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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 programs and departments to the Governing Council of NWSA and to assist NWSA in meeting the needs of women's administrators and their departments and programs.

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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 Programs.

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

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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.

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NWSA Data Collection Project

NWSA is partnering 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 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 as a whole.

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NWSA JOURNAL

NWSA Journal

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NWSA Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National Women’s Studies Association, is committed to providing a forum in which the research of feminist scholars, established and new, results in critical dialogue.

We invite submission of articles in all areas related to Women’s Studies, with emphasis on diversity. Articles from all disciplines are welcome; however, writers should keep in mind that the NWSA Journal has a multi-disciplinary audience. We will also consider reports, book reviews, archives, and personal scholarship that engage in a feminist perspective. Our current rate of acceptance is 27%.

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Volume 19, No. 2, Summer 2007
Table of Contents 

Reflections by NWSA President JUDITH ROY and NWSA Journal Editor BRENDA DALY

Articles
Beyond the Gay/Straight Split: Socialist Feminists in Baltimore
LAUREL A. CLARK

Liberating Practice: A Critique of the Expressivist Turn in Lesbian-Feminist and Queer Practice
KATHY MIRIAM

Challenging Academic Norms: An Epistemology for Feminist and Multicultural Classrooms
SHARI STONE-MEDIATORE

Cross-Race, Cross-Culture, Cross-National, Cross-Class, But Same-Gender: Musings on Research in South Africa
LORA BEX LEMPERT

‘The most basic threat  . . . to Israeli and Palestinian women  . . . is the occupation’: Enduring Strategies and Shifting Tactics of Israeli and Palestinian Feminist Peace NGOs in the Post-9/11 World
JESSICA P. WEINBERG

School Novels and Maternal Vocationalism
HEATHER JULIEN

‘I Wish My Mother Could See Me Now’: The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) and Negotiation of Gender and Class Relations, 1907–1918
JANET LEE

Two Leaders, Two Utopias: Jane Addams and Dorothy Day
MAURICE HAMINGTON

Learning from the NWSA Strategic Planning Process
AMY LEVIN and JOLENE SKINNER

Report
Women’s Studies Information-Seeking: A State of the Union Address
JENNIFER GILLEY

Review Essay
Shifting Discipline in Women’s Studies: Studies of Masculinities, Pornographies, and Sexualities
ELIZABETH BIRMINGHAM

Narratives of People, Places, and Paintings
ANNE CHARLES

Book Reviews
Zora Neale Hurston & American Literary Culture by M. Genevieve West
Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux
KATHLEEN HICKOK

What if your mother by Judith Arcana
RISHMA DUNLOP

Chicana Feminisms:  A Critical Reader edited by Gabriela F. Arrendondo, Aída Hurtado, Norma Klahn, Loga Nájera-Ramirez, and Patricia Zavella
GAYE THERESA JOHNSON

Law and Justice as Seen on TV by Elayne Rapping
CYNTHIA LUCIA

Meanings of Violence edited by Elizabeth A. Stanko
LORAINE GELSTHORPE

Call for Papers

We have a rolling deadline and seek submissions on topics such as:

  • Feminist Pedagogy
  • Feminist theory and research methodologies, including  global feminism
  • Women and science
  • Women and religion, including fundamentalism
  • Women, girls and education
  • Ecology, ecofeminism, health and the environment
  • Feminist generations: the future of feminism, young feminists, children
  • Post-colonial studies
  • Women and activism
  • Women and the arts
  • Women writers: autobiographies and reflexive writings
  • Race, class, sexualities, and gender intersections
  • Women and the media
  • Women and disabilities
  • Women’s history
  • Immigration

Send one e-copy and two print copies of your manuscript (20-30 pages, doubled spaced), with parenthetical notes and complete references page formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style to:

Louisiana State University
146 Hodges Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225.578.6906
nwsaj@lsu.edu