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Politics of Women's Studies : Testimony from the Founding Mothers /

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 teach...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Howe, Florence (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Women's studies history series ; v. 1.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (440 pages): illustrations.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781558617865
Acceso:Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.