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"Being In A Cr Group For One": A Man's Experience At The 1981 Nwsa Convention At Storrs, John Schilb

Women's Studies Quarterly

You stumble into the preregistration line, knowing you're the only human being in the lobby with a beard, hoping no one will pay attention to your suddenly unique gender. Your mind flashes back to the Hartford airport a few hours ago: masses of tired businessmen being catered to in the cocktail lounge by "girls" wedged into tight white blouses and even tighter black hot pants and even tighter black high heels. As you sipped your Bloody Mary, you wondered if Susan Griffin had seen the place. But the present snaps you forward with the moment you've been nervously anticipating: a …

A Small Survey Of Introductory Courses In American Literature, Paul Lauter

Women's Studies Quarterly

In order to get some sense of the extent to which changes in introductory American literature courses had begun to take place, I conducted a small survey. I collected syllabi from fifty courses in twenty-five representative colleges and universities across the country. These included one- and two-term survey courses, as well as somewhat more specialized introductory courses. Some of the courses used anthologies; others, individual paperbacks. The institutions included major private universities and colleges, like Brown, Williams, the University of Southern California, and Duke; state universities, like Rutgers and New Mexico; and women's colleges, I ike Barnard and Mount Holyoke. …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Three Decades Of Reminiscences About Women In The Academy, Thalia Gouma-Peterson

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following oral history was presented as part of a panel on "The Isolation of Women from Each Other in the Academy," at the GLCA Women's Studies Conference in Fall 1980.

I came to the United States in 1952 from Pierce College, a women's high school in Athens, Greece. During my years there as a student, I had always taken the friendship and companionship of women for granted. I had excellent teachers in history, psychology, chemistry, art, ancient Greek, physical education, and philosophy—all of them women; and I had come to take for granted the existence of strong and inspiring …

Teaching The Feminist Minority, Barbara Hillyer Davis

Women's Studies Quarterly

In women's studies conferences during the past few years, I have heard many descriptions of pedagogical approaches to specific student groups—working women, displaced homemakers, business majors, and so on. I admire and learn from these presentations and at the same time I am uneasy. For some reason my classes are never like those described. The longer I teach them, the less homogeneous they seem. I am working out my role as a women's studies teacher in a university in which—as in most others, I suspect—no class consists of just working-class women, just reentry women, just Native American women. It is …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Tower 1981, Une Library Services Westbrook College History Collection

Yearbooks

1981 yearbook of Westbrook College in Portland, Maine.

Women And The New International Economic Order, Karima Korayem

Faculty Book Chapters

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) on women in the Arab World. We shall discuss this impact in two steps: First, the implications of the NIEO for the economies of the Arab countries. Second, and on the basis of that, the impact of the NIEO on the educational and employment profiles of Arab women. However, to find out what effect the NIEO will have on the educational and employment profiles of Arab women, one should first get acquainted with these profiles as they stand. Therefore, the paper will be …

Women And Work In Egypt, Earl L. Sullivan

Faculty Book Chapters

This brief study of the role of women in the labor force of Egypt has occupied my time and attention, off and on, for about two years. While I alone am responsible for the final result, a number of people have helped reduce its deficiencies in one way or another and I owe each of them a special debt. Matilda Toma and Nadia Hanna each typed parts of the paper and Edith Dimond prepared the final manuscript for publication. Adel Labban helped in some of the early stages of data collection and Soha Abdel Kadar, Raymond Baker, Kareen Aboul Kheir …

Holly Near A Sure-Fire Success

Monterey County LGBTQ Histories Exhibit

No abstract provided.

Ivy Leaves, 1980-1981, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1981 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Andy Philhower, Mary Bruck, Joyce Carwile, Yvonne Felder, Dorothy Hagood, Jennifer Hayes, Marsha Keaton, Helen McGee, Jane McIntosh, and Doug Davison. Cover art by Susan A. Ware, drawings by Anne Manning Campbell.

Background And Philosophical Statement On The Problems And Issues Related To The Oppression Of Women And Political Process Of The Equal Rights Amendment, Linda Ortmeyer Kanagawa

Theses

Unavailable.

Homosexuality In Art, Julian P. Wade-Salisbury

Masters Theses

Homosexuality in art is nothing new. It has existed for centuries. This paper traces, via relative examples, homosexual themes in art from the ancient Greek vases to the twentieth century. The paper is divided into four sections: Greek Homosexuality, Christian Traditions, 19th and 20th Century Art, and My Work and that of other Artists. Examples from these chapters have been taken and are discussed, with special reference to the titles.

In chapter one there is an emphasis on homosexual imagery found on ancient Greek pots, and the almost relaxed way in which the Greeks portrayed and lived with homosexuality. They …

Mothers And Daughters, Marianne Hirsch

Dartmouth Scholarship

In 1976 Adrienne Rich alerted us to the silence that has surrounded the most formative relationship in the life of every woman, the relationship between daughter and mother: "The cathexis between mother and daughter-essential, distorted, misused-is the great unwritten story. Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other."1 Since Rich demonstrated the absence of the mother-daughter relationship from theology, art, sociology, and psychoanalysis, and its …

Shaping The World Of My Art, Paule Marshall

Women's Studies Quarterly

Paule Marshall's most recent novel, Praisesong for the Widow, will appear in 1982. Her prize-winning first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones, originally published in 1959, has just been reissued, with an afterword by Mary Helen Washington, by The Feminist Press. This essay is adapted from "Shaping the World of My Art," which appeared in New Letters 40, no. 1 (Autumn 1973): 97-112, and is reprinted by permission. The transcription of the women's talk is from p.70 of The Feminist Press edition of Brown Girl, Brownstones (available from The Feminist Press, Box 334, Old Westbury, NY 11568, for $6.95, plus …

A Grand Illusion: Continuing The Debate On General Education, Joan Hoff Wilson

Women's Studies Quarterly

Basic curriculum reform is difficult at best to achieve. Although it was quickly obtained in the 1960s, when grade inflation and the proliferation of "relevant" courses accompanied the elimination of requirements, the result was faculty withdrawal or acquiescence, not basic reform. Consequently, recent moves by Harvard, Stanford, and other prestigious schools to redesign undergraduate programs represent the first attempt at fundamental curriculum reform since the 1930s and '40s. Unfortunately, because these efforts come largely in reaction to the changes of the 1960s and to the disturbing decline in undergraduate enrollments, especially in the humanities, they tend to offer old wine …

"Once More Into The Breach" Of Western Literature Courses, Carolyn Ruth Swift

Women's Studies Quarterly

At Rhode Island College, we have been engaged in a debate over the inclusion of literature by white women and people of color in a required two-semester Western Literature course based on the two-volume Norton Anthology of World Literature. Feminists have been supported by the dean and the president, who threatened to veto the course altogether if it did not include some literature by women in its core of required readings. Under protest, the English department voted to add Emily Dickinson to its list. The Norton Anthology includes only one Black writer, Richard Wright, and before the end of …

Women's Studies As An Energizer Of The Humanities In Southern English Departments, D. Dean Cantrell

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Rockefeller Commission on the Humanities, in issuing its thirty-one recommendations, noted: "We see our report primarily as a contribution to rethinking the humanities, not as a shopping list." In defining the humanities, among other things, as a "turn of mind" toward history, "the record of what has moved men and women before us to act, believe, and build as they did," the Commission recommends that colleges develop "new materials for teaching the humanities" as a "further means for invigorating [them]." That women's studies may be a legitimate energizer of the sagging humanities seems a likely possibility when one realizes …

Is Your Campus Included?: "Everywoman's Guide" So Far, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Everywoman's Guide to Colleges and Universities is an educational project of The Feminist Press initiated in the fall of 1980. Its purpose is to gauge the health of the environment provided for women by specifically analyzing the programs and services offered on individual campuses throughout the United States. The project will conclude with the publication of a volume by the same title, which will serve as a supplementary text to the usual standard college and university guides presently on the market.

To Arm The Amazons: Educating Students About The Characteristics And Problems Of Feminist Workplaces, Kathryn Girard

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following article is adapted from an essay appearing in The Women 's Studies Service Learning Handbook: From the Classroom to the Community, edited by Jerilyn Fisher and Elaine Reuben, and available for $6.50 from the National Women's Studies Association, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

Sisterhood can be joyous and energizing. It can also be frustrating and disillusioning. The personal cost of working in a women's center, a rape project, or a women's studies program is often quite high. We expect the hours of exciting and tedious processing that it takes to build such programs. We don't …

Nwsa News And Views, Susan Gore, Elaine Reuben, Florence Howe, Phyllis Chinn, Rosalind Ribnick

Women's Studies Quarterly

NWSA's New Coordinator

The Search Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Gore as National Coordinator. A founding member of the Association, Susan Gore coordinated the Founding Conference of the South Central Women's Studies Association in 1978 and served on the Coordinating Council in 1979-1980. "Previously my most visible contribution to this organization has been handling the Annual Convention T-shirts," she said. "I hope to be able to do much more in the role of Coordinator."

A self-described "persistent optimist," Gore took her place in the National Office on September I, having spent the past year teaching for …

Guest Editorial, Elaine Reuben

Women's Studies Quarterly

FROM THE NWSA NATIONAL OFFICE

The spring term has been completed; conference participants at our Third annual meeting have departed Storrs. Some will be participating in one of the several summer institutes for women's studies curriculum development offered around the country, and the world; or attending other feminist workshops and conferences; or taking part in summer school sessions, or simply savoring and looking forward to continuing activities in the fall.

This year, though, more than ever, it is hard not to be painfully aware of powerful contradictions to an old "story-book" picture: teachers, students and academics at their leisure for …

News From Women's Studies Programs, Florence Howe

Women's Studies Quarterly

We began this feature because we had news, and we continue to have news. Also, rumors are current again about the potential demise of programs, as well as the less dramatic cutting of budgets. We know of the demise of no programs, and the occasional budget cut we have heard of (as at the University of Washington) is not for the curricular program, but for some new addition that was planned. Send items—good news or bad—to NEWS, Women's Studies Quarterly, Box 334, Old Westbury, NY 11568.

Pride, 1981, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Gay PRIDE Fest '81; Buffalo; NY

Back Text: n/a

Description: White shirt with yellow and navy lettering; image of four people walking through a door with the Buffalo skyline in the background

Pride, 1981, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Gay PRIDE Fest '81; Buffalo; NY

Back Text: n/a

Description: Blue shirt with yellow and navy lettering; image of four people walking through a door with the Buffalo skyline in the background

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 2 (1981), Sally Jeter Garoutte, Katherine R. Koob, Judy Mathieson, Dorothy Cozart, Flavin Glover, Marilyn P. Davis, Barbara Brackman, Lynn A. Bonfield, Mary Katherine Jarrell, Imelda G. Degraw

Uncoverings Journal

Foreword by Sally Jeter Garoutte

Research Papers

Documenting Quilts by Their Fabrics by Katherine R. Koob

Some Sources of Design Inspiration for the Quilt Pattern Mariner's Compass by Judy Mathieson

Women and Their Quilts as Portrayed by Some American Authors by Dorothy Cozart

Discovery of the Cedar Heights Quilt Collection by Flavin Glover

The Contemporary American Quilter by Marilyn P. Davis

California's First Quilting Party 53 Barbara Brackman, Quilts at Chicago's World's Fairs by Sally Jeter Garoutte

The Production of Cloth, Clothing, and Quilts in 19th Century New England Homes by Lynn A. Bonfield

Special Presentations

Three Historic Quilts by …

Cross-Cultural Comparisons Of Sex-Attributes And Sex-Roles At Eastern Illinois University, Li-Hsing Chen

Masters Theses

Statement of the Problem:

The main purpose of this research is to compare the attitudes of graduate students, who came from different cultural backgrounds and were studying at Eastern Illinois University, toward sex-attributes and sex-roles. Meanwhile, sex, marital status, age, family's religious affiliation, educational major area, and length of time in the United States were included as considerable factors whict may influence their attitudes toward sex-attributes and sex-roles.

Procedures:

The materials of this survey include two parts. The first part is a letter written by the researcher and revised by her academic advisor and one nonacademic advisor, to all subjects. …

Sexual Harassment Of Working Women: An Exploratory Study, Cheryl Mcmichaels

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to empirically investigate the subject of sexual harassment. A total of 82 women were recruited from central Illinois to fill out a questionnaire on sexual harassment and the Assertiveness Inventory (Gambrill and Richey, 1975). An attempt was made to control the subjects for occupational levels. Their occupational levels ranged from physician to unskilled worker, and their educational levels ranged from a high school degree to an advanced degree. The women in this sample worked full-time, part-time, and did volunteer work.

All of the women filled out the Assertiveness Inventory, a 40-item self-report, (Gambrill and …

Northern Lambda Nord, Vol.1, No.9 (December 1980), Northern Lambda Nord

Northern Lambda Nord (1980-1981)

No abstract provided.

Fifth Freedom, 1980-12-01, The Mattachine Society Of The Niagara Frontier

Fifth Freedom

Nickle City: Leather/Levi: pg1

Editorial: pg2

Letters to the Editor: pg2

Advertisement: pg3

Gay Coloring Book: pg4

Captain Kink: pg4

Our Cover: pg4

Gay Task Force: pg5

How Does Your Garden Grow: pg5

Selections by Sam: pg6

Antiques & Art: pg6

Help: One Answer: pg7

Attention: pg7

Poet Tree: pg8

Gay Wedding Response: pg9

Michael: pg9

NYC Killings Bi Lines: pg10

Gay Directory: pg11

Want Ads: pg11

Advertisement: pg12

Santa: pg12