From: kowan@ai.mit.edu (Rich Cowan)
Subject: Feminist & Anti-Violence Resources (autopost)
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:30:05 GMT

[The following resource section is reprinted from the Sept. 1992 issue 
of War Research Info Service, a quarterly newsletter for campus 
peace activists (Copyright 1992, University Conversion Project).  The 
theme of this special issue (Volume 2, #1) is RMasculinity and War/ 
Feminism and Non-Violence.S    For a sample issue, please send $3 to 
University Conversion Project, Box 748, Cambridge, MA  02142.  To 
subscribe, please send $25/yr.  Or call (617)  354-9363 for more 
information.]

Organizing Resources, Part 1

	In keeping with the theme of this packet, this section includes 
resources that examine violence against women, the new menUs 
movement, feminist perspectives on nonviolence, and sexism on 
campus.  We compiled these resources from our own library as well 
as from the libraries of feminist groups across the country.  We were 
pleased to discover that the women's peace movement has generated 
such a large and thoughtful body of literature for us to draw from.  
We have attempted to include resources that offer innovative 
insights and concrete suggestions for action. 
	There is often an assumption that men in the peace movement 
are somehow different from other men and therefore exempt from 
oppressive behavior and sexism.  Unfortunately this is not always 
the case.  Many female activists have encountered problems with 
male dominance.  The nonviolent philosophies that guide many 
groups can be considered sexist because they fail to treat womenUs 
oppression as seriously as other social problems.  Theories of 
pacifism that fail to address the very real and destructive effects of 
socially sanctioned violence against women are deficient.  We have 
therefore included resources that offer philosophical and procedural 
measures to confront sexism within our own ranks.
	We have paid special attention to manifestations of sexism on 
campus.  We have included literature that deals with fraternity and 
date rape, the barriers that confront female professors, and the 
absence of women from historical texts. 
	It is our hope that this section will help raise awareness about 
the misogyny that still exists in American culture, expose the 
common roots of sexism and militarism, and make our actions more 
effective and unifying.    -Erin Bush


WomenUs Peace Organizations
Women Against Intervention/War Q 3411 W. Diversey St., Chicago, 
IL, 60647.
Women Against Military Madness Q 3255 Hennepin Ave. S. #125, 
Minneapolis, MN, 55408, (612) 827-5364.  Regional womenUs peace 
organization. 
Women's Action for New Directions Q P.O. Box B, Arlington, MA  
02174, (617) 643-6740. Committed to acting to stop the spread of 
weapons of mass destruction, clean up the military's toxic waste, 
convert from a military to a civilian-based economy, and increase 
women's political leadership.
Women's Encampment for Peace & Justice Q 5440 Route 96, , 
Romulus, NY, 14511, (607) 867-5825.
Women Strike For Peace Q 110 Maryland Ave. NE  #302, Washington, 
DC, 20002, (202) 543-2660.
WomenUs Int'l League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Q 1213 Race 
St, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, (215) 563-7110.

Anti-Sexism
National Organization for Women (NOW) Q 1000 16th Street, NW, 
Washington, DC  20036, (202) 331-0066.  Look in the phone book to 
get the number and address of the chapter closest to you.
National Organization of Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) Q 798 Penn. 
Ave., Box 5, Pittsburgh, PA  15221, (412) 371-8007.  National 
Network for Men fighting to end sexism and violence against women.
Women's Action Coalition (WAC) Q  (212) 967-7711 x9226.  Direct 
action group similar to ACT UP which started in New York City in 
1992, attracting over 500 people to its meetings.  Chapters have 
already formed in DC, Chicago, Boston, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, 
and Paris!
Women's Legal Defense Fund Q (202) 986-2000.  Involved in sex 
discrimination law suits, including tenure.
Health
Boston Women's Health Collective Q 240A Elm St., Somerville, MA, 
02144, (617) 625-0271.
Feminist Majority Fund Q 675 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA.  
02139, (617) 864-0130.  Works for womenUs equality and health 
(esp. breast cancer).
Feminist Women's Health Center Q 505 W. Georgia St., Tallahassee, 
FL, 32301, (904) 224-9600.
WHAM! (Women's Health Action & Mobilization) Q PO Box 733, New 
York, NY  10009, (212) 713-5966. Defends clinics; organizes 
discussions, direct action, and self-help groups.

Academic Networks
American Association of University Women Q 1111 16th St. , NW, 
Washington, DC,  20036, (202) 785-7700.
Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Q 1522 K St., NW, 
Washington, DC  20005, (202) 408-0742.  
National Women's Studies Association Q  University of Maryland, 
College Park, MD, 20742-1325, (301) 405-5573.
Students Organizing Students Q 1600 Broadway, Suite 404, New York, 
NY 10019, (212) 977-6710. Organizes students for legal abortion, gay 
and minorsU rights, and child care.

Anti-Rape and Battering
Nat. Coali. Against Domestic Violence Q (202) 683-6388.
National Org. for Victim Assistance (NOVA) Q  1757 Park Rd., NW, 
Washington, DC, 20010. (202) 232-NOVA.
National Women Abuse Prevention Project Q (202) 857-0216. 
Resource for information on college dating violence. 
University of Wisconsin Student Governments Q (608) 263-3422 
(Jennifer Smith,) Mounted a successful campaign for a state law 
requiring that new student orientations include information on 
sexual assault and campus crime statistics.

Bibliographic References

Anti-Sexist Publications
Changing Men Q 306 North Brooks St., Madison, WI  53715, (608) 
256-2565.   Focuses on menUs anti-sexism work, including 
suggestions for workshops on rape awareness for men.
Challenging Media Images of Women Q P.O. Box 902, Framingham, 
MA 01701.  Feminist monitor of the media including advertising; free 
sample copy available.
Feminist Teacher Q Ballantine 442, Indiana University, Bloomington, 
IN  47405, (319) 855-5597.  Emphasis on alternative tools for the 
classroom.
Listen Real Loud Q AFSC Global Women's Project, 1501 Cherry St., 
Philadelphia, PA, 19102, (215) 241-7000.  Focus on struggles of 
women internationally.
New Directions for Women Q 108 W. Palisade Ave., Englewood, NJ  
07631, (201) 586-0226.
Off Our Backs Q 2423 12th St., NE, Washington, DC  20009, (202) 234-
8072.  Political, lesbian-oriented monthly newspaper, with more 
poetry and graphics.
On the Issues Q PO Box 3000, Denville, NJ  07834.  Radical feminist 
analysis.
Signs Q University of Chicago Press, 5720 S. Woodlawn  Ave., Chicago, 
IL  60637, (312) 702-7700. Women's Studies journal.
Sojourner, 42 Seaverns Ave., Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130, (617) 524-
0415.  Feminist monthly newspaper, which originated 20 years ago 
in Cambridge, MA.
Women of Power Q PO Box  2785, Orleans, MA  02653, (508) 240-
7877.  Quarterly of "feminism, spirituality and politics."


Articles
[Note: Some of the articles listed in this section can be found in the 
War Resisters League packet on feminism and militarism.  This is an 
excellent resource; we recommend it to anyone interested in further 
exploring this topic  It can be obtained through Ruth Benn at WRL, 
339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY  10012,  (212) 228-0450.]

Sexual Harassment
[]	Barriers to Equality.  Report of Women in Computer Science at  
MIT.  February, 1983.  Documentation of sexual harassment and 
discrimination against female graduate students in the Area of 
Computer Science at MIT.  The report gives a good sense of the 
difficulties that women in a technical field experience and concludes 
with suggestions to men on how to modify their behavior. 
[]	Organizer's Packet for Actions for Compassion: Stop the War 
Against Women Campaign. (1991). Available for $10.00 through the 
Fellowship of Reconciliation, P.O. Box 271, Nyack, NY  10690. (914) 
358-4601.
Rape
[]	Campus Rape Packet. Includes Campus Gang Rape: Party 
Games? (1985) which examines the dynamics of gang rape, fraternity 
parties, legal remedies for victims, prevention programs, and a list of 
resources; and The Problem of Rape on Campus  (1978) which 
examines the issue and recommends institutional change. Available 
for $5.00 through the Center for Women Policy Studies, 200 P Street, 
Suite 508, Washington, DC  20036, (202) 872-1770.
[]	Crane, Mary. "Rape Avoidance and Resistance." Offers 
nonviolent, effective techniques for rape avoidance.  Part of the War 
Resisters League Packet.
[]	Date Rape Prevention: A Videotape for 18-24 Year Olds. A 20 
minute VHS tape containing four episodes to facilitate discussion on 
date rape prevention. Instructor's manual included.   $150.00, from 
Planned Parenthood. 2314 Auburn Ave., Cincinnati, OH  45219, (513) 
721-8032.
[]	Fay, Jennifer and Billie Flerchinger.  Top Secret Sexual Assault 
Information for Teenagers Only. Available for $4.50 through the King 
County Sexual Assault Resource Center, PO Box 300, Renton, WA  
98057.
[]	Merton, Andrew.  "Return to Brotherhood."  Ms.  September, 
1985. pp. 60-64.  An exploration of rape and misogyny on campus, 
focusing on fraternities.
[]	Sanday, Peggy Reeves.  Fraternity Gang Rape:  Sex, 
Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus.  New York:  New York 
University Press, 1990.  An explicit account of sexual practices, 
initiations, and socialization in fraternities and other male dominated 
campus organizations.

Male Violence
[]	Connell, R.W. Gender and Male Power.  Palo Alto: Stanford 
University Press, 1987.  Examines connections between patriarchy 
and personal/ institutional violence.
[]	Dworkin, Andrea.  Women Hating.  New Tork:  E.P. Dutton and 
Co., Inc., 1974.  A historical analysis of misogyny.  Very provocative.
[]	Kirkman, Cecelia. "Militarism and Violence Against Women: The 
War at Home."  A pamphlet that explores the common roots of the 
two issues.  Part of the War Resisters League Packet.
[]	Leidholdt, Dorchen.  "Where Pornography Meets Fascism."  WIN 
Magazine, March 15, 1983, pp. 18-22.  On misogyny, racism and anti-
semitism in pornography.
[]	Lord, M.G..  "The Greek Rites of Exclusion." The Nation, July 
4/11,1987.   Fraternity racism and sexism.
[]	Miedzian, Myriam.  Boys Will Be Boys:  Breaking the Link 
Between Masculinity and Violence.  New York:  Doubleday, 1991.
[]	Michalowski, Helen.  "The Army Will Make a Man of You."  WIN 
Magazine.   March 1, 1980.  Quotes military recruiters, officers, and 
veterans.  Demonstrates the link between training and violence 
against women.

Masculinity
[]	Abbot, Franklin, Ed.  Men and Intimacy: Personal Accounts 
Exploring the Dilemmas of Modern Male Sexuality.  Freedom, Cal.: The 
Crossing Press, 1990.
[]	Bell, Tony and Sam Diener. "Pro-Feminism: MenUs Nonviolent 
Approach to Feminism."   part of the War Resisters League Packet.
[]	Brod, Henry.  The Making of Masculinities: The New MenUs 
Studies.  Boston:  Allen and Unwin, 1987.
[]	Easler, Bryan.  Fathering the Unthinkable: Masculinity, 
Scientists and the Nuclear Arms Race.  Schocken Press, 1987.
[]	Gilmore, David. Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of 
Masculinity.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
[]	Lake, Patricia.  "New MenUs Movement or Old BoyUs Network." 
Off Our Backs, April, 1992, p. 14.  Are menUs groups pro-feminist or 
promoters of masculinity?
[]	Messner, M., and Sabo, D., Eds. Sport, Men and the Gender 
Order: Critical Feminist Perspectives.  Champaign, IL:  Human Kinetics 
press, 1990.  Explores the role of male socialization in promoting 
violence. 
[]	Stoltenberg, John.  Refusing to be a Man.  Portland:  
Breitenbush Books, 1988.  Thirteen essays questioning masculinity as 
we know it.



Women and Military Service
[]	Davidson, Liz. "Wimmin and Draft Resistance."   Part of the War 
Resisters League Packet.
[]	De Pauw, Linda Grant.  "The Phantom Feminist Conspiracy." 
Peacework, July-August, 1991, p. 2.  Feminism and combat exclusion 
laws.
Nonviolence and Feminism
[]	Cohn, Carol.  "Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and 
Thinking War."  Collateral Damage: Gender and War.  Miriam Cooke 
and Angela Woollacott, Eds.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 
1992.  A great essay on menUs language and attitudes toward 
militarism.
[]	Cook, Alice and Kirk, Gwyn.  Greenham Women Everywhere:  
Dreams, Ideas and Action from the WomenUs Peace Movement.  
Boston:  South End Press, 1983.  A review of the Greenham womenUs 
opposition to cruise missiles.  Person responsibility, direct action, 
nonviolence, public debate, and using and confronting the law are 
discussed.
[]	Enloe, Cynthia.  Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist 
Sense of International Politics.  :  Berkeley: University of California 
Press, 1989.  A provocative look into the exploitive aspects of US 
foreign policy.  Highly recommended!
[]	Enloe, Cynthia.  Does Khaki Become You?  The Militarization of 
WomenUs Lives.  Boston: South End Press, 1983.  A review of the 
history of warfare, describing how militaries have organized and 
used women for their needs.  Explains why militarism is harmful to 
women and should be opposed by feminists.
[]	Jeffords, Susan.  The Remasculation of America:  Gender and 
the Vietnam War.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press,1989.
[]	McAllister, Pam, Ed.. Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and 
Nonviolence.  Philadelphia: New Society Publishers,1982. A collection 
of articles, poems, and songs written by women who have organized 
to confront violence/militarism. Available for $10.95  from New 
Society Publishers, 4722 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, PA  19143.
[]	Reardon, Betty.  Sexism and the War System.  New York:  
Teacher College Press, 1985.  Drawing on the fields of peace, 
womenUs, and and world order studies, the author provides an 
analysis of the war system and sexism. 




Women in Academia
[]	Chamberlain, Mariam.  "The Emergence and Growth of WomenUs 
Studies Programs." The American Woman: 1990-91, P. 318.
[]	DuBois, Ellen Carol and Gail Paradise Kelly, Elizabeth Lapovsky 
Kennedy, Carolyn W. Korsmeyer, and Lillian S. Robinson. Feminist 
Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe.   Chicago: University 
of Illinois, 1987.
[]	Noble, David F.  A World Without Women: The Christian Clerical 
Culture of Western Science.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1992.  
Examines the origins and the implications of the masculine culture of 
Western science and religion.  Congratulations to Dr. Noble for having 
the courage to ask where the women are. 
[]	Rhode, Deborah, L..  "Perspectives on Professional Women."  
Stanford Law Review, May, 1988, pp 1175, 1179-80.  A 1982-82 
survey by the American Association of University Professionals of 
2,500 higher-education institutions found that despite a decade of 
affirmative action, "women have achieved very little."  The 
associationUs report found the least progress at the most elite 
colleges: at Harvard University, women represented only 4.2% of full 
professors;  at Yale, 3.9%;  at Princeton, 3.2%; at Stanford, 2.6%.  This 
wasnUt because of a shortage of women: about one-third of job-
seeking Ph.D. holders were women.
[]	Theodore, Athena. The Campus Troublemakers:  Academic 
Women in Protest.  Cap and Gown Press, 1986.  A discussion of 
discrimination against women in academia and the harassment 
women suffer when they try to expose it.  Guaranteed to make you 
angry! 

Organizing and Classroom Guides
[]	Brock-Utne, Birgit.  Educating for Peace.  New York:  Pergamon 
Press, 1985.  Extensive resource for both peace studies and WomenUs 
Studies Courses.
[]	Koen, Susan, and Swan, Nina.  A Handbook for Women on the 
Nuclear Mentality:  AinUt No Where You Can Run.  Norwich, Vermont: 
WAND (WomenUs Action for Nuclear Disarmament), 1980.  Discusses 
the relationship between patriarchy and militarism, and provides 
technical information on the effects of radiation on women.
[]	Sheehan, Joanne. "Nonviolence: A Feminist Vision and Strategy."  
and "Feminism and Nonviolence: A Training Session Agenda."  Part of 
the WRL Packet (see p. 12).
[]	WomenUs Studies Quarterly. Vol. XII, No. 2 (Summer, 1984).  
This issue contains reading lists and course outlines for courses on 
women and peace, feminist teaching, conflict resolution, womenUs 
military history, as well as an extensive bibliography on these and 
related topics.

Other Feminist Perspectives
[]	Eisler, Riane.  The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our 
Future.  San Francisco: Harper Collins Publishers, 1988.  A 
controversial new look at evolution, social history and current 
beliefs, based on a feminist analysis.
[]	Faludi, Susan.  Backlash:  The Undeclared War Against 
American Women.  New York:  Crown Publishers, 1991.  A detailed 
analysis of the deteriorating status of women in the U.S. and the 
organized forces behind it.  A must read for all who mistakenly 
believe that feminism was successful at changing the U.S.  mindset.
[]	MacKinnon, Catherine.  "The Male Ideology of Privacy: A 
Feminist Perspective on Abortion."  Radical America , 1987, pp. 23-
33.  Includes an analysis of attitudes toward rape and contraceptive 
use .
[]	Fight Back!   MIT Graduate Student Council, Fall 1992.  
Excellent guide to fighting sexual harassment produced by 
underground group of MIT women who became disgusted with 
'official channels.U  Available through MIT WomenUs Studies, (617) 
253-8844 or GSC at (617) 253-2195.


Quick Consciousness Raiser

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Men! Would You Mind...?
Q Relocating because of your wife's job, although your salary was 
higher?
Q Taking a typing test, with a engineering degree?
Q Participating in a Mr. America contest where the size of your 
genitals was a key consideration?
Q Paying for your daughterUs education as a chemist, and having her 
work as a lab technician?
Q Bringing coffee to your female manager?
Q Having to get your name changed when you got married?
Q Having to get your wife's signiture for a credit card?
Q Sending your son to college only to find a wife?
Q Defering your intellectual and social growth to that of your wife?
Q Being whistled at, with accompanying gestures, by a female group?

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