The lives and mathematical contributions of seven famous women mathematicians are presented. They are: Hypatia, Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Mary Sommerville, Augusta Lovelace, Sofya Kovalevsky, and Emmy Noether. (MP)

At Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the library-college concept is proving to be a decisive factor in shaping new methods of teaching. (Author)

A listing is provided of resources for teaching women's studies, including traditional textbooks and periodicals, popular music, and science fiction resources. Nine objectives of women's studies programs are suggested. (STS)

Feminist scholarship has put forth alternative epistemologies that use experience, intuition, and evaluation as modes of knowing. For these new ideas to emerge in a powerful way, there has to be a locus for their emergence. Women's studies is that place. (Author/RM)

Discusses trends in adult education women's studies courses (cooperative extension and other credit or non-credit programs for non-traditional students) emphasizing needs for such offerings and suggesting cooperation between adult educators and college-based women's studies faculty. (JT)

The Chicago Liberation School for Women was designed to bring women in contact with the philosophies of the women's movement through a source other than the established media. (Author)

Eight anthologies of classic feminist writings and historical descriptions and analyses of women's history are reviewed. The selections are concerned with the history of American feminism and provide an overview of the women's movement and its major causes and crusades in the last two centuries. (SM)

Discusses three alternative approaches to women's history: (1) that although men have made history, women have contributed; (2) that women have been victimized, cross-culturally and throughout time; and (3) "woman-centered history," which recognizes the reality of repression but accords women the dignity of having survived and shaped social…

Analyzed changes in the sex role attitudes of college students enrolled in a women's studies class. Found significant increases in the students' sex role modernism, with greater increases in females than in males. (Author/MK)

In order to recognize women's contributions to the field of psychology, biographies of Margaret Floy Washburn, Mary Cover Jones, Karen Horney, Susan Grey, Edna Heidbreder, Ann Roe, and Mary Whitton Calkins are presented. (BEF)

Explores the task of revising Western culture, particularly in the study of literature, that feminist critics encounter. Discusses the male-oriented attitudes towards feminist studies in academia, as well as the attributes of and need for the study of literature from a feminist perspective. (HTH)

A study examined the relationship between nursing and women's studies in institutions of higher education that have both programs (N=181). It was found that at least 75 percent of them did have some type of relationship. Collaborative activities included courses, guest lectures, joint sponsorship of seminars, and research. (JOW)

Analyzes "Natalie Mann," an unproduced and little-known drama of ideas by Jean Toomer. Discusses the revolutionary feminist treatment of both the female and male characters. (FMW)