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Peer On Title Ix, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

These comments represent the thinking of several major women's groups in Kalamazoo, Michigan: The Committee to Study Sex Discrimination in the Kalamazoo Public Schools, the Kalamazoo Area Chapter of the National Organization for Women, The Kalamazoo Young Womens Christian Association, the Commission of the Status of Women of Western Michigan University, the Kalamazoo League of Women Voters, and the Kalamazoo Branch of the American Association of University Women. They are one section of a lengthy critique of the Title IX Guidelines.

Re-Educating A Generation Of Teachers: A Conference Report, Jo Jacobs

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Feminist Press national conference "Toward Nonsexist Schools: Re-educating a Generation of Teachers" took place November 21, 22 and 23, 1974 on the campus of SUNY /College at Old Westbury. The program of this working conference was intended to provide specific methods and materials for public school teachers and administrators who are organizing in-service courses on sex-role stereo typing. More than 25 different workshops and panels presented new research on socialization, history and literature, and models for organizing and administering a women's studies in-service program.

News From The Staff, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Women's Studies Programs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Most of the programs listed below are interdisciplinary, i.e., they combine courses in literature, language or culture with work in sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, history, philosophy, psychology, biology and related fields. Some programs offer minors (denoted by *), others award the B.A. (denoted by **) or A.A. degree (denoted by ***), still others offer the M.A. (denoted by+). Only one offers the Ph.D. (denoted by †). Programs listed without a specific label offer a roster of elective courses. Where no chairperson is listed, either the program is still in the process of organization or it has chosen to function …

Phd In Women's History, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Department of History at the State University of New York at Binghampton has announced a "modest major in women's history." Graduate students may design their PhD program to complement a regular area and period major defined flexibly enough to allow for ample comparative and interdisciplinary work in women's studies.

Women's Studies Comes To The Military: Reflections On A Pilot Project, Margaret Mcfadden-Gerber

Women's Studies Quarterly

The overseas U.S. military base presents movement women with a complex and essentially hostile environment. The needs of four very different categories of women must be addressed: (1) women in uniform; (2) wives and daughters of servicemen; (3) wives and daughters of civil service employees; and (4) career civil service women. Since the "daughters" form a psychologically distinct group, they perhaps deserve their own niche. The picture is further complicated (and enriched) by the presence of numerous "host country" women who hold down a variety of jobs on base.

The "dependent wife," whether from the second or third category, experiences …

International News: Changing Children's Literature, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following is a list of women's groups in England working to change sexist children's literature.

Summary Of Issues Being Raised By Women's Groups Concerning The Proposed Regulations For Title Ix Of The Education Amendments Of 1972, Bernice Sandler, Mararet C. Dunkle, Frnacelia Gleaves, Kay Meckes-Jones, Louise Hunter

Women's Studies Quarterly

For a more detailed analysis of issues raised by women's groups, see The Congressional Record, July 18, 1974, E4863-4869, which contains a critique of the proposed Title IX regulations prepared by Rep. Bella Abzug and the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL). This can be obtained by writing your Representative or Senator.

Affirmative Action Under Attack, Sheila Tobias

Women's Studies Quarterly

It is doubtful that serious discussion of Richard A. Lester's book on affirmative action (Antibias Regulations of Universities: Faculty Problems and Their Solutions, McGraw-Hill, 1974) can ever undo the damage caused by the flurry of misleading articles that appeared about the book in the New York Times, Newsweek, and The Chronicle of Higher Education six months ago. "Minority Hiring Said to Hurt Colleges," the New York Times headlined its front-page piece, continuing that minority hiring had caused a "lowering of standards and an undermining of faculty quality." Readers were left to assume that Lester had hard …

Women's History Library Closes, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Women's History Research Center Library permanently closed on September 30, 1974. Known as the Women's History Library, it served as the only international archive of the contemporary women's movement since 1968. The Library contained both movement and non-movement information on women in a variety of forms: newsclippings, journals, autobiographies, biographies, diaries, pamphlets, women's studies course outlines, newsletters, newspapers, and magazines. Two collections of great importance were the women's serials (The International Women's History Periodical Archive) and the 2,000 topical files (The Topical Research Library). These collections were recently given away or sold to offset debts. They were transferred to, …

Women's Studies At A State College, Elaine Hedges

Women's Studies Quarterly

The number of requests received at Towson State College (Maryland) for information on our Women's Studies Program suggests that the growth and expansion of women's studies is creating an as yet unfulfilled need for descriptions of how programs came into being, how they operate, survive, and, hopefully, flourish. What follows is an abbreviated version of our experience as faculty at Towson, with emphasis on our nature as a public, specifically a state, institution, and on the ways in which we have both accommodated ourselves to and profited from that public status.

Letters To The Editor, Eleanor Flexner, Cheri Register, Jennifer Macleod, Sandra Silver(Wo)Man

Women's Studies Quarterly

Dear Friends, Although she warned severely against "condescension," the writer of the article "reporting" on feminism at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho (Women's Studies Newsletter, Summer 1974) struck me as having enough of that quality and a good deal to spare, when it comes to the state of things there. Just a little swat such as "U.S. 95, the only federally numbered goat trail in the country" struck a pretty sour note, and of course she is not even accurate (unless "county" was intended instead of "country") and certainly conveys no image of the situation in …

On Title Ix From The Feminist Press, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

[The following statement was sent to the Director of the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.]

We congratulate the Office for Civil Rights on the appearance of the Title IX Guidelines and on most of their content. We are convinced of the importance of this document for the equitable education of young people and others, and we are especially pleased to see in the Guidelines language that insists upon equal treatment for all students. Such criticism as we have of the Guidelines is generally of two sorts: we should prefer more specificity in a …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Kalamazoo On Textbooks And Curriculum, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

These comments represent the thinking of several major women's groups in Kalamazoo, Michigan: The Committee to Study Sex Discrimination in the Kalamazoo Public Schools, the Kalamazoo Area Chapter of the National Organization for Women, The Kalamazoo Young Womens Christian Association, the Commission of the Status of Women of Western Michigan University, the Kalamazoo League of Women Voters, and the Kalamazoo Branch of the American Association of University Women. They are one section of a lengthy critique of the Title IX Guidelines.

Campus News: University Of Texas/Arlington, Jeanne Ford

Women's Studies Quarterly

Feminists' activities at the University of Texas at Arlington have received official sanction in two areas: first, the Women's Studies Center completed its second year by offering five courses and conducting a research project; second, reports for the Status of Women Committee have drawn attention to inequities in salary and promotion policies.

In October 1971, as a direct result of the feminist movement throughout the nation, the former president of the University appointed six faculty and six staff members to the Status of Women Committee, currently seven women and five men. While no student is presently represented on the Committee, …

Beyond God The Father: An Essay Review, Anne Barstow Driver

Women's Studies Quarterly

Mary Daly has attacked patriarchal values where they originated and where they remain most entrenched, in the religious institutions of our society . Daly blasted the church's anti-feminism six years ago in her widely-read book The Church and the Second Sex. Now she has criticized the theological assumptions that underlie those anti-feminine practices. More than that, in Beyond God the Father (Beacon Press, 1973) she has promised to move beyond criticism to begin a reconstruction of theology. She will give equal validity to both male and female experience in order to make a new spiritual revolution. As one who is …

Sexism In The Social Work Curriculum, Mary C. Schwartz

Women's Studies Quarterly

The purpose of this paper is to examine parts of the social work curriculum in order to discover the various kinds of sexist bias present in the materials used in social work education. My intent is to give a sense of what these sexist biases might be by discussing some concrete illustrations from materials used in two basic social work courses, "human growth and development" and "family casework." The course on human growth and development is supposed to provide part of the crucial knowledge base that a social worker needs in order to formulate a psychosocial diagnosis and treatment plan. …

Making The Most Out Of Scarcity: Role Models In Motion, Ellen Kimmel

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women psychologists in the South are doing something about the problem of minority status in their profession. Less than 20 percent of all psychologists are female. Worse yet, even a smaller number are employed in academic institutions where they might serve as role models for women students who are in the process of choosing a career. In fact, only nine percent of the faculty of Southern psychology departments are female. Since jobs in psychology usually require a doctorate, young women must prepare for such careers much as they would for law or medicine. But what if women students attend institutions …

Title Ix And Equality For Women Students In Sports, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following excerpt comes from an excellent pamphlet entitled "What Constitutes Equality for Women in Sport?" prepared by the Project on the Status and Education of Women at the Association of American Colleges, 1818 R Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009. The report includes a thorough review of Title IX and athletics as well as several rich pages on resources, including publications.

International News: New Feminist Presses, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Affirmative Action: Process Or Product?, Paul Lauter

Women's Studies Quarterly

There seems to be a trap lying in wait not too far down the road for those of us committed to affirmative action. Let's carry out the logic of "open hiring" procedures-if we may use that term to describe a process of broad advertising and search to fill each vacant position. Increasingly, in a tight job market, every advertisement produces a flood of applications: 90 to fill one history position; hundreds to fill another. Even the most humane committee or administrator will search for mechanical means to categorize a large number of unknown quantities. The logic of the process leads …

Feminist Medea Premieres, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Westbeth Playwrights' Feminist Collective will present Seattle playwright Gloria Albee's feminist Medea, directed by Patricia Carmichael, at the Westbeth Gallery Theatre, 155 Bank St., January 17-19, 24-26, 31; February 1 and 2. Friday and Sunday the performance begins at 8:00 PM, Saturday at 7:00 and 10:00 PM. Admission is $2.50.

Special Double Issue: Supplement On Title Ix, F. H.

Women's Studies Quarterly

"God Bless Title IX" say the newest buttons in Washington, D.C. (available for 25¢ from the Project on the Status of Women, 1818 R Street, Washington, D.C. 20009) and the mood of feminists there and along the east coast is equally equivocal. Some feel that the Guidelines raise more problems than they solve; others are glad to have anything at all with which to approach the sexism of school systems; and most wish the Guidelines were firmer, more specific, and more inclusive. At the same time, there is some concern about the life of female or feminist institutions, especially those …

Scholarships/Fellowships, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Why Discuss Men In Sexist Society?, Agate Nesaule Krouse, Barbara Taylor Desmarais

Women's Studies Quarterly

Can we ever stop worrying about men? When we teach women's studies courses, work with women's caucuses in professional organizations, or speak to various groups about feminism, we often do more than our duty. In addition to dealing with the problems of of women, we also consider those of men. Recently, however, both of us have begun re-evaluating our efforts. Our experience with a particularly bothersome workshop, "Women and Men in Sexist Society," started us thinking.

As co-chairwomen of the Midwest Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages, we were responsible for organizing five workshops for the 1973 Midwest Modern Language …

News Briefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Review Of Women In America By Thomas Crowell, Laurie Olsen Johnson

Women's Studies Quarterly

From time to time we will review at length some special books or series of note. This, the first of those longer reviews, will replace the usual short book reviews this quarter. Women in America is a Thomas Crowell series available in hardcover ($5.50 each). Dell plans to reprint those marked with an asterisk.

Block, Irvin. The Lives of Pearl Buck: a Tale of China and America.

McKown, Robin. The World of Mary Cassatt.

*Meltzer, Milton. Tongue of Flame: the Life of Lydia Maria Child.

*Meltzer, Milton, Lawrence Lader. Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of Birth Control.

*Moore, …

News Briefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.