CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

This November 1, 1980 Newsletter issued by the Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles - now the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) - began with an excerpt by the Newsletter's editor, Nancy Brocklehurst. The excerpt provided context and further explanation to Catharine Stimpson's talk on October 8 called "The New Scholarship about Women: The State of the Art." The excerpt traced the movement of women's studies from a field that focused on women's sufferings, invisibility, and sex discrimination, among other things, to a field that focused on how biological differences - namely in a reproductive sense - influenced culture, education, ideology, and socialization. Notes followed this introduction on the Association for Women in Psychology, the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse, a political science course, and a support group for mothers in New Jersey. The Center also enumerated the Women's Educators' Fourth Annual Research on Women in Education Award, grants, fellowships, networks, projects, calls for papers, jobs, and conferences. The Newsletter closed with events the Center was sponsoring in November and December 1980.