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Review Of Fragment From A Lost Diary And Other Stories: Women Of Asia, Africa, And Latin America By Naomi Katz, Nancy Milton, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

FRAGMENT FROM A LOST DIARY AND OTHER STORIES: WOMEN OF ASIA, AFRICA, AND LATIN AMERICA, edited by Naomi Katz and Nancy Milton (Pantheon, 1973: $10.00), contains twenty powerful stories (one of them in verse) thematically organized to catch the changing lives of women, chiefly in Asia (eleven stories) and Africa (seven stories). Such lives are bound not only to marriage, family, custom, and poverty, but to struggles for freedom in resistance movements above and below ground.

Review Of The Feminist Papers: From Adams To De Beauvoir By Alice S. Rossi, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

THE FEMINIST PAPERS: FROM ADAMS TO DE BEAUVOIR, edited by Alice S. Rossi (Columbia University Press, 1973: $12.95; Bantam, 1974: $1.95), will be welcomed as a text by teachers and students in need of a single collection of "essential" feminist writing both by theorists and activists. Chronicling the two hundred years of western feminist thought, this 716-page volume is impressive for its inclusiveness: twenty-two writers, plus selections from the History of Woman Suffrage.

News From The Campus, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

On the basis of our travels and correspondence, we can say with confidence that new women's studies programs continue to be organized. At Western Michigan University, for instance, at Oberlin, at Ohio State University (from which we receive the excellent library bi-monthly, Women are Human), at Kent State University, at Case-Western Reserve University, at St. Olaf College, at the University of Texas/Arlington, there are official or unofficial faculty women's studies committees working this year either on the writing of a formal proposal or on its implementation. At two eastern women's colleges—Wheaton and Simmons—a lecture series will focus on aspects …

Project Focuses On Women In Higher Education, Margaret C. Dunkle

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Project on the Status and Education of Women began in September of 1971 when the Association of American Colleges hired Dr. Bernice Sandler as Project Director. The Project—the first nationally funded project focusing on women in higher education—is funded through August 1976 by the Danforth Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Exxon Education Foundation.

Review Of The Women, Yes! By Marie B. Hecht, Joan D. Berbrich, Salley A. Healey, Clare M. Cooper, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

THE WOMEN, YES! by Marie B. Hecht, Joan D. Berbrich, Salley A. Healey, and Clare M. Cooper (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973: paperback, $5.95) is the first interdisciplinary feminist high school textbook on women. In four units of seven to nine chapters each, the editors offer analyses of major social and institutional forces which define and discriminate against women (advertising, history, law, economics, religion, sports, the arts, language); significant documents from the movement for women's rights; excerpts from American literature that portray women young and old; and recent essays by feminists involved in the current women's rights movement.

Correction: Foundation Grants To Women's Groups, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Michele Murray (1934-1974), The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Feminist, novelist, poet, and critic, Michele Murray died of cancer on March 14, at the age of 40. Book editor for the National Observer, she also published a fine literary anthology, A House of Good Proportion: Images of Women in Literature, and two children's books, Nellie Cameron and The Crystal Nights (see review in Women's Studies Newsletter, Vol. II, no. 1 ). She was an early and warm friend of The Feminist Press. We print below most of a letter she wrote in response to our first News/Notes in the fall of 1971.

News Briefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Do-It-Ourselves Slideshow, Corrine Lucido

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following is an excerpt from a forthcoming book by Corrine Lucido to be published by The Feminist Press. Community Workshops On Children's Books grew out of a project funded by the Rockefeller Family Fund.

Have you ever thought of using a slide show to dramatize the findings of a feminist project you've been working on in your own community? If so, you probably wondered how much time was involved, how much it would cost and what special skills you might need to make one. We asked these same questions last year when we considered making slides for our Community …

New Overview Of Women's Studies Courses, Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt

Women's Studies Quarterly

What follows is part of the Introduction to a new anthology of syllabi, bibliographies, descriptions of courses and programs called Female Studies VII: Going Strong, available from the Clearinghouse for $4.00 plus .50 for postage and handling.

The growth of women's studies in the past two years has been phenomenal. In 1971, when Female Studies III (the last volume in this series with similar content) was published, there were about 600 courses, about twenty programs. There are now well over 2000 courses and over eighty programs. Geographically they range in the United States from Orono, Maine to Honolulu, Hawaii, …

Feminist History Exam, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The women's movement, we have heard, lacks humor. Here's some evidence to the contrary—and from an unexpected source. What follows is a final examination given on May 23, 1973 to students in "History of Women," at Manhattan Community College (CUNY). The professor: Dr. Abby R. Kleinbaum.

Mills College Conference On Women's Education, Kathy Salisbury

Women's Studies Quarterly

A national conference, "Beyond Sexism: Educating Women for the Future," was held November 9, 10, and 11 at Mills College in Oakland, California with the purpose of sharing new ideas and new questions on the future of women's education. Approximately 500 women (and a handful of men), many of them from the California state college and university system, attended the Ford Foundation sponsored conference.

I arrived in Oakland with luggage consisting for the most part of boxes and folders of papers, newsletters, and brochures from the University of Massachusetts School of Education Women's Caucus and the University's Everywoman's Center, a …

Kalamazoo: A Model For Change, Carol Ahlum

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Superintendent of Schools in Kalamazoo, Michigan has made one of his performance objectives the elimination of sexism in schools. This action came at the suggestion of his administrative staff, and since September all school personnel have been directed to take this goal as one of their objectives. As the Superintendent informed me, these objectives are not rhetorical. All administrators and teachers are required to keep descriptive records about how they are eliminating sexism.

This fall, Kalamazoo's elementary school teachers are countering sex-stereotyping in a newly-purchased Houghton Mifflin reading program by using a supplementary book-length collection of revisions to their …

News From Campuses, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Additions to our Women's Studies Programs list.

Review Of Academic Women On The Move By Alice S. Rossi, Ann Calderwood, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Academic Women on the Move edited by Alice S. Rossi and Ann Calderwood (Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1973: hardcover, $12.50) is the first complete survey, since the development of political activism among academic women, of the status of women in higher education. The book consists of twenty qualitative essays, each documenting one particular area in which academic women have been challenging sexism in academe: curriculum, counseling, recruitment, training, affirmative action, professional associations.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Where Are The Women Superintendents?, Jacqueline P. Clement

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women in elementary and secondary education have watched with envy these past few years as their sisters in higher education formed caucuses and affirmative action committees; consulted with and documented for HEW officials their institutions' hiring practices; and generally moved ahead to seek new opportunities in employment and training for women. Women were in demand in university presidents' offices, as assistants to deans, and as members of advisory committees to prestigious councils. Colleges and universities holding government contracts were responding to Presidential Executive Order 11246 which required them to demonstrate that their hiring practices were non-discriminatory with regard to sex …

Review Of American Black Women In The Arts And Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey By Ora Williams, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey by Ora Williams (Scarecrow; Metuchen, New Jersey, 1973 : $5.00) provides a clear, well-organized listing of close to 2,000 works by and about Black women in the U.S.

Black Feminists Organize Nationally, Barbara Smith

Women's Studies Quarterly

On Saturday, December 1, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm declared to a jubilant group of listeners: "I am so glad to be here this morning. I said that if there were only six of us here this morning, it would be a beginning." Over four hundred Black women had gathered in New York to hear and applaud Ms. Chisholm as she gave the keynote address for the First Regional Conference of the National Black Feminist Organization.

All of us who were there, despite our abundant numbers and far-flung geographic origins, knew why Ms. Chisholm had anticipated a turnout of under ten. Never …

La Mujer Chicana, Erlinda Gonzales Berry

Women's Studies Quarterly

La Mujer Chicana, a course in the Women's Studies Program at the University of New Mexico, was taught for the third time in the fall of 1973. The idea for the course germinated in an organization called Las Chicanas. Dissatisfied with their "women's auxiliary role" in the activities of the Chicano Center on campus, these women decided to come together to conduct consciousness-raising sessions. Most of the group were reluctant to become involved in the women's movement, for they felt the kind of intimidation Chicanas often feel before men and white women. But they also felt a strong need for …

Tillie Olsen's Reading List Iv: A List Out Of Which To Read, Extend Range, Comprehension, Tillie Olsen

Women's Studies Quarterly

Tillie Olsen is the author of Tell Me A Riddle, stories about the fives of working-class women and men, used frequently in literature, writing and women's studies courses. She has been sharing her often requested reading lists with us in past issues of the Women's Studies Newsletter (No. 2 Winter 1972, No. 3 Spring 1973, No. 4 Summer 1973), and continues to do so on this issue with her reading list on the younger years of women's lives.

Review Of American Voices, American Women By Lee Edwards, Arlyn Diamond, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

American Voices, American Women edited and with an introduction by Lee Edwards and Arlyn Diamond (Avon, New York, 1973: paperback, $1.95) provides a new resource for the teacher of literature and women's studies.

Review Of The Crystal Nights By Michele Murray, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Crystal Nights by Michele Murray (Seabury Press, New York, 1973: hardback, $6.95) is an unusual addition to young adult fiction because it is written with a feminist perspective that deals with the inter-related issues of class and ethnicity and therefore speaks realistically to the feelings and experiences of many adolescent women. Powerful enough for an adult audience as well, the story centers on Elly Joseph, a teenager growing up working class in Connecticut in the late 1930's.

News From Minnesota, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

From a visit to Minneapolis, Carol Ahlum, a staff member of The Feminist Press, learned of developments on varied levels of the Minnesota public school system that exhibit the existence and possibilities of citizens and educators working toward nonsexist education. We hope the brief accounts that follow will spark others to share with the Newsletter similar developments in their own communities.

News Briefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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News From Schools, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

In addition to the Kalamazoo reports mentioned above and in addition to the ones we know about from New York, Berkeley and Ann Arbor (all listed in Feminist Resources which is available from The Feminist Press for $1.25), the following feminist documentations of sexism in particular school systems have come to our attention.

Title Ix: A Tool For Change, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1972 states: "No person in the United States shall on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

Review Of Sexism In School And Society, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

SEXISM IN SCHOOL AND SOCIETY by Nancy Frazier and Myra Sadker (Harper and Row, New York, 1973: paper, $2.95) is among the first titles in a new series of texts meant for undergraduate education majors interested in "Critical Issues." It will also be useful for parents, teachers, and others looking for a concise account of the failure of schools and colleges to serve the sexes equally.

Review Of Women, Resistance And Revolution, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

WOMEN, RESISTANCE AND REVOLUTION by Sheila Rowbotham (Pantheon, New York, 1972: $7.95) illuminates the continuity and universality of women's movements for change. A British historian, a Marxist and a feminist, Rowbotham chronicles the history of European and American women from the late renaissance to the early twentieth century.