Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 1977
Abstract
A personal statement written for tbe program at tbe University of Minnesota and presented at a brown bag lunch.
Women's studies is in its seventh year nationally, its fifth year here, at least under that title. It is appropriate to take stock now and ask why women's studies? What is it about? Where is it going?
Women's studies was born out of the women's movement, is still a child of the women's movement—the academic branch of that family. The women's movement is in what I would now call its fourth phase; women's studies is in a parallel second stage.