CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

The Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles – now the Center for the Study of Women and Society's (CSWS) – December 1979 Newsletter began with reflections on The Second Sex Conference, which commemorated the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's seminal book thirty years ago. The reflections focused on the event organizers, attendees, and participants' unaddressed question: what is feminism, and who gets to represent it? Following this discussion, the Newsletter called for submissions for the Women's Studies Journal, a peer-reviewed journal for the study of women across disciplines, focused on the relationship between feminist theory and academic tradition. The journal's interdisciplinary nature was underscored, inviting submissions to interest a wide range of readers.