PERSISTENCE IS RESISTANCE: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF GENDER, WOMEN & SEXUALITY STUDIES JULIE SHAYNE University of Washington libraries Seattle Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies by Julie Shayne is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. As alAs always,ways, dedicated to my beloved father Barry (1945-2001) The night I received my MA in Women’s Studies. Photo taken before the San Francisco State University graduation. 1995. Contents Detailed contents, authors & artists included xiii Part I. Welcome Acknowledgements 3 About the cover 5 Preface: Context, Organization, and Non- 7 traditional publishing Introduction: Fifty Years of Women’s Studies 15 Part II. Section one: The History of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies 1. The History of San Diego State University’s 23 Women’s Studies Program Photos from SDSU library exhibit 37 2. The Praxis of Africana Women’s Studies: 39 Lessons from Clark Atlanta University 3. The Enduring Struggle: Findings from the 49 History of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Global South Untitled (student art) 62 4. Women’s-Gender-Sexuality-Feminist Studies: 64 The Politics of Departmental Naming 5. An Annotated Bibliography on the History of 72 Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies in the Americas Untitled (student art) 89 Students answer: Why Gender, Women, and 91 Sexuality Studies? 6. Why GWSS Still Matters 93 Part III. Section two: The Praxis of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies 7. Bridging the Academy and the Community, 107 One Breath at a Time: The Healing Power of Africana Women’s Studies Students answer: Why Gender, Women, and 119 Sexuality Studies? 8. WGS Changes Lives: A Meditation on 121 Feminist Praxis 9. Teaching Women’s & Gender Studies: 130 Teaching Tools for Life 10. From Theory to Content: Feminist Publishing 142 Makes Women’s Studies Powerful Stifle (student art) 154 11. The Struggle Continues: Women of Color 156 Faculty and Institutional Barriers En La Lucha (student art) 164 12. Turning a Feminist Lens on Administration 166 13. Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies: A 177 Degree and Perspective for ‘Essential Workers’ in the 21st Century Students answer: Why Gender, Women, and 188 Sexuality Studies? Part IV. Section three: Doing Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies 14. Writing Social Justice: Thoughts from a WGSS 191 Major Not Your Beauty (student art) 196 15. Gender Studies Work at the University of 198 Ghana 16. Parar para Avanzar: Feminist Activism in 2019 207 Latin American Mobilizations Marginalized Cage (student art) 218 17. Disrupting Systems of Oppression by Re- 221 centering Indigenous Feminisms 18. No One is Disposable: Ecofeminism and 230 Climate Crisis Students answer: Why Gender, Women, and 242 Sexuality Studies? 19. Women’s & Gender Studies at Community 244 Colleges: Breakthroughs and Challenges Hometown (student poetry) 258 20. The Power of Words: A Discussion of Chanel 260 Miller’s Know My Name Sins of the Skinny Body (student art) 271 Part V. Section four: Wrapping Things Up Conclusion: Damn Straight We Persisted 275 Artist statement: Interior Intimacies Series 291 A Lesbian Marriage (student art) 294 Kitchen Top (student art) 296 About the authors 298 The authors, in pictures 313 About our programs 314 Praise 326 Detailed contents, authors & artists included WelcomeWelcome Acknowledgements About the cover ~ Veronica Eldredge, Seattle University Preface: Context, Organization, and Non-traditional publishing ~ Julie Shayne, University of Washington Bothell Introduction: Fifty Years of Women’s Studies ~ Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College Section one: The History of GenderGender,, Women, and SexualiSexualityty Studies The History of San Diego State University’s Women’s Studies Program ~ Temperance Russell & Lori Loftin, San Diego State University, and Julie Shayne, University of Washington Bothell Photos from SDSU library exhibit xiii JULIE SHAYNE The Praxis of Africana Women’s Studies: Lessons from Clark Atlanta University ~ Stephanie Sears, Clark Atlanta University The Enduring Struggle: Findings from the History of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Global South ~ Adrianna L. Ernstberger, Marian University Untitled (student art) ~ Maria Chi-Chable, Wellesely College Women’s-Gender-Sexuality-Feminist Studies: The Politics of Departmental Naming ~ Amy Bhatt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County An Annotated Bibliography on the History of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies in the Americas ~ Julie Shayne and Estephanie Guzman, University of Washington Bothell Untitled (student art) ~ Hailey Cho, Wellesley College Students answer: Why Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies? ~ Yuval Schnitkes, University of California Los Angeles and Elisabeth Schnebele, University of Washington Bothell Why GWSS Still Matters ~ Carrie N. Baker, Smith College Section two: The Praxis of GenderGender,, Women, and SexualiSexualityty Studies Bridging the Academy and the Community, One Breath at a Time: The Healing Power of Africana Women’s Studies ~ Brea Stevenson, NaTasha Robinson, Sonja Andrews, and Donielle Pace, Clark Atlanta University Students answer: Why Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies? ~ Laurel Berryman, University of Massachusetts xiv PERSISTENCE IS RESISTANCE Dartmouth and Gabrielle Fox, University of Washington Bothell WGS Changes Lives: A Meditation on Feminist Praxis ~ Kandace Creel Falcón, University of Minnesota, alum Teaching Women’s & Gender Studies: Teaching Tools for Life ~ Elena Tajima Creef and Rosanna Hertz, Wellesley College From Theory to Content: Feminist Publishing Makes Women’s Studies Powerful ~ Carmen Rios, American University, alumna Stifle (student art) ~ Lauren Raimunde, Smith College The Struggle Continues: Women of Color Faculty and Institutional Barriers ~ Lourdes Torres, DePaul University En La Lucha (student art) ~ Veronica Eldredge, Seattle University Turning a Feminist Lens on Administration ~ Judith Howard, University of Washington Seattle Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies: A Degree and Perspective for ‘Essential Workers’ in the 21st Century ~ Cheryl Radeloff, College of Southern Nevada and Michelle Tracy Berger, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Students answer: Why Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies? ~ Michael Castro, Santiago Canyon College and Lauren Raimunde, Smith College Section three: Doing GenderGender, Women,, Women, and SexualiSexualityty Studies Writing Social Justice: Thoughts from a WGSS Major ~ Sarah Valdez, State University of New York at Albany Not Your Beauty (student art) ~ Madeleine Jenness, University of Washington Bothell xv JULIE SHAYNE Gender Studies Work at the University of Ghana ~ Akosua Darkwah, University of Ghana Parar para Avanzar: Feminist Activism in 2019 Latin American Mobilizations ~ Erika Márquez Montaño, Universidad Icesi Marginalized Cage (student art) ~ Estephanie Guzman, University of Washington Bothell Disrupting Systems of Oppression by Re-centering Indigenous Feminisms ~ Luhui Whitebear, Oregon State University No One is Disposable: Ecofeminism and Climate Crisis ~ Nicole Erin Morse and Daniella Orias, Florida Atlantic University Students answer: Why Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies? ~ Cait Selitrennikoff, University of California Berkeley and Talia Spencer Heyman, Smith College Women’s & Gender Studies at Community Colleges: Breakthroughs and Challenges ~ Shereen Siddiqui, Santiago Canyon College Hometown (student poetry) ~ Talia Heyman, Smith College The Power of Words: A Discussion of Chanel Miller’s Know My Name ~ Melinda Chen, University of Kansas Sins of the Skinny Body (student art) ~ Meranthy Meza, Santiago Canyon College Section four: Wrapping Things Up Conclusion: Damn Straight We Persisted ~ Julie Shayne and Nicole Carter, University of Washington Bothell Artist statement: Interior Intimacies Series ~ Kandace Creel Falcón, University of Kansas & University of Minnesota, alum xvi PERSISTENCE IS RESISTANCE A Lesbian Marriage (student art) ~ Kandace Creel Falcón Kitchen Top (student art) ~ Kandace Creel Falcón About the authors The authors, in pictures About our programs Praise ~ Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University and Doreen Mattingly, San Diego State University ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CCiitatatition:on:Shayne, Julie, ed. 2020. Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Libraries. [https://uw.pressbooks.pub/happy50thws] OriOriginal daginal date of pute pubblilicacatition:on:August 12, 2020 FForor questions about this project contact: Professor JJulieulie Shayne at [email protected] If viewing online ~ click here for pdf: If reading a hard copy ~ to access an online version, scan this QR code or visit https://uw.pressbooks.pub/ happy50thws xvii PART I WELCOME 1 Acknowledgements This book would not have come to be without a lot of peoples’ help and support. Thank you, Janelle Silva for planting the idea of a book into my head; I did not know I had another one in me but apparently you did. Thank you Denise Hattwig for sowing the Pressbooks seed in me and making me think I was capable of this project, long before I knew I was. Mary Schibig, thank you so much for troubleshooting my many technical issues as I got deeper and deeper into the book and all of the hands-on work, especially at the end. Larin McLaughlin, thank you for your enthusiasm about the project and ideas about how to promote it. Stephanie Evans, Barbara Sutton, and Erica Williams, thank you connecting me to many