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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/fde434661fb1892d912f8d8bc74ab0dc.pdf ecd5410df16d962829d4a5d520f25bf8 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 February 1975 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Germanists; Feminism; Congresses Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Women in German Website Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975/02/01 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 ger Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1975_Feb Description An account of the resource NEWS FROM WOMEN IN GERMAN Number 2 February 1, 1975 Our caucus has a new title. We are no longer Women in Germanistik but Women in German. 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 May 1975 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Germanists; Feminism; Congresses Description An account of the resource <div class="WordSection1">NEWS FROM WOMEN IN GERMAN</div> <div class="WordSection1"> Number 3 May 15, 1975 Once again something is new in Women in German. Last issue we changed our name; this issue we have started a new column: Dialogue. Looking ahead, we are also planning a column devoted to reviews of books pertaining to any aspects of women and German literature and culture. We welcome short book reviews or suggestions for books to be reviewed. In response to several inquiries, we wish to make it clear that the newsletter invites all interested men sympathetic to our aims to take part in our effort. These inquiries underscore our firm belief that feminism implies human liberation. Sexism in Textbooks The fight against sexism in textbooks continues. While we are still gathering information on specific textbooks, one member of our coalition, Naomi Stephan, (Valparaiso University), has already taken some action and contacted two publishers on her own. Houghton Mifflin (Deutsch Heute) responded directly, while Van Nostrand Co. (Conversation in German) forwarded her letter to the author of the text in question. Excerpts from this correspondence appear below. In her letters Naomi cited numerous specific examples of sexist biases and concluded that since both texts perpetuated the worst kind of female/male biases as well as role stereotypes, she found them “unsuitable for classroom use." John T. Riordan, Vice President and Editorial Director of Houghton Mifflin, is acting as a clearing house for his company's efforts to eliminate "any inadvertent sex and minority and ethnic group stereotyping," and welcomed "letters from individuals who are interested in providing students with an appropriate view of society". Nonetheless, he defended the book on "pedagogical grounds" and felt that since it was no more sexist than other books written in the early seventies, it was unfair to single out this one. Frank Sedwick (Rollins College), co-author of Conversation in German,was considerably less responsive and more offensive. He felt that some of the objections to his text were "just plain silly", though he admits that others merit attention. He explained that "a new edition is new in preparation, and we of course bend to the times".(ital ours) However, he concluded; "Textbooks should not be concocted as a vehicle for social change, rather they should reflect things as they are, else they become merely propaganda for pressure groups." He concluded by sermonizing: "I think that what you and the 'Women in German' group are doing is wrong... Your letter had the tone of a self-appointed Grand Inquisitor looking for a heretic under every bush." Further comment on the above seems entirely unnecessary. However, we wish to add: a textbook, like every other work of literature, not only reflects social patterns, but also shapes them. This response readily reveals how deeply ingrained the status quo is in our society, and hew strongly people will fight to maintain it. It is clear that publishers are becoming responsive to such criticism (especially if it is likely to hurt their pocketbooks) and will be even more so if we continue our efforts to raise their awareness. As evidence of this changing trend, guidelines for eliminating sexism in textbooks are available from Holt-Rinehart-Winston. Scott-Foresman has also printed a pamphlet entitled : "Guidelines for improving the Image of Women in Textbooks." This can be obtained free from Research and information Division, Scott-Foresman, 1900 E. Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois, 60025. Naomi Stephan says it is very good. In this connection, we wish to strengthen our group effort -2- and are appending a second copy of our questionnaire. Sorb of you may not have found an opportunity to fill it out in the press of the semester. We hope that you will find a few minutes during t he summer to send it to us. If you have already sent yours, pass this one on to someone else. Announcements Competition on Sexism in Textbooks This competition was announced in the March 75 AATG newsletter. Deadline is October 15, 1975. Richard Johnson and Jeanette Claussen are writing a paper on sexism in Lohnes and Strothmann for this competition. They are interested (a) in receiving information from others familiar with this text or (b) working on this project in a collective effort. Contact Richard Johnson, Indiana University-Purdue University, Port Wayne, Indiana 46805. Visit by Karin Struck Karin Struck, author of Klassenliebe (1973) and Die Mutter (1975) will be in this country during late October and the first half of November, and will be available for lectures and readings. Anyone who would like to have her visit their campus should get in touch with Evelyn Beck, German Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, who will forward this information through the appropriate channels. Please include information concerning the honorarium you would be able to pay. German Section 5 It is extremely likely that the topic for Section German 5 at the MLA. in 1976 will be ‘'Re-evaluations of women writers from Vormärz to the present: from Fanny Lewald to Karin Struck." Although the 1976 meeting is still a long way off, the research on these topics should probably be started new, since papers for the December meeting must be submitted as early as Spring of 1976. This means that only this summer (1975) is available for writing and researching these new topics. Wohmann Translation A translation of Gabriele Wohmann's The Sisters (Die Schwestem) by Edna Spitz and Elizabeth Rütschi-Herrmann is being published this fall. It will appear in Dimension, University of Texas-Austin. MMLA Paper on Gabriele Reuter Richard Johnson, Indiana University-Purdue University will present a paper “Becoming a Woman Writer: Gabriele Reuter’s Autobiography and Biographies” at the fall 1975 MMLA. Dialogue This column, devoted to controversial issues, such as the questionable feminism of certain women writers, is a new feature of the newsletter. While the "feminism" of Erica Jong’s Pear of Flying has stirred considerable controversy in the United States, Karin Struck has cane out with two books (Klassenliebe and Die Mutter) which are certain to be as hotly debated on this side of the Atlantic when they are finally translated into English. It is not Karin Struck, however, but Christa Wolf with whom wee wish to begin. Though Wolf has raised considerably less controversy than Jong or Struck in West Germany and the United States, her books do raise important feminist issues which need to be examined. This is especially true of one of her latest short stories, "Selbsversuch," which appears in her collection Unter den Linden (1974). The story concerns a woman scientist who, as an experiment, chooses to become physiologically male, while retaining her original "female" self in all other respects. When she finds herself becoming -3- "male" emotionally as well- i.e. "unable to love"--she decides to return to "womanhood." As is evident even from the brief synopsis above, this story raises serious questions concerning Wolf's stance on the relative significance of biological determinism versus acculturation, We feel that while Wolf is well aware of the effects of socialization on men and women, she nonetheless seems to accept the male assumption that biology determines one's emotional make-up. As a result, Wolf unwittingly supports the patriarchal view of women. If women only are innately capable of "loving," how can we ever break out of the stereotypical role divisions? Clearly we have not said the final word on this story and view our opinion as the starting point of a dialogue. We invite your responses to Struck and Wolf, particularly to Wolf's story and/or our interpretations of the problems it poses. Materials on Feminism in German As it is difficult to find information on the Feminist Movement in German-speaking countries, we are in the process of compiling such material. Several publishing companies are making special efforts to print feminist literature, and in addition women's groups are creating their cum journals. Our list is just a beginning. If you know of any other journals, special publications or records, let us know, so that we can share these resources. I Publishing companies offering books on the women's movement and feminism: 1) Trikont, 8 Mfinchen 80, Josephburgerstrasse 16 2) Verlag Roter Stem, 6 Frankfurt, Postfach 18-0147 3) Maulwurf-Bucversand, 1 Berlin 62, Crellestr. 22 4) Faith Verlag, Stamberg, Possenhofenerstrasse 36; "Materialien zur Frauenemanzipation" edited by Antje Kunstmann; special series begun fall 1969 3) Fotbuch Verlag, 1 Berlin 31, Jenaer Str. 9 II Journals: 1) "Auf: Aktion UnabliSngiger Frauen", eine Frauenzeitschrift—quarterly 1090 Wien, Tendlergasse 6/1,2 2) "Frauen gemeinsam sind stark", Frauenzeitung, A newspaper for women by women. Editorship changes from city to city. It appears quarterly and is available from women's groups and political bookstores. 3) "Frauenoffensive"; 8 Munchen 80, Josephburgerstr. 16; "Frauenoffensive" has also released a record of songs by women's groups in Frankfurt, Munich and Darmstadt: : Von heute an gibt's mein Prograum". The record can be ordered from Trikont Verlag. German women have been singing "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt" long enough. A group of women in Munich has written this new text: Man hat uns von Kopf bis Fuss auf Männer Eingestellt Man hat uns von Kopf bis Fuss auf Männer eingestellt und das war uns're Welt und scrnst gar nichts. Wir lasen Brigitte und jeden Roman wir spielten die Puppen für Männer das kam an. Wir war'n von Kopf bis Fuss auf Männer eingestellt das war uns're Welt und sonst gar nichts. Wir haben begriffen war uns 're Rolle war politisch 'ne Null — doch im Bett immer da. Ja wir war 'n von Kopf bis Fuss auf Männer eingestellt und das war uns're Welt und sonst gar nichts. Doch plötzlich da kotzte uns alles so an wir merkten unser Ziel das ist nicht der Mann. -4- Wir hab'n uns von Kopf bis Fuss auf Kämpfen eingestellt, das ist ,jetzt uns're Welt und sonst gar nichts. Wir wollen bestimmen was mit uns geschieht gegen Kapitalismus und gegen den Profit. Ja wir sind von Kopf bis Fuss auf Kämpfen eingestellt das ist jetzt uns're Welt und sonst gar nichts! III Tape: Richard Johnson has also sent us the following information concerning an interview with Anna Marie Troger on Feminism in Germany today. Ms. Troger is a professor of political science in Berlin and one of the leaders of the women's movement in Germany. She spent three years in the United States, returned to Germany, and then came back again recently to examine American feminism. She discusses the social, political, and economic conditions of women in Germany, primarily the Bundesrepublic, and contrasts them with the United States. Although a few portions of the interview are repetitive, most of it provides an excellent introduction to German feminism. Her efforts to set up consciousness raising groups in Germany are particularly valuable in demonstrating the problems facing German feminists today. The interview would be appropriate in any courses dealing with current issues in Germany, even in language courses as long as other materials in German or a brief German vocabulary were available. This tape is 28 minutes long and can be ordered from the Feminist Radio Network, [redacted] Washington D.C. 20016. Course Syllabi When we last requested examples of syllabi from courses dealing with either "Images of Women in German Literature" or "German Women Writers," the number of such courses was indeed rather small. The last few months have seen a great increase of interest and as a result numerous campuses have instituted or are in the process of instituting these courses — for example, Christina Keck's summer course at Purdue, described at some length in our last newsletter. In the light of these new developments, we feel it is more important than ever to share resources and experiences. We are, therefore, once again calling for annotated syllabi indicating class responses to the works included and describing methods that have succeeded as well as those that weren't as effective. We have received two such reports. The first is from Richard Johnson at Indiana University-Purdue University in Fort Wayne, a synopsis of which appears below: The course was entitled "Images of Women in German Literature" and was open to students who could read German (for German credit) as well as to those who could not. Works treated were: Lessing’s Emilia Galotti, Goethe's Iphigenie in Tauris and Faust I, Kleists's Penthesilea, F. Schlegel's Lucinde, Heboel's Maria Magdalene, Fontane's Effi Briest, Hauptmann's "Flagman Thiel," Schnitzler's "Miss Else," Musil's "Tonka," Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, C. Wolf's The Quest for Christa T. and G. de Bruyn's "Exchange of Sexes.” The goal of the course was "to increase the student's understanding of 1) German literature, especially the role that women play in major works in English translation from the Enlightenment to the present, and 2) the development of socially defined sex roles in German speaking areas during that period.' The discussion focused on three major areas: 1) social stereotyping of women in each work and, to a lesser extent, men; 2) the degree to which an author creates characters who transcend stereotypes? and 3) the significance of the characters in the work as a whole. A second course outline arrived from Elizabeth Rütschi-Herrmann and Edna Spitz (Stanford University) early last week. The freshman seminar on "German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century" which they taught last fall will be offered again first semester next year. Works read included: Richarda Huch's The Deruga Trial -5- and Eros Invincible, Bertha von Suttner's Lay down your Arms and Memoirs of Bertha v. Suttner, Vol. 1, Vicki Baum’s Grand Hotel and It was ALL QUITE DIFFERENT, Anna Seghers' The Seventh Cross and Transit, Luise Rinser's Nina and The Rings of Glass, Use Aichinger's The Bound Man, Ghosts on the Lake and Herod's Children, Ingeborg Bachmann's Undine Goes and A Step towards Gomorrah, Kelly Sachs' The Chimneys, Christa Wolf’s The Quest for Christa T., Werner Thonnessen's analysis of the proletarian women's movement around the turn of the century: The Emancipation of Women and selections from contemporary German women writers including Gabriele Wohmann, Gisela Ilsner, Christa Reinig and Helga M. Novak. Response to such courses can best be summarized in Richard Johnson's words: "The discussions are the most animated and exciting of any I have had in seven years of teaching." Such enthusiasm is not at all atypical for this kind of course. This newsletter was prepared by Angelika Banmer, Evelyn Torton Beck, Jeanne Howell, Judy Stout, Christa Stutius, Nancy Vedder-shults. This is our last newsletter until the fall semester. However, the newsletter staff will be active all sunnier compiling the material you send to us in preparation for an early fall issue. </div> -6- Questionnaire If you are familiar with more than one text, please xerox or copy this form for each additional text. 1. What text are you refering to: Title: Publisher: Publication Date: 2. Does this text contain any blatant remarks denigrating women? Yes___ No______ If "Yes", please provide examples: A) In readings or dialogues? B) In exercises? 3. Does the text contain any examples of sex role stereotyping? Yes___ No______ If "Yes", please provide examples: A) In readings or dialogues? B) In exercises? 4. If your answer to questions No. 2 and 3 are both "No", does the text reflect the changing roles of women and men in society? Please give examples. Additional Comments: Please return to: Evelyn T. 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Title A name given to the resource October 1975 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Feminism; Germanists; Congresses Description An account of the resource <div class="WordSection1"> NEWS FROM WOMEN IN GERMAN </div> Number 4 October 15, 1975 In her seminal essay Virginia Woolf asks what a women needs in order to create, to which she answers, "money and a room of her own." Within the News from Women in German we have been creating a space for ourselves in the context of German studies. Recently we have created another kind of space; we need no longer be reached c/o anybody; we now have our own mailbox: Women in German, German Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wise. 53706. Now that we have a space of our own, we come to the second half of the equation. Many of you have already inquired about subscription fees. Until now this hasn't been necessary, but as we reach more people and our mailing list continues to expand, we will have to collectively share the expenses. If you wish to continue to receive the newsletter, please send $2 for the academic year 1975/76 (Students and non-employed may send $1). We expect to produce four issues per year. While growth has led to greater expense, it has also brought with it increased Involvement among our readers. We are very encouraged with the positive and supportive feedback that you have sent us and with the recognition we have received in othe publications. With regard to feedback, our new column, Dialogue, (see Newsletter 3, p. 2) did not provide the kind of response we had hoped it would. You may remember that we raised some crucial questions concerning Christa Wolf's and Karin Struck’s views of women; very likely the intervening summer vacation had something to do with your lack of response, but we nonetheless would like to get Dialogue going this fall. Our interest in Wolf and Struck may not coincide with yours. Of course this column is open to any other controversial issues you may wish to raise. We also have another new plan for the newsletter. In this issue we are starting a listing of Research in Progress, a column that will describe work that people are doing. This will help us locate resource people in specific areas and will allow people working on similar projects to contact one another. In this respect we are fortunate, for this year, associated Women in German meetings have been set up for the MLA, MMLA and AATG. For specific details concerning these meetings see the Announcement column in this issue. Face to Face: A Weekend Conference of Women in German? For well over a year now we have been receiving queries about the possibility of a weekend meeting of women in German. Although we will be getting together at the MLA AATG and MMLA, these brief business sessions cannot possibly replace a weekend of it depth seminars, discussion and workshops on topics of immediate interest to us. Th on the one hand, it seems clear that a two or three day conference would be a stimulating and valuable learning experience; on the other, it is equally clear that suet a meeting would take a good deal of advance planning and organization. In the past, whenever this topic was brought up in informal conversations, there was always discussion about which part of the country would be best, when would be the best time, how much would it cost, etc. We believe that if we are really ever to have such a conference, the time has come to go beyond such abstract questioning. It is our feeling that if anyone (or any group of people) feels ready to organize a conference of women in German, she (or they) should simply step forward and, in consultation w. -2- as many others of us as possible, make whatever arrangement seems to make the most sense. We should take care to keep the venture as cheap as possible or no one would be able to attend. Obviously all of us would be willing to share in the planning and serve as contact/resource people, but someone(s) must take the initiative. Therefore, we suggest that anyone seriously interested write to the newsletter and we will put people in contact with each other and will also publish any ideas that are sent in. This topic will also be raised at all the business meetings Of our group. What do you think of the idea of a workshop weekend? Would YOU be willing to organize It? Send feedback and concrete suggestions as soon as possible. Meeting face to face is an exciting idea that probably should not be delayed much longer. <div> Announcements </div> There will be a Coalition Of Women in German meeting at the 7th annual MMLA conference in Chicago (November 6-8, Palmer House). The Women in German meet at 1:30-3:30 on November 7 in Parlor A. Chairperson: Patricia A. Herminghouse The Topics are: Evaluation and Discussion of the. Newsletter The Sexism in Textbooks Project Other New Projects The Possibility of a Spring Meeting (see page 1 of this newsletter) At the MMLA, there will also be a number of presentations in the section on Women and Literature which are of interest (10:30, Saturday, November 8, in the Private Dining Room 18). . Chairperson: Agate Nesaule Krouse The topic is: Biography, Autobiography and Diary For those in German literature, the contribution of Richard L. Johnson, Indiana University - Purdue University, should be noted. Ha will discuss: "Becoming a Woman Writer: Gabriele Reuter’s Autobiography and Biographies". An Organizational meeting of Women in German will take place in Washington during the 43rd annual AATG meeting (November 27-30, in the Washington Hilton). r This meeting will be on November-29 at 4:30-5:30 in the Farragut Suites. Chairperson: Patricia A. Herminghouse At the AATG there will also be a panel discussion on the subject of Women and GermanistIk. Chairperson: Gisela E. Bahr The presentations are: "A Feminist Approach to German Literature," Joey Horsley, University of Massachusetts, Boston "Does Liberal Rhetoric + Legal Reality “Kinder, Küche, Kirche?", Susan L. Cocalis University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Separate and Unequal: ’The Ladies Auxiliary* of Contemporary West German Literature," Pat Russian, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island "Die Schwierigkeiten der Frau, Kunstlerlin zu sein", Karin Struck, author of Klassenliebeand Die Mutter Women and Germanistik meets at 2:45-4:15 in Jefferson West. A third meeting of Women in German is planned for the MLA convention this year In Sar Francisco (December, 1975). At this time we haven’t received notice of its location of date, so look for details in your official program. At the same conference there will be a seminar on how to teach "Btirgerllches Trauer— spiel," from a feminist perspective focusing specifically on Marla Magdalene and -3- Kabale und Liebe. The discussants will be Naomi Stephan (Valparaiso), Barbara Drygulski Wright (University of Connecticut) and Judy Harris (Berkeley), and the seminar will be coordinated by Pat Russian (Brown) and Pat Herminghouse (Washington University). According to the two Pats, the session looks very exciting. Additional Announcements 1) We are glad to announce that Unterrichtspraxis is devoting its entire spring issue to the theme of women in German. Now’s the time to put the finishing touches on that article or to sit down and review that new book you’ve been mulling over. We all have expertise, and there’s never a better time than now to share it. 2) We’d like to remind all of you that if you move and wish to continue receiving NEWS from Women in German, we need to know your new address. Contact us soon so that we can update our files. Sexism in Textbooks Slide-Tape Show A Slide-Tape presentation, Sexism in Foreign Language Textbooks (27 min.), prepared by Rhoda Stern, CUNY, documents and analyzes sexist content and photographs in recent textbooks by 16 publishers. The show is available for rental ($35) and sale ($300) from WOWI, Women on Words and Images, [redacted] . Ms. Sterr cites examples of under-representation of girls and women as well as sex-role stereotyping in textbook dialogues and stories. German language texts discussed on the tape are: <ol> <li>Deutsch für Anfänger (Appleton-Century Crofts, 1971)</li> <li>German A-IM, Level 1 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974)</li> <li>Kinder lernen Deutsch (Hübner Verlag, 1973)</li> <li>Anfang und Fortschritt; An Introduction to German (Macmillan, 1973)</li> <li>German: A Structural Approach (W.W. Norton, 1970, shorter ed.)</li> <li>Wir Lernen Deutsch. German for the First Year (Scott Foresman, 1974)</li> </ol> New Cultural Reader An attempt was made by a collective of graduate students in the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin to create an Introductory cultural reader for the first semester of German. The Madison Collective had three goals in mind: 1. to develop reading proficiency in German at the beginning level, 2. to aid students in developing a critical perspective on the modern German states and German history, and 3. to introduce materialistic concepts, such as class, which students could apply to their own situation in the United States. The collective made every effort to avoid sexism and to unmask it in society. With these goals in mind, the collective attempted to break down stereotyped views by taking a closer look at what is often accepted as German culture. The two German states are equally treated and are seen from a critical perspective. This text is currently being used in Madison on an experimental basis in first semest German. There will be a discussion of this Cultural Reader at the MMLA meeting in Chicago, Palmer House, on Saturday, November 8, at 8:30-10:00 in the Forum on Marxism and Literary Studies in the Crystal Room. -4- Examples of the text (photo-offset, paperbackbound) will be available at the meeting; limited numbers of copies are also available through Madison Collective, c/o Christa Stutius, Dept. of German, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706. We ate particularly interested in receiving a feminist response to our effort. Interested people are invited to criticize this text on the evaluation forms accompanying it. Research in Progress Feminist theatre "Alternative Theatre and Politics in the 1960*8 and 1970*s:' A Feminist Perspective" is the subject of a joint paper being prepared by Evelyn Torton Beck, Betsy Edelson and Nancy Vedder-Shults. The paper will be a comparative study of feminist theatre in this country and in West Germany within the context of radical theatre in the past two decades. It will be presented on November 21 at the Wisconsin Workshop, the focus of which this year will be "History and Drama in Germany." Most of the information about feminist theatre has and is being gathered by a questionnaire distributed to anyone working in or familiar with women’s theatre groups. Evelyn, Betsy and Nancy are interested in sending out these questionnaires to anyone who would have information on such activity. Please contact them at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, German Dept. as soon as possible if you are interested in a questionnaire or have any other material on feminist theatre, especially in West Germany. Women and Children in the GDR During a visit to the GDR in the summer of 1975, Donna Slepack researched day care facilities there, comparing them to centers in the FRG. In a brief article she describes the comparative advances day care has made in the GDR and .appends useful, very recent statistical data on day care attendance and women’s labor force participation in both Germanies. Donna also has a report on a conversation with one of the leading GDR writers of children’s literature regarding the role of the writer in removing patriarchal attitudes, a description of a children's literature conference and various materials on the role of women in the GDR. Donna is very interested in sharing this information and can be reached at [redacted] This newsletter was prepared by Angelika Bammer, Evelyn Torton Beck, Jeanne Howell, Christa Stutius and Nancy Vedder-Shults. Enclosed, please find my $2 ($1) for a years subscription to Women in German. Send your check to: Women in German, German Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. 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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. 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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 June 1976 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Germanists; Congresses; Feminism Description An account of the resource <div class="WordSection1"> WOMEN IN GERMAN Number 7 June 2, 1976 Subscriber fee: $2.00 per year ($1.00 in unemployed) Women in German is a collective endeavor. We therefore encourage you, our readers, not to look upon us merely as a distribution agent, but also as a communication center. What you send us will be printed as is, given our space limitations. We would be glad to have some of you contribute regularly and join our staff from wherever you are. If any of you are involved in German-related women's study groups, send us your reading lists, bibliographies, protocols or summaries of meetings, including questions raised, solutions proposed, and issues as yet unresolved. We also encourage you to submit book reviews which could well be done collectively. Those who have had the opportunity to see new films from East or West Germany pertaining to women (pro and contra) are invited to send us brief reviews. Material from both Germanies is increasingly becoming available. We would like to alert people to those items that are really worthwhile. Send all materials to Women in German, 814 Van Hise, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 53706. MEETINGS At the annual meeting of the AATG, August 18-23, 1976 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, there will be a section devoted to the study of "Sexism in Textbooks" (scheduled for Friday, August 20, 11:00 a.m.—noon). Naomi Stephan, who is coordinating this section, is still interested in hearing from those who would be interested in participating, either as discussants or as paper- givers. Since the format is flexible, less formal presentations would also be in order. Write to Naomi, Department of Modern Languages, [redacted] Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 46383. </div> * * * * * * -2- <div class="WordSection2"> ANNOUNEMENT Women in German has received a shorter and less technical version of Study III, Commision on the Status of Women in The Profession. This is a report on Women faculty in English and Foreign Language Departments, which should be of interest to those concerned with the careers of women in colleges and universities. Anyone who had not had a chance to read the Comission's full- length report in the January 1976 issue of PMLA may send for a copy of a shortened version thru Women in German for 50 cents covering xeroxing and postage. * * * * * * Elke Frederiksen, University of Maryland, has arranged a coalition meeting of Women in German at the South Atlantic MLA meeting, November 4-6, 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia. In case the announcement does not appear in the program, check for room assignment and time when you arrive. If you are interested in participating in or planning the meeting, contact Elke, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 20742. * * * * * * Anyone who is interested in the GDR women's magazine Für Dich can order it from: Ebsco Industries, Inc. [redacted] Birmingham, Alabama 35201 or directly from the GDR: [redacted] Für Dich is a weekly, "Illustrierte Zeitung ftlr die Frau", the only GDR magazine specifically for women. It discusses the situation of women in the GDR today, in such series as "Die SED und die Frauen" (on the relationship between women and the SED) and "Wenn die Kollegin Kinder hat" (on the problems of working mothers) and brings news and information of specific interest to GDR women. Anyone who knows of other GDR magazines, journals, publications which would be of interest, please share this information with us in the newsletter. A useful source for cultural information concerning the GDR is, of course, the cultural attaché of the GDR in Washington: Sonja Elm, Kulturattaché Embassy of the German Democratic Republic [redacted] -3- Madison's alternative radio WORT (Backporch Radio) had a 30 minute interview May 17 with Christa Stutius and Viktoria Harwig on the situation of women in the FRG and GDR. Anyone interested in receiving a recorded copy of this interview may send a blank cassette tape to Women in German. * * * * * * This newsletter was prepared by Angelika Bammer, Evelyn Torton Beck, Viktoria Harwig, Sara Pietsch, Christa Stutius. RETREAT AND SYMPOSIUM Before everyone leaves for the summer we want to remind you of the Women in German weekend retreat, combined with a one-day symposium, to be held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio on September 24-26, 1976. We announced this meeting, which grew out of our discussions at the last MLA in San Francisco, in our last newsletter. We are again enclosing the registration form. We will need to know how many people are planning to come, so that we can make adequate arrangements, so please send the form as soon as you know your plans. The $10 registration fee will cover food, shelter and supplies. Register no later than September 10. "Shelter" is a camp operated by Miami University outside of Oxford. You will need sleeping bags for the camp; there are possible hotel accomodations near-by. The best way to get there is by car. Anyone willing to offer a ride or anyone needing a ride should send this information to the Women in German Newsletter so that we can get riders and rides together. The program will be co-organized by Charlotte Gebhardt (German, Dartmouth College, Hanover, JH 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. If you have any other questions concerning the symposium and/or retreat you can also contact Gisela. 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 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Ideas for topics (comparative, i.e., German and other literature; or interdisciplinary) were to be submitted by March 15. However, if anyone has further questions, ideas, suggestions, please write to either Evelyn or Gisela. -4- Female Studies, prepared by the MLA Commission on the Status of Women has readied a new volume Female Studies IX: Teaching About Women in the Foreign Languages, ed. Sidonie Cassirer (The Feminist Press, 1975), contains essays and curricula for Women in Literature courses in the original foreign language and in translation. While the bulk of the courses outlined pertain to French, there are a substantial number of entires for German. These are extremely useful, partucularly Ritta Jo Horsley’s bibliography of Women and German Literature. Female Studies IX may be ordered from The Feminist Press [redacted] SYLLABI Since so many of you are interested in course outlines and since there are so many new ones prepared, Women in German is willing to publish brief course outlines and any comments you may wish to send along with them. STUDY GROUPS A study group at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, is presently focusing on the history of the German Women’s Movement, including the historical development of both the proletarian and bourgeois womens* movements. The participants have been reading selected essays by Gertrud BHumer, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, Berta Las, Ricarda Hugh and Adelheid Popp, and have found that two interest groups within their study group are emerging; one interested primarily in the political potential of a feminist movement, and the other interested in discussing feminism as a means of personal liberation. We encourage this study group and any others to submit a protocoil of their reading lists and perhaps a summary of their conclusions drawn from their study. -5- ***** 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 motes. I/we expect to arrive on..................... ( )by car; ( ) by plane (give airport, time of arrival, flight number) Name(s) .......................................................... Mailing address ................ .............................. 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Title A name given to the resource September 1976 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Feminism; Germanists; Congresses Description An account of the resource WOMEN IN GERMAN Number 8 September 10, 1976 Subscriber fee: $2.00 per year ($1.00 if unemployed) Please address all correspondence to: Women in German / 814 Van Hise Hall / University of Wisconsin / Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Women in German: Coming forward to retreat. Until now, Women in German has been a thread connecting us in scattered places. Now we will come together, face to face, to strengthen these connections and to make sure that we don’t retreat into academic isolation. There is still time to register for the Women in German weekend retreat, combined with a one-day symposium, to be held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, on September 24-26, 1976. Be Sure to register so that Gisela Bahr can take care of food and lodging accommodations; just because you know you’re coming doesn’t mean Gisela knows. There is a registration form for your convenience attached at the end of the newsletter. Here is a preview of topics to be treated on Feminism and German Studies: Revolutionary Women in Imperial Germany; Two German Women and the American Civil War; a comparison of the work of Hippel and Mary Wollstonecraft; a panel on women’s magazines in West Germany, France and the USA; a comparative analysis of sex bias in USA and GDR children’s readers (with slides); feminist theater in West Germany and the USA. When you register, be sure to enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope so that programs and driving instructions can be mailed to you. Also bring sleeping bags to the retreat. If you are arriving on Friday afternoon, come directly to the retreat, where we will be having supper together. The Women in German retreat will begin Friday evening and continue on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. The symposium will take place Saturday. If anyone from the Chicago area wants a ride to Ohio, leave your name and phone number with Pat Russian’s parents: [redacted] Pat will be driving from Chicago and be coming into the city only a few days before the meeting. Her Providence address is: [redacted] For those of you who can’t attend, we will write a report of the weekend for the next issue of the newsletter. -2- MEETINGS A women’s coalition meeting at SAMLA will take place on Friday, November 5, at 4:00 p.m. in Tower Suite 16, Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. Anyone who would like to help or who has suggestions should contact Elke Frederiksen, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 20742. The Tenth Amherst Colloquium on German Literature will be held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, 1977, possibly beginning with an evening session on April 28. The theme will be "Die Frau in der deutschen Literatur: Autorin - Heldin - Leserin" and papers should address themselves to relevant topics (authors, movements, or individual works) from a feminist perspective. The papers may be given in German or in English, but if they are in English the speaker will be responsible for the German translation to be used in the book publication. Normally there will be two lectures each morning and afternoon of about forty minutes in length. Depending on the topics offered, however, it may be possible to devote one afternoon meeting to one or more simultaneous forum discussions around fixed topics with short papers (10 to 15 minutes each). People interested in participating should submit their suggestions and a one-page outline by October 1. All communications should be sent to Wolfgang Paulsen, German Department, Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. 01002 REPORT FROM AATG The "Sexism in Textbooks" section was a huge success. It was not only well attended, but extremely exciting as well. The three papers were enthusiastically received by the audience, which included editors of major Germanistik journals and some textbook writers. One of these writers publicly recognized the sexism of his text and announced that he would change the offending passages in the next edition. Basically everyone present agreed that there was a clear need for further re-assessment of textbooks. There was also a Women in German meeting at the AATG which lasted three hours and was well attended. Plans for sessions at next year's AATG were discussed but not yet finalized. A good deal of interest was evidenced. It became clear that not enough information on who these writers are, is easily accessible. Therefore we repeat our call for syllabi and bibliographies pertaining to German women writers in the original and in translation. -3- WHAT’S IN A NAME? In February 1975 we changed our name from Women in Germanistik to Women in German (see issue No. 2). We made this change in order to include as many people as possible. As interest in our perspective has been growing, we have been told that some of our male colleagues feel excluded by our title. This question was debated at the AATG and will be brought up at the Ohio retreat. What is your opinion? Here are the two basic positions: (1) Women in German sounds as if it were exclusively for, by and about women. However, it is the name by which we are already known. (2) Any title which includes the word "feminist" (a much-suggested possibility) might exclude people who were interested in women-related issues but were not ready to call themselves feminists. Also to be considered: Should we keep the name of the coalition (Women in German) and only change the name of the newsletter? One name that has been suggested for the newsletter is German Feminist Perspectives. Those who are planning to come to Ohio should think about these positions and come with concrete suggestions, especially if you are for a name change. If you cannot come to Ohio, we would like to hear your responses to these questions as soon as possible so we can bring them to the retreat. IMPORTANT MATERIAL FROM WEST GERMANY Some of us have been to Germany over the summer, and realize how much material there is, how difficult it is to get it all together and to keep posted on recent developments in German women’s studies. So if you’ve been to Germany, or have read interesting books, new journals, pamphlets or magazines, or have seen German films pertinent to women’s studies, write down your experiences and share your information with us. Only then can Women in German continue to be a channel for communication. If you wish to get material from Germany, you can order directly from the two women’s bookshops in West Berlin: Labrys Frauenbuchladen 1000 Berlin 61 Yorckstr. 22 AND Lilith Frauenbuchladen 1000 Berlin 12 Kantstr. 124 Berlin now has the Berliner Frauenzeitune Courage, Bleibstr. 48, 1000 Berlin 12, with subscription rates: 3 mos / 9 DM; 6 mos / 18 DM; 1 yr. / 36 DM. There is also a women’s literary journal, Mamas Pfirsiche, published four times a year by Verlag Frauenpolitik, Monika Walter Grevener Str. 165-67, 4400 Münster, with a -4- subscription rate of 16 DM / yr. or 4 DM per issue. There is also a women's film journal, Frauen und Film, which can be ordered at the following address: Brot und Rosen, H. Lahtela, 1000 Berlin 10, Postfach 100 208 (1 yr or six issues for 24 DM; single copy, 4 DM). Verena Stefan's Häutungen (Verlag Frauenoffensive, Munchen 1975) is being widely read and has already been translated into French. It's an important feminist text which records the struggles and development of a young woman who is active in the German new left in the 1960s and becomes involved in the women's movement in the 70s. The book is autobiographical and combines memoirs, poems, analysis and introspection, in language that is vigorous, fresh, and consciously feminist. Though it is the story of one woman, it exemplifies the development of many women in West Germany and the USA. The book records the author's growing sense of self and strength. The process is as yet unfinished, but its direction is positive and affirming. SUBSCRIPTIONS We have decided that each yearly 4-issue subscription will begin in the fall. If, however, you mailed in your $2.00 last spring, then obviously just wait until next fall to re-subscribe. BACK ISSUES - NEW ADDRESSES If you need back issues of Women in German or if you have changed your address, please notify us, since the newsletter is not forwarded when sent in a bulk mailing. This newsletter was prepared by Angelika Bammer, Evelyn Torton Beck, Viktoria Harwig, Sara Markham Pietsch, and Christa Stutius. -5- ***** REGiSTRATION FORM***** I want to register for the retreat on September 24-26, 1976 Please reserve.......... place(s) in the camp. C ) send information on near-by motes. I/we expect to arrive on..................... ( )by car; ( ) by plane (give airport, time of arrival, flight number) Name(s) ..................................... Mailing address ....................................... Telephone ( )......................... 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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)__. Name________________ College affiliation_________ Title of Course _________ Estimated enrollment_______________ Return to Naomi Stephan, Department of Modern Languages, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383. </div> </div> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pietsch, Sara Torton Beck, Evelyn Martin, Biddy Harwig, Viktoria Stutius, Christa Bammer, Angelika 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 1976/12/01 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 ger Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1976_Dec Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/">No copyright - United States</a> https://wig-herstory.com/files/original/6ac97d0b2389a3705e81aa7f2a179676.pdf 8334911e83aad8c9f29ad4cd612f29f3 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 March 1977 Newsletter Subject The topic of the resource Feminism; Germanists; Congresses Description An account of the resource <div class="WordSection1"> WOMEN IN GERMAN Number 10 March 1, 1977 Subscription fee: $2.00 per year ($1.00 if unemployed) As this issue of our newsletter makes clear, we have been extremely successful in establishing sections at professional meetings on the topic relating to feminist research. Nonetheless we must continue our effort to assure that these sections become permanent. The best way to make these sections productive is to submit papers and abstracts. For this reason, we encourage you to respond to the announcements. If you do not have a paper ready, a one-page abstract will often suffice. In spite of the outburst of activities at professional meetings, there are still many women who are isolated in their jobs and who would like to contact other coalition members in their vicinity. For this reason we would like to publish a list of the names and addresses of all coalition members in our next newsletter. Before we do this we want to make sure that there is no one who objects to having her or his name made public. If you would prefer that we omit your name, please contact us immediately. You can look forward to finding out who your neighbors are very soon. Also of special interest for our coalition members is the formation of the NWSTA National Women * s Studies Association which is interdisciplinary and dedicated to promoting feminist research on all levels and in all educational settings. The interdisciplinary nature of this association makes it particularly important that people doing research in German participate in this effort. The promoters of this organization will be regional organizations. A mailing will soon go out to all feminist studies programs and centers. As soon as forms are available we will make them public in our newsletter. If you are near a Women’s Studies Program contact it for further information. For more specific information now, write NWSTA, Sylvia Gonzales, San Jose State, San Jose, California. CALL FOR PAPERS New German Critique is planning to devote one issue to the subject of Women trom a socialist feminist perspective. Contributions are being actively solicited and should be sent to Renny Harrigan, German Department, University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee (UWM). The deadline is May 1. ***************** The Midwest Modern Language Association Section on Women and Literature is requesting papers to be the basis of discussion at the MMLA annual meeting in Chicago, October 27-29, 1977, under the title: "The Imaging I: Self-Exploration in Poetry by Women of Many Cultures." Papers on non-English-speaking poets are encouraged. Among ______________________________ Please note that we have once again sent this Newsletter first class due to the continuing deterioration of the Postal Service and the enthusiastic response of our subscribers This has further depleted our funds, but we still think 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. </div> -2- <div class="WordSection2"> relevant issues that might be explored are the relationship between the selfimage and the poetic image; the place of self-examination in the poet’s oeuvre; the self-images and poetic forms women use; the effect of feminism on women’s work. Translations of foreign texts should be provided. Maximum length is 8 single-spaced pages. Send one copy to each of the following persons by May 1: Nadean Bishop, Women's Studies Program, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197; and Sue Lanser, Women’s Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, 209 North Brooks Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. ********************** "Women and Literary Circles in the 19th Century" "Women in German" will be sponsoring two special sessions at the next annual meeting of the MLA on the topic of women and literary circles in the nineteenth century. The term "literary circle" may be taken in its broadest sense to include groups consisting of a handful of friends as well as more formally organized literary societies or salons. Besides papers on the historical role of women in the literary circle, preference will be given to those women associated with literary circles who actually wrote critical, literary, or autobiographical works. The nineteenth century would encompass the periods of German Romanticism, 1848, and the turn of the century. The first session will be primarily informational and will consist of 3-4 short papers (10-15 mins.). We would therefore request that the participants prepare both a detailed abstract and a general bibliography for general distribution at the session. The second session will be devoted to a discussion of that material. Those interested in submitting proposals for papers, in contributing bibliographical material independent of a paper, or in participating as a discussion leader for the second session should contact both: Helen Cafferty, German Dept., Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011 and Susan L. Cocalis, German Dept./Herter Hall, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. 01003. Proposal deadline (in duplicate) is between Apr. 15 and May 1, 1977 and tentative paper deadline is between Aug. 1 and Sept. 1, 1977. ********************** Women in German Caucus NEMLA Conference in Pittsburth April 23, 1977, 8:30 AM Co-Chairpersons: Sara Lennox, Univ. of Massachusetts Irmgard Taylor, SUNY Cortland ********************** I would like to ask you to report in the next Newsletter that the first Women in German meeting at the SAMLA convention (Nov. 4-6, 1976) was very successful. It was well attended and the discussion lasted more than 11/2 hours. As a result we were able to establish a new 2-hour workshop for the SAMLA convention in Washington D.C. from Nov. 3-5, 1977. The topics of the workshop will be: 1. First hour: Refocusing the Image of Women in German Courses. Eight minute presentations on one of the following aspects will be followed by discussion: Language, Literature, Culture and Civilization. Send papers before April 1 to: Marilyn Scott-Jones, [redacted] -3- 2. Second hour: Present Research on Women in German Literature. Brief presentations or project summaries will be followed by discussion. Send proposals by April 1 to: Elke Frederiksen, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742. *********************** The Marxist Literary Group (MLG) of the Midwest Modern Language Association is soliciting papers for the Marxist Forum at the MMLA in Chicago from Oct. 27-29, 1977 in Chicago. The topic is an Application of Marxist Feminist Criticism. The subject aims at a synthesis of Marxism and Feminism and is of central interest to those who believe that traditional Marxism has not dealt with Feminism as well as to those who believe that Marxism is capable of dealing with Feminism. Papers should be no more than 8 pages single-spaced and should be submitted by the beginning of May to the coordinator of this forum. Abstracts should be submitted by the beginning of April. As usual, collective papers and projects are encouraged. Any questions should be directed to the coordinators: Renny Harrigan, German Dept., [redacted] UWM, Milwaukee, Wis. 53201: Renate Holub, Univ. of Wise./Madison, Dept. of French & Italian, 1220 Linden Drive, Van Hise Hall, Madison, Wis. 53706. German topics are often neglected in larger symposia. It is up to us to make sure it is represented. ************************ Midwest Modem Language Association (Oct. 1977, Chicago) Marxist Literary Group Forum: "The Progressive Teacher" Themes for 1977: Imperialism, racism and sexism in the classroom A critique of literary works and textbooks. As teachers we must realize that we are powerful change agents and as progressive teachers we must utilize our knowledge and skills to expose and identify the real causes of the injustices which exist in our society. Education has been used to perpetuate and promote the status quo and no one but teachers will be able to offer a progressive alternative. This year our theme will focus on ruling class idology; namely imperialism, racism and sexism in literary works and textbooks. We want to share your observations and your efforts to make education promote human rights. Send your papers to Guy Levilain, Brown Hall, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn. 56301. Length of papers: 8 pages single-spaced Deadline for title and short description: April 15, 1977 Deadline for submitting papers: August 15, 1977 Possible topics could include other discriminations based on age and sexual preference. ************************ -4- LETTERS Dear Women in German: Since I have been working, for some years, in the field of Austrian literature, I have become quite well acquainted with the Austrian women's movement and its history. Being an Austrian and having studied there, I have of course been involved in the modern developments. Having a mother who was herself extremely active in the women's movement when young, adds a special background. I have felt that the Austrian women's movement was as a rule, a little overshadowed by the German movement, though it had produced very able and interesting leaders. I now wonder whether you know of any other women interested in the Austrian movement, and whether an "Arbeitsgruppe Osterreich" might not be called for. I have myself taken a step in that direction and committed myself to writing an article on Rosa Mayreder for a special issue of MAL, which I had suggested. If you have any suggestions or ideas concerning a group interested in Austria's women's movement, I would very much appreciate your contacting me. Sincerely yours, Hertha Krotkoff [redacted] Dear Women in German: A new organization welcoming members interested in German history, literature, philosophy, politics, geopolitics, and related studies. We publish a NEWSLETTER, carrying information about grants, library collections, recent publications, travel by visiting scholars, and diplomats, and news of current research. We also hold an annual conference and sponsor meetings in conjunction with other professional organizations, offering opportunities for the presentation of research papers. We expect shortly to begin the publication of a journal. For membership information please contact me. The annual membership fee is $10 ($2, non-voting membership available to students). Sincerely, Prof. Gerald R. Kleinfeld Secretary/Treasurer Westerna Assoc, for German Studies Dept. of History Arizona State University Tempe, Ariz. 85281 Dear Women in German: Perhaps you recall from our meeting of Women in German at the last Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association of America in Dec. 1976 in New York, that I tried to draw the attention of the members present to our first inter- discinplinary Western Association for German Studies, founded in 1976. As a member of the Executive Committee of that organization I write to you, in order to ask you to kindly announce the existence of our organization in your next Women in German Newsletter. In order to simplify matters I enclose a membership form containing the pertinent details. </div> -5- Would you also announce that our first annual convention will take place on this campus, Oct. 21-22, and that a call for papers is sent to all individuals interested in the conference theme "The Federal Republic of Germany since 1945," but that topics of general interest are also considered. Abstracts in English to be submitted to Prof. Douglas F. Tobler, Dept. of History, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, tentative deadline April 30. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Ingeborg L. Carlson Arizona State Univ. Temple, Ariz. 85281 Dear Women in German I would like to see the present discussion of sexism in textbooks expanded to cover a broader range of materials, perhaps in a series entitles "Sexism in the Presentation of Women in Cultural Materials." Here I am thinking especially of films and cultural materials we receive from West and East Germany, Austria and Switzerland for use in American classrooms. The regional consulates of the FRG distribute several films, on women which I am using in culture courses, and which need badly some feminist critique, also as a feedback to Internationes. Almost all of these films are recent, are commissioned at quite some expense, and show not only ignorance, but also bias, even if not intentional bias. You may have seen such a "harmless" film as "Salzburg, Jedermann-Stadt" (the German and the English version is sent by the Austrian Institute all over the country). In this new film, apparently commissioned for audiences abroad, the city of Salzburg is presented through the eyes and the life style of a middle-aged man with all his hang-ups and blurred vision concerning women. Such films as well as pertinent passages in Facts about Germany, in the leaflet German Women, or in Austria: Facts and Figures need some close scrutiny. PS: It occurs to me that at the next larger meeting (MLA, AATG) Women in German should request a time in the afternoon or evening of two hours, one for a program and immediately following a social hour for individual contacts—there is little opportunity for meeting and talking to other women for those of us not in the modern period. Sincerely yours, Baerbel Becker-Cantarino Dept of Germanic Lang. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712 This newsletter was prepared by Evelyn Torton Beck, Viktoria Harwig, Biddy Martin, Sara Markham Peitsch, Angelika Shalter and Christa Stutius. Typing was donated by Marsha Meyer. Enclosed, please find my $2 ($1) for a years subscription to Women in German. Send your check to: Women in German, German Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Name:____________________________________ Address:___________________________________ -6- The second Retreat/Symposium will take place in Oxford, Ohio on September 23 to 25, 1977 (Friday thru Sunday). We again reserved the camp we used last year, which is free of charge. It is big enough for a meeting of 40-50 people but has only 14 beds. Therefore, those coming by car are requested to bring folding beds along. Alternate sleeping arrangements would be with the Miami women or in near-by motels (at extra expense). Registration fee to cover food and expenses, is $10.- again. However, it was the consensus of last year's participants that those living close enough to come by car and thus having less travel expenses them those having to come by plane, should be requested to make an extra donation to a travel fund. This travel fund would be used to contribute to the expenses of those who come from far away. Please be considerate of the organizers and register early. Let us know of any change in plans as soon as possible. We will do our best to make things work out smoothly. Looking forward to another successful retreat with you, Gisela Bahr ----------- REGISTRATION FORM------------------ I want to register for the retreat on September 23-25, 1977. Registration Fee of $10.00 ( ) enclosed ( ) will be mailed later Donation to Travel Fund in the amount of $____________ ( ) enclosed (___) will be mailed later (Make checks payable to Gisela Bahr) I want to stay ( ) at the camp. ( ) will bring a folding bed (I understand that I need to bring a sleeping bag). ( ) with friends ( ) at a motel (please send information) I shall need day care for ___{no.) children, age ________ I expect to arrive on ______ ( ) by car ( ) by plane; will inform you of airport (Dayton or Cincinnati), time of arrival and departure, flight number as soon as possible. NAME ______________ TELEPHONE ____________ MAILING ADDRESS __________________________________________ Please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope (4x9) so that we can send you further instructions, and mail to Gisela Bahr, Dept. of GREAL, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Torton Beck, Evelyn Harwig, Viktoria Martin, Biddy Markham Peitsch, Sara Shalter, Angelika Stutius, Christa 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 1977/03/01 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Women in German Marsha Meyer - typed Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 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 1977_Mar Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/">No copyright - United States</a>