Introduction to Women\u27s Studies: New Textbook Being Developed at Hunter College

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant to the Women\u27s Studies Program of Hunter College for the writing of a textbook and instructional manual for the basic course, Introduction to Women\u27s Studies. Unlike other comprehensive women\u27s studies textbooks which are described as multidisciplinary but are actually collections of individual chapters, each written from the perspective of a single discipline, Hunter\u27s books will be thoroughly interdisciplinary, with each chapter written collectively. The nine authors, from four divisions of the college—Humanities and the Arts, Social Sciences, and the professional schools of Nursing and Education—are: Ulku Bates, Nancy Dean, Florence Denmark, Dorothy O. Helly, Susan Lees, JoAnn McNamara, Sarah B. Pomeroy (Project Director), E. Dorsey Smith, and Sue R. Zalk. In 1978-79 they participated in an interdisciplinary seminar directed toward designing a curriculum for Introduction to Women\u27s Studies and training teachers in interdisciplinary techniques. Supported by faculty development funds available to Jerome Schneewind, Hunter\u27s Provost, and Gerald Freund, Hunter\u27s Dean of Humanities and the Arts, each of the core group of nine was granted two courses\u27 released time