Evolution of American Women’s Studies

ALICE E. GINSBERG is the author of Gender in Urban Education: Strategies for Student Achievement (2005) and Gender and Educational Philanthropy (Palgrave, 2007) and is currently an independent education consultant.

• Foreword; A.Kimmich Introduction; A.E.Ginsberg Women's Studies 1970's to the 21st Century; A.E.Ginsberg A Personal and Epistemological Journey Towards Women's Studies; M.Smith Crocco Women's Studies: A View From the Margins; B.Guy-Sheftall Women Studies The Early Years: When Sisterhood was Powerful; P.Rothenberg What Took Me So Long?: A Well-Behaved Woman Finds Women's Studies; J.McLean Taylor Gender at the Center: The Making of an Educator; J oan Poliner Shapiro On Being a Pre-Feminist Feminist OR How I Came to Women's Studies and What I Did There; E.Torton Beck Women's Studies, Systems of Oppression and Privilege, and Cultivating Accountability; A.Russo My Life and Work in Women's Studies (Now Gender Studies); J.Lorber Continuity and Change in Women's Studies Programs: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward; C.Alejandra Elenes Women's Studies, Health, and Science:  Evolution from Separation to the Beginnings of Integration; S.V.Rosser Reflections on a Feminist Career; N.A.Naples What Year Is It?; J.Fox O'Barr