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Article: NWSA Ponders High-Tech Future.(National Women's Studies Association)
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- August 1, 2001
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Women's.studies.com? was the theme of this year's National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) conference, held at the University of Minnesota June 13-17. The question mark in the title was deliberate; speakers debated whether and to what extent a high-technology world is a good thing.
In her welcome and introduction at the opening ceremony, out-going NWSA President Annette Van Dyke, who once headed the group's Lesbian Caucus, said that NWSA would never again reach its 1988 peak membership of 4,000. She went on to say that women academics are now more focused in the organizations for their own disciplines. But NWSA is the only place that brings together feminists ...