Organizing Women's Studies—Who were those Women and What did they Want? A Personal Reflection on a Women's Studies Program

While scholarship in Women's Studies has virtually skyrocketed since the 1970s, we do not yet have a general history of Women's Studies for readers who are interested in a less personal view of the discipline. What does exist are accounts and evaluations. The following is a partial list of references which includes both contemporary work and material from the early 1970s.

Chamberlain, M.K. (1989) International Centers for Research on Women. New York: National Council for Research on Women.

Farnham, Christie , ed. (1987) The Impact of Feminist Research in the Academy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Female Studies, Vol. 1-5. Pittsburgh: Know; Female Studies, Vol. 6-9. New York: The Feminist Press. (A periodic publication sometimes supported by the Modern Language Commission on the Status of Women containing college syllabi and reading lists on women, articles on teaching about women and the developing field of Women's Studies and Feminist Criticism, and proceedings of Women's Studies conferences.)

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly (1995) Women's Studies: A retrospective: A report to the Ford Foundation. New York: The Ford Foundation.

Howe, Florence and Lauter, Paul (1977) Seven Years Later: Women's Studies programs in 1976: A report of the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs. Washington, DC: The National Council.

Howe, Florence and Lauter, Paul (1980) The Impact of Women's Studies on the Campus and the Disciplines. Washington, DC: US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Institute of Educations, Program on Teaching and Learning: Request from Social Processes/Women's Research Team, National Institute of Education.

Karlekar, M. (1983) `Women's Studies in the Eighties: State of the discipline in USA and India', Journal of Women's Studies 1(a): 11-15.

Klein, R.D. and Bowles, G. , eds (1983) Theories of Women's Studies. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Furniss, T.W. and Graham, P. , eds (1974) American Council on Education. Washington, DC: American Council on Education.

Simpson, Catherine (1974) `Women's Studies: An overview', Papers in Women's Studies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Simpson, Catherine (1992) `Women's Studies', in Burton R. Cash and Guy R. Neave (eds) The Encyclopedia of Higher Education. Oxford: Pergamon.

Simpson, Catherine and Cobb, N. (1986) Women's Studies in the United States: A report to the Ford Foundation. New York: Ford Foundation.

Stafford, Beth , ed. (1990) Directory of Women's Studies Programs. College Park, MD: National Women's Studies Association.

Stafford, Beth , ed. (1990) Directory of Women's Studies Programs and Library Resources. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx.

Tierney, Helen , ed. (1989-91) Women's Studies Encyclopedia. New York: Greenwood.

(This journal publishes a list of Women's Studies Programs annually as does the Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, September issue.)