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Nacs 7th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Reflections of the Chicano Experience
May 11- May 13th, 1979
Colorado College

Gay Community News: 1979 May 05, Volume 6 Issue 40, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 6 Issue 40 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

A New Force In Politics: The Suffragists' Experience In Connecticut, Carole Artigiani Nichols

Women's History Theses

A great deal has been written on the women's rights movement of the early twentieth century from the perspective of its national leadership and the national suffrage organizations. Less research has focused on suffrage activities on the state level. The purpose of this essay is to examine the efforts of women in Connecticut to extend their political power; to analyze their ideas, goals, and tactics; to make some observations about feminist leadership; and to investigate the activities of politically-minded women in the years immediately following their enfranchisement.

As a result of this study, we may question the characterization of suffrage …

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 05/1979, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Meeting Notes, March 24, 1979
• Announcements & Information
• Poetry
• Dates to write into your calendars!
• Agenda for MLF Meeting

Rape: The Myths And The Realities, Jeff Harper

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The first months at UMO had gone well for Mary, a freshman. She met Robert one night while drinking at a fraternity party. They talked for a few hours and Robert asked her if she wanted a pizza. He was an attractive, pleasant upperclassman and Mary was flattered. They went for pizza and Mary enjoyed herself. On the the way back to the dormitories, Robert drove to a secluded spot off the road. He kissed Mary, which was about as far as she wanted to go. He had no intentions of stopping there. After just a kiss he proceeded to …

A Gay Scare, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The "Red Scare" of the fifties, when Communists were supposedly infiltrating every facet of life in the U.S., has been replaced by the "Gay Scare" of the seventies. An the ones who perpetuate the "Gay Scare" are as close-minded, misinformed and scared as the late Senator Joseph McCarthy was when he vigorously campaigned against the Community ghosts.

Gay Rights Issue In Legislature, Tammy Eves

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

While UMO's Wilde-Stein Club was making plans this week for the sixth annual Maine Gay Symposium, the legislature was confronting possible anti-homosexual legislation, sponsored by Rep. Stanley E. Laffin of Westbrook.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Finding New Forms: Student Autonomy In A Patriarchal University, Barbara Hillyer Davis

Women's Studies Quarterly

"Oklahoma Women" was a year-long experimental seminar at the University of Oklahoma designed to teach research skills and to discover what a few women could learn in a short time about the literature and history of the women of our region. In the first semester, we did research on Oklahoma women, and in the second, public programming based on that research Students learned directly how to do research in the humani ties and did individual work on research projects and group work on the public programs. A photographic exhibit for a local conference on women's work, a community-wide series of …

Report From The February 4/1/1979 Coordinating Council Meeting, Elizabeth Baer

Women's Studies Quarterly

As regional and caucus representatives gathered for the opening session of the semiannual NWSA Coordinating Council meeting on the College Park campus of the University of Maryland on February 15, they were asked to respond to two questions in introducing themselves: "What is your vision of the future of NWSA?" and "Have you and/or your program paid your 1979 dues?" Juxtaposed, the questions reflected the experience of the organization in its first two years—encompassing the idealism of NWSA's founding and the pragmatic exigencies of supporting national organization. The questions, asked and answered on Susan B. Anthony's birthday, began a meeting …

Dawnbreaker Vol 27 Vol 3 (April 1979), Dawnbreaker Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Fifth Freedom, 1979-04-01, The Mattachine Society Of The Niagara Frontier

Fifth Freedom

Buffalo Celebrates International Woman's Day: pg1

Editorial: pg2

From Our Mailbag: pg2

Short Shots: pg3

News Notes: pg4

A Slip Of The Tongue: pg5

Dear Mary: pg5

From The Fountain's: pg6

Youth Unite!: pg8

Mort D'amour: pg9

Crunch Nestles Quick: pg10

How Does Your Garden Grow: pg11

Sage Update: pg11

Zeitgeist: pg12

Doubtful Group Meets Again: pg12

SELections by Sam: pg13

Gay Rights National Lobby: pg14

Classified: pg14

Gay Directory: pg15

Introduction, Leonore Hoffman

Women's Studies Quarterly

The project "Teaching Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective" was developed in 1976 by the Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession and has been supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The major goal of the project is to improve the teaching of literature through involving students directly in conducting research on the letters, diaries, journals, oral testimonies, and "lost" published literature of the women of their region. Courses have been developed in a number of colleges and universities throughout the country in which students have explored local archives in public …

From The National Office, Elaine Reuben

Women's Studies Quarterly

In lieu of my usual quarterly report on the work of the National Office—some of which is reflected in the news of this issue—it seemed appropriate in this pre-Convention column to share the substance of one activity. The following statement made on behalf of NWSA was my response to a request from Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., for testimony before the Senate Committee on Human Resources. This sort of public presence is one aspect of NWSA's function as a national voice for feminist education. Our purpose as an organization is not only to share experiences and information among ourselves but …

Convention Update, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

By now, many of you will have already registered for the upcoming NWSA Convention in Lawrence, Kansas. The Convention promises to be a memorable one, including:

-over 100 sessions on research, theory, and practice of women's studies in colleges and universities, secondary schools, and the community across the country and abroad;

-displays and exhibits of feminist wares and publications;

-feminist theater, poets, and musicians (including Bernice Reagan, Meg Christian Audre Lorde, Arna Ata Aidoo, Ivy Bottini, At the Foot of the Mountain, the Woman's Collage Theater, the Women's Experimental Theater, and others);

-an exhibition of women's art and crafts and …

Antebellum Black Coeds At Oberlin College, Ellen Henle, Marlene Merrill

Women's Studies Quarterly

Nearly a year ago, we began collecting information on the first Black women students at Oberlin College from 1835 through 1865. The impetus for this project came from Professor Gerda Lerner, who, on a visit to Oberlin, remarked that she suspected there was considerable material in the Oberlin College archives which could tell us a great deal about women who have been overlooked or ignored. We decided to work as a team researching Black women in the archives: one of us had had some on-the-job archival training; and the other, a recent Ph.D. in nineteenth-century American history, had taught women's …

Women's Centers At The University Of Texas/Arlington: A Model For Growth, Jeanne Ford, Barbara Brown

Women's Studies Quarterly

The University of Texas at Arlington offers unique educational services for women through three administratively separate but collaborating programs that focus on women's interests and needs. These programs, each with its own coordinator, are officially designated as the Center for Women's Studies, the Women's Center, and Transitions: Displaced Homemakers Center.

Women's studies at UTA is not at present a formal program. The courses are offered through receptive academic departments. Women's studies faculty and students are engaged in research, teaching, and learning with an academic orientation and are consultants to and participants in activities at the Women's Center. It is a …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

A Sampling Of Regional And Caucus Reports To The February Cc Meeting, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

MIDWEST REGIONAL REPORT

The Midwest has continued its efforts toward strengthening regional and national membership, adopting a constitution, and planning for the National Convention to be held in our region from May 30 to June 3, 1979, at Lawrence, Kansas . ... At the October steering committee meeting we decided to postpone a regional meeting until after the national meeting .... At the Overland Park, Kansas, steering committee meeting, April 14-15, we had hashed out the state versus regional orientation of the group, taking into account that Iowa had opted not to send a representative. We had also discussed guidelines …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Women In High School U.S. History Texts: Where Are The Changes?, Sandy Weinbaum

Women's Studies Quarterly

In 1974, The Feminist Press conducted a survey of U.S. high school history texts to find out how women were portrayed. The authors' findings corroborated those of similar studies of high school and college texts: history was the history of men-primarily white and middle class-as reported and interpreted by men; women were invisible, or, if visible, were the objects of stereotyping or the occasion for comic relief.

In 1978 ten members of the Feminist Press staff formed a research group to update that study. We wanted to know if publishers had been affected by the women's movement and, in particular, …

Editorial, Florence Howe, Elaine Reuben

Women's Studies Quarterly

COOPERATION AND COMMUNICATION

Those of us who work in feminist programs and woman-centered institutions in many different educational settings recognize the increasing need for cooperation and communication. Thanks to Barnard College (and the support of the Rockefeller Foundation), an exceptionally diverse group of women in higher education in the Northeast recently had an opportunity to share information and discuss strategies for the coming decades. The Barnard Conference confirmed, not only informally but in the Conference Resolutions we have printed below, the need for and the commitment to collaborative strategies for the future.

Awakenings: Developing A Regional Identity Through Women's Writings, Sally Brett

Women's Studies Quarterly

Before you can write about a Civil War mother's letters to her son or edit the courtship letters of a young Tarboro woman, you have first to find the letters. For some researchers, this means finding people—informants—and then, hopefully, the family manuscripts in the attic or barn or cupboard. For my class, I took a different—some might say easier—route: I identified manuscripts of interest in the university's manuscript collection. Actually, that is not as easy as it sounds. Most manuscripts come from prominent men of the region. Thus the emphasis of cataloguing falls on male activities—and male names. What you …

The Feminist Women's Health Center In West Berlin, Mary Grunwald

Women's Studies Quarterly

Last November the Berlin Feminist Women's Health Center (Feministisches Frauen Gesundheitszentrum: FFGZ) called a press conference to mark the first year in its own quarters, pleasantly converted former bakery premises in a quiet, residential part of town. Fifty invitations had been sent out to women journalists; four showed up. Three reacted enthusiastically; one was hostile. When all was said and done and people were on their way out, someone brought up the subject of contraception again.

Most FFGZ clients come for contraceptive advice; many are primarily interested in the diaphragm—invented in Germany in 1880 but virtually unknown in the country …

Readers' Speakout, Bella Zweig

Women's Studies Quarterly

Dear Women's Studies Newsletter:

In her article in the Fall 1978 issue of the Newsletter on the history of the Berkshire Conference, Alison Bernstein mentioned that the Coordinating Council of Women in the Historical Profession (CCWHP) would present a resolution to the Council of the American Historical Association (AHA) that unless the Council agreed to boycott states that have not ratified the ERA, the membership of the AHA would withhold their dues in protest.

Applying Feminist Approaches To Learning And Research: A Practical Curriculum Model, Ann C. Carver

Women's Studies Quarterly

By "Feminist Approaches to Learning" I mean a process of "breaking the accustomed mold" of established learning (to use Florence Howe's language). I mean learning to take the risk of questioning knowledge itself, using the creative expressions of women's cultures for the subject of study, and drawing upon the positive "ways of doing" in women's cultures for classroom and research methods.

The three operating principles for my course in "Teaching Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective" grow out of this approach. Those principles are: (1) intense, nonfragmented involvement of the whole person in the creative act of study; (2) sharing, …

Women's Studies Research Centers: Report From West Germany, Hanna-Beate Schöpp-Schilling

Women's Studies Quarterly

The German autonomous women's movement grew out of the student movement in the late sixties. Today, there are women's centers in most of the larger German cities. The women active in these centers have created a variety of projects, such as homes for battered women, bookstores, publishing firms, restaurants, journals, and health clinics. In addition, there are numerous women's groups in the political parties, the trade unions, the media, and other organizations—apart from the traditional women's organizations—who work for the elimination of discrimination against women without necessarily identifying themselves with all the tenets of radical feminists. A gradual rapprochement of …

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Warm Newsletter 1979 April-June, 1973-2021 Women's Art Registry Of Minnesota

WARM Journal

This newsletter’s focus is on Sandra Kraskin’s paper adapted from her slide presentation, The American Abstract Artists: Women’s Contributions to the Avant-Garde of the 1930s and ’40s. Kraskin provides background information on the AAA (American Abstract Artists), their work, and the reception and reflection of this art form. We learn about the ARC Exchange between WARM and ARC Gallery in Chicago artists. The reader learns about the Visiting Artist Program, WARM shows/exhibitions/speakers, Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party, Women’s Art Weekend, and MCAD courses taught by gallery members. More information is given about the slide registry along with a review of a …

Proposal For The Codification Of Fraud Cases, Thomas D. Wood

Woman C.P.A.

No abstract provided.