2006-2007 listserv discussion digest
October 10th, 2007 Posted in Email Discussions, History, Member NewsThe 2006-2007 WITH listserv discussions are available as digests, listed below.
Molly Berger reports that: “What I have done is created a document with an index of original posts and then copied the entire discussion on separate documents. I started to do this because Arwen’s post generated such a good list of resources on post-WWII home ec education, it seemed a waste not to have it accessible in some way.”
Thanks to Molly for this resource!
Arwen Mohun posted a request on behalf of a graduate student for leads to secondary literature on post-WWII home economics education. Literature in this area seems to focus on pre-1940. To get PDF of this WITH listserv discusssion and a record of personal reminiscences, click here.Christine Ehrick, currently researching women/gender and radio in Latin America (roughly 1930-1950), asked for sources other than Kate Lacey, Michelle Hilmes, Susan Ware as well as literature on gender and technology that might specifically address early and golden age radio. To get PDF of this WITH listserv discusssion, click here.
Bayla Singer posted a query about a story she had come across concerning Moses and the Golden Calf in Chinese lore. Bayla recounted a Chinese narrative of the story of Moses and the golden calf in “Calicut” [then a “country” in India] by someone who thought it had occurred in Calicut itself, “explaining” the local reverence for cows. Bayla asked why this would have been presented as a local tradition. To get PDF of this WITH listserv discusssion, click here.
Rachel Maines alerted the list to the July 28, 2007 premier of Passion and Power, a documentary based on her book, Technology of Orgasm, at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The film’s website is: http://www.technologyoforgasm.com/index.asp. You can pre-order the DVD at a discount price at the website. The 9:15 screening at the Reade Theater at Lincoln Center was sold out by 5pm. Ruth Cowan attended. To get PDF of this WITH listserv discusssion, click here.
Rachel Maines posted about her piece in the Review section in Chronicle, (May 25, 2007) about how women are stampeding into veterinary medicine and not into engineering and physics. To get PDF of this WITH listserv discusssion, click here.
Daryl Hafter wrote about the Supreme Court’s latest decision re: discrimination in the workplace and asking WITHIES to mobilize. To get PDF of this WITH listserv discusssion, click here.
Ruth Cowan deplored the job description for visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M that paid $36,000 plus benefits. To get PDF of this WITH listserv discusssion, click here.
Martha Trescott wondered whether other countries than the U. S. have any extensive history of quiltmaking. If, in fact, as some have suggested, American quilts are integrally tied to slavery (and, of course, cotton) maybe not. Maybe quilts are mostly an American innovation? To get PDF of this WITH listserv discusssion, click here.
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