The Politics of Women's Studies by Florence Howe

The Politics of Women's Studies by Florence Howe

Author:Florence Howe [Howe, Florence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781558617865
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Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY, The
Published: 2000-08-01T00:00:00+00:00


Other Mothers of Women’s Studies

Beverly Guy-Sheftall

I have been a faculty member at Spelman College since 1971, and involved with the national women’s studies movement since its inception. In 1981 I worked to establish the first women’s studies minor at a historically black college. In 1997, this minor became a major. At Spelman I am the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center as well as Anna Julia Cooper professor of women’s studies. In 1983, I was also the founding coeditor of Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women.

My publications include the following anthologies: Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (edited with Roseann P. Bell and Bettye J. Parker), Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters (edited with the Sage Editorial Group), and Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality (edited with Rudolph Byrd). My thesis was published in 1991 under the title Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes toward Black Women, 1880–1920. Also in the early 1990s, I completed a report for the Ford Foundation, released (in collaboration with Susan Heath) as Women’s Studies: A Retrospective.

I enjoy teaching and continue to invent new courses on comparative women’s studies, global feminisms, and the experience of women of African descent throughout the diaspora—both at Spelman College and at the Institute for Women’s Studies, which offers a doctorate in women’s studies.



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