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NWSA Publications

Publications overview

NWSA Journal

Official journal of NWSA

NWSA Resource publications

Syllabi Collections, Program Admin Handbook and more

Graduate Guide to Women's and Gender Studies

Free resource for students considering graduate work in Women's/Gender Studies

Directory

Directory Includes:
Staff
Governing Council
Delegate Assembly

Member Directory

Institutional Directory

Click here to visit the PA&D webpages and resources

The Program Administration and Development Committee (PA&D) is a standing committee in NWSA specifically designed to represent the interests and needs of administrators of women's studies or gender studies programs and departments to the Governing Council of NWSA and to assist NWSA in meeting the needs of women's / gender studies administrators and their departments and programs.

The PA&D webpages offer a wealth of free downloadable resources for NWSA members.

These include:
Administrators Hand Book
The latest edition of the Administrators handbook

Defining Women's Scholarship
A Statement of the National Women's Studies Association Task Force on Faculty Roles and Rewards.

What Programs Need
Essential Resources for Women's Studies and Gender Studies Programs.

Shared Development Documents including course development, climate issues and surveys, service learning guides and evaluations and much more.

Click here to visit the PA&D webpages and resources.

Gender Studies may be best understood as an evolution from the Women's Studies programs founded in the 1960's and after. 
click here to learn more about Gender Studies

Click here to visit the Women's Center pages and resources.

Women's Centers have representation on the NWSA Governing Council as a standing committee. This is more than a symbolic recognition of the important role that women's centers play in feminist education.

The Center webpages offer a wealth of free downloadable resources for NWSA members.

Administration Resources
Annual Reports,
Strategic Planning and Surveys
Constitutions and Advisory Boards
Contact Logs and Evaluation Forms
Mission Statements
Position Descriptions
Program Proposals
Student Staff Procedures and Handbooks

And More...

Click here to visit the Women's Center pages and resources.

NWSA has many initiatives in development and ongoing.
Click here to see more

Current initiatives include:

NWSA Data Collection Project

NWSA partnered with the National Organization for Research (NORC) at the University of Chicago to collect data on the field of women’s studies nationally.

Women of Color Leadership

The WoCLP is designed to increase the number of women of color students and faculty within the field of women’s studies / gender studies and, consequently, to have an impact on the levels of participation and power by women of color in the PA&D, NWSA, and in the field of women’s studies / gender studies as a whole.

Governance

This section includes reports, recommendations, constitution, bylaws, elections, policies and so forth.

NWSA MEMBER BLOGS

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(NWSA Members only)

Number of member blogs so far => 12

1.Women's Page History

http://womenspageeditors.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Kimberly Voss

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
A blog devoted to women's page editors beginning during World War II (when many women were hired by the newsrooms until the war ended) through the early 1970s when the sections were transformed into lifestyle sections.


2.Viva la Feminista

http://www.vivalafeminista.com

Blogger: Veronica Arreola

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
My personal blog where I discuss the intersection of motherhood, feminism, and being Latina.


3.UMKC Women's Center

http://umkc-womenc.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Brenda Bethman

Other regular contributors:
Kristen Abell, UMKC Women's Center Staff

Main Theme or Focus:
Blog sponsored by the UMKC Women's Center. We post on thought-provoking articles to foster discussion on women's issues. We also accept guest posts, so contact me at bethmanb@umkc.edu if you would be interested in writing a guest post for our blog.


4.The Seal Press Women's Interest Blog

http://www.sealpress.com/blog

Blogger: Andie East

Other regular contributors:
Krista Lyons-Gould, Brooke Warner, Andie East, and other Seal employees

Main Theme or Focus:
Our new focus is on our own books, author events, and author publicity, along with occasional book- and issue-related news as it pertains to our books and our industry.


5.Regional Food Round Up

http://regionalfoodroundup.blogspot.com

Blogger: Marcia Chatelain

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
I bring together my passions for food, politics and history in one place. I focus on a regional dish as a way of exploring the past and engaging the present.


6.Professor Splenda Galore

http://drparker.blogspot.com

Blogger: Juli Parker

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
Articles written for local newspaper and other venues on topics relevant to women.


7.Living Single

http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single

Blogger: Bella DePaulo

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
Following in the spirit of my book, Singled Out, my Living Single blog for Psychology Today is a myth-busting, consciousness-raising, totally unapologetic take on single life. It takes a critical look at popular culture and politics (especially the singles-bashing I call singlism) and assesses, from a scientific perspective, headlines in the popular press about marital status.


8.Kittywampus

http://kittywampus.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Patricia Stokes

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
I write on feminism, politics, health issues, and parenting - with an occasional cat in the mix, just for fun.


9.Huntington Library Women's Studies Program

http://huntingtonwomensstudies.blogspot.com

Blogger: Karon Jolna

Other regular contributors:
Blogmaster: Penny Richards, Ph.D., Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Main Theme or Focus:
The Huntington Library Women's Studies Program has been
presenting thought provoking Women's Studies seminars to the Southern California community for twenty five years. Join us on our new blog for more information and discussion about our
quarterly seminars.



at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.


10.Girl with Pen

http://girlwpen.com

Blogger: Deborah Siegel

Other regular contributors:
Kristen Loveland, Virginia Rutter, Courtney Martin, Gwendolyn Beetham, Tonni Brodber, Veronica Arreola, Elizabeth Curtis, Jacqueline Hudak, Laura Mazer, and others

Main Theme or Focus:
Girl with Pen ("bridging feminist research and popular reality") publicly and passionately dispels modern myths concerning gender, encouraging other feminist scholars, writers, and thinkers to do the same.


11.Fabulously Feminist

http://fabulouslyfeminist.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Shantel Troska

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
Fabulously Feminist is an activist academic blog ran by a current Women's and Gender Studies graduate student. With articles, newswire, even poetry, this should be an essential stop for anyone fighting for women's rights today!


12.Academic Parenthood

http://academicparenthood.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Jaime Lester

Other regular contributors:

Main Theme or Focus:
This blog is a compilation of shared experiences and information for academic parents who are on or aspire to be on the tenure track. Our goal is to provide information, spark debate, create awareness, and maybe even promote activism to help all women and men feel as if they can be successful academic parents.


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