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Florence Howe

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FLORENCE HOWE became closely involved with the women's movement after her active participation in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. She functioned as historian and record-keeper of the women's studies movement during the 1970s and 1980s, in addition to serving as professor of English at Goucher College and the College at Old Westbury/SUNY. As director and publisher of The Feminist Press at CUNY, and through her teaching, writing, lecturing, and consulting on several hundred campuses in the United States, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, she has become a major contributor to change in higher education. She is author of Myths of Coeducation. MARI JO BUHLE is chair of the history department at Brown University and a past recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award. She is the author of Feminism and Its Discontents and Women and American Socialism and co-editor of The Encyclopedia of the American Left and Out of Many: A History of the American People.

Florence Howe Books

Fields Watered with Blood book cover

Fields Watered with Blood

Maryemma Graham
A Life in Motion book cover

A Life in Motion

Florence Howe
Base Ten book cover

Base Ten

Maryann Lesert
The Politics of Women's Studies book cover

The Politics of Women's Studies

Florence Howe
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