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1 Excerpts from Address Delivered by Mrs. Therressa Hoover. Board of Global Ministries. United Methodist Church: Bennett College in the USA, and several sister schools overseas — especially in Asia — are direct and intentional outgrowths of dis- coveries women were making about themselves and their abilities: the twin development of women ' s organizations in the churches and the creation and support of women ' s colleges around the world. These two streams are still very important in the 1980 ' s. Each needs the other. Support for one another becomes a matter of strategic survival . . . My answer is that the general -Founders ' Day- society and church have yet to sufficiently value women ' s con- tributions. Until that happens, these two streams must hold on to one another, provide necessary support so that society will be enriched by women ' s gifts and skills . .. It is necessary to recognize that an organizational base is an es- sential tool in any movement toward full equality. The historic founding of women ' s colleges by women ' s organizations, dating from a period of history when women were not even thought capable of learning, is a prime ex- ample of the above statement. Such schools, as one might ex- pe ct, have gone through several transitions. Their students in- creasingly come from the elite of society: elite not so much social and economic as elite in terms of dream and hope . . . Women ' s colleges during the last decade, have made new efforts which herald the dawn of a new era. TTiey are designing programs with women of the community and changing the expectations of students. Overseas sisters are un- iting in their effort to understand the needs of all women . . . Women students are required to make these contacts and to do services in the community. It is a coming together in those settings of women of the elite — both educational and economic — and the women of the masses who of- ten come from communities that ' 22
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are poor and removed by light years from the setting of college campuses . . . Feminist scholarship of the decade has been concerned about two central political questions: the search for the origins of women ' s oppression and the for- mulation of effective strategies for combatting patriarchy. In the late 1920 ' s, the new women were attempting to assimilate into male dominated institutions. At the same time, women ' s political activity epitomized the process of re- jecting women ' s culture in favor of men ' s promise of equality. The gradual decline of female separatism in social and political life, precluded the emergence of a strong women ' s political block which might have protected and expanded the gains made by earlier women ' s movement . . . Women ' s club movement ... il- lustrates the politicization of women ' s institutions. Their ac- tivities served to politicize traditional women by forcing them to define themselves as citizens, not simply as wives and mothers! Women ' s colleges, opened in these same decades, further attest to the importance of separate female institutions during this period of transition . . . from the personal sphere to a public sphere. Originally conceived as training grounds of piety, purity and domesticity, these colleges laid the groundwork for the new collegiate institutions of the postwar era . . . Power is the source of change to- day . . . Women need power to ad- vance their own development, but they do not need the power to limit the development of others. To move out of the position where they have been dominated, women need a power base from which to make even the first step ... to resist attempts to control and limit them. Women of the churches, black women with for- mal training and any likeminded group need new understanding of moving the organizational bases we have to identify changes needed and concentrated on power to effect them . . . Black women in the eighties must remember their history and honor the sources of power which are theirs. They must provide active role models for teen women who face a society with multi-complex social and economic problems ...
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