[NIFL-WOMENLIT:1051] NWSA anyone?

From: Mev Miller (mev@winternet.com)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 10:46:09 EDT


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HI
Does anyone on this list have any interest in or connection to the NWSA 
(National Women's Studies Assoc.)?

They are having their annual conference in June, 2001 at the U of 
Minnesota in Minneapolis -- practically in my back yard. They're doing a 
embedded conference called "The Future of Women's Studies: Is it 
feminist" and a plenary section on technofeminisms (cyberspace and 
computers and such).

I was thinking (since I live in the Twin Cities), of putting together a 
proposal for a workshop or roundatable discussion on the connections of 
these issues and adult women's basic literacy (e.g., do you have to read 
to be a feminist?). I'm somewhat interested in the ways that "women's 
issues" are proposed/moved forward while continuing to silence and 
invisiblize women who can't read/write very well, live in poverty, or are 
otherwise marginalized.

does anyone have any interest in this? the proposal deadline is due Nov. 
12.

please contact me privately (mev@winternet.com) or if we want an open 
discussion on it here, i'd be willing to weave additional viewpoints into 
the proposal if I can. I've put this same question to the Women's Studies 
elist -- maybe we'll have some cross fertilization!!

Thanks.
Mev


Mev Miller
mev@winternet.com



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