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About the Authors Susan M. Shaw, Ph.D., is Director and Associate Professor of Women Studies at Oregon State University. She is co-author of Girls Rock! 50 Years of Women Making Music and Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings. The former director of Oregon State University's Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program, she has led curriculum workshops for faculty across the country. She is currently working on a book, funded by a grant from the Louisville Institute, entitled Competent Before God: Southern Baptist Women, Agency, and Autonomy.Janet Lockhart, M.A.I.S., graduated from Oregon State University with a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Scientific & Technical Communication, Archaeology, and Women Studies. Her thesis explored the concept of "immanence" (connectedness) in ancient and modern cultures. In addition to her work as a technical writer, she has taught writing at the community college level. Her publications include Writing for Change and The Life Skills Resource Guide, a handbook for the Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence in Corvallis, Oregon.
This curriculum is based on the groundbreaking dictionaries, The Color of Words: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Ethnic Bias in the United States and Wimmin, Wimps and Wallflowers: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Gender and Sexual Orientation Bias in the United States and would not have been possible without the cooperation of the volumes' author Philip Herbst and their publisher, the Intercultural Press. Philip Herbst is former college instructor with over twenty years of experience in college and trade publishing. Herbst holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Cornell University, has conducted research under the auspices of the National Institutes for Health and served as a visiting scholar in both the anthropology and Gender Studies departments at Northwestern University. His latest book explores the loaded language of political violence. Intercultural Press, a Nicholas Brealey Publishing Company, offers books and materials in the field of intercultural relations.
Project Managers: Ashley Day, Jennifer Holladay |
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