Transforming Women's Education : The History of Women's Studies in the University of Wisconsin System

• ISBN13: 9780965883467
• ISBN10: 0965883469
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Transforming Women’s Education traces the history of women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin. Drawing on oral histories and archival records, it follows this history from the earliest arguments over women's admission to the university through their acceptance as students on equal terms with men, to the mid-twentieth-century development of special programs for mature women students, and finally, to the development in the 1970s of the new field of women's studies.
    As students, teachers, administrators, staff members, activists, and scholars—or, in some cases, all of those—the women described in this book have been part of the movement that has insisted on their importance as both learners and producers of knowledge.

Author Biography

The University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium, which collaborated to create this book, was founded in 1989 and serves as the formal organization networking fourteen campus-based women's studies programs around the state, as well as programs of the UW Extension.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	iv
Introduction	1	(6)
Women in the First Century	7	(24)
Extension Leads the Way for Women	31	(26)
Feminist Activism and the Beginning of Women's Studies	57	(12)
The First Women's Studies Courses	69	(18)
The Rise of a Statewide Women's Studies Network, 1974--1989	87	(12)
The Women's Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison	99	(18)
Women's Studies Around the State, 1974--1989	117	(28)
The Women's Studies Consortium	145	(16)
Conclusion	161