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She taught black children in a Mississippi freedom school during 1964.

She chaired the Modern Language Association commission on the Status of Women in the Profession.

She founded the Feminist Press , which published its first book in 1972.

The Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship is named in her honor.


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  • ''Myths of coeducation : selected essays, 1964-1983'', Bloomington, Ind : Indiana University Press, 1984

  • "Learning from Teaching" in: Florence How (ed.), Mari Jo Buhle (introduction), ''The Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from Thirty Founding Mothers'', Paperback edition, New York: Feminist Press 2001, pp. 3-15



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