Marcia Guttentag: We Will Miss You

On November 4, 1977, Marcia Guttentag died of a heart attack in a hotel room in Chicago. She was in transit on one of the innumerable assignments that she undertook - evaluating projects, consulting, lecturing. We know the life she led. It was like the one many of us are leading; overcommitted, extended physically beyond the limits of human physiology at 45, she rarely said no to a request. I knew her only casually, had seen her only once or twice since a memorable weekend at Wesleyan University in the fall of 1972, when she had introduced a group of women\u27s studies practitioners to the tools of evaluation. I remember my first impression: she was a mother, I thought (and I was not being literal); she was talking with sweet seriousness and in language as comfortable to us as to her. She was clear, she separated the questions as though they were strands to be tidied. She encouraged us to ask more difficult questions. We laughed a lot, partly with the self-consciousness of adult learners, partly with the pleasure of understanding

Review of Trends in History: A Review of Current Periodical Literature in History

Trends in History: A Review of Current Periodical Literature in History, published by The Institute for Research in History, 55 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. Subscriptions: $12 for individuals;$24 for institutions. This is, in fact, a journal, but one that will appear twice a year; and because it will be reviewing a changing discipline, it will be as valuable as a book to those who are watching that field

Women\u27s Studies in the High Schools

[This article has been adapted from the introduction to High School Feminist Studies, available from The Feminist Press for $5 plus 50¢ postage.] The high school years are critical for the future of females and males alike, not only for what they enable students to understand about human relations between women and men and among members of families, but also for what they enable students to envision of the world of work. For many students, these are the last years of required schooling, the years preceding important choices: marriage, vocation or college. Half don\u27t or can\u27t choose college; and a larger proportion of the talented who don\u27t go on are women. Who controls these choices? What influence could or should the high school curriculum have on those students

Editorial

Toward Women\u27s Studies in the Eighties: Part One In this and the next issue, we will celebrate accomplishments of the first decade of women\u27s studies and outline new challenges. In the Winter 1980 issue, we will publish the new list of declared women\u27s studies programs, now well over 300. We will also publish an annotated list of more than 21 research institutes for the study of women. We will continue our feature on graduate programs and our reporting on women\u27s centers. The omissions from these reports indicate the gaps in our knowledge as we approach the eighties. We do not know, for example, about the hundreds of colleges, including Wellesley College, that offer more than a dozen women\u27s studies courses, but that have not declared themselves host to a program. More importantly, we have no detailed portrait of women\u27s studies courses or programs in elementary and secondary schools. Who will take on that major task in the eighties

Letter, 1982 December 16, from Florence Howe to Frank Campos

1 page, Howe is a publisher for The Feminists Press. Eva Jessye is mentioned

Women\u27s Studies International at Copenhagen: From Idea to Network

Almost a year before the United Nations\u27 Mid-Decade Conference on Women was held in Copenhagen during the summer of 1980, Mariam Chamberlain of The Ford Foundation, Amy Swerdlow, Myra Dinnerstein, and I began informal discussions about holding meetings of women\u27s studies practitioners there . When we learned that an NGO (NonGovernmental Organizations) Forum would be organized, I wrote to sixty women\u27s studies practitioners outside the United States, informing them of the badly-publicized NGO Forum itself, and inviting them to contribute to the planning of women\u27s studies seminars. Eventually, The Feminist Press, the U.S. National Women\u27s Studies Association, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Concordia University in Montreal, and the S.N.D.T. Women\u27s University in Bombay, India, agreed to act as sponsors of women\u27s studies sessions, and the May issue of the U.S. Women\u27s Studies Newsletter further spread the word. From the beginning, the idea of what might be done in Copenhagen was both modest and practical: to make use of an extended occasion during which an international group might be able to meet to talk about women\u27s studies. Planners assumed also that it would be useful to share resource materials, and, of course, to include a formal registry for participants so that the dialogue might continue afterwards

What Happened at the Convention?

The founding convention of the National Women\u27s Studies Association, organized by the San Jose State University Women\u27s Studies Program, brought more than five hundred participants to the campus of the University of San Francisco, January 13-16, for three and one-half days—and nights—of work and some play. The convention\u27s program was an ambitious one

Review of MLA Directory of Periodicals: A Guide to Journals and Series in Languages and Literatures

MLA Directory of Periodicals: A Guide to Journals and Series in Languages and Literatures, 1978-79 edition, compiled by Eileen M. Mackesy, Karen Mateyak, and Diane Siegel, with the assistance of the MLA Bibliography staff. Price: $65 to libraries, and$30to MLA members. Write to MLA, 62 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. To be updated biennially, this volume annotates 3,000 journals and series, and answers questions for the researcher or writer seeking a publisher for an essay or review

On the Campus

We can now count upwards of 1,000 women\u27s studies courses, the major bulk still in literature, sociology, and history departments. New course titles continue to appear: Asian Women (CUNY/City College); Sexism and Schools (U. Massachusetts); Rhetoric of Women (U. Denver); Biology of Women (Portland State U.). Women in Spanish Culture (U. Washington); Men and Masculinity (U. Wisconsin). Courses continue to appear in law schools and schools of education, and in a sprinkling of other professional or graduate schools. But the big news is the development of women\u27s studies programs

Structure and Staffing of Programs

[This is the first in a series of brief essays on various aspects of women\u27s studies. In the Summer issue, Ms. Howe will write on curriculum. We welcome responses, in the form of letters or essays, to Ms. Howe\u27s views.] In the sixties, I surveyed the free university movement which had spawned in its brief lifetime of some three years upwards of 300 parallel or counter-institutions on or near campuses as diverse as San Francisco State College and the University of Pennsylvania. That movement did not accomplish its short-range goal: to effect change at host institutions. Indeed, those free universities either faded away or were effectively disbanded by their host institutions. On the other hand, the long-range effects of the free university movement may be observed a decade later, not only in field studies programs and internships, but in such relevant curricular developments as black studies, ethnic studies and women\u27s studies