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Getting the Mad People Out of My Attic: Not an Advertisement for Myself

Jan 01, 2007; Weinbaum, Batya ... Even failure is noble-if you keep going. Phil Couisineau, Once and Future Myths Even small and individual acts can bring about change, say Cindy Katz and Nancy Miller in their introduction to the latest Women's Studies Quarterly that focuses on activisms. Almost concurrent with ...

MEMOIR & NON-FICTION NARRATIVE: Growing Thick Skin

Jan 01, 2007; Andres, Tina ... My sister often teases me that any personal conflict I confide in her can be resolved if I just plot it as a graph. As a kid, I used to plot up many things-not just as a part of homework assignments, but things like my weight and what I wore to school each day. I was monitoring this as part of ...

Derailed but Not Defeated

Jan 01, 2007; Bannan, Helen ... On the night before I began the first draft of this essay, I dreamed that I was cleaning out my first faculty office. It's significant, I think, that this dream occurred more than twenty years after I actually loaded my books and files into boxes and moved out of that "interdisciplinary studies" ...

The Value of Stupidity: Negative Values in Academia

Jan 01, 2007; Davis, Jane ... "The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men. " (Psalm 12:8) "Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: contend with them that contend with me. " (Psalm 35:1) When the late fashion designer Gianni Versace stated in a charmingly blunt way, ...

What to Do When You Are Stuck at Toxic U: Strategies for Avoidance, Salvage, and Survival

Jan 01, 2007; Holland-Toll, Linda ... Quite briefly, I am that "ubiquitous iniquity," to steal a phrase from Shelby Foote. I am a "bad fit": 90%+ excellent teaching evaluations, the only book published by a current faculty member, department and campus service up the wazoo, glowing peer evaluations, verbal assurances of "no problems ...

Professor/Mother: The Uneasy Partnership

Jan 01, 2007; Panofsky, Ruth ... Of all the professions, that of university teaching is the one in which women have the least number of children; this is unsatisfactory if women professors are to be able to live as full a life as anyone else. - Cited in Dagg and Thompson (84) My entry to the academy and ...

Memoirs of an Academic Career

Jan 01, 2007; Weinbaum, Batya ... Although I was a Buddhist practitioner several years before I took my first tenure-track job at the age of 46, I distinctly remember a few times that I took refuge in retreat centers during some crisis in my academic life before. The first was when I had been told by the Graduate Program ...

Don't Tread on Me: Painting My Way Through

Jan 01, 2007; Ortman, Pat ... After twelve years and achieving tenure and associate professor status at a struggling women's college, I was physically exhausted and emotionally devastated when it was closed down, and we all lost our positions, as well as the school itself. During the spring semester of the year we taught out ...

Waiting for Justice: Scene for TV

Jan 01, 2007; Weinbaum, Batya ... Scene for TV performance, "Wake Up and Live with the Arts." June 29, 2006. Produced and Hosted by Sue Johnson and Christopher Fortunato. Cleveland Heights, OH. Performed by Terry Behnke, playing all the male parts, and Angret Giorgi, at rise, each seated at a table. White Woman ...

New Blood

Jan 01, 2007; Wisker, Gina ... New day, new start, new job. Lots of possibilities. Serena's was a "New Blood" appointment advertised (in England) to fill posts hitherto occupied by much older people on the edge of retirement or those edged out into retirement by what is termed "Voluntary Severance." It was going to be ...

Overlays, Matrices, and Boundaries: A "Mixed-Media" Approach in Pedagogy and Art

Jan 01, 2007; Kiefer, Geraldine Wojna ... I teach a two-semester course in introductory drawing, along with art history and art appreciation, at Shenandoah University. Drawing is also the foundation of my art practice and my passion. This essay engages teaching and art-making as interleaved and intertwined practices. Beginning with ...

Joan of Arc

Jan 01, 2007; Moore, Louise ... Today she would be vegan sure she had been beamed up for UFO experimentation Appearing Live! on Ricki Lake, Reams Cathedral her nationally televised church ...

Eating the Dream

Jan 01, 2007; Laity, K A ... Out here you can see America, the real America-small roads, small towns, small minds, all littered with the detritus of waste, despair, and greed. I spend my days chasing the broken white lines of the numbered passages between those towns. I have crossed the borders of the whole forty-eight on ...

Circe

Jan 01, 2007; Moore, Louise ... Circe's song was of broken faucets that needed mending A thousand years of loneliness And centuries of pain Odysseus responded Penelope was far away not mad not needy busy with her weaving so confident of her attraction she ...

The Annunciation Angel

Jan 01, 2007; Moore, Louise ... Always showing the way popping up here popping up there across the generations of David's house Never the feature just the trailer for coming attractions Just another workaholic He She some ...

Review of Feminists Who Changed America

Jan 01, 2007; DeLu, Ardys ... (ProQuest: ... denotes text stops here in original.) Review of Feminists Who Changed America Ardys DeLu Love, Barbara J. ed. Foreword by Nancy Cott. Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. ISBN 0-252-03189-X. 616 pp ....

Review of Daughters of the Great Star

Jan 01, 2007; DeLu, Ardys ... Review of Daughters of the Great Star Ardys DeLu Rivers, Diana. Daughters of the Great Star. West Plains, MO: Hand Maid Books, 1999. ISBN 0-9668075-0-2. 384 pp. $12.95. Daughters of the Great Star by Diana Rivers is fiction, the first of a series of Hadra books, all of which according to ...

Review of Code Pink New Years

Jan 01, 2007; DeLu, Ardys ... Review of Code Pink New Years Ardys DeLu Code Pink New Year's 2007. On New Year's Eve 2006-2007, a friend, her teenaged daughter, and I attended a fundraiser/party for Code Pink Women for Peace. It was held in San Francisco, California, at a sort of museum/cultural ...

Review of The Red Rose Rages

Jan 01, 2007; DeLu, Ardys ... Review of The Red Rose Rages Ardys DeLu Duchamp, L. Timmel. The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding): A Short Novel. Conversation Pieces, Volume 10. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2005. ISBN 1-933500-02-6. 166pp. $9.00. This book, part of the Aqueduct series called "Conversation Pieces," portrays the ...

Review of We, Robots

Jan 01, 2007; DeLu, Ardys ... Review of We, Robots Andys DeLu Lange, Sue. We, Robots. Conversation Pieces, Volume 16. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2007. ISBN1-933500-11-5. 93 pp. $9.00. We, Robots is part 16 in a series entitled "Conversation Pieces," a paperback series published by Aqueduct Press concerning speculative ...