Please Forward THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Presents WHICH WAY FOR WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT? DEBATING CONCEPTS, STRATEGIES, AND DIRECTIONS IN THE 21st CENTURY To Be Held At The Borough of Manhattan Community College 199 Chambers Street October 15-17, 1998 **** For Complete Information, visit our WWW Page at **** http://www.geocities.com/athens/7364/Women_and_Development.html Our conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from around the world and working in divergent disciplines, including Women and Development experts, ecofeminists, postmodern and postcolonial feminist theorists and others, to address some of the recent debates over the goals, means, and theoretical frameworks informing the field of Women and Development. We will open with an evening plenary and continue for two more days of three panels each. The panels will cut across orientations, disciplines, and professions to provide the basis for an unprecedented interchange among scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to discuss some of the current challenges to the field -- intellectual, political, economic and ecological. Keynote Addresses by: ** Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Department of English, Columbia University ** Irene Tinker, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley Panels Include: ** Re-Inventing Aid: International Agencies and the "Woman Question" in Development ** Locating Women/Locating Work: Emerging Capitalisms and the Gendered/Racial Division of Labor ** More Worldly Feminisms: Feminist Theories and the Politics of Location ** Stories from the Field: Theorizing Action/Acting on Theory ** Techno-Science Questions in Development: Intersections of Gender, Science, Media and Environment ** Can the Subaltern Desire? For the complete Conference Program, please visit http://www.geocities.com/athens/7364/program.html Participants Include: Lila Abu-Lughod, Rogaia Mustafa Abu Sharaf, Norma Alarcon, Peggy Antrobus, Tani Barlow, Eudine Barriteau, Linda Basch, Lourdes Beneria, Barbara Bowen, Patricia Clough, Jennifer Leigh Disney, Hester Eisenstein, Patience Elabor-Idemudia, Cynthia Enloe, Kimberly Flynn, Irene Gendzier, Noeleen Heyzer, Mitu Hirshman, Marnia Lazreg, Yvonne Lasalle, Marianne Marchand, Carmen Medeiros, Joan Mencher, Caroline Moser, Meera Nanda, Achola O. Pala, Jane Parpart, Shirin Rai, Kriemild Saunders, Vandana Shiva, Ella Shohat, Sinith Sittirak, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Noel Sturgeon, Irene Tinker, Dessima Williams, Ara Wilson and Brigitte Young. Sponsored By: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, CUNY; The Office of the President, The Office of the Provost, The Center for the Study of Women and Society, and The Center for Cultural Studies, the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York; Racolin Foundation; Diversity Initiative of the Program in Applied Sociology, Queens College; Sawhney Travels; The Tribeca Performing Arts Center; The Film Studies Certificate Program and Ph.D. Programs in Anthropology, English, History, Political Science and Sociology of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York; The National Council for Research on Women; The International Women's Tribune Center. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 10 14:51:10 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 08:51:00 +1200 (NZS) 11 Aug 1998 08:50:44 +1200 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 08:50:03 +1200 From: "STEFANIE S. RIXECKER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: (Fwd) Reviews posted to the web, August 1-7 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FYI...Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 15:53:03 -0400 From: H-Net Review Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friends: The following reviews have been posted to the web during the following week. Reviewed for EH.Net by Masao Suzuki Elliott Robert Barkan. _And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s_. American History Series. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1996. xxxviii + 262 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical essay, and index. $12.95 (paper), ISBN 0-88295-928-X. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18191902430535 Reviewed for H-Ethnic by Bill Mullen Bennett M. Berger. _An Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure_. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiii + 192 pp. Bibliography and index. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-20016-0; $15.00 (paper), ISBN 0-520-20017-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21596902438204 Reviewed for H-SAWH by Janey Dudney Carol Bleser, ed. _Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South_. Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xxxiv + 403 pp. Notes, reproductions of Bryan family portraits, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8203-1727-6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4584902261885 Reviewed for H-Pol by Anthony Gene Carey Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats. _Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America_. Reconfiguring American Political History Series. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xvii + 407 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-4950-0; $15.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8018-5946-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4993902515272 Reviewed for H-Pol by Michael B. Chesson Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats. _Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America_. Reconfiguring American Political History Series. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xvii + 407 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-4950-0; $15.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8018-5946-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=2222902508604 Reviewed for H-Pol by Michael A. Morrison Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats. _Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America_. Reconfiguring American Political History Series. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xvii + 407 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-4950-0; $15.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8018-5946-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20963902436523 Reviewed for H-Law by Keith E. Whittington Bette Novit Evans. _Interpreting the Free Exercise of Religion: The Constitution and American Pluralism_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 294 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2399-6; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4674-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25930902341117 Reviewed for H-Law by William P. LaPiana Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry. _Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law_. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 195 pp. Bibliographic references, notes, and index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-510717-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25935902341120 Reviewed for H-SAWH by Jeanette Keith Christie Anne Farnham, ed. _Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader_. New York: New York University Press, 1998. x + 319 pp. Notes and index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8147-2654-2; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8147-2654-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10539902170647 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Wilfried Enderle Holger Thomas Graef, ed. _Kleine Staedte im neuzeitlichen Europa_. (Innovationen. Bibliothek zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte, Bd. 6). Berlin: Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, 1997. 272 S. Illustr. u. 6 graph. DM 48,00 (Taschenbuch), ISBN 3-87061-669-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24437902236118 Reviewed for H-Law by Elisabeth Cawthon John Hudson. _The Formation of the English Common Law: Law and Society in England from the Norman Conquest to Magna Carta_. The Medieval World Series. London: Longman, 1996. xvi + 271 pp. Glossary, note on sources, annotated bibliography, and index. $18.50 (paper), ISBN 0-582-07026-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25924902341112 Reviewed for H-Review by Harry A. Reed Ben Keppel. _The Work of Democracy: Ralph Bunche, Kenneth B. Clark, Lorraine Hansberry, and the Cultural Politics of Race_. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. 314 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $37.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-95843-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=1487902506688 Reviewed for H-Urban by Conrad Edick Wright Cathy Matson. _Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York_. Early America: History, Context, Culture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. x + 458 pp. Tables, maps, notes, essay on sources, and index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-5602-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4988902515268 Reviewed for H-Pol by John M. Allswang Thomas H. O'Connor. _The Boston Irish: A Political History_. Reissued in 1997 by Little, Brown and Company in paper. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995. xix + 363 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-555-53220-9; $14.95 (paper), ISBN 0-316-62661-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10548902170652 Reviewed for HABSBURG by Daniel Unowsky George V. Strong. _Seedtime for Fascism: The Disintegration of Austrian Political Culture, 1867-1918_. Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. x + 197 pp. Map, bibliography, and index. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7656-0189-3; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7656-0180-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18186902430532 Reviewed for H-Urban by Gilbert Stelter Keith Walden. _Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture_. Themes in Canadian Social History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xx + 430 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8020-0885-2; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8020-7870-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4983902515265 Reviewed for H-CivWar by Virginia J. Laas Marli F. Weiner. _Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80_. Women in American History Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xii + 308 pp. Introduction, notes, and index. $45.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02322-6; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-252-06623-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10557902170655 ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 56 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
