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The politics of women's studies : testimony from thirty founding mothers
- Title
- The politics of women's studies : testimony from thirty founding mothers / edited by Florence Howe ; introduction by Mari Jo Buhle.
- Publication
- New York : Feminist Press, 2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Howe, Florence.
- Description
- xxvi, 422 p. : ports.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- The women's studies history series ; v. 1
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-14795
- ISBN
- 1558612408 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1558612416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00044251
- OCLC
- 44313456
- Title
- The politics of women's studies : testimony from thirty founding mothers / edited by Florence Howe ; introduction by Mari Jo Buhle.
- Imprint
- New York : Feminist Press, 2000.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- The women's studies history series ; v. 1
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-401) and index.
- Added Author
- Howe, Florence.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-14795