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Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Review Of Theories Of Women's Studies, Deborah Rosenfelt

Women's Studies Quarterly

Theories of Women's Studies, edited by Gloria Bowles and Renate Duelli-Klein. Women's Studies: University of California, Berkeley, 1980.

Women's studies has been a significant presence on college campuses for over a decade now—time enough to have generated an important body of research, several hundred programs, thousands of individual courses, and many efforts at self-definition. This collection of five papers, most of them presented at the National Women's Studies Association's first annual convention in Lawrence, Kansas in 1979, extends definition to a new level of complexity and sophistication. The writers agree on certain assumptions: that women's studies is education for …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Can Consciousness Be Lowered?, Judith Stitzel

Women's Studies Quarterly

You've been working as part of the women's movement since 1968. It's changed your life and the lives of the people you have touched. The job you have probably didn't have a name ten years ago. You're a women's studies coordinator, a rape and domestic violence counselor, an affirmative action officer. You are more involved in women's issues than ever before. You wake up planning strategies and go to sleep drafting rationales. You subscribe to more journals—in spite of inflation—not only to support them, but to buoy yourself up. But something is wrong. There is a new sound in the …

Humboldt State University: 1982 Convention Site/June 16-20, 1982, Suzanne Larson, Barbara Parker, Florence House

Women's Studies Quarterly

Humboldt State University shares the delight of its Women's Studies Program that the National Women's Studies Association is bringing its 1982 Convention to our campus. University staff and faculty are working together on arrangements that will encourage women's studies practitioners from all over the country to come to Humboldt.

HSU's excellent interdisciplinary Women's Studies Program, founded in 1970, is sponsored by several departments, including English, Economics, Ethnic Studies, History, Physical Education, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Speech Communication, and Art. Approximately 20 faculty members offer some 30 courses. The Program contributes to General Education at Humboldt through courses in Women and …

Perspectives On Motherhood: A Report On A Conference, Joan Manheimer

Women's Studies Quarterly

Perspectives on Motherhood, a day-long conference designed to bridge the gap between women's studies scholars and women of the surrounding communities, was held on Saturday, April 4, at Sarah Lawrence College. The teachers and administrators from the Center for Continuing Education and the Women's History Program who co-sponsored the conference saw it as the beginning of a network linking current feminist scholarship and the lived experience of a wide variety of women. Despite these aspirations, we were surprised at the volume and range of concern our subject triggered in the community. The conference attracted enormous attention and a tremendous response. …

Now You See It, Now You Don't: Women's Studies At The Pre-College Level In Ontario, Canada, Anne Chapman

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women's studies at the college level has taken root, flourished and spread in Canada as in the United States. But information about women's studies at the crucial pre-college level seems to be altogether lacking. The following report, based both on reading and interviews, surveys efforts in Ontario, Canada, to counter the male-biased curriculum, including the establishment of courses in women's studies. Although far from exhaustive, the survey may encourage others to amplify, supplement, correct and update it as well as to extend it to other parts of the world.

The extension of women's studies to the pre-college level has had …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Readers' Speakout, Jean L. Perry, Mary Beth Norton

Women's Studies Quarterly

Dear Ms. Howe:

In a paper called "Lesbian Perspectives on Women's Studies," presented at the National Women's Studies Association's 1980 Convention, Marilyn Frye, professor of philosophy at Michigan State University, said that in her judgment the field of women's studies is heterosexual. This paper has served as a springboard for discussion among the professors and students who comprise the Women's Studies Advisory Committee at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Across the country a division between heterosexuals and homosexuals in women's studies is being generated. In a sense we at the University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign are blessed that this …

Women's Studies Programs And Centers For Research On Women: 1981, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

For the first time, we are making available in a single format, and for future distribution, the WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM list and the annotated list of CENTERS FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN. All correspondence about the listing of Centers for Research on Women (corrections, additions, etc.) should be addressed to Florence Howe, Editor, Women's Studies Quarterly; all correspondence about the listing of Women's Studies Programs (corrections, additions, etc.) should be addressed to Elaine Reuben, National Coordinator, NWSA.

Most of the Women's Studies Programs listed below are interdisciplinary; i.e., they combine courses in literature, language, or culture with work in sociology, …

Women, Literature And The Humanities: A Reply To Carolyn Lougee, Christine Froula, Adrienne Munich

Women's Studies Quarterly

We share Carolyn Lougee's goal ("Women, History, and the Humanities," Women's Studies Quarterly, Spring 1981) of a required "gender-balanced" course in Western Culture and Civilization which broadens the traditional conception of the humanities to consider women's contribution to and place in our cultural heritage. We would like, however, to offer a different conception of what such a course might be. While Lougee addresses the question from the point of view of "the opportunities that curricular revision opens to historians," ours is a literary perspective, from which the issues appear in a different light. In the University of Chicago curriculum, …

Toward Sex Equity In The Philadelphia School System, Barbara A. Mitchell

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following is a revised and edited version of a talk delivered on the Capitol Campus of Pennsylvania State University in the fall of 1980.

One of the best kept secrets in American education is that Philadelphia is providing national leadership in the area of sex equity. Another well-kept secret , I suppose , is what sex equity is. Many of my colleagues in public education, hearing that I work in a sex equity project, assume that I am in sex education and feel called upon to make risque remarks. In this essay, I'll attempt to take the lid off …

Berkeley "Freshwomen" Look At Women's Studies, Renate Duelli-Klein

Women's Studies Quarterly

"It changed my life!" students in women's studies courses often say. Indeed, some surveys suggest that the feminist consciousness developed in such courses is not reversible, that it leads students to a new perception of their lives. But what are the attitudes of students who have not yet been exposed to women's studies (WS) courses? Do they know what WS is about? Do they think that knowledge of the past and present lives of women in the United States and other cultures will be pertinent to their personal and professional plans? Or do they reject WS as an inappropriate field …

Art By Women Made Accessible Through Slides, Estella Lauter

Women's Studies Quarterly

Karen Petersen, American Women Artists: The Nineteenth Century (1979)

Mary Stofflet, American Women Artists: The Twentieth Century (1979)

Karen Petersen and Mary Stofflet, Women Artists: Sculpture (1979)

Mary Stofflet and Karen Petersen, Women Artists: Photography (1980)

Each set has 80 slides and is accompanied by notes and index. The American sets are $90.00 apiece; the others, 99.00, plus postage and handling. All are available from Harper and Row Media, 2350 Virginia Ave, Hagerstown, MD 21740, on a 21-day preview policy.

The Schapiro Retrospective, Nancy Porter

Women's Studies Quarterly

In its early manifestations, women's studies celebrated the artistic achievements of women. In the past ten years, the labor of scholars has resurrected numbers of individual artists, expanded our acceptance and understanding of the diverse forms women's creative expression has taken—diary, quilt, and song as well as novel, painting, and sonata—and provided the theory and practice of studying the individual's achievement in relation to her cohorts, past and present. The decade has also brought the fruit of contemporary artists who have incorporated feminist perspectives into statements innovative in form and content.

Editorial, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

BEGINNING AGAIN

We open the new year with a new look and a new name. We open also with a sense of expansion, not only in the staff and in the number of pages we now print, but in the knowledge that we could fill twice this number with features and reports from the field—for the field itself has expanded.

Slightly more than a decade after its beginnings, women's studies has begun to focus on its second and ultimate strategy. The movement, that is to say, has increasingly developed a dual focus: first, to continue the expansion of a body …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Nwsa News And Views, Pat Miller, Dania C. Stevens, Diana Woolis, Dues, Barbara Hillyer Davis, Patricia A. Frech

Women's Studies Quarterly

You are cordially invited to participate in the Third Annual NWSA Convention—"Women Respond to Racism"—to be held May 31-June 4, 1981, at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

At this Convention we will examine the conjunction of racism and sexism from an interdisciplinary, multicultural perspective as well as in the context of, for example, community organtzmg, curriculum development, the media, and public policy. The Convention schedule includes a broad selection of workshops and panel discussions on subjects as diverse as nonracist and nonsexist curricular materials, race and sex desegregation, nineteenth-century Black women activists, organizing against sterilization abuse nationally and internationally, …

Embers: A Project To Develop Elementary School Readers, Ruth S. Meyers

Women's Studies Quarterly

In September 1980, the Council on Interracial Books for Children was funded by the Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) to develop prototypes of third- and fifth-grade textbooks for teaching reading. The project was designed by Lyla Hoffman of the Council, who was interested in providing children with models of social change agents and in developing antisexist and antiracist materials to replace the much-criticized current readers. My research in reading comprehension and the effects of stereotypic thinking on the ability to develop meaning from stories contributed to the rationale for the project. This is a report of beginnings.

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Newsbriefs: Women's Health / Sexuality, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research and the College of New Rochelle are sponsoring an interdisciplinary research conference on menarche, to be held June 12-13, 1981, at the College of New Rochelle. The aims of the conference are: (1) to bring together scientists and scholars from a variety of disciplines who have studied the onset of menstruation and to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of their work; (2) to identify gaps in knowledge about menarche and to refine research direction and methodology; (3) to apprise those working with adolescents in health care and educational settings about new …

A Feminist Approach To Sex Education In The High School, Peggy Brick

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following article originally appeared, under the title "Sex Education Belongs in School," in Educational Leadership 38 (February 1981): 390-94. It is reprinted here with the permission of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and Peggy Brick.