• Making women visible.

• Standpoint of women.

with your helpit could goon forever!

omethingexciting is

happening withWomen's Studiesat Simon Fraser

University...

Simon Fraser UniversityWomen's Studies Program.

Faculty

Margaret Benston, Ph.D. (Washington)Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Computing Science(Women, Science and Technology)

Meredith Kimball, Ph.D. (Michigan)Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Psychology(Women and Achievement, Women and Therapy, Female Roles,Older Women)

Kaja Silverman, Ph.D. (Brown)Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Fine Arts(Feminist Film, Film Theories)

Mary Lynn Stewart, Ph.D. (Columbia)Associate Professor of Women's Studies and History(Women in Canadian History)

Veronica Strong-Boag, Ph.D. (Toronto)Associate Professor of Women's Studies and History(Women in Canadian History)

Susan Wendell Ph.D. (U.B.C.)Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Philosophy(Feminist Theory, Pornography)

Associated Faculty

Barbara tllakely, D.Min. (Chicago Theological Seminary)Chaplain at SFU, Adjunct Professor(Women and Religion)

Anita Fellman Ph.D. (Northwestern)Adjunct Professor(Women in North America, Housework,Women in the Professions)

Andrea Lebowitz M.A. (Wisconsin)Lecturer in English(Feminist Literary Criticism)

Arlene McLaren, Ph.D. (L.S.E.)Assistant Professor of Sociology(Women, Family, and Education)

Barbara Todd, Ph. D. (Oxford)Adjunct Professor(Women in Canada and Britain)

Eleanor Wachtel, B.A. (McGill)Journalist, Adjunct Professor(Women and the Media)

Veronica Strong-BoagMapping Women's Studies in Canada

• Women as subject.

• Taking women seriously.

• Documenting women's existence.

• Creating solutions.

We can enrich our personal lives, our communitiesand the world by investing in the long-termexploration of women's lives and in the search forsolutions to the inequities that exist for women.Women's Studies serves us personally, locally,nationally and globally by offering a framework andcontext for this exploration.

You can help the Women's Studies program atSimon Fraser University maintain a permanentfaculty chair.

Contribute to the SFU Women's StudiesEndowment Fund Campaign.

• Transforming knowledge.

T he 1970's saw the emergence offeministscholarship on an unparalleled scale in

Canada... The next decade will test just howfar feminists have been able to convince theircontemporaries of the merits of women's cause.The future of women's studies and academicfeminism in general will depend on thatsupport.

Women's Studies:

mth the added strength of a permanent chairin Women's Studies, Simon Fraser Universitywill make significant new contributions to theunderstanding of issues facing women today.Now, more than ever before, the Women'sStudies program will have the resources toserve its community throughout B.C. and theYukon.

One of the central aims of SFU's Women's Studiesprogram is to assert and document women'scontributions in all areas of human endeavour,including the private world of home, family andcommunity and the public world of politics,professions and power. The broadly interdisciplinaryprogram is corrective and supplemental to thetraditional disdplines as presently taught.

The Women's Studies program at Simon FraserUniversity was developed in the early 1970's. Creditcourses were offered for the first time in 1976and by 1984 students could take a minor in Women'sStudies at the undergraduate level and a Master ofArts in Women's Studies at the graduate level. Sixtenured faculty rqembers teach in the program, eachhaving a half-time appoinqnent in Women's Studiesand a half-time appointment in another academicdepartment. A number of women from the communitywith special expertise also teach in the programfrom time to time.

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Contribute to the SFU Women's StudiesEndowment Fund Campaign

Your tax deductible donation, made pavable toSimon Fraser University, may be sent to 'theDevelopment Office, Simon Fraser LTniversin',Burnaby, B.C., V,A IS6. .

For further information please call jov Leach. Directorof Development, SFU. (60-1) 291--t",81.Thank-you.

CommunityThe SFU Women's Studies program will be morevisible and responsive to the educational and researchneeds of women throughout B.C. and the Yukon.

ResearchSignificant long-term research on women's issueswill be developed.

WomenThe value of women's studies will gain morerecognition in and out of the university setting.

You can invest in the development ofknowledge ofwomen.

You can invest in women

The Women's StudiesChair will benefit:

The time to investin Women is NOW

The rate at which Women's Studies have createdknowledge and transformed methodology in history,politics, sociology, psychology, anthropology,philosophy, literature, the arts and natural sciencescontinues to increase exponentially. This growthis part of the movement toward full and equalmembership for women in all societies.

The Canadian government, as part of itsinvestment in the internatjonal attempt toprovide educational opportunities for women,has given seed money to several Canadianuniversities for each to begin an endowmentto maintain full-time senior faculty positions(faculty chairs) in Women's Studies. The Women'sStudies program at Simon Fraser University hasreceived $ 500,000 with which to begin sucha fund. An additional $ 500,000 is needed toensure that interest income rather than capitalexpenditure will cover the cost of maintainingsuch a position. SFU is committing its resourcesto raising the full amount necessary topermanently endow this full-time faculty chairin Women's Studies.

The work of Women's Studies faculty and studentsradiates out to the community informing interestedcitizens, activists and policy-makers of innovativewomen-oriented perspectives and presenting newknowledge about women. In addition to providinga fuller picture of society as a whole, these studiesindicate ways of improving the status of womenlocally, nationally and internationally.

W omen's studies addresses women's livesand experience in their own terms, creates

theory grounded in the actual experience andlanguage of women.

Barbara Du BoisPassionate ScholarshijJ: Notes on Values,Knou'ing and Method in Feminist SocialScience

Dorothy E. SmithAn Analysis of Ideological Structuresand hOll' Women are Excluded:Considerations for \Vol17en's Studies

Women's Studies challenges practitioners to thinkbeyond traditional role stereotypes, traditionaldisciplines and established institutions. Currenttheoretical frameworks are examined and documentedfor the ways in which they are inadequate for thestudy of women. Where necessary, new frames ofreference are presented to provide a more accurateunderstanding and interpretation of women's livesand experience.

lV7 omen's studies... must dare to reinvent theW world of knowledge, of thought, ofsymbols

and images; not, of course, by repudiating~verything that has been done, but by subjecting11 to exact scrutiny from the position of womenas subject.

Inequalities between men and women in incomeeducation, political power and occupational 'opportunity have been clearly documented in modernwestern society. These inequities have also occurredin other societies and in other periods of history.In order to rectify this discrimination, Women'sStudies programs use systematic and academicallyrigorous methods to investigate, understand anddescribe the experience and achievements of womenin past and present societies.

C reating a framework in which women'swork is ignored, dismissed or seen as

irrelevant is part of our training. Changingthat training means changing our view ofthe world and ojwomen in the world, of women'swork and lives ... it means creating a perspectivefrom which women speak...

Hdga E. JacobsonWomen in COJnlJ1ul1it)1 Studies andReseareh: The p,.actic~ of E."\"clusioJl

Women's Studies are Necessary!