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Editorial: Everywoman's Educational Health On The Road To Equity, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

We have not often used this space to announce new projects. But we are doing so because the project is both timely and important. This fall, The Feminist Press, with the cooperation of NWSA and other major organizations, is launching a two-year project called Everywoman's Guide to Colleges and Universities. The title of the project will also be the title of a paperback designed to supplement the guides produced for those college-bound.

To produce this book we will collect information from all two- and four-year institutions of higher education in the United States. The theme around which this information will …

Scholarships For Teachers At The Nwsa Convention, Sue Elwell, Patti Lather

Women's Studies Quarterly

Despite the fact that approximately 70 percent of those being trained in schools of education are women, most schools of education, as Florence Howe has recently pointed out (Harvard Educational Review, Special Issue on Women, vol. 49, no. 4, November 1979), have been resistant to the impact of the women's movement. This situation underscores the mandate of NWSA to reach out to public school educators, who play a crucial role in either perpetuating or counteracting sex stereotyping and the low aspirations of women.

The plan to involve more preK-12 teachers in the Second NWSA Convention began with the …

Encounter With American Feminism: A Muslim Woman's View Of Two Conferences, Leila Ahmed

Women's Studies Quarterly

April 1980. The Barnard Conference, "The Scholar and the Feminist"—my first direct as opposed to page-mediated encounter with American feminism. And then it came home to me: how simple the one-dimensional experience of reading; how easy, ordered, and amenable to order it makes things seem—coherent and amenable to coherence. Sitting in that hall, listening to papers that often clearly drew on the rhetorical strategies of an oral tradition, quite different from those in scholarly writing, even in that feminist scholarship self-consciously dismantling the rigidities of tradition; being aware of the responses of a highly-and diversely-responsive audience; straining to catch …

On Class Bias And The Nwsa, Sue Dove Gambill

Women's Studies Quarterly

To the Women's Studies Newsletter:

Class is a difficult issue to work with because it has been so well disguised in the United States. Many of us aren't actually sure what economic and social class we come from nor how our class background has affected our values, beliefs, and actions. When I speak of class I do not mean only an economic concept, but also the way we perceive the world, where we place value.

Poetry Reading: Third World Women Poets, Mary E. Gibson, Antonia Quintana Pigno, Joy Harjo

Women's Studies Quarterly

One of several poetry readings at the 1980 NWSA Conuention included the following poems.

Hq 1100 - Hq 1870: A Librarian's View Of The Second Nwsa Convention, Linda Parker

Women's Studies Quarterly

In the introduction to the NWSA Convention program, the Convention Coordinators refer to the necessity of building networks, disseminating new information and research, launching new campaigns for change, stirring new insights, and nurturing our growth as individuals. These concepts could form a feminist librarian's motto. Many libraries are bureaucratic monoliths which may seem impervious to change, but change is occurring because feminist library workers are challenging institutional policies and practices which form barriers to both women workers and women library users. Feminist librarians join NWSA for the same reason as anyone else—"to further the social, political, and professional development of …

A Journalist's Personal View Of The Nwsa Convention, Ann Colbert

Women's Studies Quarterly

For me, the National Women's Studies Association Convention this May was many things: for me as an Indiana University News Bureau writer, it was a chance to generate publicity both about the Convention and about the university; for me as a member of the Women's Studies Program Coordinating Committee, it was the culmination of a great deal of hard work which began last fall and continued through the Convention; for me as a returning woman student, it was an affirmation of much that had helped me grow into an effective human being. When asked to write about the Convention, I …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Concerns Of Women's Studies Programs At The Nwsa Convention: A Graduate Student's Perspective, King Ming Young

Women's Studies Quarterly

As a graduate student, I found the Convention an inspiring educational experience. The high level of energy with which participants arrived became more intense as the week went by. A sense of excitement and a spirit of mission permeated the atmosphere. People were eager to share their experiences in women's studies and to learn from others. Many left with a heightened realization of how much remains to be done at their institution. They also left with an increased commitment to bringing about the needed institutional and social changes.

One concern prevailed throughout the Convention: how can NWSA avoid becoming a …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Astraea Foundation: A New Resource For Women, Nancy Dean

Women's Studies Quarterly

In 1977 a group of 12 women from New York and Connecticut formed The Astraea Foundation to support the efforts of women to develop economic independence and foster personal well-being. The by-laws establish the Foundation as multiracial and multiethnic; its Central Board as at least 5O percent minority in membership; and its aim to provide financial assistance to those who have little access to funding. Now incorporated and tax exempt, the Foundation has completed its first disbursement cycle, awarding 55,000 to groups from the Northeast region of the country who fulfill its multiracial, multiethnic, and feminist criteria.

Where does the …

A Report On Research Sessions At The 1980 Nwsa Convention, Charol Shakeshaft

Women's Studies Quarterly

I cannot stress how important for . . . the future of human experience it is to take the development and explication of a feminine perspective in ... research seriously and to devote all our talents and energies collectively to its accomplishment. -Jane Anton

As research on women has increased, researchers have become increasingly concerned about how appropriate the existing research methodologies are for the study of women. In one of the earliest critiques, Rae Carlson argued that current research paradigms, which she characterized as involving manipulation, quantification, and control, not only impose restraints on the understanding of female psychology, …

Writing It All Down: An Overview Of The Second Nwsa Convention, Catharine R. Stimpson

Women's Studies Quarterly

Few conventions about education have either much cheer or tenderness. Those of the National Women's Studies Association do. In this, too, NWSA is unusual. One of the many good events at the 1980 Convention at Indiana University in Bloomington was a workshop that Frances Doughty of the National Gay Task Force gave. She used letters, photographs, and other archival remnants to portray a "lesbian friendship group," women who were either friends or lovers for thirty years. The audience touched its past with blissful curiosity. Then Doughty told a story about a famous member of the group: Janet Flanner, the writer. …

Problems And Pleasures Of Prek-12 Involvement In Nwsa: A Report After The 1980 Convention, Martha Schultz

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women's studies is the educational strategy of a breakthrough in consciousness and knowledge. The uniqueness of women's studies has been its refusal to accept sterile divisions between academy and community, between the growth of the mind and the health of the body, between intellect and passion, between the individual and society.

Women's studies, then, is equipping women not only to enter society as whole and productive human beings, but to transform it....

The National Women's Studies Association actively supports and promotes feminist education, and supports all feminists involved in that effort, at every educational level and in every educational setting. …

Nwsa News And Views, Elaine Reuben, Pat Gozemba, Jan Meriwether, Shelley Anderson, Polly Kellogg, Coralyn Fontaine, Norma J. Cobbs, Pat Miller

Women's Studies Quarterly

FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE

By Elaine Reuben

At the opening session of the 1980 NWSA Convention, Dale Spender urged U.S. feminist educators to educate themselves beyond national boundaries. She called for an extension of our consciousness-raising efforts to understand and appreciate differences within an international feminist movement: for our own sakes, as well as for our sisters around the globe.

In the Spring Newsletter editorial, Florence Howe noted the large questions and hard choices posed by a growing awareness of international developments in women's studies. "Should we be institution-building in the U.S. or helping, advising, missionizing, urging—and learning from—women's studies …

Fifth Freedom, 1980-07-01, The Mattachine Society Of The Niagara Frontier

Fifth Freedom

Politics: pg1

Contest?: pg1

SELections by Sam: pg1

We Won't Cry For Thee, Dear Anita!: pg1

5th Freedom: pg2

Editorial: pg2

Top 15+: pg2

Review, Can't Stop The Music: pg4

Gay Directory: pg8

Dental Hygiene Students' Perceptions Of Themselves And The Typical Dental Hygienist In Regard To Feminism, Christine M. Berg

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this investigation was to assess dental hygiene students' perceptions of themselves and the "typical dental hygienist" in regard to feminism. The accessible population was composed of all first-year, second-year, and post-certificate dental hygiene students at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Data were organized according to a 3x3x3 factorial research design with age, Q.P.A., and educational level as the assigned independent variables. The dependent variable, students' perceptions of themselves and the "typical dental hygienist," was measured by the Feminism II Scale.

Repeated measures analysis of variance yielded no statistically significant difference …

Fifth Freedom, 1980-06-01, The Mattachine Society Of The Niagara Frontier

Fifth Freedom

Gay Pride Week!: pg1

SELections by Sam: pg1

Disco: pg1

Cosmic Consciousness: pg1

You Reap What You Sow: pg1

Fifth Freedom: pg2

Editorial: pg2

Top 15+: pg2

Review, Bent: pg3

Gay Directory: pg8

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 06/1980, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• General Business Meeting at Marlene's in Sheepscot
• Agenda for Next MLF Meeting
• The Susan B. Anthony Club
• Calendar of Events
• Announcements & Information
• Anti-Gay Legislation in House of Representatives
• Homosexuals are Barred from Entry into the U.S.
• National News Council Complaint Regarding CBS News Special "Gay Power, Gay Politics"
• Publications
• Op-Ed Regarding Sex Education and Homosexuality
• Poetry and Performing Arts

Mainely Gay (May/June 1980), Susan Henderson, Peter Prizer, Stan Fortuna

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

No abstract provided.

Fifth Freedom, 1980-05-01, The Mattachine Society Of The Niagara Frontier

Fifth Freedom

A Cheap Melodrama: pg1

Allentown Art Fest: pg1

SELections by Sam: pg1

Disco:pg1

Fifth Freedom: pg2

Top 15+: pg2

Sage Coffeehouse: pg6

Cosmic Consciousness: pg7

Gay Directory: pg8

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 05/1980, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Minutes from April 12 MLF Meeting
• Announcements & Information
• From It's Time: Newsletter of the National Gay Task Force
• Govt Cooperation With Anita Bryant TV Program Protested
• Publications
• Poetry Corner
• Journal: April 16

Nacs 8th Annual Conference Program, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

April 17-19, 1980
University of Houston, Central Campus

Editorial: International Perspectives, F.H.

Women's Studies Quarterly

In this issue, among the items in the Graduate Women's Studies feature, you will find two M.A. programs at British universities. This is not an accident, but an illustration of the growth of women's studies around the globe. During March, I traveled for two weeks in a crammed visit to women's studies programs, scholars, and research centers in Oxford, London, Paris, and Rome. Perhaps because the unemployment of women academics is a serious problem, research seems more important than teaching, especially in a university context, where graduate scholarship in women's studies is helping Europeans to flesh out the history and …

The "Superwoman" Phenomenon, Carolyn Elliott

Women's Studies Quarterly

Ed. Note: The following article, originally a speech delivered to the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Symposium of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, provides a glimpse into the research that is going on at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. We would welcome similar reports from other women ·s studies research centers for an ongoing series in the Women's Studies Newsletter.

In an effort to establish themselves professionally, while preserving their identities as women, many women today are trying to do everything: to become "superwomen." Men are supporting women in this effort, not in the expectation that women …

Nwsa News And Views, Pat Gozemba, Patricia A. Frech, Barbara Hillyer Davis, Barbara Parker, Marcia Westkott, Jerilyn Fisher

Women's Studies Quarterly

FROM THE STEERING COMMITTEE

Responding to the 1979 charge of the Finance Committee and the Delegate Assembly, the Coordinating Council devoted a major portion of its February 14-17 meeting in College Park to a discussion of finances. The clear intent of all sessions was the consideration of fiscal responsibility in terms of feminist principles and the goals of NWSA.

On February 13, several members of the 1979-80 Finance Committee (Liz Birch, Alice Stadthaus, Barbara Taylor, Mary Thornberry, and Robin Wright) met with the Steering Committee (Pat Gozemba, Jan Meriwether, and Kay Towns); the National Coordinator, Elaine Reuben; the National Staff …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 04/1980, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Minutes from Feb. 16 Meeting in Strong
• An Account of the MLF Retreat Weekend in Strong
• Announcements & Information
• The Susan B. Anthony Club
• Calendar of Events
• The Maine Lesbian and Gay Symposium

Mainely Gay (April 1980), Susan Henderson, Peter Prizer

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

No abstract provided.

Audit Report Is Not Understood By Investors: The Form And Terminology Of The Report Should Be Changed, Andrew H. Barnett

Woman C.P.A.

No abstract provided.