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Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Closeup: Women's Studies Department At San Diego, Marilyn J. Boxer

Women's Studies Quarterly

Despite hazards both external and internal, the Women's Studies Program at San Diego State University (SDSU) has now survived eight years, has been strengthened in the process, and has moved in new directions. Designated a "program" in 1970, it is in fact a functioning "department," thanks to two successive supportive deans.

Funded initially by the SDSU Foundation in a period of militant feminism, in 1974 Women's Studies was assimilated into the administrative structure of the College of Arts and Letters. In the California State University system, funding for academic programs is determined almost exclusively by student enrollment. Departmental status for …

Williamina Fleming: "Women's Work" At The Harvard Observatory, Anne Gordon

Women's Studies Quarterly

From time to time, we have published the work of students in women's studies courses. The following essay, originally written as a term paper, is such a piece.

Last spring, I fulfilled Harvard's freshman Expository Writing requirement by taking the section Women in American History. Each student was asked to choose one woman from the many who have never been fully studied, and to write about her life and work for the entire semester. From a suggested list I chose Williamina Fleming, astronomer.

I soon realized that Fleming 's biography, while intriguing, would only yield so much information. She was …

Nwsa News, Elaine Reuben, Maija S. Blaubergs

Women's Studies Quarterly

FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE

The National Women's Studies Association has been "in business" at the University of Maryland for two months as I write this memo. When it appears, the semester will be almost over, the weather may be better, and I will be preparing to report on my activities as Coordinator at the Spring 1978 meeting of the NWSA Coordinating Council.

The outlines of that report are already taking shape.

Editorial, Florence Howe

Women's Studies Quarterly

Many people continue to inquire about the status and future of women's studies. With this issue we wish to announce that our annual updating of information about academic women's studies programs in the United States is under way. If your program was listed in the issue dated Summer 1977, you will receive an inquiry from us about your 1978 listing. If yours is a new program or a program information, please write to us at once. The deadline for the 1978 program list will be July 1: the information will appear in the Fall issue.

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Marcia Guttentag: We Will Miss You, Florence Howe

Women's Studies Quarterly

On November 4, 1977, Marcia Guttentag died of a heart attack in a hotel room in Chicago. She was in transit on one of the innumerable assignments that she undertook - evaluating projects, consulting, lecturing. We know the life she led. It was like the one many of us are leading; overcommitted, extended physically beyond the limits of human physiology at 45, she rarely said no to a request.

I knew her only casually, had seen her only once or twice since a memorable weekend at Wesleyan University in the fall of 1972, when she had introduced a group of …

Letter From An Indian Mother To Her Daughter, Maithreyi Krishna Raj

Women's Studies Quarterly

At the recent Indian conference on Women and Development, the author of this letter, who is working on a doctorate in sociology, read a paper on "The Status of Women in Science." Currently, she is a staff member of the Research Unit on Women's Studies at the Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University in Bombay. S.N.D.T. Women's University was founded in 1916 and is the only university in India exclusively for women.

You are sixteen? twenty? or just ten? The years will soon pass and you will be a woman. What will you be like? Like me? my mother? grandmother? …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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The Berkeley School System: Women's Studies Program In Jeopardy, Susan Groves, Phyllis Koppelman, Lyn Reese

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Women's Studies Program of the Berkeley Unified School District was created in 1972. It all began when pressure was placed on the Berkeley Board of Education in 1970 by the Education Committee of the Berkeley chapter of NOW. The committee, which included University of California women, made a strong case for examining sexism in the schools. The Board responded by creating a Women's Task Force whose purpose it was:

-to study the role of women in the Berkeley Unified School District;

-to bring to the attention of the Board both positive and negative aspects of the District in its …

Nwsa News, Elizabeth Baer, Elsa Greene, Maija S. Blaubergs

Women's Studies Quarterly

NEW COORDINATOR FOR NWSA: EIAINE REUBEN

On the first of January, Dr. Elaine Reuben began serving as Coordinator of the National Women's Studies Association, headquartered at the University of Maryland/College Park. As National Coordinator, Reuben is responsible for implementing policies set by the members of NWSA. Once fully established, Reuben's office will collect and distribute information about women's studies programs and curricula, initiate planning for the second NWSA Convention, and facilitate the work of all regions, taskforces, and caucuses within NWSA. Reuben's first priority is to assist the taskforces charged with fund-raising and the membership drive.

The Iwy Conference At Houston: Implications For Women's Studies, Elizabeth Baer, Dora Janeway Odarenko

Women's Studies Quarterly

By this time numerous articles have detailed the tensions, excitement, and apprehensions of the days preceding Houston—and even the curiously flat feeling of the evening before the opening session of this first federally mandated National Women's Conference. The press has reported with varying detail significant moments of the four-day weekend, such as passage of the resolutions on the Equal Rights Amendment, on Reproductive Freedom, and on Sexual Preference. There have been analyses of the impressively disciplined Pro-Plan Caucus, formed by heads of eleven delegations who were determined to facilitate passage of the twenty-six-plank proposed National Plan of Action within the …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Grass Roots Women's Studies: Piedmont, North Carolina, Mollie C. Davis

Women's Studies Quarterly

North Carolina is a state in nervous transition as it moves rapidly from a predominantly rural to an urban character. Its values and its peoples are in cultural conflict and perhaps have been since the end of World War II when agricultural mechanization, industrialization, improved communication, and racial integration effected substantial changes in this vastly diverse state. The old ways are certainly under attack. Stress accompanies rapid change, especially when values clash and traditional patterns of life and land use are dramatically altered.

A Note On Women's Studies At Houston, Phyllis Palmer

Women's Studies Quarterly

The National Women's Studies Association and the Women's Studies Program at George Washington University formally sponsored a series of discussions held in Seneca Falls South, the program and public assembly area of the National Women's Conference, under the title Finding Our History: Studies in American Women. The discussions, which were scheduled hourly during the day on Saturday and Sunday, were led by members of various women's studies programs and covered a range of academic issues, from "Lesbianism and Women's Studies" to "Welfare Women" and "The Economics of Discrimination." The sessions were centered around a library that included both monograph and …

Resolutions Adopted By Delegates To The National Women's Conference, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

By now the Houston conference of November 18 to 21, 1977, is history. For the convenience of our readers, we print below those eight resolutions amended or substituted or added at the conference. Eighteen other resolutions were adopted without alteration, on the following subjects: Arts and Humanities; Battered Women; Business; Child Abuse; Child Care; Credit; Elective and Appointive Office; Employment; Equal Rights Amendment; Health; Homemakers; Insurance; International Affairs; Media; Offenders; Reproductive Freedom; Sexual Preference; Statistics.

For copies of all resolutions in the official conference program, the historic IWYtabloid, and the 1976 IWY Report, " ...To Form A More Perfect Union... …

Even Our Language Is An Ever Present Indictment, Ellen Bass

Women's Studies Quarterly

Poems.

Guest Editorial, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Just a year ago the Women's Studies Newsletter announced the founding of the National Women's Studies Association. The network of a women's studies movement, often visible to its diverse participants only in the forum provided by this journal, had established an organization to support and promote feminist education and all feminists involved in that effort, at every educational level and in every educational setting. In this issue, NWSA announces the opening of its national office at the University of Maryland/College Park and my appointment as Coordinator.

Like those whose task it has been to coordinate women's studies programs or projects …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Closeup On Women's Studies Courses: Women's Image: An Interdisciplinary Introductory Course, Nancy Schniedewind

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women's Image: Myth and Reality, the introductory course in the Women's Studies Program at the State University College, New Paltz, provides an experience that concurrently maintains a network among women faculty on campus and exposes students to women's studies. It encourages students to reflect on their personal experiences as they study the images of women in society.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Facts About Women In Higher Education, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Women's Equity Action League Educational and Legal Defense Fund, 733 15th Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington, D.C. 20005, recently released a report (July 1977) on the progress women have and have not made toward equal rights and opportunities in American colleges and universities. What follows is the first half of that report. The second half will appear in our next issue.

Discrimination against women is alive and well on the nation's campuses.

Some gains have been made. We document them, as well as the losses, in this fact sheet. More women than ever before are going to college and …

The Glca Women's Studies Program: A Consortial Approach, Beth Reed

Women's Studies Quarterly

While programs in many large universities have taken root and are showing signs that they will continue to develop, it is still rare to find administrations of liberal arts colleges offering the support (financial and otherwise) required for a systematic development of women's studies. Even programs in large universities operate with inadequate funding and staffs; in small colleges, resources are still more scarce. In addition to budget problems, the small number of feminist scholar/teachers on the typical college faculty limits the range of available women's studies expertise. During the past two years, therefore, the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) has …