Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies

In 1970, the field of women’s, gender and feminist studies was launched and was able to thrive in the ensuing years. NCRW was established in 1982 to create a supportive network for the burgeoning women’s research movement. Today, there are more than 900 women’s studies programs in the US with more than 10,000 courses offered on college campuses. Much of the curriculum is interdisciplinary and, in many instances, mainstreamed across subject areas. From the social sciences to liberal arts, fine arts and the sciences, feminist theory and framing (especially the intersection of race, gender and class) is having an important impact across disciplines in academia and beyond.

Higher Education Resource Services (HERS)

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1901 East Asbury Avenue
Denver, CO 80208-1002
Ph. (303) 871-3975
Fx. (303) 871-6766
http://www.hersnet.org/
HERS@du.edu


HERS Institutes is an educational non-profit providing leadership and management development for women in higher education administration.  HERS Institutes provide an intensive 12-day curriculum that prepares women faculty and administrators for institutional leadership roles. The Institutes focus on knowledge, skills and perspectives for achieving institutional priorities and maximizing institutional resources. HERS Institute participants work with HERS Faculty and HERS Alumnae to develop the professional development plans and networks needed for advancing as leaders in higher education administration. 

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Judith S. White, President and Executive Director
Ph. (303) 871-6524
Email: Judith.White@du.edu

Stacey Farnum, Research Associate
Ph. (303) 871-6866
Email: SFarnum@du.edu

Lakshmi Kollengode, Executive and Financial Assistant
Ph. (303) 871-6472
Email: Lakshmi.Kollengode@du.edu

Shannon Martin-Roebuck, Assistant Director
Ph. (303) 871-3975
Email: Shannon.Martin-Roebuck@du.edu

Debbie Mixon Mitchell, Associate Director for HERS Institutes
Ph. (303) 871-6204
Email: Debra.Mixon@du.edu

Sarah E. Roth, Program Coordinator
Ph. (303) 871-6866
Email: Sarah.Roth@du.edu

Cynthia Secor, Senior Associate
Email: CSecor@du.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Educational Leadership of Women & People of Color, Leadership in Education, Higher Education, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies

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Each of the three Institutes—HERS Bryn Mawr, HERS Denver and HERS Wellesley—deliberately seeks a diverse group of approximately 70 women leaders to share and learn from their multiple perspectives under the guidance of women faculty from higher education, national organizations, government and foundations.  The participants are sponsored by a range of institutional types from different regions of the country.  HERS Institute participants generally hold mid- to senior-level positions and bring expertise from many academic disciplines and organizational specialties.  They also represent a range of ethnic and national groups, ages and years of experience in higher education and other related fields.

Click here for a PDF of the 2010-2011 HERS Institutes Announcement

 

HERS in Africa

The HERS South Africa Program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, began in 2000. Over the course of the first four years, 73 women travelled from South Africa to Wellesley College to participate in carefully tailored training opportunities and to observe administrative practice at U.S. colleges and universities. Participants were paired with women leaders at host institutions including Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Amherst College, Bridgewater State College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  Curriculum focused on strategic planning, change leadership, human resource development and institutional effectiveness.

For more information visit the HERS-SA website: http://www.hers-sa.org.za

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Center for the Study of Women

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Los Angeles, CA 90095-7222
Ph. (310) 825-0590
Fx. (310) 825-0456
http://www.women.ucla.edu
mchughla@humnet.ucla.edu
csw@csw.ucla.edu

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is a nationally recognized center for research on women, gender, and sexuality, and the first organized research unit of its kind in the University of California system. Established in 1984, it draws on the expertise of 245 faculty members from 34 departments and 10 UCLA professional schools. Organized to develop, promote and disseminate faculty and graduate student research, the Center administers grants, conferences, seminars, and a quarterly speaker's series that brings together UCLA, UC, national and international scholars with the intellectual community of Los Angeles.

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Kathleen McHugh, Ph.D., Director
Ph. (310) 206-7735
E-mail: cswdirector@women.ucla.edu

Julie Childers, Assistant Director
E-mail: jchilders@women.ucla.edu

Emily Moon, Administrative Specialist
E-mail: emoon@women.ucla.edu

Brenda Johnson-Grau, Managing Editor, Publications
Ph. (310) 206-5487
E-mail: bjg@ucla.edu

Van DoNguyen, Honorary Staff Member

Patricija Petrac, Administrative Assistant
Ph. (310) 825-0590
E-mail: ppetrac@women.ucla.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Higher Education, Sexuality & Gender, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies

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Projects & Campaigns

Current Projects:

From Protest to Policy: A History of Women’s Social Movement Activities in Los Angeles, 1960-1999
Professor Kathleen McHugh
April de Stefano, PhD
This major research project is examining the history of women’s social movement activities in mid to late twentieth-century Los Angeles. The outcome of this research will be a history of women’s social activism in Los Angeles during this period based not on an a priori definition of the Women’s Movement but on the history of activities by which women organized demands against discrimination and for access, equal opportunity, and equal representation.
The focus of the project is conducting archival research and oral history interviews; developing publicly accessible data resources; and organizing a public conference to disseminate research findings. This project will document any material effects of women’s social movement activities on public policy and civic institutions in Los Angeles. It will be a major contribution to the historiography on Los Angeles and will provide new resources for scholars, the public, and today’s policy leaders.
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Professor Sondra Hale
GSRI fosters international exchanges between UCLA Department of Women's Studies and the Center for the Study of Women, and women's/gender studies institutions in Middle East/North Africa and Muslim South Asia. Our primary objective is to facilitate dialogue on emerging theories, concepts, pedagogies, and curricula as related to contemporary social and political issues within the field of women's/gender Studies.
 
Esha Niyogi De, PhD
Professor Sondra Hale
An interdisciplinary research group of UC faculty and graduate students from Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Ethnic studies, Film Studies, French, and Women’s Studies working on questions of women, difference, and knowledge formations in an era of globalization.
 
Professor Kathleen McHugh
A group of FTV critical studies faculty and graduate students are working with the UCLA MIAS program and the Oral History project on recording and preserving the experience of women in the film and television industries in Los Angeles. A database of about 1300 records is available for searching. It contains the locations of interviews with prominent women in print, radio, television and film industries.
The format of these interviews vary: some are in a traditional oral history format, others are part of a public speaker series. Some were recorded only on audio equipment, others were shot on video or film. You will not find the interview files on this site. If you would like to listen to or view the interviews, you will need to contact the particular institution.
To add records to the Women in Media database, please email cswpubs@women.ucla.edu so that we can verify your identity and create an account for you.
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Women of Color Feminism
A research group of primarily junior UCLA faculty in African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, English, History, and Dance whose research interests converge around questions of the erasure of women of color feminism in current academic concerns with the transnational.

Reports & Resources

CSW Update Newsletter: Current Issues from the 2009-2010 Academic Year:

http://www.csw.ucla.edu/newsletter.html

JMEWS

JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women's Studies) is the official publication of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies, a multidisciplinary, international organization affiliated with the Middle East Studies Association. Its purpose is to advance the fields of Middle East women's studies, gender studies and Middle East studies through contributions across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.

For more information

Thinking Gender Papers:

Ah-Sue, Geraldine: ReOrienting Asian/American Subjectivities: On the Cultural (Re)Writings of All- American Girl, 2009.

 
 

 

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 UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN announces:

THINKING GENDER 2012
22nd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
 
Call for papers 
Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, gender and/or sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panelson any topic pertaining to women, gender, and/or sexuality. This year, we especially welcome feminist research on: gender roles in relation to marriage, parenting, or being single; critiques of biosciences and biotechnology as they pertain to fertility, sanitation, and/or medical experimentation at a local, national or global level; mobility as duress or success--for example, in relation to migration, immigration, or upward or downward economic mobility; life stage issues, such as aging and girls’ studies; and feminist storytelling or research in modes such as oral histories, graphic novels, theater, comedy or other inventive expressions. C
 
CSW accepts submissions for both individual papers and pre-constituted panels from all active graduate students. In order to give everyone an opportunity to present, we do not accept submissions from people who presented at Thinking Gender in the previous year. Also no previously published material is eligible.Students proposing individual papers are to submit a cover page (provided on our website), an abstract (250 words), a CV (2 pages maximum), and a brief bibliography (3-5 sources), for consideration. All components are to be delivered in one document and labeled according to the submission guidelines found on the CSW website. For panels, a 250-word description of the panel topic is required, in addition to the materials that must be provided for individual paper submissions.For a more detailed description of submission guidelines, please visit: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/conferences/thinking-gender/thinking-gender-2012. Send submissions to: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu
Deadline for Submissions: Thursday, October 17th, 2011 at 12 noon
 
Conference to be held on
Friday, February 3, 2012
UCLA Faculty Center
 
Event is free and open to the public, but please be aware that there will be a $30 registration fee for presenters, to cover the cost of conference materials and lunch at the Faculty Center.
 
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
1500 Public Affairs Building
Box 957222
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7222
310-825-0590

 

 

 

 

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Consortium for Women and Research

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One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
Ph. 530-754-8852
Fx. 530-754-8853
http://cwr.ucdavis.edu/
consortiumforwomen@ucdavis.edu


The mission of the Consortium for Women and Research at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) is to support research and creative work by and about women. The Consortium promotes the professional advancement of women scholars and supports interdisciplinary research and dialogue on issues pertaining to women and gender. The Consortium seeks to foster individual and collaborative research, create a mentoring network for women scholars, recognize and reward accomplishments of professional women, and support dialogue between scholars, the public, and policymakers. Activities include the "Focus on Women in Research" seminar series; professional development programs for graduate students; and faculty and student grant programs for research support.

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Laura Grindstaff, Director
Ph. (530) 754-8852
E-mail: lagrindstaff@ucdavis.edu

Beverly Babcock, Program Coordinator
Ph. (530) 754-8851
E-mail: bababcock@ucdavis.edu




Areas of Expertise:

Culture & Identity, Higher Education, Sexuality & Gender, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Communications, Culture & Society, Education & Education Reform

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Projects: 

The Consortium currently sponsors the following Research Interest Groups:
 

UCD ADVANCE Institutional Transformation
Kimberlee Shauman, Sociology
 

Gendered Bodies at Play
Sarah McCullough, Cultural Studies

Race, Gender, & Nature
Julie Sze, American Studies
 

Women in Science and Engineering
Margaret Swain, Women's Resources and Research Center

Queer Gender Studies
Cathy Hannabach, Women's Studies
 

Agricultural Migrant Education
Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Sociology
 

Cross-Cultural Women’s and Gender History
Cathy Kudlick, History
 

Women's Studies  

Feminist Essay Prize Competition. Beginning in 2002-03, the Consortium is co-sponsoring a Feminist Essay Prize competition for UCDavis undergraduate and graduate students with the Women's Resource and Research Center and the Women and Gender Studies Program at UCD.

 

Reports & Resources

News and Newsmakers. Consortium newsletter with articles about research and creative work by and about women; news about women scholars on campus; information about the programs and activities of the Consortium and other women's organizations around campus; and news from the National Council for Research on Women.

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Visiting Scholars Program

For more information, visit:

http://cwr.ucdavis.edu/cwr/2008_year/ada_fall_term/visitingscholars.html

 


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Beatrice Bain Research Group

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Berkeley, CA 94720-2050
Ph. 510-643-7172
Fx. 510-643-0246
http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/
bbrg@berkeley.edu


The Beatrice Bain Research Group (BBRG) is the University of California at Berkeley's research center on gender and women, established in 1986. The BBRG is particularly interested in enabling research on gender in its intersections with sexuality, race, class, nation, religion, postcoloniality and transnational feminisms. To meet the needs of its various constituencies, the BBRG engages in a range of activities. These include: the Scholars In Residence Program; the Affiliated Scholars Program; Scholars in Residence Panels; Invited Lectures Series; and co-sponsorship with other research units, departments and organizations on campus of conferences, lectures and other events with feminist content.

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Paola Bacchetta, Director, Associate Professor, Gender & Women's Studies
E-mail: pbacchetta@berkeley.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Higher Education, Sexuality & Gender, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Education & Education Reform

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Scholars in Residence Program. Office support only; no funding. Scholars in Residence remain in residence for one academic year.

Affiliated Scholars Program. Office support only; no funding. Affiliated Scholars remain in residence for period of two weeks to one semester.

Scholars in Residence Panels. Scholars in Residence present their work on panels to the campus community and public.

Invited Lecture Series. Highlights campus faculty as well as national and international scholars.

Co-sponsorship of events with other UC Berkeley research units, departments, and student organizations.

On-line Gender Events Calendar via the Berkeley Gender Consortium

 

Reports & Resources

Scholars in Gender Research at UC Berkeley is a directory of faculty members' current research projects, publications, and contact information.

Between Women and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State, Caren Kaplan, edited with Norma Alarcon and Minoo Moallem, Duke University Press (1999).

Please contact BBRG directly for a copy of its annual report detailing available publications.

 

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BBRG offers programs that are tailored to meet the interests of faculty, graduate/undergraduate students, and the public, at large.

For more details>>

 

Scholars In Residence Program
Call for Applications, Academic Year 2010-2011

Deadline: March 15, 2010

For more details>>

 


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Southwest Institute for Research on Women

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925 N Tyndall Ave
Tucson, AZ 85721-0438
Ph. 520-621-7338
Fx. 520-621-1533
http://sirow.arizona.edu
sstevens@dakotacom.net
sirow@email.arizona.edu

The Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) is a regional research and resource affiliated with the Gender & Women's Studies Department at the University of Arizona committed to developing interdisciplinary research, professional development, and outreach programs. SIROW conducts research on projects centered around women and gender in the Southwest and Northwestern Mexico, including education, employment, health, history, literature, culture, and the advancement of women and girls in science and engineering. The institute is connected to 30 campuses in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Texas, Wyoming, and with El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and El Colegio de Sonora in Mexico.

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Admin. Staff:

Sally Stevens, Ph.D., Executive Director
Ph. 520-626-9558
Fax: 520-621-1533
E-mail: sstevens@email.arizona.edu

Erin Durban, Graduate Research Assistant
Ph. 520-626-4911
Fax: 520-621-1533
E-mail: durban@email.arizona.edu

Terry Mullin, Business Manager, Senior
Ph. 520-621-7339
Fax: 520-621-1533
E-mail: mullin@email.arizona.edu

Lupita Loftus, Accounting Specialist
Ph. 520-621-3839
E-mail: loftusm@email.arizona.edu


Program Staff and Grad Students:

Jeri Alexander, Research Technician
Ph. 520-670-9075
Fax: 520-670-9136
E-mail: jla3@email.arizona.edu

Thomas Bogart, Instructional Specialist
E-mail: tbogart@email.arizona.edu

Corrie Brinley, Research Specialist/Health Educator
Ph. 520-670-9075
Fax: 520-670-9136
E-mail: cbrinley@email.arizona.edu

Monica Davis, Health Educator
Ph. 520-295-9339
E-mail: midavis@email.arizona.edu

Linda Shaird, Research and Prevention Specialist
Ph. 520-670-9075
Fax: 520-670-9136
E-mail: llshaird@email.arizona.edu

Stephanie Springer, MPH, Program Coordinator
Ph. 520-295-9339
E-mail: stephks@email.arizona.edu

Andrea Verdin, Therapist
Phone: 520-670-9075
Fax: 520-670-9136
E-mail: averdin@email.arizona.edu


Areas of Expertise:

Barriers & Opportunities, Culture & Identity, Girls & STEM, Diversity & Inclusion, Family & Society, Higher Education, Women in STEM, Women in History, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Communications, Culture & Society, Education & Education Reform, Health, Reproductive Rights & Sexuality, Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)

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The projects that SIROW undertakes either focus on women and gender in the Southwest and the Mexico-U.S. border region from a multicultural perspective, or are developed because they interest scholars in the region.  They are divided into the following topics categories:
 

 

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Reports & Resources

Ruiz B., Stevens, S., Fuhriman, J., Bogart, J., & Korchmaros, J. 2009. "A juvenile drug court model in southern Arizona: Substance abuse, deliquency, and sexual risk outcomes by gender and race/ethnicity." Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 

Ruiz, B., Hedges, K., Greene, A., Arnold, A., Colonna, H., Stevens, S., Andrade, R., & O'Neill, S. 2009. "School and community counseling collaboration: A promising approach to address youth substance abuse." School Counseling Research and Practice.

Rabin, N. 2009. Unseen prisoners: A report on women in immigration detention facilities in Arizona. University of Arizona, SIROW.

Stevens, S., Andrade, R.A.C., Ruiz, B.S. 2009. Women and substance abuse: Gender, age and cultural consideration.
Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse.

 

 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 

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SIROW is open to those who want to make a difference in the lives of women and families through collaborative and innovative research and the integration of new knowledge into policy and practice.

There are various way you can become involved with SIROW.   Including collaboration, financial contribution, internships, work study and volunteer positions, and participation on one our advisory boards. Please click on the links to the left to find out more about each of these valuable contributions.
If you are interested in developing further connections with SIROW, please contact Sally Stevens at sstevens@u.arizona.edu

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Center for the Study of Women in Society

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1201 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
Ph. 541-346-5015
Fx. 541-346-5096
http://csws.uoregon.edu
csws@uoregon.edu


The University of Oregon's Center for the Study of Women in Society promotes research on the complexity of women’s lives and the intersecting nature of gender identities and inequalities. Faculty and graduate students affiliated with the Center generate and share this research with other scholars and educators, the public, policymakers, and activists. CSWS researchers come from a broad range of fields in arts and humanities, law and policy, social sciences, physical and life sciences, and the professional schools.

CSWS Mission
Generating, supporting and disseminating research on the complexity of women’s lives and the intersecting nature of gender identities and inequalities.

 

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Carol Stabile, Director
Ph. (541) 346-5524
Fax: (541) 346-5096
E-mail: cstabile@uoregon.edu

Gabriela Martínez, Associate Director
E-mail: Gmartine@uoregon.edu

Alice Evans, Dissemination Specialist
Ph. (541) 346-5077
Fax: (541) 346-5096
E-mail: alicee@uoregon.edu

Peggy McConnell, Accounting and Grants
Ph. (541) 346-2262
Fax: (541) 346-5096
E-mail: peggym@uoregon.edu

Pam Sutton, Office and Events Coordinator
Ph. (541) 346-5015
Fax: (541) 346-5096
E-mail: csws@uoregon.edu



Areas of Expertise:

Advancing Women's Leadership, Diversity & Leadership, Economic Development & Microfinance, Communications, Media & Gender, Diversity & Inclusion, Poverty, Globalization, Mentoring, Sexuality & Gender, Women's Leadership, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Communications, Culture & Society

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Feminist Thought and Scholarship
Research Interest Groups. Research Interest Groups (RIG) organized by CSWS foster collaboration between scholars at the university. Faculty, graduate students, and community members participate in programs and events. RIGs are designed to facilitate collaborative research; create support groups for the preparation of grant proposals; build better connections between scholars and community activists; and generate opportunities for cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars.

Women of Color Project
CSWS was awarded a Ford Foundation grant in March 2008 from the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW). “Diversifying the Leadership of Women’s Research Centers,” was meant to promote the leadership of women of color from historically underrepresented groups in the United States within NCRW and within its women’s research, policy, and advocacy member centers. CSWS and the UO Office of the Vice President for Research provided matching funds.

Charise Cheney, associate professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies, continues as the 2012-13 coordinator of the CSWS Women of Color Project. Cheney’s research interests include African-American popular and political cultures, black nationalist ideologies and practices, and gender and sexuality. She is the author of Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism (New York: New York University Press, 2005) and is currently working on a book about black resistance to school desegregation in Topeka, Kansas in the decade before Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. She earned her PhD at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Fembot Project
Designed to re-imagine academic writing and research, the Fembot Project participates in the ongoing revolution in academic publishing, taking seriously the advice of scholars to democratize our publications by embracing open access, open source publications. The Fembot Project centrally includes a new journal—Ada: Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology—that will be broadly accessible, both in terms of physical access and in terms of its content. The Fembot website (http://fembotcollective.org/) comprises three overlapping projects: Ada, Laundry Day, and a professional clearinghouse.

For more information, contact Carol Stabile, Director, CSWS, cstabile@uoregon.edu

Women Writers Project

This group organized MemoirFest, the first annual CSWS Women Writers Symposium, held May 12, 2012. The second annual CSWS Women Writers Symposium: Common Ground, will be held over Mother’s Day weekend 2013. The Women Writers Project (http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=10220) seeks to foster and enhance opportunities for women writers on campus, in the community, and throughout the Pacific Northwest; to bring distinct voices of published women writers to campus; and to support the work of creative writing by bringing together writers from different disciplines.

For more information, contact coordinator Alice Evans at alicee@uoregon.edu

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2012 CSWS Annual Review

Available online at <http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=82>, this 28-page publication includes these highlights:

  • “The Rise and Fall of The Goldbergs,” by Carol Stabile, director, CSWS, and professor, SOJC and women’s and gender studies — Despite widespread support as evidenced through fan mail, this popular show by Jewish writer Gertrude Berg was ultimately squelched by anti-communist activists.
  • “Witnessing in the Americas: A Conversation with Gabriela Martínez,” documentary filmmaker, SOJC associate professor, and the new associate director of CSWS.
  • “We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements,” by Lynn Stephen,  professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies — CSWS-funded research culminates in innovative book.
  • Research articles by UO scholars addressing the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields, rural gentrification and immigrant-centered labor, strategies of silence in American women’s poetry, and more.


CSWS Research Matters is published three times yearly. Each two-page article is written by a UO faculty member whose research has been supported by CSWS. Available online at <http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=85>,the most recent issues include:

  • 2012, Fall: “Touchstones, Touchscreens and Timeless Tall Tales: A Feminist Analysis of Communication Practice in Exhibitions,” by Phaedra Livingstone, assistant professor, University of Oregon, Arts and Administration Program (AAD) School of Architecture & Allied Arts (A&AA) and coordinator, Museum Studies
  • 2012, Spring: “Thinking Through a Research Trajectory, From Hollywood Latinas to Hair/Style” by Priscilla Peña Ovalle, associate professor, Department of English & associate director, Cinema Studies
  • 2012, Winter: “Partner Violence and Girls’ Educational and Vocational Development” by Krista M. Chronister, associate professor, College of Education, Counseling Psychology Program
  • 2011, Fall: “Why Oklahoma? All-Black Towns and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Indian Territory” by Melissa H. Stuckey, assistant professor, Department of History

 

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Sandra Morgen; Joan Acker; Jill Weigt. 2010.Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform. Cornell University Press.

Pascoe, Peggy. 2009. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. Oxford.

Reis, Elizabeth. 2009. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Lynn Fujiwara. 2008. Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform. University of Minnesota Press.

Microfinance

Lamia Karim, 2011. Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh. University of Minnesota Press. Lamia Karim is the associate director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society and an associate professor in the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology.

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Grants and Fellowships

The Center for the Study of Women in Society maintains a number of grant programs to support the work initiated by University of Oregon faculty, staff (with the appropriate end degrees), and graduate students. By providing these highly competitive grants and fellowships, CSWS consistently has supported many important research projects at various stages of development and enriched programs in all sectors of the university. The Center has offered research funding to faculty and graduate students at the University of Oregon for more than 25 consecutive years.

For more details visit: 

http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=16

 

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Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality

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249 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
Ph. 215-898-8740
Fx. 215-898-1803
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/wstudies/
wstudies@sas.upenn.edu


The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality conducts, supports, and disseminates applied policy research aimed at improving the lives of women, children, and families. The Alice Paul Center brings together leading scholars and researchers, policy makers, practitioners and advocates, to mobilize knowledge to effect change.

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Rita Barnard, Director
E-mail: rbarnard@english.upenn.edu

Demi Kurz, Co-Director
Ph. 215-898-8740
Fax: 215-898-1803
E-mail: dkurz@sas.upenn.edu

Shannon B. Lundeen, Ph.D., Associate Director
Ph. 215.898.9607
Fax: 215.898.1803
E-mail: bshannon@sas.upenn.edu

Luz Marin, Program Coordinator
E-mail: lmarin@sas.upenn.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Family & Society, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Work - Life Balance, Communications, Culture & Society

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Policy Partnerships

APC's Policy Partnership Program is the centerpiece of its mission to apply research in the service of social change. APC sponsors collaborations between academic researchers and organizations that work on women and family policy and programs.

The goals of the Policy Partnership Program are:

1. To move research out of the "ivory tower" and into the hands of policy makers, advocates, and service providers

2. To provide organizations with a wide knowledge base to inform their work and strengthen their programs

3. To give graduate and undergraduate students experience with applied research and expose them to organizations working for change

Research Partnerships. Penn researchers work closely with organizations to design and conduct research projects that improve the organizations' work as advocates and service-providers. Penn graduate students are employed as research assistants in order to gain valuable experience and help finance their graduate training. Undergraduates also work as research assistants on Partnership projects.

Internship and Service Learning Partnerships. Students from across the University intern in local organizations addressing gender issues and take seminar courses that feature internship and research projects with policy partners. Alumni/ae interested in women's issues are enlisted as mentors and advisors to students and policy partners. The hands-on learning experience provides needed resources to community groups, and encourages students to explore careers in the public and non-profit sectors.

Some recent policy partnerships include:

Women's Way 25. "A Change of Pace: Accelerating Women's Progress." A major report that documents women's progress toward economic equality over the past 25 years, highlights remaining inequalities, explains the reasons for their persistence, and proposes specific strategies for change to accelerate the pace of women's progress.

Third Path Institute. "Gender and Work-Life Balance in the Professions" applies research and professional experience to design new templates for work in the professions that allow for better work-life balance. Phase one focuses on the legal profession and involves collaboration with the Penn Law School, the Wharton School, and Philadelphia Flex-Time Lawyers.

Arab-American CDC. Working with middle schools in Philadelphia to develop leadership programs and curricula for Palestinian girls.

Research Fellows

APC hosts post-doctoral and senior scholars from around the world who are conducting research on women and gender.

Public Lectures and Fora

APC, in collaboration with Women's Studies, sponsors two major public addresses by prominent scholars, writers, and activists on current issues affecting women. APC also sponsors and co-sponsors numerous other public programs thoughout the year. Information on past and upcoming events is available at our website: or by calling the office at 215-898-8740.


Integrating Gender into a Penn Education

APC is actively involved in the core educational mission of the University. The Center:

1. Contributes to course offerings and curricular development focused on the role of gender in the lives and opportunities of both women and men

2. Involves students in research, policy-making, and community service

3. Funds graduate students doing research on women and gender

4. Supports undergraduate and graduate networks for exchanging ideas, presenting works-in-progress, and designing research and action projects


Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Diversity of Language and the Structure of Power Seminar. Designed for Penn faculty and graduate students, this seminar focuses on the use of language and the intersections of race, class, and gender. The current seminar theme is feminist theory and its contributions to key areas of contemporary research and critique of the humanities and social sciences.

Penn Mid-Atlantic Seminar for the Study of Women and Society. The seminar provides a forum for research on women and gender issues in the Delaware Valley. The seminar is an opportunity for faculty, graduate students, and professionals to convene around and discuss the latest research on women and gender in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, led by academics from around the country as well as from Penn.

 

The Women's Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center facilitate faculty research in several ways. Find out more here: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/wstudies/research/faculty/ Works-in-Progress Seminars * Global Gender Seminars * Affiliated Faculty GASWorks Workshops * Note that these seminars are for Penn faculty. The Women's Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center facilitate graduate research in several ways. Find out more here: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/wstudies/research/graduate/ Graduate Conferences GASWork Workshops

Reports & Resources

The F-Word: A Collection of Feminist Voices is a new literary journal created to fill the feminist void here at Penn. Our mission is to provide an outlet for writing or art pertaining to feminism (broadly defined as respect for all individuals regardless of gender or sexual affiliation). Please visit our website by clicking here.

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589 Capistrano Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8640
Ph. (650) 723-1994
Fx. (650) 725-0374
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The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University was founded in 1974. It supports interdisciplinary research on women's changing economic and social roles, and wider issues of gender. The Institute sponsors annual lectures and seminars. In 2000, the Institute embarked on a new academic initiative entitled, "The Difficult Dialogues Program," which brings together distinguished Stanford faculty, eminent visiting scholars, and policy makers to consider critical social issues facing our nation that influence and are influenced by issues of gender and ethnicity. The findings of the first Dialogue, "Aging in the 21st century," were summarized in a white paper in 2002. The second Dialogue, "The Changing Structure of the Modern American Family" ran from 2002 to 2004, and its findings will be published shortly. The Institute has recently embarked on its third Dialogue, on the "Dual Career Couples in the Academy".

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Shelley J. Correll, Director
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Lori Nishiura Mackenzie, Associate Director
E-mail: Lorim@stanford.edu

Jane Gruba-Chevalier, Program Manager
E-mail: jmgruba@stanford.edu

Ann Enthoven, Events Manager
E-mail: ann.enthoven@stanford.edu

Cindi Trost, Director of Development
E-mail: cjtrost@stanford.edu

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Awareness & Education, Barriers & Opportunities, Disparities, Higher Education, Women in STEM, Title IX, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Education & Education Reform, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)

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"The Changing Structure of the Modern American Family". The focus of this forum was to consider myths surrounding the modern family, to consider the different structures which modern families take and the pressures under which they exist, and to provide practical suggestions to policy makers on ways to support the family, in all its diverse forms. Conclusions will be published in 2006.

"Dual Career Couples in the Academy". The focus of this research, which began in fall 2005, is to tease out the problems facing dual career couples, and to offer practical suggestions to universities which face difficulties in recruiting and retaining high quality faculty. The study is planned to continue till 2008.

Science, math, engineering and technology

Technical Women in Silicon Valley. This study aims to discover why relatively few technical women make it to the highest ranks of Silicon Valley's technology industries. The object is to develop proposals for the industry as a whole to help recruit and retain women in technical roles. This research began in fall 2005, and is planned to continue till 2008.

Science and Engineering Graduate Women's Association. The Institute sponsors this umbrella group which provides social and profession support to female graduate students in science and engineering disciplines at Stanford University.

Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering. In April 2005, the Institute hosted an international conference on how the tools of gender analysis, when turned to science, medicine, and engineering, can profoundly alter human knowledge. This two-day conference focused on specific ways in which gender analysis has brought spark and creativity to particular fields of science. Examples of the success of gender analysis come from fields such as medicine, biology, and archaeology. It was the goal of this conference to highlight and analyze these successes. Questions remain concerning whether gender analysis has anything to offer physics, mathematics, computer science, or chemistry - issues we also addressed. The question is how can an understanding of how gender operates in science and engineering open new vistas for future research. Co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Provost Office Gabilan Fund . Video: The DVDs of conference sessions are available through Stanford's libraries for educational use. They are also available through Interlibrary Loan. The call numbers are: ZDVD 10246 c.1, 2: Gendered innovations in science & engineering [7 discs set]: April 15-16, 2005 / Institute for Research on Women & Gender.

 

 

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Difficult Dialogues "Aging in the 21 st Century".. The focus of this forum concerned cultural and social policy changes that would enable older adults to maximize their contributions to society. The consensus report was published in 2002: copies are available from the Institute.

 

Reports & Resources

Forthcoming Publication:

Henderson, Andrea,  Justine Tinkler, Manwai Ku, and Londa Schiebinger, "Venture Capitalist Decision-Making: Gendered Assumptions about Technical Knowledge and Social Networks." (forthcoming)

 

Aging

Yalom, Marilyn & Carstensen, Laura (eds). Inside the American Couple. ( Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002>

Difficult Dialogues Program - Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Aging in the 21st Century consensus report. ( Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 2002)

 

Economic and social status of women

Clayman Institute. 2008. Climbing The Tech Ladder; Obstacles and Solutions for Mid-Level Women in Information Technology. Written by A. Henderson, C. Simard, S. Gilmartin, L. Schiebinger, and T. Whitney.

Strober, Myra and Agnes Miling Keneko Chan. The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan. (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999)


Family

Clayman Institute. 2008. Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need To Know. Written by L. Schiebinger, A. Henderson, and S. Gilmartin.

Yalom, Marilyn. A History of the Wife. ( New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2001)

Yalom, Marilyn and Thorne, Barrie (eds). Rethinking the Family. (Albany, NY: State University New York Press, 1990)

 

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Rhode, Deborah L. Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)

Rhode, Deborah L. Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990)

Boxer, Marilyn Jacoby. When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America. (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)

Freedman, Estelle. No Turning Back. ( Westminster, MD: Ballantine Books, 2002)

 

Global Issues

Walker-Moffat, Wendy. The Other Side of the Asian American Success Story. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995)

Mahadevi Varma. Translated by Neera Kuckerja Sohoni. Sketches from My Past: Encounters with India's Oppressed. (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1997)

Mankekar, Purnima. Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: Television, Womanhood and Nation in Modern India. ( Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Zheng, Wang. Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999)

 

Health and Health Care

Litt, Iris. Taking Our Pulse: The Health of America's Women. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997)


History

Freedman, Estelle. Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996)

Gelles, Edith. First Thoughts: Life and Letters of Abigail Adams. (New York, NY: Twayne Publishers, 1998)

Gelles, Edith. Portia: The World of Abigail Adams. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992)

McCurry, Stephanie. Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations and the Political Culture of Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995)

Offen, Karen. European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History. ( Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000)

Schiebinger, Londa. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World ( Harvard University Press, 2004)
Yalom, Marilyn. A History of the Breast. (New York, NY: Knopf, 1997)

 

Science

Schiebinger, L., (ed.). 2008. Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering. Stanford University Press, 2008 was published on March 12, 2008.  

Schiebinger, Londa. Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Beacon Press, 1993; Rutgers University Press, 2004)

Schiebinger, Londa. Has Feminism Changed Science? (Harvard University Press, 1999)

Schiebinger, Londa. The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (Harvard University Press, 1989)


Sexuality

Lewin, Ellen. Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996)

Mintz, Beth & Rothblum, Esther (eds). Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom. (New York, NY: Routledge, 1997)

 

 

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Grants and Prizes

The Clayman Institute offers the following awards and prizes for individual members of the Stanford community:

 

For more information, visit: http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/FundingOpportunities/index.html.

 

Faculty Research Fellowship Program

 

Call for Applications: 2010-2011

Deadline: December 15, 2009

The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University invites applications for residential fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011 from tenured and tenure-track faculty (or the equivalent), and postdoctoral scholars, from the U.S. and international universities.>

Applications for one, two or three quarters will be considered. Fellows must remain on faculty and be in residence at the Clayman Institute for the duration of their fellowship. Fellowships will be non-stipendiary in 2010-2011, except for the postdoctoral appointment where stipend and benefits will be set and adjusted in accordance with Stanford University rules.

 

Fellows are provided with faculty-equivalent privileges for using Stanford's library and other facilities, an office at the Institute, and the collegiality of a diverse community of gender scholars from across the spectrum of academic disciplines and ranks.

 

Thematic Focus: "Reinvigorating the Revolution: Advancing Gender Equality in the Twenty-first Century"

 

Projects are supported in all disciplines including the humanities, social sciences, science and engineering, business, law, and medicine, among others, so long as they focus centrally on gender. Possible sub-topics include (but are not limited to):

 

• The gender division of household labor • Families and women's careers: the 2nd shift, opting out, on-ramping, and flexible schedules • Representations of women in culture and history • Gender stereotyping and bias in the workplace • Gendered meanings and practices at work and home • Women's experiences in male-dominated fields, such as science and engineering • Gendered innovations in knowledge: Bringing gender analysis into the practice of science • Gender and culture in history or literature • Advancing women's progress in the professions of business, medicine, and law • Historical and cross-national comparisons of women's educational and occupational progress • Effects of legal mandates (such a Title IX and FMLA) on women's careers • National policies, organizational polices, and work-family balance: what works? • Men's involvement in gender equality movements • Gender, leadership, and entrepreneurship

 

How to Apply: Applications are to be received in our office by 5:00pm (PST) on Tuesday, December 15, 2009. Instructions and detailed information are available at http://gender.stanford.edu under “Fellowships.”

 


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350 Spelman Lane
Atlanta, GA 30314
Ph. 404/270-5625
Fx. 404/223-7665
http://www.spelman.edu/about_us/distinction/womenscenter/index.shtml
kuumba@spelman.edu
bsheftall@aol.com

The WRRC is the first women's research center at a historically Black college and the first one to offer a women 's studies major. Over the course of its 25 year history, with sustained support from the Ford Foundation, the Center has facilitated faculty and student leadership development; collaborated with other departments/programs on and off campus to establish new courses (most recently in the sciences) that address issues of gender and race; established international linkages with universities outside the U.S. to increase their capacity to promote faculty and student development; and hosted a number of conferences that explore the lives of African and African descended women in a variety of cultural contexts.

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Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Dir. Women's Research & Resource Center & Anna Julia Cooper Prof. of Women's Studies
E-mail: bsheftal@spelman.edu

M. Bahati Kuumba, Dir. Women's Research & Resource Center & Associate Professor
E-mail: kuumba@spelman.edu

Ayoka Chenzira, Director of Digital Moving Salon and Professor of Women's Studies
E-mail: chenzira@spelman.edu

Monica Melton, Assistant Professor Women's Studies
E-mail: mmelton2@spelman.edu

Yvonne Vinson, Program Coordinator
E-mail: yvinson@spelman.edu

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Diversity & Leadership, Awareness & Education, Girls & STEM, Higher Education, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)

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Feminist Thought & Scholarship

Sojourner Truth Women's Studies Collective. Founded in 1999, the Sojourner Collective is a feminist organization designed to support not only Comparative Women's Studies majors/minors but all people interested in progressive struggle to end sexist/racist/classist/heterosexist oppression.

 

 

 

 

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Sisters of the Word, bi-annual newsletter.

 

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Toni Cade Bambara Writer/Scholar/Activist Program and Collective. This unique internship/mentoring program, builds on a long tradition of black feminist scholar/activism at the College. Founded in 1985, this unique student leadership development program was renamed in 1996 in honor of the late scholar/activist Toni Cade Bambara. Bambara's writings and political activism reflected a profound understanding of the interconnections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. This program is designed to attract and help nurture committed students who are interested in becoming scholar/activists.

 

 


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Northampton, MA 01063
Ph. (413) 585-3591
Fx. (413) 585-3593
http://www.smith.edu/wsc
kgauger@smith.edu


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.

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Barbara Brehm-Curtis, Acting Director
Ph. (413) 585-3978
E-mail: bbrehm@smith.edu

Kathleen Gauger, Administrative Assistant
Ph. (413) 585-3591
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Leadership and Leadership Development

Women on Power: Leadership Redefined. The provocative essays cover a broad range of topics, including the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, global perspectives on women's environmental activism, mothering as a catalyst to social activism, and women in the enclaves of veterinary medicine and sports. 


Sports and Fitness

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.

 

 

Reports & Resources

Corporate Women

Managing Lives: Corporate Women and Social Change, Sue J.M. Freeman (1990).


Employment Issues

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).


Environment

The Environmental Crusaders: Confronting Disaster and Mobilizing Community, Penina Midgal Glazer and Myron Peretz Glazer (1998).


Feminist Thought and Scholarship

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).


Higher Education

Women's Place in the Academy: Transforming the Liberal Arts Curriculum, edited by Marilyn Schuseter and Susan Van Dyne (1985).


History

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

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).

 

Sports

Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal, National Study Thirty Three Year Update (2010).

 

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