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Tables of Contents for The Politics of Women's Studies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface: Everyone a Heroine
xi
Introduction
xv
Mari Jo Buhle
PART I Naming the Problem
The Absence of Women from the Curriculum and Scholarship
Learning from Teaching
3
13
Florence Howe
Teaching Across the Boundaries of Race and Class
16
13
Nancy Hoffman
Beginning in the 1960s
29
10
Sheila Tobias
The Evolution of a Consortial Women's Studies Program
39
18
Jean Walton
PART II Overcoming Barriers
Ridicule, Reluctance, Refusals
The Gender Revolution
57
12
Nancy Topping Bazin
Moving from the Periphery to the Center
69
11
Barbara W. Gerber
Imploding Marginality
80
13
Annis Pratt
A Cause of Our Own
93
11
Josephine Donovan
An Odyssey
104
15
Inez Martinez
PART III Inventing Successful Strategies
The Power of Groups, Planning, and Publicity
The Deodorant of Success
119
11
Mimi Reisel Gladstein
The Women's Studies Moment: 1972
130
12
Kathryn Kish Sklar
From the Bottom Up: The Students' Initiative
142
13
Gloria Bowles
The Academy and the Activist: Collective Practice and Multicultural Focus
155
15
Margaret Strobel
Awakening
170
13
Mary Anne Ferguson
PART IV Providing Feminist Scholarship
For Texts, Teaching, and Other Scholars
``What Women Writers?'': Plotting Women's Studies in New York
183
11
Electa Arenal
Building Black Women's Studies
194
10
Barbara Smith
Charting a Personal Journey: A Road to Women's Studies
204
12
Nellie Y. McKay
Other Mothers of Women's Studies
216
13
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
PART V Building Women's Studies Programs
No Easy Task Anywhere
Modern Women Not Lost
229
14
Marilyn Boxer
Dreams of Social Justice
243
21
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Changing Signs
264
12
Tucker Pamella Farley
A Sense of Discovery, Mixed with a Sense of Justice
276
15
Annette Kolodny
A Political Education
291
15
Myra Dinnerstein
Has It Really Been Thirty Years?
306
10
Sue-Ellen Jacobs
Linking Ethnic Studies to Women's Studies
316
11
Yolanda T. Moses
PART VI Looking Back
Cups Half Empty or Half Full?
The Long Road Through Gendered Questions
327
7
Johnnetta B. Cole
Making a Place
334
11
Nona Glazer
The Ground Revisited
345
8
Nancy Porter
There Were Godmothers, Too
353
12
Mariam K. Chamberlain
Notes
365
38
Index
403