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.
Temas:
Feminism and education > United States.
Discrimination in education > United States.
Women scholars > United States > History.
Women's studies > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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