On Our Minds, April 1978

lJk 0 <a- Y~ M\r\c[ у Baltimore, Maryland Volume 4, No. 4 Anri l, 1978 ON CAM I '110 ADRIENNE RICH ON CAMPUS, APRIL 19 A reading by Adrienne Rich is scheduled for April 19, 300 p.m., in Smith Hall, room 326. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 1 97^4 , Ms, Rich is a noted feminist author of nine volumes of poetry and of the prose work, Of Woman Born: Motherhood aa experience and Institution. Her most recent volume. The Dream of a Common Language, has just been published. Ms. Rich's visit to Towson is co-sponsored by the Women's Center, the Women's Studies Program and the English Department. Admission is free. FEMINIST ARTIST TO VISIT CAMPUS Miriam Schapi ro is a feminist artist who has worked extensively with Judy Chicago, another feminist painter. Both women have been instrumental in introducing the idea of female imagery into the art community and in developing a new environment for women artists. Ms. Schapi ro, in addition to her own painting and many years of exhibiting her work, has pioneered programs, classes, awareness, arid accent ince of other women artists. She will be at Towson State College on May 3« FEMINISM: IDEOLOGY FOR CHANGE "beminism: Ideology for Change" will be offered by the Women's Studies Program for the first time in the fall semester (1978) on Tuesday evenings (7:00-9:В0) . This course will examine women's politic.! ideas about themselves and the different ways in which women have tried to apply these ideas through collective activism in such movements as women's rights, suffragism social reform, settlement house and women's liberation. Major British and American thinkers will be read, among them John Stuart Mill, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Virginia Woolf and Betty Friedan; as well as analyze how and why women's movements originate, how they were/are structured and how successful they wehe/are. The course will emphasize how women perceive their own status, experience, potential and achievement and how women have attempted to ch nge their lives through individual arid collective notion. The course will be taught by Judy Markowitz.