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Women In High School English Literature, Phyllis Arlow, Merle Froschl

Women's Studies Quarterly

The literature which is taught in secondary schools is used not merely as a tool for improving reading, written expression and general information. To a great degree, literature defines values and reality. The effect of reading material on the beliefs of students is immediate. While all are not in agreement, at least one study using reading content as a means of changing attitudes has demonstrated that these attitudes change in a positive direction with positive character presentations, and in a negative direction with negative character presentations. 1 Considerable evidence supports the fact that not only are females portrayed differently from …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Women In High School History Textbooks, Phyllis Arlow, Merle Froschl

Women's Studies Quarterly

Concerned about the inclusion of women in the secondary school's social studies curriculum, we are interested in locating those aspects of women's lives that have been most neglected in standard history texts and in assessing the quality of such information that is included.

We began this study by examining 14 currently used textbooks (see bibliography) for the following: the listings of women in the index and table of contents; the amount of coverage given to prominent women; the inclusion of minority women; the choice and number of illustrations of women; and the suggested further readings on women. We looked for …

Closeup: Women In Management Seminar, Ellen Silber

Women's Studies Quarterly

A unique aspect of the Marymount College, Tarrytown, Women's Studies Program is a three day residential seminar entitled Self-Development for Women in Management. It was offered for the first time in January 1975, again the first week in April and is planned for other times throughout the coming year. The seminar grew out of an extensive research project conducted by six faculty members. In the fall of 1975, an executive of a large international corporation approached the college and told us of a problem (as he perceived it) that existed in his company. Equal opportunity regulations require the upgrading of …

The Future Of Women's Studies (Continued), Gayle Kimball, Barbara Bellows Watson, Charlotte R. Tatro, Barbara Rakow, Maria Fernandez, Elizabeth Diggs, Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, Catherine E. Portuges, Susan Phipps-Sanger, Toni Mcnaron, Juanita H. Williams

Women's Studies Quarterly

from the CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO

Women's Studies at Chico developed from courses offered by women in their different departments, gathered to form a minor degree program in spring, 1973. Two specifically women's studies courses were designed at that time: a team-taught Introduction to Women's Studies (draws around 80 students a semester, changes women students' expectations and horizons by projecting models of achieving women) and a Senior Research Seminar designed to integrate the students' major and minor. Both are taught by the Women's Studies Coordinator. Student demand has led to the development of new courses whose content received a great …

Notes Toward An Analysis Of Discrimination, Gloria Desole, Dora Odarenko

Women's Studies Quarterly

Two years ago, in December 1972, the American Association of University Professors Committee W Report on the State of Women on the Faculty of Skidmore College concluded that the college appeared to be discriminating against women in its hiring practice. Studies of the faculty during the preceding five years showed that in a time of faculty expansion there had been an overall decrease in the teaching faculty by one woman and an increase by twenty-one men. In the words of the Report, it was "not a very equitable development in an already poor balance" of 86 men to 58 …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Letters To The Editor, Marilyn Weckwerth, Ann Oxrieder

Women's Studies Quarterly

Although we agree that Shirley Temple is an example of a precocious, active child, we are deeply concerned with the suggestion that her movies be revived for the purpose of providing a role model for the current generation of children. We are specifically troubled by both the presentation of ethnic people of color in her films and her relationships with them.

To Our Readers, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

This is both a special issue and a double issue. We have been so gratified by the response to our requests for reports from Women's Studies Programs on The Future of Women's Studies that we have decided to put off for an early Winter issue another essay on women's studies by Florence Howe. Instead, we chose to bring you five reports from SUNY programs and some news of the State University of New York's response to women's studies. We chose also to print as many of the reports from programs that this issue could hold. Some of our regular features …

Women's Studies In The South Central Region: A Conference, Victoria Jacoby

Women's Studies Quarterly

On October 19, 1974, 150 women and men, students and faculty, gathered at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas for a women's studies conference. Representatives from four states (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas) and over 25 schools exchanged tales of triumph and frustration along with their course syllabi. One year of good intentions and another year of actual planning by the S.M.U. Women's Studies Council preceded the event itself. The conference was a product of an odd combination of zeal, obligation and curiosity.

The conference was a great idea, we acknowledged, but how could the S.M.U. Women's Studies Council teach …

The Future Of Women's Studies: Focus On The State University Of New York, Florence Howe, Lauren Stern, Francine Frank, Joan Schulz, Harpur College Committee On Women's Studies, Women's Studies College, Jennie Farley

Women's Studies Quarterly

One of the most distinguished programs in women's studies was begun on the Buffalo campus of the State University of New York in 1970, another in 1969 at Cornell University, an institution affiliated with SUNY. At SUNY/College at Old Westbury, a Women's Studies Program was written into the innovative curriculum planned more than four years ago, and that institution has been host to The Feminist Press and the Clearinghouse on Women's Studies since that time. Newer programs have developed at Albany, Brockport and New Paltz, while SUNY/Binghamton's women's history program is the first in the nation to grant the doctorate. …

The United States And The Territorial Integrity Of The Russian Empire: An Examination Of The Development Of An American Policy Toward Ukraine, Nov. 1917 - Dec, 1920, Michael J. Buryk

Theses and Dissertations

The period 1917-1920 has a special significance in the history of the Ukrainian nation. It witnessed a sisyphean effort on the part of the Ukrainian people to attain independent statehood. This attempt to secure sovereignity by a vital part of the former Russian Empire met with forceful opposition from within the land of the Tsars and from without. In order for Ukraine to stake her claim among the nations of the world, it was essential her that the various factions within her body politic coalesce so that strong allies could be included to support her cause.

New (And Still Sexist) Scholarship, Katherine M. Rogers

Women's Studies Quarterly

"Many distinguished women in the academic profession are far more exacting than a top sergeant at his most overpowering ... women in authority are all too often relentless to others in their profession, yet savagely intolerant of criticism of their own performance by anyone else." They are, in fact, neurotic shrews like Shakespeare's Katharina, and should take to heart the improvement produced in her by her taming. Another neurotic shrew, Shakespeare's Cleopatra (not only a mistress and mother but one of the most sexually fascinating women of all time), "carries an affectation of virility ... to a sustained rejection of …

Second Berkshire Conference On The History Of Women, Mary Dunn

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians decided in 1972 to lend support to research in the history of women. The field was regarded with some suspicion by many historians who did not see it as legitimate, and insisted that it was a "fad" whose time would soon pass. Moreover, too many people doing research in the field were working in isolation; rarely does one history department employ more than one person working in the history of women. Professors Lois Banner and Mary Hartman made the first proposal for a conference which would assert our belief that the history of women …

New Title Ix Draft Regulations, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

This summary of the February 28 draft of the Title IX Regulations comes from the Project on Equal Education Rights. PEER is a project of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund which monitors and publicizes enforcement efforts under federal law barring sex discrimination in education. PEER is particularly concerned with Title IX.

Structure And Staffing Of Programs, Florence Howe

Women's Studies Quarterly

[This is the first in a series of brief essays on various aspects of women's studies. In the Summer issue, Ms. Howe will write on curriculum. We welcome responses, in the form of letters or essays, to Ms. Howe's views.]

In the sixties, I surveyed the free university movement which had spawned in its brief lifetime of some three years upwards of 300 parallel or counter-institutions on or near campuses as diverse as San Francisco State College and the University of Pennsylvania. That movement did not accomplish its short-range goal: to effect change at host institutions. Indeed, those free universities …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Letters To The Editor, Paul Lauter, John Benedict, Emily Toth, Agate N. Krouse

Women's Studies Quarterly

Dear Sirs: I have recently received a brochure advertising the so-called "Major Authors Edition" of your anthology of English literature. The blurb absurdly advertises it as "the essential works of the essential authors." More properly, it should be described as "Some Major (and Some Minor) Works by Thirty White Male British Authors" ...

Corrections/Clarification: Women's History Library Closes, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The article on the closing of the Women's History Library in the Fall/Winter 1974-75 issue of the Women's Studies Newsletter contained a few errors and some misleading information. To clarify: the microfilm record of women's serials (1968-1974) is called HERSTORY. These are not "history films." Neither these, nor the Health/Mental Health or Law microfilms are movies, but rather 35mm, silver halide microfilm to be read on a library reader.

To Our Readers, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

With this issue, we inaugurate a series on The Future of Women's Studies, featuring contributions from programs around the country. We have had 20 responses thus far, and we print here a variety of the ones received earliest. We will print others in a double Summer/Fall issue, when we plan to feature the State University of New York's system, in which we reside, as well as our neighbor, the City University of New York. Programs that have not yet responded may, of course, do so now. We will also include in that issue, a 16 page review of high …

The Future Of Women's Studies, Chris Bose, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Deirdre O'Neill, Mary Reeves, Beryl Richards, Dana V. Hiller, Joan Geetter, Nancy Porter, Julie Allen, Jean Maxwell, Sybil Weir, Betty Littleton

Women's Studies Quarterly

from the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE

Because the degree which our students receive reads, "B.A. General Studies," students have asked for some means to show on their transcript the women-oriented courses they have taken in their Women Studies concentration. Thus, beginning in summer 1975, many of the courses that would have been listed under General and Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS) will now be listed under Women 290 or Women 490. These new numbers are for special topics in Women Studies and augment our three (only) permanently numbered courses: Women 200 (Introduction to Women Studies), Women 310 (Women and the Law) and …

Corrections/Clarification: News Briefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

In the Media sect ion of Newsbriefs in t he Fall/Winter 1974-75 issue, the address of the Feminist History Research Project was printed incorrectly. It is F.H.R.P., P.0. Box 1156, Topanga, CA 90290.

Shirley Temple: Feminist Heroine?, Phyllis Zatlin Boring

Women's Studies Quarterly

I have fallen in love at first sight, and, as might be expected, I want to share my happiness with the world. The object of my affections is a curly-headed, dimpled charmer who has captured my heart on the basis of only a few minutes here and there on the Saturday afternoon rerun movies. Maybe others love that adorable little Shirley Temple of the 1930's because she is irresistibly cute, but my adoration is based on her indomitable spirit, her courage, and her unwillingness to play the role of docile, passive, spectator female child.

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Ramón Y Cajal, Siempre Recordado… En El Extranjero, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Uri Geller Ante La Ciencia, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Ha Muerto A La Edad De 101 Años William Coolidge, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.