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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Bengiveno, Teri Ann. "Campus Based Women's Centers: An Analysis of the Development and Survival of a Student-Run Center in the Struggle for Gender Equity in Higher Education," American Studies Program, University of Hawaii, Manoa, August 1996.
A case-study of the San Jose State Women’s Resource Center was detailed to identify the origins of a student-run center. Interviews, archival material, and questionnaires provided data regarding its function. The growth of campus-based women’s centers was compared to the rise of the second wave of the Women’s Liberation Movement. The findings support the contentions that: 1) student-run centers attempt to offer the same kinds of services as professionally staffed centers without similar resources; 2) centers foster a feminist consciousness on their campuses; 3) their potential to assist in the fight for equality is not fully realized due to the problems they encounter on campus.
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