Call for Papers: Feminist Philosophy Journal

A deadline of August 1 has been set for a special issue of Hypatia devoted to women and disability. The editors, Eva Kittay, Anita Silvers and Susan Wendell, invite "original essays exploring how feminist theory is expanded, inflected and/or enriched by responding to the facts of personal experiences and public encounters with disability. We will seek to balance contributions with implications for methodology and contributions with consequences for policy."

Style guidelines for the journal can be found on the web at: www.is.csupomona.edu/~ljshrage/hypatia/index.htm  Details about the journal or other questions can be emailed to: hypatia@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Annotated Bibliography on Women and Violence

An excellent 1997 reference is an annotated bibliography on women with disability and violence, including literature and resources, produced by Disabled Women's Network (DAWN) of Ontario, Canada. Available on the web: http://dawn.thot.net/project2.html
To request copies in French print or English diskette, send email to: dawn@thot.net

International Feminist Webzine

AVIVA is a lively international magazine on the web, with coverage of news and features from many countries, edited by a group of London-based feminists. Read it at www.aviva.org or queries by email to Kateb@aviva.org

Looking for Participants in U.S. National
Survey on Women and Employment

The Institute for Community Inclusion is looking for participants in its national survey of employment and career development of women with disabilities. ICI is seeking women who are employed and at least 21 years of age to respond to a survey about successes, obstacles encountered, opportunities developed and lessons learned. The goal is to understand the challenges that women with disabilities encounter in the work world and to identify strategies that help in the pursuit of career goals. If interested, contact Mairead Maloney, tel 617 355 4099 or by email moloney@a1.tch.harvard.edu

Invitations/Requests for
Collaboration

Well-known feminist researcher Tanis Doe, Ph.D. has issued the following announcements and requests for participation and collaboration in initiatives concerning disabled women:

• EDGE - Education for Disability and Gender Equity is a new project of the Disabled Women's Alliance, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Its goal is to help high school students learn about disability and gender within a science or humanities context. Suggestions are needed regarding role models, topics, videos audio and text resources. Participation is needed for focus groups. On the web: www.disabilityhistory.org/edge/ and via email: genderedge@aol.com
• 2001 SDS/Women's Conference. In recent years there have been two very successful disabled women's conferences held immediately prior to the annual conferences of the Society for Disability Studies. Next year the SDS Conference will take place in Winnipeg, Canada in June and we are trying to bring together interested people in planning an event immediately before or after. If interested, please email me at home: tanis@home.com
• Deaf Women Against Violence. For your information, there are new groups becoming active in this important area of concern, including: a Seattle based group, ADWAS - Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services at www.adwas.org; one inOntario called DWAVE - Deaf Women Against Violence Everywhere; and in British Columbia, the Bright Place for Deaf Women at www.geocities.com/brightplace/ or via email brightplace@yahoo.com

Report Card on US Implementation
of UN Platform for Action

US Women Connect represents over 100 women's organizations across the country and serves as the major NGO Clearinghouse for Beijing+5 and Platform for Action related initiatives. The group has included disability concerns in its work and recently elected Kathy Martinez of the World Institute on Disability as its Vice President. One of their most interesting recent actions was to develop a Report Card on how well the US Government did on implementation of key promises since the 1995 Beijing Conference.

The document is a concise four page document that grades the government's actions ( or inactions, as the case may be) in each of the 12 key areas of concern of the Platform for Action. It was designed to support and draw attention to the "NGO Shadow Report" on US implementation of Beijing+5 prepared by the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). Details on the Report Card on the web at: www.uswc.org