Bibliography

This annotated bibliography contains materials directly relevant to Women's Studies at community colleges. Published writing about Women's Studies at community colleges can be hard to find; so with this in mind, I am posting a bibliography of the sources I've come across in my research.

Enjoy! And please contact me to add more.

Bass, Elisabeth. A Narrative Analysis of a Transformative Pedagogy's Impact on Academic Literacy. Doctoral Dissertation,
Temple U. Press: 1998.
*Ms. Bass' doctoral dissertation has a good discussion of fields like Women's studies and ethnic studies, and how they challenge traditional ways of learning especially in community colleges and special education situations.

Clark, Elizabeth J. and Hogan, Katie. Doing Women's Studies on the Sly at LaGuardia Community College WSQ Fall 2002,
Vol 3 & 4: 82-89.
*Discusses the author's work in bringing Women's Studies pedagogy and curriculum to a community college without an official Women's studies presence.

Fiol-Matta, Liza. Editorial: The Community College in the United States: A Profile of Innovation and Change WSQ 1996
Vol 3 & 4: 3-15.
*Published in an edition of WSQ with several other pieces looking at Women's studies and community colleges. Gives a helpful overview of the educational opportunities at community colleges, especially in terms of their diversity of students and diversity of programs offered.

Fisher, Jerilyn. Women's Studies Without a Women's Studies Program: The Case of Hostos Community College WSQ Fall 2002 Vol 3 & 4: 99-108.
*A local case-study approach that tells of the work in establishing Women's studies pedagogy and curriculum without an official department sanctioned by the college.

Groves, Susan. A High School Women's Studies Seminar: Three Teaching Units WSQ 2000 Vol 3 & 4: 293-209.
*Obviously, this one is not about community colleges. But I included it because it covers establishing Women's studies at a high school in Berkeley, which adds to the discussion of doing Women's studies in places other than four-year colleges and universities and expands the idea of where the field can succeed.

Leder, Sharon; Plotnik, Meta; and Venkateswaran, Pramila. Changing Concepts of Activism in Women's Studies: Women's Studies
in a Community College. WSQ 1999 Vol 3 & 4: 185-201.
*The authors discuss how Women's studies at their community college is grounded in ideas of the personal as political, and how they emphasize connections between the students' own situations and life within the capitalist US at large.

Miele, Carol. Building Community by Embracing Diversity Community College Journal of Research and Practice 2004 Vol 28:
133-140.
*Argues that the site of community colleges (with their incredibly diverse student populations) are ideal for challenging post-9/11 attitudes about difference and racism/sexism towards cultural "others".

Osei-Kofi, Nana; Simon, Leslie; Wilson, Rachael. "Locating Women's Studies Programs in Community Colleges: Resisting Misconceptions, Empowering our Students." Panel at NWSA Annual Conference, Oakland, CA, 17 June 2006.
*This is the panel that I refer to in my paper that accompanies this site. This was the only panel on Women's Studies at community colleges from the whole conference, and it inspired me to look more closely at the topic. I only have my notes and my memories, for a recording you might contact NWSA and see if they have one.

Parry, Shirley C. Feminist Pedagogy and Techniques for the Changing Classroom WSQ 1996 Vol 3 & 4: 45-54.
*This essay looks at how feminist pedagogy styles and feminist topics empower community college students to become more involved in their education, and also looks at how technology (computers in particular) are changing the community college classroom dynamic.

Pikul, Corrie. Two-Year Colleges Tough Turf for Women's Studies Women's E-News, accessed on 20 October 2006.
*You can find this site at www.womensenews.org. The piece gives an overview of the discussion (or more accurately, the lack of discussion) about Women's studies at community colleges.

Rubaii, Sandra. Women's Studies at the Community College College English Jan 1976 Vol 37 Iss 5: 510-517.
*Although dated, this essay discusses the making of Women's studies classes with an English focus, helpful in terms of its discussion of creating a program without official support, something that continues in one form or another to this day.

Salley, Karen L.; Winkler, Barbara Scott; Celeen, Megan; and Meck, Heidi. Women's Studies in the Western United States NWSA
Journal Summer 2004 Vol 16 Iss 2: 180-189.
*This paper is a summary based on a questionnaire sent out in 2002, meant to gauge the institutionalization of Women's Studies by figuring out how many programs/departments were in existence. The original questionnaire does list some community colleges, and gestures toward them in the final report as well.

Snyder, Ann Virtu. Location, Location, Location: Reflections of an Itinerant Practitioner NWSA Journal Summer 2005 Vol 17
Iss 2: 142-149.
*Written by a part-time Women's studies instructor who teaches at 2 and 4 year colleges, the piece is full of suggestions for bringing together Women's studies at all locations while it also points out the scarcity of full-time jobs in Women's studies (especially at the community college level) and some of the hardships associated with that kind of teaching life.

Sohmer Tai, Emily. Women's Work: Integrating Women's Studies into a Community College Curriculum NWSA Journal Summer
2005 Vol 17 Iss 2: 184-191.
*This essay makes the case that Women's Studies should not be a stand-alone department or program at community colleges. Instead, the author argues that studying women is best done in the context of other, more established disciplines like history. This essay was actually an impetus for the NWSA panel on Women's studies and community colleges listed above, and it was great & very informative to hear it responded to by the panelists.