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Tag : Women’s Studies
October 23, 2020 by admin
She Was a Publishing Pioneer •
Florence Howe, 91, who died in September 2020, founded The Feminist Press, a pioneering literary publishing house, and was herself a critical force in the recognition of Women’s Studies as an academic discipline. On the Modern Language Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession (and then as MLA President), in the National Women’s Studies Association, at international conferences and at the Feminist Press, Florence Howe was a model for me and many others of how change is made: with big ideas and the often gritty work required to bring them to life; with relationships, found and created in the U.S. and throughout the world; within established institutions and beyond them; with creative insights and persistent passion. She also taught by example that enjoying theater, good food and time at the beach can renew one’s energy to continue the work. May her memory be a blessing and an inspiration.
ELAINE REUBEN
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November 4, 2019 by admin
How to Give away Money with Meaning
When Mindy Shapiro was an undergrad at the University of Maryland, there was no women’s studies major, so “I graduated in this field in 1982 by doing independent study.” She went on to graduate school in women’s studies—a discipline which is “about identity,”she says, and in the 1980s was one of the founders of the Jewish caucus at the National Women’s Studies Association. Now, she has endowed an undergraduate scholarship for research in women’s studies, with preference given to students in Jewish or religious studies.
Shapiro told Lilith that when she and her husband made their wills she had “put money aside for women’s studies. Then I thought—I want to be alive to see this happen!” This fall UMD’s Department of Women’s Studies will select its first Charlotte Brozer Shapiro Scholarship recipient; the award is named in memory of Shapiro’s late mother, who never had the opportunity to finish college.
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