Smith College
Project on Women and Social Change
http://www.smith.edu/wsc
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Contact Information:
Seelye Hall, Room 210
Northampton, MA 01063
Phone: 413-585-3591
Fax: 413-585-3593
E-mail: kgauger@email.smith.edu
CENTER DESCRIPTION
The Smith College Project on Women and Social Change is an interdisciplinary faculty research group. Founded in 1978, the project draws together faculty from a wide range of disciplines. The project's faculty participants are involved in research and teaching, exploring women's contributions to social change and the ways in which women are affected by change. Members of the project undertake both individual and collaborative research and translate their findings into teaching. The project brings local and international scholars to Smith for various forums including work-in-progress seminars, lectures, conferences, and workshops. Current Smith faculty research projects are focused on: Gender, Authority, and Leadership; Women and Work; and Comparative Studies of Gender, Education, and Public Policy.
AREA(S) OF EXPERTISE
Corporate women; education; equity in education; feminist thought and scholarship; statistics on women.
RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
Women on Power: Leadership Redefined. A work-in-progress that discusses theoretical and case studies dealing with women's leadership. This project has resulted in both a research and teaching volume that combines theoretical and practical dimensions.
Physical Education and Sport in a Global Context: Honoring the Legacy, Charting the Future. A 50th Anniversary Conference held in the spring of 1999 addressed equity in sports and progress made by female athletes from around the country.
PUBLICATIONS
Managing Lives: Corporate Women and Social Change, Sue J.M. Freeman (1990).
The Whistle-Blowers: Exposing Corruption in Government and Industry, Myron Peretz Glazer and Penina Midgal Glazer (1989).
Unequal Colleagues: The Entrance of Women Into the Professions, 1890-1940, Penina Midgal Glazer and Miriam Slater (1987).
The Economics of Comparable Worth, Mark Aldrich and Robert Buchele (1986).
The Environmental Crusaders: Confronting Disaster and Mobilizing Community, Penina Midgal Glazer and Myron Peretz Glazer (1998).
Learning About Women: Gender, Politics, and Power, edited by Susan C. Bourque et al. (1989).
Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Architectural Feminism, Polly Wynn Allen (1988).
Women, Welfare and Higher Education: Towards Comprehensive Policies, edited by Martha Ackelsberg, et al. (1988).
Women Living Change: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Susan C. Bourque and Donna Robinson Divine (1985).
Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns, Susan C. Bourque and Kay B. Warren (1981).
Women's Place in the Academy: Transforming the Liberal Arts Curriculum, edited by Marilyn Schuseter and Susan Van Dyne (1985).
Women's History as Women's Education: Essays, Natalie Zemon Davis and Joan Wallach Scott (1985).
Family Life in Seventeeth Century England: The Verneys of Claydon House, Miriam Slater (1984).
Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power, Donna Robinson Divine (1994).
The Politics of Women's Education: Perspectives from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, edited by Jill Ker Conway and Susan C. Bourque (1993).
Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and Struggle, Martha Ackelsberg (1991).
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