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Tillie Olsen's Reading List Iii Women: A List Out Of Which To Read, Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen's Reading List Iii Women: A List Out Of Which To Read, Tillie Olsen
Women's Studies Quarterly
MOST WOMEN'S LIVES (continued) MOTHERING AND WIFEHOOD: Mothering (as distinguished from Motherhood) and Wifehood are rarely a major or even minor part of literature, although women have always been defined by them, and they are the major part of most women's lives. Women's courses do not know, or do not understand, the necessity of including the relatively few works that tell something of what mothering and/or wifehood mean.
Mc Aulay Vs. Board Of Education: If You Want To Be A Test Case..., Mary Mcaulay
Mc Aulay Vs. Board Of Education: If You Want To Be A Test Case..., Mary Mcaulay
Women's Studies Quarterly
My initial confrontation with the New York City Board of Education bureaucracy came when I objected strongly to a written directive from my principal telling his administrators to hire only male teachers. After 13 years of teaching, I was abruptly given an unsatisfactory rating and a punitive transfer. N.Y. State Supreme Court Judge Wilfred A. Waltemade ruled that all I had done was criticize the administration and that punishment without any sort of a hearing was "repugnant to the principles of justice." The Board of Education duly gave me a hearing which found me guilty as charged. N.Y. State Supreme …
A New Inservice Training Model: Sf Conference/Course On School Sexism, Laurie Olsen Johnson
A New Inservice Training Model: Sf Conference/Course On School Sexism, Laurie Olsen Johnson
Women's Studies Quarterly
A conference/course, "The Hidden Curriculum: Discovering and Overcoming School Sexism," was offered through the University of California Extension Division, San Francisco, in the spring of 1973. The course, two intensive weekends with intervening work weeks, was planned and administered by Wendy Roberts and Miriam Wasserman. Thirty-five resource people ran the workshops, and many of them helped to plan the course. Sixty-five female and male educators, parents, and concerned others attended. The course was given through an established teacher-education institution for a number of reasons: it provided a guaranteed, though small, amount of money for running the course and the facilities …
Closeup: An Elementary School Classroom, Jacqueline M. Fralley
Closeup: An Elementary School Classroom, Jacqueline M. Fralley
Women's Studies Quarterly
Martha Batten was beginning her sixth year of elementary school teaching when she first came into her combined fifth and sixth grade class at the Wildwood School in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1971. Ms. Batten spoke with us about her experiences teaching and learning with this group, and described the ways in which her own changing awareness about sexism and sexroles led her to focus and design classwork. Although she found that peer group and other pressures to conform to stereotyped roles were tremendously difficult to break through, she was able to devise lessons and to grope towards …
Back Matter, The Feminist Press
Report: Elementary School Students, The Feminist Press
Report: Elementary School Students, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
We are a group of fifth and sixth graders in a Woman's Role Group at East Hill School in Ithaca, New York. We've been meeting at least twice a week since October. There are seven people in our group. Our first project was for each person to take a famous woman and write a report on her. We wrote reports on Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lucy Stone and Lucretia Mott. We then made a dittoed pamphlet of the reports.
From A Feminist Curriculum Writer, Barbara E. Lightner
From A Feminist Curriculum Writer, Barbara E. Lightner
Women's Studies Quarterly
I am currently working as an assistant in developing a reading program for Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company. As might be expected, I am encountering some difficulty in getting the publisher to represent girls and women in the materials to be selected for the program. I hope you can give me some suggestions, support, pressure—whatever. Briefly the situation is this. The publisher is responsible for choosing selections to go into 4th-6th grade reader anthologies. Their art department has minority quotas (20 percent black, 10 percent Spanish-descended, etc.) but none for girls and women. Although the project editor seems to be …
Closeup: Utah's Course On Women And Education, Dorothy J. Schimmelpfennig
Closeup: Utah's Course On Women And Education, Dorothy J. Schimmelpfennig
Women's Studies Quarterly
The telephone rang before my alarm clock could sound its bell. "Hello, have you seen the morning paper? The cover story on your class in women's studies has just been released!" announced my excited secretary. A second call extended an invitation to be an immediate guest on a party-line hookup with Two-way Radio, and before lunch an additional interview had been taped for airing the following morning. This startling reaction opened the way for a hectic two weeks. During this time I would be referred to as a heretic and a corrupter of youth, and my husband would be accused …
Closeup: Alternative High School Course, Barbara Gates, Adria Reich
Closeup: Alternative High School Course, Barbara Gates, Adria Reich
Women's Studies Quarterly
During the past two years, we have been developing a Women's Program at The Group School, an alternative high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts for students from working-class families. At present, the program consists of The Women's Group and The Women's Course. The first is run by a nurse and teacher and focuses on sex education. The second, an English skills and social studies class, we will discuss at length. In the fall of 1971 when we taught The Women's Course (year-long, divided into three terms), we began with five girls and were later joined by most of the fifteen girls …
Jobs, The Feminist Press
Correction: On The Campus, The Feminist Press
Correction: On The Campus, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
No abstract provided.
News Briefs, The Feminist Press
Tillie Olsen's Reading List Ii Women: A List Out Of Which To Read, Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen's Reading List Ii Women: A List Out Of Which To Read, Tillie Olsen
Women's Studies Quarterly
Tillie Olsen is the author of Tell Me A Riddle, stories about the lives of working-class women and men, used frequently in literature, writing, and women's studies courses. She is sharing her often-requested reading list with us. MOST WOMEN'S LIVES will continue in the next issue, with sections on Mothering; Wifehood; Work; and Ageing. Future installments will include: Formings—Childhood, Girlhood; Writers Who Are Women; Constriction to Woman's Sphere; Madness; Mothers and Daughters; Triers—Changers—Revolutionaries; Conscience of their time.
Review Of Female Studies Vi: Closer To The Ground, Women's Classes, Criticism, Programs: 1972, Mary Anne Ferguson
Review Of Female Studies Vi: Closer To The Ground, Women's Classes, Criticism, Programs: 1972, Mary Anne Ferguson
Women's Studies Quarterly
Of the twenty-one articles in Female Studies VI, twenty are "close to the ground." They deal not with polemics justifying women's studies nor revelations of male images of women but with women at work with literature about women: teaching it in the classroom, writing criticism about specific authors, establishing a communal learning experience. Section II, "Women's Studies in the Classroom," is presented in detail through specific experiences at a prestigious undergraduate college, a community college, a state college, and a law school. Some of the writers are political radicals, others are traditional academics; some are self-taught students. They all share …
Conference: Women In History, The Feminist Press
Conference: Women In History, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
Sponsored by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 500 women attended a conference last month at Douglass College, Rutgers University. What follows is a fraction of a report written by one of the participants and available from her: Constance Ashton Myers, Dept. of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208.
Rosters: An Interim Report, Adrian Trinsley
Rosters: An Interim Report, Adrian Trinsley
Women's Studies Quarterly
Progress on a national roster of women and minorities—that "national directory of women scholars" we have been talking about in women's groups within our various professional associations for close to two years now—is "standing still," according to Janet Brown, director of the new Office of Opportunities in Science at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The American Council on Education has written a proposal for an Equal Opportunity Register—a national directory of women and minorities in higher education—and is seeking funding (one estimate tags the cost at three-quarters of a million dollars), but to date no funding …
Closeup: Long Beach Women's Studies Program, Deborah S. Rosenfelt
Closeup: Long Beach Women's Studies Program, Deborah S. Rosenfelt
Women's Studies Quarterly
The record of the Center for Women's Studies at California State University, Long Beach, is one of small, undramatic gains over a period of three years. As at other schools which have tried to develop women's studies programs, the administration has been reluctant; unlike many other schools, so has student involvement. Cal State Long Beach is a state university of 30,000 students, on the border of conservative Orange County. Most of the students work at jobs off campus. The women's liberation movement has not produced a strong women's organization on campus. Although students have enrolled in large numbers in such …
News From The Campus, The Feminist Press
News From The Campus, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
In the past three months, twelve new programs in Women's Studies have been announced, one of them—George Washington University—an M.A. program. At the University of Hawaii, students may earn a B.A. in Women's Studies through the Liberal Studies Prngram. Other programs: California State University/Humboldt; College of New Rochelle (N.Y.); CUNY/City College; Oregon State University; Sangamon State University (Ill.); University of South Florida; University of Massachusetts/Boston; Stockton State College (N.J.); Weber State College (Utah); University of Utah. The total number of Women's Studies programs now listed with the Clearinghouse is 61.
Closeup: Buffalo's Course On Women And Social Casework, Mary Cahn Schwartz
Closeup: Buffalo's Course On Women And Social Casework, Mary Cahn Schwartz
Women's Studies Quarterly
The purpose of this course was to look at actual social work practice, using some of the critical perspectives that have emerged in the women's liberation movement. Professional schools that are training practitioners obviously must take a hard look at what they are actually teaching people to do. Social work's emphasis on clinical education gave us an unusual opportunity to examine our own practice. It seemed particularly important to look at the possible sexist assumptions in social work, because the profession deals with concerns that are especially relevant to women, i.e., marriage, families, medical care, abortion and family planning, child …
Closeup: Sacramento Women's Studies Program, Ginny Mcreynolds, Karen A. Kennedy, Joan Hoff Wilson
Closeup: Sacramento Women's Studies Program, Ginny Mcreynolds, Karen A. Kennedy, Joan Hoff Wilson
Women's Studies Quarterly
Women's Studies at Sacramento began with two courses in the spring of 1970, "Women in the Modern World" and "Women in the Law," an extension course: today, there are twenty-six courses and eight extension courses. That fall, 1970, history professor Joan Hoff Wilson and government professor Kirsten Amundsen sponsored a course on the women's movement, "The Liberation of the American Woman," oriented for both day and evening women students as well as for community women. To avoid the problem of alienation in large groups, Wilson and Amundsen had speakers for two hours, then broke into small groups for discussion. Speakers …
Conference: Women Learn From Women, Julie Denison, Lynne Kaduson
Conference: Women Learn From Women, Julie Denison, Lynne Kaduson
Women's Studies Quarterly
On February 10, nearly one thousand women met at Barnard College to participate in a regional conference sponsored by Barnard, Columbia Women's Liberation, Douglass College, NYU, Queens College, Sarah Lawrence, Hunter College, Richmond College, and SUNY/College at Old Westbury. Twelve workshops, each running morning and afternoon, allowed participants to attend two sessions, ranging from "After Consciousness Raising, What?" and "How Far Will Legal Solutions Take Us?" to "Androgyny: The Range of Human Sexual Expression" and "Women Over Thirty: Fears, Expectations and Reality."
Books From The Feminist Press, The Feminist Press
Books From The Feminist Press, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
No abstract provided.
News From The Clearinghouse, The Feminist Press
News From The Clearinghouse, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Editorial, The Feminist Press
Editorial, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
As our third issue goes to press, we can count upwards of 500 subscribers. Before our fourth—in late June—we'd like some feedback from our regular readers. We realize that you are busy people, but a postal card will do, telling us what you do like and what you would like. We know it's useful to list conferences. At least, the organizers of the spring conference at Sacramento received a large chunk of mail as a result of our notice. But is it useful to report on conferences in news stories, as we did in our second issue and here again? …
Girl Am I Happy, The Feminist Press
Girl Am I Happy, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
Sylvia H. Hudes, principal of Seven Locks School in Maryland, writes of "the immense responsibility implicated in guiding the minds of young people," and of her sensitivity to it, adding: "To insure at least a small measure of human dignity to each student, our children are encouraged to write a personal journal of experiences, kept daily." One rewarding composition, by second-grader Karen Polis, she has shared with us.