From LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Tue Feb 12 16:32:33 2002 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:48:14 -0600 From: "L-Soft list server at UIC (1.8d)" To: Laura Q Subject: File: "FEMINISTSF LOG0111C" ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:21:23 -0800 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Jo Ann Rangel Subject: Fw: [WorkForWriters] MARKET WATCH: Feminist Majority Foundation Buys Ms. Magazine - Reuters Comments: To: Women-in-the-arts@yahoogroups.com, feministsf@uic.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Feminist Majority Foundation Buys Ms. Magazine - Reuters > The Feminist Majority Foundation has bought Ms. magazine from Liberty > Media, a New York-based group of investors who saved the magazine from > folding in 1999. The ad-free magazine, which has been sold through > subscriptions and at bookstores and newsstands, will shift to a quarterly > format and may include advertising. The editorial and political position > will remain unchanged, said Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist > Majority Foundation in a statement. "We are committed to making sure that > the Ms. voice thrives as the forum for challenging conventional ideas and > a springboard for the development and spread of feminist ideas." > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011112/en/media-ms_1.html Feminist > Majority Foundation Announcement: > http://www.feminist.org/news/pressstory.asp?id=5933 > > -------------------------------------------------- This is the feministsf listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe feministsf Contact feministsf-request@UIC.EDU if there are problems. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:53:51 -0700 Reply-To: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" Sender: "For discussion of feminist SF, fantastic & utopian literature" From: Mellen Subject: November Comments: To: feministsf-lit@uic.edu, feministsf@uic.edu Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Discussion Groupers; This is your mid-month reminder. Wešre discussing; The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Discussion may have already concluded, unless there are people who havenšt finished the book yet. Do remember to order your books in plenty of time for the next selections. War for the Oaks is coming up quickly. Illicit Passage can only, as far as I know, be obtained from the author, via Mysterious Galaxy. Thanks to Mary Elizabeth of Mysterious Galaxy for making that so easy & giving us a discount on most books. mgbooks@mystgalaxy.com, or orders@mystgalaxy.com Blessings - Mellen For the BDG Volunteers Upcoming Books- 3 Dec. War for the Oaks, by Emma Bull 7 Jan. A Women's Liberation: A Choice of Futures by and About Women, edited by Connie Willis and Sheila Williams 4 Feb. Illicit Passage, by Alice Nunn *************************************************************************** The BDG provides a forum for focusing discussion on a particular book during a one month period. The books discussed are nominated and chosen in advance by a vote of all members of the FSFFU-L list serve who choose to vote. Start thinking about your nominations now. To quote our list-mistress, "This does not prohibit discussion of the BDG books at other times; nor does it prohibit discussion of non-BDG books." If you have any other questions about the Book Discussion Group (BDG), it's selections, previous discussions or the Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopias Literature List Serve (FSFFU-L), you can start with the BDG website at; http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Comet/1304, or the FSFFU-L website at; http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/listserv/index.html -------------------------------------------------- This is the feministsf listserve, intended only for discussion of feminism and Speculative Fiction. To unsubscribe from this listserve, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU and in the body of the message say: unsubscribe feministsf Contact feministsf-request@UIC.EDU if there are problems.