Politics of Women's Studies Testimony from the Founding Mothers

Name: Politics of Women's Studies Testimony from the Founding Mothers
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ISBN: 9781558612419

ISBN-10: 1558612416

ISBN-13: 9781558612419

Edition: 2000 (Unabridged)

Authors: Florence Howe, Mari Jo Buhle

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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 building women's studies. In doing so, they created a movement and altered curricula and teaching styles across the disciplines. Now, in an unprecedented volume that captures both the history of a pivotal era and the drama of personal risks, triumphs, and losses, 30 scholars and activists document their work to establish women's studies programs. These original essays by 'founding mothers' feature a diversity of voices: young graduate students or new PhDs just beginning to teach and untenured; tenured…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 8/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface: Everyone a Heroine


Introduction




Naming the Problem: The Absence of Women from the Curriculum and Scholarship


Learning from Teaching



Teaching Across the Boundaries of Race and Class



Beginning in the 1960s



The Evolution of a Consortial Women's Studies Program




Overcoming Barriers: Ridicule, Reluctance, and Refusals


The Gender Revolution



Moving from the Periphery to the Center



Imploding Marginality



A Cause of Our Own



An Odyssey




Inventing Successful Strategies: The Power of Groups, Planning, and Publicity


The Deodorant of Success



The Women's Studies Moment: 1972



From the Bottom Up: The Students' Initiative



The Academy and the Activist: Collective Practice and Multicultural Focus



Awakening




Providing Feminist Scholarship: For Texts, Teaching, and Other Scholars


"What Women Writers?": Plotting Women's Studies in New York



Building Black Women's Studies



Charting a Personal Journey: A Road to Women's Studies



Other Mothers of Women's Studies




Building Women's Studies Programs: No Easy Task Anywhere


Modern Woman Not Lost



Dreams of Social Justice



Changing Signs



A Sense of Discovery, Mixed with a Sense of Justice



A Political Education



Has It Really Been Thirty Years?



Linking Ethnic Studies to Women's Studies




Looking Back: Cups Half Empty or Half Full?


The Long Road Through Gendered Questions



Making a Place



The Ground Revisited



There Were Godmothers, Too



Notes


Index