Report Card
Solomon, Siddharth Dube and Jeremy
REPORT CARD Siddharth Dube and Jeremy Solomon Hype and Reality WORLD REFUGEE SURVEY: 1985 in Review U.S. Committee for Refugees, 95 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016. 76 pp. $6.00. In our...
...The Survey opens with an epistle from President Reagan proclaiming "America's capacity to do good...
...And more importantly, can we create a culture and myth sufficiently compelling and attractive to overcome the species' lingering but obsolescent fascination with war...
...By 1982 that figure had grown to 30,000...
...These are the questions Beyond the Bomb addresses...
...This report, written for the Ford Foundation by Catharine R. Stimpson, director of the Women's Studies Program at Rutgers University, charts the origins and growth of women's studies in America...
...Challenges Remain WOMEN'S STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES by Catharine R. Stimpson, with Nina Kressner Cobb Ford Foundation, Office of Reports, 320 East 43d Street, New York, NY 10017...
...77 pp...
...Such hype detracts from the substantive work done since 1961 by the U.S...
...Photographs of dark-eyed children crowd the pages of this report, and refugee efforts over the past year included international conferences, "U.S.A...
...What would a world without nuclear weapons—indeed without war—look like...
...In our time, somber issues are gussied up in slick productions, presumably to appeal to a wider readership...
...One learns from it that there are two million refugee children, that females now make up the bulk of the world refugee population, that Afghanistan is the largest source of refugees, and that U.S...
...3.50 plus $1.00 postage...
...The political activism of the 1960s, the postwar baby boom, and the rise of the women's movement all contributed to the development of women's studies...
...But the Survey is still a comprehensive document, of use to journalists and researchers...
...A Glimmer of Hope BEYOND THE BOMB: Living Without Nuclear Weapons by Mark Sommer Expro Press, Massachusetts...
...and global refugee issues...
...Committee for Refugees (USCR), a privately funded organization which publishes an annual survey and other reports on U.S...
...In 1969, only seventeen courses about women were offered nationwide...
...Of particular interest are his discussions of the importance of culture, as in the epilogue where Sommer asks the reader: "Can we imagine and evoke a culture of peace in which the preservation of life in its natural splendor and diversity instead becomes the highest good...
...It is a condensation of a longer report, and should contribute to, as the author puts it, the goal of women's studies: "a new architecture of consciousness and culture...
...distributed by The Talman Company, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011...
...In hopes of answers, Mark Sommer has surveyed current thinking on various topics, including alternative defense, world order, nonviolence, economic conversion, and game theory...
...180 pp...
...asylum policy is neither rational nor particularly responsible...
...The book is thorough and readable, and it succeeds in its mission of provoking the reader to think about a world "beyond the bomb...
...for Africa"-type spectacles, and a visit by Jeane Kirkpatrick to a United Nations conference on refugee women...
...7.95...
...The 1985 Survey reflects this schizophrenic approach to refugee issues: A revealing debate on U.S...
...How could such a world be achieved...
...The report points up the challenges facing women's studies today—faculty instability, the intellectual backlash against women's studies, and dwindling Federal financial support—and offers some suggestions for solving these problems...
...asylum policy (one article is by a State Department official), useful country reports, and up-to-date bibliographical sections contrast with some gooey and nonanalytical articles...
Vol. 50 • September 1986 • No. 9
