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Title:

The politics of women's studies : testimony from thirty founding mothers / edited by Florence Howe ; introduction by Mari Jo Buhle.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Feminist Press,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xxvi, 422 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women's studies--United States--History.
Women scholars--United States--History.
Discrimination in education--United States.
Feminism and education--United States.

Other Authors:

Howe, Florence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-401) and index.

Contents:

Pt. 1. 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 -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Pt. 3. 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 -- Pt. 4. 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 -- Pt. 5. 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 -- Pt. 6. 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.

Series:

Women's studies history series ; v. 1

ISBN:

9781558612419 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1558612416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558612402 (cloth : alk. paper)
1558612408 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44313456

LCCN:

00044251

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)