Name Florence Howe Role Author | ||
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Born Florence Rosenfeld
March 17, 1929 (age 95)
Brooklyn, New York ( 1929-03-17 ) Alma mater Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Main interests Feminist author, publisher, literary scholar and historian Education Smith College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hunter College Books A Life in Motion, No More Masks!, The Politics of Women's Studies, Myths of coeducation, Women Working: An Anthol | ||
Organizations founded The Feminist Press | ||
Florence howe the politics of women s studies the new school
Florence Rosenfeld Howe (born March 17, 1929), is an American author, publisher, literary scholar and historian who is considered a leader of the contemporary feminist movement.
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- Florence howe the politics of women s studies the new school
- Early life
- Education
- Career
- The Florence Howe Award
- References
Early life
Born in Brooklyn, New York on March 17, 1929, Florence was the daughter of Samuel and Frances Stilly Rosenfeld. Florence loved learning from a young age. Her mother, Frances, a bookkeeper, encouraged her daughter to follow a teaching career.
Education
In 1946, at age 16, Howe entered Hunter College High School. She was one of only five young women from Brooklyn to do so. In 1949, she was awarded entrance to Phi Beta Kappa, the elite academic organization which commends superlative academic achievement. Various people in power encouraged her to take graduate courses in literature and to become a college professor. After receiving a BA in English in 1950 from Hunter College, Howe entered Smith College and earned an MA in English in 1951. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by DePauw University in 1987.
Career
She taught black children in a Mississippi freedom school during 1964 and chaired the Modern Language Association commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. In 1967, she signed a public statement declaring her intention to refuse to pay income taxes in protest against the U.S. war against Vietnam. Howe also founded The Feminist Press in 1970, "an educational nonprofit organization founded to advance women's rights and amplify feminist perspectives", the organization had published three books by 1973.
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.