SCWIST. Imagine the Possibilities: A Workshop Program for 9-12 year old girls.
     Step-by-step instruction on how to deliver a Girls in Science program, including teaching units and a teacher's guide. Available for $15.00 from SCWIST, Box 2184, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 3V7.

Shaw, Evelyn & Joan Darling. Female Strategies. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., (1985) $10.95.

"... two biologists explore the astonishingly diverse courtship, mating, and nurturing behaviour within many species of the animal kingdom to show that there are as many ways to be "female" as there are animals."

Spender, Dale. Invisible Women: The Schooling Scandal. London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Ltd. (1982) $8.95.

This book is a must for teachers. Read about The Old, Old Problem; The Knowledge of Males; In the Classroom; The World According to Men; Women's View.

Spender, Dale, ed. Men's Studies Modified: The Impact of Feminism on the Academic Disciplines. The Athene Series, New York: Pergamon Press, (1981). $23.50.

"Fundamental to feminism is the premise that women have been 'left out' of codified knowledge, so that the world has been explained in terms of men but not women. Essays on the following academic disciplines explore not only how this happened but why: language, literary criticism, philosophy, history, sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, economics, media studies, education, law, medicine, biology, and the scientific ethic.

Thompson, Jane. Learning Liberation: Women's Response To Men's Education. London & Canberra: Croom Helm, (1983) $19.50.

Thompson looks at the education system as "an important regulator of social and economic class relations and a powerful ideological instrument in the battle for the hearts and minds of dutiful workers, who need to be conformed to the rules of order required by class domination if that oppression is to be continued." A chapter is devoted to the schooling of girls.

Walkerdine, Valerie, and The Girls and Mathematics Unit. Counting Girls Out. London: Virago Press, 1989.

An excellent study on girls and math education in Britain.

Weiler, Kathleen. Women Teaching for Change: gender. class & power. Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc. (1988) $18.15.

"Challenging accepted critical educational and feminist theories, Weiler reveals the day- to-day struggles and achievements of feminist teachers who invite their students to become more conscious of the political and social forces that are shaping their lives."

Whyte, Judith. Girls into science and Technology: The story of a project. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.

Williams, Linda Verlee. Teaching for the Two- sided Mind: a guide to right brain/left brain education. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc. (1983) $13.98.

"Students need right-brain strength to achieve balanced thinking skills and to activate a full range of cognitive and creative abilities."

Women of Power: A Magazine of Feminism, Spirituality, and Politics. Issue Eleven, Fall, 1988.

"This issue explores the theme, Science and Technology. We are proud to investigate with you...some of the women's issues, and women visionaries, and activists significant to the theme."

"Women's Development and Education". Journal of Education 167, no. 3 (1985), Boston University, 605 Commonwealth A venue, Boston, Mass. 02215.

Of particular interest in this women's issue is Dorothy Buerk's article, "The Voices of Women Making Meaning in Mathematics."



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