Goals

For Beverly Guy-Sheftall, it seems the goals she wants to achieve are those that she is already involved in. “I continue to engage in interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, mostly now about the history of black feminisms (Howe, 226).” It appears that teaching and writing has remained the center of her academic career and involvement in women’s studies, particularly pertaining to the history of black feminist thought along with race, class, gender and its association with African American women. To continue teaching, speaking, and spreading knowledge is an individual goal that she seems dedicated to and that she wants more people to contribute to. She has been involved in women’s studies for over thirty years, and claims “I am committed to the field and its continued transformation as I was when I took my first women’s studies course as a doctoral student at Emory University in 1976 with Professor Darlene Roth (Howe, 226).” A personal goal that Beverly Guy-Sheftall also recognized was that she would like to create a complete biography of Anna Julia Cooper before she retires, because this is yet to be done.

Work Referenced:
Edited - Howe, Florence. The Politics of Women’s Studies. The Feminist Press. New York: 2000