Evolutions and Transitions

Articles and Special Issues

• 2009 guide to women’s studies [Special issue]. (2009, Apr. 1). Ms. 19(2). Barnett, B.M., Brewer, R.M., & Kuumba, M.B. (1999). New directions in race, gender & class studies: African American experiences. Race, Gender & Class, 6(2), 7–28. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41674883 
• Bell, S.G., & Rosenhan, M.S. (1981). A problem in naming: Women studies: Women’s studies? Signs, 6(3), 540–542. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3173767 
• Brown, W. (1997, Fall). The impossibility of women’s studies. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 9(3), 79–102. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-9-3-79 
• Chamberlain, M. (1982). A period of remarkable growth: Women’s studies research centers. Change, 14(3), 24–29. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40163693  
• Chamberlain, M.K., & Bernstein, A. (1992). Philanthropy and the emergence of women’s studies. Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 93(3), 556-568. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1177/016146819209300308
• Choldin, S. (1991). Women’s studies and feminist scholarship: A “different voice” in academe. The Journal of Educational Thought (JET) / Revue de La Pensée Éducative, 25(1), 3–11. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23767700 
• Coyner, S.J. (1983). United States: The institutions and ideas of women’s studies: From critique to new construction. The Journal of Educational Thought (JET) / Revue de La Pensée Éducative, 17(2), 112–132. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23768011 
• Crouch, B. (2012). Finding a voice in the academy: The history of women’s studies in higher education. The Vermont Connection, 33(1). https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14849/9509
• Crowley, H. (1999). Women’s studies: Between a rock and a hard place or just another cell in the beehive? Feminist Review, 61(1), 131-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/014177899339342
• Dryden, S.H. (1988). Building a women’s studies library with no curriculum, budget or administrative support. Feminist Teacher, 3(2), 10–13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40545515
• Fox-Genovese, E. (1984). Women’s studies in the 1980s: Now more than ever. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 12(3), 25–28. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40003934 
• Freehling-Burton, K., & Shaw, S. M. (2010, Oct. 1). Have laptop, will major in women’s studies. Ms., 20(4), 44-45.
• Gardiner, J. K. (2008). What happened to socialist feminist women’s studies programs? A case history and some speculations. Feminist Studies, 34(3), 558–583. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20459221 
• Gertz, G., Kelly, A.B., & Hurwitz, V. (2022). Pioneering the field of deaf women’s studies. Society for American Sign Language Journal, 6(1), Article 7. https://open.clemson.edu/saslj/vol6/iss1/7 
• Goodman, M.J. (1980). Women’s studies: The case for a departmental model. Women’s Studies Newsletter, 8(4), 7–9. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40042550 
• Hatton, E. (1994). The future of women’s studies: A Ford Foundation workshop report. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 22(3/4), 256–264. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40004271
• Holleran, P.R. (1985). The feminist curriculum: Issues for survival in academe. Journal of Thought, 20(3), 25–36. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42589150 
• Jaschik, S. (2009, Mar. 26). The evolution of American women’s studies. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/27/evolution-american-womens-studies#
• Kessler-Harris, A. (1992). The view from women’s studies. Signs, 17(4), 794–805. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3174537 
• Kirkup, G. (1983). Women’s studies ‘at a distance’: The new open university course. Women’s Studies International Forum, 6(3), 273-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(83)90052-3 
• Lightman, M. (1982). News from centers. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 10(1), 33–34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40003124 
• Perry, R. (1996). I brake for feminists: Debates and divisions within women’s studies. Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 7(1), 1–14. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43587474 
• Pollack, S. (1985). Exposing the conservative agenda: Women’s studies minus feminism. The Radical Teacher, 29, 19–23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709498 
• Pritchard, S.M. (1988). Trends in computer-based resources for women’s studies. Feminist Teacher, 3(3), 8–13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25680558 
• Ramiser, N. (2016, Spring). Pioneering deaf women studies: Vicki Hurwitz, Genie Gertz and Arlene Kelly. Gallaudet Today, 30-34. Gallaudet University.
• Rios, C. (2014, Aug. 6). Rebel girls: The illustrated (and quite condensed) history of women’s studies. Autostraddle. https://www.autostraddle.com/rebel-girls-the-illustrated-and-quite-condensed-history-of-womens-studies-236467/
• Rose, E.C. (1995). “This class meets in cyberspace”: Women’s studies via distance education. Feminist Teacher, 9(2), 53–60. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40545706 
• Salley, K.L., Winkler, B.S., Celeen, M., & Meck, H. (2004). Women’s studies in the Western United States. NWSA Journal, 16(2), 180–189. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4317059 
• Scully, D. (1996). Overview of women’s studies: Organization and institutional status in U.S. higher education. NWSA Journal, 8(3), 122–128. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316464 
• Searing, S. (1989). A quiet revolution. The Women’s Review of Books, 6(5), 19–21. https://doi.org/10.2307/4020443 
• Shapiro, J. (1982). “Women’s studies”: A note on the perils of markedness. Signs, 7(3), 717–721. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3173866 
• Stites, J. (2008, Oct. 1). YouProf: Tell your teacher: We need more feminist lectures online! Ms., 18(4), 15. 
• Strategies for women’s studies in the 80’s [Special issue]. (1984). Women’s Studies International Forum, 7(3). https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/womens-studies-international-forum/vol/7/issue/3 
• Wagner, A. (2010). Crisis, what crisis? The revitalization of academic feminism. Canadian Social Work Review/Revue canadienne de service social, 27(2), 187–204.
• Whitehouse, P. (2002). Women’s studies online: An oxymoron? Women’s Studies Quarterly, 30(3/4), 209–225. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40003255 
• Wiegman, R. (1999, Fall). Feminism, institutionalism, and the idiom of failure. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 11(3), 107–136. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/9609. 
• Wiegman, R. (2002). Academic feminism against itself. NWSA Journal, 14(2), 18–37. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316890 
• Women’s studies on the edge [Special issue]. (1997, Fall). Differences, 9(3). https://read.dukeupress.edu/differences/issue/9/3 
• Wood, C.V. (2015, Autumn). Knowledge ecologies, “supple” objects, and different priorities across women’s and gender studies programs and departments in the United States, 1970-2010. The History of the Behavioral Sciences, 51(4), 387-408. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21744
• Wood, D.J. (1981). Academic women’s studies programs: A case of organizational innovation. The Journal of Higher Education, 52(2), 155–172. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.1981.11780129 
• Wood, D.J. (1984). The adoption of academic women’s studies programs: Regional differences. Knowledge, 5(4), 509-536. https://doi.org/10.1177/107554708400500405
• Yates, G.G. (1977). Women’s studies in its second phase. Women’s Studies Newsletter, 5(1/2), 4–5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40042427  

Books and More

• Bowles, G. (Ed.). (1984). Strategies for women’s studies in the 80s. Pegamon Press. 
• Braithwaite, A. (2005). Troubling women’s studies: Pasts, presents and possibilities. Sumach Press.
• Conway-Turner, K. (1998). Women’s studies in transition: The pursuit of interdisciplinarity. University of Delaware Press.
• De Groot, J., & Maynard, M. (Eds.). (1993). Women’s studies in the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22928-4 
• Ford Foundation. (1979). Financial support of women’s programs in the 1970’s: A review of private and government funding in the United States and abroad: A report to the Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation, Office of Reports.
• Ginsberg, A.E. (2008). The evolution of American women’s studies: Reflections on triumphs, controversies, and change. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Kennedy, M., Lubelska, C., & Walsh, V. (Eds.). (1993). Making connections: Women’s studies, women’s movements, women’s lives (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203993729 
• Lewis, H.R. (2024, Apr.). Multivocal and multidirectional: The rich legacy of women’s, gender, & sexuality studies. National Women’s Studies Association. https://www.nwsa.org/about/what-is-womens-gender-sexuality-studies
• Martin, M. (Host). (2010, Mar. 17). A look back at women’s studies since the 1970s [Audio podcast episode with Beverly Guy-Sheftall]. In Tell me more. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2010/03/17/124775888/a-look-back-at-women-s-studies-since-the-1970s
• Maynard, M., & Purvis, J. (1996). New frontiers in women’s studies: Knowledge, identity and nationalism. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203987438 
• Rogers, M.F., & Garrett, C.D. (2002). Who’s afraid of women’s studies?: Feminisms in everyday life. Altamira Press. 
• Schreihofer, L., & Pearlman, D. (1979). Breaking the silence: Seven courses in women’s studies. U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare.
• Stimpson, C.R., & Cobb, N.K. (1986). Women’s studies in the United States: A report to the Ford Foundation. ED273553. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED273553 
• Turner, K.C., Cherrin, S., Shiffman, J., & Turkel, K.D. (Eds.). (1998). Women’s studies in transition: The pursuit of interdisciplinarity. University of Delaware Press. 
• Wallach Scott, J. (Ed.). (2008). Women’s studies on the edge. Duke University Press.
• Wetzel, J. (1994). Women’s studies: thinking women [Rev. ed.]. Kendall/Hunt.
• Wiegman, R. (Ed.). (2002). Women’s studies on its own: A next wave reader in institutional change. Duke University Press.