Society for Women in Philosophy. For information on SWIP membership, which includes receiving program announcements, the national SWIP newsletter, and a discount subscription to Hypatia contact:

Eastern SWIP: Linda Damico, Department of Philosophy, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, GA 30061.

Midwest SWIP: Carol Mickett, English & Philosophy Department, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO 64093.

Pacific SWIP: Dianne Romain, Department of Philosophy, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928.

Gender and Judaism is the title of a conference sponsored by The Melton Center for Jewish Studies at Ohio State University, April 25-27, 1993. Plenary speakers include: Judith Plaskow (Manhattan College); Sylvia Barack Fishman (Brandeis); Laura Geller (Amer. Jewish Congress); Judith Hauptman (Jewish theological Seminary); Susannah Heschel (Case Western Reserve); Paula Hyman (Yale); Alice Shalvi (Israel Women's Network); Harry Brod (USC); Howard Adelman (Smith). The conference aims to explore the ways in which our understanding and experiencing of gender has influenced and been influenced by classical and modern Jewish perspectives. Speakers and participants will examine recent developments pertaining to gender-related issues within Jewish thought, history, literature, ritual, and culture. For more information contact: Tamar Rudavsky/Judith Stauber, Melton Ctr. for Jewish Studies, The Ohio State University, 344 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Ave., Columbus OH 43210-1311(614)292-0967.

“Women and Texts in Pre-revolutionary France” a conference sponsored by the Department of French, at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, will be held May 7-9, 1993. The conference will focus on questions related to the subject of French women as producers of texts in pre-revolutionary France. We understand the word text as referring to canonical as well as non-canonical works and genres. History, science and education are only a few areas in which women chose to express themselves textually. For information contact Hannah Fournier or Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, MARGOT Project, Dept. of French, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2L 3G1. Phone (519) 885-1211, ext. 2249 or 3554.

Call for papers for Sick and Tired! Counter-Discourses of Illness and Aging, a cross-disciplinary feminist anthology which challenges the institutional and cultural stigmatization of women who struggle with HIV positivity, AIDS, breast cancer or the process of aging. We are especially interested in feminist works that incorporate international, multicultural, class- and gay-affirmative perspectives. We welcome interviews, theoretical, literary, or autobiographical essays. Deadline for abstracts: June 1, 1993. Deadline for essays: September 1, 1993. Please send abstracts and papers to either Kay Cook, Literature, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah 84720 (801) 586-7837 or Kate Mehuron, Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 (313) 487-1018.

Call for submissions: Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, seeks submissions, both written and visual from radical visionary women, for issue 22, “A Journal of Rejected Ideas”: we are looking for material which has been rejected for publication because of content. Include, if possible, a copy of a rejection letter. (The issue will include a glossary of “editorspeak”). Deadline is August 1, 1993. P.O. Box 606, N. Amherst, MA 01059.

Call for Papers. The journal Women and Therapy is planning a special double issue to examine the possible psychotherapeutic implications for women engaged in some aspect of feminist spirituality. Based on profound theoretical challenges to mainstream religious beliefs and practices, and ranging from calls for the radical reclamation and reconstruction of traditions to personal involvement in Goddess worship and wicca, a fair number of women have embraced alternative forms of spiritual expression. In the face of women's conflicting consciousness of greater power to act in the public sphere and powerlessness to end, once and for all, the violence done to their minds and bodies, women engaging in various kinds of feminist spirituality groups often describe their own experiences of them as empowering and healing. Perhaps it is time to assess both whether and the extent to which all of this represents the beginnings of a paradigm shift in conceptions of women's mental health, and what it all means. Theoretical, conceptual or experiential papers on any aspect of this issue are welcome. Please send three copies of a one-page abstract, by September 1, 1993, to Judith Ochshorn, Women's Studies Dept., HMS 413, University of South Florida, 4202 Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620. This special double issue of Women and Therapy will also be published in book form, both hardcover and paperback, by Harrington Park Press.

Call for Papers: Society and Nature: The International Journal of Political Ecology is seeking articles from a feminist perspective that analyze and critique socioeconomic conditions and their interrelationship with nature in order to develop alternative visions for an ecological society. Forthcoming issues (and submission deadlines): Development and Environment in the South (Sept. 1, 1993), Green Economics (Dec. 1, 1993), Science and Technology (March 1, 1993). We are also very interested in book reviews. For further information and writers’guidelines contact: Society and Nature 1449 W. Littleton Blvd. #200, Littleton, CO 80120-2127.

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