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Grass Roots Women's Studies: Piedmont, North Carolina, Mollie C. Davis

Women's Studies Quarterly

North Carolina is a state in nervous transition as it moves rapidly from a predominantly rural to an urban character. Its values and its peoples are in cultural conflict and perhaps have been since the end of World War II when agricultural mechanization, industrialization, improved communication, and racial integration effected substantial changes in this vastly diverse state. The old ways are certainly under attack. Stress accompanies rapid change, especially when values clash and traditional patterns of life and land use are dramatically altered.

The Glca Women's Studies Program: A Consortial Approach, Beth Reed

Women's Studies Quarterly

While programs in many large universities have taken root and are showing signs that they will continue to develop, it is still rare to find administrations of liberal arts colleges offering the support (financial and otherwise) required for a systematic development of women's studies. Even programs in large universities operate with inadequate funding and staffs; in small colleges, resources are still more scarce. In addition to budget problems, the small number of feminist scholar/teachers on the typical college faculty limits the range of available women's studies expertise. During the past two years, therefore, the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) has …

Guest Editorial, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Just a year ago the Women's Studies Newsletter announced the founding of the National Women's Studies Association. The network of a women's studies movement, often visible to its diverse participants only in the forum provided by this journal, had established an organization to support and promote feminist education and all feminists involved in that effort, at every educational level and in every educational setting. In this issue, NWSA announces the opening of its national office at the University of Maryland/College Park and my appointment as Coordinator.

Like those whose task it has been to coordinate women's studies programs or projects …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Even Our Language Is An Ever Present Indictment, Ellen Bass

Women's Studies Quarterly

Poems.

The Iwy Conference At Houston: Implications For Women's Studies, Elizabeth Baer, Dora Janeway Odarenko

Women's Studies Quarterly

By this time numerous articles have detailed the tensions, excitement, and apprehensions of the days preceding Houston—and even the curiously flat feeling of the evening before the opening session of this first federally mandated National Women's Conference. The press has reported with varying detail significant moments of the four-day weekend, such as passage of the resolutions on the Equal Rights Amendment, on Reproductive Freedom, and on Sexual Preference. There have been analyses of the impressively disciplined Pro-Plan Caucus, formed by heads of eleven delegations who were determined to facilitate passage of the twenty-six-plank proposed National Plan of Action within the …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Nwsa News, Elizabeth Baer, Elsa Greene, Maija S. Blaubergs

Women's Studies Quarterly

NEW COORDINATOR FOR NWSA: EIAINE REUBEN

On the first of January, Dr. Elaine Reuben began serving as Coordinator of the National Women's Studies Association, headquartered at the University of Maryland/College Park. As National Coordinator, Reuben is responsible for implementing policies set by the members of NWSA. Once fully established, Reuben's office will collect and distribute information about women's studies programs and curricula, initiate planning for the second NWSA Convention, and facilitate the work of all regions, taskforces, and caucuses within NWSA. Reuben's first priority is to assist the taskforces charged with fund-raising and the membership drive.

A Note On Women's Studies At Houston, Phyllis Palmer

Women's Studies Quarterly

The National Women's Studies Association and the Women's Studies Program at George Washington University formally sponsored a series of discussions held in Seneca Falls South, the program and public assembly area of the National Women's Conference, under the title Finding Our History: Studies in American Women. The discussions, which were scheduled hourly during the day on Saturday and Sunday, were led by members of various women's studies programs and covered a range of academic issues, from "Lesbianism and Women's Studies" to "Welfare Women" and "The Economics of Discrimination." The sessions were centered around a library that included both monograph and …

Resolutions Adopted By Delegates To The National Women's Conference, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

By now the Houston conference of November 18 to 21, 1977, is history. For the convenience of our readers, we print below those eight resolutions amended or substituted or added at the conference. Eighteen other resolutions were adopted without alteration, on the following subjects: Arts and Humanities; Battered Women; Business; Child Abuse; Child Care; Credit; Elective and Appointive Office; Employment; Equal Rights Amendment; Health; Homemakers; Insurance; International Affairs; Media; Offenders; Reproductive Freedom; Sexual Preference; Statistics.

For copies of all resolutions in the official conference program, the historic IWYtabloid, and the 1976 IWY Report, " ...To Form A More Perfect Union... …

Facts About Women In Higher Education, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Women's Equity Action League Educational and Legal Defense Fund, 733 15th Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington, D.C. 20005, recently released a report (July 1977) on the progress women have and have not made toward equal rights and opportunities in American colleges and universities. What follows is the first half of that report. The second half will appear in our next issue.

Discrimination against women is alive and well on the nation's campuses.

Some gains have been made. We document them, as well as the losses, in this fact sheet. More women than ever before are going to college and …

Closeup On Women's Studies Courses: Women's Image: An Interdisciplinary Introductory Course, Nancy Schniedewind

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women's Image: Myth and Reality, the introductory course in the Women's Studies Program at the State University College, New Paltz, provides an experience that concurrently maintains a network among women faculty on campus and exposes students to women's studies. It encourages students to reflect on their personal experiences as they study the images of women in society.

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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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 …

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 …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Newsbriefs, Jeannine Dobbs, Phyllis Zatlin Boring

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.

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 …

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. …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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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.