Women in World Area Studies organizational records. 1974-1987.

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Women in World Area Studies organizational records. 1974-1987.

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Records, curriculum material, and publications of a project dedicated to the creation, promotion, and integration of women's history curriculum into regular high school classes in the St. Louis Park and Robbinsdale, Minnesota school districts that were eventually distributed across the United States as well as internationally.

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Gross, Susan Hill, 1934-

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Bingham, Marjorie Wall, 1936-

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St. Louis Park High School (Saint Louis Park, Minn.)

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Robbinsdale Area Schools (Minn.)

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Women in World Area Studies (Project)

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The Women in World Area Studies (WWAS) program was developed to integrate women’s history into regular world area studies high school curriculum, focusing on the Robbinsdale and St. Louis Park school districts. Towards this purpose, WWAS developed lessons and curricula on the history of women in world cultures. Marjorie Wall Bingham and Susan Hill Gross were directors and in charge of research, writing, and pilot teaching for WWAS. They discovered a significant amount of unexamined ...