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Landmarks Of The Mind--A Nostalgic View Of Familiar Sights At Brooklyn College, Fred Moreno

Brooklyn College History

Article in the Brooklyn College Alumni Association Bulletin

Are They The First Two Women's Studies Ph.D.'S?, Sally Wagner, Karen Rotkin

Women's Studies Quarterly

Dear Ms. Reuben:

In June we both graduated from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The History of Consciousness Board of Studies is interdisciplinary, and it is possible within the program to concentrate in an established discipline. Both of us concentrated our study within the area of women's studies; we had women's studies faculty on our oral and dissertation committees. Karen's dissertation was "The Social Construction of Female Sexual Experience," and Sally's was "That Word is Liberty: A Biography of Matilda Joslyn Gage" (a nineteenth-century American feminist).

No Longer "Just Us Chickens", Annette Niemtzow, Paula Mayhew

Women's Studies Quarterly

Dear Women's Studies Newsletter:

We read the Summer issue (Vol. VI, No. 3) with real interest and enthusiasm, gleaning vital information about NWSA events and organizational meetings and enjoying the longer articles and reports, especially Hester Eisenstein's piece on the Barnard Women's Studies Program.

We are writing out of deep concern, however, that the pages of the Women's Studies Newsletter—and other feminist news sources—not be limited to the retelling of our success in feminist areas, and in women's studies in particular. It has become clear to us, as it is to all of you, that Women's Studies Programs, …

More Bad News From Virginia, Suzette Henke

Women's Studies Quarterly

Dear Professor Howe:

As you may recall, I wrote to you describing the state of women's studies at the University of Virginia in the summer of 1975 (Women's Studies Newsletter, Vol. IV, No. 1). Since that time, there has been almost no perceptible change in the administrative policy at Virginia; things seem to be getting worse rather than better. In the last two years, the university has denied tenure to all female and black assistant professors under consideration. The statistics I will quote are almost exactly the same as those cited in 1975.

Women Mathematicians: A Bibliography, Karen D. Rappaport

Women's Studies Quarterly

Although long ignored or unrecognized, there have been several notable women in the history of mathematics. That the list is not long is due to the barriers presented to women trying to study mathematics. Those who were able to learn the subject encountered many more difficulties in their attempts to apply their knowledge. Yet in spite of these difficulties there were women who, because of circumstances, force of will, and/or brilliance, were able to achieve some recognition.

Graduate Programs In Women's Studies, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women's Studies Programs offering graduate degrees recently responded 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 kinds of students are you interested in? What are your official (and unofficial) requirements and expectations of students? Provide relevant information about application deadlines, interviews etc.

3. What is the cost of your program? Are forms of financial aid or teaching assistantships available? Is housing available or especially difficult or expensive to obtain? …

Nwsa News And Views, Elaine Reuben, Charol Shakeshaft, Kay Towns, Ann H. Beuf, Jackie Macaulay

Women's Studies Quarterly

Elaine Reuben

FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE

Summer is traditionally known as a "slow" season in the Washington area, and an organization like NWSA, involving so many students and teachers, also seems to "take a break" between semesters. I can't speak for the Federal folk—except to note that July's march on the Capitol was followed by their extending the deadline for ratification of the ERA—but our work continued.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

A Literature Of Survivors: On Teaching Canada's Women Writers, Cathy N. Davidson

Women's Studies Quarterly

"Do all feminists kill themselves or go crazy - or does that only happen in the books feminists write?"

I am reminded of this question put to meby a student in the first Women and Literature course I taught, whenever I look over a syllabus which begins with, say, The Awakening or The House of Mirth and ends with such writers as Plath or Sexton. Of course, we teach more than plot summary and biography. Set in its context, Edna Pontellier's "awakening" should be historically, sociologically, and psychologically illuminating for the contemporary student. But we must also accept the fact …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Editorial: "But What "Is" A Women's Studies Program?", The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Oberlin College, October 1, 1978 "But What IS a Women's Studies Program?"

In several respects a Women's Studies Program is more difficult to define today than it was eight or nine years ago, when there were two of them—at San Diego State University and Cornell. Those two programs had a couple of characteristics in common: They were campus-based, academic programs that offered courses for credit to undergraduates. They had been begun by faculty and students conscious of the "political" statement inherent in announcing that a group of courses had become a "program."

The Coming Of Age Of The Berkshire Conference, Alison Bernstein

Women's Studies Quarterly

Over twelve hundred people attended the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, which took place on August 23-25, 1978, at Mt. Holyoke College. The program included more than eighty different papers, topics, and presentations. Clearly, the Berkshire Conference, which this year celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the original group, has come of age. It has become an acceptable way for historians to make their reputations in the profession, and people are eager to list their participation on their resumes. Since 1973, when the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians orchestrated the first of these gatherings at Douglass College and …

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 Min) or certificates (denoted by Cer); others award the A.A. degree or the B.A. degree; still others offer the M.A. or Ph.D. Programs listed without a specific label offer a roster of elective courses. Where no coordinator, director, or chairperson is listed, either the program is still in the process of organization or it has chosen to function through a …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Editorial, Florence Howe

Women's Studies Quarterly

I am sending in this editorial from West Berlin, where, as visiting professor of women's studies at the Kennedy Institute for American Studies, I am teaching two seminars on women writers this summer. Mainly teachers and teachers-to-be are enrolled in the courses.

Major issues are being debated here in Berlin this summer. What is the future of women's studies at the Free University of the Kennedy Institute, where the last of three feminist faculty members will be leaving in March? And where there are no plans for replacing any of the three junior faculty members whose contracts have ended? A …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Poems By Minnie Bruce Pratt, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Poems.

Women's Studies At Barnard College: Alive And Well And Living In New York, Hester Eisenstein

Women's Studies Quarterly

It may seem somewhat confusing to be reading an article in 1978 on the new Women's Studies Program at Barnard College. After all, people say, haven't you had women's studies there for years? The answer is, well, yes and no. Of course there have been women's studies courses at Barnard for many years. Annette Baxter's History of American Women was one of the earliest courses in the country, first taught in the fall of 1966. Similarly, Catharine R. Stimpson introduced a course on Images of Women in Literature in the spring of 1971. The Barnard Women's Center was begun in …

To Our Readers, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Women's Studies Newsletter welcomes both brief news articles and longer essays of description and analysis about any aspect of feminist education. We are eager for accounts of women's studies in elementary or secondary schools. In particular, also, we would like to receive essays or shorter pieces on women's centers—their functions on campus or in the community and their relationship to women's studies programs. Please send us two typed copies of your article and include a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

On Novels By Black American Women: A Bibliographical Essay, Rita B. Dandridge

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following is part of a bibliographical essay which will appear in Black Women's Studies, to be published by The Feminist Press. The complete essay goes on to include extensive bibliographical information on individual Black women novelists.

Novels written by Black American women have been woefully neglected by scholars, Black and white. They have been mentioned in footnotes, cited in cross-references, tucked away in bibliographies, and glossed over in reviews and surveys. Few are mentioned in the Encyclopedia Americana. No comprehensive study of the novel by Black American women exists. To date, no individual Black American female novelist and her …

A Student's Journal: On Menstruation, Yolette Garaud

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following is an excerpt from a journal written for the Introduction to Women's Studies course taught this year by Naomi Rosenthal at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. Yolette Garaud is not a native English speaker; she was born in Haiti in 1952 and came to the United States in 1971. She is now an undergraduate at Old Westbury, where she is majoring in biochemistry. Unable to write the first journal assignment, she produced the following piece within six weeks of the beginning of the course. Interestingly, according to the instructor, it was being asked to …

Closeup On Women's Studies Courses: Feminist Theory And Practice, Melanie Kaye

Women's Studies Quarterly

This list is compiled annually as an educational service of the Women's Studies Newsletter Box 334, Old Westbury, NY 11568) and the National Women's Studies Association (4102 Foreign Languages Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), and it is available from both. Compilers in 1978 were Sharon Hagan and Elaine Reuben for NWSA; Shirley Frank and Florence Howe for the Women's Studies Newsletter.

Part-Time Work And Part-Time Leave, Sheila Tobias

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Modern Language Association convention in December 1977 included a panel on the subject of "Women and Part-Time Work." Joanne Spencer Kantrowitz, moderator, explained that, in forming the panel at the request of the Commission on the Status of Women, her "one objective was to create a group where men and women could discuss, together (and dispassionately, if possible), an area where women are consistently "used."

"In recent years," Kantrowitz noted, "the part-time category has become a male professional problem, too, as some institutions have seized on it as a convenient cost-cutting device which uses the surplus of …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Nwsa News, Elaine Reuben, Elsa Greene, Billie Wahlstrom, Maija S. Blaubergs, Blanche Hersh, Berenice A. Carroll

Women's Studies Quarterly

Elaine Reuben

FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE

The 1978-79 academic year promises to be an important and productive time for NWSA.

I am very pleased to be able to report that the Association has received a small grant from The Ford Foundation, $25,000 for a period of fifteen months, to support and strengthen this office and its capacity to reach and serve persons and groups working in women's studies.

This grant will make it possible to prepare and distribute membership and other Association materials throughout the country, will allow the Association's Steering Committee to meet and to communicate more effectively with …

Women's Studies In India: A Bibliographical Note, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

In two of India's major cities, there are centers for women's studies. Thus far, they are research centers and places where growing library collections allow them to be of use to scholars and to teachers interested in changing their curriculum. Both of these centers would be grateful to U.S. scholars, women's studies centers , publishers, and libraries willing to share their resources and to send copies of books, articles, or pamphlets to India. In the annotations that follow, the address of each center precedes a brief description of its projects and list of its publications, all of which are recommended …

Letter From India... Written Later, Florence Howe

Women's Studies Quarterly

This is not an easy letter to write, though I write easily. I could not write it from India. I am undecided even now about how to write it. Perhaps I should begin with pictures: a naked five-year-old girl gently placing a barely-clothed infant in the shade of a parked car, then running before me up the steps of Old Delhi's grandest mosque, her right hand moving rapidly from her mouth out towards me in a gesture that is unmistakable even on my first day in the noon heat. A bouquet of brilliant sareedraped women-twenty-four circles on the floor before …

Facts About Women In Higher Education, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following is the conclusion of a WEAL report, the first half of which appeared in our Winter 1978 issue.

WOMEN GRADUATES IN THE JOB MARKET

What we have, in the final analysis, is a core group of exceptionally well-motivated and well-qualified women. The question is: Do they have equal access to available jobs? The answer is no. The proportion of women who received their doctorates in 1976 and who were seeking employment was 26.5% compared with 19.7% for men. These figures suggest that the availability pool of women is larger than the actual percentage of doctorates they earn, 23.3% …

The Sarah Lawrence Summer Institute In Women's History, Amy Swerdlow

Women's Studies Quarterly

In the summer of 1976, 43 high school teachers from 16 states across the country participated at Sarah Lawrence College in an intensive three-week Summer Institute on the Integration of Women's History into the High School Curriculum. The Institute was conceived by the Committee on Women Historians of the American Historical Association, sponsored by the American Historical Association, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and co-sponsored and designed by the Graduate Program in Women's History at Sarah Lawrence.

Responding to a need among high school teachers for training and materials in women's history, which has proven to be …