Volume 15, Issue 4. 1984

Themes:

sex equity; equity; consciousness-raising; women's history; stereotypes

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Gail E. Myers, Laurie Rubin, Joyce Hansen, Bradford Chambers, Doris Seale, Lyla Hoffman, Emily Strauss Watson, Christine Jenkins, Geraldine L. Wilson, W. Keith McCoy, Betsy Gimbel, Estelle Hazelwood, Jan M. Goodman, Susan L. Wizowaty, Mary E. Wambach, Estelle Hazelwood, Patricia B. Campbell

Materials Reviewed:

The Adventures of Billy Bean by Wesley Studie. Amazon / WorldCat
The Mill Girls: Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hanson Robinson, Sarah G. Bagley by Bernice Selden. Amazon / WorldCat
A Contest by Sherry Neuwirth Payne. Amazon / WorldCat
Not for Love by Hila Coleman. Amazon / WorldCat
Just My Luck by Emily Moore. Amazon / WorldCat
Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin by Susanne Bosche. Amazon / WorldCat
No Dragons to Slay by Jan Greenberg. Amazon / WorldCat
Don't Hurt Me, Mama by Muriel Stanek. Amazon / WorldCat
The Puzzle of Books by Michael Kehoe. Amazon / WorldCat
The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola. Amazon / WorldCat
Do You Love Me, Harvey Burns? by Jean Marzollo. Amazon / WorldCat
Shadows Across the Sun by Albert Likhanov. Amazon / WorldCat
People Working by Douglas Florian. Amazon / WorldCat
Hide Crawford Quick by Margaret Walden Froelich. Amazon / WorldCat
Keeping It Secret by Penny Pollock. Amazon / WorldCat
No More Secrets for Me by Oralee Wachter. Amazon / WorldCat
Opposing Viewpoints by David L. Bender, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
Editorial Forum by Gary E. McCuen, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
Third World Resource Directory by Thomas P. Fenton and Mary J. Heffron. Amazon / WorldCat
The Holocaust and Genocide: A Search for Conscience by Harry Furman, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment by Barbara Ehrenreich. Amazon / WorldCat
A Manual on Nonviolence and Children by Stephanie Judson, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
We've All Got Scars: What Boys and Girls Learn in Elementary School by Raphaela Best. Amazon / WorldCat
Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage by Bessie Jones. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Famine by Rhoda Blumberg
Our Hungry Earth: The World Food Crisis by Laurence Pringle
Teacup Full of Roses by Sharon Bell Mathis
It Ain't All for Nothing by Walter Dean Myers
The Days When the Animals Talked, Home Boy by Joyce Hansen
A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich by Alice Childress
Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
Talk about a Family by Eloise Greenfield
The Gift-Giver by Joyce Hansen
The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
Felita by Nicholasa Mohr
In Nueva York by Nicholasa Mohr
Something to Count On by Emily Moore
Just My Luck by Emily Moore
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Ludell by Brenda Wilkinson
Ludell and Willie by Brenda Wilkinson
Ludell's New York Time by Brenda Wilkinson
Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Female and Disabled: An Anthology of Art and Literature
Mwandiki wa Mau Mau Ithaamirio-ini by Gakaara wa Wanjau
Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo Ndebele
The Good Giants and the Bad Pukwudgies by Tomie dePaola

Keywords:

TABS, Organization for Equal Education of the Sexes (OEES), sex equity, equity, National Organization for Women (NOW); Lucy Picco Simpson, textbooks, New York Council on Adoptable Children, consciousness-raising, sports, Asian American, women's history, stereotypes, Belva Lockwood, Fannie Lou Hamer, Julia de Burgos, Chief Sarah Winnemucca, Marie Curie, Linda Bove, Eleanor Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, librarians, Alice Paul, Project Share, Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA), Educational Development Center, Black, disability, lesson plans, National Women's History Week Project, social justice, Ms. Foundation, The Joint Foundation Support/Women's Fund, Liz Phillips, The Feminist Press, Mary La Mothe, financial support request, Beatrice Krivetsky, hunger, poverty, Hispanic, U. S. Census, people of color, food economies, inequality, Institute for Food and Development Policy, overpopulation, Rhea Irvine, Educomics, Leonard Rifas, Food First Comics, reluctant readers, special education, Black writers, folktales, hi-lo, Puerto Rican, African American, appropriation, Huck Finn, Conference on American Comedy, censorship, book challenges, Margot Allen, Fredrick Woodard, Jane Madsen, Terrell Jones, Calli Kingsbury, James Stewart, John Barth, Hamlin Hill, racism, stereotypes, depiction, James Stewart, critical education, racial slurs, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Alice K. Swinger, National Black Child Development Institute, disability, Noma Award, Heinemann Educational Books, Ravan Press, ARTS, Amistad Research Center, Hispanic, Chicano, films, women's studies, MADRE, Charlynn Spencer Pyne, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Black artists, Nicaragua, World War II, Nazis, Lollipop Power, Nurturing News