University and College Women's Centers

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University and College Women's Centers A Journey toward Equity

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Sharon L. Davie, ed.

ISBN: 0-313-29129-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29129-6

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552 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 12/30/2001

List Price: $138.95 (UK Sterling Price: £95.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: The Greenwood Educators' Reference Collection

Description: Women's centers in universities and colleges in the United States are flourishing as they transform individuals and institutions, providing education that combines the academic and activist, and develop leadership that is rooted in collaboration. This handbook provides insights from women's center directors at institutions across the country on how best to build a women's center that can improve the quality of women's experiences in college. The best centers aid universities and colleges in responding to particularly difficult challenges in higher education related to gender. Practical information is included on specific programs, providing an overview of successful centers. The institutional environments examined are diverse, ranging from research universities to community colleges, from large state-supported land grant institutions to small private liberal arts colleges.

Chapters focusing on the structural issues of creating and transforming a center explore how to create crucial components of women's centers, such as leadership development programs, distinguished artists and scholars series, information and referral services for non-traditional students, women-centered counseling services, resource libraries, publications, and internship programs that involve both academic and experiential learning. Other chapters focus on social issues and the intransigent and wide-ranging challenges facing centers, including for example, sexual harassment, racial divisions among students, the climate for women in the sciences, and the need to build a stronger sense of intellectual community outside the classroom. The directors of women's centers around the country respond to these and other problems, and provide an overview of some of the best practices related to responding to a number of very difficult challenges in higher education.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
A Journey Toward Equity by Sharon Davie
Building a Center
Why Have a Women's Center? Education, Transformation, Leadership by Sharon Davie
Starting a Women's Center by Charlotte Kunkel
Building a Women's Center at Spelman College by Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Kimberly Wallace Sanders
Shifting Ground: Women's Centers and the Process of Change by Beth Willinger
Uncovering What's There: Fundraising in Women's Centers by Donna Plasket
How Do We Know How Well We're Doing? Evaluating Women's Centers by Diane Goldsmith
Programming: A Window on the World
Barbie Can't Do Math and It's Okay, Because She's a Girl: Women's Centers and Gender Equity in Math and Science by Alice Miller
Violence Against Women: Women's Centers Respond by Claire Kaplan, et al.
Women's Centers Responding to Racism by Elena Marie DiLapi and Gloria M. Gay
Out of the Closet and Into the Center: Women's Centers Serve Lesbians and Bisexual Women by Beth Firestein
Information, Counseling, and Advocacy: Strategies for Survival
Empowering Ourselves and Each Other: Counseling Services for Women at the College and University Women's Center by Beth Firestein
Uneasy Juxtaposition Within Virginia Tech Culture: The Women's Center's Role in Enforcing the New Sexual Harassment Policy by Donna Lisker
The Response to Sexual Harassment Claims in One Women's Resource Center by Mary Childers
The New Face of the Academy: Women's Centers and the Non-Traditional Woman Student by Beth Firestein
Collaborations
Forging Unlikely Alliances--The Women's Center and the Locker Room: A Case Study by Donna Lisker
Women's Centers and Women's Studies: The Case for Coexistence and Beyond by Kathryn Brooks, Sabrina Chapman, and Flora McMartin
The Power of the Pen: Publicity, Libraries, Publication
Image at the Center: Visibility and Publicity by Giavanna Munafo
Libraries at the Center by Candace Rosovsky
Speaking in the Circle: Women's Center Publications and the Politics of Experience by Rebecca Hyman
Conclusion
Drawing New Maps by Sharon Davie
Appendices
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author: SHARON L. DAVIE is Director of the Women's Center at the University of Virginia./e

LCC Class: 378


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