280 NOTES2. Copies of the <strong>Women</strong>'s Studies Constitution are available through the National <strong>Women</strong>'sStudies Association, University of Maryland, College Park.3. Carolyn Heilbrun, "Feminist Criticism in Departments of Literature," Academe, September-October1983, p. 14.Elaine Marks, Nannerl Keohane, and Elizabeth Minnich have also given enthusiasticsupport to the comparison between the discoveries made in women's studiesand those of Copernicus and Darwin. See Elaine Marks, "Deconstructing in <strong>Women</strong>'sStudies to Reconstructing the Humanities," Marilyn R. Schuster and Susan R. VanDyne, eds., in <strong>Women</strong>'s Place in the Academy: Transforming the Liberal Arts Curriculum(Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Allanheld, 1985), p. 174. Nannerl Keohane made thecomparison in her address "Challenges for the Future" at the June 15, 1992, conferenceat Radcliffe College entitled "In the Eye of the Storm: Feminist Research andAction in the Nineties." Elizabeth Minnich makes it as well: "What we [feminists] aredoing is comparable to Copernicus shattering our geo-centricity, Darwin shatteringour species-centricity. We are shattering andro-centricity, and the change is as fundamental,as dangerous, as exciting." Keynote address, "The Feminist Academy,"reprinted in Proceedings of Great Lakes <strong>Women</strong>'s Studies Association, November 1979,p. 7.4. Gerda Lerner, quoted in Chronicle of Higher Education, September 28, 1988, p. 7.5. Jessie Bernard in the foreword to Angela Simeone, Academic <strong>Women</strong> (South Hadley,Mass.: Bergin and Garvey, 1987), pp. xii and xiii.6. Ms. magazine, October 1985, p. 50.7. Ann Ferguson, "Feminist Teaching: A Practice Developed in Undergraduate Courses,"Radical Teacher, April 1982, p. 28.8. "Access to Resources" (Towson, Md.: Towson State University, National Clearinghousefor Curriculum Transformation Resources, April 1993), p. 7.9. Caryn McTighe Musil, The Courage to Question: <strong>Women</strong>'s Studies and Student Learning(Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges, 1992), p. 3.10. Louise Bernikow, introduction to The World Split Open: Four Centuries of <strong>Women</strong> Poetsin England and America, 1552-1950 (New York: Random House, 1974), p. 3.11. Géraldine Ruthchild, "The Best Feminist Criticism Is a New Criticism," in FeministPedagogy and the Learning Climate: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Great Lakes CollegesAssociation <strong>Women</strong>'s Studies Conference (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Great Lakes Colleges Association,1983), p. 34.12. Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986),p. 224.13. Ibid., p. 225.14. "Evaluating Courses for Inclusion of New Scholarship on <strong>Women</strong>" (WashingtonD.C.: Association of American Colleges, May 1988), p. 1.15. The AAUW Report: <strong>How</strong> Schools Shortchange Girls (Washington, D.C.: American Associationof University <strong>Women</strong> Educational Foundation, 1992), p. 63.16. Leonard C. Wood et al., America: Its People and Values (Dallas: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,1985), pp. 145, 170, 509, 701. See also Daniel Boorstin and Brooks MatherKelley, A History of the United States (Lexington, Mass.: Ginn, 1986).17. Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich, Transforming Knowledge (Philadelphia: Temple UniversityPress, 1990), p. 133.18. Boorstin and Kelley, A History of the United States. Example cited in Robert Lerner,Althea K. Nagai, and Stanley Rothman, "Filler <strong>Feminism</strong> in High School History,"
NOTES 281Academic Questions 5, no. 1 (Winter 1991-92): 34. For a frank but sympatheticbiography of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, see Dorothy Herrmann, Anne Morrow Lindbergh(New York: Penguin, 1993).19. Lerner, Nagai, and Rothman, "Filler <strong>Feminism</strong> in High School History," p. 29.20. American Voices, ed. Carol Berkin, Alan Brinkly, et al. (Glenview, 111.: Scott Freedman,1992), p. 18.21. Gilbert Sewall, Social Studies Review (New York: American Textbook Council, 1993),p. 7.22. Paul C. Vitz, Censorship: Evidence of Bias in Our Children's Textbooks (Ann Arbor,Mich.: Servant Books, 1986).23. Ibid., p. 73.24. Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn, What Do Our Seventeen-Year-Olds Know? (NewYork: Harper & Row, 1987). The figures cited are taken from the appendix,pp. 262-77.25. Reported in the Boston Globe: "Top Students Get Low Scores in Civics," April 6, 1993,p. 3.26. "Standards for Evaluation of Instructional Materials with Respect to Social Content"(California State Department of Education, 1986), p. 2.27. Peggy Means Mcintosh, "Curricular Re-Vision: The New Knowledge for a New Age,"in Educating the Majority: <strong>Women</strong> Challenge Tradition in Higher Education, ed. CarolPearson, Donna Shavlik, and Judith Touchton (New York: Macmillan, 1989), p. 404.To make their point about the masculinist character of artistic and literary judgment,the transformationist revisionists almost always encase terms like masterpiece, genius,and literary canon in scare quotes.28. Janis C. Bell, "Teaching Art History: A Strategy for the Survival of <strong>Women</strong>'s Studies,"in "Looking Forward: <strong>Women</strong>'s Strategies for Survival," Proceedings of the EleventhAnnual Great Lakes Colleges Association (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Great Lakes CollegesAssociation, 1985), p. 28.29. Ibid., p. 23.30. Marks, "Deconstructing in <strong>Women</strong>'s Studies," p. 178.31. Quoted in Minnich, Transforming Knowledge, p. 27.32. Peggy Mcintosh, keynote address, "Seeing Our Way Clear: Feminist Re-Vision of theAcademy," Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Great Lakes Colleges Association <strong>Women</strong>'sStudies Conference (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Great Lakes Colleges Association, 1983),p. 8.33. Boston Globe, June 30, 1991.34. "Transforming the Knowledge Base: A Panel Discussion at the National Network of<strong>Women</strong>'s Caucuses" (New York: National Council for Research on <strong>Women</strong>, 1990),p. 4. Minnich's attack on the ancient Greeks reminded me of my own more traditionalintroduction to "The Greeks." When I was in high school, my mother gave me EdithHamilton's The Greek Way. It inspired in me a great interest in philosophy andclassical art. Today, the many pedagogues who follow the Minnich line protect highschool girls from such books.35. Minnich, Transforming Knowledge, p. 113.36. Joyce Trebilcot, "Dyke Methods," Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 3, no. 2(Summer 1988): 3.37. "Feminist Scholarship Guidelines," distributed by the New Jersey Project (Wayne,N.J.: William Paterson College, 1991).
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