Table of contents — Femspec 8.1-2, Vol 8, Issue 1-2, 2007
EDITORIAL REMARKS:
BATYA WEINBAUM, “Getting the Mad People Out of My Attic: Not an Advertisement for Myself” 1
MEMOIR & NON-FICTION NARRATIVE:
TINA ANDRES, “Growing Thick Skin” 5
HELEN BANNAN, “Derailed but Not Defeated” 24
JANE DAVIS, “The Value of Stupidity: Negative Values in Academia” 33
LINDA HOLLAND-TOLL, “What to Do When You Are Stuck at Toxic U: Strategies for Avoidance, Sabotage
and Survival” 52
RUTH PANOFSKY, “Professor/Mother: The Uneasy Partnership” 65
BATYA WEINBAUM, “Memoirs of an Academic Career” 75
CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS:
PAT ORTMAN, “Don’t Tread on Me: Painting My Way Through” 84
BATYA WEINBAUM, “Waiting for Justice: Scene for TV” 86
GINA WISKER, “New Blood” 92
GENERAL QUEUE:
GERALDINE WOJNA KIEFER, “Overlays, Matrices, and Boundaries: A “Mixed-Media” Approach in
Pedagogy and Art” 98
FICTION:
K. A. LAITY, “Eating the Dream” 108
POETRY:
LOUISE MOORE, “Joan of Arc, Circe, Cassandra, The Annunciation Angel” 118
REVIEWS:
ARDYS DELU, “Review of Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975” (Edited by Barabara J Love) 122
ARDYS DELU, “Review of Daughters of the Great Star” 124
ARDYS DELU, “Review of the Code Pink Women for Peace fund-raiser” 126
ARDYS DELU, “Review of The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding):” A short novel by L Timmel Duchamp 127
ARDYS DELU, “Review of We, Robots” 127
RITCH CALVIN, “Review of Naomi Mitchison: A Profile of Her Life and Work” 131
LYNN REED, “Review of Becoming the Villanness” 134
BATYA WEINBAUM, “Review of Fissures” (A film directed by Alante Alfandari) 135
GERARDO CUMMINGS
, “Review of Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist” 137
JAMES D. BROWN, “Review of Paprika” (A film directed by Satoshi Kon) 139
DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA, “Review of The Secret” (DVD) 141
SPEECHES
GLORIA ORENSTEIN, Gertrude Stein as Mentor and Passing the Flame 146
MEMORIAL
ARDYS DELU, Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007) 150