Florence Howe has devoted her career to the development of women’s studies in the U.S. and internationally and to integrating new feminist scholarship into the core liberal arts curriculum. She is the Founder and former Director and Publisher of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York. In 1977, she was instrumental in creating the National Women’s Studies Association, and in 1985 organized The Women’s Studies International as part of the United Nations Mid-Decade Conference for Women in 1985, giving women from many countries their first exposure to women’s studies. Howe has also been a Lecturer and Professor of English. Her project, Women Writing Africa, is supported by the Ford Foundation and is designed to identify and publish significant works by contemporary African women authors. It reflects her life-long commitment to extending the boundaries of intellectual endeavor to include the experiences, perspectives, and analyses of women and girls.