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Fifth Freedom, 1976-04-01, The Mattachine Society Of The Niagara Frontier

Fifth Freedom

Laid To Rest: pg3

Editorial: pg4

From Our Mailbag: pg4

Men, Gays And Taxi Drivers: pg5

The Last Judgment: pg6

Lobby Forms: pg7

Excerpts From A California Journal: pg8

Review: pg9

Entertainment: pg10

Gays And Education Part 3: pg12

Lesbian Sisterhood Throughout The Ages: Amazon Women: pg15

Poetry: pg16

Short Shots: pg18

Classified: pg19

Directory: pg20

International "Feminology" Conference, Barbara Rubin

Women's Studies Quarterly

[FEMINOLOGY n. 1. a Danish term used for scholarship concerning women's position in society, past and present; 2. an interdisciplinary field of study and research about women]

It was a European first: The Dutch/Scandinavian Symposium on Woman's Position in Society. I stumbled onto the conference plans while researching international feminism in Amsterdam, received an invitation, and soon was en route to the University of Nijmegen, a conservative Dutch institution where women comprise only 23 percent of the student population—an ironic sponsor for a conference whose events would become strongly political and thorny during June 8-11, 1975.

Esther Manning Westervelt: A Memorial Minute, Sheila Tobias

Women's Studies Quarterly

As a colleague Esther Westervelt was a joy to work with. Her good looks, combined with her energy and her quick mind, put a lie to any stereotype one might have had about a successful woman of her generation. Long before I met her personally, I had already encountered her spirit through one of her students, a young woman who had not only been directed to a new career by Esther's teaching but who had learned to trust her own judgment by Esther's example.

Intervention In Sex-Role Socialization, Sandra Stotsky

Women's Studies Quarterly

The teacher had assigned Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink to a reading group in her fifth grade classroom. That evening an irate parent, a local police officer, telephoned the teacher at home demanding to know why his son was reading a "girl's book." When he was assured that his son could substitute another book for the class assignment, the matter was smoothed over. Several days later, with his mother's encouragement, the boy had begun to read the story and confessed to the teacher that it really was a good story—even if Caddie was a girl! This incident, the only …

Review Of The Lay Of The Land: Metaphor As Experience And History In American Life And Letters, Jeannine Dobbs

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters by Annette Kolodny. The University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

Kolodny, a colonial American literature specialist with extensive training in psycholinguistics, examines the recurring personification of the American landscape as both mother and mistress.

Review Of Women's Films: A Critical Guide, Jane Williamson

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women's Films—A Critical Guide. Indiana University, 1975. Available from Audio-Visual Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. This attractive paperback is an excellent source for teachers, students or anyone else who is unable to cope with the problems in finding and choosing films about women. From January to June 1974, Indiana University students, teachers and counselors—men and women—met to view and evaluate films on women. Their evaluations were incorporated into annotations by film critic Carolyn Geduld.

Grass Roots Women's Studies: Southern Missouri, Betty Burnett

Women's Studies Quarterly

[With this article, we begin a series of reports written by Contributing Editors, responsible for particular regions they have chosen to cover. Additions, corrections and other remarks responding to this report will be welcome. If you are interested in becoming a Contributing Editor—and writing such a report—see the Spring 1975 Women's Studies Newsletter.]

Missouri is a conservative state, and southern Missouri is its most conservative area. The ERA has been defeated twice, and mainly through the efforts of women. Last spring during the ERA campaign, a lot of bad feeling was aroused and a lot of hysterical talk was heard. …

Regional Women's Studies Associations, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

East Coast Regional Women's Studies Association (temporary center is 2157 Boylan Hall, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11210) . The ECRWSA is still in the process of formation. An ad hoc committee was formed in December 1975 at a regional women's studies conference at Brooklyn College and plans are underway for a founding convention.

Review Of We Become New: Poems By Contemporary American Women, Florence Howe

Women's Studies Quarterly

We Become New: Poems by Contemporary American Women edited by Lucille Iverson and Kathryn Ruby. Bantam, 1975.

An anthology of 43 contemporary poets, this one is frankly "feminist" in its orientation. The editors chose poems that define "those themes at the core or root of the new and vital image of woman emerging from our present women's movement."

Doing Research On Black American Women, Barbara Smith

Women's Studies Quarterly

"Fascinating" as black women are, there are as many unexplored questions about black women's lives as there are people to ask them. Less is known about this group, whose identity encompasses membership in two oppressed castes, than is known about either of these castes separately. Black studies and research focus almost exclusively on black men and women's studies and research focus almost entirely on white women. Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration. This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Closeup: Michigan State University, Barrie Thorne

Women's Studies Quarterly

Since the end of spring term 1975, Michigan State University has had a formal undergraduate program in women's studies. The program is called a "thematic concentration ," a new device at M.S.U. for facilitating interdisciplinary work in selected areas at no extra cost to the university (there are also thematic concentrations in Jewish, Islamic and film studies). For the student, this entails completing a minimum of 0 credits, or five to seven courses, chosen from at least three disciplines from an official list of women's studies courses approved by the university curriculum committee. Upon the student's graduation, the assistant dean …

Women In English Departments Before 1930 - And After: A Note, John C. Gerber

Women's Studies Quarterly

[These remarks were prepared for a panel at the Modern Language Association Convention of December 1974.]

In at least the schools I know something about, mainly in the midwest, women were added to the permanent staffs of English departments rather frequently from 1900 to 1930, almost not at all from 1930 to the mid-sixties, and in steadily increasing numbers since the mid-sixties.

In the first of these periods, 1900 to 1930, women composed a fraction of the English staffs, maybe about a fourth or a third. Some of them became highly respected scholars. I'm thinking of persons such as Helen …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Gay Community News: 1976 March 27, Volume 3 Issue 39, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 39 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1976 March 20, Volume 3 Issue 38, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 38 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1976 March 13, Volume 3 Issue 37, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 37 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1976 March 06, Volume 3 Issue 36, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 36 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Fifth Freedom, 1976-03-01, The Mattachine Society Of The Niagara Frontier

Fifth Freedom

In Response: pg3

Editorial: pg4

From Our Mailbag: pg4

Playing Gay: pg5

Lesbian Sisterhood Throughout History: pg6

Gays And Education Part 2: pg8

Entertainment: pg9

The Legend Of Lunangula: pg12

Gay Caucus Forms...: pg13

Dear Sisters And Brothers: pg15

Poetry: pg16

Short Shots: pg18

Classified: pg19

Directory: pg20

Gay Community News: 1976 February 21, Volume 3 Issue 34, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 34 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Ua12/2/7 Panhellenic Newsletter, Wku Panhellenic Council

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Panhellenic Council.

Gay Community News: 1976 February 14, Volume 3 Issue 33, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 33 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1976 February 07, Volume 3 Issue 32, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 32 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Fifth Freedom, 1976-02-01, The Mattachine Society Of The Niagara Frontier

Fifth Freedom

In Response: pg3

Editorial: pg4

From Our Mailbag: pg4

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: pg5

Gays And Education: pg6

Sexual Behavior, Meaning And Gay Male Identity: pg8

Entertainment: pg10

Review, Dog Day Afternoon: pg12

Poetry: pg16

Classified: pg19

Directory: pg20

Gay Community News: 1976 January 31, Volume 3 Issue 31, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 31 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1976 January 24, Volume 3 Issue 30, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 30 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1976 January 17, Volume 3 Issue 29, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 29 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1976 January 10, Volume 3 Issue 28, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 28 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Gay Community News: 1976 January 03, Volume 3 Issue 27, Gay Community News, Inc

Gay Community News

Volume 3 Issue 27 of Gay Community News, a gay community newspaper published in Boston, MA.

Women's Studies Programs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Most of the programs listed below are interdisciplinary, i.e., they combine courses in literature, language or culture with work in sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, history, philosophy, psychology, biology and related fields. Some programs offer minors (denoted by*). others award the B.A. (denoted by**) or A.A. degree (denoted by***). still others offer the M.A. (denoted by+). Three programs offer the Ph.D. (denoted by †). Programs listed without a specific label offer a roster of elective courses. Where no chairperson is listed, either the program is still in the process of organization or it has chosen to function through a committee, …