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The politics of women's studies : testimony from thirty founding mothers /

The politics of women's studies : testimony from thirty founding mothers / edited by Florence Howe ; introduction by Mari Jo Buhle. - 1st ed. - New York : Feminist Press, 2000. - xxvi, 422 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - The women's studies history series ; v. 1 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Everyone a Heroine -- Introduction / Mari Jo Buhle -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- "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 -- Modern Women Not Lost / Marilyn Boxer -- Dreams of Social Justice / Elizabeth Lopovsky 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 -- The Long Road Through Gendered Questions / Johnnetta B. Cole -- Making a Place / Nona Glazer -- The Ground Revisited / Nancy Porter -- There Were Godmothers, Too / Mariam K. Chamberlain.

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

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

HQ1181.U5 / P65 2000

305.4/071/173

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