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 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.
The PA&D webpages offer a wealth of freedownloadable 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 Programs.
Shared Development Documentsincluding course development, climate issues and surveys, service learning guides and evaluations and much more.
Click here to visit the PA&D webpages and resources.
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 freedownloadable 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 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.
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.
NWSA has partnered with Powell Books and Amazon Books
We encourage you to use our portal for these book sellers. By doing so a portion of the sales will go directly to supporting NWSA. We feature books by NWSA members
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NWSA Publications
The following items are available in printed "hard copy" formats.
See resource publications to access free pdf downloads (members only)
Guide
to Graduate Work in Women's & Gender Studies:
2006 Edition
Describes graduate programs in detail.
New features include essays by current or former graduate students; advice about the application process from graduate directors and chairs; more detailed information about program and department fellowship or assistantship opportunities; and information about career placements. Other features of the Guide remain the same—the programs continue to be listed in alphabetical order, and the appendices include separate listings of programs by state and programs by degrees.
Grad Guide - Non member price
$40
Grad Guide - Member price
$30
The
PA&D HANDBOOK 2006 EDITION
Designed to assist Women's Studies program
administrators and department chairs in their work by providing overviews
of typical WS programs, sample practices and strategies for dealing
with common concerns, and a selection of useful resources.
Hand Book - Non member price
$40
Hand Book - Member price
$30
Feminist Theory Syllabi collection 2006
This selection of syllabi represents an impressively wide range of approaches to courses in feminist theory, including a variety of pedagogical strategies, texts, and assignments.
The syllabi are arranged in two separate sections:
stand-alone courses in Feminist Theory & courses that include a strong feminist theory component in their approaches to other disciplines or topics (for example, religion, film, activism, etc.).
There appear to be three general approaches to feminist theory courses at this point in time: Historical/chronological; Types of feminism (i.e., liberal, psychoanalytic, transnational); Topics/issues (i.e., sexuality, identities)
Feminist Theories
- Non member price
$40
Feminist Theories - Member price
$30
Teaching Resources on Racism, White Privileges & Anti-White Supremacy This collection is long overdue. This project came out of the participants’ consensus for 2005
Stop Dreaming, Keep Working Workshop. Participants at the workshop felt that there should be
a resource book for teachers, administrators and activists who are interested in issues of racism,
white supremacy, and white privileges. For those of us who teach courses in these areas often
find it difficult to keep up with the literature. Confined to our own disciplines, we often struggle
to find materials that are interdisciplinary in nature. We also wonder what assignments and
pedagogical tools others have used to convey materials to students. These concerns all draw
attention to the immense need for a resource book with a collection of syllabi.
AWSTF Syallabi - Non member price
$40
AWSTF Syallabi - Member price
$30
The
NWSA Backlash Report:
Problems, Instigators, and Strategies
By Diana Scully and Danielle M. Currier
Based on the survey responses of 270 Women's Studies administrators in the
U.S. It includes an examination of the contemporary status of Women's Studies
in the U.S., the types of problems Women's Studies programs/departments and
faculty are experiencing, the investigators of these problems and their tactics,
especially the conservative right groups organizing on college
campuses, and the defensive strategies used by administrators to protect
and defend their programs/departments and faculty. It is essential reading
for all Women's Studies administrators and faculty.
General Price
(available only in hard print)
$10.00
B11
Media
Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich "READING THEIR WORK" (1988)
Double Audio CD and "Broadside"
$26 members
This special recording is offered with a beautiful "broadside" printing of one of their poems.
The second broadside can be added for $10.00 (Must be purchased at the same time)
CD
and ONE Broadside
$26
CD and BOTH Broadsides
$36
The Political Empowerment of
African-American Women:
Furthering a Feminist Agenda
for the Twenty-first Century
(1987: Atlanta, Georgia)
Angela Davis, C. Delores Tucker, Byllye Avery
These plenary speakers at NWSA's 10th anniversary conference addressed political empowerment from three perspectives: traditional electoral politics, grass-roots political organizing, and revolutionary politics. They set forth a feminist agenda for African-American women in the struggle for freedom.
Double Audio CD $21
"Theories of Sexualities"
Marilyn Frye
Succinctly answers the question:
"Do you have to be a lesbian to be a feminist?"
Recorded at the 1990 NWSA Conference
Audio CD $15
Broadsides
SIGNED
BROADSIDES $100 - $150 NWSA has nine different signed broadside
poems.
Broadside
measures 11" x 17".
Printed on Parchment with red and brown ink.
We
have limited stock - and broadsides will be sold on
a first come first served basis until supplies run out.
Artists:
Audre
Lorde: "Sisters
in Arms"
Adrienne
Rich: "Dreamwood"
June
Jordan: "A Richland County Lyric
for Elizabeth Asleep"
Gloria
Anzaldúa: "To Live in the Boarderlands
Means You"
Beth
Brant: "Ride the Turtle's Back"
Cheryl
Clarke: "Luciel"
Meridel
LeSueur: “Strike
Us to Bud" (unsigned only)
Judith
McDaniel: "Llopango"
Michelle
Parkerson: "Convalescence"
Mitsuye
Yamada: "Cactus"
Purchase a 2007 NWSA membership
for a colleague or student
Gift delivery of
certificate and bookmark by mail
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$150 for colleague gift
2007 NWSA Membership gift
For Student
$55
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2007 NWSA Membership gift
For Colleague
$150
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Gifts & Merchandise
Eve's Quest Board Game
No other board game focuses broadly on women, making EVE's Quest unique. From Mother Teresa to Mother Goose, Barbie to Body Shop, PMS to Title IX, Queen Latifah to Queen Victoria, you will laugh, you will be surprised at how much you know and you will learn amazing facts about women.
$29.00
Green Enamel
Lapel Pin NWSA logo with silver edge $5.00
The Political Empowerment of
African-American Women: 
"Theories of Sexualities"
SIGNED
BROADSIDES $100 - $150
Artists: 
Eve's Quest Board Game
Green Enamel 
NWSA
"Robot Series" 
16oz Glazier Mug 
32oz
Water Bottle 
"The
Art of Women’s Studies"
NWSA Women's Studies 
"Future
Feminist"