Posted: 14 Jul 97
MINERVA to Publish Book by Disabled Woman Veteran
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MINERVA CENTER WILL PUBLISH BOOK BY DISABLED WOMAN VETERAN
The MINERVA Center, Inc., a non-profit educational foundation
with headquarters in Pasadena, Maryland, announced that it has
acquired publication rights to a long-awaited book by Donna M.
Dean, Ph.D. entitled Warriors Without Weapons: The Victimization
of Military Women. The book will be published in October.
Dr. Dean, a trained psychologist, was a victim of sexual and
non-sexual trauma during her 18-year career in the Navy. Now a
100% permanently disabled veteran suffering from Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder she can no longer maintain a clinical practice.
But before her disability became total, she was well-known as a
mental health therapist working with women veterans suffering
from PTSD. For many years she was deeply involved with attempts
to improve services for women veterans in VA facilities.
In Warriors Without Weapons, Dr. Dean shares her personal
experiences while in the military and later while applying for
benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Her analysis of
PTSD in military women includes painfully frank interviews with
traumatized veterans illuminated by Dr. Dean's sensitive
understanding and professional insights. But the book also
reflects the author's own agony and rage. The book is a wounded
healer's gift to traumatized women veterans, to their therapists,
to the friends and families who love them, and to the American
public whose understanding of the horrors many women have faced
while serving their country is essential to preventing future
abuse and suffering.
"Warriors Without Weapons is a book only the MINERVA Center
could publish," says Dr. Linda Grant De Pauw, founder and
president of the Center. "The book is too personal and
passionate for university presses and too scholarly and practical
for trade publishers. The purpose of the MINERVA Center is to
provide information and inspiration on subjects relating to women
in war and women and the military, so Dr. Dean's book is exactly
right for us." De Pauw pointed to a previous publication of
the Center as an example. "When we published An Uncommon
Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman in 1994,
no other publisher wanted it. Now it is recognized as an
essential work on women in the Civil War."
Prepublication review copies of Warriors Without Weapons are
available through the MINERVA Center. Dr. Dean lives in seclusion
in Westport, Washington and is not available for interviews.
Contact: Dr. Linda Grant De Pauw
minervacen@aol.com
(410) 437-5379
http:\\www.minervacenter.com
Posted: 14 Jul 97
Warriors Without Weapons: The Victimization of Military Women
There is now a web page devoted to the forthcoming book by
Donna M. Dean, Warriors Without Weapons: The Victimization of
Military Women. You can find information about the book and a
special prepublication offer at
http://minervacenter.com/donna.htm
Please pass this information on to women veterans web pages,
newsgroups, and chat rooms. If you know women veterans who are
not on line, please print the page and share it with them.
The Minerva Center is a non-profit educational foundation with
limited resources. We must depend on unconventional promotional
efforts to publicize this important new book.
Thank you
Linda Grant De Pauw
President
The MINERVA Center, Inc.
20 Granada Road
Pasadena, MD 21122-2708
(410) 437-5379
minervacen@aol.com
http://www.minervacenter.com
Professor of History
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
"information and inspiration women and the military"
Posted: 19 Jun 97
Writing Opportunity (Deadline 31 Aug 97)
Originally posted in the h-minerva
list, 18 Jun 97
Approved-By: MinervaCen@AOL.COM
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:53:43 -0400
Reply-To: H-NET List for Discussion of Women & the Military
and Women in War H-MINERVA@h-net.msu.edu>
Sender: H-NET List for Discussion of Women & the Military and
Women in
War <H-MINERVA@h-net.msu.edu>
From: "Linda Grant De Pauw, H-MINERVA"
<MinervaCen@aol.com>
Subject: Call for
fiction/poetry for special Minerva Quarterly Issue
Date: 97-06-18 01:30:40 EDT
From: STEAMGENE@aol.com
MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women
and the Military will have a special issue dedicated to fiction
and poetry dedicated to women and the military and/or war. The
fiction may range from fantasy to realistic, from historical
fiction to science fiction. Woman may be warriors, nurses,
service wives, service daughters, or volunteers to assist the
military. The woman's role must be positive, which does not mean
she must support the military. (I'm thinking particularly here of
the anti-war effort of American girls and women during Vietnam as
well as World War II anti-fascist partisan activity.) No
gratuitous sex or violence will be accepted. Any length up to
6000 words will be accepted, but brevity will be a plus. No epic
poems. Quite frankly, this is a one of a kind issue and I, for
one, would like to see as many different views as possible.
Deadline for submission is midnight, EDT, 31 August, 1997. The
preferred format for submission is cut and paste to a email
message. DO NOT ATTACH A FILE. IT WILL NOT BE OPENED. If the
story is too long for one message, simply divide it and send in
parts, clearly labelled. If you show this to a friend who is a
writer but not on the Internet, contact the editor for mailing
instructions. Guest editor is Gene Moser. Gene has a bachelor's
degree in English from The College of William and Mary and has
poetry, nonfiction and fiction published in various periodicals.
He is an active Minerva on-line participant. Gene is a retired
Army Field Artillery Lieutenant Colonel, an Army brat, and
teaches high school English. Submissions should be to him at:
steamgene@aol.com or footlocker@military-brats.com
Gene Moser
MINERVA "Information and Inspiration"
Women and War + Women and the Military
Announcing the MINERVA List Discussion on women and the military and women in war. This list is sponsored by The MINERVA Center, Inc., a non-profit educational foundation devoted to promoting the study of women and the military and women in war.
Since 1983, the Center has pursued its mission through print publication. We have two quarterly periodicals: "MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military" which carries major articles by historians, sociologists, political scientists and other scholars as well as contributions from independent researchers, oral histories, bibliographies, and occasionally short stories and poetry. The second publication is "Minerva's Bulletin Board," an international news magazine on women and the military which carries brief news items from around the world as well as a column of Letters to MINERVA and a regular column contributed by WANDAS.
The MINERVA Center also publishes books. In 1994 we published Lauren Cook Burgess, ed., "An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers," which will have a paperback edition released by Oxford University Press in March 1996. In December, 1996 we released a special Fiftieth Anniversary paperback edition of C. Kay Larson, "'Til I Come Marching Home: A Brief History of American Women in World War II ."
Dr. Linda Grant De Pauw, Ph.D., the President of The MINERVA Center, is also Professor of History at The George Washington University, which is the only institution offering graduate training in the women's military history specialty. This list was given a jump start in September 1995 by the students enrolled in her Reading Seminar on Women and War.
The MINERVA list is open to anyone with a serious interest in its subject matter and encourages a variety of contributions. We offer a forum for exchange between scholars and for the current concerns of active duty women and women veterans (including "civilian" veterans like members of the Red Cross and military wives). We are eager to receive personal memories, inquiries, unsolicited book reviews, information on meetings, and cross-postings from other parts of cyberspace.
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