290i Waverly Vriwe Los Angeles
California 90039
6 August l97l

Ms. Kate Stimpson '

I am most anxious to know as much as
possible about the Women's Centet
at Barnard.

This fall I wiil be teaching a course

for Women in Design at the California

Institute of the Arts, where I have

been the only women on the faculty fun

of the School of the Design for the past

two years. It will be a difficult class ,
to lead as the design.implications of. i
the revolutton in sexual politics ~
are not yet clear u even though I led

a seminar on that subject at the

International Design Conference in Aspen

this June. To enrich the program at

‘cal Arts‘ and myself, I have been in

contact with several wqmen on the west

coast who are doing women's studies*

and would like to have as much information

as possible about the/results of such

investigations at Barnard. Is there

some way that you are making this original

research accessible? I would be most

interested in the program and reading lists

of these programs as well as the papers or

other material done by the students in

courses in women's studies — any information

about these studies would be most appreciated.

I had hoped to be in New York this fall but
such a trip has now to be postponed
indefinately.

I ook forward to your response,

   

la Le rant de Bretteville'62

* on a visit to Vassar's Linda Nochlin, teaching

a summer couse at Stanford on women in Art, I

met Isabel Marcus welsh '60 Barnard who has done

a fine investigation of Woman inPolitics at Berkeley
where she is a doctoral candidate, as well as
leading the lawsuit against discrimination against
women in the University.