NEWSLETTER

The Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles

The Graduate Center . 33 West 42nd Street, New York 10036 790-4435
Vol. 1, No. 1 October, 1979

The Newsletter of the Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles will
report on the Center projects and research, as well as on other developments
in feminist scholarship and in the women's movement in general. It is
aimed at improving and expanding the network and exchange of ideas among
feminist scholars, researchers and activists. We are grateful to Mariam
Chamberlain and the Ford Foundation for a development grant which has made
this newsletter possible.

Each issue will carry a number of regular features. Among them is the
section on "Work in Progress" -- brief descriptions of current research

and projects. Each month the newsletter will carry a calendar outlining

the special events and meetings taking place at the Center, while the "Notes
and Announcements" section will provide information on conferences, lectures
and activities. Future issues will include book reviews, responses and
reactions to current feminist research, and thoughts on possible new
approaches and new projects. We will be happy to carry announcements about .
feminist events ,at other CUNY units. Announcements and submissions should
be sent to Martha Nelson, Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles,

The Graduate School and Bniversity Center, 33 West 42nd Street, N.Y., 10036.

WORK IN PROGRESS

This section of "Work in Progress" will serve as an introduction to the
activities and research of the Research Associates for 1979-80 and the members
of the Steering Committee. In future issues we hope to report on. other new
developments in feminist theory and practice.

Adrienne Block, Research Associate (The Graduate School and University Center)
Adrienne Block's work on women in American music has centered on the creation
of an annotated bibliography on the topic, co-authored by Carol Neuls-Bates.
With assistance from the Ford Foundation, she is now beginning work on a
biographic dictionary of women in American music from colonial times to the
present. She is also working with New York City women musicians on an exhibit
of historic materials on female composers, performers and music educators.

Elaine Baruch, Research Associate (York College)
Elaine Baruch has been awarded an NEH grant for a study titled "Women in
Utopia: Implications for Ethics and Values." Her study focuses on literary
works, but also touches on a range of actual uptopian experiments. She is
gathering names and ideas for a conference, which is described in the "Notes
and Announcements" section of the newsletter.

Elizabeth Brusco, Steering Committee (The Graduate School and University Center)
Elizabeth Brusco is an anthropologist, specializing in women in religion.
She is currently working on a proposal to do dissertation work on women in
the Pentecostal movement in Latin America.

Paula Carien, Steering Committee (The Graduate School and University Center)
As Director of Sponsored Research and Program Funding, Paula Carien works with


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researchers to’ de) elop proposéls for funding resedrch and demonstration projects.
She maintains in'ft rmatidp ‘on grants and files of proposals that have been

funded at the Graduate Center. She regularly sends information on sources of
support to the Center, where they are kept on file for anyone interested in them.

Florence Denmark, Steering Committee (Hunter College)
Florence Denmark's research is on the psychology of women with a focus on the
effects of gender in interpersonal interactions. Her most recent work is on
the conditions under which identical behaviors in women and men are given
different descriptions and explanations. This year she is President of the
American Psychological Association.

Julie Doron, Research Associate (Barnard College)
Julie Doron, along with Judith Greenwald, has been working on a proposal for
a study on the incidence and nature of marital rape. She is also writing a
book titled "Intimate Violence: A Study of Injustice". Anyone interested in
interviewing for the book should check the announcement in the “Notes and
Announcements" section of the newsletter.

Laura Kramer Gordon, Visiting Scholar (Montclair State College)
Laura Gordon is investigating programs for the integration of women in
non-traditional jobs. She will focus on the characteristics of programs which
ave most successful in tarms of the adjustment of workers and workplace to
sex-desegregation in various industrial settings.

Judith Greenwald, Research Associate (Psychotherapist, private practice)
Judith Greenwald's research interests are focused on domestics violence,
and with Julie Doron, she has developed a proposal on the nature and
violence of marital rape. She has also been working with feminist
therapists in New York City to develop a conference on the theoretical
and practical issues in feminist therapy.

Joan Kelly, Steering Committee (City College)
Joan Kelly's work in women's history has dealt with women in the Reanaissance
and with the implications of this study for historical methodology and
theoretical development. She has also written on the relationship between
Marxism and feminism, on housework and on feminist social theory. She is
currently working on a history of feminist social theory and is involved in
developing the graduate curriculum in Women's Studies at CUNY.

G. Sparks Lunney, Research Associate (Board of Education, City University of -
New York)
Sparks Lunney is continuing his research on the psychology of sex roles
and sexuality. His theoretical work involves an integration of Christian
theological literature concerning sexuality, women and sex roles.

Charlotte Muller, Steering Committee (Graduate School and University Center)
Charlotte Muller's work focuses on an economic analysis of issues

related to women and health: insurance Sauer Ace of abortion, contraception,
and sterilization; data needs peraesng to women's health; and economic
issues in retirement.

Mary Brown Parlee, Co-Director (Graduate School and University Center)
Mary Parlee's primary research interests are in the psychology of female


reproductive processes over the life cycle: nonverbal communication of
beliefs and attitudes concerning women and the functional significance of
these beliefs.

Sarah Pomeroy, Steering Committee (Hunter College)
Sarah Pomeroy's work is on women in classical antiquity, Greek literature
and social history. She is co-ordinator of the Women's Studies program at
Hunter College and is involved in the development of the graduate curriculum
in Women's Studies at CUNY.

Claire Riley, Steering Committee (Graduate School and University Center)
Claire Riley is interested in developing feminist theory within anthropology,
particularly in the areas of kinship and socio-political organization. She
plans on doing field work in New Guinea.

Ruby Rohrlich, Faculty Associate (Borough of Manhattan Community College)
Ruby Ronrlich Ils deveioping a theoretical analysis of the linkages between
gender roles and race relations and acts as the co-ordinator of the seminar
on multi-national corporations. She recently returned from Puerto Rico,
where she.was collecting data on the contradictions betweeen reproductive
freedom and population control.

Susan Saegert, Co-Director (Graduate School and University Center)
Susan Saegert's research focuses on the experience and roles of women in the
workplace; dual roles and role strains; identification and elimination of
barriers to economic equity. She is also studying the development of
knowledge of the environment and competence in its use in girls and boys.

Peter Stein, Research Associate (Lehman College)
Peter Stein's interests focus on general issues dealing with the family,
sex roles and single women and men. His most recent work is on the
growth of support networks among unmarried adults.

Ethel Tobach, Research Associate (American Museum of Natural History)
Ethel Tobach's work concerns the social systems and socialization processes
which bring about institutionalized sexism. Her research areas include:
historical analysis of socialization processes; historical definition of
sexism; and the organization and use of human knowledge to institutionalize
sexism.

Gaye Tuchman, Steering Committee (The Graduate School and University Center)
With grants from the Ford Foundation and NEH, Gaye Tuchman is researching
the impact of the professionalization of writing and publishing on women
writers, as well as integrating materials on women's opportunities to
participate in the cultural milieux of literature and art. She and Cynthia
Epstein are also developing grants on women and work.

Paula Webster, Research Associate (The Graduate School and University Center)
Paula Webster is doing research on the symbolic meaning of rape and sexual
antagonism in the early 20th century. The work draws on a Foucauldian approach
to reveal the relationship between ideology and social structure and how this
in turn modifies the cultural meaning of the act of rape, the metaphor for
the body and the social construction of the notion of sexual drive.

Elizabeth Wood, Research Associate (The Graduate School and University Center)
Elizabeth Wood is working with Ruth Julius on an oral history project on
contemporary American women composers. In addition, she is serving as an
area editor for a biographical dictionary of American women in music,
edited by Adrienne Block. Her other recent research includes work on
Dame Ethel Smyth, British composer and suffragist.


SEMINARS & STUDY GROUPS

FEMINIST METHODS OF INQUIRY
The first meeting will take place on October 18th at 3 pm in Room 1627.
This group will study women writers exploring new languages, new images
and new mythologies. For information, call Trudy Berger, 780-5476.

FEMINIST THEORY
Anyone interested in attending and/or organizing a seminar on feminist
theory should call Elaine Baruch, 380-3498.

WOMEN AND HEALTH WORKING GROUP
Mary Parlee, Judith Lorber and Barbara Katz Rothman are organizing a
group of academics, health care workers and medical writers who will
meet tc work on health care issues concerning women. The first meeting
is October 11 from 2-4 pm in Room 1400.

WOMEN AND WORK
Gaye Tuchman and Laura Gordon are organizing a group for the study of
women and work. If interested, call Gaye Tuchman (790-4283, 790-4320).

MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS
The first meeting will take place on Friday, Oct. 12 at 2:30 in Room 1400.
For more information, call Ruby Rohrlich, 874-6884.

NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

On Saturday, November 3, the New York Women's Studies Association will
sponsor the First Annual Women's Studies Day at Brooklyn College. For
more information call Ellie Bulkin, 780-5476.

October 22-29, 1979 marks Abortion Rights Action Week, a series of events
to educate or organize women and men in support of the right to abortion
and reproductive rights. The week's activities will culminate in a rally
at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at noon on October 27. For more information,
call 964-3668 or write ARAW, 17 Murray Street, New York, N.Y. |0007.

The Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles is producing a brochure
describing the aims and activities of the Center. If you would be willing
to distribute brochures at conferences and meetings, please call us or
stop by room 1400. We're grateful for help in publicizing the Center.

The Women's Salon will meet on October 20th at 7 pm at the home of Erika
Duncan, Apt. 933B, 463 West Street, New York. Kathy Brady will read
from "Father's Day: A True Story of Incest".

Gradaoate students and others interested in a study of gender and grand-
parenting, or in a project on feminism and body size, should contact
Ethel Tobach (873-1300) or leave a message at the Center.

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Heresies seeks new material for a special issue on sexuality. They are
new approaches to the topic, in the form of personal accounts, history,
interviews, theory and analysis. Send material by November 1 to Heresies,
Issue 12, Box 766, Canal Street Station, New York, N.Y., 10013.


Psychologists an others are invited to the Psychology Discussion Group
on Friday, October 12, 7 pm in Room 1629. The topic is feminism and
psychoanalysis.

The Center is building a file of typists who are available to work on
short notice, in order to ease some of the difficulties of preparing
grant proposals and papers on tight schedules. If you know of people
who are willing to do this work, please pass on their names and numbers.

Join with Women Against Pornography for a march on Times Square on
Saturday, October 20th. The march will assemble at Columbus Circle at
1 pm, and meve down Broadway to Bryant Park on 42nd Street. For further

information, call 594-8090, or write to Women Against Pornography,

Elaine Baruch would like to hear from people interested in a conference
on women in utopia. Possle panels might include: Women in Utopian 7
Literature; Beyond Androgyny: A New Psychology of the Self; Genetic and
Reproductive Engineering. An exhibit of women's architecture may also
be presented at the conference. Anyone interested in helping to plan
the conference should call Elaine Baruch at 380-3498.

JOB OPENINGS

The University of Pittsburgh invites application for a position as ‘Assistant
or Associate Professor in Sociology and Women's Studies beginning Sept.,
1980. The primary tenure stream appointment will be in the Department of
Sociology with special responsibilities in the Interdisciplinary Program

of Women's Studies. Previous and/or current research and teaching in

areas related to the sociology of women is required. Send curriculum

vitae and application for materials to Burkart Holzner, Chair, Department

of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260.

Julie Doron is hiring interviewers to work on a new book titled "Intimate
Violence: A Study of Injustice". The interviewees will include both

men and women who have been victims of family violence, including rape.

The job will begin in mid-October and will pay for each interview.
Interviewing will take place in New Jersey in a location accessible by
public transportation. To apply, call Julie Doron at 280-2069 or 280-3984.

A psychologist is needed to work one day a week, supervising student
research, teaching research methodology and advising community groups,
including Together Black Women and Project Greenhope. The salary is
flexible. For more information call Eleanor Rollins at 221-8775 or
Marilyn Gittell at 790-1446.


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ALL events will oe place in roan 14:5) cf The Graduate School and

University Center, unless otherwise noted,

Tuesday, Oct. 2 ‘11:45-1:15 Tuesday Neon Lunab. An informal meeting and
discussion in the Uindng Room, 1l&th Floor. All are welcome,

Thursday, Oct. 4 2-4 Assoctates Seminar. First meeting of the
Associates of the Center tor 1979-80.

Friday, Oct. 5 3-5 Steering Committee Meeting.
Tuesday, Oct. 9 11:45-1:15 Tuesday Noon Lunch. Dining Room, 18th Floor.
Thursday, Oct. Bl 2-4 Women and Health Working Group. Open to all

interested in health fssues concerning women.

Thursday, Oct. 11 4-6 Conversation Hour. Maria Grazia Rossilli, an
Italian feminist, active in the abortion rights movement, will
talk about eurrent struggles in the Italian feminist movement.

Friday, Oct. 12 2:30 Sem(nar on Multi=National Corporations. For more
information eall Ruby Rotirlich, 874-6884, mornings and evenings.

Monday, Oct. 15 2-4 Rivka Bar Josef, Deputy Prime Minister of
Israel, will speak in Cynthia Fuchs Epstein's seminar on
Women and the Power Structure. Room to be announced.

Tuesday, Oct. 16 9:45 Steering Committee Meeting.

Tuesday, Oct. 16 11:45-1:15 Tuesday Noon Lunch. Dining Room, 18th Floor.

Thursday, Oct. 18 11:30 Film showing: The Faces of Change. Women in a
changing world of Bolivia, Afghanistan and China. Shown in

conjunction with the course on Women in Production, taught by
June Nash. Third Floor Studtlo.

Thursday, Oct. 18 3:00 Seminar en Feminist Methods of Inquiry. For more
information call Gertrude Berger, 780-5476. The group will
meet in room 1627.

Thursday, Oct. 18 5:00 Women Against Pornography present a slide
show on images of violence agalnst women in pornography,
advertising and the mass media. Room 207.

Tuesday, Oct. 23 11:45-1:15 Tuesday Neon Lunch. Dining Room, 18th Floor.

Wednesday, Oct. 24 12-2 Lecture: "Fhe Psychology of Women (and Men):
Biological and Social Cycteus", by Mary Parlee. Room 207.

Thureday, Qet. 25. 11:30 Film shewdeg: Simplomente Jenny. The cultural
values that shape the hives Qf Woieen in Latin America. Shown
in conjunction with the equrse an, Women in Production. Room 1629.

Ehursday, Qet., 25 4-6 Conversrtkar Hour. Norma Wikler, the author of
Up Against the Clock, whht Gatk ahout the cultural and biological
presiures te hecome a nietdwr before age 35.

Tuesday, Oct. 30 Lb:45eb:15 Tuesday Neat Lunch. Dining Room, 1&th Floor.

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