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International News: Changing Children's Literature, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following is a list of women's groups in England working to change sexist children's literature.

Women's Studies At A State College, Elaine Hedges

Women's Studies Quarterly

The number of requests received at Towson State College (Maryland) for information on our Women's Studies Program suggests that the growth and expansion of women's studies is creating an as yet unfulfilled need for descriptions of how programs came into being, how they operate, survive, and, hopefully, flourish. What follows is an abbreviated version of our experience as faculty at Towson, with emphasis on our nature as a public, specifically a state, institution, and on the ways in which we have both accommodated ourselves to and profited from that public status.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Phd In Women's History, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Department of History at the State University of New York at Binghampton has announced a "modest major in women's history." Graduate students may design their PhD program to complement a regular area and period major defined flexibly enough to allow for ample comparative and interdisciplinary work in women's studies.

El Coquí: Volume 6, Number 1 (1974), Hostos Community College

Gerald J. Meyer Save Hostos Collection

Faculty/Staff newsletter of Eugenio María de Hostos Community College of the City University of New York.

Making The Most Out Of Scarcity: Role Models In Motion, Ellen Kimmel

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women psychologists in the South are doing something about the problem of minority status in their profession. Less than 20 percent of all psychologists are female. Worse yet, even a smaller number are employed in academic institutions where they might serve as role models for women students who are in the process of choosing a career. In fact, only nine percent of the faculty of Southern psychology departments are female. Since jobs in psychology usually require a doctorate, young women must prepare for such careers much as they would for law or medicine. But what if women students attend institutions …

International News: New Feminist Presses, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Kalamazoo On Textbooks And Curriculum, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

These comments represent the thinking of several major women's groups in Kalamazoo, Michigan: The Committee to Study Sex Discrimination in the Kalamazoo Public Schools, the Kalamazoo Area Chapter of the National Organization for Women, The Kalamazoo Young Womens Christian Association, the Commission of the Status of Women of Western Michigan University, the Kalamazoo League of Women Voters, and the Kalamazoo Branch of the American Association of University Women. They are one section of a lengthy critique of the Title IX Guidelines.

Summary Of Issues Being Raised By Women's Groups Concerning The Proposed Regulations For Title Ix Of The Education Amendments Of 1972, Bernice Sandler, Mararet C. Dunkle, Frnacelia Gleaves, Kay Meckes-Jones, Louise Hunter

Women's Studies Quarterly

For a more detailed analysis of issues raised by women's groups, see The Congressional Record, July 18, 1974, E4863-4869, which contains a critique of the proposed Title IX regulations prepared by Rep. Bella Abzug and the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL). This can be obtained by writing your Representative or Senator.

News From The Staff, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Re-Educating A Generation Of Teachers: A Conference Report, Jo Jacobs

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Feminist Press national conference "Toward Nonsexist Schools: Re-educating a Generation of Teachers" took place November 21, 22 and 23, 1974 on the campus of SUNY /College at Old Westbury. The program of this working conference was intended to provide specific methods and materials for public school teachers and administrators who are organizing in-service courses on sex-role stereo typing. More than 25 different workshops and panels presented new research on socialization, history and literature, and models for organizing and administering a women's studies in-service program.

Affirmative Action Under Attack, Sheila Tobias

Women's Studies Quarterly

It is doubtful that serious discussion of Richard A. Lester's book on affirmative action (Antibias Regulations of Universities: Faculty Problems and Their Solutions, McGraw-Hill, 1974) can ever undo the damage caused by the flurry of misleading articles that appeared about the book in the New York Times, Newsweek, and The Chronicle of Higher Education six months ago. "Minority Hiring Said to Hurt Colleges," the New York Times headlined its front-page piece, continuing that minority hiring had caused a "lowering of standards and an undermining of faculty quality." Readers were left to assume that Lester had hard …

Scholarships/Fellowships, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Affirmative Action: Process Or Product?, Paul Lauter

Women's Studies Quarterly

There seems to be a trap lying in wait not too far down the road for those of us committed to affirmative action. Let's carry out the logic of "open hiring" procedures-if we may use that term to describe a process of broad advertising and search to fill each vacant position. Increasingly, in a tight job market, every advertisement produces a flood of applications: 90 to fill one history position; hundreds to fill another. Even the most humane committee or administrator will search for mechanical means to categorize a large number of unknown quantities. The logic of the process leads …

Women's History Library Closes, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Women's History Research Center Library permanently closed on September 30, 1974. Known as the Women's History Library, it served as the only international archive of the contemporary women's movement since 1968. The Library contained both movement and non-movement information on women in a variety of forms: newsclippings, journals, autobiographies, biographies, diaries, pamphlets, women's studies course outlines, newsletters, newspapers, and magazines. Two collections of great importance were the women's serials (The International Women's History Periodical Archive) and the 2,000 topical files (The Topical Research Library). These collections were recently given away or sold to offset debts. They were transferred to, …

News Briefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Why Discuss Men In Sexist Society?, Agate Nesaule Krouse, Barbara Taylor Desmarais

Women's Studies Quarterly

Can we ever stop worrying about men? When we teach women's studies courses, work with women's caucuses in professional organizations, or speak to various groups about feminism, we often do more than our duty. In addition to dealing with the problems of of women, we also consider those of men. Recently, however, both of us have begun re-evaluating our efforts. Our experience with a particularly bothersome workshop, "Women and Men in Sexist Society," started us thinking.

As co-chairwomen of the Midwest Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages, we were responsible for organizing five workshops for the 1973 Midwest Modern Language …

Campus News: University Of Texas/Arlington, Jeanne Ford

Women's Studies Quarterly

Feminists' activities at the University of Texas at Arlington have received official sanction in two areas: first, the Women's Studies Center completed its second year by offering five courses and conducting a research project; second, reports for the Status of Women Committee have drawn attention to inequities in salary and promotion policies.

In October 1971, as a direct result of the feminist movement throughout the nation, the former president of the University appointed six faculty and six staff members to the Status of Women Committee, currently seven women and five men. While no student is presently represented on the Committee, …

The Ticker, September 24, 1974

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Communicator, September 10, 1974, Bronx Community College

The Communicator

The Communicator newspaper published on September 10, 1974.

1974 Yearbook, Laguardia Community College

Yearbooks

LA GUARDIA C.C. ’74, 120 p. b&w, color photographs; Poems; faculty and departmental listings.

Catalog 1974-1975, Kingsborough Community College

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

National Conference On In-Service Education, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Feminist Press has announced it will sponsor the nation's first Conference on In-Service Education to be conducted November 21-23 on the campus of SUNY/College at Old Westbury.

The focus of the conference will be sex-role stereotyping and the teaching of history and literature. Delegates from the school systems of nine major cities are expected to participate.

Women's Studies And The Community: Some Models, Catherine Stimpson

Women's Studies Quarterly

One of the virtues of Female Studies VII (The Feminist Press, 1973) is that it enhances our awareness of the fact that women's studies is in a new phase. Among the features of that phase are: 1) an international interest in women's studies; 2) more respect from foundations and government agencies; 3) a concern for women in the curriculum of secondary and primary schools; 4) a worry about both the continuing hostility and indifference on the part of traditional academics and the danger that apparent converts may be little more than exploitative bandwagoneers; 5) consolidation within existing programs; and finally, …

International News: Four New Feminist Presses, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

In the last few months, we have received announcements of the founding of feminist presses in England, Japan, Germany and France.

Feminism At A Rural University: A Report From The University Of Idaho, Cheri Register

Women's Studies Quarterly

Moscow, Idaho, the dried pea and lentil capital of the world, is situated between Potlatch and Genesee, 85 miles southeast of Spokane, Washington. Its population is 13,000, a figure that must include a good share of the 7,000 students at the University of Idaho. It is not listed in national feminist catalogs—a lack that is due less to the failure of local feminist efforts than to the urban bias prevalent in the women's movement.

In my two years with the University of Idaho Women's Center, I watched—and, I hope, helped—a new spurt of feminism take hold in Moscow. I spent …

News From The Campus, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The list of official women's studies programs is still growing (see additions below), and so is the number of innovative college courses and facilities offered for women. Here are a few examples we found especially interesting.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Seattle Schools Clean House, Deirdre O'Neill

Women's Studies Quarterly

Credit for awakening the Seattle schools' feminist consciousness lies with 55 women physical education teachers and coaches, who three years ago cried foul. Frustrated and angered over long-standing sex discrimination against women employees and students, they filed a complaint with the Washington State Human Rights Commission (HRC).

During the two and a half years of investigation by HRC, 40 of the women originally involved in the suit left the district. The persistence of the remaining 15 was rewarded by the recently signed conciliation agreement which promises corrective action by women and girls in physical education and athletic programs. In addition, …

Introducing High School Students To The Women's Movement, Sharon Henricks,, Etta Magnusen, Jodi Wetzel

Women's Studies Quarterly

But every time I got into an argument with either a chauvinist male or a chauvinist female, I found I lacked the arguments to support my point. I found that some people don't believe that discrimination is wrong or that everyone should have an equal chance. This class gave me good, solid arguments.—a college student.

For the second year the Minnesota Women's Center (MWC) and the Living-Learning Center (LLC, a part of University College) at the University of Minnesota are offering a directed-study project, "Introducing High School Students to the Women's Movement." Two main goals of the two-quarter, six …