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In Indiana, Mary Mackey
Letter From Alverno College, Sister Joel Read
Letter From Alverno College, Sister Joel Read
Women's Studies Quarterly
In a women's college, it seems to us, it is unnecessary, and in fact redundant, to have a Women's Studies Program. The Faculty Institute on the Education of Women, September 1-2, 1971, sensitized all those responsible for the educational process to the particular needs, interests, socialization effects which women experience.
Review Of Images Of Women In Fiction: Feminist Perspectives, The Feminist Press
Review Of Images Of Women In Fiction: Feminist Perspectives, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
IMAGES OF WOMEN IN FICTION: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES, edited by Susan Koppelman Cornillon (Popular Press, Bowling Green, 1972: paper, $4.00), gathers some of the best examples of feminist literary criticism, grouping them in four categories: the woman as heroine (traditional views), the invisible woman (the woman as "other"), the woman as hero (women as whole people), and feminist aesthetics.
Review Of Sexism In School And Society, The Feminist Press
Review Of Sexism In School And Society, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
SEXISM IN SCHOOL AND SOCIETY by Nancy Frazier and Myra Sadker (Harper and Row, New York, 1973: paper, $2.95) is among the first titles in a new series of texts meant for undergraduate education majors interested in "Critical Issues." It will also be useful for parents, teachers, and others looking for a concise account of the failure of schools and colleges to serve the sexes equally.
Do-It-Ourselves Curriculum Materials, The Feminist Press
Do-It-Ourselves Curriculum Materials, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
The following notes, prepared by J. J. Wilson, reflect the Women's Studies Program at Sonoma State College, Rohnert Park, Calif. 94928. In our Women's Biography course one afternoon, discussion turned to the kinds of questions we wanted biographies of women to answer—for example, what do women fear most? We decided to begin immediately by asking those questions of ourselves. For twenty minutes the whole class wrote. A loving sister, not ashamed to admit to her secretarial skills, took these papers home and typed them onto dittos; someone else ran them off; others collated them. We could then begin to answer …
News From Campuses, The Feminist Press
News From Campuses, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
This column will be devoted to developments in women's studies in colleges and universities across the country. Besides announcements of new programs, we welcome brief news items concerning your activities.
Women In Law, Anne Trebilcock
Women In Law, Anne Trebilcock
Women's Studies Quarterly
With women entering law in record numbers, law school curricula are changing to include a feminist perspective. Yet a great need remains for more feminist attorneys, jurists, and legislators. While law has lent itself to abuse by oppressive forces, it can be an aid in the liberation of women and other underrepresented groups. But isn't the problem of too few women lawyers taking care of itself? Granted, the female percentage of law students nationwide has more than doubled in the last five years. In the fall of 1972, 12,172 women were enrolled in 149 American Bar Association approved law schools. …
Male And Female Under 18, Eve Merriam, Nancy Larrick, Debbie Milne, Debbie Hoeltzell, Jim Stone
Male And Female Under 18, Eve Merriam, Nancy Larrick, Debbie Milne, Debbie Hoeltzell, Jim Stone
Women's Studies Quarterly
The following pieces are from a collection compiled by Eve Merriam and Nancy Larrick called Male and Female Under 18, to be published this fall by Avon.
Review Of Unlearning The Lie: Sexism In School, The Feminist Press
Review Of Unlearning The Lie: Sexism In School, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
UNLEARNING THE LIE: SEXISM IN SCHOOL by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (Liveright, New York, 1973: $6.95) is a brief and readable account of a two-year effort to change sexist attitudes, beliefs, and practices, in and out of the curriculum, at a private, multiracial elementary school in Brooklyn, New York.
Review Of Women, Resistance And Revolution, The Feminist Press
Review Of Women, Resistance And Revolution, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
WOMEN, RESISTANCE AND REVOLUTION by Sheila Rowbotham (Pantheon, New York, 1972: $7.95) illuminates the continuity and universality of women's movements for change. A British historian, a Marxist and a feminist, Rowbotham chronicles the history of European and American women from the late renaissance to the early twentieth century.
Review Of La Mujer: En Pie De Lucha, The Feminist Press
Review Of La Mujer: En Pie De Lucha, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
LA MUJER: EN PIE DE LUCHA, edited by Dorinda Moreno (Espina del Norte, San Francisco, 1973: paper, $8.50), should please those teachers who have felt the lack of materials by and about Latin women. The book has ten chapters: four on Chicanas; one on other Third World women in North America; one on women in Mexico, one on Cuban women, and one on women in other Latin American countries.
Review Of Images Of Women In Literature, The Feminist Press
Review Of Images Of Women In Literature, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
IMAGES OF WOMEN IN LITERATURE, edited by Mary Anne Ferguson (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1973: paper, $5.00), provides a thoughtful selection of short stories and poems, arranged around the images of the submissive wife, the mother, the dominating wife, the seductress-goddess, the sex object, and, a welcome inclusion, the liberated woman.
Back Matter, The Feminist Press
What Happened At Sacramento, Deborah Rosenfelt
What Happened At Sacramento, Deborah Rosenfelt
Women's Studies Quarterly
There it is—the cleavage in purpose and ideology that ran like a crack in the earth through the activities of the Women's Conference at Sacramento in May, appropriately called "Women's Studies and Feminism: Survival in the 1970's." The conference brought together—so to speak—some 700 women from throughout the western states for three long days of speeches, workshops, programs—and confrontations. So the work of the conference was carried out, really, on two levels: the usual conference activities of meeting, talking, listening, exchanging information and ideas; and that other, more complex, more difficult business of coping with this polarization of attitude and …
Foundation Grants To Women's Groups, Marjorie Fine Knowles
Foundation Grants To Women's Groups, Marjorie Fine Knowles
Women's Studies Quarterly
The issues women's groups present when they come to seek foundation grants often open up areas for discussion that literally strike uncomfortably close to home; they are often challenging cherished assumptions about the patriarchal family and the educational system which nourishes it. They come seeking funding for a new academic discipline called "women's studies"; or for support of litigation to abolish the sex discrimination which, foundation executives are shocked to discover, pervades our legal system. Outraged groups of mothers can document, and want to challenge, the sexism in textbooks and children's television. Women of all races want support to develop …
Closeup: Washington Women's Studies Program, Julie E. Coryell, Mary L. Eysenbach
Closeup: Washington Women's Studies Program, Julie E. Coryell, Mary L. Eysenbach
Women's Studies Quarterly
Women Studies started at the University of Washington in 1970, the year of expansion of the war into Cambodia, the Kent State killings, and national demonstrations. In Washington, 1970 was also the year of the successful campaign for liberal abortion reforms, and at UW the beginning of agitation for university-sponsored child care facilities. Women had grown increasingly aware of the university's discrimination against them in employment and curriculum. Three women initiated the first course. Innocently titled "Women 101," it surveyed the role of women in social history, psychology, literature, art, public media, work, sexuality, race, law. The course helped build …
News Briefs, The Feminist Press
Correction Of A Correction: On The Campus, The Feminist Press
Correction Of A Correction: On The Campus, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
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Bragging About Bragging, Susan Koppelman Cornillon
Bragging About Bragging, Susan Koppelman Cornillon
Women's Studies Quarterly
One of the most important functions of women's studies is to establish an understanding of the crippling effects on our egos and self-esteem of our second-class status. I have developed a technique that I use in my women's studies classes that offers one approach to this task. My course, called "The Problems and Potential of Women," meets once a week for a three hour session and is limited to fifteen people. The first night we go around the room and each woman talks a little about herself and about why she's taking the course. We try to begin knowing each …
Wesleyan Conference Considers How To Evaluate Women's Studies, Sheila Tobias, Lorelei Brush, Alice Gold
Wesleyan Conference Considers How To Evaluate Women's Studies, Sheila Tobias, Lorelei Brush, Alice Gold
Women's Studies Quarterly
What is the general impact of women's studies? Is our investment in women's studies courses the best way to improve the higher education of women? Concerned and curious about these questions, a group of Wesleyan University faculty began in March 1973 to look into the possibility of evaluating women's studies. After preliminary discussion and research, the group decided to invite teachers of women's studies to meet with social scientists knowledgeable about evaluative research to raise the question of evaluation. With the assistance of the Ford Foundation, which made a small grant available for preliminary conferences, a meeting was held on …
How It Works Out: The Women's Studies Graduate, Nancy Jo Hoffman
How It Works Out: The Women's Studies Graduate, Nancy Jo Hoffman
Women's Studies Quarterly
We're all so busy developing our own women's studies programs, creating new curriculum, hassling over funding, over internal governance and community-related programs, that most of us rarely have time to ask how women's studies affects the work lives of students once they leave the university for full-time participation in the real anti-feminist world. But a program that has been functioning for several years produces graduates: what are they up to? Historically, women in America have been the temporaries in the labor force—though one can be temporary 40 hours a week, for 40 years of one's life. Has women's studies begun …
Closeup: Hawaii's Women's Studies Program, Doris M. Ladd, Dorothy Stein, Marilyn Harman, Judith Gething, Anne Kauka, Mirella Belshe, Donna Haraway, Joan Abramson
Closeup: Hawaii's Women's Studies Program, Doris M. Ladd, Dorothy Stein, Marilyn Harman, Judith Gething, Anne Kauka, Mirella Belshe, Donna Haraway, Joan Abramson
Women's Studies Quarterly
As the University of Hawaii seeks to cut its budget and its position count, Women's Studies at the Manoa campus can only hope that its modest requirements, low profile, absence of an administrative head, and experience in developing within the most precarious of situations may allow it to survive. None of the faculty have tenure; only two out of eight have career ladder positions; three of our faculty will not know until late summer whether they have even part-time jobs; one has been fired; and the rest have job security for one more year.
Women's Studies Programs, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Programs, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
The programs in Women's Studies 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, others award the B.A., still others the M.A. 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 through a committee, rather than a single individual.
Ninth Grader Calls Math Book 'Sexist', The Feminist Press
Ninth Grader Calls Math Book 'Sexist', The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
[The following story is reprinted by permission from the Superintendent's Bulletin, Montgomery County (Md.) Public Schools.] An enterprising ninth grader [Ms. Ann MacArthur] at Montgomery Hills Junior High has analyzed her algebra book and denounced it as "sexist." In a lengthy memo to her principal, Nathan P. Pearson, she recommends that the book [Modern Algebra: Structure and Method, Book I by Mary Dolciani, Simon L. Berman, Julius Frelich, Albert E. Mider (Houghton-Mifflin, 1962)] be replaced before it causes any more "mind pollution." Her premise is based on a detailed analysis of the word problems in her ninth grade algebra book, …
Textbook Suit Filed In Kalamazoo, The Feminist Press
Textbook Suit Filed In Kalamazoo, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
On May 31, the Committee to Study Sex Discrimination in the Kalamazoo Public Schools filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972. The complaint alleges that the 12 textbooks of the Houghton Mifflin Elementary Reading Program, recently adopted by the Kalamazoo Public Schools which will be in use for the next 5 years, discriminate against girls and women. A preliminary study of the textbooks showed them to be objectionable because of sex role stereotyping and an unfair portrayal of the performance and potential of women.
Closeup: Women's Studies At The College Of New Rochelle, Katherine Henderson
Closeup: Women's Studies At The College Of New Rochelle, Katherine Henderson
Women's Studies Quarterly
In the fall of 1973, the College of New Rochelle will offer an interdisciplinary major in Women's Studies. Student and faculty enthusiasm and a sympathetic administration have made possible the rapid expansion of the program from two courses in the fall of 1971 to eight courses this year. By the fall of next year, eight departments will participate in the program through course offerings, and tutorials will be available in five other departments.
News Briefs, The Feminist Press
Back Matter, The Feminist Press
To Become A Teacher: High School Feminist Challenges Elementary Reading Group, The Feminist Press
To Become A Teacher: High School Feminist Challenges Elementary Reading Group, The Feminist Press
Women's Studies Quarterly
Can a high school student make a real impact in the struggle against sexism in education? Naomi Slifkin, a high school student in Chapel Hill, N.C., is receiving special high school credits for teaching in an open elementary school classroom at Estes Hill Elementary School for two hours every morning. She has been actively involved in the women's movement for several years, and when she began helping in the teaching program in the elementary school, she grew angry about the sexism she found in the children's readers.
Women's Project At United Theological Seminary, Gayle Graham Yates
Women's Project At United Theological Seminary, Gayle Graham Yates
Women's Studies Quarterly
Women's Studies happened at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in the spring of 1973. It was an event, a process, a pedagogy, politics and academic research. Originating from a confrontation with the twelve man faculty by members of the seminary community consciousness-raising group in the spring of 1972, the seminary Women's Project was funded by the United Church of Christ Committee on Theological Education after a proposal was submitted by Professor Lance Barker. The project was to consist of a consultation on women, a class on women taught by a woman, and support of a woman student intern …