The Politics of Women's Studies

Testimony from Thirty Founding Mothers

Author: Florence Howe
ISBN: 9781558612419

   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 Ph.D.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. During the early years, they taught at more than 30 campuses, many changing jobs several times. Some taught at private institutions such as Spelman College and Cornell University, while the majority taught at large state universities such as Berkeley, Michigan, Kentucky, Arizona, and the City University of

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Publish Date: 2000

Subjects: Education / General, Education / Higher, Education / History, Education / Multicultural Education, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Women's Studies)