Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community Through Women's StudiesUNC Press Books, 1994 - 301 pages Feminism in Action is Jean O'Barr's firsthand account of two decades spent working to promote the cause of higher education for women through the establishment of women's studies programs. The book brings together revised versions of O'Barr's most |
Contents
Foreword | ix |
Acknowledgments | xiii |
On Parlors and Portraits | 1 |
LISTENING | 15 |
Lifelong Learning The Duke Experience | 25 |
Reentry Women in the Academy The Contributions of a Feminist Perspective | 35 |
Women and the Politics of Knowledge | 46 |
What Does It Mean to Be an Educated Person? Voices from the Duke Experience | 59 |
TEACHING | 111 |
Just an Experiment for My Womens Studies Class Female Students and the Culture of Gender coauthored with Michelle LaRocque and Miriam Pesko... | 119 |
Assessing Curriculum Transformation through Student Observations | 133 |
Finding a Voice Taking a Position Documenting Learning in Womens Studies coauthored with Silvia Tandeciarz and Kathryn West | 153 |
ORGANIZING | 195 |
What Is It Like to Edit Signs? | 200 |
Educating beyond the Walls The Politics of Influence and Fundraising for Womens Studies | 219 |
Things You Can Never Prove in Court Things the Human Psyche Never Misses coauthored with Vivian Robinson | 239 |
EXPLAINING | 69 |
Why Do We Need Womens Studies? Questions from Students in the 1980s | 77 |
The Necessity of Womens Studies in a Liberal Arts Education | 85 |
How the Inquiry into Womens Studies Grew | 94 |
Understanding Womens Diversities and Commonalities | 104 |
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