A. Kwolek-Folland's Professional Page

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Professional Information

I am Associate Dean for Center, Institutes and International Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a professor of history and women's studies, at the University of Florida. I came to UF in 2000 as Director of the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research; before that I was at the University of Kansas from 1987. My Ph.D. is in women's history from the University of Minnesota (1987) and I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in History and Women's Studies. I also have taught courses and served on graduate committees for students in American Studies and museum studies.

My first book is Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930, published in 1994 with Johns Hopkins University Press. It won the 1995 Sierra Prize for best historical monograph from the Western Association of Women Historians. My second book is Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States, published by Twayne in Fall 1998 as part of their series on business and the American economy; it is now available as a paperback with St. Martin's Press/Praeger.

I've also published essays in several anthologies and collections, and numerous book reviews. I'm currently researching the international dimensions of contemporary gender rights categories, particularly sexual rights.

Courses

Women's Studies 3015

This course explores the various ways scholars and activists have analyzed, interpreted, and understood the lives of girls and women, ideas about femaleness and womanhood, and their contexts. Syllabus: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/halohead/ws3015.htm

History 3931/Women's Studies 3930

This course explores the history of women in the United States through ethnicity, class, race, age, and sexual orientation. Click for syllabus.

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Links to Other Resources

The World Wide Web Consortium maintains a site specifically devoted to information on the Web, including software, programming, and links to other sites. Women@Work, is a useful source on women and business, with information on the National Association of Female Executives. An innovative, interactive site that allows you to experience the process of piecing together a historical life is DoHistory. The Baker Library's Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age takes you to many original documents in the collection dealing with women's business history. For those interested in links on sexuality, history, and human rights, there are numerous organizations and web sites of interest.  CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979 (the U.S. has yet to sign on) and is a comprehensive statement of the goals of international women's rights advocates. The  National Gay & Lesbian Task Force the Intersex Society of North America , and the  Transgender Forum are useful sites for sexual civil rights. The  Feminist Majority Foundation is an excellent central location for news, links, opinion pieces, and fora on women's issues.

If you find any sites you think would be useful to history or women's studies students or researchers, please drop me an email note.

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Last updated: 5/19/03 Author: A. Kwolek-Follandhalohead@ufl.edu