THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Florence Howe
March 17, 1929 – September 12, 2020
“I would work actively to expose racism, and I would change my teaching methods. This sounds simple, but this is how ultimately I became a feminist.”
Author, editor, publisher, literary scholar and historian. Helped found the Feminist Press in 1970 and served as its president until 2000. Founder of “Women’s Studies Newsletter,” which became Women’s Studies Quarterly, the first national journal to focus on feminist teaching. An originator and co-director of Women Writing Africa in 1993. First chairperson of the Modern Language Association’s Commission on the Status and Education of Women.
Photo. Dr. Eleanor Pam awards Florence Howe with the PSC (The Professional Staff Congress – City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Award) March 22, 2000.
More About Florence:
- Dr. Eleanor Pam awards Florence Howe with the PSC (The Professional Staff Congress – City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Award) March 22, 2000
- The Feminist Press Turns 50 – Founder Florence Howe details the early years, 1992 WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
- The Feminist Press remembers Florence Howe
- Happy 90th Birthday to Florence Howe – The Feminist Press
- Florence Howe’s blog
- Florence Howe speaks at The New School February 2012
- Bunny Sandler introduces Florence Howe during the VFA event – Salute to Feminist Educators and Women’s Studies Founders, Barnard College, NYC June 2001
- VFA Fabulous Feminist
- Jewish Women’s Archive
- The papers of Florence Howe – Brown University
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 25