Editorial: Hard Choices

Oberlin College, November 24, 1978 HARD CHOICES Many of us deal with hard choices by refusing to choose: we decide that both are necessary and we divide our time, our resources, our energies, our love and commitment. And such decisions are, of course, necessary. We cannot usually choose between our families, our lovers and friends, and our work. We cannot make those choices because they are, in fact, unreal: our lives and our work are one. It is not that there are no tensions, no obligations, no problems. But they are felt as such, and what one usually needs is a support group to help dispatch the discomfort, or to help in practical ways with flexible working hours or child care

Conference: Women in History

Sponsored by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 500 women attended a conference last month at Douglass College, Rutgers University. What follows is a fraction of a report written by one of the participants and available from her: Constance Ashton Myers, Dept. of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208

2016 Slut Walk Poster

Poster promoting the 2017 Slut Walk organized by the Feminist Collectiv

Corrections/Clarification: News Briefs

In the Media sect ion of Newsbriefs in t he Fall/Winter 1974-75 issue, the address of the Feminist History Research Project was printed incorrectly. It is F.H.R.P., P.0. Box 1156, Topanga, CA 90290

Textbook Suit Filed in Kalamazoo

On May 31, the Committee to Study Sex Discrimination in the Kalamazoo Public Schools filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972. The complaint alleges that the 12 textbooks of the Houghton Mifflin Elementary Reading Program, recently adopted by the Kalamazoo Public Schools which will be in use for the next 5 years, discriminate against girls and women. A preliminary study of the textbooks showed them to be objectionable because of sex role stereotyping and an unfair portrayal of the performance and potential of women

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 07/1983

News Calendar July & August Poetryhttps://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/mlfn/1039/thumbnail.jp