WOMEN IN WORLD AREA STUDIES:
An Inventory of Its Organizational Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
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OVERVIEW
Creator: | Women in World Area Studies Project. | |
Title: | Women in World Area Studies organizational records. | |
Dates: | 1974-1987. | |
Language: | Materials in English. | |
Abstract: | Records, curriculum material, and publications of a project dedicated to the creation, promotion, and integration of women's history curriculum into regular high school classes in the St. Louis Park and Robbinsdale, Minnesota school districts that were eventually distributed across the United States as well as internationally. | |
Quantity: | 2.5 cubic feet (2 boxes and 1 partial box) and 3 master video files: MOV (26.7 GB). | |
Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
HISTORICAL NOTE
The Women in World Area Studies (WWAS) program was developed to integrate women’s history into regular world area studies high school curriculum, focusing on the Robbinsdale and St. Louis Park school districts. Towards this purpose, WWAS developed lessons and curricula on the history of women in world cultures. Marjorie Wall Bingham and Susan Hill Gross were directors and in charge of research, writing, and pilot teaching for WWAS. They discovered a significant amount of unexamined material on the history of women in world cultures. This discovery, combined with the successful pilot teaching of the initial curriculum units, helped the WWAS project secure significant additional foundation funding.
The program grew from a three year project originally funded by a grant from the Title IV-C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) to a ten year program. It produced thirteen books (a series called Women in World area cultures), teachers guides, lesson plans, bibliographies, sound filmstrips, and videos on women in eight cultural areas commonly taught in Minnesota high school world history courses. Funders for the additional years of WWAS (1984-1987) included the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Northwest Area Foundation, the Japan Foundation, and the ISE Cultural Foundation of Tokyo.
Over 100,000 books from the WWAS series were purchased by school districts representing every state in the United States and by many schools in other countries. For example, the book on the history of women in Japan was purchased by a number of Japanese high schools.
WWAS ended in 1987.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Records (1974-1987) include correspondence, grants, pilot teaching files, project files, workshops and presentation files, talks by Susan Gross and Marjorie Bingham, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings.
Curriculum material (1977-1987) includes study guides, selected bibliographies, and the 13 books of the Women In World Cultures series by Marjorie Wall Bingham and Susan Hill Gross. Also included are 3 video recordings to go with this series.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Use and Reproduction:
Authors retain copyright in all published materials. For further information concerning copyright status and/or permission to publish, please consult the reference staff.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Women in World Area Studies Organizational Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: 15,712; 15,841; 16,381.
Location of Master Files:
Digital masters of the video material are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
The original videocassettes were disposed after the material was digitally reformatted into MOV files.
Processing Information:
Processed by: Alex Kent, August 2009.
Digital video transferred from the master videocassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes, (June, 2019).
Catalog ID number: 006935629
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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143.F.3.2F | 1 | Newsletter, 1977-1981. |
Correspondence: | |||||||||||
Correspondence and miscellany, 1977-1987. | |||||||||||
General, 1977-1981. | |||||||||||
State Department: Anderson, Gayle, 1978-1981. | |||||||||||
State Department: Morehouse, Diane, 1978-1980. | |||||||||||
Robbinsdale School District 281, 1977-1981. | |||||||||||
Political, 1981-1984. | |||||||||||
Boston University: Regarding Women in Africa project, 1981-1982. |
Grants: | |||||||||||
Filed in chronological order. | |||||||||||
Title IV, ESEA, 1976-1977. | |||||||||||
Title IV C proposal: Women in World Area Studies, 1977-1980. | |||||||||||
Title IV, 1977-1978. | |||||||||||
Grants, 1978-1979. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
World Religions grant, 1979. | |||||||||||
Grants, 1979-1980. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
Block, 1981. | |||||||||||
DID (State), 1981. | |||||||||||
Grants drafted by Susan Gross and Marjorie Bingham to the Minnesota Department of Education. The acronym "DID" is unexplained. | |||||||||||
Title IV: $8000 grant, 1981-1982. | |||||||||||
Grants: Correspondence with Northwest Area Foundation, 1981-1984. 3 folders. | |||||||||||
Japan Foundation grant proposal, 1982. | |||||||||||
Letters of support: Japan, 1982. | |||||||||||
WEEA grant: Women in Japan, April 22, 1982. | |||||||||||
[Status] Reports for Northwest Area Foundation on Women in Japan project, 1982-1986. | |||||||||||
Japan consultants, 1983-1987. | |||||||||||
Toward Achieving Historical Symmetry in Social Studies curriculum grant, 1984. |
Pilot teaching: Instructions and observations, 1978-1980. 2 folders. |
Project files: | |||||||||||
Arranged in chronological order. | |||||||||||
Needs assessment, undated. | |||||||||||
Eliminating sex bias in education project, 1974-1978. | |||||||||||
Women in World Area Studies original proposal, circa 1976. | |||||||||||
Joint Development Review Panel (JDRP) document, 1975. | |||||||||||
Proposals and letters of need, 1976. | |||||||||||
Final year end report, 1978. | |||||||||||
Integrating cultural diversity into non-sex-biased curriculum: Project correspondence and background, 1978-1981. | |||||||||||
National Diffusion Network: Proposal and letters of support, 1980. | |||||||||||
Women in World Area Studies: Developer/demonstrator project proposal, November 26, 1980. | |||||||||||
Women in Japanese history and culture curriculum: Development project budget, 1983. | |||||||||||
Women's Educational Equity Act proposal: Toward achieving historical symmetry..., 1984. |
Talks: Susan Gross and/or Marjorie Bingham, circa 1977-circa 1981. |
Materials for various workshops, 1970's-1980's. |
Workshops and presentations, circa 1980-1981, 1985, 1987. 3 folders. |
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143.F.3.3B | 2 | Publicity: | |||||||||
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, etc., circa 1977-circa 1981. | |||||||||||
Clippings and miscellany, circa 1977-circa 1981. | |||||||||||
Loose items from scrapbook. Includes certificate of achievement awarded to Susan Gross from the Department of Education. |
Curriculum material: | |||||||||||
Women in world cultures: | |||||||||||
A series of 12 titles with accompanying, study guides, and filmstrips by Marjorie Wall Bingham and Susan Hill Gross. | |||||||||||
Women in India, 1980. | |||||||||||
Women in the U.S.S.R, 1980. | |||||||||||
Women in Islam, 1980. | |||||||||||
Women in Israel, 1980. | |||||||||||
Women in traditional China, 1980. | |||||||||||
Women in modern China, 1980. | |||||||||||
Women in Africa of the sub-Sahara. Volume I, 1982. | |||||||||||
Women in Africa of the sub-Sahara. Volume II, 1982. | |||||||||||
Women in ancient Greece and Rome, 1983. | |||||||||||
Women in Medieval/Renaissance Europe, 1983. | |||||||||||
Women in Latin America: from Pre-Columbian times to the 20th century, 1985. | |||||||||||
Women in Latin America: the 20th century, 1985. | |||||||||||
Women in Japan, 1987. | |||||||||||
Teacher's guides and unit tests for Women in World Cultures books, 1982-1987. | |||||||||||
Women in world cultures curriculum unit materials: | |||||||||||
These consist of a teachers guide, a supplementary reading list, and a selected bibliography. | |||||||||||
Women in India, 1977. | |||||||||||
Women in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1978. | |||||||||||
Women in China, 1979. | |||||||||||
Women in the Middle East, 1979. | |||||||||||
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143.F.2.4F | 3 | Women in European history and culture: ancient Greece and Rome, 1980. | |||||||||
Toward achieving historical symmetry: A manual for teaching women's history and culture in a global setting, 1983. | |||||||||||
Filmstrip guides for Women in World Cultures, undated and 1983-1986. 4 folders. | |||||||||||
Women in World Cultures video recordings: | |||||||||||
Women in Ancient Greece and Rome, [1983]. 1 master video file (22 minutes, 15 seconds): MOV (5.1 GB) and 1 user video disc (DVD): 4 3/4 inches. | |||||||||||
Women in Latin America, 1984. 1 master video file (46 minutes, 58 seconds): MOV (10.7 GB) and 1 user video disc (DVD): 4 3/4 inches. | |||||||||||
Women in Japan, 1986. 1 master video file (48 minutes, 22 seconds): MOV (11 GB) and 1 user video disc (DVD): 4 3/4 inches. | |||||||||||
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143.F.2.4F | 3 | Selected bibliographies: | |||||||||
Women in Africa of the sub-Sahara, 1982. | |||||||||||
Women in Latin America, 1984. | |||||||||||
Women in Japan, 1986. |
RELATED MATERIALS
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Curriculum planning -- Minnesota.
- Women -- History.
- Teachers -- Minnesota.
- Persons:
- Bingham, Marjorie Wall, 1936-
- Gross, Susan Hill, 1934-
- Organizations:
- Robbinsdale Area Schools (Minn.)
- St. Louis Park High School (Saint Louis Park, Minn.)
- Document Types:
- Video recordings (physical artifacts).
- Titles:
- Women in world cultures.