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Letter To The Editors, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

I just read your report on education in Minnesota in the Women's Studies Newsletter (Winter 1974). I'm pleased that you gave some coverage to Minnesota, which, from my current geographical vantage point, seems like a progressive paradise. However, the emphasis in your paragraph on the State Board of Education is somewhat misleading.

You mention the State Department of Education's certification requirement and then add that "groups like the feminist Emma Willard Task Force" have been used to teach the sexism component. Actually, there would be no such certification requirement without the Emma Willard Task Force. I am one of the …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Black Feminists Organize Nationally, Barbara Smith

Women's Studies Quarterly

On Saturday, December 1, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm declared to a jubilant group of listeners: "I am so glad to be here this morning. I said that if there were only six of us here this morning, it would be a beginning." Over four hundred Black women had gathered in New York to hear and applaud Ms. Chisholm as she gave the keynote address for the First Regional Conference of the National Black Feminist Organization.

All of us who were there, despite our abundant numbers and far-flung geographic origins, knew why Ms. Chisholm had anticipated a turnout of under ten. Never …

Do-It-Ourselves Slideshow, Corrine Lucido

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following is an excerpt from a forthcoming book by Corrine Lucido to be published by The Feminist Press. Community Workshops On Children's Books grew out of a project funded by the Rockefeller Family Fund.

Have you ever thought of using a slide show to dramatize the findings of a feminist project you've been working on in your own community? If so, you probably wondered how much time was involved, how much it would cost and what special skills you might need to make one. We asked these same questions last year when we considered making slides for our Community …

News From Schools, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

In addition to the Kalamazoo reports mentioned above and in addition to the ones we know about from New York, Berkeley and Ann Arbor (all listed in Feminist Resources which is available from The Feminist Press for $1.25), the following feminist documentations of sexism in particular school systems have come to our attention.

News Briefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Review Of American Voices, American Women By Lee Edwards, Arlyn Diamond, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

American Voices, American Women edited and with an introduction by Lee Edwards and Arlyn Diamond (Avon, New York, 1973: paperback, $1.95) provides a new resource for the teacher of literature and women's studies.

Review Of The Crystal Nights By Michele Murray, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Crystal Nights by Michele Murray (Seabury Press, New York, 1973: hardback, $6.95) is an unusual addition to young adult fiction because it is written with a feminist perspective that deals with the inter-related issues of class and ethnicity and therefore speaks realistically to the feelings and experiences of many adolescent women. Powerful enough for an adult audience as well, the story centers on Elly Joseph, a teenager growing up working class in Connecticut in the late 1930's.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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News From Campuses, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Additions to our Women's Studies Programs list.

Tillie Olsen's Reading List Iv: A List Out Of Which To Read, Extend Range, Comprehension, Tillie Olsen

Women's Studies Quarterly

Tillie Olsen is the author of Tell Me A Riddle, stories about the fives of working-class women and men, used frequently in literature, writing and women's studies courses. She has been sharing her often requested reading lists with us in past issues of the Women's Studies Newsletter (No. 2 Winter 1972, No. 3 Spring 1973, No. 4 Summer 1973), and continues to do so on this issue with her reading list on the younger years of women's lives.

New Overview Of Women's Studies Courses, Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt

Women's Studies Quarterly

What follows is part of the Introduction to a new anthology of syllabi, bibliographies, descriptions of courses and programs called Female Studies VII: Going Strong, available from the Clearinghouse for $4.00 plus .50 for postage and handling.

The growth of women's studies in the past two years has been phenomenal. In 1971, when Female Studies III (the last volume in this series with similar content) was published, there were about 600 courses, about twenty programs. There are now well over 2000 courses and over eighty programs. Geographically they range in the United States from Orono, Maine to Honolulu, Hawaii, …

Feminist History Exam, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The women's movement, we have heard, lacks humor. Here's some evidence to the contrary—and from an unexpected source. What follows is a final examination given on May 23, 1973 to students in "History of Women," at Manhattan Community College (CUNY). The professor: Dr. Abby R. Kleinbaum.

News From Minnesota, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

From a visit to Minneapolis, Carol Ahlum, a staff member of The Feminist Press, learned of developments on varied levels of the Minnesota public school system that exhibit the existence and possibilities of citizens and educators working toward nonsexist education. We hope the brief accounts that follow will spark others to share with the Newsletter similar developments in their own communities.

Title Ix: A Tool For Change, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1972 states: "No person in the United States shall on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

Mills College Conference On Women's Education, Kathy Salisbury

Women's Studies Quarterly

A national conference, "Beyond Sexism: Educating Women for the Future," was held November 9, 10, and 11 at Mills College in Oakland, California with the purpose of sharing new ideas and new questions on the future of women's education. Approximately 500 women (and a handful of men), many of them from the California state college and university system, attended the Ford Foundation sponsored conference.

I arrived in Oakland with luggage consisting for the most part of boxes and folders of papers, newsletters, and brochures from the University of Massachusetts School of Education Women's Caucus and the University's Everywoman's Center, a …

Where Are The Women Superintendents?, Jacqueline P. Clement

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women in elementary and secondary education have watched with envy these past few years as their sisters in higher education formed caucuses and affirmative action committees; consulted with and documented for HEW officials their institutions' hiring practices; and generally moved ahead to seek new opportunities in employment and training for women. Women were in demand in university presidents' offices, as assistants to deans, and as members of advisory committees to prestigious councils. Colleges and universities holding government contracts were responding to Presidential Executive Order 11246 which required them to demonstrate that their hiring practices were non-discriminatory with regard to sex …

Kalamazoo: A Model For Change, Carol Ahlum

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Superintendent of Schools in Kalamazoo, Michigan has made one of his performance objectives the elimination of sexism in schools. This action came at the suggestion of his administrative staff, and since September all school personnel have been directed to take this goal as one of their objectives. As the Superintendent informed me, these objectives are not rhetorical. All administrators and teachers are required to keep descriptive records about how they are eliminating sexism.

This fall, Kalamazoo's elementary school teachers are countering sex-stereotyping in a newly-purchased Houghton Mifflin reading program by using a supplementary book-length collection of revisions to their …

Review Of American Black Women In The Arts And Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey By Ora Williams, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey by Ora Williams (Scarecrow; Metuchen, New Jersey, 1973 : $5.00) provides a clear, well-organized listing of close to 2,000 works by and about Black women in the U.S.

Review Of Academic Women On The Move By Alice S. Rossi, Ann Calderwood, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Academic Women on the Move edited by Alice S. Rossi and Ann Calderwood (Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1973: hardcover, $12.50) is the first complete survey, since the development of political activism among academic women, of the status of women in higher education. The book consists of twenty qualitative essays, each documenting one particular area in which academic women have been challenging sexism in academe: curriculum, counseling, recruitment, training, affirmative action, professional associations.

La Mujer Chicana, Erlinda Gonzales Berry

Women's Studies Quarterly

La Mujer Chicana, a course in the Women's Studies Program at the University of New Mexico, was taught for the third time in the fall of 1973. The idea for the course germinated in an organization called Las Chicanas. Dissatisfied with their "women's auxiliary role" in the activities of the Chicano Center on campus, these women decided to come together to conduct consciousness-raising sessions. Most of the group were reluctant to become involved in the women's movement, for they felt the kind of intimidation Chicanas often feel before men and white women. But they also felt a strong need for …