A Critical View of Women\u27s Studies

Below is a condensed version of Part I of an essay, to be called What Matter Mind, that will appear next year in Women\u27s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Part II of the essay describes the external opposition to Women\u27s Studies, and Part III, a strategy for survival that aims to minimize internal dissent while reducing external opposition

Multiculturalism and Its Discontents

Catharine R. Stimpson is University Professor at Rutgers University and Director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. This talk was presented at Sacred Heart University on October 4, 1993. A version recently appeared in Impact: Journal of OPENMIND (Fall, 1993), 65-76

Writing It All down: An Overview of the Second NWSA Convention

Few conventions about education have either much cheer or tenderness. Those of the National Women\u27s Studies Association do. In this, too, NWSA is unusual. One of the many good events at the 1980 Convention at Indiana University in Bloomington was a workshop that Frances Doughty of the National Gay Task Force gave. She used letters, photographs, and other archival remnants to portray a lesbian friendship group, women who were either friends or lovers for thirty years. The audience touched its past with blissful curiosity. Then Doughty told a story about a famous member of the group: Janet Flanner, the writer. Shortly before her death, someone asked Flanner if she had any messages for the next generation. Write it all down, Flanner answered, Write it all down. Throughout the NWSA Convention, people were, if unknowingly, obeying Flanner\u27s command. Many of the approximately 1,500 participants were keeping notebooks, journals, diaries, or their technological equivalents: photographs and tapes. It rained consistently in Bloomington from May 16 to 20. People who walked or jogged around the campus returned to their rooms with shoes or sneakers squelching. Recording events, codifying time, was almost as common an experience as being wet

In Defense of Sarah Lawrence College

The following letters were written in response to a recent attack in the media on Sarah Lawrence. They were sent, as a group, to the Coordinating Council of the National Women\u27s Studies Association. The staff of the Women\u27s Studies Newsletter has decided to give them national circulation

The Powers of the mind

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Whose Art Is It ?

"Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station. Jane Kramer, telling this story, raises one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we live in a society we share with people who are, often by their own definitions, "different?"" -- Publisher's website