ABSTRACT
The contributors have been vividly aware of the ways in which Women’s Studies does indeed act as a melting pot, for student, academics, readers and writers, listeners and speakers. Women’s ideas about their own person, physical and psychological, seemed to undergo alteration. Women partners were generally perceived to be supportive and lesbian partnerships were seen as very positive though these were a minority in the respondents. In studying Women’s Studies, students are making a very active commitment. Many students discovered, perhaps especially those who had been away from mainstream education for a while, though not these alone, that the expansion of their information base in itself was empowering. Many students commented on their growing feeling that criticisms of what they think, or are interested in, or want to talk about, are irrelevant and they have a right to be themselves Students talked of the rejection of previously accepted roles.
