 362-79. This essay is the most recent in a series of articles and books on the subject of women in Nazi Germany. The essay is comprehensive and includes extensive bibliographic references. There are also two other articles which provide some interesting background: Ann Taylor Allen, “Sex and Satire in Wilhelmine Germany: ‘Simplicissmus’ Looks at Family Life,” Journal of European Studies, vol. 7 (1977) pp. 19-40 (Illustrated!); ad R. P. Neuman, “The Sexual Question and Social Democracy in Imperial Germany, Journal of Social History, vol. 7 (1974), pp. 271-86. If you have any leads like these, be sure to send them along. Of special interest to all those who have been trying to teach German Women Writers in Translation is a new book: Christa Wolf’s Reader and Writer (a translation of Lesen und Schreiben) available Arpil 1978 from International Publishers, 381 Park Ave. South, New York N.Y. 10016. It is currently available at pre-publication price of $1.66 (add sales tax in N.Y. State only). Order directly from the publisher. List price will be $1.95. -9- WiG Newsletter ANNOUNCEMENT Beth Weckmeuler and Joana More are in the process of translating Verena Stefan’s Häutungen for Daughter’s Inc. The book will come out in early 1978. *********************************** At the Ohio Conference we promised to send Ms. Dibner from Detroit this Newsletter. When we returned to Madison, we discovered that we do not have her address. Can someone help us by sending us her address? *********************************** This newsletter was prepared by: Evelyn Torton Beck, Yvette Brazell, Nadia Donchenko, Angelika Haag, Viktoria Harwig, Biddy Martin, Marsha Meyer, Jim Steakley, Ganriele Strauch, Nancy Vedder-Shults and Christa Stutius. ************************************ We have been asked by many groups for our address list. We have made it a policy to give the address list only to coalition groups of the MLA. Please write us, if you object and we will take your name off the list. 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Title A name given to the resource February 1979 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Congresses; Feminists; Germanists Description An account of the resource WOMEN IN GERMAN Number 18 February 14, 1979 Membership/subscription fee: $5.00 ($2.00 if unemployed or student) With our 18th Newsletter we’d like to thank you, our readers, for your support, suggestions and positive criticism. In our fifth year we remain enthusiastic in our struggle to overcome the neglect of women’s literature and women’s perspectives in the field of Germanistik. One of the most rewarding accomplishments for the Coalition as a whole has been the establishment of a feminist network of professional contacts and the exchange of information. In the past we have tried hard to keep everybody on our mailing list without strict enforcement of dues. As we explained four newsletters ago, we have reached the point where we cannot continue to produce the Newsletter without enforcing payments. Therefore, we urge you to pay WIG dues, if you have not already done so this year. Your expiration number should be on your mailing label. The increased dues ($5.00 for employed; $2.00 for unemployed and students) are meant not only to deal with the increasing costs of producing and mailing the Newsletter, but also to finance various projects WIG has been planning for years (pedagogical aids, bibliographies). We are sorry to have to adopt such stringent measures, but it is a matter of survival. The kind of excitement expressed in the following letter has given us a lot of energy. We are also mentioned in a new collection of German women poets put together by one of our German members, Gisela Brinker-Gabler (see details inside; review t follow in next issue). She writes, “Ein besonderer Dank gilt de “Women in German” in den USA für ihre Rückenstärkung. . .“ LETTERS Dear Women in German, Sara Lennox put me on your mailing list over three years ago, and your newsletters have been a source of inspiration and encouragement. So far I have given up German studies three times in dismay: 1953 after a B.A. at Mount Holyoke; in 1955 after a M.A. at the University of California and 1969 after a M. Phil. At Columbia. Each time I felt very alone with my ideas and strivings, and in 1968 they came to prove fatal to my career. Your newsletter has brought me back to the field, spiritually at least. Of course the Goethehaus Library and trips to Germany helped me stay in touch with new literature. I took advantage of this year’s MLA meeting to hear some of you speak, on the New Women’s Movement in Germany, and on Luise Rinser. Your enthusiasm and dedication touched me. -2- My teaching at this moment is limited to private students that I recruit myself. To my vague amusement I have become one of the struggling literati about whom I used to read in opulent college libraries! Yet it is a juggling act that gives me considerable satisfaction. I would also much like to try whether an impecunious woman, not attached to a university could write anything in a scholarly vein. I grew up in Germany and lived there until I came to Mount Holyoke in 1951 and I do read whatever I can get hold about the war experience, in addition to reading German women. I often would like to share some of my thoughts. If any of you come to New York, or are in New York, call me. I would like to hear from you! Thank you again for the encouragement your energies have given me to give “Germanistik” another try! Marianne Landré Goldscheider [redacted] The following letter has been edited due to its length. Dear WIG, I am forwarding some impressions based on a two-week tour to your members. I spoke to and with women in Berlin, GDR, West Berlin, Düsseldorf, Heidelberg, Freiburg and Munich. The outstanding feature to me was that West Germany does not have nationwide Women’s rights organizations, such as the National Organization for Women. I did, however, meet individual women feminists and groups of feminist working on various issues. Recently the Aspen Institute for Human Studies in West Berlin held a conference on “The Dilemma of Women; Homemaking vs. Career,” with representatives from eight countries, including Kathrine Clarenbach from Wisconsin. Proposed legislation in the FRG is pending which would prohibit sex discrimination in private employment but would not provide for the establishment of a specific agency for enforcement, such as our Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. While there are legal avenues which women could currently pursue to complain of sex discrimination on the job, the vast majority of women seem to fear the publicity and reprisals which such complaints would bring. I met with West German women who are actively working for the rights of trade-union women and have responsible positions in the trade unions and their association comparable to our AFL-CIO. There is no coalition of labor union women, such as was formed in the United States in 1974. West German law with regard to the rights of pregnant working women has gone in the direction of “protection” rather than equality. Employers are required to grant pregnant women 14 weeks leave (including time before and after delivery), which is paid for by the State in the case of bluecollar women and by the employer in the case of white-collar women. West German trade-inion women are seeking even longer periods of leave, and they are also seeking to increase the time children spend in school and to decrease the length of the working day, so that men and women may combine work and family. There is considerable feminist activity in Freiburg. Greta Borgmann has published a history of the women’s movement in Freiburg. This city has a women’s center, where the -3- women are concerned with issues such as abortion and are seeking to establish a center for battered wives. Apparently a law had been enacted in the FRG providing for abortions at government expense, but the court found it unconstitutional. Now abortions are illegal in West Germany except under certain conditions. These conditions and procedures are onerous, and are not clear to most women. Thus, women who want abortions tend to secure them illegally or travel to other European countries where abortions are legal. A feminist I met in Munich is preparing a school course for German high school children on American studies which will include three subjects: minority rights, women’s rights and Vietnam. She tape-recorded my view on the status of women in the United States for inclusion in this course. I met and spoke with a young woman in Berlin, GDR, who gave a depressing picture of life there. She stated that while women are emancipation in Berlin, in the sense that they have equal access to jobs and promotions and receive equal pay, both they and men receive low pay. Women are expected to work, according to this woman, but they are also expected to perform all household duties, and there are no household workers available to help with these duties. I met with representatives of the Council of Europe, an organization to which the FRG belongs, in Strasbourg, France. The Council is involved in preparing resolutions and conventions which recommend legal improvements in the status of women in the 21-member countries. Sincerely, Sonia Pressman Fuentes REPORT FROM THE FRG During a recent trip to the Federal Republic one of our members, Biddy Martin, attended the fourth Congress for Solidarity with Foreigners held in Hannover from the first to the third of December. The primary focus of the conference, which was organized by the Solidaritätskomitee “Ausländer in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”, was Ausländer and Ausländerpolitik with a secondary focus on the specific problems of second generation foreigners in West German society. In addition to the longer informational presentations by Dr. Wolgang Däubler (University of Bremen) and Dr. Hartmut Griese of Hannover, there was a series of workshops organized around particular interests of conference participants. One of the most interesting of the workshops was organized and facilitated by Marianthi Jakobs-Samolis, social worker and counselor for Greek workers in West Germany at the Diakonisches Werk in Gelsenkirchen. The workshop was devoted to the problems of foreign women and was one of the best attended, and most rewarding workshops at the conference. Over thirty women attended, of whom more than half were foreign women. We of the newsletter collective thought that the theses developed for discussion by Ms. Jakobs-Samolis and the kind of work some of the participants are doing would be of interest to the Coalition members. For more information on the conference itself, write to the collective c/o Biddy Martin. Thesen Arbeitsgruppe I d Die ausländische Frau ist doppelt benachteiligt. Sie erleidet die allgemein niedrigere Wertschätzung der Frau. In der westlichen Zivilisation. Gleichzeitig genießt sie eine grundsätzlich geringere gesellschaftliche Anerkennung, weil sie Ausländerin ist. Sie ist nicht nur Mensch zweiter Klasse, sondern auch Frau zweiter Klasse. Dadurch entstehen Identitätskrisen besonderer Ausprägung, die mit der Zwischenexistenz zwischen hier und Heimat begründet sind. Die ausländische Frau wird in dieser niederigen Stellung deoppelt ausgenutzt: 1.) Mit der zweiten Rolle in der Familie ist sie zuständig für die Dreckarbeiten, die ihr durch das patriarchalische System zugsordnet werden. 2.) Mit der benachteiligten Stellung bei den Frauen-Arbeitsplätzen erfüllt sie die Funktion des untersten Ranges innerhalb der Hackordnung. Extrem sichtbare Folgen dieser Minderstellung sind neue Formen von Neurosen, die in den letzten Jahren verstärkt auftreten. Diese Erscheinungen sind gleichfalls darin begründet, daß neben den genannten strukturellen Belastungen besondere Probleme für die soziokulturelle Existenz vorhanden sind, z.B.: a) Entfernung von den Kindern b) Negative Auswirkungen der alleinigen väterlichen Gewalt c) Distanz bishin zur Angst vor Institutionen allgemein d) Erziehungsprobleme, die sich aus der neuen Umwelt der Kinder ergeben e) Mangelnde Information zum eigenen Rechtsstatus f) Fehlende Verfügung über die finanziellen Ressourcen der Familie zB. Keine Entscheidungsfreiheit über die Rückerstattung der Versicherungsbeiträge g) Abhängigkeit vom Mann bei der Entscheidung über Verbleib oder Rückkehr -5- h) Kein Einfluß auf die Bestimmung des Wohnortes minderjähriger Kinder j) Fehlende Entscheidungsfreiheit bezüglich eigener Berufs- und Fortbildungsmaßnahmen M. Jacobs-Samolis Without giving the names and addresses oft he workshop participants, we though it might be interesting to include a sample oft he kinds of groups and institutions through which women in the FRG are working on the problems of foreign workers.* Modellmaßnahme des Bundesfamilienministerium unter Trägerschaft der Caritas/Hannover Schwerpunkt: Arbeit mit türkischen Schulmädchen Maßnahme zur sozialen und beruflichen Eingliederung ausländischer Jugendlicher, Sprachverband Mainz Schwerpunkt: Mädchenarbeit mit Mädchen aus Kursen in Eitorf, Troisdorf, Siegburg Redaktionskomitee-der AGG/Reheinweg 34/5300 Bonn Materialen zum Projektbereich ausländischer Arbeiter Frauenkreise für ausländische Frauen—Mannheim/Hannover/Berlin BTKB: Bund Türkischer Frauen in Bayern/München Gruppe ausländischer und deutscher Frauen im Autonomen Frauenzentrum/Hannover Sozialarbeit im Caritasverband Hannover Schwerpunkt: Familien- und Schwangerschafts Konfliktberatung Deutschkurse für Ausländische Frauen an den Volkshochschulen e.g. Hannover, Berlin Komitee für politische Gefangene und Verfolgte in Chile in Hannover und andere Städten Amnestie International—-in allen Städten * Write to Biddy Martin if you are interested in the names and addresses of specific women working in these areas. WIG CONFERENCE Summaries of Workshops/Discussions Gabriele Reuter: Breaking Through the Silence Gabriele Reuter focused in her autobiography, biographies and novels on several forums of oppressions which prevent women from expressing their creativity and on ways some women overcome that oppression. As Tillie Olsen demonstrates in her Silences, few women write because patriarcy places so many obstacles in their way. Reuter’s Vom Kinde zum Menschen (1921) and her biographies of Droste-Hülshoff and Ebner-Eschenbach, both published in 1905, show how she and her predecessors broke through the silences to become writers. In her first successful novel, Aus gutter Familie (1895), Reuter exposes a society which destroys the heroine when she tries to escape her patriarchal family. In both Das Träuerhaus (1909) and Irmgard und ihr Bruder (1930) she portrays women who become successful artists by overcoming the constraints of family members, lovers and their male-dominated professions. Reuter has been ignored by Germanists precisely because her focus on women has been devalued. Hopefully, feminist scholars will accord her the attention she deserves as a writer committed to portraying women’s experience. Rick Johnson Gertrud B. Pickar, “The Image of Women in the Works of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff” On the basis of a thorough examination of Droste’s works, Pickar shows that Droste’s writings reveal an inherent ambivalence toward women and their role in society. They provide evidence both of her own personal rebellion against the limited and prescribed role of women in her day and of her acceptance of the values, mores and assumptions upon which that role was based. Droste shows compassion with the sufferings and repression of women in their societal and marital states, but is reluctant to support any social or economic change. Dolores Whelan, “Schriftstellerinnen in der deutschen Komödie vom Ende des 18. Bis Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts“ From Kotzebue especially chides them for their desire for fame; Heine calls them witches, Grabbe sees them as ugly. Women writers disturb the accepted order; male writers often go so far as to accuse women writers of being diabolical since otherwise they would not be able to write. Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, who wrote successful comedies, is silent on the topic of women writers. Later Droste-Hülshoff would write a comedy about a woman writer, but from the perspective of the male tradition. (See Whelan’s book: Gesellschaft im Wandel: Der Engel Mausert Sich. Das Bild der Frau in den Komödien Eduard von Bauernfelds: 1830-1870. Peter Lang Verlag, 1978.) Kay Goodman -7- CONFERENCE SITE 1979 1979 Workshop: The Fourth Annual Women in German Workshop has been scheduled for October 12-14, 1979 at the Siena Center in Racine, Wisconsin. The conference site is easily accessible: about 15 minutes by car from the Milwaukee airport, about an hour’s drive from Chicago’s O’Hare. The Center is situated directly on Lake Michigan, with spacious grounds idea for walks, jogging, etc. –-there’s even a tennis court! Total cost this weekend, including private rooms and all meals, will be approximately $35.00. We would like to remind all prospective contributors that the format of the 1979 WIG conference calls for prepared discussion topics instead of finished scholarly papers which are read to an audience. We would like to change the standard presentation style in favor of a more informal, collective method of dealing with these topics. Participants and contributions are invitied for the following sessions. Please send contributions to the coordinators whose names are underlined c/o the newsletter. A call for papers for the pedagogy workshop follows this announcement. 1) WOMEN IN GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE PRIOR TO 1800 (Session coordinators: Jill McDonald, Gabriele Strauch, Judy McAlister Hermann) 2) WOMEN AND AETHETICS (Session coordinators: Biddy Martin, Leslie Adelson) 3) FEMINIST PEDAGOGY (Session coordinators: Charlotte K. Smith, Gail Hankins) 4) LESBIAN THEMES IN GERMAN LITERATURE (Session coordinators: Miriam Frank, Evelyn Beck) There will also be an informal group discussion, coordinated by Judith Scheid and Helen Fehervary on Friday evening, concerning PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SURVIVAL AS A WOMAN GERMANIST, and Naomi Stephan and Nancy Vedder-Schults are woring on a Saturday evening presentation dealing with WOMEN’S CULTURE—-suggestions and contributions to these are also welcome! Collective projects and informal presentations are particularly encouraged. For further information, for registration forms, or to submit suggestions/contributions, write to either: Beth Weckmeuller U-W Milwaukee, [redacted] Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 Johanna Moore U-W Milwaukee, [redacted] Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PRESENTATIONS: JUNE 1, 1979 -8- Call for papers or other presentations Women in German Workshop October 12 – 14, 1979 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee One of the sessions planned for the annual Women in German Workshop will be devoted to FEMINIST APPROACHES TO TEACHING GERMAN LANGUAGE ON THE INTERMEDIATE LEVEL The presentations may focus on any question relating to this general topic, such as a feminist critique of popular high school and college textbooks and anthologies, an analysis of sexism in the German language, a concrete discussion of the problems a teacher confronts when incorporating a feminist perspective in the classroom, pedagogical grating contemporary problems of German women into the classroom discussion of German civilization, etc. The presentation should not exceed 15 minutes in length and may include the delivery of a paper, an audio-visual demonstration, or other formats. Everyone is encouraged to explore appropriate methods of manifesting a feminist perspective in in the form as well as content of her or his presentation. Collective projects and work in progress are encouraged. DEADINE: Persons interested in participating in this session should submit a one page statement no later than May 1, 1979 to both: Gail Hankings Dept. of German University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637 Charlotte K. Smith Dept. of foreign Languages Phillips University Enid, Okla. 73701 Graduate students and teachers of elementary or high school level German are especially encouraged to submit a statement. Luise Rinser Fund: Plans for the Future A few weeks before the MLA, Luise Rinser regrettably had to cancel her appearance at the Women in German session on “Postwar West German Women Writers.” Once again we would like to thank all of you who supported this collective project with your money, ideas, and encouragement. Special thanks are due Linda Pickle and Heidi Tewarson Thomann, co-chairpersons of this year’s MLA program, who in addition to their other program responsibilities worked as hard to arrange the details of Rinser’s visit. -9- Although we were all understandably disappointed that Luis Rinser could not join us in New York, many attending the MLA found our hastily arranged substitute program thought-provoking and useful. Evelyn Beck (U. of Wisconsin-Madison), Renny Harrigan (U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), and Pat Russian participated in a panel discussion which provided a feminist reassessment of Luise Rinser’s importance within postwar German literature in general and women’s literature in particular. They also shared their concrete experiences teaching her novel Die Mitte des Lebens (Nina) (1950) in a graduate course devoted to post-’45 German women’s literature, as well as an undergraduate translation course. Participants were told that if they read works such as Gefängnistagebuch conception, they would have to conclude that Luise Rinser is one of the most self-aware, politically engaged women writers of the postwar period. Many of you were enthusiastic about our plans to invite Luise Rinser to the MLA but we think you will be even more enthusiastic about our future plans to use the $585 ($514 after expenses) you contributed. The business meeting at the MLA voted to reserve this money to bring another German woman writer either to the 1979 or 1980 Women in German Workshop. In such a way the invited woman writer will be able to join us for a full weekend of programs and activities. We will provide you with further details in the next NEWSLETTER. (If some of you contributed money only to finance Luise Rinser’s visit, we will be willing to refund your money, if you send your request to: Pat Russian, Fundraising Coordinator, [redacted]) Update on ACTFL 1) ACTFL will not be meeting in unratified states after 1980 (I think that means after Atlanta). Since hotel commitments are made 4-5 years in advance, ACTFL felt it had to honor the 1979 Atlanta meeting site, because any change at this late date would drive up the price of the hotel room approximately 15 dollars a night. At this time , precisely because of the situation unratified states and meeting problems there, ACTFL is about three years behind in bookings now. 2) ACTFL representatives met with NOW representatives in Chicago and explained why they had to go through with the Chicago conference. Strasheim reported that NOW leaders were satisfied with the information they got and the planned picketing was cancelled. 3) My impression is that ACTFL is becoming more political in its stance (as a recent editorial in Annals stated) and that AATG’s claim of the need to hang on ACTFL’s skirts (as it were) is not quite accurate. ACTFL is thinking in a more independent way and not claiming AATG dependency for its policy, for instance. Also, future meetings will be held in Octover, or at least not at Thanksgiving. -10- BOOKS Book Catalog We recently received a book catalog from Germany which is so impressive that we’d like to draw your attention to it. It runs to 132 pages, and includes titles on the women’s movement, sexuality, history, biography, Belletristik, theater and film books, politics, professions, psychology, sociology, law, religion—-to pick out just a few of the areas—-as well as records, posters, and foreign-language books. You can get the catalog by writing to Lillemor’s Frauenbuchladen,. The authors are charging 5 DM for the catalog to help cover printing costs. An additional charge may be made to cover mailing. New Publication Soeben ist im Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag eine Originalausgabe erschienen, auf die wie Sie aufmerksam machen möchten: Deutsche Dichterinnen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart von Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Originalausgabe, DM. 9,80, Bd. 1994. Dieses Buch ist in seiner Art einmalig im deutschen Sprachraum. Hier wird zum erstenmal die Geschichte der deutschen Dichterinnen geschrieben, die jahrhundertelang vom männlich dominierten Literaturbetrieb verschwiegen wurden. Viele der hier neu entdeckten Dichterinnen sind in keiner Anthologie zu finden, in keiner Literaturgeschichte verzeichnet. Die meisten Lebensläufe und Fotos wurden aus versteckten Quellen ausgegraben. Die umfangreiche Einleitung der Herausgeberin macht dieses Buch im Zusammenhang mit der Gedichtauswahl zu einer ersten Literaturgesichte dichtender Frauen. Bibliography Susan Cocalis and Kay Goodman have prepared a bibliography of works by German women writers in translation. Anyone interested in a copy of the bibliography should write to Kay or Sue with a dollar to cover the cost of xeroxing and mailing. Susan Cocalis German Department Univ. of Mass. Amherst Amherst, Mass. Kay Goodman GREAL Miami University Oxford, Ohio Pressure Publishers Last year Daughter’s Press published a translation of Verena Stefan’s Häutungen by two of our members, Beth Weckmueller and Johanna Moore. Unfortunately the press has sent out virtually no publicity about the availability of this book for courses in literature in translation. Without advertising, the book cannot sell. Please send letters urging Daughters to give this book the promotion it deserves. Write to: Daughters Press/MS 590, [redacred] Houston, Texas 77042 Also: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux has allowed the translation of Christa Wolf’s Nachdenken über Christa T. (The Quest for Christa T.) to go out of print. Since this is such an important text we urge you to bring pressure to bear on this publisher to put this text back in print. Write to: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux/ 19 Union Square/ New York, N.Y. 10003. -11- IN MEMORIAM On January 10, 1979, Betty Nance Weber was tragically killed in an automobile accident in Austin, Texas. Those of us who have admired her work will miss her challenging and creative ideas, “Unternehmungsgeist,” and commitment to progressive teaching and scholarship. Betty was one of those young women in our profession who have not been simply content to “make it,” but who have questioned and redefined the critical assumptions and values which dominate contemporary Germanistics. Even colleagues who disagreed with her recognized that she was one of those people who was forging a critically independent, distinctive American Germanistics. While Betty struggled for professional success, as a woman, wife and mother, she experienced the personal sacrifices and professional pressures we all have shared as women in a profession which reluctantly accepts our presence. Those of us who shared Betty’s impatience with the stutus quo and vision for the future have even more work to do, now that she is no longer here to lead us, prod us, inspire us. At the time of her death Betty was making plans to challenge the recent decision of the University of Texas administration to overrule the positive tenure decision of the German Department. The University of Texas German Department has established a Betty Nance Weber Memorial Fund which will be used to complete and possible publish her various projects which were unfinished when she died. Further details will appear in the spring issues of the newsletter. Anyone wishing to contribute immediately to the memorial fund should write directly to the German Department at Austin, Texas. -12- Questionnaire on Women’s Literature in Translation I am sending this survey to members of Women in German at the request of Kay Goodman who is serving on a continuing project of the MLA Division on Women’s Studies to develop a Research Guide to Women’s Studies in Language and Literature. We should like to find out what books and/or authors are currently in the process of being translated, and which books in the opinion of women scholars in German, should be translated. Hopefully, the result of this survey will encourage the translation and publication of women writers now accessible only to German speaking readers. In order to assure a high degree of diversity of opinion and data which are representative of women scholars in our field, please fill out the attached questions and return to me at the address below as soon as possible: Alice Carse Comparative History, Ideas & Culture [redacted] SUNY—-College at Old Westbury Old Westbury, Long Island, N.Y. 11562 I Are you now working on a translation of a work by a woman author? If so, give author, title, state of progress. If you have affirm commitment for publication of this translation, give publisher and projected date: II WHAT DO WE WANT IN TRANSLATION? 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