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) May 1980 Newsletter opens with a piece by Susan Saegert describing her research and the questions she wished to address in her upcoming course: "The Ecology of Sex Roles" for the Environmental Psychology Program. The questions addressed women's traditional status as caretakers played in urban planning, politics, and policymaking. New projects conducted by Center members Rita Guttman, Barbara Katz-Rothman, and Judith Lorber, who worked on subjects ranging from activism to health, were enumerated. The Newsletter also provided updates on graduate students' activities, such as a workshop by the Feminist Students Organization. The workshop was about feminist publishing, with representation from feminist journals discussing their publication's objective, their criteria for accepting articles, and what it meant to be a feminist scholar. The Newsletter concluded with a list of events the Center was sponsoring in May 1980.