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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOVEMBER 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;[image]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;The Coalition of Women in German, an all led organization of the MLA, invites students, teachers and all others interested in feminism and German Studies subscribe to the newsletter. See last page of newsletter for rates.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard, U. Illinois (1980-83) &lt;br /&gt;   Chair, Political Action Committee &lt;br /&gt;   Co-editor, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Yearbook&lt;/span&gt; (1982-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha Wallach, U. Wisconsin-Green Bay (1980-83)&lt;br /&gt;   Fundraising coordinator&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ritta Jo Horsley, U. Mass., Boston (1981-84)&lt;br /&gt;   Conference coordinator, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut R. Poole, Los Angeles (1981-84)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell, Michigan State U. (1982-85)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara D. Wright, U. Conn., Storrs (1982-85)&lt;br /&gt;   Chair, Textbook Review Committee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandra Frieden, U. Houston (1983-86)&lt;br /&gt;   Fundraising coordinator&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Waldstein, M.l.T. (1983-86) &lt;br /&gt;   Conference coordinator, 1983, 1984&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director of Membership: Karen R. Achberger, St. Olaf College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Women in German Newsletter is published in March, August and November of each year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deadlines&lt;/span&gt; for material to appear in the newsletter:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;February 15 (March issue)&lt;br /&gt;August 1 (August issue)&lt;br /&gt;November 1 (November issue)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Send material to: Jeanette Clausen, Newsletter Editor&lt;br /&gt;Women in German&lt;br /&gt;Department of Modern Foreign Languages Indiana U.-Purdue U.&lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;TABLE OF CONTENTS&lt;/span&gt;:                   &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Page #&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;AATG and MLA 1983 ... 3.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;WiG 1983 ...  5.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;WiG 1984 ...  25.&lt;br /&gt;Call for Papers ... 26.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;FORUM ...  27.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Brief aus Berlin ... 31&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Current Document"&gt;Research Projects ... 33.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;WiG Membership List . . . 39.&lt;br /&gt;Membership/Subscriptions ... 45.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 32&lt;br /&gt;November 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If I can't find my desk top under all the newsletter contributions, then this must be November. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Many thanks&lt;/span&gt; to all of you who sent in summaries, reactions, announcements, etc. Most of this issue concerns the October 1983 conference, which was, as always, a very intense and rich experience. In addition to our invited guest, Austrian author Barbara Frischmuth, we were joined by Margot Schroeder and Johanna Haake from West Germany, who decided in late summer to schedule their trip to the US to coincide with our conference. And, of course there were about 80 of us Wiggies present—the largest turnout at a WiG con­ference yet! As you will see in reading the conference reports, we seem to be experiencing some, uh, growing pains, you might say. We are also getting a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;lot &lt;/span&gt;accomplished. Not, of course, without a great deal of hard work by many women: special thanks to Edith Waldstein (MIT) and Joey Horsley (U. Mass., Boston) for all their work organizing the conference and coordinating arrange­ments with Thompson Island; Sidonie Cassirer and Bunny Weiss for their work on the syllabi project; outgoing steering committee member Martha Wallach for all her work on arranging Barbara Frischmuth's visit to WiG and subsequent readings at several universities (in cooperation with the Austrian Institute)--Martha, you have done an &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;outstanding&lt;/span&gt; job!--as well as to all the session coordinators and others who worked in one way or another to make WiG 1983 a success, not least among them Karen Achberger, who has become our resident expert in corresponding with authors and in getting new members (she has been named Director of Membership in recognition of this work). We also thank Patsy Baudoin of Schoenhof's Foreign Books, who again brought books to the island during the conference. Of course, we thank Marianne Burkhard (U. Illinois) and Edith Wald­stein (MIT) for their &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ongoing&lt;/span&gt; work on the WiG Yearbook project. And I know everyone who attended the conference joins me in thanking Susan Cocalis for getting people together on the spot to put on a hilarious cabaret on Saturday evening (with costumes, yet!), which featured such unforgettable appearances as Jeannine Blackwell as president of the South Carolina Future Homemakers of America, Dagmar Lorenz as Hausmutti des German Hauses, Margot Schroeder in an earlier incarnation as a Hamburg housewife, Susan Cocalis in "The Princeton Incarnation," and much much more--l would tell you more about it, but you had to be there, as the saying goes. --Back to "serious business;" here are some up-to- date reports on WiG projects.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG SYLLABI COLLECTION&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The syllabi collection, edited by Sidonie Cassirer and Bunny Weiss, was distri­buted to everyone who attended the conference, and was mailed to all the rest of you on November 10th. So it should reach you soon if it hasn't already (bulk mail can be so unpredictable!)--if you don't receive it soon, write to me, Jeanette Clausen, at the newsletter address. Additional copies can be ordered for $2.00 to cover postage (first class) and handling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG YEARBOOK&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Co-editors Marianne Burkhard and Edith Waldstein reported that they aim to have the manuscripts for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1982 Yearbook&lt;/span&gt; to the University Press of America by the end of December. After UPA reviews the collection, a camera- ready manuscript must be prepared; the finished book will be ready within two months or so of camera-ready manuscript submission. So, our first yearbook should be available by late spring 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the conference, we agreed that the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1983 Yearbook&lt;/span&gt; would not be restricted to papers presented at WiG sessions (as was the case for the 1982 volume), but rather, open to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all WiG members&lt;/span&gt; who wish to send a manuscript for consideration. Again, the manuscripts will be refereed by other WiG members, and the co-editors will make the final decision. All questions should be direc&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ted to the co-edit&lt;/span&gt;ors. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Send ma&lt;/span&gt;nuscripts (one copy to each) to: Marianne Burkhard, [redacted] &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Edith Waldstein, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;DEADLINE for receipt of manuscripts for the 1983 volume: February 1, 198A&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TRANSLATION PROJECTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As we have all known for years, the need for more English translations of works by women from the German-speaking countries continues to be acute. The WiG syllabi collection documents this in a very concrete way: many contributors to the syllabi collection use the one available anthology (Herrmann/Spitz, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women Writers of the 20th Century&lt;/span&gt;) in their courses, and many state that they would teach more courses in translation, or teach existing ones differently, if more texts were available in translation. YOU can help by contacting the following people:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Nancy Lukens and Dorothy Rosenberg are planning a two-volume collection (one GDR, one FRG) of poetry and prose by contemporary women writers in transla­tion. The collection will be organized around three topics: women and work, women and family, women and self-image. Nancy and Dorothy invite your sugges­tions as to texts you think most important to include. Also, let them know if you have done your own translation of a suitable work but haven't published it. Addresses: Nancy Lukens, Dept.of German, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, and Dorothy Rosenberg, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901.&lt;/p&gt;
2. Sydna (Bunny) Weiss is willing to act as "clearinghouse person" to generate (an)other translation project(s). What are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; priorities for texts in trans­lation other than Nancy's and Dorothy's project outlined above? Here, we are especially interested in your unpublished translations--as mentioned in the August newsletter, we suspect that if we collected all th&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ese, we&lt;/span&gt; would have the basis for at least one anthology. Write to Bunny Weiss, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.
&lt;p&gt;Also, please let Bunny know if you have knowledge of other translation projects currently underway. There is so much to be done that we wish to avoid duplica­tion of effort.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;P.S.: the collection &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Feminism: Readings&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Politics and Literature &lt;/span&gt;(eds. Hoshino, Clausen, Schultz, Stephan) is now (finally!) scheduled for publi­cation by SUNY Press in summer 1984 ("if nothing goes wrong.").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By the time you read this, the San Francisco AATG will be past history; however, here is the WiG program to refresh your memory.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN AND PEACE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday, 25 November, 2:45-6:OO p.m.&lt;/p&gt;
1. "Teaching About Women and Peace," coord. Kelga W. Kraft (U. Florida) and Richard Johnson (IPFW). Presenters: Barbara F. Hyams (U. Tulsa)--Images of Women and Peace in the New German Cinema; Kathryn Strachota (Stanford U.)-- Women in the Military; Sydna Stern Weiss (Hamilton Coll.)—A Teaching Module: Women and Peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. "Women, Literature and Peace," coord. Edith Potter (Scripps Coll.) and Jorun B. Johns (California State Coll., San Bernardino). Presenters: Irmgard Hunt (Texas Tech. U., Lubbock)--Frauen fur Frieden: Gedichte, Schi1derungen, Reflexionen; Myra N. Love (Purdue U.)--Christa Wolf: Literatur heute muß Friedensforschung sein; Edna H. Spitz (Stanford U.)--Bertha von Suttner,Champion for Peace: "Lay Down Your Arms. Tell that to Many, Many . . .;" Dagmar Lorenz (Ohio State U.)--Else Lasker-Schuler and Her Pacifist Ideas.
&lt;p&gt;A brief business meeting, chaired by Bunny Weiss, will follow. The major agenda items are selection of coordinators for next year's AATG sessions, one on film and one (again) on women and peace; and discussion of possible places to hold the WiG conference on the west coast in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hope you'll support WiG and WiG members by attending the following sessions, or, if you absolutely have to be someplace else during these times, telling other people to attend them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#27. THE POET AND THE POEM: RACE, SEX AND LANGUAGE IN INGEBORG BACHMANN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tuesday, 27 December, 7:00-8:15 p.m., Chelsea B. Sheraton&lt;br /&gt;Presiding: Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.). Presentations: 1. "'Die Weissen, sie sollen verflucht sein': Gender, Race, and History in Ingeborg Bachmann's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fall Franza&lt;/span&gt;," Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst); 2. "A Terrible Euphoria: Ingeborg Bachmann and Ulrike Meinhof," Helen Fehervary (Ohio State U.); 3- "Die Utopie hinter der Wand: Die weibliche Perspektive in Ingeborg Bachmanns Prosa," Sigrid Weigel (U. Hamburg). Respondent: Renate Voris (U. Virginia).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#68. WOMEN MAKING LITERARY HISTORY: THE NEW GENERATION OF WOMEN WRITERS IN THE GDR Tuesday, 27 December, 9:00-10:15 p.m., Senate, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Renate Delphendahl (U. Maine, Orono) and Patricia Herminghouse (U. Rochester). Presentations: 1. "The Year 197^: Laying the Foundation for the New Generation," Gudrun Brokoph-Mauch (St. Lawrence U.); 2. "The Third Wave: New Women Writers and Women's Issues in the GDR," Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.); 3. "I = Myself: Women Taking Hold of Their Lives," Elisabeth Nations (Augustana Coll., Illinois); 4. "'Weil es nicht selbstverständlich ist': Abortion Experiences in Recent Fiction by GDR Women Writers," Jeanette Clausen (Indiana U.- Purdue U., Fort Wayne).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#189. FEMINIST RE-VISIONS OF GERMAN LITERARY HISTORY&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, 28 December, 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m., Commonwealth, Sheraton&lt;br /&gt;Presiding: Sieglinde Lug (U. Denver). Presentations: 1. "Working Class Women Writers in Wilhelmine Germany and the Literary Canon," Joan Reutershan (New York U.); 2. "Methodological Considerations toward a New 'Image' of Women in Literary History," Julie Prandi (Columbia U.); 3. "Deconstructing the Canon," Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The program will conclude with a brief business meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#299. CASH BAR ARRANGED BY THE COALITION OF WOMEN IN GERMAN AND THE WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR THE MODERN LANGUAGES&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, 28 December, 5:15-6:45 p.m., Nassau A, Hilton &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#529. INTEGRATING WOMEN'S STUDIES INTO THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: NEW PROBLEMS, NEW SOLUTIONS&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, 29 December, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Commonwealth, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Barbara Wright (U. Connecticut, Storrs). Presentations: 1. "Set­ting the Context: Integration across the Liberal Arts," Florence Howe (SUNY, Old Westbury); 2. "Linguistics' Challenge to Foreign Language Methodology," Barbara Wright (U. Connecticut, Storrs); 3- "The Teacher/Student (Disconnec­tion," Virginia Thorndike Hules (Wellesley College); 4. "The Effects of Guidelines on Textbooks During the Last Decade," Francine Frank (SUNY, Albany).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG CHAPTER IN NEW YORK&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The WiG chapter in New York, organized by Gesine Worm (Goethe House Library) and Marianne Goldscheider (Brooklyn) has been meeting once a month since September. At their first meeting they collected ideas and suggestions for a possible "Frauenliteraturtage" tentatively planned by the Goethe House for fall 1984. At the October meeting, Marianne Goldscheider reported to the group about the WiG conference in Boston. Plans for other meetings include discussion of Christa Wolf's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kassandra&lt;/span&gt; (November), and poetry translations done by the group members (December). Anyone wishing more information about this group should contact Gesine Worm at the Goethe House Library, 1014 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(if you are interested in starting a WiG chapter in your area, I will be happy to send you a zip-code-sorted list of current WiG members in your area to help you get started. --JC.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CORRECTION!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the August newsletter, Maria Wagner's book &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MathiIde Franziska Anneke&lt;/span&gt; was announced as forthcoming. This was grossly inaccurate--the book appeared in 1980 and is now out of print, erk. Maria Wagner's forthcoming book is: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gebrochene Ketten&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Maria Wagner. An anthology of Mathilde Anneke's slave stories, and samples of her femi­nist speeches. Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday evening                                  BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;br /&gt;October 16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The largest group of participants at the conference (about 85) gathered for the evening with Barbara Frischmuth. In my introduction, I focused on Frischmuth's unmistakably female voice within the--predominantly male--genera- tion of post-1965 writers with whom she is associated. (She was the only female member of the Forum Stadtpark in Graz.) She consistently criticizes from the perspective of women and children; her works are informed by a tension between fantasy (dreams, fairy tale and mythic elements) and reality. Often the line between the two is difficult to draw. Frischmuth sees the modern poet's imagina­tion, or that of her protagonists, as related to the more hallucinatory vision of a mystic like Hildegard von Bingen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the first half of the evening Frischmuth read an essay she had written espe­cially for our meeting ("Ich dachte mir, bei einer Gruppe von Germanistinnen, so müßte man . . .") . Entitled "Eine souveräne Posaune Gottes: Gedanken zu Hilde­gard von Bingen und ihrem Werk," the essay will be published in its entirety in the forthcoming WiG Yearbook. After a discussion of the Catholic tradition of mysticism and Hildegard's imagery there was a short break; during the second half of the evening Frischmuth read us a recent, still unpublished story in which a certain "Greta G." encounters a puma in Vienna. Interweaving the whimsical and the prosaic, the "real" and the "surreal," humor and seriousness, the story elicited an animated and satisfying discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Karen Achberger St. Olaf College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MARGOT SCHROEDER AND JOHANNA HAAKE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As most of you recall, Margot Schroeder was WiG's guest at the 1980 conference in Racine. Several of us who attended the Hamburg conference (May 1983) renewed our acquaintance with her there--so, when Margot received a Reisestipendium for travel to the US later in the summer, she and Johanna decided to attend WiG during their stay (Oct. 7-29, 1983). They spent their first several days in New York with Miriam Frank, and Margot gave a reading at the Deutsches Haus there. She also visited both U. Mass.-Boston and M.l.T. before coming to the WiG conference; she and Johanna then left for San Francisco. Johanna Haake, a librarian by profession, is active in the West German peace movement, as is Margot. So both of them were much in demand during breaks and at meals to bring Wiggies up to date on recent peace movement activities. Their addresses are: Margot Schroeder, [redacted] Johanna Haake, [redacted] Here is a fairly complete list of Margot Schroeder's books:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ich stehe meine Frau&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt: Fischer Tb, 1975, Roman; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Angst ist baden gegangen&lt;/span&gt;. Berlin: Fi et kau, 1976, Poem; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der Schlachter empfiehlt noch immer Herz&lt;/span&gt;. München: Wei smann, Frauenbuchver1ag, 1976, Roman; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wiederkäuer.&lt;/span&gt; Hamburg, 1977, Lyrik und Kurzprosa (vergriffen); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das kannst du laut sagen, Hannes&lt;/span&gt;. Hamburg: rororo rotfuchs, 1978, Jugendroman; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Und die Kneipe gleich nebenan&lt;/span&gt;. Uber Barmbeck und seine Menschen. Hamburg: M £ K Hansa-Verlag, 1980; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nichts fällt nach oben&lt;/span&gt;. Berlin: Fietkau, 1981 , Poem; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Vogelspinne&lt;/span&gt;. Monolog einer Trinkerin. München: Weismann, Frauenbuchverlag, 1982, Roman; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ganz schön abgerissen&lt;/span&gt;. Hamburg: rororo rotfuchs, 1983, Jugendroman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thursday evening, October 13, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Auf der Suche nach einer feministischen Germanistik"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For this opening session, I gave a brief review of WiG conferences over the past eight years, borrowing Christa Wolf's words "Wie sind wir so geworden, wie wir heute sind?" (bzw. wie wir noch werden!). I mentioned our ongoing attention to feminist process and its importance for collective decision-making and a productive sharing of ideas; our concern to find ways of working together to overcome the traditional active/passive (presenters/1isteners) split; the reasons underlying the scheduling of one "women only" session each year; our commitment to grappling with "uncomfortable" issues (homophobia, racism, antisemitism, classism) that have often divided women; and some issues that had surfaced in earlier discussions as to which language we use, German or English, and how these related to the conference theme "Stimme suchen, Stimme finden." I concluded by quoting Sara Lennox' 1982 description of WiG as "eine konkrete Utopie" and what that means to me: a space where I feel supported by and support other women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Following my presentation we counted off into small groups to get (re-)acquainted with each other. One member of my group, a woman who has attended many WiG conferences, mentioned a discrepancy between what I had said and what she was feeling: she felt anxiety over the presentation she was scheduled to give, an anxiety she hadn't felt in previous years, and which seemed to be related to the structure (more "formal") of the session. Another woman, who attended WiG for the first time this year, shared her thoughts about finding a voice: "hier brauchen wir uns nicht zu verstellen, hier kann ich mich so geben, wie ich wirklich bin--aber wie bin ich eigentlich?" She also addressed the necessity of our finding a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;collective&lt;/span&gt; voice politically. Later, another "old-timer" shared her feelings of discouragement at times during the past year, with pressures to "produce," meet deadlines and so on leading her to wonder, more or less, whether there's life after tenure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, my scribbled notes don't yield any further intelligible informa­tion about the discussion in my group and I don't have reports from the other groups. As you'll see from the reports of the concluding session, the answer to the question "wie werden wir noch/wie wollen wir werden?" isn't as clear as we might wish. After much thought, and discussion with other Wiggies, about WiG 1983, I keep returning to this thought: maybe one of the most important things we do at our conferences is to continually re-create our collective "self," by struggling to understand and respect each other's concerns. To quote Christa Wolf again: "Es muß dauernd entstehen, das ist es." (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Christa T.&lt;/span&gt;). I hope we won't be too hard on ourselves and each other when we can't always meet the many different and sometimes contradictory expectations and needs that each of us brings to the group. I also hope we can keep making good use--as we did this year--of recreation (dancing, fun, even silliness) for this process of re-creating and take pride in what we've accomplished over the past eight years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday morning, October 14&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;STIMME SUCHEN: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON WORK FROM VARIOUS DISCIPLINES. &lt;br /&gt;Moderator: Judy Jamieson, Providence College.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Women's Public and Private Voices in the German Romantic Salon"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The aim of this paper is to explain the romantic salon's significance for women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In order to do this, two preliminary questions must be addressed: 1) What is meant when one talks about the private and public spheres of this time? and 2) What did the romantic salon look like? In order to answer the first question, I examine conceptual categories introduced and discussed by Jurgen Habermas, Oskar Negt, Alexander Kluge and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Reflection upon these theoreticians, combined with socio-historical information about the period, leads me to conclude that the traditional definitions of the public as being that realm in which citizens share common information and experience and the private as the realm associated with domesticity and the family do not readily apply to the society of the Romantic Period. The sharp differentiation between these two spheres is not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A description of the romantic salon makes this observation clear. In this con­versational institution, which was led entirely by women and in which women were very well represented as guests, the private and public spheres merged. Public as well as private communication took place there. In addition, one finds a strong commitment to spontaneous conversation (as compared with the very structured dialogue of the seventeenth-century French salon) and the synthesis of intellect and sensuousness through conversation. This was to provide the individuals as well as the entire atmosphere with a sense of personal freedom, on the one hand, and a feeling of community, on the other. And it was the woman who was believed to be the most successful in realizing this synthesis of public and private, of political and personal concerns. With the swell of the Romantic Movement, which furthered the subjective in response to the extreme rationality of the Enlightenment, she could integrate these so-called female qualities, which were largely the result of her experiences in the private sphere, into her cultural and more public role of salon hostess or guest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, I would then say that the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;lack&lt;/span&gt; of differentiation between the private and public spheres in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries provided an opportunity for bourgeois women to develop their voices for a broader audience. The salons of Caroline Schlegel-Schel1ing, Rahel Varnhagen and Bettina von Arnim represent some of the most important women's voices of the Romantic Period. What they share is the refusal to differentiate between public and private issues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Edith Waldstein&lt;br /&gt;Massachusetts Institute of Technology&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"The Issue of Voicelessness in Grimms' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kinder- und Hausmärchen"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although the themes of silence and retirement from the world permeate German literature, they generally connote the crowning of a life of achievement for male &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Issue of Voicelessness in Grimms' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kinder- und Hausmärchen"&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;characters but a precondition for acceptable behavior for females. Modern feminist critics link language to power, understanding discourse as domination. In Grimms' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tales&lt;/span&gt; silence exists as a narrative element, as in a curse, enchant­ment, or requirement; as an actual silence, measured by the amount of direct speech allotted to each character; and in relationship to the conferral of authority by the introductory words (fragen-antworten-rufen-sagen-sprechen).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The relationship of silence to powerlessness is mediated also by means of associated imagery (hunger, spinning, being bound to the stake). Related per­haps to ancient traditions of female power over nature is the fact that con­juring of natural forces lies exclusively with young and/or beautiful female characters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Select bibliography&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elshtain, Jean Bethke: "Feminist Discourse and Its Discontents 'Language, Power, and Meaning." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt;, Spring 1982, pp. 603-621.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kamuf, Peggy: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fictions of Feminine Desire&lt;/span&gt;. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Landy, Marcia: "The Silent Woman" in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Arleyn Diamond and Lee R. Edwards. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977, p. 16.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Miller, Nancy: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Heroine's Text&lt;/span&gt;. New York: Columbia University, 1980.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ostriker, Alicia: The Thieves of Language: Women Poets and Revisionist Mythmaking." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt;, Autumn 1982, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 68-90.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Ruth B. Bottigheimer&lt;br /&gt;Princeton University&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Augusta Enders Schichanowsky: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Malweib&lt;/span&gt;, Miner, Madwoman"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Little in Augusta Enders Schichanowsky's life (1865-1936) indicated she would lead anything but the typical life of a nineteenth century middle class woman. Born in 1865 in Forchheim, Bavaria, the daughter of an army gunsmith, she attended "Das Institut der Englischen Fräulein" in Kempten from 1876-1881, where she had the subjects usual for girls of the time: religion, biblical history, reading, memory training, female handwork, music, art, and French. Augusta undoubtedly did as other girls of her time and class; she remained at home, maybe dabbled in art and music, and waited for a husband to appear. Alfred Schichanowsky, fourteen years her senior, co-owner of a bookshop, married her in 1884 in Bayreuth and took her to Varel, a small, deeply and narrowly provin­cial town in the heart of East Friesland. If she were seeking more personal freedom than she had known with her parents, it was not to be had in Varel. Her marriage lasted ten years. In 1895, she attempted to get a divorce but had no grounds. Because she refused to return to her husband, he was then granted a divorce and custody of their son. She went to Berlin and earned her living as a portrait painter, a "Malweib." In 1900, she was 35. After hearing and reading&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Augusta Enders Schichanowsky: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Malweib&lt;/span&gt;, Miner, Madwoman" (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;about gold rushes, she must have felt that it was "Nome or never," so she took an inheritance from her mother to finance the long trip to Nome and back. She went to Nome again in 1903 planning to stay, but was arrested, charged with insanity, convicted and sent to a hospital in Oregon, where she stayed until friends sent money for her return to New York. She spent most of the rest of her life in Munich earning her living from her art. She was a woman ahead of her times, wanting to be free of the strictures of her society and class, willing to go to extremes to achieve her goal. She clearly wanted out of the accepted female role of the period but set her goals too high and lacked the endurance and imagination to find one of the few possibilities open to women.&lt;br /&gt;Her desire to settle near Nome was not a rash act, for she obviously had planned her move. She correctly expected frontier society to be freer, more liberal and generous than her own; but she forgot that even adventurers, gold seekers, and camp followers take their society's prejudices and conventions with them. An "eccentric" German artist seeking gold to finance polar exploration was beyond their comprehension and simply had to be insane.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A study of Schichanowsky's life leads one into the little explored topic of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Künstlerinnenvereine&lt;/span&gt; and women's art education at the turn of the century, of women adventurers, and insanity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--V. Joan Moessner &lt;br /&gt;U. Alaska, Fairbanks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Aspects of the 'Maternal Feminine' in Modersohn-Becker, Zille, and Kollwitz"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thesis I: The feminine form, in and for itself, speaks of attitudes, directions, intuitions not to be understood as like or similar to the masculine. Woman, especially in her maternal designation, focuses in meta­physical terms on creativity, essences, and a profound knowing of things perhaps not verbally accessible. Question----► does modern feminism align itself, or discard, or juxtapose its &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;voice&lt;/span&gt; of indepen­dence with this 'maternal feminine'?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thesis II: A number of German artists, creating prior to the modern feminist upsurge, evidence in strong fashion (a) the form of the feminine ". . .von innen her getrieben in die Formen ihres Daseins.", and (b) delineate a tremendous &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;strength&lt;/span&gt; in this form, so much so that the viewer must acknowledge, without overt instruction, the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;voice&lt;/span&gt; of stability, care, creativity, intelligence, and humor, all so apparent as a continuing theme for the artists. Question --- ► was this voice, speaking to issues of feminine strength and independent quality, a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;deliberate&lt;/span&gt; presentation by the artists, or does the viewer, in hindsight, re-interpret the artist and 'hear' a now- pertinent and supportive theme?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Judy Jamieson&lt;br /&gt;Providence College&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday afternoon, October 14&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FINDING A VOICE IN THE PROFESSION. Moderator: Jeannine Blackwell, Michigan State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"On Teaching the German Letter 'G', retitled "Feminist Teaching Strategies"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This talk was intended to cover both anti-sexist and anti-homophobic teaching strategies. Due to the shorter-than-expected format of the session, it focused mainly on feminist teaching strategies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feminist pedagogy has three main elements, at least in its ideal state: a) con­tent about women and sexism, together with other "isms" such as racism, anti­semitism, classism; b) content about homosexuality and homophobia, because homo­phobia is used to reinforce traditional sex roles; c) the creation of a special relationship between teacher and students which makes possible mutual empowering, self disclosure, and valuing of personal experience. This relationship can be promoted in the traditional foreign language classroom by means of the following suggestions: 1) avoidance of political speeches; 2) the use of gestural repre­sentation and role modelling; 3) the taking of risks, for instance in self dis­closure or explaining the process of the course; 4) accepting traditional views in order to avoid teacher-pleasing statements and excessive hostility; 5) exposing students to feminist views based on personal experience where possible, and accepting the reality of the long process involved in consciousness raising; 6) choosing a text which corresponds to the students' language abilities, so that unrealistic expectations do not create oppressive conditions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two valuable articles on teaching about homophobia include Leonore Gordon's "What Do We Say When We Hear 'Faggot'?" (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;interracial Books for Children Bulletin&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. 14, Nos. 3-4) and Elly Bulkin's "Heterosexism and Women's Studies," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Radical Teacher&lt;/span&gt;, November 1980. Gordon describes consciousness raising exercises for elementary and junior high pupils: they are asked to think up labels or put downs for various groups, state how they would feel if they were the recipients of these labels, and comebacks they could use. Bulkin describes the heterosexism in Women's Studies and provides CR guidelines created by a group of interracial lesbians for heterosexual female teachers who wish to deal with their own homo­phobia and heterosexism. I would recommend these guidelines for small group dis­cussions at a future WiG meeting, along with strategies for surviving as a teacher or professor if one deals with homophobia in class.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Marlene Heinemann &lt;br /&gt;U. Wyoming&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Finding a Voice in Germany -- Thoughts on the Hamburg Conference"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meeting of European feminists in Hamburg was very different from WiG in Wisconsin or Boston: it proudly called itself &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;feministisch&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;wissenschaftlich&lt;/span&gt;, where American women scholars tremble at the words. There was a capacity crowd, with people turned away at the doors. Political protests about its location in the Amerika-Haus and aggressive denial of institutional support threatened it from the beginning. Inge Stephan and Sigrid Weigel, the organizers, could call on several years of feminist organizations — Frauenseminare, feminist presses &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Finding a Voice in Germany -- Thoughts on the Hamburg Conference" (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and periodicals, and Frauenuni, as well as Women in German -- as a pool of experience. They learned by doing, as does every feminist activist. The con­ference faced different challenges, because it entered the fray at a later stage in feminism than did WiG: after much theory had been worked through, after the naivete of the early women's movement was replaced with a certain grim cynicism, after there were really feminist "experts."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hierarchy based on "expertise" was a problem in Hamburg; the size of the con­ference (c. 300) forced its division into active speech givers and passive listeners. There was, however, a healthy feminist reaction from the "passive public," as students grouped to voice their complaints. By the last day of the conference there was a productive consensus about continuing the group. The last meeting brought in many participants and volunteers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Issues and opinions&lt;/span&gt;: true or false?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The defensive stance of struggling feminist scholars in Hamburg was more pro­nounced than among American feminist scholars because&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*** in America earlier social movements such as the civil rights movement have cleared some legal and emotional paths for women's participation in academe (Affirmative Action, regulation of tenure decisions, increase in the percentage of women, faster tenure), which is not the case in West Germany.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*** there is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; institutional support in West Germany for feminist scholarship, not even symbolic, superficial, or hypocritical, and therefore it is almost impossible for women scholars to enter the debate, except on the terms of the hierarchical male establishment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*** in America there are already some women in place as role models in academe, who feel a responsibility to support younger women scholars. This is not the case to a great extent in West Germany.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*** the male scholarly tradition in West Germany is more didactically science- oriented, shaped into outline form, and more dominated by the sarcastic put- down than its American counterpart, and thus is harder for women scholars to reject and/or overcome. The sexist agenda in American academe is more subtle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*** the argumentative stance of leftist political discourse in Europe has been passed on to European feminism and is both better and worse than American feminist dialogue: better because it cuts through the hogwash, phrases, and compromises down to real differences and gut feelings, worse because it divides women into camps when it is not necessary, separates the "experts" from the public, and reinforces many women's view of themselves as weak, inarticulate, or constantly wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Jeannine Blackwell &lt;br /&gt;Michigan State U.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bericht&lt;br /&gt;Tagung vom 24. bis 27.5-1983 in Hamburg zum Thema&lt;br /&gt;Feministische Literaturwissenschaft: zum Verhältnis von Frauenbildern und Frauenliteratur&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Zusammenfassung der &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thesen zur Feministischen Wissenschaft&lt;/span&gt;, die von Inge Stephan und Sigrid Weigel, Universität Hamburg, erarbeitet wurden:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) Feministische Wissenschaft wird in der BRD am Rande und ausserhalb der akademischen Institutionen betrieben, sie beruht auf unbezahlter Frauenarbeit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2) Es gibt Inseln femin. Wissenschaft: Es wird dabei Klarheit über die soziale, psychische und kulturelle Lage der Frau in der Geschichte gesucht.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3) An den Universitäten herrscht starker und militanter Antifeminismus. Oft sind etablierte und Erfolgreiche akadem. Frauen die schärfsten Gegnerinnen von Feministinnen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4) Der heutige Stand feministischer Wissenschaft ist wegen mangelnder Institu­tionalisierung und materieller Abhängigkeit der Frauen gefährdet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5) Alternativen, d.h. radikalfeministisehe Lern- und Arbeitsformen werden in der BRD wegen Stellenknappheit und Qualifikationsdruck kaum gewagt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6) Ausseruniversitäre Frauenprojekte stellen für die fem. Wissenschaft einen notwendigen Austausch dar, findet in der BRD doch kaum statt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7) "Frauenthemen" werden oft von Männern als konjunkturverdächtige "Modethemen" übernommen, entschärft und verwaltet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8) Es gibt fast nur "Ausnahmefrauen" (token women) an Institutionen, und unter diesen Frauen gibt es viele Macht- und Autoritätsprobleme.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9) Es besteht eine Angst unter Frauen, ihren eigenen Anteil an ihrer Unter­drückung zu untersuchen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;10) Frauen neigen dazu, sich zu unterfordern, sich zu schnell zufrieden zu geben.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;11) Jedoch hat man grosse Fortschritte in der Rekonstruktion weiblicher Kultur­geschichte und in Bezug auf die Ursachen und Funktionsweisen des Patriarchats gemacht.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;12) Noch unterentwickelt sind: feministische Methoden, Arbeitsweisen, Skepsis gegenüber Quellen und Deutungen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;13) Abträgig ist die Abhängigkeit der feministischen Wissenschaft von Markt­gesetzen, Verlagswesen und strukturellen Zensurmassnahmen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;14) Auswege sind lediglich in Ansätzen vorhanden (z.B. Teamarbeit, kollektive inner- und ausseruniversitäre Forschungs- und Lernprojekte, Organisation von Frauen auf fachspezifischer Ebene).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Helga Kraft&lt;br /&gt;U. Florida, Gainesville&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Eindrücke über die Konferenz "Feministische Literaturwissenschaft"&lt;br /&gt;in Hamburg."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Bedeutung der Konferenz für Germanistinnen in Deutschland kann nicht über­schätzt werden. Es wurde eine grosse Anzahl von Arbeiten vorgelegt, die entweder vorgetragen oder in kleineren Gruppen diskutiert wurden. Das Panorama reichte&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Eindrücke über die Konferenz . . ." (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;von feministischer Aesthetik über Cinematographik bis zu der Untersuchung von Frauenrollen in der Literatur. Der Beobachterin aus den USA konnte Folgendes auffallen: Hatte die Konferenz traditionell begonnen wie mancher Germanisten­kongress, so wurde sie langsam "revolutionär" unterwandert. Gruppen, die üblicherweise in Deutschland wenig zu Wort kommen, meldeten ihre Interessen an, so die Studentinnen, die gegen Ende gegen ihre auferlegte und verinner­lichte Sprachlosigkeit protestierten. Die Diskussionen zwischen den Sitzungen waren ebenso interessant wie die während derselben. Die Soziologie der deutschen Germanistinnen wurde sichtbar: wenige fest Angestellte, kaum im Hochschuldienst; viele Studentinnen, die studieren trotz schlechter Berufs­aussichten; Arbeitslose. Prominente Germanistinnen fehlten z.T. auf der Konferenz, Indiz für die noch immer defensive Rolle, die Feministinnen einzu­nehmen gezwungen sind. Daher auch der in Inhalt und Stil offensichtliche Drang, sich zu 1 egitimisieren, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;auch&lt;/span&gt; Wissenschaft zu betreiben, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;selbst&lt;/span&gt; unter feministischem Vorzeichen. Die defensive Einstellung dem eigenen Tun gegenüber führte oft zu einer Imitation der traditionellen, patriarchalisch strukturierten und männlich beherrschten Germanistik und ihrem Gestus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Letzteres war sicherlich nicht zuletzt der Grund, weshalb wiederholt diskutiert wurde, was eine feministische Literaturwissenschaft leisten könne, ob es sie überhaupt gebe--ob Germanistik an sich mit ihren herkömmlichen Prämissen unter die Wissenschaften zu rechnen zu sei. Die Konferenz eröffnete die Diskussion unter Germanistinnen in Deutschland. Hoffentlich wird sie fortgesetzt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Dagmar Lorenz &lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Thoughts on the Hamburg Conference: Language, Feminism and Scholarship"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To begin to clarify the relationship between feminism and scholarship, the con­cept "feminist criticism" and the use of traditional research methods for feminists, I proposed that we consider the implications of how we name ourselves and what we do. When we defend our feminist work as "scholarly," are we somehow claiming to be both feminist and "objective" at the same time? Are we impli­citly denying or minimizing the importance of our feminist ideology for radically transforming scholarship?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My observations from the Hamburg conference concerned the forms in which scholarly work is presented and discussed, and how these forms reproduce structures that divide us and/or divert our attention from the questions most important to us as feminists. The reading of lengthy prepared texts reproduces the active/ passive, expert/layperson split of traditional scholarship; argumentation tech­niques for defending or "proving" one's own thesis often force an unproductive either/or polarization of ideas and people. Some examples are: 1) reducing other people's conclusions to one (or a few) common denominator(s), rather than acknowledging and exploring difference and complexity; 2) separating theory and experience, presenting theory as more "important" than experience, rather than seeing experience as a valid basis for analysis and criticism; 3) dis­guising disagreement or lack of knowledge as something else (often as a concern for "method"), rather than acknowledging personal and political grounds for disagreement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Thoughts on the Hamburg Conference: . . ." (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Questions I proposed for group reflection and distussion were: How can we discuss strongly-felt differences without creating hostility? What interaction patterns are available to us for this, what is the role of language (technical, scholarly, conversational, etc.)? How can we achieve the often-stated feminist goal of allowing theory to emerge from practice? What do we think theory is? How would our perspective on our work, and on ourselves, change if we called what we do "feminism" rather than "scholarship"?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Jeanette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Ed. note: A summary of Irmgard Taylor's excellent discussion of public speaking, also presented in the session on "Finding a Voice," wasn't available in time for this newsletter.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday evening, October 14&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Rape -- Deny It a Future: A New Approach to Rape Prevention Education"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Outline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
I. Definitions of rape and sexual assault/sexua1 violence:&lt;br /&gt;1. social&lt;br /&gt;2. legal&lt;br /&gt;a. scope and extent&lt;br /&gt;3. from a victim's/survivor's perspective&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. Solutions (?)&lt;br /&gt;1. causes&lt;br /&gt;2. prevention models&lt;br /&gt;a. primary: elimination of causes&lt;br /&gt;b. secondary: protection/avoidance vs. empowerment/education&lt;br /&gt;3. tertiary: service and rehabi1itation/punishment &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. Main points:&lt;br /&gt;1. The issue of sexual violence is huge and complex.&lt;br /&gt;2. There is no direct connection between the motivation for sexual desire and sexual violence, but a connection between sexuality (as widely understood and practiced in our culture) and power (misuse of power) seems to be evident. We need to re-think the slogan of the early anti­rape movement: "Rape is violence - not sex" (as if the two have nothing in common).&lt;br /&gt;3. Because of 1., there are no easy, fast solutions.&lt;br /&gt;4. Women cannot prevent (in the sense of primary prevention) rape and sexual assault. "We can't prevent it since we are not doing it."&lt;br /&gt;5. Traditional rape prevention strategies (avoidance/protection model) can do more harm than good.&lt;br /&gt;6. A feminist empowerment model has a chance of changing our rape-prone culture into a rape-free society - but also encounters the greatest res¡stance.&lt;br /&gt;7. Rape Prevention Education belongs in the academic curriculum of universities &lt;br /&gt;--Almut R. Poole&lt;br /&gt;Los Angeles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday morning, October 15&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FICTION, FANTASY AND FREEDOM: TESTING THE LIMITS IN POST-WAR LITERATURE. Moderator: Barbara D. Wright, U. Connecticut.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Fantasy as a Weapon: Irmtraud Morgner's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda: Ein Hexenroman"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmtraud Morgner's humor and optimism have darkened in the past decade, however, her fantasy has developed. In &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda: Ein Hexenroman&lt;/span&gt; she has honed this unique fantasy and turned it into a literary weapon—wielded to help bring about radi­cal change in the trajectory of history. She presents her strategies in powerful, carefully worked out metaphor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Sheila Johnson&lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Grenz(über)gänge (Transgressions)"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christa Reinig's recent texts--her novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Entmannung&lt;/span&gt; (1976), her collection of short stories and essays, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der Wolf &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Witwen&lt;/span&gt; (1979), and her poetry cycle, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Müssiggang ist aller Liebe~Anfang&lt;/span&gt; (1979)—are written from a conscious and explicit feminist perspective. The questions they raise are basic: why are women oppressed and, above all, what are we going to do about it? All three texts set out from two premises: 1. that radical change is necessary, and 2. that it is possible. The prose texts are written from the perspective of a woman living and writing in a world controlled and ruled by men. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Müssiggang&lt;/span&gt;, on the other hand, a set of 365 poems which record, in calendar form, the daily events in one year of the poet's life with her woman lover, is written from a "gynocentric" perspective. The shift in tone and mode of these texts, from the aggressive satire of the fictional voice to the lyrical simplicity and vulner­ability of the poetic voice, reflects this shift in perspective. Seen together, they represent different attempts to create a space in which women can begin to become what we have the potential to be by going beyond the boundaries of what has been declared doable, thinkable, or even imaginable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Observing the ubiquitous daily violence against women, Reinig concludes that the oppression of women at the hands of men can have only one logical explana­tion: they must, she argues, be different species. The female, she suggests, comes from the Cromagnon people, while the male is genetically Neanderthal.&lt;br /&gt;The historical struggle between them, she concludes, is the struggle for survival of two similar, but essentially different species in competition for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lebensraum &lt;/span&gt;for themselves and their offspring. On the basis of these premises, Reinig proceeds to develop her vision, at once tongue-in-cheek satirical and grimly serious, of ultimate and deadly warfare between the sexes. In a war against opponents who will destroy us if we do not destroy them first, she insists, we must confront the need for violence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the context of a "New Femininity" within the German women's movement, Reinig's reminder that liberation is a power struggle with very real dangers and tangible consequences rather than a celebration of who we already are, is particularly important. However, her species argument is also quite problematic. For since it can too easily be misunderstood as mere ahistorical essentialism, it has a&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Grenz(über)gänge (Transgressions)” (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;dangerous reactionary potential. Of course, the satiric mode in which her argument is case defies us to take her “solution” seriously. By using satire to radically defamiliarize established ways of thinking about what has been and might yet be possible, she challenges us to rethink the analyses oh history and strategies for change that have thus far formed the basis for feminist theory and practice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Satire, however, is a difficult weapon to weild effectively; it is not altogether safe, for it cuts two ways. Continuously transgressing the boundaries between the serious and the fantastic, deliberately blurring the distinction between what is said and what is meant, it leaves us—-readers--to think our own way through the problems raised in and by the texts. In contrast to other contemporary German feminist writers who provide their women readers with comforting, and comfortable, “Identifikationsliteratur,” Reinig refuses to do the thinking for us. She aims to provoke and disturb and that she does. What conclusions we come to, and what we decide to do about it, she leaves up to us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; --Angelika Bammer&lt;br /&gt;Vanderbilt U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Roth and the ‘Hapsburg Myth’”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An important aspect of Ingeborg Bachmann’s prose fiction that has not been the focus of the recent excellent feminist criticism devoted to her work is its place within and its reaction to the mainstream of Austrian literature. Given the convincing claims for her exemplary anticipation of feminist issues and concerns, her apparent attraction to conservative tendencies within the Austrian literary tradition, manifestations of the so-called "Hapsburg Myth," demands scrutiny and explanation. This crucial matter can be examined in nuce in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Drei Wege zum See&lt;/span&gt;, the story that concludes the volume &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Simultan&lt;/span&gt;. This narrative ostensibly describes a homecoming. Elisabeth Matrei, a successful photojournal ist, returns to Klagenfurt for a visit with her father. Yet during her brief stay her thoughts consistently return to a man she knew twenty years earlier: Franz Joseph Eugen Trotta. Trotta, as his name suggests, cannot be understood fully on the primary fictional level of the text. His origins lie in another fiction, in Joseph Roth's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Kapuzinergruft&lt;/span&gt;, where he is mentioned briefly as the young son of the protagonist. By continuing the biography of this character and giving him a crucial role in the life of her heroine, Bachmann is not indulging in the Hapsburg nostalgia that permeates Roth's novel. Instead, her literary borrowing follows a more unconventional path and establishes dialogues on several levels of the text, dialogues between men and women, between tradition and innovation, between exile and home, and between literary history and personal history.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;--Leo A. Lensing&lt;br /&gt;Wesleyan University&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing: WARUM STEHT DIES ALLES NICHT&lt;br /&gt;AUF UNSEREM LEHRPLAN?!]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-17-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WîG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Negation und Utopie in Christa Wolfs &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort. Nirgends"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In my analysis of the narrative technique in Christa Wolf's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort. Nirgends&lt;/span&gt;, I come to the conclusion that the voices of the characters and that of the narrator tend to converge and merge when social issues (e.g. the individual's alienation from society, the idea of progress) are being discussed. The text voices which alternate in presenting, modifying and This stylistic organization fulfills two purposes: address, indirectly, the issue of the individual's reduction to a function within the whole of society, and it suggests a new model of communication which the narrative presents as a utopistic alternative to existing rigid patterns of interaction.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Sigrun D. Leonhard&lt;br /&gt;Carleton Col 1ege&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Barbara Frischmuth"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Einbildungskraft hat von vornherein in Frischmuths Werken eine wichtige Stelle eingenommen. Freilich hat sich im Laufe der Zeit die Rolle und Funktion der Imagination in Frischmuths Fiktion verändert. In ihren früheren Werken findet der imaginative Prozess in der Protagonistin selbst statt und ist oft nur eine Flucht vor der Wirklichkeit. Später finden wir eine kreative Imagination, die von der Erzählerin ausgeht, aber auch in verschiedenen Charakteren lokalisiert ist. Alltagsleben, Phantasie, das Übernatürliche, Intellekt, und utopische Vision werden auf diese Weise vereint. Diese Einbildungskraft hat sowohl einen visionären Charakter wie einen gesellschaftskritischen, indem sie die gedank­lichen Normen der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft angreift und ihre intellektuellen Äußerungen infrage stellt. Es ist eine befreiende und emanzipierende Imagina­tion. Während die Welt des Mannes krank und abgewirtschaftet erscheint, sind Kinder und Frauen Träger dieser kreativen Einbildungskraft.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Dagmar Lorenz &lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday morning, October 16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Lost Voices - New Voices:&lt;br /&gt;Women's Popular Literature and the Literary Canon."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderators: Resa Dudovitz (U. Illinois) and Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby College) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this session we posed four questions:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) What need does popular literature fill?&lt;br /&gt;2) What are the ideological functions of women's popular&lt;br /&gt;3) What are the relationships between popular literature and the "canon" &lt;br /&gt;4) Why have scholars been reluctant to look seriously at women's literature, past and present?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the discussion we considered the fact that this literature composes the vast bulk of what is read, by anyone who reads at all, including ourselves. It provides an extremely important example of the social function of culture,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Lost Voices - New Voices: . . ." (continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;providing models of behavior for both sexes and reinforcing conservative social values. We discussed the need for us, both as feminists and as scholars, of understanding what this literature is and what it does as a first step toward reevaluating and reconstructing models of women in society.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Dorothy Rosenberg &lt;br /&gt;Colby College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday morning, October 16&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concluding session, "Viele Stimmen," chaired by Edith Waldstein (M.l.T.) and Barbara D. Wright (U. Connecticut).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started out with an outline of what Edie and I had identified as major themes of the conference: the public/private split and a variety of ways that values from the private sphere can be introduced into the public sphere; speech, silence and the difficulty that women can have finding a voice, particularly in the pub­lic sphere; anger, our discomfort and embarrassment with anger, and the necessity to transform anger from a paralyzing and destructive force into a positive one, especially in self-defense, in our institutions, and in our politics, particularly the peace movement; and the potential both of tradition and fantasy to provide liberating alternatives. ... I said that we had perhaps avoided some "unspeakable" topics at this conference . . . and I suggested we not get too comfortable in our treatment of the themes and issues the conference had raised.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When we opened the session to discussion, talk immediately turned from the specific themes I had raised to our process. [Some] argued that we had gotten too formal, too much like MLA . . . [while others] argued that the conference could &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;also&lt;/span&gt; provide practice for MLA-style sessions in a supportive atmosphere while allowing for dialogue and informal exchanges, too. . . . [Speaking the unspeakable] happened for us this year when we began to confess to one another, at the very end, that many of us felt like "outsiders" despite years of member­ship or even positions on the steering committee. . . . One of the things I tried to start discussion on was just what we mean by "feminism". . . . We do have a responsibility ... to provoke, confront, raise uncomfortable questions.&lt;br /&gt;We have a responsibility to keep the endeavor political. I don't know that it's just a question of scheduling more small groups, though. ... I think small group discussions can be just as useless as big formal lectures, if people in the group aren't working together or don't know what is expected of them.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe what we need is to get someone with experience to do consciousness-raising exercises with us . . . small groups, but with structure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Barbara Wright &lt;br /&gt;U. Connecticut&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of the "Viele Stimmen" discussion:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This session provided a forum for WiG members to express diverging perceptions and experiences. Concerns voiced were:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of the "Viele Stimmen" discussion: (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
1. The structure and content of the October conference, and of WiG as an organization:&lt;br /&gt;--concern about WiG's possible "bourgeoisification;" concern that WiG not become simply a "credentialing organization" where one gives/publishes (yearbook) papers, as in many other forums;&lt;br /&gt;--focus on WiG as a feminist organization; concern about attempts to avoid using the patriarchal model of having longish papers delivered from a podium, and then lacking time for a small-group interchange with a rotating chair; showing respect for each other by respecting WiG deadlines (supporting session chairs). (Ed. note: hear, hear!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Tensions within WiG&lt;br /&gt;--the way in which WiG members feel pressure because they perceive themselves as outsiders or insiders, or think they are so perceived; the degree to which it can be difficult to join a meeting in which most people appear to know each other already;&lt;br /&gt;--the concern participants may feel as to whether their feminism is "correct" enough when they speak;&lt;br /&gt;--tensions arising from differing perceptions of WiG's "mission," with some members committed to specific political positions and a desire to transform not only WiG and the profession, but the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Concern that we not silence the voices addressing homophobia, classism, racism, antisemitism and the voice of anger.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Out of this passionate and deeply honest discussion grew the proposal to devote the Thursday evening session of WiG 1984 to the question "What do we want WiG to be?" (chaired by Dorothy Rosenberg and Gail Newman), perhaps opening with a panel whose members address the question of what WiG means to them. The hope is that people will speak about personal and emotional issues, perhaps intro­ducing subjects on which they feel vulnerable; and that this (potentially) difficult session will have a liberating and unifying effect--on the order of the session "Viele Stimmen."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At WiG 1984 several people will meet at meals with people arriving during the conference to fill them in on what has happened prior to their arrival. We hope in this way to overcome tension based on how often one has attended WiG or on when one arrives at the conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Evaluation: The final "wrap-up" session is, I believe, an absolutely vital forum for evaluating the conference and sharing both emotional and intellectual concerns regarding WiG and our individual relationship to it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Bunny Weiss Vassar College&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing: Oh, Frau, ob die mich wohl mitmachen lassen?]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-20-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A comment on WiG 1983 by a "first-timer" . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thoughts on my first WIG conference&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As a graduate student whose financial situation made attending previous con­ferences impossible and having had only different versions of "the great WIG myth" to go on, I'd like to share my impressions on what it was like to finally be there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In general, I was not at all disappointed: I can say without qualification that this is the only conference I ever attended which provided a space in which I felt totally comfortable and which revitalized me instead of draining me of all resources.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I found the papers given in the Saturday morning session especially stimulating-- it made me feel that we are all pulling in the same direction, even if we can't put our finger on exactly what we're doing (theory ???) . After this session I did however wish for more discussion on the issues raised in the papers. I appropriated this space for myself by talking to Angelika and Sheila &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;privately &lt;/span&gt;since the public space was not appropriate (for me), though I would have liked to open our exchange to others. It was explicitly this point which was a basic problem for me throughout: expanding the borders of private discussions, i.e. integrating the private and the public into the space &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;inbetween&lt;/span&gt;. Perhaps this could be found by determining small interest groups in the general discussion and breaking up into these afterwards. Counting off by numbers did not seem to sufficiently meet everyone's needs. I would encourage us to look for this space inbetween at next year's conference, to leave some room for improvisation, though it will be especially difficult since our agenda is already crowded with so many exciting topics, to which we can hardly do justice in the time allotted.&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if less wouldn't give us more space inbetween.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Having experienced the frustrating pitfalls of large conferences whose very size gives way to hierarchical structures, I also want to make a case for watching for the danger signals of potential domination as WIG increases in size, which would split us into "they" (presenters/organizers/guest authors) and the passive masses. Even a rotating "they" is not something to be desired. Now that we know about the process of getting there, maybe we should devote some time to thinking about where we &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;want&lt;/span&gt; to go, without getting bogged down in the nostalgia of "the way we were".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Gerlinde Geiger&lt;br /&gt;Smith College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And a thank-you from Patsy:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On behalf of the Schoenhof's Foreign Books staff, I would like to thank you all for your interest, enthusiasm, encouragement and--yes, of course--your business. We hope that the information we bring you as well as the new titles we display are helpful to you and your students. Special thanks must be extended to Joey and Edith this year for the smoothness with which everything was organized and run. We look forward to attending future WIG conferences. Meanwhile, please let us know if we can serve you,your bookstores and your libraries better or more efficiently. See you all next year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Patsy Baudoin, Schoenhof's Foreign Books&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-21-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of WiG business and planning meeting&lt;br /&gt;Saturday afternoon, October 16&lt;br /&gt;Meeting chaired by Jeannine Blackwell&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Report from the WiG Yearbook co-editors&lt;/span&gt;. Marianne Burkhard and Edith Waldstein received 14 papers for the 1982 yearbook. They rejected three, based on reports by referees who are WiG members and their own judgement.&lt;br /&gt;Four of the papers were still out at the time of the October conference. The manuscripts will be sent to the University Press of America by the end of the year. For this first volume, the contributors will bear the cost of preparing the camera-ready manuscript.
&lt;p&gt;After discussion of how the yearbook might be done in the future, we agreed on the following: 1) to open the yearbook up to submissions from the WiG membership at large as well as to papers presented at WiG sessions, since mem­bers doing important feminist work might not be able to attend conferences; 2) to keep the topic open (rather than to announce a special focus or theme) so as not to limit ourselves for the present; 3) to make a policy of asking the guest authors if they want to contribute something to the yearbook (a short text, or an account of their experience at WiG); 4) Marianne and Edie will continue as co-editors for at least two years, so there will be conti­nuity. The deadline for receipt of manuscripts for the 1983 volume is 1 February 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Report on the syllabi project&lt;/span&gt; (Sidonie Cassirer and Bunny Weiss). Bunny reported that they had sent out about 650 letters to WiG members and MLA-listed Women's Studies programs requesting contributions to the syllabi booklet.&lt;br /&gt;They received financial support for the mailing and printing, etc. from Hamil­ton College and the Kirkland Endowment (a fund which supports projects for women's education).
&lt;p&gt;It was agreed that everyone who picked up their syllabi booklets during the conference would pay $1.00. It was also agreed that the booklets would be sent to all other WiG members without charge; and that non-members would be asked to pay $2.00 to cover postage (first class) and handling to receive the booklet. Women's Studies programs are to be notified by postcard that the booklet is available, and announcements should be placed in appropriate journals and news­letters. (N.B.: we already did this--Erin, Connie and Jeanette). Also, the booklet should be shown at other conferences (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt; can do this--and we hope you will!).&lt;/p&gt;
3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Finances&lt;/span&gt;. Jeanette Clausen gave a financial report, the gist of which was that while we are taking in more money than last year, we are also spending more. We are doing &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; mailings (in 1983: textbook reviews and syllabi in addition to 3 newsletter issues, plus a set of calls for papers in January). Newsletters keep getting longer and hence more expensive to duplicate and mail. Also, WiG had to pay for Barbara Frischmuth's overseas flight (the Austrian Institute paid her travel within the US), and we will almost certainly have to pay for one plane ticket next year, possibly two. And, money is needed to support special projects. A request from Marianne Burkhard for about $150.00 to pay a student assistant to help finish her project for WiG, a statistical report on women in rank in 120 German departments from 1965 on, was approved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-22-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WîG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of WiG business and planning meeting (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After considerable discussion, those present voted to approve a new dues structure &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;to take effect January 1, 1983.&lt;/span&gt; Note that this new structure represents an in­crease only for those earning higher salaries, not for students, the unemployed, or the severely under-employed. It is comparable to the dues structure of WCML, also an allied organization of the MLA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Category &lt;/span&gt;                &lt;br /&gt;A student, unemployed&lt;br /&gt;B annual salary $10,000. to 15,000.&lt;br /&gt;C                     $15,001. to 20,000.&lt;br /&gt;D                     $20,001. to 25,000.&lt;br /&gt;E                     $25,001. and up&lt;br /&gt;F supporting individuals&lt;br /&gt;G supporting departments --$25.00 per year&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For one year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$3.00&lt;br /&gt;7.00&lt;br /&gt;10.00&lt;br /&gt;13.00&lt;br /&gt;16.00&lt;br /&gt;20.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For two years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$ 5.00&lt;br /&gt;12.00&lt;br /&gt;15.00&lt;br /&gt;20.00&lt;br /&gt;25.00&lt;br /&gt;35.00&lt;/p&gt;
5. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Location of the 1984 conference&lt;/span&gt;. It was agreed that the WiG 1984 conference will be held in Boston once again, reasons being the horrendous increase in cost to bring &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;two&lt;/span&gt; authors to the west coast, and the necessity of first finding a team of 3-4 people in the west who are able and willing to take on the task of organ­izing the conference. Efforts will be made to find such people. Charlotte Smith agreed to consult other WiG members in the Washington/Oregon area, and we will ask Kathryn Strachota at Stanford about possibilities in that area.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edie Waldstein (M.l.T.) will again serve as general coordinator of the WiG con­ference. Judy Jamieson (Providence College) will coordinate registration and arrangements with the conference center on Thompson Island. The conference date was also discussed; and we agreed on the first weekend after October 15 of each year (to get lower plane fares available after Oct. 15). So, the dates of the next conference are October 18-21, 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
6. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Election of new steering committee members&lt;/span&gt;. (Outgoing members are Martha Wallach and Marianne Burkhard). Nominated were: Angelika Bammer, Marianne Burkhard, Sandy Frieden, Dorothy Rosenberg, Edith Waldstein. Ballots were dis­tributed to everyone present. The two members elected are Sandy Frieden (U. Houston) and Edith Waldstein (M.l.T.). Karen Achberger (St. Olaf College) was appointed Director of Membership in recognition of the excellent work she's done in getting new WiG members and to encourage her to keep on doing this. Concerning specific positions on the steering committee, Barbara Wright (U. Connecticut) will be the new coordinator of textbook reviewing, and Sandy Frieden (U. Houston) will take over the position of fund-raising coordinator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-23-&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of WiG business and planning meeting (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
7. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Topics for WiG 1984&lt;/span&gt;. Many topics were suggested and there was much discussion, which I can't do justice to in a report. Here are the topics as agreed on during the meeting, bzw. as adjusted during the Sunday morning session.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thursday, Oct. 18: "What do feminist Germanists want (or need)?" What do we want WiG to be? Coord. Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.) and Gail Newman (Williams Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday morning, Oct. 19: Women and Humor. Coord. Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.) and Sheila Johnson (OSU).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday afternoon, Oct. 19: Feminist Pedagogy, to focus on three areas: the teaching of language, the teaching of literature, and the teaching of film.&lt;br /&gt;Coord. Marlene Heinemann (U. Wyoming) and Joan Moessner (U. Alaska).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday evening, Oct. 19: Helga Schütz, reading and discussion. Coord. Pat Herminghouse (Rochester U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday morning, Oct. 20: Witches and Wise Women. Coord. Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State), Patsy Baudoin (Schoenhof&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;s), and Jeanette Clausen (IPFW).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday afternoon, Oct. 20: Business and Planning Meeting, starring the WiG steering committee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday evening, Oct. 20: Irmtraud Morgner, reading and discussion. Coord. Christiane Zehl Romero (Tufts U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday morning, Oct. 21: concluding session, still untitled. Coord. Sandy Frieden (U. Houston) and Margaret Ward (Wellesley Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was also discussion of what we should do if one or both of our GDR guests should be unable to come to the conference. Sandy Frieden agreed to be respon­sible for finding a film to show on one of the evenings if this should be the case.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Ed. note: The issue of an evening's entertainment wasn't discussed at the busi­ness meeting, but some of us had fun thinking of possibi1ities--having a Hexen­sabbat, for example, or maybe a witch trial in reverse (the witches interrogate the inquisitors), or having people show up in costume, representing their favorite German "wise woman." If you have ideas for an entertaining evening, keep it in mind, or tell someone, or something--no need to be formal about it, just imagina­tive.) .&lt;/p&gt;
8. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA and AATG 1984&lt;/span&gt;. We ran out of time during this discussion, so Barbara and Joey quickly drew up a ballot listing all the topics that had been suggested; these were distributed Saturday evening and the results announced on Sunday morning. They are:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG 1984&lt;/span&gt;, to be held in Chicago. 1. Pedagogical session on German film. No coordinators yet. Kathryn Strachota's name was volunteered, but she wasn't present so this is not definite. 2. Literary session on women and peace. Irmgard Taylor (SUNY, Cortland) volunteered as coordinator; a second coordinator is still to be found.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;-24-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of WiG business and planning meeting (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA 1984&lt;/span&gt;, to be held in Washington, D.C. 1. "Remaking Myth," coord. Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.) and Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.); and 2. "Appropriating Faust," coord. Gerlinde Geiger (Smith Coll.) and Konstanze Bäumer (Syracuse U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That's about it. Grateful thanks to Jeannine for chairing this marathon, and to Barbara, Joey, and others for quick thinking to solve problems when we ran out of time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At various points during the conference, people objected to having the business meeting on Saturday afternoon--some felt bummed out by having to shift gears from thinking about literature and feminist criticism in the morning to trying to make decisions under pressure of time in the afternoon. Most of us felt that we can't have the business meeting earlier than Saturday afternoon, because our decisions about the following year grow out of what happens during the current year's conference. And most agree that having the business meeting on Sunday morning isn't good either, because (a) we're even &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; pressed for time, and (b) too many people are unable to stay for all of Sunday morning. Unlösbares Problem? Habt ihr eine Meinung?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--summary and editorial commentary&lt;br /&gt;by Jeanette Clausen, IPFW&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[image: Frau überläßt die Privatsphäre dem Mann.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-25-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1984&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thursday evening, October 18&lt;br /&gt;Opening session&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"What do Feminist Germanists Want (or Need)?" Coord. Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.) and Gail Newman (Williams Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What directions should WiG be going in? We would like to solicit papers from specifically lesbian, gay, jewish and other perspectives reflecting the diversity of WiG's constituency. After a panel presentation, panel participants (and others ) will act as coordinators for small group discussion of all the issues raised at the first evening's session. They will continue to be available at mealtimes on Friday and Saturday to welcome new arrivals and all others who wish to continue the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hope to use this structure to help bring out the issues which divide us and which unite us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Send proposals or inquiries to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Gail Newman, Dept. of German, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267 &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Dorothy Rosenberg, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday morning, October 20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Witches and Wise Women." Coord. Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.), Patsy Baudoin (Schoenhof's Foreign Books) and Jeanette Clausen (IPFW).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We haven't formulated a call for papers yet, but are still mulling over ideas, and would welcome any suggestions you have. Perspectives from other disciplines, especially history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and religion would be appropriate, as well as literary treatments of witches, women healers, midwives, and other "wise women." For those who would like to do some background reading we suggest the following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara Ehren re ich and De id re English, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Witches, Midwives and Nurses. A History of Women Healers&lt;/span&gt;, 2nd ed. (The Feminist Press, 1972).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Becker, Bovenschen, Brackert et al. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aus der Zeit der Verzweiflung. Zur Genese und Aktualität des Hexenbildes&lt;/span&gt; (edit ion suhrkamp 840).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Calls for papers for all the WiG 198A sessions will be announced at a later date.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wohlgemerkt&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Philosophen haben die Welt bisher nur männlich interpretiert. Es kommt aber darauf an, sie auch weiblich zu interpretieren, um sie menschlich verändern zu können. --Irmtraud Morgner (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda&lt;/span&gt;, 1983). (quote sent by Gisela Brude-Firnau, U. Waterloo).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-26-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tenth New Hampshire Symposium&lt;br /&gt;on the German Democratic Republic&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;June 22-29, 1984&lt;br /&gt;World Fellowship Center&lt;br /&gt;Conway, N.H.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The 1984 New Hampshire Symposium on the GDR has been scheduled for the week of June 22-29. As in the past years, thg Sym­posium will be interdisciplinary in approach. Economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, etc., as well as Germanists are invited to participate. Papers are being solicited for the following seminars:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR I: Economic, Social, and Political Issues in the GDR - Christiane Lemke, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 5 Bryant St., Cambridge, MA 02138; Arthur A. Stahnke, Zentralinstitut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, FU Berlin, Babelsbergerstr. 14-16, D-1000 Berlin 31.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR II: East-West Relations - Volker Gransow, Fachbereich II, Universität Bielefeld, D-4800 Bielefeld.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR III: The Function of the Arts and Media in GDR Society Duncan Smith, (Literature, Music, Art, Film, etc.) - Dept. of German, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR IV: Popular Culture in the GDR - Wolfgang Buscher, Yorckstr. 84A, D-1000 Berlin 61.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR V: Language and Linguistics in the GDR - H. Jochen Hoffmann, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 11 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; James Copeland, Dept. of Linguistics and Semiotics, [redacted] Rice University, Houston, TX 77251.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR VI: Translation (of GDR writings into other languages, of non-GDR writings into German in the GDR) - Fritz H. König, Dept. of Modern Languages, Univ. of No. Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50613.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR VII: Cultural Heritage and Tradition in the GDR: Art, Architecture, Literature, Music, Restoration - Nancy A. Lauckner, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916; James Knowlton, Dept. of German, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J. 08102.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR VIII: Lyric Poetry in the GDR - Christine Cosentino, Dept. of German, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J. 08102; Wolfgang Ertl, Dept. of German, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR IX: The Writer/Artist as Subject in GDR Literature - Wolfgang Muller, Dept. of German, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 17013.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR X: GDR Writers Living in the West: An Update - Margy Gerber, Munchenerstr. 9, D-1000 Berlin 30.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR XI: Recent Developments in GDR Literature and Aesthetic Theory - Christiane Zehl Romero, Dept. of German and Russian, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;SEMINAR XII: The State of the Art: Trends and Developments in the Study of the GDR - Joan E. Holmes, Soviet and East European Studies, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Proposals of topics not fitting into one of the above seminars are welcome and should be submitted to Margy Gerber (See Seminar X above).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Detailed proposals (title plus 2-3 pages) should be submitted to the appropriate seminar organizer(s) — in case of co-organizers, two copies — by Feb. 1, 1984; completed papers must be submitted no later than April 15. Papers should not exceed 30 minutes; the preferred language is English. Selected papers from the Symposium will be published in the series &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Studies in GDR Culture and Society.&lt;/span&gt; For more information on the Symposium, contact IV. Christoph Schmauch, World Fellowship Center, Conway, NH 03818 telephone&lt;/i&gt; [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Registration fee, Room and Board for the whole week, all-inclusive: $180&lt;br /&gt;(This fee includes a $10 charge for a GDR participant's travel fund.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(In order to encourage attendance for the duration of the Symposium, part-time participants will be charged a $20 registration fee, and $30 daily rate, which includes 3 meals and an overnight.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Children under 12: $80 for the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Students to age 21: $100 for the week.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FORUM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(The Women in German textbook reviews were sent out in May to all WiG members, and to the publishers and authors of the texts reviewed. The following letter from Renate Schulz is the only response from a textbook author received so far. Professor Schulz' letter is printed in full, followed by Dagmar Lorenz' reply.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was happy to see the recent efforts of WIG (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; Reviews of Selected Elementary and Intermediate Textbooks, April 11, 1983), reviewing selected instructional materials from a feminist perspective. Such reviews can indeed be helpful in sensitizing teachers, publishers, and textbook authors to recognize and avoid overt and covert sexism as well as class and age stereo­typing in pedagogical texts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As an author of one of the texts reviewed, I realize that any comment I make might be suspect. I feel nevertheless obligated to respond to Dagmar C. G. Lorenz' review of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, lachen, lernen&lt;/span&gt; (pp. 8-10 in your "Reviews"), since several inaccuracies and outright misrepresentations in the review lead me to suspect the objectivity of the reviewer. I hope you will find room for this letter in one of the future WIG publications.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just for the record, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, lachen, lernen&lt;/span&gt; is a supplementary &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;reader&lt;/span&gt; with communicative exercises for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;elementary high school&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;col 1ege&lt;/span&gt; instruction. The book contains no &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Grammatik-Sektionen&lt;/span&gt;, as implied by Professor Lorenz (p. 9).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The reviewer has done an exemplary job of selectively citing those examples which met her apparently predetermined purpose. For instance, we are told that the first illustrations depict seven males vs. three females. We are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not &lt;/span&gt;told that the cover page shows two females vs. one male, nor that other intro­ductory illustrations (appearing before those singled out for criticism) show six females vs. four males. Nor are we informed that none of the illustrations show women in what could be termed traditionally stereotypical roles. Unfortu­nately, some of the photos depict all-male groups, since the "Astronauten­kandidaten" of the BRD are all males (p. 69), as are most of the famous names associated with intellectual or artistic movements of the Weimar Republic (pp. 199-200).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The statement that "in den Übungen finden sich männliche Elemente gegenüber weiblichen in einem Verhältnis 4:1" is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; true. By what mathematical formula did Professor Lorenz calculate the ratio cited?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The text is criticized for listing only leisure time activities for the rich, e.g., "Ich mache gern Ferien in Kanada" (p. 11). Professor Lorenz does not mention that the same exercise (p. 11) gives the options of "Ich mache gern zu Hause / weit von der Autobahn / im Wald, etc. Ferien." Also, according to Professor Lorenz, sports mentioned are limited to "Skilaufen, Flugreise, Segel­fliegen, Wasserschi, Wellenreiten, etc." Does she purposely overlook the apparently more "proletarian" activities such as Fußball, Turnen, Leicht- atlethik, Wandern, Radfahren, etc. (pp. 11, 42-43, 46, 174, etc.)?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The reviewer did not mention that a considerable number of exercises deals precisely with uncovering and discussing stereotypical attitudes toward the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-28-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Forum) continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sexes as well as toward foreign nationalities and people of different age groups, (e.g., pp. 27, 38, 99, 107, 109, 169, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 191 , 192, 193, 19&lt;span style="font-size:11.6667px;"&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;). A further selective omission is that--with very few exceptions--professions, nationalities, etc. are given with their male as well as female equivalents.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To imply, as Professor Lorenz has done, that inclusion of words such as &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nutte, Zuhälter, glotzen, blöd, Schmäh, Sittlichkeitsverbrecher&lt;/span&gt;, or &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schwangerschaft&lt;/span&gt; would in themselves contribute to the pedagogical quality or usefulness of this or any other elementary text for college or high school students borders on the absurd, (incidentally, the review does not mention that words such as &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Busen&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hintern&lt;/span&gt; (p. 11.0); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Eifersucht&lt;/span&gt; (p. 95); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;blau sein&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;spinnen&lt;/span&gt; (p. 92); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Scheidung&lt;/span&gt; (p. 180); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schwein haben&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schnauze&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kneipe &lt;/span&gt;(p. 123) ; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Haschisch&lt;/span&gt; (p. 68); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kerl&lt;/span&gt; (p. 68); etc.--for whatever they are worth..., are included in the text.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whether seen from a feminist or any other perspective, scholarly convention dictates that a good textbook review should be accurate, objective, and keep in mind the text's purpose(s) and target audience(s). Professor Lorenz'&lt;sup&gt; &lt;/sup&gt;review shows none of these qualities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate A. Schulz &lt;br /&gt;Professor, U. Arizona&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Dagmar Lorenz replies:)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mit Interesse habe ich Prof. Renate Schulz' Reaktion auf meine Rezension des Textes &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; zur Kenntnis genommen. Ich finde es durchaus fair, wenn WIG, wie Prof. Schulz' anregt, ihren Brief abdruckt. Genau so gern schreibe ich, wie Du vorschlägst, ein paar Anmerkungen meinerseits, 'the response to the response.'&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate Schulz hat Recht, wenn sie den Verdacht hegt, daß meine Analyse des Textes . . . darauf ausging, etwas zu belegen, was für mich nach praktischen Erfahrungen mit dem Text eigentlich von vornherein feststand, ohne daß ich mir bisher im Detail darüber Rechenschaft abgelegt hätte, wieso: daß nämlich &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; für einen informativen und intellektuell stimulierenden Unterricht nicht brauchbar ist -- zumindest nicht für mich.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nicht nur einmal, mehrere Male, hat &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; die Ausgangsbasis für einen von mir unterrichteten Konversationskurs bi Iden sollen. ... Da der Text fester Bestandteil des Kurses war, stand es mir nicht frei, wie ich es nach der ersten negativen Erfahrung damit gern getan hätte, ihn abzubestellen noch den Studenten die Ausgaben für alternatives Material zuzumuten. Ich benutze absichtlich letzteren Ausdruck, denn es ist mir deutlich, daß die meisten zugänglichen Konversationsbücher sowohl vom Inhalt wie vom Aufbau her nichts taugen. Das jedoch hat für mich keine Motivation sein sollen, einem Buch, das in einigen Aspekten vielleicht weniger schlecht ist als viele, das Wort reden zu wollen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wie Schulz darlegt, ist &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; durchaus ein elementarer Konver­sationstext. Muß das aber heißen, daß ein solcher Text ganze, und, wie ich noch &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-29-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Forum&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;einmal festhalten möchte, spezifisch weibliche Lebensbereiche ausklammert?&lt;br /&gt;Das Argument, der Text richte sich auch an High School Students oder Anfänger am College und es sei daher absurd, Themenkreise wie Schwangerschaft, Prosti­tution udgl. verbal und inhaltlich zu erfassen, geht ganz an der Realität vorbei, besonders wenn der Text Reizworte wie Busen oder Hintern anbietet.&lt;br /&gt;Ganz im Gegenteil ist die Thematik Sexualität im gesellschaftlichen Kontext besonders relevant für Studenten, aber besonders Studentinnen im High-School und College-Alter, und ich meine damit nicht etwa nur die Erwähnung derartiger Komplexe um des Erwähnens willen. . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Übrigens möchte ich zu meiner "Vokabelkritik" hinzusetzen, daß diese weniger aus der Luft gegriffen ist, als es Prof. Schulz scheinen mag, sondern Vokab­ular einer der Gesichtspunkte war, nach denen die WiG Rezensentinnen angehalten worden waren, die Textbücher zu analysieren.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Statt auf alle Einzelheiten in Prof. Schulz' Brief einzugehen -- sie läßt ja auch die entscheidenden Gesichtspunkte meiner Rezension beiseite -- möchte ich ein paar Gesichtspunkte herausstellen, die ich an die Rezension dieses Textes herangetragen habe. Ich betrachte übrigens von diesen Kriterien her jedes Textbuch, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lesen, Lachen, Lernen&lt;/span&gt; ist keine Ausnahme.&lt;/p&gt;
1. Generell hege ich großes Unbehagen darüber, wie in den meisten Textbüchern, dieses hier ist eines davon, die Komplexe deutsche Kultur und Zivilisation auf eine trivialisierende Art und Weise miteinbringen, so daß Information, die auch auf der elementaren Stufe möglich ist, zu einer harmonisierenden, Problemen ausweichenden Anekdoterei wird: Briefe von Austauschstudenten, fingierten Freunden, bedeutungsloses Geplauder&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Aufgrund von uns allen bekannten Faktoren herrscht ein meiner Ansicht nach beklagenswerter Drang unter Sprachlehrern, &lt;span&gt;populär&lt;/span&gt; zu sein und Materialien anzubieten, die im Klassenraum die Atmosphäre von "fun" verbreiten. Gern lernen, damit es Spaß macht und nett in die Verrichtungen des restlichen Tages paßt, ja, beinahe selbst wie eine Freizeitbeschäftigung wirkt, lernen, als ob es wie von selber ginge — solche Vorstellungen umreißen etwa das Phänomen, von dem ich rede. Sich jedoch ernsthaft solchen Zielvorstel1ungen hinzugeben, heißt, m. M. n., sich selber das Wasser abgraben, denn Spaßmacher werden auf die Dauer nicht ernstgenommen; was sie zu bieten haben, ist letztlich keine Konkurrenz für ein fundiertes akademisches Wissen, für kritische Auseinander­setzung. Leider aber unterstützen Lehrbücher die fun-and-games Mentalität bis ins College, besonders Sprachtexte, indem ihr Angebot oft den Charakter eines Varieteprogramms hat. . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Das scheinbar Unideologische und universal Anwendbare solcher Texte ver­schleiert das Faktum, das sehr wohl Haltungen der eigenen wie auch der fremden Kultur gegenüber in ihnen impliziert sind. Durch den dargebotenen Mischmasch erlauben sie nicht, daß eine faktische, relevante Information durchdringt, in ihrer eklektischen, "wertfreien" (wertlosen?) Vielfalt ersticken sie kritische Gedanken schon im Keim und damit auch eine intellektuell stimulierende Klassen­diskussion. Dadurch, daß die Besprechung von Unbedeutendem breit aufgezogen ist (etwa: obskure deutsche Idiosynkrasien, welches Glas paßt wozu, udgl.) wird potentiell Brisantem der Raum und die Möglichkeit genommen. Dadurch, daß wirkliche Probleme, wie sie in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;L,L,L&lt;/span&gt; in Tuchfühlung auftreten mit Texten, die sie gleich zurücknehmen oder neutralisieren (Alkoholismus Arm in Arm mit den guten deutschen Spirituosen), wird ihre Nennung an sich schon zum Hohn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-30-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Forum&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Indem Textbücher in ihrem Weltentwurf gesamte Lebensbereiche, Personen­gruppen, Daseinsmöglichkeiten und zeitgenössische Probleme ausklammern, pflegen sie eine Realität darzustellen, die es weder in den USA noch in Deutschland gibt, eine, von der das 'target audience' -- i.e. unsere Studenten, aber auch Unterrichtende -- sich grundlegend entfremdet fühlt. Das trifft auf mich zu im Falle von &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;L,L,L&lt;/span&gt;. Weder bin ich als Unterrichtende imstande, mit Hilfe dieses Textes sprachliche oder kulturelle Inhalte zu vermitteln, noch fand ich Studen­ten bereit, diese vom Text her aufzunehmen. Ein Textbuch jedoch, finde ich, müßte auch anders, d.h. nicht nur als Karikatur, zu verwenden sein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Ein Blick auf unser 'target audience', High School und College, junge Erwachsene oder Jugendliche, weiblich und männlich, denen, besonders solchen an State Universities, Komplexe wie Arbeit und Arbeitslosigkeit vertraut und, studieren sie in den Humanities, wichtige Fragen sind. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;L, L, L&lt;/span&gt; geht mit der Freizeitemphase an ihnen vorbei, wie auch an ebenfalls schon für junge Leute höchst interessanten Problemkreisen der Sexualität im privaten wie sozialen Kontext, der Kriminalität, im Zusammenhang damit etwa der Gewalt, des Militar­ismus, der Rollen und Stellung der Geschlechter zueinander, Minderheiten, Rassismus, um nur einiges zu nennen, was um der Bequemlichkeit halber in Text­büchern nicht vorhanden ist oder so leger angeschnitten wird, daß man von einem 'tokenismus' sprechen kann, der sich in der bloßen Nennung erschöpft.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Noch eine Anmerkung zum Brief. In dem ersten Drittel dieses Jahrhunderts gäbe es keine deutschen Frauen von genügend Statur, daß sie in die angesprochene Übung paßten (Rosa Luxemburg, Bertha v. Suttner, Else Lasker-Schüler, Erika Mann u.a.)? Wenn die von mir Genannten dem Durchschnittsstudenten nicht so verfügbar sind wie andere Namen, wäre eine Einführung von ein bis zwei Sätzen doch durchaus machbar. Frage: was ist am Turnen, Leichtatlethik, Wandern, Rad­fahren oder Fußball denn so spezifisch proletarisch?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Damit will ich's aber bewenden lassen, so daß dieser Brief nicht ins Uferlose geht. Ich freue mich auf eine lebhafte Diskussion,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;mit besten Grüßen,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dagmar Lorenz &lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[drawing: ALSO, WO BLEIBT DENN &lt;br /&gt;DAS GELD FÜR UNSERE FRAUENPROJEKTE?!]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BEARS REEATING DEPARTMENT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women account for half the world's population; two-thirds of the world's work hours; one-tenth of the world's income and less than a hundredth of the world's property. Fewer than one-third of all women are literate and in many African and Asian countries only one in ten females even enters school. "Feminization of poverty" is a structural feature of the world political economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-31-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BRIEF AUS BERLIN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following "open letter" was received in late summer 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amerikanische Frauen&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche Frauen ein Austausch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wir wollen nicht schielen. Wir wollen sehen, erleben, erfahren, suchen, Ideen tauschen, beobachten und eintauchen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Was geht da vor - an anderen Ufern?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wo ist die Ferne, wo die Nähe?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wir wollen ein Austauschseminar für deutsche und amerikanische Frauen in den USA anregen und vorbereiten und suchen Frauen, die die Vorbereitung in den USA übernehmen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wir sind eine Gruppe Berliner Frauen, die in der Erwachsenenbildung tätig sind und die sich insbesondere mit Themen und Fragen der Frauenbewegung befassen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Zum Programm des Seminars schlagen wir zunächst ein breites Spektrum von Themen vor, über dessen Eingrenzung und Konkretisierung wir uns im Verlauf der Vorbereitung verständigen können. Diesen Themen könnten sich die Frauen in Arbeitsgruppen zuordnen und so einen themenspezifischen, sehr viel intensiveren Austausch und gleichzeitig auch persönlichen Kontakt herstellen. Wir würden gerne Treffen mit verschiedenen Frauengruppen und -projekten verabreden, um so direkt miteinander diskutieren zu können und durch die teils verschiedenen Erfahrungen gegenseitige Anregungen zu erhalten bzw. die jeweilige Situation näher kennenzulernen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mögliche thematische Schwerpunkte:&lt;br /&gt;- Rassismus und Sexismus; Kämpfe schwarzer Frauen, ihr Einfluß in der Frauen­bewegung, struktureller Zusammenhang, Unterschiede zu weißen Frauen.&lt;br /&gt;- Frauenkultur; Theater, Film, Experimente mit Video, Medien, z.B. Frauen­zeitungen, neuere Entwicklungen feministischer Literatur.&lt;br /&gt;- Frauen und Politik; Frauenrechtsbewegung, ERA, Einmischungen in Politik: Friedenspolitik, Sozialpolitik, Gesundheits- und Sexua1 politik; Verhältnis organisierte Frauen - autonome Frauen.&lt;br /&gt;- Gewerkschaftliche Frauenkämpfe; Arbeitssituation von Frauen, betriebliche Probleme und Forderungen, Frauenstreiks, Haltung der Gewerkschaften gegen­über Frauenforderungen und -kämpfen, Versuche, eigene gewerkschaftliche Strukturen aufzubauen und die Schwierigkeiten (z.B. CLUW).&lt;br /&gt;- Autonome Frauenbewegung als politische Bewegung; aktuelle Kontroversen der verschiedenen Strömungen, z.B. Autonomie - Separatismus, Situation lesbischer Frauen, ihre Position in der autonomen Frauenbewegung.&lt;br /&gt;- Feministische Theorie; feministische Forschung, Erkenntnisse patriarchalischer Herrschaftsstrukturen und -mechanismen, feministische Strategien, Geschichts­forschung.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Außerhalb dieses Austauschs in den Arbeitsgruppen könnten wir über die deutsche Frauenbewegung berichten und Referate vorbereiten.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Gruppe der deutschen Teilnehmerinnen soll aus 20 bis 25 Frauen bestehen, die verschiedene Interessengebiete haben und in der Frauenbewegung engagiert sind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-32-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Brief aus Berlin&lt;/span&gt; (cont inued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Das Seminar sollte möglichst Frühjahr/Sommer 198A stattfinden und zwei bis drei Wochen dauern. Der Ort sollte sich nach euren Möglichkeiten richten, und es sollte dort ein vielfältiges Spektrum der amerikanischen Frauenbewegung vor­handen sein (z.B. New York).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Um einen Fahrtkostenzuschuß zu erhalten, müßte von Eurer Seite eine Gruppe formal als amerikanischer Träger des Seminars auftreten. Aus finanziellen Gründen, aber auch wegen des intensiveren persönlichen Kontakts möchten wir gerne privat wohnen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Als Gegenbesuch möchten wir eine Gruppe amerikanischer Frauen nach Berlin ein­laden und werden die Vorbereitung übernehmen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wir würden uns freuen, wenn Ihr Interesse daran hättet und uns möglichst bald antwortet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mit iebem Gruß,&lt;br /&gt;Elke König, Monika Schmidt, Regine Steinhauer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Post bitte an: Monika Schmidt [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(--If any of you are interested in trying to organize an exchange along the lines outlined by the Berlin women, please contact Monika Schmidt directly.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt; is a newsletter for practitioners and researchers in the field of sexual assault treatment and prevention. It is published on a quarterly basis and is distributed to mental health, social welfare, health, law enforcement, criminal justice, rape crisis and research agencies. The newsletter is also available to community organizations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In ancient Greece, the Delphi was known as the place where gods gathered to confer, share information, and influence the future. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt; newsletter functions in a similar way. That is, this newsletter encourages an exchange of information that will help shape the future of sexual assault prevention and treatment work in a positive way. The main purpose of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt; is to provide current information to readers about sexual assau1t-related research, legisla­tion, materials, activities and services. Other goals of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt; are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--to encourage readers to share and make use of sexual assault-related resources and information not regularly used. Abstracts, resource information, announcements of services and other items are included in every issue to meet this goal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--to assist in the identification of gaps in sexual assault-related theory, research and service, especially within Southern California. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi &lt;/span&gt;reports on the development of research, materials and programs. Certain features as well as special articles are included in each issue for this purpose. To subscribe to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt; (1 year, 4 issues), send a check for $8.00 to: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt;, Almut R. Poole, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-33-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following list of research projects, work in progress and dissertations was collected at the October conference. All members of Women In German are invited to send information about their research projects to the newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bunny Weiss (Vassar Coll., 1983-84)--women and aging.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sheila K. Johnson (OSU, 1983-84)—women and humor (Männer nicht ausgeschlossen); modern drama.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard (U. Illinois, Urbana)—Swiss women authors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U)--revising the literary canon; female Bildungsroman; German film; issues of science and technology in German literature,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandy Frieden (U. Houston)--women and autobiography (1970's), published, Peter Lang 1983; articles on women's autobiographical writings; Christa Wolf; Peter Handke; film—Ulrike Ottinger.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gerlinde Geiger (Smith Coll.)—"Die befreite Psyche"--lda Hahn-Hahn (diss.); and other 19th century women novelists; weibliche Aesthetik; experimental theatre; Ingeborg Bachmann.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst)—Ingeborg Bachmann; feminism and racism (trying to learn American History!).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.)—myth and music in Ingeborg Bachmann's prose; intro, to new edition of Bachmann's prose in English translation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Diane St. Croix (U. Florida)—Deutsche Autorinnen entdecken Ibsen: Gabriele Wohmann und Elfriede Jelinek.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elisabeth Nations (Augustana Coll.)—translating GDR short stories by women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marlene Heinemann (U. Wyoming)—Women Prose Writers of the Holocaust (working on publication); female bonding--survival value; the Third Reich; feminist pedagogy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate Delphendahl (U. Maine, Orono)—Ingeborg Bachmann; women in Kafka's fiction; women writers of the Vormärz; Alienation (dictionary entry); Novalis and bis influence on H. Hesse.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Petra Visscher (U. Florida)—Die Politisierung der Liebe in Werken deutschsprach­iger Autorinnen (Jelinek, Stefan, Wolf, Schwaiger) (und wer noch mehr?).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.)--working on an anthology of feminist literary criticism (and some theory) with Evelyn Beck; interested in translating Christa Wolf's feminist essays and Christa Reinig's poetry (these projects have just begun).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmgard Taylor (SUNY-Cortland)--course in world literature (non-western); Women's Studies minor (international approach); women and public speaking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-34-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Research Projects&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Julie Klassen (Carleton Coll.)--working on an article regarding the "Versöhnung der Gegensätze" in G. Keller's "Fähnlein der sieben Aufrechten;" article on U. Plenzdorf, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;neuen Leiden&lt;/span&gt;, in progress.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sigi Leonhard (Northfield, MN)--working on Christa Wolf ("Aesthetik und Authen­tizität"); preparing a film course; would like to do something on the contem­porary German novel (female and male authors); began writing poetry.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beate Franzen (Colby Coll.)--der "Bref"—eine spezifische Form literarischer Produktivität? Dargestellt an Bettina von Arnim's "Die Günderode."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coli.)—working on articles on GDR women writers born since 1940 (comparing to earlier generations); women's autobiographies 1880's to present (self-image; public vs. private in autobio's of politically/socially active women); translations of GDR women writers/comparative popular literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helga Kraft (U. Florida)--Mutter-Tochter Thema; im Moment: Elfriede Jelinek's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Klavierlehrerin&lt;/span&gt;; first year college German text, "Deutsch zur Kommunikation;" Elisabeth Plessen, "Two Historical Novels of the 70's."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Resa Dudovitz (U. Illinois)--Finishing dissertation which deals (in part) with A. Döblin and B. Traven; working on ideological function of popular women's fiction--hope to expand the project to include lit. written for women published in North Africa.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara Wright (U. Conn., Storrs)--Monograph on interaction between German Expressionist activists and first wave of German feminism (in progress); textbook on theory and techniques of translation, German-English; feminist language pedagogy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sue Bottigheimer (Princeton 11.)--Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Landré Goldscheider (Brooklyn, NY)--working on my mother's 2000-page handwritten memoirs (in German), my own writing (autobiographical fiction - in English).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Victoria Joan Moessner (U. Alaska)--women's art education at turn of century; Thomas Bernhard; East-West German lexicography.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gail Newman (Williams Coll.)--diss. on women and female sphere in Novalis (working title); preparing course on female and male images and roles in the Goethezeit for spring semester.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hildegard Pietsch (Washington U.)--planning to write my dissertation on "Die Figur der Schwarzseherin" (Arbeitstitel).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karin Obermeier (U. Mass., Amherst)--currently working on Karol ine von Günderode: "Tod als Metapher des Lebens."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Monika Shafi (U. Maryland)--working on an article comparing Böhlau's "Das Halb­tier" and Fontane's "Jenny Treibei." Thinking about a dissertation topic (utopia in women's lit.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-35-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Research Projects&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Uta Peterson (U. Maryland)—Essayistik of Heinrich Mann (Ph.D. candidate).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yvonne Poser (U. Maryland)--dissertation on foreign language reading instruction with focus on psycho 1ogical/emotional/cultural components of FL reading com­prehension; interested in women's literature which focuses on the contrast between a feminine/masculine Erzahlperspektive for article.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anna Kuhn (U. Pennsylvania)--book in progress, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Christa Wolf:&lt;/span&gt; A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Critical Study&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linda Frisch (Allston, MA)--dissertation on women in the Middle High German &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Maere&lt;/span&gt; (Stanford U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Denis Sweet (German Dept., UNH)—origins of ideology of fascism; anthology of essays on sexual politics (contributions invited).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margaret Brearley (Lewiston, ME) — Diss. (Dec. 1982): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Image of Childhood in the Novels of Elisabeth Langgasser&lt;/span&gt;; exploring topics in GDR literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gerda Neu-Sokol (Bates Coll.)--translation: Jurek Becker, Liber den Verfal 1 der Kultur in unserer Zeit. Poems and short stories.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut R. Poole (Los Angeles)--research on language and gender; linguistic anal­ysis of (some) modern feminist writers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margaret E. Ward (Wellesley Coll.)--in progress (NEH grant this year)—critical biography of Fanny Lewald. Working currently on chapters having to do with her emancipatory writings, her coming to authorship and problem of Goethe as lit­erary "paternity" figure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha K. Wallach (U. Wisconsin, Green Bay) — in progress: German-American women writers 1848-1918; translations into English of contemporary German-language women authors (would like to work with others).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ric Johnson (IPFW)--nonviolence in literature (esp. Christa Wolf); male dominance/feminist nonviolence in West German peace movement (recent paper).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christiane Zehl Romero (Tufts U.)--rororo monograph on Anna Seghers; article on "Weibliches Schreiben—Christa Wolf's Kassandra" (to appear in GDR Studies and Argumente); "Establishing a Female Tradition: (Seghers-Wolf) for volume on Wolf (ed. Fries).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ingrid Horst (E. Bridgewater, MA)--two mss in progress. "Touching our World"-- unusual travel accounts; "I Grew up under Hitler," a German childhood. Pub­lished: some non-academic articles in newspapers and periodicals. Member of English dept.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helene Scher (Amherst, MA)--Christa Wolf, "Neue Lebensansichten eines Katers" and other works commenting, usually negatively, on idea of scientific progress (work in progress).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Charlotte Armster (Dartmouth Coll.)--work in progress: monograph on Anna Seghers interested also in her role as mentor to Christa Wolf; newer GDR women writers (e.g. Christine Wolter and others).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-36-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Research Projects&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Waldstein (M.I.T.)--work in progress: reworking of dissertation (Bettina von Arnim and the German literary salon) into book; 3 papers which I hope will appear as articles: 1) Public and Private Voices in the German Romantic Salon; 2) Conversation in Bettina von Arnim's novels; 3) Bertha von Suttner: Fiction, Autobiography and Politics. Appeared in spring 1983: review essay oh Christa Wolf's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort. Nirgends&lt;/span&gt; (in OSU Women's Studies Review).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margrit Lichterfeld (GSAS Harvard U.)--Diss.: Lessing und das Bild der Frau im 18. Jahrhundert.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Judy Jamieson (Providence Coll.)—translation of Speser's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pia Deseridia&lt;/span&gt; for: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Religious Studies in Modern Western Civilization&lt;/span&gt; by Alexander &amp;amp; Dimoch; paper published and given at post-performance session of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dreigroschenoper&lt;/span&gt; by Cabot St. Playhouse; grant from Rl council on Humanities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lynne Layton (Boston)--reworking diss.: Fontane and Flaubert: Defeat of Subjectivity; book ms.: Narcissism and the Text: Literature and Issues in Self Psychology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kay Goodman (Brown U.)--women's movement at the turn of the century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trudis Goldsmith-Reber is preparing a publication, "Literatur im Faschismus: Weiblichkeitsbilder in der völkischen Literatur." She would be pleased to supply information or review literature related to this topic, and to be con­tacted by people sharing a similar interest. Trudis Goldsmith-Reber, Dept. of German, McGill University, S. Bronfman Bldg. [redacted] Montreal, P. Quebec Canada H3A 1G5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT: AWARD FOR BEST UNPUBLISHED BOOK-LENGTH MANUSCRIPT IN WOMEN'S STUDIES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fairleigh Dickinson University Press announces a manuscript prize of $2,500 in . the field of women's studies. The winning book length manuscript will be pub­lished by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The manuscript may be a contribution to the scholarship or study of any disci­pline or interdisciplinary area: e.g., sociology, psychology, history, biography, literary criticism, philosophy, linguistics, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contest deadline is October 15, 198A. Authors should write for a copy of con­test rules and an entry form to: Chairperson, Editorial Committee, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison, New Jersey 07940.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-37-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MISCELLANEOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Conference&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Conference &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion and Paradigm&lt;/span&gt;, will take place at Princeton March 2-3, 1984 beginning at 4:30 on Friday and finishing at approximately the same time on Saturday. Associated with it will be an exhibit of illustrated childrens literature, not yet titled, with a large component being fairy tale illustrations. For information, contact Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Princeton Univ.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext70"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pubiications/Resources 1983 Index/Directory of Women's Media&lt;/span&gt;. This new directory contains 379 women's periodica1s (over 100 outside the U.S.), 92 women's presses and publishers, 74 women's bookstores, 37 women's music groups, and much more. Along with the Directory is an &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Index to Media Report to Women&lt;/span&gt;. This annotated index of women's media activities and research provides a history of the women's media movement. To order a copy, send $8 to WIFP, 3306 Ross Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Second International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women&lt;/span&gt;, University of Groningen, 17-21 April 1984.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The congress is intended to provide a forum for those concerned with the question: How can we build strategies for empowerment of women? The program will be appro­priate to those who have long been associated with the women's movement as well as to newcomers: to academics and practitioners and to men and women alike.&lt;br /&gt;Keynote speakers will address the theme of the conference. Workshops, panels, symposia and other activities are designed to maximize the participation of the delegates.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REGISTRATION FEE IS Hfl. 400,-. Registration must be received in Groningen no later than January 15, 1984 or late fee will be charged. This fee includes participation in all sessions, social functions, lunches, program, volume of abstracts and directory, plus shuttle bus service. ADDRESS: Congress Secretariat, Sociologisch Instituut, Grote Markt 23, 9712 HR GRONINGEN, The Netherlands.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext70"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MANY THANKS. . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Connie Munk typed, cut, pasted, assembled, and above all cared about this news­letter. Bill Klemme lent his typewriter so Connie could work at home. Erin Clausen took care of Veronica Munk (age two) so Connie could type without quite so many interruptions. Please remember them when you read this newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Erin Clausen drew the cartoon of Jeannine Blackwell on p. 24 and the drawings on pages 38 and 45.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-38-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Miscellaneous Announcements&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Wissenschaft Schweiz - Association Suisse &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Femmes, Féminisme Recherche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Founded in May 1983 the Swiss Association for Feminist Research/Women's Studies aims at furthering feminist teaching and research in connection with the principles and aims of the women's movement. For further information contact Brigitte Schnegg, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Proceedings from the Association's first conference 'Frauen und Wissenschaft: "Stärke weiblicher Schwächen or Schwäche weiblicher Stärken?"' (Women and Science: strength of female weaknesses &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;or weakness of female strengths?&lt;/span&gt;) available for SFr 5.00 from Käthi Belser, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenforschung in den Erziehungs Wissenschaften&lt;/span&gt; (Feminist Research/Women's Studies within Education) Annua 1 Congress of the German Educational Association - DGfE, at Kiel, March 25-28, 1984. The working title of the feminist research section is 'Ausgelernt und Angeschmiert' (something like 'Life after the degree: feeling cheated'): Frauenarbeit - Frauenbildung - Frauenerwerbslosigkeit (Women's work - women's education - women's unemployment). For further information write to Monika Oubaid, Langestrasse 25, Bielefeld 1, FRG, as soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Historikerinnentreffen Wien&lt;/span&gt;, April 16-19 to discuss feminist research and metho­dology with a focus on women's history. For further information write to His­torikerinnentreffen 1984 c/o Uni Frauenzeitung, Berggasse 5-25, Vienna, Austria.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Miss WiG 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rikki from Fort Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[drawing]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-45-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Weisefrau, Uta   32&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University&lt;br /&gt;Utopia, USA&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Number 31 &lt;br /&gt;August 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;EIGHTH ANNUAL WOMEN IN GERMAN CONFERENCE-RETREAT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;STIMME SUCHEN, STIMME FINDEN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;October 13-16, 1983 Island,&lt;br /&gt;Thompson’s Island, Boston&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Author: BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference coordinator: Edith J. Waldstein (M.I.T.); Registration: Joey Horsley (U. Mass., Boston).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thursday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                   &lt;br /&gt;5:00 - 7:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Arrival, registration, room assignment&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7:00 - 8:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Buffet supper, social hour&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8:00 - 10:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;AUF DER SUCHE NACH EINER FEMINISTISCHEN GERMANISTIK: ACHT JAHRE WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinator: Jeanette Clausen (IPFW).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A brief review of WiG's feminist history and goals, followed by small-group dis­cussions for getting (re-)acquainted with WiG and each other.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                    &lt;br /&gt;8:30 am - breakfast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:30 - 11:30 am&lt;br /&gt;STIMME SUCHEN: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON&lt;br /&gt;WORK FROM VARIOUS DISCIPLINES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinator: Judith K. Jamieson (Providence Coll.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Edith J. Waldstein (M.I.T.)--Women's Public and Private Voices in the German Romantic Salon; V. Joan Moessner (U. Alaska, Fairbanks)—Augusta Enders- Schichanowsky: "Malweib," Miner, Madwoman; Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Princeton U.)-- The Issue of Voicelessness in Grimms' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kinder- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und Hausmärchen&lt;/span&gt;; Judith K. Jamieson (Providence Coll.)--A Visual Voice: The "Maternal Feminine" in Modersohn, Kollwitz, and Zille.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;11:45 - 1 :00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Open for special interest group meetings, sports&lt;br /&gt;activities or free time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1:00 pm - lunch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;                                      &lt;br /&gt;2:30 - 4:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;FINDING A VOICE IN THE PROFESSION&lt;br /&gt;(tentative program)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.) and Irmgard Taylor (SUNY/ Cortland).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Marlene Heinemann (U. Wyoming)--Teaching the German Letter "G": Discussing Gender Roles and Sexual Choice in the Classroom; Irmgard Taylor (SUNY/Cortland)—Stimme suchen: In der Universitätsverwaltung; Helga Kraft (U. Florida), Martha Wallach (U. Wisconsin/Green Bay), Dagmar Lorenz (Ohio State U.), Jeanette Clausen (IPFW)--Four Perspectives on Finding a Voice in Germany: Thoughts on the Hamburg Conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(See also Irmgard Taylor's questionnaire on public speaking at the end of this newsletter.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4:45 - 6:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Steering Committee Meeting&lt;br /&gt;and free time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6:00 pm - dinner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday evening   &lt;/span&gt;                                     &lt;br /&gt;7:30 - 9:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women only! &lt;/span&gt;RAPE -- DENY IT A FUTURE: A NEW APPROACH TO RAPE PREVENTION EDUCATION &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women only!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feminist rape prevention education exemplifies the conference motto "Stimme finden An overview of sexual violence and the scope and extent of rape and sexual assault will be followed by discussion. This 2-hour workshop is planned to end on a positive, empowering note. Follow-up workshop on Saturday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LAST FERRY 10:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday morning&lt;/span&gt;                               &lt;br /&gt;8:30 am - breakfast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:30 - 11:30 am&lt;br /&gt;FICTION, FANTASY AND FREEDOM:&lt;br /&gt;TESTING THE LIMITS IN POST-WAR LITERATURE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Dagmar Lorenz (OSU) and Barbara D. Wright (U. Conn., Storrs).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Sheila Johnson (Ohio State U.)--Fantasy as a Weapon: Irmtraud Morgner's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amanda: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ein Hexenroman&lt;/span&gt;; Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.)--A Species Argument: Christa Reinig's Case for Women's Liberation; Sigrun 0. Leonhard (Carleton Coll.)—Negation and Utopie in Christa Wolfs &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;rgends&lt;/span&gt;; Dagmar Lorenz (OSU)--Barbara Frischmuth; Leo Lensing (Wesleyan U.)--Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Roth and the "Hapsburg Myth." Presentations in German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;11:45 - 1:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;Open for special interest group meetings, sports&lt;br /&gt;activities or free time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1:00 pm - 1unch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;                                 &lt;br /&gt;2:30 - 4:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;WIG BUSINESS AND PLANNING MEETING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For agenda items, and to contribute to the agenda, see tear-out sheet, p. 25.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday afternoon&lt;/span&gt; (cont.)                      &lt;br /&gt;4:45 - 5:45 pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women only!&lt;/span&gt; UNLEARNING SILENCE: A WORKSHOP ON VERBAL ASSERTIVENESS &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women only!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A follow-up to Friday evening's session on rape prevention education, with a focus on acquaintance rape and sexual harassment situations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6:00 pm - dinner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                    &lt;br /&gt;7:30 - 9:30 pm&lt;br /&gt;BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinator: Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara Frischmuth will read from her work-in-progress, the novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ver­&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;körperung&lt;/span&gt;. She will also share her views on the Christian mystics Hildegard von Bingen and Theresa von Avila, and discuss the topic of occidental mysticism, which is also germane to her novel. Discussion in German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LAST FERRY 10:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sunday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;8:30 am - breakfast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:30 - 10:30 am LOST VOICES/NEW VOICES: WOMEN'S POPULAR LITERATURE AND THE "CANON"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.) and Resa Dudovitz (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Brief presentations followed by small group discussions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;10:45 - 12:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;VIELE STIMMEN!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Edith J. Waldstein (M.l.T.) and Barbara D. Wright (U. Conn.). Discussion of feelings, issues, problems and successes which have surfaced during the conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lunch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ferries departing from Thompson's Island at 9 am, 11 am, and 1 pm.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In addition to all of the above, we are planning a short program of feminist entertainment, performed by WiG members, which will be added to the schedule wherever we can fit it in. Not to be missed!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference registration form at the end of this newsletter, pp. 23-24. Registration deadline is September 15, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DON'T FORGET: Bring materials to the conference to share--new course outlines, bibliographies, information about new and forthcoming publications, feminist organizations and events and etc.! The October conference is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;our&lt;/span&gt; space for networking and empowering each other. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Everyone&lt;/span&gt; has something she can contribute-- your knowledge is important to us all!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;BARBARA FISCHMUTH&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[photo]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We were delighted when Barbara Frischmuth wrote that she would like to discuss her ideas on women mystics with us. As Karen Achberger points out, this will tie in well with last year's conference, when Luise Rinser read from her work- in-progress, the "fifth gospel," relating the life of Christ according to Maria Magdalena; it will also give us an opportunity to continue our discussion of the politics of women's spirituality and of "Frauenmystik" that was begun in 1980 at the first Racine conference when Gabriele Strauch shared with us her research on Mechthild von Magdeburg.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For WiG members who want to prepare for the meeting with Barbara Frischmuth, Karen sent this selected bibliography.&lt;/p&gt;
1.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; Major Works&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trilogy: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Mystif&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ikationen der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sophie Sil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ber&lt;/span&gt;. Roman. Salzburg: Residenz, 1973- dtv neue reihe 6311.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;oder &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die Metamorphose&lt;/span&gt;. Roman. Salzburg: Residenz, 1978. dtv neue reihe 6312.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kai &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Liebe zu &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;den Model&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;len&lt;/span&gt;. Roman. Salzburg: Residenz, 1981. dtv neue reihe 6313.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Major Works&lt;/span&gt;: (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stories: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Rückkehr zum vorläufigen Ausgangspunkt&lt;/span&gt;. Erzählungen. Salzburg: Residenz, 1973. dtv neue reihe 6339.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Haschen nach Wind&lt;/span&gt;. Erzählungen. Salzburg: Residenz, 1974. dtv sonderreihe 5455.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bindungen&lt;/span&gt;. Erzählungen. Salzburg: Residenz, 1980. dtv 10142.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Secondary Literature&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interviews: "Die Macht neu verteilen, so daß sie keine Gefahr mehr für die Welt bedeutet!" In: Jürgen Serke, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen Schreiben&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ein &lt;/span&gt;neues Kapitel deutschsprachiger Literatur. Hamburg: Stern, 1979, pp. 15O-163.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Weibliches Bewußtsein in Sprache umsetzen." In: Hilde Schmölzer, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frau Sein und Schreiben&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Österreichische Sehriftstel1erinnen Definieren sich selbst&lt;/span&gt;. Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1982, pp. 63-72.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;General: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;KLG&lt;/span&gt; entry on Frischmuth (Stand 1.1.1982) by Ulrich Janetzki.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bibliography: Jorun B. Johns. "Barbara Frischmuth: Eine Bibliographie der Werke und der Sekundärliteratur bis Herbst 1980." In: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Modern &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Austrian Literature&lt;/span&gt;. Vol. 14, No. 1 (1981), pp. 101­-128.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Remember that all of Frischmuth's works that are currently in print are available from Schoenhof's Foreign Books, 1280 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara Frischmuth's (tentative) itinerary while in the U.S., arranged in cooperation with the Austrian Institute, is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Arrival in Boston, 11 October &lt;br /&gt;WiG Conference, 13-16 October &lt;br /&gt;Reading at U. Minnesota, 17 October &lt;br /&gt;Reading at Ohio State U., 20 October&lt;br /&gt;Reading at the "Deutsches Haus," Columbia U., 25 October &lt;br /&gt;Reading at Princeton U., 26 October &lt;br /&gt;Return to Vienna&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Questions about this itinerary should be directed to Martha Wallach (U. Wisconsin, Green Bay) or the Austrian Institute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE HAMBURG CONFERENCE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conference "Feministische Literaturwissenschaft: Zum Verhältnis von Frauen­bildern und Frauenliteratur," held May 24-27 in Hamburg, was attended by over 300 women! -- The majority were from the FRG, but there were also participants from Austria, Switzerland, Italy, England and the U.S. Morning sessions were devoted to the presentation of formal papers; afternoon and evening sessions consisted of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arbeitsgruppen&lt;/span&gt; for discussion of more narrowly defined topics within the general framework of each morning's presentations. The conference was superbly organized by Sigrid Weigel and Inge Stephan (U. Hamburg): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thesen­papiere&lt;/span&gt; for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arbeitsgruppen&lt;/span&gt; were mailed to everyone registered prior to the conference; a list of all participants was distributed at the conference; coffee and snacks were provided during the ample breaks between sessions; a wonderful women's carabet trio "Die Witwen" entertained us on Thursday evening— you get the idea. Sigrid's and Inge's resourcefulness also included on-the-spot flexibility: when the discussion group "Frauen und Film" bogged down in frustra­tion over the participants' wildly diverse experiences and backgrounds in film criticism, a showing of Ulrike Ottinger's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bildnis einer Trinkerin&lt;/span&gt; and a follow-up discussion period were quickly arranged for the following day, much to the satis­faction of those who attended. Several of us who were able to be present in Hamburg will report in more detail on the conference when we meet in October (see conference schedule, p. 2). By relating our impressions and individual experiences, we hope to be able to give you a sense of the intensity of it all, of the diverse and often contradictory expectations and assumptions on the part of those attending, and to communicate the significance of this first West German conference on feminist literary research and criticism for our ongoing dialog on finding a feminist voice in the profession.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Rundbrief&lt;/span&gt; mailed by Sigrid and Inge in July, negotiations are underway to publish the conference proceedings (formal papers and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thesenpapiere&lt;/span&gt;) ; we hope to have an update on this by October also. A planning committee was appointed to organize a second such conference for 1984; the contact address is: Ursula Geitner, Interdisziplinäre Frauenforschungsgruppe, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstr. 25, 4800 Bielefeld, FRG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG PROJECTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PROGRESS REPORTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Textbook reviews&lt;/span&gt;. By now you should have received your copy of the WiG textbook review special issue, which was mailed in May. If you are a very recent WiG mem­ber, you may not have received this mailing; if so, write to the newsletter requesting it. OF COURSE, we welcome your comments on the reviews, and will do our best to publish future reviews which this first effort might inspire you to write. See "Letters," p. 9, for one WiG member's reactions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Syllabi Project&lt;/span&gt;. Sydna (Bunny) Weiss and Sidonie Cassirer received a goodly number of excellent syllabi for courses on women and German literature/culture and have been working over the summer to edit and assemble a booklet, to be distributed this fall. Bunny writes: "It's breathtaking to see what marvelous and original work feminists are doing!" --The booklet, when ready, will be well worth waiting for, so try to be patient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG PROJECTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PROGRESS REPORTS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Yearbook&lt;/span&gt;. We were pleased with the responses to our call for assistance with the planned Yearbook (March newsletter). Edith Waldstein (MIT) volunteered to serve as co-editor; she and Marianne Burkhard met in July to discuss papers received and refereed so fpr (thank you to those who volunteered to referee papers), and will have a further progress report for us at the October con­ference in Boston.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ONGOING AND FUTURE PROJECTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you probably recall, a number of other projects were suggested at last October's conference (see the Nov. 1982 newsletter). Members of the steering committee and sundry others have discussed the need to organize some more of WiG's talent and energy to accomplish as many projects as possible. Here are some to think on; other suggestions are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;
1.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; Translation&lt;/span&gt;. The availability of works by German women authors in English translation continues to be a problem. We have discovered that a number of us, in our desperation, have simply sat down and translated texts to use in our teaching, then tucked them into our files. We suspect that if we col­lected these translations, we would have the basis for at least one anthology, perhaps more. One priority for an anthology of translated works, it seems to us, would be a collection of lesbian literature (short prose, novel excerpts, poetry). (Of the few German lesbian texts in English translation, one--Verena Stefan's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Shedding&lt;/span&gt; — is likely to be hard to obtain because the publisher, Daughters Inc., has gone out of business.) Another priority might be a collection of "older" (nineteenth century and earlier) women's writing; some of you may have other specific suggestions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bibliography&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;book reviews&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;journal reviews&lt;/span&gt;, etc. We need to find ways to help each other keep up with the ever-increasing number of feminist books, articles and journals, (isn't it nice to have this problem?) We would like to publish more book reviews (brief ones!) and bibliographies in the newsletter; it would also be good to have reviews of journal issues along the lines of those published in the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;GDR Bulletin&lt;/span&gt; (available from Washington U., St. Louis).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Conduct a new &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;survey of German departments&lt;/span&gt; to determine the frequency of course offerings on women and German literature, feminist criticism, etc.; resources and support for feminist research; faculty qualified to teach women's 1iterature/feminist theory, and so on. (In other words, produce a sort of "Everywoman's Guide to German Departments.") &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Monatshefte&lt;/span&gt; published the (rather meager) results of a survey on "Women's Studies and Germanistik" in 1978, and might be willing to publish an update; probably they would also make their mailing list available to us if we decide to do this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now then. What are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; interests and needs, and what are you able/willing to do to help? Concretely, how much time could you spend working for WiG during the coming year? One day each semester? Two? One day a month? More? Please think about this, and let us know how you'd like to contribute; volunteer your time, expertise and suggestions on the tear-out page (p. 25 of this newsletter) and return it to Jeannine Blackwell. Many thanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCEMENTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Chapter in New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gesine Worm, librarian at the New York Goethe House and new member of WiG, has offered her support in founding a NEW YORK WIG CHAPTER.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are inviting all the women in the area to our first meeting on Wednesday, September 21, at 6:00 pm at the Goethe House Library. Join us for a discus­sion of aims and functions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Goethe House is located at 1014 Fifth Avenue, between 82&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; and 83&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; Streets. For more information, call Gesine Worm at [redacted] or Marianne Goldscheider at [redacted].&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;WIGS ON THE MOVE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are the new locations of several WiG members who have changed or acquired jobs. Congratulations to them!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Konstanze Bäumer, Syracuse U., Syracuse, NY 13210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Bammer, Vanderbilt U., Nashville, TN 37253.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gerlinde Geiger, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marlene Heinemann, U. Wyoming, Laramie, 82071.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Patricia Herminghouse, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, II. Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Biddy Martin, Cornell U. , Ithaca, NY 14853-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, Susan Cocalis has at long last returned, from Berlin to U. Mass., Amherst. Bunny Weiss has a visiting appointment (one year) at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601. Miriam Frank has been in New York for some months, living in a German-speaking neighborhood, doing research on women in unions and teaching, in Humanities and Adult Education, as an adjunct faculty member at NYU.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BY THE WAY ... I can only announce relocations that come to my attention, so if you're moving--permanently or temporarily—please LET WIG KNOW.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LOST WIGGIE . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know the current address of Pat Russian? Word has it that Pat has a baby daughter, and we would like to hear from her (them).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LETTERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Letters from WiG members are always welcome and appreciated, whether they get published in the newsletter or not. Here are a few excerpts from letters received during the past several months, for your collective enjoyment, inspiration, indignation, or action, as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From Charlotte Smith, Seattle: "Enclosed is a gift subscription for a friend (Germanistin) . . . The last newsletter, which .I just received, gave me the usual lift and reminded me that I am not alone. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thanks&lt;/span&gt; ..."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From Renate Delphendahl, Orono, ME: "I myself am very impressed with the good work you and the dedicated others have done. I can now see that we will consti­tute a network of women who can help each other. After the Boston conference of 1982 I gave a one-hour seminar on my campus reporting on the highlights of the meeting and the audience was impressed with what WiG has been doing. I got questions on which of Luise Rinser's works are available in English, and the idea of how women are portrayed in fairy tales sparked quite a discussion.&lt;br /&gt;. . . Even though no colleague from my department came to my talk, there were about 35 faculty members from English and Speech and other departments who were interested to find out about WiG."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From a new student member: . . . "How sad that as an undergrad I was taught only male authors, analysis, criticism--with the feminist approach . . or German women authors de-emphasized. I learned from the History Dept. that &lt;i&gt;[a&lt;/i&gt; WiG member? studied &lt;i&gt;[at&lt;/i&gt; _______ University?] -- I had never heard this and in fact when I told a German professor I was curious about [her], he asked me if I intended to be a radical feminist. So it seems they resent this if it is more than just innocent scholarship that doesn't intend to change things. . . .&lt;br /&gt;I am excited to have learned of your existence and I'm very hopeful about participating in the organization in the future ... I will also pass on all information to as many people as possible." (names withheld by editor).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From Mary M. El-Beheri, President, Texas Chapter AATG, San Antonio, TX: "In reading the Women in German Textbook Reviews, I was impressed with the thorough­ness of the reviewers and would like to know why books used in high school German programs were not reviewed. This is needed, especially in states like Texas, where millions of dollars are spent by the state for the textbooks, which are literally chosen by a state committee. . . . If, in fact, WiG wants to have among its membership high school teachers of German, then please con­sider directing something of interest to us. There are feminists among us and we are a very large segment of the teachers of German . . . Keep up the good work. Hope to attend the WiG business meeting in San Francisco." (ed. note: Textbook reviewing will be discussed at the October conference in Boston.&lt;br /&gt;The San Francisco AATG Meeting might be a good place to recruit people to review high school textbooks. Meanwhile, anyone interested in reviewing any German textbook from a feminist perspective should let WiG know.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women in German has arranged two sessions, one pedagogical and one literary, on the topic &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Peace&lt;/span&gt; for the 1983 AATG Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The sessions are scheduled for 2:45 - 6:00 pm on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday, 25 November&lt;/span&gt;. A business meeting will follow the literary session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2:45 - 4:15 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TEACHING ABOUT WOMEN AND PEACE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderators: Helga W. Kraft (U. Florida, Gainesville) and Richard Johnson (Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Barbara F. Hyams (U. Tulsa, 0K)--lmages of Women and Peace in the New German Cinema; Kathryn Strachota (Stanford U.)—Women in the Military; Sydna Stern Weiss (Hamilton Coll., Clinton, NY)--A Teaching Module: Women and Peace.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4:15 - 5:45 pm&lt;br /&gt;WOMEN, LITERATURE, AND PEACE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderators: Edith Potter (Scripps Coll., Claremont, CA) and Jorun B. Johns (California State Coll., San Bernardino).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Irmgard Hunt (Texas Tech. U., Lubbock)--Frauen für Frieden: Gedichte, Schilderungen, Reflexionen; Myra N. Love (U. California, Berkeley)—Christa Wolf: Literatur heute muss Friedensforschung sein; Edna H. Spitz (Stanford U.)--Bertha von Suttner, Champion for Peace: "Lay Down Your Arms. Tell that to Many, Many—;" Dagmar Lorenz (Ohio State U.)--Else Lasker-Schüler and Her Pacifist Ideas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Besides the two sessions on Women and Literary History agreed on last year for the 1983 MLA Convention in New York, WiG members have arranged and/or are participating in several other sessions at the meeting. Also, this year WiG is co-sponsoring a cash bar with the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages—the better to network with other feminists in the profession. See you at some or all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INGEBORG BACHMANN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tuesday, 27 December, 7:00 - 8:15 pm, Chelsea B, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE POET AND THE POEM:&lt;br /&gt;RACE, SEX AND LANGUAGE IN INGEBORG BACHMANN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Karen Achberger (St. Olaf Coll.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst)--"Die Weißen, sie sollen verflucht sein Gender, Race and History in Ingeborg Bachmann; Helen Fehervary (Ohio State U.)--A Terrible Euphoria: Ingeborg Bachmann and Ulrike Meinhof; Sigrid Weigel (U. Hamburg) Die Utopie hinter der Wand: die weibliche Perspektive in Ingeborg Bachmanns Prosa. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Respondent: Renate Voris (U. Virginia).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MLA 1983 (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN AND LITERARY HISTORY&lt;/p&gt;
1. Tuesday, 27 December, 9:00 - 10:15 pm, Senate, Sheraton&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN MAKING LITERARY HISTORY:&lt;br /&gt;THE NEW GENERATION OF WOMEN WRITERS IN THE GDR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Renate Delphendahl (U. Maine, Orono) and Patricia Herminghouse (U. Rochester).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Gudrun Brokoph-Mauch (St. Lawrence ll.)--The Year 197**: Laying the Foundation for the New Generation; Dorothy Rosenberg (Colby Coll.)—The Third Wave: New Women Writers and Women's Issues in the GDR; Elisabeth Nations (Augustana Coll. Illinois)--I = Myself: Women Taking Hold of Their Lives; Jeanette Clausen (Indiana U.-Purdue 1)., Fort Wayne)--"Wei 1 es nicht selbstverständlich ist:" Abortion Experiences in Recent Fiction by GDR Women Writers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Wednesday, 28 December, 12:00 - 1:15 pm, Commonwealth, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINIST RE-VISIONS OF GERMAN LITERARY HISTORY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Sieglinde Lug (U. Denver) and Barbara Becker-Cantar¡no (U. Texas).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Joan Reutershan (New York U.)--Working Class Women Writers in Wilhelmine Germany and the Literary Canon; Julie Prandi (Columbia II.)—Methodo­logical Considerations toward a New "Image" of Women in Literary History; Jeannine Blackwell (Michigan State U.)--Deconstructing the Canon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The program will conclude with a brief business meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINIST TEACHING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession is sponsoring the fol­lowing workshop coordinated by Barbara Wright; check MLA program for time and place:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;INTEGRATING WOMEN'S STUDIES INTO THE FL CURRICULUM: NEW PROBLEMS, NEW SOLUTIONS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Barbara Wright (U. Conn., Storrs); Keynote speaker: Florence Howe (The Feminist Press). Panelists will speak on teaching and teaching materials for several languages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KAFKA CENTENNIAL&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The program arranged by the Kafka Society for the 100th anniversary of Kafka's birth includes the following workshop (check MLA program for time and place):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON KAFKA:&lt;br /&gt;FOCUS ON "DAS URTEIL."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding: Evelyn T. Beck (U. Wisconsin, Madison). Panelists: Angelika Bammer (Vanderbilt U.); Jeanette Clausen (IPFW); Helen Fehervary (Ohio State U.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For NEMLA, March 29-31, 1984 in Philadelphia, Renate Delphendahl is planning a session on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Alienation in Kafka's Fiction&lt;/span&gt;. Send 7-8 page papers by Sept. 15 to: Renate Delphendahl, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Classics, Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies Quarterly&lt;/span&gt; has issued a call for papers for special issues coming in 1983 and 1984:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for winter 1983: Teaching About Mothering/Motherhood (Deadline for submissions: 1 August 1983)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for spring 1984: Teaching About Women and Peace, Militarism, Women and the Military (Deadline for submissions: 1 October 1983)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for fall 1984: Teaching About Sexuality and Reproduction (Deadline for submissions: 1 December 1983)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The editors of WSQ wish to offer a nucleus of teaching materials around themes central to women's studies. They are seeking essays, as well as model course syllabi, key bibliographies, or reviews of clusters of books essential for the classroom. Essays may focus on pedagogy, on students' responses, on curricular design, or on particular aspects of the central themes, e.g., with regard to "Teaching About Mothering/Motherhood," they are interested in essays on teaching about such topics as mother/daughter relationships, single mothers, lesbian mothers, or mothers with particular racial or ethnic identities. Essays written from a single disciplinary perspective are welcome, as are those from an inter­disciplinary perspective, and essays related to teaching on the preK - 12 level and in community as well as campus settings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address: Florence Howe, Editor. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;, The Feminist Press, Box 334, Old Westbury, NY 11568.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Don't you think it's time we got some things about &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German&lt;/span&gt; into this journal? WSQ &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; interested in international feminism; two international supplements are published each year in addition to the four regular issues. For subscription and ordering information, write to the above address.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading50"&gt;Helaine Victoria Press&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CALL FOR RESEARCH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helaine Victoria Press, publishers of postcards on women in history, announced a call for "postcard manuscripts" at the National Women's Studies Conference in Columbus, Ohio, June 26-30.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HELAINE VICTORIA PRESS – CALL FOR RESEARCH (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"We need scholars, students, and other writers to submit pictures and information on women in history to develop into new postcards," Jocelyn Cohen, co-director of the Press said. "We are celebrating our Tenth Anniversary by expanding our production of cards and we need help to do it. We're especially interested in original source material, but do use secondary sources also."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The researcher will be credited on the card and will receive 100 first-run copies in appreciation for the work. Helaine Victoria Press is a non-profit educational organization which has printed and sold more than 100,000 postcards in the last ten years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"A postcard is first of all an exciting clear photograph," Nancy Poore, co­director of the Press said. "Concerning the text on the back, we want researchers to write a caption which further relates the picture to the subject. Specific historic details and accuracy are essential. The maximum length is about 190 words." The Press will take the researcher's text as a guide to write the actual caption. They also need a write-up about the woman or event, three to ten pages long, perhaps a research paper or article especially written for the Press to back-up the caption and to keep in the research files, and a short bibliography on the woman or event. Bibliographies will be available with the cards for teachers and others who want to read more about each subject.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Press needs postcard manuscripts for the next two to three year's publishing schedule. They plan four sets of cards on the following subjects: 1. Latin American and Hispanic Women in Politics, Culture and Change i.e. revolutionary activity, art and folk art, music and literature. 2. Haymarket Riot 100 Year Commemorative Set, focusing on the contributions of women to the struggle of organized labor in the U.S. from 1886 to 1986, particularly events involving immigrant, minority and rural working women. 3. Women's Brigades and Auxi­liaries - worldwide history of women organizing their own special groups, usually within a larger movement--for example, Women's Russian Brigade of Death, the Pullman Porters Ladies' Auxiliary. 4. Political Action by Minority Women in the U.S. in such causes as civil rights, women's liberation, environmental concerns, and peace. The publishers also plan a fifth set of cards centered on a theme suggested by researchers' contributions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For those not familiar with Helaine Victoria postcards, or who do not know which women have already been portrayed in cards, you may get the new catalog and two sample cards by sending $1 to Helaine Victoria Press, 4080 Dynasty Lane, Martinsville, IN 46151. Writers, researchers, historians--everyone interested— are invited to a Ten Year Retrospective of Helaine Victoria Press at Indiana University in Bloomington from October 1 to 22 in the Fine Arts Building.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please do not send original photographs. Send a good glossy print or even a xerox copy. If your idea can be used by the Press, they will get in touch with you about the original. Helaine Victoria Press will use as many of the postcard manuscripts as are suitable and as they can afford to publish. A special campaign to raise money to publish the cards is underway. All materials received will be acknowledged, but not returned as the material will be filed for possible future use. Where more than one person submits similar material Helaine Victoria will take from each and credit all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--There you are, folks—send Helaine Victoria some German, German-Jewish, German American, German-whoever women for this wonderful new project. (P.S. They already have a postcard of Rosa Luxemburg and Clara Zetkin.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NEW JOURNALS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINISTSCHE STUDIEN is a new interdisciplinary journal similar to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt;. It can be ordered by writing to Verlag Beltz &amp;amp; Co., Postfach 2346, Ch-4002 Basel, Switzerland. (Subscription DM35/year; single copy DM 20 plus postage.) A review of the first issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Studien&lt;/span&gt; (Nov. 1982) by Theresia Sauter Bailliet appeared in “”Feminist Forum,” the newsletter of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women’s Studies International Forum,&lt;/span&gt; Vol. 6, No. 2 (1983), pp. vi-viii. The address of WSIF is: (for North American) or (outside North America) Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, OX3 OBW England.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Incidentally, who out there would like to review subsequent issues of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Studien&lt;/span&gt; for the WiG newsletter?)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first issue of FEMINIST TEACHER is in preparation. This journal will regularly address the situation and problems of feminist teachers. For the first issue, essays or narratives about experiences in feminist teaching, and article-length manuscripts addressing the issues of feminist teaching within a historical, methodological, or pedagogical context were collected (deadline was August 1, 1983). For information, write to: Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective, Dept. of English, [redacted] Indiana U., Bloomington, IN 47401.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A new book review periodical began publication this summer. Conceived and planned by women currently teaching in Boston-area colleges and universities, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Women'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;s Review of Books&lt;/span&gt; will be a monthly newspaper-format publication.&lt;br /&gt;Our intention is to help solve a problem which many of us (both in the academic world and outside it) are increasingly aware of: that is, the fast-growing body of writing, both general-interest and scholarly, which has been one result of the contemporary women's movement, receives a disproportionately small share of attention in the established book review periodicals and in the media gen­erally. Keeping up with writing in the great variety of fields that feminist readers are typically interested in—from fiction to philosophy, anthropology to art, political science to poetry--gets harder every year, and the existing feminist magazines and newspapers can only partly respond to that need.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Women's Review of Books&lt;/span&gt; will do something to remedy this situation. Starting with a small pilot issue in June 1983, then, every month from next October onward,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NEW JOURNALS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we will publish a 20-page issue containing eight to ten substantial in-depth reviews of recently published books by and/or about women, both academic and general-interest in nature. The reviewing staff and editorial board will be composed of well-known and respected feminist writers working in all fields, both in and outside academia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The kind of books we expect to review include: feminist writing in all fields, both general - interest and academic women's studies, as well as autobiography, fiction and poetry by women, especially those whose writing focuses on identifiably feminist concerns. We will also, from time to time, look at a variety of other kinds of work of interest to our audience. These could include, for example, textbooks and children's books, especially the con­spicuously sexist and the conspicuously non-sexist, and misogynistic or homo­phobic books which attract particular attention or praise in the "male" media. We also plan occasional longer retrospective "review essays" focusing, for example, on trends in a particular area of Women's Studies, on the work of one poet or fiction writer, on the feminist writing within one ethnic or religious group, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For all of this to become a reality, we need support. We urge all of you to subscribe: our special pre-publication rate (up to September 1st 1983) is $9.00 for 12 issues plus the pilot issue; thereafter the subscription rate is $12 for individuals and $25 for institutions. In addition to subscription income, we also need (tax-deductible) donations to help us pay our start-up costs. For those with the resources, we offer a lifetime subscription for $200; but &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;anything&lt;/span&gt; you want to give will help us reach our goal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linda Gardiner &lt;br /&gt;Editor&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Donations and subscriptions should THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(N.B. : I have seen the June 1983 pilot issue, and it is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;very&lt;/span&gt; good. --JC.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DISSERTATIONS AND BOOKS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell's dissertation is available in softcopy/hardcopy from Univ. Microfilms, Diss. Abstracts Publication No. A-DG83-07995:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Blackwell, L. Jeannine. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bildungsroman &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;mît Dame: The Heroine in the German Bildungsroman from 1770 to 1900&lt;/span&gt;. University Microfilms Inter­national, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. (1982). Published on demand by University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A./London, England.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The major authors and works discussed are: Sophie von LaRoche, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim&lt;/span&gt;; Friederike Helene Unger, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Julchen Grünthal&lt;/span&gt; ; Johanna Schopenhauer, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gabriele;&lt;/span&gt; Therese Huber, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hannah, der Herrnhuterin Deborah Findling;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-16-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DISSERTATIONS AND BOOKS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karl Gutzkow, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wally die Zweiflerin&lt;/span&gt;; Fanny Lewald, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jenny&lt;/span&gt;; Wilhelmine von Hillern, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ein Arzt der Seele&lt;/span&gt;; Theodor Fontane, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mathilde Möhring&lt;/span&gt;; Gabriele Reuter, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aus guter Familie&lt;/span&gt;. The diss. also has a 25-page bibliography.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;'&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Unschuld und die Schrift&lt;/span&gt;." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche Frauenromane im 18. &lt;/span&gt;Marburg: Verlag Guttandin und Hoppe, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“ . . . die literarische Gattung des Romans lerweist sichl als Moglichkeit, die Anstrengungen zur Normierung der Frauen zu unterlaufen. Der Roman stellt einen anderen Raum dar, sowohl was seine Produktion angeht (die Frau am Schreibtisch ist wo-anders!) als auch was die Welt angeht, die er entwirft. Indiz dafür ist das Bewu3tsein, mit dem Heldinnen und, auf einer anderen Ebene, Autorinnen auf das Schreiben und das Produkt, den Roman, reflektieren. Die These von einer ungebrochenen Propagierung der Idreifachen Bestimmung des Weibes,1 die in der Frau als unschuldiger Heldin ihr Bild fände, laβt sich nicht halten. Das ambivalente Verhaltnis der Frauen zum Roman--die moralisch-didaktische Darstellung weiblicher Identitat und die gleichzeitige Irritation dieser Entwurfe-begreift sich selbst als asthetische Praxis, die die gesellschaftliche Situation der Frau thematisiert und ihre Chancen, literarisch zu arbeiten, Fiktionen zu entwerfen. Die Spuren dieser Problematik durchzlehen die Frauenromane des 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Schrift, Raum des Schreibens, erhebt Einspruch gegen die Unschuld als umfassendes Modell burgerlicher Weiblichkeit." (quoted from Helga Meise, “Thesen uber die literarische Produktion von Frauen im 18. Jahrhundert--am Beispiel  ‘Roman‘ ,“ p. 4.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Totgeschwiegen&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Texte zur Situation der Frau in Österreich von 1880 bis in die Zwischenkriegszeit&lt;/span&gt;. Hsg. Sigrid Schmid und Hanna Schnedl. österreichischer Bundesverlag, September 1983. ($248.—; DM34.80).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Schriftstellerinnen des ausgehenden 19- und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts setzen sich mit dem Alltag von Frauen verschiedener Herkunft auseinander, machen deren Zwänge und Konfliktsituationen deutlich. Für die Auswahl der Texte war vor allem die Authentizität, mit der historische Realitäten dargestellt wurden, maßgebend, nicht der Bekanntheitsgrad der Autorinnen."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dal Saiatto al Partito&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Scrittrici tedesche tra la rivoluzione borghese e il diritto di voto&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1748)&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Lia Secci. Milano: Savelli Editori, 1981.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Italian. Description of contents not available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG received a complimentary copy of Angelika Mechtel's new novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gott und die Liedermacherin&lt;/span&gt; (München: Paul List Verlag, 1983). The description on the back cover says:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-17-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DISSERTATIONS AND BOOKS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Respektlos erotische Kabinettstückchen weiblicher Phantasie sind die Geschichten der Liedermacher In, die sie während Ihrer Tournee durch die USA den Zuhörern präsentiert. Statt Lieder zu singen, wie es vertraglich ver­einbart war, beginnt sie angesichts der wachsenden Gefahr einer nuklearen Vernichtung ihres Heimatkontinents Europa Geschichten gegen Gott und die Welt der Männer zu erzählen, wie Scheherazade erzählt hat, um den Sultan vom Töten abzubringen. Das Schicksal der Liedermacher in verläuft allerdings anders als das der Scheherazade: als sie in die Bundesrepublik zurückkehrt, wird ihr der Prozess gemacht. Die Anklage lautet auf 'obszöne Verunglimpfung männlicher Werte.'"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(By an interesting coincidence, the USA-tour takes place in the fall of 1981, the year that Angelika Mechtel herself toured the US--and attended a WiG conference.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--If someone would like to review this book for a future issue of the WiG newsletter, write and I will send it to you.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Irmgard Eisner Hunt, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mutter &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und Muttermythos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in Günter Grass' Roman DER BUTT&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt/M., Bern, 1983. 235 S. Europäische Hochschulschriten: Reihe 1, Deutsche Sprache und Literatur. Bd. 647- (sFr. 61.--).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Die vorliegende Studie bietet eine Analyse der Frauengestalten in Günter Grass' Roman, Der Butt. Das Wunschbild der Frau als Mutter weist auf einen Muttermythos, der das Geschlechterverhältnis der Vergangenheit kennzeichnet und das der Gegenwart elegisch darstellt. Der offenendige Roman deutet eine utopische, doch unformulierte Hoffnung an, die der Autor in die Frau legt, da in seiner Sicht die patriarchalische Gesel1schaft gefehlt hat. Für die Zukunft ergeben sich mögliche Ansätze zur erforderlichen Überwindung des Muttermythos."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Aus dem Inhalt: Allgemeine Einführung in den 'Butt'—Analyse der Frauen- gestalten--Problematik der Geschlechterverhältnisse—Der Muttermythos und seine Überwindung."&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;FORTHCOMING: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in the Nineteenth &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Century:&lt;/span&gt; A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Social &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;History&lt;/span&gt;, ed. John C. Fout (Homes and Meier, 1984).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TABLE OF CONTENTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Preface&lt;/p&gt;
1. "Current Research on German Women's History," by John C. Fout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. "Enlightened Reforms and Bavarian Girls' Education: Tradition through Innovation," by Joanne Schneider.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. "Hannah Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen," by Deborah Hertz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DISSERTATIONS AND BOOKS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
4. "Henriette Schieiermacher: A Woman in a Traditional Role," by Gwendolyn E. Jensen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. "The Reading Habits of Women in the Vormärz," by Renate Möhrmann.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. "Prelude to Consciousness: Amalie Sieveking and the Female Association for the Care of the Poor and Sick," by Catherine M. Prelinger.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7. "Female Political Opposition in Pre 1848 Germany. The Role of Kathinka Zitz-Halein," by Stanley Zucker.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8. "German Women Writers and the Revolution of 1848," by Lia Secci.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9. "Self-Conscious Histories: Biographies of German Women in the Nineteenth Century," by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres.&lt;/p&gt;
10. "Growing Up Female in the Nineteenth Century," by Juliane Jacobi-Dittrich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. "The Radicalization of Lily Braun," by Alfred G. Meyer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. "The Impact of Agrarian Change on Women's Work and Child Care in Early Nineteenth Century Prussia," by W. R. Lee.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;13. "Domestic lndustry--A Refutation of the Stereotypic Image of German Industrialization," by Barbara Franzoi.&lt;/p&gt;
14. "Social Insurance and the Family Work of Oberlausitz Houseweavers in the Late Nineteenth Century," by Jean H. Quataert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15. "The Woman's Role in the German Working-Class Family in the 1890‘s: From the Perspective of Women's Autobiographies," by John C. Fout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16. "Women Under Medical Control: Health Propaganda and the Discipline of the Working-Class Family in Imperial Germany," by Ute Frevert.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;17. "The Female Victim: Homicide and Women in Imperial Germany," by Randolph E. Bergstrom and Eric A. Johnson.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;18. "An English Language Bibliography on the History of Women," by John C. Fout&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Forthcoming&lt;/span&gt; in the Fischer series "Die Frau in der Gesellschaft": Maria Wagner &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mathilde Franziska Anneke&lt;/span&gt; (Letters and documents of her life, with analysis and commentary by Maria Wagner).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beiträge zur feministischen Theorie und Praxis&lt;/span&gt; (the journal of the association "Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis für Frauen e.V.") has devoted issue No. 8 (spring 1983) to the theme "Gegen welchen Krieg--für welchen Frieden." There is a review of this issue in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Forum&lt;/span&gt;, the newsletter of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies International Forum&lt;/span&gt; Vo1. 6, No” 3 (1983), p. xiii. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gegen welchen Krieg-&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;für welchen Frieden&lt;/span&gt; is available for DM14.- (Yearly subscription DM38.-) from: Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis für Frauen, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A special journal issue on East German women writers is available from the association "Centro Studi Donna Woman Femme," [redacted] Articles in Italian, summaries in French and English&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;donnawomanfemme&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;QUADERNI DI STUDI INTERNAZIONALI SULLA DONNA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;N. 18 - Autunno 1981&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;CIELI DIVISI&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Le scrittrici della Germania Orientale&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sommario&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;3 Editoriale&lt;br /&gt;7 Vita e avventure della trobadora Beatriz secondo le testimonainze della sua musicante Laura, di Irmtraud Morgner&lt;br /&gt;17 Leggere e scrivere, di Christa Wolf&lt;br /&gt;31 &amp;lt;&amp;lt;L’officina&amp;gt;&amp;gt; di Anna Seghers e l’elaborazione dell’eredità culturale: un colloquio con Christa Wolf, a cura di Antonella Gargano&lt;br /&gt;43 L’ombra di un sogno. Cronaca di una lettura, di Vanada Perretta&lt;br /&gt;49 La questione femminile nella letteratura della Repubblica Democratica Tedesca: temi e tendenze, di Lia Secci              &lt;br /&gt;61  Per una teoria della dissonanza la &lt;i&gt;Mutazione&lt;/i&gt; di Christa Wolf &lt;br /&gt;73  Modelli di scrittura: tra autobiografia ed immaginario, di Antonella Gargano&lt;br /&gt;85  Maxie Wander e la letteratura documentaria, die Christine Wolter&lt;br /&gt;95  La letteratura femminile degli anni ’70 nella Germania Orientale, di Eva Kaufmann&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fonti&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;103 Le lettere di Stella Browne a The Freewoman, di Elisabetta Molinari&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;* * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;117 &lt;i&gt;Recensioni e schede di lettura&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;124 &lt;i&gt;Libri e riviste ricevulti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;127 &lt;i&gt;Résumés/Abstracts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;131 &lt;i&gt;Avviso&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;-20-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading60"&gt;&lt;b&gt;THIS IS NEWS?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Hamburg conference ended late on the afternoon of Hay 27 with a press con­ference. Ten or so reporters were present; one of them a man. The item below was sent to WiG by Joan Moessner; though she didn't say what newspaper it's from, it seems very likely to have been written by said male reporter, who claimed to be from "Die Welt." —While the writer's attitude isn't exactly news to us, it does remind us, should we be so distracted as to forget, of what we're up against.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feminismus in Böhmen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;da - Palmström reiste einmal in ein böhmisches Dorf: &lt;span&gt;„&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Unverständlich blieb ihm alles dort, von dem ersten bis zum letzten Wort." Das war ihm ein Erlebnis &lt;span&gt;„voll von Honig". Am Freitag beschlo&lt;/span&gt;ß eine Universitätsgruppe ihre Tagung über &lt;span&gt;„Feministische Literaturwissenschaft" mit einer Pressekonferenz. Die wissenschaftlerinnen aus sechs Ländern untersuchten die Rolle der Frau in der deutschen Literatur der letzten drei Jahrunderte. Emilia Galotti - das ist die juegendliche Unschuld, die durch ihre angeborene Verführungskraft eben doch schuldig ist in den Augen der Männer; in ihr wird die Reinheit zum Fettisch. Muß man feministisch sein, um darauf zu kommen? Hingegen Ingeborg Bachmann - verkannt ist sie von männlichen Kritikern, ihre Texte können von Männnnern nicht entschlüsselt werden, nur weibliches Denken ermöglicht den richtigen Zugang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mit einer provikanten Frage („ Wer war der gr&lt;/span&gt;ößte Literatur-Macho?" wird nur Lächeln geerntet - es sind die gesellschaftlichen Gegebenheiten, die die Männer so denken lassen. Eine Wissenschaft entdeckt, daß Literatur ex tunc von den beiden Geschlechtern verschieden aufgenommen wird, ja, ihnen etwas Verschiedenes bedeuten muß. Alnders als für  Palmström ist dies nicht süß, sonder bitter, vor allem, wenn das, was für Literatur gilt, für Pressekonferenzen nicht gelten soll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Montag, 30. Mai 1983&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NO COMMENT …&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Eigentlich ist das Wort konservativ ganz leicht zu definieren. Konservativ sein bedeutet an alten Gewohnheiten festhalten. Militärs von der alten Schule gelten zum Beispiel als konservativ, weil Tradition und Gehorsam für sie eine sehr wichtige Rolle spielen. Christlich orientierte &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Menschen und Frauen&lt;/span&gt; gelten oft als konservativ, denn auch sie — so glauben viele — wollen an alten Gewohnheiten festhalten.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From: Günther Bicknese. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hier und Heute&lt;/span&gt;. Lesen leicht gemacht. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1983), p. 1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(item sent by Helga Kraft.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-21-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AND IT GOES ON . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Item from the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;DAAD-Letter&lt;/span&gt; (Bonn: DAAD), No. 2, June 1983, p. 21, sent to WiG by Barbara Kaltz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frankfurt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vorlesungen nur für Frauen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Initiative einiger Frauen an der Universität Frankfurt löste im vergangenen Semester erregte Diskussionen aus. Das &lt;span&gt;„Frauenplenum", eine lockere Vereinigung von Studentinnen - vor allem der Soziologie, Pädagogik und Germanistik -, die unter anderem in Arbeitsgruppen regelmäßig uni-spezifische und allgemeine Frauenfragen gemeinsam diskutieren, kündigte eine Ringvorlesung über zwei Semester an. Nicht das Thema „Feminsitische Wissenschaft" war es, an dem sich die Gemüter erhitzten, sondern der Hinweis in der Akündigung: „Nur für Frauen".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;In der Leserbriefspalte der Universitätszeitschrift wurde der Disput offen ausgetragen. &lt;span&gt;„Es ist dies, meines Wissens nach, die erste wissenschaftliche Veranstaltung an der Universität Frankfurt seit 1945, von der eine bestimmte Gruppe von Universitätsmitgliedern - gekennzeichnet durch unveränderte physiologische Merkmale - von der Teilnahme ausgeschlossen wurde", schreibt ein Professor der Gesellschaftswissenschaften und nennt das Verbot „widerrechtlich". Ein anderer, Professor der Mathematik, erinnert direkt an den Ausschluß der Juden von der Wissenschaft im Dritten Reich und zieht eine Verbindung zwischen „feministischer Wissenschaft" und „deutscher Physik".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Die Frankfurterinnen argumentieren dagegen, daß  Frauen dem &lt;span&gt;„weiblichen Ghetto" gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit nur entkommen könnten, wenn sie sich „eigene Diskussionszusammenhänge schaffen könnten". Männer seien dabei „nicht aufgrund ihrer Geschlechtszugehörigekit unerwünscht, sondern wegen ihres sozialen Umgangs damit".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilma Mohr, assistentin am Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften mit gutem Kontakt zum Frauenforum und aktiv an den Ringvorlesungen beteiligt, wundert sich über die Empörung der ausgeschlossenen Männer einerseits und ihr geringes Interesse für die Frauenforschung andererseits. Im Rahmen der offiziellen Veranstaltungen des Fachbereichs hielt sie ein Seminar ab über &lt;span&gt;„Frauenarbeit und ökonomisch-technischen Wandel". Von etwa 70 Teilnehmern waren nur vier Männer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um frauenbezigene Themen wie dieses, Themen der Wissenschaft, der Industriesoziologie, der Frauenbewegung wissenschaftlich behandeln zu können, hatten sich die Frankfurterinnen seit langem um einen Lehrstuhl für Frauenforschung bemüht. Die Professorinnenstelle wurde jedoch kürzlich vom Hessischen Kultusminister abgelehnt, An der Freien Universität Berlin existiert seit zwei Jahren eine in der Bundesrepublik einmalige „Zentraleinrichtung zur Förderung von Frauenforschung und Frauenstudien", deren Aufgabe es ist, den Frauenaspekt in Lehre und Forschung an der FU einzuführen und auszubauen. In Bielefeld wurde im vergangenen Wintersemester die Interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe Frauenforschung" eingerichtet, die in der Bundesrepublik auch die erste ihrer Art ist. Geplant sind Forschungsprojekte in den Bereichen „Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung und weibliche Erwerbstätigkeit", „Weibliche Bildung" und „Frauen und Dritte Welt".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-22-&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NEWS FLASH!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margot Schroeder writes that she has applied for a travel grant to visit the U.S. and if it comes through, she and her friend Johanna Haake will attend the October conference! They also want to visit San Francisco. If you would like to see them while they're here, write to WiG for more information (Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN 46805).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alexandra Busch [redacted] will write her Examensarbeit on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Djuna Barnes&lt;/span&gt;, and would like to correspond with other women who have worked on this author. She is interested in issues of Barnes- reception, where and in what context her works are taught, and recent trends in Barnes-criticism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Texas AATG Chapter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A committee of women from the Texas Chapter, AATG will sponsor a Tucholsky sumposium on May 4-6, 1985, (the 50th year after his death), to be held at the Goethe Institute, Houston. Paper proposals or inquiries may be sent to the committee chair, Mary M. El-Beheri, Douglas MacArthur High School, 2923 Bitters Rd., San Antonio, TX 78217.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DEPARTMENTAL SPONSORS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Departments which have joined WiG as sponsoring members are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;German Dept., U. Minnesota, Minneapolis.&lt;br /&gt;German Dept., Ohio State U., Columbus.&lt;br /&gt;Mod. For. Lang., Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The support of departmental members is appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;everyone&lt;/span&gt; who sent material for this newsletter, many many thanks. Special accolades and at least four cheers to Edith Waldstein, who sent &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; the con­ference information to me &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;on time&lt;/span&gt;, and to Joey Horsley for again coordinating registration.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By the way . . . the ABSOLUTE FINAL DEADLINE for material for the November 1983 newsletter is 1 November 1983. No exceptions! (I don't think.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Connie Munk typed, cut, pasted and above all cared about this newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;Erin Clausen drew the illustrations on p. 19 and p. 20.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-23-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REGISTRATION FORM&lt;br /&gt;Women in German Annual Conference&lt;br /&gt;Thompson's Island, Boston, MA&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 13-16, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Complete both sides of form.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: _______  Telephone: (__)_____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address (after Sept. 15):&lt;br /&gt;_______________________________&lt;br /&gt;# Street    Town    State    Zip&lt;/p&gt;
1.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; Registration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please choose the plan you prefer from section A, B or C below. Costs for over­night accommodation (A) include conference expenses, lodging, three meals per day and boat transportation to/from the island. As in past years, we have calculated regis­tration fees on a dual price structure to try to keep the conference more affordable for students and the unemployed. If you "technically" fall into one of those cat­egories but have adequate outside income, please consider paying the "employed" rate— this will help WiG partially subsidize travel for those who must come long distances. For childcare information, see over.&lt;/p&gt;
A. Overnight accommodation (Please check your choice):&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;3 Nights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employed $140.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;Student/unemployed $60.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;2 Nights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employed $195.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;Student/unemployed $40.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;3 Nights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employed $50.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;Student/unemployed $25.00 ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I intend to spend night(s) of Oct. 13 14 15 (please circle) on Thompson's Island.&lt;/p&gt;
B. Day-hopping (Please check your choice):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Conference attendance only: includes boat transportation. Please check days you plan to attend:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Employed: $15.00/day&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 14 ___&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 15 ___&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 16 ___&lt;br /&gt;Total = ___ x $15 = ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Student/Unemployed: $10.00/day&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 14 ___&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 15 ___&lt;br /&gt;Oct. 16 ___&lt;br /&gt;Total = ___ x $10 = ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Meals. Please check the meals you plan to eat on Thompson's island:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunch ($5.00 each)&lt;br /&gt;Fri.___&lt;br /&gt;Sat.___&lt;br /&gt;Sun.___&lt;br /&gt;Total = ___ x $5 = ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dinner ($8.00 each)&lt;br /&gt;Thurs.___&lt;br /&gt;Fri.___&lt;br /&gt;Sat.___&lt;br /&gt;Total = ___ x $8 = ___&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C. Combination plan:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you wish to combine services from A and B, please mark the appropriate boxes, figure your expenses from A and B, and then tally the total.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cost of Services from A: $ ____ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cost of Services from B: $ ____ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total: $ ____                &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference participants must become members of Women in German.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-24-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Name: ______&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Transportation Plans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will arrive ____ (day, time) by ____ *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will depart ___ (day, time) by ____ *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*(Please indicate means, i.e., Airline Flight #, busline, Amtrack, car, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please enclose a SASE for information regarding land/boat information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;_____ Please check if you are a student/unemployed and would like help covering your travel expenses, especially for long-distance travel. Cost of round-trip travel from your home to the conference: $______.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(After all conference bills are paid, we will divide any remaining funds on a percentage basis among those of you who request travel assistance. We very much want to help those who need it, but unfortunately we can't guarantee that money will be left after expenses or predict what percentage you may be reimbursed.&lt;br /&gt;After the 1982 conference we were able to reimburse 8 people approximately of their expenses.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;III. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Childcare&lt;/span&gt;: WiG will provide childcare at the conference but there is a charge for room and board for children over 2 (same as student/unemployed rate, over). Please include this in your registration calculations. (Last year we were able to reimburse part of this expense, but it cannot be guaranteed in advance.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;I plan on bringing the following child (children) to the WiG conference:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Name: _____ Age ______&lt;br /&gt;2. Name: _____ Age ______&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please check as appropriate:&lt;br /&gt;_____ Needs crib&lt;br /&gt;_____ Will share my room/bed (circle)&lt;br /&gt;_____ Needs own room/bed (circle)&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Please note special needs or other relevant information: ____________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IV. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Natural Foods Option&lt;/span&gt;: Although the conference center provides attractive vegetarian menu choices, a natural foods option (vegetarian) may be available for a modest sur­charge ($10 or less), to be collected &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;at the conference&lt;/span&gt;. If you choose this option, please check below. We &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;need to&lt;/span&gt; know in advance in order to provide enough food.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I desire the natural foods option for the following meals:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Oct. 13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___ supper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Oct. 14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___ breakfast&lt;br /&gt;___ lunch&lt;br /&gt;___ dinner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Oct. 15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___ breakfast&lt;br /&gt;___ lunch&lt;br /&gt;___ dinner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Oct. 16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___ breakfast&lt;br /&gt;___ lunch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please make your check out to "Women in German" form and &lt;span&gt;stamped&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;self-addressed envelope&lt;/span&gt; to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joey Horsley [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: If you register after September 15, we must charge you a late registration fee of $10.00.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-25-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG Agenda, 1983-84&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name ______  Phone(s) ______ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address ___________ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please fill in any or all of the following items and send this sheet to Jeannine Blackwell by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 October 1983&lt;/span&gt;. Jeannine will collate the responses for the WiG business meeting agenda for the October conference. REMEMBER that you are welcome (even urged!) to participate in WiG planning whether you are able to attend the October meeting or not.&lt;/p&gt;
1. Nominations for WiG Steering Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The six SC members serve staggered 3&lt;sup&gt;_&lt;/sup&gt;year terms (see Nov. 1982 newsletter).&lt;br /&gt;Please include name and address or affiliation; try to nominate from different geographical areas. Also, be sure the woman you nominate is willing to serve.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. _________________&lt;br /&gt;2. _________________                                                  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. Suggestions for 1984 WiG sessions. Indicate whether you are willing to organize a session on the topic(s) you propose, and at which conference.&lt;/p&gt;
A. AATG 1984    &lt;br /&gt;1. ______________  (Pedagogy)&lt;br /&gt;2. ______________  (Literature)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B. MLA 1984       &lt;br /&gt;1. ______________&lt;br /&gt;2. ______________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C. WiG conference (probably again in Boston in 1984; guest authors Irmtraud Morgner and Helga Schütz).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. ______________&lt;br /&gt;2. ______________&lt;br /&gt;3. ______________&lt;br /&gt;4. ______________       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D. Suggested guest authors for future WiG conferences (please include brief bio and list of the author's major works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. ______________&lt;br /&gt;2. ______________&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;III. WiG projects (see pp. 6-7).&lt;/p&gt;
A. Amount of time you would be able to work on a WiG project during 1983-84: _____&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B. Project(s) you would most like to work on (indicate what you could do):&lt;br /&gt;1. Textbook reviewing____________     &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection2"&gt;2. Translation_______________        &lt;br /&gt;3. WiG Yearbook 1984 (editing, refereeing of papers, typing, etc.)_____________&lt;br /&gt;4. Bibliography, book reviews, journal reviews, etc. (be specific). _____________&lt;br /&gt;5. Other:______________ (use back of page for additional comments)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mail to&lt;/span&gt;: Jeannine Blackwell, [redacted] by 1 October 1983.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-27-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Weisefrau, Uta   32&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University&lt;br /&gt;Utopia, USA&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renew &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt;, today, before you forget—sending out reminders is time-consuming and expensive, not to mention boring.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A new dues structure was approved at the October 1983 WiG conference. By increasing the rates for those earning higher salaries, we hope to be able to finance more projects, while still keeping rates low for students, the unem­ployed, and the underemployed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please fill out the section below, detach and return with your payment in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;11.S. dollars&lt;/span&gt; (check or money order made out to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt;). Subscribers outside North America: Please increase the amount in your category by one- third to help defray the cost of postage. Send membership form and payment to: WOMEN IN GERMAN, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U., Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Coalition of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEM IN G&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;ERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 30                                                      March 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PAID YOUR DUES?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why begin the newsletter with this question? Because WiG needs money to carry out all our projects, quite a few of which are described in this newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And because sending out renewal notices is time-consuming and expensive. Please check your mailing label &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;now&lt;/span&gt;, and renew if your number is 30 (this issue) or below. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BARBARA FRISCHMUTH&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As most of you already know, Barbara Frischmuth has agreed to be WiG*8 guest at the 1983 conference, Oct. 13-16, at Thompson Island, Boston. Martha Wallach is working with the Austrian Institute to arrange Frischmuth*s visit, which will probably include two or three readings at university campuses besides her par­ticipation in the WiG conference. At this writing it still isn't clear how much money WiG will have to contribute toward Frischmuth’s travel and/or honorarium, but it is quite likely to be more than last year (as you may recall, last year we paid only the honorarium for Luise Rinser—which she donated back to us—and the Goethe Institute paid the rest).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IRMTRAUD MORGNER AND HELGA SCHUTZ&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmtraud Morgner wrote that she and Helga Schutz would be happy to be WiG's guests in 1984! This is an exciting possibility—as Karen Achberger said, two are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt; than twice as much as one! we have only just begun to investigate possible sources of funding to finance their trip, but again, we must be pre­pared to contribute a considerable amount—at the very least, the price of one round-trip plane ticket. Assuming that our membership supports the idea of bringing these two authors to our conference, the steering committee has dis­cussed the advisability of holding the WiG conference on the East Coast again in 1984—since travel to the West Coast would drastically increase the expenses of the guest authors, what are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; opinions on this? Also, if you have any good ideas for fund-raising, please write to the newsletter, or to Martha Wallach (U. of Wisconsin, Green Bay).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG YEARBOOK PROJECT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As agreed at the WiG business meeting at MLA, the steering committee is moving ahead with plans to produce a WiG 1982 yearbook. As you probably remember, this project was first proposed at the WiG conference in Boston. The yearbook will be a collection of papers selected from those sent in by the presenters at WiG 1982, WiG/AATG 1982, and WiG MLA 1982. All presenters have been sent a memo inviting them to send in their papers to be considered for inclusion in this volume by 1 May 1983. (WIG yearbook, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Editors and referees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The steering committee members recommend that the yearbook be co-edited by two WiG members, we also think the yearbook should be a refereed publication, since most institutions discount unrefereed publications in tenure and promotion decisions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard (U. Illinois), who edited the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amsterdamer Beiträge&lt;/span&gt; 1980 special issue on Women and German Literature (Gestaltet und Gestaltend* Frauen in der deutschen Literatur), is willing to be one of the co-editors, provided that WiG members have no objection, we would welcome volunteers or nominations for the other co-editor. If we don't receive any, the steering committee will find someone willing so that the necessary work will get done.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concerning &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;referees,&lt;/span&gt; we think that each paper sent in should be reviewed by a WiG member (after all, who is better qualified to evaluate feminist research in Germanistik than we are?). The referee would provide written comments on the paper she reviews, recommending either: a) that the paper be published as sent; b) that the paper be revised according to specific suggestions before being published; or c) that the paper not be Included in the yearbook. The co-editors would make the final decision. The author of the paper will receive a copy of the referee's comments.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WE ARE ASKING YOU, the members of WiG, to volunteer to review papers for the yearbook (except, of course, those planning to send in papers themselves). It would make it &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;much&lt;/span&gt; easier for the co-editors if they had a list of willing folks to choose from. Send Marianne a copy of your CV and say what areas of research you feel most competent to review. Do this by 1 May 1983. It would also be good to tell Marianne your summer travel plans. Address: Marianne Burkhard,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Publisher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne contacted the University Press of America. According to their brochure, and what we learned from participants in the Annual GDR Symposium (whose pro­ceedings are published by UPA), they offer organizations the opportunity to publish "on a timely basis and at a reasonable cost." The finished book is said to be available within 8 to 10 weeks of "camera-ready" manuscript submission.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The "reasonable cost" is as follows; the organization (i.e., us) must place a minimum order for 85 paperback copies at a 10% discount. (No other subvention is required). We think selling 85 copies in an organization of almost 300 members shouldn't be too difficult!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We see this first WiG yearbook as a pilot project, and plan to review and evaluate our procedures at the October 1983 WIG conference. In the meantime, let us know if you have comments, questions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TEXTBOOK COMMITTEE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linda Pickle writes that she has received most of the textbook reviews that were promised her, and expects the others soon. Since there are too many reviews to publish in one issue of the newsletter, we have decided to publish them all (textbook committee, coat.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;together. They will be mailed to all of you as a sort of supplement to the newsletter later this semester.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SYLLABI PROJECT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sydna (Bunny) Weiss and Sidonie Cassirer volunteered to collect syllabi from feminist courses wiG members have taught. Bunny wrote that she had applied for, and was granted, financial support from the Kirkland Endowment to fund the first part of the project—mailing the survey to all WiG members and to WS programs in the U.S. Also, there is a good chance that Hamilton College will help WiG fund publication of the results! Please respond promptly to the sur­vey when you receive it. (Note to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;new&lt;/span&gt; WiG members; if you joined WiG later than Nov. 1982, your name and address aren't on the mailing list Bunny has.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her address: German Dept., Hamilton college, Clinton, NY 13323).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NON-PROFIT STATUS           -&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Encouraged by the WiG steering committee and sundry others, Jeanette is going to file an application to incorporate WiG as a not-for-profit organization.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The major advantage of that status for us seems to be financial: we'll be eligible for a lower bulk mail rate, we'll have tax-exempt status, and we'll also be eligible for certain grants and the like that aren't available to other organizations or to individuals. To get this status, of course, we have to invest a little money: a $26. filing fee and the attorney's fee (about $125.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FINANCIAL REPORT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Jan. - Dec. 1982) — from Jeanette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I thought you'd be interested in seeing where our money goes, so I've prepared a report for the calendar year 1982. since I've only been handling the money since August 1981, I can't say whether 1982 was a "typical" year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During 1982 we spent $1508.90, almost exactly the amount received in membership/ subscription income ($1512.50).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A big expense is typing, duplicating and postage for the newsletter and other mailings (e.g. calls for papers; the announcement of the Christa Wolf meeting mailed in Nov. 1982; outreach mailings), it may be possible to cut down these expenses somewhat, but keeping WiG members informed will continue to be a first priority. I made a decision to send all mailings involving a deadline (such as the August newsletter, which includes the conference program and registration form) by first class mail. Bulk mail is too slow and too unpredictable (can take 6 weeks or more for some members) when a deadline is involved. By next fall, I should have access to a word processor, and will try to develop a space-saving format for the newsletter, to reduce duplicating costs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concerning other expenses, I've asked the steering committee for advice and will be glad to receive suggestions from anyone else. So far, the only thing we (steering committee) have agreed on is not to have a separate cash bar at MLA again (cost was $100.21 for 1982), but rather to see if WiG can co-sponsor one with another organization, perhaps the Women's Caucus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(financial report, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thia report &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;doesn't&lt;/span&gt; include income or expenses for the 1982 WLG conference in Boston, except that the money left over from WIG 1981 ($268.38, received Oct. 1982) was turned over to Joey Horsley to add to the travel reimbursement fund (for those who had to travel long distances to the 1982 conference and weren't eligible for travel money from their institution). All conference expenses, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Luise Rinser's honorarium, were paid for with Income from conference registration fees.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tablecaption0"&gt;Money Received&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;INCOME BREAKDOWN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also tried to do a breakdown by membership categories of the membership/ subscription income received during 1982. For various reasons, my records aren't complete. Sometimes I forget to record &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;when&lt;/span&gt; I deposited someone's check, or I neglect to write down &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;how much&lt;/span&gt; someone paid. Other reasons why totals don't come out as expected are charges deducted by the credit union for handling a non-U.S. check, and checks received for amounts other than those specified for the various membership categories. The information I'm reasonably sure of is: (financial report, cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This adds up to 177 payments totalling $1490.00, which accounts for most of the menberShip/subscription income received in 1982. Again, I can't say how "typical" a year this was.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also have records of 40 subscribers who were dropped from the mailing list during 1982, either because their mail was returned to us or because they didn't respond to renewal notices.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DEPARTMENTAL SPONSORS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Remember the new membership category "departmental sponsors" introduced last November? So far, WiG has two such sponsors; the German Department at Ohio State University, Columbus; and (surprise) the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Indiana-Purdue, Fort Wayne. See the membership form at the end of the newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BACK ISSUES OF WIG&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Occasionally new subscribers (or even renewing ones) express an interest in receiving back issues of the newsletter. Most back issues are available in varying quantities, or copies can be made if the supply runs out. For some reason, though, I have &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; copy of issue 18 (Feb. or March 1979), and i*d very much appreciate it if someone who has a complete set would xerox that one and send it to me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i'll be happy to send back issues to anyone who requests them and is willing to pay the postage. To give you an idea, it would cost about a dollar to mail the three 1982 issues (Nos. 27, 28, 29). The earliest issues, from 1975, are very interesting to anyone wanting to know more about WLG's beginnings. —So, if you want back issues, write to me, Jeanette Clausen, at the newsletter address. Be sure to state how many you want (give issue numbers if you can).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CHRISTA WOLF&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As many of you already know, Christa Wolf will not be at OSU for the entire spring quarter, as originally planned. The April 9 meeting with her is can­celled, She will not be present at the conference on women, fascism, every­day life in Germany (April 28-30, 1983), which will take place as planned except for her participation. She will be at OSU in May, but will do &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; speaking engagements. So ist es eben. Ich wühte nicht, was da noch zu sagen ware.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;By all accounts, the WLG sessions at MLA were well attended—too well, since over 200 people came to the film (Margareta von Trotta's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die blelerne Zeit) &lt;/span&gt;and the room had to be changed to accommodate them all; as a result, the session for presentation of papers was delayed, and the discussion didn't end until ' 11:30 p.m. Moral of the story: ask for a BIG room when scheduling a film showing. Marjorie Tussing prepared a useful handout with summaries of the&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;papers and a filmography on von Trotta, which was distributed at the session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sorry, the handout isn’t available for inclusion In this newsletter but you&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;might write to Marjorie for a copy if you need one (Dept. of Foreign Lang, and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lit., California State U. at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92634). Marjorie also&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;wrote that &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Film Quarterly&lt;/span&gt; had asked for a short write-up of the session, which&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;she sent them in February. Thanks to Marjorie for all her work in organitlag&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the program; thanks are also due to the Consulate of the Federal Republic of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Germany, Los Angeles and the Goethe Institute, San Francisco for their support.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAIRY TALES IN THE CLASSROOM, chaired by Bunny Weiss (Hamilton College) and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wilma Iggers (Canisius college).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bunny writes that the session, held on Thanksgiving evening, attracted about 40 people and the papers sparked a very lively discussion. The presentations were:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Barry (SUNY, Buffalo), "Female Archetypes in Marchen and the Classroom."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Images such as the witch, the seductress and the waif appear so frequently that it is important for both male and female students to understand what these images of women represent psychologically to the reader as well as to the writer and the culture as a whole. The archetypes are examined from a psychological point of view, and ways of dealing with them in the classroom are discussed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria M. Tatar (Harvard U.), "From Nags to Witches* The Stepmother in Fairy Tales." The witch in the woods who habitually menaces the protagonists of fairy tales often figures as a distorted mirror image of the stepmother at home. The paper explores the various transformations of the (step)mother in fairy tales and analyzes her dual role as witch and as enchantress. It attempts to show how the stepmother motif can serve as a point of departure for classroom dis­cussion of family structures in fairy tales.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cora Lee Nollendorfs (U. Wisconsin, Madison), "Fairy Tales as Ways of&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learning: Approaches and Methods." The paper discusses the use of fairy tales in German classes at three levels, elementary language instruction; intermediate language Instruction; introduction to literary analysis. It outlines advantages to the use of fairy tales over other types of texts, and points out problems with the language of fairy tales and with their subject matter, especially stereotyped figures, it presents as examples ways in which several of the Grimm Marchen can be used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAIRY TALE MOTIFS IN MODERN GERMAN/AUSTRIAN LITERATURE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sue Bottigheimer (Princeton University), summation. In each of the papers    «&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;a fantasy world functions as a second, true reality. Most female figures appear to represent autonomous figures. Umfunktlonlerung of traditional fairy tale figures reveals shifting perceptions of these figures, and finally, such revisionist efforts are part of an ongoing tradition in fairy tale studies in general, not only by feminists, but also by Marxists, Freudians, Jungians, and social historians.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Liselotte Weingant (Lake Forest College), "Barabara Frischmuths Soziale Zaubergeschichten." in the trilogy &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Mystifikation der Sophie Silber&lt;/span&gt; (1976), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Amy oder die Metamorphose&lt;/span&gt; (1978), and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kai Oder die Liebe&lt;/span&gt; zu &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;den Modellen&lt;/span&gt; (1979), Frischmuth utilizes elements from the fantasy world of fairy tales, especially by peopling her novel with characters from the fairy realm, as a descriptive medium for feminine reality. To help earthlings (die Enterischen), fairies take on human form and slowly lose touch with the harmonious world from which they came. The author's intention is to sharpen the reader's awareness of his/her own world, and prepare him/her to create it anew.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Renate Delphendahl (University of Maine), "The Alienated Self in *Undine Geht*." Growing out of the long tradition of Undine-Melusine figures,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bachmann's Undine represents the transfiguration and disappearance of the old figure. Her alienation in the world of loneliness and anguish parallels woman's alienation in a world of men. Furthermore, Undine rejects the language of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;men; her silence may be interpreted as Bachmann's verdict that women have no voice within the system.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Karen Achberger (Saint Olaf College), "Beyond Language: Ingeborg Bachmann and Fairytales." While Bachmann's works often appear dark on the surface, at the level of realistic plot, for example, the actual utopian thrust of her prose lies beneath the surface in a mythical, musical, dream-drenched sub­structure of poetic allusions, often to fairytale characters, events, and relationships. Within her work one finds examples of fairytale motifs taken over unaltered, of role reversals, and total reworkings (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Umfunktionierungen) &lt;/span&gt;of fairytales, as well as "home-made" (mythopoetic) fantasies which Bachmann has created herself. Decoding these allusions to fairytales is crucial to understanding Bachmann's prose, which is informed by a tension between surface and subtext, that is between reality and a utopian vision beneath the surface of her prose.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Joanna Ratych (Rutgers University), "Use Alchlngers inquisitive Dwarfs."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;A large number of traditional feiry tale elements--dwarfs, seclusion in hermetically sealed places—appear in Aichinger's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dialogs&lt;/span&gt;. She uses these to integrate the phenomena of the everyday world with those of the world of magic, achieving the effect of distancing the phenomena of the everyday world in the eyes of the reader. Furthermore these fairy tale motifs function to reveal the problematic conditions in which growth and maturing take place.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG/AATF/ACTFL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MAINSTREAMING THE FL CURRICULUM: FEMALE AND MALE STEREOTYPING IN BEGINNING- LEVEL TEACHING MATERIALS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(One-day pre-conference workshop, Nov. 1982)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara D. Wright (U. Conn., Storrs)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The purposes of the workshop, which Betty Schmitz (Bozeman, Montana) and I organized, were: 1) to review progress made in removing sexism from teaching materials since the mid-1970's; (2) to identify problems that still exist; and (3) to propose new approaches and solutions based on recent research in Women's Studies. The morning session consisted of a keynote address by Peggy McIntosh&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Director of Faculty Development, Wellesley Center for Research on Women), and presentations by Betty and myself. The afternoon was spent evaluating indi­vidual textbooks according to the guidelines of an evaluative instrument devel­oped by Betty.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WS and the Liberal Arts Curriculum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Peggy McIntosh emphasized that WS is profoundly altering our conception of liberal arts by asking how every academic discipline would change if it reflected the fact that women are half the world's population, and by investi­gating areas of human endeavor that have remained "invisible" up to now. She outlined the ways disciplines change when a WS perspective is applied, giving examples from history (focus not just on changes associated with "great" men, but also on unchanging fabric of everyday life); political science (attention to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;informal&lt;/span&gt; structures of smaller social and political units rather than to men in formal power structures); art history (homecrafts, interior decorating, etc. rather than only a canon of "masterpieces"); and literature (besides necessary attention to "notable" women authors, also works in "pre-" or "sub-" literary genres, which may provide an alternative to the prevailing--male—world view); Peggy's remarks made clear that current FL textbooks, whether they emphasize "notables" and "masterpieces" or everyday life and social customs, don't even come close to taking into account the presence or contribution of women as 50% of a given society. WS gives us both the conceptual tools and the factual information for publishers and authors to draw on in order to create a more balanced, accurate picture. Also, publishers, authors and teachers must be open to ongoing réévaluation and change, since a bias that has persisted so long can't be corrected in the course of one or two new editions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Convincing the Unbelievers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My talk began by following up on what Peggy had said concerning the teaching of culture. I have encountered many objections to teaching culture as she recommends that it be done. The four categories of objections and my responses to them are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1)   "But that's the way it really is." (our obligation to students to portray a given culture as it "really" is, not as we would like to have it). To this, I respond that, first, our texts must present an accurate picture of what women in that culture &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;really&lt;/span&gt; think and do, not what they are commonly believed to think or do. Second, when portraying women in "traditional" roles, we must communicate the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;value&lt;/span&gt; of the labor and services they provide—the homemaker or mother must not become the object of trivialization, humor or criticism, as has happened in the past. Third, when we encounter a seemingly undeniable cultural stereotype, we must still ask to what extent it reflects only a male perspective.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2)   The "good PR" argument: it's essential for FL to "win" students by presenting an attractive picture of country, culture and people (by implication, showing&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;too much poverty or social inequity is "bad" PR). I believe this argument is ultimately self-defeating: students sense the inauthenticity of many of our texts and react with boredom or disinterest. We can't deliberately mislead them on the one hand, then expect them to trust us when we speak of the aspects of a culture that we admire. 3) "But it's good pedagogy for students to be able to identify with the people or subject matter they study." (hence, pre­sumably, the preponderance in FL textbooks of young, healthy, attractive, white, middle-class professionals-to-be). Here, we must ask "good for whom?" FL classes generally have more female than male students, yet male characters&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;consistently outnumber females in textbooks. Also, student populations are becoming more varied—and older--each year. We can no longer assume (if we ever could) that all FL learners will "identify" with the insipid post-adolescent concerns of so many textbook characters. 4) The "simplicity" argument: learning a FL and getting acquainted with a foreign culture are challenging enough without adding extra difficulties. Here, I think it is important to distinguish between legitimate simplification and irresponsible distortion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To leave unchallenged the stereotype of the German nuclear-family Hausfrau is no more defensible than letting students think all German men run around in Lederhosen. By incorporating the richness and vigor of WS research into the cultural component of our FL textbooks, we will have an intellectually stimu­lating, pedagogically responsible alternative to the predictable "explicit" cultural messages of FL texts, and a powerful antidote to their extraordinarily impoverished &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;implicit&lt;/span&gt; cultural messages as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Cultural and Linguistic Connections&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I then turned to the connection I see between FL teaching and recent research by feminist linguists in discourse analysis, which has led to a better understanding of the differences between women's and men's speech. FL textbooks reflect an overwhelmingly "male" use of language, with emphasis on transmission of infor­mation and problem solving, and neglect of other uses. Yet McConnell-Ginet writes (in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Language in Literature and Society)&lt;/span&gt; that transfer of infor­mation is probably not the predominant use of language even outside literary contexts. She suggests, rather, that we talk above all to relate ourselves to others. When we look from McConnell-Ginet’s point of view at language as it is taught in current FL textbooks, we register the absence of countless phenomena of everyday speech* hedges and tag questions, "empty" adjectives, fillers, vocalized pauses. Dialogues students are expected to memorize contain almost nothing of the conversational dynamics that linguists have documented: topic initiation, interruption or switch of topic; conversation as a model for competitive or collaborative activity; and the sustaining of conversation by means of gambits, mediations, leading questions, interjections and the like (work, incidentally, which is shared in single-sex groups but which falls overwhelmingly to women in mixed-sex groups). Little attention is paid in most texts to the expression of strong emotion, to the subtleties and indirectness which characterize the speech of many women, or to the vast range of styles within a language: the language of intimacy, of newstelling or gossip, of irony, bawdy humor, storytelling and so on. As a result, students learn a bloodless and impoverished language, and gain no insight into the style they use in their native language, or into the conversational dynamics in which they themselves participate daily. If study of FL can teach students something of this, then they will have learned a powerful lesson indeed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Evaluating Available Materials&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Betty Schmitz explained that though progress has been made in the last decade in improving the image of women and minorities in teaching materials, the prob­lem is far from gone. She identified four aspects: 1) publishers' guidelines have not been systematically or consistently applied; 2) the new material on women added to textbooks has not been effectively integrated throughout the book; 3) a new generation of authors and editors is emerging with no knowledge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;or consciousness of bias in textbooks, or with the perception that recent textbook revisions have distorted the reality of the target culture; and 4) the more subtle and pervasive forms of bias in language and culture have not been addressed. She identified six forms of bias in curricular materials;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) exclusion, 2) stereotyping, 3) linguistic bias, 4) fragmentation or isolation, 5) unreality, and 6) historical inaccuracy or incompleteness. The first four of these are relatively easy for most of us to identify. Analysis for realism and historical accuracy would require specific expertise and a considerable time investment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During the afternoon session, participants used Betty's evaluative instrument to examine individual textbooks in French, German, Italian and Spanish, and concluded with a discussion of what we had found and how the texts could be improved. The wrap-up discussion was chaired by Michel Grimaud (French, Wellesley College). Though enrollment was not all we had hoped for, we were very pleased to have representatives from two publishing companies with us; Houghton Mifflin and Scott Foreman. Participants praised the workshop for the quality of the presentations and for the wealth of new insights it had given them. Just recently, Madeline Gutwirth of the MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession asked us whether we would be willing to repeat the workshop at the 1983 convention in New York, and the commission is now considering whether to sponsor us.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;(The following reaction to the Boston conference was received too late for the November newsletter)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Some reactions of an old-timer&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;who hasn't been for awhile&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So many conferences, however stimulating, deplete and exhaust one's energy. However tired I was after our 4-day Thompson Island conference, I was not depleted, nor exhausted. After a couple years' absence from our meetings, I was grateful to learn firsthand that we have managed to keep our original goals intact. We had, so long ago, at the MLA in S.F., 1975, decided to always con­vene in an informal atmosphere, one that would allow us to be supportive as we exchanged ideas and experiences—and Thompson Island was just such a setting. More than that, though, I could see that though we have grown considerably and though we now have a fairly large steering committee, WIG still retains and maintains its original intent. The Organizational structure of the steering committee encourages an impressive openness, never becoming a cumbersome burden overshadowing our aims.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The impressions that remain with me are varied and mostly encouraging. Aside from the numerous personal contacts I renewed, and the energy and encouragement I gained from the many diverse papers and presentations, I felt a particular pleasure in being able to bring along my daughter Alyssa (her first WIG was in Ohio at 4 months of age). Having her along really meant combining those often at odds characters of mother and professional; it meant, too, the unex­pected pleasure of sharing with those women, whom I had known professionally a long time, what they, too, experience as mothers. It was a sort of "coming out". Joey Horsley and Barbara Wright deserve all our thanks for their&lt;br /&gt; (some reactions...cont.) tremendous talents in organizing everything—not the least, for me, was day­care. It enabled me to listen to papers, enter discussions, exchange ideas and information and also to enjoy myself. &lt;i&gt;My&lt;/i&gt; grateful thanks to WIG for pro­viding child care. Having Alyssa along let me integrate my work with my life in a way that I've not been able to do before and many of my colleagues in various departments where I teach have expressed great enthusiasm for what WIG continues to do in a ground-breaking way. Although I think we can pat ourselves on our backs for this, there remain, nonetheless, some unspoken dilemmas. For the parent it frequently means a feeling of isolation as others naturally are preoccupied with the business at hand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our conference was so full that I've already exceeded my space limit without mentioning everything I wanted to. Let me then be brief in my conclusion: our ongoing effort to include inter-disciplinary views by inviting non-German speaking participants, as well as those professionally active in Germany, continues to be stimulating and exciting; our lengthy discussion on which language to use seemed unnecessarily divisive and I was glad to see us resolve it in an open manner (it seems to have been an "unspeakable"?!); did we realize the tremendous effort Patsy Baudoin (of Schoenhof's bookstore)--herself a Ph.D. candidate in Comp. Lit.—made in hauling all those great books to the island?!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What more can I say? —Plenty, mostly thanks to all those of you who have done ail the nitty-gritty work these past years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Charlotte Ärmster Dartmouth College&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;STIMME SUCHEN, STIMME FINDEN&lt;br /&gt; Oct. 13-16, 1983&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thompson Island, Boston&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The overall theme, "Stimme suchen, Stimme finden," is meant to encompass a wide spectrum of issues, ranging from being able to speak loudly enough to be heard, to speaking the "unspeakable," finding an authentic personal/professional voice in speaking and writing, and contributions from contemporary critical and theo­retical work on gender, voice, Öffentlichkeit, etc. to feminist work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14, morning. Interdisciplinary Panel, "Stimme suchen." Feminist Perspec­tives on Wbrk from Other Disciplines. Presentations in English. Inquiries or proposals to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;; Helen Fehervary, German Dept., OSU, Columbus, OH 43210 and Judith Jamieson, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 April 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14, afternoon. "Fiction, Fantasy and Freedom: Testing the Limits in Post-War Women's Literature." Presentations in German. Three-page abstract or&lt;br /&gt; (calls for papers cont.) detailed outline to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Dagmar Lorenz, German Dept., OSU, Columbus, OH 43210, and Barbara D. Wright, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, U. Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;15 May 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14, evening. Consciousness-Rais&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ing session. Topic; Rape and Sexual &lt;/span&gt;Assault. Inquiries to; Alnut Poole,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 15, morning. "Stimme finden.” (1) Ten-minute presentations in German or English on practical strategies for success in finding a voice in the classroom and the university. (2) Role-playing of solutions to problems in classroom and university. Abstracts for (1) or/andescription^of problem Situations for (2) to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both; Irmgard Taylor,&lt;/span&gt;                                        |                                                       and Jeannine&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 15, evening. Reading by Barbara Frischmuth, followed by discussion. Coordinator: Karen Achberger, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 16, morning. "Lost Voices, New voices." the "canon." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Inquiries&lt;/span&gt; or proposals to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both;&lt;/span&gt; Dorothy Rosenberg,and Resa Dudovitz,&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;For more detailed information, see the November issue of the WiG newsletter or contact the respective session organizers.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanksgiving Weekend San Francisco, CA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;(Literary). "Women and Peace." Edith Potter, Dept. of German, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 91711, and Jorun B. Johns, Dept. of Foreign Languages, California State college, San Bernardino, CA 92407. Deadline for proposals was 1 March 1983.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;(Pedagogical). "Teaching About Women and Peace." Helga Kraft, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, U. Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, and Ric Johnson, Dept. of Mod. For. Lang., Indiana U.-Purdue U., FW, Fort Wayne, IN 46805. Deadline for proposals was 1 March 1983.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1983&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;December 27-30, 1983&lt;br /&gt; New York, NY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Women Making Literary History: The New Generation of Women Writers in the German Democratic Republic." Patricia Herminghouse, Dept. of Germanic (calls for papers cont.)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Languages and Literatures, Washington U., St. Louis, MO 63130, and Renate Delphendahi, Dept. of Foreign Langs, and Classics, U. Maine, Orono, ME 04473. Deadline was 1 March 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Feminist Re-Visions of Literary History." Treatment of women authors by literary historians, women and the literary canon, traditional périodisation and women writers, etc. Paper^or abstracts to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Barbel Becker-Cantarino, Dept. of Germanic Langs.,      U. Texas, Austin, TX 78712, and Sieglinde&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lug, Dept. of For. Langs, and Lits., U. Denver, Denver, ÇO 80208, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 May 1983&lt;/span&gt;. Other programs planned for MLA 1983;                                                          &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Critical Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann." A Special Session Conmemorating the Tenth Anniversary of Her Death. Though Bachmann's name comes up during almost every discussion at WiG meetings, there has not yet been a session de­voted entirely to her life and work. This MLA special session, long overdue, will include an overview of Bachmann scholarship and feminist (re-)appraisals of her work. Abstracts to; Karen Achberger, Dept. of German, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;20 March 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Brecht and Women," program planned by the International Brecht Society for MLA 1983. A continuation of the discussion at MLA 1982, the topic Brecht and women will also be the subject of a special issue of the Brecht Yearbook. For 1983, we are especially (but not exclusively) interested in a focus on the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;mother figure&lt;/span&gt; in Brecht's work. Preferred language is English. Graduate students, actors, directors and political activists are encouraged to participate. It would be wise to write a short version (10-20 min.) for oral delivery and a longer version, if youwishjforpossiblepublication. Abstracts to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Patty Lee Parmalee, and Janelle Reinelt, by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;15 May 1983&lt;/span&gt;. Deadline for&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;final copy is 1 September 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Please Remember&lt;/span&gt;; potential speakers for the 1983 convention must be listed on the MLA membership rolls by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 April 1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;IVG 1985, in Gottingen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Message from Marianne Burkhard.                                                          .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Internationale Vereinigung filr germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (IVG) will hold its 7th Congress from August 25-31, 1985, in Gbttingen. Prep­arations for the program are already underway. IVG has about 1000 members from all over the world, and holds a congress every 5 years presenting a cross-section of the "state of the art." Since participation by women panelists in 1980 left something to be desired and presentation of feminist perspectives was almost absent, WiG should make a concerted effort to change this for 1985. There are several things we can do;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Become members of IVG; dues are DM 100.- for 5 years, not an exorbitant sum when considering MLA dues for one year. Members will pay a substantially reduced conference registration in Gottingen. Applications for Beitragsermassigung Oder -erlass are being accepted; whether they are easily granted I don't know.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;(IVG 1985, in Gottingen cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Propose topics for a) entire sections, and b) individual papers.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the general topic is known: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kontroversen, alte und neue&lt;/span&gt;. This summer there will be a sort of seminar in which the specific sections or fora will be further delineated. At the end of 1983 the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Vorankündigung&lt;/span&gt; will be mailed to members.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Propose names of women who could be tapped for the (probably)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;6-8 &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenarvortrage,&lt;/span&gt; for chairing sections, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I propose the following things for now; please send me your ideas for specific &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;sections&lt;/span&gt; by April 25. I will then condense them and send a letter to IVG pro­posing that these topics be considered this summer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also send me names of people for chairing them as well as for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenarvortrage&lt;/span&gt;. Probably we should suggest that one &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenaryortag&lt;/span&gt; be a feminist statement, i.e. present a feminist view of either a particular field or discuss feminist con­tributions on a larger scale. Of course, we don't know the general topics of these &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Plenarvortrage&lt;/span&gt; yet, but it would be good to offer topics and people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next winter it will be up to all of us to send in proposals for papers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let me hear from you—it is time that we appear on this international scene as a new &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;generation offering new and exciting perspecti&lt;/span&gt;ves! MY address;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address of IVG: IVG, Sekretariat, Nikolausberger Weg 15, D - 3400 Gottingen. (I will get a supply of registration forms so you can also get them from me in some weeks.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONFERENCES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THIRD WORLD WOMEN AND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES, April 9-13, 1983, U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For information^ Conference Coordinators, Office for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Resources and Services,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CONDITION AND CONSCIOUSNESS. An International Conference on German Women in the 18th and 19th centuries, April 15-17, 1983, Nolte Center for Continuing Education, U. Minn., Minneapolis. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For information; Les&lt;/span&gt;lie A. Denn&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;y, Program Coordinator, Dept. of Conferences,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN at NEMLA, April 14-16, 1983, in Erie, PA. Program on "Literary Representations of the Woman Revolutionary in the Literature of the FRG," Friday, April 15, 8:30-10:00 am. Chaired by Liselotte Kuntz, U. Georgia, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic, Athens, GA 30602.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN, FASCISM, EVERYDAY LIFE IN GERMANY, April 28-30^983^&amp;gt;hio State U. For information: Helen Fehervary, Dept. of German,                                                       OSU, Columbus,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OH 43210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(conferences cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINISTISCHE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT: ZUM VERHÄLTNIS VON FRAUENBILDERN UND FRAUENLITERATUR, May 24-28, 1983, in Hamburg. For Information; Inge Stephan/ Sigrid Weigel, Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar, 2 &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hamburg&lt;/span&gt; 13, Von Melle Park 6, FRG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN IN THE RENAISSANCE, The Newberry Library, May 20-21, 1983. For information: Mary Beth Rose, Center for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Renaissance Stud&lt;/span&gt;ies, rhe Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINIST EDUCATION: QUALITY AND EQUALITY. Fifth Annual National Women’s Studies Association Convention, June 26-30, 1983, in Columbus, OH. For more detailed information see &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women’s Studies Quarterly,&lt;/span&gt; Vol. X, No. 4 (Winter 1982), p. 40. For conference information and registration: Marie Longene&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;cker and Suzanne &lt;/span&gt;Hyers, Convention Coordinators, Center for Women’s Studies,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OSU, 230 West 17th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RECENT ARTICLES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women * s Studies International Forum&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. 5, #6 (1982), Special Issue, "Reassessments of *First Wave’ Feminism,” contains several articles on women and feminism in Germany:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ute Gerhard, "A hidden and complex heritage: reflections on the history of Germany's women's movements,” pp. 561-567.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christel Wickert, Brigitte Hamburger and Marie Lienau, "Helen Stocker and the Bund fur Matterschutz," pp. 611-18.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marion Kaplan, "Prostitution, morality crusades and feminism: German-Jewish feminists and the campaign against white slavery," pp. 619-627.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renate Duelli-Klein, "Accounts of 'first wave' feminism in Germany by German feminists," pp. 691-696.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The publishing offices of WSIF are; (for North A&lt;/span&gt;merica) Pergamon Press, Inc.,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;________________________________________________  (for the rest of the world)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, OX3 OBW, U.K.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recent German articles in English translation in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;off our backs&lt;/span&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Down With Social Work; German Feminists Criticize the Politics of Shelters," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;oob&lt;/span&gt; Nov. 1982, pp. 18-19. (first appeared in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;, July 1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interview, "A Jewish Feminist in Germany: Many Reasons to Leave, But Many Reasons to Stay," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;oob&lt;/span&gt; Jan. 1983, pp. 12-13.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;******&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(recent articles cont.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A forthcoming issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt; will contain an English translation interview with Christa Wolf, "Kultur ist, was gelebt wird," in which she dis­cusses &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Rein &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ort. Nirgends&lt;/span&gt;, The interview first appeared in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Alternative&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;FORTHCOMING: third, revised edition of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Annotated Guide to Women’s Periodicals&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;the U.S, and Canada. For orderin&lt;/span&gt;g information, write to T. Mehlman,&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;LOST WIGGIES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mail for the following people has been returned marked "undeliverable." Information as to whether they still wish to receive the newsletter would be appre­ciated. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anneliese M. Duncan                            Susan Cocalis&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Report of WiG 1982 from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;, December 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Germanistinnen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;unter sich&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Thompson Island, eine grüne Insel, gelegen im Hafen von Bo­ston, rundum die Stadtsilhouette. Ich sitze in einem Raum mit 50 bis 60 Frauen; wir diskutieren Fragen feministischer Wissen­schaft und Erfahrungen aus dem Alltag von Frauen, die als Germa­nistinnen an Colleges und Univer­sitäten der USA lehren (oder stu­dieren). Anlaß ist die 7. Jahresta­gung von „Women in German". Dieser Verband ist ein Forum zum Austausch von Erfahrungen und Arbeitsergebnissen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Trotz der idyllischen Lage und .der außergewöhnlichen Zusam­menkunft entsteht kein Insel-Ge­fühl, wie es mich oft bei Frauen- Wochenendseminaren oder Frae- enwochen beschleicht — in der Vorahnung des „Realitätsschocks" bei der Rückkehr in den patriar­chalischen Arbeitstag. Es sind nicht die durchs Fenster sichtba­ren Wolkenkratzer, die an die Wirklichkeit erinnern. Es ist das Selbstbewußtsein, die Selbstver­ständlichkeit, z.T. auch der Prag­matismus der Beteiligten, denen man anmerkt, daß sie ihre Arbeit weniger außerhalb bzw. am Rande der Institutionen machen als die&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Frauen in der BRD. Es ist auch ei­ne Atmosphäre der Sicherheit, die aus der Geschichte des Verbandes kommt, der inzwischen ein recht gutes Kommunikationsnetz hat und an die wichtigsten akademi­schen und Fachorganisationen an­geschlossen ist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Vor sieben Jahren ist „Women in German" gegründet worden, in­zwischen hat der Verband ca.280 Mitglieder, überwiegend Frauen, einige wenige Männer, die sich mit Frauenliteratur beschäftigen. Das Ziel ist die Institutionalisierung und das Bemühen, Positionen an den Universitäten, aber auch in Fachzeitschriften und -verbänden zu erlangen, um Women’s Studies, feministische.Forschungiund auch einzelne Frauen fördern zu kön­nen. Inzwischen sind etliche Mit­glieder Professorinnen oder sitzen an Stellen, wo sie wissenschafts­politische Entscheidungen beein­flussen können. Mit 10% Frauen unter den Lehrenden an Colleges und Universitäten ist die Situation um einiges besser als in der BRD (3% in der Prof.-Gruppe).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Auf dieser Jahrestagung ging es um folgende Themen: Femini­stische Wissenschaft, Rapdbewe- gungen im deutschen Sprachraum, gibt es eine .weibliche Germani­stik'? Aussprechen des Unaus­&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Verhältnisse auffallend .pluralisti­sche’ Umgang mit Differenzen be­fremdend: faszinierend und ange­nehm, wie tolerant und ohne Drang zur Selbstdarstellung dis­kutiert wurde und wie sachlich und unbürokratisch gemeinsame Entscheidungen in einem großen Plenum gelangen; schön auch zu sehen, wie offen für die Inter. essen anderer sich die meisten zeigten, unverständlich aber auch, wie schnell einzelne von ihren&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Vorschlägen abließen,.                         ,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sigrid Weigel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;P.S. Ein ähnlicher Kongreß soll vom 24.-28.Mai 83 in Hamburg stattfinden mit dem Thema: „Fe­ministische Literaturwissenschaft zum Verhältnis von Frauenbildern und Frauenliteratur".&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kontakt: Inge Stephan/Sigrid Weigel, Literaturwissenschaftll- ches Seminat, 2 Hamburg 13, Von Melle Park 6&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Schoenhof’s&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;CSTABLISHCO 188«                  &amp;lt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;SCHOENHOF’S FOREIGN BOOKS, INC. BOOKSELLERS - IMPORTERS - PUBLISHERS 1280 MASS. AVE.                                                          CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 02138&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fiction by women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Arnim, Bettina von&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Gunderode&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Insel&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;17.60 (hard)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Behrens, Katja (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Vom Lob der Frau&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Insel&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;13.75 (hard)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Kamenko, Vera&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Unter uns war Krieg&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Rotbuch&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5.20&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Jannberg, Judith&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Ich bin ich&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F3735&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5.20&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Novak, Helga&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Eisheiligen&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F5068&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Balladen vom kurzen Prozess&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Rotbuch&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Landnahme von Torre Bela&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Offenbach, Judith&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Sonja&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;st 668&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Reinig, Christa&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;SL 253&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;8.45&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Schroeder, Margtt&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Ich stehe meine Frau&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F1617&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;3.90&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Der Shlachter empfiehlt noch&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;immer Herz&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauenbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;9.75&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Wolf, Christa &amp;amp; Gerhard Till&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Eulenspiegel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;SL 435&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;8.45&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;         &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Non-fiction about women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Burmeister, Elisabeth (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen machen Frieden&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Laetere&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Hammer, Signe&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Tochter und Mutter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 3705&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5.20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Hausen, Karin (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen suchen ihre Geschichte&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Beck&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;13.00&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Meulenbett, Anja&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Feminismus und Sozialismus&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;konkret&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Radel, Jutta (ed.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Liebe Mutter, liebe Tochter:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauenbriefe aus Dreijahrhun-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;derten&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;ullst. 20230&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Schenk, Herrad&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen kommen ohne Waffen...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Beck&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;11.05&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Weigel, Sigrid et al.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauen, die pfeifen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;es 968&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;7.80&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Weigel, S. &amp;amp; Geiger, R.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Sind das noch Damen?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Frauenbuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;18.95&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;general &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;pedagogical interest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Erzählet Zeit: 50 Kurzgeschichten der Gegenwart&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Rec. 9996&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;7.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Wege der deutschen Literatur: ein Lesebuch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;ullst. 35062&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Deutsche Erzählungen des 19. Jahrhunderts&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;dtv 2099&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;8.45&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Deutsche Gedichte von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 2197&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;6.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Die Wiener Moderne! Literature, Musik &amp;amp; Kunst zwischen 1890 und 1910&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;rec. 7742&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;12.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Wendepunkte deutscher Geschihte&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 3421&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;4.55&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Blinn, Hansjürgen  Informationshaandbuch: deutsche Literaturwissenschaft&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;F 7318&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;11.05&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS from Emma, November 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;ommt ein neues Buch aus der amerikanischen Frauenbewe­gung auf den Markt, wird es meist erst dann gelesen, wenn eine deut­sche Übersetzung vorliegt. Der Blick ins Lexikon macht das Lesen be­schwerlich.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Diese Sammlung von Erfahrungsbe­richten lesbischer Jüdinnen aus Amerika habe ich allerdings sofort gelesen. Denn dieses Buch hätte in Deutschland nicht geschrieben wer­den können, und es ist sicher auch kein Zufall, daß es bislang nicht übersetzt worden ist. Die physische und kulturelle Ausrottung von Jü­dinnen und Juden während des Na­tionalsozialismus hat sich auch unter bundesrepublikanischen Verhältnis­sen soweit fortgesetzt, daß noch die jüngeren Generationen betroffen sind. Deutschland ist eben auch heutzutage kein Land, in dem Jüdin­nen eine eigene lesbische und femi­nistische Kultur entwickeln könnten. Und die deutsche Frauenbewegung ist kein Ort, wo Lesben und andere Frauen sich als Jüdinnen zusammen­finden. Es muß ganz kraß gesagt werden: Man kann in der bundes­deutschen Frauenbewegung Mutter sein, alleinstehend, kinderlos oder bärtig, asexuell, heterosexuell, be-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;mokratin, aber Jüdin kann man dort eigentlich nicht sein. Betretenes Schweigen, ratlose Gesichter, Pein­lichkeit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;„We don’t exist“, schreibt Evelyn Torton Beck in der Einleitung dieses Buches. Dennoch gibt es in den USA lesbische Jüdinnen, die über sich schreiben, die offensiv und ironisch sagen: „That’s funny, you don’t look like a jewish lesbian.“ Diese Frauen, Minderheit in der Frauenbewegung, Minderheit in der Lesbenbewegung und Minderheit in der jüdischen Gemeinschaft, konnten sich soweit zusammenfinden, daß sie selbst­bewußt über sich schreiben: Jüdische und lesbische Identität, Was bin ich für mich selbst?, Briefe aus Jerusa­lem, Juden im Patriarchat, Anti-Se- mitismus in der feministischen Be­wegung, schöne jüdische Frauen. „Nice Jewish Girls“ ist sicher kein brillantes Buch. Es bringt keine sen­sationellen Strategien und utopi­schen Wagnisse, aber viele Berichte sind voller Empfindsamkeit und Witz, Klugheit und Stolz. Es sollte auch hier möglichst bald erscheinen, damit die Diskussion beginnt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;VERA SLUPIK&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Nice Jewish Girls&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Evelyn Torton, Persephone Press&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Auf der Suche nach unseren Müttern&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hrsg, von Sara Lennox Luchterhand, 16,80 Mark &lt;/i&gt;Feministische Kulturkritik hat in Ame­rika nicht nur Tradition, sondern durch­aus Aktualität und Zukunft. Einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Tenden­zen der 70er Jahre bietet dieser Band, der, egal ob aus Zustimmung oder Kritik, die eingeschlafene Diskussion hierzu­lande wieder beleben könnte.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1 May 1983:&lt;/span&gt; Papers for possible publication in WiG Yearbook to Marianne Burkhard,&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;November 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Another WiG conference has come and gone. If I had to sum up WiG 1982 in a word--and thank goddess I don’t--I would probably choose &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;action&lt;/span&gt;. Not to describe the various comings and goings, though there were quite a few, but the intense, action-oriented discussion, often leading to suggestions for practical steps we can and should take, as individuals and collectively, to make our organization even more effective, and the need to communi­cate these ideas to the whole membership. The sentence most often addressed to me personally was an imperative: "Put that in the newsletter!"--a grammatical form that also says something about the mood of WiG 1982. I hope you’ll find things you can act on among the many proposals, events and projects resorted on in this issue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;All was not urgent calls to action, of course; there was a lot to learn and enjoy. The conference summaries will give you some idea of the variety of topics addressed. LUISE RINSER was a vocal and interested participant in most of the sessions, besides giving an animated, delightful reading. She also generously returned her $200 honorarium to WiG, with the proviso that the money be used to buy books for students attending the conference. (Joey Horsley and a representative from Schoenhof books in Boston have worked out the details of this arrangement.) We decided to name Luise Rinser a lifetime &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ehrenmitglied&lt;/span&gt; of WiG in expression of our appre­ciation and respect.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Another welcome guest from the other side of the Atlantic was Sigrid Weigel from Hamburg. She announced a conference on femi­nism and Germanistik to take place in Hamburg in May (see announce­ment, p. 26). Sigrid has been a subscriber to WiG for several years, having learned of our existence from American exchange students. She has published on feminist topics, and hopes to form a German coalition of Frauen in Germanistik. She plans to Join us again at MLA in Los Angeles, and will doubtless have more news to report by then. The prospect of our becoming a truly international feminist network seems more concrete because of Sigrid Weigel’s visit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The conference in Boston was also, as always, a chance to renew old acquaintances and make new ones. Not surprisingly, more women from eastern states attended than ever before, some for the first time (one woman told me she was "long overdue" for a confer­ence like WiG). However, many people noted with some chagrin that there seemed to be fewer students at WiG 1982 than at former conferences. A frequent topic of discussion was "fur den Nachwuchs sorgen," and we agreed that student participation in the conference should be a priority of our "outreach" for 1983. Outreach for 1982 was coordinated by Barbara Wright, who did a heroic job of pre­paring a mailing to 1000 women AATG members in several eastern states. (Responses to that mailing are still coming in as this newsletter is being prepared!) Thanks are due everyone who worked on the conference, but especially to Barbara as general coordi­nator and publicizer; to Joey Horsley for making all the arrange­ments with the conference center and handling registration; and Martha Wallach for her work with the Goethe Institute to arrange Luise Rinser's visit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Joey Horsley reports that there &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;will&lt;/span&gt; be money to give (partial) travel reimbursement to those who requested it after all confer­ence expenses are paid. Joey also sent a list of all 1982 con­ference participants' addresses and phone numbers. If you would like to have this list in addition to the complete WiG membership list (enclosed), write to WiG and it will be sent to you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Work and planning are already underway for WiG 1983--see summary of the business meeting and calls for papers. In the meantime, don't forget all the other WiG events, coming up sooner than you think.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;AATG 1982&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Thur. Nov.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;25&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;7:30-9:45&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;pm&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;26:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;4:30-6:00&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;pm&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;Fri. Nov.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;26:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;full-day workshop, MAINSTREAMING THE FL CURRICULUM: Male and Female Stereotyping in Beginning-Level Teaching Materials&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAIRY TALES IN THE CLASSROOM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAIRY TALE MOTIFS IN GERMAN WOMEN’S WRITING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN BUSINESS MEETING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See August 1982 issue of WiG or AATG newsletter for workshop and session participants and topics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The major agenda item for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;business me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;eting&lt;/span&gt; is discussion of WiG's participation at the 1983 AATG meeting. The topic proposed for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt; 1983 sessions is WOMEN AND PEACE.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt; 9 (Sept. 1982) findet ihr einen Bericht über den Frauen- Friedensmarsch Berlin-Wien, 1982. "Nein, nein, das ist nicht wahr, nicht recht, die Frauen sind kein schwach Geschlecht ..." Informa­tionen über weitere Pläne über: Ellen Diederich, Finkenhofstr. 32, 6000 Frankfurt 1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;Sessions arranged by WiG for MLA 1982:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;(291) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tue. Dec. 28&lt;/span&gt; BUSINESS MEETING AND CASH BAR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;5:15-7:30 pm Presiding: Marianne Burkhard, Linda Pickle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be a report on decisions made at the WiG business meet­ing at AATG; discussion of plans for WiG at MLA 1983 in New York (proposed topic: WOMEN AND LITERARY HISTORY); news of forthcoming events and projects, etc. Concerning 1983, we need to remember that, beginning in 1983, allied organizations may arrange &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;two &lt;/span&gt;meetings for a convention (with the proviso that a proposal for a third meeting may be submitted to the program committee for review—see MLA newsletter, fall 1982). This affects WiG, since we have always arranged two sessions &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; a business meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What are our alternatives?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(610) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wed. Dec. 29&lt;/span&gt; Film showing: DIE BLEIERNE ZEIT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7:15-9:00 pm                                                 Margareta von Trotta&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The film showing is made possible by the Goethe Institute,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;San Francisco.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(635) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wed. Dec. 29&lt;/span&gt; WOMEN AND GERMAN FILM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:00-10:15 pm Presentation of papers and discussion&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See MLA convention program for participants and topics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also of interest to us, especially given the many projects we pro­posed during the 1982 WiG conference, is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(26U) &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tues. Dec. 28&lt;/span&gt; OPEN HEARING OF THE MLA COMMISSION ON THE 3:30-5:15 pm                 STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As many of you know, one of WiG's founding mothers, Evelyn Beck (U. Wisconsin, Madison) was recently appointed to the commission.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She encourages WiG members to attend the open hearing to state our concerns and to present proposals for projects, forums, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A few of the many other sessions that will interest WiG members are:      (29) Feminist Re-Visions of New German Cinema; (104) The Rediscovery of Romanticism by Contemporary German Writers and Lit­erary Critics; (549) Critical Perspectives on Christa Wolf; (666)Brecht and Women. WiG members participating in these and other MLA sessions, please remember to take advantage of the opportunity to spread the word about WiG events and our organization!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As always at MLA there are many conflicts. To give just one&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;example, the WiG business meeting conflicts with:                                                                                                              (285) The Future&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;of the Division on Women's Studies in Language and Literature;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(298) The Gay Caucus Cash Bar; (299) The Women's Caucus Cash Bar. (!)--Can't be changed for this year, but we can speak up about it, and try to insist on more thoughtful programming for the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* Update: Marjorie Tussing reports.a possible second film:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutschland&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;blei che Mutter&lt;/span&gt; (Helma Sanders-Brahms). If available, it will also be shown on Dec. 28; watch the "Convention Daily."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;MEETING WITH CHRISTA WOLF&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Plans are underway for a one-day meeting for WiG members with Christa Wolf in Columbus, Ohio. The date is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 1983&lt;/span&gt;, just two weeks before the conference on women and fascism, April 28-30, also in Columbus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;All WiG members in the US and Canada will be sent a special first- class mailing containing detailed information about the April 9 meeting, registration form, and so on. If you haven’t received this special mailing by early December, please contact Jeanette Clausen, Dept. of Modern Foreign &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Langu&lt;/span&gt;a&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ges, Indiana U.-&lt;/span&gt;P&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;urdue U.&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fort Wayn&lt;/span&gt;e&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;, IN H68O5.&lt;/span&gt; Phones:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;For information on the women and fascism conference, please write to Helen Fehervary, Dept. of German, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH 1*3210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;WIG 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;LUISE RINSER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;On Saturday evening (Oct. l6), Luise Rinser read two selections from her works. The first was a section from the Dorothea Lilien­thal story in her novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der schwarze Esel&lt;/span&gt; (1974), which describes the arrest of the old Jewish woman by the Nazis. Rinser then pre­sented parts of her new unpublished novel (still without title), which attempts a new interpretation of the Maria Magdalena figure emphasizing emancipatory aspects. A long, intense discussion followed the readings, focusing primarily on the second text, but it also included general questions about Rinser’s works.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;-- Elke Frederiksen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;OBER DIE FRAGE: GIBT ES EINE WEIBLICHE GERMANISTIK?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Oct. 15, 1982. Chaired by Sandy Frieden (U. Houston)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Each of the panelists responded to this question on the basis of her personal experience. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Elke Frederiksen&lt;/span&gt; (U. Md.) outlined some theoretical considerations. She urged conceptual clarification and differentiation ("feministisch,” “weiblich"), quoting Gisela Bock:    "Wir wollen mehr als nur Objekt und Subjekt der Wissenschaft&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;werden:    wir wollen sie und die Gesellschaft verändern. Radikal."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;(opening address, first Frauensommeruni, Berlin 1976). Elke also emphasized that we must guard against having our work relegated to a “Sonderecke für Frauen." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres&lt;/span&gt; (U. Minn.) addressed several "problem areas," among them: 1) Women's Studies as a program tends not to acknowledge national literatures other than English and American; (2) many Germanists oppose WS;  (3) new research on women is often regarded with suspicion, by students as well as faculty; (4) conflicts between German and American Germanists; (5) isolation of feminist Germanists; (6) difficulties in doing interdisciplinary research. She urged that we not be intimidated by the "non-specificity" of interdisciplinary work and adopt/adapt new methods while guarding against over-using jargon and ahistorical analysis; she suggested that open-endedness may become the major contribution of feminist aesthetics. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sidonie Cassirer&lt;/span&gt; (Mt. Holyoke), picking up on points the first two speak­ers had made, gave a brief review of how the profession, especi­ally the MLA, has dealt with us since 1969 (when the MLA Commission on the Status of Women was created). She urged that we renew our emphasis on literature within WS, and that we make ourselves visible in new ways in the MLA and other professional organizations &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jeannine Blackwell&lt;/span&gt; (Indiana U.) sent the following summary of her presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;‘‘Anonym, verschollen, trivial. Methodologische Hindernisse in der germanistischen Forschung über Frauenliteratur."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To examine the distorted image of German women’s literature to which we have access primarily through standard reference works of Germanistik, we have to develop new ways of reading the "old" scholarship. Using the examples of Frederike Helene Unger and Therese Huber, I explained that we must learn "rückwärts lesen"-- we must turn articles and lexicon entries backwards to find the interesting, nonconformist information; we have to read appendices and later editions to discover pennames, anonymous writings, discrepancies in dating and false attributions; seek women's writ­ings under the names of fathers, sons, and husbands’, read title pages, forewords, and pictures (rather than library entry cards) to find more information on the author (place, earlier works, familial connections). We have to read 19th and early 20th cen­tury Frauenliteraturlexikone critically. We need to have scholar­ly feminist work on the following topics: Frauenzeitschriften; the differentiation of Frauenliteratur and Trivialliteratur; a new &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Lexikon deutscher Frauen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;der Feder&lt;/span&gt;, with reviews of works and first editions listed, and with short discussions of novels from a feminist perspective. We need research on f.amily connections of female authors: LaRoche-Brentano-Arnim, Wolzogen-Schiller,Karsch-Chezy, Gatterer-Nathusius-Reuter; investigation of women's collaboration on journals, anthologies, etc. (Fouque and Helvig); work on women's income, self-support, and writing--women authors and money. And of course, we need a comprehensive history of German women's literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After the panel presentations we divided into small groups to come up with concrete suggestions for dealing with the problems raised. Here is Sandy Frieden's summary of the small group reports, which she presented during the concluding session on Sunday, 10-17-82.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandy emphasized that we must learn to think of ourselves differ­ently:     We, Women in German, are making history, and we need to&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;take our WiG identity "out there" (i.e., everywhere), and think of ourselves as agents of change.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ongoing items&lt;/span&gt; for publication in the WiG newsletter: a) re­ports of work in progress; (b) a thematic listing of new transla­tions of women's writings; (c) a listing of WiG members' special­ties (possibly to develop a speakers' bureau, etc.); (d) an ex­change of syllabi on feminist courses we've developed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Projects for potential publication in Germanist journals&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;(a) collect and publish tips on feminist pedagogy; (b) publish articles on integrating feminist methodology and theory into Germanistik; (c) do a survey of German departments to find out where feminist courses are taught. (Ed. note:                                                                                                                   an example of how&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;not to do such a survey is the one published by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Monat she ft e&lt;/span&gt; in 1978 (Vol. 70, pp. 290-308). I would recommend we use the model of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Everywoman's Guide to Colleges and Universities&lt;/span&gt; (available from The Feminist Press, Old Westbury, NY 11568.                                                                                                            $12.95&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;paper). In other words, we should aim to identify German depart­ments that provide a good environment for feminist study, teach­ing and research in German Studies).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3* &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For future WiG sessions&lt;/span&gt;: work as a group to update reading lists (for undergrad., M.A., and Ph.D. programs) so that German women writers are included. (This is related to identifying our specialties, l.(c) above, since those who've worked in a given area could make the most informed recommendations).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Coordinat ed WiG projects&lt;/span&gt;: a) publish a new WiG membership list (included in this mailing); (b) make a concerted effort to put pressure on publishers for new editions of out-of-print works, inexpensive editions of new and old works, and new translations; (c) organize a German-American feminist festival; (d) publish WiG conference proceedings; consider forming a publishing collective (the latter idea from Sidonie Cassirer; contact her if you are interested) .&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;PR about WiG&lt;/span&gt;: a) expand the WiG mailing list; distribute the WiG information sheet (the yellow sheet enclosed with this news­letter) to non-members; (b) be mentors for other women ("fur den Nachwuchs sorgen!"); become more visible at regional as well as national MLA meetings; (d) attend interdisciplinary conferences such as WAGS (Western Association for German Studies) and explain WiG's work.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tips&lt;/span&gt;: a) make an effort to get "our things" into university libraries (new editions, translations, etc.); (b) compile a bib­liography of alternative sources (e.g., sources that aren’t "normally" included in, say, a research methods course); (c) in­itiate faculty study groups on your campus; (d) think of other things to do, and let the rest of us know about them!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Concluding session: MAKING CONNECTIONS, RESPECTING DIFFERENCES 10-17-82. Chaired by Sara Lennox and Jeanette Clausen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara opened the session by suggesting that we think about utopias, a theme of Luise Rinser's reading and a structuring theme for WiG (the annual WiG conference as a concrete utopia, a place to begin to realize some of our visions; the larger utopia—beyond getting women's literature into the curriculum). She proposed discussing: l) how Wig 1982 had met and failed to meet our utopian expecta­tions; (2) the larger utopia and what keeps us from making the ' necessary connections (e.g., why did the unspeakable not get spoken?); (3) "Was tun, was nun?" Erste Schritte.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The discussion began with language, especially how the language used during the conference affects those attending for the first time. The discussion showed that, however non-hierarchical we strive to be, we may come to WiG with very different hierarchies in terms of our expectations. Some women felt strongly about us­ing more (or only?) German at WiG, especially when the guest author has difficulty understanding English. Others found the mix of languages comfortable and appropriate. Several people reminded the group that individuals may have strong emotional responses to using one or the other language to discuss sensitive (or unspeak­able) topics such as antisemitism. Some were not aware of the policy agreed on a couple of years ago (presentations in the lan­guage preferred by each speaker; discussion in both languages but in German as much as possible in consideration of the guest author).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Suggestions for dealing with some of these problems were: l) to provide a list of all conference participants to everyone attend­ing; (2) to consider using a different color name tag for those attending WiG for the first time; (3) to review previous policy decisions at the beginning of the conference or before individual sessions; (h) to have more small groups, especially to begin the conference; to have small groups discuss personal concerns (rather than, or in addition to, focusing on a topic); (5) to ask presenters wishing to speak English to hand out a German summary (or ask presenters to prepare summaries in each language); (6) to specify that some sessions (especially those involving the author and/or her works) be in German, and that others (interdisciplinary sessions and CR-type sessions) be in English (or both languages) and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;announce&lt;/span&gt; this in the conference program.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Suggestions concerning the conference in general were: to have fewer presentations in each session, with time for discussion after &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;each&lt;/span&gt; presentation; to renew efforts to keep the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;length&lt;/span&gt; of presentations to 10 minutes; for longer sessions, to structure in a 10 or 15-minute break; to announce specific texts to be read ahead of time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Suggestions concerning the BUSINESS MEETING were: to get nomina­tions (and, where appropriate, biographical information) to the steering committee in time to have an agenda duplicated and dis­tributed; to assign a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;time limit&lt;/span&gt; to agenda items to keep them from expanding to fill all the time available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Turning to the larger topic ("how can we use feminist Germanistik to change the world?") (not to forget how the world changes us I), we discussed mainstreaming, the need for more grass-roots work, outreach, etc. It was suggested that theoretical developments in Women’s Studies are tending more toward a separatist feminist po­sition, while the practical movement is not, and cannot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Concerning "Was tun, was nun?" Sandy Frieden presented her summary of the suggestions that had come out of the small group dis­cussions on Friday evening (see p. 6).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-- summary by Jeannette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;ERSTE SCHRITTE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Are you feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the "concrete suggestions" for action? Are you unsure what you personally can do? Here are some things we can &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; do, as &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;individuals&lt;/span&gt;, starting immediately.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Convince your department to become a SPONSOR of WiG (idea from Leslie Adelson and others at OSU). Sponsoring departments will pay $25*00 per year (or more if they choose) to receive the WiG newsletter and any other WiG mailings. Money generated in this way will be used to help finance WiG projects such as publi­cation of a yearbook or conference proceedings. See &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;revised membership form&lt;/span&gt; at the end of this newsletter.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Xerox 5 (or more) copies of the statement about what WiG is (the yellow sheet enclosed with this newsletter) and send it to women Germanists who aren’t yet members inviting them to join (check membership list, enclosed).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Give someone a gift subscription to WiG if you can afford to. (Special offer: you can give &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;two&lt;/span&gt; one-year student subscriptions for $5.00!)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;H. Encourage students to join WiG, attend conferences, send in proposals. When feasible, encourage students to choose course projects that dovetail with WiG session topics and/or the works of the author we invite. (Do this especially if you are a faculty member).     ’&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Try to get your department (or other university office or organization) to fund student travel to WiG. Say it’s important to a course project you're doing (see no. U above) or, if you're a faculty member, to a course students are taking from you. Es­pecially if you are a department chair or other administrator, help others learn how to get funding for travel, etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;After you've attended a WiG conference or WiG sessions at other conferences, circulate a short summary of what went on to everyone in your department, offering to share bibliographies, etc. that you've brought back. (idea from Jeannine Blackwell, who was pleasantly surprised at the number of responses she got&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;to her summary of WiG 1982 from her colleagues: "I figured they'd use it for scratch paper, but they read it'.")&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Think about which larger project you'd like to work on, and let WiG know—the newsletter editor and steering committee can put interested people in touch with each other.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;One project will already be underway by the time you read this: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sydna Weiss&lt;/span&gt; (Hamilton College) and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sidonie Cassirer&lt;/span&gt; (Mt. Holyoke) volunteered to write to all WiG members to collect syllabi for feminist courses, and to investigate possibilities for publishing or otherwise distributing them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(WiG 1982, continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINISTISCHE WISSENSCHAFT 10-15-82. Chaired by Sara Lennox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our five panelists outlined recent developments in various areas of feminist scholarship. Linda Gardiner (Philosophy, Wellesley) located the concerns of feminist philosophy in the political and cultural context of a struggle for civil rights, a tradition of self-help psychology, and the lack of a left party here. Feminist philosophers have concentrated on ethics, the nature and causes of women's oppression, and on philosophy of language and the useful­ness of male methodology for feminists. Barbara Kaltz (Linguistics, Waterloo) distinguished three areas of research in feminist lin­guistics:              language and sexism; language, gender, and power; and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the possibility of a women's language. She argued for linguistic precision (e.g. a distinction between sexist language and the sexist use of language)and said that much of the necessary research remains to be done. Hélène Wenzel (Women's Studies, Yale) dis­cussed recent French thought, stressing the contributions of Hélène Cixous (écriture feminine and writing the body), Luce Irigaray (the mother/daughter relationship, the importance of touch, a female morphology to replace that of male language),&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Julia Kristeva (the semiotic as a component of language deriving from the pre-oedipal relation to the mother), and Monique Wittig (the creator of a feminist discourse which draws on other French literary traditions). Gertraud Gutzmann (German, Smith) discussed themes important for women's writing in the GDR: tradition and generational continuity in women's writing, the importance of the&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;generation of women who built the GDR (Wolf, Morgner, Wander), issues of isolation and alienation in younger GDR women's writing, and the relationship of literature to social changes toward which GDR women aim. Sigrid Weigel (Literaturwissenschaft1iches Seminar, Hamburg) outlined a theory for investigating German women's writ­ing, stressing their participation in and simultaneous exclusion from male norms, producing what she terms "der schielende Blick."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;(A longer version of this talk is published in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die verborgene Frau&lt;/span&gt;, to appear). The abundance of material presented in this session made it, Wiggles seemed to feel, both frustrating, since there was virtually no time to discuss the many issues the panelists had raised, and extremely fascinating.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;-- Sara Lennox&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bibliography&lt;/span&gt; distributed at the above session&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(A &lt;/b&gt;selective listing &lt;i&gt;of&lt;/i&gt; works in feminist philosophy from the &lt;b&gt;last &lt;/b&gt;ten years or so» focusing especially on very recent works. &lt;b&gt;The &lt;/b&gt;books which contain substantial further bibliographies are marked with an asterisk.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bibliographies&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;N.T. Bazin, "The Concept of Androgyny: a Working Bibliography"» &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies&lt;/span&gt; 2, no. 2 &amp;lt;1974).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;J. English, "Review Essay:                            Philosophy". &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt; 3 (Summer 1978).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;J.     Moulton. "Review Essay:                       Philosophy". &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt; 2 (Winter 1976)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;C. Pierce. "Review Essay: Philosophy", &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt; 1 (Winter 1975).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;M.A. Warren, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Th e Nature of Woman&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;an Encyclopedia and Guide to the Literature&lt;/span&gt; (1980).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Historical Anthologies&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;R. Agonito, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;History of Ideas on Woman&lt;/span&gt; (1977).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;M. Mahowald, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophy of Woman&lt;/span&gt; (1978).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;* M.L. Osborne, ed., Wo&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;man i n Western Thought&lt;/span&gt; (1979). A. Rossi, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Feminist Papers&lt;/span&gt; (1973).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anthologies of Current Articles&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;R.    Baker and F. Ellison, eds.» &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophy and Sex&lt;/span&gt; (1975).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;S.    Bishop and M. Weinstein, eds.» &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophy and&lt;/span&gt; W&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;omen&lt;/span&gt; (1979).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;* &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Building Feminist Theory&lt;/span&gt;:                              &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Essays from Quest&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;J. English, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sex Equality&lt;/span&gt; (1977).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;C. Gould and M. Wartofsky, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Philosophy&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Toward&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Theory of Liberation&lt;/span&gt; (1976: based on the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophical &lt;/span&gt;Forum issue listed below).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harding, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Discovery and Reali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ty&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Perspectives on Metaphysics&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Epistemolog&lt;/span&gt;y, M&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ethodology and the Philosophy of Science&lt;/span&gt; (forthcoming 1783).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;*       A. Jaggar and P. Rothenburg, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Frameworks&lt;/span&gt; (1978).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;A. Koedt, E. Levine, A. Rapone, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Radical Feminism&lt;/span&gt; (1973). J. Sherman and E. T. Beck, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Prism of Sex&lt;/span&gt; (1979).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;A. Soble, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophy of Sex&lt;/span&gt; (1980).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;M. Vetter1ing-Braggin, F. Ellison, J. English, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminism and Philosophy&lt;/span&gt; (1977).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;*       M. Vetterling, ed., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sexist Language&lt;/span&gt; (19B1).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;M. Vetterling, ed., "&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Femininity&lt;/span&gt;", "&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Masculinity&lt;/span&gt;”, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; ”&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Androgyny&lt;/span&gt;“: ä &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Modern Philosophical Discussion&lt;/span&gt; (1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Special issues of journals&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Monist&lt;/span&gt; 57 (January 1973): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Liberation&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ethical&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Social and Political Issues&lt;/span&gt;. .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophical Forum&lt;/span&gt; 5 (Fall-Winter 1973-74): Women and Philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt; 7 (Spring 1982): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Theory&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Several journals in Women's Studies and in Philosophy regularly include articles on feminist philosophy: these include &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Studi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;es&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;International Journal of Women ' s Studies&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies International Forum&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philosophy and Public Affairs&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and New Left Review&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hypatia&lt;/span&gt;, a journal of feminist philosophy, will start publication in 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Books&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;*       M. Barrett, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women 's Oppression Today&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Problems in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Marxist-Feminist Analysis&lt;/span&gt; (1980).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;A. Dworkin, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Woman Hating&lt;/span&gt; (1974).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dworkin, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pornography&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Men Possessing Women&lt;/span&gt; (1979).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Z. Eisenstein, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Rad i ca1 Future of Lib era 1 Feminism&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;*       J.B. Elshtain, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Public Man&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Private Woman&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;N. Hartsock, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Money&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sex and Power&lt;/span&gt; (forthcoming 1983).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hooks, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ain't&lt;/span&gt; X 5. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Woman&lt;/span&gt;? Black Wo&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;men and Feminism&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;*       S. M. Ok in, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women i n Western Political Thought&lt;/span&gt; (1979).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;J. R. Richards, The. S&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ceptical Feminist&lt;/span&gt; (1980).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;5- Rowbotham, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Woman's Consciousness&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Man's World&lt;/span&gt; (1973).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;S. Rowbotham, L. Segal and H. Wainwright, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beyond the Fragments&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminism and the Making of Socialism&lt;/span&gt; (1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Linda Gardiner Wellesley College&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;WiG 1982 (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;RANDBEWEGUNGEN IM DEUTSCHE» SPRACHRAUM.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Oct. 15, 1982. Chaired by Linda Pickle and Brigitte Wichmann.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;’’Die neue bundesdeutsche Friedensbewegung.” Der Doppelbeschluß zur ’’Nachrüstung” der NATO vom 12. Dezember 1979 ist die wichtigste Ursache für das große Wachstum der Friedensbewegung in den letzten paar Jahren, das fast allen eine Überraschung war, sogar in der Bewegung selbst. Die NATO hat vor, amerikanische Pershing II-Mittelstreckenraketen und Marschflugkörper (cruise missiles)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;1983 und 198b in Europa, besonders in der BRD, zu stationieren, was ’’das Gleichgewicht des Abschreckens" ändern wird, denn sie hätte zum ersten Mal von Europa aus eine Erstschlagkapazität gegen die UdSSR. Besonders die Krefelder Initiative, eine Gruppe von Kirchenleuten, Wissenschaftlern, ehemaligen hohen Militärs und Vertretern politischer Parteien und Verbände versucht, die Mehrheit der Bundesbürger/innen gegen die Nachrüstung zu gewinnen. Der Kernsatz des Krefelder Appells lautet: "Wir appellieren an die Bundesregierung, die Zustim­mung zur Stationierung von Pershing II-Raketen und Marschflugkörpern in Mitteleuropa zurückzuziehen." Vom 16. November 1980 bis zum Früh­jahr 1982 haben 2,5 Millionen in der BRD den Appell unterzeichnet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Die Teilnahme der christlichen Friedensorganisationen und einzelner Christen ist die wichtigste Basis der neuen bundesdeutschen Friedens­bewegung. Die große Bonner Demonstration vom 10. Oktober 1981 wurde von der evangelischen Aktion Sühnezeichen organisiert. Vom 8. bis zum 22. November 1981 hatten 3000 evangelische Kirchengemeinden Friedenswochen. Die zweite Hauptquelle der Bewegung sind die Gewerkschaftler, obwohl sie heute weniger beitragen als in früheren Jahren. Der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund selbst bleibt relativ zurück­haltend. Die Ökologie-Bewegung ist nicht nur eine dritte wichtige Quelle der Friedensbewegung, sie ist zum Teil das Vorbild für die lokale und politisch autonome neue Bewegung, die sich erheblich von den allgemein-politischen Orientierungen der älteren friedenspoli­tischen Orientierungen unterscheidet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Viele Deutsche behaupten immer noch, daß die Friedensbewegung eine Randbewegung sei. Ich zitiere Dietmar Schonherr: "Ich habe gesagt-- in einer Live-Sendung des Schweizer Fernsehens--, daß ich es für eine Frechheit halte, wenn 300.000 Leute in Bonn auf die Straße gehen, das als eine Demonstration von Randgruppen zu bezeichnen." Als Germanisten/ innen müssen wir präzis mit der Sprache umgehen. Ich nenne die Friedensbewegung eine Alternativenbewegung, eine lebensnotwendige Alternative zum Wahnsinn der Aufrüstung. Und wenn wir diese Alter­native nicht zur Basis unseres Lebens machen, bleiben wir alle am Rande der atomaren Vernichtung.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;--Ric Johnson&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Ft. Wayne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;* * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wish I'd said that dept.&lt;/span&gt;: "Ich wähle hier die weibliche sprachliche Form ’Studentinnen’ als allgemeine Form, da sie die männliche ein­schließt." (Sigrid Metz-G5ckel, "Feminismus an der Hochschule").&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE, 10-16-82. Chaired by Angelika Bammer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This session was an exploration of the politics of language--the many (often unacknowledged and unconscious) ways in which social relations of power both shape and, in turn, are shaped by what we say, how we say it, and what remains unsaid. The presentations (by Lynnie Ozer, Marlene Heinemann, Jeanette Clausen) explored the importance of naming ("lesbian," "Jewish," "working-class") as a means of self-affirmation and respectful recognition of our differences. They also, once again, made very evident the fact that naming, in and of itself, will not bring about change as long as the names still function to mark categories of oppression in the society at large. In the ensuing small CR-group discussions, we collectively encountered some of the very language barriers the presentations had brought out. We found how easy and comfortable it is to use our (academically trained) verbal skills to avoid speaking of that which is confusing, painful, and often perceived as shameful to us. Intellectual abstraction, we found, can dis­guise the degree to which we are, in fact, "betroffen." We struggled, finally, with the question of how to use our ability to analyse and verbalize as a tool to help us confront and work our way through the territory of the unspeakable, rather than as a means of talking and getting around it. As each of the small groups in turn shared the result of their discussion with the group as a whole, we concluded, not with answers, but with the questions we wanted to think about and work on in the future. We asked (among other things): How much is important to say? Can one say too much as well as too little? Does naming separate us by reenforcing othernesses or does it create a community in which difference can be acknowledged? Can we identify ourselves in sol­idarity with an oppressed group without being a member of that group personally? Do we make sore spots more sore by touching them? Or does touching, ultimately, heal?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Bammer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG BUSINESS MEETING, Oct. l6, 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chaired by Marianne Burkhard and Linda Pickle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meeting began with announcements of forthcoming conferences (see list, p. 26).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;It was moved and seconded (Helen Fehervary, Elke Frederiksen) that WiG pursue possibilities for obtaining institutional and other financial support. The motion was approved.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The first agenda item was to elect &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;steering committee&lt;/span&gt; members for vacant slots. Also, some modifications were proposed:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;(a) to lengthen the term to three years instead of two, because continuity is desirable and because the first year may be spent mostly in learning; (b) to make the treasurer/newsletter co­ordinator position ex-officio. This modification allows for six regular members with staggered terms and also gives more flexi­bility since the newsletter position isn't tied to an elected term. The following statement incorporating these modifications was approved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Steering Committee is made up of 6 members of WiG who serve staggered three-year terms, and one ex-officio mem­ber with voting rights who is the treasurer and news­letter coordinator. The two members in their third year of service act as co-chairs for that year. New members are elected at the annual WiG conference but their term begins at the December MLA meeting and ends with the MLA meeting in three years' time. New members elected at the conference serve as non-voting members until the MLA meeting. Unexpected vacancies on the Steering Committee are filled by runners-up in the election. A geographic distribution of SC members is desirable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Steering Committee is responsible for conducting the ongoing business of the organization. They do this in accordance with the charges given them by the WiG member­ship as expressed at the annual conference. Their duties are determined by the concerns of the membership. De­cisions which have to be made in between the yearly con­ferences are accomplished by mail or phone contacts among SC members. Agreement of a majority of the SC members is necessary for such decisions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussion of vacancies and continuing positions followed. Linda Pickle preferred not to extend her term for a third year because she will be on leave. Marianne Burkhard, Martha Wallach, Joey Horsley and Almut Poole were willing to extend their terms. Nominations for the two vacant slots were then discussed. Two nominees, Sandy Frieden and Helen Fehervary, asked to withdraw their names because of their many other commitments but stated that they were willing to serve as alternates in case vacancies came up. Barbara Wright and Jeannine Blackwell were elected by ballot (a landslide) to fill the remaining positions. So, the SC membership now is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1980-         1983: Marianne Burkhard (U. Ill., Urbana), co-chair 1983 and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;chair, political action committee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha Wallach (UWGB), co-chair 1983 and fund-raiser for guest author.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1981-         I98H: Joey Horsley (U. Mass., Boston).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut Poole (UCLA).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1982-         1985: Barbara Wright (U. Conn.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell (IU Bloomington).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Treasurer/Newsletter:                       Jeanette Clausen (IPFW), 1981-?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alternates:               Sandy Frieden (U. Houston) and Helen Fehervary (OSU).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ed. note: Outgoing member Linda Pickle chairs the textbook com­mittee, which expects to publish its report in spring 1983. Thus, it seems reasonable to wait until the WiG conference 1983 to de­cide on a new chair for that committee. Other previously proposed SC duties (bibliography committee, outreach, etc.--see "charges, functions and duties," Nov. 1980 newsletter) need to be discussed at a future meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;WIG 1983 (and 1984)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Location&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was a long discussion of whether to hold the 1983 Los Angeles area (as proposed last year) or for another year. Ultimately, the group decided on the latter, the major reason being to build a strong active membership in the east (as we had done in the midwest) before moving to another area. The following resolutions were approved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a) to make a strong effort to reach and actively involve west-coast people, starting immediately (and especially during MLA 1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;b) to meet in the east at least one more year and review the whole situation again next year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;c) to agree to Thompson Island as an acceptable meeting place for 1983 while investigating other possibilities (the major reason being that flights from most major cities to New York usually cost less than to Boston, so a site easily accessible from La Guardia would probably be preferable to one in Boston). Members who agreed to investigate possible sites were: Martha Wallach, Barbara Wright, Sidonie Cassirer, Edith Waldstein.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;d) to hold a 3-day conference again in 1983 (Thursday evening through Sunday noon).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to our previous agreement as to the date (third weekend in October) the dates will be Oct. 13-16, 1983 (unless the con­ference center isn't available then, or some such).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Conference organizers&lt;/span&gt; will be Joey Horsley, Edith Waldstein, Barbara Wright and Martha Wallach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Guest author&lt;/span&gt;, 1983 and 1984&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As agreed last year, IRMTRAUD MORGNER had been invited to be WiG’s guest in 1983. (Many thanks to Karen Achberger for assuming responsibility for contacting her). Morgner sent word that for family reasons she couldn’t accept for 1983 but was interested in being invited for a later date. Accordingly, it was agreed to write her right away to invite her for 1984. (NB: Karen has already done this).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After much discussion, the group voted in favor of inviting BARBARA FRISCHMUTH (Austria) for 1983. (NB: the letter of invitation, written by Karen, who is becoming something of an expert at this, has already gone out, so with luck we may have an answer by the time we meet again at MLA). If Frischmuth is unable to accept, Verena Stefan and Gabriele Meixner will be invited; if they can’t come, Ilse Aichinger will be asked. (Ed. note: if no one wants to come, the steering committee will go into a little frenzy of phone-calling).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Conference Theme and Session Topics&lt;/span&gt;, WiG 1983&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;With details still to be worked out by the respective coordinators, sessions agreed on were:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thursday evening&lt;/span&gt;:                  informal get-acquainted time, possibly with small­&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;group discussions of a personal nature rather than on an assigned topic. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Coordinator needed&lt;/span&gt;, please volunteer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday morning&lt;/span&gt;: Interdisciplinary panel, "Stimme suchen" (presen­tations in English), to include work from feminist psychology on voice, identity, space, conversation, Öffentlichkeit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Coordinators&lt;/span&gt;:                Helen Fehervary, Judith Jamieson.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday afternoon:&lt;/span&gt; Literary session (presentations in German), to include discussion of the guest author’s work. Focus will be fantasy if Barbara Frischmuth is the guest (coordinators: Dagmar orenz, Barbara Wright); if Verena Stefan and Gabriele Meixner are the guests, the focus will be translation (coordinators: Jeanette Clausen and another person).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday evening&lt;/span&gt;: CR session, focus on violence against women. Coordinator:     Almut Poole (and another person?).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday morning&lt;/span&gt;: “Stimine Finden." Focus on the personal/professional and how not to have the Split between them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Coordinators:    Jeanine Blackwell, Irmgard Taylor, with Almut Poole&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;: Business Meeting&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday evening&lt;/span&gt;: Author's reading* followed by discussion. Coordinator:     Karen Achberger (if Barbara Frischmuth is the guest)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sunday morning&lt;/span&gt;: ''Lost Voices/New Voices." Coordinators: Dorothy Rosenberg and Resa Dudovitz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;For detailed announcements received so far* see pp. 18-19.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;4. WiG at AATG, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The topic agreed upon for both WiG sessions (I. pedagogy;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;II. literature/culture) at the 1983 AATG meeting is WOMEN AND PEACE. Members who volunteered to work on this topic were: Gertraud Gutzman, Helen Fehervary, Margaret Ward* Pat Herminghouse Irmgard Taylor, Laureen Nussbaum, Martha Wallach, Leonora Cayard. Coordinators for the two sessions Will be decided when it is known where the AATG will meet in 1983. If the meeting is in West Ber­lin, WiG members attending will try to plan an extra meeting with feminist Germanists there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;WiG at MLA, 1983 (to be held in New York).     '     •&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Near the end of this four-hour meeting* Helen Fehervary moved that the WiG topic for MLA 1983 be "Women and Literary History," and the exhausted group approved this topic. Since there was neither time nor energy to work Out details, further discussion and appointment of coordinators will take place at MLA 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;The final item of discussion was the April 9, 1983 WiG meeting with Christa Wolf. Jeanette Clausen Will coordinate the announce­ments, schedule, and registration; Leslie Adelson (OSU) will co­ordinate logistics in Columbus*&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;-- Summary of meeting by JC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;FINANCIAL REPORT: a conservative calculation of WiG finances shows that after all expenses for 198B are paid (including the November newsletter, other mailings, bulk mail permit renewal, and cash bar at MLA) We will still have at least &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;$1100.00&lt;/span&gt; in the WiG account!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1983: CALLS FOR PAPER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Friday morning, Interdisciplinary Panel, “Stimme Suchen.” Feminist Perspecties on Work from Other Disciplines (tentative title).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The coordinators see a variety of possibilities for WiG to begin discussing voice from a feminist perspective. Judy Jamieson suggests three broad areas: 1) social studies fields, both theoretical and applied; (2) politics, broadly defined to include media coverage of political events and issues as well as theory and/or women active in the political arena; (3) the arts, again broadly defined to include music, dance, crafts, etc. as well as literature and visual arts. Presentations might focus on German women using their voices in any of these areas. Helen Fehervary is especially interested in new theories of identity, sexuality, Öffentlichkeit, culture. She asks: “Do the findings of contemporary critical theory, structuralism, etc. provide models of discussion which we (feminists) can modify or expand? To what extent does our knowledge of such tradition help/hinder us in the search for women’s voices?” Possible topics might be Focault and the question of sexual and gender identity; Habermas or Negt/Kluge and the notion of Offentlichkeit regarding such forms as the salon; and/or others. Send questions proposals, suggestions to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt;: Helen Fehervary, German Dept., OSU Columbus, OH 43210, and Judith Jamieson, Prividence College, Providence, RI 02918, by April 1, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Friday evening, Consciousness Raising Session&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Almut Poole is planning a session to deal specifically with rape and sexual assault (rather than dealing superficially with the entire area of violence against women). She proposes to discuss: a) the scope and extent of the problem; (b) causes and prevention models, primarily a contrast of the traditional protection model as espoused by law enforcement and a (re-educational) empowerment model of feminist origin; (c) an analysis of why we have rape in society (possibly using a videotape about one. woman's victimization). The presentation will be followed by CR sessions in small groups. Almut writes: "I'd very much like to see a follow-up on this issue: how does literature deal with it? Another important related issue is language and the importance of language change. And, most of all, how can we incorporate these topics into our teaching?"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Saturday morning, "Stimme finden"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;1. Ten minute presentations (in German or English) on practical strategies for success in finding a voice in the classroom and in the university: for example, getting women authors into the German Dept. curriculum, methods for dealing with the administration, handling classroom problems of gender/genre/performance. One-page-abstracts by March 15, 1983 to both Irmgard Taylor, and Jeannine Blackwell,&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;2. We also ask everyone to send in their &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;specific&lt;/span&gt; classroom and university &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;problem situations&lt;/span&gt; : i.e. , racist student remarks, faculty interaction problems, administration refusal of money or space for women's studies projects, lack of German in women's studies courses. Send us your problems: we will try to find so­lutions in the small group discussion, using role playing. Please make the description very brief--less than one page. Send to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both &lt;/span&gt;Irmgard Taylor and Jeannine Blackwell.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday morning, "Lost Voices/New Voices" (tentative title)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Questions we would like to address include: What are the ideolo­gical functions of women's popular literature? What need does popular literature fill? Why have scholars been reluctant to look seriously at women's popular literature past and present?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What are the relationships between popular literature and the&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Send inquir&lt;/span&gt;ie&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;or proposals to both&lt;/span&gt; : Dorothy Rosenberg,           and Resa Dudowitz,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FACULTY POSITION IN GERMAN                                           Miami University, Ohio&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Chair&lt;/span&gt;, Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages; Senior&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;level appointment beginning Fall 1983. Specialist in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German literature &lt;/span&gt;or &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;linguistics&lt;/span&gt; with evidence of scholarly accomplishment and with commitment to teaching at all levels of the curriculum. Administrative experience desirable. Department consists of 15 full-time faculty teaching German, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. M.A. program in German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Send resume and 3 letters of reference by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;November 19, 1982&lt;/span&gt; to Dr. Joseph Urell, Dean, College of Arts and Science&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Oxford, Ohio 45056.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Miami University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following list of research projects was collected during the October 1982 WiG conference in Boston. All WiG members are in­vited to send information about their research to the newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margaret E. Ward, Wellesley College: working on a critical bio­graphy of Fanny Lewald (18II-I889); projected completion date January 1985.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mary ONeill, U. Maryland, Baltimore County: translating sections of Gabriele Wohmann, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ausflug mit der Mutter&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marianne Burkhard, U. Illinois, Urbana: Grillparzer's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sappho&lt;/span&gt;, Stael's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Corinne&lt;/span&gt; and Goethe's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tasso&lt;/span&gt;: images of poets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almut R. Poole, UCLA: Diss. Still (!) working on a linguistic analysis of modern feminist (German) literature (autobiographical writings) to show that certain linguistic features are utilized at a higher frequency by feminist writers than by others (male and female). Also: editor of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Delphi&lt;/span&gt;, newsletter that functions as a link between research and services related to rape and sexual assault.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sydna Weiss, Hamilton C.: germ of an idea only--Aging Women, probably in 19th and 20th C. German literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Patricia Herminghouse, Washington U.: Anthology of post-war women writers for new Suhrkamp/Cambridge series of readers for American students of German; recent developments in feminist criticism (for Wisconsin Work-shop).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lioba Multer, OSU: book review/essay on Ingeborg Drewitz, Bettina von Arnim and others (Gisela Dischner), to appear in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Edith Waldstein, M.I.T.: Bettina von Arnim and the Literary Salon (finished diss.); Comparison of Berlin and Boston salons (Bettina von Arnim u.a. and Margaret Fuller)--Goethe Institute Symposium 1983; Women's Studies and Germanistik--working paper for Wellesley Center for Research on Women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leslie Adelson, OSU: finished diss. "Botho Strau^ and West Ger­man Prose of the 1970's." Research projects: the changing notion of history in contemporary literature; authenticity problematized; article on feminist aesthetics in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beyond the Eternal Feminine&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anna K. Kuhn, U. Pennsylvania: working on monograph on Christa Wolf (in English).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barbara D. Wright, U. Conn.: monograph on interaction of German expressionists (activists) and German women’s writing at beginn­ing of the 20th C.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Charlotte Ärmster, Dartmouth C.: article on "Stereotypes in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Katharina&lt;/span&gt; B&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;lum&lt;/span&gt;; anthology on 19th century writings on and by women (in English")""; article on Handke’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Left-Handed Woman&lt;/span&gt; — Gesture as Communication and Confinement.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg, Seattle: women, work and family in GDR litera­ture and society.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gertraud Gutzman, Smith C.: women's autobiographies l880's to present (especially working women, politically active women); women writing under and about Nazism; (especially Irmgard Keun, Seghers, Rinser); tradition and innovation in recent GDR women's writing; intertextuality, Anna Seghers and Christa Wolf. Book: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Literature and Society in Anna Seghers&lt;/span&gt;' &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Exile Prose&lt;/span&gt; (Camden House 198U).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Lennox, U. Mass, Amherst: article on recent GDR women's writing to appear next year; essay on feminism and deconstruction; essay on Christa Wolf; review essay on Sander Gilman's "On Black­ness without Blacks: Image of Black in German Literature" (for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joey Horsley, U. Mass., Boston: working on article on Bachmann; work on women authors in the Weimar Republic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Julie Prandi, New York: working on article on Kleist's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Krug&lt;/span&gt;; also on bigger project: Glück/Entsagung in Goethe, focus on women characters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sue Bottigheimer, Princeton: Grimm's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tales&lt;/span&gt;: l) Spinning Tales; (2) Mute Women; (3) Illustrations 1812-1982; (H) Work Ethic. Also Spinning in Literature--please send quotes from poems, novels, plays I&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elke Frederiksen, U. Maryland: Luise Rinser monograph, to appear in Autorenbücher series, Beck Verlag, Munich.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Karen Achberger, St. Olaf C., Northfield, MN: l) the mythic sub­text and musical structures in the prose of Ingeborg Bachmann;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(2) article on humor in Irmtraud Morgner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dagmar C. Lorenz, OSU: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ilse Aichinger&lt;/span&gt; (l98l); Stifters Frauen,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A. Stifter Gesellschaft. In progress: Grillparzer, Dichter des Sozialen Konflikts (Neubearbeitung des österreichischen Vormärz, etc.) .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sigrid Weigel, U. Hamburg: Buch über Frauenbilder bei Kleist (zus mit Inge Stephan); Frauenliteratur der Gegenwart (für Hansers Sozialgeschichte); Ingeborg Bachmann.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeannine Blackwell, Indiana U.: l) Frauen-Bildungsroman 1900-1982 (2) weibliche Robinsonaden 1720-1800; (3) Rage and Order in Helene Böhlau and Gabriele Reuter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sandy Frieden, U. Houston: l) diss. Autobiographical German- Language Writings of the 1970's: Self into Form (U. Siegen)--to appear soon, Peter Lang Verlag; (2) article on Elisabeth Plessen in fall issue, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar&lt;/span&gt;; (3) article soon on Bachmann’s Malina and Todesarten in GQ; U+) article on Schwaiger and Handke in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beyond the Eternal Feminine&lt;/span&gt;; (5) working on films of Ulrike Ottinger.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmgard Taylor, SUNY, Cortland: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Bild der Witwe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;der&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;deutschen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Literatur&lt;/span&gt; (l980).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha Wallach, UWGB: working on German prose turned into films (Katharina Blum, Marquise of 0, Effi Briest); figure of mother in German drama; female characters in Heinse's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ardinghello&lt;/span&gt;; German immigrant women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Bammer, Bryn Mawr C.’’Visions and Re-Visions: The Utopian Impulse in Feminist Fictions," diss. U. Wisconsin 1982 (analyses of Stefan, Christa Wolf; bits on Reinig).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Brigitte Cooper (Palmer, Alaska) and V. Joan Moessner (Dept. of Linguistics and FL, U. Alaska, Fairbanks, 99701) are looking for additional information on AUGUSTE ENDERS-SCHICHANOWSKI, a German artist who went to Alaska between 1900-1910 and is known to have had a brother in Brooklyn. They are working on a biography of Schich anowski and a translation of her book, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Im Wunderland Alaska&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Modern Humanities Research Association (King's College, Strand, London WC2R2LS England) publishes Germanic titles in its disser­tation series and will send listings upon request.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;LOST WIGGIES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mail for the following individuals has been returned marked "undeliverable. ’’ If you know where any of these women are, and if they still want to receive the newsletter, please write.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Skippy Acuff&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gail W. Cope&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Susanne Mensel      &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Verne Moberg&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elisabeth Ruge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Annegret Stroetges&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Semiotext(e)&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The German Issue&lt;/span&gt; (Vol. IV, No. 2).                                                        522 Philosophy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Hall, Columbia U., New York 10027.          $5.95.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Beyond, the Eternal Feminine&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Critical Essays&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and German Literature&lt;/span&gt;, eds. Susan Cocalis and Kay Goodman"”fstuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik, No. 98) (Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz , 1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Harry G. Shaffer, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in the Two Germanies&lt;/span&gt;. A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Comparative Study of&lt;/span&gt; a. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Socialist and&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Non-Socialist Society&lt;/span&gt; (Pergamon Press, 19&amp;amp;1).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Quote from Shaffer’s preface: ”I plead nolo contendere to being a man; but I do not feel that a study on women must necessarily be made by a member of the female sex. ... I do not believe that my sex interfered with my comprehension or in any way prejudiced my analysis of the issues treated in this book.” --Remember this statement when you look for information on lesbian rights; battered women's shelters; foreign women as workers and wives-- to mention a few topics not listed in the index. Still, the book does contain a lot of useful information and should be very help­ful to students, especially undergraduates. I think we should bring it to the attention of Women's Studies programs too, and urge for more courses on women's situations in German-speaking areas. (unsolicited commentary and advice from JC).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;off our backs&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. XII, No. 9 (Oct. 1982) contains an interview with Sibylle Plogstedt (one of the editors of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;) discussing German feminism.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jump Cut&lt;/span&gt;, No. 27 contains a special section, Film and Feminism in Germany Today (essay by Marc Silbermann); includes an essay on the German Women's Movement (by Renny Harrigan); Helke Sander on Feminism and Film; Gertrud Koch on Female Voyeurism; interviews with Helga Reidemeister, Jutta Bruckner, Christina Perincioli , and more. A forthcoming issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jump Cut&lt;/span&gt; will include the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;second &lt;/span&gt;installment of Film and Feminism in Germany. Address:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Marie-Louise Janssen-Jurreit, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sexism&lt;/span&gt;, English translation from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (1982).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Ruth-Esther Geiger/Sigrid Weigel, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sind das noch Damen? Vom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;gelehrten Frauenzimmer&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Journal zum feministischen Journalismus &lt;/span&gt;Weissmann Verlag, Frauenbuchverlag, München 1981)” 20U S.,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;DM 29.80.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Dokumente, Kommentare, Faksimiles. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sind das noch Damen&lt;/span&gt; ist ein Lesebuch zur Entwicklung der Frauenzeitschriften durch drei Jahrhunderte, das zugleich die Geschichte der deutschen Frauen­bewegung kritisch dokumentiert und dem Leser heute zugänglich macht. Adresse: Frauenbuchverlag, Kreittmayrstr. 26, 800 München 2.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;RECENT PUBLICATIONS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Sigrid Weigel,“. . . &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und selbst im Kerker frei.“&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schreiben im&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gefängnis&lt;/span&gt;. Zur Theorie und Gattungsgeschichte der Gefängnisliteratur, 1750-1933. (Verlag Guttandin und Hoppe, 1982). 2UU S. mit Abb., DM &lt;i&gt;2k.&lt;/i&gt;80.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Senta Tromel-Plötz, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauensprache: Sprache der Veränderung&lt;/span&gt;♦ (Reihe "Die Frau in der Gesellschaft," Fischer, Band 3725, 1982).DM 11.80.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Ricarda Schmidt, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Westdeutsche Frauenliteratur in den 70er Jahren&lt;/span&gt;. (Rita G. Fischer Verlag, Alt-Fechenheim 73, S000 Frankfurt 61, 1982). 360 S., Paperback, DM 3^.00, ISBN 3-88323-373-0.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Anhand exemplarischer Textanalysen der in den 70er Jahren im Kontext der westdeutschen Frauenbewegung hervorgebrachten Liter­atur werden Entwicklungen und Konzeptionen feministischer Prosa erarbeitet. Das Verhältnis zwischen Emanzipationsstreben und ästhetischer Form wird dabei im kulturellen Nexus betrachtet, um die Frage nach der Existenz einer weiblichen Ästhetik einzu­grenzen und zu präzisieren auf die Frage nach einer feministischen Ästhetik. Diese heuristische Kategorie wird im Prozeß der Analyse am konkreten Material entwickelt.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Die Diskussion darüber, was Literatur von Frauen sein und leisten könne und ob es eine "weibliche" Ästhetik gebe, wird vertieft durch die Analyse der Gedanken von Frauen aus der Vergangenheit sowie moderner strukturalistischer Ansätze aus Frankreich und empirischer Untersuchungen in den USA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;isa Kahn, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Utahs Geheimnisse&lt;/span&gt; (Berlin: Stoedtner-Verlag), can be ordered through Mary Rosenberg or the Trilogy Bookstore&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Inge Stephan, Sigrid Weigel, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die verborgene Frau&lt;/span&gt;: 6 Beiträge zu einer feministischen Literaturwissenschaft (Argument Verlag, Reihe "Literatur im historischen Prozess," Winter 1983).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Vorwort:    Feministische Literaturwissenschaft - Auf der Suche&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;nach der verborgenen Frau.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Inge Stephan, "Bilder und immer wieder Bilder ..." - Über­legungen zur Untersuchung von Frauenbildern in männlicher Literatur.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Inge Stephan, Hexe oder Heilige? - Zur Geschichte der Jeanne d’Arc und ihrer literarischen Verarbeitung.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sigrid Weigel, Wider die romantische Mode - Zur ästhetischen Funktion des Weiblichen in Friedrich Schlegels "Lucinde."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;4. Sigrid Weigel, Der schielende Blick - Thesen zur Geschichte weiblicher Schreibpraxis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;PORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die verborgene Frau&lt;/span&gt; (continued)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sigrid Weigel, Die geopferte Heldin und das Opfer als Heldin - Zum Entwurf weiblicher Helden in der Literatur von Männern und Frauen.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Inge Stephan, "Daß ich eins und doppelt bin ..." - Geschlechter tausch als literarisches Thema.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen im Mittelpunkt&lt;/span&gt;/&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Focus on Women&lt;/span&gt;. Anthology of 11 post-war women writers, with introductions, notes, German-English vocabu­lary. (Suhrkamp/Cambridge, Spring 1983).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women Authors in Translation&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Isabelle de Courtivron and Margery Resnick (Garland Press, late 1982 or early 1983). Includes titles that have been translated into English from French, German, Spanish, Russian and Italian since 19^5. (Helen Cafferty, one of the contributors to this volume, notes that the German section may be slightly out of date by the time this appears--the German con­tributors were the only group to meet the original deadline, which was spring 1980'.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women: Politics and Literature&lt;/span&gt;♦ Anthology of recent (since about 19^8) writing by women in the German-speaking countries, including literary texts, interviews, manifestoes, theory, etc. (Buffalo, New York: SUNY, spring 1983).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nov. 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;nachrichten&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;DIE WICHTIGKEIT DER MÄNNER UND DIE ENERGIEN DER FRAUEN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Dis diesjährige Sommeruniversität für Frauen in Berlin hat die Macht der Männer in vorher nicht gekanntem Ausmaß zu spüren be­kommen. Sie wurde erstmals nicht als förderungswürdige Bildungsver­anstaltung anerkannt, d.h. es gab keinen Bildungsurlaub, so daß berufs­tätige Frauen sich kaum beteiligen konnten. Hauptgrund: Gefährdung der Sittlichkeit. Insbesondere Jugendliche sollten vor einer Bildungsver­anstaltung geschützt werden, an der nicht nur auch lesbische Frauen teilnehmen würden, sondern in deren Rahmen sogar homosexuelle Neigungen zum Thema gemacht würden. Kurz vor Beginn der Sommer­uni wurden auch noch 5 Veranstaltungen schlicht verboten, weil die Gefahr bestünde, daß in ihnen zur Gewalt (gegen die Staatsgewalt) aufgerufen würde.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;Die Tatsache, daß das Lesbenreferat des Allgemeinen Studentenaus­schusses (ASTA der Freien Universität Berlin) als Veranstalter auftrat, mag diese Staatseingriffe erleichtert haben. Nicht nur, weil sich Männer vielleicht provoziert fühlen, wenn Lesben sich offiziell als solche be­zeichnen, sondern auch, weil studentische Vertretungskörperschaften formal kein „politisches Mandat" haben. Darauf aber sich zu berufen, um Verbote zu begründen, heißt lediglich, einen beliebigen juristischen Hebel zu benutzen.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;CONFERENCES&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fascism&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Everyday Life&lt;/span&gt;, April 28-30, 19Ö3, Ohio State Uni­versity, Columbus, OH. Keynote address by Christa Wolf. For registration and further information, contact Professor Helen Fehervary, Dept. of German,                                           OSU, Columbus, OH U3210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;First Feminist Germanist Conference in the FRG&lt;/span&gt;. Vom &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;2b.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; bis zum &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;2Ö. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mai 1983&lt;/span&gt;~findet in Hamburg eine Tagung statt zum Thema:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;FEMINISTISCHE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT ZUM VERHÄLTNIS VON FRAUENBILDERN UND FRAUENLITERATUR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Zielsetzung der Tagung ist die Kommunikation zwischen Frauen über Forschungsergebnisse und methodische Erfahrungen bei der Rekonstruk­tion weiblicher Kulturgeschichte. Wir wollen in erster Linie Literaturwissenschaftlerinnen, aber auch Frauen, die in anderen Fächern feministische Forschung betreiben, ansprechen. Die Tagung soll einen Überblick über den Stand historischer Forschung und Theorieentvicklung ermöglichen. Alle Teilnehmerinnen sollten die Ergebnisse und Probleme ihrer Projekte im Hinblick auf feministische Theoriebildung und Kulturkritik in die Diskussion einbringen. Am Ende der Tagung sollten Überlegungen und Planungen stehen, die eine kontinuierliche Weiterarbeit und Zusammenarbeit unter den beteiligten Wissenschaftlerinnen ermöglichen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Geplanter Tagungsverlauf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Theoretische Überlegungen und historische Beispiele aus dem Gebiet "Frauenbilder”&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Theoretische Überlegungen und historische Beispiele aus dem Gebiet "Frauenliteratur"&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Projektvorstellungen aus den Gebieten "Frauenbilder" und "Frauenliteratur"&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;4. Feministische Wissenschaft in Geschichte, Kunstgeschichte, Psychoanalyse und anderen Disziplinen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;5. Feministische Wissenschaft - Erfahrungen in den USA und Per­spektiven in der BRD&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Alle, die interessiert und weitere Informationen haben wollen, bitten wir sich zu wenden an Inge Stephan/Sigrid Weigel, Literaturwissenshaftliches Seminar,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ninth International New Hampshire Symposium on the German Pern. Republic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;June 17-24, 1983 World Fellowship Center&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Conway, N.H.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;The 1983 New Hampshire Symposium on the GDR has been scheduled for the week June 17-24, to be held at the World Fellowship Center near Conway.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;As in past years, the Symposium will be interdisciplinary in approach. Economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, etc., as well as Germanists are invited to participate. Papers are being solicited for the following seminars:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar I&lt;/span&gt;: Economic, Social, and Political Issues in the GDR - Arthur A. Stahnke, Dept. of Government, So. Illinois Univ., Edwardsville, IL 62026; Volker Gransow, Fachbereich II, Universi­tät Bielefeld, D-48OO Bielefeld.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar II&lt;/span&gt;: Relations of Church and State in the GDR: Luther Year,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Peace Movement, Coexistence - Nancy Lukens, Dept. of German,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar III&lt;/span&gt;: Changes in Marx Reception in the GDR and in the West - Volker Gransow (Seminar I); Christiane Lemke, Zentralinstitut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, FU Berlin, Babelsbergerstr. 14-16, D-1000 Berlin 31.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar IV&lt;/span&gt;: Cultural Heritage and Tradition in the GDR: Art, Archi­tecture, Literature, Music, Restoration - Nancy A. Lauckner, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Lang., University of Tennessee, Knoxville,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;TN 37916; James Knowlton, Dept. of German, Rutgers University,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Camden, N.J. 08102.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar V&lt;/span&gt;: Theater and the Performing Arts in the GDR - Margaret&lt;br /&gt; Ward, Dept. of German, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar VI&lt;/span&gt;: Reception of GDR Literature in East and West - Duncan Smith, Dept. of German, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar VII&lt;/span&gt;: Changes &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in Language and Lexicography in the&lt;/span&gt; GDR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;H. Jochen Hoffmann, _____________________________________________  _____________________________________________  _____________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Fritz König, Dept. of Modern Languages, University of No. Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50613.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar VIII&lt;/span&gt;: Travel Literature in the GDR - Alexander Stephan, Dept. of Germanic Lang., U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, CA 90024.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar IX&lt;/span&gt;: Lyric Poetry in the GDR - Christine Cosentino, Dept. of German, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J. 08102; Wolfgang Erti, Dept. of German, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar X&lt;/span&gt;: Writers Relatively Unknown in the West - Margy Gerber, Dept. of German and Russian, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43402.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar XI&lt;/span&gt;: Recent Developments in GDR Literature and Aesthetic Theory - Christine Zehl Romero, Dept. of German and Russian, Tufts University, Me&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;dford, MA&lt;/span&gt; 02155; Dieter Sevin, Dept. of German, Van­derbilt Univ.,                          st. B, Nashville, TN 37221.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Seminar XII&lt;/span&gt;: Teaching of GDR Literature and Culture - Margy Gerber (SeminarX).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Detailed proposals (title plus 2-3 pages) should be submitted to the appropriate seminar organizer(s)—in case of co-organizers, two copies— by Feb. 1, 1983; completed papers must be submitted no later than April 15. Papers should not exceed 30 minutes; the preferred language is English. The proceedings of the Symposium will most probably be pub­lished. For more information on the Symposium, contact '                                                  '&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Schmauch, World Fellowship Center, Conway, N.H. 03818,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*****&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LIST OF DEADLINES                       '&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;January&lt;/span&gt;: preliminary deadlines for proposals to MLA and AATG— &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;check&lt;/span&gt; with the national offices!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;February 1&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1983&lt;/span&gt;: deadline for receiving &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;paid&lt;/span&gt; registrations for April 9 WiG meeting with Christa Wolf. To Jeanette Clausen, newsletter address.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;February 15&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1983&lt;/span&gt;: ABSOLUTE FINAL DEADLINE for items to be pub­lished in the March issue of WiG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;March&lt;/span&gt;:         deadlines for detailed proposals to MLA and AATG—&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;with the national offices!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;finden," and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 1&lt;/span&gt;, 1983: proposals for WiG 1983 session "Stimme suchen,"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;to Judith Jamieson (Providence College Providence, RI 02918)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and Helen Fehervary (German Dept.,                                                                                                         OSU, Columbus 43210).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This newsletter was typed by Marilyn Gibbons (Women's Studies, IPFW) and Connie Munk (Mod. For. Lang., IPFW). During this same week, they also typed and mailed the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Femini st as Uni das&lt;/span&gt; newsletter, took care of their families, attended classes and did their work in their departments. Connie and Marilyn stand for many other women without whom organizations like ours couldn’t work. Please remember them when you read this newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministas Uni das&lt;/span&gt;, coalition of feminist scholars in Spanish, Spanish-American, Afro-Portuguese, Luso-Brazi1ian, Puerto Rican and Chicano Studies, meets annually at MLA and publishes a news­letter twice a year (November, April). For information: Linda Fox, Women's Studies, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;This is Newsletter 29- Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;WiG sister, Jane 29 Feminist University Everywhere, USA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Unlike most professional organizations, WOMEN IN GERMAN has not&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;raised its rates in the past three years. We are able to keep rates low for students and the unemployed in part because of individual members who voluntarily pay the supporting membership rates (see dues structure below). Membership/subscription money is used to finance the publication of the WiG newsletter (three issues per year, March, August, November) and to partially cover expenses for the annual WiG conference and other events.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;As part of our efforts to generate additional funds to support more extensive WiG projects, such as publication of conference proceedings, we have added an additional category, sponsoring departments. Besides receiving the newsletter and other information sent to the WiG member­ship as a whole, German departments which become WiG sponsors will be eligible to purchase published materials at the same discount available to individual members. Also, they will be listed as sponsors in the August issue of the newsletter and in any publications partially funded through their support.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 28                                                                                                           August 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SEVENTH ANNUAL WOMEN IN GERMAN CONFERENCE-RETREAT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;October lH-17, 1982&lt;br /&gt; Thompson's Island, Boston&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guest Author: LUISE RINSER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference coordinator: Barbara Wright (U. Conn., Storrs); Registra­tion:          Joey Horsley (U. Mass., Boston); Interpreter for Luise Rinser:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gudrun Gill (California State U., Fullerton).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October l4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Thursday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                                          5 :00-7 : 00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Arrival, registration, room assignment&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7:00 pm-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Buffet 3upper, social hour, music?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                        9:00-11:00 am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FEMINISTISCHE WISSENSCHAFT:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN VARIOUS DISCIPLINES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators:                Kay Goodman (Brown U.), Sara Lennox (U. Mass., Amherst).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters and topics: Gertraud Gutzmann (Smith Coll.)—the GDR; Barbara Kaltz (U. of Waterloo)--LinguiStics; Helene Wenzel (Yale)-- French, Women's Studies; Linda Janik (Wellesley Coll.)—Philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Each panelist will give an introduction to important questions in her field and distribute information. Discussion will follow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;                                      1:30-3:30 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RANDBEWEGUNGEN IM DEUTSCHEN SPRACHRAUM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters and topics: Linda Pickle (Westminster Coll.)--the Women's Movement; Renny Harrigan (Milwaukee)—Women and the Peace Movement; Brigitte Wichmann (Hanover Coll.)--Terrorism.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4:00-5:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Steering Committee Meeting&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Friday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                        7:00-9’-00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ÜBER DIE FRAGE: GIBT ES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;EINE WEIBLICHE GERMANISTIK?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderator:            Sandra Frieden (U. Houston). Presenters: Jeannine&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Blackwell (Indiana U.); Ruth-Ellen Boetcher-Joeres (U. of Minnesota); Sidonie Cassirer (Mount Holyoke Coll.); Elke Frederiksen (U. of Maryland). Small group discussions will follow the presentations based on the speakers' own experiences as women, feminists, Germanists.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October l6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                    9:00-11:00 am                                                              &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WOMEN ONLY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderator:            Angelika Banner (U. of Wisconsin). Presenters and topics:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marlene Heinemann (Milwaukee), "Broadening the Struggle: Notes on Becoming a Jewish Feminist;" Lynnie Ozer (New York), "Speaking about Lesbianism in German Literature:" Jeanette Clausen (IPFW), "On Reading Vera Kamenko’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Unter uns war Krieg&lt;/span&gt;." After the panel presentation, we will divide up into CR groups to discuss issues raised by the presentations and our personal, emotional reactions to them. How are we &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; affected by the parts of lives which remain unspoken/unspeakable, and how are we affected differently?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;                                       1:30 pm-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WIG BUSINESS AND PLANNING MEETING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding:              Marianne Burkhard (U. of Illinois) and Linda Pickle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Westminster Coll.), Steering Committee co-chairs, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To allow the widest possible participation in decision-making, and (we hope) to enable us to conduct our planning meeting with less pressure, we are asking for suggestions on various topics in advance.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The registration form (at the end of this newsletter) has spaces for WiG members to propos. topics for future conferences, suggest authors we might invite, and nominate people for steering committee vacancies. You are, of course, welcome to make these and other suggestions whether or not you plan to attend the conference. As agreed last year, the business meeting may be continued Sunday morning if we run out of time on Saturday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday evening&lt;/span&gt;                                          7:00 pm-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LUISE RINSER READS FROM HER WORKS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderator:            Elke Frederiksen (U. of Maryland). As this newsletter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;is being prepared, we still haven’t found out what texts Luise Rinser plans to read. For those of you who aren’t familiar with her works,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elke Frederiksen especially recommends the following: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mitte des Lebens&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gefangnistagebuch&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ein Bundel weifler Narzissen&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Per schwarze Esel&lt;/span&gt; (all Fischer Taschenbuch); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Unterentwickeltes Land Frau&lt;/span&gt; (Wurzburg: Echter Verlag); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Den Wolf umarmen&lt;/span&gt; (autobiography; Fischer (hardback), 1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;October 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sunday morning&lt;/span&gt;                                      9:00-11:00 am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MAKING CONNECTIONS, RESPECTING DIFFERENCES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moderator:            Evelyn Beck (U. of Wisconsin). The substance for this&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;final discussion will come directly from the preceding two days’ experiences. We hope to isolate the issues which have really come out of the conference and which may have been raised by our willing­ness to face difficult questions. We will try to weave together theoretical, personal* political and academic questions as they affect and reflect our differing perspectives on and involvement in the women’s movement, feminism in the US and Germany, our view of our discipline—at the same time recognizing the commonalities that bring us all together.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;LUISE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;            RINSER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Biographical Date&lt;/span&gt; : Luise Rinser was born April 30, 1911 in Pitzling, Upper Bavaria. She studied pedagogy and psychology in Munich, receiving her degree i_. 193&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;*. She taught elementary school from 1935 to 1939« She was married in 1939 to Horst-Günther Schnell (conductor), who was killed in Russia in 19^3. Her two sons, Christoph and Stephan, were born in 19^0 and 19^1. Her first book, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gläsernen Ringe&lt;/span&gt;, appeared in 19^0. Forbidden to publish after 19^1, she was arrested and convicted of high treason and undermining military morale in 19HU. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gefängnistagebuch&lt;/span&gt; (19^6) describes her prison experience. After the war she worked as a literary critic for the American paper &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Neue Zeitung&lt;/span&gt;. In 1950 her novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mitte des Lebens&lt;/span&gt; appeared; it has since sold more than one million copies and been translated into 15 languages. It was awarded the René Schickele Literature Prize in 1952. In 1961 &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mitte des Lebens&lt;/span&gt; was published together with the novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aben&lt;/span&gt;­&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;teuer der Tugend&lt;/span&gt; under the new title &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nina&lt;/span&gt;. Rinser was married to composer Carl Orff from 195^ to 1959- She has been a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 1956. Other publications include her essay &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Unterentwickeltes Land Frau&lt;/span&gt; (1970), her diaries &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Baustelle&lt;/span&gt; (1970), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Grenzübergänge&lt;/span&gt; (1972), and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kriegs spiel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;zeug&lt;/span&gt; (1978) as well as numerous novels, collections of stories, documentary prose, and radio and TV plays. She was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1977, the Italian National Prize for Literature in 1979, and the Roswitha-Gedenkmedaille by the city of Gandersheim in 1979. Her autobiography &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Den Wolf &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;umarmen&lt;/span&gt; (l98l) was on the bestseller list for several months. She has published over thirty books, several of which have been translated into at least 10 languages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hilla Jaenicke, Goethe House New York&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have invited Hilla Jaenicke of the New York Goethe House to be our guest and resource person at the WiG conference. We very much appreciate her assistance, and the support of the Goethe Institute, in arranging Luise Rinser’s visit. To find out Luise Rinser’s com­plete itinerary during her three-week stay in the US, please contact the Goethe House.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Membership News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since the WiG newsletter moved to IPFW in August 1981, approximately HO new members have joined our organization. This brings our mailing list to a total of 270, including 50 whose subscriptions have expired. Please remember to check the number to the right of your name on your mailing label, and send a check for the appropriate amount if your number is 28 (this issue) or lower. Dues information is on the membership form at the end of this newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Conference -Her-Story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Especially for newcomers to WiG (but also for "old" members who'd like to reminisce), here is a brief account of how our conferences have evolved and grown since the first one. Held in September 1976, it was announced as a weekend retreat combined with a one-day sym­posium entitled "Feminism and German Studies: An Interdisciplinary Perspective." The format for the second conference was similar, but that year the group decided to restructure the next meeting as fol­lows (I quote from the Nov. 1977 WiG Newsletter):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the second annual Women in German Conference/Retreat, we discussed various ways of restructuring the third con­ference (1978) in order to encourage greater involvement on the part of all participants. It seemed to us that &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arbeitsgruppen&lt;/span&gt; could facilitate collective work by breaking up the conventional formalities of academic conferences, encouraging greater involvement, and eliminating the typical split between "active" paper-givers and a "passive" audience. Far from decreasing academic work, the forma­tion of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arbeit sgruppen&lt;/span&gt; has the potential of opening up new avenues and methods of research. Collective work requires one to consider closely the results of others' research and to attempt to synthesize it with one's own in order to bring forth a product that is greater than the sum of its parts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Translating these principles into practice has been an important part of our annual conferences since then.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1978 conference weekend was the first one to devote the opening session to discussing our experiences surviving in or on the margins of our male-dominated profession. Entitled "Personal and Professional Survival as a Woman Germanist," that evening generated much enthusiasm and initiated a tradition of opening each conference with a session where we can discuss and share our personal/professional/political experiences, become (re-)acquainted with each other, and affirm that the personal is political--&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; scholarly!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another decision made that year was to designate one session of the 1979 conference "for women only." Quite simply, we had found that we needed to provide the kind of space where women can feel free to speak about experiences and issues we do not wish to share with men (no matter how supportive or pro-feminist they may he). This too has now become a tradition of our annual conferences.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1979 conference was exhilarating--and exhausting. We decided to schedule only three Saturday panels for the 1980 conference, rather than four as in previous years, so as to allow more free time for networking, exchanging ideas on our special interests, and just plain relaxing. We also decided to seek funding for bringing a German woman writer to the conference. Margot Schroeder was our guest in 1980, Angelika Mechtel in 1981.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Attendance at the conferences had been increasing each year, and with over 50 attendees in 1980 it became impossible for all participants to contribute to each discussion. Our solution was to organize the following year’s sessions to include small group discussions with a plenary session at the end of each, as well as to ask session organizers to announce specific primary works to be discussed in advance, so everyone wishing to do so could read them before the conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In 1981 we decided that a weekend conference was simply no longer enough. We took a deep breath and agreed to make the 1982 conference a day longer. Also, w_ realized that in our eagerness to explore theoretical issues, literary analysis, new ways of reading, etc. and to find ways to make visible and confront the long unspoken oppres­sions which have historically so often divided women, we had begun to lose sight of a very important and practical focus of our early con­ferences:   the sharing of basic information, such as course syllabi&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;or reading lists, news of women’s organizations or projects we learned about during trips abroad, and so on. We have planned this year’s conference to incorporate this early "tradition" as well as to con­tinue those discussed above.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We hope and expect that the 1982 conference, the first to be held outside the Midwest, will be the best one yet. If you have materials you would like to share with the group, please bring them to Boston when you come. See you there!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please remember: even if you won’t be able to attend the conference, you can still use the registration form to propose future session topics for conferences, suggest authors we should consider inviting, and nominate people for steering committee vacancies. If you choose to do this, your suggestions will be among those discussed during the business meeting in October.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;THANKS!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many, many thanks to everyone who wrote in response to the March 1982 newsletter—Jeanette and Connie appreciate the encouragement a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;whole &lt;/span&gt;lot! A few of your contributions are being held for the November newsletter, to keep this issue light enough to be mailed first class.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCING...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Christa and Gerhard Wolf in the US&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As many of you already know, Christa and Gerhard Wolf will both be teaching in the OSU German Department during the spring quarter of 1983 (March 28 to June 10). They plan to arrive in the US at the beginning of the quarter and haven't yet decided whether they will extend their stay beyond 'arly June.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helen Fehervary writes that the Wolfs have expressed the desire to spend most of their time in Columbus, and they have been assured that their time will be protected. They will probably be able to accept very few speaking engagements elsewhere. -- In other words, if we want to meet them, we should try to go to Columbus rather than ask them to come to us'.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Events planned at OSU during the Wolfs' stay (mark your calendars!):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RETREAT:      A one-day, informal retreat for WiG members to meet and talk&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;with Christa Wolf has been scheduled for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Saturday&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April&lt;/span&gt; 9., &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1983&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More details will be announced and discussed at the WiG conference in October, and published in the November newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CONFERENCE:      An international conference entitled "Women, Fascism,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Everyday Life in Germany" is scheduled for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 28-30, 1983&lt;/span&gt; at the Fawcett Center, OSU, Columbus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters who have confirmed their participation as of this writing include:                        Christa Wolf (Berlin/GDR; Ohio State), Annemarie Troger&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(University of Hannover/FRG), James Steakley (U. of Wisconsin),&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Leila Rupp (Ohio State), George Mosse (U. of Wisconsin), Jost Hermand (U. of Wisconsin), Jeffrey Herf (Harvard U.), Miriam Hansen (Rutgers U.), Atina Grossman (Rutgers U.), Ingeborg Drewitz (West Berlin/&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;U. of Texas), Jessica Benjamin (A. Einstein College of Med.), Evelyn Beck (U. of Wisconsin).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Program topics confirmed so far include: woman as national symbol; the public sphere of women; anti-semitism and the holocaust; family, sexual reform, homosexuality; melodrama and film; oral history: women's recollections of fascism; boundaries of war and postwar experience; peace initiatives past and present.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For more information on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;any&lt;/span&gt; of the above, please write to: Helen Fehervary, Dept. of German, Dieter Cunz Hall 31H , Ohio State Univer­sity, Columbus, OH 1*3210.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Registration for the conference will begin after January 1, 1983; information on child care, hotel accommodations, complete program information and so on will be mailed later this fall. The conference is sponsored by the OSU Graduate School, College of Humanities, Dept. of German, Center for Women’s Studies, Division of Comparative Studies in the Humanities; and the Ohio Arts Council.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pre-Conference Workshop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MAINSTREAMING THE FL CURRICULUM.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Male and Female Stereotyping in Beginning-Level&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Teaching Materials&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wednesday, Nov. 2h, 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9:00 am - 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm, and 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Directors:                Betty Schmitz (Montana State U., Bozeman, MT)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and Barbara D. Wright (U. of Conn., Storrs).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters:              Michel Grimaud (Wellesley Coll.) and Peggy McIntosh&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Wellesley Cc’1. Center for Research on Women).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Mainstreaming"--the process of integrating the findings of Women’s Studies research into the liberal arts curriculum--wi11 be a major concern of curriculum reform in the coming decade. In this work­shop, existing materials are surveyed and an evaluative instrument is distributed enabling participants to examine a wide range of commonly used texts and other teaching materials. Findings are reported and discussed and will be widely distributed after the workshop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The workshop is co-sponsored by AATG, WiG, and AATF. It is intended for teachers of French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish at both the high school and college level; also for textbook authors, editors, publishers, and producers of standardized tests, filmstrips and other teaching materials. It will be held at the New York Hyatt; cost will be comparable to other workshops of similar length.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG Conference&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Pedagogy)                          FAIRY TALES IN THE CLASSROOM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Co-chairs:               Wilma Iggers (Canisius Coll., Buffalo, NY) and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sydna Weiss (Hamilton Coll., Clinton, NY).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters:              Maria M. Tatar (Harvard U.), "From Nags to Witches:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Stepmother in Fairy Tales;" Cora Lee Nollendorfs (U. of Wisconsin, Madison), "Fairy Tales As Ways of Learning:            Approaches and Methods;" Jane Barry (SUNY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;at Buffalo), "Female Archetypes in Marchen and the Classroom."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Literature) FAIRY TALE MOTIFS IN GERMAN WOMEN'S WRITING&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday, Nov. 26&lt;br /&gt; 30-6: 00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chair:                     Ruth Bottigheimer (Princeton U.).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters:              Liselotte Weingant (California State U., Hayward),&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Soziale Zaubergeschichten: Barbara Frischmuths Feen- und Geisterwelt;" Renate Delphendahl (U. of Maine,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Orono), "The Alienated Self in Ingeborg Bachmann’s ’Undine geht;'" Karen Achberger (Saint Olaf Coll.), "Ingeborg Bachmann: Fairy Tale as Metaphor;" Joanna M. Raytch (Rutgers Coll.), "Use Aichinger's Inquisitive Dwarfs."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Women in German business meeting will follow the above session.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext50"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG at MLA, 1982:                       WOMEN AND GERMAN FILM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators:                Marjorie Tussing (California State U., Fullerton),&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg (Seattle).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1982 WiG program at MLA in Los Angeles will begin with a&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;screening of one of Margarets von Trotta's films. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Bleierne Zeit&lt;/span&gt; (1981) has been requested, but at this writing we're not sure whether or not it will be available. If it isn't, Trotta's film &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schwestern&lt;/span&gt; will probably be shown.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After the film screening and a break, the program will continue with papers and discussion &lt;b&gt;is &lt;/b&gt;follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters:               Martha K. Wallach (U. of Wisconsin, Green Bay), "The&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lost Honor of the Marquise of 0, Effi Briest , and Katharina Blum;" Anna Kuhn (U. of Pennsylvania), "Interiority in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sisters&lt;/span&gt;;" Dagmar C. Stern (Columbia U.), "The Third Awakening of Margarets von Trotta;" Bernd Moeller (U. of Texas, Austin), "Dominance, Violence and Solidarity in the Cinema of Margarets von Trotta "&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussants: Sandra Frieden (U. of Houston) and Miriam Frank (Berkeley).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NEW this year: Women in German will have our own cash bar at the MLA convention—so plan on happy hour with us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also:         WiG members interested in sharing a suite at the convention&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;this year, write to Martha Wallach (CCC, UWGB, Green Bay, WI 5^301)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;WOMEN EDUCATORS announces the Fourth Annual Curriculum Materials Award, to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educa­tional Research Association in Montreal, March, 1983- Please send two copies of materials relating to women that have been developed since 1976 for use in educational settings to: Mary Harris and Nancy Smith, Curriculum Award, WOMEN EDUCATORS, Department of Curri­culum and Instruction, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 Include a one-page description of how the materials relate to sexism sex-role stereotyping, and the image of women and girls and the rationale or theoretical/empirical foundation for the material. Entries must be postmarked by December 1, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS: "Alienation in Art and Literature," NEMLA,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;April lU-l6, 1983, Allegheny Coll., PA. Papers (8-10 pages) by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sept. 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt; to: Renate Delphendahl, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Classics, U. of Maine, Orono, ME 0UH69.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;DEADLINE for material to be included in the Nov. 1982 newsletter is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;November 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;REGISTRATION FORM&lt;br /&gt; Women in German Annual Conference&lt;br /&gt; Thompson’s Island, Boston, MA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 14-17, ’82&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: __ ________ Telephone: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;(________ )&lt;/span&gt;________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address (after Sept. 15): ______________________________ ______________________________  &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;# Street                                         Town                                                     State                                                     Zip&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Registration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please choose the plan you prefer from section A, B or C below. Costs for overnight accommodation (A) include conference attendance, lodging, three meals per day and boat transportation to/from the island. If you select attendance and meals only (B), boat transportation is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; included. Round-trip boat fare is $4.00. Registrants must become members of WiG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Overnight accommodation (Please check your choice):&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I intend to spend the night(s) of Oct. 14 15 16 (please circle) on Thompson’s Island. Day-hopping (Please check your choice):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Conference attendance only: $5.00 per day. Please check days you plan to attend:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oct. 15 _____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 16 _____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oct. 17 _____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total = _____  x $5 = _________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Meals. Please check the meals you plan to eat on Thompson’s Island:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lunch               Fri._______                                   Dinner                         Thurs. ____&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;($4.00 each)Sat. __________  ($6.00 each)Fri. _______________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sun. _______  Sat. __________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total = ______  x $4 = _________  Total =____________ _______________ x $6 = ____________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total cost of attendance and meals: $__________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;C. Combination plan:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you wish to combine services from A and B, please mark the appropriate boxes, figure your expenses from A and B, and then tally the total.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cost of Services from A: $ ______________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cost of Services from B: $ ______________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Total: $ _________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Transportation Plans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;I will arrive____________________ (day,time) by ______________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will depart ___________________ (day,time) by ______________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for information regarding land/boat transportation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;____ Please check if you are a student/unemployed and would like help covering your travel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;expenses. Cost of round-trip travel from your home to the conference: $_____________________________________________________ .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(In November, after WiG has paid all its bills for the conference, we will divide any remai&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ning&lt;/span&gt; funds on a percentage basis among those of you who request &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;travel a&lt;/span&gt;id. We very &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;much&lt;/span&gt; ho&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;pe to&lt;/span&gt; be able to help some of you who must travel long distances, but &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;unf&lt;/span&gt;o&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;rtunately we can&lt;/span&gt;'t guarantee that money will be left after expenses or predict what percentage you may be reimbursed).                                                                                               "&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext60"&gt;name ;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-                                                                                                    ’Page&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Childcare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 plan on bringing the following child (children) to the WiG conference:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Name: ___________________________  Age ____&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Name: ___________________________  Age ____&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please check as appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;____  Needs Crib                              Will share my room____                                       Needs own room/bed(circle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Please note special needs or other relevant information: _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you will need childcare, please enclose an additional stamped, self-addressed envelope so that we can forward childcare information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Natural Foods Option&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;A natural foods option (vegetarian) will be made available for a modest surcharge ($10 or less) which will be collected &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;at the conference&lt;/span&gt;. If you choose this option, please check below. We &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;must&lt;/span&gt; know in advance in order to provide enough food.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I desire the natural foods option for the following meals&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Nominations for WiG Steering Committee (optional)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;___________________________________________________  (Please include name and address or&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;2                                                                                           affiliation. Try to nominate from&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;’ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  different geographical regions.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;___________________________________________________&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;VI. Suggested Topics for 1983 WiG Sessions: (optional)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;AATG 1. ___________________________________________  (Pedagogy)&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;                                                                              (Literature)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MLA 1. ____________________________________________&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;________________________________________&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;WiG conference (to be held on the West Coast in 1983)&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;                                                                         &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;                                                                         &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;__________________________________________&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;_________________________________________&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Suggested guest authors for future WiG conferences&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. ___________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;                                                                         &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter 28. Read your label and renew when numbers match&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 27                                                 &lt;br /&gt;March 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, I don’t know about the rest of you, but uns hat der winter geschat über al. January and February in Fort Wayne consisted mainly of snowstorms, cancellations, school closings and bus delays— all very pesky, and not conducive to efficiency. I hope you all received the calls for papers that Connie, Ric and I finally managed to mail in mid-February, barely in advance of some of the deadlines for receiving proposals. Thinking about all the deadlines to be met, and knowing how many obligations most of us have, I'm impressed all over again with WiG's accomplishments during the past months, and seeing them pile up for this newsletter helps me be optimistic about our plans for the rest of 1982 and beyond.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One thing that dealt the old optimism something of a blow was the letter Martha Wallach received from CHRISTA REINIG on March 1. It begins: "Hier ist leider Schlimmes passiert. Meine Freundin hat sich bei einem Unfall die Hand so schwer und dauernd verletzt, daß sie mich nicht begleiten kann, sondern umgekehrt der Fall eingetreten ist, daß ich für sie sorgen und ihr helfen muß." In short, Christa won't be able to be present at our October conference after all. Thud. So, the Steering Committee members did some fast phone-calling and thinking; we decided to ask the Goethe-Institute to invite LUISE RINSER, since she is someone WiG intended to invite several years ago (remember, it was the "Rinser fund" which became the seed-money for Margot Schroeder's visit), and also because her interest in the peace movement and other "Randbewegungen" fits into the program we have planned for October. The Goethe-Institute agreed to extend the invitation, so we can be assured of their support—provided, of course, that Rinser can accept an invitation at this relatively late date. We promise to keep you informed as things develop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We also agreed that Martha should write to Christa Reinig expressing our sympathy and emphasizing that we hope she'll agree to be our guest at some future conference, when and if she feels able to make the trip. It's certainly disappointing that she can't come this year, but let's hope for better luck another time, and keep our fingers crossed that things will work out with Luise Rinser.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So much for bad news, now for an upper. As some of you already know, and are doubtless pleased to hear again, CHRISTA WOLF will be at Ohio State University during the spring quarter 1983 (March 2U to June 3). Gerhard Wolf will also be there, and the OSU Women's Studies program and German department are planning a number of events to coincide with their stay. One is a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;conference on women and fascism&lt;/span&gt;, to be held the last weekend in April 1983. (Ingeborg Drewitz, who'll be at U-Texas, Austin that semester, will be one &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;of the participants also). Helen Fehervary is still working on the possibility of scheduling a Women in German day with Christa Wolf, along the lines we discussed at the WiG business meeting at MLA. She has promised to let WiG know as soon as she has some­thing definite to report. If you have questions on anything related to the Wolfs' stay at OSU, please call or write Helen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Report on the Funding of Visits by Speakers from Germany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We owe thanks to the Goethe Houses of Hew York and Chicago, and to the Goethe Institute-Boston for generous support during the past year. Angelika Mechtel’s visit was funded by Chicago, Ingeborg Drewitz’ by New York. The Goethe Institute-Boston and the Goethe House New York had recommended to the Munich Goethe House headquarters that Christa Reinig’s visit be funded Gisela Dischner’s visit at the MLA convention was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and she was under no obligation to do other readings. If any of you wish to invite Wept German academics to your campus, the Forschungsgemeinschaft is a good place to apply for funds; this year, they funded three people who read papers at the MLA convention. As you know, the funding for Dischner came through very late, after we had already received contributions from individual WiG members. Thanks to all of you who contributed to the "Dischner Fund." Because the funding from the Forschungsgemein schaft did come, we are willing to refund your money if you want it back. Otherwise, we suggest that it be converted into a special fund to help students attend WiG conferences.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Martha Wallach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ingeborg Drewitz 1983 USA Visit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ingeborg Drewitz will be at the University of Texas at Austin from the end of January until mid-May 1983. On April 7 8he will be in Boston and is able to schedule appearances elsewhere around this date. Contact her as early as possible if you want to invite her to your campus—her calendar filled up very quickly when the Goethe House was putting her schedule together for this January.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Martha Wallaeh&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MLA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at MLA, December 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our session "German Women Writers of the Romantic Period" was a big success. There were excellent papers and a lively discussion despite the late hour. We received much positive feedback: comments on the high quality of the papers, inquiries about our plans for MLA 1982 in Los Angeles; one woman asked "how do I Join you?" We can consider it an indication of our status at MLA that we were assigned the Regency Ballroom! And we filled it. Doubtless many of the new faces &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at this session were there because of Ingeborg Drewitz, who pre­sented a sensitive portrait of Rahel Varnhagen between the two ses­sions listed in the program. Funding for Drewitz’ visit came through too late for her name to be included in the printed program, but we improvised by printing posters, mailing them to WiG members and to German departments, and posting and distributing them at the convention. Besides the full house at our session on the 29th, we had a large crowd at the party we held in Elke’s room for our guests before taking them to dinner on the 28th. The party was &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;so&lt;/span&gt; well attended that we are wondering if there are people who would like to share a suite at the next MLA convention, so that we might have more space for that kind of event. If you are interested in doing this, write to Martha Wallach (CCC, UWGB, Green Bay, WI 54301).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;POINT OF VIEW&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women in German — Live from the Regency Ballroom&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Musings on the WiG MLA session&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The WiG Romantic Extravaganza, organized by Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach, was as good as we thought it would be. It might just be the best WiG session we’ve ever had—great papers on pro­found topics, constructive and uncatty commentary on the papers from Helga Kraft and Edith Waldstein, and Ingeborg Drewitz and Gisela Dischner there as inspiration, women who are scholars and poets. But there were so many people there, sitting in neat rows, with a raised podium, that I had the uneasy feeling we were no longer the comfortable, down-home, frowsy, cheerfully disorganized small circle of friends that WiG used to be. And a good thing, too, as nice as those intimate sessions of twenty were. As much as we scurried about during the half-time break trying to make the pom­pous Regency Ballroom a livable, humane women’s space, talking and hugging, unruffling the Romantic good-old-boys who came to the ses­sion, I still sensed that something had changed. Let us face it, we’ve gone big time: while we are not yet as full of ourselves as, say, the Lessing Society, people now come to our sessions not because they are women, or because they want feminist analysis or a refuge from the MLA storm, but because the topics are significant, the papers consistently good and the discussion interesting. We have gained a lot, because they are listening to us now, but we are of necessity losing that sense of togetherness which those conven­tion sessions sometimes provided. Our very success in numbers makes the circle impossible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If success has killed that tiny-room intimacy we used to have, we are still lucky enough to have a place to get recharged emotionally as well as intellectually—the Women in German October conference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is doubly important to us now—as we try to warm up the cold, gloomy, chandeliered Great Halls of the MLA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-- Jeannine Blackwell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SOPHIE MERAU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at MLA 1981 -- Summary of "Courtesan as Role Model”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This paper dealt with the influence of Ninon de Lendos, a 17th century French courtesan, on Sophie Mereau. Mereau, the second daughter of Gotthelf Schubart, and Johanna Sophie Frederike Schubart, was born on March 28, 1770. She was educated at home in modern languages, music, and drawing. She was married to Friedrich Mereau, a law professor at Jena, from 1793-1801, and to Clemens Brentano from 1803 until her death in 1806.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mereau was fascinated by the life and letters of Ninon de Lendos. She translated Lendos’ letters, which appeared in Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker’s periodical &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Erholungen&lt;/span&gt; in 1797. Her most important work on Lendos was an essay "Ninon de Lendos,” published in the journal &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kalathiskos&lt;/span&gt; in 1802. In this essay Mereau sketches Lendos’ life as the attainment of full sexual and intellectual freedom. She held up Lendos as a personal model and a model for bourgeois women of her time, seeing in Lendos’ life a positive alternative to marriage.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mereau struggled to attain the same freedoms which Lendos valued. Social pressures and domestic problems forced her to compromise her freedom and to neglect her work. After she divorced her first hus­band she was determined to remain unmarried, and only after dis­covering her pregnancy did she agree to marry Brentano. She described her marriage with him as containing elements of both heaven and hell, but mostly hell. With three pregnancies, one child to look after, various financial problems, and Brentano’s moodiness, Mereau had little time for herself or her work. It is ironic that someone so concerned with equality and sexual freedom finally suffered the fate of many other women of her time. On October 30, 1806 Mereau died after giving birth to her fifth child.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Jackie Vansant&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG WORKING&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Business Meeting, Dec. 29, 1981, MLA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. The meeting was chaired by Sara Lennox. She announced that &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Marianne Burkhard&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Linda Pickle&lt;/span&gt; have agreed to serve as co-chairs for the coming year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. We discussed the WiG sessions for the 1982 AATG meeting, to he held in New York. Since there were no volunteers for a second coordinator of the proposed session "Fairy Tale Motifs in German Women’s Writing," the responsibility for finding one was turned over to the Steering Committee. (Obviously, this has since been done—see calls for papers mailed in February!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Helen Fehervary announced Christa Wolf’s planned visit to OSU during the spring quarter 1983 (March 2H-June 3). Various possibilities for a WiG-sponsored event were discussed, including a more general conference (1-2 days) on women writers, to be co-sponsored by the OSU Women’s Studies program and other groups; planning a special one-day retreat with Wolf for WiG alone (pos­sibly but not necessarily in tandem with another, more general conference, or with the NWSA convention, which will be held in Columbus, June 1983). Those present agreed we should still go ahead with plans for the annual October conference in the Los Angeles area in 1983, including plans to invite an author, as decided last October in Racine. We also agreed to try to schedule an informal one-day WiG event in Ohio during Wolf’s visit, and Helen agreed to try to arrange this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. We discussed the 1982 MLA WiG sessions on Women and German Film, in response to Marjorie Tussing’s and Dorothy Rosenberg’s request for advice on choice of film(s) and/or filmmakers for the ses­sions. After much discussion, we agreed on the following, listed in order of preference:&lt;/p&gt;
tie 1. Käthe Kratz (Austrian feminist filmmaker; very accessible, according to Jackie Vansant, who sent a list of her films to Marjorie and is willing to initiate contact with her).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tie 1. Christine Perincioli (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Macht der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Männer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ist &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Geduld &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen&lt;/span&gt;; semi-fictional film about battering; very favorably reviewed, e.g. in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Medium. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Zeitschrift &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;fur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hörfunk, Fernsehen, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Film, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Presse&lt;/span&gt;, Dez. 1978, pp. U2-U3) .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Heike Sander, known especially for her film &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Redupers&lt;/span&gt; and her work for the journal &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;frauen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;film&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Margareta von Trotta (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bleierne Zeit&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Schwestern oder die Balance des Glucks&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages&lt;/span&gt;; other films with Schlöndorff).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. Helma Sanders-Brahms (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutschland, bleiche Mutter&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
5. Ulrike Ottinger (most recently, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Freak Orlando&lt;/span&gt;--very mixed reviews in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;, Dec. 1981, and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt;, Jan. 1982).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was suggested that a "special event" status be requested from MLA for the film showing itself. (Helen Fehervary suggested WiG might consider purchasing some films to begin a feminist film resource for members. She agreed to look into this possibility).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5. Discussion of the 1982 WiG conference, Oct. lU-17, on Thompson’s Island in Boston Harbor. Martha Wallach reported on funding efforts; the Goethe Institute had indicated possible willing­ness to provide some support for Christa Reinig’s visit if &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;additional speaking engagements for Reinig could be arranged. Reinig had indicated that she was willing to do a one-month Lesetour in the New England area. The Steering Committee would be responsible for finding someone to pursue and possibly coordinate this aspect of her visit.&lt;/p&gt;
6. New Business&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--Barbara Wright reported on the Denver AATG workshop on non­sexist German instruction, indicating that valuable material had been presented to a disappointingly small audience, and suggested that WiG find a way to continue this project. (Barbara is working on this; see announcement elsewhere in this issue).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Jackie Vansant reported that the Textbook Committee was solic­iting reviews of first- and second-year textbooks and critiques of first- and second-year German programs (see announcement elsewhere in this issue).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Bonnie Beckett-Hoffmann announced the International Symposium on the GDR (June 18-2U, 1982, in Conway, NH).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— minutes taken by Joey Horsley&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG 1982&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REPORT PROM JOEY -- WiG 1982&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joey Horsley, who is responsible for making arrangements with the Thompson’s Island conference center and for conference registration, has the following information about cost: the basic price is $30. per day, which includes 3 meals and the overnight, as well as boat transportation to the island. The sliding scale we have had for other conferences still has to be worked out, but you can see it will be based on a cost of $90. for those attending the entire con­ference (Oct. lU-17). If you bring your child(ren), you will have to pay their lodging too. Child care will be arranged for those who need it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The conference center requires that we pay, by August 15, a deposit of 20% of the total. Thus, if we had e.g. 60 people, the deposit would be ca. $1200.--and paying such a deposit would more than wipe out the WiG treasury at one swell foop. So, to deal with this problem, the steering committee proposes the following: all of you who are on the program in some ’’official" capacity (as coordinators, presenters, etc.) will be asked to register by August 1, 1982. (We are assuming it won’t make that much difference to most of you whether you pay your registration early or late, since you are already com­mitted to attending the conference). This advance registration will give us the money to pay the deposit &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; allow us to have a "normal" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;registration deadline of September 15 for everyone else. We felt that having an August 1 deadline for everyone would reduce atten­dance at the conference, since many people are away during the summer and don’t return until September. When the sliding scale has been worked out, we’ll send you the information. So that we can know who the program participants will be, all coordinators should contact Barbara Wright (U Connecticut, Storrs) no later than &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;May 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tobe Levin (University of Maryland, European Division) wants WiG members to know that &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Verena &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Stefan and Gabriele Meixner&lt;/span&gt; are willing and eager to be the guests of WiG at some future conference (Tobe suggests 1983). Verena Stefan of course needs no introduction, but some of you might not know (I didn’t) that Gabriele Meixner was a founding sister of Amazonen Verlag in Berlin before moving to Frauenoffensive to serve for 3 years as Geschäftsführerin; she had the major responsibility for French feminist writing, as Lektorin and translator. Gabriele and Verena have been working, with Tobe, on translating Adrienne Rich’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dream of a Common Language&lt;/span&gt;. Both are, of course, intimately familiar with contemporary German women’s poetry, and would like to discuss with us their experiences trans­lating Rich, as well as the reception their translation will have received by 1983. (Being predisposed to grandiose ideas, I promptly envisioned a conference with Verena, Gabriele, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Adrienne Rich-- wouldn’t that be exciting, and wouldn’t that require even more, urn, Amazonian fund-raising efforts than we're facing now’. —Just a thought.) —Do send your reactions to Tobe’s suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG/ACTFL, Nov. 1982, Mew York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you know, we're hoping to have two WiG sessions during the 1982 AATG meeting: "Fairy Tales in the Classroom" (coord. Wilma Iggers and Bunny Weiss), and "Fairy Tale Motifs in German Women’s Writing" (coord. Jorun Johns and Ruth Bottigheimer).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition, Barbara Wright is working with an AATF member, Rebecca Valette, to propose a one and one-half day &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;pre-conference workshop&lt;/span&gt;, an expansion of the one Barbara and Gabriele Wickert arranged for the Denver meeting last November. The program envisioned for this fall is tentatively entitled "Female and Male Stereotyping" and would be co-sponsored by AATG, AATF, and ACTFL, to attract a wider audience. Also, workshop participants would be able to earn graduate credit, through the University of Connecticut. The program, if it is approved, would be more or less as follows: (1) presentation of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;guidelines for analyzing stereotyping in teaching materials; (2) participants work in groups of two or three, each group analyzing a different set of materials (a textbook; standardized tests, film­strips, cultural films, etc.); (3) plenary session and discussion. Following the workshop itself, participants would be expected to write up reviews of the material in publishable form; reviews to be presented to publishers, and made widely available. Barbara and Rebecca are planning to encourage not only teachers, but also text­book authors, publishers, cultural attachés, and distributors of teaching materials to attend. Doesn't this sound good? If for some reason it isn't approved as a pre-conference workshop this year, we will probably try to find another way to present it—it's long past time to get really serious about sexist teaching materials'. If you have any questions or suggestions, contact Barbara Wright at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;* * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A relatively recent and easily accessible article on the impact of feminist research on the curriculum: "Women's Research Challenges Long-Held Beliefs," New York Times, Nov. 23, 1981« Evelyn Beck suggested that we make the most of "big media" articles such as this one when pushing for the integration of feminist materials into the general curriculum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[cartoon]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DENVER 1981&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;REPORT — &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG/ACTFL, 1981 Pre-conference Workshop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the Denver pre-conference workshop "Forward to Basics: Non-Sexist German Instruction at the Beginning Level," coordinated by Gabriele Wickert and myself, was to identify sex bias in German texts commonly used at the elementary level (high school and college), and to present corrective strategies for adapting existing texts to non­sexist use, enriching language programs with cultural materials on women and supplementing regular instruction with non-sexist games, exercises and readings. We also discussed ways to turn the fight against sexism in language teaching from an individual struggle into a department- or school-wide policy. Bibliographies, brochures on women from the GDR and FRG, and a list of significant women in German history were handed out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After an introduction and panel presentation, we originally planned to break down into smaller working groups. However, low enrollment allowed us to form a roundtable discussion, and we all enjoyed the opportunity to work directly with each other. Helen Frink (Keene State College, NH) shared her "Checklist for Identifying Sexism in Language Textbooks" (reproduced here). Ursula Beitter (Hamilton College, Clinton, NY) dis­tributed copies of her rewritten fairy tales. Our favorite was "Aschenputtel auf der TH." Dinah Dodds (Lewis and Clark College, Port­land) demonstrated several games which push students to use their lan­guage skills creatively beyond the framework of the textbook. Karen Pederson (Minneapolis Public Schools) and I addressed the lacunae in our knowledge of notable women in German history, politics, science and culture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the end of the session we spent some time discussing the low atten­dance and ways to give the workshop again more effectively. Apart from the extra time and considerable expense for participants, it was sug­gested that including teachers of other languages and treating male stereotypes as well might help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Barbara D. Wright&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helen Frink’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Checklist&lt;/span&gt; is reproduced on the next two pages. If your department has a textbook selection committee, why not tear these pages out and hand them to the chairperson? (First, make copies for your col­leagues in French, Russian, Spanish . . .) Barbara suggests that in using this or a similar checklist, it would be helpful first to distin­guish four major ways in which the presentation of women can be biased, whether in dialogues, readings, exercises, vocabulary, illustrations, etc.: (1) by simply &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;ignoring&lt;/span&gt; women--their number, occupations, respon­sibilities, and achievements; (2) by showing them only or primarily in a position of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;dependency&lt;/span&gt; on men—as girlfriend, wife; as assistant rather than leader; as observer rather than doer, etc.; (3) by showing them only in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;traditional&lt;/span&gt; roles with traditional characteristics and modes of behavior; (4) by treating them in a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;pejorative&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;degrading &lt;/span&gt;manner (whether a "traditional" portrayal or not). (Note: Barbara's categories are similar to those used by Audrone Willeke and Ruth Sanders:  (1) Exclusion; (2) Subordination; (3) Distortion; (4) Degra­dation. See "Walter is intelligent und Brigitte ist blond. Dealing with Sex Bias in Language Texts," UP 1978, No. 2, pp. 60-65.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-10-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helen Frink&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CHECKLIST FOR IDENTIFYING SEXISM IN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS&lt;/p&gt;
I. Exclusion and underrepresentation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. Dialogues&lt;br /&gt;1. Total number of dialogues in book&lt;br /&gt;2. Number with only female participants&lt;br /&gt;3. Number with only male participants &lt;br /&gt;4. Number with females in dominant role&lt;br /&gt;5. Number with males in dominant role&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B. Readings&lt;br /&gt;1. Total number of readings in book&lt;br /&gt;2. Number which focus on important women &lt;br /&gt;    Names of women subjects:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Number which focus on important men &lt;br /&gt;    Names of men subjects:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C. Number of dialogues or readings devoted to current social, political, or economic status of women                                                                                       &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;II. Women in society &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. Women at work&lt;br /&gt;1. Do women travel for study or professional reasons! Yes__No__&lt;br /&gt;2. Are women shown at work? Yes__No__&lt;br /&gt;3. What trades or professions are given for women?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the remaining items, rank the book on a three point scale, where 1 means the item is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; a feature of the book (non-sexist), 3 indicated the book shows some instances of bias for this aspect, and 5 indicates an unacceptable level of sexism; the feature appears repeatedly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;B. Social interaction: negative traits&lt;/p&gt;
1. Women appear in a role subordinate to men (e.g. getting a traffic fine, asking men for directions or help)    1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;2. Men control finances and money    1  3  5   &lt;br /&gt;3. Women are shown as extravagant    1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;4. Women are engaged in the humanities, while men are involved in science, technology, politics, or business     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;5. Women’s activities appear less interesting, exciting, or important than those of men &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;1  3  5 &lt;br /&gt;6. Women engage in traditional female activities, cooking, child care, etc.     1  3  5                            7. Women discuss ’’trivial” matters (appearance, health, fam­ily) while men discuss "serious" subjects (politics, economics, history, culture)      1  3  5 &lt;br /&gt;8. Women are more concerned with their physical appearance than men are   1  3  5&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexism in Language textbooks, cont. &lt;br /&gt;Page 2&lt;br /&gt;Helen Frink&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. Portrayal of women&lt;br /&gt;1. Women are described in terms of their phsical appearance more often than men     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;2. Women are identified by their relationship to men or family (wife, sister)     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Compared to men, women are characterized as:&lt;br /&gt;3. Less intelligent     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;4. More emotional    1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;5. More quarrelsome     1  3  5&lt;br /&gt;6. Younger     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;7. Physically smaller     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;8. Suffering more from ill health     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IV. Sexism in Grammar and Vocabulary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Occupational terms are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; given in the feminine for traditional male occupations (list examples for which no female equivalents are given)     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Occupational terms given in teh feminine identify traditional roles only (list examples for which no male equivalents are given)     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. When both feminine and masculine forms appear (for family members, uccupations, etc.) the masculine is fiven first     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. In presenting feminine and masculine forms appear (for family members, occupations, etc.) the masculine is given first for:&lt;br /&gt;a. Parts of the body     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;b. Items of clothing     1  3  5  &lt;br /&gt;c. Personal grooming   1  3  5   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V. Sexism in Illustrations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. How often are women pictured? Men?&lt;br /&gt;2. How many pictures show only women? Only men? 3. How often is a female pictured in a dominant role (i.e., center, full-face, doing rather than watching?) a male?                                                  &lt;br /&gt;4. How are women dressed? Men?&lt;br /&gt;5. What are women pictured doing? Men?&lt;br /&gt;6. What interpretations do captions or commentary on the illustrations offer?&lt;br /&gt;7. What kind of information about women and men is offered in other illustrative material (graphs, charts, statistical tables, cartoons, advertisements, etc.)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Textbook Committee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The textbook committee invites reviews of first- and second-year German textbooks, and also of programs for the first two yefcrs of German. If you would like to review a textbook for the committee but are afraid you’ll duplicate someone else’s work, write to Sandra and Jackie telling them which book you’d like to review and they’ll get in touch with you: Sandra Shattuck/Jackie Vansant, Dept. of Germanic Lang, and Lit., Univ. of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX 78712.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Guidelines&lt;/span&gt; suggested by the committee for reviewing a textbook: 1. How many women appear in the text? 2. What are the occupations of the women vs. the men? 3. How are they distributed throughout the text? 4. How are women portrayed? (e.g. are women described in terms of physical characteristics — "hubsch," etc.; are traits such as intelligence mentioned only for men?) 5. Are there other biases apparent? (age, class, etc.; example from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Modern &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German&lt;/span&gt;: "&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Arme&lt;/span&gt; haben viele Kinder.") 6. Is the 3d sg. feminine pronoun &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;sie &lt;/span&gt;equally represented in grammar exercises? 7. How would you rate the text overall?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Questions for reviewing programs&lt;/span&gt;: 1. What books are used for the first- and second-year program? 2. Is there a textbook selection committee? If so, is there any concern about sexist content? 3. Have you been able to eliminate sexist texts? If hot, is there a way to incorporate a critique of the material while using it in the classroom?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sample&lt;/span&gt; from Jackie’s and Sandra’s review of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsch 2000 &lt;/span&gt;(detailed breakdown of roles)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 1, "Wer ist das?"&lt;br /&gt;2 women (Verkäuferin, Sekretärin)&lt;br /&gt;1 man (Student)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 2, "Im Studio"&lt;br /&gt;3 women (Sekretärin, Verkäuferin, Ansagerin)&lt;br /&gt;3 men (Quizmaster, Reporter, Student)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 3, "Was sind Sie?"&lt;br /&gt;2 women (Verkäuferin, Sekretärin) &lt;br /&gt;4 men (Quizmaster, Student, Reporter, Flugkapitän)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 4, "Im Supermarkt"&lt;br /&gt;2 women (Lehrerin, Kassiererin)&lt;br /&gt;1 man (Journalist)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 5, "Im Restaurant" &lt;br /&gt;no women&lt;br /&gt;4 men (der Ober, 3 Gäste)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unit 6, "Entschuldigen Sie, bitte. . ."&lt;br /&gt;1 woman (pedestrian)&lt;br /&gt;4 men (driver, 3 pedestrians)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unit 7, "Mein Wagen ist kaputt"&lt;br /&gt;1 woman (Sekretärin)&lt;br /&gt;1 man (Chef)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unit 8, "Fräulein Heim telefoniert"&lt;br /&gt;2 women (Sekretärin, operator)&lt;br /&gt;1 man (Chef der Werkstatt)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FRAUEN ANTWORTEN AUF RASSISMUS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following essay by Dagmar Schultz appeared as a kind of post­script to her report on the 1981 NWSA convention in the October 1981 isbue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt;. If you want to read the entire report (5 pages), and don’t have access to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage,&lt;/span&gt; send WiG a small donation and I’ll xerox it for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Teilnahme an dieser Konferenz brachte mir zum Bewußtsein, daß die Auseinandersetzung mit Rassismus bei uns ebenso notwendig ist, aber in der Frauenbewegung noch weitgehend umgangen wird. Den meisten von uns ist klar, daß Rassismus gegen Ausländer und deutsche Farbige ein Grundzug unserer Gesellschaft ist und daß Antisemitismus nur deshalb weniger offensichtlich ist, weil Juden in Deutschland kaum (mehr) vorhanden sind. Aber wo machen sich Rassismus und Antisemitismus in uns bemerkbar? Wie wurde uns beigebracht bestimmte Vorurteile zu übernehmen? Wie können wir uns dagegen wehren, daß stereotype Bilder, die wir bewußt ablehnen, aus dem Unterbewußten in erfider Weise wieder auftauchen? Wie gehen wir mit solchen Gefühlen und Haltungen um? Und was sind die politischen Implikationen von Handlungsstrategien, die diesen Aspekt mit einbeziehen oder ihn ignorieren?&lt;br /&gt;     Seit Jahren gibt es Projekte, die von Frauen für und teilweise mit Ausländerinnen entwickelt wurden - dort ist diese Diskussion ansatzweise geführt worden. Häufig ging es in diesen Projekten jedoch mehr darum, ein Informationsdefizit über Ausländerinnen zu füllen, als Vorutreile zu unersuchen.&lt;br /&gt;     Wir haben uns bisher in weit geringerem Maße mit Rassismus und Antisemtismus auseinandergesetzt als unsere amerikanischen Schwestern. Zum Teil sicherlch, weil Ausländerinnen und deutsche farbige Frauen diese Kritik und Selbstkritik weniger energisch von uns fordern.&lt;br /&gt;     Als Alix Dobkin ihre Konzerte damit einleitete, daß sie von ihrer Angst sprach, als Jüdin in Deutschland zu sein, war die Antwort des Publikums ein unwilliges, ungeduldiges Raunen: red doch nicht soviel, sondern sing - wir haben keine Lust, uns von dir Schuldgefühle für etwas einreden zu lassen, womit wir nichts zu tun hatten.&lt;br /&gt;     Sicher, wir sind nicht schuldig für die Taten unserer Eltern, aber wir sind mit verantwortlich für das, was heute geschieht. Und unsere Gesellschaft ist nicht so beschaffen, daß eine Jüdin keine Angst zu haben braucht, in Deutschland zu sein. Die Geschichte lebt weiter und ist somit auch unsere Geschichte. Wenn eine jüdische Frau mit uns nicht über ihre Ängste sprechen kann, verneinen wir die Realität, die diese Geschichte für sie hat, und unsere Verantwortung für die Gegenwart. Auf diese Weise werden wir indirekt zu Komplizinnen von Kräfen, die übrigens auch irgendwann den sozialen Rassismus gegen uns als z.B. lesbische Frauen anwenden mögen.&lt;br /&gt;   Was bedeutet es, wenn wir uns durch Türken bedrohter fühlen als durch Deutsche? Kommen deutsche Männer plötzlich zu gut weg? Deutsche Männer, die den Hauptprozentsatz von Vergewaltigern ausmachen, und die unsere Arbeits- und Lebensmöglichkeiten kontrollieren?&lt;br /&gt;     Was steht dahinter, wenn wir von &lt;span&gt;„Türkenfrauen" und „Türkenfamilien" sprechen? Würden wir je „Franzosenfrauen" sagen?&lt;br /&gt;     Seit einigen Wochen treffen sich in Berlin Frauen, um diesen Fragen nachzugehen. Wir versuchen, uns darüber klar zu werden, was wir von Kindheit an an Antisemitismus und Rassismus mitbekommen haben, wann und wie diese Vorurteile oft ungerufen und unerwünscht wieder hochkommen. Wir stehen an den Anfängen einer komplexen Selbstuntersuchung und wissen nur, daß sie notwendig ist - für uns selbst, für unsere Beziehungen zu denen, die in der Gesellschaft diskriminiert werden und für unsere politische Arbeit. Wir würden uns freuen, wenn Frauen aus der BRD uns ihre Gedanken und Erfahrungen mitteilen. Für Berliner Frauen: die Gruppe ist weiterhin offen und wird sich zu Diskussionen und zur Planung von Veranstaltungen treffen. Am Sonntag, dem 11. Oktober sind wir um 18.00 Uhr im Frauencafé am Winterfeldtplatz (Winterfeldtstr. 38) und werden von unseren bisherigen Gespr&lt;/span&gt;ächen und Überlegungen berichten&lt;br /&gt;     Dagmar Schultz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Janis Murphy (Univ. Washington, Seattle) is writing her dissertation on the German dramatist &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Elsa Bernstein&lt;/span&gt;, who wrote during the period 1895-1910, mostly under the pseudonym Ernst Rosmer. Janis heard from a colleague that something about Bernstein had appeared in a WiG newsletter several years ago (prior to March 1980) – do any of you remember this? Janis is in corresponding with ot&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;hers &lt;/span&gt;address: Janis Murphy, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Corry Moore (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa) is doing research on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mädchenlektüre im 16. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;17. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jahrhundert&lt;/span&gt;, focusing on three questions: Where did women attain literacy? What kinds of role models were presented to girls? Who wrote for a younger female audience? She hopes eventually to produce a book on this topic. Corry also sent a copy of a recent article: Cornelia Niekus Moore, ’’’Mein Kindt, nimm diß in acht.’ Anna Hoyers’ &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gespräch eines Kindes mit seiner Mutter von dem Wege zur wahren Gottseligkeit&lt;/span&gt; als Beispiel der Erbauungsliteratur für die Jugend im 17. Jahrhundert,” &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Pietismus und Neuzeit&lt;/span&gt;, Band 6 (1980), I64-I85.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Renny Harrigan is reading "masses of popular literature of the Weimar Republic” for her NEH-funded research project in Berlin (though she sometimes thinks it might be more useful to write a "Schlüsselroman” about women in academe!) —Besides her many publications on women in Weimar literature, Renny has an article on West German cinema forthcoming in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Jump Cut&lt;/span&gt;. She writes about the Film Festival in Berlin: "There are lots of women's films, but I’m no longer happy seeing them listed Just as "women’s films”—what &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;are&lt;/span&gt; women’s films if not everything. And we'd never dream of lumping everything else together as "men's films.” The fine line between affirmation and cooptation ... we need autonomy, but we need more than "women" as a label to exist!”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joan Moessner (Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks) is researching a chapter on Germans in Alaska, for a book (sponsored by the German government) on Germans in the American Northwest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Ways of Reading&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(This summary was received too late to be included in the last newsletter)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The women and men in Angelika Mechtel's stories "Die Träume der Füchsin,” "Kuckucksfrau,” and "Zweimal ein Sohn” seem to live ac­cording to such different principles that their desperate attempts at communication most often end in suicide or violence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Instead of showing us possibilities for new behavior patterns, Angelika makes us painfully aware of the enormous gulf between male and female roles through the dichotomy of concave and convex forms of behavior. The passive concave form is female, pliable to the demands of others to the point of giving up the self. Convex male behavior Juts out into space, acts in order to accomplish a goal even if the means are the destruction of the other. The polarity is so static that it leaves some readers hopeless, with a heightened awareness and no identification figure for a positive alternative in sight.- This polarity also frustrates some readers enough that they work toward their own synthesis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In our session we criticized prescriptive work with literature which would blame Angelika for not writing positive role models. When we are fixated on identification figures, especially in women’s litera­ture, we become blind to deeper meaning possibilities within the text and expanding from the text. For example the frustration with the underlying concave-convex polarity in these texts can inspire asking about the images which might portray woman as a whole person.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We could reinscribe the ancient female symbols of the column and the spiral to show a grounded personality at the center of a social group on the one hand or to show a personality in constant inner (personal) and outer (social) development on the other. (For the historical usage of these signs see Cillie Rentmeister, "Das Ratsei der Sphinx. Matriarchatsthesen und die Archäologie des nicht odipalen Dreiecks,"in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weiblich-Männlich. Kulturgeschichtliche Spuren einer verdrängten Weiblichkeit&lt;/span&gt;, ed. Brigitte Wartmann (Berlin: Ästhetik und Kommunikation, 1980), pp. 151-193.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Instead of supporting a monolithic view of femininity, the Moebius strip could spark awareness of the paradoxical continuum of male­ness and femaleness within personal wholeness. By taking a strip of paper, turning one end over and connecting the ends, one creates a surface in which Side A becomes Side B. (For the implications of this image see Sydna Stern Weiss ’’Dürrenmatt ’ s ’The Physicists’: The Moebius Strip as Structural Analogue," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Science/Technology and the Humanities&lt;/span&gt;, 3, No. 2 (1980), pp. 98-107.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We might look for these images of female personality in literature while considering the significance of their origin, potential and associations in modern society.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Karen Jankowsky&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Miscellaneous News from WiG members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OF WIG BORN.—word has reached us of the following recent births: a daughter, Linnea, in November 1981, to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Nancy Vedder Shults&lt;/span&gt; (Linnea was with Nancy and Mark at MLA, and slept peacefully through a Brecht session . . .); a son, Lucas, to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Vicki Williams Hill&lt;/span&gt;, in December 1981; a son, Tilman Ripp Achberger, on January 19, 1982, to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Karen and Fritz Achberger&lt;/span&gt;. Happy parenting, folks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-16-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Irmgard Taylor&lt;/span&gt; (now full professor, and in her second year as chair of her department at SUNY College at Cortland) attended the First International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in Haifa, Israel in December 1981, and presented a paper based on her monograph &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dae Bild der Witwe in der deutschen Literatur&lt;/span&gt; (reviewed in the Nov. 1981 issue of this newsletter). She writes that the next Congress is tentatively planned in three years in Ireland or one of the Scandi­navian countries. Anyone wishing more information can write to Irmgard, or you can ask to be put on the mailing list by writing to: Marilyn P. Safir, Chairperson, Dept. of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG in Boston, 1982.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—FEMINISTISCHE WISSENSCHAFT. Coord. Sara Lennox [redacted] and Kay Goodman (German Dept., Brown U, Providence, RI 02912). No deadline specified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-RANDBEWEGUNGEN IM DEUTSCHEN SPRACHRAUM. Coord. Linda Pickle [edacted] and Brigitte Wichman [redacted]. Deadline was March 1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE. Coord. Angelika Bammer [redacted] and Jeanette Clausen [redacted]. Deadline is April 1, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
2. WiG at AATG, 1982. FAIRY TALES IN THE CLASSROOM, coord. Bunny Weiss (Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323) and Wilma A. Iggefs (Mod. Lang., Canisius College, Buffalo, NY 1U208), and FAIRY TALE MOTIFS IN GERMAN WOMEN’S WRITING, coord. Jorun Johns (California State College, San Bernardino, CA 92^07) and Ruth Bottigheimer (Germanic L + L, 230 E. Pyne, Princeton U, Princeton, NJ O85HU). Deadline was March 1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. WOMEN AND GERMAN FILM, WiG at MLA, 1982. Deadline was March 1, 1982. Coord. Marjorie Tussing (F&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;LL, California State U., Full&lt;/span&gt;erton, CA &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;82634)&lt;/span&gt; and Dorothy Rosenberg[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * *&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and Film&lt;/span&gt;: The next issue of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt; is a special issue on film. It contains a discussion with Judith Mayne, Claudia Lenssen, and Helen Fehervary on Women and Film.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0" style="text-align:center;"&gt;* * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The MLA Commission on the Status of Women seeks participants for the following anticipated forum workshops and sessions for the 1982 Con­vention (unless otherwise indicated, all addresses are in the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-17-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;september 1981 PMLA Directory): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Race and. Power&lt;/span&gt;, Carmen Salazar Parr, Los Angeles Valley College; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Politics of Women's Bodies&lt;/span&gt;, Hortense Spillers, Dept. of English, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 190kl; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sexual Politics&lt;/span&gt;, Mary Jacobus, Cornell University; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Black Women in Colleges&lt;/span&gt;, Deborah McDowell, Colby College. Please send papers or abstracts by 15 March.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MORE CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;International Brecht Society&lt;/span&gt; is sponsoring two sessions at the 1982 MLA convention. The session topics, “Brecht and Socialism” and ’’Brecht and Women”, will be the topics of the next two IBS Yearbooks. The editors plan to select the best contributions for publication, so the more “finished” the papers are, the more likely they will be selected. Abstracts of 1-2 pages to each of the two chairpersons, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;no later than April 15, 1982&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Brecht and Socialism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Papers on any aspect of Brecht’s relationship to socialism, be it in his plays, poetry, prose, or his life. Abstracts to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;David Pike, German Dept.&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of N. Carolina&lt;br /&gt;Chapel Hill, NC 27514&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Fuegi, Comp. Lit.&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of Maryland&lt;br /&gt;College Park, MD 20742&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Brecht and Women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Papers on the characterization or treatment of women or women's issues in any of Brecht's works, as well as any women in his life as it might have affected his work or productivity. Abstracts to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;K. Lew Thomas, Dance Dept. &lt;br /&gt;University of California   &lt;br /&gt;Los Angeles, CA 90024   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gisela E. Bahr, GREAL&lt;br /&gt;Miami University&lt;br /&gt;Oxford, OH 45O56&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Participants must be MLA members or apply for membership before April 1, 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Other0"&gt;* * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Denver Quarterly&lt;/span&gt; is planning a special issue devoted to Literary Images of Women, to appear in Winter 1983. Critical essays, short stories, and poetry are invited; translations will also be considered. Send submissions by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;June 30, 1982&lt;/span&gt; to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Sieglinde Lug, Guest Editor&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures&lt;br /&gt;University of Denver&lt;br /&gt;Denver, CO 80208&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leland H. Chambers, Editor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Denver Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of Denver&lt;br /&gt;Denver, CO 80208&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;East-Central Europe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, is assembling a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Special Issue on the GDR&lt;/span&gt;. Manuscripts on all aspects of the contemporary GDR are invited, most especially studies on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;current themes in East German literature&lt;/span&gt;. Please send manuscripts &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in triplicate&lt;/span&gt; to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;C. Bradley Scharf, Editor, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;East-Central Europe &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Dept. of Political Science &lt;br /&gt;Seattle University &lt;br /&gt;Seattle, WA 98122&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession is , seeking two new members to be appointed for three-year terms 1982-85. This year the commission is particularly interested in applications from members in the Midwest. Members interested in serving on the commission should send their curricula vitae and letters describing their qualifications for commission work to either Madelyn Gutwirth, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, West Chester State College, West Chester, PA 19380, or to Helene Moglen, Division of Humanities + Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 950614. The dead­line for applications is 10 April, and appointments to the commission will be made by the MLA Executive Council in May 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TRANSLATION&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helen Fehervary reminds us that an English translation of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort., Nirgends&lt;/span&gt; will be published by Farrar Straus + Giroux in 1982, pos­sibly in time for fall semester classes. Wolf’s Buchner-prize acceptance speech appeared in English in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New German Critique&lt;/span&gt; 23 (Spring/Summer 1981). And if all goes well, an English translation of her essay “Berührung" (Foreword to Maxie Wander’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Guten &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Morgen&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;du &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SchSne&lt;/span&gt;) will be included in an anthology that Naomi Stephan, Dagmar Schultz, Edith Hoshino and Jeanette Clausen hope to have ready for publication by late 1982. (Notice I said "hope"—much remains to be done for this project).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Still speaking of translations: the lack of them continues to be a problem for most of us who want to teach women authors. For example, the only English translations of Christa Reinig’s work seem to be in DIMENSION: the chapter "Xenia" from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Entmannung&lt;/span&gt; (vol. 9, No. 6, 1976) and miscellaneous short pieces and poems scattered in various issues of that journal. Ilze Mueller, a WiG member, has translated Reinig’s &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Müßiggang ist aller Liebe Anfang&lt;/span&gt;, and submitted it to Cleis press, which unfortunately is likely to turn it down,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;primarily because of the copyright fees, etc. they would have to pay Reinig's publisher, Eremiten-Presse. Another example is Ingeborg Drewitz—apparently none of her works are available in English!&lt;br /&gt;Helen suggested that Drewitz’ book on Bettina von Arnim should be high on the list of works needing to be translated. Surely all of you could suggest any number of other high priorities—what may be most needed is expertise and connections/networking—getting (potential) translators in touch with receptive publishers, knowing how to bargain for lower permission fees, etc. Perhaps it’s time to establish a WiG committee on translation? What are your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Membership and finances&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Early in January I took a couple of deep breaths and then an unprecedented (I think) step: I sent out notices to 107 WiG members whose subscriptions to the newsletter had expired. There was a respectable number of responses to this reminder, which was nice for ye olde WiG treasury, however, there are still about 75 people who didn’t respond. I haven’t deleted any unpaid members' names from the mailing list, though, except to stop mailing to those whose mail was returned marked "undeliverable" in September and November--see list of ’’Lost Wiggies” below. One reason is practical and financial: in order to get the bulk mailing rate (10.9 cents), we must have a minimum of 200 ’’mailing pieces” (post office jargon), and deleting 75 names would put us below 200. Another is that I know how mobile many of us are, whooshing back and forth across continents and oceans for research leaves, visiting appointments, and who only knows what all. Still, it seems unfair for paying members to subsidize a large number of non-paying readers (or non-readers, it's impossible to tell). I'd be glad for some suggestions as to what might be a reasonable policy. Still on the subject of mail and finances: we could get a much lower mailing rate (5.9 cents per ’’mailing piece”), as well as tax deductions for your contributions, if we had not-for-profit status. I vaguely recall that someone (Pat Russian?) investigated this possibility some years ago in Madison, and would like to know if anyone remembers why we didn't go ahead with applying for that status.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;LOST WIGGIES&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mail for the following people has been returned marked “undeliverable." If you know where these people are, and if they still wish to receive the newsletter, please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lorelei Allan [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Eva-Maria Bolte [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anne Charlotte Briggs [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kathryn Buck [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-20-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jamie Owen Daniel [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Roswitha Anna Flach [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dr. I. Tschimmel  [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LIST OF DEADLINES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;: proposals for the session "Speaking the Unspeakable", WiG 1952 in Boston, to: Angelika Bammer [redacted] and Jeanette Clausen [redacted].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;15, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1982&lt;/span&gt;: proposals for Brecht sessions at MLA 1982: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Brecht and Socialism&lt;/span&gt;, to: David Pike (German Dept., Univ. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 2751M and John Fuegi (Comp. Lit., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742); &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Brecht and Women&lt;/span&gt;, to: K. Lev Thomas (Dance Dept. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA 9002U) and Gisela E. Bahr (GREAL, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;May 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;: WiG 1982 coordinators provide information on their sessions (participants, if known; description; equipment needed, if any, etc.) to Barbara Wright, U. Connecticut, Storrs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;August 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;: absolute final deadline for material to be included in the August WiG newsletter (this newsletter includes the conference program and registration information, so it must be mailed in early August).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies International Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. U, Ho. U (1981) is a special issue on the women's liberation movement in Europe and North America. The European countries covered are the Netherlands, France, the FRG, the GDR, Finland, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-21-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;27&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jane Goodwomon       27&lt;br /&gt;Feminist University &lt;br /&gt;Everywhere, USA&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We held firm as long as we could, BUT the rising costs of every­thing made it impossible to continue to produce &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German &lt;/span&gt;for $5.00. Therefore, we have raised the fee to $7.00; $3.00 for students and unemployed. If you can afford to, please con­sider becoming a supporting member ($15.00 or more).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading10" style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 26&lt;br /&gt;November 1981&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Only a few weeks have passed since our conference in Racine, and already so many things have happened that it’s difficult to know where to begin ("At the beginning," said the king gravely, "and go on until you reach the end, then stop.").&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, some very exciting news from Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach about the WiG session at the December MLA: INGEBORG DREWITZ will be present after all. Her stay is being funded by Goethe-Hays, and she will speak on Dec. 29 at 8:15 pm in the Sheraton Regency Ballroom; her topic is “Rahel, die Poetin des Ich: Die Chance, ‘Ich’ zu sagen.” (see complete program inside). Elke also writes that Drewitz will be staying in the US until Jan. 22, 1982, and can accept a few additional speaking engagements. If you would like to invite her to your campus, contact: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ulrike Woods-Dorda&lt;/span&gt;, Goethe Haus New York, German Cultural Center, [redacted]. Ingeborg Drewitz’ unexpected decision to accept the Goethe Institute’s invitation means that we’ll have a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;very&lt;/span&gt; full program at MLA. Elke and Martha are still working to raise money to pay part of Gisela Dischner’s travel to New York. They received $102. in individual donations from conference participants in Racine and $50. from WiG. Several granting agencies they approached turned them down, but the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft is still considering their request. Anyone who would like to contribute to the “Dischner fund” should send a check to Martha Wallach (made out to her), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 54302.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;By the time you read this, the 1981 AATG meeting may be past history (see program inside), and WiG participation at the 1982 AATG, which is up in the air at the moment, will probably be settled one way or the other. As agreed in Racine, Marianne Burkhard (for the WiG Political Action Committee) has written to the president of AATG urging the Association &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; to hold its 1982 meeting in New Orleans and emphasizing that Women in German will not arrange sessions for the meeting if it is held in an unratified state. We will keep you informed, if necessary by a special mailing, of what happens; we agreed at the Racine meeting that Women in German should continue to insist that professional meetings be held only in states which have ratified the ERA &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;whether or not&lt;/span&gt; the amendment is passed by three more state legislatures before June 1982.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This year’s conference in Racine was, in a word, outstanding (did you expect anything less?) Our guest, Angelika Mechtel, was every bit as interested in learning about WiG as we were in getting to know her and her work. Her participation at WiG was part of a six-week Lesetour of the US and Canada, arranged and funded by &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;published in March, so please send material by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;February 15, 1982.&lt;/span&gt; (Mark your calendar! Tie a string around your finger! Whatever—just don’t forget.) Our address: Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Sisterhood,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeanette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MLA 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at MLA&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dec. 27-30, 1981&lt;/span&gt;— all WiG sessions are on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tuesday&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dec. 29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5:15-6:30 pm                    &lt;br /&gt;(534) Women in German Business Meeting&lt;br /&gt;Dominion A, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At this meeting we need to take care of some unfinished business from the October meeting. (1) We elected new members to the Steering Committee (see minutes) but we didn’t elect the co-chairs for 1982. (2) We didn’t appoint anyone to coordinate the arrangements for Christa Reinig’s visit to WiG in Boston in 1982. Martha Wallach and Linda Pickle will work on fundraising; however, it would probably be best if someone in the Boston area could be responsible for corresponding with her, for keeping track of details once the funding is secure, and to be the contact person there—-arrange transportation, housing, etc. (Are there any volunteers?) (3) Also concerning next year’s conference, we should decide whether the Saturday evening session is to be “women only” as it has for the past few years. Would it be better to have one of the morning or afternoon sessions for women only, when transportation to and for Thomson’s Island would be easier? (4) We’ll need to bring each Thomson’s Island would be easier? (4) We’ll need to bring each other up to date on plans for 1983, for the 1982 MLA and AATG, and so on. (5) Any other things that come up between now and then. If you have items for the agenda, please send them to Sara Lennox or Jeanette Clausen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7:15-8:15 pm                    &lt;br /&gt;(571) German Women Writers of the Romantic Period I: New Perspectives&lt;br /&gt;Regency Ballroom, Sheraton             &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presiding:   Elke Frederiksen, Univ. of Maryland, College Park and Martha Wallach, Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(1) "Das Problem des 'Androgynen' und des 'Müßiggangs' in der Jenaer Romantik," Gisela Dischner, Universität Hannover. (2) "Rahel Varnhagen's Letters," Kay Goodman, Brown Univ. (3) "Courtesan as&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA 1981&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Role Model: The Influence of Ninon de Lenclos on Sophie Mereau," Jacqueline Vansant, Univ. of Texas, Austin. Discussant: Helga Kraft, Univ. of Florida.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8:15pm&lt;br /&gt;"Rahel, die Poetin des Ich: &lt;br /&gt;Die Chance, 'Ich' zu sagen,"&lt;br /&gt;Ingeborg Drewitz. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00-10:15 pm         &lt;br /&gt;(596) German Women Writers of the Romantic Period II: Bettina von Arnim&lt;br /&gt;Regency Ballroom, Sheraton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presiding:   Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(1) "Bettina von Arnim oder die Transzendenz der Kindlichkeit," Konstanze Bäumer, Univ. of California, Davis. (2) "Bettina's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Günderode&lt;/span&gt;: One Woman's Solution to the Question of Form," Marjanne E. Gooze, Univ. of California, Berkeley. (3) "The Women Romantics and Christa Wolf," Sara Lennox, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst. Discussant: Edith Waldstein, M.I.T.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AATG 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at AATG/ACTFL&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Denver, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. Pre-Conference Workshop: Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1981    &lt;br /&gt;Noon-4:00 pm&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Forward to Basics:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Non-Sexist German Instruction at the Beginning Level&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: &lt;br /&gt;Barbara Drygulski Wright, Univ. Connecticut, Storrs&lt;br /&gt;and Gabriele Wickert, Manhattanville Coll., Purchase, NY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contributors: &lt;br /&gt;Ursula E. Beitter, New York; Dinah Dodds, Lewis and&lt;br /&gt;Clark Coll., Portland, OR; Helen Frink, SUNY, Albany; Karen Weinschenker, Minneapolis Public Schools.&lt;/p&gt;
2. Literature session: Saturday, November 28, 1981    &lt;br /&gt;8:00-9:00 am&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mothering in German Literature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators:   &lt;br /&gt;Karen Achberger, St. Olaf Coll., Northfield, MN&lt;br /&gt;and Richard L. Johnson, IPFW&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contributors:   &lt;br /&gt;Jeannine Blackwell, "Erst kommt das Vorbild, dann die Moral: Mothers in the German &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bildungsroman&lt;/span&gt;;" Margaret Klopfle Devinney,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG 1981&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Gertrud von LeFort and Mothering;" Lyndel Butler, "Mothering in German Literature, 1970-1980: Re-examining the Past, the Pluralism of the Present, the Myth Revisited."&lt;/p&gt;
3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Business Meeting&lt;/span&gt;: Saturday, Nov. 28, 1981&lt;br /&gt;1:45-2:45 pm
&lt;p&gt;The agenda will depend on the AATG's decision as to a site for the 1982 meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;RESEARCH PROJECTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following is a list of dissertations and other research projects/ topics collected during the 19Ö1 WiG conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christa Wolf: From Objective to Subjective Authenticity. Vicki Kingsbury, Michigan State Univ.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Comparative Analysis of Yiddish and Middle High German: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gudrunslied&lt;/span&gt;. Gabriele Strauch, UW-Madison.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Ideological Function of Popular Women’s Fiction: USA, France, and Germany. (Comp. Lit. Diss.) Resa Dudovitz, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Bildungsroman mit Dame: The Female Protagonist in the German Bildungsroman from 1770-1900." Jeannine Blackwell, Indiana U., Bloomington.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Image of Woman as Represented in "Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim" and "Die Leiden des jungen Werther." Sally Winkle, UW-Madison.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feministische Kritik an &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre&lt;/span&gt;; Männer und Frauen im dritten Reich. Ric Johnson, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Peter Handke; Frauen in der Frühzeit des Theaters (18. Jahrhundert). Hannelore Heckmann-French, Lafayette College, PA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Novelle (vor allem im 19. Jh.) als Mythos. Lillian Hoverland, U. of Kentucky.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;German Women Writers (BRD and DDR) in the last 10 years re women’s relations to other women. Lynnie Ozer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christa Wolf: The Political Implications of Feminism. Linda Pickle, Westminster College, Fulton, M0.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Utopian Impulse in Contemporary Feminist Fictions (u. a. Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, and French and American writers). Angelika Bammer (Comp. Lit.), UW-Madison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Research Projects&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;German-American Socialist Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century (1979). Carol Poore, UW-Madison.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Autobiographical Writings (German language) of the 1970’s: Self into Form. Sandy Frieden, Univ. Houston (Diss. U. Siegen).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mother Figures in the (German language) Novel: 1968-80: The Assimilation of the Past, the Pluralism of the Present, the Myth Revisited. Lyndel L. Butler, Univ. Houston (Diss. U. Siegen).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A comparison of Ilse Aichinger, Ingeborg Bachmann, Barbara Frisch­muth, Brigitte Schwaiger in the larger context of the Austrian women’s literary and feminist movement. Jackie Vansant, Univ. Texas-Austin.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Botho Strauß and West German Prose of the 197G’s. Leslie Adelson, Washington Univ., St. Louis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linguistic analysis of modern feminist writers (focus on negations and questions) (Dissertation). Almut R. Poole, UCLA. [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Schweizer Schriftstellerinnen (zur Zeit vor allem 70er Jahre, aber später auch die von früher); Dichterbilder (Sappho- Grillparzer, Corizino- Staël, Tasso- Goethe). Marianne Burkhard, Univ. Illinois.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Böhmisch-jüdische Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte. Wilma Iggers, Canisius Coll., Buffalo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Double Jeopardy: German-American Women Writers in the 19th Century (recently completed). Dorothea Stuecker, Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rainer Maria Rilke, Women and Love. Tineke Ritmeester, Washington Univ., St. Louis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helga Novak, Gabriele Wohmann, Jutta Heinrich: Mutter-Tochter Beziehungen. Barbara Kosta, Univ. Florida.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Motherhood Propaganda in Nazi Germany. Nancy Vedder-Shults.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Deconstructing &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kein Ort. Nirgends&lt;/span&gt; and the Reception of Christa Wolf in the FRG and GDR. Karen Jankowsky, Washington Univ., St. Louis.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Nancy Vedder-Shults sent this reference to the TAZ article: Atina Grossmann, "ein offener Brief aus New York an Henryk Broder und die TAZ," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Tageszeitung&lt;/span&gt; (Berlin), Wednesday, May 27, 1981.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading20"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1981 CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Karen Achberger&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leslie A. Adelson&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angelika Bammer&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evelyn T. Beck&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeannine Blackwell&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marianne Burkhard&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lyndel l. Butler&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Jeannette Clausen&lt;br /&gt;Department of Mo. For. Lang.&lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U. at&lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne&lt;br /&gt;FortWayne, IN 46805&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Susan L. Cocalis&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Irene DiMaio&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resa Dudovitz&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gerda Fermand&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elke Frederiksen&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sandy Frieden &lt;br /&gt;German Department&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of Houston&lt;br /&gt;Houston, TX 77004&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hannelore Heckmann-French&lt;br /&gt;Department of Languages&lt;br /&gt;Lafayette College&lt;br /&gt;Easton, PA 18042&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marlene Heinemann&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patricia Herminghouse&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joey Horsley&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lilian Hoverland&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of German, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;University of Kentucky &lt;br /&gt;Lexington, KY 40503&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wilma Iggers &lt;br /&gt;German Department&lt;br /&gt;Canisius College&lt;br /&gt;Buffalo, NY 14208&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karen Jankowsky&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ric Johnson&lt;br /&gt;MFL, IU-PU/Fort Wayne&lt;br /&gt;2101 Coliseum Blvd. E.&lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nancy Kaiser&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Victoria M. Kingsbury&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barbara Kosta&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Langs.&lt;br /&gt;261 Arts and Sciences Bldg.&lt;br /&gt;University of Florida&lt;br /&gt;Gainesville, FL 32611&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helga Kraft&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Langs.&lt;br /&gt;and Literature&lt;br /&gt;261 Arts and Sciences Bldg.&lt;br /&gt;University of Florida&lt;br /&gt;Gainesville, FL 32611&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sara Lennox&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deborah Lund&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;Washington Univ.-&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of German&lt;br /&gt;St. Louis, MO 63130&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biddy (Carolyn) Martin&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ria Mayer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gisela Moffit&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magda Müller&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martina Müller&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lynnoe Ozer&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Linda S. Pickle&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hildegard Pietsch&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almut Poole&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carol Poore&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary Rhiel&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tineke Rittmeester&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dorthy Rosenberg&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charolotte K. Smith&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gabriele Strauch&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dorothea Stuecher&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karen R. Thompson&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;German&lt;br /&gt;Washington Univ.&lt;br /&gt;St. Louis, MO 63130&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jackie Vansant&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nancy Vedder-Shults&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha K. Wallach&lt;br /&gt;CCC/UWGB&lt;br /&gt;Green Bay, WI 54302&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bunny (Sydna) Weiss&lt;br /&gt;Hamilton College&lt;br /&gt;Clinton, NY 13323&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brigitte Wichmann&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sally Winkle&lt;br /&gt;[redacted] or&lt;br /&gt;German Dept.&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison&lt;br /&gt;Madison, WI 53706&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barbara D. Wright&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG CONFERENCE 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Summary of the WiG Business Meeting, Sunday, Oct. 18, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, everyone was invited to applaud and thank the women who organized this year’s conference, especially Nancy Vedder-Shults , who coordinated registration, arranged rides, and worked with the Siena Center personnel, and Martha Wallach, who provided the natural foods option.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-10-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Business Meeting&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A second round of thanks went to Marianne Burkhard, who served as "outside reviewer" for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;five&lt;/span&gt; of the six WiG members who received tenure during 1980-81. The "outside" evaluation of manuscripts (and in some cases, even of published work) has become increasingly important in the tenure/promotion review process at many campuses, and the time-consuming, "invisible" work done by Marianne and other "senior" WiG members--reading masses of material and composing thoughtful, persuasive letters to deans and committee chairs-- deserves appreciation and recognition, since it benefits not only those who received tenure and promotion, but our entire organization.&lt;/p&gt;
1. The first order of business was the nomination and election of new members of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Joey Horsley&lt;/span&gt; (IT. Mass., Boston) was nominated and elected as the new representative from the Eastern region and to head the bibliography committee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Almut Poole&lt;/span&gt; (UCLA) was nominated and elected as the new representative from the Western region. She will be in charge of fund-raising for the 1983 conference and for making preliminary arrangements for the 1983 conference, which will be held the first weekend after Oct. 15 in the Los Angeles area. Almut will try to have information on a possible site by the December WiG meeting at the MLA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. We discussed problems which arise in arranging for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;guest authors &lt;/span&gt;at the annual October conference. We decided it was best to agree on several possible guest authors in the event that our first (or second, or third) invitation is turned down. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Christa Wolf&lt;/span&gt; will be approached first; Sara Lennox agreed to write to her. The other choices, in order, were Irmtraud Morgner, Ingeborg Drewitz, and Jutta Heinrich; they will be kept in mind for future conferences if Christa Wolf agrees to come in 1983.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. A lengthy discussion about WiG participation at the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1982 AATG &lt;/span&gt;conference followed. It was decided that WiG members attending the 1981 AATG meeting will announce that WiG will not participate in 1982 if the meeting is held in a non-ratified (ERA) state, as seems likely. The Political Action Committee was asked to write the AATG in advance of the Nov. 1981 meeting to urge them to hold the 1982 meeting in a ratified state, to inform them that WiG will not participate by arranging sessions for the 1982 meeting if it is held in a non-ratified state, and that we will also urge our membership not to attend. The session topics agreed upon for the WiG sessions at AATG will be used in 1983 if WiG doesn’t meet at the 1982 AATG. The topics agreed upon are: (1) Fairy Tales in the Classroom (coordinators: Bunny Weiss, Hamilton College, and Wilma Iggers, Canisius College) and (2) Fairy Tale Motifs in German Women’s Writing (coordinators to be selected at the Nov. 1981 AATG). Remember, these plans are tentative, subject to the AATG’s final decision on a location for the 1982 meeting.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. Topics for the WiG sessions at the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1982 MLA&lt;/span&gt; in Los Angeles were discussed. The group agreed to accept Marjorie Tussing’s suggestion that both sessions focus on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and German Film&lt;/span&gt;. A variety of possible formats was discussed, for example, arranging for a film &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Business Meeting&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to be shown before the first session, with the first session devoted to discussion of that film and the second on a related topic; inviting a German woman filmmaker to be present, and others.&lt;br /&gt;Coordinators are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg&lt;/span&gt; [redacted] and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Marjorie Tussing&lt;/span&gt; (Cal. State Univ. at Fullerton); any suggestions for the format and content of these sessions should be sent to them &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;by Dec. 15, 1981.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
5. Jeanette Clausen gave a &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;financial report&lt;/span&gt;. There was a balance of $1231.70, plus a little money left in Madison to take care of final expenses there. A lengthy discussion of possible uses for these funds followed. It was decided that funding for Christa Reinig's 1982 visit should be the first priority, and that $500. will be reserved to be used for matching funds in raising money to pay her expenses if we are unable to get funding any other way.&lt;br /&gt;It was also agreed that $50. should be given to Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach to help pay part of Gisela Dischner’s travel to the Dec. 1981 MLA, with the possibility of an additional con­tribution for Dischner if there are funds left in Madison after all expenses for the 1981 conference in Racine have been paid.&lt;br /&gt;We also discussed the possibility of reimbursing some people who traveled a long distance to attend this year’s conference, but couldn't resolve this because it wasn't clear how much, if any, profit there would be from this year's conference. Therefore, it seems best to have the Steering Committee decide how to use any "surplus" funds after the final figures are known.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Linda Pickle reported that the Goethe Institute had not yet made a decision on whether or to what extent they would help fund Christa Reinig's stay. She indicated that Reinig's necessity to travel with a companion and her inability to commit herself to other speaking engagements because of her poor health were seen as "problems" in funding her visit. Martha Wallach offered to help work on fundraising for Reinig's visit, so any communication concerning this should be sent both to Martha and to Linda Pickle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. The next agenda item was the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1982 WiG conference&lt;/span&gt; itself.&lt;br /&gt;It was decided that next year's conference will be a day longer than in the past; it will be held &lt;span&gt;Oct. lU-17, 1982&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span&gt;Thomson's Island&lt;/span&gt; in Boston harbor. The physical arrangements will be coordinated by Joey Horsley (U. Mass, Boston) and the general coordinator will be Barbara Wright (U. Conn., Storrs). To facilitate planning for future meetings, it was suggested that the conference registration forms include spaces for nominations to the Steering Committee, suggestions for session topics at the 1983 AATG, MLA, and WiG conferences, and suggested guest authors. The format and topics agreed upon for the 1982 conference follow; see also the calls for contributions on the following pages.
&lt;p&gt;Thursday, Oct. 14: arrival and social evening, getting acquainted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Business Meeting&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday, Oct. 15: &lt;br /&gt;morning: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Wissenschaft&lt;/span&gt;, Sara Lennox and Kay Goodman, coordinators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;afternoon: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Randbewegungen im deutschen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;raum&lt;/span&gt;, Linda Pickle and Brigitte Wichman, coordinators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;evening: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministik/Germanistik&lt;/span&gt;, Jeannine Blackwell and Sandy Frieden, coordinators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday, Oct. 16: &lt;br /&gt;morning I: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Speaking the Unspeakable&lt;/span&gt;, Angelika Bammer and Jeanette Clausen, coordinators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;morning II: small group/CR discussion on the above, facilitators to be selected.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;afternoon: Business and planning meeting (to be continued on Sunday morning if necessary).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;evening: Christa Reinig&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday, Oct. 17:      &lt;br /&gt;morning: wrap-up session, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Making Connections, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Respecting Differences&lt;/span&gt;, Evelyn Beck and another person to be selected, coordinators.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thomson’s Island has a capacity of 125, so that was decided as the upper limit on registration. Because of the deposit required by the conference center, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;preregistration&lt;/span&gt; will have to be made by &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;August 1 , 1982&lt;/span&gt;, with a penalty for late registration.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7. As the final order of business, it was decided that the Political Action Committee would send a letter supporting the petition for peace which was circulated by Angelika Mechtel (N.B.: this has been done). The text of the petition follows. Appeal circulated by the Verband deutscher Schriftsteller, Postfach 1282, 7000 Stuttgart 1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The meeting was adjourned at noon. Minutes were taken by Linda Pickle and Sara Lennox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Authors from all european countries appeal to the world public. Mankind is now supposed to accept the criminal notion that it is possible to wage a limited nuclear war with new atomic weapons, neutron bombs, cruise missiles etc. We hold the opposite to be true: no limited war can be waged with nuclear weapons, it would annihilate the entire world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beyond all boundaries between states and social systems, beyond all differences of opinion, we address our urgent appeal to those responsible to quit this new arms race and to join without delay in negotiations on further disarmament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We call upon the world public not to acquiesce but instead to speak out with still greater energy for peace.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let us act together, so that europe does not become the atomic battlefield of a new and final world war.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nothing is more important than peace."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG CONFERENCE 1981&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. Friday evening session, Oct. l6: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprache, Gefühl, und Feminismus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Friday evening sessions in the past several years have been planned to allow conference participants to renew old acquaintances and make new ones while discussing an issue where the personal, professional and political intersect. As most of you know, this year’s topic was prompted by our experiences last year, when-- for the first time--the major language of the conference was German, in consideration of guest author Margot Schroeder, who understood little English.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Naomi Stephan had planned a series of consciousness-raising exercises around the topic &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprache, Gefühl und Feminismus&lt;/span&gt;, but was not able to attend the conference, so a much-simplified version of her plan was worked out in some haste by Susan Cocalis, Sara Lennox and Jeanette Clausen. After a general welcome and announce­ments, we divided into nine small groups. Members of each group introduced themselves to each other and then discussed &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in German &lt;/span&gt;such topics as their preferred language for relating personal experiences, for writing scholarly papers, and the possibilities (or lack of them) for feminists in speaking and writing. After a half-hour, the groups were asked to continue their discussion &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in English&lt;/span&gt;, and after another twenty minutes they were asked to stop the discussion, talk about how they had felt speaking each language, and to prepare a brief report summarizing their dis­cussion for the group as a whole. After all the reports were given, Nancy Vedder-Shults led the group in singing Holly Near’s "Like a Ship in the Harbor."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two of the group reports follow. Many of the issues raised will be continued in more depth next year, in a session entitled "Feministik/Germanistik," to be coordinated by Jeannine Blackwell and Sandy Frieden.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Group 1 - Protokoll: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Problems seen&lt;/span&gt;: having learned feminist theory from England and the US, it seems strange to explain it in German; a feminist writing style is often wanted (by author) and seen (by readers) as more personal; if readers are not in tune with feminism they see this as unscholarly and unfit for critical work; the genre (scholarly article, etc.) and intended &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1981&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;publication (journal envisioned for submission) can create &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Selbstzensur&lt;/span&gt; and cause writers to shift styles. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Question&lt;/span&gt;: to what extent shall we fit ourselves to the traditional mold of the pro­fessional scholar and scholarly writing/arguing style? "Feminist" writing can create its own syntax (metaphors instead of logical words, new logic emerging). &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Historical perspective&lt;/span&gt;: problem of a "too personal" style existed before, cf. controversy around Emil Staiger, who explicitly starts with personal reactions to text; the German (bundesdeutsche) critics criticized this very much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Comparison&lt;/span&gt; between use of German and English: for both non-native speakers and native listeners there was virtually no difference (except in speed, but even that was not too noticeable). Non-natives felt comfortable; therefore, the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;environment&lt;/span&gt; has obviously a lot to do with whether or not one feels comfortable to use the foreign idiom. (This explains why German is a real barrier for asking questions in official conference sessions with lots of people (men!) attending.) What did change was the body language and inner feelings.&lt;br /&gt;--summary by Marianne Burkhard&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Protokoll - Gruppe 9: Diese Gruppe fand, daß das Verhältnis der Beteiligten zu der Sprache (Deutsch oder Englisch) ein anderes war, je nachdem in welcher Sprache man/frau &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;was&lt;/span&gt; erlebt. Objektivieren geschieht in der Fremdsprache, und für die meisten Frauen ist der Feminismus eine sehr subjektive Sache. Im Gespräch unter uns stellten wir fest, daß der Anfang immer schwierig ist (sich den anderen vorstellen--Monolog halten); daher schien Deutsch zu stocken, Englisch schien fließender zu sein, nämlich weil das Schwierigste schon auf deutsch erledigt war. In Bezug auf Kriterien für einen persönlichen Stil (männlich? weiblich?) kamen wir zu dem Schluss, daß jede(r) für sich die Kriterien bestimmen muss, und vor Augen halten, daß Sprache schließlich ein Mittel der Kommunikation ist.&lt;br /&gt;--summary by Debbie Lund&lt;/p&gt;
2. Saturday am: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ways of Reading&lt;/span&gt; (summaries not yet received)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Saturday pm: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German-Jewish Women Writers&lt;/span&gt;. Irene Stocksieker Di Maio: "Fanny Lewald: Ambivalence." In her autobiography, Fanny Markus Lewald (18H-I889) reveals ambivalent attitudes toward her Jewish and her sexual identities. Avoidance of the fact that the Markuses were Jews failed to protect Fanny from the effects of anti-Semitism. Being female was even more problematic than being Jewish to Fanny, for according to societal norms, her intellectual endeavors were at odds with her sexual identity. The two factors converged in the issues of naming and baptism. Her brothers initially resisted the family name change, but Fanny, conditioned to expect a name change, accepted it. Whereas Jewish men, including her brothers, were coerced into conversion to open career opportunities, baptism could only jeopardize the only future "career" for Fanny—marriage. Initially attracted to Christianity, Fanny finally received permission from her father to convert. But her rationality, stemming in part from enlightened Jewish tradition, ultimately prevented her from believing the central tenants of Christian faith. Lewald worked out the shame over the sophistry of her confession of faith in her second novel, &lt;span&gt;Jenny&lt;/span&gt;. This novel presents Jews and Jewish society positively, unpleasant characteristics being attributed to the oppression of Jews. The novel is a plea for emancipation not by total assimilation, but&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG 1981&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by allowing Christian and Jew to live side by side. The tragic outcome of the love plots reveals that Germany was not ready.
&lt;p&gt;Wilma Iggers’ paper dealt with the multiple identies of the novels of Auguste Hauschner (1850-192H, Prague - Berlin): German - Jewish - Bohemian - Writer - Woman. Having only partial models to follow at best, she designed a role suited to her own talents and at least as much to the needs of other people-women more than men—as to her own. Hauschner was acutely aware of the dilemna of women between dependence and security on the one hand, and, when striking out on their own, suffering from insecurity, loneliness and ostracism on the other. Her feminism, akin to that of some of her most admirable contemporaries and well integrated into her broader social concerns, seems to have implied a specifically feminine gentleness and a constant pattern of reaching out toward people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lynnie Ozer--A Jewish Woman in Germany from 1966 to 1971: I related my experiences as a woman and a feminist in Germany, giving examples of the strong male chauvinism I found when living with two families and on dates. The main thrust of the presentation, however, was my confrontation with latent and overt German anti-Semitism as well as my confrontation with my own principles regarding being honest about my Jewishness. At the conclusion of the paper, T expressed my new­found peace with the Germans; I can now accept them as they are and understand their feelings. Finally, I realized that I had asked too much of myself while I lived in Germany, total objectivity and fairness. Individual Germans and Jews can experience meaningful friendships, but it will take many, many years to erase the bitter­ness between the two peoples.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. Saturday evening: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Angelika Mechtel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Mechtel, in a brief introduction of herself, described herself as a feminist by nature. She never nurtured any doubts as to her abilities and qualities as a woman. However, she was extremely surprised when she discovered in her teens that women were not considered men’s equals. She never joined a feminist group even though she stands, politically and ideologically speaking, on the same side as the German feminist movement.&lt;br /&gt;Following the introduction, A.M. read from her works: 1) the first ’Reportage’ in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Keep Smiling&lt;/span&gt;, 2) two short stories ('Kuckucksfrau’ and ’Katrin') in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Traume der Fuchsin&lt;/span&gt; and, 3) some poems. A lively discussion followed, centering on Mechtel’s perception of women and on the violence that her female characters display so frequently.&lt;br /&gt;--summary by Brigitte Wichmann&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG 1982&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Looking Ahead to WiG 1982&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For WiG members who haven’t yet had the pleasure of reading (or even for those who have), here are a few places to begin:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-16-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Christa Reinig&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt; I (Jan. 198l) contains an article by Ernestine Schroeder, "Christa Reinig: Die Doppelte Dissidentin," pp. 43-44, and a short prose selection "Die schlafende Riesin," from Reinig's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der Wolf und die Witwen&lt;/span&gt;. See also &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Emma&lt;/span&gt; 1+ (Apr. 19Öl), which contains three pieces by Reinig: "Ripper und Co," p. 5 (about violence against women); "Das kleine Mädchen, das ich war," pp. 36-39, and "Lebenslänglich," Reinig’s account of how she became a feminist activist. (if you can’t obtain these articles through your library or interlibrary loan, I can send you copies if you send $ to cover xeroxing and postage--JC). A partial list of Christa Reinig's works:&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Der &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wolf &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;und &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Witwen&lt;/span&gt; (München: Frauenoffensive, 1981; Düsseldorf: Eremiten-Presse, 1980). "Es sind Appelle, Argumentationshilfen, Anweisungen für Frauen, die sich gegen eine von den Männern dominierte Welt zu behaupten suchen. Nicht überleben heisst die Parole, sondern Widerstand." (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Courage&lt;/span&gt; I, p. 44).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;2. Müßiggang ist aller Liebe Anfang&lt;/span&gt;. Gedichte. (Frauenoffensive 198o~ Eremitenpresse 1979). "Zwei Frauen bauen eine Beziehung auf. Das ist der Sprachgebrauch, und daran scheitern sie zunächst. Denn es gibt so wenig Dinge, sich darauf gemeinsam zu beziehen und soviele Möglichkeiten uneins zu sein. Sie schaffen sich ein Tagebuch an. Jeden Abend soll daraus vorgelesen werden. Aber, das Tagebuch enthält unendlich erbitterte Fortführungen der abge­brochenen Streitigkeiten, und zum Schluss wird die Schrift unleserlich, und das ist auch das beste an der ganzen Sache. Ein neues Tagebuch wird angeschafft, und jeden Tag soll nur ein einziger Satz darin stehen, deutlich in lesbarer Schrift, und diesmal gelingt es. Am glücklichen Ende eines Jahres sitzen einige Frauen zusammen und Christa Reinig sagt:     "Und wenn wir nicht beide Frührentner gewesen wären, und wenn wir nicht so unendlich viel Zeit miteinander gehabt hätten, dann wäre es nicht gelungen." Eine Frau am Tisch sagte:  "Ja, ja, Müßiggang ist aller--Liebe Anfang." Und das wurde dann der Titel des Buches." (from inside back cover of the Frauenoffensive edition).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Prüfung des Lächlers&lt;/span&gt;. Gedichte. (DTV 1980)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Entmannung&lt;/span&gt;. Roman. (Luchterhand 1977)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mein Herz ist eine gelbe Blume. Christa Reinig im Gespräch &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;mit Ekkehard Rudolf&lt;/span&gt; (Eremiten-Presse 1978)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die himmlische und die irdische Geometrie&lt;/span&gt; (DTV 1978, Eremiten- Presse 1975)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-17-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Contributions needed for 1982 WiG conference sessions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
1. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feministische Wissenschaft: A Review of Recent Developments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;    In this session we would like short presentations (ca. 10 minutes) modeled on the review essays in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Signs&lt;/span&gt; which survey and comment on recent developments in feminist scholarship within and outside of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Germanistik&lt;/span&gt;. You may define your area as narrowly or as broadly as you wish. We would like to see such topics represented as: women writers prior to 1700; the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries; recent feminist criticism and theory in Germany, France, England and the US; women writers of autobiography, poetry, drama and fiction; women and culture, psychoanalysis, economics, anthropology and so on. Panelists should also distribute an annotated bibliography of the works they are discussing. Please send papers or proposas to both: [redacted] and Kay Goodman, German Dept. Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.&lt;/p&gt;
2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Randbewegungen im deutschen Sprachraum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this session we wish to provide information on recent events and developments in any or all of the various &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Randbewegungen&lt;/span&gt; in the German-speaking areas, z.B. Feminismus, die radikale Linke, die Grünen, die Friedensbewegung,usw,Please send papers or proposals to Linda Pickle, [redacted] and Brigitte Wichmann, [redacted. Deadline: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;March 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Speaking the Unspeakable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As Adrienne Rich said, “the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;unspoken&lt;/span&gt; . . . becomes the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;unspeakable&lt;/span&gt; . . . the nameless becomes the invisible." (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sinister&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wisdom&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;6). &lt;/i&gt;In past years, WiG has had sessions on "Lesbian Themes in German Literature" (1979), "The Forms of Our Bodies—How Do Women 'Write Themselves'" (1980), and "German-Jewish Women Writers" (1981). We want to confront the realities of antisemitism and other forms of racism, homophobia, biases based on age, class--all the oppressions which have historically been used to divide us. By naming them and by talking about how they affect us in our relation­ships with one another, in our own lives, in our work, we have chosen to make them visible and to continue to confront them. We ask: How have these oppressions silenced, muffled, or distorted our voices?&lt;br /&gt;How have we &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; been affected, and how have we been affected differently? How have these oppressions been spoken, when, and by whom? How does our reading/speaking the "unspeakable" affect (and change) us?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To address these questions we are planning a session "Speaking the Unspeakable" for Saturday, Oct. 16, 1982, to be followed by small- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-18-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Calls for Papers&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;group CR discussions on the issues raised by the presentations and our personal, emotional reactions to them. We invite presentations based on your experience, on texts you have read, or writers who address these concerns in their work. We will also need CR group facilitators. Please send papers or proposals, or volunteer as a CR facilitator to: [redacted] &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Jeanette Clausen, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN 1+6805. DEADLINE: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Here are a few articles I’ve found helpful for thinking about this session--JC)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elly Bulkin, "Heterosexism and Women’s Studies," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Radical Teacher&lt;/span&gt;, Nov. 1980, pp. 25-31 (contains preliminary guidelines for CR groups meeting to deal with homophobia/heterosexism).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;---- , "Racism and Writing," &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sinister Wisdom&lt;/span&gt; 13 (Spring 1980), pp. 3-22 (contains guideline questions for beginning to develop an anti-racist approach to feminist criticism).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women's Studies Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;, Vol. IX, 3 (Fall 198l) (contains reports on the CR sessions at the 1981 NWSA convention).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NEW MATERIALS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An English translation of the 1901+ novella &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Werde die du bist &lt;/span&gt;(Become the Woman You Are) by German radical feminist Hedwig Dohm is available. The fictional journal of an aged middle-class widow, it is a bitter and provocative indictment of a society which does not give women the chance to fulfill their potential and discards them as useless when they are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;old. (1+6 pp. typescript).&lt;/span&gt; For copies contact Ilze Mueller, [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now available for ca. $5.00 from Adler's Foreign Books, NY or Reclam Verlag, Postfach 111+9, 7257 Ditzingen bei Stuttgart: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Frauenfrage in Deutschland 1865-1915&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Texte und Dokumente&lt;/span&gt; , hsg. Elke Frederiksen (Reclam 1981).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Inhalt&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Einleitung:   Zum Problem der Frauenfrage um die&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Jahrhundertwende ...  5&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;I. Allgemeine Positionen zur Frauenfrage ...  45&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Programme in Frauenzeitschriften ....  46&lt;br /&gt;Einzelstimmen zur bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung  ...  66&lt;br /&gt;Einzelstimmen zur proletarischen Frauenbewe­gung ... 88&lt;br /&gt;Zur Politisierung bürgerlicher und proletarischer Positionen ... 107&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-19-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Materials&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
II. Die Stellung der Frau in Ehe und Familie... 123&lt;br /&gt;Positionen der bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung zu Ehe und Familie ... 123&lt;br /&gt;Positionen der proletarischen Frauenbewegung zu Ehe und Familie ...  154&lt;br /&gt;Alternativen zur traditionellen Rolle der Frau... 170&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. Mädchenerziehung und Frauenbildung ...  200&lt;br /&gt;Erfahrungen und Forderungen bürgerlicher Frauen... 201&lt;br /&gt;Erfahrungen und Forderungen proletarischer Frauen ... 268&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IV. Frauenarbeit ... 296&lt;br /&gt;Bürgerliche und proletarische Position zur Frauen­arbeit ... 297 &lt;br /&gt;Formen und Bedingungen von Frauenarbeit... 325&lt;br /&gt;Forderungen zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsbedin­gungen... 364&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V. Zur politischen Gleichberechtigung der Frau .... 372&lt;br /&gt;Erfahrungen und Forderungen bürgerlicher Frauen... 373&lt;br /&gt;Erfahrungen und Forderungen proletarischer&lt;br /&gt;Frauen ... 407
&lt;p class="Tableofcontents0"&gt;Editionsbericht ... 431&lt;br /&gt;Literaturhinweise ... 433 &lt;br /&gt;Verzeichnis der Autorinnen, Autoren, Titel und Quellen ... 451&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Review ofIrmgard C. Taylor, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Bild der Witwe in der deutschen Literatur&lt;/span&gt; (Darmstadt: Gesellschaft Hessischer Literaturfreunde, 1960).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Witwe ist das, was ubrigbleibt, venn der Mann stirbt." Irmgard C. Taylor cites a contemporary quote from a television documentary in her pioneering study of a neglected group in German literature and traditional society, those left behind and without a "function" upon the death of their spouses. Her carefully documented research ranges chronologically from pre-literary evidence to indications of recent changes upon the parts of authors and their widowed subjects as to possible options for both young and old widows. A concise introduction to the problem of' widows--"Witwen stellen eine Randgruppe der Gesellschaft dar, die von Jeher als Belastung empfunden wird, auf' die ungern und, wenn uberhaupt, nur unter moralischem Druck reagiert wird und die die Opferbereitschaft der Mitmenschen voraussetzt." (p. 7)--is followed by a particularly penetrating discussion of the implications of St. Paul's First Epistle to Timothy, 5, 3-16, which set the misogynist tone for Christian treatment of widows for the next millenia. Germanic exceptions, like Kriemhild, are noted in a survey format which, while informative for orientation as to a given period, tend to have an "aufzählend" effect in the aggregate. Professor Taylor has quantified her data in charts which may be less informative than her excellent summaries; in addition, she includes a model analysis of the motif of the unfaithful widow that raises &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in nuce&lt;/span&gt; many of the issues touched upon in passing in the course of the study.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-20-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It, and the work of which it constitutes a sort of precis, are useful and provocative additions to the history of women in German literature. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Bild der Witwe in der deutschen Literatur &lt;/span&gt;is available through Adler Foreign Books, 162 5th Ave., N.Y., NY 10010 for $10.95.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(This book review is printed as submitted by Irene Cannon-Geary, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N1 11794. )&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT: WOMEN EDUCATORS’ announces the Fifth Annual "Research on Women in Education" Award, to be presented at the American Edu­cational Research Association meeting in New York, March 19-23, 1982. Published or unpublished research reports in journal article format on any aspect of women in education are eligible if conducted or written up during 1980-81. The deadline for entries is 1 December 1981. Send five (5) copies of the entry (on four of which the author is not identified) and five (5) copies of a 200-250 word abstract of the entry to: Cheryl L. Wild, Coordinator Elect, WOMEN EDUCATORS, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J. 08941.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;LIST OF DEADLINES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Dec. 15, 1981&lt;/span&gt;   Suggestions or preliminary proposals for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1982 MLA&lt;/span&gt; sessions on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women and German Film&lt;/span&gt; t Marjorie Tussing (Cal. State Univ. at Fullerton) and Dorothy Rosenberg [redacted].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feb. 15, 1982&lt;/span&gt;   Letters, articles, announcements, etc. for publication in March 1982 WiG newsletter to: WiG, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;March 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;   Papers or proposals for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Randbewegungen im deutschen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprachraum&lt;/span&gt; (WiG 1982) to Linda Pickle, [redacted] and Bridgette Wichmann, [redacted].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;April 1, 1982&lt;/span&gt;   Papers, proposals, inquiries for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Speaking the Unspeakable &lt;/span&gt;(Wig 1982) to Angelika Bammer, [redacted] &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; Jeanette Clausen, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana Purdue at Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-21-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt; Read your label and renew when numbers match&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 25&lt;br /&gt;August 1981&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;SIXTH ANNUAL WOMEN IN GERMAN CONFERENCE-RETREAT&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Tablecaption0"&gt;October 16-18, 1981&lt;br /&gt;Siena Center, Racine, Wisconsin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guest Author: ANGELIKA MECHTEL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Conference Schedule&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Fri. Oct. 16&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;5:00-8:00 pm: Arrival, supper, general get-acquainted tme&lt;br /&gt;8:00-10:00 pm: Opening session, "Sprache, Gefühl und Feminismus" &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sat. Oct. 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8:00 am: Breakfast&lt;br /&gt;9:00:11:00 am: Session I: "New Ways of Reading"&lt;br /&gt;11:00-noon: Open for special interest group meetings&lt;br /&gt;Noon: Lunch&lt;br /&gt;1:30-3:30 pm: Session II: "German-Jewish Women Writers"&lt;br /&gt;3:30-4:00 pm: Break&lt;br /&gt;4:00-5:00 pm: Steering Committee meeting&lt;br /&gt;5:30 pm: Dinner&lt;br /&gt;7:00 pm- ? Angelika Mechtel reads from her works&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sun. Oct. 18&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;8:30 am: Breakfast&lt;br /&gt;9:30-12:00: Business and Planning Meeting&lt;br /&gt;Noon: Lunch, followed by departure&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We agreed at last year's conference to organize sessions into small group discussions with a plenary session at the end of each. We also agreed to use German as the language of the conference as much as possible in consideration of our guest, with program contributions still being in the language of the presenter's choice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See following pages for program description, registration information and announcements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 2&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG Conference Program, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Friday evening                &lt;br /&gt;Opening Session&lt;br /&gt;8:00-10:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprache, Gefühl und Feminismus &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Facilitator: Naomi Stephan, San Francisco, Ca.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;At last year’s conference we began for the first time to deal with the language we used to communicate with each other. The presence of Margot Schroeder, who knew little English, "forced" us to use German and consequently to examine the reasons why English had dominated our conferences, even though German was/is our "trade."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It became apparent that the problem of out preferred language of communication was somehow intimately linked with our feelings and our feminism, but we had little time to explore just how and to what extent this was true. For these reasons, we decided to use the opening session of this year’s conference to explore with each other the relation of language, feeling and feminism. How do we balance speech (a left brain function), emotion (right brain) and feminism (which involves both hemispheres)? Do we have a preferred "emotional language"? Is there a language for feminism in German? Is language itself a barrier to our expression of feminism?&lt;br /&gt;AND MUCH MORE!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday morning              &lt;br /&gt;Session I&lt;br /&gt;9:00-11:00 am&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Ways of Reading:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Critical Feminist Approaches to Selected Texts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Susan Cocalis (18th C.), Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; Biddy Martin (late 19th C.), Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Karen Jankowsky (20th C.), Washington Univ., St. Louis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our purpose is to contribute to a cultural history of femininity by developing new critical tools of textual analysis. There will be three separate workshop groups, each to focus on one text (see below), and to be followed by a plenary session for the presenta­tion and discussion of theoretical perspectives.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The texts for discussion are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Eighteenth Century: Silvia Bovenschen, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Imaginierte Weiblichkeit &lt;/span&gt;Late Nineteenth Century: Frank Wedekind, the Lulu plays Twentieth Century: Angelilca Mechtel, "Die Träume der Füchsin," "Kuckkucksfrau," and "Zweimal ein Sohn," in: Die &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Träume der Füchsin&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG Conference Program, cont.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Saturday afternoon           &lt;br /&gt;Oct. 17, 1981                 &lt;br /&gt;Session II&lt;br /&gt;1:30-3:30 pm&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German-Jewish Women Writers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Evelyn T. Beck, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison/Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (1981-82); Lynne Ozer, New York Univ., NYC.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This panel focuses on writers who grapple in their work with the complex intersection of what it means/has meant to be German-Jewish and a woman--an intersection of multiple identities and oppressions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Presenters: Gabriele Strauch, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point: "Glikl von Hameln: A Seventeenth-Century Autobiography;" Irene DiMaio, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge: "Fanny Lewald: Ambiguities;" Wilma A. Iggers, Canisius , College,    "Auguste Hauschner: A Bohemian-Jewish Writer;" Bianca Rosenthal, California Polytech­nic State Univ., San Luis Obispo, CA: "Hilde Domin."&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Saturday evening              &lt;br /&gt;Oct. 17, 1981&lt;br /&gt;Session II&lt;br /&gt;7:00 pm - ?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Author Angelika Mechtel will read from &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;feinen Totengräber&lt;/span&gt; (1968), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Hochhausgeschichten&lt;/span&gt; (1972), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Träume der Füchsin&lt;/span&gt; (1976), &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Keep &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Smiling&lt;/span&gt; (1976), and work in progress, Her reading will be followed by discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sunday morning               &lt;br /&gt;Oct. 18, 1981    &lt;br /&gt;Business and Planning Meeting             &lt;br /&gt;9:30-12:00 noon&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chaired by Sara Lennox and Jeanette Clausen, steering comm. co-chairs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As in previous years, we will have a very full agenda for the business meeting. Agenda items include: replacement of outgoing steering committee members; committee -reports; financial report; the establishment of session topics, theme, and format for the 1982 conference (Oct. 15-17, 1982 at Thomson’s Island, Boston), and appointment of coordinators; suggestions for a guest and site for the 1983 conference; establishment of session topics and selec­tion of coordinators for the 1982 WiG sessions at AATG and MLA, and so on. If you have items for the agenda, please contact Sara or Jeanette.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note that the steering committee will meet to plan the agenda on Saturday at 4:00 pm, so if you have suggestions, give them to us at or before that meeting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Did you know: CHRISTA REINIG has accepted our invitation for 1982! Linda Pickle will report on the status of her fund-raising work to finance Reinig’s visit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 4&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at AATG/ACTFL, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Pre-Conference Workshop                  &lt;br /&gt;AATG/ACTFL, Denver, CO&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Forward to Basics:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Non-Sexist German Instruction at the Beginning Level&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1981 &lt;br /&gt;12:00 noon to 4:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Barbara Drygulski Wright, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, and Gabriele Wickert, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Contributors: Ursula E. Beitter, New York; Dinah Dodds, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR; Helen Frink, SUNY, Albany; Karen Weinschenker, Minneapolis Publ. Schools.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;The purpose of this workshop for secondary and post-secondary instructors of German is to sensitize them to problems of overt and covert sexism in the materials and methods commonly used at the beginning level of instruction. A variety of corrective strategies will be presented and participants will have an opportunity to break down into small groups and try out the techniques which have been introduced. Bibliographies, resource information and other materials will also be available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;AATG Conference                                  &lt;br /&gt;Nov. 26-28, 1981, Denver&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Mothering in German Literature&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;(a one-hour session)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coordinators: Karen Achberger, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN and Richard L. Johnson, Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Fort Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Contributors: Jeannine Blackwell, "Erst kommt das Vorbild, dann die Moral: Mothers in the German &lt;span&gt;Bildungsroman&lt;/span&gt;;” Margaret Klopfle Devinney, "Gertrud von Le Fort and Mothering;" Lyndel Butler, "Mothering in German Lit­erature, 1970-1980: Re-examining the Past, the Pluralism of the Present, the Myth Revisited."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The three presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes each to allow time for discussion. The session focuses on mothering as woman-affirming experience and as woman-denying institution in German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German Business Meeting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Saturday, Nov. 28, 1981 &lt;br /&gt;1:45-2:45 pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 5&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG at MLA, 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Women in German will have two sessions and a business meeting at the December 1981 MLA convention, to be held in New York, December 27-30. The session topic is &lt;span&gt;German Women Writers of the Romantic Period&lt;/span&gt;; organizers are Elke Frederiksen (Univ. of Maryland, College Park) and Martha Wallach (Univ. of Wisconsin-Green Bay).&lt;br /&gt;The two sessions have been organized as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Session I: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;New Perspectives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Papers: "Das Problem des ’Androgynen’ und des ’Müssiggangs’ in der Jenaer Romantik," Gisela Dischner, Universität Hannover, FRG; "Rahei Varnhagen’s Letters," Kay Goodman, Brown Uni­versity; "The Courtesan as Role Model: The Influence of Ninon de Lenclos on Sophie Mereau," Jacqueline Vansant, Univ. of Texas at Austin. Discussant: Helga Kraft, University of Florida.                              &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Session II: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bettina von Arnim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Papers: "Bettina von Arnim oder die Transzendenz der Kindlichkeit," Konstanze Bäumer, Univ. of California, Davis; "Bettina’s &lt;span&gt;Die Günderode&lt;/span&gt;: One Woman’s Solution to the Question of Form," Marjanne E. Goozé, Univ. of California, Berkely; "The Women Romantics and Christa Wolf," Sara Lennox, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst. Discussant: Edith Waldstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Note: Elke has asked that WiG consider ways to help defer part of Gisela Dischner’s travel expenses to New York for MLA. We will discuss this at the conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Announcement&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN EDUCATORS announces the Third Annual "Curriculum Materials Award," to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York City, March 19-23, 1982. Please send one copy of materials "relating to women that have been developed for use in educational settings to: Mary Harris and Nancy Smith, Curriculum Award, WOMEN EDUCATORS, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506. Include a one-page description of how the materials relate to sexism, sex-role stereotyping, and the image of women and girls. Entries must be postmarked by Dec. 15, 1981.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;November issue of the WiG Newsletter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The November issue of the WiG newsletter will include summaries of the October 1981 conference sessions, reports of decisions made during the business meeting, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you have other items you want published in the Hovember issue, please send them by Oct. 30, 1981, to WiG’s new address: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt;, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 6&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1981 WIG WORKSHOP INFORMATION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 1981 WIG Workshop will be held October 16-18, again at the Siena Center in Racine, Wisconsin. The conference fee includes lodging, all meals (supper on Friday thru lunch Sunday) and other costs. Included in the fee is an estimated amount to cover anticipated child­care costs, as agreed at the last WiG conference. If—because we have a large number of children--we need additional funds to cover childcare costs, a surcharge will be assessed during the conference. All conference participants must become members of Women in German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since we must let the Siena Center people know well in advance how many of us will be attending, we are &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;serious&lt;/span&gt; about the September 15 registration deadline! A $5.00 surcharge will be assessed on registrations received after that date. As you will note from the attached form, a "natural foods" option is also available this year, and registration fees have been established on a dual price structure, in an attempt to keep the conference affordable for students and the unemployed. If you "technically" fall into either of these categories but can nonetheless afford to pay the full fee, please do! We need the $$$!           .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A bit of information regarding childcare for any of you who anti­cipate bringing a child (children):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) You must fill out the form on page 8, and submit it &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;with your registration form&lt;/span&gt; if you plan on bringing a child (children).&lt;br /&gt;Please do not finalize your plans to do so, however, until you have had confirmation from us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2) While the Siena Center has adequate space for childcare, they have very little by way of facilities or equipment (cribs, high- chairs, etc.) Each child will have to be accompanied by 2 or 3 favorite toys, disposable diapers, bottles and formula, clothing, and other necessities. Milk, juice, snacks and other childcare basics will be provided at no charge, but the parent will have to pay for older children’s meals if taken with the group, and for lodging if the child does not share the mother’s room.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3) We will provide childcare staff. (they will be paid at about $4.00 per hour) for hours during which meetings are scheduled, and will also try to arrange for babysitters to keep an eye on children upstairs after they have been put to bed Friday and Saturday evenings. We may, however, need some volunteers to help with this.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please register as early as possible if you plan on bringing a child (children). We will give you further information on costs, what to bring, etc., at that time. If you have any other questions, contact Nancy Vedder-Shults, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 7&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1981 WIG WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;PLEASE REGISTER EARLY&lt;/span&gt;! &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;FINAL REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 15, 1981&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;Name _____________ Telephone &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;(__ )&lt;/span&gt;______&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mailing Address __________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wish to register for the 1981 WIG WORKSHOP to be held October 16-18, 1981. &lt;br /&gt;Cost: (Check appropriate box)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For students and those unemployed&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;__ $37.00 (2 nights lodging &amp;amp; all meals &amp;amp; other expenses) &lt;br /&gt;__ $30.00 (1 night lodging &amp;amp; all meals &amp;amp; other expenses) &lt;br /&gt;__ $23.00 (no lodging but all meals &amp;amp; other expenses)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;For those employed or with adequate outside income:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;__ $44.00 (2 nights lodging &amp;amp; all meals &amp;amp; other expenses) &lt;br /&gt;__ $38.00 (1 night lodging &amp;amp; all meals &amp;amp; other expenses) &lt;br /&gt;__ $32.00 (no lodging but all meals &amp;amp; other expenses)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the Natural Foods option, see form on page 8.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All conference participants must become members of WiG (see page 9).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Payment must accompany your registration form. Make checks payable to WOMEN IN GERMAN. A $5.00 late registration fee will also be assessed on registration forms received after the September 15 deadline.&lt;br /&gt;I enclose $___ for fees and ___ niht(s) lodging.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Check appropriate box and note further instructions/information below)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;__ I will arrive by car on/at ________________ (specify day and approx. time)&lt;br /&gt;     Please send map and instructions on how to locate conference center.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;__ I will arrive by plane at the Milwaukee (Mitchell Field) airport: day ___ approx. time ___ airline &amp;amp; flight no. ___ and depart by plane on ____ day ___ approx. time ___ airline &amp;amp; flight no. ______&lt;br /&gt;    Please send information on car pool &amp;amp; possible pick-up arrangements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Please note&lt;/span&gt;: Conference participants arriving by plane should schedule their arrival time between 3:00-5:00 pm on Friday, October 16 and their departure time between 2:00-4:00 pm on Sunday, October 18. If you can schedule your flights within these times, we will try to pick you up at the airport. If you cannot, you may either have a long wait at the airport, or will have to arrange your own transportation to the conference center. If we cannot pick you up, we will send info on car rental and names of people you may be able to carpool with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENCLOSE WITH YOUR REGISTRATION A STAMPED, SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE (4x9) FOR USE IN MAILING FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS TO YOU. MAIL FORM WITH CHECK TO NANCY VEDDER-SHULTS, [redacted]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;page 8&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CHILDCARE REGISTRATION FORM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: ______  Tel:  &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;(___ )&lt;/span&gt;_________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Address: ________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I plan on bringing the following child (children) to the WiG Workshop:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: ___ Age__ Arrival/Departure Dates/Times:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name: ___ Age ___________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check as appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;___  Needs crib ___ Will share my room &lt;br /&gt;___  Needs own room/bed&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Any special needs/information: ______________                                       &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RETURN THIS FORM WITH YOUR REGISTRATION FORM. PLEASE ENCLOSE AN ADDITIONAL STAMPED, SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE SO THAT WE CAN GET BACK TO YOU WITH FURTHER CHILDCARE INFORMATION.&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;NATURAL FOODS OPTION&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A natural foods option (vegetarian) will be made available for a modest surcharge ($10.00 or less), which will be collected &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;at the conference&lt;/span&gt;. If you choose this option, please check below. We &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;must&lt;/span&gt; know in advance in order to provide enough food.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Name :   ________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I desire the natural foods option for the following meals:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;___  Saturday breakfast &lt;br /&gt;___  Saturday lunch &lt;br /&gt;___  Saturday dinner&lt;br /&gt;___  Sunday breakfast          &lt;br /&gt;___  Sunday lunch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;RETURN THIS FORM WITH YOUR REGISTRATION FORM.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;SUBSCRIPTIONS/MEMBERSHIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is Newsletter &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;25&lt;/span&gt;. Read your label and renew when numbers match.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We held firm as long as we could, BUT the rising costs of everything made it impossible to continue to produce &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German &lt;/span&gt;for $5.00. Therefore, we have raised the fee to $7.00; $3.00 for students and unemployed. If you can afford to, please consider becoming a supporting member ($15.00 or more).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Make checks payable to WOMEN IN GERMAN. Send your check and this membership form to: Women in German, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805.&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enclosed you will find my check for: (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;please check appropriate &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;category&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;                               New Renewal&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$7.00 for one year                                &lt;br /&gt;$12.00 for two years       &lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------                   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$3.00 for one year &lt;br /&gt;$5.00 for two years&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$15.00 or more for supporting membership&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NAME ______________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ADDRESS ___________________________ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please check if applicable: Change of address ___&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women in German&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages &lt;br /&gt;Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Fort Wayne &lt;br /&gt;Fort Wayne, IN 46805&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Conference materials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Open at once.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Number 24                                                &lt;br /&gt;March 1981&lt;br /&gt;Membership/Subscription Fee: $7.00 ($3.00 if unemployed or student)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear WIG Members,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our March issue brings our readers special greetings in honor of Interna­tional Women's Day. This annual day of celebration on March 8th was first called for by Clara Zetkin, who proposed it to the Second International Socialist Conference in 1910. Her inspiration came from the active efforts and struggles of working women, in particular the women garment worker's strike in New York on March 8, 1908. It is especially important to re-collect the historical struggles in which women have engaged at a time when many of our own efforts and successes are being threatened by an anti-feminist, conservative trend.&lt;br /&gt;In the spirit of International Women's Day and our need to unite in these times, we dedicate this Newsletter to women who have striven for women's emancipation in the past.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We would like to thank all of you who have shown their support for the WIG newsletter through renewals as well as new subscriptions. Financially, we seem to be in "good shape" now. Unfortunately, however, we need more than just financial input in order to keep our newsletter alive. If we wish to adhere to our policy, i.e., "to promote feminist scholarship and pedagogy in German literary and cultural studies, as well as in German language teaching" (WIG #22) then we need to become involved in a more creative, more sharing, more active way. The Newsletter should continue to be a means for dissipating information particularly relevant to all of us who are interested in German studies from a feminist perspective.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please, send us information about your current work, share discoveries you've made. Maybe you read an interesting book, heard a new record, saw a beautiful movie. We also would like to bring back to life the "Dear Wiggy" column. Gedankensplitter aller Art sind willkommen. Remember, this is &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;your &lt;/span&gt;Newsletter and the Collective here in Madison is but a "Sammel-und Verteilungsstelle for your information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Once again, in the spirit of International Women's Day, let us renew our committment to a viable and exciting Newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing: Hiermit erkläre ich das Matriarchat für ausgebrochen und den Tag der Frau zum "Tag des Mannes"!]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;LETTERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear WIG,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have formed a little group of Italian academic women (Universities of Rome, Perugia and Pescara) interested in women 's studies in German.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately we have no organization in Italy, although a comparatively high percentage of women already attends German studies in a number of univer­sities. Of course, we often go to Germany and are in touch with germanists, but it would be very interesting for us to know something more about the initiatives you take in the USA as germanist women abroad. We have received till now the Proceedings of Women in German 1977 and the special feminist issue of New German Critique; but we would be very pleased if you could inform us about meetings, courses, papers, publications etc. in Massachusetts and else­where. We are prepared to subscribe some American journals.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our interest focuses on the 19th century (we are currently at work on an anthology "Dal salotto al partito" which is going to be published next fall). But we are interested both in GDR and FRG contemporary women writers as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I thank you in advance for everything you will do for us and I remain&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yours sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lee LiAman&lt;br /&gt;Giuli Liebman Parrinello&lt;br /&gt;[redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG WORKSHOP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is another sunmary of the WIG Workshop session on "Forms of Our Bodies":&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sat. a.m. session: "The Forms of Our Bodies"&lt;br /&gt;Organizers: Bonnie Beckett and Jill McDonald&lt;br /&gt;Participants: Sara Lennox, Johanna Moore, Jeanette Clausen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt": this quota­tion from Wittgenstein served as a motto for the session. How do women express their physical existence? Are references to women's bodies used by female authors as part of particular language devices intended to overcome the "Sprachlosigkeit" they experience in a patriarchal world? Is the use of such references part of a general attempt on the part of women writers to create a new poetic language?&lt;br /&gt;The three presentations in the session taken together addressed all these questions They complemented each other and provoked a lively discussion of these and related issues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Lennox analyzed the central image of nearsightedness in Ingeborg Bach­mann's "Ihr glücklichen Augen" as an expression of the distortions of patriarchal society (Miranda's astigmatism) and Miranda's acceptance of the patriarchal system (her "willed" myopia in that she refuses to wear her glasses). The patriarchal ideology of heterosexual love leads to Women's subjection and to men's victimization as well. Bachmann seems to have felt that women’s self­expression is coifled by patriarchy but not totally confined by it. Yet stepping outside the norms of this society usually leads to the destruction of Bachmann’s women, as when Miranda is cut by the glass door she walks into at the end of the story. In Gabriele Wohmann's "Ernste Absichte," women's physical being is reduced to their hair. As Johanna Moore pointed out, this part of the body comes to represent the whole. The focus on hair in our society as an expression of sexuality and the object of advertising propaganda is important here. The&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;fact that hair is actually dead thus becomes significant, as does its dis­appearing at times (under the habits of nuns) and its use as a camouflage.&lt;br /&gt;The heroine, a writer recovering from an "Unterleibsoperation", combs her hair back as she faces herself and the prospect of death openly. Jeanette Clausen showed the importance of the examination and articulation of the body as part of Verena Stefan’s attempt to restructure langauge as a female vehicle of expression ("Häutungen"). This writer, the one of the three to be writing in the most overtly feminist context, is the most explicit in connecting the expression of the body with reconstituting of language. Of the three, her linguistic experimentation represents the most optimistic attempt to overcome woman's "Sprachlosigkeit," or at least to begin to create new linguistic possibilities for doing so.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The ensuing discussion of the session began with the expression of a need of a new term other than "heterosexual love" to designate the negative manifesta­tions of the sexual ideology of patriarchy. "Patriarchal love relationships" was suggested as an alternative to avoid the alienation which the negative use of "heterosexual love" has for feminists involved in positive relationships with men. The discussion then turned to whether women can "speak through their bodies" since these traditionally have been possessed by men. It was pointed out that women are still largely speaking and writing out of a patriarchal perspective. In connection with this, Margot Schroeder reminded us that women should beware of being overly concerned with the expression of their bodies and their physical being. Such a one-sided focus is similar to the reduction of women to physical, biological beings so dominant in patriarchy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recorder: Linda S. Pickle &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * * * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Political Action Committee was created at the WIG 1980 Workshop. The following is a reminder of how all WIG members can help this committee function effectively.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At its meeting in Racine last October, WIG decided to create a committee that would concern itself with political issues such as the hiring, promoting and tenuring of women Germanists, or the recent MLA decision to replace the pro­posed policy recommendation regarding sexist language by a simple suggestion that MLA members avoid discriminating language.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To be effective (within the means of our limited time), the committee needs the cooperation of WIG members. Please let us know your concerns!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More specifically, we would like to ask you to send us any information you might have concerning hiring and promotion/tenure. We would like to start collecting information on these issues. Therefore let us know your and/or your friends' problems and success stories; let us know your experiences in job interviews. Our goal in this area is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a)  to collect statistics that will transcend the bare facts to be gleaned from the Personalia section in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Monatshefte&lt;/span&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;b)  to develop statistics with regard to the hiring and promoting/ tenuring of women by individual departments;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;c)  to set up a file of specific cases (short description of problem and attempts of and/or solutions) for reference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If anybody needs some advice concerning a problem and the ways of handling it, I will be glad to share my experience (including three years on a College Faculty Appeals Committee) with you. Or contact any other member of the committee—we all want to pass on whatever knowledge we have acquired in this area.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let us hear from you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marianne Burkhard, Chair&lt;br /&gt;U. of Illinois, Urbana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Renny Harrigan&lt;br /&gt;U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helen Fehervary&lt;br /&gt;Ohio State U., Columbus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ritta Jo Horsley&lt;br /&gt;U. of Massachussetts-Boston&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sara Lennox&lt;br /&gt;U. of Masschussetts-Amherst&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***********&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Minutes of Business Meeting at MLA - Houston, December 28, 1980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;: Marjorie Tussing asked to be replaced because of too many other commitments. It was agreed that Martha Wallach should be asked despite the fact that she is not from the West.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;MLA 1981&lt;/span&gt;: Proposal for two sections back to back on "German Romantic Women"; coordinators are Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG 1981&lt;/span&gt;; AATG would allow a half-day preconference workshop on Tuesday before Thanksgiving. These workshops are for high school teachers. Gabriele Wickert and Barbara Wright would coordinate "Women in the Curriculum: Methods and Materials for Non-Sexist Education."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Proposal deadline is early in January, Jeanette Clausen will contact people to see if proposal can be submitted; if this is impossible, we will pro­pose two sessions: 1) "Mothering in German Literature" (Ric Johnson, Karen Achbrger) and 2) on pedagogy as substitute for workshop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG Workshop 1982&lt;/span&gt;: Since Christa Wolf cannot come, we decided to try to invite &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sara Kirsch&lt;/span&gt;. Linda S. Pickle will coordinate the grant writing for the money, will be glad for any suggestions and help!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Site&lt;/span&gt;: Barbara Wright and Joey Horsley found the Thompson Island Education Center, a place on an island in Boston harbor. Price for two nights+meals+trans- portation from shore: $49.00. The Steering Committee decided that this should be the site for the 1982 WIG Workshop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Financial Report&lt;/span&gt;: Small profit from T-shirts, they are now available from Jeanette Clausen, Fort Wayne for $5.00.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bibliography&lt;/span&gt;: Send titles of relevant publications to Sara Lennox, U. of Massa­chusetts, Amherst.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Political Action&lt;/span&gt;: Suggestion that we all make efforts to make students aware of procedures for sexual harassments (where they exist). Please send all info regarding tenure/promotion (good and bad) to Marianne Burkhard, U. of Illinois, Urbana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WIG CONFERENCE SIT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;E&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Joey Horsley has Informed us that she was able to reserve the retreat center at Thompson Island in Boston Harbor for the 1982 WIG Workshop (October 5-17). The Island has 157 acres with beaches, groves, saltmarshes, self-guiding trails, playing fields and a gym. It is one mile from Boston by boat. It sounds wonderful! Thank you, Joey. Remember that the 1981 WIG Workshop will be held again in Racine, Wisconsin (October 16-18).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AATG Annual Meeting, November 1980, Boston, MA WIG Session: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminist Teaching in Practice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
I. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;"Frauen" - A Model Curriculum Unit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Developed by Karen Weinschenker (Minneapolis Public Schools) as part of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;A World of Women&lt;/span&gt;, a larger curriculum project directed by Mary Jane Roe (Minneapolis Public Schools), and funded by the Minnesota Council on Quality Education. Presented by Suzanne P. Jebe (Minnesota State Dept. of Education).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The objectives of these non-graded secondary learning materials (suitable for grades 7-12) are to increase student and teacher awareness of the role of females in German speaking cultures and to increase teacher effectiveness in the teaching of non-sexist materials. The curriculum packet includes annotated lists of 50 women who have made significant contributions to the arts, sciences, letters, or political and social developments, presented in both English and German; a smaller number of women are discussed at some­what greater length, some in English and some in German. Related classroom activities and brief reading selections for various levels focus on occupa­tional, family, and social roles. Posters and a synchronized slide-cassette tape presentation provide additional historical and contemporary material for classroom use.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A limited number of the curriculum packets may be available; inquiries should be directed to Dr. Jermaine Arendt, Minneapolis Public Schools, Modern Language Department, 807 Northeast Broadway, Minneapolis, MN 55413.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;II. The Invisible Woman: Woman in the GDR - Issues and Social Policy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Margaret E. Ward, Wellesley College&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Too often in classrooms and instructional materials the women of the GDR have suffered a double invisibility, neglected both as part of a less familiar society and as women. An understanding of the situation of women in the GDR requires basic knowledge of official social policy in the GDR, which in its constitution, laws, and various institutions guarantees equal rights for women. This egalitarian social policy has provided important vehicles for significant progress in four areas:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1) The sphere of public and political activity: Increasing numbers of women are active as elected officials and work to promote women's issues, although a pyramid still exists in SED party structure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2) Employment: Laws and programs providing incentive and training to women have resulted in 87% of women being employed, and in female representation in all sectors of the economy. Women are still underrepresented in top-level positions, however.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3) Education: The gap between the sexes has been dramatically narrowed; all children receive the same 10-year polytechnical education and women now make up more than half of university-level students.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4) Family: Official policy (Family Law, 1966) maintains that women's right to work and self-development is not to be hindered by housework or childraising, which are to be joint responsibilities of men and women. This principle is reflected in the availability of sex education, the pill, abortion; extra financial support for children, 26 weeks paid maternity leave, and state-supported kindergarten and Krippen. But this "private sphere" has also been most resistant to change: in addition to their paid labor women still spend 37 hours per week on housework compared to men's six hours.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Despite the fact that attitudes and behaviors change more slowly than constitutional guarantees of equality might suggest, the GDR's progressive social policy in these areas has brought rapid changes in women's role and status. See attached list of selected resources.&lt;/p&gt;
III. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bettina Wegner: Liedermacherln of the GDR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Victoria Joanne Moessner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Born in Berlin in 1947, Bettina Wegner was briefly imprisoned, and expelled from the Berlin Schauspielschule in 1968 after distributing hand­bills in protest of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Despite this offense she was allowed to study at the Zentrales Studio für Unterhaltungs­Kunst from 1971-72, and thus had an entree into the officially sanctioned pop music scene of the GDR. Wegner quickly turned from such superficial popular music, however, to the production of songs of criticism and serious social comment in the tradition of Biermann and Brecht, working as a free­lance Liedermacherin in Berlin since 1973.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In June 1978 Wegner appeared at the Internationale Literatur-Tage in West Berlin; a recording of this performance is available ("Sind so Kleine Hände"). After Wegner joined other GDR intellectuals in protesting the government's action against Wolf Biermann her opportunities for performing in the GDR were restricted. In March 1980 she, her Husband Klaus Schlesinger, and their three children were granted visas to travel and live in West Berlin and the FRG for three years; Schlesinger is now working as a journalist in West Berlin.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In her songs Wegner often takes the part of the underdog and powerless, especially children, criticizing social and governmental pressures to con­form. She treats aspects of woman's existence in the "Männergesellschaft", as she termed GDR society in an interview in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Zeit&lt;/span&gt;. With their accessible vocabulary and style and vivid message Wegner’s songs are useful for intro­ducing students to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Liedermacher&lt;/span&gt;, and for beginning a discussion of such topics as the position of women in the GDR and the problems of dissident artists and intellectuals. See attached list of selected resources.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary by Joey Horsley, Session Chairperson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in the German Democratic Republic: Issues and Social Policy&lt;/span&gt; — Margaret Ward, Women in German/Feminist Pedagogy Section, AATG Meeting November 23, 1980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Selected Sources&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Books&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Allendorf, Marlis. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in Socialist Society&lt;/span&gt;. New York: International Publishers, 1975.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Die Frauen sind das Beste an der DDR." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;In Leben in der DDR&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Eva WindmBller and Thomas Hüpker. Hamburg: Sterabuch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen in der DDR: Zwanzig Erzählungen&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Lutz-W. Wolff. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1978. (dtv 1174).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kirsch, Sarah. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Pantherfrau: Fünf Frauen in der DDR&lt;/span&gt;. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 1978. (rororo neue frau, 4216).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Menschik, Jutta, and Evelyn Leopold. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gretchens &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;rote Schwestern: Frauen in der DDR&lt;/span&gt;. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1974. (Fischer 1394).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wander, Maxie. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Guten Morgen, du SchBne: Frauen in der DDR&lt;/span&gt;. Protokolle mit einem Vorwort von Christa Wolf. Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1979. (sammlung luchterhand, 289).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wie Emanzipiert sind die Frauen in der DDR? Beruf-Bildung-Familie&lt;/span&gt;. Ed. Herta Kuhrig, and Wulfram Speigner. Cologne: Pahl Rugenstein, 1979. (kleine bibliothek, 171).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wiggershaus, Renate. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Geschichte der Frauen und der Frauenbewegung in der BRD und in der DDR nach 1945&lt;/span&gt;. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer, 1979.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;GDR: Facts and Figures&lt;/span&gt;. Dresden: Verlag Zeit im Bild, 1975.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women Under Socialism&lt;/span&gt;. 2nd ed. Berlin (East): Panorama, 1976.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Films&lt;/span&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;United States Committee for Friendship with the GDR 130 E. 16th &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Street, 3rd&lt;/span&gt; Floor, New York, NY 10003 Telephone: [redacted]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Happiness of Women&lt;/span&gt;—Traces lives of women in various occupations. 16 mm, $10, 30 min., English and German.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in the GDR&lt;/span&gt;, 16 mm, $5, 20 min., English.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Available from: &lt;br /&gt;Audio Brandon Films&lt;br /&gt;34 MacQuesten Parkway South, Mount Vernon, NY 10550&lt;br /&gt;Telephone: [redacted] (outside NY) [redacted]          (inside NY)&lt;br /&gt;Additional addresses and WATS lines in Illinois, Texas, California&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;The Seventh Year&lt;/span&gt; (1969), 35 mm, $75, 82 min., English subtitles. "Das Siebente Jahr", written and directed by Frank Vogel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Bettina Wegner; Selected Sources&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Selected Bibliography&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Record: Bettina Wegner, "Sind so kleine Hände." CBS 83507, 1979. CBS-Studio-Frankfurt am Main.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Book: Bettina Wegner: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Wenn meine Lieder nicht mehr stimmen&lt;/span&gt; (mit einem Vorwort von Sarah Kirsch). Rowohlt Nr. 4399, 1979. Rowohlt Taschen­buch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Article: "Troubadora mit Löwenherz. Ein Porträt der Liedermacherin Bettina Wegner aus der DDR." &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Zeit&lt;/span&gt; Nr. 5, 25 January 1980.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Selected &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Paperbacks&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
1. Thomas Rothschild: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Liedermacher: 23 Porträts&lt;/span&gt;. Fischer Nr. 2959, 1980. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main. (Has one comment about Wegner, but gives a good idea of Liedermacher in West Germany, Switzerland and Austria.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Karl Riha: &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Moritat, Bänkelsong, Protestballade, Kabarett-Lyrik und engagiertes Lied in Deutschland&lt;/span&gt;. Athenäum Taschenbücher, 1979. Athenäum-Fischer Taschunbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Inge Latz (Hrsg.): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauen-Lieder&lt;/span&gt;. Fischer Nr. 2957.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Peter Schleuning (Hrsg.): &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Kinderlieder selber machen&lt;/span&gt;. Rowohlt Sachbuch Nr. 7115.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Another Possibility&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Von Oma Punk zum Plättli Blues: Neue Frauenmusik. Feministische Buchverlag. 3501 Naumburg/Elberberg&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Trouba Disc.&lt;br /&gt;Frauen Musik Vertrieb Gmbh&lt;br /&gt;Arcisstrasse&lt;br /&gt;8000 Munich 40&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WIG WORKSHOP 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be a session on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German-Jewish Women Writers&lt;/span&gt; at the 6th annual &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; conference, October 16-18, 1981, in Racine, Wisconsin. This session is intended to focus on writers who grapple in their work with the complex intersection of what it means/has meant to be German Jewish and a woman—an intersection of multiple identities and oppressions. We are not placing a limit on the time periods or genres to be included. Please send all inquiries, ideas, abstracts, or working drafts to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt; Evelyn T. Beck, 2319 Huidekoper Place, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007 and Lynne Ozer, [redacted] by April 15, 1981.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;There will also be a session tentatively titled "New Ways of Reading: Critical Feminist Approaches to Specific Primary Texts." Our purpose is to contribute to analysis. There will be three separate workshops, each to focus on one preselected primary text from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a large plenary session for the presentation and discussion of theoretical perspectives. More specific information about texts will be printed in the next newsletter. In the meantime, if you have suggestions or inquiries, write to: Susan Cocalis (18th c.), Department of German, University of Massachusetts- Amherst, Amherst, MA; Biddy Martin (late 19th c.), Department of German, Univer­sity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53703; Karen Jankowsky (20th c.), Depart­ment of German, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG CONVENTION 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;AATG Pre-Conference Workshop Proposal&lt;/span&gt;: Denver, November 1981&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Forward to Basics: Non-Sexist German Instruction at the Beginning Level&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This workshop will first sensitize participants to problems of overt and covert sexism in German language instruction. A variety of corrective strategies will then be presented: 1) for adapting existing textbooks to non-sexist use, 2) for enriching language programs with cultural materials that focus on women, and 3) for supplementing regular instruction with non-sexist exercises and games. Finally, participants will have an opportunity to analyze a sample lesson plan for sexual bias and modify it using the techniques which have been discussed. Bibliographies and resource information will also be distributed. If you would like to make a presentation within this general framework, please submit an abstract (2-3 pages) by April 15, 1981. Send your proposal to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gabriele Wickert&lt;br /&gt;German Department&lt;br /&gt;Manhattanville College &lt;br /&gt;Purchase, NY 10577                &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barbara Wright&lt;br /&gt;Germanic &amp;amp; Slavic Languages&lt;br /&gt;Univ. of Conn., U-137&lt;br /&gt;Storrs, CT 06268&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;CALLS FOR PAPERS, MLA CONVENTION, DECEMBER 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Coalition of Women in German will sponsor two sessions on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German Women Writers of the Romantic Period: New Perspectives&lt;/span&gt; at the MLA Convention in December 1981 in New York. Please submit abstracts for papers (2-3 pages) by March 15, 1981. Send proposals to:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Elke Frederiksen                &lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Germanic &amp;amp; Slavic Languages and Literatures &lt;br /&gt;University of Maryland &lt;br /&gt;College Park, MD 20742&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martha Wallach&lt;br /&gt;Dept. of Foreign Languages &lt;br /&gt;University of Wisconsin-Green Bay &lt;br /&gt;Green Bay, WI 54302&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF WOMEN WRITERS AND CRITICS "Breaking the Sequence: Women, Literature and the Future" will be held at Wllesley College April 30-May 2, 1981. Workshops on the BRD and GDR; Ingeborg drewitz will represent the BRD. For information and registration write to Margaret Lafferty, Coordinator of Special Events, Wellesely College, Wellesley, MA 02181, Telephone: [redacted].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BOOKS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;THE LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF PAULA MODERSOHN-BECKER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Translated and annotated by J. Diane Radycki Introduction by Alessandra Comini &lt;br /&gt;Epilogue by Adrienne Rich and Lilly Engler&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;370 pages 1980 illus. LC: 80-18993, ISBN 0-8108-1344-0, $17.50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The developing persona of a young woman painter at the turn of the century, living in vulnerable isolation, struggling to resolve the conflict between what she demanded of herself as an artist and what society expected of her as a married woman is chronicled in &lt;i&gt;The Letters and Journals of Paula Modersohn- Becker.&lt;/i&gt; It is one of those rare documents that allows us to see someone become who she is. This major early Expressionist created deeply felt images, “monumental in their intimacy,” in her paintings and in her writings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The reader is provided with an intriguing guide to the art capitals of Berlin, London, and Paris as seen through the eyes of a woman studying art, and we view through “a sometimes hyperborean light” the changing relationships between Becker and her friends, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Clara Westhoff (the sculptor who married Rilke), and her husband, the painter Otto Modersohn. The letters begin when Becker is in art school and end within a month of her tragic death in 1907 at age thirty-one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;This is the first presentation of Becker’s writings in English— an event long overdue. The extensively annotated translation uses contemporary sources to delineate the artistic milieu and the relevant historical-social-feminist situation in 1900. New light is shed on the art education of Becker, who, like Klthe Kollwitz, is one of the first woman artists to come from a non- artistic background. '&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;The volume is eloquently introduced by Alessandra Comini, author of &lt;i&gt;The Fantastic Art of Vienna&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Egon Schiele’s Portraits&lt;/i&gt; (nominated for the 1973 National Book Award). The epilogue includes Rilke’s intense “Requiem” of 1908 (trans­lated by Lilly Engler and Adrienne Rich, and never before published) and Rich’s own moving “Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff." Of special interest to artists, art historians, and feminists, this record of a short and fiercely lived life will draw all readers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;About the translator/annotator&lt;/span&gt; Diane Radycki is an art historian who began her study of tum-of-the century art and art education as a graduate student at Hunter College. She is included in the recently published &lt;i&gt;Voices of Women,&lt;/i&gt; and is currently writing a biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Linguistische Berichte &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;69&lt;/span&gt; special issue on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Language, Sex and Power I &lt;/span&gt;edited by Luise Pusch and Senta Trömel-Plötz just appeared. It contains the first guidelines for non-sexist use for the German language.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Language, Sex and Power II&lt;/span&gt; will appear as "Linguistische Berichte 71" in February 1981. Both can be ordered individually through any bookstores.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Publisher: Verlag Vieweg - Braunscfaweig/Wiesbaden - West Germany&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Bild der Witwe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;der deutschen Literatur.&lt;/span&gt; Hessische Beiträge zur deutschen Literatur. Darm­stadt: Gesellschaft Hessischer Literaturfreunde (1980). 120 pp. $10.95.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The book is handled in the U.S. by Adler Foreign Books, New York, and advertised in their fall catalogue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Irmgard C.Tayler is interested in having someone write a review of her book for the next WIG News­letter. If you are interested, please contact us in Madison.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading10"&gt;23&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; is a feminist coalition open to all those who are interested in promoting feminist scholarship and pedagogy in German literary and cultural studies, as well as in German language teaching, on all levels and in all educa­tional settings. We are a non-hierarchical group open to students and teachers alike. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG&lt;/span&gt;, as our group is affectionately named and known, was formed in 1975. Since that time it has created a viable communication network and support system across the United States and Europe by means of its &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Newsletter&lt;/span&gt;, the annual national &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG&lt;/span&gt; conference, as well as workshops held in conjunction with the national organizations and regional branches of AATG and MLA. We have had a considerable impact on the profession. Departments of German as well as journals have become aware of a large and vigilant feminist presence. Our sessions at meetings are consis­tently among the best attended and our voices have been heard (and to some extent heeded) in the text book departments of major publishing houses. We have begun the task of integrating women writers into the traditional curriculum and have created separate courses where the writings of women can be studied in the context of feminist theory and in conjunction with the works of other women. We have encouraged the publication of anthologies of women’s writings both in German and in translation; we have supported and inspired doctoral theses on feminist topics and encouraged undergraduates to research the work of women. We are committed to helping women gain tenure and to raising our voices in protest when they have been denied it unfairly. In short, we have fought sexism and have validated the study of women. This year we were able to bring Margot Schroeder to our annual conference and are in the process of making plans to bring Angelika Mechtel in 1981. Over the years we have provided the kind of nourishing support and stimu­lating intellectual discussion that has helped many of us get through a year in isolation. We are pleased to count among our numbers women who do not earn their living by their German degrees but maintain an interest in German studies from a feminist perspective. In such diversity lies our strength. For details concerning membership see coupon below; there is a sliding fee scale based on financial need.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;WOMEN IN GERMAN NEWSLETTER&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Number 23                                                        November 1980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Membership/Subscription Fee: $7.00 ($3.00 if unemployed or student)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nearly a month has passed since many of us were in Racine for the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG &lt;/span&gt;conference. For some it was possibly the first exposure to a conference with such a relaxed atmosphere, so conducive to intellectual exchange and support. For others it has become the yearly occasion to renew friendship and enjoy the exchange of ideas and experiences. For all of us, yet another Fall has been marked by a memorable weekend of concern about Women in German. The presence of Margot Schroeder, our first guest writer from the Federal Republic, certainly enriched the experience and convinced us of the value of having a woman writer in our midst, sharing her writing, her life and activity with us. Those of us who had a chance to spend time with Margot in Madison and/or Racine enjoyed and benefitted immensely from her intellectual, political and personal involvement, her warmth, her candor and her wit. She not only enhanced our experience of her work and texts, but contributed enormously to our discussions and understanding of women’s writing generally. We will continue this newly established tradition next year (in Racine, October 16-18) when Angelika Mechtel from the FRG will join us, and in 1982 when we hope to have a woman writer from the GDR.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On behalf of all the conference participants, we want to thank Johanna Moore, Beth Weckmueller and Hildegard Melstrand for the fantastic job they did of organizing the physical arrangements for the conference (and for their humor), Jeannette Clausen for her superb job of program coordination, and Jeannette and Naomi Stefan for coordinating Margot Schroeder's visit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG&lt;/span&gt; welcomes your responses to the Racine conference; be sure to send them to us! To initiate discussion, we of the Newsletter collective would like to applaud our decision to incorporate more small group workshops into the individual sessions next year, and to announce the specific primary works to be considered far enough in advance to encourage more informed and broader-based participation in discussion. In this year's session on "The Forms of Our Bodies," Johanna Moore began her presentation on Gabriele Wohmann's &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Ernste Absicht&lt;/span&gt; with an assertion that stimulated a great deal of discussion and provided incentive for next year's session on "New Ways of Reading: Critical Feminist Approaches to Selected Primary Texts." (Tentative title.) Johanna suggested that "finding the body (or sexuality) in a text requires new ways of reading." Susan Cocalis, Biddy Martin and Karen Jankowsky will coordinate a session that will include both presentations on theoretical perspectives, and small group workshops, organized by centuries, to do collective textual analyses. The texts to be considered will be announced in the next newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are equally excited about the proposed session on German-Jewish women writers, to be coordinated by Evelyn Beck and Lynne Ozer, a session that intro­duces a field and a range of political and personal issues that are only beginning to be raised in our work. Certainly the Friday evening workshop on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Sprache&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Gefühl&lt;/span&gt; und &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Feminismus&lt;/span&gt;, to be coordinated by Naomi Stefan, will open up the concrete and very fascinating problems we encountered this year around our choice of language. The implication of our discomfort with one or the other language in particular contexts was a persistent concern and discussion topic. All of these sessions reflect the incredible degree to which our conferences and workshops involve genuinely collective and ongoing intellectual concerns and excitements.&lt;br /&gt;We have two suggestions for future conferences:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-3-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a) What about adopting a theme for a future conference, such as is done in the Westberlin Frauensommeruni (see article in this issue).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;b) Perhaps part of the open business session at subsequent conferences could be held on Saturday during the noon hour when more people could participate in discussion of future topics, themes, guest writers, format; or, alternatively, we could create more opportuni­ties for people to submit written suggestions for those items should they be unable to attend the Sunday session.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With these ideas in mind, we welcome your thoughts to help build the next &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG &lt;/span&gt;conference!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You will have noticed from reading the first page of this newsletter that we are working to intensify our outreach efforts. All members are urged to photocopy the first page of this newsletter and pass it along to potentially interested colleagues. Two hundred extra copies of the newsletter are being printed for distribution at the upcoming AATG and MLA conferences. Until March!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[drawing]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WIG WORKSHOP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Summary of Business and Planning Meeting &lt;br /&gt;5th Annual Women in German Workshop &lt;br /&gt;October 14, 1980&lt;br /&gt;Chaired by Karen Achberger and Charlotte Smith&lt;/p&gt;
I. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Financial Report&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After several brief announcements the financial report was given by Johanna Moore on the 1980 workshop and by Biddy Martin on the status of the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;WiG&lt;/span&gt; Newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-4-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Johanna indicated that after paying expenses a surplus was left. It was decided that this surplus together with $100 from the Newsletter fund would go to Jeanette Clausen as a refund for the amount she advanced on Schroeder’s airplane ticket. The Rinser fund designated for paying travel expenses did not cover the entire ticket due to a sharp increase in prices for air travel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Biddy Martin reported that the Newsletter is in good financial shape. It now has 220 paying subscribers. Since few people are sustaining members of WiG, everybody who can afford to do so was encouraged to become a sustaining member ($15 per year). The following measures for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;outreach&lt;/span&gt; were also approved:&lt;/p&gt;
1. The first page of the Newsletter shall bear a short description of the character and function of WiG and a registration form so that it can easily be photocopied and handed out. WiG members were encouraged to do so as well as to send Biddy Martin names of prospective members so that she can forward one copy of the Newsletter to these persons. Have your nearest library subscribe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. 200 extra copies of the next Newsletter will be printed to be distributed at the upcoming AATG and MLA conferences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;II.&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; Steering Committee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Continuing members: Marjorie Tussing, Biddy Martin, Jeanette Clausen, Sara Lennox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In order to make the Steering Committee more effective, the following charges, functions and duties for each member were suggested and approved:&lt;/p&gt;
1. A &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;bibliography&lt;/span&gt; of the current year’s primary and secondary pub­lications relevant to a feminist approach to German literature and culture to be published in each spring issue of the WiG Newsletter. Members are urged to send short annotated biblio­graphical items to Sara Lennox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Textbook reviews&lt;/span&gt; and bibliography. Marjorie Tussing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Outreach&lt;/span&gt; to be coordinated by the liaison member to the Newsletter,Biddy Martin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. AATG and MLA &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;organizational research&lt;/span&gt; to assist WiG section chair­persons in developing and organizing their sessions at the national conferences. Jeanette Clausen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Political action&lt;/span&gt;; the representative chairs the Political Action Committee to be established.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Grant writing&lt;/span&gt; and fund raising for financing travel and other expenses of future WiG Workshop guest writers.
&lt;p&gt;The new members elected to serve on the Steering Committee are Marianne Burkhard, Urbana, Illinois, for position no. 5; and Linda Pickle, Columbia, Missouri, for position no. 6.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-5-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;III. &lt;span&gt;1981 WiG Workshop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Members present expressed gratitude to Johanna Moore, Beth Weckmueller, and Hildegard Melstrand for once again organizing the physical arrangements for this year’s conference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Date&lt;/span&gt;: A motion was made and approved to establish a regular date for the Work­shop on the third weekend in October, with the second priority given to the second weekend of the same month. For the coming year, the dates of October 16-18 were set for the Workshop with a registration deadline of September 15, 1981.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Site&lt;/span&gt;: The site for the 1981 Workshop will again be the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Siena Center&lt;/span&gt; in Racine, Wisconsin. The Steering Committee will make the decision on a site for the 1982 Workshop at the WiG business session during the 1980 AATG conference upon recommendations from Susan Cocalis, Barbara Wright and Joey Horsley, who are investigating a possible site in the Northeast.&lt;br /&gt;Miriam Frank and Dorothy Rosenberg are looking into possibilities on the West Coast.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Coordination&lt;/span&gt;: Coordinator for the physical arrangements will be Nancy Vedder-Shults; Helen Fehervary will serve as program coordinator; Renny Harrigan will again make child care arrangements; a natural foods option will be pro­vided and arrangements for it will be organized by Martha Wallach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Program&lt;/span&gt;: It was agreed to use German as the language of the Workshop as much as possible in consideration to the guest writer, program contributions still being in the language of the presenter’s choice; we also decided to organize sessions into small group discussions with a plenary session at the end of each. The sessions agreed upon are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Friday p.m. Sprache, Gefühl and Feminismus, coordinated by Naomi Stephan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saturday (1) "New Ways of Reading:" Critical Feminist Approaches to Selected Texts. Chaired by Susan Cocalis (18th century), Biddy Martin (19th century), Karen Jankowsky (20th century).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(2)  German-Jewish Women Writers, coordinated by Evelyn Beck and Lynne Ozer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(3)  The evening session will concentrate on a presenta­tion by the West German writer &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Angelika Mechtel&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our thanks go to Naomi Stephan for her excellent planning and fund raising that are making this visit possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IV. &lt;span&gt;Political Action Committee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was agreed that a Political Action Committee be established to monitor tenure cases of women in German and to give support to women experiencing problems in obtaining tenure. Elected members of the committee are Marianne Burkhard, Joey Horsley, Helen Fehervary and Renny Harrigan. (cont'd)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-6-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first item of business for this newly elected group was to draft a letter in support of Renny Harrigan’s tenure case. The motion to accept the letter was unanimously passed. The letter will be sent to the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with copies to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the Chairperson of the German Department, and the MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. It will be signed by Marianne Burkhard as "Affirmative Action Officer" of WiG.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;V. &lt;span&gt;Textbook Committee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A textbook committee was established to work with the Steering Committee Funding Officer (newly elected Linda Pickle) in the long-range project suggested by Susan Cocalis to write non-sexist German language texts. Susan Cocalis, Martha Wallach, Naomi Stephan, and Marjorie Tussing were elected to this committee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VI. &lt;span&gt;AATG and MLA Sessions of WiG in 1981&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the three MLA sessions will be on "German Women Romantic Writers," coordinated by Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The literary session at the 1981 AATG meeting will be on the topic: "Mothering in German Literature" and will be coordinated by Ric Johnson and Karen Achberger. The pedagogical session topic and coordinators will be elected at the Boston AATG business meeting of WiG.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The other two session topics and coordinators for the MLA 1981 will be determined, as in past years, at the 1980 AATG and MLA meetings respectively.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Charlotte K. Smith &lt;br /&gt;Acting Secretary&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*********************&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WiG CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS 1980&lt;/p&gt;
I. "Transforming the Structures of Our Lives and Our Work," facilitated by Angelika Bammer and Evelyn Beck.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The open discussion we had called for at last year’s meeting came easily and quickly at our first session; the particular shape it took was a reflection of concerns we had left unspoken in the past. After a brief presentation by Evelyn and Angelika on how and why this session had come about and on our increas­ing need to bridge the gaps between our "personal" and "professional" encounters, we moved into smaller groups to discuss the issue of our bonding (or not bonding) with other women within the context of our work. Questions we considered were: what are the obstacles we encounter, what are the joys, strengths, or fears we discover, why and in what ways is this bonding between women who work together important? After lively interaction in our small circles, we all gathered together again in one large group. In the ensuing discussion a particular aspect of women-bonding was addressed with considerable concern and insistence: how does our sexual orientation affect our patterns of bonding or failing to bond? How have we in Women in German—as lesbians, as women relating to men, as women&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-7-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;without partners—experienced these sexual differences? In our discussion Friday evening we did not reach conclusions. What we did do was begin to express feelings we had not wanted to risk saying before. In that process we saw that we now have the necessary trust to say difficult things to one another and the willingness to face them together.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angelika Bammer&lt;/p&gt;
II. The Forms of Our Bodies&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Zerrsichtigkeit ist ärger als Blindsein: The Language of the Body in Ingeborg Bachmann’s ’Ihr glücklichen Augen”'&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My discussion of this short story from Bachmann’s collection &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Simultan&lt;/span&gt; is part of a larger study of her late prose works, the novel cycle "Todesarten." My central thesis in this study is that Bachmann, like other recent feminists, locates women within a patriarchal ideology into which they are inserted through their acceptance of their sexual identity and their socially defined relationship to men as men’s others and inferiors. Our constitution as the gendered human beings we are is accomplished through our acquisition of language, our learning the rules of thought of the social and sexual order. Outside of that language it is impossible, strictly speaking, to think, as Wittgenstein, in whom Bachmann had been interested since her student days, maintained: "Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt." As Bachmann asserts in her own case and as Luce Irigaray also argues, women have no voice within this system to express who they really are, for language belongs to men. To speak at all, they must find some non-verbal language outside our rational order to express themselves; and this may occur in their dreams (as in &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Malina)&lt;/span&gt;, in their madness, or as both Georg Groddeck, to whom Bachmann dedicated "Ihr glücklichen Augen," and Irigaray argue, in the very bodies of women, in hysteria and psychosomatic symptoms. The main agent of women’s destruction, the primary "Todesart" in the novel cycle and in the story is heterosexual love, which most fundamentally represents women’s acceptance of their subjective possibilities as patriarchy has defined them. That is, in love with men, women act within structures of patriarchy which define them as men's objects and others, allowing them no autonomous subjectivity or sexuality.&lt;br /&gt;Her women almost always rebel; they are never completely contained by patriarchy.&lt;br /&gt;But almost always their rebellion also means their own destruction.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this short story, Bachmann's near-sighted central figure Miranda refuses to see the reality of her patriarchal context, literally making herself blind to it. Her bad eyesight indicates her accession to patriarchal ideology and, if we accept a psychoanalytic reading (eyes = testicles), she also castrates herself, accepting the social definition of women as castrated men, without an independent sexuality of their own. This is fateful for her susceptibility to the enticements of romantic heterosexual love, for her life revolves around her love—"auf dem ersten Blick"—for Josef, in which she has deposited all her claims for subjective happiness. When Josef leaves her for another woman, Miranda tries to protect herself by feigning a new love affair, yet both she and Josef realize dimly that he has ordered her execution. Her body speaks the distress she will not admit: blindly she walks into a revolving door and is thrown bleeding to the floor amid a hail of glass. This accident, unconsciously intended, expresses the reality of her condition, that she is constrained within a system from which there is no door open for her escape, and that the heterosexual love around which her life is structured is a "Todesart" which will destroy her.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sara Lennox&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-8-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Urn’s Haar zum weißen Fleck"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The thesis psoposed was that we must find a new way of reading women's literature. On the basis of Gabriele Wohman’s novel ERNSTE ABSICHT this new approach revealed heretofore "hidden" elements which were in no way concealed but might have been overlooked had we read the novel from the "traditional" perspective. Wohmann’s obsession with women’s hair, for instance, would have escaped our attention had we not intended to detect the forms of our bodies in women’s writings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Johanna Moore&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeanette Clausen rounded out the session with an interesting comparative analysis of Verena Stefan’s and Elfriede Jelinek’s approaches to "The Places That Have No Names." Jeanette raised and discussed four major questions: How have feminist women in German-speaking countries attempted to write the &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;reality&lt;/span&gt; of our bodies? What names do we have for this reality? What linguistic means do feminist authors use in the attempt to transform this reality? A summary of Jeanette’s presentation will appear in the next newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;
III. The Voices of Working Women&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Emancipation or Double Burden: Women and Paid Labor in DDR Literature&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This paper poses the question: Given the theoretically emancipatory con­ditions of legal equality and full employment of women in DDR society, how has popular literature responded in presenting cultural role models to women and what conclusions can be drawn from this example?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After sketching in the economic background, the paper outlines the stages of DDR literature from 1945 to the present. Then, taking Elfriede BrUning as a typical popular writer, it compares her 1955 novel &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Regine Haberkom&lt;/span&gt; with her 1978 work &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Partnerinnen&lt;/span&gt; to illustrate the development of a critical presentation of women’s double burden of labor inside and outside the home. The paper closes with a brief discussion of recent trends in DDR literature in which women writers have declared that private relations are political and begun to question the legitimacy of inherited social assumptions and institutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dorothy Rosenberg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-9-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Women in 19th Century German-American Socialism&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This paper discussed the role of women in the German-American socialist movement, the most significant ethnic radical movement in the 19th century United States. It focused on three areas of discussion: 1) the attitude of German-American socialists towards women’s rights and suffrage as expressed in their official statements, which generally saw women’s emancipation as "secondary" to the emancipation of the working class; 2) the portrayal of women workers in literature by German-American socialist writers; and 3) the actual role of women in socialist organizations and culture. This last point is perhaps the central one, for if we realize that the real strength of German-American socialism lay to a large extent in its cultural and "sub-political activities in which women played a major part, it then becomes evident that women were much more important in this radical movement than traditional methods of history, which focus on political parties, organizational conflicts and "great men", would lead us to believe,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Carol Poore&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;**********&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wohnungssuche&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Von Moni van Rheinberg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;über 100 telefonate, 56 (!!) wohnungen angeguckt, rumgefahren, nach leeren fenstern gesehen etc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;ca. 20 wohnungen hätte ich haben können, an den verkehrsreichsten straßen, eine wohnung mit einem zimmer ohne fenster, wohnungen die feucht waren und mit dicken Schimmelflecken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;und dabei wollte ich in einer wohnung l.e.b.e.n...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sachen gibt's:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;- 3 wohnungen, die ich beziehen könnte (umsonst), wenn ich mit dem vermieter regelmäßig schlafe&lt;br /&gt;- 2 wohnungen, wenn ich den "vermieter" heirate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;- fragen nach meiner politischen einstellung&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;- viele wollen wissen, wie lange ich und das kind am tage aus dem haus sind (je weniger ich die wohnung bewohne, um so weniger nutze ich sie ab...)&lt;br /&gt;- vielen vermieterinnen war ich zu jung und damit zu "lebenslustig"&lt;br /&gt;- und überhaupt wie ich aussehe - und noch Künstlerin!&lt;br /&gt;- ob ich verhütungsmittel nehme&lt;br /&gt;- ob der vater meines kindes ausländer sei, vielleicht sogar ein schwarzer...&lt;br /&gt;- wie (?) meine intimen kontakte zu männern seien&lt;br /&gt;- ob ich anständige möbel hätte&lt;br /&gt;- was ich für beziehung ich zu frauen habe&lt;br /&gt;- ob ich auch putzen könne&lt;br /&gt;- frau (alleinstehend)? und mit kind? nein! - das absolute handikap&lt;br /&gt;- geben sie doch erst mal ne heiratsanzeige auf, dann könnense nochmal anrufen&lt;br /&gt;- der gemeinnützigen wohnungsbaugesellschaft war mein sozialer status (arbeitslosenhilfeempfängerin) noch zu a-sozial. obwohl ich drei bürgen für 9 monatsmieten nannte...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;u.s.w.&lt;br /&gt;und so weiter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oh du sozialer staat &lt;br /&gt;mit deinen besitzern&lt;br /&gt;du verdammter&lt;br /&gt;ich habe eine solche wut.&lt;br /&gt;...und dabei wollte ich nur in einer&lt;br /&gt;wohnung mit meinem kind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;l.e.b.e.n...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;-10-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;MEETINGS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Attention all WiG members! Sandy Frieden has generously offered to help those of us who are attending the MLA in Houston find alternative lodging (i.e., a cheaper hotel) possibly someplace in the downtown area where we could be together. If you would be interested In such alternative arrangements, let Sandy know immediately. Whether you need help with rooms or not, Sandy would like to know you’re coming to Houston and where you can be reached so she can plan a WiG get-together. It sounds like fun! Sandy Frieden, German Department, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77005.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The coalition of Women in German will sponsor two evening sessions at the annual MLA meeting in Houston on Saturday, December 27. (Numbers in parentheses refer to listings in the official MLA program guide.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(28.) German Women Authors Prior to 1800&lt;br /&gt;7:00 - 8:15 p.m., Mesa, Sheraton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Program arranged by the Coalitoin of Women in German. Presiding: Julie Prandi, Univ. of California, Berkeley, and gabrielle Strauch, Univ. of Wsconsin, Madison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. "The Topos of 'Affected Modesty' in the Works of German Women Mystics," Gertrud J. Lewis, Laurentian Univ.&lt;br /&gt;2. "The Lesson Sophie Learned: Education in Sophie von Laroche's Geschichte des Fräulein von Sterheim," L. Jeannine Blackwell, Indiana Univ., Bloomington.&lt;br /&gt;3. "Magdalena of Freiburg: 'Die Prophetin' as Mystic and Spiritual Authority," Karen Greenspan, Univ. Of Massachussetts, Amherst.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;For outlines of papers and bibliographies write to Julie Prandi.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;(54.) Dichterinnenwahrheit: Women's Poetry in the Context of Their Lives&lt;br /&gt;9:00 - 10:15 p.m., Statesman C, Sheraton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Program arranged by the Coalition of Women in German. Presiding: Viktoria Harwig, Mt. Holyike Coll., and Naomi Stephan, valparaiso Univ. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. "Philippine Engelhard Gatterer," Ruth Dawson, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa&lt;br /&gt;2. "Anna Louise Karsch: Erträumtes Glück," Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Univ. of Bochum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-11-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two feminist pedagogy sessions of interest to WiG readers will take place on Sunday, december 28 at the MLA in Houston.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(66.) Feminist Pedagogy: Positions and Points of View&lt;br /&gt;8:30 - 9:45 a.m., State, Whitehall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Program arranged by the Division of Women's Studies in Language and Literature. Presiding: Jusith Fetterley, State Univ. of New York, Albany, and Elaine Marks, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. "Feminist Teachers: The Power of the Personal," Carolyn Allen, Univ. of Washington.&lt;br /&gt;2. "Self-Disclosure and the Commitment to Social Change," Evelyn Beck, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison.&lt;br /&gt;3. "Authority in a Feminist Classroom: A Contradiction in Terms," Susan Friedman, Univ. Of Wisconsin, Madison.&lt;br /&gt;4. "Mastery, Identity, and the Politics of Work: A Feminist Teacher in the Graduate Classroom," Nancy K. Miller, Columbia Univ. and Bunting Inst., Radcliffe College.&lt;br /&gt;5. "A Pedagogy for Liberation: Unloosening the Double Bind," Hortense Spillers, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(93.) Context of Feminist Pedagogy: The Presentation of "Self" &lt;br /&gt;10:15 - 11:30 a.m., State, Whitehall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Program arranged by the Division on Women's Studies in Language and Literature. Presiding: Evelyn Beck, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, and Hortense Spillers, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panelists: Mary Lydon, Univ. of wisconsin, Milwaukee; Margo Culley, Univ. of Massachussetts, Amherst; Biddy (Carolyn) Martin, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; CathyPortuges, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; Susan O'Leary, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;There will be a session on &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;German-Jewish Women Writers&lt;/span&gt; at the 6th annual&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Women in German&lt;/span&gt; conference, October 16-18, 1981, in Racine, Wisconsin. This session is intended to focus on writers who grapple in their work with the complex intersection of what it means/has meant to be German-Jewish and a woman—an intersection of multiple identities and oppressions. We are not placing a limit on the time periods or genres to be included. Please send all inquiries, ideas. abstracts, or working drafts to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;both&lt;/span&gt; Evelyn T. Beck, [redacted] and Lynne Ozer, [redacted] by April 15, 1981.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-12-&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;There will also be a session tentatively titled "New Ways of Reading: Critical Feminist Approaches to Specific Primary Texts." Our purpose is to contribute to a cultural history of femininity by developing new critical tools of textual analysis. There will be three separate workshops, each to focus on one pre­selected primary text from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a large plenary session for the presentation and discussion of theoretical perspectives.&lt;br /&gt;More specific information about texts will be printed in the next newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, if you have suggestions or inquiries, write to: Susan Cocalis (18th c.), Department of German, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA; Biddy Martin (late 19th c.), Department of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53703; Karen Jankowsky (20th c.), Department of German, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: SEND SUGGESTIONS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The WiG steering committee thinks it would be useful to include an annual bibliography in the spring issue of the WiG newsletter. The bibliography will contain primary works of women’s writing and secondary works on feminist theory and scholarship. It could also include journals where we might publish and any other publications interesting for WiG members. It would concentrate on German writing, but other important works (particularly from American feminist) could also be included. The bibliography will consist mostly of your suggestions—so it's important to hear from you about what should be in it. It would be most helpful if you could also include &lt;i&gt;a&lt;/i&gt; sentence or two of annotation telling us what the work is about and why it is important to us. Sara Lennox will be compiling the bibliog­raphy for the steering committee. Please send your suggestions for the bibliography to her at the German Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;WOMEN EDUCATOR'S announces the Fourth Annual "Research on Women in Education" Award, to be presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting in Los Angeles, April 13-17, 1981. Published or unpublished research reports in journal article format on any aspect of women in education are eligible if con­ducted or written up during 1979-80. The deadline for entries is 15 December 1980. Send five (5) copies of the entry (on four of which the author is not identified) and five (5) copies of a 200-250 word abstract of the entry to: Charol Shakeshaft, Coordinator Elect, WOMEN EDUCATOR’S, School of Education, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11550.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WOMEN EDUCATOR'S announces the Second Annual "Curriculum Materials" Award, to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Associa­tion in Los Angeles, April 13-17, 1981. Please send one copy of materials relating to women that have been developed for use in educational settings to: Janet E. Kuenne, Ed.D. , Curriculum Award Chair, WOMEN EDUCATOR’S, [redacted]. Include a one-page description of how the materials relate to sexism, sex-role stereotyping, and the image of women and girls. The deadline for entries is December 15, 1980.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-13-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Heading30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BOOKS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kurt Schleucher, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Das Leben der Amalia Schoppe und Johanna Schopenhauer&lt;/span&gt;, Darmstadt: Turris-Verlag, 1978.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Das Werk ist aus mehreren Gründen von Interesse. Es liefert ein gutes Bild des deutschen "Literaturbetriebes" aus der Sicht des Talents einer Frau in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Amalia Schoppe wird sonst nur im Zusammenhang mit der Hebbelforschung beachtet und dieser Autor versucht ihr ihres eigenen Wertes wegen gerecht zu werden, arbeitet also lange Vernachlässigtes auf. Zudem bringt das Buch Schoppes ausführliche Berichte Uber Amerika im allgemeinen und das geistige Klima des Union College in Schenectady, NY, im besonderen. Das Buch ist sorgfältig rescherschiert, mit Engagement geschrieben und liest sich mit Nutzen und Genuss.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Im Anhang befindet sich ein fiktives Gespräch zwischen Schoppe und Schopenhauer in denen beide ihre persönliche, literarische und politische Haltung als Frauen aus der Rückschau kommentieren. Ausserdem befindet sich hier die Liste von Schoppes Büchern, eine vielseitige Bibliographie, Personen-und Ortsregister sowie Nachweis der Abbildungen. Das Buch umfasst 526 Seiten, Ganzleinen, DM 29,50. (Irmgard C. Taylor)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Englisch Amerikanische Studien, Zeitschrift für Unterricht, Wissenschaft und Politik. Heft 2, Juni 1980, Verlag Pahl Rugenstein, Köln, Einzelheftpreis 9, DM.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Women’s studies" gibt es im anglo-amerikanischen Raum schon sehr viel länger als bei uns, und zwar außerhalb wie innerhalb der Universitätseinrichtungen. Man spricht dort bereits von einer "feministischen Bildungsbewegung", die sich ent­scheidend auf den weiblichen LebensZusammenhang bezieht, sich an den Kämpfen der Frauenbewegung praktisch orientiert und zum Ziel hat, die Fraueninteressen verpflichteten Problemstellungen innerhalb der Wissenschaft aufzuarbeiten.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Zeitschrift für "Englisch Amerikanische Studien" hat jetzt "Women’s studies zum Themenschwerpunkt eines Heftes gemacht. Mit Gewinn, meine ich, zumal ein direkter Bezug zu vielen—noch vereinzelt und ohne Kontinuität—stattfindenden Frauenseminaren hierzulande besteht, die oft als "unwissenschaftlich" abqualifiziert werden. Die Herausgeber des Heftes wundert das nicht, denn: "stellen sie (die Frauenstudien) die männlich dominierten Wissenschaften und Methoden doch nicht nur grundsätzlich in Frage, sondern zwingen diese auch dadurch zum Offenbarungseid, indem sie eigene Erkenntnisinteressen und -ziele verfolgen, die dem »auBerwissen­schaftlichen’ Kampf gegen die Unterdrückung und Diskriminierung von Frauen verpflichtet sind."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ging es im vergangenen Jahrhundert darum, Frauen den Zugang zur Bildung unbeschränkt zu öffnen, so geht es heute um die Veränderung des Bildungssystems selbst. Ursachen und Entstehung der feministischen Bildungsbewegung sind vielfältig als Teil der Frauenbewegung enstand sie ab 1969 in den USA. Entscheidende Impulse erhielt sie aus der Anti-Vietnam-, Bürgerrechts- und Studentenbewegung. Das Bildungsmonopol der Professoren wurde—ähnlich wie bei der "Black-studies Bewegung"- kritisiert und parteilose Wissenschaft gefordert. "Women’s studies" bieten neben einem kompletten Kursprogramm auch praktische Hilfen, z. B. Kurse, um den Anschluß bzw. WiederanschluB an die Berufswelt zu finden oder Fortbildungskurse für Lehre­rinnen, die sich der rollenspezifischen Inhalte ihrer Unterrichtsmaterialien bewußter werden wollen. (cont’d)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-14-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Darüber hinaus enthält das Heft u. a. informative Aufsätze Uber Sexismus in der englischen Sprache und die englische Arbeiterinnenbewegung. Referendarinnen und Lehrerinnen berichten von ihren Identitässchwierigkeiten in der Institution Schule.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Recht auf eigenen Lebensraum klarerer Sprache und Ansätzen weiblicher Ästhetik verdeutlicht ein Artikel über Lyrik von Frauen aus den USA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Die Zeitschrift "Englisch Amerikanische Studien" will ihre Beiträge zu diesem Thema fortsetzen. (Dorlies Pollmann, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche Volkszeitung&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OF INTEREST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Frauen-schaffen-Wissen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vom 16. bis 18.4.80 fand in Berlin eine Konferenz der Planungsgruppe für einen Frauenstudien-und Forschungsbereich statt. Diese Planungsgruppe war auf Druck der Frauenbewegung eingerichtet worden. Sie sollte erforschen, welche Bedürfnisse die Frauen und Dozentinnen an der FU nach Frauenstudien haben und einen Plan dazu erstellen. Die Planungsgruppe ist auf 2 Jahre begrenzt worden. Sie soll allerdings durch ein fest eingerichtetes Sekretariat eine Art Koordinations­stelle, abgelöst werden. Am Ende dieser Planungsphase wurde von den Mitarbeiterinnen diese internationale Konferenz veranstaltet, mit der Motivation internationale Ziele, Inhalte und die Institutionalisierung von Frauenstudien und Frauenforschung kennenzulernen. Vertreterinnen der Wissenschaftsfrauen waren aus den USA, aus Italien, Frankreigh, Schweden, Holland und England anwesend. Während der drei Tage der Konferenz wurde inaltlich mit ca. 250 bis 300 Frauen diskutiert. Die Erwartungen der Planungsfrauen Uber einen internationalen Austausch und neue Aspekte wurden erfüllt. Die 23 Projektanträge, die aus der Arbeit der Planerinnen beantragt wurden, haben allerdings nur für 5 Projekte von Herrn Lämmert eine mündliche Zusage bekommen. (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Die Tageszeitung)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Women in the FRG Election Results&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nach dem bisher vorliegenden Ergebnis der Bundestagswahl werden dem 9. Bundestag 44 Frauen angehören. Bei einer Gesamtzahl von 519 Abgeordneten beträgt ihr Anteil 8,48 Prozent. Der SPD gehören 19 Frauen an, der CDU/CSU 18, der FDP 7.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Damit hat sich der Anteil der Frauen im Bundestag gegenüber der achten Legislaturperiode (7,5 Prozent) etwas erhöht. Zieht man jedoch einen Vergleich mit weiter zurückliegenden Legislaturperioden, ist ein Rückschritt zu verzeichnen: Vor zwanzig Jahren, in der Zeit von 1957 bis 1961 (3. Legislaturperiode), stellten Frauen 9,2 Prozent der Bundestagsabgeordneten. (&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Deutsche Volkszeitung)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Die Frauensommeruni 1980&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;10,000 women from the Federal Republic came together for the 5th Annual Women’s Summer University in Westberlin in early October. The summer university has become the largest discussion forum for the westgerman autonomous women’s&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-15-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;movement, where women from many areas of activity exchange information and experiences, as well as develop theories and strategies for change. They have, moreover, nearly a week to get to know one another and build ties of friendship and solidarity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This year’s overall theme, "die Erwerbstätigkeit der Frau," was addressed by diverse and differentiated perspectives and points of focus. Women could choose to participate in over 130 discussion sessions examining the daily life and activity of women: topics for presentation and discussion included women’s labor in the household and sphere of reproduction; forms of sexism; identity crises; the area of sexuality; ideologies of &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Weiblichkeit&lt;/span&gt;; concerns of Lesbians; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Frauenforschung&lt;/span&gt;; problems in the FRG educational system; securing of peace and disarmament; repression and resistance of women in Chile and South Africa. In addition, women attended media/film showings and workshops on culture and literature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The women’s university concluded with suggestions to initiate complementary forums in cities in the FRG.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading40"&gt;Margot Schroeder:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Bundespräsident Karl Carstens hätte gern mehr Ehrenpatenkinder. Sie seien zu einer Seltenheit geworden, beklagt er sich. Warum?&lt;br /&gt;Weil eine Ehrenpatenschaft erst ab dem siebten Kind für einen Bundespräsidenten in Frage kommt. Die Familien nutzen ihre kleinen Wohnungen für eine große Kinderschar nicht genügend aus. Sie wollen unverschämterweise gemütlich wohnen. Bei der Kinderfreund­lichkeit in der Bundesrepublik ist es in der Tat erstaunlich, daß sich immer mehr Frauen weigern, Kinder in diese wunderschöne Umwelt zu setzen. Jedes siebte Kind und darüber hinaus könnte mit dem Bundespräsidenten Wandern gehen und die (interessant gebauten Atomkraftwerke bewundern oder in verseuchten Feldern buddeln. Vielleicht wäre Karl Carstens auch bereit, kinderreiche Familien In seine Bonner Villa aufzunehmen. Es soll ja bekanntlich Hauswirte geben, die sogar eine Familie mit nur einem Kind ablehnen. Kinder sind zwar nicht so laut wie Autos, aber sie lachen noch viel zu oft Das Lachen wird ihnen dann allerdings in den Schulen ausgetrieben.&lt;br /&gt;An Lehrern und Schulen wird gespart, aber wenn jede dritte Familie sieben und mehr Kinder hätte, wäre der Klassenkontakt natürlich viel hautnaher: Jeweils ein Kind müßte ein anderes auf den Schoß nehmen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Ich frage mich, ob der Bundespräsident uns Frauen auf den Arm nehmen will. Außerdem verstehe ich seine Klage sowieso nicht ganz. War er nie in Berlin-Kreuzberg oder in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg etc.? &lt;br /&gt;Es gibt sehr viele kinderreiche Ausländerfamilien. Warum übernimmt er nicht eine Ehrenpatenschaft für diese gesellschaftlich extrem vernachlässigten Kinder?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Sie muß wohl bundesdeutsch sein, seine sehnsüchtig gewünschte Kinderschar. Bundesdeutsch für die Bundeswehr, bundesdeutsch als Garantie für den fleißigen, pünktlichen, ordentlichen Arbeiter. Bun­desdeutsch als züchtige Hausfrau mit eingepferchtem, geflochtenem Haar und leidenschaftlichem Gebärtrieb.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Familien, die auf diese ehrwürdige Art das Volk ohne Raum oder in einer modernen Version das Volk ohne öl vermehren, werden vom Bundespräsidenten königlich belohnt. Sie erhalten neben einer Eh­renurkunde für ihren attraktiven Leistungssport einen einmaligen Be­trag von 200 Mark. Nicht einmal die Finanzierung für die sieben Regale, in denen der Nachwuchs dann gestapelt werden könnte, ist damit möglich.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext30"&gt;Aber ich glaube, darum geht es dem Bundespräsidenten auch gar nicht. Er möchte möglichst vielen Ehrenpatenkindern über die Köpfe streicheln können. Das macht sich einfach gut für den Vater der Nation und für das Vaterland: liebe, kleine Wandervögel, die so spielend das Marschieren lernen&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;(Deutsche Volkszeltung)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Heading40"&gt;Christa Wolf:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Die Sprache der Literatur scheint es merkwürdigerweise zu sein, die der Wirklichkeit des Menschen heute am nächsten kommt; die den Menschen am besten kennt, wie immer Statistiken, Zahlenspiegel, Normierungs- und Leistungstabel­len dagegen angehn mögen. Viel­leicht weil immer moralischer Mut des Autors — der zur Selbster­kenntnis — in Literatur eingeht Vielleicht, weil Übereinkünfte in ihr festgeschrieben sind, die — mühselig genug, gefährdet genug und immer wieder verletzt — doch über die Jahrhunderte hin jenes Gewebe schufen, das wir „Gesit­tung“ nennen. Unser Befremden vor diesem überholten Wort mag uns bewußt machen, wie bedroht der Bestand dessen ist, wofür es steht. Und doch hat dieses Wort, anders als die Termini von Politik und Wissenschaft, einen Hof, eine Aura, so wie die zufällig in mir auftauchenden Wörter „Frieden“, „Mond", „Stadt", „Wiese“. „Leben“, „Tod“. Wollen wir sie wirklich fal­len lassen? An ihrer Stelle die Be­griffe „nukleares Patt“, „Erdsatel­lit“, „Siedlungsgroßraum“. „Grün­land“, „Bewegungsform der Mate­rie“ und „Exitus" setzen?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Die Naturwissenschaftler haben Ihre Erfindungen mit Hilfe einer Spezialsprache vor ihren eigenen Gefühlen ln Sicherheit gebracht; schelnloglsche Sprachkonstruktio­nen stützen die fixe Idee von Poli­tikern, die Rettung der Menschheit liege In der Möglichkeit, sie mehr­fach zu vernichten.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Literatur heute muß Friedensfor­schung sein. Es schreibt sich nicht leichter, seit wir wissen, daß unsere beiden Länder, die einmal „Deutschland“ hießen und diesen Namen verwirk­ten, als sie ihn durch Auschwitz verdarben — daß das Land zu bei­den Seiten der Elbe im Fall der „atomaren Auseinandersetzung“ als eines der ersten ausgelöscht sein würde. Es wird wohl schon Landkarten geben, welche die Pha­sen dieser Auslöschung aufgezeich­net haben. Kassandra, denke ich mir, muß Troja mehr geliebt haben als sich selbst, als sie es wagte, ih­ren Landsleuten den Untergang ih­rer Stadt zu prophezeien. Sind vielleicht, frage ich mich, tiiese beiden Länder von ihren Bewoh­nern nicht genug geliebt worden und neigen dazu — wie ein Mensch, der nicht geliebt wurde und daher nicht lieben kann —, sich und andere zu zerstören? Dies frage ich, um mir heftig zu wider­sprechen, und als Beweis des Ge­genteils nehme ich, wie absurd es scheinen mag, die Literatur. Es ge­nügte nicht, ich weiß es, hätte ein Volk Heimat nur in seiner Litera­tur. Und doch, schlage ich vor — wie die Lage ist, sollte jeder, auch der abwegigste Vorschlag erlaubt sein —: Soll doch jener Todeskarte die Literatur ihre eigne Karte ent­gegenhalten dürfen. Soll, was sie an Ort- und Landschaften, an menschlichen Zusammenhängen ge­nau, gerecht und parteiisch, schmerzvoll, kritisch, hingebungs­voll, angstvoll und freudig, iro­nisch, aufsässig und liebend be­schrieb, von jener Todeskarte ge­tilgt werden und für gerettet gel­ten. Soll endlich einmal die Litera­tur der Deutschen nicht folgenlos bleiben; soll, was in den beiden deutschen Staaten die Literatur über drei Jahrzehnte lang an Trauer- und Freudenarbeit gelei­stet, soll die „Wahrheit des Dies­seits“, der sie sich gestellt hat, doch einmal zu Buche schlagen und den beiden Ländern zugute kommen. Soll Literatur endlich einmal, dieses eine Mal, beim Wort genommen und herangezogen wer­den, um sichern zu helfen den Be­stand des Irdischen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Heller Wahnsinn, sagen Sie. Nun gut. So fehlt mir — in der Sprache der Psychiatrie — die Krankheits­einsicht, und ich gebe mich diesem hellen Wahnsinn hin, um nicht der finsteren Seite der Vernunft an­heimzufallen. Vielleicht mag es wirklich einem Generalstab schwe­rer werden, über einer Stadt das Kreuz zu machen, die innig und genau beschrieben wurde, als über einer, die keiner kennt. Die nie­mandem so nahe ging, daß er sie an seine Kindheitsstadt, als Stätte seiner Demütigung oder seiner er­sten Liebe beschreiben mußte.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Nun lächeln Sie über meine Nai­vität. Über meine Unvernunft. Er schien &lt;i&gt;ganz vernünftig, sprach mit den Leuten,&lt;/i&gt; hieß es bei Büchner über Lenz. Er &lt;i&gt;tat alles, wie es die anderen taten; es war aber eine entsetzliche Leere in ihm, er fühlte keine Angst mehr, kein Verlangen, sein Dasein war ihm eine notwen­dige Last.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Auch ln jenem Land jenseits des Glaubens, gerade dort, wird, wenn auch leise, gesprochen werden. Ein Gespräch über Bäume, über Was­ser Erde Himmel Mensch — ein Versuch, der mir realistischer vor­kommt als die strikt wahnwitzige Spekulation auf den Weltunter­gang. Nachdem die Wahrheit, die das Wort „verkehrt“ enthält, nach allen Seiten hin untersucht wäre, würden wohl andere Worte auftauchen, die wir nicht prahle­risch, sondern behutsam in den Mund nehmen wollten. Wüßten wir doch: Keines von ihnen, auch das redlichste nicht, wäre das letz­te Wort. Hofften: Keines wäre das &lt;i&gt;letzte&lt;/i&gt; Wort.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext20"&gt;Auch diese Haut wird abgezogen werden und ln Fetzen gehn.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="Bodytext40"&gt;Am 18. Oktober erhielt die In der DDR lebende Schriftstellerin Christa Wolf den Georg-Büchner-Prels 1980 der Darmstädter Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. - Wir veröffentlichen den letzten Absatz Ihrer Rede.&lt;/p&gt;
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