Transformations back issues from March 1996:
Book Reviews
Mar 31, 1996; ... Book Reviews Kloser, Patricia, and Jane Maclean Craig. The Woman's HIV Sourcebook: A Guide to Better Health and Well-Being. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1994. Paperback. 170 pages. $12.95. Costello, Cynthia, and Anne J. Stone, eds. The American Woman 1994-95: Where We ...
The University of Manitoba Clearinghouse for Inclusive Curriculum: Development and Services
Mar 31, 1996; ... The University Of Manitoba Clearinghouse For Inclusive Curriculum: Development And Services The Inclusive Curriculum Project at the University of Manitoba was a two-year pilot Project directed by an Academic Senior Fellow, Office of the Academic Vice-President and Provost. 1 Its original ...
From The Editors
Mar 31, 1996; ... From The Editors We open this issue of Transformations with "I Brake for Feminists ...," in which Ruth Perry traces the history of the debates and divisions within Women's Studies and then, in an impassioned voice, discusses the issues. We follow that with Larry McClain's ...
Speaking Up At Last: Anger in the Classroom
Mar 31, 1996; ... Speaking Up At Last: Anger in the Classroom For this terrible madness which I feared, which I was sure was the destiny of daring women born to intense speech (after all, the authorities emphasized this point daily), was not as threatening as imposed silence, as suppressed speech. (hooks ...
The Last Word: Letters between Marcia Nardi and William Carlos Williams
Mar 31, 1996; ... The Last Word: Letters between Marcia Nardi and William Carlos Williams. The publication of this volume represents the recovery of the remarkable voice of a woman radically and ambiguously disenfranchised and marginalized. As such, the text has stunning implications for the understanding ...
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry
Mar 31, 1996; ... Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry. As the title of this volume suggests, Unsettling America is a collection of contemporary poetry that disrupts notions of cultural identity while demythologizing what it means to be "American." While the poetry is ...
Teaching Across the Barriers: The Classroom as a Site of Transformation
Mar 31, 1996; ... Teaching Across The Barriers: The Classroom As A Site Of Transformation "We need more unlikely collaborations; more ways to include different people." - Anna Devere Smith, playwright, actor Feminists who teach at large research universities often face many barriers to creating a ...
I Brake for Feminists: Debates and Divisions Within Women's Studies
Mar 31, 1996; ... I Brake for Feminists: Debates and Divisions Within Women's Studies There is so much static on the airwaves these days about feminism and Women's Studies that it makes sense to begin any discussion of them by clarifying one's terms. Feminism is a recognition of the unequal distribution ...
Racism in the Lives of Women: Testimony, Theory, and Guides to Antiracist Practice
Mar 31, 1996; ... Racism in the Lives of Women: Testimony, Theory, and Guides to Antiracist Practice. Racial and ethnic differences and confrontations about those differences fill American news headlines. Such confrontations, both subtle and blatant, likewise fill the daily lives of American women and ...
Book Reviews
Mar 31, 1996; ... Book Reviews Women's Studies Re-Viewed Luebke, Barbara F. and Mary Ellen Reilly. Women's Studies Graduates: The First Generation. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995. Paperback. 240 pages. $22.95. Patai, Daphne and Noretta Koertge. Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales ...
Women's Studies, Cultural Studies: Teaching Literature in the Midwest
Mar 31, 1996; ... Women's Studies, Cultural Studies: Teaching Literature in the Midwest I received my graduate training at the University of Texas at Austin, where I wrote a dissertation on how the politics of gender, race, and class are unavoidably embedded in both the production and reception of ...
Incorporating Feminist Social Satire into the Early British Survey
Mar 31, 1996; ... Incorporating Feminist Social Satire into the Early British Survey In curricular transformation projects which attempt to make literature classes more inclusive, and more representative of the multiple realities underlying every society, attention seems to be most often paid to the ...