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Corrections: Grass Roots Women's Studies: South Carolina, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The author of "Grass Roots Women's Studie s: South Carolina" in our Summer 1976 issue was incorrectly identified. The author is Leslie Todd, a graduate assistant at the University of South Carolina.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Living/Learning In Women's Studies, Judith Ann Sturnick

Women's Studies Quarterly

You may never have heard of Capital University (2500 students, affiliated with the American Lutheran Church), but I can introduce the character of our campus very quickly: located in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, founded 125 years ago and drawing the majority of its students from Ohio. Befitting its loca tion in this conservative area of the Midwest, the campus too is highly conservative. Nevertheless, in this environment a sustained and dedicated effort has been going on for the past four years to bring a feminist perspective to our campus, to encourage and keep feminist students and to develop a …

Librarians Adopt Proposal On Sexism, Racism, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The American Library Association's (ALA) centennial convention, held in Chicago, July 1976, and attended by 18,000 librarians, will go down in history as a victory in the battle against sexist and racist attitudes in the library world. The Council on Interracial Books for Children (CIBC) distributed more than 5,000 copies of its Bulletin (Vol. VII, No. 4) which carried their proposal, "An Action Program for ALA." In the course of the week-long convention, the CIBC proposal for librarian action against racism and sexism evolved into a formal resolution that was voted upon by the membership and adopted as official policy …

Grass Roots Women's Studies: South Carolina, Leslie Todd, Linda Todd

Women's Studies Quarterly

Although big industry is changing South Carolina's standing as a mainly agricultural state, its population is still generally rural—and conservative. Several major corporations have built plants in recent years; the attendant influx of upper middle-class families has created pockets of comparative wealth. Despite these new population clusters, however, the state's educational standards reflect a "small-town" ethos, particularly at the secondary level. Most of South Carolina's liberal arts colleges are located around its more densely populated cities: Columbia (the state capital, located in the center of the state; population approximately 114,000); Greenville (in the northwest corner, population approximately 62,000) and Charleston …

Grass Roots Women's Studies: Chicago, Cathy N. Davidson

Women's Studies Quarterly

The women's studies offerings on college campuses in the Chicago area seem, at first glance, disappointing. the University of Chicago has no courses in this field; neither Northwestern University nor the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle allows an undergraduate major. But despite such inauspicious indications of a general lack of commitment to women's studies in the Second City, there are still a number of more or less established programs available. For example, both Chicago Circle and Northwestern, although they give no degree in women's studies, do staff courses that would almost allow one. At Circle, approximately 80 women each …

Planning Continues For The National Founding Convention, Sybil Weir

Women's Studies Quarterly

On June 9, and intermittently throughout the Berkshire Conference at Bryn Mawr College, a Continuations Committee met to plan further aspects of the Founding Convention of the National Women's Studies Association. Each of the regions was represented by at least one person, and in a few cases, two. Despite a heat wave and everybody's end-of-the-semester exhaustion, the good feelings generated at Philadelphia in March continued to sustain us as we realized that the convention and the National Association were indeed becoming a reality.

Margaret Fuller Mystery Continues, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

In the Winter 1976 issue, we challenged our readers to identify the woman in picture one, whom we had incorrectly captioned Margaret Fuller. We have received six entries to date: three identifying the woman as Alice B. Toklas, one identifying her as Helen Keller and two identifying her as Dame Edith Sitwell.

Part-Time Teaching: Some Problems And Recommendations, Sharon Dean

Women's Studies Quarterly

Although several studies have been done on part-time teaching, a need still exists for more thorough and up-to-date information.* The most recent statistics available appear in a report by the Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women. The Commission found that in 1971, 57 percent of the part-time teaching positions in the modern languages were held by women. It also found wide variation in the treatment of part-time faculty. Thirty-three percent of the departments surveyed determined salary on a per course basis, usually $1000 to $2000, figures substantially lower than a per course breakdown for full-time faculty. Only …

Women's Studies Dissertations In Hispanic Literatures, Phyllis Zatlin Boring

Women's Studies Quarterly

Hispania, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, annually publishes listings of completed dissertations and of dissertations in progress in the fields of Hispanic languages and literatures. The most recent listing reports the titles of doctoral theses from 135 departments of Spanish and Portuguese and 45 departments of linguistics . A brief survey of these listings indicates a continuing interest in women's studies topics.

Books From Canada, Wendy Keitner, Lois Gottlieb

Women's Studies Quarterly

Mother Was Not a Person compiled by Margret Andersen. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1972; 2nd ed. 1974. 253 pages $3.95 paperback.

Women in Canada edited by Marylee Stephenson. Toronto: New Press, 1973. 331 pages. $4.50 paperback, $9.95 hardcover.

Privilege of Sex: A Century of Canadian Women edited by Eve Zaremba. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1974. 173 pages. $3.50 paperback, $8.50 hardcover.

Women at Work. Ontario, 1850-1930 edited by Janice Acton, Penny Goldsmith and Bonnie Shepard. Toronto: Canadian Women's Educational Press, 1974. 405 pages. $6.00 paperback, 12.50 hardcover.

Berkshire Conference Report, Jane Williamson

Women's Studies Quarterly

Anyone who has been confronted by a student, teacher, colleagueor friend with the remark—hostile, ignorant, or both—that "women never did anything in history" should find enormous comfort and pride in the Third Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. The 157 papers that were presented in 70 sessions over three days to an audience of nearly 1500 demonstrated not only the scope of women's participation throughout history, but also the vast amount of work that women historians have done in uncovering that participation. And if the sheer size were not impressive enough, the creativity and scholarship of the work, and …

Advice From A Chinese Revolutionary, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following comes from a speech made by Ting Ling on the occasion of International Women's Day in 1942 to the women of Yenan, then the center of Communist insurgency in mainland China. It is available in a pamphlet from Femintern Press, c/o Takagi Sawako, 7-22- 18 Nishishinjuko, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

The Maimie Letters, Patricia M. King

Women's Studies Quarterly

Relevance in history today is often identified with the discovery of the history of the nonelite classes, those men, women and children of the past who belonged to the vast but inarticulate majority. With the aid of the computer, the scanty evidence: birth, marriage and death dates in town, county or church registers; addresses in city directories; and entries in hospital, prison and census records is yielding information on the economic and social conditions, geographic mobility, and marriage and childbearing patterns of the lives of those who hitherto have been silent because they left no traditional written sources for historical …

Grass Roots Women's Studies: The Nashua, New Hampshire Area, Jeannine Dobbs

Women's Studies Quarterly

While the rest of the state is still dependent on tourists, textiles, apples and chickens, southern New Hampshire looks and sounds more like Massachusetts, especially suburban Boston. Nashua, New Hampshire exemplifies the border communities: Massachusetts is a ten-minute drive from downtown; 20 percent of Nashua's labor force commutes to jobs in Massachusetts (most to Lowell, Boston, the Route 128 industrial belt or Boston suburbs) ; another 20 percent commutes to Nashua jobs from homes in Massachusetts.

Nashua is the state's second largest city (population 63,000), and it is growing rapidly. A number of bedroom communities (Hudson, Amherst, Hollis, Merrimack and …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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Letters To The Editor: Coeducation?, Elizabeth Newman

Women's Studies Quarterly

Dear Ms. Howe,

I am a junior at Hunter College High School, and am taking a social studies course entitled Women in American History. I am working on my term paper for the course American Women in Science and I came across your paper in Women and Success: The Anatomy of Achievement edited by Ruth Kundskin. I was particularly attracted by your suggestion of "separatism" in the schools, a means by which young males and females can meet with members of their own sex for consciousness-raising sessions.

Planning A National Women's Studies Association, Elsa Greene, Elaine Reuben

Women's Studies Quarterly

On Saturday, March 20, thirty women came together in Philadelphia to begin laying the groundwork for a National Women's Studies Association and to plan for a national founding convention at which the Association will be launched. After two days of intense and high energy discussion, the group agreed in principle on a working paper which proposes a shape for the Association; they also created and approved an outline for a three-day, representational convention to be held in mid-November at San Jose State University.

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

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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

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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 …