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Scholarships For Teachers At The Nwsa Convention, Sue Elwell, Patti Lather

Women's Studies Quarterly

Despite the fact that approximately 70 percent of those being trained in schools of education are women, most schools of education, as Florence Howe has recently pointed out (Harvard Educational Review, Special Issue on Women, vol. 49, no. 4, November 1979), have been resistant to the impact of the women's movement. This situation underscores the mandate of NWSA to reach out to public school educators, who play a crucial role in either perpetuating or counteracting sex stereotyping and the low aspirations of women.

The plan to involve more preK-12 teachers in the Second NWSA Convention began with the …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Concerns Of Women's Studies Programs At The Nwsa Convention: A Graduate Student's Perspective, King Ming Young

Women's Studies Quarterly

As a graduate student, I found the Convention an inspiring educational experience. The high level of energy with which participants arrived became more intense as the week went by. A sense of excitement and a spirit of mission permeated the atmosphere. People were eager to share their experiences in women's studies and to learn from others. Many left with a heightened realization of how much remains to be done at their institution. They also left with an increased commitment to bringing about the needed institutional and social changes.

One concern prevailed throughout the Convention: how can NWSA avoid becoming a …

Nwsa News And Views, Elaine Reuben, Pat Gozemba, Jan Meriwether, Shelley Anderson, Polly Kellogg, Coralyn Fontaine, Norma J. Cobbs, Pat Miller

Women's Studies Quarterly

FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE

By Elaine Reuben

At the opening session of the 1980 NWSA Convention, Dale Spender urged U.S. feminist educators to educate themselves beyond national boundaries. She called for an extension of our consciousness-raising efforts to understand and appreciate differences within an international feminist movement: for our own sakes, as well as for our sisters around the globe.

In the Spring Newsletter editorial, Florence Howe noted the large questions and hard choices posed by a growing awareness of international developments in women's studies. "Should we be institution-building in the U.S. or helping, advising, missionizing, urging—and learning from—women's studies …

Poetry Reading: Third World Women Poets, Mary E. Gibson, Antonia Quintana Pigno, Joy Harjo

Women's Studies Quarterly

One of several poetry readings at the 1980 NWSA Conuention included the following poems.

On Class Bias And The Nwsa, Sue Dove Gambill

Women's Studies Quarterly

To the Women's Studies Newsletter:

Class is a difficult issue to work with because it has been so well disguised in the United States. Many of us aren't actually sure what economic and social class we come from nor how our class background has affected our values, beliefs, and actions. When I speak of class I do not mean only an economic concept, but also the way we perceive the world, where we place value.

Teaching About Women's Lives To Elementary School Children, Sandra Hughes

Women's Studies Quarterly

As sixth-grade teachers with a desire to teach students about the historical role of women in the United States, my colleague and I created a project for use in our classrooms which would maximize exposure to women's history with a minimum of teacher effort. This approach was necessary because of the small amount of time we had available for gathering and organizing material on the history of women and adapting it to the elementary level.

Since textbook material on women is practically nonexistent, we decided to have the students use the biographical approach. Each student was to read a biography …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Graduate Programs In Women's Studies, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following report is the latest addition to a continuing series of reports on graduate opportunities in Women's Studies, of which the first two reports may be found in the Fall 1978 (Vol. VI, No. 4) and Winter 1979 (Vol . VII, No. 1) issues of the Women's Studies Newsletter.

Women's Studies Programs offering graduate degrees were asked to respond to the following questions:

1. What is the curricular shape and major emphasis of your program? How flexible is it? How many (and which) credits and other requirements must be completed for the degree? Name your degree(s).

2. What …

Editorial: International Perspectives, F.H.

Women's Studies Quarterly

In this issue, among the items in the Graduate Women's Studies feature, you will find two M.A. programs at British universities. This is not an accident, but an illustration of the growth of women's studies around the globe. During March, I traveled for two weeks in a crammed visit to women's studies programs, scholars, and research centers in Oxford, London, Paris, and Rome. Perhaps because the unemployment of women academics is a serious problem, research seems more important than teaching, especially in a university context, where graduate scholarship in women's studies is helping Europeans to flesh out the history and …

Teaching Lesbian Poetry, Elly Bulkin

Women's Studies Quarterly

In all that has been written about teaching women's literature, about classroom approaches and dynamics, there is almost no discussion of ways to teach lesbian literature. As a teacher, you hesitate to write about it in detail (if at all) for the same reasons you hesitate to emphasize it—or even discuss it—in class and out: the fear of losing your job, of being denied tenure; the fear that, regardless of your sexual and affectional preference, you will be dismissed by your students as "just a lesbian." You may be concerned that students who feel hostile, skeptical, or even friendly toward …

The "Superwoman" Phenomenon, Carolyn Elliott

Women's Studies Quarterly

Ed. Note: The following article, originally a speech delivered to the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Symposium of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, provides a glimpse into the research that is going on at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. We would welcome similar reports from other women ·s studies research centers for an ongoing series in the Women's Studies Newsletter.

In an effort to establish themselves professionally, while preserving their identities as women, many women today are trying to do everything: to become "superwomen." Men are supporting women in this effort, not in the expectation that women …

Your Mind — Use It Or Lose It: Women's Studies In A Nursing Home, Dorothy Kilton

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following article, an example of student work, was sent in by Anne R. Barrett, Coordinator of the Women's Studies Nursing Home Education Project sponsored by the Women's Studies Program at the University of New Hampshire. Written by one of the elderly participants in the project, the essay, Barrett feels, "captures the spirit of our program most eloquently."

Barrett reports that she and her colleagues "are absolutely delighted with the outcome of the project. It is even more successful than we had originally anticipated. The average age of our students is 87, and we have added a new course this …

Teaching Research Methods In Women's Studies, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

"Research Methods in Women's Studies" is a two-credit-hour, 300-level course taught in the School of Library and Informational Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. One objective of this course is to ensure that students become regular, successful users of a library. The other is to introduce them to the wide variety of women's studies resources which are available at UMC and to make them aware of resources in other research collections, some of which may be available through interlibrary loan.

Nwsa News And Views, Pat Gozemba, Patricia A. Frech, Barbara Hillyer Davis, Barbara Parker, Marcia Westkott, Jerilyn Fisher

Women's Studies Quarterly

FROM THE STEERING COMMITTEE

Responding to the 1979 charge of the Finance Committee and the Delegate Assembly, the Coordinating Council devoted a major portion of its February 14-17 meeting in College Park to a discussion of finances. The clear intent of all sessions was the consideration of fiscal responsibility in terms of feminist principles and the goals of NWSA.

On February 13, several members of the 1979-80 Finance Committee (Liz Birch, Alice Stadthaus, Barbara Taylor, Mary Thornberry, and Robin Wright) met with the Steering Committee (Pat Gozemba, Jan Meriwether, and Kay Towns); the National Coordinator, Elaine Reuben; the National Staff …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Introduction To Women's Studies: New Textbook Being Developed At Hunter College, Nancy Dean, Sarah B. Pomeroy

Women's Studies Quarterly

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant to the Women's Studies Program of Hunter College for the writing of a textbook and instructional manual for the basic course, "Introduction to Women's Studies." Unlike other comprehensive women's studies textbooks which are described as multidisciplinary but are actually collections of individual chapters, each written from the perspective of a single discipline, Hunter's books will be thoroughly interdisciplinary, with each chapter written collectively.

The nine authors, from four divisions of the college—Humanities and the Arts, Social Sciences, and the professional schools of Nursing and Education—are: Ulku Bates, Nancy Dean, Florence …

Teaching Women's History To Men In Prison, Diane Tarmy Rudnick, Sayre Phillips Sheldon

Women's Studies Quarterly

"To me, real feminism means working together with other people to try to change the balance of power and wealth, working for everybody's right to human dignity."—Inmate at Massachusetts Correctional Institute, Norfolk

With all the problems of getting women's history accepted in traditional institutions, why try to introduce it in an environment that we could expect to be unsympathetic? The idea, when it was first suggested to us, sounded improbable.

As we discussed it, possibilities began to emerge. We were each giving courses at Boston University on women's history in America: one emphasizing the economic and social aspects, the …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Women's Studies At Emma Willard School, Edith Prescott

Women's Studies Quarterly

In our Fall issue (Vol. VII, No. 4), we published an article by historian Anne Firor Scott about Emma Willard, the pioneer feminist who founded the Troy Female Seminary in 1821. In the following article, a teacher at the school-now called Emma Willard School after its illustrious founder-brings us up to date on its continued progress in the area of women's education.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Introducing Manushi: An Indian Feminist Journal, Tobe Levin

Women's Studies Quarterly

"Liquor, the slaying of women and Shudras ... are all minor offences," according to Manu, the Hindu lawgiver. "To rape is human," asserts Mr. Joshi, Chief Minister of the province of Madhya Pradesh.

V. Meera calls on these voices of tradition to open her article, "Prisoners of Inequality: Sexual Abuse of Dalit Women," in an excellent new feminist bimonthly magazine called Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society. Manushi, whose title means "woman" in Hindi, first appeared in January 1979, as the pioneer publication of its kind in India. It is produced in Delhi by an independent feminist collective …

Nwsa News And Views, Elaine Reuben

Women's Studies Quarterly

FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE

By Elaine Reuben "Summing up the seventies," or looking ahead to the decade now beginning, I cannot adopt the weary/wary tone of most columnists and commentators.

The 1980 listing of women's studies programs in this issue reflects a ten-percent increase in the number of programs since the last compilation, with related growth in the number of certificates and degrees programs offer. NWSA's survey sought and obtained more detailed information than in the past, and we anticipate being able to maintain and provide such data more efficiently in the future.

Editorial: Toward Women's Studies In The Eighties: Part Two, F. H.

Women's Studies Quarterly

Toward Women's Studies in the Eighties: Part Two

In the last issue, we outlined a new challenge: infusing women's studies into general education and basic skills programs. Here, in an issue that includes a number of lists, we will offer one more editorially: a list of "understandings." The list below names the areas in which women's studies has developed "streams" of courses (disciplinary and interdisciplinary), and classifies areas of scholarship from which research agendas are emerging:

Face-To-Face, Day-To-Day, Racism Cr, Tia Cross, Freada Klein, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following consciousness-raising guidelines were developed as a way of enabling feminists to explore and understand their own racist feelings and behavior through the use of a uniquely feminist tool. "The CR format," the authors explained in a preface which originally appeared, along with the guidelines, in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, newspaper Sojourner (4:9 May 1979), "encourages personal sharing, risk-taking, and involvement, which are essential for getting at how each of us is racist in a daily way, and it encourages the 'personal' change that makes political transformation and action possible." Although the authors caution "that these guidelines are not instant …

A New Newsletter For Women's Studies In India, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

A Newsletter has been initiated in India by the Research Unit on Women's Studies. It contains information on the condition of women in India, on feminist activities, and on the progress of women's studies there, as well as international news. Its purpose is to provide a communications link "with individuals and institutions both in India and abroad."

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Reaching Out To The Community: The Mothers And Daughters Conference At Suny/New Paltz, Nancy Schniedewind

Women's Studies Quarterly

Last spring we held an intergenerational Mothers and Daughters Conference at SUNY/New Paltz that was attended by over 350 people, many of them grandmothers, mothers, and daughters from the same families. The impetus for the weekend conference had come from a group of women's studies faculty and students who, the Mother/ Daughter Relationship among Black mother / daughter relationship to a feminist during a discussion of the significant changes in our lives that involvement in women's studies had catalyzed, had begun to consider how exciting it would be if our mothers could share some of our new perspectives. At the …

A Note On Jewish Women's Studies In The United States, S. F.

Women's Studies Quarterly

As Israeli feminists attempt to connect with the women's movement outside Israel, Jewish feminists in the United States are attempting to connect with them and with the Jewish heritage both groups share. Due to the peculiarities inherent in that heritage, "Jewish Women's Studies" in the United States is as much in its infancy as feminist publishing in Israel. This past year, however, at the First Annual NWSA Convention, a session on Jewish Women's Studies: Theory and Practice took place, as well as a roundtable discussion on Feminism and Judaism, and a spontaneously organized Shabbat service that was inspiring for those …

Women's Studies And Science, Anne Fausto-Sterling

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following paper was originally a talk delivered at the Research Conference on Educational Environments and the Undergraduate Woman, sponsored by HERS , New England, at Wellesley College last year.

One manifestation of the rigid division of sex roles in our society is the fact that relatively few women are scientists, especially physical scientists and mathematicians. My interest in addressing the subject of women and the science curriculum stems from my desire to change this situation, to allow equal access of men and women into science. The college curriculum is only a small part of this problem. The different socialization …