Women's Work
A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women
Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies
Esther Rothblum, PhD and Ellen Cole, PhD Senior Co-Editors
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Women's Work: A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women edited by Donna Musialowski Ashcraft
Womens Work
A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women
Donna Musialowski Ashcraft, PhD Editor
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Women's work: a survey of scholarship by and about women / Donna Musialowski Ashcraft,
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p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7890-0233-7 (alk. paper).
1. Women. 2. Feminist theory. 3. Women's studies. I. Ashcraft, Donna Musialowski.
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Dedicated to: Paul, Sam, Morgan, and Ryan with much love
Contents
Donna M. Ashcraft |
Maureen C. McHugh |
Lisa Cos grove |
Darlene Richardson |
Donna M. Ashcraft |
Martha Ritter |
Donna M. Ashcraft |
Patricia J. Ould |
Esther Skirboll |
Derek Shanahan |
Karen Stewart |
Sylvia Stalker |
Myrna Foster-Kuehn |
Jean P. Rumsey |
Evonne Jonas Kruger |
Kathryn Graham |
April Katz |
Donna Musialowski Ashcraft, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at Clarion University in Clarion, Pennsylvania. Dr. Ashcraft's scholarly work has been printed in numerous books and journals, including Pornography: Recent Research; Interpretations, and Policy Considerations; Journal of College Student Development; and Representative Research in Social Psychology. A prolific presenter at collegiate workshops and conventions, she is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association, the American Association of College Women, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. From 1989 to 1991, Dr. Ashcraft served as a member and secretary of the Board of Directors of Stop Abuse for Everyone (an organization especially for battered women), and in 1991 Clarion University awarded her the Clarion University Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Award.
Lisa Cosgrove, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Natick, Massachusetts, and a lecturer in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts.
Myrna Foster-Kuehn, PhD , is the Chair of, and a Professor in, the Department of Speech Communication and Theater at Clarion University of Pennsylvania in Clarion, Pennsylvania.
Kathryn Graham, PhD , is a Professor in the Department of English at Clarion University of Pennsylvania in Clarion, Pennsylvania, She is also the Chair of the Women's Studies Advisory Committee at Clarion University.
April Katz, MFA , is an Associate Professor in, and past Chair of, the Art Department at Clarion University of Pennsylvania in Clarion, Pennsylvania.
Evonne Jonas Kruger, PhD , is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in Pomona, New Jersey.
Maureen C. McHugh, PhD, is the past Director of Women's Studies, and a Professor in, the Department of Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Patricia J. Ould, PhD, is the Coordinator of the Honors Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts.
Darlene Richardson, PhD, is the Director of Liberal Studies and a Professor in the Geosciences Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pennsylvania.