Florence Howe
Florence Howe | |
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Hunter College, City University of New York; Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts | |
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Main interests | Feminist author, publisher, literary scholar and historian |
Florence Rosenfeld Howe (March 17, 1929 – September 12, 2020) was an American author, publisher, literary scholar, and historian who is considered to have been a leader of the contemporary feminist movement.[1]
Early life
Born in
Education
In 1943, Howe entered New York City's highly selective
Career
In 1960, Howe was employed as an assistant professor in the English department at a private women's college,
Personal life
Howe married three times during the 1950s–1960s, and took the last name of one of her husbands, Ed Howe. She married Paul Lauter in the 1960s and divorced him in 1987.[4]
In 1964, while living in Baltimore, Florence Howe travelled to Jackson, Mississippi, as a Freedom Summer volunteer and was tasked with serving as a teacher in a Freedom School for black children. There she met a 16-year-old girl, Alice Jackson, with whom she became close. Jackson came with her to Baltimore and Florence became her second mother, although an adoption was never formalized.[4]
Howe had no children of her own, and she was survived by Jackson, her two children and four grandchildren, who referred to Florence Howe as Baba.[4]
Death
Florence Howe died on September 12, 2020, in New York City, at the age of 91. She lived on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, and prior to her death received hospice care for Parkinson's disease.[4]
The Florence Howe Award
The Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship of the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages is named in her honor.[11] The Florence Howe Award is an annual feminist scholarship acknowledging two outstanding essays by members of the Women's Caucus, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. The authors receive $250 and are honored at an event hosted by the Women’s Caucus at the annual MLA meeting.[12]
Selected bibliography
Books
- Howe, Florence; Ahlum, Carol (1970). Female studies: collected by the Commission on the Status of Women of the Modern Language Association. Pittsburgh: Know Inc. ISBN 9780912786025.
- Howe, Florence; Lauter, Paul (1970). The conspiracy of the young. New York: OCLC 106506.
- Howe, Florence (1993) [1973]. No more masks!: an anthology of twentieth-century American women poets. New York: ISBN 9780060552626.
- Howe, Florence (1975). Women and the power to change. New York: ISBN 9780070101241.
- Howe, Florence (1977). Seven years later: women's studies programs in 1976: a report of the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs. Washington D.C.: National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs. OCLC 4188651.
- Howe, Florence; Lauter, Paul (1978). The women's movement: impact on the campus and curriculum. Washington D.C.: American Association for Higher Education. OCLC 4261912.
- Howe, Florence; Hoffman, Nancy (1979). Women working: an anthology of stories and poems. Old Westbury, New York: ISBN 9780912670577.
- Howe, Florence; Lauter, Paul (1980). The impact of women's studies on the campus and the disciplines. Washington D.C.: OCLC 6766027.
- Howe, Florence; Howard, Suzanne; Boehm Strauss, Mary Jo (1982). Everywoman's guide to colleges and universities: an educational project of the Feminist Press. Old Westbury, New York: ISBN 9780935312096.
- Howe, Florence (1984). Myths of coeducation: selected essays, 1964–1983. Bloomington, Indiana: ISBN 9780253203397.
- Howe, Florence; Saxton, Marsha (1987). With wings: an anthology of literature by and about women with disabilities. New York: ISBN 9780935312614.
- Howe, Florence; ISBN 9780393025019.
- Howe, Florence (1991). Tradition and the talents of women. Urbana, Illinois: ISBN 9780252016851.
- Howe, Florence; Casella, Jean (2000). Almost touching the skies: women's coming of age stories. New York: ISBN 9781558612341. 30th anniversary edition.
- Howe, Florence (2000). The politics of women's studies: testimony from thirty founding mothers. New York: ISBN 9781558612419. Introduction by Mari Jo Buhle
- Howe, Florence (2011). A life in motion. New York: ISBN 9781558616974.
Chapters in books
- Howe, Florence (2000), "Learning from teaching", in Howe, Florence (ed.), The politics of women's studies: testimony from thirty founding mothers, New York: ISBN 9781558612419. Introduction by Mari Jo Buhle
Other
She contributed the piece "The Proper Study of Womankind: Women's Studies" to the 2003 anthology
References
- ^ a b c "Gale Encyclopedia of Biography: Florence Rosenfeld Howe". biography.yourdictionary.com. The Gale Group. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ^ "Howe, Florence". Library of Congress. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
CIP data sheet (b. 3/17/29)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Florence Rosenfeld Howe". link.galegroup.com. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ New York Times. 13 September 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- ^ "Journalist Howard K. Smith Addresses DePauw's 585 New Graduates".
- ^ "Newspaper clipping of open letter to the U.S. War Committee, 11 March 1967" (archive pdf). Letter to Mr. W. Walter Boyd from Herbert Sonthoff, March 28, 1967. Penn State University Libraries: Horowitz Transaction Publishers Archive. 28 March 1967. p. 4.
No income tax for war! Now particularly the U.S. war in Vietnam. STATEMENT: Because so much of the tax paid the federal government goes for poisoning food crops, blasting of villages, napalming and killing of thousands upon thousands of people, as in Vietnam at the present time, I am not going to pay taxes on 1966 income.
- ^ "Authors: Florence Howe". feministpress.org. The Feminist Press at City University of New York. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ^ "About FP". feministpress.org. The Feminist Press at City University of New York. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
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- JSTOR 40163691.
- ISBN 9780873523455.
- ^ "Women's Caucus for the Modern Language". 16 November 2018. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
- ISBN 9780743466271. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
External links
- Florence Howe's Website Archived 2017-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
- FP Founder Florence Howe Information on the website of Feminist Press
- Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive