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Politics of Womenâs Studies Testimony from the Founding Mothers
Title
Politics of Womenâs Studies [electronic resource] : Testimony from the Founding Mothers / edited by Florence Howe ; introduction by Mari Jo Buhle.
ISBN
9781558617865
Edition
First edition.
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
New York [New York] : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2000. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xxvi, 422 pages) :) : illustrations.
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
In the patriarchal halls of 1970s academe, women who spoke their minds risked their careers. Yet intrepid women--students, faculty, administrators, members of the community--persisted in collaborating to form women's studies. In doing so, they created a movement that altered curricula and teaching styles, and shifted paradigms and content across disciplines. These original essays by "founding mothers" feature a diversity of voices: young graduate students or new PhD's just beginning to teach and untenured; tenured professors in search of ways to improve their students' capacities to learn; older, veteran academics at last witnessing change; and even a few administrators. In all of these programs, founders grappled not only with issues of gender, but with those of class, race, and sexuality, in a decade infused with political unrest and questioning, when civil rights and anti-war activism, as well as feminism, shaped academic worlds.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement VI.
Project MUSE - Archive Global Cultural Studies Supplement VI.
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Print version:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2018
Series
Women's studies history series ; volume one
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
part I. Naming the problem : the absence of women from the curriculum and scholarship. Learning from teaching / Florence Howe
Teaching across the boundaries of race and class / Nancy Hoffman
Beginning in the 1960s / Sheila Tobias
The evolution of a consortial women's studies program / Jean Walton
part II. Overcoming barriers : ridicule, reluctance, and refusals. The gender revolution / Nancy Topping Bazin
Moving from the periphery to the center / Barbara W. Gerber
Imploding marginality / Annis Pratt
A cause of our own / Josephine Donovan
An odyssey / Inez Martinez
part III. Inventing successful strategies : the power of groups, planning and publicity. The deodorant of success / Mimi Reisel Gladstein
The women's studies moment : 1972 / Kathryn Kish Sklar
From the bottom up : the students' initiative / Gloria Bowles
The academy and the activist : collective practice and multicultural focus / Margaret Strobel
Awakening / Mary Anne Ferguson
part IV. Providing feminist scholarship for texts, teaching and other scholars. "What women writers?" : plotting women's studies in New York / Electa Arenal
Building Black women's studies / Barbara Smith
Charting a personal journey : a road to women's studies / Nellie Y. McKay
Other mothers of women's studies / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
part V. Building women's studies programs : no easy task anywhere. Modern woman not lost / Marilyn Boxer
Dreams of social justice / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Changing signs / Tucker Pamella Farley
A sense of discovery, mixed with a sense of justice / Annette Kolodny
A political education / Myra Dinnerstein
Has it really been thirty years? / Sue-Ellen Jacobs
Linking ethnic studies to women's studies / Yolanda T. Moses
part VI. Looking Back : cups half empty or half full? The long road through gendered questions / Johnetta B. Cole
Making a place / Nona Glazer
The ground revisited / Nancy Porter
There were godmothers, too / Mariam K. Chamberlain.
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