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While noting increased diversity in the student body in women's colleges, the author addresses the stubbornly homogeneous composition of faculty and administrative positions. Also examines several diversity initiatives in specific women's colleges. …

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Part One: Framing the Issues - An Introduction
Why a Report on Girls?
The Absence of Girls in the Current Debate on Education
The Development of Gender Roles - An Overview

Part Two: Girls in…

A study of major findings on girls and education, asserting that there persists a consistent bias against girls in the classroom and in testing. Discusses girls' achievement in math and science, and the reasons behind girls' dropping out. Also…

Report of a conference on minority women scientists.

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Acknowledgments
Preface
Foreword

Minority Women in Science
The double bind: the price of being a minority woman scientist
The conferees
Conference organization

The…

Includes case studies of poverty in the United States, and analyzes those situations in the context of wider, global poverty. Historical background of Reaganomics and its social effects. "The thesis of this case study is that the economic…

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Family Planning, Abortion and Welfare Reform
Women and Poverty
Poor and Low-Income Women: A Diverse Group
Efforts to Avoid an Unplanned Pregnancy
Making the Decision to Have an Abortion
Economic Realities of Obtaining an…

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South Africa: the Racists Will Leave
The Unbroken Circle: Black Single Mothers
Jim Crow's New Tricks: Affirmative Action for Whites in U.S. Public Education
The Barbarian's Neutron Bomb

Editorial
Crazy Ron and the Carnegie…

Historical discussion of forms of resistance among enslaved African women in the Caribbean.

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Introduction
The African mother
Equal under the whip
Unwilling to work
The tongues of women
Plotting and conspiring
Runaways…

Declaration of pro-choice position by 16 prominent black American women (and one man), each affiliated with a major national organization of some kind. Also includes a definition of "reproductive freedom."
Signed by: Byllye Avery, Rev. Willie…

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4. Desiring Images/Imaging Desire
by Mary Kelly

10. At the Threshold: Feminists and Modernity
by Alice Jardine

18. Untitled
by Jane Warrick

20. The Desublimation of Romance
by Connie Hatch

24. Some of the Things at Stake…