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Women's Studies Newsletter November 1988, Women's Studies

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Women's Studies newsletter November 1988. Contents: CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; A LOOK AT POST-CHRISTIAN FEMINIST SPIRITUALITY, by C. Julia Coon; ON TRILOGY (FOR H.D.), by Jennie Dawes; PROSE PIECE, by Lauren Williams; MAUD DIVORCED FROM YEATS, by Debra Benko; CAMILLE WAS NO LADY, by Deborah Fleming; MORAL REASONING: A NEW LOOK, by Jeffrey D. Tritt; THE LAIS-MARIE DE FRANCE, by Melissa Wellington; THE CARRIAGE OF CHANTAL DE LA TOUR, COMPANION TO CHARLOTTE DE LA TREMOILLE, COUNTESS OF DERBY: THE FICTIONAL DIARY OF A WOMAN IN CIVIL WAR ENGLAND, by Debra Benko; SILENCE = DEATH, ACTION = LIFE, by Amie Klemphauer; Co-editors: Debra …

Maine, Volume 69, Number 2, Spring 1988, University Of Maine Alumni Association

UMaine Alumni Magazines - All

Contents:

UM Starts Planning Against AIDS --- New Carnegie Director Sets High Standards for UM Museum --- Hockey Comes of Age at Maine --- Sandra Bartolini Lawrence '71, the First Woman VP at Gillette --- The Balancing Act: Married Maine Alumnae Look at the Choices Open to Women Regarding Careers and Family --- Radon: Mother Nature's Hidden Health Hazard

Special Combined Women's Studies And Black Studies Newsletter 1988, Women's Studies, Black Studies

Looking Back, Looking Forward

1988 combined issue of Women's Studies and Black Studies newsletter. Topics include: Black Economic Progress? Employment Then and Now; Dress For What Kind of Success?; Are Women at Denison Starving Themselves?; Planned Parenthood: Misunderstandings and Realities; "Girl" or "Woman"?; Black Fraternities and Sororities; A Black Feminist Search for Sisterhood; Continuing Questions; Investments in South Africa: A Moral Question.

Women, And Health In Rural India: An Anthropological Perspective, Kelly S. Ward

Honors Papers

In chapter one I define the problem, that public health in rural India is mostly governed by cultural and socio-economic forces. Efforts to improve rural health in India have in the past had varying levels of success, depending on how well they understood the root causes of problems and the ramifications their programs would have on the general lives of rural inhabitants.

I argue that social science literature has largely misunderstood the issues which need to be addressed, viewing health problems as results of "irrational" behavior by rural peoples. I argue that the question of rationality. whether one accuses or …