SIROW Online PDF Reports, Papers & Articles

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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT/RESEARCH GUIDES/FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

Agencies of Change: Faculty Leadership in Initiating and Sustaining Diversity at the University of Arizona. Report Submitted as part of the Re-affirming Action: Designs for Diversity in Higher Education grant funded by the Ford Foundation. June, 2005. Full Report pdf (294 kb)

*OP10: Minority American Women: A Research Guide. Ruth Dickstein and Maria Segura Hoopes, University of Arizona. 1991. $6.00.
An annotated guide to diverse sources of information on minority women, emphasizing Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and urban African Americans.

*OP11: Ideas and Resources: A Collection of Syllabi from the Project "Teaching Women's Studies from an International Perspective". 1991. $10.00.
This collection includes syllabi and commentaries by instructors on aspects of integrating international material into their courses.

*OP12: Newsnotes. 1984-1990. $7.50.
A set of 13 newsletters from two faculty development projects dealing with teaching about women internationally. Includes book notices, information on journal articles, films, and other resources.

*OP15: Guide to Women's Studies Electronic/On-Line Resources in the SIROW Region. 1995. $5.00.
This directory reports the strengths of Women's Studies holdings and on-line resources at the libraries of 23 southwestern colleges and universities and identifies a contact person at each library.

Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies. Mary M. Lay, Janice Monk, and Deborah S. Rosenfelt, eds. The Feminist Press, 2002.
Essays, annotated syllabi, learning activities and resources created in a multi-university faculty and curriculum development project.

WOMEN & SCIENCE

*OM1: TechnoSuccess: Careers for the 21st Century. Video and handbook. Video-handbook set ($13.00); Video only ($10.00); Handbook only ($5.00 - single copy, $4.00 for 2-25 copies; $2.50 for more than 25 copies).
This lively 15 minute video features high school girls expressing their career aspirations intercut with women scientists talking about their careers and lives. The video is supported by a handbook on career development in the fields of agriculture, physical, environmental and life sciences, math, engineering, and health-related fields

*OP16: Resources in Gender and Science: A Bibliography. Compiled by Laura Briggs and Banu Subramaniam. 1997. $5.00.
This bibliography has been developed in response to ongoing projects at the Women in Science and Engineering Program, University of Arizona, that seek to create an interdisciplinary dialogue between scientists, social scientists, engineers, and humanists. The bibliography is an introductory survey of the literature on feminist studies on gender and science and the multi-disciplinary field of the social studies of science. It aims to support conversations across these areas. While not attempting to be exhaustive, it presents a range of approaches to the study of science.

WORK/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

*WP31 Implications of Class Stratifications for Cooperative Promotion Among Rural Women in Central Mexico. Claudia B. Isaac, University of New Mexico. 1993. $4.00. This paper investigates the ways cooperative development projects directed toward rural women can reinforce gendered class stratification among peasant, poletarian, housewife and capitalist group

*WP33 Minority and Women Owned Businesses: Recent Trends in Arizona. Marisa Paula Walker, University of Wyoming. 1994 $4.00.
This paper reviews an assortment of secondary sources as well as responses solicited through telephone interviews with minority and women business owners from Southern Arizona. Some of the issues highlighted center around financing and procurement opportunities and the acquisition of marketing and technical skills.

*OM2: The 21st Century Workforce: Opportunity and Promise for Women. Edited by Barbara Becker and Janice Monk. 1996. $12.95.
This book, which was written for the 1996 Arizona Women's Town Hall, deals with employment opportunities for women in fields that are predicted to expand in the next century: foreign trade, high technology, travel and tourism, the health care industry, and retailing. It assesses prospects in these fields, issues of workplace conditions and cultures and pay equity issues, and the prospects for women as entrepreneurs. One section focuses on education and career preparation, and the final chapter considers how to make communities more user-friendly for women. The report emphasizes, but is not limited to, the situation in Arizona.

*WP36: Mujeres en la Linea: Engendering Migration, Agency and Urban Space on Mexico's Northern Border. Heather Craige, Fall 2005.

AGING

*WP25: The Efficacy of Support Groups For Mexican American Widows. Maria Eugenia Fernandez Esquer, Jill Guernsey de Zapien, Margarita Kay, Sandra Gonzalez Marshall, Merle Mishel, Carmen J. Portillo, Carmen Altamirano Wilson, Marianne E. Yoder, University of Arizona. 1990. $6.00.
A set of 8 papers focusing on cross-cultural analysis of the problems of widowhood and aging. Explores the experiences of about 150 women in Tucson, Arizona.

*WP26: Breast Cancer Screening Among Older Hispanic and Anglo Women in the Southwest: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices. Michelle A. Saint-Germain, University of Arizona. 1991. $3.00.
Presents results of a survey that was conducted with Hispanic and Anglo women in Tucson, Arizona, to access their knowledge of breast cancer and cancer screening tests, their attitudes toward breast cancer and cancer screening, and their use of screening tests.

*OP13: The Self-Identified Woman (Spinster, Old Maid, Single, Nevermarried): A Selected Bibliography. Lorie Barker, University of Arizona. 1992. $6.00.
An annotated guide including references from the fields of history, literature, sociology, and psychology as well as from popular press.

HEALTH

*WP26: Breast Cancer Screening Among Older Hispanic and Anglo Women in the Southwest: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices. Michelle A. Saint-Germain, University of Arizona. 1991. $3.00.
Presents results of a survey that was conducted with Hispanic and Anglo women in Tucson, Arizona, to access their knowledge of breast cancer and cancer screening tests, their attitudes toward breast cancer and cancer screening, and their use of screening tests.

Women and Substance Abuse: Gender Transparency. Sally J. Stevens and Harry K. Wexler, eds. Haworth Press, 1998.
Co-published simultaneously as Drugs and Society 13(1/2) 1998, this volume includes essays evaluation alternative approaches to addressing substance abuse and rehabilitation among women.

Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Exemplary Models from a National Evaluation.. Haworth Press, 2003.
Sally J. Stevens and Andrew R. Morral, eds. A collection of essays based on evaluation of diverse approaches to treating adolescents dealing with substance abuse.

GEOGRAPHY

*WP27: Gender and Space in American Public Libraries, 1880-1920. Abigail A. Van Slyck, University of Arizona. 1992. $4.00.
In examining the relationship between the feminizations of librarianship and public library design, this paper argues that new ideas of efficiency imposed physical limitations on the female librarian, undermining her professional status.

*WP28 Naming a Price, Finding a Space: The Marketplace for Western Women's Art. Joan M. Jensen, New Mexico State University. 1992. $4.00.
Discusses how American Indian basketmakers and selected Anglo women writers negotiated sales of their work in the early 20th century. It also identifies relationships between national artistic trends and the market for the women's works.

Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality. Susan Hardy Aiken, Ann Brigham, Sallie A. Marston and Penny Waterstone, eds. University of Arizona Press, 1998.
This interdisciplinary collection brings together feminist activists, artists, and scholars to address questions about gender and spatiality in the interwoven material and symbolic environments we create.

The Desert is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art.. Vera Norwood and Janice Monk, eds. Yale University Press, 1987; University of Arizona Press, 1997.
A collection of essays revealing how southwestern landscapes have liberated women's creativity and shaped their art and demonstrating the differences and commonalities among the responses of Hispanic, American Indian, and Anglo writers and artists to the Southwest's landscapes during the period 1889 to 1980. Order Book

ORAL NARRATIVES/HERSTORY/BIOGRAPHIES

*WP32 Oral Narratives as Chicana (His)tory Text. Emma A. Pérez, University of Texas at El Paso. 1994. $4.00.
This paper examines methodological issues around the themes of subjectivity and identity within Chicana history. It draws on oral narratives to present a picture of Mexican American women's lives in Houston.

*OP9: Women on the Frontier Southwest (Mostly). Richard G. King, Jr., University of Arizona. 1991. $3.50.
This guide lists bibliographies, articles with bibliographies, and books and articles of interest for the study of women on the southwest frontier. It focuses on the work of new western historians and on literature that includes women and people of color engaged in social enterprise in the West.

Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives. Lillian Schlissel, Vicki L. Ruiz, and Janice Monk, eds. University of New Mexico Press, 1990.
This work is a multi-cultural examination of the experience of American Indian, Chicana, Anglo, and Mormon women in the history of the American West. It includes ten essays on such themes as domestic ideology, family, legal rights, and interpreting women's history for the public. The essays are followed by commentaries that highlight comparative analysis of the diverse cultural groups

ART, POETRY, CREATIVE WRITING

The Desert is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art.. Vera Norwood and Janice Monk, eds. Yale University Press, 1987; University of Arizona Press, 1997.
A collection of essays revealing how southwestern landscapes have liberated women's creativity and shaped their art and demonstrating the differences and commonalities among the responses of Hispanic, American Indian, and Anglo writers and artists to the Southwest's landscapes during the period 1889 to 1980. Order Book

The Desert is No Lady. Shelley Williams, Producer and Director. Women Make Movies/Arts Council of England, 1995. This video features nine contemporary southwestern women writers and artists (American Indian, Hispanic/Chicana, and Anglo) discussing the ways in which their creative works and senses of identity connect with the region's landscapes.

A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories: Nancy Mairs. Beacon Press, 2002.
Personal essays examining death's many facets among them parents, children, beloved pets, euthanasia, and relationships with a prisoner on death row.

Sowing the Seeds, una cosecha de recuerdos/Sembrando las Semillas, a harvest of memories. Rosi Andrade and Elena Diaz Bjorkquist, eds. Writer's Club Press, 2002.
An anthology of stories, poems, and artwork by women writers, mostly Mexican American, in Tucson. The contributors draw on memories of mothers, families, friends, and childhood.