Wednesday 11 June 2008

FEMSPEC VOLUME 8 CONTENTS

BATYA WEINBAUM. Editorial Remarks.
Getting the Mad People Out of My Attic: Not an Advertisement for Myself.
Batya Weinbaum introduces this special issue on tenure, promotion and women in academia.


WORK SECTION. DISCRIMINATION REVISITED

MEMOIR & NON-FICTION NARRATIVE

TINA ANDRES. Growing Thick Skin.
Tina Andres reflects on her life experiences within academic and engineering culture.

HELEN BANNAN. Derailed but Not Defeated.
Helen Bannan writes about the long road to tenure which began in interdisciplinary social science program in 1969.

JANE DAVIS. The Value of Stupidity: Negative Values in Academia.
Jane Davis documents her experiences in academia and tries to understand why racist behaviour is still tolerated within North American Universities.

LINDA HOLLAND-TOLL. What to Do When You Are Stuck at Toxic U: Strategies for Avoidance, Sabotage, and Survival.
Linda Holland-Toll offers ten rules to other academics "to help you avoid digging your own pit and tumbling into it."

RUTH PANOFSKY. Professor/Mother: The Unhappy Partnership.
Ruth Panofsky writes about the paradoxes and problems encountered by academic women who are also mothers.

BATYA WEINBAUM. Memoirs of an Academic Career
Batya Weinbaum reflects on How Buddhism and the act of going on retreat has helped her the many problems she has faced in her academic career.

CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS:

PAT ORTMAN. Don’t Tread on Me: Painting My Way Through.
Pat Ortman talks about how loosing tenure helped her re-discover her love for painting.

BATYA WEINBAUM. Waiting for Justice: Scene for TV.
A short drama about a legal gender discrimination case.

GINA WISKER. New Blood.
A cautionary tale about applying for 'New Blood' appointments in England.

GENERAL QUEUE

ESSAY:

GERALDINE WOJNA KIEFER. Overlays, Matrices, and Boundaries: A “Mixed-Media” Approach in Pedagogy and Art.
Geraldine Wojna Kiefer's essay maps out her methods for linking teaching and creativity in her drawing and art history classes.

FICTION:

K.A. LAITY. Eating the Dream.
A hungry visitor tours America in a rusty Honda Civic.

POETRY:

LOUISE MOORE. Joan of Arc, Circe, Cassandra, The Annunciation Angel.
4 poems by Louise Moore.

REVIEWS:

ARDYS DELU. Review of Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975 Edited by Barabara J Love.
ARDYS DELU. Review of Daughters of the Great Star by Diana Rivers
ARDYS DELU. Review of the Code Pink Women for Peace fund-raiser.
ARDYS DELU. Review of The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding): A short novel by L Timmel Duchamp.
ARDYS DELU. Review of On We, Robots by Sue Lange.
RITCH CALVIN. Review of Naomi Mitchison: A Profile of Her Life and Work by Lesley A Hall.
LYNN REED. Review of Becoming the Villanness by Jeannine Hall Gailey.
BATYA WEINBAUM. Review of Fissures directed by Alante Alfandari.
GERARDO CUMMINGS. Review of Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist
Thought by Patricia Melzer.

JAMES D. BROWN. Review of Paprika directed by Satoshi Kon
DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA. Review of The Secret DVD

SPEECHES:

GLORIA ORENSTEIN. Gertrude Stein as Mentor and Passing the Flame.

MEMORIAL:

ARDYS DELU. Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007)

BOOKS AND MEDIA RECEIVED

15 titles of interest.

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