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The fall 1999 Woman's Studies Advisory Council newsletter and information

The very first newsletter distributed by SIROW, the Southwest Institute for Research on Women.

Newspaper clippings about "The Daughters of the Desert, Women Anthropologists" exhibit and conference. Articles are in both Spanish and English.

Faculty retreat including six former heads of the Department of Gender and Women Studies. Back to front: (back row) Jan Monk, Miranda Joesph, Susan Craddock, Kari McBride, Liz Kennedy, Judith McDaniel, Myra Dinnerstein; (middle row) Rosi Andrade,…

Photograph shows portrait by George Kendall Warren taken in 1876, printed by C.F. Conly, who took over Warren's studio in 1884.

A list of classes offered in Women's Studies during the Fall semester of 1973 at University of Arizona

Original proposal for creating Women Studies Program at UA

1903 essay published in the University of Arizona Burro presenting women students anger about university curfew and restrictions

Portrait of Estelle Lutrell

Judy Temple, University of Arizona English department, discusses being able to teach 'Women in Science' and the rewards of teaching that course with a co-professor. She mentions a male student who questioned everything; he was their thorn in the…

Eliana Rivero, University of Arizona Spanish and Portugues department, discusses feeling like the 'token Latina' and how some said she looked 'so white'. Despite this, a grant allowed for the furtherment of the Women's Studies department, which…

Susan Philips recounts her activism during the women's liberation movement and how that experience helped shape her desire to help found the Women's Studies program at the University of Arizona. Philips notes this was a merger of her political…

Ruth Dickstein, University of Arizona University Libraries, discusses the politics becoming a department on campus and the important role that the Woman's Studies Advisory Council (WOSAC) played. She mentions that Women's Studies, as a program…

Susan Aiken, University of Arizona English department, discusses being one of the first individuals to be working in the field of Women's Studies, and how this work came to be seen as "cutting edge'".

Patricia MacCorquodale discusses receiving a grant at the University of Arizona and a dinner that follows. The Vice President of Research commented that at the end of the grant, there would not be a need for Women's Studies. Yet, Myra Dinnerstein…