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Newsbriefs, Jeannine Dobbs, Phyllis Zatlin Boring

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Evaluation: Perspectives Of Students And Graduates, Christine Bose, John Steiger, Philomina Victorine

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women's studies, now in its second phase, is making its presence felt within institutions, developing a new curriculum, and building a new body of intellectual knowledge. Women's studies' original purpose continues: to change the sexist and other biased values, practices, and structures within and outside traditional educational spheres.

How much change has occurred? Impact within colleges, high schools, and women's centers is easier to judge than effect in other arenas . Outside educational institutions, impact may be observed through two channels: first, the ties which programs explicitly make with community groups; second, students who graduate and choose not to continue …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Evaluation: Reflections Of A Program Consultant, Nancy Porter

Women's Studies Quarterly

When Florence Howe was in Portland last winter on her Advisory Council project to review women's studies programs, she made the distinction between a review and an evaluation: a review seeks information that can be quantified, an evaluation presupposes a standard against which a program may be judged.

Had I been more than just casually aware of the distinction last spring when, with another woman, I set out under the auspices of the Northwest Women Studies Association (NWWSA) to review a local community college's women's studies offerings, I might have "done" differently. I am not sure, however, which is one …

Fact Sheet On Women's Studies Programs In 1977, Florence Howe, Frances Kelley

Women's Studies Quarterly

1. There are now 276 women's studies programs on college and university campuses in the United States. The growth rate of these programs in the last 18 months was 80 percent.

2. Women's studies programs can be found in the District of Columbia and in all but nine of the 50 states. Those states without programs are Alaska, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, Rhode Island, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Women And The Law: A Dialogue With Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

With this issue, we begin a dialogue on women and the law. We are interested in receiving brief comments as well as longer essays on legal issues of general concern.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a professor of law at Columbia University. Many of the cases she bas argued have been pivotal in the Supreme Court's recognition of the existence of women's rights in this country. The following discussion was held in April 1975 with representatives of the Association of Women in Science (AWIS). It is reprinted, with permission, from the Spring 1975 (Vol. IV, No. 2) issue of the AWIS …

Editorial, F. H.

Women's Studies Quarterly

Remember that ludicrous question, "Why are there no great women artists"? As we strolled through "Women Artists: 1550-1950," a show at New York's Brooklyn Museum this month, we kept asking ourselves another question—where have all these paintings been? Hidden, lost, obscured in some cases for centuries, they have now been gathered by Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin, many from private collections, others from the holdings of some of the best museums here and abroad. Harris and Nochlin deserve praise for the care with which they selected work of both high quality and extraordinary variety. We longed only for …

Nwsa News, Sherna Gluck, Toni Mcnaron, Maija Blaubergs, Luvenia Pinson

Women's Studies Quarterly

REPORTS FROM THE STEERING COMMITTEE

May 30 to September 1, 1977

At the May 26-29 meeting of the NWSA Coordinating Council in Milwaukee, it was decided that a Steering Committee of six members would be responsible for the day-to-day decisions/operations of the NWSA. The intention was that the Steering Committee would work with the National Coordinator of the NWSA, who would fill one of the six slots. Four Coordinating Council delegates were elected to serve on the Steering Committee until the next Coordinating Council meeting: Elizabeth Baer (Student Caucus), Sherna Gluck (Pacific Southwest/Community delegate), Barbara Hillyer Davis (Treasurer, Women's Studies …

Finding And Studying Lesbian Culture, Toni Mcnaron

Women's Studies Quarterly

On a Wednesday afternoon in the dead of winter, twelve lesbians met to begin a six-week exploration of our culture. Our most immediate and persistent awareness was lack of precedent; our sense of breaking new ground added excitement and urgency to all our meetings . We felt a deep frustration at how hard it is to "study" something for the first time. Out of our experience together, we want to share what we found, and, even more, our process . We hope this process may serve as a model from which others can begin their investigations within their own communities. …

On Teaching A Feminist Writing Workshop, Francine Krasno

Women's Studies Quarterly

What is a feminist writing workshop? Is it a group of writers who share certain political beliefs? Is it an all-female group? Is it a workshop in which one's writing is labeled "feminist"? What is feminist writing anyway?

Feminist writing has as many definitions as the phrase "women's movement," but I will explain what it means to me. Feminist writing makes a conscious attempt to show the lives of women as women see them, not as reflections of male fantasies or sexist myths; feminist writing uses language in new ways, considers the oppressive ways it has been used and changes …

Grass Roots Women's Studies: Kansas City, Missouri, Betty Burnett

Women's Studies Quarterly

Well over one million people live in the Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas City, Kansas, metropolitan area. Kansas City, Missouri, (with echoes of Main Street boosterism) prides itself on being progressive, economically dynamic, democratic, and sophisticated. Lately, it's started singing the "Big City Blues"—crime, poverty, pollution, anomie. Memories of Mrs. Bridge, Evan Connell's wealthy matron who felt useless and incompetent, haunt the Country Club Plaza. But if Mrs. Bridge still lives in Kansas City, and if she can't find anything meaningful to do or any way to open her mind today, she's got her eyes closed.

Sugar And Spice: That's What Children's Books Are Still Made Of, Jeanne Bracken, Sharon Wigutoff

Women's Studies Quarterly

In April 1977, at a conference on children's literature at Columbia University, an editor from a commercial publishing house responded to feminist criticism of a book. The editor stated that children's books should be free of "issues" and should not be expected to respond to every "trend" that comes along, such as the women's movement. To reduce the decade-long struggle of the women's movement to the status of a gimmick or a fad was more than merely insulting; it was a comment that ridiculed the committed efforts of feminists to create a literature—and ultimately a society—where children can find role …

In Defense Of Sarah Lawrence College, Joan Kelly-Gadol, Sheila Tobias, Gerda Lerner, Florence Howe, Catharine R. Stimpson

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following letters were written in response to a recent attack in the media on Sarah Lawrence. They were sent, as a group, to the Coordinating Council of the National Women's Studies Association. The staff of the Women's Studies Newsletter has decided to give them national circulation.

Teaching About The History Of Women In Western Music, Jane M. Bowers

Women's Studies Quarterly

In the summer of 1976, a course entitled Women Musicians and Composers in Western Europe and the United States between 1100 and the Present was offered by the Women's Studies Certificate Program in collaboration with the Department of Music at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.* Since this may have been the first course of its kind offered by any college or university, I would like to describe something of its nature, aims, and procedures; list some of the source materials that served both the students and the instructor in preparation of the course; present a selective list of recordings …

Nwsa News, Billie Wahlstrom, Elsa Greene, Maija Blaubergs, Elizabeth Baer, Sandra L. Moore

Women's Studies Quarterly

TASKFORCE REPORTS

Elizabeth Baer

Initial Efforts of theCurriculum Taskforce

The Curriculum Taskforce is fortunate in having several strongly involved participants: the PreK-12, Lesbian, and Student Caucuses, and the New York and Northwest regions. To date, several of the participants have singled out areas of prime concern to them and are inviting those interested to send materials, ideas, and support.

Control Of The Curriculum And Standards, Florence Howe

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following short excerpt from Seven Years Later: Women's Studies Programs in 1976 by Florence Howe raises questions of particular importance today. We print it here to inaugurate a series of articles on Evaluating Women's Studies. Howe's full one-hundred-page report will be available free in the fall from the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs, 1832 M Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036.

Long-range, perhaps the most controversial and critical question in women's studies will concern control of the curriculum, particularly with respect to standards. That this should be a question at all suggests how quickly women's studies has achieved …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Editorial, F. H.

Women's Studies Quarterly

Cause for Celebration. Since 1969, the Clearinghouse on Women's Studies has been recording the growth of women's studies programs in colleges and universities. Originally it was a service of the Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women. Then, in 1971, the Clearinghouse became an educational project of The Feminist Press. In both cases, publishing a list of women's studies programs helped students decide where to study and told faculty where they might find jobs. But there was still another reason for publishing such lists: programs like San Diego's and Cornell's (listed in 1970) and San Francisco State's, …

Women Artists: A Book And Slides For Classroom Use, Estelle Lauter

Women's Studies Quarterly

Karen Petersen and J. J. Wilson, Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, New York: Harper and Row, 1976, 212 pp. including Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, List of Illustrations, and Index. $5.95.

Although Karen Petersen and J.J. Wilson are not trained art historians, they have gathered quantities of historical information based on extensive research into a lively narrative that is a fine tribute to their training in comparative literature, and to the feminist spirit of collective research. Besides treating each of the 22 artists covered in Eleanor Tufts' Our Hidden Heritage, the …

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 Min) or Certificates (denoted by Cer), others award the A.A. or the B.A. degree, still others offer the M.A. or Ph.D. Programs listed without a specific label offer a roster of elective courses. Where no Coordinator, Director, or Chairperson is listed, either the program is still in the process of organization or it has chosen to function through a committee, rather than …

Corrections: Nwsa News, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Three errors crept into the list of Coordinating Council members and addresses published in the Winter/Spring 1977 issues of the Women's Studies Newsletter.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Feminist Press Children's Books: Past, Present, And Future, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The first book published by The Feminist Press - in 1971 - was a nonsexist children's book, The Dragon and the Doctor. Since then, we've published eight more: Firegirl, Nothing But a Dog, Coleen the Question Girl, I'm Like Me, Storypack, ABC Workbook, A Train for Jane, and My Mother the Mail Carrier. All nine are still in print and selling well.

In 1976 we began the process, described in the accompanying article, of re-evaluating our children's book program. We wanted to explore whether there was a need for The Feminist Press to continue to publish …

Editorial, F. H.

Women's Studies Quarterly

As we go to press with the first issue of our fifth year, it is with pride in our new format and an apology for being late. Unpredictable circumstances kept us from appearing in December, and one significant decision made us delay until now.

The decision belongs to the new National Women's Studies Association: that the Women's Studies Newsletter become its official disseminator of news and information. Elsewhere in this issue we print the policies established by the Association and accepted by The Feminist Press on behalf of the Newsletter. Here we'd like to talk about our sense of …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Mother Joseph, Builder And Architect, Erika Gottfried

Women's Studies Quarterly

This article is one of a series on lost women written by Erika Gottfried as part of an independent study project at the University of Washington in history and women's studies. The essay was first printed in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, August 1, 1976.

The Northwest's first architect, Mother Joseph, arrived in a wilderness that had almost none of the services and amenities available in the more settled parts of the United States. There were no hospitals, few schools and even fewer resources for the care of orphans, the aged, the destitute or the mentally ill when Mother Joseph …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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