Volume 13, Issue 1. 1982

Themes:

women's history; historical misrepresentation and omission; Women's Rights; women's suffrage; sexism; abolition; illiteracy; sexism; racism; social justice; equity; stereotypes; racism; handicapism;, discrimination

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Donna Barkman, Susan G. Griffith, EMBERS staff, Patricia B. Campbell, Jan M. Goodman, Ismat Abdal-Haqq, Kipp Watson, Geraldine L. Wilson, Paul Smith, Lyla Hoffman, Glenn Anderson, Ruth S. Meyers

Materials Reviewed:

Things Won't Be the Same by Kathryn Ewing. Amazon / WorldCat
Something to Count On by Emily Moore. Amazon / WorldCat
Jim Boen: A Man of Opposites by Ann Redpath. Amazon / WorldCat
Movin' Up: Pop Gordon Tells His Story by Berry Gordon, Sr. Amazon / WorldCat
Homeward the Arrow's Flight by Marian Marsh Brown. Amazon / WorldCat
City Trucks by Robert Quackenbush. Amazon / WorldCat
Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain by Robert Burch. Amazon / WorldCat
A Gift for Mama by Esther Hautzig. Amazon / WorldCat
My Daddy Is a Nurse by Mark Wandro and Joanie Blank. Amazon / WorldCat
A Curriculum Guide to Women's Studies for the Middle School Grades 5-9 by Eileen Abrams. Amazon / WorldCat
As Boys Become Men: Learning New Male Roles by Doug Thompson. Amazon / WorldCat
Educating for Peace and Justice: A Manual for Teachers by James McGinnis and Kathleen McGinnis. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Women's Rights: The Suffrage Movement in American 1848-1920 by Olivia Coolidge
Free But Not Equal: How Women Won the Vote by Bill Severn
Petticoat Politics by Doris Faber
Votes for Women by G. Allen Foster
Century of Struggle by Eleanor Flexner
A Pictorial History of Women in America by Ruth Warren
Women's Rights by Janet Stevenson
Mother, Aunt Susan, and Me: The First Fight for Women's Rights by William Jay Jacobs
Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Mary Ann B. Oakley
Bloomers and Ballots: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Rights by Mary Stetson
Oh, Lizzie! the Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Doris Faber
Susan B. Anthony by Iris Noble
Sojourner Truth, a Self-Made Woman by Victoria Ortiz
Journey Toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Jacqueline Bernard
Lucretia Mott: Gentle Warrior by Dorothy Sterling
Ladies Were Not Expected: Abigail Scott Duniway and Women's Rights by Dorothy Nafus Morrison
Free Woman: The Life and times of Victoria Woodhull by Mario Meade
Seven Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition by Judith Nies
Hail Columbia! by Columbia Baines
Miss Rivers and Miss Bridges by Geraldine Symons
A Question of Courage by Marjorie Darke
Never Jam Today by Carole Bolton
By George, Bloomers! by Judith St. George
The Girl with Spunk
Feminism and Suffrage by Ellen Du Bois
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony: Correspondence, Writing, Speeches by Ellen Du Bois, ed.
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
Half the People: The Fight for Women's Suffrage by Anne F. Scott and Andrew M. Scott
Belonging by Deborah Kent
Sound of Sunshine, Sound of Rain by Florence Parry Heide
Independent Voices by Eve Merriam
Cristina's Diary by Alex Cervantes and Esther Cervantes
My Mother and I Are Growing Strong by Inez Maury
Alice Yazzie's Year by Ramona Maher, Child of the Owl
Nisei Daughter by Monica Itoi Sone
First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin by Florence White
We Are Mesquakie, We Are One by Hadley Irwin
Chase Me, Catch Nobody! by Erik Haugaard
Doing Time: A Look at Crime and Prison by Phyllis Clark and Robert Lehrman
A Show of Hands: Say It in Sign Language by Mary Beth Sullivan

Keywords:

research, women's history, historical misrepresentation and omission, textbooks, Seneca Falls Convention on Women's Rights, women's suffrage, sexism, Carrie Chapman Catt, abolition, illiteracy, sexism, racism, bibliographies, book lists, Nineteenth Amendment, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Civil War, white supremacy, Lucy Stone, Angelina Grimke, Sarah Moore Grimke, Amelia Bloomer, Alice Paul, Sojourner Truth, feminism, women's rights, Carrie Nation, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Dorothy Day, social justice, equity, Equity Models for Basal Readers (EMBERS), Women's Educational Equity Act, basal readers, stereotypes, racism, handicapism, discrimination, Beryle Banfield, Ruth S. Meyers, Jamila Gaston Colon, Disabled in Action (DIA), Paula Wolff, Congress of Neighborhood Women, Native American Education Project, bilingual, Bradbury, Crowell, Dial, Doubleday, Dutton, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harper & Row, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New Seed Press, The Feminist Press, Lollipop Power, Canadian Kids Can Press, Puerto Rican Centro do Estudios de la Realidad Puertorriqueña, Oxford Press, Mildred Taylor, Eloise Greenfield, Puerto Rican, Chicano, Spanish, Puerto Rican Educators Association, Lydia Milagros González, Pura Belpre, Hispanic, Native American, Asian American, Gay Bell, Lauri Welles, critical education, Ida B. Wells, publishing, research, bias, R. M. Yerkes, Ruth Herschberger, R. L. Crain, testing, Thomas Pettigrew, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, Arthur Jensen, E. Van Tassel, Mary Parlee, journals, R. Carlson, censorship, Moral Majority, New Right, Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), National Organization for Women (NOW), Nat Hentoff, American Library Association (ALA), Island Trees Union Free School District, book banning, First Amendment, Board of Education v. Pico, Purple ribbon Campaign, Racial Justice Working Group, National Council of Churches, Jane Addams Award, Southern Exposure, The Boys Town Center, TABS, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Co-Parent, publishing, Booklegger Press, James Danky, Maureen Hady, The Fatherhood Project, The Media Network, Women's International resource Exchange (W.I.R.E.), Sez, Jump Cut, mass media